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February 1 – (Greensboro, N.C.) Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the South. Six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter.
 February 9 – Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
 February 9 – Adolph Coors III, chairman of the board of the Coors Brewing Company, is kidnapped and captors demand $500.000. Coors is later found killed and Joseph Corbett Jr is indicted
 February 11 – The airship ZPG-3W is destroyed in a storm in Massachusetts
 February 13 – Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb
 February 29 – Earthquake totally destroys Agadir, Morocco.
 March 21 – The Sharpeville Massacre occurs in South Africa.
 April 4 – Senegal becomes independent.
April 27 – Togo becomes independent.
 May 1 – A Lockheed U-2 piloted by Francis Gary Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union, making an international incident.
 May 11 – Nazi politician Adolf Eichmann is captured in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by the Mossad.
 May 22 – The Great Chilean Earthquake occurs.
 June 26 – The British protectorate Somaliland becomes independent.
 June 26 – Madagascar becomes independent.
 June 30 – The present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo becomes independent.
 July 1 – Somalia becomes independent.
 July 1 – Ghana becomes a Republic.
 August 1 – Benin becomes independent.
 August 3 – Niger becomes independent.
 August 5 – Upper Volta becomes independent. It is later renamed Burkina Faso.
 August 11 – Chad becomes independent.
 August 13 – The Central African Republic becomes independent.
 August 15 – The Republic of the Congo becomes independent.
 August 17 – Gabon becomes independent.
 October 1 – Nigeria becomes independent.
 October 24 – Zambia becomes independent.
November 8 – John F. Kennedy is elected President of the United States.
 November 28 – Mauritania becomes independent.
Births 
 January 4 – Michael Stipe, singer for R.E.M.
 January 6 – Nigella Lawson, celebrity chef, writer
 January 6 – Howie Long, American football star
 January 11 – Stanley Tucci, actor
 January 12 – Oliver Platt, actor
 January 13 – Kevin Anderson, actor
 January 22 – Michael Hutchence, musician ("INXS") (d. 1997)
 January 27 – Samia Suluhu, President of Tanzania
 January 28 – Robert von Dassanowsky, cultural historian, writer, producer
 January 29 – Greg Louganis, Olympics gold medalist in diving
 February 7 – James Spader, actor (Pretty in Pink, Stargate, The Practice)
 February 11 – Richard Mastracchio, astronaut
 February 13 – Pierluigi Collina, football referee
 February 14 – Jim Kelly, American football quarterback
 February 19 – Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth II
 February 29 – Cheb Khaled, Algerian musician
 February 29 – Tony Robbins, motivational speaker
 March 4 – Mykelti Williamson, actor
 March 7 – Joe Carter, baseball star
 March 7 – Ivan Lendl, tennis player
March 13 – Adam Clayton, bassist for the rock band U2
 March 18 – Richard Biggs, actor
 March 21 – Ayrton Senna, automobile racer (d. 1994)
 March 24 – Nena Kerner, German singer
 March 26 – Marcus Allen, American football star
 May 26 – Rob Murphy, American baseball player
 March 29 – Marina Sirtis, actress
 April 2 – Linford Christie, British athlete
 April 3 – Elizabeth Gracen, American actress, model, winner of 1982 Miss America pageant
 April 4 – Jane Eaglin, English soprano
 April 4 – Hugo Weaving, actor
 April 12 - Dennis Bateman, American voice actor
 April 14 – Brad Garrett, actor
 April 15 – Crown Prince Philippe of Belgium
 April 16 – Rafael Benitez, Spanish football manager
 April 16 – Pierre Littbarski, German football player and manager
 April 19 – Frank Viola, baseball player
 April 26 – Roger Taylor, musician ("Duran Duran")
 April 28 – Ian Rankin, Scottish writer
 May 4 – Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria.
 May 10 – Bono, singer of U2
 May 18 – Jari Kurri, Hockey Hall of Famer
May 18 – Yannick Noah, tennis player
 May 19 – Gadi Eizenkot, Israeli general
 May 20 – John Billingsley, actor
 May 21 – Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer (d. 1994)
 May 24 – Kristin Scott Thomas, British actress
 June 6 – Gary Graham, actor
 June 6 – Steve Vai, musician
 June 8 – Mick Hucknall singer/songwriter of Simply Red
 June 15 – Michèle Laroque, French actress
 June 20 – John Taylor, musician, Duran Duran
 June 28 – John Elway, Pro Football Hall of Famer
 June 30 - Murray Cook, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
 July 21 – Ezequiel Viñao, composer
 July 27 – Uddhav Thackeray, Indian Politician
 August 4 – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain
 August 7 – David Duchovny, actor (The X-Files)
 August 7 – Rosana Pastor, Spanish actress
 August 10 – Antonio Banderas, actor (Desperado, Spy Kids)
 August 19 – Morten Andersen, American football player
 August 24 – Cal Ripken, Jr., baseball star
 August 26 – Branford Marsalis, jazz musician
 August 30 – Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah
September 1 - Joseph Williams, American singer (Toto)
 September 9 – Hugh Grant, English actor
 September 10 – Colin Firth, actor
 September 16 – John Franco, baseball relief pitcher
 September 17 - Annabelle Apsion, actress
 September 17 – Damon Hill, 1996 Formula 1 World Champion
 September 26 – Jouke de Vries, Frisian politician and professor
 October 5 – Daniel Baldwin, actor
 October 7 – Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese rock singer
 October 30 – Diego Maradona, football (soccer) player
 November 3 – Karch Kiraly, volleyball star
 November 9 – Andreas Brehme, German footballer
 November 10 – Neil Gaiman, writer
 November 25 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., lawyer and journalist (d. 1999)
 November 25 – Amy Grant, contemporary Christian music star
 November 27 – Tim Pawlenty, American politician
 November 27 – Paul Robinson, writer
 November 27 – Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian politician
 November 30 – Gary Lineker, English footballer.
 December 2 – Rick Savage, bass guitarist (Def Leppard).
December 3 – Julianne Moore, actress
 December 4 – Glynis Nunn, Australian heptathlete
 December 9 – Caroline Lucas, British politician
 December 10 – Kenneth Branagh, actor, movie director
 December 18 – Kazuhide Uekusa, former Japanese professor of graduate school at Waseda University, economist
 December 19 – Mike Lookinland, television actor
 December 27 – Maryam d'Abo, actress
 December 31 – John Allen Muhammad, convicted Beltway sniper
 December 31 – Steve Bruce, English football player and manager
Deaths 
 January 4 – Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize winner (b. 1913)
 January 12 – Nevil Shute, English writer (b. 1899)
 January 24 – Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
 February 3 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)
 February 10 – Aloysius Stepinac, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1898)
 February 11 – Ernö Dohnányi, Hungarian conductor (b. 1877)
 February 29 – Walter Yust, American editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica (b.1894)
 March 2 – Stanisław Taczak, Polish general (b. 1874)
 April 1 – Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan and 1st Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (b. 1895)
 April 17 - Eddie Cochran, American musican (b. 1938)
 May 8 – J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b. 1904).
 May 30 – Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist (b. 1890)
 May 31 – Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (b. 1890)
 June 23 – Frantisek Omelka, Czech educator (b. 1904)
 June 25 – Tommy Corcoran, baseball player (b. 1869)
June 27 – Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
 August 5 – Arthur Meighen, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
 August 28 – John O'Hara, U.S. Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1888)
 August 29 – Vicki Baum, Jewish writer (b. 1888)
 September 1 – Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah, Sultan of Selangor and 2nd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (b. 1898)
 September 9 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
 October 15 – Henny Porten, German movie producer
 November 2 – Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (b. 1896)
 November 5 – Mack Sennett, Canadian movie producer and director (b. 1880)
 November 16 – Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901)
 December 26 – Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (b. 1889)
Movies released 
 Exodus
 Spartacus
 Swiss Family Robinson
 The Apartment
 The Alamo
 Toby Tyler
 Pollyanna
 Psycho
Hit songs 
 "Only The Lonely" – Roy Orbison
 "Today's Teardrops" – Roy Orbison, written by Gene Pitney
 "I'm Sorry" – Brenda Lee
 "True Love Ways" – Buddy Holly
 "Chain Gang" – Sam Cooke
 "Save The Last Dance For Me" – The Drifters
 "Stay" – Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs
 "Walk, Don't Run" – The Ventures
 "Rubber Ball" – Bobby Vee
 "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" – Brian Hyland
 "Cathy's Clown" – The Everly Brothers
 "Sink the Bismarck" – Johnny Horton
 "North To Alaska" – Johnny Horton
 "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" – Connie Francis
 "Good Timin'" – Jimmy Jones
 "You're Sixteen" – Johnny Burnette
 "You Talk Too Much" – Joe Jones
 "Georgia On My Mind" – Ray Charles
 "It's Now Or Never" – Elvis Presley
 "Road Runner" – Bo Diddley
 "Exodus" – Ferrante & Teicher
 "Dreamin' " – Johnny Burnette
 "Alley-Oop" – Hollywood Argyles
 "Mission Bell" – Donnie Brooks
 "What In the World's Come Over You" – Jack Scott
 "Burning Bridges" – Jack Scott
 "T'Aimer Follement" – Dalida
"L'Arlequin de Tolède" – Dalida
 "Les Enfants du Pirée" – Dalida
 "Romantica" – Dalida
 "Itsi Bitsi Petit Bikini" – Dalida
 "'O Sole Mio" – Dalida
 "Tall Oak Tree" – Dorsey Burnette
 "Wild One" – Bobby Rydell
 "Teen Angel" – Mark Dinning
 "Mule Skinner Blues" – The Fendermen
 "Corinna, Corinna" – Ray Peterson
 "Tell Laura I Love Her" – Ray Peterson
New books 
 Border Country – Raymond Williams
 Casanova's Chinese Restaurant – Anthony Powell
 The Chapman Report – Irving Wallace
 Clea – Lawrence Durrell
 Critique of Dialectical Reason – Jean-Paul Sartre
 Don't Tell Alfred – Nancy Mitford
 For Your Eyes Only – Ian Fleming
 Green Eggs and Ham – Dr. Seuss
 Hunters in a Narrow Street – Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
 The Many Colored Coat – Morley Callaghan
 New Maps of Hell – Kingsley Amis (non-fiction)
 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William L. Shirer
 Take a Girl Like You – Kingsley Amis
 Tintin in Tibet- Hergé
 To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
 The Torch – Wilder Penfield
 Truth and Method – Hans-Georg Gadamer
 The Violent Bear It Away – Flannery O'Connor
 The White Stone – Carlo Coccioli
 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? – Henry Farrell
1956 (MCMLVI) was .

Events
The Summer Olympics were held in Melbourne, Australia.
 The Winter Olympics were held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. This was the first Olympic Games in which the USSR competed.
 February 11 – British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean appear in the Soviet Union after being missing for 5 years
 March 2 – Morocco declares its independence from France
 April 19 – American actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
 May 2 – The United Methodist Church in America grants women full ordained clergy status
 June 5 – Elvis Presley performs "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show. His dancing causes a scandal.
 July 25 – The Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Swedish ship SS Stockholm, killing 51
 August 17 – West Germany bans the Communist Party of Germany
 September 16 – Television broadcasting begins in Australia
 October 26 – Red Army troops invade Hungary
 October 29 – November 7 – Suez Crisis: France, Israel and the United Kingdom in war with Egypt.
November 30 – Floyd Patterson wins the world heavyweight boxing championship
 December 5 – Rose Heilbron becomes Britain's first female judge
January 3 – Mel Gibson, American-Australian actor
 January 28 – Dario Chioli, Italian poet
 February 6 - Jerry Marotta, American drummer (Orleans)
 February 16 – Peter Hook, English bass guitarist
 February 26 – Emanuel Radovan, Romanian politician of Albanian nationality.
 February 27 – Csaba Vrabie, Romanian politician of Hungarian nationality from UDMR.
 February 27 – Angela Aames, American actress (d. 1988)
 February 29 – Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (d. 2002)
 March 24 – Steve Ballmer, American business person, CEO of Microsoft
 April 5 – Dwight Hicks, American NFL player
 April 12 – Andy García, American actor
 April 19 - Lane Hoppen, American singer-songwriter and musician (Orleans)
 May 7 – Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime minister of the Netherlands
 May 17 – Bob Saget, American actor and comedian
 June 2 – Mani Ratnam, Indian movie director
 June 4 – Martin Adams, English darts player
 June 11 – Joe Montana, American NFL player
 June 11 – Ray Nagin, American politician, mayor of New Orleans
July 9 – Tom Hanks, American actor
 July 13 – Michael Spinks, American boxer
 July 15 – Joe Satriani, Italian-American guitar virtuoso
 August 4 – Margaret Whitman, American business person, CEO of Ebay
 August 26 – Sally Beamish, English composer
 August 31 – Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television performer
 August 31 - Mark Mangini, American sound editor
 September 14 – Maxime Verhagen, Dutch politician
 September 17 – Andreas Starke, German politician, Lord Mayor of Bamberg
 September 27 – Milan Smrčka, Czech musician
 October 1 — Theresa May, British Prime Minister
 October 2 – Mike Scully, American television writer
 October 28 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 6th President of Iran
 November 11 – Ian Craig Marsh, English musician
 December 4 - Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, 9th President of Mauritania
 December 6 - Peter Buck, American guitarist (R.E.M.)
 December 8 - Warren Cuccurullo, American guitarist (Duran Duran)
 December 9 - Jean-Pierre Thiollet, French author 
 Glen Hill (actor), actor
Hugh Cook, English-born New Zealand writer
 Hans Enoksen, Prime minister of Greenland
January 18 – Konstantin Päts, 1st President of Estonia (b. 1874)
 January 27 – Erich Kleiber, German conductor (b. 1890)
 February 10 – Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, British marshal of the Royal Air Force (b. 1873)
 February 29 – Elpidio Quirino, 6th President of the Philippines (b. 1890)
 March 8 – Drastamat Kanayan, Armenian military leader and politician (b. 1884))
 March 17 – Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1897)
 April 13 – Emil Nolde, German-Danish painter (b. 1867)
 May 18 – Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895)
 June 22 – Walter de la Mare, English poet, short story writer, and novelist (b. 1873)
 June 26 – Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1930)
 July 11 – John T. Raulston, Scopes Monkey Trial judge (b. 1868)
 August 11- Jackson Pollack, American painter
 August 14 – Bertolt Brecht, German playwright (b. 1898)
 August 25 – Alfred Kinsey, American sex researcher (b. 1894)
September 22 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
 October 25 – Risto Ryti, 5th President of Finland (b. 1889)
 October 30 – Pio Baroja, Spanish writer (b. 1872)
 November 22 – Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born ballet dancer, choreographer and actor (b. 1882)
 December 14 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi, 7th President of Finland (b. 1870)
 December 16 – Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (b. 1890)
Nobel Prizes
 Nobel Prize in Physics won by William Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain for inventing the point-contact transistor
 Nobel Prize in Chemistry won by Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English physical chemist, and Nikolay Semyonov, Russian/Soviet physicist and chemist
 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by André Frédéric Cournand, Werner Forssmann, and Dickinson W. Richards for the development of cardiac catheterization
 Nobel Prize in Literature won by Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet
 Nobel Peace Prize – Not Awarded

Movies released
Movies released 

 Around the World in 80 Days winning the Academy Award for Best Picture
 Bus Stop starring Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray 
 Giant starring Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean
 Hollywood or Bust the final Martin and Lewis movie
 The King and I winning Best Actor for Yul Brynner
 The Searchers starring John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter
 The Ten Commandments starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner
 War and Peace starring Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda

New books 
Agatha Christie – Dead Man's Folly
Arthur C. Clarke – The City and the Stars
Ian Fleming – Diamonds Are Forever
Fred Gipson – Old Yeller
Alf Prøysen – Little Old Mrs Pepperpot
From 1793 – 1933, March 4 was Inauguration Day for the President of the United States. Since 1937, Inauguration Day has been January 20.

Events
Up to 1900 
 51 - Nero is given the title of Princeps Iuventutis (Head of the Youth).
 1152 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
 1226 - The city of Hamm, in North Rhine-Westphalia, present-day Germany, is founded.
 1275 - Chinese astronomers observe a solar eclipse.
 1351 – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
 1386 – Wladyslaw II Jagiello (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
 1461 – The Lancastrian King Henry VI of England is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, King Edward IV of England.
 1493 – Christopher Columbus arrives in Portugal after the voyage that took him to the Caribbean.
 1519 – Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico.
 1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a royal charter.
 1665 – England's King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands.
 1675 – In England, John Flamsteed is appointed as the first Astronomer Royal.
 1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn, to colonise what is now Pennsylvania.
 1769 - The Orion Nebula is first observed by Charles Messier.
1776 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
 1789 – In New York City, the first United States Congress meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.
 1790 – France is divided into 83 Departements.
 1791 – Vermont becomes the 14th State of the US.
 1793 – John Adams becomes the first US President to be inaugurated on March 4.
 1794 - The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed by the United States Congress.
 1837 - The city of Chicago is incorporated.
 1848 - Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the Constitution of the Kingdom of Italy.
 1861 – Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States. During his time in office, he will be faced with the American Civil War.
 1861 – The Stars and Bars Flag of the Confederate States of America is introduced.
1865 – The third national flag of the Confederate States of America is introduced.
 1882 – The United Kingdom's first electric trams run in London.
 1877 – The ballet Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
 1890 – The Forth Rail Bridge is opened in Scotland.
 1899 – Cyclone Mahina passes to the north of Cooktown, Queensland, Australia, with 12-metre waves travelling inland by as much as five kilometres, killing 300 people.
1901  2000 
 1902 - The American Automobile Club is founded in Cleveland, Ohio.
 1908 - The Collinwood School Fire near Cleveland, Ohio kills 174 people.
 1913 - The United States Department of Labor is created.
 1917 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman in the House of Representatives.
 1918 – The first case of the Spanish flu pandemic occurs.
 1918 - The ship USS Cyclops leaves Barbados, never to be seen again. It is one of several disappearances in the so-called Bermuda Triangle.
 1929 – Herbert Hoover becomes President of the United States. At the same time, Charles Curtis becomes the first Vice President of the United States of Native American ancestry.
 1933 – Chancellor of Austria Engelbert Dolfuss begins authoritarian rule by decree.
 1933 – Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the last President of the United States to be inaugurated on March 4.
 1933 – Frances Perkins becomes the first woman in the United States Cabinet, as she becomes Secretary for Labor.
1936 - The Hindenburg airship makes its first test-flight over Lake Constance.
 1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands.
 1943 – World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea ends.
 1943 - British passenger steamer City of Pretoria is sunk by a German U-boat in the North Atlantic Ocean. No-one on board survives.
 1945 – Lapland War: Finland declares war on Germany.
 1960 – The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havanna, Cuba.
 1962 - A Caledonia Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after take-off in Cameroon, killing 111 people.
 1966 – A Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
 1966 - John Lennon of The Beatles says that the band is probably "Bigger than Jesus".
 1970 - French submarine Erydice explodes underwater, killing the entire 57-man crew.
 1974 - People magazine is first published in the United States, under the name "People Weekly".
1976 - Northern Ireland is directly ruled from London from this date.
 1977 – An earthquake strikes southeastern Europe. Bucharest, Romania, is among the places that suffer damage, as around 1,500 people are killed.
 1980 – Robert Mugabe is elected Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
 1983 - Bertha Wilson becomes the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
 1985 – The US Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS.
 1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 space probe starts to return images of Halley's Comet, including its nucleus.
 1987 - President Ronald Reagan apologizes to the American people on a live televised address about the Iran-Contra affair.
 1991 - For the first time since Iraq's invasion, Prime Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah returns to his country.
 1996 - A train that has crashed off the tracks in Weyauwega, Wisconsin. causes an emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
 2000 – Play Station 2 is released for the first time, in Japan.
From 2001 
 2001 – A car bomb explodes outside the BBC television centre, seriously injuring one person.
 2001 – A Bridge collapse in northern Portugal kills up to 70 people.
 2001 - A majority of voters in Switzerland rejects membership of the European Union.
 2007 – In Estonia, approximately 30,000 voters make uses of electronic voting, which had previously never been used in an election, for the Estonian Parliamentary Election.
 2009 – The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for a sitting head of state for the first time, for Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, President of Sudan, on war crimes charges in relation to the crisis in Darfur.
 2012 – More than 100 people are killed in a munitions dump fire in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.
 2012 – Vladimir Putin declares victory in the Russian Presidential Election, allowing him to become President of Russia for a second time.
 2014 - Prime Minister of Estonia Andrus Ansip resigns from office after nine years, being succeeded by Taavi Roivas.
2015 - A mine explosion in Rebel-controlled Eastern Ukraine kills 34 miners.
 2018 - The German Social Democrats vote in favour of a new governing coalition under Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU, ending a period of political uncertainty after the Bundestag election over five months earlier.
 2018 - Italian general election, 2018: Italy holds its general election, with no party gaining an overall majority and populist and right-wing parties gaining seats.
 2018 - Russian former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury, England.
Up to 1800 
 895 - Liu Zhiyuan, Chinese Emperor (d. 948)
 1188 – Blanche of Castile, Queen of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252)
 1394 – Henry the Navigator (d. 1460)
 1484 - George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, follower of Martin Luther (d. 1543)
 1492 - Francesco de Loyolle, Italian composer (d. 1540)
 1525 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer of Renaissance music (d. 1594)
 1610 – William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
 1645 - Johann Ambrosius Bach, German musician (d. 1695)
 1665 - Philip Christoph von Konigsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694)
 1678 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
 1702 - Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee (d. 1724)
 1706 - Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect (d. 1759)
 1715 - James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (d. 1763)
 1745 - Kazimierz Pulaski, Polish-American general (d. 1779)
 1756 – Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823)
 1770 - Joseph Jacotot, French teacher and educational philosopher (d. 1840)
1782 - Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist (d. 1830)
 1792 - Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
 1793 – Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
1801  1900 
 1808 - Frederik Stang, Norwegian politician (d. 1884)
 1811 - John Lawrence, Irish nobleman and British Viceroy of India (d. 1879)
 1817 - Edwards Pierrepoint, 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
 1820 - Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)
 1826 - Elme Marie Caro, French philosopher (d. 1887)
 1838 - Paul Lacome, French composer (d. 1920)
 1847 – Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
 1851 - Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek writer (d. 1911)
 1852 – Kristjan Jonsson, 3rd Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1926)
 1856 - Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)
 1862 - Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
 1870 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944)
 1871 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
 1873 – John H. Trumbull, 70th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1961)
 1875 – Mihaly Karolyi, Prime Minister and President of Hungary (d. 1955)
 1875 - Enrique Larreta, Argentine writer, academic, writer and art collector (d. 1961)
1878 – P. D. Ouspensky, Russian esoterist and writer (d. 1947)
 1879 – Bernhard Kellermann, German writer and poet (d. 1951)
 1879 – Josip Murn, Slovenian poet (d. 1901)
 1881 - Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1924)
 1882 - Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat and politician (d. 1941)
 1883 - Maude Fealy, American actress (d. 1971)
 1888 – Knute Rockne, Norwegian-born American football coach (d. 1931)
 1889 – Oren E. Long, Territorial Governor of Hawaii and US Senator (d. 1965)
 1889 - Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1957)
 1891 - Lois W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1988)
 1899 - Liana Del Balzo, Argentine-Italian actress (d. 1982)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy-French poet (d. 1937)
 1904 – Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1973)
 1908 - Thomas Shaw, American blues musician (d. 1977)
 1910 - Tancredo Neves, Brazilian politician (d. 1985)
 1913 - John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
 1914 – Gino Colaussi, Italian footballer (d. 1991)
 1914 – Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
 1915 - Carlos Surinach, Catalan composer and conductor (d. 1997)
 1915 - Laszlo Csatary, Hungarian war criminal (d. 2013)
 1916 - Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer and poet (d. 2000)
 1918 - Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (d. 2012)
 1921 - Olev Olesk, Estonian politician
 1921 - Kaljo Raid, Estonian cellist, composer and clergyman (d. 2005)
 1922 - Iring Fetscher, German political scientist (d. 2014)
 1922 - Xenia Stad-de Jong, Dutch athlete (d. 2012)
 1923 – Patrick Moore, British astronomer, writer and television presenter (d. 2012)
 1923 - Piero D'Inzeo, Italian equestrian show jumper (d. 2014)
1925 - Inezita Barroso, Brazilian folk singer (d. 2015)
 1926 - Pascual Pérez, Argentine boxer (d. 1977)
 1926 - Fran Warren, American singer and actress (d. 2013)
 1927 - Phil Batt, former Governor of Idaho
 1928 - Samuel Adler, German-American composer
 1928 – Alan Sillitoe, British writer (d. 2010)
 1929 - Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor and violinist
 1930 - John Toohey, Australian judge (d. 2015)
 1931 - William H. Keeler, American cardinal (d. 2017)
 1932 - Brunella Bovo, Italian actress (d. 2017)
 1932 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer (d. 2008)
 1932 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
 1932 – Frank Wells, American businessman, president of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1994)
 1934 - Mario Davidovsky, Argentine-American composer
 1934 - Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident (d. 2014)
 1935 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (d. 2010)
 1935 - Prabha Rau, Indian politician (d. 2010)
 1936 – Jim Clark, Scottish racing driver (d. 1968)
 1936 – Aribert Reimann, German composer
1938 – Paula Prentiss, American actress
 1938 - Alpha Condé, Guinean politician
 1938 - Angus MacLise, American drummer (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1979)
 1943 – Lucio Dalla, Italian singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2012)
 1944 - Bobby Womack, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
 1945 – Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager
 1945 - Dieter Meier, Swiss musician, singer and artist
 1945 - Femi Benussi, Italian actress
 1946 - Michael Ashcroft, British politician
 1947 - Jan Garbarek, Norwegian jazz saxophonist
 1947 - Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic-American actor (d. 2015)
 1948 – Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
 1948 - Chris Squire, English bass guitarist (Yes) (d. 2015)
 1948 - Brian Cummings, American voice actor
 1948 – James Elroy, American writer
 1949 – Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian politician (d. 2011)
 1950 – Rick Perry, American politician, former Governor of Texas
1951  1975 
 1951 – Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and manager
 1951 - Zoran Zizic, Montenegrin politician (d. 2013)
 1952 – Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
 1952 – Svend Robinson, Canadian politician
 1953 – Pawel Janas, Polish football manager
 1953 - Rose Laurens, French singer-songwriter
 1954 – François Fillon, former Prime Minister of France
 1954 - Boris Moiseev, Russian singer, choreographer, dancer, writer and actor
 1954 - Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress
 1954 - Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer and dissident
 1954 – Willie Thorne, English snooker player
 1955 - Joey Jones, Welsh footballer
 1955 - Dominique Pinon, French actor
 1958 - Massimo Mascioletti, Italian rugby player and coach
 1958 - Patricia Heaton, American actress
 1960 – John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer
 1961 - Ray Mancini, American boxer
 1962 – Lolo Ferrari, French actress (d. 2000)
 1963 - Jason Newsted, American musician (Metallica)
 1963 - Daniel Roebuck, American actor
1964 - Dave Colclough, Welsh computer programmer and poker player
 1965 – Khaled Hosseini, Afghan writer and physician
 1965 - Yury Loncharov, Russian cosmonaut
 1966 - Kevin Johnson, American basketball player and politician
 1967 - Sam Taylor-Wood, English conceptual artist
 1967 – Kubilay Türkyilmaz, Turkish-Swiss footballer
 1967 – Tim Vine, British actor and comedian
 1968 – Patsy Kensit, British actress
 1968 - Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politician
 1968 - Christina McKelvie, Scottish politician
 1969 - Chaz Bono, American actor and LGBT activist
 1969 – Pierluigi Casiraghi, Italian footballer and manager
 1971 - Fergal Lawler, Irish musician (The Cranberries)
 1971 - Claire Baker, Scottish politician
 1972 - Jos Verstappen, Dutch racing driver
 1972 – Alison Wheeler, British singer (The Beautiful South)
 1972 – Ivy Queen, Puerto Rican musician
 1973 - Massimo Brambilla, Italian footballer
 1973 – Len Wiseman, American movie director and screenwriter
 1973 - Penny Mordaunt, English politician
1974 – Ariel Ortega, Argentine footballer
 1974 - Joaquim Alberto Silva, Angolan footballer (d. 2019)
 1975 – Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player
From 1976 
 1976 - Gary Shortland, English figure skater
 1977 - Christian Jessen, English doctor and television host
 1977 - Tonga Lea'aetoa, Tongan-New Zealand rugby player
 1977 - Jason Marsalis, American drummer
 1978 - Jean-Marc Pelletier, American ice hockey player
 1979 - Vyacheslav Malafeev, Russian footballer
 1979 – Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer
 1980 – Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
 1980 – Phil McGuire, Scottish footballer
 1981 - Laura Michelle Kelly, English actress and singer
 1982 - Elia Rigotto, Italian cyclist
 1982 - Ludmila Ezhova, Russian gymnast
 1982 – Landon Donovan, American soccer player
 1983 - Adam Deacon, English actor, rapper and director
 1984 – Tamir Cohen, Israeli footballer
 1984 - Phillip Inzerillo, American trombone player
 1985 - Park Min-young, South Korean actress
 1985 - Mathieu Montcourt, French tennis player (d. 2009)
 1986 - Manu Vatuvei, New Zealand rugby player
 1986 – Tom De Mul, Belgian footballer
 1988 - Cody Longo, American actor and singer
1989 - Erin Heatherton, American model
 1990 – Andrea Bowen, American actress
 1992 – Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Prince Albert II, Prince of Monaco
 1992 - Erik Lamela, Argentine footballer
 1992 - Jared Sullinger, American basketball player
 1993 - Jenna Boyd, American actress
 1993 - Bobbi Kristina Brown, American media personality and singer (b. 2015)
 1995 - Bill Milner, English actor
Up to 1900 
 251 – Pope Lucius I
 561 - Pope Pelagius I
 1172 – King Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147)
 1193 – Saladin, Turkish sultan (b. 1137)
 1238 – Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland (b. 1210)
 1238 - Yuri II of Vladimir (b. 1189)
 1303 - Daniel of Moscow, Russian prince and Grand Duke of Muscovy (b. 1261)
 1484 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
 1496 – Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)
 1615 - Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
 1619 - Anne of Denmark, Queen of James VI of Scotland/James I of England (b. 1574)
 1710 - Louis, Prince of Condé (b. 1668) 
 1762 – Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)
 1793 - Louis de Bourbon, French admiral (b. 1725)
 1795 - John Collins, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1717)
 1805 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
 1807 - Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
 1832 – Jean-François Champollion, French scholar and Egyptologist (b. 1790)
 1852 – Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
1858 – Matthew C. Perry, American naval officer (b. 1794)
 1883 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1812)
 1888 – Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher and writer (b. 1799)
1901  2000 
 1903 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1854)
 1906 - John Schofield, American general and politician (b. 1831)
 1915 - William Willett, founder of British Summer Time (b. 1856)
 1925 - John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (b. 1860)
 1941 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist (b. 1858)
 1944 – Rene Lefebvre, martyr of the French Resistance (b. 1879)
 1944 - Louis Capone, Italian-American gangster (b. 1896)
 1945 - Mark Sandrich, American movie director, writer and producer (b. 1900)
 1946 – Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886)
 1948 – Antonin Artaud, French actor and director (b. 1896)
 1950 - Adam Rainer, Austrian dwarf and giant (b. 1899)
 1952 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English doctor, won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
 1960 - Herbert O'Conor, Governor of Maryland (b. 1896)
 1973 - Samuel Tolansky, British scientist (b. 1907)
 1976 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
1977 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician (b. 1897)
 1978 - William Bolin, 15th Governor of Arizona (b. 1909)
 1980 - Luis Piazzini, Argentine chess player (b. 1905)
 1981 - Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer, German admiral (b. 1900)
 1986 – Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
 1993 - Richard Sale, American screenwriter and director (b. 1911)
 1994 – John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1950)
 1999 - Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician (b. 1917)
From 2001 
 2001 – Glenn Hughes, American singer (b. 1950)
 2001 - Jim Rhodes, 61st Governor of Ohio (b. 1909)
 2001 - Harold Stassen, 25th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1907)
 2004 - John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist (b. 1955)
 2006 - Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
 2008 - George Walter, former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1928)
 2008 – Gary Gygax, American games designer who made Dungeons & Dragons (b. 1938).
 2010 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician (b. 1945)
 2011 – Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist (b. 1925)
 2011 – Johnny Preston, American singer (b. 1939)
 2011 – Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924)
 2012 – Paul McBride, Scottish lawyer and politician (b. 1965)
 2013 - Seki Matsunaga, Japanese footballer (b. 1928)
 2013 - Fran Warren, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
 2014 - Wu Tianming, Chinese movie director (b. 1939)
 2014 - Mark Freidkin, Russian writer (b. 1953)
 2015 - Ninan Koshy, Indian thinker, theologian and social analyst (b. 1934)
2016 - Bud Collins, American sports journalist (b. 1929)
 2016 - Pat Conroy, American author (b. 1945)
 2016 - P. A. Sangma, Indian politician (b. 1947)
 2016 - Abbas Vaez-Tabasi, Iranian cleric (b. 1935)
 2016 - Morgan F. Murphy, American politician (b. 1932)
 2017 - Edi Fitzroy, Jamaican singer-songwriter (b. 1955)
 2017 - Helen M. Marshall, American politician (b. 1929)
 2017 - Clayton Keith Yeutter, American politician (b. 1930)
 2018 - Davide Astori, Italian footballer (b. 1987)
 2018 - Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet, British engineering businessman (b. 1936)
 2018 - Farhang Mehr, Iranian-American scholar and writer (b. 1923)
 2018 - H. Wayne Norman, Jr., American politician (b. 1955)
 2018 - James Luna, American performance artist (b. 1950)
 2019 - King Kong Bundy, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
 2019 - Eric Caldow, Scottish footballer (b. 1934)
 2019 - Juan Corona, Mexican-American serial killer (b. 1934)
 2019 - Keith Flint, English singer (The Prodigy) (b. 1969)
2019 - Ted Lindsay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
 2019 - Klaus Kinkel, German politician (b. 1936)
 2019 - Luke Perry, American actor (b. 1966)
 2019 - Johnny Romano, American baseball player (b. 1934)
 2019 - Jean Starobinski, Swiss literary critic (b. 1920)
 2022 - Rod Marsh, Australian cricketer (b. 1947)
 2022 - Shane Warne, Australian cricketer (b. 1969)
Observances 
 Saint Casimir's Day (Poland and Lithuania)

Historical Significance 
 Inauguration Day of Presidents of the United States from 1793 to 1933. From 1937, the inaugurations take place on January 20.

March 04
In the United States, "Merchant Marine" has a different meaning. The United States Merchant Marine (USMM) is a part of the military which is controlled by the government in both peace and war. When the United States is at war, the USMM is used to carry military supplies. In World War II, nearly one out of every twenty-six American merchant mariners was killed, a higher portion of men than in the Army, Navy, or even the Marines.

References

Other websites 
 The Marine Society 
 International Merchant Marine Community  
 United States Merchant Marine Academy
 Canadian Merchant Navy: Second World War 
Official database of deceased Canadian Merchant Mariners 
 SwissWorld: The Swiss Merchant Navy
Photos of the Merchant Marine Memorials in London

Naval transport
FreeBSD is an operating system for many different kinds of computers. This means that if the user has a computer around the house and want to run FreeBSD on it, the user probably can. Computers that run Microsoft Windows will also run FreeBSD. It is based on BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley.

Open source 
FreeBSD is open source. This means that anyone can download the source code and change, or learn from it. The people who work on FreeBSD do not usually get paid. They keep working on it because they enjoy it or want to become more experienced programmers.
Most open source software that runs on Linux will run natively on FreeBSD without the need for any compatibility layer.

Operating systems based on FreeBSD 
There are a lot of operating systems, which are based on FreeBSD.

Operating systems with a GUI 
Several projects created an operating system, based on FreeBSD, which has a GUI by default.
Examples for that kind of operating systems are:
 DesktopBSD
 GhostBSD
 PC-BSD

Related pages
 DragonFly BSD
 OpenBSD
 NetBSD

Further reading

Other websites 

 FreeBSD
 FreeBSD software
 Other interesting information about FreeBSD including One Floppy FreeBSD MP3 and CD Player 
 mdoc.su — short manual page URLs, a URL shortener written in nginx
 BXR.SU — FreeBSD source code search
 FreeBSD 9.1 - Announcement of FreeBSD 9.1

BSD
Free software
Operating systems
Garry Marshall (November 13, 1934 – July 19, 2016) was an American writer, producer, director and actor.

Career
Marshall wrote for comedians Joey Bishop and Phil Foster. Soon he moved on to writing for television series, including The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Tonight Show. In 1970, he adapted the Neil Simon play and 1968 movie The Odd Couple into a popular television series starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman.

It was very successful. Marshall worked on Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley (which co-starred his sister Penny), and Mork and Mindy. Both of there were spin-offs from Happy Days and just as successful and well-known. He directed and acted in several movies including Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride.

Marshall also ran and works out of a local community theatre house in Los Angeles, The Falcon Theatre.

Death
On the morning of July 19, 2016, Marshall, aged 81, died at a hospital in Burbank, California, due to complications of pneumonia after suffering a stroke.

Filmography
Filmography

Animation
 BoJack Horseman - Abe
 Father of the Pride - Bernie
 Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero - Soda Jerk
 Pinky and the Brain - Mr. Itch (The Devil)
 Rugrats - Fred
 The Looney Tunes Show - Dr. Weisberg
 The Simpsons - Larry Kidkill, Sheldon Leavitt

Live action
 Happy Days - Drum Player, Prom Drummer
 Laverne & Shirley - Drummer
 The Naked Truth - Garry Marshall
 The Odd Couple - Walter Madison

Films
 A League of Their Own - Walter Harvey
 Can't Be Heaven - Pawn Shop Broker
 Chicken Little - Buck Cluck
 Finding Bliss - Garry Marshall
 Hocus Pocus - Devil (Husband)
 Orange County - Arthur Gantner
 Pretty Woman - Bum Tour Guide
 Race to Witch Mountain - Dr. Donald Harlan
 Runaway Bride - First Baseman in Softball
 Scooby-Doo and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery - Manny Goldman
 The Strangest Rugrats Adventure - Garry Marshall

References

Other websites
Other websites 

1934 births
2016 deaths
Actors from New York City
American movie actors
American television actors
American television directors
American television producers
American television writers
American voice actors
Deaths from pneumonia
Deaths from stroke
Infectious disease deaths in Los Angeles County, California
Movie directors from New York City
Movie producers from New York City
Screenwriters from New York City
Writers from the Bronx
Events 
 January 1 – Alcatraz becomes a federal prison.
 January 1 – Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring."
 January 7 – First Flash Gordon comic strip is published.
 January 10 – Execution of Marinus van der Lubbe
 January 24 – Albert Einstein visits the White House
 January 26 – The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, New York City.
 February 9 – Gaston Boumerque forms a new government in France
 February 12 – The Export-Import Bank is incorporated.
 February 12 to February 16 – Austrian Civil War
 February 23 – Léopold III becomes King of Belgium.
 March 1 – Manchuria becomes Manchukuo
 March 3 – John Dillinger escapes from jail in Crown Point, Indiana, using a wooden pistol
 March 8 – Prince Sigvard of Sweden loses his titles because of his marriage
 March 20 – All the police forces in Germany come under command of Heinrich Himmler
 April 1 – Clyde Barrow and Henry Methvin kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
April 6 – Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
 April 19 – Surgeon R.K. Wilson allegedly takes a photograph of the Loch Ness Monster.
 April 22 – John Dillinger and two others shoot their way out of the FBI ambush in northern Wisconsin
 May 23 - American outlaws Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed and killed by law officers on a rural road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana
Births 
 January 13 - Nick Clooney, American journalist (father of George Clooney)
 January 20 – Tom Baker
 February 10 – Barrie Ingham, English actor
 May 2 - László-Arsenije Mert
 May 28 – Dionne Quintuplets
 July 1 – Jamie Farr
 September 21 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian folk musician (d. 2016)
 October 19 - William Frates, American war veteran and radiologist
 November 9 – Carl Sagan (d. 1996)
 November 13 – Garry Marshall (d. 2016)
Deaths 
 January 10 – Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag (executed) (born 1909)
 January 29 – Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1868)
 February 17 – Albert I of Belgium (born 1875)
 February 23 – Edward Elgar, English composer (born 1857)
 March 29 – Otto Hermann Kahn, German-born millionaire philanthropist (born 1867)
 May 23 – Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (shot) (born 1909)
 May 23 – Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (shot) (born 1910)
 May 25 – Gustav Holst, English composer (born 1874)
 May 30 – Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (born 1848)
 June 10 – Frederick Delius, English composer (born 1862)
 June 11 – Lev Vygotsky, Russian developmental psychologist (born 1896)
 July 4 – Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Polish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and physics (born 1867)
 July 8 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (born 1848)
 July 22 – John Dillinger, American criminal (born 1903)
July 25 – François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (born 1874)
 July 25 – Englebert Dolfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (born 1892)
 July 25 – Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (born 1889)
 July 26 – Winsor McCay, American comic creator and animator (born 1871)
 July 28 – Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (born 1868)
 August 2 – Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician (born 1847)
 September 2 – Alcide Nunez, American musician (born 1884)
 October 9 – King Alexander of Yugoslavia (born 1888)
 November 2 – Edmond James de Rothschild, French philanthropist (born 1845)
 November 16 – Alice Liddell, inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (born 1852)
 November 27 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (born 1908)
 December 1 – Sergei Kirov, Soviet leader (born 1886)
Nobel Prizes 
 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by George Whipple, American doctor, George Minot and William Parry for their discoveries about liver therapy in cases of anaemia.

Hit songs
 "The Continental" – by Herb Magidson and Con Conrad, from the movie Gay Divorce, won the Academy Award for best song.
 "Down Yonder" – by L.Wolfe Gilbert, and recorded by a hillbilly group, Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers, sold more than a million copies.
Up to 1900 
 365 - The Alamanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and to defend the Gallic tribe.
 996 – First documented mention of Austria.
 1141 - Empress Matilda's reign as "Lady of the English" ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title King of England.
 1197 - Philip II is crowned King of France.
 1503 - Pope Julius II is elected.
 1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited for the first time.
 1520 - Ferdinand Magellan and his crew enter the now-named Magellan Strait, linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, south of mainland South America. It is navigated by November 28.
 1555 - French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony near present-day Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. It lasts only 12 years.
 1570 - The All Saints' Day flood devastates the Dutch coast.
 1604 - William Shakespeare's play Othello is performed for the first time at Whitehall Palace, London.
1611 - William Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time at Whitehall Palace, London.
 1683 - The British crown colony of New York is sub-divided into 12 counties.
 1700 - King Charles II of Spain dies at the age of almost 39, sparking the War of the Spanish Succession.
 1755 – A major Earthquake and subsequent Tsunamis hit the city of Lisbon, Portugal, as thousands are killed, and the effects of the earthquake are felt around Europe, Morocco and Algeria.
 1765 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
 1800 - John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion, which is now known as the White House.
 1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
 1814 - The Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the political map of Europe after the defeat the defeat of France, following the Napoleonic Wars.