Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1901  1925 
 1902 – Eddie Lang, American jazz musician (d. 1933)
 1902 - Carlo Gnocchi, Italian priest, educator and writer (d. 1955)
 1902 - Alfred E. Driscoll, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1975)
 1903 - Katharine Byron, United States Congresswoman (d. 1976)
 1905 - Bob McPhail, Scottish footballer (d. 2000)
 1910 – William Higinbotham, American physicist (d. 1994)
 1912 – Minnie Pearl, American comedian and singer (d. 1996)
 1913 – Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (d. 1991)
 1914 – John Berryman, American poet (d. 1972)
 1915 – Ivan M. Niven, Canadian mathematician (d. 1999)
 1918 - Chubby Jackson, American jazz musician and bandleader (d. 2003)
 1919 - Norman E. Erbe, Governor of Iowa (d. 2000)
 1919 - Beate Uhser-Rotermund, German pilot and entrepreneur (d. 2001)
 1921 - Michael I, former King of Romania (d. 2017)
 1923 - Jean Duceppe, Quebec actor (d. 1990)
 1923 - Bobby Thomson, Scottish-born American baseball player (d. 2010)
 1923 - Achille Silvestrini, Italian cardinal (d. 2019)
1924 – Bill Barty, American actor (d. 2000)
 1924 - Earl Palmer, American musician (d. 2008)
 1925 - John J. Snyder, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2019)
1926  1950 
 1926 - Jimmy Heath, American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger
 1926 – Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano (d. 2012)
 1927 - Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, former President of Uruguay (d. 2016)
 1927 – Barbara Cook, American singer and actress (d. 2017)
 1927 - Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist (d. 1987)
 1928 – Marion Ross, American actress
 1928 - Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist (d. 2016)
 1928 - Jeanne Cooper, American actress (d. 2013)
 1928 - Anthony Franciosa, American actor (d. 2006)
 1929 - Peter Rühmkorf, German writer (d. 2008)
 1931 - Annie Girardot, French actress (d. 2011)
 1932 - Jerzy Pawlowski, Polish fencer and double agent (d. 2005)
 1933 – Jack Haley Jr., movie producer and director (d. 2001)
 1935 – Rusty Schweickart, American astronaut
 1936 - Martin Gilbert, British historian (d. 2015)
 1936 - Masako Nozawa, Japanese actress
 1937 - Roberto Menescal, Brazilian musician
 1938 - Basile Georges Casmoussa, Iraqi archbishop
1938 - Vija Celmins, Latvian-American artist
 1939 - Robert Cogoi, Belgian singer
 1939 - Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek movie director and writer (d. 2007)
 1939 - Dave Simmonds, English motorcycle racer (d. 1972)
 1940 – Bobby Knight, American basketball coach
 1941 – Anne Tyler, novelist
 1942 – Helen Reddy, Australian singer
 1944 – Jon Anderson, singer (Yes)
 1944 – James Carville, political operative
 1944 - Donald Ford, Scottish footballer
 1944 - Azizan Abdul Razak, Malaysian politician
 1945 - Yuriy Mechkov, Russian politician (d. 2019)
 1947 – Glenn Tipton, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
 1948 – Dan Gable, wrestler and coach
 1949 – Brian Kerwin, actor
 1949 - Ross Bagdasarian Jr., American voice actor
 1950 - David Kaye, former American rabbi and convicted sex offender
1951  1975 
 1951 – Richard Lloyd, musician
 1952 - Wendy Hall, English computer scientist, mathematician and academic
 1954 – Mike Eruzione, American hockey player
 1955 - Glynis Barber, English actress
 1955 - Robin Eubanks, American jazz musician
 1955 – Matthias Jabs, German guitarist
 1957 – Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress
 1957 - Bernard Hogan-Howe, English police officer
 1958 - Kornelia Ender, German swimmer
 1958 – Phil Daniels, British actor
 1959 - Chrissy Amphlett, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2013)
 1961 - Chad Smith, American drummer (Red Hot Chilli Peppers)
 1961 - Willie Walsh, Irish businessman
 1962 - Nick Hancock, British TV presenter
 1962 – Darlene Vogel, American actress
 1963 - John Levén, Swedish bassist (Europe)
 1963 – Tracy Nelson, actress
 1964 – Nicole, German singer
 1966 - Wendel Clark, Canadian ice hockey player
 1969 – Oleg Salenko, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
 1970 – Ed Robertson, Canadian guitarist and singer (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 - Adam Goldberg, American actor
 1970 - Adam Pascal, American actor
 1971 – Pedro Martínez, Dominican baseball player
 1971 – Midori, Japanese violinist
 1972 - Esther Duflo, French-American economist
 1972 - Jonathan Torrens, Canadian actor, producer and screenwriter
 1973 - Bettina Wulff, former First Lady of Germany
 1975 - Zadie Smith, British novelist
From 1976 
 1977 – Birgit Prinz, German footballer
 1977 - Anita Rani, English television presenter
 1978 - An Jong-hak, Japanese-born North Korean footballer
 1978 - Bobby Madden, Scottish football referee
 1979 - Ivana Sert, Serbian-Turkish television personality, model and fashion designer
 1979 - Rob Hulse, English footballer
 1981 – Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer
 1981 - Hiroshi Aoyama, Japanese motorcycle racer
 1982 - Victoria Francés, Spanish artist
 1984 – Sara Helena Lumholdt, Swedish musician (A-Teens)
 1984 - Eddie Gaven, American soccer player
 1984 – Katy Perry, American singer
 1985 – Ciara Harris, American singer
 1985 - Kara Lynn Joyce, American swimmer
 1986 - DJ Webstar, American DJ and producer
 1987 - Bill Amis, American basketball player
 1987 – Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast
 1987 – Darron Gibson, Irish footballer
 1988 - Rylan Clark-Neal, English television personality
 1995 - Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress
 1997 - Federico Chiesa, Italian footballer
1997 - Michael Rice, English singer
 2001 - Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, next in-line to the throne of Belgium
 2006 – Krista and Tatiana Hogan, Canadian craniopagus conjoined twins
Up to 1900 
 304 - Pope Marcellinus
 625 - Pope Boniface V
 1047 – King Magnus I of Norway (b. 1024)
 1154 - King Stephen of England (b. 1096)
 1200 - Conrad of Wittelsbach, German archbishop
 1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet (b. 1340)
 1415 - Antoine, Duke of Brabant (b. 1384)
 1415 - Frederick of Lorraine (b. 1371)
 1478 - Catherine of Bosnia (b. 1425)
 1495 – King John II of Portugal (b. 1455)
 1514 - William Elphinstone, Scottish bishop (b. 1431)
 1647 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
 1733 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (b. 1667)
 1760 – King George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
 1806 - Henry Knox, American general and politician (b. 1750)
 1833 - Abbas Mirza of Persia (b. 1789)
 1836 - Antonios Miaoulis, Greek politician and revolutionary leader (b. 1800)
 1844 - Heinrich Cotta, German forester (b. 1763)
 1906 - Todor Burmov, Bulgarian politician (b. 1834)
 1920 – King Alexander I of Greece (b. 1893)
1921 - Bat Masterson, American journalist and lawman (b. 1853)
 1926 - Charles Marion Russell, American artist and writer (b. 1864)
 1945 - Robert Ley, German Nazi official (b. 1890)
 1951 - Amélie of Orléans, last Queen of Portugal (b. 1865)
 1955 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese Hiroshima Atomic bomb victim (b. 1943)
 1973 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian athlete (b. 1932)
 1973 - Robert Scholl, German politician (b. 1891)
 1973 - Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1928)
 1992 - Roger Miller, American musician and composer (b. 1936)
 1993 – Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
 1994 - Mildred Natwick, American actress (b. 1905)
 1995 – Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (b. 1920)
 1995 - Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (b. 1918)
 1999 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (b. 1957)
From 2001 
 2001 - Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Empress of Iran (b. 1932)
 2002 – Richard Harris, Irish actor (b. 1930)
 2002 - René Thom, French mathematician (b. 1923)
 2003 - Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian philosopher and spiritual figure (b. 1920)
 2003 - Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1925)
 2004 – John Peel, British disc jockey (b. 1939)
 2009 - Camillo Cibin, Italian papal bodyguard (b. 1926)
 2010 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (b. 1951)
 2011 - Tom McNeeley, American boxer (b. 1937)
 2012 - John Connelly, English footballer (b. 1938)
 2012 - Jacques Barzun, French-born American historian and philosopher (b. 1907)
 2013 - Arthur Danto, American philosopher and art critic (b. 1924)
 2013 - Nigel Davenport, British actor (b. 1928)
 2013 - Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
 2013 - Hal Needham, American stuntman and director (b. 1931)
 2013 - Marcia Wallace, American actress (b. 1942)
 2014 - Marcia Strassman, American actress (b. 1948)
2014 - Reyhaneh Jabbari, Iranian woman convicted of murder (b. 1988)
 2014 - Jack Bruce, Scottish musician (b. 1943)
 2014 - Carlos Morales Troncoso, Vice President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1940)
 2015 - Flip Saunders, American basketball coach (b. 1955)
 2015 - Lisa Jardine, English historian (b. 1944)
 2016 - Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer (b. 1944)
 2017 - Mohamed Abshir Muse, Somali military officer (b. 1926)
 2017 - Jack Bannon, American actor (b. 1940)
 2017 - Ronald Breslow, American chemist (b. 1931)
 2017 - Ian Cathie, Australian politician (b. 1932)
 2017 - Lu Guanqiu, Chinese entrepreneur (b. 1945)
 2017 - Pinito del Oro, Spanish trapeze artist and novelist (b. 1930)
 2018 - Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player (b. 1980)
 2018 - Lindon Crow, American football player (b. 1933)
 2018 - Sonny Fortune, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1939)
 2018 - Thomas Keating, American Trappist monk and author (b. 1923)
 2018 - Michael J. O'Connor, American politician (b. 1928)
2018 - Shivinder Singh Sidhu, Indian politician, Governor of Meghalaya and Goa (b. 1929)
 2018 - John Ziegler Jr., American ice hockey player (b. 1934)
 2019 - Salvador Freixedo, Spanish ufologist and Jesuit priest (b. 1923)
 2019 - Carlo Strenger, Swiss-Italian psychologist and philosopher (b. 1958)
 2019 - Don Valentine, American venture capitalist (b. 1932)
Observances 
 Constitution Day (Lithuania)
 Armed Forces Day (Romania)
 Day of the Basque Country
 Republic Day (Kazakhstan)
 Thanksgiving Day (Grenada)

Days of the year
Events 
 April 4 – The HMAV Bounty leaves Tahiti.
 April 28 – The Mutiny on the Bounty led by Fletcher Cristian.
 April 30 – George Washington becomes first President of United States.
 French Revolution: The people of France depose their king and rule the country themselves.

Births 
 September 15 – James Fenimore Cooper
Up to 1900 
1147 – First historic record of Moscow.
1581 – Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1660 - Declaration of Breda by Charles II of England.
1721 - Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1789 – The HMAV Bounty leaves Tahiti.
1812 – US President James Madison creates a 90-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
1814 – Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates as Emperor of France.
1818 - United States Congress adopts a 13-stripe and 20-star national flag for the United States.
1841 – William Henry Harrison dies, making him the shortest–serving President of the United States, with 31 days in office. John Tyler succeeds him.
1850 – Los Angeles is incorporated as a city.
1865 - American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln visits Confederate capital city Richmond, Virginia.
1866 – Tsar Alexander II of Russia survives an assassination attempt in Kyiv.
1873 - The British Kennel Club is founded, for the registry of purebred dogs.
1884 - A peace treaty ends the War of the Pacific. Chile gains territory from Bolivia, which loses its coastline.
1887 - Argonia, Kansas, elects Susanna M. Salter as its Mayor, becoming the first woman in the United States to take up this role.
1901  2000 
1905 – An earthquake in Kangra, Northern India, kills around 20,000 people.
1906 - Mount Vesuvius erupts.
1917 - British passenger steamer City of Paris is sunk by a German U-boat off the Cote d'Azur, southern France, killing all 122 people on board.
1925 - The Schutzstaffel (SS) is founded.
1939 – Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
1944 – World War II: The first Anglo-American bombardment of Bucharest kills around 3,000 people.
1945 – World War II: The Soviet Army takes control of Hungary.
1945 - World War II: American troops capture Kassel.
1949 – NATO is founded.
1958 - The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time, in London.
1960 – France agrees to the independence of Senegal and French Sudan (Mali).
1964 - The Beatles occupy all of the top 5 places in the Billboard Hot 100. 
1967 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers the Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence speech in protest against the Vietnam War.
1968 – NASA launches Apollo 6.
1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee.
1969 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
1973 – The World Trade Center in New York City is officially dedicated.
1976 – Microsoft is founded by a partnership of Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1976 – Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia resigns and is placed under house arrest.
1979 – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is executed in Pakistan.
1983 – The Space Shuttle Challenger makes its first space flight.
1984 - Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
1988 - Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
1991 - Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo becomes President of Benin.
1996 – Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Rendezvous.
1998 - A landslide in Southwestern Iran kills around 120 people.
From 2001 
2002 - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty, ending the Angolan Civil War.
2003 – Voodoo becomes an official religion in Haiti.
2003 - Iraq War: US bombing of Baghdad begins.
2004 - Eddie Fenech Adami becomes President of Malta.
2005 - From Moscow, where he fled to after a major uprising, Askar Akayev officially announces his resignation as President of Kyrgyzstan.
2007 – Iran releases 15 Royal Navy personnel that were arrested 12 days earlier for allegedly trespassing in Iranian waters.
2009 – Anders Fogh Rasmussen is announced to succeed Jaap de Hoop Scheffer as NATO Secretary-General. He takes up the post on August 1 of the same year.
2009 - George Abela becomes President of Malta.
2013 - Over 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.
2014 - Marie Louise Coleiro Preca becomes President of Malta.
2017 - A chemical gas attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria, kills at least 74 people.
2018 - The 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, begin.
Up to 1900 
 188 – Caracalla, Roman Emperor (d. 217)
 1179 – Farid-ud-din Ganj Shakar, Islamic saint in South Asia (d. 1266)
 1492 - Ambrosius Blarer, German-Swiss theologian and reformer (d. 1564)
 1572 – William Strachey, English writer (d. 1621)
 1593 - Edward Nicholas, English statesman (d. 1669)
 1614 - Henry II, Duke of Guise (d. 1664)
 1640 - Gaspar Sanz, Aragonese composer, guitarist, organist and priest (d. 1710)
 1646 – Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (d. 1715)
 1648 – Grinling Gibbons, Dutch woodcarver (d. 1721)
 1676 - Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, Italian composer (d. 1760)
 1688 - Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768)
 1752 - Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer (d. 1837)
 1759 - Israel Smith, Governor of Vermont (d. 1810)
 1760 - Juan Manuel Olivares, Venezuelan composer (d. 1797)
 1773 - Etienne Maurice Gerard, French general and statesman (d. 1852)
 1785 – Bettina von Arnim, German writer (d. 1859)
 1792 - Thaddeus Stevens, American lawyer and politician (d. 1868)
1802 – Dorothea Dix, American social activist (d. 1887)
 1806 - Claiborne Fox Jackson, Governor of Missouri (d. 1862)
 1809 - Benjamin Peirce, American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1880)
 1819 – Queen Maria II of Portugal (d. 1853)
 1821 – Linus Yale, Jr., American inventor and manufacturer (d. 1868)
 1826 - Zenobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (d. 1901)
 1828 - Margaret Oliphant, Scottish novelist (d. 1897)
 1835 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)
 1842 - Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (d. 1891)
 1843 - William Henry Jackson, American painter (d. 1942)
 1848 - Artruro Prat, Chilean naval hero (d. 1879)
 1858 - Remy de Gourmont, French writer, poet and critic (d. 1915) 
 1869 - Mary Jane Cotter, American architect (d. 1958)
 1875 - Pierre Monteux, French conductor (d. 1964)
 1876 – Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (d. 1958)
 1878 - Stylianos Lykoudis, Greek admiral (d. 1958)
 1884 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese naval commander (d. 1943)
1889 - Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Indian Hindi language poet (d. 1968)
 1895 - Arthur Murray, American dancer and educator (d. 1991)
 1896 - Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright, editor and screenwriter (d. 1955)
 1897 – Dina Manfredini, Italian-born American supercentenarian (d. 2012)
 1897 - Pierre Fresnay, French actor (d. 1975)
 1898 - Agnes Ayres, American actress (d. 1940)
 1899 - Hillel Oppenheimer, German-Israeli botanist (d. 1971)
1901  1950 
 1905 - Dougie Gray, Scottish footballer (d. 1972)
 1905 - George Stevenson, Scottish footballer (d. 1990)
 1905 - Shojiro Sugimura, Japanese footballer (d. 1975)
 1906 - Yasuo Haruyama, Japanese footballer (d. 1987)
 1906 - Bea Benaderet, American actress (d. 1968)
 1906 - John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (d. 1995)
 1907 – Robert Askin, Premier of New South Wales (d. 1981)
 1910 – Barthélemy Boganda, Central African politician (d. 1959)
 1910 - Dang Van Ngu, Vietnamese physician (d. 1967)
 1911 - Max Dupain, Australian photographer (d. 1992)
 1913 - Rosemary Lane, American actress and singer (d. 1974)
 1913 - Frances Langford, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
 1913 – Jules Léger, Canadian diplomat and Governor General of Canada (d. 1980)
 1914 – Marguerite Duras, French writer (d. 1996)
 1914 - Richard Coogan, American actor (d. 2014)
 1915 – Muddy Waters, American musician (d. 1983)
 1916 – Nikola Ljubicic, Yugoslavian general and politician (d. 2005)
1920 - Ignatius IV of Antioch, Syrian patriarch (d. 2012)
 1920 - Eric Rohmer, French movie director (d. 2010)
 1921 - Elizabeth Wilson, American actress (d. 2015)
 1921 - Orunamamu, American-Canadian storyteller (d. 2014)
 1922 - Elmer Bernstein, American movie composer (d. 2004)
 1923 - Peter Vaughan, English actor (d. 2016)
 1924 - Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (d. 1972)
 1925 - Gene Reynolds, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
 1925 - Dettmar Cramer, German footballer and coach (d. 2015)
 1925 - Frank Truitt, American sports coach (d. 2014)
 1926 - Ronnie Masterson, Irish actress (d. 2014)
 1928 – Maya Angelou, American writer and poet (d. 2014)
 1928 - Elina Bystritskaya, Russian actress (d. 2019)
 1931 - Catherine Tizard, 16th Governor-General of New Zealand 
 1931 - Bobby Ray Inman, American admiral and intelligence director
 1932 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet movie maker (d. 1986)
 1932 – Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1993)
1932 - Richard Lugar, American politician (d. 2019)
 1932 – Clive Davis, American music manager and producer
 1935 - Kenneth Mars, American actor (d. 2011)
 1935 - Trevor Griffiths, English playwright
 1938 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, 7th Commissioner of Major League Baseball (d. 1989)
 1938 - Norro Wilson, American country music singer-songwriter and record producer (d. 2017)
 1939 - Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad, Norwegian politician (d. 2017)
 1939 – Hugh Masekela, South African musician (d. 2018)
 1939 - Ernie Terrell, American boxer and singer (d. 2014)
 1942 - Jim Fregosi, American baseball player and manager
 1942 – Kitty Kelley, American actress
 1942 - Michel Fourniret, French serial killer
 1944 - Ann-Louise Hanson, Swedish singer
 1944 – Craig T. Nelson, American actor
 1945 – Daniel Cohn-Bendit, French-German political activist
 1945 - Katherine Neville, American writer
 1946 - Katsuaki Sato, Japanese martial artist
 1946 – Dave Hill, English musician (Slade)
 1948 - Abdullah Ocalan, Kurdish activist
1948 - Berry Oakley, American musician (d. 1997)
 1948 - Pick Withers, British musician
 1949 – Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
 1950 – Christine Lahti, American actress
1951  1975 
 1951 - Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia
 1952 – Gary Moore, Northern Irish musician (d. 2011)
 1952 - Rosemarie Ackermann, German athlete
 1952 - Karen Magnussen, Canadian figure skater
 1952 - Cherie Lunghi, English actress
 1953 - Chen Yi, Chinese composer and violinist
 1953 - Henry Fotheringham, South African cricketer
 1954 - Michel Camilo, Dominican pianist
 1954 - Dave Ulliott, English poker player (d. 2015)
 1956 – David E. Kelley, American writer and television producer
 1957 – Aki Kaurismaki, Finnish director
 1957 - Graeme Kelling, Scottish guitarist (Deacon Blue) (d. 2004)
 1958 - Cazuza, Brazilian composer and singer (d. 1990)
 1958 - Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai businessman (d. 2018)
 1960 - Hugo Weaving, Australian actor
 1960 - Jonathan Agnew, English cricketer
 1962 - Craig Adams, English bass player and songwriter
 1963 – Graham Norton, Irish television host
 1963 - A. Michael Baldwin, American actor, producer and screenwriter
1963 - Jane McDonald, English singer and actress
 1964 – Branco, Brazilian footballer
 1965 – Robert Downey Jr., American actor
 1966 – Mike Starr, American musician (d. 2011)
 1966 – Stefan Mappus, German politician
 1967 - Edith Masai, Kenyan runner
 1969 – Karren Brady, British sports executive and broadcaster
 1970 – Georgius Amanatidis, Greek footballer
 1970 - Greg Garcia, American director, producer and screenwriter
 1970 - Yelena Yelesina, Russian high jumper
 1972 – Magnus Sveningsson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
 1972 – Jill Scott, American singer and actress
 1972 - Xenia Seeberg, German actress
 1973 – David Blaine, American illusionist and magician
 1973 - Chris McCormack, Australian athlete
 1974 - Dave Mirra, American BMX rider (d. 2016)
 1975 - Thobias Fredriksson, Swedish cross-country skier
 1975 - Carl Ruiz, American chef and television personality (d. 2019)
From 1976 
 1976 – Emerson, Brazilian footballer
 1977 – Adam Dutkiewicz, American guitarist and producer
 1977 – Stephen Mulhern, English magician
 1978 – Lemar, English singer
 1978 – Irene Skliva, Greek model
 1978 - Sam Moran, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
 1979 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008)
 1980 – Johnny Borrell, English singer (Razorlight)
 1980 – Trevor Moore, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
 1981 – Anna Pyatykh, Russian triple jumper
 1981 – Ned Vizzini, American writer (d. 2013)
 1983 – Amanda Righetti, American actress
 1983 – Evgeny Artyukhin, Russian ice hockey player
 1984 – Sean May, American basketball player
 1985 – Rudy Fernandez, Spanish basketball player
 1986 – Eunhyuk, South Korean singer
 1986 – Rachel Korine, American actress
 1986 – Aiden McGeady, Scottish-Irish footballer
 1987 – Devon Anderson, English actor
 1987 – Sami Khedira, German footballer
 1988 – Nadine Kessler, German footballer
 1991 – Jamie Lynn Spears, American singer and actress
1992 – Alexa Nikolas, American actress
 1992 – Lucy Mae Barker, English actress and singer
 1992 – Christina Metaxa, Cypriot singer-songwriter
 1996 – Austin Mahone, American singer
 1999 – Miki Nishino, Japanese singer, dancer and actress (AKB48)
 2012 – Grumpy Cat, famous American cat and internet celebrity (d. 2019)
Up to 1900 
397 – Saint Ambrose of Milan (b. 338)
636 - Isidore of Seville, Spanish archbishop and saint (b. 560)
896 - Pope Formosus
968 - Abu Firas al-Hamdani, Arab prince, general and poet (b. 932)
1284 - Alfonso X of Castile (b. 1221)
1292 - Pope Nicholas IV (b. 1227)
1305 - Jeanne of Navarre, Queen of France (b. 1273)
1406 – King Robert III of Scotland (b. 1337)
1459 - Eric of Pomerania, King of Denmark (b. 1382)
1536 - Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1460)
1588 – King Frederick II of Denmark (b. 1534)
1617 - John Napier, Scottish mathematician (b. 1550)
1761 - Theodore Gardell, Swiss painter and enameler (b. 1722)
1774 – Oliver Goldsmith, Irish writer (b. 1728)
1807 - Joseph Jerome Lefrancais de Lalande, French astronomer (b. 1732)
1817 - Andre Massena, Marshal of France (b. 1758)
1841 – William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (b. 1773)
1846 - Solomon Sibley, United States Senator (b. 1769)
1861 - John McLean, 6th United States Postmaster General (b. 1785)
1863 – Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (b. 1790)
1870 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (b. 1802)
1874 - Charles Ernest Beulé, French archaeologist and politician (b. 1826)
1875 - Karl Mauch, German explorer (b. 1837)
1879 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (b. 1803)
1883 - Peter Cooper, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1791)
1890 - Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, 1st Premier of Quebec (b. 1820)
1890 - Edmond Hébert, French geologist (b. 1812)
1901  2000 
1912 - Charles Brantley Aycock, 50th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1859)
1919 - Francisco Marto, Portuguese saint (b. 1908)
1923 - John Venn, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1834)
1929 – Karl Benz, German automobile designer and inventor (b. 1844)
1931 – André Michelin, French industrialist (b. 1853)
1932 – Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist (b. 1853)
1933 - Elizabeth Bacon Custer, American writer (b. 1842)
1939 - King Ghazi of Iraq (b. 1912)
1951 - George Albert Smith, American Mormon leader (b. 1870)
1953 – King Carol II of Romania (b. 1893)
1961 - Simeon Stoilow, Romanian mathematician (b. 1873)
1962 - James Hanratty, British murderer (b. 1936)
1967 - Al Lewis, American songwriter (b. 1901)
1967 - Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1898)
1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights activist (b. 1929)
1972 - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., American politician (b. 1908)
1976 - Harry Nyquist, Swedish contributor to Information Theory (b. 1889)
1979 – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b. 1928)
1983 – Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1899)
1984 – Oleg Antonov, Russian airplane designer (b. 1906)
1991 – Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
1991 – H. John Heinz III, US Senator (b. 1938)
1991 – Max Frisch, Swiss writer (b. 1911)
1993 – Alfred Mosher-Butts, American inventor of Scrabble (b. 1899)
1995 – Kenny Everett, British entertainer (b. 1944)
1995 – Priscilla Lane, American singer and actress (b. 1915)
1996 - Barney Ewell, American runner (b. 1918)
1999 – Faith Domergue, American actor (b. 1924)
From 2001 
2003 – Anthony Caruso, American actor (b. 1916)
2004 - Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist (b. 1919)
2007 – Bob Clark, American director (b. 1941)
2007 - Karen Sparck Jones, British computer scientist (b. 1935)
2009 – Gonzalo Olave, Chilean actor (b. 1983)
2012 - Claude Miller, French movie director (b. 1942)
2013 - Roger Ebert, American movie critic and writer (b. 1942)
2013 - Carmine Infantino, American illustrator (b. 1925)
2014 - Margo MacDonald, Scottish politician, member of the Scottish Parliament (b. 1943)
2014 - Kumba Iala, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1953)
2014 - Anja Niedringhaus, German journalist (b. 1965)
2014 - José Aguilar, Cuban boxer (b. 1958)
2015 - Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
2015 - Jamaluddin Jarjis, Malaysian politician (b. 1951)
2015 - Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish writer (b. 1931)
2015 - Donald N. Levine, American sociologist (b. 1931)
2015 - Ira Lewis, American actor and playwright (b. 1932)
2016 - Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
2016 - Getatchew Mekurya, Ethiopian jazz saxophonist (b. 1935)
2016 - Royston Nash, English conductor (b. 1933)
2016 - George Radosevich, American football player (b. 1928)
2016 - Mike Sandlock, American baseball player (b. 1915)
2016 - Abe Segal, South African tennis player (b. 1930)
2017 - Samir Farid, Egyptian film critic and historian (b. 1943)
2017 - Giovanni Sartori, Italian political scientist and journalist (b. 1924)
2018 - Andres Ammas, Estonian politician (b. 1956)
2018 - Soon-Tek Oh, South Korean-American actor (b. 1932)
2018 - Johnny Valiant, American professional wrestler (b. 1946)
2018 - Ray Wilkins, English footballer and manager (b. 1956)
2018 - Leonid Sokov, Russian artist and sculptor (b. 1941)
2019 - Alberto Cortez, Argentine singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
2019 - Georgiy Daneliya, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2019 - Barry Malkin, American film editor (b. 1938)
2019 - Marilyn Mason, American concert organist and academic (b. 1925)
Holidays and Observances
 Independence Day in Senegal
 International Day for Landmine Awareness and Assistance
 Peace Day (Angola)
 Children's Day (Republic of China and Hong Kong)

April 04
Up to 1950 
 585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
 1453 – The last Christian service takes place in the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, present-day Istanbul, before it becomes a Mosque.
 1503 – James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married by Pope Alexander VI according to Papal Bull.
 1503 – The Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England is signed. It lasts 10 years.
 1539 – Hernando de Soto lands in Florida.
 1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, begins to set sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port).
 1754 – French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party at Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette Couty in southwestern Pennsylvania.
1774 – American Revolutionary War: The first Continental Congress convenes.
 1812 - The Peace of Bucharest ends the Russo-Turkish War, giving more territory to Russia.
 1830 – US President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act.
 1863 – American Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts, the first African American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts, to fight for the Union.
 1864 - The Montana Territory is created out of the northeastern part of the Idaho Territory.
 1871 - The Paris Commune falls.
 1892 – In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
 1900 – The Orange Free State is declared a British colony.
 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
 1907 - The first Isle of Man TT motorbike race is held.
 1918 – The first Republic of Armenia declares its statehood.
 1918 – Independence day in the Azerbaijan Republic.
1926 – Military dictatorship established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
 1930 – The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
 1932 - In the Netherlands, building work on the Afluitdijk is completed, and Zuiderzee Bay is converted to the freshwater Ijsselmeer.
 1934 – The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated.
 1934 - The Dionne Quintuplets are born near Callander, Ontario, Canada.
 1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
 1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC, who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
 1937 – Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister.
 1940 – World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany.
 1940 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik. First allied infantry victory in WW2.
1951  2000 
 1951 - British radio comedy programme The Goon Show is broadcast on the BBC for the first time.
 1952 – In Greece, women are given the right to vote.
 1959 – NASA's Mercury space programme: Two monkeys survive a space flight.
 1961 – Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
 1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
 1970 - The University of Brussels is split in two over a language dispute, creating one Dutch language one and one French language one.
 1974 – Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
 1975 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, thus creating the Economic Community of West African States.
 1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
1979 - Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of accession with the European Economic Community.
 1982 – Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
 1987 – 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and is not released until August 3, 1988.
 1987 – A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
 1991 – Ethiopia: End of the Derg regime and of the Ethiopian Civil War.
 1993 – Eritrea and Monaco join the UN.
 1993 - Edmund Stoiber becomes Prime Minister of Bavaria.
 1995 – The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, 2/3 of total population.
 1996 - Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal, Susan McDougal and former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
 1999 – In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's newly restored masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display.
 2000 – The volcano Mount Cameroon erupts.
From 2001 
 2003 – Peter Hollingworth resigns as Governor-General of Australia.
 2004 – Ayad Allawi is selected to lead an interim government in Iraq.
 2004 – The cable TV channels TechTV and G4 merge.
 2008 – Nepal becomes a Republic.
 2010 - A train crash in West Bengal, India, kills 141 people.
 2011 - A referendum is held in Malta on the introduction of divorce in the country. Most voters support the proposal.

Births
Births

Up to 1800 
 1140 – Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207)
 1371 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419)
 1524 – Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574)
 1641 – Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)
 1656 - Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1721)
 1660 – King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
 1676 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
 1692 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher (d. 1752)
 1692 – Geminiano Giacomelli, Italian composer (d. 1741)
 1738 – Joseph Ignace Guillotin, French physician (d. 1814)
 1743 - Johann David Wyss, Swiss minister and writer (d. 1818)
 1759 – William Pitt the Younger, British Prime Minister (d. 1806)
 1763 – Manuel Alberti, Argentine priest and politician (d. 1811)
 1764 - Edward Livingston, 11th United States Secretary of State (d. 1836)
 1779 – Thomas Moore, Irish writer (d. 1852)
 1786 - Louis McLane, 12th United States Secretary of State (d. 1857)
1801  1900 
 1807 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss geologist (d. 1873)
 1818 – P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate General (d. 1893)
 1836 – Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918)
 1841 - Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1887)
 1853 – Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919)
 1854 – German Riesco Erazuriz, President of Chile (d. 1916)
 1858 – Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (d. 1939)
 1872 – Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917)
 1877 – Maximilian Voloshin, Russian poet and painter (d. 1932)
 1879 – Milutin Milankovic, Serbian geophysicist (d. 1958)
 1883 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician (d. 1966)
 1883 - Clough Williams-Ellis, British architect (d. 1978)
 1884 – Edvard Beneš, Czechoslovakian politician (d. 1948)
 1888 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete (d. 1953)
 1888 – Kaarel Eenpalu, Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942)
 1889 – Richard Réti, Austrian-Czech chess player (d. 1929)
 1892 – Josef Dietrich, Nazi officer (d. 1966)
1900 - Pak Hon-Yong, Korean politician (d. 1956)
 1900 - Taffy Abel, American ice hockey player (d. 1964)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Roy Dowling, Australian naval officer (d. 1969)
 1906 - Wolf Albach-Retty, Austrian-German actor (d. 1967)
 1908 – Ian Fleming, British writer, creator of James Bond (d. 1964)
 1910 – T-Bone Walker, American singer (d. 1975)
 1910 – Rachel Kempson, British actress (d. 2003)
 1911 – Thora Hird, British actress (d. 2003)
 1912 – Patrick White, Australian writer (d. 1990)
 1912 - Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian radio astronomer and physicist (d. 1981)
 1915 - Joseph Greenberg, American linguist (d. 2001)
 1916 - Ray Fox, American NASCAR engine builder and team owner (d. 2014)
 1916 – Walker Percy, American writer (d. 1990)
 1917 – Papa John Creach, American musician (d. 1994)
 1917 - Barry Commoner, American biologist and politician (d. 2012)
 1918 – Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (d. 1990)
 1921 - Tom Uren, Australian politician (d. 2015)
 1923 – György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (d. 2006)
 1923 – N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor, movie director and politician (d. 1996)
1924 - Edward du Cann, English politician (d. 2017)
 1925 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone and conductor (d. 2012)
 1925 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician (d. 2006)
 1928 - Sally Forrest, American actress (d. 2015)
 1930 – Frank Drake, American astronomer and astrophysicist
 1930 - Edward Seaga, 5th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2019)
 1931 - Gordon Willis, American cinematographer (d. 2014)
 1931 – Carroll Baker, American actress
 1932 - Chiquito de la Calzada, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2017)
 1933 - Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (d. 2010)
 1934 - Bill Baillie, New Zealand long-distance runner
 1934 – Dionne Quintuplets
 1935 - Anne Reid, English actress
 1936 – Betty Shabazz, American activist (d. 1997)
 1938 – Jerry West, American basketball player
 1939 - Maeve Binchy, Irish novelist (d. 2012)
 1939 - Theodore J. Sophocleus, American politician (d. 2018)
 1941 - Beth Howland, American actress (d. 2015)
 1942 – Stanley B. Prusiner, American neurologist
1944 - Jean-Pierre Léaud, French actor and director
 1944 – Gladys Knight, American singer and actress
 1944 - Sondra Locke, American actress (d. 2018)
 1944 – Rudy Giuliani, American politician, 107th Mayor of New York City
 1945 - Patch Adams, American doctor and activist
 1945 - John Fogerty, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
 1947 – Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Egyptologist
 1949 - Sue Holderness, English actress
1951  1975 
 1952 - Denis Akiyama, Canadian actor (d. 2018)
 1953 - Arto Lindsay, American guitarist, singer and producer
 1954 – Andy Hamilton, English comedian
 1954 - John Tory, 65th Mayor of Toronto
 1955 – John McGeoch, Scottish musician (d. 2004)
 1956 – Francis Joyon, French sailor
 1957 - Ben Harland, American basketball player and coach
 1958 - Jerry Douglas, American country musician
 1959 - Steve Strange, Welsh singer (d. 2015)
 1960 – Mark Sanford, American politician, former Governor of South Carolina
 1961 – Michelle Collins, British actress
 1964 – David Baddiel, British comedian and television presenter
 1965 - Mary Coughlan, Irish politician
 1966 - Ashley Laurence, American actress
 1967 - Emma Kennedy, British actress
 1967 - Glen Rice, American basketball player
 1968 
 Kylie Minogue, Australian singer and actress
 Tetsu Nagasawa, Japanese footballer & manager
 1969 – Justin Kirk, American actor
 1969 – Rob Ford, 64th Mayor of Toronto (d. 2016)
 1970 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002)
1971 – Marco Rubio, American politician and United States Senator for Florida
 1971 – Ekaterina Gordeeva, Russian figure skater
 1971 – Charles Warrington, American professional wrestler
 1971 - Isabelle Carré, French actress
 1972 - Chiara Mastroianni, French actress and singer
 1972 – Doriva, Brazilian footballer
 1974 – Hans-Jörg Butt, German footballer
From 1976 
 1977 - Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American talk show host and writer
 1978 – Tomohiko Ito, Japanese footballer
 1979 - Monica Keena, American actress
 1980 – Mark Feehily, Irish singer (Westlife)
 1980 – Miguel Pérez, Spanish footballer
 1981 – Adam Green, American musician
 1981 – Gábor Talmácsi, Hungarian motorcycle racer
 1982 - Alexa Davalos, French-American actress
 1983 – Megalyn Echikunwoke, American actress
 1983 – Steve Cronin, American soccer player
 1983 – Humberto Sanchez, Dominican baseball player
 1983 - Roman Atwood, American YouTube personality
 1985 – Colbie Caillat, American singer
 1985 – Carey Mulligan, English actress
 1986 - Seth Rollins, American professional wrestler
 1986 – Charles N'Zogbia, French footballer
 1988 - Craig Kimbrel, American baseball player
 1988 - Meisa Kuroki, Japanese singer, model and actress
 1990 – Kyle Walker, English footballer
 1991 - Alexandre Lacazette, French footballer
 1992 - Huang Qiushuang, Chinese gymnast
1993 - Jonnie Peacock, English athlete
 1994 - John Stones, English footballer
 1994 - Son Yeon-jae, South Korean gymnast
 1998 – Riho Sayashi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
 1999 – Cameron Boyce, American actor (d. 2019)
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 576 - Germain of Paris, French bishop and saint (b. 496)
 1023 - Wulfstan, English archbishop
 1357 – King Alfonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
 1672 - John Trevor, Welsh politician (b. 1626)
 1750 – Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
 1758 - Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. 1737)
 1787 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)
 1805 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist (b. 1743)
 1811 – Henry Dundas, Scottish politician (b. 1742)
 1816 – Ras Wolde Selassie, Ethiopian warlord (b. 1745)
 1836 - Anton Reicha, Bohemian composer (b. 1770)
 1843 – Noah Webster, American writer and lexicographer (b. 1758)
 1849 – Anne Brontë, English writer (b. 1820)
 1864 – Simion Barnutiu, Romanian philosopher and politician (b. 1808)
 1872 - Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Archduchess of Austria (b. 1805)
 1878 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
 1895 - Walter Q. Gresham, United States Secretary of State (b. 1832)
1901  2000 
 1916 – Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)
 1925 – Joao Pinheiro Chagas, Portuguese politician (b. 1863)
 1927 – Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)
 1936 - Bertha Pappenheim, Austrian-German women's rights activist (b. 1859)
 1940 – Prince Frederik Charles of Hesse (b. 1868)
 1940 - Walter Connolly, American actor (b. 1887)
 1946 - Carter Glass, American politician (b. 1858)
 1948 – Unity Mitford, British Fascist sympathiser (b. 1914)
 1952 - Philippe Desranleau, Canadian archbishop (b. 1882)
 1953 - Tatsuo Hori, Japanese writer and poet (b. 1904)
 1968 – Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Soviet sniper (b. 1908)
 1968 - Kees van Dongen, Dutch painter (b. 1877)
 1971 - Audie Murphy, American lieutenant and actor (b. 1924)
 1972 – King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
 1975 - Ezzard Charles, American boxer (b. 1921)
 1981 - Stefan Wyszynski, Polish cardinal (b. 1901)
 1981 – Mary Lou Williams, American singer (b. 1910)
1983 - Erastus Corning 2nd, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (b. 1909)
 1984 – Eric Morecambe, British comedian (b. 1926)
 1993 - Ugo Locatelli, Italian footballer (b. 1916)
 1994 - Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)
 1998 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor and comedian (b. 1948)
 1999 - Henry Carlsson, Swedish footballer (b. 1917)
 2000 - Donald Davies, English physicist (b. 1924)
From 2001 
 2001 – Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
 2003 – Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1933)
 2003 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian physicist, philosopher and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1917)
 2003 – Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
 2004 - Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-Italian businessman and politician (b. 1934)
 2006 – Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1920)
 2008 – Beryl Cook, English painter (b. 1926)
 2010 – Gary Coleman, American actor (b. 1968)
 2013 – Viktor Kulikov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1921)
 2014 - Maya Angelou, American novelist, poet and activist (b. 1928)
 2014 - Bob Houbregs, Canadian basketball player (b. 1932)
 2014 - Azlan Shah of Perak, 9th Yang-di Pertuan Agong (Head of State) of Malaysia and Sultan of Perak (b. 1928)
 2014 - Malcolm Glazer, American businessman and sports team owner (Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Manchester United) (b. 1928)
 2014 - Ciro de Quadros, Brazilian physician (b. 1940)
2015 - Reynaldo Rey, American actor and comedian (b. 1940)
 2016 - Giorgio Albertazzi, Italian actor (b. 1923)
 2016 - Stanley Burke, Canadian television journalist (b. 1923)
 2016 - David Cañada, Spanish cyclist (b. 1975)
 2016 - Bryce Dejean-Jones, American basketball player (b. 1992)
 2016 - Marion Lambert, Belgian-Swiss art collector (b. 1943)
 2016 - Harambe, American-bred Western lowland gorilla (b. 1999)
 2017 - John Noakes, English television presenter (b. 1934)
 2017 - Frank Deford, American sportswriter, novelist and radio broadcaster (b. 1938)
 2017 - Ervin E. Dupper, American politician (b. 1923)
 2017 - Graham Webb, British cyclist (b. 1944)
 2018 - Pippo Caruso, Italian composer (b. 1935)
 2018 - Neale Cooper, Scottish footballer (b. 1963)
 2018 - Serge Dassault, French businessman (b. 1925)
 2018 - Semavi Eyice, Turkish art historian (b. 1922)
 2018 - Cornelia Frances, British-Australian actress (b. 1941)
 2018 - Dick Quax, Dutch-New Zealand athlete and politician (b. 1948)
2018 - Jens Christian Skou, Danish physician (b. 1918)
 2018 - Michel Stolker, Dutch cyclist (b. 1933)
 2018 - Ola Ullsten, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1931)
 2018 - María Dolores Pradera, Spanish actress and singer (b. 1924)
 2018 - Michel Stolker, Dutch racing cyclist (b. 1933)
 2019 - Khoo Kay Kim, Malaysian historian (b. 1937)
 2019 - Apolo Nsibambi, 8th Prime minister of Uganda (b. 1940)
 2019 - Edward Seaga, 5th Prime minister of Jamaica (b. 1930)
 2019 - Carmine Caridi, American actor (b. 1934)
 2019 - Dennis Etchison, American novelist, editor and screenwriter (b. 1943)
 2019 - Jean Juventin, French politician (b. 1928)
 2019 - Walter Wolfgang, German-British socialist and peace activist (b. 1923)
Observances 
 Republic Day (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nepal)
 Flag Day (Philippines)
 Armed Forces Day (Croatia)
 Downfall of the Derg (Ethiopia)

Days of the year
The political virtues were listed by Bernard Crick "In Defense of Politics", 1982.  They included but were not limited to: 
prudence:
take one step, then see its results before taking another
conciliation:
making friends with people you have argued with
compromise:
giving up some things you want to get those things that are most important to you
variety:
people want to have a number of choices that are different from each other
adaptability:
meet the needs of changing times
liveliness:
never be boring

He sees these virtues as a way of avoiding ideology or "absolute-sounding ethic".  More virtues will lead to less conflict.  None of them can be forced on anyone.

Some other virtues have also been suggested:
humour,
empathy,
initiative
and compassion.  "Being brief" or "being positive" are sometimes claimed also to be virtues, but just as many people think they are bad things that only help avoid truth or serious problems.

Ethics
Lady Jane Grey, born on October 12, 1537, also known as "The Nine Days Queen," was an English noblewoman who briefly served as queen of England from July 10 to July 19, 1553. Her reign was unsuccessful, and she was subsequently executed by decapitation the following year on February 12, 1554, at the age of 17, charged with high treason.

Jane was born in London, or at her family home of Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, England.  She was great-granddaughter of Henry VII by his younger daughter Mary, and a first-cousin-once-removed of Edward VI.

In May 1553, Jane married Lord Guildford Dudley, a younger son of Edward's chief minister, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. When the 15-year-old King lay dying in June 1553, he nominated Jane as successor to the Crown in his will, thus subverting the claims of his half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth.