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From 2001 
 2004 - An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy. Exposure to the poor weather conditions kills 28 people.
 2005 – Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Mahmoud Abbas is elected.
 2005 - The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War.
 2006 – The Phantom of the Opera surpasses the record set by Cats for the title of longest running show on Broadway.
 2006 – The population of Iceland officially reaches 300,000.
 2007 - The first IPhone is revealed by then-Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs.
 2011 – South Sudan holds a referendum on independence from Sudan. A majority vote in favour of creating a new country, as South Sudan becomes independent six months later.
 2011 – Iran Air Flight 227 crashes near Orumiyel, northern Iran, killing 77 people.
2015 - Aftermath of Charlie Hebdo shooting: The two attackers on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo two days earlier are killed following a siege north of Paris, while a gunmen holds several people hostage, killing four, at a Jewish supermarket in Paris, before being killed by police.
 2015 - Football: The 2015 AFC Asian Cup in Australia begins with the hosts defeating Kuwait 4-1 in the opening game. It is the first Asian Cup held outside Asia.
 2017 - Martin McGuinness resigns as Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland after a scandal over a renewable heat initiative involving First Minister Arlene Foster had made relations in the power-sharing government difficult.
 2018 - Australia's law allowing same-sex marriage enters into force.
 2018 - North Korea agrees to send a team to the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea after talks between politicians from the two countries.
 2018 - Mudslides in southern California kill at least 20 people.
Up to 1900 
 1475 – Crinitus, Italian humanist (d. 1507)
 1554 – Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623)
 1589 - Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet (d. 1638)
 1590 - Simon Vouet, French painter (d. 1649)
 1624 – Empress Meisho of Japan (d. 1697)
 1674 - Reinhard Keiser, German opera composer (d. 1739)
 1715 - Robert-François Damiens, attempted assassin of Louis XV of France (d. 1757)
 1745 - Caleb Strong, 6th and 10th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1819)
 1753 - Luisa Todi, Portuguese singer (d. 1833)
 1757 - John Adair, Governor of Kentucky (d. 1810)
 1773 - Cassandra Austen, English painter (d. 1845)
 1778 - Hammamizade Ismail Dede Efendi, composer of Turkish classical music (d. 1846)
 1797 - Ferdinand von Wrangel, Baltic German naval officer and explorer (d. 1870)
 1806 - Augustus Bradford, Governor of Maryland (d. 1881)
 1818 - Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, French sculptor and photographer (d. 1881)
 1819 - James Francis, Premier of Victoria (d. 1884)
 1829 - Thomas William Robertson, English playwright (d. 1871)
1829 - Adolf Schlagintweit, German botanist and explorer (d. 1879)
 1832 - Felix-Gabriel Marchand, 11th Premier of Quebec (d. 1900)
 1835 – Iwasaki Yaturo, Japanese founder of Mitsubishi (d. 1885)
 1848 - Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926)
 1849 - John Hartley, English tennis player (d. 1935)
 1854 – Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)
 1859 - Carrie Chapman Catt, American activist (d. 1947)
 1864 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926)
 1870 – Joseph B. Strauss, American civil engineer (d. 1938)
 1872 - Ivar Lykke, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1949)
 1873 - Hayim Nahman Bialik, Ukrainian-Jewish writer and journalist (d. 1934)
 1875 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942)
 1881 – Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and critic (d. 1938)
 1881 - Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (d. 1956)
 1881 - Josef Ospelt, 1st Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (d. 1962)
 1885 - Charles Bacon, American athlete (d. 1968)
 1890 - Karel Capek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
1890 – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and writer (d. 1935)
 1897 - Dwight H. Green, Governor of Illinois (d. 1958)
 1897 - Vladimir Paley, Russian poet (d. 1918)
 1898 – Gracie Fields, English performer (d. 1979)
 1900 – Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)
 1900 - Richard Haliburton, American adventurer (d. 1939)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Ishman Bracey, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1970)
 1901 - Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
 1902 - Saint Josemaria Escriva, Spanish Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975)
 1908 – Simone de Beauvoir, French writer (d. 1986)
 1909 – Anthony Mamo, 1st President of Malta (d. 2008)
 1911 - Gypsy Rose Lee, American entertainer (d. 1970)
 1912 - Ralph Tubbs, British architect (d. 1996)
 1913 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
 1914 - Kenny Clarke, American jazz musician (d. 1985)
 1915 - Anita Louise, American actress (d. 1970)
 1916 - Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor and movie producer (d. 1982)
 1916 - Peter Twinn, French mathematician and entomologist (d. 2004)
 1917 - Yngve A. A. Larsson, Swedish medicine professor and diabetologist (d. 2014)
 1920 - Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician (d. 1998)
 1920 – Clive Dunn, British actor, comedian, and singer (d. 2012)
 1921 - Patricia Highsmith, American writer (d. 1995)
1922 – Har Gobind Khorana, Indian biochemist (d. 2011)
 1922 – Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
 1924 – Sergei Parajanov, Armenian movie director (d. 1990)
 1925 - Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989)
 1927 - Rodolfo Walsh, Argentine writer (d. 1977)
 1928 - Domenico Modugno, Italian actor, singer and guitarist (d. 1994)
 1928 - Judith Krantz, American writer
 1929 – Heiner Müller, German dramatist (d. 1995)
 1929 - Brian Friel, Irish dramatist and short story writer (d. 2015)
 1929 – Dorothea Puente, American serial killer (d. 2011)
 1931 - Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-born American science fiction writer (d. 2008)
 1932 - Robert P. Casey, Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 2000)
 1934 - Mahendra Kapoor, Indian singer (d. 2008)
 1935 – Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)
 1935 - Brian Harradine, Australian politician (d. 2014)
 1939 – Susannah York, British actress (d. 2011)
 1940 - Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
 1941 – Joan Baez, American singer and activist
1941 - Robert D. Putnam, American political scientist
 1941 - Gilles Vaillancourt, Canadian politician
 1942 - Lee Kun-hee, South Korean businessman
 1942 - Keith Wright, Australian politician (d. 2015)
 1943 - Freddie Starr, English comedian
 1943 - Scott Walker, American singer and musician
 1944 – Jimmy Page, British musician and producer (Led Zeppelin)
 1944 - Massimiliano Fuksas, Italian architect, poet and painter
 1945 – Levon Ter-Petrossian, first President of Armenia
 1946 - Mogens Lykketoft, Danish politician
 1948 - Bill Cowsill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2006)
 1948 – Cassie Gaines, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
 1948 - Jan Tomaszewski, Polish footballer and politician
 1950 – Rio Reiser, German musician (d. 1996)
 1950 - Alec Jeffreys, British geneticist
1951  1975 
 1951 – Crystal Gayle, American singer
 1951 - Michel Barnier, French politician
 1952 - Marek Belka, former Prime Minister of Poland
 1952 - Michael Capuano, American politician
 1953 - Javad Alizadeh, Iranian cartoonist
 1953 – Morris Gleitzman, English writer
 1953 - Bill Graves, former Governor of Kansas
 1954 - Philippa Gregory, English writer
 1954 - Lance Hoppen, American singer-songwriter and musician (Orleans)
 1955 – J. K. Simmons, American actor
 1956 – Imelda Staunton, British actress
 1957 - Yury Bandazhevsky, Belarusian scientist
 1958 - Stephen Neale, British philosopher
 1958 – Mehmet Ali Agca, attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
 1959 – Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemalan political activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner
 1961 – Al Jean, American television writer
 1962 - Matt Bevin, American politician, 42nd Governor of Kentucky
 1963 - Michael Everson, American linguist
 1964 - Stephen Sackur, British journalist
 1965 – Iain Dowie, British footballer and manager
1965 – Haddaway, Trinidadian singer
 1965 – Joely Richardson, British actress
 1965 - Muggsy Bogues, American basketball player
 1965 - Farah Khan, Indian director, actress and choreographer
 1966 - Stephen Metcalfe, English politician
 1967 – Dave Matthews, Australian singer and musician
 1967 – Claudio Caniggia, Argentine footballer
 1967 - Gary Teichmann, South African rugby player
 1968 - Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
 1968 - Catalina Saavedra, Chilean actress
 1970 - Lara Fabian, Swiss singer
 1971 - Angie Martinez, American rapper, actress and television host
 1972 - Sarah Beeny, British television personality
 1973 - Angela Bettis, American actress, movie producer and director
 1974 - Farhan Akhtar, Indian actor, singer, director and producer
From 1976 
 1976 - Radek Bonk, Czech ice hockey player
 1977 - Viktors Dobrecovs, Latvian footballer
 1978 – Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer
 1978 – AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
 1979 - Athanassios Prittas, Greek footballer
 1979 - Tomiko Van, Japanese singer
 1980 – Sergio Garcia, Spanish golfer
 1981 – Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer
 1982 – Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
 1982 - Grétar Steinsson, Icelandic footballer
 1985 - Juanfran, Spanish footballer
 1986 - Amanda Mynhardt, South African netballer
 1987 – Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer-songwriter
 1987 - Bradley Davies, Welsh rugby player
 1987 - Rhys Priestland, Welsh rugby player
 1987 - Anna Tatangelo, Italian singer
 1987 - Lucas Leiva, Brazilian footballer
 1988 - Marc Crosas, Spanish footballer
 1989 - Michael Beasley, American basketball player
 1989 - Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress
 1990 - Nam Ji-hyun, South Korean singer and actress
 1992 - Terrence Jones, American basketball player
1993 - Ashley Argota, American actress
 1993 - Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English athlete
 1993 - Aminata Savadogo, Latvian singer and songwriter
 1995 - Nicola Peltz, American actress
 Unknown year - Fang Bo, Chinese ping-pong player
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 1150 - Emperor Xizong of Jin (b. 1119)
 1282 - Abu 'Ulthman Sa'id ibn Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Menorca (b. 1204)
 1283 - Wen Tianxiang, Chinese politician (b. 1236)
 1499 - John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)
 1514 – Anne, Queen of France (b. 1477)
 1562 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514)
 1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
 1805 - Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
 1848 – Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
 1858 – Anson Jones, last President of Texas (b. 1798)
 1873 – Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
 1876 – Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
 1878 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)
1901  2000 
 1908 – Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
 1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853)
 1911 - Edvard Rusjan, Slovenian flight pioneer (b. 1886)
 1918 - Charles-Emile Reynaud, French scientist and educator (b. 1844)
 1923 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
 1924 - Ponnambalam Arunachalam, Ceylonese politician (b. 1853)
 1927 - Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-German writer (b. 1855)
 1936 - John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899)
 1939 - Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1886)
 1940 - J. C. W. Beckham, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1869)
 1941 - Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner (b. 1874)
 1944 – Antanas Smetona, President of Lithuania (b. 1874)
 1945 - Jüri Uluots, Estonian journalist and politician (b. 1890)
 1961 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1867)
 1964 - Halide Edip Adivar, Turkish novelist, nationalist and activist (b. 1884)
 1975 - Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)
1975 - Piotr Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
 1979 – Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (b. 1891)
 1993 - Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
 1993 - Mario Genta, Italian footballer (b. 1912)
 1995 – Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909)
 1997 – Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
 1998 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist (b. 1916)
 1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
 2000 - Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and writer (b. 1909)
From 2001 
 2004 - Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
 2005 – Antonín Klimek, Czech historian (b. 1927)
 2007 - Jean-Pierre Vernant, French philosopher and historian (b. 1914)
 2009 – Dave Dee, British musician (b. 1943)
 2009 – René Herms, German athlete (b. 1982)
 2010 – Armand Razafindratandra, Malagasy cardinal (b. 1924)
 2011 – Peter Yates, British movie director (b. 1929)
 2012 – Malam Bacai Sanha, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1947)
 2012 - Mae Laborde, American actress (b. 1909)
 2013 - Rex Trailer, American television host, actor and singer (b. 1928)
 2013 - James M. Buchanan, American economist (b. 1919)
 2014 - Dale T. Mortensen, American economist (b. 1939)
 2014 - Amiri Baraka, American poet (b. 1934)
 2014 - Josep Maria Castellet, Catalan writer (b. 1926)
 2014 - Lorella De Luca, Italian actress (b. 1940)
 2014 - Cliff Carpenter, American actor (b. 1915)
 2015 - Jozef Oleksy, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1946)
 2015 - Angelo Anquilletti, Italian footballer (b. 1943)
2015 - Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., American movie producer (b. 1926)
 2015 - Frans Molenaar, Dutch fashion designer (b. 1940)
 2015 - Robert V. Keeley, American diplomat (b. 1929)
 2015 - Roy Tarpley, American basketball player (b. 1964)
 2015 - Popsy Dixon, American musician (b. 1942)
 2015 - Chuck Locke, American baseball player (b. 1932)
 2015 - Michel Jeury, French writer (b. 1934)
 2015 - Perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting and related attacks:
Chérif Kouachi, French Islamic Jihadist (b. 1982)
Saïd Kouachi, French Islamic Jihadist (b. 1980)
Amedy Coulibaly, French Islamic Jihadist (b. 1982)
 2016 - Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (b. 1926)
 2016 - Lawrence H. Cohn, American surgeon (b. 1937)
 2016 - Hamada Emam, Egyptian footballer (b. 1947)
 2016 - Peter Gavin Hall, Australian mathematician (b. 1951)
 2016 - Ed Stewart, English broadcaster (b. 1941)
 2016 - Merab Chigoev, South Ossetian politician (b. 1950)
 2016 - Umberto Raho, Italian actor (b. 1922)
2016 - Angus Scrimm, American actor (b. 1926)
 2016 - Zelimkhan Yaqub, Azerbaijani poet (b. 1950)
 2016 - John Harvard, Canadian politician (b. 1938)
 2017 - Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-British sociologist (b. 1925)
 2017 - Michael Chamberlain, New Zealand-Australian pastor (b. 1944)
 2017 - Ulf Dinkelspiel, Swedish politician (b. 1939)
 2017 - Ali Shariatmadari, Iranian politician and academic (b. 1923)
 2017 - Ugo Crescenzi, Italian politician (b. 1930)
 2017 - Bob McCullough, Australian sports administrator
 2017 - Warren Allen Smith, American activist and writer (b. 1921)
 2017 - Claude Steiner, French-born American psychologist and writer (b. 1935)
 2017 - Russell Trood, Australian politician and academic (b. 1948)
 2018 - Bob Bailey, American baseball player (b. 1942)
 2018 - Tommy Lawrence, Scottish footballer (b. 1940)
 2018 - Robert Minlos, Russian mathematician (b. 1931)
 2018 - Odvar Nordli, Prime minister of Norway (b. 1927)
 2018 - Mario Perniola, Italian philosopher (b. 1941)
2018 - Ted Phillips, English footballer (b. 1933)
 2018 - Milton J. Rosenberg, American psychology professor and radio host (b. 1925)
Observances 
 Martyrs' Day (Panama)

January 09
1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and a common year starting on a Tuesday in the 13-day slower Julian calendar. It was the 913th year of the 2nd Millennium, 13th year of the 20th Century and the 4th year of the 1910s decade.

Events 
 First and Second Balkan Wars
 Mexican Revolution
 March 4 - Woodrow Wilson becomes the 28th President of the United States, succeeding William Howard Taft.
 March 12 - Building work begins on the new capital city of Canberra in Australia.
 May 29 - Rite of Spring performance in Paris.
 July 10 - A temperature of  is recorded in Death Valley, California.
 October 14 - The Senghenydd colliery disaster in Wales kills 439 people, in the United Kingdom's deadliest mining tragedy.
 November 7 to November 11 - The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 kills over 250 people. Nineteen ships are lost.
 December 12 - The Mona Lisa is recovered in Florence.
 George Herriman's comic strip Krazy Kat is launched in American newspapers

Births

January
Births

January 

 January 9 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
 January 10 – Gustáv Husák, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)

February 

 February 4 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)

March 

 March 18 - René Clément, French movie director (d. 1996)
 March 26 – Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)

April

May 

 May 19 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India (d. 1996)

June

July 

 July 14 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)

August 

 August 26 – Boris Pahor, Slovenian-Italian writer and Holocaust survivor (d. 2022)

September 
 September 23 – Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist (d. 2007)

October

November 
 November 7 – Albert Camus, French writer (d. 1960)

December
December

Deaths 
 March 10 – Harriet Tubman, American anti-slavery activist (b. 1820)
 March 31 – J.P. Morgan, American businessperson (banking) (b. 1837)
 April 15 – Gabdulla Tukay, Tatar poet (b. 1886)
 September 30 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (b. 1858)

Nobel Prizes 

 Physiology or Medicine - Charles Robert Richet (French physiologist)
 Physics - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (Netherlands)
 Chemistry - Alfred Werner (Switzerland)
 Literature - Rabindranath Tagore (India, then-British India)
 Peace - Henri La Fontaine (Belgium)

References
Up to 1900 
 1481 - The largest of three earthquakes strikes the Greek island of Rhodes, killing an estimated 30,000 people.
 1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptized by Portuguese missionaries.
 1494 – Christopher Columbus arrives in Jamaica, naming the island Santiago.
 1715 - A total solar eclipse is visible across Northern Europe and Northern Asia, with totality across southern England being predicted by Edmond Halley to within four minutes of accuracy.
 1791 – Poland's first constitution is introduced. May 3 is still celebrated as Constitution Day in Poland, as well as in neighboring Lithuania.
 1802 - Washington, DC is incorporated as a city.
 1808 – Rebels in Madrid, who rose up on the previous day, against French rule, are executed.
 1808 - Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
 1815 - Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples, is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
1830 - The Canterbury-Whitstable Railway in Southern England is opened. It is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
 1837 - The University of Athens, Greece, is founded.
 1849 – The May uprising begins in Dresden.
 1855 - The adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with around 60 men in an attempt to conquer Nicaragua.
 1860 - King Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned.
 1867 - Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
 1887 – Canada's worst mining disaster occurs in Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island. 150 people are killed, and 7 survive.
1901  2000 
 1901 - The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
 1909 – Germany introduces driver's licences.
 1913 - Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature movie, is released, marking the start of the Indian movie industry.
 1915 - The poem In Flanders Fields is written by John McCrae.
 1916 – In Ireland, the leaders of the Easter Uprising are executed.
 1920 - A Bolshevik coup fails in Georgia.
 1934 – The French navy introduces Surcouf, which was the largest submarine at the time.
 1936 – Joe DiMaggio makes his Major League Baseball debut, for the New York Yankees.
 1937 - Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone With the Wind wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
 1939 - The All India Forward Bloc is founded by Subhas Chandra Bose.
 1945 - World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbeck and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lubeck Bay.
 1947 – Japan's new post-war constitution goes into effect.
1951 – George VI of the United Kingdom opens the Festival of Britain. London's Royal Festival Hall opens on the same day.
 1952 - Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the US land a plane at the North Pole.
 1952 - The Kentucky Derby horse race is shown on television throughout the US for the first time.
 1956 - The first World Championships in judo take place in Tokyo.
 1960 – In Amsterdam, the Netherlands the Anne Frank House is opened to the public.
 1960 - Off-Broadway musical comedy The Fantasticks opens in New York City's Greenwich Village.
 1973 – The Sears Tower in Chicago is completed.
 1978 - The first Spam email is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
 1979 – Margaret Thatcher is elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, becoming the first female British Prime Minister.
1986 – A bomb explodes on an airliner at Colombo's airport in Sri Lanka, killing 21 people, and injuring 41.
 1999 - The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by a Force-5 tornado, killing 45 people and injuring 665.
From 2001 
 2001 – For the first time, the United States loses its seat on the United Nations Human Rights Commission.
 2002 - A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan, in Northwest India, killing 8 people.
 2003 – New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain rock feature collapses.
 2006 - While landing in Sochi, Southern Russia, an Airbus A320-200 of Armenian airline Armavia crashes into the Black Sea, killing all 113 people on board.
 2007 – The Scottish National Party, under Alex Salmond, narrowly wins in the election to the Scottish Parliament.
 2007 – Madeleine McCann gets abducted from an apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
 2008 – Cyclone Nargis devastates Burma, killing thousands of people, and causing widespread flooding in the Irrawaddy River Delta.
 2014 - The Black Forest National Park is officially opened.
 2018 - Dust storms in Rajasthan an Uttar Pradesh, India, kill at least 100 people.
2019 - The number of deaths in the South Kivu Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is estimated at 1,000, making it the second-deadliest outbreak of the disease.
 2019 - Cyclone Fani hits the state of Odisha on the east coast of India.
Births

Up to 1800 
 612 – Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
 1415 – Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV and Richard III of England (d. 1495)
 1428 - Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (d. 1495)
 1446 - Margaret of York (d. 1503)
 1455 – King John I of Portugal (d. 1495)
 1460 - Raffaele Riario, Italian cardinal and patron of the arts (d. 1521)
 1469 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian philosopher (d. 1527)
 1678 - Amaro Pargo, Spanish pirate (d. 1747)
 1695 – Henri Pitot, Italian-born French engineer (d. 1771)
 1713 - Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician (d. 1765)
 1729 - Florian Leopold Gassmann, German-Bohemian composer (d. 1774)
 1761 – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819)
 1764 - Princess Elisabeth of France (d. 1794)
 1768 - Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist (d. 1838)
 1768 - Agustín Eyzaguirre, acting President of Chile (d. 1838)
 1773 - Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian naturalist (d. 1846)
 1784 - Henry Hubbard, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1857)
1801  1900 
 1814 - Adams George Archibald, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1892)
 1826 – King Charles XV of Sweden (d. 1872)
 1841 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, English talent agent, impresario and composer (d. 1901)
 1849 – Bertha Benz, German automobile pioneer (d. 1944)
 1849 – Bernhard von Buelow, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
 1860 – John Scott Haldane, British physiologist (d. 1936)
 1860 – Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1940)
 1861 - Emmett Dalton, American outlaw (d. 1937)
 1870 – Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1948)
 1872 – Simun av Skardi, Faroese poet and politician (d. 1942)
 1873 - Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician (d. 1945)
 1874 – François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (d. 1934)
 1877 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d. 1925)
 1879 - Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman and soldier, co-founder of Qantas (d. 1950)
 1879 - Clyde L. Herring, American politician, 26th Governor of Iowa (d. 1945)
1884 - Willie Reid, Scottish footballer (d. 1966)
 1886 – Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (d. 1971)
 1891 – Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet (d. 1969)
 1892 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist (d. 1975)
 1893 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer (d. 1975)
 1895 - Cornelius Van Til, Dutch theologian and philosopher (d. 1987)
 1895 - Gabriel Chevallier, French journalist and writer (d. 1969)
 1895 - Bettina Encke von Arnim, German painter (d. 1971)
 1896 – Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (d. 1990)
 1898 – Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Gino Cervi, Italian actor (d. 1974)
 1901 - Ebbe Schwartz, Danish football official, President of UEFA (d. 1964)
 1902 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist (d. 1984)
 1903 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977)
 1905 – Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (d. 1988)
 1906 – Mary Astor, American actress (d. 1987)
 1909 - John A. Notte, Jr., American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1983)
 1910 – Norman Corwin, American radio presenter (d. 2011)
 1914 - Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, French poet
 1917 – Kiro Gligorov, former President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2012)
 1919 – Pete Seeger, American musician (d. 2014)
 1920 - John Lewis, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (d. 2001)
 1921 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)
 1922 – Len Shackleton, English footballer (d. 2000)
 1923 - George Hadjinikos, Greek pianist, conductor, teacher and writer
 1924 - Ken Tyrrell, English racing driver (d. 2001)
 1926 - Ann B. Davis, American actress (d. 2014)
1927 - Clelio Darida, Italian politician, Mayor of Rome (d. 2017)
 1928 - Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (d. 2001)
 1928 - Carel Visser, Dutch artist (d. 2015)
 1930 - Juan Gelman, Argentine writer and poet (d. 2014)
 1931 - Aldo Rossi, Italian architect and designer (d. 1997)
 1933 – James Brown, American singer (d. 2006)
 1933 – Steven Weinberg, American physicist
 1934 – Henry Cooper, British boxer (d. 2011)
 1934 - Frankie Valli, American singer
 1934 - Georges Moustaki, French singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
 1937 – Hans Cieslarczyk, German footballer
 1938 - Lindsay Kemp, English actor, dancer and choreographer (d. 2018)
 1941 - Nona Gaprindashvili, Georgian chess player
 1941 - Edward Malloy, American educator
 1942 – Butch Otter, American politician, 32nd Governor of Idaho
 1943 - Jim Risch, American lawyer and politician, 31st Governor of Idaho
 1945 - Jeffrey C. Hall, American geneticist, 2017 joint-Nobel laureate 
 1946 – Rabah Saadane, Algerian footballer and coach
1947 - Doug Henning, Canadian magician (d. 2000)
 1948 - Peter Oosterhius, English golfer
 1949 – Ken Hom, Chinese-American chef
1951  1975 
 1951 – Jan Bielecki, Polish politician
 1951 – Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian writer
 1951 - Christopher Cross, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
 1951 - Ashok Gehlot, Indian politician, 21st Chief Minister of Rajasthan
 1952 – Chuck Baldwin, American politician, pastor and radio host
 1952 - Allan Wells, Scottish runner
 1956 – Marc Bellemare, French-Canadian lawyer and politician
 1958 – Sandi Toksvig, Danish writer and broadcaster
 1959 – Ben Elton, English comedian and writer
 1959 - David Ball, English keyboardist and producer (Soft Cell)
 1960 - Kathy Smallwood-Cook, English athlete
 1961 – Steve McClaren, English football manager
 1963 - Mona Siddiqui, Pakistani-born British academic and journalist
 1964 - Ron Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player
 1964 - Sterling Campbell, American drummer and songwriter
 1965 – Rob Brydon, Welsh comedian, actor and presenter
 1965 - Ignatius Aphrem I, Syrian patriarch
 1965 - Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian multibillionaire and politician
1966 - Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player
 1970 - Bobby Cannavale, American actor
 1970 - Suzi Perry, English model, columnist and motor racing presenter
 1971 - Douglas Carswell, English politician, first UKIP MP
 1972 - Stephen Barclay, English politician
 1973 - Rea Garvey, Irish-German singer
 1974 – Jukka Hentunen, Finnish ice hockey player
 1975 - Christina Hendricks, American actress
From 1976 
 1976 – Beto, Portuguese footballer
 1976 - Alexander Gerst, German geophysicist, volcanologist and astronaut
 1977 - Mashima Hiro, Japanese manga artist
 1977 - Ben Olsen, American soccer player
 1977 - Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (d. 2017)
 1978 - Dulé Hill, American actor and tap dancer
 1978 – Autumn Phillips, Canadian-born member of the extended British Royal Family
 1978 - Paul Banks, English-born musician
 1978 - Lawrence Tynes, Scottish American football player
 1979 – Simone Hauswald, German biathlete
 1979 - Genevieve Nnaji, Nigerian actress and singer
 1980 – Jaycee Lee Dugard, American kidnap victim
 1981 – Farrah Franklin, American actress and singer
 1981 - U-Nee, South Korean singer, dancer and actress (d. 2007)
 1981 - Benoit Cheyrou, French footballer
 1983 – Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer (d. 2014)
 1983 – Laava, Brazilian singer
 1983 – Joseph Addai, American Football player
 1983 - Myriam Fares, Lebanese singer and entertainer
1984 - Cheryl Burke, American dancer
 1985 - Ezequiel Lavezzi, Argentine footballer
 1985 - Meagan Tandy, American model and actress
 1987 - Lina Grincikaite, Lithuanian sprinter
 1987 - Joey Montana, Panamanian singer
 1989 – Selah Sue, Belgian singer
 1990 - Miranda Chartrand, Canadian-English singer
 1990 - Brooks Koepka, American golfer
 1996 - Alex Iwobi, Nigerian footballer
 1996 - Noah Munck, American actor and musician
 1996 - Domantas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 1152 - Matilda of Boulogne (b. 1105)
 1160 - Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop (b. 1100)
 1270 – Bela IV of Hungary (b. 1206)
 1294 - John I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1252)
 1481 – Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432)
 1598 - Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b. 1563)
 1616 – William Shakespeare, English writer and playwright (b. 1564), April 23 in Julian calendar
 1704 - Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian composer (b. 1644)
 1724 - John Leverett the Younger, American lawyer, politician and educator (b. 1662)
 1752 - Samuel Ogle, English-American politician (b. 1692)
 1758 – Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
 1764 - Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (b. 1712)
 1779 - John Winthrop, American mathematician, physicist and astronomer (b. 1714)
 1839 - Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (b. 1771)
 1856 - Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic (b. 1803)
 1886 - Alexander Karadordevic, Prince of Serbia (b. 1806)
1901  2000 
 1910 - John Lourie Beveridge, 17th Governor of Illinois (b. 1824)
 1916 – Tom Clarke, Irish nationalist (b. 1858)
 1916 – Thomas MacDonagh, Irish nationalist (b. 1878)
 1916 – Patrick Pearse, Irish nationalist and poet (b. 1879)
 1932 - Charles Fort, American author (b. 1874)
 1938 - Percy Funivall, English cyclist (b. 1867)
 1939 - Madeleine Desroseaux, French poet and novelist (b. 1873)
 1942 – Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
 1943 - Harry Miller, American engineer (b. 1875)
 1948 - Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish nobleman (b. 1876)
 1961 - Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher (b. 1908)
 1969 – Zakir Hussain, 3rd President of India (b. 1897)
 1970 - Cemil Gürgen Erlertürk, Turkish footballer (b. 1918)   
 1972 - Emil Breitkreuz, American middle-distance runner (b. 1883)
 1972 – Bruce Cabot, American actor (b. 1904)
 1976 - Ernie Nevers, American football player (b. 1903)
 1987 – Dalida, French singer (b. 1933)
1988 – Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
 1989 - Christine Jorgensen, American trans woman (b. 1926)
 1991 – Jerzy Kosinski, Polish writer (b. 1933)
 1996 – Jack Weston, American actor (b. 1924)
 1997 – Narciso Yepes, Spanish guitarist (b. 1927)
From 2001 
 2002 – Barbara Castle, British politician (b. 1910)
 2006 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1925)
 2006 – Earl Woods, father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)
 2007 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
 2008 – Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1926)
 2010 – Florencio Campomanes, Filipino chess player and official (b. 1927)
 2010 – Guenter Wendt, German-American NASA engineer (b. 1923)
 2011 – Jackie Cooper, American actor (b. 1922)
 2011 - Robert Brout, Belgian physicist (b. 1928)
 2012 – Jorge Illueca, former President of Panama (b. 1918)
 2012 – Lloyd Brevett, Jamaican musician (b. 1931)
 2013 - Cedric Brooks, Jamaican-American saxophonist (b. 1943)
 2014 - Gary Becker, American economist (b. 1930)
 2014 - Jim Oberstar, American politician (b. 1934)
 2015 - Abdul Wahid Aresar, Pakistani politician (b. 1949)
 2015 - Danny Jones, Welsh rugby league player (b. 1986)
 2015 - Revaz Chkheidze, Georgian film director (b. 1926)
 2015 - Abdul Basit Usman, Filipino fugitive (b. 1974)
2015 - Harry Martin, American judge (b. 1920)
 2015 - John Elders, English rugby union player (b. 1930)
 2016 - Ian Deans, Scottish-Canadian politician (b. 1937)
 2016 - Abel Fernandez, American actor (b. 1930)
 2016 - Marianne Gaba, American model and actress (b. 1939)
 2016 - Kaname Harada, Japanese World War II flying ace and anti-war activist (b. 1916)
 2016 - Karol Machata, Slovakian actor (b. 1928)
 2016 - Nicolas Noxon, American filmmaker (b. 1936)
 2016 - Janusz Tazbir, Polish historian (b. 1927)
 2017 - Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince and politician (b. 1926)
 2017 - Lukas Ammann, Swiss actor (b. 1912)
 2017 - Daliah Lavi, Israeli actress, singer and politician (b. 1942)
 2017 - Abbas Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji, Somali politician (b. 1985)
 2017 - Yumeji Tsukioka, Japanese actress (b. 1921)
 2018 - Doina Cornea, Romanian activist (b. 1929)
 2018 - Afonso Dhlakama, Mozambican politician (b. 1953)
 2019 - Frits Soetekouw, Dutch footballer (b. 1938)
Observances 
 Constitution Day in Poland and Lithuania
 Constitution Memorial Day in Japan
 World Press Freedom Day

May 03
1469 was a common year.

Events 
 March 20 – The Battle of Nibley Green in England is the last battle fought between the private armies of feudal lords.
 July 26 – War of the Roses – Battle of Edgecote Moor: the House of Lancaster defeats the House of York.
 October 17 – Prince Ferdinand of Aragon weds Princess Isabella of Castile. This event would lead to a unified Spain in 1516.
 Sigismund of Austria sells upper-Elsass (Alsace) to the Charles the Bold in exchange for help in a war against the Swiss.
 Uzun Hassa wins in Persia and defeats Abu Said.
 Lorenzo de' Medici takes power in Florence.
 Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, dies and is succeeded by Axayacatl.
 James III of Scotland acquires Orkney and Shetland Islands from Denmark.

Births 
 April 15 – Nanak Dev
 May 3 – Niccolò Machiavelli

Deaths 
 December 2 – Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1416)
 Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
Dodgeball is a sport played by throwing soft balls, or hard rubber balls, at people in a square court. The goal is to be the last one to be hit with the ball. Players may only throw balls at people who are not on their own team. If a player is hit by the ball,he or she should go to the outside of the court to the other team. From the outside, players throw the ball at players still on the inside.

Dodgeball is often played in elementary schools in physical education classes. Many school children play this game. In recent years, many adults who played it as children have formed adult leagues and clubs. Also, some schools have banned it (this means that made it against the rules to play it), because players can get hurt when playing the game. Tournaments are sometimes held in schools.

Dodgeball, because of its recent popularity, inspired a film Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) starring Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn, and a game show, Extreme Dodgeball.

Team sports
A local area network (LAN) is a computer network in a small area like a home, office, or school.  Many computers can be connected to share information and Internet connections. Most LANs use Ethernet to connect together.

Topology
LAN topologies tell you how ROM devices are organised. Five common LAN topologies exist: bus, ring, star, tree, and mesh. These topologies are logical architectures.  This means that they tell you the directions that signals go between devices, but that the actual cables that connect the devices might not be connected the same way. For example, logical bus and ring topologies are commonly organized physically as a star.
A bus ROM means that the signal is put onto the medium and every device on the bus receives the signal.  If more than one device tries to send a signal at the same time, they can interfere with each other.  A long copper wire with other wires tapped into it is an example of a bus topology.
 A ring ROM means that each device talks to two other devices in the network and the devices all talk in a circle. If a computer sends data out one of its interfaces, it could get an answer back on the other one.  Some rings send traffic in only one direction, other ring networks send traffic in both directions.  Token Ring and FDDI are examples of ring topologies.
 A star ROM means that one device (the middle of the star) connects to several other devices. The only way devices on the points of the star can talk to each other is through the device in the middle.  A ROM is an example of a star topology.  Computers on the ROM need to go through the switch to talk to each other.
A tree (or hybrid) topology is named because when you draw a picture of how the devices in this topology are connected, it starts off narrow with few devices at the bottom, then branches out at the top.  Large networks are an example of a tree topology.  There are switches and servers near the bottom of the tree, then all the user's computers "branch out" at the top of the tree.
 A mesh network topology means that every device can talk to every other device, and they will not interfere with each other.  You can also have a partial mesh, where some devices do not talk to all of the others.  There are not many simple examples of a mesh network.  A wireless data network where all of the devices use ROM READING or different frequencies to avoid interfering with each other would be one example.
Up to 1900 
 1229 - Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth and Bethlehem, with neither military engagement nor support from the Pope.
 1268 – The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakvere.
 1332 - Amda Seyon I of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
 1478 – George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence is executed in the Tower of London after being convicted of treason against his older brother, King Edward IV of England.
 1637 - Eighty Years' War: Off Cornwall, a Spanish fleet intercepts a very important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
 1745 - Surakarta, Central Java, is founded.
 1766 - A mutiny by captive Malagasy begins at sea on the slave ship Meermin, leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and recapture of the instigators.
1791 - United States Congress passes a law making Vermont a state from March 4.
 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Montereau.
 1861 – Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy assumes the title of King of Italy.
 1861 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
 1865 - American Civil War: Union forces under General William Tecumseh Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia, South Carolina.
 1873 – Bulgarian revolutionary Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
 1885 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is published.
 1900 – Second Boer War: British forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life of the war on the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
1901  2000 
 1906 - Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee.
 1910 – The future-World Governing body for the sport of Skiing is founded in Kristiania, present-day Oslo, in Norway.
 1911 - The first airmail flight takes place in what is then British India.
 1913 - Pedro Lascurain becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes. This is the shortest time that a President has ever served in office.
 1930 – From photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers the dwarf planet Pluto.
 1932 – The Empire of Japan declares Manzhougou (Manchuria) independent of the Republic of China.
 1942 - World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of people in the Chinese community in Singapore that it sees as hostile to its regime.
 1943 – Members of the White Rose Resistance Movement are arrested by the Nazis.
 1946 - Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay. This action later spreads throughout India.
1947 - First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to the mountains.
 1952 – Greece and Turkey join NATO.
 1954 – The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.
 1957 – Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
 1960 – The Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California, begin.
 1963 – The eruption of the Agung volcano on Bali kills around 1,500 people.
 1965 – The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
 1969 - Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney, California, killing all on board.
 1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise makes its first flight, on a Boeing 747.
 1978 – The first Ironman triathlon takes place on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. It is won by Gordon Haller.
 1979 – Snow falls in the Sahara desert of southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.
1983 – 13 people die in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is believed to be the worst robbery-motivated killing in US history.
 1985 - NBA player Larry Bird barely misses a quadruple-double in a game against the Utah Jazz.  He sits out the entire fourth quarter.
 1988 – Anthony Kennedy becomes a member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
 1991 - The IRA detonates bombs at London's Paddington and Victoria Stations.
 2000 - Stjepan Mesic becomes President of Croatia.
From 2001 
 2001 - Inter-ethnic violence begins in Sampit, Indonesia, between Dayaks and Madurese.
 2001 – Dale Earnhardt dies in a crash on the last lap of the last turn on the Daytona 500.
 2001 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union.
 2003 – Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
 2004 – Up to 295 people, including around 200 rescue workers, are killed in Iran, when a freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertiliser catches fire and explodes.
 2005 – A ban on Fox Hunting in the United Kingdom enters effect.
 2007 – Terrorist bombings occur on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat, Haryana, India, killing 68 people.
 2010 – A coup takes place in Niamey, Niger. President Mamadou Tandja is replaced by a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy.
 2014 - At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kyiv, Ukraine, during the Euromaidan protests.

Births
Births

Up to 1800 
 1372 - Iban Hajar al-Asqalani, Egyptian jurist and scholar (d. 1448) 
 1374 – Saint Jadwiga of Poland, Queen of Poland (d. 1399)
 1404 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher (d. 1472)
 1486 - Chaitanya Mahaprabha, Indian saint (d. 1534)
 1516 – Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558)
 1530 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese daimyo (d. 1578)
 1543 - Charles III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1608)
 1609 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (d. 1674)
 1632 - Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1692)
 1635 - Johan Goransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1680)
 1642 - Marie Champnesle, French actress (d. 1698)
 1677 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1756)
 1732 – Johann Christian Kittel, German organist, composer and teacher (d. 1809)
 1745 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827)
1801  1900 
 1814 - Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician (d. 1900)
 1817 – Lewis A. Armistead, American Confederate General (d. 1863)
 1818 – Pedro Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician and revolutionary (d. 1870)
 1832 - Octave Chanute, French-American civil engineer and aviation pioneer (d. 1910)
 1836 - Sri Ramakrishna, Indian Bengali Guru (d. 1886)
 1838 – Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916)
 1846 – Wilson Barrett, English playwright (d. 1904)
 1848 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American glass artist (d. 1933)
 1849 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian writer (d. 1906)
 1850 - George Henschel, German-British baritone, conductor and composer (d. 1934)
 1854 - Herbert Gladstone, British politician (d. 1930)
 1855 - Jean Jules Jusserand, French writer and diplomat (d. 1932)
 1857 - Max Klinger, German sculptor and painter (d. 1920)
 1858 – Princess Louise Marie of Belgium (d. 1924)
 1860 – Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (d. 1920)
 1875 - Wilhelm Külz, German politician (d. 1948)
1878 - Harriet Bosse, Swedish-Norwegian actress (d. 1961)
 1883 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (d. 1957)
 1885 - Henri Laurens, French sculptor and illustrator (d. 1954)
 1890 - Edward Arnold, American actor (d. 1956)
 1890 - Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d. 1963)
 1892 – Wendell Wilkie, American politician (d. 1944)
 1896 - André Breton, French writer (d. 1966)
 1897 – Charles Kuentz, German-born French World War I veteran (d. 2005)
 1898 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian founder of Ferrari (d. 1988)
 1898 – Luis Muñoz Marin, 1st Governor of Puerto Rico (d. 1980)
 1899 - Arthur Bryant, British historian (d. 1985)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Reginald Sheffield, British actor (d. 1957)
 1902 - Walter Herbert, German-born conductor and impresario (d. 1975)
 1903 – Nikolai Podgorny, Soviet politician (d. 1983)
 1906 – Hans Asperger, Austrian physician, after whom Asperger syndrome is named (d. 1980)
 1912 - Heinz Kühn, German politician (d. 1992)
 1914 - Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
 1915 - Phyllis Calvert, English actress (d. 2002)
 1916 - Jean Drapeau, 37th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1999)
 1919 - Amir Abbas Hoveyda, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1979)
 1919 – Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006)
 1920 – Bill Cullen, American game show host (d. 1990)
 1920 – Eddie Slovik, American soldier (d. 1945)
 1922 - Helen Gurley Brown, American publisher (d. 2012)
 1922 - Joe Tipton, American baseball player (d. 1994)
 1922 - Eric Gairy, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 1997)
 1925 - Marcel Barbeau, Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 2016)
 1925 - George Kennedy, American actor (d. 2016)
1927 - Richard A. Snelling, two-time Governor of Vermont (d. 1991)
 1927 - John Warner, American politician (d. 2021)
 1929 - Len Deighton, English writer
 1929 - Ertem Egilmez, Turkish movie director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1989)
 1931 – Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel Prize winner
 1931 - Bob St. Clair, American football player (d. 2015)
 1932 – Miloš Forman, Czech movie director
 1933 – Yoko Ono, Japanese singer and performance artist
 1933 – Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (d. 2009)
 1933 - Mary Ure, Scottish actress (d. 1975)
 1934 - Paco Rabanne, Spanish fashion designer
 1936 - Ab McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player
 1938 – Sadanoyama Shinmatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler
 1938 – Istvan Szabo, Hungarian movie director
 1939 - Marek Janowski, Polish-born conductor
 1940 - Prue Leith, South African-English chef and writer
 1943 - Graeme Garden, Scottish writer, actor and comedian
 1944 - Pat Bowlen, American owner of the Denver Broncos football team