Year: 2020

MUSIC | Jimmy ValenTime & Urban Miracle – : “The Interlude”

Jimmy ValenTime and Urban Miracle release visuals for their latest collaborative work.

"The Interlude" was shot late summer in Brooklyn. The two friends describe what it's like to experience a life on pause. While being responsible the artists still managed to make a fun and creative video that captures the feel of a chilled out song. "The Interlude" is the kind of track which will inspire you to clear your head and get yourself on track.

Stream: https://youtu.be/oS1JCl3PGMk

TODAY IN HIP HOP HISTORY

Big Buff ( also known as Buff Love, Buffy, The Human Beat Box, and DJ Doctor Nice among other aliases) born Darren Robinson, American rapper died on this day December 10, 1995  (aged 28) in
Rosedale, Queens, New York U.S.

He was born on June 10, 1967 in
Manning, South Carolina, U.S.

Big Buff was a member of the 1980s hip hop group the Fat Boys. He, along with Doug E. Fresh and others, were pioneers of beatboxing, a form of vocal percussion used in many rap groups throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

ON THIS DAY, DECEMBER 10.

December 10 is the 344th day of the year (345th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 21 days remain until the end of the year.

Events
1041 – The adoptive son of Empress Zoë of Byzantium succeeds to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.

1317 – The "Nyköping Banquet" – King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle.

1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.

1520 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.

1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.

1652 – Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness  causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy.

1665 – The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter

1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.

1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.

1799 – France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.

1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.

1861 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.

1861 – Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.

1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

1877 – Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege. The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders. The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria.

1884 – Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

1896 – Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.

1898 – Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.

1901 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.

1902 – The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt  wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

1907 – The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.

1909 – Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1932 – Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.

1936 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.

1941 – World War II: The Royal Navy  capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near British Malaya.

1941 – World War II: Battle of the Philippines: Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma  land on Luzon.

1942 – World War II: Government of Poland in exile send Raczyński's Note (the first official report on the Holocaust) to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations.

1948 – The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations.

1949 – Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.

1953 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.

1963 – Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.

1963 – An assassination attempt on the British High Commissioner in Aden kills two people and wounds dozens more.

1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.

1978 – Arab–Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1979 – Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.

1983 – Democracy is restored in Argentina  with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín.

1984 – United Nations General Assembly  recognizes the Convention against Torture.

1989 – Mongolian Revolution: At the country's first open pro-democracy public demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj  announces the establishment of the Mongolian Democratic Union.

1993 – The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.

1994 – Rwandan genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR  stand down.

1995 – The Israeli army withdraws from Nablus pursuant to the terms of Oslo Accord.

1996 – The new Constitution of South Africa  is promulgated by Nelson Mandela.

1999 – Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the second woman to hold the post and the first following an election.

2014 – Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein  was killed after the suppression of a demonstration by Israeli forces in the village (Turmus'ayya) in Ramallah.

2016 – Two explosions outside a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, kill 38 people and injure 166 others.

2017 – ISIL is defeated in Iraq.

2019 – The Ostrava hospital attack in the Czech Republic results in eight deaths, including the perpetrator.

Births
553 – Houzhu, emperor of the Chen dynasty (d. 604)

1376 – Edmund Mortimer, English nobleman and rebel (d. 1409)

1452 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)

1472 – Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (d. 1481)

1489 – Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (d. 1512)

1588 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)

1610 – Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter (d. 1685)

1654 – Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole, Italian painter (d. 1719)

1658 – Lancelot Blackburne, Archbishop of York (d. 1743)

1713 – Johann Nicolaus Mempel, German cantor and organist (d. 1747)

1751 – George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813)

1776 – Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este (d. 1848)

1783 – María Bibiana Benítez, Puerto Rican poet and playwright (d. 1873)

1787 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator, founded the American School for the Deaf (d. 1851)

1804 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (d. 1851)

1805 – William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist, founded The Liberator  (d. 1879)

1805 – Joseph Škoda, Czech physician, dermatologist, and academic (d. 1881)

1811 – Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer, American poet, biographer, and editor (d. 1894)

1815 – Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1852)

1821 – Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic (d. 1877)

1822 – César Franck, Belgian organist and composer (d. 1890)

1824 – George MacDonald, Scottish minister, author, and poet (d. 1905)

1827 – Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1913)

1830 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)

1851 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian, created the Dewey Decimal System (d. 1931)

1866 – Louis Bolk, Dutch anatomist and biologist (d. 1930)

1870 – Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian (d. 1958)

1870 – Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician (d. 1933)

1870 – Pierre Louÿs, Belgian-French author and poet (d. 1925)

1878 – C. Rajagopalachari, Indian lawyer and politician, 45th Governor-General of India (d. 1972)

1882 – Otto Neurath, Austrian sociologist and philosopher (d. 1945)

1882 – Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician, 37th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs  (d. 1950)

1883 – Giovanni Messe, Italian field marshal and politician (d. 1968)

1885 – Elizabeth Baker, American economist and academic (d. 1973)

1885 – Marios Varvoglis, Greek composer and conductor (d. 1967)

1886 – Victor McLaglen, English-American actor (d. 1959)

1889 – Ray Collins, American actor (d. 1965)

1890 – László Bárdossy, Hungarian fascist politician and diplomat, 33rd Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1946)

1891 – Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada (d. 1969)

1891 – Arlie Mucks, American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1967)

1891 – Nelly Sachs, German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)

1896 – Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director (d. 1948)

1903 – Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986)

1904 – Antonín Novotný, Czechoslovak politician, President of Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 1975)

1906 – Jules Ladoumègue, French runner (d. 1973)

1906 – Harold Adamson, American lyricist (d. 1980)

1907 – Rumer Godden, English author and poet (d. 1998)

1907 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer and coach (d. 2005)

1907 – Amedeo Nazzari, Italian actor (d. 1979)

1908 – Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)

1909 – Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1990)

1910 – Ambrosio Padilla, Filipino basketball player and politician (d. 1996)

1911 – Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974)

1912 – Philip Hart, American lawyer and politician, 49th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (d. 1976)

1912 – René Toribio, Guadeloupean politician (d. 1990)

1913 – Pannonica de Koenigswarter, English-American composer (d. 1988)

1913 – Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1996)

1913 – Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987)

1913 – Ray Nance, American trumpeter, violinist, and singer (d. 1976)

1914 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer (d. 1996)

1915 – Nicky Barr, Australian rugby player, soldier, and pilot (d. 2006)

1916 – Walt Arfons, American race car driver (d. 2013)

1918 – Anne Gwynne, American actress (d. 2003)

1918 – Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)

1919 – Alexander Courage, American composer and conductor (d. 2008)

1920 – Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian journalist and author (d. 1977)

1920 – Reginald Rose, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2002)

1920 – Thanassis Skordalos, Greek lyra  player and composer (d. 1998)

1921 – Toh Chin Chye, Singaporean academic and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2012)

1922 – Agnes Nixon, American television writer and director (d. 2016)

1923 – Harold Gould, American actor (d. 2010)

1923 – Clorindo Testa, Italian-Argentinian architect, designed the National Library of the Argentine Republic and Marriott Plaza Hotel (d. 2013)

1924 – Ken Albers, American singer and musician (d. 2007)

1924 – Michael Manley, Jamaican pilot and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)

1925 – Carolyn Kizer, American poet and academic (d. 2014)

1926 – Guitar Slim, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959)

1927 – Bob Farrell, American businessman, founded Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour (d. 2015)

1927 – Danny Matt, German-Israeli general (d. 2013)

1928 – Barbara Nichols, American actress (d. 1976)

1930 – Wayne D. Anderson, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)

1930 – Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling, English farmer and politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

1931 – Peter Baker, English-South African footballer and manager (d. 2016)

1933 – Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese actor (d. 2006)

1933 – Philip R. Craig, American author (d. 2007)

1934 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize  laureate (d. 1994)

1935 – Terry Allcock, English footballer and cricketer

1935 – Jaromil Jireš, Czech director and screenwriter (d. 2001)

1936 – Howard Smith, American journalist, director, and producer (d. 2014)

1938 – Bill Dunk, Australian golfer

1938 – Yuri Temirkanov, Russian viola player and conductor

1939 – Dick Bavetta, American basketball player and referee

1939 – Barry Cunliffe, English archaeologist and academic

1941 – Ken Campbell, English actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2008)

1941 – Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress and producer

1941 – Tommy Rettig, American child actor (d. 1996)

1941 – Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985)

1942 – Ann Gloag, Scottish nurse and businesswoman

1944 – Andris Bērziņš, Latvian businessman and politician, 8th President of Latvia

1944 – John Birt, Baron Birt, English businessman

1944 – Steve Renko, American baseball player

1945 – Mukhtar Altynbayev, Kazakhstani general and politician, 3rd Defence Minister of Kazakhstan

1947 – Rasul Guliyev, Azerbaijani engineer and politician, 22nd Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan

1948 – Dušan Bajević, Serbian-Greek footballer and manager

1948 – Jessica Cleaves, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)

1948 – Jasuben Shilpi, Indian sculptor (d. 2013)

1949 – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Ugandan-English journalist and author

1949 – David Perdue, American politician

1950 – John Boozman, American football player, lawyer, and politician

1950 – Simon Owen, New Zealand golfer

1951 – Johnny Rodriguez, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist

1952 – Clive Anderson, English lawyer and television host

1952 – Susan Dey, American actress

1952 – Greg Mortimer, Australian geologist and mountaineer

1952 – Greg Laurie, American author and pastor

1952 – Paul Varul, Estonian lawyer and politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Justice

1953 – Chris Bury, American journalist and academic

1954 – Eudine Barriteau, Barbadian economist and academic

1954 – Price Cobb, American race car driver and manager

1954 – Jack Hues, English singer-songwriter and musician

1956 – Rod Blagojevich, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Illinois

1956 – Roberto Cassinelli, Italian lawyer and politician

1956 – Jacquelyn Mitchard, American journalist and author

1956 – Jan van Dijk, Dutch footballer and manager

1957 – Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (d. 2012)

1957 – Paul Hardcastle, English composer and producer

1957 – Prem Rawat, Indian-American guru and educator

1958 – Cornelia Funke, German-American author

1958 – Kathryn Stott, English pianist and academic

1959 – Mark Aguirre, American basketball player and coach

1959 – Kevin Ash, English journalist and author (d. 2013)

1959 – Udi Aloni, American-Israeli director and author

1959 – Wolf Hoffmann, German guitarist

1960 – Kenneth Branagh, Northern Ireland-born English actor director, producer, and screenwriter

1960 – Kōichi Satō, Japanese actor

1961 – Mark McKoy, Canadian hurdler and sprinter

1961 – Nia Peeples, American singer and actress

1962 – Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh politician and diplomat (d. 2015)

1962 – John de Wolf, Dutch footballer and manager

1963 – Jahangir Khan, Pakistani squash player

1963 – Robin White, American tennis player

1964 – Stephen Billington, English actor

1964 – Stef Blok, Dutch banker and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior

1964 – Bobby Flay, American chef and author

1964 – Edith González, Mexican actress (d. 2019)

1965 – Greg Giraldo, American lawyer, comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2010)

1965 – J Mascis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1965 – Stephanie Morgenstern, Swiss-Canadian actress, producer, and screenwriter

1966 – Rein Ahas, Estonian geographer and academic

1966 – Robin Brooke, New Zealand rugby player

1966 – Mel Rojas, Dominican baseball player

1966 – Penelope Trunk, American writer

1968 – Yōko Oginome, Japanese singer, actress, and voice actress

1969 – Darren Berry, Australian cricketer and coach

1969 – Rob Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and manager

1970 – Kevin Sharp, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)

1970 – Bryant Stith, American basketball player and coach

1971 – Daniel Betts, British actor

1972 – Brian Molko, British-Belgian singer-songwriter

1972 – Donavon Frankenreiter, American surfer, singer-songwriter, and guitarist

1973 – Gabriela Spanic, Venezuelan actress

1974 – Meg White, American drummer

1975 – Steve Bradley, American wrestler (d. 2008)

1975 – Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress

1975 – Josip Skoko, Australian footballer

1976 – Shane Byrne, English motorcycle racer

1978 – Anna Jesień, Polish hurdler

1978 – Summer Phoenix, American actress

1979 – Matt Bentley, American wrestler

1979 – Iain Brunnschweiler, English cricketer

1979 – Yang Jianping, Chinese recurve archer

1980 – Sarah Chang, American violinist

1981 – Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer

1981 – Fábio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer

1982 – Claudia Hoffmann, German sprinter

1982 – Sultan Kösen, Turkish farmer, tallest living person

1983 – Lewis Buxton, English footballer

1983 – Habib Mohamed, Ghanaian footballer

1983 – Xavier Samuel, Australian actor

1984 – Mark Applegarth, English rugby player

1985 – Charlie Adam, Scottish footballer

1985 – Matt Forte, American football player

1985 – T. J. Hensick, American ice hockey player

1985 – Trésor Mputu, Congolese footballer

1985 – Raven-Symoné, American actress, singer, and dancer

1985 – Lê Công Vinh, Vietnamese footballer

1986 – Matthew Bates, English footballer

1986 – Kahlil Bell, American football player

1987 – Gonzalo Higuaín, French-Argentinian footballer

1988 – Wilfried Bony, Ivorian footballer

1988 – Mitchell Donald, Dutch footballer

1988 – Neven Subotić, Serbian footballer

1989 – Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, French politician

1989 – Tom Sexton, Australian-Irish rugby player

1990 – Kazenga LuaLua, Congolese-English footballer

1990 – Sakiko Matsui, Japanese singer and actress

1990 – Terrell Sinkfield, American football player

1990 – Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2010)

1991 – Eric Reid, American football player

1991 – Dion Waiters, American basketball player

1994 – Richard Kennar, Samoan rugby league player

1994 – Matti Klinga, Finnish footballer

1996 – Joe Burrow, American football player

1996 – Kang Daniel, South Korean singer

1997 – Viktoriia Savtsova, Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer

Deaths
925 – Sancho I, king of Pamplona

949 – Herman I, Duke of Swabia

990 – Folcmar, bishop of Utrecht

1041 – Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine emperor (b. 1010)

1081 – Nikephoros III Botaneiates, deposed Byzantine Emperor (b. c.1002)

1113 – Radwan, ruler of Aleppo
1310 – Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1271)

1475 – Paolo Uccello, Italian painter (b. 1397)

1508 – René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)

1541 – Thomas Culpeper, English courtier (b. 1514)

1541 – Francis Dereham, English courtier (b. c. 1513)

1561 – Caspar Schwenckfeld, German theologian and writer

1618 – Giulio Caccini, Italian composer and educator (b. 1551)

1626 – Edmund Gunter, English mathematician and academic (b. 1581)

1665 – Tarquinio Merula, Italian organist, violinist, and composer (b. 1594)

1736 – António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese soldier and politician (b. 1663)

1791 – Jacob Frank, Polish religious leader (b. 1726)

1831 – Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist and academic (b. 1770)

1850 – Józef Bem, Polish general and physicist (b. 1794)

1850 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)

1865 – Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)

1867 – Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1836)

1896 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)

1909 – Red Cloud, American tribal chief (b. 1822)

1911 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (b. 1817)

1917 – Mackenzie Bowell, English-Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)

1920 – Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (b. 1868)

1922 – Clement Lindley Wragge, English meteorologist and author (b. 1852)

1926 – Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1845)

1928 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and painter (b. 1868)

1929 – Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (b. 1898)

1932 – Joseph Carruthers, Australian politician, 16th Premier of New South Wales  (b. 1857)

1936 – Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857)

1936 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)

1939 – John Grieb, American gymnast and triathlete (b. 1879)

1941 – Colin Kelly, American captain and pilot (b. 1915)

1944 – John Brunt, English captain, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1922)

1945 – Theodor Dannecker, German captain (b. 1913)

1946 – Walter Johnson, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1887)

1946 – Damon Runyon, American newspaperman and short story writer (b. 1884)

1948 – Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (b. 1896)

1951 – Algernon Blackwood, English author and playwright (b. 1869)

1953 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-English scholar and translator (b. 1872)

1956 – David Shimoni, Russian-Israeli poet and translator (b. 1891)

1957 – Napoleon Zervas, Greek general (b. 1891)

1958 – Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder, rancher, and philanthropist (b. 1864)

1963 – K. M. Panikkar, Indian historian and diplomat (b. 1894)

1967 – Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1941)

1968 – Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author (b. 1886)

1968 – George Forrest, Northern Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1921)

1968 – Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915)

1972 – Mark Van Doren, American poet, critic, and academic (b. 1894)

1973 – Wolf V. Vishniac, German-American microbiologist and academic (b. 1922)

1974 – Toshinari Shōji, Japanese general (b. 1890)

1977 – Adolph Rupp, American basketball player and coach (b. 1901)

1978 – Ed Wood, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)

1979 – Ann Dvorak, American actress (b. 1911)

1982 – Freeman Gosden, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1899)

1987 – Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-American violinist and educator (b. 1901)

1988 – Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b. 1933)

1988 – Johnny Lawrence, English cricketer and coach (b. 1911)

1988 – Dorothy de Rothschild, English philanthropist and activist (b. 1895)

1990 – Armand Hammer, American businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum (b. 1898)

1991 – Greta Kempton, Austrian-American painter and academic (b. 1901)

1992 – Dan Maskell, English tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1908)

1993 – Alice Tully, American soprano (b. 1902)

1994 – Keith Joseph, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Education  (b. 1918)

1994 – Alex Wilson, Canadian-American sprinter (b. 1905)

1995 – Darren Robinson, American rapper (b. 1967)

1996 – Faron Young, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1932)

1999 – Rick Danko, Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (b. 1943)

1999 – Franjo Tuđman, Croatian general and politician, 1st President of Croatia (b. 1922)

1999 – Woodrow Borah, American historian of Spanish America (b. 1912)

2000 – Marie Windsor, American actress (b. 1919)

2001 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor, singer, and producer (b. 1911)

2002 – Andres Küng, Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1945)

2002 – Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor, director, and producer (b. 1925)
2003 – Sean McClory, Irish actor and director (b. 1924)

2004 – Gary Webb, American journalist and author (b. 1955)

2005 – Mary Jackson, American actress (b. 1910)

2005 – Eugene McCarthy, American poet, academic, and politician (b. 1916)

2005 – Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1940)

2006 – Olivia Coolidge, English-American author and educator (b. 1908)

2006 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and dictator, 30th President of Chile (b. 1915)

2007 – Vitali Hakko, Turkish businessman, founded Vakko (b. 1913)

2009 – Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian soldier and physicist (b. 1925)

2010 – John Fenn, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)

2010 – J. Michael Hagopian, Armenian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1913)

2010 – MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1921)

2012 – Iajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi academic and politician, 13th President of Bangladesh (b. 1931)

2012 – Antonio Cubillo, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1930)

2012 – Tommy Roberts, English fashion designer (b. 1942)

2013 – Alan Coleman, English-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)

2013 – Jim Hall, American guitarist and composer (b. 1930)

2013 – Don Lund, American baseball player and coach (b. 1923)

2013 – Srikanta Wadiyar, Indian politician and the titular Maharaja of Mysore(b. 1946)

2014 – Ralph Giordano, German author and publicist (b. 1923)

2014 – Robert B. Oakley, American diplomat, 19th United States Ambassador to Pakistan (b. 1931)

2014 – Bob Solinger, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)

2014 – Judy Baar Topinka, American journalist and politician (b. 1944)

2014 – Gerard Vianen, Dutch cyclist (b. 1944)

2015 – Ron Bouchard, American race car driver and businessman (b. 1948)

2015 – Denis Héroux, Canadian director and producer (b. 1940)

2015 – Arnold Peralta, Honduran footballer (b. 1989)

2015 – Dolph Schayes, American basketball player and coach (b. 1928)

2017 – Max Clifford, British publicist (b. 1943)

2017 – Angry Grandpa, American Internet personality (b. 1950)

2019 – Philip McKeon, American actor (b. 1964)

2019 – Gershon Kingsley, American composer and musician (b. 1922)

TODAY IN HIP HOP HISTORY

Harold Adamson, American lyricist was born on this day December 10, 1906 in Greenville, New Jersey.
He died on August 17, 1980  (aged 73) in Beverly Hills, California.

ON THIS DAY, DECEMBER 9.

December 9 is the 343rd day of the year (344th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 22 days remain until the end of the year.

Events
480 – Odoacer, first King of Italy, occupies Dalmatia. He later establishes his political power with the co-operation of the Roman Senate.

536 – Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flee the capital.

730 – Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars  annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, Al-Jarrah Ibn Abdallah Al-Hakami.

1531 – The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.

1688 – Glorious Revolution: Williamite forces defeat Jacobites at Battle of Reading, forcing flight of James II from the country.

1775 – American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.

1824 – Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.

1835 – Texas Revolution: The Texian Army  captures San Antonio, Texas.
1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.

1856 – The Iranian city of Bushehr  surrenders to occupying British forces.

1861 – American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.

1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

1872 – In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback  becomes the first African-American  governor of a U.S. state.

1905 – In France, the law separating church and state is passed.

1911 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.

1917 – World War I: Field Marshal Allenby  captures Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire.

1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.

1931 – The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.

1935 – Student protests in Beiping (now Beijing)'s Tiananmen Square, dispersed by government.

1935 – Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.

1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko  launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing (Nanking).

1940 – World War II: Operation Compass: British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.

1941 – World War II: China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth declare war on Germany  and Japan.

1941 – World War II: The American 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.

1946 – The "Subsequent Nuremberg trials" begin with the "Doctors' trial", prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation  and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.

1946 – The Constituent Assembly of India  meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.

1948 – The Genocide Convention is adopted.

1950 – Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs  pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

1953 – Red Scare: General Electric  announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.

1956 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.

1960 – The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.

1961 – Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.

1965 – Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.

1968 – Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).

1969 – U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.

1971 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army  units, bypassing Pakistani defences.

1973 – British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.

1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).

1987 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

1992 – American troops land in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope.

1996 – Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topless in Ontario, Canada.

2003 – A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.

2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.

2012 – A plane crash in Mexico kills seven people.

2013 – At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.

2016 – President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is impeached by the country's National Assembly in response to a major political scandal.

2016 – At least 57 people are killed and a further 177 injured when two schoolgirl suicide bombers attack a market area in Madagali, Northeastern Nigeria in the Madagali suicide bombings.

2017 – The Marriage Amendment Bill  receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage.

2019 – A volcano on White Island, New Zealand, kills at least 18 people after it erupts.

Births
1392 – Peter, Duke of Coimbra (d. 1449)

1447 – Chenghua Emperor of China (d. 1487)

1482 – Frederick II, Elector Palatine (d. 1556)

1493 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado (d. 1566)

1508 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)

1561 – Edwin Sandys, English lawyer and politician (d. 1629)

1571 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)

1579 – Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)

1594 – Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)

1608 – John Milton, English poet and philosopher (d. 1674)

1610 – Baldassare Ferri, Italian singer and actor (d. 1680)

1617 – Richard Lovelace, English poet (d. 1657)

1652 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (d. 1723)

1667 – William Whiston, English mathematician, historian, and theologian (d. 1752)

1717 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist and historian (d. 1768)

1721 – Peter Pelham, English-American organist and composer (d. 1805)

1728 – Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer (d. 1804)

1742 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish Pomeranian and German pharmaceutical chemist (d. 1786)

1745 – Maddalena Laura Sirmen, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1818)

1748 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist and academic (d. 1822)

1752 – Antoine Étienne de Tousard, French general and engineer (d. 1813)

1787 – John Dobson, English architect, designed Eldon Square and Lilburn Tower  (d. 1865)

1779 – Tabitha Babbitt, American tool maker and inventor (d. 1853)

1806 – Jean-Olivier Chénier, Canadian physician (d. 1838)

1813 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist and physicist (d. 1885)

1837 – Émile Waldteufel, French pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1915)

1842 – Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, economist, geographer, and philosopher (d. 1921)

1845 – Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (d. 1908)

1850 – Emma Abbott, American soprano and actress (d. 1891)

1861 – Hélène Smith, French psychic and occultist (d. 1929)

1867 – Gregorios Xenopoulos, Greek journalist and author (d. 1951)

1868 – Fritz Haber, Polish-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)

1870 – Ida S. Scudder, Indian physician and missionary (d. 1960)

1870 – Francisco S. Carvajal, Mexican lawyer and politician, president 1914 (d. 1932)

1871 – Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager (d. 1943)

1873 – George Blewett, Canadian philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1912)

1875 – Harry Miller, American engineer (d. 1943)

1876 – Berton Churchill, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1940)

1882 – Elmer Booth, American actor (d. 1915)

1882 – Joaquín Turina, Spanish-French composer, critic, and educator (d. 1949)

1883 – Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician, theorist, and academic (d. 1950)

1883 – Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1955)

1883 – Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness expert, developed Pilates (d. 1967)

1886 – Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (d. 1956)

1887 – Tim Moore, American actor (d. 1958)

1889 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish-American runner (d. 1966)

1890 – Laura Salverson, Canadian author (d. 1970)

1891 – Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet and critic (d. 1917)

1892 – André Randall, French actor (d. 1974)

1895 – Dolores Ibárruri, Spanish activist, journalist and politician (d. 1989)

1895 – Conchita Supervía, Spanish soprano and actress (d. 1936)

1897 – Hermione Gingold, English actress and singer (d. 1987)

1898 – Irene Greenwood, Australian radio broadcaster and feminist and peace activist (d. 1992)

1898 – Emmett Kelly, American clown and actor (d. 1979)

1899 – Jean de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator (d. 1937)

1900 – Margaret Brundage, American illustrator, known for illustrating pulp magazine Weird Tales (d. 1976)

1900 – Albert Weisbord, American activist, founded the Communist League of Struggle  (d. 1977)

1901 – Jean Mermoz, French pilot and politician (d. 1936)

1901 – Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-German author and playwright (d. 1938)

1902 – Margaret Hamilton, American schoolteacher, actress and voice artist (d. 1985)

1904 – Robert Livingston, American actor and singer (d. 1988)

1905 – Dalton Trumbo, American author, screenwriter, and blacklistee (d. 1976)

1906 – Grace Hopper, American admiral and computer scientist, designed COBOL  (d. 1992)

1906 – Freddy Martin, American bandleader and tenor saxophonist (d. 1983)

1909 – Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (d. 2000)
1911 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 1986)

1911 – Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese colonel and businessman (d. 2007)

1912 – Tip O'Neill, American lawyer and politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)

1912 – Jim Turnesa, American golfer (d. 1971)

1914 – Max Manus, Norwegian lieutenant (d. 1996)

1914 – Frances Reid, American actress (d. 2010)

1914 – Ljubica Sokić, Serbian painter and illustrator (d. 2009)

1915 – Eloise Jarvis McGraw, American author (d. 2000)

1915 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-Austrian soprano and actress (d. 2006)

1916 – Jerome Beatty Jr., American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 2002)

1916 – Kirk Douglas, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2020)

1916 – Colin McCool, Australian cricketer (d. 1986)

1917 – James Jesus Angleton, American CIA agent (d. 1987)

1917 – James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize  laureate (d. 1986)

1918 – Joyce Redman, Irish-born British actress (d. 2012)

1919 – V. Dakshinamoorthy, Indian singer-songwriter (d. 2013)

1919 – William Lipscomb, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize  laureate (d. 2011)

1920 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian economist and politician, 10th President of Italy (d. 2016)

1920 – Bruno Ruffo, Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver (d. 2007)

1922 – Redd Foxx, American actor (d. 1991)

1925 – Roy Rubin, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)

1926 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, photographer, and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)

1926 – David Nathan, British journalist (d. 2001)

1926 – Jan Křesadlo, Czech-English psychologist and author (d. 1995)

1926 – Lorenzo Wright, American sprinter and coach (d. 1972)

1927 – Pierre Henry, French composer (d. 2017)

1928 – Joan Blos, American author and educator (d. 2017)

1928 – André Milhoux, Belgian race car driver

1928 – Dick Van Patten, American actor (d. 2015)

1929 – John Cassavetes, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1989)

1929 – Bob Hawke, Australian union leader and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2019)

1930 – Buck Henry, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2020)

1930 – Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores, Guatemalan soldier and politician, 27th President of Guatemala (d. 2016)

1931 – Cliff Hagan, American basketball player-coach

1931 – William Reynolds, American actor

1931 – Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2010)

1932 – Donald Byrd, American trumpet player and academic (d. 2013)

1932 – Bill Hartack, American jockey (d. 2007)

1932 – Billy Edd Wheeler, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and playwright

1933 – Ashleigh Brilliant, English-American author and illustrator

1933 – Milt Campbell, American decathlete and football player (d. 2012)

1933 – Morton Downey Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (d. 2001)

1933 – Orville Moody, American golfer (d. 2008)

1934 – Judi Dench, English actress

1934 – Junior Wells, American blues singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d. 1998)

1938 – David Houston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)

1938 – Deacon Jones, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2013)

1938 – Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Greek epidemiologist, oncologist, and academic (d. 2014)

1940 – Clancy Eccles, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2005)

1941 – Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkish journalist and author (d. 2013)

1941 – Beau Bridges, American actor, director, and producer

1941 – Dan Hicks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016)

1942 – Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1997)

1942 – Dick Butkus, American football player, sportscaster, and actor

1942 – Germain Gagnon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)

1942 – Fred Jones, Australian rugby league player

1942 – Joe McGinniss, American journalist and author (d. 2014)

1942 – William Turnage, American conservationist (d. 2017)

1943 – Pit Martin, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)

1943 – Joanna Trollope, English author, playwright, and director

1943 – Kenny Vance, American singer-songwriter and music producer

1944 – Neil Innes, English singer-songwriter (d. 2019)

1944 – Ki Longfellow, American author, playwright, and producer

1944 – Bob O'Connor, American businessman and politician, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh (d. 2006)

1945 – Michael Nouri, American actor

1946 – David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone, English economist and academic

1946 – Dennis Dunaway, American bass player and songwriter

1946 – Sonia Gandhi, Italian-Indian politician

1946 – Nicholas Reade, English bishop

1947 – Tom Daschle, American soldier, academic, and politician

1947 – Jaak Jõerüüt, Estonian politician, 24th Estonian Minister of Defense

1947 – Allan Jones, English cricketer and umpire

1948 – Marleen Gorris, Dutch director and screenwriter

1948 – Jonathan Sumption, English historian, author, and judge

1949 – Tom Kite, American golfer and architect

1950 – Joan Armatrading, Kittian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1952 – Liaqat Baloch, Pakistani politician

1952 – Michael Dorn, American actor and voice artist

1953 – Cornelis de Bondt, Dutch composer and educator

1953 – World B. Free, American basketball player

1953 – John Malkovich, American actor and producer

1954 – Phil Bryant, American academic and politician, 63rd Governor of Mississippi

1954 – Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourger lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Luxembourg

1954 – Henk ten Cate, Dutch footballer and manager

1955 – Otis Birdsong, American basketball player and radio host

1955 – Chamras Saewataporn, Thai singer-songwriter

1956 – Sylvia, American country singer-songwriter

1956 – Jean-Pierre Thiollet, French journalist and author

1957 – Peter O'Mara, Australian guitarist and composer

1957 – Donny Osmond, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor

1957 – Steve Taylor, American singer-songwriter and producer

1958 – Nick Seymour, Australian bass player, songwriter, and producer

1959 – Susan Bullock, English soprano

1960 – Stefen Fangmeier, American visual effects designer and director

1960 – Caroline Lucas, English activist and politician

1960 – Terry Moran, American journalist

1960 – Dobroslav Paraga, Croatian politician

1960 – Juan Samuel, Dominican-American baseball player and manager

1961 – David Anthony Higgins, American actor and screenwriter

1962 – Felicity Huffman, American actress and producer

1962 – Roxanne Swentzell, Santa Clara Pueblo (Native American) ceramic sculptor

1963 – Empress Masako, Empress of Japan
1963 – Dave Hilton Jr., Canadian boxer

1964 – Michael Foster, American drummer

1964 – Ross Harrington, Australian rugby league player

1964 – Hape Kerkeling, German actor and singer

1964 – Les Kiss, Australian rugby league player

1964 – Johannes B. Kerner, German journalist and sportscaster

1964 – Paul Landers, German guitarist

1965 – Joe Ausanio, American baseball player and coach

1966 – Kirsten Gillibrand, American lawyer and politician

1966 – Dave Harold, English snooker player

1966 – Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli lawyer and politician, 24th Israeli Minister of Internal Affairs

1966 – Martin Taylor, English footballer and coach

1967 – Joshua Bell, American violinist and conductor

1967 – Jason Dozzell, English footballer and manager

1968 – Brian Bell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1968 – Brent Price, American basketball player

1969 – Jakob Dylan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1969 – Saskia Garel, Jamaican-Canadian singer-songwriter

1969 – Lori Greiner, American businesswoman

1969 – Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer

1969 – Raphaël Rouquier, French mathematician and academic

1970 – Kara DioGuardi, American singer-songwriter and producer

1970 – Lance Krall, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1971 – Geoff Barrow, English drummer, DJ, composer, and producer

1971 – Nick Hysong, American pole vaulter and coach

1971 – Petr Nedvěd, Czech-Canadian ice hockey player

1972 – Reiko Aylesworth, American actress

1972 – Tré Cool, German-American drummer and songwriter

1972 – Michael Corcoran, American singer-songwriter and producer

1972 – Saima Wazed Hossain, Bangladeshi psychologist

1972 – Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-French tennis player and sportscaster

1973 – Fabio Artico, Italian footballer

1973 – Vénuste Niyongabo, Burundian runner

1973 – Bárbara Padilla, Mexican-American soprano

1974 – Canibus, Jamaican-American rapper

1974 – Wendy Dillinger, American soccer player, coach, and manager

1974 – Aloísio da Silva Filho, Brazilian footballer

1974 – Fiona MacDonald, Scottish curler

1976 – Chris Booker, American baseball player

1977 – Shayne Graham, American football player

1977 – Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player

1978 – Gastón Gaudio, Argentinian tennis player

1978 – Jesse Metcalfe, American actor and musician

1979 – Olivia Lufkin, Japanese-American singer-songwriter

1979 – Stephen McPhail, Irish footballer

1979 – Aiko Uemura, Japanese skier

1980 – Simon Helberg, American actor, comedian, and musician

1980 – Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian cyclist

1980 – Mark Riddell, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

1981 – Mardy Fish, American tennis player

1982 – Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist

1982 – Nathalie De Vos, Belgian runner

1982 – Ryan Grant, American football player

1982 – Bastian Swillims, German sprinter

1983 – Jermaine Beckford, English-Jamaican footballer

1983 – Neslihan Demir Darnel, Turkish volleyball player

1983 – Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer

1984 – Michael Adam, German politician

1984 – Ángel Guirado, Spanish–Filipino footballer

1984 – Leon Hall, American football player

1985 – Wil Besseling, Dutch golfer

1987 – Kostas Giannoulis, Greek footballer

1987 – Mat Latos, American baseball player

1987 – Hikaru Nakamura, Japanese-American chess player

1988 – Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer

1990 – Denise Hannema, Dutch cricketer

1991 – Choi Minho, Korean singer and actor

1993 – Mark McMorris, Canadian snowboarder

1993 – Laura Smulders, Dutch cyclist

1995 – McKayla Maroney, American gymnast

1996 – MyKayla Skinner, American gymnast

1999 – Riley Clemmons, American Christian musician

2000 – Diāna Ņikitina, Latvian figure skater

Deaths
638 – Sergius I of Constantinople

730 – Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah, Arab general

748 – Nasr ibn Sayyar, Umayyad general and politician (b. 663)

933 – Li Congrong, prince of Later Tang

1117 – Gertrude of Brunswick, Markgräfin of Meißen

1165 – Malcolm IV of Scotland (b. 1141)

1242 – Richard le Gras, Lord Keeper of England and Abbot of Evesham

1268 – Vaišvilkas, Prince of Black Ruthenia, Grand Duke of Lithuania

1299 – Bohemond I, Archbishop of Trier

1437 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)

1544 – Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491)

1565 – Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)

1603 – William Watson, English priest (b. 1559)

1625 – Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)

1636 – Fabian Birkowski, Polish preacher and author (b. 1566)

1641 – Anthony van Dyck, Belgian-English painter and illustrator (b. 1599)

1669 – Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)

1674 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1609)

1706 – Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)

1718 – Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian monk and cartographer (b. 1650)

1761 – Tarabai, Queen of Chatrapati Rajaram (b. 1675)

1793 – Yolande de Polastron, French-Austrian educator (b. 1749)

1798 – Johann Reinhold Forster, German pastor, botanist, and ornithologist (b. 1729)

1830 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (b. 1757)

1854 – Almeida Garrett, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1799)

1858 – Robert Baldwin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada West  (b. 1804)

1887 – Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese religious leader

1906 – Ferdinand Brunetière, French author and critic (b. 1849)

1916 – Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (b. 1867)

1924 – Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and educator (b. 1854)

1930 – Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)

1932 – Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)

1932 – Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)

1935 – Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (b. 1886)

1937 – Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882)

1937 – Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)

1941 – Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865)

1943 – Georges Dufrénoy, French painter (b. 1870)

1944 – Laird Cregar, American actor (b. 1913)

1945 – Yun Chi-ho, South Korean activist and politician (b. 1864)

1957 – Ali İhsan Sâbis, Turkish general (b. 1882)

1963 – Daniel O. Fagunwa, Nigerian author and educator (b. 1903)

1963 – Perry Miller, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1905)

1964 – Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (b. 1887)

1965 – Branch Rickey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1884)

1967 – Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge, 3rd President of the European Court of Justice  (b. 1898)

1968 – Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (b. 1883)

1970 – Artem Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mikoyan Company (b. 1905)

1970 – Feroz Khan Noon, Pakistani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)

1971 – Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

1971 – Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor and painter (b. 1874)

1971 – Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams, Church of Scotland Minister, Missionary in India and China, writer and poet (b. 1886)

1972 – Louella Parsons, American writer and columnist (b. 1881)

1975 – William A. Wellman, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1896)

1979 – Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop (b. 1895)

1982 – Leon Jaworski, American lawyer and politician (b. 1905)

1991 – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898)

1992 – Vincent Gardenia, American actor (b. 1922)

1993 – Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926)

1995 – Toni Cade Bambara, American author and academic (b. 1939)

1995 – Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (b. 1907)

1996 – Patty Donahue, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)

1996 – Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)

1996 – Alain Poher, French lawyer and politician (b. 1909)

1996 – Diana Morgan, Welsh playwright and screenwriter (b. 1908)

1998 – Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1948)

1998 – Archie Moore, American boxer and actor (b. 1913)

2001 – Michael Carver, Baron Carver, English field marshal (b. 1915)

2002 – Mary Hansen, Australian singer and guitarist (b. 1966)

2002 – Ian Hornak, American painter and sculptor (b. 1944)

2002 – Stan Rice, American painter and poet (b. 1942)

2003 – Norm Sloan, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)

2003 – Paul Simon, American soldier, journalist, and politician, 39th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (b. 1928)

2005 – György Sándor, Hungarian-American pianist and educator (b. 1912)

2005 – Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)

2006 – Georgia Gibbs, American singer (b. 1919)

2007 – Rafael Sperafico, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1981)

2007 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1918)

2008 – Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1972)

2008 – Yury Glazkov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1939)

2009 – Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919)

2010 – James Moody, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer (b. 1925)

2010 – Dov Shilansky, Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and politician, 10th Speaker of the Knesset (b. 1924)

2012 – Béla Nagy Abodi, Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1918)

2012 – Patrick Moore, English lieutenant, astronomer, and educator (b. 1923)

2012 – Alex Moulton, English engineer and businessman, founded the Moulton Bicycle Company (b. 1920)

2012 – Jenni Rivera, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (b. 1969)

2012 – Charles Rosen, American pianist and musicologist (b. 1927)

2012 – Riccardo Schicchi, Italian director and producer, co-founded Diva Futura (b. 1953)

2012 – Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (b. 1921)

2013 – John Gabbert, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (b. 1909)

2013 – Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, Polish pianist and educator (b. 1930)

2013 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (b. 1922)

2013 – John Wilbur, American football player (b. 1943)

2014 – Sacvan Bercovitch, Canadian-American author, critic, and academic (b. 1933)

2014 – Jane Freilicher, American painter and poet (b. 1924)

2014 – Jorge María Mejía, Argentinian cardinal (b. 1923)

2014 – Mary Ann Mobley, American model and actress, Miss America 1959 (b. 1937)

2014 – Blagoje Paunović, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1947)

2014 – Jože Toporišič, Slovenian linguist and author (b. 1926)

2015 – Soshana Afroyim, Austrian painter (b. 1927)

2015 – Norman Breslow, American statistician and academic (b. 1941)

2015 – Juvenal Juvêncio, Brazilian lawyer and politician (b. 1934)

2015 – Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (b. 1936)

2019 – Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer (b. 1958).