votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%. 2015 – Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed during a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar. 2016 – The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers. 2021 – A ferry capsizes in Guizhou province, China due to bad weather, killing ten people and five missing. Births Pre-1600 AD 53 – Trajan, Roman emperor (d. 117) 524 – Kan B'alam I, ruler of Palenque (d. 583) 1091 – Andronikos Komnenos, Byzantine prince and general (d. 1130/31) 1344 – Marie of France, Duchess of Bar (d. 1404) 1434 – Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1467) 1501 – Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford (d. 1563) 1554 – Haydar Mirza Safavi, Safavid prince (d. 1576) 1587 – Francesca Caccini, Italian singer-songwriter and lute player (d. 1640) 1601–1900 1606 – Zhang Xianzhong, Chinese rebel leader (d. 1647) 1643 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish bishop, historian, and theologian (d. 1715) 1676 – Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733) 1684 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German organist and composer (d. 1748) 1709 – Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer and poet (d. 1784) 1711 – Ignaz Holzbauer, Austrian composer and educator (d. 1783) 1733 – George Read, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Delaware (d. 1798) 1750 – Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Spanish poet and playwright (d. 1791) 1752 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1833) 1765 – Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846) 1779 – Joseph Story, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (d. 1845) 1786 – Christian VIII of Denmark (d. 1848) 1786 – Justinus Kerner, German poet and author (d. 1862) 1812 – Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American lawyer and politician, 41st Governor of Georgia (d. 1880) 1819 – Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (d. 1868) 1837 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, Portuguese archbishop (d. 1880) 1838 – Anton Mauve, Dutch painter and educator (d. 1888) 1846 – Richard With, Norwegian captain, businessman, and politician, founded Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab (d. 1930) 1848 – Francis Grierson, English-American pianist and composer (d. 1927) 1857 – John Hessin Clarke, American lawyer and judge (d. 1945) 1858 – Kate Booth, English Salvation Army officer (d. 1955) 1859 – John L. Bates, American lawyer