Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1901  1925 
 1903  Roy Acuff, American Country musician (d. 1992)
 1903  Yisrael Kristal, Polish-born Israeli supercentenarian and Holocaust survivor (d. 2017)
 1904  King Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)
 1905  Pat O'Callaghan, Irish hammer thrower (d. 1991)
 1907  Alfred Delp, German Jesuit and Resistance activist (d. 1945)
 1907  Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (d. 2004)
 1908  Misko Kranjec, Slovenian writer (d. 1983)
 1909  C. N. Annadurai, Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1969)
 1911  Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American golf entrepreneur (d. 2000)
 1911  Luther Terry, 9th Surgeon General of the United States (d. 1985)
 1913  John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (d. 1988)
 1913  Johannes Steinhoff, German military officer (d. 1994)
 1914  Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
 1914  Jens Otto Krag, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1978)
 1915  Helmut Schön, German footballer and manager (d. 1996)
 1916  Margaret Lockwood, English actress (d. 1990)
1918  Margot Loyola, Chilean musician and singer (d. 2015)
 1919  Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
 1919  Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (d. 1960)
 1922  Jackie Cooper, American actor (d. 2011)
 1922  Bob Anderson, British fencer and sword fight choreographer (d. 2012)
 1922  Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, daughter of Winston Churchill (d. 2014)
 1924  György Lázár, 50th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2014)
 1925  Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (d. 2012)
 1925  Helle Virkner, Danish actress (d. 2009)
1926  1950 
 1926  Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
 1926  Shohei Imamura, Japanese movie director (d. 2006)
 1926  Ed Derwinski, American politician (d. 2012)
 1927  Val Holten, Australian cricketer (d. 2015)
 1927  Norm Crosby, American comedian and actor
 1928  Cannonball Adderley, American jazz musician (d. 1975)
 1929  Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist (d. 2019)
 1929  Mümtaz Soysal, Turkish politician and lawyer (d. 2019)
 1929  Eva Burrows, 13th General of the Salvation Army (d. 2015)
 1930  Merab Mamardashvili, Georgian philosopher (d. 1990)
 1933  Henry Darrow, American actor
 1933  Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 2014)
 1935  Patriarch Dinkha IV of the Assyrian Church of the East (d. 2015)
 1936  Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player
 1937  Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist
 1937  Fernando de la Rúa, former President of Argentina (d. 2019)
 1938  Gaylord Perry, American baseball player
 1940  Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor (d. 2010)
1941  Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer (d. 2011)
 1941  Signe Toly Anderson, American singer (d. 2016)
 1941  Yuriy Norshteyn, Russian animator, director and screenwriter
 1941  Viktor Zubkov, former Prime Minister of Russia
 1941  Miroslaw Hermaszewski, Polish cosmonaut
 1942  Wen Jiabao, former Premier of the People's Republic of China
 1942  Emmerson Mnangagwa, 3rd President of Zimbabwe
 1942  Lee Dorman, American bass player (d. 2012)
 1944  Graham Taylor, English footballer and manager (d. 2017)
 1944  Mauro Piacenza, Italian cardinal
 1945  Hans-Gert Pöttering, German politician
 1945  Carmen Maura, Spanish actress
 1945  Jessye Norman, American singer (d. 2019)
 1945  Ron Shelton, American screenwriter, director and movie producer
 1945  Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince
 1946  Ola Brunkert, Swedish musician (d. 2008)
 1946  Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
 1946  Oliver Stone, American movie director
 1946  Mike Procter, South African cricketer, coach and referee
1947  Viggo Jensen, Danish footballer and manager
 1949  Joe Barton, American politician
 1950  Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Islamic spiritual leader
1951  1975 
 1951  Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer
 1952  Richard Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player
 1954  Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (d. 2007)
 1954  Nava Semel, Israeli author and playwright (d. 2017)
 1955  Bruce Reitherman, American movie maker
 1955  Abdul Qadir, Pakistani cricketer (d. 2019)
 1955  Renzo Rosso, Italian fashion designer
 1955  Brendan O'Carroll, Irish actor
 1956  Maggie Reilly, Scottish singer
 1958  Dr. Know, American guitarist
 1959  Mark Kirk, American politician
 1960  Katsuyoshi Shinto, Japanese footballer
 1961  Dan Marino, American football player
 1961  Colin McFarlane, English voice actor
 1962  Rebecca Miller, American actress, director and writer
 1964  Robert Fico, former Prime Minister of Slovakia
 1966  Sherman Douglas, American basketball player
 1967  Huw Bunford, Welsh guitarist and songwriter (Super Furry Animals)
 1969  Revaz Arveladze, Georgian footballer
 1970  Svetlana Zakharova, Russian long-distance runner
1971  Josh Charles, American actor
 1972  Jimmy Carr, British comedian
 1972  Queen Letizia of Spain
 1973  Daniel Westling, Swedish royal
 1973  Julie Cox, British actress
 1973  Alyn Smith, Scottish politician
 1974  Murat Yakin, Swiss footballer
From 1976 
 1976  Paul Thomson, Scottish musician
 1977  Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
 1977  Sophie Dahl, British model
 1977  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian writer
 1977  Tom Hardy, English actor, screenwriter and producer
 1977  René Haselbacher, Austrian cyclist
 1977  Jason Terry, American basketball player
 1978  Eidur Gudjohnsen, Icelandic footballer
 1978  Kew Jaliens, Dutch footballer
 1979  Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player
 1979  Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan footballer
 1979  Amy Davidson, American actress
 1980  Mike Dunleavy, Jr., American basketball player
 1980  Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese singer
 1981  Miyavi, Japanese composer, singer and guitarist
 1983  Ashleigh McIvor, Canadian freestyle skier
 1983  Tomas Sivok, Czech footballer
 1983  Santeri Palin, Finnish writer
 1984  Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, British royal
 1986  Heidi Montag, American television personality and singer
 1986  Anan Anwar, Thai singer and actor
1986  Peter Wilson, English sport shooter and Olympic gold medalist
 1986  Poppy Delevingne, English model
 1987  Clare Maguire, English singer-songwriter
 1988  Chelsea Kane, American actress and singer
 1988  Kate Mansi, American actress
 1990  Gwyneth Keyworth, Welsh actress
 1996  Jake Cherry, American actor
 1996  Nao Furuhata, Japanese idol and singer
 1999  Nana Owada, Japanese idol singer and actress
Up to 1900 
 668  Constans II, Emperor (b. 630)
 921  Saint Ludmila of Bohemia, Bohemian martyr (b. 860)
 1134  Alfonso the Battler, King of Aragon and Navarra (b. 1073)
 1231  Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1173)
 1326  Dmitry of Tver (b. 1299)
 1352  Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
 1750  Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)
 1794  Abraham Clark, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
 1803  Gian Francesco Albani, Italian cardinal (b. 1719)
 1805  Christopher Gadsden, American soldier and statesman (b. 1724)
 1830  William Huskisson, English politician, first rail fatality (b. 1770)
 1835  Sarah Knox Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis (b. 1814)
 1841  Alessandro Rolla, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1757)
 1842  Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)
 1842  Francisco Morazan, President of Central America (b. 1792)
 1859  Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
 1864  John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)
1875  Duchenne de Boulogne, French psychologist (b. 1806)
 1883  Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (b. 1801)
 1885  Jumbo, African elephant (b. 1861)
 1891  John Steell, Scottish sculptor (b. 1804)
 1893  Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)
1901  2000 
 1926  Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer (b. 1846)
 1930  Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
 1938  Thomas Wolfe, American writer (b. 1900)
 1940  William B. Bankhead, American politician (b. 1874)
 1945  André Tardieu, French statesman (b. 1876)
 1945  Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1883)
 1972  Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
 1972  Asgeir Asgeirsson, second President of Iceland (b. 1894)
 1973  King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, King of Sweden (b. 1882)
 1973  Victor Jara, Chilean musician (b. 1932)
 1975  Pavel Sukhoi, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1895)
 1978  Willy Messerschmidt, German aircraft designer (b. 1898)
 1979  Tommy Leonetti, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1929)
 1981  Harold Bennett, English actor (b. 1899)
 1985  Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (b. 1910)
 1989  Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)
 1995  Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1921)
 1998  Luke Rasminsky, Canadian economist (b. 1908)
From 2001 
 2001  June Salter, Australian actress (b. 1932)
 2004  Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (b. 1948)
 2005  Sidney Luft, American director (b. 1915)
 2006  Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929)
 2007  Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (b. 1968)
 2008  Richard Wright, English musician (Pink Floyd) (b. 1943)
 2009  Timothy Bateson, English actor (b. 1926)
 2014  Post Bahadur Bogati, Nepalese politician (b. 1953)
 2014  Yitzhak Hofi, Israeli general (b. 1927)
 2014  Eugene I. Gordon, American physicist (b. 1930)
 2014  John Anderson, Jr., American politician, Governor of Kansas (b. 1917)
 2014  Jackie Cain, American jazz singer (b. 1928)
 2014  Jeremy Ball, Australian actor and politician (b. 1969)
 2015  Meir Pa'il, Israeli politician and military historian (b. 1926)
 2015  Bernard Van De Kerckhove, Belgian racing driver (b. 1941)
 2015  Mihai Volontir, Moldovan actor (b. 1934)
 2015  Harry J. Lipkin, Israeli nuclear physicist (b. 1921)
2017  María Cristina Arango Vega, First Lady of Colombia (b. 1928)
 2017  Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian (b. 1900)
 2017  Dwijen Sharma, Bangladeshi naturalist and science writer (b. 1929)
 2017  Harry Dean Stanton, American actor (b. 1926)
 2017  Albert Speer Jr., German architect (b. 1934)
 2018  Kirin Kiki, Japanese actress (b. 1943)
 2018  Dudley Sutton, English actor (b. 1933)
 2018  José Manuel de la Sota, Argentine politician (b. 1949)
 2018  Victor Veselago, Soviet-Russian physicist (b. 1929)
 2018  Fritz Wintersteller, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1927)
 2018  Zhu Xu, Chinese actor (b. 1930)
 2019  Chadlia Caid Essebsi, First Lady of Tunisia (b. 1936)
 2019  Lol Mahamat Choua, 4th President of Chad (b. 1939)
 2019  Roberto Leal, Portuguese-Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
 2019  Phyllis Newman, American actress and singer (b. 1933)
 2019  Ric Ocasek, American singer, songwriter and record producer (b. 1944)
 2019  Mike Stefanik, American racing driver (b. 1958)
Observances 
 Battle of Britain Day (United Kingdom)
 Grito de Dolores (Mexico)
 Independence Day (Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua)
 International Day of Democracy
 Engineers' Day (India)

Days of the year
Events

Up to 1900 
 307  Emperor Severus II is captured and imprisoned at Tres Tabernae.
 1400  Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales.
 1620  The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, England, for America.
 1701  James Francis Edward Stuart, referred to as the 'Old Pretender', becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of Scotland and England.
 1776  American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
 1779  American Revolutionary War: The French-American Siege of Savannah begins.
 1795  The first British occupation of the Cape Colony, South Africa, begins.
 1810  Grito de Dolores: Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
 1812  The Fire of Moscow begins. Three quarters of the city are destroyed.
 1859  David Livingstone reaches Lake Malawi.
 1893  Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
1901  2000 
 1902  Alagoas becomes a state of Brazil.
 1908  General Motors is founded.
 1918  On the British Monitor (a type of warship), a munitions explosion occurs while it is located in Dover Harbour, killing 77 people.
 1919  The American Legion is incorporated
 1920  Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City, killing 38 people and injuring over 400.
 1925  HC Rotterdam, the biggest field hockey team in the Netherlands, is founded.
 1928  The Okeechobee hurricane in Florida kills 2500 people.
 1939  The Japanese-Soviet border conflict is settled.
 1941  The Shah of Iran is forced to resign by the United Kingdom and Soviet Union.
 1943  World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy concludes.
 1945  Japanese forces in Hong Kong surrender.
 1947  Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and the Tone River in Japan, killing at least 1,930 people.
 1947  The United Kingdom formally ends its state of war with Austria.
1955  Juan Peron is removed from power in a coup in Argentina.
 1955  A Soviet Navy Zulu class submarine becomes the first submarine to launch a ballistic missile.
 1959  The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration in live television in New York City.
 1961  The remainder of Hurricane Debbie causes damage in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
 1963  Malaysia is formed by the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah), and Sarawak. Singapore withdraws a short time later.
 1966  The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York City.
 1970  King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule following the hijacking of four civilian airlineers by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
 1971  Typhoon Nancy makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
 1975  Papua New Guinea becomes independent from Australia.
 1975  Cape Verde, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe join the UN.
1976  Sharvash Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
 1978  An earthquake with a magnitude of over 7.5 hits Tabas in Iran, killing at least 25,000 people.
 1980  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the UN.
 1982  Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon.
 1983  Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen.
 1987  The Monntreal Protocol for preservation of ozone layer against ozone depletion enters into force.
 1990  The railroad connecting China and Kazakhstan is completed.
 1991  The trial of the deposed Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.
 1992  The pound sterling, the UK's currency, is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
 1995  Greece ends its embargo on the Republic of Macedonia.
 1998  Meryl Streep receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
From 2001 
 2005  Camorra organised crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.
 2007  An aircraft carrying 128 people crashes in Phuket, Thailand, killing 89 people.
 2009  Yukio Hatoyama becomes Prime Minister of Japan, after just under a year with Taro Aso in this position.
 2013  A gunman kills 12 people at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC.

Births
Up to 1850 
 16  Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. 38)
 1098  Hildegard of Bingen, German writer, composer, and saint (d. 1179)
 1387  King Henry V of England (d. 1422)
 1494  Francesco Mauriloco, Italian polymath (d. 1575)
 1507  Jiajing Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1567)
 1615  Heinrich Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1692)
 1666  Antoine Parent, French mathematician (d. 1716)
 1678  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (d. 1751)
 1688  John Gay, English writer (d. 1732)
 1716  Angelo Maria Amorevoli, Italian Baroque tenor (d. 1798)
 1725  Nicolas Demarest, French geologist (d. 1815)
 1736  Carter Braxton, American founding father (d. 1797)
 1745  Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813)
 1777  Nathan Mayer Rothschild, English banker and financier (d. 1813)
 1782  Daoguang Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1850)
 1812  Robert Fortune, Scottish gardener, scientist and explorer (d. 1880)
1823  Mihailo Obrenovic III, Prince of Serbia (d. 1868)
 1825  Simeon Bavier, Swiss diplomat, engineer and politician (d. 1896)
 1830  Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (d. 1911)
 1837  King Peter V of Portugal (d. 1861)
 1842  Alessandro Fortis, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1909)
 1844  Paul Taffanel, French flautist and conductor (d. 1908)
1851  1900 
 1851  Emilia Pardo Bazan, Galician-Spanish writer (d. 1912)
 1853  Albrecht Kossel, German doctor, won the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1917)
 1858  Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
 1859  Yuan Shikai, Chinese military leader and politician (d. 1916)
 1866  Georg Voigt, German politician (d. 1927)
 1867  Vantila Bratianu, Romanian politician (d. 1930)
 1870  John Pius Boland, Irish jurist, politician and tennis player (d. 1958)
 1875  James C. Penney, founder of American department store J.C. Penney (d. 1971)
 1877  Jacob Schick, American-Canadian inventor and businessman (d. 1937)
 1878  Herwarth Walden, German writer, publisher and composer (d. 1941)
 1886  Demetre Chiparis, Romanian sculptor (d. 1947)
 1886  Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter and writer (d. 1966)
 1887  Nadia Boulanger, French composer and pianist (d. 1979)
 1888  Frans Eemil Sillanpaa, Finnish writer (d. 1964)
1888  W. O. Bentley, British racing driver and entrepreneur (d. 1971)
 1891  Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German spy (d. 1972)
 1891  Karl Dönitz, German naval leader (d. 1980)
 1893  Alexander Korda, Hungarian movie director (d. 1956)
 1893  Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt, Hungarian scientist, won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986)
 1898  H. A. Rey, American author and illustrator (d. 1977)
 1899  Hans Swarowsky, Austrian conductor (d. 1975)
1901  1950 
 1901  Ugo Frigerio, Italian athlete (d. 1968)
 1903  Joe Venuti, Italian-American jazz violinist (d. 1978)
 1903  Gwen Bristow, American writer and journalist (d. 1980)
 1905  Vladimir Holan, Czech poet (d. 1980)
 1909  Marshall Carter, American general, Director of the NSA (d. 1993)
 1912  Gyorgy Sarosi, Hungarian footballer (d. 1993)
 1913  Felicien Marceau, French journalist and writer (d. 2012)
 1916  Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis (d. 1978)
 1917  Alexander Schmorell, German Resistance activist (d. 1943)
 1919  Lawrence Dobkin, American actor (d. 2002)
 1920  J. J. C. Smart, British-Australian philosopher (d. 2012)
 1920  Staryl C. Austin, American air force general (d. 2015)
 1921  Jon Hendricks, American jazz songwriter and singer
 1922  Guy Hamilton, English movie director (d. 2016)
 1922  Janis Paige, American actress
 1923  Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore and statesman (d. 2015)
 1924  Lauren Bacall, American actress (d. 2014)
1924  Hank Peters, American baseball executive (d. 2015)
 1925  Charlie Byrd, American jazz guitarist (d. 1999)
 1925  Charles Haughey, Prime Minister of Ireland (d. 2006)
 1925  B. B. King, American blues musician (d. 2015)
 1926  Robert H. Schuller, American televangelist (d. 2015)
 1927  Peter Falk, American actor (d. 2011)
 1927  Sadako Ogata, Japanese academic, diplomat ad writer
 1928  Rex Trailer, American television presenter, actor and singer (d. 2013)
 1929  Stan Stephens, American politician, 20th Governor of Montana
 1930  Anne Francis, American actress (d. 2011)
 1930  Jerry Parr, American secret service agent (d. 2015)
 1934  Ronnie Drew, Irish singer (The Dubliners) (d. 2008)
 1935  Jules Bass, American Stop-motion animator
 1935  Billy Boy Arnold, American blues musician and songwriter
 1937  Pavel Bobek, Czech singer (d. 2013)
 1942  Bernie Calvert, British musician
 1943  Oskar Lafontaine, German politician
 1943  James Alan McPherson, American writer (d. 2016)
1944  B. J. Ward, American actress and singer
 1945  Alexander Rutskoy, Russian politician
 1946  Mike Reynolds, Australian politician
 1946  Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter
 1947  Russ Abbot, British comedian
 1948  Rosemary Casals, American tennis player
 1948  Julia Donaldson, English writer
 1948  Kenney Jones, English musician
 1949  Ed Begley, Jr., American actor
 1949  Chrisye, Indonesian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2007)
 1950  Loyd Grossman, American television presenter and food critic
 1950  Loyola de Palacio, Spanish politician (d. 2006)
1951  1975 
 1951  Andy Irvine, Scottish rugby player
 1952  Fatos Nano, Albanian politician
 1952  Mickey Rourke, American actor
 1953  Kurt Fuller, American actor
 1953  Jerry Pate, American golfer
 1953  Manuel Pellegrini, Chilean footballer and coach
 1953  Mark Malloch Brown, British politician
 1954  Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Indian sitarist and composer
 1954  Colin Newman, British singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
 1955  Janet Ellis, British television presenter
 1956  David Copperfield, American magician
 1957  Norman Lamb, English politician
 1957  Pierre Moscovici, French politician
 1958  Jennifer Tilly, American actress
 1958  Neville Southall, Welsh footballer
 1958  Orel Hershiser, American baseball player and coach
 1960  Ean Evans, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2009)
 1960  Danny John-Jules, English actor
 1961  Bilinda Butcher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1964  Molly Shannon, American actress
 1965  Karl-Heinz Riedle, German footballer
1966  John Bel Edwards, American attorney and politician 
 1968  Rafael Alkorta, Spanish footballer
 1968  Marc Anthony, American musician
 1971  Amy Poehler, American actress, comedienne and writer
 1972  Liz Bonnin, Irish television presenter
 1972  Sprent Dabwido, Nauruan politician, former President of Nauru
 1973  Alexander Vinokourov, Kazakhstani cyclist
 1974  Mario Haas, Austrian footballer
 1974  Loona, Dutch singer
 1975  Adel Chedli, Tunisian footballer
From 1976 
 1976  Tina Barrett, British singer (S Club)
 1976  Greg Buckner, American basketball player
 1978  Ebrahim Mirzapour, Iranian footballer
 1978  Carolina Dieckmann, Brazilian actress
 1979  Keisuke Tsuboi, Japanese footballer
 1979  Flo Rida, American rapper
 1979  Fanny, French singer
 1980  Patrik Stefan, Czech ice hockey player
 1981  Alexis Bledel, American actress
 1983  Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean swimmer
 1983  Brandon Moss, American baseball player
 1984  Katie Melua, Georgian-British singer
 1984  Sabrina Bryan, American actress and singer
 1986  Ian Harding, British actor
 1987  Kyle Lafferty, Northern Irish footballer
 1987  Burry Stander, South African cyclist (d. 2013)
 1987  Daren Kagasoff, American actor
 1988  Teddy Geiger, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
 1988  Sarah Steele, American actress
 1989  José Salomon Rondon, Venezuelan footballer
 1992  Nick Jonas, American singer and guitarist (The Jonas Brothers)
 1992  Jake Roche, English actor and singer
Up to 1900 
 96  Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)
 307  Flavius Valerius Severus, Roman Emperor
 655  Pope Martin I
 1087  Severus II, Roman Emperor
 1100  Bernold of Constance, German chronicler and writer (b. 1054)
 1345  John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295)
 1380  King Charles V of France (b. 1338)
 1394  Avignon Pope Clement VII (b. 1342)
 1498  Tomas de Torquemada, Spanish grand inquisitor (b. 1420)
 1589  Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
 1701  James II of England and VII of Scotland (b. 1633)
 1736  Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist (b. 1686)
 1782  Farinelli, Italian singer (b. 1705)
 1792  Quang Trung, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1753)
 1803  Nicolas Baudin, French explorer, cartographer and naturalist (b. 1754)
 1819  John Jeffries, American physician, balloonist and meteorologist (b. 1744)
 1824  King Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)
 1843  Ezekiel Hart, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1770)
 1845  Thomas Davis, Irish nationalist and writer (b. 1814)
1887  Sakoigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1841)
 1911  Edward Whymper, English mountain climber (b. 1840)
 1925  Alexander Friedmann, Russian mathematician and cosmologist (b. 1888)
 1925  Leo Fall, Austrian composer (b. 1873)
 1932  Ronald Ross, British doctor, won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
 1931  Omar Mukhtar, resistance leader in Italian Libya
 1936  Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French scientist (b. 1867)
 1940  Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, British politician, 8th Governor of Queensland, Australia (b. 1860)
 1944  Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
 1946  James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1877)
From 1951 
 1957  Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864)
 1965  Ahn Eak-tai, Korean composer and conductor (b. 1906)
 1965  Fred Quimby, American animation producer (b. 1886)
 1977  Marc Bolan, English musician (b. 1947)
 1977  Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano (b. 1923)
 1980  Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
 1984  Louis Reard, French engineer and fashion designer (b. 1897)
 1987  Christopher Soames, Baron Soames, British politician (b. 1920)
 1987  Howard Moss, American poet, playwright and critic (b. 1922)
 1991  Olga Spessivtseva, Russian ballerina (b. 1895)
 1992  Millicent Fenwick, American politician and writer (b. 1910)
 1993  Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian poet and activist (b. 1920)
 1996  Gene Nelson, American actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1920)
 2000  Georgiy Gongadze, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
 2002  James Gregory, American actor (b. 1911)
 2003  Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
 2004  Izora Armstead, American singer (The Weather Girls) (b. 1942)
2005  Gordon Gould, American inventor (b. 1920)
 2006  Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1925)
 2006  Fouad el-Mohandes, Egyptian actor (b. 1924)
 2007  Robert Jordan, American writer (b. 1948)
 2009  Mary Travers, American singer (b. 1936)
 2012  Princess Ragnhild of Norway, Norwegian royal, sister of Harald V of Norway (b. 1930)
 2012  John Ingle, American actor (b. 1928)
 2013  Kim Hamilton, American actress (b. 1932)
 2013  Patsy Swayze, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1927)
 2014  Buster Jones, American actor and television presenter (b. 1943)
 2014  Alf Ivar Samuelsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1942)
 2015  Guy Béart, French singer-songwriter (b. 1930)
 2015  Ton van de Ven, Dutch industrial designer (b. 1944)
 2015  David Ashby, British motorcycle racer (b. 1949)
 2016  Edward Albee, American playwright (b. 1928)
 2016  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 10th President of Italy (b. 1920)
 2016  Gabriele Amorth, Italian priest and exorcist (b. 1925)
Observances 
 Independence Day in Mexico and Papua New Guinea
 Malaysia Day
 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone layer
 National Heroes' Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
 Statehood Day (Alagoas, a state of Brazil)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1577  The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
 1630  The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
 1631  Thirty Years' War: The Battle of Breitenfeld ends in victory for Sweden over the Holy Roman Empire.
 1683  Anton van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society, describing 'animalcules', the first-known description of protozoa.
 1716  Jean Thurel enlists in the Touraine army regiment at age 17, beginning over 90 years of military service lasting until his death at the age of 108.
 1775  American Revolutionary War: Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
 1776  The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
 1787  The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 1789  William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Mimas.
 1809  The Finnish War between Sweden and Russia ends.
1814  Francis Scott Key finishes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", later to become the lyrics for The Star-Spangled Banner, the national Anthem of the United States.
 1843  The Universidad de Chile (University of Chile) is founded in Santiago, Chile.
 1849  Abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes Slavery.
 1859  Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Emperor of the United States".
 1862  American Civil War: The Battle of Antietam is fought. It is the bloodiest day in US military history.
 1862  American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the worst civilian disaster of the war.
 1894  First Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the war.
 1900  Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mobitac.
1901  2000 
 1908  The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge.
 1914  Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a third time.
 1916  World War I: German flying ace Manfred von Richthofen wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
 1928  The Okeechobee Hurricane hits southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
 1939  World War II: The Soviet Union joins the Nazis' invasion of Poland.
 1939  World War II: German U-boat U 29 sinks British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
 1939  Taisto Maki becomes the first person to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, doing so in 29 minutes, 52 seconds.
 1940  World War II: Adolf Hitler calls off Operation Sealion after defeat in the Battle of Britain.
 1943  World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated.
 1944  World War II: Allied troops parachute into the Netherlands.
 1949  Canadian steamship SS Norronic burns in Toronto Harbour, killing over 118 people.
1957  The Federation of Malaya (later Malaysia) joins the UN.
 1974  Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the UN.
 1976  The first Space Shuttle, the Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
 1978  The Camp David Accords are signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
 1980  The Solidarity trade union is established.
 1980  In Paraguay, former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed by Sandinista activists.
 1983  Vanessa L. Williams becomes the first African American Miss America.
 1988  The Summer Olympics in Seoul begin.
 1991  Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, North Korea, South Korea, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia join the UN.
 1993  The last Russian troops leave Poland.
From 2001 
 2001  The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
 2004  Tamil is declared as the first classical language of India.
 2004  The 2004 Summer Paralympics begin in Athens, lasting until September 28.
 2005  Helen Clark is elected to a third term in-a-row as Prime Minister of New Zealand.
 2006  The Fourpeaked Mountain volcano in Alaska erupts for the first time in over 10,000 years.
 2006  Fredrik Reinfeldt is elected Prime Minister of Sweden.
 2006  An audio tape of then-Prime Minister of Hungary Ferenc Gyurcsany is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party lied to win the 2006 General Election, sparking widespread protests across the country.
 2011  The Occupy Wall Street movement begins in New York City. By October 15, the Occupy movement had spread to protests in cities around the world against economic mismanagement.
2016  Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad dies after a crash in the road race during the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
 2016  An explosion in New York City injures 29 people.
Up to 1900 
 879  King Charles III of France (d. 929)
 1192  Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
 1216  Robert I, Count of Artois (d. 1250)
 1505  Mary of Hungary (d. 1558)
 1550  Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
 1605  Francesco Sacrati, Italian composer (d. 1650)
 1630  Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)
 1674  Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany (d. 1728)
 1677  Stephen Hales, English physiologist and chemist (d. 1761)
 1688  Maria Luisa of Savoy, Queen of Spain (d. 1714)
 1730  Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
 1739  John Rutledge, Chief Justice of the United States and Governor of South Carolina (d. 1800)
 1743  Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
 1764  John Goodricke, English astronomer (d. 1786)
 1771  Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
 1776  Langdon Cheves, American politician (d. 1857)
 1806  Duchenne de Boulogne, French neurologist (d. 1875)
 1811  John Brough, 26th Governor of Ohio (d. 1865)
1819  Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, 1st President of the Republic of South Africa (d. 1901)
 1826  Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
 1832  Sergey Botkin, Russian physician (d. 1889)
 1850  Guerra Junqueiro, Portuguese lawyer, journalist, writer and poet (d. 1923)
 1854  David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American businessman (d. 1929)
 1857  Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskii, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1935)
 1859  I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (d. 1929)
 1864  Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Ukrainian writer (d. 1913)
 1869  Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian peace advocate (d. 1938)
 1872  Florencio Harmodio Arosemena, 14th President of Panama (d. 1945)
 1878  Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer (d. 1950)
 1879  Periyar E. V. Ramaswamy, Indian businessman, politician and activist (d. 1973)
 1883  William Carlos Williams, American poet (d. 1963)
 1885  George Cleveland, Canadian actor (d. 1957)
 1890  France Bevk, Slovenian writer (d. 1970)
1892  Hendrik Andriessen, Dutch composer and organist (d. 1981)
 1895  Princess Margaret of Denmark (d. 1992)
 1900  J. Willard Marriott, American businessman (d. 1985)
1901  1950 
 1901  Francis Chichester, British sailor and adventurer (d. 1972)
 1903  Dolores Costello, American actress (d. 1979)
 1904  Frederick Ashton, English ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1988)
 1904  Jerry Colonna, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1986)
 1906  Junius Richard Jayewardene, President of Sri Lanka (d. 1996)
 1907  Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
 1914  Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician (d. 1996)
 1915  M. F. Husain, Indian painter (d. 2011)
 1916  Mary Stewart, English novelist (d. 2014)
 1917  Isang Yun, Korean-German composer (d. 1995)
 1918  Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)
 1922  Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola (d. 1979)
 1922  Virgilio Barco Vargas, President of Colombia (d. 1997)
 1923  Hank Williams, American musician (d. 1953)
 1925  John List, American murderer (d. 2008)
 1926  Jean-Marie Lustiger, French cardinal (d. 2007)
 1928  Roddy McDowall, British actor (d. 1998)
 1929  Stirling Moss, British racing driver
1929  Pat Crowley, American actress
 1930  David Huddleston, American actor (d. 2016)
 1930  Thomas Patten Stafford, American astronaut
 1930  Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut (d. 2016)
 1931  Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
 1933  Claude Provost, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
 1933  Chuck Grassley, United States Senator from Iowa
 1934  Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
 1935  Ken Kesey, American writer (d. 2001)
 1936  Rolv Wesenlund, Norwegian actor and singer (d. 2013)
 1937  Nigel Boocock, English speedway rider (d. 2015)
 1939  David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
 1940  Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat
 1940  Lorella De Luca, Italian actress (d. 2014)
 1942  Des Lynam, English television presenter
 1942  Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (d. 2012)
 1944  Reinhold Messner, Italian mountaineer
 1945  Phil Jackson, American basketball player and coach
 1945  Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor
 1945  David Emerson, Canadian politician
1946  Billy Bonds, English footballer
 1947  Tessa Jowell, English politician
 1948  John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
 1948  Kemal Monteno, Bosnian singer (d. 2015)
 1950  Narendra Modi, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India
1951  1975 
 1951  Cassandra Peterson, American actress
 1951  Russell Brown, Scottish politician
 1951  Kermit Washington, American basketball player
 1953  Rita Rudner, American actress and comedienne
 1953  Tamasin Day-Lewis, English chef
 1954  Joel-François Durand, French composer
 1956  Andreas Starke, Lord Mayor of Bamberg in Bavaria
 1956  Almazbek Atambayev, President of Kyrgyzstan
 1957  Richie Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
 1958  Janez Jansa, former Prime Minister of Slovenia
 1960  Damon Hill, British racing driver
 1960  Annabelle Apsion, British actress
 1960  Kevin Clash, American actor and puppeteer
 1961  Pamela Melroy, American astronaut
 1962  Baz Luhrmann, Australian movie director
 1962  Hesham Qandil, 51st Prime Minister of Egypt
 1962  BeBe Winans, American singer-songwriter and producer
 1963  Warren Gatland, New Zealand rugby player and coach
 1965  Yuji Naka, Japanese video game designer, creator of Sonic the Hedgehog
 1966  Paula Jones, American state employee
1968  Anastacia, American singer
 1968  Marie-Chantal, former Crown Princess of Greece
 1968  Akhenaton, French rapper and producer
 1968  Tito Vilanova, Spanish football manager (d. 2014)
 1969  Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
 1969  Keith Flint, English singer-songwriter (The Prodigy)
 1970  Dallas Campbell, Scottish television presenter
 1971  Mauro Milanese, Italian footballer
 1971  Mike Catt, English rugby player
 1972  Bobby Lee, American comedian and actor
 1973  Diego Albanese, Argentine rugby player
 1974  Sheed Wallace, American basketball player
 1975  Constantine Maroulis, American singer
From 1976 
 1977  Simone Perrotta, Italian footballer
 1979  Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
 1980  Shabana Mahmood, English lawyer and politician
 1981  Bakari Koné, Ivorian footballer
 1982  Shermine Shahrivar, Iranian-German model
 1983  Jennifer Peña, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress
 1983  Aiza, Filipino singer and actor
 1984  John Kucera, Canadian skier
 1985  Tomas Berdych, Czech tennis player
 1985  Alexander Ovechkin, Russian ice hockey player
 1985  Jon Walker, American singer-songwriter
 1985  Umit Korkmaz, Turkish footballer
 1985  Tupouto'a 'Ulukalala, Crown Prince of Tonga
 1989  Kate Deines, American soccer player
 1989  Dijon Talton, American actor and singer
 1991  Minako Kotobuki, Japanese voice actress and singer
 1991  Ryo Ishikawa, Japanese golfer
 1994  Taylor Ware, American singer
 2008  Mia Talerico, American actress

Deaths
Up to 1900 
 454  Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria
 456  Remistus, Roman general
 1179  Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098)
 1312  Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. 1285)
 1322  Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)
 1422  Constantine II of Bulgaria
 1574  Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Spanish admiral and explorer (b. 1519)
 1575  Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
 1665  King Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)
 1676  Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, founder of the Jewish Sabbatean Movement (b. 1626)
 1679  John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)
 1762  Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (b. 1687)
 1802  Richard Owen Cambridge, English poet and historian (b. 1717)
 1808  Benjamin Bourne, American jurist and politician (b. 1755)
 1836  Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
 1863  Alfred de Vigny, French author, poet and playwright (b. 1797)
 1877  Henry Fox Talbot, British inventor and photography pioneer (b. 1800)
1901  2000 
 1904  Kartini, Indonesian activist (b. 1879)
 1907  Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1846)
 1908  Thomas Selfridge, First Lieutenant of the United States Army (b. 1882)
 1909  Thomas Bent, Premier of Victoria (b. 1838)
 1916  Hermann Krone, German photographer (b. 1827)
 1923  Stephanos Dragoumis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1842)
 1948  Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (b. 1895)
 1951  Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
 1961  Adnan Menderes, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1899)
 1965  Alejandro Casona, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1903)
 1966  Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)
 1970  France Bevk, Slovenian writer (b. 1890)
 1972  Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)
 1973  Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)
 1980  Anastasio Somoza Debayle, former President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
 1985  Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (b. 1925)
 1991  Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
 1993  Willie Mosconi, American pool player (b. 1913)
1994  Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher (b. 1902)
 1994  Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)
 1996  Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
 1997  Red Skelton, American entertainer (b. 1913)
 2000  Paula Yates, British television personality (b. 1959)
From 2001 
 2003  Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
 2006  Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1924)
 2009  Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist militant (b. 1968)
 2011  Kurt Sanderling, German conductor (b. 1912)
 2012  Russell Train, American politician (b. 1920)
 2013  Eiji Toyoda, Japanese industrialist (b. 1913)
 2013  Marti de Riquer i Morera, Spanish-Catalan linguist (b. 1914)
 2014  Andriy Husin, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1972)
 2014  China Zorrilla, Uruguayan actress (b. 1922)
 2014  George Hamilton IV, American country music singer (b. 1937)
 2014  Peter von Bagh, Finnish movie historian (b. 1943)
 2014  Lorna Thomas, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1917)
 2015  Dettmar Cramer, German football manager (b. 1925)
 2015  Milo Hamilton, American sportscaster (b. 1927)
 2015  David Willcocks, British choirmaster (b. 1919)
 2015  Vadim Kuzmin, Russian theoretical physicist (b. 1937)
 2016  Bahman Golbarnezhad, Iranian Paralympic cyclist (b. 1968)
2016  Charmian Carr, American actress (b. 1942)
 2016  Sigge Parling, Swedish footballer (b. 1930)
Observances 
 Constitution Day (United States)
 Heroes' Day (Angola)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 19 - Roman general Germanicus dies under mysterious circumstances in Antioch in present-day Turkey. It is believed that he was poisoned on the orders of Emperor Tiberius.
 680 – Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shi'a Muslims as Aashurah.
 732 – Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abd-ar-Rahman, is killed during the battle.
 1471 – Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.
 1575 – Battle of Dormans: Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeated the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
1582 – Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
 1631 – Thirty Years' War: A Saxon army takes over Prague.
 1760 - In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname, descended from escaped slaves, gain extra freedom.
 1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
 1798 - British troops occupy Menorca.
 1845 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.
 1846 - Neptune's moon Triton is discovered by British astronomer William Lassell.
 1868 – Carlos Céspedes issued the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence.
 1871 - Chicago burns after an accident.
 1877 – Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer is given a funeral with full military honors.
 1882 - The Bank of Japan is founded.
1892 - British passenger ship Bokhara sinks in a Typhoon off the west of Taiwan, killing 125 people.
 1897 - German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
1901  1950 
 1908 – Baseball Writers Association forms.
 1910 – Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is established at Columbia University.
 1911 – Wuchang Uprising which led to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last emperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
 1913 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
 1920 – The Carinthian Plebiscite determined that the larger part of Carinthia became part of Austria.
 1928 – Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
 1933 – A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage while en route from Cleveland, Ohio to Chicago, Illinois, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
 1935 - A coup occurs in Athens the royalist leadership of the Greek Army.
 1938 – The Blue Water Bridge opens, connecting Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
 1938 – World War II: The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Germany.
1942 - The Soviet Union and Australia create diplomatic relations.
 1944 – Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at Auschwitz death camp.
1951  2000 
 1957 - The Windscale fire occurs in Cumbria, England, in the world's first nuclear accident.
 1957 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he was refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
 1963 - France cedes control of Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
 1964 – The 1964 Summer Olympics open in Tokyo, Japan
 1966 – Simon and Garfunkel release the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
 1967 - The Outer Space Treaty comes into force, having been signed on January 27.
 1970 – Fiji becomes independent.
 1970 – In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
 1971 – Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, the London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
1973 – Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
 1975 - Papua New Guinea joins the UN.
 1978 – US President Jimmy Carter signs a bill into law that authorizes the minting of the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
 1979 – The Pac-Man arcade game is released to the Japanese market by Namco.
 1980 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits the town of El Asnam, Algeria, killing 3,500 people.
 1985 – United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
 1986 – An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
 1987 – Fiji becomes a republic.
 1997 – An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
1998 - A Lignes Aeriennes Congolaises Boeing 727 airplane is shot down by rebels over Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
 1999 - In London, the London Eye is raised.
From 2001 
 2001 – US President George W. Bush presents a list of 22 most wanted terrorists.
 2005 – Channel 4's new 'adult' entertainment channel More4 starts broadcasting on ntl, Sky Digital and Freeview in the UK.
 2005 – Angela Merkel is announced to be the new Chancellor of Germany. She officially becomes Chancellor on November 22.
 2005 – Most Aardman Animations props are melted in a warehouse fire. Props from Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit are destroyed.
 2008 - Martti Ahtisaari wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
 2008 - A bomb attack in Orakzai, Pakistan, kills 110 people.
 2010 – The Netherlands Antilles are split up. The islands of Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius becomes special municipalities of the Netherlands proper. Curaçao and Sint Maarten become constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
 2014 - The Nobel Peace Prize is shared between Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai, who also becomes the youngest-ever winner of a Nobel Prize.
2015 - Two bomb attacks at a peace demonstration in Ankara kill at least 102 people.
 2017 - President of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont delays his region's declaration of independence from Spain.
 2018 - Hurricane Michael makes landfall in Florida, as one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the mainland of the United States.
 2019 - Olga Tokarczuk (for 2018) and Peter Handke win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
 2020 - A ceasefire takes effect after almost two weeks of intense fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh.