Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1926 - John Berger, English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (d. 2017)
 1929 - Lennart Johansson, Swedish football official, former UEFA President
 1930 - Clifford Irving, American author (d. 2017)
 1930 - Hans Mommsen, German historian (d. 2015)
 1931 – Charles Taylor, Canadian philosopher
 1931 – Ike Turner, American musician (d. 2007)
 1931 - Geoffrey Bolton, Australian historian (d. 2015)
 1934 - Victor Argo, American actor (d. 2004)
 1935 – Lester Piggott, British jockey
 1936 – Uwe Seeler, German footballer
 1938 – Joe Dassin, American singer (d. 1980)
 1938 – César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer
 1938 - Jim Steranko, American graphic artist
 1939 - Lobsang Tenzin, 5th Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile
 1940 – Anthony Rolfe Johnson, British tenor (d. 2010)
 1940 – Elke Sommer, German actress
 1940 – Ted Kulongoski, American politician and former Governor of Oregon
 1941 – Art Garfunkel, American musician
 1941 - Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese animator, director and screenwriter
1942 - Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
 1943 – Sam Shepard, American actor, writer and playwright (d. 2017)
 1946 - Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973)
 1947 - Peter Noone, British singer
 1947 - Franco Trappoli, Italian politician
 1948 – Bob Barr, American politician
 1948 – William Daniel Phillips, American physicist
 1948 - Bernard-Henri Lévy, French writer
 1950 – Thorbjorn Jagland, Norwegian politician
1951  1975 
 1951 - Tony Evers, American politician, elected 66th Governor of Wisconsin
 1952 – Oleg Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer
 1952 - Bill Walton, American basketball player
 1953 - Joyce Maynard, American author
 1954 - Alejandro Sabella, Argentine footballer and coach
 1954 - Jeffrey Sachs, American economist
 1955 - Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist
 1955 - Kris Jenner, American television personality
 1957 - Kellen Winslow, American football player
 1957 - Jon-Erik Hexum, American model and actor (d. 1984)
 1958 - Don Falcone, American musician and producer
 1958 - Mo Gaffney, American actress and comedienne
 1958 - Robert Patrick, American actor
 1959 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer and songwriter
 1960 – Tilda Swinton, British actress
 1961 - Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut (d. 2012)
 1962 - Turid Birkeland, Norwegian politician (d. 2015)
 1963 - Hans Gillhaus, Dutch footballer
 1963 - Andrea McArdle, American actress
 1963 – Jean-Pierre Papin, French footballer
1963 – Tatum O'Neal, American actress
 1964 – Abedi Pele, Ghanaian footballer
 1964 - Famke Janssen, Dutch actress, director, producer, screenwriter and model
 1966 - Georgia Apostolou, Greek actress
 1966 - Nayim, Spanish footballer
 1967 - Judy Reyes, American actress
 1968 - Sam Rockwell, American actor
 1969 - Pat Kilbane, American actor and comedian
 1970 – Tamzin Outhwaite, British actress
 1970 - Shaun Murphy, Irish-Australian footballer
 1971 - Chris Addison, English comedian
 1971 - Jonny Greenwood, English musician (Radiohead)
 1971 - Dana Jacobson, American sportscaster
 1971 - Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player
 1973 – Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player
 1973 - Johnny Damon, American baseball player
 1973 - Danniella Westbrook, British actress
 1974 – Ryan Adams, American singer
 1974 – Dado Prso, Croatian footballer
 1974 - Chris Sununu, American politician, 82nd Governor of New Hampshire
 1975 - Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter (Steps)
From 1976 
 1976 - Claudia Llosa, Peruvian movie director
 1977 - Yonas Kifle, Eritrean runner
 1977 - Brittney Skye, American pornographic actress
 1978 - Bubba Watson, American golfer
 1978 - Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (d. 2011)
 1979 - Keith McLeod, American basketball player
 1979 - David Suazo, Honduran footballer
 1979 - Michalis Hatzigiannis, Greek-Cypriot songwriter and singer
 1979 – Patrick Owomoyela, German footballer
 1980 – Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
 1980 - Eva González, Spanish model and beauty queen
 1980 - Andrei Korobeinik, Estonian computer programmer, businessman and politician
 1981 - Ksenia Sobchak, Russian television personality and politician
 1982 - Rob Swire, Australian singer, musician and record producer
 1983 - Alexa Chung, British television presenter and former fashion model
 1983 – Mike Hanke, German footballer
 1983 - Andrew Hayden-Smith, English actor
 1984 - Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
 1986 – BoA, South Korean singer
1986 – Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
 1986 - Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer
 1986 - Ian Mahinmi, American basketball player
 1987 - O. J. Mayo, American basketball player
 1987 – Kevin Jonas, American musician (The Jonas Brothers)
 1988 - Bailey Jay, American pornographic actress
 1988 - Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
 1992 - Odell Beckham Jr., American football player
 1992 - Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
 1994 - AJ Pritchard, English dancer and choreographer
Deaths

Up to 1950 
 1370 – Casimir III the Great, King of Poland (b. 1310)
 1515 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1476)
 1714 - Bernardino Ramazzani, Italian physician (b. 1633)
 1758 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
 1807 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter (b. 1741)
 1828 – Maria Fyodorovna of Russia (b. 1759)
 1876 - Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (b. 1824)
 1879 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)
 1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist (b. 1858)
 1933 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress and musician (b. 1884)
 1933 - Walther von Dyck, German mathematician (b. 1856)
 1937 - Hadji Ali, vaudeville performance artist (b. between 1887 and 1892)
 1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer and composer (b. 1878)
 1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
1951  2000 
 1955 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883)
 1956 – Art Tatum, American jazz musician (b. 1909)
 1960 – Johnny Horton, American country singer (b. 1925)
 1975 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (b. 1887)
 1975 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist (b. 1909)
 1977 – René Goscinny, French comic book writer (b. 1926)
 1977 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor (b. 1902)
 1979 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
 1981 - Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa Lama, Tibetan religious figure (b. 1924)
 1985 - Spencer W. Kimball, American religious figure (b. 1895)
 1986 - Bobby Nunn, American singer (b. 1925)
 1987 - Eamonn Andrews, Irish radio and TV host (b. 1922)
 1989 – Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-born pianist (b. 1903)
 1990 – Meir Kahane, rabbi (b. 1932)
 1991 – Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media tycoon (b. 1923)
 1991 - Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)
 1992 - Adile Ayda, Turkish diplomat (b. 1912)
 1997 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian philosopher and educator (b. 1909)
From 2001 
 2001 - Gholam Reza Azhari, Prime Minister of Iran
 2002 - Billy Guy, American singer (b. 1925)
 2003 – Bob Hatfield, American singer (The Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)
 2006 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician (b. 1925)
 2006 – Pietro Rava, Italian footballer (b. 1916)
 2007 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer (b. 1922)
 2010 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944)
 2010 - Shirley Verrett, American opera singer (b. 1931)
 2012 - Elliott Carter, American composer (b. 1908)
 2014 - Manitas de Plata, French flamenco guitarist (b. 1921)
 2014 - Lane Evans, American politician (b. 1951)
 2014 - Alexei Devotchenko, Russian actor and activist (b. 1965)
 2015 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (b. 1923)
 2015 - George Barris, American automobile designer (b. 1925)
 2015 - Hans Mommsen, German historian (b. 1930)
 2015 - Czeslaw Kiszczak, former Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1925)
 2017 - Nancy Friday, American author (b. 1933)
 2017 - Devin Patrick Kelley, American mass shooter (b. 1991)
2017 - Robert Knight, American singer (b. 1973)
 2017 - Dionatan Teixeira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1992)
 2017 - Mansour bin Muqrin, Saudi businessman and politician (b. 1973
 2017 - Lothar Thoms, German track cyclist (b. 1956)
 2018 - Keith Christiansen, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1944)
 2018 - Héctor Ferrer, Puerto Rican politician (b. 1970)
 2019 - Omero Antonutti, Italian actor (b. 1935)
 2019 - Ernest J. Gaines, American author (b. 1933)
Holidays 
 Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, Canada and New Zealand

November 05
Up to 1900 
 676 – Donus becomes Pope.
 1502 - Christopher Columbus reaches present-day Panama.
 1721 - Peter I of Russia declares himself Tsar of the Russian Empire.
 1772 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.
 1783 – In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
 1817 – The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
 1852 - Franklin Pierce is elected President of the United States.
 1856 - French passenger steamer Lyonnais collides with a barge off Nantucket, Massachusetts, sinking the next day, killing 130 of the 146 people on board.
 1861 – American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
 1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally, and is perhaps the first country to do so.
1880 - James A. Garfield is elected President of the United States.
 1882 - Oulu, Finland is devastated by the Great Fire of 1882.
 1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
 1898 - Cheerleading starts in the United States; Johnny Campbell leads a crowd in cheering the University of Minnesota American football team.
 1899 – The Boers started their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
1901  2000 
 1914 - World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
 1917 – Zionism: The Balfour Declaration proclaims support for Jewish settlement in Palestine.
 1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
 1920 - Warren G. Harding, on his 55th birthday, is elected to become the 29th President of the United States. It is also the first US Presidential Election in which women can vote.
 1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
 1930 – Geologist Alfred Wegener departs for an expedition in Greenland, from which he does not return. His remains are found in 1931.
 1936 - BBC television transmissions begin.
 1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
 1936 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome–Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built (flight lasted only eight minutes).
 1948 – U.S. presidential election, 1948: Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey for the US presidency. Many had predicted Dewey would win, and the false Chicago Tribune headline Dewey defeats Truman has become famous.
 1953 - Pakistan is officially named the "Islamic Republic of Pakistan".
 1959 – Quiz show scandals: "Twenty-One" game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
 1959 – Ice Hockey: After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play.
 1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case
1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis ends as US President John F. Kennedy announces that Soviet nuclear missiles are to be withdrawn from Cuba.
 1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated following a military coup.
 1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
 1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
 1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
 1974 – 78 die as the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after club official barred the doors after the fire started.
1976 – U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent Gerald Ford to become the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War.
 1982 - Channel 4 goes on transmission in the United Kingdom.
 1983 – Martin Luther King Day: At the White House Rose Garden, US President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January to honor American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
 1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
 1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet distributed computer worms to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT.
 1991 – Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople, the "first among equals" in the Eastern Orthodox Communion.
 1991 – Jermaine Jackson's single Word to the Badd!, which attacks his brother Michael, is leaked to radio station KPWR in Los Angeles.
1995 – The Hubble space telescope takes a picture of a gas plume 7000 light years away from Earth that appears to contain an image of Jesus of Nazareth to many people.
 1997 - Typhoon Linda devastates areas around the Gulf of Thailand.
 2000 – The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
From 2001 
 2001 – Monsters, Inc. debuts with the best ticket sales ever for an animated movie and the 6th best of all time.
 2004 – 2004 U.S. presidential election: George W. Bush defeats Senator John Kerry to win a second term as President of the United States.
 2008 - Lewis Hamilton wins the Formula One championship. At the time, he is the youngest driver to achieve this, until Sebastian Vettel becomes its youngest winner in 2010.
 2014 - An suicide attack in Pakistan, near the Indian border, kills over 60 people.
 2017 - The discovery of a previously unknown orangutan species is announced, called the "Tapanuli".
 2019 - South Africa wins the Rugby union World Cup for a third time, defeating England 32-12 in Tokyo, Japan.
 2019 - The city of Dresden in eastern Germany declares a Nazi State of Emergency over the activities of the Far-right there.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1082 – Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)
 1154 - Constance, Queen of Sicily (d. 1198)
 1470 - King Edward V of England (d. 1483)
 1475 - Anne of York, Lady Howard (d. 1511)
 1534 - Archduchess Eleonor of Austria (d. 1594)
 1549 - Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (d. 1580)
 1636 – Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (died 1721)
 1667 – James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (died 1737)
 1692 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (died 1766)
 1699 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon-Chardin, French painter (died 1779)
 1709 – Anne, Princess Royal, Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
 1734 – Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (died 1820)
 1739 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (died 1799)
 1741 – Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (died 1784)
 1755 – Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793)
 1766 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
 1767 – Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (d. 1820)
1777 - Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
 1795 – James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
 1799 - John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (d. 1885)
 1799 - Titian Peale, American entomologist and photographer (d. 1885)
 1808 – Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (died 1889)
 1815 – George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (died 1864)
 1821 - George Bowen, British colonial administrator, 1st Governor of Queensland (d. 1899)
 1827 - Paul de Lagarde, German philosopher (d. 1891)
 1840 - Victorino de la Plaza, President of Argentina (d. 1919)
 1844 – Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (died 1918)
 1847 - Georges Sorel, French philosopher (d. 1922)
 1858 - Dimitar Petkov, 14th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1907)
 1862 - Maironis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1932)
 1865 – Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (died 1923)
 1877 – Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (died 1933)
 1877 - Agha Khan III (d. 1957)
1877 - Claire McDowell, American actress (d. 1966)
 1878 - Okido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1930)
 1879 - Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (d. 1965)
 1881 - Pencho Zlatev, 25th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
 1882 - Leo Perutz, Austrian writer (d. 1957)
 1884 - Sigurd Savonius, Finnish architect and inventor (d. 1931)
 1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (died 1972)
 1888 - Scott Duncan, Scottish footballer (d. 1975)
 1890 - Nishinoumi Kajiro III, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1933)
 1892 – Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (d. 1960)
 1892 - Alice Brady, American actress (d. 1939)
 1894 – Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (died 1976)
 1897 – Vito Genovese, American gangster (died 1969)
 1899 - Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1973)
1901  1950 
 1902 - Santos Iriarte, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1938)
 1904 – Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000)
 1906 – Daniil Andreev, Russian poet, writer, and mystic (died 1959)
 1906 – Luchino Visconti, Italian director (d. 1976)
 1908 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (died 1983)
 1910 - Alfredo de Angelis, Argentine composer (d. 1992)
 1911 - Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, theorist and philosopher (d. 1995)
 1911 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer (died 1996)
 1913 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (died 1994)
 1913 - Rafael Aburto, Spanish architect (d. 2014)
 1913 - Carmen Amaya, Spanish Flamenco dancer, singer and actress (d. 1963)
 1915 - Sidney Luft, American movie director (d. 2005)
 1917 - Ann Rutherford, Canadian-born American actress (d. 2012)
 1918 - Alexander Vraciu, American Navy fighter ace (d. 2015)
 1921 - William Donald Schaefer, American politician, 58th Governor of Maryland (d. 2011)
1923 - Cesare Rubini, Italian basketball coach and water polo player (d. 2011)
 1924 - Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer (d. 2016)
 1924 - David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (d. 1988)
 1927 – Steve Ditko, American artist (d. 2018)
 1928 - Vladimir Beara, Yugoslavian footballer (d. 2014)
 1929 – Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, former President of Pakistan
 1929 – Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
 1929 - Amar Bose, American businessman (d. 2013)
 1929 - Robert Gover, American journalist (d. 2015)
 1929 - Rachel Ames, American actress
 1931 - Phil Woods, American musician (d. 2015)
 1932 - Melvin Schwartz, American physicist (d. 2006)
 1934 - Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player
 1936 – Jack Starrett, American actor and director (died 1989)
 1938 – Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
 1938 – Queen Sofía of Spain
 1939 – Richard Serra, American sculptor
 1940 - Vincenzo Cerami, Italian writer (d. 2013)
1941 - Bruce Welch, English musician and songwriter
 1942 – Shere Hite, American writer
 1942 – Stefanie Powers, American actress
 1944 - Patrice Chéreau, French actor, director and producer (d. 2013)
 1944 - Keith Emerson, English musician (d. 2016)
 1946 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (died 2001)
 1949 - Lois McMaster Bujold, American writer
1951  1975 
 1953 - Tom Lyle, American comics artist and illustrator (d. 2019)
 1954 – Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
 1957 - Carter Beauford, American musician
 1957 - Lucien Favre, Swiss footballer and manager
 1958 – Willie McGee, American baseball player
 1959 - Peter Mullan, Scottish actor and filmmaker
 1960 - Andy Borg, Austrian Schlager singer and television presenter
 1961 – k.d. lang, Canadian singer
 1962 - Ron McGovney, American musician
 1963 - Borut Pahor, former Prime Minister, and current President, of Slovenia
 1963 - Bobby Dall, American musician
 1964 - Lynn Nottage, American playwright
 1965 - Pawel Adamowicz, Polish politician, Mayor of Gdansk (d. 2019)
 1965 – Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor
 1966 – Tim Kirkman, American movie maker
 1966 – David Schwimmer, American actor
 1967 – Zvonimir Soldo, Croatian footballer
 1967 - Scott Walker, American politician and former Governor of Wisconsin
 1968 - Jaume Balaguero, Spanish director, screenwriter and producer
1969 – Reginald Arvizu, American bassist (KoЯn)
 1969 - Lucy Hawking, English novelist, journalist, educator and philanthropist
 1969 - Jenny Palmqvist, Swedish football referee
 1972 - Samantha Womack, British actress and singer
 1973 - Marisol Nichols, American actress
 1974 - Ruslan Salei, Belarussian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
 1974 – Nelly, American rapper
 1974 - Sofia Polgar, Hungarian chess player
 1974 - Orlando Cabrera, Colombian-American baseball player
 1974 - Prodigy, American rapper (d. 2017)
 1975 - Chris Walla, American musician
From 1976 
 1976 - Thierry Omeyer, French handball player
 1977 - Emma Reynolds, English politician
 1977 - Randy Harrison, American actor
 1979 - Cliff Compton, American professional wrestler
 1980 – Diego Lugano, Uruguayan footballer
 1980 - Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
 1980 - Mustafa Ceceli, Turkish singer
 1981 - Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress
 1981 - Ai, Japanese-American singer
 1982 – Charles Itandje, French-Cameroonian footballer
 1986 – Lara Sacher, Australian actress
 1986 - Yurizan Beltran, American pornographic actress (d. 2017)
 1987 – Danny Cipriani, English rugby player
 1988 - Julia Görges, German tennis player
 1989 – Stevan Jovetic, Montenegrin footballer
 1989 - Katelyn Tarver, American singer-songwriter and actress
 1990 - Kendall Schmidt, American actor and singer
 1992 - Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress and singer
 1998 - Nadav Guedj, Israeli singer

Deaths
Up to 1950 
 943 - Emma of France (b. 894)
 1083 - Matilda of Flanders, Queen of William the Conqueror
 1285 - King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
 1327 - King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
 1483 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1454)
 1610 - Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544)
 1618 – Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568)
 1807 - Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French politician (b. 1730)
 1810 - Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (b. 1783)
 1846 - Esaias Tegnér, Swedish poet and bishop (b. 1782)
 1852 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
 1877 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
 1887 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
 1905 - Horace Austin, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1831)
 1930 - Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, shooter, gymnast and athlete (b. 1874)
 1941 - Bengt Djurberg, Swedish actor and singer (b. 1898)
 1945 – Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880)
1951  2000 
 1958 - Jean Couzy, French mountaineer and engineer (b. 1923)
 1959 - Michael Considine, Australian politician (b. 1885)
 1960 - Dimitris Metropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
 1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnamese politician (b. 1901)
 1966 – Peter Debye, Dutch chemist (b. 1884)
 1966 – Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer (b. 1892)
 1970 - Richard Gosling, American cardinal and Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts (b. 1895)
 1973 - Greasy Neale, American football coach and baseball player (b. 1891)
 1975 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian movie director (b. 1922)
 1984 - Velma Barfield, American serial killer (b. 1932)
 1991 - Irwin Allen, American director and producer (b. 1916)
 1992 - Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892)
 1996 – Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
 2000 - Robert Cormier, French writer and journalist (b. 1925)
From 2001 
 2002 - Charles Sheffield, American writer and physicist (b. 1935)
 2003 - Frank McCloskey, American politician (b. 1939)
 2004 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch movie maker (b. 1957)
 2004 - Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)
 2005 – Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1919)
 2007 - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)
 2007 - The Fabulous Moolah (Lillian Ellison), American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
 2008 - Madelyn Lee Payne, grandmother of Barack Obama, died two days before he was elected President (b. 1922)
 2009 - Amir Pnueli, Israeli computer scientist (b. 1941)
 2010 - Rudolf Barshai, Russian conductor and violist (b. 1924)
 2010 - Andy Irons, American professional surfer (b. 1978)
 2012 - Milt Campbell, American decathlete (b. 1933)
 2012 - Han Suyin, Chinese novelist (b. 1917)
 2013 - Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (b. 1939)
 2014 - Acker Bilk, English jazz musician (b. 1929)
2015 - Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, Polish-British art historian (b. 1924)
 2015 - Barbara Snelling, American politician (b. 1928)
 2015 - Colin Welland, English actor (b. 1934)
 2016 - Oleg Popov, Russian clown and circus performer (b. 1930)
 2017 - Orval H. Hansen, American politician (b. 1926)
 2017 - Yisrael Rosen, Israeli rabbi (b. 1941)
 2017 - Aboubacar Somparé, Guinean politician (b. 1944)
 2017 - Dina Wadia, Indian political figure (b. 1919)
 2018 - Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer (b. 1927)
 2018 - Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1969)
 2018 - Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, Pakistani senator (b. 1937)
 2018 - Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale, British peer (b. 1945)
 2018 - Merete Skavlan, Norwegian actress, director and writer (b. 1920)
 2019 - Dick Dearden, American politician (b. 1938)
 2019 - Norbert Eder, German footballer (b. 1955)
 2019 - Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (b. 1930)
 2019 - Irwin Fridovich, American biochemist (b. 1929)
2019 - Leo Iorga, Romanian rock singer and guitarist (b. 1964)
 2019 - Marie Laforet, French-Swiss singer and actress (b. 1939)
 2019 - Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologer and television personality (b. 1932)
 2019 - Dean Prentice, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
 2019 - James I. Robertson Jr., American historian (b. 1930)
Observances 
 All Souls Day - Observed in Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism
 Statehood Day (North Dakota and South Dakota)
 Third Day of the Day of the Dead (Mexico)

November 02
Up to 1900 
 1333 - Flooding of the River Arno causes damage to the city of Florence, Italy.
 1493 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Dominica.
 1592 - The city of San Luis Potosí in present-day Mexico is founded.
 1783 - The American Continental Army is dissolved.
 1793 - French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
 1812 - Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
 1817 - The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
 1838 - The Times of India, the world's best-selling broadsheet English language newspaper, is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Finance.
 1848 - A revised Dutch constitution is announced, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, it makes the powers of parliament stronger, while strongly restricting the powers of the monarchy.
 1867 - Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana.
 1868 – Ulysses S. Grant is elected President of the United States.
1883 - American Old West: Self-described Black Bart the Poet gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that will eventually lead to his capture.
 1893 - The freight ship Cabo Machichaco explodes in the harbour of Santander, northern Spain. Some of its load included dynamite, and the resulting fire kills 590 people.
 1896 – William McKinley is elected President of the United States.
1901  2000 
 1903 – Panama becomes independent, separating from Colombia.
 1908 – William Taft is elected President of the United States.
 1911 - Chevrolet enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
 1918 – Austria-Hungary enters an armistice with the Allies, dissolving the Habsburg-ruled Empire.
 1918 – Poland declares independence from Russia.
 1918 - The German Revolution of 1918-1919 begins  when 40,000 sailors take over the port city of Kiel.
 1930 - Getulio Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government of Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
 1932 - Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
 1935 - George II of Greece regains his throne.
 1936 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a second term as President of the United States.
 1943 - World War II: 500 aircraft of the US 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven Harbor in Germany.
 1946 - Constitution of Japan is officially created.
1954 - The first Godzilla movie is shown in Japan for the first time.
 1956 - The Khan Yunis killings are committed by Israel's Defense Forces in Egyptian-controlled Gaza, resulting in the deaths of 215 male Arabs.
 1957 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2, with Laika, the world's first space dog, on board. Laika does not survive the mission.
 1964 - Washington, DC residents are able to vote in a Presidential Election for the first time.
 1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson is elected to continue as President of the United States.
 1966 – A series of tropical storms over the Bay of Bengal kill over 1,000 people.
 1973 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 probe towards the planet Mercury.
 1975 - Four Bangladeshi politicians loyal to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman are murdered in Dhaka Central Jail.
 1978 – Dominica receives independence from the United Kingdom.
1979 - Greensboro massacre: Five Communist Party members are shot dead and seven are injured by a group of Klansmen and Neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina.
 1982 - The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills 2,000 people.
 1986 - The Federated States of Micronesia become independent from the United States.
 1986 - Iran-Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shirga reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon. 
 1988 - Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries attempt to overthrow the government of the Maldives.
 1991 - Ayrton Senna wins the Formula One world championship for the third time.
 1992 – Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States, defeating George H. W. Bush.
From 2001 
 2003 – Michael Howard becomes leader of the British Conservative Party.
 2007 – Pervez Musharraf declares emergency rule in Pakistan, and suspends the constitution.
 2012 - The 2012 New York Marathon is cancelled late on, due to the clean-up after Hurricane Sandy.
 2016 - Two boats carrying refugees sink in the Mediterranean Sea, killing over 200 people.
 2016 - A train crash near Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 20 people.

Births
Up to 1900 
 39 – Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)
 1500 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (d. 1571)
 1560 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
 1587 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (d. 1654)
 1604 – Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1622)
 1618 – Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor (d. 1707)
 1633 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
 1656 - Georg Reutter, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1738)
 1689 - Jan Josef Ignac Brentner, Czech composer (d. 1742)
 1718 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, British diplomat and statesman (d. 1792)
 1749 - Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
 1757 - Robert Smith, 6th United States Secretary of State (d. 1842)
 1777 - Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
 1793 - Stephen F. Austin, American founder of the Republic of Texas (d. 1836)
 1799 - William Sprague III, American politician (d. 1856)
 1801 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)
 1801 - Karl Baedeker, German writer and publisher (d. 1859)
1816 - Jubal Early, American Confederate general (d. 1894)
 1845 - Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921) 
 1852 – Emperor Meiji of Japan (d. 1912)
 1856 - Marcelino Menéndez, Spanish historian (d. 1912)
 1877 - Carlos Ibanez del Campo, President of Chile (d. 1960)
 1879 – Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Icelandic-Canadian explorer (d. 1962)
 1884 - Joseph W. Martin, Jr., American politician (d. 1968)
 1887 - Samuil Marshak, Russian writer (d. 1964)
 1893 – Edward Albert Doisy, American biochemist (d. 1986)
 1894 - Sofoklis Venizelos, Greek politician (d. 1964)
 1895 – Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna Romanova of Russia (d. 1918)
 1896 - Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (d. 1970)
 1899 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist and academic (d. 1986)
 1900 – Adolf Dassler, German sporting goods executive (Adidas) (d. 1978)
1901  1950 
 1901 – King Leopold III of Belgium, King of Belgium (d. 1983)
 1901 - André Malraux, French writer (d. 1976)
 1903 – Walker Evans, American photographer (d. 1975)
 1908 – Giovanni Leone, 6th President of Italy (d. 2001)
 1910 - Richard Hurndall, English actor (d. 1984)
 1910 - Karel Zeman, Czech director, animator, production designer and screenwriter (d. 1989)
 1912 – Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (d. 2006)
 1918 – Bob Feller, American baseball player (d. 2010)
 1918 – Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (d. 2010)
 1920 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian writer (d. 1993)
 1921 – Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
 1922 - Luis Villoro, Spanish-Mexican philosopher, diplomat and writer (d. 2014)
 1924 - Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Hungarian gymnast (d. 2019)
 1926 – Valdas Adamkus, former President of Lithuania
 1926 - Maurice Couture, Canadian bishop
 1927 - Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (d. 2004)
 1927 - Peggy McCay, American actress (d. 2018)
1927 - Odvar Nordli, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 2018)
 1928 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese animator and producer (d. 1989)
 1930 – Lois Smith, American actress
 1930 - Bill Dana, American pilot and astronaut (d. 2014)
 1930 - Phil Crane, American politician (d. 2014)
 1931 - Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean politician (d. 2005)
 1931 - Monica Vitti, Italian actress
 1932 - Albert Reynolds, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 2014)
 1933 – John Barry, British movie score composer (d. 2011)
 1933 - Ken Berry, American actor (d. 2018)
 1933 – Michael Dukakis, 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts
 1933 - C. K. Jaffer Sharief, Indian politician (d. 2018)
 1933 – Amartya Sen, Indian economist
 1933 - Jeremy Brett, English actor (d. 1995)
 1933 - Mildred McDaniel, American athlete
 1934 - Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker, English poet and politician
 1935 - Abune Paulos, Ethiopian church leader (d. 2012)
 1935 - Gero Bisanz, German football coach (d. 2014)
 1936 - Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player
1937 - Lynn Woolsey, American politician
 1938 - Akira Kobayashi, Japanese singer
 1938 – Jean Rollin, French movie producer (d. 2010)
 1942 - Martin Cruz Smith, American writer
 1943 – Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician, singer and songwriter (d. 2011)
 1945 – Gerd Müller, German footballer
 1945 - Nick Simper, British musician
 1946 - Richard Karl, German mountaineer, photographer and author (d. 1982)
 1946 - Tom Savini,American actor, stuntman, director and make-up artist
 1947 - Mazie Hirono, Japanese-American lawyer and politician 
 1948 – Lulu, Scottish actress and singer
 1948 - Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian racing driver (d. 1974)
 1949 – Larry Holmes, American boxer
 1949 - Anna Wintour, English-American fashion magazine editor
 1950 - James E. Rothman, American biochemist
1951  1975 
 1952 – Roseanne Barr, American actress and comedienne
 1952 – Jim Cummings, American voice actor
 1953 – Dennis Miller, American comedian
 1953 – Kathy Kinney, American actress
 1953 – Kate Capshaw, American actress
 1954 – Adam Ant, British singer
 1956 – Kevin Murphy, American actor, puppeteer, producer and screenwriter
 1956 – Cathy Jamieson, Scottish politician
 1956 – Bob Welch, American baseball player (d. 2014)
 1957 – Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor
 1958 – Tony McNulty, British politician
 1959 – Hal Hartley, American film producer, director, screenwriter and composer
 1960 – Karch Kiraly, American volleyball player
 1960 – William Monahan, American screenwriter and author
 1961 – Dave Hahn, Japanese-American mountaineer and journalist
 1961 – David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley, British businessman
 1962 - Antti Rinne, Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland
 1962 – Jacqui Smith, British politician
 1963 – Ian Wright, English footballer
1964 – Paprika Steen, Danish actress and film director
 1965 – Gert Heerkes, Dutch footballer and manager
 1970 – Andrzej Juskowiak, Polish footballer
 1971 – Unai Emery, Spanish footballer and manager
 1971 – Dylan Moran, Irish comedian
 1971 – Dwight Yorke, footballer from Trinidad and Tobago
 1971 – Alison Williamson, English archer
 1972 – Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer (d. 2017)
 1973 – Mick Thomson, American musician (Slipknot)
 1973 – Ben Fogle, British television personality, writer and broadcaster
 1974 – Tariq Abdul-Wahad, French basketball player and coach
 1974 – Benedict Akwuegbu, Nigerian footballer
From 1976 
 1976 – Tom Brosseau, American singer-songwriter
 1976 – Guillermo Franco, Mexican footballer
 1979 – Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer
 1981 - Rodrigo Millar, Chilean footballer
 1981 - Jermaine Jones, German-American soccer player
 1982 – Evgeni Plushenko, Russian figure skater
 1985 - Tyler Hansbrough, American basketball player
 1986 - Piet Velthuizen, Dutch footballer
 1986 - Paul Derbyshire, Italian rugby player
 1986 - Beth Kingston, English actress
 1986 - Heo Young-saeng, South Korean singer and entertainer
 1987 – Gemma Ward, Australian model
 1987 - Colin Kaepernick, American football player
 1988 - Stephanie Inglis, Scottish judoka
 1988 - Angus McLaren, Australian actor
 1989 - Paula DeAnda, American singer-songwriter and actress
 1989 - Joyce Jonathan, French singer, composer and actress
 1990 - Joe Clarke, English slalom canoeist
 1991 - Lauren Gray, Scottish curler
 1992 - Stevie May, Scottish footballer
 1995 - Kendall Jenner, American model
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 361 – Constantinus II, Roman Emperor (b. 317)
 753 - Pirminius, German saint (b. 700)
 1254 - John III Doukas Vatatzes, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1193)
 1584 - Charles Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1538)
 1600 - Richard Hooker, English theologian (b. 1554)
 1639 - Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (b. 1579)
 1643 - John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)
 1643 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
 1793 – Olympe de Gouges, French feminist and revolutionary (b. 1748)
 1794 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal (b. 1715)
 1858 - Harriet Taylor Mill, English feminist philosopher (b. 1807)
 1890 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1811)
 1891 - Louis Lucien Bonaparte, English-Italian philologist and politician (b. 1813)
1901  2000 
 1914 - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (b. 1887)
 1917 – Léon Bloy, French novelist and essayist (b. 1846)
 1918 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1857)
 1926 – Annie Oakley, American sharp-shooter (b. 1860)
 1929 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
 1933 - Pierre Paul Emile Roux, French physician, immunologist and bacteriologist (b. 1853)
 1940 - Manuel Azaña, Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (b. 1880) 
 1949 - Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist (b. 1861)
 1954 – Henri Matisse, French painter (b. 1869)
 1957 – Laika, Soviet-Russian space dog (b. 1954)
 1970 – King Peter II of Yugoslavia (b. 1923)
 1973 - Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
 1975 - Syed Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
 1975 - A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1919)
 1975 - Tajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
 1975 - Syed Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
1975 - Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1919)
 1981 – Eraldo Monzeglio, Italian footballer (b. 1906)
 1983 - Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
 1990 – Mary Martin, American actress (b. 1913)
 1993 – Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (b. 1895)
 1996 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African dictator (b. 1921)
 1998 – Bob Kane, American cartoonist (b. 1915).
 1999 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
From 2001 
 2004 - Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1972)
 2006 - Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (b. 1937)
 2006 - Paul Mauriat, French pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1925)
 2008 - Jean Fournet, French conductor (b. 1913)
 2009 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer (b. 1906)
 2010 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (b. 1938)
 2012 - Kailashpati Mishra, Indian politician, 18th Governor of Gujarat (b. 1923)
 2013 - Nick Cardy, American illustrator (b. 1920)
 2014 - Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (b. 1950)
 2014 - Tinus Linee, South African rugby player (b. 1969)
 2014 - Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Egyptian actress (b. 1933)
 2014 - Augusto Martelli, Italian composer (b. 1940)
 2014 - Nina Timofeeva, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1935)
 2014 - Gordon Tullock, American economist (b. 1922)
 2015 - Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi politician (b. 1944)
 2015 - Howard Coble, American politician (b. 1931)
 2015 - Adriana Campos, Colombian actress (b. 1979)
 2015 - Tom Graveney, English cricketer (b. 1927)
2016 - Yawar Hayat Khan, Pakistani producer and director (b. 1933)
 2016 - Kay Starr, American singer (b. 1922)
 2017 - Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh (b. 1926)
 2017 - Renzo Calegari, Italian cartoonist (b. 1933)
 2018 - Mari Hulman George, American motorsport executive (b. 1934)
 2018 - John Large, English engineer (b. 1943)
 2018 - Sondra Locke, American actress (b. 1944)
 2019 - Gert Boyle, German-American businesswoman (b. 1924)
 2019 - Ian Cross, New Zealand author and journalist (b. 1925)
 2019 - Yvette Lundy, French resistance activist (b. 1916)
 2019 - Taku Mayumura, Japanese science fiction novelist (b. 1934)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Panama, Dominica, Federated States of Micronesia)
 Day of Culture (Japan, after birthday of Emperor Meiji)
 Independence Day at Cuenca (Ecuador)
 Victory Day (Maldives)

November 03
Up to 1900 
 1493 - Christopher Columbus lands on Guadeloupe.
 1501 - Catherine of Aragon meets Arthur Tudor, the brother of Henry VIII of England.
 1576 - Eighty Years' War: Spain captures Antwerp, Flanders.
 1677 – Future queen Mary II of England marries future king William III of England.
 1783 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
 1786 - Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse lands on an island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, which he names after Jacques Necker.
 1798 - Beginning of the Russo-Ottoman Siege of Corfu.
 1828 - Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States.
 1847 - Scottish doctor James Young Simpson discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
 1852 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes Prime Minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which later expands to become Italy.
 1856 - James Buchanan is elected President of the United States.
 1861 - The University of Washington is founded.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Johnson - Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars of material.
 1875 - Paddle steamer Pacific collides with Orpheus sailing boat off Cape Flattery, Washington, killing 273 people.
 1884 - Grover Cleveland is elected to his first term as President of the United States.
 1890 - London's deep-level railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
1901  2000 
 1918 – World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
 1921 – Prime Minister of Japan Hara Takashi is murdered.
 1921 - Italy's unknown soldier is buried in the Fatherland Altar in Rome.
 1922 – A team of archaeologists led by Howard Carter finds the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt.
 1924 - Calvin Coolidge is elected to continue as President of the United States, after he had served out Warren G. Harding's term.
 1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first woman elected governor in a US State.
 1942 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein - Disobeying a direct order from Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces to a five-month retreat.
 1950 - European Convention on Human Rights is adopted.
 1952 - The United States Government creates the National Security Agency.
 1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected President of the United States.
 1955 – The rebuilt Vienna State Opera is re-opened.
1956 – Soviet troops crush the Hungarian Revolution. Thousands are killed.
 1960 - In Tanzania, Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees making tools, the first-ever such observation in non-humans.
 1966 - The Arno River in Florence, Italy floods at record levels, making thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books.
 1970 - Genie, aged 13, is found in Los Angeles, having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life until that point.
 1977 - The UN ends its weapons embargo on Apartheid-era South Africa.
 1979 - The Iran hostage crisis begins - A group of Iranians, mostly students, invades United States Embassy in Tehran, Iran, and takes 90 people hostage, including 53 Americans.
 1980 – Ronald Reagan is elected President of the United States, defeating Jimmy Carter.
 1984 - French Pay-TV channel Canal+ starts transmission.
 1991 - Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines, is given a Presidential pardon by Corazon Aquino.
1993 - A China Airlines Boeing 747 overruns Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing  during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.
 1993 - Jean Chrétien becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
 1994 - The first conference focusing exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web is held in San Francisco, California.
 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is murdered, being shot dead by Yigal Amir.
 1999 - Ilir Meta becomes Prime Minister of Albania.
From 2001 
 2001 - Northern Ireland: The Police Service of Northern Ireland is created, replacing the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
 2005 – Nintendo's Game Boy Micro is released in Europe.
 2006 - A widespread power failure affects parts of Western Europe.
 2008 – Barack Obama wins the vote to become President of the United States, over Senator John McCain. Obama becomes the US' first African American President.
 2010 - Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.
 2014 - US Mid-term elections are held, with the Republican Party reclaiming the majority it lost in the Senate in 2006.
 2015 - Justin Trudeau becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
 2015 - A cargo plane crashes near Juba International Airport in South Sudan, killing 37 people.
 2015 - A building collapses in Lahore, Pakistan, killing 45 people.
 2016 - The Paris climate change agreement enters into force.
2018 - New Caledonia holds an independence referendum, where a smaller-than expected majority (56%) votes to remain an overseas territory of France.
 2019 - Sir Lindsay Hoyle is chosen to succeed John Bercow as Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Up to 1900 
 1448 - King Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495)
 1470 – Edward V, King of England (d. 1483?)
 1575 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)
 1592 - Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter (d. 1656)
 1618 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor (d. 1707)
 1631 – Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, daughter of Charles I of England, and mother of William III (d. 1660)
 1640 - Carlo Mannelli, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1697)
 1661 - Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)
 1732 - Thomas Johnson, Governor of Maryland (d. 1819)
 1765 - Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)
 1766 - John Adams, English mutineer (d. 1829)
 1772 - François-Frédéric Lemot, French sculptor (d. 1827)
 1782 - John Branch, Governor of North Carolina and last territorial Governor of Florida (d. 1863)
 1783 - Gaspard Gourgaud, French historian (d. 1852)
 1787 - Edmund Kean, English actor (d. 1833)
 1836 - Charles B. Andrews, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1902)