Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
Up to 1900 
533 – The Battle of Ticameron begins.
687 – St. Sergius I becomes Pope.
1161 - China: Military officers conspire against Emperor Hailingwang of Jin, of the Jin Dynasty, and kill him in a military coup near the Yangtze River front.
1167 - Sicilian Chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent rebellion.
1256 – Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran.
1467 - Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured, at the Battle of Baia.
1640 - John IV of Portugal becomes King.
1778 - American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.
1791 – The United States Bill of Rights is passed.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Nashville - Union forces under George Thomas almost completely destroy the Army of Tennessee under John Hood.
1881 - The El Habra dam in Algeria breaks, resulting in a flood that kills around 250 people.
1890 – Native American chief Sitting Bull is shot dead by Reservation police.
1891 – James Naismith introduces basketball.
1901  2000 
1905 - The Pushkin House is founded in St. Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.
1913 – Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
1914 – A gas explosion at the Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine, Kyushu, kills 687 people.
1914 – World War I: The Battle of Łódź ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow.
1914 - World War I: The Serbian army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Hungarian army.
1916 – World War I: France defeats Germany in the Battle of Verdun.
1917 - World War I: An armistice is reached between Russia's new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.
1933 - The 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution becomes effective, reversing the 18th Amendment, which had banned the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol.
1939 – Gone with the Wind premiers in Atlanta, Georgia.
1941 – Holocaust: Nazi troops murder 15,000 Jews at Drobitsky Yar, near Kharkiv.
1943 - World War II: The Battle of Arawe begins during the New Britain campaign.
1945 – General Douglas MacArthur orders end of Shinto as state religion of Japan.
1946 - US-backed Iranian troops evict the leadership of the breakaway Republic of Mahabad, putting an end to the Iran crisis of 1946.
1954 – The Charter for the Netherlands enters effect.
1957 - The population of Munich reaches one million.
1960 – Mahendra of Nepal imposes direct rule.
1960 - Richard Pavlik is arrested for plotting to kill US President-elect John F. Kennedy.
1961 –  An Israeli war crimes tribunal sentences Adolf Eichmann to die for his part in the Jewish Holocaust
1965 – Gemini program: Gemini 6A is launched.
1967 – The Silver Bridge over the Ohio River collapses, killing 46 people.
1970 – Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus.
1970 – South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsizes in Korea Strait, killing 308 people.
1973 – John Paul Getty III is found alive after being kidnapped in Naples, Italy, a few months earlier.
1973 - The American Psychiatric Association votes 13-0 to remove Homosexuality from its list of psychiatric disorders.
1976 – Samoa becomes a member of the UN.
1976 - The oil tanker MV Argo Merchant runs aground off Nantucket, Massachusetts, causing an oil spill.
1978 - US President Jimmy Carter announces that the US is to start diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China and would therefore sever relations with the Republic of China, exiled on the island of Taiwan.
1979 - The board game Trivial Pursuit is created by Canadians Chris Haney and Scott Abbott.
1993 - The Troubles: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.
1994 – Netscape Navigator 1.0 is first released.
1994 – Palau becomes a member of the UN.
1995 – The European Communities Court of Justice passes the Bosman ruling
1997 – A chartered Tupolev TU-154 from Tajikistan crashes in the desert near Sharja, United Arab Emirates airport killing 85.
1997 - The Treaty of Bangkok is signed, making Southeast Asia a nuclear weapon-free zone.
1999 - After weeks of heavy rain, several landslides occur in Northern Venezuela, killing hundreds of people.
2000 - The Third Reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Pant in present-day Ukraine is shut down.
From 2001 
2001 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa is reopened to the public almost 12 years after it was closed for restoration.
2002 – BBC 7, digital radio station, is launched in UK.
2004 – David Blunkett, Home Secretary in the British Government, resigns over a VISA scandal.
2009 – First flight of a Boeing 787
2010 – A boat carrying about 90 asylum seekers crashes on rocks off Christmas Island, killing around 30 people.
2011 – American troops withdraw from Iraq.
2013 - The funeral and burial of Nelson Mandela take place in his home village of Qunu, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He had died on December 5 at the age of 95 - See Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela.
2013 - Michelle Bachelet wins Chile's Presidential election. She had previously served as president from 2006 until 2010.
2014 - 2014 Sydney hostage crisis: Iranian refugee and known criminal Man Haron Monis takes several people hostage in a café in Sydney, Australia. The siege is ended early the next day in a gun battle in which the attacker and two hostages are killed.
2017 - Star Wars: The Last Jedi is released in theaters in the U.S.A.
Up to 1900 
 37 – Nero, Roman Emperor (d. 68)
 130 - Lucius Verus, Roman Emperor {d.169}
 1447 – Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1508)
 1567 - Christoph Demantius, German composer (d. 1643)
 1588 - Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1658)
 1657 - Michel Richard Delalande, French composer and organist (d. 1726)
 1686 - Jean-Joseph Fiocco, Flemish composer (d. 1746)
 1719 - Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1790)
 1760 - David Heinrich Hoppe, German pharmacist, entomologist and physician (d. 1846)
 1789 - Carlos Soublette, 11th President of Venezuela (d. 1870)
 1796 - Hiram Runnels, Governor of Mississippi (d. 1857)
 1810 - Peter Andreas Munch, Norwegian historian (d. 1863)
 1832 – Gustave Eiffel, French architect (d. 1923)
 1834 - Charles Augustus Young, American astronomer (d. 1908)
 1852 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1908)
 1853 - Francisco Silvela, Spanish historian and politician (d. 1905)
 1859 – L. L. Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto (d. 1917)
1860 – Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish doctor, won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1904)
 1861 – Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, President of Finland (d. 1944)
 1861 - Charles Duryea, American engineer (d. 1938)
 1875 - Emilio Jacinto, Filipino journalist and revolutionary (d. 1899)
 1878 – Hans Carossa, German writer (d. 1956)
 1881 – Eugen Bolz, German politician and Resistance activist (d. 1945)
 1885 - Leonid Pitamic, Yugoslavian legal philosopher and diplomat (d. 1974)
 1888 - Maxwell Anderson, American journalist and playwright (d. 1959)
 1890 - Harry Babcock, American pole vaulter (d. 1965)
 1892 – J. Paul Getty, American oil tycoon (d. 1976)
 1894 - Josef Imbach, Swiss sprinter (d. 1964)
 1896 – Betty Smith, American writer (d. 1972)
 1899 – Harold Abrahams, British sprinter (d. 1978)
1901  1950 
 1902 - Robert F. Bradford, 57th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1983)
 1903 - Tamanishiki San'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1938)
 1906 - Edmond Debeaumarché, French resistance activist (d. 1959)
 1907 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (d. 2012)
 1907 - Gordon Douglas, American film director (d. 1993)
 1909 - Sattar Bahlulzade, Azerbaijani painter (d. 1974)
 1910 – John H. Hammond, American musician and record producer (d. 1987)
 1911 – Stan Kenton, American musician (d. 1979)
 1916 – Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist (d. 2004)
 1916 - Buddy Cole, American pianist (d. 1964)
 1917 - Hilde Zadek, German operatic soprano (d. 2019)
 1918 - Jeff Chandler, American actor, film producer and singer (d. 1961)
 1919 - Max Yasgur, American farmer, owner of the site of the Woodstock festival (d. 1973)
 1920 - Albert Memmi, Tunisian-French writer and essayist
 1923 – Freeman Dyson, English-American physicist
 1923 - Uziel Gal, German-Israeli firearms designer (d. 2001)
1923 - Inge Keller, German actress (d. 2017)
 1923 - Valentin Varennikov, Soviet general and politician (d. 2009)
 1928 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (d. 2000)
 1928 - Ida Haendel, Polish-English violinist
 1930 - Edna O'Brien, Irish author
 1931 – Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish writer (d. 2015)
 1932 - John Meurig Thomas, Welsh chemist
 1933 - Bapu, Indian movie director (d. 2014)
 1933 - Tim Conway, American comedian and actor (d. 2019)
 1933 - Donald Woods, South African journalist and Anti-Apartheid activist (d. 2001)
 1934 - Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, President of Somalia (d. 2012)
 1934 - Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somali leader (d. 1996)
 1934 - Curtis Fuller, American jazz musician
 1936 – Joe D'Amato, Italian movie maker (d. 1999)
 1938 – Juan Carlos Wasmosy, former President of Paraguay
 1938 - Bob Foster, American boxer (d. 2015)
 1939 – Cindy Birdsong, American singer
 1942 – Kathleen Blanco, American politician, 54th Governor of Louisiana (d. 2019)
1942 - Dave Clark, English drummer, songwriter and producer
 1943 - Lorenzo Piretto, Italian archbishop
 1944 – Chico Mendes, Brazilian activist (d. 1988)
 1946 - Carmine Appice, American rock musician
 1948 – Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (d. 1991)
 1949 - Don Johnson, American actor, singer and producer
 1950 - Melanie Chartoff, American actress and comedienne
1951  1975 
 1951 - Joe Jordan, Scottish footballer and manager
 1952 – Allan Simonsen, Danish footballer
 1952 - Julie Taymor, American director, producer and screenwriter
 1953 - Robert Charles Wilson, American-Canadian science fiction author
 1954 – Mark Warner, American politician
 1955 – Paul Simonon, English musician (The Clash)
 1955 – Renate Künast, German politician
 1957 - Laura Molina, American singer, guitarist, actress and painter
 1957 - Tim Reynolds, German-American singer-songwriter and musician
 1958 - Alfredo Ormando, Italian writer (d. 1998)
 1958 - Stephan Weil, German politician, Minister-President of Lower Saxony since 2013
 1960 - Irma Boom, Dutch graphic designer
 1962 – Gary Mason, British boxer (d. 2011)
 1963 - Ellie Cornell, American actress and movie producer
 1963 – Helen Slater, American actress
 1964 - Michael Le Vell, English actor
 1964 - Paul Kaye, English comedian, actor and screenwriter
 1966 - Carl Hooper, Guyanese cricketer
 1966 - Molly Price, American actress
1969 – Chantal Petitclerc, Canadian wheelchair athlete
 1970 – Frankie Dettori, Italian jockey
 1970 - Lawrence Funderburke, American basketball player
 1970 - Michael Shanks, Canadian actor
 1971 - Clint Lowery, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
 1971 - Arne Quinze, Belgian conceptual artist
 1972 - Kaye Wragg, English actress
 1973 - Ryoo Seung-wan, South Korean director, screenwriter and actor
From 1976 
 1976 - Bhaichung Bhutia, Indian footballer
 1977 – Dave Mackintosh, Scottish musician
 1977 - Mehmet Aurélio, Brazilian-Turkish footballer 
 1978 - Mark Jansen, Dutch guitarist
 1979 – Adam Brody, American actor
 1980 – Serge Pizzorno, English musician (Kasabian)
 1981 - Michelle Dockery, English actress
 1981 – Roman Pavlyuchenko, Russian footballer
 1981 – Hossam Ghaly, Egyptian footballer
 1982 - Charlie Cox, English actor
 1983 - Wang Hao, Chinese table tennis player
 1983 – Delon Armitage, English rugby player
 1983 – Ronnie Radke, American singer
 1984 - Kirsty Lee Allan, Australian actress
 1984 – Martin Skrtel, Slovakian footballer
 1986 - Keylor Navas, Costa Rican footballer
 1986 - Kim Junsu, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
 1986 - Snejana Onopka, Ukrainian model
 1988 - Emily Head, English actress
 1988 - Steven Nzonzi, French footballer
 1992 - Jesse Lingard, English footballer
 1992 - Sean Solia, Samoan cricketer
 1993 - Kyle Waddell, Scottish curler
1994 - Emma Lockhart, American actress
 1998 - Chandler Canterbury, American actor
Up to 1950 
1025 – Basil II, Byzantine Emperor (b. 958)
1072 – Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan in Persia (b. 1029)
1161 - Emperor Hailingwang of Jin of China
1230 - Ottokar I of Bohemia (b. 1155)
1263 – King Haakon IV of Norway (b. 1204)
1598 – Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch writer and statesman (b. 1538)
1621 – Charles de Luynes, Constable of France (b. 1578)
1673 – Margaret Cavendish, English writer (b. 1623)
1675 – Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (b. 1632)
1683 – Izaak Walton, English writer (b. 1593)
1715 – George Hickes, English minister and scholar (b. 1642)
1753 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (b. 1694)
1792 – Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer (b. 1756)
1855 - Joseph Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (b. 1803)
1878 - Alfred Bird, English chemist and manufacturer (b. 1811)
1885 - Ferdinand II of Portugal (b. 1816)
1890 – Sitting Bull, Sioux nation leader (b. c.1831)
1943 – Fats Waller, American musician (b. 1904)
1944 – Glenn Miller, American musician (b. 1904)
1950 - Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian politician (b. 1875)
From 1951 
1953 - Robert Stangland, American jumper (b. 1881)
1958 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
1962 - Charles Laughton, English-American actor, director and producer (b. 1899)
1966 – Walt Disney, American animator (b. 1901)
1968 – Jess Willard, American boxer (b. 1881)
1968 - Antonio Barrette, 18th Premier of Quebec (b. 1899)
1974 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born writer (b. 1902)
1977 - Wilfred Kitching, 7th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1893)
1984 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (b. 1904)
1985 – Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Mauritian politician (b. 1900)
1989 – Arnold Moss, American character actor  (b. 1910)
1991 – Vasily Zaytsev, Soviet World War II hero (b. 1915)
2001 – Rufus Thomas, American musician (b. 1917)
2001 – Russ Haas, Pro Wrestler (b. 1974)
2003 – George Fisher, American political cartoonist (b. 1923)
2006 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss racing driver (b. 1939)
2007 – Julia Carson, American politician (b. 1938)
2008 - León Febres Cordero, 46th President of Ecuador (b. 1931)
2009 – Oral Roberts, American television evangelist (b. 1918)
2010 – Blake Edwards, American movie director (b. 1922)
2010 – Bob Feller, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2010 – Jean Rollin, French movie director and producer (b. 1938)
2011 – Christopher Hitchens, British-American writer, journalist and critic (b. 1949)
2013 - Joan Fontaine, British-American actress (b. 1917)
2013 - Harold Camping, American evangelist and Doomsday predictor (b. 1921)
2014 - Chakri, Indian movie composer and singer (b. 1974)
2014 - Mustapha Maarof, Malaysian actor (b. 1935)
2015 - Licio Gelli, Italian financier (b. 1919)
2015 - Harry Zvi Tabor, British-Israeli physicist (b. 1917)
2016 - Craig Sager, American sportscaster (b. 1951)
2017 - A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1944)
2017 - Reinhart Fuchs, German chess player (b. 1934)
2017 - Ana María Vela Rubio, Spanish supercentenarian (b. 1901)
2017 - Heinz Wolff, German-British scientist and broadcaster (b. 1928)
2018 - Girma Wolde-Giorgis, President of Ethiopia (b. 1924)
2018 - Philippe Moureaux, Belgian politician (b. 1939)
2019 - Nicky Henson, English actor (b. 1945)
2019 - Chuck Peddle, American electrical engineer (b. 1937)
Observances 
 Homecoming Day (Alderney)
 Kingdom Day (Netherlands)
 Zamenhof Day (Esperanto)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1431 – Henry VI of England is crowned King of France.
 1497 - Vasco da Gama sails around the Cape of Good Hope in present-day South Africa, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
 1575 - A massive earthquake hits Valdivia, Chile.
 1598 - Second War of Jeong-yu: Battle of Noryang - Chinese general Chen Lin heavily damages the Japanese fleet, which successfully retreats.
 1631 – An eruption of Mount Vesuvius kills around 4,000 people.
 1653 – Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
 1689 – Convention Parliament: In England, the Declaration of the Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
 1707 – The last eruption of Mount Fuji, to date, occurs.
 1761 - Seven Years' War: After a four-month siege, Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress in Kolobrzeg.
 1773 – Boston Tea Party: American patriots dump crates of tea into Boston Harbor at protest against the tea act.
1796 - French ship Seduisant sinks off Brest, Brittany, France, killing 680. 
 1811 – The first in a series of strong earthquakes hits New Madrid, Missouri.
 1830 – Uruguay adopts its current flag.
 1838 - Great Trek: Battle of Blood River - Voortrekkers under Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu "impis" led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in present-day KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
 1857 - An earthquake strikes the Basilicata region of Italy, killing 11,000 people.
 1863 - American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Confederate army of Tennessee.
 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Nashville - Major General George Thomas' Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate army of Tennessee.
 1880 - The Boer Republic Transvaal declares independence from the United Kingdom under the name of "South African Republic". The first shots of the First Boer War are fired.
 1899 – AC Milan FC is founded.
1901  2000 
 1903 - The Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel in Bombay, India, opens to guests for the first time.
 1912 - First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Empire Navy at the Battle of Elli.
 1914 - World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
 1918 - Vincas Mickevicius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.
 1920 – An earthquake in Gansu province in China kills an estimated 200,000 people.
 1922 – Polish President Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated.
 1927 - Donald Bradman first appears in a first-class cricket match, for New South Wales against South Australia.
 1937 - Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from Alcatraz, but are never seen again.
 1941 - World War II: Japanese forces occupy Miri, Sarawak.
 1942 - Holocaust: Heinrich Himmler orders Roma candidates for extermination to be deported to Auschwitz.
1944 - World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with a surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
 1946 – Thailand joins the UN.
 1947 - William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
 1950 - Korean War: Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the war in support of North Korea.
 1957 - Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
 1960 - New York City Air Disaster: Approaching New York Idlewild Airport from Chicago, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 collides with a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation Aircraft during a snowstorm on Staten Island, killing 134 people. 
 1965 – Taufa'ahau Tupou IV becomes King of Tonga.
 1965 - The Pioneer 6 space probe is launched.
 1966 - South Korean ferry Namjung-Ho sinks, killing 270 people.
1966 - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights are adopted.
 1971 – Bahrain becomes independent.
 1971 – The Bangladesh War of Independence and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 come to an end.
 1972 – Vietnam War: Henry Kissinger announces that North Vietnam has left peace negotiations.
 1979 - Libya increases crude oil prices.
 1985 - New York City crime: Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti.
 1988 - In the UK, Edwina Currie resigns as junior health minister, after suggesting that most eggs contain salmonella.
 1989 – Romanian Revolution: Clashes begins between protestors and Securitate in Timisoara, Romania.
 1991 – Egyptian ferry Salem Express crashes into a reef and sinks, killing over 700 people. 200 can be rescued.
 1991 – Kazakhstan becomes independent from the Soviet Union.
 1997 - A Japanese airing of the Denno Senshi-Porygon episode of Pokémon causes seizures in 685 viewers.
From 2001 
 2011 – Typhoon Washi hits the Philippines in the night to December 17.
 2012 - 2012 Delhi gang rape case: A 23-year-old female student is gang-raped by a group of men while getting off a bus in Delhi. She dies on December 29 and the attack attracts much attention and debate around the world.
 2014 - The 2014 Sydney hostage crisis comes to an end, as police storm the café in Sydney, Australia, where Man Haron Monis had held people hostage since the previous day. Three people are killed, including the hostage taker.
 2014 - Members of the Pakistani Taliban carry out a massacre at an army school in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing at least 141 people, most of them children.

Births
Up to 1900 
 868 - Emperor Yozei of Japan (d. 949)
 1364 - Emperor Manuel III of Trebizond (d. 1417)
 1485 – Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England (d. 1536)
 1584 - John Selden, English polymath (d. 1654)
 1614 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674)
 1714 - George Whitefield, English clergyman (d. 1770)
 1716 - Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini, French diplomat (d. 1798)
 1717 - Elizabeth Carter, English poet (d. 1806)
 1742 – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian field marshal (d. 1819)
 1770 – Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (d. 1827)
 1775 – Jane Austen, English novelist (d. 1817)
 1775 - François Adrien Boieldieu, French composer (d. 1834)
 1776 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German physicist (d. 1810)
 1787 - Mary Russell Mitford, English author and playwright (d. 1855)
 1790 – King Leopold I of Belgium (d. 1865)
 1804 – Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1889)
 1808 - Kinsley S. Bingham, 11th Governor of Michigan (d. 1864)
 1826 - Giambattista Donati, Italian astronomer (d. 1873)
1834 - Léon Walras, French economist (d. 1910)
 1858 - Agnes Baden-Powell, English Girl Scout leader (d. 1945)
 1861 - Antonio de la Gandara, French painter (d. 1917)
 1863 – George Santayana, Spanish philosopher (d. 1962)
 1865 - Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (d. 1918)
 1866 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born abstract painter (d. 1944)
 1869 – Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1952)
 1872 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (d. 1947)
 1876 - Rodolphe Seeldrayers, Belgian FIFA President (d. 1955)
 1882 - Walther Meissner, German physicist (d. 1974)
 1882 – Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d. 1967)
 1883 - Karoly Kos, Hungarian-Romanian architect, ethnologist and politician (d. 1977)
 1883 - Max Linder, French actor, director, screenwriter and producer (d. 1925)
 1884 - Seibo Kitamura, Japanese sculptor (d. 1987)
 1888 – King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
 1889 - Kim Chwa-chin, South Korean guerrilla leader (d. 1930)
1899 – Noël Coward, English playwright, actor and composer (d. 1973)
 1900 - Horatio Fitch, American sprinter (d. 1985)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (d. 1978)
 1902 - Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet (d. 1999)
 1903 - Misao Tamai, Japanese footballer (d. 1978)
 1905 – Piet Hein, Danish mathematician and inventor (d. 1996)
 1913 - George Ignatieff, Russian-Canadian diplomat (d. 1989)
 1915 - Turk Murphy, American trombonist and singer (d. 1987)
 1916 - Birgitta Valberg, Swedish actress (d. 2014)
 1917 – Arthur C. Clarke, British writer (d. 2008)
 1918 – Pierre Delanoe, French songwriter and lyricist (d. 2006)
 1923 - Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian, political scientist and author (d. 2014)
 1925 – Geir Hallgrimsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1990)
 1926 - A. N. R. Robinson, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2014)
 1927 - Peter Dickinson, British writer (d. 2015)
 1928 - Terry Carter, American actor, director and producer
 1928 – Philip K. Dick, American writer (d. 1982)
 1929 - Nicholas Courtney, English actor (d. 2012)
1932 - Rodion Shchedrin, Russian pianist and composer
 1932 - Quentin Blake, English illustrator
 1934 - Nobuyuki Aihara, Japanese gymnast (d. 2013)
 1934 - Rodolfo Llinas, Colombian-American neuroscientist
 1935 - Nikos Sampson, President of Cyprus (d. 2001)
 1936 - Morris Dees, American lawyer and Civil Rights activist
 1937 - Mitsuo Kamata, Japanese footballer
 1938 – Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress
 1939 – Philip Langridge, English tenor (d. 2010)
 1939 – Barney McKenna, Irish musician (Dubliners) (d. 2012)
 1941 - Lesley Stahl, American TV host
 1942 – Donald Carcieri, American politician, former Governor of Rhode Island
 1943 – Tony Hicks, English guitarist (The Hollies)
 1943 - Steven Bochco, American television producer and writer (d. 2018)
 1944 – N!xau, Namibian actor and bush farmer (d. 2003)
 1945 - Bobby George, English darts player
 1946 – Benny Andersson, Swedish musician, singer and songwriter (ABBA)
 1946 - Christopher Ellison, English actor
 1946 - Trevor Pinnock, English conductor
1947 - Vince Matthews, American athlete
 1948 – Christopher Biggins, English actor
 1948 – Pat Quinn, American politician, former Governor of Illinois
 1949 - Billy Gibbons, American musician, songwriter and actor
1951  1975 
 1952 – Francesco Graziani, Italian footballer
 1952 - Joel Garner, Barbadian cricketer
 1953 - Rebecca Forstadt, American voice actress
 1955 - Xander Berkeley, American actor
 1955 - Carol Browner, American lawyer, environmentalist and businesswoman
 1955 - Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
 1956 - Liliane Maury Pasquier, Swiss politician
 1956 - Lizzy Mercier Descloux, French singer-songwriter, musician and actress (d. 2004)
 1956 – Tommy Burns, Scottish footballer (d. 2008)
 1957 - Antonio Vega, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2009)
 1958 - Cathy Inglese, American football coach (d. 2019)
 1958 - Katie Leigh, American actress
 1959 - Alison LaPlaca, American actress
 1959 - H. D. Kumaraswamy, Indian politician, 18th Chief Minister of Karnataka
 1959 - Alexander Lebedev, Russian businessman
 1960 - Pat Van Den Hauwe, Belgian footballer and manager
 1961 – Bill Hicks, American comedian (d. 1994)
 1961 – Jon Tenney, American actor
1962 - Melanie Smith, American actress
 1963 – Benjamin Bratt, American actor
 1964 – Heike Drechsler, German athlete
 1964 - Paul Vogt, American actor and comedian
 1966 - Paul McGinley, Irish golfer
 1966 – Dennis Wise, English footballer
 1967 - Donovan Bailey, Canadian sprinter
 1968 - Ross Burden, New Zealand chef (d. 2014)
 1969 - Kevin McCowne, Scottish footballer
 1969 - Adam Riess, American physicist and astronomer
 1970 - Daniel Cosgrove, American actor
 1971 - Scott Booth, Scottish footballer
 1972 – Zeljko Kalac, Australian footballer
 1972 - Paul Leyden, Australian actor, director, producer and screenwriter
 1972 - Julia Klöckner, German politician
 1973 – Mariza, Portuguese singer
From 1976 
 1976 - Geoff Norcott, English comedian
 1977 – Sylvain Distin, French footballer
 1979 – Trevor Immelman, South African golfer
 1979 - Daniel Narcisse, French handball player
 1981 - Krysten Ritter, American actress
 1981 - Anna Sedokova, Ukrainian-American singer and actress
 1982 – Stanislav Sestak, Slovakian footballer
 1982 – Justin Mentell, American actor (d. 2010)
 1983 - Kelenna Azubuike, American basketball player
 1983 – Danielle Lloyd, English model
 1984 - Theo James, English actor
 1986 - Candice Crawford, American model and journalist
 1986 - Alcides Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
 1987 – Mamé Biram Diouf, Senegalese footballer
 1988 – Mats Hummels, German footballer
 1988 - Anna Popplewell, English actress
 1988 - Park Seo-jeon, South Korean actor and model
 1988 - Alexey Shved, Russian basketball player
 1989 - Vera Nebolsina, Russian chess player
 1989 - Lee Biran, Israeli singer, actor and composer
 1992 - Lieke Martens, Dutch footballer
1992 - Tom Rogic, Australian footballer
 1993 - Jyoti Amge, Indian actress and world's smallest living woman
 1994 - Stephen Sutton, English activist, blogger and cancer charity fundraiser (d. 2014)
 1996 - Wilfred Ndidi, Nigerian footballer
 1997 - Zara Larsson, Swedish singer
 1999 - Bryce Robinson, American actor
Up to 1900 
 401 - Pope Anastasius I
 705 – Empress Wu of Zhou (China; b. 625)
 714 – Pippin of Herstal, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia
 867 - Eberhard of Friuli, Frankish literary patron, diplomat and saint (b. 815)
 999 – Saint Adelaide of Italy (b. 931)
 1263 - King Haakon IV of Norway (b. 1204)
 1325 – Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (b. 1270)
 1379 – John Fitzalan, Marshal of England (drowned)
 1470 – John II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425)
 1474 - Ali Qushji, astronomer, mathematician and physicist (b. 1403)
 1515 – Afonso de Albuquerque Portuguese naval general (b. 1453)
 1598 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (b. 1515)
 1669 – Nathaniel Fiennes, English politician
 1687 – William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (b. 1623)
 1751 – Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (b. 1700)
 1774 – François Quesnay, French economist (b. 1694)
 1783 – Johann A. Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
 1783 – Sir William James British naval commander (b. 1720)
1801 - Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden (b. 1755)
 1809 – Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (b. 1755)
 1859 – Wilhelm Grimm, German writer and folklorist (b. 1786)
 1865 - Philip Allen, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1785)
 1892 - Henry Yesler, 7th Mayor of Seattle (b. 1810)
 1897 - Alphonse Daudet, French author (b. 1840)
 1898 – Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832)
1901  2000 
 1914 – Ivan Zajc, Austro-Hungarian composer (b. 1832)
 1916 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)
 1921 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)
 1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz, first President of Poland (b. 1865)
 1928 – Elinor Wylie, American poet and writer (b. 1885)
 1935 - Thelma Todd, American actress (b. 1905)
 1944 - Betsie ten Boom, Dutch Holocaust victim (b. 1885)
 1945 – Giovanni Agnelli, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1866)
 1945 – Fumimaro Konoe, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1891)
 1949 – Sidney Olcott, Canadian movie director (b. 1873)
 1956 – Nina Hamnett, British artist (b. 1890)
 1963 - Nam Phuong, Empress of Vietnam (b. 1914)
 1965 – Salote Tupou III, Queen of Tonga (b. 1900)
 1965 – W. Somerset Maugham, British writer (b. 1874)
 1968 - Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1912)
 1968 - Muhammad Suheimat, Jordanian general and politician (b. 1916)
 1977 – Risto Jarva, Finnish movie maker (b. 1934)
1980 – Colonel Harland Sanders, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1890)
 1980 – Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
 1982 – Colin Chapman, British engineer and automobile manufacturer, founder of Lotus Cars (b. 1928)
 1985 – Paul Castellano, American mafioso (b. 1915)
 1985 – Thomas Bilotti, American mafioso (b. 1940)
 1989 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (b. 1930)
 1989 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor (b. 1925)
 1989 – Aileen Pringle, American actress (b. 1895)
 1990 – Douglas Campbell, American pilot (b. 1896)
 1993 – Moses Gunn, American actor (b. 1929)
 1993 – Tanaka Kakuei, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)
 1995 – Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director (b. 1939)
 1996 – Quentin Bell, British art historian (b. 1910)
From 2001 
 2001 - Stuart Adamson, British singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1958)
 2001 – Stefan Heym, German writer (b. 1913)
 2003 – Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1914)
 2003 – Gary Stewart, American musician, singer and songwriter (suicide) (b. 1945)
 2004 – Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (b. 1933)
 2004 - Deyda Hadara, Gambian journalist (b. 1946)
 2005 – Kenneth Bulmer, British writer (b. 1921)
 2005 – John Spencer, American actor (b. 1946)
 2007 – Dan Fogelberg, American musician (b. 1951)
 2009 – Roy E. Disney, American businessman (b. 1930)
 2009 – Yegor Gaidar, Soviet politician (b. 1956)
 2009 - Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, South African physician and politician (b. 1940)
 2011 – Bob Brookmeyer, American jazz musician (b. 1929)
 2013 - Ray Price, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1926)
 2014 - Man Haron Monis, Iranian-Australian self-styled Muslim cleric and hostage taker (b. 1964)
 2014 - Tim Cochran, American mathematician (b. 1955)
2014 - Martin Brasier, English biologist (b. 1947)
 2014 - Phillip Archuleta, American politician (b. 1949)
 2014 - Sultan Singh, Indian politician, 5th Governor of Tripura (b. 1923)
 2015 - Peter Dickinson, British writer (b. 1927)
 2015 - Gabre Gabric, Croatian-Italian athlete (b. 1914)
 2016 - Faina Melnyk, Ukrainian-Russian discus thrower (b. 1945)
 2017 - Tu An, Chinese poet and translator (b. 1923)
 2017 - Ralph Carney, American saxophonist (b. 1956)
 2017 - Len Ceglarski, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1926)
 2017 - Richard Dobson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
 2017 - E. Hunter Harrison, American railroad executive (b. 1944)
 2017 - Sharon Laws, British racing cyclist (b. 1974)
 2017 - Keely Smith, American singer (b. 1928)
 2017 - Z'EV, American percussionist and poet (b. 1951)
 2017 - Muriel Turner, Baroness Turner of Camden, British politician (b. 1927)
 2018 - Eraldo Isidori, Italian politician (b. 1940)
 2018 - T. K. Wetherell, American politician (b. 1945)
2019 - Dmitri Chesnokov, Russian footballer (b. 1973) 
 2019 - Hans Kornberg, German-born British-American biochemist; (b. 1928)
 2019 - Bill Simpson, American racing driver; (b. 1940)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Kazakhstan)
 Day of Reconciliation (South Africa)
 Victory Day (India and Bangladesh)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 497 BC - The first Saturnalia festival is first celebrated in Ancient Rome.
 546 - Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under King Totila plunder Rome, by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
 942 – William I of Normandy is assassinated.
 1538 – Pope Paul III excommunicates King Henry VIII of England.
 1577 - Francis Drake sails from Plymouth on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Ocean coasts of the Americas.
 1583 - Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeat troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg.
 1586 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan becomes Emperor.
 1600 - Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
 1637 – In Japan, the Shimabara Rebellion led by Amakusa Shigeharu against daimyo Matsukura Shigeharu begins.
 1718 – Great Britain declares war on Spain.
 1777 - American Revolutionary War: France formally recognizes the United States as an independent country.
 1790 – The Aztec calendar stone Piedra del Sol is discovered during building work in Mexico City.
1819 - Simon Bolivar declares the independence of Gran Colombia (present-day Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador) in Angostura, now Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela.
 1830 - Simon Bolivar dies at the age of 47.
 1835 - Great Fire of New York City: Fire levels Lower Manhattan.
 1837 - A fire rips through the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, killing 30 guards.
 1862 – Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order Number 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky.
 1865 – First performance of Franz Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony.
 1892 - The first issue of Vogue magazine is published.
1901  2000 
 1903 – The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
 1907 – Ugyen Wangchuck becomes the first King of Bhutan.
 1909 - Albert I of Belgium becomes King.
 1918 - Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
 1919 – Uruguay becomes a signatory of the Buenos Aires Convention.
 1922 - The last British troops leave the Irish Free State.
 1926 – Antanas Smetona becomes President of Lithuania.
 1938 - Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
 1939 - World War II: Battle of River Plate - The German Navy sinks its own ship Admiral Graf Spee outside Montevideo.
 1941 – World War II: Japanese forces land in northern Borneo.
 1960 - Haile Selassie is re-installed as Emperor of Ethiopia, after he had previously been removed by a coup, while he was in Brazil, on December 13.
1960 - 1960 Munich Convair 340 crash: 20 people on board the aircraft and 32 on the ground are killed.
 1961 – The world's biggest circus tragedy occurs in Niteroi, Brazil when the circus is set on fire by angry workers, killing 323 people.
 1967 – Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt goes missing on a diving trip off the state of Victoria. He is declared dead two days later.
 1970 – The current flag of Oman comes into use.
 1973 – 30 passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport.
 1981 – Senegal and Gambia form the Senegambia Confederation.
 1983 – An IRA bomb at a Harrods Department store in London kills 6 people.
 1989 – Fernando Collor de Mello is elected President of Brazil.
 1989 – The first full-length episode of The Simpsons airs.
 1997 – Oggy and the Cockroaches: The Movie releases in theaters by Warner Bros.
From 2001 
 2003 – The Soham murder trial ends with Ian Huntley being found guilty of the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman near Soham, Cambridgeshire, in 2002.
 2004 – Out of health and cultural reasons, Bhutan bans the sale of tobacco.
 2005 – King Jigme Singye Wangchuck of Bhutan decides to abdicate the throne.
 2010 – Arab Spring: Tunisian fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire in an act of protest. He dies as a result of this on January 4, 2011. Shortly after, Tunisia's President, Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali is overthrown, and this starts a series of uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East.
 2010 – Murder of Joanna Yeates: Vincent Tabak murders Joanna Yeates at her home in Clifton, Bristol. More than 10 months later, he is sentenced to life imprisonment.
 2011 – A typhoon hits the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines, killing at least 400 people.
 2011 - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il dies. His son, Kim Jong-un, takes over from him.
2014 - US President Barack Obama declares a normalization in US-Cuba relations for the first time in over 50 years, after the release of American Alan Gross, who was held in Cuba since December 2009.
 2017 - Sebastian Pinera is elected President of Chile for a second time.
 2019 - Fallon Sherrock becomes the first woman to win a match in a World Darts Championship.
Up to 1900 
 1267 – Emperor Go-Uda, emperor of Japan (d. 1324)
 1554 - Ernest of Bavaria (d. 1612)
 1619 – Prince Rupert, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)
 1632 – Anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695)
 1638 - Anna Sophia II, Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1683)
 1685 – Thomas Tickell, English writer (d. 1740)
 1706 – Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749)
 1734 – Maria I of Portugal (d. 1816)
 1749 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (d. 1801)
 1758 – Nathaniel Macon, American politician (d. 1837)
 1778 – Humphrey Davy, English chemist (d. 1829)
 1789 - Clement Comer Clay, 8th Governor of Alabama (d. 1866)
 1796 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist (d. 1865)
 1797 - Joseph Henry, American physicist (d. 1878)
 1799 – Titian Peale, American artist (d. 1885)
 1807 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist (d. 1892)
 1824 - John Kerr, Scottish physicist (d. 1907)
 1830 – Jules de Goncourt, French publisher (d. 1870)
1835 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, Swiss-American scientist (d. 1910)
 1842 – Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1899)
 1853 – Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor (d. 1917)
 1866 - Kazys Grinius, 3rd President of Lithuania (d. 1950)
 1866 - Mario García Menocal, 3rd President of Cuba (d. 1941)
 1872 – Mistinguett, French actress and singer (d. 1956)
 1873 – Ford Madox Ford, English writer (d. 1939)
 1874 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, tenth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950)
 1884 - Alison Uttley, English writer (d. 1976)
 1887 - Hermine Reuss of Greiz, wife of Wilhelm II of Germany (d. 1947)
 1889 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1950)
 1892 – Sam Barry, American basketball coach (d. 1950)
 1893 – Erwin Piscator, German movie director (d. 1966)
 1894 - Willem Schermerhorn, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977)
 1894 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
 1898 - Loren Murchison, American athlete (d. 1979)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Lee Strasberg, Austrian-born actor and director (d. 1982)
 1903 – Erskine Caldwell, American writer (d. 1987)
 1903 – Ray Noble, English musician {d. 1978}
 1905 – Simo Häyhä, Finnish soldier (d. 2002)
 1905 - Mohammad Hidayatullah, 11th Chief Justice of India (d. 1992)
 1905 - Jan Valtin, German writer (d. 1951)
 1908 – Willard Frank Libby, American physicist and chemist (d. 1980)
 1913 - Burt Baskin, American businessman (d. 1967)
 1915 – André Claveau, French singer (d. 2003)
 1915 - Robert A. Dahl, American political theorist (d. 2014)
 1916 – Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (d. 2000)
 1919 - Tomas Spidlik, Czech cardinal (d. 2010)
 1920 - Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist (d. 2004)
 1922 - Mario Rigamonti, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
 1926 - Stephen Lewis, English actor (d. 2015)
 1926 - Patrice Wymore, American actress (d. 2014)
 1928 - Marilyn Beck, American columnist (d. 2014)
 1928 - George Lindsey, American actor (d. 2012)
1929 – William Safire, American columnist (d. 2009)
 1929 – Jacqueline Hill, British actress (d. 1993)
 1930 – Bob Guccione, American magazine publisher (d. 2010)
 1930 – Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
 1931 - Dave Madden, Canadian-American actor (d. 2014)
 1934 - Ray Wilson, English footballer (d. 2018)
 1935 - Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball player, coach and manager (d. 1999)
 1936 - Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires)
 1936 – Tommy Steele, English singer and actor
 1936 - Klaus Kinkel, German politician (d. 2019)
 1937 - John Kennedy Toole, American author (d. 1969)
 1937 - Art Neville, American singer and keyboardist (d. 2019)
 1937 - Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (d. 2005)
 1938 - Gilles Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
 1938 – Peter Snell, New Zealand athlete (d. 2019)
 1939 – Eddie Kendricks, American musician (d. 1992)
 1941 – Gene Clark, American musician (d. 1991)
 1941 - Dave Dee, English singer (d. 2009)
1942 – Paul Butterfield, American musician (d. 1987)
 1942 - Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian leader
 1943 - Christopher Cazenove, English actor (d. 2010)
 1943 – Ron Geesin, Scottish musician
 1943 – Lauren Hutton, American model and actress
 1944 – Jack L. Chalker, American novelist
 1944 – Lorne Michaels, Canadian television producer
 1944 – Bernard Hill, English actor
 1945 – Jacqueline Wilson, English writer
 1945 – Elvin Hayes, American basketball player
 1945 – Ernie Hudson, American actor
 1946 – Eugene Levy, Canadian actor
 1947 – Wes Studi, American actor
 1947 - Robert Dornhelm, Romanian-Austrian film and television director
 1948 - Valery Belousov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
 1949 – Paul Rodgers, British singer (Free)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Ken Hitchcock, Canadian ice hockey coach
 1953 – Bill Pullman, American actor
 1953 - Sally Menke, American movie producer (d. 2010)
 1955 – Brad Davis, American basketball player
 1956 - Peter John Farrelly, American screenwriter and director
 1958 - Mike Mills, American musician in band R.E.M.
 1959 - Gregg Araki, American filmmaker
 1959 - Albert King, American basketball player
 1960 - Moreno Argentin, Italian cyclist
 1961 - Sara Dallin, English singer (Bananarama)
 1962 - Ari Folman, Israeli film director, screenwriter and film score composer
 1963 – Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Icelandic writer
 1966 – Kristiina Ojuland, Estonian politician
 1966 – Valery Liukin, Soviet gymnast
 1967 – Gigi D'Agostino, Italian musician and DJ
 1968 – Paul Tracy, Canadian race car driver
 1969 - Chris Mason, English darts player
 1970 - Sean Patrick Thomas, American actor
 1971 – Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
 1973 – Paula Radcliffe, English runner
 1973 - Codrin Tapu, Romanian psychologist
1974 - Sarah Paulson, American actress
 1974 - Giovanni Ribisi, American actor
 1974 - Marissa Ribisi, American actress and screenwriter
 1975 – Nick Dinsmore, American professional wrestler
 1975 – Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-born actress and model
From 1976 
 1976 – Patrick Müller, Swiss footballer
 1976 – Takeo Spikes, American football player
 1976 - Andrew Simpson, English sailor (d. 2013)
 1977 – Liédson, Portuguese footballer
 1977 - Arnaud Clément, French tennis player
 1977 - Oxana Fedorova, Russian model, actress and singer
 1978 – Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer and politician
 1978 - Riteish Deshmukh, Indian actor
 1979 - Charlotte Edwards, English cricketer
 1979 – William Green, American football player
 1980 - Eli Pariser, American internet activist and computer programmer
 1981 – Tim Wiese, German footballer
 1982 - Dynamo, English magician
 1982 – Boubacar Sanogo, Ivory Coast footballer
 1982 - Craig Kielburger, Canadian author and activist
 1983 - Sébastien Ogier, French rally driver
 1983 - Chidi Odiah, Nigerian footballer
 1984 - Shannon Woodward, American actress
 1985 - Ryuichi Ogata, Japanese singer and actor
 1986 - Emma Bell, American actress
 1987 – Chelsea Manning, American soldier, leaked information on WikiLeaks
1988 - David Rudisha, Kenyan athlete
 1989 – André Ayew, Ghanaian footballer
 1989 - Taylor York, American musician (Paramore)
 1991 - Tom Walker, Scottish singer
 1993 - Patricia Ku Flores, Peruvian tennis player
 1993 - Buddy Hield, Bahamian basketball player
 1994 - Nat Wolff, American actor, singer and musician
 1998 - Martin Odegaard, Norwegian footballer
 2007 – James, Viscount Severn, British royal and youngest grandchild of Elizabeth II
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 942 – William I of Normandy
 1187 – Pope Gregory VIII
 1195 – Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
 1273 – Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet and mystic (b. 1207)
 1663 – Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)
 1721 – Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640)
 1830 – Simón Bolívar, Latin American politician and activist (b. 1783)
 1833 - Kaspar Hauser, German foundling (b. 1812)
 1847 - Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (b. 1791)
 1857 - Hiram Runnels, Governor of Mississippi (b. 1796)
 1860 - Desirée Clary, French-born Queen Consort of Sweden (b. 1777)
 1881 - Isaac Israel Hayes, American physician and polar explorer (b. 1832)
 1881 - Lewis H. Morgan, American anthropologist (b. 1818)
 1897 – Alphonse Daudet, French writer (b. 1840)
1901  2000 
 1901 - Josep Manyanet i Vives, Catalan priest (b. 1833)
 1907 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (b. 1824)
 1909 – King Léopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
 1917 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician (b. 1836)
 1927 - Rajendra Lahiri, Indian activist (b. 1892)
 1929 - Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, 10th President of Portugal (b. 1863)
 1933 – Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
 1934 - William L. Harding, 20th Governor of Iowa (b. 1877)
 1935 - Juan Vicente Gómez, President of Venezuela (b. 1857)
 1940 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician (b. 1860)
 1957 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer (b. 1893)
 1962 - Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892)
 1964 – Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
 1967 – Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
 1969 - Artur da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (b. 1899)
 1973 - Charles Greeley Abbott, American astrophysicist (b. 1872)
1973 - Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Italian cardinal (b. 1883)
 1978 - Josef Frings, German cardinal (b. 1887)
 1982 - Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (b. 1889)
 1987 – Irving Allen, American producer (b. 1916)
 1987 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (b. 1903)
 1992 – Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)
 1998 – Claudia Benton, Peruvian child psychologist (b. 1959)
 1999 – Grover Washington Jr., American musician (b. 1943)