Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
Up to 1900 
 1495 - John Bale, English churchman (d. 1563)
 1567 - Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621)
 1582 - François Maynard, French poet (d. 1646)
 1643 - René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)
 1692 - Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (d. 1768)
 1694 – François-Marie Arouet (later known as Voltaire), French philosopher (d. 1778)
 1718 - Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, German music critic, music theorist and composer (d. 1795)
 1729 – Josiah Bartlett, American politician (d. 1795)
 1761 – Dorothy Jordan, British actress and royal mistress (d. 1816)
 1768 – Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1834)
 1787 – Samuel Cunard, shipping magnate (d. 1865)
 1811 – Zeng Guofan, Chinese military leader (d. 1872)
 1818 - Lewis Henry Morgan, American lawyer, anthropologist and writer (d. 1881)
 1835 – Hetty Green, American businesswoman (d. 1916)
 1840 – Victoria, Princess Royal (d. 1901)
 1845 - Otto Warth, German architect (d. 1918)
1852 – Francisco Tárrega, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1909)
 1853 - Hussein Kamel, Sultan of Egypt (d. 1917)
 1854 – Pope Benedict XV (d. 1922)
 1866 - Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1914)
 1868 - Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg (d. 1924)
 1870 – Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (d. 1964)
 1870 - Alexander Berkman, American activist and author (d. 1936)
 1870 - Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (d. 1946)
 1876 - Olav Duun, Norwegian writer (d. 1939)
 1878 – Gustav Radbruch, German law professor (d. 1949)
 1878 - Ibra Charles Blackwood, Governor of South Carolina (d. 1936)
 1882 – Paul Niehans, physicist (d.1971)
 1882 - Harold Lowe, Welsh 5th Officer of the RMS Titanic (d. 1944)
 1898 – René Magritte, Belgian painter (d. 1967)
 1899 - Harekrushna Mahatab, Indian journalist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Odisha (d. 1987)
1901  1950 
 1902 – Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (d. 1985)
 1902 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born writer (d. 1991)
 1902 - Ferenc Hirzer, Hungarian footballer (d. 1957)
 1902 - Mikhail Suslov, Soviet statesman (d. 1982)
 1904 – Coleman Hawkins, American jazz musician (d. 1969)
 1912 – Eleanor Powell, American actress and dancer (d. 1983)
 1913 - Tomie Ohtake, Japanese-Brazilian artist (d. 2015)
 1913 – Roy Boulting, English movie director and producer (d. 2001)
 1913 - John Boulting, English director (d. 1985)
 1913 - Gunnar Kangro, Estonian mathematician (d. 1975)
 1914 - Henri Laborit, French physician and philosopher (d. 1995)
 1916 – Sid Luckman, American football player (d. 1998)
 1920 – Ralph Meeker, actor (d. 1988)
 1920 – Stan Musial, American baseball player (d. 2013)
 1921 – Vivian Blaine, actress (d. 1995)
 1922 – María Casarès, Spanish-born actress (d. 1996)
 1922 - Abe Lemons, American basketball player and coach (d. 2002)
 1923 - Margaret Lyons, Canadian radio executive (d. 2019)
1924 - Joseph Campanella, American actor (d. 2018)
 1924 – Milka Planinc, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 2010)
 1924 - Christopher Tolkien, British writer
 1925 - Xie Jin, Chinese movie director (d. 2008)
 1926 - William Wakefield Baum, American cardinal (d. 2015)
 1930 - Bryn Meredith, Welsh rugby player
 1931 - Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian scientist (d. 1985)
 1931 – Malcolm Williamson, composer (d. 2003)
 1932 – Beryl Bainbridge, British writer (d. 2010)
 1933 - Henry Hartsfield, American colonel, pilot and astronaut (d. 2014)
 1935 - Fairuz, Lebanese singer
 1936 – Victor Chang, Australian doctor, heart transplant pioneer (d. 1991)
 1937 - Ingrid Pitt, British actress (d. 2010)
 1937 – Marlo Thomas, American actress
 1939 - R. Budd Dwyer, American politician (d. 1987)
 1940 – Dr. John, American musician (d. 2019)
 1941 – Juliet Mills, American actress
 1941 - Julio Anguita, Spanish politician
 1942 - Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, German politician
 1942 - Afa Anoa'i, Samoan-American wrestler and manager
1943 - Jacques Laffite, French racing driver
 1943 – Phil Bredesen, American politician, 48th Governor of Tennessee
 1944 – Earl Monroe, American basketball player
 1944 - Dick Durbin, American politician, United States Senator for Illinois
 1944 – Harold Ramis, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, director and producer (d. 2014)
 1945 – Goldie Hawn, American singer and actress
 1946 - Emma Cohen, Spanish actress, director, producer and writer (d. 2016)
 1948 - Michel Suleiman, 16th President of Lebanon
 1948 - Alphonse Mouzon, American musician, composer and producer
 1950 - Tommy Craig, Scottish footballer
 1950 – Alberto Juantorena, Cuban athlete
1951  1975 
 1952 - Pedro Lemebel, Chilean writer (d. 2015)
 1952 – Lorna Luft, American singer and actress
 1952 – Deborah Shelton, actress
 1955 - Cedric Maxwell, American basketball player
 1956 - John Holt, Scottish footballer
 1956 - Cherry Jones, American actress
 1959 - Sergei Ratnikov, Estonian footballer and manager
 1960 - Brian McNamara, American actor
 1962 - Sabine Busch, German athlete
 1962 - Stephen Curtis Chapman, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
 1963 - Andrew Fairlie, Scottish chef (d. 2019)
 1963 – Nicollette Sheridan, British actress
 1964 - Troy Aikman, American football player
 1964 - Shane Douglas, American professional wrestler
 1964 - Charles Dunstone, English businessman, founder of Carphone Warehouse
 1964 - Liza Tarbuck, English actress
 1965 – Björk, Icelandic singer, songwriter, musician and actress
 1965 – Alexander Siddig, British actor
 1965 - Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (d. 1993)
 1966 - Troy Aikman, American football player
1966 - Evgeny Bareev, Russian chess player
 1967 - Toshihiko Koga, Japanese judoka
 1968 – Alex James, British musician (Blur)
 1969 – Ken Griffey, Jr., American baseball player
 1970 - Justin Langer, Australian cricketer
 1970 - Dante Washington, American soccer player
 1971 - Michael Strahan, American football player
 1972 - Rain Phoenix, American actress and singer
 1972 - David Tua, Samoan boxer
 1973 – Brook Kerr, American actress
 1973 - Marko Lelov, Estonian footballer and manager
From 1976 
 1977 – Jonas Jennings, American football player
 1977 – Bruno Berner, Swiss footballer
 1978 – Sara Tanaka, American actress
 1978 - Lucía Jiménez, Spanish actress and singer
 1979 – Vincenzo Iaquinta, Italian footballer
 1979 – Alex Tanguay, Canadian ice hockey player
 1979 – Kim Dong-wan, South Korean entertainer
 1979 – Stromile Swift, American basketball player
 1980 – Hank Blalock, American baseball player
 1982 – Georgios Kalogiannidis, Greek archer
 1983 – Brie Bella, American professional wrestler
 1983 – Nikki Bella, American professional wrestler
 1984 – Jena Malone, American actress
 1985 – Jesús Navas, Spanish footballer
 1985 – Carly Rae Jepsen, Canadian singer
 1985 – Nicola Silvestri, Italian footballer
 1985 – Michael Hamlin, American football player
 1986 – Ben Bishop, American ice hockey player
 1986 – Kristof Goddaert, Belgian cyclist (d. 2014)
 1988 – Eric Frenzel, German skier
 1988 – Larry Sanders, American basketball player
 1989 – Fabian Delph, English footballer
1990 – Dani Lang, English cyclist
 1990 – Georgie Twigg, English field hockey player
 1991 – Woohee, South Korean singer-songwriter, actress and model
 1992 – Rino Sashihara, Japanese singer (AKB48)
 1992 – Conor Maynard, British singer
 1999 – Isaiah Firebrace, Australian singer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 496 – Pope Gelasius I
 615 - Columbianus, Irish missionary (b. 543)
 1011 - Emperor Reizei of Japan (b. 950)
 1361 – Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)
 1555 – Georg Agricola, German scientist (b. 1490)
 1652 - Jan Brozek, Polish mathematician, physician and astronomer (b. 1585)
 1695 – Henry Purcell, English composer (b. 1659)
 1782 - Jacques de Vaucanson, French engineer (b. 1709)
 1811 – Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (b. 1777)
 1844 - Ivan Krylov, Russian mathematician (b. 1769)
 1870 - Karel Jaromir Erben, Czech historian and poet (b. 1811)
 1874 - Mariano Fortuny, Spanish painter (b. 1838)
 1875 - Friedrich Albert Lange, German philosopher (b. 1828)
 1899 – Garret Hobart, Vice President of the United States (b. 1844)
1901  2000 
 1908 - Carl Friedrich Schmidt, Baltic German geologist and botanist (b. 1832)
 1909 - Peder Severin Kroyer, Norwegian-Danish painter (b. 1851)
 1916 – Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (b. 1830)
 1924 – Florence Harding, First Lady of the United States (b. 1860)
 1928 - Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, German aristocrat (b. 1858)
 1938 - Leopold Godowsky, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1870)
 1942 - Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (b. 1863)
 1942 - J. B. M. Hertzog, South African politician (b. 1866)
 1945 – Robert Benchley, writer and actor (b. 1889)
 1953 – Larry Shields, American jazz musician (b. 1893)
 1957 – Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (b. 1873)
 1958 - Mel Ott, American baseball player, manager and sportscaster (b. 1909)
 1959 – Max Baer, American boxer (b. 1909)
 1963 - Artur Lemba, Estonian composer and educator (b. 1885)
1963 - Robert Stroud, American criminal and ornithologist, known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" (b. 1890)
 1969 – Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda (b. 1924)
 1970 – C. V. Raman, Indian physicist (b. 1888)
 1970 - Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
 1974 – John B. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1897)
 1974 – Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b. 1890)
 1975 – Gunnar Gunnarsson, Icelandic writer (b. 1889)
 1986 - Jerry Colonna, American comedian and singer (b. 1904)
 1988 – Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
 1992 - Kaysone Phomvihane, President of Laos (b. 1920)
 1993 – Bill Bixby, American actor and director (b. 1934)
 1995 – Noel Jones, British diplomat (b. 1940)
 1996 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist (b. 1926)
 1999 – Quentin Crisp, British writer, satirist, actor (b. 1908)
 2000 – Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (b. 1922)
From 2001 
 2001 – Salahuddin of Malaysia, King of Malaysia (b. 1926)
 2002 - Hadda Brooks, American singer, pianist and composer (b. 1916)
 2005 – Alfred Anderson, Scottish World War I veteran (b. 1896)
 2006 – Hassan Gouled Aptidon, first President of Djibouti (b. 1916)
 2006 – Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese politician (b. 1972)
 2007 - Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, movie director, theatre director, and playwright (b. 1921)
 2009 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1926)
 2010 - David Nolan, American activist (b. 1943)
 2011 – Greg Halman, Dutch baseball player (b. 1987)
 2011 - Anne McCaffrey, American writer (b. 1926)
 2012 - Ajmal Kasab, Pakistani terrorist (b. 1987)
 2012 - Deborah Raffin, American actress (b. 1953)
 2013 - Maurice Vachon, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1929)
 2013 - Vern Mikkelsen, American basketball player (b. 1928)
 2014 - John H. Land, American politician, Mayor of Apopka, Florida (b. 1920)
 2015 - Ameen Faheem, Pakistani politician (b. 1939)
2015 - Linda Haglund, Swedish sprinter (b. 1956)
 2015 - Bob Foster, American boxer (b. 1938)
 2016 - René Vignal, French footballer (b. 1926)
 2017 - Rodney Bewes, English actor (b. 1937)
 2017 - Wayne Cochran, American soul singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
 2017 - David Cassidy, American actor and singer (b. 1950)
 2017 - Milein Cosman, German-British artist (b. 1921)
 2017 - Luis Garisto, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1945)
 2017 - Valentin Huot, French cyclist (b. 1929)
 2018 - Meena Alexander, Indian-American writer and scholar (b. 1951)
 2018 - Michele Carey, American actress (b. 1943)
 2018 - Olivia Hooker, American psychologist and military personnel (b. 1915)
 2018 - Igor Korobov, Russian intelligence officer (b. 1956)
 2018 - M. I. Shanavas, Indian politician (b. 1951)
 2018 - Lau Nai-keung, Hong Kong businessman and politician (b. 1947)
 2019 - Jean Douchet, French film director, actor and critic (b. 1929)
 2019 - Bengt-Erik Grahn, Swedish skier (b. 1941)
2019 - Val Heim, American baseball player (b. 1920)
 2019 - Andrée Lachapelle, Canadian actress (b. 1931)
 2019 - Michael J. Pollard, American actor (b. 1939)
 2019 - Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist (b. 1930)
Observances 
 Armed Forces Day (Bangladesh, Greece)
 World Hello Day
 World Television Day

Days of the year
Up to 1950 
 1227 - Polish prince Leszek the White is murdered.
 1248 - A mass of rock collapses from Mont Granier in Southeastern France in the night to November 25, causing over 1,000 casualties.
 1429 - Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges (tries to take control of) La Charite.
 1542 - Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk, Dumfries and Galloway.
 1594 - In Goa, India, Portuguese missionaries start building the Basilica do Bom Jesus.
 1631 - The Dutch occupy the city of Olinda, the capital of Pernambuco in present-day Brazil, and set it on fire, as they feel they can make more money in nearby Recife.
 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
 1850 - Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species.
 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain.
1874 - American Joseph Glidden receives a patent for his invention, barbed wire.
 1906 - A local newspaper in Ohio accuses two teams of trying to deliberately lose games, causing the first major scandal in American football.
 1917 – Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when a bomb explodes at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin police headquarters building.
 1922 - Nine IRA members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad.
 1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
 1940 - World War II: The first Slovakian Republic joins the Axis Powers, the countries that supported Nazi Germany in the war.
 1943 - World War II: The battleship USS Liscombe Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa, in the Gilbert Islands, present-day Kiribati. Despite this, the Allies manage to take control of the islands on the same day. 
 1944 – World War II: The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital is carried out by 88 American aircraft.
1947 – Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France.
 1950 - The "Storm of the Century" snowstorm forms before affecting the Northeastern United States the next day.
1951  2000 
 1962 - British television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald is assassinated by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters.
 1963 – Vietnam War: Newly sworn in US President Lyndon B. Johnson says that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.
 1965 – Joseph Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Congo and becomes President; he goes on to rule the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
 1966 - Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, then-part of Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
 1969 - The Apollo 12 Moon mission successfully ends when it splashes down in the Pacific Ocean.
1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper hijacks a plane and gets US$200,000 in ransom money. He jumps from the plane and is never seen again (this is the only unsolved skyjacking in history). His identity and fate both remain unknown to this day.
 1973 - A speed limit lasting only four months is introduced on German Autobahns during the 1973 oil crisis.
 1974 – A 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," is found in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
 1976 – Parts of Iran and the Soviet Union are struck by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake, killing around 5,000 people.
 1980 – A National Park is created at the southern end of Lake Malawi.
 1988 – Mystery Science Theater 3000 premieres.
 1991 - Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen dies a day after announcing that he had AIDS. Kiss musician Eric Carr dies on the same day.
1992 – A China Southern Airlines plane crashes on an internal flight, killing all 141 people on board.
 1995 – Estonia applies for EU membership.
From 2001 
 2002 - The first human case of rabies in the UK for over 100 years occurs.
 2005 – Pubs in England and Wales, through new alcohol licensing laws, are given new 24-hour opening hours.
 2007 – Kevin Rudd is elected Prime Minister of Australia, succeeding John Howard, who loses his own parliamentary seat in the election.
 2012 - A garment factory fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills over 112 people.
 2013 - Iran agrees to limit its nuclear development program in exchange for less sanctions, which meant that they had limits on what they could export and import, after talks in Geneva, Switzerland.
 2014 - United States Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel resigns.
 2016 - A bomb attack near Hilla, Iraq, kills at least 77 people.
 2017 - Emmerson Mnangagwa is sworn in as President of Zimbabwe, following the resignation of Robert Mugabe.
 2017 - Sooronbay Jeenbekov becomes President of Kyrgyzstan.
2017 - A terrorist attack on a mosque in the North of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula results in at least 305 people being killed.
 2019 - Pro-democracy activists make gains in local elections in Hong Kong.
 2019 - A plane crash in Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 19 people.
Up to 1800 
 1273 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester (d. 1284)
 1394 – Charles, Duke of Orléans (d. 1465)
 1472 - Pietro Torrigiano, Italian sculptor (d. 1528)
 1583 - Juan Martinez de Jauregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet and painter (d. 1641)
 1615 - Philip William, Elector Palatine (d. 1690)
 1632 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (died 1677)
 1655 – King Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
 1690 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1750)
 1712 - Ali II ibn Hussein, Tunisian ruler (d. 1782)
 1713 – Laurence Sterne, English-Irish writer (d. 1768)
 1713 - Junípero Serra, Spanish priest and missionary (d. 1784)
 1724 – Maria Amalia of Savoy, Queen of Spain (d. 1760)
 1729 - Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)
 1745 - Maria Luisa of Spain, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1792)
 1766 - Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect (d. 1826)
 1773 - Shadrach Bond, 1st Governor of Illinois (d. 1832)
 1774 - Thomas Dick, Scottish minister, educator and author (d. 1857)
1801  1900 
 1801 - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (d. 1860)
 1806 – William Webb Ellis, English clergyman and alleged inventor of Rugby (d. 1872)
 1808 - Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, French journalist and writer (d. 1890)
 1811 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss politician (d. 1890)
 1815 – Grace Darling, English heroine (d. 1842)
 1826 – Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (d. 1890)
 1830 - Michael Hahn, 19th Governor of Louisiana (d. 1886)
 1849 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American writer (d. 1945)
 1857 - Miklos Kovacs, Hungarian-Slovenian poet (d. 1937)
 1858 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)
 1859 - Cass Gilbert, American architect (d. 1934)
 1864 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
 1867 – Alfred Pampalon, Canadian priest (d. 1896)
 1868 – Scott Joplin, American musician (d. 1917)
 1869 – Antonio Oscar Carmona, Portuguese politician, 97th Prime Minister and 11th President (d. 1951)
 1874 – Charles William Miller, Scottish-Brazilian footballer (d. 1953)
1875 - Nobuyuki Abe, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1962)
 1876 - Walter Burley Griffin, American architect, designed Canberra, Australia (d. 1937)
 1877 – Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (d. 1956)
 1880 – King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1953)
 1884 - Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, 2nd President of Israel (d. 1963)
 1884 - Michel de Klerk, Dutch architect (d. 1923)
 1887 - Raoul Paoli, French boxer and rower (d. 1960)
 1888 – Dale Carnegie, American writer (d. 1955)
 1889 - Kim Chwa-chin, Korean politician and activist (d. 1930)
 1891 - Mariano Ospina Pérez, 42nd President of Colombia (d. 1976)
 1893 - Charles F. Hurley, 54th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
 1894 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (d. 1978)
 1896 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)
1901  1950 
 1904 - Albert Ross Tilley, Canadian surgeon (d. 1988)
 1908 - Libertad Lamarque, Argentine actress and singer (d. 2000)
 1912 - Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (d. 1993)
 1913 - Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (d. 2005)
 1914 - Agostino Casaroli, Italian cardinal (d. 1998)
 1916 - Frankie Muse Freeman, American civil rights attorney (d. 2018)
 1916 - Forrest J Ackerman, American magazine editor and science fiction writer (d. 2008)
 1921 - John Lindsay, 103rd Mayor of New York City (d. 2000)
 1922 - Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and inventor (d. 2012)
 1923 - Octavio Lepage, Acting President of Venezuela (d. 2017)
 1924 - Victor Grinich, Croatian-American businessman (d. 2000)
 1925 – William F. Buckley, Jr.. American writer and political commentator (d. 2008)
 1925 – Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist (d. 2011)
 1926 – Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist
 1929 - George Moscone, 37th Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1978)
1930 - Inge Feltrinelli, German-Italian photographer and director (d. 2018)
 1930 - Bob Friend, American baseball player (d. 2019)
 1930 - Yale Lary, American football player, businessman and politician (d. 2017)
 1930 - Ken Barrington, English cricketer
 1931 - Tommy Allsup, American musician (d. 2017)
 1934 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (d. 1998)
 1935 - Ron Dellums, American politician, 48th Mayor of Oakland, California
 1935 - Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa, Prime Minister of Bahrain
 1938 - Willy Claes, Belgian diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of NATO
 1938 - Oscar Robertson, American basketball player
 1941 - Donald "Duck" Dunn, American musician (d. 2012)
 1941 – Pete Best, Indian-born English drummer (The Beatles)
 1942 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian and actor
 1942 - Martin Fitzwater, 17th White House Press Secretary
 1942 - Craig Thomas, Welsh author (d. 2011)
 1943 – Dave Bing, American basketball player and politician, 70th Mayor of Detroit
1943 - Kuniwo Nakamura, Palauan politician, 6th President of Palau
 1944 – Bev Bevan, English rock drummer
 1944 – Dan Glickman, American politician, 26th United States Secretary of Agriculture
 1944 - Roberto Sagastume Pinto, Guatemalan politician (d. 2014)
 1944 - Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian politician
 1946 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)
 1947 – Dwight Schultz, American actor
 1947 – Dave Sinclair, English musician
 1947 - Jorge Obeid, Argentine politician (d. 2014)
 1950 - Bob Burns, American drummer (d. 2015)
1951  1975 
 1951 - Margaret Mountford, Northern Irish lawyer and businesswoman
 1951 - Graham Price, Welsh rugby union player
 1952 - Thierry Lhermitte, French actor
 1954 - Emir Kusturica, Bosnian-Serbian moviemaker, actor and musician
 1954 - Susan Gilmore, English actress
 1955 – Clem Burke, American drummer (Blondie)
 1955 – Einar Kárason, Icelandic writer
 1955 – Ian Botham, English cricketer
 1955 - Najib Mikati, 31st Prime Minister of Lebanon
 1956 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson, American actor
 1957 – Denise Crosby, American actress
 1958 - Margaret Curran, Scottish politician
 1958 – Roy Aitken, Scottish footballer and manager
 1958 - Alain Chabat, French actor and director
 1959 - Zeinab Badawi, Sudanese-British journalist and broadcaster
 1960 – Armen Grigoryan, Russian-Armenian singer
 1961 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist
 1962 – John Squire, British guitarist (The Stone Roses)
 1963 - Neale Cooper, Scottish footballer (d. 2018)
 1965 - Tom Boyd, Scottish footballer
1965 - Brad Wall, Canadian politician, Premier of Saskatchewan
 1965 - Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress and singer
 1966 – Russell Watson, English singer
 1968 – Bülent Korkmaz, Turkish footballer
 1970 - Julieta Venegas, Mexican singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
 1971 – Lola Glaudini, American actress
 1974 - Stephen Merchant, English comedian, actor and director
From 1976 
 1976 – Stephanie zu Guttenberg, German noblewoman, married to Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
 1976 – Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
 1977 – Colin Hanks, American actor
 1978 – Katherine Heigl, American actress
 1979 - Joseba Llorente, Spanish footballer
 1979 - Carmelita Jeter, American athlete
 1979 - Sue Smith, English footballer
 1980 – Beth Pheonix, American wrestler
 1983 – Dean Ashton, English footballer
 1983 - Gwilym Lee, English actor
 1983 - Karin Vanasse, Canadian actress
 1984 – Maria Höfl-Riesch, German skier
 1984 - Kagisho Dikgacoi, South African footballer
 1985 - Julia Alexandratou, Greek model, actress and singer
 1986 - Aida Folch, Spanish actress
 1987 - Jeremain Lens, Dutch footballer
 1990 - Sarah Hyland, American actress and singer
 1990 - Tom Odell, British singer-songwriter
 1993 - Ivi Adamou, Cypriot singer
 1994 - Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer
 1994 - Reece Mastin, English-Australian singer

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 654 - Emperor Kotoku of Japan (b. 596)
 1072 - Bagrat IV of Georgia (b. 1018)
 1227 - Leszek I the White, Polish prince
 1265 - Magnus Olafsson, Manx King
 1531 - Johannes Oecolampadius, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1482)
 1572 – John Knox, Scottish reformer (b. 1514)
 1600 - Balthasar Russow, Baltic German chronicler and clergyman (b. 1536)
 1675 - Guru Tegh Bahadur, Indian religious leader (Sikhism) (b. 1621)
 1722 - Johann Adam Reincken, Dutch-German organist and composer (b. 1623)
 1741 - Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden (b. 1688)
 1775 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (b. 1703)
 1830 - Bungaree, Australian Aboriginal explorer and community leader (b. c. 1775)
 1837 - Joseph Kent, Governor of Maryland (b. 1779)
 1848 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
 1885 – Nicolás Avellaneda, President of Argentina (b. 1837)
1901  2000 
 1916 - Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-English inventor (b. 1840)
 1920 - Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian author and poet (b. 1854)
 1922 – Sidney Sonnino, Italian politician (b. 1847)
 1923 - Michel de Klerk, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
 1929 – Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France (b. 1841)
 1948 – Anna Jarvis, American, founder of Mother's Day (b. 1864)
 1956 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920)
 1957 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
 1958 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British politician (b. 1864)
 1960 - Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
 1963 - Marotrao Kannamwar, Indian politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Maharashtra
 1964 - Herbert Johanson, Estonian architect (b. 1884)
 1965 – Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
 1980 - George Raft, American actor (b. 1901)
 1982 - Barack Obama, Sr., Kenyan father of Barack Obama (b. 1936)
1985 – Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911)
 1990 – Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (b. 1896)
 1991 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen), of AIDS (b. 1946).
 1991 – Eric Carr, American drummer (Kiss) (b. 1950).
 1993 - Albert Collins, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
 1996 - Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (b. 1911)
 1997 - Barbara, French singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1930)
 1998 – John Chadwick, British philologist (b. 1920)
From 2001 
 2001 - Melanie Thornton, American singer (b. 1967)
 2002 – John Rawls, American philosopher (b. 1921)
 2005 – Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
 2008 - Cecil H. Underwood, 25th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1922)
 2009 – Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician (b. 1935)
 2010 – Huang Hua, Chinese politician (b. 1913)
 2012 - Héctor Camacho, Puerto Rican boxer (b. 1962)
 2013 - Amedeo Amadei, Italian footballer (b. 1921)
 2014 - Viktor Tikhonov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1930)
 2014 - Jorge Herrera Delgado, Mexican politician (b. 1961)
 2015 - Varduhi Varderesyan, Romanian-Armenian actress (b. 1928)
 2015 - Heinz Oberhummer, Austrian physicist and astronomer (b. 1941)
 2016 - Florence Henderson, American actress and singer (b. 1934)
 2017 - Wesley L. Fox, American colonel (b. 1931)
 2017 - Neil Gillman, Canadian-American rabbi and philosopher (b. 1933)
 2017 - Stephen Knapp, American artist (b. 1947)
 2017 - Mitch Margo, American singer (The Tokens) (b. 1947)
2017 - Jaime Ortí, Spanish football businessman and sports commentator (b. 1947)
 2017 - Hermann Schwörer, German businessman and politician (b. 1922)
 2017 - John Thierry, American football player (b. 1971)
 2018 - Ambareesh, Indian actor and politician (b. 1952)
 2018 - Gordon Copeland, New Zealand politician (b. 1943)
 2018 - David Defiagbon, Nigerian-Canadian boxer (b. 1970)
 2018 - Ricky Jay, American stage magician, actor and writer (b. 1946)
 2019 - Goo Ha-ra, South Korean pop singer (b. 1991)
 2019 - Clive James, Australian author and broadcaster (b. 1939)
 2019 - Kailash Chandra Joshi, Indian politician (b. 1929)
 2019 - Colin Mawby, English organist, composer and conductor (b. 1936)
 2019 - Dion Neutra, American architect and activist (b. 1926)
 2019 - Yehoshua Porath, Israeli historian and politician (b. 1938)
 2019 - John Simon, Serbian-born American essayist and critic (b. 1925)
 2019 - Joan Staley, American actress (b. 1940)
Observances 
 Lachit Divas (Assam)
 Teacher's Day (Turkey)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 845 - The first King of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats Frankish King Charles the Bold at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
 1412 - The St. Cecilia's flood kills around 30,000 people on the lower Elbe.
 1497 – Vasco da Gama sails round the Cape of Good Hope on his voyage to India.
 1574 - The Juan Fernandez Islands in the Pacific Ocean, now belonging to Chile, are discovered.
 1635 - Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a campaign against native villages. It results in them taking control over the Central and Southern parts of the island. 
 1718 – Off the coast of Virginia, English pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle when a British boarding party cornered and then shot and stabbed him more than 25 times.
 1812 - War of 1812: 17 Indiana rangers are killed at the Battle of Wild Cat Creek.
1837 - Canadian journalist William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper "The Constitution".
 1847 - Fire rips through a paddle steamer on Lake Michigan, killing 250 people.
 1858 – Denver, Colorado, is founded.
 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.
 1869 - In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched.
 1873 - French transatlantic steamer Ville du Havre collides in the North Atlantic Ocean with the clipper Loch Earn, breaks apart and sinks within twelve minutes, killing 226.
 1880 – Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell makes her debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre in New York City.
1901  2000 
 1908 - The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet
 1917 – In Montreal, Canada, the National Hockey Association breaks up (on November 26 it was replaced with the National Hockey League).
 1928 - The first performance of Maurice Ravel's Bolero takes place in Paris.
 1933 - Qatar Airways is founded.
 1935 – The China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean (the airplane later reached its destination, Manila, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail).
 1940 - World War II: After the initial Italian invasion of Greece, Greek troops counter-attack into Italian-occupied Albania and captures Korytsa.
 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – The situation for the German attackers of Stalingrad seems desperate during the Soviet counter-attack Operation Uranus and General Friedrich von Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded.
1943 – World War II: War in the Pacific – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan (see Cairo Conference)
 1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France.
 1954 - The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
 1956 - The 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, begin.
 1963 – John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded, and US vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested but is himself shot two days later by Jack Ruby.
 1967 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
 1968 – The Beatles release The White Album.
1972 – Vietnam War: The United States loses its first B-52 Stratofortress of the war.
 1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
 1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of dictator Francisco Franco.
 1977 – British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
 1985 – According to ancient Aztec mythology, the future saviour of the world would be born on this date.
 1986 – Mike Tyson knocks-out Trevor Berbick in a round 2 fight, becoming the youngest world heavyweight-boxing champion (20 years, 4 months old).
 1988 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
 1989 – In west Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
 1990 – Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
From 2001 
 2001 – Jack McConnell replaces Henry McLeish as First Minister of Scotland.
 2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
 2003 – England wins the Rugby World Cup, defeating Australia in the final.
 2003 – In Tbilisi, Georgia, opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze seize the parliament building and demand the president's resignation.
 2003 – The Heritage Classic, the first outdoor hockey game in the history of the National Hockey League is played in Edmonton, Alberta.
 2004 - Orange Revolution: Protests begin in Kyiv, Ukraine, over the previous day's election result, in which Viktor Yanukovych was announced as the winner over Viktor Yushchenko.
 2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
 2007 – Steve McClaren is sacked as the manager of the England national football team, which had failed to qualify for the European Championships.
2010 – A stampede occurs on a bridge in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, during the Bon Om Thook water festival, killing 347 people.
 2013 - Magnus Carlsen wins the World Chess Championship over defending champion Viswanathan Anand.
 2015 - Mauricio Macri is elected President of Argentina over Daniel Scioli.
 2017 - Ratko Mladic is found guilty of war crimes by the International Court of Justice in relation to the Srebrenica massacre.
Up to 1800 
 1428 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English politician (d. 1471)
 1515 – Marie of Guise, Regent of Scotland (d. 1560)
 1532 - Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony (d. 1585)
 1536 - Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, German nobleman (d. 1606)
 1602 - Elisabeth of France (d. 1644)
 1643 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)
 1698 - Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, French Governor of Louisiana (d. 1778)
 1709 - Franz Benda, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1786)
 1710 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer, eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1784)
 1722 - Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
 1728 - Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1811)
 1744 - Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)
 1753 - Dugald Stewart, Scottish philosopher and mathematician (d. 1828)
 1766 - Charlotte von Lengefeld, German writer (d. 1826)
 1767 – Andreas Hofer, Tyrolian patriot (d. 1810)
1780 - José Cecilio del Valle, Honduran politician (d. 1834)
 1787 – Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish linguist (d. 1832)
 1791 - John Winston Jones, American politician (d. 1848)
1801  1900 
 1808 – Thomas Cook, British holiday entrepreneur (d. 1892)
 1819 – George Eliot, English novelist (d. 1880)
 1837 - Franklin MacVeigh, American politician (d. 1934)
 1840 - Emile Lemoine, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1912)
 1849 – Christian Rohlfs, painter and graphic artist (d. 1938)
 1852 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat (d. 1924)
 1856 – Heber J. Grant, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1945)
 1859 - Fusajiro Yamauchi, Japanese founder of Nintendo (d. 1940)
 1861 – Ranavalona III, Queen of Madagascar (d. 1917)
 1868 – John Nance Garner, 32nd Vice President of the United States (d. 1967)
 1869 – André Gide, French novelist (d. 1951)
 1875 - Tomas Berreta, President of Uruguay (d. 1947)
 1876 - Emil Beyer, American gymnast (d. 1934)
 1876 - Pierre Petit de Juleville, French cardinal (d. 1947)
 1876 - Percival Proctor Baxter, 33rd Governor of Maine (d. 1969)
1877 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-born businessman, founder of Barcelona Football Club (d. 1930)
 1881 – Ismail Enver, Turkish general and politician (d. 1922)
 1883 - Martin Flavin, American playwright and novelist (d. 1967)
 1889 - Gordon Browning, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1976)
 1890 – Charles de Gaulle, French general and statesman, President of France (d. 1970)
 1890 – El Lissitzky, Russian painter and designer (d. 1941)
 1893 – Harley J. Earl, automobile designer, father of the Chevrolet Corvette (d. 1969)
 1897 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
 1898 - Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)
 1899 – Hoagy Carmichael, American composer, singer and actor (d. 1981)
 1900 - Helenka Pantaleoni, American actress and humanitarian (d. 1987)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)
 1902 - Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
 1904 – Louis Néel, French physicist (d. 2000)
 1909 - Mikhail Mil, Russian engineer (d. 1970)
 1913 – Benjamin Britten, English composer (d. 1976)
 1913 - Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player (d. 2016)
 1914 - Peter Townsend, English captain and pilot (d. 1995)
 1917 – Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2012)
 1918 – Claiborne Pell, former United States Senator (d. 2009)
 1921 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor (d. 2004)
 1922 - Eugene Stoner, American weapons designer (d. 1997)
 1923 - Tu An, Chinese poet and translator (d. 2017)
 1923 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian director (d. 2016)
 1923 - Hanna Maron, German-born Israeli actress (d. 2014)
 1924 - Les Johnson, Australian politician (d. 2015)
 1924 – Geraldine Page, actress (d. 1987)
 1925 – Gunther Schuller, American jazz composer and director (d. 2015)
1925 - Jerrie Mock, American pilot (d. 2014)
 1926 - Gene Berce, American basketball player (d. 2018)
 1926 - Arthur Jones, American businessman (d. 2007)
 1928 - Willie Fernie, Scottish footballer (d. 2011)
 1929 - Isa Barzizza, Italian actress
 1930 - Owen Garriott, American astronaut (d. 2019)
 1930 - Peter Hall, English theatre and movie director (d. 2017)
 1930 - Peter Huford, English organist and composer
 1932 – Robert Vaughn, American actor (d. 2016)
 1936 - Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Prime Minister of Bahrain
 1936 - Alex Scott, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)
 1936 - John Bird, English actor and comedian
 1940 - Andrzej Zulawski, Polish director and writer (d. 2016)
 1940 – Terry Gilliam, American-born British comedian, actor and director, member of Monty Python
 1941 – Tom Conti, Scottish actor
 1941 - Jacques Laperriere, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
 1941 - Jesse Colin Young, American singer-songwriter and bass player
 1942 - Guion Bluford, American astronaut
1943 – Billie Jean King, American tennis player
 1943 - Peter Adair, American director and producer (d. 1996)
 1943 - Gary M. Heidnik, American serial killer (d. 1999)
 1946 - Aston Barrett, Jamaican athlete
 1947 - Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer-songwriter and producer
 1947 – Nevio Scala, Italian footballer
 1948 – Radomir Antic, Serbian football manager
 1949 - Richard Carmona, 17th Surgeon General of the United States
 1949 - Godfrey Bloom, English politician
 1950 – Jim Jefferies, Scottish football manager
 1950 – Lyman Bostock, American Major League Baseball player (d. 1978)
 1950 – Steve Van Zandt, musician
 1950 – Tina Weymouth, musician
1951  1975 
 1951 – Kent Nagano, American conductor
 1954 - Robert F. Coleman, American mathematician (d. 2014)
 1954 - Paolo Gentiloni, former Prime Minister of Italy
 1956 - Lawrence Gowan, Scottish-Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (Styx)
 1956 - Richard Kind, American actor
 1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
 1958 - Bruce Payne, English actor
 1959 - Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
 1961 – Mariel Hemingway, American actress
 1961 - Stephen Hough, English-Australian pianist and composer
 1961 - Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
 1961 - Gary Valentine, American actor, comedian and writer
 1962 - Sumi Jo, South Korean soprano
 1962 - Victor Peleven, Russian author
 1963 – Tony Mowbray, English football manager
 1963 - Brian Robbins, American actor and director
 1963 - Corinne Russell, English model, actress and dancer
 1963 - Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson, Icelandic actor
 1965 - Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
 1966 - Mark Pritchard, English politician
1967 – Boris Becker, German tennis player
 1967 - Mark Ruffalo, American actor and producer
 1968 - Sidse Babett Knudsen, Danish actress
 1969 - Katrin Krabbe, German athlete
 1973 - Chad Trujillo, American astronomer
 1974 – David Pelletier, figure skater
 1975 – Aiko, Japanese singer
From 1976 
 1976 – Ville Valo, lead singer of Finnish rock band HIM
 1976 – Torsten Frings, German footballer
 1977 - Annika Norlin, Swedish singer
 1978 – Francis Obikwelu, Portuguese athlete
 1979 - Jeremy Dale, American comic book artist (d. 2014)
 1980 - Rait Keerles, Estonian basketball player
 1980 - Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian high jumper
 1982 - Steve Angello, Greek-Swedish DJ and singer
 1982 – Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Nigerian footballer
 1982 - Isild Le Besco, French actress
 1983 - Tyler Hilton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1984 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress
 1985 - Austin Brown, American singer
 1985 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
 1986 – Oscar Pistorius, South African athlete
 1987 - Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer
 1988 - Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor and singer
 1988 - Jyoti Guptara, English-Swiss journalist and author
 1988 - Suresh Guptara, English-Swiss author
 1989 - Chris Smalling, English footballer
 1989 - Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer
1989 - Candice Glover, American singer-songwriter and actress
 1990 - Jing Dongwoo, South Korean singer and dancer
 1991 - Scott Bain, Scottish footballer
 1991 - Saki Shimizu, Japanese singer
 1992 - Will Young, New Zealand cricketer
 1995 - Katherine McNamara, American actress and singer
 1996 - Hailey Baldwin, American model and television personality
 1996 - Madison Davenport, American actress
Up to 1950 
 385 - Antipope Felix II
 950 - Lothair II of Italy (b. 926)
 1286 – King Eric V of Denmark (b. 1249)
 1318 – Prince Mikhail Yaroslavich of Russia (b. 1271)
 1594 – Martin Frobisher, English explorer
 1617 – Ahmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1590)
 1710 - Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (b. 1637)
 1718 – Edward Teach (Blackbeard), English pirate (b. 1680)
 1774 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general (b. 1725)
 1813 - Johann Christian Reil, German physician (b. 1759)
 1875 – Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
 1896 - George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., American engineer, inventor of the Ferris Wheel (b. 1859)
 1900 – Arthur Sullivan, English composer (b. 1842)
 1902 - Walter Reed, American physician (b. 1851)
 1916 – Jack London, American writer (b. 1876)
 1919 - Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer and academic (b. 1852)
 1930 – Paul Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)
 1944 – Arthur Eddington, British astrophysicist (b. 1882)
1946 - Burt McKinnie, American golfer (b. 1879)
 1946 - Otto George Thierack, German jurist and politician (b. 1889)
 1948 - Fakhri Pasha, Turkish general and politician (b. 1868)
1951  2000 
 1954 - Jess McMahon, American wrestling promoter (b. 1882)
 1962 - René Coty, President of France (b. 1882)
 1963 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
 1963 – Aldous Huxley, English writer (b. 1894)
 1963 – C. S. Lewis, Irish writer (b. 1898)
 1967 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
 1980 - Jules Léger, 21st Governor General of Canada (b. 1913)
 1980 – Mae West, American actress (b. 1893)
 1981 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist (b. 1900)
 1986 – Scatman Crothers, American actor (b. 1910)
 1989 – René Moawad, Lebanese politician (b. 1925)
 1992 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)
 1993 – Anthony Burgess, British writer (b. 1917)
 1996 - Maria Casares, Spanish-born actress (b. 1922)
 1996 - Terence Donovan, English photographer (b. 1936)
 1997 – Michael Hutchence, Australian musician (b. 1960)
 2000 - Christian Marquand, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
From 2001 
 2003 - Mario Beccaria, Italian politician (b. 1920)
 2007 - Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss choreographer (b. 1929)
 2007 - Verity Lambert, English television producer (b. 1935)
 2008 – Ibrahim Nasir, former President of the Maldives (b. 1926)
 2010 – Frank Fenner, Australian scientist (b. 1914)
 2011 – Danielle Mitterrand, French activist and former First Lady of France (b. 1924)
 2011 - Lynn Margulis, American biologist (b. 1938)
 2011 - Svetlana Alliluyeva (Lana Peters), Soviet-born American writer, defector and daughter of Joseph Stalin (b. 1926)
 2011 - Sena Jurinac, Bosnian-born operatic soprano (b. 1921)
 2011 - Paul Motian, American jazz musician (b. 1931)
 2012 - Bryce Courteney, South African-born Australian illustrator (b. 1933)
 2013 - Georges Lautner, French movie director, screenwriter (b. 1926)
 2014 - Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (b. 1916)
 2014 - Claire Barry, American singer (b. 1920)
 2014 - Marcel Paquet, Belgian philosopher (b. 1947)
2015 - Kim Young-sam, 6th President of South Korea (b. 1927)
 2015 - Joseph Silverstein, American violinist and conductor (b. 1932) 
 2016 - Ram Naresh Yadav, Indian politician (b. 1927)
 2017 - George Avakian, American record producer (b. 1919)
 2017 - Jon Hendricks, American jazz singer (b. 1921)
 2017 - Maurice Hinchey, American politician (b. 1938)
 2017 - Imre Hollai, Hungarian diplomat (b. 1925)
 2017 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian opera singer (b. 1962)
 2017 - Stefan Radt, German-Dutch historian and author (b. 1927)
 2017 - Charles C. McDonald, American general (b. 1933)
 2018 - Soslan Andiyev, Russian freestyle wrestler (b. 1952)
 2018 - Baishnab Charan Parida, Indian politician (b. 1941)
 2018 - Jose Peralta, American politician (b. 1971) 
 2019 - Stephen Cleobury, English organist (b. 1948)
 2019 - Daniel Leclercq, French footballer (b. 1949)
 2019 - Gugu Liberato, Brazilian television presenter, entrepreneur, actor and singer (b. 1959)
2019 - Kaare R. Norum, Norwegian academic and nutritionist (b. 1932)
 2019 - Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer and painter (b. 1908)
 2019 - Henry Sobel, Portuguese-born Brazilian-American rabbi (b. 1944)
 2019 - Bowen Stassforth, American swimmer (b. 1926)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Lebanon)
 Day of the Albanian Alphabet

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 800 – Charlemagne arrives at Rome to examine the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.
 1174 - Saladin enters Damascus.
 1248 - Spanish Reconquista: Christian troops under Ferdinand III of Castile conquer Seville.
 1510 - First campaign of the Ottoman Empire against the Kingdom of Imereti, present-day western Georgia.
 1531 - The Second War of Kappel results in Switzerland's Protestant Alliance dissolving.
 1644 - John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet against censorship.
 1791 - The Snares Islands to the south of New Zealand are discovered.
 1810 - Sarah Booth has her first performance at the Royal Opera House.
 1863 – American Civil War: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack Confederate troops.
 1889 - The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco, California.