Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
From 2001 
 2003 – Ed Devereaux, Australian actor (b. 1925)
 2003 – Otto Graham, American football player (b. 1921)
 2009 – Jennifer Jones, American actress (b. 1919)
 2010 – Captain Beefheart, American musician (b. 1941)
 2011 – Cesaria Evora, Cape Verdean singer (b. 1941)
 2011 – Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader (b. 1941)
 2012 - Dina Manfredini, Italian-born American supercentenarian (b. 1897)
 2012 - Daniel Inouye, United States Senator from Hawaii (b. 1924)
 2013 - Janet Rowley, American cancer researcher (b. 1925)
 2014 - Dieter Grau, German-American rocket scientist (b. 1913)
 2014 - Richard C. Hottelet, American broadcast journalist (b. 1917)
 2014 - Oleh Lysheha, Ukrainian poet (b. 1949)
 2015 - Buckshot Hoffner, American politician (b. 1924)
 2016 - Henry Heimlich, American physician (b. 1920)
 2016 - Benjamin A. Gilman, American politician (b. 1922)
 2017 - Johnny Fox, American sword swallower (b. 1953)
 2017 - Bob Glidden, American drag racer (b. 1944)
2017 - Kevin Mahogany, American jazz singer (b. 1958)
 2017 - Edward Rowny, American army officer (b. 1917)
 2017 - Terry Cavanagh, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
 2018 - Jon Bluming, Dutch martial artist and actor (b. 1933)
 2018 - Penny Marshall, American actress (b. 1943)
 2018 - Amélie Mummendey, German social psychologist (b. 1944)
 2018 - Rona Ramon, Israeli educator and activist (b. 1964)
 2018 - Francis Roache, American police officer and politician (b. 1936)
 2019 - Karin Balzer, German hurdler (b. 1938)
 2019 - Hayden Fry, American football player (b. 1929)
 2019 - Bronco Horvath, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1930)
 2019 - Shriram Lagoo, Indian actor (b. 1927)
Observances 
 National Day of Bhutan

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1170 – Thomas Becket, is slain in his own cathedral on orders from Henry II of England.
 1778 - American Revolutionary War: 3,000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia, US.
 1786 - French Revolution: The Assembly of the Notables is convened.
 1813 – War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.
 1837 – The Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, is destroyed by fire.
 1845 – Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
 1851 – The first American-based YMCA opens, in Boston, Massachusetts
 1860 – The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, the HMS Warrior is launched.
 1874 - Alfonso XII of Spain is declared as King.
 1876 – The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster, 64 injured, 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
 1890 – Wounded Knee Massacre: The United States soldiers massacre over 400 men, women and children of the Great Sioux Nation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
 1891 – Thomas Edison patents the radio.
1901  2000 
 1911 – Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China.
 1911 – Mongolia becomes independent.
 1913 – The first movie serial, The Unwelcome Throne is released by Seligs Polyscope Company.
 1921 – William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister of Canada for the first time.
 1930 - Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for what would become Pakistan.
 1934 – The first college basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York City is played, between the University of Notre Dame and New York University.
 1934 – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
 1937 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland when a new constitution is adopted.
 1940 – Battle of Britain: Luftwaffe firebombs London, killing almost 3000 civilians .
1949 – KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
 1959 - The Lisbon Metro begins operating.
 1972 – An Eastern Airlines Lockheed Tristar crashed on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101
 1975 – A bomb explodes at New York City's LaGuardia Airport killing 11.
 1978 – The first post-Franco constitution in Spain becomes effective.
 1981 - Singapore Changi Airport opens.
 1987 – Yuri Romanenko of USSR remained in outer space for 326 days and came back to Earth on this day that year.
 1989 – Václav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia
 1989 – Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
 1989 – On the final day of trading for the year and decade, the Japanese Nikkei 225 Average closes at an all-time high of 38,915.87.
 1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello, President of Brazil, resigns.
1993 – Construction of the Tian Tan Buddha, the world's tallest outdoor bronze statue of the seated Buddha, is completed.
 1993 – Garry Kasparov wins the world champion chess title from Anatoly Karpov.
 1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord that ends a 36-year civil war.
 1997 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's chickens (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
 1998 – Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million lives in the 1970s.
From 2001 
 2001 – A fire at the Mesa Redonda Shopping Centre in Lima, Peru, kills 292 people.
 2003 – The last speaker of the Akkala Sami language dies, making the language extinct.
 2007 - The New England Patriots defeated the New York Giants 38-35 and became the first team with 16 wins and no losses.
 2009 – Akmal Shaikh becomes the first citizen of a present-day European Union country to be executed in the People's Republic of China for over 50 years.
 2011 – This date is followed by December 31 in Samoa and Tokelau, as the International Date Line is shifted.
 2012 - 2012 Delhi gang rape case: A 23-year-old student attacked on a bus on December 16 dies of her injuries.
 2013 - A suicide bomb attack on a train station in Volgograd, southern Russia, kills at least 16 people.
 2013 - Formula One champion Michael Schumacher is severely injured in a skiing accident in the French Alps.
2014 - Politicians in Greece are unable to elect a President, with main candidate Stavros Dimas failing to get enough votes. New elections are called for January 2015.
 2016 - The Duge Bridge in Luipanshui, People's Republic of China, the tallest bridge in the world, is opened to traffic.
 2016 - Barack Obama's administration expels 35 Russian diplomats in response to alleged Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
 2017 - A fire at a hotel and restaurant complex in Mumbai kills 14 people.
Up to 1900 
 1019 - Munjong of Goryeo, Korean monarch (d. 1083)
 1709 – Empress Elizabeth of Russia (d. 1762)
 1721 – Madame de Pompadour, mistress to King Louis XV of France (d. 1764)
 1766 - Charles Macintosh, Scottish inventor (d. 1843)
 1778 – Friedrich Ast, German philosopher (d. 1841)
 1788 - Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Danish historian (d. 1865)
 1788 - Tomas de Zumalacarregui, Spanish general (d. 1835)
 1796 – Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877)
 1800 – Charles Goodyear, American inventor of the vulcanization of rubber (d. 1860)
 1808 – Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)
 1809 – William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1897)
 1809 - Albert Pike, American attorney, soldier and writer (d. 1891)
 1813 - Alexander Parkes, English metallurgist and inventor (d. 1890)
 1813 - Karel Sabina, Czech journalist, politician and writer (d. 1877)
 1816 - Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895)
1838 - Walter Runeberg, Finnish sculptor (d. 1920)
 1840 – Anton Dohrn, zoologist (d. 1909)
 1843 - Elisabeth of Wied, Queen of Romania and novelist (d. 1916)
 1844 - Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee, Indian barrister and first President of the Indian National Congress (d. 1906)
 1856 - Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894)
 1859 – Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico (d. 1920)
 1871 - William Thomas Calman, Scottish zoologist (d. 1952)
 1871 - Giuseppe Motta, Swiss politician (d. 1940)
 1876 – Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (d. 1973)
 1879 – Billy Mitchell, United States Army officer, United States Air Force pioneer (d. 1936)
 1881 – Jess Willard, boxing champion (d. 1968)
 1888 - Josef Beran, Czech cardinal (d. 1969)
 1890 – Käthe Dorsch, German actress (d. 1957)
 1899 - Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist leader (d. 1992)
1901  1950 
 1904 - Kuvempu, Indian Kannada writer (d. 1994)
 1908 – Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian (d. 1993)
 1910 – Ronald Coase, British economist (d. 2013)
 1910 – Gunnar Thoroddsen, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1983)
 1911 – Klaus Fuchs, German-British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (d. 1988)
 1913 – Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 2002)
 1914 – Billy Tipton, American jazz musician (d. 1989)
 1914 – Albert Tucker, Australian artist (d 1999)
 1917 – Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles, California (d. 1998)
 1919 - Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist and author (d. 2014)
 1919 - Roman Vlad, Romanian-Italian composer (d. 2013)
 1920 – Ratu Iosefa Iloilo, President of Fiji (d. 2011)
 1920 – Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (d. 1995)
 1921 - Dobrica Cosic, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (d. 2014)
 1921 - Robert C. Baker, American chef, inventor of the Chicken nugget (d. 2006)
1923 - Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist and physicist (d. 1986)
 1923 - Dina Merrill, American actress (d. 2017)
 1925 - Luis Alberto Monge, President of Costa Rica (d. 2016)
 1926 - John Spellman, American politician, Governor of Washington (d. 2018)
 1927 – Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985)
 1928 - Bernard Cribbins, English actor
 1931 – Prince Gu of Korea (d. 2005)
 1932 - Inga Swenson, American actress
 1934 – Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995)
 1936 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Tyler Moore) (d. 2017)
 1936 – Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998)
 1937 – Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, former President of the Maldives
 1937 – Dieter Thomas Heck, German singer and entertainer
 1937 – Barbara Steele, British actress
 1938 - Michael Hill, New Zealand businessman
 1938 – Jon Voight, American actor
 1941 - Daphne Arden, English athlete
 1941 - Ray Thomas, English singer-songwriter (d. 2018)
 1942 - Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor (d. 2012)
1942 – Rick Danko, Canadian musician ("The Band") (d. 1999)
 1942 - Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Honduran cardinal
 1943 - Atsutoshi Nishida, Japanese business executive (d. 2017)
 1946 – Marianne Faithfull, British singer
 1947 – Ted Danson, American actor
 1947 - Cozy Powell, English musician (d. 1998)
 1948 – Peter Robinson, Northern Irish politician, former First Minister of Northern Ireland
 1949 - Grant McBride, Australian politician (d. 2018)
 1950 - Jon Polito, American actor (d. 2016)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Mike deGruy, American documentary movie maker (d. 2012)
 1951 - Yvonne Elliman, American singer, songwriter and actress
 1952 – Gelsey Kirkland, American dancer
 1953 - Gali Atari, Israeli singer and actress
 1953 - Thomas Bach, German fencer and IOC President
 1953 - Matthias Platzeck, German politician
 1953 - Alan Rusbridger, British newspaper editor
 1954 – Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter
 1954 – Prince Takamado of Japan (d. 2002)
 1954 – Albrecht Böttcher, German mathematician
 1956 - Fred MacAulay, Scottish comedian and radio presenter
 1957 - Iain Paxton, Scottish rugby player and coach
 1957 – Bruce Beutler, American Nobel Prize-winning immunologist
 1957 - Oliver Hirschbiegel, German movie director
 1958 - Nancy J. Currie, American colonel, engineer and astronaut
 1959 – Patricia Clarkson, American actress
 1959 - Keith Crossan, Irish rugby player
 1959 - Paula Poundstone, American comedienne, actress and author
 1960 - Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Congolese militia leader
1961 - Jim Reid, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1962 – Wynton Rufer, New Zealand footballer
 1962 - Carles Puigdemont, Catalan politician
 1963 - Dave McKean, English artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician
 1965 – Dexter Holland, American singer and musician
 1966 - Stefano Eranio, Italian footballer and manager
 1966 - Chris Barnes, American singer
 1967 - Evan Seinfeld, American actor and musician
 1967 – Andy Wachowski, American director (The Matrix)
 1969 - Jennifer Ehle, American actress
 1969 – Allan McNish, Scottish racing driver
 1970 – Aled Jones, Welsh singer
 1970 – Kevin Weisman, American actor
 1970 – Enrico Chiesa, Italian footballer
 1971 - Dominic Dale, Welsh snooker player
 1972 – Jason Kreis, American soccer player
 1972 – Jude Law, British actor
 1973 - Pimp C, American rapper (d. 2007)
 1974 – Richie Sexson, American Major League Baseball All-Star
 1974 - Mekhi Phifer, American actor and producer
From 1976 
 1976 - Danny McBride, American actor, screenwriter and producer
 1977 - Katherine Moennig, American actress
 1978 – Kieron Dyer, English footballer
 1978 - Danny Higginbotham, English footballer
 1979 - Diego Luna, Mexican actor
 1981 – Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater
 1982 - Alison Brie, American actress
 1983 – Dereck Chisora, British boxer
 1983 - Angela Scanlon, Irish television presenter
 1983 – Gonzalo Olave, Chilean actor (d. 2009)
 1985 – Alexa Ray Joel, American musician
 1987 - Iain De Caestecker, Scottish actor
 1989 - Jane Levy, American actress
 1989 - Kei Nishikori, Japanese tennis player
 1990 - Allen Kim, South Korean singer, dancer and actor (U-KISS)
 1994 – Princess Kako of Akishino of Japan
 1995 - Rina Ikoma, Japanese singer
 1995 - Ross Lynch, American actor and singer
 1996 - Dylan Minnette, American actor

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 721 – Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661)
 1170 – Thomas Becket, English bishop (assassinated) (b. 1118)
 1565 - Queen Munjeong of Korea (b. 1501)
 1605 - John Davis, English explorer (b. 1550)
 1634 - John Albert Vasa, Polish cardinal (b. 1612)
 1661 - Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
 1689 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624)
 1731 - Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1624)
 1743 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (b. 1659)
 1785 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742)
 1825 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b. 1748)
 1886 - A. C. Gibbs, American politician, Governor of Oregon (b. 1825)
 1891 – Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (b. 1823)
 1894 – Christina Rossetti, English poet (b. 1830)
 1897 - William James Linton, English-American painter, author and activist (b. 1812)
1901  2000 
 1910 - Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1872)
 1916 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)
 1924 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer (b. 1845)
 1925 - Félix Vallotton, Swiss-French artist (b. 1865)
 1926 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer (b. 1875)
 1929 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)
 1934 - Alma Tell, American actress (b. 1898)
 1937 – Don Marquis, writer (b. 1878)
 1941 - Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (b. 1873)
 1952 - Fletcher Henderson, American pianist, composer and bandleader (b. 1897)
 1960 – Eden Phillpotts, British writer (b. 1862)
 1967 – Paul Whiteman, American musician and conductor (b. 1890)
 1972 - Joseph Cornell, American sculptor, painter and filmmaker (b. 1903)
 1976 – Ivo van Damme, Belgian athlete (b. 1954)
 1980 – Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (b. 1899)
 1980 – Tim Hardin, musician (b. 1941)
 1986 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director (b. 1932)
 1986 – Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
1995 - Lita Grey, American actress (b. 1908)
 1996 - Mireille Hartuch, French singer and actress (b. 1906)
From 2001 
 2003 – Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942)
 2003 – Bob Monkhouse, British comedian (b. 1928)
 2004 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recipient (b. 1912)
 2004 – Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1945)
 2005 - Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-English psychotherapist and author (b. 1922)
 2007 – Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
 2008 – Freddie Hubbard, American musician (b. 1938)
 2009 – Akmal Shaikh, British citizen executed for drug trafficking in China (b. 1956)
 2010 – Avi Cohen, Israeli footballer (b. 1956)
 2011 – Leopold Hawelka, Austrian cafetier (b. 1911)
 2012 - Paulo Rocha, Portuguese director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
 2012 - Mike Auldridge, American singer and guitarist (b. 1938)
 2012 - Tony Greig, South African-born cricketer (b. 1946)
 2013 - Wojciech Kilar, Polish composer (b. 1932)
 2013 - Mary Wibberley, English novelist (b. 1934)
 2014 - Odd Iversen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1945)
2015 - Pavel Srnicek, Czech footballer (b. 1968)
 2015 - Elzbieta Krzesinska, Polish athlete (b. 1934)
 2015 - Om Prakash Malhotra, Indian politician, 25th Governor of the Punjab (b. 1922)
 2015 - Frank Malzone, American baseball player (b. 1930)
 2015 - Kim Yang-gon, North Korean politician (b. 1942)
 2016 - Ferdinand Kübler, Swiss cyclist (b. 1919)
 2016 - Néstor Gonçalves, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1936)
 2017 - Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Spanish noble (b. 1926)
 2017 - John C. Portman Jr., American architect (b. 1924)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Mongolia)
 Constitution Day (Republic of Ireland)
 Start of the Four Hills Ski jumping tournament (Germany and Austria)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
69 – Vespasian becomes the fourth Roman Emperor in the Year of the four emperors.
640 - Muslim Arabs capture the Babylonian fortress in the Nile Delta after a seven-month siege.
1124 - Pope Honorius II is elected.
1361 - The Battle of Linuesa is fought during the Spanish Reconquista between forces of the Emirate of Granada and the combined army of the Kingdoms of Castile and Jaen, resulting in a Castilian victory.
1471 – The first European reaches the island of Sao Tome in the Gulf of Guinea.
1598 - Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by Cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on the Spanish troops in Southern Chile.
1620 – The Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock
1780 – Great Britain declares war on The Netherlands in response to the Dutch joining the League of Armed Neutrality and for assisting French and American forces during the American Revolution.
1832 - Egyptian-Ottoman War: Egyptian forces  decisively defeat Ottoman Empire troops in the Battle of Konya in present-day Turkey.
1859 – Sam Houston becomes Governor of Texas.
1861 – The Medal of Honor is first authorized.
1861 – Lord Lyons, the British minister to the United States, meets with United States Secretary of State William Seward concerning Confederate envoys  arrested by the United States Navy in order to prevent war between the United States and the United Kingdom.
1872 – HMS Challenger sails from Portsmouth on the 4 year scientific expedition that would lay the foundation for the science of oceanography.
1879 - The first performance of Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House takes place in Copenhagen.
1880 – Isle of Man becomes first political entity that allows women to vote
1891 – The first basketball game is played.
1898 – Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium.
1901  2000 
1907 - The Chilean army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 workers striking saltpeter miners in Iquique.
1910 - An underground explosion at Hulton Bank Colliery in Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
1913 – First crossword puzzle is published in the New York World paper, created by Arthur Wynne.
1914 – First feature-length silent movie comedy, Tillie's Punctured Romance, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin, is released
1919 – Municipal elections held in Senegal (First round, second round is held December 28). The multiracial lists of the Independent Socialist Republican Party (PRSI) wins in all four municipalities.
1923 – Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent state.
1933 – Newfoundland becomes a crown colony.
1934 - President of Bolivia Daniel Salamanca is overthrown in a military coup.
1937 – First screening of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature-length animated movie.
1941 - A treaty of alliance is signed by Japan and Thailand.
1942 - Hundreds of workers striking for better pay and conditions at a tin mine in Bolivia are massacred.
1946 - The Nankaido earthquake in Japan kills over 1,300 people.
1958 – Charles de Gaulle is elected as the first President and establishes the Fifth Republic.
1962 – Rondane National Park, the first national park in Norway, is established.
1965 - The UN adopts the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
1967 - Louis Washkansky, who received the first successful heart transplant in Cape Town on December 3, dies 18 days after the operation.
1968 – Apollo 8 is launched.
1969 - The UN adopts the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
1978 - John Wayne Gacy is arrested for the killings of 33 boys and young men.
1979 – The United States government bails out the Chrysler Corporation
1979 – The Lancaster House Agreement was signed, effectively ending the white rule in Rhodesia under Ian Smith.
1984 - The Soviet Vega 2 probe is launched to the planet Venus.
1987 – The passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Philippines.
1988 – A terrorist bomb explodes and crashes Pan Am flight 103 a Boeing 747, over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 270, including 11 on the ground.
1991 - The former Soviet Union countries Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan join the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1994 – The Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico erupts.
1995 – Bethlehem goes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1999 – Chadrika Kumaratunga is confirmed as Sri Lanka's Head of State.
1999 – The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives intended by ETA to blow down Torre Picasso.
From 2001 
2001 – Japanese television performer Masashi Tashiro got No. 1 temporarily in the Internet vote of Time's Person of the Year.
2002 – Vancouver, British Columbia city council declares "D.O.A. Day" in observance of the Canadian punk band D.O.A.'s decades of influence and accomplishments.
2005 - The United Kingdom introduces Civil Partnership for same-sex couples. Elton John and his partner David Furnish are among those who make use of this law on its first day.
2006 – Turkmenistan's President Saparmurat Niyazov dies.
2007 – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary implement the Schengen Agreement.
2010 – A partial lunar eclipse occurs on the day of the December solstice.
2012 – The Long Count of the Maya calendar resets itself according to the most popular correlation. A minority argues that it does so on December 23, 2012.  This has been central to various predictions about December 21, 2012, ranging from spiritual and transformative to apocalyptic.
2012 - Having been posted on YouTube in July, and becoming a worldwide hit, the video of PSY's Gangnam Style reaches the milestone of a billion views on the video-sharing website.
2014 - Klaus Iohannis becomes President of Romania.
2014 - Beji Caid Essebsi is elected President of Tunisia.
2015 - Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are banned from football for 8 years over corruption at FIFA.
2017 - Catalonia holds regional elections, with the coalition of parties supporting Catalan independence keeping its majority.
2017 - Birmingham, England, is given the right to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Up to 1900 
1118 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1170)
1401 - Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)
1596 - Peter Mogila, Moldovan religious figure (d. 1646)
1603 - Roger Williams, English theologian (d. 1684)
1639 - Jean Racine, French writer (d. 1699)
1728 - Hermann Raupach, German composer (d. 1778)
1773 - Robert Brown, Scottish botanist (d. 1858)
1778 - Anders Sandoe Orsted, 3rd Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1860)
1795 - Jack Russell, English dog breeder (d. 1883)
1795 – Leopold von Ranke, German historian (d. 1886)
1804 – Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1881)
1805 – Thomas Graham, Scottish chemist (d. 1869)
1811 – Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1882)
1815 - Thomas Couture, French painter and educator (d. 1879)
1818 – Amalia of Oldenburg, Queen of Greece (d. 1875)
1823 - Jean-Henri Fabre, French entomologist, writer and poet (d. 1915)
1832 - John H. Ketcham, American general and politician (d. 1906)
1840 – Namik Kemal, Turkish nationalist poet (d. 1888)
1843 - Thomas Bracken, Irish-New Zealand poet (d. 1898)
1847 - John Chard, British military officer (d. 1897)
1850 – Zdenek Fibich, Bohemian composer (d. 1900)
1851 - Thomas Chipman McRae, 26th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1929)
1857 - Joseph Carruthers, Australian politician, 16th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1932)
1859 - Gustave Kahn, French poet (d. 1936)
1872 – Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)
1872 - Sidney Ainsworth, British actor (d. 1922)
1874 - Juan Bautista Sacasa, President of Nicaragua (d. 1946)
1874 - Josep Maria Sert, Catalan painter (d. 1945)
1876 - Jack Lang, 23rd Premier of New South Wales (d. 1975)
1877 - Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (d. 1954)
1878 - Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish philosopher and mathematician (d. 1956)
1879 – Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (d. 1953)
1885 - Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1960)
1888 - Jean Boulin, French long-distance runner (d. 1914)
1890 – H. J. Muller, American geneticist (d. 1967)
1891 - John William McCormack, American politician (d. 1980)
1892 – Walter Hagen, American golfer (d. 1969)
1892 – Rebecca West, British writer (d. 1983)
1896 – Leroy Robertson, American composer (d. 1971)
1901  1950 
1902 – Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, German Resistance activist (d. 1944)
1905 – Anthony Powell, British writer (d. 2000)
1909 – Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese writer and journalist (d. 1992)
1913 – Arnold Friberg, American illustrator and painter (d. 2010)
1914 – Frank Fenner, Australian scientist (d. 2010)
1915 – Werner von Trapp, Austrian singer (d. 2007)
1917 – Heinrich Böll, German writer (d. 1982)
1918 – Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician (d. 2007)
1918 – Donald Regan, American politician (d. 2003)
1920 – Alicia Alonso, Cuban ballerina; d. Twenty-nineteen
1924 – Rita Reys, Dutch jazz singer (d. 2013)
1925 – Olga Aroseva, Russian actress (d. 2013)
1926 – Arnost Lustig, Czech writer (d. 2011)
1926 – Joe Paterno, American football coach (d. 2012)
1927 – Takashi Hiraoka, Japanese mayor and journalist
1928 – Ed Nelson, American actor (d. 2014)
1930 – Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2004)
1931 – Moira Orfei, Italian actress (d. 2015)
1932 – U. R. Ananthamurthy, Indian writer (d. 2014)
1933 – Robert Worcester, American businessman
1934 – Hanif Mohammad, Pakistani cricketer (d. 2016)
1934 – Giuseppina Leone, Italian sprinter
1935 – John G. Avildsen, American movie director and producer (d. 2017)
1935 – Yusuf Bey, American activist (d. 2003)
1935 – Edward Schreyer, Canadian politician
1935 – Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racing driver (d. 1967)
1936 – Hershel W. Gober, American politician
1937 – Jane Fonda, American actress
1938 – Frank Moorhouse, Australian author
1939 – Lloyd Axworthy, Canadian politician
1940 – Frank Zappa, American musician (d. 1993)
1942 – Hu Jintao, Chinese politician, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
1942 – Reinhard Mey, German singer-songwriter
1942 – Crispin Wright, British philosopher
1942 – Carla Thomas, American singer
1943 – Masafumi Hara, Japanese footballer
1943 – Albert Lee, English guitarist
1943 – Jack Nance, American actor (d. 1996)
1943 – Walter Spanghero, French rugby player
1944 – Bill Atkinson, English footballer
1944 – Michael Tilson Thomas, American conductor, pianist and composer
1945 – Doug Walters, English cricketer
1946 – Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998)
1947 – Paco de Lucía, Spanish flamenco guitarist, songwriter and producer (d. 2014)
1948 – Samuel L. Jackson, American actor
1949 – Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso (d. 1987)
1950 – Jeffrey Katzenberg, American movie producer
1951  1975 
1953 - Betty Wright, American soul singer
1953 - András Schiff, Hungarian-British pianist and conductor
1954 – Chris Evert, American tennis player
1955 - Kazuyuki Sekiguchi, Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player
1955 – Jane Kaczmarek, American actress
1957 – Ray Romano, Italian-American comedian
1958 - Tamara Bykova, Russian athlete
1959 – Florence Griffith-Joyner, American athlete (d. 1998)
1959 - Michael Spindelegger, Austrian politician
1960 - Sherry Rehman, Pakistani journalist, politician and diplomat
1961 – Ryuji Sasai, Japanese video game designer
'62 - Steven Mnuchin, 77th United States Secretary of the Treasury
1963 - Govinda, Indian actor and politician
1965 – Cem Oezdemir, German politician
1965 – Anke Engelke, German comedienne
1965 - Andy Dick, American comedian, actor, musician and television producer
1966 – Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian actor
1966 - Karri Turner, American actress
1966 - William Ruto, Kenyan politician
1967 – Mikheil Saakashvili, former President of Georgia
1969 - Julie Delpy, French-American model, actress, director and screenwriter
1969 - Jack Noseworthy, American actor
1969 - Mihails Zemlinskis, Latvian footballer
1970 - Jamie Theakston, English television presenter
1970 - Stefan Lövgren, Swedish handball player
1972 - Claudia Poll, Costa Rican swimmer
1972 - Gloria De Piero, English politician
1972 - Kirsten Oswald, Scottish politician
1972 - Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy, Indian politician
1973 - Irakli Alasania, Georgian colonel and politician
1974 - Karrie Webb, Australian golfer
1975 - Charles Michel, President of the European Council and former Prime Minister of Belgium
From 1976 
1976 – Lukas Rossi, Canadian rock singer
1977 - Emmanuel Macron, President of France
1978 - Alexander Wolf, German biathlete
1979 - Tuva Novotny, Swedish actress, singer and director
1979 - Steve Montador, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1980 – Stefan Liv, Polish-born Swedish ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1981 – Cristian Zaccardo, Italian footballer
1982 - Charlie Cox, English actor
1982 – Mike Gansey, American basketball player
1982 – Iljo Keisse, Belgian cyclist
1983 - Steven Yeun, Korean-American actor
1984 – Darren Potter, Irish footballer
1985 – Tom Sturridge, British actor
1985 - Andrea Jeremiah, Indian actress and singer
1987 – Brad Howard, Australian footballer
1988 - Perri Shakes-Drayton, British athlete
1988 - Yasmin, British singer
1989 - Tamannaah, Indian actress
1990 - Alexa Goddard, British singer
1991 - Riccardo Saponara, Italian footballer
1995 - Bobby, South Korean rapper and composer
1996 - Kaitlyn Dever, American actress

Deaths
Up to 1950 
72 – Thomas the Apostle
882 - Hincmar, French archbishop (b. 806)
1295 – Marguerite Berenger of Provence, queen of Louis IX of France (b. 1221)
1308 – Henry I of Hesse (born 1244)
1375 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (born 1313)
1504 – Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (born 1442)
1549 – Marguerite of Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre (born 1492)
1579 – Vicente Masip, Spanish painter (b. 1500)
1597 – Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (born 1521)
1737 - Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (born 1691)
1807 – John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (born 1725)
1839 - Andrew Dung-Lac, Vietnamese martyr (born 1795)
1873 – Francis Garnier, French explorer (born 1839)
1882 - Francesco Hayez, Italian painter (born 1791)
1900 - Roger Wolcott, Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1847)
1907 - Klara Hitler, mother of Adolf Hitler (b. 1860)
1920 – Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somali nationalist leader (b. 1856)
1933 – Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic explorer and anthropologist (b. 1879)
1935 – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist (born 1890)
1937 – Frank B. Kellogg, 45th United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1856)
1940 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (born 1896)
1945 – George S. Patton, American general (born 1885)
1951  2015 
1955 - Garegin Njdeh, Armenian statesman (b. 1886)
1957 – Eric Coates, English composer (born 1886)
1958 – Lion Feuchtwanger, German writer (born 1884)
1964 – Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (b. 1880)
1967 - Louis Washkansky, heart transplant patient (b. 1913)
1968 – Vittorio Pozzo, Italian FIFA World Cup-winning football manager (b. 1886)
1982 - Hafeez Jullundhri, Pakistani writer, poet and composer (b. 1900)
1983 - Paul de Man, Belgian critic (b. 1919)
1987 - John Spence, American musician (b. 1969)
1988 – Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1907)
1989 - Rotimi Fani-Koyode, Nigerian-English photographer (b. 1955)
1990 - Clarence Johnson, American engineer (b. 1910)
1992 – Albert King, American musician (born 1924)
1992 – Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (born 1903)
2001 – Dick Schaap, American sports journalist (born 1931)
2004 – Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (born 1925)
2006 – Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
2008 - Dale Wasserman, American writer (b. 1914)
2009 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist (b. 1918)
2010 – Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and FIFA World Cup-winning manager (b. 1927)
2012 - Lee Dorman, American musician (b. 1942)
2013 - David Coleman, British broadcaster (b. 1926)
2013 - Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Canadian-American businessman (b. 1929)
2013 - John Eisenhower, American general, historian and diplomat (b. 1922)
2014 - Horacio Ferrer, Uruguayan writer and poet (b. 1933)
2014 - Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer (b. 1934)
2014 - Sitor Situmorang, Indonesian poet and writer (b. 1923)
2014 - Billie Whitelaw, English actress (b. 1932)
2014 - Alan Williams, Welsh politician (b. 1930)
2014 - Morteza Ahmadi, Iranian actor (b. 1924)
2014 - Jane Bown, British photographer (b. 1925)
2014 - Frank Truitt, American basketball coach (b. 1925)
2015 - Carol Burns, Australian actress (b. 1947)
From 2016 
2017 - Manouchehr Boroumand, Iranian weightlifter (b. 1934)
2017 - Ken Catchpole, Australian rugby player (b. 1939)
2017 - Dick Enberg, American sports broadcaster (b. 1935)
2017 - March Fong Eu, American politician; b. '22
2017 - Halvard Kausland, Norwegian jazz guitarist (b. 1945)
2017 - Jean-Pierre Lehmann, American-born Swiss economist; b. '45
2017 - Bruce McCandless II, American astronaut (b. 1937)
2017 - Francelino Pereira, Brazilian politician (b. 1921)
2017 - June Rowlands, Canadian politician, 60th Mayor of Toronto (b. 1924)
2017 - Roswell Rudd, American jazz trombonist (b. 1935)
2017 - John Vear, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1938)
2017 - Jerry Yellin, American World War II fighter pilot (b. 1924)
2018 - Gerard Bernacki, Polish priest; b. '42
2018 - Lars Hindmar, Swedish racewalker; b. '21
Twenty-nineteen
Ramachandra Babu, Indian cinematographer; b. '47
Martin Peters, English footballer; b. '43
Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer; b. '33
Krisztián Zahorecz, Hungarian footballer; b. '75
Observances 
 Winter solstice (Northern Hemisphere), can also occur on December 22
Yule
 Summer solstice (Southern Hemisphere), can also occur on December 22
 Christian feast day of Saint Thomas the Apostle

Days of the year
Events

Up to 1900 
 537 – The Hagia Sophia is consecrated as a church in Byzantium.
 1703 – Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.
 1814 - War of 1812: American schooner (a type of sailing boat) USS Carolina is destroyed.
 1831 – Charles Darwin begins his trip on the boat the HMS Beagle, where he will think of the theory of evolution.
 1836 – The worst ever avalanche in England happens at Lewes, Sussex, killing 8 people.
 1845 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time (Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia).
1901  2000 
 1904 – James Barrie's play Peter Pan begins to be shown in London.
 1904 – The Abbey Theatre opens.
 1911 - Jana Gana Mana, the national anthem of India, is first sung at the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress.
 1918 – Beginning of Great Poland Uprising. The Poles in Poland beign to fight against the Germans so that they can become free.
 1922 - Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho becomes the first purpose-built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.
 1923 - Daisuke Namba, Japanese student, tries to assassinate Japan's then-Prince-Regent Hirohito.
 1932 – Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City.
 1936 - Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco's forces bomb Santander.
 1939 - Erzincan, Turkey, is struck by a major earthquake, killing 30,000 people.
 1939 - Winter War: Finland holds off a Soviet Union attack in the Battle of Kelja.
 1945 – The World Bank is created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations.
 1945 – Korea is divided (put into two pieces).
1947 – Howdy Doody, a children's television program, makes its debut (NBC).
 1949 – Indonesian National Revolution: Queen Juliana of the Netherlands recognises Indonesia as an independent country.
 1959 – In a referendum, voters in the Pacific islands of Wallis and Futuna decide that their islands should have the status of a French overseas territory.
 1960 - The Beatles play their first performance in Litherland Town Hall, Liverpool.
 1966 - The Cave of Swallows, the largest-known cave shaft, is discovered near San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
 1968 – Long-time radio show The Breakfast Club ends on ABC radio.
 1975 – A mining explosion in Jharkhand, India, causes a flood, in which 372 miners drown.
 1978 – Spain becomes a democracy (a place where people vote) after 40 years of dictatorship.
 1979 – The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan and Babrak Karmal becomes the new president. The old one, Hafizullah Amin, was killed.
1985 – Palestinian fighters kill twenty people in the Rome and Vienna airports (places where airplanes take off and land).
 1985 – American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.
 1996 – Taliban fighters take over the Bagram air base. They became safer and stronger in Kabul after they did that.
 1997 – Protestant paramilitary (paramilitary is what you call an army that is not legal and part of the government) leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland.
From 2001 
 2001 – The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United States.
 2002 – Two truck bombs in Grozny kill 72 and hurt 200 at the building where the government of Chechnya works.
 2004 - Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar "SGR 1806-20" reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar (outside the Solar System) event known to have been witnessed on the planet.
 2006 - Space telescope COROT is launched on a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
 2007 – Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, is killed in a terrorist attack in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
 2007 - Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of a disputed Presidential election in Kenya. Riots start, which ultimately lead to a political, economic and humanitarian crisis.
 2008 – A three-week war begins in the Gaza Strip, as Israel launches Operation Cast Lead on suspected Hamas militants in Gaza, lasting three weeks.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1350 – John I of Aragon (d. 1396)
 1390 - Anne de Mortimer, claimant to the English throne (d. 1411)
 1459 – John I Albert, King of Poland (d. 1501)
 1555 - Johann Arndt, German theologian (d. 1621)
 1566 - Jan Jesenius, Slovakian physician, politician and philosopher (d. 1621)
 1571 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (d. 1630)
 1572 - Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech humanist (d. 1622)
 1654 – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705)
 1717 – Pope Pius VI (d. 1799)
 1755 - Anthony of Saxony (d. 1836)
 1761 - Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian field marshal (d. 1818)
 1773 – George Cayley, English naturalist, physical scientist, engineer, politician (d. 1857)
 1776 - Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1811)
 1793 - Alexander Gordon Laing, Scottish explorer (d. 1826)
 1796 – Mirza Ghalib, poet of Urdu (d. 1869)
 1797 - Manuela Saenz, South American independence activist (d. 1856)
 1802 - Gerardus Johannes Mulder, Dutch physician and chemist (d. 1880)
1803 - François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, Canadian activist (d. 1839)
 1822 – Louis Pasteur, French scientist (d. 1895)
 1823 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1896)
 1832 - Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and patron of art (d. 1897)
 1851 – Percy Gilchrist, metallurgist (d. 1935)
 1858 – Juan Luis Sanfuentes, President of Chile (d. 1930)
 1860 – David Hendricks Bergey, bacteriologist (d. 1937)
 1863 - Louis Lincoln Emmerson, 27th Governor of Illinois (d. 1941)
 1867 - Léon Delacroix, Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1929)
 1879 – Sydney Greenstreet, British actor (d. 1954)
 1881 – Antonio Granjo, Portuguese politician (d. 1921)
 1883 - Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American financier, businessman and philanthropist (d. 1979)
 1888 – Thea von Harbou, German writer and actress (d. 1954)
 1892 - Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian pilot (d. 1917)
 1896 – Carl Zuckmayer, German writer (d. 1977)
 1896 – Louis Bromfield, writer (d. 1956)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer (d. 1992)
 1903 - Hermann Volk, German cardinal (d. 1988)
 1906 – Oscar Levant, composer and actor (d. 1972)
 1907 – Sebastian Haffner, German publicist (someone who tells people about things) (d. 1999)
 1907 - Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1978)
 1909 – Henryk Jablonski, Polish politician (d. 2003)
 1914 - Doris Bowdon, American actress (d. 2005)
 1915 – William Masters, American sexologist (d. 2001)
 1917 - Buddy Boudreaux, American jazz musician (d. 2015)
 1923 - Lucas Mangope, South African politician (d. 2018)
 1925 – Michel Piccoli, French actor
 1926 - Jerome Courtland, American actor, director and producer
 1926 - Rodrigo Carazo Odio, President of Costa Rica (d. 2009)
 1927 - Nityanand Swami, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Uttarakhand (d. 2012)
 1928 - Walter Romberg, German politician (d. 2014)
 1930 - Marshall Sahlins, American anthropologist
 1931 - John Charles, Welsh footballer (d. 2004)
1931 – Tommy Lapid, Israeli politician (d. 2008)
 1931 - Scotty Moore, American rock musician (d. 2016)
 1934 - Larisa Latynina, Russian gymnast
 1935 - Michael Turnbull, English bishop
 1938 - Stanislav Stanojevic, Serbian-born French movie director and actor
 1938 - Rolf Wolfsohl, German cyclist
 1939 – John Amos, American actor
 1941 - Miles Aiken, American basketball player and coach
 1941 - Mike Pinder, English singer-songwriter and keyboardist
 1941 - Nolan Richardson, American basketball player and coach
 1942 - Charmian Carr, American actress (d. 2016)
 1942 - Thomas Menino, 53rd Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2014)
 1942 - Ron Jacobs, American basketball coach (d. 2015)
 1943 - Joan Manuel Serrat, Catalan singer-songwriter
 1943 – Cokie Roberts, American journalist (d. 2019)
 1944 - Markus Werner, Swiss writer (d. 2016)
 1946 – Janet Street-Porter, English journalist and television presenter
 1946 - Polly Toynbee, English journalist
 1948 – Gérard Depardieu, French actor
1949 – Klaus Fischer, German footballer
 1950 – Roberto Bettega, Italian footballer
1951  1975 
 1951 – Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico
 1952 – David Knopfler, British musician (Dire Straits)
 1952 - Tovah Feldshuh, American actress
 1954 - Kent Benson, American basketball player
 1956 - Doina Melinte, Romanian athlete
 1957 - Dane Witherspoon, American actor (d. 2014)
 1958 - Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Prime Minister of Pakistan
 1959 – Gerina Dunwich, occult writer
 1960 – Maryam d'Abo, British actress
 1961 – Guido Westerwelle, German politician (d. 2016)
 1963 - Claus Meyer, Danish chef, television host and restaurateur
 1963 – Gaspar Noé, Argentine-born director
 1964 - Theresa Randle, American actress
 1965 – Salman Khan, Indian actor
 1966 - Masahiro Fukuda, Japanese footballer
 1966 – Bill Goldberg, American professional wrestler, American football player
 1966 - Eva LaRue, American actress
 1969 – Sarah Vowell, American writer and journalist
 1970 - Chyna, American professional wrestler and pornographic actress (d. 2016)
 1971 – Duncan Ferguson, Scottish footballer
1971 - Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Russian movie actor and director (d. 2002)
 1971 - Sabine Spitz, German cyclist
 1973 – Wilson Cruz, actor
 1974 – Masi Oka, Japanese-American actor
 1975 – Heather O'Rourke, American child actress (Poltergeist) (d. 1988)
From 1976 
 1976 - Curro Torres, Spanish footballer
 1976 - Aaron Stanford, American actor and producer
 1976 - Piotr Morawski, Polish mountaineer (d. 2009)
 1976 - Tim Roberts, American professional wrestler (d. 2015)
 1979 – David Dunn, English footballer
 1979 – Carson Palmer, American football quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner
 1981 – Emilie de Ravin, Australian actress
 1981 – Javine, British singer
 1981 - Lise Darly, French singer
 1981 - Patrick Sharp, Canadian ice hockey player
 1983 - Anthony Boric, New Zealand rugby player
 1983 - Cole Hamels, American baseball player
 1984 - Black M, French rapper and singer-songwriter
 1984 – Gilles Simon, French tennis player
 1985 - Adil Rami, French footballer
 1985 - Cristian Villagra, Argentine footballer
 1986 - Torah Bright, Australian snowboarder
 1986 - Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Jamaican athlete
 1987 - Logan Bailly, Belgian footballer
 1988 - Hiroki Yamada, Japanese footballer
 1988 – Hayley Williams, American singer (Paramore)
1988 - Zavon Hines, Jamaican-English footballer
 1990 - Milos Raonic, Canadian tennis player
 1991 - Chloe Bridges, American actress
 1991 - Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, German actor and rapper
 1991 - Danny Wilson, Scottish footballer
 1995 - Mark Lapidus, Estonian chess player
 1997 - Ana Konjuh, Croatian tennis player
Up to 1900 
 1065 - King Ferdinand I of Leon and Castile (b. 1018)
 1076 - Prince Sviatoslav of Kiev (b. 1027)
 1087 - Bertha of Savoy, German queen and Holy Roman Empress (b. 1051)
 1381 - Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician
 1543 - George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1484)
 1743 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French sculptor (b. 1659)
 1771 - Henri Pitot, French inventor (b. 1695)
 1782 – Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish lawyer and philosopher (b. 1697)
 1800 - Hugh Blair, Scottish minister and author (b. 1718)
 1812 – Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad Hasidic movement (b. 1745)
 1836 – Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (someone who goes to new places) (b. 1793)
 1873 - Edward Blyth, English zoologist and ornithologist (b. 1810)
 1881 - John J. Bagley, American politician, 16th Governor of Michigan (b. 1832)
 1891 - Antonio Arenas, President of Peru (b. 1808)
 1896 – John Brown, manufacturer (b. 1861)
1901  2000 
 1914 – Charles Martin Hall, chemist, inventor (b. 1863)
 1923 - Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect (b. 1832)
 1925 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (b. 1895)
 1936 - Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Turkish poet, writer and academic (b. 1873)
 1937 - William Noble Andrews, American politician (b. 1876)
 1938 – Calvin Bridges, geneticist (b. 1889)
 1942 - William G. Morgan, American inventor of volleyball (b. 1870)
 1950 – Max Beckmann, German painter (b. 1884)
 1953 – Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894)
 1957 - Otto Nuschke, German politician (b. 1883)
 1958 - Harry Warner, American studio executive (b. 1881)
 1966 – Guillermo Stabile, Argentine footballer (b. 1905)
 1968 – Victor Ernest Shelford, zoologist (b. 1877)
 1972 – Lester Pearson, fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1897)
 1974 - Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1898)
 1974 - Amy Vanderbilt, American author (b. 1908)
 1978 – Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (b. 1932)
1979 – Hafizullah Amin, President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)
 1981 – Hoagy Carmichael, American composer, singer (b. 1899)
 1982 - Jack Swigert, American astronaut (b. 1931)
 1985 – Dian Fossey, American biologist (b. 1932)
 1988 – Hal Ashby, movie director (b. 1929)
 1994 – Fanny Cradock, British chef and cookery writer (b. 1909)
 1997 – Billy Wright, Irish Protestant paramilitary leader (b. 1960)
 1997 – Brendan Gill, columnist, humorist (someone who makes people laugh) (b. 1953)