Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[dragonz]

I'm back nukkas. 

Didn't know you'd gone..........who are you again???   

[Krandall]

annnnnd

[socalrappy700]

August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 136 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

986 – A Byzantine army is destroyed in the pass of Trajan's Gate by the Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron. The Byzantine emperor Basil II narrowly escaped.
1807 – Robert Fulton's first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
1862 – Indian Wars: The Lakota (Sioux) Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
1862 – American Civil War: Major General JEB Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
1863 – American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville – Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.
1883 – The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
1907 – Pike Place Market, the longest continuously-running public farmers market in the US, opened in Seattle.
1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, realized by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris.
1914 – World War I: Battle of Stalluponen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Pavel Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia.
1918 – Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1942 – U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari).
1942 – World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force begins regular combat operations in Europe with an attack on the marshalling yards at Rouen-Sotteville.
1943 – The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission.
1943 – World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrive in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
1943 – World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
1945 – Indonesian Declaration of Independence.
1947 – The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
1953 – Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
1959 – Quake Lake: Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
1959 – Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released.
1960 – Decolonization: Gabon gains independence from France.
1962 – East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall.
1969 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage.
1970 – Venera Program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
1978 – Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
1979 – Two Soviet Aeroflot jetliners collide in mid-air over Ukraine, killing 156
1980 – Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history.
1982 – The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany.
1988 – Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
1998 – Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.
1999 – A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
2004 – The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Boze Pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
2005 – The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
2005 – Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh
2008 – By winning the Men's 4x100m medley relay, Michael Phelps becomes the first Olympian to win eight gold medals in the same Olympics.

Births

1473 – Richard, Duke of York
1562 – Hans Leo Hassler (baptized), German composer (d. 1612)
1578 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660)
1601 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
1629 – King John III of Poland (d. 1696)
1686 – Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (d. 1768)
1753 – Josef Dobrovský, Czech linguist (d. 1828)
1768 – Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (d. 1800)
1786 – Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836)
1786 – Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, mother of Queen Victoria (d. 1861)
1794 – Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest (d. 1849)
1828 – Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897)
1844 – Menelek II of Ethiopia (d. 1913)
1863 – Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and naturalist (d. 1924)
1866 – Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911)
1866 – Julia Marlowe, English actress (d. 1950)
1873 – John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (d. 1946)
1878 – Reggie Duff, Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
1880 – Percy Sherwell, South African cricketer (d. 1948)
1882 – Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer (d. 1974)
1887 – Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black rights activist (d. 1940)
1887 – Charles I of Austria (d. 1922)
1888 – Monty Woolley, American actor (d. 1963)
1890 – Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1946)
1890 – Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (d. 1920)
1893 – Mae West, American actress (d. 1980)
1896 – Leslie Groves, American military engineer (d. 1970)
1904 – Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
1904 – Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984)
1909 – Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1985)
1911 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (d. 1995)
1913 – W. Mark Felt, American Watergate informant (d. 2008)
1913 – Rudy York, American baseball player (d. 1970)
1913 – Óscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentine racing driver (d. 1989)
1914 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (d. 1988)
1919 – Georgia Gibbs, American singer (d. 2006)
1920 – Maureen O'Hara, Irish actress
1921 – Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, British historian (d. 1994)
1922 – Roy Tattersall, England cricketer
1926 – Jiang Zemin, Chinese politician
1926 – George Melly, British singer (d. 2007)
1926 – Jean Poiret, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1992)
1929 – Francis Gary Powers, American U-2 pilot (d. 1977)
1930 – Glenn Corbett, American actor (d. 1993)
1930 – Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
1932 – V. S. Naipaul, West Indian writer, Nobel Laureate
1933 – Eugene F. Kranz, American NASA executive
1933 – Mark Dinning, American singer (d. 1986)
1935 – Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor
1936 – Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Native American musician-actor (d. 2007)
1938 – Abu Bakar Bashir, Indonesian Muslim cleric
1938 – Theodoros Pangalos, Greek politician
1939 – Luther Allison, American musician
1939 – Anthony Valentine, British actor
1940 – Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (d. 2006)
1941 – Jean Pierre Lefebvre, French Canadian film director
1941 – Boog Powell, American baseball player
1943 – Robert De Niro, American actor
1943 – Dave "Snaker" Ray, American musician (d. 2002)
1944 – Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, Billionaire
1946 – Martha Coolidge, American film director
1946 – Patrick Manning, 4th and 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago
1947 – Gary Talley, American musician (Box Tops)
1947 – Sylvia Nasar, German-born American economist and author
1948 – Rod MacDonald, American musician
1949 – Sib Hashian, American musician (Boston)
1949 – Norm Coleman, American politician
1951 – Robert Joy, Canadian actor
1951 – Alan Minter, British boxer
1952 – Nelson Piquet, Brazilian race car driver
1952 – Dr. Mario Theissen, German F1 team principal (BMW Sauber)
1952 – Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player
1953 – Judith Regan, American book publisher
1953 – Kevin Rowland, English musician (Dexys Midnight Runners)
1953 – Michael Malthouse, Premiership winning Australian football coach
1954 – Eric Johnson, American guitarist
1955 – Richard Hilton, American heir
1956 – Gail Berman, American film executive
1956 – Álvaro Pino, Spanish cyclist
1957 – Robin Cousins, British figure skater
1958 – Belinda Carlisle, American singer
1958 – Fred Goodwin British banker
1958 – Kirk Stevens, Canadian snooker player
1959 – Jonathan Franzen, American author
1959 – David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993)
1959 – Eric Schlosser, American author
1960 – Stephan Eicher, Swiss singer
1960 – Sean Penn, American actor and director
1962 – Gilby Clarke, American musician (Guns N' Roses)
1962 – Buddy Landel, American professional wrestler
1963 – Jon Gruden, American football coach
1963 – S. Shankar, Indian film director
1964 – Colin James, Canadian musician
1964 – Maria McKee, American singer
1966 – Maysa Leak, American Jazz Singer
1966 – Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder
1966 – Don Sweeney, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Kevin Max, American singer (dc talk)
1968 – Ed McCaffrey, American football player
1968 – Helen McCrory, English actress
1969 – Christian Laettner, American basketball player
1969 – Donnie Wahlberg, American actor and singer (New Kids On The Block)
1969 – Kelvin Mercer, American rapper (De La Soul)
1970 – Jim Courier, American tennis player
1970 – Rupert Degas, English actor and voice artist
1970 – Øyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer
1971 – Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
1971 – Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican baseball player
1971 – Shaun Rehn, Australian Rules footballer
1972 – Habibul Bashar, Bangladeshi cricketer
1972 – Ken Ryker, American pornographic actor
1974 – Tony Hajjar, Lebanese musician (At the Drive-In, Sparta)
1974 – Nicola Kraus, American novelist
1975 – Giuliana DePandi, Italian-born American television personality
1976 – Scott Halberstadt, American actor
1976 – Geertjan Lassche, Dutch reporter
1977 – Nathan Deakes, Australian race walker
1977 – William Gallas, French footballer
1977 – Thierry Henry, French footballer
1977 – Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer
1978 – Karena Lam, Hong Kong actress
1978 – Vibeke Stene, Norwegian singer (Tristania)
1979 – Antwaan Randle El, American football player
1979 – Marcus Patric, British actor
1980 – Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer
1980 – Jan Kromkamp, Dutch footballer
1980 – Shannon Lucio, American actress
1980 – Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer
1981 – Kristin Holt, American television personality
1982 – Cheerleader Melissa, American professional wrestler
1982 – Phil Jagielka, English footballer
1983 – Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player
1984 – Dee Brown, American basketball player
1984 – Garrett Wolfe, American football player
1985 – Yū Aoi, Japanese actress
1986 – Rudy Gay, American basketball player
1986 – Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player
1988 – Brady Corbet, American actor
1988 – Erika Toda, Japanese actress
1988 – Nichole Cordova, Performer (Girlicious)
1990 – Colin Bates, American actor
1990 – Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress
1993 – Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer
1996 – Ella Cruz, Filipina actress

Deaths

1153 – Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (b. 1130)
1304 – Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
1510 – Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. 1462)
1657 – Robert Blake, British admiral (b. 1599)
1673 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
1676 – Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, German novelist (b. 1621)
1720 – Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (b. 1654)
1723 – Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
1768 – Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703)
1785 – Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1710)
1786 – King Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1712)
1834 – Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802)
1838 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian librettist (b. 1749)
1850 – Don José de San Martín, Argentine general (b. 1778)
1861 – Alcée Louis la Branche, American Politician (b. 1806)
1870 – Pedro Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician, and freedom fighter of the 19th century (b. 1818)
1875 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827)
1880 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810)
1896 – Bridget Driscoll, British automobile fatality
1901 – Edmond Audran, French composer (b. 1842)
1903 – Hans Gude, Norwegian landscape painter (b. 1825)
1918 – Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1873)
1920 – Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1924 – Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
1925 – Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (b. 1848)
1935 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American feminist and writer (b. 1860)
1940 – Billy Fiske, American aviator (b. 1911)
1949 – Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist and politician (b. 1891)
1954 – Billy Murray, American recording artist (b. 1877)
1962 – Peter Fechter, East German defector (b. 1944)
1969 – Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1970 – Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (b. 1908)
1971 – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
1973 – Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
1973 – Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
1973 – Conrad Aiken, American author (b. 1889)
1976 – William Redfield, American actor (b. 1927)
1979 – John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (b. 1907)
1979 – Vivian Vance, American actress (b. 1909)
1983 – Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1987 – Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy (b. 1894)
1987 – Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (b. 1929)
1987 – Gary Chester, Italian studio drummer (b. 1924)
1988 – Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani politician (b. 1924)
1988 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (b. 1914)
1988 – Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (b. 1935)
1990 – Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (b. 1918)
1992 – Al Parker, American adult film actor (b. 1952)
1993 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (b. 1920)
1994 – Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and team owner (b. 1901)
1994 – Jack Sharkey, American boxer (b. 1902)
1995 – Howard Koch, American screenwriter (b. 1902)
1995 – Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (b. 1933)
1998 – Wladyslaw Komar, Polish track and field athlete (b. 1940)
1998 – Tadeusz Slusarski, Polish track and field athlete (b. 1950)
2001 – David Locke, DFW Famous Musician (b. 1953)
2004 – Thea Astley, Australian writer (b. 1925)
2004 – Gérard Souzay, French baritone (b. 1918)
2005 – John Bahcall, American astrophysicist (b. 1934)
2007 – Bill Deedes, British journalist and politician (b. 1913)
2007 – Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)
2008 – Franco Sensi, Italian businessman and football team owner (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances

Independence Day - Gabon gains independence from France.
Independence Day – observance in Indonesia.
Rastafari movement – celebration of the birth of Marcus Garvey, considered a prophet.
Slovenia: Slovenians in Prekmurje Incorporated into the Mother Nation Day

[Krandall]

2008 – By winning the Men's 4x100m medley relay, Michael Phelps becomes the first Olympian to win eight gold medals in the same Olympics.

he is a pot smoking hippy.

[Colorado700R]

2008 – By winning the Men's 4x100m medley relay, Michael Phelps becomes the first Olympian to win eight gold medals in the same Olympics.

he is a pot smoking hippy.

Well, he chose the correct day to comemorate then
Rastafari movement – celebration of the birth of Marcus Garvey, considered a prophet.

[Krandall]

2008 – By winning the Men's 4x100m medley relay, Michael Phelps becomes the first Olympian to win eight gold medals in the same Olympics.

he is a pot smoking hippy.

Well, he chose the correct day to comemorate then
Rastafari movement – celebration of the birth of Marcus Garvey, considered a prophet.

so true. 

[socalrappy700]

August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 135 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

293 BC – The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica.
1201 – The city of Riga is founded.
1541 – A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541)
1572 – Marriage in Paris of the future Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre to Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
1587 – Virginia Dare, granddaughter of governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.
1590 – John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
1634 – Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
1636 – The Covenant of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts is first signed.
1838 – The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads in 1838
1848 – Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
1862 – Minnesota trader Andrew Myrick is killed and has his mouth stuffed with grass.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern – Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Weldon Railroad.
1868 – French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers helium.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
1877 – Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos.
1891 – Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
1909 – Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
1917 – A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
1938 – The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1941 – Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests.
1950 – Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
1958 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
1963 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
1966 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan occurs, when a patrol of 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment encounter the Viet Cong.
1969 – Jimi Hendrix plays the unofficial last day of Woodstock.
1971 – Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
1976 – In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
1977 – Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.
1982 – Japanese election law is amended to allow for proportional representation.
1983 – Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 people and causing over USD $1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
1989 – Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
1992 – Wang Laboratories files for bankruptcy.
2000 – A Federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.
2005 – Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings.
2005 – Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.
2008 – President Of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf resigned due to pressure from opposition.

Births

1414 – Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492)
1450 – Marko Marulić, Croatian poet (d. 1524)
1579 – Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau, Roman Catholic nun (d. 1640)
1587 – Virginia Dare, first English child born in North America
1596 – Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665)
1605 – Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660)
1606 – Maria Anna of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress and Queen of Hungary (d. 1646)
1611 – Ludwika Maria Gonzaga, queen of Poland (d. 1650)
1657 – Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1743)
1685 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician (d. 1731)
1692 – Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (d. 1740)
1720 – Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (d. 1760)
1750 – Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (d. 1825)
1754 – François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (d. 1833)
1774 – Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (d. 1809)
1792 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1878)
1803 – Nathan Clifford, American statesman, diplomat, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1881)
1819 – Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (d. 1876)
1822 – Isaac P. Rodman, American Union general (d. 1862)
1830 – Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (d. 1916)
1841 – William Halford, American naval officer (d. 1919)
1855 – Alfred Wallis, English artist and mariner (d. 1942)
1857 – Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (d. 1926)
1870 – Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (d. 1918)
1870 – Hugh Bromley-Davenport, England cricketer (d. 1954)
1879 – Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (d. 1970)
1885 – Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (d. 1964)
1890 – Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (d. 1960)
1893 – Ernest MacMillan, Canadian musician (d. 1973)
1893 – Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1896 – Jack Pickford, Canadian-born actor (d. 1933)
1900 – Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964)
1902 – Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter (d. 1968)
1902 – Margaret Murie, American conservationist, naturalist, and author (d. 2003)
1903 – Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983)
1904 – Max Factor, Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 1996)
1906 – Marcel Carné, French film director (d. 1996)
1908 – Edgar Faure, French politician and historian (d. 1988)
1908 – Bill Merritt, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1977)
1909 – Gérard Filion, French Canadian businessman and journalist (d. 2005)
1913 – Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1983)
1915 – Max Lanier, baseball player (d. 2007)
1916 – Dame Moura Lympany, British pianist (d. 2005)
1916 – Don Keefer, American actor
1916 – Neagu Djuvara, Romanian diplomat
1917 – Caspar Weinberger, American politician (d. 2006)
1918 – Cisco Houston, American folk singer (d. 1961)
1919 – Walter Joseph Hickel, 2nd and 8th Governor of Alaska
1920 – Bob Kennedy, baseball player (d. 2005)
1920 – Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006)
1920 – Godfrey Evans, England cricketer (d. 1999)
1921 – Lydia Litvyak, Soviet pilot, one of only two female flying aces (d. 1943)
1921 – Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian
1922 – Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer (d. 2008)
1923 – Jenni Irani, Indian cricketer (d. 1982)
1923 – Sadashiv Shinde, Indian cricketer (d. 1955)
1925 – Brian Aldiss, English writer
1925 – Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (d. 2006)
1927 – Rosalynn Carter, First Lady of the United States
1928 – Marge Schott, baseball team owner (d. 2004)
1929 – Hugues Aufray, French singer
1930 – Liviu Librescu, Israeli professor, killed in the Virginia Tech massacre (d. 2007)
1931 – Bramwell Tillsley, Canadian Salvation Army general
1931 – Dick White, English footballer
1932 – William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
1933 – Roman Polanski, French-born director and actor
1933 – Just Fontaine, French footballer
1934 – Vincent Bugliosi, American attorney
1934 – Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player and humanitarian (d. 1972)
1934 – Ronnie Carroll, British singer
1935 – Rafer Johnson, American athlete
1935 – Howard Morrison, New Zealand entertainer
1936 – Robert Redford, American actor
1938 – Joe Frank, American radio personality
1939 – Harald Heide-Steen Jr., Norwegian actor and comedian (d. 2008)
1939 – Robert Horton, British businessman
1939 – Johnny Preston, American singer
1943 – Martin Mull, American comedian
1943 – Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer and politician
1943 – Carl Wayne, English singer (d. 2004)
1945 – Barbara Harris, American singer (Toys)
1948 – Joseph Marcell, British actor
1949 – Rudy Hartono, Indonesian badminton player
1952 – Elayne Boosler, American comedian
1952 – Patrick Swayze, American actor
1952 – Ricky Villa, Argentine former footballer
1953 – Louie Gohmert, American politician
1955 – Taher ElGamal, Egyptian scientist
1956 – John Debney, American composer
1956 – Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, American musician
1956 – Sandeep Patil, Indian cricketer
1957 – Carole Bouquet, French actress
1957 – Denis Leary, American comedian and actor
1958 – Madeleine Stowe, American actress
1959 – Tom Prichard, American wrestler
1960 – Fat Lever, American basketball player
1960 – Mike LaValliere, baseball player
1961 – Bob Woodruff, American journalist, anchor
1962 – Felipe Calderón, President of Mexico
1962 – Geoff Courtnall, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 – Edith Frost, American singer/songwriter
1964 – Craig Bierko, American actor
1964 – Kenny Walker, American basketball player
1965 – Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer
1965 – Jim Florentine, American comedian
1966 – Gustavo Charif, Argentine artist
1966 – Kang Soo-yeon, South Korean actress
1967 – Brian Michael Bendis, American comic-book writer
1967 – Dan Peters, American musician
1967 – Daler Mehndi, Indian bhangra/pop singer
1968 – Lee Seung-yeon, South Korean actress
1969 – Masta Killa, American rapper
1969 – Everlast, American musician
1969 – Edward Norton, American actor
1969 – Christian Slater, American actor
1969 – Isaac Austin, American basketball player
1970 – Jessica Hsuan, Hong Kong actress
1970 – Greg Dean Schmitz, American online film journalist
1970 – Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor
1971 – Richard D James, Irish-born musician (Aphex Twin)
1971 – Jacob Vargas, American actor
1972 – Keiko Yamada, Japanese singer
1972 – Leo Ku, Hong Kong singer
1972 – Shaun Wilson, Australian artist
1976 – Daphnee Duplaix Samuel, American actress, Playboy Playmate
1976 – Bryan Volpenhein, American rower
1977 – Régine Chassagne, Canadian musician Arcade Fire
1978 – Andy Samberg, American comedian
1978 – James Corden, British actor
1978 – Luke Williams, Welsh musician (Quinoline Yellow)
1979 – Stuart Dew, Australian rules footballer
1979 – Selena Silver, pornographic actress
1980 – Esteban Cambiasso, Argentine footballer
1980 – Preeti Jhangiani, Indian actress
1980 – Rob Nguyen, Australian racing driver
1980 – Athina Papayianni, Greek race walker
1980 – Jeremy Shockey, American football player
1980 – Bart Scott, American football player
1981 – César Delgado, Argentine footballer
1981 – Dimitris Salpigidis, Greek footballer
1981 – Jon Schneck, American musician (Relient K, Audio Adrenaline)
1983 – Kris Boyd, Scottish Football Player
1983 – Michael Montgomery, American football player
1983 – Mica Penniman (Mika), Lebanese-born musician
1983 – Daniel Keith Swain (Danny!), American record producer/hip-hop artist
1983 – Cameron White, Australian cricketer
1984 – Robert Huth, German footballer
1986 – Ross McCormack, Scottish footballer
1987 – Mika Boorem, American actress
1988 – G-Dragon, Leader Of Korean Boyband, Big Bang
1992 – Rebecca Julia Brown, American actress
1992 – Frances Bean Cobain, daughter Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love
1992 – Riko Narumi, Japanese actress
1994 – Jessie Flower, American actress
1995 – Parker McKenna Posey, American actress

Deaths

353 – Decentius, Roman usurper
472 – Ricimer, Roman general
849 – Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian
1227 – Genghis Khan, Khagan of Mongol Empire
1258 – Theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea
1276 – Pope Adrian V
1318 – Clare of Montefalco, Italian Abbess and religious leader (b. c. 1268)
1430 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406)
1503 – Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
1559 – Pope Paul IV (b. 1476)
1563 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530)
1613 – Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer
1620 – Wanli, Emperor of China (b. 1563)
1634 – Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)
1642 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1575)
1645 – Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (b. 1608)
1683 – Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
1707 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (b. 1640)
1712 – Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
1765 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
1809 – Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer (b. 1728)
1815 – Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (b. 1759)
1842 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779)
1850 – Honoré de Balzac, French writer (b. 1799)
1919 – Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (b. 1841)
1940 – Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875)
1942 – Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (b. 1888)
1943 – Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
1949 – Paul Mares, American musician (b. 1900)
1952 – Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, Chilean Jesuit saint (b. 1901)
1963 – Clifford Odets, American playwright (b. 1906)
1981 – Anita Loos, American screenwriter (b. 1889)
1983 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)
1990 – Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938)
1990 – B.F. Skinner, American psychological theorist (b. 1904)
1992 – Christopher McCandless, subject of the book Into the Wild (b. 1968)
1992 – John Sturges, American film director (b. 1911)
1994 – Martin Cahill, The General, infamous Dublin criminal (b. 1949)
1998 – Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (b. 1950)
1998 – Nelly's, Greek photographer (b. 1899)
2001 – David Peakall, British scientist (b. 1931)
2002 – Dean Riesner, American film and television writer (b. 1918)
2003 – Tony Jackson, English musician (The Searchers) (b. 1938)
2004 – Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
2004 – Hiram Fong, former U.S. Senator from Hawaii (b. 1906)
2005 – Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982)
2005 – Gao Xiumin, Chinese comedy actress (b. 1959)
2006 – Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
2006 – Jamie Astaphan, Caribbean-born physician (b. 1946)
2007 – Michael Deaver, Reagan Administration Deputy White House Chief of Staff (b. 1938)
2009 – Kim Dae-jung,15th President of South Korea (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances

Australia – Long Tan Day (also called Vietnam Veterans' Day) named after the Battle of Long Tan

[Colorado700R]

1227 – Genghis Khan, Khagan of Mongol Empire

I miss you Dad :'(

[Krandall]

1969 – Jimi Hendrix plays the unofficial last day of Woodstock.

Good stuff.

[Peelz]

Australia – Long Tan Day

My legs need this day.

[Peelz]

what do I win?

14,000

[Krandall]

kick in the ass?

[Colorado700R]

You win a Bukake Face wash in LS

[Peelz]

You win a Bukake Face wash in LS

what'll that do for the pores? 

[Krandall]

You win a Bukake Face wash in LS

what'll that do for the pores? 

impregnate them. good luck