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1968 - The musical Hair opens on Broadway.
 1969 – Jazz musician Duke Ellington receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
 1970 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces go into Cambodia to hunt NLF soldiers.
 1974 – Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited word copies of White House tape recordings that deal with the scandal.
 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind – The last U.S. citizens begin to leave Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. United States part in the war comes to an end.
 1986 - Fire at central library of the Los Angeles Public Library damages over 400,000 books and other items.
 1986 - Funeral of Wallis Simpson, who had died five days earlier. Edward VIII of the United Kingdom had left the throne in order to marry her.
 1991 – Bangladesh is hit by a cyclone, killing at least 138,000 people.
 1991 – A train crash in Hunan province in China kills over 200 people.
1992 – 1992 Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, follow the release of police officers charged with too much strength and force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days, 54 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
 1992 - NBA player Michael Jordan scores 56 points in a playoff game against the Miami Heat in what is considered one of the greatest games of his career.
 1997 – The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, and makes the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons illegal.
 1999 – The Avala TV tower in Belgrade in destroyed by NATO allied bombing.
From 2001 
 2002 – The United States is re-elected (chosen again) to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.
 2004 - Oldsmobile builds its final car, ending 107 years of production.
 2005 – Syrian troops complete their withdrawal from Lebanon.
 2011 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge marries Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London.
 2013 - NBA player Jason Collins announces that he is openly gay, the first American sportsman to come out as gay while still active.
 2015 - Members of the Bali Nine are executed for drug trafficking in Indonesia.
 2015 - The World Health Organization declares that rubella has been eradicated from the Americas.
 2017 - Access to Wikipedia is blocked in Turkey.
 2018 - Amber Rudd resigns as the British Home Secretary and is succeeded by Sajid Javid.
 2019 - The Indonesian government announces plan to move the country's capital city away from Jakarta.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1667 – John Arbuthnot, Scottish doctor, mathematician and writer (d. 1735)
 1686 - Vasily Tartishchev, Russian statesman, historian and geographer (d. 1750)
 1727 – Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer, founder of modern ballet (d. 1810)
 1745 – Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1807)
 1762 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (d. 1833)
 1766 - Nicolas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley, English statesman (d. 1851)
 1780 - Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)
 1784 - Samuel Turrell Armstrong, Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1850)
 1818 – Tsar Alexander II of Russia (d. 1881)
 1820 - Henry Watkins Alley, Confederate general and Governor of Louisiana (d. 1866)
 1823 - Konrad von Mauer, German legal historian (d. 1902)
 1824 – Francisco Pi y Margell, Catalan-Spanish politician and writer (d. 1901)
 1837 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891)
 1847 - Joachim Andersen, Danish flautist, conductor and composer (d. 1909)
1848 - Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter (d. 1906)
 1854 – Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
 1857 – Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (d. 1905)
 1863 – Constantine Cavafy, Greek poet (d. 1933)
 1863 – William Randolph Hearst, American media tycoon (d. 1951)
 1868 – Alice Keppel, English socialite and mistress to Edward VII (d. 1947)
 1871 - William Stern, German psychologist (d. 1938)
 1872 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman, lawyer and horse-breeder (d. 1930)
 1875 - Margaret Preston, Australian artist (d. 1963)
 1875 - Rafael Sabatini, Italian-English writer (d. 1950)
 1876 – Zauditu, Empress of Ethiopia (d. 1930)
 1879 – Thomas Beecham, British conductor (d. 1961)
 1882 - Hendrik Nicolaes Werkman, Dutch artist and painter (d. 1945)
 1885 – Egon Erwin Kisch, Czech journalist and writer (d. 1948)
 1887 - Raymond Thorne, American freestyle swimmer (d. 1921)
 1891 - Bharathidasan, Indian Tamil poet (d. 1964)
 1893 – Harold C. Urey, American chemist (d. 1981)
1894 - Marietta Blau, Austrian physicist (d. 1970)
 1895 - Vladimir Propp, Russian folkorist (d. 1970)
 1895 – Malcolm Sargent, British conductor (d. 1967)
 1899 – Duke Ellington, American pianist and jazz musician (d. 1974)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (d. 1989)
 1907 – Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born movie director (d. 1997)
 1907 - Chuya Nakahara, Japanese poet (d. 1937)
 1907 - Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (d. 1983)
 1909 - Tom Ewell, American actor (d. 1994)
 1915 – Donald Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers) (d. 1999)
 1917 - Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
 1917 - Maya Deren, Ukrainian-American director, poet and photographer (d. 1961)
 1917 - Urie Bronfenbrenner, Russian-American psychologist (d. 2005)
 1919 - Alla Rakha, Indian tabla player (d. 2000)
 1921 – Cornelis de Jager, Dutch astronomer
 1922 – Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician and harmonica player (d. 2016)
 1923 – Irvin Kershner, American movie director (d. 2010)
 1924 - Zizi Jeanmaire, French dancer and actress
 1925 – Iwao Takamoto, Japanese-American animator and movie director (d. 2007)
 1925 – John Compton, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2007)
 1925 - Ned Austin, American actor (d. 2007)
1925 - Colette Marchand, French dancer and actress (d. 2015)
 1926 – Paul Baran, American computer pioneer (d. 2011)
 1927 - Dorothy Manley, British athlete
 1927 - Bill Slater, British footballer (d. 2018)
 1928 - Heinz Wolff, German-British scientist and broadcaster (d. 2017)
 1929 – Walter Kempowski, German writer (d. 2007)
 1929 - Ray Barretto, American jazz musician (d. 2006)
 1929 - Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer and conductor (d. 2014)
 1929 - Maurice Strong, Canadian businessman and diplomat (d. 2015)
 1929 - Jeremy Thorpe, English politician (d. 2014)
 1930 - Joe Porcaro, American musician
 1930 - Henri Coppens, Belgian footballer (d. 2015)
 1930 - Claus Ogerman, German-American composer
 1930 - Jean Rochefort, French actor and director (d. 2017)
 1931 - Frank Auerbach, German-British painter
 1931 - Lonnie Donegan, Scottish singer, songwriter and musician (d. 2002)
 1933 – Mark Eyskens, former Prime Minister of Belgium
 1933 - Rod McKuen, American poet and composer (d. 2015)
1933 - Willie Nelson, American singer and musician
 1934 – Pedro Pires, former President of Cape Verde
 1934 - Bill Vander Zalm, Dutch-Canadian politician, 28th Premier of British Columbia
 1935 - April Ashley, English model
 1936 – Zubin Mehta, Indian-born conductor
 1936 - Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentine poet (d. 1972)
 1936 - Lane Smith, American actor (d. 2005)
 1938 - Klaus Voormann, German artist, musician and producer
 1938 – Bernard Madoff, American financier and convict
 1938 - E. Ahamed, Indian politician (d. 2017)
 1941 - Toney Anaya, former Governor of New Mexico
 1942 - Galina Kulakova, Soviet cross-country skier
 1942 - Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, English politician
 1944 – Hermann Scheer, German politician (d. 2010)
 1944 – Princess Benedikte of Denmark
 1944 - Richard Kline, American actor and director
 1945 - Tammi Terrell, American singer (d. 1970)
 1947 - Joey Levine, American singer and composer
 1947 - Jim Ryun, American athlete and politician
1949 - Anita Dobson, English actress
 1950 – Phillip Noyce, Australian movie director
1951  1975 
 1951 - John Holmes, British diplomat
 1951 – Dale Earnhardt, American racing driver (d. 2001)
 1952 – David Icke, British writer, and former footballer and journalist
 1952 - Rob Nicholson, Canadian politician
 1953 - Nikolai Budarin, Russian cosmonaut
 1954 – Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
 1955 – Kate Mulgrew, American actress
 1955 - Klaus Siebert, German biathlete (d. 2016)
 1957 – Daniel Day-Lewis, British actor
 1957 - Timothy Treadwell, American activist (d. 2003)
 1958 – Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
 1958 - Giovanni Galli, Italian footballer
 1960 - Lachele Carl, American voice actress
 1964 – Federico Castelluccio, Italian-American actor
 1965 - Angelo Alessio, Italian footballer
 1966 - Ramón Medina Bello, Argentine footballer
 1966 – Phil Tufnell, English cricketer
 1967 - Master P, American rapper
 1967 - Curtis Joseph, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
 1968 - Michael Herbig, German actor, comedian, director and producer
 1970 – Andre Agassi, American tennis player
1970 – Uma Thurman, American actress
 1972 – Marko Rehmer, German footballer
 1972 - Derek Mears, American actor and stuntman
 1972 - Takahiro Yamada, Japanese footballer
 1973 - David Belle, French actor
 1974 - Anggun, Indonesian-French singer-songwriter
From 1976 
 1978 – Bob Bryan, American tennis player
 1978 – Mike Bryan, American tennis player
 1979 – Lee Dong-Gook, South Korean footballer
 1979 – Jo O'Meara, English singer (S Club)
 1979 - Matt Tong, English drummer (Bloc Party)
 1980 – Kian Egan, Irish singer (Westlife)
 1980 - Luciano Milo, Italian ice dancer
 1980 - Magdalena Tul, Polish actress
 1982 - Travis Smith, American musician
 1983 - Semih Senturk, Turkish footballer
 1983 - Yuriko Shiratori, Japanese model and actress
 1984 - Taylor Cole, American actress
 1985 – Jean-François Jacques, Canadian ice hockey player
 1986 - Crystal Harris, American model
 1987 - Sara Errani, Italian tennis player
 1987 – Alicia Morton, American actress
 1988 – Jonathan Toews, NHL ice hockey centre for the Chicago Blackhawks
 1988 – Younha, South Korean singer
 1989 – Charlotte Francis, English actress
 1991 - Oviya, Indian model and actress
 1992 - Emilio Orozco, American soccer player
 1994 - Stephen Milne, Scottish swimmer
1995 - Victoria Sinitsina, Russian ice dancer
 2007 - Infanta Sofía of Spain, Spanish royal
Up to 1950 
 643 - Hou Junji, Chinese chancellor during the Tang Dynasty
 926 - Burchard III, Duke of Swabia
 1380 – Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)
 1594 - Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer and writer
 1688 – Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1620)
 1698 – Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)
 1707 – George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)
 1768 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1694)
 1771 - Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, French-Italian architect (b. 1700)
 1776 - Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713)
 1782 - Richard Kempenfelt, English admiral (b. 1718)
 1793 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713)
 1827 - Rufus King, American politician (b. 1755)
 1854 - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English field marshal and politician (b. 1768)
 1905 - Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (b. 1847)
 1921 - Annie Edson Taylor, American adventuress (b. 1838)
1933 – Constantine Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)
 1935 – Leroy Carr, American blues singer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1905)
 1937 – William Gillette, actor (b. 1853)
 1944 – Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851)
 1947 - Irving Fisher, American economist (b. 1867)
1951  2000 
 1951 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1889)
 1957 – Belle Baker, American 1920s torch singer, movie and television actress (b. 1893)
 1961 - Cisco Houston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918)
 1967 – Anthony Mann, American actor and director (b. 1867)
 1967 - J. B. Lenoir, American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter (b. 1929)
 1968 - Anthony Boucher, American science fiction writer (b. 1911)
 1980 – Alfred Hitchcock, British movie director (b. 1899)
 1992 - Mae Clarke, American actress (b. 1910)
 1993 – Mick Ronson, British musician (b. 1946)
 1997 – Mike Royko, columnist (b. 1932)
 2000 - Pham Van Dong, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1906)
From 2001 
 2001 – Barend Biesheuvel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1920)
 2002 - Sune Andersson, Swedish footballer (b. 1921)
 2005 – William J. Bell, soap opera creator, writer, producer (b. 1927)
 2006 - John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist (b. 1908)
 2007 – Ivica Racan, Croatian Prime Minister (b. 1944)
 2008 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss physicist (b. 1906)
 2008 - Bo Yang, Chinese author and cultural critic (b. 1920)
 2012 - Eric Charden, French singer (b. 1943)
 2012 – Shukri Ghanem, Libyan politician (b. 1942)
 2012 - Joel Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1957)
 2012 – Amarillo Slim, American professional poker player (b. 1928)
 2014 - Michael Kadosh, Israeli footballer (b. 1940)
 2014 - Bob Hoskins, English actor (b. 1942)
 2014 - Al Feldstein, American writer and editor (b. 1925)
 2014 - Norma Pons, Argentine actress (b. 1943)
 2014 - M. V. Devan, Indian artist and writer (b. 1928)
 2014 - Walter Walsh, American FBI agent and Olympic shooter (b. 1907)
2014 - Reuven Feuerstein, Israeli psychologist (b. 1921)
 2014 - Edgars Vinters, Latvian painter (b. 1919)
 2015 - Members of the Bali Nine executed in Indonesia for drug trafficking:
Andrew Chan, Australian (b. 1981)
Rodrigo Gularte, Brazilian (b. 1972)
Myuran Sukumaran, Australian (b. 1984)
 2015 - Daniel Walker, American politician, 36th Governor of Illinois (b. 1922)
 2015 - Calvin Peete, American golfer (b. 1943)
 2015 - Jean Nidetch, American businesswoman (b. 1923)
 2015 - Gopulu, Indian illustrator and cartoonist (b. 1924)
 2016 - Alyson Bailes, British diplomat (b. 1949)
 2016 - Renato Corona, Filipino jurist (b. 1948)
 2016 - Jok Church, American cartoonist (b. 1949)
 2016 - Dmytro Hnatyuk, Ukrainian baritone and opera singer (b. 1925)
 2016 - Chen Zhongshi, Chinese writer (b. 1942)
 2017 - George Genyk, American football player and coach (b. 1938)
 2017 - R Vidyasagar Rao, Indian irrigation engineer (b. 1939)
 2018 - Luis García Meza Tejada, President of Bolivia (b. 1929)
2018 - Derek Keys, South African businessman and politician (b. 1931)
 2018 - Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, Scottish politician (b. 1945)
 2018 - Lester James Peries, Sri Lankan film director and screenwriter (b. 1919)
 2018 - Robert Mandan, American actor (b. 1932)
 2019 - Eldon Bargewell, American general (b. 1947)
 2019 - Stevie Chalmers, Scottish footballer (b. 1935)
 2019 - Gino Marchetti, American football player (b. 1926)
 2019 - Les Murray, Australian poet (b. 1938)
 2019 - José Rodrigues Neto, Brazilian footballer (b. 1949)
 2019 - John Singleton, American film director (b. 1968)
 2019 - Ellen Tauscher, American politician (b. 1951)
Observances 
 Showa Day in Japan, birthday of Hirohito
 UK Bank Holiday (in 2011)
 International Dance Day

Days of the year
It is the last day of the first third of the year.

Events
Up to 1950 
 313 - Battle of Tzillarum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus II and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire.
 711 – Tariq ibn Ziyad reaches Gibraltar, beginning Moorish rule in Spain.
 1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
 1557 - Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile
 1789 – George Washington becomes the first President of the United States.
 1802 - The break of the Puentes Reservoir in Spain kills 608 people
 1803 – The US buys the Louisiana Territory from France, more than doubling its land area.
 1812 – Louisiana becomes a state of the US.
 1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
 1863 - A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man at Hacienda Camaron, Mexico.
 1871 - Camp Grant Massacre in the Arizona Territory.
1885 - Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation near Niagara Falls. It is New York's first State Park.
 1900 – Hawaii becomes a US territory, with Sanford Dole as Governor.
 1907 – Honolulu becomes an independent city.
 1908 - Japanese small cruiser Matsushima sinks after a munitions explosion near Taiwan, killing 206 out of the 347 men on board.
 1920 – Peru becomes a signatory of the Buenos Aires Convention.
 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
 1927 - The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
 1937 - In a referendum, women in Philippines support being given the right to vote.
 1938 - First televised FA Cup final between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End
 1939 - Start of the 1939/40 World's Fair in New York City.
1939 - NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled TV service in New York City.
 1941 – British steam freighter Nerissa is torpedoed near Rockall by a German U-boat, causing it to sink, with the loss of 207 lives.
 1943 - World War II: Operation Mincemeat - Submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans dressed as a British military intelligence officer.
 1945 – World War II: One day after getting married, Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun commit suicide. On the same day, Red Army troops raise the Soviet flag on the Reichstag building.
 1945 – World War II: American forces take Munich.
 1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam for the second time.
 1948 - The Organization of American States is formed in Bogota, Colombia.
From 1951 
 1952 – The Diary of Anne Frank is published in English.
 1961 - K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
 1963 - Fehmarnsundbroen, a bridge connecting the island of Fehmarn to mainland Denmark, is opened to traffic.
 1966 – The Church of Satan is founded.
 1975 – With the fall of Saigon, the Vietnam War officially comes to an end.
 1980 – Beatrix becomes Queen of the Netherlands, after the decision of her mother, Queen Juliana to abdicate the throne.
 1980 - The siege at the Iranian Embassy begins in London.
 1985 - US entrepreneur Dick Bass climbs Mount Everest, becoming the first person to successfully climb the "Seven Summits", the highest peaks on each continent.
 1993 – The World Wide Web is released for use.
 1993 – Tennis player Monica Seles is stabbed by an obsessed fan of her rival Steffi Graf, during a tournament in Germany.
1994 – Austrian Formula 1 driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash, while practising for the San Marino Grand Prix, at which fellow driver Ayrton Senna is killed the next day.
 1995 - Bill Clinton becomes the first President of the United States to visit Northern Ireland.
 1995 - Greenpeace activists occupy the Shell Oil Company-owned oil platform Brent Spar between Shetland and Norway, to protest against its planned sinking in the North Sea.
 1999 – Cambodia joins ASEAN.
 2004 - US media release graphic photographs of US soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
 2006 – Along with her brother, Swiss ski racer Corinne Rey-Bellet is shot dead by her husband, who commits suicide a short time later.
 2009 - Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
 2009 – Netherlands: An attempted attack is made on the Dutch Royal Family at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, as a car is driven into the crowd, killing seven spectators, and the perpetrator, Karst Tates, who dies the next day.
2012 - A ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India, killing at least 103 people.
 2013 - Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicates the throne. Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands is the new King, the first Dutch King since 1890.
 2019 - Akihito abdicates as Emperor of Japan, passing the throne to his son Naruhito.
Births

Up to 1800 
 1245 – King Philip III of France (d. 1285)
 1306 - Andrea Dandolo, ruler of Venice (d. 1354)
 1310 – Casimir III of Poland (d. 1368)
 1331 – Gaston III, Count of Foix (d. 1391)
 1553 - Louise of Lorraine (d. 1601)
 1586 – Saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617)
 1602 – William Lilly, English astrologer (d. 1681)
 1623 – François de Laval, first bishop of New France (d. 1708)
 1651 – Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French educational reformer (d. 1719)
 1662 – Queen Mary II of England (d. 1694)
 1664 – François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (d. 1709)
 1710 – Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (d. 1795)
 1721 – Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
 1723 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (d. 1806)
 1758 - Emmanuel Vitale, Maltese commander and politician (d. 1802)
 1770 – David Thompson, English-Canadian explorer (d. 1857)
 1777 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1855)
1801  1900 
 1803 – Albrecht von Roon, Prussian politician (d. 1879)
 1812 – Kaspar Hauser, German boy whose early life is a mystery (d. 1833)
 1823 - George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (d. 1900)
 1829 - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (d. 1884)
 1831 - Romolo Gessi, Italian explorer in Africa (d. 1881)
 1839 - Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria (d. 1892)
 1852 – Tewfik Pasha, ruler of Egypt (d. 1892)
 1857 – Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1940)
 1864 - Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet (d. 1913)
 1865 – Max Nettlau, German anarchist and historian (d. 1944)
 1869 - Hans Poelzig, German architect, painter and set designer (d. 1936)
 1870 – Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (d. 1948)
 1870 - Homer Stille Cummings, American jurist and politician (d. 1956)
 1876 - Oros Mario Corbino, Italian physicist and politician (d. 1937)
 1877 – Alice B. Toklas, American companion of Gertrude Stein (d. 1967)
 1883 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (d. 1923)
1883 - Luigi Russolo, Italian painter and composer (d. 1947)
 1884 - Olof Sandborg, Swedish movie and theatre actor (d. 1965)
 1887 – Anne Zernike, Dutch theologian and minister (d. 1972)
 1888 - David Jacobs, Welsh athlete (d. 1976)
 1889 - Fritz Pfeffer, German dentist and Holocaust victim (d. 1944)
 1893 – Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister (d. 1946)
 1895 - Philippe Paneton, Canadian physician, academic and diplomat (d. 1960)
 1897 - Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter (d. 1983)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
 1902 – Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
 1905 – Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician (d. 2012)
 1908 – Eve Arden, American actress (d. 1990)
 1908 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1970)
 1909 – Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
 1913 - Ilmar Raud, Estonian chess player (d. 1941)
 1915 - Elio Toaff, Italian rabbi (d. 2015)
 1916 – Claude Shannon, American engineer and mathematician (d. 2001)
 1916 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (d. 1999)
 1917 - Bea Wain, American singer (d. 2017)
 1918 - Don McNeill, American tennis player (d. 1996)
 1923 - Al Lewis, American actor (d. 2006)
 1923 - Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2004)
 1925 – Johnny Horton, American musician (d. 1960)
 1925 - Corinne Calvet, French actress (d. 2001)
 1926 - Cloris Leachman, American actress (d. 2021)
 1930 - Félix Guattari, French psychologist (d. 1992)
1932 – Antonio Tejero, Spanish coup leader
 1933 - Darwin Hindman, American politician (d. 2019)
 1938 - Lucho Avilés, Uruguayan-Argentine entertainment journalist (d. 2019)
 1938 - Gary Collins, American actor (d. 2012)
 1938 – Larry Niven, American writer
 1939 - Pieter van Vollenhoven, brother-in-law to Beatrix of the Netherlands
 1940 - Ermindo Onega, Argentine footballer
 1940 – Burt Young, American actor
 1941 – Johnny Farina, American guitarist (Santo and Johnny)
 1941 - Stavros Dimas, Greek politician
 1941 - Buddy Cianci, American politician (d. 2016)
 1942 - Maurizio Arcieri, Italian singer (d. 2015)
 1943 – Bobby Vee, American singer (d. 2016)
 1943 – Frederick Chiluba, former President of Zambia (d. 2011)
 1944 - Jon Bing, Norwegian writer and law professor (d. 2014)
 1944 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (d. 2010)
 1944 – Rudi Assauer, German footballer (d. 2019)
 1945 – Annie Dillard, American writer
 1945 – Michael Smith, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1945 - Lara Saint Paul, Italian-Eritrean singer (d. 2018)
 1946 – King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
 1946 – Sven Nordqvist, Swedish writer and illustrator
 1946 – Bill Plympton, American animator and director
 1946 – Don Schollander, American swimmer
 1947 - Mats Odell, Swedish politician
 1947 - Bruce Hampton, American musician (d. 2017)
 1947 - Leslie Grantham, English actor (d. 2018)
 1947 - Thomas Goppel, German politician
 1948 – Perry King, American actor
 1949 – Phil Garner, American baseball manager
 1949 – António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations and former Prime Minister of Portugal
1951  1975 
 1951 - Ken Whiteley, Canadian folk musician
 1952 - Jacques Audiard, French movie director and screenwriter
 1953 - Merrill Osmond, American actor and singer (The Osmonds)
 1954 – Jane Campion, New Zealand movie director
 1954 - Kim Darroch, British diplomat
 1955 - Julio Cobos, Argentine politician
 1955 – Nicolas Hulot, French journalist and writer
 1956 – Jorge Chaminé, Portuguese baritone
 1956 – Lars von Trier, Danish movie director
 1957 - Aviva Chomsky, American historian and writer
 1957 - Giuseppe Sannino, Italian footballer
 1958 - Charles Berling, French actor, director and producer
 1959 - Paul Gross, Canadian actor, producer, director, singer and writer
 1959 – Stephen Harper, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
 1960 - David Miscavige, leader of the Church of Scientology
 1961 – Isiah Thomas, American basketball player, coach, and team owner
 1961 – Thomas Schaaf, German footballer
 1961 - Franky Van der Elst, Belgian footballer
1962 - Nikolai Fomenko, Russian musician, actor and racing driver
 1964 - Lorenzo Staelens, Belgian footballer
 1964 – Barrington Levy, Jamaican musician
 1964 - Ian Healy, English cricketer
 1967 - Steven Mackintosh, English actor
 1969 – Justine Greening, English politician
 1969 – Paulo Jr., Brazilian bassist (Sepultura)
 1969 – Clark Vogeler, American guitarist (The Toadies)
 1973 – Naomi Novik, American writer
 1975 – Elliott Sadler, American race car driver
 1975 - Johnny Galecki, American actor
From 1976 
 1976 - Amanda Palmer, American musician and songwriter
 1978 – Tom Fulp, Newgrounds creator
 1978 – Simone Barone, Italian footballer
 1979 – Gerardo Torrado, Mexican footballer
 1980 - Sam Heughan, Scottish actor
 1980 - Jeroen Verhoeven, Dutch footballer
 1981 – Kunal Nayyar, British actor
 1981 – John O'Shea, Irish footballer
 1982 – Kirsten Dunst, American actress
 1982 – Justin Green, National Football League fullback
 1982 - Drew Seeley, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, dancer and actor
 1983 - Chris Carr, American football player
 1983 – Nenad Milijas, Serbian footballer
 1983 – Tatjana Hüfner, German luger
 1983 – Troy Williamson, American football player
 1984 - Seimone Augustus, American basketball player
 1984 - Sophie Turner, Australian model, television personality and lawyer
 1985 - Gal Gadot, Israeli model and actress
 1986 – Dianna Agron, American actress
 1987 - Rohit Sharma, Indian cricketer
 1989 - Jang Wooyoung, South Korean singer
 1989 - Baauer, American DJ and producer
1990 - Jonny Brownlee, English triathlete
 1990 - Michael Schulte, German singer
 1991 - Kaarel Nurmsalu, Estonian ski jumper
 1992 - Marc-André ter Stegen, German footballer 
 2002 - Miguel Urdangarín y de Borbon, Spanish royal
Up to 1900 
 65 – Lucan, Roman poet (born 39)
 1030 - Mahmud of Ghazni, Indian ruler of the Ghaznavid Dynasty (b. 971)
 1063 – Emperor Renzong of China (born 1010)
 1131 - Adjutor, French knight and saint
 1341 - John III, Duke of Brittany (born 1285)
 1439 - Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, English military leader (born 1382)
 1513 – Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist claimant to the English throne
 1544 - Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England
 1550 - Tabinshwehti, King of Burma (born 1516)
 1555 – Pope Marcellus II (born 1501)
 1632 – King Sigismund of Sweden (born 1561)
 1632 – Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, military leader in the Thirty Years' War (born 1559)
 1637 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyo (born 1571)
 1660 - Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (born 1576)
 1672 - Marie of the Incarnation, French-Canadian nun and saint (born 1599)
 1736 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German classical scholar and bibliographer (born 1668)
1792 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English politician (born 1718)
 1795 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French numismatist (born 1716) 
 1806 - Onogawa Kisaburo, Japanese sumo wrestler (born 1758)
 1847 - Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Austrian nobleman and general (born 1771)
 1863 - Jean Danjou, French captain (b. 1828)
 1865 – Robert FitzRoy, British admiral and meteorologist (born 1805)
 1879 - Emma Hale Smith Bidamon, American religious leader (born 1804)
 1883 – Edouard Manet, French painter (born 1832)
 1895 – Gustav Freytag, German writer and journalist (born 1810)
1901  2000 
 1903 - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (born 1831)
 1906 - James E. Boyd, Irish-American politician, 8th Governor of Nebraska (born 1834)
 1926 – Bessie Coleman, American pilot (born 1892)
 1933 – Luis Miguel Sanchez Cerro, President of Peru (born 1889)
 1936 - Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (born 1859)
 1943 - Otto Jespersen, Danish linguist (born 1860)
 1945 – Eva Braun, mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler (born 1912)
 1945 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian politician, Nazi leader (born 1889)
 1956 – Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (born 1877)
 1966 - Richard Farina, American writer and singer (born 1837)
 1970 - Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (born 1934)
 1974 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress (born 1900)
 1980 - Luis Munoz Marin, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician (born 1898)
 1983 – George Balanchine, Georgian-born dancer and choreographer (born 1904)
 1983 – Muddy Waters, American musician (born 1915)
1983 - Edouard Wyss-Dunant, Swiss physician and mountaineer (born 1897)
 1989 – Sergio Leone, Italian movie director (born 1929)
 1989 - Bangja, Crown Princess Eumin of Korea (born 1901)
 1990 - Mario Pizziolo, Italian footballer (born 1909)
 1993 – Mario Evaristo, Argentine footballer (born 1908)
 1994 – Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian racecar driver (born 1960)
 1994 - Richard Scarry, American children's writer and illustrator (born 1919)
 1995 – Maung Maung Kha, Burmese politician (born 1920)
 1999 – Alf Ramsey, English football manager (born 1920)
 2000 - Poul Hartling, 36th Prime Minister of Denmark (born 1914)
From 2001 
 2003 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (born 1923)
 2006 – Corinne Rey-Bellet, Swiss ski racer (born 1972)
 2007 – Gregory Lemarchal, French singer (born 1983)
 2009 - Venetia Burney, English girl who named the dwarf planet Pluto (born 1918)
 2009 - Henk Nijdam, Dutch cyclist (born 1935)
 2010 – Paul Mayer, German cardinal (born 1911)
 2011 – Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer and physicist (born 1911)
 2011 - Dorjee Khandu, Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (born 1955)
 2012 – Tomas Borge, Nicaraguan politician (born 1930)
 2012 – Alexander Dale Oen, Norwegian swimmer (born 1985)
 2012 - George Murdock, American actor (born 1928)
 2013 - Mike Gray, American writer, screenwriter, cinematographer and producer (b. 1935)
 2014 - Ian Ross, Australian TV news presenter (b. 1940)
 2014 - Chris Harris, English actor, director and writer (b. 1942)
 2015 - Gregory Mertens, Belgian footballer (b. 1991)
 2015 - Patachou, French actress and singer (b. 1918)
2015 - Ben E. King, American singer (b. 1938)
 2015 - Lennart Bodström, Swedish politician (b. 1928)
 2015 - William Pfaff, American writer and columnist (b. 1928)
 2015 - Ronald Senator, British composer (b. 1926)
 2015 - Nigel Terry, British actor (b. 1945)
 2015 - David Fonseca, Belizean politician (b. 1954)
 2016 - Harry Kroto, British chemist (b. 1939)
 2016 - Daniel Aaron, American writer and academic (b. 1912)
 2016 - Daniel Berrigan, American priest, poet and activist (b. 1921)
 2016 - Marisol Escobar, French-born American sculptor (b. 1930)
 2016 - Uwe Friedrichsen, German actor (b. 1934)
 2016 - Peter Thomas, American narrator (b. 1924)
 2016 - Vasily Zvyagintsev, Russian science fiction writer (b. 1944)
 2017 - Ueli Steck, Swiss mountaineer and rock climber (b. 1976)
 2017 - Belchior, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1946)
 2017 - Mbah Gotho, Indonesian claimed supercentenarian (b. claimed 1870)
 2017 - Lorna Gray, American actress (b. 1917)
2017 - Raymond P. Kogovsek, American politician (b. 1941)
 2017 - Boris Oleynik, Ukrainian poet, translator and politician (b. 1935)
 2017 - Jean Stein, American writer and editor (b. 1934)
 2018 - Joel Kovel, American environmentalist and anti-war activist (b. 1936)
 2018 - Rose Laurens, French singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
 2018 - Geneviève Claisse, French painter (b. 1935)
 2018 - Anatole Katok, Russian-American mathematician (b. 1944)
 2018 - John Treacher, British admiral (b. 1924)
 2019 - Anémone, French actress (b. 1950)
 2019 - Beth Carvalho, Brazilian samba singer (b. 1946)
 2019 - Luciano Comaschi, Italian footballer (b. 1931)
 2019 - Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (b. 1944)
 2019 - S. P. Y. Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1950)
Observances 
 Queen's Day in the Netherlands (birthday of Queen Juliana), celebrated on this date from 1949 to 2013
 King Carl XVI Gustaf's birthday, official Flag Day in Sweden
 Walpurgis Night (Central and Northern Europe)
 International Jazz Day
 Liberation Day (Vietnam)
 Children's Day (Mexico)
 Armed Forces Day (Georgia)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege.
 1520 - The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
 1521 - Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and other estates of the empire.
 1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the city of Salta, Argentina.
 1705 - Isaac Newton is knighted, becoming a Sir.
 1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought near Inverness, Scotland, as a Highlander army is defeated by a Lowlander army, led by the Duke of Cumberland.
 1780 – The University of Muenster in Germany is founded.
 1799 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Mount Tabor - Napoleon Bonaparte drives the Ottoman Turks across the Jordan River near Acre, in present-day Israel.
 1818 - The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada.
1847 - The accidental shooting of a Maori by an English sailor results in the start of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Land Wars.
 1853 – India's first passenger rail opens from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
 1862 – American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills, Virginia
 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg
 1881 – Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle in Dodge City, Kansas.
 1888 – Germany annexes Nauru.
 1894 - Manchester City F.C. is formed from Ardwick F.C.
1901  2000 
 1908 – The Natural Bridges National Monument is created in Utah.
 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
 1917 - Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd from exile in Switzerland.
 1919 - Mahatma Gandhi organizes a day of "Prayer and Fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protestors in Amritsar, in the Jallianwala Massacre by British colonial troops three days earlier.
 1919 - Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in present-day Lithuania.
 1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo is signed, re-establishing diplomatic relations between Germany and Soviet Russia.
 1925 - A Communist assault on Saint Nedelya Church in Sofia, Bulgaria, kills 150 people.
 1941 – World War II: Italian convoy Duisburg is destroyed by British ships.
 1941 - A Fascist government led by Ante Pavelic comes to power in Croatia.
1941 - Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only opening day no-hitter in Major League Baseball, defeating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
 1943 – Albert Hofmann first discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
 1944 – World War II: The Allied bombing of Belgrade kills around 1,100 people.
 1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins its final assault on German forces around Berlin.
 1945 – World War II: German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo, killing around 7,000 people.
 1947 – Texas City, Texas, is set on fire after an explosion on a freighter, killing around 600 people.
 1947 – Bernard Baruch first uses the term Cold War.
 1953 – Queen Elizabeth II launches the royal yacht HMY Britannia.
 1961 - Fidel Castro declares himself a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is officially adopting Communism.
 1962 – Walter Cronkite becomes the lead anchor of CBS Evening News.
1963 – Martin Luther King, Jr. writes the 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' while imprisoned in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against racial segregation.
 1964 – The participants of the Great Train Robbery are sentenced to prison.
 1972 – Apollo 16 is launched.
 1990 – Jack Kevorkian participates in his first assisted suicide.
 1992 – The Katina P runs aground off Maputo, Mozambique, spilling around 60,000 tons of crude oil into the Indian Ocean.
 1994 - Hutu soldiers in Rwanda begin the Massacre of Nyarubuye on the Tutsi people. By the time it ends the next day, around 2,000 people have been killed.
 1996 - Basketball: The Chicago Bulls win a record 70th game in one NBA season. The team's most famous player at the time was Michael Jordan.
From 2001 
 2001 – India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border war.
 2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens, allowing 10 new members to join the EU on May 1, 2004.
 2007 – Seung-Hui Cho, kills 33 people, including himself in the Virginia Tech massacre, the worst shooting spree in modern US history.
 2012 – Anders Behring Breivik goes on trial for the July 22, 2011 Norway attacks.
 2013 - A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes southeast Iran, near the border with Pakistan. Damage is reported on both sides of the border.
 2014 - The MV Sewol ferry, travelling from Incheon to Jeju Island off the south coast of South Korea, sinks near Jindo Island off the southwest coast, killing 295 people.
 2014 - Scientists announce the possible discovery of a new moon of Saturn being created out of its rings.
 2016 - A large scale earthquake strikes Ecuador.
2017 - Turkey holds a referendum on changing the constitution to that of a Presidential republic; Results indicate just over half of voters support the proposal.
 2019 - The Notre-Dame de Paris fire, which broke out the previous evening, is extinguished by firefighters.
Births

Up to 1800 
 778 – King Louis the Pious (d. 840)
 1319 – King John II of France (d. 1364)
 1488 - Jungjong of Joseon of Korea (d. 1544)
 1495 – Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (d. 1557)
 1516 – Tabinshwehti, King of Burma (d. 1550)
 1619 - Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch ship doctor, salesman and colonial official (d. 1677)
 1646 - Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (d. 1708)
 1652 – Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
 1660 – Hans Sloane, English scientist (d. 1753)
 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman (d. 1715)
 1682 – John Hadley, English inventor (d. 1744)
 1693 – Anne Sophie Reventlow, Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1743)
 1728 - Joseph Black, Scottish scientist who discovered carbon gas (d. 1799)
 1730 - Henry Clinton, English general and politician (d. 1795)
 1786 – John Franklin, British royal navy officer and Arctic explorer (d. 1847)
 1799 - John Wesley Davis, American politician (d. 1850)
1801  1900 
 1808 - Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician (d. 1864)
 1821 – Ford Madox Brown, English painter (d. 1893)
 1823 - Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician and academic (d. 1852)
 1838 - Ernest Solvay, Belgian chemist (d. 1922)
 1839 – Antonio Starabba, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1908)
 1844 – Anatole France, French writer (d. 1924)
 1847 – Hans Auer, Swiss architect (d. 1906)
 1848 - Kandukuri Veerasalingam, Indian social reformer (d. 1919)
 1863 - Emile Friant, French painter (d. 1932)
 1866 - Jose de Diego, Puerto Rican statesman and journalist (d. 1918)
 1867 – Wilbur Wright of the Wright brothers, air travel pioneer (d. 1912)
 1868 - Spottiswoode Aitken, Scottish-American actor (d. 1933)
 1871 - Henry Stephenson, English actor (d. 1956)
 1871 – John Millington Synge, Irish writer (d. 1909)
 1885 – Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer and music educator (d. 1960)
 1886 – Ernst Thaelmann, German politician (d. 1944)
1886 - Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daughter of Woodrow Wilson (d. 1944)
 1887 – Gudjon Samuelsson, Icelandic architect (d. 1950)
 1888 - Billy Minter, English footballer (d. 1940)
 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, British actor and movie producer (d. 1977)
 1890 - Vernon Sturdee, Australian army commander (d. 1966)
 1890 – Michalis Dorizas, Greek javelin thrower (d. 1957)
 1890 - Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Russian linguist and ethnologist (d. 1938)
 1893 - Federico Mompou, Catalan composer and pianist (d. 1987)
 1894 - Ernst Ziegler, German actor (d. 1974)
 1895 - Ove Arup, English-Danish engineer (d. 1988)
 1896 – Pat Clayton, British surveyor and explorer (d. 1962)
 1896 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian poet (d. 1963)
 1900 – Polly Adler, Russian-born writer (d. 1962)
1901  1950 
 1905 – Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (d. 2005)
 1907 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor of the snowmobile (d. 1964)
 1908 - Ray Ventura, French pianist and bandleader (d. 1979)
 1911 - Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy (d. 1963)
 1912 – Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (d. 1997)
 1915 - Joan Alexander, American actress (d. 2009)
 1917 - Barry Nelson, American actor (d. 2007)
 1917 - Charlotte Salomon, German artist (d. 1943)
 1918 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (d. 2002)
 1919 – Merce Cunningham, American choreographer (d. 2009)
 1921 - Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and writer (d. 2014)
 1921 – Peter Ustinov, British actor (d. 2004)
 1922 – Kingsley Amis, British writer (d. 1995)
 1922 – Samuel Youd, British writer (d. 2012)
 1922 - Leo Tindemans, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014)
 1923 - Arch A. Moore, Jr., American politician, 28th and 30th Governor of West Virginia (d. 2015)
 1924 – Henry Mancini, American composer (d. 1994)
1924 - Rudy Pompilli, American musician (d. 1976)
 1927 - Peter Mark Richman, American actor
 1927 – Pope Benedict XVI
 1930 – Herbie Mann, American jazz flute player (d. 2003)
 1932 - Henk Schouten, Dutch footballer (d. 2018)
 1933 – Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster
 1933 - Vera Krepkina, Russian long jumper
 1933 - Marcos Alonso Imaz, Spanish footballer (d. 2012)
 1934 - Robert Stigwood, Australian-British music entrepreneur (d. 2016)
 1934 - Barrie Unsworth, Australian politician, 38th Premier of New South Wales
 1935 – Sarah Kirsch, German writer (d. 2013)
 1935 - Dominique Venner, French historian and writer (d. 2013)
 1935 - Bobby Vinton, American musician
 1936 - Derrick Sherwin, English television producer and actor (d. 2018)
 1937 - Vince Hill, English singer-songwriter and record producer
 1937 - Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist (d. 2015)
 1938 - Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician (d. 2017)
 1939 – Dusty Springfield, British singer (d. 1999)
 1940 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
1940 - Konstantin K. Kuzminsky, Russian poet (d. 2015)
 1941 - Cliff Stearns, American businessman and politician
 1942 – Frank Williams, Formula One team principal
 1944 – Richard Bradshaw, British opera conductor
 1944 - Dennis Russell Davies, American conductor and pianist
 1944 - Elmar Wepper, German actor
 1945 - Tom Allen, American politician
 1946 - Margot Adler, American writer, journalist and Wiccan priest (d. 2014)
 1946 - Ernst Bakker, Dutch politician (d. 2014)
 1947 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
 1947 – Gerry Rafferty, Scottish musician (d. 2011)
 1949 - Ann Romney, wife of Mitt Romney and former First Lady of Massachusetts
1951  1975 
 1951 – Björgvin Halldórsson, Icelandic singer
 1951 – Ari Kristinsson, Icelandic director and screenwriter
 1951 - Bill Walker, American politician, former Governor of Alaska
 1952 - Bill Belichick, American football coach
 1952 - Yoshikazu Nagai, Japanese footballer
 1952 - Billy West, American voice actor
 1954 - Ellen Barkin, American actress
 1954 - Sibylle Lewitscharoff, German writer
 1955 – Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
 1956 - David M. Brown, American captain, pilot and astronaut (d. 2003)
 1960 - Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician (d. 2007)
 1960 – Rafael Benítez, Spanish football manager
 1960 – Pierre Littbarski, German footballer
 1961 - Jarbom Gamlin, Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (d. 2014)
 1963 – Jimmy Osmond, American singer
 1963 - Saleem Malik, Pakistani cricketer
 1964 - Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish jazz pianist (d. 2008)
 1965 - Jon Cryer, American actor, screenwriter, movie director and producer
 1965 - Martin Lawrence, American actor and comedian
1965 - Michael Wong Man Tak, Hong Kong actor and singer
 1968 – Martin Dahlin, Swedish footballer
 1969 – Patrik Jaerbyn, Swedish ski racer
 1969 - Michael Baur, Austrian footballer
 1970 – Gabrielle, English singer
 1971 – Selena, Mexican-American singer (d. 1995)
 1971 - Natasha Zvereva, Belarussian tennis player
 1971 - Max Beesley, English actor and singer
 1971 - Peter Billingsley, American actor, director and producer
 1972 - Conchita Martínez, Spanish tennis player
 1973 - Akon, American singer
 1975 – Sean Maher, American actor
From 1976 
 1976 - Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress
 1976 - Robert Dahlqvist, Swedish guitarist and singer (d. 2017)
 1977 – Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
 1977 - Thomas Rasmussen, Danish footballer
 1977 – Alek Wek, Sudanese model
 1978 - Lara Dutta, Indian actress and model
 1978 - Igor Tudor, Croatian footballer
 1978 - Nikki Griffin, American actress
 1979 - Sixto Peralta, Argentine footballer
 1979 – Sean Costello, American blues musician (d. 2008)
 1980 - Reeyot Alemu, Ethiopian journalist
 1982 - Gina Carano, American actress, television personality, model and former mixed martial artist
 1982 - Boris Diaw, French basketball player
 1983 - Marié Digby, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress
 1984 – Claire Foy, British actress
 1985 – Luol Deng, Sudanese-British basketball player
 1985 – Brendon Leonard, New Zealand rugby player
 1985 - Sam Tillen, English footballer
 1985 – Taye Taiwo, Nigerian footballer
 1986 – Shinji Okazaki, Japanese footballer
1986 – Paul di Resta, Scottish racing driver
 1986 - Epke Zonderland, Dutch gymnast
 1987 – Aaron Lennon, English footballer
 1987 - Aleksander Vinter, Norwegian musician
 1988 - Hayley Squires, British actress
 1990 - Lily Loveless, British actress
 1990 – Lorraine Nicholson, American actress
 1991 - Kim Kyung-jung, South Korean footballer
 1992 – Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg
 1993 – Mirai Nagasu, American figure skater
 1993 - Chance the Rapper, American singer and rapper
 1994 – Liliana Mumy, American actress
 1996 - Kento Misao, Japanese footballer
 2002 - Sadie Sink, American actress
 2008 – Princess Eléonore of Belgium
Up to 1900 
 69 – Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
 665 - Fructuosus of Braga, French archbishop and saint
 744 – al-Walid II ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph
 1113 - Sviatopolk II of Kiev (b. 1050)
 1118 - Adelaide of Vasto, Italian wife of Roger II of Sicily (b. 1075)
 1198 – Duke Frederick I of Austria
 1687 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman and poet (b. 1628)
 1689 – Aphra Behn, dramatist (b. ca. 1640)
 1742 - Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, Italian poet (b. 1672)
 1756 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (b. 1677)
 1783 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
 1788 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (b. 1707)
 1828 – Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
 1846 - Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer (b. 1763)
 1850 – Marie Tussaud, French creator of waxworks (Madame Tussaud's) (b. 1761)
 1859 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
 1879 – Bernadette Soubirous, French Roman Catholic saint (b. 1844)
1888 – Zygmunt Florenty Wroblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845)
 1898 - Robert Milligan McLane, Governor of Maryland (b. 1815)
 1899 - Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (b. 1875)