1832 – Felix Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” premieres
1849 – 1st US poultry show opens in Boston
1864 – 1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, NY
1920 – Ernst Toller’s “Massen und Menschen” premieres in Nuremberg
1969 – Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar and indicent language in Tampa, Fla
1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1886 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d. 1951)
1906 – Curtis E Le May, air force general/VP candidate
1934 – Peter Dickinson, English composer, born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire
1935 – Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman
1968 – Brenda Alyce Bassett, Kokomo Indiana, Miss Indiana-America (1991)
1986 – Jeffree Star, American model, fashion designer, make-up artist and singer-songwriter
1630 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, dies at 58
1842 – Joseph Rastrelli, composer, dies at 43
1994 – James Winston Watts, developer of the Frontal Lobotomy, dies at 90
2003 – Ray Lewis, Canadian athlete (b. 1910)
2005 – Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (b. 1959)
2007 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1928)