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1901  2000 
 1909 – The Young Left is founded in Norway.
 1915 – United States Marines occupy Haiti.
 1918 - Finland: The Finnish Civil War begins.
 1926 – John Logie Baird demonstrates the first television broadcast.
 1927 - Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd. It later unites with Hejaz to form Saudi Arabia.
 1939 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of United States war planes to France.
 1941 – World War II: Fighting at Derna, Libya, begins. Following the capture of Tobruk, two brigades of the 6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay pursue the Italians westwards and encounters an Italian rear guard at Derna.
 1943 – World War II: Fifty bombers mount the first entirely American air raid against Germany, targeting Wilhelmshaven.
 1944 – World War II: The two-year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
 1945 – World War II: The Red Army arrives at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland. They find the Nazi concentration camp where 1.1-1.5 million people had been murdered.
1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.
 1961 - Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all lives lost.
 1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
 1967 – More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
 1973 – Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War.
 1974 - Brisbane River breaches its banks causing Brisbane's largest flood of the 20th century.
 1980 - Robert Mugabe returns to Zimbabwe (then-called Rhodesia) after a five-year exile.
 1983 – World's longest underwater tunnel (53.90 km) opens in Japan connecting the islands of Honshū and Hokkaido.
 1984 – Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world jumping record by 9.25 inches (23.5 centimeters) with a 28-foot, 10¼-inch (8.795-meter) jump.
1984 – Michael Jackson suffers severe burns to his scalp while filming a Pepsi commercial after a spark ignites his hair on fire due to a pyrotechnical fault. He is rushed to hospital.
 1991 – Muhammad Siyad Barre flees his compound in Mogadishu.
 1991 – Super Bowl XXV: The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills, 20-19.
 1992 – Mike Tyson goes on trial charged with raping a 1991 Miss Black America contestant.
 1993 - American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Taro becomes the first foreign-born wrestler of the sport to be given the title of Yokozuna.
 1996 – Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
 1996 – Germany observes its 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day.
 1997 – It is revealed that French museums have nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.
 1998 – American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today Show calling the attacks against her husband part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
From 2001 
 2001 – Professors Suzanne and Half Zantop are killed in the Dartmouth Murders.
 2001 – Ten members of the Oklahoma State University men's basketball team and support staff die in a plane crash in Colorado.
 2002 – Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kill more than 1,000.
 2010 – The 2009 Honduran political crisis ends, as Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes President.
 2013 - A fire in a nightclub in the city of Santa Maria, Southern Brazil, kills over 230 people.
 2019 - Two bombs explode at a Roman Catholic church service in Jolo, southern Philippines, killing 18 people.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1443 – Albert, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
 1546 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1608)
 1571 – Abbas I of Persia (d. 1629)
 1585 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)
 1662 – Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (d. 1742)
 1687 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
 1708 - Anna Petrovna of Russia (d. 1728)
 1741 - Hester Thrale, Welsh writer (d. 1821)
 1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
 1775 – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (d. 1854)
 1790 - William Davies Evans, Welsh sailor, chess player and inventor (d. 1872)
 1795 - Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor (d. 1886)
 1805 – Maria Anna of Bavaria, Queen Consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
 1805 – Sophie of Bavaria, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1872)
 1805 - Samuel Palmer, English artist (d. 1881)
 1814 – Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879)
 1823 - Edouard Lalo, French composer (d. 1892)
 1826 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d. 1889)
1826 - Richard Taylor, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
 1829 - Isaac Roberts, Welsh astronomer (d. 1904)
 1832 – Lewis Carroll, English writer (d. 1898)
 1836 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (d. 1895)
 1841 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (d. 1910)
 1850 - Samuel Gompers, American trade union leader (d. 1924)
 1850 – Edward J. Smith, British captain (d. 1912)
 1859 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (d. 1941)
 1864 - John Walter Gregory, English geologist and explorer (d. 1932)
 1867 - Katherine Mayo, American journalist (d. 1940)
 1871 - Samuel Peploe, Scottish painter (d. 1935)
 1885 – Jerome Kern, American composer (d. 1945)
 1891 – Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer and journalist (d. 1967)
 1893 – Soong Ching-ling, Chinese political figure and spouse of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)
 1895 - Harry Ruby, American composer and screenwriter (d. 1974)
 1899 - Béla Guttmann, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Willy Fritsch, German actor (d. 1973)
 1901 - Art Rooney, Pittsburgh Steelers founder and owner (d. 1988)
 1902 - Carl Berner, German-American supercentenarian (d. 2013)
 1903 – Sir John Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist (d. 1997)
 1908 - William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American journalist and publisher (d. 1993)
 1910 – Edward Kardelj, Yugoslavian politician (d. 1979)
 1912 – Arne Naess, Norwegian philosopher (d. 2009)
 1918 - Skitch Henderson, American bandleader (d. 2005)
 1918 - Elmore James, American blues musician (d. 1963)
 1919 – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American musician (d. 1972)
 1920 – Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
 1921 - Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
 1924 – Rauf Denktas, 1st President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (d. 2012)
 1924 - Brian Rix, English actor and activist (d. 2016)
 1926 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
 1928 – Hans Modrow, East German Premier
1930 – Aloysius Ambrozic, Slovenian-Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 2011)
 1930 - Bobby Bland, American musician (d. 2013)
 1931 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian writer (d. 2001)
 1933 - Jerry Buss, American businessman and sports team owner (d. 2013)
 1933 – Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman and billionaire
 1934 – Edith Cresson, former Prime Minister of France
 1936 - Barry Barish, American physicist
 1936 – Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist
 1936 - Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
 1937 – John Ogdon, British pianist (d. 1989)
 1940 – Petru Lucinschi, 2nd President of Moldova
 1940 – James Cromwell, American actor
 1940 - Reynaldo Rey, American actor, comedian and television personality (d. 2015)
 1941 - Bobby Hutcherson, American composer, vibraphone and marimba player
 1942 - Tasuku Honjo, Japanese immunologist
 1942 – Kate Wolf, American folk singer and musician (d. 1986)
 1942 - Steve Wynn, American real estate businessman and art collector
1944 – Mairead Maguire, Northern Irish activist
 1944 – Nick Mason, English drummer (Pink Floyd)
 1946 – Nedra Talley, American singer (Ronettes)
 1948 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Latvian-born dancer and choreographer
 1948 – Valeri Brainin, Russian-German musicologist, poet, educator, composer
 1948 - Jean-Philippe Collard, French pianist
 1949 - Marilyn Musgrave, American politician
 1950 - Alex Norton, Scottish actor
 1950 - Derek Acorah, English spirit medium
1951  1975 
 1951 - Brian Downey, Irish musician
 1952 - Brian Gottfried, American tennis player
 1952 - Klan Slavovici, Croatian musician and politician
 1955 – John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States
 1956 - Mimi Rogers, American actress
 1956 - Sean O'Keefe, 10th Head of NASA
 1957 – Janick Gers, British guitarist (Iron Maiden)
 1957 - Frank Miller, American comic book writer and movie director
 1958 - Alan Milburn, British politician
 1958 - Susanna Thompson, American actress
 1961 - Gillian Gilbert, British musician
 1963 - Luigi Ambrosio, Italian mathematician
 1963 - Mark Moraghan, English actor and singer
 1963 - George Monbiot, English writer and activist
 1964 – Bridget Fonda, American actress
 1964 - Jack Haley, American basketball player (d. 2015)
 1965 – Alan Cumming, Scottish actor and movie director
 1965 – Mike Newell, English football manager
 1967 - Dave Manson, Canadian ice hockey player
 1968 – Tricky, English rapper
 1968 – Mike Patton, American singer
1969 – Patton Oswalt, American actor and comedian
 1969 - Cornelius, Japanese singer, guitarist and producer
 1971 - Patrice Brisebois, Canadian ice hockey player
 1972 - Mirjam Ott, Swiss curler
 1972 – Mark Owen, English singer (Take That)
 1972 – Keith Wood, Irish rugby player
 1972 – Josh Randall, American actor
 1973 - Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarussian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
 1974 - Ole Einar Bjorndalen, Norwegian biathlete
 1974 - Andrei Pavel, Romanian tennis player
From 1976 
 1976 – Ahn Jung-Hwan, South Korean footballer
 1979 – Rosamund Pike, English actress
 1980 – Marat Safin, Russian tennis player and politician
 1980 – Eva Padberg, German model
 1981 - Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player
 1981 – Tony Woodcock, New Zealand rugby player
 1983 - Carlo Colaiacov, Canadian ice hockey player
 1983 - Paulo Colaiacov, Canadian ice hockey player
 1986 – Giorgi Loria, Georgian footballer
 1987 – Lily Donaldson, British model
 1987 - Michael Marrone, Australian footballer
 1987 - Anton Shunin, Russian footballer
 1989 - Ricky van Wolfswinkel, Dutch footballer
 1989 - Daisy Lowe, English model
 1998 - Rebeka Kim, South Korean ice dancer

Deaths
Up to 1900 
 98 – Nerva, Roman Emperor (b. 35)
 457 - Marcian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 392)
 672 - Pope Vitalian
 1490 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b. 1435)
 1540 - Saint Angela Merici, Italian religious leader and saint (b. 1474)
 1629 – Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560)
 1638 – Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist
 1651 - Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch painter and printmaker (b. 1566)
 1731 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (b. 1655)
 1740 – Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692)
 1754 - Ludvig Holberg, Danish playwright (b. 1684)
 1814 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1761)
 1816 – Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (b. 1724)
 1851 – John James Audubon, French-American naturalist, ornithologist, and painter (b. 1785)
 1851 - Cornelius P. Comegys, Governor of Delaware (b. 1780)
 1860 – János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1860)
 1880 – Edward Middleton Barry, English architect (b. 1830)
1901  2000 
 1901 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
 1910 – Thomas Crapper, English plumber (b. 1836)
 1913 - Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1827)
 1919 – Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1877)
 1922 - Nellie Bly, American journalist and writer (b. 1864)
 1940 – Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (b. 1894)
 1942 - Kaarel Eenpalu, Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1888)
 1956 – Erich Kleiber, German conductor (b. 1890)
 1965 - Hassan Ali Mansour, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1923)
 1965 - C. Douglass Buck, American politician, Governor of Delaware (b. 1890)
 1967 – Crew of Apollo 1:
 Roger Chaffee (b. 1935)
 Virgil "Gus" Grissom (b. 1926)
 Edward White (b. 1930)
 1970 – Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908)
 1971 – Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
 1972 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
 1973 - William Nolde, last American combat casualty of the Vietnam War (b. 1929)
 1974 - Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general of the Greek Army (b. 1898)
1975 – Bill Walsh, American producer and writer (b. 1913)
 1983 - Louis de Funes, French actor (b. 1914)
 1986 – Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (b. 1914)
 1988 – Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian writer (b. 1938)
 1989 – Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (b. 1888)
 1992 – Allan Jones, actor and singer (b. 1908)
 1993 – André the Giant, professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946)
 1994 – Claude Akins, actor (b. 1926)
 1996 – Ralph Yarborough, American politician (b. 1903)
From 2001 
 2001 - Marie Jose of Belgium, last Queen Consort of Italy (b. 1906)
 2003 - Henryk Jablonski, President of Poland (b. 1909)
 2004 – Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)
 2006 – Johannes Rau, President of Germany (b. 1931).
 2007 - Marcheline Bertrand, American actress (b. 1950).
 2008 – Suharto, second President of Indonesia (b. 1921).
 2008 - Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader (b. 1910).
 2009 - R. Venkataraman, President of India (b. 1910).
 2009 - Mino Reitano, Italian singer (b. 1944).
 2009 – John Updike, American writer (b. 1932).
 2010 – Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (b. 1932).
 2010 – J. D. Salinger, American writer (b. 1919).
 2010 – Howard Zinn, American historian (b. 1922).
 2011 - Charlie Callas, American comedian (b. 1927)
 2013 - Pham Duy, Vietnamese singer-songwriter (b. 1921)
 2014 - Pete Seeger, American folk musician (b. 1919)
 2014 - Edmond Classen, Dutch actor (b. 1938)
 2015 - Wilfred Agbonavbare, Nigerian footballer (b. 1966)
2015 - Henk Faanhof, Dutch road bicycle racer (b. 1922)
 2015 - David Landau, British-Israeli journalist (b. 1947)
 2015 - Charles Hard Townes, American physicist (b. 1915)
 2015 - John T. Myers, American politician (b. 1927)
 2015 - Rocky Bridges, American baseball player (b. 1927)
 2016 - Augusto Giomo, Italian basketball player (b. 1940)
 2016 - Carlos Loyzaga, Filipino basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
 2017 – Wim Anderiesen Jr., Dutch footballer (b. 1931)
 2017 - Valery Bolotov, Ukrainian militant leader (b. 1970)
 2017 - Bob Holiday, American actor (b. 1932)
 2017 - Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (b. 1927)
 2017 - Billy Simpson, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1929)
 2017 - Gisella Sofio, Italian actress (b. 1931)
 2017 - Henry-Louis de La Grange, French musicologist (b. 1924)
 2017 - Atanas Kirov, Bulgarian weightlifter (b. 1948)
 2017 - Brunhilde Pomsel, German broadcaster (b. 1911)
 2017 - Arthur H. Rosenfeld, American physicist (b. 1926)
2018 - Robert McCormick Adams, Jr., American anthropologist (b. 1926)
 2018 - Royal Galipeau, Canadian politician (b. 1947)
 2018 - Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman (b. 1926)
 2018 - Dennis Peron, American cannabis and LGBT activist and businessman (b. 1946)
 2018 - Mort Walker, American comic artist (b. 1923)
 2018 - John Wall, English engineer and astronomer (b. 1932)
 2019 - Henry Chapier, Romanian-born French television journalist (b. 1933)
 2019 - Nina Fyodorova, Russian cross-country skier (b. 1947)
 2019 - Peter Magowan, American businessman (b. 1942)
 2019 - Erica Yohn, American actress (b. 1928)
Observances 
 Holocaust Memorial Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1327 – Edward III is crowned King of England.
 1329 - King John of Bohemia captures Medvegalis, an important fortress of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and baptizes 6,000 of its defenders.
 1662 – The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
 1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being stranded on one of the Juan Fernandez Islands (now belonging to Chile). This inspires the story of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
 1713 – The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
 1788 – Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat.
 1790 – In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
 1793 – France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
 1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
1814 – The Mayon Volcano, in the Philippines, erupts, killing around 1,200 people. This is the most devastating eruption of the Mayon Volcano.
 1835 - Slavery is banned in Mauritius.
 1861 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
 1862 – Julia Ward Howe's "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is published for the first time (Atlantic Monthly).
 1865 - Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, banning slavery and slave keeping.
 1880 – The first edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published.
 1884 – Volume 1 of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
 1893 – Thomas Edison finishes construction of the first movie studio (West Orange, New Jersey).
 1895 - Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
 1896 – The opera La bohème premieres (Turin).
 1897 - The Shinhan Bank opens in Seoul. It is the oldest bank in what is now South Korea.
1901  1950 
 1904 - Iceland gets increased autonomy from Denmark.
 1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
 1913 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station.
 1915 - Photographs are required in United Kingdom passports for the first time.
 1918 – Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
 1919 – The first Miss America is crowned (New York City).
 1920 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.
 1924 – The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR.
 1929 – Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method.
 1933 - Paul von Hindenburg dissolves the Reichstag under recommendation from Adolf Hitler.
 1942 – World War II: Vidkun Quisling is appointed Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers.
 1942 - Voice of America begins broadcasting.
 1946 – Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary-General.
1946 - Hungary is declared a republic with Zoltan Tildy as President.
 1948 - The Federation of Malaya is founded.
1951  2000 
 1953 – In the night following January 31 large parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, and the southeastern United Kingdom are flooded after heavy storms.
 1958 – Merger of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961.
 1959 - Neuchatel and Vaud become the first cantons of Switzerland to allow women to vote.
 1960 – Four black students stage a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
 1964 - The Beatles have their first US Number One - "I Want to Hold Your Hand".
 1965 - Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada, is renamed Churchill River, after Winston Churchill, who had died just over a week earlier.
 1968 – Vietnam War: NLF officer Nguyen Van Lem is executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan a South Vietnamese National Police Chief. The execution was videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams and helped sway public opinion against the war.
1970 - Two trains collide in Benavidez, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. With 236 people being killed, this is the deadliest accident in Argentine rail travel.
 1972 - Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by Royal Charter.
 1974 - Kuala Lumpur is declared a federal territory of Malaysia.
 1974 – In São Paulo, Brazil, a fire in a 25-story office building kills 189 and injures 293. Kuala Lumpur declared a Federal Territory.
 1978 – Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.
 1978 - In Finland, Urho Kekkonen is elected to a fifth term in-a-row as President.
 1979 – Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
 1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back into Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
 1982 – Senegal and The Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
1985 - Aeroflot Flight 7841 crashes shortly after take-off from Minsk, killing 58 people.
 1989 - Boulder and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia form the city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
 1991 - USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 collide on the runway at Los Angeles International Airport, killing 34 people.
 1992 – The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal Disaster case.
 1993 - Gary Bettman becomes the first commissioner of the NHL.
 1994 – In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
 1995 – Manic Street Preachers lyricist Richey James Edwards goes missing from the Embassy Hotel in London, UK.
 1996 – The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
 1998 - Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral.
From 2001 
 2002 - Having been taken hostage, American journalist Daniel Pearl is killed by his captors.
 2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry killing all seven astronauts on board.
 2004 – At least 244 people are trampled to death in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
 2004 – At the Super Bowl half-time show, part of Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during a routine with Justin Timberlake. This started the 'Nipplegate' scandal.
 2009 – Johanna Sigurdardottir becomes Prime Minister of Iceland. She is the world's first national head of government in a same-sex relationship.
 2012 – Violence following a football match in Port Said, Egypt, results in 74 deaths.
 2013 - John Kerry becomes United States Secretary of State.
 2013 - The Shard in London, the EU's tallest building, opens to the public.
 2014 - Janet Yellen becomes the first woman to serve as Head of the United States Federal Reserve, succeeding Ben Bernanke.
2016 - The Zika virus, spread by mosquitoes and causing deformities in newborn babies in South America and Central America, is declared a major world health emergency by the World Health Organization.
 2017 - Rex Tillerson is confirmed as United States Secretary of State.
 2021 - The coup d'état in Myanmar happens.
Up to 1900 
 1261 - Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (d. 1326)
 1394 - Ikkyu, Japanese Zen master and poet (d. 1481)
 1435 - Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (d. 1472)
 1459 - Conrad Celtis, German poet (d. 1508)
 1462 - Johannes Trithemius, German lexicographer, historian, and cryptographer (d. 1516)
 1501 - Queen Munjeong of Korea (d. 1565)
 1552 – Edward Coke, English jurist and politician (d. 1634)
 1648 - Elkanah Settle, English poet and playwright (d. 1724)
 1659 – Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (d. 1729)
 1673 - Alessandro Marcello, Italian poet, composer, and philosopher (d. 1747)
 1687 – Johann Adam Birkenstock, German composer, and violinist (d. 1733)
 1690 – Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (d. 1768)
 1701 - Johan Agrell, Swedish-born German composer (d. 1765)
 1761 – Christian Hendrik Persoon, mycologist (d. 1836)
 1801 – Thomas Cole, English-born American painter (d. 1848)
 1807 - William B. Campbell, 16th Governor of Tennessee (d. 1867)
1825 - James W. Throckmorton, 25th Governor of Texas (d. 1894)
 1844 – G. Stanley Hall, psychologist (d. 1844)
 1851 - Durham Stevens, American diplomat (d. 1908)
 1858 - Ignacio Bonillas, Mexican diplomat (d. 1942)
 1859 – Victor Herbert, composer (d. 1924)
 1872 - Clara Butt, English contralto (d. 1936)
 1873 - Joseph Allard, Canadian fiddler (d. 1947)
 1874 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (d. 1929)
 1878 - Alfred Hajos, Hungarian swimmer and architect (d. 1955)
 1878 - Milan Hodza, Slovakian politician (d. 1944)
 1878 - Hattie Wyatt Caraway, United States Senator (d. 1950)
 1879 - Henry Chrétien, French astronomer, professor, and inventor (d. 1956)
 1882 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent, twelfth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
 1882 - Prince Andrew of Greece (d. 1944)
 1884 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (d. 1937)
 1885 - Camille Chautemps, Prime Minister of France (d. 1963)
 1887 – Charles Nordhoff, English-born writer (d. 1947)
 1888 - Charles January, American soccer player (d. 1970)
1894 – John Ford, American director and producer (d. 1973)
 1894 – James P. Johnson, pianist, composer (d. 1955)
 1894 - Lucian Grigorescu, Romanian painter (d. 1965)
 1896 - Anastasio Somoza Garcia, President of Nicaragua (d. 1956)
 1898 – Leila Denmark, American physician and supercentenarian (d. 2012)
1901  1925 
 1901 – Frank Buckles, American World War I veteran and supercentenarian (d. 2011)
 1901 – Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
 1902 – Langston Hughes, American writer (d. 1967)
 1904 - Franciska Gaal, Jewish-Hungarian cabaret artist and actress (d. 1973)
 1904 – S. J. Perelman, humorist, writer (d. 1979)
 1905 – Emilio G. Segré, Italian physicist (d. 1989)
 1906 - Adetokunbo Ademola, Chief Justice of Nigeria (d. 1993)
 1907 – Günter Eich, lyricist (d. 1972)
 1908 – George Pal, director, producer (d. 1980)
 1909 - George Beverly Shea, Canadian-American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
 1910 – Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Tibetan politician (d. 2009)
 1915 – Stanley Matthews, English footballer (d. 2000)
 1915 - Alicia Rhett, American actress (d. 2014)
 1915 - Victor Shem-Tov, Bulgarian-Israeli politician (d. 2014)
 1917 - Eiji Sawamura, Japanese baseball player
 1918 – Dame Muriel Spark, Scottish writer (d. 2006)
 1921 – Peter Sallis, English actor (d. 2017)
1921 - Ann Z. Caracristi, American cryptanalyst (d. 2016)
 1921 - Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (d. 2002)
 1922 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004)
 1924 - Richard Hooker, American writer (d. 1997)
 1924 - Emmanuel Scheffer, German-born Israeli footballer and coach (d. 2012)
 1925 – Alfred Grosser, political scientist and publicist
1926  1950 
 1927 - Galway Kinnell, American poet and academic (d. 2014)
 1927 – Günter Guillaume, German spy (d. 1995)
 1928 – Tom Lantos, American politician (d. 2008)
 1928 (or 1929) – Stuart Whitman, American actor
 1930 - Maria Helena Walsh, Argentine writer and journalist (d. 2011)
 1930 – Shahabuddin Ahmed, former President of Bangladesh
 1930 - Hussein Muhammad Ershad, former President of Bangladesh
 1931 – Iajuddin Ahmed, former President of Bangladesh (d. 2012)
 1931 – Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia (d. 2007)
 1932 - Hassan al-Turabi, Sudanese religious and political leader (d. 2016)
 1933 - Wendell R. Anderson, former Governor of Minnesota
 1934 - Nicolae Breban, Romanian writer
 1934 - Ninan Koshy, Indian thinker, theologian and social analyst (d. 2015)
 1934 - Bob Shane, American singer
 1935 – Dieter Kühn, writer
 1936 - Azie Taylor Morton, American politician, 36th Treasurer of the United States (d. 2003)
 1937 – Don Everly, American musician
 1937 – Garrett Morris, American comedian
1938 – Sherman Hemsley, American comedian and actor (d. 2012)
 1939 – Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina (d. 2009)
 1939 – Fritjof Capra, Austrian physicist, philosopher and writer
 1939 - Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (d. 2014)
 1939 - Claude François, French singer and composer (d. 1978)
 1939 - Yuri Rost, Russian photographer, journalist and traveller
 1940 – Bibi Besch, Austrian-American actress (d. 1996)
 1941 - Jerry Spinelli, American writer
 1941 - Teofil Codreanu, Romanian footballer (d. 2016)
 1942 – Terry Jones, British actor and writer (Monty Python's Flying Circus) (d. 2020)
 1942 - Muna Wassef, Syrian actress
 1943 - Rosemarie Frankland, Welsh actress and model (d. 2000)
 1944 - Petru Popescu, Romanian-American writer, director, movie producer and writer
 1944 - Dick Snyder, American basketball player
 1944 – Mike Enzi, United States Senator for Wyoming (d. 2021)
 1946 – Bart Braverman, American actor
 1946 - Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (d. 2011)
1947 - Adam Ingram, Scottish politician
 1947 – Jessica Savitch, American journalist (d. 1983)
 1948 – Rick James, American musician, composer (d. 2004)
 1949 - Franco Causio, Italian footballer
 1950 - Mike Campbell, American guitarist and producer
 1950 - Ali Haydar Konca, Turkish politician
 1950 - Alan Moller, American meteorologist, storm chaser and photographer (d. 2014)
1951  1975 
 1951 - John McNally, Scottish politician
 1951 - Andrew Smith, English politician
 1952 - Roger Y. Tsien, Chinese-American cell biologist and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2016)
 1953 - Periko Alonso, Spanish footballer
 1954 – Bill Mumy, American actor and musician
 1955 - Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, Indonesian politician (d. 2012)
 1955 - Ernie Camacho, American baseball player
 1956 - Brahmanandam, Indian actor
 1956 – Exene Cervenka, American musician (X)
 1956 - Mike Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player
 1957 - Renae Jacobs, American voice actress
 1957 - Walter Schachner, Austrian footballer
 1958 - William Dufris, American voice actor and audiobook narrator (d. 2020)
 1958 - Ryo Horikawa, Japanese guitarist
 1958 - Margie Abbott, wife of Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott
 1958 - Eleanor Laing, Scottish lawyer and politician
 1961 - Daniel M. Tani, American engineer and astronaut
 1962 - Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi politician
 1962 – Tomoyasu Hotei, Japanese rock guitarist
1963 - Takashi Murakami, Japanese artist
 1964 - Linus Roache, British actor
 1964 – Jani Lane, American musician (d. 2011)
 1965 – Brandon Lee, American actor (d. 1993)
 1965 – Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
 1965 – Sherilyn Fenn, American actress
 1966 - Vasilis Dimitriades, Greek footballer
 1966 – Michelle Akers, American soccer player
 1968 – Lisa Marie Presley, American actress
 1968 – Pauly Shore, American comedian
 1969 – Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer
 1969 – Joshua Redman, American jazz musician
 1969 - Brian Krause, American actor
 1969 - Nino Salukvadze, Georgian sports shooter
 1969 - Andrew Breitbart, American conservative publicist and journalist (d. 2012)
 1971 – Jill Kelly, erotic actress
 1971 – Zlatko Zahovič, Slovenian footballer
 1971 – Michael C. Hall, American actor
 1972 - Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
 1972 – Christian Ziege, German footballer
 1972 - Johan Wadem, Belgian footballer
 1973 - Oscar Perez, Mexican footballer
1974 - Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist
 1974 - Walter McCarty, American basketball player
 1975 - Katerina Thanou, Greek athlete
 1975 – Big Boi, American musician (Outkast)
From 1976 
 1976 - Katrin Jakobsdottir, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland
 1977 - Kevin Kilbane, English-Irish footballer
 1977 - Libor Sionko, Czech footballer
 1978 - K'naan, Somali singer
 1978 – Julie Roberts, American country music singer
 1979 – Juan Silveira dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
 1980 – Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer (d. 2005)
 1980 - Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
 1980 - Héctor Luna, Dominican baseball player
 1981 – Graeme Smith, South African cricketer
 1982 - Daisy Betts, Australian actress
 1982 – Gavin Henson, Welsh rugby player
 1982 - Shoaib Malik, Pakistani cricketer
 1982 - Kim Jong-wook, South Korean singer
 1983 - Andrew VanWyngarden, American musician
 1984 – Darren Fletcher, Scottish footballer
 1984 - Lee Thompson Young, American actor (d. 2013)
 1985 - Karine Sergerie, Canadian taekwondo world champion
 1985 – Dean Shiels, Northern Irish footballer
 1986 - Jorrit Bergsma, Dutch speed skater
1986 – Lauren Conrad, American television personality
 1986 – Johan Vonlanthen, Swiss footballer
 1987 – Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer
 1987 - Heather Morris, American actress and dancer
 1987 - Sebastian Boenisch, Polish footballer
 1987 - Ronda Rousey, American mixed martial artist, judoka and actress
 1989 - Alfred Finnbogason, Icelandic footballer
 1990 - Dan Gosling, English footballer
 1990 – Laura Marling, English singer-songwriter
 1994 - Harry Styles, English singer (One Direction)
 1994 - Skylar Laine, American singer-songwriter
 1995 - Oliver Heldens, Dutch DJ, musician and producer
 1996 - Dionne Bromfield, English singer-songwriter
 2000 - Paris Smith, American actress and singer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 772 - Pope Stephen III (b. 720)
 1248 – Henry II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1207)
 1328 – Charles IV of France (b. 1294)
 1542 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (b. 1480)
 1563 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia
 1691 – Pope Alexander VIII (b. 1610)
 1733 – Augustus III of Poland (b. 1670)
 1734 - John Floyer, English physician and writer (b. 1649)
 1743 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (b. 1657)
 1750 - Bakar of Georgia, Georgian prince and politician (b. 1699)
 1793 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, English statesman (b. 1717)
 1851 – Mary Shelley, British writer of Frankenstein (b. 1797)
 1871 - Alexander Serov, Russian composer (b. 1820)
 1873 - Matthew Fontaine Maury, American naval officer (b. 1806)
 1893 - George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)
 1897 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (b. 1826)
1901  2000 
 1903 - George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (b. 1819)
 1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863)
 1908 – Luis Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal (b. 1887)
 1922 - William Desmond Taylor, American actor and director (b. 1872)
 1928 - Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
 1936 – Georgios Kondylis, Greek general and Prime Minister (b. 1878)
 1941 - Walter Abbott, English footballer (b. 1877)
 1944 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch artist (b. 1872)
 1945 – Prince Kiril of Bulgaria (b. 1895)
 1949 - Nicolae Dumitru Cocea, Romanian journalist, novelist, critic and activist (b. 1880)
 1957 – Friedrich Paulus, German general (b. 1890)
 1958 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist (b. 1888)
 1966 – Buster Keaton, American actor (b. 1895)
 1976 – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist (b. 1901)
 1976 – George Whipple, American doctor, won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1878)
 1980 - Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (b. 1930)
1981 - Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (b. 1908)
 1986 – Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician and diplomat (b. 1902)
 1987 - Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director (b. 1900)
 1988 – Heather O'Rourke, American child actress (b. 1975)
 1989 - Elaine de Kooning, American painter (b. 1918)
 1995 - Richey James Edwards, Welsh singer and musician (b. 1967)
 1999 - Baris Manco, Turkish musician (b. 1943)
From 2001 
 2002 – Hildegard Knef, German actress (b. 1925)
 2002 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist
 2003 - Deaths in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster:
Michael P. Anderson, American astronaut (b. 1959)
David M. Brown, American astronaut (b. 1956)
Kalpana Chawla, Indian astronaut (b. 1961)
Laurel Clark, American astronaut (b. 1961)
Rick D. Husband, American astronaut (b. 1957)
Willie McCool, American astronaut (b. 1961)
Ilan Ramon, Israeli astronaut (b. 1954)
 2004 – Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer (b. 1931)
 2007 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (b. 1911)
 2007 – Ahmed Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader (b. 1946)
 2009 – Lukas Foss, German-born composer (b. 1922)
 2010 – Steingrimur Hermannsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1928)
 2010 – Justin Mentell, American actor (b. 1982)
 2012 – Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet (b. 1923)
 2012 – Angelo Dundee, American boxing trainer (b. 1921)
 2012 - Don Cornelius, American TV host (b . 1936)
 2013 - Ed Koch, 105th Mayor of New York City (b. 1924)
2013 - Barney, pet dog of George W. Bush (b. 2000)
 2013 - Robin Sachs, British actor (b. 1951)
 2014 - Luis Aragonés, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1938)
 2014 - Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
 2014 - Vasily Ivanovich Petrov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1917)
 2014 - Rene Ricard, American poet (b. 1946)
 2015 - Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-French pianist (b. 1925)
 2015 - Ann Mara, American football team owner (b. 1929)
 2015 - Monty Oum, American animator (b. 1981)
 2016 - Thomas Tigue, American politician (b. 1945)
 2016 - Paul Pholeros, Australian architect (b. 1953)
 2017 - E. Ahamed, Indian politician (b. 1938)
 2017 - Albano Bortoletto Cavallin, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1930)
 2017 - Sandy Gandhi, Indian-Australian comedian (b. 1958)
 2017 - Desmond Carrington, English actor (b. 1926)
 2017 - Stig Grybe, Swedish actor (b. 1928)
 2017 - Ken Morrison, English businessman (b. 1931)
 2017 - Cor van der Hoeven, Dutch footballer (b. 1921)
2017 - Asim Basu, Indian theatre director (b. 1935)
 2017 - Lars-Erik Berenett, Swedish actor (b. 1942)
 2017 - Ken Morrison, English businessman (b. 1931)
 2017 - Edward Tipper, American World War II veteran (b. 1921)
 2018 - Niranjan Bhagat, Indian poet (b. 1926)
 2018 - Hazar Khan Bijarani, Pakistani politician (b. 1946)
 2018 - Dennis Edwards, American singer (b. 1943)
 2018 - Barys Kit, Belarussian mathematician, physicist, chemist and rocket scientist (b. 1910)
 2018 - Su Bai, Chinese archaeologist (b. 1922)
 2018 - Omar Aggad, Palestinian-Saudi businessman (b. 1927)
 2018 - John Jacob Lavranos, South African botanist (b. 1926)
Observances
 Start of Black History Month (Canada and United States)
 Start of LGBT History Month (UK)
 Freedom Day (United States)
 Heroes Day (Rwanda)
 Imbolc, a cross-quarter day in the Celtic calendar
 St. Brigid's Day (Ireland)
 Basque region - The alluvial Pheasant Island is controlled by Spain from this date until July 31

February 01
Up to 1900 
 146 BC - Third Punic War: The Romans take over Carthage.
 2 BC - The Roman senate grants Augustus Caesar the title of "Pater Patriae", meaning "Father of the Fatherland".
 62 - An earthquake strikes Pompeii.
 756 - An Lushan in China declares himself Emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
 1597 - A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
 1638 – The city of Rheinfelden, Switzerland was attacked.
 1778 - South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
 1782 – Spain defeats British forces to win control of Minorca.
 1783 – A series of earthquakes begins in Calabria, Italy.
 1805 – The ship Earl of Abergavenny sinks off Weymouth, southern England, killing 261 people.
 1810 - The Siege of Cadiz begins during the Peninsular War.
 1811 – Due to the continuous health problems of King George III, his son, the future King George IV of the United Kingdom becomes regent.
1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte becomes king of Sweden.
 1859 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, on the way to creating the modern Romanian state.
 1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as his own private property.
 1900 – The United States and United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal.
1901  2000 
 1909 - Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. "Synthetic" means it is not a real plastic.
 1913 - Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
 1917 – Mexico's current constitution is adopted, establishing a Federal Republic.
 1918 – The British military transporter ship Tuscania is torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Northern Ireland.
 1919 - United Artists is formed by Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D. W. Griffith.
 1924 – The Winter Olympics in Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France end.
 1937 - Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
 1937 - The six principles of "Kemalism" become part of Turkey's Constitution.
 1939 - Francisco Franco becomes Caudillo of Spain.
 1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
1958 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is proposed as the first President of the United Arab Republic.
 1961 - The Sunday Telegraph newspaper is founded in the UK.
 1962 - Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be given independence.
 1971 – Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.
 1972 – Bob Douglas becomes the first African American in the basketball Hall of Fame.
 1974 - The Mariner 10 space probe passes the planet Venus.
 1975 - Riots break out in Lima, Peru, after the police forces went on strike the day before. The uprising is violently crushed by the country's military dictatorship.
 1985 – After being closed since 1969, Spain's border with Gibraltar is fully reopened.
 1988 – Panama's leader Manuel Noriega is indicted for drug smuggling and money laundering.
 1994 – A mortar shell hits a market place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, killing 60 people and injuring around 200.
 1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the murder of Civil rights activist Medgar Evans in 1963.
1997 - An earthquake in Northeastern Iran kills 100 people.
 2000 - Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
From 2001 
 2004 – Morecambe Bay, England: 23 Chinese cockle pickers drown after being caught by the incoming tide.
 2006 – Super Bowl XL: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Seattle Seahawks to win their 5th Super Bowl championship.
 2008 – A tornado outbreak in the southern United States kills 57 people.
 2017 - Cameroon defeats Egypt 2-1 to win the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations football tournament in Libreville, Gabon.
 2017 - American football: The New England Patriots come from behind to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in the 51st Super Bowl.

Births
Up to 1900 
 976 – Emperor Sanjo of Japan (d. 1017)
 1505 - Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572)
 1534 - Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian soldier, composer and critic (d. 1612)
 1589 - Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669)
 1594 - Biagio Marini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1663)
 1725 - James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (d. 1783)
 1748 - Elias Stein, Dutch chess player (d. 1812)
 1748 - Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer and conductor (d. 1798)
 1784 - Nancy Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818)
 1788 – Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)
 1795 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist and geologist (d. 1871)
 1804 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (d. 1877)
 1808 - Carl Spitzweg, German painter (d. 1885)
 1810 – Ole Bull, Norwegian composer (d. 1880)
 1824 - Alfonso Capecelatro, Italian archbishop, writer and librarian (d. 1921)
1827 – Peter Lalor, leader of the miners at the Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (d. 1889)
 1840 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (d. 1921)
 1840 - Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor (d. 1916)
 1840 - Simeon E. Baldwin, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1927)
 1846 - John C. Cutler, Governor of Utah (d. 1928)
 1848 – Belle Starr, American outlaw (d. 1889)
 1848 - Ignacio Carrero Pinto, Chilean war hero (d. 1882)
 1852 - Terauchi Masatake, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1919)
 1862 - Aleksander Kakowski, Archbishop of Warsaw (d. 1938)
 1866 - Domhnall Ua Buachalla, 3rd Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1963)
 1875 - Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr., American mammalogist, bacteriologist and pathologist (d. 1942)
 1878 – Andre Citroen, French automobile pioneer (d. 1935)
 1880 – Gabriel Voison, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973)
 1889 - Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1962)
 1892 - Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1959)
1897 - Dirk Stikker, Dutch NATO Secretary-General (d. 1979)
 1900 – Adlai Stevenson, American politician, 31st Governor of Illinois (d. 1965)
1901  1950 
 1906 – John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988)
 1907 – Pierre Pflimlin, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)
 1908 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, English conjoined twins (d. 1969)
 1910 – Charles Leblond, Canadian cell biologist (d. 2007)
 1910 – Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (d. 2010)
 1911 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
 1914 – William S. Burroughs, American writer (d. 1997)
 1914 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British physiologist and biophysicist (d. 1998)
 1915 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist (d. 1990)
 1915 - Margaret Millar, Canadian writer (d. 1994)
 1916 - Ugo Locatelli, Italian footballer (d. 1993)
 1917 - Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress (d. 2012)
 1919 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996)
 1919 - Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)
 1919 - Tim Holt, American actor (d. 1973)
 1921 - Ken Adam, German-born British motion picture designer (d. 2016)
 1921 - John Pritchard, English conductor (d. 1989)
 1923 - Fatmawati, First Lady of Indonesia (d. 1980)
1923 - Claude King, American musician (d. 2013)
 1924 - Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian cardinal (d. 2014)
 1926 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, American publisher (d. 2012)
 1926 - Stefan Gierasch, American actor (d. 2014)
 1929 – Fred Sinowatz, Chancellor of Austria (d. 2008)
 1929 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)
 1929 - Al Worthington, American baseball player
 1929 - Hal Blaine, American musician
 1930 - Ilon Wikland, Estonian-Swedish illustrator
 1932 – Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer (d. 2016)
 1933 - Milos Milutinovic, Yugoslavian footballer (d. 2003)
 1933 - Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaraguan priest, diplomat and politician (d. 2017)
 1934 – Hank Aaron, American Baseball Hall of Famer
 1934 - Don Cherry, Canadian ice hockey player
 1935 - Charles Turnbull, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
 1937 – Larry Hillman, Canadian ice hockey player
 1939 - Miguel Boyer, French-Spanish economist and politician (d. 2014)
 1940 - H. R. Giger, Swiss artist (d. 2014)
1941 – Stephen J. Cannell, American television producer and writer (d. 2010)
 1941 - Cory Wells, American musician (d. 2015)
 1941 – David Selby, American actor
 1941 - Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councillor
 1943 – Michael Mann, American movie director
 1944 - Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1971)
 1945 - Chubby Brown, British comedian
 1946 – Charlotte Rampling, British actress
 1946 - Mauro Pagani, Italian singer-songwriter and violinist
 1947 - Clemente Mastella, Italian politician
 1948 – Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football manager
 1948 – Christopher Guest, American actor and director
 1949 – Kurt Beck, German politician
 1950 - Catherine Castel, French actress and make-up artist
 1950 - Marie-Pierre Cassel, French actress
 1950 - Jonathan Freeman, American actor
1951  1975 
 1951 - Russell Grant, British astrologer
 1951 - Robin Sachs, British actor (d. 2013)
 1951 - Nikolay Merkushkin, Russian politician 
 1952 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer and songwriter
 1953 - Gustavo Benitez, Paraguayan footballer
 1954 - Cliff Martinez, American musician
 1959 – Jennifer Granholm, Canadian-born American politician, former Governor of Michigan
 1961 - Albert Anderson, New Zealand rugby player
 1961 - Savvas Kofidis, Greek footballer and manager
 1961 - Jim Meadows, American actor
 1961 - Hakan Peker, Turkish dancer, songwriter, singer and musical composer
 1962 - Jacqui Dankworth, English jazz singer
 1964 – Laura Linney, American actress
 1964 – Duff McKagan, American musician
 1964 - David Gilmore, American jazz musician
 1965 - Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer
 1966 - Jose Maria Olazabal, Spanish golfer
 1966 - Vivian Wu, Chinese actress
 1969 – Bobby Brown, American singer
 1969 – Michael Sheen, Welsh actor
1970 - Jean-Marc Jaumin, Belgian basketball player and coach
 1972 – Mary E. Donaldson, Crown Princess of Denmark
 1975 – Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer
 1975 - Alison Hammond, English television presenter
From 1976 
 1976 – Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
 1976 – John Aloisi, Australian footballer
 1977 – Ben Ainslie, English sailor
 1980 - Patrick Grady, Scottish politician
 1980 - Jo Swinson, Scottish politician
 1980 - Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer
 1980 - Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia
 1980 - Tiwa Savage, Nigerian singer, songwriter and actress
 1981 - Nora Zehetner, American actress
 1982 - Aidin Nikkah Behrami, Iranian basketball player (d. 2007)
 1982 – Rodrigo Palacio, Argentine footballer
 1984 – Carlos Tevez, Argentine footballer
 1985 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
 1985 - Paul Vandervort, American actor and model
 1986 - Andreas Beck, German tennis player
 1986 – Vedran Corluka, Croatian footballer
 1987 - Linus Omark, Swedish ice hockey player
 1988 - Natalie Geisenberger, German luger
 1990 - Jordan Rhodes, Scottish footballer
 1991 – Alba Riquelme, Paraguayan model
 1992 – Neymar, Brazilian footballer
 1992 - Stefan de Vrij, Dutch footballer
1992 - Carina Vogt, German ski jumper, first women's Ski jumping Olympic champion
 1994 - Saki Nakajima, Japanese singer
 1995 - Adnan Januzaj, Belgian footballer
 1995 - Trayvon Martin, American teenager, shooting victim (d. 2012)
 2002 – Davis Cleveland, American actor
 2016 - Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, Crown Prince of Bhutan