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August 

 August 5 – Robert Taylor, American actor (d. 1969)
 August 6 – Lucille Ball, American actress (d. 1989)
 August 11 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2004)
 August 12 – Cantinflas,  Mexican comic film actor, producer, and screenwriter(d. 1993)
 August 17 – Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion (d. 1995)

September 

 September 7 – Todor Zhivkov, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party (d. 1998)
 September 9 – John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)
 September 13 – Sicco Mansholt, Dutch politician (d. 1995)

October 

 October 13 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (d. 2001)
 October 26 – Mahalia Jackson, American gospel singer (d. 1972)

November 

 November 2 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer (d. 1996)

December 

 December 23 – Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (d. 1994)
Deaths 
 January 17 – Sir Francis Galton
 March 1 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
 April 25 – Emilio Salgari
 May 18 – Gustav Mahler
 May 21 – Williamina Fleming
 May 29 – William S. Gilbert
 June 9 – Carrie Nation
 August 1 – Edwin Austin Abbey
 August 8 – William P. Frye
 September 16 – Edward Whymper
 October 7 – John Hughlings Jackson
 October 14 – John Marshall Harlan
 October 29 – Joseph Pulitzer
 October 31 – John Joseph Montgomery
 December 10 – Joseph Dalton Hooker
Up to 1900 
 502 - King Gundobad issues a new legal code (Lex Burgundionum) at Lyon that makes Gallo-Romans and Burgundians  subject to the same laws.
 1430 - The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures the Byzantine city of Thessalonica.
 1461 - Wars of the Roses: In the Battle of Towton, Edward of York defeats Margaret of Anjou to become King Edward IV of England.
 1549 - The city of Salvador, Bahia, northeastern Brazil, is founded.
 1632 - The Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
 1638 - Swedish colonists create the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.
 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies, after being shot at a masquerade ball.
 1809 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates, and the Grand Duchy of Finland goes to Russian control.
 1847 - Mexican-American War: US forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz, Mexico, after a siege.
 1848 – Niagara Falls stop flowing for 30 hours, due to ice.
1849 – The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
 1865 - American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
 1867 - Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which creates the Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867.
 1871 - The Royal Albert Hall in London is opened by Queen Victoria.
 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula - British forces defeat an army of 20,000 Zulus.
 1886 – John Pemberton brews the first Coca-Cola in Atlanta.
 1886 - Wilhelm Steinitz becomes the first world champion in chess, after defeating Johannes Zukertort.
1901  2000 
 1930 - Heinrich Brüning becomes Chancellor of Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic.
 1941 - World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
 1942 - World War II: RAF Bomber Command carries out a bombing raid on the city of Luebeck in northern Germany.
 1945 - World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
 1945 - World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.
 1946 - The Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded.
 1947 - Uprising in Madagascar against French colonial rule.
 1951 – Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
 1957 - The New York, Ontario and Western Railway is abandoned in its entirety.
 1959 - First showing of the movie Some Like It Hot.
1961 - The 23rd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives people living in Washington, DC the right to vote in Presidential elections.
 1962 - President of Argentina Arturo Frondizi is overthrown in a military coup by the Argentine Armed Forces, after an 11-day constitutional crisis.
 1971 – My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is found guilty of premeditated murder.
 1973 – The last US combat soldiers leave Vietnam.
 1974 – The Mariner 10 space probe passes by the planet Mercury, sending 2,000 photographs back to Earth.
 1974 - Local farmers near Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China, discover the Terracotta Army that was buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Chinese Emperor, in the 3rd century BC.
 1976 – The last British troops leave the Maldives.
 1981 – The first London Marathon takes place.
 1982 - Elizabeth II approves the Canada Act.
 1985 – The first Care Bears Movie is released.
 1990 - In Czechoslovakia the parliament fails to agree on the country's name after the fall of Communism.
1990 - A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hits Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, India, killing 103 people.
 1993 - Catherine Callbeck becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, becoming the first woman to take this role in a Canadian province.
 1998 - The Vasco da Gama Bridge, 17 kilometers long, is opened, crossing the Tagus in Lisbon, Portugal.
 1999 - A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, India, killing 103 people.
 1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 – above the 10,000 mark for the first time ever.
From 2001 
 2002 - In response to the Passover massacre, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants.
 2004 – The Republic of Ireland bans smoking in restaurants, pubs and bars.
 2004 – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO.
 2006 – A Solar eclipse is seen over the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, Europe and Asia.
 2008 – The first Earth Hour is observed.
 2010 – Two female suicide bombers blow themselves up on the Moscow Metro, killing 39 people.
 2014 - The first Same-sex marriages in England and Wales take place, with the first ones in Scotland taking place on December 31 of the same year.
 2015 - The Australia national cricket team wins the Cricket World Cup, defeating the New Zealand national cricket team at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
 2017 - British Prime Minister Theresa May triggers Article 50 of the European Union treaty, to start the process of Brexit (the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union).

Births
Up to 1900 
 1602 - John Lightfoot, English churchman (d. 1675)
 1629 - Tsar Alexis of Russia (d. 1676)
 1713 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)
 1746 – Carlo Buonaparte, father of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1785)
 1747 - Johann Wilhelm Hassler, German composer, organist and pianist (d. 1822)
 1751 - Supply Belcher, American composer and singer (d. 1836)
 1769 - Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, French general and politician (d. 1851)
 1790 – John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
 1799 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869)
 1813 - John Letcher, Governor of Virginia (d. 1884)
 1815 - Costache Caragiale, Romanian actor, writer and theatre director (d. 1877)
 1816 - Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama (d. 1837)
 1824 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899)
 1826 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)
 1830 - Eli C. D. Shortridge, Governor of North Dakota (d. 1908)
1853 - Elihu Thomson, British-American engineer, inventor and businessman (d. 1937)
 1867 – Cy Young, American baseball player (d. 1955)
 1869 - Edwin Lutyens, British architect (d. 1944)
 1870 - Pavlo Melas, Greek officer (d. 1904)
 1873 - Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941) 
 1874 – Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
 1876 - Friedrich Traun, German athlete and tennis player (d. 1908)
 1887 - Phraya Phahon Phonphayuhasena, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 1947)
 1888 - Enea Bossi, Italian-American engineer and aviation pioneer (d. 1963)
 1889 - Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951)
 1890 - Harold Spencer Jones, English astronomer (d. 1960)
 1891 - Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (d. 1980)
 1892 - Jozsef Mindszenty, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1975)
 1895 - Ernst Jünger, German writer (d. 1998)
 1899 - Lavrenty Beria, Georgian-Soviet politician (d. 1953)
 1900 – John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
1901  1950 
 1902 - William Walton, British composer (d. 1983)
 1907 - Braguinha, Brazilian singer and songwriter (d. 2006)
 1911 - Freya von Moltke, German resistance activist (d. 2010)
 1913 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet and Anglican priest (d. 2000)
 1914 - Phil Foster, American actor (d. 1985)
 1914 - Chapman Pincher, British journalist, historian and writer (d. 2014)
 1916 - Peter Geach, British philosopher (d. 2013)
 1916 – Eugene McCarthy, American politician (d. 2005)
 1918 – Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (d. 1990)
 1918 – Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)
 1920 - Pierre Moinot, French writer (d. 2007)
 1923 - Geoff Duke, British motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
 1926 - Moshe Sanbar, Hungarian-born Israeli economist (d. 2012)
 1927 – John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist (d. 2004)
 1927 - John McLaughlin, American television personality and political commentator (d. 2016)
 1929 - Sheila Kitzinger, English childbirth activist (d. 2015)
1929 - Lennart Meri, Estonian statesman and 2nd President of Estonia (d. 2006)
 1929 - Richard Lewontin, American biologist and philosopher
 1930 – Anerood Jugnauth, President of Mauritius
 1931 - Aleksei Gubarev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2015)
 1931 – Norman Tebbit, English politician
 1931 - Stefan Andrei, Romanian politician (d. 2014)
 1933 - Edvard Grimstad, Norwegian politician (d. 2014)
 1935 - Ruby Murray, English actress and singer (d. 1996)
 1936 - Richard Rodney Bennett, English composer (d. 2012)
 1936 - John A. Durkin, American politician
 1936 - Joseph P. Teasdale, former Governor of Missouri (d. 2014)
 1936 - Judith Guest, American writer
 1937 - Smarck Michel, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2012)
 1937 – Bruno Mora, Italian footballer (d. 1986)
 1939 - Terence Hill, Italian actor
 1940 - Ray Davis, American singer and musician
 1940 - Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter
 1940 - John Suchet, British journalist
 1941 – Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist
1941 - Violeta Andrei, Romanian actress
 1942 - Larry Pressler, American politician
 1943 – Eric Idle, English actor and comedian
 1943 – John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 1943 – Vangelis, Greek musician and musician
 1944 - Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana
 1944 – Terry Jacks, Canadian musician, songwriter, and activist
 1945 – Walt Frazier, American basketball player
 1946 - Billy Thorpe, Australian singer (d. 2007)
 1946 - Robert J. Shiller, American economist
 1947 - Bobby Kimball, American singer
 1948 - Bud Cort, American movie and stage actor, director and writer
 1949 - Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist and composer (d. 2007)
 1949 – Dave Greenfield, English musician (The Stranglers)
 1949 - Pauline Marois, 30th Premier of Quebec
 1949 - Kayahan, Turkish singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
 1949 - Keith Simpson, British politician
 1950 - Mory Kanté, Guinean musician
1951  1975 
 1952 - Teofilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer (d. 2012)
 1954 - Dianne Kay, American actress
 1955 – Rolf Lassgard, Swedish actor
 1955 - Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor and director
 1955 - Henry Bellingham, English politician
 1955 - Christopher Lawford, American actor
 1957 – Christopher Lambert, French actor
 1958 - Pedro Bial, Brazilian producer, director, writer, journalist and television presenter
 1958 - Marc Silvestri, American comics artist and publisher
 1959 – Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2011)
 1960 – Jo Nesbo, Norwegian writer and musician
 1960 - Annabella Sciorra, American actress
 1961 – Amy Sedaris, American actress
 1961 - Michael Winterbottom, British movie director
 1963 - Voula Patoulidou, Greek athlete
 1963 - Joan Garriga, Spanish motorcycle road racer (d. 2015)
 1964 – Elle Macpherson, Australian model
 1965 - Jill Goodacre, American actress and model
 1965 - Dominic Littlewood, English television presenter
 1965 - William Ofelein, American astronaut
1966 - Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Dutch politician
 1967 - Michel Hazanavicius, French movie director, producer and screenwriter
 1968 – Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress
 1971 – Robert Gibbs, former US Press Secretary
 1972 - Michel Ancel, French game designer
 1972 - Priti Patel, English politician
 1972 – Rui Costa, Portuguese footballer
 1973 – Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer
From 1976 
 1976 – Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
 1979 - Estela Giménez, Spanish rhythmic gymnast
 1979 - Tomoe Shinohara, Japanese actress, singer, fashion designer and producer
 1980 - Kim Tae-hee, South Korean actress
 1980 - Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein of Jordan
 1981 - Megan Hilty, American actress and singer
 1981 - Jlloyd Samuel, Trinidad and Tobago footballer
 1982 - Hideaki Takizawa, Japanese actor and singer
 1983 - Jeremie Aliadiere, French footballer
 1984 – Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisian fruit seller (d. 2011)
 1984 – Roman Kienast, Austrian footballer
 1984 - Juan Monaco, Argentine tennis player
 1985 – Maxim Lapierre, Canadian ice hockey player
 1986 – Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, English footballer
 1986 - Luke Eberl, American actor and director
 1987 - Dimitri Payet, French footballer
 1989 - Arnold Peralta, Honduran footballer (d. 2015)
 1990 - Teemu Pukki, Finnish footballer
 1990 - Lyle Taylor, British footballer
 1991 - Irene, South Korean singer, television host and actress
1991 - Hayley McFarland, American actress
 1991 - Fabio Borini, Italian footballer
 1991 - N'Golo Kanté, French footballer
 1992 - Chris Massoglia, American actor
 1994 - Sulli, South Korean actress, singer and dancer
 1995 - Marc Musso, American actor
 2012 - Isla Elizabeth Phillips, great-granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 87 BC - Emperor Wu of Han of China (b. 156 BC)
 57 - Emperor Gwangwu of Han of China (b. 5)
 1058 – Pope Stephen IX (b. 1020)
 1368 - Emperor Go-Murakami of Japan (b. 1328)
 1461 - Henry Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1421)
 1578 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527)
 1625 – Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)
 1772 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)
 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden (b. 1746)
 1826 - Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet (b. 1751)
 1829 - Cornelio Saavedra, Argentine military officer (b. 1759)
 1848 – John Jacob Astor, German-American businessman (b. 1763)
 1855 - Henri Druey, Swiss politician (b. 1799)
 1873 - Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist (b. 1797)
 1877 - Inazuma Raigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1802)
 1888 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (b. 1813)
 1891 – Georges Seurat, French painter (b. 1859)
1901  2000 
 1911 - Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (b. 1837)
 1912 – Henry Robertson Bowers, English explorer (b. 1883)
 1912 – Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (b. 1868)
 1912 – Edward Adrian Wilson, English explorer (b. 1872)
 1934 - Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire (b. 1867)
 1937 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (b. 1882)
 1939 - Gerardo Machado, 5th President of Cuba (b. 1871)
 1940 – Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and England rugby player (b. 1916)
 1948 - Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (b. 1881)
 1956 – Infante Alfonso of Spain (b. 1941)
 1959 – Barthélemy Boganda, President of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)
 1972 - J. Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, English businessman (b. 1888)
 1980 - Mantovani, Italian-born conductor (b. 1905)
 1981 – Eric Williams, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1911)
 1982 – Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895)
 1982 - Walter Hallstein, German educator and politician (b. 1901)
1985 – Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun and singer (b. 1933)
 1985 - Luther Terry, Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1911)
 1986 - Harry Ritz, Austrian-American actor (b. 1907)
 1988 - Maurice Blackburn, Canadian composer, conductor and sound editor (b. 1914)
 1991 - Lee Atwater, American political advisor (b. 1951)
 1994 - Bill Travers, English actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
From 2001 
 2001 – Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer and archaeologist (b. 1899)
 2003 - Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (b. 1956)
 2004 - Joel Feinberg, American philosopher (b. 1926)
 2004 - Simone Renant, French actress (b. 1911)
 2009 – Maurice Jarre, French composer (b. 1924)
 2009 - Vladimir Fedotov, Soviet-Russian footballer (b. 1943)
 2009 - Helen Levitt, American photographer (b. 1913)
 2011 - José Alencar, Vice President of Brazil (b. 1931)
 2011 – Robert Tear, Welsh tenor and conductor (b. 1939)
 2013 - Ralph Klein, 12th Premier of Alberta (b. 1942)
 2014 - Karl Spillman Forester, American judge (b. 1940)
 2014 - Birgitta Valberg, Swedish actress (b. 1916)
 2014 - Yosef Hamadani Cohen, Iranian Jewish leader (b. 1916)
 2014 - Marc Platt, American dancer and actor (b. 1913)
 2014 - Hobart Alter, American surfer and boat designer (b. 1933)
 2014 - Dane Witherspoon, American actor (b. 1957)
 2015 - Juan Carlos Maccarone, Argentine Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1940)
2016 - Patty Duke, American actress (b. 1946)
 2016 - Jean-Pierre Coffe, French television presenter and food critic (b. 1938)
 2017 - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian-American theoretical physicist (b. 1928)
 2017 - Ken Sparks, American football player and coach (b. 1944)
 2018 - Emiliano Mondonico, Italian footballer (b. 1947)
 2018 - Stephen Reinhardt, American judge (b. 1931)
 2018 - Rusty Staub, American baseball player (b. 1944)
Observances 
 Boganda Day (Central African Republic)
 Youth Day (Republic of China)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 69 - Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but rules for only three months before committing suicide.
 1362 – A North Sea flood kills many thousands of people.
 1541 - King Francis I of France gives Jean-Francois Roberval a commission to settle the Province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the Roman Catholic Faith.
 1559 – Queen Elizabeth I of England is officially crowned Queen of England.
 1582 - Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
 1759 – The British Museum is opened.
 1777 - American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present-day Vermont) declares its independence.
 1790 – The Bounty mutineers, led by Fletcher Christian, arrive on Pitcairn Island.
 1815 - War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
 1822 - Greek War of Independence: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected President of the Legislative Assembly.
1844 - The University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
 1865 - American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to Union forces.
 1870 - A political cartoon (by Thomas Nast) for the first time uses a donkey as a symbol of the Democratic Party in the United States.
 1876 - The first newspaper in Afrikaans, De Afrikaans Patriot, is published.
 1885 – American Wilson Bentley takes the first photographs of snowflakes.
 1889 - The Coca-Cola Company, then-known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia, US.
 1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
1901  2000 
 1910 - Building work begins ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, at 99 meters.
 1919 – German socialist activists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht are tortured and executed by the Freikorps.
 1919 – The Boston Molasses Disaster, killing 21 and injuring 150 others.
 1933 - A 12-year-old girl is said to have experienced the first Marian Apparition of Our Lady of Banneux in Banneux, Belgium.
 1934 – A magnitude 8.1 earthquake on the India-Nepal border kills around 10,700 people.
 1936 - The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company is completed in Toledo, Ohio, United States.
 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republicans both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
 1943 – The Pentagon is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
 1943 - World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive in Voronezh begins.
1944 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake in San Juan, Argentina, kills around 5,000 people.
 1949 - Chinese Civil War: The Communist forces take over Tianjin from the National Government.
 1962 - The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest-surviving manuscript dating back to 340 BC, is found in Northern Greece.
 1966 - Nigeria's First Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in military coup d'état. 
 1967 – The first-ever Super Bowl takes place in Los Angeles, as the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.
 1969 – The Soyuz 5 spacecraft is launched by the Soviet Union.
 1970 - Nigerian Civil War: Biafra surrenders.
 1970 - Muammar al-Gaddafi is proclaimed Premier of Libya.
 1971 – The Aswan Dam in Egypt is officially opened.
 1973 - Vietnam War: Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam, citing the progress of peace negotiations.
 1975 - The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence.
1976 - Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to life in prison for attempting to kill President Gerald Ford.
 1981 - Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from the Polish Solidarity Trade Union, led by Lech Walesa.
 1991 – The United Nations deadline for Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait expires.
 1992 - The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from Yugoslavia.
 1993 – Mafia boss Salvatore Riina is arrested by police.
 1996 – Lesotho's King, Moshoeshoe II dies in a car crash. He is succeeded by his son, Letsie III.
From 2001 
 2001 – Wikipedia goes online.
 2004 – The South Korean Foreign Minister, Yoon Young-kwan resigns following his support for American policy towards North Korea.
 2005 - The European Space Agency's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminium, silicon, iron and other elements on the Moon.
 2006 – Michelle Bachelet is elected President of Chile. She becomes Chile's first female president when she takes office on March 11.
 2009 – Chesley Sullenberger, pilot of US Airways Flight 1549, steers the plane to a safe emergency landing on the Hudson River after experiencing trouble shortly after take off from New York's LaGuardia Airport.
 2015 - Two suspected Jihadists are killed in an anti-terror raid in Verviers, Belgium.
 2018 - British newspaper The Guardian changes to a tabloid format.
 2018 - Mihai Tudose announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Romania after losing support within his own party.
 2018 - A bomb attack in Baghdad kills 38 people.
2019 - A terrorist attack on a hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya, results in 21 people being killed.
 2019 - British Prime Minister Theresa May loses a parliamentary vote in the House of Commons by the biggest margin ever for a sitting Prime Minister, losing a vote on her proposed Brexit deal by 432 votes to 202.
Up to 1850 
 5 BC – Emperor Guang Wu of Han in China (d. 57)
 1292 - Joan II, Countess of Burgundy (d. 1330)
 1342 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404)
 1432 – Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1481)
 1481 - Ashikaga Yoshizuni, Japanese shogun (d. 1511)
 1538 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (d. 1599)
 1622 – Molière, French writer and philosopher (d. 1673)
 1716 - Philip Livingston, American founding father (d. 1778)
 1780 - Cornelius P. Comegus, American politician, Governor of Delaware (d. 1850)
 1785 - William Prout, English chemist, physician and theologian (d. 1850)
 1791 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (d. 1872)
 1795 - Alexander Griboyedov, Russian playwright (d. 1829)
 1803 - Marjorie Fleming, Scottish poet (d. 1811)
 1807 - Hermann Burmeister, German naturalist (d. 1892)
 1809 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1865)
 1815 - William Bickerton, English-American religious leader (d. 1905)
 1824 – Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847)
1841 – Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Governor General of Canada (d. 1908)
 1842 – Mary MacKillop, Australian saint (d. 1909)
 1842 - Paul Lafargue, French journalist, literary critic and activist (d. 1911)
 1842 - Josef Breuer, Austrian physician (d. 1925)
 1844 - Cole Younger, American outlaw (d. 1916)
 1850 – Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (d. 1889)
 1850 – Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin (d. 1943)
 1850 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1891)
1851  1900 
 1858 - Giovanni Segantini, Italian painter (d. 1899)
 1859 - Archibald Peake, Australian politician, Premier of South Australia (d. 1920)
 1859 - Nathaniel Lord Britton, American geologist and botanist (d. 1934)
 1862 - Loie Fuller, American dancer (d. 1928)
 1863 – Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946)
 1866 – Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop (d. 1931)
 1867 - Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (d. 1900)
 1869 - Ruby Laffoon, American politician, 43rd Governor of Kentucky (d. 1941)
 1869 - Stanislaw Wyspianski, Polish dramatist (d. 1907)
 1870 – Pierre S. du Pont, American industrialist (d. 1954)
 1875 - Thomas Burke, American athlete (d. 1929)
 1878 - Johanna Mueller-Hermann, Austrian composer and educator (d. 1941)
 1882 - Princess Margaret of Connaught (d. 1920)
 1885 - Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer (d. 1915)
 1891 - Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (d. 1938)
 1892 - Rex Ingram, Irish director (d. 1950)
 1893 – Ivor Novello, Welsh entertainer and composer (d. 1951)
1893 - George, Crown Prince of Saxony (d. 1943)
 1894 - Ecaterina Teodoriu, Romanian World War I heroine (d. 1917)
 1895 – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist (d. 1973)
 1897 – Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (d. 1931)
 1898 - Erik Byléhn, Swedish runner (d. 1986)
 1900 – William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist (d. 1991)
 1900 – Stanley Lucas, British supercentenarian (d. 2010)
1901  1950 
 1902 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1969)
 1903 - Paul A. Dever, American politician, 58th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
 1906 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975)
 1908 – Edward Teller, Hungarian physicist (d. 2003)
 1909 - Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939)
 1909 - Gene Krupa, American automobile designer (d. 1973)
 1912 – Michel Debré, Prime Minister of France (d. 1996)
 1913 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)
 1913 - Alexander Marinesko, German submarine captain (d. 1963)
 1914 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, British historian (d. 2003)
 1916 - Maurice Bavaud, Swiss activist (d. 1941)
 1918 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970)
 1918 – Joao Figueiredo, President of Brazil (d. 1999)
 1918 - David George Kendall, English statistician and mathematician (d. 2007)
 1918 - Vicente de la Mata, Argentine footballer (d. 1980)
 1919 – George Cadle Price, 1st Prime Minister of Belize (d. 2011)
 1919 – Maurice Herzog, French mountaineer (d. 2012)
1920 - Bob Davies, American basketball player (d. 1990)
 1920 - Pamela Cundell, English actress (d. 2015)
 1920 - John Joseph O'Connor, American cardinal and Archbishop of New York City (d. 2000)
 1921 - Babasaheb Bhasale, Indian politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2007)
 1923 - Lee Twng-hui, 4th President of the Republic of China
 1924 - George Lowe, New Zealand mountaineer (d. 2013)
 1924 – Georg Ratzinger, brother of Pope Benedict XVI
 1924 - Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, French philosopher, writer, editor and psychoanalyst (d. 2013)
 1925 – Ernst Benda, German politician (d. 2009)
 1926 – Maria Schell, Austrian actress (d. 2005)
 1926 - Karl-Alfred Jacobsson, Swedish footballer (d. 2015)
 1927 - Phyllis Coates, American actress
 1928 - M. V. Devan, Indian artist and writer (d. 2014)
 1928 - W. R. Mitchell, English writer (d. 2015)
 1929 – Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights activist (d. 1968)
 1929 - Earl Hooker, American blues guitarist (d. 1970)
1934 - V. S. Ramadevi, Indian politician, 13th Governor of Karnataka (d. 2013)
 1939 - Per Ahlmark, Swedish journalist and politician
 1940 - Arlie Russell Hochschild, American sociologist and academic
 1941 – Captain Beefheart, American singer (d. 2010)
 1943 - Ashraf Aman, Pakistani mountaineer
 1943 – Margaret Beckett, British politician
 1944 - Jenny Nimmo, British writer
 1945 – Princess Michael of Kent
 1945 - David Pleat, English footballer
 1945 - Maria Antonia Iglesias, Spanish writer (d. 2014)
 1945 - Ko Chun-hsiung, Taiwanese actor, director and politician (d. 2015)
 1947 - Martin Chalfie, American biologist and Nobel Prize winner
 1947 - Pete Waterman, English songwriter and producer
 1948 – Ronnie Van Zant, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
 1950 - Bebeto de Freitas, Brazilian volleyball coach and football manager (d. 2018)
1951  1975 
 1951 - Catherine Trautmann, French politician
 1954 - Nikos Sarganis, Greek footballer
 1955 - JoAnne Good, British radio presenter, television presenter, broadcast journalist and actress
 1955 - Khalid Islambouli, Egyptian assassin (d. 1982)
 1956 - Mayawati, Indian politician, 23rd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
 1957 – Mario Van Peebles, American actor
 1957 - David Ige, American politician, 8th Governor of Hawaii
 1958 - Ken Judge, Australian rules footballer (d. 2016)
 1958 – Boris Tadic, former President of Serbia
 1959 - Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian climber (d. 2008)
 1962 - Margherita Buy, Italian actress
 1962 - Ken Macintosh, Scottish politician
 1964 - Jackie Baillie, Scottish politician
 1965 – Bernard Hopkins, American boxer
 1965 – James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor
 1968 - Chad Lorre, American director, actor and producer
 1968 – Iñaki Urdangarin, Spanish former handball player and royal
 1970 – Shane McMahon, American professional wrestler, son of WWE President Vince McMahon
1972 - Claudia Winkleman, English television presenter
 1973 – Essam El-Hadary, Egyptian footballer
 1974 - Edith Bowman, Scottish television and radio presenter
 1975 – Mary Pierce, French tennis player
From 1976 
 1977 - Giorgia Meloni, Italian politician
 1978 - Eddie Cahill, American actor
 1978 – Ryan Sidebottom, English cricketer
 1979 – Martin Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
 1979 - Ken Chu, Taiwanese singer, actor and Tai-chi champion
 1980 – Matt Holliday, American baseball player
 1981 – El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese footballer
 1981 – Sean Lamont, Scottish rugby player
 1981 - Pitbull, American rapper
 1982 - Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia
 1982 - Prince Philip of Yugoslavia
 1983 - Matic Kralj, Slovenian ice hockey player
 1983 - Hugo Viana, Portuguese footballer
 1983 – Jermaine Pennant, English footballer
 1985 – René Adler, German footballer and goalkeeper
 1985 - Clara Lee, Swiss-born British-South Korean actress
 1985 - Enrico Patrizio, Italian rugby player
 1986 - Jessie Schram, American actress
 1987 - Tsegaye Kebede, Ethiopian runner
 1987 - Kelly Kelly, American professional wrestler
 1987 - Michael Seater, Canadian actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1988 - Jun. K, South Korean singer
 1988 - Skrillex, American musician and producer
 1989 - Ryan Corr, Australian actor
 1990 - Paul Blake, English Paralympic athlete
 1996 - Dove Cameron, American actress and singer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 41 – Caligula, Roman Emperor (b. 12)
 69 – Galba, Roman Emperor (b. 3 BC)
 570 – Saint Ides, Irish nun (b. ca. 475)
 936 - King Rudolph of France
 1519 - Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
 1595 – Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
 1623 - Fra Paolo Sarpi, Italian patriot, scholar, scientist and church reformer (b. 1552)
 1683 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
 1775 - Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1700)
 1781 - Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain, Queen Regent of Portugal (b. 1718)
 1815 – Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress of Horatio Nelson (b. 1765)
 1876 - Eliza Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1810)
 1893 - Fanny Kemble, British actress and writer (b. 1809)
 1896 - Mathew Brady, American photographer (b. 1822)
 1899 - Serafino Dubois, Italian chess player (b. 1817)
1901  2000 
 1915 – Mary Slessor, Scottish Christian missionary to West Africa (b. 1848)
 1916 - Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian playwright (b. 1850)
 1919 – Rosa Luxemburg, German politician and activist (b. 1870)
 1919 – Karl Liebknecht, German politician and activist (b. 1871)
 1926 - Enrico Toselli, Italian composer (b. 1883)
 1927 - David R. Francis, American politician, Governor of Missouri (b. 1850)
 1936 - Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866)
 1947 – Elizabeth Short, AKA The Black Dahlia, murder victim (b. 1924)
 1948 - Josephus Daniels, American publisher and diplomat (b. 1862)
 1952 - Ned Hanlon, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland (b. 1866)
 1955 – Yves Tanguy, French Surrealist painter (b. 1900)
 1964 – Jack Teagarden, musician (b. 1905)
 1968 - William Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
 1983 – Meyer Lansky, mobster (b. 1902)
 1987 – Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer (b. 1904)
 1988 - Sean MacBride, Irish politician (b. 1904)
1990 – Gordon Jackson, Scottish  movie and TV actor; best known as the butler "Hudson" on Upstairs Downstairs (b. 1923)
 1993 – Sammy Cahn, songwriter (b. 1913)
 1994 – Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)
 1994 - Georges Cziffra, Hungarian-French pianist (b. 1921)
 1996 – King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)
 1998 – Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian politician (b. 1898)
 2000 – Zeljko Raznatovic, Serbian leader (b. 1952)
2001  2015 
 2003 – Doris Fisher, singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
 2005 – Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
 2005 – Walter Ernsting, German science fiction writer (Perry Rhodan) (b. 1920)
 2005 – Elizabeth Janeway, United States feminist writer (b. 1913)
 2005 – Dan Lee, animator for movie Finding Nemo (b. 1969)
 2005 – Ruth Warrick, United States actress best known for Citizen Kane and All My Children (b. 1915)
 2006 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
 2007 – James Hiller, Canadian inventor (b. 1915)
 2008 – Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
 2009 – Said Seyam, Palestinian military commander (b. 1959)
 2010 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biochemist, won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)
 2011 – Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (b. 1925)
 2011 – Susannah York, English actress (b. 1939)
 2012 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, former Prime Minister of Spanish Galicia (b. 1922)
 2012 - Ed Derwinski, American politician (b. 1926)
2013 - Nagisa Oshima, Japanese movie director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
 2013 - Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, French philosopher, writer, editor and psychoanalyst (b. 1924)
 2014 - Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (b. 1944)
 2014 - John Dobson, American astronomer (b. 1915)
 2015 - Ervin Drake, American songwriter (b. 1919)
 2015 - Kim Fowley, American record producer (b. 1939)
 2015 - Val Holten, Australian cricketer (b. 1927)
 2015 - Ethel Lang, British supercentenarian (b. 1900)
 2015 - Jean-Claude Baker, French-American restaurateur (b. 1943)
 2015 - Joseph Mukasa Zuza, Malawian bishop (b. 1955) 
 2015 - Rameshwar Thakur, Indian politician (b. 1927)
From 2016 
 2016 - Ken Judge, Australian rules footballer (b. 1958)
 2016 - Dan Haggerty, American actor (b. 1941)
 2016 - Oleksandr Shevchenko, Ukrainian scientist, jurist and politician (b. 1937)
 2016 - P. J. Mara, Irish public affairs consultant and senator (b. 1942)
 2016 - Noreen Corcoran, American actress (b. 1943)
 2016 - Aristide von Bienefeldt, Dutch writer (b. 1959)
 2017 - Ciel Bergman, American painter (b. 1938)
 2017 - Babette Cole, English children's writer (b. 1949)
 2017 - Richard Divall, Australian conductor and musicologist (b. 1945)
 2017 - Aleksandr Ezhevsky, Russian engineer and statesman (b. 1915)
 2017 - Dermot Gallagher, Irish civil servant and diplomat (b. 1944)
 2017 - Han Peixin, Chinese politician (b. 1921)
 2017 - Kozo Kinomoto, Japanese footballer (b. 1949)
 2017 - Vicki Lansky, American writer and publisher (b. 1942)
 2017 - Eddie Long, American pastor (b. 1953)
 2017 - David Poythress, American military officer and politician (b. 1943)
2017 - Jimmy Snuka, Fijian-American professional wrestler (b. 1943)
 2017 - Greg Trooper, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
 2018 - Viktor Anpilov, Russian political activist and trade unionist (b. 1945)
 2018 - Joe Frank, American radio personality (b. 1938)
 2018 - Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1971)
 2018 - John Spellman, American politician, former Governor of Washington (b. 1926)
 2018 - Edwin Hawkins, American musician (b. 1943)
 2018 - Peter Wyngarde, British actor (b. 1927)
 2018 - Carl Emil Christiansen, Danish footballer (b. 1937)
 2018 - Romana Acosta Bañuelos, American public servant (b. 1925)
 2018 - Dick King, American politician (b. 1934)
 2018 - Mathilde Krim, Italian-American HIV researcher (b. 1926)
 2018 - Karl-Heinz Kunde, German racing cyclist (b. 1938)
 2018 - Roderick Rijnders, Dutch rower (b. 1941)
 2019 - Carol Channing, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
Observances
 Earliest day that Martin Luther King, Jr. Day can fall, while January 21 is the latest, on the third Monday in January (United States)
 Armed Forces Day (Nigeria)
 Army Day (India)
 Tree Planting Day (Egypt)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 715 - Pope Gregory II is elected.
 1051 - Henry I of France marries Anne of Kiev.
 1314 – Visby, on the Swedish island of Gotland, is almost completely destroyed by fire.
 1364 - Charles V of France and Jeanne de Bourbon are crowned French King and Queen respectively.
 1445 - John II of Castile defeats the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo.
 1499 – Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor.
 1535 – Jacques Cartier sets sail on his third voyage to North America.
 1536 – Anne Boleyn is beheaded.
 1542 - The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Burma.
 1568 – Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
 1643 – Thirty Years' War: French forces defeat Spain in the Battle of Rocroi.
 1649 – An Act of Parliament declares England a Commonwealth in a law passed by the Long Parliament, making England a republic.
 1655 - The Invasion of Jamaica begins during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1743 - Jean-Pierre Christin develops the Centigrade temperature scale, similar to the Celsius scale, which was later flipped round to the same as the centigrade scale.
 1749 – George II of Great Britain grants a charter of land to the Ohio Company around the Forks of the Ohio River.
 1776 - American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of the Cedars.
 1780 – New England's Dark Day: thick smoke and heavy cloud causes darkness to fall over parts of Eastern Canada and New England.
 1781 - King Louis XVI of France surprisingly fires his economic advisor Jacques Necker.
 1792 - George Vancouver and members of his expedition become the first Europeans known to have seen Mount St. Helens, in present-day Washington in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. 
 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
 1845 – John Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition leaves England.
1848 - Mexican-American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, therefore ending the war and ceding the territories of several current Southwestern United States, including California, Nevada and Utah, to the US for 15 million US dollars.
 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
 1897 - Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol Prison.
1901  2000 
 1903 – David Dunbar Buick founds the auto firm the Buick Motor Company.
 1911 - Parks Canada, the world's first National Park Service, is founded as the Dominion Parks Branch.
 1917 - Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
 1919 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun, on the Anatolian Black Sea coast.
 1934 - Zveno and the Bulgarian army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimo Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
 1950 - Egypt closes the Suez Canal to Israeli ships.
 1959 - The North Vietnamese Army creates Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam.
 1961 – The Venera 1 space probe flies by Venus.
 1962 – Marilyn Monroe sings Happy Birthday, Mr. President to John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden in New York. Kennedy's actual birthday was on May 29.
 1969 - Future-Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl becomes Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate.
 1971 – The Mars 2 probe is launched by the Soviet Union.
1974 – Valery Giscard d'Estaing is elected President of France over Francois Mitterrand, following the death of Georges Pompidou on April 2.
 1991 – Croatians vote overwhelmingly for independence from Yugoslavia.
 1993 - Heide Simonis becomes Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein, as the first female Minister-President of a state of the Federal Republic of Germany.
 1993 - Shortly after take-off from Panama City, on the way to Medellin, Colombia, a Boeing 727 of the SAM Colombia airline crashes against a mountain in poor weather, killing all 133 people on board.
 1997 - The Sierra Gorda Biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is created.
 1997 - A cyclone in Bangladesh kills around 500 people.
From 2001 
 2004 – Fathers 4 Justice activists hit Tony Blair with purple flour at the House of Commons in London, prompting questions about security.
 2007 – Romania's President Traian Basescu survives an impeachment attempt and returns to work.
 2010 – A violent military crackdown ends protests by the anti-government Red Shirts in Thailand.
 2011 – Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigns as head of the International Monetary Fund, after he was arrested and charged with sexual assault in New York.
 2016 - EgyptAir Flight 804, travelling from Paris to Cairo, crashes in the southeastern Mediterranean Sea, killing all 66 people on board.
 2017 - Hassan Rouhani is re-elected President of Iran, defeating Ebrahim Raisi.
 2018 - The wedding of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex takes place in Windsor, Berkshire.
 2023 - The 49th G7 summit is held in Hiroshima.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1593 - Jacob Jordanes, Flemish painter (d. 1678)
 1700 - José de Escandon, Spanish governor (d. 1770)
 1724 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, English admiral and politician (d. 1779)
 1744 – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Consort of Great Britain and Ireland (d. 1818)
 1762 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1814)
 1767 – George Prevost, British officer and diplomat, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1816)
 1771 - Rahel Varnhagen, German writer (d. 1833)
 1773 - Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854)
 1795 – Johns Hopkins, American university benefactor (d. 1873)
 1797 – Maria Isabel of Portugal (d. 1818)
 1827 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896)
 1849 - Adrien Lachenal, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1918)
 1857 - John Jacob Abel, American biochemist and pharmacologist (d. 1938)
 1860 – Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1952)
 1861 – Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931)
1862 – Joao do Canto e Castro, President of Portugal (d. 1934)
 1870 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936; executed by electrocution)
 1871 – Walter Russell, American artist (d. 1963)
 1874 - Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (d. 1955)
 1878 - Alfred Laliberté, Canadian sculptor and painter (d. 1953) 
 1879 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born British politician (d. 1964)
 1879 – Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, American-born British politician and newspaper proprietor (d. 1952)
 1880 – Albert Richardson, English architect, writer and educator (d. 1964)
 1881 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, President of Turkey (d. 1938) (May 19 is symbolic birthday)
 1882 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
 1886 - Francis Biddle, 58th United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
 1887 - Ion Jalea, Romanian sculptor (d. 1983)
 1889 - Tan Da, Vietnamese poet (d. 1939)
 1890 – Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese political leader (d. 1969)
 1891 - Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (d. 1916)
1893 - H. Bonciu, Romanian novelist, poet, journalist and translator (d. 1950)
 1896 – Jorge Alessandri, President of Chile (d. 1986)
 1897 – Frank Luke, American pilot (d. 1918)
 1898 - Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (d. 1974)
 1899 - Lothar Radaceanu, Romanian journalist, linguist and politician (d. 1955)
1901  1950 
 1906 - Bruce Bennett, American actor (d. 2007)
 1908 - Manik Bandopadhyay, Indian Bengali novelist (d. 1956)
 1908 – Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982)
 1909 – Nicholas Winton, British man who organised the Czech Kindertransport to save hundreds of Jewish children (d. 2015)
 1910 – Nathuram Godse, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1949)
 1913 - Bill Sinkin, American equality and alternative energy activist (d. 2014)
 1914 - Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (d. 2014)
 1914 – Max Perutz, Austrian-British molecular biologist (d. 2002)
 1915 - Renée Asherson, English actress (d. 2014) 
 1916 – Blair Lee III, acting Governor of Maryland (d. 1985)
 1918 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist (d. 2000)
 1919 – Mitja Ribicic, former Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 2013)
 1921 – Yuri Kochiyama, American activist (d. 2014)
 1924 - Sandy Wilson, English composer and lyricist (d. 2014)
 1925 – Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
 1925 – Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
1926 – Peter Zadek, German theatre director (d. 2009)
 1926 - David Jacobs, British broadcaster (d. 2013)
 1926 - Fernand Raynaud, French actor and singer (d. 1973)
 1928 – George Sinner, 29th Governor of North Dakota (d. 2018)
 1928 - Colin Chapman, English automobile designer, inventor and builder (d. 1982)
 1928 - Dolph Schayes, American basketball player (d. 2015)
 1931 - Alfred Schmidt, German philosopher (d. 2012)
 1932 – Alma Cogan, British singer (d. 1966)
 1932 – Paul Erdman, American economist and writer (d. 2007)
 1933 – Edward de Bono, Maltese-British lateral thinker
 1934 - Bill Fitch, American basketball coach
 1934 - Jim Lehrer, American journalist
 1938 - Girish Karnad, Indian writer, playwright, screenwriter, actor and movie director (d. 2019)
 1938 - Livio Berruti, Italian athlete
 1938 - Tom Gilbey, British fashion designer (d. 2017)
 1939 – Dick Scobee, American astronaut (d. 1986)
 1939 – Jamie Fox, British actor
 1940 - Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist
1941 - Igor Judge, Baron Judge, Maltese-British lawyer and judge
 1941 - Tania Mallet, English model and actress (d. 2019)
 1941 – Nora Ephron, American screenwriter and movie director (d. 2012)
 1942 - Gary Kildall, American computer scientist (d. 1994)
 1942 – Robert Kilroy-Silk, English television presenter and politician
 1944 - Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (d. 2019)
 1945 – Pete Townshend, English musician (The Who)
 1946 - Michele Placido, Italian actor and director
 1946 - André the Giant, French-American wrestler and actor (d. 1993)
 1946 – John D. Waihee III, 4th Governor of Hawaii
 1947 – Steve Currie, English musician (T. Rex) (d. 1981)
 1948 – Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress
 1949 – Dusty Hill, American singer-songwriter and musician (ZZ Top and American Blues) (d. 2021)
 1950 - Austin Stevens, South African herpetologist, photographer, moviemaker and author
1951  1975 
 1951 – Joey Ramone, American singer (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
 1952 – Bert van Marwijk, Dutch football manager
 1953 – Victoria Wood, English actress, singer and comedienne (d. 2016)
 1954 - Phil Rudd, Australian drummer
 1955 – James Gosling, Canadian computer scientist
 1956 - Oliver Letwin, British politician
 1959 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim (d. 1994)
 1960 - Yazz, British singer and model
 1963 - Filippo Galli, Italian footballer and manager
 1964 – Miloslav Mecir, Slovakian tennis player
 1965 - Boris, French singer-songwriter
 1966 – Jodi Picoult, American writer
 1967 - Alexia, Italian singer
 1967 - Massimo Taccon, Italian painter and sculptor
 1968 - Kyle Eastwood, American musician
 1969 - Thomas Vinterberg, Danish film director
 1969 - Dan Lee, Canadian animator (d. 2005)
 1970 - Stuart Cable, Welsh musician (d. 2010)
 1972 – Jenny Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)
 1973 – Dario Franchitti, Scottish racing driver
1973 - Alice Roberts, English anthropologist and television presenter
 1975 - Jonas Renkse, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer