_{Image: “Henry’s reconciliation with Anne Boleyn,” etching, Cunningham & Mortimer, 1842.
Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne Boleyn was annulled May 17, 1536.}

Today in History

• Bartholomew Roberts, most successful pirate in the Golden Age of Piracy (1682)
• Edward Jenner, “father of immunology” (1749)
• Wilhelm Steinitz, chess champion (1836)
• Erik Satie, composer (1866)
• Horace Dodge, car maker (1868)
• Dorothy Gibson, silent screen star and Titanic survivor (1889)
• Cool Papa Bell, baseball player (1903)
• Maureen O’Sullivan, actress (1911)
• Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor and US Solicitor General (1912)
• Birgit Nilsson, soprano (1918)
• Earl Morrall, football player (1934)
• Dennis Hopper, actor (1936)
• Taj Mahal, singer-songwriter (1942)
• Bill Paxton, actor (1955)
• Sugar Ray Leonard, boxer (1956)
• Bob Saget, comedian and TV host (1956)
• Dave Sim, cartoonist (1956)
• Enya, singer-songwriter (1961)
• Craig Ferguson, talk show host (1962)
• Trent Reznor, singer-songwriter (1965)
• Thom Filicia, interior designer, Queer Eye cast member (1969)

Deaths

• John Jay, first US Chief Justice (1829)
• Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, diplomat (1854)
• John Deere, tractor maker (1886)
• Lawrence Welk, bandleader (1992)
• Johnny “Guitar” Watson, singer and guitarist (1996)
• Dave Berg, cartoonist (2002)
• Tony Randall, actor (2004)
• Frank Gorshin, actor and impressionist (2005)
• Lloyd Alexander, fantasy author (2007)
• Harmon Killebrew, baseball player (2011)
• Donna Summer, singer-songwriter (2012)
• Ken Venturi, golfer (2013)

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