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2006 Calendar
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August
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September
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October
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November
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[edit] Births

  • 1582 - Johannes Fleischer, botanist
  • 1738 - Arthur Phillip, British admiral, Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814)
  • 1788 - Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (d. 1867)
  • 1815 - Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte (d.1881)
  • 1821 - George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (d. 1905)
  • 1844 - Henry Heinz, American food manufacturer (d. 1916)
  • 1863 - Louis Cyr, famous Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
  • 1872 - Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946)
  • 1881 - Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist
  • 1884 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
  • 1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, American human rights activist, First Lady (d. 1962)
  • 1885 - François Mauriac, French writer (d. 1970)
  • 1895 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (d. 1982)
  • 1918 - Jerome Robbins, choreographer (d. 1998)
  • 1919 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer (d. 1990)
  • 1919 - Jean Vander Pyl, (d. 1999) voice of Wilma Flintstone in The Flintstones cartoon.
  • 1924 - Mal Whitfield, American athlete
  • 1925 - Elmore Leonard, novelist
  • 1928 - Marquis Alfonso de Portago, Grand Prix driver (d. 1957)
  • 1930 - Sam Johnson, American politician
  • 1932 - Dottie West, country music singer (d. 1991)
  • 1939 - Maria Bueno, tennis star
  • 1942 - Amitabh Bachchan, Actor, Singer, Producer, UNICEF Ambassador.
  • 1949 - Daryl Hall, musician
  • 1951 - Jean-Jacques Goldman, French pop singer, songwriter
  • 1956 - Nicanor Duarte Frutos, President of Paraguay
  • 1957 - Dawn French, comedienne
  • 1961 - Steve Young, American football star
  • 1966 - Luke Perry, actor
  • 1969 - Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
  • 1969 - Ty Murray, rodeo star
  • 1974 - Paul C. Kovacs, Software Engineer
  • 1977 - Ty Wigginton, Baseball player; Claudia Palacios, Colombian journalist and newsreader.
  • 1981 - Beau Brady, actor
  • 1982 - Jermaine V. Mitchell, Rap musician
  • 1985 - Michelle Trachtenberg, actress
  • 1989 - Michelle Wie, golf prodigy

[edit] Deaths

  • 1303 - Pope Boniface VIII
  • 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (b. 1484
  • 1779 - Casimir Pulaski, Polish fighter for American independence (b. 1745)
  • 1809 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (suicide) (b. 1774)
  • 1852 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, mathematician (b. 1823)
  • 1896 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
  • 1896 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
  • 1940 - Lluís Companys, Spanish President of Generalitat of Catalonia, (shot) (b. 1882)
  • 1961 - Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
  • 1963 - Edith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
  • 1963 - Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)
  • 1965 - Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
  • 1976 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b. 1897)
  • 1977 - MacKinlay Kantor, American author (b. 1904)
  • 1989 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1904)
  • 1991 - Redd Foxx, American comedian, actor (b. 1902)
  • 1991 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, poet (suicide)
  • 1993 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927)
  • 1996 - Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)
  • 2000 - Donald Dewar, main author of the Scotland Act and initial First Minister of the Scottish Parliament (b. 1937)
  • 2004 - Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)
  • 2004 - Paul Kolsti, was a Ilustrator for NY Times (b.1953

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