Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
From 2001 
 2005  Space Shuttle Discovery launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It is the first Space Shuttle mission since the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of February 1, 2003.
 2005  Nearly a meter of rain falls in one day in Mumbai, causing flooding.
 2006  A conference begins in Rome, Italy to discuss a solution to the Israel-Lebanon War, though without the participation of Israel, Hezbollah, Hamas and Syria.
 2008  56 people are killed in a bombing in Ahmedabad, India.
 2013  2013 Cleveland, Ohio, missing trio: Ariel Castro pleads guilty to all charges in order to avoid the death penalty. He commits suicide in prison on September 3.
 2016  Mass murder with knife is carried out in an institution of Sagamihara in Japan for persons with disabilities out of disability hate crime; 19 people are killed.
 2016  Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to complete a flight around the world.
2016  Roman Catholic priest Jacques Hamel is murdered at his church in Normandy, France, by an attacker linked to the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
 2016  Hillary Clinton is officially nominated by the Democratic Party for President of the United States, becoming the first woman to be nominated for this position by a major US political party.
 2017  US President Donald Trump announces via Twitter that he intends to ban Transgender people from serving in the United States Military.
 2019  The 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, begin.
Up to 1900 
 1030  Stanislaus of Szczepanow, Polish bishop and martyr (d. 1074)
 1575  Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)
 1678  Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711)
 1721  Samuel von Brukenthal, Governor of Transylvania (d. 1803)
 1739  George Clinton, 4th Vice President of the United States and 1st State Governor of New York (d. 1812)
 1756  Maria Fitzherbert, first wife of King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
 1782  John Field, Irish composer (d. 1837)
 1787  Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck, German botanist and pharmacologist (d. 1837)
 1791  Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1844)
 1796  George Catlin, American painter (d. 1872)
 1801  Maria Röhl, Swedish artist (d. 1875)
 1802  Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
 1829  Auguste Beernaert, Belgian statesman and 14th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1912)
 1842  Alfred Marshall, British economist (d. 1924)
 1844  Stefan Drzewiecki, Polish scientist and inventor (d. 1938)
1846  Texas Jack Omohundro, American scout, cowboy and actor (d. 1880)
 1855  Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1936)
 1856  George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer (d. 1950)
 1858  Tom Garrett, Australian cricketer (d. 1943)
 1862  George P. Cortelyou, American politician (d. 1940)
 1865  Philipp Scheidemann, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1939)
 1866  Princess Milica of Montenegro (d. 1951)
 1874  Serge Koussevitzky, Russian conductor (d. 1961)
 1875  Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961)
 1875  Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
 1878  Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer and water polo player (d. 1937)
 1880  Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1951)
 1882  Dixie Bibb Graves, American politician and United States Senator for Alabama (d. 1965)
 1893  E. R. Dodds, Irish classical scholar (d. 1979)
 1893  George Grosz, German painter (d. 1959)
 1894  Aldous Huxley, British writer (d. 1963)
 1895  Jane Bunford, UK's tallest woman (d. 1922)
1895  Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (d. 1964)
 1896  Tom Birkin, English racing driver (d. 1933)
 1897  Paul Gallico, American novelist (d. 1976)
1901  1950 
 1901  Umberto Caligaris, Italian footballer (d. 1940)
 1903  Estes Kefauver, American politician (d. 1963)
 1904  Edwin Albert Link, American inventor of the flight simulator (d. 1981)
 1906  Irena Illakowicz, Polish intelligence agent (d. 1943)
 1907  Donal McLaughlin, American architect and graphic artist (d. 2009)
 1908  Lucien Wercollier, Luxembourg sculptor (d. 2000)
 1909  Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft, British politician (d. 1994)
 1909  Vivian Vance, American actress (d. 1979)
 1910  Yann Fouéré, Breton political activist (d. 2011)
 1914  Erskine Hawkins, American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1993)
 1914  C. Farris Bryant, 34th Governor of Florida (d. 2002)
 1916  Dean Brooks, American physician and actor (d. 2013)
 1917  Alberta Adams, American singer (d. 2014)
 1917  Bertil Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1998)
 1918  Marjorie Lord, American actress (d. 2015)
 1919  James Lovelock, British scientist
 1919  Angelo Felici, Italian cardinal (d. 2007)
1920  Mario Fasino, Italian politician, President of Sicily (d. 2017)
 1921  Amedeo Amadei, Italian footballer (d. 2013)
 1922  Gilberto Agustoni, Swiss cardinal (d. 2017)
 1922  Blake Edwards, American movie director (d. 2010)
 1922  Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000)
 1923  Jan Berenstain, American writer (d. 2012)
 1923  Biff Elliot, American actor (d. 2012)
 1925  Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-born Swedish doctor and politician (d. 2000)
 1925  Joseph Engelberger, American physicist, engineer and entrepreneur (d. 2015)
 1925  Gene Gutowski, Polish-American movie producer (d. 2016)
 1925  Ana María Matute, Spanish writer (d. 2014)
 1926  James Best, American actor (d. 2015)
 1928  Joe Jackson, patriarch of the Jackson musical family (d. 2018)
 1928  Stanley Kubrick, American movie director (d. 1999)
 1928  Francesco Cossiga, 8th President of Italy (d. 2010)
 1928  Peter Lougheed, Canadian politician (d. 2012)
 1928  Bernice Rubens, Welsh writer (d. 2004)
 1928  Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani poet (d. 1980)
1929  Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian pianist (d. 2012)
 1930  Barbara Jefford, English actress
 1932  James Stafford, American cardinal
 1932  Robert Timlin, American judge (d. 2017)
 1933  Edmund Phelps, American economist
 1933  Lance Percival, English actor, comedian and singer (d. 2015)
 1936  Mary Millar, English actress (d. 1998)
 1936  Lawrie McMenemy, English footballer and coach
 1939  John Howard, 25th Prime Minister of Australia
 1940  Brigitte Hamann, German-Austrian writer and historian (d. 2016)
 1940  Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1969)
 1940  Jürgen Kurbjuhn, German footballer (d. 2014)
 1942  Hannelore Elsner, German actress (d. 2019)
 1942  Vladimir Meciar, former Prime Minister of Slovakia
 1943  Peter Hyams, American director
 1943  Mick Jagger, British musician
 1945  Helen Mirren, British actress
 1945  Panagiotis Pikrammenos, Greek jurist
 1946  Erwin Huber, German politician
 1947  Alejandra Da Passano, Argentine actress (d. 2014)
1947  Emilio de Villota, Spanish racing driver
 1949  Sharron Angle, American politician
 1949  Thaksin Shinawatra, Thai politician
 1949  Roger Taylor, British musician (Queen)
 1950  Nelinho, Brazilian footballer
 1950  Susan George, English actress
1951  1975 
 1951  Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, German politician
 1952  Heiner Brand, German handball player and coach
 1953  Felix Magath, German footballer
 1954  Mareike Carrière, German actress (d. 2014)
 1954  Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (d. 1994)
 1955  Asif Ali Zardari, former President of Pakistan
 1955  Aleksandrs Starkovs, Latvian footballer
 1956  Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater
 1957  Yuen Biao, Chinese actor
 1957  Nana Visitor, American actress
 1959  Kevin Spacey, American actor
 1961  Gary Cherone, American singer-songwriter
 1962  Sigga, Icelandic singer
 1964  Sandra Bullock, American actress
 1965  Jimmy Dore, American comedian
 1965  Jeremy Piven, American actor
 1966  Angelo Di Livio, Italian footballer
 1967  Anthony Durante, American wrestler (d. 2003)
 1967  Jason Statham, English actor and producer
 1968  Olivia Williams, English actress
 1969  Tanni Grey-Thompson, British wheelchair athlete
 1971  Khaled Mahmud, Bangladeshi cricketer
1971  Andrea Fortunato, Italian footballer (d. 1995)
 1971  Kendall Francois, American murderer (d. 2014)
 1973  Kate Beckinsale, British actress
 1975  Elizabeth Truss, British politician
From 1976 
 1976  Pavel Pardo, Mexican footballer
 1977  Martin Laursen, Danish footballer
 1977  Emma Barton, English actress
 1979  Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
 1980  Jacinda Ardern, 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand
 1980  Madeleine West, Australian actress
 1980  Dave Baksh, Canadian guitarist (Sum 41)
 1980  Sonali Shah, English television presenter
 1981  Maicon Douglas Sisenando, Brazilian footballer
 1983  Kelly Clark, American snowboarder
 1983  Stephen Makinwa, Nigerian footballer
 1983  Delonte West, American basketball player
 1985  Zhou Bichang, Chinese singer-songwriter and actress
 1985  Brice Feillu, French road racing cyclist
 1985  Gaël Clichy, French footballer
 1985  Leonardo Ulloa, Argentine footballer
 1987  Fredy Montero, Colombian footballer
 1988  Sayaka Akimoto, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
 1988  Francia Raisa, American actress
 1988  Diego Perotti, Argentine footballer
 1989  Ivian Sarcos, Venezuelan model
 1990  Jesus Herrada, Spanish motorcycle racer
1990  Bianca Santos, American actress
 1993  Elizabeth Gillies, American actress and singer
 1993  Taylor Momsen, American actress and singer
 1993  Caleb Stanko, American soccer player
 1993  Stormzy, English rapper
 1996  Tatiana Vorobjova, Estonian tennis player
 1998  Maya Sakura, Japanese singer and actress
Up to 1900 
342  Jin Chengdi, Emperor of China (b. 321)
432  Pope Celestine I 
796  Offa, King of Mercia
811  Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (killed in battle)
1380  Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)
1471  Pope Paul II (b. 1417)
1506  Anne of Foix-Candale, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1478)
1533  Atahualpa, Inca ruler (b. 1502)
1592  Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
1605  Miguel de Benavides, Spanish clergyman and Sinologist (b. 1552)
1611  Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
1630  Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1562)
1680  John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English writer (b. 1647)
1684  Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)
1712  Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (b. 1631)
1723  Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
1726  Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
1801  Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria (b. 1756)
1863  John J. Crittenden, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1786)
1863  Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (b. 1793)
1867  King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
1901  1950 
1915  James Murray, English philologist (b. 1837)
1919  Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
1922  Ciro Luis Urriola, 8th President of Panama (b. 1863)
1925  Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (b. 1888)
1925  Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (b. 1848)
1925  William Jennings Bryan, American politician (b. 1860)
1926  Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician (b. 1843)
1935  Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)
1937  Gerda Taro, German photographer (b. 1910)
1941  Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (b. 1875)
1942  Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (b. 1900)
1943  Ruth M. Gardiner, American nurse (b. 1914)
1944  Reza Shah, ruler of Iran (b. 1878)
1951  2000 
1952  Eva Perón, wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (b. 1919)
1953  Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)
1957  Carlos Castillo Armas, President of Guatemala (b. 1914)
1969  Frank Loesser, American composer (b. 1910)
1970  Robert Taschereau, Canadian jurist (b. 1896)
1971  Diane Arbus, American photographer (suicide) (b. 1923)
1976  Stefanos Natsinas, Greek politician (b. 1910)
1980  Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani poet (b. 1928)
1984  George Gallup, American statistician (b. 1901)
1984  Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
1986  Averell Harriman, American diplomat (b. 1891)
1988  Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (b. 1919)
1990  Brent Mydland, American musician (b. 1952)
1992  Mary Wells, American singer (b. 1943)
1995  George Romney, Governor of Michigan and father of Mitt Romney (b. 1907)
1999  Phaedon Gizikis, President of Greece (b. 1917)
From 2001 
2001  Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)
2002  Tony Anholt, English actor (b. 1941)
2005  Mario David, Italian footballer (b. 1934)
2009  Merce Cunningham, American choreographer (b. 1919)
2011  Margaret Olley, Australian artist (b. 1923)
2011  Sakyo Komatsu, Japanese science fiction writer (b. 1931)
2012  Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (b. 1942)
2012  Mary Tamm, English actress (b. 1950)
2013  Sung Jae-ki, South Korean activist (b. 1967)
2013  JJ Cale, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1938)
2014  Oleh Babayev, Ukrainian politician (b. 1965)
2014  Charles R. Larson, American admiral (b. 1936)
2014  Majid Nizami, Pakistani journalist (b. 1928)
2014  Roland Verhavert, Belgian movie director (b. 1927)
2015  Bobbi Kristina Brown, American media personality and singer (b. 1993)
2015  Leo Reise, Jr., Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
2015  Ann Rule, American true crime writer (b. 1931)
2015  Vic Firth, American musician and instruments manufacturer (b. 1930)
2016  Jacques Hamel, French priest (b. 1930)
2016  David A. Katz, American judge (b. 1933)
2016  Mohamed Khan, Egyptian film director (b. 1942)
2017  Patti Deutsch, American actress (b. 1943)
2017  June Foray, American voice actress (b. 1917)
2017  Giovanni Battista Pichierri, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1943)
2017  Lawrence Pezzulo, American diplomat (b. 1926)
2017  Maxlei dos Santos Luzia, Brazilian footballer (b. 1975)
2017  Joachim Vobbe, German Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1947)
2017  Leo Kinnunen, Finnish racing driver (b. 1943)
2018  Adem Demaçi, Albanian politician (b. 1936)
2018  Aloyzas Kveinys, Lithuanian chess player (b. 1962)
2018  María Concepción César, Argentine actress and singer (b. 1926)
2018  Anne Vermeer, Dutch politician (b. 1916)
2019  Graham Freudenberg, Australian political speechwriter (b. 1934)
2019  Jaime Lucas y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (b. 1936)
2019  Kevin Roster, American poker player (b. 1983)
2019  Russi Taylor, American voice actress (b. 1944)
2023 – Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer-songwriter (b. 1966)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Liberia and Maldives)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
451 - Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul.
1141 - Empress Matilda becomes the first female ruler of England.
1348 - Charles University is founded in Prague.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the island of Cebu.
1655 - Fabio Chigi is elected to become Pope Alexander VII.
1767 - End of two-year Burmese-Siamese War.
1782 – Thailand became a country.
1788 - American pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the meeting point of the Ohio River and Muskingum River, opening the westward expansion of the United States.
1789 - Selim III becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1798 - The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain.
1805 - Ludwig van Beethoven premieres his Third Symphony in Vienna.
1827 - John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
1829 - Joseph Smith begins his translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
1831 - Pedro I of Brazil resigns to become King of Portugal.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh ends in a Union victory.
1896 - Fridtjof Nansen reaches the point furthest North of any human being up until that point.
1901  1950 
1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts.
1906 - The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
1908 – H. H. Asquith becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1919 - The Federation Francais de Football is founded.
1927 - The first long-distance television broadcast is made from Washington, DC to New York City.
1933 - Prohibition in the United States is removed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight.
1939 - World War II: Italy invades Albania.
1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a US postage stamp.
1943 - Holocaust: In Trebovlia, Ukraine, Nazi troops order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city to the village of Plebanivka, where they are shot dead.
1943 - Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the occupation by the Axis Powers.
1945 - World War II: Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while on the way to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
1946 – Syria's independence is recognised.
1948 – The United Nations created the World Health Organization.
1954 - Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "Domino Theory" speech during a news conference.
1955 – Anthony Eden replaced Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1956 - Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
1964 - IBM announces the System/360.
1967 - Roger Ebert publishes his first movie review in the Chicago Sun-Times.
1968 - Scottish racing driver Jim Clark is killed in a crash at Hockenheim, Germany, aged 32.
1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date.
1971 - Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troops withdrawals from Vietnam.
1977 – German federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback is shot dead, along with his driver, by two members of the Red Army Faction.
1978 - Development of the neutron bomb is cancelled by US President Jimmy Carter.
1980 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran.
1983 - During STS-6 mission, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle space walk.
1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea, killing 42 people.
1990 - A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry M/S Scandinavian Star, killing 198 people.
1992 – Republika Srpska declares independence.
1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins. One of the first victims is Rwandan Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
1995 - First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
1999 - The World Trade Organization rules in favour of the United States in its long-running trade dispute  with the European Union over bananas.
From 2001 
2001 – The Mars Odyssey space probe is launched.
2003 – US troops capture Baghdad.
2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
2010 – In Kyrgyzstan, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees the capital city Bishkek, after days of fierce rioting. Roza Otunbayeva is installed as Head of Government.
2017 - 2017 Stockholm attack: A beer lorry is driven into people in central Stockholm, killing 5 people.
2018 - A vehicle is driven into people in the city centre of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, killing 2 people. The driver then kills himself.

Births
Up to 1850 
1506 - Francis Xavier, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary (d. 1552)
1539 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (d. 1584)
1613 - Gerrit Dou, Dutch painter (d. 1675)
1629 - John of Austria the Younger, Spanish military leader and statesman (d. 1679)
1648 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (d. 1721)
1652 – Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
1713 - Nicola Sala, Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1801)
1718 - Hugh Blair, Scottish minister and writer (d. 1800)
1742 - Gunning Bedford, Sr., Governor of Delaware (d. 1797)
1763 - Domenico Dragonetti, Italian double-bass virtuoso and composer (d. 1846)
1767 - Henry Bell, Scottish engineer (d. 1830)
1770 – William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
1772 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (d. 1837)
1786 - William R. King, 13th Vice President of the United States (d. 1853)
1803 - James Curtiss, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1859)
1803 - Flora Tristan, French writer (d. 1884)
1811 - Hasan Tahsini, Albanian astronomer, mathematician and philosopher (d. 1881)
1839 - Ida Ferenczy, Hungarian Lady-in-waiting to Elisabeth of Bavaria (d. 1928)
1847 – Jens Peder Jacobsen, Danish writer (d. 1885)
1848 - Randall Davidson, 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1930)
1851  1900 
1853 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (d. 1884)
1857 - Nazrullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (d. 1920)
1859 - Walter Camp, American football player, coach and writer (d. 1925)
1860 - Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman and food manufacturer (d. 1951)
1867 – Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (d. 1953)
1868 - José de Castro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1929)
1870 – Gustav Landauer, German anarchist and revolutionary (d. 1919)
1871 - Epifanio de los Santos, Filipino jurist, historian and scholar (d. 1927)
1872 - William Monroe Trotter, American newspaper editor (d. 1934)
1873 - John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (d. 1934)
1874 - Frederick Carl Frieseke, German-American painter (d. 1939)
1876 - Fay Moulton, American sprinter, football player, coach and lawyer (d. 1945)
1882 – Kurt von Schleicher, German military officer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934)
1883 – Gino Severini, Italian painter (d. 1966)
1884 - Clement Smoot, American golfer (d. 1963)
1886 - Emilio Pujols, Catalan guitarist and composer (d. 1980)
1887 - Joseph Stadler, American jumper (d. 1950)
1889 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer (d. 1945)
1890 - Paul Berth, Danish footballer (d. 1969)
1890 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American journalist and activist (d. 1998)
1891 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor, of Lego (d. 1958)
1893 - Allen Dulles, American CIA director (d. 1969)
1896 - Frits Peutz, Dutch architect (d. 1974)
1897 - Walter Winchell, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1972)
1899 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972)
1900 - Jebbs Lloyd Johnson, English race walker (d. 1984)
1901  1950 
1907 - Le Duan, Vietnamese politician (d. 1986)
1907 - John Burroughs, Governor of New Mexico (d. 1978)
1908 - Percy Faith, Canadian composer, conductor and bandleader (d. 1976)
1911 - Hervé Bazin, French writer (d. 1996)
1913 - Louise Currie, American actress (d. 2013)
1913 - Charles Vanik, American politician (d. 2007)
1914 - Charles Flanagan, American bandleader, conductor, pianist, composer and arranger (d. 1995)
1915 – Stanley Adams, American actor (d. 1977)
1915 – Billie Holiday, American jazz singer (d. 1959)
1915 - Henry Kuttner, American writer (d. 1977)
1916 – Anthony Caruso, American actor (d. 2003)
1917 - R. G. Armstrong, American actor (d. 2012)
1918 - Bobby Doerr, American baseball player and coach
1919 - Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer (d. 2012)
1920 – Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player (d. 2012)
1924 – Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (d. 2009)
1927 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer, educator and activist (d. 2003)
1927 - Leonid Shcherbakov, Russian high jumper
1928 – James Garner, American actor (d. 2014)
1928 - James White, Northern Irish writer (d. 1999)
1928 - Alan J. Pakula, American movie maker (d. 1998)
1929 – Bob Denard, French mercenary (d. 2007)
1930 – Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor
1930 - Cliff Morgan, Welsh rugby player (d. 2013)
1930 - Roger Vergé, French chef and restaurateur (d. 2015)
1930 - Vilma Espin, Cuban revolutionary and politician (d. 2007)
1931 - Donald Barthelme, American writer (d. 1989)
1931 - Ted Kotcheff, Canadian director
1933 – Wayne Rogers, American actor (d. 2015)
1934 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (d. 2007)
1937 - Cynthia Lynn, Latvian-American actress (d. 2014)
1938 – Jerry Brown, American politician, former Governor of California
1938 – Freddie Hubbard, American jazz musician (d. 2008)
1938 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (d. 2005)
1938 - Justin Lekhanya, former Prime Minister of Lesotho
1939 – David Frost, British broadcaster (d. 2013)
1939 – Francis Ford Coppola, American movie director
1941 – Gorden Kaye, British actor (d. 2017)
1943 - Mick Abrahams, English guitarist (Jethro Tull)
1944 - Makoto Kobayashi, Japanese physicist
1944 – Gerhard Schröder, former Chancellor of Germany
1944 - Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager
1945 - Megas, Icelandic singer-songwriter
1945 – Werner Schroeter, German movie movie director (d. 2010)
1945 - Robert S. Wistrich, Kazakh-born British-Israeli professor (d. 2015)
1946 - Colette Besson, French sprinter (d. 2005)
1946 - Stan Winston, American special effects expert (d. 2008)
1947 – Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1947 - Patricia Bennett, American singer
1948 – Pietro Anastasi, Italian footballer
1949 - Valentina Matviyenko, Russian politician
1949 – Mitch Daniels, American politician, Governor of Indiana
1949 - Wells Kelly, American singer-songwriter and musician (Orleans) (d. 1984)
1951  1975 
1951 – Janis Ian, American singer and songwriter
1952 - Clarke Peters, American actor and singer
1954 – Jackie Chan, Chinese (Hong Kong) actor
1955 - Tim Cochran, American mathematician (d. 2014)
1955 - Werner Stocker, German actor (d. 1993)
1960 - Buster Douglas, American boxer
1961 – Luigi De Agostini, Italian footballer
1962 – Ram Gopal Varma, Indian director, producer and screenwriter
1962 - Jon Cruddas, English politician
1963 - Jaime de Marichalar, Spanish nobleman
1963 - Nick Herbert, English politician
1964 – Russell Crowe, New Zealand-Australian actor
1965 – Alison Lapper, British artist
1965 - Bill Bellamy, American comedian and actor
1966 - Gary Wilkinson, British snooker player
1967 - Bodo Illgner, German footballer
1968 – Jennifer Lynch, American director
1968 - Vasiliy Sokov, Russian triple jumper
1970 - Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian pianist
1971 – Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (d. 2008)
1971 – Victor Kraatz, Canadian figure skater
1971 - Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, American journalist and actress
1972 - Tim Peake, English astronaut
1973 - Marco Delvecchio, Italian footballer
1973 - Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Dutch politician
1975 - Karin Dreijer Andersson, Swedish singer
From 1976 
1976 - Kevin Alejandro, American actor
1977 - Jenni Haukio, Finnish writer and First Lady of Finland
1979 – Pascal Dupuis, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Duncan James, British singer
1979 - Danny Sandoval, Venezuelan baseball player
1980 - Dragan Bogavac, Montenegrin footballer
1980 – Carl Fletcher, Welsh footballer
1981 - Kelli Young, English singer (Liberty X)
1982 - Silvana Arias, Peruvian actress
1983 - Franck Ribéry, French footballer
1983 - Jon Stead, English footballer
1985 - Humza Yousaf, Scottish politician
1986 - Christian Fuchs, Austrian footballer
1987 - Martín Cáceres, Uruguayan footballer
1989 - Alexa Demara, American actress, model, writer and martial artist
1989 – Franco Di Santo, Argentine footballer
1989 - Sylwia Grzeszczak, Polish singer
1989 - Yulia Samoylova, Russian singer
1991 - Anne-Marie, English singer and songwriter
1992 - William Carvalho, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer
1992 – Alexis Jordan, American singer
1992 - Jessica Sara, American actress
1993 - Irina Shtork, Estonian ice dancer
1994 - Johanna Allik, Estonian figure skater
1997 - Oliver Burke, Scottish footballer
Up to 1900 
924 - Berengar I of Italy (b. 845)
1498 – King Charles VIII of France (b. 1470)
1614 – El Greco, Greek-born Spanish painter (b. 1541)
1638 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (b. 1576)
1651 – Lennart Torstensson, Swedish Governor-General (b. 1603)
1658 - Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (b. 1595)
1719 - Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French saint (b. 1651)
1739 – Dick Turpin, English outlaw (b. 1705)
1762 – Pietro Guarneri, Italian violin maker (b. 1695)
1789 – Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1725)
1789 - Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (b. 1722)
1801 - Noel Francois de Wailly, French lexicographer (b. 1724)
1804 – Toussaint Louverture, Haitian revolutionary (b. 1743)
1811 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (b. 1757)
1823 - Jacques Charles, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1746)
1833 – Antoni Radziwill, Polish politician (b. 1775)
1836 - William Godwin, English journalist and writer (b. 1756)
1849 - Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine priest and politician (b. 1777)
1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and Father of the Confederation (b. 1825)
1871 - Alexander Loyd, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
1885 – Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (b. 1804)
1889 - Youssef Karam, Lebanese nationalist leader (b. 1823)
1891 – P. T. Barnum, American circus impresario (b. 1810)
1900 - Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (b. 1826)
1901  2000 
1914 - Mohammad Ayub Khan, interim regent of Afghanistan (b. 1857)
1917 - Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer (b. 1861)
1918 - David Kolehmainen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1885)
1920 - Karl Binding, German jurist (b. 1841)
1928 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (b. 1873)
1930 - Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo, 4th Governor of New Mexico (b. 1859)
1932 - Grigore Constantinescu, Romanian priest and journalist (b. 1875)
1934 - William Monroe Trotter, American newspaper editor (b. 1872)
1938 - Suzanne Valadon, French painter (b. 1865)
1939 – Joseph Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)
1943 – Alexandre Millerand, President of France (b. 1859)
1944 - Johann Gruber, Austrian priest (b. 1889)
1947 – Henry Ford, American business person (b. 1863)
1950 – Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (b. 1884)
1955 - Theda Bara, American actress (b. 1885)
1956 - Fred Appleby, English long-distance runner (b. 1879)
1957 - John Hart, Irish-Canadian politician, Premier of British Columbia (b. 1879)
1960 - Henri Guisan, Swiss army officer (b. 1874)
1965 - Roger Leger, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919)
1966 - Fred G. Aandahl, American politician, Governor of North Dakota (b. 1897)
1968 – Jim Clark, Scottish racing driver (b. 1936)
1972 – Abeid Karume, President of Zanzibar (b. 1905)
1977 – Siegfried Buback, German federal prosecutor (b. 1920)
1981 - Norman Taurog, American movie director (b. 1899)
1982 – Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (b. 1948)
1984 - Frank Church, American politician (b. 1924)
1985 - Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and theorist (b. 1888)
1986 - Leonid Kantorovich, Soviet-Russian mathematician and economist (b. 1912)
1990 - Ronald Evans, American astronaut (b. 1933)
1992 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1903)
1994 – Albert Gudmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923)
1994 – Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (b. 1953)
1994 - Golo Mann, German historian (b. 1909)
1997 - Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
1997 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer (b. 1910)
2000 - Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Brazilian footballer (b. 1921)
From 2001 
2003 - David Greene, British director (b. 1921)
2004 - Victor Argo, American actor (b. 1934)
2005 - Cliff Allison, Britsh racing driver (b. 1932)
2007 – Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1917)
2008 - Mark Speight, English television presenter (b. 1965)
2009 – Dave Arneson, American creator of the game Dungeons and Dragons (b. 1947)
2010 – Christopher Cazenove, British actor (b. 1945)
2012 - Mike Wallace, American journalist (b. 1918)
2012 - Ignatius Moses I Daoud, Syrian Catholic patriarch (b. 1930)
2013 - Lilly Pulitzer, American socialite and fashion designer (b. 1931)
2013 - Les Blank, American director and producer (b. 1935)
2014 - George Dureau, American artist (b. 1930)
2014 - Frans van der Lugt, Dutch priest (b. 1938)
2014 - Josep Maria Subirachs, Catalan sculptor and painter (b. 1927)
2014 - John Shirley-Quirk, English opera singer (b. 1931)
2014 - Peaches Geldof, English model and television host (b. 1989)
2014 - Zeituni Onyango, Kenyan-American computer programmer (b. 1952)
2014 - George Shuffler, American musician (b. 1925)
2015 - Jean Germain, French politician, Mayor of Tours (b. 1947)
2015 - Richard Henyekane, South African footballer (b. 1983)
2015 - Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, Bulgarian-Spanish nobleman (b. 1962)
2015 - Stan Freberg, American writer, actor and comedian (b. 1926)
2015 - Tim Babcock, American politician, Governor of Montana (b. 1919)
2015 - Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (b. 1935)
2015 - James B. Rhoads, American public servant (b. 1928)
2016 - Frank E. Denholm, American politician (b. 1923)
2016 - Carlo Monti, Italian athlete (b. 1920)
2017 - Marthe Gosteli, Swiss women's rights activist (b. 1917)
2017 - Peter Isaacson, Australian media publisher (b. 1920)
2017 - Christopher Morahan, English stage and television director (b. 1929)
2017 - Glenn O'Brien, American journalist, editor and television presenter (b. 1947)
2017 - Tim Pigott-Smith, English actor (b. 1946)
2018 - Petr Braiko, Soviet-Russian World War II soldier (b. 1919)
2018 - Peter Grünberg, German physicist (b. 1939)
2019 - Hugo Ballesteros Reyes, Chilean politician and diplomat (b. 1931)
2019 - Michael E. Busch, American politician (b. 1947)
2019 - Seymour Cassel, American actor (b. 1935)
2019 - Cho Yang-ho, South Korean businessman (b. 1949)
2019 - Arie Irawan, Malaysian golfer (b. 1990)
2019 - Mya-Lecia Naylor, English actress (b. 2002)
Holidays 
 Day of Maternity and Beauty in Armenia
 Genocide Memorial Day (Rwanda)
 World Health Day (WHO)
 Women's Day (Mozambique)

April 07
Up to 1900 
 597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem and replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as King.
 455 - Roman Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated by two Hunnic retainers while training with the bow on the Campus Martinus in Rome.
 1190 – Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York.
 1244 - Over 200 Cathars are burned after the fall of Montségur. 
 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
 1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
 1660 – The Long Parliament disbands.
 1782 - American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British island of Roatan.
 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
 1802 – The United States Military Academy West Point is established.
 1815 – Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
1818 - Second Battle of Cancha Rayada: Spanish forces defeat Chileans under Jose de San Martin.
 1850 – Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is first published.
 1861 – Edward Clark becomes Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
 1864 - American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
 1865 - American Civil War: The Battle of Avenasborough begins, with Confederate forces suffering heavy losses.
 1867 – First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
 1872 – The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
 1898 - The Italian Football Federation is founded.
 1900 – Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
1901  1950 
 1906 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits Chiayi, Taiwan, killing around 1,300 people.
 1912 - Lawrence Oates, a member of Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated South Pole expedition, because of illness leaves the tent to die, a day before his 32nd birthday. His last words were "I am just going outside and may be some time".
 1916 - The 7th and 10th Cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US-Mexico border in a bid to capture Pancho Villa.
 1916 - Antonio Jose de Almeida becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
 1924 - In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, the Free State of Fiume is annexed as part of Italy.
 1925 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits Yunnan, China, killing around 5,000 people.
 1926 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
 1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
1936 - Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, flooding Pittsburgh.
 1939 - At Prague Castle, Adolf Hitler declares Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
 1939 - Marriage of Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt and Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
 1940 - World War II: A German bombing raid is carried out on Scapa Flow, Orkney.
 1942 - The first V-2 rocket is test-launched - it explodes after lift-off.
 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
 1945 – World War II: Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
1951  2000 
 1956 – St. Urho's Day is first celebrated.
 1958 - The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird.
 1962 – A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 people missing.
 1966 - Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight, with Neil Armstrong and David Scott on board.
 1968 – Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers—men, women, and children—are killed by American troops.
 1968 - General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, an Oldsmobile Toronado.
 1969 – A Venezuelan Airlines DC-9 crashes shortly after takeoff in Maracaibo, Venezuela killing 155
 1972 – The first building of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex is demolished.
 1976 - Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom five days after his 60th birthday, citing personal reasons. James Callaghan replaces him.
1977 - Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
 1978 – Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas in Italy and is later killed by his captors.
 1978 – The Amoco Cadiz oil tanker runs aground off Brittany, leading to an oil spill.
 1983 – Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last radio tower in Germany built of wood.
 1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.
 1985 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He would be released on December 4, 1991.
 1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
 1988 – Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq was attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents, killing thousands of people.
1989 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found near the Pyramid of Cheops.
 1993 – A blizzard on the east coast of the United States kills 184 (see Great Blizzard of 1993).
 1994 – Tonya Harding pleads guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for trying to cover-up an attack on figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan.
 1995 - Mississippi formally ratifies the 13th Amendment, becoming the last US State to approve a ban on slavery.
 1996 - Mike Tyson defeats Frank Bruno in Las Vegas to win the Boxing World Heavyweight title.
 1997 – Stuart Appleby wins the Honda Golf Classic.
From 2001 
 2002 – Closing ceremonies of the Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
 2003 – Largest coordinated worldwide vigil, as part of the global protests against Iraq war.
 2005 - Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
 2006 – Release date of the computer role-playing game Final Fantasy XII in Japan.
 2010 – The Kasubi Tombs in Uganda, which formed a World Heritage Site, are destroyed by fire.
 2014 - Closing ceremony of the Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Southern Russia.
 2014 - A referendum held in Crimea results in a majority wanting to join Russia rather than stay part of Ukraine.

Births
Births

Up to 1800 
 1399 - Xuande Emperor of China (d. 1435)
 1465 - Kunigunde of Austria (d. 1520)
 1473 - Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541)
 1581 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet, historian and dramatist (d. 1647)
 1663 - Jean-Baptiste Matho, French composer (d. 1743)
 1687 – Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (d. 1757)
 1750 – Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer (d. 1848)
 1751 – James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
 1771 - Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (d. 1835)
 1773 - Juan Ramon Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (d. 1836)
 1774 – Matthew Flinders, English explorer (d. 1814)
 1789 – Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
 1789 - Francis Chesney, English general and explorer (d. 1872)
 1799 – Anna Atkins, British botanist and illustrator (d. 1871)
 1800 – Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
1801  1900 
 1805 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (d. 1861)
 1821 - Eduard Heine, German mathematician (d. 1851)
 1822 – Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (d. 1899)
 1827 - Ferdinand Meldahl, Danish architect (d. 1908)
 1834 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)
 1836 - Andrew Smith Hallidie, English-American engineer and inventor (d. 1900)
 1839 – Sully Prudhomme, French writer (d. 1907)
 1839 - John Butler Yeats, Irish artist (d. 1922)
 1840 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)
 1845 - Umegatani Totaro I, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1928)
 1846 - Jurgis Bielinis, Lithuanian book smuggler (d. 1918)
 1846 - Gosta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927)
 1848 - Axel Heiberg, Norwegian diplomat and financier (d. 1932)
 1851 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
 1856 - Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial, son of Napoleon III of France (d. 1879)
 1859 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1907)
1865 - Aspazija, Latvian poet and playwright (d. 1943)
 1871 - Frantz Reichel, French athlete and rugby player (d. 1932)
 1877 - Leo-Ernest Ouimet, Canadian movie pioneer (d. 1972)
 1877 – Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran (d. 1944)
 1878 – Clemens August Graf von Galen, German bishop and Resistance activist (d. 1946)
 1883 - Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (d. 1958)
 1884 - Alexander Belyayev, Russian writer (d. 1942)
 1885 - Giacomo Benvenuti, Italian composer and musicologist (d. 1943)
 1887 - Emilio Lunghi, Italian middle-distance runner (d. 1925)
 1889 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951)
 1890 - Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor (d. 1948)
 1892 - Nikolai Kondratiev, Russian economist (d. 1938)
 1892 – César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (d. 1938)
 1897 – Conrad Nagel, American actor (d. 1970)
1901  1925 
 1902 - Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinettist (d. 1943)
 1905 - Elisabeth Hickenschildt, German actress, producer and writer (d. 1977)
 1906 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer (d. 2009)
 1908 - Rene Daumal, French writer and poet (d. 1944)
 1908 - Robert Rossen, American screenwriter, movie director and producer (d. 1966)
 1911 – Pierre Harmel, 40th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2009)
 1911 – Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
 1912 – Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
 1915 - Haldun Taner, Turkish playwright and short story writer (d. 1986)
 1915 – Kunihiko Kodaira, Japanese mathematician (d. 1997)
 1916 – Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese survivor of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs (d. 2010)
 1918 – Frederick Reines, American physicist (d. 1998)
 1918 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
 1920 – Tonino Guerra, Italian poet, writer and screenwriter (d. 2012)
 1920 - John Addison, British composer (d. 1998)
1920 - Sid Fleischman, American writer (d. 2010)
 1920 – Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's press secretary (d. 2002)
 1921 - Werner Uebelmann, Swiss entrepreneur (d. 2014)
 1923 – Sergiu Cunescu, Romanian politician (d. 2005)
 1925 – Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (d. 2004)
 1925 - Cornell Borchers, German actress (d. 2014)
1926  1950 
 1926 – Jerry Lewis, American comedian (d. 2017)
 1926 - Charles Goodell, United States Senator for New York (d. 1987)
 1927 - Vladimir Komarov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (d. 1967)
 1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American politician (d. 2003)
 1927 - Joseph W. Tkach, American pastor (d. 1995)
 1928 - Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano
 1928 – Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian actor (d. 2014)
 1928 - Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2010)
 1929 - Betty Johnson, American singer
 1929 - Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist (d. 2015)
 1929 - Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress
 1930 - Tommy Flanagan, American jazz pianist (d. 2001)
 1931 – Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director (d. 2009)
 1931 - Anthony Kenny, English philosopher
 1932 - Kurt Diemberger, Austrian mountaineer
 1932 – Walter Cunningham, American astronaut
 1933 - Jos Chabert, Belgian politician (d. 2014)
 1934 – Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor General of Canada (d. 2002)
 1934 - Ray Walker, American singer
1935 - Teresa Berganza, Spanish opera singer
 1936 – Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian-American practitioner of MRI
 1936 - Elisabeth Volkmann, German actress (d. 2006)
 1937 - Attilio Nicora, Italian cardinal (d. 2017)
 1939 – Carlos Bilardo, Argentine footballer
 1940 – Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian movie director (d. 2018)
 1941 – Robert Guéï, military leader of Ivory Coast (d. 2002)
 1942 - Roger Crozier, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996)
 1944 - John Kipkurgat, Kenyan middle-distance runner
 1944 - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American computer scientist
 1946 - Michael Basman, English chess player
 1948 – Richard Desjardins, Canadian singer, songwriter and movie director
 1948 - Margaret Weis, American writer
 1949 - Erik Estrada, American actor
 1949 - Victor Garber, Canadian actor
 1950 – Joe Bugner, Hungarian-born boxer
1951  1975 
 1952 - Philippe Kahn, French technology innovator and entrepreneur
 1952 - Irwin Keyes, American actor and comedian (d. 2015)
 1953 – Richard Stallman, American free software activist
 1953 - Oscar Ramirez, Peruvian revolutionary leader
 1954 - Nancy Wilson, American guitarist (Heart)
 1954 – Jimmy Nail, British actor and singer
 1955 - Bruno Barreto, Brazilian movie director
 1955 - Svetlana Alexeeva, Russian ice dancer and coach
 1956 - Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, Swiss politician
 1956 - Ozzie Newsome, American football player and coach
 1956 - Clifton Powell, American actor and comedian
 1958 - Phillip Wilcher, Australian pianist
 1959 – Jens Stoltenberg, former Prime Minister of Norway and current Secretary-General of NATO
 1959 - Flavor Flav, American rapper
 1960 – Jenny Eclair, British comedienne
 1960 - Duane Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
 1960 - John Hemming, British politician
 1961 - Todd McFarlane, Canadian artist, cartoonist and entrepreneur
1961 - Michiru Oshima, Japanese composer
 1963 - Jimmy DeGrasso, American musician
 1964 - Patty Griffin, American singer
 1965 - Mark Carney, Canadian economist, Governor of the Bank of England
 1965 - Belén Rueda, Spanish actress
 1967 – Lauren Graham, American actress
 1967 - John Darnielle, American musician and novelist
 1969 – Markus Lanz, German-Italian television presenter and entertainer
 1970 – Joakim Berg, Swedish composer
 1970 – Pall Oskar, Icelandic singer and musician
 1975 - Sienna Guillory, English actress
From 1976 
 1976 - Paul Schneider, American actor and director
 1977 - Steve Jones, Welsh television presenter
 1978 - Brooke Burns, American actress and model
 1979 – Leena Peisa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
 1979 - Andrei Stepanov, Estonian footballer
 1979 – Edison Mendez, Ecuadorean footballer
 1980 - Todd Heap, American football player
 1980 - Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player
 1981 – Yoav Ziv, Israeli footballer
 1984 – Wilfried Sanou, Burkina Faso footballer
 1984 - Brandon Prust, Canadian ice hockey player
 1986 - Daisuke Takahashi, Japanese figure skater
 1986 – Ken Doane, American wrestler
 1986 - Neil Gray, Scottish politician
 1986 – Bernard Parker, South African footballer
 1987 - Tiiu Kuik, Estonian model
 1988 - Jessica Gregg, Canadian short-track speed skater
 1988 - Patrick Herrmann, German footballer
 1989 – Theo Walcott, English footballer
 1989 – Blake Griffin, American basketball player
 1990 – James Bulger, English toddler whose killing led to a high-profile murder case (d. 1993)
1991 – Wolfgang Van Halen, American musician
 1992 - Brett Davern, American actor
 1993 - George Ford, English rugby union player
 1995 - Shy Carlos, Filipino-Swiss actress and singer
 1999 - Bailie Key, American gymnast