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===Pre-1600=== |
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*[[1560]] – The [[Treaty of Berwick (1560)|Treaty of Berwick]], which would expel the [[France|French]] from [[Scotland]], is signed by [[England]] and the Congregation of [[Scotland]]. |
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* [[380]] – [[Edict of Thessalonica]]: Emperor [[Theodosius I]] and his co-emperors [[Gratian]] and [[Valentinian II]] declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to [[Nicene Christianity]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The London Quarterly and Holborn Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQcaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA359|year=1873|pages=359|access-date=2021-02-27|archive-date=2022-02-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214191837/https://books.google.com/books?id=WQcaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA359|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[1594]] – [[Henry IV of France|Henry IV]] is crowned [[Monarch|King]] of [[France]]. |
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* [[425]] – The [[University of Constantinople]] is founded by Emperor [[Theodosius II]] at the urging of his wife [[Aelia Eudocia]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles William Previté-Orton|title=The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History: The later Roman empire to the twelfth century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UsvRAAAAMAAJ|year=1953|publisher=University Press|page=106|access-date=2021-02-27|archive-date=2022-02-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214191838/https://books.google.com/books?id=UsvRAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[1617]] – [[Sweden]] and [[Russia]] sign the [[Treaty of Stolbovo]], ending the [[Ingrian War]] and shutting [[Russia]] out of the [[Baltic Sea]]. |
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* [[907]] – [[Abaoji]], chieftain of the Yila tribe, is named [[khagan]] of the [[Khitan people|Khitans]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wittfogel|first1=Karl August|last2=Fêng|first2=Chia-shêng|title=History of Chinese Society: Liao, 907–1125|location=Philadelphia|publisher=American Philosophical Society|year=1949|oclc=412297|pages=600–601}}</ref> |
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*[[1626]] – [[Yuan Chonghuan]] is appointed Governor of [[Liaodong]], after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the [[Manchuria]]ns under [[Nurhaci]]. |
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*[[1560]] – The [[Treaty of Berwick (1560)|Treaty of Berwick]] is signed by [[England]] and the [[Lords of the Congregation]] of [[Scotland]], establishing the terms under which English armed forces were to be permitted in Scotland in order to expel occupying [[France|French]] troops.<ref>{{cite book|last=Stedall|first=Robert|title=Mary Queen of Scots' Secretary: William Maitland: Politician, Reformer and Conspirator|location=Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK|publisher=Pen et Sword History|date=2021|isbn=9781526787798|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VKMeEAAAQBAJ|pages=22–23}}</ref> |
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*[[1700]] – The island of [[New Britain]] is discovered. |
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*[[1594]] – [[Henry IV of France|Henry IV]] is crowned [[List of French monarchs|King]] of [[France]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Holt|first=Mack P.|title=The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629|location=New York|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=1995|isbn=9780521353595|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dUBQKCEhylIC|page=159}}</ref> |
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*[[1801]] – Pursuant to the [[District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801]], [[Washington, D.C.]] is placed under the jurisdiction of the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]]. |
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===1601–1900=== |
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*[[1812]] – [[Manuel Belgrano]] raises the [[Flag of Argentina]] in the city of [[Rosario]] for the first time. |
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*[[1617]] – [[Sweden]] and the [[Tsardom of Russia]] sign the [[Treaty of Stolbovo]], ending the [[Ingrian War]] and shutting Russia out of the [[Baltic Sea]].<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Stolbovo, Treaty of|title=Encyclopedia of Russian History. Vol. 4: S — Z|editor-last=Millar|editor-first=James R.|location=New York|publisher=Macmillan Reference|date=2003|isbn=9780028656939|page=1485}}</ref> |
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*1812 – Poet [[George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron|Lord Byron]] gives his first address as a member of the [[House of Lords]], in defense of [[Luddite]] violence against [[Industrialism]] in his home county of [[Nottinghamshire]]. |
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*[[1626]] – [[Yuan Chonghuan]] is appointed Governor of [[Liaodong]], after leading the Chinese into a great victory against the [[Manchuria]]ns under [[Nurhaci]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kennedy|first=George A.|chapter=Yuan, Chonghuan|title=Eminent Chinese of the Qing Period (1644-1911/2)|editor-last=Hummel|editor-first=Arthur W.|location=Great Barrington, Mass.|publisher=Berkshire Publishing Group|date=2017|isbn=9781614728504|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Ge9DwAAQBAJ|page=822}}</ref> |
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*[[1776]] – [[American Revolutionary War]]: The [[Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge]] in [[North Carolina]] breaks up a [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Loyalist]] militia. |
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*[[1782]] – American Revolutionary War: The [[House of Commons of Great Britain]] votes [[American Revolutionary War#North Ministry collapses|against further war in America]]. |
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*[[1801]] – Pursuant to the [[District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801]], [[Washington, D.C.]] is placed under the jurisdiction of the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]]. |
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*[[1809]] – [[Action of 27 February 1809]]: Captain [[Bernard Dubourdieu]] captures [[HMS Proserpine (1807)|HMS ''Proserpine'']]. |
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*[[1812]] – [[Argentine War of Independence]]: [[Manuel Belgrano]] raises the [[Flag of Argentina]] in the city of [[Rosario]] for the first time. |
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* 1812 – Poet [[Lord Byron]] gives his first address as a member of the [[House of Lords]], in defense of [[Luddite]] violence against [[Industrialism]] in his home county of [[Nottinghamshire]]. |
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*[[1844]] – The [[Dominican Republic]] gains independence from [[Haiti]]. |
*[[1844]] – The [[Dominican Republic]] gains independence from [[Haiti]]. |
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*[[1860]] – [[Abraham Lincoln]] makes a speech at [[Cooper Union]] in the city of |
*[[1860]] – [[Abraham Lincoln]] makes a [[Cooper Union speech|speech]] at [[Cooper Union]] in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency. |
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*[[1864]] – [[American Civil War]]: The first [[Union (American Civil War)|Northern]] prisoners arrive at the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[Andersonville Prison|prison]] at [[Andersonville, Georgia]]. |
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*[[1861]] – [[Russian (ethnicity)|Russian]] troops fire on a crowd in [[Warsaw]] protesting against [[Russia]]n rule over [[Poland]], killing five protesters. |
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*[[1864]] – [[American Civil War]]: The first [[Northern United States|Northern]] prisoners arrive at the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] prison at [[Andersonville, Georgia]]. |
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*[[1870]] – The current [[flag of Japan]] is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships. |
*[[1870]] – The current [[flag of Japan]] is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships. |
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*[[1881]] – [[First Boer War]]: The [[Battle of Majuba Hill]] takes place. |
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*[[1900]] – [[Second Boer War]]: In [[South Africa]], [[United Kingdom|British]] military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from [[Boer]] [[General]] [[Piet Cronje]] at the [[Battle of Paardeberg]]. |
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*[[1898]] – King [[George I of Greece]] survives an assassination attempt. |
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*[[1900]] – [[Second Boer War]]: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from [[Boer]] General [[Piet Cronjé]] at the [[Battle of Paardeberg]]. |
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* 1900 – The [[Labour Party (UK)|British Labour Party]] is founded. |
* 1900 – The [[Labour Party (UK)|British Labour Party]] is founded. |
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* 1900 – [[FC Bayern Munich|Fußball-Club Bayern München]] is founded. |
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*[[1902]] – [[Second Boer War]]: [[Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant]] is executed in [[Pretoria]]. |
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*[[1902]] – [[Second Boer War]]: Australian soldiers [[Breaker Morant|Harry "Breaker" Morant]] and [[Peter Handcock]] are executed in [[Pretoria]] after being convicted of [[Court martial of Breaker Morant|war crimes]]. |
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*[[1916]] – Ocean liner ''[[SS Maloja]]'' strikes a mine near [[Dover]] and sinks with the loss of 155 lives.<ref name=Maloja>{{cite web |url=http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/3851.html |title=Maloja |publisher=Uboat.net |access-date=20 November 2012 |archive-date=15 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615223614/http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/3851.html |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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*[[1921]] – The [[International Working Union of Socialist Parties]] is founded in [[Vienna]]. |
*[[1921]] – The [[International Working Union of Socialist Parties]] is founded in [[Vienna]]. |
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*[[1922]] – A challenge to the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]], allowing women the right to |
*[[1922]] – A challenge to the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]], allowing women the [[right to vote]], is rebuffed by the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] in ''[[Leser v. Garnett]]''. |
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*[[1932]] – The [[Mäntsälä rebellion]] begins when members of the far-right [[Lapua Movement]] start shooting at the social democrats' event in [[Mäntsälä|Mäntsälä, Finland]].<ref>Iltalehti Teema Historia: ''Lapuan liike'', Alma Media, 2015, pp. 4–7. (in Finnish)</ref> |
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*[[1933]] – [[Reichstag fire]]: [[Germany]]'s parliament building in [[Berlin]], the [[Reichstag (building)|Reichstag]], is set on fire. |
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*[[1933]] – [[Reichstag fire]]: [[Weimar Republic|Germany]]'s parliament building in Berlin, the [[Reichstag (building)|Reichstag]], is set on fire; [[Marinus van der Lubbe]], a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility. |
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*[[1939]] – [[United States labor law]]: The [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] rules that [[Sitdown strike|sit-down strikes]] violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal. |
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*[[1939]] – [[United States labor law]]: The [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] rules in ''[[NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp.]]'' that the [[National Labor Relations Board]] has no authority to force an employer to rehire workers who engage in [[Sitdown strike|sit-down strikes]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Gross|first=James A.|title=The Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board: National Labor Policy in Transition, 1937-1947|location=Albany, N.Y.|publisher=State University of New York Press|date=1981|isbn=9780873955164|pages=83–84|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LCTOvFU2n7sC|access-date=2020-02-27|archive-date=2022-02-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214191839/https://books.google.com/books?id=LCTOvFU2n7sC|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[1940]] – [[Martin Kamen]] and [[Sam Ruben]] discover [[carbon-14]] |
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*[[1940]] – [[Martin Kamen]] and [[Sam Ruben]] discover [[carbon-14]]. |
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*[[1942]] – [[World War II]]: During the [[Battle of the Java Sea]], an [[ABDA|allied]] strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the [[Java Sea]] in the [[Dutch East Indies]] |
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*[[1942]] – [[World War II]]: During the [[Battle of the Java Sea]], an [[American-British-Dutch-Australian Command|Allied]] strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the [[Java Sea]] in the [[Dutch East Indies]]. |
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*[[1943]] – The [[Smith Mine disaster|Smith Mine #3]] in [[Bearcreek, Montana|Bearcreek]], [[Montana]], explodes, killing 74 men. |
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*[[1943]] – The [[Smith Mine disaster|Smith Mine #3]] in [[Bearcreek, Montana]], explodes, killing 74 men. |
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* 1943 – [[The Holocaust]]: In [[Berlin]], the [[Gestapo]] arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the [[Rosenstrasse protest]]. |
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*[[1951]] – The [[Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution]], limiting [[President of the United States|Presidents]] to two terms, is ratified. |
*[[1951]] – The [[Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution]], limiting [[President of the United States|Presidents]] to two terms, is ratified. |
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*[[1955]] – [[Soviet Union regional elections, 1955]]. |
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*[[1961]] – The first congress of the [[Spanish Trade Union Organisation]] is inaugurated. |
*[[1961]] – The first congress of the [[Spanish Trade Union Organisation]] is inaugurated. |
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*[[1962]] – [[Vietnam War]]: Two dissident [[Republic of Vietnam Air Force]] pilots [[1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing|bomb the Independence Palace]] in [[Saigon]] in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President [[Ngô Đình Diệm]]. |
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*[[1963]] – The [[Dominican Republic]] receives its first democratically elected [[president]], [[Juan Bosch]], since the end of the dictatorship led by [[Rafael Trujillo]]. |
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*[[1963]] – The [[Dominican Republic]] receives its first democratically elected president, [[Juan Bosch (politician)|Juan Bosch]], since the end of the dictatorship led by [[Rafael Trujillo]]. |
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*[[1964]] – The government of [[Italy]] asks for help to keep the [[Leaning Tower of Pisa]] from toppling over. |
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*[[1964]] – The [[Government of Italy]] asks for help to keep the [[Leaning Tower of Pisa]] from toppling over. |
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*[[1971]] – Doctors in the first [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[abortion clinic]] (the Mildredhuis in [[Arnhem]]) start to perform ''[[abortus provocatus|aborti provocati]]''. |
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*[[1971]] – Doctors in the first Dutch [[abortion clinic]] (the Mildredhuis in [[Arnhem]]) start performing artificially-induced abortions. |
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*[[1973]] – The [[American Indian Movement]] occupies [[Wounded Knee, South Dakota]]. |
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*[[1973]] – The [[American Indian Movement]] occupies [[Wounded Knee, South Dakota|Wounded Knee]] in protest of the [[Wounded Knee incident|federal government]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oPlNcHQUvSAC&pg=PA105|title=It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: America in the 1970s|last=Carroll|first=Peter N.|date=1990|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-1538-0|page=105|access-date=2018-12-18|archive-date=2022-02-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214191840/https://books.google.com/books?id=oPlNcHQUvSAC&pg=PA105|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[1976]] – The formerly [[Spain|Spanish]] territory of [[Western Sahara]], under the auspices of the [[Polisario Front]] declares independence as the [[Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic]]. |
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*[[1976]] – The former Spanish territory of [[Western Sahara]], under the auspices of the [[Polisario Front]] declares independence as the [[Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic]]. |
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*[[1986]] – The [[United States Senate]] allows its debates to be [[television|televised]] on a trial basis. |
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*[[1988]] – [[Sumgait pogrom]]: The [[Armenians|Armenian]] community in [[Sumgait|Sumgait, Azerbaijan]] is targeted in a violent pogrom. |
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*[[1991]] – [[Gulf War]]: U.S. President [[George H. W. Bush]] announces that "[[Kuwait]] is liberated".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rosenthal |first=Andrew |date=1991-02-28 |title=War in the Gulf: Bush Halts Offensive Combat; Kuwait Freed, Iraqis Crushed |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/28/world/war-in-the-gulf-bush-halts-offensive-combat-kuwait-freed-iraqis.html |access-date=2023-02-26 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
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*[[2001]] – [[Loganair Flight 670A]] crashes while attempting to make a [[water landing]] in the [[Firth of Forth]] in [[Scotland]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Shorts 360-100 G-BNMT Granton Harbour|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20010227-0|access-date=2021-02-26|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]|archive-date=2021-05-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519061221/https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20010227-0|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[2002]] – [[Ryanair Flight 296]] catches fire at [[London Stansted Airport]]. Subsequent investigations criticize [[Ryanair]]'s handling of the evacuation. |
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*[[2002]] – [[Ryanair Flight 296]] catches fire at [[London Stansted Airport]] causing minor injuries.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Khan |first=Frank |date=28 February 2002 |title=Engine fire on Ryanair jet forces passengers to evacuate |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/engine-fire-on-ryanair-jet-forces-passengers-to-evacuate-26060161.html |access-date=2023-02-26 |website=independent |language=en}}</ref> |
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* 2002 – [[Godhra train burning]]: a [[Muslim]] mob kills 59 [[Hindu]] pilgrims returning from [[Ayodhya]]; |
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* 2002 – [[Godhra train burning]]: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from [[Ayodhya]], killing 59 Hindu pilgrims.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Death-for-11-life-sentence-for-20-in-Godhra-train-burning-case/articleshow/7600059.cms |title=Death for 11, life sentence for 20 in Godhra train burning case |date=1 March 2011 |access-date=12 February 2021 |archive-date=8 July 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708181940/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-03-01/india/28643060_1_haji-billa-godhra-train-rajjak-kurkur |work=[[The Times of India]] |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Godhra verdict: 31 convicted, 63 acquitted |url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/godhra-verdict-31-convicted-63-acquitted-448265 |access-date=2023-02-26 |website=NDTV.com}}</ref> |
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*[[2004]] – A bombing of a [[Superferry 14|Superferry]] by [[Abu Sayyaf]] in the [[Philippines]]' worst terrorist attack kills 116. |
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*[[2004]] – A bombing of a [[Superferry 14|SuperFerry]] by [[Abu Sayyaf]] in the [[Philippines]]' worst terrorist attack kills more than 100 passengers.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2008-11-25 |title=Surge in piracy raises concerns over maritime terrorism |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/world/asia/25iht-pirates.1.18133159.html |access-date=2023-02-26 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
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*[[2007]] – [[The Chinese Correction]]: the [[Shanghai Stock Exchange]] falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years. |
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* 2004 – [[Shoko Asahara]], the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult [[Aum Shinrikyo]], is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 [[Tokyo subway sarin attack]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2004-02-27 |title=Death sentence for Tokyo gas attack leader |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/feb/27/japan |access-date=2023-02-26 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> |
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*[[2010]] – An [[2010 Chile earthquake|earthquake]] measuring 8.8 on the [[Richter scale]] strikes central parts of [[Chile]] leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. |
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*[[2007]] – [[Chinese stock bubble of 2007]]: The [[Shanghai Stock Exchange]] falls 9%, the largest daily fall in ten years, following speculation about a crackdown on illegal share offerings and trading, and fears about accelerating inflation.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6399941.stm |title=Business | Share sale knocks Chinese market |work=BBC News |date=2007-02-27 |access-date=2012-06-06 |archive-date=2007-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310032537/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6399941.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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*[[2008]] – [[Jemaah Islamiyah]] terrorist [[Mas Selamat Kastari]] escapes from a detention center in Singapore, hiding in [[Johor]], Malaysia until he was recaptured over a year later.<ref name="CNA1">{{cite news |date=27 February 2008 |title=JI detainee Mas Selamat Kastari escapes from Singapore detention centre |publisher=Channel NewsAsia |url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/331477/1/.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20080307191435/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/331477/1/.html |archive-date=7 March 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Breaking News |newspaper=The Straits Times |url=http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_373899.html |url-status=live |access-date=30 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090515152703/http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_373899.html |archive-date=15 May 2009}}</ref> |
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*[[2010]] – An [[2010 Chile earthquake|earthquake]] measuring 8.8 on the [[moment magnitude scale]] strikes central parts of [[Chile]] leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggers a tsunami which strikes Hawaii shortly after. |
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*[[2013]] – [[2013 Menznau shooting|A shooting]] takes place at a factory in [[Menznau]], Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-04-05 |title=Death toll from Swiss Menznau shooting rises to five |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/death-toll-from-swiss-menznau-shooting-rises-to-five-8561521.html |access-date=2023-02-26 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref> |
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*[[2015]] – Russian politician [[Boris Nemtsov]] is [[Assassination of Boris Nemtsov|assassinated]] in Moscow while out walking with his girlfriend.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/03/europe/russia-nemtsov-girlfriend-duritskaya/|title=Anna Duritskaya: Model girlfriend who witnessed Boris Nemtsov's slaying|work=[[CNN]]|date=3 March 2015|access-date=14 March 2016|archive-date=14 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314170852/http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/03/europe/russia-nemtsov-girlfriend-duritskaya/|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[2019]] – [[Pakistan Air Force]] [[JF-17 Thunder]] downs Indian pilot [[Abhinandan Varthaman]]'s [[Mig-21]] in an aerial dogfight and captures him after conducting [[2019 Jammu and Kashmir airstrikes|airstrikes in Jammu and Kashmir]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/pakistan-marks-anniversary-of-day-it-downed-indian-jet/2159313|title=Pakistan marks anniversary of day it downed Indian jet|access-date=2021-03-22|archive-date=2021-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227171947/https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/pakistan-marks-anniversary-of-day-it-downed-indian-jet/2159313|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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===Pre-1600=== |
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* [[272]] – [[Constantine I (emperor)|Constantine I]], Roman emperor (d. 337) |
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* [[272]] – [[Constantine the Great]], Roman emperor (d. 337) |
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*[[1343]] – [[Alberto d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara]] (d. 1393) |
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*[[1427]] – [[Ruprecht of the Palatinate (Archbishop of Cologne)|Ruprecht]], Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1480) |
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*[[1500]] – [[João de Castro]], Portuguese nobleman and fourth viceroy of Portuguese India (d. 1548) |
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*[[1535]] – [[Min Phalaung]], Burmese monarch (d. 1593) |
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*[[1567]] – [[William Alabaster]], English poet (d. 1640) |
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*[[1572]] – [[Francis II, Duke of Lorraine]] (d. 1632) |
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*[[1575]] – [[John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp]] (d. 1616) |
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*[[1862]] – [[Anastasios Metaxas]], Greek architect and shooter (d. 1937) |
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*[[1622]] – [[Carel Fabritius]], Dutch painter (d. 1654) |
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*[[1630]] – [[Roche Braziliano]], Dutch pirate (d. 1671) |
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*[[1659]] – [[William Sherard]], English botanist (d. 1728) |
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*[[1667]] – [[Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł]], Prussian-Lithuanian wife of [[Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine]] (d. 1695) |
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*[[1689]] – [[Pietro Gnocchi]], Italian composer, director, historian, and geographer (d. 1775) |
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*[[1703]] – [[Lord Sidney Beauclerk]], English politician (d. 1744) |
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*[[1711]] – [[Constantine Mavrocordatos]], Ottoman ruler (d. 1769) |
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*[[1724]] – [[Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken]] (d. 1767) |
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*[[1732]] – [[Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin]], French cardinal (d. 1804) |
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*[[1746]] – [[Louis-Jérôme Gohier]], French politician, [[Ministry of Justice (France)|French Minister of Justice]] (d. 1830) |
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*[[1748]] – [[Anders Sparrman]], Swedish physician and activist (d. 1820) |
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*[[1767]] – [[Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure]], French lawyer and politician, 24th [[Prime Minister of France]] (d. 1855) |
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*[[1779]] – [[Thomas Hazlehurst (businessman)|Thomas Hazlehurst]], English businessman, founded [[Hazlehurst & Sons]] (d. 1842) |
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*[[1789]] – [[Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza]], Chilean lawyer and politician, [[Ministry of National Defense (Chile)|Chilean Minister of National Defense]] (d. 1818) |
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*[[1795]] – [[José Antonio Navarro]], American merchant and politician (d. 1871) |
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*[[1799]] – [[Edward Belcher]], British naval officer, hydrographer, and explorer (d. 1877) |
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* 1799 – [[Frederick Catherwood]], British artist, architect and explorer (d. 1854) |
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*[[1807]] – [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], American poet and educator (d. 1882) |
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*[[1809]] – [[Jean-Charles Cornay]], French missionary and saint (d. 1837) |
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*[[1816]] – [[William Nicholson (Australian politician)|William Nicholson]], English-Australian politician, 3rd [[Premier of Victoria]] (d. 1865) |
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*[[1847]] – [[Ellen Terry]], English actress (d. 1928)<ref>{{cite book|author=Nina Auerbach|title=Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2PkzZ9KaRlwC&pg=PA31|date=29 January 1997|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=0-8122-1613-X|pages=31|access-date=8 October 2019|archive-date=14 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214191839/https://books.google.com/books?id=2PkzZ9KaRlwC&pg=PA31|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[1848]] – [[Hubert Parry]], English composer and historian (d. 1918) |
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*[[1859]] – [[Bertha Pappenheim]], Austrian-German activist and author (d. 1936)<ref>{{cite book|first=Lisa|last=Appignanesi|title=Freud's Women: Family, Patients, Followers|location=New York|publisher=Other Press|year=2001|page=73|isbn=978-1-89274-694-8}}</ref> |
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*[[1863]] – [[Joaquín Sorolla]], Spanish painter (d. 1923) |
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* 1863 – [[George Herbert Mead]], American sociologist and philosopher (d. 1930) |
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*[[1864]] – [[Eemil Nestor Setälä]], Finnish linguist and politician, [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Finland)|Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs]] (d. 1935) |
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*[[1867]] – [[Irving Fisher]], American economist and statistician (d. 1947) |
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* 1867 – [[Wilhelm Peterson-Berger]], Swedish composer and critic (d. 1942) |
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*[[1869]] – [[Alice Hamilton]], American physician and academic (d. 1970)<ref>{{cite book |first=Barbara |last=Sicherman |title=Notable American Women: The Modern Period: a Biographical Dictionary |location=Cambridge |publisher=Belknap Press |year=1980 |page=303 |isbn=978-0-67462-733-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CfGHM9KU7aEC&pg=PA303 |access-date=2020-10-31 |archive-date=2022-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214191839/https://books.google.com/books?id=CfGHM9KU7aEC&pg=PA303 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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*[[1872]] – [[Alexandru Vaida-Voevod]], Romanian politician, [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (d. 1950) |
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*[[1875]] – [[Vladimir Filatov]], Russian-Ukrainian ophthalmologist and surgeon (d. 1956) |
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*[[1877]] – [[Adela Verne]], English pianist and composer (d. 1952) |
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* 1877 – [[Joseph Grinnell]], American zoologist and biologist (d. 1939) |
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*[[1878]] – [[Alvan T. Fuller]], American businessman and politician, 50th [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (d. 1958) |
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*[[1880]] – [[Xenophon Kasdaglis]], Greek-Egyptian tennis player (d. 1943) |
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*[[1881]] – [[Sveinn Björnsson]], Danish-Icelandic lawyer and politician, 1st [[President of Iceland]] (d. 1952) |
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* 1881 – [[L. E. J. Brouwer]], Dutch mathematician, philosopher, and academic (d. 1966) |
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*[[1886]] – [[Hugo Black]], American captain, jurist, and politician (d. 1971) |
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*[[1887]] – [[Pyotr Nesterov]], Russian captain, pilot, and engineer (d. 1914) |
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*[[1888]] – [[Roberto Assagioli]], Italian psychiatrist and psychologist (d. 1974) |
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* 1888 – [[Lotte Lehmann]], German-American soprano and actress (d. 1976)<ref>{{cite book|author=Alan Jefferson|title=Lotte Lehmann, 1888-1976|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xj0IAQAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=MacRae|isbn=978-0-86203-311-8|page=5|access-date=2019-10-08|archive-date=2022-02-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214191903/https://books.google.com/books?id=Xj0IAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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* 1888 – [[Stephen McKenna (novelist)|Stephen McKenna]], English novelist (d. 1967)<ref>{{cite book |title=Who's Who 1935 |publisher=MacMillan |location=London |page=2120}}</ref> |
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*[[1890]] – [[Mabel Keaton Staupers]], American nurse and advocate (d. 1989)<ref>{{cite book|author=Melvin I. Douglass|title=Black Winners: A History of Spingarn Medalists, 1915-1983|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Et9tAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=T. Gaus|isbn=978-0-912444-31-4|page=52|access-date=2019-10-08|archive-date=2022-02-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214191840/https://books.google.com/books?id=Et9tAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[1891]] – [[David Sarnoff]], American businessman, founded [[RCA]] (d. 1971) |
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*[[1892]] – [[William Demarest]], American actor (d. 1983) |
*[[1892]] – [[William Demarest]], American actor (d. 1983) |
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*[[1895]] – [[Miyagiyama Fukumatsu]], Japanese sumo wrestler |
*[[1895]] – [[Miyagiyama Fukumatsu]], Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1943) |
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*[[1897]] – [[Marian Anderson]], American |
*[[1897]] – [[Marian Anderson]], American singer (d. 1993) |
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*[[1899]] – [[Charles |
*[[1899]] – [[Charles Best (medical scientist)|Charles Best]], American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered [[insulin]] (d. 1978) |
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*[[1902]] – [[Gene Sarazen]], American golfer (d. 1999) |
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* 1902 – [[John Steinbeck]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] (d. 1968) |
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*[[1901]] – [[Marino Marini (sculptor)|Marino Marini]], Italian sculptor and academic (d. 1980) |
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* 1901 – [[Yoshikazu Okada|Kotama Okada]], Japanese religious leader (d. 1974) |
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*[[1902]] – [[Lúcio Costa]], French-Brazilian architect and engineer, designed [[Gustavo Capanema Palace]] (d. 1998) |
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* 1904 – [[Yulii Borisovich Khariton]], Russian physicist (d. 1996) |
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* 1902 – [[Gene Sarazen]], American golfer and sportscaster (d. 1999) |
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* 1902 – [[John Steinbeck]], American journalist and author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1968)<ref name="UPI">{{cite web |title=Famous birthdays for Feb. 27: Kate Mara, Timothy Spall |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2023/02/27/Famous-birthdays-for-Feb-27-Kate-Mara-Timothy-Spall/6451677344480/ |publisher=[[UPI]] |access-date=26 February 2024 |date=27 February 2023}}</ref> |
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*[[1903]] – [[Reginald Gardiner]], English-American actor and singer (d. 1980) |
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* 1903 – [[Hans Rohrbach]], German mathematician (d. 1993) |
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* 1903 – [[Joseph B. Soloveitchik]], Belarusian-American rabbi and philosopher (d. 1993) |
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*[[1904]] – [[James T. Farrell]], American author and poet (d. 1979) |
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* 1904 – [[Yulii Borisovich Khariton]], Russian physicist and academic (d. 1996) |
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* 1904 – [[André Leducq]], French cyclist (d. 1980) |
* 1904 – [[André Leducq]], French cyclist (d. 1980) |
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*[[1905]] – [[Franchot Tone]], American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1968) |
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*[[1905]] – [[Franchot Tone]], American actor (d. 1968) |
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*[[1907]] – [[Mildred Bailey]], American singer (d. 1951) |
*[[1907]] – [[Mildred Bailey]], American singer (d. 1951) |
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* 1907 – [[ |
* 1907 – [[Momčilo Đujić]], Serbian-American priest and commander (d. 1999) |
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*[[1910]] – [[Joan Bennett]], American actress (d. 1990) |
*[[1910]] – [[Joan Bennett]], American actress (d. 1990)<ref name="UPI"/> |
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* 1910 – [[Peter De Vries]], American |
* 1910 – [[Peter De Vries]], American journalist and author (d. 1993) |
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* 1910 – [[ |
* 1910 – [[Kelly Johnson (engineer)|Kelly Johnson]], American engineer, co-founded [[Skunk Works]] (d. 1990) |
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* 1910 – [[ |
* 1910 – [[Genrikh Kasparyan]], Armenian chess player and composer (d. 1995) |
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*[[1911]] – [[Oscar Heidenstam]], English bodybuilder (d. 1991) |
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*[[1912]] – [[Lawrence Durrell]], British author, poet, and playwright (d. 1990)<ref name="UPI"/> |
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* 1912 – [[Kusumagraj]], Indian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1999) |
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*[[1913]] – [[Paul Ricœur]], French philosopher and academic (d. 2005)<ref>{{cite book|author=F. D. Vansina|title=Paul Ricœur, Primary and Secondary Bibliography 1935-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9xtYiCvkDHcC&pg=PR23|year=2000|publisher=Peeters Publishers|isbn=978-90-429-0873-4|pages=23|access-date=2019-10-08|archive-date=2022-02-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214191909/https://books.google.com/books?id=9xtYiCvkDHcC&pg=PR23|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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* 1912 – [[Kusumagraj]], Indian writer (d. 1999) |
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* 1913 – [[Kazimierz Sabbat]], Polish soldier and politician, [[President of Poland]] (d. 1989) |
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* 1913 – [[ |
* 1913 – [[Irwin Shaw]], American author and screenwriter (d. 1984) |
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*[[1915]] – [[Denis Whitaker]], Canadian general, football player, and businessman (d. 2001) |
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*[[1917]] – [[John Connally]], American politician, 55th [[United States Secretary of the Navy]], 39th [[Governor of Texas]], and 61st [[United States Secretary of Treasury]] (d. 1993) |
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*[[ |
*[[1917]] – [[John Connally]], American lieutenant and politician, 39th [[Governor of Texas]] and 61st [[United States Secretary of Treasury]] (d. 1993)<ref name="UPI"/> |
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*[[1919]] – [[Chick Halbert]], American basketball player (d. 2013)<ref>{{cite web |title=Chuck Halbert |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/76918/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=26 February 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[1922]] – [[Hans Rookmaaker]], Dutch professor and art historian (d. 1977) |
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* 1919 – [[Johnny Pesky]], American baseball player and manager (d. 2012)<ref>{{cite web |title=Johnny Pesky |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/johnny-pesky-120450 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=26 February 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[1923]] – [[Dexter Gordon]], American jazz saxophonist (d. 1990) |
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*[[1920]] – [[Reg Simpson]], English cricketer (d. 2013) |
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*[[ |
*[[1921]] – [[Theodore Van Kirk]], American soldier, pilot, and navigator (d. 2014) |
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*[[ |
*[[1922]] – [[Hans Rookmaaker]], Dutch historian, author, and scholar (d. 1977) |
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*[[1923]] – [[Dexter Gordon]], American saxophonist, composer, and actor (d. 1990) |
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*[[ |
*[[1925]] – [[Kenneth Koch]], American poet, playwright and professor (d. 2002) |
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* 1925 – [[Pia Sebastiani]], Argentine pianist and composer (d. 2015) |
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*[[1926]] – [[David H. Hubel]], Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 2013) |
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*[[1930]] – [[Paul von Ragué Schleyer]], American chemist |
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*[[1927]] – [[Aira Samulin]], Finnish dancer and entrepreneur (d. 2023)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://airasamulin.fi/ |title=Aira Samulin official site |access-date=2021-09-05 |archive-date=2021-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905175450/https://airasamulin.fi/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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* 1930 – [[Peter Stone]], American writer (d. 2003) |
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* 1927 – [[Peter Whittle (mathematician)|Peter Whittle]], English-New Zealand mathematician and theorist (d. 2021) <ref> {{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Frank |title=Draft Memorial Tribute for the National Academy of Engineering PETER WHITTLE, 1927-2021 |url=http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~frank/whittle_nae.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814061010/http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~frank/whittle_nae.pdf |archive-date=2021-08-14 |url-status=live |website=Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=27 February 2022}}</ref> |
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* 1930 – [[Joanne Woodward]], American actress |
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*[[1928]] – [[René Clemencic]], Austrian composer, recorder player, harpsichordist, conductor and clavichord player (d. 2022) |
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*[[1932]] – [[Elizabeth Taylor]], British-American actress (d.2011) |
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*[[1929]] – [[Jack Gibson (rugby league)|Jack Gibson]], Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2008) |
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* 1929 – [[Djalma Santos]], Brazilian footballer (d. 2013) |
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* 1929 – [[Patricia Ward Hales]], British tennis player (d. 1985) |
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*[[1930]] – [[Jovan Krkobabić]], Serbian politician, [[Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia]] (d. 2014) |
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* 1930 – [[Peter Stone (writer)|Peter Stone]], American screenwriter and producer (d. 2003) |
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* 1930 – [[Paul von Ragué Schleyer]], American chemist and academic (d. 2014) |
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* 1930 – [[Joanne Woodward]], American actress<ref name="AP"/> |
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*[[1932]] – [[Elizabeth Taylor]], English-American actress and humanitarian (d. 2011)<ref name="UPI"/> |
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* 1932 – [[David Young, Baron Young of Graffham]], English businessman and politician, [[Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills]] (d. 2022) |
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*[[1933]] – [[Raymond Berry]], American football player and coach |
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* 1933 – [[Malcolm Wallop]], American politician (d. 2011)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Loren Jost|author2=James A. Donahue|title=Wyoming Blue Book: without special title|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9lgkAQAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Wyoming State Archives, Department of Commerce|page=240|access-date=2019-10-08|archive-date=2022-02-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214191841/https://books.google.com/books?id=9lgkAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[1934]] – [[Vincent Fourcade]], French interior designer (d. 1992) |
*[[1934]] – [[Vincent Fourcade]], French interior designer (d. 1992) |
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* 1934 – [[N. Scott Momaday]], American writer |
* 1934 – [[N. Scott Momaday]], American poet and writer (d. 2024) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/N-Scott-Momaday|title= N. Scott Momaday|website=Britannica |language=en|access-date=2023-12-15}}</ref> |
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* 1934 – [[Ralph Nader]], American |
* 1934 – [[Ralph Nader]], American lawyer, politician, and activist<ref name="AP"/> |
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*[[1935]] – [[Mirella Freni]], Italian soprano and actress (d. 2020) |
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* 1935 – [[Uri Shulevitz]], American author and illustrator |
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*[[1936]] – [[Ron Barassi]], Australian |
*[[1936]] – [[Ron Barassi]], Australian footballer and coach (d. 2023) |
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* 1936 – [[Sonia Johnson]], American feminist activist and author<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv47851|title= Sonia Johnson papers, 1958-1983|website=Archives West |language=en|access-date=2018-06-19|archive-date=2020-08-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814144727/http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv47851|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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* 1936 – [[Roger Mahony]], fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles |
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* 1936 – [[Roger Mahony]], American cardinal |
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*[[1937]] – [[Barbara Babcock]], American actress<ref name="AP"/> |
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*[[1938]] – [[Jake Thackray]], |
*[[1938]] – [[Jake Thackray]], English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist (d. 2002) |
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*[[1939]] – [[ |
*[[1939]] – [[Don McKinnon]], English-New Zealand farmer and politician, 12th [[Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand]] |
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* 1939 – [[Peter Revson]], American race car driver (d. 1974)<ref>{{cite book|author=Doug Nye|title=International Motor Racing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=omaUDO399ycC|year=1973|publisher=Crowell|isbn=978-0-690-00428-1|page=81|access-date=2021-02-27|archive-date=2022-02-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214191841/https://books.google.com/books?id=omaUDO399ycC|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[1940]] – [[Howard Hesseman]], American actor |
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*[[1940]] – [[Pierre Duchesne]], Canadian lawyer and politician, 28th [[Lieutenant Governor of Quebec]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Society of Clerks-at-the-Table in Empire Parliaments|title=Table|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BZhWAAAAYAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Butterworth|page=204|access-date=2019-10-08|archive-date=2022-02-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214191914/https://books.google.com/books?id=BZhWAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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* 1940 – [[Bill Hunter (actor)|Bill Hunter]], Australian actor |
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* 1940 – [[Howard Hesseman]], American actor (d. 2022)<ref>{{Cite news|date=January 30, 2022|title=Howard Hesseman, Dr. Johnny Fever on 'WKRP in Cincinnati,' Dies at 81|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/howard-hesseman-dead-wkrp-cincinnati-1235084085/|access-date=January 30, 2022|work=The Hollywood Reporter|archive-date=January 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130174117/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/howard-hesseman-dead-wkrp-cincinnati-1235084085/|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[1941]] – [[Paddy Ashdown]], British politician |
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* 1940 – [[Bill Hunter (actor)|Bill Hunter]], Australian actor (d. 2011)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/movies/bill-hunter-actor-who-typified-australia-dies-at-71.html?ref=obituaries|title=Bill Hunter, Actor Who Typified Australia, Dies at 71|agency=Associated Press|work=The New York Times|date=22 May 2011|access-date=27 February 2021|archive-date=29 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029112246/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/movies/bill-hunter-actor-who-typified-australia-dies-at-71.html?ref=obituaries|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[1942]] – [[Robert H. Grubbs]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate |
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*[[1941]] – [[Paddy Ashdown]], British soldier and politician (d. 2018)<ref>{{cite book|title=Dod's Parliamentary Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ja2IAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited|isbn=978-0-905702-43-8|page=477|access-date=2021-02-27|archive-date=2020-08-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803133528/https://books.google.com/books?id=ja2IAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[1942]] – [[Jimmy Burns]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
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* 1942 – [[Robert H. Grubbs]], American chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 2021) |
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* 1942 – [[Charlayne Hunter-Gault]], American journalist |
* 1942 – [[Charlayne Hunter-Gault]], American journalist |
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* 1942 – [[ |
* 1942 – [[Klaus-Dieter Sieloff]], German footballer (d. 2011) |
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*[[1943]] – [[Mary Frann]], American actress (d. 1998) |
*[[1943]] – [[Mary Frann]], American actress (d. 1998)<ref name="UPI"/> |
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* 1943 – [[Morten Lauridsen]], American composer |
* 1943 – [[Morten Lauridsen]], American composer and conductor |
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* 1943 – [[Carlos Alberto Parreira]], Brazilian footballer and manager |
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*[[1944]] – [[Ken Grimwood]], American author (d. 2003) |
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* 1944 – [[ |
* 1944 – [[Graeme Pollock]], South African cricketer and coach |
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* 1944 – [[Roger Scruton]], English philosopher and writer (d. 2020)<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/01/12/sir-roger-scruton-conservative-philosopher-wide-interests-lightning/ |title=Sir Roger Scruton, conservative philosopher of wide accomplishments – obituary<!-- Bot generated title --> |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=12 January 2020 |access-date=2020-03-04 |archive-date=2020-03-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302163611/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/01/12/sir-roger-scruton-conservative-philosopher-wide-interests-lightning/ |url-status=live |last1=Obituaries |first1=Telegraph }}</ref> |
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*[[1945]] – [[Carl Anderson (singer)|Carl Anderson]], American singer and actor (d. 2004) |
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*[[1947]] – [[Alan Guth]], American |
*[[1947]] – [[Alan Guth]], American physicist and cosmologist<ref name="UPI"/> |
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* 1947 – [[Gidon Kremer]], Latvian violinist |
* 1947 – [[Gidon Kremer]], Latvian violinist and conductor |
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* 1947 – [[Sonia Manzano Vela]], Ecuadorian writer |
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*[[1949]] – [[Debra Monk]], American actress, singer, and writer<ref name="AP"/> |
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*[[ |
*[[1950]] – [[Annabel Goldie]], Scottish lawyer and politician |
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* 1950 – [[Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger]], English rabbi and politician |
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*[[ |
*[[1951]] – [[Carl A. Anderson]], 13th [[Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus]] |
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* 1951 – [[Lee Atwater]], American journalist, activist and political strategist (d. 1991) |
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*[[1953]] – [[Gabriela Svobodová]], Czech cross country skier |
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* 1951 – [[Walter de Silva]], Italian car designer |
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* 1951 – [[Steve Harley]], English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2024) |
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*[[1952]] – [[Dwight Jones (basketball)|Dwight Jones]], American basketball player (d. 2016)<ref>{{cite web |title=Dwight Jones |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/77182/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=26 February 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[1957]] – [[Danny Antonucci]], Canadian animator |
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*[[1953]] – [[Gavin Esler]], Scottish journalist and author |
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* 1953 – [[Ian Khama]], English-Botswanan lieutenant and politician, 4th [[President of Botswana]] |
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* 1953 – [[Stelios Kouloglou]], Greek journalist, author, director and politician |
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*[[ |
*[[1954]] – [[Neal Schon]], American rock guitarist and singer-songwriter<ref name="AP"/> |
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*[[1956]] – [[Meena Keshwar Kamal]], Afghan activist, founded the [[Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan]] (d. 1987)<ref>{{cite book|first=Ida |last=Lichter |title=Muslim Women Reformers: Inspiring Voices Against Oppression|location=Amherst NY|publisher=Prometheus Books|year=2009|page=45|isbn=978-1-59102-716-4}}</ref> |
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* 1958 – [[Nancy Spungen]], American murder victim (d. 1978) |
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* 1956 – [[Belus Prajoux]], Chilean tennis player |
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*[[1957]] – [[Danny Antonucci]], Canadian animator, producer, and screenwriter |
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* 1957 – [[Kevin Curran (writer)|Kevin Curran]], American screenwriter and television producer (d. 2016) |
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* 1957 – [[Robert de Castella]], Australian runner |
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* 1957 – [[Adrian Smith (musician)|Adrian Smith]], English guitarist and songwriter<ref name="AP"/> |
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* 1957 – [[Timothy Spall]], English actor<ref name="AP"/> |
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*[[1958]] – [[Naas Botha]], South African rugby player and sportscaster |
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* 1958 – [[Maggie Hassan]], American politician, 81st [[List of governors of New Hampshire|Governor of New Hampshire]] |
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*[[1960]] – [[Andrés Gómez]], Ecuadorian tennis player |
*[[1960]] – [[Andrés Gómez]], Ecuadorian tennis player |
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* 1960 – [[Johnny Van Zant]], American singer-songwriter<ref name="AP"/> |
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*[[ |
*[[1961]] – [[James Worthy]], American basketball player and sportscaster |
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*[[1962]] – [[Adam Baldwin]], American actor<ref name="AP"/> |
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* 1962 – [[Grant Show]], American actor<ref name="AP"/> |
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*[[1963]] – [[Nasty Suicide]], Finnish musician and pharmacist |
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*[[1964]] – [[Jeffrey Pasley]], American educator and academic |
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*[[1965]] – [[Pedro Chaves]], Portuguese racing driver |
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* 1965 – [[Noah Emmerich]], American actor<ref name="AP">{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Mike |title=Today's famous birthdays list for February 27, 2023 includes celebrities Josh Groban, Kate Mara |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/02/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-february-27-2023-includes-celebrities-josh-groban-kate-mara.html |website=[[The Plain Dealer]] |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=26 February 2024 |date=27 February 2023}}</ref> |
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* 1965 – [[Frank Peter Zimmermann]], German violinist |
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*[[1966]] – [[ |
*[[1966]] – [[Baltasar Kormákur]], Icelandic actor, director, and producer |
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* 1966 – [[Donal Logue]], Canadian actor and director<ref name="AP"/> |
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* 1966 – [[Oliver Reck]], German footballer and manager |
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*[[1967]] – [[Jony Ive]], English-American industrial designer, former [[chief design officer]] of [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/947e557a-98a8-11e9-8cfb-30c211dcd229|title=Jony Ive, iPhone designer, announces Apple departure|first=Tim|last=Bradshaw|date=27 June 2019|website=Financial Times|access-date=24 February 2020|archive-date=20 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720172338/https://www.ft.com/content/947e557a-98a8-11e9-8cfb-30c211dcd229|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[1970]] – [[Michael A. Burstein]], American writer |
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* 1967 – [[Dănuț Lupu]], Romanian footballer |
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*[[1968]] – [[Matt Stairs]], Canadian baseball player and sportscaster |
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*[[1969]] – [[Juan E. Gilbert]], American computer scientist, inventor, and academic |
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* 1970 – [[Patricia Petibon]], French opera singer |
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*[[1970]] – [[Kent Desormeaux]], American jockey |
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* 1970 – [[Patricia Petibon]], French soprano and actress |
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*[[1971]] – [[Sara Blakely]], American businesswoman, founded [[Spanx]] |
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* 1971 – [[Derren Brown]], English magician and painter |
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*[[1972]] – [[Jennifer Lyon]], American reality television personality ([[Survivor: Palau]]) (d. 2010) |
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* 1971 – [[Roman Giertych]], Polish lawyer and politician, [[Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland]] |
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*[[1973]] – [[Peter André]], Australian singer |
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* 1971 – [[David Rikl]], Czech-English tennis player |
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* 1971 – [[Rozonda Thomas]], American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress<ref name="AP"/> |
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* 1973 – [[Mark Taylor (rugby player)|Mark Taylor]], Welsh rugby union footballer |
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*[[1972]] – [[Richard Coyle]], English actor<ref name="AP"/> |
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*[[1973]] – [[Peter Andre]], English-Australian singer-songwriter and actor |
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* 1974 – [[Carte Goodwin]], American politician, junior senator of [[West Virginia]] |
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*[[1974]] – [[Carte Goodwin]], former United States senator from West Virginia<ref>{{Cite web |title=e-WV {{!}} Carte Goodwin |url=https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2310 |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=www.wvencyclopedia.org}}</ref> |
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*[[1975]] – [[Prodromos Korkizoglou]], Greek decathlete |
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*[[1975]] – [[Aitor González]], Spanish racing driver |
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* 1975 – [[Prodromos Korkizoglou]], Greek decathlete |
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*[[1976]] – [[Tony Gonzalez (tight end)|Tony Gonzalez]], American football player |
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*[[ |
*[[1976]] – [[Ludovic Capelle]], Belgian cyclist |
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* 1976 – [[Cornelia Ecker]], Austrian politician<ref>{{cite web |title=Recherchieren: Personen - Cornelia Ecker |url=https://www.parlament.gv.at/person/83109 |publisher=[[Austrian Parliament]] |access-date=17 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240929170211/https://www.parlament.gv.at/person/83109 |archive-date=29 September 2024 |location=Vienna, Austria |language=de}}</ref> |
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* 1977 – [[Ji Sung]], South Korean actor |
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* 1976 – [[Tony Gonzalez]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Tony Gonzalez |url=https://www.profootballhof.com/players/tony-gonzalez/ |publisher=[[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] |access-date=11 November 2022}}</ref> |
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* 1977 – [[James Wan]], Australian film director |
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* 1976 – [[Sergei Semak]], Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager |
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*[[ |
*[[1978]] – [[James Beattie (footballer)|James Beattie]], English footballer and manager |
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* 1978 – [[Kakha Kaladze]], Georgian footballer and politician |
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* 1978 – [[Emelie Öhrstig]], Swedish skier and cyclist |
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* 1978 – [[Simone Di Pasquale]], Italian ballet dancer |
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*[[1980]] – [[Brandon Beemer]], American actor<ref name="AP"/> |
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* 1980 – [[Chelsea Clinton]], American journalist and academic<ref>{{cite book |author=Clinton, Hillary Rodham|year=2003|title=Living History|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-7432-4582-1|pages=84–85, 91, 93|title-link=Living History (book)}}</ref> |
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* 1981 – [[Élodie Ouédraogo]], Belgian athlete |
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* 1980 – [[Bobby V]], American singer-songwriter<ref name="AP"/> |
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*[[1981]] – [[Natalie Grandin]], English-South African tennis player |
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* 1981 – [[Josh Groban]], American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor<ref>{{cite news|title=Monitor|newspaper=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=February 22, 2013|url=http://www.ew.com/article/2013/02/22/monitor|access-date=February 27, 2021|archive-date=November 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122092048/http://www.ew.com/article/2013/02/22/monitor|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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* 1983 – [[Kate Mara]], American actress |
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* 1981 – [[Élodie Ouédraogo]], Belgian sprinter |
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*[[ |
*[[1982]] – [[Ali Bastian]], English actress |
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* 1982 – [[Pat Richards]], Australian rugby league player |
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* 1982 – [[Bruno Soares]], Brazilian tennis player |
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*[[ |
*[[1983]] – [[Devin Harris]], American basketball player |
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* 1983 – [[Kate Mara]], American actress<ref name="AP"/> |
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*[[1984]] – [[James Augustine]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=James Augustine |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/200788/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=26 February 2024}}</ref> |
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* 1985 – [[Juliana Imai]], Brazilian model |
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* 1984 – [[Jumbo Díaz]], Dominican baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Jumbo Diaz |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/jumbo-diaz-471822 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=26 February 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[1986]] – [[Yovani Gallardo]], American baseball player |
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* 1984 – [[Akseli Kokkonen]], Norwegian ski jumper |
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* 1984 – [[Aníbal Sánchez]], Venezuelan baseball player |
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* 1984 – [[Lotta Schelin]], Swedish footballer |
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* 1984 – [[Denard Span]], American baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Denard Span |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/denard-span-452655 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=26 February 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[1985]] – [[Asami Abe]], Japanese singer and actress |
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* 1985 – [[Diniyar Bilyaletdinov]], Russian footballer |
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* 1985 – [[Vladislav Kulik]], Ukrainian-Russian footballer |
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* 1985 – [[Thiago Neves]], Brazilian footballer |
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*[[1986]] – [[Yovani Gallardo]], Mexican baseball player |
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* 1986 – [[Daniel Gibson]], American basketball player and coach<ref>{{cite web |title=Daniel Gibson |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/200789/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=26 February 2024}}</ref> |
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* 1986 – [[Jonathan Moreira]], Brazilian footballer |
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* 1986 – [[Sandeep Singh]], Indian field hockey player |
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*[[1987]] – [[Valeriy Andriytsev]], Ukrainian wrestler |
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* 1987 – [[Florence Kiplagat]], Kenyan runner |
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*[[1988]] – [[Dustin Jeffrey]], Canadian ice hockey player |
*[[1988]] – [[Dustin Jeffrey]], Canadian ice hockey player |
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* 1988 – [[Iain Ramsay]], Australian footballer |
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*[[1989]] – [[David Button]], English footballer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=48440|title=David Button|website=soccerbase.com|access-date=22 February 2020|archive-date=8 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308125200/https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=48440|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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* 1989 – [[Lloyd Rigby]], English footballer |
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*[[1990]] – [[Chandler Jones]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Chandler Jones |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/14927/chandler-jones |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=16 February 2023}}</ref> |
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* 1990 – [[Adam Morgan (baseball)|Adam Morgan]], American baseball player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adam Morgan Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/morgaad01.shtml |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Baseball-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref> |
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* 1990 – [[Lindsey Morgan]], American actress<ref name="AP"/> |
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*[[1991]] – [[Azeem Rafiq]], Pakistani cricketer |
*[[1991]] – [[Azeem Rafiq]], Pakistani cricketer |
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*[[1992]] – [[Meyers Leonard]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Meyers Leonard |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/203086/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=26 February 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[1992]] – [[Jonjo Shelvey]], English footballer |
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* 1992 – [[Ioannis Potouridis]], Greek footballer |
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* 1992 – [[Jonjo Shelvey]], English footballer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.premierleague.com/players/4135/Jonjo-Shelvey/overview|title=Jonjo Shelvey Profile, News and Statistics|website=Premier League|access-date=8 October 2019|archive-date=17 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517085304/https://www.premierleague.com/players/4135/Jonjo-Shelvey/overview|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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* 1992 – [[Callum Wilson]], English footballer<ref>{{cite web|title=Callum Wilson|url=https://www.premierleague.com/players/8454/Callum-Wilson/overview|website=[[Premier League]]|access-date=27 February 2024}}</ref> |
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* 1993 – [[Alphonse Areola]], French footballer<ref>{{cite web|title=Alphonse Areola|url=https://www.premierleague.com/players/5748/Alphonse-Areola/overview|website=[[Premier League]]|access-date=27 February 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[1994]] – [[Mike Matheson]], Canadian ice hockey player<ref>{{cite web |title=Mike Matheson |url=https://www.nhl.com/canadiens/player/mike-matheson-8476875 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |access-date=26 February 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[1995]] – [[Laura Gulbe]], Latvian tennis player |
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* 1995 – [[Sergej Milinković-Savić]], Serbian footballer<ref>{{cite web|title=Sergej Milinković-Savić|url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/sergej-milinkovi-savi/299106/|website=Soccerway|access-date=27 February 2024}}</ref> |
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* 1995 – [[Tomáš Souček]], Czech footballer<ref>{{cite web|title=Tomás Šoucek|url=https://www.premierleague.com/players/25183/Tom%C3%A1s-Soucek/overview|website=[[Premier League]]|access-date=27 February 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[1996]] – [[Chris Godwin]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Chris Godwin |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/3116165/chris-godwin |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=16 February 2023}}</ref> |
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* 1996 – [[Ten (singer)|Ten]], Thai singer and dancer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://search.naver.com/search.naver?query=NCT%20텐&noq=NCT|title=NCT 텐|website=Naver|access-date=February 14, 2022|language=ko|archive-date=February 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214191847/https://search.naver.com/search.naver?query=NCT+%ED%85%90&noq=NCT|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[1998]] – [[Todd Cantwell]], English footballer<ref name="11v11">{{cite web|url=https://www.11v11.com/players/todd-cantwell-254028/|title=Todd Cantwell|website=11v11.com|publisher=AFS Enterprises|access-date=6 September 2019|archive-date=13 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613155502/https://www.11v11.com/players/todd-cantwell-254028/|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[2002]] – [[Johnny Davis (basketball, born 2002)|Johnny Davis]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Johnny Davis |url=https://www.nba.com/player/1631098/johnny-davis |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=26 February 2024}}</ref> |
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==Deaths== |
==Deaths== |
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===Pre-1600=== |
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*[[956]] – [[Theophylact]], [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople]] (b. 917) |
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*[[ |
* [[640]] – [[Pepin of Landen]], Frankish lord (b. 580) |
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*[[ |
* [[906]] – [[Conrad, Duke of Thuringia|Conrad the Elder]], Frankish nobleman |
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*[[ |
* [[956]] – [[Theophylact of Constantinople|Theophylact]], [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople]] (b. 917) |
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*[[ |
*[[1167]] – [[Robert of Melun]], English theologian and bishop |
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*[[ |
*[[1416]] – [[Eleanor of Castile (d. 1416)|Eleanor of Castile]], queen consort of Navarre (b. c. 1363) |
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*[[ |
*[[1425]] – Prince [[Vasily I of Moscow]] (b. 1371) |
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*[[ |
*[[1483]] – [[William VIII of Montferrat]] (b. 1420) |
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*[[1558]] – [[Johann Faber of Heilbronn]], controversial Catholic preacher (b. 1504) |
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* 1558 – [[Kunigunde of Brandenburg-Kulmbach]], German Noblewoman (b. 1524) |
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===1601–1900=== |
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*[[1659]] – [[Henry Dunster]], English-American clergyman and academic (b. 1609) |
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*[[1699]] – [[Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton]], English politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire]] (b. 1625) |
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*[[1706]] – [[John Evelyn]], English gardener and author (b. 1620) |
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*[[1712]] – [[Sir William Villiers, 3rd Baronet]], English politician (b. 1645) |
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*[[1720]] – [[Samuel Parris]], English-American minister (b. 1653) |
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*[[1735]] – [[John Arbuthnot]], Scottish physician and polymath (b. 1667) |
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*[[1784]] – [[Count of St. Germain]], European adventurer (b. 1710) |
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*[[1795]] – [[Tanikaze Kajinosuke]], Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1750) |
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*[[1844]] – [[Nicholas Biddle (banker)|Nicholas Biddle]], American banker and politician (b. 1786) |
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*[[1887]] – [[Alexander Borodin]], Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833) |
*[[1887]] – [[Alexander Borodin]], Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833) |
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*[[1892]] – [[Louis Vuitton]], French |
*[[1892]] – [[Louis Vuitton (designer)|Louis Vuitton]], French fashion designer and businessman, founded [[Louis Vuitton]] (b. 1821) |
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===1901–present=== |
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*[[1902]] – [[Peter Handcock]], Australian Soldier executed in the [[Second Boer War]] under controversial circumstances (b. 1869) |
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*[[1902]] – [[Breaker Morant|Harry "Breaker" Morant]], English-Australian lieutenant (b. 1864) |
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*[[1921]] – [[Schofield Haigh]], English cricketer (b. 1871) |
*[[1921]] – [[Schofield Haigh]], English cricketer and umpire (b. 1871) |
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*[[ |
*[[1931]] – [[Chandra Shekhar Azad]], Indian revolutionary (b. 1906) |
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*[[1936]] – [[ |
*[[1936]] – [[Joshua W. Alexander]], American judge and politician, 2nd [[United States Secretary of Commerce]] (b. 1852) |
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* 1936 – [[ |
* 1936 – [[Ivan Pavlov]], Russian physiologist and physician, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1849) |
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*[[1937]] – [[Hosteen Klah]], Navajo artist, medicine man, and weaver (b. 1867) <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.heardguild.org/hosteen-klah/|title=Hosteen Klah|website=www.heardguild.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-12|archive-date=2018-03-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307023129/http://www.heardguild.org/hosteen-klah/|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[1941]] – [[William D. Byron]], U.S. Congressman (b. 1895) |
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* 1937 – [[Emily Malbone Morgan]], American saint, foundress of the [[Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross]] (b. 1862)<ref>{{cite book|first1=David|last1=Hein|first2=Gardiner H.|last2=Shattuck|title=The Episcopalians|location=Westport|publisher=Praeger Publishers|year=2004|page=253|isbn=978-0-31322-958-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iZ4mwq4JqIgC&pg=PA253|access-date=2020-10-31|archive-date=2022-02-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214191912/https://books.google.com/books?id=iZ4mwq4JqIgC&pg=PA253|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[1943]] – [[Kostis Palamas]], Greek poet, twice nominated for the [[Nobel prize]] (b. 1859) |
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*[[ |
*[[1943]] – [[Kostis Palamas]], Greek poet and playwright (b. 1859) |
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*[[ |
*[[1956]] – [[Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar]], Indian lawyer and politician, 1st [[Speaker of the Lok Sabha]] (b. 1888) |
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*[[ |
*[[1964]] – [[Orry-Kelly]], Australian-American costume designer (b. 1897) |
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*[[ |
*[[1968]] – [[Frankie Lymon]], American singer-songwriter (b. 1942) |
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*[[ |
*[[1969]] – [[Marius Barbeau]], Canadian ethnographer and academic (b. 1883) |
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*[[1973]] – [[Bill Everett]], American |
*[[1973]] – [[Bill Everett]], American author and illustrator (b. 1917) |
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*[[1977]] – [[John Dickson Carr]], American author (b. 1905) |
*[[1977]] – [[John Dickson Carr]], American author and playwright (b. 1905) |
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*[[1978]] – [[Vadim Salmanov]], Russian composer (b. 1912) |
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*[[1980]] – [[George Tobias]], American actor (b. 1901) |
*[[1980]] – [[George Tobias]], American actor (b. 1901) |
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*[[ |
*[[1985]] – [[Ray Ellington]], English singer and drummer (b. 1916) |
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* 1985 – [[Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.]], American politician and diplomat, 3rd [[United States Ambassador to the United Nations]] (b. 1902) |
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* 1985 – [[J. Pat O'Malley]], English-American actor and singer (b. 1904) |
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*[[ |
*[[1986]] – [[Jacques Plante]], Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1929) |
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*[[1987]] – [[ |
*[[1987]] – [[Bill Holman (cartoonist)|Bill Holman]], American cartoonist (b. 1903) |
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* 1987 – [[Franciszek Blachnicki]], Polish priest (b. 1921)<ref>{{cite web |title="Układy lokalne, SB, obecne służby". Wciąż nie wyjaśniono śmierci ks. Blachnickiego |url=https://www.tvp.info/51804001/niewyjasniona-smierc-ks-blachnickiego-tvp-info |website=tvp.info |access-date=22 June 2021 |language=pl |date=14 January 2021 |quote=... w najbliższym otoczeniu ks. Blachnickiego w Carlsbergu. Byli oni obecni w czasie jego śmierci 27 lutego 1987 roku. |archive-date=24 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624204841/https://www.tvp.info/51804001/niewyjasniona-smierc-ks-blachnickiego-tvp-info |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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*[[1989]] – [[Paul Oswald Ahnert]], German astronomer (b. 1897) |
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*[[1989]] – [[Konrad Lorenz]], Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (b. 1903) |
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*[[1989]] – [[Judith Martin]], famous pharmacist. |
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*[[1990]] – [[Nahum Norbert Glatzer]], Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903) |
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*[[1992]] – [[S. I. Hayakawa]], Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906) |
*[[1992]] – [[S. I. Hayakawa]], Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906) |
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*[[1993]] – [[Lillian Gish]], American actress (b. 1893) |
*[[1993]] – [[Lillian Gish]], American actress (b. 1893) |
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*[[1998]] – [[George H. Hitchings]], American |
*[[1998]] – [[George H. Hitchings]], American pharmacologist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1905) |
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* 1998 – [[J. T. Walsh]], American actor (b. 1943) |
* 1998 – [[J. T. Walsh]], American actor (b. 1943) |
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*[[ |
*[[1999]] – [[Horace Tapscott]], American pianist and composer (b. 1934) |
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*[[ |
*[[2002]] – [[Spike Milligan]], Irish soldier, actor, comedian, and author (b. 1918) |
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*[[2003]] – [[John Lanchbery]], English-Australian composer and conductor (b. 1923) |
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* 2003 – [[Fred Rogers]], American minister and television host (b. 1928) |
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*[[2004]] – [[Yoshihiko Amino]], Japanese historian and academic (b. 1928) |
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* 2004 – [[Paul Sweezy]], American economist and journalist (b. 1910) |
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*[[2006]] – [[Otis Chandler]], American |
*[[2006]] – [[Otis Chandler]], American publisher (b. 1927) |
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* 2006 – [[Robert Lee Scott, Jr.]], |
* 2006 – [[Robert Lee Scott, Jr.]], American general and author (b. 1908) |
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* 2006 – [[Linda Smith (comedian)|Linda Smith]], |
* 2006 – [[Linda Smith (comedian)|Linda Smith]], English comedian and author (b. 1958) |
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*[[2007]] – [[Bernd von |
*[[2007]] – [[Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven]], German general (b. 1914) |
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*[[2008]] – [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]], American author and journalist, founded the ''[[National Review]]'' (b. 1925) |
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* 2008 – [[Myron Cope]], American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1929) |
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* 2008 – [[ |
* 2008 – [[Ivan Rebroff]], German vocalist of Russian descent with four and a half octave range (b. 1931) |
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*[[2010]] – [[Nanaji Deshmukh]], Indian educator and activist (b. 1916) |
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*[[2011]] – [[Frank Buckles]], |
*[[2011]] – [[Frank Buckles]], American soldier (b. 1901) |
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* 2011 – [[ |
* 2011 – [[Necmettin Erbakan]], Turkish engineer and politician, 32nd [[Prime Minister of Turkey]] (b. 1926) |
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* 2011 – [[Duke Snider]], American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1926) |
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* 2011 – [[Gary Winick]], American director and producer (b. 1961) |
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*[[2012]] – [[Ma Jiyuan]], Chinese general (b. 1921) |
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* 2012 – [[Tina Strobos]], Dutch physician and psychiatrist (b. 1920) |
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* 2012 – [[Helga Vlahović]], Croatian journalist and producer (b. 1945) |
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*[[2013]] – [[Van Cliburn]], American pianist (b. 1934) |
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* 2013 – [[Ramon Dekkers]], Dutch mixed martial artist and kick-boxer (b. 1969) |
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* 2013 – [[Dale Robertson]], American actor (b. 1923) |
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* 2013 – [[Adolfo Zaldívar]], Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1943) |
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*[[2014]] – [[Aaron Allston]], American game designer and author (b. 1960) |
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* 2014 – [[Terry Rand]], American basketball player (b. 1934) |
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*[[2015]] – [[Boris Nemtsov]], Russian academic and politician, [[First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia]] (b. 1959) |
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* 2015 – [[Leonard Nimoy]], American actor (b. 1931) |
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* 2015 – [[Julio César Strassera]], Argentinian lawyer and jurist (b. 1933) |
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*[[2016]] – [[Yi Cheol-seung]], South Korean lawyer and politician (b. 1922) |
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* 2016 – [[James Z. Davis]], American lawyer and judge (b. 1943) |
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*[[2018]] – [[Steve Folkes]], Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1959) |
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*[[2019]] – [[France-Albert René]], Seychellois politician, 2nd [[President of Seychelles]] (b. 1935)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.seychellesnewsagency.com/articles/10572/France+Albert+Rene%2C+former+President+of+Seychelles%2C+dies+at+age+|title=France Albert Rene, former President of Seychelles, dies at age 83|website=www.seychellesnewsagency.com|access-date=2019-08-18|archive-date=2019-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190227230904/http://www.seychellesnewsagency.com/articles/10572/France+Albert+Rene%2C+former+President+of+Seychelles%2C+dies+at+age+|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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*[[2021]] – [[Ng Man-tat]], Hong Kong actor (b. 1952)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/166386/Veteran-actor-Ng-Man-tat-dies-at-age-70|title=Veteran actor Ng Man-tat dies at age 70|website=www.thestandard.com.hk|access-date=2022-02-27}}</ref> |
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*[[National Day]], celebrates the first independence of [[Dominican Republic]] from [[Haiti]] in 1844. |
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*[[Public holidays in the Dominican Republic|Independence Day (Dominican Republic)]], celebrates the first independence of [[Dominican Republic]] from [[Haiti]] in 1844. |
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* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/27 BBC: On This Day] |
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February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 307 days remain until the end of the year (308 in leap years).
Events
[edit]Pre-1600
[edit]- 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity.[1]
- 425 – The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.[2]
- 907 – Abaoji, chieftain of the Yila tribe, is named khagan of the Khitans.[3]
- 1560 – The Treaty of Berwick is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland, establishing the terms under which English armed forces were to be permitted in Scotland in order to expel occupying French troops.[4]
- 1594 – Henry IV is crowned King of France.[5]
1601–1900
[edit]- 1617 – Sweden and the Tsardom of Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.[6]
- 1626 – Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after leading the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.[7]
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
- 1782 – American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
- 1801 – Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
- 1809 – Action of 27 February 1809: Captain Bernard Dubourdieu captures HMS Proserpine.
- 1812 – Argentine War of Independence: Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
- 1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
- 1844 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
- 1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
- 1864 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
- 1870 – The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
- 1881 – First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
- 1898 – King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
- 1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
- 1900 – The British Labour Party is founded.
- 1900 – Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
1901–present
[edit]- 1902 – Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
- 1916 – Ocean liner SS Maloja strikes a mine near Dover and sinks with the loss of 155 lives.[8]
- 1921 – The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
- 1922 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
- 1932 – The Mäntsälä rebellion begins when members of the far-right Lapua Movement start shooting at the social democrats' event in Mäntsälä, Finland.[9]
- 1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility.
- 1939 – United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. that the National Labor Relations Board has no authority to force an employer to rehire workers who engage in sit-down strikes.[10]
- 1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
- 1942 – World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
- 1943 – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
- 1943 – The Holocaust: In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.
- 1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
- 1961 – The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
- 1962 – Vietnam War: Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
- 1963 – The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
- 1964 – The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
- 1971 – Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start performing artificially-induced abortions.
- 1973 – The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in protest of the federal government.[11]
- 1976 – The former Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
- 1988 – Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent pogrom.
- 1991 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".[12]
- 2001 – Loganair Flight 670A crashes while attempting to make a water landing in the Firth of Forth in Scotland.[13]
- 2002 – Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport causing minor injuries.[14]
- 2002 – Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims.[15][16]
- 2004 – A bombing of a SuperFerry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills more than 100 passengers.[17]
- 2004 – Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack.[18]
- 2007 – Chinese stock bubble of 2007: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest daily fall in ten years, following speculation about a crackdown on illegal share offerings and trading, and fears about accelerating inflation.[19]
- 2008 – Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari escapes from a detention center in Singapore, hiding in Johor, Malaysia until he was recaptured over a year later.[20][21]
- 2010 – An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggers a tsunami which strikes Hawaii shortly after.
- 2013 – A shooting takes place at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured.[22]
- 2015 – Russian politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow while out walking with his girlfriend.[23]
- 2019 – Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunder downs Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman's Mig-21 in an aerial dogfight and captures him after conducting airstrikes in Jammu and Kashmir.[24]
Births
[edit]Pre-1600
[edit]- 272 – Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (d. 337)
- 1343 – Alberto d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (d. 1393)
- 1427 – Ruprecht, Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1480)
- 1500 – João de Castro, Portuguese nobleman and fourth viceroy of Portuguese India (d. 1548)
- 1535 – Min Phalaung, Burmese monarch (d. 1593)
- 1567 – William Alabaster, English poet (d. 1640)
- 1572 – Francis II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1632)
- 1575 – John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1616)
1601–1900
[edit]- 1622 – Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter (d. 1654)
- 1630 – Roche Braziliano, Dutch pirate (d. 1671)
- 1659 – William Sherard, English botanist (d. 1728)
- 1667 – Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł, Prussian-Lithuanian wife of Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1695)
- 1689 – Pietro Gnocchi, Italian composer, director, historian, and geographer (d. 1775)
- 1703 – Lord Sidney Beauclerk, English politician (d. 1744)
- 1711 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Ottoman ruler (d. 1769)
- 1724 – Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d. 1767)
- 1732 – Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin, French cardinal (d. 1804)
- 1746 – Louis-Jérôme Gohier, French politician, French Minister of Justice (d. 1830)
- 1748 – Anders Sparrman, Swedish physician and activist (d. 1820)
- 1767 – Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure, French lawyer and politician, 24th Prime Minister of France (d. 1855)
- 1779 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English businessman, founded Hazlehurst & Sons (d. 1842)
- 1789 – Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza, Chilean lawyer and politician, Chilean Minister of National Defense (d. 1818)
- 1795 – José Antonio Navarro, American merchant and politician (d. 1871)
- 1799 – Edward Belcher, British naval officer, hydrographer, and explorer (d. 1877)
- 1799 – Frederick Catherwood, British artist, architect and explorer (d. 1854)
- 1807 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (d. 1882)
- 1809 – Jean-Charles Cornay, French missionary and saint (d. 1837)
- 1816 – William Nicholson, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Victoria (d. 1865)
- 1847 – Ellen Terry, English actress (d. 1928)[25]
- 1848 – Hubert Parry, English composer and historian (d. 1918)
- 1859 – Bertha Pappenheim, Austrian-German activist and author (d. 1936)[26]
- 1863 – Joaquín Sorolla, Spanish painter (d. 1923)
- 1863 – George Herbert Mead, American sociologist and philosopher (d. 1930)
- 1864 – Eemil Nestor Setälä, Finnish linguist and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1935)
- 1867 – Irving Fisher, American economist and statistician (d. 1947)
- 1867 – Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Swedish composer and critic (d. 1942)
- 1869 – Alice Hamilton, American physician and academic (d. 1970)[27]
- 1872 – Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, Romanian politician, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1950)
- 1875 – Vladimir Filatov, Russian-Ukrainian ophthalmologist and surgeon (d. 1956)
- 1877 – Adela Verne, English pianist and composer (d. 1952)
- 1877 – Joseph Grinnell, American zoologist and biologist (d. 1939)
- 1878 – Alvan T. Fuller, American businessman and politician, 50th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
- 1880 – Xenophon Kasdaglis, Greek-Egyptian tennis player (d. 1943)
- 1881 – Sveinn Björnsson, Danish-Icelandic lawyer and politician, 1st President of Iceland (d. 1952)
- 1881 – L. E. J. Brouwer, Dutch mathematician, philosopher, and academic (d. 1966)
- 1886 – Hugo Black, American captain, jurist, and politician (d. 1971)
- 1887 – Pyotr Nesterov, Russian captain, pilot, and engineer (d. 1914)
- 1888 – Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and psychologist (d. 1974)
- 1888 – Lotte Lehmann, German-American soprano and actress (d. 1976)[28]
- 1888 – Stephen McKenna, English novelist (d. 1967)[29]
- 1890 – Mabel Keaton Staupers, American nurse and advocate (d. 1989)[30]
- 1891 – David Sarnoff, American businessman, founded RCA (d. 1971)
- 1892 – William Demarest, American actor (d. 1983)
- 1895 – Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1943)
- 1897 – Marian Anderson, American singer (d. 1993)
- 1899 – Charles Best, American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered insulin (d. 1978)
1901–present
[edit]- 1901 – Marino Marini, Italian sculptor and academic (d. 1980)
- 1901 – Kotama Okada, Japanese religious leader (d. 1974)
- 1902 – Lúcio Costa, French-Brazilian architect and engineer, designed Gustavo Capanema Palace (d. 1998)
- 1902 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer and sportscaster (d. 1999)
- 1902 – John Steinbeck, American journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)[31]
- 1903 – Reginald Gardiner, English-American actor and singer (d. 1980)
- 1903 – Hans Rohrbach, German mathematician (d. 1993)
- 1903 – Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Belarusian-American rabbi and philosopher (d. 1993)
- 1904 – James T. Farrell, American author and poet (d. 1979)
- 1904 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1996)
- 1904 – André Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980)
- 1905 – Franchot Tone, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1968)
- 1907 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
- 1907 – Momčilo Đujić, Serbian-American priest and commander (d. 1999)
- 1910 – Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)[31]
- 1910 – Peter De Vries, American journalist and author (d. 1993)
- 1910 – Kelly Johnson, American engineer, co-founded Skunk Works (d. 1990)
- 1910 – Genrikh Kasparyan, Armenian chess player and composer (d. 1995)
- 1911 – Oscar Heidenstam, English bodybuilder (d. 1991)
- 1912 – Lawrence Durrell, British author, poet, and playwright (d. 1990)[31]
- 1912 – Kusumagraj, Indian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1999)
- 1913 – Paul Ricœur, French philosopher and academic (d. 2005)[32]
- 1913 – Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish soldier and politician, President of Poland (d. 1989)
- 1913 – Irwin Shaw, American author and screenwriter (d. 1984)
- 1915 – Denis Whitaker, Canadian general, football player, and businessman (d. 2001)
- 1917 – John Connally, American lieutenant and politician, 39th Governor of Texas and 61st United States Secretary of Treasury (d. 1993)[31]
- 1919 – Chick Halbert, American basketball player (d. 2013)[33]
- 1919 – Johnny Pesky, American baseball player and manager (d. 2012)[34]
- 1920 – Reg Simpson, English cricketer (d. 2013)
- 1921 – Theodore Van Kirk, American soldier, pilot, and navigator (d. 2014)
- 1922 – Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch historian, author, and scholar (d. 1977)
- 1923 – Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist, composer, and actor (d. 1990)
- 1925 – Kenneth Koch, American poet, playwright and professor (d. 2002)
- 1925 – Pia Sebastiani, Argentine pianist and composer (d. 2015)
- 1926 – David H. Hubel, Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Aira Samulin, Finnish dancer and entrepreneur (d. 2023)[35]
- 1927 – Peter Whittle, English-New Zealand mathematician and theorist (d. 2021) [36]
- 1928 – René Clemencic, Austrian composer, recorder player, harpsichordist, conductor and clavichord player (d. 2022)
- 1929 – Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2008)
- 1929 – Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
- 1929 – Patricia Ward Hales, British tennis player (d. 1985)
- 1930 – Jovan Krkobabić, Serbian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2014)
- 1930 – Peter Stone, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2003)
- 1930 – Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist and academic (d. 2014)
- 1930 – Joanne Woodward, American actress[37]
- 1932 – Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress and humanitarian (d. 2011)[31]
- 1932 – David Young, Baron Young of Graffham, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (d. 2022)
- 1933 – Raymond Berry, American football player and coach
- 1933 – Malcolm Wallop, American politician (d. 2011)[38]
- 1934 – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
- 1934 – N. Scott Momaday, American poet and writer (d. 2024) [39]
- 1934 – Ralph Nader, American lawyer, politician, and activist[37]
- 1935 – Mirella Freni, Italian soprano and actress (d. 2020)
- 1935 – Uri Shulevitz, American author and illustrator
- 1936 – Ron Barassi, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2023)
- 1936 – Sonia Johnson, American feminist activist and author[40]
- 1936 – Roger Mahony, American cardinal
- 1937 – Barbara Babcock, American actress[37]
- 1938 – Jake Thackray, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist (d. 2002)
- 1939 – Don McKinnon, English-New Zealand farmer and politician, 12th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 1939 – Peter Revson, American race car driver (d. 1974)[41]
- 1940 – Pierre Duchesne, Canadian lawyer and politician, 28th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec[42]
- 1940 – Howard Hesseman, American actor (d. 2022)[43]
- 1940 – Bill Hunter, Australian actor (d. 2011)[44]
- 1941 – Paddy Ashdown, British soldier and politician (d. 2018)[45]
- 1942 – Jimmy Burns, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1942 – Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
- 1942 – Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American journalist
- 1942 – Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, German footballer (d. 2011)
- 1943 – Mary Frann, American actress (d. 1998)[31]
- 1943 – Morten Lauridsen, American composer and conductor
- 1943 – Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazilian footballer and manager
- 1944 – Ken Grimwood, American author (d. 2003)
- 1944 – Graeme Pollock, South African cricketer and coach
- 1944 – Roger Scruton, English philosopher and writer (d. 2020)[46]
- 1947 – Alan Guth, American physicist and cosmologist[31]
- 1947 – Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist and conductor
- 1947 – Sonia Manzano Vela, Ecuadorian writer
- 1949 – Debra Monk, American actress, singer, and writer[37]
- 1950 – Annabel Goldie, Scottish lawyer and politician
- 1950 – Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, English rabbi and politician
- 1951 – Carl A. Anderson, 13th Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus
- 1951 – Lee Atwater, American journalist, activist and political strategist (d. 1991)
- 1951 – Walter de Silva, Italian car designer
- 1951 – Steve Harley, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2024)
- 1952 – Dwight Jones, American basketball player (d. 2016)[47]
- 1953 – Gavin Esler, Scottish journalist and author
- 1953 – Ian Khama, English-Botswanan lieutenant and politician, 4th President of Botswana
- 1953 – Stelios Kouloglou, Greek journalist, author, director and politician
- 1954 – Neal Schon, American rock guitarist and singer-songwriter[37]
- 1956 – Meena Keshwar Kamal, Afghan activist, founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (d. 1987)[48]
- 1956 – Belus Prajoux, Chilean tennis player
- 1957 – Danny Antonucci, Canadian animator, producer, and screenwriter
- 1957 – Kevin Curran, American screenwriter and television producer (d. 2016)
- 1957 – Robert de Castella, Australian runner
- 1957 – Adrian Smith, English guitarist and songwriter[37]
- 1957 – Timothy Spall, English actor[37]
- 1958 – Naas Botha, South African rugby player and sportscaster
- 1958 – Maggie Hassan, American politician, 81st Governor of New Hampshire
- 1960 – Andrés Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player
- 1960 – Johnny Van Zant, American singer-songwriter[37]
- 1961 – James Worthy, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1962 – Adam Baldwin, American actor[37]
- 1962 – Grant Show, American actor[37]
- 1963 – Nasty Suicide, Finnish musician and pharmacist
- 1964 – Jeffrey Pasley, American educator and academic
- 1965 – Pedro Chaves, Portuguese racing driver
- 1965 – Noah Emmerich, American actor[37]
- 1966 – Baltasar Kormákur, Icelandic actor, director, and producer
- 1966 – Donal Logue, Canadian actor and director[37]
- 1966 – Oliver Reck, German footballer and manager
- 1967 – Jony Ive, English-American industrial designer, former chief design officer of Apple[49]
- 1967 – Dănuț Lupu, Romanian footballer
- 1968 – Matt Stairs, Canadian baseball player and sportscaster
- 1969 – Juan E. Gilbert, American computer scientist, inventor, and academic
- 1970 – Kent Desormeaux, American jockey
- 1970 – Patricia Petibon, French soprano and actress
- 1971 – Sara Blakely, American businesswoman, founded Spanx
- 1971 – Derren Brown, English magician and painter
- 1971 – Roman Giertych, Polish lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
- 1971 – David Rikl, Czech-English tennis player
- 1971 – Rozonda Thomas, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress[37]
- 1972 – Richard Coyle, English actor[37]
- 1973 – Peter Andre, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1974 – Carte Goodwin, former United States senator from West Virginia[50]
- 1975 – Aitor González, Spanish racing driver
- 1975 – Prodromos Korkizoglou, Greek decathlete
- 1976 – Ludovic Capelle, Belgian cyclist
- 1976 – Cornelia Ecker, Austrian politician[51]
- 1976 – Tony Gonzalez, American football player[52]
- 1976 – Sergei Semak, Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager
- 1978 – James Beattie, English footballer and manager
- 1978 – Kakha Kaladze, Georgian footballer and politician
- 1978 – Emelie Öhrstig, Swedish skier and cyclist
- 1978 – Simone Di Pasquale, Italian ballet dancer
- 1980 – Brandon Beemer, American actor[37]
- 1980 – Chelsea Clinton, American journalist and academic[53]
- 1980 – Bobby V, American singer-songwriter[37]
- 1981 – Natalie Grandin, English-South African tennis player
- 1981 – Josh Groban, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor[54]
- 1981 – Élodie Ouédraogo, Belgian sprinter
- 1982 – Ali Bastian, English actress
- 1982 – Pat Richards, Australian rugby league player
- 1982 – Bruno Soares, Brazilian tennis player
- 1983 – Devin Harris, American basketball player
- 1983 – Kate Mara, American actress[37]
- 1984 – James Augustine, American basketball player[55]
- 1984 – Jumbo Díaz, Dominican baseball player[56]
- 1984 – Akseli Kokkonen, Norwegian ski jumper
- 1984 – Aníbal Sánchez, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1984 – Lotta Schelin, Swedish footballer
- 1984 – Denard Span, American baseball player[57]
- 1985 – Asami Abe, Japanese singer and actress
- 1985 – Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Russian footballer
- 1985 – Vladislav Kulik, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
- 1985 – Thiago Neves, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Yovani Gallardo, Mexican baseball player
- 1986 – Daniel Gibson, American basketball player and coach[58]
- 1986 – Jonathan Moreira, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Sandeep Singh, Indian field hockey player
- 1987 – Valeriy Andriytsev, Ukrainian wrestler
- 1987 – Florence Kiplagat, Kenyan runner
- 1988 – Dustin Jeffrey, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1988 – Iain Ramsay, Australian footballer
- 1989 – David Button, English footballer[59]
- 1989 – Lloyd Rigby, English footballer
- 1990 – Chandler Jones, American football player[60]
- 1990 – Adam Morgan, American baseball player[61]
- 1990 – Lindsey Morgan, American actress[37]
- 1991 – Azeem Rafiq, Pakistani cricketer
- 1992 – Meyers Leonard, American basketball player[62]
- 1992 – Ioannis Potouridis, Greek footballer
- 1992 – Jonjo Shelvey, English footballer[63]
- 1992 – Callum Wilson, English footballer[64]
- 1993 – Alphonse Areola, French footballer[65]
- 1994 – Mike Matheson, Canadian ice hockey player[66]
- 1995 – Laura Gulbe, Latvian tennis player
- 1995 – Sergej Milinković-Savić, Serbian footballer[67]
- 1995 – Tomáš Souček, Czech footballer[68]
- 1996 – Chris Godwin, American football player[69]
- 1996 – Ten, Thai singer and dancer[70]
- 1998 – Todd Cantwell, English footballer[71]
- 2002 – Johnny Davis, American basketball player[72]
Deaths
[edit]Pre-1600
[edit]- 640 – Pepin of Landen, Frankish lord (b. 580)
- 906 – Conrad the Elder, Frankish nobleman
- 956 – Theophylact, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 917)
- 1167 – Robert of Melun, English theologian and bishop
- 1416 – Eleanor of Castile, queen consort of Navarre (b. c. 1363)
- 1425 – Prince Vasily I of Moscow (b. 1371)
- 1483 – William VIII of Montferrat (b. 1420)
- 1558 – Johann Faber of Heilbronn, controversial Catholic preacher (b. 1504)
- 1558 – Kunigunde of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, German Noblewoman (b. 1524)
1601–1900
[edit]- 1659 – Henry Dunster, English-American clergyman and academic (b. 1609)
- 1699 – Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (b. 1625)
- 1706 – John Evelyn, English gardener and author (b. 1620)
- 1712 – Sir William Villiers, 3rd Baronet, English politician (b. 1645)
- 1720 – Samuel Parris, English-American minister (b. 1653)
- 1735 – John Arbuthnot, Scottish physician and polymath (b. 1667)
- 1784 – Count of St. Germain, European adventurer (b. 1710)
- 1795 – Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1750)
- 1844 – Nicholas Biddle, American banker and politician (b. 1786)
- 1887 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
- 1892 – Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer and businessman, founded Louis Vuitton (b. 1821)
1901–present
[edit]- 1902 – Harry "Breaker" Morant, English-Australian lieutenant (b. 1864)
- 1921 – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1871)
- 1931 – Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (b. 1906)
- 1936 – Joshua W. Alexander, American judge and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1852)
- 1936 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1849)
- 1937 – Hosteen Klah, Navajo artist, medicine man, and weaver (b. 1867) [73]
- 1937 – Emily Malbone Morgan, American saint, foundress of the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross (b. 1862)[74]
- 1943 – Kostis Palamas, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1859)
- 1956 – Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha (b. 1888)
- 1964 – Orry-Kelly, Australian-American costume designer (b. 1897)
- 1968 – Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
- 1969 – Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and academic (b. 1883)
- 1973 – Bill Everett, American author and illustrator (b. 1917)
- 1977 – John Dickson Carr, American author and playwright (b. 1905)
- 1980 – George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
- 1985 – Ray Ellington, English singer and drummer (b. 1916)
- 1985 – Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician and diplomat, 3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1902)
- 1985 – J. Pat O'Malley, English-American actor and singer (b. 1904)
- 1986 – Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1929)
- 1987 – Bill Holman, American cartoonist (b. 1903)
- 1987 – Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (b. 1921)[75]
- 1989 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
- 1992 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)
- 1993 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
- 1998 – George H. Hitchings, American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
- 1998 – J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
- 1999 – Horace Tapscott, American pianist and composer (b. 1934)
- 2002 – Spike Milligan, Irish soldier, actor, comedian, and author (b. 1918)
- 2003 – John Lanchbery, English-Australian composer and conductor (b. 1923)
- 2003 – Fred Rogers, American minister and television host (b. 1928)
- 2004 – Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian and academic (b. 1928)
- 2004 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and journalist (b. 1910)
- 2006 – Otis Chandler, American publisher (b. 1927)
- 2006 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American general and author (b. 1908)
- 2006 – Linda Smith, English comedian and author (b. 1958)
- 2007 – Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, German general (b. 1914)
- 2008 – William F. Buckley, Jr., American author and journalist, founded the National Review (b. 1925)
- 2008 – Myron Cope, American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1929)
- 2008 – Ivan Rebroff, German vocalist of Russian descent with four and a half octave range (b. 1931)
- 2010 – Nanaji Deshmukh, Indian educator and activist (b. 1916)
- 2011 – Frank Buckles, American soldier (b. 1901)
- 2011 – Necmettin Erbakan, Turkish engineer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Duke Snider, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Gary Winick, American director and producer (b. 1961)
- 2012 – Ma Jiyuan, Chinese general (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Tina Strobos, Dutch physician and psychiatrist (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Helga Vlahović, Croatian journalist and producer (b. 1945)
- 2013 – Van Cliburn, American pianist (b. 1934)
- 2013 – Ramon Dekkers, Dutch mixed martial artist and kick-boxer (b. 1969)
- 2013 – Dale Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Adolfo Zaldívar, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1943)
- 2014 – Aaron Allston, American game designer and author (b. 1960)
- 2014 – Terry Rand, American basketball player (b. 1934)
- 2015 – Boris Nemtsov, Russian academic and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1959)
- 2015 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor (b. 1931)
- 2015 – Julio César Strassera, Argentinian lawyer and jurist (b. 1933)
- 2016 – Yi Cheol-seung, South Korean lawyer and politician (b. 1922)
- 2016 – James Z. Davis, American lawyer and judge (b. 1943)
- 2018 – Steve Folkes, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1959)
- 2019 – France-Albert René, Seychellois politician, 2nd President of Seychelles (b. 1935)[76]
- 2021 – Ng Man-tat, Hong Kong actor (b. 1952)[77]
Holidays and observances
[edit]- Christian feast day:
- Doctors' Day (Vietnam)
- Independence Day (Dominican Republic), celebrates the first independence of Dominican Republic from Haiti in 1844.
- Majuba Day (some Afrikaners in South Africa)
- Marathi Language Day (Maharashtra, India)
- World NGO Day
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