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1938 – Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins.
 1944 - Otto Hahn wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
 1953 – Cambodia becomes independent from France.
 1953 - Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, the first King of Saudi Arabia, dies. As of 2013, he is the father of all the Saudi Kings that have reigned since his death.
 1960 - Robert McNamara becomes President of the Ford Motor Company, the first person from outside Henry Ford's family to get this position.
 1963 - At Miike Coal Mine in Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458 people and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
 1965 - In the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos is elected President over Diosdado Macapagal.
 1965 - A large power blackout affects the Northeastern United States and parts of Southeastern Canada.
 1967 – NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
 1967 - The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published.
1985 – Garry Kasparov of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest world chess champion, defeating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
 1989 – Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany.
 1993 – The Stari most (Old Bridge) in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina collapses in the Balkan War, and becomes a symbol of the conflict.
 1994 – Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.
 1997 - BBC News 24, now called the BBC News Channel, goes on transmission.
 2000 - The Indian state of Uttarakhand is created out of parts of Uttar Pradesh.
From 2001 
 2004 – Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released. This has become one of Microsoft Internet Explorer's biggest competitors.
 2005 - The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
 2005 – A suicide bombing in Amman, Jordan, kills at least 60 people.
 2007 - The German Bundestag passes the controversial Data Retention Bill, allowing storage of citizens'  telecommunications traffic data for six months.
 2012 - Justin Welby is announced as the successor to Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury.
 2012 - David Petraeus resigns as head of the CIA.
 2014 - Catalonia holds a symbolic vote on independence from Spain.
 2016 - A tram crashes in Croydon, South London, killing 7 people.
 2019 - A religious site disputed by both Muslims and Hindus in Ayodhya, India, is given to Hindus by a court decision.

Births
Up to 1900 
 955 - Gyeongjong of Korea (d. 981)
 1389 – Isabella of Valois, Queen-consort of England (d. 1409)
 1414 - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
 1522 – Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
 1606 - Hermann Conring, German philosopher (d. 1681)
 1664 - Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)
 1664 - Johann Speth, German organist and composer (d. 1719)
 1697 - Claudio Casciolini, Italian composer (d. 1760)
 1719 - Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Italian law professor, priest, chess player, composer and theoretician (d. 1796)
 1721 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
 1723 - Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Prussian royal and composer (d. 1787)
 1731 - Benjamin Banneker, African American astronomer (d. 1806)
 1787 - Johann Natterer, Austrian explorer and naturalist (d. 1843)
 1799 – Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)
 1801 - Gail Borden, American publisher and inventor (d. 1874)
 1802 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
1810 - Thomas Bragg, American politician (d. 1872)
 1818 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
 1825 - A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
 1829 - Peter Lumsden, British general (d. 1918)
 1832 - Emile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
 1840 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, 5th Premier of Quebec (d. 1898)
 1841 – Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
 1850 – Louis Lewin, German pharmacologist (d. 1929)
 1853 - Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
 1855 - Alexandros Zaimis, Greek politician (d. 1936)
 1862 - Gigo Gabashvili, Georgian painter (d. 1936)
 1869 - Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress (d. 1934)
 1871 - Florence Sabin, American anatomist (d. 1953)
 1872 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
 1873 - Fritz Thyssen, German businessman (d. 1951)
 1874 - Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (d. 1954)
 1876 - Ahn Changho, Korean independence activist (d. 1938)
 1877 – Enrico de Nicola, 1st President of Italy (d. 1959)
1877 – Muhammad Iqbal, national poet of Pakistan (d. 1938)
 1878 - An Chang-ho, Korean independence activist (d. 1938)
 1880 - Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and designer (d. 1960)
 1882 - Roy E. Ayers, 11th Governor of Montana (d. 1955)
 1883 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)
 1883 - Charles Demuth, American painter (d. 1935)
 1885 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
 1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
 1886 - Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
 1888 - Jean Monnet, French businessman and statesman (d. 1979)
 1892 - Mabel Normand, American actress (d. 1930)
 1894 - Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
 1897 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist (d. 1978)
1901  1950 
 1902 - Anthony Asquith, British movie director (d. 1968)
 1903 - Josefina Pla, Spanish poet, playwright, art critic, painter and journalist (d. 1999)
 1904 - Viktor Brack, German Nazi physician and war criminal (d. 1945)
 1905 – Erika Mann, German writer (d. 1969)
 1907 - Ko Takamoro, Japanese footballer (d. 1995)
 1914 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
 1915 – Sargent Shriver, American politician (d. 2011)
 1918 – Choi Hong Hi, co-founder of Taekwondo (d. 2002)
 1918 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States and 55th Governor of Maryland (d. 1996)
 1918 - Thomas Ferebee, American Enola Gay bombardier (d. 2000)
 1919 - Roger Brocksom, English engineer and soldier (d. 2001)
 1919 - Eva Todor, Hungarian-Brazilian actress (d. 2017)
 1920 - Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin and white supremacist (d. 2001)
 1921 - Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (d. 1984)
 1922 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
1922 - Augusto Vargas Alzamora, Archbishop of Lima (d. 2000)
 1923 - Alice Coachman, American athlete (d. 2014)
 1923 - James Schuyler, American poet, playwright and novelist (d. 1991)
 1924 - Joy Page, American actress (d. 2008)
 1925 - Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (d. 2016)
 1925 - Alistair Horne, English journalist, biographer and historian (d. 2017)
 1925 - Helmut Rohde, German politician (d. 2016)
 1926 - Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
 1926 - Vicente Aranda, Spanish movie director (d. 2015)
 1927 - Shlomo Lahat, Israeli general and politician (d. 2014)
 1928 - Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
 1929 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer (d. 2016)
 1929 - Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Russian composer
 1931 - Whitey Herzog, American baseball player
 1934 – Ingvar Carlsson, 29th Prime Minister of Sweden
 1934 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer (d. 1996)
 1934 - Ronald Harwood, British movie producer and actor
 1935 - Bob Gibson, American baseball player
1936 – Bob Graham, American politician, 38th Governor of Florida
 1936 - Eduard Punset, Spanish politician and science populariser (d. 2019)
 1936 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d. 1992)
 1936 – Mary Travers, American singer (d. 2009)
 1937 – Roger McGough, English poet
 1937 - Clyde Wells, 5th Premier of Newfoundland
 1939 - Björn Engholm, German politician
 1941 - Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1990)
 1942 – Tom Weiskopf, American golfer
 1944 – Herbert Wimmer, German footballer
 1944 - Phil May, English singer
 1947 – Robert David Hall, American actor
 1948 – Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian football manager
 1948 - Viktor Matviyenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2018)
 1948 - Bille August, Danish director, cinematographer and screenwriter
 1948 - Jane Humphries, English economist, historian and academic
1951  1975 
 1951 – Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder
 1952 – Jack W. Szostak, British-American molecular biologist
 1952 - Sherrod Brown, American politician and United States Senator from Ohio
 1954 – Dennis Stratton, British musician
 1955 – Karen Dotrice, British actress
 1955 - Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian movie director
 1956 - Lei Clijsters, Belgian footballer (d. 2009)
 1959 - Tony Slattery, British actor
 1959 - Frances O'Grady, British union leader
 1959 – Thomas Quasthoff, German operatic baritone
 1960 – Andreas Brehme, German footballer
 1961 - Jill Dando, English television presenter (d. 1999)
 1961 - Jackie Kay, Scottish poet
 1962 - Sergio Batista, Argentine footballer
 1965 – Bryn Terfel, Welsh operatic baritone
 1965 - Daphne Guinness, English-Irish model and actress
 1967 - Yoshiro Moriyama, Japanese footballer
 1969 - Pepa, American rapper
 1970 – Scarface, American rapper
 1970 - Bill Guerin, American ice hockey player
1970 - Chris Jericho, American professional wrestler, actor, radio presenter and rock musician
 1971 - Sabri Lamouchi, French football coach and manager
 1972 – Eric Dane, American actor
 1973 – Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer
 1973 - Nick Lachey, American singer
 1973 - Belén Esteban, Spanish journalist and television presenter
 1974 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
 1974 - Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian actress
 1975 - Gareth Malone, English choirmaster and broadcaster
 1975 - Maria Ribeiro, Brazilian actress
 1975 - Raphaël Enthoven, French philosophy teacher, radio host and television host
From 1976 
 1977 - Omar Trujillo, Mexican footballer
 1978 - Olga Brusnikina, Russian synchronized swimmer
 1979 - Adam Dunn, American baseball player
 1979 – Martin Taylor, English footballer
 1979 - Caroline Flack, English television presenter
 1980 - James Harper, English footballer
 1980 - Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder
 1980 - Vanessa Minnillo, Filipina television host and actress
 1981 - Scottie Thompson, American actress
 1981 - Termanology, American rapper
 1982 - Jana Pittman, Australian athlete
 1982 - Boaz Myhill, Welsh footballer
 1983 - Gabriel Tamas, Romanian footballer
 1984 - French Montana, Moroccan-American singer and rapper
 1985 - Ku Hye Sun, South Korean actress
 1985 – Bakary Soumaré, Malian footballer
 1986 - Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish ice hockey player
 1986 - Prince Tagoe, Ghanaian footballer
 1988 – Nikki Blonsky, American actress
 1988 - Analeigh Tipton, American model, actress and figure skater
 1988 - Cheyenne Tozzi, Australian model and singer
1989 - Baptiste Giabiconi, French singer and male model
 1990 - Frankie Jones, Welsh rhythmic gymnast 
 1990 - Nosa Igiebor, Nigerian footballer
 1993 - Pete Dunne, English wrestler
 1996 - Momo Hirai, Japanese singer
 1999 - Karol Sevilla, Mexican actress, singer and YouTuber
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 959 – Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)
 1187 – Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
 1208 - Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (b. 1155)
 1456 - Ulrich II, Count of Celje (b. 1406)
 1516 - Ferdinand of Aragon (b. 1452)
 1581 - Bayinnaung, King of Burma (b. 1516)
 1641 - Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, Spanish Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
 1699 - Hortense Mancini, Italian mistress to Charles II (b. 1646)
 1766 - Unico Wilhelm von Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
 1778 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720)
 1848 – Robert Blum, German politician and revolutionary (b. 1807)
 1856 - John M. Clayton, United States Secretary of State (b. 1796)
 1875 – William Hovell, English explorer of Australia (b. 1786)
 1888 – Mary Jane Kelly, the fifth murder victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1863)
1901  2000 
 1911 - Howard Pyle, American illustrator and writer (b. 1853)
 1918 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
 1918 - Peter Lumsden, British general (b. 1829)
 1919 - Eduard Müller, Swiss politician (b. 1848)
 1924 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1850)
 1935 – Santadasji Kathia Baba, Hindu Philosopher (b. 1859)
 1937 – Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
 1940 – Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
 1942 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
 1944 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
 1952 – Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (b. 1874)
 1952 - Philip Murray, American labor leader (b. 1886)
 1953 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and writer (b. 1914)
 1953 – Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
 1953 - Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1859)
 1956 - Aino Kallas, Finnish author (b. 1878)
 1962 - Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian Saint (b. 1858)
1970 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)
 1980 - Toyen, Czech Surrealist painter (b. 1902)
 1988 - David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (b. 1924)
 1988 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
 1991 – Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
 1992 - Charles Fraser-Smith, British inventor (b. 1904)
 1996 - Joe Ghiz, 27th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1945)
 1997 – Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher (b. 1905)
 1997 – Helenio Herrera, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1910)
 1998 - Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
 1999 - Mabel King, American actress (b. 1932)
 2000 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1916)
From 2001 
 2001 – Giovanni Leone, Italian politician (b. 1908)
 2003 – Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
 2004 – Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (b. 1947)
 2004 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer (b. 1954)
 2005 – K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1920)
 2006 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
 2006 - Markus Wolf, East German intelligence director (b. 1923)
 2008 - Executions for the Bali bombings:
Huda bin Abdul Haq, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1960)
Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1962)
Imam Samudra, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1970)
 2011 - Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-born American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1922)
 2012 - Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1905)
 2012 - Bill Tarmey, British actor (b. 1941)
 2012 - Joseph D. Early, American politician (b. 1933)
 2013 - Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (b. 1947)
 2014 - M. V. Raghavan, Indian politician (b. 1933)
 2014 - Myles Munroe, Bahamian pastor (b. 1954)
 2014 - Joe Walsh, Irish politician (b. 1943)
2015 - Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter (b. 1930)
 2015 - Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (b. 1986)
 2017 - Grete Berget, Norwegian politician (b. 1954)
 2017 - Fred Cole, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
 2017 - John Hillerman, American actor (b. 1932)
 2017 - Chuck Mosley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1959)
 2017 - Priyan, Indian cinematographer (b. 1964)
 2017 - Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress (b. 1982)
 2017 - Gene Kotlarek, American ski jumper (b. 1940)
 2017 - Chuck Nergard, American politician (b. 1929)
 2018 - Richard Paul Conaboy, American judge (b. 1925)
 2018 - Roger Hoy, English footballer (b. 1946)
 2019 - John Gokongwei, Filipino businessman and philanthropist (b. 1926)
 2019 - Noel Ignatiev, American author and historian (b. 1940)
 2019 - Brian Mawhinney, British politician (b. 1940)
Observances and Significance 
 Independence Day in Cambodia
 Schicksalstag in Germany, remembering several historic events in Germany that occurred on November 9
 Inventor's Day (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
 Birthday of Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan)

November 09
Up to 1900 
 1497 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
 1515 - Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially marry at Greenwich.
 1568 – Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
 1572 - Pope Gregory XIII is elected. During his time, some countries in Europe would become the first to use the Gregorian calendar, which is named after him.
 1607 – Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as an English colony.
 1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
 1647 – 12,000 people are killed in an earthquake in Santiago, Chile.
 1648 - Building work on the Red Fort in Delhi, India, is completed.
1779 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from them (the Inn District).
 1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with the First Fleet, 11 ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
 1830 – Ecuador gains its independence.
 1846 – Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
 1848 – First performance of Finland's national anthem.
 1861 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of Britain issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
 1861 - The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
 1861 - The first railway line in present-day Pakistan, then-part of British India, is opened between Karachi and Kotri.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
 1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
 1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
 1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
1901  2000 
 1909 – The first Giro d'Italia took place in Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna was the winner.
 1912 – In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) was established.
 1913 – Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
 1917 – Three peasant children claim to see the Blessed Virgin Mary above a holmoak tree in Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal.
 1940 – World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River. Churchill makes his "blood, tears, toil and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
 1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Britain. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
 1943 – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
 1948 – First Kashmir War between India and Pakistan
1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
 1950 - The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone racecourse in Northamptonshire.
 1952 - The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, holds it first sitting. 
 1958 - Ben Carlin becomes the first, and only, person to circumnavigate (travel round) the world in an amphibious vehicle, a vehicle that can travel both in water and on land.
 1958 - May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers, demanding a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle as its head, in order to defend French control in Algeria.
 1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
 1958 – Pierre Pflimlin becomes Prime Minister of France
 1958 – Velcro's trade mark is registered.
1960 – First ascent of Dhaulagiri, world's seventh-highest mountain.
 1967 - Zakir Hussain becomes President of India, as the first person of Islamic faith to hold the post of President in India.
 1969 – Race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, later known as the 13 May Incident.
 1972 – A nightclub fire in Osaka kills 119 people.
 1972 - The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional Irish Republican Army, the Ulster Volunteer Force and the British Army, killing 7 people and injuring 66.
 1976 – The New York Nets defeat the Denver Nuggets and win the American Basketball Association championship, 112-106, in the final ABA game ever played.
 1980 - A Force-2 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
 1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome.
1985 – The mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, orders police to storm the radical group's MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents in the resulting fire.
 1989 - Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, and begin a hunger strike.
 1994 - Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance.
 1995 – In Dublin, Ireland, Secret Garden win the fortieth Eurovision Song Contest for Norway performing "Nocturne".
 1996 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
 1997 – Storms in Yunnan and Guangdong kill 290 people.
 1998 – Following India's second round of nuclear tests the United States and Japan impose economic sanctions.
 1998 - Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped. The country's President, Suharto, resigns a week later.
2000 – In Stockholm, Sweden, the Olsen Brothers win the forty-fifth Eurovision Song Contest for Denmark singing "Fly On The Wings of Love".
 2000 – In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately f 1,000,000,000 (€450,000,000) damage.
From 2001 
 2005 - The Binh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
 2005 – The final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise airs in the United States, bringing to a close an 18-year uninterrupted television franchise.
 2005 – The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
 2008 - Bombings in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, kill dozens of people.
 2011 - The Charsadda bombing in Pakistan occur, as two bombs explode, killing 98 people, and injuring 140.
 2012 – Pastor Maldonado becomes the first Venezuelan to win a Formula One Grand Prix, in Spain.
 2014 - A mine explosion in Soma, Western Turkey, kills around 300 people.
2015 - Discord releases, a instant messaging software.
 2016 - President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro declares a 60-day state of emergency.
 2017 - Salvador Sobral wins the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv for Portugal, with the song "Amar Pelos Dois".
 2018 - Manchester City F.C. becomes the first team in the English Premier League to achieve 100 points in a single league season.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1024 - Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)
 1221 - Alexander Nevsky, Russian prince and saint (d. 1263)
 1254 – Maria of Brabant, Queen of France (d. 1321)
 1588 – Ole Worm, Danish physician and archaeologist (d. 1654)
 1655 – Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
 1699 - Sebastiao Jose de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquess of Pombal, Portuguese statesman (d. 1782)
 1713 - Alexis Clairault, French mathematician, astronomer and geophysicist (d. 1765)
 1717 – Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (d. 1780)
 1730 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1782)
 1742 – Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)
 1750 - Lorenzo Mascheroni, Italian mathematician (d. 1800)
 1753 - Lazare Carnot, French general, mathematician and politician (d. 1823)
 1767 – John VI of Portugal (d. 1826)
 1778 - Honoré V, Prince of Monaco (d. 1841)
 1785 – Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, German historian and statesman (d. 1860)
 1792 – Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)
1795 - Gerard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)
 1822 – Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (d. 1902)
 1830 – Zebulon Baird Vance, three-time Governor of North Carolina (d. 1894)
 1840 - Alphonse Daudet, French novelist (d. 1897)
 1842 - Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900)
 1850 - Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian dramatist, librettist and translator (d. 1916)
 1851 - Laza Lazarevic, Serbian writer, psychiatrist and neurologist (d. 1891)
 1857 – Ronald Ross, English doctor, won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1932)
 1868 - Sumner Paine, American sports shooter (d. 1904)
 1878 - Muriel Robb, British tennis player (d. 1907)
 1881 - Lima Barreto, Brazilian writer (d. 1922)
 1882 – Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963)
 1883 – Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor and inventor (d. 1962)
 1885 - Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (d. 1984)
 1888 - Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (d. 1993)
1894 – Asgeir Asgeirsson, second President of Iceland (d. 1972)
 1898 – Justin Tuveri, Italian-French World War I veteran (d. 2007)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Witold Pilecki, Polish general and Resistance activist (d. 1948)
 1901 - William S. Beardsley, 31st Governor of Iowa (d. 1954)
 1901 - Murilo Mendes, Brazilian poet (d. 1975)
 1903 - Lennox Berkeley, English composer (d. 1989)
 1905 - Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, President of India (d. 1977)
 1907 – Daphne du Maurier, British writer (d. 1989)
 1908 - Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1996)
 1909 - Ken Darby, American composer, songwriter and conductor (d. 1992)
 1912 - Gil Evans, Canadian pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader (d. 1988)
 1913 – William Tolbert, President of Liberia (d. 1980)
 1914 – Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)
 1922 – Bea Arthur, American actress (d. 2009)
 1924 – Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer and politician (d. 2010)
 1927 - Herbert Ross, American choreographer and movie director (d. 2001)
 1928 - Enrique Bolaños, former President of Nicaragua (d. 2021) 
 1928 - Theo Saat, Dutch sprinter (d. 2015)
1928 - Edouard Molinaro, French actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2013)
 1929 - John Galvin, American general (d. 2015)
 1929 - Fred Martin, Scottish footballer (d. 2013)
 1930 - Sammy Baird, Scottish footballer (d. 2010)
 1930 – Vernon Shaw, former President of Dominica (d. 2013)
 1930 – Mike Gravel, United States Senator (d. 2021)
 1930 - José Jiménez Lozano, Spanish writer
 1931 – Jim Jones, American religious cult leader (d. 1978)
 1934 - Adolf Muschg, Swiss writer
 1935 - Jan Saudek, Czech photographer and painter
 1935 - Kaja Saudek, Czech author and illustrator (d. 2015)
 1937 - Trevor Baylis, English stuntman and inventor (d. 2018)
 1939 – Harvey Keitel, American actor
 1940 - Bruce Chatwin, British writer (d. 1989)
 1941 – Ritchie Valens, American musician (d. 1959)
 1941 – Senta Berger, Austrian actress
 1942 - Pal Schmitt, Hungarian fencer and politician, former President of Hungary
 1944 – Uwe Barschel, German politician (d. 1987)
1944 - Sir Crispin Agnew, 11th Baronet, Scottish judge and explorer
 1945 - Sam Anderson, American actor
 1945 - Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
 1945 - Lou Marini, American saxophonist and composer
 1946 - Tim Pigott-Smith, British actor (d. 2017)
 1949 - Jane Glover, British conductor
 1949 – Zoe Wanamaker, American-British actress
 1950 – Stevie Wonder, American singer
 1950 – Danny Kirwan, British musician (Fleetwood Mac) (d. 2018)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Paul Thompson, British musician (Roxy Music)
 1951 – Selina Scott, British broadcast journalist
 1952 – Wang Xiaobo, Chinese writer
 1952 - John Kasich, 69th Governor of Ohio
 1954 - Johnny Logan, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist and composer
 1956 – Richard Madeley, British TV presenter
 1956 - Sri Sri Ravishankar, Indian spiritual leader
 1957 – Alan Ball, American screenwriter
 1957 – Andrea Klump, former Red Army Faction member
 1957 - Carrie Lam, 4th Chief Executive of Hong Kong
 1957 - Koji Suzuki, Japanese writer
 1958 – Frances Barber, British actress
 1961 - Danny Leiner, American actor (d. 2018)
 1961 – Dennis Rodman, American basketball player
 1962 - Roxana Baldetti, Guatemalan Vice President
 1963 - Wally Masur, Australian tennis player, coach and sportscaster
 1963 - Andrea Leadsom, English politician
 1964 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian
 1964 – Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder
 1964 - Masha Rasputina, Russian pop singer
 1965 - Hikari Ota, Japanese writer
1966 – Alison Goldfrapp, English musician
 1966 - Staffan Hellstrand, Swedish singer
 1967 - Chuck Schuldinger, American singer-songwriter and musician
 1967 - Melanie Thornton, American-German singer (d. 2001)
 1968 – Miguel Angel Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1997)
 1968 - Scott Morrison, Australian politician, 30th Prime Minister of Australia
 1968 - Dmitriy Shevchenko, Russian discus thrower
 1968 - Sonja Zietlow, German television host
 1969 - Buckethead, American musician
 1972 - Darryl Sydor, Canadian ice hockey player
 1975 - Brian Geraghty, American actor
From 1976 
 1976 - Ana Popovic, Serbian singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1977 - Samantha Morton, English actress
 1977 - Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer (The Common Linnets)
 1977 - Neil Hopkins, American actor
 1977 - Aleksei Terentjev, Estonian ice hockey player
 1978 - Mike Bibby, American basketball player
 1979 – Prince Carl Philip of Sweden
 1979 - Michael Madden, American musician (Maroon 5)
 1979 - Lauren Phoenix, Canadian pornographic actress
 1981 - Luciana Berger, English politician
 1982 - Albert Crusat, Spanish footballer
 1982 – Oguchi Onyewu, American soccer player
 1982 - Casey Stoney, English footballer
 1983 – Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
 1983 – Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer
 1983 - Johnny Hoogerland, Dutch cyclist
 1983 - Anita Gorbicz, Hungarian handball player
 1985 – Jaroslav Halak, Slovakian ice hockey player
 1985 - Iwan Rheon, Welsh actor and singer
 1986 – Robert Pattinson, English actor
 1986 – Alexander Rybak, Norwegian singer, fiddler and composer
1986 - Lena Dunham, American movie maker and actress
 1987 - Candice Accola, American actress and musician
 1987 - Hunter Parrish, American actor and singer
 1987 - Laura Izibor, Irish singer-songwriter, pianist and producer
 1987 - Marianne Vos, Dutch cyclist
 1988 – Casey Donovan, Australian singer
 1993 – Romelu Lukaku, Belgian footballer
 1993 - Debby Ryan, American actress
Up to 1950 
 1176 – Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
 1312 – Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
 1573 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
 1619 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
 1646 - Maria Anna of Spain (b. 1606)
 1742 - Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
 1759 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
 1782 - Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
 1832 - Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (b. 1769)
 1835 – John Nash, architect (b. 1752)
 1884 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809)
 1885 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
 1901 - Leopoldo Alas, Spanish novelist (b. 1851)
 1903 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
 1916 – Sholom Aleichem, writer (b. 1859)
 1921 - Jean Aicard, French author, poet and playwright (b. 1848)
 1926 – Libert H. Boeynaems, ss.cc., Roman Catholic prelate
 1930 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer and diplomat (b. 1861)
1937 – Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
 1938 – Charles Edouard Guillaume, Swiss physicist (b. 1861)
 1941 – Onishiki Uichiro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1891)
 1945 – Tubby Hall, American jazz musician (b. 1895)
 1947 - Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian-Bengali poet and playwright (b. 1926)
From 1951 
 1957 - Michael Fikete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician (b. 1886)
 1961 – Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
 1963 – Alois Hudal, Austrian Roman Catholic bishop, helped Nazi war criminals escape (b. 1885)
 1972 – Dan Blocker, actor (b. 1928)
 1975 – Bob Wills, American country musician (b. 1905)
 1977 – Mickey Spillane, gangster (b. 1934)
 1982 - Billy Steel, Scottish footballer (b. 1923)
 1988 – Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929)
 1999 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
 2001 – R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
 2002 – Valeriy Lobanovskiy, Ukrainian footballer and coach (b. 1939)
 2003 – John Savage, former Premier of Nova Scotia
 2005 – George Dantzig, American mathematician
 2008 – Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1930)
 2009 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountain climber (b. 1914)
 2009 - Monica Bleibtreu, German actress (b. 1944)
 2011 – Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
2011 – Bernard Greenhouse, American cellist (b. 1916)
 2012 - Nguyen Van Thien, Vietnamese bishop (b. 1906)
 2012 – Donald "Duck" Dunn, American musician (b. 1941)
 2013 - Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (b. 1924)
 2013 - Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and TV personality (b. 1927)
 2014 - David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher (b. 1926)
 2014 - Malik Bendjelloul, Swedish moviemaker and actor (b. 1977)
 2015 - Derek Davis, Irish broadcaster (b. 1948)
 2015 - Gainan Saidkhuzhin, Russian cyclist (b. 1937)
 2015 - Anna Levinson, German zoologist (b. 1939)
 2016 - Sammy Ellis, American baseball player (b. 1941)
 2016 - David McNiven Gardner, New Zealand oceanographer (b. 1928)
 2016 - Baba Hardev Singh, Indian spiritual guru (b. 1954)
 2017 - John Cygan, American actor (b. 1954)
 2017 - Yanko Daucik, Czech footballer (b. 1957)
 2017 - Alain Delfossé, French novelist and translator (b. 1957)
 2017 - Marcel Pelletier, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2018 - Edgardo Angara, Filipino politician (b. 1934)
 2018 - Glenn Branca, American composer and guitarist (b. 1948)
 2018 - Steve Hogan, American politician (b. 1948)
 2018 - Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress (b. 1948)
 2018 - Baadur Tsuladze, Georgian actor, film director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
 2018 - Balkavi Bairagi, Indian poet and politician (b. 1931)
 2018 - Epitácio Cafeteira, Brazilian politician (b. 1924)
 2019 - Unita Blackwell, American civil rights activist (b. 1933)
 2019 - Doris Day, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
 2019 - Lajos Faragó, Hungarian footballer (b. 1932)
 2019 - Jörg Kastendiek, German politician (b. 1964)
 2019 - Hayat Saif, Bangladeshi poet and literary critic (b. 1942)
Observances 
 Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima (Roman Catholicism)

Days of the year
Up to 1800 
 768 - Carloman and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of the Franks.
 1000 – Leif Ericson discovers Vinland, becoming the first known European to set foot in North America.
 1238 – James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founded the Kingdom of Valencia.
 1264 - The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez, under Islamic control since 711.
 1446 – The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
 1514 – Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor
 1582 – Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
 1604 - Supernova 1604 is observed; It is the last supernova to-date to be observed in the Milky Way.
 1635 – Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
 1708 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
 1740 - Dutch colonists and others begin massacring Chinese people at Batavia (now Jakarta), eventually killing 10,000 people and leading to war.
 1760 - Seven Years' War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
 1767 - Surveying of the Mason–Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland is completed, unofficially marking the boundary between Northern and Southern US States.
 1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
 1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
 1788 – The first bridge in Australia is built over the Tank Stream in Sydney.
 1799 - Sinking of the ship HMS Lutine, killing 240 people.
1801  1900 
 1803 - Flooding on the Portuguese island of Madeira kills 600 people.
 1804 – Hobart, Tasmania is founded.
 1806 - Prussia declares war on France.
 1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships; the HMS Detroit and the HMS Caledonia.
 1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
 1824 - Costa Rica gets rid of slavery.
 1829 - A climbing expedition led by Friedrich Parrot reaches the summit of Mount Ararat, the highest mountain in Turkey.
 1831 – Capo d'Istria is assassinated.
 1834 - Opening of the Dublin to Kingstown railway, the first public railway in Ireland.
 1854 - Start of the Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War.
 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rita Island.
 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
 1871 – The Great Chicago Fire is brought under control.
1874 – General Postal Union was created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
 1888 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
 1900 - The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
1901  1950 
 1911 - An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China, leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Dynasty.
 1913 - Steamship SS Volturna catches fire in the Mid-Atlantic Ocean, killing 136 people. Over 300 lives are saved.
 1914 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
 1919 – Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
 1934 - In Marseille, King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and then-foreign minister of France Louis Barthou are assassinated.
 1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to transmit electricity from the Colorado River 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
 1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – During a nighttime air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral is pierced by a bomb.
 1941 - A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia to be the country's President.
 1942 – Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalizes Australian autonomy.
1951  2000 
 1957 – Neil H. McElroy was sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United States.
 1959 - The Conservatives under Harold Macmillan win the United Kingdom general election.
 1962 – Uganda becomes a republic.
 1963 – In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
 1967 – A day after being caught, Che Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
 1969 – In Chicago, Illinois, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection to the trial of the "Chicago Eight" (trial started on September 24).
 1969 – Students from the University of the Philippines formed the first Upsilonian Congress and established the Upsiloan Alpha Beta Grand Fraternity in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
 1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1980 - Pope John Paul II shakes hands with Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama in a private audience in Vatican City.
 1981 - End of capital punishment in France.
 1983 - Attempted killing of President of South Korea Chun Doo-hwan. He survives, though 17 people are killed.
 1986 – United States District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.
 1989 – An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
 1989 – In Leipzig, East Germany, 70,000 protesters demand the legalization of opposition groups and democratic reforms.
 1991 – Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
 1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
 1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
From 2001 
 2002 – After losing a massive amount of ground during the summer of 2002, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 7,286.27, its lowest level in five years. The NASDAQ also hit a six-year low of 1,114.11.
 2004 - The new Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh is officially opened.
 2004 – Jo Brauner resigns as the anchor of German Tagesschau news show after 30 years.
 2004 – Democratic elections held for the first time in Afghanistan.
 2004 – The tri-annual federal election is held in Australia and Liberal Party of Australia leader, John Howard, wins a fourth term as Prime Minister in a landslide victory over opponent, Mark Latham of the Australian Labor Party.
 2005 – China's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping officially announced the new accurate height of Mount Everest is 8848.43 m.
 2005 - 16- and 17-year-olds are allowed to vote in the state election in Burgenland, Austria.
 2006 – North Korea carries out its first-reported bomb test.
2007 - Yoko Ono opens the John Lennon Imagine Peace tower on the island of Videy near Reykjavik, Iceland.
 2009 – First Lunar impact of the Centaur & LCROSS spacecrafts, as part of NASA's Precursor Robotic Programme.
 2009 – Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
 2011 - Sebastian Vettel wins his second Formula One World title, as the youngest driver to win two Formula One World Championships in-a-row.
 2012 - Members of the Pakistan Taliban attempt to kill education activist Malala Yousafzai, by shooting her in the head. She survives the attack after receiving medical treatment.
 2014 - UKIP wins its first parliamentary seat in a UK by-election in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, through defected Conservative MP Douglas Carswell.
 2017 - Iceland becomes the least-populated country to qualify for a FIFA World Cup, defeating Kosovo 2-0 in Reykjavik.
Up to 1900 
 1201  Robert de Sorbonne, French theologian (d. 1274)
 1261  King Denis of Portugal (d. 1325)
 1328  King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
 1581  Claude Gaspard Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician, poet and scholar (d. 1638)
 1585  Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672)
 1586  Archduke Leopold of Austria (d. 1632)
 1704  Johann Andreas Segner, German physician, physicist and mathematician (d. 1777)
 1757  King Charles X of France (d. 1836)
 1782  Lewis Cass, American politician (d. 1866)
 1788  Jozsef Kossics, Slovenian writer (d. 1867)
 1796  Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
 1833  Eugen Langen, German entrepreneur, engineer and inventor (d. 1895)
 1835  Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
 1840  Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
 1846  Julius Maggi, Swiss businessman (Maggi condiment) (d. 1912)
 1848  Caroline Alice Elgar, English author (d. 1920)
 1852  Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist (d. 1919)
1854  Myron T. Herrick, Governor of Ohio (d. 1929)
 1858  Mihaijlo Idvorski Pupin, Serbian-American physicist (d. 1935)
 1859  Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)
 1863  Alexander Siloti, Ukrainian pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1945)
 1873  Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1946)
 1874  Nicholas Roerich, Russian polymath (d. 1947)
 1879  Max von Laue, German physicist (d. 1960)
 1880  Charlie Faust, American baseball player (d. 1915)
 1881  Victor Klemperer, German writer (d. 1960)
 1886  Rube Marquard, American baseball player and manager (d. 1980)
 1888  Nikolai Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
 1888  Irving Cummings, American actor and director (d. 1959)
 1892  Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian writer (d. 1975)
 1892  Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)
 1893  Mario de Andrade, Brazilian writer (d. 1945)
 1897  M. V. Bhaktavatsalam, Indian politician (d. 1987)
 1900  Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976)
 1900  Joseph Friedman, American inventor (d. 1982)
1901  1950 
 1903  Walter O'Malley, American sports executive (d. 1979)
 1906  Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
 1906  Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian journalist and Islamist thinker (d. 1966)
 1907  Jacques Tati, French director and producer (d. 1982)
 1907  Quintin Hogg, Baron Halisham of St Marylebone, English politician (d. 2001)
 1908  Werner Haeften, German officer and Resistance activist (d. 1944)
 1909  Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
 1909  V. Nalliah, Sri Lankan Tamil politician
 1911  Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
 1915  Clifford M. Hardin, American politician (d. 2010)
 1918  E. Howard Hunt, American spy (d. 2007)
 1918  Lila Kedrova, Russian actress (d. 2000)
 1920  Jason Wingreen, American actor (d. 2015)
 1920  Yusef Lateef, American musician and composer (d. 2013)
 1921  Tadeusz Rozewicz, Polish poet and playwright (d. 2014)
 1922  Fyvush Finkel, American actor (d. 2016)
 1923  Donald Sinden, English actor (d. 2014)
1925  Robert Docking, American politician, 38th Governor of Kansas (d. 1983)
 1926  Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (d. 2015)
 1928  Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (d. 2016)
 1929  William M. Gray, American scientist (d. 2016)
 1931  Antony Booth, British actor (d. 2017)
 1933  Peter Mansfield, British physicist (d. 2017)
 1934  Abdullah Ibrahim, South African pianist and composer
 1935  Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
 1936  Edmond Keosayan, Armenian-Soviet musician and movie director (d. 1994)
 1936  Brian Blessed, British actor
 1938  Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician, former President of Austria
 1939  Nicholas Grimshaw, English architect
 1940  John Lennon, English musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. December 8, 1980)
 1940  Gordon J. Humphrey, American politician
 1941  Chucho Valdés, Cuban pianist and composer
 1941  Giancarlo Bercellino, Italian footballer
 1942  Shukri Ghanem, Prime Minister of Libya (d. 2012)
 1943  Renato Cappellini, Italian footballer
1944  John Entwistle, British musician (d. 2002)
 1944  Nona Hendryx, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress
 1944  Francis Girod, French movie director (d. 2006)
 1946  Fernando Brant, Brazilian poet and journalist (d. 2015)
 1947  France Gall, French singer (d. 2018)
 1947  Joe Wark, Scottish footballer (d. 2015)
 1947  Bob Moose, American baseball player (d. 1976)
 1948  Paul LePage, American politician, Governor of Maine
 1948  Jackson Browne, American musician
 1949  Bob Leinbach, American singer-songwriter and musician (Orleans)
 1949  Rod Temperton, English songwriter and producer (d. 2016)
 1950  Reichi Nakaido, Japanese rock music guitarist
 1950  Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, Nobel Peace Prize winner
1951  1975 
 1952  Sharon Osbourne, wife of Ozzy Osbourne
 1952  Dennis Stratton, English guitarist (Iron Maiden)
 1953  Tony Shalhoub, American actor
 1954  Scott Bakula, American actor
 1954  James Fearnley, British musician (The Pogues)
 1955  Steve Ovett, British athlete
 1958  Alan Nunnelee, American politician (d. 2015)
 1959  Boris Nemtsov, Russian politician (d. 2015)
 1960  Kenny Garrett, American jazz saxophonist
 1961  Ellen Wheeler, American actress, director and producer
 1962  Hugh Robertson, English politician
 1962  Onokuni Yasushi, Japanese sumo wrestler
 1962  Jorge Burruchaga, Argentine footballer
 1964  Guillermo del Toro, Mexican movie director
 1964  John Ralston, Canadian actor
 1966  David Cameron, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 1967  Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
 1967  Artur Davis, American politician
 1968  Troy Davis, American high-profile death row inmate (d. 2011)
 1969  PJ Harvey, English musician
1969  Steve McQueen, English artist and director (12 Years a Slave)
 1970  Steve Jablonsky, American movie and television composer
 1970  Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
 1970  Kenny Anderson, American baseball player
 1971  Jason Jones, American director, producer and actor
 1973  Erin Daniels, American actress
 1973  Fabio Lione, Italian singer-songwriter and keyboardist
 1973  Carlos Pavon, Honduran footballer
 1974  Shmuel Herzfeld, American rabbi and activist
 1975  Sean Lennon, American musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
 1975  Mark Viduka, Australian footballer