* 1917 – Sid Gordon, American baseball player ( d. 1975 )

* 2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

* 1940 – Sid Waddell, English sportscaster ( d. 2012 )

* 1997 – The Sid El-Antri massacre ( or Sidi Lamri ) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.

By his second season, Howe was paired with Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay to form what would become one of the great lines in NHL history – the " Production Line ".

* 1918 – Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2000 )

* 1960 – Sid Vicious, American wrestler

* 1929 – Sid Krofft, Canadian puppeteer and producer

* 1920 – Sid Fleischman, American author ( d. 2010 )

* 1911 – Sid Gillman, American football player ( d. 2003 )

The Chargers have six players and one coach enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio: wide receiver Lance Alworth ( 1962 – 1970 ), defensive end Fred Dean (–), quarterback Dan Fouts (–), head coach / general manager Sid Gillman ( 1960 – 1969, ), wide receiver Charlie Joiner (–), offensive lineman Ron Mix ( 1960 – 1969 ) and tight end Kellen Winslow (- 1987 ).

Sid James ( born Solomon Joel Cohen ; 8 May 1913 – 26 April 1976 ) was an English-based South African actor and comedian.

* 1922 – Sid Caesar, American comedian and actor

* December 24 – 50 – 100 villagers are killed in the Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria.

* May 10 – Sid Vicious, English rock bassist ( Sex Pistols ) ( d. 1979 )

* July 5 – Sid Luckman, American football player ( b. 1916 )

* April 26 – Sid James, South African actor ( b. 1913 )

* July 4 – Sid Eudy, American professional wrestler

* October 12 – Nancy Spungen, American groupie and girlfriend of Sid Vicious ( b. 1958 )

** Joan Hinton ( 1921 – 2010 ) worked for the Manhattan Project and lived in China from 1948 until her death on 8 June 2010 ; she was married to Sid Engst.

* September 12 – Sid Watkins, English neurosurgeon ( b. 1928 )

* Sid Falck – drums ( 1987 – 1992 )

Acquire is a board game designed by Sid Sackson.

Sid Meier's Civilization is a turn-based strategy " 4X "- type strategy video game created by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley for MicroProse in 1991.

The 1999 game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was also created by Meier and is in the same genre, but with a futuristic / space theme.

: Made in 1974, Carry On Dick, of the celebrated Carry On series of films, followed the same premise of a country vicar ( Sid James ) who is secretly an outlaw, in this case the highwayman Dick Turpin.

Freeciv is a single and multiplayer turn-based strategy game for workstations and personal computers inspired by the commercial proprietary Sid Meier's Civilization series.

In December 1952, Cukor was approached by Sid Luft, who proposed the director helm a musical remake of the 1937 film A Star is Born with his then-wife Judy Garland in the lead role.

The Algonquin Hotel in New York City is famed as the meeting place of the literary group, the Algonquin Round Table, and Hotel Chelsea, also in New York City, has been the subject of a number of songs and the scene of the stabbing of Nancy Spungen ( allegedly by her boyfriend Sid Vicious ).

* In the video games Master of Orion ( 1993 ), Master of Orion 2 ( 1996 ), Master of Orion 3 ( 2003 ), and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ( 1999 ), neutronium is one of the strongest armor types.

Sid Vicious, before he became the Sex Pistols ' bassist, is credited with initiating the pogo in Britain as an attendee at one of their concerts.

* In Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization, Peter Stuyvesant is one of the leaders of the Dutch colonies.

The score for West Side Story was orchestrated by Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal following detailed instructions from Bernstein, who then wrote revisions on their manuscript ( the original, heavily annotated by Ramin, Kostal and Bernstein himself is in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Columbia University ).

It is also known as the place where the writer Dylan Thomas was staying when he died of pneumonia on November 9, 1953, and where Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, was found stabbed to death on October 12, 1978.

Captain Spaulding is portrayed by actor Sid Haig.

* Captain Spaulding is one of many Marx Brother character related pseudonyms for Sid Haig's murderous clown character John Cutter in Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses and it's sequel The Devil's Rejects.

* one of the seven factions the player can choose to control in the computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ; their philosophy in the game is similar to that described in Gaian Greens.

In the Microprose videogame Sid Meier's Civilization II, the term Lord Protector ( or its corresponding female form Lady Protector ) is applied to the leader of the English civilization under the " Republic " type of government.

In Kingdom Hearts II, Yen Sid is given a speaking role and is voiced in English by Corey Burton.

Spike is in fact a fan of Sid Vicious ' band The Sex Pistols and punk band The Ramones.

Scene from the movie. Sky High is a 1922 American silent film written and directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Tom Mix, J. Farrell MacDonald, Eva Novak, and Sid Jordan.

In the novel, we are told that Ford's original name is " only pronounceable in an obscure Betelgeusian dialect " which was almost wiped out by the " Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster of Gal ./ Sid ./ Year 03758 ," a mysterious catastrophe which took place on the planet of Betelgeuse Seven and which Ford's father was the only man to survive.

* 1949 The Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital is completed.

* One of the wonders buildable in the " Rise and fall of the Roman Empire " mod for Sid Meier's Civilization III is called the " Portus Ostiae "