1775 - -15] Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces
1863 - Nathan Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee
1952 - First regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express
1964 - "Folies Bergere" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 performances
1981 - Paul 'Bear' Bryant ties Amos Alonzo Stagg with 314 football wins
1989 - Padres reliever Mark Davis wins NL Cy Young Award
1765 - Robert Fulton, American inventor and engineer (first commercial steamboat), born in Little Britain, Pennsylvania (d. 1815)
1891 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, born in Alliston, Ontario (d. 1941)
1931 - Claudia Jane Archibald, parapsychologist
1935 - Gennadi Aleksandrovich Dolgopolov, cosmonaut
1960 - Tom Judson, American actor and composer
1964 - Rev Run, American rapper
1556 - Giovanni Della Casa, Italian poet (Galateo), dies at 53
1967 - C. K. Nayudu, Indian cricketer (7 Tests for India in 30's), dies at 72
1992 - Earnest FH Happel, East German soccer/trainer/coach, dies
1994 - John I M Stewart, detective writer (A Comedy of Terrors), dies at 88
1995 - John Lee Admiral-Barber, dies at 90
2012 - Brian Davies, Australia Rugby League player, dies at 82