Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1793 - Cave Johnson, American politician (d. 1866)
 1805 - Johann Nepomuk Geiger, Austrian painter (d. 1880)
 1807 - Ezra Cornell, American businessman and university founder (d. 1874)
 1814 - James Paget, English surgeon and pathologist (d. 1899)
 1814 - William Bigler, 12th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1880)
 1815 – John A. Macdonald, Scottish-born first Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
 1838 - Giovanni Cagliero, Italian diplomat (d. 1926)
 1839 - Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (d. 1903)
 1842 – William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910)
 1852 – Constantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1926)
 1853 – Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (d. 1926)
 1858 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American retailer (d. 1947)
 1859 - George Nathaniel Curzon, British Viceroy of India (d. 1925)
 1862 - Joseph Nelson Rose, American botanist (d. 1928)
 1865 - Johannes Franz Hartmann, German astronomer (d. 1936)
1868 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher, academic and politician (d. 1940)
 1870 – Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (d. 1945)
 1872 - Herbert Baddeley, British tennis player (d. 1931)
 1872 - Wilfred Baddeley, British tennis player (d. 1929)
 1872 - George Joseph Smith, British serial killer (d. 1915)
 1878 - Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general (d. 1952)
 1885 - Alice Paul, American suffragette and women's rights activist (d. 1977)
 1890 - Harold Bride, British wireless officer on the RMS Titanic (d. 1956)
 1895 – Laurens Hammond, American inventor (d. 1973)
 1897 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (d. 1979)
 1899 - Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress (d. 1991)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Kwak Ki-ok, Korean pilot (d. 1988)
 1902 - Maurice Durufle, French composer (d. 1986)
 1903 - Alan Paton, South African writer and activist (d. 1988)
 1906 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008)
 1907 – Pierre Mendès France, Prime Minister of France (d. 1982)
 1908 - Lionel Stander, American actor (d. 1994)
 1910 - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (d. 1975)
 1911 - Nora Heysen, Australian artist (d. 2003)
 1911 - Brunhilde Pomsel, German broadcaster (d. 2017)
 1911 – Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
 1917 - John Robarts, 17th Premier of Ontario (d. 1982)
 1918 - Gunnar Sonsteby, Norwegian Resistance activist (d. 2012)
 1923 - Carroll Shelby, American racing driver, automobile designer and businessman (d. 2012)
 1923 - Jerome Bixby, American writer and scriptwriter (d. 1998)
 1923 - Ernst Nolte, German historian and philosopher (d. 2016)
 1924 – Don Cherry, American singer and golfer (d. 2018)
 1924 – Roger Guillemin, French Nobel Prize laureate
1924 – Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970)
 1926 - Lev Dyomin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1998)
 1926 - Grant Tinker, American television executive (d. 2016)
 1928 - Mitchell Ryan, American actor
 1929 - Rafael Eitan, Israeli general and politician (d. 2004)
 1930 - Ron Mulock, Australian politician (d. 2014)
 1930 - Rod Taylor, Australian actor (d. 2015)
 1932 - Alfonso Arau, Mexican movie director
 1934 - Charles Antony Richard Hoare, British computer scientist
 1934 – Jean Chrétien, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
 1936 - Eva Hesse, German sculptor (d. 1970)
 1938 – Arthur Scargill, British politician and activist
 1938 - Frankie Randall, American singer-songwriter, actor and dancer (d. 2014)
 1938 - Gavin Millar, Scottish movie director
 1940 - Andres Tarand, Estonian geographer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Estonia
 1941 – Gerson, Brazilian footballer
 1942 – Clarence Clemons, American musician (d. 2011)
 1942 - Bud Acton, American basketball player
 1943 - Eduardo Mendoza, Spanish writer
1944 - Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (d. 1989)
 1944 - Shibu Soren, Indian politician
 1945 – Christine Kaufmann, Austrian-German actress (d. 2017)
 1946 - Naomi Judd, American singer
 1946 - Tony Kaye, British pianist and organist
 1946 - John Piper, American theologian
 1948 - Wajima Hiroshi, Japanese sumo wrestler
 1948 – Terry Williams, Welsh rock drummer (Dire Straits)
 1949 - Daryl Braithwaite, Australian rock music singer
 1949 - Bogdan Borusewicz, Polish historian and politician
 1949 - Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Mexican writer
 1949 - Chris Ford, American basketball player
 1949 - David Rotem, Israeli politician (d. 2015)
 1949 - Mohammad Reza Rahimi, 2nd Vice President of Iran
1951  1975 
 1951 - Philip Tartaglia, Scottish Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow
 1952 - Bille Brown, Australian actor and playwright (d. 2013)
 1952 - Ben Crenshaw, American golfer
 1952 - Lee Ritenour, American guitarist, composer and producer
 1952 - Diana Gabaldon, American writer
 1953 - John Sessions, Scottish actor
 1954 - Vicky Peña, Spanish actress
 1954 - Kailash Satyarthi, Indian children's rights activist, joint-winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
 1954 - Barbara Prammer, Austrian politician (d. 2014)
 1956 - Israel Yinon, Israeli conductor (d. 2015)
 1957 - Claude Criquielion, Belgian cyclist (d. 2015)
 1957 - Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player (d. 2015)
 1957 – Bryan Robson, English footballer
 1958 – Vicki Peterson, American musician
 1961 – Jasper Fforde, British writer
 1961 – Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, Austro-Hungarian nobleman, son of Otto von Habsburg
 1961 - Eva O, American musician and singer-songwriter
 1962 – Kim Coles, American actress
1962 - Chris Bryant, British politician
 1963 - Jason Connery, British actor
 1964 - Yolanda Hadid, Dutch-American television personality and model
 1965 - Edyta Bartosiewicz, Polish singer, songwriter and composer
 1968 - Tom Dumont, American musician
 1969 - Manny Acta, Dominican baseball player
 1970 - Manfredi Beninati, Italian painter and sculptor
 1970 - Chris Jent, American basketball player and coach
 1970 - Malcolm D. Lee, American actor, director and screenwriter
 1970 - Mustafa Sandal, Turkish pop singer, producer, dancer and actor
 1971 - Tom Ward, British actor
 1971 – Mary J. Blige, American singer
 1972 – Amanda Peet, American actress
 1972 - Konstantin Khabensky, Russian entertainer and actor
 1973 - Rockmond Dunbar, American actor
 1973 – Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer
 1974 – Jens Nowotny, German footballer
 1975 - Matteo Renzi, Italian politician, former Mayor of Florence and Prime Minister of Italy from 2014 to 2016
 1975 - Timbuktu, Swedish rapper
From 1976 
 1977 - Jerome Kerviel, French bank employee
 1978 – Emile Heskey, English footballer
 1980 - Geovanni, Brazilian footballer
 1980 - Gökdeniz Karadeniz, Turkish footballer
 1981 – Jamelia, English singer
 1981 - Tom Meighan, English singer (Kasabian)
 1981 – Jaime Valdés, Chilean footballer
 1982 - Ashley Taylor Dawson, English actor
 1983 – Adrian Sutil, German racing driver
 1984 - Vagner Love, Brazilian footballer
 1985 – Kazuki Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
 1986 - Rachel Riley, English television host
 1987 - Jamie Vardy, English footballer
 1988 - LunchMoney Lewis, American hip hop singer
 1988 - Junjun, Chinese singer
 1991 - Hyolyn, South Korean actress
 1992 - Lee Seung-hoon, South Korean rapper, choreographer and songwriter
 1996 - Leroy Sané, German footballer
 1997 - Cody Simpson, Australian singer
 1998 - Louisa Johnson, English singer

Deaths
Up to 1900 
 705 – Pope John VI
 782 - Emperor Konin of Japan (b. 709)
 812 – Staurakios, Byzantine Emperor
 844 - Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor
 1055 – Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1000)
 1083 - Otto Nordheim, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1020)
 1494 - Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449)
 1495 – Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)
 1547 - Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal, scholar and theorist (b. 1470)
 1696 - Charles Albanel, French priest, missionary and scholar (b. 1616)
 1713 - Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (b. 1637)
 1753 - Hans Sloane, Ulster-Scottish physician and collector (b. 1660)
 1762 – Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (b. 1695)
 1763 – Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian and poet (b. 1676)
 1798 - Erekle II, King of Kartli and Kakheti in present-day Georgia (b. 1720)
 1801 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (b. 1749)
 1812 - Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish nobleman (b. 1746)
1843 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (b. 1779)
 1867 – Stuart Donaldson, colonial governor of New South Wales (b. 1812)
 1882 – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b. 1810)
1901  2000 
 1901 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866)
 1914 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer (b. 1842)
 1923 – King Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868)
 1928 – Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
 1941 – Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868)
 1944 - Galeazzo Ciano, Italian politician (b. 1903)
 1947 - Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1879)
 1953 – Noe Zhordania, Georgian politician (b. 1868)
 1958 - Edna Purviance, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1895)
 1965 – Wally Pipp, American baseball player (b. 1893)
 1966 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901)
 1966 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
 1966 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India (b. 1904)
 1968 - Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and scholar (b. 1876)
 1972 - Padraic Colum, Irish poet, novelist, dramatist and biographer (b. 1881)
 1975 - Max Lorenz, German tenor (b. 1901)
 1980 - Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
1985 - William McKell, Premier of New South Wales and Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
 1985 - Edward Buzzell, American actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1895)
 1988 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist (b. 1898)
 1991 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist (b. 1905)
 1994 - Helmut Poppendick, German physician (b. 1902)
 1996 - Roger Crozier, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach and manager (b. 1942)
 1998 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
From 2001 
 2003 – Mickey Finn, English drummer (T.Rex) (b. 1947)
 2008 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (b. 1919)
 2009 - Pio Laghi, Italian cardinal (b. 1922)
 2010 – Eric Rohmer, French movie director (b. 1920)
 2010 – Miep Gies, Dutch humanitarian, helper of Anne Frank (b. 1909)
 2013 - Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (b. 1941)
 2013 - Aaron Swartz, American computer programmer, writer and internet activist (b. 1986)
 2013 - Nguyen Khanh, South Vietnamese politician (b. 1927)
 2014 - Vugar Gashimov, Azerbaijani chess player (b. 1986)
 2014 - Ariel Sharon, Israeli general and politician, former Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1928)
 2014 - Keiko Awaji, Japanese actress (b. 1933)
 2014 - Arnoldo Foà, Italian actor (b. 1916) 
 2014 - Muhammad Habibur Rahman, Bangladeshi jurist and politician (b. 1929)
 2015 - Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (b. 1931)
 2015 - Chic Littlewood, New Zealand television personality (b. 1930)
 2015 - Brian Clemens, British screenwriter (b. 1931)
2015 - Jeno Buzansky, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925) 
 2016 - Berge Furre, Norwegian historian, theologian and politician (b. 1937)
 2016 - Brian Johnson, Australian rugby league player (b. 1956)
 2016 - Gunnel Vallquist, Swedish writer and translator (b. 1918)
 2016 - Monte Irvin, American baseball player (b. 1919)
 2016 - David Margulies, American actor (b. 1937)
 2016 - William Del Monte, American centenarian (b. 1906)
 2017 - Tommy Allsup, American musician (b. 1931)
 2017 - Tony Booth, English artist (b. 1933)
 2017 - Adenan Satem, Malaysian politician, 5th Chief Minister of Sarawak (b. 1944)
 2017 - Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani politician, Governor of Sindh (b. 1938)
 2017 - François Van der Elst, Belgian footballer (b. 1954)
 2017 - Brian Fletcher, English jockey (b. 1947)
 2017 - Nikolay Neprimerov, Russian physicist (b. 1921)
 2017 - Newman Hoar, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1920)
 2018 - Doug Barnard, Jr., American politician (b. 1922)
2018 - Stephane Gauger, Vietnamese-American film director (b. 1969)
 2018 - Edgar Ray Killen, American convicted murderer (b. 1925)
 2018 - Takis Loukanidis, Greek footballer (b. 1937)
 2019 - Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician (b. 1929)
 2019 - Steffan Lewis, Welsh politician (b. 1984)
 2019 - Dimitris Sioufas, Greek politician (b. 1944)
Observances
 Kagami Biraki (Japan)
 Republic Day (Albania)
 Day of National Unity (Nepal)
 Burning the Clavie (Old Scottish New Year tradition)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 475 - Basiliscus becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
 1528 – Gustav Vasa becomes King of Sweden.
 1539 - The Treaty of Toledo is signed by King Francis I of France and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
 1554 - Bayinnaung is crowned King of Burma.
 1616 - The city of Belem, in the present-day state of Para, Brazil, is founded by Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.
 1807 - A ship loaded with gunpowder explodes, killing 151 people in the Dutch city of Leiden.
 1846 - In France, a General Amnesty is given to people who took part in the French Revolution.
 1848 - The Palermo Rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
 1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is founded in London.
 1872 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum; the first coronation in Axum for over 200 years.
 1888 - The Schoolhouse Blizzard sweeps across the Great Plains states of the United States, killing 200 people, many of them schoolchildren.
1895 – The United Kingdom's National Trust is founded.
 1898 – Ito Hirobumi becomes Prime Minister of Japan for a third time.
 1899 - 13 crew members and 5 apprentices are rescued from stricken schooner Forest Hall by the Lynmouth Lifeboat, after getting into difficulty off Devon, England.
1901  2000 
 1905 - The Riksdagshuset, the seat of Sweden's parliament, is inaugurated in Stockholm, after eight years of building work.
 1906 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet begins widespread social reforms after a landslide victory in the United Kingdom Election.
 1908 – A long-distance radio signal is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
 1915 - The United States House of Representatives rejects giving women the vote.
 1918 - In Finland a law takes effect that makes Jews full Finnish citizens.
 1920 - French passenger steamer Afrique is blown against a reef on France's coast during a storm, and sinks, killing 575 out of the 609 people on board.
 1921 - After the Black Sox Scandal, Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
 1922 – Prime Minister of France Aristide Briand resigns.
 1932 – Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate, representing Arkansas.
1937 - Melilla, a Spanish territory bordering Morocco, becomes a German submarine base during the Spanish Civil War.
 1945 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Japan kills 1,900 people.
 1959 - The Caves of Nerja are rediscovered in Spain.
 1962 - Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first US combat mission of the war, takes place.
 1964 – Rebels in Zanzibar revolt and proclaim a republic.
 1967 - Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future revival.
 1969 - The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League in the final of the Super Bowl, in one of the biggest shock results in American football history.
 1970 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
 1971 - The sitcom All in the Family is first broadcast on CBS.
 1976 - The last Spanish troops withdraw from Western Sahara.
 1991 – The United States Congress authorises military force in reaction to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
From 2001 
 2001 - Downtown Disney opens to the public at Disneyland resort in Anaheim, California.
 2004 – The ocean liner RMS Queen Mary 2 makes its first voyage.
 2005 – Deep Impact launches on board a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
 2006 – A stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage kills 362 Muslim pilgrims.
 2010 – 2010 Haiti earthquake: A major earthquake hits Haiti, killing over 200,000 people, and leaving millions of people homeless.
 2016 - A bomb attack in Istanbul, Turkey, kills at least 10 people, most of them German tourists.
 2019 - The roof of a mine in Shenmu in the People's Republic of China's Shaanxi province collapses, killing at least 21 people.

Births
Births

Up to 1800 
 1483 - Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German nobleman (d. 1538)
 1562 – Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1630)
 1576 - Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (d. 1660)
 1580 – Jan Baptist von Helmont, Flemish scientist (d. 1644)
 1588 - John Winthrop, English-born politician (d. 1649)
 1628 - Claude Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703)
 1711 - Gaetano Latilla, Italian composer (d. 1788)
 1716 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and politician (d. 1795)
 1723 - Samuel Langdon, American college educator (d. 1797)
 1724 - Frances Brooke, English writer and playwright (d. 1789)
 1729 - Edmund Burke, Irish statesman and philosopher (d. 1797)
 1737 – John Hancock, American merchant and statesman (d. 1793)
 1746 – Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educator (d. 1827)
 1751 – Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1825)
 1772 - Mikhail Speransky, Russian statesman, liberal reformer and professor of Mathematics (d. 1839)
1801  1900 
 1808 - Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Alsatian botanist and geologist (d. 1880)
 1810 – Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1859)
 1822 - Etienne Lenoir, French engineer (d. 1900)
 1846 - Prince Geatan, Count of Girgenti, son of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and Infante of Spain (d. 1871)
 1849 - Murphy J. Foster, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1921)
 1849 - Jean Béraud, Russian-French painter (d. 1935)
 1852 - Joseph Joffre, French general (d. 1931)
 1853 - Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (d. 1925)
 1856 – John Singer Sargent, American painter (d. 1925)
 1863 – Swami Vivekananda, Indian philosopher (d. 1902)
 1869 - Bhagwan Das, Indian politician and educator (d. 1958)
 1873 – Spiridon Louis, Greek athlete (d. 1940)
 1874 - James Juvenal, American rower (d. 1942)
 1876 - Fevzi Cakmak, Turkish field marshal and Prime Minister (d. 1950)
 1876 – Jack London, American writer (d. 1916)
 1877 - Frank J. Corr, American politician (d. 1934)
1878 - Ferenc Molnár, Hungarian writer and journalist (d. 1952)
 1879 - Anton Uesson, Estonian politician and engineer (d. 1942)
 1882 - Milton Sills, American actor (d. 1930)
 1884 - Texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)
 1890 - Johannes Vares, Estonian poet, physician and politician (d. 1946)
 1892 – Mikhail Gurevich, Russian engineer (d. 1976)
 1893 – Hermann Göring, Nazi official (d. 1946)
 1894 - Georges Carpentier, French boxer (d. 1975)
 1896 - Keen Johnson, American politician, 45th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1970)
 1899 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist (d. 1965)
 1899 - Pierre Bernac, French baritone (d. 1979)
1901  1950 
 1903 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)
 1905 - Tex Ritter, American country music singer and actor (d. 1974)
 1906 - Emmanuel Levinas, French philosopher (d. 1995)
 1907 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966)
 1908 – Jean Delannoy, French director (d. 2008)
 1910 – Luise Rainer, German actress (d. 2014)
 1910 - Géry Leuliet, French bishop (d. 2015)
 1910 - Patsy Kelly, American actress (d. 1981)
 1916 – Pieter Willem Botha, South African politician (d. 2006)
 1917 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritualist (d. 2008)
 1920 - Katja of Sweden, Swedish fashion designer (d. 2017)
 1923 - Ira Hayes, American marine who raised the US Flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1955)
 1923 - Alice Miller, Polish-born Swiss psychologist, author and painter (d. 2010)
 1925 - Katherine MacGregor, American actress (d. 2018)
 1925 - Bill Burrud, American television host (d. 1990)
 1926 - Ray Price, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
 1926 - Shumon Miura, Japanese writer (d. 2017)
1926 – Morton Feldman, American composer (d. 1987)
 1927 - Ignatz Bubis, chairman of the Federal Council of Jews in Germany (d. 1999)
 1927 - Leopoldo Federico, Argentine musician, arranger, director and producer (d. 2014)
 1928 - George E. R. Kinnear II, American admiral (d. 2015)
 1929 – Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher (d. 2015)
 1929 - Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish-American philosopher
 1932 - Des O'Connor, British television presenter and entertainer
 1933 – Michael Aspel, British television presenter
 1933 - Boris Khimichev, Russian actor (d. 2014)
 1934 - Ebrahim Nafae, Egyptian journalist (d. 2018)
 1936 - Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet, British engineering businessman (d. 2018)
 1936 - Raimonds Pauls, Latvian pianist and composer
 1936 - Brajanath Ratha, Indian poet (d. 2014)
 1936 - Jennifer Hilton, Baroness Hilton of Eggardon, English police officer and politician
 1937 - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish opera singer (d. 2002)
 1937 - Marie Dubois, French actress (d. 2014)
1944 – Joe Frazier, American boxer (d. 2011)
 1944 - Vlastimil Hort, Czech-German chess player
 1944 - Jim Gray, American computer scientist (d. 2007)
 1946 - George Duke, American keyboardist (d. 2013)
 1946 - Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove, Scottish lawyer and judge
 1948 – Gordon Campbell, Canadian politician
 1948 - Brendan Foster, English athlete and athletics commentator
 1949 - Bagrat de Bagration y de Baviera, Spanish royal (d. 2017)
 1949 – Ottmar Hitzfeld, German football manager
 1949 – Haruki Murakami, Japanese writer
 1949 - Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (d. 2007)
 1949 - Hamadi Jebali, Tunisian politician
 1950 – Dorrit Moussaieff, former First Lady of Iceland
 1950 - Sheila Jackson-Lee, American politician
 1950 - Patrice Dominguez, French tennis player (d. 2015)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Kirstie Alley, American actress
 1951 – Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality, writer and political commentator
 1951 - Larry Hoppen, American singer-songwriter and musician (Orleans) (d. 2012)
 1952 - Walter Mosley, American writer
 1952 - John Walker, New Zealand runner
 1954 - Felipe Rose, American musician
 1954 – Howard Stern, American radio personality and writer
 1956 - Marie Colvin, American journalist (d. 2012)
 1958 - Alexander Pochinok, Russian economist and politician (d. 2014)
 1958 - Christiane Amanpour, Iranian-British journalist
 1959 - Nick Nairn, Scottish celebrity chef
 1959 – Per Gessle, Swedish songwriter and musician (Roxette)
 1959 - Blixa Bargeld, German musician
 1960 - Oliver Platt, American actor
 1960 - Dominique Wilkins, American basketball player
 1961 – Andrea Carnevale, Italian footballer
 1962 - Joe Quesada, American comic book writer and artist
 1964 – Jeff Bezos, American entrepreneur, founder of Amazon.com
1964 - Laura Gildemeister, Argentine tennis player
 1964 - Clare Holman, British actress
 1965 - Rob Zombie, American musician
 1966 - Olivier Martinez, French actor
 1968 – Heather Mills, British activist
 1968 – Mauro Silva, Brazilian footballer
 1969 – David Mitchell, British writer
 1970 – Zack de la Rocha, American musician
 1970 - Raekwon, American rapper
 1971 – David McAllister, German politician
 1971 - Scott Burrell, American basketball player
 1971 - Peter Madsen, Danish engineer, entrepreneur and murder suspect
 1972 - Priyanka Gandhi, Indian politician
 1972 - Espen Knutsen, Norwegian ice hockey player
 1973 - Hande Yener, Turkish singer
 1974 - Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skier
 1974 – Melanie Chisholm, British singer, formerly of the Spice Girls
 1975 - Jocelyn Thibault, Canadian ice hockey player
 1975 - Jason Freese, American musician
From 1976 
 1976 - Piolo Pascual, Filipino actor, director and producer
 1978 – Bonaventure Kalou, Ivorian footballer
 1979 - Lee Bo-young, South Korean actress and model
 1979 – Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
 1981 - Amerie, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress
 1981 - Tony Lochhead, New Zealand footballer
 1982 - Paul-Henri Mathieu, French tennis player
 1982 - Dean Whitehead, English footballer
 1984 - Oribe Peralta, Mexican footballer
 1984 - Andrew Chan, Australian drug trafficker (d. 2015)
 1986 - Pablo Daniel Osvaldo, Argentine-Italian footballer
 1986 - Kieron Richardson, English actor
 1987 - Naya Rivera, American actress and singer
 1987 - Edoardo Mortara, Italian racing driver
 1988 - Claude Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player
 1989 - Axel Witsel, Belgian footballer
 1990 – Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian-born Russian chess player
 1991 – Pixie Lott, English singer-songwriter and actress
 1992 - Mao Kobayashi, Japanese model and singer
 1992 - Georgia May Jagger, English model
1993 – Zayn Malik, English singer (One Direction)
 1994 - Emre Can, German footballer
 1996 - Ai Hashimoto, Japanese actress and fashion model
 1996 - Ella Henderson, English singer-songwriter
 1998 - Nathan Gamble, American actor
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 690 - Benedict Biscop, English saint (b. 628)
 1167 - Aelred of Rievaulx, English saint (b. 1110)
 1321 - Maria of Brabant, Queen of France (b. 1256)
 1519 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
 1665 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (b. 1601)
 1674 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (b. 1605)
 1705 – Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b. 1634)
 1735 - John Eccles, English composer (b. 1668)
 1759 – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1709)
 1781 - Richard Challoner, English bishop (b. 1691)
 1829 – Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (b. 1772)
 1834 – William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
 1856 – L'udovit Stur, Slovakian politician and writer of the Slovak language (b. 1815)
 1875 – Tongzhi Emperor of China (b. 1856)
 1875 - Thomas E. Bramlette, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1817)
 1897 – Isaac Pitman, British inventor (b. 1813)
1901  2000 
 1909 - Hermann Minkowski, Polish-German mathematician (b. 1864)
 1911 - Georg Jellinek, German public lawyer (b. 1851)
 1916 - Georgios Theotokis, Greek politician, 80th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844)
 1921 - Gervase Elwes, English tenor (b. 1866)
 1926 - Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
 1934 - Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and composer (b. 1887)
 1938 – Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor (b. 1890)
 1943 - Jan Campert, Dutch composer and writer (b. 1902)
 1960 - Nevil Shute, English writer (b. 1899)
 1962 - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian journalist and activist (b. 1869)
 1964 - Boss Johnson, Canadian politician (b. 1890)
 1965 - Lorraine Hansberry, American writer, playwright and director (b. 1930)
 1974 - Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886)
 1976 – Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
 1977 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, French movie director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
 1983 - Rebop Kwaku Baah, Ghanaian musician (b. 1944)
1983 – Nikolai Podgorny, President of the USSR (b. 1903)
 1997 – Charles B. Huggins, Canadian cancer researcher (b. 1901)
 1999 - Betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress (b. 1914)
2001  2015 
 2002 – Cyrus Vance, United States Secretary of State (b. 1917)
 2003 – Maurice Gibb, British singer (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
 2003 – Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine military leader (b. 1926)
 2004 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1922)
 2005 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
 2007 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
 2009 – Claude Berri, French movie director (b. 1934)
 2009 – Arne Naess, Norwegian philosopher (b. 1912)
 2010 - Daniel Bensaïd, French philosopher (b. 1946)
 2010 - Notable victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, including:
Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker (b. 1934)
Georges Anglade, Haitian writer (b. 1944)
Serge Marcil, Canadian politician (b. 1944)
Flo Mcgarrell, Italian artist (b. 1974)
Hédi Annabi, Tunisian diplomat (b. 1943)
Jimmy O, Haitian hip hop musican (b. 1974)
 2012 - Reginald Hill, British writer (b. 1936)
 2012 – Bill Janklow, American politician, former Governor of South Dakota (b. 1939)
2013 - Koto Okubo, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1897)
 2014 - Alexandra Bastedo, British actress (b. 1946)
 2014 - Frank Marth, American actor (b. 1923)
 2014 - John Horsley, British actor (b. 1920)
 2014 - John Button, British racing driver (b. 1943)
 2015 - Elena Obraztsova, Russian mezzo-soprano (b. 1939)
 2015 - Carl Long, American baseball player (b. 1935)
 2015 - James Naanman Daman, Nigerian bishop (b. 1956)
 2015 - Frank Glazer, American pianist and composer (b. 1915)
 2015 - Steve Gold, British computer scientist (b. 1956)
 2015 - Robert Gover, American writer (b. 1929)
 2015 - Paul Morgan, Welsh rugby player (b. 1974)
 2015 - Bonnie Christensen, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1951)
From 2016 
 2016 - Ivan Bukavshin, Russian chess player (b. 1995)
 2016 - Andrew Smith, American basketball player (b. 1990)
 2016 - Robert Black, Scottish serial killer (b. 1947)
 2016 - Rose Chibambo, Malawian politician (b. 1928)
 2016 - William Needles, American actor (b. 1919)
 2016 - Dave Sime, American sprinter (b. 1936)
 2016 - Carolyn D. Wright, American poet (b. 1949)
 2017 - Giulio Angioni, Italian writer and anthropologist (b. 1939)
 2017 - Meir Banai, Israeli singer (b. 1961)
 2017 - William Peter Blatty, American writer (b. 1928)
 2017 - Anthony King, Canadian-British political scientist (b. 1934)
 2017 - Milton Metz, American radio and television sports presenter (b. 1921)
 2017 - Vsevolod Murakhovsky, Ukrainian-Russian politician (b. 1926)
 2017 - Graham Taylor, English football manager (b. 1944)
 2018 - Frankie Muse Freeman, American civil rights attorney (b. 1916)
 2018 - John V. Tunney, American politician, former United States Senator from California (b. 1934)
2018 - Jean-Louis Koszul, French mathematician (b. 1921)
 2018 - Keith Jackson, American sportscaster (b. 1928)
 2018 - Doodhnath Singh, Indian writer (b. 1936)
 2018 - Eddy Beugels, Dutch cyclist (b. 1944)
 2018 - Bella Emberg, English actress (b. 1937)
 2018 - Pierre Pincemaille, French organist
 2019 - George Brady, Czech-Canadian Holocaust survivor (b. 1928)
 2019 - Etsuko Ichihara, Japanese actress (b. 1936)
 2019 - Joe M. Jackson, American United States Air Force officer (b. 1923)
 2019 - Batton Lash, American comic book writer and activist (b. 1953)
 2019 - Jaime Rosenthal, Vice president of Honduras (b. 1936)
 2019 - Patricia Wald, American judge (b. 1928)
Observances 
 Memorial Day (Turkmenistan)
 National Youth Day (India)
 Zanzibar Revolution Day (Tanzania)

Days of the year
Events

Up to 1900 
 888 - Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
 1328 – Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault.
 1733 – James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive at Charleston, South Carolina.
 1750 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Madrid to agree on their colonial policy.
 1822 – The design of the Flag of Greece is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
 1830 – The Great Fire of New Orleans begins.
 1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks 4 miles off Long Island, New York, killing 139 people.
 1893 – The independent British Labour Party holds its first meeting.
 1893 - United States marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the ship USS Boston to prevent Queen Liliuokalani from abandoning the Bayonet Constitution.
 1898 - Émile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
1901  2000 
 1908 - The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killing 171 people.
 1910 - The first public radio broadcast takes place from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
 1915 - An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy, kills 29,800 people.
 1917 - A train crash near Ciurea, Romania, kills between 600 and 1,000 people.
 1930 – An expedition led by Douglas Mawson discovers the Aagaard Islands off Antarctica.
 1935 – Most voters in Saarland decide to become part of Germany.
 1939 - The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, killing 71 people.
 1942 - Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile.
 1951 - First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen begins, later ending in French victory.
 1953 – Josip Broz Tito is chosen as the President of Yugoslavia.
 1963 – A coup in Togo kills the country's first President, Sylvanus Olympio.
 1964 – An Anti-Muslim riot in Calcutta leaves 100 people dead.
1964 – Karol Woityla, later Pope John Paul II, becomes archbishop of Krakow.
 1972 – A coup occurs in Ghana.
 1974 - Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport opens to the public.
 1982 - Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge, shortly after take-off, and falls into the Potomac River, killing 74 people on board, and 4 motorists on the bridge.
 1985 – Africa's worst rail disaster occurs in Awash, northeastern Ethiopia, when a train plunges into a ravine, killing 428 people.
 1986 – Voyager 2 discovers three moons of Uranus: Desdemona, Belinda and Rosalind.
 1986 - A civil war begins in Yemen.
 1990 – The US' first elected African American state Governor, L. Douglas Wilder, takes office in Virginia.
 1991 – Soviet troops crush a pro-independence demonstration in Vilnius, Lithuania, killing 14 people, and wounding over 1,000.
 1993 – Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off, as STS-54 launches from Cape Canaveral.
From 2001 
 2001 – An earthquake that was 7.6 on the Richter scale hits all of El Salvador, killing over 800 people.
 2012 – The 2012 Winter Youth Olympics begin in Innsbruck, Austria. These are the first Winter Youth Olympics.
 2012 - Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia crashes onto rocks off the island of Giglio, off the coast of Tuscany, Italy, killing 32 people.
 2018 - 2018 Hawaii false missile alert: An alert falsely claiming there was an incoming missile causes panic in Hawaii.
 2019 - Pawel Adamowicz, Mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk, is stabbed during a charity event; he dies the next day, aged 53.

Births
Up to 1900 
 5 BC - Emperor Guangwu of Han, Chinese ruler (d. 57)
 101 - Lucius Aelius, adoptive son of Roman Emperor Hadrian (d. 138)
 1334 – Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)
 1338 - Jeong Mong-ju, Korean politician, diplomat and scholar (d. 1392)
 1505 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1571)
 1596 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch artist (d. 1656)
 1610 – Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)
 1615 - Henrik Bjelke, Norwegian admiral (d. 1683)
 1683 - Christoph Graupner, German composer (d. 1760)
 1698 - Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
 1763 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, French-Russian general (d. 1831)
 1777 – Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1820)
 1779 - William Badger, 20th Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1852)
 1787 - John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)
 1805 – Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)
 1808 – Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)
 1812 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)
1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and writer (d. 1899)
 1836 - Giuseppe Abbati, Italian painter (d. 1868)
 1845 – Félix Tisserand, French astronomer (d. 1896)
 1855 – Otto Lehmann, German physicist (d. 1922)
 1858 - Oskar Minkowski, Lithuanian biologist (d. 1931)
 1859 - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (d. 1943)
 1861 – Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)
 1864 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist (d. 1928)
 1865 - Princess Marie of Orleans, French-Danish princess (d. 1908)
 1866 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901)
 1869 - Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1931)
 1869 - William G. Bulow, Governor of South Dakota (d. 1960)
 1870 - Jedrzej Moraczewski, Polish politician (d. 1944)
 1870 – Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist (d. 1959)
 1880 - Herbert Brenon, American director, screenwriter and actor (d. 1958)
 1883 – Prince Arthur of Connaught (d. 1938)
 1884 - Sophie Tucker, Ukrainian-American singer and actress (d. 1966)
1885 - Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 1964)
 1887 - George Gurdjieff, Russian-French mystic and philosopher (d. 1949)
 1887 - Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (d. 1917)
 1890 – Jüri Uluots, Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1945)
 1892 - Ermanni Aebi, Italian-Swiss footballer (d. 1976)
 1893 - Clark Ashton Smith, American sculptor, writer and painter (d. 1961)
 1893 - Roy Cazaly, Australian footballer (d. 1963)
 1898 – Kaj Munk, Danish pastor, poet and Resistance activist (d. 1944)
 1898 - Carlo Tagliabue, Italian baritone (d. 1978)
 1899 - Lev Kuleshov, Soviet-Russian director (d. 1970)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Mieczyslaw Zywczysnki, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978)
 1904 - Richard Addinsell, British composer (d. 1977)
 1905 - Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)
 1906 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist (d. 2017)
 1908 - Enrico Paoli, Italian chess player (d. 2005)
 1908 - Earle G. Wheeler, American general (d. 1975)
 1909 - Danny Barker, American jazz musician and bandleader (d. 1994)
 1909 - Martinus van der Lubbe, Dutch Communist (d. 1934)
 1911 – Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)
 1911 - Guido del Mestri, German cardinal (d. 1993)
 1913 - Jeff Morrow, American actor (d. 1993)
 1916 - Liselotte Landbeck, Austrian skater (d. 2013)
 1919 - Robert Stack, American actor, sportsman and television host (d. 2003)
 1920 – Knut Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1984)
 1922 - Albert Lamorisse, French movie director and producer (d. 1970)
 1923 - Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist (d. 1997)
 1923 - Willem Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (d. 2003)
1924 – Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994)
 1924 – Roland Petit, French choreographer (d. 2011)
 1925 - Rosemary Murphy, German-born American actress (d. 2014)
 1926 – Michael Bond, British writer, creator of Paddington Bear (d. 2017)
 1927 – Sydney Brenner, South African-British biologist
 1928 - Gregory Walcott, American actor (d. 2015)
 1929 - Joe Pass, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
 1931 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007)
 1932 - Barry Bishop, American mountaineer (d. 1994)
 1933 - Shahnon Ahmad, Malaysian writer (d. 2017)
 1934 - Carolyn See, American novelist, professor and critic (d. 2016)
 1934 - Rip Taylor, American actor
 1935 - Mauro Forghieri, Italian racecar designer
 1936 - Renato Bruson, Italian operatic baritone
 1938 - Daevid Allen, Australian singer, guitarist and composer (d. 2015)
 1938 - Richard Anthony, French singer (d. 2015)
 1938 - Cabu, French cartoonist (d. 2015)
 1938 - Shivkumar Sharma, Indian composer
 1939 - Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer
1939 - Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentine writer, screenwriter and director
 1941 – Pascual Maragall i Mira, Catalan politician
 1942 - Carol Cleveland, English actress
 1942 - Piero Marini, Italian archbishop
 1943 – Richard Moll, American actor
 1947 – Jacek Majchrowski, Polish politician and Krakow Mayor
 1947 - Erland Kolding Nielsen, Danish academic (d. 2017)
 1947 – Carles Rexach, Catalan-Spanish footballer
 1948 - Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur
 1949 – Rakesh Sharma, Indian astronaut
 1950 - Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer (d. 2014)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Bernard Loiseau, French chef (d. 2003)
 1951 - Kim Manners, American television producer, director and actor (d. 2009)
 1951 - Antoni Szymanowski, Polish footballer
 1952 - John Lee Hooker, Jr., American blues singer
 1954 - Bruno Coulais, French movie score composer
 1954 - Trevor Rabin, South African rock musician and composer
 1955 – Huh Jung-Moo, South Korean footballer
 1955 – Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter
 1955 - Jay McInerney, American writer
 1955 - Anne Pringle, English diplomat
 1955 - Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean footballer (d. 2015)
 1956 - Toshio Nakanishi, Japanese musician (d. 2017)
 1956 - Greg Trooper, American singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
 1957 - Claudia Emerson, American poet (d. 2014)
 1957 – Mark O'Meara, American golfer
 1957 - Daniel Scioli, 33rd Vice President of Argentina
 1957 - Mary Glindon, English politician
 1957 - Dusan Bukovac, Bulgarian footballer
 1958 - Francisco Buyo, Spanish footballer and manager
 1959 - Jay Lomenzo, American musician
1960 - Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, 2014 Nobel Prize winner
 1960 - Matthew Bourne, English choreographer and director
 1961 – Suggs, English singer (Madness)
 1961 – Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress
 1961 - Jeremy Bamber, English murderer
 1963 – Charles Muscat, Maltese footballer (d. 2011)
 1964 – Bill Bailey, British comedian
 1964 – Penelope Ann Miller, American actress
 1964 – Ronan Rafferty, Northern Irish golfer
 1966 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor
 1966 - Simon Shelton, English actor (d. 2018)
 1968 – Chara, Japanese singer and actress
 1968 - Antonio Tartaglia, Italian bobsledder
 1969 - Stefania Belmondo, Italian skier
 1969 – Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player
 1970 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
 1970 - Gavin Whittaker, Australian rugby league player (d. 2017)
 1970 - Shonda Rhimes, American screenwriter, director and producer
 1971 - John Mallory Asher, American movie actor and director
 1972 - Nicole Eggert, American actress
1972 - Park Jin-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer and actor
 1973 - Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player
 1974 - Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player
 1975 - Daniel Kehlmann, Austrian-German writer
From 1976 
 1976 – Bic Runga, New Zealand singer
 1976 – Mario Yepes, Colombian footballer
 1976 - Tania Vicent, Canadian speed skater
 1977 – Orlando Bloom, British actor
 1978 - Nate Silver, American journalist and statistician
 1979 - Katy Brand, British actress and comedienne
 1980 - María de Villota, Spanish racing driver (d. 2013)
 1980 - Michael Rupp, American ice hockey player
 1980 – Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer
 1981 - Jason James, Welsh musician
 1982 – Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
 1982 - Kamran Akmal, Pakistani cricketer
 1982 - Ruth Wilson, English actress
 1983 - William Hung, Chinese singer
 1984 - Raif Badawi, Saudi writer, blogger and activist
 1984 - Kamghe Gaba, German athlete
 1985 - Qi Hui, Chinese swimmer
 1986 – Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater
 1987 – Marc Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
 1987 – Lee Seung-gi, Korean singer & actor
 1989 - Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer
 1989 - Beau Mirchoff, American-Canadian actor
1990 - Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor
 1991 - Goo Ha-ra, South Korean singer, dancer and actress
 1992 - Adam Matthews, Welsh footballer
 1993 - Max Whitlock, British gymnast
 1995 - Qaasim Middleton, American musician and actor
 1995 - Eros Vlahos, English actor and comedian
Up to 1900 
 86 BC – Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)
 533 - Saint Remigius, Bishop of Reims (b. 437)
 614 – Saint Kentigern (Saint Mungo), patron saint of Glasgow
 703 - Empress Jiti of Japan (b. 645)
 858 – Ethelwulf of Wessex (b. 795)
 888 – Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 839)
 1138 - Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
 1151 - Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (b. 1081)
 1177 – Henry II of Austria (b. 1107)
 1330 – Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)
 1625 – Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (b. 1568)
 1630 - Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese military commander (b. 1584)
 1658 - Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)
 1717 - Maria Sibylla Merian, German-Swiss entomologist and illustrator (b. 1647) 
 1766 – Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
 1796 - John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)
 1797 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, consort of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715)
 1832 - Thomas Lord, English cricketer (b. 1755)
1838 - Ferdinand Ries, German composer (b. 1784)
 1852 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, German-Russian explorer (b. 1778)
 1853 – Theophilus Kairis, Greek revolutionary (b. 1783)
 1864 – Stephen Foster, American musician (b. 1826)
 1885 – Schuyler Colfax, Vice President of the United States (b. 1823)
 1889 - Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823)
 1897 - David Schwarz, Austro-Hungarian aviation pioneer and inventor (b. 1850)
1901  2000 
 1905 – George Thorn, Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
 1915 – Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
 1916 – Victoriano Huerta, President of Mexico (b. 1850)
 1923 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842)
 1928 - Mara Buneva, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1902)
 1929 – Wyatt Earp, American Western figure (b. 1848)
 1932 – Sophia of Prussia, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1870)
 1934 - Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860)
 1941 – James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)
 1943 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889)
 1949 – Aino Aalto, Finnish architect and designer (b. 1894)
 1958 - Jesse L. Lasky, American movie producer (b. 1910)
 1961 - Herman Glass, American gymnast (b. 1880)
 1962 - Ernie Kovacs, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)
 1963 – Sylvanus Olympio, 1st President of Togo (b. 1902)
 1969 - Li Zongren, Chinese politician (b. 1890)
 1974 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904)
 1978 – Hubert Humphrey, Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
1980 - Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-born music conductor and arranger (b. 1901)
 1982 – Marcel Camus, French movie director (b. 1912)
 1982 - Arland D. Williams, Jr., American airline passenger (b. 1935)
 1986 - Abdul Fattah Ismail, 4th President of South Yemen (b. 1939)
 1988 – Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
 1993 - Camargo Guarneri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)
 2000 - Thelma Rogers, English actress (b. 1924)
From 2001 
 2002 – Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman (b. 1897)
 2002 - Paul J. Fannin, Governor of Arizona (b. 1907)
 2004 – Harold Shipman, British doctor and serial killer (b. 1946)
 2006 - Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
 2007 - Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)
 2008 - Sergej Larin, Latvian-Lithuanian tenor (b. 1956)
 2009 – Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)
 2010 – Teddy Pendergrass, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
 2011 – Charles Muscat, Maltese footballer (b. 1963)
 2012 – Rauf Denktas, 1st President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (b. 1924)
 2012 - Lefter Küçükonyadis, Turkish footballer (b. 1925)
 2013 - Bille Brown, Australian actor (b. 1952)
 2014 - Menachem Zilberman, Israeli comedian and songwriter (b. 1946)
 2014 - Anjali Devi, Indian actress and movie producer (b. 1927)
 2014 - Mihai Fotino, Romanian actor (b. 1930)
 2015 - Mark Juddery, Australian writer and journalist (b. 1971)
2015 - Keith Wright, Australian politician (b. 1942)
 2015 - Hara Patnaik, Indian actor and movie director (b. 1958)
 2015 - Jack Hayward, English businessman (b. 1923)
 2015 - Robert White, American diplomat (b. 1926)
 2015 - Trevor Colbourn, Australian educator and academic (b. 1927)
 2016 - J. F. R. Jacob, Indian military officer (b. 1923)
 2016 - Giorgio Gomelsky, Georgian filmmaker, songwriter and record producer (b. 1934)
 2016 - Brian Bedford, British actor (b. 1935)
 2016 - William Craig, American philosopher (b. 1918)
 2016 - Bern Herbolsheimer, American composer (b. 1948)
 2016 - Conrad Phillips, British actor (b. 1925)
 2016 - Lawrence Phillips, American football player (b. 1975)
 2016 - Jim Simpson, American sportscaster (b. 1927)
 2016 - Tera Wray, American pornographic actress (b. 1982)
 2017 - Gilberto Agustoni, Swiss cardinal (b. 1922)
 2017 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (b. 1930)
 2017 - Mark Fisher, British writer (b. 1968)
2017 - Horacio Guarany, Argentine singer and writer (b. 1925)
 2017 - John Jacobs, English golfer (b. 1925)
 2017 - Magic Alex, Greek electronics engineer (b. 1942)
 2017 - David Modell, American businessman (b. 1960)
 2017 - Anton Nanut, Slovenian conductor (b. 1932)
 2017 - Ari Rath, Austrian-Israeli journalist (b. 1925)
 2017 - Udo Ulfkotte, German journalist (b. 1960)
 2018 - Doug Harvey, American baseball umpire (b. 1930)
 2018 - Tzimis Panousis, Greek rock musician and comedian (b. 1954)
 2018 - Jean Porter, American actress (b. 1922)
 2018 - Eliyahu Winograd, Israel judge (b. 1926)
 2018 - Byron Langley, American politician (b. 1926)
 2019 - Bonnie Guitar, American country singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1923)
 2019 - Phil Masinga, South African footballer (b. 1969)
 2019 - Alfred K. Newman, American Navajo code talker (b. 1924)
 2019 - Mel Stottlemyre, American baseball player (b. 1941)
Observances
 Korean American Day
 Old New Year (parts of Eastern Europe)
 Saint Knut's Day, end of the Christmas period (Finland, Norway, Sweden)
 Constitution Day (Mongolia)
 Democracy Day (Cape Verde)
 Liberation Day (Togo)

Days of the year
January 14 is celebrated as New Year's Day by those still following the Julian calendar.

Events