1992 Event Colombo '92 closes in Genoa, Italy 1992 Event Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy 1970 Birthday Marciano Vink, soccer player, Genoa/PSV 1968 Birthday Sabrina [Salerno], born in Genoa, Italy, Miss Italy, 1984, and singer, Boys 1966 Birthday Angela Cavagna, Genoa Italy, singer 1959 Birthday Carmen Russo, Genoa Italy, Miss Teenage Italy, 1972 1946 Birthday Franco Malerba, Genoa Italy, astronaut, STS-46 1939 Birthday Rosanna Schiaffino, Genoa Italy, actress, Minotaur, Mazzabubu 1922 Birthday Vittorio Gassman, born in Genoa, Italy, actor, War and Peace 1914 Birthday Pietro Germi, Genoa Italy, actor and director, Divorce Italian Style 1782 Birthday Niccolo Paganini, Genoa It, composer/violin virtuoso, Princess Lucca 1598 Event Genoa Italy expels Jews 1598 Event Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy 1567 Event Genoa Italy expels Jews 1550 Event Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy 1526 Event Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence and Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac 1522 Event French troops driven out of Genoa 1404 Birthday Leon Battista Alberti, born in Genoa, Italy, Italian authors, poet, philosopher, and architect, 'Della Pittura' 1212 Event Children's cruisaders under Nicolas (10) reach Genoa