Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1801  1900 
 1809 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (d. 1852)
 1815 – Otto von Bismarck, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1898)
 1815 – Edward Clark, 8th Governor of Texas (d. 1880)
 1815 - Henry B. Anthony, 21st Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1884)
 1823 - Simon Bolivar Buckner, 30th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1891)
 1825 - Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria (d. 1864)
 1834 – James Fisk, entrepreneur (d. 1872)
 1837 - Jorge Isaacs, Colombian writer (d. 1895)
 1848 - Commodore Nutt, American entertainer (d. 1881)
 1851 - Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (d. 1928)
 1865 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)
 1866 – Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1924)
 1873 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943)
 1873 - Bibb Graves, Governor of Alabama (d. 1942)
 1874 - Prince Karl of Bavaria (d. 1927)
 1875 – Edgar Wallace, English writer (d. 1932)
 1883 – Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (d. 1930)
1885 – Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (d. 1977)
 1885 – Wallace Beery, American actor (d. 1949)
 1888 - Jean Alavoine, French cyclist (d. 1943)
 1889 - K. B. Hedgewar, Indian physician and advocate of Hindu nationalism (d. 1940)
 1895 - Alexander Aitken, New Zealand mathematician (d. 1967)
 1895 – Alberta Hunter, American singer (d. 1984)
 1899 – Gustavs Celmins, politician (d. 1968)
1901  1925 
 1901 – Whittaker Chambers, American writer and Alger Hiss case witness (d. 1961)
 1901 - William Anderson, English ice hockey player (d. 1983)
 1902 - Maria Polydouri, Greek poet (d. 1930)
 1905 – Gaston Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1988)
 1905 - Paul Hasluck, 17th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1993)
 1906 – Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989)
 1907 - Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, Japanese-American Rinzai Zen teacher and centenarian (d. 2014)
 1908 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (d. 1970)
 1911 – Fauja Singh, Indian-British marathon runner
 1915 – Otto Wilhelm Fischer, Austrian actor (d. 2004)
 1917 - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (d. 1950)
 1917 - Sydney Newman, Canadian television producer (d. 1997)
 1919 – Joseph Murray, American surgeon and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2012)
 1920 – Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
 1920 - Harry Lewis, American actor (d. 2013)
1921 - Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American composer and producer (d. 2014)
 1922 – William Manchester, writer (d. 2004)
 1922 - Alan Perlis, American computer scientist (d. 1990)
 1923 - Don Butterfield, American tuba player (d. 2006)
 1923 - Leora Dana, American actress (d. 1983)
 1924 – Brendan Byrne, former Governor of New Jersey (d. 2018)
1926  1950 
 1926 – Charles Bressler, American tenor
 1926 – Anne McCaffrey, American writer (d. 2011)
 1927 - Ferenc Puskas, Hungarian footballer (d. 2006)
 1927 - Walter Bahr, American soccer player and coach (d. 2018)
 1928 - Kiyonori Kikutake, Japanese architect (d. 2011)
 1929 – Jane Powell, American dancer, actress and singer
 1929 - Jonathan Haze, American actor
 1929 – Milan Kundera, Czech writer
 1929 – Bo Schembechler, American football coach (d. 2006)
 1930 – Grace Lee Whitney, American actress (d. 2015)
 1931 – Rolf Hochhuth, German writer
 1932 – Gordon Jump, American television actor (d. 2003)
 1932 – Debbie Reynolds, American actress and singer (d. 2016)
 1933 – Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist
 1934 – Rod Kanehl, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
 1934 – Jim Ed Brown, American country music singer (d. 2015)
 1934 – Don Hastings, American actor
 1935 – Larry McDonald, American politician (d. 1983)
 1936 - Tarun Gogoi, Indian politician
1936 - Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Swiss politician (d. 1998)
 1936 - Dhiraj Choudhury, Indian painter (d. 2018)
 1938 - Akihito Kondo, Japanese baseball player (d. 2019)
 1939 - Rudolph Isley, American singer (The Isley Brothers)
 1939 – Ali MacGraw, American actress
 1939 – Phil Niekro, American baseball pitcher
 1939 - Vitali Davydov, Soviet-Russian ice hockey player
 1940 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan political and environmental activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 2011)
 1941 - David Childs, American architect
 1942 - Max Keeping, Canadian broadcaster (d. 2015)
 1942 – Samuel R. Delany, science fiction writer
 1942 - Philip Margo, American singer (The Tokens)
 1942 – Annie Nightingale, British disc jockey
 1943 – Mario Botta, Swiss architect
 1943 - Dafydd Wigley, Welsh academic and politician, former leader of Plaid Cymru
 1944 - Rusty Staub, American baseball player (d. 2018)
 1946 – Ronnie Lane, British musician (The Small Faces, The Faces) (d. 1997)
 1946 – Arrigo Sacchi, Italian football manager
1946 - Nikitas Kaklamanis, 77th Mayor of Athens
 1947 – Alain Connes, French mathematician
 1947 - Ingrid Steeger, German actress
 1947 - Norm Van Lier, American basketball player (d. 2009)
 1948 – J. J. Williams, Welsh rugby player
 1948 – Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician
 1949 – Gil Scott-Heron, American musician and composer (d. 2011)
 1949 - Paul Manafort, American lobbyist, lawyer and political consultant
 1950 – Samuel Alito, American jurist
 1950 - Paolo Conti, Italian footballer
1951  1975 
 1951 - Brendan Grace, Irish actor, comedian and singer (d. 2019)
 1952 – Annette O'Toole, American actress
 1952 - Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher
 1952 - Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Libyan intelligence officer (d. 2012)
 1953 – Barry Sonnenfeld, American producer and director
 1953 - Alberto Zaccheroni, Italian footballer and coach
 1954 – Giancarlo Antognoni, Italian footballer
 1954 – Jeff Porcaro, American musician (Toto) (d. 1992)
 1955 - Humayun Akhtar Khan, Pakistani statesman
 1955 – Ronnie Burk, artist and AIDS activist (d. 2003)
 1955 - Roberto Pruzzo, Italian footballer
 1956 – Libby Riddles, American dogsled racer
 1957 - David Gower, English cricketer
 1957 - Denise Nickerson, American actress (d. 2019)
 1958 - Anton Innauer, Austrian ski jumper
 1958 – Tita, Brazilian footballer
 1959 - Christian Thielemann, German conductor
 1960 - Reijo Ruotsalainen, Finnish ice hockey player
 1961 – Susan Boyle, Scottish singer
 1962 - Chris Grayling, English politician
1962 - Phillip Schofield, English television presenter
 1965 - Jane Adams, American actress
 1965 - Simona Ventura, Italian journalist and television presenter
 1965 – Mark Jackson, American basketball player
 1966 - Chris Evans, English television presenter
 1968 - Mike Baird, Australian politician, 44th Premier of New South Wales
 1968 - Ingrid Klimke, German equestrian
 1968 - Alexander Stubb, former Prime Minister of Finland
 1969 - Dean Windass, English footballer and coach
 1970 – Sung Hi Lee, model
 1971 – Method Man, American musician
 1971 - Karen Dunbar, Scottish comedienne
 1972 - Darren McCarty, Canadian ice hockey player
 1972 - Jesse Tobias, American musician
 1972 – Allen and Albert Hughes, American movie directors
 1973 - Kris Marshall, English actor
 1973 - Rachel Maddow, American broadcaster
 1975 - Washington Stecanela Cerqueira, Brazilian footballer
From 1976 
 1976 – Gábor Király, Hungarian footballer
 1976 – David Oyelowo, British actor
 1976 – Clarence Seedorf, Dutch footballer
 1978 – Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (d. 2009)
 1978 – Mirka Federer, Swiss tennis player
 1979 - Ivano Balic, Croatian handball player
 1980 – Randy Orton, American professional wrestler
 1981 – Hannah Spearritt, British actress and singer (S Club 7)
 1982 – Róbert Vittek, Slovakian footballer
 1983 - Sean Taylor, American football player (d. 2007)
 1983 - Sergey Lazarev, Russian singer
 1983 – Amr Zaki, Egyptian footballer
 1983 – Franck Ribéry, French footballer
 1983 - Olafur Ingi Skulason, Icelandic footballer
 1984 - Craig Samson, Scottish footballer
 1985 - Beth Tweddle, British gymnast
 1986 – Haminu Draman, Ghanaian footballer
 1986 – Ireen Wüst, Dutch speed skater
 1986 – Hillary Scott, American singer (Lady Antebellum)
 1987 – Ding Junhui, Chinese snooker player
 1987 - Li Ting, Chinese diver
 1987 - Vitorino Antunes, Portuguese footballer
1987 - Andrew Considine, Scottish footballer
 1987 - José Ortigoza, Paraguayan footballer
 1988 – Fatmire Bajramaj, German footballer
 1988 - Robin Lopez, American basketball player
 1988 - Brook Lopez, American basketball player
 1989 – David N'Gog, French footballer
 1990 - Justin Hamilton, American basketball player
 1993 - Keito Okamoto, Japanese singer
 1994 - Ella Eyre, English singer-songwriter
 1995 - Logan Paul, American social media entertainer and actor
 1997 - Asa Butterfield, English actor
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 1085 – Emperor Shenzhong of China (b. 1048)
 1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine (b. 1122)
 1205 – Amalric II of Jerusalem (b. 1145)
 1340 - Gerhard III of Holstein (b. 1292)
 1580 - Alonso Mudarra, Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1510)
 1621 - Cristofori Allori, Italian painter (b. 1577)
 1637 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (b. 1571)
 1839 – Benjamin Pierce, American politician (b. 1757)
 1865 - Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (b. 1797)
 1868 - Rasoherina, Queen of Madagascar (b. 1814)
 1872 - Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian and academic (b. 1805)
 1890 - Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer (b. 1825)
 1890 - David Wilber, American politician (b. 1820)
 1897 - Jandamarra, Indigenous-Australian resistance leader (b. 1873)
1901  2000 
 1914 - Rube Waddell, American baseball player (b. 1826)
 1917 – Scott Joplin, American musician and composer (b. 1868)
 1922 – Emperor Karl I of Austria (b. 1887)
 1922 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist (b. 1884)
 1930 – Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and widow of Richard Wagner (b. 1837)
 1946 - Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (b. 1882)
 1947 – King George II of Greece (b. 1890)
 1950 - Recep Peker, 6th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1889)
 1960 - Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, King of Malaysia (b. 1895)
 1962 - Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish major (b. 1910)
 1966 - Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (b. 1911)
 1967 - Dang Van Ngu, Vietnamese doctor and intellectual (b. 1910)
 1968 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist (b. 1908)
 1976 – Max Ernst, German painter (b. 1891)
 1984 – Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)
 1990 – Carlos Peucelle, Argentine footballer (b. 1908)
 1991 – Martha Graham, American choreographer (b. 1894)
 1991 - Jaime Guzman, Chilean politician (b. 1946)
1991 – Detlev Rohwedder, German manager and politician (b. 1932)
 1992 - Michael Havers, Baron Havers, English lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
 1992 - Nigel Preston, English musician (b. 1959)
 1993 - Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Spanish royal (b. 1913)
 1994 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer (b. 1912)
 1997 - Makar Honcharenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1912)
 1998 – Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1922)
From 2001 
 2002 – Simo Hayha, Finnish sniper (b. 1905)
 2004 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (b. 1946)
 2005 – Harald Juhnke, German entertainer (b. 1929)
 2006 - In Tam, Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1916)
 2007 - Hans Filbinger, German politician (b. 1913)
 2009 – Arne Andersson, Swedish middle-distance runner (b. 1917)
 2009 - Umberto Betti, Italian cardinal (b. 1922)
 2010 – John Forsythe, American actor (b. 1918)
 2010 – Ed Roberts, American computer engineer (b. 1941)
 2010 – Tzannis Tzannetakis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1927)
 2011 - Varkey Vithayathil, Indian cardinal (b. 1927)
 2012 – Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian footballer (b. 1947)
 2012 – Leila Denmark, American pediatrician and supercentenarian (b. 1898)
 2012 – Miguel de la Madrid, 52nd President of Mexico (b. 1934)
 2013 - Moses Blah, President of Liberia (b. 1947)
 2014 - Jacques Le Goff, French historian (b. 1924)
 2014 - Merimeri Penfold, New Zealand academic (b. 1920)
 2014 - Anker Buch, Danish violinist (b. 1940)
2014 - Carlos Oneto, Peruvian actor and comic (b. 1929)
 2014 - Bill Mitchell, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1930)
 2014 - King Fleming, American jazz pianist (b. 1922)
 2015 - Misao Okawa, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1898)
 2015 - Cynthia Lennon, first wife of John Lennon and mother of Julian Lennon (b. 1939)
 2015 - Eddie LeBaron, American football player (b. 1930)
 2015 - Nicolae Rainea, Romanian football referee (b. 1933)
 2015 - John Paul Hammerschmidt, American politician (b. 1922)
 2016 - Pratyusha Banerjee, Indian actress (b. 1991)
 2016 - Emil Keres, Hungarian actor (b. 1925)
 2017 - Gary Austin, American theatre writer and director (b. 1941)
 2017 - Lonnie Brooks, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1933)
 2017 - Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor (b. 1939)
 2017 - Darcus Howe, Trinidadian-born British editor and civil rights activist (b. 1943)
 2017 - Antonio Lamela, Spanish architect (b. 1926)
 2017 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (b. 1932)
 2017 - Burton Watson, American translator (b. 1925)
2018 - Bob Beattie, American skiing coach and sports commentator (b. 1933)
 2018 - Steven Bochco, American television producer (b. 1943)
 2018 - Evert Kroon, Dutch water polo player (b. 1946)
 2018 - Avichai Rontzki, Israeli general (b. 1951)
 2018 - Michel Sénéchal, French tenor (b. 1927)
 2018 - Efraín Ríos Montt, President of Guatemala (b. 1926)
 2019 - Dimitar Dobrev, Bulgarian wrestler (b. 1931)
 2019 - Francisco Massiani, Venezuelan writer and painter (b. 1944)
 2019 - Vonda N. McIntyre, American science fiction author (b. 1948)
 2019 - Kit Napier, Scottish footballer (b. 1943)
 2019 - Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (b. 1927)
 2019 - Ruth-Margret Pütz, German soprano (b. 1930)
Observances 
 April Fools' Day
 Islamic Republic Day in Iran
 Orissa Day in Orissa, India
 First day of school in Japan

April 01
Up to 1900 
 307 - Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, is poisoned, and succeeded by his son, Jin Huaidi.
 871 – Battle of Ashdown – Ethelred of Wessex defeats Danish invasion army.
 1198 – Innocent III becomes Pope.
 1297 - François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the Rock of Monaco; from then on, his family rules the Principality of Monaco.
 1499 - King Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
 1697 - Thomas Aikenhead of Edinburgh becomes the last person in Scotland, and in the present-day United Kingdom, to be executed for blasphemy.
 1734 – Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
 1746 – Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
 1781 - An earthquake hits Tabriz, Persia, killing over 50,000 people.
 1790 - In New York City, George Washington makes the US' first State of the Union Address.
 1806 – Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
1815 – War of 1812: In the Battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
 1835 - US national debt is at zero, for the only time in US history.
 1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
 1856 – Borax is discovered (John Veatch).
 1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield.
 1867 – African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.
 1877 – In Montana, Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry.
 1889 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine.
 1893 - Captain Thomas Robertson discovers Dundee Island in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica.
 1894 – A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago causes a good deal of damage.
 1900 – United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
1901  1950 
 1906 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20 due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.
 1908 – A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.
 1912 - The African National Congress is founded.
 1916 – World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.
 1918 – President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
 1926 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.
 1935 – A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.
 1942 - World War II: To stop Japanese advances in the Pacific Ocean, the Allies create the commando ABDACOM.
1951  2000 
 1953 – René Mayer becomes Prime Minister of France.
 1958 – 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.
 1959 – Michel Debré becomes Prime Minister of France, while Charles de Gaulle becomes the first President of France's Fifth Republic.
 1961 - In a referendum, a majority of French voters supports Charles de Gaulle's policies on Algeria, which would lead towards the country's independence from France.
 1963 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC).
 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
 1971 - Bowing to international pressure, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
 1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial begins for seven men accused of placing bugs in United States Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel.
 1973 - The Soviet Luna 21 space mission is launched.
1975 – Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.
 1977 - Three bombs explode in Moscow, within 37 minutes, killing 7 people. These attacks are suspected to have been carried out by an Armenian Separatist group.
 1982 – AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
 1989 – Kegworth Air Disaster: British Midland Flight 92 crashes onto the M1 motorway, killing 47 people out of the 127 on board.
 1992 – President of the United States George H. W. Bush becomes ill on a visit in Japan and vomits on the Japanese Prime Minister.
 1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station till March 22, 1995 for a record 437 days in space.
 1996 – An Antonov 32 cargo jet crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people
1998 – Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the World Trade Center bombing and for planning Project Bojinka.
 1999 – Cosmologists announce that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing.
From 2001 
 2003 - In Kosciuszko National Park in Australia, following several lightning strikes during the dry season, bush fires break out.
 2003 – US Airways flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina killing all 21 people aboard.
 2004 – Queen Elizabeth names the Queen Mary II cruise liner, the largest passenger ship ever built.
 2010 – The Togo national football team is targeted in an attack in Cabinda, Angola, and therefore withdraws from the African Cup of Nations.
 2011 – 2011 Tucson shooting: Six people are killed in a shooting in Tucson, Arizona, and several are injured, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Jared Lee Loughner is arrested for the shooting.
 2015 - Maithripala Sirisena is elected President of Sri Lanka, defeating Mahinda Rajapaksa, and takes office the next day.

Births
Up to 1850 
 1360 - Ulrich von Jungingen, 26th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d. 1410)
 1529 - John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony (d. 1595)
 1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
 1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
 1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer (d. 1616)
 1587 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Dutch colonial Governor (d. 1629)
 1601 - Baltasar Gracian, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
 1735 - John Carroll, first Bishop in the United States (d. 1815)
 1788 – Archduke Rudolph of Austria (d. 1831)
 1788 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
 1805 - John Bigler, 3rd Governor of California (d. 1871)
 1817 – Theophilus Shepstone, South African politician (d. 1893)
 1821 – James Longstreet, American Confederate General (d. 1904)
 1822 - Alfredo Piatti, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1901)
 1823 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)
 1824 - Wilkie Collins, British writer (d. 1889)
1824 - Francisco Gonzalez Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)
 1834 - Larin Paraske, Finnish runic singer (d. 1904)
 1849 – Stepan Makarov, Russian admiral, explorer and writer (d. 1904)
1851  1900 
 1859 - Fanny Bullock Workman, American geographer, cartographer, explorer, traveler and mountaineer (d. 1925)
 1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)
 1864 – Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892)
 1865 - Winnaretta Singer, American patron of French music, arts, sciences and letters (d. 1943)
 1866 - William G. Conley, 18th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1940)
 1867 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist (d. 1961)
 1868 – Frank Dyson, English astronomer (d. 1939)
 1870 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (d. 1930)
 1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)
 1873 – Elena of Montenegro, Queen of Italy (d. 1956)
 1873 – Iuliu Maniu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1953)
 1876 - Arturs Alberings, Prime Minister of Latvia (d. 1934)
 1879 - Charles Bryant, British actor and movie director (d. 1948)
 1883 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, American soldier, statesman and diplomat (d. 1963)
 1885 – John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1945)
 1886 - Thomas January, American soccer player (d. 1957)
 1888 - Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972)
 1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972)
 1891 – Walther Bothe, German physicist (d. 1957)
 1894 - Maximilian Kolbe, Polish Franciscan friar (d. 1944)
 1896 - Jaromir Weinberger, Czech-American composer (d. 1967)
 1897 - Dennis Wheatley, English writer (d. 1977)
 1899 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka (d. 1959)
 1900 - François de Menthon, French politician and jurist (d. 1984)
1901  1950 
 1902 – Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)
 1902 – Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov, Soviet politician (d. 1988)
 1904 - Tampa Red, American blues musician (d. 1981)
 1905 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)
 1905 – Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher (d. 1997)
 1906 - Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter (d. 1969)
 1908 – William Hartnell, English actor (d. 1975)
 1909 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
 1910 – Galina Ulanova, Russian |ballerina (d. 1998)
 1912 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor and director (d. 1992)
 1912 - Lawrence Walsh, American-Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
 1917 - Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, American writer (d. 1994)
 1921 - Leonardo Sciascia, Italian writer (d. 1989)
 1922 - Dale D. Myers, American Deputy Administrator of NASA (d. 2015)
 1922 - Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 1986)
 1923 – Larry Storch, American actor
 1923 - Bryce DeWitt, American theoretical physicist (d. 2004)
1924 – Ron Moody, English actor (d. 2015)
 1925 – Helmuth Hubener, German activist (d. 1942)
 1926 - Evelyn Lear, American soprano (d. 2012)
 1926 – Soupy Sales, American comedian (d. 2009)
 1928 - Luther Perkins, American guitarist (d. 1968)
 1929 – Wolfgang Peters, German footballer (d. 2003)
 1929 - Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor (d. 2015)
 1931 – Bill Graham, German rock music entrepreneur (d. 1991)
 1933 - Ko Un, Korean poet
 1933 - Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Egyptian actress (d. 2014)
 1934 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
 1934 – Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988)
 1934 - Ronald Greenwald, American rabbi and activist (d. 2016)
 1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
 1936 - Jyotindra Nath Dixit, Indian diplomat and politician (d. 2005)
 1936 - Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-English zoologist, ecologist and academic 
 1937 – Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
 1938 - Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian opera singer
 1938 – Bob Eubanks, American game show host
1939 - Nanda, Indian actress (d. 2014)
 1941 – Graham Chapman, English comedian (d. 1989)
 1942 – Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and writer (d. 2018)
 1942 – Junichiro Koizumi, former Prime Minister of Japan
 1942 - Vyacheslav Zudov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut
 1942 - Valya Balkanska, Bulgarian folk singer
 1942 - Robin Ellis, English actor
 1942 - Yvette Mimieux, American actress
 1944 - Terry Brooks, American author
 1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician
 1947 - Ashura Hara, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2015)
 1947 – David Bowie, English rock music singer, musician and actor (d. 2016)
 1947 - Terry Sylvester, English singer and guitarist
 1947 - Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician
 1948 - Jerzy Kaczmarek, Polish fencer
 1949 - John Podesta, American politician, 20th White House Chief of Staff
 1949 - Kozo Kinomoto, Japanese footballer (d. 2017)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Kenny Anthony, former Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
 1951 - John McTiernan, American director and producer
 1951 - Franz Pachl, German chess player
 1958 - Roman Wojcicki, Polish footballer
 1958 - Rey Mysterio, Sr., Mexican wrestler
 1958 - Betsy DeVos, 11th United States Secretary of Education
 1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer
 1959 - Duk Koo Kim, South Korean boxer (d. 1982)
 1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete
 1964 - Ron Sexsmith, Canadian singer-songwriter
 1964 - José-Luis Carranza, Peruvian footballer
 1967 - Willie Anderson, American basketball player
 1967 - Tom Watson, English politician
 1967 – R. Kelly, American R&B singer
 1968 - James Brokenshire, English politician
 1969 - Ami Dolenz, American actress
 1969 - J. Hunter Johnson, American game designer, author and translator
 1971 – Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer
 1972 – Giuseppe Favalli, Italian footballer
 1972 - Paul Clement, English football manager
 1973 – Sean Paul, Jamaican reggae singer
1973 - Henning Solberg, Norwegian rally driver
 1975 - Chris Simmons, English actor
From 1976 
 1976 – Marcelo Gallardo, Argentine footballer
 1977 - Amber Benson, American actress
 1978 – Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player
 1979 – Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer
 1979 - Windell Middlebrooks, American actor (d. 2015)
 1979 – Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer
 1979 - Sarah Polley, Canadian movie actress, director and screenwriter
 1979 - Tomasz Schafernaker, Polish-English meteorologist
 1979 – Seol Ki-hyeon, South Korean footballer
 1980 – Lee Jung-soo, South Korean footballer
 1981 – Genevieve Cortese, American actress
 1982 - Huang Sui, Chinese badminton player
 1982 – John Utaka, Nigerian footballer
 1983 - Felipe Colombo, Mexican-Argentine singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
 1983 – Kim Jong-un, North Korean leader
 1986 – David Silva, Spanish footballer
 1986 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
 1989 – Aaron Cruden, New Zealand rugby player
 1990 - Xu Xin, Chinese ping-pong player
 1991 - Jorge Enriquez, Mexican footballer
 1992 - Koke, Spanish footballer
1993 - Tang Yi, Chinese swimmer
 1995 - Kyle Edmund, English tennis player
 1997 - Jack Andraka, American inventor
 2000 – Noah Cyrus, American actress
 2011 – Prince Vincent of Denmark
 2011 – Princess Josephine of Denmark
Up to 1900 
 307 - Jin Huidi, Emperor of China (b. 259)
 482 - Severinus of Noricum, Italian saint (b. 410)
 1107 – Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
 1198 - Pope Celestine III (b. 1106)
 1324 – Marco Polo, Italian trader and explorer (b. 1254)
 1337 - Giotto, Italian painter and architect (b. 1266)
 1598 - John George, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1525)
 1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer (b. 1564)
 1697 – Thomas Aikenhead, Scottish student, executed under Blasphemy law (b. 1676)
 1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)
 1775 - John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)
 1794 - Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1729)
 1815 – Edward Pakenham, British general (b. 1778)
 1818 - Robert Bowie, Governor of Maryland (b. 1750)
 1825 – Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
 1878 – Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
 1880 – Emperor Norton, self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States (b. 1819)
 1896 - William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
1901  2000 
 1918 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
 1919 - Peter Altenberg, Austrian writer (b. 1859)
 1925 - Fernand Sanz, French cyclist (b. 1881)
 1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian poet (b. 1880)
 1941 – Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of Scouting (b. 1857)
 1943 - Richard Hillary, American pilot and author (b. 1919)
 1948 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (b. 1891)
 1948 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter (b. 1887)
 1950 – Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)
 1952 - Antonia Maury, American astronomer (b. 1866)
 1953 - Hugh Binney, British naval commander and Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)
 1958 - Paul Pilgrim, American runner (b. 1883)
 1964 - Julius Raab, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1891)
 1969 – Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
 1976 – Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
 1983 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
 1990 - Jaime Gil de Biedma, Spanish poet (b. 1929)
 1991 – Steve Clark, British guitarist (b. 1960)
1996 - Metin Göktepe, Turkish photographer and journalist (b. 1968)
 1996 – François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
 1997 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist (b. 1911)
 1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
From 2001 
 2002 – Alexander Prokhorov, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
 2002 – Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's fast food chain (b. 1932)
 2003 - Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925)
 2005 – Michel Thomas, Polish-American linguist (b. 1914)
 2006 – Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
 2007 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian actress (b. 1922)
 2007 – Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
 2010 – Art Clokey, American animator (b. 1921)
 2011 - Jiri Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician (b. 1937)
 2011 – John Roll, American judge (b. 1947)
 2012 - Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian pianist (b. 1929)
 2013 - Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian Inuit artist (b. 1927)
 2015 - Kep Enderby, Australian politician and judge (b. 1926)
 2015 - Ray McFall, British nightclub owner (b. 1926)
 2015 - Andraé Crouch, American gospel singer (b. 1942)
 2015 - Hubert Markl, German biologist (b. 1938)
 2015 - Leif Rantala, Finnish linguist (b. 1947)
 2016 - German Moreno, Filipino television host (b. 1933)
2016 - André Courrèges, French fashion designer (b. 1923)
 2016 - Red Simpson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
 2016 - Otis Clay, American singer (b. 1942)
 2016 - Oscar Fritschi, Swiss politician (b. 1939)
 2016 - Royal Parker, American television personality (b. 1929)
 2016 - Piet Steenkamp, Dutch footballer (b. 1925)
 2017 - James Mancham, 1st President of the Seychelles (b. 1939)
 2017 - Ruth Perry, Liberian politician (b. 1939)
 2017 - Hashemi Rafsanjani, 4th President of Iran (b. 1934)
 2017 - Peter Sarstedt, English singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
 2017 - Buddy Bregman, American arranger, producer and composer (b. 1930)
 2017 - Klaib Al-Fawwaz, Jordanian diplomat and politician (b. 1950)
 2017 - Miriam Goldberg, American newspaper publisher (b. 1916)
 2017 - Roy Innis, American civil rights activist and politician (b. 1934)
 2017 - Abdulkadir Kure, Nigerian politician (b. 1956)
 2017 - Eli Zelkha, Iranian-American entrepreneur (b. 1950)
 2017 - Nigel Spearing, British politician (b. 1930)
2018 - George Maxwell Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1931)
 2018 - Kato Ottio, Papua New Guinean rugby league player (b. 1994)
 2018 - Denise LaSalle, American singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
Observances 
 Commonwealth Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
 Celebration of Elvis Presley's Birthday at Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee
 Kim Jong-un's Birthday (North Korea)

January 08
Up to 1900 
 23  Rebels capture the then-Chinese capital city Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. They kill and behead the Emperor, Wang Mang, two days later.
 610  Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, otherthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
 1511  Formation of a Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States, and the Republic of Venice against France.
 1535  The first complete English language Bible is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
 1582  Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15, skipping over 10 days.
 1636  Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
 1693  Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
 1725  The city of Rosario, Argentina is founded.
1744  British sailing ship Victory is last seen, near the Channel Islands in the English Channel. During the night, it sinks, killing 1,150 people.
 1777  American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Germantown, troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
 1824  Mexico becomes a republic.
 1830  Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.
 1853  Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
 1883  First run of the Orient Express
 1883  First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
 1895  The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship run by the United States Golf Association was played on a nine-hole course in Newport, Rhode Island.
1901  2000 
 1910  Portugal becomes a republic. King Manuel II flees to Britain.
 1917  World War I: The Battle of Broadseinde is fought between British and German armies in Flanders.
 1918  An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys the T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey.
 1927  Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
 1943  World War II: US forces re-capture the Solomon Islands.
 1957  Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
 1958  The Fifth Republic of France established.
 1959  The Soviet Union sends the Lunik 3 probe to the Moon.
 1960  An Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-188 Electra flying from Boston crashes killing 62 people after a bird strike.
 1963  Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph, driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
 1965  Pope Paul VI becomes the first Pope to visit the United States, as he arrives in New York City.
1966  Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
 1967  Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, Hassanal Bolkiah.
 1974  Founding of the New Democracy political party in Greece.
 1983  Richard Noble sets a new land-speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019 kilometres per hour), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
 1985  The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts.
 1988  Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
 1991  The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was opened for signature.
 1992  An El Al Boeing 747-200F crashes into 2 apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 38 on the ground. See Bijlmerramp.
 1992  The Rome General Peace Accords end the 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
 1993  At the climax of the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders army tanks to begin the storming of the Russian parliament building.
1997  The second-largest cash robbery in United States history takes place in Charlotte, North Carolina.
 1998  Leafie Mason of Hughes Springs, Texas is murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz. She is Angel's second victim in his second incident.
From 2001 
 2001  A Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
 2003  Maxim restaurant suicide bombing: A female Palestinian suicide bomber, Hanadi Jaradat, exploded inside the Maxim restaurant in Haifa. 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, were killed, and 51 others were wounded.
 2004  SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
 2006  WikiLeaks is launched by Julian Assange.
 2006  Lesotho changes its flag. 
 2010  Toxic red sludge escapes from the Ajka alumina plant in western Hungary, causing an environmental disaster and killing at least nine people.
 2016  Hurricane Matthew hits Haiti and the Dominican Republic, causing flooding, destroying homes and killing seven people.

Births
Up to 1850 
 1160  Alys, Countess of Vexin (died 1220)
 1268  King Eric II of Norway (died 1299)
 1274  Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (died 1319)
 1276  Margaret of Brabant, Queen of Germany (died 1311)
 1289  King Louis X of France (died 1316)
 1379  King Henry III of Castile (died 1406)
 1515  Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (died 1586)
 1542  Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (died 1621)
 1550  King Charles IX of Sweden (died 1611)
 1562  Christian Sorensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (died 1647)
 1585  Anna of Tyrol, Empress Consort of the Holy Roman Empire (died 1618)
 1625  Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy and nun (died 1661)
 1626  Richard Cromwell, English politician (died 1712)
 1633  Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (died 1714)
 1657  Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (died 1747)
 1687  Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (died 1768)
 1720  Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian painter (died 1778)
 1759  Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (died 1803)
1787  François Guizot, French statesman (died 1874)
 1797  Jeremias Gotthelf, Swiss writer (died 1854)
 1808  Giovanni Battista Pioda, Swiss politician and diplomat (died 1882)
 1814  Jean-François Millet, French painter (died 1875)
 1819  Francesco Crispi, Italian politician (died 1901)
 1822  Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (died 1893)
 1833  John Anderson, Scottish zoologist (died 1900)
 1835  Grigory Potanin, Russian explorer (died 1920)
 1836  Juliette Adam, French writer and activist (died 1936)
 1837  Mary Elizabeth Braddon, English writer (died 1915)
 1841  Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (died 1912)
 1841  Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Queen of the Two Sicilies (died 1925)
 1843  Marie Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, Palestinian nun and saint (died 1927)
1851  1900 
 1858  Michael Pupin, telephone pioneer, Pulitzer Prize winning writer (died 1935)
 1861  Frederic Remington, American painter (died 1909)
 1862  Edward Stratemeyer, American writer (died 1930)
 1863  Samuel Prescott Bush, American industrialist (died 1948)
 1868  Marcelo T. de Alvear, Argentine politician (died 1942)
 1876  Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (died 1958)
 1877  Razor Smith, English cricketer (died 1946)
 1880  Damon Runyon, writer (died 1946)
 1881  Walther von Brauchitsch, German Commander-in-Chief (died 1948)
 1886  Erich Fellgiebel, German military officer and Resistance activist (died 1944)
 1888  Friedrich Olbricht, German general and Resistance activist (died 1944)
 1892  Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician (died 1934)
 1895  Buster Keaton, American comedian, producer and actor (died 1966)
 1895  Richard Sorge, German-Soviet spy (died 1944)
 1899  Franz Jonas, President of Austria (died 1974)
1901  1950 
 1903  John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (died 1995)
 1903  Ernst Kaltenbrunner, German military officer (died 1946)
 1913  Martial Celestin, Prime Minister of Haiti (died 2011)
 1914  Jim Cairns, Australian politician (died 2003)
 1916  Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (died 2009)
 1916  Jan Murray, American comedian, actor and game show host (died 2006)
 1916  George Sidney, American director (died 2002)
 1917  Luis Carniglia, Argentine footballer (died 2001)
 1917  Jan Murray, American comedienne (died 2006)
 1918  Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist (died 1998)
 1918  Giovanni Cheli, Italian cardinal (died 2013)
 1921  Francisco Morales-Bermúdez, former President of Peru (died 2022)
 1922  Malcolm Baldridge, American politician (died 1987)
 1922  Don Lenhardt, American baseball player (died 2014)
 1923  Charlton Heston, American actor (died 2008)
 1927  Virginia Luque, Argentine actress and singer (died 2014)
 1928  Alvin Toffler, American writer and futurist (died 2016)
1930  Svava Jakobsdóttir, Icelandic writer and politician (died 2004)
 1931  Richard Rorty, American philosopher and academic (died 2007)
 1931  Basil D'Oliveira, South African-born cricketer (died 2011)
 1931  Terence Conran, English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer
 1931  Thane Baker, American athlete
 1933  German Moreno, Filipino television host, actor and comedian (died 2016)
 1934  Sam Huff, American football player
 1936  Cynthia McLeod, Surinamese writer, daughter of Johan Ferrier
 1937  Franz Vranitzky, former Chancellor of Austria
 1937  Jackie Collins, English writer (died 2015)
 1937  Jim Sillars, Scottish politician
 1938  Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
 1939  Ivan Mauger, New Zealand speedway rider (died 2018)
 1940  Silvio Marzolini, Argentine footballer
 1941  Anne Rice, American writer
 1942  Johanna Sigurdardottir, former Prime Minister of Iceland
 1942  Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot (died 1967)
1943  H. Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin), American civil rights activist
 1943  Buddy Roemer, former Governor of Louisiana (d. 2021)
 1943  Owen Davidson, Australian tennis player
 1946  Susan Sarandon, American actress
 1946  Chuck Hagel, American politician
 1946  Bridget St. John, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1947  Jim Fielder, American bass player
 1947  Julien Clerc, French singer
 1947  Ann Widdecombe, British politician
 1949  Antonello Cuccureddu, Italian footballer and coach
 1949  Armand Assante, actor
 1949  Ally Hunter, Scottish footballer
1951  1975 
 1953  Tchéky Karyo, actor
 1955  John Rutherford, Scottish rugby player
 1955  Andy Pichler, Austrian footballer
 1955  Jorge Valdano, Argentine footballer
 1956  Christoph Waltz, Austrian actor
 1958  Yevgeny Bushmin, Russian politician (died 2019)
 1958  Anneka Rice, Welsh television and radio presenter
 1959  Chris Lowe, English musician (Pet Shop Boys)
 1959  Tony Meo, English snooker player
 1960  Henry Worsley, English explorer (died 2016)
 1961  Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese writer and artist
 1961  Philippe Russo, French singer-songwriter
 1962  Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer
 1962  Marc Minkowski, French conductor
 1963  A.C. Green, American basketball player
 1963  Mark Powley, English actor
 1964  Francis Magalona, Filipino entertainer (died 2009)
 1964  Sarah Lancashire, English actress
 1964  Yvonne Murray, Scottish athlete
 1967  Liev Schreiber, actor
 1967  Marcus Bentley, British voice actor
 1968  Beverley Allitt, British nurse and serial killer
From 1976 
 1976  Alicia Silverstone, American actress
 1976  Mauro Camoranesi, Argentine-Italian footballer
 1976  Ueli Steck, Swiss climber (died 2017)
 1977  Richard Parry, Canadian musician and songwriter
 1978  Kei Horie, Japanese actor, director, producer and screenwriter
 1979  Björn Phau, German tennis player
 1979  Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress and model
 1980  Tomas Rosicky, Czech footballer
 1982  Kasia Madera, British television journalist
 1982  Ilhan Omar, Somali-born American politician
 1984  Elena Sergeyevna Katina, Russian musician (t.A.T.u.)
 1985  Shontelle, Barbadian singer-songwriter
 1985  Thorsten Wiedemann, German rugby player
 1986  Sara Forestier, French actress
 1986  Yuridia, Mexican singer
 1987  Juan Pablo García, Mexican racing driver
 1987  Marina Weisband, German politician
 1988  Evgeni Krasnopolski, Israeli figure skater
 1988  Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer
 1988  Derrick Rose, American basketball player
1988  Magdaléna Rybáriková, Slovakian tennis player
 1989  Kimmie Meissner, American figure skater
 1989  Lil Mama, American singer and rapper
 1989  Stacey Solomon, English singer
 1989  Dakota Johnson, American model and actress
 1991  Leigh-Anne Pinnock, English singer (Little Mix)
 1994  Ignazio Boschetto, Italian singer (Il Volo)
 1995  Mikolas Josef, Czech singer, musician and model
 1997  Yuju, South Korean singer
 2005  Prince Emmanuel of Belgium
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 1052  Vladimir of Novgorod (born 1020)
 1250  Herman VI, Margrave of Baden (born 1226)
 1305  Emperor Kameyama of Japan (born 1249)
 1582  Teresa of Avila, Spanish saint (born 1515)
 1597  Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (born 1550)
 1661  Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy and nun (born 1625)
 1669  Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch painter (born 1606)
 1680  Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer (born 1609)
 1747  Amaro Pargo, Spanish pirate (born 1678)
 1785  David Brearly, American statesman (born 1703)
 1821  John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (born 1761)
 1851  Manuel de Godoy, Prince of Peace, Spanish politician (born 1767)
 1852  James Whitcomb, 8th Governor of Indiana (born 1795)
 1859  Karl Baedeker, German publisher (born 1801)
 1890  Catherine Booth, co-founder of the Salvation Army (born 1829)
1901  2000 
 1903  Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (born 1880)
 1904  Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (born 1847)
 1904  Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor (born 1834)
 1910  Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (born 1850)
 1915  Karl Staaff, 11th Prime Minister of Sweden (born 1860)
 1943  Irena Illakowicz, Polish lieutenant and intelligence agent (born 1906)
 1944  Al Smith, American politician (born 1873)
 1946  Barney Oldfield, American automobile pioneer (born 1878)
 1947  Max Planck, German physicist (born 1858)
 1951  Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (born 1920)
 1955  Alexander Papagos, Greek general and political leader (born 1883)
 1970  Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (born 1943)
 1974  Anne Sexton, American poet (born 1928)
 1981  Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player (born 1905)
 1982  Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician (born 1898)
 1982  Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (born 1932)
1989  Graham Chapman, British comedian, writer, doctor (born 1941)
 1989  Secretariat, Triple Crown-winning race horse (born 1970)
 1991  J. Frank Wilson, American singer (born 1941)
 1992  Denny Hulme, New Zealand racing driver (born 1936)
 1996  Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (born 1913)
 1997  Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game developer (born 1941)
 2000  Michael Smith, biochemist (born 1932)
 2000  Yu Kwo-hwa, Taiwanese Premier (born 1914)
From 2001 
 2001  John Collins, American jazz guitarist (born 1913)
 2003  Sid McMath, 34th Governor of Arkansas (born 1912)
 2004  Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (born 1927)
 2005  Stanley K. Hathaway, Governor of Wyoming (born 1924)
 2009  Shoichi Nakagawa, Japanese politician (born 1953)
 2009  Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (born 1935)
 2009  Günther Rall, German fighter ace (born 1918)
 2010  Norman Wisdom, British actor and comedian (born 1915)
 2011  Yelena Chernykh, Russian theatre actress (born 1979)
 2013  Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese general and politician (born 1911)
 2013  Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant (born 1917)
 2014  Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc), President of Haiti (born 1951) 
 2014  Paul Revere, American musician (Paul Revere and the Raiders) (b. 1938)
 2014  Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor (born 1937)
 2014  Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer (born 1959)
 2015  José Eduardo Dutra, Brazilian businessman and politician (born 1957)
2015  J. Whyatt Mondesire, American journalist and activist (born 1949)
 2016  Mario Almada, Mexican actor (born 1922)
 2016  Brigitte Hamann, German-Austrian historian and writer (born 1940)
 2017  Davoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian politician (born 1950)
 2017  Liam Cosgrave, Irish politician, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (born 1920)
 2017  John R. Miller, American politician and activist (born 1938)
 2017  Jesús Mosterín, Spanish anthropologist and philosopher (born 1941)
 2018  Dave Anderson, American sports writer (born 1929)
 2018  Jeanne Ashworth, American speed skater (born 1938)
 2018  Hamiet Bluiett, American jazz saxophonist (born 1940)
 2018  Kurt Malangré, German politician (born 1934)
 2018  José Sacal, Mexican sculptor (born 1944)
 2018  Will Vinton, American animator (born 1947)
 2019  Mikhail Biryukov, Russian tennis player (born 1992)
 2019  Diahann Carroll, American actress and singer (born 1935)
 2019  Bill McKnight, Canadian politician (born 1940)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Lesotho)
 Day of Peace and Reconciliation (Mozambique)
 World Animal Day
 Saint Francis of Assisi (Roman Catholicism)
 BB Founder’s Day (The Boys’ Brigade)

October 04