Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1801  1900 
 1832 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize winner (d. 1916)
 1847 - Eva Gonzales, French painter (d. 1883)
 1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
 1877 - Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor (d. 1934)
 1882 – Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (d. 1954)
 1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian mathematician (d. 1953)
 1883 - Henry Jameson, American soccer player (d. 1938)
 1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983)
 1894 - Elizabeth Dilling, American writer and activist (d. 1966)
 1897 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
 1897 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest man and oldest man ever (d. 2013)
 1898 – Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973)
 1899 – George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
 1900 – Richard Hughes, British novelist (d. 1976)
 1900 - Roland Michener, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1991)
1901  1950 
 1902 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (d. 1989)
 1903 – Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
 1912 – Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
 1914 - Ugo Poletti, Italian cardinal (d. 1997)
 1917 - Sven Hassel, Danish writer (d. 2012)
 1920 - Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (d. 2013)
 1921 - Roberto Tucci, Italian cardinal (d. 2015)
 1922 – Erich Hartmann, fighter pilot with the most amount of kills (352) (d. 1993)
 1924 – Werner Kohlmeyer, German footballer (d. 1974)
 1925 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor (d. 2016)
 1928 - Azlan Shah of Perak, 9th Yang-di Pertuan Agong (Head of State) of Malaysia and Sultan of Perak (d. 2014)
 1928 – Alexis Korner, musician (d. 1984)
 1930 – Dick Sargent, actor (d. 1994)
 1932 – Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor
 1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
 1933 – Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire
 1934 – Jean Ziegler, Swiss sociologist and politician
 1934 - Ox Baker, American wrestler and actor (d. 2014)
1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, musician, comedian, composer (d. 2002)
 1935 - Justin Francis Rigali, American cardinal
 1936 – Wilfried Martens, former Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2013)
 1936 - Séamus Pattison, Irish politician (d. 2018)
 1937 – Elinor Donahue, American actress
 1937 – Joseph Estrada, Filipino actor and politician, former President of the Philippines
 1937 - Antonio Carluccio, Italian-English chef and writer (d. 2017)
 1938 - Gil Santos, American sports announcer (d. 2018)
 1940 - Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (d. 1977)
 1940 - Genya Ravan, American singer-songwriter and producer
 1941 - Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer and composer
 1941 - Alan Price, English musician
 1941 - Michel Roux, French-British chef and restaurateur
 1942 - Bas Jan Ader, Dutch artist (d. 1975)
 1942 – Frank Elstner, German entertainer
 1943 - Margo MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician (d. 2014)
 1943 - Lorenzo Sanz, Spanish businessman
 1944 – James Heckman, American economist, Nobel Prize
1944 – Bernie Worrell, keyboardist (P Funk)
 1946 – Tim Curry, British actor
 1946 - Mary Jo Slater, American casting director and producer
 1947 – Murray Perahia, American pianist
 1949 – Joachim Sauer, husband of German Chancellor Angela Merkel
 1949 – Paloma Picasso, designer, daughter of Pablo Picasso
1951  1975 
 1951 – Jóannes Eidesgaard, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
 1952 – Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (d. 2009)
 1953 - Sara Simeoni, Italian athlete
 1953 – Ruby Wax, American-born British television personality
 1954 - Trevor Francis, English footballer
 1956 – Sue Barker, English tennis player and television presenter
 1956 - Lane Hoppen, American singer-songwriter and musician (Orleans)
 1956 - Randy Carlyle, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
 1957 - Tony Martin, English singer and musician
 1958 - Denis O'Brien, Irish businessman
 1960 - Nicoletta Braschi, Italian actress and producer
 1960 – Ara Gevorgyan, Armenian musician, composer and musical producer
 1960 – Frank Viola, American baseball player
 1960 – Roger Merrett, Australian footballer
 1962 – Al Unser, Jr., race car driver
 1963 - Mika Kojonskoski, Finnish ski jumper
 1964 - Gordon Marshall, Scottish footballer and coach
 1965 – Suge Knight, record producer
 1965 - Natalie Dessay, French soprano
1967 - Philippe Sainte-André, French rugby player and coach
 1967 – Steven H Silver, science fiction editor
 1967 – Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
 1968 – Mswati III, King of Swaziland
 1968 – Ashley Judd, American actress
 1968 - Arshad Warsi, Indian actor, singer and producer
 1968 - Pascal Kleiman, Spanish DJ, producer and songwriter
 1969 - Susan Polgar, Hungarian-American chess player
 1970 – Kelly Holmes, British athlete, double Olympic champion
 1970 – Luis Miguel, Mexican singer
 1972 – Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
 1972 - Django Asül, German actor and comedian 
 1973 - Alessandro Preziosi, Italian actor
 1975 – Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer
From 1976 
 1976 - Scott Padgett, American basketball player, coach and radio host
 1978 – James Franco, American actor
 1978 – Gabriel Heinze, Argentine footballer
 1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress
 1979 - Zhao Junzhe, Chinese footballer
 1980 - Jason Blaine, Canadian singer-songwriter
 1980 - Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player
 1981 – Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
 1981 – Catalina Sandino Moreno, actress
 1981 - James Hibberd, English cricketer
 1981 – Ryuta Hara, Japanese footballer
 1985 – Valon Behrami, Swiss footballer
 1986 - Heather Kuzmich, American model
 1987 – Joe Hart, English footballer
 1987 – Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
 1987 - Lauren Wilson, Canadian figure skater
 1988 - Haruna Kojima, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
 1989 – Daisuke Watabe, Japanese footballer
 1990 - Damien Le Tallec, French footballer
 1992 - Nick Pope, English footballer
 1994 - Lee Areum, South Korean singer
 2016 - Prince Alexander, Duke of Södermanland, Swedish royal

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 1012 - Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)
 1054 – Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
 1321 - Patriarch Gerasimus I of Constantinople
 1390 – King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
 1560 - Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497)
 1578 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
 1588 - Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (b. 1528)
 1608 - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)
 1689 – Christina of Sweden (b. 1626)
 1733 - Elizabeth Villiers, mistress to William III of England (b. 1655)
 1768 – Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
 1791 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)
 1824 – Lord Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
 1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
 1882 – Charles Darwin, British naturalist (b. 1809)
1901  2000 
 1906 – Pierre Curie, French scientist (b. 1859)
 1906 - Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
 1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher (b. 1838)
 1916 - Ephraim Shay, American engineer (b. 1839)
 1949 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
 1950 - Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886)
 1958 - Artur Kukk, Estonian wrestler (b. 1899)
 1966 – Javier Solis, Mexican singer (b. 1931)
 1967 – Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
 1974 – Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1907)
 1988 - Kwon Ki-ok, first female pilot in Korea (b. 1901)
 1989 – Daphne du Maurier, British writer (b. 1907)
 1991 - Stanley Hawes, British-Australian producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
 1992 - Frankie Howerd, British comedian and actor (b. 1917)
 1993 – David Koresh, American cult leader (b. 1959)
 1993 - George S. Mickelson, 28th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1941)
 1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican writer (b. 1914)
From 2001 
 2001 - Meldrim Thomson, Jr., 73rd Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1912)
 2004 – Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records (b. 1925)
 2004 – John Maynard Smith, British theoretical evolutionary biologist (b. 1920)
 2005 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
 2006 - Albert Scott Crossfield, American engineer, pilot and astronaut (b. 1921)
 2007 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
 2008 - Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist and Resistance activist (b. 1907)
 2009 – J. G. Ballard, British writer (b. 1930)
 2010 – Guru, American rapper (b. 1961)
 2011 – Elisabeth Sladen, British actress (b. 1948)
 2011 – Grete Waitz, Norwegian marathon runner (b. 1953)
 2012 - Valeri Vasiliev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
 2012 - Levon Helm, American musician and actor (b. 1940)
 2013 - François Jacob, French biologist (b. 1920)
 2013 - Al Neuharth, American journalist, writer and publisher (b. 1924)
 2014 - Frits Thors, Dutch journalist (b. 1909)
2014 - Mimi Kok, Dutch actress (b. 1934)
 2014 - Sonia Silvestre, Dominican singer (b. 1952)
 2014 - Luciano do Valle, Brazilian sports commentator (b. 1947)
 2015 - Elio Toaff, Italian rabbi (b. 1915)
 2015 - Tom McCabe, Scottish politician (b. 1954)
 2015 - Uche Chukwumerije, Nigerian politician (b. 1939)
 2015 - Theodosia Okoh, Ghanaian flag designer and sports administrator (b. 1922)
 2015 - Raymond Carr, British historian (b. 1919)
 2015 - Ali Abu Mukhammad, Dagestani-Russian Islamist leader (b. 1972)
 2016 - Patricio Aylwin, President of Chile (b. 1918)
 2016 - Estelle Balet, Swiss snowboarder (b. 1994)
 2016 - Ronit Elkabetz, Israeli actress (b. 1964)
 2016 - Walter Kohn, Austrian-American theoretical physicist (b. 1923)
 2016 - Mehrdad Oladi, Iranian footballer (b. 1985)
 2016 - Milt Pappas, American baseball player (b. 1939)
 2016 - Billy Redmayne, Manx motorcycle racer (b. 1990)
 2017 - Delbert Daisey, American conservationist (b. 1928)
 2017 - Aaron Hernandez, American football player (b. 1989)
2017 - Lyda Ann Thomas, American politician (b. 1936)
 2018 - Cornelius Jakobs, Estonian-Russian Orthodox hierarch (b. 1924)
 2018 - Luis Montes Mieza, Spanish anaesthetist and activist (b. 1949)
 2018 - Walter Moody, American murderer (b. 1935)
 2018 - Gil Santos, American sports announcer (b. 1938)
 2019 - Martin Böttcher, German film composer and conductor (b. 1927)
 2019 - Massimo Marino, Italian television presenter (b. 1960)
 2019 - Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (b. 1944)
 2019 - Rodolfo Severino Jr., Filipino diplomat (b. 1936)
 2019 - Okiharu Yasuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1939)
Observances 
 Bicycle Day 
 Dutch-American friendship day
 King Mswati III's birthday (Swaziland)
 Patriots' Day (Massachusetts, Maine, Wisconsin)
 Beginning of Independence Movement (Venezuela)
 Most common date for Easter, last in 1992

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 238 - Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws Emperor Maximus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.
 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil.
 1509 – Henry VIII ascends the throne of England after the death of his father.
 1519 - Hernan Cortes establishes a settlement in Veracruz, Mexico.
 1529 – The Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Moluccas.
 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
 1863 – American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins – troops under Union Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
1864 – The United States Congress passes the Coinage Act which mandates that the inscription "In God We Trust" be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
 1876 - The first-ever National League baseball game is played.
 1889 – Oklahoma land rush: President of the United States Benjamin Harrison opens the Unassigned Lands in what is now central Oklahoma to white settlement.
 1898 – Spanish-American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports and the USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
1901  2000 
 1906 - Start of the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens. They are not officially counted as part of the modern Olympic Games.
 1906 - End of the Mount Vesuvius eruption that started on April 4. In total, 1,000 people are estimated to have died as a result of the effects from the eruption.
 1911 - Tsinghua University, one of China's top universities, is founded.
 1912 - Pravda begins publication in Saint Petersburg, known as the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
 1914 – Babe Ruth, age 19, pitches his first professional game for the minor league Baltimore Orioles.
 1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
 1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
 1943 – Albert Hofmann writes his first report about the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia area of New Guinea.
 1945 – World War II: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.
 1946 – The first installment of the popular Japanese comic strip, Sazae-san, is published in the Fukunichi Shimbun.
 1948 - 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa is captured from Arab forces.
 1954 – Red Scare: Army-McCarthy Hearings begin.
 1964 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its first season.
 1969 - British yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnston completes the first solo round-the-world journey.
 1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated.
 1971 – John Kerry, dressed in combat fatigues, testifies on his views of the Vietnam War before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
1972 – Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts antiwar protests in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
 1974 - A PanAm Boeing 707 crashes into a mountain on Bali, as it approaches to land. All 107 people on board are killed.
 1975 – Barbara Walters signs a five-year $5 million contract with the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), becoming the highest paid television newsperson.
 1978 – The Blues Brothers make their first appearance on Saturday Night Live.
 1979 – Brent Mydland performs his first show with the Grateful Dead at Spartan Stadium, San Jose, California.
 1980 - Filipino ferry Don Juan sinks after a collision with a tanker.
 1991 - A magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Costa Rica kills 47 people.
 1992 – Several explosions in underground canals in Guadalajara, Mexico, kill 200 people.
 1993 – In Washington, DC, the Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated.
 1993 – The web browser Mosaic version 1.0 is released.
1993 - The racially motivated murder of 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence is committed in Southeast London.
 1996 – Cisco Systems acquires StrataCom for $4B
 1997 – Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria; 93 villagers killed.
 1997 – A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru ends after government commandos storm and capture the building, rescuing 71 hostages. One hostage dies of a heart attack, two soldiers are killed from rebel fire, and all 14 rebels are slain.
 1998 - Disney's Animal Kingdom opens in Florida.
 2000 – In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida.
 2000 – The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
From 2001 
 2001 - Hasim Rahman defeats the highly favored Lennox Lewis to win the boxing heavyweight title.
 2004 – Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
 2005 – Mordechai Vanunu is installed as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow.
 2010 – Deepwater Horizon oil spill: After an explosion two days earlier, and a subsequent fire, the BP and Transocean operated drilling rig Deepwater Horizon sinks. 11 people are killed, and the worst oil spill in US history is caused.
 2012 – French Presidential Election: Incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy goes through to the second round on May 6, along with François Hollande, who finishes ahead of him. Hollande defeats Sarkozy in the run-off on May 6.
 2018 - A bomb attack on a voter registration centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills at least 57 people.

Births
Births

Up to 1800 
 596 – Empress Kotoku of Japan (d. 654)
 1444 - Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk (d. 1503)
 1451 – Isabella I of Castile (d. 1504)
 1610 – Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
 1658 - Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (d. 1709)
 1690 - John Garteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (d. 1763)
 1707 – Henry Fielding, English writer (d. 1754)
 1724 – Immanuel Kant, Prussian philosopher (d. 1804)
 1744 – James Sullivan, 7th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1808)
 1757 - Alessandro Rolla, Italian composer and music teacher (d. 1841)
 1766 – Madame de Staël, French writer (d. 1817)
1801  1900 
 1812 – Solomon Caesar Malan, orientalist (d. 1894)
 1812 - James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, Scottish Governor-General of India (d. 1860)
 1832 - Julius Sterling Morton, American politician (d. 1902)
 1840 – Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916)
 1844 – Lewis Powell, American attempted assassin (d. 1865)
 1852 – Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)
 1854 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer (d. 1943)
 1866 - Hans von Seeckt, German military officer and politician (d. 1936)
 1868 – Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (d. 1924)
 1870 (N.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Soviet-Russian Communist revolutionary and political leader (d. 1924)
 1872 - Princess Margaret of Prussia (d. 1954)
 1873 – Ellen Glasgow, American writer (d. 1945)
 1873 – Luigi Lucheni, Italian anarchist (d. 1910)
 1876 – Róbert Bárány, Austrian Nobel Prize winner in medicine (d. 1936)
 1881 – Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician (d. 1970)
 1884 - Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (d. 1939)
1891 – Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer (d. 1989)
 1891 – Nicola Sacco, anarchist (d. 1927)
 1899 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1901  1925 
 1902 - Megan Lloyd George, Welsh politician (d. 1966)
 1903 - Daphne Akhurst, Australian tennis player (d. 1930)
 1904 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)
 1906 – Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Vasterbotten, Swedish royal, father of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (d. 1947)
 1906 – Snorri Hjartarson, Icelandic writer (d. 1986)
 1906 – Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005)
 1908 - Ivan Yefremov, Russian paleontologist and science fiction writer (d. 1972)
 1909 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, Nobel Prize winner (d. 2012)
 1909 - Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist, writer and historian (d. 2001)
 1910 – Norman Steenrod, American mathematician (d. 1971)
 1912 - Kaneto Shindo, Japanese director (d. 2012)
 1912 – Kathleen Ferrier, English contralto (d. 1953)
 1914 – Jan de Hartog, Dutch writer (d. 2002)
 1916 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (d. 1999)
 1917 – Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (d. 1992)
1917 - Yvette Chauviré, French actress and ballerina (d. 2016)
 1918 - William Jay Smith, American poet (d. 2015)
 1919 - Antonio Nirta, Italian criminal (d. 2015)
 1919 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist (d. 2001)
 1922 – Charles Mingus, American jazz musician (d. 1979)
 1922 – Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist (d. 1973)
 1923 – Bettie Page, American pin-up model (d. 2008)
 1923 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer, writer (d. 2006)
 1923 - Paula Fox, American writer (d. 2017)
 1924 - Nam Duck-woo, 12th Prime Minister of South Korea (d. 2013)
 1925 - George Cole, English actor (d. 2015)
1926  1950 
 1926 – James Stirling, British architect (d. 1992)
 1926 - Ted Hibberd, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
 1926 – Charlotte Rae, American actress (d. 2018)
 1929 - Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban writer (d. 2005)
 1930 - Enno Penno, Estonian politician (d. 2016)
 1931 - John Buchanan, Canadian politician, 20th Premier of Nova Scotia
 1932 - Isao Tomita, Japanese musician and composer (d. 2016)
 1933 - Mark Damon, American movie actor and producer
 1933 - Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American astronaut (d. 2013)
 1935 - Mario Machado, Chinese-American journalist and actor (d. 2013)
 1936 – Glen Campbell, American musician and singer (d. 2017)
 1937 – Jack Nicholson, American actor
 1937 – Jack Nitzsche, American composer, arranger (d. 2000)
 1939 – Theo Waigel, German politician
 1939 - John Chilcot, English civil servant
 1939 – Jason Miller, American playwright (d. 2001)
 1939 - Mel Carter, American singer and actor
 1942 - Giorgio Agamben, Italian philosopher
1943 – Louise Glück, American poet (d. 2023)
 1944 - Doug Jarrett, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
 1944 – Steve Fossett, American millionaire and adventurer (d. 2007)
 1945 - Demetrio Stratos, Italian musician (d. 1979)
 1945 - Gopal Krishna Gandhi, Indian politician, 22nd Governor of West Bengal
 1946 – John Waters, American movie maker
 1947 - Barry Guy, British composer and musician
 1947 - Neil Horan, Irish priest
 1950 – Peter Frampton, English musician
1951  1975 
 1951 – Robin Bartlett, American actress
 1952 – Marilyn Chambers, American erotic actress (d. 2009)
 1953 - Valeri Bondarenko, Estonian footballer and coach
 1954 – Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
 1957 – Donald Tusk, President of the European Council and former Prime Minister of Poland
 1959 – Ryan Stiles, Canadian-American actor, comedian
 1959 - Catherine Mary Stewart, Canadian actress
 1959 - Terry Francona, American baseball player, coach and manager
 1960 – Mart Laar, former Prime Minister of Estonia
 1960 - Gary Rhodes, English chef
 1961 - Ann McKechin, Scottish politician
 1963 - Sean Lock, English comedian and actor
 1964 - James Langevin, American politician
 1964 - Massimo Carrera, Italian footballer
 1967 - Sherri Shepherd, American comedienne, actress and talk show host
 1967 – Sheryl Lee, American actress
 1969 – Dion Dublin, English footballer
 1969 - Billy McKinlay, Scottish footballer
 1969 - Vanessa Goodwin, Australian politician (d. 2018)
1970 - Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer, actress and producer
 1971 – Eric Mabius, American actor
 1971 – Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born Yemeni terrorist (d. 2011)
 1972 - Anna Falchi, Finnish-Italian actress
 1973 - Brian Marshall, American musician
 1974 – Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born bassist for System of a Down
From 1976 
 1977 – Mark van Bommel, Dutch footballer
 1977 - Ambra Angiolini, Italian actress
 1979 – Zoltán Gera, Hungarian footballer
 1981 - Jonathan Trott, South African-English cricketer
 1982 – Kaka, Brazilian footballer
 1982 - Cassidy Freeman, American actress, singer and musician
 1983 - Jos Hooiveld, Dutch footballer
 1983 - Daniel Sjolund, Finnish footballer
 1983 - Francis Capra, American actor
 1984 – Amelle Berrabah, English singer (Sugababes)
 1984 – Michelle Ryan, English actress
 1986 – Amber Heard, American actress
 1986 - Kim Noorda, Dutch model
 1987 – David Luiz, Brazilian footballer
 1987 – Mikel John Obi, Nigerian footballer
 1989 - Louis Smith, English gymnast
 1989 - Thomas James Longley, English actor and model
 1989 - Jasper Cillessen, Dutch footballer
 1990 - Victor Dubuisson, French cyclist
 1990 - Machine Gun Kelly, American rapper
 1990 – Eve Muirhead, Scottish curler
 1992 - Rolene Strauss, South African model
 1996 - Wendy Sulca, Peruvian singer

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 296 – Pope Caius
 536 – Pope Agapetus I
 1592 – Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1511)
 1672 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (b. 1598)
 1699 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (b. 1646)
 1758 – Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1686)
 1778 - James Hargreaves, English inventor (b. 1720)
 1806 – Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (stabbed) (b. 1763)
 1827 – Thomas Rowlandson, English painter and caricaturist (b. 1756)
 1833 – Richard Trevithick, English inventor (b. 1771)
 1854 - Nicolas Bravo, 11th President of Mexico (b. 1786)
 1884 - Marie Taglioni, Swedish ballerina (b. 1804)
 1892 – Edouard Lalo, French composer (b. 1823)
 1893 – Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian inventor and academic (b. 1825)
 1896 – Thomas Meik, British civil engineer (b. 1812)
1901  2000 
 1908 – Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836)
 1925 – André Caplet, French composer (b. 1878)
 1930 – Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish poet and novelist (b. 1866)
 1933 – Henry Royce, British automobile manufacturer (b. 1863)
 1945 – Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (b. 1867)
 1946 – Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1872)
 1951 – Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (b. 1870)
 1968 – Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (b. 1911)
 1978 – Will Geer, American actor and activist (b. 1902)
 1980 – Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (b. 1902)
 1980 - Jane Froman, American actress (b. 1907)
 1983 – Earl "Fatha" Hines, American jazz pianist (b. 1903)
 1984 – Ansel Adams, American photographer (b. 1902)
 1986 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian writer and philosopher (b. 1907)
 1989 - Emilio G. Segre, Italian-American physicist (b. 1905)
 1990 - Albert Salmi, American actor (b. 1928)
 1993 - Stephen Lawrence, English student (b. 1974)
1994 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913)
 1995 – Maggie Kuhn, American activist (b. 1905)
 1996 – Erma Bombeck, American humorist and writer (b. 1927)
 1999 - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (b. 1938)
From 2001 
 2002 – Linda Lovelace, American actress (b. 1949)
 2003 – Martha Griffiths, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1912)
 2003 – Michael Larrabee, American athlete (b. 1933)
 2004 – Pat Tillman, American football player and U.S. Army Ranger (killed in action) (b. 1976)
 2005 – Philip Morrison, American physicist (b. 1915)
 2005 – Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish artist and sculptor (b. 1924)
 2006 - Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)
 2009 – Jack Cardiff, English director (b. 1914)
 2009 – Ken Annakin, English director (b. 1914)
 2013 - Richie Havens, American folk singer and guitarist (b. 1941)
 2013 - Vivi Bach, Danish actress (b. 1939)
 2014 - Oswaldo Vigas, Venezuelan painter (b. 1924)
 2015 - Lois Lilienstein, Canadian singer and musician (Sharon, Lois & Bram) (b. 1936)
 2015 - Dick Balharry, Scottish conservationist, writer and wildlife photographer (b. 1937)
 2015 - Gennadi Vengerov, Belarussian-born actor (b. 1959)
 2015 - Dorothy Custer, American comedienne (b. 1911)
2016 - Jory Prum, American audio engineer and video game developer (b. 1975)
 2016 - Peter Sellers, New Zealand broadcaster (b. 1921)
 2017 - Hubert Dreyfus, American philosopher (b. 1929)
 2017 - William Hjortsberg, American writer and screenwriter (b. 1941)
 2017 - Jess Kersey, American basketball official (b. 1941)
 2017 - Erin Moran, American actress (b. 1960)
 2017 - Attilio Nicora, Italian cardinal (b. 1937)
 2017 - Witold Pyrkosz, Polish actor (b. 1926)
 2017 - Gustavo Rojo, Uruguayan actor (b. 1923)
 2017 - Michele Scarponi, Italian racing cyclist (b. 1979)
 2018 - Demeter Bitenc, Slovenian actor (b. 1922)
 2018 - Nino Khurtsidze, Georgian chess player (b. 1975)
 2018 - Dave Nelson, American baseball player (b. 1944)
 2019 - Krasimir Bezinski, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1961)
 2019 - Robert L. Butler, American politician (b. 1927)
 2019 - Heather Harper, Northern Irish soprano (b. 1930)
 2019 - Ventseslav Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer and translator (b. 1940)
2019 - Le Duc Anh, former President of Vietnam (b. 1920)
 2019 - Billy McNeill, Scottish footballer (b. 1940)
 2019 - Oiva Toikka, Finnish glass designer (b. 1931)
 2019 - Julio César Toresani, Argentine footballer (b. 1967)
Observances 
 Arbor Day in parts of the United States
 Earth Day
 Discovery Day (Brazil)
 Stephen Lawrence Day (United Kingdom), to be observed from 2019

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
753 BC – Romulus founds Rome (traditional).
1506 - End of the three-day Lisbon massacre, in which 1,900 people were slaughtered.
1509 – Henry VIII of England becomes King of England after the death of his father, Henry VII of England.
1526 - The last ruler of the Lodi Dynasty in Northern India, Ibrahim Lodi, is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.
1734 - The shorter of the two Golden Horns of Gallehus, Denmark's most famous archaeological finds, is discovered. The longer one had been discovered in 1639.
1782 - The city now known as Krung Thep, or Bangkok, is founded in Siam, present-day Thailand.
1792 – Tiradentes, a revolutionary who was leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged.
1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of San Jacinto – Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
1863 – Bahá'u'lláh is proclaimed as the head of the Bahá'í Faith.
1863 – Quantrill's Raiders launch a reprisal raid Lawrence, Kansas in the Battle of Lawrence, killing a number of civilians.
1889 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Edgar is first performed in Milan.
1894 – Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen rifle as the main weapon of its armed forces. It remained in service for almost 50 years.
1898 – Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain as of this date.
1901  2000 
1908 – North Pole dispute: Frederick Cook claims to have reached the North Pole on this date, almost a year before Robert Peary claims to have reached it, on April 6, 1909.
1912 – The New York Giants and New York Yankees play an exhibition game to benefit survivors of the RMS Titanic.
1914 - Ypiranga Incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the United States Navy near Veracruz.
1918 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron," is shot down and killed by Allied over Vaux sur Somme in France.
1926 - Future Queen, Elizabeth II, is born in London. At the time of her birth she is not expected to become Queen.
1930 – A fire at a Columbus, Ohio,  USA, penitentiary kills 320 people.
1934 - The "Surgeon's Photograph", allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, appears in the Daily Mail. It is revealed to be a hoax in 1999.
1935 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits Taiwan, killing 3,276 people.
1944 – Women in France receive the right to vote.
1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
1952 – Secretaries Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
1955 – Bob Hope's radio program airs its last segment.
1956 – Elvis Presley's song "Heartbreak Hotel" becomes the "King's" first song to reach the top of the Cash Box magazine music charts.
1960 – Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 9:30 am the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
1960 – Founding of the Orthodox Baha'i faith in Washington, DC.
1961 - Dirk Stikker succeeds Paul-Henri Spaak as Secretary-General of NATO.
1962 - The Seattle World's Fair opens. The Space Needle, now a symbol of the city, was completed just before the event.
1965 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
1966 – Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
1967 – A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
1970 - The Principality of Hutt River declares itself independent from Australia, and is one of world's most famous micronations. It is 517 kilometers (354 miles) north of Perth, Western Australia.
1971 - Siaka Stevens becomes the 1st President of Sierra Leone.
1971 - Haitian leader François Duvalier (Papa Doc) dies. His then-19-year-old son, Jean-Claude Duvalier, takes over from him.
1975 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
1977 - The musical Annie has its Broadway premiere.
1982 - Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher in baseball to record 300 saves.
1985 - In Brazil, President-elect Tancredo Neves dies before he can take office. José Sarney becomes President instead.
1985 –  Ayrton Senna wins the first of 41 Formula One championship races at the Portuguese Grand Prix in Estoril.
1986 – Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on live television and finds nothing.
1987 – The Tamil Tigers is blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, killing 106 people.
1989 – Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate the late Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
1989 – Nintendo releases the Game Boy, an idea of Gunpei Yokoi.
1992 – U.S. death penalty: After 13 years on death row, convicted murderer Robert Alton Harris is executed in California's gas chamber.
1994 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
From 2001 
2002 – French Presidential Election: In the first round Jacques Chirac comes through, along with National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.
2004 – Suicide bombers target police stations in Basra, Iraq, killing 74 people.
2005 – John Negroponte becomes the first United States Director of National Intelligence.
2010 – After a week of being shut down due to the Eyjafjallajokull eruption, UK airspace reopens.
2014 - The Boston Marathon is held for the first time since it was targeted by bombers in 2013. Rita Jeptoo wins the women's race, while Meb Keflezighi wins the men's race, becoming the first US citizen to win it in over 30 years.
2019 - Sri Lanka Easter bombings: More than 350 people are killed in bomb attacks on Easter Sunday targeting churches and hotels across Sri Lanka, most of them in or near Colombo.
2019 - Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky is elected President of Ukraine, defeating Petro Poroshenko.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1488 – Ulrich von Hutten, German humanist (d. 1523)
 1555 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)
 1652 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)
 1671 - John Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729)
 1673 – Wilhelmina of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1742)
 1713 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (d. 1793)
 1730 – Antonin Kammel, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1788)
 1774 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1862)
 1782 – Friedrich Froebel, German educator (d. 1852)
 1790 – Manuel Blanco Encalada, Chilean officer and politician (d. 1876)
 1801 - Robert Francis Withers Allston, Governor of South Carolina (d. 1864)
 1806 - George Cornewall Lewis, British statesman (d. 1863)
 1809 - Robert M. T. Hunter, American politician (d. 1887)
 1810 - John Putnam Chapin, 10th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1864)
 1811 - Alson Sherman, 8th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1903)
 1816 – Charlotte Brontë, English writer (d. 1855)
1825 - Louise Rasmussen, Danish ballet dancer (d. 1874)
 1837 – Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician (d. 1922)
 1838 – John Muir, Scottish conservationist, environmentalist and writer (d. 1914)
 1843 - Walther Flemming, German biologist (d. 1905)
 1851 - Alexander Macfarlane, Scottish logician, physicist and mathematician (d. 1913) 
 1864 – Max Weber, German sociologist (d. 1920)
 1870 - Edwin Stanton Porter, American director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1941)
 1873 - Philip Collier, 14th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1948)
 1879 – Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (d. 1904)
 1882 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist (d. 1961)
 1885 - Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish athlete (d. 1967)
 1887 - Joe McCarthy, American baseball player (d. 1978)
 1889 – Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist (d. 1971)
 1889 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russian-American violinist, composer, teacher and conductor (d. 1985)
 1889 – Manuel Prado Ugarteche, President of Peru (d. 1967)
1889 - Pietro Calamandrei, Italian lawyer, professor and politician (d. 1956)
 1893 - Walter Christaller, German geographer (d. 1969)
 1898 - Maurice Wilson, English soldier, mystic, mountaineer and pilot (d. 1934)
1901  1950 
 1904 – Odilo Globocnik, Austrian SS officer (d. 1945)
 1905 – Pat Brown, Governor of California (d. 1996)
 1911 – Ivan Combe, American entrepreneur (d. 2000)
 1912 – Marcel Camus, French movie director (d. 1982)
 1912 – Eve Arnold, American photographer (d. 2012)
 1913 - Norman Parkinson, English photographer (d. 1990)
 1913 - Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, English engineer and Head of British Railways (d. 1985)
 1914 - Angelo Savoldi, Italian-American professional wrestler
 1915 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (d. 2001)
 1919 – Don Cornell, American singer (d. 2004)
 1919 - Licio Gelli, Italian financier (d. 2015)
 1920 – Bruno Maderna, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1973)
 1920 – Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
 1922 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish writer (d. 1987)
 1922 - Nazim Al-Haqqani, Turkish Cypriot spiritual leader (d. 2014)
 1923 - John Mortimer, English barrister and writer (d. 2009)
 1924 - Ira Louvin, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1965)
1925 - Anthony Mason, 9th Chief Justice of Australia
 1925 – Alfred Kelbassa, German footballer (d. 1988)
 1926 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth realms
 1928 - Georg Kronawitter, German politician (d. 2016)
 1930 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
 1930 - Jack Taylor, English football referee (d. 2012)
 1930 - Mario Covas, Brazilian politician (d. 2001)
 1930 - Dieter Roth, German artist (d. 1998)
 1931 - Gabriel de Broglie, French historian
 1931 - Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Iraqi-Syrian Orthodox Church leader (d. 2014)
 1932 - Angela Mortimer, English tennis player
 1932 - Elaine May, American comedienne
 1935 - Charles Grodin, American actor
 1935 - Thomas Kean, 48th Governor of New Jersey
 1941 - David L. Boren, 21st Governor of Oklahoma
 1942 - Geoffrey Palmer, 33rd Prime Minister of New Zealand
 1943 - Jan de Graaff, Dutch television journalist (d. 2014)
 1944 - Russell Boyd, Australian cameraman 
 1944 - Paul Geremia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 - Guity Novin, Iranian-Canadian artist
 1947 – Iggy Pop, American musician (The Stooges)
 1947 - John Weider, English musician
 1948 - Gary Condit, American politician
1951  1975 
 1951 - Tony Danza, American actor
 1951 - David Mallett, American singer-songwriter
 1951 - Michael Hartley Freedman, American mathematician
 1951 - Kim Young-ae, South Korean actress (d. 2017)
 1952 - Cheryl Gillan, British politician
 1954 - James Morrison, American actor
 1955 - Murathan Mungan, Turkish writer, short story writer, playwright and poet
 1956 - Peter Kosminsky, English director, producer and screenwriter
 1957 - Herbert Wetterauer, German painter, sculptor and writer
 1958 – Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist (d. 2009)
 1958 – Andie MacDowell, American actress
 1959 - Jerry Only, American singer and musician
 1959 - Robert Smith, English singer-songwriter and musician
 1959 - Arno Pijpers, Dutch football coach
 1960 - Julius Korir, Kenyan athlete
 1961 - Carey Hayes, American screenwriter and producer
 1961 - Chad Hayes, American actor, screenwriter and producer
 1961 - Cathy Cavadini, American voice actress and singer
1962 - Craig Robinson, American basketball coach and brother of Michelle Obama
 1962 - Sergei Zalyotin, Russian cosmonaut
 1963 – Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor
 1964 – Ludmila Engquist, Russian-Swedish athlete
 1965 - Thomas Helmer, German footballer
 1968 - Peter van Vossen, Dutch footballer
 1969 – Toby Stephens, British actor
 1969 – Robin Meade, American news anchor
 1970 – Nicole Sullivan, American actress
 1971 - Alexander Kravchenko, Russian poker player
 1971 – Eric Mabius, American actor
 1971 - Axl Rotten, American professional wrestler (d. 2016)
 1972 - Narges Mohammadi, Iranian human rights activist
 1972 - José Luis Munuera, Spanish comic artist
 1972 - Vidar Riseth, Norwegian footballer
 1973 - Steve Backshall, English television presenter
 1974 - John Hasler, English actor and voice actor
From 1976 
 1976 - Abir Goswami, Indian actor (d. 2013)
 1978 - Jukka Nevalainen, Finnish drummer
 1979 – Tobias Linderoth, Swedish footballer
 1979 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor
 1980 – Vincent Lecavalier, Canadian ice hockey player
 1980 – Tony Romo, American football player
 1983 – Pawel Brozek, Polish footballer
 1983 – Marco Donadel, Italian footballer
 1983 - Sebastian Ingrosso, Swedish DJ and producer (Swedish House Mafia)
 1986 – Alexander Edler, Swedish ice hockey player
 1986 – Rodney Stuckey, American basketball player
 1987 – Nadif Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cricketer
 1987 – Eric Devendorf, American basketball player
 1987 - Anastasia Prikhodko, Ukrainian singer
 1988 - Adam Rooney, Irish footballer
 1989 - Tatyana McFadden, Russian-born American Paralympic athlete
 1991 - Max Chilton, British racing driver
 1992 - Deng Linlin, Chinese gymnast
 1992 - Isco, Spanish footballer
 2007 – Princess Isabella of Denmark

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 43 BC – Aulus Hirtius, Roman writer and politician (b. 90 BC)
 1073 - Pope Alexander II
 1109 – Anselm of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1033)
 1142 - Peter Abelard, French philosopher and theologian (b. 1079)
 1329 - Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)
 1509 – King Henry VII of England (b. 1457)
 1551 - Oba Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
 1557 – Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495)
 1574 – Cosimo de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1519)
 1699 – Jean Racine, French writer (b. 1639)
 1701 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (b. 1667)
 1719 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian (b. 1640)
 1736 - Prince Eugene of Savoy (b. 1663)
 1792 – Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1746)
 1852 – Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
 1894 - James W. Throckmorton, Governor of Texas (b. 1825)
 1900 - Vikramatji Khimojiraj, Indian Maharajah (b. 1819)
1901  2000 
 1910 – Mark Twain, American writer (b. 1835)
 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, German fighter pilot (b. 1892)
 1922 - Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato singer (b. 1858)
 1924 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
 1932 - Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1864)
 1938 – Muhammad Iqbal, national poet of Pakistan (b. 1877)
 1941 - Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast (b. 1875)
 1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883)
 1952 - Stafford Cripps, British politician (b. 1889)
 1965 – Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist (b. 1892)
 1971 – Francois Duvalier (Papa Doc), dictator of Haiti (b. 1907)
 1973 – Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
 1977 – Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892)
 1980 - Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894)
 1983 - Walter Slezak, Austrian-born actor (b. 1902)
 1984 – Marcel Janco, Romanian-Israeli artist, writer and architect (b. 1895)
1985 – Tancredo Neves, Brazilian politician, President-elect (b. 1910)
 1990 – Romain de Tirtoff (Erte), Russian-born French artist (b. 1892)
 1996 – Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen politician (b. 1944)
From 2001 
 2003 – Nina Simone, American singer (b. 1933)
 2005 – Gerry Marshall, British racing driver (b. 1941)
 2005 - Gwynfor Evans, Welsh politician, leader of Plaid Cymru (b. 1912)
 2005 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (b. 1904)
 2008 – Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939)
 2010 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish Olympic official (b. 1920)
 2011 – Harold Garfinkel, American sociologist (b. 1917)
 2012 – Charles Colson, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1931)
 2013 - Shakuntala Devi, Indian mathematician (b. 1929)
 2013 - Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor, writer and educator (b. 1905)
 2013 - Chrissy Amphlett, American singer and actress (b. 1959)
 2014 - Alexander Lenkov, Russian actor (b. 1943)
 2014 - Win Tin, Burmese journalist and former political prisoner (b. 1930)
 2014 - Janet Gray Hayes, American politician, 60th Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1926)
 2014 - Herb Gray, Canadian politician and former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1931)
2014 - Arlene McQuade, American actress (b. 1936)
 2014 - Mundo Earwood, American country music singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
 2014 - George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (b. 1936)
 2015 - Janaki Ballabh Patnaik, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Odisha (b. 1927)
 2015 - Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi, Egyptian poet (b. 1938)
 2015 - Steve Byrnes, American sports announcer (b. 1959)
 2015 - Roy Mason, British politician (b. 1924)
 2015 - Mary Doyle Keefe, American model (b. 1922)
 2015 - Gideon Eilat, German-Israeli soldier (b. 1924)
 2015 - Cindy Yang, Taiwanese model and actress (b. 1990)
 2015 - Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, Russian movie director (b. 1965)
 2015 - M. H. Abrams, American literary critic (b. 1912)
 2016 - Prince, American singer, songwriter and musician (b. 1958)
 2016 - Hans Koschnick, German politician (b. 1929)
 2016 - Marco Leto, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
 2016 - Lonnie Mack, American singer and guitarist (b. 1941)
 2017 - Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer (b. 1972)
2017 - Cecilia Alvear, Ecuadorean-American journalist (b. 1939)
 2017 - Carl Christ, American economist (b. 1923)
 2018 - Firmin Le Bourhis, French writer (b. 1950)
 2018 - Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian film director (b. 1928)
 2018 - Nabi Tajima, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1900)
 2018 - Verne Troyer, American actor (b. 1969)
 2018 - Huguette Tourangeau, Canadian mezzo-soprano (b. 1940)
 2019 - Peter Colotka, Slovakian academic, lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
 2019 - Hannelore Elsner, German actress (b. 1942)
 2019 - Steve Golin, American film producer (b. 1955)
 2019 - Aminul Haque, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1943)
 2019 - Ken Kercheval, American actor (b. 1935)
 2019 - Shantha Mayadunne, Sri Lankan chef (b. 1968)
 2019 - Amelia Vargas, Cuban actress (b. 1925)
Observances 
 John Muir Day (California)
 San Jacinto Day (Texas)
 Kartini Day (Indonesia)
 National Tree Planting Day (Kenya)
 First Day of Ridvan (Baha'i faith)
 Grounation Day (Rastafari movement)
 Tiradentes Day (Brazil)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 711 -Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula.
 1429 – Battle of Orléans: French troops led by Joan of Arc lifted the English Siege of Orleans, a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.
 1483 - Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands, is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.
 1521 - Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops under Gustav Vasa defeat a Danish force under Didrik Slagheck in the Battle of Vasteras.
 1587 - Francis Drake leads a raid in the Bay of Cadiz, sinking at least 23 ships of the Spanish fleet.
 1672 – Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
 1770 – James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
 1854 – The Ashmun Institute is officially begins as the first college for African American students.
 1861 – American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to split from the Union
1862 – American Civil War: New Orleans falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
 1882 - The Elektromote, a forerunner of the trolleybus, is tested by Eduard Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
1901  2000 
 1903 – A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
 1910 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
 1916 – Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
 1944 – Dancing Romeo, the last Our Gang movie, is shown for the first time.
 1945 – World War II: The German Army in Italy surrenders (gives up) to the Allies.
 1945 – Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and decides that Admiral Karl Dönitz will be the next ruler.
 1945 – Holocaust: The Dachau concentration camp is freed by United States troops.
 1946 – Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are accused of war crimes.
 1967 – After refusing to go into the United States Army the day before (because of religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.