* 1906 – Ed Gein, American serial killer ( d. 1984 )

* 1961 – Cary Stayner, American serial killer

* 1936 – Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer ( d. 2001 )

* 1947 – Herbert Mullin, American serial killer

Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).

* 1956 – Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer ( d. 2002 )

* 1960 – Charles Cullen, American serial killer

* 1939 – Robert Hansen, American serial killer

* 1949 – Gary Ridgway, American serial killer

He eventually turned to writing for money in 1925, and by 1931 was selling short stories and serial fiction to American science fiction pulp magazines, most under the pen names of ' John Beynon ' or ' John Beynon Harris ', although he also wrote some detective stories.

* 1953 – David Berkowitz, American serial killer and arsonist

* 1959 – Michael Bruce Ross, American serial killer ( d. 2005 )

* 1929 – Charles Ray Hatcher, American serial killer ( d. 1984 )

* 1947 – William Bonin, American serial killer and sex offender ( d. 1996 )

* 1936 – Albert Fish, American serial killer ( b. 1870 )

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer ( May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994 ) was an American serial killer and sex offender.

* 1948 – Susan Atkins, American serial killer ( d. 2009 )

* 1896 – H. H. Holmes, American serial killer ( b. 1860 )

* 1954 – Danny Rolling, American serial killer ( d. 2006 )

* 1946 – Waneta Hoyt, American serial killer ( d. 1998 )

* 1946 – Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer ( d. 1995 )

* 1942 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer ( d. 1994 )

* 1946 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer ( d. 1989 )

* 1944 – Timothy Krajcir, American serial killer

* 1955 – Alton Coleman, American serial killer ( d. 2002 )

In steeply banked beaches off Península Valdés, Argentina, and the Crozet Islands, killer whales feed on South American sea lions and southern elephant seals in shallow water, even beaching temporarily to grab prey before wriggling back to the sea.

* 1949 – Marion Pruett, American spree killer ( d. 1999 )

I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.

In their book, American Skyline, Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed argue that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was what made the modern suburb a possibility -- a fine ironical argument, when you consider how suburbanites tend to vote.

Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

" He closely followed Henry Clay in supporting the American Colonization Society program of making the abolition of slavery practical by helping the freed slaves to settle in Liberia in Africa.

* Henry Austin ( architect ) ( 1804 – 1891 ), American architect

* Henry Austin ( baseball ) ( 1844 – 1904 ), American baseball player

* 1777 – Henry Clay, American statesman ( d. 1852 )

* 1865 – James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian ( d. 1935 )

* 1904 – Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach ( d. 1993 )

When two of the founders of that society, Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, moved to India at the end of that year, he was constituted as the President of the American body.

The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, Henry Wise Wood, president of the United Farmers of Alberta ( UFA ) during that movement's time as the governing party of the province ( 1921 – 1935 ).

* 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author ( d. 1882 )

* 1912 – Henry Jones, American actor ( d. 1999 )

Both the American and the Annales historians picked up important family reconstitution techniques from French demographer Louis Henry.

* 1924 – Henry Mancini, American composer ( d. 1994 )

* 1893 – Henry Trendley Dean, American dentist ( d. 1962 )

* 1923 – Gloria Henry, American actress

* 1811 – Henry Bergh, American activist and writer, founder of ASPCA ( d. 1888 )

* 1924 – Henry Hyde, American politician ( d. 2007 )

Henry Sweet incorrectly predicted in 1877 that within a century American English, Australian English and British English would be mutually unintelligible.

The figurative style of his large bronzes is perceived as an important precursor to the greater simplifications of Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti, and his serene classicism set a standard for European ( and American ) figure sculpture until the end of World War II.

* African American Lives, edited by Henry L. Gates, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Oxford University Press, 2004 — more than 600 biographies.

* 1883 – Henry Jameson, American soccer player ( d. 1938 )