Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1964 - Tom Morello, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and activist
 1964 - Mark Sheppard, British actor
 1964 - Sally Dynevor, British actress
 1965 - Billy Donovan, American basketball player and coach
 1966 - Thomas Haessler, German footballer
 1966 - Stephen Malkmus, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1967 - Tim Burgess, English singer-songwriter (The Charlatans and The Chavs)
 1968 – Zacarias Moussaoui, French terrorist
 1969 - Naomi Kawase, Japanese director, producer and screenwriter
 1969 - Ryuhei Kitamura, Japanese director, producer and screenwriter
 1971 - Paul Grayson, English rugby player
 1971 - Duncan Jones, English movie director
 1971 - Idina Menzel, American singer-songwriter and actress
 1972 – Manny Ramirez, Dominican Boston Red Sox baseball player
 1973 – Keith Lemon, British comedian and actor
 1974 – CeeLo Green, American musician
 1974 - Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
 1974 - Kostas Chalkias, Greek footballer
 1974 - David Wilkie, American ice hockey player and coach
From 1976 
 1976 - Leonel Grave de Peralta, Cuban-American activist
 1976 - Margaret Okayo, Kenyan runner
 1977 - Akwa, Angolan footballer
 1977 - Marc Dos Santos, Canadian soccer player and coach
 1977 - Nathan Robertson, English badminton player
 1977 – Rachael Stirling, British actress
 1977 - Federico Vilar, Argentine-Italian footballer
 1979 - Rie Kugimiya, Japanese voice actress and singer
 1980 – Steven Gerrard, English footballer
 1981 - Hisanori Takada, Japanese footballer
 1982 - Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (d. 2007)
 1982 - James Simpson-Daniel, English rugby player
 1983 - Jennifer Ellison, English actress
 1984 - Alexander Sulzer, German ice hockey player
 1985 - Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (d. 2013)
 1985 - Aaron Volpatti, Canadian ice hockey player
 1985 - Jennifer Winget, Indian actress
 1988 - Kelvin Etuhu, Nigerian-English footballer
 1988 - Stephanie Beckert, German speed skater
 1989 - Ailee, American-South Korean actress, singer and dancer
1989 - Hyomin, South Korean actress and singer
 1990 – Im Yoona, South Korean singer
 1990 - Dean Collins, American actor
 1990 - Andrei Laktionov, Russian ice hockey player
 1992 - Harrison Barnes, American basketball player
 1992 - Jeremy Lamb, American basketball player
 1994 - Madeon, French DJ and producer
 1997 - Jake Short, American actor
 2000 - Jared S. Gilmore, American actor
Up to 1950 
 1252 - Ferdinand III of Castile (b. 1199)
 1416 – Jerome of Prague, religious reformer (b. 1379) (burned as a heretic by the Catholic Church)
 1431 – Joan of Arc, French heroine (b. 1412) (burned at the stake)
 1434 - Prokop the Great, Czech general (b. 1380)
 1574 – King Charles IX of France (b. 1550)
 1593 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)
 1640 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
 1712 - Andrea Lanzani, Italian painter (b. 1645)
 1730 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress to James II of England (b. 1648)
 1744 – Alexander Pope, English writer (b. 1688)
 1778 – Voltaire, French philosopher (b. 1694)
 1832 - James Mackintosh, Scottish jurist, politician and historian (b. 1765)
 1901 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian lawyer, jurist and mathematician (b. 1841)
 1911 - Milton Bradley, American businessman (b. 1836)
 1912 – Wilbur Wright of the Wright brothers, American aviator (b. 1867)
 1918 - Georgi Plekhanov, Russian philosopher (b. 1856)
1926 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1864)
 1927 - Vincenzo Cerulli, Italian astronomer (b. 1859)
 1941 – Prajadhipok, King of Siam (now Thailand) (b. 1893)
 1947 - Georg Johannes von Trapp, Croatian-Austrian captain (b. 1880)
1951  2000 
 1957 - Piero Carini, Italian racing driver (b. 1921)
 1960 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer (b. 1890)
 1961 – Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
 1964 – Leó Szilárd, Hungarian nuclear physicist (b. 1898)
 1967 - Claude Rains, English-American actor (b. 1889)
 1967 - Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Austrian director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1885)
 1971 – Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
 1975 - Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951)
 1975 - Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist (b. 1908)
 1975 - Michel Simon, Swiss-French actor (b. 1895)
 1978 - Jean Deslauriers, Canadian violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1909)
 1980 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (b. 1942)
 1981 – Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1936)
 1981 - Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
 1986 - James Rainwater, American physicist (b. 1917)
 1989 - Claude Pepper, American politician (b. 1899)
 1993 – Sun Ra, American musician (b. 1914)
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, American Mormon Church leader (b. 1899)
 1994 - Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
 2000 - Tex Beneke, American saxophonist, singer and bandleader (b. 1914)
From 2001 
 2006 - Shohei Amamura, Japanese director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1926)
 2007 - Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (b. 1933)
 2009 – Luis Cabral, 1st President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1931)
 2009 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli scientist and politician, President of Israel (b. 1916)
 2009 – Gaafar Nimeiry, President of Sudan (b. 1930)
 2010 - Peter Orlovsky, American writer and actor (b. 1933)
 2010 - Dufferin Roblin, Canadian politician, 14th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1917)
 2011 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist (b. 1921)
 2012 - Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist (b. 1917)
 2012 - Jack Twyman, American basketball player (b. 1934)
 2013 - Andrew Greeley, American priest, sociologist, journalist and novelist (b. 1928)
 2013 - Dean Brooks, American physician and actor (b. 1916)
 2014 - Hanna Maron, German-Israeli actress (b. 1923)
 2014 - Hienadz Buraukin, Belarussian poet, journalist and diplomat (b. 1936)
 2014 - Henning Carlsen, Danish director (b. 1927)
2014 - Joan Lorring, American actress (b. 1926)
 2015 - Beau Biden, American politician (b. 1969)
 2015 - Lennie Merullo, American baseball player (b. 1917)
 2015 - L. Tom Perry, American apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1922)
 2015 - Julie Harris, English costume designer (b. 1921)
 2015 - Tony McNamara, English footballer (b. 1929)
 2016 - Kenne Fant, Swedish actor (b. 1923)
 2016 - Tom Lysiak, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1953)
 2016 - Rick MacLeish, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1950)
 2017 - Molly Peters, British actress and model (b. 1942)
 2017 - Dasari Narayana Rao, Indian film director and politician (b. 1942)
 2017 - Elena Verdugo, American actress (b. 1925)
 2017 - Gordon Brunton, British businessman (b. 1921)
 2018 - Madiha Yousri, Egyptian actress (b. 1921)
 2020 - Michael Angelis, English actor (b. 1952)
Observances 
 Anguilla Day
 Canary Islands Day
 Mother's Day (Nicaragua)
 Traditional date for Memorial Day (United States)

Days of the year
Events 
 February 21 – The trial of Joan of Arc
 March 3 – Eugenius IV becomes Pope
 May 30 – In Rouen, France, 19-year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake.
 Foundation of University of Poitiers
 Battle of Inverlochy
1574 was a common year.

Events 
 April 14 – Battle of Mookerheyde:  Spanish forces under Sancho de Avila defeat the rebel forces of Louis of Nassau.  Louis is killed.
 May 30 – On the death of King Charles IX of France, he is succeeded by his brother King Henry of Poland, who becomes King Henry III.  His mother, Catherine of Medici, acts as Regent until Henry arrives from Poland.
 October 3 – The city of Leiden, besieged by the Spanish, is relieved by a Sea Beggar fleet under Louis Boisot.
 Murad III succeeds Selim II as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was .

Events
January - June 
 January 4 – Rapeye series by Paramount Pictures.
 March 22 – People said the teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California were abusing the children in the school. The police found out that this was not true.
 March 23 – Sarah Tisdall, who told The Guardian newspaper that cruise missiles were coming to Britain, was sentenced to six months imprisonment.
 March 24 – The Wran Government was chosen in NSW for a 4th term.
 March 28 - The 1984 Carolinas tornado outbreak causes many deaths in North and South Carolina.
 April 4 – President Ronald Reagan said that no one should use chemical weapons.
 April 12 – Four young Palestinians took an Israeli bus hostage. Israeli special forces got onto the bus and freed the hostages. They killed 1 hostage and two of the hijackers. Two other hijackers were captured and killed by Ehud Yatom. He crushed their skulls while they were tied up. Shin Bet chief Abraham Shalom told them to do this. It caused a major scandal (Kav 300 affair).
April 13 – India started Operation Meghdoot. They took control of most of the Siachen Glacier in Kashmir.
 April 17 – WPC Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead by a hidden gunman outside the Libyan Embassy in London during the event known as the 1984 Libyan Embassy Siege.
April 19 – Advance Australia Fair was named as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
April 25 – The end of Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Mustain Billah ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Abu Bakar Riayatuddin Al-Muadzam Shah's as the 7th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
April 26-  Her Highness The Queen Of North Last Heir Of The Great Stark Lineage Mellissa Elkin The Indestructible was born.
April 26 – Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail, the Sultan of Johor becomes the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
 May 2 – The Liverpool Garden Festival opens in Liverpool.
 May 8 – The Soviet Union announced that it was not going to the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
May 8 – Denis Lortie killed three people who worked for the government in the National Assembly of Quebec building.
 May 11 – A transit of Earth from Mars takes place.
 May 14 – The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
 May 19 – Game show contestant Michael Larson won $100,000 on the game show Press Your Luck. Later, people found out that he won the money by mainly using only two squares of the Press Your Luck "Big Board."
 May 22 – Helen Branch was declared legally dead (she disappeared 1977).
 May 27 – Fluminense won the Brazilian soccer league, against C.R. Vasco da Gama.
 June 5 – The Indian government began Operation Blue Star. It was a planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
 June 6 – Indian troops attack the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikh's holiest shrine. They killed about 10,000 people.
 June 8 – A deadly tornado almost destroyed Barneveld, Wisconsin. It killed nine people, injured almost 200 people, and caused over $25,000,000 in damage.
June 8 – The movie Ghostbusters comes out in theaters. It becomes a summer blockbuster hit. The song "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr. became a Top 40 hit.
July - December 
 October 26 - The Terminator is first shown in movie theaters.
 October 26 - The 1984-85 NBA regular season begins.
 November 4 – Ronald Reagan defeats Walter Mondale in the largest landslide in United States History during the presidential elections.
 November 29 - West Hollywood, California, a predominantly gay community, was incorporated as a city.

Births

January - June 
April 27 - Patrick Stump, American singer, songwriter, actor, guitarist
 Date unknown – Cigerxwîn, Kurdish polymath
 January 17 – Calvin Harris, Scottish singer and songwriter
 January 23 – Lina Hahne, Miss Sweden 2007
 January 25 – Stefan Kießling, German footballer
February 7 – Nadine Nassib Njeim, Lebanese actress (Miss Lebanon 2004)
 February 9 – Anna Jurkiewicz, Polish figure skater
 February 12 – Alexandra Dahlström, Swedish actress
 February 21 – David Odonkor, German footballer
 March 25 – Katharine McPhee, American singer
 April 10 – Mandy Moore, American actress and singer
 April 30 – Shawn Daivari, Iranian-American professional wrestler
 May 29 – Carmelo Anthony, NBA star
 June 30 – Fantasia Barrino, American singer
July - December
 July 2 – Johnny Weir, American figure skater
 July 11 – Tanith Belbin, American figure skater
 August 1 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
 August 21 – Alizée, French singer
 September 2 – Jack Peñate, English singer-songwriter and musician
 September 27 – Angela Haynes, American tennis player
 September 27 – Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter
 September 29 – Per Mertesacker, German footballer
 October 2 – Marion Bartoli, French tennis player
 October 3 – Ashlee Simpson, American singer and actress
 October 25 - Katy Perry, American singer
 October 26 – Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
 October 27 – Kelly Osbourne, English singer
 November 14 – Marija Šerifović, Serbian singer
 November 23 – Lucas Grabeel, American actor, singer and songwriter
 November 25 – Hồ Ngọc Hà, Vietnamese singer, model and actress
 November 28 – Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress
 December 7 – Robert Kubica, Polish Formula 1 driver
December 22 – Basshunter, Swedish singer, record producer and DJ
 December 31 – Roelof van der Merwe, Dutch-South African cricketer
Deaths

January 

 January 7 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist (b. 1902)
 January 14 – Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1902)
 January 20 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)

February 

 February 9 – Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914)
 February 15 – Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (b. 1908)

March 

 March 26 – Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (b. 1922)

April 

 April 1 – Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)
 April 15 – Tommy Cooper, British prop comedian and magician (b. 1921)

May 
 May 4 – Diana Dors, English actress (b. 1931)
 May 16 – Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949)

June 

 June 11 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (b. 1922)

July 
 July 26 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
 July 27 – James Mason, English actor (b. 1909)

August
August 

 August 5 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (b. 1925)
 August 19 – Louis Lansana Beavogui, President of Guinea (b. 1923)
 August 28 - Mohamed Naguib, 1st President of Egypt (b. 1901)

September 

 September 25 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)

October 

 October 18 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor and model (b. 1957)
 October 20 – Paul Dirac, English theoretical physicist (b. 1902)
 October 21 – François Truffaut, French movie director (b. 1932)
 October 22 – Cigerxwîn, Kurdish polymath and nationalist (b. 1903)
 October 31 – Indira Gandhi, 3rd Prime Minister of India (b. 1917)

November 
 November 11 – Martin Luther King Sr., American Baptist preacher (b. 1899)

December 

 December 7 – Jeanne Cagney, American actress (b. 1919)
 December 24 – Peter Lawford, British-American actor (b. 1923)

Movies released 
 Amadeus
 Beverly Hills Cop
 Splash
 Missing in Action
 Police Academy
 Red Dawn
 Revenge of the Nerds
 Ghostbusters
 The Terminator
Hit songs 
 Van Halen – Jump
 Ray Parker, Jr. – Ghostbusters (Los Cazafantasmas)
 Phil Collins – Against All Odds
New books 
The Aquitaine Progression – Robert Ludlum
The Big U – Neal Stephenson (debut novel)
Brother in the Land – Robert Swindells
The Butter Battle Book – Dr. Seuss
Empire of the Sun – James Ballard
First Among Equals – Jeffrey Archer
The Fourth Protocol – Frederick Forsyth
Full Circle – Danielle Steel
Lincoln: A Novel – Gore Vidal
Love and War – John Jakes
Hotel du Lac – Anita Brookner
The Lover () – Marguerite Duras
Money – Martin Amis
Neuromancer – William Gibson
The Outsider – Howard Fast
The Practice Effect – David Brin
Random Hearts – Warren Adler
Role of Honour – John Gardner
A Shock to the System – Simon Brett
The Sicilian – Mario Puzo
Slow Learner: Early Stories – Thomas Pynchon
Stanley and the Women – Kingsley Amis
The Talisman – Stephen King, Peter Straub
Thinner – Richard Bachman (nom de plume for Stephen King)
The Tie That Binds – Kent Haruf
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
White Noise – Don DeLillo
The Witches of Eastwick – John Updike
1985 (MCMLXXXV) was .

Events 
 January 20 - President Ronald Reagan is inaugurated for the second time.
 February 18 - NBA player Larry Bird barely misses a quadruple-double in a game against the Utah Jazz.  He sits out the entire fourth quarter.
 March 11 – Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
 April 1 - Cincinnati, OH-based Procter & Gamble removed the moon & stars symbol from its packaging.
 July 13 – Live Aid concerts take place in London and Philadelphia
 September 1 – The wreckage of the RMS Titanic was found.
 November 18 – Bill Watterson first publishes "Calvin and Hobbes".
 November 20 – Microsoft ships the first version of Microsoft Windows out to be sold.
 December 6 - The Boston Celtics pick up their only home loss of the 1985-86 NBA season, losing to the Portland Trail Blazers at Boston Garden.  They establish the best single-season NBA home court record of all time.
Births 
 January 14 – Shawn Sawyer, Canadian figure skater
 February 5 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
 February 9 – David Gallagher, American actor
 February 18 - Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican-American spree killer
 February 19 – Haylie Duff, American actress and singer
 March 26 – Keira Knightley, English actress
 April 3 – Leona Lewis, English singer
 May 2 – Lily Allen, English singer
 May 2 – Kyle Busch, American NASCAR driver
 May 18 – Joseph Roisman, American former navy sailor 
 June 2 – Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
 June 4 – Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
 June 4 – Lukas Podolski, Polish-born German footballer
 June 30 – Charley Uchea, English Big Brother contestant
 June 30 – Cody Rhodes, American professional wrestler
 July 2 – Mario Gómez, German footballer
 July 6 – Naomi Nari Nam, American figure skater
 August 18 – Rachel Smith, Panamanian-born Miss USA 2007
 August 19 – Lindsey Jacobellis, American Olympic snowboarder
August 26 – Christopher Mabee, Canadian figure skater
 September 14 – Aya Ueto, Japanese actress and singer
 September 17 – Alexander Ovechkin, Professional ice hockey player for the Washington Capitals
 September 17 – Jon Walker, American guitarist
 September 21 – Reza Alinejad, Iranian criminal
 October 11 – Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
 October 23 - Lachlan Gillespie, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
 October 24 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer
 October 25 – Ciara, American R&B/Pop singer
 November 4 – Marcell Jansen, German footballer
 December 10 – Raven Symone, American actress
 Lindsay Hawker, British murder victim (d. 2007)
 Charlotte Lindström, Swedish criminal and model
Deaths

January 
 January 2 – Gabriel Elorde, Filipino professional boxer (b. 1935)
 January 3 – Tadeusz Pełczyński, Polish general (b. 1892)
 January 4 – Lovro von Matačić, Croatian conductor (b. 1899)
 January 4 – Brian Horrocks, British Army officer (b. 1895)
 January 7 – Jules Vandooren, French footballer (b. 1908)
 January 10 – Anton Karas, Austrian musician (b. 1906)
 January 10 – André Bjerke, Norwegian writer (b. 1918)
 January 15 – Salvador Cardona, Spanish cyclist (b. 1901)
 January 21 – Luise Ullrich, Austrian actress (b. 1910)
 January 22 – Paul Harteck, German chemist (b. 1902)
 January 22 – Mikhail Gromov, Russian aviator (b. 1899)
 January 26 – Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer (b. 1914)

February 
 February 20 – Clarence Nash, American voice actor (b. 1904)
 February 22 – Efrem Zimbalist Sr., Russian-American violinist (b. 1889)

March
March 
 

 March 10 – Konstantin Chernenko, Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)
 March 21 – Michael Redgrave, English stage actor (b. 1908)
 March 28 – Marc Chagall, Russian-French artist (b. 1887)
 March 29 – Gerhard Stöck, German olympic athlete (b. 1911)

April 

 April 11 – Enver Hoxha, Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1908)
 April 21 – Tancredo Neves, President of Brazil (b. 1910)

May 

 May 16 – Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)
 May 18 – Penn Nouth, Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1908)

June 

 June 21 – Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
 June 30 – Haruo Remeliik, President of Palau (b. 1933)

July 

 July 4 – Jan de Quay, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1901)
 July 8 – Simon Kuznets, American economist (b. 1901)
 July 16 – Heinrich Böll, German writer (b. 1917)

August
August 

 August 6 – Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (b. 1923)
 August 8 – Louise Brooks, American film actress (b. 1906)
 August 12 – Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (b. 1941)
 August 25 – Samantha Smith, American peace activist (b. 1972)
 August 31 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist (b. 1899)

September 

 September 6 – Rodney Robert Porter, British biochemist (b. 1917)
 September 9 – Paul Flory, American chemist (b. 1910)
 September 19 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)
 September 30 – Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)

October 

 October 1 – E. B. White, American writer (b. 1899)
 October 2 – Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
 October 9 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, President of Brazil (b. 1905)
 October 10 – Yul Brynner, Russian-American actor (b. 1920)
 October 10 – Orson Welles, American actor (b. 1915)
 October 12 – Johnny Olson, American radio personality (b. 1910)
 October 21 – Dan White, American politician (b. 1946)

November
November 

 November 14 – Wellington Koo, Acting President of the Republic of China (b. 1888)
 November 17 – Lon Nol, President of the Khmer Republic (b. 1913)

December 

 December 12 – Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)
 December 14 – Roger Maris, American baseball athlete (b. 1934)
 December 26 – Dian Fossey, American Researcher (b. 1932)
 December 27 – Harold Whitlock, British olympic athlete (b. 1903)
 December 31 – Ricky Nelson, American musician (b. 1940)

Movies released 
 Brewster's Millions
 Back to the Future
 The Breakfast Club
 Commando
 The Care Bears Movie
 The Goonies
 One Magic Christmas
 Runaway Train
 Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer
 Rambo: First Blood Part II
 Rocky IV
 Return to Oz
 St. Elmo's Fire
Hit songs 
"Glory Days" – Bruce Springsteen
"Some Heads Are Gonna Roll" – Judas Priest
"Crazy for You" – Madonna
"Reviens-moi" – Dalida
"C'était mon ami" – Dalida
"Le temps d'aimer" – Dalida
"Le Vénitien de Levallois" – Dalida
"Find A Way" – Amy Grant
"Wise Up" – Amy Grant
"Say You, Say Me" – Lionel Richie
"We Are the World" – USA for Africa
"Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore" – REO Speedwagon
"I'm Going Down" – Bruce Springsteen
"Freeway of Love" – Aretha Franklin

New books 
Forrest Gump – Winston Groom

Notes

References
Births 
 January 24 – Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
 January 24 – Ricky Ullman, Israeli-born American actor
 February 1 – Johan Vonlanthen, Swiss footballer
 February 19 – Maria Mena, Norwegian singer
 February 21 – Charlotte Church, Welsh soprano
 March 1 – Jonathan Spector, American footballer
 March 9 – Brittany Snow, American actress
 March 14 – Jamie Bell, English actor
 March 16 – Alexandra Daddario, American actress
 March 28 – Lady Gaga, American singer
 April 3 – Amanda Bynes, American actress and variety show host
 April 9 – Leighton Meester, American actress
 May 13 – Robert Pattinson, Actor, Singer & Model
 May 16 – Megan Fox, American actress
 June 3 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
 June 10 – Joey Zimmerman, American actor
 June 11 – Shia LaBeouf, American actor
 June 13 – Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses and entrepreneurs
 June 24 – Solange Knowles, American actress and singer
 June 25 – Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
 June 27 – Drake Bell, American actor
July 2 – Lindsay Lohan, American actress
 July 4 – Shane Kippel, Canadian actor
 July 17 – Brando Eaton, American actor
 August 16 – Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
 September 9 – Michael J. Sox, German singer
 September 12 – Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
 October 16 - Inna, Romanian singer and songwriter 
 October 31 – Christie Hayes, Australian actress
 November 1 – Penn Badgley, American actor
 November 2 – Lara Sacher, Australian actress
 November 3 – Jasmine Trias, American singer
 November 5 – BoA, Korean singer
 November 17 – Nani, Portuguese footballer
 November 25 – Amber Hagerman, American murder victim (d. 1996)
 November 27 – Suresh Raina, Indian cricketer
 December 28 – Tom Huddlestone, English football player
 December 30 – Ellie Goulding, British singer
Deaths

January 

 January 1 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
 January 2 – Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
 January 4 – Christopher Isherwood, English writer (b. 1904)
 January 4 - Phil Lynott, Irish bass guitarist (Thin Lizzy) (b. 1949)
 January 8 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
 January 14 – Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
 January 24 – L. Ron Hubbard, American fiction writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
 January 24 – Gordon MacRae, American actor, singer (b. 1921)
 January 24 – Vincente Minnelli, American director (b. 1903)
 January 27 – Lilli Palmer, actress (b. 1914)
 January 28 – Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger: Francis R. Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Greg Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe.

February 

 February 11 – Frank Herbert, American science fiction writer (b. 1920)
 February 27 – Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (b. 1929)
 February 28 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)

March
March 

 March 6 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
 March 10 – Ray Milland, Welsh actor (b. 1907)
 March 30 – James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)

April 

 April 14 – Simone de Beauvoir, French writer and intellectual (b. 1908)
 April 15 - Tim McIntire, American actor (b. 1944)
 April 24 – Wallis Simpson, wife of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1896)
 April 26 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911)

May 

 May 9 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountain guide (b. 1914)

June 
 June 14 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (b. 1899)

August 

 August 22 – Celâl Bayar, 3rd President of Turkey (b. 1883)
 August 26 – Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
 August 31 – Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (b. 1900)

September 
 September 1 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
 September 24 – Cliff Burton, American bassist and songwriter from Metallica (b. 1962)

October
October 

 October 14 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)
 October 19 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (b. 1933)

November 

 November 2 – Paul Frees, American actor, comedian (b. 1920)
 November 8 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (b. 1890)
 November 21 – Jerry Colonna, American comedian (b. 1904)
 November 22 – Scatman Crothers, American actor, musician (b. 1910)
 November 29 – Cary Grant, English actor (b. 1904)

December 

 December 2 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born American actor, bandleader, musician and television producer (b. 1917)
 December 26 – Elsa Lanchester, British-American actress (b. 1902)
 December 28 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (b. 1932)
 December 29 – Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the UK (b. 1894)
Events 
 January 1 – Spain and Portugal enter the European Community
 January 1 – Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands and is separated from the Netherlands Antilles.
 January 9 – After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.
 January 12 – Space Shuttle Columbia is launched with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
 January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel.
 January 20 – The first federal Martin Luther King Day, honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
 January 24 – Voyager 2 space probe makes first encounter with Uranus
 January 28 – Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing all seven astronauts on board.
 January 29 – Yoweri Kaguta Museveni became President of the Republic of Uganda after leading a successful five-year liberation struggle.
 February 25 – Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines.
February 28 – Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme is assassinated.
 April 20 - NBA player Michael Jordan scores a playoff record 63 points in a game against the Boston Celtics.
 April 21 – Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on live television and finds nothing.
 April 26 – An explosion occurs at a nuclear reactor in Chernobyl.
 August 21 – A leak of volcanic gases at Lake Nyos in Cameroon kills many people nearby as they sleep.
September 24 — Metallica bassist Cliff Burton is killed in a bus crash
 October 11 – Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan hold a meeting in Iceland.
 October 19 – Mozambique's President Samora Machel dies in a plane crash.
 Bubble Bobble is created, a video game popular world-wide
Movies released 
 Little Shop of Horrors
 Top Gun
 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
 Stand by Me
 Back to School
 Aliens
 The Delta Force
 Three Amigos!
 Cobra
 Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation
 Club Paradise
 Ruthless People
 The Hitcher
 Heartbreak Ridge
 The Great Mouse Detective
 My Little Pony: The Movie
 Maximum Overdrive
 16 Candles
 An American Tail
Hit songs 
 "Stimulation – Wa Wa Nee
 "You're The Voice" – John Farnham #1
 "No Lies" – Noiseworks
 "Funkytown" – Psudeo Echo #1
 "Throw Your Arms Around Me" – Hunters + Collectors
 "(There's Gonna Be) A Showdown – The Johnnys
 "Walk Like an Egyptian" – The Bangles
 "Livin' on a Prayer" – Bon Jovi
 "The Final Countdown" – Europe
 "French Kissin' In The USA" – Debbie Harry
 "True Colors" – Cyndi Lauper
 "Hip To Be Square" – Huey Lewis and the News
 "Real Wild Child (Wild One)" – Iggy Pop
 "Hymn To Her" – The Pretenders
 "War" – Bruce Springsteen
 "Breakout" – Swing Out Sister
 "I Want To Wake Up With You" – Boris Gardiner
 "Two Of Hearts" – Stacey Q
 "Whole Of The Moon" – Waterboys
 "Take My Breath Away" – Berlin
 "Glory Of Love" – Peter Cetera
 "The Next Time I Fall" – Peter Cetera
 "You Give Love A Bad Name" – Bon Jovi
 "Move Away" – Culture Club
 "That's What Friends Are For" – Dionne Warwick
 "Hey, You!" – Divine
 "Little Baby" – Divine
 "Sara" – Starship
 "Parce que je ne t'aime plus" – Dalida
"Le sixième jour" – Dalida
 "Addicted To Love" – Robert Palmer
 "Stuck With You" – Huey Lewis & the News
 "How Will I Know" – Whitney Houston
 "When I Think of You" – Janet Jackson
 "West End Girls" – Pet Shop Boys
 "Live to Tell" – Madonna
 "Holding Back The Years" – Simply Red
 "Stay For Awhile" – Amy Grant
 "Papa Don't Preach" – Madonna
 "Rock Me Amadeus" – Falco
 "On My Own" – Patti Labelle & Michael McDonald
 "Notorious" – Duran Duran
 "Sometimes" – Erasure
 "Kyrie" – Mr. Mister
 "That Was Then, This Is Now" – The Monkees
 "Kiss" – Prince
 "The Greatest Love of All" – Whitney Houston
 "Manic Monday" – The Bangles
 "Locked In" – Judas Priest
 "Turbo Lover" – Judas Priest
 "Love Walks In" – Van Halen
 "La Isla Bonita" – Madonna
 "Sledgehammer" – Peter Gabriel
 "Invisible Touch" – Genesis
 "Living In America" – James Brown
 "Lady In Red" – Chris de Burgh
 "Holding Out For A Hero" – Bonnie Tyler
 "My Hometown" – Bruce Springsteen
 "Venus" – Bananarama
New books 
 Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
 The Bourne Supremacy – Robert Ludlum
 The Bridge – Iain Banks
 Cadillac Desert – Marc Reisner
 The Fence Post Chronicles – W.P. Kinsella
 The Fisher King – Anthony Powell
 Ghost – Piers Anthony
 The Golden Cup – Belva Plain
 Hollywood Husbands – Jackie Collins
 I'll Take Manhattan – Judith Krantz
 In the Hollow of His Hand – James Purdy
 It – Stephen King
 Kara Kush – Idries Shah
 Kate Vaiden – Reynolds Price
 Last of the Breed – Louis L'Amour
 Leo Africanus – Amin Maalouf
 The Light Fantastic – Terry Pratchett
 Love You Forever – Robert Munsch
 A Matter of Honour – Jeffrey Archer
 The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America – Martin Amis
 Nobody Lives For Ever – John Gardner
 The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
 A Perfect Spy – John le Carré
 The Prince of Tides – Pat Conroy
 Red Storm Rising – Tom Clancy
 Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card
 Sportswriter – Richard Ford
 Tourist Season – Carl Hiaasen
 Wanderlust – Danielle Steel
 Whirlwind – James Clavell
Up to 1900 
 30 BC  Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, commits suicide.
 1099  First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders defeat Saracens and the Kingdom of Jerusalem is established under Godfrey of Bouillon.
 1121  Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under David IV of Georgia wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
 1164  Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.
 1323  Treaty of Nöteborg - Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time
 1332  Battle of Dupplin Moor - Scots under the Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
 1480  Battle of Otranto: Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.
 1499  Battle of Zonchio: between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
 1596  The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is created.
 1624  The President of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister.
1665  The naval battle of the Bay of Bergen takes place during the Anglo-Dutch War, ending in a Dutch victory over English forces.
 1676  King Philip's War ends.
 1793  Rhone and Loire departments in France are created.
 1806  Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires retakes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, after the first British invasion.
 1825  Simón Bolívar become president of Colombia.
 1831  French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to crush the Belgian Revolution.
 1833  Chicago, Illinois is incorporated as a city.
 1851  Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
 1854  Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon is executed by shooting, for his part in the Battle of Guaymas.
 1877  Asaph Hall discovers Deimos, a moon of Mars.
 1881  The National Theater in Prague burns down.
 1883  The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam
 1898  Armistice ends the Spanish-American War
1901  2000 
 1908  First Model T Ford built
 1914  World War I - Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; British Empire countries automatically included.
 1914  Beginning of the Battle of Cer between Austria-Hungary and Serbia.
 1928  The 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam end.
 1933  Cuban leader Gerardo Machado is deposed by a general strike and flees the country.
 1944  Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time 40,000 people were killed either randomly or by mass executions.
 1944  SS officers murder almost all residents of the Italian village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, killing 560 people; 116 of them children.
 1948  The United States recognizes the government of South Korea but not the government of North Korea.
 1950  Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre - American POWs are killed by the North Korean army.
 1952  13 Jewish intellectuals are murdered in one night in Moscow.
 1953  Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates its first hydrogen bomb.
1953  The Greek islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia are severely damaged by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake.
 1958  Art Kane photographs 57 important jazz musicians in the black and white group portrait "A Great Day in Harlem" in front of a brownstone in New York City.
 1960  Echo I, the first communications satellite, is launched.
 1964  South Africa is banned from the Olympics, because of its Apartheid policy. It is reinstated in the 1990s, after Nelson Mandela was released.
 1969  Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot.
 1976  Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zataar massacre.
 1977  First free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
 1977  The 1977 Sri Lankan riots, targeting the Tamil minority, begin. They ultimately result in the killings of around 300 Tamil people.
 1980  The Montevideo Treaty, creating the Latin American Integration Association, is signed.
1981  The IBM PC, an early personal computer, is introduced.
 1982  The Debt Crisis affecting Latin America and less-developed countries begins when Mexico announces that it is unable to pay its enormous external debt.
 1985  Japan Airlines flight 123 Boeing 747 jumbo jet crashes into Mount Ogura, Japan killing 520, in the world's worst single-plane air disaster.
 1990  Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to-date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.
 1992  Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the NAFTA.
 1994  The Woodstock '94 rock concert takes place.
 1994  Major League Baseball players go on strike. The strike forces the cancellation of the World Series.
 2000  Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea.
 2000  Ronald Venetiaan becomes President of Suriname.
From 2001 
 2004  Lee Hsien Loong is sworn in as Singapore's 3rd Prime Minister.
 2004  Sweden announces that it has reached a population of 9 million.
 2005  The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter space probe, of NASA, is sent to the planet Mars.
 2010  Desi Bouterse becomes President of Suriname.
 2012  The 2012 Summer Olympics in London end. The Great Britain team, hosting the event, finishes with 29 gold medals, coming third behind the United States and China.
 2014  Iranian-born Maryam Mirzakhani becomes the first woman to win the Fields Medal, one of the biggest prizes in mathematics.
 2015  Two explosions at a warehouse storing chemicals kill about 173 people in the city of Tianjin, China, and injure hundreds more.
 2017  A car attack occurs in Unite the Right rally.
 2018  NASA launches the unmanned Parker Solar Probe to study the Sun at close range and the solar wind.
 2018  The first multi-sport European Championships in Glasgow and Berlin come to an end.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1503  King Christian III of Denmark and Norway (died 1559)
 1517  Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, Stadholder of the Netherlands (died 1604)
 1566  Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (died 1633)
 1604  Tokugawa Iemitsu, 3rd Tokugawa shogun (died 1651)
 1629  Tsar Alexei I of Russia (died 1676)
 1643  King Afonso IV of Portugal (died 1683)
 1644  Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian composer (died 1704)
 1681  Vitus Bering, Danish explorer (died 1741)
 1720  Konrad Ekhof, German actor (died 1778)
 1762  King George IV of the United Kingdom (died 1830)
 1774  Robert Southey, English poet and biographer (died 1843)
 1781  Robert Mills, American architect (died 1855)
 1816  Ion Ghica, Romanian mathematician and politician (died 1897)
 1831  Helena Blavatsky, Russian writer (died 1891)
 1837  Sven Berggren, Swedish naturalist and botanist (died 1917)
 1843  Colmar von der Goltz, Prussian field marshal (died 1916)
 1856  Diamond Jim Brady, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1917)
1859  Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (died 1929)
 1860  Klara Hitler, mother of Adolf Hitler (died 1907)
 1866  Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer (died 1954)
 1866  Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter (died 1907)
 1867  Edith Hamilton, German-American writer, teacher and classicist (died 1963)
 1871  Gustavs Zemgals, 2nd President of Latvia (died 1939)
 1872  Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (died 1956)
 1876  Mary Roberts Rinehart, American writer (died 1958)
 1877  Albert Bartha, Hungarian general and politician (died 1960)
 1880  Christy Mathewson, American Baseball Hall of Famer (died 1925)
 1880  Radclyffe Hall, British writer (died 1943)
 1881  Cecil B. DeMille, American director (died 1959)
 1883  Pauline Frederick, American stage and movie actress (died 1938)
 1885  Jean Cabannes, French physicist (died 1959)
 1886  Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist (died 1952)
 1887  Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist (died 1961)
 1889  Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (died 1981)
1892  Alfred Lunt, actor (died 1977)
 1896  Ejner Federspiel, Danish actor (died 1981)
 1897  Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer (died 1981)
1901  1925 
 1902  Mohammad Hatta, Vice President of Indonesia (died 1980)
 1902  Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Egyptian Coptic Church leader (died 1971)
 1903  Mario Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, Italian cardinal (died 1988)
 1904  Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, heir to the throne of Russia (died 1918)
 1906  Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player (died 1985)
 1906  Tedd Pierce, animator (died 1972)
 1907  Benjamin Sheares, 2nd President of Singapore (died 1981)
 1907  Joe Besser, actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges (died 1988)
 1910  Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore (died 1970)
 1910  Gustav Lantschner, Austrian skier (died 2011)
 1910  Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (died 1995)
 1911  Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes), Mexican actor, comedian and filmmaker (died 1993)
 1912  Feroze Gandhi, Indian politician and journalist (died 1960)
 1913  Richard L. Bare, American film director (died 2015)
 1914  Gerd Buchdahl, German philosopher (died 2001)
1918  Sid Bernstein, American record producer (died 2013)
 1919  Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (died 1971)
 1919  Margaret Burbidge, English-American astrophysicist
 1924  Hajo Meyer, German-Dutch physicist (died 2014)
 1924  Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, Leader of Pakistan (died 1988)
 1924  Derek Shackleton, English cricketer, coach and umpire (died 2007)
 1925  Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records (died 2004)
 1925  Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records (died 1975)
 1925  Thor Vilhjalmsson, Icelandic writer (died 2011)
 1925  Dale Bumpers, American politician, 38th Governor of Arkansas (died 2016)
1926  1950 
 1926  John Derek, actor (died 1998)
 1927  Don Shepherd, Welsh cricketer (died 2017)
 1928  Bob Buhl, American Major League Baseball player (died 2001)
 1928  Porter Wagoner, American country and western singer (died 2007)
 1929  Buck Owens, American country and western singer (died 2006)
 1930  George Soros, American businessman
 1930  Jacques Tits, Belgian mathematician
 1931  William Goldman, American screenwriter (died 2018)
 1932  Sirikit, Queen consort of Thailand
 1935  Jan Popluhar, Slovakian footballer (died 2011)
 1935  John Cazale, American actor (died 1978)
 1936  André Kolingba, President of the Central African Republic (died 2010)
 1937  Walter Dean Myers, American writer and poet (died 2014)
 1939  George Hamilton, American actor
 1939  Roy Romanow, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Saskatchewan
 1939  David King, South African chemist and academic
 1941  Dana Ivey, American actress and singer
 1942  Martin Seligman, American psychologist
1945  Dorothy E. Denning, American computer scientist
 1945  Jean Nouvel, French architect
 1946  Terry Nutkins, English television presenter and writer (died 2012)
 1947  Stefano Benni, Italian writer and journalist
 1948  Siddaramaiah, Indian politician, 22nd Chief Minister of Karnataka
 1949  Mark Knopfler, British musician (Dire Straits)
 1949  Terry Oldfield, British musician and composer
 1949  Fernando Collor de Mello, former President of Brazil
 1950  George McGinnis, American basketball player
1951  1975 
 1951  Andrzej Blumenfeld, Polish actor (died 2017)
 1953  Carlos Mesa, former President of Bolivia
 1954  François Hollande, former President of France
 1954  Sam J. Jones, American actor
 1954  CY Leung, 3rd Chief Executive of Hong Kong
 1954  Pat Metheny, American guitarist
 1957  Amanda Redman, English actress
 1960  Laurent Fignon, French cyclist (died 2010)
 1960  Steven Hartley, English actor
 1961  Roy Hay, English guitarist, keyboardist and composer (Culture Club)
 1963  Koji Kitao, Japanese sumo wrestler
 1965  Peter Krause, American actor, director and producer
 1966  Tobias Ellwood, English politician
 1967  Andrey Plotnikov, Russian race walker
 1970  Alan Brown, Scottish politician
 1970  Toby Perkins, English politician
 1971  Rebecca Gayheart, American actress
 1971  Pete Sampras, American tennis player
 1972  Del the Funky Homosapien, American rapper and producer
 1972  Takanohana Kōji, Japanese sumo wrestler (65th Yokozuna)
 1972  Mark Kinsella, Irish footballer
1973  Mark Iuliano, Italian footballer
 1973  Richard Reid, alleged Al-Qaida operative; "the shoe bomber"
 1973  Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraqi theologian and political leader
 1975  Casey Affleck, American actor
From 1976 
 1976  Wednesday 13, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1976  Brad Lukowich, Canadian ice hockey player
 1976  Richard McCourt, English comedian and actor
 1976  Henry Tuilagi, Samoan rugby player
 1976  Antoine Walker, American basketball player
 1977  Jesper Gronkjaer, Danish footballer
 1979  Austra Skujyte, Lithuanian athlete
 1980  Royda Demirer, Turkish actress
 1981  Djibril Cissé, French footballer
 1982  Alexandros Tzorvas, Greek footballer
 1983  Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Dutch footballer
 1983  Kana Asumi, Japanese voice actress and singer
 1986  Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukrainian tennis player
 1988  Tyson Fury, English boxer
 1988  Justin Gaston, American singer-songwriter, model and actor
 1988  Leah Pipes, American actress
 1989  Tom Cleverley, English footballer
 1990  Mario Balotelli, Italian footballer
 1992  Cara Delevingne, English model and actress
 1993  Luna, South Korean actress, singer and dancer
 1998  Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greek tennis player

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 30 BC  Cleopatra VII, Egyptian Queen (born 69 BC)
 875  Louis II of Italy, Holy Roman Emperor
 1424  Yongle Emperor of China (born 1360)
 1484  George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (born 1395)
 1512  Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (born 1463)
 1633  Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (born 1561)
 1648  Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (born 1615)
 1674  Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (born 1602)
 1689  Pope Innocent XI (born 1611)
 1809  Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (born 1738)
 1827  William Blake, English poet (born 1757)
 1848  George Stephenson, English engineer (born 1781)
 1849  Albert Gallatin, American politician (born 1761)
 1861  Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman (born 1793)
 1891  James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (born 1819)
 1900  Wilhelm Steinitz, German chess player (born 1836)
 1900  James Edward Keeler, American astrophysicist (born 1857)
1901  2000 
 1901  Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Swedish polar explorer (born 1832)
 1901  Francesco Crispi, Italian politician (born 1819)
 1904  William Renshaw, British tennis player (born 1861)
 1914  John Philip Holland, early submarine designer (born 1840)
 1918  Anna Held, actress and singer (born 1872)
 1920  Louisa Lawson, Australian writer and activist (born 1848)
 1920  Hermann Struve, Baltic German astronomer and mathematician (born 1854)
 1921  Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (born 1836)
 1922  Arthur Griffith, Irish politician (born 1871)
 1923  Vatrslav Jagić, Croatian philologist (born 1838)
 1928  Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (born 1854)
 1934  Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect (born 1856)
 1935  Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (born 1851)
 1936  Victoria Diez Bustos de Molina, Spanish religious teacher (born 1903)
 1941  Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, Governor-General of Canada and Viceroy of India (born 1866)
1943  Bobby Peel, Yorkshire cricketer (born 1857).
 1944  Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., American pilot, brother of John F. Kennedy (born 1915)
 1948  Harry Brearley, inventor of stainless steel (born 1871)
 1955  Thomas Mann, German writer (born 1875)
 1955  James B. Sumner, American chemist (born 1887)
 1964  Ian Fleming, British novelist (born 1908)
 1973  Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist (born 1881)
 1973  Karl Ziegler, German chemist (born 1898)
 1979  Ernst Boris Chain, German biochemist, won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1906)
 1982  Henry Fonda, American actor (born 1905)
 1982  Salvador Sanchez, world champion boxer (born 1959)
 1985  Manfred Winkelhock, auto racing driver (born 1951)
 1985  Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (born 1941)
 1989  William Shockley, physicist (born 1910)
 1990  Dorothy Mackaill, English-American actress and singer (born 1903)
 1992  John Cage, American composer (born 1912)
 1997  Luther Allison, American blues musician, guitarist (born 1939)
1999  Jean Drapeau, Canadian politician, 37th Mayor of Montreal (born 1916)
 2000  Loretta Young, American actress (born 1913)