1928 – Whitey Ford [Edward Charles Ford], American hall of fame baseball pitcher (NY Yankees), born in NYC

1942 – Judith Sheindlin, Jurist and Television personality (Judge Judy), born in Brooklyn, New York

1971 – Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda

1975 – Elton John given a star in Hollywood

2014 – San Francisco Giants win game one of the 2014 World Series