Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
Up to 1950 
 1183 – Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (b. 1155)
 1216 – Henry of Flanders, Emperor of the Latin Empire
 1298 - Blessed Yolanda of Poland (b. 1235)
 1488 – King James III of Scotland (b. 1451)
 1557 – King John III of Portugal (b. 1502)
 1727 – King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)
 1796 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (b. 1720)
 1847 – John Franklin, British naval officer and Arctic explorer (b. 1786)
 1852 – Karl Briullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)
 1859 – Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (b. 1773)
 1868 - James Brooke, English adventurer (b. 1803)
 1879 – William, Prince of Orange, heir to the throne of the Netherlands (b. 1840)
 1882 - Louis Désiré Maigret, French bishop (b. 1804)
 1897 - Henry Ayers, 8th Premier of South Australia (b. 1821)
 1903 – Nikolai Bulgaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)
 1903 – Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia (b. 1876)
 1903 – Draga Lunjevica, Queen of Serbia (b. 1861)
1911 - James Curtis Hepburn, American physician and missionary (b. 1815)
 1913 - Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (b. 1856)
 1914 – Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848)
 1924 - Theodore Dubois, French organist, composer and educator (b. 1837)
 1934 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (b. 1896)
 1941 – Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
 1948 - Hugh M. Dorsey, American politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1871)
 1949 - Koçi Xoxe, Albanian politician (b. 1911)
1951  2000 
 1955 – Pierre Levegh, French racing driver (b. 1905)
 1956 - Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (b. 1895)
 1963 – Thich Quang Duc, Vietnamese Buddhist monk (b. 1897)
 1964 – Phibul Songkhram, Thai Prime Minister and military leader (b. 1897)
 1965 – José Mendes Cabecades, Portuguese politician (b. 1883)
 1967 - Ernesto Ruffini, Italian cardinal (b. 1888)
 1970 – Frank Laubach, Christian missionary (b. 1884)
 1974 - Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (b. 1883)
 1974 - Julius Evola, Italian politician (b. 1922)
 1979 – John Wayne, American actor (b. 1907)
 1984 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (b. 1922)
 1988 – Giuseppe Saragat, 5th President of Italy (b. 1898)
 1996 - Brigitte Helm, German actress (b. 1908)
 1998 – Catherine Cookson, British writer (b. 1906).
 1998 - Thomas Abernethy, American politician, Governor of Mississippi (b. 1903)
 1999 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)
From 2001 
 2001 - Pierre Eyt, French cardinal (b. 1934)
 2001 – Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (b. 1968)
 2004 – Mario Jeckle, German computer programmer (b. 1974)
 2005 - Vasco Gonçalves, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1922)
 2006 - Bruce Shand, father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (b. 1917)
 2008 – Ove Andersson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1939).
 2008 – Vo Van Kiet, Vietnamese politician (b. 1922).
 2010 – Zenani Mandela, great-granddaughter of Nelson Mandela (b. 1997).
 2011 – Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player (b. 1930).
 2011 – Seth Putnam, American musician (b. 1968).
 2011 – Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Israeli physicist (b. 1947).
 2012 – Ann Rutherford, Canadian-American actress (b. 1920).
 2012 – Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer (b. 1952).
 2013 - Robert Fogel, American economic historian (b. 1926).
 2013 - Evelyn Kozak, American supercentenarian (b. 1899)
 2013 - Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician (b. 1929)
 2014 - Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor and composer (b. 1933)
2014 - Mipham Chokyi Lodro, Tibetan Buddhist teacher (b. 1952)
 2014 - Ruby Dee, American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and activist (b. 1922)
 2014 - Gilles Ségal, French actor and playwright (b. 1929)
 2015 - Ron Moody, English actor (b. 1924)
 2015 - Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist and free jazz pioneer (b. 1930)
 2015 - Dusty Rhodes, American professional wrestler (b. 1945)
 2015 - Jack King, American public affairs officer (b. 1931)
 2015 - Jim Ed Brown, American country singer (b. 1934)
 2015 - Sebastiano Mannironi, Italian weightlifter (b. 1930)
 2016 - Rudi Altig, German cyclist (b. 1937)
 2016 - Shaibu Amodu, Nigerian football manager (b. 1958)
 2016 - Asghar Bichareh, Iranian photographer and actor (b. 1927)
 2016 - Bryan Robinson, American football player (b. 1974)
 2017 - Errol Christie, British boxer (b. 1963)
 2017 - Jim Graham, Scottish-born American politician (b. 1945)
 2017 - Geoffrey Rowell, British Anglican prelate (b. 1943)
2018 - Victoria Kalima, Zambian politician (b. 1972)
 2018 - Norma Bessouet, Argentine artist (b. 1940)
 2018 - John Coates, Australian general (b. 1932)
 2018 - Oscar Furlong, Argentine basketball player and tennis coach (b. 1927)
 2018 - Yvette Horner, French accordionist (b. 1922)
 2019 - Domenico De Simone, Italian politician (b. 1926)
 2019 - Martin Feldstein, American economist (b. 1939)
 2019 - Gabriele Grunewald, American runner (b. 1986)
 2019 - Velvel Pasternak, Canadian-American musicologist (b. 1933)
 2019 - Valeria Valeri, Italian actress (b. 1921)
Observances 
 Kamehameha Day, official state holiday in Hawaii
 Birthday of Prince Henrik (Denmark)
 St. Barnabas Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 823 - Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
 1081 - Alexios I Komnenos is crowned Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
 1242 – During a battle on the ice of Chudskoye Lake, Russian forces rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
 1566 - Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrick van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. 
 1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
 1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth on a return trip to Great Britain.
 1654 – The Treaty of Westminster is signed, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War.
 1690 – Patrizio Cardinal Ficca is elected pope and takes the name Patricius I.
 1710 - The Statute of Anne receives the Royal Assent, establishing the copyright law of Great Britain.
1722 – Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen reaches an island in the South Pacific on Easter Sunday. He names it Easter Island. He is the first European to visit the island.
 1792 – United States President George Washington vetos a bill designed to apportion representatives among U.S. states. This is the first time the presidential veto is used in the United States.
 1804 – The first recorded meteorite falls in Possil, Scotland (High Possil Meteorite).
 1815 - Tambora's eruption in Indonesia begins.
 1818 - Battle of Maipu: Chile's independence movement, led by Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose de San Martin, wins a decisive victory over Spain, with 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chileans patriots dying in the battle.
 1847 - Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park in the United Kingdom, is opened in Birkenhead.
 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Yorktown. The battle begins when Union forces under General George McClellan close in on the Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia.
1901  2000 
 1902 – A stand at the Ibrox stadium in Glasgow collapses during a Scotland v. England football match, killing 25 people.
 1904 - First international rugby league game.
 1908 – The Germany national football team played its first-ever match, losing 5-3 to the Switzerland national football team, which recorded its first-ever win.
 1922 - The American Birth Control League is incorporated.
 1923 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts production of balloon-tires.
 1930 – In an act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
 1932 - Alcohol prohibition in Finland ends.
 1932 - Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building, leading to the end of self-government.
 1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak: A F5 tornado slams into the north side of Tupelo, Mississippi, killing 233. It is the 4th deadliest tornado in United States history.
1942 – World War II: The Japanese Navy attacks Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
 1943 - World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally kill over 900 civilians in the town of Mortsel, Belgium.
 1944 - World War II: 270 people living in the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by German troops.
 1945 - Georgian Uprising of Texel takes place.
 1945 – Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip "Tito" Broz signs an agreement with the USSR allowing "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory."
 1946 – Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark, after an 11-month occupation.
 1949 – Fireside Theatre is first broadcast on television.
 1949 – A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, United States, kills 77 people.
 1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.
1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
 1956 – In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna won the general elections by many votes and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.
 1956 - Fidel Castro declares himself to be at war with the President of Cuba, Fulgencio Batista.
 1957 – In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala. E. M. S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister.
 1969 – Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations are held in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and other cities around the United States.
 1971 – In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
 1972 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese forces invade Binh Long Province, launching a second front of the Nguyen Hue Offensive.
 1973 – Pierre Messmer becomes Prime Minister of France
1976 – In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident.
 1976 - James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Labour Party, replacing Harold Wilson in both positions.
 1980 - A memorial to Chiang Kai-shek is opened in Taipei, Taiwan, on the fifth anniversary of his death.
 1986 – Bombing of the La Belle discothèque in West Berlin, Germany, kills three.
 1991 – ASA Embraer EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, United States, killing all 23 aboard.
 1992 – Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C..
 1992 – The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protestor Suada Dilberovic on the Skenderija Bridge.
 1993 – The Child Support Act 1991, administered by the Child Support Agency, comes into effect in the United Kingdom.
 1994 - Kurt Cobain, popular musician in the rock music band Nirvana, commits suicide at the age of 27. His body is found three days later.
1998 – In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshu and costing about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
 1999 – Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
 1999 – In Laramie, Wyoming, United States, Russell Henderson pleads guilty to kidnapping and felony murder in order to avoid a possible death penalty conviction for the hate crime killing of Matthew Shepard.
From 2001 
 2005 – ABC News anchor Peter Jennings announces on World News Tonight that he has been diagnosed with lung cancer. It was his last on-air appearance.
 2009 – North Korea launches the Kwangmyongsong rocket, which passed over Japan, and led to international condemnation.
 2012 - President of Malawi Bingu wa Mutharika dies aged 78; Joyce Banda replaces him.
 2016 - Prime Minister of Iceland Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigns after his name appeared in the Panama Papers about tax schemes of the rich and famous.

Births
Up to 1800 
 1170 - Isabella of Hainault (died 1190)
 1288 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (died 1336)
 1315 - James III of Mallorca (died 1349)
 1472 – Bianca Maria Sforza, daughter of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1510)
 1479 – Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (died 1574)
 1568 - Pope Urban VIII (died 1644)
 1588 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (died 1679)
 1593 - George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg (died 1603)
 1595 - John Wilson, English composer and educator (died 1674)
 1604 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (died 1675)
 1622 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (died 1703)
 1649 – Elihu Yale, American university benefactor (died 1721)
 1692 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (died 1730)
 1719 - Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish statesman and soldier (died 1794)
 1726 - Benjamin Harrison V, American politician (died 1791)
 1727 - Pasquale Anfossi, Italian composer (died 1797)
 1732 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (died 1806)
1761 - Sybil Ludington, heroine of the American Revolutionary War (died 1839)
 1784 – Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (died 1859)
1801  1900 
 1816 – Samuel Freeman Miller, United States Supreme Court justice (died 1890)
 1820 – Nadar, French photographer, writer and balloonist (died 1910)
 1827 – Joseph Lister, English surgeon (died 1912)
 1832 - Jules Ferry, French statesman (died 1893)
 1837 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (died 1909)
 1839 - Robert Smalls, American pilot and politician (died 1915)
 1840 - Ghazars Aghayan, Armenian historian and linguist (died 1911)
 1856 – Booker T. Washington, American educator (died 1915)
 1857 – Alexander of Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria (died 1893)
 1863 – Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (died 1950)
 1869 - Sergei Chaplygin, Russian physicist and engineer (died 1942)
 1869 - Albert Roussel, French composer (died 1937)
 1871 – Mirko Seljan, Croatian explorer
 1875 – Mistinguett, French vaudeville performer (died 1956)
 1877 – Walter Sutton, American geneticist (died 1916)
 1878 - Paul Weinstein, German high jumper (died 1964)
1883 - Walter Huston, Canadian-born American actor (died 1950)
 1884 - Ion Iaculet, Romanian statesman (died 1940)
 1893 - Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (died 1973)
 1899 - Alfred Blalock, American surgeon (died 1964)
 1899 - Elsie Thompson, American supercentenarian (died 2013)
 1900 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (died 1967)
 1900 - Herbert Bayer, Austrian-American graphic designer (died 1985)
 1900 - Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler (died 1928)
1901  1925 
 1901 – Melvyn Douglas, American actor (died 1981)
 1901 - Chester Bowles, American politician, Governor of Connecticut (died 1986)
 1904 - Richard Eberhart, American poet (died 2005)
 1905 - Sanya Dharmasakti, Prime Minister of Thailand (died 2002)
 1905 – Bill Raisch, American actor (died 1984)
 1908 – Bette Davis, American actress (died 1989)
 1908 – Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (died 1989)
 1908 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (died 1986)
 1909 – Albert R. Broccoli, American movie producer (died 1996)
 1911 - Hedi Amaira Nouira, Prime Minister of Tunisia (died 1993)
 1912 – John Le Mesurier, British actor (died 1983)
 1912 - Ricardo Arias, 29th President of Panama (died 1993)
 1912 - Makar Honcharenko, Ukrainian footballer (died 1997)
 1912 - Bill Roberts, English sprinter (died 2001)
 1913 - Ruth Smith, Faroese artist (died 1958)
 1916 – Gregory Peck, American actor (died 2003)
 1917 – Robert Bloch, American writer (died 1994)
 1919 - Les Munro, New Zealand pilot (died 2015)
1920 – Barend Biesheuvel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2001)
 1920 - Chatichai Choonhavan, Prime Minister of Thailand (died 1998)
 1920 – Arthur Hailey, American writer (died 2004)
 1922 – Tom Finney, English footballer (died 2014)
 1922 – Gale Storm, American singer and actress
 1922 – Christopher Hewett, British actor (died 2001)
 1923 – Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnamese president (died 2001)
 1923 – Michael Gazzo, American actor (died 1995)
1926  1950 
 1926 – Roger Corman, American movie director, producer, and writer
 1929 – Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (died 2008)
 1929 – Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist
 1929 - Joe Meek, English record producer (died 1967)
 1929 – Nigel Hawthorne, British actor (died 2001)
 1930 - Mary Costa, American singer and actress
 1931 – Boris Strugatsky, Russian writer (died 1991)
 1933 – Larry Felser, American sports columnist and writer
 1934 – Frank Gorshin, American actor (died 2005)
 1934 – Roman Herzog, German politician, former President of Germany (died 2017)
 1934 - Richard Peck, American novelist (died 2018)
 1935 - Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist and astronomer
 1937 – Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State (died 2021)
 1939 – Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, Albanian royal and pretender (died 2011)
 1939 - David Winters, English-American actor and choreographer (died 2019)
 1939 – Crispian St. Peters, British singer
 1941 – Michael Moriarty, American actor and political activist
1942 – Pascal Couchepin, Swiss politician
 1942 - Allan Clarke, English singer
 1942 – Peter Greenaway, Welsh movie director
 1943 - Jean-Louis Tauran, French cardinal (died 2018)
 1943 – Max Gail, American actor
 1944 - Peter T. King, American politician
 1945 - Tommy Smith, English footballer (died 2019)
 1946 – Jane Asher, English actress and writer
 1947 – Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, 14th President of the Philippines
 1947 - Virendra Sharma, Indian-English actor
 1948 - Dave Holland, English musician
 1948 - Les Binks, Northern Irish drummer
 1949 – Judith Resnik, American astronaut (died 1986)
 1950 - Spencer Bohren, American guitarist (died 2019)
 1950 – Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer (ABBA)
1951  1975 
 1952 - Alfie Conn Jr., Scottish footballer
 1954 – Stan Ridgway, American musician
 1955 - Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist
 1955 - Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress, producer and screenwriter
 1955 – Anthony Horowitz, British writer
 1956 – Akmal Shaikh, British citizen executed for drug trafficking in China (died 2009)
 1958 - Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sri Lankan journalist (died 2009)
 1958 - Johan Kriek, South African tennis player
 1961 - Lisa Zane, American actress
 1962 – Lana Clarkson, American actress (died 2003)
 1962 - Richard Gough, Scottish footballer
 1964 - Steve Beaton, English darts player
 1964 - Princess Erika, French singer-songwriter and actress
 1965 – Mike McCready, American musician (Pearl Jam)
 1965 - Aykut Kocaman, Turkish footballer and manager
 1970 - Krishnan Guru-Murthy, British journalist
 1970 - Miho Hatori, Japanese singer-songwriter
 1971 - Ayoko Nishikawa, Japanese television personality, entertainer, comedian and surgeon
1972 – Paul Okon, Australian footballer
 1972 - Yasuhiro Takemoto, Japanese animator and movie director
 1973 – Pharrell Williams, American musician and producer (The Neptunes)
 1974 - Vyacheslav Voronin, Russian high jumper
 1975 – John Hartson, Welsh footballer
 1975 - Caitlin Moran, English journalist, writer and critic
From 1976 
 1976 – Kim Collins, Saint Kitts and Nevis athlete
 1976 – Simone Inzaghi, Italian footballer
 1976 – Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer
 1977 - Stella Creasy, English psychologist and politician
 1978 – Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer
 1978 – Dwain Chambers, British athlete
 1978 – Stephen Jackson, American basketball player
 1979 - Imany, French singer
 1979 – Timo Hildebrand, German footballer, goalkeeper
 1979 - Mitsuo Ogasawara, Japanese footballer
 1979 - Daniel Majstorovic, Swedish footballer
 1979 - Andrius Velicka, Lithuanian footballer
 1980 – Joris Mathijsen, Dutch footballer
 1980 - Erik Audé, American actor, stuntman and poker player
 1981 - Stefan Ludik, Namibian cricketer, actor and singer
 1981 - Michael A. Monsoor, American soldier (d. 2006)
 1982 – Hayley Atwell, British actress
 1982 – Thomas Hitzlsperger, German footballer
 1982 – Matt Pickens, American footballer
 1983 – Jorge Andrés Martinez, Uruguayan footballer
 1984 - Maartje Goderie, Dutch field hockey player
1984 - Kisho Yano, Japanese footballer
 1984 - Aram Mp3, Armenian singer
 1984 - David Dillehunt, American movie director, producer and composer
 1985 - Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean model and actor (died 2008)
 1986 - Anna Sophia Berglund, American model
 1988 - Christopher Papamichalopoulos, Cypriot skier
 1990 - Sophia Papamichalopoulos, Cypriot skier
 1990 - Haruma Miura, Japanese actor
 1992 - Emmalyn Estrada, Canadian singer and dancer
Up to 1900 
 517 - Timothy I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
 582 - Eutychus, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
 1419 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350)
 1617 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (b. 1555)
 1676 – John Winthrop, the Younger, American politician (b. 1606)
 1693 - Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (b. 1627) 
 1697 - King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1655)
 1717 – Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647)
 1735 - William Derham, English minister and philosopher (b. 1657)
 1735 - Samuel Wesley, English clergyman and poet (b. 1662)
 1765 - Edward Young, English poet (b. 1683)
 1794 - Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1759)
 1794 – Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician (b. 1760)
 1804 - Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general (b. 1761)
 1834 - Richard Goodwin Keats, English admiral (b. 1757)
 1864 - Alaric Alexander Watts, English poet and journalist (b. 1797)
1901  2000 
 1918 - George Tupou II, King of Tonga (b. 1874)
 1923 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier (b. 1886)
 1936 - Chandler Egan, American golfer (b. 1884)
 1940 - Charles Freer Andrews, English priest, missionary and educator (b. 1871)
 1945 – Karl Otto Koch, German SS officer (b. 1897)
 1946 - Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (b. 1898)
 1964 – Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880)
 1967 – Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist (b. 1890)
 1969 - Ain-Erven Mere, Estonian military officer (b. 1903)
 1970 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891)
 1972 - Brian Donleavy, American actor (b. 1901)
 1972 - Isabel Jewell, American actress (b. 1907)
 1975 – Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)
 1975 – John A. Burns, Governor of Hawaii (b. 1909)
 1976 – Howard Hughes, American aviator (b. 1905)
 1981 - Bob Hite, American singer (b. 1945)
 1987 - Jan Lindblad, Swedish naturalist, writer and photographer (b. 1932)
1991 - Sonny Carter, American astronaut (b. 1947)
 1992 – Sam Walton, American businessman (b. 1918)
 1994 – Kurt Cobain, American singer/songwriter, frontman of Nirvana. (b. 1967)
 1997 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
 1998 - Cozy Powell, English musician (b. 1947)
From 2001 
 2002 - Layne Staley, American musician (b. 1967)
 2004 – Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (b. 1936)
 2005 – Saul Bellow, Canadian writer (b. 1915)
 2005 – Dale Messick, American cartoonist (b. 1906)
 2006 – Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1940)
 2007 - Mark St. John, American musician (b. 1956)
 2008 – Charlton Heston, American actor (b. 1923)
 2010 – Vitali Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
 2011 – Ange-Félix Patassé, former President of the Central African Republic (b. 1937)
 2011 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician (b. 1925)
 2012 – Barney McKenna, Irish musician (Dubliners) (b. 1939)
 2012 – Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi (b. 1934)
 2012 - Jim Marshall, businessman and founder of Marshall Amplification (b. 1923)
 2012 - Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, German businessman (b. 1935)
 2014 - Peter Matthiessen, American writer (b. 1927)
 2014 - John Pinette, American actor and comedian (b. 1964)
 2014 - José Wilker, Brazilian actor, director and producer (b. 1947)
2014 - Wayne Henderson, American jazz trombonist and record producer (b. 1939)
 2015 - Donald N. Levine, American sociologist, social theorist and writer (b. 1931)
 2015 - Julie Wilson, American actress (b. 1924)
 2015 - Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist (b. 1949)
 2015 - Richard Dysart, American actor (b. 1929)
 2015 - Lon Simmons, American sports broadcaster (b. 1923)
 2015 - Gordon Moyes, Australian radio evangelist and politician (b. 1938)
 2016 - Roman Gribbs, American politician (b. 1925)
 2016 - Zyta Gilowska, Polish politician (b. 1949)
 2016 - Zena Latto, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
 2016 - E. M. Nathanson, American writer (b. 1928)
 2017 - Arthur Bisguier, American chess player (b. 1929)
 2017 - John Chittick, American health activist (b. 1948)
 2017 - David Gove, American ice hockey player (b. 1978)
 2017 - Paul O'Neill, American producer, composer and songwriter (b. 1956)
 2017 - Memè Perlini, Italian actor and director (b. 1947)
2017 - Atanase Sciotnic, Romanian sprint canoeist (b. 1942)
 2017 - Ilkka Sinisalo, Finnish ice hockey player (b. 1958)
 2018 - Yuriy Abramochkin, Russian photographer and photojournalist (b. 1936)
 2018 - Eric Bristow, English darts player (b. 1957)
 2018 - Frederick D. Reese, American civil rights activist (b. 1929)
 2018 - Isao Takahata, Japanese film director, animator and screenwriter (b. 1935)
 2018 - Cecil Taylor, American jazz pianist and poet (b. 1929)
 2018 - Tim O'Connor, American actor (b. 1927)
 2018 - Jaime Thorne León, Peruvian politician (b. 1943)
 2019 - Sydney Brenner, South African-British biologist (b. 1927)
 2019 - Nikolay Kovalyov, Russian politician (b. 1949)
 2019 - Gianfranco Leoncini, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
 2019 - Lasse Pöysti, Finnish actor, director, theatre manager and writer (b. 1927)
 2019 - Shawn Smith, American singer, songwriter and musician (b. 1965)
Observances 
 Feast Day of Saint Vincent Ferrer (Roman Catholicism)
 Sikmogil (South Korea)
 Children's Day (Palestinian territories)

April 05
Up to 1900 
 1340 – King Edward III of England is declared King of France.
 1500 – Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to discover Brazil.
 1531 – Lisbon, Portugal hit by an earthquake—thousands die.
 1564 - The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a difference between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
 1564 - The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula, during the Livonian War.
 1699 – Treaty of Carlowitz signed.
 1700 – The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the coast of the American Northwest, as evidenced by Japanese records.
 1736 – Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
 1782 - American War of Independence: The Naval Battle of Saint Kitts between British and French forces ends in British victory under Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, though the French still manage to take over the island anyway.
1785 – Benjamin Franklin writes a letter to his daughter expressing disappointment over the selection of the eagle as the symbol of the United States; he wanted the turkey.
 1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sail into Sydney Harbour to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Celebrated as Australia Day.
 1802 – The U.S. Congress passes an act calling for a library to be established within the U.S. Capitol; eventually this becomes the Library of Congress.
 1808 – Rum Rebellion, the only successful (but temporary) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
 1837 – Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
 1838 – Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
 1841 – The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China had given up.
 1861 – The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
1863 – American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
 1863 – American Civil War: The Governor of Massachusetts receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
 1870 – American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
 1871 - Rome is declared capital of the Kingdom of Italy.
 1885 – Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquer Khartoum.
 1887 – Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians.
1901  1950 
 1905 – The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.
 1911 – Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
 1911 - Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier is performed, at the Dresden State Opera, for the first time.
 1915 - Rocky Mountain National Park is created by an Act of the United States Congress.
 1918 - Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the Helsinki Workers' Hall, top symbolically mark the start of the war.
 1924 - Saint Petersburg is renamed Leningrad, only a few days after Vladimir Lenin's death. It renamed Saint Petersburg again in 1991.
 1930 - The Indian National Congress declares this date to be India's independence day.
 1934 – The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, New York City.
 1936 - The Niagara Falls are frozen solid because of cold weather.
 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
1942 – World War II: The first American forces arrive in Europe, landing in Northern Ireland.
 1945 - World War II: The Red Army begins surrounding the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil, Prussia.
 1946 – Félix Gouin becomes Prime Minister of France.
 1947 - A Douglas DC-3 aircraft crashes at Copenhagen Kastrup Airport, killing all 22 people on board, including Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden and the American singer and actress Grace Moore.
 1950 – India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President.
1951  2000 
 1952 - Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper class Egyptian businesses.
 1956 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
 1958 - The Japanese ferry Nankai Manu capsizes off the southern Awaji Islands, killing 167 people.
 1960 - Danny Heater sets a high school basketball record when he scores 135 points in a game for Burnsville High School, West Virginia.
 1961 – John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.
 1962 – Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later missed the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
 1965 – Hindi becomes the official language of India.
 1966 – The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach in Adelaide, South Australia.
 1966 - Harold Holt becomes Prime Minister of Australia.
 1970 – Folk rock duo Simon and Garfunkel release classic album Bridge Over Troubled Water.
1978 - Great Blizzard of 1978: A severe blizzard strikes Ohio and the Great Lakes region, with heavy snow at a wind speed of up to 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour).
 1980 – Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
 1983 – Lotus 1-2-3 is released.
 1986 – Super Bowl XX: The Chicago Bears defeat the New England Patriots, 46-10.
 1988 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera is first performed on Broadway, New York City.
 1991 - Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia.
 1992 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia is going to stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
 1992 – Super Bowl XXVI: The Washington Redskins defeat the Buffalo Bills, 37-24.
 1993 – Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.
 1994 – A man fires two blank shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney, Australia.
 1996 – Whitewater scandal: Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before a grand jury.
1997 – Super Bowl XXXI: The Green Bay Packers defeat the New England Patriots, 35-21.
 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
 1998 – Compaq buys Digital Equipment Corporation.
 2000 – Robert F. Vasa ordained Bishop of the Diocese of Baker
 2000 – XHTML 1.0 becomes a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation.
From 2001 
 2001 – A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
 2001 – An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
 2001 - Joseph Kabila becomes President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
 2003 – Super Bowl XXXVII: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat the Oakland Raiders, 48-21, earning the Buccaneers their first Vince Lombardi Trophy.
 2004 - Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
 2004 - A whale explodes in Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas inside the sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
 2005 – Three trains crash, killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California near Los Angeles.
 2005 – Having been confirmed earlier in the day by a vote of 85-13 in the United States Senate, Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American woman to hold the post.
 2006 - Hamas wins elections in Palestine.
2009 - Rioting occurs in Antananarivo, Madagascar, later developing into a political crisis forcing President Marc Ravalomanana out of office.
 2009 - The Icelandic government and banking system collapse and Prime Minister Geir Haarde immediately resigns from office. Johanna Sigurdardottir succeeds him on February 1.
 2015 - Alexis Tsipras becomes Prime Minister of Greece after his left-wing SYRIZA movement won the parliamentary election.
 2015 - A Greek fighter jet crashes at Los Llanos Air Base, Spain, killing 11 people.
 2015 - A major snowstorm hits the Northeastern United States.
 2017 - Alexander Van der Bellen becomes President of Austria.
 2019 - Naomi Osaka wins her second Grand Slam singles tennis title in a row, defeating Petra Kvitová in the final of the Australian Open to become the first player from Asia to hold the Number One ranking.
 2020 - Five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others are killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.
Up to 1900 
 1497 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)
 1595 - Antonio Maria Abbatini, Italian composer (d. 1679)
 1708 - William Hayes, English composer, organist, singer and composer (d. 1777)
 1714 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785)
 1722 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish minister and writer (d. 1805)
 1763 – Charles XIV John of Sweden (d. 1844)
 1781 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (d. 1831)
 1800 - Johann Georg Oncken, German Baptist (d. 1884)
 1811 - Robert Scott, English philologist (d. 1887)
 1813 – Juan Pablo Duarte, founding father of the Dominican Republic (d. 1876)
 1826 – Julia Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)
 1852 – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, French explorer (d. 1905)
 1857 - Trinle Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)
 1860 - Harry M. Daugherty, 51st United States Attorney General (d. 1941)
 1864 - Jozsef Pusztai, Slovenian-Hungarian writer, poet and journalist (d. 1934)
 1866 - John Cady, American golfer (d. 1933)
1877 - Mihail Gerdzhikov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1947)
 1877 - Kees van Dongen, Dutch artist (d. 1968)
 1880 – Douglas MacArthur, American general (d. 1964)
 1882 - André Rischmann, French rugby player (d. 1955)
 1885 – Michael Considine, Australian politician (d. 1959)
 1887 – François Faber, Luxembourg cyclist (d. 1915)
 1891 – August Fröhlich, German priest and Resistance activist (d. 1942)
 1891 - Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (d. 1973)
 1892 – Bessie Coleman, American pilot (d. 1926)
 1900 - Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
1901  1925 
 1902 - Jokichi Ikarashi, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2013)
 1902 - Manno ter Braak, Dutch writer (d. 1940)
 1904 – Sean MacBride, Irish statesman (d. 1988)
 1905 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian singer (d. 1987)
 1905 - John Heenan, English cardinal (d. 1975)
 1905 - Charles Lane, American actor (d. 2007)
 1907 - Dimitrios Holevas, Greek Orthodox priest and Resistance activist (d. 2001)
 1908 – Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (d. 1997)
 1911 – Polykarp Kusch, German physicist (d. 1993)
 1911 - Norbert Schultze, German composer and songwriter (d. 2002)
 1913 – Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (d. 1990)
 1914 - Princess Durru Shehrar of the Ottoman Empire (d. 2006)
 1915 - William Hopper, American actor (d. 1970)
 1917 - Louis Zamperini, American runner and captain (d. 2014)
 1918 – Philip José Farmer, American writer (d. 2009)
 1918 – Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)
 1919 – Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
1919 - Bill Nicholson, English footballer (d. 2004)
 1921 - Eddie Barclay, French producer (d. 2005)
 1921 - Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (d. 1999)
 1922 - Michael Bentine, British comedian (d. 1996)
 1922 - Ellen Vogel, Dutch actress (d. 2015)
 1923 - Anne Jeffreys, American actress and singer (d. 2017)
 1924 - Alice Babs, Swedish singer and actress (d. 2014)
 1924 - Annette Strauss, Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1998)
 1925 – Paul Newman, American actor (d. 2008)
 1925 - Joan Leslie, American actress (d. 2015)
1926  1950 
 1926 - Joseph Bacon Fraser, Jr., American businessman (d. 2014)
 1927 – José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (d. 2005)
 1928 - Abdellatif Filali, Prime Minister of Morocco (d. 2009)
 1928 – Roger Vadim, French movie director and actor (d. 2000)
 1931 - Bernard Panafieu, French cardinal (d. 2017)
 1931 - Mary Murphy, American movie actress
 1932 - George Clements, American priest and activist
 1933 - Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist
 1934 - Fernando Cardenal, Nicaraguan Jesuit, theologian and politician (d. 2016)
 1934 - Roger Landry, Canadian businessman and newspaper publisher
 1935 - Corrado Augias, Italian journalist, writer and television personality
 1935 - Paula Rego, Portuguese-British artist
 1935 - Bob Uecker, American baseball player and broadcaster
 1935 – Fridrik Olafsson, Icelandic chess player
 1936 - Sal Buscema, American comic book artist
 1936 - Theophanis Lamboukas, Greek-French actor and singer (d. 1970)
1937 – Joseph Saidu Momoh, former President of Sierra Leone (d. 2003)
 1941 - Scott Glenn, American actor
 1943 – Jack Warner, Trinidadian FIFA official
 1944 – Angela Davis, American Civil Rights activist
 1944 - Jerry Sandusky, American football coach and convicted child-sex offender
 1945 – Jacqueline du Pré, British cellist (d. 1987)
 1945 – Jeremy Rifkin, American sociologist, economist and publicist
 1946 - Michel Delpech, French singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2016)
 1946 - Christopher Hampton, British dramatist, screenwriter and director
 1946 - Deon Jackson, American soul singer and songwriter
 1947 - Patrick Dewaere, French actor (d. 1982)
 1947 - Redmond Morris, 4th Baron Killanin, Irish director, producer and production designer
 1947 - Michel Sardou, French singer-songwriter
 1949 - David Strathairn, American actor
 1950 – Jörg Haider, Austrian far-right politician (d. 2008)
1951  1975 
 1953 - Alik L. Alik, Micronesian politician
 1953 – Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Danish politician, former Secretary-General of NATO and former Prime Minister of Denmark
 1953 – Lucinda Williams, American singer
 1955 – Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American musician (Van Halen) (d. 2020)
 1958 – Gian Piero Gasperini, Italian footballer and coach
 1958 – Ellen DeGeneres, American actress and comedienne
 1958 – Anita Baker, American singer
 1961 – Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
 1961 - Li Cunxin, Chinese-Australian ballet dancer
 1961 - Mark Urban, English journalist and writer
 1962 - John Brown, Scottish footballer
 1962 – Oscar Ruggeri, Argentine footballer
 1962 - Guo Jian, Chinese-Australian artist
 1963 – José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager
 1963 – Andrew Ridgeley, British musician
 1964 - Adam Crozier, British businessman
 1964 – Torkil Nielsen, Faroese footballer and chess player
 1965 - Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet gymnast
 1970 - Bjarni Benediktsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland
1971 – Dorian Gregory, American actor
 1973 – Mayu Shinjo, Japanese manga artist
 1973 - Brendan Rodgers, Northern Irish footballer and manager
 1974 - Rokia Traoré, Malian singer
From 1976 
 1976 - Hitomi, Japanese singer-songwriter
 1981 - Gustavo Dudamel, Venezuelan conductor and composer
 1982 – Brahim Takioullah, Guinness World Record holder for the largest feet
 1984 - Luo Xuejian, Chinese swimmer
 1984 - Antonio Rukavina, Serbian footballer
 1985 - Heather Stanning, British rower
 1986 – Hero, South Korean singer
 1987 - Gojko Kacar, Serbian footballer
 1987 - Sebastian Giovinco, Italian footballer
 1988 – Yukio Mine, Japanese footballer
 1988 – Gary Hooper, English footballer
 1989 – Emily Hughes, American figure skater
 1990 – Christopher Massey, American actor
 1990 - Sergio Pérez, Mexican racing driver
 1993 – Cameron Bright, Canadian actor
 1996 – Tyger Drew-Honey, British actor
 1996 - Igor Decraene, Belgian cyclist (d. 2014)
 1997 - Ieva Gaile, Latvian figure skater
 1997 - Gedion Zelalem, German-American soccer player
 2008 - Paul the Octopus, FIFA World Cup 'oracle' (d. 2010)

Deaths
Up to 1900 
 946 - Eadgyth, German Queen (b. 910)
 1567 – Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
 1630 – Henry Briggs, English mathematician (born 1556)
 1636 – Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (born 1552)
 1697 – Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (born 1640)
 1713 - Jean Chardin, French explorer (born 1643)
 1744 – Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (born 1683)
 1750 – Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (born 1686)
 1795 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (born 1732)
 1799 – Gabriel Christie, British general (born 1722)
 1823 – Edward Jenner, English physician (born 1749)
 1824 – Théodore Géricault, French painter (born 1791)
 1849 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet, dramatist and physician (born 1803)
 1855 – Gérard de Nerval, French writer (born 1808)
 1870 – Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (born 1785)
 1877 - Daniel Haines, Governor of New Jersey (born 1801)
1879 - Julia Margaret Cameron, English photographer (born 1815)
 1885 – Edward Davy, English inventor, physician, and scientist (born 1806)
 1885 – Charles George Gordon, British general (born 1833)
 1886 – David Rice Atchison, American politician (born 1807)
 1891 – Nikolaus August Otto, German inventor of the internal-combustion engine (born 1833)
 1893 – Abner Doubleday, Major General, United States Army and purported inventor of baseball (born 1819)
 1895 - Arthur Cayley, British mathematician (born 1821)
 1899 - Augustus Hill Garland, Governor of Arkansas (born 1832)
1901  2000 
 1904 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (born 1846)
 1927 - Lyman J. Gage, American politician (born 1836)
 1932 - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (born 1861)
 1942 – Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (born 1868)
 1943 – Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (born 1880)
 1943 – Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist (born 1887)
 1946 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch astronomer (born 1884)
 1946 - Oskar Kallas, Estonian linguist and diplomat (born 1868)
 1947 – Grace Moore, American soprano (plane crash) (born 1898)
 1947 – Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Westrobothnia, second in line to the Swedish throne, father of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (born 1906)
 1952 – Horloogiyn Choybalsan, leader of Mongolia (born 1895)
 1961 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer (born 1900)
 1962 – Lucky Luciano, American mobster (born 1897)
 1968 – Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher, and aviation promoter (born 1883)
 1968 – Yvor Winters, American poet and critic (born 1900)
1973 – Edward G. Robinson, American actor (born 1893)
 1979 – Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States (born 1908)
 1980 - Simon Kapwepwe, 2nd Vice President of Zambia (born 1922)
 1983 – Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (born 1913)
 1990 - Higashikuni Naruhiko, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1887)
 1990 – Lewis Mumford, American historian (born 1895)
 1992 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (born 1912)
 1993 – Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (born 1905)
 1993 – Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada (born 1922)
 1996 – Harold Brodkey, American writer (born 1930)
 1996 – Dave Schultz, American wrestler (born 1959)
 1997 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (born 1904)
 1998 – Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (born 1898)
 2000 – Don Budge, American tennis player (born 1915)
 2000 – Kathleen Hale, British writer (born 1898)
 2000 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born writer (born 1912)
From 2001 
 2001 – Al McGuire, American basketball coach (born 1928)
 2003 – Valeriy Brumel, Russian athlete (born 1942)
 2003 – Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (born 1917)
 2003 – George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Scottish politician (born 1931)
 2004 – Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (born 1979)
 2006 - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania (born 1920)
 2007 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1929)
 2010 - Geoffrey Burbidge, British astrophysicist (born 1925)
 2012 - Colin Tarrant, British actor (born 1952)
 2014 - José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican writer (born 1939)
 2014 - Paula Gruden, Australian poet and translator (born 1921)
 2014 - Margery Mason, English actress (born 1913)
 2015 - Tom Uren, Australian politician (born 1921)
 2015 - Lee Spick, English snooker player (born 1980)
 2015 - R. K. Laxman, Indian cartoonist and humorist (born 1921)
 2015 - Lucjan Lis, Polish-German cyclist (born 1950)
2016 - Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, Pakistani politician and diplomat (born 1920)
 2016 - Abe Vigoda, American actor (born 1921)
 2016 - Black, English singer-songwriter (born 1962)
 2016 - Tommy Kelly, American actor (born 1925)
 2017 - Tam Dalyell, Scottish politician (born 1932)
 2017 - Alexander Kadakin, Russian diplomat (born 1949)
 2017 - Mike Connors, American actor (born 1925)
 2017 - Barbara Hale, American actress (born 1922)
 2017 - Luciano Ravaglia, Italian engineer (born 1923)
 2017 - Anne-Marie Colchen, French athlete and basketball player (born 1925)
 2017 - Laurie Salas, New Zealand activist (born 1922)
 2017 - Michael Tönnies, German footballer (born 1959)
 2018 - Elizabeth Hawley, American journalist and Himalayan travel writer (born 1923)
 2018 - Jacques Languirand, Canadian radio host, writer and actor (born 1931)
 2018 - Hiromu Nonaka, Japanese politician (born 1925)
 2018 - Yukiaki Okabe, Japanese swimmer (born 1941)
 2019 - Jean Guillou, French composer, organist and pianist (born 1930)
2019 - Michel Legrand, French composer (born 1932)
 2019 - Ndaye Mulamba, Congolese footballer (born 1948)
 2019 - Giuseppe Zamperletti, Italian politician (born 1933)
2020 - Kobe Bryant, American basketball player (born 1978)
Holidays
 Australia Day – holiday to commemorate the first Europen settlement in Australia.
 Republic Day – India
 Duarte Day (Dominican Republic)
 Liberation Day (Uganda)
 Engineer's Day (Panama)
 World Customs Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 98 – Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
 447 - Constantinople is hit by a strong earthquake.
 672 – St. Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
 847 – Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
 1186 – Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds Constance of Sicily.
 1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
 1593 – Vatican opens 7-year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno.
 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins. It ends in their execution on January 31.
 1695 – Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his death in 1703.
 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "Noble Train of Artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
 1785 – The University of Georgia is founded.
 1825 – U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
1865 - Spain and Peru end the Spanish-South American War.
 1870 – The first college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.
 1880 – Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
 1888 – In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded.
 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, China demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.