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Up to 1900 
 1301 - Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Arpad Dynasty in Hungary.
 1343 - Arnost of Barbudice becomes the last Bishop of Prague.
 1539 – Spain annexes Cuba.
 1639 - "Fundamental Orders": The first written Constitution that created a government is created in Connecticut.
 1724 – King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
 1784 – American Revolutionary War: The United States ratifies a peace treaty with England.
 1814 – Frederick VI of Denmark gives Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
 1822 - Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrios Ypsilantis.
 1832 – American writer Edgar Allan Poe publishes his first short story, "Metzengerstein".
 1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
 1897 - Matthias Zurbriggen becomes the first person to climb Aconcagua, in Argentina, the highest mountain in the Southern hemisphere.
 1900 - Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca is performed for the first time, at the Teatro Constanzi in Rome.
1901  2000 
 1907 - A magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits Kingston, Jamaica, killing 1,600 people.
 1911 - Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition lands on the eastern Ross Ice Shelf.
 1917 - Japanese warship Tsukuba sinks after fire and an explosion in Yokosuka Bay, killing 200 of the 817 on board.
 1938 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
 1943 – Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II).
 1950 – The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
 1952 - NBC's long-running news program Today is broadcast for the first time, with host Dave Garroway.
 1953 - Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as President of Yugoslavia.
 1954 - Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star Joe DiMaggio.
1957 - Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaja is named the fifth Jagad guru (meaning "world teacher") after giving seven days of speeches in front of 500 Hindu scholars.
 1960 - The Reserve Bank of Australia is created.
 1967 – The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. Between 20,000 and 30,000 people attend.
 1968 - The Soviet Union launches the Soyuz 4 probe.
 1969 - An accidental explosion on the ship USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.
 1972 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
 1973 – Super Bowl VII: The Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington Redskins. The Dolphins become the first NFL team to go undefeated in a season.
 1979 - The first Paris-Dakar Rally reaches its finish line in Dakar, Senegal.
 1980 - Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India for a second time.
1994 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords.
 1998 – Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis).
 1998 – An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people.
 1999 - Major snowfall affects Toronto, and Mayor Mel Lastman calls the army in to help with emergency evacuations.
 2000 – A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
From 2001 
 2004 – The national flag of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", was restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
 2005 – Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan.
 2011 - Arab Spring: In the wake of anti-government demonstrations, Tunisia's President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali dissolves the government and resigns from office.
 2015 - Giorgio Napolitano resigns as President of Italy at the age of 89 for age and health reasons. Pietro Grasso becomes Interim President.
 2015 - Two climbers, Kevin Jorgesen and Tommy Caldwell, become the first people to successfully climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, California.
 2016 - Bomb attacks in Jakarta kill 5 attackers and 2 civilians.
 2016 - Jimmy Morales becomes President of Guatemala.
 2019 - Mayor of Gdansk Pawel Adamowicz dies of injuries sustained in a stabbing the previous evening, aged 53.

Births
Up to 1800 
 83 BC - Mark Antony, Roman politician (d. 30 BC)
 47 BC – Marcus Antonius Antyllus, Roman son of Mark Antony (d. 30 BC)
 38 BC - Nero Claudius Drusus, Roman politician and military commander (d. 9 BC)
 1131 – King Valdemar I of Denmark (d. 1182)
 1273 – Joan I of Navarre (d. 1305)
 1451 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian music theorist (d. 1522)
 1477 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (d. 1552)
 1507 – Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal (d. 1578)
 1615 - John Biddle, English theologian (d. 1662)
 1683 - Gottfried Silbermann, German instrument maker (d. 1753)
 1684 - Johann Matthias Hase, German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer (d. 1742)
 1684 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (d. 1745)
 1699 - Jakob Adlung, German organist, teacher, instrument maker, musician, theologian and historian (d. 1762)
 1700 - Picander, German poet (d. 1764)
 1702 – Emperor Nakamikado of Japan (d. 1737)
 1705 - Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French governor (d. 1786)
1730 - William Whipple, American politician (d. 1785)
 1741 – Benedict Arnold, American-British general (d. 1801)
 1751 - Corona Schröter, German musician (d. 1802)
 1767 - Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Saxony (d. 1829)
 1793 - John C. Clark, American politician (d. 1852)
 1798 – Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (d. 1872)
1801  1900 
 1801 - Adolphe Brongniart, French botanist (d. 1876)
 1806 - Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria (d. 1855)
 1806 - Matthew Fontaine Maury, American astronomer, historian and oceanographer (d. 1873)
 1818 - Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (d. 1898)
 1819 - Dimitrie Bolinteanu, Romanian poet and politician (d. 1872)
 1835 - Marcelo Spinola y Maestre, Spanish cardinal (d. 1906)
 1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
 1840 - Hilarion Daza, President of Bolivia (d. 1894)
 1841 – Berthe Morisot, French painter (d. 1895)
 1845 - Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, British Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India (d. 1927)
 1850 - Jean de Reszke, Polish operatic tenor (d. 1925)
 1858 - P. J. Kennedy, American businessman and politician (d. 1929)
 1861 – Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1926)
 1863 – Manuel Gomes da Costa, Portuguese politician (d. 1929)
 1863 - Richard F. Outcault, American comic strip creator (d. 1928)
1875 – Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician (d. 1965)
 1875 - Felix Hamrin, shortest-serving Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1937)
 1883 – Nina Ricci, Italian-French fashion designer (d. 1970)
 1886 – Hugh Lofting, English writer (d. 1947)
 1887 – Hugo Steinhaus, Polish mathematician (d. 1972)
 1892 – Martin Niemöller, German theologian and Resistance activist (d. 1984)
 1892 – Hal Roach, American movie producer (d. 1992)
 1897 - Hasso von Manteuffel, German general and politician (d. 1978)
 1899 – Carlos P. Romulo, Filipino politician and diplomat (d. 1985)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Alfred Tarski, Polish logician and mathematician (d. 1983)
 1901 - Bebe Daniels, American actress (d. 1971)
 1904 – Cecil Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980)
 1905 – Takeo Fukuda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1995)
 1911 – Anatoly Rybakov, Russian writer (d. 1998)
 1913 - Motoo Tatsuhara, Japanese footballer (d. 1984)
 1919 – Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2013)
 1919 – Andy Rooney, American journalist (d. 2011)
 1920 - Bertus de Harder, Dutch footballer (d. 1982)
 1921 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
 1925 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970)
 1926 - Mahasweta Devi, Indian writer (d. 2016)
 1926 - Warren Mitchell, English actor (d. 2015)
 1926 - Sid Sheinberg, American lawyer and studio executive (d. 2019)
 1926 - Tom Tryon, American actor (d. 1991)
 1928 - Ali Akbar Moinfar, Iranian politician (d. 2018)
 1930 - Kenny Wheeler, Canadian jazz trumpeter and composer (d. 2014)
1931 - Caterina Valente, French-Italian singer, dancer and actress
 1934 - Richard Briers, English actor (d. 2013)
 1936 - Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (d. 1999)
 1938 – Morihiro Hosokawa, former Prime Minister of Japan
 1938 - Allen Toussaint, American singer (d. 2015)
 1938 - Leo Kadanoff, American physicist (d. 2015)
 1939 - J. Bernlef, Dutch writer (d. 2012)
 1940 - Julian Bond, American activist (d. 2015)
 1940 – Trevor Nunn, British movie and theatre director
 1941 – Faye Dunaway, American actress
 1941 - Barry Jenner, American actor
 1941 - Milan Kucan, Slovenian statesman
 1942 - Ian Brayshaw, Australian cricketer and footballer
 1943 – Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor
 1943 – Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian immunologist, posthumous (after death) Nobel Prize winner (d. 2011)
 1943 - Shannon Lucid, American astronaut
 1943 - Manfred Wolke, German boxer
 1943 - Angelo Bagnasco, Italian cardinal
 1944 – Peter Fechter, first person to be shot dead at the Berlin Wall (d. 1962)
1944 – Nina Totenberg, American journalist
 1945 – Einar Hakonarson, Icelandic artist
 1945 - Maina Gielgud, British ballet dancer
 1946 – Harold Shipman, British doctor and serial killer (d. 2004)
 1947 – Bev Perdue, American politician, 73rd Governor of North Carolina
 1948 – Jocky Scott, Scottish football manager
 1948 – Valeri Kharlamov, Soviet-Russian ice hockey player
 1948 – T-Bone Burnett, American rock musician
 1949 - Lamar Williams, American musician (d. 1983)
 1949 - Ilyas Salman, Turkish actor, movie director, writer, screenwriter and musician
 1950 - Jagadguru Rambhadracharya, Indian religious leader, scholar and writer
1951  1975 
 1952 – Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, Romanian Prime Minister
 1952 - Teitur Thordarson, Icelandic footballer
 1952 - Konstantinos Iosifidis, Greek footballer
 1952 - Maureen Dowd, American singer
 1953 - Denzil Douglas, 2nd Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis
 1955 - Dominique Rocheteau, French footballer
 1957 - Stuart Timmons, American historian and academic (d. 2017)
 1959 - Nguyen Le, Vietnamese-French jazz guitarist and composer
 1961 - Mike Tramp, Danish singer
 1963 – Steven Soderbergh, American director
 1964 – Mark Addy, British actor
 1965 – Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, British chef
 1965 - Jill Saward, British campaigner (d. 2017)
 1966 - Marco Hietala, Finnish singer and bassist
 1966 - Dan Schneider, American screenwriter, movie producer and actor
 1967 - Zakk Wylde, American guitarist, pianist and singer
 1967 – Emily Watson, British actress
 1968 – LL Cool J, American rapper and actor
 1969 – Dave Grohl, American musician
 1969 - Jason Bateman, American actor
1970 - Imam Samudra, Indonesian terrorist (d. 2008)
 1971 - Lasse Kjus, Norwegian skier
 1971 - Bert Konterman, Dutch footballer
 1971 - Antonios Nikopolidis, Greek footballer
 1973 – Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian race car driver
 1975 - Georgina Cates, English actress
From 1976 
 1977 - Narain Karthikeyan, Indian racing driver
 1978 - Shawn Crawford, American athlete
 1979 - Soprano, French rapper
 1980 - Carlos Alvarado Quesada, President of Costa Rica
 1981 – Pitbull, American rapper
 1982 – Caleb Followill, American singer (Kings of Leon)
 1982 – Victor Valdés, Spanish footballer
 1985 – Shawn Sawyer, Canadian figure skater
 1986 - Yohan Cabaye, French footballer
 1989 - Adam Clayton, English footballer
 1989 – Frankie Bridge, English singer (The Saturdays)
 1989 - Liu Xiaodong, Chinese footballer
 1990 - Lelisa Desisa, Ethiopian runner
 1990 - Grant Gustin, American actor
 1991 - Jeanine Mason, American actress and dancer
 1992 - Robbie Brady, Irish footballer
 1994 - Abi Phillips, English actress and singer-songwriter
 1994 - Ross Murdoch, Scottish swimmer
 1997 - Tolmachevy Sisters, Russian singers and actresses
 1999 - Declan Rice, English-Irish footballer

Deaths
Up to 1900 
 1092 – Vratislaus II of Bohemia (b. 1032)
 1163 – Ladislaus I of Hungary (b. 1131)
 1235 - Saint Sava, Serbian archbishop and saint (b. 1175)
 1301 - King Andrew III of Hungary (b. 1231)
 1331 - Odoric, Italian explorer (b. 1286)
 1648 - Caspar Barlaeus, Dutch polymath (b. 1584)
 1676 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b. 1602)
 1679 - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602)
 1701 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese daimyo (b. 1628)
 1742 – Edmond Halley, English scientist (b. 1656)
 1753 – George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (b. 1685)
 1766 - Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
 1786 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)
 1786 - Michael Warne, English composer (b. 1741)
 1867 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
 1872 – Greyfriars Bobby, world famous dog (b. 1856)
 1874 – Johann Philipp Reis, German inventor (b. 1834)
 1883 - Napoléon Coste, French guitarist and composer (b. 1806)
 1892 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (b. 1864)
1901  2000 
 1905 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)
 1907 - Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet, Scottish Governor of New Zealand (b. 1832)
 1908 - Holger Drachmann, Danish poet and dramatist (b. 1846)
 1920 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (b. 1864)
 1923 - Zübeyde Hanım, mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (b. 1857)
 1934 - Ioan Cantacuzino, Romanian physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863)
 1937 - Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet, dramatist and novelist (b. 1889)
 1945 - Heinrich Schroth, German actor (b. 1871)
 1949 – Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
 1951 - Gregorios Xenopoulos, Greek novelist, journalist and playwright (b. 1867)
 1952 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878)
 1957 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
 1960 – Ralph Chubb, British poet (b. 1892)
 1965 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903)
 1966 – Sergey Korolyov, Soviet engineer (b. 1907)
 1966 - Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)
 1972 – King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899)
1976 – Tun Abdul Razak, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1922)
 1977 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
 1977 – Peter Finch, British actor (b. 1916)
 1977 – Anaïs Nin, French-American writer (b. 1903)
 1978 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)
 1978 - Harold Abrahams, English sprinter, lawyer and journalist (b. 1899)
 1981 - John O'Grady, Australian writer (b. 1907)
 1984 – Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1902)
 1986 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
 1986 - Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
 1987 - Douglas Sirk, German-American director (b. 1900)
 1988 – Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov, Soviet politician (b. 1902)
 1999 – Muslimgauze, British musician (b. 1961)
 1999 - Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
From 2001 
 2004 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress (b. 1919)
 2006 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
 2009 - Jan Kaplicky, Czech-British architect (b. 1937)
 2009 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-American actor (b. 1920)
 2010 - Bobby Charles, American singer (b. 1938)
 2010 - Petra Schürmann, German actress, model and presenter (b. 1933)
 2011 – Mississippi Winn, American supercentenarian (b. 1897)
 2012 - Txillardegi, Basque writer and politician (b. 1929)
 2013 - Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (b. 1923)
 2014 - Juan Gelman, Argentine poet (b. 1930)
 2014 - Mae Young, American wrestler (b. 1923)
 2015 - Zhang Wannian, Chinese general (b. 1928)
 2015 - Bob Boyd, American basketball player (b. 1930)
 2015 - Lotte Hass, Austrian model and underwater diver (b. 1928)
 2015 - Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, Israeli rabbi (b. 1943)
 2015 - Nélida Romero, Argentine actress (b. 1926)
 2015 - Jerry Dempsey, American politician (b. 1933)
 2015 - Warren Weinstein, American economist (b. 1941)
2016 - Alan Rickman, English actor (b. 1946)
 2016 - Shaolin, Brazilian cartoonist and humorist (b. 1971)
 2016 - Leonid Zhabotinsky, Soviet-Ukrainian weightlifter (b. 1938)
 2016 - René Angélil, Canadian singer and manager (b. 1942)
 2016 - Franco Citti, Italian actor (b. 1935)
 2016 - Ellen Meiksins Wood, American historian and scholar (b. 1942)
 2016 - George Carroll, American lawyer and politician (b. 1922)
 2016 - Rajesh Vivek, Indian actor (b. 1949)
 2017 - Surjit Singh Barnala, Indian politician (b. 1925)
 2017 - Yama Buddha, Nepalese rapper (b. 1987)
 2017 - Mohammed bin Faisal Al Saud, Saudi royal and businessman (b. 1937)
 2017 - Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist and supercentenarian (b. 1906)
 2017 - Herbert Mies, German politician (b. 1929)
 2017 - Nicodemo Scarfo, American mobster (b. 1929)
 2018 - Dan Gurney, American racing driver (b. 1931)
 2018 - Max Labovitch, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
 2018 - Erling Mandelmann, Danish photojournalist (b. 1935)
2018 - Spanky Manikan, Filipino actor (b. 1942)
 2018 - Cyrille Regis, English footballer (b. 1958)
 2018 - Hugh Wilson, American film and television director (b. 1943)
 2018 - John Pierik, Dutch sports shooter (b. 1950)
 2019 - Pawel Adamowicz, Polish politician, Mayor of Gdansk (b. 1965)
 2019 - Eli Grba, American baseball player (b. 1934)
 2019 - Lenin Rajendran, Indian film director and screenwriter (b. 1951)
 2019 - Gavin Smith, Canadian poker player (b. 1968)
 2019 - Julio Vallejo Ruiloba, Spanish psychiatrist (b. 1945)
Holidays and observances
 New Year's Day in Eastern Orthodoxy, see Julian Calendar.
 National Flag Day and National Theatre Day (Georgia)
 National Forest Conservation Day (Thailand)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 27 BC – Octavian Caesar given the title Augustus by the Roman Senate (people who were in charge of the Roman Empire).
 378 - General Sijay K'ak' conquers Tikal in present-day Guatemala.
 550 - Gothic Wars: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
 929 – Emir Abd-ar-rahman III declares himself caliph, thereby establishing the Caliphate of Cordoba.
 1219 – A North Sea flood kills 36,000 people.
 1362 – A great wave in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt.
 1412 – Medici family made official bankers (money handlers) of the Papacy.
 1456 – Painter Filippo Lippi marries with Lucrezia Buti, a young nun from the convent of Saint Margherita.
 1492 – The first grammar (how words form sentences) of a modern language, in Spanish, is presented to Queen Isabella.
 1511 - A major North Sea flood occurs, as several communities have to be evacuated in Ostfriesland, present-day northwest Germany.
1547 – Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar (an emperor) of Russia.
 1556 – Philip II becomes King of Spain.
 1572 – The Duke of Norfolk is tried for betraying a country for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore The Catholic Church in England.
 1581 – English Parliament (group of lawmakers) outlaws The Roman Catholic Church.
 1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes was made into books in Madrid.
 1707 - The Parliament of Scotland agrees to the Act of Union. Soon after, Scotland unites with England and Wales to form Great Britain.
 1761 – British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
 1777 – Vermont declares that it is separate from New York.
 1780 – American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
 1786 - Virginia enacts the Statute of Freedom, authored by Thomas Jefferson.
 1795 – French take control of Utrecht, Netherlands.
 1809 – Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
1839 - The United Kingdom takes Aden, Yemen, from the Ottoman Empire.
 1847 – John C. Fremont is made Governor (a kind of leader) of the new California Territory.
 1862 - Hartley Colliery Disaster: 204 men and boys are killed in a mining disaster in England.
 1883 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, making the United States Civil service, is passed.
 1900 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounced its claims to the Samoan islands.
1901  2000 
 1909 – Ernest Shackleton's journey finds the magnetic South Pole.
 1917 – German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends the Zimmermann Telegram to Mexico, telling about a German-Mexican team against the United States
 1919 – Temperance movement: The 18th Amendment to the US constitution, authorizing Prohibition (ban of alcohol), was passed by the Congress of the United States. It went into effect one year later, on January 16, 1920.
 1920 – Founding date of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.
 1924 - Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a fourth time.
 1938 – Benny Goodman plays at Carnegie Hall.
 1939 - The Irish Republican Army begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
 1941 - World War II: On the Rockall sandbank, British passenger ship Oropesa is torpedoed by a German U-boat, killing 106 people.
 1942 - The crash of TWA Flight 3 kills all 22 people on board, including actress Carole Lombard.
1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
 1956 – President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt agrees to take over Palestine again.
 1957 – The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool, England.
 1961 – Mickey Mantle becomes the highest paid baseball player by signing a $75,000 contract.
 1962 - Filming of the first James Bond movie, Dr. No, begins in Jamaica.
 1964 – The first musical version of Hello, Dolly! opens at New York City's St. James Theatre.
 1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City.
 1969 – Czech student Jan Palach kills himself by self-immolation (self-burning) in Prague, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
 1969 - Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only such transfer accomplished with a space walk.
1970 – Buckminster Fuller gets the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
 1970 – Curt Flood goes to court, saying that Major League Baseball had gone against the American anti-trust laws (laws against a group of people controlling many companies).
 1977 – The Marx Brothers were entered into the Motion Picture Hall of Fame.
 1979 – The Shah of Iran leaves Iran with his family and goes to Egypt.
 1986 – Herbert W. Armstrong, the maker of the Worldwide Church of God (the Church of God in Philadelphia Era) died.
 1988 – Sports reporter Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder is fired by CBS a day after saying in public that African Americans had been made to produce stronger children during slavery.
 1991 – American serial killer Aileen Wuornos confesses that she killed six men.
 1992 – El Salvador officials and rebel (people who are against something) leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City. This ends a 12-year civil war that killed at least 75,000 people.
1995 - An avalanche strikes the village of Sudavik, in Icelands West Fjords, killing 14 people.
 1995 - The Great Leader of Baltic Kingdom Sir Karl Eerik Jahu of Nõmmeville is born. 
 1996 - A coup in Sierra Leone removes Valentine Strasser from power. His deputy, Julius Maada Rio, succeeds him.
 1997 – Ennis Cosby, the only son of actor Bill Cosby, is killed by a person with a gun while changing a flat tire in Los Angeles, California.
 1998 – NASA says that John Glenn will return to space when Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off in October 1998.
 2000 – In Sacramento, California a company's truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the state capitol building killing the driver.
From 2001 
 2001 – Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
 2002 – A student shoots 6 people at the Appalachian School of Law. Three of those shot die.
 2002 – John Ashcroft says that so-called "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh would be tried in a court in the United States.
 2002 – Everyone in the United Nations Security Council makes an arms embargo and make Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban not being able to use money.
 2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which will be its final one. Columbia disintegrates 16 days later on re-entry.
 2004 – Goatse.cx (a shock site is shut down by the Christmas Island Registry)
 2005 – Adriana Iliescu has a baby at age 66 and becomes the oldest woman in the world, at the time, to do so.
 2006 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf becomes President of Liberia. She is the first female President in Africa.
 2007 - A bomb attack on a university in Baghdad kills 65 people.
2013 - An estimated 41 international workers are taken hostage in an attack on the town of In Amenas in Algeria. Many die a few days later, during an attempted Algerian-led rescue operation.
 2016 - A terrorist attack is carried out on a hotel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, killing 28 people.
 2016 - The International Atomic Energy Agency announces that Iran has properly dismantled its nuclear weapons programme, allowing the United Nations to end sanctions immediately.
 2019 - British Prime Minister Theresa May wins a vote of confidence in her government, a day after her proposed Brexit deal was heavily defeated.
Up to 1900 
 972 - Emperor Shengzhong of Liao in China (d. 1031)
 1093 - Isaac Komnenos, Byzantine prince (d. 1152 or after)
 1245 – Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster (British title) (d. 1296)
 1409 - René of Anjou, King of Naples (d. 1480)
 1516 - Bayinnaung, King of Burma (d. 1581)
 1604 – Loreto Vittori, Italian poet and composer (d. 1670)
 1634 – Dorthe Engelbretsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716)
 1675 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French soldier, diplomat and writer (d. 1755)
 1728 – Niccolo Riccinni, Italian composer (d. 1800)
 1731 - Tyge Rothe, Danish writer (d. 1795)
 1749 - Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist (d. 1803)
 1795 – Carl Christian Rafn, Danish archaeologist (d. 1864)
 1802 - Friedrich Julius Stahl, German politician, philosopher and lawyer (d. 1861)
 1815 - Henry W. Halleck, American Civil War general (d. 1872)
 1821 – John C. Breckinridge, Kentucky Senator 1861, Confederate General and US Vice President (d. 1875)
 1834 - Robert R. Hitt, American politician (d. 1906)
1836 – Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1894)
 1838 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
 1844 - Ismail Quemali, Albanian nationalist (d. 1919)
 1853 - Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, British general (d. 1947)
 1853 - Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Russian philosopher (d. 1900)
 1853 – André Michelin, French industrialist (d. 1931)
 1855 - Eleanor Marx, British activist and writer (d. 1898)
 1858 - Elwood Mead, American engineer (d. 1936)
 1859 – Jon Magnusson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1926)
 1868 - Armin Otto Leuschner, American astronomer and philosopher (d. 1953)
 1870 – Jüri Jaakson, Estonian politician (d. 1942)
 1872 - Henri Busser, French composer (d. 1973)
 1872 - Edward Gordon Craig, English actor, producer and director (d. 1966)
 1874 – Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (d. 1958)
 1878 - Harry Carey, American silent movie actor (d. 1947)
 1885 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer and translator (d. 1967)
 1885 - Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, Polish politician (d. 1947)
1886 – John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958)
 1896 – Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978)
 1897 - Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (d. 1972)
 1898 – Margaret Booth, American movie editor (d. 2002)
 1900 - Edith Frank, mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
 1901 – Fulgencio Batista, President of Cuba (d. 1973)
 1902 – Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945)
 1907 – Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004)
 1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress, singer (d. 1984)
 1910 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player on the Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1974)
 1910 - Walter Schellenberg, German SS officer (d. 1952)
 1911 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, 28th President of Chile (d. 1982)
 1912 – Franz Tumler, Austrian story teller (d. 1998)
 1915 - Leslie H. Martinson, American television and movie director (d. 2016)
 1917 – Buddy Lester, American actor (d. 2002)
 1917 – Justin Ahomadegbe-Tometin, President of Benin (d. 2002)
 1918 – Allan Ekelund, Swedish movie producer (d. 2009)
 1918 – Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (d. 1996)
 1920 – Stephanos II Ghattas, Egyptian Coptic Church Patriarch (d. 2009)
 1921 – Francesco Scavullo, photographer (d. 2004)
1922 – Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
 1923 – Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
 1924 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
 1925 - Amelia Vargas, Cuban actress (d. 2019)
 1927 - Jerrold Meinwald, American chemist (d. 2018) 
 1928 – William Kennedy, writer
 1931 – Johannes Rau, President of Germany (d. 2006)
 1932 – Dian Fossey, American zoologist (studies animals) (d. 1985)
 1933 – Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004)
 1934 – Marilyn Horne, American mezzo-soprano
 1935 – Udo Lattek, German footballer and coach (d. 2015)
 1935 – A.J. Foyt, automobile racer
 1935 - Inger Christensen, Danish writer (d. 2009)
 1936 - Peter Bares, German composer (d. 2014)
 1936 - Michael White, Scottish theatre and film producer (d. 2016)
 1937 - Francis George, American cardinal (d. 2015)
 1938 - Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2015)
 1940 – Franz Müntefering, German politician
 1942 - René Angélil, Canadian singer and manager (d. 2016)
 1942 - Barbara Lynn, American singer
1943 – Brian Ferneyhough, composer
 1944 - Dieter Moebius, German musician (d. 2015)
 1944 - Judy Baar Topinka, American politician (d. 2014)
 1944 – Jim Stafford, singer
 1944 – Ronnie Milsap, American country music singer
 1945 – Birte Tove, Danish actress (d. 2016)
 1946 – Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
 1946 – Ronnie Milsap, singer
 1946 – Katia Ricciarelli, Italian opera singer
 1947 – Laura Schlessinger, psychiatrist, radio talk show host
 1947 - Sara Jane Olson, American political activist
 1948 – John Carpenter, American movie director
 1948 – Dalvanius, New Zealand entertainer (d. 2002)
 1948 - Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro, Italian bishop
 1948 – Gregor Gysi, German politician
 1948 – Anatoly Solovyev, Soviet cosmonaut
 1948 – Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
 1950 – Debbie Allen, American actress, dancer and choreographer
 1950 – Caroline Munro, actress
 1950 - Daniel Vischer, Swiss politician (d. 2017)
1951  1975 
 1952 – Fuad II of Egypt
 1953 - L. Blaine Hammond, NASA astronaut
 1954 - Wolfgang Schmidt, German discus thrower
 1954 – Nancy Richards-Akers, novelist (d. 1999)
 1954 - Vasili Zhupikov, Russian footballer (d. 2015)
 1955 - Jerry M. Linenger, NASA astronaut
 1956 – Martin Jol, Dutch footballer and coach
 1957 - Jurijs Andrejevs, Latvian footballer
 1957 - Ricardo Darin, Argentine actor, screenwriter and director
 1957 - Paul Holmes, English politician
 1958 - Lena Ek, Swedish politician
 1958 – Tony Pulis, Welsh footballer and coach
 1958 - Andris Skele, Prime Minister of Latvia
 1958 – Anatoli Boukreev, Russian climber (d. 1997)
 1958 - Andriy Bal, Ukrainian footballer (d. 2014)
 1959 – Sade, Nigerian singer
 1959 - Juanita Bynum, American televangelist
 1961 - Paul Raven, British musician (d. 2007)
 1963 – James May, British television presenter
 1965 - John Carver, British footballer and manager
 1969 – Roy Jones, Jr., American boxer
 1969 - Neil Back, English rugby player
1970 - Brendan O'Hare, Scottish drummer
 1971 - Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player
 1971 - Jonathan Mangum, American actor and comedian
 1972 - Greg Page, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
 1972 - Radivoje Manic, Serbian footballer
 1974 – Kate Moss, English supermodel
 1974 - Mattias Jonsson, Swedish footballer
From 1976 
 1976 - Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie, Bahamian athlete
 1977 – Jeff Foster, American professional basketball player
 1979 – Aaliyah, American singer (d. 2001)
 1979 - Muntadhar al-Zaidi, Iraqi journalist
 1979 - Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
 1980 – Albert Pujols, Dominican baseball player
 1980 - Lin-Manuel Miranda, American stage actor, composer, singer and playwright
 1980 – Seydou Keita, Malian footballer
 1981 – Bobby Zamora, English footballer
 1981 – Nick Valensi, American guitarist
 1981 - Vlad Munteanu, Romanian footballer
 1982 – Tuncay Sanli, Turkish footballer
 1983 – Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
 1983 – Andriy Rusol, Ukrainian footballer
 1983 - Derek Riordan, Scottish footballer
 1984 - Craig Beattie, Scottish footballer
 1984 – Stephan Lichtsteiner, Swiss footballer
 1985 - Daisuke Sakata, Japanese footballer
 1985 – Pablo Zabaleta, Argentine footballer
 1985 – Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (d. 2008)
 1986 - Aija Andrejeva, Latvian singer
1986 - Mason Gamble, American actor
 1986 - Irina Kuzmina, Latvian tennis player
 1986 - Daiki Niwa, Japanese footballer
 1987 - Lauren McAvoy, British fashion model
 1987 - Park Joo-ho, South Korean footballer
 1988 – Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
 1988 - FKA twigs, English singer-songwriter, producer and dancer
 1989 - Paul Sweeney, Scottish politician
 1989 - Yvonne Zima, American actress
 1991 - Matt Duchene, Canadian ice hockey player
 1992 - Maja Keuc, Slovenian singer
 1995 - Takumi Minamino, Japanese footballer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 378 - Great Jaguar Paw, Mayan King of Tikal
 654 - Gao Yifu, Chinese chancellor (b. 596)
 960 - Patriarch Polyeuctus of Constantinople
 1327 - Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine scholar and statesman (b. 1250)
 1369 - Peter I of Cyprus (b. 1328)
 1387 – Elizabeth of Bosnia, Queen of Hungary and regent (b. 1340)
 1554 – Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1484)
 1710 – Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
 1747 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
 1750 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (b. 1667)
 1794 – Edward Gibbon, historian (b. 1737)
 1806 – William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
 1809 - John Moore, British general (b. 1761)
 1817 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman (b. 1759)
 1834 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
 1886 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian opera composer (b. 1834)
 1891 – Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)
1901  2000 
 1901 - Hiram Revels, United States Senator (b. 1822)
 1907 - Helene Napoleone Bonaparte, French noblewoman, might be a daughter of Napoleon (b. 1816) 
 1912 - Georg Heym, German writer (b. 1887)
 1917 – George Dewey, admiral (high title in the Navy) (b. 1837)
 1919 – Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (b. 1848)
 1935 - Fred Barker, American criminal (b. 1901)
 1935 - Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871) 
 1936 – Albert Fish, American serial killer (put to death by court) (b. 1870)
 1942 – Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)
 1942 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, British royal (b. 1850)
 1957 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
 1957 - Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, English Governor-General of Canada (b. 1874)
 1962 – Ivan Meštrović, carving maker (b. 1883)
 1969 - Vernon Duke, Russian-American composer and songwriter (b. 1903)
 1971 - Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
 1972 - Teller Ammons, 28th Governor of Colorado (b. 1895)
1972 – Ross Bagdasarian, actor and songwriter (b. 1919)
 1979 – Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932)
 1979 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)
 1981 – Bernard Lee, British actor (b. 1908)
 1982 – Red Smith, sports columnist (b. 1905)
 1986 – Herbert W. Armstrong, evangelist (religious person), writer, and publisher (b. 1892)
 1988 – Ballard Berkeley, British actor (b. 1904)
 1993 – Jon Pall Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (b. 1960)
 1993 - Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930)
 1995 – Eric Mottram, poet, teacher, critic, and editor (b. 1924)
2001  2015 
 2001 – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (assassinated; death officially confirmed on January 18)
 2002 – Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)
 2002 – Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (b. 1948)
 2002 – Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)
 2002 – Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)
 2004 – Kalevi Sorsa, former Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
 2005 – Marjorie Williams, Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair (b. 1958)
 2007 - Rudolf August Oetker, German businessman (b. 1916)
 2007 - Ron Carey, American actor (b. 1935)
 2009 - John Mortimer, British lawyer and writer (b. 1923)
 2009 – Andrew Wyeth, American painter (b. 1917)
 2011 – Steve Prestwich, Australian musician (b. 1954)
 2012 - Gustav Leonhardt, Dutch keyboardist, conductor and musicologist (b. 1928)
 2013 - Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Russian cross-country skier (b. 1931)
 2013 - Pauline Phillips, American columnist and radio host (b. 1918)
2014 - Russell Johnson, American actor (b. 1924)
 2014 - Ruth Duccini, American actress (b. 1918)
 2014 - Hiroo Onoda, Japanese soldier (b. 1922)
 2015 - Ian Athfield, New Zealand architect (b. 1940)
 2015 - Ted Harrison, Canadian artist (b. 1926)
 2015 - Rimma Markova, Russian actress (b. 1925)
 2015 - Miriam Akavia, Israeli writer and Holocaust survivor (b. 1927)
 2015 - Yao Beina, Chinese singer b. 1981)
 2015 - Andrew Benson, American biologist (b. 1917
 2015 - Stuart Loory, American journalist (b. 1932)
From 2016 
 2016 - Ted Marchibroda, American football player (b. 1931)
 2016 - Carina Jaarnek, Swedish singer (b. 1962) 
 2016 - Rudy Migay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
 2017 - Eugene Cernan, American astronaut (b. 1934)
 2017 - Amin Nasir, Singaporean footballer (b. 1968)
 2017 - William A. Hilliard, American journalist (b. 1927)
 2017 - Franz Jarnach, German actor and musician (b. 1943)
 2017 - Peter Jones, Australian politician (b. 1933)
 2017 - Charles "Bobo" Shaw, American jazz drummer (b. 1947)
 2017 - Steve Wright, American bass guitarist (b. 1950)
 2018 - Bill Bain, American management consultant (b. 1937)
 2018 - George Bandy, American politician (b. 1945)
 2018 - Bradford Dillman, American actor (b. 1930)
 2018 - Kingdon Gould Jr., American diplomat (b. 1924)
 2018 - Peter Groeger, German actor (b. 1933)
 2018 - Madalena Iglésias, Portuguese actress and singer (b. 1939)
 2018 - Jo Jo White, American basketball player (b. 1946)
 2018 - Anatoly Glushenkov, Russian politician (b. 1942)
2018 - Madalena Iglésias, Portuguese actress and singer (b. 1939)
 2019 - John C. Bogle, American investor and writer (b. 1929)
 2019 - Mirjam Pressler, German writer and translator (b. 1940)
 2019 - Chris Wilson, Australian musician (b. 1956)
 2019 - Yu Min, Chinese nuclear physicist (b. 1926)
Observances
 Teacher's Day (Thailand)
 Flag Day (Israel)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 350 - General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.
 1126 - Song Dynasty China: Emperor Huizong of Song decides to leave the throne to his son, Emperor Qinzong of Song.
 1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York.
 1535 - Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, the present-day capital city of Peru.
 1562 - Pope Pius IV re-opens the Council of Trent the its third and final session.
 1591 - King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat.
 1671 - English pirate Henry Morgan plunders Panama City and sets it on fire, as well as massacring people who live there.
 1701 - Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Konigsberg.
 1778 - Captain James Cook reaches the Hawaiian Islands, naming them "Sandwich Islands".
 1788 - The first members of the First Fleet of convicts from England arrives in Botany Bay, present-day Sydney, Australia.
 1825 - Moscow's Bolshoi Theater re-opens.
1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany become the first German Emperor.
 1884 - Passenger steamer City of Columbus sinks off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, killing 103 people, including all women and children on board.
 1884 - Dr. William Price tries to cremate his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, eventually leading to a change in UK cremation law.
 1886 - The Hockey Association is founded in England, setting out the rules of modern field hockey.
1901  1950 
 1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay. This is the first successful landing of an aircraft on a ship.
 1913 - First Balkan War: Greece secures the northern Aegean Sea islands after defeating the Ottoman Empire navy in the Battle of Lemnos.
 1915 - Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
 1916 - A 611-gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
 1919 - The Paris Peace Conference begins in Versailles.
 1919 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes the first Prime Minister of newly independent Poland.
 1919 - Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
 1934 - An earthquake in the present-day Indian state of Bihar kills around 10,000 people.
 1941 - World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against then-Italian East Africa.
1944 - For the first time, the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert. Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw are among the musicians performing.
 1944 - World War II: Soviet forces liberate Leningrad.
1951  2000 
 1958 - Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian in the NHL, makes his first appearance for the Boston Bruins.
 1960 - Capital Airilnes Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles County, Virginia, killing all 50 people on board.
 1967 - Albert DeSalvo is found guilty of being the Boston Strangler serial killer.
 1969 - United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay, killing all 32 passengers and 6 crew members.
 1976 - Lebanese Christian militias carry out the Karantina massacre in Beirut, killing around 1,000 people.
 1976 - Bangladesh and Pakistan fully have foreign bilateral relations between Islamabad and Dacca Officials.
 1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of Legionnaires' disease.
 1977 - A train crash at Granville, Sydney, Australia, kills 83 people.
 1977 - Yugoslavian Prime Minister Dzemal Bijedic, his wife, and six other people are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1978 - The European Court of Human Rights finds the UK government guilty of poor treatment of prisoners in Northern Ireland, but finds it not guilty of torture.
 1981 - Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston, Texas, skyscraper.
 1983 - The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
 1993 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is observed in all 50 states of the US for the first time. The holiday was first observed in 1986.
 1997 - Borge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and without help.
 2000 - A meteor impacts on Tagish Lake in Northern Canada.
From 2001 
 2002 - The Sierra Leone Civil War is officially declared over.
 2003 - A bush fire kills four people in Canberra and destroys over 500 homes.
 2005 - The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled in a ceremony in Toulouse, France.
 2007 - Hurricane Kyrill, a major storm, hits several countries in Western and Central Europe, killing 44 people in total (including 14 in the UK and 13 in Germany) and causing power failures and major damage.
 2009 - A ceasefire is agreed in the Israel-Gaza War. The conflict had started with Operation Cast Lead on December 27, 2008.
 2012 - The English language edition of Wikipedia blacks out for 24 hours, from midnight to midnight (Eastern Standard Time) in protest against the SOPA and PIPA internet laws proposed by the United States Congress.
 2017 - An avalanche (after two earthquakes) buries a hotel in Abruzzo, Central Italy.
 2018 - A bus fire near Aktobe, Kazakhstan, kills at least 52 people.
2019 - Andry Rajoelina takes office as President of Madagascar.
 2019 - A fuel pipeline explosion in Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico, kills at least 85 people.
Up to 1900 
 885 – Daigo, Emperor of Japan (d. 930)
 1519 - Isabella Jagiellon, Queen of Hungary (d. 1559)
 1543 – Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (d. 1588)
 1634 - Madame de Lafayette, French aristocrat and writer (d. 1693)
 1641 – François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691)
 1659 - Damaris Cudworth Marsham, English philosopher (d. 1708)
 1669 - Maria Antonia of Austria (d. 1692)
 1672 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)
 1688 – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)
 1689 – Montesquieu, French writer (d. 1755)
 1751 - Ferdinand Kauer, Austrian composer and pianist (d. 1831)
 1779 – Peter Roget, British lexicographer (d. 1869)
 1782 – Daniel Webster, American statesman (d. 1852)
 1795 - Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Russian-born Queen Consort of the Netherlands (d. 1865)
 1813 – Joseph Glidden, American farmer who patented barbed wire (d. 1906)
1815 - Warren De la Rue, British chemist, inventor and astronomer (d. 1889)
 1815 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German theologian (d. 1874)
 1835 - César Cui, Russian composer (d. 1918)
 1840 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (d. 1921)
 1842 – Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)
 1848 – Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925)
 1849 – Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)
 1849 - Eugène Carrière, French painter (d. 1906)
 1850 – Seth Low, American politician, Mayor of New York City (d. 1916)
 1854 – Thomas Watson, American telephone pioneer (d. 1934)
 1867 - Rubén Dario, Nicaraguan journalist, diplomat and poet (d. 1916)
 1868 - Suzuki Kantaro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
 1871 - Benjamin I of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1946)
 1878 - Thomas Edward Campbell, Governor of Arizona (d. 1944)
 1879 - Henri Giraud, French general (d. 1949)
 1879 - Tane Ikai, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 1995)
1880 - Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian physicist (d. 1928)
 1880 - Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (d. 1954)
 1881 - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (d. 1975)
 1882 – A. A. Milne, English writer (d. 1956)
 1888 – Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (d. 1989)
 1892 – Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (d. 1957)
 1892 – Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956)
 1896 - Ville Ritola, Finnish long-distance runner (d. 1982)
 1896 - Luigi Bianchi, Italian mathematician (d. 1928)
 1898 - Albert Kivikas, Estonian writer and journalist (d. 1978)
1901  1950 
 1903 - Gladys Hooper, English supercentenarian (d. 2016)
 1904 – Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
 1905 – Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (d. 2002)
 1908 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born mathematician, poet, and physicist (d. 1974)
 1908 - Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1972)
 1911 – Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
 1911 - Jose Maria Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet and anthropologist (d. 1969)
 1914 – Arno Schmidt, German writer (d. 1979)
 1914 – William Stafford, American poet (d. 1993)
 1915 - Santiago Carrillo, Spanish Communist politician (d. 2012)
 1915 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
 1918 - Gustave Gingras, Canadian physician (d. 1996)
 1918 - Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant (d. 2013)
 1919 - Toni Turek, German footballer (d. 1984)
 1921 - Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist (d. 2015)
 1922 – Bob Bell, American clown (d. 1997)
 1923 - Gerrit Voorting, Dutch road bicycle racer (d. 2015)
1924 - Max Labovitch, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2018)
 1925 - Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995)
 1925 - John V. Evans, former Governor of Iowa (d. 2014)
 1927 - Sundaram Balachander, Indian actor, director and producer (d. 1990)
 1928 - Alexander Gomelsky, Russian basketball coach
 1931 – Chun Doo-hwan, President of South Korea
 1932 – Robert Anton Wilson, American writer
 1933 – John Boorman, Irish movie director
 1933 - Ray Dolby, American engineer and inventor (d. 2013)
 1933 - Emeka Anyaoku, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations
 1934 – Raymond Briggs, English writer and illustrator
 1934 - Hendrick Chin A Sen, Surinamese politician
 1935 - Gad Yaacobi, Israeli academic and diplomat (d. 2007)
 1936 - David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, English politician
 1937 – John Hume, Northern Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998
 1938 - Anthony Giddens, British sociologist
 1938 – Curt Flood, American baseball player (d. 1997)