Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1951  1975 
 1951 – Luther Vandross, American singer (d. 2005)
 1952 - Eric Pickles, British politician
 1953 – Sebastian Faulks, British writer
 1956 – Kevin Judge, American Internet Security Expert
 1958 - Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian ice hockey player
 1959 – Clint Howard, American actor
 1960 - Miguel Diaz-Canel, President of Cuba
 1961 – Nicholas Lyndhurst, British actor
 1961 - Paul Usher, British actor
 1962 - Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland
 1963 - Rachel Whiteread, British artist and sculptor
 1964 – Andy Serkis, British actor
 1964 - Crispin Glover, American actor
 1964 - Rosalynn Summers, American figure skater
 1965 - Susan Cookson, British actress
 1965 - April March, American singer-songwriter
 1965 - Bernardo Fernando da Silva, Brazilian footballer
 1966 – David Chalmers, Australian philosopher
 1966 - David Filo, American businessman and co-founder of Google
 1967 - Mike Portnoy, American musician
 1967 – Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player
1968 - Julia Morris, Australian actress and television presenter
 1969 - Felix Baumgartner, Austrian skydiver
 1970 - Shemar Moore, American actor
 1972 – Carmen Electra, American actress, singer and model
 1972 – Marko Kon, Serbian composer, singer and actor 
 1972 - Stephen Marley, Jamaican musician
From 1976 
 1976 – Aldo Bobadilla, Paraguayan footballer
 1976 – Shay Given, Irish footballer
 1976 - Joey Lawrence, American actor
 1976 - Chris Mason, Canadian ice hockey player
 1979 - Gregor Tait, Scottish swimmer
 1979 – Ludovic Magnin, Swiss footballer
 1980 - Vibeke Skofterud, Norwegian cross-country skier (d. 2018)
 1980 – Jasmin Wagner, German singer
 1980 – Lee Wilkie, Scottish footballer
 1981 - Mike Blair, Scottish rugby union player and coach
 1983 – Miranda Kerr, Australian supermodel
 1983 - Danny Granger, American actor, producer and musician
 1984 - Nelson Evora, Portuguese athlete
 1984 - Edixon Perea, Colombian footballer
 1985 – Brent Seabrook, Canadian ice hockey player
 1985 - Curt Hawkins, American professional wrestler
 1987 - John Patrick Amedori, American actor
 1987 - Anna Rossinelli, Swiss singer
 1991 - Thomas Curtis, American actor
 1991 - Ondrej Krajak, Czech footballer
 1992 - Ashton Moio, American actor, stuntman and martial artist
1997 - Alexander Zverev, German tennis player
 1999 - Carly Rose Sonenclar, American actress
 2000 – Funny Cide, American racehorse
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 689 - Caedwalla, King of Wessex
 1176 - Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English military leader (b. 1130)
 1314 – Pope Clement V (b. 1264)
 1517 - Bogdan III the One-Eyed, Romanian son of Stephen of Moldavia (b. 1470)
 1521 – Zhengde Emperor of China (b. 1491)
 1526 – Ibrahim Lodi, Sultan of Delhi
 1534 - Elizabeth Barton, English nun and saint (b. 1506)
 1558 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German priest and theologian (b. 1485)
 1769 – Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawa (b. 1720)
 1786 – John Goodricke, English astronomer (b. 1746)
 1812 – George Clinton, US Vice President and Governor of New York (b. 1739)
 1831 - John Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1864)
 1869 - Carl Loewe, German composer (b. 1796)
 1873 - William Tite, English architect (b. 1798)
 1874 - Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817)
 1887 – Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826)
 1899 – Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820)
1901  2000 
 1902 - Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet (b. 1833)
 1912 – Bram Stoker, Irish writer (b. 1847)
 1912 - Pedro Lira, Chilean painter (b. 1845)
 1914 - Ivar Wickman, Swedish physician (b. 1872)
 1918 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist (b. 1850)
 1927 - Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter (b. 1866)
 1929 - Prince Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Prussia (b. 1862)
 1932 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)
 1935 - John Cameron, Scottish footballer (b. 1872)
 1937 - James Gillett, 22nd Governor of California (b. 1860)
 1947 – King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
 1951 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
 1967 - Leo-Paul Desrosiers, French-Canadian journalist and novelist (b. 1896)
 1982 - Archibald MacLeish, American poet and writer (b. 1892)
 1990 - Horst Sindermann, German politician (b. 1915)
 1991 – Don Siegel, American movie director (b. 1912)
 1992 - Benny Hill, British comedian and actor (b. 1924)
 1993 - Cantinflas, Mexican comedian and actor (b. 1911)
1994 - Jean Carmet, French actor (b. 1920)
 1996 - Tran Van Tra, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1918)
 1996 – Christopher Robin Milne, son of the writer A. A. Milne (b. 1920)
 1999 - Deaths in the Columbine High School massacre:
Cassie Bernall, victim of the Columbine High School massacre (b. 1981)
Rachel Joy Scott, victim of the Columbine High School massacre (b. 1981)
Eric Harris, perpetrator of the Columbine High School massacre (b. 1981)
Dylan Klebold, perpetrator of the Columbine High School massacre (b. 1981)
From 2001 
 2001 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
 2002 - Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
 2002 - Pierre Rapsat, Belgian singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
 2003 - Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908)
 2003 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
 2003 – Bernard Katz, German biophysicist (b. 1911)
 2005 - Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer (b. 1943)
 2010 – Dorothy Height, American Civil Rights activist (b. 1912)
 2011 - Journalists killed in Libya:
Tim Hetherington, British photojournalist (b. 1970)
Chris Hondros, American photographer (b. 1970)
 2014 - Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, American boxer (b. 1937)
 2014 - Neville Wran, Australian politician, former Premier of New South Wales (b. 1926)
 2014 - Benedikt Sarnov, Russian literary critic and writer (b. 1927)
 2014 - Alistair MacLeod, Canadian writer and academic (b. 1936)
 2015 - Frederic Morton, Austrian-American writer (b. 1924)
 2015 - Aharon Lichtenstein, French-born American-Israeli rabbi (b. 1933)
2015 - Richard Anthony, Egyptian-born French singer (b. 1938)
 2015 - Bob St. Clair, American football player (b. 1931)
 2015 - Ibrahim Yusri, Egyptian actor (b. 1950)
 2015 - Peter Howell, English actor (b. 1929)
 2016 - Victoria Wood, English comedienne, actress and writer (b. 1953)
 2016 - Guy Hamilton, English film director (b. 1922)
 2016 - Avril Henry, English academic (b. 1934)
 2016 - Leonie Kramer, Australian academic (b. 1924)
 2016 - Harry Perkowski, American baseball player (b. 1922)
 2017 - Germaine Mason, Jamaican-born British high jumper (b. 1983)
 2017 - Jay Dickey, American politician (b. 1939)
 2017 - Roberto Ferreiro, Argentine footballer (b. 1935)
 2017 - Cuba Gooding, Sr., American singer (b. 1944)
 2017 - Lawrence Hogan, American politician (b. 1928)
 2017 - Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (b. 1930)
 2018 - Avicii, Swedish DJ, musician and music producer (b. 1989)
 2018 - Roy Bentley, English footballer (b. 1924)
2018 - Pedro Erquicia, Spanish journalist and television producer (b. 1943)
 2018 - Rajinder Sachar, Pakistan-Indian political activist and judge (b. 1923)
 2018 - Al Swift, American broadcaster and politician (b. 1935)
 2018 - Shane Yarran, Australian rules footballer (b. 1989)
 2018 - Charles Zwick, American civil servant (b. 1926)
 2019 - Joe Armstrong, British computer scientist (b. 1950)
 2019 - Reggie Cobb, American football player (b. 1968)
 2019 - Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Iranian artist (b. 1922)
 2019 - Karl Grob, Swiss footballer (b. 1946)
 2019 - Braulio Lara, Dominican baseball player (b. 1988)
 2019 - David V. Picker, American film executive and producer (b. 1931)
Observances 
 4/20 - Cannabis culture
 UN Chinese language Day
 Ridvan begins (Baha'i faith)

Days of the year
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-impressionist painter. His work had a great influence on modern art because of its striking colours and emotional power. He suffered from delusions and fits of mental illness. When he was 37, he died by committing suicide.

When he was a young man, Van Gogh worked for a company of art dealers. He traveled between The Hague, London and Paris. After that, he taught in England. He then wanted to become a pastor and spread the Gospel, and from 1879 he worked as a missionary in a mining place in Belgium. He began drawing the people there, and in 1885, he painted his first important work, The Potato Eaters. He usually painted in dark colors at this time. In March 1886, he moved to Paris and found out about the French impressionists. Later, he moved to the south of France, and the colors in his art became brighter. His special style of art was developed and later fully grown during the time he stayed in Arles in 1888.
Early life 
He was born Vincent Willem van Gogh on 30 March 1853 in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. His father, Theodorus van Gogh, was a pastor. His mother, Anna Cornelia Carbentus, was an artist. Van Gogh was brought up in a religious and cultured family. He was very emotional and he did not have a great deal of self-confidence. He was also a replacement child. He was born a year after the death of his brother, also named Vincent. He even had the same birthday. Living at the church rectory Vincent walked past the grave of his dead brother every day. There has been speculation that van Gogh suffered later psychological trauma as a result, but this cannot be proved.
Career 
Between 1860 and 1880, when he finally decided to become an artist, van Gogh had two sad romances. He also had worked unsuccessfully in a bookstore, as an art salesman, and a preacher. He remained in Belgium, where he had preached, to study art. The works of his early Dutch period are sad, sharp, and one of the most famous pictures from here is The Potato Eaters, painted in 1885. In that year, van Gogh went to Antwerp where he found the works of famous artists and bought a lot of Japanese prints.
Death 
In May 1890, he regained his health and went to live in Auvers-sur-Oise. However, two months later on 27 July, he shot himself in the chest with a revolver. He died two days later, with Theo at his side. Theo reported his last words as "La tristesse durera toujours", which meant, "The sadness will last forever" in French.
Legacy 
During his brief career he had only sold one painting. After his death, Van Gogh's finest works were all sold in less than three years. His mother threw away a lot of his paintings during his life and even after his death. But she lived long enough to see him become a world famous painter. He was not well known when he was alive, and most people did not appreciate his art. But he became very famous after his death. Today, many people consider him to be one of the greatest painters in history and an important influence on modern art. Van Gogh did not begin painting until he was almost 30. Most of his famous works were done in his last two years. He made more than 2,000 artworks, with 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches. Today, many of his pieces  portraits, landscapes and sunflowers  are some of the most famous and costly works of art in the world.

Gallery

References

Other websites
Other websites 

 Vincent van Gogh Gallery. The complete works and letters of Vincent van Gogh.
 Van Gogh Letters – The complete letters of Van Gogh, translated into English and annotated. Published by the Van Gogh Museum.
 Van Gogh's Letters , unabridged and annotated.
 Van Gogh Museum , Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
 Van Gogh at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States.
 Painted with Words: Vincent van Gogh's Letters to Emile Bernard, New York Times, 9 September 2007
 Art Historians Claim Van Gogh's ear 'Cut Off by Gauguin' by Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian, 4 May 2009

1853 births
1890 deaths
Artists who committed suicide
Dutch painters
Christian missionaries
People from North Brabant
Suicides by firearm
Suicides in France
People from Arles
Up to 1900 
 999 - Pope Sylvester II is elected.
 1285 - Pope Martin IV is elected.
 1453 - The Ottoman Empire's Sultan Mehmed II begins the Siege of Constantinople.
 1513 – Florida is sighted by a European for the first time.
 1744 – The first official golf tournament is held in Leith, near Edinburgh, Scotland.
 1783 – The Duke of Portland replaces the Earl of Shelburne as Prime Minister of Great Britain.
 1800 – Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony.
 1801 – British forces under Horatio Nelson defeat Denmark in the naval Battle of Copenhagen.
 1814 - The French senate declares Napoleon Bonaparte removed from power.
 1845 - Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau and Jean Bernard Leon Foucault take the first photograph of the Sun.
 1851 – Mongkut (Rama IV) is crowned King of Siam.
 1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis and his cabinet flee Richmond, Virginia.
 1865 - American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken, as Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia.
1885 - Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories, killing 9 people.
 1900 - The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
1901  2000 
 1902 - The Electric Theater, the first full-time movie theater in the US, opens in Los Angeles, California.
 1911 – Australia's first census is held.
 1912 – The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.
 1917 – Woodrow Wilson asks US Congress for war with Germany.
 1921 - The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government covering present-day Iran, is created.
 1930 - Haile Selassie becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
 1932 – Charles Lindbergh paid a $50,000 ransom for the return of his kidnapped son.
 1943 – Off Bermuda, the British ship Melbourne Star is torpedoed by the German U-boat U 129. It explodes and sinks within two minutes, killing 114 people.
 1945 – The Soviet Union and Brazil establish diplomatic relations.
 1962 - In road use, the first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station in London.
 1972 – Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled as a Communist during the Red Scare of the 1950s.
1974 - The Westfalenstadion stadium in Dortmund is opened. It is currently the home of the Borussia Dortmund football team, and hosts international matches. 
 1975 - Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese forces.
 1975 – The CN Tower in Toronto is completed.
 1978 – The television show Dallas is shown for the first time.
 1982 – The Falklands War begins, as Argentine forces invade.
 1984 – Rakesh Sharma becomes the first Indian in space on board the Soyuz T-11.
 1989 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, for talks with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.
 1991 – The eruption of the Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines begins.
 1991 - Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province, in British Columbia.
 1992 – Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering.
From 2001 
 2004 – Spanish police prevent an attempt by Islamist terrorists to blow up a high speed train near Madrid.
 2005 – Pope John Paul II dies at the age of 84 years, after more than 26 years as Pope.
 2006 – 60 tornadoes break out in the United States. Tennessee is the worst affected with 29 people killed.
 2007 – A magnitude 8.1 earthquake hits the Solomon Islands, with resulting tsunamis destroying villages, killing 52 people, and making 5,000 homeless.
 2011 - India wins the Cricket World Cup for the second time.
 2012 – President of Hungary Pal Schmitt resigns after losing his doctorate in a Plagiarism scandal.
 2013 - Major flooding affects Buenos Aires and La Plata in Argentina, killing 62 people.
 2015 - A trawler sinks in the Sea of Okhotsk, west of Russia's far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, killing at least 50 sailors on board.
 2015 - Al-Shabaab militants attack a university in Garissa, Kenya, killing 147 people.
2019 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigns as President of Algeria with immediate effect, ending his almost-20-year Presidency, after several weeks of protests.
 2019 - Lori Lightfoot is elected Mayor of Chicago, making her the first African American Lesbian woman chosen to govern a major city in the United States.
Up to 1900 
 742 – Charlemagne (d. 814)
 1527 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish mapmaker (d. 1598)
 1545 – Elisabeth of Valois, French princess and Queen of Spain (d. 1568)
 1565 - Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (d. 1599)
 1614 – Jahanara Begum Sahib, Imperial princess and daughter of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal (d. 1681)
 1618 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663)
 1647 - Maria Sibylla Merian, German botanist (d. 1717)
 1653 – Prince George of Denmark (d. 1708)
 1719 - Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (d. 1803)
 1725 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian writer (d. 1798)
 1745 - Richard Bassett, Governor of Delaware (d. 1815)
 1788 - Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (d. 1862)
 1788 - Wilhelmine Reichard, first female German balloonist (d. 1848)
 1791 - David Henshaw, 14th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1852)
 1792 - Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian general and politician (d. 1840)
 1798 – Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (d. 1874)
1805 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer and poet (d. 1875)
 1814 - Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor (d. 1879)
 1826 - George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (d. 1914)
 1827 - William Holman Hunt, English painter (d. 1910)
 1838 – Léon Gambetta, French statesman (d. 1882)
 1840 – Émile Zola, French writer (d. 1902)
 1841 - Clement Ader, French aviation pioneer (d. 1926)
 1852 - Frederick B. Fancher, Governor of North Dakota (d. 1944)
 1862 – Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher, diplomat and educator (d. 1947)
 1863 - William Adamson, Scottish trade union leader and politician (d. 1936)
 1867 - Eugen Sandow, German bodybuilder and circus performer (d. 1925)
 1869 - Hughie Jennings, American baseball player (d. 1928)
 1875 – Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (d. 1940)
 1891 – Max Ernst, German painter (d. 1976)
 1891 - Jack Buchanan, Scottish actor, singer, director and producer (d. 1957)
 1898 - Harindranath Chatoopadhyay, Indian poet, actor and politician (d. 1990)
1899 - Heinrich Rau, German politician (d. 1961)
 1900 - Robert Arlt, Argentine writer (d. 1942)
1901  1950 
 1906 - Dan K. Moore, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1986)
 1907 - Luke Appling, American baseball player (d. 1991)
 1912 – Herbert Mills, American singer (d. 1989)
 1914 – Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000)
 1916 - Oleg Lundstrem, Russian jazz composer and conductor (d. 2005)
 1917 - Dabbs Greer, American actor (d. 2007)
 1919 - Delfo Cabrera, Argentine long-distance runner (d. 1981)
 1920 – Jack Webb, American actor, director and producer (d. 1982)
 1922 - John C. Whitehead, American banker and politician (d. 2015)
 1923 - Gloria Henry, American actress
 1923 - G. Spencer-Brown, English polymath (d. 2016)
 1925 – George MacDonald Fraser, British writer (d. 2008)
 1925 - Hans Rosenthal, German radio and television presenter (d. 1987)
 1926 - Jack Brabham, Australian racing driver (d. 2014)
 1927 – Carmen Basilio, American boxer (d. 2012)
 1927 – Ferenc Puskas, Hungarian footballer (d. 2006)
 1927 - Rembert Weakland, former Archbishop of Milwaukee
1927 - Howard H. Callaway, American politician (d. 2014)
 1927 - Ken Sansom, American actor (d. 2012)
 1927 - Billy Pierce, American baseball player (d. 2015)
 1927 - Rita Gam, American actress (d. 2016)
 1928 - Joseph Bernardin, American cardinal (d. 1996)
 1928 - Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Senegalese writer
 1928 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer, songwriter, actor and director (d. 1991)
 1929 - Hans Koschnick, German politician (d. 2016)
 1932 – Edward Egan, American Roman Catholic cardinal and former Archbishop of New York City (d. 2015)
 1933 - György Konrád, Hungarian writer (d. 2019)
 1934 - Richard Portman, American sound engineer (d. 2017)
 1934 - Carl Kasell, American radio journalist and quiz show judge (d. 2018)
 1936 - Shaul Ladany, Israeli Olympic race walker
 1936 - Cynthia Lynn, American actress (d. 2014)
 1938 - John Larsson, Swedish 17th General of the Salvation Army
 1938 - Booker Little, American trumpeter and composer (d. 1961)
 1939 – Marvin Gaye, American singer (d. 1984)
1939 - Lise Thibault, Quebec politician
 1940 – Penelope Keith, British actress
 1940 - Donald Jackson, Canadian figure skater
 1940 - Mike Hailwood, English motorcycle racer and racing driver (d. 1981)
 1941 – Dr. Demento, American radio presenter
 1942 – Leon Russell, American pianist and conductor (d. 2016)
 1942 - Roshan Seth, Indian-English actor
 1943 - Tom Polanic, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019)
 1944 - Francisco Massiani, Venezuelan writer and painter (d. 2019)
 1945 - Don Sutton, American baseball player
 1945 - Linda Hunt, American actress
 1946 - Sue Townsend, English novelist (d. 2014)
 1946 - Kurt Winter, Canadian guitarist (d. 1997)
 1947 - Emmylou Harris, American singer
 1947 - Camille Paglia, American author
 1947 - Tua Forsström, Finnish writer
 1947 - Paquita la del Barrio, Mexican singer
 1948 - Bob Lienhard, American basketball player (d. 2018)
 1949 - Paul Gambaccini, American-British radio and television presenter
1951  1975 
 1952 – Leon Wilkeson, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2001)
 1953 - Krzysztof Krauze, Polish movie director, cinematographer and actor (d. 2014)
 1954 - Gregory Abbott, American singer-songwriter and producer
 1954 - Donald Petrie, American director
 1957 - Barbara Jordan, American tennis player
 1959 - David Frankel, American director, screenwriter and producer
 1959 - Badou Ezzaki, Moroccan footballer and coach
 1959 – Juha Kankkunen, Finnish rally driver
 1960 – Linford Christie, British athlete
 1961 – Christopher Meloni, American actor
 1961 – Keren Woodward, British singer (Bananarama)
 1962 - Pierre Carles, French director and producer
 1962 - Clark Gregg, American actor, director and screenwriter
 1963 - Shane Barbi and Sia Barbi, American models, writers and animal rights activists
 1963 - Mike Gascoyne, British engineer
 1965 – Rodney King, American victim of police brutality (d. 2012)
 1965 - David Gamkrelidze, Georgian politician
 1966 – Teddy Sheringham, English footballer
1967 - Greg Camp, American musician
 1967 - Renée Estevez, American actress
 1969 - Ajay Devgan, Indian actor, director and producer
 1971 - Todd Woodbridge, Australian tennis player
 1971 – Edmundo, Brazilian footballer
 1971 – Zeebra, Japanese rapper
 1973 – Tine Wittler, German actress and writer
 1975 – Adam Rodriguez, American actor
From 1976 
 1977 – Michael Fassbender, German-Irish actor
 1977 - Annett Louisan, German singer
 1977 - Aiden Turner, British actor
 1977 - Nicki Pedersen, Danish speedway rider
 1978 - Grisella Siciliani, Argentine actress and singer
 1979 - Lindy Booth, Canadian actress
 1979 – Jesse Carmichael, American musician (Maroon 5)
 1980 – Carlos Salcido, Mexican footballer
 1980 – Adam Fleming, Scottish journalist
 1981 – Michael Clarke, Australian cricketer
 1981 - Kapil Sharma, Indian comedian
 1981 - Bethany Joy Lenz, American actress, singer and filmmaker
 1982 – Marco Amelia, Italian footballer
 1982 – David Ferrer, Spanish tennis player
 1982 - Jack Evans, American professional wrestler
 1983 - Felix Borja, Ecuadorean footballer
 1983 - Arthur Boka, Ivory Coast footballer
 1983 - Laura Carmine Puerto, Puerto Rican-Mexican actress
 1983 – Paul Capdeville, Chilean tennis player
 1984 - Meryl Cassie, South African-New Zealand actress
 1985 - Gordon Aikman, Scottish ALS campaigner (d. 2017)
1985 - Thom Evans, Scottish rugby player
 1985 – Stéphane Lambiel, Swiss figure skater
 1986 – Ibrahim Afellay, Dutch footballer
 1986 – Lee DeWyze, American singer
 1986 - Drew Van Acker, American actor
 1986 - R3hab, Dutch DJ and record producer
 1987 - Molly Smitten-Downes, English singer
 1987 - Dalma Maradona, Argentine actress
 1988 - Francesca Catalano, American actress
 1990 - Yevgeniya Kanayeva, Russian gymnast
 1990 - Miralem Pjanic, footballer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
 1993 - Aaron Kelly, American singer
 1993 - Bruno Zuculini, Argentine footballer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 1118 – Baldwin I of Jerusalem (b. 1058)
 1305 - Joan I of Navarre (b. 1273)
 1506 – Prince Arthur Tudor of England (b. 1486)
 1507 - Francis of Paola, Italian friar and saint (b. 1416)
 1640 - Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Polish writer and poet (b. 1595)
 1657 – Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1608)
 1709 - Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Italian painter (b. 1639)
 1720 - Joseph Dudley, English Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1647)
 1742 - James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (b. 1675)
 1791 - Henri Gabriel Riqueti, French statesman (b. 1749)
 1803 – Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet, Scottish politician and judge (b. 1721)
 1817 – Johann Heinrich Jung, German writer (b. 1740)
 1827 – Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and naturalist (b. 1776)
 1872 – Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor (b. 1791)
 1894 - Achille Vianelli, Italian painter (b. 1803)
1901  2000 
 1914 – Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, German writer (b. 1830)
 1922 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist (b. 1884)
 1928 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist (b. 1868)
 1930 – Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
 1933 - Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (b. 1872)
 1948 - Sabahattin Ali, Turkish novelist, writer, poet and journalist (b. 1907)
 1951 – Simon Barere, Russian pianist (b. 1896)
 1958 – Tudor Davies, Welsh operatic tenor (b. 1892)
 1972 - Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
 1972 – Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese martial arts grandmaster (b. 1887)
 1974 – Georges Pompidou, President of France (b. 1911)
 1987 – Buddy Rich, American jazz drummer and bandleader (b. 1917)
 1992 – Juan Gomez Gonzalez, Spanish footballer (b. 1954)
 1994 – Betty Furness, American actress (b. 1916)
 1995 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist (b. 1908)
 1998 – Rob Pilatus, American model, dancer and singer (b. 1965)
From 2001 
 2001 – Jennifer Syme, American actress (b. 1972)
 2005 – Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
 2006 – Nina von Stauffenberg, widow of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (b. 1914)
 2007 – Paul Reed, American actor (b. 1909)
 2012 - Elizabeth Catlett, American-Mexican artist and sculptor (b. 1915)
 2013 - Jesus Franco, Spanish movie director, writer, cinematographer and actor (b. 1930)
 2013 - Jane Henson, American puppeteer and voice actress (b. 1934)
 2013 - Milo O'Shea, Irish-American actor (b. 1926)
 2013 - Maria Redaelli, Italian supercentenarian (b. 1899)
 2014 - Urs Widmer, Swiss writer (b. 1938)
 2014 - Carl Epting Mundy, Jr., American military officer (b. 1935)
 2014 - Richard Brick, American movie producer (b. 1945)
 2014 - Glyn Jones, South African actor, writer and director (b. 1931)
 2014 - Lucy Hood, American television executive (b. 1958)
 2014 - Consuelo Moure, Colombian actress (b. 1947)
 2014 - Joseph Willaert, Belgian painter (b. 1936)
2015 - Luis Delgado Aparicio, Peruvian politician (b. 1940)
 2015 - Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese movie director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
 2015 - Rudolph R. Perz, American advertising executive (b. 1925)
 2015 - Olga Sawicka, Polish dancer and choreographer (b. 1932)
 2015 - Robert H. Schuller, American televangelist (b. 1926)
 2015 - Steve Stevaert, Belgian politician (b. 1954)
 2015 - Doug Sax, American audio engineer (b. 1936)
 2015 - Abdelhadi Tazi, Moroccan scholar and diplomat (b. 1921)
 2016 - Gato Barbieri, Argentine musician and bandleader (b. 1932)
 2016 - Gallieno Ferri, Italian comic book artist (b. 1929)
 2016 - Boris Hybner, Czech actor and mime artist (b. 1941)
 2016 - Amber Rayne, American pornographic actress (b. 1984)
 2017 - Kenneth J. Donnelly, American politician (b. 1950)
 2017 - Leonard Litwin, American real estate developer (b. 1914)
 2018 - Susan Anspach, American actress (b. 1942)
 2018 - Morris Halle, Latvian-American linguist (b. 1923)
2018 - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African activist (b. 1936)
 2019 - Jamshid Mashayekhi, Iranian actor (b. 1934)
 2019 - J. Mahendran, Indian film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1939)
 2019 - Don Williamson, American businessman and politician (b. 1934)
Observances 
 International Children's Book Day - Birthday of Hans Christian Andersen
 Thai Heritage Conservation Day
 World Autism Awareness Day
 Malvinas Day (Argentina)

April 02
Up to 1900 
 1066 – Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman invasion forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
 1322 - Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
 1582 – Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
 1586 - Mary, Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England.
 1651 – Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding poor people from adopting excessive styles of dress.
 1656 – Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against Quakers. The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the ritual-free Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
 1773 – The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in Poland.
1773 – American Revolutionary War: Britain's East India Company tea ships' cargo is burned at Annapolis, Maryland.
 1806 – Battle of Jena-Auerstädt.
 1808 - The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
 1812 – A digest of Pennsylvania laws could not bring itself to print the word "buggery," instead printing it as "B_GG__Y."
 1812 – Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.
 1813 - Bavaria declares war on France.
 1834 – In Philadelphia, Whigs and Democrats stage a gun, stone and brick battle for control of a Moyamensing Township election, resulting in one death, several injuries, and the burning down of a block of buildings.
 1835 – John Templeton, John Moore, Stanley Cuthbart and Ellen Ritchie were charged in Wheeling, Virginia with illegally teaching blacks to read.
 1840 – Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.
 1843 - The British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy to commit crimes.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Bristol Station – Confederate General Robert E. Lee forces fail to drive the Union Army out of Virginia.
 1865 – Cheyennes and Arapahos signed a treaty with the U.S. at a camp on the Little Arkansas River in Kansas. However, none of the parties to the treaty abided by it.
 1878 - The first football match under flood lights is played in Sheffield, England.
 1881 – 189 fisherman are killed in a storm off Eyemouth, Scotland.
 1882 - The University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that is now part of Pakistan.
 1888 - French inventor Louis Le Prince films the "Roundhay Garden Scene", the earliest-surviving motion picture in Roundhay, Leeds, England.
1901  1950 
 1910 - The English aviator Claude Graham-White lands his Farman biplane on the Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, DC.
 1912 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former US President Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper William Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech.
 1913 - The Senghennydd Colliery disaster kills 439 people in South Wales. It is the UK's worst mining disaster. 
 1913 – The New Mexico Supreme Court upholds a sodomy conviction. Ex Parte DeVore, 136 P. 47.
 1915 - World War I: The Kingdom of Bulgaria joins with the Central Powers.
 1916 – Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee Universities refuse to play against a black person.
 1920 - Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
 1925 - Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria.
1926 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
 1927 – The California Court of Appeals, in upholding a sodomy conviction, rules that corroborative evidence could be circumstantial in nature.
 1933 - Nazi Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
 1939 – World War II: The German U-boat U 47 sinks the battleship HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow, Orkney.
 1940 - The Balham Underground Station Disaster occurs in London during the Luftwaffe raids on the city.
 1942 - Canadian passenger ferry Caribou is torpedoed off Newfoundland by German U-boat U-69.
 1943 - José P. Laurel becomes President of the Philippines.
 1944 – World War II: Given the choice between a public treason trial and a certain death by firing squad or suicide with honor, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel chooses the latter.
 1947 – Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
1949 – Eleven leaders of the U.S. Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Ten defendants are sentenced to 5 years in prison each, and the eleventh to 3 years. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions on June 4, 1951.
1951  2000 
 1952 - Korean War: UN and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds in the Iron Triangle, resulting in the deadliest battle of 1952.
 1953 – The Qibya massacre was carried out by Israeli troops in a West Bank village.
 1955 - Jim Henson creates Kermit the Frog.
 1955 - Vienna's Burgtheater theatre re-opens, after World War II.
 1957 - Elizabeth II opens an annual session of Canada's parliament.
 1958 – The Anshai Emath Reform Jewish Temple in Peoria, Illinois was damaged by a crude bomb.
 1958 – The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
 1958 – The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.
 1960 – U.S. presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggests the idea for the Peace Corps.
 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.
1964 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes general secretary of the CPSU and leader of the Soviet Union, ousting Nikita Khrushchev.
 1964 – American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
 1966 – The city of Montreal inaugurates its metro system (see Montreal Metro).
 1967 – Vietnam War: Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California.
 1968 – Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio in San Francisco for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War. Charged with mutiny, their long prison sentences are later reduced to two years.
 1968 – Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the United States Army and United States Marines will be sending about 24,000 troops back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours.
 1969 - Olof Palme becomes Prime Minister of Sweden.
 1969 - The United Kingdom introduces the 50 pence coin.
1970 – The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
 1971 – Two people are killed in a Memphis, Tennessee race riot.
 1971 – The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
 1973 - In the Thammasat Student Uprising over 100,000 people in Thailand protest against the Thanom Kittikachorn military government. 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
 1979 – The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C. demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people," drawing 200,000 people.
 1981 – Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
 1981 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
 1982 - Ronald Reagan declares War on Drugs.
1983 - Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and later executed in a military coup d'état.
 1985 – U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese says in U.S. News & World Report, "If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect."
 1987 – 18-month-old Jessica McClure ("Baby Jessica") falls down an abandoned well in Midland, Texas (her nationally televised rescue takes 58 hours).
 1991 – Aung San Suu Kyi wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
 1994 – Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat win the Nobel Peace Prize.
 1998 – Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
 1999 – The South Carolina Supreme Court rules that the video poker machines in the state must be unplugged by June 30, 2000.
From 2001 
 2001 – Delta Flight 458 from Atlanta to Newark, New Jersey, is diverted to Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, and passengers are taken off the flight while officials investigate a report of two "Middle Eastern men" making threats in a foreign tongue. It turned out to be two Orthodox Jews who were praying peacefully.
 2003 – Gyude Bryant becomes interim President of Liberia.
 2006 - The UN imposes sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear weapons test on October 9.
 2010 - Mark Rutte becomes Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
 2010 - The 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi end.
 2012 - Felix Baumgartner becomes the first person to free-fall faster than the speed of sound, as he jumps from the stratosphere over Roswell, New Mexico.
 2017 - A bomb attack in Somalia's capital Mogadishu kills over 350 people.
 2017 - The first commercial flight lands on the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena, coming from Johannesburg (South Africa) via Windhoek (Namibia).
2019 - Esther Duflo becomes the youngest and second female winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, sharing it with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer.
 2019 - In Spain, long jail sentences are given to several politicians from Catalonia for their part in planning the Catalan independence referendum, 2017.
 2019 - 2019 Chilean protests: Major protests begin in Chile over fuel and transport prices and inequality.
Up to 1900 
 1254 – King Przemysl II of Poland (d. 1296)
 1404 – Marie of Anjou, Queen of France (d. 1463)
 1465 - Konrad Peutinger, German jurist and humanist (d. 1547)
 1493 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimyo (d. 1568)
 1542 – Akbar the Great, Mughal Emperor (d. 1605)
 1630 – Sophia of Hanover, heir to the British throne (d. 1714)
 1633 – King James II of England/James VII of Scotland (d. 1701)
 1634 – Emperor Bahadur Shah I of India (d. 1712)
 1641 - Joachim Tielke, German instrument maker (d. 1719)
 1644 – William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
 1712 – George Grenville, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1770)
 1784 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833)
 1790 - Thursday October Christian I, son of Fletcher Christian (d. 1831)
 1801 – Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and photo pioneer (d. 1883)
 1801 - Armand Trousseau, French economist (d. 1867)
 1806 - Preston King, American politician (d. 1865)
 1824 - Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, French painter (d. 1886)
1840 - Dmitry Pisarev, Russian writer (d. 1868)
 1844 - John See, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1907)
 1853 - Ciprian Porumbescu, Ukrainian-Romanian composer (d. 1883)
 1856 - Louis Gustave Binger, French explorer (d. 1936)
 1859 - Camille Chevillard, French composer and conductor (d. 1923)
 1872 - Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (d. 1910)
 1873 - Ray Ewry, American jumper (d. 1937)
 1873 – Jules Rimet, French football administrator (d. 1954)
 1879 - Miles Franklin, Australian writer (d. 1954)
 1882 – Eamon de Valera, Irish statesman, President of Ireland (d. 1975)
 1887 - Carlo Grano, Italian cardinal (d. 1976)
 1888 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (d. 1923)
 1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (d. 1969)
 1890 - Louis Delluc, French director, screenwriter and writer (d. 1924)
 1892 – Andrey Yeryomenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1970)
 1893 - Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993)
1894 – Heinrich Lübke, second President of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1972)
 1894 – E. E. Cummings, American writer and poet (d. 1962)
 1900 - W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, educator and writer (d. 1993)
1901  1950 
 1902 - Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (d. 1963)
 1904 - Christian Pineau, French politician (d. 1995)
 1905 - Benny Yorston, Scottish footballer (d. 1977)
 1906 – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (d. 1975)
 1906 – Imam Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian religious figure (d. 1949)
 1908 - Ruth Hale, American actress and playwright (d. 2003)
 1909 - Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996)
 1909 - Bernd Rosemeyer, German racing driver (d. 1938)
 1910 – John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
 1911 – Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese politician (d. 1990)
 1914 – Raymond Davis, Jr., American physicist (d. 2006)
 1915 - Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian archbishop (d. 2016)
 1916 - C. Everett Koop, American politician and spokesperson (d. 2013)
 1918 - Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player (d. 2015)
 1923 - Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett, English politician (d. 2014)
 1924 - Robert Webber, American actor (d. 1989)
1927 – Roger Moore, English actor (d. 2017)
 1929 - Norbert Gastell, Argentine-German actor (d. 2015)
 1930 - Robert Parker, American singer and saxophonist
 1930 - Alan Williams, Welsh politician (d. 2014)
 1930 – Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (d. 1997)
 1931 - Nikhil Banerjee, Indian sitarist and composer (d. 1986)
 1932 - Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor (d. 2005)
 1932 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (d. 2005)
 1936 - Hans Kraay Sr., Dutch footballer (d. 2017)
 1936 - Jürg Schubiger, Swiss psychotherapist and writer (d. 2014)
 1938 - Farah Pahlavi, Empress of Iran
 1939 - Litokwa Tomeing, former President of the Marshall Islands
 1939 - Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer
 1940 – Cliff Richard, English singer
 1940 - Christopher Timothy, Welsh actor, director and screenwriter
 1941 - Jerry Glanville, American football player and coach
 1945 - Colin Hodgkinson, English bass player
 1945 - Lesley Joseph, English actress
 1946 – Dan McCafferty, Scottish musician
1946 - Craig Venter, American biologist
 1946 - François Bozizé, former President of the Central African Republic
 1949 - Katy Manning, English-Australian actress
 1949 - Dave Schultz, Canadian ice hockey player and referee
 1950 - Joey Travolta, American actor, director and producer
1951  1975 
 1952 - Harry Anderson, American actor and screenwriter
 1952 – Nikolai Andrianov, Russian gymnast (d. 2011)
 1953 – Aldo Maldera, Italian footballer (d. 2012)
 1953 - Shelley Ackermann, American astrologer, actress and singer
 1953 - Greg Evigan, American actor
 1954 - Carole Malone, English journalist
 1954 - Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician
 1955 - Arleen Sorkin, American actress, screenwriter, presenter and comedian
 1956 - Beth Daniel, American golfer
 1958 – Thomas Dolby, English musician
 1960 – Steve Cram, English athlete
 1962 - Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player
 1962 - Chris Thomas King, American blues musician and actor
 1963 - Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer
 1963 - Lori Petty, American actress, director and screenwriter
 1963 - Alessandro Safina, Italian tenor
 1965 – Steve Coogan, English actor and comedian
 1965 - Alexei Devotchenko, Russian actor and activist (d. 2014)
 1967 - Pat Kelly, American baseball player, coach and manager
1967 - Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
 1968 – Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer
 1971 – Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer
 1971 - Jyrki Katainen, former Prime Minister of Finland
 1972 - Nyomi Banxxx, American radio personality and pornographic actress
 1974 – Natalie Maines, American musician (Dixie Chicks)
 1975 – Floyd Landis, American cyclist
 1975 – Shaznay Lewis, English singer
From 1976 
 1977 - Bianca Beauchamp, American model
 1978 – Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006)
 1978 – Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer
 1978 – Usher, American actor, singer and rapper
 1979 - Stacy Keibler, American wrestler and actress
 1979 - Rodrigo Tello, Chilean footballer
 1980 – Ben Whishaw, English actor
 1983 – Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
 1983 – Betty Heidler, German athlete
 1984 – Kevin Thomson, Scottish footballer
 1984 - Karen Bardsley, American-English footballer
 1984 - Alex Scott, English footballer
 1986 - Tom Craddock, English footballer
 1986 - Skyler Shaye, American actress
 1987 - Jay Pharaoh, American comedian and actor
 1988 - Glenn Maxwell, Australian cricketer
 1988 - Mario Titone, Italian footballer
 1988 - Max Thieriot, American actor
 1988 - Yusef Ali, Qatari footballer
 1989 - Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress
 1991 - Shona McGarty, English actress
 1991 - Andrea Duro, Spanish actress
 1992 - Ahmed Musa, Nigerian footballer
1992 - Savannah Outen, American singer-songwriter
 1992 - Khagendra Thapa Magar, Nepalese world's smallest man
 1999 - Daniel Roche, English actor
 2001 - Rowan Blanchard, American actress
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 222 - Pope Callixtus I
 1066 – Harold Godwinson, English king (b. 1022)
 1092 - Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and politician (b. 1018)
 1217 – Isabel, Countess of Gloucester (b. 1173)
 1318 - Edward Bruce, Irish king (b. 1280)
 1552 - Oswald Myconius, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1488)
 1565 - Thomas Chaloner, English poet and politician (b. 1521)
 1610 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (b. 1540)
 1619 - Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian (b. 1562)
 1637 - Gabriella Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)
 1669 - Antonio Cesti, Italian organist and composer (b. 1623)
 1703 - Thomas Kingo, Danish bishop and poet (b. 1634)
 1711 - Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1708)
 1758 - James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish-Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
 1758 - Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (b. 1709)
 1792 – Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (b. 1714)
 1831 - Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (b. 1761)
 1880 - Victorio, Mexican tribal chief (b. 1825)
1901  2000 
 1911 - John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1833)
 1923 - Marcellus Emants, Dutch-Swiss writer, poet and playwright (b. 1848)
 1929 - Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (b. 1844)
 1944 – Erwin Rommel, German military figure (b. 1891)
 1950 - Antonio Maria da Silva, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1872)
 1953 - Emile Sarrade, French rugby player and tug-of-war competitor (b. 1877)
 1958 – Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (b. 1881)
 1959 – Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)
 1961 - Paul Ramadier, 129th Prime Minister of France (b. 1888)
 1961 - Harriet Shaw Weaver, English journalist and activist (b. 1876)
 1965 - William Hogenson, American sprinter (b. 1884)
 1969 - Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1914)
 1977 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1903)
 1984 – Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer (b. 1918)
 1986 - Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)
 1989 - Michael Carmine, American actor and singer (b. 1959)
1990 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer (b. 1918)
 1992 - Willie Waddell, Scottish footballer (b. 1921)
 1997 – Harold Robbins, American writer (b. 1916)
 1998 - Frankie Yankovic, American polka musician (b. 1915)
 1999 – Julius Nyerere, 1st President of Tanzania (b. 1922)
From 2001 
 2001 – David Lewis, American philosopher (b. 1941)
 2002 - Norbert Schultze, German composer (b. 1911)
 2003 – Moktar Ould Daddah, first President of Mauritania (b. 1924)
 2004 - Juan Francisco Fresno, Chilean archbishop and cardinal (b. 1872)
 2007 – Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)
 2007 - Big Moe, American rapper (b. 1974)
 2007 - Raymond Pellegrin, French actor (b. 1925)
 2009 – Lou Albano, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
 2010 – Benoit Mandelbrot, French-American mathematician (b. 1924)
 2010 – Simon MacCorkindale, English actor (b. 1952)
 2010 – Hermann Scheer, German politician (b. 1944)
 2012 - Arlen Specter, American politician (b. 1930)
 2013 - Bruno Metsu, French footballer and coach (b. 1954)
 2014 - Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, American keyboardist (b. 1975)
 2014 - Elizabeth Peña, American actress (b. 1959)
 2015 - Nurlan Balgimbayev, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (b. 1948)
 2015 - Mathieu Kérékou, President of Benin (b. 1933)