1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.

1996 – The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA.

1619 – Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer and singer-songwriter (d. 1677)

1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)

1848 – Susie Taylor, American writer and first black Army nurse (d. 1912)

1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)]

1881 – Louella Parsons, American journalist (d. 1972)

1902 – Dutch Schultz, American gangster (d. 1935)

1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress, television producer and businesswoman (d. 1989)

1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian and academic (d. 1970)

1917 – Barbara Cooney, American author and illustrator (d. 2000)

1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997)

1926 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)

1928 – Andy Warhol, American painter, photographer and film director (d. 1987)

1930 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2010)

1931 – Chalmers Johnson, American scholar and author (d. 2010)

1934 – Piers Anthony, English-American soldier and author

1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 2000)

1937 – Charlie Haden, American bassist and composer (d. 2014)

1938 – Peter Bonerz, American actor and director

1942 – Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist and flute player (d. 2012)

1963 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker and author

1967 – Mike Greenberg, American journalist and sportscaster

1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, producer, and screenwriter

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