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Births 
 January 4 – Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind (d. 1852).
 January 15 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1864)
 January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe, American  writer (d. 1849)
 February 3 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
 February 12 – Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865)
 February 12 –  Charles Darwin, British naturalist (d. 1882)
 February 15 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884)
 March 31 – Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (d. 1852)
 April 15 – Hermann Gunter Grassmann, Prussian mathematician (d. 1877)
 June 4 – Columbus Delano, American statesman  (d. 1896)
 June 4 – John Henry Pratt, English clergyman and mathematician (d. 1871)
 June 8 – Richard Wigginton Thompson, American politician (d. 1900)
 August 6 – Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (d. 1892)
 August 8 – Heinrich Abeken, German theologian (d. 1872)
 August 27 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician (d. 1891)
August 29 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)
 October 22 – Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
 December 24 – Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868)
 December 29 – William Ewart Gladstone, British politician (d. 1898)
Events 
 January 5 – Alexander Dubček elected as leader of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party – the "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia
 January 15 – An earthquake in Sicily – 231 dead, 262 injured
 January 21 – US B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland and in the process discharges four nuclear bombs
 January 23 – North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship violated its territorial waters while spying.
 January 25 – The Israeli Submarine Dakar sinks in the Mediterranean Sea – 69 dead
 January 27 – French submarine sinks in the Mediterranean with 52 men
 January 30 – Vietnam War: The Tết Offensive begins, as NLF forces launch a series of surprise attacks across South Vietnam.
 January 31 – NLF soldiers attack the United States embassy in Saigon
 January 31 – Nauru's president Hammer DeRoburt declares independence from Australia.
 February 19 – PBS airs the first episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood with host Fred Rogers
 April 4 – Martin Luther King Jr. is shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee.
June 5 – Robert F. Kennedy is shot, and dies on the following day.
 August 20 – The Prague Uprising is crushed.
 December 22 - Cultural Revolution: People's Daily posted the instructions of Mao Zedong that it is "The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty."(Down to the Countryside Movement)
Births 
 January 14 – LL Cool J, American singer and musician
 January 28 – Sarah McLachlan, Canadian musician
 January 30 – Crown Prince Felipe of Spain
 February 1 – Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley
 February 8 – Gary Coleman, American actor (d. 2010)
 February 18 – Molly Ringwald, American actress
 March 2 – Daniel Craig, British actor
 March 6 – Moira Kelly, American actress
 March 30 – Céline Dion, Canadian singer and actress
 April 1 – Julia Boutros, Lebanese singer
 April 19 – Arshad Warsi, Indian actor
 April 28 - Andy Flower, Zimbabwean cricketer
 May 1 – Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer
 May 7 – Traci Lords, American actress & singer
 May 26 – Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
 May 28 – Kylie Minogue, Australian singer & actress
 June 1 – Jason Donovan, Australian actor & singer
 June 21 – Chris Gueffroy, last person to be shot at the Berlin Wall (d. 1989)
 June 26 – Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
 July 16 – Larry Sanger, Wikipedia co-founder
July 21 – Brandi Chastain, American footballer
 August 2 – Stefan Effenberg, German footballer
 August 4 – Daniel Dae-Kim, American actor
 August 5 – Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (d. 2007)
 August 9 – Gillian Anderson, American actress
 August 16 – Arwind Kejriwal, Indian politician
 September 1 – Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
 September 7 – Marcel Desailly, French footballer
 September 10 – Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer
 September 25 – Will Smith, American actor
 September 28 – Naomi Watts, American actress
October 12 – Hugh Jackman, Australian actor
 October 17 - Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer (Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers)
 October 18 – Michael Stich, German tennis player
 December 2 – Lucy Liu, American actress
 December 3 – Brendon Fraser, Canadian-American actor
 December 9 – Kurt Angle, American professional wrestler
 December 18 – Mario Basler, German footballer
 December 30 – Meredith Monroe, American actress

Deaths 
 January 22 – Duke Kahanamoku, American athlete (b. 1890)
 March 27 – Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934)
 April 4 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights activist (b. 1929)
 April 7 – Jim Clark, Scottish racing driver (b. 1936)
 June 1 – Helen Keller, American educator (b. 1880)
 June 6 – Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (b. 1925)
 November 28 – Enid Blyton, British writer (b. 1897)
 December 20 – John Steinbeck, American writer (b. 1902)
 December 30 – Trygve Lie, UN Secretary-General (b. 1896)
Movies released 
 2001: A Space Odyessy
 Barbarella
 No Way to Treat a Lady
 The Odd Couple
 Yellow Submarine
 Once Upon A Time in West
 Oliver!
 Rosemary's Baby
 Night of the Living Dead

New books 
 Flight 714 by Hergé
 M*A*S*H by Richard Hooker
Hit songs 
 "Born To Be Wild" – Steppenwolf
 "Dance To The Music" – Sly & The Family Stone
 "Harper Valley P.T.A" – Jeannie C. Riley
 "Hello, I Love You" – The Doors
 "Hey Jude"/"Revolution" – The Beatles
 "Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)" – John Fred & his Playboy Band
 "Jumpin' Jack Flash" – Rolling Stones
 "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" – Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
 "Lady Madonna" – The Beatles
 "Chain of Fools" – Aretha Franklin
 "Valleri" – The Monkees
 "Mony Mony" – Tommy James & the Shondells
 "Mrs. Robinson" – Simon and Garfunkel
 "(Sittin' On The) Dock Of The Bay" – Otis Redding
 "Sunshine Of Your Love" – Cream
 "This Guy's in Love With You" – Herb Alpert
 "Midnight Confessions" – The Grass Roots
 "Classical Gas" – Mason Williams
It is the last day of the fifth sixth of the year.

Events
Up to 1950 
 475 – Romulus Augustus is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
 1517 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church.
 1587 – Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.
 1822 – Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Mexican Empire.
 1848 - Vienna's October Revolution ends.
 1861 – American Civil War: Citing failing health, Union General Winfield Scott resigns as Commander of the United States Army.
 1863 – The Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato.
 1864 – Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
 1876 - A monster cyclone hits India, killing around 200,000 people.
 1878 - A massive fire breaks out on Kungsholmen Island, Stockholm.
 1892 – Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
 1912 – The Musketeers of Pig Alley, directed by D.W. Griffith, debuts as the first gangster movie.
1912 – Dominican Republic becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
 1913 - Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway in the United States.
 1917 – World War I: Battle of Beersheba – "last successful cavalry charge in history".
 1918 - Hungary withdraws from the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, which dissolves as a result. On the same day, Hungarian Prime Minister Istvan Tisza is shot dead.
 1922 – Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest Premier in the history of Italy.
 1923 - First of 160 consecutive days when the temperature is at, or over, 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Marble Bar, Western Australia.
 1924 – World Savings Day was declared in Milano/Italy, by the Italian Professor Ravizza at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
 1926 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.
 1936 – The Boy Scouts of the Philippines is formed.
1938 – Great Depression: In an effort to try restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
 1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain ends – The United Kingdom prevents Germany from invading Great Britain.
 1941 – After 14 years of work, drilling is completed on Mount Rushmore.
 1941 – World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.
 1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
1951  2000 
 1954 – Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule.
 1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
 1956 - George Dufek makes the first landing at the Geographical South Pole. It relates to the building of the Amundsen-Scott Research Station.
 1961 – In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Tomb.
 1961 - Hurricane Hattie destroys Belize City, Belize.
 1963 - An explosion occurs at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum in Indianapolis, killing 74 people and injuring over 400, during an ice skating show.
 1968 – Vietnam War October surprise:Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete stop of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.
1984 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards. Riots soon start in New Delhi and nearly 2,000 innocent Sikhs are killed.
 1991 - Zambia holds its first democratic elections, in which Frederick Chiluba is elected President.
 1992 - Pope John Paul II removes the Edict of Inquisition on Galileo Galilei.
 1994 – An American Eagle ATR-72 crashes in Roselawn, Indiana, after circling in icy weather, killing 64 passengers.
 1996 – A Brazilian TAM Fokker-100 crashes into several houses in São Paulo, Brazil killing 98 including 2 on the ground.
 1997 - Letsie III is officially crowned King of Lesotho.
 1998 – Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
 1999 – EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on board.
1999 – Roman Catholic Church and Lutheran Church leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, ending a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation.
 2000 – A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 crashes immediately after takeoff in Taipei, Taiwan killing 81
 2000 – A chartered Antonov AN-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50
 2000 – The last Multics machine is shut down.
From 2001 
 2002 - A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hits the regions of Molise and Puglia in Italy, killing 28 people; 26 of them are schoolchildren in the town of San Giacomo di Puglia.
 2003 – Mahathir Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia after 22 years in power.
 2004 - The first round of the Presidential election in Ukraine results in a run-off between Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych on November 21.
 2010 – Dilma Rousseff is elected the first female President of Brazil.
 2011 – According to UN estimates, the world population reaches 7 billion.
 2011 - UNESCO votes to admit Palestine as a member.
 2014 - President of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré resigns after 27 years in power following violent protests in the capital Ouagadougou against his intention to extend his rule. The military takes over the running of the country.
 2014 - Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashes in the Mojave Desert in California, killing one person. It is seen as a blow to Richard Branson's ambitions on space tourism.
2015 - Kogalymavia Flight 9268, a Russian airliner, crashes on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula while travelling from Sharm-el-Sheikh to Saint Petersburg, killing all 224 people on board.
 2015 - New Zealand win the 2015 Rugby union World Cup in England, defeating Australia 34-17 in the final. They become the first team to win the competition twice in-a-row.
 2016 - Michel Aoun becomes President of Lebanon.
 2017 - Germany holds a national holiday to mark 500 years since the start of the Protestant Reformation.
 2017 - 2017 New York City attack: A vehicle-ramming attack near the southern end of Manhattan, New York City, results in the deaths of 8 people, including 5 friends from Argentina.
 2019 - Fire breaks out in the main halls of Shurijo, Okinawa, Japan.
 2019 - A train fire on the Karachi to Peshawar railway line in Pakistan kills 74 people.
Up to 1850 
 1291 – Philippe de Vitry, French composer (d. 1361)
 1345 – King Fernando I of Portugal (d. 1383)
 1391 – King Duarte of Portugal (d. 1438)
 1424 – Wladyslaw III of Poland (d. 1444)
 1620 – John Evelyn, English writer and diarist (d. 1706)
 1632 – Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (d. 1675)
 1636 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1679)
 1686 - Senesino, Italian singer (d. 1758)
 1692 - Comte de Caylus, French archaeologist (d. 1756)
 1694 - Yeongjo of Joseon of Korea (d. 1776)
 1705 – Pope Clement XIV (d. 1774)
 1711 – Laura Bassi, Italian university professor (d. 1778)
 1737 – James Lovell, American educator (d. 1789)
 1740 - William Paca, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1799)
 1750 - Leonor de Almeida Portugal, 4th Marquies of Alorna, Portuguese noblewoman, painter and poet (d. 1839)
 1795 – John Keats, English poet (d. 1821)
 1802 - Charlotte Bonaparte, sister-in-law of Napoleon (d. 1839)
 1815 - Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician (d. 1897)
1815 - Thomas Chapman, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1884)
 1817 - Heinrich Graetz, Prussian historian (d. 1891)
 1821 - Karel Havlicek Borovsky, Czech poet, writer, politician and journalist (d. 1856)
 1825 - Charles Lavigerie, French-Algerian cardinal (d. 1892)
 1826 - Joseph Roswell Hawley, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1905)
 1827 - Richard Morris Hunt, American educator (d. 1895)
 1828 - Joseph Wilson Swan, English physicist and chemist (d. 1914)
 1831 - Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist (d. 1910)
 1835 – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist (d. 1917)
 1835 - Adelbert Ames, American politician (d. 1933)
 1835 - Krisjanis Barons, Latvian writer (d. 1923)
 1838 – King Louis I of Portugal (d. 1889)
 1847 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian engineer and physicist (d. 1897)
 1848 - Boston Custer, American general (d. 1876)
1851  1900 
 1851 – Lovisa of Sweden, Queen of Denmark (d. 1926)
 1854 – Otto Sverdrup, Norwegian polar explorer (d. 1930)
 1856 - Carlos Antonio Mendoza, 3rd President of Panama (d. 1916)
 1857 - Axel Munthe, Swedish physician and psychiatrist (d. 1949)
 1860 - Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of America (d. 1927)
 1864 – Einar Benediktsson, Icelandic poet and lawyer (d. 1940)
 1868 - John Weir Tory, American journalist and politician, 5th Territorial Governor of Alaska (d. 1942)
 1875 - Eugene Meyer, 1st President of the World Bank (d. 1959)
 1875 - Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian freedom fighter and statesman (d. 1950)
 1880 - Mikhail Tomsky, Soviet-Russian politician (d. 1936)
 1883 - Marie Laurencin, French painter (d. 1956)
 1883 - Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player (d. 1915)
 1887 – Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Nationalist politician, President of the Republic of China (d. 1975)
 1887 - Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1970)
 1888 - Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (d. 1941)
1888 - George Hubert Wilkins, Australian-born British explorer (d. 1958)
 1892 - Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (d. 1946)
 1895 - B. H. Liddell Hart, British soldier and military historian (d. 1970)
 1896 – Ethel Waters, American actress and singer (d. 1977)
1901  1950 
 1903 - Bertrand Jouvenel, French political philosopher (d. 1987)
 1908 - Muriel Duckworth, Canadian activist (d. 2009)
 1912 - Dale Evans, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
 1912 - Ollie Johnston, American animator (d. 2003)
 1914 - Robert E. Smylie, American politician, 24th Governor of Idaho (d. 2004)
 1916 – Carl Johan Bernadotte, Swedish prince (d. 2012)
 1917 - William H. McNeill, Canadian-American historian (d. 2016)
 1918 - Griffin Bell, 72nd United States Attorney General (d. 2009)
 1919 - Magnus Wenninger, American mathematician (d. 2017)
 1920 – Dick Francis, British writer and jockey (d. 2010)
 1920 - Takashi Kano, Japanese footballer (d. 2000)
 1920 – Gunnar Gren, Swedish footballer (d. 1991)
 1920 – Fritz Walter, German footballer (d. 2002)
 1920 - Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan activist (d. 1957)
 1922 – Norodom Sihanouk, former King of Cambodia (d. 2012)
 1922 - Illinois Jacquet, American jazz musician (d. 2004)
 1922 - Anatoli Papanov, Soviet actor (d. 1987)
1922 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (d. 2005)
 1925 – John Pople, British chemist (d. 2004)
 1926 - Mario Abramovich, Argentine violinist and composer (d. 2014)
 1926 – Jimmy Savile, British television personality and sexual abuser (d. 2011)
 1927 - Edmund Gettier, American philosopher
 1928 - Cleo Moore, American actress (d. 1973)
 1929 - Eddie Charlton, Australian snooker player (d. 2004)
 1929 - Bud Spencer, Italian movie and television actor (d. 2016)
 1930 – Michael Collins, American astronaut
 1931 – Dan Rather, American journalist
 1932 - Jacques Pic, French chef (d. 1992)
 1933 - Phil Goyette, Canadian ice hockey player
 1933 - Narriman Sadek, Queen of Egypt (d. 2005)
 1935 - Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Egyptian general and former caretaker-President
 1936 – Michael Landon, American actor (d. 1991)
 1937 - Tom Paxton, American singer-songwriter
 1939 - Tom O'Connor, English comedian and actor
 1939 - Ali Farka Touré, Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2006)
1939 – Ron Rifkin, American actor
 1941 - Sally Kirkland, American actress
 1942 – David Ogden Stiers, American actor (d. 2018)
 1942 - George Brizan, Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 2012)
 1943 - Paul Frampton, English physicist
 1944 - Kinky Friedman, American country musician, writer and politician
 1945 - Russ Ballard, English rock music singer, songwriter and guitarist
 1945 - Brian Doyle-Murray, American actor
 1947 - Carmen Alborch, Spanish writer and politician (d. 2018)
 1947 – Herman Van Rompuy, Belgian politician
 1947 - Alberto Bigon, Italian footballer
 1948 - Michael Kitchen, British actor
 1949 - Bob Siebenberg, American musician
 1950 - Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-born British architect (d. 2016)
 1950 – John Candy, Canadian actor (d. 1994)
1951  1975 
 1951 - Dave Trembley, American baseball manager
 1953 - John Lucas II, American basketball player and coach
 1953 - Michael S. Anderson, American actor
 1953 - José Costa, Portuguese footballer
 1957 - Brian Stokes Mitchell, American singer and actor
 1958 - Debbie McGee, English television personality
 1959 - Neal Stephenson, American actor
 1959 - Michael DeLorenzo, American actor, singer and director
 1960 - Reza Pahlavi, former Prince of Iran
 1960 - Arnaud Desplechin, French movie director
 1960 - Luis Fortuño, 9th Governor of Puerto Rico
 1961 – Peter Jackson, New Zealand movie director
 1961 – Larry Mullen Jr., Irish musician (U2)
 1961 - Alonzo Babers, American athlete
 1963 - Sarah Jane Brown, wife of Gordon Brown
 1963 - Mikkey Dee, Swedish musician
 1963 – Dermot Mulroney, American actor
 1963 – Rob Schneider, American actor
 1963 - Johnny Marr, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1963 - Sanjeev Bhaskar, English actor
 1963 – Dunga, Brazilian footballer and coach
1964 – Marco van Basten, Dutch footballer
 1964 - Colm O Ciosoig, Irish drummer and songwriter
 1964 - Marty Wright, American professional wrestler
 1965 - Rob Rackstraw, English voice actor
 1966 - Ad-Rock, American rapper, producer and actor
 1966 - Mike O'Malley, actor
 1967 - Irina Pantaeva, Russian model and actress
 1967 – Vanilla Ice, American rapper
 1968 - Fred McGriff, American baseball player
 1970 - Linn Berggren, Swedish singer-songwriter (Ace of Base)
 1970 - Mitch Harris, American guitarist and songwriter
 1970 - Johnny Moeller, American guitarist
 1970 - Nolan North, American actor
 1970 - Terry Alderton, English comedian
 1972 – Matt Dawson, English rugby player
 1973 - Christopher Bevins, American voice actor, director, scriptwriter and producer
 1973 - Beverly Lynne, American actress
 1973 - Arzum Onan, Turkish actress and model
 1974 - Natasja Saad, Danish musician (d. 2007)
From 1976 
 1976 – Guti, Spanish footballer
 1976 – Piper Perabo, American actress
 1977 - Chikara Fujimoto, Japanese footballer
 1978 – Inka Grings, German footballer
 1979 – Simao Sabrosa, Portuguese footballer
 1979 – Ricardo Fuller, Jamaican footballer
 1980 – Kengo Nakamura, Japanese footballer
 1981 – Frank Iero, rhythm guitarist, back up vocals in My Chemical Romance
 1981 – Lollie Alexi Devereaux, French actress and writer
 1982 – Tomas Plekanec, Czech ice hockey player
 1983 – Katy French, Irish model (d. 2007)
 1984 – Scott Clifton, American actor
 1986 – Christie Hayes, Australian actress
 1988 – Cole Aldrich, American basketball player
 1988 – Sébastien Buemi, Swiss racing driver
 1989 – Warren Weir, Jamaican athlete
 1990 - J.I.D, American rapper
 1990 - Emiliano Sala, Argentine footballer (d. 2019)
 1992 – Vanessa Marano, American actress
 1993 – Letitia Wright, Guyanese-born British actress
 1997 – Marcus Rashford, English footballer
 2000 – Willow Smith, American singer
Up to 1950 
 1147 - Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, son of King Henry I of England (b. 1090)
 1214 - Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1162)
 1448 – John VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1390)
 1517 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (b. 1472)
 1723 – Cosimo III de'Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
 1732 – Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (b. 1666)
 1744 - Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (b. 1694)
 1765 – Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (b. 1721)
 1768 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (b. 1690)
 1879 – Joseph Hooker, American general (b. 1814)
 1883 - Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Indian spiritual figure (b. 1824)
 1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (b. 1858)
 1916 – Charles Taze Russell, American religious leader, founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1852)
 1918 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (b. 1890)
 1918 - István Tisza, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1861)
 1925 - Mikhail Frunze, Russian revolutionary (b. 1885)
1925 - Max Linder, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1883)
 1926 - Anteo Zamboni, Italian anarchist (b. 1911)
 1926 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (b. 1874)
 1929 - António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician (b. 1866)
 1939 - Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (b. 1884)
 1941 - Herwarth Walden, German writer, musician and composer (b. 1878)
1951  2000 
 1959 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (b. 1885)
 1961 - Augustus John, British painter (b. 1883)
 1972 - Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
 1973 - Malek Bennabi, Algerian thinker (b. 1905)
 1979 - Putte Kock, Swedish sportsman (b. 1901)
 1980 - Jan Werich, Czech actor, playwright and writer (b. 1905)
 1983 - George Halas, American professional football coach and team owner (b. 1895)
 1984 – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1917)
 1984 - Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (b. 1900)
 1986 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist (b. 1896)
 1988 - John Houseman, Romanian-born American actor and director (b. 1902)
 1991 - Joseph Papp, American director and producer (b. 1921)
 1993 – Federico Fellini, Italian movie director (b. 1920)
 1993 – River Phoenix, American actor (b. 1970)
 1995 – Rosalind Cash, American actress (b. 1938)
 1997 – Hans Bauer, German footballer (b. 1927)
 1998 - Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1935)
1999 - Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom (b. 1921)
 2000 - Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1915)
From 2001 
 2002 - Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (b. 1903)
 2005 - Mary Wimbush, British actress (b. 1924)
 2006 – Pieter Willem Botha, Apartheid-era President of South Africa (b. 1916)
 2007 - Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby player (b. 1951)
 2008 – Studs Terkel, American writer, historian, actor and broadcaster (b. 1912)
 2009 – Qian Xuesen, Chinese scientist (b. 1911)
 2010 - Ted Sorensen, American jurist and writer (b. 1928)
 2011 – Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer (b. 1941)
 2011 – Ali Saibou, 3rd President of Niger (b. 1940)
 2012 - John Fitch, American racing driver, engineer and inventor (b. 1917)
 2012 - John H. Reed, 67th Governor of Maine (b. 1921)
 2013 - Gérard de Villiers, French journalist and writer (b. 1929)
 2014 - David Manker Abshire, American diplomat (b. 1926)
 2014 - Hitoshi Motoshima, Japanese politician (b. 1922)
 2014 - John Forzani, Canadian businessman (b. 1947)
 2014 - Renato Sellani, Italian jazz pianist and composer (b. 1926)
2014 - Brad Halsey, American baseball player (b. 1981)
 2015 - Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater (b. 1938)
 2015 - Gregg Palmer, American actor (b. 1927)
 2015 - Gus Savage, American newspaper executive and politician (b. 1925)
 2015 - Thomas Blatt, Polish Holocaust survivor and writer (b. 1927)
 2016 - Vladimir Zeldin, Russian actor (b. 1915)
 2017 - Abubakari Yakubu, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1981)
 2017 - Mario das Neves, Argentine politician (b. 1951)
 2017 - Papi Oviedo, Cuban musician (b. 1938)
 2018 - Willie McCovey, American baseball player (b. 1938)
 2018 - Dana G. Mead, American businessman (b. 1936)
 2018 - Ken Shellito, English footballer and manager (b. 1940)
 2018 - Tony Streather, British army officer and mountaineer (b. 1926)
 2019 - Ebrahim Abadi, Iranian actor (b. 1934)
 2019 - Enrico Braggiotti, Turkish-Monegasque banker (b. 1923)
 2019 - Ann Crumb, American actress, animal rights activist and singer (b. 1950)
 2019 - Geetanjali, Indian actress (b. 1947)
Holidays and Observances 
 Halloween
 Samhain (Paganism)
 Day of the Dead (Mexico)
 Reformation Day (Protestantism)

Days of the year
A canteen can be:

 Canteen (bottle), an object for carrying water
 Canteen (place), a small restaurant
A beadle is someone who works at a church or a Jewish synagogue and helps the clergy.  A beadle's main job is to show people to their seats and to keep order during church services. In the past they were important in running workhouses.

Like many words that describe a person's job, the word beadle can also be used as a last name.

Religious occupations
Events 
 February 28 incident in Taiwan was an affair in which large numbers of people protested against the government, in which thousands were killed by the regime's forces.
 April 15 – Jackie Robinson, an African-American, plays first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers major-league baseball team, ending the sport's unofficial rule against blacks playing.
 June 26 - Sindh province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
 June 29 - Balochistan (Pakistan) province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
 July 2 - North-West Frontier Province province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
 July 19 - Punjab (Pakistan) province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
 July 22 – The former East Bengal province joins Pakistan on the basis of a Muslim-majority region the people had voted in to join the cause for Pakistan, according to the Partition Plan, based on the Two-nation theory. It later becomes the present day People's Republic of Bangladesh, since 1971.
August 14 – Pakistan is Created  from British India ,end of the British Raj.
 August 15 – India gains independence from Britain.
Births 
 January 1 - Jon Corzine, American politician
 January 8 – David Bowie, British singer (d. 2016)
 January 22 – Vladimir Oravsky, Swedish author
 February 18 - Dennis DeYoung, American keyboardist (Styx)
 March 3 - Jennifer Warnes, American singer
 March 8 – Carole Bayer Sager, American actress and singer
 March 24 - Alan Sugar, British businessman
 March 24 - Christine Gregoire, American politician
 March 25 – Elton John, British singer
 March 29 - Bobby Kimball, American singer (Toto)
 April 16 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
 April 18 - James Woods, American actor
 May 8 - John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan, British politician
 May 25 - Mitch Margo, American singer (The Tokens) (d. 2017)
 May 31 - Junior Campbell, Scottish musician and composer
 June 24 - Mick Fleetwood, English drummer (Fleetwood Mac)
 July 2 - Elijah Kostunica, Serbian politician
 July 9 - O. J. Simpson, American football player
 July 17 - Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
July 19 - Brian May, English guitarist (Queen)
 July 19 - Bernie Leadon, American singer-songwriter and musician (Eagles)
 July 22 - Don Henley, American singer-songwriter and musician (Eagles)
 July 30 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born actor, bodybuilder and politician, former Governor of California
 July 31 - Richard Griffiths, British actor (d. 2013)
 August 16 – Carol Moseley Braun, American jurist
 September 21 - Don Felder, American singer-songwriter and musician (Eagles)
 September 30 - Marc Bolan, British musician (d. 1977)
 October 4 - Ann Widdecombe, British politician
 October 26 – Hillary Clinton, former First Lady of the United States and United States Secretary of State
 October 30 - Timothy B. Schmit, American singer-songwriter and musician (Eagles)
 November 1 - Bob Weston, English rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac) (d. 2012)
 November 10 - Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese politician (d. 1982)
 November 10 - Greg Lake, English musician (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) (d. 2016)
November 20 - Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter and musician (Eagles)
 December 8 – Gregg Allman, American rock musician (The Allman Brothers Band) (d. 2017)
 December 11 - David E. Stone, American sound editor
Deaths 
 Emil J. Brach, American candy manufacturer (b. 1859)
 January 25 – Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)
 March 11 – Victor Lustig, Austrian-born con artist (b. 1890)
 March 18 – William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
 March 19 – Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (b. 1896)
 March 20 – Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (b. 1888)
 March 30 – Arthur Machen, Welsh-born writer (b. 1863)
 April 1 – King George II of Greece (b. 1890)
 April 7 – Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1863)
 April 20 – King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
 April 24 – Willa Cather, American novelist (b. 1873)
 May 8 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (b. 1858)
 May 16 – Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b. 1861)
 May 17 – George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand
 May 20 – Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
 May 24 – C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
July 19 – Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
 July 30 – Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
 October 4 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
 November 25 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French writer (b. 1876)
 December 1 – Aleister Crowley, British occultist (b. 1875)
 December 1 – G. H. Hardy, British mathematician (b. 1877)
 December 7 – Tristan Bernard, French writer and lawyer (b. 1866)
 December 7 – Nicholas M. Butler, American president of Columbia University, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
 December 17 – J. N. Brønsted, Danish chemist (b. 1879)
Movies released 
 Hue and Cry
New books 
 The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
 Bright November – Kingsley Amis' first collection of poems
 Country Place – Ann Lane Petty
 Creatures of Circumstance – W. Somerset Maugham 
 The Cold War – Walter Lippmann
 Dark Carnival – Ray Bradbury's first book
 Dialectic of Enlightenment – Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
 Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
 Eyes of a Blue Dog – Gabriel García Márquez
 Froth on the Daydream – Boris Vian
 God Is For White Folks – Thomas Will
 Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
 Great Northern? – Arthur Ransome
 A High Wind Rising – Elsie Singmaster
 I, the Jury – Mickey Spillane
 Les Jeux Inconnus – François Boyer
 Knock On Any Door – Willard Motley
 Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool – George Orwell
 Masquerade, a Historical Novel – Oscar Micheaux 
 Miss Hickory – Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
 The Moneyman – Thomas B. Costain 
 Paris Was Our Mistress: Memoirs of a Lost & Found Generation – Samuel Putnam
 The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
 The Pearl – John Steinbeck
The Adventures of Tintin
 The Plague (La Peste) – Albert Camus
 Prince of Foxes – Samuel Shellabarger
 Rocket Ship Galileo – Robert A. Heinlein
 Saggy Baggy Elephant – Kathryn Jackson and Byron Jackson
 Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata
 Tales of the South Pacific – James A. Michener
 Tarzan and the Foreign Legion – Edgar Rice Burroughs
 Tea with Mrs Goodman – Philip Toynbee
 Theatre – W. Somerset Maugham
 Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
 Who Has Seen the Wind?  – W.O. Mitchell
Nobel prizes
 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Cori and Bernardo Houssay
Up to 1900 
 180 - 12 inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians.
 1203 - The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault.
 1402 – Yongle becomes Emperor of China.
 1429 - Hundred Years' War: Charles VIII of France is crowned King.
 1453 - Battle of Castillon: France defeats England in the last battle of the Hundred Years' War.
 1717 - George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered, as King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians.
 1771 - Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chef Matonabbee, travelling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland expedition, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
 1791 - Members of France's National Guard under control of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, killing 50 people.
 1821 – Florida goes into US control.
1863 - The New Zealand Wars resume as British forces in New Zealand led by Duncan Cameron begin their invasion at Waikato.
 1897 – The Klondike Gold Rush begins in North-western Canada.
1901  2000 
 1917 – The British Royal Family changes its name to Windsor.
 1918 – Nicholas II, the Czar of Russia, his wife, and their 5 children are executed by the Bolsheviks, under orders from Vladimir Lenin.
 1936 – The Spanish Civil War begins.
 1944 - Port Chicago disaster: At Port Chicago near San Francisco Bay, two ships carrying ammunition for the war explode, killing 320 people.
 1944 - World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, France.
 1945 - World War II: Allied leaders Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin meet in Potsdam to discuss the future of a defeated Germany.
 1948 – The South Korean Constitution is proclaimed.
 1955 – Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California.
 1962 - Nuclear weapons testing: The Small Boy test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation of the Nevada National Security Site.
1968 - A revolution in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed in power with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as new President.
 1973 – Afghanistan: Mohammed Daoud Khan removes his cousin Mohammed Zahir Shah from power.
 1976 – 25 African countries boycott the Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.
 1976 – Indonesia takes control of East Timor.
 1979 – The Sandinistas start to govern Nicaragua, after Anastasio Somoza Debayle flees to Miami, Florida.
 1981 - The Humber Bridge in England is opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
 1981 - A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, collapses, killing 114 people and injuring over 200.
 1989 - Poland restores diplomatic relations with Vatican City.
 1994 – Brazil wins the FIFA World Cup for a fourth time, after a penalty shootout win over Italy, which is remembered for Roberto Baggio's missed penalty kick.
1996 – A Boeing 747 airplane explodes near Long Island, New York, killing 230 people.
 1998 - At a conference in Rome 120 countries vote to create the International Criminal Court.
 1998 – An earthquake causes a tsunami, which destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing 3,183 people, and leaving more than 2,000 unaccounted for.
 1998 - 80 years after being executed, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried at the St. Catherine Chapel in St. Petersburg.
From 2001 
 2001 - Concorde is brought back into service  nearly a year a crash near Paris.
 2006 – A tsunami south of Java kills around 300 people.
 2007 – A plane crashes and bursts into flames at São Paulo International Airport in Brazil, killing all 187 people on board, and 12 on the ground.
 2011 – Japan wins the FIFA Women's World Cup, defeating the United States in a penalty shoot-out.
 2014 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashes in Eastern Ukraine near the border with Russia, having been reportedly shot down by a missile, killing all 298 people on board.
 2014 - Israel-Gaza Strip Conflict: Israel launches a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
 2015 - Over 120 people are killed in a suicide bombing in Iraq.
 2015 - Formula One racing driver Jules Bianchi dies of injuries sustained in a crash at the Japanese Grand Prix over nine months earlier, at the age of 25.
 2018 - The European Union-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement is signed.
Up to 1900 
 1476 - Adrian Fortescue, English Roman Catholic martyr (d. 1539)
 1487 - Ismail I of Persia (d. 1524)
 1674 - Isaac Watts, English theologian and composer (d. 1748)
 1698 - Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1759)
 1714 - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (d. 1762)
 1744 – Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States (d. 1814)
 1745 - Timothy Pickering, 3rd United States Secretary of State (d. 1829)
 1752 - Barnaba Oriani, Italian priest, astronomer and scientist (d. 1832)
 1763 – John Jacob Astor, American businessman (d. 1848)
 1797 - Paul Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856)
 1831 – Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
 1837 - Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, 6th Premier of Quebec (d. 1886)
 1839 - Ephraim Shay, American engineer (d. 1916)
 1843 - Julio Argentino Roca, President of Argentina (d. 1914)
 1846 – Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Russian scientist, anthropologist and explorer of New Guinea (d. 1888)
1853 - Alexius Meinong, Austrian philosopher (d. 1920)
 1860 – Clara Viebig, German writer (d. 1952)
 1871 - Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1956)
 1871 - J. M. Andrews, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1956)
 1879 - Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager (d. 1960)
 1882 - James Somerville, English admiral (d. 1940)
 1888 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer (d. 1970)
 1889 – Erle Stanley Gardner, American writer (Perry Mason) (d. 1970)
 1894 – Georges Lemaitre, Belgian priest and astrophysicist (d. 1966)
 1898 – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (d. 1991)
 1899 – James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986)
 1900 - Marcel Dalio, French actor (d. 1983)
1901  1950 
 1903 – Takeyama Michio, Japanese writer (d. 1984)
 1911 - Lionel Ferbos, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2014)
 1913 - Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and Holocaust denier (d. 2012)
 1915 - Arthur Rothstein, American photographer (d. 1985)
 1917 – Phyllis Diller, American actress and comedienne (d. 2012)
 1917 - Kenan Evren, 7th President of Turkey (d. 2015)
 1918 – Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
 1920 – Gordon Gould, American, inventor of the laser (d. 2005)
 1920 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish Olympic official (d. 2010)
 1920 - Kenneth Wolstenholme, English sportscaster (d. 2002)
 1921 - Louis Lachenal, French mountaineer (d. 1955)
 1925 - Jimmy Scott, American jazz singer (d. 2014)
 1926 - Willis Carto, American far-right politician (d. 2015)
 1927 - Prosper Ego, Dutch activist (d. 2015)
 1929 – Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician
 1930 - Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (d. 2019)
 1930 - Ray Galton, English screenwriter (d. 2018)
1931 - Caroline Graham, English writer
 1932 - Wojciech Kilar, Polish composer (d. 2013)
 1932 - Quino, Argentine artist and illustrator
 1933 - Keiko Awaji, Japanese actress (d. 2014)
 1933 - Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, 9th Prime Minister of Malta
 1933 - Valentina Rastvorova, Soviet-Russian fencer (d. 2018)
 1935 – Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
 1935 - Diahann Carroll, American actress and singer (d. 2019)
 1939 - Milva, Italian singer and actress
 1939 - Spencer Davis, British guitarist
 1939 – Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
 1940 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, English actor and screenwriter
 1940 - Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter (d. 2019)
 1942 - Connie Hawkins, American basketball player and coach (d. 2017)
 1942 - Peter Sissons, English journalist (d. 2019)
 1944 – Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer (d. 2016)
 1945 - Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
 1945 - John Patten, Baron Patten, British politician, last British Governor of Hong Kong
 1946 – Alun Armstrong, British actor
1947 – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
 1947 - Wolfgang Flür, German drummer (Kraftwerk)
 1947 - Dorthe Kollo, Danish singer
 1948 – Ron Asheton, American musician (d. 2009)
 1948 - Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and film director (d. 2015)
 1949 - Wayne Sleep, English dancer, choreographer and actor
 1949 - Geezer Butler, English bass player and politician
 1950 - Derek de Lint, Dutch actor
 1950 – Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Lucie Arnaz, American actress
 1952 - Thé Lau, Dutch musician and writer (d. 2015)
 1952 – David Hasselhoff, American actor
 1954 – Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
 1954 – Edward Natapei, Prime Minister of Vanuatu (d. 2015)
 1956 - Julie Bishop, Australian politician
 1957 - Fern Britton, English television host
 1958 - Thérèse Rein, Australian businesswoman, wife of Kevin Rudd
 1960 - Jan Wouters, Dutch footballer and manager
 1961 – Guru, American rapper (d. 2010)
 1961 - Jeremy Hardy, English comedian (d. 2019)
 1961 - António Costa, Prime Minister of Portugal
 1963 - Regina Belle, American singer
 1963 – Letsie III, King of Lesotho
 1963 - Kim Shattuck, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019)
 1963 - John Ventimiglia, American actor
 1963 - Matti Nykanen, Finnish ski jumper (d. 2019)
 1964 - Heather Langenkamp, American actress
 1965 - Santiago Segura, Spanish actor, screenwriter, producer and director
1965 - Alex Winter, English-American actor, director and screenwriter
 1965 - Bastian Sick, German journalist, writer and entertainer
 1971 - Calbert Cheaney, American basketball player and coach
 1971 - Matthew Crompton, English actor
 1971 - Cory Doctorow, Canadian writer and activist
 1972 – Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer
 1972 - Andy Whitfield, Welsh actor (d. 2011)
 1974 - Laura Macdonald, Scottish saxophonist and composer
 1975 - Konnie Huq, English television host
 1975 - Elena Anaya, Spanish actress
From 1976 
 1976 – Anders Svensson, Swedish footballer
 1976 - Marcos Senna, Brazilian-Spanish footballer
 1976 - Luke Bryan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1976 - Gino D'Acampo, Italian-English chef and writer
 1977 – M.I.A., British singer
 1978 - Line Daugaard, Danish handball player
 1979 - Rudi Skácel, Czech footballer
 1982 – Natasha Hamilton, British singer (Atomic Kitten)
 1982 - Bobby Reynolds, American tennis player
 1982 - René Herms, German athlete (d. 2009)
 1983 - Christian Grindheim, Norwegian footballer
 1983 - Sarah Jones, American actress
 1984 – Asami Kimura, Japanese singer
 1985 – Tom Fletcher, English singer (McFly)
 1985 - Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
 1986 - Dana, South Korean singer, dancer and actress
 1988 - Gao Yue, Chinese table tennis player 
 1990 – Mattie Stepanek, American poet (d. 2004)
 1992 - Billie Lourd, American actress
 1992 - Taavi Rand, Estonian ice dancer
 1993 - Ai Okawa, Japanese model and actress
1998 - Felipe de Marichalar y Borbón, Spanish royal
 2000 - Maria Aragon, Canadian singer
 2004 - Lindokuhle Modi, South African actor and podcaster
Up to 1900 
 521 - Magnus Felix Ennodius, Latin bishop and saint (b. 474)
 924 – Edward the Elder, King of England is killed in battle (b. c. 874)
 1070 – Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030)
 1399 - Jadwiga of Poland (b. 1373)
 1531 - Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese commander (b. 1484)
 1566 - Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese monk (b. 1484)
 1571 – Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
 1588 - Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect and engineer (b. 1489)
 1704 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French-American fur trader
 1762 – Tsar Peter III of Russia (b. 1728)
 1790 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist (b. 1723)
 1793 – Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat (b. 1768)
 1845 – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)
 1859 – Stephanie of Hohenzollern, Queen Consort of Portugal (b. 1837)
 1878 – Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812)
 1883 - Te Duc, Emperor of Vietnam
 1887 – Dorothea Dix, American social activist (b. 1802)
1893 - Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (b. 1833)
 1894 - Leconte de Lisle, French poet (b. 1818)
1901  2000 
 1906 - Carlos Pellegrini, President of Argentina (b. 1846)
 1912 – Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854)
 1918 - Russian Tsarist Family executed by the Bolsheviks:
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (Gregorian calendar date) (b. 1868)
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1895)
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1897)
Tsarevich Alexei of Russia (b. 1904)
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1899)
Alexandra Fyodorovna, Tsarina of Russia (b. 1872)
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1901)
 1925 - Lovis Corinth, German artist and sculptor (b. 1858)
 1928 – Giovanni Giolitti, five-times Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1842)
 1928 - Alvaro Obregon, 39th President of Mexico (b. 1880)
 1944 - William James Sidis, American mathematician (b. 1898)
 1950 - Evangeline Booth, 4th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1865)
 1953 - Maude Adams, American actress (b. 1872)
 1959 – Billie Holiday, singer (b. 1915)
1959 – Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (The Washington Post) (b. 1875)
 1961 – Ty Cobb, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1886)
 1967 – John Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1926)
 1974 - Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1910)
 1975 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
 1980 – Boris Delaunay, Soviet/Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
 1994 - Jean Borotra, French tennis player (b. 1898)
 1995 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)
 1996 - Victims of TWA Flight 800:
Michael Breistorff, French ice hockey player (b. 1971)
Marcel Dadi, Tunisian-French guitarist (b. 1951)
David Hogan, American composer (b. 1949)
Jed Johnson, American interior designer and director (b. 1948)
Pam Lynchner, American real estate agent and activist (b. 1959)
 1996 - Chas Chandler, American bass player and producer (The Animals) (b. 1938)
2001  2010 
 2001 – Katharine Graham, Washington Post publisher (b. 1917)
 2002 – Joseph Luns, NATO Secretary-General (b. 1910)
 2003 – Hans Abich, German TV producer (b. 1918)
 2003 – Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
 2003 – Dr. David Kelly, UN weapons inspector (b. 1944)
 2003 - Walter Zapp, German inventor (b. 1905)
 2004 – Pat Roach, American wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
 2005 – Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
 2005 - Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (b. 1913)
 2006 – Mickey Spillane, American writer (b. 1918)
 2008 - Larry Haines, American actor (b. 1918)
 2009 – Walter Cronkite, American broadcast journalist (b. 1916)
 2009 – Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1927)
 2009 – Meir Amit, Israeli general and politician (b. 1921)
 2010 – Bernard Giraudeau, French actor and director (b. 1947)