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1945 - World War II: At Lüneburg Heath, the North German army surrenders to British field marshal Bernard Montgomery.
 1945 - World War II: Denmark is liberated.
 1946 - United States Marines stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz, in which five people were killed.
 1949 – In Italy, almost the whole entire Torino football team is killed in a plane crash.
 1953 - Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
 1959 – The first Grammy Awards are given.
 1961 - Civil rights: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the Southern United States.
 1970 – Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard opens fire on student anti-war demonstrators at Kent State University. Four students are killed, and nine students are injured.
 1974 - An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu in the Himalayas. This is the first time that women have reached the top of a peak over 8000 metres high.
 1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1980 – Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito dies in Ljubljana, at the age of 87.
 1982 – Argentine bombers destroy the HMS Sheffield in the Falklands War, as 20 sailors are killed.
 1988 - The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
 1989 - Iran-Contra Affair: Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions are later overturned.
 1990 – Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
 1993 - A new democratic constitution takes effect in Andorra, ending its feudal system, which had lasted since 1278. It becomes a co-principality with the elected President of France and the Catalan Bishop of Urgel as joint heads of state, with an elected Prime Minister as Head of Government.
 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule to Jericho and the Gaza Strip.
 1998 - "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is given four life sentences in prison.
From 2001 
 2001 – Guido Westerwelle becomes leader of Germany's Free Democratic Party.
 2002 – A plane crash in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria kills more than 148 people.
 2002 - NASA launches the satellite Aqua to explore the role of water in Earth's ecosystem.
 2007 – Greensburg, Kansas, is destroyed by a tornado.
 2010 – The painting Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso is sold at auction, at a record price for a work of art.
 2018 - It is announced that the awarding of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature will be delayed until October 2019 because of a sexual harassment and corruption scandal at the Swedish Academy.
 2019 - The first of three days of coronation ceremonies takes place for King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1008 – King Henry I of France (d. 1060)
 1649 - Chhatrasal, Indian warrior (d. 1731)
 1654 – Kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722)
 1655 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker (d. 1731)
 1733 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1799)
 1752 - John Brooks, 11th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
 1767 - Tyagaraja, Indian composer (d. 1847)
 1772 - Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823)
 1777 – Louis Jacques Thenard, French chemist (d. 1857)
 1796 – Horace Mann, American educator (d. 1859)
 1810 - Count Alexandre Joseph Colonna-Walewski, son of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1868)
 1820 – Julia Gardiner Tyler, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
 1822 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, 3rd Premier of Quebec (d. 1915)
 1825 – Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist and educator (d. 1895)
 1825 - Augustus Le Plongeon, British-American photographer and antiquarian (d. 1908)
 1826 – Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d. 1900)
1827 – John Hanning Speke, British explorer (d. 1864)
 1845 - William Kingdon Clifford, British philosopher and mathematician (d. 1879)
 1852 – Alice Pleasance Liddell, inspiration for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
 1864 - Marie Booth, English daughter of William Booth and Catherine Booth (d. 1937)
 1870 - Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (d. 1960)
 1872 - A. Mitchell Palmer, United States Attorney General (d. 1936)
 1873 - Joe De Grasse, Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1940)
 1875 - John J. Blaine, 24th Governor of Wisconsin (d. 1934)
 1881 - Alexander Kerensky, Russian political figure (d. 1970)
 1883 - Wang Jingwei, Chinese politician (d. 1944)
 1887 - Andrew Dasburg, American painter (d. 1979)
 1889 - Francis Spellman, American archbishop (d. 1967)
 1890 - Franklin Carmichael, Canadian artist (d. 1945)
 1895 – Cornelius Van Til, Dutch theologian (d. 1987)
 1899 - Fritz von Opel, German industrialist, rocket pioneer and racing driver (d. 1971)
1901  1950 
 1903 - Luther Adler, American actor (d. 1984)
 1904 – Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (d. 1975) (official birthdate)
 1907 - Walter Walsh, American FBI agent and Olympic shooter (d. 2014)
 1907 - Lincoln Kirstein, American writer and impresario (d. 1996)
 1913 – Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark (d. 2007)
 1914 - Maedayama Eigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1971)
 1916 - Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian journalist, writer and activist (d. 2006)
 1918 – Kakuei Tanaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1993)
 1919 - Basil Yamey, South African economist
 1921 - Harry K. Daghlian, Jr., American physicist (d. 1945)
 1922 - Eugenie Clark, American icthyologist (d. 2015)
 1922 - King Fleming, American jazz pianist (d. 2014)
 1922 - John Paul Hammerschmidt, American politician (d. 2015)
 1922 - Paul-Emile Charbonneau, Canadian bishop (d. 2014)
 1923 – Eric Sykes, British comedian (d. 2012)
 1925 - Luis Herrera Campins, former President of Venezuela (d. 2007)
1925 - Jeno Buzansky, Hungarian footballer (d. 2015)
 1927 - Terry Scott, English actor (d. 1994)
 1928 – Hosni Mubarak, former President of Egypt (d. 2020)
 1928 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (d. 2006)
 1928 – Wolfgang von Trips, German racecar driver (d. 1961)
 1929 - Sydney Lamb, American linguist and academic
 1929 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress (d. 1993)
 1929 - Manuel Contreras, Chilean general, convicted of crimes against humanity (d. 2015)
 1930 – Katherine Jackson, mother of Jackson musical family
 1930 - Roberta Peters, American soprano
 1931 – Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor
 1934 - Tatiana Samoilova, Russian actress (d. 2014)
 1935 - Don Friedman, American jazz pianist (d. 2016)
 1937 - Ron Carter, American jazz musician
 1938 - Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer and journalist (d. 2010)
 1939 - Paul Gleason, American actor (d. 2006) 
 1940 - Robin Cook, American physician and writer
 1940 - Sean Barrett, British voice actor
1943 – Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (d. 1971)
 1943 - Mihail Chemyakin, Russian painter and sculptor
 1944 – Russi Taylor, American voice actress
 1944 - Monica Bleibtreu, Austrian actress (d. 2009)
 1945 - Jan Mulder, Dutch footballer
 1947 - Trivimi Velliste, Estonian politician
 1947 – Richard Jenkins, American actor
 1948 – George Tupou V, King of Tonga (d. 2012)
 1949 - Stella Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress
 1950 – Darryl Hunt, musician
1951  1975 
 1951 – Jackie Jackson, American singer, member of the Jackson musical family
 1951 – Gérard Jugnot, French actor and director
 1951 – Mick Mars, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
 1951 - Colleen Hanabusa, American politician
 1953 - Oleta Adams, American singer and pianist
 1954 – Pia Zadora, American actress and singer
 1956 - Charlotte Green, English radio and television presenter
 1956 - Michael L. Gernhardt, American engineer and astronaut
 1956 - David Guterson, American novelist
 1956 – Ulrike Meyfarth, German athlete
 1958 – Keith Haring, American artist (d. 1990)
 1958 – Caroline Spelman, British politician
 1959 – Inger Nilsson, Swedish actress
 1959 - Maurizio Cheli, Italian astronaut and air force officer
 1959 – Randy Travis, American singer-songwriter, musician and actor
 1960 – Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria
 1961 – Jay Aston, English singer-songwriter and dancer
 1961 – Chris Packham, English wildlife expert and television presenter
 1961 - Luis Herrera, Colombian cyclist
1963 - Vange Leonel, Brazilian singer-songwriter, journalist, novelist, playwright and activist (d. 2014)
 1964 - Monica Bardem, Spanish actress
 1964 - Rocco Siffredi, Italian pornographic actor and director
 1967 - Ana Gasteyer, American actress
 1968 - Francesca Bortolozzi, Italian fencer
 1970 - Paul Wiseman, New Zealand cricketer
 1970 - Will Arnett, Canadian actor
 1972 – Mike Dirnt, American musician (Green Day)
 1973 – Guillermo Barros Schelotti, Argentine footballer
 1974 – Tony McCoy, Northern Irish jockey
 1975 - Louise Hansen, Danish footballer
 1975 - Catherine Trudeau, Canadian actress
From 1976 
 1977 - Emily Perkins, Canadian actress
 1978 - Daisuke Ono, Japanese voice actor
 1979 – Lance Bass, American singer (*NSYNC)
 1979 – Lesley Vainikolo, Tongan-born rugby player
 1982 – Nathan Tyson, English footballer
 1983 – Trisha Krishnan, Indian actress
 1984 – Little Boots, British singer
 1985 – Ravinder Bopara, English cricketer
 1987 – Cesc Fàbregas, Spanish footballer
 1987 – Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycle racer
 1988 - David Gray, Scottish footballer
 1989 – Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer
 1989 - Daniel Gyurta, Hungarian swimmer
 1990 – Shunki Takahashi, Japanese footballer
 1992 - Ashley Rickards, American actress
 1992 - Courtney Jines, American actress
 1994 – Alexander Gould, American actor
 1994 – Pauline Ducruet, Monegasque royal
 2002 - Anastasiya Petryk, Ukrainian singer
 2009 – Prince Henrik of Denmark

Deaths
Up to 1900 
 1406 - Coluccio Salutati, Italian humanist and politician (b. 1331)
 1436 – Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman
 1471 – Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (b. 1453)
 1471 – Edmund of Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (b. 1438)
 1519 - Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492)
 1566 - Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)
 1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian organist and composer (b. 1533)
 1605 – Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian physician and naturalist (b. 1522)
 1615 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
 1677 - Isaac Barrow, English mathematician and theologian (b. 1630)
 1729 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651)
 1734 - James Thornhill, English painter
 1774 - Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick (b. 1714)
 1790 – Matthew Tilghman, American planter and revolutionary leader (b. 1718)
 1799 – Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader (b. 1750)
 1811 – Mikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
1839 - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784)
 1849 – Hokusai, Japanese artist (b. 1760)
 1859 - Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (b. 1771)
 1880 – Edward Clark, 8th Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
 1897 - Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Bavaria (b. 1847)
1901  2000 
 1901 - John Jones Ross, 7th Premier of Quebec (b. 1831)
 1903 - Goce Delchev, Macedonian revolutionary figure (b. 1872)
 1916 - Easter Rising leaders executed in Ireland:
Edward Daly (b. 1891)
Joseph Mary Plunkett (b. 1887)
Willie Pearse (b. 1891)
 1921 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian pacifist and writer (b. 1864)
 1923 - Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1877)
 1924 - E. Nesbit, English writer and poet (b. 1858)
 1938 – Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist (b. 1889)
 1945 - Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1877)
 1949 - Torino footballers killed in plane crash:
Aldo Ballarin, Italian footballer (b. 1922)
Dino Ballarin, Italian footballer (b. 1925)
Guglielmo Gabetto, Italian footballer (b. 1916)
Leslie Lievesley, English footballer (b. 1911)
Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (b. 1919)
Romeo Menti, Italian footballer (b. 1919)
 1953 - Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (b. 1876)
 1955 - George Enescu, Romanian composer (b. 1881)
1961 – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher (b. 1908)
 1961 - Anita Stewart, American actress (b. 1895)
 1970 - Victims of the Kent State shootings:
Allison Krause, Kent State victim (b. 1951)
Jeffrey Miller, Kent State victim (b. 1950)
Sandra Scheuer, Kent State victim (b. 1949)
William Schroeder, Kent State victim (b. 1950)
 1971 – Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (b. 1934)
 1972 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist (b. 1886)
 1980 – Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
 1984 – Willie Ormond, Scottish footballer (b. 1927)
 1984 - Diana Dors, English actress (b. 1931)
 1985 - Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1907)
 1987 - Paul Butterfield, American musician (b. 1942)
 1991 - Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer-songwriter and mandolin player (b. 1907)
 2000 - Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist (b. 1909)
From 2001 
 2002 – François Adam, Belgian cyclist (b. 1911)
 2008 – Kishan Maharaj, Indian tabla player (b. 1923)
 2009 – Dom DeLuise, American entertainer (b. 1933)
 2010 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (b. 1917)
 2012 – Adam Yauch, American musician (Beastie Boys) (b. 1964)
 2012 – Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (b. 1963)
 2013 - Christian de Duve, Belgian biochemist (b. 1917)
 2013 - Otis R. Bowen, 44th Governor of Indiana (b. 1918)
 2013 - Mario Machado, Chinese-American journalist and actor (b. 1935)
 2014 - Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-born British tennis player (b. 1983)
 2014 - Dick Ayers, American comic book artist and cartoonist (b. 1924)
 2014 - Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)
 2014 - Tatiana Samoilova, Russian actress (b. 1934)
 2015 - Eva Aeppli, Swiss artist (b. 1925)
 2015 - Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress (b. 1913)
 2015 - Andrew Lewis, Guyanese boxer (b. 1970)
 2015 - Joshua Ozersky, American food writer (b. 1967)
2015 - Zhivko Gospodinov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1957)
 2016 - Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, President of Burundi (b. 1946)
 2016 - Bob Bennett, American politician (b. 1933)
 2016 - Karl W. Butzer, German-American geographer (b. 1934)
 2016 - Olle Ljungström, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1961)
 2016 - Rita Renoir, French entertainer and actress (b. 1934)
 2016 - Friedrich Schattleitner, Austrian sports shooter (b. 1923)
 2017 - William Baumol, American economist (b. 1922)
 2017 - Bart Carlier, Dutch footballer (b. 1929)
 2017 - C. Jackson Grayson, American businessman and writer (b. 1923)
 2017 - Victor Lanoux, French actor (b. 1936)
 2017 - Edwin Sherin, American-Canadian television director and producer (b. 1930)
 2017 - R. Lee Wrights, American political activist and consultant (b. 1958)
 2018 - Abi Ofarim, Israeli musician (b. 1937)
 2018 - Naser Cheshm Azar, Iranian musician, composer and arranger (b. 1950)
 2018 - Renate Dorrestein, Dutch writer and journalist (b. 1954)
2019 - Prospero Nograles, Filipino politician (b. 1947)
 2019 - Rachel Held Evans, American Christian writer (b. 1981)
 2019 - Terje Moe Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1954)
Observances 
 Unofficial Star Wars Day ("May the fourth be with you")
 International Firefighters Day
 Youth Day (China, Fiji)
 Greenery Day (Japan)
 Bird Day (United States)
 Cassinga Day (Namibia)
 Remembrance of the Dead (Netherlands)

May 04
Up to 1900 
 1194 - Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
 1335 - Otto, Duke of Austria, known as "Otto the Merry", becomes Duke of Carinthia.
 1536 - Anne Boleyn is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
 1559 - John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become leader of the Scottish Reformation.
 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
 1611 – The King James Bible is published.
 1670 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company, to open up fur trade in Canada.
 1808 – The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. This event is later memorised in a painting by Francisco de Goya.
 1829 - Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger declares the Swan River Colony in present-day Western Australia.
 1863 - American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson is wounded in the Battle of Chancellorsville. He dies of his injuries on May 10.
1866 - Peruvian defenders fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
 1876 - Start of the April Uprising in Bulgaria. In the Julian calendar used at the time, this date was April 20, which is why the uprising is named after the month of April.
 1879 - The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is founded in Madrid by Pablo Iglesias.
 1885 - The first issue of Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale.
 1885 - King Leopold II of Belgium creates the Congo Free State, the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Central Africa. It is estimated that millions may have died during the colonial rule there.
 1889 – Menelik II of Ethiopia signs a treaty that gives Italy control of Eritrea.
1901  2000 
 1906 - Closing ceremony of the 1906 Olympics, which are not officially recognized by the IOC as part of the modern Olympic Games.
 1918 - General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company in Delaware.
 1920 - The first Negro National League baseball game is played in Indianapolis.
 1933 - Adolf Hitler bans trade unions in Germany.
 1945 – The Soviet Union captures Berlin in World War II.
 1946 - "Battle of Alcatraz" - In one of the most violent events on the prison island in San Francisco Bay - kills two guards and three inmates.
 1952 - The first jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1, makes its first flight from London to Johannesburg.
 1953 - Hussein of Jordan becomes King, after his father, Talal of Jordan, is declared unfit to rule.
 1964 - Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the ship USS Card while it is in the dock at Saigon. The Viet Cong is suspected of having carried out the attack.
1964 - First successful climb of Shishapangma, the 14th-highest mountain in the world, and the smallest of those with a height over 8000 metres.
 1969 – The Ocean Liner Queen Elizabeth 2 leaves for its first voyage to New York.
 1972 - An early-morning fire at Sunshine Mine between the towns of Kellogg and Wallace, Indiana, kills 91 workers.
 1982 – Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
 1986 - Chernobyl is evacuated, six days after the nuclear reactor disaster there.
 1989 – Hungary opens its western border.
 1994 - A bus crash in Gdansk kills 32 people.
 1995 - Croatian War of Independence: Serbian forces fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing 7 people and injuring 175.
 1997 – Tony Blair takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, after his Labour Party won the previous day's General Election with a landslide win over John Major's Conservative Party.
 1998 – The European Central Bank is formed in Brussels.
From 2001 
 2004 - Over 630 Muslim nomads are killed by Christians in religious violence in Nigeria.
 2006 – The band Tool releases its 4th album 10,000 Days.
 2008 – Tropical Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma, where it kills tens of thousands of people.
 2008 - The Chaiten volcano in Chile begins erupting. 4,500 people are evacuated from their homes.
 2011 – US President Barack Obama announces the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a US military operation in Pakistan.
 2011 - A Europe-wide E. coli outbreak, centred in Germany, begins.
 2011 - Stephen Harper's Conservative Party of Canada wins an overall majority in parliament in Canada's election. The Liberal Party of Canada finishes third, behind the New Democratic Party of Jack Layton, who dies a few months later.
 2012 – A pastel version of Edvard Munch's The Scream sells for 120 million US Dollars, setting a new record for a work of art sold at auction.
2014 - A landslide in Afghanistan kills at least 350 people, with many reported missing.
 2014 - Violent clashes in Odessa during the Ukrainian political crisis lead to a building fire in which at least 31 pro-Russian activists are killed.
 2018 - Basque separatist group ETA announces its intention to dissolve.
Up to 1900 
 1360 – Yongle, Chinese Emperor (d. 1424)
 1451 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1503)
 1458 - Eleanor of Viseu, Queen of Portugal (d. 1525)
 1551 - William Camden, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1623)
 1579 - Tokugawa Hidetada, Japanese shogun (d. 1632)
 1601 – Athanasius Kircher, German scholar (d. 1680)
 1660 – Antonio Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1725)
 1702 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (d. 1782)
 1729 – Empress Catherine II of Russia (d. 1796)
 1737 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1805)
 1740 - Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and statesman (d. 1821)
 1754 - Vicente Martín y Soler, Spanish composer (d. 1806)
 1772 – Novalis, German writer and philosopher (d. 1801)
 1773 - Henrik Steffens, Norwegian philosopher (d. 1845)
 1797 - Abraham Pineo Gesner, Canadian physician and geologist (d. 1864)
 1802 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German scientist (d. 1870)
 1806 – Charles Gleyre, Swiss painter (d. 1874)
1808 - Emma Wedgwood, English naturalist (d. 1896)
 1810 - Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (d. 1874)
 1815 - William Buell Richards, 1st Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1889)
 1830 - Otto Staudinger, German entomologist (d. 1900)
 1843 - Elijah McCoy, Canadian-American inventor and engineer (d. 1929)
 1856 - Vasily Rozanov, Russian philosopher (d. 1919)
 1859 – Jerome K. Jerome, English writer (d. 1927)
 1860 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian writer and Zionist (d. 1904)
 1860 - D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Scottish biologist, mathematician and classical scholar (d. 1948)
 1860 - John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936)
 1868 - Robert W. Wood, American experimental physicist (d. 1955)
 1872 - Karl Nessler, American hairdresser (d. 1951)
 1879 - James F. Byrnes, 49th United States Secretary of State and 104th Governor of South Carolina (d. 1972)
 1880 - Bill Horr, American athlete (d. 1955)
 1881 - Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician (d. 1970)
1885 - Hedda Hopper, American actress and columnist (d. 1966)
 1886 - Gottfried Benn, German writer (d. 1956)
 1889 - Ki Hajar Dewantara, Indonesian education pioneer (d. 1959)
 1890 - E. E. Smith, American food engineer (d. 1965)
 1892 – Manfred von Richthofen, German fighter pilot (d. 1918)
 1895 - Lorenz Hart, American playwright (d. 1943)
 1896 – Helen of Greece of Denmark (d. 1982)
1901  1950 
 1902 - Arturo Licata, Sicilian supercentenarian (d. 2014)
 1903 – Benjamin Spock, American writer (d. 1998)
 1913 - Nigel Patrick, English actor (d. 1981)
 1915 - Van Alexander, American jazz composer, arranger and bandleader (d. 2015)
 1917 - Van Tien Dung, Vietnamese general and politician (d. 2002)
 1917 - Albert Castelyns, Belgian water polo player and bobsledder (d. unknown)
 1920 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
 1920 - Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-Brazilian activist (d. 2000)
 1920 - Vasantrao Deshpande, Indian singer and sitar player (d. 1983)
 1920 - Guinn Smith, American pole vaulter, 1948 Olympic champion (d. 2004)
 1921 – Satyajit Ray, Indian movie maker (d. 1992)
 1923 – Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland (d. 2008)
 1924 - Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor and singer (d. 2015)
 1924 - Hugh Cortazzi, English businessman and diplomat (d. 2018)
 1925 - Maria Barroso, Portuguese actress and politician (d. 2015)
1928 – Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (d. 1972)
 1929 – Edouard Balladur, former Prime Minister of France
 1929 - Eddie Garcia, Filipino actor, director and television personality (d. 2019)
 1930 - Marco Pannella, Italian politician and activist (d. 2016)
 1930 - Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter, journalist and critic (d. 2013)
 1931 - Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, English lawyer and judge
 1932 - Bruce Glover, American actor
 1933 - Gérard Jouannest, French pianist (d. 2018)
 1933 - Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, English lawyer and judge
 1935 - Luis Suárez Miramontes, Spanish footballer
 1935 – King Faisal II of Iraq (d. 1958)
 1936 - Norma Aleandro, Argentine actress, director and screenwriter
 1936 – Engelbert Humperdinck, British singer
 1937 - Lance LeGault, American actor (d. 2012)
 1937 - Lorenzo Music, American screenwriter, actor and producer (d. 2001)
 1938 – King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (d. 1996)
 1941 – Jules Wijdenbosch, former President of Suriname
1941 - Eddy Louiss, French jazz musician (d. 2015)
 1942 – Jacques Rogge, Belgian Olympic official (d. 2021)
 1943 - Manfred Schnelldorfer, German figure skater
 1944 - Kim Yong-il, North Korean politician
 1945 – Judge Dread, English musician (d. 1998)
 1945 – Bianca Jagger, Nicaraguan-born activist
 1946 - Lesley Gore, American singer (d. 2015)
 1946 – David Suchet, British actor
 1947 – James Dyson, British inventor
 1947 - Prashanta Nanda, Indian actor, director, producer and politician
 1949 - Alan Titchmarsh, British television presenter
 1949 - Alfons Schuhbeck, German chef and cookery writer
 1949 - Alan Gross, American government contractor
 1950 - Lou Gramm, American singer
1951  1975 
 1951 - John Glascock, English musician (d. 1979)
 1952 – Christine Baranski, American actress
 1952 - Christopher Doyle, Australian director and screenwriter
 1953 – Valery Gergiev, Russian conductor
 1955 - Donatella Versace, Italian fashion designer
 1956 - Régis Lebeaume, Canadian politician, 41st Mayor of Quebec City
 1958 - Yasushi Akimoto, Japanese television writer, songwriter, record producer and professor
 1958 – David O'Leary, Irish footballer
 1962 – Jimmy White, English snooker player
 1964 – Silvia Neid, German footballer and coach
 1967 - Bengt Akerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (d. 1995)
 1967 - Luigi Apolloni, Italian footballer
 1968 - Hikaru Midorikawa, Japanese voice actor
 1968 - Ziana Zain, Malaysian singer-songwriter and actress
 1969 – Brian Lara, West Indies cricketer
 1971 - Musashimaru Koyo, American Samoan sumo wrestler
 1972 - Dwayne Johnson, American professional wrestler and actor
 1972 - Ahti Heinla, Estonian programmer and entrepreneur
1973 - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German movie director
 1974 - Matt Berry, English actor
 1975 – David Beckham, English footballer
 1975 – Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger, American astronaut
From 1976 
 1977 - Jan Fitschen, German runner
 1977 - Kalle Palander, Finnish skier
 1979 - Jason Chimera, Canadian ice hockey player
 1979 - Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
 1980 – Tim Borowski, German footballer
 1980 – Zat Knight, English footballer
 1980 - Troy Murphy, American basketball player
 1980 - Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Canadian skateboarder
 1981 – Chris Kirkland, English footballer
 1981 – Tiago Mendes, Portuguese footballer
 1982 - Lorie, French singer
 1982 - Johan Botha, South Korean cricketer
 1983 - Alessandro Diamanti, Italian footballer
 1983 - Derek Boateng, Ghanaian footballer
 1983 - Maynor Figueroa, Honduran footballer
 1983 – Tina Maze, Slovenian skier
 1985 – Lily Allen, English singer
 1985 - Kyle Busch, American racing driver
 1985 – Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
 1985 – David Nugent, English footballer
 1985 - Oh Land, Danish singer-songwriter and record producer
 1985 – Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1986 - Emily Hart, American actress
 1986 - Sani Kaita, Nigerian footballer
 1987 - Saara Aalto, Finnish singer
 1987 - Kris Russell, Canadian ice hockey player
 1987 - Nana Kitade, Japanese singer-songwriter and musician
 1988 - Stephen Henderson, Irish footballer
 1990 – Kay Panabaker, American actress
 1990 - Paul George, American basketball player
 1991 - Jeong Jinwoon, South Korean actor and singer
 1994 - Josh Bolt, English actor
 1996 - Julian Brandt, German footballer
 1997 - Bambam, South Korean dancer, rapper and singer
 2015 - Princess Charlotte of Cambridge
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 373 - Athanasius of Alexandria (b. 298)
 756 - Emperor Shomu of Japan (b. 701)
 907 - Boris I of Bulgaria 
 1219 – Leo I, King of Armenia (b. 1150)
 1300 - Blanche of Artois (b. 1248)
 1519 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and inventor (b. 1452)
 1627 - Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (b. 1560)
 1802 - Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (b. 1762)
 1819 - Mary Moser, English painter (b. 1744)
 1821 - Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (b. 1741)
 1825 – Michail Leontievich Bulatov, Russian military (b. 1760)
 1857 - Alfred de Busset, French writer (b. 1810)
 1864 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (b. 1791)
 1880 - Eberhard Anheuser, German-American businessman (b. 1805)
 1880 - Tom Willis, Australian cricketer and co-founder of Australian rules football (b. 1835)
1901  2000 
 1909 - Manuel Amador Guerrero, 1st President of Panama (b. 1833)
 1915 - Clara Immerwahr, German chemist, doctor and activist (b. 1870)
 1918 - Jüri Vilms, Estonian politician (b. 1889) 
 1927 - Ernest Starling, English physiologist (b. 1866)
 1930 - Isidor Gunsberg, Hungarian chess player (b. 1854)
 1945 – Martin Bormann, Nazi politician (b. 1900)
 1957 – Joseph McCarthy, US Senator (b. 1908)
 1960 – Caryl Chessman, American, controversially executed (b. 1921)
 1964 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-British politician (b. 1879)
 1969 – Franz von Papen, German politician (b. 1879)
 1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI (b. 1895)
 1979 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist (b. 1903)
 1983 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (b. 1926)
 1983 - Pridi Banomyong, Prime minister of Thailand (b. 1900)
 1984 - Bob Clampett, American animator, producer and director (b. 1913)
 1985 - Attilio Bettega, Italian rally driver (b. 1953)
 1989 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (b. 1902)
1989 - Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal (b. 1902)
 1993 - André Moynet, French fighter pilot, entrepreneur, politician and racing driver (b. 1921)
 1995 - Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)
 1995 - Werner Veigel, German television journalist (b. 1928)
 1997 - Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher (b. 1921)
 1997 – Sir John Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist (b. 1903)
 1998 – Hide, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
 1998 – Justin Fashanu, English footballer (b. 1961)
 1998 - Kevin Lloyd, British actor (b. 1949)
 1999 - Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
From 2001 
 2005 – Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)
 2009 – Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director (b. 1931)
 2009 – Jack Kemp, American politician and football player (b. 1935)
 2010 – Kama Chinen, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
 2010 – Lynn Redgrave, British actress (b. 1943)
 2011 – Osama Bin Laden, Saudi Islamist terrorist (b. 1957)
 2012 – Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, Indonesian physician and politician (b. 1955)
 2012 – Junior Seau, American football player (b. 1969)
 2013 - Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (b. 1980)
 2013 - Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist (Slayer) (b. 1964)
 2014 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (b. 1918)
 2014 - Mohammad-Reza Lotfi, Iranian classical musician (b. 1947)
 2014 - Nigel Stepney, English mechanic (b. 1958)
 2014 - Pauline Wagner, American actress (b. 1910)
 2015 - Ruth Rendell, English writer (b. 1930)
 2015 - Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1925)
2015 - Konstantin K. Kuzminsky, Russian performance poet (b. 1940)
 2015 - Sarah Correa, Brazilian swimmer (b. 1992)
 2015 - Guy Carawan, American folk musician (b. 1927)
 2015 - Michael Blake, American writer and screenwriter (b. 1945)
 2015 - Stuart Archer, British recipient of the George Cross (b. 1915)
 2015 - Philip S. Goodman, American director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1926)
 2016 - Afeni Shakur, African American music businesswoman, philanthropist, political activist, and Black Panther. Mother of Tupac Shakur (b. 1947)
 2016 - Jonathan Cainer, British astrologer (b. 1957)
 2016 - John Kaye, Australian politician (b. 1955)
 2016 - Roger Millward, British rugby league player (b. 1947)
 2017 - Harold Bedoya Pizarro, Colombian military commander and politician (b. 1938)
 2017 - Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer and essayist (b. 1935)
 2017 - Kevin Garcia, American musician (b. 1975)
 2017 - Heinz Kessler, German politician (b. 1920)
 2017 - George Hugh Niederauer, American archbishop (b. 1936)
2017 - Leo K. Thorsness, American air force officer (b. 1932)
 2017 - Moray Watson, British actor (b. 1928)
 2017 - Roy Gater, English footballer (b. 1940)
 2018 - Gord Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1960)
 2018 - Tony Cucchiara, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
 2018 - Herman Krebbers, Dutch violinist (b. 1923)
 2018 - Vadim Mulerman, Soviet-Ukrainian singer (b. 1938)
 2018 - Bill Torrey, Canadian ice hockey executive (b. 1934)
 2018 - Wang Danfeng, Chinese actress (b. 1924)
 2018 - Wolfgang Völz, German actor (b. 1930)
 2018 - János Juszkó, Hungarian cyclist (b. 1939)
 2019 - Michel Crauste, French rugby union player (b. 1934)
 2019 - Rafael Hernández Colón, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1936)
 2019 - Fatimih Dávila, Uruguayan model (b. 1988)
 2019 - Master Hirannaiah, Indian actor (b. 1934)
 2019 - Frank Ivancie, American businessman and politician (b. 1924)
 2019 - Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
 2019 - Micha Lindenstrauss, German-born Israeli judge (b. 1937)
2019 - Ali Mroudjaé, Prime minister of the Comoros (b. 1939)
 2019 - Lord Toby Jug, British politician (b. 1935)
 2019 - Chris Reccardi, American animator (b. 1964)
 2019 - John Starling, American bluegrass musician (b. 1940)
 2019 - Juan Vicente Torrealba, Venezuelan harpist and composer (b. 1917)
Observances 
 Polish Flag day celebrated
 Last day of the Bahá'í festival to select members of the Universal House of Justice.
 National Education Day (Indonesia)
 Teachers' Day (Iran, Bhutan)

May 02
Up to 1900 
 1430 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while loading an army to relieve Compiegne.
 1498 - Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
 1533 - The marriage between King Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
 1555 - Giovanni Pietro Carafa becomes Pope Paul VI.
 1568 - The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.
 1568 - Dutch rebels, lead by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, starting the Eighty Years' War.
 1609 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
 1618 - The Second Defenestration of Prague leads to the start of the Thirty Years' War.
 1701 - After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is executed by hanging in London.
1706 - Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough defeats a French army under Marshal Francois de Neufville, duc de Villeroi.
 1788 - South Carolina becomes the 8th State of the US.
 1793 - Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
 1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy in Milan Cathedral.
 1829 - A patent for the accordion is granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austria.
 1844 - Declaration of the Bab: A merchant from Shiraz, Persia, announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that is later crushed by the Persian government. This movement is considered to be a forerunner of the Baha'i faith, in which this date is celebrated as a holy day.
 1846 - Mexican-American War: President of Mexico Mariano Paredes unofficially declares war on the United States.
 1873 - The Canadian government creates the North-West Mounted Police force. This is a forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police force.
1901  2000 
 1911 - The New York Public Library is opened.
 1915 - World War I: Italy joins the Allies against Austria-Hungary.
 1932 - In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a protest against the country's leader Getulio Vargas in São Paulo.
 1934 – The outlaws Bonnie and Clyde are shot dead by law officers in the Texas–Louisiana border region.
 1939 - The United States Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off New Hampshire.
 1945 - SS leader Heinrich Himmler commits suicide.
 1945 - The Flensburg Government under Karl Doenitz is dissolved when its members are arrested by British forces in the city of Flensburg in Northern Germany, next to the border with Denmark.
 1949 – The Federal Republic of Germany is founded.
 1951 - Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with China.
 1958 - Space probe Explorer 1 ceases (ends) transmission.
 1960 – Israel announces the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who was hiding in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1967 - Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat, Israel, at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea, to Israeli shipping.
 1992 - Italian anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, along with his wife and three bodyguards, is killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily.
 1993 - Cambodia holds its first free elections in over 20 years.
 1994 - Roman Herzog is elected President of Germany.
 1997 - Mohammad Khatami is elected President of Iran.
 1998 - Voters in Northern Ireland approve the Good Friday Agreement in a referendum.
 1999 - Johannes Rau is elected President of Germany.
From 2001 
 2002 - Iceland ratifies the Kyoto protocol.
 2004 – Horst Köhler is chosen as the new German President, to succeed Johannes Rau.
 2004 - Part of the roof of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing 4 people.
 2006 - Alaskan volcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
 2008 - The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) is founded.
 2009 - Former President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun commits suicide, while facing a corruption investigation.
 2009 - Horst Koehler is elected to a second term as President of Germany. However, he resigns just over a year later, on May 31, 2010.
 2014 - The Glasgow School of Art, one of the most famous buildings in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, is heavily damaged by fire.
2015 - Mans Zelmerlow of Sweden wins the 60th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria. Special guest Australia, represented by Guy Sebastian, finishes 5th out of 27. Host nation Austria finishes joint-bottom with Germany on 0 points, making it the worst performance of a host nation in the contest's history.
 2016 - Bomb attacks in western Syria result in the deaths of more than 100 people.
 2019 - Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party wins India's general election, giving it a big parliamentary majority.
 2019 - The 2019 election to the European Parliament begin.
Up to 1850 
 635 - K'inich Kan B'alam II, Mayan King (d. 702)
 1052 – King Philip I of France (d. 1108)
 1100 – Emperor Quinzong of China (d. 1161)
 1606 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish philosopher, mathematician and writer (d. 1682)
 1617 - Elias Ashmole, English astrologer and politician (d. 1692)
 1696 - Johann Caspar Vogler, German organist and composer (d. 1763)
 1707 – Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish biologist (d. 1778)
 1718 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (d. 1783)
 1729 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian writer (d. 1799)
 1734 – Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician (d. 1815)
 1741 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (d. 1815)
 1754 - Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (d. 1817)
 1790 – Jules Dumont D'Urville, French explorer (d. 1842)
 1794 - Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso (d. 1870)
 1795 - Charles Barry, English architect (d. 1860)
 1810 – Margaret Fuller, American journalist and feminist (d. 1850)
 1820 - James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (d. 1887)
1824 – Ambrose Burnside, American general (d. 1881)
 1827 - Milton Latham, 6th Governor of California (d. 1882)
 1834 - Carl Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)
 1837 - Anatole Mallet, Swiss engineer (d. 1919)
 1840 - George Throssell, Irish-Australian politician, 30th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1910)
 1842 - Maria Konopnicka, Polish writer (d. 1910)
 1844 – Abdu'l Baha, leading member of the Baha'i faith (d. 1921)
 1848 – Otto Lilienthal, German aviator (d. 1896)
1851  1900 
 1865 – Epitacio Pessoa, President of Brazil (d. 1942)
 1872 - Julio Acosta Garcia, President of Peru (d. 1954)
 1883 - Ferenc Talanyi, Slovenian writer, journalist and painter (d. 1959)
 1883 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939)
 1884 - Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965)
 1887 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)
 1888 - Zack Wheat, American baseball player (d. 1972)
 1889 - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (d. 1967)
 1890 – Herbert Marshall, English actor (d. 1969)
 1891 – Par Lagerkvist, Swedish writer (d. 1974)
 1892 - Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, British nobleman (d. 1975)
 1892 – Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (d. 1922)
 1896 - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German SS officer (d. 1966)
 1898 - Georgios Grivas, Greek-Cypriot political activist (d. 1974)
 1898 - Scott O'Dell, American writer (d. 1989)
 1898 – Josef Terboven, Nazi Reichskommissar in occupied Norway (d. 1945)
 1899 - Jeralean Talley, American supercentenarian (d. 2015)
1901  1950 
 1905 - Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, Spanish writer, journalist and politician (d. 1936)
 1908 – John Bardeen, American physicist (d. 1991)
 1908 - Hélène Boucher, French pilot (d. 1934)
 1908 - Max Abramovitz, American architect (d. 2004)
 1910 – Scatman Crothers, American musician (d. 1986)
 1910 – Artie Shaw, American musician (d. 2004)
 1911 – Paul Mayer, German cardinal (d. 2010)
 1911 - Betty Nuthall, English tennis player (d. 1983)
 1912 - Jean Françaix, French composer, pianist and orchestrator (d. 1997)
 1912 - John Payne, American movie actor (d. 1989)
 1917 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008)
 1918 - Denis Compton, English cricketer (d. 1997)
 1919 – Betty Garrett, American actress (d. 2011)
 1921 – Humphrey Lyttelton, British musician (d. 2008)
 1921 - James Blish, American science fiction writer (d. 1975)
 1923 – Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (d. 2009)
 1924 – Karlheinz Deschner, German writer and humanist (d. 2014)
1925 – Joshua Lederberg, American biologist (d. 2008)
 1926 - Joe Slovo, Lithuanian-South African politician (d. 1995)
 1927 - Dieter Hildebrandt, German entertainer (d. 2013)
 1928 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
 1928 – Nigel Davenport, British actor (d. 2013)
 1929 - Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
 1933 – Joan Collins, British actress
 1933 - Ove Fundin, Swedish motorcycle racer
 1933 - Alberto Natusch, Bolivian military leader (d. 1994)
 1934 – Robert Moog, American inventor (d. 2005)
 1935 - Susan Cooper, British writer
 1936 - Ingeborg Hallstein, German soprano and actress
 1936 - Charles Kimbrough, American actor
 1938 - Johnny Ball, British television personality
 1938 - Peter Preston, British journalist and newspaper editor (d. 2018)
 1939 - Michel Colombier, French-American composer and conductor (d. 2004)
 1940 - Levan Mesashvili, Georgian basketball player and coach
 1942 - Gabriel Liiceanu, Romanian philosopher
1942 - José Omar Pastoriza, Argentine footballer
 1943 - Peter Kenilorea, 1st Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (d. 2016)
 1944 - John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
 1944 – Lena Nyman, Swedish actress (d. 2011)
 1945 - Lauren Chapin, American actress
 1948 - Myriam Boyer, French actress, director and producer
 1949 – Alan García, former President of Peru (d. 2019)
 1950 – Martin McGuinness, Northern Irish politician (d. 2017)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
 1951 – Antonis Samaras, Greek politician, former Prime Minister of Greece
 1952 - Anne-Marie David, French singer
 1954 - Hans Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
 1956 - Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician
 1957 - Craig Brown, English journalist and critic
 1958 - Mitch Albom, American journalist, writer and screenwriter
 1958 - Drew Carey, American actor, comedian and game show host
 1958 - Thomas Reiter, German astronaut
 1959 – Ryuta Kawashima, Japanese neuroscientist, creator of Brain Training
 1959 – Bob Mortimer, English comedian
 1960 - Michel Roux Jr., French-English chef
 1965 - Manuel Sanchis Hontiyuelo, Spanish footballer
 1965 - Melissa McBride, American actress
 1967 – Phil Selway, American drummer (Radiohead)
 1967 - Carlos Mercenario, Mexican race walker
 1970 - Matt Flynn, American drummer and producer (Maroon 5)
 1970 – Yigal Amir, assassin of Yitzhak Rabin
1971 – George Osborne, British politician, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
 1972 – Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian Formula One racecar driver
 1973 - Maxwell, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
 1974 - Manuela Schwesig, German politician
 1974 – Ken Jennings, American gameshow contestant
 1974 – Jewel, American singer
From 1976 
 1976 – Ricardinho, Brazilian footballer
 1977 - Richard Ayoade, English actor, writer, comedian and presenter
 1978 - Mike Gonzalez, American baseball player
 1980 – Theofanis Gekas, Greek footballer
 1981 - Tim Robinson, American comedian
 1983 – Heidi Range, British singer (The Sugababes)
 1984 – Hugo Almeida, Portuguese footballer
 1984 - Lizzie Waterworth, English voice actress
 1984 - Adam Wylie, American actor
 1985 – Ross Wallace, Scottish footballer
 1985 - Sebastian Fernandez, Uruguayan footballer
 1985 - Wim Stroetinga, Dutch cyclist
 1988 - Lorenzo De Silvestri, Italian footballer
 1988 – Morgan Pressel, American golfer
 1990 - Ricardo dos Santos, Brazilian surfer (d. 2015)
 1991 – Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer
 1992 - Olesia Karmi, Finnish figure skater
 1993 - Sargis Adamyan, Armenian footballer
 1995 - Jillian Janson, American pornographic actress

Deaths
Up to 1900 
 230 - Pope Urban I
 779 - Emperor Daizong of Tang, Chinese Emperor (b. 727)
 1125 – Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1081)
 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (b. 1452)
 1523 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (b. 1466)
 1524 – Ismail I, Shah of Persia (b. 1487)
 1669 - Joris van der Haagen, Dutch painter (b. 1615)
 1670 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1610)
 1691 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (b. 1622)
 1701 – William Kidd, Scottish pirate (b. 1645)
 1754 - John Wood, the Elder, English architect (b. 1704)
 1786 - Maurice Benyovszky, Hungarian count, explorer and writer (b. 1746)
 1825 – Gugsa of Yejju, Regent of Ethiopia
 1841 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1765)
 1857 - Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (b. 1789)
 1868 – Kit Carson, American Western figure (b. 1809)
 1886 - Leopold von Ranke, German historian (b. 1795)
 1893 – Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (b. 1805)
1901  2000 
 1906 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer and playwright (b. 1828)
 1914 - William O'Connell Bradley, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1847)
 1917 – Ranavalona III, Queen of Madagascar (b. 1861)
 1921 - August Nilsson, Swedish athlete (b. 1872)
 1934 – Bonnie and Clyde, American outlaws (b. 1909 and 1910)
 1937 – John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1839)
 1944 - Thomas Curtis, American hurdler (b. 1870)
 1945 – Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (b. 1900)
 1947 - Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
 1955 - Roy E. Ayers, American politician, Governor of Montana (b. 1882)
 1960 - Georges Claude, French engineer and inventor (b. 1870)
 1965 - Earl Webb, American baseball player (b. 1897)
 1966 – Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902)
 1967 - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)
 1981 - George Jessel, American actor, singer and producer (b. 1898)
 1986 - Sterling Hayden, American actor and writer (b. 1916)
1989 - Karl Koch, German computer hacker (b. 1965)
 1991 - Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (b. 1895)
 1991 - Jean Van Houtte, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1907)
 1992 – Giovanni Falcone, Italian magistrate and anti-Mafia judge (b. 1939)
 1992 - Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1908)
 1996 - Bernhard Klodt, German footballer (b. 1926)
 1999 – Owen Hart, professional wrestler (b. 1965)