Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1779 - Adam Oehlenschlager, Danish poet and playwright (d. 1850)
 1797 - Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist and lawyer (d. 1875)
 1805 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (d. 1847)
 1807 - Auguste Laurent, French chemist (d. 1853)
 1812 - Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (d. 1878)
 1812 - Maria Christina of Savoy (d. 1836)
 1828 - James P. McPherson, American general (d. 1864)
 1832 - Henry Strangways, English-Australian politician (d. 1920)
 1840 – Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
 1863 - Leo Baekeland, Flemish chemist and inventor of Bakelite (d. 1944)
 1877 - Norman Brookes, Australian tennis player (d. 1968)
 1878 - Julie Manet, French painter (d. 1966)
 1878 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957)
 1883 - Ado Birk, 3rd Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942)
 1889 – Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
 1891 – Frederick Banting, Canadian doctor, won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
 1891 - Ted Meredith, American athlete (d. 1957)
1893 - Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian writer (d. 1973)
 1895 - Louise Huff, American actress (d. 1973)
 1896 – Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
 1898 - Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French poet, critic and philosopher (d. 1944)
 1900 – Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
1901  1950 
 1904 - Dick Powell, American actor and director (d. 1963)
 1906 – Louise Brooks, American actress (d. 1985)
 1907 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2002)
 1907 - William Steig, American writer (d. 2003)
 1907 - Howard W. Hunter, American Mormon leader (d. 1995)
 1908 – Joseph McCarthy, American politician (d. 1957)
 1910 - Eric Malpass, British author (d. 1996)
 1913 - George Smathers, American politician (d. 2007)
 1916 - Roger Apéry, French mathematician (d. 1994)
 1916 - Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer (d. 2011)
 1917 – Pak Chŏng Hŭi, President of The Republic of Korea (d. 1979)
 1919 - Johnny Desmond, American singer (d. 1985)
 1919 - Rudolf Kreitlein, German football referee (d. 2012)
 1922 - Veronica Lake, American actress (d. 1973)
 1922 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian UN Secretary-General (d. 2016)
 1925 - Zhores Medvedev, Russian agronomist, biologist and dissident (d. 2018)
 1926 - Bart Cummings, Australian racehorse trainer (d. 2015)
1927 - Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (d. 1997)
 1928 - Kathleen Hughes, American actress
 1929 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)
 1930 - Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor and printmaker (d. 1993)
 1930 - Edward Higgins White, American astronaut, first American to perform a space walk (d. 1967)
 1930 - Janis Pujats, Latvian cardinal
 1932 - Gunter Sachs, German businessman and playboy (d. 2011)
 1933 - Fred Haise, American astronaut
 1934 - Dave Mackay, Scottish footballer (d. 2015)
 1934 - Ellis Marsalis, Jr., American jazz pianist
 1935 - King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
 1936 - Carey Bell, American blues musician (d. 2007)
 1939 – Wendy Carlos, American composer
 1939 - Ben Cayetano, 5th Governor of Hawaii
 1942 - Natalia Gutman, Russian cellist
 1943 - Peter Norton, American software programmer and author
 1943 - Jim Cantalupo, CEO of McDonald's (d. 2004)
 1944 - Björn Bjarnason, Icelandic politician
 1945 - Stella Obasanjo, First Lady of Nigeria (d. 2005)
1947 - Buckwheat Zydeco, American musician (d. 2016)
 1948 – Charles, Prince of Wales
 1948 - Paul Dacre, British newspaper editor (Daily Mail)
 1948 - Michael Dobbs, British novelist
 1949 - Pierre Buyoya, former President of Burundi
 1949 - James "J.Y." Young, American guitarist (Styx)
1951  1975 
 1951 - Stephen Bishop, American singer-songwriter
 1951 - Zhang Yimou, Chinese director
 1951 - Frankie Banali, American drummer and songwriter
 1952 - Maggie Roswell, American actress
 1952 - Bill Farmer, American voice actor
 1953 – Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France
 1954 – Condoleezza Rice, 66th United States Secretary of State
 1954 - Yanni, Greek-American pianist, composer and producer
 1955 - Jack Sikma, American basketball player
 1955 – Matthias Herget, German footballer
 1956 – Avi Cohen, Israeli footballer (d. 2010)
 1956 - Alec John Such, American musician (Bon Jovi)
 1956 - Babette Babich, American philosopher, author and scholar
 1957 - Wolfgang Hoppe, German bobsledder
 1959 - Paul Attanasio, American screenwriter and movie and TV producer
 1959 – Paul McGann, English actor
 1962 - Stefano Gabbana, Italian fashion designer
 1964 - Patrick Warburton, American actor
 1965 - Greg Hands, English politician
 1966 - Charles Hazlewood, English conductor
1967 - Letitia Dean, English actress
 1971 – Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer
 1972 – Josh Duhamel, American actor
 1972 - Edyta Górniak, Polish singer
 1973 - Dana Snyder, American comedian, actor and producer
 1975 - Travis Barker, American drummer, songwriter and producer
 1975 - Faye Tozer, British singer (Steps)
From 1976 
 1977 - Brian Dietzen, American actor
 1978 - Delphine Chanéac, French model and actress
 1979 - Carl Hayman, New Zealand rugby player
 1979 - Moitheri Ntobo, Lesotho footballer
 1979 - Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian actress and model
 1979 - Miguel Sabah, Mexican footballer
 1979 - Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer
 1980 - Carlos Cabezas, Spanish basketball player
 1981 - Vanessa Bayer, American comedienne and actress
 1981 - Russell Tovey, British actor
 1982 - Laura Ramsey, American actress
 1983 - Alejandro Falla, Colombian tennis player
 1984 - Vincenzo Nibali, Italian cyclist
 1984 - Lisa De Vanna, Australian footballer
 1984 - Marija Serifovic, Serbian singer
 1985 – Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer
 1986 - Yuna, Malaysian singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1986 - Alo Jakin, Estonian cyclist
 1986 - Cory Michael Smith, American actor
 1989 - Jake Livermore, English footballer
 1990 - Zoe van der Weel, British handball player
 1991 - Taylor Hall, Canadian ice hockey player
Up to 1900 
 565 - Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 483)
 976 - Song Taizu, Chinese Emperor
 1263 - Alexander Nevsky, Russian saint (b. 1220)
 1282 - Nichiren, Japanese Buddhist reformer (b. 1222)
 1305 - John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
 1391 - Nikola Tavelic, Croatian missionary and saint (b. 1340)
 1522 - Anne of France (b. 1461)
 1687 – Nell Gwyn, British actress and royal mistress (b. 1650)
 1691 - Tasa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (b. 1617)
 1716 – Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1646)
 1746 - Georg Wilhelm Steller, German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer (b. 1709)
 1749 - Maruyama Gondazaemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1713)
 1817 - Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian national heroine (b. 1795)
 1825 - Jean Paul, German author (b. 1863)
 1831 – Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770)
 1831 - Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-French composer and piano builder (b. 1757)
 1832 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American politician (b. 1737)
1844 - John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (b. 1780)
 1866 - King Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1802)
1901  2000 
 1908 - Guangxu Emperor of China (b. 1871)
 1915 – Booker T. Washington, American inventor, educator, and writer (b. 1856)
 1921 - Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (b. 1846)
 1922 – Karl Michael Ziehrer, Austrian composer (b. 1843)
 1944 - Trafford Leigh-Mallory, English air force officer (b. 1892)
 1946 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)
 1947 - Joseph Allard, Canadian fiddler and composer (b. 1873)
 1972 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (b. 1900)
 1977 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religion leader (b. 1896)
 1985 – Wellington Koo, Chinese diplomat (b. 1887)
 1989 - Jimmy Murphy, Manchester United assistant manager (b. 1910)
 1991 - Tony Richardson, English director (b. 1928)
 1992 – Ernst Happel, Austrian football manager (b. 1925)
 2000 - Robert Trout, American journalist (b. 1908)
From 2001 
 2001 - Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (b. 1922)
 2002 - Eddie Bracken, American actor (b. 1915)
 2003 - Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (b. 1962)
 2004 - Michel Colombier, French composer (b. 1939)
 2011 - Neil Heywood, British businessman (b. 1970)
 2012 - Ahmed Jabari, Palestinian military commander, Hamas (b. 1960)
 2013 - Grace Jones, British supercentenarian (b. 1899)
 2014 - Marius Barnard, South African surgeon (b. 1927)
 2014 - Diem Brown, American television personality (b. 1982)
 2014 - Jane Byrne, 50th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1934)
 2014 - Adib Jatene, Brazilian cardiologist and politician (b. 1929)
 2014 - Glen A. Larson, American television producer and writer (b. 1937)
 2014 - Robert Littell, American politician (b. 1936)
 2014 - Morteza Pashaei, Iranian singer (b. 1984)
 2014 - Eugene Dynkin, Russian-American mathematician (b. 1924)
 2015 - Warren Mitchell, British actor (b. 1926)
 2015 - Nick Bockwinkel, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
2016 - Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player (b. 1913)
 2016 - Gwen Ifill, American broadcast journalist (b. 1955)
 2017 - Shyama, Indian actress (b. 1935)
 2017 - Jean-Pierre Schmitz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1932)
 2017 - Wolfgang Schreyer, German writer (b. 1927)
 2017 - Gunnar Uldall, German politician (b. 1940)
 2017 - Jack Blessing, American actor (b. 1951)
 2017 - Hou Zongbin, Chinese politician (b. 1929)
 2018 - Morten Grunwald, Danish actor and director (b. 1934)
 2018 - James V. Hansen, American politician (b. 1932)
 2018 - Rolf Hoppe, German actor (b. 1930)
 2018 - Fernando del Paso, Mexican writer (b. 1935)
 2019 - María Baxa, Italian-Serbian actress (b. 1946)
 2019 - Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer (b. 1932)
Observances 
 World Diabetes Day (after the biergday of Frederick Banting)
 Children's Day (India)
 Day of the Colombian Woman

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 587 - Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram of Burgundy recognizes Childebert II as his heir.
 936 - Shi Singtang is enthroned as the first Emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty by Emperor Taizong of Liao in China.
 1443 – Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja, Albania and raise Albania's flag.
 1520 – Ferdinand Magellan sails through the Magellan Strait.
 1582 – William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway marry.
 1627 - The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy has its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliwa.
 1660 - At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Williams and Robert Moray, decide to found what later becomes the Royal Society.
 1666 - At least 3,000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tom Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels.
1814 - The Times of London is for the first time printed by automatic steam-powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
 1821 – Panama unites with Greater Colombia, declaring independence from Spain.
 1843 – The Kingdom of Hawaii is recognised as an independent state by the United Kingdom and France.
 1862 - American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
 1885 - Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
 1893 - New Zealand becomes the first country in which women can vote in a general election.
 1895 - The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in around 10 hours.
1901  2000 
 1905 – In Dublin, Arthur Griffith founds the Sinn Féin political party.
 1907 - in Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
 1909 - Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the first performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3.
 1912 – Albania declares independence from the Ottoman Empire.
 1914 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
 1917 - The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
 1918 - Bukovina votes for a Union with the Kingdom of Romania.
 1919 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor becomes the United Kingdom's first female Member of Parliament.
 1925 - The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee.
 1942 - In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Coconaut Grove nightclub killing 491 people.
 1943 – World War II: The Allied Conference in Tehran takes place.
1958 – Chad, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon become autonomous Republics within the French community.
 1960 – Mauritania becomes independent from France.
 1964 – NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe towards Mars.
 1966 - Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the country's first President.
 1971 - Prime Minister of Jordan Wasfi al-Tal is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
 1975 – East Timor declares independence from Portugal.
 1979 – A plane crash on Mount Erebus in Antarctica kills 257 people.
 1980 - Iran-Iraq War: Operation Morvarid - The bulk of Iraq's Navy is destroyed by Iran in the Persian Gulf.
 1987 – A South African Airways plane crashes into the Indian Ocean near Mauritius, killing all 160 people on board.
 1989 – Czechoslovakia's Communist Party announces that it will give up its hold on power.
 1990 – Margaret Thatcher officially resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by John Major.
From 2001 
 2002 – Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya.
 2004 – A mine explosion in Shaanxi province, China, kills 166 people.
 2010 – WikiLeaks releases 200,000 diplomatic cables, including 100,000 marked as secret or confidential.
 2014 - A terrorist attack on the main mosque in Kano, Northern Nigeria, kills dozens of people.
 2016 - LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 crashes near Medellin, Colombia, killing 76 people (leaving 5 survivors), including many members of Brazilian football club Chapecoense.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1118 - Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1180)
 1489 – Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)
 1598 - Hans Nansen, Danish politician (d. 1667)
 1628 – John Bunyan, English cleric and writer (d. 1688)
 1632 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (d. 1687)
 1640 - Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish captain (d. 1698)
 1660 - Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria (d. 1690)
 1681 - Jean Cavalier, French rebel leader (d. 1740)
 1700 - Sophia Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, consort of King Christian VI of Denmark (d. 1770)
 1757 – William Blake, English poet (d. 1827)
 1772 – Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann, German philologist (d. 1848)
 1785 – Victor de Broglie, Prime Minister of France (d. 1870)
 1792 - Victor Cousin, French philosopher (d. 1867)
 1793 - Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Swedish poet (d. 1866)
 1811 – King Maximilian II of Bavaria (d. 1864)
 1820 – Friedrich Engels, German thinker who wrote about Communism with Karl Marx (d. 1895)
1829 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer (d. 1894)
 1837 - John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor (d. 1920)
 1851 - Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, British politician and statesman, 9th Governor General of Canada (d. 1917)
 1853 - Helen Magill White, American educator (d. 1944)
 1856 - Belisario Porras Barahona, President of Panama (d. 1942)
 1857 – King Alfonso XII of Spain (d. 1885)
 1864 - Lindley Miller Garrison, American lawyer and politician (d. 1932)
 1866 - Henry Bacon, American architect (d. 1924)
 1880 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet (d. 1921)
 1881 – Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (d. 1942)
 1887 – Ernst Röhm, German Nazi official (d. 1934)
 1895 – José Iturbi, Spanish pianist (d. 1980)
 1896 - Lilia Skala, Austrian-American actress (d. 1994)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Oscar Diego Gestido, 32nd President of Uruguay (d. 1967)
 1901 - Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (d. 1960)
 1904 - James Eastland, American politician (d. 1986)
 1904 - Nancy Mitford, English author (d. 1973)
 1907 – Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (d. 1990)
 1908 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist (d. 2009)
 1910 - Elsie Quarterman, American economist (d. 2014)
 1915 - Konstantin Simonov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
 1916 - Lilian, Princess of Rethy, British-born Queen Consort of Belgium (d. 2002)
 1916 - Ramon Jose Velasquez, former acting President of Venezuela (d. 2014)
 1923 - Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981)
 1923 - James Karen, American actor (d. 2018)
 1925 – Jozsef Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (d. 1978)
 1926 - Bernard Kops, English dramatist and poet
 1927 - Abdul Halim of Kedah, Sultan of Kedah and Head of State of Malaysia (d. 2017)
 1927 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)
 1929 – Berry Gordy, American record company owner
1929 - Thomas Remengesau Sr., Palauan politician, President of Palau (d. 2019)
 1931 – Tomi Ungerer, French cartoonist (d. 2019)
 1932 - Gato Barbieri, Argentine jazz musician and movie score composer (d. 2016)
 1933 - Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003)
 1935 – Prince Hitachi, Japanese royalty
 1936 - Carol Gilligan, American feminist and psychologist
 1936 - Gary Hart, American politician and author
 1936 - Celin Romero, Spanish guitarist
 1940 - Bruce Channel, American singer-songwriter
 1941 - Laura Antonelli, Italian actress (d. 2015)
 1942 - Manolo Blahnik, Spanish shoe designer
 1943 – Randy Newman, American musician
 1943 - Manlio Rocchetti, Italian make-up artist (d. 2017)
 1943 - Tuulikki Ukkola, Finnish journalist and politician (d. 2019)
 1944 – Rita Mae Brown, American writer and activist
 1945 - Franklin Drilon, Filipino politician
 1946 - Joe Dante, American film director
 1947 - Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
 1947 - Maria Farantouri, Greek singer and politician
1948 – Agnieszka Holland, Polish director and script writer
 1949 – Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer (d. 1995)
 1949 - Paul Shaffer, Canadian-American musician, actor, comedian and composer
 1950 – Ed Harris, American actor
 1950 – Russell Alan Hulse, American physicist
 1950 - George Yonashiro, Japanese footballer
1951  1975 
 1951 - Barbara Morgan, American actor and journalist
 1952 - Pat Cox, Irish politician
 1953 – Alistair Darling, British politician
 1953 – Pamela Hayden, American actress
 1953 - Michael Chertoff, American politician
 1953 - Nadezhda Olizarenko, Soviet-Ukrainian athlete (d. 2017)
 1953 - Ewald Lienen, German footballer and coach
 1955 – Alessandro Altobelli, Italian footballer
 1956 - Fiona Armstrong, British journalist and author
 1958 – Kriss Akabusi, British athlete
 1958 - Shaun Prendergast, English actor and writer
 1959 - Nancy Charest, Canadian politician (d. 2014)
 1959 - Judd Nelson, American actor
 1960 – John Galliano, British fashion designer
 1961 – Martin Clunes, British actor
 1961 - Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican director, screenwriter and producer
 1962 – Jon Stewart, American comedian and television host
 1962 - Paul Dinello, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
 1962 - Jane Sibbett, American actress
 1963 - Charles Dale, Welsh actor
1963 - Armando Iannucci, Scottish comedian, director and producer
 1964 - Michael Bennet, American politician
 1964 - Roy Tarpley, American basketball player (d. 2015)
 1964 - Sian Williams, British journalist
 1967 - José del Solar, Peruvian footballer
 1967 – Anna Nicole Smith, American actress and model (d. 2007)
 1968 - Astrid Williamson, Scottish musician, composer and songwriter
 1970 - Richard Osman, English television presenter
 1970 - Edouard Philippe, French politician, Prime Minister of France
 1971 - Fenriz, Norwegian singer-songwriter
 1972 – Paulo Figueiredo, Angolan footballer
 1972 - Hiroshi Nanami, Japanese footballer
 1972 - Anastasia Kelesidou, Greek discus thrower
 1973 - Jade Puget, American guitarist and producer
 1974 – Apl.de.ap, Filipino-American musician (Black Eyed Peas)
 1975 – Takashi Shimoda, Japanese footballer
 1975 - Park Sung-Bae, South Korean footballer
 1975 - Sigurd Wongraven, Norwegian singer-songwriter, musician and producer
From 1976 
 1977 - Greg Somerville, New Zealand rugby player
 1977 – Fabio Grosso, Italian footballer
 1977 – Gavin Rae, Scottish footballer
 1978 – Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer
 1979 – Chamillionaire, American rapper
 1979 - Daniel Henney, American actor and model
 1980 - Lisa Middelhauve, German singer-songwriter
 1982 - Leandro Barbosa, Brazilian basketball player
 1983 – Nelson Haedo Valdez, Paraguayan footballer
 1983 - Summer Rae, American football player, wrestler and actress
 1984 – Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player
 1984 – Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress
 1984 - Trey Songz, American singer-songwriter, producer and actor
 1985 – Caitlin McClatchey, Scottish swimmer
 1985 – Alvaro Pereira, Uruguayan footballer
 1985 - Landry N'Guémo, Cameroonian footballer
 1987 – Karen Gillan, Scottish actress and director
 1987 - Craig Kieswetter, English cricketer
 1988 - Hiroki Fujiharu, Japanese footballer
 1988 - Scarlett Pomers, American actress and singer-songwriter
1988 - Daniel Matsunaga, Brazilian-Japanese actor and model
 1989 - Laura Brock, Australian footballer
 1990 - Dedryck Boyata, Belgian footballer
 1990 - Bradley Smith, British motorcycle racer
 1991 - Scott Allan, Scottish footballer
 1992 - Adam Wicks, American actor, rapper, singer and songwriter
 2003 - Mae Stephens, British singer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 711 - Pope Gregory III
 1170 – Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd (b. 1100)
 1290 – Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Edward I of England (b. 1241)
 1680 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
 1680 – Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1606)
 1694 – Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet (b. 1644)
 1695 - Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Italian composer (b. 1637)
 1698 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier (b. 1622)
 1763 - Naungdawgyi, King of Burma (b. 1734)
 1785 - William Whipple, American politician (b. 1730)
 1794 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian-American general (b. 1730)
 1845 - Patriarch Meletius III of Constantinople (b. 1772)
 1859 – Washington Irving, American writer (b. 1783)
 1870 – Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)
 1890 - Jyotirao Phule, Indian philosopher and activist (b. 1827)
1901  2000 
 1915 – Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
 1921 – 'Abdu'l Baha, Persian religious leader (b. 1844)
 1927 - John W. Griggs, Governor of New Jersey and United States Attorney General (b. 1849)
 1930 - Patriarch Constantine VI of Constantinople (b. 1859)
 1939 – James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (b. 1861)
 1945 - Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player and politician (b. 1879)
 1954 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist (b. 1901)
 1960 - Tsunenohana Kan'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1896)
 1962 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (b. 1880)
 1963 - Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (b. 1941)
 1968 – Enid Blyton, English writer (b. 1897)
 1971 - Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1920)
 1973 – Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (b. 1886)
 1976 - Rosalind Russell, American actress (b. 1907)
 1982 - Helen of Greece and Denmark, Queen Consort of Romania (b. 1896)
 1992 – Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (b. 1917)
1993 – Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf) (b. 1946)
 1993 - Garry Moore, American comedian and game show host (b. 1915)
 1994 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)
 1997 - Georges Marchal, French actor (b. 1920)
From 2001 
 2003 - Antonia Forest, English author (b. 1915)
 2007 – Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (b. 1907)
 2007 – Gudrun Wagner, German festival co-organiser (b. 1944)
 2010 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1926)
 2011 – Ante Markovic, Croatian politician and former Yugoslavian Prime Minister (b. 1924)
 2011 - Charles T. Kowal, American astronomer (b. 1940)
 2012 - Don Rhymer, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1961)
 2012 - Zig Ziglar, American writer, salesman and motivational speaker (b. 1926)
 2013 - Mitja Ribicic, Slovenian politician and former Yugoslavian Prime Minister (b. 1919)
 2014 - Chespirito, Mexican actor, director and writer (b. 1929)
 2014 - Said Akl, Lebanese writer (b. 1912)
 2014 - Lucidio Sentimenti, Italian footballer (b. 1920)
 2015 - Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and opera director (b. 1948)
 2015 - Gerry Byrne, English footballer (b. 1938)
 2015 - Olene S. Walker, American politician, Governor of Utah (b. 1930)
 2015 - Yoka Berretty, Dutch actress (b. 1928)
2015 - Jean Joubert, French author (b. 1928)
 2015 - Tomasz Tomczykiewicz, Polish politician (b. 1961)
 2016 - Mark Taimanov, Russian chess player (b. 1926)
 2017 - Patrícia Gabancho, Argentine-Spanish writer (b. 1952)
 2017 - Shadia, Egyptian actress (b. 1931)
 2018 - Richard Fulton, American politician (b. 1927)
 2018 - Robert Morris, American sculptor (b. 1931)
 2018 - Harry Leslie Smith, British writer and political commentator (b. 1923)
 2019 - Marion McClinton, American theatre director and playwright (b. 1954)
 2019 - Pim Verbeek, Dutch footballer and coach (b. 1956)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Albania, 1912 declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire)
 Independence Day (Mauritania, independence from France in 1960)
 Republic Day (Burundi, Chad)
 Declaration of Independence (East Timor)
 Navy Day (Iran)
 Ascension of 'Abdu'l Baha (Baha'i faith)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 571 BC - Servius Tullius, King of Rome, celebrates his victory over the Etruscans.
 1120 - The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning over 300 people, including William Adelin, son and heir to King Henry I of England.
 1177 - Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeats Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
 1343 - An earthquake and tsunami damage the area around Naples.
 1487 - Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England.
 1491 - The Siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
 1610 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc discovers the Orion Nebula.
 1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
 1703 - The Great Storm of 1703 across southern Great Britain reaches its height.
 1758 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control.
 1758 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is founded.
 1759 - Beirut and Damascus are destroyed by an earthquake, killing between 30,000 and 40,000 people.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
 1795 - Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last King of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
 1833 - A massive undersea earthquake affects Sumatra.
 1839 – A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (never to be entirely rebuilt again). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
 1863 – American Civil War: Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant defeat Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg in the Battle of Chattanooga. The Union therefore take control of Tennessee.
 1867 – Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.
 1885 – The Banff National Park in Alberta becomes the first National Park in Canada.
1901  1950 
 1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII.
 1915 - The Ku Klux Klan is re-founded in Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States.
 1926 - A November tornado outbreak strikes the Midwestern United States, killing 76 people, including 51 in Arkansas alone.
 1941 - HMS Barham is sunk by a German torpedo during World War II.
 1943 – Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina was re-established at the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia.
 1944 – World War II: US forces defeat Japanese forces in the Battle of Peleliu, in Palau, in the western Pacific Ocean.
 1947 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
 1947 - Red Scare: Hollywood Ten - Hollywood Movie Studios make a blacklist of alleged Communists.
 1950 – The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river border to fight United Nations forces.
1951  2000 
 1953 – For the first time, the England national football team loses against a team from Continental Europe; the Hungary national football team, by 6-3 at Wembley Stadium.
 1958 - French Sudan gains autonomy.
 1960 - The Mirabal sisters are murdered in the Dominican Republic.
 1963 – President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
 1970 - In Japan, Yukio Mishima and one compatriot (someone from the same country) commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
 1973 - In Greece, Georgios Papadopoulos is overthrown in a coup led by Dimitrios Ioannidis.
 1975 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
 1975 – The dictators of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay form Operation Condor, which aims to track down and kill anyone who expresses left-wing opinions.
 1980 - Saye Zerbo, in Burkina Faso, overthrows President Sangoule Lamizana, in a coup.
1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
 1986 - The Iran Contra Affair begins as United States Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from secret weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua.
 1986 - The King Fahd Causeway opens, linking Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
 1987 – Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that swallows entire villages. at least 1,036 deaths caused by the storm.
 1992 – The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993.
 1996 - An ice storm affects the central United States, killing 26 people.
 1999 - The UN creates the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
 2000 - The 2000 Baku earthquake, at magnitude 7, kills 26 people.
From 2001 
 2002 – Reported assassination attempt on Turkmen president Saparmurat Niyazov.
 2008 - Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people.
 2008 – 'Yellow Shirt' anti-government demonstrators begin a week-long blockade of Bangkok Airport, forcing the Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat to resign.
 2009 – Torrential rain in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, causes major flooding, killing 100 people, many of them pilgrims participating in the Hajj Pilgrimage.
 2012 - A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills over 100 people.
 2012 - Sebastian Vettel wins the Formula One World Championship for the third year in a row, becoming the youngest driver to win three Formula One World Championships.
 2014 - Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes is hit on the neck by a ball during a match. He dies two days later.
 2016 - Former President of Cuba Fidel Castro dies aged 90.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1454 - Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (d. 1510)
 1501 - Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1570)
 1562 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (d. 1635)
 1577 – Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander (d. 1629)
 1609 – Henrietta Maria, daughter of Henry IV of France, Wife of King Charles I of England (d. 1669)
 1638 – Catherine of Braganza, Queen-Consort of England and Scotland (d. 1705)
 1666 - Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, Italian violin maker (d. 1740)
 1714 - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (d. 1783)
 1752 - Johann Friedrich Reichhardt, German composer, writer and music critic (d. 1814)
 1758 - John Armstrong, Jr., American politician (d. 1843)
 1778 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British writer (d. 1856)
 1787 - Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian composer (d. 1863)
 1809 - Adolph E. Borie, American politician (d. 1880)
 1810 - Nikolay Pirogov, Russian surgeon and educator (d. 1881)
 1817 - John Bigelow, American statesman and writer (d. 1911)
1835 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American businessman (d. 1919)
 1844 – Karl Benz, German inventor (d. 1929)
 1845 – José María de Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese writer (d. 1900)
 1846 – Carrie Nation, American temperance activist (d. 1911)
 1856 - Sergei Taneyev, Russian composer (d. 1915)
 1861 - Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer (d. 1917)
 1865 - Gustaf Söderström, Swedish tug of war competitor, shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1958)
 1868 - Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1937)
 1870 - Winthrop Ames, American director, playwright and producer (d. 1937)
 1872 - Robert Maysack, American gymnast (d. 1960)
 1873 - Myers Y. Cooper, Governor of Ohio (d. 1958)
 1874 - Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)
 1876 - Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1936)
 1879 - August Kirch, German politician (d. 1959)
 1880 - John Flynn, Australian minister (d. 1951)
 1881 – Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
1887 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist and geneticist (d. 1943)
 1891 - Onishiki Uichiro, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1941)
 1895 – Ludovik Svoboda, Czech statesman (d. 1979)
 1895 – Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet politician (d. 1978)
 1896 - Benjamin Travis Laney, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1977)
 1896 - Virgil Thomson, American composer (d. 1989)
 1898 - Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director and writer (d. 1971)
 1900 - Jimmy Dunn, Scottish footballer (d. 1963)
 1900 - Rudolf Höss, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1945)
1901  1950 
 1902 - Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1985)
 1904 – Ba Jin, Chinese writer (d. 2005)
 1904 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (d. 1964)
 1907 - John Stuart Hindmarsh, English racing driver (d. 1938)
 1914 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)
 1915 - Chung Ju-young, Korean entrepreneur and founder of Hyundai (d. 2001)
 1915 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and dictator (d. 2006)
 1915 - Armando Villanueva, Prime Minister of Peru (d. 2013)
 1916 - Peg Lynch, American writer and actress (d. 2015)
 1917 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (d. 2009)
 1919 - Norman Tokar, American director (d. 1979)
 1920 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (d. 2000)
 1920 – Ricardo Montalban, Mexican actor (d. 2009)
 1920 - Noel Neill, American actress (d. 2016)
 1923 – Mauno Koivisto, 9th President of Finland (d. 2017)
 1924 - Ante Markovic, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 2011)
 1924 - Paul Desmond, American jazz musician (d. 1977)
1926 - Poul Anderson, American writer (d. 2001)
 1930 - Clarke Scholes, American swimmer (d. 2010)
 1931 - Nat Adderley, American jazz musician (d. 2000)
 1931 - Hollis L. Harris, American airline executive (d. 2016)
 1933 - Kathryn Crosby, American actress and singer
 1935 - Robert Berner, American scientist (d. 2015)
 1936 - William McIlvanney, Scottish writer (d. 2015)
 1938 - Rosanna Schiaffino, Italian actress (d. 2009)
 1939 - Martin Feldman, American economist
 1940 - Reinhard Furrer, Austrian-German physicist and astronaut (d. 1995)
 1940 - Joe Gibbs, American NFL coach and NASCAR team owner
 1940 - Karl Offmann, 3rd President of Mauritius
 1940 - Shyamal Kumar, Indian politician, 21st Governor of West Bengal
 1941 - Percy Sledge, American singer (d. 2015)
 1941 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani writer and spiritual leader (d. 2001)
 1941 – Philippe Honoré, French cartoonist (d. 2015)
 1944 - Paul Copley, British actor
 1944 - Maarten 't Hart, Dutch writer
 1944 – Ben Stein, American actor
1944 - Michael Kijana Wamalwa, 8th Vice President of Kenya (d. 2003)
 1947 - Jonathan Kaplan, American movie maker
 1947 - John Larroquette, American actor
 1948 - Jacques Dupuis, Canadian politician, 14th Deputy Premier of Quebec
 1950 - Jocelyn Brown, American singer
 1950 - Gabriele Oriali, Italian footballer
 1950 - Giorgio Faletti, Italian author, screenwriter and actor (d. 2014)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Spanish writer
 1951 - Alan Rough, Scottish footballer
 1952 – Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer and politician, Prime minister of Pakistan
 1952 – John Lynch, 80th Governor of New Hampshire
 1953 - Graham Eadie, Australian rugby player
 1953 - Jeffrey Skilling, American businessman and fraudster
 1955 - Bruno Tonioli, Italian choreographer
 1957 – Bob Ehrlich, 60th Governor of Maryland
 1957 – Monte Melkonian, Armenian military leader (d. 1993)
 1959 - Jim Bett, Scottish footballer
 1959 - Steve Rothery, English guitarist
 1959 – Charles Kennedy, Scottish politician, former leader of the British Liberal Democrats (d. 2015)
 1960 – John F. Kennedy Jr., son of John F. Kennedy (d. 1999)
 1960 – Amy Grant, American singer
 1962 - Hironobu Sakaguchi, Japanese video game designer
 1962 - Blythe Duff, Scottish actress
 1963 - Chip Kelly, American football coach
 1964 - Bert van Vlaanderen, Dutch long-distance runner
 1965 - Dougray Scott, Scottish actor
1966 - Tim Armstrong, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
 1966 - Billy Burke, American actor
 1967 - Kazuya Nakai, Japanese voice actor
 1967 – Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer
 1968 - Jacqueline Hennessy, Canadian actress and journalist
 1968 - Galin Nikov, Bulgarian pole vaulter
 1970 – Eluana Englaro, Italian patient in right-to-die case (d. 2009)
 1971 - Magnus Arvedson, Swedish ice hockey player
 1971 – Christina Applegate, American actress
 1971 - Dominic Cummings, English political strategist and advisor
 1972 - Deepa Marathe, Indian cricketer
 1972 - Mark Morton, American guitarist and songwriter
 1973 - Steven de Jongh, Dutch cyclist
 1973 - Eddie Steeples, American actor
From 1976 
 1976 - Clint Mathis, American soccer player
 1976 - Olena Vitrychenko, Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast
 1978 – Ringo Shiina, Japanese singer
 1979 - Sandrine Bailly, French biathlete
 1979 - Brooke Haven, American pornographic actress
 1980 – Aaron Mokoena, South African footballer
 1980 - John-Michael Liles, American ice hockey player
 1981 - Lee Bum-Ho, South Korean baseball player
 1981 – Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer
 1981 – Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush Hager, daughters of George W. Bush and Laura Bush
 1981 - Jared Jeffries, American basketball player
 1983 - Kirsty Crawford, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress
 1983 - Jhulen Goswami, Indian cricketer
 1984 - Peter Siddle, Australian cricketer
 1984 - Gaspard Ulliel, French actor
 1985 – Marcus Hellner, Swedish skier
 1986 – Katie Cassidy, American actress and singer
 1986 - Amber Hagerman, American murder victim (d. 1996)
 1986 - Craig Gardner, English footballer
 1987 – Dolla, American rapper (d. 2009)
1988 – Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (d. 2010)
 1988 – Jay Spearing, English footballer
 1989 – Tom Dice, Belgian singer and songwriter
 1990 - Eilish McColgan, Scottish athlete
 1991 - Luca Tremolada, Italian footballer
 1991 - Kevin Woo, American-South Korean singer
 1991 - Jamie Grace, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 311 - Pope Peter III of Alexandria
 1034 – King Malcolm II of Scotland (b. 980)
 1120 - William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England
 1185 – Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
 1326 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1294)
 1374 - Philip II, Prince of Taranto (b. 1329)
 1560 – Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (b. 1466)
 1700 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (b. 1643)
 1766 - Johann Maria Farina, Italian perfumer and entrepreneur (b. 1685)
 1865 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer (b. 1821)
 1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)
 1885 – King Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
 1885 – Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)
1901  2000 
 1909 - Edward P. Allen, American politician (b. 1839)
 1911 - Paul Lafargue, French journalist, literary critic and activist (b. 1842)
 1920 – Gaston Chevrolet, French-American racing driver (b. 1892)
 1925 – Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (b. 1881)
 1935 - Iyasu V, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1897)
 1941 - Pedro Aguirre Cerda, President of Chile (b. 1879)
 1944 – Kunio Nakagawa, Japanese military commander (b. 1898)
 1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American baseball commissioner (b. 1866)
 1948 - Kanbun Uechi, Japanese karate master (b. 1877)
 1950 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer (b. 1873)
 1956 - Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet movie director (b. 1894)
 1957 – Prince George of Greece and Denmark (b. 1869)
 1960 - Mirabal sisters:
 Patria Mirabal, Dominican activist (b. 1924)
 Minerva Mirabal, Dominican activist (b. 1926)
 Maria Teresa Mirabal, Dominican activist (b. 1935)
 1963 - Alexander Marinesko, Russian navy officer (b. 1913)
 1965 – Myra Hess, British pianist (b. 1890)
1968 – Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer (b. 1878)
 1970 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (b. 1925)
 1972 - Hans Scharoun, German architect (b. 1893)
 1974 - Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
 1974 – U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General (b. 1909)
 1977 - Manouchehr Eghbal, 65th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1909)
 1981 - Jack Albertson, American actor, singer, comedian, musician, and dancer (b. 1907)
 1984 - Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian statesman (b. 1913)
 1987 - Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922)
 1990 - Merab Mamardashvili, Georgian philosopher (b. 1930)
 1996 – Hastings Banda, President of Malawi (b. c. 1907)
 1998 – Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)
From 2001 
 2001 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani writer and spiritual leader (b. 1941)
 2002 - Karel Reisz, Czech-British director (b. 1926)
 2005 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
 2005 – Richard Burns, English rally driver (b. 1971)
 2007 – Kevin DuBrow, American rock music singer (b. 1955)
 2011 - Vasily Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter (b. 1942)
 2012 - Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician (b. 1931)
 2012 - Dave Sexton, English footballer and coach (b. 1930)
 2013 - Bill Foulkes, English footballer (b. 1932)
 2013 - Chico Hamilton, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1921)
 2014 - Denham Harman, American scientist (b. 1916)
 2014 - Petr Hapka, Czech composer (b. 1944)
 2015 - Lennart Hellsing, Swedish author and translator (b. 1919)
 2015 - Elmo Williams, American editor, producer, director and executive (b. 1913)
 2016 - David Hamilton, English photographer (b. 1933)
 2016 - Fidel Castro, President of Cuba (b. 1926)
2017 - Bertha Calloway, American civil rights activist and historian (b. 1925)
 2017 - Sotir Ferrara, Italian-Albanian church leader (b. 1937)
 2017 - Rosario Green, Mexican economist and politician (b. 1941)
 2017 - Rance Howard, American actor (b. 1928)
 2017 - Anna Kuzmina, Russian actress (b. 1933)
 2017 - Julio Oscar Mechoso, American actor (b. 1955)
 2017 - Harry Pregerson, American federal judge (b. 1923)
 2018 - Randolph L. Braham, Romanian-born American historian, political scientist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1922)
 2018 - Giuliana Calandra, Italian actress (b. 1936)
 2018 - Viktor Kanevskyi, Ukrainian footballer and coach (b. 1936)
 2018 - Wright King, American actor (b. 1923)
 2018 - C. K. Jaffer Sharief, Indian politician (b. 1933)
 2019 - Frank Biondi, American film and television executive (b. 1945)
 2019 - George Clements, American Roman Catholic priest and civil rights activist (b. 1932)
 2019 - János Horváth, Hungarian economist and politician (b. 1925)
2019 - Nobuaki Kobayashi, Japanese billiards player (b. 1942)
 2019 - Jimmy Schulz, German businessman and politician (b. 1968)
2020 - Diego Maradona, Argentine football player (b. 1960)
Holidays and observances 
 Bosnia and Herzegovina - National Day (1943)
 Suriname – Independence Day (from the Netherlands, 1975)
 Indonesia - Teachers' Day
 Thailand - Vajiravudh Memorial Day
 New York - Evacuation Day
 Christian feast day: Saint Catherine of Alexandria
 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Days of the year
Events

Up to 1900 
 235 - Antenus succeeds Pontian as Pope.
 1386 - Timur of Samarkand captures and sacks the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi.
 1620 – The Pilgrim Fathers sign the Mayflower Compact near Cape Cod.
 1694 – French philosopher Voltaire is born.
 1710 - The Fourth Russo-Turkish War begins.
 1783 – The Montgolfier brothers make the first hot-air balloon flight.
 1789 – North Carolina becomes the 12th State of the US.
 1861 - American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin as Secretary of War.
 1877 - Thomas Edison announces that he has invented the phonograph.
 1894 - First Sino-Japanese War: Port Arthur, Manchuria, falls to the Japanese.
1901  2000 
 1905 - Albert Einstein's paper Does the Inertia of a Body depend on Its Energy Content ? is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
 1916 – A mine explodes and sinks the British hospital ship HMHS Britannic in the Aegean Sea, killing 30 people.
 1916 - Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria dies aged 86. His nephew, Charles I of Austria, becomes the last Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
 1918 – The Flag of Estonia is formally adopted.
 1920 - Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what becomes known as "Bloody Sunday". They are 14 British informants, 14 Irish civilians and 3 Irish Republican Army prisoners.
 1922 - Rebecca Latimer Felton becomes the first female United States Senator, though she has to leave office a day later. She is also the oldest US Senator to take office (at age 87), the shortest-serving US Senator ever, and the last US Senator to have owned slaves.
 1942 - The completion of the Alaska Highway is celebrated.
1945 - The United Auto Workers strike at 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a 30% pay rise.
 1950 - Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in Northeastern British Columbia, killing 21 people.
 1953 – The British History Museum announces that the Piltdown Man skull is a hoax.
 1962 - The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral ceasfire in the Sino-Indian War.
 1963 - John F. Kennedy arrives in Dallas, Texas, a day before his assassination in the city.
 1964 – The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is opened to traffic over the Hudson River.
 1969 – President of the United States Richard Nixon and Prime Minister of Japan Eisaku Sato agree to the return of Okinawa to Japan in 1972. The United States keeps its right to have military bases on the island, as long as they are nuclear-free.
 1972 - South Korean voters support a new constitution
 1974 – In the United Kingdom, the Birmingham Pub Bombings kill 21 people.
1979 - The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, is attacked by a mob, and set on fire, killing four people.
 1980 - In the TV series Dallas, the episode to find out who shot JR Ewing is first broadcast, setting the record-high for a US TV audience.
 1980 - Fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada, kills 87 people.
 1986 - Oliver North starts shredding documents relating to his and Ronald Reagan's roles in the Iran-Contra Affair.
 1995 - The Dayton Peace Agreement is signed in Dayton, Ohio, ending  years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 1999 - China's first spacecraft, Shenzhou 1, lands safely back on Earth.
From 2001 
 2002 – NATO invites Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to become members.
 2004 – In Ukraine's Presidential election, Viktor Yanukovych is declared as the winner, leading to the Orange Revolution, after suspicions of vote-rigging. Many people protest in favour of the defeated candidate Viktor Yushchenko, who wins the re-run of the election on December 26.
 2004 - The Caribbean islands of Dominica and Guadeloupe are hit by a strong earthquake.
 2005 – Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon founds a new political party, the Kadima Party.
 2006 - Anti-Syrian Lebanese politician Pierre Amine Gemayel is murdered in downtown Beirut.
 2009 – A mine explosion in Heilongjiang province in northern China kills 108 people.
 2010 - Eurozone Debt Crisis: It is announced that the Republic of Ireland requires a bail-out from the Eurozone.
 2012 - The only surviving perpetrator of the 26 November 2008 Mumbai attacks, Ajmal Kasab, is executed.
2012 - After a week of war between Israel and Gaza, an agreement is reached on a truce.
 2013 - The roof of a supermarket collapses in Riga, Latvia, killing 54 people, including three firefighters.
 2013 - Euromaidan: Protests begin in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych abandons a deal with the EU over closer relations with Russia.
 2017 - A bomb attack on a mosque in Mubi, Adamawa State, North-eastern Nigeria, kills 50 people.
 2017 - Robert Mugabe resigns as President of Zimbabwe, after an impeachment process was started against him. He had been in power for 37 years (Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and President since 1987).