Notable Births
Brock Bowers
Brock Allen Bowers is an American professional football tight end for the Las...
Jayden Goodwin
Jayden Goodwin is an Australian cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 1...
Simona Waltert
Simona Waltert is a Swiss tennis player.
Marina Bassols Ribera
Marina Bassols Ribera is a Spanish tennis player. She has career-high WTA ran...
Gleyber Torres
Gleyber David Torres Castro is a Venezuelan professional baseball second base...
Emma Corrin
Emma-Louise Corrin is an English actor. They portrayed DianaPrincess of Wal...
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Danielle Collins
Danielle Rose Collins is an American professional tennis player. She has reac...
Jamal Fogarty
Jamal Fogarty is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays...
Dave Leduc
Dave Leduc is a Canadian-Burmese Lethwei fighter. He is a former six-time Let...
Vladimir Tarasenko
Vladimir Andreyevich Tarasenko is a Russian professional ice hockey right win...
Fletcher Cox
Fletcher Cox is an American former professional football player who was a def...
Stampy
Joseph Mark Garrettbetter known as StampylongheadStampylongnoseStampy C...
Arantxa Rus
Arantxa Rus is a Dutch professional tennis player. She won one WTA Tour singl...
Taylor Swift
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her autobiogr...
Katherine Schwarzenegger
Katherine Eunice Schwarzenegger Pratt is an American author.
Hellen Obiri
Hellen Onsando Obiri is a Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner. She is the...
Rickie Fowler
Rick Yutaka Fowler is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA To...
James Holmes
James Eagan Holmes is an American mass murderer responsible for the 2012 Auro...
Hanna-Maria Seppälä
Hanna-Maria Hintsa is a retired Finnish free swimmerwho won the world ...
Santi Cazorla
Santiago Cazorla González is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for ...
Laura Hodges
Laura Ann Hodges is an Australian female professional basketball playerhavi...
Ricky Nolasco
Carlos Enrique Nolasco is an American former professional baseball pitcher. H...
Dan Hamhuis
Daniel Hamhuis is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who pl...
Amy Lee
Amy Lynn Lee is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She is the co-fou...
Cameron Douglas
Cameron Morrell Douglas is an American actor.
Matthew LeCroy
Matthew Hanks LeCroy is an American former professional baseball catcherfir...
James Kyson
James Kyson is an American actor best known for his television work. Best kno...
Tom DeLonge
Thomas Matthew DeLonge is an American musician best known as the co-founder...
Matti Kärki
Matti Kärkiis a Swedish singer who is best known for his work with Dismembe...
Scott Sattler
Scott Sattler is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer wh...
Notable Deaths
Lorraine O'Grady
Lorraine O'Grady was an American artistwritertranslatorand critic. Work...
Stephen "tWitch" Boss
Stephen Laurel "tWitch" Boss was an American free hip hop dancerchoreo...
Noah Klieger
Noah Klieger was an Israeli journalist and sports administrator. Kliegera s...
Alan Thicke
Alan Willis Thicke was a Canadian-American actorsongwriterand game/talk s...
Lamar Hunt
Lamar Hunt Sr. was an American businessman most notable for his promotion of ...
Alan Shields
Alan J. Shields was an American painterand for a time during the 1980shad...
David Wheeler
David John Wheeler was an English computer scientist and professor of compute...
Zal Yanovsky
Zalman Yanovsky was a Canadian folk-rock musician and restaurateur. Born in T...
Lew Grade
Lew GradeBaron Gradewas a Ukrainian-born British media proprietor and imp...
Wade Watts
Wade Watts was an American gospel preacher and civil rights activist from Okl...
Richard Thomas
Admiral Sir William Richard Scott Thomaswas a senior Royal Navy officer and...
Don E. Fehrenbacher
Don Edward Fehrenbacher was an American historian. He wrote on politicsslav...
Edward Blishen
Edward Blishen was an English author and broadcaster. He may be known best fo...
Ann Nolan Clark
Ann Nolan Clarkborn Anna Marie Nolanwas an American writer who won the 19...
Vanessa Duriès
Vanessa Durièsalso known as Katia Lamarawas a French novelist. She was th...
K. C. Irving
Kenneth Colin Irvingwas a Canadian businessman whose business began with a ...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Cornelius "Sonny" Vanderbilt Whitney was an American businessmanfilm produc...
Smita Patil
Smita Patil was an Indian actress who primarily worked in Hindi and Marathi f...
Ella Baker
Ella Josephine Baker was an African-American civil rights and human rights ac...
Heather Angel
Heather Grace Angel was a British actress. She was known for providing the vo...
Alexander Schmemann
Alexander Dmitrievich Schmemann was an influential Orthodox priesttheologia...
Nichita Stănescu
Nichita Stănescu was a Romanian poet and essayist.
Jon Hall
Jon Hall was an American film actor known for playing a variety of adventurou...
Behçet Necatigil
Behçet NecatigilTurkish poetteacher and translator who is often considere...
Oğuz Atay
Oğuz Atay was a Turkish novelist. His first novelTutunamayanlarappeared i...
Cyril Delevanti
Harry Cyril Delevanti was an English character actor with a long career in Am...
Addie Viola Smith
Addie Viola Smithalso known as Shi Fanglanwas an American attorney who se...
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu was a Turkish novelistjournalistdiplomatand m...
Henry Green
Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorkean English writer best r...
Raymond A. Spruance
Raymond Ames Spruance was a United States Navy admiral during World War II. H...
Historical Events
2004 enlargement of the European Union
European Union enlargement: The EU announces that Cyprusthe Czech Republic,...
2001 Indian Parliament attack
2001 Indian Parliament attack: Sansad Bhavanthe building housing the Indian...
Banat Air Flight 166
Banat Air Flight 166 crashes in Sommacampagna near Verona Villafranca Airport...
Flagship Airlines Flight 3379
Flagship Airlines Flight 3379 crashes in MorrisvilleNorth Carolinanear Ra...
Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in...
1982 North Yemen earthquake
The 6.0 Ms North Yemen earthquake shakes southwestern Yemen with a maximum M...
Air Indiana Flight 216
Air Indiana Flight 216 crashes near Evansville Regional Airportkilling 29...
Artur da Costa e Silva
Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No....
List of archbishops of Cyprus
Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus.
1957 Farsinaj earthquake
The Mw 6.5 Farsinaj earthquake strikes Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensit...
Kalavryta massacre
World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.
Battle of the River Plate
The Battle of the River Plate is fought off the coast of Uruguay; the first n...
Fenian
A Fenian bomb explodes in ClerkenwellLondonkilling 12 people and injuring...
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is founded by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelockwith a royal c...
Duke William
The English transport ship Duke William sinks in the North Atlantickilling ...
Pope Celestine V
Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months to return to his ...