Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1901  1950 
 1901  Alfred Lepine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
 1904  Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974)
 1909  C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and writer (d. 1993)
 1910  Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer (d. 2003)
 1914  Lord Killanin, Irish Olympic official (d. 1999)
 1915  Francisco Urcuyo Maliaños, Nicaraguan politician (d. 2001)
 1919  Berniece Baker Miracle, American author
 1920  Marie Tharp, American scientist (d. 2006)
 1925  Antoine Duhamel, French composer (d. 2014)
 1925  Jacques Sernas, Lithuanian-French actor (d. 2015)
 1925  Stan Stennett, Welsh actor (d. 2013)
 1926  Martin Nag, Norwegian writer (d. 2015)
 1927  Tony Hiller, British songwriter (d. 2018)
 1927  Richard Johnson, English actor, writer and producer (d. 2015)
 1927  Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
 1928  Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster
 1928  Chris Howland, British-German singer, presenter, actor and writer (d. 2013)
1930  Tony Lip, American actor (d. 2013)
 1934  Bud Selig, American businessman and Commissioner of Baseball
 1936  Buddy Guy, American Blues guitarist and singer
 1936  Infanta Pilar of Spain
 1938  Hervé de Charette, French politician
 1939  Peter Bogdanovich, American director
 1940  Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor
 1941  Paul Anka, Lebanese-Canadian singer
 1943  Giovanni Goria, 46th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1994)
 1943  Giuseppe Versaldi, Italian cardinal
 1944  Peter Bottomley, English politician
 1944  Frances de la Tour, English actress
 1945  Patrick Modiano, French novelist
 1945  David Sanborn, American jazz saxophonist
 1947  Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist and Nobel Prize winner
 1947  Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born actor, bodybuilder and former Governor of California
 1947  William Atherton, American actor
 1948  Jean Reno, Moroccan-French actor
 1948  James H. Burnley IV, American politician
 1950  Harriet Harman, British politician
1951  1975 
 1954  Ken Olin, American actor, producer and actor
 1955  Christopher Warren-Green, English violinist and conductor
 1957  Bill Cartwright, American basketball player
 1957  Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer
 1958  Kate Bush, British singer
 1958  Daley Thompson, British athlete
 1958  Neal McCoy, American singer-songwriter
 1959  Petra Felke, German athlete
 1960  Jennifer Barnes, American-English musicologist and academic
 1960  Richard Linklater, American director
 1961  Laurence Fishburne, American actor
 1962  Yakub Memon, Indian terrorist (d. 2015)
 1963  Lisa Kudrow, American actress
 1963  Chris Mullin, American basketball player
 1964  Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer
 1964  Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-American director
 1966  Craig Gannon, English guitarist and songwriter
 1966  Lisa Madigan, American politician
 1968  Sean Moore, Welsh musician (Manic Street Preachers)
 1968  Robert Korzeniowski, Polish race walker
 1968  Terry Crews, American actor
1968  Sofie Grabol, Danish actress
 1969  Simon Baker, Australian-American actor
 1969  Errol Stewart, South African cricketer and lawyer
 1970  Alun Cairns, Welsh politician
 1970  Christopher Nolan, English movie director
 1971  Claude Dambury, French footballer
 1971  Tom Green, American actor and comedian
 1971  Christine Taylor, American actress
 1973  Sonu Nigam, Indian singer
 1973  Dean Edwards, American actor and comedian
 1973  Clementa C. Pinckney, American pastor and politician (d. 2015)
 1974  Hilary Swank, American actress
 1974  Jason Robinson, English rugby player
From 1976 
 1977  Diana Bolocco, Chilean model and journalist
 1977  Misty May-Treanor, American volleyball player and coach
 1977  Derek Mackay, Scottish politician
 1977  Ian Watkins, Welsh singer
 1977  Jaime Pressly, American actress
 1979  Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer
 1980  Justin Rose, English golfer
 1981  Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (d. 2017)
 1981  Hope Solo, American soccer player
 1981  Lisa Goldstein, American actress
 1982  Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
 1982  James Anderson, English cricketer
 1983  Sean Dillon, Irish footballer
 1985  Daniel Friedheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
 1988  Lara Jean Marshall, English-Australian actress, singer and dancer
 1990  Coco Sumner, British singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1991  Diana Vickers, British singer
 1992  Fabiano Caruana, American chess player
 1992  Hannah Cockroft, British Paralympic athlete
 1993  Miho Miyazaki, Japanese singer (AKB48)
 1995  Jorge Cori, Peruvian chess player
1995  Hirving Lozano, Mexican footballer
 1999  Joey King, American actress
 2002  Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese Royal
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 578  Jacob Baradaeus, bishop of Edessa
 579  Pope Benedict I
 734  Tatwine, Archbishop of Canterbury
 1540  Thomas Abel, English priest and martyr (b. 1497)
 1540  Robert Barnes, English martyr and reformer (b. 1495)
 1652  Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
 1680  Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
 1683  Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
 1691  Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
 1715  Nahum Tate, Irish poet (b. 1652)
 1718  William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
 1771  Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716)
 1789  Giovanna Bonanno, Italian poisoner and alleged witch (b. 1713)
 1811  Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1753)
 1875  George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
 1898  Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor (b. 1815)
 1900  Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
1901  2000 
 1908  James Budd, Governor of California (b. 1851)
 1912  Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b. 1852)
 1918  Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
 1927  Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner (b. 1848)
 1930  Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman (b. 1877)
 1938  John Derbyshire, English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878)
 1947  Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
 1949  Stoyan Danev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1858)
 1965  Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (b. 1886)
 1970  George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)
 1971  Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
 1978  Umberto Nobile, Italian airship pioneer (b. 1885)
 1983  Lynn Fontanne, stage and movie actress (b. 1887)
 1985  Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
 1986  John N. Dalton, American politician, Governor of Virginia (b. 1931)
 1992  Joe Shuster, Canadian comic artist (b. 1914)
 1992  Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)
1996  Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (b. 1903)
 1996  Magda Schneider, German actress and singer (b. 1909)
 1997  Bao Dai, Vietnamese Emperor (b. 1913)
 1998  Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (b. 1917)
From 2001 
 2001  Anton Schwarzkopf, German engineer (b. 1924)
 2003  Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
 2005  John Garang, South Sudanese politician (b. 1945)
 2006  Murray Bookchin, American Libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
 2007  Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian movie director (b. 1912)
 2007  Ingmar Bergman, Swedish movie director (b. 1918)
 2007  Teoctist Arapasu, Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (b. 1915)
 2008  Anne Armstrong, American diplomat (b. 1927)
 2009  Peter Zadek, German theatre director (b. 1926)
 2009  Mohammed Yusuf, Nigerian Islamist militant (Boko Haram) (b. 1970)
 2011  Mario Echandi Jiménez, President of Costa Rica (b. 1915)
 2012  Chris Marker, French movie maker (b. 1921)
 2012  Maeve Binchy, Irish writer (b. 1940)
 2013  Harry F. Byrd, Jr., American politician (b. 1914)
 2013  Antoni Ramallets, Catalan-Spanish footballer (b. 1924)
 2013  Robert Neelly Bellah, American sociologist (b. 1927)
 2014  Julio Grondona, Argentine football executive (b. 1931)
2014  Dick Wagner, American rock guitarist (b. 1942)
 2014  Dick Smith, American special effects make-up artist (b. 1922)
 2014  Peter Hall, British urban planner (b. 1932)
 2014  Harun Farocki, German filmmaker and author (b. 1944)
 2014  Manfred Roeder, German Wehrmacht soldier and far-right activist (b. 1929)
 2015  Yakub Memon, Indian terrorist (b. 1962)
 2015  Lynn Anderson, American country singer (b. 1947)
 2015  Jerome Kohlberg, Jr., American businessman (b. 1925)
 2015  Alana Vrzanova, Czech figure skater (b. 1931)
 2017  Tato Cifuentes, Chilean-born Argentine actor and singer (b. 1925)
 2017  Ciro Cirillo, Italian politician (b. 1921)
 2017  H. Sayeeduddin Dagar, Indian singer (b. 1939)
 2017  Paulo Garcia, Brazilian politician (b. 1959)
 2017  Slim Mahfoudh, Tunisian actor (b. 1942)
 2018  Andreas Kappes, German cyclist (b. 1965)
 2018  Khayyam Mirzazade, Azerbaijani composer and professor (b. 1935)
 2018  Ron Dellums, American politician (b. 1935)
2018  Michael A. Sheehan, American author (b. 1955)
 2019  Marcian Bleahu, Romanian geologist, writer and politician (b. 1924)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Vanuatu)
 International Friendship Day
 Throne Day (Morocco)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 48 BC – Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. It may have occurred on September 29, his 58th birthday, but records are unclear.
 235 - Pope Pontian resigns.
 365 - Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople and proclaims himself Roman Emperor.
 935 - Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
 1066 – William the Conqueror invades England.
 1106 – The Battle of Tinchebrai – Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.
 1238 - Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.
 1322 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
 1448 – Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
 1538 - The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over the Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
 1542 – Navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives as what is now San Diego.
1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
 1779 – Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
 1781 – American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown Heights, Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
 1787 – The just completed United States Constitution is voted on by the United States Congress to be sent to the State legislatures for approval.
 1791 - France becomes the first country to emancipate its Jewish population.
 1820 – The tomato is publicly proven safe when Robert Johnson eats a bushel (24 kg) of tomatoes in Salem, Massachusetts.
 1821 – Mexico signs its final Declaration of Independence.
 1823 – Leo XII is elected as pope.
 1844 – Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
 1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
 1867 - The US takes control of Midway Island, northwest of Hawaii.
 1868 – Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
1871 – Brazil passes law freeing future children of slaves.
 1885 - Riots break out in Montreal to protest against having to have smallpox vaccination.
 1889 - The first Conference of General Weights and Measurements is held.
 1892 - The first night match in American football takes place, between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
 1893 - FC Porto is founded.
1901  2000 
 1901 - Philippine-American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than 40 American soldiers and lose 28 of their own, in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.
 1907 - The football club Real Sociedad is founded in Cantabria, Northern Spain.
 1912 - Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted official to die in an airplane crash, along with Lewis C. Rockwell at College Park, Maryland.
 1919 - In a referendum, most voters in Luxembourg decide to keep the monarchy.
 1928 – The UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act.
 1928 - Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
 1934 – Ocean liner RMS Queen Mary is launched at Clydebank.
 1939 – Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
 1939 – Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
 1944 – Battle of Arnhem – Germans defeat British airborne at Arnhem, Netherlands.
 1950 – Indonesia joins the UN.
1951 - CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, though withdraws them less than a month later.
 1958 – Guinea votes for independence from France.
 1958 – France ratifies a new constitution; the Fifth Republic of France is formed.
 1960 – Mali and Senegal join the UN.
 1961 – A military coup in Damascus, Syria effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
 1964 - The Warren Commission concludes there was no conspiracy in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
 1969 – Willy Brandt is elected Chancellor of Germany.
 1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser dies, and is succeeded by Anwar Sadat as President of Egypt.
 1971 – UK Misuse of Drugs Act – medicinal cannabis is banned.
 1972 – Paul Henderson scores the goal to win the Canada/USSR (ice hockey) "Summit Series".
 1973 – ITT Building in New York City is bombed to protest ITT's involvement in the September 11 Coup in Chile.
1976 – R&B singer Stevie Wonder releases the classic double album Songs in the Key of Life.
 1978 – Pope John Paul I dies after just 33 days as Pope.
 1979 - Larry Holmes wins his Heavyweight World Boxing Title fight against Ernie Shavers.
 1987 – "Encounter at Farpoint", the first episode of TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation airs.
 1992 - An Airbus A300 of Pakistan International Airlines strikes a mountain near Kathmandu, killing all 117 on board.
 1994 – The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
 1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
 2000 – Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau dies.
 2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada begins after the visit of Ariel Sharon to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
 2000 - In a referendum in Denmark, a majority of voters reject the Euro currency.
From 2001 
 2003 – A widespread power outage affects Italy.
 2004 – Wayne Rooney makes his long-awaited Manchester United debut, scoring a hat-trick in the 6-2 Champions League victory.
 2009 – 157 protesters are killed in Guinea, as they demonstrated against the military rule of Moussa Dadis Camara.
 2010 – A massive landslide kills at least 7 people in Oaxaca, Mexico.
 2012 - A plane crashes shortly after take-off from Kathmandu and bursts into flames, killing all 19 people on board.
 2013 - Pakistan is struck by a second earthquake, after one of magnitude 7.7 struck four days earlier.
 2013 - Several ministers from Silvio Berlusconi's party resign from the coalition government of Enrico Letta in Italy.
 2014 - Europe wins its third Ryder Cup golf championship in-a-row, defeating the United States at Gleneagles, Scotland.
 2016 - International investigators conclude that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by a Buk missile that came from Russia.
Up to 1900 
 551 BC - Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479 BC)
 616 - Javanshir, Albanian King (d. 680)
 1493 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (d. 1545)
 1555 - Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, Marshal of France (d. 1623)
 1573 – Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)
 1605 – Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (d. 1694)
 1667 – Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
 1681 - Johann Mattheson, German composer (d. 1764)
 1698 - Pierre-Louis Maupertuis, French polymath (d. 1759)
 1705 - Johann Peter Kellner, German organist and composer (d. 1772)
 1735 - Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1811)
 1746 - William Jones, English philologist (d. 1794)
 1765 - Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846)
 1797 - Fyodor Litke, Russian geographer, navigator and Arctic explorer (d. 1882)
 1803 - Prosper Mérimée, French writer (d. 1870)
 1809 - Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (d. 1899)
1811 - Friedrich Hecker, German-American lawyer, politician and revolutionary (d. 1881)
 1819 - Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol, Catalan engineer, artist and inventor (d. 1885)
 1821 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (d. 1874)
 1823 – Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (d. 1889)
 1828 - Friedrich Albert Lange, German philosopher (d. 1875)
 1836 – Thomas Crapper, English inventor (d. 1910)
 1838 – Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian national saint (d. 1918)
 1841 – Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)
 1844 - Robert Stout, Scottish-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
 1852 – Henri Moissan, French chemist (d. 1907)
 1859 - Alfredo Baquerizo, President of Ecuador (d. 1951)
 1860 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist (d. 1934)
 1863 - King Carlos I of Portugal (d. 1908)
 1865 - Amélie of Orléans (d. 1951)
 1867 – Hiranuma Kiichiro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)
 1871 – Pietro Badoglio, Italian soldier and politician (d. 1956)
1871 - Fred P. Cone, Governor of Florida (d. 1948)
 1878 - Joseph Ruddy, American freestyle swimmer and water polo player (d. 1962)
 1882 - Alexander Kutupov, Russian general (d. 1930)
 1887 – Avery Brundage, American sports official, President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1975)
 1889 - Jack Fournier, American baseball player (d. 1973)
 1892 - Elmer Rice, American dramatist (d. 1973)
 1893 - Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer and dramatist (d. 1984)
 1895 - Prentice Cooper, 36th Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Ed Sullivan, American television host (d. 1974)
 1901 - William S. Paley, American radio and TV executive (d. 1990)
 1905 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)
 1907 - Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast (d. 1997)
 1909 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
 1910 – Diosdado Macapagal, President of the Philippines (d. 1997)
 1914 - Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (d. 2014)
 1915 – Ethel Rosenberg, American alleged spy (d. 1953)
 1916 – Peter Finch, British actor (d. 1997)
 1918 - Willi Ritschard, Swiss politician (d. 1983)
 1923 - William Windom, American actor (d. 2012)
 1924 – Rudolf Barshai, Russian conductor and violist (d. 2010)
 1924 - Giuseppe Chiappella, Italian footballer (d. 2009)
 1924 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
 1925 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist (d. 1996)
 1928 – Koko Taylor, American blues musician (d. 2009)
 1930 - Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist and social scientist (d. 2019)
1932 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer and songwriter (d. 1973)
 1933 - Madeleine M. Kunin, Swiss-born American politician, 77th Governor of Vermont
 1933 - Miguel Berrocal, Spanish sculptor (d. 2006)
 1934 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress and animal activist
 1935 - Pierre Ryckmans, Belgian-Australian writer and diplomat (d. 2014)
 1935 - Heather Sears, English actress (d. 1994)
 1938 – Ben E. King, American singer (d. 2015)
 1938 - Myechyslaw Hryb, former President of Belarus
 1939 - Elbridge Bryant, American tenor (d. 1975)
 1939 - Iain MacCormick, Scottish politician (d. 2014)
 1939 - Rudolph Walker, Trinidadian-English actor
 1939 - Stuart Kauffman, American physician and biologist
 1941 – David Lewis, American philosopher (d. 2001)
 1941 – Edmund Stoiber, German politician
 1942 - Donna Leon, American writer
 1942 - Tim Maia, Brazilian musician and songwriter (d. 1998)
 1943 - Nick St. Nicholas, German-Canadian musician (Steppenwolf)
 1944 - Yoshitada Yamaguchi, Japanese footballer
1944 - Milos Zeman, former Prime Minister, and current President, of the Czech Republic
 1946 – Helen Shapiro, English singer
 1947 – Bob Carr, former Premier of New South Wales
 1947 – Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh
 1947 – Jon Snow, English broadcast journalist
 1949 - Jim Henshaw, Canadian actor, screenwriter and producer
 1949 - George Kerevan, Scottish journalist, economist and politician, former SNP MP
 1950 – John Sayles, American director and screenwriter
 1950 – Laurie Lewis, American musician
1951  1975 
 1951 - Jim Diamond, Scottish singer (d. 2015)
 1952 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress, model and singer (d. 2012)
 1953 - Otmar Hasler, 11th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
 1954 - Margot Wallström, Swedish politician
 1955 – Stéphane Dion, Canadian politician
 1960 – Jennifer Rush, American singer
 1960 - Socrates B. Villegas, Filipino archbishop
 1960 - Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford, English politician
 1961 - Quentin Kawananakoa, claimant to the throne of Hawaii
 1961 - Yordanka Donkova, Bulgarian athlete
 1961 - George Rossi, Scottish actor (d. 2022)
 1964 - Janeane Garofalo, American actress and comedienne
 1964 – Paul Jewell, English football manager
 1965 - Christopher Evan Welch, American actor (d. 2013)
 1966 - Ginger Fish, American musician
 1966 - Maria Canals-Barrera, American actress
 1966 - Leilani Sarelle, American actress
 1967 - Mira Sorvino, American actress
 1968 – Mika Hakkinen, Finnish racing driver
 1968 – Naomi Watts, English-Australian actress
1969 - Angus Robertson, Scottish politician, SNP Deputy leader and former MP
 1970 – Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japanese tennis player
 1970 - Jo Wyatt, English singer and actress
 1971 - George Eustice, English politician
 1971 - Joseph Arthur, American singer
 1972 – Dita Von Teese, American Burlesque dancer
 1974 - Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer
From 1976 
 1976 - Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist
 1977 - Ireneusz Marcinkowski, Polish footballer
 1978 - Peter Cambor, American actor
 1978 – Bushido, German rapper and musician
 1979 – Bam Margera, American skateboarder and actor
 1981 – Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorean footballer
 1981 - Melissa Claire Egan, American actress
 1982 - Takeshi Aoki, Japanese footballer
 1982 – Abhinav Bindra, Indian Olympic shooter
 1982 – Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey player
 1982 – Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor
 1982 - Matt Cohen, American actor
 1982 - St. Vincent, American singer-songwriter and producer
 1983 - Richard Henyekane, South African footballer (d. 2015)
 1983 - Sarah Wright, American actress and model
 1984 – Mathieu Valbuena, French footballer
 1984 – Melody Thornton, American singer
 1984 - Yvonne Ploetz, German politician
 1985 - Shindong, South Korean singer and actor (Super Junior)
 1986 - Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
 1987 – Hilary Duff, American actress and singer
1988 – Marin Cilic, Croatian tennis player
 1988 – Esmée Denters, Dutch singer
 1989 - Darius Johnson-Odom, American basketball player
 1990 – Kirsten Prout, Canadian actress
 1992 – Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress (d. 2014)
 1993 - Jodie Williams, English athlete
 2000 - Frankie Jonas, American actor
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 48 BC – Pompey the Great, Roman consul (born 106 BC)
 235 – Saint Pontianus, Pope
 876 – Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (born 804)
 935 – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (born 907)
 1104 – Pedro I, king of Aragon and Navarre (born 1068)
 1197 – Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1165)
 1582 - George Buchanan, Scottish philosopher and historian (born 1506)
 1781 - William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British statesman and diplomat (born 1717)
 1797 - Gunning Bedford, Jr., American politician, Governor of Delaware (born 1742)
 1829 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky, Russian general (born 1771)
 1844 - Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (born 1769)
 1859 – Carl Ritter, German geographer (born 1779)
 1891 – Herman Melville, American writer (born 1819)
 1895 – Louis Pasteur, French scientist (born 1822)
 1899 - Giovanni Segantini, Italian-Swiss painter (born 1858)
1901  2000 
 1907 - Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (born 1826)
 1914 - Richard Sears, American businessman (born 1863)
 1918 - Eduard von Keyserling, German writer and dramatist (born 1835)
 1935 - William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, producer and inventor (born 1860)
 1935 - Hans Baluschek, German painter (born 1870)
 1938 - Charles Duryea, American automobile manufacturer (born 1861)
 1939 - William Dunlap, American painter and writer (born 1866)
 1949 - Chrysanthus, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens (born 1881)
 1953 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (born 1891)
 1956 – William Boeing, American aviation manufacturer (born 1881)
 1959 – Rudolf Caracciola, German racing driver (born 1901)
 1964 – Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (born 1888)
 1966 - André Breton, French poet (born 1896)
 1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (born 1918)
 1978 – Pope John Paul I (born 1912)
 1979 - John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (born 1921)
1981 – Romulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (born 1908)
 1989 – Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (born 1917)
 1990 - Larry O'Brien, American commissioner of the NBA (born 1917)
 1991 – Miles Davis, American musician (born 1926)
 1994 - Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (born 1953)
 1994 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician (assassinated) (born 1946)
 2000 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada (born 1919)
From 2001 
 2003 - Yukichi Chuganji, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1889)
 2003 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)
 2003 - Elia Kazan, Greek-born American movie director (b. 1909)
 2003 - Olle Anderberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1919)
 2009 – Guillermo Endara, President of Panama (b. 1936)
 2010 – Arthur Penn, American screenwriter (b. 1922)
 2012 - Michael O'Hare, American actor (b. 1952)
 2014 - Petr Skoumal, Czech musician and composer (b. 1938)
 2014 - Dannie Abse, Welsh writer (b. 1923)
 2015 - Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (b. 1939)
 2015 - Michael Burgess, Canadian actor and tenor (b. 1945)
 2015 - Walter Dale Miller, American politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1925)
 2015 - Frank Martinus Arion, Dutch Antillean writer (b. 1936)
 2015 - Frankie Ford, American singer (b. 1939)
 2016 - Shimon Peres, former President of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1923)
 2016 - Agnes Nixon, American television writer and producer (b. 1922)
2017 - Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, Spanish film director (b. 1927)
 2017 - Lee Hsin, Taiwanese politician (b. 1953)
 2017 - Daniel Pe'er, Israeli television presenter (b. 1943)
 2017 - Jürgen Roth, German journalist (b. 1945)
 2017 - Benjamin Whitrow, British actor (b. 1937)
 2017 - Andreas Schmidt, German actor (b. 1963)
 2018 - Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, Prime minister of Swaziland (b. 1942)
 2018 - Ito Giani, Italian sprinter (b. 1941)
 2018 - Bob Jane, Australian racing driver and entrepreneur (b. 1929)
 2019 - José Aldunate, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate and activist (b. 1917)
 2019 - Ismail Petra of Kelantan, Malaysian royal (b. 1949)
 2019 - Jan Kobuszewski, Polish actor (b. 1934)
 2019 - José José, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1948)
 2019 - Mark Zakharov, Russian theatre and film director (b. 1933)
Holidays and observances 
 RC Saints – St. Wenceslas, Lorenzo Ruiz - Also see September 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 Czech Republic – Czech Statehood Day
 Taiwan – Teacher's Day (Confucius' birthday)
 World Heart Day
 World Rabies Day
 Ask a Stupid Question Day (United States)

Other websites 
 BBC: On This Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1643 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to reach Fiji.
 1649 – The Parliament of Scotland declares the future Charles II as King.
 1685 – James II of England/James VII of Scotland becomes King.
 1778 - American Revolutionary War: France recognizes the United States as an independent republic.
 1788 – Massachusetts becomes a U.S. state.
 1788 – Female convicts are landed at Sydney, leading to a wild night of sex, rape and a riot.
 1795 - The First Boer Republic is founded in protest against the Dutch East India Company.
 1806 - Battle of Santo Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
 1815 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
 1819 – Singapore is founded.
 1820 – Liberia is founded.
 1833 – Otto becomes the first King of modern Greece.
 1840 – New Zealand is founded with the Treaty of Waitangi.
 1843 - The US' first minstrel show, the Virginia Minstrels, begins at Bowery Amphitheatre in new York City.
1851 - Widespread bushfires affect the state of Victoria, Australia.
 1862 - American Civil War: The United States Navy gives the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
 1886 – German chemist Clemens Winkler discovers the chemical element Germanium.
 1899 - Spanish-American War: The United States Senate accepts the Treaty of Paris between the United States and Spain.
 1900 - An international court of law is created in The Hague, Netherlands.
1901  2000 
 1911 - 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, is born in Tampico, Illinois.
 1917 - The first International Sámi Conference takes place in Trondheim, Norway.
 1918 – In the United Kingdom, women over the age of 30 years get the right to vote.
 1919 - Women aged 21 or over are given the right to vote in Luxembourg.
 1922 - Achille Ratti is elected Pope Pius XI.
 1934 - Far-right groups rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
 1936 – The Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, begin.
 1942 - World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Siam, present-day Thailand.
 1951 - A Pennsylvania railroad passenger train crashes off the track near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, killing 85 people. 
 1952 – Accession to the throne of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, after the death of George VI.
1958 – Munich Air Disaster: A plane whose passengers include several Manchester United footballers, crashes shortly after take-off in blizzard conditions in Munich, Germany.
 1959 - American Jack Kilby applies for a patent for the Integrated circuit.
 1968 – The 1968 Winter Olympics began in Grenoble, France.
 1971 – NASA astronaut Alan Shepard becomes the first person to play golf on the Moon.
 1973 – Construction begins on the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada.
 1978 – New England is hit by a major snowstorm.
 1981 - The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on the Ugandan Army installation in the Central Mubenda District, starting the Ugandan Bush War.
 1988 - Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line.
 1989 – Berlin Wall: Chris Gueffroy becomes the last person to die while trying to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin over the Berlin Wall.
 1989 – Talks begin in Warsaw between Poland's Communist leaders and respresentatives of the Solidarity movement.
1994 — American pop rock band Maroon 5 is formed. (As Kara's Flowers)
 1996 - Birgenair Flight 301 crashes off the west coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. It is the worst accident to involve a Boeing 757.
 1998 – Washington, DC's National Airport is renamed in honour of Ronald Reagan.
 1999 – An Indonesian ferry sinks off Borneo with the loss of more than 300 lives.
 2000 - Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny.
From 2001 
 2005 – Super Bowl XXXIX: The New England Patriots beat the Philadelphia Eagles 24–21. During this game, American Dad! is shown for the first time.
 2006 – Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
 2012 - Queen Elizabeth II marks 60 years on the throne as Queen of the United Kingdom and several countries in the Commonwealth of Nations, becoming only the second British monarch, after Queen Victoria, to reach this milestone.
 2016 - A major earthquake strikes Taiwan, mainly in the south of the island. A collapsed tower block kills at least 116 people and leaves up to 100 missing.
 2018 - SpaceX successfully launches its Falcon Heavy rocket.
 2018 - A major earthquake strikes the northeast of Taiwan, including the city of Hualien.
 2018 - "Cheddar Man", the earliest-known human known to have lived in present-day Great Britain, 9,000 year ago, is revealed to have had dark skin and blue eyes. 
 2023 - Major earthquakes strike the southern of Turkey and Syria.

Births
Up to 1800 
 1347 - Dorothea of Montau, Prussian saint (d. 1394)
 1452 – Joan, Princess of Portugal (d. 1490)
 1465 - Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician (d. 1526)
 1582 - Mario Bettinus, Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1657)
 1605 - Bernard of Corleone, Italian saint (d. 1667)
 1608 - Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
 1611 – Chongzhen, Emperor of China (d. 1644)
 1612 - Antoine Arnauld, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician (d. 1694)
 1636 - Heiman Dullaart, Dutch painter (d. 1684)
 1643 – Johann Casimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, 1st Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1712)
 1664 – Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1703)
 1665 – Anne, Queen of England, Ireland and Scotland (d. 1714)
 1726 - Patrick Russell, Scottish surgeon and naturalist (d. 1805)
 1730 - Januarius Zick, German painter (d. 1797)
 1736 - Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German-Austrian sculptor (d. 1783)
 1744 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795)
1748 – Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher (d. 1811)
 1753 - Evariste de Parny, French poet (d. 1814)
 1756 – Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
 1757 - Julian Ursan Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman (d. 1841)
 1778 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer and poet (d. 1827)
 1797 - Joseph van Radowitz, Prussian statesman and general (d. 1853)
 1799 - George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Scottish botanist (d. 1868)
1801  1900 
 1802 – Charles Wheatstone, English physicist and inventor (d. 1875)
 1811 – Henry George Liddell, English philologist and lexicographer (d. 1898)
 1818 - William M. Evarts, American lawyer and statesman (d. 1901)
 1818 - Jenaro Quesada y Matheus, Spanish nobleman and politician (d. 1889)
 1832 - John Brown Gordon, 32nd Governor of Georgia (d. 1904)
 1833 - Jose Maria de Pereda, Spanish novelist (d. 1906)
 1838 - Henry Irving, British actor (d. 1905)
 1843 - Inoue Kowashi, Japanese statesman (d. 1895)
 1846 - Raimundo Andueza Palacio, 24th President of Venezuela (d. 1900)
 1847 - Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect (d. 1918)
 1852 - Vasily Safonov, Russian pianist, composer and teacher (d. 1918)
 1852 - C. Lloyd Morgan, British psychologist (d. 1936)
 1854 - Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, Italian prince (d. 1931)
 1859 – Wilhelm Cohn, German chess player (d. 1913)
 1861 - Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian chemist (d. 1953)
 1864 - John Henry Mackay, Scottish thinker and writer (d. 1933)
1866 - Karl Sapper, German explorer and linguist (d. 1945)
 1870 - James Braid, Scottish golfer (d. 1950)
 1872 - Robert Maillart, Swiss engineer (d. 1940)
 1879 – Carl Ramsauer, German physicist (d. 1955)
 1879 - Magnus Gudmundsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1937)
 1879 - Edwin Samuel Montagu, British statesman (d. 1974)
 1880 - Nishinoumi Kajiro II, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1931)
 1883 - Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1938)
 1887 - Josef Frings, German cardinal (d. 1978)
 1892 – William P. Murphy, American doctor, won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1987)
 1893 - Muhammad Zaffarullah Khan, Pakistani politician and diplomat (d. 1985)
 1894 - Kirpal Singh, Indian religious leader (d. 1974)
 1895 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d. 1948)
 1897 - Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian movie director and producer (d. 1982)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Ben Lyon, American actor (d. 1979)
 1903 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean pianist (d. 1991)
 1905 – Wladyslaw Gomulka, Polish politician (d. 1982)
 1905 - Jan Werich, Czech actor, playwright and writer (d. 1980)
 1908 - Michael Maltese, American screenwriter (d. 1981)
 1908 – Amintore Fanfani, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1999)
 1911 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
 1912 – Eva Braun, wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
 1913 – Mary Leakey, Kenyan archaeologist (d. 1996)
 1914 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (d. 2005)
 1917 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress (d. 2016)
 1919 - Takashi Yanase, Japanese manga artist
 1921 - Carl Neumann Degler, American historian and writer (d. 2014)
 1922 – Patrick Macnee, British actor (d. 2015)
 1922 - Denis Norden, British comedy writer and television presenter
 1922 - Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer, movie producer and director (d. 2015)
1922 - Clifford Darling, Governor-General of the Bahamas (d. 2011)
 1923 – Gyula Lorant, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)
 1924 – Billy Wright, English footballer (d. 1994)
 1924 - Ivo Garrani, Italian actor (d. 2015)
 1924 - Jin Yong, Hong Kong writer and publisher
 1929 – Colin Murdoch, New Zealand pharmacist and inventor (d. 2008)
 1929 - Sixten Jernberg, Swedish cross-country skier (d. 2012)
 1929 - Pierre Brice, French actor (d. 2015)
 1931 – Mamie Van Doren, American actress
 1931 - Ricardo Vidal, Filipino cardinal (d. 2017)
 1932 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)
 1932 – François Truffaut, French movie director (d. 1984)
 1936 - Donnie Brooks, American pop music singer (d. 2007)
 1939 – Mike Farrell, American actor
 1939 - Jair Rodrigues, Brazilian musician and singer (d. 2014)
 1940 – Tom Brokaw, American television journalist
 1940 - Jimmy Tarbuck, English comedian and actor
 1942 - Valentina Titova, Russian actress
 1942 - Sarah Brady, American gun control campaigner (d. 2015)
1943 - Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress
 1943 - Georgeanna Tillman, American singer
 1944 - Michael Tucker, American actor
 1945 – Bob Marley, Jamaican Reggae musician (d. 1981)
 1946 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer and songwriter (d. 2010)
 1947 - Bill Staines, American singer-songwriter
 1948 - Claude Le Roy, French footballer and coach
 1948 - Bunny Rugs, Jamaican singer (d. 2014)
 1949 - Mike Batt, British composer
 1949 - Manuel Orantes, Spanish tennis player
 1950 – Natalie Cole, American singer (d. 2015)
 1950 - Timothy M. Dolan, American cardinal
1951  1975 
 1951 – Kevin Whately, British actor
 1952 - Viktor Giacobbo, Swiss writer, comedian and actor
 1952 – Ricardo La Volpe, Argentine football coach
 1954 - Bob Sirois, Canadian ice hockey player
 1956 - Jerry Marotta, American drummer (Orleans)
 1957 - Simon Phillips, American drummer (d. 2007)
 1957 - Robert Townsend, American actor
 1960 – Jeremy Bowen, British journalist
 1960 - Frank Jeske, East German footballer (d. 1994)
 1961 - Malu Dreyer, German politician
 1961 - Yury Onufriyenko, Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut
 1962 – Axl Rose, American singer (Guns N' Roses)
 1962 - Stavros Lambrinidis, Greek politician
 1963 - Quentin Letts, British journalist and critic
 1964 - Gord Downie, Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, writer and activist (d. 2017)
 1966 – Rick Astley, British singer
 1967 – Zard, Japanese singer (d. 2007)
 1967 - Anita Cochran, American singer
 1968 – Adolfo Valencia, Colombian footballer
 1969 - David Hayter, American actor
 1969 - Tim Sherwood, English footballer and manager
1969 - Masaharu Fukuyama, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
 1970 - Dina Sherman, American voice actress
 1971 - Brian Stepanek, American actor
 1971 - Simon Stephens, English playwright
 1975 – Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
From 1976 
 1976 – Princess Marie of Denmark
 1976 – Kasper Hvidt, Danish handball player
 1977 - Josh Stewart, American actor
 1979 - Alice Weidel, German politician
 1980 - Ben Lawson, Australian actor
 1980 - Luke Ravenstahl, 59th Mayor of Pittsburgh
 1981 - Calum Best, American-English model
 1981 - Jens Lekman, Swedish musician
 1981 - Shim Eun Jin, South Korean singer
 1982 – Tank, Taiwanese singer
 1982 - Alice Eve, English actress
 1983 - Melrose Bickerstaff, American model and fashion designer
 1984 - Piret Jarvis, Estonian singer
 1984 – Darren Bent, English footballer
 1985 – Kris Humphries, American basketball player
 1986 – Mathew Tait, English rugby player
 1988 - Bailey Hanks, American actress
 1989 - Jonny Flynn, American basketball player
 1989 - Craig Cathcart, Irish footballer
 1989 - Sophie Bennett, Canadian actress and singer
 1990 - Adam Henrique, Canadian ice hockey player
 1991 - Maxi Iglesias, Spanish actor
 1991 - Anna Sidorova, Russian curler
1992 - Cara McCollum, American journalist and beauty queen (d. 2016)
 1993 - Teresa Scanlan, American model
 1993 - Tinashe, American singer-songwriter, dancer and actress
 1995 - Jongup, South Korean singer
 1995 - Sam McQueen, English footballer
Up to 1900 
 891 - Saint Photius I the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople
 1215 - Hojo Tokimasa, Emperor of Japan (b. 1138)
 1378 – Jeanne de Bourbon, Queen of France (b. 1338)
 1497 – Johannes Ockeghem, Belgian composer (b. 1410)
 1593 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)
 1593 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
 1612 - Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1538)
 1617 - Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553)
 1685 – Charles II, King of England, Ireland and Scotland (b. 1630)
 1695 - Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1643)
 1740 – Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
 1783 - Lancelot "Capability" Brown, English gardener (b. 1716)
 1793 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b. 1707)
 1804 – Joseph Priestley, English-American theologian, philosopher, chemist and physicist (b. 1733)
 1834 - Richard Lemon Lander, English explorer (b. 1804)
 1855 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1791)
 1899 – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
1901  2000 
 1910 - Alfonso Maria Fusco, Italian Roman Catholic priest (b. 1839)
 1916 – Ruben Dario, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
 1918 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
 1929 – Maria Christina of Austria, Queen of Spain (b. 1858)
 1931 - Motilal Nehru, Indian politician (b. 1861)
 1933 - Jackson Showalter, American chess player (b. 1860)
 1938 - Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
 1942 - Jaan Soots, Estonian general and politician (b. 1880)
 1950 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
 1952 – George VI, King of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
 1956 - Henri Chrétien, French astronomer, professor and inventor (b. 1879)
 1958 - Manchester United players killed in the Munich Air Disaster:
David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
Eddie Colman, English footballer (b. 1936)
Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
Frank Swift, English footballer (b. 1913)
Walter Crickmer, English footballer and manager (b. 1900)
 1964 – Emilio Aguinaldo, President of the Philippines (b. 1869)
 1981 - Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1917)
 1981 - Hugo Montenegro, American movie music composer (b. 1925)
 1984 – Jorge Guillen, Spanish poet (b. 1893)
 1986 - Frederick Coutts, Scottish 8th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1899)
 1986 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)
 1989 – Chris Gueffroy, German, last person to die crossing the Berlin Wall (b. 1968)
 1990 - Jimmy van Heusen, American composer (b. 1913)
 1991 – Salvador Luria, Italian biologist (b. 1912)
 1991 - Danny Thomas, American signer, comedian and actor (b. 1914)
 1993 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
 1994 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
 1994 – Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b. 1917)
 1996 - Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)
 1998 – Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957)
 1998 – Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)
1999 - Don Dunstan, 35th Premier of South Australia (b. 1926)
 1999 - Jimmy Roberts, American tenor (b. 1924)
From 2001 
 2002 – Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist (b. 1914)
 2009 – James Whitmore, American actor (b. 1921)
 2010 – John Dankworth, British jazz musician (b. 1927)
 2011 – Josefa Iloilo, 3rd President of Fiji (b. 1920)
 2011 – Gary Moore, Northern Irish musician (b. 1952)
 2012 - Antoni Tapies, Catalan artist (b. 1923)
 2012 - Janice E. Voss, American astronaut (b. 1956)
 2013 - Chokri Belaid, Tunisian lawyer and politician (b. 1964)
 2013 - Stuart Freeborn, British make-up artist (b. 1914)
 2014 - Ralph Kiner, American baseball player (b. 1922)
 2015 - Marisa Del Frate, Italian actress (b. 1931)
 2015 - Alan Nunnelee, American politician (b. 1958)
 2015 - Assia Djebar, Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker (b. 1936)
 2015 - André Brink, South African writer (b. 1935)
 2015 - Kathrine Windfeld, Danish movie director (b. 1966)
 2015 - Norm Drucker, American basketball player (b. 1920)
 2016 
 Dan Hicks, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
Robin Chandler Duke, American social advocate and diplomat (b. 1923)
 Birte Tove, Danish actress (b. 1945)
 Eddy Wally, Belgian singer (b. 1932)
 2017 - Boy Asistio, Filipino politician (b. 1936)
 2017 - Ritchie Yorke, Australian-English writer and broadcaster (b. 1944)
 2017 - José Gea Escolano, Spanish archbishop (b. 1929)
 2017 - Roger Walkowiak, French cyclist (b. 1927)
 2017 - Irwin Corey, American actor and comedian (b. 1914)
 2017 - Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby player (b. 1971)
 2017 - Inge Keller, German actress (b. 1923)
 2017 - Alec McCowen, English actor (b. 1925)
 2017 - Ivar Aronsson, Swedish rower (b. 1928)
 2017 - Neil Gehrels, American astronomer (b. 1952)
 2017 - Djelloul Khatib, Algerian independence activist and politician (b. 1936)
 2017 - Raymond Smullyan, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1919)
 2018 - John Perry Barlow, American writer, songwriter and internet activist (b. 1947)
 2018 - Liliana Bodoc, Argentine writer (b. 1958)
2018 - Jao Tsung-I, Chinese-Hong Kong scholar (b. 1917)
 2018 - Joe Knollenberg, American politician (b. 1933)
 2018 - Madavoor Vasudevan Nair, Indian dancer (b. 1929)
Observances
 Waitangi Day in New Zealand
 International day of zero tolerance for female genital mutilation
 Sámi National Day (Finland, Norway, Sweden, parts of Russia)
 Ronald Reagan Day (California, Wisconsin, Illinois)
 Accession Day (since 1952), in the United Kingdom and all the other countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is Head of State

February 06
1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events 
 April 19 – Michel Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose debuts in Monte Carlo with Nijinsky in the title role
 June 13 – Michel Fokine's Petrushka debuts in Paris with Nijinsky in the title role
 December 14 – Roald Amundsen arrived the south pole

Date unknown 
 The Secret Garden is published
 Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition is published

Births

January 

 January 1 – Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (d. 1986)
 January 11 – Zenkō Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
 January 18 – Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian (d. 1987)
 January 22 – Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
 January 26 – Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist (d. 1993)

February 

 February 6 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
 February 19 – Merle Oberon, British actress (d. 1979)
March 

 March 3 - Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
 March 12 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, 49th President of Mexico (d. 1979)
 March 24 – Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
 March 25 – Jack Ruby, assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
 March 26 – Tennessee Williams, American writer (d. 1983)

April 

 April 5 – Hedi Amara Nouira, 2nd Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 1993)
 April 8 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (d. 1995)
 April 8 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist (d. 1997)
 April 20 – Kukrit Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 1995)
 April 23 – Józef Cyrankiewicz, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 1989)

May 

 May 17 – Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish-American actress (d. 1998)
 May 27 – Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
 May 27 – Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (d. 1978)
 May 31 – Maurice Allais, French economist (d. 2010)

June
June 

 April 20 – Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav politician and philosopher (d. 1995)
 June 13 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
 June 22 – Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark (d. 1937)
 June 24 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (d. 1995)
 June 29 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer and conductor (d. 1975)
 June 29 – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, consort of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)

July 

 July 5 – Georges Pompidou, President of France (d. 1974)
 July 7 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-American composer and librettist (d. 2007)
 July 16 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995)
 July 17 – Yang Jiang, Chinese writer (d. 2016)

August