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Births
37 – Nero; 1832 – Gustave Eiffel (co-designed the Eiffel Tower); 1852 – Henri Becquerel (namesake of the measuring unit for radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq)); 1861 – Charles Duryea ("Ladies Phaeton" was considered the first successful gas-engine vehicle built in the U.S.); 1892 – J. Paul Getty; 1911 – Stan Kenton
; 1918 – Jeff Chandler; 1919 – Max Yasgur (
Woodstock was held on his farm); 1921 – Alan Freed (radio dj, "The man who gave 'Rock 'n' Roll' its name."); 1923 – Freeman Dyson; 1928 – Ernest Ashworth♪ ♫; 1933 –
Tim Conway; 1939 – Cindy Birdsong♪ ♫(The Supremes, Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles); 1942 – Dave Clark
(The Dave Clark Five); 1946 – Carmine Appice
(Vanilla Fudge, King Cobra, Blue Murder); 1949 – Don Johnson; 1950 – Melanie Chartoff (Fridays); 1955 – Paul Simonon
(The Clash); 1957 – Tim Reynolds
(Dave Matthews Band); 1962 – Tim Gaines
(Stryper); 1963 – Helen Slater (
Supergirl); 1970 – Michael Shanks (
Stargate SG-1, Saving Hope); 1971 – Clint Lowery
(Sevendust, Korn); 1972 – Rodney Harrison
; 1981 – Michelle Dockery (
Downton Abbey)
Deaths
1675 – Johannes Vermeer
; 1683 – Izaak Walton (author
The Compleat Angler); 1878 – Alfred Bird (invented baking powder); 1890 – Sitting Bull (Hunkpapa Lakota chief); 1943 – Fats Waller
; 1944 – Glenn Miller♪ ♫(Glen Miller Orchestra); 1962 – Charles Laughton; 1966 – Walt Disney; 1978 – Chill Wills (
McLintock!, Giant, The Alamo); 2006 - Ahmet Ertegün♪ ♫(co-founded Atlantic Records); 2009 – Oral Roberts (porn star); 2010 – Blake Edwards; 2010 – Bob Feller; 2013 – Joan Fontaine (Rebecca, Suspicion, The Witches, younger sister to Olivia De Havilland, cousin to the designer of the De Havilland Mosquito)