Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1951  1975 
 1951 – Cicciolina, Italian actress and politician
 1951 - Sulejman Tihic, Bosnia and Herzegovina politician (d. 2014)
 1952 - Wendy Turnbull, Australian tennis player
 1953 – Hilary Benn, British politician
 1953 - Shelley Moore Capito, American politician
 1953 – Harry Carson, American football player
 1954 – Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (d. 2009)
 1955 - Gisela Stuart, German-British politician
 1956 – Dale Jarrett, American race car driver
 1956 – Keith Vaz, British politician
 1960 - Delio Rossi, Italian footballer 
 1961 - Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria, Indian-British entrepreneur
 1961 - Ivory, American professional wrestler
 1961 - Petr Málek, Czech sport shooter (d. 2019)
 1962 – Chuck Finley, American baseball pitcher
 1963 - Mario Elie, American basketball player
 1963 - Matt Frei, German-born British journalist
 1964 - Chokri Belaid, Tunisian politician (d. 2013)
 1964 – Vreni Schneider, Swiss skier
1969 – Shawn Kemp, American basketball player
 1970 – Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
 1970 - John Amaechi, American-born British basketball player
 1971 – Ronald "Winky" Wright, American boxer
 1972 – Arjun Rampal, Indian actor
 1973 – Peter Facinelli, American actor
 1975 – DJ Khaled, Palestinian-American musical artist and DJ
From 1976 
 1976 – Maven Huffman, American professional wrestler
 1977 - Ivan Bassi, Italian cyclist
 1980 - Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer and actor
 1980 – Aruna Dindane, Ivory Coast footballer
 1980 - Chris Lintott, English astrophysicist, author and broadcaster
 1981 – Aurora Snow, American actress
 1981 – Stephan Andersen, Danish international footballer
 1981 – Ivan Basso, Italian cyclist
 1981 – Natasha Bedingfield, British singer
 1981 - Natalie Gauci, Australian singer
 1981 - Gina Kingsbury, Canadian ice hockey player
 1982 - Keith Ballard, American ice hockey player
 1982 - Dallas Johnson, Australian rugby player
 1983 – Chris Hughes, American businessman, co-founder of Facebook
 1984 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
 1986 - Trevor Morgan, American actor
 1990 – Chipmunk, English rapper
 1990 – Danny Welbeck, English footballer
 1990 - Rita Ora, Kosovo-born English singer and actress
 1990 - Avery Bradley, American basketball player
 1990 - Gabriel Paulista, Brazilian footballer
1992 - Louis Ducruet, Monegasque royal
 1993 - Erena Ono, Japanese singer (AKB48)
 1996 - Louane Emera, French singer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 399 - Pope Siricius
 1252 - Blanche of Castile, Queen of France (b. 1188)
 1504 – Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)
 1518 - Vannozza de Cattanei, Italian mistress to the future-Pope Alexander VI (b. 1442)
 1688 - Philippe Quinault, French playwright (b. 1635)
 1717 - Daniel Purcell, British composer (b. 1664)
 1822 - Karl August von Hardenberg, Prussian statesman (b. 1750)
 1836 – John Loudon MacAdam, Scottish engineer and road builder (b. 1756)
 1842 - Robert Smith, United States Secretary of State (b. 1757)
 1851 - Jean-de-Dieu Soult, French general and politician (b. 1769)
 1855 – Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (b. 1798)
 1872 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b. 1788)
 1876 - Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (b. 1792)
 1882 - Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, Prussian lawyer and politician (b. 1805)
 1883 – Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist (b. 1797)
1901  2000 
 1912 - Patriarch Joachim III of Constantinople (b. 1854)
 1919 - Felipe Angeles, Mexican revolutionary general (b. 1868)
 1926 - John Browning, American firearms designer and inventor (b. 1855)
 1930 – Otto Sverdrup, Norwegian explorer (b. 1854)
 1934 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman (b. 1866)
 1938 - Flora Call Disney, mother of Walt Disney (b. 1868)
 1943 - Edward O'Hare, American pilot (b. 1914)
 1952 – Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (b. 1865)
 1954 – Bill Doak, American baseball player (b. 1891)
 1956 – Tommy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1905)
 1959 - Albert Ketèlbey, British composer, pianist and conductor (b. 1875)
 1961 - Styles Bridges, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1898)
 1962 - Albert Sarrault, French politician (b. 1872)
 1963 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (b. 1882)
 1968 – Arnold Zweig, German writer (b. 1887)
 1973 – John Rostill, British musician (b. 1942)
 1977 - Yoshibayama Junnosoke, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1920)
1978 - Ford Beebe‎, American director (d. 1888)
 1979 - Ove Joensen, Faroese rower and adventurer (b. 1948)
 1981 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (b. 1901)
 1989 - Ahmed Abdallah, President of the Comoros
 1994 – Joey Stefano, American actor (b. 1968)
 1994 - Arturo Rivera y Damas, Archbishop of San Salvador (b. 1923)
From 2001 
 2003 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (b. 1978)
 2004 - Philippe de Broca, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1933)
 2005 - Stan Berenstain, American writer (b. 1923)
 2005 - Mark Craney, American musician (b. 1952)
 2008 – Edna Parker, American supercentenarian, world's oldest woman at the time of her death (b. 1893)
 2011 – C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian colonel and politician, President of Biafra (b. 1933)
 2012 - Joseph Murray, American surgeon and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1919)
 2013 - Cayetano Re, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1938)
 2013 - Arik Einstein, Israeli singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1939)
 2013 - John Galbraith Graham (Araucaria), English crossword compiler and Church of England priest (b. 1921)
 2013 - Stan Stennett, Welsh entertainer (b. 1925)
 2014 - Frankie Fraser, English gangster (b. 1923)
 2014 - Sabah, Lebanese singer and actress (b. 1927)
 2014 - Gilles Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
 2014 - Tapan Raychaudhuri, Indian historian (b. 1924)
2014 - Angel Tulio Zof, Argentine footballer (b. 1928)
 2015 - Guy Lewis, American basketball player (b. 1922)
 2015 - Norbert Gastell, German actor (b. 1929)
 2016 - Peter Hintze, German politician (b. 1950)
 2016 - Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Dutch religious leader (b. 1928)
 2017 - Hou Bo, Chinese photographer (b. 1924)
 2017 - Armando Hart, Cuban politician (b. 1930)
 2017 - W. Marvin Watson, American politician (b. 1924)
 2018 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director (b. 1941)
 2018 - Stephen Hillenburg, American marine biologist and animator, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants (b. 1961)
 2018 - Charles Huxtable, British military officer (b. 1931)
 2018 - Tomás Maldonado, Argentine painter and designer (b. 1922)
 2018 - Patricia Quintana, Mexican chef and writer (b. 1946)
 2018 - Leo Schwarz, German Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1931)
 2019 - Cyrus Chothia, English biochemist (b. 1942)
 2019 - Howard Cruse, American cartoonist and comic book writer (b. 1941)
2019 - Yeshi Dhonden, Tibetan-Indian physician and humanitarian (b. 1927)
 2019 - James L. Holloway III, American naval admiral and political writer (b. 1922)
 2019 - Köbi Kuhn, Swiss footballer and coach (b. 1943)
 2019 - Muiris Mac Conghail, Irish journalist, writer, broadcaster, poet and filmmaker (b. 1941)
 2019 - Bruno Nicolè, Italian footballer (b. 1940)
 2019 - Gerald Regan, Canadian politician, 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1928)
 2019 - Gary Rhodes, English chef (b. 1960)
Observances 
 Constitution Day (India)
 Day of the Covenant (Baha'i faith)
 Independence Day (Mongolia)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 655 - Oswiu of Northumbria defeats Penda of Mercia in the Battle of the Winwaed.
 1315 - Battle of Morgarten: The Swiss "Eidgenossen" defeat the Habsburgs.
 1532 - Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors led by Hernando de Soto meet Inca Emperor Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting in the city plaza the following day.
 1533 - Francisco Pizarro arrived in Cuzco, capital of the Inca Empire, before plundering the city and setting it on fire.
 1688 - William III lands at Brixham, starting the Glorious Revolution.
 1777 – After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation.
 1806 - Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike saw a distant peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is later named Pikes Peak.
 1825 - King John V of Portugal recognised the independence of Brazil.
 1859 - The first modern revival of the Olympics took place in Athens, Greece.
1864 – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.
 1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is removed from power in a military coup. The pattern of stars on the night of this date is now included on the Flag of Brazil.
1901  2000 
 1908 - Colonialism: King Leopold II of Belgium sells the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Belgian state.
 1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
 1922 - Over 1,000 people are massacred during a General Strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
 1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
 1928 - The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
 1935 – Manuel L. Quezon became President of the Philippines.
 1935 – Canada and the United States sign a trade agreement in Washington.
 1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
 1940 - A wall is built around the Warsaw Ghetto. 
 1941 – Holocaust: SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and deportation to concentration camps of all homosexuals in Germany, with the exception of certain top Nazi officials.
 1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a Allied victory.
1943 – Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
 1945 – Venezuela joins the UN.
 1948 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister of Canada.
 1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
 1953 - The sugar spreader is patented in West Germany.
 1955 - The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan is founded. It ends up governing Japan continuously until 1993.
 1960 - Basketball: An NBA record is set when Elgin Baylor of the New York Knicks scored 71 points in a single game.
 1960 - A train crash in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia (now-Czech Republic) kills 110 people.
 1966 - The Gemini 12 space probe splashed into the Atlantic Ocean, at the end of the Gemini program.
 1966 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashed near Berlin, killing all the 3 people on board.
1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war.
 1971 - Intel released the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
 1976 - Rene Levesque became Premier of Quebec.
 1978 - A chartered Douglas DC-8 airplane crashed near Colombo, Sri Lanka.
 1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded.
 1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
 1987 - Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas-9-14 jetliner, crashed in a snowstorm at Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado, killing 28 people, with 54 surviving.
 1987 - In Brasov, Romania, workers rebel against the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu.
 1988 – An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
 1988 - The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
1990 - A new republican form of government is created in Bulgaria.
 1990 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launched with Flight STS-38.
 1990 – Producers admit that Milli Vanilli, who won the 1990 "Best New Artist" Grammy Award, did not sing on their album.
 2000 - A chartered Antonov An-24 crashed after take-off from Luanda, Angola, killing over 40 people.
 2000 - In India, the new state of Jharkhand is created, out of the southern part of the state of Bihar.
From 2001 
 2002 – Hu Jintao became general secretary of the Communist Party of China.
 2003 – In Istanbul, two synagogues are bombed, killing 25 people.
 2005 - Boeing officially launched the stretched Boeing 747-8. 
 2006 - Al Jazeera English news channel launched worldwide.
 2007 – Tropical Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing around 5000 people. It also caused a large amount of destruction to the Sundarbans mangrove forest.
 2012 - Xi Jinping is announced as the next general secretary of the Communist Party of China, expected to lead China until 2022.
 2017 - The military took over in Zimbabwe as President Robert Mugabe is placed under house arrest.
 2017 - It is announced that a postal survey in Australia resulted in 61.6% of participating voters supporting same-sex marriage.
 2017 - The Scottish Government is allowed to introduce a minimum price for alcohol after a ruling following a long-running court case. This would make Scotland the first country in the world to introduce this policy.
2017 - Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Salvator Mundi" sells for 450 million United States dollars at auction in New York City, smashing the previous record for a work of art in such a sale.
 2017 - Argentine submarine "ARA San Juan" was lost off the coast of southern Argentina, with 44 people on board.
 2018 - In the United Kingdom, several government ministers resign over Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed Brexit deal, including Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey.
Up to 1900 
 457 - B'utz Aj Sak Chiik, Mayan king (d. 501)
 968 - Romanos III Argyros, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1034)
 1316 - King John I of France (d. November 20, 1316)
 1397 – Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455)
 1498 - Eleanor of Austria (d. 1558)
 1511 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (d. 1536)
 1559 – Archduke Albert of Austria (d. 1621)
 1607 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French author (d. 1701)
 1661 - Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss settler in the Americas (d. 1743)
 1688 - Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (d. 1757)
 1708 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1778)
 1738 – William Herschel, German-born astronomer (d. 1822)
 1741 - Johann Kaspar Lavater, German philosopher (d. 1801)
 1746 - Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (d. 1809)
 1778 - Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Italian adventurer, engineer, weightlifter and acrobat (d. 1823)
 1784 – Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia (d. 1860)
 1804 - Eugenio Aguilar, Supreme Director of El Salvador (d. 1879)
1852 - Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (d. 1892)
 1859 – Christopher Hornsrud, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1960)
 1862 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist (d. 1946)
 1867 - Emil Krebs, German polyglot (someone who speaks many languages) and sinologist (d. 1930)
 1868 - Emil Racovita, Romanian biologist, zoologist and explorer of Antarctica (d. 1947)
 1873 - Sara Josephine Baker, American physician and academic (d. 1945)
 1874 – August Krogh, Danish zoologist, won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1949)
 1874 - Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner (d. 1941)
 1879 - Lewis Stone, American actor (d. 1953)
 1881 - Franklin Pierce Adams, American newspaper columnist (d. 1960)
 1882 - Felix Frankfurter, American jurist (d. 1965)
 1886 - René Guénon, French philosopher and author (d. 1951)
 1887 - Hitoshi Ashida, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1959)
 1887 - Marianne Moore, American poet and writer (d. 1972)
 1887 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (d. 1986)
1888 - Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian oceanographer (d. 1957)
 1889 - Manuel II, last King of Portugal (d. 1932)
 1891 - W. Averell Harriman, 48th Governor of New York (d. 1986)
 1891 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (d. 1944)
 1892 - Naomi Childers, American actress (d. 1964)
 1893 - Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian writer (d. 1973)
 1895 – Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
 1895 - Antoni Slominski, Polish journalist, poet and playwright (d. 1976)
 1897 – Aneurin Bevan, British politician (d. 1960)
 1899 - Avdy Andresson, Estonian statesman (d. 1990)
1901  1950 
 1905 - Mantovani, Italian-born composer (d. 1980)
 1906 - Curtis LeMay, US Air Force General (d. 1990)
 1907 – Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German army officer during World War II (d. 1944)
 1910 - Hugh Greene, British journalist (d. 1987)
 1912 - Yi Wu, Korean prince (d. 1945)
 1912 - Albert Baez, American physicist (d. 2007)
 1912 - Fosco Maraini, Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic (d. 2004)
 1913 - Guy Green, British movie director (d. 2005)
 1914 - Giuseppe Caprio, Italian cardinal (d. 2005)
 1914 - V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian judge (d. 2014)
 1915 - David Stirling, British founder of the SAS (d. 1990)
 1916 - Nita Barrow, 7th Governor-General of Barbados (d. 1995)
 1916 - Bill Melendez, Mexican-American animator (d. 2008)
 1919 - Joseph Wapner, American television personality (d. 2017)
 1922 - David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist
 1922 - Francesco Rosi, Italian movie director (d. 2015)
1925 - Howard Baker, American politician (d. 2014)
 1927 - Bill Rowling, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1995)
 1927 - Gregor Mackenzie, British politician (d. 1992)
 1929 – Ed Asner, American actor (d. 2021)
 1930 – J. G. Ballard, English writer (d. 2009)
 1930 - Aureliano Bolognesi, Italian boxer (d. 2018)
 1930 - Olene S. Walker, former Governor of Utah (d. 2015)
 1931 – Mwai Kibaki, former President of Kenya (d. 2022)
 1931 - Pascal Lissouba, Congolese politician
 1931 - John Kerr, American actor and lawyer (d. 2013)
 1932 – Petula Clark, English singer
 1932 - Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher
 1933 - Jack Burns, American comedian
 1933 - Françoise Héritier, French anthropologist and feminist (d. 2017)
 1934 - Joanna Barnes, American actress
 1935 - Nera White, American basketball player (d. 2016)
 1936 – Wolf Biermann, German writer
 1937 - Little Willie John, American singer (d. 1968)
 1939 - W. C. Clark, American blues musician
 1939 - Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician (d. 2015)
1940 - Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer
 1940 - Hank Wangford, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
 1940 – Sam Waterston, American actor
 1942 – Daniel Barenboim, Argentine-born conductor
 1945 – Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Norwegian-born Swedish singer (ABBA)
 1945 - Bob Gunton, American actor
 1945 - Roger Donaldson, Australian-New Zealand director, producer and screenwriter
 1946 - Vasilis Goumas, Greek basketball player
 1947 – Bill Richardson, American politician and former Governor of New Mexico
 1947 - Malcolm Ranjith, Sri Lankan cardinal
 1948 - David Caygill, New Zealand politician
 1950 - Graham Parker, English singer-songwriter
 1950 - Egon Vaupel, German politician, 16th Mayor of Marburg
1951  1975 
 1951 - Beverly D'Angelo, American actress
 1951 - Billy McColl, Scottish actor (d. 2014)
 1952 – Randy Savage, American professional wrestler (d. 2011)
 1953 – Alexander O'Neal, American singer
 1953 - Toshio Takabayashi, Japanese footballer
 1954 - Emma Dent Coad, English politician
 1954 – Aleksander Kwaśniewski, former President of Poland
 1954 - Uli Stielike, German footballer
 1956 - Michael Hampton, American guitarist (Funkadelic)
 1957 - Kevin Eubanks, American jazz guitarist
 1957 - Harold Marcuse, American historian and educator
 1958 - Gu Kailai, Chinese lawyer and businesswoman
 1958 - Lesley Laird, Scottish politician
 1960 - Susanne Lothar, German actress (d. 2012)
 1963 – Andrew Castle, English television presenter and former tennis player
 1963 - Toru Sano, Japanese footballer
 1965 – Nigel Bond, English snooker player
 1967 – Dom Joly, English comedian and journalist
 1967 – Gustavo Poyet, Uruguayan footballer
 1967 - François Ozon, French director and screenwriter
1967 - Pandeli Majko, former Prime Minister of Albania
 1968 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (d. 2004)
 1968 - Jennifer Charles, American singer-songwriter
 1968 - Fausto Brizzi, Italian director and screenwriter
 1968 - Uwe Rösler, German footballer and manager
 1970 - Pedro Caixinha, Portuguese footballer and manager
 1970 - Patrick M'Boma, Cameroonian footballer
 1972 - Jessica Hynes, English actress
 1972 - Jonny Lee Miller, English actor
 1973 - Albert Portas, Spanish tennis player
 1974 – Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer (Nickelback)
 1975 - Yannick Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player
From 1976 
 1976 - Brandon DiCamillo, American comedian, actor and stuntman
 1976 - Virginie Ledoyen, French actress
 1977 – Peter Phillips, first grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II
 1977 - Sean Murray, American actor
 1979 - Josemi, Spanish footballer
 1979 - Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist
 1979 - Robert Kendrick, American tennis player
 1979 - Albert Rivera, Spanish politician
 1981 - Jordan Buckley, American guitarist
 1981 - Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer
 1982 - Kalu Uche, Nigerian footballer
 1983 - John Heitinga, Dutch footballer
 1983 - Veli-Matti Lindström, Finnish ski jumper
 1983 - Laura Smet, French actress
 1983 – Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player
 1984 – Gemma Atkinson, English actress
 1985 - Lily Aldridge, American fashion model
 1985 - Jeffree Star, American performer
 1986 - Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
 1988 - Zena Grey, American actress
 1988 - B.o.B, American rapper and producer
 1988 - Morgan Parra, French rugby player
 1988 - Billy Twelvetrees, English rugby player
1991 – Shailene Woodley, American actress
 1992 - Kevin Wimmer, Austrian footballer
 1992 - Minami Minegishi, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48)
 1993 - Saaya Irie, Japanese actress and singer
 1993 - Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer
 1994 - Saffron Coomber, English actress
 1995 - Karl-Anthony Towns, Dominican-American basketball player
 1998 - Benedict Mateo, Filipino artist
 2005 - Tsehay Hawkins, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
Up to 1900 
 655 - Penda, King of Mercia
 1028 – Constantine VIII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 960)
 1136 - Leopold III, Margrave of Austria (b. 1073)
 1210 - Ly Cap Tong, King of the Ly Dynasty of Vietnam (b. 1173)
 1280 - Albertus Magnus, German theologian, bishop and philosopher
 1544 - King Jungjong of Joseon of Korea (b. 1506)
 1594 - Martin Frobisher, English explorer (b. 1539)
 1630 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)
 1670 - John Amos Comenius, Czech writer (b. 1592)
 1706 - Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (b. 1683)
 1712 - James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish general and politician (b. 1658)
 1712 - Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675) 
 1787 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714)
 1794 - John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1723)
 1819 - Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)
 1832 - Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist (b. 1767)
1839 - William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor (b. 1754)
 1853 – Maria II of Portugal (b. 1819)
1901  2000 
 1908 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China (b. 1835)
 1910 - Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (b. 1831)
 1914 - Harry Turner, American baseball player
 1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish writer (b. 1846)
 1917 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (b. 1858)
 1919 – Alfred Werner, German chemist (b. 1866)
 1919 - Mohammad Farid, Egyptian politician (b. 1868)
 1922 - Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek politician (b. 1866)
 1922 - Georgios Hatzianestis, Greek general (b. 1863)
 1922 - Petros Protopapadakis, Greek politician (b. 1854)
 1922 - Nikolaos Stratos, Greek politician (b. 1872)
 1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte, conspirators against Mahatma Gandhi
 1954 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor (b. 1879)
 1958 – Tyrone Power, American actor (b. 1914)
 1959 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist (b. 1869)
 1961 - Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
 1963 - Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1888)
 1967 - Michael J. Adams, American test pilot (b. 1930)
1976 - Jean Gabin, French actor (b. 1904)
 1978 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (b. 1901)
 1980 - Emilio Pujol, Catalan guitarist and composer (b. 1886)
 1982 - Vinoba Bhave, Indian Human rights advocate (b. 1895)
 1983 – John Le Mesurier, English actor (b. 1912)
 1988 - Archbishop Ieronymos I of Athens, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens (b. 1905)
 1996 – Alger Hiss, American government official and spy (b. 1904)
 1998 - Stokely Carmichael, American Civil rights activist (b. 1941)
 2000 - Piero Pasinati, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
From 2001 
 2002 – Myra Hindley, English murderer (b. 1942)
 2003 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress (b. 1933)
 2003 - Speedy West, American musician (b. 1924)
 2004 - Elmer L. Anderson, American politician (b. 1909)
 2006 – Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (b. 1985)
 2007 - Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player (b. 1928)
 2009 – Pavle, Serbian Patriarch (b. 1914)
 2009 – Pierre Harmel, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1911)
 2010 – Larry Evans, American chess player (b. 1932)
 2011 – Oba Chandler, American murderer (b. 1946)
 2011 - Dulcie Gray, British actress (b. 1915)
 2013 - Glafcos Clerides, 4th President of Cyprus (b. 1919)
 2013 - Raimondo D'Inzeo, Italian equestrian show jumper (b. 1925)
 2014 - Lucien Clergue, French photographer (b. 1934)
 2014 - Reg Withers, Australian politician (b. 1924)
 2014 - Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1983)
 2015 - Moira Orfei, Italian actress (b. 1931)
 2015 - Vincent Margera, American television personality (b. 1956)
2015 - Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor (b. 1929)
 2015 - Herbert Scarf, American mathematician (b. 1930)
 2015 - Dora Doll, French actress (b. 1922)
 2015 - Nicoletta Machiavelli, Italian actress (b. 1944)
 2016 - Mose Allison, American jazz musician (b. 1927)
 2016 - Sixto Durán Ballén, 37th President of Ecuador (b. 1921)
 2017 - Luis Bacalov, Argentine-Italian film score composer (b. 1933)
 2017 - Keith Barron, English actor (b. 1934)
 2017 - Françoise Héritier, French anthropologist and feminist (b. 1933)
 2017 - Frans Krajcberg, Polish-Brazilian artist (b. 1921)
 2017 - Lil Peep, American singer and rapper (b. 1996)
 2018 - John Bluthal, Polish-born British-Australian actor (b. 1929)
 2018 - Roy Clark, American country music singer and television host (b. 1933)
 2018 - Adolf Grünbaum, German-American science professor (b. 1923)
 2018 - Zhores Medvedev, Russian agronomist, biologist and dissident (b. 1925)
 2018 - Mike Noble, British comic artist and cartoonist (b. 1930)
2018 - Luigi Rossi di Montelera, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1946)
 2018 - Aldyr Schlee, Brazilian writer, journalist, translator, illustrator and professor (b. 1934)
 2018 - Sigmund Steinnes, Norwegian politician (b. 1959)
 2019 - Mark Cady, American judge (b. 1953)
 2019 - Jim Coates, American baseball player (b. 1932)
 2019 - Harrison Dillard, American athlete (b. 1923)
 2019 - Vladimir Hotineanu, Moldovan politician (b. 1950)
 2019 - Irv Noren, American baseball player (b. 1924)
 2019 - Juliusz Paetz, Polish archbishop (b. 1935)
Holidays and observances 
 Brazil – Republic Proclamation Day (1889)
 Palestine – Independence Day (declared 1988)
 Japan – Shichi-Go-San – traditional rite of passage and festival day for three and seven-year-old girls and three and five-year-old boys
 Belgium
 Day of the German-speaking Community
 King's Feast
 Eastern Orthodox Christianity - beginning of Winter Lent

Days of the year
Up to 1950 
 1272 - Edward I of England becomes King while fighting in the Ninth Crusade.
 1532 – Inca ruler Atahualpa is captured by Spanish Conquistadors.
 1632 – Thirty Years' War: Swedish troops defeat an imperial army under Albrecht von Wallenstein, but lose their king, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.
 1776 - American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units take Fort Washington from the patriots.
 1776 - The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize US independence.
 1793 - Reign of Terror: 90 anti-republican Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning in Nantes, France.
 1797 - Frederick William III of Prussia becomes King.
 1849 – A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his execution is canceled at the last minute.
 1855 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to reach Victoria Falls.
 1857 - 24 Victoria Crosses are given in one day, a record that still stands.
1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Campbell's Station is fought near Knoxville, Tennessee.
 1869 - The Suez Canal is opened to shipping.
 1885 - Canadian rebel leader Louis Riel is executed for treason.
 1896 – First transmission of electrical power between two cities was sent from Niagara Falls to industries in Buffalo, New York.
 1904 – John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube.
 1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
 1907 - RMS Mauretania is launched by the Cunard Line. The ship sets sail on its first voyage from Liverpool to New York City.
 1914 – The Federal Reserve System in the United States officially starts business.
 1915 - The characterised Coca-Cola bottle is patented in the United States.
 1920 - Australian airline Qantas is founded as the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
 1933 – The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
1933 - American Jimmie Angel re-discovers Angel Falls in Venezuela.
 1940 – World War II: In response to Germany leveling Coventry two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
 1944 - World War II: The German city of Düren is destroyed by Allied bombing.
 1945 – UNESCO is founded.
From 1951 
 1957 – Serial killer Ed Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.
 1959 - The Sound of Music opens on Broadway, New York.
 1965 – The Soviet Venera 3 probe is launched to the planet Venus.
 1970 – Hafez al-Assad comes to power in Syria.
 1973 - NASA launches Skylab 4 with three astronauts on board for an 84-day mission, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
 1973 - US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, allowing for building work to begin on the Trans-Alaska oil Pipeline.
 1979 - The first line of the Bucharest Metro is opened.
 1980 - An explosion at a military base in Bangkok, Thailand kills 38 people.
 1988 – The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that the Estonia was "sovereign" but stopped short of declaring independence.
 1988 – In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister.
 1993 – Guyana joins the UN.
 1994 - Emomalii Rahmon becomes President of Tajikistan.
1996 – Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship.
 1997 - After 18 years of imprisonment, the People's Republic of China releases activist Wei Jingsheng for medical reasons.
 2000 – Bill Clinton becomes the first current US President to visit Vietnam.
 2006 – Rioting occurs in Nuku'alofa, Tonga.
 2013 - Sachin Tendulkar, one of most famous cricketers in the world, retires from playing cricket after his last test match (India v. West Indies).
 2017 - Cambodia's highest court declares the main opposition party illegal.
 2018 - After several resignations in the British cabinet over Brexit, Stephen Barclay is appointed Brexit Secretary and former Home Secretary Amber Rudd becomes Work and Pensions Secretary.
 2019 - Gotabaya Rajapaksa is elected President of Sri Lanka.
 2022 - NASA launches Artemis 1.
Up to 1900 
 42 BC – Tiberius, Roman Emperor (d. 37)
 1436 - Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice (d. 1521)
 1569 - Paul Sartorius, German composer and organist (d. 1609)
 1643 - Jean Chardin, French explorer (d. 1703)
 1717 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1793)
 1720 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, Italian composer (d. 1788)
 1753 - James McHenry, American statesman (d. 1816)
 1766 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist (d. 1831)
 1807 – Jónas Hallgrímsson, Icelandic poet (d. 1845)
 1823 - Henry G. Davis, United States Senator (d. 1916)
 1827 - Charles Eliot Norton, American scholar (d. 1908)
 1835 - Eugenio Beltrami, Italian mathematician (d. 1900)
 1836 – David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii (d. 1891)
 1839 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian poet, author and politician (d. 1908)
 1841 - Jules Violle, French physicist (d. 1923)
 1847 - Edmund James Flynn, 10th Premier of Quebec (d. 1927)
 1850 - Federico Errázuriz Echaurren, President of Chile (d. 1901)
 1851 - Minnie Hauk, American soprano (d. 1929)
1855 – Tommaso Tittoni, Italian Prime Minister (d. 1931)
 1857 – Jón Sveinsson, Icelandic writer (d. 1944)
 1873 – W. C. Handy, American blues musician (d. 1958)
 1874 - Alexander Kolchak, Russian explorer and politician (d. 1920)
 1880 - Alexander Blok, Russian poet (d. 1921)
 1883 - Emil Breitkreutz, American runner (d. 1972)
 1886 - Arthur B. Krock, American political journalist (d. 1974)
 1889 - George Kaufman, American playwright (d. 1961)
 1890 – Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines (d. 1956)
 1891 - Julius Leber, German politician and Resistance activist (d. 1945)
 1892 - Guo Moruo, Chinese poet, author and historian (d. 1978)
 1895 – Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963)
 1896 – Pavel Alexandrov, Russian mathematician (d. 1982)
 1896 - Joan Lindsay, Australian novelist, playwright, essayist and visual artist (d. 1984)
 1896 – Oswald Mosley, British fascist politician (d. 1980)
 1896 - Lawrence Tibbett, American baritone (d. 1960)
 1897 – Choudhary Rahmat Ali, Pakistani student (d. 1951)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Ernest Nagel, Czech philosopher (d. 1985)
 1904 – Nnamdi Azikiwe, first President of Nigeria (d. 1996)
 1905 – Eddie Condon, American jazz musician (d. 1973)
 1907 – Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997)
 1908 – Soeur Emmanuelle, French-Belgian nun (d. 2008)
 1909 - Maurizio Valenzi, Italian politician (d. 2009)
 1913 - Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress (d. 2015)
 1915 - Jean Fritz, American writer (d. 2017)
 1916 - Daws Butler, American voice actor (d. 1988)
 1916 - Al Lucas, Canadian jazz musician (d. 1983)
 1921 - Edmondo Fabbri, Italian footballer (d. 1995)
 1922 – José Saramago, Portuguese writer (d. 2010)
 1922 - Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, physicist and engineer (d. 2015)
 1924 - Mel Patton, American athlete (d. 2014)
 1925 - Gianfranco Dell'Innocenti, Italian footballer (d. 2012)
 1930 – Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet and academic (d. 2013)
 1930 - Salvatore Riina, Italian mafia boss (d. 2017)
 1931 - Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician (d. 2011)
1935 – Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-Lebanese spiritual leader (d. 2010)
 1935 – France-Albert René, former President of the Seychelles (d. 2019)
 1935 - Elizabeth Drew, American journalist
 1935 - Magdi Yacoub, Egyptian heart surgeon
 1937 - Lothar Spaeth, German politician (d. 2016)
 1938 – Robert Nozick, American philosopher (d. 2002)
 1940 - Donna McKechnie, American actress, singer and dancer
 1942 – Willie Carson, Scottish jockey
 1942 - Chi Coltrane, American musician and singer
 1946 – Wolfgang Kleff, German footballer
 1946 - Terence McKenna, American philosopher (d. 2000)
 1946 - Ole Olsen, Danish speedway rider
 1946 - Colin Burgess, Australian drummer
 1948 – Arie Haan, Dutch footballer
 1948 - Norbert Lammert, German politician
 1948 - Bonnie Greer, American playwright and critic
 1950 - David Leisure, American actor
 1950 - David Wilson-Johnson, English operatic baritone
1951  1975 
 1951 - Miguel Sandoval, American actor
 1952 – Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game creator (Nintendo)
 1952 - Sam Watson, Australian indigenous activist, politician and writer (d. 2019)
 1952 - Piero Falchetta, Italian archivist, essayist and translator
 1953 – Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh actor, comedian and writer
 1953 - Brigitte Zypries, German politician
 1954 - Luis Conte, Cuban drummer
 1955 - Héctor Cúper, Argentine footballer and coach
 1957 - Rafael Amador, Mexican footballer
 1957 - Jacques Gamblin, French actor
 1958 - Sooronbay Jeenbekov, President of Kyrgyzstan
 1958 – Marg Helgenberger, American actress
 1961 – Frank Bruno, British boxer
 1961 - Corinne Hermès, French singer
 1962 - Gary Mounfield (Mani), English musician
 1962 - Darwyn Cooke, Canadian comic writer (d. 2016)
 1962 - Josh Silver, American musician
 1963 – Zina Garrison, American tennis player
 1964 – Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Italian actress
 1964 - Luciano Floridi, Italian philosopher
1964 - Dwight Gooden, American baseball player
 1964 – Diana Krall, Canadian jazz singer
 1964 - Maeve Quinlan, American actress
 1965 - Mika Aaltonen, Finnish footballer
 1965 - Mark Benton, English actor
 1966 - Joey Cape, American singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer
 1966 - Christian Lorenz, German musician
 1967 – Lisa Bonet, American actress
 1968 - Shobha Nagi Reddy, Indian politician (d. 2014)
 1970 - Martha Plimpton, American actress
 1971 - Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer
 1971 - Waqar Younis, Pakistani cricketer
 1972 - Michael Irby, American actor
 1972 - Missi Pyle, American actress
 1973 - Christian Horner, British Formula One team principal
 1974 – Paul Scholes, English footballer
 1974 - Brooke Elliott, American actress and singer
 1974 - Maurizio Margaglio, Italian ice dancer
From 1976 
 1976 – Danny Wallace, British writer
 1977 – Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress
 1977 – Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater
 1978 – Gary Naysmith, Scottish footballer
 1979 – Bruce Irons, American surfer
 1980 – Osi Umeniyora, American football player
 1981 – Allison Crowe, Canadian singer-songwriter
 1981 – Caitlin Glass, American voice actress, singer and director
 1981 – Kate Miller-Heidke, Australian singer-songwriter
 1982 – Amar'e Stoudemire, American basketball player
 1983 – Kari Lehtonen, Finnish ice hockey player
 1983 – Britta Steffen, German swimmer
 1983 – Victor Vazquez, American musician and artist
 1984 – Kimberly J. Brown, American actress
 1985 - Sanna Marin, Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland
 1985 – Saori Yamamoto, Japanese model
 1986 – Saeko, Japanese actress
 1986 – Maxime Médard, French rugby player
 1986 – Aleksey Kozlov, Russian footballer
 1987 – Vicky Pattison, British television personality
 1988 – Siva Kaneswaran, British singer (The Wanted)
1989 – Vicki Adams, Scottish curler
 1991 – Tomomi Kasai, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
 1993 – Pete Davidson, American comedian and actor
 1995 – Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor and pianist
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 498 - Pope Anastasius II
 1093 – Saint Margaret, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of King Malcolm III, mother of Kings Alexander I, David I and Edgar (b. 1045)
 1240 - Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1175)
 1272 – Henry III, King of England (b. 1207)
 1328 - Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1276)
 1632 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (b. 1594) (killed in battle)
 1672 - Heinrich Schuetz, German composer (b. 1585)
 1724 - Jack Sheppard, English highwayman  (b. 1702)
 1779 - Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. 1716)
 1790 - Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
 1797 – Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744)
 1802 - André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746)
 1806 - Moses Claeveland, American lawyer and surveyor (b. 1754)
 1878 - Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1874)
 1885 - Louis Riel, Canadian political activist (b. 1844)
1901  2000 
 1907 - Robert I, Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
 1908 - Henri-Gustave de Lotbinière, 4th Premier of Quebec (b. 1829)
 1911 - A. A. Ames, American politician (b. 1842)
 1911 - Lawrence Feuerbach, American athlete (b. 1879)
 1912 - William Larrabee, 13th Governor of Iowa (b. 1832)
 1922 – Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)
 1934 – Carl von Linde, German inventor and engineer (b. 1842)
 1941 - Eduard Ellman-Eelma, Estonian footballer (b. 1902)
 1945 – Sigurdur Eggerz, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1875)
 1947 - Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1877)
 1950 - Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon (b. 1879)
 1956 - Otori Tanigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1887)
 1960 - Gilbert Harding, English television personality (b. 1907)
 1960 – Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901)
 1961 – Sam Rayburn, American Speaker of the House (b. 1882)
 1965 – W. T. Cosgrave, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1880)
 1971 – Edie Sedgwick, American actress (b. 1943)
1972 - Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (b. 1889)
 1973 - Alan Watts, English writer and philosopher (b. 1915)
 1974 - Walther Meissner, German technical physicist (b. 1882)
 1980 - Jayan, Indian actor (b. 1938)
 1982 - Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
 1985 - Omayra Sanchez, Colombian girl, high-profile victim of the Nevado del Ruiz volcanic eruption (b. 1972)
 1986 - Siobhan McKenna, Irish actress (b. 1923)
 1993 - Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (b. 1939)
 1999 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist (b. 1928)
 2000 - Russ Conway, British pianist, composer and singer (b. 1925)
 2000 - DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (b. 1971)
From 2001 
 2004 - Margaret Hassan, Irish aid worker (b. 1945)
 2005 – Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist (b. 1915)
 2006 – Milton Friedman, American economist (b. 1912)
 2008 – Reg Varney, British actor (b. 1916)
 2009 – Edward Woodward, British actor (b. 1930)
 2009 – Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (b. 1978)
 2012 - Aliu Mahama, Ghanaian politician (b. 1946)
 2014 - Peter Kassig, American aid worker (b. 1988)
 2014 - Kim Ja-ok, South Korean actress (b. 1951)
 2014 - Sik Kok Kwong, Hong Kong Buddhist monk (b. 1919)
 2014 - Jadwiga Pilsudska, Polish pilot (b. 1920)
 2014 - Carl Sanders, American politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1925)
 2014 - Serge Moscovici, French psychologist (b. 1925)
 2015 - Nando Gazzolo, Italian actor (b. 1928)
 2015 - David Canary, American actor (b. 1938)
 2015 - Michael C. Gross, American graphic designer (b. 1945)
 2015 - Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
 2016 - Melvin Laird, American politician, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1922)
2016 - Jay Wright Forrester, American computer technology pioneer (b. 1918)
 2017 - Tobias Enverga, Filipino-Canadian politician (b. 1955)
 2017 - Robert Hirsch, French comedian and actor (b. 1925)
 2017 - Franciszek Kornicki, Polish fighter pilot (b. 1916)
 2017 - Erik Meijs, Dutch badminton player (b. 1991)
 2017 - Hiromi Tsuru, Japanese voice actress (b. 1960)
 2017 - Ann Wedgeworth, American actress (b. 1934)
 2017 - Adalberto Giazotto, Italian physicist (b. 1940)
 2018 - Scott English, American songwriter (b. 1937)
 2018 - Pablo Ferro, Cuban-American graphic movie title designer (b. 1935)
 2018 - William Goldman, American screenwriter (b. 1931)
 2018 - Hiromasa Yonekura, Japanese businessman (b. 1937)
 2019 - John Campbell Brown, Scottish astronomer (b. 1947)
 2019 - Zeng Guoyuan, Singaporean businessman and politician (b. 1953)
 2019 - Diane Loeffler, American politician (b. 1953)
 2019 - Terry O'Neill, British photographer (b. 1938)
Observances 
 Icelandic Language Day
 International Day of Tolerance
 Day of Declaration of Sovereignty (Estonia)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 474 - Zeno becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
 794 - Emperor Kammu of Japan changes his residence from Nara to Kyoto.
 1183 - Battle of Mizushima in Japan.
 1292 – John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
 1511 – Spain and England ally against France.
 1558 – Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England.
 1603 - English politician and explorer Walter Raleigh is put on trial.
 1659 - The Treaty of the Pyrenees is signed by France and Spain.
 1777 - US Articles of Confederation are submitted to the states for ratification.
 1796 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Bridge of Arcole - French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
 1800 – The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the U.S. Congress.
 1810 - Sweden declares war on the United Kingdom, though no fighting takes place.
 1811 - José Miguel Carrera is sworn in as President of the Executive Junta of the government of Chile.
 1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica.
1831 – Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Greater Colombia.
 1839 - Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
 1863 - American Civil War: The Siege of Knoxville begins. Confederate forces under James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege.
 1869 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.
 1871 - The National Rifle Association of America is given a charter by the state of New York.
 1874 - British sailing ship Cospatrick catches fire in the South Atlantic Ocean and sinks, killing 467 people.
 1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is performed for the first time, in Moscow.
 1878 - An assassination attempt is made on King Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante.
1901  2000 
 1903 - The Russian Social Democratic Party splits into the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.
 1915 - Morocco starts using its current flag.
 1919 – King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea was first suggested by Edward George Honey.
 1922 - Former Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, goes into exile in Italy.
 1933 – The United States recognizes the Soviet Union.
 1939 - Nine Czech students are executed as a response to Anti-Nazi protests after the death of Jan Opletal. All Czech universities are shut down and over 1,200 students are sent to concentration camps.
 1947 - The Screen Actors Guild implements an Anti-Communist loyalty oath.
 1947 - American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor.
 1950 - Lhamo Dondrub is officially named Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama.
 1953 - The last people to have lived in the Blasket Islands, County Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated from their homes.
1953 - The Minquiers and Ecrehos case ends with the International Court of Justice giving Minquiers and Écréhous to Jersey.
 1954 – Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes President of Egypt.
 1962 - John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, DC region.
 1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to kill Greek dictator George Papadopoulos.
 1969 - Soviet and US negotiators meet in Helsinki to begin talks on limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
 1970 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.
 1970 - Soviet Luna programme: The Soviet Union launches the "Lunokhod 1" probe to the Moon, released by the Luna 17 aircraft.
 1973 - The Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the Greek military regime ends in bloodshed.
 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook".
1982 - Duk Koo Kim, a South Korean boxer, dies as a result from injuries he suffered in a Las Vegas boxing match against Ray Mancini.
 1983 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
 1989 - The Velvet Revolution begins in Czechoslovakia against the government of Ladislav Adamec. It is part of the Fall of the Iron Curtain, and leads to Vaclav Havel becoming President on December 29.
 1990 - Fugnendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcano in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, erupts.
 1993 - The United States House of Representatives approves the North American Free Trade Agreement.
 1993 - In Nigeria, Sani Abacha comes to power through a military coup against the government of Ernest Shonekon.
 1997 - 62 people are killed by Islamic militants in Luxor, Egypt.
 2000 - A landslide occurs at Log pog Mangartom, Slovenia, killing 7 people.
 2000 – Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as President of Peru.
From 2001 
 2003 – Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes Governor of California.
 2012 - Over 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Malafut, Egypt.
 2013 - Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at the airport in Kazan, Russia, killing 50 people.
 2018 - Ibrahim Mohamed Solih becomes President of the Maldives.

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