Famous Birthdays

• 1738 - Ethan Allen, Litchfield Connecticut, American Revolutionary War patriot (lead the Green Mountain Boys)
• 1865 - Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
• 1908 - Paul Henreid, Trieste, actor (Casablanca, 4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)
• 1942 - Jim Croce, rock vocalist (Time in a Bottle) (d. 1973), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1944 - Frank Sinatra Jr, Jersey City NJ, American singer/bandleader (Golddigers)
• 1945 - Rod Stewart, British singer (Maggie Mae, Do You Think I'm Sexy), born in London, England
• 1949 - George Foreman, Marshall Texas, American World Heavyweight boxing champ (1973-74, 95)
• 1949 - Teresa Graves, Houston Texas, actress (Laugh-in, Get Christie Love)
• 1975 - Jake Delhomme, American football player

Famous Weddings

• 1430 - Duke Philip the Good marries Isabella of Portugal
• 1870 - Deputy Sheriff Wyatt Earp (21) weds Urilla Sutherland in Lamar, Texas
• 1898 - Painter Henri Matisse (28) weds Amélie Noellie Parayre
• 1936 - Actor Burgess Meredith (28) weds actress Margaret Perry (22)
• 1942 - Actress Ava Gardner (19) weds actor Mickey Rooney (21) in Ballard, California

Famous Divorces

• 1810 - French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Empress Joséphine
• 1936 - Actress Mary Pickford (44) divorces actor Douglas Fairbanks (52) after 15 years of marriage
• 1967 - Actor Christopher Plummer (37) divorces columnist Patricia Lewis after nearly 5 years of marriage
• 1981 - Singer James Brown (47) divorces Deidre Jenkins after 10 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

• 1276 - Pope Gregory X, (Tedaldo Visconti), dies. (bc. 1210)
• 1645 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded, for treason, in the Tower of London at 71
• 1778 - Carolus linaeus "Carl von Linne", Swedish botanist/explorer, dies at 70
• 1862 - Samuel Colt, American inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47
• 1863 - Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (b. 1775)
• 1883 - Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor (b. 1833)
• 1917 - Buffalo Bill (William Frederick) Cody, Army scout, Pony Express rider, ranch hand, wagon train driver, buffalo hunter, fur trapper, gold prospector, showman, died at age 70 in Denver, Colorado.
• 1935 - Teddy Flack [Edwin], Australian athlete, double Olympic gold medallist in 1896, dies at 61
• 1951 - Harry Sinclair Lewis, US writer (Nobel 1930), dies at 65
• 1981 - Richard Boone, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel), dies at 63

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