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#Events

1773 – Captain James Cook commands the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.

1811 – Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries.

1904 – Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.

1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.

1997 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.

#FelizAniversário

#FelizCumpleaños

#HappyBirthday

#JoyeuxAnniversaire

#BuonCompleanno

#Nacimientos

1429 – Antonio del Pollaiolo, Italian artist (d.c. 1498)

1659 – Antonio Veracini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1745)

1706 – Benjamin Franklin, American publisher, inventor, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania (d. 1790)

1712 – John Stanley, English organist and composer (d. 1786)

1728 – Johann Gottfried Müthel, German pianist and composer (d. 1788)

1734 – François-Joseph Gossec, French composer and conductor (d. 1829)

1814 – Ellen Wood aka "Mrs Henry Wood", English author (d. 1887)

1820 – Anne Brontë, English author and poet (d. 1849)

1828 – Ede Reményi, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1898)

1850 – Alexander Taneyev, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1918)

1851 – A. B. Frost, American author and illustrator (d. 1928)

1853 – T. Alexander Harrison, American painter and academic (d. 1930)

1857 – Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1941)

1858 – Tomás Carrasquilla, Colombian author (d. 1940)

1863 – Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (d. 1938)

1867 – Carl Laemmle, German-born American film producer, co-founded Universal Studios (d. 1939)

1875 – Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan journalist and playwright (d. 1910)

1877 – May Gibbs, English-Australian author and illustrator (d. 1969)

1880 – Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, and producer (d. 1960)

1881 – Harry Price, English psychologist and author (d. 1948)

1883 – Compton Mackenzie, English-Scottish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1972)

1886 – Glenn L. Martin, American pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company (d. 1955)

1888 – Babu Gulabrai, Indian philosopher and author (d. 1963)

1899 – Robert Maynard Hutchins, American philosopher and academic (d. 1977)

1899 – Nevil Shute, English engineer and author (d. 1960)

1904 – Hem Vejakorn, Thai painter and illustrator (d. 1969)

1905 – Eduard Oja, Estonian composer, conductor, educator, and critic (d. 1950)

1905 – Jan Zahradníček, Czech poet and translator (d. 1960)

1907 – Henk Badings, Indonesian-Dutch composer and engineer (d. 1987)

1907 – Alfred Wainwright, British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator (d. 1991)

1911 – George Stigler, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)

1914 – Irving Brecher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)

1914 – William Stafford, American poet and author (d. 1993)

1920 – Georges Pichard, French author and illustrator (d. 2003)

1921 – Antonio Prohías, Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998)

1922 – Betty White, American actress, game show panelist, television personality, and animal rights activist

1923 – Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (d. 1962)

1925 – Robert Cormier, American author and journalist (d. 2000)

1925 – Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Pakistani cricketer and author (d. 1996)

1928 – Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)

1933 – Shari Lewis, American actress, puppeteer/ventriloquist, and television host (d. 1998)

1934 – Donald Cammell, Scottish-American director and screenwriter (d. 1996)

1937 – Alain Badiou, French philosopher and academic

1938 – John Bellairs, American author and academic (d. 1991)

1942 – Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist and author

1942 – Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist and educator

1944 – Ann Oakley, English sociologist, author, and academic

1945 – Javed Akhtar, Indian poet, playwright, and composer

1949 – Anita Borg, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2003)

1949 – Augustin Dumay, French violinist and conductor

1950 – Luis López Nieves, Puerto Rican-American author and academic

1952 – Tom Deitz, American author

1952 – Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese pianist, composer, and producer

1953 – Jeff Berlin, American bass player and educator

1954 – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer, radio host, activist, and environmentalist

1955 – Steve Earle, American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, author and actor

1957 – Ann Nocenti, American journalist and author

1961 – Brian Helgeland, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1962 – Sebastian Junger, American journalist and author

1968 – Rowan Pelling, English journalist and author

1968 – Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch author, poet, and scholar

1969 – Lukas Moodysson, Swedish director, screenwriter, and author

1969 – Tiësto, Dutch DJ and producer

1971 – Sylvie Testud, French actress, director, and screenwriter

1980 – Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian-American dancer and choreographer

1984 – Calvin Harris, Scottish singer-songwriter, DJ, and producer

#Obituario RecordarANuestrosMuertos

EsDarlesVidaEternaEnNuestrosCorazones.

EnPazDescanse:

1738 – Jean-François Dandrieu, French organist and composer (b. 1682)

1751 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1671)*

1826 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish-French composer (b. 1806)

1863 – Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)

1869 – Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813)

1911 – Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, and geographer (b. 1822)

1933 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (b. 1848)*

1936 – Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1885)

1951 – Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Indian poet, playwright, and director (b. 1903)

1970 – Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoon player and educator (b. 1890)

1972 – Betty Smith, American author and playwright (b. 1896)

1984 – Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1903)

1987 – Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1908)

1988 – Percy Qoboza, South African journalist and author (b. 1938)

2002 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)

2004 – Ray Stark, American film producer (b. 1915)

2007 – Art Buchwald, American journalist and author (b. 1925)

2008 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (b. 1943)

2008 – Ernie Holmes, American football player, wrestler, and actor (b. 1948)

2010 – Erich Segal, American author and screenwriter (b. 1937)

2013 – Jakob Arjouni, German author (b. 1964)

2013 – Lizbeth Webb, English soprano and actress (b. 1926)

2016 – Melvin Day, New Zealand painter and historian (b. 1923)

#observances

The opening ceremony of Patras Carnival, celebrated until Clean Monday. (Patras)