Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
From 2001 
 2005 – Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
 2006 – Alan Freeman, English disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (b. 1927)
 2008 – V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister of India (b. 1931)
 2010 – Irvin Kershner, American director (b. 1923)
 2011 – Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and coach (b. 1969)
 2011 – Ken Russell, English movie director (b. 1927)
 2013 - Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1925)
 2013 - Lewis Collins, English actor (b. 1946)
 2014 - Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (b. 1988)
 2014 - P. D. James, English writer (b. 1920)
 2015 - Philippe Washer, Belgian tennis player (b. 1924)
 2015 - Maurice Strong, Canadian businessman and diplomat (b. 1929)
 2016 - Ioannis Grivas, Greek politician (b. 1923)
 2017 - Loïc Bouvard, French politician (b. 1929)
 2017 - Bill Harris, American politician (b. 1934)
 2017 - James Kisicki, American actor (b. 1938)
 2017 - Bud Moore, American racing driver (b. 1925)
 2017 - Cristina Stamate, Romanian actress (b. 1946)
2018 - Harold O. Levy, American lawyer and philanthropist (b. 1952)
 2018 - Ed Pastor, American politician (b. 1943)
 2018 - V. K. Rao, Indian civil servant (b. 1914)
 2018 - Barbara Brooks Wallace, American writer (b. 1922)
 2019 - Stefan Danailov, Bulgarian actor (b. 1942)
 2019 - Clay Evans, American pastor and civil rights activist (b. 1925)
 2019 - Maarit Feldt-Ranta, Finnish politician (b. 1968)
 2019 - Godfrey Gao, Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor (b. 1984)
 2019 - Jaegwon Kim, Korean-American philosopher (b. 1934)
 2019 - Sushil Kumar, Indian admiral (b. 1940)
 2019 - Jonathan Miller, English theatre director, opera director and physician (b. 1934)
 2019 - Agnes Baker Pilgrim, American Takelma elder (b. 1924)
 2019 - William Ruckelshaus, American attorney and US Government official (b. 1932)
 2019 - Bala Singh, Indian actor (b. 1952)
 2019 - Sam Watson, Australian indigenous activist, politician and writer (b. 1952)
Observances 
 Earliest Day for the start of Advent
 Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (Roman Catholic)
Lancashire Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 561 - King Chlothar I dies at Compiegne, the Merovingian dynasty is continued by his four sons, Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I, who divide the Frankish kingdom.
 800 - Charlemagne arrives in Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.
 939 - Edmund I is crowned King of England.
 1394 - Korean king Yi Seong-gye, founder of the Joseon Dynasty, moves the capital city from Kaesong to Hanyang, present-day Seoul.
 1729 - Natchez Native Americans massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women and 56 children at Fort Rosalie near present-day Natchez, Mississippi.
 1777 – San Jose, California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
 1781 - The crew of British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.
 1783 - A magnitude 5.3 earthquake strikes New Jersey.
 1830 - November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.
1847 - The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
 1850 - The "Punctation of Olmütz" treaty is signed. Prussia surrenders to Austria, which will take over the leadership of the German Confederation.
 1864 – Indian Wars: Colorado volunteers, led by Colonel Chivington, massacre at least 150 people from the Cheyenne and Arapaho groups, who were unarmed, inside Colorado Territory.
 1864 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Spring Hill, in the Confederate advance into Tennessee, the Confederates fail to crush the Union Army.
 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
 1885 - End of the Third Anglo-Burmese War and the Burmese monarchy.
 1890 – The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan.
 1899 - FC Barcelona is founded by Joan Gamper.
1901  2000 
 1922 – Howard Carter opened the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun ("King Tut") to the public.
 1929 - US Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to the South Pole.
 1943 - World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the Liberation of Yugoslavia, held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce, present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 1944 – World War II: Albania is liberated by Albanian partisans.
 1945 – The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
 1947 – The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine.
 1950 – Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.
 1952 – Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
 1961 - Project Mercury: The Mercury-Atlas 5 mission - Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space.
1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
 1963 – Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8, crashes near Montreal shortly after take-off, killing 118 people.
 1965 - The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite  Alouette 2.
 1967 - The Sempor Dam breaks on the island of Java, flooding the town of Kebumen, killing between 160 and 200 people.
 1967 – Vietnam War: US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara resigns.
 1972 - Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
 1975 – The name "Micro-soft" (for "microcomputer software") is first used in a letter from Bill Gates to Paul Allen.
 1982 – The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37/37, stating that Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.
 1987 – Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155 people.
From 2001 
 2007 – Martinique is struck by a magnitude 7.4 earthquake.
 2008 – The 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks come to an end after a stand-off at the Taj Mahal Hotel.
 2009 - Rwanda joins the Commonwealth of Nations. It is the second country, after Mozambique, to join despite having no colonial links to the United Kingdom.
 2012 - The UN General Assembly approves a motion granting Palestine non-member observer status.
 2013 - LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 crashes in northeastern Namibia, killing all 34 people on board.
 2013 - A police helicopter crashes into a pub in Glasgow, Scotland, killing all three people on board, and seven people in the pub, including one who died nearly two weeks later.
 2017 - Bosnian-Croatian politician and general Slobodan Praljak dies after drinking cyanide at the end of his war crimes trial in The Hague.
 2019 - Two people are stabbed and killed in the 2019 London Bridge stabbing; a separate stabbing in The Hague a few hours later injures three people.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1338 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (d. 1368)
 1427 – Zhengtong Emperor of China (d. 1464)
 1484 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss physician, scholar and politician (d. 1551)
 1711 - Laura Bassi, Italian scientist (d. 1778)
 1781 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet and philosopher (d. 1865)
 1787 - Ramon Freire, President of Chile (d. 1851)
 1797 – Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (d. 1848)
 1798 - Ramón Freire, President of Chile (d. 1851)
 1798 - Alexander Brullov, Russian painter (d. 1877)
 1798 - Hamilton Rowan Gamble, 16th Governor of Missouri (d. 1864)
 1799 – Amos Bronson Alcott, American writer and educator (d. 1888)
 1802 – Wilhelm Hauff, German poet (d. 1827)
 1803 – Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist (d. 1853)
 1803 – Gottfried Semper, German architect (d. 1879)
 1816 - Morrison Waite, American jurist and politician (d. 1888)
 1818 - William Ellery Channing, American poet (d. 1901)
 1823 - La Fayette Grover, 4th Governor of Oregon (d. 1911)
1825 – Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (d. 1893)
 1832 – Louisa May Alcott, American writer (d. 1888)
 1835 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China (d. 1908)
 1839 - Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian writer (d. 1889)
 1842 - William E. Cameron, Governor of Virginia (d. 1927)
 1843 - Gertrude Jekyll, English horticulturist and painter (d. 1932)
 1849 - John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (d. 1945)
 1850 - Agostino Richelmy, Italian cardinal (d. 1923)
 1856 – Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1921)
 1857 – Theodor Escherich, German-Austrian  physician and bacteriologist (d. 1911)
 1862 - Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria (d. 1934)
 1874 – Egas Moniz, Portuguese physician (d. 1955)
 1876 – Nellie Tayloe Ross, 14th Governor of Wyoming (d. 1977)
 1878 - John Derbyshire, English swimmer and water polo player (d. 1938)
 1879 - Jacob Gade, Danish composer (d. 1963)
 1880 - Nora Bayes, American singer (d. 1928)
 1882 - Henri Fabre, French pilot (d. 1984)
1888 - Joe Slater, Australian footballer and captain (d. 1917)
 1891 - Julius Raab, 19th Chancellor of Austria (d. 1964)
 1895 – Busby Berkeley, American director and choreographer (d. 1976)
 1895 – William Tubman, President of Liberia (d. 1971)
 1896 - Yakima Canutt, American actor, stuntman and director (d. 1986)
 1898 – C. S. Lewis, Irish writer (d. 1963)
 1899 - Andrija Artukovic, Croatian lawyer and politician (d. 1988)
 1899 - Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian (d. 2017)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Mildred Harris, American actress (d. 1944)
 1902 - Carlo Levi, Italian writer, painter and politician (d. 1975)
 1904 - Egon Eiermann, German architect (d. 1970)
 1905 - Marcel Lefebvre, French pilot (d. 1991)
 1912 - Jock Shaw, Scottish footballer (d. 2000)
 1915 – Eugene Polley, American inventor of the TV remote control (d. 2011)
 1916 - John Arthur Love, American politician, 36th Governor of Colorado (d. 2001)
 1917 - Pierre-Gaspard Huit, French director and screenwriter (d. 2017)
 1917 - Merle Travis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1983)
 1918 – Madeleine L'Engle, American writer (d. 2007)
 1920 - Joe Weider, Canadian-American bodybuilder (d. 2013)
 1920 - Yegor Ligachev, Soviet-Russian politician
 1920 - Joseph Shivers, American chemist (d. 2014)
 1921 - Jackie Stallone, American astrologer, mother of Sylvester Stallone
 1922 - Michael Howard, British historian (d. 2019)
 1923 - Minnie Miñoso, Cuban baseball player (d. 2015)
1924 - Jane Freilicher, American painter (d. 2014)
 1924 – Erik Balling, Danish director (d. 2005)
 1925 – Ernst Happel, Austrian football manager (d. 1992)
 1926 - Beji Caid Essebsi, President of Tunisia (d. 2019)
 1928 - Shulamit Aloni, Israeli politician (d. 2014)
 1928 - Paul Simon, American politician (d. 2003)
 1929 - Derek Jameson, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 2012)
 1930 - David Goldblatt, South African photographer (d. 2018)
 1930 – Shirley Porter, British politician
 1931 - Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
 1931 - Wallace Smith Broecker, American scientist (d. 2019)
 1932 – Jacques Chirac, former President of France (d. 2019)
 1932 - Diane Ladd, American actress
 1933 – John Mayall, English blues singer
 1933 – James Rosenquist, American artist (d. 2017)
 1934 - Guillermo Sepulveda, Mexican footballer
 1938 – Kashiwado Tsuyoshi, Japanese Sumo wrestler (d. 1996)
 1938 - Michel Duchaussoy, French actor (d. 2012)
 1939 - Abdelmajid Lakhal, Tunisian director and producer (d. 2014)
1939 - Hugh Robertson, Scottish footballer (d. 2010)
 1939 – Sandro Salvadore, Italian footballer (d. 2007)
 1940 – Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (d. 2007)
 1940 - Chuck Mangione, American horn player and composer
 1941 – Lothar Emmerich, German footballer (d. 2003)
 1942 – Ann Dunham (d. 1995), American anthropologist, mother of Barack Obama
 1946 - Brian Cadd, American singer-songwriter and keyboardist
 1946 - Suzy Chaffee, American skier and actress
 1947 – Petra Kelly, German activist and politician (d. 1992)
 1947 - Mario Aurelio Poli, Argentine cardinal
 1948 - David Rintoul, Scottish actor
 1949 – Jerry Lawler, American professional wrestler
 1949 - Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor and scriptwriter (d. 2016)
1951  1975 
 1952 – Jeff Fahey, American actor
 1953 - Christine Pascal, French actress (d. 1996)
 1953 – Huub Stevens, Dutch footballer and coach
 1953 - Rosemary West, English murderer
 1954 - Joel Coen, American director, producer and screenwriter
 1955 - Howie Mandel, Canadian actor and comedian
 1957 – Janet Napolitano, American politician
 1957 - Mario Salieri, Italian pornographic film director and producer
 1958 - Michael Dempsey, British musician
 1958 - John Dramani Mahama, President of Ghana
 1959 – Rahm Emanuel, American politician, 55th Mayor of Chicago
 1961 - Kim Delaney, American actress
 1962 - Ronny Jordan, British guitarist (d. 2014)
 1964 – Don Cheadle, American actor
 1964 - Ken Monkou, Dutch footballer
 1964 - Tom Sizemore, American actor and producer
 1965 - Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese poet and pianist (d. 1992)
 1965 - Ellen Cleghorn, American comedienne and actress
 1967 - Zbigniew Szewczyk, Polish footballer
 1968 - Hayabusa, Japanese wrestler (d. 2016)
1968 - Jonathan Knight, American singer
 1969 - Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch footballer
 1969 – Kasey Keller, American footballer
 1969 – Mariano Rivera, Panamanian baseball player
 1970 - Larry Joe Campbell, American actor
 1970 - Frank Delgado, American keyboardist (Deftones)
 1970 - Nathan Hines, Australian-Scottish rugby union player
 1970 - Mark Pembridge, Welsh footballer
 1971 - Gena Lee Nolin, American actress
 1972 - Jamal Mashburn, American basketball player
 1973 – Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer
 1974 – Pavol Demitra, Slovakian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
 1975 – Andreas Ioannides, Greek-Cypriot footballer
From 1976 
 1977 - Juan José Gurruchaga, Chilean actor
 1977 - Paul Goodison, English sailor
 1977 - Eddie Howe, English footballer and coach
 1978 – Dimitrios Konstantopoulos, Greek footballer
 1978 - Lauren German, American actress
 1979 - Simon Amstell, English comedian, actor and television host
 1981 - Fawad Khan, Pakistani actor and singer
 1982 - Gemma Chan, English actress
 1982 – Lucas Black, American actor
 1982 – John Mensah, Ghanaian footballer
 1982 - Ramya, Indian actress, singer and politician
 1982 – Imogen Thomas, Welsh television personality
 1983 - Albert Bunjaku, Swiss footballer
 1985 – Shannon Brown, American basketball player
 1987 - Stephen O'Halloran, Irish footballer
 1988 - Nika Kiladze, Georgian footballer (d. 2014)
 1988 - Russell Wilson, American football player
 1989 - Stefan Bradl, German motorcycle racer
 1990 - Lee Minhyuk, South Korean idol, singer, rapper and dancer
 1991 - Zac Sunderland, American sailor
 1991 - Becky James, Welsh cyclist
1992 - George Atkinson III, American football player (d. 2019)
 1995 - Laura Marano, American actress and singer
 1995 - Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, English swimmer
Up to 1900 
 521 - Jacob of Serugh, Syrian poet and theologian (b. 451)
 561 - Chlothar I, Frankish King (b. 497)
 1253 – Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1206)
 1268 - Pope Clement IV (b. 1190)
 1314 – King Philip IV of France (b. 1268)
 1330 - Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, English soldier and statesman (b. 1287)
 1342 - Michael of Cesena, Italian theologian (b. 1270)
 1378 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1316)
 1530 - Thomas Wolsey, English cardinal (b. 1470)
 1544 - Jungjong of Joseon of Korea (b. 1488)
 1590 - Philipp Nikodemos Frischlin, German philologist and poet (b. 1547)
 1595 - Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet (b. 1533)
 1600 – Nanda, King of Burma (b. 1535)
 1632 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine (b. 1596)
 1643 – Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (b. 1567)
 1682 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine (b. 1619)
 1694 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (b. 1628)
 1759 – Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1687)
1780 – Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, a Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and a Holy Roman Empress (b. 1717)
 1797 - Samuel Langdon, American clergyman and academic (b. 1723)
 1830 - John Maurice Hauke, Polish general (b. 1775)
 1847 - Marcus Whitman, American physician and missionary (b. 1802)
 1856 - Frederick William Beechey, English naval officer, explorer, geographer and politician (b. 1796)
 1872 - Horace Greeley, American newspaper editor and politician (b. 1811)
 1883 – Hiep Hoa, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1847)
1901  2000 
 1901 – Francisco Pi i Margell, Catalan writer and politician (b. 1824)
 1924 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian opera composer (b. 1858)
 1939 – Philipp Scheidemann, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1865)
 1941 - Frank Waller, American sprinter and hurdler (b. 1884)
 1946 - Sandy Archibald, Scottish footballer (b. 1896)
 1946 - Johannes Vares, Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1890)
 1953 - Sam DeGrasse, American actor (b. 1875)
 1954 - Dink Johnson, American pianist, clarinetist and drummer (b. 1892)
 1954 - George Robey, English comedian, singer and actor (b. 1859)
 1957 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (b. 1897)
 1962 - Erik Scavenius, Danish politician (b. 1877)
 1967 - Ferenc Münnich, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1886)
 1972 - Carl Stalling, American composer (b. 1888)
 1975 – Graham Hill, British racing driver (b. 1929)
 1975 - Tony Brise, British racing driver (b. 1952)
 1979 – Zeppo Marx, American actor (b. 1901)
 1981 – Natalie Wood, American actress (b. 1938)
1982 - Percy Williams, Canadian sprinter (b. 1908)
 1986 – Cary Grant, British-American actor (b. 1904)
 1991 – Ralph Bellamy, American actor (b. 1904)
 1991 - Frank Yerby, American author (b. 1916)
 1992 – Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (b. 1906)
 1993 - J. R. D. Tata, Indian pilot and businessman (b. 1904)
 1998 - Frank Latimore, American actor (b. 1925)
 1999 - Gene Rayburn, American game show host (b. 1917)
From 2001 
 2001 – George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles) (b. 1943)
 2003 - Moondog Spot, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
 2004 - John Drew Barrymore, American actor (b. 1932)
 2004 – Anne Samson, Canadian nun and supercentenarian (b. 1891)
 2005 – David di Tommaso, French footballer (b. 1979)
 2007 - Ralph Beard, American basketball player (b. 1927)
 2008 – Jorn Utzon, Danish architect (b. 1918)
 2009 - Prince Alexander of Belgium (b. 1942)
 2010 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (b. 1937)
 2010 – Mario Monicelli, Italian movie director (b. 1915)
 2010 – Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist (b. 1913)
 2013 - Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Russian poet and activist (b. 1936)
 2013 - Chris Howland, English-German singer, presenter, actor and author (b. 1928)
 2014 - Mark Strand, Canadian-American poet (b. 1934)
 2014 - Dwayne Alons, American politician (b. 1946)
 2014 - Luc De Vos, Belgian musician (b. 1962)
 2015 - O'tkir Sultonov, Prime Minister of Uzbekistan (b. 1939)
2015 - Claire Aho, Finnish-Swedish photographer (b. 1925)
 2016 - Luis Alberto Monge, President of Costa Rica (b. 1925)
 2017 - Belmiro de Azevedo, Portuguese businessman (b. 1938)
 2017 - Jerry Fodor, American philosopher (b. 1935)
 2017 - Aminul Islam, Bangladeshi academic (b. 1935)
 2017 - Charles E. Merrill Jr., Polish-born American educator (b. 1920)
 2017 - Slobodan Praljak, Bosnian-Croatian politician and general (b. 1945)
 2017 - Heather North, American actress (b. 1945)
 2017 - Mary Lee Woods, British mathematician and computer programmer (b. 1924)
 2018 - Altaf Fatima, Pakistani writer (b. 1927)
 2018 - Eldon George, Canadian fossil hunter and geologist (b. 1931)
 2018 - Ruth Haring, American chess player (b. 1955)
 2018 - Viktor Matviyenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1948)
 2019 - Irving Burgie, American songwriter (b. 1924)
 2019 - Fitzhugh Mullan, American physician and medical writer (b. 1942)
 2019 - Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)
Observances 
 International Day for Solidarity with the Palestinian people
 Liberation Day (Albania)
 Tubman Day (Liberia)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 3340 BC – Earliest believed record of an eclipse.
 1700 – Battle of Narva: A Swedish army of 8,500 men under Charles XII of Sweden defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva (present-day Estonia, next to Russian border).
 1707 – The Second Siege of Pensacola comes to an end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.
 1718 – Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten, Norway.
 1731 – An earthquake in Beijing kills thousands of people.
 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris – In Paris, representatives of the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace agreements – they later become official in the 1783 Treaty of Paris.
 1786 – The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under the future Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes the first modern state to ban the death penalty.
1803 – In New Orleans, Louisiana, Spanish representatives officially transfer Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
 1853 – Crimean War: Battle of Sinop – The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman Empire fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, present-day Turkey.
 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Franklin, Tennessee.
 1872 – The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow on Saint Andrew's Day, between Scotland and England. It ends 0–0.
 1886 – The Folies Bergere in Paris stages its first performance.
1901  2000 
 1908 – 154 miners are killed in a mining explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania.
 1916 – Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Copyright Convention.
 1920 – Liberato Ribeiro Pinto becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
 1934 – The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive known to have reached a speed of 100 miles per hour.
 1936 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
 1939 – Winter War: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
 1940 – Actress Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
 1942 – World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga – A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizo Tanaka defeats a US cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
 1943 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin agree to the planned June 1944 invasion of Europe code-named Operation Overlord.
1953 – Edward Mutesa II, the last King of Buganda, is deposed and exiled to London by Andrew Cohen, British Governor of Uganda.
 1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 lb (3.86 kg) sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio. She got a bad bruise. This is the only known case of a human being hit by a rock from space.
 1956 – Floyd Patterson becomes heavyweight world boxing champion against Archie Moore.
 1958 – French Equatorial Africa splits up into the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Chad and the Central African Republic, all of which becomes fully independent in 1960.
 1966 – Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
 1967 – The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
 1967 – Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
 1975 – Dahomey is renamed the "People's Republic of Benin".
1981 – Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17).
 1982 – A parcel bomb is delivered to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street.
 1982 – Michael Jackson releases his hit, "Thriller".
 1989 – Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida becomes serial killer Aileen Wuornos's first victim.
 1989 – German banker Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction bomb. He was a board member at Deutsche Bank.
 1993 – Steven Spielberg's movie Schindler's List is first shown, in Washington, DC.
 1994 – The ship MS Achille Lauro catches fire off Somalia.
 1995 – Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
 1995 – Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland, as the first US president to do so.
 1996 – The Stone of Scone is installed at Edinburgh Castle on its official return to Scotland from England.
1998 – Exxon and Mobil sign an agreement to merge.
 1999 – British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems.
From 2001 
 2001 – Green River Killer Gary Ridgway is arrested in Renton, Washington, ending a killing spree in which 49 people were murdered.
 2004 – Lion Air Flight 538 crash-lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26 people.
 2004 – Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700 USD, television's all-time biggest game show haul.
 2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England when he becomes Archbishop of York.
 2006 – Typhoon Durian causes a mud avalanche from the Mount Mayon volcano on Luzon, Philippines, killing 300 people.
 2013 – Actor Paul Walker, star of the "Fast and Furious", is killed in a car crash.
 2015 – Climate change talks begin in Paris.
 2017 – Katrín Jakobsdóttir becomes Prime Minister of Iceland, leading a three-party coalition.

Births
Up to 1800 
 539 – Gregory of Tours, French bishop and historian (d. 594)
 1327 – Andrew, Duke of Calabria (d. 1345)
 1340 – John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (d. 1416)
 1427 – Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (d. 1492)
 1466 – Andrea Doria, Genoese naval officer (d. 1560)
 1498 – Andres de Urdaneta, Spanish friar, sail-captain and explorer (d. 1568)
 1508 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (d. 1580)
 1554 – Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier and writer (d. 1586)
 1602 – Otto von Guericke, German politician, jurist, physicist and inventor (d. 1686)
 1642 – Andrea Pozzo, Italian painter and architect (d. 1709)
 1645 – Andreas Werckmeister, German organist, theorist and composer (d. 1706)
 1667 – Jonathan Swift, Irish writer (d. 1745)
 1670 – John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)
 1719 – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
 1723 – William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
 1761 – Smithson Tennant, English chemist (d. 1815)
1768 – Jedrzej Sniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)
 1781 – Alexander Berry, Scottish surgeon, merchant and explorer (d. 1873)
 1791 – Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg, Austrian soldier and statesman (d. 1848)
 1796 – Carl Loewe, German composer (d. 1869)
1801  1900 
 1813 – Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)
 1813 – Claude-Valentin Alkan, French composer (d. 1888)
 1817 – Theodor Mommsen, German historian and writer (d. 1903)
 1821 – Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
 1825 – William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French painter (d. 1905)
 1835 – Mark Twain, American writer (d. 1910)
 1836 – Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
 1847 – Afonso Augusto Moreira, 6th President of Brazil (d. 1909)
 1858 – Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
 1866 – Andrey Lyapchev, Bulgarian politician (d. 1933)
 1869 – Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist (d. 1937)
 1872 – John McCrae, Canadian poet (d. 1918)
 1874 – Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
 1874 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian writer (d. 1942)
 1875 – Otto Strandman, 2nd Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1941)
 1887 – Andrej Gosar, Slovenian-Yugoslavian politician, economist and theorist (d. 1970)
1887 – Beatrice Kerr, Australian swimmer, diver and aquatic performer (d. 1971)
 1889 – Edgar Douglas Adrian, English doctor, won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1977)
1901  1950 
 1904 – Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
 1906 – John Dickson Carr, American author (d. 1977)
 1907 – Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author (d. 2012)
 1909 – Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)
 1911 – Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953)
 1912 – Gordon Parks, American photographer, musician, writer and movie director (d. 2006)
 1915 – Henry Taube, Canadian-American physicist (d. 2005)
 1918 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (d. 2014)
 1920 – Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
 1924 – Klaus Huber, Swiss composer (d. 2017)
 1924 – Shirley Chisholm, American politician (d. 2005)
 1926 – Andrew W. Schally, Polish-Canadian Nobel Prize winner in medicine
 1927 – Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
 1928 – Takako Doi, Japanese scholar and politician (d. 2014)
 1928 – Karin Söder, Swedish politician (d. 2015)
 1929 – Dick Clark, American entertainer (d. 2012)
 1929 – Joan Ganz Cooney, American television presenter
1930 – G. Gordon Liddy, American Watergate scandal operative and talk show host
 1930 – Jacques Hamel, French priest (d. 2016)
 1931 – Bruce C. Murray, American geologist (d. 2013)
 1933 – Tsai Chin, Chinese-English actress
 1936 – Dmitri Anosov, Russian mathematician (d. 2014)
 1936 – Abbie Hoffman, American political and social activist (d. 1989)
 1937 – Tom Simpson, English cyclist (d. 1967)
 1937 – Ridley Scott, English movie director
 1937 – Frank Ifield, English-Australian singer
 1938 – Margarita Salas, Spanish biochemist and molecular geneticist (d. 2019)
 1939 – Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Nepalese shortest-man-ever record holder (d. 2015)
 1943 – Terrence Malick, American movie producer
 1944 – George Graham, Scottish footballer
 1945 – Hilary Armstrong, English politician
 1945 – Roger Glover, Welsh bassist (Deep Purple)
 1945 – Radu Lupu, Romanian pianist
 1945 – Pita Paraone, New Zealand politician (d. 2019)
 1947 – Stuart Baird, English movie editor, producer and director
1947 – David Mamet, American director and writer
 1950 – Wolfgang Niersbach, German journalist and football official
1951  1975 
 1952 – Mandy Patinkin, American actor and musician
 1952 – Keith Griffen, American comic book writer and artist
 1953 – Shuggie Otis, American musician, composer and producer
 1953 – June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (d. 2006)
 1954 – Simonetta Stefanelli, Italian actress
 1954 – Lawrence Summers, American economist and academic
 1955 – Billy Idol, English musician
 1955 – Richard Burr, American politician
 1955 – Andy Gray, Scottish footballer
 1957 – Richard Barbieri, English keyboardist and composer
 1957 – Patrick McLoughlin, English politician
 1957 – Colin Mochrie, Scottish-Canadian actor and comedian
 1957 – Margaret Spellings, American politician
 1957 – Gary Lewis, Scottish actor
 1958 – Stacey Q, American singer, actress and dancer
 1959 – Cherie Currie, American musician, singer, songwriter and actress
 1959 – Lorraine Kelly, Scottish television presenter
 1960 – Gary Lineker, English footballer
 1960 – Bob Tewksbury, American baseball player
1961 – Innocent Egbunike, Nigerian sprinter and coach
 1962 – Daniel Keys Moran, American computer programmer and author
 1965 – Ben Stiller, American actor and comedian
 1965 – Prince Akishino of Japan
 1965 – Aldair, Brazilian footballer
 1965 – David Laws, British politician
 1966 – David Berkoff, American swimmer
 1966 – John Bishop, English comedian
 1966 – Mika Salo, Finnish racing driver
 1968 – Des'ree, English R&B singer
 1968 – Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist
 1969 – Amy Ryan, American actress
 1973 – Kate Fischer, Australian model and actress
 1974 – Sébastien Tellier, French singer
 1975 – Ben Thatcher, English-Welsh footballer
 1975 – Mindy McCready, American country music singer (d. 2013)
From 1976 
 1976 – Josh Lewsey, English rugby player
 1976 – Paul Nuttall, English politician, former leader of UKIP
 1977 – Kozumi Saito, Japanese baseball player
 1978 – Clay Aiken, American singer
 1978 – Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor
 1981 – Otto Fredrikson, Finnish footballer
 1982 – Jason Pominville, Canadian ice hockey player
 1983 – David Carney, Australian footballer
 1983 – Adrian Cristea, Romanian footballer
 1984 – Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer
 1984 – Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer
 1984 – Francisco Sandaza, Spanish footballer
 1985 – Kaley Cuoco, American actress
 1985 – Chrissy Teigen, American model
 1985 – Luis Valbuena, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2018)
 1986 – Jordan Farmar, American basketball player
 1987 – Dougie Poynter, English singer and musician (McFly)
 1987 – Ian Hecox, American comedian
 1987 – Naomi, American dancer, model, singer and professional wrestler
 1987 – Victoria Thornley, Welsh cyclist
 1988 – Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)
1988 – Vitaliy Polyanskyi, Ukrainian footballer
 1989 – Vladimir Weiss, Slovakian footballer
 1990 – Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player
 1993 – Yuri Chinen, Japanese actor and singer
 1994 – William Melling, English actor
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 30 BC – Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt (b. 69 BC)
 1016 – Edmund II, King of England (b. 989)
 1580 – Richard Farrant, English composer and playwright (b. 1530)
 1600 – Nanda Bayin, King of Burma (b. 1535)
 1626 – Thomas Weelkes, English organist and composer (b. 1576)
 1703 – Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (b. 1672)
 1705 – Catherine of Braganza, Queen-Consort of King Charles II of England and Scotland (b. 1638)
 1718 – King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
 1873 – Alexander Berry, Scottish surgeon, merchant and explorer (b. 1781)
 1892 – Dimitrios Valvis, 69th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1814)
 1894 – Joseph E. Brown, American politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1821)
 1900 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
1901  2000 
 1901 – Edward John Eyre, English explorer (b. 1815)
 1908 – Nishinoumi Kajiro I, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1855)
 1920 – Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian general (b. 1867)
 1930 – Pannambalam Ramanathan, Ceylonese Tamil statesman (b. 1851)
 1934 – Helene Boucher, French pilot (b. 1908)
 1934 – Roy Turk, American songwriter (b. 1892)
 1935 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (b. 1888)
 1938 – Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Romanian leader of the far-right Iron Guard (b. 1898)
 1939 – Bela Kun, Hungarian politician (b. 1886)
 1944 – Paul Masson, French cyclist (b. 1876)
 1947 – Ernst Lubitsch, German actor and director (b. 1892)
 1953 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879)
 1954 – Wilhelm Furtwangler, German conductor (b. 1886)
 1957 – Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890)
 1958 – Hubert Wilkins, Australian soldier, explorer and photographer (b. 1888)
 1970 – Nina Ricci, Italian-French fashion designer (b. 1883)
1972 – Compton Mackenzie, Scottish novelist, actor and political activist (b. 1883)
 1977 – Terence Rattigan, English playwright (b. 1911)
 1979 – Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1901)
 1989 – Alfred Herrhausen, German banker (b. 1930)
 1989 – Ahmadou Ahidjo, 1st President of Cameroon (b. 1924)
 1994 – Guy Debord, French theorist and author (b. 1931)
 1994 – Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)
 1995 – Stretch, American rapper, producer and actor (b. 1968)
 1996 – Tiny Tim, American entertainer (b. 1932)
 1999 – Charlie Byrd, American guitarist (b. 1925)
From 2001 
 2003 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
 2004 – Seung Sahn, South Korean spiritual leader (b. 1927)
 2005 – Jean Parker, American actress (b. 1915)
 2005 – Nora Denney, American actress (b. 1927)
 2007 – Evel Knievel, American daredevil and stuntman (b. 1938)
 2008 – Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer and producer (b. 1958)
 2009 – Milorad Pavic, Serbian writer (b. 1929)
 2009 – Paul Naschy, Spanish actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1934)
 2011 – Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, Albanian royal and pretender (b. 1939)
 2011 – Zdenek Miler, Czech animator (b. 1921)
 2012 – I. K. Gujral, Prime Minister of India (b. 1919)
 2013 – Jean Kent, English actress (b. 1921)
 2013 – Yury Yakovlev, Russian actor (b. 1928)
 2013 – Paul Walker, American actor (b. 1973)
 2014 – Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (b. 1914)
 2014 – Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter (b. 1932)
 2014 – Fred Catherwood, English politician and writer (b. 1925)
2014 – Martin Litton, American environmentalist (b. 1917)
 2014 – Jarbom Gamlin, Indian politician (b. 1950)
 2015 – Eldar Ryazanov, Russian movie director (b. 1927)
 2015 – Gerrit Holdijk, Dutch politician (b. 1944)
 2015 – Greg Fisk, American politician (b. 1945)
 2017 – Alfie Curtis, British actor (b. 1930)
 2017 – Dick Gernert, American baseball player (b. 1928)
 2017 – Colin Groves, British-Australian biologist and professor (b. 1942)
 2017 – Jim Nabors, American actor, singer and comedian (b. 1930)
 2017 – Surin Pitsuwan, Thai politician and diplomat (b. 1949)
 2017 – Marina Popovich, Soviet-Russian air force colonel, engineer and test pilot (b. 1931)
 2017 – Vincent Scully, American architecture historian (b. 1920)
 2018 – Palden Gyatso, Tibetan Buddhist monk (b. 1933)
 2018 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (b. 1924)
 2019 – Michael Howard, English historian (b. 1922)
 2019 – Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor (b. 1943)
 2019 – Petr Málek, Czech sport shooter (b. 1961)
2019 – Harold Rahm, American-Brazilian Roman Catholic priest and humanitarian (b. 1919)
 2019 – Milagrosa Tan, Filipina politician (b. 1958)
 2019 – Brian Tierney, English historian (b. 1922)
Holidays and observances 
 Barbados – Independence Day (from the United Kingdom, 1966)
 Official end of the North Atlantic hurricane season
 Saint Andrew's Day – Christian apostle, and patron saint (several countries including Scotland and Barbados)
 Cities for Life Day
 National Day (Benin)
 Regina Mundi Day (South Africa)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 43 BC – The second Roman Triumvirate alliance is formed by Augustus, Marcus Aemelius Lepidus and Mark Antony.
 783 - Asturian Queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her closest family and friends from retaking the throne from Mauretagus.
 986 - The French city of Montpellier is first mentioned.
 1161 - Battle of Caishi in China: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze River during the Jin-Song Wars.
 1703 - The Great Storm of 1703, affecting Great Britain, sinks 12 Royal Navy ships, killing over 1,500 people.
 1778 – James Cook becomes the first European to navigate around the island of Maui, Hawaii, but doesn't find a suitable place to land.
 1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is held in the United States.
 1842 - The University of Notre Dame is founded.
 1863 – US President Abraham Lincoln declares Thanksgiving Day a national holiday, to be observed on the fourth Thursday in November.
1865 – Spanish-South American War: In the naval Battle of Papudo, the Chilean fleet under Juan Williams Rebolledo defeats the Spanish.
 1894 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra Fyodorovna marry.
 1898 - A storm off New England sinks the passenger ship Portland, killing 152 people. The storm kills 450 people in total.
1901  2000 
 1914 - British battleship Bulwark is destroyed by an explosion off Sheerness, killing 738 people, as only 12 of the people on board survive.
 1917 – The NHL is founded.
 1918 - The Podgorica Assembly in Montenegro votes for a "Union of the People", declaring that it merges with Serbia.
 1922 – Howard Carter enters the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt.
 1942 - Franklin D. Roosevelt orders gasoline rationing across the United States, starting on December 1.
 1942 - An earthquake in Turkey kills 4,000 people.
 1943 - World War II: The ship HMT Rohna is sunk by the German Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean Sea north of Bejaia, Algeria.
 1944 - World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworths shop on New Cross High Street, London, killing 168 people.
 1949 - India agrees to the constitution proposed by B. R. Ambedkar. This leads to India becoming a republic two months later, on January 26, 1950.
1950 – Korean War: The People's Republic of China enters the war, launching a counterattack in North Korea against South Korea and UN troops.
 1965 - In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix 1, on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.
 1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe 1.5 inches (38.1 millimetres) of rain fall in a minute, which is a world record.
 1976 – The Last Waltz is held.
 1979 - A Boeing 707 of Pakistan International Airlines, crashes during take-off from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 156 people on board.
 1982 – Larry Holmes wins the heavyweight boxing world title, defeating Randall Cobb in Houston, Texas.
 1983 – In London, 6,800 gold bars, worth nearly £ 26 million, are stolen from the Brink's MAT vault at Heathrow Airport.
 1990 - The Delta II rocket makes its first flight.
1991 – Azerbaijan's national assembly abolishes the autonomous State of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomus Oblast, where the population is of mainly Armenian ethnicity, and renames all its cities back to their old names.
 1992 - In the night to November 27, Vienna's Hofburg Castle is severely damaged by fire.
 1998 - The Khanna rail disaster in India kills 212 people.
 1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to speak at the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
 2000 - George W. Bush is confirmed as the winner of Florida's electoral votes in the disputed US Presidential Election, making him the next President of the United States instead of Al Gore, who had won the most votes overall.
From 2001 
 2003 – Concorde makes its last flight, over Bristol, England, United Kingdom.
 2004 – In Ruzhou, China, a man enters a school dormitory and stabs 8 people to death, while he also wounds 4 others.
 2008 – The 26 November 2008 Mumbai attacks begin with killings and hostage takings in different parts of the city, committed by Islamist terrorists, of whom only one survives. The attacks end on November 29 after a stand-off at the Taj Mahal Hotel.
 2011 – The New Zealand National Party, led by John Key, is elected to a second term in government.
 2011 – The Mars Science Laboratory, known as Curiosity, is launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, on board an Atlas V rocket. It lands on Mars in August 2012.

Births
Up to 1900 
 117 - Aelius Aristides, Greek writer (d. 181)
 907 - Rudesind, Galician bishop (d. 977)
 1288 – Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339)
 1436 – Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463)
 1604 - Johannes Bach, German composer and musician (d. 1673)
 1607 – John Harvard, English-born clergyman and university benefactor (d. 1638)
 1609 – Henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d. 1659)
 1657 – William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)
 1678 – Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771)
 1703 – Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758)
 1731 – William Cowper, English poet (d. 1800)
 1786 - José María Queipo de Llano, 7th Count of Toreno, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1846)
 1792 – Sarah Grimke, American abolitionist and feminist (d. 1873)
 1827 - Ellen G. White, American author, co-founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church (d. 1915)
 1828 - René Goblet, Prime Minister of France (d. 1915)
1832 – Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d. 1919)
 1832 – Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d. 1901)
 1847 – Maria Feodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
 1853 - Bat Masterson, American Old West figure (d. 1921)
 1857 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
 1858 - Katharine Drexel, American nun and saint (d. 1955)
 1864 – Edward Higgins, British Salvation Army General (d. 1947)
 1864 - Eugene Pierre, French politician (d. 1937)
 1869 – Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)
 1876 – Willis Carrier, American engineer and inventor (d. 1950)
 1885 – Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1970)
 1888 - Ford Beebe‎, American director (d. 1978)
 1889 – Albert Dieudonné, French actor, screenwriter and novelist (d. 1976)
 1892 - Joe Guyon, American football player (d. 1971)
 1894 - James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal (d. 1974)
 1894 – Norbert Wiener, American mathematician and founder of Cybernetics (d. 1964)
1895 - Bill W., American founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1971)
 1897 - Manuel A. Odria, Peruvian general and politician (d. 1974)
 1898 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
 1899 – Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Lindbergh III (d. 1936)
1901  1925 
 1902 - Maurice McDonald, American fast food pioneer (d. 1971)
 1903 - Alice Herz-Sommer, Jewish pianist, music teacher, Holocaust survivor and supercentenarian (d. 2014)
 1905 - Emlyn Williams, Welsh writer. dramatist and actor (d. 1987)
 1905 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)
 1908 – Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (d. 1989)
 1909 – Eugene Ionescu, Romanian-born dramatist (d. 1994)
 1909 - Fritz Buchloh, German footballer (d. 1998)
 1909 - Frances Dee, American actress (d. 2004)
 1910 - Aileen Meagher, Canadian athlete and painter (d. 1987)
 1910 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (d. 1993)
 1912 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (d. 1992)
 1914 - Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)
 1915 – Earl Wild, American pianist (d. 2010)
 1915 - Inge King, German-Australian sculptor (d. 2016)
 1918 – Patricio Aylwin, former President of Chile (d. 2016)
 1918 - Huber Matos, Cuban activist (d. 2014)
 1919 – Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish statesman (d. 2010)
1919 - Frederik Pohl, American writer (d. 2013)
 1920 - Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (d. 2004)
 1921 - Françoise Gilot, French painter, critic and author
 1922 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
 1923 - V. K. Murthy, Indian cinematographer (d. 2014)
 1923 - Pat Phoenix, English actress (d. 1986)
 1924 – George Segal, American Pop Sculptor (d. 2000)
 1924 - Edward T. Breathitt, Governor of Kentucky (d. 2003)
 1925 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003)
 1925 - Gregorio Conrado Alvarez, Uruguayan military and politician (d. 2016)
1926  1950 
 1926 - Rabi Ray, Indian politician
 1926 - Ray McFall, British nightclub owner (d. 2015)
 1927 – Ernie Coombs, American children's entertainer (d. 2001)
 1929 - Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian composer and musician (d. 2015)
 1930 - J. Joseph Garrahy, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 2012)
 1930 - Berthold Leibinger, German mechanical engineer, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2018)
 1931 – Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
 1931 - Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Dutch archbishop and cardinal
 1933 – Robert Goulet, American singer and actor (d. 2007)
 1933 - Tony Verna, American television producer (d. 2015)
 1933 - Richard Holloway, Scottish writer and former Bishop of Edinburgh
 1936 - Margaret Boden, English computer scientist and psychologist
 1937 – Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1994)
 1938 – Porter Goss, American politician and Central Intelligence Agency director
 1938 – Rodney Jory, Australian physicist
1938 – Rich Little, Canadian-American comedian and actor
 1939 – Tina Turner, American-Swiss singer and actress
 1939 – Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia
 1940 - Enrico Bombieri, Italian mathematician
 1940 - Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2007)
 1942 - Olivia Cole, American actress
 1942 - Dang Thuy Tram, Vietnamese doctor (d. 1970)
 1943 – Bruce Paltrow, American producer and director (d. 2002)
 1944 – Jean Terrell, American singer
 1945 – Daniel Davis, American actor
 1945 – John McVie, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
 1946 - Mark L. Lester, American director
 1946 – Art Shell, American football player and coach
 1947 - Vicki Ann Funk, American botanist (d. 2019)
 1947 – Susanne Zenor, American actress
 1948 – Elizabeth Blackburn, Australian-American molecular biologist
 1948 - Galina Prozumenshchikova, Soviet-Russian swimmer (d. 2015)
 1948 – Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (d. 1995)
 1948 – Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer
1948 – Claes Elfsberg, Swedish television presenter
 1949 – Vincent A. Mahler, Political Scientist and professor at Loyola University Chicago
 1949 – Juanin Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
 1949 - Martin Lee, British singer
 1949 - Mari Alkatiri, 1st Prime Minister of East Timor
 1949 - Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer-songwriter
 1950 – Dieter Burdenski, German footballer