Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
From 2001 
 2002 – George Roy Hill, movie director (b. 1922)
 2003 – Alan Bates, British actor (b. 1934)
 2003 – Ivan Calderon, baseball player (b. 1962) (murdered)
 2007 – Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b. 1953)
 2007 – Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish movie director (b. 1922)
 2007 – Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (b. 1920)
 2008 – Alfred Pfaff, German footballer (b. 1926)
 2009 - Takashi Takabayashi, Japanese footballer (b. 1931)
 2010 – Ronald Lee Herrick, organ donor (b. 1931)
 2011 – Helen Frankenthaler, American painter (b. 1928)
 2011 - Michael Dummett, British philosopher (b. 1925)
 2012 - Harry Carey, Jr., American actor (b. 1921)
 2012 - Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general (b. 1934)
 2012 - Jesco von Puttkamer, German-American engineer (b. 1933)
 2013 - Mohamad Chatah, Lebanese economist and diplomat (b. 1951) (car bombing)
 2013 - Elvira Quintilla, Spanish actress (b. 1928) 
 2014 - Tomaz Salamun, Slovenian poet (b. 1941)
 2014 - Karel Poma, Belgian politician (b. 1920)
2015 - Alfredo Pacheco, El Salvadorean footballer (b. 1982)
 2015 - Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer, movie producer and director (b. 1922)
 2015 - Dave Henderson, American baseball player (b. 1958)
 2015 - Ellsworth Kelly, American painter, sculptor and printmaker (b. 1923)
 2015 - Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player (b. 1932)
 2015 - Stein Eriksen, Norwegian skier (b. 1927)
 2015 - Gabriel Tambon, French politician (b. 1930)
 2016 - Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1951)
 2016 - Claude Gensac, French actress (b. 1927)
 2016 - Carrie Fisher, American actress and writer (b. 1956)
 2016 - Hans Tietmeyer, German economist (b. 1931)
 2017 - Ben Barres, American neurobiologist (b. 1954)
 2017 - Osvaldo Fattori, Italian footballer (b. 1922)
 2017 - Thomas Hunter, American actor (b. 1932)
Observances 
 Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist
 Constitution Day (North Korea)
 Saint Stephen's Day (Eastern Orthodox Church), public holiday in Romania.

Days of the year
Events

Up to 1900 
324 – Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
1154 - Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1187 – Pope Clement III is elected.
1490 - Anne, Duchess of Brittany marries Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
1666 - Lund University in southern Sweden is founded.
1732 – Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard's Almanack
1777 – George Washington's army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
1783 - At age 24, William Pitt the Younger becomes the youngest-ever Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1828 – John C. Calhoun pens South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
1835 – The Toledo Blade newspaper begins publishing.
1842 – The United States recognizes the independence of Hawaii.
1901  2000 
1907 - 239 coal miners die in a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
1909 - The German football club Borussia Dortmund is founded.
1912 – William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which killed over 1,000 people was pardoned by President Taft after  years in Sing Sing prison .
1916 – The Battle of Verdun ended during World War I.
1920 - King Constantine I of Greece is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son, Alexander of Greece, and a vote.
1927 - Indian activists Ashfaqulla Khan, Ram Prasad Bismil and Roshan Singh are executed by British colonial authorities.
1928 – First autogiro flight in the United States.
1932 - The BBC World Service begins broadcasting, as the BBC Empire Service.
1941 - World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers sink the HMS Valiant and HMS Elizabeth in Alexandria harbor.
1944 – The Soviet Union completely occupies Estonia (Ruhnu island).
1944 - French newspaper Le Monde is founded.
1945 – Austria becomes a republic for the second time, the first having been founded in 1918 and interrupted by the Austro-fascist dictatorship from 1934 onwards and the Nazi invasion of Austria in 1938.
1946 – Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi.
1956 - Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of over 160 patients. Eventually, he is only convicted of minor charges.
1961 – The Indian Army invades the Portuguese province of Estado da India Portuguesa (Portuguese State of India) which will become part of India.
1962 – Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
1963 – Zanzibar received its independence from the United Kingdom to become a constitutional monarchy under the sultan.
1964 - The South Vietnamese military junta of Nguyen Khanh dissolves the High National Council and arrest some of the members.
1965 – Prisoners Ronald Ryan and Peter Walker escape from HM Prison Pentridge, Melbourne. During the escape a guard is killed. Ryan would hang for his death, in 1967.
1967 – Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt is declared dead, two days after going missing.
1972 – Apollo 17, the last manned lunar flight, returns to Earth.
1974 – The Altair 8800, the first personal computer, goes on sale.
1975 - John Paul Stevens is appointed as a justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1980 – Anguilla is made a dependency of the United Kingdom separate from Saint Kitts and Nevis.
1982 - A tanker fire in Tacoa, Venezuela, kills 150 people.
1983 - The Jules Rimet FIFA World Cup trophy is stolen from the Headquarters of the Brazilian Football Federation in Rio de Janeiro and is never seen again.
1984 – The United Kingdom and People's Republic of China sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which handed Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
1984 - Ted Hughes becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.
1986 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner, from exile in Gorky.
1997 – A Silkair Boeing 737-300 crashes into the Musi River, in Sumatra, Indonesia killing 104
1997 – Titanic (the highest-grossing movie ever as of 2005) opens in U.S. theaters.
1998 – The U.S. House of Representatives passes articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal.
2000 – The Leninist Guerrilla Units attack a party office of the far-right MHP in Istanbul, Turkey. One MHP member is killed and several wounded.
From 2001 
2001 – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the first movie in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, opens in theaters.
2001 – A new world-record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is set at Tosontsengel, Hövsgöl Aymag, Mongolia.
2001 – The Argentine economic crisis bursts into street riots after the announcement by the economy minister of the measures of holding back the bank deposits.
2005 – Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon suffers a minor stroke.
2007 – Marcus Stephen becomes President of Nauru.
2007 - Lee Myung-bak is elected President of South Korea.
2011 – North Korean state television announces that Kim Jong-il died two days earlier. His son Kim Jong-un has been named as his successor, as North Korea's leader.
2012 - Park Geunhye is elected President of South Korea, as the first woman elected to lead South Korea.
2016 - Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated at an art gallery in Ankara by an off-duty police officer.
Up to 1900 
1343 - William I, Margrave of Meissen (d. 1407)
1498 - Andreas Osiander, German theologian (d. 1552)
1554 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)
1587 - Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1645)
1594 - Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
1683 – King Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
1699 – William Bowyer, printer (d. 1777)
1714 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)
1753 - John Taylor Gilman, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1828)
1778 - Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1851)
1784 - Marcus Morton, 16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1864)
1790 - William Parry, English admiral and polar explorer (d. 1855)
1796 - Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (d. 1873)
1813 – Thomas Andrews, chemist (d. 1885)
1815 - Edwin M. Stanton, American politician (d. 1869)
1816 - Franz Sacher, Austrian confectioner (d. 1907)
1817 - James J. Archer, American lawyer and general (d. 1864)
1819 – James Spriggs Payne, 4th and 8th President of Liberia (d. 1882)
1820 – Mary Ashton Livermore, women's rights activist (d. 1905)
1838 - Ghedrub Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama (d. 1856)
1845 - Henri Joseph Perrotin, French astronomer (d. 1904)
1852 – Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-born physicist (d. 1931)
1854 - Marcel Brillouin, French physicist (d. 1948)
1861 – Italo Svevo, Italian writer (d. 1928)
1865 – Minnie Maddern Fiske, stage actress (d. 1932)
1875 – Mileva Maric, Serbian-Swiss scientist, was married to Albert Einstein (d. 1948)
1875 - Carter G. Woodson, American historian, author and journalist (d. 1950)
1876 - Enrique Pla y Deniel, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain (d. 1968)
1879 - Beals Wright, American tennis player (d. 1961)
1882 - Walter Braunfels, German composer (d. 1954)
1884 - Antonin Zapotocky, Czech politician (d. 1957)
1885 – Joe "King" Oliver, jazz musician (d. 1938)
1888 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963)
1891 – Edward Raczynski, Polish diplomat and politician (d. 1993)
1894 – Ford Frick, American commissioner of baseball (d. 1978)
1899 - Martin Luther King, Sr., father of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 1984)
1900 – Géza von Cziffra, movie director (d. 1989)
1901  1950 
1901 – Rudolf Hell, German inventor (d. 2002)
1902 - Ralph Richardson, English actor (d. 1983)
1903 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist (d. 1996)
1905 - Irving Kahn, American businessman (d. 2015)
1906 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet politician (d. 1982)
1910 – Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986)
1913 - Juan Landazuri Ricketts, Archbishop of Lima (d. 1997)
1915 - Claudia Testoni, Italian athlete (d. 1998)
1915 – Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (d. 1963)
1916 - Manoel de Barros, Brazilian poet (d. 2014)
1916 – Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German publicist (d. 2010)
1918 – Professor Longhair, American musician (d. 1980)
1920 - Little Jimmy Dickens, American country music singer (d. 2015)
1920 - Alexander McAllister, Scottish cricketer
1920 – David Susskind, movie, stage, and television producer (d. 1987)
1922 - Eamonn Andrews, Irish radio and television host (d. 1987)
1923 – Gordon Jackson, Scottish movie, stage and television actor (d. 1990)
1924 - Michel Tournier, French writer (d. 2016)
1925 – Tankred Dorst, German dramatist (d. 2017)
1925 - Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter (d. 2012)
1925 - Rabah Bitat, President of Algeria (d. 2000)
1926 - Fikret Otyam, Turkish painter and journalist (d. 2015)
1927 - Remo Capitani, Italian actor (d. 2014)
1929 - Lorenzo Buffon, Italian footballer
1929 – Bob Brookmeyer, American musician (d. 2011)
1930 - Georg Stollenwerk, German footballer (d. 2014)
1932 - Thomas Hunter, American actor (d. 2017)
1932 - Bernhard Vogel, German politician
1933 – Cicely Tyson, American actress
1934 – Rudi Carrell, Dutch entertainer (d. 2006)
1934 – Al Kaline, American Baseball Hall of Famer
1934 – Pratibha Patil, former President of India
1935 – Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)
1936 - Marian McKnight, American model
1938 – Karel Svoboda, Czech composer (d. 2007)
1940 – Phil Ochs, singer, songwriter (d. 1976)
1941 – Maurice White, American musician (d. 2016)
1941 – Lee Myung-bak, former President of South Korea
1942 – Cornell Dupree, American musician (d. 2011)
1943 - Sam Kelly, English actor (d. 2014)
1944 – Richard Leakey, Kenyan anthropologist (d. 2022)
1944 – Alvin Lee, British musician (d. 2013)
1946 – Robert Urich, American actor (d. 2002)
1947 - Jimmy Bain, Scottish musician (d. 2016)
1949 – Jupp Kapellmann, German footballer
1949 – Nasser Hejazi, Iranian footballer (d. 2011)
1949 – Claudia Kolb, swimmer
1949 - Carlos Gomes Junior, former Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
1950 - Walter Frosch, German footballer (d. 2013)
1951  1975 
1951 - Mohammed Reza Aref, 2nd Vice President of Iran
1952 - Walter Murphy, American songwriter and musician
1955 - Rob Portman, American politician
1956 – Jens Fink-Jensen, Danish writer
1957 – Kevin McHale, American basketball player
1957 - Cyril Collard, French actor, director and composer (d. 1993)
1957 - Michael E. Fossum, American astronaut
1957 - John Gulager, American actor, cinematographer and director
1958 - José Aguilar, Cuban boxer (d. 2014)
1959 - Ivan Vallejo, Ecuadorean footballer
1960 – Mike Lookinland, actor
1961 - Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist
1961 – Reggie White, American football player (d. 2004)
1963 - Til Schweiger, German actor
1963 - Jennifer Beals, American actress
1964 – Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player
1964 - Béatrice Dalle, French actress
1965 - Jessica Steen, Canadian actress
1965 – Chito Martinez, Belizean baseball player
1966 - Alberto Tomba, Italian skier
1967 – Criss Angel, American illusionist
1968 - Ken Marino, American actor and comedian
1968 - Kristina Keneally, 42nd Premier of New South Wales
1969 – Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Azerbaijani composer, pianist and singer
1969 – Kristy Swanson, American actress
1969 – Richard Hammond, British television presenter
1971 – Tiffany Towers, American actress
1972 – Alyssa Milano, American actress
1972 – Warren Sapp, American football player
1974 – Jake Plummer, American football player
1974 – Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer
From 1976 
1978 - Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor
1979 – Gareth Williams, Welsh rugby player
1980 – Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
1980 - Billy O'Sullivan, American actor
1980 – Marla Sokoloff, actress
1982 - Tero Pitkamaki, Finnish javelin thrower
1983 – Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - Neil Kilkenny, Australian footballer
1985 – Gary Cahill, English footballer
1985 – Lady Sovereign, English musician
1985 - Dan Logan, English bass player
1986 – Ryan Babel, Dutch footballer
1987 – Karim Benzema, French footballer
1988 – Alexis Sanchez, Chilean footballer
1989 - Yong Jun-hyung, South Korean singer, rapper and actor
1991 – Declan Galbraith, English singer
1991 - Edwin Jackson, American football player (d. 2018)
1991 - Jorge Blanco, Mexican actor and singer
1992 - Iker Muniain, Spanish footballer
1993 - Leonardo Bittencourt, German footballer
1994 - Michele Bravi, Italian singer
1994 - Estelle Balet, Swiss snowboarder (d. 2016)
1995 - Brandur Olsen, Faroese footballer
Up to 1900 
211 - Geta, Roman Emperor
401 – Pope Anastasius I
1075 – Edith of Wessex, queen of Edward the Confessor of England
1111 - Al-Ghazali, Persian theologian and philosopher
1123 - Saint Berardo, Italian bishop
1327 – Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
1370 – Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
1475 - Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol (b. 1418)
1737 – James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)
1741 – Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (b. 1681)
1745 – Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)
1749 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)
1751 – Louise of Great Britain, queen of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)
1807 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723)
1813 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1744)
1814 - Joseph Bramah, English inventor and locksmith (b. 1748)
1819 – Sir Thomas Fremantle, English naval officer and politician (b. 1765)
1848 – Emily Brontë, English writer (b. 1818)
1851 – J. M. W. Turner, English painter (b. 1775)
1859 - Mirabeau B. Lamar, American politician and President of Texas (b. 1798)
1860 - Konstantin Aksakov, Russian writer (b. 1817)
1899 - Henry Ware Lawton, American Civil War general (b. 1843)
1901  2000 
1915 – Alois Alzheimer, German neuroscientist (b. 1864)
1916 - Thibaw Min, King of Burma (b. 1859)
1927 - Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900)
1927 - Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian activist (b. 1897)
1927 - Roshan Singh, Indian activist (b. 1892)
1932 – Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean resister against Japanese occupation (executed) (b. 1908)
1933 - George Jackson Churchward, English engineer (b. 1857)
1939 – Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (b. 1894)
1944 - Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
1944 - Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856)
1946 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (b. 1872)
1953 – Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
1967 – Harold Holt, seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
1968 – Norman Thomas, American socialist (b. 1884)
1976 – Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (b. 1893)
1977 – Nellie Tayloe Ross, Governor of Wyoming (b. 1876)
1982 - Dwight Macdonald, American philosopher, author and critic (b. 1906)
1988 - Robert Bernstein, American author and playwright (b. 1919)
1989 – Stella Gibbons, English writer (b. 1902)
1993 - Michael Clarke, American drummer (b. 1946)
1996 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
1997 - Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (b. 1908)
1998 - Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (b. 1922)
1999 – Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (b. 1914)
2000 - Pops Staples, American singer (b. 1915)
2000 - John Lindsay, 103rd Mayor of New York City (b. 1921)
2000 - Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1958)
From 2001 
2003 – Peter Carter-Ruck, British lawyer (b. 1914)
2003 – Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1941)
2004 – Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
2004 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)
2008 - Carol Chomsky, American linguist and educator (b. 1930)
2009 – Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Iranian cleric (b. 1922)
2009 – Kim Peek, American megasavant, inspiration for the movie Rain Man (b. 1951)
2012 - Peter Struck, German politician (b. 1943)
2012 - Robert Bork, American judge and scholar (b. 1927)
2013 - Herb Geller, American-German saxophonist and composer (b. 1928)
2013 - Ned Vizzini, American writer (b. 1981)
2014 - Igor Rodionov, Russian general and politician (b. 1936)
2014 - Philip Bradbourn, English politician (b. 1951)
2014 - Arthur Gardner, American movie and television producer (b. 1910)
2015 - Jimmy Hill, English footballer and pundit (b. 1928)
2015 - Kurt Masur, German conductor (b. 1927)
2015 - Greville Janner, British politician (b. 1928)
2015 - Karin Söder, Swedish politician (b. 1928)
2015 - Dickie Moore, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
2015 - Selma Reis, Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1960)
2016 - Andrei Karlov, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to Turkey (b. 1954)
2017 - Lito Cruz, Argentine actor (b. 1941)
2017 - Clifford Irving, American author (b. 1930)
2017 - Hiep Thi Le, Vietnamese-American actress (b. 1971)
2018 - Tömür Dawamat, Chinese Uighur politician; b. '27
2018 - Mel Hutchins, American basketball player; b. '28
2018 - Geetha Salam, Indian actor; b. '48
Twenty-nineteen
Ricardo de Aparici, Argentine lawyer and politician; b. '40
Francisco Brennand, Brazilian sculptor; b. '27
Jules Deelder, Dutch poet; b. '44
Jan de Laval, Swedish actor; b. '48
Ward Just, American journalist and writer; b. '35
George Metallinos, Greek priest; b. '40
Yoshio Mochizuki, Japanese politician; b. '47
Shahdon Winchester, Trinidadian footballer
Alba Zaluar, Brazilian anthropologist; b. '42
Observances 
 Liberation Day (Goa)
 National Heroes and Heroines Day (Anguilla)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 795 - Pope Leo III is elected.
 838 - A North Sea flood affecting Friesland kills around 2,500 people.
 1135 - Stephen of England is crowned King.
 1481 – Battle of Westbroek – Holland defeats troops of Utrecht
 1606 – King Lear performed in the Court of England
 1620 – Elizabeth Báthory's crimes are uncovered
 1620 – Pilgrim Fathers land of what becomes New Plymouth in Massachusetts
 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The British were defeated in the Battle of Trenton
 1790 – Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution
 1792 – Final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris
 1793 – Battle of Geisberg – French defeat Austrians
 1793 – Wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
 1805 - Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
 1806 – Battle of Pultusk – indecisive battle between Napoleon and the Russians.
1811 - In Richmond, Virginia, the worst theatre fire in US history kills 72 people, including then-Governor of Virginia George William Smith.
 1812 – The Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay are blocked off by ships during the War of 1812.
 1825 – Several Imperial Russia army officers lead 3000 soldiers to the Senate Square in the failed Decembrist uprising
 1825 – The Erie Canal opens
 1861 – Confederate diplomatic envoys James Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and Britain
 1862 – 38 starving and angry Lakota men are hanged for killing white people after a brief rebellion
 1862 – American Civil War: Start of the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou.
 1871 - Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on the opera Thespis. It is another four years before they work together again.
 1898 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1901  1950 
 1906 – The world's first full-length feature movie is made in Australia, The Story of the Kelly Gang.
 1908 – Jack Johnson becomes the first African American heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.
 1916 - Joseph Joffre is made Marshal of France.
 1919 - Babe Ruth of the baseball team Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by team owner Harry Frazee.
 1925 – The Communist Party of India is founded.
 1925 – Turkey adopts the Gregorian Calendar, which it uses from January 1, 1926.
 1931 – Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity was founded
 1933 – The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo, Japan
 1933 – FM radio is patented.
 1941 - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing Thanksgiving Day as a holiday on the fourth Thursday in November.
 1943 – The German warship Scharnhorst sinks off the coast of North Cape in Norway after being attacked by the British Royal Navy late the previous evening.
1943 – At the Cairo Conference, Winston Churchill decides that Germany needs to be defeated before Japan.
 1944 – The play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams was first publicly performed.
 1944 – American troops repulse German forces at Bastogne.
 1945 – CFP franc and CFA franc are created.
 1946 – Flamingo Hotel opens in Las Vegas.
 1947 – 26 inches of snowfall in 16 hours in New York City.
 1948 – Cardinal Mindszenty arrested in Hungary.
1951  2000 
 1963 - The Beatles release the singles I Want to Hold Your Hand and I Saw Her Standing There in the United States, starting the so-called Beatlemania internationally.
 1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
 1973 – Comet Kohoutek reaches perihelion but is not such a display as expected.
 1973 - The horror movie The Exorcist, directed by William Friedkin, is released in US cinemas.
 1973 – Soyuz 13 lands.
 1974 – Salyut 4 launched.
 1975 – Tupolev Tu-144 goes into service in the Soviet Union.
 1976 – Foundation of the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist).
 1978 - The first Paris to Dakar Rally starts in Paris.
 1979 – Soviet Special forces troops take over presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan.
 1980 – Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service.
 1982 – TIME magazine's Man of the Year was for the first time given to a non-human; the personal computer.
1984 – Princess Astrid of Belgium marries Archduke Lorenz of Austria-Este.
 1986 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after thirty-five years on the air.
 1988 – Start of the Nanjing Anti-African protests.
 1991 – Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR.
 1996 – JonBenét Ramsey, a six-year-old beauty queen, was found murdered in her family's basement in Boulder, Colorado.
 1996 – United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification goes into force.
 1997 - The Soufriere Hills volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat explodes.
 1998 – Iraq announced its intention to fire upon US and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern "no-fly zones".
 1998 – Severe gales over Ireland, northern England, and southern Scotland. Widespread disruption, widespread power outages in Northern Ireland and southern Scotland.
1999 – On the 26-28th, France and countries to the east, including Germany, are hit by severe storms and rain. Over 100 people were killed, and the storm caused extensive damage to property and trees and the French national power grid.
From 2001 
 2002 – French Raelian scientist Brigitte Boisselier says Clonaid has delivered the first of a supposed five clone babies through cesarean section.
 2003 – Major earthquake, of magnitude 6.6, devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands; citadel of Arg-é Bam is destroyed.
 2004 – A massive earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter magnitude scale creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, The Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean. The death toll is currently estimated at more than 300,000. Officials say the true toll may never be known, due to rapid burials. Indonesia was worst affected with as many as 219,000 people killed.
 2004 – In a re-run of Ukraine's Presidential election Viktor Yushchenko defeats Viktor Yanukovich.
 2006 – At least 260 people are killed when an oil pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria, explodes.
 2012 - Shinzo Abe becomes Prime Minister of Japan for a second time.
2016 - Shinzo Abe becomes the first Prime Minister of Japan to visit the site of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, Hawaii.
 2017 - Honduras and Panama decide to move their embassies in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
 2017 - Former professional footballer George Weah is elected President of Liberia.
Up to 1900 
 1194 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1250)
 1532 – Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (d. 1576)
 1536 – Yi I of Joseon, Confucian scholar (d. 1584)
 1622 - Cort Adeler, Norwegian admiral (d. 1675)
 1687 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist and composer (d. 1755)
 1716 – Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (d. 1771)
 1723 – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807)
 1735 – Prince Josias of Coburg, Holy Roman Empire general (d. 1815)
 1751 – Clement Hofbauer, missionary (d. 1820)
 1769 – Ernst Moritz Arndt, German writer (d. 1860)
 1771 - Julie Clary, French wife of Joseph Bonaparte (d. 1845)
 1777 - Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1848)
 1780 – Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872)
 1785 - Etienne Constantin de Gerlache, 1st Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1871)
 1791 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (d. 1871)
 1819 – E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist (d. 1899)
1822 – Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright (d. 1890)
 1837 – George Dewey, U. S. admiral (d. 1917)
 1837 - Morgan Bulkeley, 54th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1922)
 1853 – René Bazin, French novelist (d. 1932)
 1859 - William Stephens, 24th Governor of California (d. 1944)
 1863 – Charles Pathé, French movie pioneer (d. 1957)
 1867 - Phan Boi Chau, Vietnamese nationalist (d. 1940)
 1872 – Norman Angell, British writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 1967)
 1874 - Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi educator, theologian and social reformer (d. 1965)
 1880 - Elton Mayo, Australian psychologist (d. 1949)
 1883 – Maurice Utrillo, French painter (d. 1955)
 1890 – Uncle Charlie Osborne, fiddler (d. 1992)
 1891 – Henry Miller, American writer (d. 1980)
 1893 – Mao Zedong, Chinese military leader and politician (d. 1976)
 1894 - Jean Toomer, American writer (d. 1967)
1901  1950 
 1902 - Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian writer (d. 1980)
 1903 – Elisha Cook Jr., actor (d. 1995)
 1904 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (d. 1980)
 1905 – Anfilogino Guarisi, Brazilian-Italian footballer (d. 1974)
 1905 - Mario Varglien, Italian footballer (d. 1978)
 1906 – Imperio Argentina, Argentine-Spanish actress and singer (d. 2003)
 1907 - Albert Gore, Sr., American politician (d. 1998)
 1909 - Matt Gordy, American pole vaulter (d. 1989)
 1911 – Princess Takamatsu of Japan (d. 2004)
 1912 - Henk de Looper, Dutch field hockey player (d. 2006)
 1913 - Elizabeth David, English cookery writer (d. 1992)
 1914 – Richard Widmark, American actor (d. 2008)
 1918 – George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2006)
 1921 – Steve Allen, American actor, comedian, composer, and writer (d. 2000)
 1923 - Richard Artschwager, American artist (d. 2013)
 1926 – Gina Pellón, Cuban painter
 1926 - Earle Brown, American composer (d. 2002)
 1927 – Alan King, American comedian and actor (d. 2004)
1927 - Stu Miller, American baseball player (d. 2015)
 1931 - Roger Piantoni, French footballer
 1933 – Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer
 1935 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma, President of Togo (d. 2005)
 1937 - John Horton Conway, British mathematician
 1938 - Bahram Bayzai, Iranian director, screenwriter and producer
 1939 - Fred Schepisi, Australian director
 1939 – Phil Spector, American music producer
 1940 – Edward C. Prescott, American economist
 1941 - Daniel Schmid, Swiss movie director
 1942 – Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo, 28th President of Guatemala
 1942 – Gray Davis, former Governor of California
 1945 – John Walsh, American talk show host
 1947 – Carlton Fisk, American Baseball Hall of Famer
 1947 - Liz Lochhead, Scottish poet
 1949 – José Ramos-Horta, East Timorean human rights activist and former President of East Timor
 1949 - Mikhail Boyarsky, Russian actor and singer
 1950 - Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, former Prime Minister of Pakistan
1951  1975 
 1951 - C. J. Henderson, American writer, critic and editor (d. 2014)
 1951 - John Scofield, American jazz guitarist and composer
 1952 - Alexander Ankvab, Abkhazian politician
 1953 – Henning Schmitz, German musician (Kraftwerk)
 1953 – Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia
 1953 – Leonel Fernandez, former President of the Dominican Republic
 1953 - Michel Guimond, Canadian politician (d. 2015)
 1954 - Peter Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and son of Edmund Hillary
 1954 - Susan Butcher, American dogsledder (d. 2006)
 1954 - Tony Rosato, Italian-born Canadian actor (d. 2017)
 1954 – Ozzie Smith, American Baseball Hall of Famer
 1955 – Evan Bayh, US Senator from Indiana
 1956 – David Sedaris, American essayist
 1957 - Dermot Murnaghan, British newsreader
 1959 – Koji Morimoto, Japanese director
 1959 - Hans Nielsen, Danish speedway rider
 1960 - Andrew Graham-Dixon, British art historian and broadcaster
 1962 - James Kottak, German musician
1963 – Lars Ulrich, Danish musician (Metallica)
 1969 – Thomas Linke, German footballer
 1969 – Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, American-born German equestrian
 1971 – Mika Nurmela, Finnish footballer
 1971 – Jared Leto, American actor, singer and musician
 1975 – Marcelo Rios, Chilean tennis player
From 1976 
 1976 – Lea De Mae, Czech actress (d. 2004)
 1976 - Janina Karolchyk-Pravalinska, Belarussian athlete
 1977 - Fatih Akyel, Turkish footballer
 1979 - Fabian Carini, Uruguayan footballer
 1979 – Mark Cueto, English rugby player
 1979 – Chris Daughtry, American singer
 1981 - Ilia Kandelaki, Georgian footballer
 1982 - Shun Oguri, Japanese actor and model
 1982 – Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian skier
 1984 - Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker
 1985 - Beth Behrs, American actress
 1986 - Hugo Lloris, French footballer
 1986 - Kit Harington, English actor
 1987 - Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstani tennis player
 1989 - Yohan Blake, Jamaican athlete
 1989 - Sofiane Feghouli, Algerian footballer
 1990 - Andy Biersack, American singer
 1990 – Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
 1990 - Denis Cheryshev, Russian footballer
 1991 - Eden Sher, American actress
 1992 - Jade Thirlwall, English singer (Little Mix)
 1994 – Souleymane Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer
 1994 - Stephanie Boscarino, American actress
1994 - Luisa Hartema, German model
 1995 – Zach Mills, American actor
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 268 - Pope Dionysius
 418 - Pope Zosinos
 831 - Euthymius of Sardis, Byzantine bishop and saint (b. 754)
 865 - Empress Dowager Zheng of China
 1350 - Jean de Marigny, French archbishop
 1458 - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1393)
 1476 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1444)
 1530 – Babur, Mughal Emperor (b. 1483)
 1624 – Simon Marius, German astronomer (b. 1573)
 1780 - John Fothergill, English physician (b. 1712)
 1784 – Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (b. 1743)
 1786 - Gasparo Gozzi, Italian playwright and critic (b. 1713)
 1811 - George William Smith, Governor of Virginia (b. 1762)
 1867 – Jozsef Kossics, Slovenian writer (b. 1788)
 1869 - Jean Leonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
 1890 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (b. 1822)
1901  2000 
 1909 - Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1761)
 1923 - Dietrich Eckart, German journalist and politician (b. 1868)
 1931 - Melvil Dewey, American librarian (b. 1851)
 1933 – Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (b. 1875)
 1960 - Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese philosopher (b. 1889)
 1970 – Lillian Board, British athlete (b. 1948)
 1972 – Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (b. 1884)
 1973 – Harold B. Lee, American Mormon leader (b. 1899)
 1974 - Farid al-Atrash, Syrian-Egyptian singer-songwriter, musician and actor (b. 1915)
 1977 - Howard Hawks, American director (b. 1896)
 1981 - Savitri, Indian actress, director and producer (b. 1937)
 1983 - Violet Carson, English actress (b. 1898)
 1985 – Dian Fossey, American gorilla specialist (b. 1932)
 1985 - Harold P. Warren, American movie director (b. 1928)
 1986 – Elsa Lanchester, British actress (b. 1902)
 1994 - Pietro Pavan, Italian cardinal (b. 1903)
1999 – Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India (b. 1918)
 1999 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician (b. 1942)
 2000 - Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)
From 2001 
 2001 – Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (b. 1929)
 2004 – Marianne Heiberg, Norwegian mediator (b. 1945)
 2004 – Khun Bhumi Jensen, Thai royal (b. 1983) (2004 Indian Ocean earthquake)
 2004 - Angus Ogilvy, British businessman (b. 1928)
 2005 - Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (b. 1937)
 2005 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (b. 1948)
 2006 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)
 2006 - Ivar Formo, Norwegian cross-country skier (b. 1951)
 2009 - Giuseppe Chiappella, Italian footballer (b. 1924)
 2010 – Salvador Jorge Blanco, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1926)
 2010 – Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
 2011 - Sarekoppa Bangarappa, Indian politician (b. 1932)
 2011 – Sam Rivers, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1923)
 2011 - Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Mexican actor (b. 1940)
 2012 - Gerry Anderson, British writer, director and producer (b. 1929)
 2012 - Fontella Bass, American singer (b. 1940)
2013 - Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-American actress (b. 1912)
 2013 - Dr. Tangalanga, Argentine comedian (b. 1916)
 2014 - Leo Tindemans, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1922)
 2014 - James B. Edwards, American politician, 110th Governor of South Carolina and 3rd United States Secretary of Energy (b. 1927)
 2014 - Roberto Delmastro, Chilean politician (b. 1945)
 2015 - Jim O'Toole, American baseball player (b. 1937)
 2016 - Ashot Anastasian, Armenian chess player (b. 1964)
 2017 - Shahnon Ahmad, Malaysian writer (b. 1933)
 2017 - Johnny Bower, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
 2017 - Gualtiero Marchesi, Italian chef (b. 1930)
Observances 
 Boxing Day in the Commonwealth of Nations, except if 26 December happens to be a Sunday. If it is a Sunday, it is moved to December 27 by Royal Proclamation.
 Saint Stephen's Day in Roman Catholicism, holiday in some European countries
 First Day of Kwanzaa (United States)
 Second Day of Christmas

Days of the year
Up to 1950 
 69 - Vespasian enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor.
 1192 - Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria.
 1522 – Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually re-settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.
 1606 - The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and set sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
 1803 – Louisiana Purchase is completed.
 1808 - Peninsular War: The Siege of Zaragoza begins.
 1860 – South Carolina becomes first state to secede from the United States.
 1870 - The Cape Blanco lighthouse goes into operation at the western tip of Oregon.
 1915 – The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli during World War I.
 1917 – Cheka, first Soviet secret police, is founded.
 1924 - Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.
 1942 - World War II: Japanese air forces bomb Calcutta.
1942 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Erbaa, Turkey, kills around 3,000 people.
 1946 - The popular Christmas movie It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.
 1946 - The Tonankai earthquake in Japan kills around 1,300 people.
1951  2000 
 1951 - The EBR in Arco, Idaho, becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity.
 1952 – United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington, killing 87.
 1955 - Cardiff is officially proclaimed as the capital city of Wales.
 1957 - The European Nuclear Energy Agency is founded.
 1957 - The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight.
 1960 – National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.
 1961 - The Dominican Republic holds its first elections.
 1967 - A Pennsylvania Railroad metroliner reaches over the limit of 155 miles per hour in speed on its New York Division.
 1968 - The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
 1971 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto becomes the 4th President of Pakistan.
 1973 - Spanish Prime Minister Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco is assassinated by a car bomb in Madrid.
 1977 - Djibouti and Vietnam join the UN.
1984 – The Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines, England.
 1985 - Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.
 1988 – The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
 1989 – Operation Just Cause: United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega.
 1991 - Paul Keating becomes the 24th Prime Minister of Australia.
 1995 – The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
 1995 – An American Airlines Flight 965 Boeing 757 crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160.
 1999 – Vermont's Supreme Court rules that homosexual couples are entitled to same benefits and protections as married heterosexual couples.
 1999 – Macau is handed over to the People's Republic of China by Portugal.
From 2001 
 2002 – US Senator Trent Lott resigns as majority leader.
 2004 - A gang of thieves steal 26.5 million pounds from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
 2007 - Elizabeth II overtakes Queen Victoria as the UK's oldest-ever monarch, having reached an age of 81 years, 7 months and 29 days. As of December 2014, Elizabeth is 88 years of age.
 2015 - Spain holds its parliamentary election, with no party winning overall control.
 2016 - A fireworks market explosion near Mexico City kills at least 30 people.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1537 – King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
 1579 - John Fletcher, English dramatist (d. 1625)
 1629 – Pieter de Hooch, painter (d. 1684)
 1633 - Abbas II of Persia (d. 1666)
 1648 - Tommaso Ceva, Italian poet and mathematician (d. 1736)
 1717 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French politician and diplomat (d. 1787)
 1740 - Arthur Lee, American diplomat (d. 1792)
 1786 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (d. 1853)
 1792 – Nicolas Charlet, painter (d. 1845)
 1805 – Thomas Graham, Father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869)
 1833 – Samuel Mudd, physician, possible conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1883)
 1838 – Edwin Abbott Abbott, schoolmaster/theologian/writer of Flatland (d. 1926)
 1841 – Ferdinand Buisson, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1927 (d. 1932)
 1856 – Ferdinand Avenarius, writer (d. 1923)
 1858 - Kuno Meyer, German scholar (d. 1919)
 1860 – Dan Leno, English entertainer (d. 1904)
 1861 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovene painter (d. 1926)
1865 – Elsie De Wolfe, aka Lady Mendl, actress & interior decorator (d. 1950)
 1868 - Arturo Alessandri, President of Chile (d. 1950)
 1868 – Harvey Firestone, automobile pioneer (d. 1938)
 1873 - Mahmet Akif Ersoy, Turkish poet, writer, academic and politician (d. 1936)
 1876 - Walter Sydney Adams, American astronomer (d. 1956)
 1881 – Branch Rickey, baseball executive (d. 1965)
 1886 – Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis star (d. 1974)
 1890 – Yvonne Arnaud, French actress (d. 1958)
 1890 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1967)
 1891 - Erik Almlöf, Swedish triple jumper (d. 1971)
 1893 – Charlotte Bühler, psychologist
 1894 – Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1978)
 1898 – Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)
 1898 - Konstantinos Dovas, Greek general and politician (d. 1973)
 1899 - Martin Lloyd-Jones, Welsh preacher and physician (d. 1981)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Robert Van de Graaff, physicist, inventor (d. 1967)
 1902 – Sidney Hook, American philosopher (d. 1989)
 1902 – Max Lerner, American educator (d. 1992)
 1902 – George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)
 1904 - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (d. 1977)
 1908 - Dennis Morgan, American actor (d. 1994)
 1914 – Harry F. Byrd, Jr., American politician (d. 2013)
 1916 - Gonzalo Rojas, Chilean poet (d. 2011)
 1917 - David Bohm, American-born philosopher, physicist and neuropsychologist (d. 1992)
 1918 - Audrey Totter, American actress (d. 2013)
 1918 - Jean Marchand, Canadian trade union leader and politician (d. 1988)
 1922 – George Roy Hill, American movie director (d. 2002)
 1923 – James Leasor, mystery writer
 1924 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer and politician (d. 1980)
 1924 – Friederike Mayröcker, writer
 1924 - Charlie Callas, American comedian (d. 2011)
 1925 - Benito Lorenzo, Italian footballer (d. 2007)
1926 – Sir Geoffrey Howe (Lord Howe of Aberavon), British politician (d. 2015)
 1926 – Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician (d. 2009)
 1927 – Kim Young-sam, President of South Korea (d. 2015)
 1927 - Jim Simpson, American sportscaster (d. 2016)
 1927 - Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark (d. 2016)
 1930 – Noel Ferrier, producer and actress
 1932 - John Hillerman, American actor (d. 2017)
 1933 – Jean Carnahan, US Senator
 1934 - Julius Darmaatmadja, Indonesian cardinal
 1939 - Kathryn Joosten, American actress (d. 2012)
 1942 - Jean-Claude Trichet, French economist and banker
 1942 – Bob Hayes, track and field star, American football star (d. 2002)
 1944 - Bobby Colomby, American drummer and producer
 1945 - Peter Criss, American musician
 1945 - Tom Tancredo, American politician
 1945 - Pierre Bürcher, Swiss bishop
 1946 – Dick Wolf, American TV drama series creator
 1946 – Uri Geller, Israeli-British psychic TV presenter
1946 - Sonny Perdue, American politician, former Governor of Georgia and 31st United States Secretary of Agriculture
 1946 - John Spencer, American actor (d. 2005)
 1947 - Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer
1951  1975 
 1951 - Kate Atkinson, English writer
 1951 - Lynne Featherstone, English politician
 1951 - Peter May, Scottish author and screenwriter
 1951 - Christopher Le Brun, English painter and sculptor
 1952 – Jenny Agutter, English actress
 1952 - Sky Gilbert, Canadian drag queen performer, actor and producer
 1954 – Michael Badalucco, actor
 1954 - Sandra Cisneros, American writer
 1955 – Lonesome Bob, singer, songwriter
 1955 - Binali Yildirim, Prime Minister of Turkey
 1955 - Martin Schulz, German politician, President of the European Parliament
 1956 - Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of Mauritania
 1957 – Anna Vissi, Greek singer
 1957 – Billy Bragg, English singer, songwriter
 1957 – Mike Watt, bassist
 1958 - Jürgen Raab, German footballer
 1959 - Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, former Prime Minister of Poland
 1960 – Nalo Hopkinson, science fiction writer
 1963 - Infanta Elena of Spain
 1963 - Mats Gren, Swedish footballer
 1965 – Rich Gannon, American football quarterback
1970 – Nicole DeBoer, actress (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Dead Zone)
 1972 - Anders Odden, Norwegian musician
 1975 - Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer
From 1976 
 1976 - Aubrey Hoff, American baseball player
 1976 - Nenad Vuckovic, Croatian footballer
 1977 - Sonja Aldén, Swedish singer
 1978 - Andrei Markov, Russian-Canadian ice hockey player
 1978 - Bouabdellah Tahri, French runner
 1979 - George Lamb, English television presenter
 1980 - Ashley Cole, English footballer
 1980 - Martin Demichelis, Argentine footballer
 1981 - Julien Benneteau, French tennis player
 1982 - David Cook, American singer
 1982 - David Wright, American baseball player
 1982 - Keny Arkana, French singer and rapper
 1982 - Mohammed Asif, Pakistani cricketer
 1983 - Lara Stone, Dutch model
 1983 - Jonah Hill, American actor
 1983 - Lucy Pinder, English model and actress
 1983 - Mapei, Swedish-American singer
 1987 - Michihiro Yasuda, Japanese footballer
 1990 – Joanna Levesque, AKA JoJo, American singer
 1990 - Marta Xargay, Spanish basketball player
 1991 - Hunter Gomez, American actor
 1992 - Ksenia Makarova, Russian-American figure skater
1995 - Feliks Zembegs, Australian speed cuber
 1997 - Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer and model
 1998 - Kylian Mbappé, French footballer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 69 - Vitellius, Roman Emperor
 217 - Pope Zephyrinus
 860 - Ethelbald of Wessex (b. 834)
 910 - King Alfonso III of Leon (b. 848)
 1022 - Elvira Mendes, Queen of Castile (b. 996)
 1295 - Margaret of Provence (b. 1221)
 1355 - Stefan Dusan, Emperor of Serbia (b. 1308)
 1494 - Matteo Maria Boiardi, Italian poet (b. 1434)
 1524 - Thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician (b. 1460)
 1539 - Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer (b. 1506)
 1552 - Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther (b. 1499)
 1722 - Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654)
 1765 - Louis, Dauphin of France, son of Louis XV of France (b. 1729)
 1768 - Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, Italian poet and academic (b. 1692)
 1783 - Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (b. 1729)
 1812 - Sacagawea, Native American member of the Lewis and Clark expedition (b. 1788)
 1856 - Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820)
1901  2000 
 1915 - Upendrakishore Ray, Indian writer, painter and composer (b. 1863)
 1917 - Lucien Petit-Breton, French racing cyclist (b. 1882)
 1927 - Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1872)
 1929 - Emile Loubet, French statesman (b. 1838)
 1937 - Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)
 1941 - Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (b. 1887)
 1944 - Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
 1950 - Enrico Mizzi, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1885)
 1961 - Earle Page, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
 1961 - Moss Hart, American dramatist (b. 1904)
 1968 - Max Brod, Austrian-Israeli writer and composer (b. 1884)
 1968 - John Steinbeck, American writer (b. 1902)
 1971 - Roy O. Disney, American entertainment industry executive (b. 1893)
 1971 - Shigeyoshi Suzuki, Japanese footballer (b. 1902)
 1973 - Bobby Darin, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1936)
 1973 - Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1904)
 1976 - Richard J. Daley, American politician (b. 1902)
1982 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist (b. 1887)
 1989 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (b. 1908)
 1994 - Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (b. 1909)
 1996 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (b. 1934)
 1997 - Juzo Itami, Japanese actor and director (b. 1933)
 1998 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist (b. 1916)
 2000 - Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, Bangladeshi statesman and philanthropist (b. 1920)