Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
Up to 1900 
 65 BC – Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC)
 1542 – Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1587)
 1574 - Maria Anna of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1616)
 1626 – Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689) (N.S. December 18 on Gregorian calendar)
 1642 – Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703)
 1678 - Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, English diplomat (d. 1757)
 1685 – Johann Maria Farina, Italian perfume designer (d. 1766)
 1699 – Maria Josepha of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1757)
 1708 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765)
 1724 - Claude Balbastre, French composer (d. 1799)
 1730 - Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physiologist, biologist and chemist (d. 1799)
 1756 – Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria (d. 1801)
 1765 – Eli Whitney, American inventor (d. 1825)
 1790 - Augustus Meineke, German philologist (d. 1870)
 1795 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer (d. 1874)
 1817 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, 10th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1896)
 1818 – Charles III, Prince of Monaco (d. 1889)
1831 - William Pitt Kellogg, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1918)
 1832 – Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian writer (d. 1910)
 1848 - Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and writer (d. 1908)
 1857 - Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg, German politician (d. 1920)
 1861 – Aristide Maillol, French sculptor and painter (d. 1944)
 1861 - William C. Durant, American businessman (d. 1947)
 1864 – Camille Claudel, French graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1943)
 1865 – Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (d. 1963)
 1865 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (d. 1957)
 1873 - William Watson, Baron Thankerton, Scottish judge and politician (d. 1948)
 1875 - Wilfred Hudson Osgood, American zoologist (d. 1947)
 1880 - Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist (d. 1973)
 1886 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d. 1957)
 1890 – Bohuslav Martinu, Czech composer (d. 1959)
 1892 – E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (d. 1938)
 1894 - Marthe Vinot, French actress (d. 1974)
 1894 - Florbela Espanca, Portuguese poet (d. 1930)
1899 - John Qualen, Canadian actor (d. 1987)
 1899 - Anselmo Alliegro y Mila, Cuban politician (d. 1961)
 1900 - Ants Oras, Estonian writer (d. 1982)
 1900 - Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (d. 1990)
1901  1950 
 1902 - Wifredo Lam, Cuban painter (d. 1982)
 1908 - John A. Volpe, American politician (d. 1994)
 1909 - Gratien Gelinas, Canadian author, actor and director (d. 1999)
 1911 - Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976)
 1913 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet (d. 1966)
 1915 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
 1916 - Richard Fleischer, American movie director (d. 2006)
 1919 – Peter Tali Coleman, American politician, former Governor of American Samoa (d. 1997)
 1922 – Lucian Freud, German-born British painter (d. 2011)
 1922 - Jean Porter, American actress (d. 2018)
 1922 - Jean Ritchie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
 1923 - Pio Taufinu'u, Samoan cardinal (d. 2006)
 1923 - Rudolph Pariser, American chemist
 1925 – Sammy Davis, Jr., American actor and singer (d. 1990)
 1925 – Arnaldo Forlani, Italian politician, former Prime Minister of Italy
 1926 – Joachim Fest, German historian (d. 2006)
 1926 - Revaz Chkheidze, Georgian movie director (d. 2015)
1927 - Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet-Kazakhstani cosmonaut and general
 1928 - Jimmy Smith, American musician (d. 2005)
 1928 - Ulric Neisser, German-American psychologist (d. 2012)
 1929 - Johnny Anderson, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)
 1929 - Gérard de Villiers, French writer (d. 2013)
 1930 – Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor and director (d. 2014)
 1931 - Bob Arum, American boxing promoter
 1932 - Charly Gaul, Luxembourg cyclist (d. 2005)
 1933 - Flip Wilson, American comedian and actor (d. 1998)
 1935 - Dharmendra, Indian actor 
 1935 - Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Israeli chess player
 1936 – David Carradine, American actor (d. 2009)
 1936 - Ralph Brand, Scottish footballer
 1937 - James MacArthur, American actor (d. 2010)
 1938 – John Kufuor, former President of Ghana
 1939 – James Galway, Northern Irish flautist
 1939 - Jerry Butler, American singer-songwriter
 1939 - Dariush Mehrjui, Iranian director, screenwriter and producer
 1939 - Red Berenson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1941 – Geoff Hurst, English footballer
 1941 - Bobby Elliott, English drummer
 1942 - Mario Savio, American activist (d. 1996)
 1943 – Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
 1943 - James Tate, American writer (d. 2015)
 1944 - Ted Irvine, Canadian ice hockey player
 1945 - John Banville, Irish author
 1946 - John Rubinstein, American actor, composer and director
 1947 – Thomas R. Cech, American chemist
 1947 – Gregg Allman, American musician (d. 2017)
 1948 - Luis Caffarelli, Argentine-American mathematician and academic
 1950 - Dan Hartman, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1994)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Bill Bryson, American writer
 1952 - Bobby McKean, Scottish footballer (d. 1978)
 1953 – Kim Basinger, American actress
 1953 - Norman Finkelstein, American academic, author and activist
 1954 - Louis de Bernières, English writer
 1955 - Martin Semmelrogge, German actor
 1956 - Warren Cuccurullo, American guitarist
 1956 - Andrius Kubilius, 9th Prime Minister of Lithuania
 1956 - Pierre Pincemaille, French organist
 1957 - James Cama, American martial arts teacher (d. 2014)
 1957 – Phil Collen, English guitarist (Def Leppard)
 1959 - Paul Rutherford, English singer
 1959 - Jim Yong Kim, Korean-American former President of the World Bank
 1960 - Lim Guam Eng, Malaysian politician
 1960 - Aaron Allston, American author (d. 2014)
 1961 – Ann Coulter, American political commentator
 1962 – Marty Friedman, American guitarist
 1963 - Greg Howe, American guitarist, composer and producer
 1963 - Brian McClair, Scottish footballer
 1964 – Teri Hatcher, American actress
1964 - Mike Ruiz, Canadian-American model, photographer and director
 1964 - Richard David Precht, German philosopher
 1965 - David Harewood, English actor
 1966 – Les Ferdinand, English footballer
 1966 – Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer (d. 2023)
 1966 – Hope Powell, English footballer and coach
 1972 – Marco Abreu, Angolan footballer
 1973 – Corey Taylor, American singer
From 1976 
 1976 – Dominic Monaghan, English actor
 1977 – Sébastien Chabal, French rugby player
 1978 – Frédéric Piquionne, French footballer
 1978 - Ian Somerhalder, American actor
 1979 – Christian Wilhelmsson, Swedish footballer
 1980 - Lisa Kelly, American trucker (Ice Road Truckers)
 1982 – Halil Altintop, Turkish footballer
 1982 – Hamit Altintop, Turkish footballer
 1982 – Nicki Minaj, Trinidad and Tobago-born American singer
 1982 - DeeDee Trotter, American athlete
 1983 - Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2014)
 1984 - Dustin Brown, Jamaican-German tennis player
 1984 - Emma Green Tegaro, Swedish high jumper
 1985 - Meagan Duhamel, Canadian ice skater
 1985 - Dwight Howard, American basketball player
 1986 – Amir Khan, English boxer
 1986 – Kate Voegele, American musician
 1987 - Susanne Riesch, German skier
 1989 - Drew Doughty, Canadian ice hockey player
 1992 - Katie Stevens, American singer and actress
 1993 – AnnaSophia Robb, American actress
1994 - Raheem Sterling, English footballer
 1995 - Jordon Ibe, English footballer
 1996 - Teala Dunn, American actress
 1996 - Scott McTominay, English-Scottish footballer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 592 - Emperor Sushun of Japan
 899 - Arnulf of Carinthia, King of East Francia (b. 850)
 1495 - Alfonso II of Naples (b. 1448)
 1691 – Richard Baxter, English clergyman (b. 1615)
 1709 – Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (b. 1625)
 1722 – Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (b. 1652)
 1744 - Marie Anne de Mailly, mistress to Louis XV of France (b. 1711)
 1793 – Madame du Barry, French mistress (b. 1743)
 1830 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French writer (b. 1767)
 1859 - Thomas De Quincey, English author (b. 1785)
 1864 - George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1815)
 1869 - Narcisa de Jesus, Ecuadorean Catholic laywoman and saint (b. 1832)
 1885 - William Henry Vanderbilt, American railroad executive and philanthropist (b. 1821)
 1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)
1901  2000 
 1903 – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher and sociologist (b. 1820)
 1907 – King Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
 1914 – Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer (b. 1861)
 1930 - Florbela Espanca, Portuguese poet (b. 1894)
 1933 – Yamamoto Gonnohyoe, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1852)
 1952 - Charles Lightoller, English officer on the RMS Titanic (b. 1874)
 1955 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician, physicist and philosopher (b. 1885)
 1956 - Jimmie Angel, American pilot (b. 1899)
 1963 - Sarit Thanarat, 11th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
 1967 – John Mills, Sr., American singer (b. 1889)
 1971 - Ernst Krenkel, Soviet Arctic explorer and radio operator (b. 1903)
 1975 - Gary Thain, New Zealand musician (Uriah Heep) (b. 1948)
 1978 – Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898)
 1980 – John Lennon, English singer, songwriter and musician (The Beatles) (b. 1940)
 1981 – Ferruccio Parri, Italian politician (b. 1890)
1982 - Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter and racing driver (b. 1925)
 1982 – Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (b. 1951)
 1982 - Andre Kramperveen, Surinamese footballer and politician (b. 1924)
 1983 – Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
 1983 - Keith Holyoake, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)
 1984 - Luther Adler, American actor (b. 1903)
 1990 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish theatre director (b. 1915)
 1991 - Buck Clayton, American trumpeter (b. 1911)
 1992 – William Shawn, American magazine editor (b. 1917)
 1996 – Howard Rollins, American actor (b. 1950)
 1996 - Kashiwado Tsuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1938)
 1997 - Laurean Rugambwa, Tanzanian cardinal (b. 1912)
 1998 - Aaron Hopa, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1971)
From 2001 
 2003 – Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1919)
 2004 – Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (b. 1966)
 2008 – Oliver Postgate, British animator, puppetteer and writer (b. 1925)
 2011 – Zelman Cowen, 19th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1919)
 2013 - John Cornforth, Australian chemist (b. 1917)
 2014 - Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, Indian singer (b. 1927)
 2014 - Knut Nystedt, Norwegian composer (b. 1915)
 2014 - Russ Kemmerer, American baseball player (b. 1930)
 2015 - Alan Hodgkinson, English footballer (b. 1936)
 2015 - Elsie Tu, English-Hong Kong social activist (b. 1913)
 2015 - Mattiwilda Dobbs, American coloratura soprano (b. 1925)
 2015 - John Trudell, American activist and poet (b. 1946)
 2015 - Bonnie Lou, American singer (b. 1924)
 2015 - Douglas Tompkins, American businessman (b. 1943)
 2016 - John Glenn, American astronaut and politician (b. 1921)
 2016 - Joseph Mascolo, American actor (b. 1929)
 2017 - Vladimir Curbet, Moldovan choreographer (b. 1930)
2017 - Sunny Murray, American jazz drummer (b. 1936)
 2017 - Atsutoshi Nishida, Japanese businessman (b. 1943)
 2018 - Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Russian activist (b. 1927)
 2018 - Enrico Crispolti, Italian art critic and historian (b. 1933)
 2018 - Pentti Tiusanen, Finnish politician (b. 1949)
 2018 - David Weatherall, British physician and molecular geneticist (b. 1933)
 2019 - René Auberjonois, American actor (b. 1940)
 2019 - Hirokazu Kanazawa, Japanese karate practitioner and teacher (b. 1931)
 2019 - Caroll Spinney, American actor and puppeteer (b. 1933)
 2019 - Paul Volcker, American economist (b. 1927)
 2019 - Zvonimir Vujin, Serbian boxer (b. 1943)
 2019 - Juice Wrld, American rapper (b. 1998)
Observances 
 Roman Catholic Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception 
 CARICOM-Cuba Day
 Constitution Day (Romania and Uzbekistan)
 Students' Day (Bulgaria)
 National Youth Day (Albania)
 Bodhi Day (Japan)

December 08
Up to 1950 
 480 - Odoacer, the first King of Italy, occupies Dalmatia in present-day Croatia.
 536 - Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed.
 1531 - The Virgin of Guadalupe is said to have first appeared to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
 1775 – American Revolutionary War: British troops lose in the Battle of Great Bridge and leave Virginia shortly after.
 1793 - New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is created by Noah Webster.
 1824 – Battle of Ayacucho: Peruvian troops defeat the Spanish, who then end their colonial rule over Peru.
 1835 – The Texan Army captures San Antonio, Texas.
 1851 – The YMCA in North America is founded in Montreal.
 1872 – P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African American State Governor in the US, in Louisiana.
 1888 - Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States Department of War.
 1892 - English football club Newcastle United is created.
1897 – Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde, in Paris.
 1905 – France passes the law separating church and state.
 1911 – A mine explosion in Briceville, Tennessee kills 84 miners.
 1917 - World War I: Hussein al-Husseyni, Ottoman Mayor of Jerusalem, surrenders the city to the British.
 1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz is confirmed as President of Poland.
 1931 - The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
 1935 - American football: The trophy that later becomes the Heisman Trophy is given for the first time. The winner is Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
 1937 – In the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese troops launch an assault on the city of Nanjing.
 1940 - World War II: Operation Compass - British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani, Egypt.
1941 – World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Republic of Korea and the Philippine Commonwealth declare war on Japan.
 1946 – The Constituent Assembly of India meets to write the Constitution.
 1946 - The Doctors' trial begins over physicians believed to have committed Nazi war crimes and medical experiments on people.
 1948 - The Genocide Convention is adopted.
 1950 - Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in prison for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.
From 1951 
 1953 – Red Scare: General Electric announces the discharge of all Communist employees.
 1956 - Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, killing all 62 people on board.
 1960 – Coronation Street is broadcast for the first time on British television.
 1961 – Tanganyika becomes independent. In 1964 it joins with Zanzibar to form Tanzania.
 1962 – Tanganyika joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
 1962 - The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona is created. 
 1966 – Barbados joins the UN.
 1968 - Douglas Engelbart demonstrates the computer mouse and hypertext.
 1971 – The United Arab Emirates join the UN.
 1973 – Britain and Ireland sign the Sunningdale Agreement.
 1979 – The eradication of Smallpox is announced.
 1990 – Lech Walesa becomes President of Poland.
 1998 - In the Swiss Federal Council, Ruth Dreifuss is chosen to be Switzerland's President for the year 1999, making her the first woman to take up the role, on January 1, 1999.
2003 – A blast in central Moscow kills 6 people.
 2005 - End of the London Routemaster Red Double-Decker Bus Service.
 2008 – Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is arrested by federal agents on a number of crimes, including trying to sell the United States Senate Seat of Barack Obama, who had been elected president.
 2009 - Carwyn Jones becomes First Minister of Wales, succeeding Rhodri Morgan.
 2016 - President of South Korea Park Geun-hye is impeached by the country's National Assembly, as a result of a major corruption scandal.
 2016 - A suicide bomb attack in Madagali, Nigeria, kills at least 45 people.
 2019 - 2019 Whakaari/White Island eruption: The Whakaari-White Island volcano in New Zealand erupts, killing at least 18 people.
 2019 - A Chilean plane crashes en route from Chile to Antarctica with 38 people on board.
Up to 1900 
 1392 - Peter, Duke of Coimbra, Portuguese prince (d. 1449)
 1447 – Chenghua Emperor of China (d. 1487)
 1508 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and mapmaker (d. 1555)
 1571 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
 1579 - Martín de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)
 1594 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
 1608 – John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)
 1610 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian singer and actor (d. 1680)
 1652 - Augustus Quirinus Rivenus, German physician and botanist (d. 1723)
 1667 - William Whiston, English mathematician, historian and theologian (d. 1752)
 1748 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
 1751 – Maria Luisa of Parma, Queen of Spain (d. 1819)
 1787 - John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865)
 1842 – Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist and writer (d. 1921)
 1845 - Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (d. 1908)
 1850 – Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)
 1863 - John Burnet, Scottish classical philologist (d. 1928)
1868 – Fritz Haber, German chemist (d. 1934)
 1872 - Thomas W. Hardwick, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1944)
 1873 - Henry S. Caulfield, American politician, 37th Governor of Missouri (d. 1966)
 1876 - Berton Churchill, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1940)
 1877 - Mart Kuusik, Russian-Estonian rower (d. 1964)
 1882 - Joaquin Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)
 1883 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician, theorist and academic (d. 1950)
 1883 – Alexander Papagos, Greek general and Prime Minister (d. 1955)
 1883 - Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness expert (d. 1967)
 1886 – Clarence Birdseye, American frozen food manufacturer (d. 1956)
 1887 - Tim Moore, American actor (d. 1958)
 1889 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (d. 1966)
 1890 - Laura Salverson, Canadian author (d. 1970)
 1896 - Goodwin Knight, American politician, 31st Governor of California (d. 1970)
 1897 - Hermione Gingold, English-American actress and singer (d. 1987)
1898 - Emmett Kelly, American clown (d. 1979)
 1900 - Albert Weisbord, American activist (d. 1977)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
 1901 – Carol Dempster, American actress (d. 1991)
 1901 – Odon von Horvath, Austro-Hungarian writer (d. 1938)
 1902 - Rab Butler, British politician (d. 1982)
 1902 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
 1906 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist (d. 1992)
 1909 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (d. 2000)
 1911 - Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 1986)
 1912 – Tip O'Neill, American politician (d. 1994)
 1914 - Max Manus, Norwegian resistance activist (d. 1996)
 1915 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German soprano (d. 2006)
 1916 – Kirk Douglas, American actor (d. 2020)
 1917 – James Rainwater, American physicist (d. 1986)
 1919 – William Lipscomb, American chemist (d. 2011)
 1920 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, former President of Italy (d. 2016)
 1924 - Manlio Sgalambro, Italian philosopher and poet (d. 2014)
 1926 - Erhard Eppler, German politician (d. 2019)
 1926 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist (d. 1999)
1928 - Dick Van Patten, American actor (d. 2015)
 1929 – Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2019)
 1929 – John Cassavetes, American director and actor (d. 1989)
 1930 - Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (d. 2010)
 1930 - Buck Henry, American actor, director and writer (d. 2020)
 1931 - William Reynolds, American actor
 1933 - Milt Campbell, American decathlete (d. 2012)
 1933 - Morton Downey, Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor and talk show host (d. 2001)
 1934 – Judi Dench, English actress
 1941 - Beau Bridges, American actor
 1942 – Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (d. 1997)
 1942 - Germain Gagnon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
 1942 - Joe McGinniss, American writer (d. 2014)
 1943 - Joanna Trollope, English writer
 1944 - Bob O'Connor, American politician, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh
 1944 - Neil Innes, English musician and composer (d. 2019)
 1944 - Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, 80th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (d. 2020)
1945 - Michael Nouri, American actor
 1946 - Mervyn Davies, Welsh rugby player (d. 2012)
 1946 – Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician
 1948 – Dennis Dunaway, American musician
 1949 – Tom Kite, American golfer
 1949 – Nando Parrado, Uruguayan plane crash survivor
 1950 – Joan Armatrading, British musician and singer-songwriter.
1951  1975 
 1952 - Michael Dorn, American actor and director
 1953 – John Malkovich, American actor
 1954 – Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission and former Prime Minister of Luxembourg
 1954 - Phil Bryant, American politician, 63rd Governor of Mississippi
 1954 - Mary Fallin, American politician, Governor of Oklahoma
 1954 - Henk ten Cate, Dutch footballer and manager
 1954 - Kip Hanrahan, American musician and producer
 1955 - Otis Birdsong, American basketball player
 1956 – Jean-Pierre Thiollet, French author
 1957 – Donny Osmond, American singer and actor
 1960 – Caroline Lucas, English politician, MP for and former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
 1960 - Juan Samuel, Dominican-American baseball player and manager
 1961 - John Anthony Higgins, American actor
 1961 - Joe Lando, American actor
 1962 – Felicity Huffman, American actress
 1963 – Empress Masako of Japan
 1963 – Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (d. 2005)
1964 – Hape Kerkeling, German comedian, actor and television presenter
 1964 – Johannes B. Kerner, German television presenter
 1964 – Paul Landers, German guitarist
 1964 - Michael Müller, German politician, Governing Mayor of Berlin
 1966 – Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician
 1966 - Spencer Rochfort, American-Canadian actor
 1966 - Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli lawyer and politician
 1966 - Shane Scott, American director, producer, cinematographer and screenwriter
 1967 - Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
 1968 – Kurt Angle, American professional wrestler
 1969 – Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
 1970 - Lance Krall, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
 1971 - Geoff Barrow, English drummer, DJ, composer and producer
 1972 - Michael Corcoran, American singer-songwriter and producer
 1972 – Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-French tennis player
 1972 – Tré Cool, American musician (Green Day)
From 1976 
 1976 - Booba, French rapper
 1977 – Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter
 1978 – Jesse Metcalfe, American actor
 1981 - Gemma Fay, Scottish footballer
 1981 – Mardy Fish, American tennis player
 1981 - Dia Mirza, Indian model, actress and producer
 1983 – Jermaine Beckford, English footballer
 1983 – Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
 1987 - Hikaru Nakamura, Japanese-American chess player
 1987 - Adam Szalai, Hungarian footballer
 1988 - Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer
 1989 – Lindsey Evans, American glamour model
 1990 – LaFee, German singer
 1991 – Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
 1991 - Choi Minho, South Korean singer, dancer and actor
 1995 - McKayla Maroney, American gymnast

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1950 
 638 - Sergius I of Constantinople
 1165 – King Malcolm IV of Scotland (b. 1141)
 1437 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)
 1565 – Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)
 1625 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)
 1641 – Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (b. 1599)
 1669 – Pope Clement XI (b. 1600)
 1706 – King Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
 1718 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian monk, cosmographer and cartographer (b. 1650)
 1830 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and academic (b. 1757)
 1858 - Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
 1916 – Natsume Soseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)
 1930 - Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
 1937 – Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist (b. 1869)
 1941 - Dmitry Merezhovsky, Russian author, poet and philosopher (b. 1865)
1951  2000 
 1955 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (b. 1885)
 1964 – Edith Sitwell, English poet (b. 1887)
 1967 - Charles Leon Hammes, Luxembourgish lawyer and judge (b. 1898)
 1970 - Artem Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian engineer and businessman (b. 1905)
 1970 - Feroz Khan Noon, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
 1971 – Ralph Bunche, American diplomat (b. 1904)
 1972 - Louella Parsons, American journalist and screenwriter (b. 1881)
 1975 - William A. Wellman, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1896)
 1977 - Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (b. 1920)
 1979 - Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop (b. 1895)
 1981 – Daniel Faulkner, Philadelphia police officer (b. 1955)
 1982 – Asmundur Sveinsson, Icelandic sculptor (b. 1893)
 1991 – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898)
 1993 - Danny Blanchflower, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926)
 1995 - Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (b. 1907)
 1996 – Mary Leakey, British archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
1996 - Alain Poher, French politician (b. 1909)
 1998 – Archie Moore, American boxer (b. 1913)
From 2001 
 2004 – Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)
 2005 – György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912)
 2009 – Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919)
 2010 – James Moody, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
 2012 - Jenni Rivera, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress (b. 1969)
 2012 - Patrick Moore, English astronomer, writer and broadcaster (b. 1923)
 2012 - Charles Rosen, American pianist and musicologist (b. 1927)
 2013 - Eleanor Parker, American actress (b. 1922)
 2014 - Mary Ann Mobley, American actress (b. 1939)
 2014 - Jane Freilicher, American painter (b. 1924)
 2014 - Karl Otto Pöhl, German economist (b. 1929)
 2015 - Rusty Jones, American jazz drummer (b. 1942)
 2017 - James Joseph Brady, American judge (b. 1944)
 2017 - Leonid Bronevoy, Ukrainian-Russian actor (b. 1928)
 2017 - Lando Fiorini, Italian actor (b. 1938)
 2017 - Grant Munro, Canadian animator, filmmaker and actor (b. 1923)
 2017 - Joe Newton, American track and field coach (b. 1929)
2018 - Yigal Bashan, Israeli singer and composer (b. 1950)
 2018 - Robert Bergland, American politician (b. 1928)
 2018 - William Blum, American author and historian (b. 1933)
 2018 - Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American astrophysicist (b. 1931)
 2018 - Bob Giggie, American baseball player (b. 1933)
 2018 - Gordon Scholes, Australian politician (b. 1931)
 2018 - Dick Van Orden, American rear admiral (b. 1921)
 2019 - John R. Broxson, American politician (b. 1932)
 2019 - Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer (Roxette) (b. 1958)
 2019 - Omar Graffigna, Argentine air force officer (b. 1926)
 2019 - William Luce, American writer (b. 1931)
 2019 - Veijo Puhjo, Finnish politician (b. 1948)
 2019 - Imre Varga, Hungarian sculptor and painter (b. 1923)
Observances 
 National holiday in Tanzania, celebrating independence of Tanganyika in 1961
 Anna's Day (Sweden and Finland)
 Armed Forces Day (Peru)
 International Anti-Corruption Day

December 09
Up to 1900 
 1278 - Tran Thanh Tang, second Emperor of Vietnam's Tran Dynasty, decides to pass the throne to crown prince Tran Kham.
 1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.
 1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 persons.
 1576 - Eighty Years' War: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
 1602 - The Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford is opened to the public.
 1605 - Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
 1620 – The Battle of White Mountain, the first battle in the Thirty Years' War, takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
 1644 - Shunzhi Emperor, the first Emperor of China's Qing Dynasty, is enthroned in Beijing.
1745 - Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of around 5,000 that would later take part in the Battle of Culloden.
 1793 – In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.
 1798 - British seafarer John Fearn becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Nauru, which he names Pleasant Island.
 1861 - American Civil War: The Trent Affair - The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparkinga diplomatic crisis between the UK and the USA.
 1864 – U.S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George McClellan.
 1867 - Two explosions occur at the Ferndale Colliery in Wales, killing 178 people.
 1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
 1892 – U.S. presidential election: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
1901  2000 
 1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
 1932 – U.S. presidential election: Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
 1933 - As part of the New Deal program, Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for over 4 million unemployed.
 1935 – Fernand Bouisson becomes Prime Minister of France.
 1936 - Spanish Civil War: Start of the Siege of Madrid.
 1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
 1940 - Greco-Italian War: Italy's invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units push back the Italians in the Battle of Elaia-Kalamas.
 1942 – World War II: Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
1942 – World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, by which 400 Civil French patriots neutralized Vichyist XIXth Army Corps during 15 hours, arrested Vichyist generals (Juin, Darlan, etc.), and so allowed the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers, then, from there, to the whole French North Africa.
 1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dog fight in history.
 1957 - The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the South Pacific Ocean.
 1959 - Basketball player Elgin Baylor of the Minneapolis Lakers sets a new NBA record, scoring 64 points, against the Boston Celtics.
 1960 – U.S. presidential election: John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard M. Nixon in a very close election. He becomes the youngest man elected to that office.
1965 – The British Indian Ocean Territory is created. It includes Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
 1965 – The soap opera Days of Our Lives debuts on NBC in the United States.
 1966 – Former Massachusetts attorney general Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate.
 1973 - The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million United States Dollars.
 1974 – In Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy.
 1976 - A series of earthquakes spreads panic in Thessaloniki, Greece.
 1977 - Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist and professor, discovers the tomb of Philip of Macedon at Vergina, Greece.
 1982 – Wethersfield, Connecticut, a meteorite crashed through the roof of Wanda and Bob Donahue's house at 461 Church Street.
1983 - Lubango, Angola - A Boeing 727 of Angola Airlines crashes and explodes shortly after take-off, killing all 130 people on board.
 1987 – Eleven people are killed in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, when a bomb explodes.
 1988 – U.S. presidential election: George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.
 1991 - A typhoon causes massive flooding in the Philippines, killing 7,000 people.
 1994 – For the first time in 40 years the United States Republican Party takes control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections.
 2000 - A re-count of electoral votes in Florida takes place, because of a dispute in the 2000 United States Presidential Election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
From 2001 
 2002 - Iraq Disarmament Crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 - The United Nations Security Council approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm, or face "serious questions".
 2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
 2005 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is elected President of Liberia. This leads to her becoming Africa's first elected female President on January 16, 2006.
 2006 - After the Republican Party made losses in the mid-term elections, Donald Rumsfeld, United States Secretary of Defense, submits his resignation to George W. Bush. Robert Gates succeeds him.
 2011 - Asteroid 2005 YU55 passes within 35,000 kilometers of Earth.
 2013 - Typhoon Haiyan strikes the Philippines with some of the strongest typhoon winds recorded. It is estimated to have killed over 6,000 people and caused over 1 billion US Dollars in damage.
2014 - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warns that the world is close to another Cold War, over tensions between the West and Russia and armed conflicts in the Middle East, in a speech marking 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
 2016 - United States presidential election, 2016: Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States over Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College, though Clinton had won more votes overall.
 2017 - Priti Patel resigns from the British cabinet because of a controversy over undeclared meetings with Israeli government ministers.
 2018 - Camp Fire: A massive fire kills 85 people in Butte County, California; it is one of the deadliest-ever forest fires in the United States, and destroys the town of Paradise.
Up to 1900 
 30 – Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman Emperor (d. 98)
 1342 - Julian of Norwich, English saint (d. 1416)
 1491 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544)
 1563 - Henry II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1624)
 1622 – King Charles X of Sweden (d. 1660)
 1656 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer (d. 1742)
 1706 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772)
 1710 – Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)
 1715 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1797)
 1723 - John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786)
 1737 - Antoine Bruni d'Entrecastaeux, French explorer (d. 1793)
 1768 – Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
 1777 - Désirée Clary, French-born Queen Consort of Sweden (d. 1860)
 1802 - Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, Welsh civil engineer and politician (d. 1867)
 1810 - Pierre Bosquet, Marshal of France (d. 1861)
 1823 - Joseph Monier, French gardener, inventor and businessman (d. 1906)
1831 - Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, English poet and diplomat, 30th Governor-General (d. 1880)
 1836 - Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911)
 1837 – Ilia Chavchavadze, national hero of Georgia (d. 1907)
 1846 - William Robertson Smith, Scottish orientalist, Old Testament scholar and Free Church of Scotland minister (d. 1894) 
 1847 – Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (Dracula) (d. 1912)
 1847 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
 1848 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1925)
 1852 – Lin Shu, Chinese translator (d. 1924)
 1854 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)
 1864 - Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1910)
 1866 - Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941)
 1868 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)
 1869 - Zinaida Gippius, Russian poet (d. 1945)
 1869 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious leader (d. 1942)
 1873 - Gaetano Salvemini, Italian politician, historian and publicist (d. 1957)
1875 - Qiu Jin, Chinese writer (d. 1907)
 1881 - Clarence Gagnon, French-Canadian artist and painter (d. 1942)
 1883 - Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953)
 1884 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922)
 1885 - Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (d. 1966)
 1885 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese admiral (d. 1946)
 1893 – Clarence Williams, American pianist and composer (d. 1965)
 1893 – Prajadhipok, King of Siam (d. 1941)
 1896 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
 1897 - Dorothy Day, American social activist and journalist (d. 1980)
 1900 – Margaret Mitchell, American writer (d. 1949)
 1900 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete (d. 1943)
1901  1950 
 1903 - Luigi Allemandi, Italian footballer (d. 1978)
 1910 - Elfriede Brüning, German journalist and novelist (d. 2014)
 1912 - Stylianos Pattakos, Greek military officer (d. 2016)
 1912 – June Havoc, Canadian-American actress (d. 2010)
 1914 - Norman Lloyd, American director, producer and actor (d. 2021)
 1914 - George Dantzig, American mathematician (d. 2005)
 1916 - Peter Weiss, German-born Swedish writer, painter and experimental movie maker (d. 1982)
 1918 - Hermann Zapf, German designer (d. 2015)
 1920 - Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
 1922 – Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (d. 2001)
 1922 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996)
 1923 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer (d. 2005)
 1925 - Asunción Balaguer, Spanish actress (d. 2019)
 1927 - L. K. Advani, Indian politician
 1927 - Patti Page, American singer (d. 2013)
 1927 – Ken Dodd, English comedian (d. 2018)
 1927 – Nguyen Khanh, South Vietnamese Prime Minister (d. 2013)
1929 – Jona Senilagakali, Fijian physician, diplomat and 7th Prime Minister of Fiji (d. 2011)
 1931 – Morley Safer, Canadian-American journalist (d. 2016)
 1931 - Dorla Hood, American actress (d. 1979)
 1932 - Simo Salminen, Finnish comic actor (d. 2015)
 1933 - Peter Arundell, British racing driver (d. 2009)
 1935 - Alain Delon, French movie actor
 1936 - Edward Wilson, American astronaut
 1936 - Virna Lisi, Italian actress (d. 2014)
 1938 - Richard Stoker, English composer and writer
 1938 - Murtala Mohammed, President of Nigeria (d. 1976)
 1939 - Elizabeth Dawn, English actress (d. 2017)
 1940 - Charles T. Kowal, American astronomer (d. 2011)
 1941 - Nerys Hughes, Welsh actress
 1942 - Sandro Mazzola, Italian footballer
 1943 – Martin Peters, English footballer
 1945 - Arduino Cantafora, Italian-Swiss architect and writer
 1945 - Vincent Nichols, English cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster
 1946 – Guus Hiddink, Dutch football manager
 1946 - Roy Wood, British musician
1947 - Minnie Riperton, American singer (d. 1979)
 1947 - Margaret Rhea Seddon, American physician and astronaut
 1948 - Dale Gardner, American astronaut (d. 2014)
 1949 - Bonnie Raitt, American rock musician
 1949 - Wayne LaPierre, American Executive President of the National Rifle Association of America
 1950 - Mary Hart, American television host
1951  1975 
 1952 - Christie Hefner, former CEO of Playboy Enterprises
 1952 - Alfre Woodard, American actress
 1953 - John Musker, American animation director
 1954 - Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-British writer
 1954 - Bill Joy, American computer scientist
 1954 - Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk)
 1954 - Rickie Lee Jones, American singer-songwriter
 1955 - Patricia Barber, American singer, songwriter, pianist and bandleader
 1956 - Mari Boine, Norwegian musician
 1956 – Richard Curtis, English screenwriter
 1957 – Alan Curbishley, English football manager
 1957 - Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure)
 1958 - Don Byron, American jazz musician
 1960 - Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor
 1960 - Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor (d. 2017)
 1961 - Leif Garrett, American singer-songwriter
 1965 - Robert Tappan Morris, American computer scientist
 1966 – Gordon Ramsay, Scottish chef and television personality
 1967 - José Luis Caminero, Spanish footballer
 1967 - Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
1968 - Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer
 1968 – Parker Posey, American actress
 1968 - Zara Whites, Dutch-French pornographic actress
 1969 - Roxana Zal, American actress
 1970 – Tom Anderson, co-founder of Myspace
 1970 - José Porras, Costa Rican footballer
 1972 - Aksel V. Johannesen, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
 1972 – Gretchen Mol, American actress
 1974 - Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga writer 
 1974 - Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga writer
 1974 – Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor
 1975 - Tara Reid, American actress and producer
From 1976 
 1976 – Brett Lee, Australian cricketer
 1978 – Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer
 1978 - Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
 1979 – Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
 1979 - Paul Sackey, English rugby player
 1980 – Luís Fabiano, Brazilian footballer
 1981 – Joe Cole, English footballer
 1982 – Sam Sparro, Australian singer, performer and producer
 1982 - Mika Kallio, Finnish motorcycle racer
 1982 - Ted DiBiase, Jr., American professional wrestler
 1982 - Lynndie England, former United States Army reservist
 1983 - Chris Rankin, New Zealand actor
 1983 - Pavel Pogrebnyak, Russian footballer
 1983 - Blanka Vlasic, Croatian high jumper
 1985 - Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress
 1985 – Jack Osbourne, English television personality
 1986 – Aaron Swartz, American activist and computer programmer (Twitter) (d. 2013)
 1986 - Jamie Roberts, Welsh rugby player
 1987 - Kazuchika Okada, Japanese professional wrestler
 1987 - Samantha Droke, American actress
 1987 - Eduardo Gurbindo, Spanish handball player
1988 - Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress
 1989 - Morgan Schneiderlin, French footballer
 1991 - Riker Lynch, American singer, actor and musician
 1994 - Lauren Alaina, American country music singer
 2000 - Jasmine Thompson, British pianist, dancer, singer and actress
 2001 - Matilda Ramsay, British chef and television personality
 2003 – Lady Louise Windsor, British royal
Up to 1900 
 397 - Saint Martin of Tours
 618 - Pope Adeodatus I
 955 - Pope Agapetus II
 1115 - Godfrey of Amiens, French bishop (b. 1066)
 1171 - Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
 1195 - Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1135)
 1226 – King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)
 1246 - Berengaria of Castile (b. 1180)
 1308 – Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher
 1517 - Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, Spanish statesman and cardinal (b. 1436)
 1599 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
 1605 - Robert Catesby, English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (b. 1573)
 1627 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor (b. 1569)
 1658 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch captain (b. 1599)
 1674 - John Milton, English poet (b. 1608)
 1719 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
 1817 - Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (b. 1754)
 1830 – King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
 1858 - Benjamin Franklin Butler, United States Attorney General (b. 1795)
 1873 - Breton de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (b. 1796)
1887 – Doc Holliday, American Western figure (b. 1851)
 1890 – César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1822)
1901  2000 
 1905 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
 1917 - Colin Blythe, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1879)
 1933 - Mohammed Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan (b. 1883)
 1934 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
 1944 - Walter Nowotny, Austrian-German soldier and pilot (b. 1920)
 1949 - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian-Austrian priest and activist (b. 1874)
 1953 – Ivan Bunin, Russian writer (b. 1870)
 1959 - Frank S. Land, American activist (b. 1890)
 1965 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American actress and television presenter (b. 1913)
 1968 - Peter Mohr Dam, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1898)
 1976 - Giorgio Ferrini, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
 1978 – Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894)
 1979 – Yvonne de Gaulle, First Lady of France (b. 1900)
 1983 - James Booker, American jazz singer (b. 1939)
 1985 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourg cyclist (b. 1899)
 1985 - Masten Gregory, American racing driver (b. 1932)
1986 – Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet politician (b. 1890)
 1998 – John Hunt, Baron Hunt, English mountaineer (b. 1910)
 1998 - Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
 1999 - Leon Stukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)
From 2001 
 2007 - Stephen Fumio Hamao, Japanese cardinal (b. 1930)
 2007 – Chad Varah, English humanitarian (b. 1911)
 2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
 2010 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer (b. 1925)
 2011 – Hal Bruno, American journalist (b. 1928)
 2011 – Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, Russian footballer (b. 1934)
 2011 – Heavy D, American rapper (b. 1967)
 2012 - Lucille Bliss, American actress (b. 1916)
 2014 - Phil Crane, American politician (b. 1930)
 2014 - Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian-American basketball player (b. 1928)
 2014 - Otto Ziege, German cyclist (b. 1926)
 2015 - Rhea Chiles, American philanthropist (b. 1930)
 2017 - Antonio Carluccio, Italian chef (b. 1937)
 2017 - Roger Grenier, French writer and journalist (b. 1919)
 2017 - Wood Moy, Chinese-American actor (b. 1918)
 2018 - Harold Basch, American-born Israeli chemist (b. 1940)
 2018 - Bartolomé Bennassar, French historian (b. 1929)
 2018 - François N. Macerola, Canadian lawyer and film executive (b. 1942)
2018 - Wallace Triplett, American football player (b. 1926)
 2018 - Marvin Zuckerman, American psychologist and writer (b. 1928)
 2019 - Fred Bongusto, Italian singer-songwriter and composer (b. 1935)
 2019 - Lucette Destouches, French ballet dancer and instructor (b. 1912)
 2019 - Jackie Moore, American singer (b. 1946)
Observances 
 World Urbanism Day
 World Radiography Day

November 08
Up to 1900 
 1282 - Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
 1313 - Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin, Frederick I of Austria, in the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
 1456 - Ulrich II of Celje, the last prince of the Celje principality in present-day Slovenia, is murdered in Belgrade.
 1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
 1494 – Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence.
 1520 - Over 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
 1620 - Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at present-day Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
 1688 - Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter, Devon.
 1729 – Spain, France & England sign the Treaty of Seville.
 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Fishdam Ford.
 1791 - Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire.
 1802 - From Callao, Peru, Alexander von Humboldt observes the transit of the planet Mercury.
1861 - The first-documented Canadian football match is played at University College, University of Toronto.
 1862 - American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside takes over control of the Army of the Potomac.
 1867 - The Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
 1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872 occurs in Boston, Massachusetts.
 1880 - A large earthquake strikes Zagreb, present-day Croatia. The city's cathedral is among the buildings either destroyed or heavily damaged.
 1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
 1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1901  2000 
 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country (to inspect progress on the Panama Canal).
 1907 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to Edward VII of the United Kingdom on his 66th birthday.
 1913 - The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 occurs, destroying 19 ships and killing over 250 people.
 1914 - World War I: The SMS Emden is sunk by the HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
 1917 - Joseph Stalin enters the Provisional Governor of Soviet Russia.
 1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
 1918 – Kurt Eisner, Provisional National Council Minister-President, declares Bavaria to be a republic.
 1923 – In Munich, Germany, policeman and troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch coup attempt by the Nazi Party.
 1936 - Nazis remove the statue of Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig in the night to November 10.
 1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.