October 2

Events

• 0939- Battle at Andernach: King Otto & Hermann of Zwaben beat Eberhard of France & Giselbert of Lutherans
• 0976- Hisham II appointed kalief of Cardoba
• 1134- Storm flood ravages Zeeland county
• 1187- Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders
• 1492- King Henry VII of England invades France
• 1518- English cardinal Thomas Wolsey makes European plan
• 1535- Jacques Cartir discovers Mount Royal (Montreal)
• 1540- Venice/Turkey signs peace
• 1572- Spanish army occupies/plunders/destroys Mechelen
• 1586- Battle at Zutphen: English-Dutch army
• 1608- Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey
• 1614- French king Louis XIII (13) declared an adult
• 1656- US colony Connecticut passes law against Quakers
• 1700- Spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne
• 1760- Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin
• 1787- Maagden House opens in Amsterdam
• 1792- Baptist Missionary Society forms in London
• 1795- Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curaeao
• 1799- Duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands
• 1804- England mobilizes to protect against French invasion
• 1833- Charles Darwin rides through Corunda to Santa Fe Argentina
• 1833- NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
• 1836- Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle (after 5 years)
• 1853- Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land
• 1861- Former VP John C Breckinridge flees Kentucky
• 1864- Battle of Saltville, VA
• 1866- J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener
• 1870- Italy annexes Rome & Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
• 1871- Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy
• 1872- Morgan State University founded
• 1879- Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Musgrave Ritual"
• 1889- 1st Pan American conference (Washington DC)
• 1895- 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper
• 1899- Orange Free state mobilizes
• 1900- Belg crown prince Albert von Saksen-Coburg weds Elisabeth of Bayern
• 1901- 1st Royal Naval submarine launched at Barrow
• 1906- Tommy Burns KOs Jim Burns in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1907- Phillies Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader vs Giants
• 1908- Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row
• 1909- 1st rugby match (Twickenham)
• 1910- 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)
• 1910- Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2,800m altitude (world record)
• 1913- Phillies beat NY Giants 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader
• 1916- Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 16th shutout of year
• 1916- San Diego Zoo founded
• 1919- 1st edition "Volkskrant" (People's newspaper) published in Neth
• 1919- Pres Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed
• 1920- Only tripleheader of century (Reds win 13-4, 7-3 then Pirates win 6-0)
• 1921- NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits then record 59th Home Run
• 1923- British occuping army leaves Constantinople
• 1923- Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-2, sit out rest of season, except for a pinch single on final day, hitting .403
• 1924- League of Nations approves protocols of Geneva
• 1926- Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
• 1931- Pope Pius XI encyclical On economic crisis
• 1932- NY Yankees sweep Chicago Cubs in 29th World Series
• 1932- Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play 1st NFL game, lose 14-0
• 1933- Eugene O'Neill's comedy "Ah, Wilderness," premieres in NYC
• 1935- Mussolini's Italian armys attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
• 1935- NY Hayden Planetarium, 4th in US, opens
• 1936- 1st alcohol power plant forms, Atchison, Kansas
• 1936- Amsterdam's Calvinist Churches reject nazism
• 1936- French franc devalued
• 1936- NY Yankees score World Series record 18 runs, beating Giants 18-4
• 1936- Tony Lazzeri becomes 1st Yank to hit a World Series grand slam
• 1937- FDR visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State
• 1938- Indian Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Tigers (Chester Laabs 5 times)
• 1939- Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF
• 1940- 17 German aircrafts shot down above England
• 1940- British Council receives British Charter
• 1940- British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk
• 1941- 6 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo
• 1941- Germans launch attack on Moscow
• 1942- "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338
• 1942- 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago
• 1943- Japanse troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island
• 1943- Yankees sweep 14th doubleheader of year, beating Browns, 5-1 & 7-6
• 1944- Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people
• 1944- US B-17's drops pamphlets on Walcheren
• 1946- 1st network soap opera-Faraway Hill - Dumont
• 1947- "]Music in My Heart]" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 124 performances
• 1947- Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
• 1947- Yankee Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a World Series homer
• 1948- "Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 725 perfs
• 1949- St Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3
• 1949- USSR recognizes People's Republic of China
• 1949- Yanks & Red Sox, tied for 1st place, play final game of season. Yanks win 5-3 & clinch pennant #16
• 1950- 1st strip of Charlie Brown, "Li'l Folks," later "Peanuts" in 9 papers
• 1950- Mao Tse Tung proclaims in telegram to Stalin, China intervenes Korea
• 1950- Red Sox Dom DiMaggio leads AL with only 15 stolen bases
• 1950- Bob Shaw of Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD receptions
• 1950- Chic Cards Jim Hardy passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (55-13)
• 1951- 1st Netherland TV broadcast (Toverspiegel)
• 1951- Dodgers beat Giants 10-0, in 2nd game of play-offs
• 1953- "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" opens at John Golden NYC for 849 perf
• 1953- Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in World Series
• 1954- 8th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Detroit 2-2 at Detroit
• 1954- Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal
• 1954- NY Giants sweep Cleveland Indians, in 51st World Series
• 1955- "]Alfred Hitchcock Presents]" premieres
• 1955- 9th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 3-1 at Detroit
• 1955- Actress Joyce Randolph marries publisher Richard Charles
• 1955- Chiva Stoica becomes premier of Romania
• 1955- WHTN (now WOWK) TV ch 13 in Huntington-Charleston, WV (CBS) begins
• 1956- 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC
• 1957- NY Yankees appear in their 25th World Series
• 1957- New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores
• 1958- Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day)
• 1958- Musical show "Valmouth," 1st produced in London
• 1958- USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1959- Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS-TV
• 1960- Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
• 1961- "Ben Casey" premieres on NBC-TV
• 1961- USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1961- WETA TV channel 26 in Washington, DC (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1961- WHRO TV channel 15 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1962- SF beats LA, 8-7 in 4h18m 9 inning playoff game
• 1962- US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
• 1963- Dodgers' Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 Yankees
• 1963- W German Chancellor Adenauer condemns western grain shipments to USSR
• 1964- Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds)
• 1965- Dodgers beat Braves to clinch NL pennant
• 1965- Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
• 1965- Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 NY Mets
• 1965- Pope Paul VI named MR Perey bishop's helper of New Orleans
• 1966- Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
• 1966- LA Dodgers Sandy Koufax clinches 3rd LA pennant in 4 years
• 1967- Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents
• 1967- Groundbreaking begins on Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia
• 1967- Mickey Wright wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational
• 1967- Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
• 1968- 1st London performance of "Promises Promises" presented
• 1968- Bob Gibson sets a World Series record of 17 strikeouts
• 1968- Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed
• 1968- Peru coup under gen Velasco Alvarado, pres Bela£nde Terry flees
• 1968- Republic Guinea forms (day of republic)
• 1968- 1st time, 2 soon-to-be-named MVPs oppose each other Cards Bob Gibson beat Tigers Denny McLain 4-0
• 1969- Seattle Pilots last game in Seattle, lose 3-1 to As in front of 5,473
• 1969- US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
• 1970- Billy Martin named manager of Det Tigers
• 1970- Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
• 1971- Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race
• 1972- "From Israel with Love" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 8 performances
• 1972- Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
• 1972- Bill Stoneman of Montreal pitches his 2nd no-hitter, beating Mets, 7-0
• 1972- Danish population votes for European Common Market membership
• 1972- Mont Expos Bill Stoneman 2nd no-hitter beats NY Mets, 7-0
• 1972- Ron Johnson becomes 1st NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs Phila)
• 1974- Hank Aaron's 733rd career HR on his last NL at bat
• 1976- "Let My People Come" closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 106 perfs
• 1977- Pakistan general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition
• 1977- Vivian Brownlee wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
• 1977- Dusty Baker 30th HR joins teammates Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith (32), & Ron Cey (30) in make Dodgers 1st team to boast 4 30-HR hitters
• 1978- Syrian & Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed
• 1978- Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & [Pinella['s fielding
• 1980- Larry Holmes TKOs Muhammad Ali in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1980- Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)
• 1981- Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran
• 1982- Bomb attack in Teheran, kills 60, injures 700
• 1983- Art Monk begins NFL streak of 136 plus consecutive game receptions
• 1983- Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat
• 1983- Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic
• 1984- 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
• 1984- In 1st LCS game played with replacement umps, Cubs beat Padres 13-0
• 1984- Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage
• 1985- Russian party leader Gorbatsjov visits Paris
• 1985- Tigers Darrell Evans is 1st to hit 40 HR seasons in both leagues
• 1986- Failed assassination attempt on India premier Rajiv Gandhi
• 1986- Mike Scott is 3rd NL pitcher to strike out 300 in a season (306)
• 1986- NY Met Dwight Gooden is 1st to strike out 200 or more in 1st 3 seasons
• 1986- Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
• 1988- 24th Olympic games close at Seoul, Korea
• 1988- Gelindo Bordin wins 21st Olympics marathon (2:10:32)
• 1988- Minn Twins are 1st AL club ever to break 3 million season attendance
• 1988- Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections
• 1988- Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson & Robin Givens
• 1988- Mike Tyson wrecks furniture in his Bernardsville NJ Mansion
• 1990- "Michael Feinstein in Concert -" opens at Golden NYC for 30 perfs
• 1990- Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany
• 1990- [Chinese[ plane explodes, about 100 die
• 1990- US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to Supreme Court
• 1990- Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors
• 1991- Eric Lindros, refused to sign with Quebec Nordiques
• 1991- Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 pro tennis matches
• 1991- Toronto Blue Jays clinches AL East title & becomes 1st team to draw 4 million fans
• 1992- VP Itamar Franco becomes pres of Brazil
• 1993- Spike Lee weds Tonya Lewis
• 1994- "Show Boat," opens at Gershwin Theater NYC
• 1994- Pakistan defeat Australia by one wicket in Karachi Test
• 1995- "Moon Over Buffalo" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 308 perfs
• 1995- Seattle Mariners beat Cal Angels, 9-1 in a playoff game to win AL West
• 1996- 30th Country Music Assn Award: Brooks & Dunn win

• 1452- King Richard III, of England (1483-85)
• 1595- Jacob Louys, Flemish engraver
• 1616- A Gryphius, writer
• 1619- G‚d‚on Tallemant des R‚aux, French author (Historiettes)
• 1646- Guillaume Poitevin, composer
• 1704- Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer
• 1715- Peter II, czar of Russia (1727-30)
• 1737- Francis Hopkinson, US, writer/lawyer (design Stars & Stripes)
• 1737- Franz Schneider, composer
• 1752- Samuel Story, Dutch admiral (Battle at Kamperduin)
• 1756- Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist
• 1756- Josef Jawurek, composer
• 1792- Philip Cipriani Hambley Potter, pianist/composer
• 1800- Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831)
• 1809- Anton Emil Titl, composer
• 1817- Gunnar Wennerberg, composer
• 1819- George Washington Getty, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1901
• 1821- Alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lt Gen (Confederate Army)
• 1822- Joannes Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch Internal minister (1877-79)
• 1827- Edmund Jackson Davis, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
• 1832- Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist
• 1832- Julius von Sachs, botanist/naturalist
• 1835- Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian
• 1839- Hans Thoma, painter
• 1847- Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg, German president
• 1851- Ferdinand Foch, France, responsible for Allies winning WW I
• 1852- William Ramsay, chemist
• 1857- Marthinus T Steyn, pres of Orange-Free state (1896-1902)
• 1866- Charles de Souzy Ricketts, artist
• 1869- Mahatma Karamchand Ghandi, Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist
• 1871- Cordell Hull, US Sec of State (1933-44), lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945)
• 1873- Pelham Warner, cricketer (England 1898-1912, later notable official)
• 1875- Henry Fevrier, composer
• 1878- Fran‡ois C Schlumberger, French physicist
• 1879- Wallace Stevens, Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order)
• 1880- George Alexander Russell, composer
• 1881- Fred Barlow, composer
• 1885- Ruth Bryan Rohde, US, (Rep), minister to Denmark
• 1886- Pieter "Pierre" Balledux, stage manager/Dutch resistance fighter
• 1890- Groucho Marx, Julius, NYC, comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life)
• 1891- H V Porter, basketball pioneer, created fan shape backboard
• 1893- Leroy B Shield, US pianist/producer/composer (Laurel & Hardy)
• 1895- Bud Abbott, Asbury Pk NJ, comedian (Abbott & Costello)
• 1895- Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian
• 1896- Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga) OS=Sep 20
• 1896- Fritz Eberhard, Hellmut Rauschenplat, W-German lawyer/resistor (Law)
• 1901- Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot
• 1901- Ignatius Roy D Campbell, South African poet (Flowering Rifle)
• 1902- Dick Ket, Dutch painter/cartoonist
• 1902- Leopold Figl, premier of Austria
• 1904- Dermot Boyle, marshal (RAF)
• 1904- Godfrey Baseley, radio executive
• 1904- Graham Greene, English journalist (3rd Man)
• 1904- Shi Lal Bahadur Shastri, India premier (1964-66)
• 1904- Henry Graham Greene, England, prolific novelist (Brighton Rock)
• 1906- John Humphreys Whitfield, scholar of Italian language & literature
• 1907- Alexander Robertus, organic chemist
• 1907- Lord Todd, chemist
• 1907- William Marshall, producer/director/actor/singer (Blackmail)
• 1911- Stuart Rose, designer (British Post Office)
• 1912- Eric Wilson, VC/British Lt Col
• 1913- Vivian Ridler, printer (Oxford University)
• 1914- Albe Vidakovic, composer
• 1914- Bengt Viktor Johansson, composer
• 1914- Charles Drake, Bayside NYC, actor (Air Force, Glenn Miller Story)
• 1915- Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise, musician
• 1917- Francis Jackson, organist & master of Music/York minister
• 1917- William Marshall III, Chicago IL, actor (Blacula, Honky)
• 1919- Geoffrey Luttrell, Lord-Lt of Somerset
• 1919- Shirley Clarke, film director
• 1920- William Cramond, psychiatrist/vice-chancellor (Stirling University)
• 1921- A Scott Crossfield, US Test pilot (XS-1)
• 1921- Robert Runcie, Kennedy, Liverpool England, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1922- Otmar Macha, composer
• 1922- Thomas T Nkobi, S Afr ANC-leader (Alexandra-bus boycott 1957)
• 1922- Wolfhart U Pannenberg, German theologist (Gingham Girl)
• 1923- Jack Dellal, English immovables-goedbezitter/multi-millionaire
• 1924- Sam Wainwright, deputy chairman (British Post Office)
• 1925- Alois Pinos, composer
• 1925- Brian Dilton, British lord justice of appeal
• 1926- Jan Morris, travel writer (Among the Cities, Hong Kong, Journeys)
• 1928- Anthony Tippett, British chief of Fleet Support
• 1928- Clay Felker, St Louis, journalist (NY Herald Tribune, Esquire)
• 1928- George Emmett McFarland, Dallas, act (Spanky-Our Gang/Little Rascals)
• 1928- James Porter, CEO (Commonwealth Institute)
• 1928- Robin Duthie, CEO (Britoil)
• 1929- John Zochonis, British multi-millionaire soap magnate
• 1929- Kenneth Leighton, composer
• 1929- Moses Gunn, St Louis Mo, actor (Amityville II, Good Times, Shaft)
• 1930- Gunter Kochan, composer
• 1930- J M Ghorpade, cricketer (8 Tests for India 1952-59 with little impact)
• 1932- Maury Wills, baseball shortstop (LA Dodgers, NL MVP 1962)
• 1933- Dimiter Khristov, composer
• 1933- Phill Niblock, composer
• 1934- Duncan Thompson, keeper (Scottish National Portrait Gallery)
• 1934- Geoff Millman, cricketer (England wicket-keeper in 6 Tests 1961-62)
• 1934- Richard Scott, British high court judge
• 1935- Peter Frankl, pianist
• 1935- Robert H Lawrence, Chicago Ill, USAF/astronaut
• 1936- Ian McLachlan, cricketer (Cambridge & S Aust bat, later Liberal MP)
• 1936- Johnnie Cochran, attorney (OJ Simpson defense attorney)
• 1936- Roger Sainsbury, bishop of Barking
• 1937- Helga Schtz, writer
• 1938- Lloyd Turner, journalist
• 1938- Rex Reed, Ft Worth Tx, movie critic/actor (Myra Breckinridge)
• 1939- B K Kunderan, cricketer (Indian keeper-batsman of 60's)
• 1939- Yuri Nikolayevich Glazkov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 24)
• 1940- Lord Davies, chairman (Welsh National Opera)
• 1941- Ron Meagher, rocker
• 1943- Anna Ford, British broadcaster/actress (Secret Policeman's Ball)
• 1943- Henri SZEPS, Lausanne Switzerland, actor (Mother & Son)
• 1944- Peter Hobson, headmaster (Giggleswick School)
• 1944- Vernor Steffen Vinge, US, sci-fi author (Witling, True Names)
• 1945- Don McLean, New Rochelle NY, singer/songwriter (American Pie, Vincent)
• 1945- Frank Tejeda, (Rep-D-Texas)
• 1945- Neil Frances Tennant, rocker (Pet Shop Boy-West End Girl)
• 1945- Vladimir Ivanovich Kozlov, cosmonaut
• 1946- Jo-el Sonnier, Rayne La, country singer (Louisiana)
• 1946- Roger Jett, Cumberland Maryland, actor (Smithereens)
• 1948- Avery Brooks, Evansville Ind, actor (Spenser for Hire, Deep Space 9)
• 1948- Chris LeDoux, Biloxi Miss, country singer (Ridin' for a Fall)
• 1948- Donna Karan, Forest Hills NY, fashion designer (Coty Award-1977)
• 1948- Robert Anderson, cricketer (NZ batsman 1976-78)
• 1948- Trevor Brooking, English soccer player
• 1949- Lorraine Bracco, Bay Ridge Bkln NY, actress (Valentino
• 1949- Richard Hell, Richard Myers, Lexington Ky, rock bassist (Television)
• 1950- Michael Rutherford, English pop bassist (Genesis-Silent Sun)
• 1950- Persis Khambatta, Bombay India, actress (Star Trek, Megaforce)
• 1951- Romina Power, LA CA, daughter of Tyrone Power/actress (Justine)
• 1951- Sting, Gordon Sumner, rock vocalist (Police-Roxanne)/actor (Dune)
• 1952- Clive Barker, writer (Hellraiser, Lord of Illusions)
• 1952- George Meegen, England, walked 19,019 miles from Argentina to Alaska
• 1952- John Otway, rocker
• 1952- Steve Penrod, race horse trainer
• 1954- Greg Jennings, Okla City Okla, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
• 1954- Lani O'Grady, Walnut Creek Calif, actress (Mary-8 is Enough)
• 1954- Lorraine Bracco, Bkln, actress (Someone to Watch Over Me, Dream Team)
• 1955- Gary Streeter, MP
• 1955- Kathryn Morrison Long Beach CA, playmate (May, 1978)
• 1955- Philip Oakey, Sheffield, rock vocalist (Human Leauge-Only Human)
• 1956- Freddie Jackson, US R&B singer/songwriter (Rock Me Tonight)
• 1956- Murphy Morobe, South Afr UDF leader (spent 3 yrs in Robbeneiland Jail)
• 1957- John Neuman Cook, Toledo OH, PGA golfer (1981 Bing Crosby)
• 1957- Kimberly Herrin, Santa Barbara Calif, playmate (March, 1981)
• 1959- Joe Deegan, jockey
• 1960- Django Bates, jazz musician
• 1960- Glenn Anderson, Vancouver, NHL right wing (Edmonton Oilers)
• 1961- Alan Wells, cricketer (England Test batsman v WI in one Test 1995)
• 1961- Pablo Arraya, Argentina, tennis star
• 1961- Robbie Nevil, rocker (A Place Like This)
• 1962- Esai Morales, Brooklyn NY, actor (Bad Boys, La Bamba)
• 1962- Mark Rypien, quarterback (St Louis Rams)
• 1963- Libby Wilson, Brisbane Qld, golfer (1988 - Singapore Open)
• 1964- Michael Brooks, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
• 1964- Sheila Echols, Memphis Tn, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
• 1964- Sherry Arnett, St Louis Mo, playmate (Jan, 1986)
• 1965- Darren Cahill, Australia, tennis star
• 1965- Francesca Dellera, Cervellera, Rome Italy, actress (Capriccio)
• 1965- Jill Powell, Jacksonville Fla, actress (Marcy-As The World Turns)
• 1965- Robert Goff, NFL defensive tackle (NO Saints)
• 1965- Roger Dube, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
• 1965- Tom Moody, cricket batsman (Australian 1989-92 Ton in 26 mins)
• 1966- Yokozuna, Rodney Anoia, wrestler (WWF/NJPW/AWA, Wild Samoan Kokina)
• 1967- Thomas Muster, Leibnitz Austria, tennis star (1995 French Open)
• 1968- Craig Kanada, Portland OR, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE SC Classic-3rd)
• 1968- Glen Wesley, Red Deer, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
• 1968- Jana Novotna, Brno Czech, tennis star (1995 Aust/Wimbledon doubles)
• 1968- Mark James Crear, SF, 110m hurdler (Olympics-silver-96)
• 1969- Marcus Robertson, NFL safety/cornerback (Houston/Tenn Oilers)
• 1969- Matthew Walbeck, Sacramento CA, catcher (Minn Twins)
• 1970- Eddie Guardado, Stockton CA, pitcher (Minn Twins)
• 1970- Kelly Ripa, actress (Hayley Vaughan-All My Children)
• 1971- Jair Lynch, Amherst Mass, gymnast (Olympics-silver-96)
• 1971- Steve McLaughlin, NFL kicker (Atlanta Falcons)
• 1971- Tiffany Renee Darwich, Norwalk Cal, singer (I Think We're Alone Now)
• 1972- Aaron McKie, NBA guard (Portland Trail Blazers, Phila 76ers)
• 1972- Adrian Van Troost, fast cricket bowler (Somerset & Holland)
• 1972- Patricia Gauani, Miss USA-Delaware (1997)
• 1972- Rafael Carmona, Rio Piedras Puerto Rico, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
• 1972- Tara Dawn Holland, Overland Park Kansas, Miss America (1997)
• 1972- Torey Hunter, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
• 1973- Bret Hudson, NSW Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
• 1973- Dalida Chammai, Miss Lebanon Universe (1997)
• 1974- Anthony Johnson, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings)
• 1974- Ricky Bell, cornerback (Chicago Bears)
• 1991- Beau Grayson, son of country singer Tanya Tucker

• 0472- Olybrius, emperor of Westromeinse republic (472), dies
• 0939- Giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49
• 1113- Mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies
• 1264- Urbanus IV, Jacques Pantal‚on, French Pope (1261-64), dies
• 1517- John Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37
• 1564- Andreas Vesalius, Andries of Wesel, Flemish anatomist, dies at 49
• 1588- Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies
• 1617- Isaac Oliver, miniature painter, dies
• 1629- Pierre the B‚rulle, French cardinal/founder (French Oratorio), dies
• 1656- Stephan Otto, composer, dies at 53
• 1678- Wu San-kuei, gen, invited Manchus to China, dies trying to expel them
• 1707- Anne Jules duke the Noailles, marshal of France (huguenot), dies at 57
• 1721- Benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies
• 1729- Arnold Boonen, portrait painter, dies at 60
• 1780- John Andr‚, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold)
• 1786- August Keppel, 1st viscount/naval commander/politican, dies
• 1803- Samuel Adams, US revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party), dies at 81
• 1809- Wybo Fijnje, politician/patriot/journalist, dies at 59
• 1823- Daniel Steibelt, composer, dies at 57 OS=Sept 20
• 1842- Jose Mariano Elizaga, composer, dies at 56
• 1842- William Ellery Channing, cleric/writer, dies
• 1850- Sarah Biffin/Beffin, limbless miniature painter, dies
• 1853- D Fran‡ois J Arago, French astronomer/physicist (chromosome), dies
• 1860- Louis Hersent, painter, dies
• 1863- Justinus van de Brugghen, lawyer/minister of Justice, dies
• 1872- Eberhard F Walcker, organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt A/M), dies
• 1873- Cornelius Varley, water-color painter, dies
• 1905- Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuban/French sonnet poet, dies at 62
• 1915- Russell Alexander, composer, dies at 38
• 1916- Benjamin Kidel, English sociologist (Social Evolution), dies at 58
• 1919- Ernest Halliwell, cricketer (S African wicketkeeper 1892-1904), dies
• 1920- Max Bruch, composer, dies at 82
• 1927- Svante August Arrhenius, chemist, dies
• 1931- Thomas Johnstone Lipton, sportsman/merchant, dies
• 1936- G H Simpson-Hayward, cricketer (Eng 1910, great lob bowlers), dies
• 1943- Robert Nathaniel Dett, composer, dies at 60
• 1944- Rudolf Schmundt, German gen/Hitlers army adjunct, dies from injuries
• 1955- James Dean, US actor (East of Eden, Giant), dies
• 1955- O B Clarence, actor (Penn of Pensnsylvania), dies
• 1956- George Bancroft, actor (Texas, Stagecoach, Little Men), dies at 74
• 1956- Paul de Backer, Belgian radiologist, dies at 73
• 1957- Jacques Fesch, French political assassin/saint?, beheaded at about 26
• 1958- Marie Stopes, birth control pioneer, dies
• 1958- Wilhelmus L Re˜ers, sculptor, dies at 48
• 1960- Jaroslav Doubrava, composer, dies at 51
• 1961- Reggie Spooner, cricketer (England centurion v S Africa 1912), dies
• 1962- Frank Lovejoy, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48
• 1965- John Selwyn (Brooke) Lloyd, British statesman, dies
• 1967- Albertina Rasch, ballerina/choreographer, dies at 76
• 1969- Katharine Susannah Prichard, novelist (Black Opal), dies at 85
• 1970- Alfred Julius Swan, composer, dies at 79
• 1970- Anders Bo Leif Linde, composer, dies at 37
• 1973- Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi, who won 6 Olympic gold medals, dies at 76
• 1973- Paul Hartman, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction), dies at 84
• 1974- Ina Seidel, writer, dies at 89
• 1975- Wade Crosby, actor (Sign of Wolf, Tales of Robin Hood), dies at 70
• 1980- Valentin Stepanovich Varlamov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 46
• 1981- Hazel Scott, Trinidadian singer/pianist, dies at 63
• 1982- William Bernbach, advertising magnate, dies at 71
• 1983- Gerald Strang, Canadian composer, dies at 75
• 1985- George Savalas, actor (Kojak), dies at 58
• 1985- Rock Hudson, actor (MacMillian & Wife), dies of AIDS at 59
• 1985- Sidney Clute, actor (Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey), dies at 69
• 1987- Madeleine Carroll, actress (39 Steps, Secret Agent), dies at 81
• 1987- Peter Brian Medawar, medical scientist, dies
• 1989- Liesbeth Ribbius Peletier, Neth's 1st female advisor of State, dies
• 1991- Dimitrios I, patriarch/primus interparis orthodox Christians, dies
• 1991- Jan H Christianse, political chairman (CDA), dies
• 1993- Henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), dies at 83
• 1994- Faith Davis, oldest triplets (Charity & Hope survive), dies at 95
• 1994- Harriet Nelson, actress (Ozzie & Harriet), dies of heart failure at 80
• 1994- Ronald James Herron, architect, dies at 64
• 1995- Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67
• 1995- Norman Ewart Thurston, musician, dies at 74
• 1996- Andrey Lukanov, PM of Bulgaria (1990), assassinated at 58
• 1996- Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist, dies at 85
• 1996- Ivan Mark Waller, mountaineer, dies at 89
• 1996- Robert Bourassa, PM of province of Quebec (1970-76, 85-93), dies at 63
• 1996- Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman, dies at 79
• 1996- Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian, dies at 93