Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
From 1976 
1977 – Gerard Way, American rock band frontman (My Chemical Romance)
1978 – Jorge Andrade, Portuguese footballer
1978 – Rachel Stevens, English singer
1979 – Keshia Knight Pulliam, American actress (Rudy Huxtable, The Cosby Show)
1979 – Mario Matt, Austrian skier
1979 - Albert Hammond, Jr., American guitarist (The Strokes)
1980 – Jerko Leko, Croatian footballer
1980 - Isabelle Severino, French gymnast and actress
1980 - Rachel Specter, American actress
1981 - Ireneusz Jelen, Polish footballer
1981 – Eric Harris, one of the gunmen at Columbine (d. April 20 1999)
1981 - Albin Pelak, Bosnian footballer
1982 - Jay Maruchel, Canadian actor, filmmaker and musician
1985 - Antonio Nocerino, Italian footballer
1985 – Nichole Arsenault, model
1986 - Leighton Meester, American actress
1986 - Brian Larsen, American singer, musician and record producer
1987 – Jesse McCartney, American actor and singer
1990 – Kristen Stewart, American actress
1998 – Elle Fanning, American actress
1999 - Isaac Hempstead Wright, English actor
2000 – Jackie Evancho, American singer
Up to 1900 
585 - Emperor Jimmu of Japan
93 - Yuan An, Chinese statesman
436 - Tan Daoji, Chinese statesman
491 – Zeno, Byzantine Emperor
654 - Matei Basarab, Romanian prince (b. 1588)
715 – Pope Constantine
1024 – Pope Benedict VIII
1137 – William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)
1483 – King Edward IV of England (b. 1442)
1484 – Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. 1473)
1492 - Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (b. 1449)
1553 – François Rabelais, French writer
1557 – Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar (b. 1510)
1626 – Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, and essayist (b. 1561)
1693 – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)
1739 – Nicolas Saunderson, English scientist and mathematician (b. 1682)
1747 – Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief
1754 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher (b. 1679)
1761 – William Law, English minister (b. 1686)
1768 - Sarah Fielding, British writer (b. 1710)
1804 – Jacques Necker, French statesman (b. 1732)
1806 – William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic
1872 - Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (b. 1794)
1876 - Charles Goodyear, American politician (b. 1804)
1882 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English painter, illustrator and poet (b. 1828)
1889 – Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (b. 1786)
1901  2000 
1917 – James Hope Moulton, English scholar of Classical Greek (b. 1863)
1936 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (b. 1855)
1940 – Mrs. Patrick Campbell, English actress (b. 1865)
1944 – Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1920)
1945 - German resistance activists executed:
Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (b. 1887)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (executed) (b. 1906)
Hans von Dohnanyi, German jurist (b. 1902)
Georg Elser, German carpenter (b. 1903)
Hans Oster, German army general (b. 1887)
Karl Sack, German jurist (b. 1896)
1948 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903).
1948 - George Carpenter, 5th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1872)
1959 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)
1961 – King Zog of Albania (b. 1895)
1963 – Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (b. 1891)
1970 - Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish-American illustrator (b. 1896)
1976 – Phil Ochs, American singer (b. 1940)
1980 - Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Iraqi cleric and philosopher (b. 1935)
1982 - Wilfrid Pelletier, Canadian conductor (b. 1896)
1988 – Brook Benton, American actor (b. 1931)
1991 – Martin Hannett, record producer (b. 1948)
1996 – Richard Condon, American novelist (b. 1915)
1996 – James W. Rouse, American real estate developer, activist, and philanthropist (b. 1914)
1997 – Laura Nyro, American singer and songwriter (b. 1947)
1999 – Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Niger politician and general (b. 1949)
From 2001 
2001 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player (b. 1940)
2002 – Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
2002 - Pat Flaherty, American racing driver (b. 1926)
2004 - Harry Babbitt, American singer (b. 1933)
2005 – Andrea Dworkin, American feminist and writer (b. 1946)
2009 - Nick Adenhart, American baseball player (b. 1986)
2010 – Meinhardt Raabe, American actor (b. 1915)
2011 – Sidney Lumet, American movie director (b. 1924)
2011 – Daniel Catan, Mexican composer (b. 1949)
2013 - Paolo Soleri, Italian-American architect (b. 1919)
2014 - A. N. R. Robinson, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1926)
2014 - Norman Girvan, Jamaican economist, educator and politician (b. 1941)
2014 - Jos Chabert, Belgian politician (b. 1933)
2015 - Nina Companeez, French movie director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
2015 - Paul Almond, Canadian moviemaker (b. 1931)
2015 - Alexander Dalgarno, British physicist (b. 1928)
2015 - John Toohey, Australian judge (b. 1930)
2016 - Arthur Anderson, American voice actor (b. 1922)
2016 - Duane Clarridge, American spy (b. 1932)
2016 - Tony Conrad, American musician, composer, video artist and professor (b. 1940)
2016 - Juris Ekmanis, Latvian academic (b. 1941)
2016 - Will Smith, American football player (b. 1981)
2017 - Knut Borge, Norwegian journalist (b. 1949)
2017 - Peter Hansen, American actor (b. 1921)
2017 - Harry Huskey, American computer scientist (b. 1916)
2017 - Kim Young-ae, South Korean actress (b. 1951)
2017 - Dieter Kottysch, German boxer (b. 1943)
2017 - John Clarke, New Zealand-Australian novelist, actor, screenwriter, comedian and satirist (b. 1948)
2017 - Carme Chacón, Spanish politician (b. 1971)
2017 - Jean Périmony, French actor and theatre director (b. 1931)
2018 - Felix Chen, Taiwanese conductor (b. 1942)
2018 - Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff, German supercentenarian (b. 1905)
2019 - Richard E. Cole, American Air Force officer (b. 1915)
2019 - Nikolai Gorbachev, Belarussian sprint canoeist (b. 1948)
2019 - Leif Haraldseth, Norwegian trade unionist and politician (b. 1929)
2019 - James D. Hudnall, American comic book writer (b. 1957)
2019 - K. M. Mani, Indian politician (b. 1933)
2019 - Marilynn Smith, American golfer (b. 1929)
2019 - Charles Van Doren, American educator, writer and television quiz show contestant (b. 1926)
2021 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, member of the British royal family and consort of Queen Elizabeth II (b.1921)
Observances 
 Martyrs' Day (Tunisia)
 Day of National Unity in Georgia
 Day of the Finnish language
 Day of Valour (Philippines)
 Constitution Day (Kosovo)
 Vimy Ridge Day (Canada)

April 09
Up to 1900 
 775 - The Battle of Bagrevand ends Armenian rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate. Muslim control over Transcaucasus is solidified and its Islamization begins.
 799 - After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, Pope Leo III flees to the Frankish court of Charlemagne at Paderborn, present-day Germany, for protection.
 1058 - Malcolm III of Scotland becomes King.
 1134 – The name Zagreb is first mentioned in the Felician Charter.
 1607 – Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
 1644 – Chongzhen Emperor, the last Chinese Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, commits suicide.
 1707 - The Habsburg Army is defeated by the Bourbon Army at Almansa, Spain, in the War of the Spanish Succession.
 1792 – La Marseillaise, the current national anthem of France, is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
 1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person to be executed by guillotine.
1804 - The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire.
 1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives on the HMS Challenger on the coast of present-day Western Australia, which he colonises as the British Swan River colony.
 1846 – Open conflict begins on the disputed border of Texas, beginning the Mexican-American War.
 1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
 1861 – American Civil War: Union troops arrive in Washington, DC.
 1862 - American Civil War: Forces under Union admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Marks' Mills.
 1898 – Spanish-American War: The US declares war on Spain.
1901  2000 
 1901 – New York becomes the first US State to use automobile license plates.
 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli in present-day Turkey begins, as Australian, French, British and New Zealand forces land at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
 1916 – Easter Rebellion: The UK declares martial law in Ireland.
 1916 - First observation of ANZAC Day, a year after the landings at Gallipoli.
 1920 - At San Remo Conference, the principal Allied powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman Empire-ruled lands of the Middle East.
 1945 – World War II: US and Soviet forces meet in Torgau on the River Elbe, a milestone in ending the war in Europe.
 1945 – World War II: The Nazi occupation army in Northern Italy surrenders as the Puppet Fascist regime dissolves. Benito Mussolini tries to escape.
 1945 – The Lapland War ends.
1945 – Representatives of 50 countries gather in San Francisco, California, to begin UN conferences on International Organisation.
 1946 - The Naperville, Illinois train disaster kills 47 people.
 1951 - Korean War: Assaulting Chinese forces are forced to withdraw after heavy fighting with UN forces, primarily made of Australian and Canadian troops, in the Battle of Kapyong.
 1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish their paper describing their discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
 1959 – The St. Lawrence River seaway, linking North America's Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, opens.
 1960 - United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation (round-the-world journey) of the globe.
 1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
 1966 – The city of Tashkent in present-day Uzbekistan (then in the Soviet Union) is destroyed in an earthquake.
 1967 - The current Flag of Swaziland is introduced.
1974 – Start of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal; A leftist coup ends Fascist rule.
 1975 - The Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated as North Vietnamese forces close in on South Vietnamese capital Saigon.
 1980 - A Boeing 727 of Dan Air Services crashes on approach to landing on Tenerife, hitting a mountain, killing all 146 people on board.
 1981 - More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs to the nuclear power plant at Tsuruga, Japan.
 1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula.
 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by Yuri Andropov after she sent him a letter expressing concern over a possible nuclear war.
 1983 – The Pioneer 10 space probe travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
 1986 – Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland.
 1990 - Violeta Chamorro becomes President of Nicaragua.
1998 – Danish-born American Christian Mortensen dies aged 115. Until 2012, he held the record of oldest man ever, after the claim of Japanese Shigechiyo Izumi is doubted. His record was surpassed in 2012 by Jiroemon Kimura of Japan.
From 2001 
 2002 - Mark Shuttleworth of South Africa becomes the first African in space.
 2003 – The Human Genome Project comes to an end.
 2004 - Heinz Fischer is elected President of Austria.
 2005 – The Amagasaki rail crash in Japan kills 107 people.
 2005 – After being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937, the final part of the obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia.
 2005 – Bulgaria and Romania sign a treaty allowing them to join the European Union on January 1, 2007.
 2007 – The funeral of Boris Yeltsin takes place.
 2009 – The Left-Wing parties win Iceland's parliamentary election, confirming Johanna Sigurdardottir as Prime Minister.
 2015 - 2015 Nepal earthquake: A magnitude 7.8 earthquake, followed by several aftershocks, strikes Nepal, and is also felt in nearby countries. Over 1,500 people are killed and many buildings destroyed.
 2019 - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet for talks in Vladivostok.

Births
Up to 1900 
32 – Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (died 69)
1214 – King Louis IX of France (died 1270)
1228 – Conrad IV of Germany (died 1254)
1284 – King Edward II of England (died 1327)
1287 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (died 1330)
1529 - Franciscus Patricius, Venetian philosopher (died 1597)
1599 – Oliver Cromwell, English statesman (died 1658)
1608 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans (died 1660)
1621 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (died 1679)
1710 - James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (died 1776)
1714 - Emer de Vattel, Swiss philosopher and diplomat (died 1767)
1723 - Giovanni Marco Ratini, Italian composer (died 1797)
1767 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (died 1847)
1770 – Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (died 1850)
1775 – Charlotte of Spain (died 1830)
1776 – Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (died 1857)
1806 - William, Duke of Brunswick (died 1884)
1811 - William Henry Bissell, Governor of Illinois (died 1860)
1825 - Federico Errázuriz Zañartu, President of Chile (died 1877)
1839 - Roswell K. Colcord, Governor of Nevada (died 1939)
1840 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (died 1893) (O.S.)
1843 – Alice of the United Kingdom (died 1878)
1849 – Felix Klein, German mathematician (died 1925)
1852 - Leopoldo Alas, Spanish novelist (died 1901)
1857 - Giuseppe Gamba, Archbishop of Turin (died 1929)
1862 - Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, English politician (died 1933)
1873 - Walter de la Mare, English poet, short story writer and novelist (died 1956)
1873 - Félix d'Herelle, French-Canadian microbiologist (died 1949)
1874 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (died 1937)
1883 - Semyon Budyonny, Soviet marshal (died 1973)
1895 - Stanley Rous, English football official, 6th President of FIFA (died 1986)
1897 – Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (died 1956)
1900 – Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)
1901  1950 
1902 – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (died 1964)
1903 – Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (died 1987)
1903 - Michele Pellegrino, Italian archbishop of Turin (died 1986)
1905 - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (died 1986)
1906 – William J. Brennan, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (died 1997)
1908 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (died 1965)
1909 - William Pereira, American architect (died 1985)
1911 - Connie Marrero, Cuban baseball player (died 2014)
1914 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., writer (died 1948)
1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (died 1996)
1918 – Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (died 1995)
1918 – Astrid Varnay, operatic soprano (died 2006)
1920 - Jean Carmet, French actor (died 1994)
1921 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (died 2006)
1922 - Georges Cottier, Swiss cardinal (died 2016)
1923 – Albert King, American musician (died 1992)
1923 - Anita Björk, Swedish actress (died 2012)
1924 - Ingemar Johansson, Swedish race walker (died 2009)
1924 - Franco Mannini, Italian composer, playwright and writer (died 2005)
1925 – Sammy Drechsel, journalist, movie director, and cabaretist (died 1986)
1927 – Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
1928 – Vassar Clements, American musician
1928 – Cy Twombly, American painter (died 2011)
1928 - Yury Yakovlev, Russian actor (died 2013)
1929 - John S. Waugh, American chemist (died 2014)
1929 - Yvette Williams, New Zealand athlete (died 2019)
1930 – Paul Mazursky, American movie director and writer (died 2014)
1930 - Peter Schulz, Mayor of Hamburg (died 2013)
1931 - Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician and physicist (died 1980)
1932 – Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player (died 2015)
1932 - Lia Manoliu, Romanian discus thrower (died 1998)
1932 - William Roache, English actor
1933 – Jerry Leiber, American composer (died 2011)
1934 - Denny Miller, American actor (died 2014)
1935 - Li Ao, Chinese-Taiwanese social commentator and historian (died 2018)
1935 – April Ashley, English model
1936 - Henck Arron, 1st Prime Minister of Suriname (died 2000)
1938 - Roger Boisjoly, American engineer (died 2012)
1939 - Tarcisio Burgnich, Italian footballer
1939 - Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, English photographer (died 2005)
1940 – Al Pacino, American actor
1941 - Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter and actor
1941 - Princess Muna al-Hussein of Jordan
1941 - Walter Mixa, German bishop
1942 - Jon Kyl, American politician
1943 - Julio Montero Castillo, Uruguayan footballer
1943 - Angelo Anquilletti, Italian footballer (died 2015)
1943 - Tony Christie, British singer
1944 – Len Goodman, British dancer
1945 – Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
1945 - Stu Cook, English bass guitarist
1946 - Andrzej Seweryn, Polish actor
1946 – Talia Shire, American actress
1946 - Peter Sutherland, Irish lawyer, politician and businessman (died 2018)
1946 – Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician
1947 – Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer (died 2016)
1948 - Mike Selvey, English cricketer
1948 - Yu Shyi-kun, 39th Premier of the Republic of China
1949 - Paul Judge, British businessman and political executive (died 2017)
1949 – Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French politician and economist, former head of the IMF
1950 – Peter Jurasik, American actor
1950 - Peter Hintze, German politician (died 2016)
1951  1975 
1952 - Jacques Santini, French footballer and manager
1952 - Vladislav Tretiak, Russian ice hockey goaltender
1952 – Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist
1953 - Ron Clements, American animator, director, producer and screenwriter
1955 - Americo Gallego, Argentine footballer
1955 - Zev Siegel, American businessman
1956 - Dominique Blanc, French actress
1957 - Eric Bristow, English darts player (died 2018)
1957 - Roch Marc Kaboré, former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso
1958 – Fish, Scottish singer, musician and actor
1959 - Paul Madden, English diplomat
1960 - Robert Peston, English journalist
1962 - Juha Sipila, Finnish politician, Prime minister of Finland
1963 – David Moyes, Scottish footballer and manager
1963 - Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, French actress
1964 – Hank Azaria, American actor
1964 – Andy Bell, British musician (Erasure)
1964 - Fiona Bruce, British journalist, newsreader and television presenter
1965 - John Henson, American puppeteer (d. 2014)
1965 - Simon Fowler, English singer and guitarist
1965 – Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction)
1969 – Joe Buck, baseball and American football broadcaster
1969 – Darren Woodson, American football player
1969 – Renée Zellweger, American actress
1969 – Gina Torres, American actress
1970 – Jason Lee, American actor
1970 - Jason Wiles, American actor
1972 – Sofia Helin, Swedish actress
1974 - Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou
1975 - Steven Paterson, Scottish politician
From 1976 
1976 – Tim Duncan, American basketball player
1976 – Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
1976 – Gilberto da Silva Melo, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Marguerite Moreau, American actress
1980 - Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese baseball player
1980 - Alejandro Valverde, Spanish cyclist
1980 - Ben Johnston, Scottish musician (Biffy Clyro)
1980 - James Johnston, Scottish musician (Biffy Clyro)
1980 - Lee Spick, English snooker player (died 2015)
1981 – Felipe Massa, Brazilian racing driver
1981 – Anja Parson, Swedish skier
1982 – Monty Panesar, English cricketer
1983 - Jonathan Thurston, Australian rugby league player
1986 – Alexei Emelin, Russian ice hockey player
1986 - Claudia Rath, German heptathlete
1986 - Daniel Sharman, British actor
1987 - Razak Boukari, Togolese footballer
1988 - James Sheppard, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 – Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama
1989 - Marie-Michèle Gagnon, Canadian alpine ski racer
1989 - Michael van Gerwen, Dutch darts player
1996 - Allisyn Ashley Arm, American actress
1996 - Liam Henderson, Scottish footballer
Up to 1900 
 68 – Saint Mark
 487 - Emperor Kenzo of Japan (b. 450)
 501 - Saint Rusticus, French archbishop (b. 455)
 1077 – Geza I of Hungary (b. 1040)
 1265 - Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader (b. 1195)
 1295 – King Sancho IV of Castile (b. 1258)
 1472 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet and philosopher (b. 1404)
 1516 – John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)
 1566 – Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henry II of France (b. 1499)
 1595 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (b. 1544)
 1605 – Naresuan, King of Siam (b. 1555)
 1644 – Chongzhen Emperor of China (b. 1611)
 1744 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (b. 1701)
 1770 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (b. 1700)
 1800 – William Cowper, English poet (b. 1731)
 1840 - Simeon Denis Poisson, French mathematician (b. 1781)
 1873 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (b. 1783)
 1875 – Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama (b. 1857)
 1878 – Anna Sewell, English writer (b. 1820)
1901  2000 
 1911 - Emilio Salgari, Italian writer (b. 1862)
 1915 - Frederick W. Seward, American lawyer, writer, editor and politician (b. 1830)
 1923 - Louis-Olivier Taillon, 8th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
 1928 – Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1878)
 1943 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian director, playwright and producer (b. 1858)
 1944 - George Herriman, American writer (b. 1880)
 1944 - William Stephens, American politician, 24th Governor of California (b. 1859)
 1961 - Robert Garrett, American athlete (b. 1875)
 1968 – Walter Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
 1976 - Carol Reed, English director and producer (b. 1906)
 1980 – Katia Mann, German writer (b. 1883)
 1980 - Mario Bava, Italian movie director and screenwriter (b. 1914)
 1982 - John Cody, American cardinal (b. 1907)
 1984 - David Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy (b. 1955)
 1988 - Valerie Solanas, American author (b. 1936)
 1990 - Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist, composer and actor (b. 1923)
1992 - Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer (b. 1965)
 1993 - Rosita Moreno, Spanish-American actress (b. 1907)
 1995 – Andrea Fortunato, Italian footballer (b. 1971)
 1995 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
 1995 - Art Fleming, American game show host (b. 1925)
 1996 - Saul Bass, American graphic designer, photographer and moviemaker (b. 1920)
 1998 – Christian Mortensen, Danish-American supercentenarian (b. 1882)
 1999 – Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish Olympic official (b. 1914)
From 2001 
 2002 – Indra Devi, Latvian-born yoga teacher (b. 1899)
 2002 - Lisa Lopes, American singer-songwriter, dancer and actress (b. 1971)
 2007 – Alan Ball, Jr., English footballer (b. 1945)
 2007 - Bobby Pickett, American singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
 2008 – Humphrey Lyttelton, English jazz musician (b. 1921)
 2009 – Beatrice Arthur, American actress (b. 1922)
 2010 – Alan Sillitoe, British writer (b. 1928)
 2011 – Poly Styrene, British singer (b. 1957)
 2011 – Gonzalo Rojas, Chilean poet (b. 1917)
 2013 - Anna Proclemer, Italian actress (b. 1923)
 2013 - Virginia Gibson, American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1925)
 2014 - Tito Vilanova, Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1968)
 2014 - Stanko Lorger, Slovenian Olympic hurdler (b. 1931)
 2014 - Stefanie Zweig, German writer (b. 1932)
 2014 - Earl Morrall, American football player (b. 1934)
 2015 - Dan Fredinburg, American executive (b. 1981)
 2015 - Matthias Kuhle, German geographer (b. 1948)
 2015 - Jim Fanning, American baseball player (b. 1927)
2015 - Don Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1922)
 2015 - Mike Phillips, American basketball player (b. 1956)
 2015 - Christine Stewart, Canadian politician (b. 1941)
 2016 - Martin Gray, Polish Holocaust survivor and writer (b. 1922)
 2016 - Michal Hornstein, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1920)
 2016 - Tom Lewis, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1922)
 2016 - Mei Baojiu, Chinese opera artist (b. 1934)
 2017 - Sasha Lakovic, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1971)
 2017 - Munyua Waiyaki, Kenyan politician (b. 1926)
 2017 - Erik Martin, German songwriter and editor (b. 1936)
 2017 - Philippe Mestre, French media executive and politician (b. 1927)
 2018 - Abbas, Iranian photographer (b. 1944)
 2018 - Shuhrat Abbosov, Uzbek actor, film director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1931)
 2018 - Adebayo Adedeji, Nigerian economist and academic (b. 1930)
 2018 - Inuka, Singapore-bred polar bear (b. 1990)
 2018 - Hans-Reinhard Koch, German Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1929)
2018 - Michael Anderson, British film director (b. 1920)
 2019 - Robert de Greef, Dutch cyclist (b. 1991)
 2019 - John Havlicek, American basketball player (b. 1940)
 2019 - Larry "Flash" Jenkins, American actor (b. 1955)
 2019 - Manuel Lujan Jr., American politician (b. 1928)
 2019 - Faty Papy, Burundiian footballer (b. 1990)
 2019 - Feargal Quinn, Irish businessman and politician (b. 1936)
Observances 
 Saints of the Day: Saint Mark the Evangelist; Saint Franca of Piacenza
 ANZAC Day - Australia, New Zealand, Tonga
 DNA Day
 World Malaria Day
 Flag Day (Faroe Islands, Swaziland)
 Liberation Day (Italy)
 Freedom Day (Portugal)
 Army Day (North Korea)
 Latest date for Easter (March 22 is the earliest), last occurred on this date in 1943 and will next do so in 2038

Days of the year
Up to 1950 
1315 – Robert the Bruce opens the first Scottish Parliament.
1478 – The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral.
1564 – William Shakespeare is baptised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.
1607 – English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1721 - A massive earthquake hits Tabriz, present-day Iran.
1802 - Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but 1,000 of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France. 
1803 - Meteor fragments, in their thousands, fall from the skies above L'Aigle, France.
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman near Durham, North Carolina.
1865 –  Union cavalry troopers corner John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in a barn in Virginia. Booth is shot dead by cavalryman Boston Corbett.
1876 – In football, FC Copenhagen is founded. It is the oldest Football Club in Denmark and Northern Europe.
1903 - In football, Spanish club Atletico Madrid is founded.
1923 – Future King George VI of the United Kingdom marries Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected Reichspräsident, the head of state of the Weimar Republic.
1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1942 – The worst-ever mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria.
1944 - Georgius Papandreou becomes Head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
From 1951 
1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
1956 - SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
1960 – The April Revolution in South Korea leads to the resignation of President Rhee Syng-man, who had ruled for 12 years.
1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1963 - Libya changes its constitution. Women gain the right to vote, and the official name of the country becomes "Kingdom of Libya".
1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
1965 - A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario has to be abandoned after 15 minutes after rioting.
1966 – The IOC decides that Munich should host the 1972 Summer Olympics.
1966 - Ambroise Noumazalaye forms the new government in the Republic of the Congo.
1982 – 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangam-do, South Korea.
1986 – In Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, a nuclear reactor at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
1989 – The deadliest-ever tornado kills over 1,000 people in central Bangladesh.
1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas would record the year's only F5 tornado (see The Andover, Kansas Tornado).
1994 – South Africa holds its first multiracial elections.
1994 – A China Airlines Airbus A-300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264.
2000 – The Andorra national football team scores its first-ever win; 2-0 against the Belarus national football team. Andorra had joined FIFA in 1994.
2002 – 19-year-old Robert Steinhäuser shoots and kills 17 people at his school in Erfurt, Germany.
2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.
2012 – Former President of Liberia Charles Taylor is found guilty of war crimes for his role in supplying weapons during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
2013 - A fire in a psychiatric hospital near Moscow, Russia, kills 38 people. Only 3 people survive.
2013 - The Bank of England announces that Winston Churchill will feature on its five-pound bank notes from 2016.
2016 - A court ruling finds that the 96 victims of the Hillsborough disaster were unlawfully killed.
2017 - The Cassini space probe moves inside Saturn's ring system.
2018 - American entertainer Bill Cosby is found guilty of sexual assault.
Up to 1900 
 121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (died 188)
 1538 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (died 1600)
 1575 – Marie de' Medici, Queen of France (died 1647)
 1647 - William Ashhurst, English banker and politician (died 1720)
 1648 – Peter II of Portugal (died 1706)
 1710 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (died 1797)
 1711 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher (died 1776), born on May 7 in Gregorian calendar
 1765 - Emma, Lady Hamilton, wife of Horatio Nelson (died 1815)
 1774 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (died 1853)
 1782 – Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily (died 1866)
 1785 – John James Audubon, American painter (died 1851)
 1786 – William Hovell, English explorer of Australia (died 1875)
 1787 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet (died 1862)
 1798 – Eugène Delacroix, French painter (died 1863)
 1801 - Ambrose Dudley Mann, American politician and diplomat (died 1889)
 1812 – Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (died 1887)
 1821 - Robert Adamson, Scottish photographer (died 1848)
1822 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (died 1903)
 1826 – Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War general (died 1872)
 1845 - Jorge Montt, President of Chile (died 1922)
 1856 – Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1930)
 1862 - Edmund C. Tarbell, American artist (died 1938)
 1865 – Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter and architect (died 1931)
 1879 – Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist (died 1959)
 1885 - Marcello Bertinetti, Italian fencer and footballer (died 1967)
 1886 – Gabdulla Tukay, Tatar poet (died 1913)
 1886 – Ma Rainey, American singer (died 1939)
 1888 – Anita Loos, American writer (died 1981)
 1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (died 1951)
 1889 - James Wordie, Scottish polar explorer (died 1962)
 1892 – John Murray, Australian army officer (died 1951)
 1894 – Rudolf Hess, Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler's Deputy (died 1987)
 1896 - Ernst Udet, German pilot (died 1941)
 1897 – Douglas Sirk, German-born movie director (died 1987)
1897 - Eddie Eagan, American athlete (died 1967)
 1898 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer (died 1984)
 1898 – John Grierson, Scottish moviemaker (died 1972)
 1900 – Charles Richter, American seismologist (someone who studies earthquakes), creator of the Richter scale (died 1985)
1901  1950 
 1904 - Jimmy McGrory, Scottish footballer (died 1982)
 1907 - Ilios Tsirimkos, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1968)
 1909 - Marianne Hoppe, German theatre and movie actress (died 2002)
 1910 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie director (died 1997)
 1914 – Bernard Malamud, American writer (died 1986)
 1917 – I. M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
 1917 - Virgil Trucks, American baseball player (died 2013)
 1918 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (died 2004)
 1921 - Jimmy Giuffre, American jazz clarinetist, saxophone player and composer (died 2008)
 1922 - Roger Grava, Italian-French footballer (died 1949)
 1922 - Jeanne Sauvé, 23rd Governor General of Canada (died 1993)
 1922 - Margaret Scott, South African-Australian ballerina and choreographer 
 1925 - Vladimir Botlyansky, Russian mathematician and writer
 1925 - Jorgen Ingmann, Danish musician (died 2015)
 1925 - Zvi Yavetz, Israeli historian (died 2013)
 1925 - Michele Ferrero, Italian businessman (died 2015)
1926 – David Coleman, British sports broadcaster (died 2013)
 1930 - Roger Moens, Belgian athlete
 1931 - Bernie Brillstein, American movie and television producer (died 2008)
 1931 - Paul Almond, Canadian screenwriter, director and producer (died 2015)
 1932 - Israr Ahmed, Pakistani theologian, philosopher and scholar (died 2010)
 1932 – Francis Lai, French movie score composer
 1932 - Agildo Ribeiro, Brazilian actor (died 2018)
 1932 - Birgitta Stenberg, Swedish writer (died 2014)
 1932 – Michael Smith, British-born chemist (died 2000)
 1933 – Carol Burnett, American actress and comedienne
 1933 – Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist
 1934 - Donald Sterling, American businessman, former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers
 1936 - Doug Sax, American audio engineer (died 2015)
 1937 - Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French racing driver (died 2015)
 1938 - Nino Benvenuti, Italian boxer
 1938 – Duane Eddy, American guitarist
 1940 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer
1942 - Svyatoslav Belza, Russian scholar, critic and essayist (died 2014)
 1942 - Molvi Iftikhar Hussein Ansari, Kashmiri Shia cleric and politician (died 2014)
 1942 – Bobby Rydell, American singer
 1945 - Richard Armitage, American politician
 1945 - Jorge Serrano Elias, 29th President of Guatemala
 1947 – Warren Clarke, British actor (died 2014)
 1947 - David Byrne, Irish politician
 1948 - Derek Davis, Irish broadcaster (died 2015)
 1949 – Carlos Bianchi, Argentine footballer
 1949 - Dominic Sena, American director
 1950 – Thomas Quick, Swedish claimed serial killer
1951  1975 
 1953 - Arved Fuchs, German polar scientist and writer
 1955 – Kurt Bodewig, German politician
 1956 - Koo Stark, American actress
 1958 - John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, Scottish peer and racing driver
 1959 - John Corabi, American singer and musician
 1959 – Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and songwriter
 1960 – Roger Andrew Taylor, British drummer (Duran Duran)
 1961 – Joan Chen, Chinese-born actress
 1961 - Chris Mars, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
 1963 – Jet Li, Chinese martial artist and actor
 1963 - Tank Abbott, American martial artist and wrestler
 1965 – Kevin James, American comedian
 1966 - Yoshihiro Togashi, Japanese manga artist
 1967 - Marianne Jean-Baptiste, British actress
 1967 – Glenn Jacob, American Wrestler
 1970 – Melania Trump, Slovenian-American model, First Lady of the United States
 1972 – Avi Nimni, Israeli footballer
 1973 - Lee Woon-Jae, South Korean footballer
 1973 - Gedeon Naudet, French-born American movie maker
1974 - Adil Ray, British radio presenter
 1975 – Nerina Pallot, British singer-songwriter
 1975 – Joey Jordison, American musician (Slipknot)
From 1976 
 1977 - Jason Earles, American actor, comedian and martial artist
 1977 – Roxana Saberi, American journalist
 1977 - Raphael Wicky, Swiss footballer
 1977 - Craig Adams, Canadian ice hockey player
 1978 - Elson Becerra, Colombian footballer (d. 2006)
 1979 - Ariane Moffatt, Canadian singer and songwriter
 1980 – Anna Mucha, Polish actress
 1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor
 1980 - Jordana Brewster, American actress
 1980 - Marlon King, Jamaican footballer
 1981 – Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer
 1981 – Ms. Dynamite, British singer and musician
 1981 – Caro Emerald, Dutch singer
 1982 – Nadja Benaissa, German singer
 1982 - Amazing Red, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
 1983 – Jessica Lynch, American POW
 1984 - Emily Wickersham, American actress and model
 1985 – John Isner, American tennis player
 1985 - Nam Gyu-Ri, South Korean singer and actress
 1987 - Jessica Lee Rose, American-New Zealand actress
 1989 - Daesung, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
1990 - Kim Yu-mi, South Korean model
 1990 - Jonathan dos Santos, Mexican footballer
 1991 - Ignacio Lores Varela, Uruguayan footballer
 1992 – Danielle Hope, English actress and singer
 1994 - Daniil Kvyat, Russian racing driver
 1994 - Zoe Smith, English weightlifter
 1995 - Daniel Padilla, Filipino actor and singer
Up to 1950 
 499 - Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei in China (b. 467)
 645 - Richarius, Frankish hermit and monk (b. 560)
 757 – Pope Stephen II
 1192 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
 1196 – Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1157)
 1444 – Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
 1476 - Simonetta Vespucci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1453)
 1478 – Giuliano di Piero de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1453)
 1489 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)
 1716 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651)
 1789 - Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (b. 1721)
 1865 – John Wilkes Booth, the man who killed United States President Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
 1910 – Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian writer (b. 1832)
 1910 - Garretson W. Gibson, President of Liberia (b. 1832)
 1915 - John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
 1920 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
 1924 - Josef Labor, Bohemian composer, organist and pianist (b. 1842)
1938 – Edmund Husserl, German philosopher (b. 1859)
 1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist (b. 1874)
 1944 - Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter and discus thrower (b. 1893)
 1945 – Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor (b. 1909)
 1946 – James Larkin White, American, discovered the Carlsbad Caverns (b. 1882)
1951  2010 
 1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868)
 1956 – Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
 1957 - Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese creator of Karate (b. 1868)
 1968 - John Heartfield, German painter and graphic artist (b. 1891)
 1969 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist (b. 1883)
 1970 - Charles January, American soccer player (b. 1888)
 1976 – Sid James, South African-born British comedian (b. 1913)
 1984 – Count Basie, American musician (b. 1904)
 1986 - Hermann Gmeiner, Austrian humanitarian (b. 1919)
 1986 - Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)
 1988 - Valerie Solanas, American feminist (b. 1936)
 1989 – Lucille Ball, American actress (b. 1911)
 1991 - Carmine Coppola, American conductor and composer (b. 1910)
 1991 - Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician, 26th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1931)
 1994 – Masutatsu Oyama, founder of Japanese Kyokushin karate (b. 1927)
 1996 – Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (b. 1918)
1999 – Jill Dando, British television presenter (b. 1961)
 1999 - Man Mohan Adhikari, Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1920)
 2002 – Robert Steinhauser, German spree killer in the Erfurt massacre (b. 1983)
 2003 - Edward Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist (b. 1904)
 2005 – Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress (b. 1926)
 2005 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan writer (b. 1917)
 2007 – Jack Valenti, American political advisor and movie executive (b. 1921)
From 2011 
 2011 – Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
 2013 - George Jones, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931)
 2013 - William L. Guy, 26th Governor of North Dakota (b. 1919)
 2013 - Mary Thom, American journalist (b. 1944)
 2014 - Sandro Lopopolo, Italian boxer (b. 1939)
 2014 - Antonio Pica, Spanish footballer (b. 1933)
 2014 - DJ Rashad, American DJ (b. 1979)
 2015 - Wang Guozhen, Chinese poet (b. 1956)
 2015 - Izatullo Khayoyev, Prime Minister of Tajikistan (b. 1936)
 2015 - Bill Valentine, American baseball umpire (b. 1932)
 2015 - Masudur Rahman Baidya, Indian swimmer (b. 1968)
 2015 - Hojatollah Khatib, Iranian sports administrator (b. 1954)
 2015 - Jayne Meadows, American actress (b. 1919)
 2015 - Marcel Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1930)
 2016 - Harry Wu, Chinese activist (b. 1937)
 2016 - Vincent Darius, Grenadian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1955)
 2016 - Amanullah Khan, Pakistani-Kashmiri activist and writer (b. 1934)
2016 - Lucy Kibaki, former First Lady of Kenya (b. 1940)
 2017 - Jonathan Demme, American film director (b. 1944)
 2018 - Yoshinobu Ishii, Japanese footballer (b. 1939)
 2018 - Philip H. Hoff, American politician, 73rd Governor of Vermont (b. 1924)
 2018 - Elvira Orphée, Argentine writer (b. 1922)
 2018 - Gianfranco Parolini, Italian film director (b. 1925)
Observances 
 Union Day (Tanzania)
 Confederate Memorial Day (Texas and Florida)
 Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl tragedy (Belarus)
 World Intellectual Property Day
 Latest possible date for Easter Monday (earliest is March 23)

Days of the year
Events

Up to 1900 
 1184 BC - Traditional date of the Fall of Troy.
 1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots marries future King Francis II of France.
 1585 - Felice Peretti is elected Pope, becoming Pope Sixtus V.
 1704 - The first regular newspaperin Colonial America, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
 1715 - Following defeat in the naval Battle of Fehmarn, Sweden sinks its own flagship, Hedvig Sophia, to prevent Denmark from taking it.
 1800 – The Library of Congress in Washington, DC opens.
 1877 – Russo-Turkish War: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
 1885 - American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired to be part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
 1895 - Joshua Slocum sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts on his boat Spray, on his way to becoming the first person to sail single-handedly around the world.
 1898 – The Spanish-American War begins.
1901  2000 
 1904 - The Lithuanian press ban ends after over 40 years.
 1907 - Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey exclusively for his employees, opens.
 1913 – New York City's Woolworth building is opened.
 1914 - The Franck-Hertz Experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
 1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
 1916 – The Irish Easter Rising begins in Dublin.
 1916 - Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from the uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organize a rescue for the ice-trapped ship Endurance.
 1922 - The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield, Oxfordshire, England and Cairo, Egypt, begins operations.
1926 - The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other, for the next five years.
 1933 - Nazi Germany begins with the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society in Magdeburg.
 1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
 1955 - End of the Bandung Conference in Indonesia: 29 non-aligned Asian and African countries condemn colonialism, racism and the Cold War.
 1957 - Following the Suez Crisis, the Suez Canal is re-opened.
 1957 - The BBC first broadcasts the long-running astronomy TV programme The Sky at Night, presented by Patrick Moore until his death in 2012.
 1964 - The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen is beheaded.
 1965 - A civil war starts in the Dominican Republic.
 1967 – Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when his parachute fails to open.
 1968 – Mauritius joins the UN.
 1970 – The Gambia becomes a republic with Dawda Jawara as its first President.
1970 - The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
 1971 - Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
 1974 - President of Austria Franz Jonas dies in office aged 74, following a long period of illness.
 1990 – Gruinard Island in Scotland is declared free of Anthrax.
 1990 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from Space Shuttle Discovery.
 1993 - An Irish Republican Army bomb hits the Bishopsgate area of London.
From 2001 
 2004 – In Cyprus, a referendum on reunification results in the Turkish population mainly voting yes, but the Greek population mainly voting no, meaning that only Greek Cyprus joins the EU the following week.
 2004 - The United States lifts (ends) economic sanctions on Libya.
 2005 – Josef Alois Ratzinger is officially inaugurated as Pope Benedict XVI.
 2005 – Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog, is born in South Korea.
 2007 – Iceland announces that Norway will take responsibility of its defence in peacetime.
 2013 - 1,127 people are killed when an eight-storey clothing factory building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapses. Over 2,500 are injured.
 2016 - The candidates of the traditional political parties are rejected in Austria's Presidential election, with Alexander Van der Bellen and Norbert Hofer advancing to the second round.

Births
Up to 1900 
1086 - Ramiro II of Aragon (d. 1157)
1492 - Sabina of Bavaria (d. 1564)
1533 – William I of Orange (d. 1584)
1580 – Vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660)
1620 – John Graunt, English statistician (d. 1674)
1706 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (d. 1780)
1718 – Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784)
1719 - Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti, Italian poet (d. 1789)
1721 - Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German composer and music theorist (d. 1783)
1743 – Edmund Cartwright, British inventor (d. 1823)
1777 - Maria Clementina of Austria (d. 1801)
1787 - Mathieu Orfila, Spanish-French chemist (d. 1853)
1815 – Anthony Trollope, English novelist (d. 1882)
1819 - Klaus Groth, German writer (d. 1899)
1825 - R. M. Ballantyne, Scottish writer (d. 1894)
1829 - James Sheakley, Territorial Governor of Alaska (d. 1917)
1831 - George Nares, British admiral and polar explorer (d. 1915)
1841 - Charles Sprague Sargent, American botanist (d. 1927)
1845 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
1851 - Morgan Earp, American Western figure and brother of Wyatt Earp (d. 1882)
1856 – Henri Philippe Pétain, French soldier and statesman (d. 1951)
1871 - Blanche Ring, American singer (d. 1961)
1876 – Erich Raeder, German naval commander (d. 1960)
1878 – Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (d. 1958)
1879 - Susanna Bokoyni, Hungarian-American centenarian and circus performer (d. 1984)
1880 - Gideon Sundback, Swedish engineer, businessman and developer of the zipper (d. 1954)
1882 – Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Scottish fighter pilot (d. 1970)
1889 – Sir Stafford Cripps, British politician (d. 1952)
1889 – Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (d. 1924)
1896 - Charlie Rivel, Spanish clown (d. 1983)
1896 – Benjamin Whorf, American linguist (d. 1941)
1897 – Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (d. 1955)
1899 – Oscar Zariski, Russian-born mathematician (d. 1986)
1901  1925 
1903 - José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician (d. 1936)
1904 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch painter (d. 1997)
1905 – Robert Penn Warren, American poet (d. 1989)
1906 – William Joyce, Irish fascist (d. 1946)
1907 – William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
1908 - Viktor Abakumov, Soviet politician (d. 1954)
1908 – Marceline Day, American actress (d. 2000)
1908 – Jozef Goslawski, Polish sculptor (d. 1963)
1909 – Bernhard Grzimek, German zoologist, naturalist, writer and movie maker (d. 1987)
1913 - Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and engineer (d. 2014)
1914 – William Castle, American movie director and producer (d. 1977)
1916 – Lou Thesz, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1919 - Glafcos Clerides, 4th President of Cyprus (d. 2013)
1919 - César Manrique, Spanish artist, architect and conservationist (d. 1992)
1922 - Susanna Agnelli, Italian politician (d. 2009)
1922 – J.D. Cannon, American actor (d. 2005)
1922 - Marc-Adélard Tremblay, Canadian anthropologist (d. 2014)
1923 - Gus Bodnar, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1924 – Sir Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician (d. 2009)