Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1901  2000 
 1904 – Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
 1914 – George William Hill, astronomer (b. 1838)
 1915 – Nelson W. Aldrich, Senator from Rhode Island (b. 1841)
 1930 - Jose Carlos Mariategui, Peruvian journalist, philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
 1934 - John J. Blaine, 24th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1875)
 1938 – Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
 1941 - Hans Driesch, German biologist and philosopher (b. 1867)
 1942 - Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1878)
 1946 – Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and Automobile designer (b. 1884)
 1958 – Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
 1968 - Fay Bainter, American actress (b. 1893)
 1968 – Edna Ferber, American writer (b. 1885)
 1972 – Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese writer (b. 1899)
 1973 - Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (b. 1929)
 1973 - Nino Bravo, Spanish pop singer (b. 1944)
 1978 – Lucius Clay, American general (b. 1897)
 1978 - Philibert Tsiranana, President of Madagascar (b. 1912)
1985 – Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
 1988 - Khalil al-Wazir, Palestinian military leader (b. 1935)
 1991 – David Lean, American movie director (b. 1908)
 1991 - Sergio Peresson, Italian violin maker (b. 1913)
 1992 – Neville Brand, actor (b. 1920)
 1994 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1914)
 1995 – Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave (b. 1982)
 1996 - Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer (b. 1927)
 1997 – Doris Angleton, American socialite (b. 1951)
 1997 - Roland Topor, French actor, director and painter (b. 1938)
 1998 – Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
 1998 – Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian supercentenarian (b. 1880)
From 2001 
 2001 – Michael Ritchie, American movie director (b. 1938)
 2002 - Oliver Eggimann, Swiss footballer (b. 1919)
 2002 – Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (b. 1927)
 2002 – Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
 2003 – Graham Stuart Thomas, British horticultural artist, writer, and garden designer (b. 1909)
 2005 – Kay Walsh, British actress (b. 1911)
 2007 – Deaths in the Virginia Tech Massacre:
 Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, Canadian French instructor (b. 1958)
 Kevin Granata, American professor of languages (b. 1961)
 Liviu Librescu, Romanian-born engineer and professor (b. 1930)
 Seung-Hui Cho, perpetrator of the Virginia Tech massacre (b. 1984)
 2007 – Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer (b. 1915)
 2008 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
 2010 – Carlos Franqui, Cuban writer and political activist (b. 1921)
 2010 - Tomas Spidlik, Czech cardinal (b. 1919)
 2011 - Allan Blakeney, Canadian politician, 10th Premier of Saskatchewan (b. 1925)
2012 – Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, Danish shipping magnate (b. 1913)
 2013 - Pat Summerall, American football player (b. 1930)
 2013 - Pentti Lund, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
 2013 - George Beverly Shea, Canadian-American gospel singer (b. 1909)
 2013 - Ali Kafi, Algerian politician (b. 1928)
 2014 - Gyude Bryant, Liberian politician (b. 1949)
 2014 - Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist (b. 1923)
 2014 - Albert André, German Roman Catholic priest (b. 1930)
 2015 - Valery Belousov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
 2015 - Attaphol Buspakom, Thai footballer and coach (b. 1962)
 2015 - Stanislav Gross, 5th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (b. 1969)
 2015 - Lee Remmel, American PR spokesman (b. 1924)
 2015 - Oles Buzina, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
 2015 - Johnny Kemp, Bahamian singer (b. 1959)
 2015 - Heino Kleiminger, German footballer (b. 1939)
 2016 - Rubén Mendoza Ayala, Mexican politician (b. 1961)
2016 - Jeanette Bonnier, Swedish media proprietor, journalist and writer (b. 1934)
 2016 - Rod Daniel, American film director (b. 1942)
 2016 - William M. Gray, American meteorologist (b. 1929)
 2016 - Charlie Hodge, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
 2016 - Louis Pilot, Luxembourgian footballer (b. 1940)
 2016 - Helmut Rohde, German politician (b. 1925)
 2016 - Peter Rock, Chilean musician and actor (b. 1945)
 2016 - Kit West, British special effects artist (b. 1936)
 2017 - Gianni Boncompagni, Italian television presenter, producer and screenwriter (b. 1932)
 2017 - Arcan Cetin, Turkish-American terrorist (b. 1996)
 2017 - Allan Holdsworth, British guitarist and composer (b. 1946)
 2018 - Harry Anderson, American actor (b. 1952)
 2018 - Choi Eun-hee, South Korean actress (b. 1926)
 2018 - Dona Ivone Lara, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1921)
 2018 - Ivan Mauger, New Zealand motorcycle speedway rider (b. 1939)
 2018 - Lynn Stout, American law scholar (b. 1957)
2018 - Pamela Gidley, American actress (b. 1965)
 2018 - Henri Landwirth, Belgian-American hotelier (b. 1927)
 2018 - Paul Singer, Austrian-Brazilian economist (b. 1932)
 2019 - Ahmad Eghtedari, Iranian teacher, writer and lawyer (b. 1925)
 2019 - Guro Fjellanger, Norwegian politician (b. 1964)
 2019 - Jörg Demus, Austrian pianist (b. 1928)
 2019 - Kent Harris, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1930)
 2019 - Suzanne Twelftree, Australian wheelchair tennis player and powerlifter (b. 1956)
 2019 - Hansjörg Auer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1984)
 2019 - David Lama, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1990)
 2019 - Jess Roskelley, American mountaineer (b. 1982)
Observances 
 Birthday of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
 Emancipation Day (Washington, DC)
 World Voice Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 428 - Nestorius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
 837 - Closest approach between Halley's Comet and Earth.
 879 - Louis III and Carloman II become joint Kings of the West Franks.
 1500 - Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara.
 1606 - The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
 1710 - The Statute of Anne, the first law against copyright, enters  into force in Great Britain.
 1741 – Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
 1809 - Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition starts, when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.
 1815 – Mount Tambora eruption covers several islands with ash in Indonesia.
 1816 – The U.S. government approved the creation of a Second Bank of the United States.
 1821 - Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman Empire.
 1849 – Walter Hunt receives a patent for the safety pin.
1864 - Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, during the French intervention in Mexico.
 1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
 1874 - The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
 1887 - Pope Leo XIII, on Easter Sunday, authorizes the creation of The Catholic University of America.
 1896 - Spyridon Louis wins the first marathon of the modern Olympic Games.
1901  2000 
 1906 – The Four Million, O. Henry's second short story collection, is published.
 1912 – The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England.
 1916 – The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City by 82 charter members.
 1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
 1933 – New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps is created.
 1938 – Édouard Daladier becomes Prime Minister of France
 1939 – Dr. I.Q., the Mental Banker debuts.
 1940 - Katyn massacre: Mass execution of 40,000 Polish officers and intelligentsia is approved and signed by Joseph Stalin.
 1941 – World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustase fascist insurgents in power.
 1944 – Henry Ford II is named executive vice president of Ford Motor Company.
1953 – The House of Wax opens at New York City's Paramount Theater (it was the first color feature in 3-D).
 1957 – The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
 1959 – Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko (née Michiko Shoda), a commoner.
 1963 – The submarine USS Thresher is lost at sea, with all hands (129 officers, crewmen and civilian technicians)
 1968 – Shipwreck of the Wahine outside Wellington harbour.
 1970 – Paul McCartney announces that The Beatles have broken up.
 1970 – Vietnam War: 48 percent of the Americans polled in a Gallup Poll approve of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon's Vietnam policy, while 41 percent disapprove.
 1971 – Cold War: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China host the U.S. table tennis team for a weeklong visit.
 1972 – 20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas.
1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967 American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
 1973 – A British Vanguard turboprop crashes during a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104.
 1979 – On the day known to meteorologists as "terrible Tuesday", a tornado hits in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. (see Wichita Falls, Texas Tornado).
 1988 – The comic strip FoxTrot débuts.
 1991 - Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Tuscany, killing 140 people.
 1991 - A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola.
 1992 – The Maraghar Massacre, killing of ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
 1998 – The Belfast Agreement is signed.
From 2001 
 2006 – In a close election, Romano Prodi is elected Prime Minister of Italy, succeeding Silvio Berlusconi, who later regains this position, in 2008.
 2009 - President of Fiji Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all of the governance of the country.
 2010 – A plane crash in Smolensk, western Russia, kills 96 people. Many of them were very important in Poland, including President Lech Kaczynski. They were on their way to a memorial service to commemorate 70 years since the Katyn massacre.
 2015 - A bus and truck collide in southern Morocco, killing 33 people, including schoolchildren.
 2016 - The Kollam temple fire in Kerala, Southern India, kills over 100 people.
 2019 - Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope Project announce the first-ever image of a black hole, at the centre of the M87 Galaxy.
 2019 - Fossil fragments found in the Callao Cave on the Philippines' island of Luzon reveal the existence of the Homo luzonensis species of human.

Births
Up to 1900 
 401 - Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (d. 450)
 1389 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
 1512 – James V of Scotland (exact date uncertain) (d. 1542)
 1583 – Hugo Grotius, jurist (d. 1645)
 1651 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician, physicist and historian (d. 1708)
 1707 - Michel Corrette, French organist, composer, writer (d. 1795)
 1713 - John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (d. 1788)
 1735 - Button Gwinnett, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1777)
 1755 – Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, originator of homeopathy (d. 1843)
 1762 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (d. 1834)
 1766 - John Leslie, Scottish physicist (d. 1832)
 1778 – William Hazlitt, English writer (d. 1830)
 1783 – Hortense de Beauharnais, queen of Holland as wife of Louis Bonaparte (d. 1837)
 1794 – Matthew Perry, American commodore (d. 1858)
 1796 - James Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (d. 1836)
 1801 - Paul Devaux, Belgian politician (d. 1880)
1817 - Konstantin Aksakov, Russian writer (d. 1860)
 1827 - Lew Wallace, American lawyer, general and politician (d. 1905)
 1829 – William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army (d. 1912)
 1847 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American journalist and publisher (d. 1911)
 1864 - Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-born German composer (d. 1932)
 1865 - Jack Miner, Canadian conservationist (d. 1944)
 1867 – George William Russell, Irish nationalist (d. 1935)
 1868 – George Arliss, British actor (d. 1946)
 1870 (O.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1924)
 1873 – Kyösti Kallio, President of Finland (d. 1940)
 1877 - Alfred Kubin, American expressionist illustrator and writer (d. 1959)
 1877 - Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (d. 1947)
 1879 - Bernhard Gregory, Baltic German chess player (d. 1939)
 1880 – Mohammed Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan (d. 1933)
 1880 – Montague Summers, English writer (d. 1948)
 1882 – Frances Perkins, American politician (d. 1965)
1887 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian doctor, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1971)
 1892 - Victor de Sabata, Italian conductor and composer (d. 1967)
 1894 – Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian, and educator (d. 1983)
 1897 - Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 1990)
 1899 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1901  2000 
 1901 - Alexander Ireland, Scottish boxer (d. 1966)
 1903 - Clare Turlay Newberry, American illustrator and author (d. 1970)
 1906 - Steve Anderson, American hurdler (d. 1988)
 1910 – Eddy Duchin, musician (d. 1951)
 1911 - Maurice Schumann, French journalist and politician (d. 1998)
 1912 - Boris Kidric, 1st Prime Minister of Slovenia (d. 1953)
 1913 – Stefan Heym, German writer (d. 2001)
 1915 – Harry Morgan, American actor (d. 2011)
 1915 - Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist, poet and illustrator (d. 2014)
 1917 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist (d. 1979)
 1919 - John Houbolt, American aerospace engineer (d. 2014)
 1921 – Chuck Connors, American actor and baseball player (d. 1992)
 1921 - Jake Warren, Canadian soldier and diplomat (d. 2008)
 1921 – Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003)
 1924 – Kenneth Noland, American painter (d. 2010)
 1926 – Junior Samples, American country musician (d. 1983)
 1926 - Jacques Castérède, French composer and pianist (d. 2014)
1927 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biochemist, won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2010)
 1929 – Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
 1930 – Claude Bolling, French jazz composer and pianist
 1930 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish comedian (d. 2001)
 1930 - Ray Blanton, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1996)
 1931 – Luis Cabral, 1st President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2009)
 1931 - René Follet, Belgian comic artist
 1932 – Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (d. 2015)
 1932 - Mae Faggs, American athlete (d. 2000)
 1934 – David Halberstam, American writer (d. 2007)
 1934 – Vladimir Posner, Soviet journalist
 1935 – Nicola Cabibbo, Italian physicist (d. 2010)
 1936 – John Madden, American football coach and broadcaster
 1937 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (d. 2010)
 1938 – Don Meredith, American football player and broadcaster (d. 2010)
 1938 - Frans van der Lugt, Dutch priest (d. 2014)
 1939 - Penny Vincenzi, English writer (d. 2018)
 1939 - Rocky Valance, Welsh singer
1940 - Gloria Hunniford, Northern Irish television and radio presenter
 1941 – Paul Theroux, American writer
 1943 – Andrzej Badeński, Polish athlete
 1946 – David Angell, American television producer (d. 2001)
 1946 - Bob Watson, American baseball player and executive
 1947 – Bunny Wailer, Jamaican musician
 1950 – Ken Griffey, Sr., American Major League Baseball player
 1950 – Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (P-Funk and The Temptations) (d. 1992)
1951  1975 
 1952 - Narayan Rane, Indian politician, 16th Chief Minister of Maharashtra 
 1952 – Steven Seagal, American actor
 1954 – Peter MacNicol, American actor
 1954 - Paul Bearer, American professional wrestler and manager (d. 2013)
 1955 – Lesley Garrett, British soprano
 1957 - James D. Hudnall, American comic book writer (d. 2019)
 1958 – Yefim Bronfman, Russian pianist
 1958 – Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, music producer, musician, and movie producer
 1959 - Stanislaw Tillich, German politician, former Prime Minister of Saxony
 1960 – Brian Setzer, musician
 1960 – Katrina Leskanich, American singer (Katrina and the Waves)
 1960 – Afrika Bambaataa, American musician and activist
 1961 - Nicky Campbell, Scottish television and radio presenter
 1962 – Steve Tasker, American football player
 1963 – Doris Leuthard, Swiss politician
 1963 – Mark Oliver Everett, American musician
 1965 – Tim Alexander, American musician
 1966 - Steve Claridge, English footballer, manager and sportscaster
1968 – Orlando Jones, American actor, comedian
 1970 – Kenny Lattimore, American singer
 1970 - Q-Tip, American rapper and producer
 1972 - Ed Byrne, Irish comedian
 1973 – Roberto Carlos, Brazilian footballer
 1973 - Aidan Moffat, British musician
 1974 - Eric Greitens, American politician, 56th Governor of Missouri
From 1976 
 1979 – Rachel Corrie, American activist, member of the International Solidarity Movement (d. 2003)
 1979 – Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese artist
 1979 – Sophie Ellis-Bextor, English singer
 1979 – Shemekia Copeland, American singer
 1980 – Charlie Hunnam, actor
 1981 – Liz McClarnon, English singer (Atomic Kitten)
 1981 - Gretchen Bleiler, American snowboarder
 1981 - Alexei Semenov, Russian ice hockey player
 1982 - Chyler Leigh, American actress, singer and model
 1983 – Ryan Merriman, American actor
 1983 - Hannes Sigurdsson, Icelandic footballer
 1984 - Gonzalo Javier Rodriguez, Argentine footballer
 1984 – Mandy Moore, American singer and actress
 1985 - Willo Flood, Irish footballer
 1986 – Vincent Kompany, Belgian footballer
 1986 - Tore Reginiussen, Norwegian footballer
 1987 – Hayley Westenra, New Zealand singer
 1987 - Shay Mitchell, Canadian actress
 1988 – Haley Joel Osment, American actor
 1989 - Jenny Alm, Swedish handball player
 1989 - Thomas Heurtel, French basketball player
1990 – Alex Pettyfer, English actor
 1991 – Amanda Michalka, American actress and singer
 1991 - Royce White, American basketball player
 1992 - Sadio Mané, Senegalese footballer
 1992 - Daisy Ridley, English actress
 1994 - Nerlens Noel, American basketball player
 1996 - Emily Rose Everhard, American actress
 1996 - Loïc Nottet, Belgian singer
 2007 – Princess Ariane of the Netherlands
Up to 1950 
 879 – Louis the Stammerer, king of the West Franks (b. 846)
 948 - Hugh of Italy
 1216 - Eric X of Sweden (b. 1180)
 1533 – Frederick I of Denmark (b. 1471)
 1585 – Pope Gregory XIII (b. 1502)
 1599 – Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress of King Henry IV of France (b. 1571)
 1646 - Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)
 1756 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (b. 1661)
 1786 - John Byron, English admiral and politician (b. 1723)
 1813 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange, mathematician (b. 1736)
 1821 - Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople (b. 1746)
 1823 - Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (b. 1757)
 1862 – W.H.L. Wallace, Union brigadier general (b. 1821)
 1871 - Lucio Norberto Mansilla, Argentine general and politician (b. 1789)
 1882 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British poet, painter (b. 1828)
 1904 - Isabella II of Spain (b. 1830)
 1909 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (b. 1909)
 1919 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1879)
1920 - Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1829)
 1931 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
 1938 - Joe "King" Oliver, American jazz cornet player and bandleader (b. 1885)
 1939 – Alfredo Panzini, Italian writer (b. 1863)
 1945 – Charles Nordhoff, writer (b. 1887)
1951  2000 
 1954 – Auguste Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1862)
 1955 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French priest and philosopher (b. 1881)
 1958 - Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
 1960 - André Berthomieu, French director and screenwriter (b. 1903) 
 1962 – Michael Curtiz, director (b. 1886)
 1962 – Stuart Sutcliffe, British musician (The Beatles) (b. 1940)
 1965 – Linda Darnell, actress (b. 1923)
 1966 – Evelyn Waugh, English writer (b. 1903)
 1968 – Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (b. 1899)
 1969 – Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer
 1975 – Josephine Baker, American dancer (b. 1906)
 1975 – Marjorie Main, actress (b. 1890)
 1979 – Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911)
 1980 – Kay Medford, American actress (b. 1914)
 1986 – Linda Creed, American songwriter (b. 1948)
 1991 – Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (b. 1955)
 1991 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)
 1992 – Sam Kinison, American comedian (b. 1953)
 1992 - Peter D. Mitchell, British biochemist (b. 1920)
1993 – Chris Hani, South African activist (b. 1942)
 1994 – Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)
 1995 – Morarji Desai, Indian activist and politician, Prime Minister of India (b. 1896)
 1995 – Guenther Guillaume, German spy (b. 1927)
 1997 – Michael Dorris, American writer (b. 1945)
 1998 - Archbishop Seraphim of Athens (b. 1913)
 1999 – Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, biochemist (b. 1910)
 2000 – Peter Jones, comedian and scriptwriter (b. 1920)
 2000 – Larry Linville, American actor (b. 1939)
2001  2010 
 2001 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player (b. 1940)
 2002 – Yuji Hyakutake, Japanese astronomer (b. 1950)
 2003 – Little Eva, American singer (b. 1943)
 2007 - Dakota Staton, American singer (b. 1930)
 2010 – Dixie Carter, American actress (b. 1939)
 2010 - Deaths in the 2010 Polish Tu-154 plane crash:
Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish politician (b. 1919)
Lech Kaczynski, President of Poland (b. 1949)
Maria Kaczynska, First Lady of Poland (b. 1942)
Anna Walentynowicz, Polish activist (b. 1929)
Janusz Zakrzenski, Polish actor (b. 1936)
Jerzy Szmajdzinski, Polish politician (b. 1952)
From 2011 
 2012 - Raymond Aubrac, French resistance activist (b. 1914)
 2013 - Robert Edwards, British Nobel Prize-winning physiologist and IVF pioneer (b. 1925)
 2014 - Dominique Baudis, French journalist and politician (b. 1947)
 2014 - Jim Flaherty, Canadian politician (b. 1949)
 2014 - Sue Townsend, English writer (b. 1946)
 2014 - Joe Dini, American politician (b. 1929)
 2014 - Justin Marie Bomboko, Congolese politician (b. 1928)
 2014 - Anatoly Sukhorukov, Russian physicist (b. 1935)
 2015 - Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and commentator (b. 1930)
 2015 - Peter Walsh, Australian politician (b. 1935)
 2015 - Ray Graves, American football player and coach (b. 1918)
 2015 - Jin Youzhi, Chinese royal (b. 1918)
 2015 - Judith Malina, German-American actress (b. 1926)
 2015 - Jim Mutscheller, American football player (b. 1930)
 2016 - Howard Marks, British drug smuggler and author (b. 1945)
 2016 - Louis Gladstone, American politician (b. 1927)
 2017 - Arnold Clark, Scottish businessman (b. 1927)
2017 - J. Geils, American guitarist (b. 1946)
 2017 - Linda Hopkins, American actress and singer (b. 1924)
 2017 - Larry Sharpe, American professional wrestler (b. 1951)
 2017 - Bab Christensen, Norwegian actress (b. 1928)
 2017 - Dennis F. Kinlaw, American academic (b. 1922)
 2017 - Kirill Kovaldzhi, Russian author, poet and critic (b. 1929)
 2018 - F'Murr, French comic artist (b. 1946)
 2018 - John Lambie, Scottish footballer (b. 1941)
 2018 - Li Yaowen, Chinese general and politician (b. 1918) 
 2019 - Werner Bardenhewer, German priest and humanitarian (b. 1929)
 2019 - Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
 2019 - Irwin L. Jacobs, American investor and businessman (b. 1941)
 2019 - Estrella Zeledón Lizano, First Lady of Costa Rica (b. 1929)
Events

Up to 1900 
 672 – Adeodatus II is elected Pope.
 1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint monarchs of Scotland, England and Ireland.
 1713 - War of the Spanish Succession - Treaty of Utrecht.
 1775 – Germany's last witchcraft execution takes place.
 1814 – Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates as Emperor of France, and is exiled on the island of Elba.
 1856 - Battle of Rivas in Costa Rica: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
 1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, ending the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan.
1901  2000 
 1909 - The city of Tel Aviv in present-day Israel is founded.
 1912 – The RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland, bound for New York City. This was its last stop before its sinking.
 1919 - The International Labour Organization is founded.
 1921 - Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralized government the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
 1945 – Buchenwald Concentration Camp is liberated.
 1951 – General Douglas MacArthur is relieved of his duties by US President Harry S. Truman.
 1951 – The Stone of Scone, on which Scottish monarchs were crowned, is found in Arbroath, after it had been taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It is later officially returned to Scotland in 1996.
 1954 – April 11, 1954 is allegedly the most boring day of the 20th century.
 1955 - The Air India Kashmir Princess aircraft is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
 1957 - The United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
1961 – Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is put on trial.
 1965 - 56 tornadoes hit six Midwestern US States, killing 256 people.
 1968 – German activist Rudi Dutschke is shot. This indirectly leads to his death of an epileptic seizure in 1979.
 1970 – Apollo 13 launches with astronauts James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise on board.
 1976 - The Apple I is created.
 1979 – Tanzanian troops enter Kampala, as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin flees.
 1981 – Brixton riot One of three riots in Brixton, London happened on this day.
 1983 - Richard Attenborough's movie Gandhi wins eight awards at the 54th Academy Awards.
 1985 – Albania's head of state Enver Hoxha dies, and is succeeded by Ramiz Alia.
 1987 - The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israels then-foreign minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
 1989 - Ron Hextall becomes the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal in the play-offs.
 1996 - A fire at Düsseldorf Airport in Germany kills 17 people.
From 2001 
 2001 – In an association football match, Australia beats American Samoa 31-0, setting a record for an international match in the sport.
 2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is briefly removed from office in a US-backed coup, but is soon reinstated.
 2006 – Italian crime boss Bernardo Provenzano is arrested.
 2006 - President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that his country has enriched uranium.
 2006 - Ehud Olmert officially becomes Prime Minister of Israel, as Ariel Sharon is unable to continue in this role after a stroke three months earlier.
 2007 – A terrorist bombing occurs in Algiers.
 2011 – In Ivory Coast, the political crisis comes to an end after Laurent Gbagbo is arrested in Abidjan, with Alassane Ouattara becoming the next President.
 2011 - The Minsk Metro is bombed, killing 15 people.
 2012 – Two earthquakes, including one of magnitude 8.2, strike off Sumatra, causing a tsunami alert.
 2018 - An Algerian military plane crashes shortly after take-off, killing 257 people.
2019 - India's 2019 general election begins; lasting over six weeks, it is the world's biggest democratic process.
 2019 - Ecuador removes the asylum it gave to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at its embassy in London, leading to his arrest after seven years spent there.
 2019 - President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir is removed from power by the military, after a series of protests against his rule.
Up to 1900 
 146 – Septimius Severus, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
 1184 - William of Winchester, Duke of Lüneburg (d. 1213)
 1348 - Andronikos IV Palaiologus, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1385)
 1357 – King John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
 1370 - Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1428)
 1373 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (d. 1398)
 1492 – Margaret of Navarre, Queen of Navarre and writer (d. 1549)
 1493 - George I, Duke of Pomerania (d. 1531)
 1568 – Marin Getaldić, Croatian physicist and astronomer (d. 1626)
 1592 - John Eliot, English statesman (d. 1632)
 1715 - John Alcock, English organist and composer (d. 1806)
 1723 – Franz Anton Bustelli, porcelain moulder (d. 1763)
 1749 - Adelaide Labille-Guiard, French painter (d. 1803)
 1755 – James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824)
 1770 – George Canning, shortest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
 1790 - George Rockingham Gilmer, Governor of Georgia (d. 1859)
 1794 - Edward Everett, 16th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1865)
1798 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (d. 1854)
 1806 - Pierre Guillaume Frédéric Le Play, French engineer and social reformer (d. 1882)
 1806 - George Thorn Sr., Australian politician (d. 1876)
 1810 – Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, soldier and orientalist (d. 1895)
 1819 – Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
 1822 - James Esmond, Irish-Australian gold prospector and miner (d. 1890)
 1824 - Johanna von Puttkamer, wife of Otto von Bismarck (d. 1894)
 1825 – Ferdinand Lassalle, German politician (d. 1864)
 1827 - Mahatma Jyotirau Phule, Indian social reformer (d. 1890)
 1832 - Helena Scott, Australian artist and naturalist (d. 1910)
 1837 - Marshall Burdekin, Australian politician, Treasurer of New South Wales (d. 1886)
 1845 - Thomas O'Callaghan, Australian police officer (d. 1931)
 1856 - Sydney Smith, Australian politician (d. 1934)
 1856 - Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricketer (d. 1903)
1862 – Charles Evans Hughes, American jurist and politician, United States Secretary of State (d. 1948)
 1862 - William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer (d. 1938)
 1864 - Johanna Elberskirchen, German feminist (d. 1943)
 1866 - Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet, activist, lawyer and journalist (d. 1953)
 1869 – Kasturba Gandhi, Indian activist and pacifist (d. 1944)
 1869 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
 1871 - Gyula Kellner, Hungarian athlete (d. 1946)
 1874 - David Murray Anderson, British Governor and naval officer, 66th Governor of Newfoundland and 28th Governor of New South Wales (d. 1936)
 1876 - Ivane Javakishvili, Georgian historian (d. 1940)
 1879 - Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German astronomer (d. 1935)
 1883 – Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese writer (d. 1951)
 1889 – Nick LaRocca, jazz musician (d. 1961)
 1890 - Rachele Mussolini, Italian writer and wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)
 1893 – Dean Acheson, United States Secretary of State (d. 1971)
1894 - Frank Berryman, Australian army officer and general (d. 1981)
 1896 – Wieland Herzfelde, publisher and writer (d. 1989)
 1898 - Robert Monahan, Australian lawyer and judge (d. 1975)
 1899 - Norman Nock, Australian businessman and politician, 63rd Lord Mayor of Sydney (d. 1990)
 1900 – Sándor Márai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Arnold Matters, Australian operatic baritone (d. 1990)
 1903 - Hazel Claire Weekes, Australian physician and health writer (d. 1990)
 1904 - Cyril Pearl, Australian journalist, editor, author, social historian and television personality (d. 1987)
 1906 – Dale Messick, American cartoonist (d. 2005)
 1906 - Masaru Ibaka, Japanese businessman (d. 1997)
 1908 – Leo Rosten, humorist, writer (d. 1997)
 1910 – António de Spínola, Portuguese politician (d. 1996)
 1911 – Leopold Hawelka, Austrian cafetier (d. 2011)
 1911 – Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-American runner (d. 1980)
 1913 – Oleg Cassini, French-American fashion designer (d. 2006)
 1914 - Norman McLaren, Scottish-Canadian animator, director and producer (d. 1987)
 1914 - Robert Stanfield, 17th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
 1916 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (d. 1983)
 1918 - Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, French journalist and politician (d. 2018)
 1919 - Raymond Carr, English historian (d. 2015)
1920 - Emilio Colombo, 40th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2013)
 1920 – Marlen Haushofer, writer (d. 1990)
 1925 - Yuriy Lituyev, Russian hurdler (d. 2000)
 1925 - George Shuffler, American musician (d. 2014)
 1926 - David Manker Abshire, former United States Ambassador to NATO (d. 2014)
 1928 – Ethel Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy
 1928 - Edwin Pope, American journalist (d. 2017)
 1930 – Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
 1930 - Nicholas F. Brady, 68th United States Secretary of the Treasury
 1931 - Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer
 1931 - Sergio Sebastiani, Italian cardinal
 1931 – Johnny Sheffield, American actor (d. 2010)
 1932 – Joel Grey, singer, actor, and dancer
 1933 – Tony Brown, American journalist, broadcaster
 1934 - Mark Strand, Canadian-American poet (d. 2014)
 1935 – Richard Berry, American singer and composer (d. 1997)
 1937 - Jill Gascoine, British actress and novelist
 1938 – Kurt Moll, German bass (d. 2017)
 1939 – Louise Lasser, American actress
1941 - Wang Jun, Chinese business executive (d. 2019)
 1941 - D. Babu Paul, Indian civil servant (d. 2019)
 1941 - Shirley Stelfox, English actress (d. 2015)
 1942 - Anatoly Berezovoy, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2014)
 1944 – John Milius, American director and writer
 1944 - Nicoletta, French singer
 1945 - John Krebs, Baron Krebs, English zoologist and academic
 1945 - Winston Peters, New Zealand politician, Deputy prime minister of New Zealand
 1946 - Chris Burden, American sculptor, illustrator and academic (d. 2015)
 1946 – Bob Harris, British disc jockey and presenter
 1947 – Peter Riegert, American actor
 1947 – Meshach Taylor, American actor (d. 2014)
 1949 – Bernd Eichinger, German movie producer (d. 2011)
 1950 - Bill Irwin, American actor
1951  1975 
 1951 – Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite (d. 1997)
 1951 – James Patrick Kelly, American writer
 1953 – Andrew Wiles, British mathematician
 1953 – Guy Verhofstadt, former Prime Minister of Belgium
 1954 – Abdullah Atalar, Turkish academic
 1955 - Rohini Hattangadi, Indian actress
 1955 – Kevin Brady, American politician
 1955 - Michael Ray Richardson, American basketball player
 1955 – Julie Czerneda, writer
 1955 – Michael Callen, American singer and songwriter (d. 1993)
 1955 - Piers Sellers, British astronaut (d. 2016)
 1957 - Richard Sevigny, Canadian ice hockey player
 1957 – Marina Fitch, writer
 1958 – Stuart Adamson, British musician (Big Country) (d. 2001)
 1958 – Luísa Diogo, former Prime Minister of Mozambique
 1958 - Peter Skipper, English footballer (d. 2019)
 1959 - Pierre Lacroix, Canadian ice hockey player
 1960 – Jeremy Clarkson, English journalist and television presenter
 1961 – Doug Hopkins, American musician (d. 1993)
1961 - Vincent Gallo, American actor, singer, director, producer and screenwriter
 1964 - John Cryer, English journalist and politician
 1965 - Corri Wilson, Scottish politician
 1966 – Lisa Stansfield, English singer
 1966 – Mason Reese, American actor
 1968 – Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian science fiction writer
 1969 - Caren Miosga, German news presenter
 1969 - Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer
 1969 - Oriol Junqueras, Catalan politician, historian and academic
 1970 - Trevor Linden, Canadian ice hockey player
 1970 – Whigfield, Danish singer
 1971 – Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein)
 1972 - Balls Mahoney, American professional wrestler (d. 2016)
 1972 – Jason Varitek, American baseball player
 1973 - Jennifer Esposito, American actress
 1974 - Mario Cantaluppi, Swiss footballer
 1974 - Tricia Helfer, Canadian model and actress
 1974 - Zoe Lucker, British actress
 1974 – Trot Nixon, American baseball player
From 1976 
 1976 – Antonio Pacheco, Uruguayan footballer
 1978 - Tom Thacker, Canadian singer and musician
 1979 - Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Iranian-Canadian model and singer
 1979 - Malcolm Christie, English footballer
 1980 – Keiji Tamada, Japanese footballer
 1981 - Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model and actress
 1981 - Matt Ryan, Welsh actor
 1982 – Ian Bell, English cricketer
 1982 - Peeter Kümmel, Estonian skier
 1983 - Jennifer Heil, Canadian skier
 1984 – Nikola Karabatic, French handball player
 1984 - Kelli Garner, American actress
 1984 - Monica May, American actress
 1986 - Dai Greene, Welsh athlete
 1987 – Joss Stone, English singer
 1987 - Lights, Canadian musician, singer and songwriter
 1988 - Leland Irving, Canadian ice hockey player
 1989 - Zola Jesus, American singer-songwriter and producer
 1990 – Shohei Otsuka, Japanese footballer
 1991 – Thiago Alcántara, Italian footballer
 1991 - James Magnussen, Australian swimmer
 1991 - Erina Mano, Japanese singer and actress
1994 - Duncan Laurence, Dutch singer
 1994 – Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
 1996 - Dele Alli, English footballer
 1998 - Oliver Dillon, English actor
 2000 - Morgan Lily, American actress
Up to 1950 
 678 - Pope Donus
 714 - Guthlac of Crowland, English saint
 1034 – Romanus III, Byzantine Emperor (b. 968)
 1165 – King Stephen IV of Hungary (b. 1133)
 1240 – Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd
 1447 - Henry Beaufort, English bishop and cardinal (b. 1375)
 1771 – George Canning, Sr., father of George Canning (b. 1736)
 1783 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Polish-Russian politician (b. 1718)
 1798 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
 1856 – Jose Santamaria, Costa Rican national hero (b. 1831)
 1873 - Edward Canby, American general (b. 1817)
 1875 - Andrew Jackson Hamilton, 12th Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
 1884 – Charles Reade, English writer (b. 1814)
 1890 – Joseph Merrick, British man who was often referred to as the Elephant Man (b. 1862)
 1894 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b. 1832)
 1903 - Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint (b. 1878)
 1906 - James Anthony Bailey, American businessman (b. 1847)
 1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American journalist and publisher (b. 1809)
1908 - Henry Bird, English chess player and author (b. 1829)
 1916 - Richard Harding Davis, American author (b. 1864)
 1918 - Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (b. 1841)
 1921 – Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia (b. 1858)
 1926 - Luther Burbank, American botanist and horticulturist (b. 1849)
 1934 - John Collier, English painter (b. 1850)
 1950 – Bainbridge Colby, United States Secretary of State (b. 1869)
1951  2010 
 1953 - Kid Nichols, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
 1954 - Paul Specht, American violinist and bandleader (b. 1895)
 1958 - Marcel Pilet-Golaz, Swiss politician (b. 1889)
 1958 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)
 1967 - Donald Sangster, 2nd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1911)
 1970 – John O'Hara, American writer (b. 1905)
 1977 – Jacques Prévert, French poet (b. 1900)
 1983 - Dolores del Rio, Mexican actress (b. 1904)
 1985 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian political leader (b. 1908)
 1987 – Primo Levi, Italian writer and chemist (b. 1919)
 1990 - Ivan-Lo Johansson, Swedish writer (b. 1900)
 1992 - Eve Merriam, American playwright, director and poet (b. 1916)
 1997 – Wang Xiaobo, Chinese writer (b. 1952)
 2001 - Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)
 2005 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
 2006 – Proof, American rapper (b. 1973)
 2006 - June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (b. 1953)
 2007 – Kurt Vonnegut, American writer (b. 1921)
From 2011 
 2012 – Ahmed Ben Bella, 1st President of Algeria (b. 1918)
 2014 - Edna Doré, English actress (b. 1921)
 2014 - Jesse Winchester, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (b. 1944)
 2014 - Nandu Bhende, Indian musician (b. 1955)
 2014 - Rolf Brem, Swiss sculptor, illustrator and graphic artist (b. 1926)
 2014 - Bill Henry, American baseball player (b. 1927)
 2014 - Myer S. Kripke, American rabbi (b. 1914)
 2015 - Janusz Kurczab, Polish fencer (b. 1937)
 2015 - Sheila Kitzinger, British childbirth activist (b. 1929)
 2015 - Charlie Beasley, American basketball player (b. 1945)
 2016 - Ed Snider, American sports executive (b. 1933)
 2016 - Emile Ford, Saint Lucian singer and sound engineer (b. 1937)
 2016 - Anne Gould Hauberg, American arts patron (b. 1917)
 2017 - Dorothy Mengering, American television personality (b. 1921)
 2017 - Margit Schumann, German luger (b. 1952)
 2017 - Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (b. 1935)
2018 - Karen Dawisha, American political scientist and writer (b. 1949)
 2018 - Mitzi Shore, American comedy club owner (b. 1930)
 2018 - Zola Skweyiya, South African politician (b. 1942)
 2018 - Patrick F. McManus, American columnist and writer (b. 1933)
 2018 - Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, French journalist and politician (b. 1918)
 2019 - Ian Cognito, English comedian (b. 1958)
 2019 - Stanley Plumly, American poet (b. 1939)
 2019 - Dmitri Savitski, Russian novelist (b. 1944)
Observances 
 International Day of Rowing
 International Day of Parkinson's disease Awareness

References 

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 238 - Gordian II loses the Battle of Carthage against Numidian forces loyal to Maximus Thrax and is killed. His father, Gordian I, commits suicide.
 240 - Shapur I is crowned as King of the Sasanian Empire.
 467 – Anthemius becomes Emperor of the West Roman Empire.
 627 - King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to Christianity by Bishop Paulinus of York.
 1204 - Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
 1557 – The city of Cuenca, in Ecuador, is founded.
 1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of the two united Kingdoms of Scotland and England.
 1633 – Galileo Galilei's trial before the inquisition begins.
 1831 - Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester cause it to collapse.
 1861 – The American Civil War begins when Fort Sumter, South Carolina, is attacked.
 1865 – American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama falls to the Union Army.
1901  2000 
 1917 - World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
 1927 - Chiang Kai-shek orders Communist Party of China members to be executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
 1928 - The Bremen, a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
 1934 – The strongest wind gust, outside of Antarctica or not within a tornado, is measured at Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, at 231 miles per hour (372 kilometres per hour).
 1935 - First flight of the Bristol Blenheim aircraft.
 1937 – Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine to power an aircraft.
 1945 – US President Franklin Roosevelt dies. Harry S. Truman is sworn in as his successor.
 1946 - The last French troops leave Syria.
 1954 – Bill Haley and His Comets record their hit song Rock Around the Clock.
 1955 - The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is declared safe and effective.
1961 – Yuri Gagarin is the first cosmonaut in space, sent by the U.S.S.R on Vostok 1.
 1963 - Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant navy vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
 1968 - A day after the attack on student activist Rudi Dutschke, protests and riots erupt across several cities in West Germany.
 1970 - Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay near France and Spain four days after a fire on board. 
 1980 – Terry Fox starts his Marathon of Hope across Canada in St. John's, Newfoundland.
 1980 – In Liberia, Samuel K. Doe takes power in a coup, in which President William Tolbert is killed.
 1981 – Space Shuttle Columbia is launched.
 1992 – Disneyland Paris opens, as Euro Disneyland.
 1998 – A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Slovenia.
From 2001 
 2002 - In a US-backed military coup in Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez is replaced as Head of State by Pedro Carmona. After 36 hours, Chavez is reinstated as president.
 2002 – A female suicide bomber detonates herself in Jerusalem, killing 7 people and injuring 104.
 2007 – A suicide bomber attacks the Iraqi parliament.
 2009 – Zimbabwe abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency, after a severe economic crisis in the country.
 2010 - A train crash near Merano, Italy, kills 9 people, after running into a landslide.
 2014 - A wildfire ravages the Chilean city of Valparaiso, killing 16 people, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying over 2,000 homes.

Births
Up to 1800 
 599 BC – Mahavira, Indian founder of Jainism (d. 527 BC)
 812 – Muhammad at-Taqi, Arabian Shia Imam (d. 835)
 1116 - Richeza of Poland, Queen of Sweden (d. 1156 or after)
 1432 - Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (d. 1462)
 1484 – Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (d. 1546)
 1500 – Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (d. 1574)
 1526 – Muretus, French humanist (d. 1585)
 1550 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English politician (d. 1604)
 1577 – King Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1648)
 1710 - Caffarelli, Italian opera singer (d. 1783)
 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (d. 1796)
 1716 - Felice Giardini, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1796)
 1722 – Pietro Nardini, Italian composer (d. 1793)
 1724 – Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1790)
 1726 – Charles Burney, English music historian (d. 1814)
 1748 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1836)
1760 - Juan Manuel Olivares, Venezuelan composer (d. 1797)
 1777 – Henry Clay, American statesman and five-time Presidential candidate (d. 1852)
 1792 - John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman (d. 1840)
 1794 - Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1847).
 1796 - George N. Briggs, 19th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1861)
 1799 – Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1855)
1801  1900 
 1801 - Joseph Lanner, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1843)
 1823 – Alexandr Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (d. 1886)
 1828 - Charles Foster, Governor of Ohio and United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1904)
 1839 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (d. 1888)
 1851 - Edward Walter Maunder, English astronomer (d. 1928)
 1852 - Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (d. 1939)
 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer (d. 1937)
 1866 - Princess Viktoria of Prussia (d. 1929)
 1869 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (d. 1922)
 1871 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (d. 1941)
 1874 - William B. Bankhead, American politician (d. 1940)
 1879 - Fred H. Brown, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1955)
 1883 - Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (d. 1976)
 1883 - Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player (d. 1959)
 1884 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German doctor, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1951)
1884 - Tenby Davies, Welsh runner (d. 1932)
 1885 - Robert Delaunay, French artist (d. 1941)
 1887 – Harold Lockwood, American silent movie actor (d. 1918)
 1888 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (d. 1964)
 1892 – Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1940)
 1893 – Robert Harron, American actor (d. 1920)
 1894 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, President of Portugal (d. 1964)
 1898 – Lily Pons, American soprano (d. 1976)
1901  1925 
 1902 – Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977)
 1903 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (d. 1994)
 1907 - Zawgyi, Burmese poet, writer and academic (d. 1990)
 1908 - Ida Pollock, British writer (d. 2013)
 1910 - Gillo Dorfles, Italian art critic, painter and philosopher (d. 2018)
 1911 - Mahmoud Younis, Egyptian engineer (d. 1976)
 1912 - Hamengkubuwono IX, 2nd Vice president of Indonesia (d. 1988)
 1912 - Hound Dog Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1975)
 1913 - Keiko Fukuda, Japanese judoka (d. 2013)
 1914 – Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer (d. 2010)
 1914 - Armen Alchian, American economist (d. 2013)
 1914 - Gretel Bergmann, German athlete (d. 2017)
 1916 - Movita Castaneda, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
 1916 - Beverly Cleary, American writer (d. 2021)
 1917 - Robert Manzon, French racing driver (d. 2015)
 1917 - Vinoo Mankad, Indian cricketer (d. 1978)
 1919 - Billy Vaughn, American musician and bandleader (d. 1991)
1922 - Simon Kapwepwe, 2nd Vice president of Zambia (d. 1980)
 1923 – Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (d. 2004)
 1923 - Eddie Turnbull, Scottish footballer (d. 2011)
 1924 – Raymond Barre, Prime Minister of France (d. 2007)
 1925 – Oliver Postgate, British animator, puppetteer and writer (d. 2008)