Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1926 - Mark Taimanov, Russian pianist and chess player (d. 2016)
 1927 – Juliette Gréco, French singer and actress
 1927 – Vladimir Kuts, Russian runner
 1927 - Patsy Swayze, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2013)
 1928 - Lincoln D. Faurer, American general (d. 2014)
 1929 - Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chilean actor, director and screenwriter
 1932 – Gay Talese, American writer
 1932 – Alfred Worden, American astronaut
 1933 - K. N. Choksy, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 2015)
 1934 – Earl King, American musician (d. 2003)
 1934 – Eddie Fenech Adami, former President of Malta
 1934 - King Curtis, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1971)
 1934 - Murtaza Rakhimov, former leader of Bashkortostan in Russia
 1938 - S. Ramachandran Pillai, Indian Communist leader
 1938 - Cayetano Ré, Paraguayan footballer and coach (d. 2013)
 1939 - Ray Taliaferro, American radio talk show host
 1939 - Francisco Mendès, Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
 1940 - Toshihide Maskawa, Japanese physicist
1940 - Tony Tan, former President of Singapore
 1941 - Little Tony, Italian-Sammarinese singer (d. 2013)
 1943 – Gareth Hunt, English actor
 1945 – Gerald Davies, Welsh rugby player
 1945 - Jörg Schneider, Swiss actor (d. 2015)
 1946 – Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (d. 2011)
 1946 - Héctor Babenco, Argentine-Brazilian screenwriter, producer and actor (d. 2016)
 1947 - Wayne Allwine, American voice actor (d. 2009)
 1947 - Flemming Jorgensen, Danish musician and actor (d. 2011)
 1948 - Josef Ackermann, Swiss banker, former CEO of Deutsche Bank
 1948 - Jimmy Greenspoon, American singer (d. 2015)
 1949 – Paulo César Carpegiani, Brazilian footballer and coach
 1949 - Regina Derieva, Russian poet and writer (d. 2013)
 1950 – Mauro Bellugi, Italian footballer
1951  1975 
 1952 - John Hickenlooper, Governor of Colorado
 1952 - Vasco Rossi, Italian singer
 1953 – Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (d. 1998)
 1954 – Dieter Bohlen, German composer and media personality
 1955 – Mario Coutinho, Brazilian physician
 1955 – Miguel Ferrer, American actor (d. 2017)
 1955 – Rolf Benirschke, American football player
 1956 - Mark St. John, American musician (Kiss)
 1958 – Giuseppe Baresi, Italian footballer
 1959 – Mick McCarthy, English-Irish football manager
 1960 – James Spader, American actor
 1960 - Gabriel Humberto Calderon, Argentine footballer
 1962 – Garth Brooks, American singer
 1962 - David Bryan, American keyboardist and songwriter (Bon Jovi)
 1962 – Eddie Izzard, British actor and comedian
 1963 - Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, American astronaut
 1964 – Ray Mears, British television presenter and outdoor survival expert
 1965 - Petr Vasa, Czech poet, singer-songwriter, actor and artist
 1965 – Jason Gedrick, American actor
1965 - Chris Rock, American comedian and actor
 1966 – Kristin Otto, German swimmer
 1966 - Monika Weber, German fencer
 1967 - Richie Burnett, Welsh darts player
 1968 – Peter Bondra, Ukrainian-born hockey player
 1968 – Sully Erna, American singer (Godsmack)
 1968 - Katja Kaan, Danish pornographic actress
 1969 - Adriano Silva Francisco, Brazilian footballer
 1969 - Yves Racine, Canadian ice hockey player
 1970 - Stanley Roberts, American basketball player
 1971 - Anita Tsoy, Russian singer-songwriter
 1972 - Robyn Lively, American actress
 1972 - Essence Atkins, American actress
 1972 - Amon Tobin, Brazilian musician, composer and producer
 1974 - Danny Goffey, English musician
 1974 – Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player
 1975 – Wes Borland, American guitarist (Limp Bizkit)
 1975 – Rafik Saïfi, Algerian footballer
From 1976 
 1977 – Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, Japanese footballer
 1977 - Dimitris Papanikolaou, Greek basketball player
 1978 – Ashton Kutcher, American actor
 1978 – Daniel Van Buyten, Belgian footballer
 1979 – Tawakel Karman, Yemeni activist, co-winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize
 1979 - Cerina Vincent, American actress
 1979 - Daniel Bierofka, German footballer
 1980 - Sasa Papac, Bosnia and Herzegovina footballer
 1981 - Lee Ok-Sung, South Korean boxer
 1985 – Tina Majorino, American actress
 1986 - Stephen Colletti, American actor
 1986 - Pippa Wilson, English sailor
 1986 - Giorgi Tsintzade, Georgian basketball player
 1987 - Joe Cardle, British footballer
 1987 - Kerli, Estonian singer
 1988 - Lee Don-Ku, South Korean ice hockey player
 1988 - Lee Joon, South Korean singer, dancer and actor
 1988 - Ai Kapo, Japanese singer and actress
 1988 - Matthew Stafford, American football player
 1989 - Louisa Lytton, English actress
 1990 - Anna Abreu, Finnish singer
 1991 - Zhou Yimiao, Chinese tennis player
1992 - Maimi Yajima, Japanese singer and actress
 1993 – David Dorfman, American actor
 1993 - Chris Mears, English diver
 1996 - Mai Hagiwara, Japanese singer
 1996 - Aaron Ekblad, Canadian ice hockey player
 1999 - Bea Miller, American singer
Up to 1900 
 531 - Emperor Keitai of Japan (b. 450)
 590 - Pope Pelagius II (b. 1520)
 812 - Li Ning, Chinese prince (b. 793)
 999 - Boleslaus II of Bohemia
 1045 - Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (b. 1009)
 1074 - Pandulf IV of Benevento
 1317 - Robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the Bourbon Royal Family (b. 1526)
 1560 - Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1493)
 1603 - Hermann Wilken, German humanist and mathematician (b. 1522)
 1609 - Ferdinando I de'Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)
 1626 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)
 1652 - Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1852)
 1693 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)
 1736 - Stephen Gray, English astronomer (b. 1666)
 1779 – William Boyce, English composer (b. 1711)
 1799 – Qianlong, Emperor of China (b. 1711)
 1801 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)
 1823 - Ann Radcliffe, British writer (b. 1764)
 1837 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
 1839 – Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799)
1862 - Francisco de Paula Martinez de la Rosa, Spanish statesman and dramatist (b. 1787)
 1864 - Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic, Serbian philologist and linguist (b. 1787)
 1873 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author (b. 1814)
 1878 – Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
 1883 - Edmund J. Davis, American general and 15th Governor of Texas (b. 1827)
 1897 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (b. 1847)
1901  2000 
 1920 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (b. 1876)
 1931 - Tommaso Tittoni, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1855)
 1932 - Augusto B. Leguia, President of Peru (b. 1863)
 1935 - Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Scottish writer (b. 1901)
 1937 – Elihu Root, American politician (b. 1845)
 1938 - Harvey Samuel Firestone, American businessman (b. 1868)
 1939 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (b. 1886)
 1942 - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (b. 1876)
 1944 - Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (b. 1874)
 1959 - Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (b. 1874)
 1959 - Guitar Slim, American guitarist (b. 1926)
 1959 – Daniel Francois Malan, South African politician, father of Apartheid (b. 1874)
 1960 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (b. 1903)
 1964 – Sophoklis Venizelos, Greek Prime Minister (b. 1894)
 1967 - William Preston Lane, Jr., Governor of Maryland (b. 1892)
 1971 - Douglass Cadwallader, American golfer (b. 1884)
 1972 - Walter Lang, American movie director (b. 1896)
1979 – Josef Mengele, Nazi doctor (b. 1911)
 1980 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet aircraft pioneer (b. 1904)
 1985 - Matt Monro, English singer (b. 1930)
 1986 - Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist and physicist (b. 1923)
 1987 – Claudio Villa, Italian singer (b. 1926)
 1990 - Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (b. 1913)
 1993 - Nic Broca, Belgian comic artist (b. 1932)
 1994 - Witold Lutoslawski, Polish composer (b. 1913)
 1994 - Stephen Milligan, English journalist and politician (b. 1948)
 1994 - Arnold Smith, Canadian diplomat (b. 1915)
 1996 - Boris Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1925)
 1999 – King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
 2000 – Big Pun, American rapper (b. 1971)
 2000 - Doug Henning, Canadian magician (b. 1947)
From 2001 
 2001 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American writer and pilot (b. 1906)
 2001 - Dale Evans, American actress and singer (b. 1912)
 2005 - Atli Dam, 5th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1932)
 2005 - Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1934)
 2006 - Princess Duhru Shehvar of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1914)
 2008 - Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (b. 1913)
 2010 – Franco Ballerini, Italian road racing cyclist (b. 1964)
 2010 – André Kolingba, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1936)
 2013 - Krsto Papic, Croatian director and screenwriter (b. 1933)
 2014 - Doug Mohns, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
 2014 - Georgina Henry, British journalist (b. 1960)
 2014 - Nico Nicolaiewsky, Brazilian actor, musician and comedian (b. 1957)
 2014 - Mohamed Guessous, Moroccan sociologist and politician (b. 1937)
 2015 - Dean Smith, American basketball coach (b. 1931)
 2015 - Joe B. Mauldin, American musician (b. 1940)
2015 - John C. Whitehead, American financier and civil servant (b. 1922)
 2015 - Billy Casper, American golfer (b. 1931)
 2015 - René Lavand, Argentine magician and illusionist (b. 1928)
 2015 - Donald H. Clausen, American politician (b. 1923)
 2015 - Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist (b. 1934)
 2016 - Roger Willemsen, German author, essayist and television presenter (b. 1955)
 2017 - Svend Asmussen, Danish jazz violinist (b. 1916)
 2017 - Sotsha Dlamini, 5th Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1940)
 2017 - Smail Hamdani, 11th Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1930)
 2017 - Richard Hatch, American actor, writer and producer (b. 1945)
 2017 - Hans Rosling, Swedish physician, statistician and public speaker (b. 1948)
 2017 - Tzvetan Todorov, Bulgarian-French philosopher (b. 1939)
 2017 - Richard B. Wright, Canadian novelist (b. 1937)
 2017 - Valeriu Bularca, Romanian wrestler (b. 1931)
 2017 - Loukianos Kilaidonis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
 2017 - John Salt, British Anglican bishop (b. 1941)
2018 - Mickey Jones, American drummer and actor (b. 1941)
 2018 - Pat Torpey, American drummer (b. 1953)
Observances
 Independence Day in Grenada

February 07
January 5 – Nicole-Reine Lepaute, French astronomer, mathematician (d. 1788)
 January 11 – Prithvi Narayan Shah, First Monarch of Nepal (d. 1775)
 January 12 – Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (d. 1797)
 January 31 – Petronella Johanna de Timmerman, Dutch poet, scientist (d. 1786)
 February 15 – John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1794)
 February 17 – Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (d. 1761)
 February 21 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808)
 February 23 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
 March 22 – Charles Carroll, American lawyer, Continental Congressman (d. 1783)
 March 25 – Catharina Mulder, Dutch organist (d. 1798) 
 March 31 – King Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1766)
 April 5 – Catherine Charlotte De la Gardie, Swedish countess (d. 1763) 
 April 20 – Cornelius Harnett, American Continental Congressman (d. 1781)
 April 30 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (d. 1806)
June 3 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician, naturalist (d. 1788)
 June 11 – Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788)
June 16 – (baptised) Adam Smith, Scottish economist, philosopher (d. 1790)
 June 20
 Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher, historian (d. 1816)
 Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (d. 1808)
 July 1 – Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes, Spanish statesman, writer (d. 1802)
 July 10 – William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780)
 July 11 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian, writer (d. 1799)
 July 16 – Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792)
 September 11 – Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (d. 1790)
 October 4 – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (d. 1798)
 October 11 – Hedvig Strömfelt, Swedish psalm writer (d. 1766) 
 November 8 – John Byron, English admiral (d. 1786) 
 November 30 – William Livingston, American politician, journalist (d. 1790)
 December 22 – Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (d. 1787)
 December 26 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807)
Date unknown – Carl Albert von Lespilliez, German draftsman, architect and printmaker (d. 1796)
 Eva Merthen, Finnish political activist (d. 1811)
Deaths 
 January 14 – Charles Henri, Prince of Commercy (b. 1649)
 February 23 – Anne Henriette of Bavaria, Duchess of Guise (b. 1648)
February 25 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1632)
 February 26 – Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653)
 March 13 – René Auguste Constantin de Renneville, French writer (b. 1650)
 March 15 – Johann Christian Günther, German poet (b. 1695)
 March 30 – Filippo Bonanni, Italian Jesuit scholar (b. 1638)
 March 31 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (b. 1661)
 April 5 – Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect (b. 1656)
 April 11 – John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)
 May 2 – Christopher of Baden-Durlach, German prince (b. 1684)
 May 11 – Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656)
 May 12 – Johannes Voorhout, Dutch painter (b. 1647)
 May 29 – Jean de La Chapelle, French writer and dramatist (b. 1651)
 June 4 – Léopold Clément, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine, French prince (b. 1707)
 June 8 – Isaac Chayyim Cantarini, Italian rabbi (b. 1644)
June 14 – Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford, English politician (b. 1644)
 July 14 – Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
 July 26 – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
 July 28 – Mariana Alcoforado, Portuguese nun (b. 1640)
 August 4 – William Fleetwood, Anglican bishop (b. 1656)
 August 10 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal, statesman (b. 1656)
 August 14 – Edward Northey (barrister), British barrister and politician (b. 1652)
 August 17 – Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
 August 21 – Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian linguist and scholar (b. 1673)
 August 23 – Increase Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1639)
August 26 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
 September 19 – Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton, English diplomat (b. 1662)
 October 1 – Frédéric Maurice Casimir de La Tour d'Auvergne, French prince (b. 1702)
 October 10 – William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. c. 1665)
 October 13 – Praskovia Saltykova, Russian tsarina (b. 1664)
 October 19 – Godfrey Kneller, German-born artist (b. 1646)
 October 28 – Christopher Vane, 1st Baron Barnard, English politician and peer (b. 1653)
 October 31 – Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
 November 19 – Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and statesman (b. 1632)
 December 1 – Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist, actress (b. 1669)
 December 2 – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (b. 1674) 
 December 7 – Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (b. 1677)
 December 20 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician, botanist (b. 1652)
Ovens are closed, heated containers which are used for heating, baking, and drying. It is used the most often in cooking and pottery. They provide even, dry heat to all surfaces of food inside them. An indoor oven can have an electric heating element, or be fired by natural gas or coal. Outdoor ovens are often made of brick or clay and are buried in hot coals. An oven which is used for making pottery is called a kiln. An oven used for heating or industrial processes is called a furnace. They are hot inside, and often things come out of them hot.

History 

The people in the settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization were the first to have an oven inside of their mud-brick houses by 3200 B.C.
People who study the history of food give credit to the Greeks for making the baking of bread into an art. A type of oven called Front-loaded bread ovens were created in ancient Greece.

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Cooking appliances
Home appliances
Commercial kitchen equipment
Pot is also a different (slang) word for marijuana (Cannabis).

A cooking pot is a vessel to cook in. It is often larger than a pan, and will be taller than it is wide.
Pots are used for boiling liquids, like soups or stew.

Cookware and bakeware
A liquid is a form of matter. It is settled between solid and gas. Liquid has an almost-fixed volume, but no set shape.

Every small force makes a liquid change its shape by flowing. Because of that, gravity makes liquids always take the shape of the container. The molecules that make up the liquid can freely move among themselves.

Fluids that flow slowly have a high viscosity. Some fluids like tar have such a high viscosity that they may seem solid.

It is difficult to compress a liquid. If a liquid is cooled down until it is colder than a certain temperature, it will become a solid.  This temperature is called the melting point or freezing point and is different for every different type of liquid.  If a liquid is heated up it becomes a gas.  The temperature this happens at is called the boiling point.  

Examples of liquid are water, oils and blood.
In a liquid, the liquid on the top presses down on the liquid underneath, so at the bottom the pressure, p, is bigger than at the top. The equation for working this out is:

p = ρgz

where z is the depth of the point below the surface and g is how strong gravity is pulling on the liquid. ρ is a number that tells us how heavy a set amount of the liquid is. We call this the density and it is different for all liquids.

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States of matter
Up to 1900 
 41 – Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, was assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards.
 1438 – Pope Eugenius IV was suspended by the Council of Basel.
 1458 – Matthias I Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.
 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Puka-Puka Islands in the Tuamotu Archipelago, Polynesia, South Pacific Ocean.
 1624 – Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
 1679 – King Charles II of England disbands Parliament.
 1742 – Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
 1758 - Seven Years' War: The leading burghers of Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad) submit to Elizabeth of Russia, forming Russian Prussia (until 1763).
 1772 - France takes control of the Crozet Islands in the Indian Ocean.
 1817 - Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras are captured in the Action Pichenta.
1835 - Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.
 1848 – California gold rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
 1857 - The University of Calcutta is founded.
 1862 - Bucharest becomes the capital city of Romania.
 1888 – Jacob L. Wortman patents the typewriter ribbon.
1901  2000 
 1908 – Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement.
 1916 – In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
 1918 – A decree of the Council of People's Commissars, introducing the Gregorian calendar in Russia from February 1, issued
 1922 – Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
 1924 – St. Petersburg, Russia is renamed Leningrad.
 1927 – Young director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first movie, The Pleasure Garden, in England.
 1936 – Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France.
 1939 - Chillan, in Chile, is hit by a deadly earthquake.
 1942 - World War II: The Allies bomb Bangkok, leading to Thailand declaring war on the United Kingdom and United States.
 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
 1945 – Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland is liberated by Soviet troops.
1946 - The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.
 1947 - Dimitrios Maximos becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
 1952 – Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada.
 1960 - Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
 1961 - A bomber carrying two hydrogen bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina.
 1962 – Brian Epstein signs to manage The Beatles.
 1962 - 28 people manage to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin through a tunnel.
 1966 – An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117
 1972 – Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese soldier, is discovered on Guam, where he was hiding in a cave since 1944.
 1976 - An earthquake kills 3,850 people in Turkey.
 1977 - Massacre of Atochi in Madrid.
1978 - Soviet satellite Cosmos 954, with nuclear weapons on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories.
 1982 – Super Bowl XVI: San Francisco 49ers defeat the Cincinnati Bengals, 26-21 in the first Super Bowl played north of the Mason–Dixon line
 1984 – The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
 1986 – Voyager 2 passes within 50,679 miles of Uranus.
 1987 – In Lebanon, gunmen kidnap Alann Steen, Jesse Turner, Robert Polhill and Mitheleshwar Singh.
 1989 – Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair.
 1990 - Japan launches Hiten, its first lunar probe.
 1993 - Turkish journalist and writer Ugur Mumcu is killed by a car bomb in Ankara.
 1995 – The prosecution delivers its opening statement in the O. J. Simpson murder trial.
 1996 – Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charges he spied for Moscow.
From 2001 
 2001 – The last two of the Texas 7 are taken into custody in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
 2002 – Enron congressional hearings begin.
 2002 – Terrorist suspect John Walker Lindh's hearing begins.
 2002 – The United States Department of Justice indicts Robert Nicholas Angleton for conspiring to murder his wife, Doris Angleton, along with his brother Roger.
 2003 – The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
 2009 - The storm Klaus makes landfall in Bordeaux, France, on the way to causing large destruction and 26 deaths.
 2011 - A bombing at Domodedovo Airport in Moscow kills 35 people.
 2015 - An attack by Russian-backed rebels in Mariupol, Eastern Ukraine, kills at least 20 people.
 2018 - Scientists in the People's Republic of China report in the journal "Cell" that the first monkey clones have been created.

Births
Up to 1900 
 76 – Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)
 1444 – Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476)
 1540 - Edmund Campion, English priest and martyr (d. 1581)
 1679 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher (d. 1754)
 1705 - Farinelli, Italian singer (d. 1782)
 1712 – Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
 1724 - Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)
 1732 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (d. 1799)
 1742 - Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn (d. 1808)
 1746 – King Gustav III of Sweden (d. 1792)
 1749 – Charles James Fox, British politician (d. 1806)
 1752 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832)
 1776 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German writer (d. 1822)
 1778 - Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, French Prince (d. 1820)
 1779 - Tsarina Elizabeth Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1826)
 1792 - Friedrich Wilhelm, Count Brandenburg, Prussian statesman (d. 1850)
 1816 - Coles Bashford, Governor of Wisconsin (d. 1878)
 1828 – Ferdinand Cohn, German botanist and microbiologist (d. 1898)
1848 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (d. 1916)
 1850 – Hermann Ebbinghaus, German psychologist (d. 1909)
 1862 – Edith Wharton, American writer (d. 1937)
 1864 – Marguerite Durand, French Women's rights activist (d. 1936)
 1866 - Jaan Poskal, Estonian lawyer, diplomat and politician (d. 1920)
 1872 – Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
 1872 - Ethel Turner, Australian writer (d. 1958)
 1872 - Morris William Travers, English chemist (d. 1961)
 1886 - Henry King, American movie director (d. 1982)
 1888 – Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958)
 1888 - Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (d. 1960)
 1891 - Walter Model, German field marshal (d. 1945)
 1895 – Eugen Roth, German writer (d. 1976)
 1900 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-born American geneticist and biologist (d. 1975)
1901  1950 
 1901 – A. M. Cassandre, Ukrainian-born French artist (d. 1968)
 1901 - Mikhail Romm, Soviet-Russian film director (d. 1971)
 1907 - Maurice Couve de Murville, Prime Minister of France (d. 1999)
 1910 – Doris Haddock (Granny D), American political activist (d. 2010)
 1913 - Norman Dello Joio, American composer (d. 2008)
 1915 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (d. 1991)
 1916 - Arnoldo Foa, Italian actor and director (d. 2014)
 1916 – Rafael Caldera, President of Venezuela (d. 2009)
 1916 - Gene Mako, Hungarian-American tennis player (d. 2013)
 1917 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor (d. 2012)
 1918 – Oral Roberts, American evangelist (d. 2009)
 1920 - Jerry Maren, American actor
 1922 - Daniel Boulanger, French actor and screenwriter (d. 2014)
 1925 - Gus Mortson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
 1925 - Maria Tallchief, American ballerina (d. 2013)
 1926 – Georges Lautner, French movie director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
 1928 – Desmond Morris, British zoologist, publicist and artist
1928 - Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007)
 1931 - Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician (d. 2012)
 1935 - Bamber Gascoigne, British actor and broadcaster
 1940 – Joachim Gauck, German pastor, activist, publicist and former President of Germany
 1941 – Neil Diamond, American singer and songwriter
 1941 – Dan Shechtman, Israeli scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 1941 - Aaron Neville, American musician
 1942 - Gary Hart, American wrestler and manager (d. 2008)
 1943 - Subhash Ghai, Indian director, screenwriter and politician
 1943 – Peter Struck, German politician (d. 2012)
 1943 – Sharon Tate, American actress (d. 1969)
 1944 – Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
 1945 - John Garamendi, American politician
 1947 - Masashi Ozaki, Japanese golfer
 1947 – Michio Kaku, American theoretical physicist
 1947 - Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian footballer (d. 2012)
 1948 – Michael Des Barres, British actor and singer
 1949 – John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)
1951  1975 
 1951 - Mike Thompson, American politician
 1952 - Raymond Domenech, French football coach
 1953 - Moon Jae-in, South Korean lawyer and President of South Korea
 1953 - Matthew Wilder, American singer-songwriter
 1955 - Jim Montgomery, American swimmer
 1957 - Mark Eaton, American basketball player
 1957 – Adrian Edmondson, English comedian
 1958 – Jools Holland, English pianist, bandleader and television presenter
 1959 – Vic Reeves, English comedian
 1959 - Michel Preud'Homme, Belgian footballer
 1961 – Guido Buchwald, German footballer
 1961 – Natassja Kinski, German-born actress
 1965 - Andreu Buenafuerte, Spanish humorist
 1966 - Shaun Donovan, American politician
 1966 - Julie Dreyfus, French actress
 1968 - Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
 1971 - Cory Bailey, American baseball player
From 1976 
 1976 - Shae-Lynn Bourne, Canadian ice dancer
 1976 - Cindy Pieters, Belgian cyclist
 1977 – Kensuke Kita, Japanese guitarist
 1977 - Michelle Hunziker, Swiss television presenter, singer and model
 1978 - Kristen Schaal, American actress
 1979 – Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer
 1979 - Nik Wallenda, American acrobat and daredevil
 1979 - Leandro Desabato, Argentine footballer
 1980 - Rebecca Romero, English track cyclist and rower
 1980 - Nicole Marie Lenz, American actress
 1981 – Michael Wolf, German ice hockey player
 1981 - Travis Hanson, American baseball player
 1982 - Claudia Heill, Austrian judoka (d. 2011)
 1983 – Shaun Maloney, Scottish footballer
 1983 – Scott Speed, American racing driver
 1983 - Diane Birch, American singer-songwriter and pianist
 1983 - Davide Blondini, Italian footballer
 1984 - Scott Kazmir, American baseball player
 1984 - Wietold Kieltyka, Polish drummer (d. 2007)
 1986 – Mischa Barton, English-born actress
 1986 - Michael Kightly, English footballer
1987 - Wayne Hennessey, Welsh footballer
 1987 – Luis Suarez, Uruguayan footballer
 1988 - DaJuan Summers, American basketball player
 1988 – Jade Ewen, English singer
 1989 – Ki Sung-Yueng, South Korean footballer
 1989 - Samba Diakité, Malian footballer
 1989 - Calvin Goldspink, English actor and singer
 1989 - Gong Lijiao, Chinese shot putter
 1990 - Mao Abe, Japanese singer-songwriter
 1992 - Becky Downie, British gymnast
 1993 - Tanja Frank, Austrian sailor
 1995 - Callan McAuliffe, Australian actor
 1997 - Dylan Riley Snyder, American actor, singer and dancer
 2012 - Princess Athena of Denmark
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 41 – Caligula, Roman Emperor (b. 12)
 772 – Pope Stephen III (b. 721)
 817 - Pope Stephen IV (b. 770)
 863 - Charles of Provence (b. 845)
 1002 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
 1125 – King David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)
 1349 - Luchino Visconti, Regent of Milan (b. 1287)
 1366 – Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)
 1595 – Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)
 1813 - Theodore Sedgwick, American politician (b. 1746)
 1861 - Robert P. Letcher, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1788)
 1877 – Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)
 1879 - Heinrich Geissler, inventor (b. 1815)
 1882 - Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808)
 1895 – Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (b. 1849)
1901  2000 
 1911 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
 1918 - George Arthur Crump, American architect (b. 1871)
 1919 - Ismail Qemali, 1st Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1844)
 1920 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
 1924 – Marie-Adelaide, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)
 1924 - Anna Bayerova, Czech physician (b. 1853)
 1930 - Rebecca Latimer Felton, American politician (b. 1835)
 1937 - Andrew J. Montague, Governor of Virginia (b. 1862)
 1939 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician (b. 1867)
 1948 - Maria Mandl, Austrian concentration camp overseer and convicted Nazi war criminal (b. 1912)
 1955 - Henry Potter, American golfer (b. 1881)
 1955 - Ira Hayes, American marine (b. 1923)
 1960 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
 1961 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and inventor (b. 1884)
 1962 - Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Turkish writer (b. 1901)
1965 – Winston Churchill, British statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1874)
 1969 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
 1971 - Bill W., American activist, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895) 
 1980 – Lil Dagover, Dutch-German actress (b. 1887)
 1982 - Alfredo Ovando Candia, 56th President of Bolivia (b. 1918)
 1986 - Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
 1986 – L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
 1988 - Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (b. 1905)
 1989 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)
 1992 - Ken Darby, American composer and conductor (b. 1909)
 1993 – Thurgood Marshall, United States Supreme Court Justice (b. 1908)
 1993 – Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1942)
From 2001 
 2003 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman and auto executive (b. 1921)
 2004 – Leonidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913)
 2006 - Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
 2007 – Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican supercentenarian (b. 1891)
 2009 – Kay Yow, American basketball coach (b. 1942)
 2011 – Bhimsen Joshi, Indian musician (b. 1922)
 2011 – Bernd Eichinger, German movie director and producer (b. 1949)
 2012 – Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek movie director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
 2012 – James Farentino, American actor (b. 1938)
 2012 - J. Joseph Garrahy, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1930)
 2014 - Shulamit Aloni, Israeli politician (b. 1928)
 2015 - Otto Carius, German World War II tank commander (b. 1922)
 2015 - Johan Ferner, Norwegian sailor (b. 1927)
 2015 - Toller Cranston, Canadian figure skater (b. 1949)
 2015 - Link Byfield, Canadian conservative columnist, politician and publisher (b. 1951)
 2015 - Joe Franklin, American television and radio host (b. 1926)
2015 - Julio Canessa, Chilean diplomat and general (b. 1925)
 2015 - Frances Lennon, British artist (b. 1912)
 2016 - Jimmy Bain, Scottish musician (b. 1947)
 2016 - Fredrik Barth, Norwegian social anthropologist (b. 1928)
 2016 - Forouzan, Iranian actress (b. 1937)
 2016 - Marvin Minsky, American scientist (b. 1927)
 2016 - Henry Worsley, English adventurer (b. 1960)
 2017 - Fred André, Dutch footballer (b. 1941)
 2017 - Chuck Canfield, American businessman and politician (b. 1932)
 2017 - Carlos Verdejo, Chilean footballer (b. 1934)
 2017 - Chuck Weyant, American racing driver (b. 1923)
 2017 - Butch Trucks, American drummer (b. 1947)
 2017 - Robert Folsom, American politician (b. 1927)
 2017 - Gil Ray, American drummer (b. 1956)
 2018 - Marcos Carvajal, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1984)
 2018 - Gonzalo Facio Segreda, Costa Rican politician (b. 1918)
 2018 - Renaud Gagneux, French composer (b. 1947)
 2018 - Jack Ketchum, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1946)
Observances 
 Feast Day of Our Lady of Peace (Roman Catholicism)
 Unification Day (Romania)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 539 BC  The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon.
 1216  King John of England loses his own crown jewels in The Wash.
 1492  In his first voyage, Christopher Columbus lands in the present-day Bahamas, in the belief that he'd reached East Asia.
 1654  An explosion devastates the city of Delft, Netherlands, killing over 100 people.
 1692  The Salem Witch Trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
 1748  War of Jenkins' Ear: Battle of Havana between British and Spanish naval forces.
 1773  The United States' first insane asylum opens in Virginia.
 1792  First US celebration of Columbus Day, in New York City.
 1799  Jeanne Genevieve Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.
 1810  The tradition of the Munich Oktoberfest begins.
 1822  Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed Emperor.
 1823  Charles Macintosh, of Scotland, sells the first raincoat.
1860 - The previously Introduced of the so-called Section 377 of the British Indian penal code (Law) was enacted in British India respectively.
 1871 - The Introduction of the so-called Criminal Tribes Act was enacted in British India respectively.
 1892  The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many public schools.
 1899  First fighting of the Second Boer War.
1901  2000 
 1901  The 'Executive Mansion' is renamed the White House by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
 1902  The Austria national football team plays its first game, defeating the Hungary national football team 5-0.
 1915  World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad.
 1917  World War I: The first Battle of Passchendaele takes place.
 1918  A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
 1928  An iron lung respirator is first used at the Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
 1931  The Christ the Redeemer statue on Sugar Loaf Mountain over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is officially inaugurated.
 1942  World War II: Japanese ships retreat after defeat to the US in the Battle of Esperance on Guadalcanal.
 1944  World War II: Athens, Greece, is liberated from occupying German forces.
 1962  A storm hits the Pacific Northwest of the United States, killing 46 people.
1964  The Soviet Union launches Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew.
 1968  Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
 1968  The 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City begin.
 1970  Vietnam War: Richard Nixon announces the withdrawal of 40,000 US troops before Christmas.
 1979  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is first published.
 1983  Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of bribery and sent to four years in jail.
 1984  The Provisional IRA carries out the Brighton Hotel Bombing in an attempt to kill Margaret Thatcher, who escapes unhurt, though 5 people are killed and 31 injured.
 1986  Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China.
 1987  General Junhao Zhang fails the Juliet battalion in a skirmish versus the Han Chinese resulting in 50 casualties and the loss of a warehouse containing tonnes of gold.
 1988  Birchandra Manu massacre in Tripura, India.
1991  Askar Akayev is confirmed as President of Kyrgyzstan.
 1992  A magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Cairo, Egypt kills 510 people.
 1994  NASA loses radio contact  with the Magellan spacecraft as it passes through the atmosphere of the planet Venus, probably because of the extreme gravity there.
 1997  Sidi Daous massacre occurs in Algeria, as 43 people are killed at a fake roadblock.
 1999  In Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf takes control in a military coup. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is placed under house arrest.
 1999  Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
 1999  The UN officially designates this as the day that the world population reached six billion.
 2000  The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers.
From 2001 
 2002  A terrorist bombing on the Indonesian island of Bali kills 202 people.
 2003  Germany wins the FIFA Women's World Cup, defeating Sweden 2-1.
 2005  The second Chinese space flight occurs as Shenzhou 6 is launched, with Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng on board.
 2007  Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change win the Nobel Peace Prize.
 2009  Elinor Ostrom becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, sharing it with Oliver E. Williamson.
 2012  The European Union wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
 2013  Cyclone Phailin hits the east coast of India.
 2013  51 people are killed after a truck plunges off a cliff in Peru.
 2014  Southeastern India is hit by Cyclone Hudhud, while Japan is hit by a typhoon on the same day.
 2019  Typhoon Hagibis hits Japan, becoming the most powerful storm to hit the country in over 60 years.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1006  Emperor Go-Ichijo of Japan (d. 1036).
 1350  Dmitry Donskoy, Prince of Moscow (d. 1389).
 1490  Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (d. 1548).
 1537  Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England for nine days (d. 1554).
 1537  King Edward VI of England (d. 1553).
 1558  Archduke Maximilian II of Austria (d. 1618).
 1576  Thomas Dudley, English-born American colonial magistrate (d. 1653).
 1664  Praskovia Saltykova, Tsarina of Russia (d. 1723).
 1687  Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer (d. 1750)
 1710  Jonathan Trumbull, 16th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1785).
 1775  Ludovico Micara, Italian cardinal (d. 1847).
 1792  Christian Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1860).
 1798  Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil  and (as Pedro IV) King of Portugal (d. 1834).
 1801  Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss statesman (d. 1873).
 1812  Ascanio Sobrero, Italian chemist and inventor (d. 1888).
 1815  William G. Hardee, American Confederate general (d. 1873).
 1827  George Lawson, Canadian botanist (d. 1895).
1834  Infanta Amelia Philippina of Spain (d. 1905).
 1840  Helena Modjeska, Polish actress (d. 1909).
 1844  George Washington Cable, American writer (d. 1925).
 1853  Edward F. Dunne, Governor of Illinois (d. 1937).
 1855  Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (d. 1922).
 1860  Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor (d. 1930).
 1860  John G. Sargent, 53rd United States Attorney General (d. 1939).
 1865  Arthur Harden, English chemist (d. 1940).
 1866  Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1937).
 1868  August Horch, German engineer and automobile pioneer, founder of Audi (d. 1951).
 1868  Mariano Trias, 1st Vice President of the Philippines (d. 1914).
 1872  Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (d. 1958)
 1875  Aleister Crowley, English occultist and writer (d. 1947).
 1877  Howard Mason Gore, American politician, 17th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1947).
 1880  Louis Hemon, French novelist (d. 1913).
 1882  Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (d. 1961).
1891  Edith Stein, Roman Catholic nun (d. 1942).
 1891  Fumimaro Konoe, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1945).
 1894  Elisabeth of Romania (d. 1956).
 1896  Eugenio Montale, Italian poet (d. 1981).
1901  1950 
 1904  Ding Ling, Chinese writer (d. 1986).
 1905  Barney Battles Jr., Scottish footballer (d. 1979).
 1906  Joe Cronin, American baseball player and executive (d. 1984).
 1910  Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator (d. 1985).
 1917  Roque Maspoli, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2004).
 1920  Christopher Soames, Baron Soames, British politician (d. 1987).
 1921  Art Clokey, American animator (d. 2010).
 1921  Jaroslav Drobny, Czech tennis and ice hockey player (d. 2001).
 1921  Logie Bruce Lockhart, Scottish rugby player and journalist.
 1921  Kenneth Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 2006).
 1923  Wendell Eugene, American jazz trombonist (d. 2017).
 1923  Jean Nidetch, American businesswoman (d. 2015).
 1924  Doris Grau, American actress (d. 1995).
 1925  Essie Mae Washington-Williams, American educator (d. 2013).
 1926  Allan Brown, Scottish footballer (d. 2011).
 1928  Rangel Valchanov, Bulgarian actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2013).
1929  Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic-British television presenter (d. 2007).
 1931  Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (d. 2002).
 1932  Dick Gregory, American comedian and activist (d. 2017).
 1932  Ned Jarrett, American racing driver.
 1932  John Moffat, Danish-Canadian physicist.
 1934  Richard Meier, American architect.
 1934  Albert Shiryaev, Russian mathematician.
 1934  Thomas L. Judge, Governor of Montana (d. 2006).
 1935  Don Howe, English footballer (d. 2015).
 1935  Shivraj Patil, Indian politician.
 1935  Luciano Pavarotti, Italian opera singer (d. 2007).
 1937  Alberto Goldman, Brazilian politician (d. 2019).
 1938  Bob Miller, American NHL broadcaster.
 1939  Carolee Schneemann, American artist (d. 2019).
 1942  Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1995).
 1942  Daliah Lavi, Israeli actress and singer (d. 2017).
 1943  Jakob Kuhn, Swiss footballer and coach.
 1944  Angela Rippon, British television journalist.
1945  Dusty Rhodes, American professional wrestler (d. 2015).
 1946  Rosanna Marani, Italian journalist and television host.
 1947  George Lam, Hong Kong actor and singer.
 1948  Rick Parfitt, British musician (Status Quo) (d. 2016).
 1948  John Engler, former Governor of Missouri.
 1949  Carlos the Jackal, Venezuelan terrorist.
 1950  Dave Freudenthal, 31st Governor of Wyoming.
1951  1975 
 1951  Ed Royce, American politician.
 1952  Danielle Proulx, Canadian actress.
 1952  Roger Heath-Brown, English mathematician.
 1953  Les Dennis, English comedian and actor.
 1953  David Threlfall, English actor.
 1955  Ashley Adams, Australian target shooter (d. 2015).
 1955  Einar Jan Aas, Norwegian footballer.
 1955  Brian Flynn, Welsh footballer and coach.
 1955  Ante Gotovina, Croatian general.
 1955  Aggie MacKenzie, Scottish television presenter.
 1956  Allan Evans, Scottish footballer.
 1956  David Vanian, British singer (The Damned).
 1958  Bryn Merrick, British musician (The Damned) (d. 2015).
 1958  Hara Patnaik, Indian actor, director and writer (d. 2015).
 1959  Anna Escobedo Cabral, 42nd Treasurer of the United States.
 1960  Alexei Kudrin, Russian politician.
 1962  Branko Crvenkovski, former President of the Republic of Macedonia.
 1962  Chris Botti, American jazz trumpeter.
 1963  Satoshi Kon, Japanese movie director and screenwriter (d. 2010).
1963  Alan McDonald, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2012).
 1963  Dave Legeno, British actor and mixed martial artist (d. 2014).
 1963  Donna Williams, Australian author (d. 2017).
 1964  Sally Rogers, British actress
 1965  Anja Niedringhaus, German photojournalist (d. 2014).
 1966  Rhona Martin, Scottish curler.
 1966  Brian Kennedy, Northern Irish musician and actor.
 1966  Jonathan Crombie, Canadian actor (d. 2015).
 1966  Wim Jonk, Dutch footballer.
 1966  Roberto Nestor Sensini, Argentine footballer.
 1968  Hugh Jackman, Australian actor.
 1968  Adam Rich, American actor.
 1969  Martie Maguire, American musician (Dixie Chicks).
 1969  Zejko Milinovic, Slovenian footballer.
 1970  Kirk Cameron, American actor.
 1970  Origa, Russian-Japanese singer (d. 2015).
 1973  Martin Corry, English rugby player.
 1974  Lascelles Brown, Jamaican-Canadian bobsledder.
 1974  Marie Wilson, American actress.
 1974  Stephen Lee, English snooker player.
 1975  Marion Jones, American athlete.
From 1976 
 1977  Jessica Barker, Canadian actress.
 1977  Bode Miller, American skier.
 1979  Paula Barila Bolopa, Equatoguinean footballer and swimmer.
 1980  Nadzeya Ostapchuk, Belarussian shot putter.
 1980  Ledley King, English footballer.
 1981  Shola Ameobi, English footballer.
 1983  Katie Piper, English model and television host.
 1985  Greig Laidlaw, Scottish rugby player.
 1986  Tyler Blackburn, American actor and singer.
 1987  Besian Idrizaj, Austrian footballer (d. 2010).
 1988  Sam Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player.
 1989  Aggro Santos, Brazilian-English rapper
 1990  Melody, Spanish singer.
 1991  Michael Carter-Williams, American basketball player
 1992  Josh Hutcherson, American actor.
 1992  Taylor Horn, American singer, songwriter and actress.
 1995  Jordan Howe, Welsh paralympic athlete.
 1997  Prince Boris of Bulgaria.
 2001  Raymond Ochoa, American actor.
 2004  Darci Lynne, American ventriloquist and singer.

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 322 BC  Demosthenes, Greek statesman (b. 384 BC).
 632  Edwin of Northumbria (b. 586).
 638  Pope Honorius I
 642  Pope John IV
 1095  Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050).
 1320  Michael IX Palaiologus, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (b. 1277).
 1492  Piero della Francesca, Italian painter (b. 1415).
 1576  Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527).
 1600  Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535).
 1730  Frederick IV of Denmark (b. 1671).
 1845  Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780).
 1850  Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1781).
 1870  Robert E. Lee, American Confederate General (b. 1807).
 1875  Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827).
 1891  Hobart B. Bigelow, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1834).
 1896  Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (b. 1817).
1901  2000 
 1915  Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865).
 1920  Yu Gwan-sun, Korean independence leader (b. 1904).
 1921  Philander C. Knox, United States Secretary of State (b. 1853).
 1924  Anatole France, French writer (b. 1844).
 1933  John Lister, English politician (b. 1847).
 1937  Al Brady, American gangster, killed by FBI
 1943  Willi Graf, German Resistance activist (b. 1918).
 1946  Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883).
 1948  Alfred Kerr, German writer (b. 1867).
 1956  Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (b. 1872).
 1957  Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist (b. 1865).
 1960  Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician (b. 1898).
 1965  Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist (b. 1899).
 1967  Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian activist and politician (b. 1910).
 1969  Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912).
 1970  Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930).
 1971  Dean Acheson, American politician (b. 1893).
 1971  Gene Vincent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1935).
1973  Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1899).
 1980  Alberto Demicheli, Uruguayan politician (b. 1896).
 1985  Johnny Olson, American television announcer (b. 1910).
 1987  Alf Landon, American politician (b. 1887).
 1993  Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902).
 1996  René Lacoste, French tennis player (b. 1904).
 1997  John Denver, American singer (b. 1943).
 1998  Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976).
 1999  Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936).