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1901  2000 
 1902 – Second Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.
 1902 – A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.
 1902 – Tochangri, Turkey, is completely destroyed by an earthquake.
 1906 – Europe's worst mining disaster occurs at Courrieres, northern France, as 1,099 miners are killed.
 1909 - The Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 is signed.
 1912 – Yuan Shikai is sworn in as the second Provisional President of the Republic of China.
 1922 - Mahatma Gandhi is arrested for sedition by British colonial authorities.
 1923 – The Spanish football club Villarreal is founded.
 1926 – The first Book-of-the-Month-Club selection is produced
 1933 – An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 120 people.
 1945 – The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1948 – The Indian Union Muslim League is founded, by remnants of the old Muslim League.
 1951 – Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.
 1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
 1959 - Tibetan Uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by the Government of the People's Republic of China, 300,000 Tibetans surround Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.
 1964 – The Ford Mustang is first produced by the Ford Motor Company.
 1966 – Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg.
 1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. Ray would later retract his guilty plea.
 1970 – Vietnam War: Capt. Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes.
 1971 – William McMahon becomes Prime Minister of Australia.
 1975 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thout, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
 1977 – Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
1982 – The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.
 1982 – Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun.
 1987 – Reproductive rights: The Holy See condemns the practice of surrogate motherhood, along with test-tube babies and artificial insemination.
 1987 - A magnitude 7 earthquake hits Colombia and Ecuador, killing 1,000 people.
 1990 – In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
 1991 – Gulf War: Operation Phase Echo – 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf.
 1996 – The "Summit of Peacemakers" takes place in Egypt.
 1998 – American troops stationed in the Persian Gulf begin to receive the first vaccinations against anthrax.
 1998 - Suharto claims a sixth election victory as President of Indonesia. This leads to protests which eventually lead to his resignation in May of the same year, after over 32 years in power.
From 2001 
 2004 – Six Flags sells 8 of its theme parks to private investors.
 2004 – Kostas Karamanlis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
 2005 – In Edmonton, Alberta, the largest memorial (of its kind) in Canadian history was held for four RCMP constables who were gunned down March 3, 2005.
 2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at the planet Mars.
 2006 - The 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin begin.
 2008 – The New York Times reveals that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer patronised a prostitution service, and he resigns shortly after.
 2014 - President of Bayern Munich football club Uli Hoeness goes on trial on charges of tax fraud.
 2015 - A court rules that the tune from Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams' track Blurred Lines was copied from a song by Marvin Gaye.
 2017 - South Korean President Park Geun-hye is officially removed from office by the country's constitutional court over a corruption scandal, following her impeachment three months earlier.
2017 - The United Nations warns that up to 20 million people could be affected by a famine affecting parts of Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.
 2019 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 103, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on a flight due to go to Nairobi, Kenya, killing all 157 people on board.
Up to 1900 
 1415 – Vasili II of Russia (d. 1462)
 1452 – Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1516)
 1503 – Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1564)
 1536 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1572)
 1628 – Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (d. 1694)
 1709 - Georg Wilhelm Steller, German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer (d. 1746)
 1748 - John Playfair, Scottish scientist and mathematician (d. 1819)
 1749 - Lorenzo da Ponte, Italian opera librettist and poet (d. 1838)
 1760 - Leandro Fernandez de Moratin, Spanish poet and writer (d. 1829)
 1772 – Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Schlegel, German poet, critic and scholar (d. 1829)
 1776 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Consort of Prussia (d. 1810)
 1779 – Frances Trollope, English writer (d. 1863)
 1786 - José Maria Vargas, President of Venezuela (d. 1854) 
 1787 – Francisco de Paula Martinez de la Rosa, Spanish statesman and dramatist (d. 1862)
 1787 – William Etty, English painter (d. 1849)
1788 - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German polymath (d. 1857)
 1789 – Manuel de la Peña y Peña, President of Mexico (d. 1850)
 1810 - Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet (d. 1886)
 1833 - Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, Spanish writer (d. 1891)
 1839 - Dudley Buck, American composer, organist and writer (d. 1909)
 1842 - Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (d. 1912)
 1844 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist (d. 1908)
 1845 – Tsar Alexander III of Russia (d. 1894)
 1845 - Hallie Quinn Brown, African-American educator and activist (d. 1949)
 1847 - Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragist (d. 1934)
 1850 - Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (d. 1906)
 1853 - Thomas Mackenzie, Scottish-born 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
 1854 - Arnost Muka, Sorbian writer (d. 1932)
 1867 - Hector Guimard, French architect and designer (d. 1942)
 1867 - Lillian Wald, American nurse, humanitarian and writer (d. 1940)
 1873 - Jakob Wassermann, German writer (d. 1934)
1875 - Alexander Goldenweiser, Russian pianist, composer and educator (d. 1961)
 1876 - Edvard Eriksen, Danish sculptor (d. 1959)
 1876 – Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish nobleman and assassin (d. 1948)
 1877 - Emile Sarrade, French rugby player (d. 1953)
 1879 - Hans Luther, Chancellor of Germany in the Weimar Republic (d. 1962)
 1885 - Tamara Karsavina, Russian ballerina (d. 1978)
 1887 – Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d. 1972)
 1891 - Sam Jaffe, American actor, teacher, musician and engineer (d. 1984)
 1892 – Arthur Honegger, Swiss-French composer (d. 1955)
 1892 - Gregory La Cava, American movie director and cartoonist (d. 1952)
 1897 – Robert Meier, German World War I veteran (d. 2007)
 1900 – Pandelis Pouliopoulos, Secretary of the Greek Communist Party (d. 1943)
1901  1950 
 1903 – Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (d. 1931)
 1905 - Richard Haydn, British actor (d. 1985)
 1907 - Christopher Del Sesto, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1973)
 1909 - LeRoy Collins, Governor of Florida (d. 1991)
 1915 - Charles Groves, English conductor (d. 1992)
 1915 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist (d. 1978)
 1918 – Günther Rall, German fighter pilot (d. 2009)
 1923 – Val Logsdon Fitch, American nuclear physicist (d. 2015)
 1923 - Hans Riegel, German entrepreneur (Haribo) (d. 2013)
 1925 - Bob Lanier, American politician, 58th Mayor of Houston, Texas (d. 2014)
 1926 - Marques Haynes, American basketball player (d. 2015)
 1926 - Oscar Quitak, British actor
 1927 – Jupp Derwall, German footballer and manager (d. 2007)
 1928 - Sara Montiel, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2013)
 1928 – James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 1998)
 1929 - Arthur Barnard, American hurdler
 1930 - Jimmie Macgregor, Scottish folk music singer and broadcaster
1932 - Marcia Falkender, English politician
 1933 - Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell, Argentine poet and translator (d. 2004)
 1933 - Ralph Emery, American television host
 1936 - Alfredo Zitarrosa, Uruguayan singer, poet and composer (d. 1989)
 1936 – Sepp Blatter, Swiss President of FIFA
 1938 – Ieronymus II, Archbishop of Athens
 1938 - Norman Blake, American musician
 1939 - Ashgar Ali Engineer, Indian writer and activist (d. 2013)
 1940 – Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist
 1946 - Peter Temple, Australian writer (d. 2018)
 1947 – Kim Campbell, 19th Prime Minister of Canada
 1947 - Piers Corbyn, brother of Jeremy Corbyn
 1947 – Tom Scholz, American songwriter and guitarist
 1948 - Austin Carr, American basketball player
 1948 - Pat Gallagher, Irish politician
 1949 - Bill Buxton, Canadian computer scientist and designer
 1950 – Colin McGinn, British philosopher
1951  1975 
 1951 - Brad Fiedel, American movie score composer
 1951 - Gloria Diaz, Filipino model and actress
 1952 - Mike O'Donnell, English musician and composer
 1952 – Morgan Tsvangirai, former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (d. 2018)
 1953 – Paul Haggis, Canadian screenwriter, producer and movie director
 1954 - Luc Dardenne, Belgian movie director, producer and screenwriter
 1955 - Yousra, Egyptian actress and singer
 1956 - Robert Llewellyn, British writer, actor and presenter
 1956 - Henry Smith, Scottish footballer
 1957 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist (al-Qaeda) (d. 2011)
 1957 - Hilary Devey, English businesswoman
 1957 – Hans-Peter Friedrich, German politician
 1957 - Terry Holmes, Welsh rugby player
 1957 – Shannon Tweed, Canadian actress and model
 1958 – Sharon Stone, American actress
 1958 - Garth Crooks, English footballer and pundit
 1958 - Frankie Ruiz, American singer (d. 1998)
 1960 - Antonio Corgos, Spanish long jumper
1961 – Laurel Clark, American physician and astronaut (d. 2003)
 1961 - Mitch Gaylord, American gymnast, actor and stuntman
 1962 - Jasmine Guy, American actress
 1962 - Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer
 1963 – Jeff Ament, American musician
 1964 - Dave Bowman, Scottish footballer
 1964 – Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
 1964 – Neneh Cherry, Swedish singer
 1966 - Edie Brickell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1968 - Pavel Srnicek, Czech footballer (d. 2015)
 1969 - Paget Brewster, American actress
 1971 – Jon Hamm, American actor
 1971 - Steve Arnold, British racing driver
 1972 - Timbaland, American rapper
 1973 – Eva Herzigova, Czech model
 1973 – Chris Sutton, English footballer
 1973 - Mauricio Taricco, Argentine footballer
 1974 – Keren Ann, Israeli-Dutch singer
 1974 - Biz Stone, American businessman, co-founder of Twitter
 1975 - Jerry Horton, American guitarist
From 1976 
 1976 – Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese singer
 1976 - Kisaki, Japanese bass player, singer and songwriter
 1976 - Ane Brune, Norwegian singer
 1977 – Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer
 1977 - Shannon Miller, American gymnast
 1977 – Colin Murray, Northern Irish radio and television presenter
 1977 - Robin Thicke, American singer (Blurred Lines)
 1977 - Bree Turner, American actress
 1978 – Neil Alexander, Scottish footballer
 1978 - Benjamin Burnley, American musician
 1978 - Camille, French singer
 1979 - Danny Pudi, American actor and comedian
 1981 – Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer
 1981 – Kokkai Futoshi, Georgian-Japanese sumo wrestler
 1981 - Steven Reid, Irish footballer
 1982 – Kwame Brown, American basketball player
 1983 - Rafe Spall, English actor
 1983 - Janet Mock, American writer, television host and activist
 1983 – Carrie Underwood, American singer
 1984 - Carol Castro, Brazilian actress
 1984 – Olivia Wilde, American actress
 1985 – Lassana Diarra, French footballer
1985 - Pastor Maldonado, Venezuelan racing driver
 1987 - Emeli Sandé, Scottish singer
 1987 - Ebba Jungmark, Swedish athlete
 1987 - Tuukka Rask, Finnish ice hockey player
 1987 - Liu Shishi, Chinese actress and ballerina
 1988 – Ivan Rakitic, Croatian footballer
 1990 - Inna Deriglazova, Russian foil fencer
 1991 - Kadeena Cox, English Paralympic athlete
 1992 – Emily Osment, American actress and singer
 1993 - Jack Butland, English footballer
 1993 - Nooa Takooa, Kiribati athlete
 1994 - JoJo Offerman, American wrestler and singer
 1995 - Sergey Mozgov, Russian ice dancer
 1997 - Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 483 - Pope Simplicius
 1291 - Arghun, Persian ruler
 1315 - Agnes Blannbekin, Austrian mystic and saint (b. 1244)
 1391 - Tvrtko I, King of Bosnia (b. 1338)
 1588 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (b. 1533)
 1607 - Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1590)
 1792 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1713)
 1826 – King John VI of Portugal (b. 1767)
 1832 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (b. 1752)
 1861 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (b. 1814)
 1864 – Maximilian II of Bavaria (b. 1811)
 1864 – Jack Slade, American frontier figure (b. 1831)
 1872 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (b. 1805)
 1889 - Yohannes IV, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1831)
 1889 - Antonio de Trueba, Spanish writer (b. 1819)
 1895 - Charles Frederick Worth, English-French fashion designer (b. 1826)
 1897 - Savitribai Phule, Indian poet and activist (b. 1831)
 1898 - Marie-Eugenie de Jesus, French Catholic nun (b. 1817)
1901  2000 
 1910 – Carl Reinecke, German pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1824)
 1910 – Karl Lueger, Mayor of Vienna (b. 1844)
 1913 – Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820)
 1924 - Chester Hardy Aldrich, American politician, 17th Governor of Nebraska (b. 1862)
 1937 – Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (b. 1884)
 1940 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
 1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist (b. 1862)
 1948 – Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian politician (b. 1886)
 1948 – Zelda Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1900)
 1950 - Marguerite Da La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)
 1951 – Kijuro Shidehara, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1872)
 1966 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist (b. 1888)
 1982 - Minoru Shirota, inventor of Yakult (b. 1899)
 1984 - June Marlowe, American actress (b. 1903)
 1985 – Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)
 1985 – C. B. van Niel, Dutch microbiologist (b. 1897)
 1986 - Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor (b. 1907)
1988 – Andy Gibb, English-born singer (b. 1958)
 1992 - Giorgos Zampetas, Greek composer and musician (b. 1925)
 1997 - LaVern Baker, American actor (b. 1913)
 1998 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
From 2001 
 2001 – Massimo Morsello, Italian musician and activist (b. 1958)
 2006 – John Profumo, British politician (b. 1915)
 2007 - Richard Jeni, American actor (b. 1957)
 2010 – Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)
 2010 – Dorothy Janis, American actress (b. 1910)
 2010 – Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian Muslim cleric (b. 1928)
 2012 – Jean Giraud, French comic book artist (b. 1938)
 2012 – Nick Zoricic, Canadian skier (b. 1983)
 2012 - Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and physicist (b. 1927)
 2013 - Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, British-born Swedish royal (b. 1915)
 2014 - Cynthia Lynn, Latvian-American actress (b. 1937)
 2014 - Joe McGinniss, American journalist and writer (b. 1942)
 2015 - Stuart Wagstaff, British-Australian entertainer (b. 1925)
 2015 - Claude Sitton, American newspaper reporter (b. 1925)
 2016 - Ken Adam, German-English production designer (b. 1921)
 2016 - Ernestine Anderson, American jazz and blues singer (b. 1928)
 2016 - Anita Brookner, English writer (b. 1928)
2016 - Keith Emerson, English keyboardist and songwriter (b. 1944)
 2016 - Claude Estier, French politician (b. 1925)
 2016 - Bill Gadsby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
 2016 - Gogi Grant, American singer (b. 1924)
 2016 - Roberto Perfumo, Argentine footballer (b. 1942)
 2016 - Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1920)
 2017 - Gido Kokars, Latvian choir conductor (b. 1921)
 2017 - Bill Leak, Australian cartoonist (b. 1956)
 2017 - John Surtees, English racing driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1934)
 2017 - John Forgeham, English actor (b. 1941)
 2017 - Tony Haygarth, English actor (b. 1945)
 2017 - Joni Sledge, American singer and songwriter (b. 1956)
 2017 - Anna Tramontano, Italian biologist (b. 1957)
 2017 - Richard Wagamese, Canadian writer and journalist (b. 1955)
 2017 - Robert James Waller, American writer (b. 1939)
 2018 - Garech Browne, Irish arts patron (b. 1939)
 2018 - Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer (b. 1927)
 2018 - Wally Gould, English footballer (b. 1938)
2018 - Ralf Waldmann, German motorcycle racer (b. 1966)
 2018 - Michel Raynaud, French mathematician (b. 1938)
 2019 - William Powers Jr., American educator (b. 1946)
Observances 
 Mar.10 Day: Mario Day of Nintendo
 Tibetan Uprising Day (Tibetan Independence Supporters)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 598 - Balkan campaign: The Avars lift the siege of the Byzantine Empire stronghold of Tomis.
 1282 - The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin King, Charles I of Naples, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
 1296 – Edward I storms Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking the then-Scottish border town, slaughtering almost everyone, even those fleeing to the churches.
 1492 – Ferdinand and Isabella sign a decree aimed at expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.
 1533 – Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.
 1814 - Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire the unification of Italy into being one country.
 1822 – Florida Territory created in the United States.
 1841 - The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.
 1842 – Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long.
1844 – One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
 1855 – Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas – "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
 1856 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
 1858 – Hyman Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser.
 1863 – Prince Wilhelm Georg of Sleeswÿk-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg is chosen as King George I of Greece.
 1867 – Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this Seward's Folly.
 1870 – Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
 1899 - British passenger steamship Stella hits a rock off Guernsey in the English Channel, in thick fog, sinking within eight minutes.
1901  2000 
 1909 – In New York City the Queensboro Bridge connecting Manhattan and Queens is opened to traffic.
 1912 – Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
 1939 - The Henkel He 100 fighter aircraft sets a record airspeed of 745 kilometers per hour (463 miles per hour).
 1940 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking to be the capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei.
 1944 - World War II: Allied bombing raid on Nuremberg.
 1944 - World War II: The Allies conduct their most severe bombing raid on Sofia, Bulgaria.
 1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna; Alger Hiss congratulated in Moscow for his part in bringing about the Western betrayal at the Yalta Conference.
 1949 - Riots occur in Reykjavik after the decision of Iceland's government for the country to join NATO.
 1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1954 – The first subway in Canada opens after five years of construction, in Toronto.
 1961 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.
 1962 – Jack Paar hosts his last episode of The Tonight Show.
 1964 – The game show Jeopardy! debuts on television.
 1965 – Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
 1972 – Vietnam War: The Eastertide Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
 1974 – The Ramones play their first ever gig as a trio at CBGB's in New York City.
 1976 - First Land Day protests in Israel and Palestine.
 1981 – President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr., family friend of the Vice President.
 1982 - Space Shuttle program: The STS-3 mission ends, with the landing of the Space Shuttle Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, United States.
From 2001 
 2001 - The result of the People's Republic of China's census is announced. The population at this time is estimated at 1,285,830,000.
 2002 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother, dies at Windsor Castle, aged 101, just seven weeks after her daughter, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.
 2006 – The United Kingdom Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.
 2006 – Marcos Pontes becomes the first Brazilian in space on board the Soyuz TMA-8 aircraft, to the International Space Station.
 2008 – The controversial 2008 Zimbabwean Presidential election is held.
 2017 - SpaceX conducts the world's first re-flight of an orbital-class rocket.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1135 – Maimonides, Jewish philosopher (d. 1204)
 1326 – Ivan II of Russia (d. 1359)
 1432 – Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1481)
 1510 - Antonio de Cabezon, Spanish composer and organist (d. 1566)
 1566 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian nobleman, composer and murderer (d. 1613)
 1633 - Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1708)
 1727 - Tommaso Traetta, Italian composer (d. 1779)
 1746 – Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (d. 1828)
 1750 - John Stafford Smith, English organist and composer (d. 1836)
 1757 - Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier, French physicist and aviation pioneer (d. 1785)
 1785 - Henry Hardinge, Governor-General of India (d. 1856)
 1793 – Juan Manuel de Rosas, Argentine military leader (d. 1877)
 1805 - Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, German-Swedish linguist (d. 1887)
 1811 - Robert Bunsen, German chemist (d. 1899)
 1818 - Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, German social reformer (d. 1888)
 1820 – Anna Sewell, British writer (d. 1878)
 1844 – Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896)
1853 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
 1857 – Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)
 1863 - Joseph Caillaux, Prime Minister of France (d. 1944)
 1863 - Mary Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (d. 1930)
 1864 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (d. 1943)
 1874 - Charles Lightoller, English 2nd Officer of the RMS Titanic (d. 1952)
 1874 - Nicolae Radescu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1953)
 1879 - Coen de Koning, Dutch ice skater (d. 1954)
 1879 - Bernhard Schmidt, German optician (d. 1935)
 1880 – Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist (d. 1964)
 1882 - Melanie Klein, Austrian-British psychoanalyst (d. 1960)
 1892 - Stefan Banack, Polish mathematician (d. 1945)
 1892 - Fortunato Depero, Italian painter, writer, sculptor and graphic designer (d. 1960)
 1892 - Sanzo Nozaka, Japanese politician (d. 1993)
 1892 - Sidney Soyers, CIA director (d. 1973)
 1894 – Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer (d. 1977)
 1894 - Tommy Green, English race walker (d. 1975)
1895 - Jean Giono, French writer (d. 1970)
 1899 - Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali writer (d. 1970)
 1900 – Santos Urdinaran, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1979)
1901  1950 
 1902 - Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (d. 2007)
 1902 - Victor E. Anderson, Governor of Nebraska (d. 1962)
 1902 - Frieda Szwillus, German supercentenarian (d. 2014)
 1905 – Albert Pierrepoint, British executioner (d. 1992)
 1908 - Leo A. Hoegh, Territorial Governor of Hawaii (d. 2000)
 1909 - John A. Burns, Governor of Hawaii (d. 1975)
 1910 – Jozef Marcinkiewicz, Polish mathematician (d. 1940)
 1913 – Frankie Laine, American singer (d. 2007)
 1913 – Censu Tabone, former President of Malta (d. 2012)
 1913 – Richard Helms, American CIA director (d. 2002)
 1913 – Marc Davis, American animator (d. 2000)
 1914 – Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (d. 1948)
 1915 - Arsenio Erico, Paraguayan footballer (d. 1977)
 1915 - Pietro Ingrao, Italian politician (d. 2015)
 1917 - Els Aarne, Estonian composer (d. 1995)
 1919 - McGeorge Bundy, American diplomat (d. 1996)
 1922 – Virgilio Noè, Italian cardinal (d. 2011)
 1923 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (d. 1986)
1924 - Milko Kelemen, Croatian composer (d. 2018)
 1926 – Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman (IKEA) (d. 2018)
 1926 - Peter Marshall, American actor, singer and game show host
 1926 - Larissa Volpert, Russian chess player (d. 2017)
 1928 - Tom Sharpe, British writer (d. 2013)
 1929 - Richard Dysart, American actor (d. 2015)
 1930 - John Astin, American actor
 1930 – Rolf Harris, Australian artist, singer and entertainer
 1933 - Anna-Lisa, Norwegian-American actress (d. 2018)
 1933 - Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (d. 2007) 
 1934 - Mahmut Atalay, Turkish wrestler (d. 2004)
 1934 - Hans Hollein, Austrian architect and designer (d. 2014)
 1937 – Warren Beatty, American actor
 1938 - Klaus Schwab, German economist and engineer
 1940 - Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer
 1940 - Jerry Lucas, American basketball player
 1940 - Uwe Timm, German actor
 1941 – Wasim Sajjad, former President of Pakistan
 1942 – Ruben Kun, former President of Nauru
 1943 - Jay Traynor, American singer (d. 2014)
1943 - Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa, Malagasy sprinter (d. 2016)
 1945 – Eric Clapton, British guitarist and singer
 1945 - Johnnie Walker, British DJ and broadcaster
 1945 - Bob Miller, former Governor of Nevada
 1947 - Ryszard Kotla, Polish writer and activist
 1947 - Dick Roche, Irish politician
 1948 – Eddie Jordan, Irish racing driver and team owner
 1948 – Mervyn King, British economist
 1948 - Naomi Sims, model
 1950 – Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor
 1950 - Beverley Hughes, English politician
 1950 - Frans Bolweg, Dutch sailor (d. 2015)
1951  1975 
 1951 - Yves Séguin, Quebec politician and actor
 1956 - Juanito Oiarzabal, Basque mountaineer
 1957 - Michael Lehmann, American director
 1957 - Paul Reiser, American actor and screenwriter
 1958 - Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor
 1959 - Sabine Meyer, German classical clarinettist
 1959 - Martina Cole, English writer
 1960 - Bill Johnson, American skier
 1962 – M.C. Hammer, American rapper and musician
 1962 – Bil Dwyer, American actor
 1962 - Mark Begich, American politician 
 1963 - Eli-Eri Moura, Brazilian composer and conductor
 1963 - Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko, Ukrainian footballer and coach
 1963 - Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, 4th President of Mongolia
 1964 – Tracy Chapman, American singer
 1964 - Abu Anas al-Libi, Libyan terrorist (d. 2015)
 1965 – Piers Morgan, British journalist and television personality
 1966 - Joey Castillo, American drummer
 1967 - Megumi Hayashibara, Japanese voice actor and singer
 1968 – Céline Dion, Canadian singer
1968 - Donna D'Errico, American actress and model
 1971 - Mark Consuelos, Spanish-American motorcycle racer
 1972 - Karel Poborsky, Czech footballer
 1973 – Jan Koller, Czech footballer
 1973 - Adam Goldstein, American keyboardist, DJ and producer (d. 2009)
 1975 - Paul Griffen, New Zealand-Italian rugby player
From 1976 
 1976 - Ty Conklin, American ice hockey player
 1976 - Ayako Kawasumi, Japanese voice actress
 1976 - Mark McClelland, Irish musician
 1976 - Troels Lund Poulsen, Danish politician
 1978 – Chris Paterson, Scottish rugby player
 1978 - Simon Webbe, English singer (Blue)
 1978 - Teemu Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player
 1979 – Anatoliy Tymoschuk, Ukrainian footballer
 1979 – Norah Jones, American singer and musician
 1980 – Ricardo Osorio, Mexican footballer
 1981 – Andrea Masi, Italian rugby player
 1981 - Jammal Brown, American football player
 1981 - Katy Mixon, American actress
 1982 - A-Trak, Canadian DJ and record producer
 1982 - Jason Dohring, American actor
 1982 - Philippe Mexès, French footballer
 1983 - Sarah Stevenson, British taekwondoka
 1984 – Mario Ancic, Croatian tennis player
 1984 – Samantha Stosur, Australian tennis player
 1986 – Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer
 1986 - Beni, Japanese singer
 1987 - Juan Pablo Pino, Colombian footballer
 1987 - Calum Elliot, Scottish footballer
1987 - Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Canadian ice hockey player
 1988 - Richard Sherman, American football player
 1990 - Lee Gi-kwang, South Korean singer, dancer and actor
 1990 - Cassie Scerbo, American singer, dancer and actress
 1992 - Stuart Armstrong, Scottish footballer
 1993 - Anitta, Brazilian singer, songwriter, actress and dancer
 1993 - Song Min-ho, South Korean rapper, composer and songwriter
 1994 - Haruka Shimazaki, Japanese singer (AKB48)
 1994 - Sarah Solovay, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1994 - Jetro Willems, Dutch footballer
Up to 1900 
 116 - Quirinus of Neuss, Roman martyr and saint
 365 – Jin Aidi, Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (b. 341)
 987 - Arnulf II of Flanders
 1202 - Joachim Fiore, Italian mystic and theologian (b. 1135)
 1472 - Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (b. 1435)
 1486 - Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury
 1526 – Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)
 1559 – Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492)
 1587 - Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b. 1507)
 1764 – Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (b. 1695)
 1783 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
 1804 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, French aristocrat and soldier (b. 1718)
 1830 – Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden (b. 1763)
 1864 - Louis Schindelmeisser, German clarinetist, composer and conductor (b. 1811)
 1873 - Benedict Morel, French physicist (b. 1809)
 1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b. 1815)
 1886 - Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, 6th Premier of Quebec (b. 1838)
 1896 – Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek Prime Minister (b. 1832)
1901  2000 
 1912 – Karl May, German writer (b. 1842)
 1914 – John Henry Poynting, English physicist (b. 1852)
 1925 – Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (b. 1861)
 1935 - Romanos Melikian, Armenian composer (b. 1873)
 1939 - Richard Steiff, German businessman and teddy bear creator (b. 1877)
 1943 - Jan Bytnar, Polish activist (b. 1921)
 1943 - Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920)
 1949 – Friedrich Bergius, German chemist (b. 1884)
 1950 – Léon Blum, Prime Minister of France (b. 1872)
 1952 – Jigme Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1905)
 1954 - Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and director (b. 1881)
 1955 - Harl McDonald, American pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1899)
 1959 - Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906)
 1959 - Riccardo Zandla, Italian-Slovenian poet (b. 1875)
 1961 - Philibert Jacques Melotte, British astronomer (b. 1880)
 1963 - Alexander Gauk, Russian conductor and composer (b. 1893)
 1964 - Nella Larsen, American writer (b. 1891)
1965 – Philip Showalter Hench, American physician (b. 1896)
 1966 - Erwin Piscator, German director and producer (b. 1893)
 1967 - Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
 1968 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937)
 1970 – Heinrich Bruening, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885)
 1973 - Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish aristocrat and aviator (b. 1903)
 1977 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)
 1979 - Airey Neave, English soldier and politician (b. 1916)
 1984 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (b. 1904)
 1985 - Harold Peary, American actor and singer (b. 1908)
 1986 – James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)
 1988 - Edgar Faure, Prime Minister of France (b. 1908)
 1990 - Harry Peary, Australian-American union leader (b. 1901)
 2000 – Rudolf Kirchschlaeger, President of Austria (b. 1915)
From 2001 
 2002 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)
 2003 – Valentin Pavlov, Soviet politician (b. 1937)
 2003 - Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)
 2005 – Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968)
 2008 – Dith Pran, Cambodian photojournalist (b. 1942)
 2010 – Martin Sandberger, German military officer (b. 1911)
 2011 – Lyudmila Gurchenko, Russian actress and singer (b. 1935)
 2013 - Phil Ramone, South African-American record producer (b. 1934)
 2013 - Valeri Zolotuchin, Russian actor (b. 1941)
 2014 - Phuntsok Wangyal, Tibetan-Chinese politician (b. 1922)
 2014 - Kate O'Mara, British actress (b. 1939)
 2014 - Jan de Graaff, Dutch television journalist (b. 1943)
 2015 - Helmut Dietl, German movie director (b. 1944)
 2015 - Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Dutch astronomer (b. 1921)
 2015 - Philip A. Potter, Dominican Methodist church leader (b. 1921)
 2016 - Anne Aasheim, Norwegian newspaper editor (b. 1962)
2016 - Bernard Lamarre, Canadian engineer and businessman (b. 1931)
 2016 - Bill Rosendahl, American politician (b. 1945)
 2016 - Gianmaria Testa, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1958)
 2016 - Shirley Hufstedler, American lawyer and judge (b. 1925)
 2016 - Khuzaima Qutbuddin, Indian Islamic leader (b. 1940)
 2017 - Richard Bustillo, American martial arts instructor (b. 1942)
 2017 - Donald Harvey, American serial killer (b. 1952)
 2018 - André Bo-Boliko Lokonga, 9th Prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1934)
 2018 - Bill Maynard, English actor (b. 1928)
 2020 - Bill Withers, American musician (b. 1938)
Observances 
 Land Day (Palestine)
 National Doctors' Day (United States)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 47 BC – The Relocation of Power of Cleopatra VII with help Roman dictator Julius Caesar in Egypt.
 1306 – Robert I of Scotland and Elizabeth de Burgh are crowned King and Queen of the Scots.
 1513 – (not 1512 as often cited) – Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island.
 1625 – Charles I becomes King of England and Scotland.
 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
 1794 – The government of the United States establishes a permanent United States Navy and authorizes the building of six sailing frigates.
 1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
 1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
 1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
1846 – Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
 1851 – First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley.
 1854 - Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
 1871 – The first international rugby football match, Scotland v. England, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
 1886 - Apache warrior Geronimo surrenders to the United States Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
 1890 - A tornado hits Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 people.
 1899 - Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time in the Philippine-American War.
1901  2000 
 1910 - A fire at a barn-dance in Hungary kills 312 people.
 1915 - Mary Mallon, known as Typhoid Mary, is quarantined for the rest of her life.
 1918 – Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
 1923 – FART construction completed.
 1941 – Britain supports Peter II of Yugoslavia in a coup in Yugoslavia.
 1942 – World War II: United Kingdom forces raid the U-boat base at St. Nazaire, France.
 1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.
 1952 – Sun Records begins operations.
 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
 1963 – Dr Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network. See Beeching axe.
 1964 – The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
 1969 – Mariner 7 is launched.
1975 - Building work on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline begins in Alaska.
 1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington, DC subway system is opened.
 1977 – Tenerife disaster: Two jumbo jets collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583.
 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
 1981 - The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a "warning strike", as 12 million workers walk out for 4 hours.
 1984 - The musical Starlight Express is first performed in London.
 1986 – Car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer.
 1988 – Moudud Ahmed becomes Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
 1989 – Generations, the first American soap opera to have an entire black family in its original core cast, commences telecasts on NBC.
 1990 – Propaganda: The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba.
 1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1993 – Albert Zafy becomes President of Madagascar.
 1993 – Mahamane Ousmane becomes President of Niger.
 1994 – One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
 1995 - Forrest Gump wins six awards at the 67th Academy Awards.
 1996 – Yigal Amir is sentenced to life in prison for murdering Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
From 2001 
 2002 – Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 28 people in Netanya, Israel.
 2002 - Nanterre Massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire on councilors at the end of a town council meeting, killing 8 councilors and injuring 19.
 2003 – An explosion in the Nitrochimie dynamite factory in Billy-Berclau, France, kills 4 people.
 2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
 2006 – The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
 2008 – Geert Wilders releases a movie called Fitna. The next days protests were held by people in the Middle East.
 2009 – The Situ Gintung Dam breaks in Indonesia, leading to at least 99 deaths.
 2009 - A suicide bomber kills at least 48 people at a mosque in Khyber Agency, Pakistan.
 2016 - A bomb attack on people celebrating Easter in Lahore, Pakistan, kills over 70 people.

Births
Births

Up to 1800 
 45 - Statius, Roman poet (d. 96)
 765– Harun al-Rashid, Abbasid Caliph (d. 809)
 972 – Robert II of France (d. 1031)
 1123 – Emperor Shizong of Jin (d. 1189)
 1196 - Sviatoslav III of Vladimir (d. 1252)
 1306 - Philip III of Navarre (d. 1343)
 1416 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1480)
 1416 - Francis of Paola, Italian friar and saint (d. 1507)
 1679 - Domenico Lalli, Italian poet and librettist (d. 1741)
 1702 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (d. 1762)
 1710 - Joseph Abaco, Belgian cellist and composer (d. 1805)
 1714 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian historian and theologian (d. 1795)
 1753 - Edward Pigott, British astronomer (d. 1825)
 1761 – James Sykes, 14th Governor of Delaware (d. 1822)
 1765 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
 1767 - Charles Didelot, Swedish-French dancer and choreographer (d. 1837)
 1785 – King Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
1801  1900 
 1802 – Charles-Mathias Simons, 3rd Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1874)
 1809 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French civic engineer (d. 1891)
 1809 – Jean-Louis Beaudry, 11th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1886)
 1813 - Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (d. 1888)
 1813 - David Monro, Scottish-New Zealand physician and politician (d. 1877)
 1817 – Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss botanist and biologist (d. 1891)
 1822 - Henri Murger, French writer and poet (d. 1861)
 1824 - Virginia Minor, American activist (d. 1894)
 1827 - Ernesto Rossi, Italian actor and playwright (d. 1896)
 1839 - John Ballance, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1893)
 1845 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
 1847 – Otto Wallach, German chemist (d. 1931)
 1849 - Carlo Dossi, Italian writer and diplomat (d. 1910)
 1854 - Georges Eekhoud, novelist (d. 1927)
 1857 - Karl Pearson, British mathematician (d. 1936)
 1861 - Nikolay Demyanov, Russian chemist (d. 1938)
1863 – Henry Royce, English automobile pioneer (d. 1933)
 1865 - Alessandro Verde, Italian cardinal (d. 1958)
 1866 - John Allan, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Victoria (d. 1936)
 1869 – James McNeill, 2nd Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1938)
 1869 - Walter Dohm, American runner (d. 1894)
 1871 – Heinrich Mann, German writer (d. 1950)
 1873 - Christophorus III, Georgian Patriarch (d. 1932)
 1874 – Andrés de Segurola, Spanish bass (d. 1953)
 1876 – Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti, Italian cardinal (d. 1943)
 1879 – Edward Steichen, Luxembourg-American photographer (d. 1973)
 1879 - Sandor Garbai, 19th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1947)
 1885 - Julio Lozano Diaz, 40th President of Honduras (d. 1957)
 1886 – Sergey Kirov, Soviet politician (d. 1934)
 1886 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d. 1969)
 1891 – Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian playwright and writer (d. 1974)
 1893 – Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist and philosopher(d. 1947)
1894 - Soeprapto, Indonesian lawyer and judge (d. 1964)
 1898 – Alma Tell, American stage and movie actress (d. 1937)
 1898 - Titina De Filippo, Italian actress (d. 1963)
 1898 - Maria Rasputin, daughter of Grigori Rasputin (d. 1977)
 1899 – Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
 1900 - Arleigh Winston Scott, Governor-General of Barbados (d. 1976)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Carl Barks, American cartoonist and screenwriter (d. 2000)
 1901 – Erich Ollenhauer, German publicist, historian and writer (d. 1963)
 1901 – Eisaku Sato, Japanese statesman, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1975)
 1901 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d. 1971)
 1903 – Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican dramatist (d. 1950)
 1905 - Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, German military officer and Resistance activist (d. 1980)
 1906 – Pee Wee Russell, American clarinet player and songwriter (d. 1969)
 1909 - Golo Mann, German writer, historian and publicist (d. 1994)
 1912 – James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
 1913 - Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (d. 1945)
 1914 – Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter (d. 2009)
 1915 - Bernardo Poli, Italian footballer (d. 1944)
 1915 - Wang Daohan, Chinese politician, Mayor of Shanghai (d. 2005)
 1917 – Cyrus Vance, 57th United States Secretary of State (d. 2002)
1920 - Richard Hayman, American musician and conductor (d. 2014)
 1921 – Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Brazilian footballer (d. 2000)
 1921 – Fred Foy, American radio and television presenter (d. 2010)
 1922 – Dick King-Smith, British writer (d. 2011)
 1923 - Lorenzo Semple Jr., American screenwriter (d. 2014)
 1924 - Sarah Vaughan, American jazz singer and pianist (d. 1990)
 1925 - Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, English farmer and politician
 1927 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
 1930 – Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss artist, writer and director
 1931 - Stephen Reinhardt, American judge (d. 2018)
 1932 – Roberto Farias, Brazilian screenwriter and director
 1932 - Bailey Olter, 3rd President of the Federated States of Micronesia (d. 1999)
 1934 – Peter Schamoni, German movie director, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2011)
 1934 - Jutta Limbach, German jurist and politician (d. 2016)
 1934 - Ioannis Paleokrassas, Greek politician
 1935 - Lars Andreas Larssen, Norwegian actor (d. 2014)
1937 - Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
 1937 - Alan Hawkshaw, English keyboardist and songwriter
 1941 – Liese Prokop, Austrian politician (d. 2006)
 1941 – Ivan Gasparovic, former President of Slovakia
 1942 – John E. Sulston, British chemist (d. 2018)
 1942 – Michael York, British actor
 1944 - Enrique Baron Crespo, Spanish politician
 1944 – Miguel Enríquez, Chilean physician and activist (d. 1974)
 1944 - Lydia Yu-Jose, Filipino political scientist (d. 2014)
 1945 – Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (d. 2004)
 1945 - Harry Rowohlt, German writer (d. 2015)
 1946 – Olaf Malolepski, German musician
 1946 – Michael Aris, British psychologist and writer, husband of Aung San Suu Kyi (d. 1999)
 1947 – Aleksandr Viktorenko, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut
 1947 - Daphne Todd, English painter
 1947 - John Mayhew, English-American musician (Genesis) (d. 2009)
 1950 – Tony Banks, British musician (Genesis)
 1950 - Julia Alvarez, Dominican-American poet and novelist
1951  1975 
 1952 – Maria Schneider, French actress (d. 2011)
 1953 - Gabriele Gatti, Sammarinese politician
 1955 – Mariano Rajoy, Prime Minister of Spain
 1955 – Christian Sarron, French motorcycle racer
 1958 - Peter Howson, Scottish painter
 1960 – Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
 1961 – Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist and songwriter (B'z)
 1962 – John O'Farrell, English writer and broadcaster
 1963 – Quentin Tarantino, American director, writer, and producer
 1963 - Xuxa, Brazilian actress and singer
 1964 - Clive Rowe, English actor
 1964 - Ann Sidney, English actress and television host
 1967 - Anthony Thornton, New Zealand field hockey player
 1967 - Talisa Soto, American actress and model
 1968 - Isabelle Tuchband, French-Brazilian sculptor and painter
 1969 - Gianluigi Lentini, Italian footballer
 1969 – Mariah Carey, American singer-songwriter
 1970 – Derek Aucoin, Canadian baseball player
 1970 - Jarrod McCracken, New Zealand rugby player
1971 – Matthew Pegg, English bass player and songwriter (Procol Harum)
 1971 – David Coulthard, Scottish racing driver and sports commentator (BBC)
 1971 – Leila Pahlavi, Iranian princess (d. 2001)
 1972 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer
 1972 – Charlie Haas, American professional wrestler
 1973 – Rui Jorge, Portuguese footballer
 1973 - Ade Adepitan, British basketball player
 1974 – Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
 1975 – Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson, American musician (Black Eyed Peas)
From 1976 
 1976 – Danny Fortson, American basketball player
 1977 - Noname Jane, American pornographic actress
 1979 – Lee Ji-hoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
 1979 – Denis Golovanov, Russian tennis player
 1980 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian singer-songwriter and actor
 1981 – Cacau, Brazilian-German footballer
 1981 – JJ Lin, Chinese singer-songwriter and actor
 1981 - Brian Miner, American comedian
 1982 - Tracy Phillips, American actress, dancer and choreographer
 1984 - Adam Ashley-Cooper, Australian rugby player
 1984 – Brett Holman, Australian footballer
 1985 – Oren Eizenman, Israeli-Canadian ice hockey player
 1986 – Manuel Neuer, German footballer
 1987 – Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player
 1987 - Lene Egeli, Norwegian model
 1987 - Polina Gagarina, Russian singer
 1988 – Jessie J, English singer
 1988 – Brenda Song, American actress
 1988 - Atsuto Uchida, Japanese footballer
 1990 - Kimbra, New Zealand singer-songwriter
 1990 - Joselu, German-Spanish footballer
1991 - Shayne Whittington, American basketball player
 1993 - Matt Hobden, English cricketer (d. 2016)
 1997 - Princess Sara bint Al Faisal of Jordan
 1997 - Princess Aisha bint Al Faisal of Jordan
 1997 - Lisa Manoban, member of Kpop girl group Blackpink
 2000 - Sophie Nélisse, Canadian actress
 2004 - Amira Willighagen, Dutch singer
 2006 - Josh Mayer,YouTuber
 2006 - Jean Victor,Streamer
Up to 1900 
 710 - Rupert of Salzburg, Austrian saint (b. 660)
 1191 – Pope Clement III (b. 1130)
 1350 – Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312)
 1378 – Pope Gregory XI (b. 1336)
 1462 – Vasili II of Russia (b. 1415)
 1482 – Mary of Burgundy (b. 1457)
 1615 – Margaret of Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
 1625 – King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (b. 1566)
 1676 – Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier and diplomat (b. 1597)
 1714 – Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, Queen of Denmark (b. 1650)
 1737 - Vakhtang VI of Kartli, Georgian King (b. 1675)
 1745 - Tommaso Crudeli, Italian free thinker, poet and lawyer (b. 1702)
 1840 - Philipp Albert Stapfer, Swiss philosopher and politician (b. 1786)
 1844 - Dmitry Golitsyn, Russian-French general, statesman and writer (b. 1771)
 1849 - Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, 35th Governor General of Canada (b. 1776)
 1850 – Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer (b. 1797)
1867 - Prideaux John Selby, English ornithologist, botanist and artist (b. 1788)
 1869 - James Harper, American politician, 69th Mayor of New York City (b. 1795)
 1875 - Juan Crisostomo Torrico, President of Peru (b. 1808)
 1878 – George Gilbert Scott, English architect (b. 1811)
 1898 – Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Bahadur, Indian philosopher and activist (b. 1817)