I was born on the same day as.....

Läufer · December 4, 2009

Marylin Manson

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-Berserker- · December 4, 2009

For the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, who is not confirmed to have been born on September 29, see the Christmas holiday.

* 106 BC – Pompey the Great, consul of Rome (d. 48 BC)

* 1240 – Margaret of England, Queen consort of Scotland, (d. 1275)

* 1321 – John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)

* 1328 – Joan of Kent, wife of Edward, the Black Prince (d. 1385)

* 1388 – Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV of England (d. 1421)

* 1511 – Miguel Servet aka Michael Servetus, Spanish humanist (d. 1553)

* 1518 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (d. 1594)

* 1547 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)

* 1548 – William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)

* 1561 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (d. 1615)

* 1571 – Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)

* 1636 – Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1715)

* 1639 – Lord William Russell, English politician (d. 1683)

* 1640 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (d. 1720)

* 1678 – Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766)

* 1691 – Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (d. 1781)

* 1703 – François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)

* 1725 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general and statesman (d. 1774)

* 1758 – Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)

* 1766 – Charlotte, Princess Royal, German queen (d. 1828)

* 1786 – Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)

* 1803 – Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (d. 1850)

* 1803 – Mercator Cooper, American sea captain (d. 1872)

* 1808 – Henry Bennett, American politician (d. 1868)

* 1810 – Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (d. 1865)

* 1842 – Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)

* 1843 – Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882)

* 1853 – Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1933)

* 1863 – Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (d. 1919)

* 1864 – Alexandra Kitchin, British model for Lewis Carroll (d. 1925)

* 1864 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (d. 1936)

* 1876 – Charlie Llewellyn, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1911 (d. 1964)

* 1881 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (d. 1973)

* 1895 – J.B. Rhine, American parapsychologist (d. 1980)

* 1895 – Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970)

* 1897 – Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980)

* 1898 – Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist (d. 1976)

* 1899 – László Bíró, Hungarian inventor of the modern ballpoint pen (d. 1985)

* 1900 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983)

* 1901 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1954)

* 1901 – Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher and activist (d. 1981)

* 1904 – Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)

* 1907 – Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)

* 1907 – George W. Jenkins, American businessman (d. 1996)

* 1908 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)

* 1910 – Virginia Bruce, American actress (d. 1982)

* 1912 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (d. 2007)

* 1913 – Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)

* 1913 – Stanley Kramer, American film director (d. 2001)

* 1915 – Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)

* 1915 – Brenda Marshall, American film actress (d. 1992)

* 1920 – Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1992)

* 1922 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress

* 1923 – Stan Berenstain, American children's author (d. 2005)

* 1924 – Steve Forrest, American actor

* 1930 – Colin Dexter, British author of Inspector Morse novels

* 1931 – Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress

* 1931 – James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate

* 1932 – Robert Benton, American screenwriter and director

* 1932 – Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)

* 1934 – Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Psychology professor

* 1934 – Lance Gibbs, Guyanese West Indies cricketer

* 1934 – Skandor Akbar, American professional wrestler and manager

* 1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician

* 1936 – Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy

* 1938 – Wim Kok, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1994 until 2002

* 1939 – Tommy Boyce, American songwriter

* 1939 – Molly Haskell, American film critic

* 1939 – Rhodri Morgan, 2nd First Minister for Wales

* 1939 – Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000)

* 1939 – Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)

* 1940 – Nicola Di Bari, Italian singer

* 1941 – Fred West, British serial killer (d. 1995)

* 1942 – Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)

* 1942 – Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist

* 1942 – Ian McShane, British actor

* 1942 – Bill Nelson, American politician

* 1942 – Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist

* 1942 – Steve Tesich, Serbian screenwriter (d. 1996)

* 1943 – Mohammad Khatami, President of Iran

* 1943 – Gary Boyd Roberts, American genealogist

* 1943 – Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

* 1944 – Mike Post, American composer

* 1945 – Kyriakos Sfetsas, Greek composer

* 1947 – Martin Ferrero, American actor

* 1948 – Bryant Gumbel, American television personality

* 1948 – Mark Farner, American guitarist Grand Funk

* 1948 – Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist

* 1949 – George Dalaras, Greek singer

* 1951 – Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile

* 1951 – Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)

* 1951 – Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler

* 1951 – Mike Enriquez, Philippine broadcaster

* 1952 – Gabor Csupo, Hungarian-born animator

* 1952 – Max Sandlin, American politician

* 1953 – Warren Cromartie, American baseball player

* 1953 – Drake Hogestyn, American actor

* 1953 – Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian film director (d. 1997)

* 1955 – Benoît Ferreux, French actor

* 1955 – Ken Weatherwax, American actor from The Addams Family (TV series)

* 1956 – Sebastian Coe, British athlete

* 1957 – Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor

* 1957 – Sokratis Malamas, Greek singer and composer

* 1957 – Chris Broad, English cricketer and match referee

* 1957 – Mark Nicholas, English cricketer and sports presenter

* 1960 – Alan McGee, British music industry mogul and musician

* 1960 – John Paxson, American Basketball Player and GM

* 1960 – David Sammartino, American professional wrestler

* 1961 – Julia Gillard, Australian politician

* 1961 – Stephanie Miller, American comedian and talk radio host

* 1962 – Roger Bart, American actor

* 1962 – Al Pitrelli, American musician and guitarist

* 1963 – Dave Andreychuk, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1963 – Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus)

* 1966 – Hersey Hawkins, American basketball player

* 1966 – Jill Whelan, American actress

* 1967 – Brett Anderson, British musician/singer (Suede, The Tears)

* 1968 – Patrick Burns, American television presenter

* 1968 – Luke Goss, English actor

* 1968 – Samir Soni, Indian film actor

* 1968 – Alex Skolnick, American thrash metal and jazz guitarist

* 1969 – Erika Eleniak, American actress and model

* 1969 – Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer

* 1969 – Angelo Barretto, Filipino race car driver

* 1970 – Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional wrestler

* 1970 – Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress

* 1970 – Emily Lloyd, British actress

* 1970 – Nicolás Pereira, Venezuelan tennis player

* 1971 – Sibel Tüzün, Turkish singer

* 1971 – Mackenzie Crook, British actor and comedian

* 1972 – Oliver Gavin, British racing car driver

* 1972 – Togi Makabe, Japanese professional wrestler

* 1972 – Robert Webb, British actor, comedian, and writer

* 1973 – Joe Hulbig, American ice hockey player

* 1973 – Athanasios Michalopoulos, Greek volleyball player

* 1973 – Scout Niblett, British singer/songwriter

* 1974 – Brian Ash, American filmmaker

* 1974 – Alexis Cruz, American actor

* 1974 – Steve Bennett, web designer

* 1975 – Albert Celades, Spanish footballer

* 1976 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer

* 1976 – Darren Byfield, English footballer

* 1976 – Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist

* 1977 – Wade Brookbank, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1977 – Debelah Morgan, American R&B singer

* 1977 – Jake Westbrook, American baseball player

* 1978 – Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer

* 1978 – Mohini Bhardwaj, American gymnast

* 1978 – Gunner McGrath, American guitarist (Much the Same)

* 1979 – Shelley Duncan, American baseball player

* 1979 – Takumi Beppu, Japanese cyclist

* 1980 – Dallas Green, Canadian musician (Alexisonfire,City and Colour)

* 1980 – Zachary Levi, American actor

* 1980 – Patrick Agyemang, English footballer

* 1981 – Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian/Spanish handball player

* 1982 – Ariana Jollee, American pornographic actress

* 1982 – Matt Giteau, Australian Rugby Union Player

* 1982 – Rob Smith, Irish musician and songwriter

* 1984 – Per Mertesacker, German footballer

* 1986 – Benoît Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1986 – Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player.

* 1988 – Kevin Durant, American basketball player

* 1988 – Justin Nozuka, American/Canadian singer-songwriter

* 1989 – Theo Adams, British performance artist

* 1990 – Doug Brochu, American actor

* 1999 – Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal

* 2008 – Emma Tallulah Behn, member of the extended Norwegian royal family

The first bolded is interesting...

OmegaWave · December 5, 2009

[spoiler=OMFG]1451 – Isabella I of Castile (d. 1504)

1610 – Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)

1658 – Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (d. 1709)

1690 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (d. 1763)

1692 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (d. 1770)

1707 – Henry Fielding, English author (d. 1754)

1711 – Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (d. 1779)

1724 – Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)

1744 – James Sullivan, 7th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1808)

1766 – Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817)

1812 – Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist (d. 1894)

1816 – Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general (d. 1897)

1832 – Julius Sterling Morton, Arbor Day founder (d. 1902)

1840 – Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916)

1844 – Lewis Thornton Powell, would-be assassin of Secretary of State William H. Seward (d. 1865)

1852 – Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)

1854 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1943)

1860 – Ada Rehan, American stage actress (d. 1916)

1868 – Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (d. 1924)

1870 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (d. 1924)

1872 – Princess Margaret of Prussia, queen of Finland (d. 1954)

1873 – Ellen Glasgow, American author (d. 1945)

1876 – Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)

1876 – Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (d. 1920)

1881 – Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician (d. 1970)

1884 – Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (d. 1939)

1886 – Izidor Cankar, Slovenian art historian, essayist and diplomat (d. 1958)

1889 – Richard Glücks, German SS officer and concentration camp administrator (d. 1945)

1891 – Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer (d. 1989)

1891 – Nicola Sacco, American anarchist (d. 1927)

1891 – Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (d. 1965)

1892 – Vernon Johns, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)

1904 – Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)

1905 – Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (d. 1991)

1906 – Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005)

1906 – Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, second in line to the Swedish throne (d. 1946)

1907 – Ivan Efremov, Russian paleontologist and author (d. 1972)

1909 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, Nobel laureate

1909 – Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (d. 2001)

1910 – Norman Steenrod, American mathematician (d. 1971)

1912 – Kathleen Ferrier, British singer (d. 1953)

1914 – Jan de Hartog, Dutch writer (d. 2002)

1914 – Michael Wittmann, German soldier and tank ace (d. 1944)

1916 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (d. 1999)

1918 – Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (d. 2008)

1919 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2001)

1919 – Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist

1922 – Charles Mingus, American musician (d. 1979)

1922 – Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist (d. 1973)

1923 – Avis Bunnage, English actress (d. 1990)

1923 – Bettie Page, American model (d. 2008)

1923 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer (d. 2006)

1925 – George Cole, English actor

1926 – Charlotte Rae, American actress

1926 – James Stirling, British architect (d. 1992)

1927 – Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (d. 2005)

1929 – Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician

1935 – Paul Chambers, American jazz bassist (d. 1969)

1936 – Glen Campbell, American musician

1936 – Pierre Hétu, French Canadian conductor and pianist (d. 1998)

1937 – Jack Nicholson, American actor

1937 – Jack Nitzsche, American composer (d. 2000)

1938 – Adam Raphael, English journalist and author

1939 – Mel Carter, American singer

1939 – Jason Miller, American playwright (d. 2001)

1939 – Theodor Waigel, German politician and finance minister

1943 – Louise Glück, American poet and 12th US Poet Laureate

1944 – Steve Fossett, American adventurer (d. 2007)

1946 – Nicole Garcia, French actress and director

1946 – Louise Harel, Canadian politician

1946 – John Waters, American film writer

1946 – Steven L. Bennett, USAF Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient (d. 1972)

1950 – Peter Frampton, English musician

1950 – Zygi Wilf, owner of the Minnesota Vikings

1951 – Paul Carrack, English musician

1951 – Ana María Shua, Argentine poet

1952 – François Berléand, French actor

1952 – Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress (d. 2009)

1953 – Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composer

1953 – Tom Griswold, American Radio Personality

1955 – Johnnie To, Hong Kong film director and producer

1957 – Donald Tusk, Polish Prime Minister

1958 – Ken Olandt, American actor

1959 – Terry Francona, American baseball manager

1959 – Catherine Mary Stewart, Canadian actress

1959 – Ryan Stiles, Canadian-born actor

1960 – Mart Laar, Estonian statesman

1960 – Gary Rhodes, English chef

1960 – Randall L. Stephenson, American business executive

1961 – Dewey Nicks, American photographer and film director

1962 – Jeff Minter, English video game programmer

1963 – Sean Lock, English comedian

1964 – Estelle Asmodelle, actress, model & writer

1965 – Lauri Hendler, actress

1965 – Peter Zezel, Canadian ice hockey player

1966 – Fletcher Dragge, American guitarist (Pennywise)

1966 – Mariana Levy, Mexican actress (d. 2005)

1966 – Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor

1967 – Sheryl Lee, American actress

1967 – Sherri Shepherd, American comedian and actress

1967 – Harvey Williams, American football player

1968 – Zarley Zalapski, Canadian ice hockey player

1969 – Dion Dublin, English footballer

1970 – Andrea Giani, Italian volleyball player

1970 – Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and actress

1971 – Daisuke Enomoto, Japanese space tourist

1971 – Eric Mabius, American actor

1971 – Ingo Rademacher, German-Australian actor

1972 – Sabine Appelmans, Belgian tennis player

1972 – Owen Finegan, Australian rugby union footballer

1973 – Adem Poric, Australian footballer

1973 – Ofer Talker, Israeli footballer

1973 – Christopher Sabat, American voice actor

1974 – Diego Costa, Brazilian singer-songwriter

1974 – Shavo Odadjian, Armenian/American bassist (System of a Down)

1975 – Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (d. 1999)

1975 – Carlos Sastre, Spanish cyclist

1976 – Dan Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player

1976 – Paul Henderson, Australian footballer

1976 – Michał Żewłakow, Polish footballer

1977 – Mark van Bommel, Dutch footballer

1977 – Aaron Fink, American guitarist (Breaking Benjamin)

1978 – Jason Stollsteimer, American singer (The Von Bondies)

1978 – Esteban Tuero, Argentinian race car driver

1979 – Zoltán Gera, Hungarian footballer

1979 – Daniel Johns, Australian musician (Silverchair)

1980 – Nicolas Douchez, French footballer

1980 – Courtney Friel, American sports & entertainment reporter

1980 – Carlos Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player

1980 – Kora Karvouni, Greek actress

1980 – Aaron Michael Metchik, American actor

1980 – Dejuan Blair, Professional Basketball Player

1981 – Ken Dorsey, American football player

1982 – Tim Hamilton, Czech pornographic actor

1982 – Kaká, Brazilian footballer

1982 – David Purcey, American baseball player

1983 – Matt Jones, American football player

1983 – Sam Heads, British entomologist and palaeontologist

1983 – Jos Hooiveld, Dutch footballer

1983 – Evangelos Mantzios, Greek footballer

1984 – Michelle Ryan, English actress

1984 – Amelle Berrabah, British singer (Sugababes)

1985 – Matt Ballinger, American singer (Dream Street)

1986 – Amber Heard, American actress

1986 – Marshawn Lynch, American football player

1986 – Dusan Sakota, Serbian/Greek basketball player

1987 – John Obi Mikel, Nigerian footballer

I WAS BORN THE SAME DAY AS CHRISTOPHER SABAT! Who....is ironically one of my favorite voice actors XD Also, Ryan Stiles....another favorite.

.Frostpaw · December 5, 2009

[spoiler=December 26th]

1976:

Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b: December 26, 1976 ; d: December 9, 2004) (Biography of Lea De Mae)

1971:

Jared Leto, American actor (b: December 26, 1971) (Biography of Jared Leto)

1963:

Lars Ulrich, American drummer (Metallica) (b: December 26, 1963) (Biography of Lars Ulrich)

1959:

Koji Morimoto, Japanese animated film director (b: December 26, 1959) (Biography of Koji Morimoto)

1956:

David Sedaris, American essayist (b: December 26, 1956) (Biography of David Sedaris)

1954:

Ozzie Smith, baseball player (b: December 26, 1954) (Biography of Ozzie Smith)

1949:

José Ramos Horta, East Timorean human rights activist (b: December 26, 1949) (Biography of José Ramos Horta)

1947:

Carlton Fisk, baseball player (b: December 26, 1947) (Biography of Carlton Fisk)

1945:

John Walsh, American talk show host (b: December 26, 1945) (Biography of John Walsh)

1942:

Gray Davis, Governor of California (b: December 26, 1942) (Biography of Gray Davis)

1940:

Phil Spector, American music producer (b: December 26, 1940) (Biography of Phil Spector)

1933:

Ugly Dave Grey, Australian television personality (b: December 26, 1933) (Biography of Ugly Dave Grey)

1927:

Alan King, American comedian and actor (b: December 26, 1927 ; d: May 9, 2004) (Biography of Alan King)

Denis Quilley, British actor (b: December 26, 1927 ; d: October 5, 2003) (Biography of Denis Quilley)

1921:

Steve Allen, American actor, comedian, composer, and author (b: December 26, 1921 ; d: October 30, 2000) (Biography of Steve Allen)

1914:

Richard Widmark, American actor (b: December 26, 1914) (Biography of Richard Widmark)

1904:

Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b: December 26, 1904 ; d: April 24, 1980) (Biography of Alejo Carpentier)

1903:

Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (b: December 26, 1903 ; d: May 18, 1995) (Biography of Elisha Cook Jr.)

1893:

Mao Zedong, Chinese military leader and politician (b: December 26, 1893 ; d: September 9, 1976) (Biography of Mao Zedong)

1891:

Henry Miller, American writer (b: December 26, 1891 ; d: June 7, 1980) (Biography of Henry Miller)

1890:

Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b: December 26, 1890 ; d: May 27, 1992) (Biography of Uncle Charlie Osborne)

1883:

Maurice Utrillo, French painter (b: December 26, 1883 ; d: November 5, 1955) (Biography of Maurice Utrillo)

1873:

Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b: December 26, 1873 ; d: October 27, 1953) (Biography of Thomas Wass)

1872:

Norman Angell, British politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b: December 26, 1872 ; d: October 7, 1967) (Biography of Norman Angell)

1853:

René Bazin, French novelist (b: December 26, 1853) (Biography of René Bazin)

1837:

George Dewey, U. S. admiral (b: December 26, 1837 ; d: January 16, 1917) (Biography of George Dewey)

1822:

Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright (b: December 26, 1822) (Biography of Dion Boucicault)

1819:

E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist (b: December 26, 1819) (Biography of E. D. E. N. Southworth)

1791:

Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (b: December 26, 1791 ; d: October 18, 1871) (Biography of Charles Babbage)

1780:

Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (b: December 26, 1780 ; d: November 28, 1872) (Biography of Mary Somerville)

1751:

Clement Hofbauer, Austrian missionary and saint (b: December 26, 1751) (Biography of Clement Hofbauer)

1687:

Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (b: December 26, 1687 ; d: November 25, 1755) (Biography of Johann Georg Pisendel)

1646:

Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b: December 26, 1646 ; d: July 17, 1709) (Biography of Robert Bolling)

1536:

Yi I, Korean Confucian scholar (b: December 26, 1536) (Biography of Yi I)

1532:

Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b: December 26, 1532 ; d: February 10, 1576) (Biography of Guilielmus Xylander)

1194:

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b: December 26, 1194 ; d: December 13, 1250) (Biography of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor)

I bolded the ones that I was excited to be born on the same day as.

I can't believe that I was born on the same day of the year as Lars Ulrich, American drummer (Metallica) (b: December 26, 1963)

Aero~ · December 5, 2009

[spoiler= WARNING! VERY LONG!]

June 7

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June 7 is the 158th day of the year (159th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 207 days remaining until the end of the year.

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1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

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1099 – The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.

1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchate of Aquileia.

1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.

1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.

1654 – Louis XIV is crowned King of France.

1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.

1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads to the United States Declaration of Independence.

1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.

1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.

1862 – The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.

1863 – During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.

1866 – 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.

1880 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).

1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.

1893 – Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.

1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden, a vote that is confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.

1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.

1909 – Mary Pickford made her screen debut at the age of 16.

1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines – Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.

1919 – Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed.

1936 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.

1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.

1940 – King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.

1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.

1942 – World War II: Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.

1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy – At Abbey Ardennes members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.

1945 – King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.

1948 – Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state.

1955 – Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.

1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.

1967 – The Israeli forces enter Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.

1971 – The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment.

1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.

1977 – 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Jubilee gets underway for Queen Elizabeth II.

1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. The facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons.

1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.

1987 – Washington Dulles International Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport are transferred to The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.

1989 – A Surinam Airways DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168.

1991 – Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 km (4.5 miles) high.

1993 – The Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, UK, falls into the sea following a landslide.

1995 – The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.

1998 – James Byrd, Jr. is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime.

2001 – Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election.

2006 – British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert.

2008 – Hillary Clinton suspends her presidential campaign at the National Building Museum after winning more American presidential primaries than any other woman.

[edit] Births

1529 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and writer (d. 1615)

1761 – John Rennie, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)

1770 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)

1778 – Beau Brummell, English fashion leader (d. 1840)

1863 – Bones Ely, Professional Baseball Player (d.1952)

1811 – James Young Simpson, British obstetrician (d. 1870)

1831 – Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)

1837 – Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903)

1840 – Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (d. 1927)

1845 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930)

1848 – Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)

1862 – Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1947)

1868 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and watercolourist (d. 1928)

1879 – Knud Rasmussen, Greenlander explorer (d. 1933)

1879 – Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (d. 1963)

1880 – Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (d. 1956)

1883 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)

1886 – Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)

1894 – Alexander de Seversky, Russian-born aviation pioneer (d. 1974)

1896 – Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990)

1896 – Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)

1896 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)

1897 – George Szell, Hungarian conductor (d. 1970)

1899 – Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (d. 1973)

1900 – Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (d. 1963)

1902 – Herman B Wells, American college president and chancellor of Indiana University (d. 2000)

1907 – Prince Sigvard, Duke of Uppland (d. 2002)

1909 – Virginia Apgar, American physician and developer of the Apgar test (d. 1974)

1909 – Peter W. Rodino, American politician (d. 2005)

1909 – Jessica Tandy, English-born American actress (d. 1994)

1910 – Mike Sebastian, American football player (d. 1989)

1910 – Bradford Washburn, American explorer (d. 2007)

1911 – Brooks Stevens, American industrial designer (d. 1995)

1917 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)

1917 – Dean Martin, American actor (d. 1995)

1920 – Georges Marchais, French politician (d. 1997)

1921 – Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (d. 1998)

1921 – Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder; adopted daughter of Babe Ruth (d. 1989)

1922 – Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player

1923 – Jules Deschênes, Canadian jurist (d. 2000)

1927 – Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (d. 1953)

1928 – Dave Bowen, Welsh international football manager (d. 1995)

1928 – James Ivory, American film director

1928 – Reg Park, British bodybuilder (d. 2007)

1929 – John Napier Turner, Canadian seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada

1929 – Ernie Roth, American wrestling manager (d. 1983)

1931 – Malcolm Morley, English painter

1933 – Herb Score, American baseball player (d. 2008)

1935 – Harry Crews, American author

1935 – Thomas Kailath, American engineer

1937 – Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor

1938 – Goose Gonsoulin, American football player

1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer

1943 – Nikki Giovanni, American poet

1943 – Ken Osmond, American actor

1945 – Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor of Austria

1946 – Jenny Jones, Palestinian-born American talk show host

1947 – Don Money, American baseball player and manager

1947 – Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)

1950 – Gary Graham American actor

1951 – Terry O'Reilly Canadian ice hockey player

1952 – Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor

1952 – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer, Nobel laureate

1953 – Johnny Clegg, South African musician

1953 – Colleen Camp, American actress

1953 – Dougie Donnelly, Scottish television broadcaster

1954 – Louise Erdrich, American author

1955 – William Forsythe, American actor

1955 – Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)

1956 – Antonio Reid, American music producer

1957 – Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican musician

1957 – Paddy McAloon, English singer and songwriter (Prefab Sprout)

1957 – Ruth Anderson, Welsh rug maker

1958 – Prince, American musician

1958 – Surakiart Sathirathai, Thai Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand

1960 – Bill Prady, American television producer

1961 – Dave Catching, American musician

1962 – Michael Cartellone, American drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

1962 – Thierry Hazard, French singer and songwriter

1962 – Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese racing driver

1963 – Roberto Alagna, French tenor

1964 – Judie Aronson, American actress

1964 – Gia Carides, Australian actress

1965 – Mick Foley, American wrestler

1965 – Jean-Pierre François, French footballer and singer

1965 – Damien Hirst, English artist

1965 – Christine Roque, French singer

1966 – Eric Kretz, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots)

1966 – Stéphane Richer, Canadian ice hockey player

1967 – Dave Navarro, American musician

1969 – Prince Joachim of Denmark

1969 – Kim Rhodes, American actress

1970 – Cafu, Brazilian footballer

1970 – Andrei Kovalenko, Russian hockey player

1970 – Mike Modano, American ice hockey player

1971 – Terrell Buckley, American football player

1971 – Alex X. Mooney, American politician

1972 – Karl Urban, New Zealand actor

1973 – Song Yun-ah, South Korean model and actress

1974 – Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player

1974 – Bear Grylls, British adventurer and former soldier

1974 – Cassius Khan, Canadian musician

1975 – Allen Iverson, American basketball player

1975 – Shane Bond, New Zealand cricket player

1976 – Necro, American rapper

1977 – Marcin Baszczyński, Polish footballer

1977 – Joe Horgan, American baseball player

1977 – Odalis Pérez, Dominican baseball player

1977 – Preston Campbell, Australian Rugby League Player

1978 – Tony An, Korean singer (H.O.T)

1978 – Adrienne Frantz, American actress

1978 – Bill Hader, American comedian

1979 – Kevin Hofland, Dutch footballer

1979 – Evelina Papantoniou, Greek fashion model and actress

1981 – Stephen Bywater, British footballer

1981 – Tyler Johnson, American baseball player

1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player

1981 – Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer

1981 – Larisa Oleynik, American actress

1982 – Virgil Vasquez, American baseball player

1983 – Mark Lowe, American baseball player

1983 – Milan Jurcina, Slovakian hockey player

1985 – Charlie Simpson, British pop singer

1985 – Simon Whaley, English footballer

1988 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor

1988 – Milan Lucic, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins)

1993 – Jordan Fry, American actor

1996 – Jasper Harris, British actor

[edit] Deaths

1329 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)

1358 – Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)

1394 – Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England (b. 1367)

1618 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English governor of Virginia (b. 1577)

1676 – Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)

1711 – Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)

1779 – William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)

1810 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)

1821 – Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion leader (b. c. 1780)

1826 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)

1840 – King Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)

1854 – Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)

1859 – David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)

1866 – Chief Seattle, Native American leader

1896 – Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)

1911 – Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)

1915 – Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1822)

1916 – Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)

1927 – Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)

1936 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)

1937 – Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)

1942 – Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)

1951 – Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)

1954 – Alan Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)

1963 – Zasu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)

1965 – Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921)

1966 – Jean Arp, German-born sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)

1967 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)

1967 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)

1968 – Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907)

1970 – E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)

1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)

1979 – Forrest Carter, American author (b. 1925)

1980 – Elizabeth Craig, British writer (b. 1883)

1980 – Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)

1988 – Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)

1989 – Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1907)

1992 – Bill France, first president of NASCAR, NASCAR founder (b. 1909)

1993 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)

1995 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese-born religious leader (b. 1918)

1996 – Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)

1999 – Paco Stanley, Mexican TV entertainer (b. 1942)

2001 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (b. 1907)

2001 – Carole Fredericks, American singer (b. 1952)

2001 – Betty Neels, English novelist (b. 1910)

2002 – Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916)

2002 – Basappa Danappa Jatti, former Vice-President of India and Acting President (b. 1912)

2003 – Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)

2006 – John Tenta, Canadian wrestler (b. 1963)

2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born Mujahid (b. 1966)

2008 – Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1953)

2008 – Jim McKay, American sportscaster (b. 1921)

2009 – Kenny Rankin, American singer (b. 1940)

2009 – Hugh Hopper, British musician (b. 1945)

[edit] Holidays and observances

Roman Empire

First day of the Vestalia

Norway

Union Dissolution Day

Malta

Sette Giugno

Catholicism

Colman of Dromore

Robert of Newminster

Läufer · December 5, 2009

[spoiler=OMFG]1451 – Isabella I of Castile (d. 1504)
1610 – Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
1658 – Giuseppe Torelli' date=' Italian composer (d. 1709)
1690 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (d. 1763)
1692 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (d. 1770)
1707 – Henry Fielding, English author (d. 1754)
1711 – Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (d. 1779)
1724 – Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
1744 – James Sullivan, 7th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1808)
1766 – Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817)
1812 – Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist (d. 1894)
1816 – Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general (d. 1897)
1832 – Julius Sterling Morton, Arbor Day founder (d. 1902)
1840 – Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916)
1844 – Lewis Thornton Powell, would-be assassin of Secretary of State William H. Seward (d. 1865)
1852 – Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)
1854 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1943)
1860 – Ada Rehan, American stage actress (d. 1916)
1868 – Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (d. 1924)
1870 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (d. 1924)
1872 – Princess Margaret of Prussia, queen of Finland (d. 1954)
1873 – Ellen Glasgow, American author (d. 1945)
1876 – Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
1876 – Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (d. 1920)
1881 – Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician (d. 1970)
1884 – Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (d. 1939)
1886 – Izidor Cankar, Slovenian art historian, essayist and diplomat (d. 1958)
1889 – Richard Glücks, German SS officer and concentration camp administrator (d. 1945)
1891 – Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer (d. 1989)
1891 – Nicola Sacco, American anarchist (d. 1927)
1891 – Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (d. 1965)
1892 – Vernon Johns, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
1904 – Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)
1905 – Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (d. 1991)
1906 – Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005)
1906 – Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, second in line to the Swedish throne (d. 1946)
1907 – Ivan Efremov, Russian paleontologist and author (d. 1972)
1909 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, Nobel laureate
1909 – Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (d. 2001)
1910 – Norman Steenrod, American mathematician (d. 1971)
1912 – Kathleen Ferrier, British singer (d. 1953)
1914 – Jan de Hartog, Dutch writer (d. 2002)
1914 – Michael Wittmann, German soldier and tank ace (d. 1944)
1916 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (d. 1999)
1918 – Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1919 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2001)
1919 – Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist
1922 – Charles Mingus, American musician (d. 1979)
1922 – Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist (d. 1973)
1923 – Avis Bunnage, English actress (d. 1990)
1923 – Bettie Page, American model (d. 2008)
1923 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer (d. 2006)
1925 – George Cole, English actor
1926 – Charlotte Rae, American actress
1926 – James Stirling, British architect (d. 1992)
1927 – Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (d. 2005)
1929 – Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician
1935 – Paul Chambers, American jazz bassist (d. 1969)
1936 – Glen Campbell, American musician
1936 – Pierre Hétu, French Canadian conductor and pianist (d. 1998)
1937 – Jack Nicholson, American actor
1937 – Jack Nitzsche, American composer (d. 2000)
1938 – Adam Raphael, English journalist and author
1939 – Mel Carter, American singer
1939 – Jason Miller, American playwright (d. 2001)
1939 – Theodor Waigel, German politician and finance minister
1943 – Louise Glück, American poet and 12th US Poet Laureate
1944 – Steve Fossett, American adventurer (d. 2007)
1946 – Nicole Garcia, French actress and director
1946 – Louise Harel, Canadian politician
1946 – John Waters, American film writer
1946 – Steven L. Bennett, USAF Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient (d. 1972)
1950 – Peter Frampton, English musician
1950 – Zygi Wilf, owner of the Minnesota Vikings
1951 – Paul Carrack, English musician
1951 – Ana María Shua, Argentine poet
1952 – François Berléand, French actor
1952 – Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress (d. 2009)
1953 – Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composer
1953 – Tom Griswold, American Radio Personality
1955 – Johnnie To, Hong Kong film director and producer
1957 – Donald Tusk, Polish Prime Minister
1958 – Ken Olandt, American actor
1959 – Terry Francona, American baseball manager
1959 – Catherine Mary Stewart, Canadian actress
1959 – Ryan Stiles, Canadian-born actor
1960 – Mart Laar, Estonian statesman
1960 – Gary Rhodes, English chef
1960 – Randall L. Stephenson, American business executive
1961 – Dewey Nicks, American photographer and film director
1962 – Jeff Minter, English video game programmer
1963 – Sean Lock, English comedian
1964 – Estelle Asmodelle, actress, model & writer
1965 – Lauri Hendler, actress
1965 – Peter Zezel, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 – Fletcher Dragge, American guitarist (Pennywise)
1966 – Mariana Levy, Mexican actress (d. 2005)
1966 – Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor
1967 – Sheryl Lee, American actress
1967 – Sherri Shepherd, American comedian and actress
1967 – Harvey Williams, American football player
1968 – Zarley Zalapski, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Dion Dublin, English footballer
1970 – Andrea Giani, Italian volleyball player
1970 – Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and actress
1971 – Daisuke Enomoto, Japanese space tourist
1971 – Eric Mabius, American actor
1971 – Ingo Rademacher, German-Australian actor
1972 – Sabine Appelmans, Belgian tennis player
1972 – Owen Finegan, Australian rugby union footballer
1973 – Adem Poric, Australian footballer
1973 – Ofer Talker, Israeli footballer
1973 – Christopher Sabat, American voice actor
1974 – Diego Costa, Brazilian singer-songwriter
1974 – Shavo Odadjian, Armenian/American bassist (System of a Down)
1975 – Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (d. 1999)
1975 – Carlos Sastre, Spanish cyclist
1976 – Dan Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 – Paul Henderson, Australian footballer
1976 – Michał Żewłakow, Polish footballer
1977 – Mark van Bommel, Dutch footballer
1977 – Aaron Fink, American guitarist (Breaking Benjamin)
1978 – Jason Stollsteimer, American singer (The Von Bondies)
1978 – Esteban Tuero, Argentinian race car driver
1979 – Zoltán Gera, Hungarian footballer
1979 – Daniel Johns, Australian musician (Silverchair)
1980 – Nicolas Douchez, French footballer
1980 – Courtney Friel, American sports & entertainment reporter
1980 – Carlos Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
1980 – Kora Karvouni, Greek actress
1980 – Aaron Michael Metchik, American actor
1980 – Dejuan Blair, Professional Basketball Player
1981 – Ken Dorsey, American football player
1982 – Tim Hamilton, Czech pornographic actor
1982 – Kaká, Brazilian footballer
1982 – David Purcey, American baseball player
1983 – Matt Jones, American football player
1983 – Sam Heads, British entomologist and palaeontologist
1983 – Jos Hooiveld, Dutch footballer
1983 – Evangelos Mantzios, Greek footballer
1984 – Michelle Ryan, English actress
1984 – Amelle Berrabah, British singer (Sugababes)
1985 – Matt Ballinger, American singer (Dream Street)
1986 – Amber Heard, American actress
1986 – Marshawn Lynch, American football player
1986 – Dusan Sakota, Serbian/Greek basketball player
1987 – John Obi Mikel, Nigerian footballer

I WAS BORN THE SAME DAY AS CHRISTOPHER SABAT! Who....is ironically one of my favorite voice actors XD Also, Ryan Stiles....another favorite.

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Er, you might want to bold stuff. My eyes are getting blurry.

Marisa Kirisame-ze · December 5, 2009

[spoiler=October 30th]1218 – Emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234)

1513 – Jacques Amyot, French writer (d. 1593)

1624 – Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693)

1668 – Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, queen in Prussia (d. 1705)

1735 – John Adams, second President of the United States (d. 1826)

1751 – Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright (d. 1816)

1762 – André Chénier, French writer (d. 1794)

1786 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871)

1799 – Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal (d. 1885)

1821 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)

1839 – Alfred Sisley, Anglo-French artist (d. 1899)

1844 – Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)

1847 – Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)

1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)

1861 – Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)

1871 – Paul Valéry, French poet (d. 1945)

1871 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)

1873 – Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (d. 1913)

1881 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941)

1882 – William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (d. 1959)

1882 – Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (d. 1944)

1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)

1886 – Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)

1887 – Sukumar Ray, Bengali Writer (d. 1923)

1888 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek Olympic champion (d. 1913)

1893 – Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (d. 1972)

1893 – Roland Freisler, German Nazi politician (d. 1945)

1894 – Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977)

1895 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964)

1895 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)

1896 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)

1896 – Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)

1897 – Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)

1898 – Bill Terry, baseball player (d. 1989)

1900 – Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)

1906 – Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)

1906 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (d. 1966)

1907 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)

1908 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, An Indian politician (d. 1963)

1908 – Patsy Montana, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1996)

1909 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)

1911 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)

1914 – Richard E Holz, American composer (d. 1986)

1914 – Anna Wing, English actress

1915 – Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)

1916 – Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995)

1917 – Bobby Bragan, American baseball player

1917 – Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (d. 1994)

1917 – Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (d. 2005)

1922 – Jane White, American actress and singer

1926 – Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver

1927 – Joe Adcock, American baseball player (d. 1999)

1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)

1930 – Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992)

1930 – Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1956)

1931 – Vince Callahan, American politician

1932 – Louis Malle, French film director (d. 1995)

1932 – Barun De, Indian historian

1934 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician

1935 – Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer

1935 – Michael Winner, British film director

1935 – Jim Perry, American baseball player

1935 – Robert Caro, American biographer

1936 – Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)

1936 – Dick Vermeil, American football coach

1937 – Claude Lelouch, French film director

1939 – Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, Nobel laureate

1939 – Grace Slick, American singer (Jefferson Airplane)

1939 – Edward Holland, Jr., American singer

1940 – Ed Lauter, American actor

1941 – Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel laureate

1941 – Otis Williams, American singer

1943 – Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress

1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor

1946 – Chris Slade, Welsh drummer (Asia)

1947 – Timothy B. Schmit, American musician (Eagles)

1948 – Rusty Goffe, British actor

1951 – Harry Hamlin, American actor

1953 – Charles Martin Smith, American actor

1954 – Mario Testino, Peruvian-born English fashion photographer

1956 – Juliet Stevenson, English actress

1957 – Kevin Pollak, American actor

1958 – Joe Delaney, American football player (d. 1983)

1958 – Stefan Dennis, Australian actor

1958 – Ramona d'Viola, American cyclist

1960 – Diego Maradona, Argentine footballer

1961 – Scott Garrelts, American baseball player

1961 – Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek economist and politician

1962 – Courtney Walsh, Jamaican West Indies cricketer

1963 – Michael Beach, American actor

1963 – Rebecca Heineman, Computer game programmer

1963 – Kristina Wagner, American actress

1964 – Howard Lederer, American poker player

1964 – Humayun Kabir Dhali, Bangladeshi Writer & Journalist

1966 – Scott Innes, American voice actor

1967 – Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player

1967 – Gavin Rossdale, English musician

1968 – Jack Plotnick, American actor

1969 – Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer

1970 – Maja Tatic, Bosnia singer

1970 – Tory Belleci, American TV Mythbuster

1970 – Nia Long, American actress

1970 – Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower

1970 – Ben Bailey, American host of the game show Cash Cab

1971 – Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and singer

1971 – Suzan van der Wielen, Dutch hockey-international

1973 – Adam "Edge" Copeland, Canadian wrestler

1973 – Silvia Corzo, Colombian newscaster

1973 – Michael Oakes, English footballer

1975 – Ian D'Sa, Guitarist/Vocalist for Canadian rock band Billy Talent

1975 – Maria Thayer, American actress

1976 – Stern John, Trinidadian footballer

1976 – Ümit Özat, Turkish footballer

1976 – Maurice Taylor, American Basketball Player

1977 – Jason Adelman, American actor

1977 – Eefke Mulder, Dutch hockey-international

1978 – Martin Dossett, American football player

1978 – Amanda Swafford, American model

1978 – Matthew Morrison, American actor

1979 – Jason Bartlett, American baseball player

1979 – Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress

1980 – Sarah Carter, Canadian actress

1980 – Kareem Rush, American basketball player

1980 – Choi Hong-man, South Korean kickboxer

1980 – John Foo, Irish martial artist and actor

1981 – Ayaka Kimura, Japanese actress

1981 – Ivanka Trump, American model

1981 – Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress

1981 – Ian Snell, American baseball player

1982 – Andy Greene, American ice hockey player

1982 – Manny Parra, American baseball player

1983 – Iain Hume, Canadian footballer

1983 – Trent Edwards, American football player

1984 – Eva Marcille, American model and actress

1984 – Tyson Strachan, Canadian ice hockey player

1986 – Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper

1987 – Junaid Siddique, Bangladeshi cricketer

1988 – Janel Parrish, American actress

1989 – Seth Adkins, American actor

1989 – Nastia Liukin, Russian/American gymnast

1989 – Vanessa White, British singer (The Saturdays)

1992 – Tequan Richmond, American actor

-Berserker- · December 5, 2009

[spoiler=October 30th]1218 – Emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234)
1513 – Jacques Amyot' date=' French writer (d. 1593)
1624 – Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693)
1668 – Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, queen in Prussia (d. 1705)
1735 – John Adams, second President of the United States (d. 1826)
1751 – Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright (d. 1816)
1762 – André Chénier, French writer (d. 1794)
1786 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871)
1799 – Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal (d. 1885)
1821 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
1839 – Alfred Sisley, Anglo-French artist (d. 1899)
1844 – Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
1847 – Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)
1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)
1861 – Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)
1871 – Paul Valéry, French poet (d. 1945)
1871 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)
1873 – Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (d. 1913)
1881 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941)
1882 – William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (d. 1959)
1882 – Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (d. 1944)
1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
1886 – Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
1887 – Sukumar Ray, Bengali Writer (d. 1923)
1888 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek Olympic champion (d. 1913)
1893 – Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (d. 1972)
1893 – Roland Freisler, German Nazi politician (d. 1945)
1894 – Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977)
1895 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964)
1895 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1896 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)
1896 – Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)
1897 – Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
1898 – Bill Terry, baseball player (d. 1989)
1900 – Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1906 – Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)
1906 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (d. 1966)
1907 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)
1908 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, An Indian politician (d. 1963)
1908 – Patsy Montana, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
1909 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)
1911 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
1914 – Richard E Holz, American composer (d. 1986)
1914 – Anna Wing, English actress
1915 – Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)
1916 – Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995)
1917 – Bobby Bragan, American baseball player
1917 – Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (d. 1994)
1917 – Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (d. 2005)
1922 – Jane White, American actress and singer
1926 – Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver
1927 – Joe Adcock, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
1930 – Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992)
1930 – Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1956)
1931 – Vince Callahan, American politician
1932 – Louis Malle, French film director (d. 1995)
1932 – Barun De, Indian historian
1934 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician
1935 – Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer
1935 – Michael Winner, British film director
1935 – Jim Perry, American baseball player
1935 – Robert Caro, American biographer
1936 – Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
1936 – Dick Vermeil, American football coach
1937 – Claude Lelouch, French film director
1939 – Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1939 – Grace Slick, American singer (Jefferson Airplane)
1939 – Edward Holland, Jr., American singer
1940 – Ed Lauter, American actor
1941 – Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1941 – Otis Williams, American singer
1943 – Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor
1946 – Chris Slade, Welsh drummer (Asia)
1947 – Timothy B. Schmit, American musician (Eagles)
1948 – Rusty Goffe, British actor
1951 – Harry Hamlin, American actor
1953 – Charles Martin Smith, American actor
1954 – Mario Testino, Peruvian-born English fashion photographer
1956 – Juliet Stevenson, English actress
1957 – Kevin Pollak, American actor
1958 – Joe Delaney, American football player (d. 1983)
1958 – Stefan Dennis, Australian actor
1958 – Ramona d'Viola, American cyclist
1960 – Diego Maradona, Argentine footballer
1961 – Scott Garrelts, American baseball player
1961 – Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek economist and politician
1962 – Courtney Walsh, Jamaican West Indies cricketer
1963 – Michael Beach, American actor
1963 – Rebecca Heineman, Computer game programmer
1963 – Kristina Wagner, American actress
1964 – Howard Lederer, American poker player
1964 – Humayun Kabir Dhali, Bangladeshi Writer & Journalist
1966 – Scott Innes, American voice actor
1967 – Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Gavin Rossdale, English musician
1968 – Jack Plotnick, American actor
1969 – Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer
1970 – Maja Tatic, Bosnia singer
1970 – Tory Belleci, American TV Mythbuster
1970 – Nia Long, American actress
1970 – Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower
1970 – Ben Bailey, American host of the game show Cash Cab
1971 – Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and singer
1971 – Suzan van der Wielen, Dutch hockey-international
1973 – Adam "Edge" Copeland, Canadian wrestler
1973 – Silvia Corzo, Colombian newscaster
1973 – Michael Oakes, English footballer
1975 – Ian D'Sa, Guitarist/Vocalist for Canadian rock band Billy Talent
1975 – Maria Thayer, American actress
1976 – Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
1976 – Ümit Özat, Turkish footballer
1976 – Maurice Taylor, American Basketball Player
1977 – Jason Adelman, American actor
1977 – Eefke Mulder, Dutch hockey-international
1978 – Martin Dossett, American football player
1978 – Amanda Swafford, American model
1978 – Matthew Morrison, American actor
1979 – Jason Bartlett, American baseball player
1979 – Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress
1980 – Sarah Carter, Canadian actress
1980 – Kareem Rush, American basketball player
1980 – Choi Hong-man, South Korean kickboxer
1980 – John Foo, Irish martial artist and actor
1981 – Ayaka Kimura, Japanese actress
1981 – Ivanka Trump, American model
1981 – Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
1981 – Ian Snell, American baseball player
1982 – Andy Greene, American ice hockey player
1982 – Manny Parra, American baseball player
1983 – Iain Hume, Canadian footballer
1983 – Trent Edwards, American football player
1984 – Eva Marcille, American model and actress
1984 – Tyson Strachan, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper
1987 – Junaid Siddique, Bangladeshi cricketer
1988 – Janel Parrish, American actress
1989 – Seth Adkins, American actor
1989 – Nastia Liukin, Russian/American gymnast
1989 – Vanessa White, British singer (The Saturdays)
1992 – Tequan Richmond, American actor

[/quote']

Edge? Edge the wrestler?

Läufer · December 5, 2009

[spoiler=October 30th]1218 – Emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234)
1513 – Jacques Amyot' date=' French writer (d. 1593)
1624 – Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693)
1668 – Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, queen in Prussia (d. 1705)
1735 – John Adams, second President of the United States (d. 1826)
1751 – Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright (d. 1816)
1762 – André Chénier, French writer (d. 1794)
1786 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871)
1799 – Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal (d. 1885)
1821 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
1839 – Alfred Sisley, Anglo-French artist (d. 1899)
1844 – Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
1847 – Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)
1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)
1861 – Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)
1871 – Paul Valéry, French poet (d. 1945)
1871 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)
1873 – Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (d. 1913)
1881 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941)
1882 – William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (d. 1959)
1882 – Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (d. 1944)
1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
1886 – Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
1887 – Sukumar Ray, Bengali Writer (d. 1923)
1888 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek Olympic champion (d. 1913)
1893 – Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (d. 1972)
1893 – Roland Freisler, German Nazi politician (d. 1945)
1894 – Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977)
1895 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964)
1895 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1896 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)
1896 – Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)
1897 – Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
1898 – Bill Terry, baseball player (d. 1989)
1900 – Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1906 – Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)
1906 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (d. 1966)
1907 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)
1908 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, An Indian politician (d. 1963)
1908 – Patsy Montana, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
1909 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)
1911 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
1914 – Richard E Holz, American composer (d. 1986)
1914 – Anna Wing, English actress
1915 – Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)
1916 – Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995)
1917 – Bobby Bragan, American baseball player
1917 – Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (d. 1994)
1917 – Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (d. 2005)
1922 – Jane White, American actress and singer
1926 – Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver
1927 – Joe Adcock, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
1930 – Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992)
1930 – Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1956)
1931 – Vince Callahan, American politician
1932 – Louis Malle, French film director (d. 1995)
1932 – Barun De, Indian historian
1934 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician
1935 – Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer
1935 – Michael Winner, British film director
1935 – Jim Perry, American baseball player
1935 – Robert Caro, American biographer
1936 – Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
1936 – Dick Vermeil, American football coach
1937 – Claude Lelouch, French film director
1939 – Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1939 – Grace Slick, American singer (Jefferson Airplane)
1939 – Edward Holland, Jr., American singer
1940 – Ed Lauter, American actor
1941 – Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1941 – Otis Williams, American singer
1943 – Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor
1946 – Chris Slade, Welsh drummer (Asia)
1947 – Timothy B. Schmit, American musician (Eagles)
1948 – Rusty Goffe, British actor
1951 – Harry Hamlin, American actor
1953 – Charles Martin Smith, American actor
1954 – Mario Testino, Peruvian-born English fashion photographer
1956 – Juliet Stevenson, English actress
1957 – Kevin Pollak, American actor
1958 – Joe Delaney, American football player (d. 1983)
1958 – Stefan Dennis, Australian actor
1958 – Ramona d'Viola, American cyclist
1960 – Diego Maradona, Argentine footballer
1961 – Scott Garrelts, American baseball player
1961 – Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek economist and politician
1962 – Courtney Walsh, Jamaican West Indies cricketer
1963 – Michael Beach, American actor
1963 – Rebecca Heineman, Computer game programmer
1963 – Kristina Wagner, American actress
1964 – Howard Lederer, American poker player
1964 – Humayun Kabir Dhali, Bangladeshi Writer & Journalist
1966 – Scott Innes, American voice actor
1967 – Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Gavin Rossdale, English musician
1968 – Jack Plotnick, American actor
1969 – Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer
1970 – Maja Tatic, Bosnia singer
1970 – Tory Belleci, American TV Mythbuster
1970 – Nia Long, American actress
1970 – Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower
1970 – Ben Bailey, American host of the game show Cash Cab
1971 – Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and singer
1971 – Suzan van der Wielen, Dutch hockey-international
1973 – Adam "Edge" Copeland, Canadian wrestler
1973 – Silvia Corzo, Colombian newscaster
1973 – Michael Oakes, English footballer
1975 – Ian D'Sa, Guitarist/Vocalist for Canadian rock band Billy Talent
1975 – Maria Thayer, American actress
1976 – Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
1976 – Ümit Özat, Turkish footballer
1976 – Maurice Taylor, American Basketball Player
1977 – Jason Adelman, American actor
1977 – Eefke Mulder, Dutch hockey-international
1978 – Martin Dossett, American football player
1978 – Amanda Swafford, American model
1978 – Matthew Morrison, American actor
1979 – Jason Bartlett, American baseball player
1979 – Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress
1980 – Sarah Carter, Canadian actress
1980 – Kareem Rush, American basketball player
1980 – Choi Hong-man, South Korean kickboxer
1980 – John Foo, Irish martial artist and actor
1981 – Ayaka Kimura, Japanese actress
1981 – Ivanka Trump, American model
1981 – Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
1981 – Ian Snell, American baseball player
1982 – Andy Greene, American ice hockey player
1982 – Manny Parra, American baseball player
1983 – Iain Hume, Canadian footballer
1983 – Trent Edwards, American football player
1984 – Eva Marcille, American model and actress
1984 – Tyson Strachan, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper
1987 – Junaid Siddique, Bangladeshi cricketer
1988 – Janel Parrish, American actress
1989 – Seth Adkins, American actor
1989 – Nastia Liukin, Russian/American gymnast
1989 – Vanessa White, British singer (The Saturdays)
1992 – Tequan Richmond, American actor

[/quote']

OMG John Adams.

Lucky.

Pikachu · December 5, 2009

* 603 – Pacal II ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque (d. 683)

* 1516 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)

* 1554 – Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611)

* 1698 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765)

* 1749 – William Blount, American Statesman (d. 1800)

* 1753 – Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)

* 1773 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and navigation expert (d. 1838)

* 1794 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872)

* 1859 – Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (d. 1936)

* 1859 – Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919)

* 1868 – King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936)

* 1871 – Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana‘ole of the Kingdom of Hawaii (d. 1922)

* 1874 – Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963)

* 1875 – Max Abraham, German physicist (d. 1922)

* 1875 – Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea (d. 1965)

* 1876 – Prince William of Wied (d. 1945)

* 1879 – Othmar Ammann, Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1965)

* 1882 – Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist (d. 1940)

* 1884 – Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (d. 1969)

* 1886 – Hugh Mulzac, America military officer (d. 1971)

* 1894 – Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (d. 1985)

* 1896 – Rudolf Dassler, Founder of PUMA AG (d. 1974)

* 1898 – Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (d. 1979)

* 1888 – Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse (d. 1948)

* 1893 – Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (d. 1964)

* 1904 – Joseph Campbell, American author (d. 1987)

* 1904 – Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (d. 1986)

* 1904 – Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)

* 1905 – Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (d. 1997)

* 1905 – Monty Berman, British film and television producer (d. 2006)

* 1906 – Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpetist (d. 1981)

* 1908 – Franz Stangl, German concentration camp commandant (d. 1971)

* 1908 – Henry (Hank) Sylvern, U.S. radio personality (d. 1964)

* 1911 – Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2003)

* 1911 – Tennessee Williams, American dramatist (d. 1983)

* 1911 – T. Hee, American animator (d. 1988)

* 1913 – Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)

* 1914 – Toru Kumon, Japanese educator (d. 1995)

* 1914 – William Westmoreland, U.S. general (d. 2005)

* 1916 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1995)

* 1916 – Bill Edrich, English cricketer (d. 1986)

* 1916 – Sterling Hayden, American actor (d. 1986)

* 1916 – Harry Rabinowitz, South African composer and conductor

* 1917 – Rufus Thomas, American musician (d. 2001)

* 1919 – Roger Leger, Quebec ice hockey player (d. 1965)

* 1919 – Strother Martin, American actor (d. 1980)

* 1922 – Oscar Sala, Italian-born physicist

* 1923 – Gert Bastian, German politician (d. 1992)

* 1923 – Bob Elliott, American comedian

* 1925 – Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor

* 1925 – James Moody, American jazz musician, composer, and actor

* 1927 – Harold Chapman, British photographer

* 1929 – Edwin Turney, American businessman

* 1929 – Tom Foley, American politician, former Speaker of the House

* 1930 – Gregory Corso, American poet (d. 2001)

* 1930 – Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

* 1931 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor and director

* 1933 – Vine Deloria, Indigenous-American scholar (d. 2005)

* 1934 – Alan Arkin, American actor

* 1935 – Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority

* 1936 – Harry Kalas, American sportscaster

* 1937 – Wayne Embry, American basketball player

* 1938 – Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel laureate

* 1940 – James Caan, American actor

* 1940 – Nancy Pelosi, American politician and 60th Speaker of the House

* 1941 – Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist

* 1941 – Yvon Marcoux, Quebec politician

* 1942 – Erica Jong, American author

* 1943 – Bob Woodward, American journalist

* 1944 – Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes)

* 1945 – Mikhail Voronin, Soviet gymnast (d. 2004)

* 1946 – Johnny Crawford, American actor

* 1946 – Alain Madelin, French politician

* 1947 – Dar Robinson, American stuntman (d. 1986)

* 1948 – Richard Tandy, British keyboardist (Electric Light Orchestra)

* 1948 – Steven Tyler, American singer (Aerosmith)

* 1949 – Vicki Lawrence, American actress and singer

* 1949 – Patrick Süskind, German writer

* 1950 – Teddy Pendergrass, American singer

* 1950 – Martin Short, Canadian comedian

* 1950 – Ernest Thomas, American actor

* 1950 – Alan Silvestri, American film score composer

* 1951 – Carl Wieman, American physicist, Nobel laureate

* 1952 – Didier Pironi, French Formula One driver (d. 1987)

* 1953 – Elaine Chao, Former U.S. Secretary of Labor

* 1953 – Lincoln Chafee, American Senator from Rhode Island

* 1953 – Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (d. 2002)

* 1954 – Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)

* 1954 – Curtis Sliwa, American founder of the Guardian Angels

* 1955 – Danny Arndt, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1956 – Charly McClain, American singer

* 1957 – Leeza Gibbons, American television host

* 1957 – Paul Morley, English music journalist and musician

* 1958 – Chris Codiroli, American baseball player

* 1958 – Elio de Angelis, Italian racing driver (d. 1986)

* 1959 – Chris Hansen, American reporter and correspondent

* 1960 – Marcus Allen, American football player

* 1960 – Jennifer Grey, American actress

* 1961 – Leigh Bowery, Australian-born English fashion performance artist (d. 1994)

* 1961 – William Hague, British politician

* 1962 – John Stockton, American basketball player

* 1962 – Paul de Leeuw, Dutch television host

* 1963 – Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese writer

* 1963 – Roch Voisine, Canadian singer and songwriter

* 1964 – Martin Donnelly, Irish racecar driver

* 1964 – Ulf Samuelsson, Swedish ice hockey player

* 1964 – Baz Warne, English Guitarist (The Stranglers)

* 1964 – Hai Zi, Chinese Poet (d. 1989)

* 1966 – Nick Wirth, British engineer

* 1966 – Michael Imperioli, American actor

* 1967 – Mark Carroll, Australian rugby league footballer

* 1968 – Kenny Chesney, American singer

* 1968 – James Iha, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle)

* 1968 – Laurent Brochard, French cyclist

* 1970 – Paul Bosvelt, Dutch football player

* 1970 – Martin McDonagh, Anglo-Irish playwright and film director

* 1971 – Behzad Ghorbani, Iranian zoologist and sociobiologist

* 1972 – Jon Reep, American comedian and actor

* 1972 – Jason Maxwell, American baseball player

* 1972 – Leslie Mann, American actress

* 1973 – Heather Goldenhersh, American actress

* 1973 – Lawrence E. Page, American search engine pioneer

* 1973 – T.R. Knight, American actor

* 1973 – Matt Burke, Australian rugby player

* 1974 – Mike Peca, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1976 – Joachim Alcine, Haitian-born Quebec boxer

* 1976 – Amy Smart, American actress

* 1976 – Natalia Livingston, American actress

* 1976 – Nurgül Yeşilçay, Turkish actress

* 1976 – Ufuk Talay, Australian footballer

* 1977 – Kevin Davies, English footballer

* 1977 – Sylvain Grenier, Canadian professional wrestler

* 1978 – Anastasia Kostaki, Greek basketball player

* 1979 – Hiromi Uehara, Japanese jazz pianist

* 1979 – Pierre Wome, Cameroonian footballer

* 1979 – Nacho Novo, Spanish footballer

* 1980 – Son Ho Young, Korean singer

* 1981 – Baruch Dego, Israeli football player

* 1981 – Jay Sean, British R&B singer

* 1981 – Josh Wilson, American baseball player

* 1982 – Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer

* 1983 – Roman Bednar, Czech footballer

* 1983 – Michael Brendli, American professional wrestler

* 1984 – Gregory Strydom, Zimbabwean cricketer

* 1984 – Stéphanie Lapointe, French-Canadian singer

* 1984 – Sara Jean Underwood, American model

* 1984 – David McGowan, English footballer

* 1985 – Keira Knightley, English actress

* 1985 – Prosper Utseya, Zimbabwean cricket captain

* 1985 – Jonathan Groff, American stage actor

* 1986 – Jonny Craig, Canadian singer and songwriter

* 1987 – YUI, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1988 – Suvi Koponen, Finnish model

* 1989 – Josiah Leming, American singer-songwriter

* 1990 – Yuya Takaki, Japanese actor and singer

* 1990 – Yūya Yagira, Japanese actor

* 1992 – Haley Ramm, americian actress

Lol Keira Knightley.

Zeroshot · December 5, 2009

Charlie Daniels and Bill Gates.

If you want to be technical, and say I was born on the 29th, it would be Randy Jackson and Kevin DuBrow

Slash · December 5, 2009

[spoiler=16th January]
1245 – Edmund Crouchback' date=' son of Henry III of England (d. 1296)
1409 – René I of Naples (d. 1480)
1477 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
1501 – Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1559)
1616 – François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
1626 – Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699)
1634 – Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716)
1675 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755)
1728 – Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer (d. 1800)
1807 – Charles Henry Davis, American Civil War Admiral (d. 1877)
1815 – Henry W. Halleck, American Civil War general (d. 1872)
1821 – John C. Breckinridge, U.S. Vice-President and Confederate general (d. 1875)
1834 – Robert R. Hitt, American politician (d. 1906)
1836 – King Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1894)
1838 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
1844 – Ismail Qemali, Albanian nationalist (d. 1919)
1853 – Andre Michelin, French industrialist (d. 1931)
1853 – Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and theatre manager (d. 1937)
1853 – Gen Sir Ian Hamilton, British military commander (d. 1947)
1853 – Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Russian philosopher (d. 1900)
1872 – Edward Gordon Craig, English actor, producer, director and scenic designer (d. 1966)
1872 – Henri Busser, French composer (d. 1973)
1874 – Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (d. 1958)
1875 – Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947)
1878 – Harry Carey, American silent film actor (d. 1947)
1885 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (d. 1967)
1886 – John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958)
1888 – Osip Brik, Russian writer (d. 1945)
1893 – Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981)
1894 – Irving Mills, American jazz music publisher (d. 1985)
1895 – Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
1896 – Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978)
1897 – Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (d. 1977)
1898 – Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002)
1898 – Irving Rapper, UK-US film director (d. 1999)
1901 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973)
1901 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
1902 – Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945)
1903 – William Grover-Williams, English-French racing driver and WWII resistance fighter (d. 1945)
1905 – Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989)
1906 – Diana Wynyard, British actress (d. 1964)
1907 – Alexander Knox, Canadian actor (d. 1995)
1907 – Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004)
1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)
1908 – Günther Prien, German World War II submarine captain (d. 1941)
1910 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (d. 1974)
1911 – Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (d. 1996)
1911 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician (d. 1982)
1914 – Roger Wagner, American choral musician (d. 1992)
1915 – Leslie H. Martinson, American television and film director.
1916 – Philip Lucock, Australian politician and Presbyterian minister (d. 1996)
1917 – Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (d. 2008)
1918 – Nel Benschop, Dutch poet (d. 2005)
1918 – Clem Jones, Australian Lord Mayor of Brisbane (d. 2007)
1918 – Stirling Silliphant, American writer (d. 1996)
1920 – Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (d. 1991)
1921 – Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
1922 – Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
1923 – Gene Feist, American stage actor and producer
1923 – Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
1924 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
1928 – Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996)
1928 – William Kennedy, American author
1930 – Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (d. 2006)
1930 – Norman Podhoretz, US writer, foreign policy adviser
1931 – Johannes Rau, German politician (d. 2006)
1932 – Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
1933 – Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004)
1934 – Marilyn Horne, American opera singer
1935 – A.J. Foyt, American race car driver and team owner
1937 – Lorraine Bayly, Australian actress
1937 – Luiz Bueno, Brazilian racing driver
1938 – Jô Soares, Brazilian author, musician and TV personality
1942 – René Angélil, Canadian music executive
1942 – Barbara Lynn, American singer
1943 – Gavin Bryars, English composer and double bassist
1943 – Brian Ferneyhough, British composer
1944 – Jim Stafford, American singer and songwriter
1946 – Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
1946 – Ronnie Milsap, American singer and songwriter
1946 – Katia Ricciarelli, Italian soprano
1947 – Magdalen Nabb, British author (d. 2007)
1947 – Harvey Proctor, British politician
1947 – Dr. Laura Schlessinger, American radio talk show host
1948 – John Carpenter, American film director
1948 – Dalvanius Prime, New Zealand entertainer (d. 2002)
1948 – Ruth Reichl, American magazine editor
1948 – Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
1949 – Andrew Refshauge, Australian politician, Deputy Premier of New South Wales
1950 – Debbie Allen, American dancer and choreographer
1950 – Brian Castro, Australian author
1950 – Damo Suzuki, Japanese singer (Can)
1950 – Caroline Munro, British actress
1951 – Glenn Ordway, American radio talk show host
1952 – King Fuad II of Egypt
1952 – L. Blaine Hammond, NASA astronaut
1953 – Robert Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi (d. 1984)
1955 – Jerry M. Linenger, NASA astronaut
1956 – Jennifer Dale, Canadian actress
1956 – Martin Jol, Dutch football manager
1956 – Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (d. 2007)
1958 – Anatoli Boukreev, Russian climber (d. 1997)
1958 – Lena Ek, Swedish politician
1959 – Juanita Bynum, American televangelist
1959 – Sade, Nigerian-born singer
1961 – Paul Raven, English musician (Killing Joke) (d. 2007)
1961 – Jill Sobule, American singer-songwriter
1962 – Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian politician
1962 – Paul Webb, British musician (Talk Talk, .O.rang)
1962 – Tracey Moore, voice actress
1963 – James May, English television presenter
1965 – Maxine Jones, American singer (En Vogue)
1968 – David Chokachi, American actor
1969 – Dead, Swedish black metal vocalist (Mayhem) (d. 1991)
1969 – Roy Jones Jr., American boxer
1969 – Neil Back, England rugby player
1970 – Garth Ennis, Irish comic book author
1970 – Brendan O'Hare, Scottish drummer (Teenage Fanclub, Telstar Ponies)
1970 – Ron Villone, American baseball player
1971 – Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player
1972 – Ruben Bagger, Danish footballer
1972 – Ang Christou, Australian rules footballer
1972 – Dameon Clarke, Canadian actor
1972 – Yuri Drozdov, Russian footballer
1972 – Ezra Hendrickson, Vincentian footballer
1972 – Salah Hissou, Moroccan long-distance runner
1972 – Joe Horn, American football player
1972 – Richard T. Jones, American actor
1972 – Greg Page, Australian musician and actor
1972 – Alen Peternac, Croatian footballer
1973 – Josie Davis, American actress
1974 – Marlon Anderson, American baseball player
1974 – Kate Moss, English model
1975 – Greg Strause, American visual effects creator
1975 – Gillian Iliana Waters, American actress
1976 – Viktor Maslov, Russian racing driver
1976 – Martina Moravcová, Slovak female swimmer
1977 – Ariel Zeevi, Israeli judoka
1977 – Jeff Foster, American basketball player
1978 – Alfredo Amézaga, Mexican baseball player
1979 – Aaliyah, American singer (d. 2001)
1979 – Brenden Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Seydou Keita, Malian footballer
1980 – Lin Manuel Miranda, American actor, composer, lyricist (In The Heights)
1980 – Albert Pujols, Dominican-born baseball player
1980 – Michelle Wild, Hungarian model
1981 – Nick Valensi, American guitarist (The Strokes)
1981 – Bobby Zamora, English footballer
1982 – Samuel Preston, British singer (The Ordinary Boys)
1982 – Tuncay Şanlı, Turkish footballer
1983 – Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
1984 – Stephan Lichtsteiner, Swiss footballer
1984 – Jared Slingerland, Canadian musician
1985 – Jonathan Richter, Danish footballer
1985 – Joe Flacco, American football player
1986 – Paula Pareto, Argentine judoka
1987 – Lauren McAvoy, British fashion model
1988 – Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
1989 – Yvonne Zima, American actress

That sure is alot O.o

[/quote']

This^

My birthday is on the January 16th as well =3

Tentacruel · December 5, 2009

[spoiler=July 20]

* 810 – Imam Bukhari, Muslim scholar and compiler of Hadith (d. 870)

* 1304 – Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (d. 1374)

* 1537 – Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)

* 1620 – Nikolaes Heinsius, Dutch scholar (d. 1681)

* 1754 – Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (d. 1836)

* 1757 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (d. 1811)

* 1774 – Auguste Marmont, French marshal (d. 1852)

* 1797 – Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873)

* 1822 – Gregor Mendel, German scientist, father of modern genetics (d. 1884)

* 1838 – Augustin Daly, American playwright (d. 1899)

* 1838 – George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)

* 1847 – Max Liebermann, German artist (d. 1935)

* 1849 – Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (d. 1918)

* 1852 – Theo Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1932)

* 1858 – Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d. 1925)

* 1864 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1931)

* 1868 – Miron Cristea, 1st Patriarch of All Romania (d. 1939)

* 1873 – Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (d. 1932)

* 1876 – Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (d. 1944)

* 1889 – John Reith, British broadcast executive (d. 1971)

* 1890 – King George II of Greece (d. 1947)

* 1893 – George Llewelyn-Davies, English Peter Pan character model (d. 1915)

* 1895 – László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)

* 1897 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1996)

* 1900 – Maurice Leyland, English cricketer (d. 1967)

* 1901 – Heinie Manush, American baseball player (d. 1971)

* 1902 – Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (d. 1984)

* 1909 – Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (d. 1969)

* 1909 – Eric Rowan, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1952 (d. 1993)

* 1910 – Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (d. 2004)

* 1911 – Baqa Jilani, Indian cricketer (d. 1941)

* 1912 – George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (d. 1970)

* 1942 – Charilaos Florakis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece (d. 2005)

* 1918 – Cindy Walker, American singer (d. 2006)

* 1919 – Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (d. 2008)

* 1920 – Elliot Richardson, American politician (d. 1999)

* 1922 – Alan Stephenson Boyd, American politician

* 1923 – Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005)

* 1924 – Thomas Berger, American novelist

* 1924 – Mort Garson, Canadian composer (d. 2008)

* 1925 – Jacques Delors, French President of the European Commission

* 1925 – Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (d. 1961)

* 1926 – Lola Albright, American actress

* 1926 – Patricia Cutts, English actress (d. 1974)

* 1927 – Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor and composer

* 1929 – Mike Ilitch, American businessman and sports executive

* 1929 – Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1999)

* 1930 – Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (d. 2009)

* 1930 – Sally Ann Howes, English-born singer and actress

* 1931 – Tony Marsh, English racing driver

* 1932 – Nam June Paik, Korean-born artist (d. 2006)

* 1932 – Otto Schily, German politician

* 1933 – Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (d. 1999)

* 1933 – Cormac McCarthy, American author

* 1933 – Rex Williams, English snooker player

* 1934 – Uwe Johnson, German writer (d. 1984)

* 1934 – Doug Padgett, English cricketer

* 1934 – Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress (d. 1996)

* 1935 – Ted Rogers, English comedian (d. 2001)

* 1936 – Barbara Mikulski, American politician

* 1937 – Ken Ogata, Japanese actor (d. 2008)

* 1938 – Roger Hunt, English footballer

* 1938 – Dame Diana Rigg, English actress

* 1938 – Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981)

* 1939 – Judy Chicago, American artist

* 1940 – Tony Oliva, Cuban baseball player

* 1941 – Kurt Raab, German actor (d. 1988)

* 1942 – Ron Bowden, Australian politician

* 1942 – Pete Hamilton, American race car driver

* 1942 – T. G. Sheppard, American country music singer

* 1943 – Chris Amon, New Zealand racing driver

* 1943 – Wendy Richard, English actress (d.2009)

* 1944 – Olivier de Kersauson, French sailor

* 1945 – Kim Carnes, American singer and songwriter

* 1945 – Larry Craig, American politician

* 1945 – John Lodge, English musician (The Moody Blues)

* 1945 – Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (d. 2005)

* 1945 – Bo Rein, American football coach (d. 1980)

* 1946 – Randal Kleiser, American film director

* 1947 – Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate

* 1947 – Carlos Santana, Mexican-born American guitarist

* 1948 – Muse Watson, American actor

* 1950 – Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress

* 1950 – Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor

* 1951 – Jeff Rawle, English actor

* 1952 – Keiko Matsuzaka, Japanese actress

* 1953 – Dave Evans, Australian singer (AC/DC)

* 1953 – Thomas Friedman, American journalist

* 1953 – Marcia Hines, American-born Australian singer

* 1953 – Dan Shaughnessy, American sports writer

* 1954 – Moira Harris, American actress

* 1955 – Jem Finer, English musician and composer (The Pogues)

* 1956 – Paul Cook, English musician (The Sex Pistols)

* 1956 – Jim Prentice, Canadian politician

* 1957 – Nancy Cruzan, American figure in right-to-die case (d. 1990)

* 1957 – Donna Dixon, American actress

* 1958 – Mick MacNeil, Scottish musician (Simple Minds)

* 1958 – Billy Mays, American pitchman (d. 2009)

* 1960 – Claudio Langes, Italian racing driver

* 1962 – Carlos Alazraqui, American actor and comedian

* 1962 – Giovanna Amati, Italian racing driver

* 1962 – Lee Harris, English drummer (Talk Talk, .O.rang)

* 1963 – Frank Whaley, American actor

* 1964 – Chris Cornell, American musician (Soundgarden, Audioslave)

* 1964 – Terri Irwin, American naturalist; widow of Steve Irwin

* 1964 – Kool G Rap, American musician

* 1964 – Bernd Schneider, German racing driver

* 1964 – Dean Winters, American actor

* 1966 – Stone Gossard, American musician (Pearl Jam, Mother Love Bone, Brad)

* 1966 – Enrique Peña Nieto, Governor of the State of Mexico (2005-present)

* 1967 – Reed Diamond, American actor

* 1967 – Courtney Taylor-Taylor, American musician (The Dandy Warhols)

* 1968 – Jimmy Carson, American ice hockey player

* 1968 – Michael Park, American actor

* 1968 – Julian Rhind-Tutt, English actor

* 1969 – Josh Holloway, American actor

* 1969 – Giovanni Lombardi, Italian cyclist

* 1969 – Tobi Vail, American musician (Bikini Kill, The Go Team, The Frumpies)

* 1969 – Vitamin C, American singer

* 1970 – Agot Isidro, Filipina actress

* 1971 – Ed Giddins, English cricketer

* 1971 – Charles Johnson, American baseball player

* 1971 – Sandra Oh, Korean Canadian actress

* 1971 – DJ Screw, American hip hop deejay (d. 2000)

* 1972 – Jozef Stümpel, Slovak ice hockey player

* 1972 – Erik Ullenhag, Swedish jurist and politician

* 1973 – Peter Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player

* 1973 – Nixon McLean, West Indian cricketer

* 1973 – Omar Epps, American actor

* 1973 – Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway

* 1973 – Claudio Reyna, American soccer player

* 1973 – Mads Rieper, Danish footballer

* 1974 – Bengie Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player

* 1974 – Phofo, American musician

* 1974 – Simon Rex, American actor

* 1975 – Ray Allen, American basketball player

* 1975 – Judy Greer, American actress

* 1975 – Erik Hagen, Norwegian footballer

* 1975 – Birgitta Ohlsson, Swedish politician

* 1975 – Atiq-uz-Zaman, Pakistani cricketer

* 1975 – El Zorro, Mexican professional wrestler

* 1976 – Erica Hill, American news anchor

* 1976 – Debashish Mohanty, Indian cricketer

* 1976 – Andrew Stockdale, Australian musician (Wolfmother)

* 1976 – Alex Yoong, Malaysian racing driver

* 1977 – Kiki Musampa, Congolese footballer

* 1977 – Alessandro dos Santos, naturalized Japanese footballer

* 1978 – Pavel Datsyuk, Russian ice hockey player

* 1978 – Charlie Korsmo, American actor

* 1978 – Tamsyn Lewis, Australian athlete

* 1978 – Will Solomon, American basketball player

* 1978 – Elliott Yamin, American Idol contestant

* 1979 – Claudine Barretto, Filipino actress

* 1979 – Miklos Feher, Hungarian football player (d. 2004)

* 1979 – David Ortega, Spanish freestyle and backstroke swimmer

* 1980 – Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian model

* 1980 – Mike Kennerty, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects)

* 1981 – Damien Delaney, Irish footballer

* 1981 – Thorsten Engelmann, German rower

* 1982 – Percy Daggs III, American actor

* 1984 – Alexi Casilla, Dominican baseball player

* 1985 – John Francis Daley, American actor

* 1985 – David Mundy, Australian Rules footballer

* 1985 – Anastasia Perraki, Greek fashion model

* 1988 – Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer

* 1988 – Stephen Strasburg, American baseball player

* 1989 – Witwisit Hirunwongkul, Thai actor

* 1990 – Jeffrey Morgan College Football Player

* 1991 – William Tomlin, British actor

* 1999 – Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Monegasque royalty

Nothin much =|

Skyfi · December 5, 2009

[spoiler=June 5th]

* 1341 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402)

* 1493 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)

* 1523 – Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1573)

* 1553 – Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)

* 1554 – Elisabeth of Austria, queen consort of Charles IX of France (d. 1592)

* 1640 – Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)

* 1660 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744)

* 1646 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d. 1684)

* 1718 – Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)

* 1723 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)

* 1757 – Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)

* 1760 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (d. 1852)

* 1771 – Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (d. 1851)

* 1781 – Christian August Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860)

* 1819 – John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892)

* 1850 – Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)

* 1862 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930)

* 1868 – James Connolly, Irish socialist (d. 1916)

* 1876 – Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)

* 1878 – Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)

* 1879 – Robert Mayer, German-born philanthropist (d. 1985)

* 1879 – René Pottier, French cyclist (d. 1907)

* 1883 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)

* 1884 – Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d. 1957)

* 1894 – Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)

* 1895 – William Boyd (actor), American actor (d. 1972)

* 1898 – Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian shoemaker (d. 1960)

* 1898 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936)

* 1899 – Otis Barton, American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor (d. 1992)

* 1900 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)

* 1905 – John Abbott, British actor (d. 1996)

* 1905 – Jock Cameron, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1936 (d. 1935)

* 1912 – Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003)

* 1916 – Eddie Joost, American baseball player and manager

* 1919 – Richard Scarry, American author/illustrator (d. 1994)

* 1920 – Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American author (d. 1974)

* 1923 – Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (d. 1963)

* 1923 – Daniel Pinkham, American composer, organist, and harpsichordist (d. 2006)

* 1925 – Art Donovan, American football star

* 1928 – Robert Lansing, American actor (d. 1994)

* 1928 – Tony Richardson, British film director (d. 1991)

* 1930 – Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996)

* 1931 – Jacques Demy, French film director (d. 1990)

* 1931 – Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish philosopher, antroposopher

* 1932 – Christy Brown, Irish author (d. 1981)

* 1934 – Bill Moyers, American journalist

* 1936 – Connie Hines, American actress

* 1937 – Hélène Cixous, French writer, poet

* 1938 – Karin Balzer, German hurdler

* 1939 – Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada

* 1939 – Margaret Drabble, English novelist

* 1941 – Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist

* 1941 – Erasmo Carlos, Brazilian singer and songwriter

* 1941 – Spalding Gray, American actor and writer (d. 2004)

* 1941 – Robert Kraft, American owner of the New England Patriots

* 1942 – Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatoguinean politician

* 1943 – Matthew Lesko, American author

* 1944 – Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer

* 1945 – John Carlos, American athlete

* 1945 – Patrick Head, English F1 technical director and team co-owner (WilliamsF1)

* 1946 – John Bach, Welsh actor

* 1946 – Freddie Stone, American guitarist (Sly & the Family Stone)

* 1947 – Laurie Anderson, American performance artist

* 1947 – Tom Evans, English musician (Badfinger) (d. 1983)

* 1949 – Ken Follett, Welsh author

* 1950 – J. J. Bittenbinder, American television host and author

* 1950 – Ronnie Dyson, American singer and actor (d. 1990)

* 1950 – Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist & political activist (d. 1977)

* 1951 – Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality.

* 1951 – Jill Biden, American educator and wife of Vice President Joe Biden

* 1952 – Carole Fredericks, American singer (d. 2001)

* 1952 – Daniel Katzen, American classical musician

* 1952 – Nicko McBrain, English drummer (Iron Maiden)

* 1953 – Kathleen Kennedy, American film producer

* 1954 – Haluk Bilginer, Turkish actor

* 1955 – Edino Nazareth Filho, Brazilian football player

* 1956 – Richard Butler, English singer (The Psychedelic Furs)

* 1956 – Kenny G, American saxophonist

* 1958 – Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros

* 1959 – Robert Lloyd, English musician (The Nightingales)

* 1960 – Leslie Hendrix, American actress

* 1960 – Margo Lanagan, Australian author

* 1961 – Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999)

* 1961 – Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (d. 2006)

* 1962 – Princess Astrid of Belgium

* 1962 – Jeff Garlin, American comedian

* 1963 – Joe Rudán, Hungarian heavy metal singer

* 1964 – Karl Sanders, American musician (Nile)

* 1964 – Lisa Cholodenko, American filmmaker

* 1965 – Sandrine Piau, French soprano

* 1967 – Joe DeLoach, American athlete

* 1967 – Ray Lankford, American baseball player

* 1967 – Ron Livingston, American actor

* 1969 – Brian McKnight, American musician

* 1970 – Martin Gelinas, Canadian hockey player

* 1971 – Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress

* 1971 – Takaya Tsubobayashi, Japanese racing driver

* 1971 – Mark Wahlberg, American rapper and actor

* 1972 – Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler

* 1972 – Chuck Klosterman, American journalist

* 1972 – Pavel Kotla, Polish conductor

* 1973 – Lamon Brewster, American boxer

* 1973 – Daniel Gildenlöw, Swedish musician and songwriter

* 1973 – Gella Vandecaveye, Belgian judoka

* 1973 – Galilea Montijo, Mexican actress

* 1974 – Chad Allen, American actor

* 1974 – Russ Ortiz, American baseball player

* 1975 – Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, Lithuanian basketball player

* 1975 – Sandra Stals, Belgian athlete

* 1976 – Giannis Giannoulis, Greek basketball player

* 1976 – Torry Holt, American football player

* 1976 – Ross Noble, English comedian

* 1976 – Aesop Rock, American hip-hop artist

* 1976 – Jack Ross, Scottish footballer

* 1977 – Kristin Gore, American author and screenwriter

* 1977 – Christian Martucci, American musician

* 1977 – Nourhanne, Lebanese singer

* 1977 – Navi Rawat, American actress

* 1977 – Liza Weil, American actress

* 1978 – Fernando Meira, Portuguese football player

* 1979 – David Bisbal, Spanish singer

* 1979 – Fraser Watts, Scottish cricketer

* 1979 – Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)

* 1979 – Jason White, American NASCAR driver

* 1980 – Yasser Latif Hamdani, Pakistani constitutional lawyer

* 1980 – Sutee Suksomkit, Thai football player

* 1980 – Mike Fisher, Canadian ice hockey Player (Ottawa Senators)

* 1981 – Jade Goody, British television personality (d. 2009)

* 1981 – Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)

* 1982 – Baron Geisler, Filipino actor

* 1983 – Bill Bray, American baseball player

* 1983 – Marques Colston, American football player

* 1984 – Cécilia Cara, French singer and actress

* 1985 – Kenny De Ketele, Belgian cyclist

* 1987 – Charlie Clements, English actor

* 1989 – Megumi Nakajima, Filipina-Japanese voice actress & singer

* 1992 – Emily Seebohm, Australian swimmer

* 1995 – Troye Sivan, South African/Australian actor and singer

* 2005 – Irene Urdangarín y de Borbón, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain

Doomboi · December 5, 2009

22 september

[spoiler=births]

1515 – Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557)

1547 – Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)

1593 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (d. 1650)

1601 – Anne of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France (d. 1666)

1606 – Li Zicheng, emperor of China (d. 1645)

1680 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)

1694 – Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman (d. 1773)

1715 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)

1717 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (d. 1783)

1722 – John Home, Scottish writer (d. 1808)

1741 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)

1743 – Quintin Craufurd, British author (d. 1819)

1765 – Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician (d. 1822)

1788 – Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)

1791 – Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)

1819 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)

1829 – Tự Đức, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1883)

1869 – Adrien-Maurice-Victurnien-Mathieu, 8th duc de Noailles (d. 1953)

1875 – Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (d. 1911)

1876 – André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)

1878 – Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)

1880 – Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)

1882 – Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d. 1946)

1885 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (d. 1940)

1885 – Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)

1885 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-born actor (d. 1957)

1889 – Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (d. 1963)

1891 – Hans Albers, German actor and singer (d. 1960)

1895 – Paul Muni, Polish-born actor (d. 1967)

1896 – Henry Segrave, British racing driver (d. 1930)

1898 – Katherine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)

1900 – William Spratling, American silversmith (d. 1967)

1900 – Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (d. 1985)

1901 – Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)

1902 – John Houseman, Romanian-born actor (d. 1988)

1903 – Joseph Valachi, American gangster (d. 1971)

1904 – Ellen Church, American stewardess (d. 1965)

1905 – Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964)

1905 – Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (d. 2009)

1907 – Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (d. 1981)

1910 – György Faludy, Hungarian poet (d. 2006)

1912 – Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)

1912 – Herbert Mataré, German physicist and European co-inventor of the transistor

1915 – Arthur Lowe, British actor (d. 1982)

1918 – Hans Scholl, member of The White Rose (d. 1943)

1918 – Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (d. 1988)

1920 – Eric Baker, British human rights activist (d. 1976)

1920 – Bob Lemon, American baseball player (d. 2000)

1920 – William H. Riker, American political scientist (d. 1993)

1920 – Anders Lassen, Danish military officer (d. 1945)

1922 – Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate

1923 – Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer

1924 – Charles Keeping, British illustrator (d. 1988)

1924 – Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist

1925 – Virginia Capers, American actress (d. 2004)

1927 – Gordon Astall, English footballer

1927 – Tommy Lasorda, American baseball manager

1928 – Eric Broadley, MBE, British automotive engineer (Lola Cars)

1928 – James Lawson, American minister and civil rights activist

1928 – Eugene Roche, American actor (d. 2004)

1929 – Serge Garant, French Canadian conductor (d. 1986)

1930 – P. B. Sreenivas, Indian Multi-lingual (Kannada, Tamil and Telugu) Play-back Singer

1931 – Fay Weldon, British feminist

1931 – George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (d. 2003)

1931 – Manzoor Ahmad, Pakistani philosopher

1932 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish heavyweight professional boxing champion of the world (d. 2009)

1933 – T. Cullen Davis, American oil heir and accused murderer

1934 – Lute Olson, American basketball coach

1934 – Jack McGregor, American lawyer, politician and founder of the Pittsburgh Penguins

1936 – Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)

1938 – Gene Mingo, American football player

1939 – Gilbert Earl Patterson, American minister (d. 2007)

1940 – Anna Karina, Danish born actress

1941 – Jeremiah Wright, American pastor

1942 – David Stern, American basketball commissioner

1943 – Toni Basil, American singer

1946 – King Sunny Ade, Nigerian singer

1946 – Dan Baker, American public address announcer

1946 – Larry Dierker, American baseball player and manager

1947 – Robert Morace, American writer

1948 – Denis Burke, Australian politician

1948 – Jim Byrnes, American actor and musician

1949 – Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist and author (d. 1999)

1949 – Jim McGinty, Australian politician

1950 – Kirka, Finnish singer (d. 2007)

1951 – David Coverdale, English singer

1952 – Bob Goodlatte, American politician

1952 – Paul Le Mat, American actor

1952 – Gary Holton, English actor and musician (d. 1985)

1952 – M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Thai politician, current Governor of Bangkok

1953 – Ségolène Royal, French politician

1954 – Shari Belafonte, American singer, actor, model

1954 – Randy Lanier, American racing driver

1955 – Jeffrey Leonard, Major League baseball player

1956 – Debby Boone, American singer

1956 – Masayuki Suzuki, Japanese singer (Rats & Star)

1957 – Nick Cave, Australian musician

1957 – Johnette Napolitano, American musician

1957 – Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist

1958 – Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor

1958 – Joan Jett, American rock-and-roll singer

1958 – Neil Cavuto, American television commentator

1959 – Tai Babilonia, American figure skater

1959 – Pope Michael, American anti-pope

1961 – Scott Baio, American actor

1961 – Vince Coleman, American baseball player

1961 – Dr. Liam Fox, British Conservative politician

1961 – Bonnie Hunt, American actress

1961 – Catherine Oxenberg, British actress

1961 – Marq Torien, American Rock singer (BulletBoys)

1961 – Michael Torke, American composer

1962 – Diogo Mainardi, Brazilian writer

1964 – Juha Turunen, Finnish politician turned criminal

1965 – Andy Cairns, Irish musician

1965 – Tony Drago, Maltese snooker player

1965 – Mark Guthrie, American baseball player

1965 – Robert Satcher, American Astronaut

1966 – Moustafa Amar, Egyptian singer

1966 – Stefan Rehn, Swedish footballer

1966 – Mike Richter, American ice hockey player

1967 – Matt Besser, American comedian

1967 – Rickard Rydell, Swedish racing driver

1967 – Félix Savón, Cuban boxer

1967 – Ecaterina Szabo, Romanian gymnast and Olympic champion

1967 – Kim Watkins, Australian television presenter

1969 – Matt Sharp, American musician (Weezer, The Rentals)

1970 – Mike Matheny, American baseball player

1970 – Mystikal, American rapper

1970 – Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor

1970 – Emmanuel Petit, French footballer

1971 – Elizabeth Bear, American author

1971 – Chesney Hawkes, English singer

1971 – Princess Märtha Louise of Norway

1972 – Dana Vespoli, American porn actress

1974 – Bob Sapp, American boxer and kickboxer

1974 – Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer and actress

1975 – Ethan Moreau, Canadian ice hockey player

1975 – Svilen Noev, Bulgarian singer-songwriter

1976 – David Berkeley, American singer-songwriter

1977 – Paul Sculthorpe, English rugby league footballer

1978 – Ed Joyce, Irish-English cricketer

1978 – Harry Kewell, Australian soccer player

1979 – Emilie Autumn, American singer and musician

1979 – Swin Cash, American basketball player

1979 – Michael Graziadei, American actor

1980 – Fernanda Tavares, Brazilian model

1981 – Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer (Kanjani8)

1982 – Mandy Chiang, Hong Kong singer and actress

1982 – Kosuke Kitajima, Japanese swimmer

1982 – Billie Piper, English singer and actress

1984 – Theresa Fu, Hong Kong singer and actress

1984 – Eduardo Rubio, Chilean footballer

1984 – Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress

1985 – Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer

1987 – Tom Felton, English actor

1988 – Bethany Dillon, American musician

[spoiler=deaths]

1072 – Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and scholar-official (b. 1007)

1253 – Dogen, Japanese Zen Buddhist (b. 1200)

1345 – Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (b. 1281)

1399 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)

1520 – Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)

1539 – Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)

1554 – Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)

1566 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (b. 1494)

1607 – Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (b. 1535)

1658 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607)

1662 – John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)

1692 – Martha Corey, hanged as a result of the Salem witch trials

1703 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)

1774 – Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)

1776 – Nathan Hale, American Revolutionary War captain, hanged by the British as a spy (b. 1755)

1777 – John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)

1828 – Shaka, Accredited as being the most influential leader of the Zulu Empire (b. 1787)

1852 – William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (b. 1783)

1868 – Byakkotai, A group of 19 young Japanese with the samurai corps of Aizu-Han who committed suicide.

1872 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b. 1801)

1873 – Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1801)

1881 – Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831)

1914 – Alain-Fournier, French writer (b. 1886)

1952 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865)

1956 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)

1957 – Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)

1961 – Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897)

1969 – Adolfo López Mateos, president of Mexico (b. 1909)

1981 – Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (b. 1893)

1987 – Dan Rowan, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)

1988 – Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (b. 1914)

1989 – Irving Berlin, American songwriter (b. 1888)

1992 – Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)

1993 – Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)

1996 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer and director (b. 1924)

1996 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)

1999 – George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)

2000 – Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna), American professional wrestler (b. 1966)

2000 – Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator, (b. 1916)

2001 – Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)

2002 – Jan de Hartog, Dutch-born writer (b. 1914)

2003 – Gordon Jump, American television actor (b. 1932)

2003 – Hugo Young, British journalist (b. 1938)

2004 – Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (b. 1927)

2004 – Ray Traylor (The Big Boss Man), American professional wrestler (b. 1962)

2006 – Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)

2006 – Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)

2007 – Bodinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1928)

2007 – Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)

2008 – Thomas Doerflein, German Zookeeper (b. 1963)

[spoiler=events]

66 – Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.

1236 – The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.

1499 – Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.

1586 – Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over England and Dutch.

1598 – Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.

1692 – Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.

1761 – George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen of the Great Britain.

1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.

1784 – Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.

1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.

1789 – Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.

1792 – Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar.

1823 – Joseph Smith, Jr. claims that he is directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where the Golden plates were buried.

1851 – The city of Des Moines, Iowa is incorporated as Fort Des Moines.

1862 – Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.

1866 – Battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.

1869 – Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.

1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule e.g. "Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right".

1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published

1893 – The first American-made automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.

1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

1908 – The independence of Bulgaria is proclaimed.

1910 – The Duke of York's Cinema opens in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.

1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.

1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.

1934 – An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.

1937 – Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.

1939 – Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.

1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.

1944 – World War II: the Red Army enters Tallinn.

1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.

1955 – In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.

1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.

1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.

1970 – Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia.

1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.

1979 – The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.

1980 – Iraq invades Iran.

1985 – The Plaza Accord is signed in New York City.

1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.

1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. 47 passengers are killed.

1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.

1995 – An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.

1995 – Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.

1997 – Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers are killed.

2003 – David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.

2006 – The F-14 Tomcat is retired from the United States Navy.

Nero™ · December 5, 2009

Pretty long list

[spoiler=21st august]

[edit]Births

1165 – King Philip II of France (d. 1223)

1535 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)

1567 – Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (d. 1622)

1597 – Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)

1643 – King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)

1660 – Hubert Gautier, French scientist and civil engineer (d. 1737)

1665 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)

1670 – James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military leader (d. 1734)

1725 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (d. 1805)

1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)

1754 – Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (d. 1833)

1765 – William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)

1789 – Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857)

1798 – Jules Michelet, French historian (d. 1874)

1800 – Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)

1801 – Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (d. 1876)

1813 – Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891)

1816 – Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)

1826 – Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903)

1858 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (d. 1889)

1869 – William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish/Australian poet (d. 1963)

1872 – Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator (d. 1898)

1891 – Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007)

1892 – Charles Vanel, French actor and director (d. 1989)

1904 – William "Count" Basie, American bandleader (d. 1984)

1906 – Friz Freleng, American movie animator (d. 1995)

1908 – M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004)

1909 – Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (d. 1992)

1912 – Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)

1915 – Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (d. 1998)

1918 – Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)

1920 – Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories (d. 1996)

1924 – Jack Buck, American sports announcer (d. 2002)

1924 – Chris Schenkel, American sports journalist (d. 2005)

1924 – Jack Weston, American actor (d. 1996)

1925 – Judy Grable, American professional wrestler (d. 2008)

1925 – Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003)

1927 – Thomas S. Monson, 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church)

1928 – Art Farmer, American trumpet player (d. 1999)

1928 – Bud McFadin, American football player (d. 2006)

1929 – X. J. Kennedy, American poet

1929 – Marie Severin, American comic book artist and colorist

1930 – Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)

1930 – Frank Perry, American film director (d. 1995)

1932 – Melvin Van Peebles, American actor and screenwriter

1933 – Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano

1934 – Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist

1936 – Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (d. 1999)

1936 – Radish Tordia, painter of Figurative Art from Georgia

1937 – Robert Stone, American novelist

1937 – Gustavo Noboa, former President of Ecuador

1938 – Kenny Rogers, American singer and actor

1939 – James Burton, American guitarist

1939 – Clarence Williams III, American actor

1939 – Festus Mogae, president of Botswana

1943 – Hugh Wilson, American director, writer and actor

1944 – Jackie DeShannon, American singer

1944 – Peter Weir, Australian film director

1944 – Perry Christie, former prime minister of the Bahamas

1945 – Jerry DaVanon, baseball player

1945 – Patty McCormack, American actress

1945 – Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (d. 2006)

1949 – Loretta Devine, American actress

1950 – Patrick Juvet, Swiss singer

1950 – Arthur Bremer, American criminal, who shot George C Wallace in May 1972.

1951 – Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist

1951 – Char Margolis, American medium

1951 – Harry Smith, American television journalist

1951 – Margo Kane, Canadian playwright.

1952 – Keith Hart, Canadian professional wrestler

1952 – Glenn Hughes, British bassist and vocalist (Finders Keepers/Trapeze/Deep Purple)

1952 – Jiří Paroubek, former Czech prime minister

1952 – Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (The Clash) (d. 2002)

1953 – Ivan Stang, American writer

1954 – Archie Griffin, former American football player and only two-time Heisman Trophy winner.

1956 – Kim Cattrall, English-born actress

1956 – John Tester, US Senator from Montana

1959 – Jim McMahon, American football player

1961 – David Morales, American disc jockey

1961 – Stephen Hillenburg, American animator and cartoonist

1961 – V. B. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer

1962 – John Korfas, Greek basketball player

1962 – Jeff Stryker, American actor

1963 – King Mohammed VI of Morocco

1963 – Richmond Arquette, American actor

1964 – Trinity Loren, American actress and model (d. 1998)

1965 – Jim Bullinger, American baseball player

1965 – Caryn Mower, American actress, stuntwoman and former professional wrestler

1966 – John Wetteland, Major League Baseball player

1967 – Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress

1967 – Serj Tankian, Armenian-born singer (System of a Down)

1967 – Darren Bewick, AFL footballer

1969 – Josée Chouinard, Canadian figure skater

1970 – Nathan Jones, American professional wrestler

1970 – Erik Dekker, Dutch cyclist

1971 – Liam Howlett, British musician (The Prodigy)

1971 – Mamadou Diallo, Senegalese Soccer player

1971 – Robert Harvey, Australian Rules Footballer (St Kilda Football Club)

1973 – Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player

1973 – Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google

1973 – Nikolay Valuev, Russian boxer

1975 – Alicia Witt, American actress

1975 – Simon Katich, Australian cricketer

1976 – Alex Brooks, American ice hockey player

1976 – Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican American soccer player

1976 – Ramón Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player

1976 – Nikos Vertis, Greek singer

1978 – Peter Buxton, English rugby union player

1978 – Bhumika Chawla, Indian Actress

1978 – Reuben Droughns, American football player

1978 – Lee Gronkiewicz, American baseball player

1978 – Alan Lee, Irish footballer

1978 – Jason Marquis, American baseball player

1979 – Kelis Rogers-Jones, American singer

1980 – Burney Lamar, American race car driver

1980 – Paul Menard, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver

1981 – Collie Buddz, (Colin Harper) Reggae & Dancehall artist

1981 – Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player

1981 – Jarrod Lyle, Australian Golfer

1983 – Josh Harrington, American professional BMX rider

1983 – Chantelle Houghton, British TV personality

1983 – Brody Jenner, American actor

1983 – Scott McDonald, Australian footballer (Celtic F.C.)

1984 – Neil Dexter, South African cricketer

1984 – Alizée Jacotey, French singer

1984 – Melissa Schuman, American actress

1984 – B.J. Upton, American baseball player

1985 – Melissa M, French singer

1986 – Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter

1987 – Kim Kibum, a member of Korean boy band Super junior. actor and singer

1988 – Louise Setara, English singer-songwriter

1988 – Paris Bennett, American singer and finalist on American Idol (season 5)

1989 – Hayden Panettiere, American actress, model and singer

1989 – Judd Trump, English snooker player

1989 – Clayton Paterson, Canadian musician (Asphalt Lullabies, Ruin of Nations)

1990 – Bo Burnham, American comedic singer-songwriter and Internet Celebrity

1992 – Brad Kavanagh, English songwriter and actor

1996 – Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress

[edit]Deaths

1157 – King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)

1153 – Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian (b. 1090)

1271 – Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)

1581 – Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)

1614 – Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)

1627 – Jacques Mauduit, French composer (b. 1557)

1673 – Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier

1689 – William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier

1762 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)

1763 – Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)

1796 – John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)

1814 – Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)

1836 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)

1838 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)

1854 – Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)

1870 – Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821)

1935 – John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)

1926 – Ugyen Wangchuck, first king of Bhutan (b.1862)

1940 – Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)

1940 – Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)

1940 – Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1882)

1943 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize (b. 1857)

1947 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1881)

1951 – Constant Lambert, British composer and conductor (b. 1905)

1957 – Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)

1957 – Nels Stewart, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)

1960 – David Barnard Steinman, American civil engineer and bridge designer (b. 1886)

1964 – Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (b. 1893)

1971 – George Jackson, American prisoner, Soledad Brother, Black Panther (b. 1941)

1978 – Charles Eames, American designer and architect (b. 1907)

1979 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)

1981 – Michael Devine, the last man to die in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (b. 1954)

1982 – Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (b. 1899)

1983 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader (b. 1932)

1988 – Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912)

1989 – Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)

1992 – Dai Vernon, Canadian magician (b. 1894)

1995 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)

1997 – Yuri Nikulin, Russian clown and actor (b. 1921)

2000 – Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)

2000 – Tomata du Plenty, artist and lead singer of The Screamers. (b. 1948)

2001 – Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)

2003 – Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and aid worker (b. 1946)

2003 – Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963)

2005 – Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)

2005 – Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)

2005 – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)

2005 – Martin Dillon, tenor, American opera singer (b. 1957)

2006 – Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)

2006 – Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)

2007 – Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (b. 1960)

2007 – Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (b. 1918)

2007 – Haley Paige, American pornographic actress (b. 1981)

2008 – Jerry Finn, American record producer (b. 1969)

2009 – Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (b. 1930)

六兆年と一夜物語 · December 5, 2009

June 17

[spoiler=LONGLISTISLONG] * 1239 – Edward Longshanks, English king (d. 1307)

* 1603 – Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (d. 1663)

* 1682 – King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718)

* 1691 – Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (d. 1765)

* 1693 – Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775)

* 1704 – John Kay, English inventor (d. 1780)

* 1714 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (d. 1762)

* 1714 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (d. 1784)

* 1718 – George Howard, British field marshal (d. 1796)

* 1742 – William Hooper, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1790)

* 1808 – Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (d. 1845)

* 1810 – Ferdinand Freiligrath, German writer (d. 1876)

* 1811 – Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence fighter (d. 1879)

* 1818 – Charles Gounod, French composer (d. 1893)

* 1818 – Sophie of Württemberg, queen of the Netherlands (d. 1877)

* 1832 – Sir William Crookes, English physicist and chemist (d. 1919)

* 1839 – Arthur Tooth, English Anglican Clergyman (d. 1931)

* 1858 – Ebenezer Sumner Draper, 44th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1914)

* 1861 – Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905)

* 1861 – Omar Bundy, American army general (d. 1940)

* 1863 – Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1934)

* 1867 – John Robert Gregg, American inventor (d. 1948)

* 1867 – Henry Lawson, Australian poet (d. 1922)

* 1880 – Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (d. 1964)

* 1881 – Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (d. 1955)

* 1882 – Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1918)

* 1882 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (d. 1971)

* 1888 – Heinz Guderian, German general (d. 1954)

* 1898 – M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972)

* 1898 – Carl Hermann, German physicist (d. 1961)

* 1898 – Harry Patch, British supercentenarian (d. 2009)

* 1900 – Martin Bormann, Nazi official (d. 1945)

* 1902 – Sammy Fain, American popular music composer (d. 1989)

* 1902 – Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (d. 1982)

* 1903 – Ruth Wakefield, American cook and hotelier (d. 1977)

* 1904 – Ralph Bellamy, American actor (d. 1991)

* 1907 – Maurice Cloche, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1990)

* 1907 – Charles Eames, American designer and architect (d. 1978)

* 1909 – Elmer Lee Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004)

* 1909 – Ralph E. Winters, Canadian film editor (d. 2004)

* 1910 – Red Foley, American musician (d. 1968)

* 1910 – George Hees, Canadian politician (d. 1996)

* 1914 – John Hersey, American author (d. 1993)

* 1915 – David "Stringbean" Akeman, American musician and actor (d. 1973)

* 1915 – Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (d. 1996)

* 1916 – Terry Gilkyson, American singer, lyricist and composer (d. 1999)

* 1917 – Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2007)

* 1918 – Ajahn Chah, Meditation master (d. 1992)

* 1920 – Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (d. 1981)

* 1920 – François Jacob, French biologist, Nobel laureate

* 1923 – Elroy Hirsch, American football player (d. 2004)

* 1927 – Martin Böttcher, German conductor

* 1929 – Tigran Petrosian, Armenian chess player (d. 1984)

* 1930 – Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)

* 1931 – John Baldessari, American artist

* 1932 – Peter Lupus, American actor

* 1932 – John Murtha, American politician

* 1933 – Harry Browne, American writer and investment analyst (d. 2006)

* 1933 – Christian Ferras, French violinist (d. 1982)

* 1933 – Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (d. 1970)

* 1936 – Ken Loach, British film director

* 1936 – Vern Harper, Canadian First Nations Cree Elder and Korean War veteran

* 1940 – George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel laureate

* 1942 – Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian IAEA director, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

* 1943 – Newt Gingrich, American politician

* 1943 – Barry Manilow, American musician

* 1943 – Burt Rutan, American aerospace engineer

* 1944 – Randy Johnson, American football player (d. 2009)

* 1945 – Frank Ashmore, American actor

* 1945 – Tommy Franks, American General

* 1945 – Ken Livingstone, English politician

* 1945 – Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist

* 1946 – Peter Rosei, Austrian writer

* 1947 – Christopher Allport, American actor (d. 2008)

* 1947 – George S. Clinton, American composer and musician

* 1947 – Paul Young, English singer and percussionist (d. 2000)

* 1947 – Linda Chavez, American author

* 1948 – Dave Concepción, Venezuelan baseball player

* 1948 – Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (d. 1992)

* 1949 – Snakefinger, British-born musician (d. 1987)

* 1950 – Lee Tamahori, New Zealand film director

* 1951 – Joe Piscopo, American actor

* 1952 – Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player, coach and executive

* 1954 – Len Davies, Wrestling promoter

* 1955 – Gail Jones, Australian author

* 1957 – Phil Chevron, Irish musician (The Pogues, The Radiators From Space)

* 1957 – Martin Dillon, American opera singer (d. 2005)

* 1957 – Jon Gries, American actor

* 1957 – Jack Wouterse, Dutch actor

* 1958 – Jello Biafra, American musician and activist

* 1958 – Bobby Farrelly, American film director

* 1958 – Sam Hamad, Syrian/Canadian politician

* 1958 – Daniel McVicar, American actor

* 1958 – Derek Lee Ragin, American countertenor

* 1960 – Adrián Campos, Spanish racing driver

* 1960 – Thomas Haden Church, American actor

* 1961 – Kōichi Yamadera, Japanese seiyū, actor and tarento

* 1962 – Michael Monroe, Finnish singer (Hanoi Rocks)

* 1963 – Greg Kinnear, American actor

* 1964 – Rinaldo Capello, Italian racing driver

* 1964 – Michael Gross, German swimmer

* 1964 – Erin Murphy, American actress

* 1965 – Dermontti Dawson, American football player

* 1965 – Dan Jansen, American speed skater

* 1965 – Dara O'Kearney, Irish ultra runner and professional poker player

* 1966 – Jason Patric, American actor

* 1967 – Eric Stefani, American musician

* 1968 – Julie Miller, Hawaiian triathelte

* 1968 – Minoru Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler

* 1969 – Paul Tergat, Kenyan athlete

* 1970 – Stéphane Fiset, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1970 – Will Forte, American writer, actor and comedian

* 1970 – Jason Hanson, American football player

* 1970 – Michael Showalter, American comedian

* 1970 – Sasha Sokol, Mexican singer and actress

* 1970 – Popeye Jones, American basketball player

* 1971 – Mildred Fox, Irish politician

* 1971 – Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer

* 1972 – Sebastian White, English musician

* 1973 – Krayzie Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)

* 1973 – Louis Leterrier, French film director

* 1973 – Leander Paes, Indian tennis player

* 1973 – Christian Claudio, Puerto Rican business consultant

* 1974 – Evangelia Psarra, Greek archer

* 1975 – Jennifer Irwin, Canadian actress

* 1975 – Chloe Jones, American pornographic actress (d. 2005)

* 1975 – Joshua Leonard, American actor

* 1976 – Sven Nys, Belgian mountainbiker

* 1976 – Scott Adkins, English actor

* 1977 – Roger Manganelli, American bassist (Less Than Jake)

* 1977 – Mark Tauscher, American football player

* 1977 – Branko Tomovic, Serbian actor

* 1978 – Kumiko Aso, Japanese actress

* 1978 – Isabelle Delobel, French ice dancer

* 1978 – James Corden, English actor and comedian

* 1979 – Nick Rimando, American footballer

* 1980 – Kimeru, Japanese singer

* 1980 – Venus Williams, American tennis player

* 1980 – Jeph Jacques, American webcomic writer

* 1980 – Kim Kardashian, American reality star

* 1981 – Kyle Boller, American football player

* 1981 – Amrita Rao, Actress

* 1981 – Shane Watson, Australian cricketer

* 1982 – Marek Svatoš, Slovakian ice hockey player

* 1983 – Connie Fisher, English stage actress

* 1983 – Kazunari Ninomiya, Japanese singer and actor

* 1983 – Lee Ryan, British singer (Blue)

* 1984 – John Gallagher, Jr., American actor

* 1985 – Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player

* 1985 – Rafael Sóbis, Brazilian footballer

* 1988 – Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player

* 1988 – Stephanie Rice, Australian swimmer

* 1989 – Giorgos Tofas, Cypriot footballer

[spoiler=LONGDEATHLISTISLONG] * 900 – Fulk the Venerable, Archbishop of Rheims (assassinated by Count Baldwin II of Flanders)

* 1025 – Bolesław I the Brave, first king of Poland (b. 967)

* 1091 – Dirk V, Count of Holland (b. 1052)

* 1463 – Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (b. 1436)

* 1565 – Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (b. 1536)

* 1694 – Philip Cardinal Howard, English Catholic Cardinal (b. 1629)

* 1696 – John III Sobieski, King of Poland (b. 1629)

* 1719 – Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (b. 1672)

* 1734 – Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (b. 1653)

* 1740 – Sir William Wyndham, English politician (b. 1687)

* 1762 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (b. 1674)

* 1771 – Daskalogiannis executed at Candia, Crete

* 1775 – Major John Pitcairn, British marine (killed in battle) (b. 1722)

* 1797 – Agha Muhammad Khan, Shah of Persia (b. 1742)

* 1813 – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (b. 1726)

* 1821 – Martín Miguel de Güemes Argentine military leader (b. 1785)

* 1858 – Rani Lakshmibai, queen of Jhansi in North India, one of the leading figures of the Indian rebellion of 1857 (b. 1828)

* 1898 – Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833)

* 1904 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov, Russian politician, Governor-General of Finland (assassinated) (b. 1839)

* 1939 – Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (b. 1893)

* 1940 – Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)

* 1941 – Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer and organist (b. 1862)

* 1942 – Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician (b. 1853)

* 1952 – Jack Parsons, American rocket-fuel pioneer and renegade occultist (b. 1914)

* 1956 – Paul Rostock, German doctor (b. 1892)

* 1956 – Bob Sweikert, American racing driver (b. 1926)

* 1957 – Dorothy Richardson, English writer (b. 1873)

* 1961 – Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918)

* 1963 – Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician and nationalist (b. 1882)

* 1968 – José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)

* 1974 – Pamela Britton, American actress (b. 1923)

* 1979 – Duffy Lewis, baseball player (b. 1888)

* 1981 – Richard O'Connor, British general (b. 1889)

* 1981 – Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (b. 1889)

* 1982 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920)

* 1983 – Peter Mennin, American composer and teacher (b. 1923)

* 1985 – John Boulting, English film-maker (b. 1913)

* 1986 – Kate Smith, American singer (God Bless America) (b. 1907)

* 1987 – Dick Howser, American baseball player and manager (b. 1936)

* 1996 – Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (b. 1922)

* 1999 – Basil Hume, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, England (b. 1923)

* 2000 – Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian Chief Justice (d. 1931)

* 2001 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)

* 2001 – Thomas Joseph Winning, Cardinal Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland (b. 1925)

* 2002 – Willie Davenport, American athlete (b. 1943)

* 2002 – Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)

* 2004 – Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)

* 2005 – Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (b. 1962)

* 2005 – Sam Loeb, comic book writer (b. 1988)

* 2006 – Cláudio Besserman Vianna, aka "Bussunda", Brazilian comedian (b. 1962)

* 2006 – Arthur Franz, American actor (b. 1920)

* 2007 – Gianfranco Ferrè, Italian fashion designer (b. 1944)

* 2007 – Serena Wilson, American belly dancer (b. 1933)

* 2008 – Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)

* 2008 – Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress (b. 1922)

* 2009 – Darrell Powers, American World War II veteran of the United States 101st Airborne Division. (b. 1923)

* 2009 – Ralf Dahrendorf, German-born sociologist and politician (b. 1929)

[spoiler=LONGEVENTLISTISLONG] * 1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.

* 1497 – Battle of Deptford Bridge – forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.

* 1565 – Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.

* 1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.

* 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal.

* 1773 – Cúcuta, Colombia is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bunker Hill

* 1789 – In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.

* 1839 – In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established as a result.

* 1863 – Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War.

* 1876 – Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.

* 1877 – Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon – the Nez Perce defeat the US Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.

* 1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.

* 1898 – The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.

* 1901 – The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.

* 1910 – Aurel Vlaicu performed the first flight of A. Vlaicu nr. 1.

* 1930 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.

* 1932 – Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.

* 1933 – Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.

* 1939 – Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.

* 1940 – World War II: Operation Ariel begins – Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.

* 1940 – World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.

* 1940 – World War II: the British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.

* 1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.

* 1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.

* 1948 – A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.

* 1953 – Workers Uprising: in East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.

* 1958 – The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing being built connecting Vancouver and North Vancouver, Canada, collapses into the Burrard Inlet, killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.

* 1958 – The Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada opens. It is still open today.

* 1961 – The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.

* 1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.

* 1972 – Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.

* 1987 – With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.

* 1991 – Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.

* 1992 – A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).

* 1994 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase , O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Long lists are long.

Yankee · December 5, 2009

[spoiler=Me]1127 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)

1405 – Pope Pius II (d. 1464)

1517 – Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (d. 1570)

1547 – Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (d. 1606)

1569 – Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (d. 1625)

1595 – Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655)

1634 – Luca Giordano, Italian artist (d. 1705)

1653 – Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)

1662 – Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (d. 1714)

1668 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)

1679 – Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem Witch Trials (d. 1716)

1701 – Charles le Beau, French historian (d. 1778)

1706 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (d. 1785)

1741 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)

1777 – Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (d. 1811)

1785 – Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (d. 1866)

1831 – Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (d. 1888)

1854 – Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (d. 1911)

1859 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1941)

1865 – Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist (d. 1957)

1865 – Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist and critic (d. 1946)

1868 – Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931)

1870 – Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Japanese scholar (d. 1966)

1873 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)

1882 – Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (d. 1917)

1893 – Georges Ohsawa, Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (d. 1966)

1894 – H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)

1897 – Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist (d. 1980)

1898 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (d. 1981)

1902 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972)

1902 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)

1903 – Lina Radke, German athlete (d. 1983)

1904 – A. J. Liebling, American journalist (d. 1963)

1905 – Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (d. 1993)

1905 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny, first President of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 1993)

1906 – James Brooks, American painter (d. 1992)

1909 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and legal theorist (d. 2004)

1914 – Raymond Lambert, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1997)

1915 – Victor Sen Yung, American actor (d. 1980)

1918 – Bobby Troup, American musician (d. 1999)

1919 – Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (d. 1996)

1919 – Anita O'Day, American singer (d. 2006)

1919 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)

1920 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and Minister for Culture of Greece (d. 1994)

1921 – Jesse Helms, American politician (d. 2008)

1924 – Hugh Allan "Buddy" MacMaster, Canadian musician

1925 – Ramiz Alia, political leader of Albania

1926 – Chuck Berry, American musician

1926 – Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)

1927 – George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999)

1928 – Keith Jackson, American football commentator

1929 – Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua

1931 – Chris Albertson, American jazz historian

1932 – Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician

1933 – Forrest Gregg, American football player

1934 – Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian actor (d. 2007)

1934 – Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (d. 1970)

1934 – Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist

1935 – Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)

1938 – Dawn Wells, American actress

1939 – Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and commentator

1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)

1939 – Flavio Cotti, member of the Swiss Federal Council

1940 – Cynthia Weil, American songwriter

1942 – Larry Pickering, Australian newspaper cartoonist

1943 – Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish politician

1944 – Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician (d. 1987)

1945 – Chris Shays, Former member of the United States Congress from Connecticut

1945 – Huell Howser, American TV host

1945 – Yıldo, Turkish famous showman and football player

1946 – James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter

1946 – Howard Shore, Canadian film composer

1946 – Frank Beamer, American football coach Virginia Tech Hokies football

1947 – Job Cohen, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam

1947 – Joe Morton, American actor

1947 – Laura Nyro, American singer and songwriter (d. 1997)

1947 – Paul Chuckle, British comedian

1948 – Ntozake Shange, American author

1948 – Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher

1949 – Joe Egan, British musician (Stealers Wheel)

1949 – George Hendrick, baseball player

1949 – Gary Richrath, American musician (REO Speedwagon)

1950 – Om Puri, Indian actor

1950 – Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (d. 2006)

1950 – Sheila White, English actress

1951 – Mike Antonovich, American ice hockey player and executive

1951 – Terry McMillan, American author

1951 – Pam Dawber, American actress

1952 – Patrick Morrow, Canadian mountaineer, first to complete the Seven Summits

1952 – Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese novelist

1952 – Jerry Royster, American baseball player

1954 – Liz Burch, Australian actress

1954 – Arliss Howard, American actor

1955 – Timmy Mallett, British TV presenter

1955 – David Twohy, American movie director and screenwriter

1955 – Rita Verdonk, Dutch politician

1955 – Vanessa Briscoe Hay, American singer and songwriter (Pylon (band) & Supercluster)

1956 – Martina Navrátilová, Czech-born tennis player

1956 – Craig Bartlett, American animator

1956 – Jim Talent, American politician

1957 – Catherine Ringer, French singer and songwriter (Les Rita Mitsouko)

1958 – Corinne Bohrer, American actress

1958 – Thomas Hearns, American boxer

1958 – Kjell Samuelsson, National Hockey League defenseman

1959 – Kirby Chambliss, Aerobatic pilot and Red Bull Air Racer

1959 – Milčo Mančevski, Macedonian film director and screenwriter

1959 – John Nord, former American pro wrestler

1959 – Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, American sports talk show host

1959 – Steve Swayne, Dartmouth Professor

1960 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor

1960 – Erin Moran, American actress

1961 – Wynton Marsalis, American jazz musician

1961 – Rick Moody, American author

1962 – Vincent Spano, American actor

1964 – Dan Lilker, American musician, bassist for Anthrax, S.O.D., Nuclear Assault, and Brutal Truth

1964 – Charles Stross, British speculative-fiction author

1965 – Curtis Stigers, American jazz vocalist and saxophonist.

1965 – Zakir Naik, Indian Islamic speaker and doctor.

1966 – Slavi Trifonov, Bulgarian showman

1969 – Nelson Vivas, Argentine former footballer

1970 – José Padilla, American former gang member and alleged supporter of terrorism

1970 – Doug Mirabelli, American baseball player

1972 – Alex Tagliani, Quebec racing driver

1973 – Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer

1974 – Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer

1974 – Peter Svensson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)

1974 – Candy Lo, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress

1975 – Alex Cora, Puerto Rican baseball player

1976 – Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer

1977 – Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer

1977 – David Vuillemin, Pro Motocross Rider

1978 – Wesley Jonathan, American actor

1978 – Mike Tindall, English rugby union player

1978 – Jyothika Saravanan, Indian actress popular in Tamil

1978 – Priyanka Trivedi, Indian actress

1978 – Jake Farrow, American actor

1980 – Josh Gracin, American singer

1981 – Greg Warren, American football player

1982 – Ne-Yo, American R&B singer

1982 – Thierry Amiel, French singer

1984 – Lindsey Vonn, American alpine skier

1984 – Freida Pinto, Indian actress and model

1985 – Derrick Tribbett, American musician (Twisted Method)

1987 – Zac Efron, American actor

1987 – Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model

1990 – Carly Schroeder, American actress

1991 – Tyler Posey, American actor

1998 – Julia Wróblewska, Polish actress

2001 – Annelise Manojlovic, English actress

Wait...i'm born the same day as a Pope and freakin' Harvy Oswald!?

PIMP!

Seta · December 5, 2009

* 1578 – Agostino Agazzari' date=' Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1640)
* 1694 – William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771)
* 1703 – Ferdinand Konscak, Croatian explorer (d. 1759)
* 1710 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)
* 1738 – Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775)
* 1754 – William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)
* 1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician (d. 1806)
* 1811 – Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)
* 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895)
* 1825 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (d. 1891)
* 1846 – Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (d. 1904)
* 1859 – Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)
* 1863 – Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)
* 1884 – Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand lawyer and judge (d. 1953)
* 1885 – George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950)
* 1886 – Harry Burleigh, American composer (d. 1949)
* 1891 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969)
* 1891 – Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987)
* 1893 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (d. 2002)
* 1894 – Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (d. 1948)
* 1895 – Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967)
* 1897 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
* 1898 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)
* 1899 – John Barbirolli, British conductor (d. 1970)
* 1899 – John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952)
* 1899 – Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989)
* 1901 – Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986)
* 1902 – Howard Koch, American screenwriter (d. 1995)
* 1906 – Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born recording engineer (d. 1977)
* 1910 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine (d. 1991)
* 1914 – Bill Erwin, American actor
* 1914 – Adolph Green, American composer (d. 2002)
* 1914 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
* 1917 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (d. 1992)
* 1921 – Carlo Cardinal Furno, Cardinal Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
* 1922 – Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist
* 1923 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)
* 1924 – Alexander M. Haig, Jr., American soldier and politician
* 1924 – Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (d. 2006)
* 1925 – Julie Harris, American actress
* 1930 – Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize
* 1930 – David Piper, British race car driver
* 1931 – Nigel Calder, British science writer
* 1931 – Hatsumi Masaaki, founder and head of the Bujinkan Dojo organization
* 1931 – Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (d. 1971)
* 1931 – Edwin Meese, American lawyer, U.S. attorney general and presidential advisor
* 1933 – Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)
* 1933 – K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist
* 1934 – Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, Cardinal Secretary of State and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church
* 1934 – Sissela Bok, Swedish philosopher and ethicist
* 1934 – Andre Rodgers, baseball player (d. 2004)
* 1935 – David Hackett Fischer, American historian
* 1939 – Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician
* 1939 – Francis Fox, Canadian politician, member of the Senate
* 1939 – Harry Reid, American politician
* 1943 – Wayne Allard, American politician
* 1944 – Inger Davidson, Swedish politician
* 1944 – Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)
* 1944 – Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter
* 1944 – Botho Strauß, German author
* 1945 – Penelope Spheeris, American film director
* 1946 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)
* 1947 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations)
* 1947 – Tommy Jenkins, English football player
* 1947 – Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist
* 1948 – T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer
* 1950 – Bob Kevoian, American radio personality
* 1950 – Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic
* 1950 – Benjamin Stora, French historian
* 1951 – Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher
* 1952 – Carol Shea-Porter, American Congresswoman
* 1954 – Dan Butler, American actor
* 1954 – Stone Phillips, American television journalist
* 1956 – Steven Bauer, American actor
* 1957 – Dagfinn Høybråten, Norwegian politician
* 1958 – Uladzimir Parfianovich, Belarusian canoer
* 1958 – George Saunders, American writer
* 1960 – Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (d. 1984)
* 1960 – Rick Savage, British bassist (Def Leppard)
* 1962 – Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, titular Bulgarian royal family
* 1963 – Dan Gauthier, American actor
* 1963 – Ann Patchett, American novelist
* 1963 – Ron Sutter, National Hockey League player
* 1966 – Jinsei Shinzaki, Japanese professional wrestler
* 1968 – Darryl Kile, baseball player (d. 2002)
* 1968 – Lucy Liu, American actress
* 1968 – Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters)
* 1968 – Rena Sofer, American actress
* 1968 – Chris Wedge, American animator
* 1970 – Treach, American rapper (Naughty by Nature)
* 1970 – Yang Hyun Suk, South Korean record producer
* 1971 – Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor
* 1971 – Francesco Toldo, Italian Football Player
* 1972 – Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
* 1973 – Graham Kavanagh, Irish footballer
* 1973 – Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-born tennis player
* 1973 – Jan Ullrich, German cyclist
* 1976 – Eddy Garabito, Dominican baseball player
* 1976 – Masafumi Gotō, Japanese singer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
* 1977 – Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer
* 1978 – Melissa Archer, American actress
* 1978 – Jarron Collins, American basketball player
* 1978 – Jason Collins, American basketball player
* 1978 – Nelly Furtado, Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter
* 1978 – Peter Moylan, Australian baseball player
* 1978 – David Rivas, Spanish footballer
* 1978 – Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse)
* 1979 – Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer and actress
* 1979 – Michael McIndoe, Scottish professional footballer
* 1981 – Danijel Pranjić, Croatian football player
* 1981 – [b']Britney Spears, American singer[/b]
* 1981 – Isabella Soprano, American porn star
* 1982 – Michelle Banzer, model/beauty queen
* 1982 – Christos Karipidis, Greek footballer
* 1982 – Pizon, American rapper/producer
* 1982 – Matt Ware, American football player
* 1983 – Chris Burke, Scottish footballer
* 1983 – Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player
* 1983 – Aaron Rodgers, American football player
* 1984 – Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer
* 1985 – Dorell Wright, American basketball player
* 1986 – Claudiu Keserü, Romanian football player
* 1987 – Teairra Mari, American R&B singer
* 1988 – Alfred Enoch, British actor
* 1988 – Soniya Mehra, Indian actress
* 1989 – Cassie Steele, Canadian actress
* 1990 – Hikaru Yaotome, Japanese actor
* 1992 – Brandon Knight, basketball player

It's JG's, not yours.

Yes, I know, I was pointing out the fact that he was born on the same day as Britney Spears.

You're supposed to put your birth date events, not others.

*facepalm*

Läufer · December 5, 2009

* 1578 – Agostino Agazzari' date=' Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1640)
* 1694 – William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771)
* 1703 – Ferdinand Konscak, Croatian explorer (d. 1759)
* 1710 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)
* 1738 – Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775)
* 1754 – William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)
* 1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician (d. 1806)
* 1811 – Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)
* 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895)
* 1825 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (d. 1891)
* 1846 – Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (d. 1904)
* 1859 – Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)
* 1863 – Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)
* 1884 – Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand lawyer and judge (d. 1953)
* 1885 – George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950)
* 1886 – Harry Burleigh, American composer (d. 1949)
* 1891 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969)
* 1891 – Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987)
* 1893 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (d. 2002)
* 1894 – Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (d. 1948)
* 1895 – Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967)
* 1897 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
* 1898 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)
* 1899 – John Barbirolli, British conductor (d. 1970)
* 1899 – John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952)
* 1899 – Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989)
* 1901 – Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986)
* 1902 – Howard Koch, American screenwriter (d. 1995)
* 1906 – Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born recording engineer (d. 1977)
* 1910 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine (d. 1991)
* 1914 – Bill Erwin, American actor
* 1914 – Adolph Green, American composer (d. 2002)
* 1914 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
* 1917 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (d. 1992)
* 1921 – Carlo Cardinal Furno, Cardinal Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
* 1922 – Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist
* 1923 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)
* 1924 – Alexander M. Haig, Jr., American soldier and politician
* 1924 – Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (d. 2006)
* 1925 – Julie Harris, American actress
* 1930 – Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize
* 1930 – David Piper, British race car driver
* 1931 – Nigel Calder, British science writer
* 1931 – Hatsumi Masaaki, founder and head of the Bujinkan Dojo organization
* 1931 – Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (d. 1971)
* 1931 – Edwin Meese, American lawyer, U.S. attorney general and presidential advisor
* 1933 – Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)
* 1933 – K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist
* 1934 – Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, Cardinal Secretary of State and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church
* 1934 – Sissela Bok, Swedish philosopher and ethicist
* 1934 – Andre Rodgers, baseball player (d. 2004)
* 1935 – David Hackett Fischer, American historian
* 1939 – Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician
* 1939 – Francis Fox, Canadian politician, member of the Senate
* 1939 – Harry Reid, American politician
* 1943 – Wayne Allard, American politician
* 1944 – Inger Davidson, Swedish politician
* 1944 – Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)
* 1944 – Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter
* 1944 – Botho Strauß, German author
* 1945 – Penelope Spheeris, American film director
* 1946 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)
* 1947 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations)
* 1947 – Tommy Jenkins, English football player
* 1947 – Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist
* 1948 – T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer
* 1950 – Bob Kevoian, American radio personality
* 1950 – Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic
* 1950 – Benjamin Stora, French historian
* 1951 – Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher
* 1952 – Carol Shea-Porter, American Congresswoman
* 1954 – Dan Butler, American actor
* 1954 – Stone Phillips, American television journalist
* 1956 – Steven Bauer, American actor
* 1957 – Dagfinn Høybråten, Norwegian politician
* 1958 – Uladzimir Parfianovich, Belarusian canoer
* 1958 – George Saunders, American writer
* 1960 – Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (d. 1984)
* 1960 – Rick Savage, British bassist (Def Leppard)
* 1962 – Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, titular Bulgarian royal family
* 1963 – Dan Gauthier, American actor
* 1963 – Ann Patchett, American novelist
* 1963 – Ron Sutter, National Hockey League player
* 1966 – Jinsei Shinzaki, Japanese professional wrestler
* 1968 – Darryl Kile, baseball player (d. 2002)
* 1968 – Lucy Liu, American actress
* 1968 – Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters)
* 1968 – Rena Sofer, American actress
* 1968 – Chris Wedge, American animator
* 1970 – Treach, American rapper (Naughty by Nature)
* 1970 – Yang Hyun Suk, South Korean record producer
* 1971 – Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor
* 1971 – Francesco Toldo, Italian Football Player
* 1972 – Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
* 1973 – Graham Kavanagh, Irish footballer
* 1973 – Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-born tennis player
* 1973 – Jan Ullrich, German cyclist
* 1976 – Eddy Garabito, Dominican baseball player
* 1976 – Masafumi Gotō, Japanese singer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
* 1977 – Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer
* 1978 – Melissa Archer, American actress
* 1978 – Jarron Collins, American basketball player
* 1978 – Jason Collins, American basketball player
* 1978 – Nelly Furtado, Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter
* 1978 – Peter Moylan, Australian baseball player
* 1978 – David Rivas, Spanish footballer
* 1978 – Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse)
* 1979 – Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer and actress
* 1979 – Michael McIndoe, Scottish professional footballer
* 1981 – Danijel Pranjić, Croatian football player
* 1981 – [b']Britney Spears, American singer[/b]
* 1981 – Isabella Soprano, American porn star
* 1982 – Michelle Banzer, model/beauty queen
* 1982 – Christos Karipidis, Greek footballer
* 1982 – Pizon, American rapper/producer
* 1982 – Matt Ware, American football player
* 1983 – Chris Burke, Scottish footballer
* 1983 – Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player
* 1983 – Aaron Rodgers, American football player
* 1984 – Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer
* 1985 – Dorell Wright, American basketball player
* 1986 – Claudiu Keserü, Romanian football player
* 1987 – Teairra Mari, American R&B singer
* 1988 – Alfred Enoch, British actor
* 1988 – Soniya Mehra, Indian actress
* 1989 – Cassie Steele, Canadian actress
* 1990 – Hikaru Yaotome, Japanese actor
* 1992 – Brandon Knight, basketball player

It's JG's, not yours.

Yes, I know, I was pointing out the fact that he was born on the same day as Britney Spears.

You're supposed to put your birth date events, not others.

*facepalm*

Are you facepalming me?

Seta · December 5, 2009

* 1578 – Agostino Agazzari' date=' Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1640)
* 1694 – William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771)
* 1703 – Ferdinand Konscak, Croatian explorer (d. 1759)
* 1710 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)
* 1738 – Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775)
* 1754 – William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)
* 1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician (d. 1806)
* 1811 – Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)
* 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895)
* 1825 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (d. 1891)
* 1846 – Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (d. 1904)
* 1859 – Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)
* 1863 – Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)
* 1884 – Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand lawyer and judge (d. 1953)
* 1885 – George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950)
* 1886 – Harry Burleigh, American composer (d. 1949)
* 1891 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969)
* 1891 – Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987)
* 1893 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (d. 2002)
* 1894 – Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (d. 1948)
* 1895 – Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967)
* 1897 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
* 1898 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)
* 1899 – John Barbirolli, British conductor (d. 1970)
* 1899 – John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952)
* 1899 – Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989)
* 1901 – Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986)
* 1902 – Howard Koch, American screenwriter (d. 1995)
* 1906 – Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born recording engineer (d. 1977)
* 1910 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine (d. 1991)
* 1914 – Bill Erwin, American actor
* 1914 – Adolph Green, American composer (d. 2002)
* 1914 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
* 1917 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (d. 1992)
* 1921 – Carlo Cardinal Furno, Cardinal Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
* 1922 – Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist
* 1923 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)
* 1924 – Alexander M. Haig, Jr., American soldier and politician
* 1924 – Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (d. 2006)
* 1925 – Julie Harris, American actress
* 1930 – Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize
* 1930 – David Piper, British race car driver
* 1931 – Nigel Calder, British science writer
* 1931 – Hatsumi Masaaki, founder and head of the Bujinkan Dojo organization
* 1931 – Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (d. 1971)
* 1931 – Edwin Meese, American lawyer, U.S. attorney general and presidential advisor
* 1933 – Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)
* 1933 – K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist
* 1934 – Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, Cardinal Secretary of State and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church
* 1934 – Sissela Bok, Swedish philosopher and ethicist
* 1934 – Andre Rodgers, baseball player (d. 2004)
* 1935 – David Hackett Fischer, American historian
* 1939 – Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician
* 1939 – Francis Fox, Canadian politician, member of the Senate
* 1939 – Harry Reid, American politician
* 1943 – Wayne Allard, American politician
* 1944 – Inger Davidson, Swedish politician
* 1944 – Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)
* 1944 – Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter
* 1944 – Botho Strauß, German author
* 1945 – Penelope Spheeris, American film director
* 1946 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)
* 1947 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations)
* 1947 – Tommy Jenkins, English football player
* 1947 – Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist
* 1948 – T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer
* 1950 – Bob Kevoian, American radio personality
* 1950 – Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic
* 1950 – Benjamin Stora, French historian
* 1951 – Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher
* 1952 – Carol Shea-Porter, American Congresswoman
* 1954 – Dan Butler, American actor
* 1954 – Stone Phillips, American television journalist
* 1956 – Steven Bauer, American actor
* 1957 – Dagfinn Høybråten, Norwegian politician
* 1958 – Uladzimir Parfianovich, Belarusian canoer
* 1958 – George Saunders, American writer
* 1960 – Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (d. 1984)
* 1960 – Rick Savage, British bassist (Def Leppard)
* 1962 – Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, titular Bulgarian royal family
* 1963 – Dan Gauthier, American actor
* 1963 – Ann Patchett, American novelist
* 1963 – Ron Sutter, National Hockey League player
* 1966 – Jinsei Shinzaki, Japanese professional wrestler
* 1968 – Darryl Kile, baseball player (d. 2002)
* 1968 – Lucy Liu, American actress
* 1968 – Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters)
* 1968 – Rena Sofer, American actress
* 1968 – Chris Wedge, American animator
* 1970 – Treach, American rapper (Naughty by Nature)
* 1970 – Yang Hyun Suk, South Korean record producer
* 1971 – Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor
* 1971 – Francesco Toldo, Italian Football Player
* 1972 – Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
* 1973 – Graham Kavanagh, Irish footballer
* 1973 – Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-born tennis player
* 1973 – Jan Ullrich, German cyclist
* 1976 – Eddy Garabito, Dominican baseball player
* 1976 – Masafumi Gotō, Japanese singer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
* 1977 – Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer
* 1978 – Melissa Archer, American actress
* 1978 – Jarron Collins, American basketball player
* 1978 – Jason Collins, American basketball player
* 1978 – Nelly Furtado, Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter
* 1978 – Peter Moylan, Australian baseball player
* 1978 – David Rivas, Spanish footballer
* 1978 – Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse)
* 1979 – Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer and actress
* 1979 – Michael McIndoe, Scottish professional footballer
* 1981 – Danijel Pranjić, Croatian football player
* 1981 – [b']Britney Spears, American singer[/b]
* 1981 – Isabella Soprano, American porn star
* 1982 – Michelle Banzer, model/beauty queen
* 1982 – Christos Karipidis, Greek footballer
* 1982 – Pizon, American rapper/producer
* 1982 – Matt Ware, American football player
* 1983 – Chris Burke, Scottish footballer
* 1983 – Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player
* 1983 – Aaron Rodgers, American football player
* 1984 – Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer
* 1985 – Dorell Wright, American basketball player
* 1986 – Claudiu Keserü, Romanian football player
* 1987 – Teairra Mari, American R&B singer
* 1988 – Alfred Enoch, British actor
* 1988 – Soniya Mehra, Indian actress
* 1989 – Cassie Steele, Canadian actress
* 1990 – Hikaru Yaotome, Japanese actor
* 1992 – Brandon Knight, basketball player

It's JG's, not yours.

Yes, I know, I was pointing out the fact that he was born on the same day as Britney Spears.

You're supposed to put your birth date events, not others.

*facepalm*

Are you facepalming me?

*another facepalm*

Läufer · December 5, 2009

* 1578 – Agostino Agazzari' date=' Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1640)
* 1694 – William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771)
* 1703 – Ferdinand Konscak, Croatian explorer (d. 1759)
* 1710 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)
* 1738 – Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775)
* 1754 – William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)
* 1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician (d. 1806)
* 1811 – Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)
* 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895)
* 1825 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (d. 1891)
* 1846 – Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (d. 1904)
* 1859 – Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)
* 1863 – Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)
* 1884 – Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand lawyer and judge (d. 1953)
* 1885 – George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950)
* 1886 – Harry Burleigh, American composer (d. 1949)
* 1891 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969)
* 1891 – Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987)
* 1893 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (d. 2002)
* 1894 – Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (d. 1948)
* 1895 – Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967)
* 1897 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
* 1898 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)
* 1899 – John Barbirolli, British conductor (d. 1970)
* 1899 – John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952)
* 1899 – Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989)
* 1901 – Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986)
* 1902 – Howard Koch, American screenwriter (d. 1995)
* 1906 – Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born recording engineer (d. 1977)
* 1910 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine (d. 1991)
* 1914 – Bill Erwin, American actor
* 1914 – Adolph Green, American composer (d. 2002)
* 1914 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
* 1917 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (d. 1992)
* 1921 – Carlo Cardinal Furno, Cardinal Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
* 1922 – Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist
* 1923 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)
* 1924 – Alexander M. Haig, Jr., American soldier and politician
* 1924 – Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (d. 2006)
* 1925 – Julie Harris, American actress
* 1930 – Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize
* 1930 – David Piper, British race car driver
* 1931 – Nigel Calder, British science writer
* 1931 – Hatsumi Masaaki, founder and head of the Bujinkan Dojo organization
* 1931 – Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (d. 1971)
* 1931 – Edwin Meese, American lawyer, U.S. attorney general and presidential advisor
* 1933 – Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)
* 1933 – K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist
* 1934 – Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, Cardinal Secretary of State and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church
* 1934 – Sissela Bok, Swedish philosopher and ethicist
* 1934 – Andre Rodgers, baseball player (d. 2004)
* 1935 – David Hackett Fischer, American historian
* 1939 – Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician
* 1939 – Francis Fox, Canadian politician, member of the Senate
* 1939 – Harry Reid, American politician
* 1943 – Wayne Allard, American politician
* 1944 – Inger Davidson, Swedish politician
* 1944 – Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)
* 1944 – Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter
* 1944 – Botho Strauß, German author
* 1945 – Penelope Spheeris, American film director
* 1946 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)
* 1947 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations)
* 1947 – Tommy Jenkins, English football player
* 1947 – Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist
* 1948 – T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer
* 1950 – Bob Kevoian, American radio personality
* 1950 – Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic
* 1950 – Benjamin Stora, French historian
* 1951 – Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher
* 1952 – Carol Shea-Porter, American Congresswoman
* 1954 – Dan Butler, American actor
* 1954 – Stone Phillips, American television journalist
* 1956 – Steven Bauer, American actor
* 1957 – Dagfinn Høybråten, Norwegian politician
* 1958 – Uladzimir Parfianovich, Belarusian canoer
* 1958 – George Saunders, American writer
* 1960 – Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (d. 1984)
* 1960 – Rick Savage, British bassist (Def Leppard)
* 1962 – Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, titular Bulgarian royal family
* 1963 – Dan Gauthier, American actor
* 1963 – Ann Patchett, American novelist
* 1963 – Ron Sutter, National Hockey League player
* 1966 – Jinsei Shinzaki, Japanese professional wrestler
* 1968 – Darryl Kile, baseball player (d. 2002)
* 1968 – Lucy Liu, American actress
* 1968 – Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters)
* 1968 – Rena Sofer, American actress
* 1968 – Chris Wedge, American animator
* 1970 – Treach, American rapper (Naughty by Nature)
* 1970 – Yang Hyun Suk, South Korean record producer
* 1971 – Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor
* 1971 – Francesco Toldo, Italian Football Player
* 1972 – Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
* 1973 – Graham Kavanagh, Irish footballer
* 1973 – Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-born tennis player
* 1973 – Jan Ullrich, German cyclist
* 1976 – Eddy Garabito, Dominican baseball player
* 1976 – Masafumi Gotō, Japanese singer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
* 1977 – Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer
* 1978 – Melissa Archer, American actress
* 1978 – Jarron Collins, American basketball player
* 1978 – Jason Collins, American basketball player
* 1978 – Nelly Furtado, Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter
* 1978 – Peter Moylan, Australian baseball player
* 1978 – David Rivas, Spanish footballer
* 1978 – Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse)
* 1979 – Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer and actress
* 1979 – Michael McIndoe, Scottish professional footballer
* 1981 – Danijel Pranjić, Croatian football player
* 1981 – [b']Britney Spears, American singer[/b]
* 1981 – Isabella Soprano, American porn star
* 1982 – Michelle Banzer, model/beauty queen
* 1982 – Christos Karipidis, Greek footballer
* 1982 – Pizon, American rapper/producer
* 1982 – Matt Ware, American football player
* 1983 – Chris Burke, Scottish footballer
* 1983 – Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player
* 1983 – Aaron Rodgers, American football player
* 1984 – Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer
* 1985 – Dorell Wright, American basketball player
* 1986 – Claudiu Keserü, Romanian football player
* 1987 – Teairra Mari, American R&B singer
* 1988 – Alfred Enoch, British actor
* 1988 – Soniya Mehra, Indian actress
* 1989 – Cassie Steele, Canadian actress
* 1990 – Hikaru Yaotome, Japanese actor
* 1992 – Brandon Knight, basketball player

It's JG's, not yours.

Yes, I know, I was pointing out the fact that he was born on the same day as Britney Spears.

You're supposed to put your birth date events, not others.

*facepalm*

Are you facepalming me?

*another facepalm*

Godammit, what's wrong with him...

*facepalm*

Seta · December 5, 2009

*long list is long' date=' so we just kept the most interesting part of the discussion in it*

* 1981 – [b']Britney Spears, American singer[/b]

It's JG's, not yours.

Yes, I know, I was pointing out the fact that he was born on the same day as Britney Spears.

You're supposed to put your birth date events, not others.

*facepalm*

Are you facepalming me?

*another facepalm*

Godammit, what's wrong with him...
*facepalm*

Well, what could you except from someone who listens to Linkin Park...

Läufer · December 5, 2009

*long list is long' date=' so we just kept the most interesting part of the discussion in it*

* 1981 – [b']Britney Spears, American singer[/b]

It's JG's, not yours.

Yes, I know, I was pointing out the fact that he was born on the same day as Britney Spears.

You're supposed to put your birth date events, not others.

*facepalm*

Are you facepalming me?

*another facepalm*

Godammit, what's wrong with him...
*facepalm*

Well, what could you except from someone who listens to Linkin Park...

I didn't thought the consequences are this big...

Atomix · December 5, 2009

[spoiler=October 8th]

1515 – Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (d. 1578)

1676 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (d. 1764)

1713 – Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist (d. 1793)

1715 – Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1774)

1720 – Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (d. 1766)

1747 – Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (d. 1807)

1765 – Harman Blennerhassett, Irish lawyer (d. 1831)

1789 – John Ruggles, American politician (d. 1874)

1789 – William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (d. 1855)

1818 – John Henninger Reagan, American politician (d. 1905)

1834 – Walter Kittredge, American musician (d. 1905)

1847 – Rose Scott, Social Reformer (d. 1925)

1850 – Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist (d. 1936)

1863 – Edythe Chapman, American actress (d. 1948)

1864 – Ozias Leduc, Québécois painter (d. 1955)

1870 – Louis Vierne, French organist (d. 1937)

1877 – Hans Heysen, German-born landscape artist (d. 1968)

1883 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)

1883 – Dick Burnett, American musician (d. 1977)

1884 – Walther von Reichenau, German military officer (d. 1942)

1887 – Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (d. 1956)

1888 – Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)

1889 – C. E. Woolman, American airline founder (d. 1966)

1890 – Edward Rickenbacker, American pilot (d. 1973)

1890 – Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (d. 1971)

1895 – Juan Perón, President of Argentina (d. 1974)

1895 – Zog I, King of Albania (d. 1961)

1896 – Julien Duvivier, French film director (d. 1967)

1897 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director (d. 1987)

1901 – Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer (d. 1977)

1910 – Kirk Alyn, American actor (d. 1999)

1910 – Gus Hall, American union organizer and head of the U.S. Communist Party (d. 2000)

1910 – Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (d. 2003)

1913 – Robert Gilruth, American aviation and space pioneer (d. 2000)

1917 – Billy Conn, American boxer (d. 1993)

1917 – Walter Lord, American author (d. 2002)

1917 – Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player (d. 1976)

1917 – Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)

1918 – Ron Randell, film character actor (d. 2005)

1918 – Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel laureate

1919 – Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2007)

1920 – Frank Herbert, American writer (d. 1986)

1921 – Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino Supreme Court jurist

1922 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and coach (d. 2007)

1924 – Alphons Egli, member of the Swiss Federal Council

1927 – Jim Elliot, American missionary (d. 1956)

1927 – César Milstein, Argentine scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)

1928 – M. Russell Ballard, LDS apostle

1928 – Neil Harvey, Australian cricketer

1928 – Bill Maynard, British actor

1929 – Valdir Pereira, Brazilian footballer (d. 2001)

1930 – Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d. 1996)

1932 – Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player

1936 – Rona Barrett, American gossip columnist

1938 – Walter Gretzky, father of Wayne Gretzky

1938 – Fred Stolle, Australian tennis player

1939 – Paul Hogan, Australian actor

1939 – Harvey Pekar, American author

1939 – Lynne Stewart, American civil liberties lawyer

1940 – Fred Cash, American singer (The Impressions)

1941 – Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist

1943 – Chevy Chase, American comedian and actor

1943 – R. L. Stine, American author

1944 – Susan Raye, American singer

1946 – Jean-Jacques Beineix, French film director

1946 – Dennis Kucinich, American politician

1947 – Emiel Puttemans, Belgian athlete

1948 – Benjamin Cheever, American novelist and editor

1948 – Claude Jade, French actress (d. 2006)

1948 – Pedro López, Colombian serial killer

1948 – Sarah Purcell, American television host

1948 – Johnny Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (d. 2004)

1949 – Sigourney Weaver, American actress

1950 – Robert Kool Bell, American musician (Kool & the Gang)

1951 – Jack O'Connell, American politician

1952 – Jan Marijnissen, Dutch politician

1952 – Edward Zwick, American film director

1954 – Michael Dudikoff, American actor

1954 – Huub Rothengatter, Dutch racing driver

1955 – Bill Elliott, American racing driver

1955 – Lonnie Pitchford, American blues musician (d. 1998)

1955 – Darrell Hammond, American comedian (SNL)

1956 – Jeff Lahti, American baseball player

1956 – Stephanie Zimbalist, American actress

1957 – Antonio Cabrini, Italian footballer

1957 – Joe Castiglione, American college athletic director

1958 – Steve Coll, American journalist

1959 – Nick Bakay, American actor

1959 – Mike Morgan, American baseball player

1960 – Reed Hastings, American businessman and entrepreneur

1960 – Lorenzo Milá, Spanish newscaster

1960 – François Pérusse, Quebec humorist

1961 – Ted Kooshian, American jazz pianist

1962 – Bruno Thiry, Belgian rally driver

1964 – Igor Jijikine, Russian actor (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)

1964 – CeCe Winans, American singer

1965 – Peter Greene, American actor

1965 – Ardal O'Hanlon, Irish comedian and actor

1965 – C-Jay Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)

1966 – Art Barr, American wrestler (d. 1994)

1966 – Camille Coduri, British actress

1966 – Karyn Parsons, American actress

1967 – Yvonne Reyes, Venezuelan actress

1968 – Ali Benarbia, former Algerian footballer

1968 – Zvonimir Boban, Croatian footballer

1968 – Emily Procter, American actress

1968 – Leeroy Thornhill, British musician (The Prodigy)

1969 – Julia Ann, American pornographic actress

1969 – Jeremy Davies, American actor

1969 – Dylan Neal, Canadian actor

1970 – Matt Damon, American actor

1970 – Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video-game designer

1970 – Soon-Yi Previn, Korean American actress

1972 – Kim Myung Min, Korean actor

1972 – Stanislav Varga, Slovakian footballer

1974 – Martin Henderson, New Zealand actor

1974 – Fredrik Modin, Swedish ice hockey player

1974 – Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower

1974 – DJ Q-Ball, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)

1976 – Galo Blanco, Spanish tennis player

1976 – Renate Groenewold, Dutch speed skater

1977 – Anne-Caroline Chausson, French mountain-bike rider

1977 – Jamie Marchi, American Voice Actor

1977 – Erna Siikavirta, Finnish musician (Lordi)

1978 – Mick O'Driscoll, Irish rugby player

1978 – Antonino D'Agostino, Italian footballer

1979 – Paul Burchill, English wrestler

1979 – Kristanna Loken, American actress

1979 – Gregori Chad Petree, American musician (Shiny Toy Guns)

1980 – Nick Cannon, American actor

1980 – Mike Mizanin, American wrestler

1980 – Rajesh Sharma, Canadian Born Indian Politician

1981 – Ruby (Egyptian singer), Egyptian singer

1981 – Raffi Torres, Canadian ice hockey player

1983 – Mario Cassano, Italian footballer

1983 – Steve Cronin, American footballer

1983 – Michael Fraser, Scottish footballer

1983 – Travis Pastrana, American motor sports competitor

1985 – Eiji Wentz, Japanese entertainer

1986 – Louis Dodds, English footballer

1987 – Aya Hirano, Japanese voice actress

1989 – Armand Traoré, French footballer

1993 – Angus T. Jones, American actor

1993 – Molly C. Quinn, American actress

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