Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1926  1950 
 1926 - Jane Withers, American actress (d. 2021)
 1927 - Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter (d. 2019)
 1928 – Hardy Krüger, German actor
 1928 - Elspet Gray, Scottish actress (d. 2013)
 1929 – Luis Vigoreaux, Puerto Rican TV and radio personality (d. 1983)
 1930 - John Landy, Australian athlete and politician, 26th Governor of Victoria (d. 2022)
 1930 - Bryan Magee, British philosopher
 1931 - Chico Anysio, Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer (d. 2012)
 1932 – Tiny Tim, American musician (d. 1996)
 1932 - Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (d. 2019)
 1933 – Montserrat Caballé, Catalan-Spanish operatic soprano (d. 2018)
 1934 - Michael Grzimek, German moviemaker and zoologist (d. 1959)
 1936 – Charles Napier, American actor (d. 2011)
 1936 - Tony Earl, 41st Governor of Wisconsin
 1936 - Kennedy Simmonds, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis
 1937 - Dennis Banks, American teacher, activist and writer (d. 2017)
 1937 - Igor Volk, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut (d. 2017)
1940 – Enayat Michael Ali, Trinidadian professional cricketer
 1940 - John Hagee, American pastor and theologian
 1940 – Herbie Hancock, American musician
 1941 – Bobby Moore, English footballer (d. 1993)
 1942 – Jacob Zuma, former President of South Africa
 1942 - Carlos Reutemann, Argentine racing driver and politician (d. 2021)
 1943 - Sumitra Mahajan, Indian politician
 1944 - Lisa Jardine, English historian, writer and academic (d. 2015)
 1944 - John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
 1945 – Lee Jong-Wook, South Korean Director-General of the WHO (d. 2006)
 1946 – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, former Secretary-General of NATO
 1946 – Ed O'Neill, American actor
 1947 - Martin Brasier, English palaeobiologist and astrobiologist (d. 2014)
 1947 - Alex Briley, American singer (Village People)
 1947 - Woody Johnson, American businessman and philanthropist
 1947 - Dan Lauria, American actor
 1947 – David Letterman, American comedian and TV host
1947 – Tom Clancy, American writer (d. 2013)
 1948 – Joschka Fischer, German politician
 1948 – Marcello Lippi, Italian football manager
 1948 – Jeremy Beadle, British television presenter (d. 2008)
 1948 - Lois Reeves, American singer
 1949 - Scott Turow, American writer
 1950 – Joyce Banda, former President of Malawi
 1950 – David Cassidy, American singer and actor (d. 2017)
 1950 – Maia Danziger, American actress
 1950 - Flavio Briatore, Italian businessman
 1950 - Larry Kemp, Film editor
1951  1975 
 1954 - John Faulkner, Australian politician
 1954 – Jon Krakauer, American writer and mountaineer
 1955 – Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson, Icelandic writer
 1956 – Andy Garcia, American actor
 1956 – Herbert Grönemeyer, German singer and actor
 1956 – Walter Salles, Brazilian movie director
 1957 – Vince Gill, American Country singer
 1957 - Adam Parfrey, American novelist, editor and publisher (d. 2018)
 1958 - Ginka Zagorcheva, Bulgarian hurdler
 1958 - J. Alexander, American television personality
 1959 - Jackson Carlaw, Scottish politician
 1960 - Dennis Bateman, American voice actor
 1961 – Lisa Gerrard, Australian musician
 1965 - Kim Bodnia, Danish actor
 1967 - Mellow Man Ace, American rapper
 1968 – Adam Graves, Canadian ice hockey player
 1968 - Alicia Coppola, American actress
 1970 – Nick Hexum, singer and guitarist
 1971 – Nicholas Brendon, actor
 1971 – Shannen Doherty, American actress
 1973 – Christian Panucci, Italian footballer
 1974 – Sylvinho, Brazilian footballer
From 1976 
 1976 - Olga Kotlyarova, Russian runner
 1977 – Giovanny Espinoza, Ecuadorean footballer
 1978 – Guy Berryman, British musician (Coldplay)
 1979 – Claire Danes, American actress
 1979 – Mateja Kezman, Serbian footballer
 1979 - Jennifer Morrison, American actress
 1980 – Brian McFadden, Irish singer (Westlife)
 1981 - Nicolas Burdisso, Argentine footballer
 1981 - Grant Holt, English footballer
 1982 - Gary Caldwell, Scottish footballer
 1982 – Riley Smith, model and actor
 1983 - Jelena Dokic, Serbian-Australian tennis player
 1985 - James Alexandrou, British actor
 1985 - Olga Seryabkina, Russian singer-songwriter
 1986 - Lorena, Spanish singer
 1986 - Marcel Granollers, Spanish tennis player
 1987 - Brooklyn Decker, American model and actress
 1987 – Brendon Urie, American singer of Panic! at the Disco
 1988 - Ricardo Gabriel Alvarez, Argentine footballer
 1989 - Miguel Angel Ponce, Mexican footballer
 1989 - Travis Tatum Mill, American singer
 1990 - Francesca Halsall, British swimmer
1994 – Saoirse Ronan, Irish actress
 1994 - Airi Suzuki, Japanese actress and singer
 1996 - Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russian tennis player
 1997 - Katelyn Dhashi, American gymnast
 2000 – Suzanna von Nathusius, Polish actress
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 45 BC – Gnaeus Pompeius, Roman general
 65 – Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist
 238 – Gordian I, Roman Emperor
 238 – Gordian II, Roman heir
 352 - Pope Julius I
 434 - Archbishop Maximianus of Constantinople
 1125 - Vladislaus I of Bohemia (b. 1065)
 1550 - Claude, Duke of Guise (b. 1496)
 1555 – Juana of Castile, wife of Philip I of Castile (b. 1479)
 1675 - Richard Bennett, British Governor of Virginia (b. 1609)
 1684 - Nicola Amati, Italian instrument maker (b. 1596)
 1782 – Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1698)
 1788 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, French composer (b. 1719)
 1817 – Charles Messier, French astronomer (b. 1730)
 1872 - Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (b. 1795)
 1878 - William H. Tweed, American politician (b. 1823)
 1898 - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian cardinal (b. 1820)
1901  2000 
 1912 – Clara Barton, American nurse (b. 1821)
 1933 - Adelbert Ames, American general and politician (b. 1835)
 1938 - Feodor Chaliapin, Russian opera singer (b. 1873)
 1945 – Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
 1968 – Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer (b. 1899)
 1971 – Igor Tamm, Russian physicist (b. 1895)
 1975 - Josephine Baker, American dancer, singer and actress (b. 1906)
 1980 – William Tolbert, President of Liberia (b. 1913)
 1981 – Joe Louis, American boxer (b. 1914)
 1981 - Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, of Japan (b. 1887)
 1988 - Alan Paton, South African writer (b. 1903)
 1989 - Abbie Hoffman, American activist (b. 1936)
 1989 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (b. 1921)
 1997 - George Wald, American neurologist (b. 1906)
 1999 – Boxcar Willie, American musician (b. 1931)
 1999 - Marion Pruett, American spree killer (b. 1949)
From 2001 
 2001 - Harvey Ball, American illustrator (b. 1921)
 2006 – Rajkumar, Indian movie actor and singer (b. 1929)
 2008 – Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland (b. 1923)
 2008 - Jerry Zucker, Israeli-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1949)
 2009 - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, American academic scholar (b. 1950)
 2009 – Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress (b. 1952)
 2010 – Werner Schroeter, German movie director (b. 1945)
 2014 - Brita Koivunen, Finnish singer (b. 1931)
 2014 - Fred Ho, American musician, composer, playwright, writer and activist (b. 1957)
 2014 - Hal Smith, American baseball player (b. 1931)
 2015 - André Mba Obame, Gabonese politician (b. 1957)
 2015 - Patrice Dominguez, French tennis player (b. 1950) 
 2015 - Alfred Eick, German U-boat commander (b. 1916)
 2016 - Hector A. Cafferata, Jr., American soldier (b. 1929)
 2016 - Paul Carey, American radio broadcaster (b. 1928)
 2016 - Gianroberto Casaleggio, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1954)
2016 - Pedro de Felipe, Spanish footballer (b. 1944)
 2016 - David Gest, American television personality (b. 1953)
 2016 - Anne Jackson, American actress (b. 1925)
 2016 - Balls Mahoney, American professional wrestler (b. 1972)
 2016 - Arnold Wesker, English playwright (b. 1932)
 2017 - Akhilesh Das, Indian politician, Mayor of Lucknow (b. 1961)
 2017 - Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (b. 1935)
 2017 - Charlie Murphy, American comedian (b. 1959)
 2017 - Sheila Abdus-Salaam, American judge (b. 1952)
 2017 - Tom Coyne, American music engineer (b. 1954)
 2017 - Wayne Hardin, American football player (b. 1926)
 2017 - Toby Smith, British keyboardist (b. 1970)
 2018 - Brij Bhushan Kabra, Indian musician (b. 1937)
 2018 - John Melcher, American politician (b. 1924)
 2018 - Sergio Pitol, Mexican novelist and politician (b. 1933)
 2018 - Deborah Coleman, American blues singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
 2018 - Bob Pickens, American wrestler and football player (b. 1943)
2019 - Ivor Broadis, English footballer (b. 1922)
 2019 - Dina, Portuguese singer (b. 1956)
 2019 - Forrest Gregg, American football player (b. 1933)
 2019 - Tommy Smith, English footballer (b. 1945)
 2019 - Georgia Engel, American actress (b. 1948)
Observances 
 Cosmonauts' Day (Russia), celebrating Yuri Gagarin's space flight in 1961

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1111 – Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned.
 1204 – Constantinople falls to the crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
 1598 – Henry V of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing religious freedom for Huguenots. The edict is repealed in 1685.
 1742 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah has its world premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
 1749 - A cyclone off Southeast India sinks British ships HMS Pembroke and HMS Namur, killing 850 people. Only 14 survive.
 1777 - American Revolutionary War; American forces are ambushed and defeated  in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
 1796 - The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
 1829 – Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom are granted the right to vote and are allowed to sit in parliament.
 1849 – Hungary becomes a Republic.
 1861 – American Civil War: Fort Sumter, South Carolina, surrenders to Confederate forces.
1868 - The Abyssynian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Maqdala.
 1870 - New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
 1873 - The Colfax Massacre, in which over 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place in Colfax, Louisiana.
1901  2000 
 1904 – The Russian battleship Petropavlovsk of the Russian Pacific Fleet hits a Japanese mine and sinks. The painter Vasily Vereshchagin is among those who are killed in the incident.
 1909 - The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
 1919 - Establishment of the Provisional Government of Korea.
 1919 - Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops gun down at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India. 1,200 are injured.
 1934 – While still under construction, the railway bridge in Saratov, Russia, collapses, killing 150 people.
 1941 – The USSR and Japan sign a pact of neutrality.
 1943 – The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC.
 1943 - World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyn massacre is announced. This causes a rift between the Polish Government-in-exile (based in London) and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
1944 – The USSR and New Zealand establish diplomatic relations.
 1945 - World War II: German troops kill over 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
 1945 - World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna.
 1948 - Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.
 1960 - The US launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
 1964 – Sidney Poitier becomes the first African American to win a Best Actor Oscar.
 1970 – Houston, we've had a problem: An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, causing major damage, and putting the crew at risk. They safely return to Earth.
 1972 - The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China instead of the Republic of China.
 1975 – At least 17 people are killed in a gun battle between Palestinian Guerrillas and Christian militants in Beirut.
1984 – India annexes territory beyond the Line of Control.
 1986 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to visit a Jewish place of worship when he visits a synagogue in Rome.
 1987 – Portugal agrees to return Macau to China's control in 1999.
 1992 – In the United Kingdom, the leader of the Labour Party, Neil Kinnock, announces his resignation.
 1992 – Chicago is flooded.
 1997 – Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the US Masters tournament.
From 2001 
 2002 – Armenian anti-government protests are violently crushed.
 2003 – The National Library in Baghdad is set on fire, with many historical documents being lost.
 2013 - Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum is officially re-opened after a decade-long restoration.
 2014 - A bus crash in Veracruz, Mexico, kills 36 people.
 2017 - The United States drops its biggest-ever non-nuclear bomb in eastern Afghanistan.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1506 - Peter Faber, French theologian (d. 1546)
 1519 – Catherine of Medici, Queen of France (d. 1589)
 1570 – Guy Fawkes, English conspirator (d. 1606)
 1573 - Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1625)
 1593 - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Stratford, English politician (d. 1641)
 1732 – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1792)
 1735 - Isaac Low, American merchant and politician (d. 1791)
 1743 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
 1747 - Louis II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1793)
 1771 – Richard Trevithick, Cornish engineer (d. 1833)
 1780 - Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer (d. 1868)
 1784 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)
 1802 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884)
 1808 – Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (d. 1889)
 1816 - Sterndale Bennett, English composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1875)
 1825 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868)
1832 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorean writer (d. 1889)
 1850 - Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, Irish astronomer (d. 1917)
 1852 - Frank Winfield Woolworth, American businessman (d. 1919)
 1860 - James Ensor, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
 1864 - Bertha Zuckerkandl, Austrian writer and journalist (d. 1945)
 1866 – Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (d. 1908)
 1872 – Jan Szczepanik, Polish chemist and inventor (d. 1926)
 1872 - John Cameron, Scottish footballer (d. 1935)
 1873 - John W. Davis, American politician (d. 1955)
 1875 - Ray Lyman Wilbur, American doctor, academic and politician (d. 1949)
 1885 - Georg Lukacs, Hungarian philosopher and critic (d. 1971)
 1890 - Frank Murphy, 56th United States Attorney General (d. 1949)
 1891 - Nella Larsen, American writer (d. 1964)
 1891 – Robert Scholl, German politician (d. 1973)
 1892 – Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1973)
 1894 – Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
 1897 - Werner Voss, German pilot (d. 1917)
1899 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and inventor of Scrabble (d. 1993)
 1899 - Alfred Schütz, Austrian philosopher (d. 1959)
 1900 - Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
1901  1950 
 1906 – Samuel Beckett, Irish playwright (d. 1989)
 1906 – Gabriel Ramanantsoa, President of Madagascar (d. 1979)
 1907 - Harold Stassen, American politician, 25th Governor of Minnesota (d. 2001)
 1909 - Stanislaw Ulam, Ukrainian-American mathematician (d. 1984)
 1911 - Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer (d. 1946)
 1917 - Bill Clements, American politician, 42nd Governor of Texas (d. 2011)
 1919 - Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American activist, founder of American Atheists (d. 1995)
 1919 – Howard Keel, American actor (d. 2004)
 1920 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)
 1920 – Liam Cosgrave, Irish Taoiseach (d. 2017)
 1920 - Claude Cheysson, French politician (d. 2012)
 1921 - Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Dutch-Swiss businessman (d. 2002)
 1921 - Dona Ivone Lara, Brazilian singer and composer (d. 2018)
 1922 - John Braine, English novelist (d. 1986)
 1922 – Julius Nyerere, 1st President of Tanzania (d. 1999)
 1923 – Don Adams, American actor (d. 2005)
1924 - Stanley Donen, American director and choreographer (d. 2019)
 1925 - Michael Halliday, English-Australian linguist (d. 2018)
 1926 - John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English aristocrat and businessman (d. 2014)
 1927 - Maurice Ronet, French actor and director (d. 1983)
 1928 – Alan Clark, English politician (d. 1999)
 1929 - Marilynn Smith, American golfer (d. 2019)
 1930 - Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian director, screenwriter and politician (d. 2013)
 1931 - Robert Enrico, French director and screenwriter (d. 2001)
 1931 - Jon Stone, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1997)
 1932 - Orlando Letelier, Chilean-American economist, politician and educator (d. 1976)
 1934 - John Muckler, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager
 1937 - Berge Furre, Norwegian politician, historian and theologian (d. 2016)
 1939 – Seamus Heaney, Irish writer (d. 2013)
 1939 – Paul Sorvino, American actor
 1940 – J. M. G. Le Clézio, French writer
 1940 – Max Mosley, English racing executive
1940 - Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
 1941 – Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist
 1941 - Margaret Price, Welsh soprano (d. 2011)
 1942 - Bill Conti, American composer and conductor
 1946 – Al Green, American singer
 1948 - Juan Taverna, Argentine footballer (d. 2014)
 1949 – Christopher Hitchens, British journalist, writer and critic (d. 2011)
 1950 – Ron Perlman, American actor
1951  1975 
 1951 – Peter Davison, British actor
 1951 – Joachim Streich, East German footballer
 1951 - Kaci Kullmann Five, Norwegian politician (d. 2017)
 1951 – Max Weinberg, American drummer
 1951 - Peabo Bryson, American singer
 1953 – Stephen Byers, British politician
 1953 - Brigitte Macron, French teacher, wife of Emmanuel Macron
 1955 - Ole von Beust, German politician, former Mayor of Hamburg
 1960 – Rudi Völler, German footballer
 1962 - Edivaldo Martins Fonseca, Brazilian footballer (d. 1993)
 1962 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (d. 1988)
 1963 – Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player
 1964 – Caroline Rhea, Canadian actress
 1964 – Andy Goram, Scottish footballer
 1964 - John Swinney, Scottish politician
 1964 - Davis Love III, American golfer
 1966 – Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian footballer
 1968 - Margrethe Vestager, Danish politician
 1970 - Rick Schroder, American actor and director
 1972 – Mariusz Czerkawski, Polish ice hockey player
 1974 – David Zdrilic, Australian footballer
From 1976 
 1976 - Valentina Cervi, Italian actress
 1976 - Yoo Ji-tae, South Korean actor and director
 1978 – Carles Puyol, Spanish-Catalan footballer
 1978 - James Jordan, English dancer and choreographer
 1979 – Meghann Shaugnessy, American tennis player
 1979 - Tony Lundon, Irish singer-songwriter, producer and dancer (Liberty X)
 1980 - Quentin Richardson, American basketball player
 1980 - Jason Maguire, Irish jockey
 1980 - Alan Melikdjanian, Latvian-American actor, director and producer
 1981 - Gemma Doyle, Scottish politician
 1981 - Courtney Peldon, American actress
 1983 – Nicole Cooke, Welsh road racing cyclist
 1983 – Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
 1983 - Claudio Bravo, Chilean footballer
 1983 - Heidi Anderson, American voice actress
 1984 - Anders Lindegaard, Danish footballer
 1985 - Anna Jennings-Edquist, Australian actress, director and producer
 1987 - Brandon Hardesty, American actor
 1987 - Allison Weiss, American singer-songwriter
1988 - Petteri Kopponen, Finnish basketball player
 1988 – Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
 1989 - Nastassia Mionchyk-Ivanova, Belarussian long jumper
 1990 - Alyssa Mendonsa, Indian singer
 1992 - George North, Welsh rugby player
 1993 - Hannah Marks, American actress
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 548 - Ly Nam De, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 503)
 814 - Krum, Bulgarian ruler
 1093 – Prince Vsevolod of Kiev (b. 1030)
 1138 - Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
 1592 - Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1511)
 1605 – Tsar Boris Godunov of Russia (b. 1551)
 1794 - Nicolas Chamfort, French playwright (b. 1741)
 1853 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)
 1853 - James Iredell, Jr., American politician, 23rd Governor of North Carolina (b. 1788)
 1868 – Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1818)
 1880 - Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist (b. 1813)
 1882 - Bruno Bauer, German historian and philosopher (b. 1809)
1901  2000 
 1904 – Vasily Vereshchagin, Russian painter (b. 1842)
 1904 – Stepan Makarov, Russian naval commander (b. 1849)
 1911 - John McLane, Scottish-American politician, 50th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1852)
 1911 - George Washington Glick, American politician, 9th Governor of Kansas (b. 1827)
 1912 – Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese writer (b. 1886)
 1918 – Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
 1927 – Georg Voigt, German politician (b. 1866)
 1936 - Konstantinos Demertzis, 129th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
 1938 – Grey Owl, English-Canadian conservationist (b. 1888)
 1941 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863)
 1942 - Anton Uesson, Estonian engineer and politician (b. 1879)
 1945 - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)
 1954 - Samuel Jones, American high jumper (b. 1880)
 1954 - Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1890)
 1956 – Emil Nolde, German painter (b. 1867)
1962 - Culbert Olson, American politician, 29th Governor of California (b. 1876)
 1966 – Georges Duhamel, French writer (b. 1884)
 1966 - Abdul Salam Arif, 2nd President of Iraq (b. 1921)
 1972 – Johannes Sveinsson Kjarval, Icelandic painter (b. 1885)
 1975 – Larry Parks, American actor (b. 1914)
 1975 - François Tombalbaye, 1st President of Chad (b. 1918)
 1981 – Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (b. 1887)
 1984 – Richard Hurndall, British actor (b. 1910)
 1999 - Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (b. 1924)
 1999 – Willi Stoph, East German politician (b. 1914)
 2000 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (b. 1916)
From 2001 
 2002 – Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racing driver (b. 1928)
 2004 - Caron Keating, English-Irish television host (b. 1962)
 2006 – Muriel Spark, Scottish writer (b. 1918)
 2008 – Mark Speight, English children's television presenter (b. 1965) (body found on this date)
 2008 – John Archibald Wheeler, American theoretical physicist (b. 1911)
 2011 – Buster Martin, French-British marathon runner (b. 1906 or 1913)
 2013 - Lin Yang-kang, Chinese-Taiwanese politician (b. 1927)
 2014 - Ernesto Laclau, Argentine political theorist (b. 1935)
 2014 - Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick, Scottish herald and banker (b. 1929)
 2015 - Ronnie Carroll, Northern Irish singer and politician (b. 1934)
 2015 - Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player (b. 1918)
 2015 - Herb Trimpe, American comic book artist (b. 1939)
 2015 - Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist, novelist and writer (b. 1940)
 2015 - Günter Grass, German novelist (b. 1927)
 2015 - Orma Slack, Canadian supercentenarian (b. 1903)
2016 - Mariano Mores, Argentine tango composer and pianist (b. 1918)
 2016 - Manouchehr Sotodeh, Iranian geographer (b. 1913)
 2016 - Gareth Thomas, Welsh actor (b. 1945)
 2016 - Ray Thornton, American attorney and politician (b. 1928)
 2016 - Nera White, American basketball player (b. 1935)
 2017 - Fred Goldsmith, Australian football player (b. 1932)
 2017 - David Mwiraria, Kenyan politician (b. 1938)
 2017 - Dan Rooney, American football executive and diplomat (b. 1932)
 2017 - K. S. Chandrasekharan, Indian-Swiss mathematician (b. 1920)
 2018 - Art Bell, American writer and radio host (b. 1945)
 2018 - Joy Laville, English-Mexican sculptor, painter and potter (b. 1923)
 2018 - Milos Forman, Czech-American film director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
 2019 - Francisca Aguirre, Spanish poet (b. 1930)
 2019 - Tony Buzan, English writer (b. 1942)
 2019 - Neus Catala, Spanish Resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor (b. 1915)
 2019 - Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist (b. 1925)
2019 - Norio Kaifu, Japanese astronomer (b. 1943)
 2019 - D. Babu Paul, Indian civil servant (b. 1941)
 2019 - Paul Raymond, English musician (b. 1945)
 2019 - S. K. Shivakumar, Indian rocket scientist (b. 1953)
 2019 - Lydia Wideman, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1920)
 2019 - Yvette Williams, New Zealand athlete (b. 1929)
Observances 
 Songkan (Laos)
 Songkran (Thailand)
 Cambodian New Year
 Thomas Jefferson's birthday (United States)

Days of the year
Events

Up to 1900 
 1092 – Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
 1671 – Thomas Blood attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels.
 1763 - The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.
 1864 - Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
 1868 – Reno, Nevada, is founded.
 1873 - The Long Depression begins with the Vienna stock market crash.
 1877 - Mihai Kogalniceanu reads out the Declaration of Romania's independence.
 1877 – A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Peru kills 2,541 people.
 1887 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show begins in London.
1901  2000 
 1901 – Australia's first parliament opens in Melbourne.
 1904 - The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 miles per hour (160.9 kilometers per hour) in speed.
 1911 - The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
 1915 - World War I: The Second Battle of Artois takes place between French and German forces.
 1918 - World War I: German troops repel the second British attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
 1926 - Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole, though this claim is later doubted.
 1927 – Australia's parliament moves from Melbourne to the new capital city, Canberra.
 1934 - In the United States, one of the worst Dust Bowl storms occurs, reaching Chicago on the same day and the East Coast the next day, completely destroying many livelihoods, especially in rural areas.
 1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia.
1940 - World War II: A German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris in Den Helder, Netherlands.
 1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. The Enigma cryptography machine is on board, and is later used to break coded German messages.
 1942 - World War II: Officers of the SS murder 588 people in the town of Zinkiv in western Ukraine.
 1945 – World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated from German occupation by the British.
 1946 – Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy abdicates the throne. Umberto II of Italy succeeds him. His reign only lasts a few weeks, as a majority in a June 2 referendum chooses to make Italy a republic.
 1948 - Czechoslovakia's 9th May Constitution enters effect.
 1949 – Rainier III becomes Prince of Monaco.
 1950 – Robert Schuman proposes the creation of an organised Europe.
 1950 – L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, is published.
 1955 – West Germany joins NATO.
1956 – Yuko Maki climbs Manaslu in Nepal, the 8th highest mountain in the world.
 1970 – 70,000 to 100,000 people protest against the Vietnam War in front of the White House.
 1974 – Impeachment hearings begin against Richard Nixon.
 1977 - The Hotel Polem in Amsterdam burns down, killing 33 and injuring 21.
 1978 – Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is murdered by the Red Brigades.
 1980 - In Florida, a Liberian freighter, MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay, making a section of it collapse, killing 35 people.
 1987 – A plane crash in Warsaw kills 183 people.
 1988 – Canberra's Parliament House opens.
 1992 – Armenia's army captures Shushi, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
From 2001 
 2001 – Ghana: The Accra Stadium Disaster occurs. 129 people are killed.
 2002 - A 38-day stand-off at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ends when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to different countries.
 2002 - In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a parade, killing 43 people.
 2004 – Chechnya's President Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in an attack.
 2006 - German cannibal Armin Meiwes is sentenced to life in prison.
 2011 - Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt suffers a serious accident during the Giro d'Italia race, dying of his injuries.
 2012 - A Sukhoi Superjet 100 crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.
 2015 - Russia holds its biggest-ever Victory Day parade in Moscow.
 2016 - Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann announces his resignation.
 2017 - Moon Jae-in is elected President of South Korea.
 2017 - US President Donald Trump fires FBI director James Comey.
2018 - Mahathir Mohamad's opposition coalition wins Malaysia's general election. Mohamad previously served as the country's prime minister from 1981 to 2003.
 2018 - The Patel Dam in Kenya's Nakaru County bursts in heavy rains, killing at least 48 people.
Up to 1900 
 1147 – Minamoto no Yoritomo Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
 1439 – Pope Pius III (d. 1503)
 1540 - Maharana Pratap, Indian ruler (d. 1597)
 1635 - Augustus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg (d. 1699)
 1712 - William Pitcairn, Scottish physician and botanist (d. 1791)
 1740 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816)
 1746 – Theodore Sedgwick, American politician (d. 1813)
 1800 – John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
 1810 - Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (d. 1883)
 1814 – Adolf von Henselt, German pianist (d. 1889)
 1823 – Frederick Weld, British colonial governor and 6th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1891)
 1830 - Harriet Lane, niece of James Buchanan, acting First Lady of the United States (d. 1903)
 1831 - William Watson Goodwin, American classical scholar (d. 1912)
 1837 – Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895)
 1837 – Ben Hall, Australian bushranger (d. 1865)
 1843 – Anton von Werner, Prussian painter (d. 1915)
1845 - Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and inventor (d. 1913)
 1860 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish writer (d. 1937)
 1866 – Leon Bakst, Russian painter (d. 1924)
 1870 – Hans Baluschek, German artist (d. 1935)
 1873 – Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
 1874 – Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)
 1882 – Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (d. 1967)
 1882 – George Barker, United States painter (d. 1965)
 1882 - Edward Aloysius Mooney, American cardinal (d. 1958)
 1883 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)
 1886 - Francis Biddle, 58th United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
 1892 – Zita of Bourbon-Parma, empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989)
 1895 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963)
 1895 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961)
 1895 - Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (d. 1989)
 1896 – Richard Day, Canadian movie art director (d. 1972)
1901  1925 
 1904 - Gregory Bateson, English-American anthropologist, biologist and philosopher (d. 1980)
 1906 - Eleanor Estes, American writer (d. 1988)
 1907 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
 1910 – Barbara Woodhouse, Irish-born animal trainer (d. 1988)
 1912 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)
 1914 – Hank Snow, Canadian-born country musician (d. 1999)
 1914 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian musician and conductor (d. 2005)
 1918 – Mike Wallace, American journalist (d. 2012)
 1918 – Orville Freeman, American politician, 29th Governor of Minnesota (d. 2003)
 1920 – Richard Adams, British writer (d. 2016)
 1920 – William Tenn, writer (d. 2010)
 1921 - Daniel Berrigan, American Jesuit priest, activist and poet (d. 2016)
 1921 – Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter with White Rose in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
 1924 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian poet, writer, novelist and musician (d. 1997)
1926  1950 
 1927 – Wim Thoelke, show master (d. 1995)
 1927 – Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist (d. 2019)
 1928 – Colin Chapman, engineer, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982)
 1928 – Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d. 1995)
 1928 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (d. 2012)
 1928 - Ralph Goings, American artist (d. 2016)
 1929 – Kay Dotrice, English actress (d. 2007)
 1930 – Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
 1932 – Geraldine McEwan, English actress (d. 2015)
 1932 - Javier Ambrois, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1975)
 1934 – Alan Bennett, English writer and playwright
 1935 – Roger Hargreaves, English writer (The Mr. Men) (d. 1988)
 1935 - Nokie Edwards, American guitarist and actor (d. 2018)
 1936 – Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician
 1936 – Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019)
 1937 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
 1938 - Charles Simic, Yugoslavian-born poet
 1939 – Ralph Boston, American athlete
 1940 – James L. Brooks, American producer and writer
1942 – John Ashcroft, former United States Attorney General
 1943 – Vince Cable, British politician
 1943 - Colin Pillinger, British planetary scientist (d. 2014)
 1943 - Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist and historian (d. 2009)
 1944 – Richie Furay, American musician ("Poco", "Buffalo Springfield")
 1944 - Petra Roth, former Mayor of Frankfurt am Main
 1945 – Jupp Heynckes, German footballer
 1945 - Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian writer and journalist (d. 2015)
 1945 - Steve Katz, American guitarist, songwriter and producer
 1946 – Candice Bergen, American actress
 1946 – Drafi Deutscher, German musician (d. 2006)
 1947 - Michael Levitt, South African-born biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
 1948 - Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician
 1949 – Billy Joel, American musician
 1949 – Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger (d. 1999)
 1950 - Tom Petersson, American bass guitar player (Cheap Trick)
 1950 - Marcheline Bertrand, American actress (d. 2007)
 1950 – Luciano Spinosi, Italian footballer
1951  1975 
 1951 - Alley Mills, American actress
 1954 - Nicholas Crane, English geographer and journalist
 1954 - Marc Sinden, English actor, director and producer
 1955 – Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
 1955 - Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (d. 1991)
 1957 - Fulvio Cullovati, Italian footballer
 1959 - Janos Ader, President of Hungary
 1960 - Tony Gwynn, American baseball player (d. 2014)
 1962 – John Corbett, American actor
 1962 - Gary Hume, English artist
 1962 - Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter and musician
 1962 - Paul Heaton, English singer-songwriter and musician
 1964 – Kevin Saunderson, American music producer and DJ
 1964 – David Gahan, Singer for Depeche Mode
 1965 – Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player
 1968 – Marie-José Perec, French athlete
 1968 - Masahiko Harada, Japanese ski jumper
 1968 – Ruth Kelly, British politician
 1969 - Amber, Dutch-German singer, songwriter and producer
 1969 - Hudson Leick, American actress
1970 - David Cawthorne Haines, Scottish aid worker (d. 2014)
 1970 – Ghostface Killah, American rapper
 1970 – Doug Christie, American basketball player
 1971 – Paul McGuigan, British musician (Oasis)
 1971 - Don Hutchison, English-Scottish footballer
 1972 - Dana Perino, American journalist and politician, 27th White House Press Secretary
 1975 - Tamia, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer and actress
 1975 - Clint Diamantopoulos, Canadian actor
From 1976 
 1977 - Marek Jankulovski, Czech footballer
 1978 - Leandro Cufré, Argentine footballer
 1979 - Rosario Dawson, American actress
 1979 – Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
 1980 – Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
 1980 - Sara Widén, Swedish opera singer (d. 2014) 
 1981 – Evangelos Tsiolis, Greek footballer
 1982 – Kim Jung-woo, South Korean footballer
 1982 – Rachel Boston, American actress
 1983 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
 1983 - Alan Campbell, Northern Irish rower
 1983 - Gilles Müller, Luxembourgish tennis player 
 1983 - Leandro Rinaudo, Italian footballer
 1984 – Prince Fielder, American baseball player
 1985 – Audrina Patridge, American actress and television personality
 1986 - Grace Gummer, American actress
 1989 - Ellen White, English footballer
 1991 - Stasia Rage, Latvian figure skater
 1992 - Chris Gutierrez, American-Filipino actor
 1993 - Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese actor, singer and dancer
 1993 - Laura Muir, Scottish athlete
 1997 - Zane Huett, American actor
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 1280 – King Magnus VI of Norway (b. 1238)
 1315 – Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
 1707 – Dietrich Buxtehude, German composer (b. 1637)
 1745 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1663)
 1760 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)
 1791 - Francis Hopkinson, American judge and politician (b. 1737)
 1805 – Friedrich Schiller, German writer (b. 1759)
 1836 - Caleb P. Bennett, Governor of Delaware (b. 1758)
 1850 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
 1850 - Garlieb Merkel, Baltic German writer and activist (b. 1769)
 1861 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805)
 1864 - John Sedgwick, American general (b. 1813)
 1889 - William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
1901  2000 
 1909 - Margarete Steiff, German founder of the Steiff toy company (b. 1847)
 1915 - Tony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player (b. 1883)
 1915 - Francois Faber, Luxembourg-French cyclist (b. 1887)
 1931 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist (b. 1852)
 1942 - Jozef Cebula, Polish priest (b. 1902)
 1949 – Prince Louis II of Monaco (b. 1870)
 1950 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist and engineer (b. 1883)
 1955 - Kate Booth, English Salvation Army officer (b. 1858)
 1957 - Enzo Pinza, Italian opera singer (b. 1892)
 1959 - Bhaurao Patil, Indian educator and social activist (b. 1887)
 1964 - Rico Lebrun, Italian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1900)
 1965 – Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (b. 1902)
 1968 - Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright and costume designer (b. 1893)
 1968 - Harold Gray, American cartoonist (b. 1894)
 1970 – Walter Reuther, American labor leader (b. 1907)
 1976 – Ulrike Meinhof, member of the Red Army Faction (b. 1934)
1978 - Giuseppe Impastato, Italian political activist (b. 1948)
 1978 – Aldo Moro, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)
 1986 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountain climber (b. 1914)
 1987 - Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian politician (b. 1909)
 1989 - Keith Whitley, American singer, guitarist and producer (b. 1955)
 1997 – Marco Ferreri, Italian movie director (b. 1928)
 1997 - Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician (b. 1926)
 1998 – Alice Faye, American actress (b. 1915)
From 2001 
 2001 – Nikos Sampson, 2nd President of Cyprus (b. 1935)
 2001 – James E. Myers, American songwriter and producer (b. 1919)
 2003 - Russell B. Long, American politician (b. 1918)
 2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (b. 1951)
 2009 – Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (b. 1930)
 2010 – Acharya Mahapragya, Indian religious leader (Jainism) (b. 1920)
 2010 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
 2011 – Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)
 2011 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada, former acting President of Bolivia (b. 1921)
 2012 – Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser (b. 1928)
 2012 - Geoffrey Henry, former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1940)
 2013 - George M. Leader, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1918)
 2013 - Andrew Simpson, British sailor (b. 1976)
 2013 - Ottavio Missoni, Italian fashion designer and hurdler (b. 1921)
 2013 - Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor (b. 1933)
 2014 - Harlan Mathews, American politician (b. 1926)
2014 - Joe Wilder, American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer (b. 1922)
 2014 - Jules Mutebusi, Congolese militant (b. 1960)
 2014 - Jorge Zavala, Ecuadorean politician (b. 1921)
 2014 - Mel Patton, American sprinter (b. 1924)
 2015 - Michael MacKellar, Australian politician (b. 1938)
 2015 - Lo Wing-lok, Hong Kong politician (b. 1954)
 2015 - Igor Gorynin, Russian metallurgist (b. 1926)
 2015 - Kenan Evren, 7th President of Turkey (b. 1917)
 2015 - Johnny Gimble, American country musician (b. 1926)
 2015 - Odo Marquard, German philosopher (b. 1928)
 2015 - Ragne Tangen, Norwegian television presenter (b. 1927)
 2015 - Elizabeth Wilson, American actress (b. 1921)
 2016 - Gareth Gwenlan, British television producer (b. 1937)
 2016 - Walther Leisler Kiep, German politician (b. 1926)
 2016 - Karl Maramorosch, American virologist and plant pathologist (b. 1915)
 2016 - John Warr, English cricketer (b. 1927)
 2017 - Christopher Boykin, American entertainer and musician (b. 1972)
2017 - Robert Miles, Italian musician and record producer (b. 1969)
 2017 - Arthur Moulin, French politician (b. 1924)
 2017 - Michael Parks, American actor (b. 1940)
 2017 - Qian Qichen, Chinese diplomat (b. 1928)
 2017 - Wilburn K. Ross, American World War II veteran (b. 1922)
 2017 - Edward Lunn Young, American politician (b. 1920)
 2018 - Poldine Carlo, American writer (b. 1920)
 2018 - Delphine Gibson, American supercentenarian (b. 1903)
 2018 - Mustafa Nurul Islam, Bangladeshi academic (b. 1927)
 2018 - Per Kirkeby, Danish artist (b. 1938)
 2018 - Scott Hutchison, Scottish singer and musician (Frightened Rabbit) (b. 1981)
 2019 - Abul Khayr Alonto, Filipino politician, lawyer and businessman (b. 1945)
 2019 - Sergey Dorenko, Russian journalist and news presenter (b. 1959)
 2019 - Jim Hawkes, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
 2019 - Arif Malikov, Soviet-Azerbaijani composer (b. 1933)
 2019 - Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter (b. 1927)
 2019 - Freddie Starr, English comedian (b. 1943)
Holidays 
Victory and Peace Day in Armenia, the capture of Shushi in the Karabakh War and the end of Great Patriotic War.
Victory Day observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany (former Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
Independence Day (Romania)
Liberation Day (Channel Islands)

May 09
Up to 1900 
 558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders the dome rebuilt.
 973 - Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor takes sole charge of the Holy Roman Empire after the death of his father and co-Emperor Otto I.
 1274 – In France, the Second Council of Lyons opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
 1429 - Joan of Arc leads a French attack on English bridgeheads on the south side of the Loire River.
 1487 - Siege of Malaga during the Spanish Reconquista.
 1664 – The Palace of Versailles is inaugurated by Louis XIV of France.
 1697 – Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed in a huge fire (in the 18th century, it is replaced with the current Royal Palace).
 1718 - City of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville.
 1763 – Indian Wars: Pontiac's Rebellion begins – Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
1824 – Ludwig van Beethoven, completely deaf, conducts the debut of his Ninth Symphony in Vienna.
 1832 – Greece was recognised independent by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
 1840 – The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
 1847 – In Philadelphia, the American Medical Association (AMA) is founded.
 1864 – American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
 1864 - The world's oldest-surviving clipper ship, City of Adelaide, is launched by William Pile in Sunderland, Northeast England.
 1895 – In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates an invention which became the prototype of radio. In the former Soviet Union this day was celebrated as Day of Radio.
 1896 – H. H. Holmes is hanged in Philadelphia.
1901  2000 
 1915 – World War I: a German U-boat sinks the RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people.
 1920 – Polish-Bolshevik War: Polish-Ukrainian troops captured Kyiv during the Kiev Offensive.
 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion arrive in Spain with Heinkel He 51 biplanes to assist Franco's forces.
 1940 - The Norway Debate begins in the British House of Commons. It eventually results in Winston Churchill replacing Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 
 1945 – World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document will take effect the next day.
 1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with about 20 employees.
 1947 – Kraft Television Theater debuts, running for the next 11 years.
 1948 – The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
1952 – The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
 1954 – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
 1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
 1964 - Pacific Air Lines flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner crashes near San Ramon, California, killing 44. The pilot and co-pilot  had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
 1974 – Willy Brandt resigns as Chancellor of Germany.
 1986 - Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb to the top of the Seven Summits.
 1992 – Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay rise.
 1992 – Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its maiden voyage.
1992 – Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first fast-food murder in Canada.
 1994 - The Scream by Edvard Munch is recovered after it was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in Oslo, in February.
 1995 – Jacques Chirac is elected President of France.
 1998 – Apple Computer unveils the iMac.
 1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
 1999 – Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope that had visited a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
 1999 – A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure, after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode. Schmitz later killed Amedure and the jury awarded Amedure's family US$25 million.
1999 – Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese embassy workers are killed and 20 wounded when a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) aircraft mistakenly bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
 1999 – In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
 2000 – Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia.
From 2001 
 2001 - Wanted train robber Ronnie Biggs returns to the UK after spending over 30 years on the run in Brazil.
 2002 – A China Southern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea killing 112 people.
 2007 – The tomb of King Herod the Great, who is mentioned in the Bible, is discovered.
 2008 – Dmitry Medvedev becomes President of Russia, with Vladimir Putin as Prime Minister.
 2010 – Scientists working on the Neanderthal Genome Project announce that modern humans and Neanderthals could have interbred.
 2012 – Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia for a second time, swapping places with Dmitry Medvedev, who becomes Prime Minister.
 2012 - Victor Ponta is elected Prime Minister of Romania.
 2013 - 27 people are killed and over 30 are injured when a tanker truck explodes outside Mexico City.
 2014 - Prime Minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra is removed from office for abuse of power.
2015 - The United Kingdom general election, 2015 is held. The Conservative Party of incumbent Prime Minister David Cameron wins a surprise overall majority, with the Labour Party losing seats across England, Scotland and Wales. The Scottish National Party wins all but three seats in Scotland.
 2016 - Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party becomes Mayor of London, after defeating Conservative Zac Goldsmith in the election. He is the first Muslim Mayor of a major Western city.
 2017 - Emmanuel Macron is elected President of France, defeating Marine Le Pen in the run-off.