Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[Krandall]

that's a badass dog for sure!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm stuck on boxers!

always figured you a tighty- whitey guy.

I don't know Aaron, they were bred to kill, hard to get rid of instinct like that. But I agree, good behavior can be learned.

feed em' meth.. What can go wrong? 

[Colorado700R]

that's a badass dog for sure!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm stuck on boxers!

always figured you a tighty- whitey guy.

I don't know Aaron, they were bred to kill, hard to get rid of instinct like that. But I agree, good behavior can be learned.

So was I

[Peelz]

LOL were you bred that way, or trained that way? 

[Colorado700R]

4th generation combat Marine....you make the call

[Krandall]

psh. girl.   


j/k!

[Peelz]

nice. so...don't let you near my children then?


JK.

not sure this day can go any slower....

[Colorado700R]

I had to leave work, the constant MJ music was killing, plus I got my project done ahead of time

[Krandall]

You know the potato chips.. Brand is "Andy Capp's" "Hot Fries"

Super cheap. Man these things are amazing!

[Colorado700R]

I think so, haven't had them in a long time

[dragonz]

You know the potato chips.. Brand is "Anal Gap's" "Hot Fries"

Super ghey. Man these things are amazing!

more SL camp flashbacks

[Colorado700R]

Have a great day, Nikki and I are heading for the mountains for some trail riding

[socalrappy700]

June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 187 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

1358 – Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
1709 – Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
1759 – General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
1806 – The British capture Buenos Aires during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of of Latter Day Saints, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
1867 – The Bank of California is created.
1893 – Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
1905 – (June 14 according to the Julian calendar): Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
1923 – Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
1941 – Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
1941 – German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
1954 – The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1957 – Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas.
1966 – The first broadcast of Dark Shadows is aired on ABC-TV.
1967 – The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.
1969 – The Stonewall riots that mark the beginning of the gay liberation movement begin in Greenwich Village in Manhattan.
1973 – The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup d'état.
1974 – U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R..
1976 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti.
1980 – A commercial DC-9 (Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870) crashes near Ustica, Italy, killing 81.
1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center on the final test flight mission, STS-4.
1984 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
1985 – U.S. Route 66 ceases to be an official U.S. highway.
1986 – The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in Nicaragua v. United States.
1987 – A commercial HS 748 (Philippine Airlines Flight 206) crashes near Baguio City, Philippines, killing 50.
1991 – Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before, is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War.
1998 – Opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.
2001 – The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
2001 – Pope John Paul II beatifies 28 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, including 27 martyrs most of whom were killed by the Soviet secret police. Beatification takes place at the service in Lviv, western Ukraine during his first visit to this country.
2003 – The United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolls almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.
2005 – AMD files broad antitrust complaints against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.
2007 – The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
2008 – Bill Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
2009 – Mamma Mia! becomes the fifteenth longest-running Broadway show at the matinee performance.

Births

862 – Hindu saint Manikkavacakar
1040 – King Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)
1350 – Manuel II Palaiologos, Eastern Roman Emperor
1462 – King Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
1550 – King Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
1696 – William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier (d. 1759)
1717 – Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799)
1838 – Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
1846 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish independence fighter (d. 1891)
1850 – Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-born author (d. 1904)
1850 – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (d. 1919)
1865 – Sir John Monash, Australian military commander (d. 1931)
1869 – Kate Carew, American caricaturist (d. 1961)
1869 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian/American anarchist and feminist (d. 1940)
1869 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
1880 – Helen Keller, American deaf and blind activist (d. 1968)
1882 – Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and educator (d. 1963)
1884 – Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (d. 1962)
1888 – Antoinette Perry, American theater director (d. 1946)
1888 – Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian (d. 1960)
1892 – Paul Colin, French poster designer (d. 1985)
1899 – Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981)
1905 – Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
1907 – John McIntire, American actor (d. 1991)
1908 – João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian writer (d. 1967)
1913 – Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (d. 1993)
1914 – Robert Aickman, English author (d. 1981)
1914 – Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (d. 1988)
1921 – Muriel Pavlow, British actress
1923 – Jacques Berthier, French composer (d. 1994)
1924 – Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (d. 2003)
1924 – Bob Appleyard, English cricketer
1925 – Doc Pomus, American blues singer/songwriter (d. 1991)
1927 – Bob Keeshan, American actor (d. 2004)
1928 – Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995)
1929 – William Afflis, American wrestler (d. 1991)
1930 – Ross Perot, American businessman and politician
1931 – Charles Bronfman, Canadian industrialist
1931 – Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 – Anna Moffo, American soprano (d. 2006)
1932 – Eddie Kasko, baseball player
1932 – Magali Noël, French actress
1935 – Laurent Terzieff, French actor
1935 – Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (d. 2007)
1936 – Lucille Clifton, American poet
1938 – Tommy Cannon, British comedian
1938 – Shirley Anne Field, British actress
1938 – Kathryn Beaumont, British voice actress
1938 – Bruce Babbitt, American politician and Secretary of the Interior
1939 – Rahul Dev Burman, Indian composer and actor (d. 1994)
1941 – Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (d. 1996)
1941 – Bill Baxley, American politician
1941 – James P. Hogan, British science fiction author
1941 – Avi Lerner, Israeli-born American film producer
1942 – Bruce Johnston, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1942 – Frank Mills, Canadian pianist and composer
1943 – Rico Petrocelli, American baseball player
1943 – Kjersti Døvigen, Norwegian actress
1944 – Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist
1948 – Camile Baudoin, American musician
1949 – Vera Wang, American fashion designer
1951 – Mary McAleese, President of Ireland
1951 – Julia Duffy, American actress
1952 – Madan Kumar Bhandari, Nepalese politician (d. 1993)
1955 – Isabelle Adjani, French actress
1956 – Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player
1956 – Brad Childress, American football coach
1956 – Ted Haggard, American evangelical preacher
1958 – Lisa Germano, American singer, songwriter and musician
1958 – Brian Helicopter, Musician, bass guitarist (The Shapes, HellsBelles, Rogue Male)
1958 – Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer
1958 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club) (d. 1996)
1959 – Dan Jurgens, American comic book writer
1959 – Lorrie Morgan, American country music singer
1960 – Craig Hodges, American basketball player
1961 – Meera Syal, British-Indian comedienne and actress
1961 – Margo Timmins, Canadian folk-rock singer (Cowboy Junkies)
1962 – Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong actor
1963 – Paul Roos, Australian rules footballer
1963 – Johnny Benson, American NASCAR driver
1964 – Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch film producer and director
1964 – Chuck Person, American basketball player
1966 – J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
1967 – Sylvie Fréchette, French-Canadian synchronized swimmer
1968 – Pascale Bussières, French-Canadian actress
1969 – Viktor Petrenko, Ukranian figure skater
1970 – John Eales, Australian Rugby Player
1970 – Jim Edmonds, American baseball player
1971 – Yancey Arias, American actor
1971 – Jo Frost, English nanny and television host
1971 – Kieren Keke, Nauruan politician
1971 – DJ Screw, American musician (Screwed Up Click) (d. 2000)
1972 – Dawud Wharnsby Ali, Canadian poet and singer/songwriter
1974 – Big Moe, American musician (Screwed Up Click) (d. 2007)
1974 – Christian Kane, American actor and singer
1975 – Tobey Maguire, American actor
1975 – Daryle Ward, American baseball player
1975 – Ace Darling, American professional wrestler
1975 – Sarah Evanetz, Canadian swimmer
1976 – Johnny Estrada, American baseball player
1977 – Raúl, Spanish footballer
1977 – Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer
1978 – Anna Kumble, British singer, also known as Lolly
1979 – Kim Gyu-ri, South Korean actress
1979 – Benjamin Speed, Australian musician and film composer
1979 – John Warne, American musician (Relient K; Ace Troubleshooter)
1980 – Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer
1980 – Jennifer Goodridge, American Musician (Seaspin, Your Enemies Friends)
1980 – Craig Terrill, American football player
1981 – Andrew Embley, Australian rules footballer
1983 – Alsou, Russian singer
1983 – Dale Steyn, South African cricketer
1983 – Evan Taubenfeld, American musician
1984 – Rocío Guirao Díaz, Argentinian model
1984 – Gökhan Inler, Swiss footballer
1984 – D.J. King, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Julie Ordon, Swiss model
1984 – Emma Lahana, New Zealand actress
1984 – Khloe Kardashian, American reality television star
1985 – Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
1985 – Coby Linder, American musician (Say Anything)
1985 – Nico Rosberg, German race car driver
1985 – James Hook, Welsh rugby player
1986 – Drake Bell, musician/ songwriter / American actor
1986 – LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter
1987 – Ed Westwick, English actor
1988 – Kate Ziegler, American swimmer
1988 – Matthew Spiranovic, Australian footballer
1989 – Matthew Lewis, English actor
1990 – Aselin Debison, Canadian singer
1991 – Madylin Sweeten, American actress
1996 – Tanay Chheda , Indian actor

Deaths

1162 – Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
1458 – King Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
1574 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)
1603 – Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop and diplomat (b. 1539)
1627 – John Hayward, English historian
1636 – Date Masamune founder of Sendai Japan, passes away.
1655 – Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
1672 – Roger Twysden, English antiquarian (b. 1597)
1720 – Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
1773 – Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. c. 1706)
1794 – Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
1794 – Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French nobleman (b. 1715)
1794 – Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French noblewoman (b. 1729)
1827 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (b. 1754)
1829 – James Smithson, English scientist and philanthropist (b. 1765)
1831 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
1844 – Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (b. 1800)
1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of of Latter-day Saints (b. 1805)
1907 – Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
1912 – George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (b. 1855)
1917 – Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (b. 1896)
1935 – Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (b. 1857)
1944 – Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (b. 1878)
1947 – Frank Smythe, British mountaineer (b. 1900)
1952 – Max Dehn, German mathematician (b. 1878)
1954 – Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1957 – Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1924)
1960 – Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
1962 – Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (b. 1904)
1970 – Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
1986 – George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
1989 – Alfred Jules Ayer, British philosopher (b. 1910)
1991 – Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (b. 1953)
1991 – Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
1996 – Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (b. 1909)
1998 – Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (b. 1935)
1999 – George Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (b. 1919)
2000 – Molly Bish, American Abductee (b. 1983)
2001 – Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914)
2001 – Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
2002 – John Entwistle, English bassist (The Who) (b. 1944)
2003 – David Newman, American filmmaker (b. 1937)
2004 – George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
2004 – Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
2005 – Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917)
2005 – Frank Harte, Traditional Irish Singer and song collector
2005 – John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)
2005 – Ray Holmes, Battle of Britain veteran (b. 1914)
2005 – Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (b. 1969)
2006 – Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer, known as "The Railway Killer" (b. 1959)
2007 – Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
2007 – Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet (b. 1905)
2007 – William Hutt, Canadian stage and film actor (b. 1920)
2008 – Michael Turner, American comic book artist (b. 1971)
2008 – Sam Manekshaw, Indian Field Marshall (b. 1914)

Holidays and observances

Mixed Race Day in Brazil
National HIV Testing Day in United States
National Veterans' Day in the United Kingdom
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Saint Cyril of Alexandria
Saint Ladislas
Seven Sleepers Day (Siebenschläfertag) in Germany
Armed Forces Day In Great Britain

[Peelz]

Happy saturday ladies. Looks like yard work today.

[dragonz]

Happy saturday ladies. Looks like yard work today.

You are soo behind the times, it's sunday here!

[socalrappy700]

June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 186 days remaining until the end of the year.

In common years it is always in ISO week 26.

This date is the only date each year where both the month and day are different perfect numbers, June 6 being the only date where the month and day are the same perfect number.

Today in history

1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
1389 – Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
1519 – Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1635 – Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
1651 – Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians starts.
1776 – Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton.
1807 – Second British invasion; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the fierce resistance of the locals.
1838 – The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
1841 – The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle
1859 – First conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
1865 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
1880 – Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.
1881 – Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
1895 – El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.
1896 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania resulted in a massive cave-in that killed 58 miners.
1902 – The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
1904 – The SS Norge Runs aground and sinks
1914 – Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.
1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side.
1922 – The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
1936 – The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
1940 – Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
1948 – Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
1948 – Boxer Dick Turpin beat Vince Hawkins at Villa Park, Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
1950 – Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.
1956 – Protests and demonstrations in Poznań. Also called Poznański czerwiec (June of Poznań).
1964 – Malcom X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
1969 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City.
1973 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
1976 – The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
1978 – The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
1983 – The Mianus River Bridge collapses over the Mianus River in Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles.
1986 – ¡A Luchar! holds its first congress in Bogotá, Colombia.
1990 – Paperback Software International Ltd. found guilty by a U.S. court of copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program.
1992 – The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, 7 persons killed, 660 injured.
1996 – The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
1997 – Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield II – Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece from Holyfield's ear.
2000 – Cuban exile Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order.
2004 – The 17th NATO Summit starts in Istanbul.
2004 – Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
2004 – Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism
2005 – Operation Red Wing, involving four U.S. Navy SEAL members, took place. Three of the SEALs are killed during the operation, whilst a fourth is protected by local villagers and is rescued by the US military. In addition, an MH-47 Chinook helicopter carrying 8 Nightstalkers – members of the Army's elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) – and 8 US Navy SEALs is shot down while attempting to come to their rescue to provide extraction in the mountains of the Kunar province, Afghanistan. All 16 on board were killed.
2006 – The Republic of Montenegro is admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264.
2007 – The Spice Girls announce plans for a reunion tour.

Births

1476 – Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
1490 – Albert of Mainz, bishop and elector of Mainz (d. 1545)
1491 – King Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
1503 – Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (d. 1556)
1547 (baptism) – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (d. 1599)
1577 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (d. 1640)
1641 – Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien, queen of Poland (d. 1716)
1703 – John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d. 1778)
1719 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785)
1806 – Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
1824 – Paul Broca, French physician (d. 1880)
1831 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (d. 1907)
1867 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
1873 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1944)
1875 – Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941)
1883 – Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
1884 – Lamina Sankoh, early Sierra Leonean nationalist (d. 1964)
1891 – Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)
1891 – Esther Forbes, American writer (d. 1968)
1891 – Carl Spaatz, American Air Force general (d. 1974)
1902 – Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)
1906 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1972)
1909 – Eric Ambler, English writer (d. 1998)
1912 – Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor (d. 1996)
1912 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (d. 2007)
1913 – Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
1913 – Walter Oesau, German pilot (d. 1944)
1914 – Aribert Heim, Austrian physician (d. 1992)
1917 – Katherine Rawls, American swimming champion (d. 1982)
1918 – Willie Whitelaw, British Deputy Prime Minister 1979-88 (d. 1999)
1920 – A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright
1921 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
1922 – Michael Vale, American actor (d. 2005)
1923 – Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentine racing driver
1926 – Mel Brooks, American filmmaker
1927 – Corelli Barnett, British military historian
1927 – Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1928 – Hans Blix, Swedish diplomat and politician
1928 – Harold Evans, English journalist and writer; editor of The Sunday Times
1930 – Itamar Franco, President of Brazil
1931 – Junior Johnson, American NASCAR driver
1931 – Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (d. 1995)
1932 – Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
1933 – Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist politician
1934 – Carl Levin, United States Senator
1935 – John Inman, English actor (d. 2007)
1936 – Chuck Howley, American football player
1937 – Richard Bright, American actor (d. 2006)
1937 – George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989)
1937 – Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (d. 1995)
1938 – John Byner, American comedian
1938 – Moy Yat, Chinese martial artist (d. 2001)
1938 – Leon Panetta, current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
1940 – Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1940 – Roderick Wright, ex-Scottish bishop (d. 2005)
1941 – Al Downing, American baseball player
1941 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (d. 2006)
1942 – Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party (d. 1993)
1942 – David Miner, American musician and record producer
1942 – Frank Zane, American bodybuilder
1943 – Donald Johanson, American paleoanthropologist
1943 – Jens Birkemose, Danish painter
1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1945 – David Knights, English musician (Procol Harum)
1946 – Bruce Davison, American actor
1946 – Gilda Radner, American comedienne (d. 1989)
1946 – Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician.
1947 – Robert Bondi, American politician
1947 – Mark Clark (Black Panther), murdered in 1969 Chicago Police raid
1947 – Clarissa Dickson Wright, English celebrity chef
1947 – Anny Duperey, French film and television actress
1947 – Mark Helprin, American writer
1948 – Kathy Bates, American actress
1950 – Mauricio Rojas, Swedish politician
1952 – Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete
1954 – A. A. Gill, British writer and columnist
1954 – Alice Krige, South African actress
1955 – Shirley Cheriton, English actress
1955 – Eric Gates, English footballer
1955 – Thomas Hampson, American baritone
1956 – Noel Mugavin, Australian Rules Football player
1957 – Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
1957 – Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
1957 – Mike Skinner, American racecar driver
1958 – Félix Gray, French singer and songwriter
1960 – John Elway, American football player
1963 – Beverley Craven, English singer-songwriter
1963 – Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai film director
1964 – Mark Grace, American baseball player
1964 – Sanjeev Bhaskar, British actor and comedian
1965 – Jessica Hecht, American actress
1966 – John Cusack, American actor
1966 – Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
1967 – Gil Bellows, Canadian actor
1967 – Lars Riedel, German discus thrower
1968 – Adam Woodyatt, English actor
1968 – Chayanne, Puerto Rican singer
1969 – Danielle Brisebois, American actress
1969 – Ayelet Zurer, Israeli actress
1970 – Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer
1970 – Steve Burton, American actor
1970 – Mike White, American filmmaker and actor
1971 – Tichina Arnold, American actress
1971 – Louise Bagshawe, British novelist and politician
1971 – Fabien Barthez, French footballer
1971 – Kenny Cunningham, Irish footballer
1971 – Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television personality
1971 – Ron Mahay, American baseball player
1971 – Aileen Quinn, American actress
1972 – Jon Heidenreich, American professional wrestler
1972 – Alessandro Nivola, American actor
1973 – Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete
1974 – Rob Dyrdek, Professional skateboarder
1975 – Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician, Dissection
1976 – Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
1976 – Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
1977 – Mark Stoermer, American bass player (The Killers)
1977 – Chris Spurling, American baseball player
1977 – Harun Tekin, Turkish musician, Mor ve Ötesi
1978 – Simon Larose, Canadian professional tennis player
1979 – Ha Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer
1979 – Randy McMichael, American football player
1979 – Florian Zeller, French novelist and playwright
1981 – Michael Crafter, Australian musician (Confession)
1983 – Maui Taylor, Filipino model and singer
1985 – Phil Bardsley, English football player
1986 – Kellie Pickler, American singer
1986 – Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress
1987 – Terrence Williams, American Basketball Player
1988 – Lacey Schwimmer, American dancer
1990 – Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress
1994 – Madeline Duggan, English actress
1994 – Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II, Prince of Jordan

Deaths

548 – Theodora, Byzantine empress
767 – Pope Paul I
928 – Louis the Blind, King of Provence and Holy Roman Emperor
1061 – Floris I, Count of Holland
1175 – Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince
1194 – Emperor Xiaozong of Song China (b. 1127)
1385 – Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1348)
1389 – Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia (b. 1329)
1586 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (b. 1508)
1598 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish-born cartographer (b. 1527)
1716 – George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
1813 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (b. 1755)
1834 – Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)
1836 – James Madison, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)
1880 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. 1846)
1881 – Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (b. 1798)
1889 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (b. 1818)
1892 – Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
1913 – Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
1914 – Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1863)
1914 – Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868)
1915 – Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
1916 – Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
1922 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885)
1929 – Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844)
1960 – Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1898)
1962 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1962 – Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878)
1965 – Red Nichols, American musician (b. 1905)
1971 – Franz Stangl, Austrian commandant of concentration camps (b. 1908)
1974 – Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
1975 – Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
1975 – Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (b. 1941)
1975 – Rod Serling, American television scriptwriter (b. 1924)
1976 – Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer (b. 1927)
1978 – Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
1980 – José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
1981 – Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)
1985 – Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1989 – Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1898)
1992 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
1993 – GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956)
2000 – Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913)
2000 – Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (b. 1908)
2001 – Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
2001 – Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
2003 – Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
2004 – Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
2005 – Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
2006 – Jim Baen, American science fiction publisher and editor (b. 1943)
2006 – George Page, American television host (b. 1935)
2006 – Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author (b. 1919)
2006 – George Unwin, British WWII fighter ace (b. 1913)
2007 – Eugene Bennett Fluckey, American Navy Submariner (b. 1913)
2007 – Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
2008 – Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b. 1987)

Holidays and observances

Vidovdan, Orthodox religious holiday commemorating St. Vitus