Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
Up to 1900 
 9 – Vespasian, Roman Emperor (d. 79)
 1293 - King Philip V of France (d. 1322)
 1502 – Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca (d. 1533)
 1503 - Agnolo Bronzini, Italian painter (d. 1572)
 1576 - Roqué González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628)
 1587 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet, writer and playwright (d. 1679)
 1612 - Dorgon, Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty (d. 1650)
 1729 – Maria Antonietta of Spain, Queen of Sardinia (d. 1785)
 1749 – Nicolas Appert, French inventor (d. 1841)
 1755 – King Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824)
 1784 - Ebenezer Henderson, Scottish minister and missionary (d. 1858)
 1790 – August Ferdinand Moebius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
 1794 - George Grote, English classicist (d. 1871)
 1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)
 1827 - Petko Slaveykov, Bulgarian poet (d. 1895)
 1835 - Andrew L. Harris, 44th Governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
 1854 - Hubert Lyautey, French general (d. 1934)
 1857 - Joseph Babinski, French neurologist (d. 1932)
1866 - Voltarine de Cleyre, American author and activist (d. 1912)
 1868 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918)
 1877 - Frank Calder, English-Canadian journalist and businessman (d. 1943)
 1878 - Grace Abbott, American social worker (d. 1939)
 1878 - Augustus Goessling, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1963)
 1878 – Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
 1886 - Walter Terence Stace, British philosopher (d. 1957)
 1887 – Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (d. 1976)
 1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
 1895 - Gregorio López, Mexican journalist, author and poet (d. 1966)
 1896 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Lee Strasberg, Austrian director (d. 1982)
 1901 - Walter Hallstein, German politician and diplomat (d. 1982)
 1902 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist (d. 1995)
 1904 – Salomeja Neris, Lithuanian poet (d. 1945)
 1904 - Paul Chaudet, Swiss politician (d. 1977)
 1905 – Queen Astrid of the Belgians (d. 1935)
 1905 - Mischa Auer, Russian-born American actor (d. 1967)
 1906 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese businessman and automobile executive (d. 1991)
 1912 - Kim Sung-Gan, Korean-Japanese footballer (d. 1984)
 1916 - George Silk, New Zealand-American photojournalist (d. 2004)
 1916 - Shelby Foote, American historian and novelist (d. 2005)
 1920 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourg singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
 1920 - Ellis Kaut, German writer and illustrator (d. 2015)
 1921 - Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter
 1922 – Stanley Cohen, American biochemist
 1923 – Aristides Pereira, 1st President of Cape Verde (d. 2011)
 1923 - Hubertus Brandenburg, German-born Swedish Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2009)
1925 – Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
 1925 – Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor (d. 2010)
 1926 - Vlasta Chramostová, Czech actress (d. 2019)
 1928 - Arman, French-American artist (d. 2005)
 1928 - Rance Howard, American actor (d. 2017)
 1929 - Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (d. 1999)
 1930 - Bob Mathias, American athlete, actor and politician (d. 2006)
 1933 - Isao Iwabuchi, Japanese footballer (d. 2003)
 1933 - Roger Leloup, Belgian comic artist and writer
 1934 - Jim Inhofe, American politician, United States Senator for Oklahoma
 1935 – Toni Sailer, Austrian skier (d. 2009)
 1937 - Peter Cook, British author, actor and comedian (d. 1995)
 1938 – Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer
 1939 - Eddie Reeves, American songwriter and record label executive (d. 2018)
 1940 - Luke Kelly, Irish singer and banjo player (d. 1984)
 1940 - Gunnar Uldall, German politician (d. 2017)
 1942 – Martin Scorsese, American movie director
 1943 - Lauren Hutton, American actress
1944 – Danny DeVito, American actor
 1944 – Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
 1944 - Joe Boeheim, American basketball player and coach
 1944 - Lorne Michaels, Israeli-American television producer
 1945 - Elvin Hayes, American basketball player
 1945 - Jeremy Hanley, English politician
 1946 – Martin Barre, English rock musician (Jethro Tull)
 1946 - Terry Branstad, 39th Governor of Iowa
 1947 - Jorge Sassi, Argentine actor (d. 2015)
 1948 – Howard Dean, American politician
 1948 - Tom Wolf, American politician, 47th Governor of Pennsylvania
 1949 – Nguyen Tan Dung, Prime Minister of Vietnam
 1949 – John Boehner, American politician
1951  1975 
 1951 - Dean Paul Martin, American singer, actor and tennis player (d. 1987)
 1951 - Stephen Root, American actor
 1951 - Jack Vettriano, Scottish painter
 1952 - Cyril Ramaphosa, South African politician and businessman, President of South Africa
 1954 – Chopper Read, Australian mobster (d. 2013)
 1955 – Yolanda King, American activist (d. 2007)
 1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress and singer
 1959 - Terry Fenwick, English footballer
 1959 – Thomas Allofs, German footballer
 1960 – Jonathan Ross, British television presenter
 1960 - RuPaul, American actor, drag queen, model, author and singer
 1960 - Mandy Yachad, South African cricketer and field hockey player
 1961 - Wolfram Wuttke, German footballer (d. 2015)
 1964 - Susan Rice, American politician and diplomat
 1964 - Iain Stewart, Scottish geologist
 1964 - Moses Sithole, South African serial killer
 1966 – Jeff Buckley, American musician (d. 1997)
 1966 – Richard Fortus, American guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
1966 - Daisy Fuentes, Cuban-American television host and model
 1966 – Sophie Marceau, French actress
 1967 - Tab Benoit, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1968 - Sean Miller, American basketball player
 1970 - Paul Allender, English guitarist and songwriter
 1971 - Michael Adams, English chess player
 1972 - Kimya Dawson, American singer-songwriter
 1972 - Lorraine Pascale, British chef and former model
 1973 - Andreas Hedlund, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer
 1973 - Eli Marrero, Cuban-American baseball player, coach and manager
 1973 – Bernd Schneider, German footballer
 1973 - Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater
 1974 - Eunice Barber, Sierra Leonean-French heptathlete and long jumper
 1974 - Leslie Bibb, American actress
 1974 - Berto Romero, Spanish humorist
 1975 - Jerome P. James, American basketball player
From 1976 
 1976 - Jacqueline Aguilera, Venezuelan model
 1976 - Brandon Call, American actor
 1976 - Diane Neal, American actress
 1978 - Frode Kippe, Norwegian footballer
 1978 - Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
 1980 - Isaac Hanson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hanson)
 1981 – Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud)
 1981 - Doug Walker, American YouTube personality (Nostalgia Critic)
 1983 - Ryan Bradley, American figure skater
 1983 - Harry Lloyd, British actor
 1984 - Park Han-byul, South Korean actress
 1986 - Luis Aguiar, Uruguayan footballer
 1986 – Nani, Portuguese footballer
 1986 - Alexis Vastine, French boxer (d. 2015)
 1986 - Greg Rutherford, British long jumper and sprinter
 1987 – Gemma Spofforth, British swimmer
 1990 - Shanica Knowles, American actress and singer
 1990 - Doriemus, New Zealand racehorse (d. 2015)
 1993 - Taylor Gold, American snowboarder
 1994 – Raquel Castro, American actress
 1998 - Kara Hayward, American actress

Deaths
Up to 1900 
 344 - Emperor Kang of Jin
 375 – Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321)
 474 - Leo II, Byzantine Emperor (b. 467)
 594 - Gregory of Tours, Gallo-Roman bishop
 641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
 885 - Liugard of Saxony (b. 845)
 1231 - Elizabeth of Hungary (b. 1207)
 1492 - Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
 1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
 1558 - Reginald Pole, English archbishop (b. 1500)
 1558 – Queen Mary I of England (b. 1516)
 1562 - Antoine of Navarre (b. 1518)
 1592 – King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
 1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese navy commander (b. 1542)
 1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
 1713 – Abraham van Riebeeck, Dutch colonial governor (b. 1653)
 1720 - Calico Jack, English pirate (b. 1682)
 1768 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693)
 1780 - Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
 1796 – Catherine II of Russia (b. 1729)
1818 – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Consort of Great Britain and Ireland (b. 1744)
 1825 - Walter Leake, Governor of Mississippi (b. 1762)
 1858 – Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (b. 1771)
 1893 - Alexander of Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria (b. 1857)
1901  2000 
 1905 – Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1817)
 1917 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
 1920 - John Franklin Fort, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1852)
 1922 - Robert Comtesse, Swiss politician (b. 1847)
 1924 - Patriarch Gregory VII of Constantinople (b. 1850)
 1928 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (b. 1865)
 1929 - Herman Hollerith, American businessman (b. 1860)
 1934 - Joachim Ringelnatz, German writer (b. 1883)
 1940 - Eric Gill, English sculptor (b. 1882)
 1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
 1947 - Ricarda Huch, German writer, poet, philosopher and historian (b. 1864)
 1959 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
 1961 - Michael Rockefeller, American explorer (b. 1938)
 1966 – James Jabara, American Air Force pilot (b. 1923)
 1968 – Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911)
 1971 - Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director and writer (b. 1898)
 1971 - Gladys Cooper, British actress (b. 1888)
1973 - Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader (b. 1878)
 1974 – Erskine Hamilton Childers, President of Ireland (b. 1905)
 1979 – John Glascock, British musician (Jethro Tull) (b. 1951)
 1982 - Duk Koo Kim, South Korean boxer (b. 1959)
 1985 - Lon Nol, Cambodian politician (b. 1913)
 1986 - Georges Besse, French manager (Renault) (b. 1927)
 1987 - Paul Derringer, American baseball player (b. 1906)
 1990 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist (b. 1915)
 1992 - Audre Lorde, Caribbean-American author, poet and activist (b. 1934)
 1998 - Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
 2000 – Louis Néel, French physicist (b. 1904)
From 2001 
 2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli politician (b. 1915)
 2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1941)
 2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
 2006 – Ferenc Puskas, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
 2006 – Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
 2006 – Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)
 2010 – Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, Brazilian footballer (b. 1923)
 2012 - Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (b. 1926)
 2013 - Doris Lessing, British writer (b. 1919)
 2014 - Bill Frenzel, American politician (b. 1928)
 2014 - Jimmy Ruffin, American singer (b. 1936)
 2015 - Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi, Iranian poet and songwriter (b. 1922)
 2016 - Ruth Gruber, American journalist (b. 1911)
 2016 - Whitney Smith, American vexillologist (b. 1940)
 2017 - Salvatore Riina, Italian mafia boss (b. 1930)
 2017 - Earle Hyman, American actor (b. 1926)
 2017 - Rikard Wolff, Swedish actor (b. 1958)
 2017 - Aleksandr Salnikov, Soviet-Ukrainian basketball player (b. 1949)
2018 - Richard Baker, English broadcaster (b. 1925)
 2018 - Gene Berce, American basketball player (b. 1926)
 2018 - Kayo Dottley, American football player (b. 1928)
 2018 - Alyque Padamsee, Indian actor (b. 1928)
 2018 - Eduard von Falz-Fein, Russian-born Liechtensteiner businessman, journalist and sportsman  (b. 1912)
 2019 - Harley D. Nygren, American admiral and photographer (b. 1924)
 2019 - Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician and diplomat (b. 1923)
Observances 
 International Students' Day
 World Prematurity Day
 Struggle for Freedom and Democracy (Czech Republic and Slovakia)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 326 - The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated in Rome.
 401 - Visigoths, led by King Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade present-day northern Italy.
 1095 – The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
 1180 - Philip II of France becomes King.
 1210 - Pope Innocent III excommunicates Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
 1302 – Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam ("The One Holy").
 1307 – According to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off of his son's head.
 1421 – A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people in the Netherlands.
 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights what is now Puerto Rico.
 1494 - King Charles VII of France occupies Florence, present-day Italy.
 1626 - St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated in Rome.
 1738 - Augustus III is decided as the King of Poland, as the Peace of Vienna ends the War of the Polish Succession.
1803 – The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi.
 1863 - King Christian IX of Denmark signs the November Constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark.
 1883 – American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
1901  2000 
 1903 – The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the Americans exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
 1904 – General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup.
 1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
 1905 - British steamship Hilda strikes a reef off Brittany and sinks during a snowstorm, killing 125 people.
 1909 - Two US warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including 2 Americans) are executed by order of Jose Santos Zelaya.
 1916 - World War I: The first Battle of the Somme ends indecisively.
 1918 – Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
 1926 – George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
 1926 - Dominions of the British Empire are recognised as independent states.
1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the second appearances of cartoon stars Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is also considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
 1929 - A magnitude 7.2 earthquake, centred south of Newfoundland, strikes. 12 undersea cables are broken and some south coast communities are destroyed.
 1936 - Germany and Italy recognise the government of Francisco Franco in Spain.
 1939 - Dutch ocean steamer Simon Bolivar runs over a German minefield near Harwich, exploding twice before sinking, killing 102 people.
 1940 – German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.
 1943 – World War II: 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF lost nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
 1944 - The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba.
1947 - The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41 people.
 1961 - John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
 1963 - The push-button telephone goes into service.
 1968 - The James Watt Street factory fire in Glasgow, Scotland, kills 22 people.
 1970 - Joe Frazier defends his heavyweight boxing world title against Bob Foster in Detroit.
 1976 - The parliament of Spain passes a bill allowing the creation of democracy in the country.
 1978 – In Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder-suicide. 918 people died, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. A few hours earlier, United States Congressman Leo Ryan, visiting to investigate the cult, was shot dead. 
 1987 – In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station at King's Cross St Pancras.
 1987 - The United States Congress issues the final report on the Iran Contra Affair.
1988 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for murder in regards to drug traffickers.
 1991 – Church of England envoy Terry Waite and American academic Thomas Sutherland are released in Lebanon, where they had been held hostage; Waite since 1987 and Sutherland since 1985.
 1991 - After an 87-day siege, the town of Vukovar, Croatia, surrenders to the Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serbian paramilitary forces.
 1993 – In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution.
 1996 - Bernard Dowiyogo is elected President of Nauru over Lagumot Harris, and immediately ends diplomatic relations with France over its nuclear testing on Mururoa Atoll, French Polynesia.
 2000 – Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas marry.
From 2001 
 2002 – United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
 2003 - The Local Government Act of 2003 becomes effective in the United Kingdom, ending the controversial Anti-Homosexuality amendment.
 2004 – Russia officially ratifies the Kyoto Protocol.
 2006 - Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes marry in Italy. Their marriage ends in divorce in 2012.
 2009 - 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification: Controversy is caused when French player Thierry Henry appears to have handled the ball in the run-up to a goal that sends France to the World Cup against the Republic of Ireland.
 2019 - Gotabaya Rajapaksa becomes President of Sri Lanka; he later names his brother (and former President) Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister.
 2019 - The United States government says that is does not consider the building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank to be illegal.

Births
Up to 1900 
 709 - Emperor Konin of Japan (d. 782)
 1522 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568)
 1527 - Luca Cambiasi, Italian painter (d. 1585)
 1630 – Eleanor Gonzaga, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1686)
 1647 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (d. 1706)
 1736 – Anton Graff, Swiss painter (d. 1813)
 1743 – Johannes Ewald, Danish playwright (d. 1781)
 1756 - Thomas Burgess, English writer, philosopher and religious figure (d. 1837)
 1772 – Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (d. 1806)
 1774 – Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia (d. 1837)
 1785 - David Wilkie, Scottish painter (d. 1844)
 1786 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (d. 1826)
 1787 – Louis Daguerre, French artist and physicist (d. 1851)
 1804 - Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora, Italian general and statesman (d. 1878)
 1810 - Asa Gray, American botanist (d. 1888)
 1820 - James William Abert, American army officer and mapmaker (d. 1897)
 1832 – Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer (d. 1901)
1836 – W. S. Gilbert, British philosopher (d. 1911)
 1839 - August Kundt, German physicist (d. 1894)
 1856 - Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1929)
 1860 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish composer and statesman (d. 1941)
 1861 - Dorothy Dix, American journalist (d. 1951)
 1873 - Arthur J. Weaver, Governor of Nebraska (d. 1945)
 1874 - Clarence Day, American writer (d. 1935)
 1877 – Arthur Cecil Pigou, British economist (d. 1959)
 1880 - Narum Torbov, Bulgarian architect (d. 1952)
 1882 - Wyndham Lewis, British writer and painter (d. 1957)
 1882 - Jacques Maritain, French philosopher (d. 1973)
 1882 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (d. 1959)
 1883 – Carl Vinson, American politician (d. 1981)
 1888 – Frances Marion, American screenwriter and director (d. 1973)
 1889 - Stanislav Kosior, Polish-born Soviet politician (d. 1939)
 1891 - Gio Ponti, Italian architect (d. 1979)
 1897 – Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, British physicist (d. 1974)
 1898 - Joris Ivens, Dutch movie maker (d. 1989)
1898 - Poul F. Jensen, Faroese poet and writer (d. 1970)
 1899 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-born American violinist and conductor (d. 1985)
1901  1950 
 1901 – George Gallup, American statistician and pollster (d. 1984)
 1901 - V. Shantaram, Indian director, screenwriter, producer and actor (d. 1984)
 1904 - Mihai Antonescu, Romanian politician (d. 1946)
 1906 – Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer (d. 1988)
 1906 – Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949)
 1906 – George Wald, American scientist (d. 1997)
 1907 – Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003)
 1909 - Johnny Mercer, American lyricist (d. 1976)
 1911 - Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (d. 2000)
 1913 - Endre Rozsda, French surrealist painter (d. 1999)
 1914 - Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1969)
 1915 - Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire (d. 2004)
 1917 - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (d. 1957)
 1919 - Jocelyn Brando, American actress (d. 2005)
 1920 – Mustafa Khalil, 77th Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2008)
 1920 - Ron Suart, English footballer (d. 2015)
1922 - Luis Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (d. 1967)
 1923 – Alan Shepard, American astronaut, first American to travel into space (d. 1998)
 1923 – Ted Stevens, American politician (d. 2010)
 1926 - Estanislau Basora, Spanish footballer (d. 2012)
 1927 – Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
 1927 - Eldar Ryazanov, Russian movie director and screenwriter (d. 2015)
 1928 - Sheila Jordan, American jazz singer
 1928 - Salvador Laurel, Vice president of the Philippines (d. 2004) 
 1934 - Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer and diplomat
 1936 – Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1995)
 1936 - Ennio Antonelli, Italian cardinal
 1938 - Eugenio Montejo, Venezuelan writer, poet and diplomat (d. 2008)
 1938 - Norbert Ratsirahonana, former Prime Minister of Madagascar
 1939 – Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer
 1939 - John O'Keefe, American-British neurologist
 1939 - Liz J. Patterson, American politician (d. 2018)
 1939 - Brenda Vaccaro, American actress
1939 - Amanda Lear, British singer, actress and author
 1940 – Qaboos bin Said al Said, Sultan of Oman (d. 2020)
 1941 - Gary Bettenhausen, American racing driver (d. 2014)
 1942 – Linda Evans, American actress
 1942 - Susan Sullivan, American actress
 1943 - Leonardo Sandri, Argentine cardinal
 1944 – Wolfgang Joop, German fashion designer
 1945 - Wilma Mankiller, American tribal chief (d. 2010)
 1945 – Mahinda Rajapaksa, Prime Minister and former President of Sri Lanka
 1946 - Alan Dean Foster, American fantasy and science fiction writer
 1948 - Ana Mendieta, American performance artist
 1950 - Graham Parker, American singer
 1950 - Rudy Sarzo, Cuban-born American musician
1951  1975 
 1952 – Harald Konopka, German footballer
 1952 - Peter Beattie, 36th Premier of Queensland
 1953 – Alan Moore, British writer
 1953 - Kevin Nealon, American actor and comedian
 1954 - Guy Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe, Scottish aristocrat (d. 2019)
 1956 - Warren Moon, American football player
 1958 - David Brailovsky, Argentine footballer
 1959 - Cindy Blackman, American jazz musician
 1959 - Karla Faye Tucker, American murderer (d. 1998)
 1960 – Elizabeth Perkins, American actress
 1960 – Kim Wilde, English singer
 1961 - Steven Moffat, Scottish screenwriter and producer
 1962 – Kirk Hammett, American guitarist (Metallica)
 1963 - Joost Zwagerman, Dutch writer (d. 2015)
 1963 – Peter Schmeichel, Danish footballer
 1967 - Gavin Peacock, English footballer
 1967 - Jocelyn Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
 1968 – Owen Wilson, American actor
 1968 - Gary Sheffield, American baseball player
 1969 - Duncan Sheik, rock music singer
 1969 - Sam Cassell, American basketball player
1969 - Koichiro Kimura, Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler (d. 2014)
 1970 - Peter Dutton, Australian politician
 1970 - Mike Epps, American actor, comedian and writer
 1970 - Megyn Kelly, American lawyer and journalist
 1971 - Therese Coffey, English politician
 1972 - Jessi Alexander, American singer-songwriter
 1973 – Darko Kovacevic, Serbian footballer
 1974 - Chloe Sevigny, American actress
 1975 - Anthony McPartlin, English actor and television presenter (Ant and Dec)
 1975 - David Ortiz, baseball player
From 1976 
 1976 – Shagrath, Norwegian singer (Dimmu Borgir)
 1977 - Fabolous, American rapper
 1980 - Minori Chihara, Japanese singer
 1980 – François Duval, French rally driver
 1980 – Junichi Okada, Japanese singer
 1980 - Maggie Stiefvater, American writer
 1980 - Hamza al-Ghamdi, Saudi Arabian terrorist (d. 2001)
 1981 - Christina Vidal, American actress
 1983 – Michael Dawson, English footballer
 1984 – Johnny Christ (Real name: Jonathan Lewis Seward), American bassist of Avenged Sevenfold
 1985 - Allyson Felix, American athlete
 1986 - Georgia King, English actress
 1987 – Jake Abel, American actor
 1988 - Michael Roach, American soccer player
 1989 - Natalie Osman, American professional wrestler
 1991 - Noppawan Lertcheewakarn, Thai tennis player
 1992 – Nathan Kress, American actor
 1992 - Queralt Casas, Spanish basketball player

Deaths
Up to 1975 
 1154 - Adelaide de Maurienne, Queen of France (b. 1092)
 1170 - Albert the Bear, Brandenburg nobleman (b. 1100)
 1305 - John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
 1785 – Louis Philippe I, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
 1814 - William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)
 1827 – Wilhelm Hauff, German poet (b. 1802)
 1830 - Adam Weishaupt, German founder of the Illuminati
 1841 - Agustin Gamarra, President of Peru
 1886 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)
 1920 – Matthias Jochumsson, Icelandic poet (b. 1835)
 1922 – Marcel Proust, French writer (b. 1871)
 1927 - Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona, Italian industrialist, politician, explorer, mountaineer and racing driver (b. 1871)
 1941 – Walther Nernst, German chemist (b. 1864)
 1941 – Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
 1962 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize winner (b. 1885)
 1965 – Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (b. 1888)
1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American businessman and father of John F. Kennedy (b. 1888)
 1972 - Danny Whitten, American musician (b. 1843)
 1973 – Alois Haba, Czech composer (b. 1893)
1976  2010 
 1976 – Man Ray, American artist (b. 1890)
 1977 – Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (b. 1897)
 1978 – Leo Ryan, United States Congressman (b. 1925)
 1978 – Jim Jones, American cult leader (suicide) (b. 1931)
 1979 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (b. 1901)
 1987 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (b. 1934)
 1991 – Gustav Husak, Czechoslovakian politician (b. 1913)
 1994 – Cab Calloway, American musician (b. 1907)
 1998 - Aurelio de Lira Tavares, President of Brazil (b. 1905)
 1999 – Paul Bowles, American writer (b. 1910)
 2002 – James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)
 2004 - Cy Coleman, American composer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1929)
 2009 – Jeanne-Claude, French artist (b. 1935)
 2009 - Red Robbins, American basketball player (b. 1944)
 2010 - Brian G. Marsden, British astronomer (b. 1937)
 2010 - Gaye Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1923)
From 2011 
 2011 - Walt Hazzard, American basketball player (b. 1942)
 2014 - Pepe Eliaschev, Argentine journalist and writer (b. 1945)
 2014 - Ahmad Lozi, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1925)
 2015 - Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1975)
 2015 - Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Belgian terrorist (b. 1988)
 2015 - Mal Whitfield, American runner (b. 1924)
 2016 - Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon (b. 1920)
 2017 - Azzedine Alaïa, Tunisian-French fashion designer (b. 1933)
 2017 - Giorgio Antonucci, Italian physician (b. 1933)
 2017 - Commins Menapi, Solomon Islands footballer (b. 1977)
 2017 - Youssouf Ouédraogo, 6th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (b. 1952)
 2017 - Friedel Rausch, German footballer (b. 1940)
 2017 - Ben Riley, American jazz drummer (b. 1933)
 2017 - Gillian Rolton, Australian equestrian (b. 1956)
 2017 - Pancho Segura, Ecuadorean-American tennis player (b. 1921)
 2017 - Malcolm Young, Scottish-Australian musician (AC/DC) (b. 1953)
 2018 - Waldyr Boccardo, Brazilian basketball player (b. 1936)
2018 - Héctor Beltrán Leyva, Mexican drug cartel leader (b. 1965)
 2018 - Eddie Reeves, American songwriter and record label executive (b. 1939)
 2018 - Muhammad Abdul Wahhab, Pakistani Islamic cleric (b. 1923)
 2018 - Uladzimir Zhuravel, Belarussian footballer (b. 1971)
 2019 - Norodom Buppha Devi, Cambodian royal and ballerina (b. 1943)
Holidays and observances 
 Latvia – Independence Day (1918)
 Oman – National holiday
 Venezuela – Feast of the Virgen de Chiquinquirá, also known as la Chinita, in the western state of Zulia

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 461 - Libius Severus is declared Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
 1404 - Severe flooding occurs in the Netherlands, as 3000 hectares of land are washed away, with the flood waters also completely wiping out the towns of Ijzendijke and Hugevliet.
 1421 - A major flood in the Netherlands kills between 2,000 and 10,000 people.
 1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
 1806 - French troops occupy Hamburg during the Napoleonic Wars.
 1816 - In Poland, Warsaw University is founded.
 1819 – The Museo del Prado in Madrid opens.
 1847 - The second Canadian railway line is opened between Montreal and Lachine.
 1850 - Alfred Tennyson is named Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom by Queen Victoria.
 1863 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
 1869 – The Hudson's Bay Company sells Ruperts Land to Canada.
1881 - A meteorite lands southwest of Odessa, present-day Ukraine.
 1885 - Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa officially unifies the Kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
 1887 - In the English Channel, Dutch ocean steamer W. A. Scholten sinks after a collision with a British freighter, killing 132 people.
1901  2000 
 1911 - The Doom Bar in Cornwall claims two ships, Island Maid and Angele, in which the entire crew, except the captain, is killed.
 1912 - The five hundred-year rule of the Ottoman Empire over Macedonia is ended.
 1916 - Goldwyn Pictures is founded by Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn.
 1941 - World War II: The warships HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran sink each other off Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and 77 Germans.
 1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Union forces under Georgy Zhukov launch Operation Uranus counter-attacks at Stalingrad, turning the battle in the USSR's favour.
 1942 - Mutesa II is crowned as the last Kabala (King) of Buganda.
 1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
 1950 - Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO Europe.
 1952 - Alexander Papagos becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
 1967 - TVB is founded, as the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
1969 – Apollo 12 lands on the Moon. Charles Conrad and Alan LaVern Bean become the 3rd and 4th people respectively to walk on the Moon.
 1969 – Brazilian footballer Pelé scores the 1,000th goal of his career.
 1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin seeking a permanent peace settlement.
 1979 – Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
 1984 - Oil depot explosions in Mexico City cause a large fire, which kills around 500 people.
 1985 – Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet.
 1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because they did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album.
 1994 - The United Kingdom's first National Lottery draw is held.
 1995 – Aleksander Kwasniewski is elected President of Poland.
1996 – The case of the Port Arthur massacre comes to trial.
 1998 – The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
 1998 - Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for $ 71.5 million.
 1999 - The People's Republic of China launches the Shenzhou 1 spacecraft.
 1999 - Russia withdraws its military from Georgia.
From 2001 
 2002 – The Prestige oil tanker breaks apart near the coast of Galicia, Spain, causing a large oil spill.
 2010 – Twenty-nine miners are trapped after an explosion in the Pike River Mine near Greymouth in New Zealand. They are pronounced dead after a second explosion five days later.
 2013 - A storm affecting Sardinia causes heavy rain, flooding and kills 18 people.
 2013 - Bomb attacks in Beirut, Lebanon, kill at least 22 people.
 2014 - Nicola Sturgeon becomes the 5th, and first female, First Minister of Scotland, succeeding Alex Salmond.
 2016 - The German Wikipedia publishes its two-millionth article.
 2017 - Talks about forming a governing coalition fail in Germany, after September's election to the Bundestag.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1464 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
 1503 - Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1547)
 1563 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (d. 1626)
 1597 - Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatine, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1660)
 1600 – King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1649)
 1600 - Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (d. 1669)
 1616 - Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (d. 1665)
 1700 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French priest and physician (d. 1770)
 1711 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (d. 1765)
 1722 – Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)
 1770 - Adam Johann von Krusenstern, German-Baltic admiral of the Russian fleet (d. 1846)
 1770 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)
 1779 - Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1801)
 1797 - René Caillié, French explorer (d. 1838)
 1802 - Solomon Foot, American politician (d. 1866)
 1805 – Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and businessman (d. 1894)
1805 - Edouard Drouyn de Unuys, French politician (d. 1881)
 1808 - Janez Bleiweis, Slovenian journalist and politician (d. 1881)
 1814 - Girolamo de Rada, Albanian-Italian writer (d. 1903)
 1831 – James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881)
 1831 - José Evaristo Uriburu, President of Argentina (d. 1914)
 1833 - Wilhelm Dilthey, German theologian, philosopher, psychologist and educator (d. 1911)
 1843 - Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (d. 1896)
 1859 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer and conductor (d. 1935)
 1873 - Elizabeth McCombs, first female member of the New Zealand parliament (d. 1935)
 1875 – Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (d. 1946)
 1875 - Hiram Bingham, United States Senator and explorer (d. 1956)
 1876 - Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician (d. 1964)
 1877 - Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician (d. 1947)
 1879 - Mait Metsanurk, Estonian writer (d. 1957)
 1887 – James B. Sumner, American chemist (d. 1955)
1888 - Jose Raul Capablanca, Cuban chess player (d. 1942)
 1889 – Clifton Webb, American actor (d. 1966)
 1893 - René Voisin, French classical trumpeter (d. 1952)
 1894 – Américo Tomás, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987)
 1898 – Arthur R. von Hippel, German physicist (d. 2003)
 1899 - Allen Tate, American poet and literary critic (d. 1979)
 1900 – Anna Seghers, German writer (d. 1983)
1901  1950 
 1902 - Princess Mafalda of Savoy (d. 1944)
 1904 - Nancy Carroll, American actress (d. 1965)
 1905 – Tommy Dorsey, American musician (d. 1956)
 1908 - Alan Baxter, actor (d. 1976)
 1909 - Elmo Smith, Governor of Oregon (d. 1968)
 1910 - Adrian Conan Doyle, English racing driver and author (d. 1970)
 1912 – George Emil Palade, Romanian biologist (d. 2008)
 1912 - Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, American bishop (d. 2015)
 1912 - Robert Simpson, American meteorologist (d. 2014)
 1914 - Mills E. Godwin, Jr., two-time Governor of Virginia (d. 1999)
 1915 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist (d. 1974)
 1917 – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
 1919 – Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian movie director (d. 2006)
 1919 - Alan Young, British-born American actor (d. 2016)
 1920 – Gene Tierney, American actress (d. 1991)
 1921 - Roy Campanella, American baseball player (d. 1993)
 1924 – Knut Steen, Norwegian sculptor (d. 2011)
 1925 - Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-British sociologist (d. 2017)
1925 - John Gordon, English author (d. 2017)
 1926 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2006)
 1928 - Dara Singh, Indian actor and bodybuilder (d. 2012)
 1930 – Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player (d. 2011)
 1930 - Christian Schwarz-Schilling, German politician
 1932 - Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer (d. 2009)
 1932 - Jerry Sheindlin, American judge and author
 1933 – Larry King, American television personality (d. 2021)
 1934 – Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, Russian footballer (d. 2011)
 1934 – Kurt Hamrin, Swedish footballer
 1934 - David Lloyd Jones, English conductor
 1935 - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian biochemist and computer scientist (d. 1990)
 1936 – Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese chemist
 1936 - Dick Cavett, American talkshow host
 1936 - Wolfgang Jeschke, German science fiction writer (d. 2015)
 1937 - Tamara Bunke, German-Argentine revolutionary (d. 1967)
 1938 - Warren "Pete" Moore, American singer-songwriter and record producer (d. 2017)
1938 - Hank Medress, American singer (The Tokens) (d. 2007)
 1938 – Ted Turner, American businessman
 1939 - Emil Constantinescu, 3rd President of Romania
 1939 - Tom Harkin, American politician
 1939 - Garrick Utley, American broadcast journalist (d. 2014)
 1941 - Tommy Thompson, American politician, 42nd Governor of Wisconsin
 1941 - Dan Haggerty, American actor (d. 2016)
 1942 - Sharon Olds, American poet
 1942 – Calvin Klein, American clothing designer
 1943 - Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban baseball player
 1943 - Fred Lipsius, American musician
 1944 – Klaus Fichtel, German footballer
 1944 - Agnes Baltsa, Greek singer
 1945 - Hans Monderman, Dutch road traffic engineer (d. 2008)
 1947 - Bob Boone, American baseball player and manager
 1947 - Anfinn Kallsberg, 10th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
 1947 - Lamar S. Smith, American politician
 1949 - Raymond Blanc, French chef
1951  1975 
 1951 - Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, British politician
 1951 - Mihai Ghimpu, Moldovan politician, former Interim President of Moldova
 1953 - Robert Beltran, American actor
 1954 - Kathleen Quinlan, American actress
 1954 - Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, 6th President of Egypt
 1955 - Glynnis O'Connor, American actress
 1956 – Eileen Collins, American astronaut
 1956 - Ann Curry, American broadcast journalist
 1956 - Jim Hodges, former Governor of South Carolina
 1956 - Peter Carter, English diplomat (d. 2014)
 1957 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000)
 1957 - Joel Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2012)
 1957 - Tom Virtue, American actor
 1958 - Terrence Carson, American actor
 1958 - Algirdas Butkevicius, 12th Prime Minister of Lithuania
 1959 - Jo Bonner, American politician
 1959 - Allison Janney, American actress
 1960 - Matt Sorum, American musician
 1960 - Miss Elizabeth, American professional wrestling promoter (d. 2003)
 1961 – Meg Ryan, American actress
1962 – Jodie Foster, American actress
 1962 – Sean Parnell, American politician, 12th Governor of Alaska
 1964 - Petr Necas, 9th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
 1965 – Laurent Blanc, French footballer
 1965 - Gary Ablett, English footballer (d. 2012)
 1965 - Douglas Henshall, Scottish actor
 1966 - Kakhaber Kacharava, Georgian footballer
 1966 - Gail Devers, American athlete
 1966 – Jason Scott Lee, American actor
 1967 - Dhafer Youssef, Tunisian jazz musician
 1971 - Naoko Mori, Japanese-English actress and singer
 1974 - Arun Vijay, Indian movie actor
 1975 – Sushmita Sen, Indian beauty queen and actress
From 1976 
 1976 – Robin Dunne, Canadian actor
 1976 - Jack Dorsey, American founder of Twitter
 1977 - Mette Frederiksen, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark
 1977 – Kerri Strug, American gymnast
 1979 - Ryan Howard, American baseball player
 1980 - Adele Silva, English actress
 1980 – Vladimir Radmanovic, Serbian basketball player
 1980 - Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of the Humanists UK
 1980 - Yipsi Moreno, Cuban hammer thrower
 1981 - Marcus Banks, American basketball player
 1983 - Chandra Crawford, Canadian cross-country skier
 1983 - Meseret Defar, Ethiopian runner
 1984 – Jorge Fucile, Uruguayan footballer
 1984 - Brittany Maynard, American assisted suicide activist (d. 2014)
 1985 – Chris Eagles, English footballer
 1986 - Milan Smiljanic, Serbian footballer
 1986 - Jeannie Ortega, American actress, dancer and songwriter
 1986 - Dayron Robles, Cuban athlete
 1986 - Hovi Star, Israeli singer
 1987 - Feng Zhe, Chinese gymnast
 1988 - Xavier Barachet, French handball player
1988 – Patrick Kane, American NHL ice hockey right winger for the Chicago Blackhawks
 1989 - Roman Sergeyevich Trofimov, Russian ski jumper
 1989 - Tyga, American rapper
 1992 - Tove Styrke, Swedish singer-songwriter
 1993 - Suso, Spanish footballer
 1994 - Ibrahima Mbaye, Senegalese footballer
 1997 - McCaughey septuplets
 1999 - Evgenia Medvedeva, Russian figure skater
 2002 - Gaia Cauchi, Maltese singer
Up to 1900 
 496 - Pope Gelasius I
 498 - Pope Anastasius II
 1478 - Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b. 1448)
 1481 – Anne Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (b. 1472)
 1492 – Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
 1557 - Bona Sforza, Queen of Poland (b. 1494)
 1577 - Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese Shogun (b. 1510) 
 1581 – Ivan Ivanovich, son of Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1554)
 1665 – Nicolas Poussin, French painter (b. 1594)
 1703 – The Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner whose identity is unknown
 1772 - William Nelson, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
 1785 - Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
 1798 - Wolfe Tone, Irish general (b. 1763)
 1804 - Pietro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728)
 1822 - Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
 1828 – Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b. 1797)
 1850 - Richard Mentor Johnson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1780)
 1863 – John O'Meally, Australian bushranger (b. 1841)
1883 - Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German-English engineer (b. 1823)
 1887 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849)
1901  2000 
 1918 – Joseph F. Smith, American Mormon leader (b. 1838)
 1924 - Thomas H. Ince, American actor, director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1882)
 1931 - Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897)
 1938 - Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866)
 1943 - Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1895)
 1958 - Vittorio Ambrosio, Italian general (b. 1879)
 1959 - Joseph Charbonneau, Canadian archbishop (b. 1892)
 1962 - Grigol Robakidze, Georgian writer (b. 1882)
 1963 - Carmen Amaya, Spanish dancer and singer (b. 1918)
 1970 - Andrey Yeryomenko, Soviet-Russian military (b. 1892)
 1975 - Roger D. Branigan, 42nd Governor of Indiana (b. 1902)
 1976 – Basil Spence, English architect (b. 1907)
 1983 – Tom Evans, English musician (b. 1947)
 1988 - Christina Onassis, American-Greek businesswoman (b. 1950)
 1990 - Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (b. 1900)
 1992 - Bobby Russell, American songwriter (b. 1941)
 1992 – Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
From 2001 
 2004 – John Vane, English pharmacologist (b. 1927)
 2004 - Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1914)
 2005 – Erik Balling, Danish movie director (b. 1924)
 2011 - Basil D'Oliveira, South African-born English cricketer (b. 1931)
 2012 - Pete LaRoca, American jazz musician (b. 1938)
 2012 - Boris Strugatsky, Russian author (b. 1923)
 2013 - Frederick Sanger, British biochemist, two-time Nobel Prize winner (b. 1918)
 2014 - Otieno Kajwang, Kenyan politician (b. 1959)
 2014 - Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer (b. 1950)
 2014 - Mike Nichols, German-born American television, stage and movie director (b. 1931)
 2014 - Richard A. Jensen, American theologian (b. 1934)
 2015 - Armand, Dutch protest singer (b. 1946)
 2015 - Allen E. Ertel, American politician (b. 1937)
 2017 - Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Italian cardinal (b. 1925)
 2017 - Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, Vice president of Nigeria (b. 1932)
 2017 - Fernando Matthei, Chilean air force general (b. 1925)
2017 - Warren "Pete" Moore, American singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1938)
 2017 - Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player (b. 1968)
 2017 - Della Reese, American actress and singer (b. 1931)
 2017 - Tai Chen-yao, Taiwanese politician (b. 1948)
 2017 - Mel Tillis, American country singer (b. 1932)
 2017 - Charles Manson, American cult leader (b. 1934)
 2018 - Apisai Ielemia, 10th Prime minister of Tuvalu (b. 1955)
 2018 - Alí Rodríguez Araque, Venezuelan politician (b. 1937)
 2019 - José Mário Branco, Portuguese singer-songwriter, actor and record producer (b. 1942)
 2019 - Purita Campos, Spanish cartoonist, illustrator and painter (b. 1937)
 2019 - Basil Feldman, Baron Feldman, British politician and businessman (b. 1923)
 2019 - D. M. Jayaratne, Sri Lankan politician, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1931)
 2019 - Tom Lyle, American comics artist and illustrator (b. 1953)
 2019 - Fazlollah Reza, Iranian politician (b. 1915)
Holidays and observances 
 Brazil – Flag Day
 Mali – Liberation Day
 Puerto Rico – Discovery of Puerto Rico (1493)
 Norway – The Liberation of the Sámi of the coast
 Monaco – National holiday
 International Men's Day
 World Toilet Day (See also: World Toilet Organization)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
1041 – Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.
1510 - Portuguese conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque, and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji, seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate, resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule.
1520 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
1799 - France adopts the meter as its official unit of length.
1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
1836 – Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.
1848 - Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, later Napoleon III of France, is elected President of France.
1861 - American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th State of the Confederacy.
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Major General William T. Sherman's Union Army troops reach Savannah, Georgia.
1868 – The first traffic lights are installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London. Resembling railway signals,  they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1869 – Wyoming grants women the right to vote.
1884 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is first published.
1890 - In New York City, the New York World Building is completed.
1896 - Alfred Nobel dies. From 1901, Nobel Prizes are given on this day in his memory.
1898 – Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
1901  1950 
1901 – The first Nobel Prizes are given.
1904 – The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is founded in Charleston, South Carolina.
1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize of any kind.
1927 - The phrase Grand Ole Opry is used for the first time.
1932 – Thailand's Constitution is written, forming a constitutional monarchy.
1936 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII of the United Kingdom signs his Instrument of Abdication.
1941 – World War II: Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse – The Royal Navy ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers.
1941 – World War II: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.
1948 – The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.