Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1946 - Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Welsh politician (Plaid Cymru)
 1947 - Paul Chuckle, English comedian
 1947 - Job Cohen, Dutch politician
 1948 - Ntozake Shange, American poet and playwright (d. 2018)
 1949 - Erwin Sellering, German politician
 1950 - Om Puri, Indian actor and singer (d. 2017)
 1950 - Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (d. 2006)
1951  1975 
 1952 - Patrick Morrow, Canadian mountaineer
 1952 - Chuck Lorre, American scriptwriter, director and producer
 1952 - Jim Ratcliffe, English businessman
 1955 - Rita Verdonk, Dutch politician
 1956 – Martina Navratilova, Czech-born tennis player
 1957 - Catherine Ringer, French singer-songwriter, dancer and actress
 1957 - Jon Lindstrom, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
 1958 - Kjell Samuelsson, Swedish ice hockey player
 1958 - Julio Olarticoechea, Argentine footballer
 1958 - Stacy Allison, American mountaineer
 1959 - Mauricio Funes, former President of El Salvador
 1959 - Ernesto Canto, Mexican athlete
 1960 - Craig Mello, American biochemist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 1960 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian bodybuilder and actor
 1961 – Wynton Marsalis, American musician
 1962 - Vincent Spaho, American actor and director
 1966 - Angela Visser, Dutch model and actress
 1968 - Lisa Chappell, New Zealand actress and singer
1968 – Michael Stich, German tennis player
 1973 - James Foley, American journalist (d. 2014)
 1974 – Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer
 1974 – Peter Svensson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
 1975 - Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer
From 1976 
 1977 – Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer
 1977 - Kunal Kapoor, Indian actor
 1978 – Mike Tindall, English rugby player
 1979 - Jaroslav Drobny, Czech footballer
 1979 - 'Ana Po'uhila, Tongan shot putter, hammer and discus thrower
 1979 - Hikaru Kawamura, Japanese model
 1979 – Ne-Yo, American singer
 1982 - Svetlana Loboda, Ukrainian singer and composer
 1982 - Mark Sampson, Welsh football coach
 1983 - Dante, Brazilian footballer
 1984 – Freida Pinto, Indian actress and model
 1984 - Robert Harting, German hammer thrower
 1984 – Lindsey Vonn, American skier
 1984 - Esperanza Spalding, American bassist and singer
 1984 - Jennifer Ulrich, German actress
 1984 - Justin Mapp, American soccer player
 1984 - Milo Yiannopoulos, English journalist
 1985 - Yoenis Céspedes, Cuban baseball player
 1987 – Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
 1987 – Zac Efron, American singer and actor
 1988 - Sam Quek, English field hockey player
 1989 - Joy Lauren, American actress
1990 – Carly Schroeder, American actress
 1990 - Bristol Palin, daughter of Sarah Palin
 1991 – Tyler Posey, American actor
 1992 - John John Florence, American surfer
Up to 1900 
 325 - Jin Mingdi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 299)
 707 - Pope John VII
 1035 - Sancho of Navarre, King of Navarre
 1141 - Leopold IV of Austria, Duke of Bavaria
 1417 – Pope Gregory XII
 1480 - Uhwudong, Korean dancer and poet (b. 1441)
 1503 – Pope Pius III (b. 1439)
 1541 – Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (b. 1489)
 1545 - John Taverner, English composer and organist (b. 1490)
 1558 - Mary of Hungary (b. 1605)
 1564 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
 1646 - Isaac Jogues, French priest, missionary and martyr (b. 1607)
 1667 - Emperor Fasilides of Ethiopia (b. 1603)
 1744 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (b. 1660)
 1769 - Yohannes I, Emperor of Ethiopia
 1845 - Dominique, comte de Cassini, French cartographer and astronomer (b. 1748)
 1865 – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
 1871 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (b. 1791)
1886 – Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796)
 1889 – Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808)
 1893 – Charles Gounod, French composer (b. 1818)
1901  2000 
 1911 – Alfred Binet, French psychologist (b. 1857)
 1921 – Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
 1931 – Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
 1934 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish doctor, won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1852)
 1941 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
 1942 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
 1948 - Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
 1948 - Philip Collier, 14th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1873)
 1954 – Einar Jonsson, Icelandic sculptor (b. 1874)
 1955 - José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher and sociologist (b. 1883)
 1959 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
 1965 – Henry Travers, British actor (b. 1874)
 1966 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (b. 1880)
 1973 – Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher (b. 1899)
 1973 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
 1976 - Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet (b. 1895)
 1977 - German Autumn deaths:
Hanns Martin Schleyer, German politician (b. 1915) (killed)
Andreas Baader, member of the Red Army Faction (b. 1943) (suicide)
Gudrun Ensslin, member of the Red Army Faction (b. 1940) (suicide)
Jan-Carl Raspe, member of the Red Army Faction (b. 1944) (suicide)
 1978 – Ramon Mercader, assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914)
 1982 – Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
 1982 – Pierre Mendès France, French politician (b. 1907)
 1982 - John Robarts, Canadian politician, 17th Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
 1984 - Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)
 1987 - Adriaan Ditvoorst, Dutch movie director and screenwriter (b. 1940)
 1988 - Frederick Ashton, British dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
 2000 – Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
From 2001 
 2001 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (b. 1922)
 2002 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (b. 1932)
 2003 – Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
 2003 - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1939)
 2004 - K. M. Veerappan, Indian criminal (b. 1952)
 2006 - Marc Hodler, Swiss skiing official (b. 1918)
 2006 - Mario Francesco Pompedda, Italian cardinal (b. 1929)
 2007 – Lucky Dube, South African musician (b. 1964)
 2007 - William J. Crowe, American admiral and diplomat (b. 1925)
 2008 – Dee Dee Warwick, American jazz musician (b. 1931)
 2011 - Norman Corwin, American radio broadcaster (b. 1910)
 2012 - Slater Martin, American basketball player (b. 1925)
 2013 - Tom Foley, American politician, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1929)
 2013 - Bill Young, American politician (b. 1930)
 2014 - Rachel Makinson, Australian research scientist (b. 1917)
 2014 - Joanne Borgella, American singer (b. 1982)
2014 - Paul Craft, American musician and songwriter (b. 1938)
 2015 - Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian writer (b. 1945)
 2015 - Frank Watkins, American musician (b. 1968)
 2017 - Eamonn Campbell, Irish guitarist and record producer (b. 1946)
 2017 - Marino Perani, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
 2017 - Yeoh Tiong Lay, Malaysian businessman (b. 1929)
 2017 - Ricardo Vidal, Filipino cardinal (b. 1931)
 2017 - Issam Zahreddine, Syrian Republican Guard Major General (b. 1961)
 2017 - Brent Briscoe, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1961)
 2017 - Helen DeVos, American philanthropist and political donor (b. 1927)
 2018 - Abdul Raziq Achakzai, Afghan officer (b. 1979)
 2018 - Ayub Bachchu, Bangladeshi singer-songwriter (b. 1962)
 2018 - Anthea Bell, British translator (b. 1936)
 2018 - Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, former President of Sudan (b. 1934)
 2018 - Danny Leiner, American film director (b. 1961)
 2018 - Lisbet Palme, Swedish child psychologist, wife of Olof Palme (b. 1931)
2018 - Dick Slater, American professional wrestler (b. 1951)
 2018 - N. D. Tiwari, Indian politician (b. 1925)
 2019 - Nicolás Díaz, Chilean politician and cardiologist (b. 1929)
 2019 - Michael Flaksman, American cellist (b. 1946) 
 2019 - Horace Romano Harré, New Zealand-British philosopher and psychologist (b. 1927)
 2019 - Mark Hurd, American businessman (b. 1957)
 2019 - Rui Jordao, Angolan-Portuguese footballer (b. 1952)
 2019 - William Milliken, American politician, 42nd Governor of Michigan (b. 1922)
 2019 - Mike Reilly, American football player (b. 1942)
 2019 - Mikhail Innokentyevich Semyonov, Russian politician (b. 1938)
 2019 - Meir Shamgar, Israeli lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
 2021 - Colin Powell, American General and politician (b. 1937)
Observances 
 Alaska Day
 Persons Day (Canada)
 Necktie Day (Croatia)

Days of the year
Up to 1950 
 1444 – Battle of Varna: King Wladyslaw of Poland and Hungary is killed, after defeat to the Turks under Murad II.
 1520 – King Christian II of Denmark orders the execution of dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath, after successfully invading Sweden.
 1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
 1674 - The Netherlands cedes the New Netherland to England.
 1775 – United States Marine Corps is created.
 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte becomes French consul.
 1821 - Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de los Santos, Panama, sets into motion a revolt which will lead to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia.
 1847 - Passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off Ireland, killing 92 out of the 110 people on board.
 1865 - Major Henry Wirz, superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, US, is hanged.
1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates the explorer David Livingstone in Ujiji, Tanzania.
 1890 - At Cabo Vilan, Spain, British ship HMS Serpent of the Royal Navy sinks in stormy seas, killing 172 people, with 3 being able to swim to safety.
 1909 - The first outdoor ice rink opens in Vienna.
 1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, following the declaring of a Republic in Germany, goes into exile in the Netherlands.
 1928 – Coronation of Hirohito as Emperor of Japan.
 1938 – The Kristallnacht ends. About 30 000 Jews are moved to concentration camps, and over 1500 synagogues are partly destroyed.
 1938 - President of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatürk dies.
 1940 - The 1940 Vrancea earthquake in Romania kills around 1,000 people.
 1942 - World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French admiral Francois Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the allies in North Africa.
 1944 - The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 people.
1945 - Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonists after World War II.
 1946 - An earthquake in the Ancash region of Peru kills 1,400 people.
From 1951 
 1951 - The US' first direct coast-to-coast service begins, between New Jersey and California.
 1954 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery.
 1958 - The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
 1969 – The television show Sesame Street airs for the first time in the United States.
 1970 - For the first time in five years, a week passes without reports of US Military casualties in Vietnam.
 1970 - Soviet lunar probe Lunokhod 1 is launched.
 1971 - In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44 people. 
 1975 – The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew members on board.
 1975 - The UN General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with Racism. This is repealed (removed) by 1991.
 1978 - Larry Holmes wins the World Heavyweight Boxing title against Alfredo Evangelista.
1982 - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies, being succeeded by Yuri Andropov, who himself dies only 15 months later, in February 1984.
 1989 – Bulgaria's Communist regime under Todor Zhivkov falls.
 1995 – Nine Nigerian human rights activists are executed, including the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa.
 2001 – Apple Inc. starts selling the IPod.
 2008 - Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission finished, after communication with the lander was lost.
 2009 - Ships from the North Korean and South Korean navies clash off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
 2009 – John Allen Muhammad is executed for the Beltway sniper attacks.
 2011 – Lucas Papademos is chosen to lead a caretaker government in Greece.
 2012 - Four days after the United States Presidential Election, Florida is given to Barack Obama, sealing his 332-206 Electoral College win over Mitt Romney.
 2013 - Marc Marquez becomes the youngest Moto GP world champion.
2014 - A suicide bomb attack at a school in northeastern Nigeria kills 48 people.
 2019 - Spain holds its second general election in less than seven months, with the governing Socialist Party under Pedro Sánchez remaining the largest party but the far-right Vox Party doubling its number of seats.
 2019 - Evo Morales resigns as President of Bolivia during a political crisis in the country over his disputed re-election on October 20.
Up to 1800 
 1232 - Haakon the Young, King of Norway (d. 1257)
 1341 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)
 1433 – Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1477)
 1480 - Bridget of York, English nun and princess (d. 1517)
 1483 – Martin Luther, German Protestant reformer (d. 1546)
 1547 - Gerhard Truchsess von Waldburg, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne (d. 1601)
 1565 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
 1577 – Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist and politician (d. 1660)
 1668 – François Couperin, French composer (d. 1733)
 1683 – George II, German-born King of Britain (d. 1760)
 1695 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)
 1697 - Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco (d. 1731)
 1697 – William Hogarth, English artist (d. 1764)
 1710 - Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (d. 1792)
 1720 - Honoré III, Prince of Monaco (d. 1795)
 1728 – Oliver Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish playwright (d. 1774)
1735 - Granville Sharp, English abolitionist (d. 1813)
 1740 - Maria Kunigunde of Saxony (d. 1826)
 1755 - Franz Anton Ries, German violinist (d. 1846)
 1759 – Friedrich Schiller, German writer (d. 1805)
1801  1900 
 1801 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
 1801 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American social reformer (d. 1876)
 1807 – Robert Blum, German politician and revolutionary (d. 1848)
 1810 - George Jennings, English plumber and engineer (d. 1882)
 1829 - Elwin Bruno Christoffel, German astronomer (d. 1900)
 1834 – José Hernández, Argentine journalist, poet and politician (d. 1886)
 1845 - Miguel Antonio Caro, 2nd President of Colombia (d. 1909)
 1845 – John Sparrow David Thompson, Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1894)
 1851 - Francis Maitland Balfour, Scottish biologist (d. 1882)
 1859 - Théophile Steinlen, Swiss-French artist (d. 1923)
 1861 - Robert T. A. Innes, Scottish astronomer (d. 1933)
 1862 - Chester Hardy Aldrich, 17th Governor of Nebraska (d. 1924)
 1868 - Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1957)
 1871 - Winston Churchill, American novelist (d. 1947)
 1873 - Henri Rabaud, French composer (d. 1949)
 1875 - Hansi Niese, Austrian actress (d. 1934)
1878 - Jorge Ubico, President of Guatemala (d. 1946)
 1879 – Patrick Pearse, Irish writer and political activist (d. 1916)
 1880 - Jacob Epstein, American sculptor (d. 1959)
 1883 - Olaf Bull, Norwegian poet (d. 1933)
 1886 - Edward Joseph Collins, American pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1951)
 1887 - Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Romanian engineer (d. 1973)
 1887 – Arnold Zweig, German writer (d. 1968)
 1888 – Andrei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1972)
 1888 - Juan Antonio Ríos, President of Chile (d. 1946)
 1889 - Claude Rains, British-American actor (d. 1967)
 1890 - El Lissitzky, American artist (d. 1941)
 1892 - Mabel Normand, American actress and director (d. 1930)
 1893 - John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960)
 1895 - John Knudsen Northrop, American industrialist and aircraft designer (d. 1981)
 1896 - Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
 1897 - Antonio Pons, Acting President of Ecuador (d. 1980)
1901  1950 
 1905 - Louis Harold Gray, British physicist and radiologist (d. 1965)
 1907 - Jane Froman, American actress and singer (d. 1980)
 1909 - Pawel Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
 1909 - Johnny Marks, American songwriter (d. 1985)
 1911 - Harry Andrews, English actor (d. 1989)
 1912 - Jean-Hilaire Aubame, Prime Minister of Gabon (d. 1989)
 1914 – Edmund Conen, German footballer (d. 1990)
 1916 - Dr. Tangalanga, Argentine comedian (d. 2013)
 1918 – Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist (d. 2007)
 1919 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian inventor of the AK-47 (d. 2013)
 1920 - Maurice Clavel, French writer and philosopher (d. 1979)
 1920 – Jennifer Holt, American actress (d. 1997)
 1923 – Hachiko, world famous Japanese Akita dog (d. 1935)
 1924 - Russell Johnson, American actor (d. 2014)
 1925 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
 1927 - Vaughn O. Lang, American general (d. 2014)
 1927 - Sabah, Lebanese singer and actress (d. 2014)
 1928 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
1930 - Gene Conley, American basketball player (d. 2017)
 1930 - Adam Purple, American activist and gardener (d. 2015)
 1931 - Lilly Pulitzer, American fashion designer (d. 2013)
 1932 – Roy Scheider, American actor (d. 2008)
 1932 - Paul Bley, Canadian pianist (d. 2016)
 1933 - Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1982)
 1934 - Lucien Bianchi, Belgian racing driver (d. 1969)
 1935 - Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Russian astronomer and astrophysicist
 1937 – Albert Hall, American actor
 1937 - Archie Macpherson, Scottish sports commentator
 1938 – Jiri Grusa, Czech diplomat and writer (d. 2011)
 1939 - Russell Means, Native American activist and actor (d. 2012)
 1940 – Screaming Lord Sutch, British musician and politician (d. 1999)
 1942 – Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss Federal Councillor
 1942 – Robert F. Engle, American economist
 1943 - Saxby Chambliss, American politician
 1944 – Sir Tim Rice, English songwriter
 1944 - Askar Akayev, former President of Kyrgyzstan
 1944 - Silvestre Reyes, American politician
1945 - Terence Davies, English screenwriter, director, novelist and actor
 1947 – Greg Lake, English musician (d. 2016)
 1947 – Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese politician (d. 1982)
 1947 - Glen Buxton, American musician
 1948 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
 1948 - Shigesato Itoi, Japanese video game designer, voice actor and author
 1949 - Ann Reinking, American actress and dancer
 1949 - Michio Yasuda, Japanese footballer
1951  1975 
 1954 - Jaume Bartumeu, 5th Prime Minister of Andorra
 1955 – Roland Emmerich, German movie director
 1955 – Bruno Peyron, French sailor
 1956 - Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian entrepreneur and activist
 1956 - Matt Craven, Canadian actor
 1956 - Sinbad, American actor and comedian
 1957 - Nigel Evans, British politician
 1958 - Stephen Herek, American film director
 1958 - George Lowe, American actor and comedian
 1959 – Mackenzie Phillips, American actress
 1959 - Randy Mamola, American racing driver
 1960 – Neil Gaiman, English writer
 1961 - John Walton, English darts player
 1963 – Hugh Bonneville, English actor
 1963 - Mike Powell, American athlete
 1963 - Antoni Martí, 6th Prime Minister of Andorra
 1964 - Magnús Scheving, Icelandic sportsperson, producer and actor
 1965 - Sean Hughes, Irish actor and comedian (d. 2017)
 1965 – Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish racing driver
 1967 - Andreas Scholl, German tenor
 1967 - Michael Jai White, American actor and martial artist
1968 – Tracy Morgan, American actor and comedian
 1968 - Daphne Deckers, Dutch model
 1968 - Steve Brookstein, British singer
 1969 – Faustino Asprilla, Colombian footballer
 1969 – Jens Lehmann, German footballer
 1969 – Ellen Pompeo, American actress
 1970 – Warren G, American rapper
 1970 - Sergei Ovchinnikov, Russian footballer and manager
 1971 - Mario Abdo Benítez, Paraguayan politician, President of Paraguay
 1971 - Jose Peralta, American politician (d. 2018)
 1971 - Magnus Johansson, Swedish footballer
 1971 - Niki Karimi, Iranian actress, director and screenwriter
 1971 - Holly Black, American writer
 1972 - DJ Ashba, American musician (Guns N' Roses)
 1973 – Patrik Berger, Czech footballer
From 1976 
 1976 – Steffen Iversen, Norwegian footballer
 1976 – Shefki Kuqi, Finnish footballer
 1977 - Erik Nevland, Norwegian footballer
 1977 – Brittany Murphy, American actress (d. 2009)
 1978 - Kyla Cole, Slovakian model, fashion designer and pornographic actress
 1978 - Ruth Davidson, Scottish journalist and politician, former Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party
 1978 – Eve, American rapper and actress
 1978 – Nadine Angerer, German footballer
 1979 - Anthony Réveillère, French footballer
 1981 - Miroslav Slepicka, Czech footballer
 1981 - Ryback, American professional wrestler
 1982 - Ruth Lorenzo, Spanish singer
 1982 – Heather Matarazzo, American actress
 1983 – Miranda Lambert, American singer
 1983 - Craig Smith, American basketball player
 1984 - Kendrick Perkins, American basketball player
 1985 – Aleksandar Kolarov, Serbian footballer
 1986 – Samuel Wanjiru, Kenyan marathon runner (d. 2011)
 1986 - Josh Peck, American actor
 1987 - Jessica Tovey, Australian actress
1989 - Taron Egerton, Welsh actor
 1990 - Kristina Vogel, German track cyclist
 1990 - Vanessa Ferrari, Italian gymnast
 1990 - Aron Johansson, American soccer player
 1990 - Mireia Belmonte, Spanish swimmer
 1991 - Genevieve Buechner, Canadian actress
 1991 - Tony Snell, American basketball player
 1992 - Wilfried Zaha, Ivorian-English footballer
 1994 - Takuma Asano, Japanese footballer
 1994 - Zoey Deutch, American actress
 1999 - Kiernan Shipka, American actress
 2000 – Mackenzie Foy, American actress and model
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 461 - Pope Leo I
 627 - Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
 901 - Adelaide of Paris (b. 850)
 1241 - Pope Celestine IV
 1444 – Wladyslaw of Poland (b. 1424)
 1549 – Pope Paul III, last of the Renaissance popes (b. 1468)
 1605 – Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522)
 1644 - Luis Velez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
 1673 - Michael of Poland (b. 1640)
 1777 - Cornstalk, American tribal chief (b. 1720)
 1808 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, 21st Governor General of Canada (b. 1724)
 1838 - Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Ukrainian poet (b. 1769)
 1848 – King Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786)
 1848 – Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt (b. 1789)
 1852 - Gideon Mantell, British geologist, physician and palaeontologist (b. 1790)
 1865 - Henry Wirz, Swiss-born American POW commandant (b. 1823)
 1891 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (b. 1854)
1901  2000 
 1911 - Christian Lundeberg, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1842)
 1912 - Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
 1916 – Walter Sutton, American biologist (b. 1877)
 1936 - Louis Gustave Binger, French army officer and explorer (b. 1856)
 1937 - Lev Shubnikov, Russian physicist (b. 1901)
 1938 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, first President of Turkey (b. 1881)
 1940 - Ilie Pintilie, Romanian activist (b. 1903)
 1943 - Johannes Prassek, German activist (b. 1911)
 1959 – Felix Jacoby, German classical philologist (b. 1896)
 1977 - Dennis Wheatley, English writer (b. 1897)
 1981 - Abel Gance, French actor, director and producer (b. 1889)
 1982 – Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
 1987 - Seyni Kountché, President of Niger (b. 1931)
 1987 - Noor Hossain, Bangladeshi activist (b. 1961)
 1990 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
 1991 – Gunnar Gren, Swedish footballer (b. 1920)
 1992 - Chuck Connors, American actor and athlete (b. 1921)
1994 - Carmen McRae, American singer (b. 1920)
 1995 – Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and human rights activist (b. 1941)
 1997 - Ave Ninchi, Italian actress (b. 1914)
 1998 - Mary Millar, British actress (b. 1936)
 2000 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (b. 1915)
 2000 - Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
From 2001 
 2001 – Ken Kesey, American writer (b. 1935)
 2002 - Michel Boisrond, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
 2003 – Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
 2003 - Irv Kupcinet, American columnist and television presenter (b. 1912)
 2006 – Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
 2007 – Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
 2007 – Norman Mailer, American writer (b. 1923)
 2008 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer (b. 1932)
 2009 – Robert Enke, German footballer (b. 1977)
 2009 – John Allen Muhammad, American spree killer (b. 1960)
 2010 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian movie producer (b. 1919)
 2011 - Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (b. 1944)
 2013 - Giorgio Orelli, Swiss poet (b. 1921)
 2014 - Wayne Goss, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland (b. 1951)
 2014 - Steve Dodd, Australian actor (b. 1928)
 2014 - Al Renfrew, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924)
 2014 - Ken Takakura, Japanese actor (b. 1931)
 2014 - Doc Paskowitz, American surfer (b. 1921)
2014 - Jovian, American lemur actor (b. 1994)
 2015 - Allen Toussaint, American musician, songwriter and producer (b. 1938)
 2015 - Laurent Vidal, French triathlete (b. 1984)
 2015 - André Glucksmann, French philosopher (b. 1937)
 2015 - Pat Eddery, Irish jockey (b. 1952)
 2015 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of West Germany (b. 1918)
 2015 - Tim Valentine, American politician (b. 1926)
 2015 - Klaus Roth, German-British mathematician (b. 1925)
 2015 - Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, physicist and engineer (b. 1922)
 2017 - Ray Lovelock, Italian actor and rock musician (b. 1950)
 2017 - Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov, Latvian-born Russian comedian and writer (b. 1948)
 2017 - Bernhard Eckstein, German racing cyclist (b. 1935)
 2017 - Erika Remberg, Austrian actress (b. 1932)
 2018 - Raffaele Baldassarre, Italian politician (b. 1956)
 2018 - Joel Barcellos, Brazilian actor (b. 1936)
 2018 - Ron Johnson, American football player (b. 1947)
2018 - Herbert London, American political activist and conservative commentator (b. 1939)
 2018 - Liz J. Patterson, American politician (b. 1939)
 2019 - T. N. Seshan, Indian politician (b. 1932)
 2019 - István Szívós, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1948)
Observances 
 Atatürk Remembrance Day (Turkey)
 Heroes' Day, or Hari Pahlawan (Indonesia)
 World Science Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1100 - Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland.
 1417 - Pope Martin V is elected.
 1500 - Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand III of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples.
 1620 – In what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, the Mayflower Compact is signed on the Mayflower, establishing the basic laws for the Plymouth Colony.
 1648 – France and the Netherlands agree to divide the island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin.
 1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the y=x function.
 1675 – Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs.
 1750 - Riots break out Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
 1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
 1855 - An earthquake near Edo, now Tokyo, kills 6,000 people.
1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
 1865 - The Treaty of Sinchula is signed: Bhutan gives areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
 1880 – Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hung in Melbourne.
 1887 - Haymarket trials: August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
 1887 - Building work begins on the Manchester Ship Canal.
 1889 – Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
1901  2000 
 1918 – World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France.
 1918 – Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland.
 1918 – Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates.
 1919 - Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
 1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
 1926 - The US' numbered Highway system is introduced.
 1930 - Patent number US1781541 is given to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
 1934 - The Shrine of Remembrance is opened in Melbourne, Australia.
 1940 – World War II: The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
 1940 - The Armistice Day Blizzard kills 144 people in the Midwestern United States.
 1942 - World War II: Germany completes its occupation of France.
1954 - The Two Towers, part of the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, is released in the UK.
 1960 - In South Vietnam, a coup against Ngo Dinh Diem is crushed.
 1965 – Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) was declared independent by the white minority regime of Ian Smith.
 1966 – NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.
 1967 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the NLF and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
 1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal was to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
 1968 – A second republic is declared in Maldives.
 1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
 1975 – Angola becomes independent from Portugal, with Agostinho Neto as president.
1975 – Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as Prime Minister.
 1978 – Maumoon Gayoom succeeds Ibrahim Nasir as the President of the Republic of the Maldives.
 1978 – A renovated Hollywood sign is unveiled, replacing the older version that was built in 1923.
 1981 - Antigua and Barbuda joins the UN.
 1986 – Sperry Rand and Burroughs merge to form Unisys. They become the second largest computer company.
 1992 – The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
 1997 – Mary McAleese was inaugurated as the eighth President of Ireland.
 2000 – In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.
From 2001 
 2004 – New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington
 2004 – Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization minutes after the death of Yasser Arafat.
 2004 – Official Guided by Voices Day in San Diego, California.
 2004 – Mary McAleese was inaugurated for a second term as President of Ireland.
 2006 - Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London.
 2008 – The ship RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 sets sail for its last voyage.
 2008 – Mohamed Nasheed succeeds Maumoon Gayoom as President of the Maldives.
 2011 – Michael D. Higgins is inaugurated as President of Ireland.
 2014 - 58 people are killed in a bus crash in Sukkur District in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh.
Up to 1800 
 995 - Gisela of Swabia (d. 1041)
 1050 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)
 1154 – King Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212)
 1155 – King Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)
 1220 - Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (d. 1271)
 1441 – Charlotte of Savoy, Queen of France (d. 1483)
 1491 - Martin Bucer, Alsatian theologian and religious reformer (d. 1551)
 1493 – Paracelsus, Swiss physician, alchemist and mystic (d. 1541)
 1493 - Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1569)
 1569 - Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and alchemist (d. 1611)
 1579 - Frans Snyders, Flemish painter (d. 1657)
 1599 - Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, Queen of Sweden (d. 1655)
 1668 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (d. 1736)
 1696 - Andrea Zani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1757)
 1733 - Philip John Schuyler, American politician and soldier (d. 1804)
 1743 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)
 1744 – Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)
1748 - King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
 1758 - Caleb P. Bennett, Governor of Delaware (d. 1836)
 1781 - Caroline Bardua, German painter (d. 1864)
 1791 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss politician (d. 1855)
 1792 - Mary Anne Disraeli, Welsh wife of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (d. 1872)
 1799 - Charles Bent, Territorial Governor of New Mexico (d. 1847)
1801  1900 
 1821 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
 1831 - Willard Fiske, American librarian and scholar (d. 1904)
 1835 – Matthias Jochumsson, Icelandic poet (d. 1920)
 1848 - Zinovy Rozhdestvensky, Russian admiral (d. 1909)
 1854 - William Yates Atkinson, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1899)
 1858 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)
 1863 – Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)
 1864 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian pacifist (d. 1921)
 1869 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian anarchist (d. 1901)
 1869 – Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (d. 1946)
 1872 - Maude Adams, American actress (d. 1953)
 1872 - David I. Walsh, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947)
 1882 – Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
 1883 - Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (d. 1969)
 1885 – George S. Patton, American general (d. 1945)
 1887 - Roland Young, English actor (d. 1953)
 1888 - Abul Kalam Azad, Indian independence activist (d. 1958)
 1891 - Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (d. 1954)
1893 - Paul van Zeeland, Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1973)
 1894 - Beverly Bayne, American silent movie actress (d. 1982)
 1896 - Lucky Luciano, Italian-born American gangster (d. 1962)
 1898 - René Clair, French movie director (d. 1981)
 1899 - Pat O'Brien, American movie actor (d. 1983)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels (d. 1945)
 1901 – Sam Spiegel, Austrian-American movie director (d. 1985)
 1904 – Alger Hiss, American government official and spy (d. 1996)
 1904 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
 1904 - Andrzej Bogucki, Polish actor, operetta singer and songwriter (d. 1978)
 1909 - Robert Ryan, American actor (d. 1973)
 1910 - Carl A. Wirtanen, American astronomer (d. 1990)
 1911 – Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (d. 2002)
 1912 - Nina Andrycz, Polish actress (d. 2014)
 1914 - Howard Fast, American writer (d. 2003)
 1915 - Anna Schwartz, American economist and writer (d. 2012)
 1917 - Manuel Alexandre, Spanish actor (d. 2010)
 1918 - Stubby Kaye, American actor (d. 1997)
 1920 – Roy Jenkins, British politician (d. 2003)
 1921 - Terrel Bell, American politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Education (d. 1996)
 1922 – Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (d. 2007)
 1925 - John Guillermin, English director, writer and producer (d. 2015)
1925 – June Whitfield, English actress (d. 2018)
 1925 - Jonathan Winters, American comedy actor (d. 2013)
 1926 - Torfi Bryngeirsson, Icelandic long jumper (d. 1995)
 1926 - Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
 1926 - Noah Gordon, American novelist
 1926 - Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (d. 2016)
 1927 - Mose Allison, American jazz musician (d. 2016)
 1928 - Joseph Mercieca, former Archbishop of Malta (d. 2016)
 1928 - Ernestine Anderson, American singer (d. 2016)
 1928 - Gracita Morales, Spanish actress and singer (d. 1995)
 1928 – Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer (d. 2012)
 1929 – Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer
 1929 - LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)
 1930 – Hugh Everett, American physicist (d. 1982)
 1930 - Vernon Handley, English conductor (d. 2008)
 1930 - Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist (d. 2017)
 1932 - Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist
 1936 - Mala Sinha, Bollywood movie actress
 1936 - Susan Kohner, American actress
1937 - André Brugiroux, French traveler and writer
 1937 - Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat
 1938 - Haruhiro Yamashita, Japanese gymnast
 1938 - Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater (d. 2015)
 1940 - Barbara Boxer, American politician and United States Senator for California
 1944 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor
 1945 – Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua
 1945 - Vince Martell, American musician
 1945 - Chris Dreja, English guitarist
 1948 - René Harris, President of Nauru (d. 2008)
 1950 - Jim Peterik, American musician
1951  1975 
 1951 – Kim Peek, American megasavant (d. 2009)
 1951 - Fuzzy Zoeller, American golfer
 1953 - Marshall Crenshaw, American rock music singer
 1953 - Andy Partridge, British musician and singer-songwriter
 1953 - Evelyn Matthei, Chilean politician
 1955 - Friedrich Merz, German politician
 1955 - Jigme Singye Wangchuck, former King of Bhutan
 1956 - José Luis Brown, Argentine footballer (d. 2019)
 1956 - Ian Craig Marsh, English guitarist
 1958 - Luz Casal, Spanish singer
 1958 - Kathy Lette, Australian author
 1960 - Marcel Koller, Swiss footballer and coach
 1960 - Stanley Tucci, American actor and director
 1960 - Cristina Odone, Italian journalist, writer and editor
 1960 - Chuck Hernandez, American baseball player and coach
 1961 - Luca Zingaretti, Italian actor
 1962 – James Morrison, Australian musician
 1962 – Demi Moore, American actress
 1964 – Calista Flockhart, American actress
 1966 - Benedicta Boccoli, Italian actress
 1966 - Alison Doody, Irish actress and model
1966 - Paul Monaghan, Scottish politician
 1968 - Peaches, Canadian-German singer-songwriter, DJ, producer and actress
 1968 - Alfredo Reinado, East Timorese rebel leader (d. 2008)
 1969 - Carson Kressley, American television host and fashion designer
 1970 – Lee Battersby, Australian writer
 1971 - Jennifer Celotta, American director, producer and screenwriter
 1972 - Tyler Christopher, American actor
 1973 - Jason White, American musician (Green Day)
 1974 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
From 1976 
 1977 – Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (d. 2002)
 1977 – Maniche, Portuguese footballer
 1978 - Ludmilla Radchenko, Russian actress
 1978 – Erik Edman, Swedish footballer
 1981 – Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
 1981 – Raphael Gualazzi, Italian pianist and singer
 1981 – Natalie Glebova, Russian-Canadian beauty queen, Miss Universe 2005
 1982 - Gonzalo Canale, Argentine-born Italian rugby player
 1983 – Philipp Lahm, German footballer
 1983 - Arouna Koné, Ivorian footballer
 1986 - Greta Salóme Stefánsdóttir, Icelandic singer, songwriter and violinist
 1986 – François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player
 1987 - Yuya Tegoshi, Japanese singer and actor
 1989 – Reina Tanaka, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
 1989 - Adam Rippon, American figure skater
 1990 - Georginio Wijnaldum, Dutch footballer
 1990 - Tom Dumoulin, Dutch cyclist
 1991 - Christa B. Allen, American actress
 1993 - Jamaal Lascelles, English footballer
 1994 - Ellie Simmonds, British Paralympic swimmer

Deaths
Up to 1900 
 855 - Petronas, Byzantine Empire general
 1028 - Constantine VIII, Byzantine Emperor
 1130 - Theresa, Countess of Portugal (b. 1080)
 1189 - William II of Sicily (b. 1153)
 1623 - Philippe de Mornay, French theorist (b. 1549)
 1686 – Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor and politician (b. 1602)
 1724 - Joseph Blake, English outlaw and highwayman (b. 1700)
 1751 - Julien Offray de La Mettrie, French physician and philosopher (b. 1709)
 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b. 1800)
 1855 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
 1861 – King Pedro V of Portugal (b. 1837)
 1862 - James Madison Porter, American lawyer and politician (b. 1793)
 1880 – Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (b. 1855)
 1880 – Lucretia Mott, American feminist and abolitionist (b. 1793)
 1887 - Haymarket affair executions:
George Engel, German-American businessman and activist (b. 1836)
Adolph Fischer, German-American printer and activist (b. 1858)
Albert Parsons, American journalist and activist (b. 1848)
August Spies, American journalist and activist (b. 1855)
1901  2000 
 1917 – Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii (b. 1838)
 1918 – George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier (b. 1892)
 1918 - Victor Adler, Austrian politician (b. 1852)
 1919 - Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter (b. 1832)
 1919 - Felix von Hartmann, German cardinal (b. 1861)
 1938 - Typhoid Mary, Irish-American carrier of typhoid fever (b. 1869)
 1939 - Jan Opletal, Czech student (b. 1915)
 1945 – Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)
 1948 - Fred Niblo, American movie actor, director and producer (b. 1874)
 1950 - Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and statesman (b. 1875)
 1953 - Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1866)
 1968 – Jeanne Demessieux, French composer (b. 1921)
 1972 - Berry Oakley, American musician (b. 1948)
 1973 – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist (b. 1895)
 1976 – Alexander Calder, American artist (b. 1898)
 1977 - Greta Keller, Austrian-American actress and singer (b. 1903)
 1979 - Dmitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (b. 1894)
1984 - Martin Luther King, Sr., American civil rights figure (b. 1899)
 1985 – Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1959)
 1990 – Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet (b. 1909)
 1993 - Erskine Hawkins, American trumpeter and big band leader (b. 1914)
 1994 – Pedro Zamora, Cuban-American AIDS activist (b. 1972)
 1994 - John A. Volpe, 61st Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1908)
 1997 - Rod Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)
 1999 – Vivian Fuchs, British geologist and polar explorer (b. 1908)
 2000 - Sandra Schmidt, German skier (b. 1981)
From 2001 
 2004 – Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority (b. 1929)
 2004 – Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)
 2005 – Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939)
 2010 - Marie Osborne, American actress (b. 1911)
 2012 - Rex Hunt, former British Governor of the Falkland Islands (b. 1926)
 2013 - Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal (b. 1917)
 2013 - Stein Grieg Halvorsen, Norwegian theatre actor (b. 1909)
 2014 - John Doar, American lawyer (b. 1921)
 2014 - Carol Ann Susi, American actress (b. 1952)
 2014 - Harry Lonsdale, American scientist, entrepreneur and politician (b. 1932)
 2015 - Nathaniel Marston, American actor (b. 1975)
 2015 - Phil Taylor, English musician (Motörhead) (b. 1954)
 2016 - Robert Vaughn, American actor (b. 1932)
 2016 - Aki Schmidt, German footballer (b. 1935)
 2016 - Ilse Aichinger, Austrian writer (b. 1921)
 2017 - Kirti Nidhi Bista, Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1927)
 2017 - Valery Rozov, Russian BASE jumper (b. 1964)
2017 - Ian Wachtmeister, Swedish business executive and politician (b. 1932)
 2017 - Henry Emeleus, British geologist (b. 1930)
 2018 - D. J. Finney, British statistician (b. 1917)
 2018 - Olga Harmony, Mexican playwright (b. 1928)
 2018 - Wayne Maunder, Canadian-American actor (b. 1937)
 2018 - Douglas Rain, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
 2018 - Frankie Schneider, American NASCAR driver (b. 1926)
 2019 - Zeke Bratkowski, American football player (b. 1931)
 2019 - Frank Dobson, British politician (b. 1940)
 2019 - Winston Lackin, Surinamese politician (b. 1954)
 2019 - James Le Mesurier, British army officer and aid worker (b. 1971)
 2019 - Ralph T. O'Neal, Premier of the British Virgin Islands (b. 1933)
 2019 - Mümtaz Soysal, Turkish politician and lawyer (b. 1929) 
 2019 - Edward Zacca, Acting Governor-General of Jamaica (b. 1931)
Observances 
 Christian feast day of Martin of Tours (St. Martin)
 Remembrance Day (some English-speaking countries)
 Veterans Day (United States)
 Armistice Day (France, Belgium)
 Independence Day (Poland, Angola)
 Lacplesis Day (Latvia)
 Republic Day (Maldives)
 Singles Day (China)
 Women's Day (Belgium)

Days of the year
Up to 1965 
 1493 - Christopher Columbus lands on an island in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean, which he names "Santa Cruz".
 1495 - Battle of Aguere: Forces of the Kingdom of Castile defeat a force of Guanches, the native people of the Canary Islands.
 1501 - Both aged 15, Catherine of Aragon and Arthur Tudor marry.
 1533 - Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, then part of the Inca Empire.
 1633 - Thirty Years' War: Swedish troops take over Regensburg, Bavaria.
 1770 - James Bruce discovers what he believes is the source of the Nile.
 1862 - American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln supports General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
 1889 – Nellie Bly begins her 72-day journey around the world.
 1894 – Tsar Nicholas II marries Alexandra Fyodorovna.
 1901 - Austrian doctor Karl Landsteiner announces the discovery of the blood groups A, B and O.
1909 - French passenger ship La Seyne sinks after a collision with a British steamer, killing 101 people.
 1910 - Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first take-off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, from the makeshift deck of the USS Birmingham.
 1916 – Billy Hughes becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a second time.
 1916 – World War II: The First Battle of the Somme ends.
 1918 – Czechoslovakia becomes a Republic.
 1921 - The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
 1922 - The BBC begins its radio service.
 1940 - World War II: The city of Coventry in England is almost completely destroyed by Luftwaffe bombing.
 1941 - World War II: The HMS Ark Royal aircraft carrier sinks from torpedo damage from German submarine U-81 the previous day.
 1946 - Hermann Hesse wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
 1952 - The UK Singles Chart is published by the New Musical Express.
 1954 - Gamal Abdel Nasser takes over power in Egypt.
 1962 - Haile Selassie declares Eritrea to be part of Ethiopia.
1963 – The island of Surtsey is formed by a volcanic eruption off the south coast of Iceland.
 1965 - Vietnam War: The Battle of La Drong begins.
From 1966 
 1966 - Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) defends his heavyweight boxing title against Cleveland Williams.
 1967 - The Congress of Colombia declares this date as the Day of the Colombian Woman.
 1967 - American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems.
 1969 - NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the Moon. Despite two lightning strikes, the launch is carried out successfully.
 1970 - Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75 people.
 1971 - Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria is officially enthroned.
 1971 - Mariner 9 enters into orbit around Mars.
 1973 - Anne, Princess Royal marries Captain Mark Phillips.
 1975 – Spain abandons Western Sahara.
 1979 - Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the US in response to the hostage crisis.
 1982 – Lech Walesa is released from detention.
 1990 – Germany and Poland agree to the Oder-Neisse Line forming their boundary.
1991 – Norodom Sihanouk returns to Cambodia after 13 years of exile.
 1995 - The United States Government temporarily closes over disagreements between Democrats and Republicans over the federal budget.
 1999 - Leonid Kuchma is re-elected President of Ukraine.
 2001 - War in Afghanistan: The Northern Alliance takes over Kabul.
 2003 – One of the Solar System's most distant objects, 90377 Sedna, is discovered.
 2010 – Sebastian Vettel becomes, to date, the youngest Formula One World Champion.
 2012 - Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas get worse.
 2015 - A French TGV train crashes into a river in the Alsace region of France, killing 10 people. There is no link to the previous night's attacks in Paris.
Up to 1900 
 1567 - Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)
 1601 - Jean Eudes, French missionary (d. 1680)
 1650 – William III, King of England, Ireland and Scotland (d. 1702)
 1663 - Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, German musician and composer (d. 1712)
 1668 - Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt, Baroque architect (d. 1745) 
 1719 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1787)
 1723 - Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter (d. 1786)
 1740 - Johann van Beethoven, father and first teacher of Ludwig van Beethoven (d. 1792)
 1746 - Giulio Gabrielli the Younger, Italian cardinal (d. 1822)
 1765 – Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
 1771 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (d. 1802)
 1775 - Paul Johann Anselm von Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1833)
 1776 - Henri Dutrochet, French physiologist (d. 1847)
 1777 - Nathaniel Claiborne, American politician (d. 1859)
 1778 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer (d. 1837)