Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1901  2000 
 1910 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, Swiss-American scientist and engineer (b. 1835)
 1918 – Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838)
 1921 - Harry Barron, 16th Governor of Western Australia (b. 1847)
 1923 – James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
 1926 – Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
 1931 – Arnold Bennett, British novelist (b. 1867)
 1934 - Francis William Reitz, South African politician, 5th President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
 1940 – Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
 1947 - Edith Craig, English actress, director, producer and fashion designer (b. 1869)
 1952 – Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
 1954 - Walter M. Pierce, American politician, 17th Governor of Oregon (b. 1861)
 1958 - Leon C. Phillips, American politician, 11th Governor of Oklahoma (b. 1890)
 1967 – Jaroslav Heyrovsky, Czech chemist (b. 1890)
 1968 – Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934)
 1968 - Vladimir Seryogin, Russian pilot (b. 1922)
1969 - Antonio Pigliaru, Italian jurist and philosopher (b. 1922)
 1971 - Albin Grau, German architect, occultist, production designer, artist and producer (b. 1884)
 1972 – M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898)
 1974 - Eduardo Santos, 15th President of Colombia (b. 1888)
 1975 - Arthur Bliss, English conductor and composer (b. 1891)
 1981 - Mao Dun, Chinese journalist, writer and critic (b. 1895)
 1982 - Betty Schade, German-American actress (b. 1895)
 1988 – Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (b. 1934)
 1993 – Kamal Hassan Ali, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1921)
 1993 - Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
 1997 - Layne Dwinell, American politician, 69th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1906)
 1998 – Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian technician and automobile designer (b. 1909)
 1999 – Michael Aris, British academic and husband of Aung San Suu Kyi (b. 1946)
 1999 - Ernestina de Champourcin, Spanish poet (b. 1905)
 2000 – Ian Dury, British musician (b. 1942)
From 2001 
 2002 – Milton Berle, American actor, entertainer and comedian (b. 1908)
 2002 – Dudley Moore, British actor (b. 1935)
 2002 – Billy Wilder, Austrian-born director (b. 1906)
 2006 – Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
 2007 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist (b. 1929)
 2010 – Dick Giordano, American comic artist (b. 1932)
 2010 – Peter Herbolzheimer, German musician (b. 1935)
 2010 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (b. 1921)
 2010 – Stanley Vann, British church musician (b. 1910)
 2011 – Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925)
 2011 – Dorothea Puente, American serial killer (b. 1929)
 2012 - Adrienne Rich, American poet and feminist (b. 1929)
 2013 - Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1923)
 2014 - James R. Schlesinger, American politician (b. 1929)
 2014 - Jeffery Dench, English actor (b. 1928)
 2014 - Per Lillo-Stenberg, Norwegian actor (b. 1928)
 2014 - Richard Nelson Frye, American orientalist and historian (b. 1920)
2014 - Derek Martinus, British television director (b. 1931)
 2015 - Olga Syahputra, Indonesian comedian (b. 1983)
 2015 - Rod Hundley, American basketball player (b. 1934)
 2015 - T. Sailo, Indian politician (b. 1922)
 2015 - Amaro Silva, Canadian politician (b. 1957)
 2015 - Daundre Barnaby, Jamaican-born Canadian runner (b. 1990)
 2015 - B.J. Crosby, American singer and actress (b. 1952)
 2015 - Rik Battaglia, Italian actor (b. 1927)
 2015 - Yusuf Mohamed Ismail, Somali diplomat (b. 1960)
 2016 - Mother Angelica, American nun (b. 1923)
 2016 - Alain Decaux, French historian and writer (b. 1925)
 2016 - Antoine Demoitié, Belgian cyclist (b. 1990)
 2016 - Anatoly Savin, Russian weapons designer (b. 1920)
 2016 - Vince Boryla, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)
 2017 - Arthur Blythe, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1940)
 2017 - Arun Sarma, Indian playwright (b. 1931)
 2017 - David Storey, English novelist (b. 1933)
 2017 - Chelsea Brown, American-Australian actress (b. 1942)
2017 - Armando Nieto, Peruvian Jesuit priest and historian (b. 1931)
 2017 - Elizabeth Wagele, American writer and musician (b. 1939)
 2018 - Stéphane Audran, French actress (b. 1932)
 2018 - Victor Kalashnikov, Russian gundesigner (b. 1942)
 2018 - Eric McClintock, American businessman (b. 1918)
Observances 
 World Theatre Day
 Armed Forces Day (Burma)
 Saint Rupert of Salzburg (Roman Catholicism)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 421 - Venice is said to have been founded.
 708 – Constantine is made Pope.
 717 - Theodosius III resigns from the throne of the Byzantine Empire in order to enter the clergy.
 1199 - King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
 1306 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
 1409 – The Council of Pisa opens.
 1555 - The city of Valencia, Negros Oriental, Venezuela is founded.
 1634 – The first settlers arrive in Maryland (led by Lord Baltimore).
 1655 – Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
 1655 – Protestants take over Maryland at the Battle of the Severn.
 1802 – The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
 1807 – The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing slavery in the United Kingdom.
 1811 - Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled by the University of Oxford for producing the pamphlet, The Necessity of Atheism.
1821 – Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.
 1865 – The "Claywater Meteorite" explodes just before reaching ground level in Vernon County, Wisconsin. Fragments having a combined mass of 1.5 kg are recovered.
 1865 – American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
 1894 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C..
1901  2000 
 1901 – At the five-day "Week of Nice" race in Nice, France, Mercedes wins its first racing victory.
 1911 – In New York City the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire kills 146 garment workers.
 1913 – Floods kill 300 people in Dayton, Ohio.
 1918 – The Belarusian National Republic was established.
 1924 – Greece proclaims itself a republic.
 1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
 1939 – Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli becomes Pope Pius XII.
 1941 – Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers.
 1947 – A explosion in a coalmine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
 1949 – The extensive deportation campaign was conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Soviet authorities deported more than 92,000 people from Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
 1955 – United States Customs seizes Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" as obscene.
1957 – The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg). It later becomes the European Union.
 1960 – In London, United Kingdom, Jacqueline Boyer wins the fifth Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Tom Pillibi".
 1961 – Sputnik 10 is launched into space.
 1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. complete successfully their 4-day 50 mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.
 1969 – During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight of Pakistan Army against East Pakistani civilians.
 1972 – In Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Vicky Leandros wins the seventeenth Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg singing "Après toi" (After you).
 1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
 1980 – The UK announces that it will participate in the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
 1988 - The Candle Demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
 1990 – In New York City, a fire at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87.
 1992 – Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
 1992 - The Pakistan national cricket team wins the Cricket World Cup at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia.
 1995 – Ward Cunningham opens the first wiki, the Portland Pattern Repository.
 1996 – An 81-day long standoff between the antigovernment group Montana Freemen and law enforcement in Jordan, Montana begins.
 1996 – The EU's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (BSE).
From 2001 
 2001 – Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland implement the Schengen Agreement.
 2002 – An earthquake in Afghanistan kills 2,000 people.
 2004 – Air Holland files for bankruptcy in response to unproven allegations of marijuana abuse by the their pilots.
 2006 – Several anti-Government demonstrators are arrested in Belarus.
 2012 – Hong Kong elects CY Leung as Chief Executive.
 2014 - The first cases of the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa are officially reported in Guinea.
 2015 - British Top Gear television presenter Jeremy Clarkson is fired by the BBC over a physical attack on a producer.
 2015 - It is announced that Zayn Malik is leaving the boy band One Direction.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1157 - Alfonso II of Aragon (d. 1196)
 1252 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia, King of Sicily and Jerusalem (d. 1268)
 1259 – Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1332)
 1297 – Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1341)
 1345 – Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1369)
 1347 – Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (d. 1380)
 1479 – Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1533)
 1539 - Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1612)
 1541 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587)
 1545 - John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (d. 1622)
 1593 - Jean de Brébeuf, French-Canadian missionary and saint (d. 1649)
 1661 – Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725)
 1714 - Matthew Griswold, American politician, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1799)
 1767 – Joachim Murat, King of Naples (d. 1815)
 1782 – Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples (d. 1839)
 1786 - Giovanni Battista Amici, Italian astronomer and botanist (d. 1863)
1808 - José de Espronceda, Spanish writer and poet (d. 1842)
 1819 - Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb, Faroese Lutheran minister and linguist (d. 1909)
 1821 - Robert Bentley, English botanist (d. 1893)
 1840 – Myles Keogh, American soldier of fortune (d. 1876)
 1860 - Friedrich Naumann, German theologian and politician (d. 1919)
 1865 – Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian-German painter (d. 1941)
 1867 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (d. 1957)
 1867 - Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (d. 1941)
 1868 - Bill Lockwood, English cricketer (d. 1932)
 1871 - Louis Perée, French fencer (d. 1924)
 1872 - Horatio Nelson Jackson, American racing driver and physician (d. 1955)
 1873 – Rudolf Rocker, German anarchist (d. 1958)
 1874 - Emperor Sunjong of Korea (d. 1926)
 1876 - Irving Baxter, American jumper and pole vaulter (d. 1957)
 1881 – Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (d. 1945)
 1884 – Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950)
 1886 – Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople (d. 1972)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Ed Begley, American actor (d. 1970)
 1905 - Pote Sarasin, Thai politician (d. 2000)
 1908 – David Lean, British movie director (d. 1991)
 1910 – Magda Olivero, Italian operatic soprano (d. 2014)
 1911 – Jack Ruby, assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
 1914 – Norman Borlaug, American agronomist (d. 2009)
 1920 – Patrick Troughton, English actor (d. 1987)
 1920 – Paul Scott, British novelist (d. 1987)
 1921 – Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Queen of Yugoslavia (d. 1993)
 1921 – Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
 1921 - Nancy Kelly, American actress (d. 1995)
 1922 - Eileen Ford, American model agency executive (d. 2014)
 1924 - Machiko Kyo, Japanese actress
 1926 – Laszlo Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
 1926 - Riz Ortolani, Italian composer (d. 2014)
 1926 - Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (d. 1999)
 1926 - Gene Shalit, American journalist and critic
 1927 - P. Shanmugam, Indian politician, 13th Chief Minister of Puducherry
 1928 – Roald Aas, Norwegian speed skater (d. 2012)
1928 – Jim Lovell, American astronaut
 1930 - Carlo Mauri, Italian mountaineer (d. 1982)
 1931 – Paul Motian, American jazz drummer and composer (d. 2011)
 1932 - Roger Wilkins, American civil rights activist and journalist (d. 2017)
 1934 – Gloria Steinem, American feminist and publisher
 1934 – Karlheinz Schreiber, German-Canadian industrialist, lobbyist and arms dealer
 1937 - Tom Monaghan, American businessman, founded Domino's Pizza
 1938 - Hoyt Axton, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
 1938 - Daniel Buren, French sculptor and painter
 1940 - Mina, Italian singer
 1940 - Anita Bryant, American singer
 1940 - Anker Buch, Danish violinist (d. 2014)
 1942 – Aretha Franklin, American singer (d. 2018)
 1942 – Richard O'Brien, English actor, writer and composer
 1942 – Kim Woodburn, English television personality
 1946 - Daniel Bensaïd, French philosopher (d. 2010)
 1947 – Elton John, English singer and songwriter
1951  1975 
 1951 - Maizie Williams, Montserratian-English performer (Boney M.)
 1952 - Stephen Dorrell, English politician
 1952 - Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician, philosopher and politician, Mayor of Bogota
 1955 - Lee Mazzilli, American baseball player, coach and manager
 1955 - Jim Shannon, Northern Irish politician
 1957 - Christina Boxer, English runner
 1957 - Aleksandr Puchkov, Russian hurdler
 1958 - John Ensign, American politician
 1958 - James McDaniel, American actor and director
 1960 - Steve Norman, English saxophonist, songwriter and producer (Spandau Ballet)
 1960 - Brenda Strong, American actress
 1962 - David Nuttall, English politician
 1962 – Marcia Cross, American actress
 1963 - Karen Bruce, English dancer and choreographer
 1964 - Mike Henry, American voice actor, writer and producer
 1964 - René Meulensteen, Dutch footballer and coach
 1965 - Avery Johnson, American basketball coach
 1965 – Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
 1965 – Frank Ordenewitz, German footballer
1966 - Frank Ferrer, American musician (Guns N' Roses)
 1966 – Jeff Healey, Canadian guitarist (d. 2008)
 1967 – Debi Thomas, American figure skater
 1969 - Cathy Dennis, English singer-songwriter, producer and actress
 1970 - Magnus Larsson, Swedish golfer
 1971 - Sheryl Swoopes, American basketball player
 1972 – Yuichi Yoshimoto, Japanese footballer
 1972 - Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (d. 2007)
 1973 - Michaela Dorfmeister, Austrian skier
 1973 - Anders Fridén, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer
 1974 - Kseniya Rappoport, Russian actress
 1975 – Melanie Blatt, British singer
From 1976 
 1976 – Reema Vakarua, New Zealand-Italian rugby player
 1976 - Cha Tae-hyun, South Korean actor and singer
 1976 - GiGi Leung, Hong Kong actress and singer
 1976 – Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
 1979 – Muriel Hurtis-Houari, French athlete
 1981 - Casey Neistadt, American YouTube personality and filmmaker
 1982 – Danica Patrick, American racecar driver
 1984 – Katharine McPhee, American singer and actress
 1985 - Carmen Rasmussen, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and actress
 1987 – Jason Castro, American singer
 1987 – Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
 1987 – Jacob Bagersted, Danish handball player
 1987 – Victor Obinna, Nigerian footballer
 1988 – Erik Knudsen, Canadian actor
 1988 - Ryan Lewis, American DJ and producer
 1989 – Scott Sinclair, English footballer
 1989 – Alyson Michalka, American actress
 1991 – Seychelle Gabriel, American actress
 1991 - Samia Yusuf Omar, Somali sprinter (d. 2012)
2005 - Zack Raines,Great Canadian

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 752 – Pope-elect Stephen
 1223 – Afonso II of Portugal (b. 1185)
 1345 – Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (b. 1281)
 1558 - Marcos de Niza, French friar and explorer (b. 1495)
 1583 - Juan de Garay, Spanish conquistador (b. 1528)
 1620 – Johannes Nucius, German composer (b. 1556)
 1732 - Lucy Filippini, Italian saint (b. 1672)
 1751 – Frederick I of Sweden (b. 1676)
 1801 – Novalis, German poet (b. 1772)
 1818 - Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (b. 1745)
 1860 - James Braid, Scottish surgeon and physician (b. 1795)
 1862 – John Peisley, first Australian born bushranger, hanged (b. 1835)
 1873 – Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (b. 1810)
1901  2000 
 1914 – Frédéric Mistral, French poet (b. 1830)
 1917 – Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer (b. 1861)
 1918 – Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
 1919 - Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor and artist (b. 1881)
 1931 - Ida B. Wells, American journalist and activist (b. 1862)
 1932 - Harriet Backer, Norwegian painter (b. 1845)
 1945 – Franz Oppenhoff, German jurist and Mayor of Aachen (b. 1902)
 1957 - Max Ophüls, German director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
 1967 - Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b. 1913)
 1969 - Max Eastman, American poet (b. 1883)
 1973 – Edward Steichen, Luxembourg-American photographer (b. 1879)
 1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906)
 1975 – Juan Gaudino, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
 1979 - Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1914)
 1980 – Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
 1980 – Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
 1988 - Robert Joffrey, American dancer, choreographer and director (b. 1931)
1991 - Marcel Lefebvre, French archbishop (b. 1905)
 1992 - Nancy Walker, American actress (b. 1922)
 1994 - Max Petitpierre, Swiss politician (b. 1899)
 1999 – Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball manager (b. 1936)
From 2001 
 2002 – Kenneth Wolstenholme, British football commentator (b. 1920)
 2005 – Paul Henning, American TV and movie producer (b. 1911)
 2006 – Buck Owens, American singer and TV personality (b. 1926)
 2007 – Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (b. 1951)
 2008 – Abby Mann, American movie writer and producer (b. 1927)
 2009 – Yukio Endo, Japanese gymnast (b. 1937)
 2010 – Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist (b. 1916)
 2012 – Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer (b. 1943)
 2014 - Nanda, Indian actress (b. 1939)
 2014 - Ralph Wilson, American businessman (b. 1918)
 2014 - Jerry Roberts, British World War II code breaker (b. 1920)
 2014 - Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi, Iranian historian and writer (b. 1924)
 2014 - Jonathan Schell, American writer, journalist and activist (b. 1943)
 2014 - Sonny Ruberto, American baseball player (b. 1946)
 2015 - George Fischbeck, American weatherman (b. 1922)
 2015 - Ivo Garrani, Italian actor (b. 1924)
 2015 - Dick Bond, American politician (b. 1921)
2015 - Bill Slayback, American baseball player (b. 1948)
 2015 - Ron Suart, English footballer (b. 1920)
 2016 - Abu Ala al-Afri, Iraqi militant (b. 1958)
 2016 - Clodomir Santos de Morais, Brazilian sociologist (b. 1928)
 2016 - Paolo Poli, Italian actor (b. 1929)
 2016 - Imre Pozsgay, Hungarian politician (b. 1933)
 2016 - David Snellgrove, British Tibetologist (b. 1920)
 2017 - Teodor Oizerman, Soviet-Russian philosopher (b. 1914)
 2017 - Cuthbert Sebastian, Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (b. 1921)
Observances 
 Annunciation of Blessed Virgin Mary (Catholicism)
 Lady Day – Old official New Year's Day, before it was changed to January 1
 Mother's Day (Slovenia)
 Independence Day in Greece
 Maryland Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 752 – Stephen II becomes Pope.
 1400 - The Tran Dynasty of Vietnam is deposed after 175 years in power, by Ho Quy Ly, a court official.
 1568 – Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. Again Catherine of Medici and Charles IX of France make substantial concessions to the Huguenots.
 1708 – James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth.
 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his famous speech – "give me liberty or give me death" at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.
 1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael Palace.
 1806 – After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
 1821 - Greek War of Independence: Battle of Kalamata and fall of the city of Kalamata.
1839 – First recorded use of "OK" as an abbreviation for "oll korrect" in the Boston Morning Post.
 1848 – The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
 1848 - Venice declares independence from Austria. This leads to the creation of the Republic of San Marco, under Prime Minister Daniele Manin, which lasts until August 23, 1849.
 1857 – Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway, New York City.
 1862 - American Civil War: First Battle of Kernstown - start of Stonewall Jackson's valley campaign.
 1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
 1879 - War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topater, the first major battle of the war, is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Peru and Bolivia.
 1888 - In England, the Football League first meets.
1889 – Land run: President Benjamin Harrison opens Oklahoma to white settlement starting on April 22.
 1889 – The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London.
1901  2000 
 1901 - President of the Philippines Emilio Aguinaldo is captured by US forces.
 1903 – The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of one of the first successful airplanes after much hard work.
 1905 - Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece.
 1909 – Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
 1918 - World War I: Third day of the German spring offensive - the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is heavily defeated, with many being taken prisoner.
 1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
 1931 – Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt are hanged during the Indian struggle for independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.
 1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
 1935 – Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: Republican forces have their last major victory of the war in the Battle of Guadalajara.
 1939 - The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of the Slovakian air force in the city of Spisska Nova Ves, killing 13 people.
 1940 – The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
 1942 – World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
 1950 - World Meteorological Organization is founded.
 1956 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic Republic in the world.
 1962 – NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, was launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative.
 1963 – In London, United Kingdom, Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann win the eighth Eurovision Song Contest for Denmark singing "Dansevise" (Dancing tune).
1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
 1972 - The United Tasmania Front is founded in Hobart, Tasmania, led by Richard Jones, as the world's first "Green Party".
 1978 – The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
 1982 - Guatemala's government, led by Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efrain Rios Montt.
 1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: US President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
 1989 – Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce cold fusion at the University of Utah.
 1989 – A 1,000-foot diameter Near-Earth asteroid misses the Earth by 400,000 miles.
 1991 - The 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War begins.
 1994 – At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martinez.
1994 - Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia, when the pilot's 15-year-old son accidentally  disengages the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board.
 1996 – Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
 1998 - James Cameron's movie Titanic wins several Academy Awards on one night, making it one of Hollywood's most successful movies ever.
 1999 – Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
From 2001 
 2001 – The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
 2001 – The World Wrestling Federation (WWF) (now World Wrestling Entertainment) purchases rival organization World Championship Wrestling (WCW) for an estimated $5 million.
 2003 – In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
 2003 - In Slovenia, referendums are held on memberships of the EU and NATO, with a majority in favor of both proposals.
 2004 – Andhra Pradesh Federation of Trade Unions holds its first conference in Hyderabad, India.
 2005 – The United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, refuses to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
 2013 - Pope Francis meets former Pope Benedict XVI at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, making it the first such meeting between a Pope and a former Pope.
Up to 1900 
 1429 – Margaret of Anjou, Queen Consort of England (d. 1482)
 1501 - Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1577)
 1599 - Thomas Selle, German composer (d. 1663)
 1638 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1731)
 1643 - Mary of Jesus de Leon y Delgado, Spanish saint (d. 1731)
 1645 – William Kidd, Scottish sailor (d. 1701)
 1723 – Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Persia (d. 1771)
 1732 - Marie Adelaide of France (d. 1800)
 1749 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827)
 1754 – Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (d. 1802)
 1769 - William Smith, English geologist (d. 1839)
 1795 - Bernt Michael Holmboe, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1850)
 1799 - Joshua Baker, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1885)
 1814 - Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Cuban writer, poet and activist (d. 1873)
 1823 – Schuyler Colfax, 17th Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
1826 - Ludwig Minkus, Austrian ballet composer, violin virtuoso and teacher (d. 1917)
 1829 - N. R. Pogson, English astronomer and mathematician (d. 1891)
 1831 – Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866)
 1854 - Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, British politician (d. 1925)
 1858 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 1941)
 1862 - Nathaniel Reed, American outlaw-turned-evangelist (d. 1950)
 1869 - Calouste Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1955)
 1871 - Heinrich Schroth, German actor (d. 1945)
 1872 - Michael Joseph Savage, 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1940)
 1876 - Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, poet and activist (d. 1924)
 1876 - Thakin Kodaw Hmaing, Burmese poet, writer and politician (d. 1964)
 1880 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (d. 1922)
 1881 – Roger Martin du Gard, French writer (d. 1958)
 1881 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist (d. 1965)
 1881 - Lacey Hearn, American athlete and sprinter (d. 1969)
1882 – Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
 1887 – Juan Gris, Spanish Cubist painter (d. 1927)
 1887 – Felix Yusupov, Russian, assassin of Grigori Rasputin (d. 1967)
 1893 - G. D. Naidu, Indian inventor and engineer (d. 1974)
 1895 - Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian and educator (d. 2001)
 1895 - Dane Rudhyar, French-American astrologer, writer and composer (d. 1985)
 1899 – Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d. 1943)
 1900 – Erich Fromm, German-born psychoanalyst (d. 1980)
1901  1950 
 1904 - German Busch, President of Bolivia (d. 1939)
 1905 – Lale Andersen, German singer and actress (d. 1972)
 1905 – Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)
 1906 - José Della Torre, Argentine footballer (d. 1979)
 1907 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss scientist (d. 1992)
 1910 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese movie director (d. 1998)
 1912 – Wernher von Braun, German physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
 1915 – Vasily Zaytsev, Soviet World War II figure (d. 1991)
 1915 - Thomas Pashby, Canadian advocate for safety in ice hockey (d. 2005)
 1918 - Stanley Armour Dunham, Barack Obama's grandfather (d. 1992)
 1918 - Emile Derlin Zinsou, former President of Benin
 1920 - Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and coach
 1921 – Donald Campbell, British car and motorboat racer (d. 1967)
 1922 - Marty Allen, American comedian and actor
 1922 - Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
 1923 - Martha Wright, American actress (d. 2016)
1924 - Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor (d. 1980)
 1925 - David Watkin, British cinematographer (d. 2008)
 1929 – Roger Bannister, British runner
 1931 – Yevgeny Grishin, Russian speed skater (d. 2005)
 1931 – Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player
 1931 - Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Russian skier (d. 2013)
 1932 – Louisiana Red, American blues  musician (d. 2012)
 1934 - Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician and physicist
 1934 - Mark Rydell, American director
 1935 - Barry Cryer, British writer and comedian
 1937 - Ibrahim Abouleish, Egyptian chemist and businessman
 1937 – Craig Breedlove, American land speed record holder
 1937 - Tony Burton, American actor (d. 2016)
 1937 - Robert Gallo, American virologist
 1938 - Dave Pike, American jazz musician
 1940 - Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghanaian writer, playwright and academic
 1942 – Michael Haneke, Austrian movie maker and writer
 1942 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and politician
 1944 – Tony McPhee, British singer and guitarist
1944 - Michael Nyman, British composer
 1945 - Franco Battiato, Italian singer, songwriter and movie maker
 1945 - David Grisman, American bluegrass musician
 1945 - Erik De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist (d. 2015)
 1950 – Valgerdur Sverrisdottir, Icelandic politician
 1950 – Mike Easley, American politician, former Governor of North Carolina
 1950 - Corinne Cléry, French actress
1951  1975 
 1952 - Francesco Clemente, Italian artist
 1952 - Pola Kinski, German actress
 1952 - Kim Stanley Robinson, American writer
 1952 - Rex Tillerson, 69th United States Secretary of State and former Chief Executive of ExxonMobil
 1953 – Chaka Khan, American singer
 1955 - Moses Malone, American basketball player (d. 2015)
 1956 – José Manuel Barroso, Portuguese politician, former President of the European Commission
 1956 - Andrew Mitchell, British politician
 1957 – Lucio Gutiérrez, former President of Ecuador
 1957 - Amanda Plummer, American actress
 1958 - Bengt-Ake Gustafsson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
 1958 - Serena Grandi, Italian actress
 1958 – Eldon Hoke, American singer and drummer (d. 1997)
 1960 – Nicol Stephen, Scottish politician
 1961 - Colin Pitchfork, English murderer
 1962 - Bassel al-Assad, Syrian engineer, colonel and politician (d. 1994)
 1962 – Steve Redgrave, English rower, five-time Olympic champion
 1963 - Michel, Spanish footballer
1964 – Hope Davis, American actress
 1964 - John Pinette, American comedian and actor (d. 2014)
 1965 - Jonathan Dow, British actor
 1965 – Marti Pellow, Scottish singer
 1965 - Richard Grieco, American actor
 1965 - Steve Turner, American rock musician
 1966 - Alfred Nijhuis, Dutch footballer
 1968 – Damon Albarn, British singer (Blur)
 1968 – Fernando Hierro, Spanish footballer
 1968 – Mike Atherton, English cricketer
 1970 - Melissa Errico, American actress and singer
 1970 - Gianni Infantino, 9th President of FIFA
 1971 – Gail Porter, Scottish television presenter
 1971 - Alexander Selivanov, Russian ice hockey player
 1971 - Karen McDougal, American model and actress
 1972 – Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer
 1972 - Jonas Bjorkman, Swedish tennis player
 1973 – Jerzy Dudek, Polish footballer
 1973 – Jason Kidd, American basketball player
From 1976 
 1976 – Chris Hoy, Scottish cyclist, six-time Olympic champion
 1976 – Michelle Monaghan, American actress
 1976 – Keri Russell, American actress
 1978 – Walter Samuel, Argentine footballer
 1978 – Perez Hilton, American blogger
 1978 - Nicholle Tom, American actress
 1980 – Russell Howard, English comedian
 1980 - Ryan Day, Welsh snooker player
 1981 – Shelley Rudman, English skeleton bobsledder
 1982 – José Raul Contreras, Chilean footballer
 1983 – Mo Farah, British track-and-field athlete, four-time Olympic gold medallist
 1983 – Sascha Riether, German footballer
 1983 – Jerome Thomas, English footballer
 1983 - Hakan Balta, Turkish footballer
 1986 – Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle racer
 1985 - Stevie McCrorie, Scottish singer
 1987 - Kangna Ranaut, Indian actress
 1988 - Jason Kenny, English cyclist, Olympic champion
 1989 - Mai Nishida, Japanese model, entertainer and actress
 1990 – Princess Eugenie of York, member of the British royal family
 1991 - Gregg Wylde, Scottish footballer
1992 - Kyrie Irving, Australian-American basketball player
 1992 – Vanessa Morgan, Canadian actress and singer
 1994 - Nick Powell, English footballer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 851 - Zhou Chi, Chinese historian and politician (b. 713)
 1103 – Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058)
 1361 – Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. 1310)
 1369 – King Peter of Castile (b. 1334)
 1555 – Pope Julius III (b. 1489)
 1559 - Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia
 1606 – Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (b. 1547)
 1675 - Antoni van Goordt, Dutch composer and organist (b. 1619)
 1680 - Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (b. 1615)
 1742 – Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French writer (b. 1670)
 1748 - Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist and composer (b. 1684)
 1783 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American lawyer and politician (b. 1723)
 1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia (b. 1754)
 1819 – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist and writer (b. 1761)
 1842 – Stendhal, French writer (b. 1783)
 1881 – Nikolai Rubinstein, Russian composer (b. 1835)
1901  2000 
 1923 – Hovhannes Tumanyan Armenian poet and writer (b. 1869)
 1927 - Paul César Helleu, French painter (b. 1859)
 1931 – Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom writer (b. 1907)
 1931 – Rajguru, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1908)
 1931 – Sukhdev, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1907)
 1935 - Florence Moore, American actress (b. 1886)
 1938 - Thomas Walter Scott, Premier of Saskatchewan (b. 1867)
 1945 – Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Japanese commander (b. 1891)
 1947 - Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870)
 1948 – Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher (b. 1874)
 1953 – Raoul Dufy, French painter (b. 1877)
 1955 – Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (b. 1875)
 1960 - Raoul Paoli, French athlete, boxer and rower (b. 1887)
 1964 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1904)
 1965 - Mae Murray, American actress, dancer, producer and screenwriter (b. 1885)
 1971 - Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer (b. 1898)
 1972 - Cristobal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (b. 1895)
1978 - Haim Ernst Wertheimer, Israeli biochemist (b. 1893)
 1979 – Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
 1981 - Beatrice Tinsley, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1941)
 1985 - Richard Beeching, British physicist and engineer (b. 1913)
 1985 – Zoot Sims, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
 1990 – John Dexter, English stage and movie director (b. 1925)
 1992 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist (b. 1899)
 1994 – Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (b. 1950)
 1994 - Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (b. 1921)
 1994 - Donald Swann, British composer, musician and entertainer (b. 1923)
From 2001 
 2002 – Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (b. 1977)
 2003 – Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-born journalist (b. 1926)
 2004 - Rupert Hamer, Australian politician, 39th Premier of Victoria (b. 1916)
 2006 – Cindy Walker, American singer, songwriter and dancer (b. 1918)
 2008 – Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (b. 1926)
 2009 – Ghukas Chubaryan, Armenian sculptor (b. 1923)
 2011 – Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress (b. 1932)
 2012 – Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, former President of Somalia (b. 1934)
 2012 - Chico Anysio, Brazilian actor, writer, comedian and composer (b. 1931)
 2013 - Boris Berezovsky, Russian businessman and oligarch (b. 1946)
 2013 - Joe Weider, American bodybuilder (b. 1920)
 2013 - Virgil Trucks, American baseball player (b. 1917)
 2014 - Adolfo Suarez, former Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1932)
 2014 - Dave Brockie, Canadian-American musician (b. 1963)
 2014 - Peter Oakley, British internet vlogger (b. 1927)
 2014 - Jürg Neuenschwander, Swiss organist and composer (b. 1947)
2014 - David Henshaw, New Zealand cartoonist (b. 1939) 
 2015 - Lee Kuan Yew, first Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1923)
 2015 - Lil' Chris, English singer and television personality (b. 1990)
 2015 - Herberto Hélder, Portuguese poet and writer (b. 1930)
 2015 - Bobby Lowther, American basketball player (b. 1923)
 2016 - Ken Howard, American actor (b. 1944)
 2016 - Joe Garagiola, Sr., American baseball player (b. 1926)
 2016 - Jimmy Riley, Jamaican reggae musician (b. 1954)
 2017 - Lola Albright, American actress (b. 1924)
 2017 - Ashokamitran, Indian writer (b. 1931)
 2017 - Meir Einstein, Israeli sports broadcaster (b. 1951)
 2017 - William H. Keeler, American cardinal (b. 1931)
 2017 - Cino Tortorella, Italian television presenter and comedian (b. 1927)
 2017 - Denis Voronenkov, Russian politician (b. 1971)
Observances 
 Republic Day/Pakistan Day (Pakistan)
 Polish-Hungarian friendship day
 Day of the Sea (Bolivia)
 World Meteorological Day
 Family Day (South Africa)
 Western Christianity - Earliest possible date for Easter Monday (April 26 is the latest)
 Western Christianity - Second-earliest possible date for Easter, last occurred on this date in 2008, next in 2160.

Days of the year
March 19 is usually the last day of the winter season in the Northern Hemisphere, and the last day of the summer season in the Southern Hemisphere.

Events
Up to 1900 
 1279 – A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the rule of the Song Dynasty in China.
 1452 - Frederick, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned in Rome.
 1563 - The Edict of Amboise is signed, granting some freedoms to Huguenots in France.
 1616 - Walter Raleigh is released from the Tower of London after 13 years.
 1649 - The English House of Commons passes an act banning the House of Lords.
 1808 - Charles IV of Spain abdicates the throne, but soon becomes King again because of the Napoleonic Wars.
 1812 - The Cadiz Cortes declare the Spanish Constitution of 1812.
 1848 – March Revolution in Berlin.
 1853 - The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing in China its capital city until 1864.
 1861 – The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
 1863 - American Civil War: The Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana is destroyed on its first voyage. It is re-discovered 102 years later.
 1865 - American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins in North Carolina.
1882 - The first stone of the Sagrada Familia Cathedral in Barcelona is laid. It was designed by Antoni Gaudi, and is, as of 2014, not finished yet.
 1885 - Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, Canada, starting the Northwest Rebellion.
 1895 - The Lumière brothers record their first cinematograph footage.
1901  2000 
 1915 – Pluto is photographed for the first time, but is not considered as a planet.
 1918 – US Congress establishes Time Zones and Daylight Saving Time.
 1920 - The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for a second time.
 1921 - Irish War of Independence: In Crossbarry, County Cork, Ireland, over 100 IRA volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
 1931 – Gambling is legalised in Nevada.
 1932 – Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
 1941 - World War II: 99th Pursuit Squadron, Tuskegee Airmen, the first black unit of the United States Army Corps, is activated.
 1944 - World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
 1945 - World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 crew members.
 1946 – French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion becomes overseas Departements of France.
1954 - Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in New York City in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in color.
 1954 - Willie Mosconi sets world record by running 526 balls in a row without a miss. during a straight pool competition at the East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio.
 1958 - The Monarch Underwear Company fire in Manhattan kills 24 people.
 1962 – Algerian War of Independence: A ceasefire enters effect.
 1970 – Chancellor of Germany Willy Brandt meets East Germany's Prime Minister Willi Stoph in Erfurt in an attempt at closer relations.
 1979 - The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
 1982 – Argentine forces land on the island of South Georgia, two weeks before the invasion of the Falkland Islands.
 1988 - The rock band Nirvana holds its first concert. 
 1996 – Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela divorce.
From 2001 
 2002 – Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations over human rights abuses and electoral fraud.
 2003 - George W. Bush orders the Invasion of Iraq.
 2004 - President of Taiwan Chen Shui-bian is shot and injured a day before the Presidential election.
 2004 – A bus crash kills 21 people near Konginkangas, Finland. It is the deadliest road accident in Finnish history.
 2006 - The Winter Paralympics in Turin end.
 2006 – In a controversial election, Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko wins 80% of the vote, leading to demonstrations in Minsk.
 2008 - GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst  that is the farthest object visible to the eye (without using a telescope) is briefly observed.
 2011 – By 3,000 miles, the Moon makes its closest approach to Earth in 18 years.
 2011 – 2011 Libyan protests: UN-authorised military intervention begins against Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi in Libya.
2012 – Four people are killed in a shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France. It is believed to be linked with three murders over the previous week. The attacker, Mohammed Merah, is killed after a stand-off with police three days later.
 2013 - Over 50 people are killed in bomb attacks in Baghdad, to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War.
 2013 - Inauguration of Pope Francis.
 2016 - Flydubai Flight 981 crashes shortly before landing at Rostov on Don, Southern Russia, killing all 62 people on board.
Up to 1900 
 968 – Ethelred the Unready, Saxon king of England (d. 1016)
 1434 – Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)
 1488 – Johannes Magnus, Swedish bishop (d. 1544)
 1534 - Jose de Anchieta, Spanish missionary (d. 1597)
 1601 - Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter, sculptor and architect (d. 1667)
 1603 - King John IV of Portugal (d. 1656)
 1629 – Tsar Alexis of Russia (d. 1676)
 1661 - Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer and teacher (d. 1727)
 1721 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish poet and writer (d. 1771)
 1734 - Thomas McKean, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1817)
 1742 – Tupac Amaru II, Inca revolutionary (d. 1781)
 1749 – Princess Louisa of Great Britain (d. 1768)
 1778 – Edward Pakenham, British general (d. 1815)
 1813 – David Livingstone, Scottish missionary, doctor and explorer (d. 1873)
 1821 – Richard Francis Burton, English explorer, diplomat and writer (d. 1890)
 1823 - Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (d. 1914)
 1824 – William Allingham, Irish writer (d. 1889)
1829 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (d. 1901)
 1844 - Minna Canth, Finnish writer and women's rights activist (d. 1897)
 1848 – Wyatt Earp, American Western figure (d. 1929)
 1849 – Alfred von Tirpitz, German admiral (d. 1930)
 1860 – William Jennings Bryan, United States Secretary of State (d. 1925)
 1861 - Lomer Gouin, 13th Premier of Quebec (d. 1929)
 1864 - Charles M. Russell, American painter, sculptor, illustrator and writer (d. 1926)
 1866 - Emilio De Bono, Italian general and politician (d. 1944)
 1871 – Baroness Mary Vetsera, member of the Austrian nobility (d. 1889)
 1872 - Anna Held, Polish-born stage performer (d. 1918)
 1873 - Mex Reger, German pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1916)
 1876 – Felix Jacoby, German classical philologist (d. 1959)
 1883 – Walter Haworth, British chemist (d. 1950)
 1883 - Joseph Stilwell, American general (d. 1946)
 1888 – Josef Albers, German artist (d. 1976)
 1889 - King Manuel II of Portugal (d. 1932)
1891 – Earl Warren, American politician and jurist (d. 1974)
 1892 - James Van Fleet, American general (d. 1992)
 1893 - Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, President of Ecuador (d. 1979)
 1894 - Moms Mabley, American comedienne, actress and singer (d. 1975)
 1895 - Ion Barbu, Romanian writer and mathematician (d. 1961)
 1897 - Betty Compson, American actress (d. 1974)
 1898 - Karl Theodor Bleek, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (d. 1969)
 1900 – Frédéric Joliot, French physicist (d. 1958)
1901  1950 
 1902 – Louisa Ghijs, Belgian stage actress (d. 1985)
 1905 – Albert Speer, Nazi official (d. 1981)
 1906 – Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d. 1962)
 1909 - Attilio Demaria, Argentine footballer (d. 1990)
 1909 - Louis Hayward, British actor (d. 1985)
 1912 - William Frankland, British immunologist
 1912 - Hugh Watt, Interim Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1980) 
 1913 - Alexander Pokryshkin, Russian pilot (d. 1985)
 1914 - Jay Berwanger, American football player (d. 2002)
 1915 - Patricia Morison, American soprano and actress
 1916 - Eric Christmas, English-Canadian actor (d. 2000)
 1916 - Irving Wallace, American writer and screenwriter (d. 1990)
 1917 - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist and composer (d. 1950)
 1917 – Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998)
 1919 - Lennie Tristano, American jazz pianist, composer and educator (d. 1978)
 1920 – Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian writer (d. 2002)
 1921 – Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (d. 1984)
1921 - Emile Bongiorni, French footballer (d. 1949)
 1922 - Hiroo Onoda, Japanese soldier (d. 2014)
 1922 - Guy Lewis, American basketball player (d. 2015)
 1923 - Giuseppe Rotunno, Italian cinematographer
 1924 – Joe Gaetjens, Haitian-American soccer player (d. 1964)
 1924 - Mary Wimbush, British actress (d. 2005)
 1925 - Brent Scowcroft, American general and diplomat
 1927 - Allen Newell, American computer scientist (d. 1992)
 1928 - Hans Küng, Swiss theologian, priest and writer
 1928 – Patrick McGoohan, American actor (d. 2009)
 1930 - Giuseppe Rotunno, Italian chef
 1932 - Gail Kobe, American actress (d. 2013)
 1932 - Peter Hall, English town planner and geographer (d. 2014)
 1933 - Philip Roth, American writer
 1935 - Nancy Malone, American actress (d. 2014)
 1936 – Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
 1937 – Egon Krenz, East German political leader
 1942 - Richard Dobson, American singer and songwriter
 1942 - Heather Robertson, Canadian journalist and writer (d. 2014)
1943 – Mario Monti, Italian economist and former Prime Minister of Italy
 1943 – Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist
 1944 – Said Musa, former Prime Minister of Belize
 1944 - Tom Constanten, American musician (Grateful Dead)
 1944 – Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-born assassin
 1946 - Ruth Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)
 1947 – Glenn Close, American actress
 1947 – Marinho Peres, Brazilian footballer
 1949 - Hirofumi Hirano, Japanese politician
 1949 – Valery Leontiev, Russian singer