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Following This Diet Can Reduce Your Risk of Alzheimer’s, No Matter Your Age

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Healthy Mediterranean Diet Food ConceptImproving diet later in life may lower dementia risk, especially in certain ethnic groups. A recent study from the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center found that people who followed the MIND diet were much less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia, even if they adopted healthier eating habits later in life. […]



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Hidden Toxins Found in 90% of U.S. Preschoolers

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Little Girl Toddler Playing on FloorA sweeping NIH-funded study tested the urine of 200 toddlers and found a startling mix of 96 chemicals—some of which aren’t even tracked by government health surveys. These toxins, from plastics, flame retardants, and pesticides, show up in kids through everyday exposures like food, air, and playtime. The study revealed that 90% of children carried […]



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How Important Was Dance In Ancient Egypt And What Purpose Did It Serve?

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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient Egyptians loved to dance. In the vibrant world of ancient Egypt, dance was more than just a form of entertainment; it was a profound expression of culture. It was a profound expression of spirituality and culture.

How Important Was Dance In Ancient Egypt And What Purpose Did It Serve?

Tomb paintings in ancient Egypt vividly depict the grace and elegance of dancers, who are shown in a variety of attire and striking postures. These artistic representations were not merely decorative; they were rich with symbolism, providing valuable insights into the values and beliefs that influenced Egyptian society. Through these performances, we gain a deeper understanding of the cultural narratives that shaped their world.

Professional dancers, often women clad in flowing skirts or tunics with shoulder straps, captivated audiences with their artistry. Even dwarfs played an enchanting role in this tapestry of movement, delighting pharaohs like Pepi II with their unique charm. The story of Pharaoh Pepi II’s joy upon receiving a dwarf from an expedition to the Land of Punt reminds us that every individual has the power to inspire wonder and delight.

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Martian “Spiderwebs” Revealed: Curiosity Captures Stunning 360° Panorama

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NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Boxwork FormationCuriosity stitched 291 Mastcam photos into a color-balanced 360° panorama of Gale Crater’s “boxwork” ridges—spiderweb-like stone lattices hardened by ancient groundwater. Viewers can dive into an interactive video of the scene, spotting the rover’s wheel tracks, the butte nicknamed “Texoli,” and the distant crater rim. The striking patterns reveal how minerals cemented cracks billions of […]



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7,000-Year-Old Alutiiq Villages Discovered On Shuyak Island, Alaska

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Jan Bartek –  AncientPages.com – Alaska’s Shuyak Island, the seventh-largest of the Kodiak islands, spans sixty-nine square miles at the northern tip of the archipelago. It measures twelve miles in length and eleven miles in width, featuring dense spruce forests and numerous small lakes. Unlike its neighboring regions, Shuyak is relatively flat, with an elevation reaching only 660 feet above sea level.

Conflict On Shuyak Island

The island’s western coast has a complex network of bays and inlets, offering more sheltered waterways than anywhere else in the archipelago. These waterways undergo significant transformations throughout the day due to twenty-foot tides that reveal reefs and clam beds, or fill channels and lagoons.

7,000-Year-Old Alutiiq Villages Discovered On Shuyak Island, Alaska

Kodiak Island map showing Shuyak Island. Credit: Kmusser – CC BY 2.5

Today, Shuyak Island is predominantly encompassed by the Shuyak Island State Park, a wilderness recreation area that draws sea kayakers, birdwatchers, fishermen, and wildlife photographers. Despite its current tranquility and absence of modern settlements, the island was historically significant to the Alutiiq nation.

Archaeological evidence reveals that Alutiiq families once resided along Shuyak’s coast, with historical documentation indicating that at least two Alutiiq villages existed there in the eighteenth century.

Early records describe how Russian entrepreneur Gregorii Shelikov established trade relations with the chief of a village. However, after an incident where villagers killed two Russian workers and a Native interpreter sent for trading purposes, Shelikov retaliated by destroying the community. It is rumored that this led to fear among the inhabitants of other Shuyak villages, who then fled from potential Russian aggression. By 1796, no Alutiiq communities remained on Shuyak Island.

In the twentieth century, the Alutiiq people returned to Shuyak Island to engage in fish harvesting. During the 1920s, individuals like Fred Sargent and Christ Opheim, along with their sons, salted salmon on Shuyak for both human consumption and as feed for the burgeoning fox farming industry. By the 1930s, entrepreneurs transformed a family-operated herring saltery in Port William on Shuyak into a facility processing salmon, herring, and halibut. This facility operated under the Washington Fish and Oyster Company until 1976. Today, archaeologists are excavating sites on the island to uncover more about its ancient history.

Several Ancient Alutiiq Villages Found

Recent archaeological surveys on an island near Kodiak have led to the discovery of new Alaska Native village sites, including one potentially identified as the oldest on the island.

The Alutiiq Museum’s archaeological team has been diligently working for several years to map out the historical timeline of these sites. Patrick Saltonstall, the archaeology curator at the Alutiiq Museum, plays a significant role in conducting site surveys and excavations throughout the Kodiak Archipelago. This spring, Saltonstall and his team completed their survey of Shuyak Island, situated about 54 air miles north of Kodiak.

Last summer, archaeologists conducted a survey of the western half of the island, and this year they focused on the eastern half. According to Saltonstall, one site they examined dates back approximately 7,000 years. This site is believed to be the oldest discovered on the island to date.

“A lot of the old research had focused on the northwest part of Shuyak Island and we surveyed the whole island. And we found a lot of really big villages on the east side.
I think we found that one village that had 11 house pits, probably had two to three hundred people living in it, you know, 300 years ago.

7,000-Year-Old Alutiiq Villages Discovered On Shuyak Island, Alaska

Kodiak, view from Pillar Mountain. Credit: Katie Walker – CC BY 2.0

Shuyak has always sort of been a place where I think it seems like there were fewer people up there. But finding that, you know what your preconceptions are and what you actually find often don’t match,” Patrick Saltonstall, the archaeology curator with the Alutiiq Museum told Alaska Public Media.

Protecting Archaeological Sites On The Island

Following the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, efforts to clean up the area included surveying and safeguarding numerous archaeological sites on the island. Saltonstall noted that many of these sites were reported to be eroding and at risk of being lost to the water. Elders say the Alutiiq word Suu’aq (Shuyak) translates to “rising out of the water.” Appropriately, Saltonstall explained that the island is currently rising at a rate faster than sea level, which has reduced the immediate threat of site erosion today.

7,000-Year-Old Alutiiq Villages Discovered On Shuyak Island, Alaska

Archaeologists with the Alutiiq Museum dig into layers on layers site at Karluk Lake called site 309, which revealed a ‘super structure’. This is separate from what was surveyed on Shuyak Island. (Courtesy of Alutiiq Museum Archaeology Department & Repository)

What we found up there is that’s not happening anymore. All the sites are much more stable,” Saltonstall said. “You see grass growing on all the beaches, and it demonstrates…the land sank in 1964 and it’s rebounded ever since, and it’s outpacing sea level rise up there.

Molly Odell, the director of archaeology at the Alutiiq Museum, has highlighted that natural growth on Shuyak Island offers significant protection for archaeological sites. She noted that it’s encouraging news that these sites are experiencing less erosion compared to 30-40 years ago, indicating their stability and reduced risk of loss. Additionally, this stability provides some defense against looting.

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Odell emphasized the importance of not disturbing archaeological sites or collecting artifacts, as these items belong to the landowner even if found on beaches. If you encounter artifacts or cultural sites on the island, it is recommended to report your findings and share photographs with the Alutiiq Museum for proper documentation and preservation efforts.

Written by Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com Staff Writer





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‘Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England’ by Hillary Taylor review

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The angriest I’ve ever been at an academic seminar was after a paper on how ordinary people in early modern England talked about politics. To the attendees of the seminar in question, more used to elevated discussions of political theories and the history of ideas, this descent into the streets seemed like a shocking affront. One questioner explained to the speakers that this was a seminar which usually considered the ideas of ‘articulate people’, pausing delicately before describing the subjects of that day’s paper as ‘less articulate people’. The implication was clear: who cares what these people thought, even if we grant that they could think at all?

But even the words of the meanest mattered in early modern English society. The language of everyday life was a crucial mechanism by which the social order was expressed and maintained. There was a reason that labourers talking back to their bosses or Quakers refusing to use polite terms of address caused anxiety. The authorities, already busy cleansing Irish, Welsh, Cornish, and these islands’ other languages out of every official environment, lived in fear that the ‘murmurs’ of the population might break out into open revolt, disrupting the ‘quiet’ which was the sign of a well-functioning realm.

For Hillary Taylor, the relationship between language and power was not just articulated in linguistic policies or learned debates: it was worked out in everyday conversations between those at different levels of a rigidly hierarchised society. Taylor unpicks the social and economic contexts that led a 17th-century Norfolk fisherman to call a constable ‘Goodman Turd’, or a group of rowdy drinkers to chase away their stammering parson when he tried to talk them out of the alehouse. It’s an approach which strives to see early modern society as contemporaries understood it: highly socially unequal, and demanding constant awareness of one’s social status and the ability to perform authority or deference as appropriate.

We are lucky to have records that give us a sense of ordinary people’s voices as they spoke words that were heretical, treasonous, blasphemous, seditious, or insulting. The problem is that illicit speech is much more likely to leave an archival trace than everyday, unremarkable talk. The argument runs that these transgressive voices show us the unspoken rules that governed language and behaviour for everyone else. The challenge set by Taylor is to find out ‘how the politics of language played out in concrete circumstances’ – how language shaped everyday life and ordinary experience.

Language ideologies expressed the inequalities of early modern English society. Labouring people were commonly caricatured as so inarticulate that they might as well be animals – the yeoman Samuel Butler wrote of the labourer that ‘his perpetual conversation with beasts has rendered him one of them’. The assumption that the poor would happily perjure themselves at the request of their betters was so commonplace as to be ‘part of the cultural groundwater’, even if Taylor has found court records in which ordinary people spoke eloquently about their refusal to lie in court or their regret at having done so.

The ability to speak clearly and comprehensibly was important at every level of society. Even the greatest in the land didn’t escape censure: one London woman called Charles I a ‘stuttering foole’. Where scholars have often leaned on a metaphorical understanding of inarticulacy, Taylor seeks out moments in the archives when people found themselves literally unable to speak effectively. Overawed by the pressures of speaking in court, some people found themselves incapable of speech. In a case like that of John Gaul, accused of highway robbery in 1757, his stammering in court seems to have been an exacerbation of a preexisting speech impediment; a few decades earlier, a man accused of theft at the Old Bailey had presented his defence in writing, ‘pretending a great impediment in his speech’, but undermined his claim by quarrelling with a witness in a ‘clear strong voice’. The court’s scepticism may have been a factor in their decision to send him to the gallows.

Early modern authors theorised conversation as an exchange which could benefit both parties. The superior speaker could take pleasure in their inferior’s deference, while the inferior could bask in their superior’s regard. As such, ideas about conversations between people of different status ‘allowed domination to be repackaged as a figurative gift’. This was the logic underpinning the advice offered to those in charge of labourers – plenty of modern managers have clearly imbibed the advice that an effective leader ‘saith not to his servants, Goe yee, but Let us goe’, using ‘we’ rather than ‘ye’ to rank themselves among those doing the work. Conversationally, England expected everyone to do their bit to maintain an ordered society. But elites viewed with horror the risk of being overfamiliar with their inferiors: as Caleb Trenchfield wrote in 1671, ‘familiarity begets contempt, and contempt breaks the neck of obedience’.

Taylor is dissatisfied with our understanding of how language shaped early modern English society. Just as elevating unrepresentative moments of linguistic rule-breaking risks skewing how we think about social relations, so too does assuming that any instance of silence, shyness, or subjection was cover for ordinary people’s resistance. Not everybody was a rebel, and Taylor challenges historians to consider that ordinary people might have internalised linguistic ideologies, coming to believe what was said about their own inarticulacy, and to accept it as a reason for their subordination. In this way, ‘the politics of language cumulatively worked to circumscribe poor and labouring individuals’ capacity to develop critiques of their position and the social hierarchy in the first place’. It is an ‘admittedly bleak’ account, which sees ordinary people as commonly condemned to silence in their time and largely inaudible in the archives that survive. Unromantic but urgent, Taylor demands that we rethink how we listen to voices in the archives, and what we hear from them.

  • Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England
    Hillary Taylor
    Oxford University Press, 272pp, £84
    Buy from bookshop.org (affiliate link)

John Gallagher is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leeds.



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Could a Common Blood Mutation Be the Key to Preventing Alzheimer’s?

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Dementia Alzheimer's Abstract ConceptUnexpected mutations in blood stem cells may help protect against Alzheimer’s disease. A new study published in the journal Cell Stem Cell suggests that certain genetic changes in blood stem cells may offer protection against late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine found that both mice and humans with blood stem cells carrying […]



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Medieval sword fished out of Vistula in Warsaw – The History Blog

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A fisherman on the banks of the Vistula River in Warsaw caught a medieval sword THIS BIG. Angler Andrzej Korpikiewicz was not actually fishing at the time. It was too hot for that, so he was just enjoying a nice walk by the river, checking out what might be visible in its low water levels. He spotted a rusty metal object lying on a concrete inflow head, but he figured it was a piece of rebar or a hinge. He fished it out, cleaned off some of the leeches, river snails and freshwater shrimp clinging to it, and saw a cross pattée with triangular arms engraved into the metal.

Realizing it could be a historical artifact, he hid it in the grass by the river and then called a friend who is a metal detectorist. The friend wisely told him he should keep the sword wet to protect it, so he soaked some t-shirts in the Vistula and wrapped the sword in them. It spent the night in his car, and the next morning Andrzej Korpikiewicz brought it to the Warsaw Conservator of Monuments.

It has been tentatively identified as a medieval sword with its length almost intact, minus the pointed tip. It has a spherical or globular pommel and the cross is midway down the hilt. Several medieval knightly orders used a cross pattée as their emblem, including the Knights Templar and the Knights Hospitaller, but it could also be workshop or maker’s mark, or simply a blessing on the sword.

The sword has now been transferred to the Metal Conservation Workshop of the State Archaeological Museum where it will be thoroughly cleaned, stabilized and analyzed to determine its age, origin and the meaning of the cross symbol.



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Famous Deaths on July 7

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  • 1304 Benedict XI [Niccolo Boccasini], Pope (1303-04), dies

King of England (1272-1307) who subdued Wales, warred against Scotland and expelled Jews from England, dies of dystenery at 68

Edward I

  • 1348 John Andreae, Italian canonist, dies
  • 1537 Madeleine of Valois, French princess who briefly became Queen of Scotland after marrying James V, dies only six months after the wedding at 16
  • 1572 Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland (1548-72), dies at 51
  • 1573 Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect, dies at 65
  • 1647 Thomas Hooker, American colonial clergyman (known as “the father of Connecticut”), dies at 61
  • 1656 Michelangelo Rossi, Italian Baroque organist, violinist, and opera composer, dies at about 55
  • 1694 Dokusho, Zen teacher, Obaku line, dies
  • 1701 William Stoughton, American judge (Salem witch trials, 1692), dies at 69
  • 1713 Henry Compton, British clergyman (Bishop of Oxford, 1675-1713), member of the Privy Council, and botanist, dies at about 81 [birthdate uncertain]
  • 1764 William Pulteney, English politician (1st Earl of Bath, shortest-ever British Prime Minister for 2 days in 1746 disputed), dies at 80
  • 1773 Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician and astronomer, dies at 60
  • 1774 Giuseppe Maria Carretti, Italian composer, dies at 83
  • 1776 Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693)
  • 1790 Frans Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher, dies at 68
  • 1794 Pascal Boyer, French composer, dies at 51
  • 1799 William Curtis, English botanist and publisher (Botanical Magazine), dies at 53
  • 1816 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright (The Rivals, The School for Scandal) and Whig MP, dies at 64
  • 1826 Friedrich Dülon, German flautist and composer, dies at 56
  • 1855 Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)
  • 1861 John Willis Ellis, US governor of NC (1858-61), dies
  • 1865 David Herold, American pharmacist’s assistant who was part of the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, executed by hanging at 23
  • 1865 George Atzerodt, American conspirator who failed to attempt an assassination of Vice President Andrew Johnson on the night Abraham Lincoln was murdered, executed by hanging at 30
  • 1865 Lewis Powell, American Confederate soldier who was part of the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln and who attempted to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, executed by hanging at 21
  • 1865 Mary Surratt, American boarding house owner who was part of the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, executed by hanging at 42 or 45. She becomes the first woman executed by the US government.
  • 1868 Edward Coles, American anti-slavery advocate and politician (Governor of Illinois, 1822-26), dies at 81
  • 1879 George Caleb Bingham, American politician and painter (Country Election), dies at 68
  • 1885 Nicola De Giosa, Italian composer, dies at 66
  • 1889 Giovanni Bottesini, Italian Romantic composer, conductor and a double bass virtuoso, dies at 67

German-Swiss industrialist (founder of Nestlé), dies from heart attack at 75

Henri Nestlé

  • 1898 Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreograph/ballet leader, dies
  • 1899 George Washington Julian, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana, dies at 82

Swiss children’s book author (Heidi), dies at 74

Johanna Spyri

  • 1903 José Augusto Ferreira Veiga, Viscount of Arneiro, Portuguese composer, dies at 64
  • 1907 James McGranahan, American composer, dies at 67
  • 1909 Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist, known for the Rydberg–Ritz combination principle, dies of tuberculosis at 31
  • 1913 Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, dies at 71
  • 1919 Paul Deusen, German philosopher/CEO (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft), dies
  • 1922 Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army, dies of a bullet wound at 47
  • 1925 Clarence Hudson White, American photographer, dies at 54
  • 1927 Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician and founder of Acta Mathematica, dies at 81 [1]

British author who brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice, dies at 71

Arthur Conan Doyle

  • 1931 Johannes Kotze, South African cricket fast bowler (3 Tests, 6 wickets, BB 3/64; London County, Transvaal, Western Province), dies from heart failure at 51
  • 1932 Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (Jessie and Morgiana), dies at 51
  • 1932 Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian, dies at 87
  • 1934 Doodles Tapscott, cricketer (South African batsman 1922-23), dies
  • 1939 Deacon White, American Baseball Hall of Fame catcher (NL batting champion, RBI leader 1877; Boston Red Stockings), dies from heat stroke at 91
  • 1944 Erich Salomon, German photographer, dies at 58
  • 1944 Georges Mandel [Louis Rothschild], French politician and resistance leader, is executed by the Milice at 59
  • 1945 Salomėja Nėris [Salomėja Bačinskaitė-Bučienė], Lithuanian poet, dies of cancer at 40
  • 1949 (Willie) “Bunk” Johnson, American trumpeter, traditional jazz revivalist, and raconteur, dies after a series of strokes at 69 or 59 {year of birth disputed] [1] [2]
  • 1954 Vincas Krevė-Mickevičius, Lithuanian poet, philologist and playwright (founder of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences), dies at 71
  • 1955 Franco Casavola, Italian composer, music theorist, and futurist, dies at 63
  • 1956 Gottfried Benn, German physician, pathologist, poet, and essayist (Morgue and other Poems), dies at 70
  • 1958 Raymond Hackett, American husband of Blanche Sweet and actor (Faithless Lover), dies at 55
  • 1965 Bill Hitch, England cricket fast-bowler (7 Tests 1911-21), dies
  • 1965 Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (1954-55), dies at 70
  • 1966 Carmelita Geraghty, dies of a heart attack at 65

American crime boss, dies at 62

Bumpy Johnson

  • 1968 Jo Schlesser, French Formula One racing driver dies in a crash during the French Grand Prix at Rouen at 40
  • 1968 Leo Sowerby, American organist and composer (Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1946), dies at 73
  • 1969 Erskine Sanford, American actor (Citizen Kane, Angel on My Shoulder), dies at 83
  • 1969 Gladys Swarthout, American mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda), dies of heart disease at 68
  • 1970 Allen Lane, English publisher and founder of Penguin Books, dies at 67
  • 1970 Dame Laura Knight, English impressionist artist, dies at 92
  • 1970 Louise Harrison, British mother of Beatle George, dies at 59
  • 1970 Sylvester Wiere, Czech-American vaudeville comedian (Wiere Brothers; Oh! Those Bells), dies at 60
  • 1971 Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer and playwright, part of the Automatist movement, dies from a fall at 45
  • 1971 Ub Iwerks, American animator and special-effects technician who worked on the design on Mickey Mouse, dies at 70 [1] [2]
  • 1972 Athenagoras I [Aristocles Matthew Spyrou], Greek Patriarch and Archbishop of Constantinople (1948-72), dies at 86 [1]
  • 1972 Talal bin Abdullah, King of Jordan (1951-52), established modern constitution, forced to abdicate due to mental illness, dies at 63

Max Horkheimer

  • 1973 Veronica Lake [Constance Ockleman], American actress (Sullivan’s Travels, I Married a Witch), dies from hepatitis and acute kidney injury at 50
  • 1975 Barbara Brown, American actress dies at 73
  • 1975 Jacob Bjerknes, Norwegian-American meteorologist (USAF in London), dies at 77
  • 1975 Ruffian, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1972)
  • 1975 Vito Frazzi, Italian composer, dies at 86
  • 1976 Gustav Heinemann, President of West Germany (1969-74), dies at 76
  • 1976 Norman Foster, American actor (Skyscraper Souls), dies at 75
  • 1976 Walter Giesler, American soccer coach (b. 1910)
  • 1979 Dalton Conyngham, South African cricket medium-pace bowler (1 Test, 2 wickets; Natal, Transvaal, Western Province), dies at 82
  • 1980 Reginald Gardiner, British actor (The Flying Deuces; The Great Dictator), dies at 77
  • 1981 Keefe Brasselle [John Brasselli], American actor (The Eddie Cantor Story, Be Our Guest), dies of liver disease at 58
  • 1981 Peace Pilgrim [Mildred Lisette Norman], American peace activist, dies at 72
  • 1982 Bep Bakhuys, Dutch soccer striker (23 caps, 28 goals; Metz), dies at 73
  • 1982 Fred Stuthman, actor (Henry Adler-Hello Larry), dies at 63
  • 1983 Herman Kahn, American futurist and nuclear strategist, dies at 71
  • 1983 Vic Wertz, American MLB player, dies during surgery at 58
  • 1983 Vicki Morgan, American mistress (Beautiful Bad Girl), murdered at 30
  • 1984 Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping, dies at 43
  • 1984 Flora Robson, actress (Great Day, Frieda), dies in her sleep at 82
  • 1985 Guido Kisch, Czech-American Jewish historian (Jews in medieval Germany), dies at 96
  • 1985 John Scarne [Orlando Carmelo Scarnecchia], American magician known for his card skills, dies at 82
  • 1987 Tibor Frešo, Slovak composer (Fanfares of Peace; A Beetle was Born), and conductor (Slovak National Theatre Opera), dies at 68
  • 1988 Jimmy Edwards, British comedy writer and actor (Take It From Here – “Pa Glum”; Whack-O – “Professor”!), dies from pneumonia at 68
  • 1990 Bill Cullen, American game show host (Price is Right), dies at 70 of cancer
  • 1990 Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer, dies at 32
  • 1990 Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, German Jesuit priest and Buddhism Zen teacher, dies at 92
  • 1992 Clint Frank, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1937; unanimous All-American 1937; Yale), dies at 76
  • 1992 Josy Barthel, Luxembourgish 1500m runner (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 65
  • 1992 Juanita Jackson Mitchell, American lawyer (1st African American to practice law in Maryland, NAACP), dies at 79
  • 1992 Ruurd Faber, Dutch politician and Mayor of Aalten (1971-75), dies at 79
  • 1993 Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965)
  • 1994 Anita Garvin, American stage, silent and sound screen actress (Sailors Beware; Laurel and Hardy – Swiss Miss; Blotto; The Charlatan; Hats Off), dies at 88
  • 1994 Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer who worked for Alfa Romeo and Ferrari, dies at 69
  • 1994 Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe officer in WWII and West German general, dies at 87
  • 1994 Rosa Chacel, spanish Novelist, dies at 96
  • 1995 Gábor Ormai, Hungarian violist (Takács Quartet, 1975-95), and pedagogue, dies of cancer at 40
  • 1995 Geoffrey Freeman Allen, English railway writer, dies at 73
  • 1996 Albrecht Luitpold Ferdinand Michael, Duke of Bavaria, dies at 91
  • 1997 Jerry Doggett, American sportscaster, 1956-87 (Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers), dies at 80
  • 1998 Brigadier Theuns Swanepoel, South African Security Police notorious for ordering the police to shoot at protesting school children in 1976, 70
  • 1998 Moshood Abiola, 1993 Nigerian presidential election candidate and presumed winner of the inconclusive election, dies in detention at 60
  • 1999 Captain Vikram Batra, Indian Army officer, awarded Param Vir Chakra (September 9,1974)
  • 2000 Kenny Irwin, Jr., American auto racer (USAC National Midget Champion 1996; NASCAR 87 starts), dies in a crash during practice at 30
  • 2000 Mary Armour, Scottish painter, dies at 80
  • 2001 Edward Fiennes-Clinton, Australian-born 18th Earl of Lincoln, dies at 88
  • 2001 Fred Neil [Morlock], American songwriter, folk singer, guitarist (Everybody’s Talkin’; Candy Man), and conservationist (Dolphin Project), dies from skin cancer at 65
  • 2001 Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian gymnast (equal record 7 x Olympic medals, Soviet Union 1952; 2 x gold [team, all-round], 5 x silver), dies at 79
  • 2002 Bison Dele, American basketball player (b. 1969)
  • 2003 Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924)
  • 2004 Jeff Smith, American chef and TV host of “The Frugal Chef”, dies at 65
  • 2005 Al Downing, American rockabilly piano player and singer (Big Al & The Chartbusters), dies at 65 [1]
  • 2006 John Money, New Zealand-American psychologist and sexologist, dies at 84
  • 2006 Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)
  • 2006 Kees Andrea, Dutch textile artist, dies at 92
  • 2006 Rudi Carrell [Rudolf Kesselman], Dutch entertainer known for “Rudi Carrell Show”, dies at 71

Syd Barrett

  • 2007 Dame Anne McLaren, British biologist and leading researcher on human in vitro fertilisation (IVF), dies at 80
  • 2008 Bruce Conner, American artist (b. 1933)
  • 2008 Dorian Leigh, American supermodel and icon of the fashion industry, dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 91
  • 2008 Hugh Mendl, British record label executive (Decca/Deram Records), dies at 88 [1]
  • 2011 Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist and author (“Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom”; “Incident at Hawk’s Hill”), dies at 80
  • 2011 Dick Williams, American Baseball Hall of Fame manager (World Series 1972, 73 Oakland A’s) and utility (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies of a ruptured aortic aneurysm at 82
  • 2011 Josef Suk, Czech concert violinist (Artist of Merit, 1977), violist, and namesake of composer grandfather, dies of prostate cancer at 81
  • 2012 Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician, President Swiss Federal Council (1984), dies at 87
  • 2013 Anna Wing, British stage and screen actress (EastEnders, 1985-88 – “Lou Beale”; Blithe Spirit), dies at 98
  • 2013 Donald J. Irwin, American politician (32nd Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut), dies from heart failure at 86

Argentine soccer forward (Spain 31 caps, Argentina 6, Colombia 4; European Cup 1956-60; Real Madrid) and manager (European Cup Winners’ Cup: 1980 Valencia), dies from a heart attack at 88

Alfredo Di Stéfano

President of Georgia (1995-2003) and Soviet Foreign Minister (1985-90), dies at 86

Eduard Shevardnadze

  • 2014 Lois Johnson, American country music singer (“Loving You Will Never Grow Old”), dies at 72
  • 2014 Richard “Dick” Jones, American actor (“Pinocchio “- Pinocchio, The Frontiersman), dies at 87
  • 2016 Rokusuke Ei, Japanese author and lyricist (Sukiyaki), dies at 83
  • 2017 Egil Monn-Iversen, Norwegian pianist, composer, and conductor (Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, 1981-96), dies at 89
  • 2017 Lala Rukh, Pakistani activist and abstract artist (Women’s Action Forum), dies at 69 [1]
  • 2018 Paul Fetler, American composer (December Stillness; Three Poems By Walt Whitman), dies at 98
  • 2019 Greg Johnson, Canadian NHL hockey center, 1994-2006 (Detroit Red Wings, Nashville Predators (captain 2002-06), and 2 other teams), dies of suspected suicide at 48
  • 2020 Dannes Coronel, Ecuadorian soccer defender (27 caps; El Nacional), dies from a heart attack at 47
  • 2021 Carlos Reutemann, Argentine auto racer (World F1 Drivers C’ship 1981 runner-up; 3 x third) and politician (governor of Santa Fe 2003-21), dies from a digestive hemorrhage at 79
  • 2021 Chick Vennera, American actor (Thank God It’s Friday; High Risk; Milagro Beanfield War; Animaniacs), dies of lung cancer at 74
  • 2021 Dilip Kumar [Muhammad Yusuf Khan], Indian Bollywood actor known as the “Tragedy King” and one of the greatest actors in Indian cinema (Jwar Bhata), dies at 98
  • 2021 Jovenel Moïse, Haitian politician, President of Haiti (2017-21), assassinated at 53
  • 2021 Robert Downey, Sr [Elias Jr], American filmmaker (Putney Swope; Rittenhouse Square), and actor (You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It or You’ll Lose That Beat), dies of complications from Parkinson’s disease at 85
  • 2022 (Patrick Henry) “Adam” Wade, American pop singer (The Writing On The Wall), actor (Kiss Me Goodbye), and 1st US Black game show host (Musical Chairs), dies of complications from Parkinson’s disease at 87
  • 2022 Pedro Ferrándiz, Spanish basketball coach (EuroLeague 1965, 67, 68, 74 Real Madrid; Spain 1964-65), dies at 93
  • 2023 Joseph Chebet, Kenyan athlete (Boston Marathon 1999, New York Marathon 1999, Amsterdam Marathon 1998, Vienna Marathon 2003), dies at 52
  • 2023 Nikki McCray, American Women’s Basketball HOF guard (WNBA All-Star 1999-2001 Washington Mystics; ABL MVP 1997 Columbus Quest; Olympic gold 1996, 2000) and coach (Old Dominion, Mississippi State), dies at 51
  • 2023 Simon Brown, British barrister, judge, Baron of Eaton-under-Heywood, and Justice of the Supreme Court of the UK (2009-12), dies at 86 [1] [2]

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  • 1053 Shirakawa, 72nd Emperor of Japan (1072-87), born in Kyōto, Japan (d. 1129)
  • 1119 Sutoku, 75th Emperor of Japan (1123-42), born in Japan (d. 1164)
  • 1528 Anna of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria, daughter of Ferdinand I, born in Prague, Bohemia (d. 1590)
  • 1540 John Sigismund Zápolya, King of Hungary as John II (1540-51, 1556-70) who ruled parts of the Kingdom of Hungary with support from the Ottomans, born in Buda, Kingdom of Hungary (d. 1571)
  • 1586 Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier and art collector (Arundel Marbles), born in Finchingfield, England (d. 1646)
  • 1656 Guru Har Krishan, 8th Guru of Sikhism, born in Kiratpur, India (d. 1664)
  • 1690 Johann Tobias Krebs, German organist and composer, born in Heichelheim, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1762)
  • 1710 Arvid Niclas von Höpken, Swedish nobleman, soldier, and composer (Il Re Pastore), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1778)
  • 1746 Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, Bohemian horn player and composer, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Habsburg Empire (d. 1820)
  • 1752 Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and merchant who invented the programmable loom (Jacquard loom), forerunner to today’s computers, born in Lyon, France (d. 1834)
  • 1778 Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, Italian-French composer and music publisher, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples (d. 1866)
  • 1792 William Henry Smith, English bookseller (W H Smith), born in Little Thurlow, England (d. 1865)
  • 1806 Michele Amari, Sicilian patriot, Italian revolutionary and historian, born in Palermo, Kingdom of Sicily (d. 1889)
  • 1813 William Scott Ketchum, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Norwalk, Connecticut (d. 1871)
  • 1816 Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, American General (Union Army), born in Natick, Massachusetts on (d. 1889)
  • 1824 Alfred Pleasonton, American Major General (Union Army), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1897)

  • 1827 James Murrell Shackelford, American lawyer, judge, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Lincoln County, Kentucky (d. 1909)
  • 1827 William M. Browne, American Confederate politician and Brigadier General, born in County Mayo, Ireland (d. 1883)

Italian physician and medical researcher (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1906), born in Corteno, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, Austrian Empire

Camillo Golgi

  • 1851 Charles Tindley, American gospel music composer (“I’ll Overcome Someday”), and Methodist minister, born in Berlin, Maryland (d. 1933)
  • 1851 Lillien Jane Martin, American psychologist who founded the world’s 1st gerontology clinic in San Francisco, born in Olean, New York (d. 1943)
  • 1853 Albert Vandal, French historian (Le Pacha Bonneval), born in Paris, France (d. 1910)
  • 1855 Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer whose novels were often made into films (Hubertus Castle), born in Kaufbeuren, Bavaria (d. 1920)
  • 1858 José Leite de Vasconcelos, Portuguese archeologist, ethnologist, and writer (Etnografia Portuguesa), born in Ucanha, Portugal (d. 1941)

Austrian composer (Symphony No. 2 – “Resurrection”), and conductor (New York Philharmonic, 1909-11), born in Kalischat, Kingdom of Bohemia, Habsburg Empire

Gustav Mahler

  • 1861 Nettie Stevens, American geneticist (discovered sex chromosomes), born in Cavendish, Vermont (d. 1912) [1]
  • 1872 Juan Lamote de Grignon, Catalan pianist, composer (La nit de Nadal (Christmas Night); Hespèria), and orchestra leader (Cobla Barcelona; València Municipal Orchestra), born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1949)
  • 1874 Erwin Bumke, German jurist, lead German Supreme Court under the Nazis, born in Stolp, Prussia, German Empire (d. 1945)
  • 1879 Jacob Weinberg, Russian-born Jewish composer, born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1956)

American engineer (invented the bread-slicing machine), born in Davenport, Iowa

Otto Frederick Rohwedder

  • 1882 Zdzislaw Jachimecki, Polish composer and music historian, born in Lwów, Ukraine (d. 1953)
  • 1883 Toivo Kuula, Finnish composer, born in Vehkakoski, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire (d. 1918)
  • 1884 Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist and novelist (Der falsche Nero), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1958)
  • 1885 Ernest Farrar, English composer whose career was cut short by WWI, born in London (d. 1918)
  • 1886 Carlo Perrier, Italian mineralogist and chemist who co-discovered the element technetium, born in Turin, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1948)
  • 1887 Marc Chagall [Moise Shagal], Jewish Belarusan-French modernist painter and stained glass artist (La Mariée; I and the Village), born in Liozna, Russian Empire (now Belarus) (d. 1985) [some sources cite date as July 6]
  • 1887 Raymond Hatton, American actor (Girls in Prison, Lady Killer), born in Red Oak, Iowa (d. 1971)
  • 1890 Tom Powers, American actor (Station West, Destination Moon), born in Owensboro, Kentucky (d. 1955)
  • 1893 Miroslav Krleža, Croatian poet, novelist and playwright (Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh), born in Zagreb, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1981)
  • 1897 Anna Luther, American silent screen actress (Sinners in Silk), born in New Jersey (d. 1960)

American film director (My Fair Lady, Philadelphia Story, The Wizard of Oz), born in New York City

George Cukor

  • 1900 Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force 4-star general during Korean War, born in Winchendon, Massachusetts (d. 1990)
  • 1901 Gustav Knuth, German actor (Sissi, Freddy Unter Fremden), born in Brunswick, Germany (d. 1987)
  • 1901 Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and director (Bicycle Thieves, Sciuscià), born in Sora, Lazio (d. 1974)
  • 1902 James McCartney, British cotton salesman, amateur musician, and father of Beatle Paul McCartney, born in Everton, Liverpool, England (d. 1976)
  • 1904 Simone Beck, French chef, teacher, and cookbook author (with Julia Child – Mastering the Art of French Cooking), born in Normandy, France (d. 1991)
  • 1905 Marcel Rubin, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1995)
  • 1906 Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (The Third Man), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1985)

American Baseball HOF pitcher (6 x Negro League, 2 x MLB All Star; World Series 1948 Cleveland Indians), born in Mobile, Alabama

Satchel Paige

  • 1906 William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician known for probability theory, born in Zagreb, Austria-Hungary (d. 1970)
  • 1907 Helene Johnson, American Harlem Renaissance poet, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1995)
  • 1907 Robert A. Heinlein, American sci-fi author (4 Hugos, Red Planet), born in Butler, Missouri (d. 1988)
  • 1908 Evert Willem Beth, Dutch mathematician and philosopher (Significs Group), born in Almelo, Netherlands (d. 1964)
  • 1908 Harriette Arnow, American novelist and historian (Dollmaker), born in Monticello, Kentucky (d. 1986)
  • 1908 Revilo P. Oliver, American right-wing advocate who alleged Lee Harvey Oswald was part of a Soviet conspiracy, born near r Corpus Christi, Texas (d. 1994)
  • 1909 Billy Herman, American Baseball HOF second baseman (10 x MLB All Star; Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs), born in New Albany, Indiana (d. 1992)
  • 1909 Eddie Mayehoff, American actor (Hour Glass, That’s My Boy, How to Murder Your Wife), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1992)
  • 1909 Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis player (French C’ship 1934, 36), born in Nettlingen, Germany (d. 1976)
  • 1911 Gian-Carlo Menotti, Italian pianist, librettist, and composer (Amahl & Night Visitors), and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, born in Cadegliano, Italy (d. 2007)
  • 1911 Joan Perry [Elizabeth Rosiland Miller], American film actress, model, and singer (Hands of a Stranger), born in Pensacola, Florida (d. 1996)
  • 1914 Cor de Groot, Dutch pianist, conductor and composer (Old-Dutch Suite), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1993)
  • 1914 Serafim Tulikov, Russian composer (March of the Soviet Youth), born in Kaluga, Russia (d. 2004)
  • 1915 Margaret Walker, American poet and novelist of the Chicago Black Renaissance (For My People), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 1998)
  • 1916 Lloyd “Tiny” Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (Art Tatum), born in Newport News, Virginia (d. 1989)
  • 1916 Luc Peire, Belgian painter and graphic artist, born in Bruges, Belgium (d. 1994)
  • 1916 Robert Stevens Baker, American organist, composer, and educator (Union Theological Seminary, 1961-72; Institute of Sacred Music at Yale, 1973-75), born in Pontiac, Illinois (d. 2005)
  • 1917 (Woodrow Wilson) “Red” Sovine, American country music singer (“Phantom 309”; “Teddy Bear”), born in Charleston, West Virginia (d. 1980)
  • 1917 Elton Britt [Baker], American country singer-songwriter (“There’s a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere”; Saturday Night Jamboree), born in Zack, Arkansas (d. 1972)
  • 1917 Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadoran general and politician, President of El Salvador (1967-72), born in El Divisadero, El Salvador (d. 2003)
  • 1917 Lawrence F. O’Brien, American political strategist (Watergate conspirators broke into his office, in-charge of JFK’s presidential campaign), born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 1990) [1]
  • 1919 Jon Pertwee, English actor and entertainer (Third Doctor in “Doctor Who”; 128 episodes, Worzel Gummidge), born in London (d. 1996)
  • 1919 William Kunstler, American defense attorney (defended the Chicago 7), born in New York City (d. 1995)
  • 1921 Adolf von Thadden, German politician and possible MI6 agent, born in Gut Trieglaf, Germany (d. 1996)

American world heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51), born in Lawrenceville, Georgia

Ezzard Charles

  • 1921 Stanislaw Wislocki, Polish conductor, born in Rzeszów, Poland (d. 1998)
  • 1922 Artie Malvin, American vocalist (Glenn Miller; Jimmy Dorsey), arranger and music director (Julie LaRosa; Pat Boone; Carol Burnett), born in New York City (d. 2006)
  • 1923 Roberto Caamaño, Argentine composer, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1993)
  • 1924 Dieter Nowka, German composer, conductor and musicologist, born in Madlow, Germany (d. 1998)
  • 1924 Mary Ford [Iris Colleen Summers], American vocalist (with Les Paul – “How High The Moon”), born in El Monte, California (d. 1977)
  • 1925 Wally Phillips, American radio personality known for Chicago’s WGN’s morning radio show, born in Portsmouth, Ohio (d. 2008)
  • 1925 Yvonne Mitchell, English actress and writer (Johnny Nobody, Genghis Khan), born in London, England (d. 1979)
  • 1926 Nuon Chea [Lau Kim Korn], Cambodian revolutionary and Khmer Rouge leader ‘Brother Number Two’, born in Battambang, Cambodia (d. 2019)
  • 1927 (Carl) “Doc” Severinsen, American trumpeter and bandleader (The Tonight Show, 1962-92), born in Arlington, Oregon
  • 1927 Alan J. Dixon, American politician (Sen-D-Illinois, 1981-93), born in Belleville, Illinois (d. 2014)
  • 1927 Charlie Louvin [Loudermilk], American country singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Louvin Brothers – “The Only Way Out (Is to Walk Over Me)”), born in Section, Alabama (d. 2011)
  • 1928 Ali Sadikin, Indonesian politician and governor of Jakarta (1966-77), born in Sumedang, West Java, Dutch East Indies (d. 2008)
  • 1928 Patricia Hitchcock, British-American actress, born in London, England (d. 2021)
  • 1929 Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet, born in Zafarabad, British India (d. 2005)
  • 1929 Marcel Liebman, Belgian Marxist historian, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1986)
  • 1929 Reinhard Baumgart, German writer and critic, born in Breslau, Silesia (d. 2003)
  • 1930 Hank Mobley, American hard bop and soul jazz saxophonist, born in Eastman, Georgia (d. 1986)
  • 1930 Theodore McCarrick, American cardinal who was defrocked by Pope Francis due to allegations of sexual abuse, born in New York City (d. 2025)
  • 1931 David Eddings, American sci-fi author (Belgariad, Malloreon), born in Spokane, Washington (d. 2009)
  • 1931 Stanley Brock, American actor (UHF, Hard to Kill, Ivan-He’s the Mayor), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1991)
  • 1932 [Josef] Joe Zawinul, Austrian-American jazz keyboardist, composer and bandleader (Weather Report – “Birdland”), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2007)
  • 1933 David McCullough, American author (Truman; John Adams), popular historian, TV documentary host and narrator (Seabiscuit; The Civil War), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2022) [1]
  • 1933 Dick Kallman, American actor (Born to Be Loved, Verboten!), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1980)
  • 1933 Murray Halberg, New Zealand athlete (Olympic gold 5000m 1960; WR 2 miles: 8:30.0 1961; WR 3 miles: 13.10.0 1961), born in Eketāhuna, New Zealand (d. 2022)
  • 1934 Robert McNeill Alexander, British zoologist (estimated speed of dinosaurs), born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland (d. 2016)
  • 1934 Vinko Globokar, French-Slovenian trombone player and avant-garde composer (Eppure si muove), born in Anderny, France
  • 1936 Christopher Mallaby, British diplomat who aided in the reunification of Germany, born in London (d. 2022)
  • 1936 Friedhelm Döhl, German composer, born in Göttingen, Germany (d. 2018)
  • 1936 Nikos Xilouris, Greek folk singer-songwriter, born in Anogeia, Crete, Greece (d. 1980)
  • 1936 Stuart Dempster, American trombonist, didgeridoo player, and composer, born in Berkeley, California
  • 1937 Carroll Hubbard Jr., American politician (Rep-D-Kentucky, 1975-93), born in Murray, Kentucky (d. 2022)
  • 1940 Richard K. Armey, American economist and politician (Rep-R-Texas, 1985-2003), born in Cando, North Dakota

1940 British drummer, vocalist (The Beatles – “Yellow Submarine”), songwriter (“Early 1970”; “Photograph”), actor (Caveman), “peace & love” activist, and knight, born in Dingle, Liverpool, England [1]

Ringo Starr

  • 1940 Samuel Little, American serial killer (confessed to 93 murders), born in Reynolds, Georgia (d. 2020) [1]
  • 1941 Bill Oddie, English actor, comedian and ornithologist (The Goodies), born in Rochdale, England
  • 1941 Jim Rodford, English rock bassist (Argent, 1969-76; The Kinks, 1978-96; Zombies, 2004-18), born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England (d. 2018)
  • 1941 John Fru Ndi, Cameroonian politician (founding Chairman of the Social Democratic Front party), born in Baba II, British Cameron (d. 2023) [1]
  • 1941 Lennart Söderberg, Swedish soccer manager (Gefle IF, Västerås SK, IFK Eskilstuna) and defender (2 caps; AIK), born in Torpshammar, Sweden (d. 2022)
  • 1941 Marco Bollesan, Italian rugby union number 8 (47 caps; CUS Genova, Partenope) and coach (Italy 1985-88), born in Venice, Italy (d. 2021)
  • 1941 Michael Howard, British politician (Leader of the Conservative Party and of the Opposition 2003-05), born in Swansea, Wales
  • 1942 Carmen Duncan, Australian actress (Another World), born in Cooma, Australia (d. 2019)
  • 1942 Chris Stamp, British music producer, psychodrama therapist and manager (The Who, Jimi Hendrix), born in London, England (d. 2012)
  • 1943 (Salvatore) “Toto” Cutugno, Italian pop singer-songwriter (“L’Italiano”, Eurovision, 1990; “Insieme: 1992”), born in Tendola, Tuscany, Italy (d. 2023)
  • 1943 Joel Siegel, American film critic for Good Morning America, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2007)
  • 1944 Jürgen Grabowski, German footballer (44 caps West Germany; Eintracht Frankfurt 441 games), born in Wiesbaden, Germany (d. 2022)
  • 1944 Tony Jacklin, English golfer (British Open 1969, US Open 1970), born in Scunthorpe, England
  • 1944 Warren Entner, American rock vocalist, guitarist, and organist (The Grass Roots – “Midnight Confessions”, “Let’s Live for Today”), born in Boston, Massachusetts
  • 1945 Bill Melton, American baseball third baseman, 1968-77 (MLB All-Star & AL home run leader, 1971; Chicago White Sox, and 2 other teams) and broadcaster. 1998-2020 (NBC, Comcast, Chicago White Sox), born in Gulfport, Mississippi (d. 2024)
  • 1945 Matti Salminen, Finnish bass player (King Philipp – “Don Carlos”), born in Turku, Finland
  • 1945 Michael Ancram, British politician and aristocrat (Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party), born in London, England
  • 1946 Jim Day, Canadian equestrian rider (Olympic gold Team jumping 1968), born in Thorn Hill, Ontario
  • 1946 Joe Spano, American actor (Hill Street Blues – “Lt. Henry Goldblume”; NCIS), born in San Francisco, California
  • 1947 Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, last King of Nepal (2001-2008), born in Narayanhiti Royal Palace, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • 1947 Howard Rheingold, American critic and writer on virtual communities, born in Phoenix, Arizona
  • 1947 Rob Townsend, British drummer (Family; The Blues Band), born near Frog Island, Leicester, England
  • 1948 Fred Brown, American basketball guard (NBA C’ship 1979; NBA All-Star 1976; NBA Three-Point % Leader 1980; Seattle SuperSonics), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • 1948 Jean Leclerc, French Canadian actor (Jeremy Hunter-All My Children), born in Montreal, Quebec
  • 1948 Larry “Rhino” Reinhardt, American rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly), born in Florida (d. 2012)

American actress (Popeye; Nashville; The Shining), born in Fort Worth, Texas [1]

Shelley Duvall

  • 1951 Roz Ryan, American actress (Amelia-Amen, Occupied), born in Detroit, Michigan
  • 1952 Mando Guerrero, Mexican professional wrestler, born in Mexico City
  • 1954 Steve Gilchrist, Canadian politician (Cabinet Minister and Member of Provincial Parliament, in Ontario), born in Toronto, Ontario
  • 1955 Len Barker, American baseball player, born in Fort Knox, Kentucky
  • 1956 Bill Lagattuta, American news correspondent (CBS, 48 Hours, Eye to Eye), born in New York City
  • 1957 Berry Sakharof, Turkish-born Israeli rock guitarist and singer-songwriter (Minimal Compact), born in İzmir, Turkey
  • 1957 Jonathan Dayton, American film director, born in Alameda County, California
  • 1958 Michael Marx, American foil and epee fencer (Olympic-84, 88, 92, 96), born in Portland, Oregon
  • 1958 Michala Petri, Danish recorder player, born in Hobro, Denmark
  • 1959 Ben Linder, American engineer, born in California (d. 1987)
  • 1959 Billy Campbell [William Oliver], American actor (Once and Again, Dracula), born in Charlottesville, Virginia
  • 1959 Jessica Hahn, American model (playboy) and actress, accused evangelist Jim Bakker of rape, born in Massapequa, New York
  • 1960 Kevin A. Ford, American astronaut, born in Portland, Indiana
  • 1960 Ralph Sampson, American College/Basketball HOF center (NBA All-Star 1984–87; Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets), born in Harrisonburg, Virginia
  • 1961 Michael Kieran Harvey, Australian classical and contemporary music pianist and composer (GRETA – Concerto in No Need of an Orchestra), born in Sydney, Australia
  • 1962 Clive Jackson, British rock singer (Doctor and the Medics – “Laughing at Pieces”), born in Liverpool, England
  • 1962 Mark White, American rock bass player (Spin Doctors – “Two Princes”; “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues”), born in The Bronx, New York City
  • 1963 Lance Johnson, American baseball outfielder (NY Mets), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
  • 1963 Naved Anjum, Pakistani cricketer (Pakistani all-rounder, two Tests 1989-90), born in Lahore, Pakistan
  • 1963 Perry Richardson, American bassist (Firehouse – “Love of a Lifetime”), born in Conway, South Carolina
  • 1963 Vonda Shepard, American pop singer-songwriter, and actress (Ally McBeal), born in New York City
  • 1964 Theo Travis, British progressive rock and ambient music saxophonist, flautist, and composer (Soft Machine/Legacy, 2006-present; Gong, 1999-2010), born in Birmingham, England
  • 1965 Jeremy Kyle, English radio and television presenter (The Jeremy Kyle Show), born in Berkshire, England
  • 1965 Mo Collins, American actress, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • 1965 Paula Devicq, Canadian actress, born in Edmonton, Canada
  • 1966 Gundula Krause, German folk violinist, born in Göttingen, Germany
  • 1966 Hector Burba, American baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds), born in Dayton, Ohio
  • 1966 Jeff Shaw, American baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds), born in Washington Court House, Ohio
  • 1966 Jim Gaffigan, American comedian (Mr Universe), born in Elgin, Illinois
  • 1966 Neil Tobin, American magician, born in Chicago, Illinois
  • 1967 Erik van der More, football player (FC Utrecht) and coach, born in Utrecht, Netherlands
  • 1967 Jackie Neal, American blues singer-songwriter (“Right Thang, Wrong Man”), born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (d. 2005)
  • 1967 Jason R. Rich, American writer (Celebrity Teen Talk), born in Irvington, New York
  • 1967 Tom Kristensen, Danish race car driver, born in Hobro, Denmark
  • 1968 Amy Carlson, American actress (Blue Bloods, Third Watch), born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois
  • 1968 Chuck Knoblauch, American baseball shortstop (NY Yankees, Minnesota Twins), born in Houston, Texas
  • 1968 Jeff VanderMeer, American writer, born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
  • 1968 Jorja Fox, American actress (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), born in New York City
  • 1969 Cree Summer, American actress (Freddie-Different World), born in Los Angeles, California

1969 Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame center (Colorado Avalanche, Canada 1998-2002) and executive (GM Colorado Avalanche), born in Burnaby, British Columbia

Joe Sakic

  • 1969 Nathalie Simard, French Canadian singer, born in Île d’Orléans, Quebec
  • 1969 Robin Weigert, American actress, born in Washington, D.C.
  • 1969 Sylke Otto, German luger, born in Chemnitz, Germany
  • 1970 Erik Zabel, German cyclist, born in East Berlin, East Germany
  • 1970 Michael McCrary, American NFL defensive end, 1993 -2002 (Super Bowl champion, 2 x Pro Bowl – Baltimore Ravens; Seattle Seahawks), born in Vienna, Virginia
  • 1970 Min Patel, English cricket all-rounder (2 Tests, 1 wicket; Kent CCC, Central Districts CA), born in Mumbai, India
  • 1970 Robia LaMorte, American actress and dancer, born in Queens, New York City
  • 1970 Wayne McCullough, Irish boxer, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • 1971 Alistair Potts, British rower, born in Chertsey, United Kingdom
  • 1972 Kirsten Vangsness, American actress and screenwriter (Criminal Minds – “Penelope Garcia”), born in Pasadena, California
  • 1972 Lisa Leslie, American WNBA center (LA Sparks)/forward (Olympic gold 1996), born in Gardena, California
  • 1972 Manfred Stohl, Austrian rally driver, born in Vienna, Austria
  • 1972 Michael Westbrook, American College Football HOF wide receiver (University of Colorado; Washington Redskins), born in Detroit, Michigan
  • 1972 Stoney Case, American NFL quarterback (Arizona Cardinals), born in Odessa, Texas
  • 1973 Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian ice hockey player, born in Riga, Latvia (d. 2011)
  • 1973 Matt Mantei, American baseball player, born in Tampa, Florida
  • 1973 Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga-ka, born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
  • 1973 Troy Garity, American actor, born in Los Angeles, California
  • 1974 Patrick Lalime, Canadian NHL goalie (Pitts Penguins), born in Saint-Bonaventure, California
  • 1975 Michael Voss, Australian rules footballer, born in Traralgon, Australia
  • 1975 Tony Benshoof, American luger, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota
  • 1976 Dominic Foley, Irish soccer forward (6 caps Republic of Ireland; Wolverhampton Wanderers, Watford, Gent, Cercle Brugge), born in Cork, Ireland
  • 1976 Vasily Petrenko, Russian-British conductor (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, 2021-30; Liverpool Royal Philharmonic, 2008-21), born in Leningrad, USSR
  • 1977 Felix Vasquez, New York City Housing Authority employee who caught baby thrown from window of a burning building in 2005, exact birthplace unknown [1]
  • 1978 Leonardo Morales, Venezuelan soccer goalkeeper (26 caps; Carabobo, Zulia), born in El Tigre, Venezuela
  • 1978 Misia [Misaki Itō], Japanese singer (Mother Father Brother Sister), born in Omura, Japan
  • 1979 Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter, born in Corfu, Greece
  • 1979 Carl Breeze, British racing driver, born in King’s Lynn, United Kingdom
  • 1980 Dan Whitesides, American drummer (The Used, 2006-), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
  • 1980 Deidre Downs, American beauty queen, born in Birmingham, Alabama
  • 1980 John Buck, American MLB baseball catchrr, 2004-14 (Kansas City Royals, and six other teams), born in Kemmerer, Wyoming
  • 1980 Kaisa Jouhki, Finnish vocalist (Battlelore), born in Sumatra, Indonesia
  • 1980 Michelle Kwan, American figure skater (World C’ship gold women’s singles 1996, 98, 2000, 01, 03; Olympic silver 1998; bronze 2002), born in Torrance, California

1981 Indian cricket wicket-keeper and captain (90 Tests, 6 x 100, HS 224, 294 dismissals; Bihar, Jharkhand, Chennai Super Kings), born in Jharkhand, India

MS Dhoni

  • 1981 Synyster Gates, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold), born in Long Beach, California
  • 1982 Cassidy [Barry Adrian Reese], American rapper, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 1982 George Owu, Ghanaian footballer, born in Accra, Ghana
  • 1982 Mike Glita, American bassist (Senses Fail), born in Livingston, New Jersey
  • 1982 Tom Sandoval, American actor and reality star (Vanderpump Rules), born in St. Louis, Missouri
  • 1983 D. Woods [Wanita Denise Woodgett], American pop and hip-hop singer (Danity Kane), born in Anaheim, California
  • 1984 Marie-Mai [Bouchard], French Canadian pop singer (“Jamais trop tard”), born in Varennes, Quebec
  • 1984 Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer, born in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh
  • 1987 Lena Ma, Miss World Canada 4th runner-up, born in Jinan, China
  • 1988 Jack Whitehall, English comedian, writer and actor (Bad Education), born in London
  • 1988 Kaci Brown, American pop and country music singer (“Instigator”; Brown & Gray), born in Sulphur Springs, Texas
  • 1995 Ko Jin-young, South Korean golfer (ANA Inspiration, Evian C’ship 2019), born in Seoul, South Korea

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