Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1893 - Charles Merz, American journalist (d. 1977)
 1899 – Erich Kaestner, German writer (d. 1974)
 1899 – Norman Taurog, American movie director (d. 1981)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Ivar Lo-Johansson, Swedish writer (d. 1990)
 1904 – William L. Shirer, American historian (d. 1993)
 1904 - George Docking, Governor of Kansas (d. 1964)
 1906 - Samuel Joensen-Mikines, Faroese painter (d. 1979)
 1908 – William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988)
 1911 - G. Mennen Williams, Governor of Michigan (d. 1988)
 1914 - Theofiel Middelkamp, Dutch cyclist (d. 2005)
 1915 – Paul Tibbets, American Air Force pilot (d. 2007)
 1923 – Yiannis Grevas, 87th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2016)
 1923 - Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan politician (d. 2014)
 1924 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist (d. 1998)
 1924 - Claude Sautet, French director (d. 2000)
 1925 - Louis Stokes, American attorney and politician (d. 2015)
 1927 – Willie Ormond, Scottish footballer (d. 1984)
 1928 – Vasili Lazarev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1990)
 1928 - Hans Herrmann, German racing driver
 1929 – Patriarch Alexius II, Head of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 2008)
1929 - Jaan Einasto, Estonian cosmologist
 1929 - Elston Howard, American baseball player
 1932 - Majel Barrett, American actress (d. 2008)
 1935 – Diane Shalet, American actress (d. 2006)
 1937 - Tom Osborne, American football player
 1938 - Paul Morrissey, American movie director
 1938 – Diane Varsi, American actress (d. 1992)
 1940 – Peter Fonda, American actor (d. 2019)
 1942 - Dioncounda Traoré, Malian politician
 1944 – Johnny Winter, American musician (d. 2014)
 1944 - Bernard Cornwell, British writer
 1947 - Pia Kjaersgaard, Danish politician
 1947 - Boris Kuznetsov, Russian boxer (d. 2006)
 1948 - Steve Priest, British musician
 1949 - Marc Garneau, Canadian astronaut and politician
 1950 - Rebecca Goldstein, American writer and philosopher
1951  1975 
 1952 – Brad Whitford, American musician (Aerosmith)
 1953 - Satoru Nakashima, Japanese racing driver
 1953 - Adnan Polat, Turkish businessman
 1954 – Viktor Yushchenko, former President of Ukraine
 1955 - Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
 1955 - Francesca Simon, American writer
 1956 - Paul O'Neill, American producer, composer and songwriter (d. 2017)
 1956 – Reinhold Beckmann, German journalist and television presenter
 1957 - Andreas Schockenhoff, German politician (d. 2014)
 1958 - David Sylvain, English musician
 1959 - Clayton Anderson, American astronaut
 1959 - Ian Liddell-Grainger, Scottish soldier and politician
 1959 - Linda Nolan, Irish singer
 1959 - Graeme Morrice, Scottish politician
 1960 – Emperor Naruhito of Japan
 1963 - Radoslav Sikorski, Polish journalist and politician, foreign minister
 1964 – John Norum, Norwegian guitarist
 1965 - Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer
 1966 - Alexandre Borges, Brazilian actor
1969 - Michael Campbell, New Zealand golfer
 1971 – Melinda Messenger, British television presenter
 1973 – Lars-Olof Johansson, Swedish musician
 1975 - Wilfred Kibet Kigen, Kenyan marathon runner
 1975 - Michael Cornacchia, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
From 1976 
 1976 – Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress
 1976 - Satoshi Yoneyama, Japanese professional wrestler
 1978 - Jo Joyner, British actress
 1978 - Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player
 1980 - Kim Kyung-roul, South Korean billiards player (d. 2015)
 1981 – Gareth Barry, English footballer
 1981 - Jan Böhmermann, German satirist and comedian
 1982 - Anna Chapman, Russian agent
 1982 - Adam Hann-Byrd, American actor and screenwriter
 1982 - Karan Singh, Indian politician
 1983 – Mido, Egyptian footballer
 1983 – Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
 1983 – Emily Blunt, British actress
 1983 - Aziz Ansari, American actor, comedian and writer
 1984 - Jeong Yu-mi, South Korean actress
 1986 - Skylar Grey, American singer-songwriter
 1986 - Ola Svensson, Swedish pop singer
 1988 - Nicolas Gaitan, Argentine footballer
 1989 - Evan Bates, American ice dancer
 1989 - Amara Baby, French footballer
 1990 - Kevin Cheung, Mauritian swimmer
 1992 - Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
1993 - Kasumi Ishikawa, Japanese table tennis player
 1994 – Dakota Fanning, American actress
 1995 - Andrew Wiggins, Canadian basketball player
 2012 – Princess Estelle, Duchess of Ostergotland, second-in-line to the throne of Sweden
Up to 1900 
 1011 - Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz (b. 940)
 1072 - Peter Damian, theologian (b. 1007)
 1100 – Emperor Zhezong of China (b. 1076)
 1270 - Isabel of France (b. 1225)
 1447 - Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383)
 1447 - Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)
 1464 – Zhengtong, Emperor of China (b. 1427)
 1603 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician and botanist (b. 1519)
 1669 - Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (b. 1600)
 1766 – Stanislaw Leszczynski, King of Poland (b. 1677)
 1781 - George Taylor, Irish-American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1716)
 1792 – Joshua Reynolds, English painter (b. 1723)
 1821 – John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
 1848 – John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
 1855 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
 1859 - Zymunt Krasinski, Polish-Roman poet (b. 1812)
 1879 – Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1803)
1896 - Justo Arosemena, Colombian politician and writer (b. 1817)
 1897 - Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (b. 1828)
1901  2000 
 1918 - Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1882)
 1925 - Samuel Berger, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1884)
 1931 – Nellie Melba, Australian operatic soprano (b. 1861)
 1934 – Edward Elgar, English composer (b. 1857)
 1944 – Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist, inventor of Bakelite (b. 1863)
 1946 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885)
 1948 - John Robert Gregg, Irish-born publisher and inventor (b. 1866)
 1955 – Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
 1960 - Arthur Legat, British racing driver (b. 1898)
 1965 – Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890)
 1969 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
 1973 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician (b. 1895)
 1974 - Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b. 1895)
 1976 – L. S. Lowry, English painter (b. 1887)
 1979 - W. A. C. Bennett, 25th Premier of British Columbia (b. 1900)
 1983 - Hubert Howells, English composer (b. 1892)
 1984 – Uwe Johnson, German writer (b. 1934)
1990 – Jose Napoleon Duarte, President of El Salvador (b. 1925)
 1995 - James Herriot, British writer (b. 1916)
 1995 - Melvin Franklin, American singer (b. 1942)
 1996 – Helmut Schön, German football manager (b. 1915)
 2000 – Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
From 2001 
 2001 - Sergio Mantovani, Italian racing driver (b. 1929)
 2003 - Howie Epstein, American musician (b. 1955)
 2004 – Vijay Anand, Indian movie director (b. 1934)
 2004 - Sikander Bakht, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala (b. 1918)
 2004 - Neil Ardley, English jazz pianist and composer (b. 1955)
 2004 - Carl Liscombe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1915)
 2006 – Diane Shalet, American actress (b. 1935)
 2008 – Janez Drnovsek, Slovenian politician (b. 1950)
 2008 - Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver (b. 1917)
 2009 – Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect (b. 1924)
 2010 – Orlando Zapata, Cuban dissident, died after hunger strike (b. 1967)
 2011 - Nirmala Srivastava, Indian religious leader (b. 1923)
 2013 - Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (b. 1920)
 2014 - Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-born pianist, Holocaust survivor and supercentenarian (b. 1903)
 2015 - John Rowlands, Welsh writer and novelist (b. 1938)
 2016 - Ramon Castro Ruz, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1924)
2016 - Peter Lustig, German sound engineer and television presenter (b. 1937)
 2016 - Donald E. Williams, American astronaut (b. 1932)
 2017 - Alan Colmes, American political commentator and television presenter (b. 1950)
 2017 - Sabine Oberhauser, Austrian physician and politician (b. 1963)
 2017 - David Waddington, Baron Waddington, British politician (b. 1929)
 2017 - Leon Ware, American musician, record producer and songwriter (b. 1940)
 2018 - James Colby, American actor (b. 1961)
 2018 - James Laxer, Canadian political economist (b. 1941)
 2018 - Lewis Gilbert, British film director (b. 1920)
Observances
 Republic Day (Guyana)
 National Day (Brunei)
 Defender of the Fatherland Day (Russia)

Days of the year
Up to 1950 
 138 – Roman Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his heir.
 493 - Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theodoric the Great.
 1336 - 4,000 defenders of the Pilenai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
 1489 - Charles VIII of France recognizes Monaco as an independent state.
 1570 – Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
 1793 - George Washington holds the first cabinet meeting held by a President of the United States.
 1831 - Battle of Oloynka Grochowska, part of the Polish November Uprising against the Russian Empire.
 1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a US patent for the Colt revolver.
 1837 - Thomas Davenport gets the first patent for an electric motor.
 1843 - Provisional Cessation of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands is established by Lord George Paulet.
 1848 - The Provisional Government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers right.
1856 – A peace conference begins in Paris after the Crimean War.
 1866 - Miners at Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull.
 1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first African American to serve in the US Congress.
 1875 - Guangxu Emperor of China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
 1901 - J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
 1912 - Marie-Adelaide, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, at age 17, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
 1916 - World War I: The Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun.
 1917 – The British steamship RMS Laconia is sunk by a German U-boat off the south coast of Ireland, killing 12 people.
 1921 – Tbilisi, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
 1932 - Adolf Hitler is given German citizenship.
 1933 - The USS Ranger is launched. it is the first US ship built only as an aircraft carrier.
1941 - February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increased anti-Jewish measures by the Nazis.
 1945 - World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
 1947 – The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
 1948 - The Communist Party takes control of Czechoslovakia.
From 1951 
 1951 – The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
 1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes President of Egypt.
 1956 – Nikita Krushchev denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
 1964 – Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, becomes heavyweight boxing champion, defeating Sonny Liston.
 1968 – South Korean troops kill 135 people in Vietnam.
 1969 - In Prague, Jan Zajic sets himself on fire in an act of protest against the Communist government. He dies of his injuries.
 1975 - Muhammad Abdullah becomes Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
 1980 – Suriname's government is overthrown in a coup in the capital city Paramaribo.
 1981 – Adolfo Suárez leaves office as Prime Minister of Spain.
 1983 – The Statute of Autonomy for the Canary Islands is approved.
 1986 – People Power Revolution: In the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos is forced to resign after a rule of over 20 years. Corazon Aquino becomes President, the first Asian woman in that position.
1988 – Roh Tae-woo becomes President of South Korea.
 1990 - Violeta Chamorro is elected President of Nicaragua, defeating Daniel Ortega.
 1991 - End of the Warsaw Pact.
 1991 – Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits a US military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 28 reservists from Pennsylvania.
 1992 – Khojaly Massacre: Armenian forces kill 613 Azerbaijani civilians in Nagorno Karabakh.
 1994 – In the West Bank town of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein kills 29 Palestinian worshippers, before being killed.
 1995 - The first Screen Actors Guild Awards are given in Los Angeles, California.
 1997 - Yi Han-yong, a North Korean defector, is murdered by unidentified assailants in Bundang, South Korea.
 2001 - Non-reformed Communists win the election in Moldova.
 2001 - Pedro Pires is elected President of the Cape Verde Islands.
 2003 – Roh Moo-hyun becomes President of South Korea.
 2008 – Lee Myung-bak becomes President of South Korea.
2009 – Bangladeshi Border Guards kill 74 people in Dhaka, including 57 army officers and family.
 2009 – Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashes near Amsterdam, killing 9 people.
 2010 – Viktor Yanukovych becomes President of Ukraine, succeeding Viktor Yushchenko.
 2011 – The Fianna Fail-led government in the Republic of Ireland, under Brian Cowen, suffers a heavy defeat in the general election. Enda Kenny is elected to serve as the next Taoiseach.
 2013 - Park Geunhye becomes the first female President of South Korea.
 2015 - Avalanches in Northeastern Afghanistan kill 310 people.
 2018 - The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, end.
Up to 1900 
 1337 - Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1383)
 1398 – Emperor Xuande of China (d. 1435)
 1552 - Magdalene of Lippe (d. 1587)
 1591 – Friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635)
 1643 – Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)
 1651 - Johann Philipp Krieger, German baroque composer and organist (d. 1725)
 1682 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)
 1707 – Carlo Goldoni, Italian writer (d. 1793)
 1708 - Felix Benda, Bohemian composer and organist (d. 1768)
 1714 – Rene Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, French chancellor (d. 1792)
 1727 - Armand-Louis Couperin, French composer (d. 1789)
 1728 - John Wood, the Younger, English architect (d. 1782)
 1752 – John Graves Simcoe, British territorial governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806)
 1755 - François René Mallarmé, French lawyer and politician (d. 1835)
 1778 – Jose de San Martin, Argentine independence leader, hero in many South American countries (d. 1850)
 1812 - Carl Christian Hall, Danish statesman (d. 1888)
1816 - Giovanni Morelli, Italian art critic and political figure (d. 1891)
 1833 – John St. John, Governor of Kansas (d. 1916)
 1841 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter (d. 1919)
 1842 – Karl May, German writer (d. 1912)
 1845 – George Reid, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1918)
 1848 - William II of Württemberg (d. 1921)
 1856 - Karl Gotthard Lamprecht, German historian (d. 1915)
 1857 - Robert Bond, 1st Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d. 1927)
 1859 - John Burke, Governor of North Dakota (d. 1937)
 1861 – Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher and educator (d. 1925)
 1865 - Andranik Ozanian, Armenian general, rebel leader and activist (d. 1923)
 1866 - Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher, humanist, historian and politician (d. 1952)
 1871 – Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1913)
 1873 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)
 1881 - Alexei Rykov, Soviet politician (d. 1938)
 1881 - William Z. Foster, American labour organiser and politician (d. 1961)
1883 - Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (d. 1981)
 1885 – Princess Alice of Battenberg (d. 1969)
 1888 – John Foster Dulles, 52nd United States Secretary of State (d. 1959)
 1889 - Homer S. Ferguson, United States Senator for Michigan (d. 1982)
 1890 – Myra Hess, English pianist (d. 1965)
 1890 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
 1894 - Meher Baba, Indian spiritual figure (d. 1969)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Zeppo Marx, American actor (d. 1979)
 1902 - Virginio Rosetta, Italian footballer (d. 1975)
 1903 - King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
 1906 - Boris Papandopulo, Croatia composer and conductor (d. 1991)
 1906 - Domingo Ortega, Spanish matador (d. 1988)
 1910 - Millicent Fenwick, American politician (d. 1992)
 1913 – Jim Backus, American actor (d. 1989)
 1913 - Gert Fröbe, American actor (d. 1988)
 1917 – Anthony Burgess, English writer (d. 1993)
 1918 - Barney Ewell, American runner (d. 1996)
 1918 – Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995)
 1919 - Monte Irvin, American baseball player (d. 2016)
 1919 - Karl H. Pribram, Austrian-American professor (d. 2015)
 1920 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader (d. 2012)
 1921 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (d. 1970)
 1922 - Molly Bobak, Canadian writer, painter and printmaker (d. 2014)
 1924 - Hugh Huxley, British biologist
 1927 - Dick Jones, American actor (d. 2014)
 1927 - Ralph Stanley, American singer (d. 2016)
1928 – Larry Gelbart, American screenwriter (d. 2009)
 1929 - Tommy Newsom, American bandleader (d. 2007)
 1930 - Wendy Beckett, British nun, historian and broadcaster
 1932 – Tony Brooks, British racing driver
 1935 – Sally Jessy Raphael, American talk show host
 1936 - Jorge Jacobson, Argentine journalist and writer (d. 2014)
 1937 – Tom Courtenay, British actor
 1937 – Bob Schieffer, American broadcast journalist
 1938 - Malcolm Tierney, British actor (d. 2014)
 1940 – Ron Santo, American baseball player (d. 2010)
 1941 - Pierluigi Cera, Italian footballer (d. 2022)
 1943 – George Harrison, English songwriter, guitarist and member of the Beatles (d. 2001)
 1943 – Wilson da Silva Piazza, Brazilian footballer
 1943 - Boediono, 11th Vice President of Indonesia
 1946 - Jan Groth, Norwegian singer and keyboardist (d. 2014)
 1946 - Jean Todt, French Formula One executive
 1946 - Elkie Brooks, British singer
 1947 - Giuseppe Betori, Archbishop of Florence
1947 - Marc Sautet, French writer, teacher, and philosopher (d. 1998)
 1947 – Lee Evans, American athlete
 1947 - Doug Yule, American musician
 1950 – Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina (d. 2010)
 1950 - Francisco Fernandez Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (d. 2006)
 1950 - Neil Jordan, Irish movie director, screenwriter and novelist
1951  1975 
 1951 – Don Quarrie, Jamaican runner
 1952 - Joey Dunlop, British motorcycle racer (d. 2000)
 1953 – Jose Maria Aznar, Spanish politician, former Prime Minister of Spain
 1953 - Kim Yeong-cheol, South Korean actor
 1954 - Gerardo Pelusso, Uruguayan football manager
 1955 – Camille Thériault, Canadian politician, 29th Premier of New Brunswick
 1956 - Andres Ammas, Estonian politician (d. 2018)
 1957 - Chuck Strahl, Canadian politician
 1958 - Kevin Gray, American actor
 1958 – Kurt Rambis, American basketball player
 1959 - Mike Peters, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1961 - Chris Pitman, American keyboardist
 1962 - Birgit Fischer, German kayaker
 1962 - Mark Heenehan, British theatre actor
 1964 – Lee Evans, British comedian
 1964 - Luigi Troiani, Italian rugby player
 1965 - Sylvie Guillem, French ballet dancer
 1965 - Carrot Top, American comedian
 1965 - Veronica Webb, American supermodel and actress
 1967 - Jonathan Freedland, British journalist and writer
1967 – Ed Balls, British politician
 1971 – Sean Astin, American actor
 1971 - Sean O'Haire, American professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and kick boxer (d. 2014)
 1971 - Christien Anholt, British actor
 1973 – Julio Iglesias, Jr., Spanish singer
 1974 - Kevin Skinner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1975 – Chelsea Handler, American comedienne and actress
 1975 - Naga Munchetty, British television news presenter
From 1976 
 1976 - Rashida Jones, American actress
 1977 - Sarah Jezebel Deva, English singer-songwriter
 1978 - Yazid Mansouri, Algerian footballer
 1978 - Yuji Nakazawa, Japanese footballer
 1981 – Shahid Kapoor, Indian actor
 1981 – Park Ji-Sung, South Korean footballer
 1982 – Chris Baird, Northern Irish footballer
 1982 - Bert McCracken, American musician
 1982 - Flavia Pennetta, Italian tennis player
 1982 - Maria Kanellis, American professional wrestler
 1983 – Eduardo da Silva, Brazilian-Croatian footballer
 1984 - Xing Huina, Chinese athlete
 1984 – Craig Mackail-Smith, British footballer
 1985 – Joakim Noah, American basketball player
 1986 - Jameela Jamil, British television and radio presenter
 1986 - James Phelps, British actor
 1986 - Oliver Phelps, British actor
 1987 - Justin Abdelkader, American ice hockey player
 1987 - Mevlut Erdinc, Turkish footballer
 1988 - Luca Di Matteo, Italian footballer
 1989 - Kana Hanazawa, Japanese voice actress
 1990 - Alejandra Andreu, Spanish model
1990 - Younès Belhanda, Moroccan footballer
 1992 - Max Aaron, American figure skater
 1993 - Christina Kirkman, American actress
 1994 - Eugenie Bouchard, Canadian tennis player
 1995 - Francesca Michielin, Italian singer
 1997 – Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress
 1998 – Brendon Baerg, American actor
Up to 1900 
 1246 – Dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
 1495 - Sultan Cem, pretender to the throne of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1459)
 1547 - Vittoria Colonna, Italian poet (b. 1492)
 1553 - Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat (b. 1492)
 1558 – Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)
 1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (b. 1566)
 1634 – Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (b. 1583)
 1643 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (b. 1582)
 1655 – Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580)
 1682 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (b. 1639)
 1713 – King Frederick I of Prussia (b. 1657)
 1715 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (b. 1640)
 1723 – Christopher Wren, English architect (b. 1632)
 1819 - Francisco Manoel de Nascimento, Portuguese poet (b. 1734)
 1822 - William Pinkney, American statesman and diplomat (b. 1764) 
 1831 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (b. 1752)
 1841 - Philip Pendleton Barbour, American politician (b. 1783)
1850 – Daoguang, Emperor of China (b. 1782)
 1852 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet (b. 1779)
 1864 – Anna Harrison, shortest-serving First Lady of the United States (b. 1775)
 1865 - Otto Ludwig, German writer (b. 1813)
 1877 - Jang Bahadur Rana, Nepalese ruler (b. 1816)
 1894 - Steele MacKaye, American playwright, actor and inventor (b. 1842)
 1899 – Paul Julius Reuter, German journalist (b. 1816)
1901  2000 
 1912 – Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)
 1922 - Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (b. 1869)
 1945 - Mario de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (b. 1893)
 1950 – George Minot, American physician (b. 1885)
 1953 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)
 1957 – Bugs Moran, American gangster (b. 1893)
 1964 - Kenneth Lee Spencer, American opera singer and actor (b. 1913)
 1964 - Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian artist and sculptor (b. 1887)
 1969 - Jan Zajic, Czechoslovakian student (b. 1950)
 1970 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter (b. 1903)
 1971 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist (b. 1884)
 1975 – Elijah Muhammad, American Muslim leader, Nation of Islam (b. 1897)
 1983 – Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)
 1993 - Eddie Constantine, American-born actor and singer (b. 1917)
 1994 – Baruch Goldstein, Israeli army officer (b. 1956)
 1997 - Cal Abrams, American baseball player (b. 1924)
 1997 - Yi Han-yong, North Korean defector
From 2001 
 2001 – Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)
 2003 – Alberto Sordi, Italian actor (b. 1920)
 2004 - Donald Hings, Canadian inventor (b. 1907)
 2005 - Peter Benenson, English founder of Amnesty International (b. 1921)
 2005 - Leo Labine, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
 2005 - Edward Patten, American singer (b. 1939)
 2009 – Philip Jose Farmer, American writer (b. 1918)
 2012 – Maurice André, French classical trumpeter (b. 1933)
 2012 – Red Holloway, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1927)
 2012 – Erland Josephson, Swedish actor (b. 1923)
 2012 – Louisiana Red, American blues musician (b. 1932)
 2013 - Ray O'Connor, 22nd Premier of Western Australia (b. 1926)
 2013 - C. Everett Koop, American politician and spokesperson (b. 1916)
 2014 - Chokwe Lumumba, American politician, Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (b. 1947)
 2014 - Mario Coluna, Brazilian footballer (b. 1935)
 2014 - Paco de Lucia, Spanish flamenco guitarist, composer and producer (b. 1947)
2015 - Eugenie Clark, American zoologist and professor (b. 1922)
 2015 - Terry Gill, Australian actor (b. 1939)
 2015 - Marian Szeja, Polish footballer (b. 1941)
 2016 - François Dupeyron, French movie director and screenwriter (b. 1950)
 2016 - Alfred E. Mann, American entrepreneur and philanthropist (b. 1925)
 2016 - Tony Burton, American actor (b. 1937)
 2016 - Jim Clark, English movie editor (b. 1931)
 2017 - Hassan Al-Jundi, Moroccan actor (b. 1939)
 2017 - Neil Fingleton, English basketball player and actor (b. 1980)
 2017 - Bill Paxton, American actor (b. 1955)
 2017 - Jack Pope, American judge, attorney and writer (b. 1913)
 2017 - Toshio Nakanishi, Japanese musician (b. 1956)
 2017 - Boaz Vaadia, Israeli-born American sculptor (b. 1951)
 2018 - Ainsley Gotto, Australian political staffer and interior designer (b. 1946)
 2019 - Janet Asimov, American science fiction writer and psychoanalyst (b. 1926)
Observances
 National Day (Kuwait)
 People Power Day (Philippines)
 Soviet Occupation Day (Republic of Georgia)
 Memorial Day for Victims of the Communist dictatorships (Hungary)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 364 – Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
 1266 - Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV makes Charles the King of Sicily and Naples.
 1548 - Admiral Piri Reis conquers Portuguese-occupied Aden in Yemen for the Ottoman Empire.
 1658 – Treaty of Roskilde: After defeat in the Northern Wars, King Frederick III of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly a third of territory to Sweden.
 1794 – Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
 1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from exile on the island of Elba.
 1848 – The Second French Republic is proclaimed.
 1852 – The troop transporter Birkenhead of the Royal Navy sinks off South Africa, killing 450 of the 643 people on board. The call Women and children first is believed to have been used for the first time.
1876 - Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state to Qing Dynasty China.
 1885 - The Berlin Africa Conference takes place, deciding the colonial boundaries in Africa, between different European colonial powers.
1901  2000 
 1909 - Kinemacolor, the first successful color movie process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
 1914 – The ship HMHS Britannic is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
 1917 – Denali National Park is founded in Alaska, originally named Mt. McKinley National Park. The mountain's English-language name comes from US President William McKinley.
 1918 – A German U-boat sinks the British hospital ship HMHS Glenart Castle, killing 153 people.
 1919 – The Grand Canyon becomes part of the Grand Canyon National Park.
 1929 – The Grand Teton National Park is founded in Wyoming.
 1935 – Robert Watson-Watt demonstrates the radar near Daventry.
 1935 - Adolf Hitler orders the re-formation of the Luftwaffe.
 1936 – February 26 Incident: Japanese military officers stage a military coup against the government.
 1952 - Vincent Massey becomes the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
1960 - A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after take-off, killing 34 of the 52 people on board.
 1961 - Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.
 1966 - Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of a Saturn IB rocket.
 1966 - Vietnam War; The ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army massacres 380 unarmed civilians.
 1971 - U Thant signs the United Nations proclamation of the Spring Equinox (March 20/21) as Earth Day. it is later celebrated on April 22.
 1972 – The Buffalo Creek Flood is caused when a dam bursts, in West Virginia, killing 125 people.
 1974 - Norway announces the discovery of the Statfjord oil field in the North Sea.
 1980 - Egypt and Israel create full diplomatic relations.
 1984 – US troops withdraw from Lebanon.
 1990 – The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections, also meaning that Violeta Chamorro becomes Nicaragua's first female President.
1991 – The Gulf War ends when Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of all Iraqi troops in Kuwait.
 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb. As it is confused with the World Wide Web, it is later renamed Nexus.
 1992 – Khojaly Massacre: Armenian forces kill 613 Azerbaijani civilians in Nagorno Karabakh.
 1993 – World Trade Center bombing: A bomb explodes in a car park under the North Tower of New York City's World Trade Center, killing 6 people, and injuring over 1,000.
 1995 - Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest investment banking institute, collapses.
 1997 - The funeral of Deng Xiaoping is broadcast across the People's Republic of China.
 2000 – The Hekla volcano in Iceland erupts.
From 2001 
 2004 – Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski dies in a plane crash near Mostar, in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 2006 – End of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
 2012 - Shooting of Trayvon Martin: African American teenager Trayvon Martin is shot dead by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in Florida. The exact circumstances of his death become subject of debate and controversy.
 2012 - Silent movie The Artist wins the most awards in the Academy Awards ceremony.
 2013 - A hot-air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.
 2016 - Gianni Infantino is elected President of FIFA, the governing body of world football.

Births
Up to 1800 
 1361 – Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)
 1416 – Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark (d. 1448)
 1564 – Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist (d. 1593)
 1584 - Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666)
 1587 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (d. 1639)
 1671 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (d. 1713)
 1672 - Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (d. 1757)
 1677 - Nicolas Fago, Italian composer and teacher (d. 1745)
 1718 – Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop, botanist and zoologist (d. 1773)
 1720 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian cardinal (d. 1803)
 1724 - Gottfried Heinrich Bach, son of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1763)
 1732 - Francis Marion, American Revolutionary officer (d. 1795)
 1746 - Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1806)
 1770 – Anton Reicha, Bohemian composer and flautist (d. 1836)
 1777 - Matija Nenadovic, Serbian uprising leader (d. 1854)
1801  1900 
 1802 – Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
 1808 - Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator and sculptor (d. 1879)
 1814 - Charles-Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (d. 1876)
 1829 – Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902)
 1838 - Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Romanian writer and philologist (d. 1907)
 1842 - Camille Flammarion, French astronomer and writer (d. 1952)
 1846 – Buffalo Bill, American bison hunter and showman (d. 1917)
 1852 – John Harvey Kellogg, American physician (d. 1943)
 1861 – King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1939)
 1866 - Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (d. 1930)
 1869 – Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary, wife of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1939)
 1875 - Richard Wetz, German composer and conductor (d. 1935)
 1877 - Henry Barwell, Australian politician, 28th Premier of South Australia (d. 1959)
 1877 - Rudolph Dirks, German-American illustrator (d. 1968)
 1879 – Frank Bridge, English composer (d. 1941)
1880 - Kenneth Edgeworth, Irish astronomer (d. 1972)
 1881 – Janus Djurhuus, Faroese poet (d. 1948)
 1882 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)
 1884 - Francesco Borgongini Duca, Italian cardinal (d. 1954)
 1885 – Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania (d. 1969)
 1887 - Stefan Grabinski, Polish writer (d. 1936)
 1887 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (d. 1950)
 1891 - Carlo Carcano, Italian footballer and coach (d. 1965)
 1893 - Wallace Fard Muhammad, American religious leader (d. 1934)
 1896 - Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, Soviet politician and ideologist (d. 1948)
 1899 - Max Petitpierre, Swiss politician (d. 1994)
 1900 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (d. 1989)
1901  1925 
 1902 - Jean Bruller, French writer, caricaturist and resistance activist (d. 1991)
 1903 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist (d. 1979)
 1906 - Madeleine Carroll, English actress (d. 1987)
 1906 - Egidio Vagnozzi, Italian cardinal (d. 1980)
 1908 – Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
 1909 - Gunnar Andersen, Norwegian ski jumper (d. 1988)
 1909 – King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
 1909 – Fanny Cradock, British cookery writer and television presenter (d. 1994)
 1911 - Taro Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (d. 1996)
 1912 - Dane Clark, American actor and director (d. 1998)
 1914 – Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)
 1916 – Jackie Gleason, American actor and producer (d. 1987)
 1917 - Robert Taft, Jr., American politician (d. 1993)
 1918 - Pyotr Masherov, Soviet-Belarussian politician (d. 1980)
 1918 - Otis R. Bowen, 44th Governor of Indiana and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (d. 2013)
 1918 - Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (d. 1985)
1920 - Lucjan Woldanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveler (d. 2006)
 1920 – Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
 1921 – Betty Hutton, American actress (d. 2007)
 1922 - Karl Aage Praest, Danish footballer (d. 2011)
 1922 - William Baumol, American economist (d. 2017)
 1924 - Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician (d. 2000)
 1924 - Marc Bucci, American composer, lyricist and dramatist (d. 2002)
 1925 - Everton Weekes, Barbadian cricketer
1926  1950 
 1926 - Verne Gagne, American wrestler and football player (d. 2015)
 1926 - Henry Molaison, American memory disorder patient (d. 2008)
 1928 - Anatoly Filipchenko, Soviet cosmonaut
 1928 – Fats Domino, American musician (d. 2017)
 1928 - Odo Marquard, German philosopher (d. 2015)
 1928 - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 2014)
 1930 - Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Algerian movie director and screenwriter
 1931 – Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer (d. 2004)
 1931 - Robert Novak, American journalist and writer (d. 2009)
 1932 – Johnny Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
 1934 - Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Algerian director, producer and screenwriter
 1936 - José Policarpo, Roman Catholic Patriarch of Lisbon (d. 2014)
 1937 - Cliff Osmond, American actor (d. 2012)
 1939 – Josephine Tewson, English actress
 1940 - Whitney Smith, American vexillologist (someone who studies flags) (d. 2016)
 1942 – Jozef Adamec, Slovakian footballer
 1943 - Bill Duke, American actor and director
1943 - Darcus Howe, Trinidad-born British broadcaster, writer and activist (d. 2017) 
 1943 - Charles P. Thacker, American computer designer (d. 2017)
 1944 - Ronald Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress
 1945 - Tony deBrum, Marshallese politician (d. 2017)
 1945 – Mitch Ryder, American rock musician
 1946 – Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian chemist (d. 2016)
 1946 – Bobby "Bingo" Smith, American basketball player
 1947 – Sandie Shaw, British singer
 1948 - David Edgar, British playwright
 1949 – Elizabeth George, American writer
 1949 – Emma Kirkby, British singer
 1949 - Lynda Clark, Baroness Clark of Calton, British politician
 1950 – Helen Clark, 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand
 1950 - Jonathan Cain, American musician
 1950 - Don Shanks, American actor and stuntman
1951  1975 
 1951 - Steve Bell, English cartoonist
 1951 - Wayne Goss, Australian politician, 34th Premier of Queensland (d. 2014)
 1952 - Jaan Arder, Estonian singer (d. 2014)
 1953 – Michael Bolton, American singer
 1954 - Leon de Winter, Dutch writer
 1954 – Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey
 1954 – Ernst August, Prince of Hanover, German aristocrat, married into the Monegasque royal family
 1955 - Andreas Maislinger, Austrian historian
 1956 - Kevin Dunn, American actor
 1956 - Michel Houellebecq, French writer
 1957 - Joe Mullen, American ice hockey player
 1957 – David Muldrow, American politician, 113th Governor of South Carolina
 1958 – Tim Kaine, American politician, former Governor of Virginia
 1958 - Susan Helms, American astronaut
 1958 - Greg Germann, American actor
 1959 – Rolando Blackman, Panamanian basketball player
 1959 - Ahmet Davutoglu, former Prime Minister of Turkey
 1962 - Ahn Cheol-soo, South Korean politician, businessman and software entrepreneur
1963 - Chase Masterson, American actress and singer
 1964 - Mark Dacascos, American actor and martial artist
 1966 - Marc Fortier, Canadian ice hockey player
 1966 - Garry Conille, 14th Prime Minister of Haiti
 1966 - Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer-songwriter and producer
 1967 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese footballer
 1968 - Robin Ammerlaan, Dutch wheelchair tennis player
 1969 - Hitoshi Sakimoto, Japanese composer
 1969 - Steve Agee, American actor and comedian
 1970 - Mark Harper, English politician
 1971 – Erykah Badu, American singer
 1972 - Jonny Quinn, Northern Irish musician (Snow Patrol)
 1973 – Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Norwegian footballer and coach
 1973 – Marshall Faulk, American football player
 1973 – Jenny Thompson, American swimmer
 1974 – Sébastien Loeb, French World-Champion rally driver
From 1976 
 1977 – Shane Williams, Welsh rugby player
 1977 - Tim Thomas, American basketball player
 1978 – Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye, Senegalese footballer
 1979 – Corinne Bailey Rae, British singer
 1979 – Pedro Mendes, Portuguese footballer
 1980 - Steve Blake, American basketball player
 1981 – Chris Thile, American musician
 1982 – Li Na, Chinese tennis player
 1982 - Matt Prior, English cricketer
 1983 – Pepe, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer
 1984 – Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese footballer
 1984 - Alex de Angelis, Sammarinese motorcycle racer
 1984 - Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer-songwriter
 1985 - Gee Atherton, English mountain biker 
 1985 – Miki Fujimoto, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
 1985 – Fernando Llorente, Spanish footballer
 1986 – Hannah Kearney, American skier
 1986 - Leila Lopes, Angolan model
 1986 - Teresa Palmer, Australian model and actress
 1989 - Gabriel Obertan, French footballer
 1991 - CL, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
1991 - Kevin Plawecki, American baseball player
 1992 - Mikael Granlund, Finnish ice hockey player
 1993 – Taylor Dooley, American actress
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 420 - Porphyry of Gaza, Greek bishop and saint (b. 347)
 1154 – King Roger II of Sicily (b. 1093)
 1266 – King Manfred of Sicily (b. 1232)
 1360 – Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (b. 1328)
 1577 – King Eric XIV of Sweden (b. 1533)
 1611 - Antonio Possevino, Italian Jesuit humanist, diplomat and bibliographer
 1726 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1662)
 1770 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (b. 1692)
 1813 - Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1746)
 1815 - Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg Saalfeld (b. 1737)
 1864 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian politician (b. 1807)
 1883 – Alexandros Koumoundouros, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
 1889 - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist and composer (b. 1838)
1901  2000 
 1903 – Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor (b. 1818)
 1909 – Hermann Ebbinghaus, German philosopher (b. 1850)
 1931 – Otto Wallach, German chemist (b. 1847)
 1933 – Princess Thyra of Denmark (b. 1853)
 1936 – Saito Makoto, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1858)
 1936 - Takahashi Korekiyo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1854)
 1942 - Tommaso Pio Boggiani, Italian cardinal (b. 1863)
 1950 - Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer (b. 1870)
 1952 - Theodoros Pangalos, Greek interim leader (b. 1878)
 1961 – King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
 1964 - Homer Martin Atkins, American politician, 32nd Governor of Arkansas (b. 1890)
 1966 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian freedom fighter and writer (b. 1883)
 1969 – Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist (b. 1883)
 1969 – Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
 1971 - Fernandel, French actor (b. 1903)
 1981 - Howard Hanson, American composer (b. 1896)
 1985 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist (b. 1910)
 1989 – Roy Eldridge, American musician (b. 1911)
1994 – Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
 1995 – Jack Clayton, British movie director (b. 1921)
 1998 – Theodore Schultz, American economist (b. 1902)
 1998 - James Algar, American director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1912)
From 2001 
 2001 - Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (b. 1906)
 2002 – Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)
 2004 – Boris Trajkovski, President of Macedonia (b. 1956)
 2004 - Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician (b. 1929)
 2009 – Ruth Drexel, German actress (b. 1930)
 2009 – Wendy Richard, British actress (b. 1943)
 2009 - Norm Van Lier, American basketball player (b. 1947)
 2011 – Arnost Lustig, Czech writer (b. 1926)
 2012 - Trayvon Martin, American teenager (shot) (b. 1995)
 2013 - Marie-Claire Alain, French organist and teacher (b. 1926)
 2013 - Stéphane Hessel, German-born French writer, diplomat and Resistance activist (b. 1917)
 2014 - Sorel Etrog, Romanian-Canadian sculptor, painter and illustrator (b. 1935)
 2014 - Gordon Nutt, English footballer (b. 1932)
 2014 - Tim Wilson, American comedian and country music singer (b. 1961)
 2015 - Theodore Hesburgh, American professor and Roman Catholic priest (b. 1917)
 2015 - Martha Cohen, Canadian philanthropist (b. 1920)
2015 - Fritz J. Raddatz, German writer (b. 1931)
 2015 - Avijit Roy, Bangladeshi/American blogger
 2015 - Tom Schweich, American politician (b. 1961)
 2015 - Earl Lloyd, American basketball player (b. 1925)
 2016 - Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
 2016 - Don Getty, Canadian politician, Premier of Alberta (b. 1933)
 2016 - Eri Klas, Estonian conductor (b. 1939)
 2016 - Karl Dedecius, Polish-German translator (b. 1921)
 2017 - Ludvig Faddeev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1934)
 2017 - Gerald Kaufman, English politician (b. 1930)
 2017 - Joseph Wapner, American judge and television personality (b. 1913)
 2017 - Eugene Garfield, American linguist (b. 1925)
 2017 - Ned Garver, American baseball player (b. 1925)
 2017 - Preben Hertoft, Danish sexologist (b. 1928)
 2018 - Mies Bouwman, Dutch television presenter (b. 1929)
 2018 - Giorgi Maisashvili, Georgian economist and politician (b. 1962)
Observances
 Liberation Day in Kuwait
 Savior's Day (Nation of Islam)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 425 – The University of Constantinople is founded.
 907 - Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, is enthroned as Emperor Taizu, creating the Liao Dynasty in Northern China.
 1560 – The Treaty of Berwick, expelling the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
 1594 – Henry IV of France is crowned king.
 1617 - Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo.
 1626 - Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese to a great victory over the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
 1655 - The lighthouse at Lindesnes, the southernmost tip of Norway, is first lit, with 13 candles.
 1700 – The island of New Britain is first reached by a European, on an expedition led by William Dampier.
 1776 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
 1782 - American Revolutionary War: The British House of Commons votes against further war in America.
1812 – Near the city of Rosario, Manuel Belgrano raises what later develops into the Flag of Argentina.
 1844 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
 1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in New York City that contributes to him being elected US president.
 1861 – Russian troops kill 5 protesters in Warsaw.
 1864 – American Civil War: The first northern prisoners arrive the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
 1870 – The Flag of Japan is adopted as the national flag on merchant ships.
 1881 - First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
 1898 - George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
 1900 – The UK Labour Party is founded.
 1900 - Second Boer War: In South Africa, British officers receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
1901  2000 
 1912 - In Sudan, the first rail track from Khartoum to El Obeid opened.
 1916 - British passenger steamer Maloja is sunk by a German U-boat two miles from Dover, killing 155 people.
 1921 – The International Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
 1925 - Adolf Hitler re-founds the Nazi Party in Munich, ordering it to be built up on a national level.
 1930 – Bouvet Island becomes a dependent territory of Norway.
 1932 - Nature magazine releases an article by James Chadwick, describing the existence of the neutron.
 1933 – The Reichstag building in Berlin is set on fire.
 1939 - The United States Supreme Court rules sit-in protests as illegal.
 1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover Carbon-14.
 1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Java Sea begins.
 1943 – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
 1943 - The Rosenstrasse protest begins in Berlin.
 1948 – President of Finland Juho Kusti Paasikivi signs a defence treaty with Joseph Stalin.
1951 – The 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, limiting the US president to two terms in office.
 1961 – The first Congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
 1962 - Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to kill South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem.
 1963 – Juan Bosch is elected President of the Dominican Republic.
 1964 - The Italian Government asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
 1973 – Wounded Knee Incident standoff at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota begins.
 1976 – The former Spanish territory of Western Sahara declares its independence.
 1986 - The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
 1988 - A violent pogrom takes place against the Armenian Community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan.
 1989 - Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
 1991 – US President George H. W. Bush declares that "Kuwait is liberated".
1992 - Jack Unterweger is arrested by FBI agents in Miami, Florida on suspicion of several murders.
 1993 - Niger holds its first Presidential Election.
 1994 - The 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, come to an end.
 1995 - A terrorist explosion in a market in the city of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan kills around 100 people and injures over 150.
From 2001 
 2002 – Godhra train bombing: A Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya.
 2002 – Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at Stansted Airport. The evacuation procedures later come in for criticism.
 2004 – The bombing of Superferry 14 by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines kills 116 people.
 2004 - The initial version of the John Jay Report is released into the Catholic sex abuse scandal in the United States.
 2005 - Million Dollar Baby is the most successful movie at the 77th Academy Awards ceremony.
 2007 – The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls by 9%, its largest drop in 10 years.
 2010 – 2010 Cauquenes earthquake: A major magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Chile, killing around 500 people.
 2015 - Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov is shot dead by an unknown assailant shortly before midnight.

Births
Up to 1900 
 272 – Constantine, Roman Emperor (d. 337)
 1572 - Francis II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1632)
 1689 – Pietro Gnocchi, Italian composer, choir director, historian and geographer (d. 1775)
 1711 – Constantine Mavrocordates, Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia (d. 1769)
 1767 - Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure, French politician (d. 1855)
 1789 – Manuel Rodriguez, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla (d. 1818)
 1795 - José Antonio Navarro, American statesman, revolutionary and politician from Texas (d. 1871)
 1799 - Edward Belcher, British polar explorer (d. 1877)
 1807 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
 1809 - Jean-Charles Cornay, French missionary and saint (d. 1837)
 1814 - Samuel Kleinschmidt, German-Greenlandic linguist (d. 1886)
 1831 - Nikolai Ge, Russian painter (d. 1894)
 1836 - Russell A. Alger, Governor of Michigan (d. 1907)
 1846 - Simon Bamberger, Governor of Utah (d. 1926)
 1856 - Mattia Battistini, Italian baritone (d. 1928)