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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... October 2007 is the tenth month of that year. ... October 2006 is the tenth month of that year and has yet to occur. ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in October 28: Richard Smalley 26: Emil Kyulev 24: José Azcona del Hoyo 24: Rosa Parks 23: Stella Obasanjo 22: Liam Lawlor 22: Shirley Horn 20: Endon Mahmood 17: Ba Jin 10: Milton Obote 7: Charles... October 22, 2004 The state-of-art Canadian Light Source synchrotron opens for atomic research in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. ... October 22, 2003 India: India launches a peace initiative to normalise relations with Pakistan. ... October 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December // Events October 31, 2002 The Russian Health Minister Yuri Shevchenko has now stated that the incapacitating agent used in the storming of the Moscow theatre siege was a fentanyl derivative. ... 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events: October 2 - Bankruptcy of Swissair. ... October 2000 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events October 1 - 2 - Nine Israeli-Arabs are killed by Israeli security forces after a riot/violent demonstration of solidarity with Palestinians under military rule in the West Bank and Gaza. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 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Events

• 202 BC - Hannibal Barca, leader of the Carthaginians, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus in the Battle of Zama.
• 362 - The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
• 794 - Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
• 1383 - The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: A period of civil war and disorder began when King Fernando died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne.
• 1575 - Foundation of Aguascalientes.
• 1692 - Last hanging for witchcraft in the United States.
• 1746 - The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
• 1784 - Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
• 1797 - One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
• 1836 - Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
• 1844 - The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipated the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
• 1866 - Paraguay: Battle of Curupaytí against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
• 1867 - Foundation of the National University of Colombia.
• 1875 - First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
• 1877 - The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who were unable to support themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the Poor House.
• 1878 - The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
• 1883 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust (opera).
• 1895 - In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
• 1907 - Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
• 1910 - Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
• 1924 - Toastmasters International is founded.
• 1926 - J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
• 1934 - In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.

October 22 page from a 1935 Soviet revolutionary calendar with six-day weeks.

• 1935 - Establishment of the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
• 1941 - French hero of the resistance Guy Môquet is executed by the Germans, along with 29 other hostages as a retaliation for a killed German officer.
• 1943 - World War II: Kassel: RAF conducts an air raid on the city of 236,000 people, killing 10,000, rendering 150,000 homeless. Second firestorm raid in Germany
• 1946 - Forty four British sailors die when two British warships hit mines off the coast of Albania.
• 1953 - Laos gains independence from France.
• 1956 - A concrete girder weighing 200 tons kills 48 in Karachi, Pakistan.
• 1957 - Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
• 1960 - Independence of Mali from France.
• 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy announces that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
• 1963 - BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes on October 22 in UK with the loss of all on board.
• 1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honour.
• 1964 - Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
• 1966 - The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
• 1968 - Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
• 1970 - Tunku Abdul Rahman resign from Prime Minister of Malaysia.
• 1972 - Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris. Thieu rejects the proposal and accused the United States of conspiring to undermine his regime
• 1976 - Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
• 1981 - The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
• 1981 - The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins.
• 1981 - The TGV railway service Paris-Lyon is inaugurated.
• 1983 - Two correctional officers are killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspired the Supermax model of prisons.
• 1986 - WNBC traffic reporter Jane Dornacker is killed when the helicopter she is riding in stalls and crashes into the Hudson River.
• 1987 - John Adams's opera Nixon in China debuts at the Houston Grand Opera in Houston, Texas.
• 1987 - The pinnacle rock "Gendarme" falls at Seneca Rocks.
• 1991 - Dimitrios Arhondonis, metropolitan of Chalcedon elected 270th Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch as Patriarch Bartholomew I of the Orthodox church.
• 1999 - Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
• 2002 - One of the two Denial-of-service attacks against the DNS Backbone servers.
• 2005 - Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
• 2005 - Crash of Bellview Airlines Flight 210 in Nigeria kills all 117 on board.
• 2005 - The first phase of Transantiago, the new public transport system of Santiago de Chile is implemented.
• 2006 - A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
• 2006 - Michael Schumacher drives his last Formula 1 Race. The very same day the Spaniard Fernando Alonso wins the 2006 Formula 1 World Championship, becoming the 8th and youngest driver to win it twice in a row to emulate the achievements of Mika Häkkinen, Michael Schumacher and five other drivers.

Centuries: 2nd century BC - 3rd century BC - 4th century BC Decades: 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC - 200s BC - 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC Years: 207 BC 206 BC 205 BC 204 BC 203 BC - 202 BC - 201 BC 200 BC 199 BC 198 BC 197 BC Events October... Hannibal Barca (247 BC – c. ... This article is about the ancient city-state of Carthage in North Africa. ... Roman or Romans may refer to: A thing or person of or from the city of Rome. ... Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major (Latin: P·CORNELIVS·P·F·L·N·SCIPIO·AFRICANVS¹) (235–183 BC) was a general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic. ... Combatants Carthage Roman Republic East Numidia Commanders Hannibal Scipio Africanus Masinissa Strength almost 58,000 infantry 6,000 cavalry 80 war elephants 34,000 Roman infantry 3,000 Roman cavalry 6,000 Numidian cavalry Casualties 20,000 killed 11,000 wounded 15,000 captured 1,500 killed 4,000 wounded... Events February 21 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria. ... For other uses, see Apollo (disambiguation). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Antakya. ... For other uses, see Fire (disambiguation). ... Events Kyoto becomes the Japanese capital. ... Kyoto )   is a city in the central part of the island of HonshÅ«, Japan. ... Year 1383 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. ... History of Portugal Series Prehistoric Portugal Pre-Roman Portugal Roman Lusitania and Gallaecia Visigoths and Suevi Moorish rule and Reconquista First County of Portugal Kingdom of Galicia and Portugal Second County of Portugal Establishment of the Monarchy Consolidation of the Monarchy 1383-1385 Crisis Discoveries Portuguese Empire 1580 Crisis Iberian... A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society or nationality fight against each other for the control of political power. ... Fernando I, ninth king of Portugal (Eng. ... For other uses, see inheritance (disambiguation). ... This is a list of Portuguese monarchs dating from the independence of Portugal from the kingdom of León in 1128 under Afonso Henriques, who proclaimed himself King in 1139, to the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic on October 5, 1910, during the reign of Manuel II, the Patriot, or... Year 1575 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. ... The city of Aguascalientes is the capital of the state of Aguascalientes in western central Mexico. ... Events February 13 - Massacre of Glencoe March 1 - The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony with the charging of three women with witchcraft. ... // Events Catharine de Ricci (born 1522) canonized. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... 1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Kodiak Island is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait. ... For other uses, see Alaska (disambiguation). ... 1797 (MDCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about the capital of France. ... André-Jacques Garnerin (January 31, 1769 - August 18, 1823) was the inventor of the frameless parachute. ... This article is about the device. ... Year 1836 (MDCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793–July 26, 1863) was a 19th century American statesman, politician and soldier. ... Capital Washington-on-the-Brazos, Harrisburg, Galveston, Velasco, Columbia (1836) Houston (1837–1839) Austin (1839–1845) Language(s) English (de facto) Spanish, French, German and Native American languages regionally Government Republic President1  - 1836-1838 Sam Houston  - 1838-1841 Mirabeau B. Lamar  - 1841-1844 Sam Houston  - 1844-1845 Anson Jones Vice... Jan. ... William Miller William Miller (1782 - 1849) was an American Baptist preacher, whose followers have been termed Millerites. ... William Miller This article is about a religious time in history. ... 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... The Battle of Curupaity was a key battle in the War of the Triple Alliance. ... 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This article is about the country. ... 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... For other uses, see Rugby (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Salford (disambiguation). ... Swinton Lions traditional shirt design Swinton Lions are a British rugby league club from Swinton, Greater Manchester. ... Year 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... The Metropolitan Opera is located at Lincoln Center in New York, New York. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Charles Gounod. ... Faust is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carrés play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Goethes Faust, Part I. It debuted at the Théatre-Lyrique in Paris on March 19, 1859. ... Year 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about the capital of France. ... A Buffer stop is a device to prevent railway vehicles from going past the end of a section of track. ... View of the Gare Montparnasse from the Tour Montparnasse The Gare Montparnasse is one of the six large terminus train stations of Paris, located in the Montparnasse area, in the XVe arrondissement. ... Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Knickerbocker Trust was at one time, one of the largest banks in the United States. ... WORLD OF WARCRAFT IS THE BEST GAME EVER INVENTED AND PLAY IT. IF YOU DONT PLAY WORLD OF WARCRAFT, YOU ARE A nOOb. ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Hawley Harvey Crippen (11 September 1862 – 23 November 1910), usually known as Dr. Crippen, was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, England, on November 23, 1910 for murdering his wife. ... The Old Bailey. ... HMP Pentonville Pentonville Prison in 1842 HM Prison Pentonville is a prison built in 1842 in North London. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For the rap album, see 1924 (album). ... Toastmasters International (TI) is a nonprofit educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking and leadership skills. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead (died 1954) is infamous as the man who sucker-punched magician Harry Houdini in the stomach on October 22, 1926. ... Houdini redirects here. ... Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... East Liverpool from the air, looking south. ... It has been suggested that Safecatch be merged into this article or section. ... Charles Arthur Pretty Boy Floyd. ... F.B.I. and FBI redirect here. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 360 × 600 pixels Full resolution (720 × 1200 pixel, file size: 199 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) October appears in two Cyrillic scripts, as Oktjabr, in Georgian, Armenian and Esperanto. ... 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Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The city of Kassel in Germany was severely bombed during World War II and more than 10,000 civilians died during these raids. ... RAF redirects here. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. ... A car from 1956 Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary. ... 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Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger on May 27, 1923) is a German-born American politician, and 1973 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. ... Anthem Thanh niên Hành Khúc (Call to the Citizens) Capital Saigon Language(s) Vietnamese Government Republic Last President¹ Duong Van Minh Last Prime minister Vu Van Mau Historical era Cold War  - Regime change June 14, 1955  - Dissolution April 30, 1975 Area  - 1973 173,809 km² 67,108... President Nguyen Van Thieu Nguyen Van Thieu, (April 5, 1923 – September 29, 2001) was a former General and President of South Vietnam. ... The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN), or less commonly, Vietnamese Democratic Republic (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cá»™ng Hòa), also known as North Vietnam, was proclaimed by Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, September 2nd1945 and was recognized by the Peoples Republic of China and the... This article is about the capital of France. ... 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Births

• 1071 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet (d. 1126)
• 1197 - Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242)
• 1511 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)
• 1558 - Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651)
• 1592 - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1657)
• 1688 - Nadir Shah of Persia (d. 1747)
• 1689 - King John V of Portugal (d. 1750)
• 1692 - Elizabeth Farnese, second queen of King Philip V of Spain (d. 1766)
• 1701 - Maria Amalia of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1756)
• 1729 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (d. 1798)
• 1770 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (d. 1831)
• 1809 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
• 1811 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
• 1818 - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet (d. 1894)
• 1821 - Collis Potter Huntington, American railroad executive (d. 1900)
• 1844 - Louis Riel, Canadian Metis Political Leader (d. 1885)
• 1858 - German Empress Augusta Victoria, wife of German Emperor Wilhelm II (d. 1921)
• 1865 - Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (d. 1943)
• 1870 - Alfred Douglas, English partner of Oscar Wilde (d. 1945)
• 1870 - Ivan Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
• 1873 - Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950)
• 1881 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• 1886 - Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (d. 1970)
• 1887 - John Reed, American journalist (d. 1920)
• 1891 - Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (d.1988)
• 1894 - Méi Lánfāng, Chinese opera performer (d. 1961)
• 1896 - Charles Glen King, American biochemist (d. 1988)
• 1903 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
• 1903 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian, member of the Three Stooges (d. 1952)
• 1904 - Constance Bennett, American actress (d. 1965)
• 1905 - Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1969)
• 1907 - Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (d. 1967)
• 1908 - John Gould, American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. 2003)
• 1912 - Frances Drake, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1913 - Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1997)
• 1913 - Robert Capa, American war photographer (born in Hungary) (d. 1954)
• 1913 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2002)
• 1917 - Joan Fontaine, American actress
• 1918 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (d. 1976)
• 1919 - Doris Lessing, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1919 - Kathleen Ankers, American scenic designer (d. 2001)
• 1920 - Timothy Leary, American writer (d. 1996)
• 1921 - Georges Brassens, French singer (d. 1981)
• 1921 - Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)
• 1922 - Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (d. 2001)
• 1923 - Bert Trautmann, German former footballer
• 1925 - Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and graphic artist
• 1927 - Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (d. 2005)
• 1928 - Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian movie director
• 1929 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (d. 1990)
• 1929 - Dory Previn, American songwriter
• 1933 - Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer (d. 2007)
• 1935 - Ann Rule, American true-crime writer
• 1936 - Bobby Seale, American civil rights activist
• 1937 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (d. 1982)
• 1938 - Derek Jacobi, English actor
• 1938 - Christopher Lloyd, American actor
• 1939 - George Cohen, English footballer
• 1939 - Tony Roberts, American actor
• 1942 - Annette Funicello, American actress
• 1942 - Bobby Fuller, American rock guitarist (d. 1966)
• 1943 - Jan de Bont, Dutch film director
• 1943 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress
• 1943 - Allen Coage, American professional wrestler
• 1945 - Leslie West, American musician
• 1945 - Sheila Sherwood, British long jumper
• 1945 - Yvan Ponton, Quebec actor and television host
• 1946 - Kelvin MacKenzie, British media tycoon
• 1946 - Claude Charron, French-Canadian politician and TV personality
• 1946 - Eddie Brigati, American singer (The Rascals)
• 1947 - Raymond Bachand, French-Canadian politician and businessman
• 1948 - Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford
• 1949 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (d. 1990)
• 1949 - Arsène Wenger, French football manager
• 1952 - Jeff Goldblum, American actor
• 1956 - Frank DiPino, American baseball player
• 1959 - Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (d. 2005)
• 1959 - Marc Shaiman, American composer
• 1960 - Darryl Jenifer, American bassist (Bad Brains)
• 1960 - Cris Kirkwood, American musician (Meat Puppets)
• 1961 - Robert Torti, American actor
• 1962 - Bob Odenkirk, American actor and comedian (Mr. Show)
• 1963 - Brian Boitano, American figure skater
• 1964 - Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (d. 1993)
• 1964 - Toby Mac, American singer and songwriter
• 1965 - John Wesley Harding, American musician
• 1965 - Otis Smith, American football player
• 1966 - Valeria Golino, Italian actress
• 1967 - Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer
• 1967 - Ron Tugnutt, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967 - Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (d. 1994)
• 1968 - Shaggy, Jamaican musician
• 1968 - Stéphane Quintal, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 - Jay Johnston, American actor and comedian (Mr. Show)
• 1969 - Héctor Carrasco, Dominican baseball player
• 1969 - Spike Jonze, American director and film producer
• 1969 - Helmut Lotti, Belgian singer
• 1972 - D'Lo Brown, American professional wrestler
• 1973 - Andrés Palop, Spanish footballer
• 1973 - Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
• 1974 - Tim Kinsella, American musician
• 1974 - Jeff McInnis, American NBA basketball player
• 1974 - Miroslav Šatan, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1975 - Martín Cardetti, Argentine footballer
• 1975 - Míchel Salgado, Spanish footballer
• 1976 - Jon Foreman, American musician (Switchfoot)
• 1976 - Helen Svedin, Swedish model
• 1978 - Owais Shah, English cricketer
• 1978 - Dion Glover, American basketball player
• 1978 - Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (d. 2007)
• 1980 - Garrett Tierney, American musician (Brand New)
• 1981 - Olivier Pla, French racing driver
• 1982 - Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player
• 1982 - Vanessa Eshuis, Born on Curacao, Netherlands Antilles as Vanessa Marielle Blanche Eshuis
• 1985 - Zachary Hanson, American musician (Hanson)
• 1986 - Kara Lang, Canadian soccer player
• 1987 - Jake Richardson, English footballer
• 1990 - Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
• 1992 - Sofia Vassilieva, American actress

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