Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1923 – Vernon Biever, American photographer (d. 2010)
 1924 - Atanas Semerdzhiev, Vice President of Bulgaria (d. 2015)
 1924 - Peggy Cass, American actress, comedienne, game show panellist and announcer (d. 1999)
 1930 - Gil Bartosh, American football player and coach (d. 2016)
 1930 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2015)
 1932 - Inese Jaunzeme, Latvian javelin thrower (d. 2011)
 1932 - Jean Stablinski, French cyclist (d. 2007)
 1932 – Gabriele Wohmann, German writer (d. 2015)
 1933 – Maurice André, French trumpet player (d. 2012)
 1934 – Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist
 1934 - Jack Twyman, American basketball player (d. 2012)
 1935 - Terry Lightfoot, English clarinettist and bandleader
 1936 - Günter Blobel, German biologist (d. 2018)
 1938 - Urs Widmer, Swiss writer (d. 2014)
 1939 - Heinz Holliger, Swiss musician, composer and conductor
 1940 - Tony Sheridan, English musician (d. 2013)
 1941 – Martin Carthy, English singer and guitarist
1941 - Ronald Isley, American singer-songwriter, producer and actor
 1942 - David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, English politician
 1943 - Hilton Valentine, English musician
 1944 – Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland
 1945 – Ernst Messerschmid, German physicist and astronaut
 1948 – Leo Sayer, English musician
 1948 - Denis MacShane, Scottish politician
 1949 - Andrew Neil, Scottish broadcasting executive
1951  1975 
 1951 – Al Franken, American comedian and former United States Senator
 1951 - Adrian Hardiman, Irish judge (d. 2016)
 1952 – Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud), American actor
 1954 - Janice Karman, American voice actress
 1954 - Kathleen Wynne, Canadian politician, 25th Premier of Ontario
 1956 – Judge Reinhold, American actor
 1957 – Nadine Dorries, British politician
 1957 - Tony Hayward, British businessman
 1957 – Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
 1959 - Abdulla Yameen, 6th President of the Maldives
 1959 - Loretta Lynch, 83rd United States Attorney General
 1959 - Nick Cassavetes, American actor and director
 1960 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d. 1994)
 1963 - Kevin Shields, American-Irish singer-songwriter
 1964 – Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
 1964 - Drew Hendry, Scottish politician
 1966 - Andrzej Lesiak, Polish footballer
 1967 – Chris Benoit, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
 1967 – Lisa Edelstein, American actress
1968 - Tom Goodman-Hill, English actor
 1968 - Julie Vega, Filipino actress and singer (d. 1985)
 1969 – Georgiy Gongadze, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist (d. 2000)
 1969 - Pierluigi Brivio, Italian footballer
 1972 – The Notorious B.I.G., American musician (d. 1997)
 1972 - Adriano Cintra, Brazilian singer, guitarist and producer
 1973 - Noel Fielding, English comedian, actor and screenwriter
 1973 – Stewart Cink, American golfer
 1975 - Lee Gaze, Welsh guitarist (Lostprophets)
 1975 - Juuso Pykalisto, Finnish rally driver
From 1976 
 1976 - Stuart Bingham, English snooker player
 1976 - Aditi Govitrikar, Indian model, actress and physician
 1977 - Quinton Fortune, South African footballer
 1978 – Briana Banks, American actress
 1979 - Jamie Hepburn, Scottish footballer
 1980 – Gotye, Belgian-born Australian singer and musician
 1980 - Chris Raab, American actor and stuntman
 1980 - Anna Rogowska, Polish athlete
 1981 - Edson Buddle, American soccer player
 1981 – Max, German singer
 1985 – Mutya Buena, English singer (Sugababes)
 1985 – Mark Cavendish, Manx cyclist
 1985 – Alexander Dale Oen, Norwegian swimmer (d. 2012)
 1985 - Marco Carta, Italian singer
 1986 – Mario Mandzukic, Croatian footballer
 1987 – Ashlie Brillault, actress
 1987 - Masato Morishige, Japanese footballer
 1988 - Claire Cashmore, British paralympic swimmer
 1988 - Park Gyu-ri, South Korean singer and actress
 1989 - Emily Robins, New Zealand actress and singer
 1989 - Hal Robson-Kanu, Welsh footballer
 1991 - Sarah Ramos, American actress
1992 - Olivia Olson, American actress and singer-songwriter
 1992 - Hutch Dano, American actor
 1994 – Tom Daley, British diver
Up to 1950 
 987 – King Louis V of France (b. 967)
 1237 - Olaf the Black, King of Mann and the Isles
 1254 - Conrad IV of Germany (b. 1228)
 1471 – King Henry VI of England (b. 1421)
 1481 – King Christian I of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (b. 1426)
 1512 - Pandolfo Petrucci, Italian ruler (b. 1452)
 1542 – Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer and conquistador (b. c. 1496)
 1639 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian (b. 1568)
 1670 - Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1586) 
 1686 – Otto von Guericke, German scientist (b. 1602)
 1719 - Pierre Poiret, French mystic and philosopher (b. 1646)
 1844 - Giuseppe Baini, Italian composer (b. 1775)
 1879 – Arturo Prat, Chilean naval officer (b. 1848)
 1891 - Alphonso Taft, American politician (b. 1810)
 1895 - Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (b. 1819)
 1911 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish astronomer (b. 1857)
 1915 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (b. 1875)
 1915 - Knud Knudsen, Norwegian photographer (b. 1832)
1919 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1853)
 1920 – Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico (b. 1859)
 1924 - Bobby Franks, American teenager, murdered in "thrill killing" (b. 1910)
 1925 - Hidesaburo Ueno, Japanese scientist (b. 1872)
 1929 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
 1935 – Jane Addams, American social reformer (b. 1860)
 1946 - Louis Slotin, physicist
 1949 – Klaus Mann, German writer (b. 1906)
1951  2000 
 1952 - John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913)
 1957 - Alexander Vertinsky, Russian actor, singer, composer and poet (b. 1889)
 1964 – James Franck, German-born physicist (b. 1882)
 1965 – Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (b. 1882)
 1973 - Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian writer and poet (b. 1893)
 1973 - Vaughn Monroe, American singer, trumpeter, bandleader and actor (b. 1911)
 1988 - Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (b. 1900)
 1991 – Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1944)
 1994 - Giovanni Goria, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1943)
 1994 - Ralph Miliband, Belgian-born sociologist and father of David and Ed Miliband (b. 1924)
 1995 - Les Aspin, 18th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1938)
 1998 - Robert Gist, American actor and director (b. 1917)
 2000 – Dame Barbara Cartland, English writer (b. 1901)
 2000 – John Gielgud, English actor (b. 1904)
 2000 - Erich Mielke, East German politician (b. 1907)
From 2001 
 2002 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French painter (b. 1930)
 2003 - Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine racing driver (b. 1928)
 2003 - Frank D. White, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1933)
 2006 - Katherine Dunham, American dancer, director, educator and writer (b. 1909)
 2011 – Bill Hunter, Australian actor (b. 1940)
 2013 - Trevor Bolder, English rock musician, songwriter and record producer (b. 1950)
 2013 - Mohammad Khaled Hossain, Bangladeshi mountaineer (b. 1979)
 2013 - Dominique Venner, French historian and writer (b. 1935)
 2014 - Jaime Lusinchi, former President of Venezuela (b. 1924)
 2014 - Poni Adams, American actress (b. 1918)
 2014 - Alireza Soleimani, Iranian wrestler (b. 1956)
 2015 - Annarita Sidoti, Italian race walker (b. 1970)
 2015 - Twinkle, British singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
 2015 - Louis Johnson, American musician (b. 1955)
 2016 - Gaston Berghmans, Belgian comedian and actor (b. 1926)
 2016 - Sándor Tarics, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1913)
2016 - Akhtar Mansour, Afghan Islamist (b. 1968)
 2016 - Nick Menza, American drummer (Megadeth) (b. 1964)
 2017 - Kenny Cordray, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1954)
 2017 - Paul Judge, British businessman and political executive (b. 1949)
 2017 - Jimmy LaFave, American folk musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1955)
 2017 - Bill White, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)
 2018 - Anna Maria Ferrero, Italian actress (b. 1934)
 2018 - Dovey Johnson Roundtree, American civil rights activist and attorney (b. 1914)
 2018 - Pedro Tenorio, Governor of the Northern Marianas (b. 1934)
 2018 - Clint Walker, American actor (b. 1927)
 2018 - Faith Whittlesey, American politician and diplomat (b. 1939)
 2018 - António Arnault, Portuguese poet and politician (b. 1936)
 2018 - Gholamreza Hassani, Iranian Islamic leader (b. 1928)
 2018 - Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress (b. 1926)
 2019 - Glauco Sansovini, former Captain-Regent of San Marino (b. 1938)
 2019 - Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer (b. 1971)
Observances 
 Navy Day (Chile)
 Afro-Colombian Day (Colombia)
 Independence Day (Montenegro)
 Saint Helena Day
 Day of Patriots and the Military (Hungary)

Days of the year
Up to 1930 
 1153 - Malcolm IV of Scotland becomes King.
 1199 - King John of England is crowned.
 1293 - A massive earthquake hits Kamakura, Japan.
 1328 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.
 1644 - Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun Dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer Beijing.
 1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
 1799 - War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the Northeast Swiss plateau because of the town's location at the junction of the seven cross-roads.
 1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
 1849 – The Great Hall of Euston station, London opened.
 1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
 1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
 1895 – Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for sodomy.
1896 – The F5-strength East St. Louis Tornado hits in East Saint Louis, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri, killing 255 people.
 1901 – In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
 1907 – A bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
 1915 - Off Sheerness, minelayer Princess Irene runs over laid mines and explodes, killing 400 people.
 1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
 1923 – The first 24 hours of Le Mans race ends.
 1924 – The Music Corporation of America (MCA) is founded.
 1927 – The Ford Motor Company stops making the Ford Model T and gets ready to make Ford Model As.
 1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tall Chrysler Building in New York (tallest man-made structure at the time) opens to the public.
1931  2000 
 1932 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens.
 1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
 1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
 1933 – The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago.
 1934 - The 1934 FIFA World Cup in Italy begins, with a series of knock-out games.
 1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
 1936 – The RMS Queen Mary begins her first voyage.
 1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.
 1939 – DC Comics prints its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time.
1940 – World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk. The German commander, Captain Fritz Knochlein, is later hanged for war crimes.
 1941 – World War II: US President Franklin Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
 1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing 2,300 men.
 1942 - World War II: Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich is wounded in Prague and dies over a week later.
 1960 – In Turkey, General Cemal Gürsel leads a military coup d'état removing President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government.
 1963 – Folk music singer Bob Dylan releases The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best-known songs.
 1964 – Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office.
 1965 – Vietnam War: United States warships begin bombing of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam for the first time.
1967 – Australians vote to change the Constitution to give Indigenous Australians equal rights
 1968 – Future U.S. President George W. Bush joins the Texas Air National Guard.
 1971 - The Dahlerau train disaster near Wuppertal, then-West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25.
 1974 – Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France.
 1975 - The Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 people, in the United Kingdom's deadliest-ever road accident.
 1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: air force and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
 1995 – In Charlottesville, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed (not able to move) from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
 1996 – First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and agrees to a cease-fire in the war.
1997 – The F5-strength Jarrell Tornado slams into the small town of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
 1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
 1999 – The International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands charges Slobodan Milošević and 4 others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
From 2001 
 2005 – Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years in jail for marijuana smuggling in Indonesia.
 2006 – An earthquake in Java kills over 6,600 people and destroys the cities of Bantul and Yogyakarta.
 2009 - A suicide bombing kills at least 35 people in Lahore, Pakistan.
 2015 - Football's world governing body FIFA is accused by US law enforcement officials of bribery totaling hundreds of dollars over more than 20 years, including a scheme involving the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Fourteen people are arrested, and President Sepp Blatter is under pressure over his position.
 2016 - Barack Obama becomes the first serving President of the United States to visit Hiroshima and meet victims of the atomic bomb.
 2017 - A computer failure at British Airways leads to the airline's flights around the world being cancelled.

Births
Up to 1900 
 742 - Emperor Dezong of Tang of China (d. 805)
 1332 – Ibn Khaldun, Arab polymath (d. 1406)
 1519 – Girolamo Mei, Italian historian (d. 1594)
 1623 – William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687)
 1626 – William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)
 1651 - Louis Antoine de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729)
 1652 – Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (Charlotte Elizabeth, Duchesse d'Orléans) (d. 1722)
 1738 – Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d. 1796)
 1756 - King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1825)
 1774 – Francis Beaufort, Irish scientist and admiral (d. 1857)
 1794 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, entrepreneur (d. 1877)
 1818 - Amelia Bloomer, American activist (d. 1894)
 1818 - Franciscus Donders, Dutch ophthalmologist (d. 1889) 
 1819 – Julia Ward Howe, composer ("The Battle Hymn of the Republic") (d. 1910)
 1819 – George V of Hanover (d. 1878)
 1820 – Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904)
 1822 - Joachim Raff, Swiss-German composer (d. 1882)
1832 - Zenas Ferry Moody, American politician, 7th Governor of Oregon (d. 1917)
 1832 - Lizardo Montero Flores, President of Peru (d. 1905)
 1836 – Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892)
 1837 – Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
 1860 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (d. 1941)
 1864 – Ante Trumbić, Croat politician (d. 1938)
 1867 – Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)
 1871 – Georges Rouault, painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)
 1876 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author (d. 1945)
 1876 - William Stanier, English engineer (d. 1965)
 1877 – Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927)
 1879 – Karl Bühler, psychologist (d. 1963)
 1884 – Max Brod, writer (d. 1968)
 1888 – Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979)
 1893 – Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentenarian, world's oldest man from November 19, 2004 (d. 2005)
 1894 – Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)
 1894 – Dashiell Hammett, American writer (d. 1961)
1895 - Douglas Lloyd Campbell, 13th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1995)
 1897 – John Cockcroft, British physicist (d. 1967)
 1900 - Ethel Lang, British supercentenarian (d. 2015)
1901  1925 
 1902 - Fanny Godin, Belgian supercentenarian (d. 2014)
 1904 – Chohei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
 1906 - Buddhadasa, Thai monk and philosopher (d. 1993)
 1907 - Carl Falck, Norwegian businessman and centenarian (d. 2016)
 1907 – Rachel Carson, American ecologist (d. 1964)
 1909 – Dolores Hope, American singer (d. 2011)
 1909 - Don Finlay, English hurdler and pilot (d. 1970)
 1911 – Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (d. 1978)
 1911 – Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem (d. 2007)
 1911 – Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
 1912 – John Cheever, writer (d. 1982)
 1912 – Sam Snead, American golf champion (d. 2002)
 1913 – Wols, German painter (d. 1951)
 1915 – Herman Wouk, American writer (d. 2019)
 1917 – Yasuhiro Nakasone, former Prime Minister of Japan
 1920 - Gabrielle Wittkop, French writer, essayist, journalist and artist (d. 2002)
 1921 – Caryl Chessman, American, executed for murder (d. 1960)
 1921 - Bob Godfrey, English animator (d. 2013)
1922 – Christopher Lee, English actor (d. 2015)
 1922 - Otto Carius, German World War II tank commander (d. 2015)
 1922 – John David Vanderhoof, 36th Governor of Colorado (d. 2013)
 1923 – Henry Kissinger, American politician, 37th United States Secretary of State, received the Nobel Peace Prize
 1923 - Inge Morath, Austrian-American photographer (d. 2002)
 1923 – Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur
 1924 - Jaime Lusinchi, President of Venezuela (d. 2014)
 1925 – Tony Hillerman, American mystery writer (d. 2008)
1926  1950 
 1928 - Thea Musgrave, Scottish-American composer
 1930 – John Barth, American novelist
 1930 – Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer (d. 2010)
 1930 – William S. Sessions, FBI director
 1931 - Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress (d. 2015)
 1934 - Enzo Siciliano, Italian writer (d. 2006)
 1934 – Harlan Ellison, American science fiction writer (d. 2018)
 1934 - Uwe Friedrichsen, German actor (d. 2016)
 1935 – Lee Meriwether, American actress and former Miss America
 1935 - Luud Schimmelpennink, Dutch inventor, entrepreneur and politician
 1936 – Louis Gossett Jr., American actor
 1936 - Marcel Masse, Canadian politician (d. 2014)
 1937 – Allan Carr, producer, writer (d. 1999)
 1940 - Mike Gibson, Australian sports journalist (d. 2015)
 1942 - Piers Courage, English racing driver (d. 1970)
 1943 – Cilla Black, English singer (d. 2015)
 1943 - Robert Axelrod, American political scientist
 1944 - Alain Souchon, French singer-songwriter, guitarist and author
 1945 – Bruce Cockburn, Canadian musician
1946 - Lewis Collins, English actor (d. 2013)
 1946 – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz musician (d. 2005)
 1947 - Henry McMaster, American politician, 117th Governor of South Carolina
 1947 – Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer
 1949 - Terry Collins, American baseball manager
1951  1975 
 1951 – Ana Belén, Spanish singer and actress
 1955 – Eric Bischoff, American WWE performer
 1956 - Giuseppe Tornatore, Italian director and screenwriter
 1957 – Siouxsie Sioux, English musician ("Siouxsie and the Banshees")
 1957 – Duncan Goodhew, English swimmer
 1958 - Jesse Robredo, Filipino politician (d. 2012)
 1958 – Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter
 1958 – Linnea Quigley, American actress
 1958 – Wayne Williams, American child murderer
 1959 - Donna Strickland, Canadian physicist
 1960 - Ray Armstead, American athlete
 1961 – Peri Gilpin, American actress
 1962 - David Mundell, Scottish politician
 1962 - Steven Brill, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
 1962 - Ravi Shastri, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
 1963 - Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Cuban pianist and composer
 1964 – Adam Carolla, American comedian, television host and actor
 1964 - Volker Abramczik, German footballer
 1965 – Todd Bridges, American actor
 1965 – Pat Cash, Australian tennis player
1966 – Sean Kinney, American drummer (Alice in Chains)
 1966 – Heston Blumenthal, English chef
 1967 – Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
 1968 – Rebekah Brooks, English newspaper editor
 1968 – Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player
 1968 – Frank Thomas, American baseball player
 1970 – Joseph Fiennes, English actor
 1970 - Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist
 1970 - Tim Farron, English politician
 1971 – Paul Bettany, English actor
 1971 – Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, American singer (d. 2002)
 1971 - Sophie Walker, Scottish politician
 1971 - Lee Sharpe, English footballer
 1971 - Beatrix von Storch, German politician of the Alternative for Germany Party
 1974 – Derek Webb, singer-songwriter, former member of Caedmon's Call
 1974 – Danny Wuerffel, American football quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner
 1975 – Jamie Oliver, British celebrity chef and TV personality (The Naked Chef)
 1975 – Michael Hussey, Australian cricketer
 1975 - André 3000, American rapper, producer and actor
From 1976 
 1976 – Jiri Stajner, Czech footballer
 1977 – Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer
 1979 – Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer
 1981 – Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer
 1981 – Miloy, Angolan footballer
 1981 – Fivos Constantinou, Cypriot runner
 1983 – Bobby Convey, American soccer player
 1984 - Kalle Spjuth, Swedish bandy player
 1985 – Roberto Soldado, Spanish footballer
 1987 – Gervinho, Ivorian footballer
 1988 - Birkir Bjarnason, Icelandic footballer
 1988 - Mari Pokinen, Estonian actress and singer
 1989 - Igor Morozov, Estonian footballer
 1990 - Nadine Beiler, Austrian singer
 1990 – Chris Colfer, American actor
 1990 - Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, Thai actress
 1990 - Jonas Hector, German footballer
 1994 - Aymeric Laporte, French footballer
 1999 - Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress
 1999 - Harambe, American-bred Western lowland gorilla (d. 2016)

Deaths
Up to 1950 
 366 – Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 326)
 866 – Ordoño I, king of Asturias
 927 – Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria
 1508 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1452)
 1525 - Thomas Müntzer, German theologian and religious reformer (b. 1489) 
 1541 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (executed) (b. 1374)
 1564 – John Calvin, religious reformer (b. 1509)
 1610 – Ravaillac, assassin who killed Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
 1661 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Scottish Covenanter, was beheaded
 1707 – Marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1641)
 1797 – François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary and early socialist (b. 1760)
 1831 – Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)
 1840 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
 1885 - Charles Rogier, Belgian politician and journalist (b. 1800)
 1896 - Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
1910 – Robert Koch, German doctor, won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843)
 1918 - Ozutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1869)
 1926 – Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet
 1936 - H. P. Hanssen, Danish politician (b. 1862)
 1939 - Joseph Roth, Austrian writer (b. 1894)
 1941 - Ernst Lindemann, German captain (b. 1894)
 1941 - Günther Lütjens, German admiral (b. 1889)  
 1943 - Gordon Coates, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1878)
1951  2000 
 1960 – James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator (b. 1877)
 1962 - Egon Petri, German pianist (b. 1881)
 1963 - Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (b. 1912)
 1964 – Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (b. 1889)
 1967 - W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator (b. 1880)
 1971 - Armando Picchi, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1935)
 1985 – Kai Lindberg, Danish politician (b. 1899)
 1986 – Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American Muslim thinker, philosopher, and comparative religion scholar (b. 1921)
 1986 - Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1901)
 1987 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize winner (b. 1891)
 1988 - Ernst Ruska, German physicist (b. 1906)
 1989 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907)
 1990 - Robert B. Meyner, 40th Governor of New Jersey (b. 1908)
 1991 – Leopold Nowak, musicologist (b. 1904)
 1993 – Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)
2000 – Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1917)
 2000 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
From 2001 
 2003 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
 2004 – Umberto Agnelli, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1934)
 2007 – Zard, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
 2007 - Ed Yost, American inventor (b. 1919)
 2008 – Franz Künstler, last-surviving Austro-Hungarian World War I veteran (b. 1900)
 2009 – Clive Granger, British economist (b. 1934)
 2010 – John William Finn, American naval officer (b. 1909)
 2011 – Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player (b. 1974)
 2011 – Jeff Conaway, American actor (b. 1950)
 2011 – Gil Scott-Heron, American rapper and poet (b. 1949)
 2012 - Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician (b. 1927)
 2012 - Johnny Tapia, American boxer (b. 1967)
 2013 - Bill Pertwee, British actor (b. 1926)
 2014 - Helma Sanders-Brahms, German movie director, screenwriter, producer and actress (b. 1940)
 2014 - Miodrag Radulovacki, Serbian medical research scientist (b. 1933)
 2014 - Massimo Vignelli, Italian graphic designer (b. 1931)
 2015 - Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1929)
2015 - Nils Christie, Norwegian sociologist and criminologist (b. 1928)
 2016 - Kai G. Henriksen, Norwegian businessman (b. 1956)
 2016 - Marshall Jones, American musician (b. 1941)
 2017 - Gregg Allman, American musician (b. 1947)
 2017 - Don Robinson, English rugby league player (b. 1932)
 2018 - Gardner Dozois, American science fiction writer (b. 1947)
 2018 - Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, Egyptian economist and politician, Prime minister of Egypt (b. 1935)
 2018 - Donald H. Peterson, American astronaut (b. 1933)
 2018 - John DiFronzo, American mobster (b. 1928)
 2019 - Bill Buckner, American baseball player (b. 1949)
 2019 - Veeru Devgan, Indian choreographer, actor and director (b. 1934)
 2019 - Gabriel Diniz, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1990)
 2019 - Tony Horwitz, American journalist and author (b. 1958)
 2019 - Aharon Razin, Israeli biochemist (b. 1935)
 2020 - Tony Scannell, Irish actor (b. 1945)
Observances 
 Children's Day (Nigeria)
 Armed Forces Day (Nicaragua)
 Mother's Day (Bolivia)
 Navy Day (Japan)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 17 – Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero following several battle victories over Germanic tribes.
 946 – King Edmund I of England is murderered by a thief he personally attacks during mass.
 1135 - Alfonso VII of Spain is crowned.
 1293 - An earthquake in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, kills 30,000 people.
 1538 – Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city.
 1573 - The Battle of Haarlemmermeer takes place, as a naval battle in the Dutch War of Independence.
 1644 – Portuguese Restoration War: Battle of Montijo - Portuguese and Spanish forces both claim victory.
 1647 – Alse Young is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut. This is the first "witchcraft" execution in the British American colonies.
 1659 – The "Great Fire" destroys more than half of the city of Stade.
 1770 - The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
 1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy.
1822 – The Grue Church fire in Norway kills 116 people.
 1828 – Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered walking around Nuremberg. To this day, his early days remain a mystery.
 1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the United States Congress, and is signed by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
 1864 – Montana is organised as a US territory.
 1865 – American Civil War: Edmund Kirby Smith becomes the last Confederate general to surrender.
 1868 – End of the impeachment trial of US President Andrew Johnson.
 1869 – Boston University is chartered by Massachusetts.
 1879 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak, establishing an Afghan state.
 1896 - Nicholas II of Russia becomes Tsar.
 1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first  edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
 1897 – The novel Dracula by Bram Stoker is published.
1901  2000 
 1906 – The Vauxhall Bridge in London is opened.
 1908 - The first commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made at Masjed Soleyman in what is then known as Persia.
 1917 - Several tornadoes occur in Illinois, including the city of Mattoon, killing 101.
 1918 – Georgia (country) declares independence.
 1923 - The first 24-hour motor car race at Le Mans, France, takes place.
 1938 - In the United States, the House of Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
 1940 – World War II: Battle of Dunkirk - Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place.
 1966 – Guyana gains independence (separates) from the United Kingdom.
 1969 – Apollo 10 returns to Earth.
 1971 – The Pakistan Army massacres over 70 Hindus in Sylhet, present-day Bangladesh.
 1972 – Willandra National Park in Australia is created.
 1972 - The United States and Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1977 – George Willig climbs the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.
 1981 – Prime Minister of Italy Arnaldo Forlani and his cabinet resign.
 1981 - An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68), killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45.
 1983 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Japan.
 1986 – The European Community adopts the European flag.
 1991 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes President of Georgia.
 1991 – Lauda Air Flight 004, a Boeing 767 plane, crashes in Bangkok, killing 223 people.
 1992 – The blockade of Dubrovnik is broken.
 1998 – The United States Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island is mainly in New Jersey, not New York.
From 2001 
 2002 - The tugboat Robert Y. Love collides with the support pier of Interstate 40 on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, killing 14 people and injuring 11.
 2004 – US Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
 2008 - Severe flooding begins in Eastern and Southern China. The floods go on to kill 148 people and lead to the evacuation of 1.3 million.
 2011 – Wanted on war crimes charges, Ratko Mladic is captured in Serbia.
 2012 – Loreen wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 for Sweden in Baku, Azerbaijan.
 2014 - Narendra Modi becomes Prime Minister of India.
 2017 - Militants carry out a shooting at a bus carrying Coptic Christians in central Egypt, killing 28 people.
 2018 - Real Madrid C.F. defeat Liverpool F.C. 3-1 in the UEFA Champions League final, winning the competition for the third time in-a-row, and meaning that Madrid-based teams have won both major European club trophies in the season.
Up to 1900 
 1264 – Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326)
 1478 – Pope Clement VII (d. 1554)
 1566 – Mehmed III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1603)
 1602 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)
 1623 - William Petty, English economist and philosopher (d. 1687)
 1650 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, British general (d. 1722)
 1667 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (d. 1754)
 1689 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (d. 1762)
 1700 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (d. 1760)
 1764 - Edward Livingston, United States Secretary of State (d. 1836)
 1810 - Christen Kobke, Danish painter (d. 1848)
 1822 - Edmond de Goncourt, French author and critic (d. 1896)
 1826 - Richard Christopher Carrington, English astronomer (d. 1875)
 1863 - Bob Fitzsimmons, English-New Zealand boxer (d. 1917)
 1867 – Mary of Teck, Queen Consort to King George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1953)
 1873 – Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist (d. 1958)
1873 - Hans Ludendorff, German astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1941)
 1878 – Thomas H. Moodie, Governor of North Dakota (d. 1948)
 1880 - W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator (d. 1967)
 1881 - Adolfo de la Huerta, President of Mexico (d. 1955)
 1882 – Frank C. Emerson, Governor of Wyoming (d. 1931)
 1883 – Mamie Smith, American singer (d. 1946)
 1883 – Peter Kürten, German serial killer (d. 1931)
 1886 – Al Jolson, American singer (d. 1950)
 1887 - Ba U, 2nd President of Burma (d. 1963)
 1893 - Eugene Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer (d. 1962)
 1895 – Dorothea Lange, American photographer (d. 1965)
 1895 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (d. 1971)
 1898 – Christfried Burmeister, Estonian speed skater (d. 1965)
 1899 - Antoine Barrette, 18th Premier of Quebec (d. 1968)
1901  1950 
 1904 – George Formby, British musician (d. 1961)
 1904 - Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian-born French pianist and teacher (d. 2002)
 1906 - Márcio Melo, Brazilian military officer and politician (d. 1991)
 1907 – John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
 1908 – Robert Morley, English actor (d. 1992)
 1908 - Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Vietnamese politician (d. 1976)
 1909 – Matt Busby, Scottish football player and manager (d. 1994)
 1909 – Adolfo Lopez Mateos, Mexican politician (d. 1992)
 1910 - Imi Lichtenfeld, Hungarian-Israeli martial artist (d. 1998)
 1910 - Laurance Rockefeller, American billionaire (d. 2004)
 1911 - Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter and producer (d. 1992)
 1912 – János Kádár, Hungarian politician (d. 1989)
 1912 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian-American actor (d. 1980)
 1913 – Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
 1916 – Moondog, American musician, composer and poet (d. 1999)
 1917 – Eva Szorenyi, Hungarian actress and activist (d. 2009)
1919 – Ruben Gonzalez, Cuban musician (d. 2003)
 1920 – Peggy Lee, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
 1921 - Inge Borkh, German soprano (d. 2018)
 1921 - Walter Laqueur, German-American historian and publicist (d. 2018)
 1923 – James Arness, American actor (d. 2011)
 1923 - Roy Dotrice, British actor (d. 2017)
 1923 – Horst Tappert, German actor (d. 2008)
 1925 - Alec McCowen, English actor (d. 2017)
 1926 - Miles Davis, American trumpeter, composer and bandleader (d. 1991)
 1928 – Jack Kevorkian, American assisted suicide advocate (d. 2011)
 1929 - Catherine Sauvage, French singer and actress (d. 1998)
 1933 - Edward Whittemore, American author (d. 1995)
 1936 - Beth Whittall, Canadian swimmer (d. 2015)
 1936 - David Stevens, Baron Stevens of Ludgate, English politician
 1937 – Paul Patton, former Governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky
 1938 – Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian writer, writer and playwright
 1939 – Merab Kostava, Georgian activist (d. 1989)
1939 - Herb Trimpe, American comic book artist and writer (d. 2015)
 1940 – Levon Helm, American musician and actor (d. 2012)
 1941 – Aldrich Ames, CIA counter-intelligence officer
 1941 - Jim Dobbin, Scottish politician (d. 2014)
 1944 – Sam Posey, American racing driver, TV commentator and writer
 1945 - René Féret, French actor, screenwriter, director and producer (d. 2015)
 1945 - Garry Peterson, Canadian drummer
 1945 - Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian politician, 17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2012)
 1946 – Mick Ronson, English guitarist (d. 1993)
 1946 - Simon Hoggart, English journalist (d. 2014)
 1948 – Stevie Nicks, American songwriter
 1949 - Jeremy Corbyn, British politician, leader of the Labour Party
 1949 – Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer
 1949 - Pam Grier, American actress
 1949 - Anne McGuire, Scottish politician
 1949 - Hank Williams, Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951  1975 
 1951 – Sally Ride, American astronaut and physicist (d. 2012)
 1951 - Ramón Calderón, Spanish lawyer and President of Real Madrid
 1953 – Michael Portillo, British politician
 1954 - Alan Hollinghurst, British writer
 1955 - Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef
 1956 – Lisa Niemi, American actress
 1956 - Ricky Sbragia, Scottish footballer and manager
 1957 - Diomedes Díaz, Colombian singer and composer (d. 2013)
 1958 - Howard Goodall, English composer
 1959 - Ole Bornedal, Norwegian actor, director and producer
 1961 - Tarsem Singh, Indian-American director
 1962 – Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor and comedian
 1962 - Black, English singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
 1963 - Simon Armitage, English author, poet and playwright
 1963 - Mary Nightingale, English news presenter
 1964 - Valery Salov, Russian chess player
 1964 – Lenny Kravitz, American singer
 1964 - Paul Okalik, Canadian politician, 1st Premier of Nunavut
 1964 - Caitlin R. Kiernan, Irish-American paleontologist and author
1965 - Hazel Irvine, Scottish television presenter
 1966 – Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
 1966 – Zola Budd, South African athlete
 1966 - Shona Robison, Scottish politician
 1968 – Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
 1968 - Pat Kenney, American baseball player, wrestler and agent
 1969 - John Baird, Canadian politician
 1970 - Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese mangaka
 1971 – Matt Stone, American animator and movie maker
 1971 – Ivan O. Godfroid, writer
 1972 – Patsy Palmer, English actress
 1972 - Alan White, English drummer
 1975 – Travis Lee, American baseball player
 1975 - Nicki Lynn Aycox, American actress
 1975 - Kwasi Kwarteng, British politician
From 1976 
 1977 – Luca Toni, Italian footballer
 1977 – Nikos Hatzivrettas, Greek basketball player
 1977 - Mark Hunter, American musician
 1978 - Dan Parks, Australian-Scottish rugby player
 1978 - Jaheim, American singer
 1979 - Amanda Bauer, American astronomer
 1979 - Elisabeth Harnois, American actress 
 1979 - Ashley Massaro, American professional  wrestler, television host and model (d. 2019)
 1979 – Mehmet Okur, Turkish basketball player
 1981 – Eda-Ines Etti, Estonian singer
 1981 – Jason Manford, English comedian
 1981 – Irini Merkouri, Greek singer
 1981 - Razvan Rat, Romanian footballer
 1981 - Ben Zobrist, American baseball player
 1983 - Demy de Zeeuw, Dutch footballer
 1986 - Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Spanish-French actress
 1986 - Matt Oivanen, Finnish volleyball player
 1987 - Josh Thomas, Australian comedian, actor and writer
 1988 - Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, Colombian footballer
 1989 - Tomas Pekhart, Czech footballer
 1989 - Amit Farkash, Canadian-Israeli actress
1991 - Amber Bondin, Maltese singer
 1991 – Julianna Rose Mauriello, American actress and dancer
 1999 - Kerry Ingram, English actress
 2001 - Megan Charpentier, Canadian actress
Up to 1900 
 451 – Saint Vartan Mamikonian, Armenian warrior
 604 – Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
 735 - Bede, English monk, historian and theologian (b. 672)
 818 – Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766)
 946 – King Edmund I of England (b. 921)
 1055 – Margrave Adalbert of Austria
 1421 – Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)
 1512 – Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan
 1536 – Francesco Berni, Italian poet
 1595 – Philip Neri, Italian churchman (b. 1515)
 1647 - Alse Young, American woman executed for witchcraft (b. 1600)
 1648 – Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)
 1653 – Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)
 1679 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
 1685 – Karl II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)
 1703 – Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633)
 1742 - Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1672)
 1762 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)
 1799 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b. 1714)
 1824 – Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
1828 - John Oxley, British officer and explorer (b. 1785)
 1831 - Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (b. 1798)
 1840 – Sidney Smith, British admiral (b. 1764)
 1845 - Jónas Hallgrímsson, Icelandic poet (b. 1807)
 1881 – Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824)
 1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)
 1883 – Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (b. 1808)
 1888 - Ascanio Sobrero, Italian chemist (b. 1812)
 1895 - Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. 1822)
1901  2000 
 1902 – Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
 1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)
 1907 – Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
 1908 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Punjabi founder of the Qadianism (b. 1839)
 1914 - Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer and reformer (b. 1849)
 1924 – Victor Herbert, Irish composer (b. 1859)
 1926 – Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879)
 1933 – Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860)
 1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (b. 1897)
 1939 – Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic) (b. 1865)
 1943 – Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (b. 1893)
 1943 - Alice Tegnér, Swedish composer, organist and educator (b. 1864)
 1948 – Theodore Morell, Hitler's personal physician (b. 1886)
 1951 – Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist and polar explorer (b. 1880)
 1954 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (b. 1900)
1955 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918)
 1968 – Little Willie John, American R&B singer (b. 1937)
 1969 – Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937)
 1969 - Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation pioneer and engineer (b. 1889)
 1974 – Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (b. 1941)
 1976 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)
 1979 – George Brent, British actor (b. 1899)
 1989 - Don Revie, English footballer and manager (b. 1927)
 1995 – Friz Freleng, American animator (b. 1905)
 1999 – Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
 1999 – Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)
From 2001 
 2001 – Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
 2001 - Roger Brocksom, English engineer and soldier (b. 1919)
 2001 - Anne Haney, American actress (b. 1934)
 2002 – Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
 2003 – Kathleen Winsor, American writer (b. 1919)
 2004 – Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)
 2004 – Dullah Omar, South African lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
 2005 – Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)
 2005 – Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1928)
 2005 - Krzysztof Nowak, Polish footballer (b. 1975)
 2005 - Sangoulé Lamizana, President of Burkina Faso (b. 1916)
 2006 – Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin (b. 1963)
 2006 – C. H. Patterson, American psychologist (b. 1912)
 2008 – Sydney Pollack, American actor (b. 1934)
 2013 - Jack Vance, American mystery, fantasy and science fiction writer (b. 1916)
 2014 - Manuel Uribe, Mexican computer repairman, was once the world's heaviest man (b. 1965)
2015 - Vicente Aranda, Spanish movie director (b. 1926)
 2015 - Les Johnson, Australian politician (b. 1924)
 2015 - Dayton Waller, American politician (b. 1925)
 2015 - Rocky Frisco, American pianist (b. 1937)
 2015 - Bob Hornery, Australian actor (b. 1931)
 2015 - Robert Craft, American astronomer (b. 1927)
 2016 - Kazimierz Barburski, Polish fencer (b. 1942)
 2016 - Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal (b. 1915)
 2016 - Ted Dumitru, Romanian football manager (b. 1939)
 2016 - Hedy Epstein, German-American Holocaust survivor and activist (b. 1924)
 2016 - Angela Paton, American actress (b. 1930)
 2016 - Arturo Pomar, Spanish chess player (b. 1931)
 2016 - Bob Williams, American football player (b. 1930)
 2017 - Toni Bertorelli, Italian actor (b. 1948)
 2017 - Laura Biagiotti, Italian fashion designer (b. 1943)
 2017 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-American political scientist and diplomat (b. 1928)
 2017 - Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician (b. 1931)
2018 - Alan Bean, American astronaut (b. 1932)
 2018 - Pierre Bellemare, French television presenter, actor and radio personality (b. 1929)
 2018 - Ted Dabney, American electrical engineer (b. 1937)
 2018 - Roger Piantoni, French footballer (b. 1931)
 2018 - Svetlin Rusev, Bulgarian artist (b. 1933)
 2018 - Antonio Pujía, Italian-Argentine sculptor (b. 1929)
 2019 - Abdel Latif El Zein, Lebanese politician (b. 1932)
 2019 - Harry Hood, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
 2019 - Ibrahim Lame, Nigerian educator and politician (b. 1953)
 2019 - Bart Starr, American football player and coach (b. 1934)
 2019 - Stephen Thorne, British actor (b. 1935)
 2019 - Prem Tinsulanonda, Prime minister and Regent of Thailand (b. 1920)
 2019 - Vittorio Zucconi, Italian-American journalist and writer (b. 1944)
Observances 
 Independence Day in Georgia and Guyana
 Crown Prince's Birthday (Denmark)
 Mother's Day (Poland)
 National Sorry Day (Australia)
 National Book Day (Uruguay)

Days of the year
Events

Up to 1950
567 BC – Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
 240 BC – First-recorded Perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors.
 1420 - Henry the Navigator is appointed Governor of the Order of Christ.
 1524 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Edict of Worms, which declares Martin Luther an outlaw.
 1644 - Ming Dynasty general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus  and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan Pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital, Beijing.
 1659 – Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England.
 1809 – The South American Wars of Independence begin.
 1810 – May Revolution: The Argentine War of Independence begins.
 1837 - Rebels in Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
 1865 – 300 people are killed in Mobile, Alabama when an ordnance depot explodes.
1878 – The Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
 1895 – The Republic of Formosa is founded.
 1895 - The playwright, novelist and poet Oscar Wilde is convicted of "Committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to two years in prison.
 1914 - The United Kingdom House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act of 1914 for devolution to Ireland.
 1923 - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Iran, killing around 2,200 people.
 1925 – John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Evolution.
 1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties one, in track and field athletics in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
 1938 – Spanish Civil War: 313 people are killed in Alicante.
 1946 – Abdullah I of Jordan is declared Emir by the Parliament of Transjordan.
From 1951 
 1953 – The US conducts its only nuclear artillery test in Nevada.
 1955 – A night-time Force 5 tornado strikes the small city in Udall, Kansas, killing 80 people; it is the deadliest tornado ever to strike Kansas.
 1955 – First successful climb of Kanchenjunga (8,586 metres), the third-highest mountain in the world on the India-Nepal border, by a British expedition led by Joe Brown and George Band.
 1961 - The Bukit Ho Swee Fire occurs in Singapore.
 1961 – John F. Kennedy announces before the United States Congress that the United States should set the target of landing a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s decade.
 1962 - In England, the new Coventry Cathedral is consecrated. The original one had been badly damaged by German bombs in World War II.
 1963 – The Organisation of African Unity is founded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
 1966 - Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
 1967 – Celtic F.C. from Glasgow, Scotland, becomes the first football team from the UK to win the European cup.