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1901  2000 
 1902  A Trip to the Moon, directed by Georges Méliès and considered one of the first science fiction movies, is released in France.
 1905  Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
 1906  the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.
 1914  St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.
 1914  The last Passenger Pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
 1923  An earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama killing about 100,000 people. See Great Kantō earthquake for details.
 1928  Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
 1939  World War II: Nazi Germany attacks Poland, beginning the war. (See Polish September Campaign.)
 1939  George Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
 1951  The United States, Australia and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty (for "Australia, New Zealand, United States").
1952  The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is published.
 1954  Paul "Bear" Bryant opens his infamous 10-day football mini-camp in Junction, Texas. The "survivors" of the ordeal will go down in football lore as The Junction Boys.
 1958  Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, and starting the Cod Wars.
 1960  Disgruntled railroad workers effectively halt operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad, marking the first shutdown in the history of the company.
 1961  The Eritrean War of Independence begins.
 1962  Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands.
 1962  An earthquake in Qazvin, Iran, kills more than 12,000 people.
 1969  A coup in Libya brings Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi to power, ousting King Idris I.
 1969  Tran Thien Khiem becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam under Nguyen Van Thieu.
1970  The last episode of the television sitcom I Dream of Jeannie airs on NBC. The show premiered on September 18, 1965.
 1972  In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion.
 1974  The SR-71 Blackbird plane sets the record for the time it takes to fly from New York City to London, doing so in an hour and 55 minutes. The record has not yet been beaten.
 1979  The American Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
 1980  Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea after the resignation of Choi Kyu-ha.
 1980  Terry Fox is forced to abandon his "Marathon of Hope" across Canada at Thunder Bay, Ontario.
 1981  In the Central African Republic, David Dacko is removed in a military coup.
 1983  Cold War: Korean Air Flight KAL-007 shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft entered Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die.
1984  An attack on Kabul Airport kills 42 people.
 1985  A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
 1986  Soviet passenger steamer Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea, after a collision, killing 398 people.
 1991  The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is released in North America.
 1991  Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
 1992  Slovakia's Constitution is ratified.
 1995  The PlayStation videogame system is released in North America.
 1999  A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 74, including 10 on the ground.
From 2001 
 2001  In the largest media market change in North American television history, every single commercial television station in Vancouver, British Columbia switches network affiliations after a round of ownership changes in 2000.
 2004  The Beslan school siege begins, when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, southern Russia. The siege ends in a massacre two days later.
 2005  Then-Governor of Louisiana Kathleen Blanco gives a "Shoot to Kill" order against looters following Hurricane Katrina.
 2006  Luxembourg completes the move to all-digital broadcasting.
 2016  A SpaceX rocket explodes on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
 2017  Vladimir Putin's decision to expel 755 diplomats from Russia, in response to United States sanctions, takes effect.
 2018  The funeral of United States Senator John McCain takes place at Washington National Cathedral.
 2019  Hurricane Dorian hits the Bahamas as a Category 5 (the strongest measurement) storm.
Up to 1900 
 948  Emperor Jingzong of Liao, of the Liao Dynasty in China (d. 982)
 1068  King Henry I of England, English royal (d. 1135)
 1145  Ibn Jubayr, Muslim geographer and poet (d. 1217)
 1286  Elisabeth Richeza of Poland (d. 1335)
 1525  Christoffer Valkendorff, Danish statesman (d. 1601)
 1566  Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
 1588  Henri, Prince of Condé (d. 1646)
 1611  William Cartwright, English playwright (d. 1643)
 1647  Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark (d. 1717)
 1651  Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
 1653  Johann Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1706)
 1689  Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, Czech baroque architect (d. 1751)
 1711  William IV, Prince of Orange (d. 1759)
 1785  Philip Allen, 22nd Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1865)
 1798  Ferenc Gyulay, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1868)
 1818  José María Castro Madriz, first President of Costa Rica (d. 1892)
 1827  Elisha Baxter, American politician, 10th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1899)
1846  Carlo Cafiero, Italian anarchist and revolutionary (d. 1892)
 1848  Auguste Forel, Swiss scientist (d. 1931)
 1854  Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (d. 1921)
 1855  Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d. 1909)
 1856  Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953)
 1861  Lazar Edeleanu, Romanian chemist (d. 1941)
 1862  Nitobe Inazo, Japanese diplomat (d. 1933)
 1863  Joao Pinheiro Chagas, Portuguese journalist and politician (d. 1925)
 1864  Roger Casement, Irish diplomat, poet, patriot and activist (d. 1916)
 1866  James Corbett, American boxer (d. 1933)
 1871  J. Reuben Clark, American civil sergeant, lawyer and religious leader (d. 1961)
 1873  Robert P. Bass, 53rd Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1960)
 1875  Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer (d. 1950)
 1877  Francis William Aston, British chemist (d. 1945)
 1878  Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg Gotha (d. 1942)
 1878  Tullio Serafin, Italian conductor (d. 1968)
 1883  Didier Pitre, French-Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1934)
1884  Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian artist (d. 1961)
 1884  Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and movie director (d. 1947)
 1886  Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian painter (d. 1973)
 1886  Othmar Schreck, Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1957)
 1887  Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer and adventurer (d. 1961)
 1892  Leverett Saltonstall, 55th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1979)
 1893  Betty Blythe, American actress (d. 1972)
 1895  Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (d. 1955)
 1896  Simon Barere, Russian pianist (d. 1951)
 1898  Marilyn Miller, American tap dancer and musical singer (d. 1936)
1901  1950 
 1906  Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)
 1907  Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (d. 1970)
 1907  Miriam Seegar, American actress (d. 2011)
 1912  Gwynfor Evans, Welsh politician (d. 2005)
 1915  Ken Aston, English football referee (d. 2001)
 1916  Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (d. 2014)
 1920  Richard Farnsworth, American actor (d. 2000)
 1922  Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress (d. 2007)
 1922  Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor and director (d. 2000)
 1923  Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
 1924  Hal Douglas, American voice actor (d. 2014)
 1924  Gustavo Bueno, Spanish philosopher (d. 2016)
 1925  Roy J. Glauber, American physicist (d. 2018)
 1925  Art Pepper, American saxophonist (d. 1982)
 1926  Abdur Rahman Biswas, former President of Bangladesh (d. 2017)
 1926  Gene Colan, American comic book artist (d. 2011)
 1926  Frank Morris, American criminal (missing since 1962)
 1926  Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (d. 2018)
1926  Sam Pivnik, Polish Holocaust survivor and author (d. 2017) 
 1928  George Maharis, American actor
 1929  Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
 1930  Michel Serres, French philosopher (d. 2019)
 1930  Khem Singh Gill, Indian geneticist and plant breeder (d. 2019)
 1930  Charles Correa, Indian architect (d. 2015)
 1931  Boxcar Willie, American musician (d. 1999)
 1931  Javier Solís, Mexican singer (d. 1966)
 1931  Cecil Parkinson, British politician (d. 2016)
 1932  Derog Gioura, President of Nauru (d. 2008)
 1932  Sunny von Bülow, American socialite (d. 2008)
 1933  Ann Richards, American politician and Governor of Texas (d. 2006)
 1933  Conway Twitty, American singer and musician (d. 1993)
 1934  Léon Mébiame, former Prime Minister of Gabon
 1934  Terepai Maoate, Cook Islands politician (d. 2012)
 1935  Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
 1936  Robert List, 24th Governor of Nevada
 1937  Afzal Ahsan Randhawa, Pakistani writer (d. 2017)
 1937  Allen Jones, British musician
1937  Allen Weinstein, American historian and educator (d. 2015)
 1938  Alan Dershowitz, American lawyer and writer
 1938  Per Kirkeby, Danish painter, sculptor and poet (d. 2018)
 1939  Lily Tomlin, American actress and comedienne
 1939  Eoin Young, New Zealand journalist (d. 2014)
 1941  Julia Varady, German opera singer
 1942  António Lobo Antunes, Portuguese writer
 1942  C. J. Cherryh, American writer
 1943  Don Stroud, American actor
 1945  Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer
 1945  Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Yemeni general, politician and President
 1946  Barry Gibb, British singer and musician (the Bee Gees)
 1946  David Greaves, British snooker player (d. 2019)
 1946  Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea (d. 2009)
 1947  P. A. Sangma, Indian politician (d. 2016)
 1948  James Rebhorn, American actor (d. 2014)
 1949  Garry Maddox, American baseball player and sportscaster
 1949  Alasdair McDonnell, Irish politician
 1950  Phil McGraw (known as "Dr. Phil"), American talk show host
1950  Nicu Ceausescu, Romanian politician (d. 1996)
 1950  Mikhail Fradkov, Russian politician
1951  1975 
 1952  Manuel Piñero, Spanish golfer
 1952  Brad Linaweaver, American writer (d. 2019)
 1954  Filip Vujanovic, Montenegrin President
 1955  Bruce Foxton, English bass player
 1955  Gerhard Strack, German footballer
 1956  Kim Jong-Hun, North Korean football coach
 1956  Vinnie Johnson, American basketball player
 1957  Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer
 1958  Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (d. 2002)
 1960  Joseph Williams, American singer-songwriter (Toto)
 1961  Scott Bigelow, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
 1961  Christopher Ferguson, American captain, pilot and astronaut
 1962  Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer
 1962  Scott Ciencin, American novelist (d. 2014)
 1965  Craig McLachlan, Australian actor & singer
 1965  Tibor Simon, Hungarian footballer
 1966  Tim Hardaway, American basketball player
 1968  Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
 1969  Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer
 1970  Padma Lakshmi, Indian-American actress and author
 1971  Hakan Sukur, Turkish footballer
1971  Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
 1971  Helena af Sandeberg, Swedish actress
 1971  Dave Wittenberg, South African-American voice actor and screenwriter
 1973  Ram Kapoor, Indian actor
 1973  Savo Milosevic, Serbian footballer
 1974  Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist
 1974  Yutaka Yamamoto, Japanese cartoonist and director
 1975  Scott Speedman, English-born actor
From 1976 
 1976  Babydaddy, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer (Scissor Sisters)
 1976  Takashi Fukunishi, Japanese footballer
 1977  David Albelda, Spanish footballer
 1980  Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer
 1981  Clinton Portis, American baseball player
 1982  Ryan Gomes, American basketball player
 1983  José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer (d. 2019)
 1984  Joe Trohman, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
 1986  Gaël Monfils, French tennis player
 1986  Stella Mwangi, Norwegian singer
 1987  Christian Traesch, German footballer
 1988  Chanel West Coast, American model, actress, rapper and singer-songwriter
 1989  Max Franz, Austrian skier
 1989  Bill & Tom Kaulitz, German singers
 1989  Jefferson Montero, Ecuadorean footballer
 1989  Daniel Sturridge, English footballer
 1990  Aisling Loftus, English actress
 1990  Mélanie René, Swiss singer
 1991  Irina Antonenko, Russian model
 1992  Kirani James, Grenadian sprinter
 1993  Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
 1994  Bianca Ryan, American singer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 1067  Baldwin of Flanders
 1159  Pope Adrian IV (b. 1100)
 1256  Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
 1557  Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)
 1574  Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
 1581  Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
 1648  Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)
 1678  Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (b. 1601)
 1715  King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
 1715  François Gilardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
 1777  Johann Ernst Bach II, German poet (b. 1722)
 1838  William Clark, American explorer (b. 1770)
 1868  Ferenc Gyulay, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1798)
1901  2000 
 1906  Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian poet and playwright (b. 1847)
 1914  Martha, last Passenger Pigeon
 1943  Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
 1945  Terry, American cairn terrier who starred in The Wizard of Oz (b. 1933)
 1953  Jacques Thibaud, French violinist (b. 1880)
 1957  Dennis Brain, English French horn player (b. 1921)
 1961  Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect and designer (b. 1910)
 1967  Ilse Koch, wife of Karl Koch, commandant of the concentration camp Buchenwald (b. 1906)
 1967  Siegfried Sassoon, English poet and writer (b. 1886)
 1969  Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)
 1970  François Mauriac, French writer (b. 1885)
 1977  Ethel Waters, American singer, actress (b. 1896)
 1981  Ann Harding, American actress and singer (b. 1901)
 1981  Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905)
 1982  Wladyslaw Gomulka, Polish Communist leader (b. 1905)
 1983  Larry McDonald, United States Congressman (b. 1935)
 1983  Henry M. Jackson, Senator from Washington (b. 1912)
1986  Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
 1988  Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist (b. 1911)
 1989  Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (b. 1947)
 1989  A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
 1990  Geir Hallgrímsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1925)
 1997  Zoltan Czibor, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
From 2001 
 2003  Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)
 2004  Ahmed Kuftaro, Syrian religious leader (b. 1915)
 2006  Bob O'Connor, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1944)
 2008  Jerry Reed, American actor and musician (b. 1937)
 2008  Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
 2009  Erich Kunzel, American conductor (b. 1935)
 2012  Hal David, American songwriter (b. 1921)
 2012  Smarck Michel, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1937)
 2013  Tommy Morrison, American boxer (b. 1969)
 2013  Ole Ernst, Danish actor (b. 1940)
 2014  Mark Gil, Filipino actor (b. 1961)
 2014  Maya Rao, Indian dancer (b. 1928)
 2014  Gottfried John, German actor (b. 1942)
 2014  Elena Varzi, Italian actress (b. 1926)
 2014  A. J. Langguth, American historian and journalist (b. 1933)
 2014  Mary T. Clark, American academic and civil rights advocate (b. 1913)
 2014  Joseph Shivers, American textile chemist (b. 1920)
 2015  Gurgen Dalibaltayan, Armenian colonel-general (b. 1926)
 2015  Antonio Nirta, Italian criminal (b. 1919)
2015  Dean Jones, American actor (b. 1931)
 2015  Boomer Castleman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
 2015  Will Provine, American biologist and historian (b. 1942)
 2015  Ben Kuroki, American air force gunner (b. 1917)
 2016  Jon Polito, American actor (b. 1950)
 2016  Kacey Jones, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
 2017  Shelley Berman, American comedian and actor (b. 1925)
 2017  Charles Gordon-Lennox, 10th Duke of Richmond, British peer (b. 1929)
 2017  Peadar Lamb, Irish actor (b. 1930)
 2017  Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, English cardinal (b. 1932)
 2017  Gin D. Wong, Chinese-born American architect (b. 1922)
 2018  Irving Petlin, American artist (b. 1934)
 2018  Margit Sandemo, Norwegian-Swedish author (b. 1924)
 2018  Tarun Sagar, Indian Jain monk (b. 1967)
 2018  Randy Weston, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1926)
 2018  Ehsan Yarshater, Iranian historian (b. 1920)
 2019  Kenneth Baugh, Jamaican politician (b. 1941)
2019  Alison Cheek, Australian-American religious leader (b. 1927)
 2019  Alberto Goldman, Brazilian politician (b. 1937)
 2019  William J. Larkin Jr., American politician (b. 1928)
 2019  Katherine MacLean, American science fiction writer (b. 1925)
 2019  Jukka Virtanen, Finnish television presenter, film director, screenwriter and songwriter (b. 1933)
Observances 
 Constitution Day in Slovakia
 Independence Day in Uzbekistan
 Armed Struggle for Independence (Eritrea)
 Knowledge Day (Russia)
 Disaster Prevention Day (Japan)
 Revolution Day in Libya (1969 – 2010)

September 01
Events 
 January 10 – First meeting of the United Nations.
 August 16 - Muslim League began "Direct Action Day" Riot That killed 10,000 people from Kolkata.
 December 19 - The First Indochina War begins.

Date unknown 
 AIESEC starts.
Births 
 January 3 - John Paul Jones, English bass guitarist (Led Zeppelin)
 January 19 – Dolly Parton, American country singer
 January 22 – Malcolm McLaren, music manager
 March 8 - Randy Meisner, American singer-songwriter and musician (Eagles)
 March 12 – Frank Welker, American actor
 May 10- Donovan, Scottish musician
 July 6 – George W. Bush, American politician, 43rd President of the United States
 July 15 - Linda Ronstadt, American singer
 August 1 - Chris Tulloch, English filmmaker
 August 19 – Bill Clinton, American politician 42nd President of the United States
 August 23 - Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (d. 1978)
 September 1 – Barry Gibb, Singer/Songwriter (Bee Gees)
 September 5 — Freddie Mercury, British Singer/Songwriter (Queen) (d. 1991; AIDS)
 October 29 - Peter Green, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Fleetwood Mac) (d. 2020)
 November 4 – Laura Bush, 45th First Lady of the United States
 November 6 - Fred Penner, Canadian children’s musician
November 24 - Ted Bundy, English serial killer (d. 1989; executed)
 November 26 - Mark L. Lester, American film director
 November 28 - Joe Dante, American film director
 December 16 - Benny Andersson, Swedish pianist (ABBA)
 December 28 – Edgar Winter, Albino pop musician (The Edgar Winter Group)
 December 30 – Patti Smith, American singer and poet
Deaths 
 August 13 – H.G. Wells
 December 25 – WC Fields
Up to 1900 
 220 - China: Cao Pi forces Emperor Xian of Han to abdicate the Han Dynasty throne. The Cao Wei Empire is created.
 361 – Julian the Apostate enters Constantinople as the sole Emperor of the Roman Empire.
 630 - The Prophet Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 to conquer Mecca.
 969 - Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is murdered by his wife Theophano and her lover, later-Emperor John I Tzimiskos.
 1282 - Llywelyn the Last, the last native-born Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Bulith Wells, South Wales.
 1602 - A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. 
 1792 – Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
 1816 – Indiana becomes the 16th State of the US.
 1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of Fredericksburg begins.
 1868 - Brazil defeats Paraguay at the Battle of Avay during the Paraguayan War.
1872 – King Kamehameha V of Hawaii dies on his 42nd birthday, ending the line of the Kamehamehas. His cousin, William Charles Lunalilo, succeeds him as King.
1901  2000 
 1905 - A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, present-day Ukraine, then a part of the Russian Empire, and creates the Shuliavka Republic.
 1907 – The New Zealand Parliament buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
 1917 - British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.
 1920 - Irish War of Independence: In retaliation for an IRA ambush, British forces burn and loot numerous buildings in the city of Cork. There were reports from civilians of beatings, shootings and verbal abuse by the forces.
 1927 - Guangzhou Uprising: Communist militia and worker red guards launch an uprising in the city of Guangzhou, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of the Guangzhou Soviet.
 1931 – The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, establishing legislative equality between the self-governing Dominions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland and the Union of South Africa.
1934 - Bill W., co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last alcoholic drink and enters treatment for the last time.
 1936 – United Kingdom: Edward VIII abdicates (resigns) the throne in order to marry his love, Wallis Warfield Simpson, making George VI King.
 1937 – Italy leaves the League of Nations.
 1941 – World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. The US, in turn, declares war on Germany and Italy.
 1941 - World War II: Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan.
 1946 – UNICEF is established.
 1958 - French Upper Volta and French Dahomey, in western Africa, gain self-government from France, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin) respectively.
 1960 - French forces crack down in a violent clash with protestors in then-French Algeria during a visit by Charles de Gaulle.
1961 - Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of Crimes Against Humanity at his trial in Jerusalem, Israel. He is sentenced to death on December 15 and executed on May 31 of the following year.
 1962 – Arthur Lucas becomes the last person to be executed in Canada.
 1964 - Che Guevara speaks to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
 1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the last manned mission to land on the Moon.
 1978 - The Lufthansa heist carried out at JFK International Airport near New York City by an associate of the Lucchese Crime Family, James Burke. At least $5 million in cash (17.9 million) and $875,000 ($3.1 million) worth of jewels are stolen.
 1981 – Armed forces in El Salvador, kill around 900 civilians, in an anti-guerrilla campaign.
 1990 - Demonstrations by workers and students across Albania begin. This eventually leads to the end of Communist rule in Albania and an end to the country's diplomatic isolation.
1993 - 48 people are killed when a block of the Highland Towers collapses in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
 1994 – Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
 1994 - A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434 from Manila to Tokyo, killing 1 person. The pilot is able to safely land the plane safely.
 1995 - Lithuania applies to join the EU.
 1997 – The Kyoto protocol is opened for signature.
 1998 – Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101 people.
 1999 - Turkey applies to join the EU.
From 2001 
 2001 - The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
 2005 – Riots against Lebanese youths happen in Cronulla, a suburb of Sydney, Australia
 2005 – The Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, catches fire.
 2006 - The Mexican Drug War begins.
 2007 - Two car bombs explode at the Constitutional building and UN office in Algiers, Algeria, killing around 45 people.
 2008 – Bernard Madoff is arrested on fraud charges.
 2010 – Two bombs explode in central Stockholm, killing 1, and injuring 2.
 2012 - At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village in Agrab, Syria.
 2016 - St. Mark's Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, is bombed, killing at least 25 people.
 2016 - President of Italy Sergio Mattarella nominates Paolo Gentiloni to form a government, after the resignation of Matteo Renzi.
 2019 - Test cricket is played in Pakistan for the first time since 2009, when the Sri Lankan national team was attacked there.
2019 - The Autonomous Region of Bougainville is revealed to have voted, by a big majority, in favour of independence from Papua New Guinea.
 2019 - Time Magazine names climate change activist Greta Thunberg as its Person of the Year; she is the youngest person to be named as such, being almost 17 years old at the time of the announcement.
Up to 1900 
 1465 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)
 1475 – Pope Leo X (d. 1521)
 1566 – Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (d. 1650)
 1709 - Louise Elisabeth d'Orleans, French consort of King Louis I of Spain (d. 1742)
 1712 - Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (d. 1764)
 1725 – George Mason, American statesman (d. 1792)
 1750 – Isaac Shelby, 1st and 5th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1826)
 1758 - Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer, conductor and educator (d. 1832)
 1761 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (d. 1835)
 1764 - Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet, Scottish merchant, slave owner and politician (d. 1851)
 1781 - David Brewster, Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor and writer (d. 1868)
 1792 - Joseph Mohr, Austrian composer (d. 1848)
 1801 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright (d. 1836)
 1803 – Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)
 1810 - Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet and novelist (d. 1857)
1830 – Kamehameha V, King of Hawai'i (d. 1872)
 1843 – Robert Koch, German doctor, won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1910)
 1856 - Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and theoretician (d. 1918)
 1858 - Vladimir Nemirovich Danchenko, Russian playwright, director and producer (d. 1943)
 1863 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (d. 1941)
 1867 - Antonio Conte, Italian fencer (d. 1953)
 1873 - Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician (d. 1967)
 1882 – Max Born, German physicist (d. 1970)
 1882 – Fiorello La Guardia, 99th Mayor of New York City (d. 1947)
 1883 - Victor McLaglen, British actor (d. 1959)
 1890 - Carlos Gardel, French-Argentine singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1935)
 1890 - Mark Tobey, American painter (d. 1976)
 1899 - Julio de Caro, Argentine composer, musician and conductor (d. 1980)
1901  1925 
 1901 - Dave Halliday, Scottish footballer (d. 1970)
 1905 - Erskine Hamilton Childers, 4th President of Ireland (d. 1974)
 1905 - Gilbert Roland, American actor (d. 1984)
 1906 - Pietro Serantoni, Italian footballer (d. 1964)
 1908 - Elliott Carter, American composer (d. 2012)
 1908 – Hakun Djurhuus, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1987)
 1908 – Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese director (d. 2015)
 1908 - Carlos Arias Navarro, Spanish politician (d. 1989)
 1908 - Amon Goeth, German SS officer and war criminal (d. 1946)
 1910 - Noel Rosa, Brazilian singer, songwriter and guitarist (d. 1937)
 1911 – Qian Xuesen, Chinese scientist (d. 2009)
 1911 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer (d. 2006)
 1912 – Carlo Ponti, Italian movie producer (d. 2007)
 1913 – Jean Marais, French actor (d. 1998)
 1916 - Perez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer, pianist, composer and bandleader (d. 1989)
 1918 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (d. 2008)
 1919 – Marie Windsor, American actress (d. 2000)
1919 - Cliff Michelmore, British television presenter (d. 2016)
 1921 – Liz Smith, British actress (d. 2016)
 1921 – Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress (d. 2008)
 1921 - Pierre Bec, French Occitan language linguist, philologist and poet (d. 2014)
 1923 - Betsy Blair, American actress (d. 2009)
 1925 – Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist (d. 2019)
 1925 - Patrick Reyntiens, English stained glass artist
1926  1950 
 1926 – Big Mama Thornton, American blues singer (d. 1984)
 1927 – John Buscema, American comic artist (d. 2002)
 1927 - Stein Eriksen, Norwegian skier (d. 2015)
 1929 - Kenneth MacMillan, Scottish dancer and choreographer (d. 1992)
 1930 – Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
 1930 - Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (d. 2016)
 1931 - Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican singer and actress
 1931 - Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and scholar (d. 2013)
 1931 - Pierre Pilote, Canadian ice hockey player
 1931 - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian philosopher and spiritual leader (d. 1990)
 1932 - Enrique Bermudez, Nicaraguan army officer, founder of the Contras (d. 1991)
 1932 - Anne Heywood, English actress
 1933 – Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., politician from the Philippines
 1935 – Pranab Mukherjee, former President of India
 1935 - Ron Carey, American actor (d. 2002)
 1936 - Hans van den Broek, French-Dutch politician
 1938 – Enrico Macias, Algerian-French singer
 1938 - McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist
1939 - Tom Hayden, American politician and activist (d. 2016)
 1940 - Donna Mills, American actress
 1941 - Max Baucus, United States Senator from Montana
 1941 - Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1988)
 1941 - J. P. Parisé, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
 1942 - Anna Carteret, British actress
 1942 - Derek Parfit, British philosopher (d. 2017)
 1943 – John Kerry, 68th United States Secretary of State
 1944 - Teri Garr, American actress and dancer
 1944 - Lynda Day George, American television and movie actress
 1944 - Brenda Lee, American singer
 1944 - Juan E. Mendez, American human rights activist
 1946 - Rhoma Irama, Indonesian singer-songwriter
 1947 - David E. Stone, American sound editor
 1950 - Christina Onassis, American-Greek heiress and shopping magnate (d. 1988)
1951  1975 
 1951 - Spike Edney, British musician
 1951 - Ria Stalman, Dutch athlete
 1952 - Andrea de Carlo, Italian writer
 1952 - Susan Seidelman, American movie director
 1953 - Bess Armstrong, American actress
 1954 – Jermaine Jackson, American singer
 1954 - Brad Bryant, American golfer
 1954 - Santiago Creel, Mexican politician
 1956 – Andrew Lansley, British politician
 1957 - Antonio Napolioni, Italian bishop
 1958 – Nikki Sixx, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
 1958 - Chris Hughton, English-Irish footballer and manager
 1958 - Isabella Hofmann, American actress
 1960 - Rachel Ritman, English composer
 1961 - Macky Sall, President of Senegal
 1961 - Ingo Appelt, Austrian bobsledder and politician
 1961 - Marco Pierre White, English chef and TV personality
 1962 - Denise Biellmann, Swiss figure skater
 1963 – Mario Been, Dutch footballer
 1963 - John Lammers, Dutch footballer
 1963 - Jon Brion, American singer-songwriter, composer and producer
 1963 - Nigel Winterburn, English footballer
1964 – Michel Courtemanche, French Canadian comedian
 1964 – Franco Ballerini, Italian road racing cyclist (d. 2010)
 1966 – Göran Kropp, Swedish mountaineer (d. 2002)
 1966 - Gary Dourdan, American actor
 1967 - Mo'Nique, American comedienne and actress
 1967 - Michaela Tabb, English snooker referee
 1968 – Fabrizio Ravanelli, Italian footballer
 1969 – Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess player and world champion
 1969 - Max Martini, American actor
 1969 - Alessandro Melli, Italian footballer
 1970 - Victoria Fuller, American model, artist and actress
 1972 - Andriy Husin, Ukrainian footballer (d. 2014)
 1972 – Sami Al-Jaber, Saudi footballer
 1972 - Daniel Alfredsson, Swedish ice hockey player
 1973 - Mos Def, American musician and actor
 1974 – Rey Mysterio, Mexican-American professional wrestler
 1974 - Ben Shephard, English journalist and TV host
From 1976 
 1976 - Shareef Abdur-Rahim, American basketball player
 1979 - Rider Strong, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
 1981 - Nicki Benz, Ukrainian-German model and pornographic actress
 1981 – Javier Saviola, Argentine footballer
 1981 – Mohamed Zidan, Egyptian footballer
 1981 – Zacky Vengeance, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
 1984 – Leighton Baines, English footballer
 1985 - Mario Gjurovski, Macedonian footballer
 1985 - Aiko Kayo, Japanese singer and voice actress
 1985 - Anja Prislan, Slovenian tennis player
 1986 - Roy Hibbert, American basketball player
 1987 - Natalia Gordienko, Moldovan dancer and singer
 1988 - Ashley Hinshaw, American actress and model
 1991 - Anna Bergendahl, Swedish singer
 1992 - Tiffany Alvord, American singer
 1992 - Gen Shoji, Japanese footballer
 1993 - Yalitza Aparicio, Mexican actress
 1996 – Hailee Steinfeld, American actress and singer

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 384 - Pope Damasus I
 969 - Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine Emperor (b. 912)
 1198 – Averroes, Spanish-Arab philosopher (b. 1126)
 1241 – Emperor Ogedei of Japan
 1282 – Prince Llywelyn the Last of Wales
 1282 - Michael VIII Palaiologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1225)
 1474 - Henry IV of Castile
 1532 - Pietro Accotti, Italian cardinal (b. 1455)
 1582 - Pedro Alvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, Spanish general and politician (b. 1508)
 1694 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
 1797 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
 1826 - Maria Leopoldina of Austria (b. 1797)
 1840 – Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771)
 1872 – Kamehameha V, King of Hawai'i (b. 1830)
1901  2000 
 1906 - Charles Townsend, American fencer (b. 1872)
 1909 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855)
 1918 - Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer, poet and playwright (b. 1876)
 1937 - Jaan Anvelt, Soviet-Estonian Communist, revolutionary and writer (b. 1884)
 1938 – Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist (b. 1869)
 1941 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American pilot and poet (b. 1922)
 1941 - Emile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856)
 1945 - Charles Fabry, French actress and dancer (b. 1867)
 1950 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)
 1957 - Musidora, French actress and movie director (b. 1889)
 1959 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (b. 1900)
 1964 - Sam Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888)
 1964 - Alma Mahler, wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel (b. 1879)
 1964 - Percy Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888)
 1968 - Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1891)
 1971 - Maurice McDonald, American businessman (b. 1902)
1978 – Vincent de Vigneaud, American chemist (b. 1901)
 1989 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
 1992 - Michael Robbins, English actor (b. 1930)
 1993 - Raymond D. Gary, American politician, 15th Governor of Oklahoma (b. 1908)
 1993 – Paul Mebus, German footballer (b. 1920)
 1996 - Willie Rushton, British cartoonist, writer and publisher (b. 1937)
 1997 – Eddie Chapman, British World War II spy (b. 1914)
 1998 – Max Streibl, German politician (b. 1932)
From 2001 
 2001 - Mainza Chona, 1st Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
 2004 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1917)
 2006 – Elizabeth Bolden, American supercentenarian (b. 1890)
 2008 – Bettie Page, American model (b. 1923)
 2008 - Ali Alatas, Indonesian politician (b. 1932)
 2011 - John Patrick Foley, American cardinal (b. 1935)
 2012 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian operatic soprano (b. 1926)
 2012 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitarist (b. 1920)
 2013 - Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter (b. 1920)
 2013 - Barbara Branden, American writer (b. 1929)
 2014 - Tom Adams, English actor (b. 1938)
 2014 - Giorgio Ardisson, Italian actor (b. 1931)
 2015 - H. Arnold Steinberg, Canadian business and education administrator (b. 1933)
 2017 - Keith Chegwin, English television presenter and actor (b. 1957)
 2017 - Aline Griffith, Dowager Countess of Romanones, American-Spanish aristocrat, socialite and writer (b. 1923)
 2017 - Charles Robert Jenkins, American soldier (b. 1940)
2017 - Vera Katz, German-born American politician, former Mayor of Portland, Oregon (b. 1933)
 2017 - Suzanna Leigh, British actress (b. 1945)
 2017 - Walter Mafli, Swiss painter (b. 1915)
 2018 - Winifred Griffin, New Zealand swimmer (b. 1932)
 2018 - Hiwi Tauroa, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1927)
 2019 - David Bellamy, English naturalist and writer (b. 1933)
 2019 - James McCarthy, American oceanographer (b. 1944)
Observances 
 Republic Day (Burkina Faso)
 Indiana Day
 International Mountain Day
 Human Rights and Peace Day (Kiribati)
 National Tango Day (Argentina)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 211 – Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta.
 960 - Song Taizu, founder of the Song Dynasty in China, comes to power in a coup.
 1169 - Mount Etna on Sicily erupts. It is known exactly how many people were killed.
 1454 – In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederacy sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
 1546 - The Siege of Pskov in the Livland War ends with the last Polish-Lithuanian forces leaving the city.
 1703 – The day that forty-six of the forty-seven ronin committed sepuku.
 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States of America.
 1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected to be the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1792 – George Washington is unanimously elected to a second term as President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
 1794 – The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.
 1797 - An earthquake in Riobamba, Ecuador, kills up to 40,000 people.
 1801 – John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
 1810 – The British Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
 1820 - The Chilean Navy completes the 2-day long capture of Valdivia, with just 300 men and 2 ships.
 1825 - A flood along North Sea coasts kills around 800 people.
 1846 - The first Mormon pioneers leave Nauvoo, Illinois, westward to what later became Salt Lake City.
 1859 – Codex Sinaiticus discovered in Egypt.
 1861 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama the Confederate States of America is formed by delegates from six break-away United States.
 1862 – Bacardi, one of the world's largest spirits company, was founded as a small distillery in Santiago de Cuba in eastern Cuba.
1897 - Germany's first-known ice hockey game takes place in Berlin.
 1899 – The Philippine-American War begins.
 1899 - The German football club Werder Bremen is founded.
1901  1950 
 1915 – Germany establishes a submarine blockade around the UK and declares any vessel in it a legitimate target.
 1927 – The first talkie is released – The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson.
 1932 – World War II: Japan occupies Harbin, China.
 1932 – 1932 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.
 1932 – Asteroid 1239 Queteleta discovered by Eugène Joseph Delporte.
 1934 – Asteroid 2824 Franke discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth.
 1936 – Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
 1938 – Thornton Wilder's play Our Town opens (New York City).
 1938 – Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released, and it went on to become a major box-office success, making more money than any other movie in 1938.
 1941 – World War II: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
 1943 – Battle of Stalingrad ends.
1945 – World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin begin the Yalta Conference.
 1948 – Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
1951  2000 
 1957 – USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, logged her 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".
 1960 – Lorraine, Quebec is founded.
 1962 – Ian Fleming's The Living Daylights first published.
 1966 – All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 jet plunges into Tokyo Bay killing 133.
 1967 - Lunar Orbiter 3 launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
 1968 – Bowie Kuhn becomes the fifth commissioner of Major League Baseball, replacing William Eckert.
 1969 – Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
 1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
 1975 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
 1976 – In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
 1976 – 1976 Winter Olympics open in Innsbruck, Austria.
 1977 – Fleetwood Mac releases one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, Rumours.
1980 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
 1991 – The Baseball Hall of Fame votes to ban Pete Rose.
 1992 - Future-President Hugo Chávez leads a failed coup in Venezuela against Carlos Andres Perez.
 1996 – A major snowstorm paralyzes the Midwestern United States. Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties its all-time record low temperature at −26 °F. (−32 °C)
 1997 – O. J. Simpson is found to be civilly liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
 1997 – En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
 1997 – After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
 1998 – An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
1999 – Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
 2000 – USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) launched.
 2000 – German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with sabotage of German railway lines.
From 2001 
 2002 - The charity Cancer Research UK is founded.
 2003 - The Hindu minority of Bangladesh declares the independence of Bangabhumi.
 2003 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
 2004 - The social networking site Facebook is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
 2006 - A stampede at the ULTRA Stadium in Manila kills 71 people.
 2007 – Super Bowl XLI takes place from Dolphins Stadium in Miami, Florida, USA.
 2013 - It is announced that the remains dug up in a car park in Leicester are those of King Richard III of England.
 2014 - The Scottish Parliament approves the legalization of same-sex marriage in Scotland, after England and Wales had also legalized it, in 2013.
 2015 - TransAsia Airways Flight 235 crashes shortly after take-off from Taipei, Taiwan, killing 31 people.
 2018 - American football: The Philadelphia Eagles win the Super Bowl for the first time, defeating the New England Patriots.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1483 - Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, Italian painter (d. 1561)
 1505 - Nicolaus Rey, Polish poet (d. 1580)
 1620 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (d. 1667)
 1639 - Alessandro Melani, Italian composer (d. 1703)
 1646 – Hans Erasmus Assmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (d. 1699)
 1676 - Giacomo Focco, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1753)
 1677 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (d. 1731)
 1740 - Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (d. 1795)
 1746 – Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish general and national hero of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1817)
 1808 – Josef Kajetan Tyl, Czech playwright (d. 1856)
 1811 – Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, French organist (d. 1899)
 1831 - Oliver Ames, 35th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
 1840 - Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor (d. 1916)
 1846 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915)
 1848 - Jean Aicard, French poet, writer and playwright (d. 1921)
 1849 - Jean Richepin, French poet (d. 1926)
1860 - Jackson Showalter, American chess player (d. 1935)
1862 - Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Swedish politician (d. 1953)
 1868 - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz, Irish political activist (d. 1927)
 1871 – Friedrich Ebert, President of Germany (d. 1925)
 1872 – Goce Delčev, Macedonian revolutionary from Aegean Macedonia (d. 1903)
 1873 - Mikhail Prishkin, Soviet-Russian writer (d. 1954)
 1875 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (d. 1953)
 1881 - Yakov Protazanov, Soviet-Russian movie director (d. 1945)
 1881 - Kliment Voroshilov, Soviet-Russian politician (d. 1969)
 1881 - Fernand Léger, French artist (d. 1955)
 1881 - Eulalio Gutiérrez, Interim President of Mexico (d. 1939)
 1882 - Princess Louise of Orléans (d. 1958)
 1883 - Jakob Sildnik, Estonian photographer and movie maker (d. 1973)
 1891 - M. A. Ayyangar, Indian politician, Speaker of the Lok Sabha (d. 1978)
 1892 - Andreu Nin, Catalan politician (d. 1937)
 1893 - Raymond Dart, Australian scientist (d. 1988)
1895 – Nigel Bruce, English actor (d. 1953)
 1896 – Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)
 1897 – Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1977)
 1897 – Emperor Iyasu V of Ethiopia (d. 1935)
 1900 – Jacques Prévert, French poet (d. 1977)
1901  1925 
 1902 – Charles Lindbergh, American pilot (d. 1974)
 1902 – Hartley Shawcross, British lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
 1904 - Deng Yingchao, wife of Chinese leader Zhou Enlai (d. 1992)
 1904 - MacKinlay Kantor, American writer (d. 1977)
 1906 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (d. 1945)
 1906 - Sabine Bonhoeffer, twin sister of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (d. 1999)
 1906 – Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)
 1906 - Colette Darfeuil, French actress (d. 1998)
 1907 - Otto Ohlendorf, German SS group leader and war criminal (d. 1951)
 1912 – Byron Nelson, American golfer (d. 2006)
 1912 - Louis-Albert Vachon, Canadian archbishop (d. 2006)
 1913 – Rosa Parks, American Civil Rights activist (d. 2005)
 1915 – Norman Wisdom, British actor and comedian (d. 2010)
 1917 – Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, Last President of United Pakistan (d. 1980)
 1918 – Ida Lupino, English actress and movie director (d. 1996)
 1920 - Morton Deutsch, American social psychologist (d. 2017)
1920 - Janet Waldo, American actress (d. 2016)
 1921 - Lotfi A. Zadeh, Soviet-born mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2017)
 1921 – Betty Friedan, American feminist, activist and writer (d. 2006)
 1922 – Bhimsen Joshi, Indian singer and musician (d. 2011)
 1923 - Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (d. 2013)
 1923 - Bonar Bain, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
 1923 - Belisario Betancur, 53rd President of Colombia
 1925 - Jutta Hipp, German-American jazz pianist, composer and painter (d. 2003)
 1925 - Christopher Zeeman, British mathematician (d. 2016)
1926  1950 
 1926 – Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer (d. 2014)
 1927 - Horst Ehmke, German politician (d. 2017)
 1927 - John Martinkovic, American football player (d. 2018)
 1928 – Kim Yong-nam, North Korean politician
 1929 – Jerry Adler, American actor
 1929 – Eduard Zimmermann, German journalist and television presenter (d. 2009)
 1930 - Arthur E. Chase, American businessman and politician (d. 2015)
 1930 - Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (d. 2015)
 1931 – Isabel Perón, former President of Argentina
 1932 - Gerhard Hund, German chess player, son of Friedrich Hund
 1935 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (d. 1989)
 1936 - David Brenner, American comedian, actor and writer (d. 2014)
 1936 – Gary Conway, American actor
 1938 - Donald W. Riegle, Jr., United States Senator
 1940 - George A. Romero, American movie director (d. 2017)
 1941 - Jiri Raska, Czech ski jumper (d. 2012)
 1941 – John Steel, British musician
 1943 - Wanda Rutkiewicz, Polish mountaineer (d. 1989)
1943 – Ken Thompson, American computer scientist
 1945 - Tony Haygarth, English actor (d. 2017)
 1947 - Dennis C. Blair, American admiral, 3rd Director of Central Intelligence
 1947 – Dan Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States
 1948 – Alice Cooper, American musician
 1948 - Marisol, Spanish actress & singer
 1948 – Ram Baran Yadav, 1st President of Nepal
1951  1975 
 1951 - Patrick Bergin, Irish actor
 1952 – Jenny Shipley, 36th Prime Minister of New Zealand
 1953 - Kitaro, Japanese composer
 1954 - Andrei Karlov, Russian diplomat (d. 2016)
 1955 – Mikulas Dzurinda, former Prime Minister of Slovakia
 1960 - Mark Dawson, English-American talent manager and producer
 1962 – Clint Black, American musician
 1962 - John Gordon Sinclair, Scottish actor
 1962 - Stephen Hammond, English politician
 1963 - Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss skier
 1964 – Noodles, American guitarist
 1966 - Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist
 1967 - Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (d. 1995)
 1969 - Dallas Drake, Canadian ice hockey player
 1970 - Gabrielle Anwar, English actress
 1971 - Eric Garcetti, 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles, California
 1971 - Rob Corddry, American actor, director and producer
 1972 – Giovanni Silva de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
 1972 – Dara Ó Briain, Irish comedian
 1973 – Oscar de la Hoya, Mexican-American boxer