Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1901  1950 
 1901 - Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983)
 1902 - Richard J. Daley, 48th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976)
 1903 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (d. 1998)
 1904 - Clifton Fadiman, American game show host and writer (d. 1999)
 1905 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (d. 1994)
 1905 - Abraham Zapruder, American businessman (d. 1970)
 1907 - Sukhdev Thapar, Indian activist (d. 1931)
 1908 – Joe Grant, American writer and animator (d. 2005)
 1909 - James Mason, English actor, producer and screenwriter (d. 1984)
 1909 - Clara Solovera, Chilean singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
 1910 - Constance Cummings, English actress (d. 2005)
 1911 – Max Frisch, Swiss writer (d. 1991)
 1911 - Herta Oberheuser, German Nazi physician (d. 1978)
 1914 - Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1972)
 1914 - Angus MacLean, Canadian politician, 25th Premier of Prince Edward Island (d. 2000)
 1915 - Paul Samuelson, American economist (d. 2009)
1915 - Gus Viseur, Belgian-French accordion player (d. 1974)
 1915 - William Witney, American director (d. 2002)
 1918 - Eddy Arnold, American singer (d. 2008)
 1918 - Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (d. 2009)
 1920 - Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Lebanese religious leader
 1923 - Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004)
 1923 - John Lanchbery, English-Australian composer and conductor (d. 2003)
 1924 - Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist (d. 1971)
 1925 - Horacio Guarany, Argentine singer and writer (d. 2017)
 1925 - Mary F. Lyon, English geneticist (d. 2014)
 1925 - Carl Sanders, American politician, 74th Governor of Georgia (d. 2014)
 1925 - Andrei Eshpai, Russian composer (d. 2015)
 1926 - Anthony Shaffer, British screenwriter (d. 2001)
 1926 - Peter Shaffer, British dramatist (d. 2016)
 1929 - Frank Heart, American computer engineer (d. 2018)
 1930 - Jasper Johns, American artist
 1932 - John Glen, British director
 1932 - Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, former Prime Minister of Thailand
1935 - Don Bragg, American pole vaulter
 1935 - Akihiro Miwa, Japanese singer, actor, director and composer
 1935 - Utah Phillips, American singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
 1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-American actress and singer
 1936 - Wavy Gravy, American activist
 1936 - Ralph Steadman, British caricaturist, cartoonist and illustrator
 1937 – Madeleine Albright, 64th United States Secretary of State (d. 2022)
 1937 - Ted Dabney, American electrical engineer (d. 2018)
 1937 - Trini Lopez, American singer and actor
 1938 - Mireille Darc, French actress (d. 2017)
 1940 - Don Nelson, American basketball player and coach
 1940 - Roger Ailes, American television executive (Fox News) (d. 2017)
 1942 - Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, Prime Minister of Swaziland
 1942 - Lois Johnson, American country music singer (d. 2014)
 1942 - Jusuf Kalla, 10th Vice President of Indonesia
 1942 - Doug Lowe, Australian politician, 35th Premier of Tasmania
 1943 - Pierre Bégin, Canadian politician
1944 - Ulrich Beck, German sociologist (d. 2015)
 1945 - Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, Portuguese nobleman
 1946 - Aly Bain, Scottish fiddler
 1947 - Paulo de Carvalho, Portuguese singer
 1948 - Valentina Gerasimova, Kazakhstani middle-distance runner
 1948 – Brian Eno, English musician and record producer
 1948 – Kathleen Sebelius, American politician
1951  1975 
 1951 - Frank Wilczek, American mathematician and physicist
 1951 - Dennis Frederiksen, American musician (d. 2014)
 1952 - Chazz Palminteri, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
 1952 - Phil Seymour, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1993)
 1953 - Mike Oldfield, British musician
 1953 - Franco Selvaggi, Italian footballer
 1953 - Amy Holland, American actress
 1953 - George Brett, American baseball player
 1955 – Claudia Roth, German politician
 1955 - El Gran Wyoming, Spanish humorist, actor, musician, writer and presenter
 1955 - Mohamed Brahmi, Tunisian politician (d. 2013)
 1955 - Lia Vissi, Greek singer
 1957 - Meg Gardiner, American crime fiction writer
 1957 - Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque politician
 1957 - John Mason, Scottish politician
 1959 - Beverly Jo Scott, American-Belgian singer-songwriter
 1959 - Ronald Pofalla, German politician
 1961 - Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (d. 2002)
 1963 - Brenda Bakke, American actress
1963 - Grant Heslov, American actor and producer
 1964 - Lars Lokke Rasmussen, 40th Prime Minister of Denmark
 1966 - Gianluca Buonanno, Italian politician (d. 2016)
 1966 - Orla Guerin, Irish journalist
 1966 - Greg Wise, English actor and producer
 1967 - Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
 1967 - Orlando Zapata, Cuban activist (d. 2010)
 1968 - Seth Putnam, American musician (d. 2011)
 1968 - Sophie Raworth, British journalist and broadcaster
 1968 - Cecilia Malmström, Swedish politician
 1970 - Frank de Boer, Dutch footballer
 1970 - Ronald de Boer, Dutch footballer
 1970 - Saira Khan, English businesswoman
 1972 - Danny Alexander, Scottish politician
 1972 - David Charvet, French actor and singer
 1972 - André Segatti, Brazilian actor and model
 1974 - Vassilis Kikilias, Greek basketball player and politician
From 1976 
 1976 - Jacek Krzynowek, Polish footballer
 1978 - Eduardo César Gaspar, Brazilian footballer
 1978 - David Krumholtz, American actor
 1979 - Adolfo Bautista, Mexican footballer
 1979 - Li Yanfeng, Chinese discus thrower
 1979 – Dominic Scott, Irish guitarist
 1979 - Renato Dirnei Florencio, Brazilian footballer
 1980 – Josh Beckett, American baseball player
 1981 – Patrice Evra, French footballer
 1981 - Zara Phillips, British royal and equestrian
 1981 - Justin Morneau, Canadian baseball player
 1981 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress
 1982 - Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican sprinter
 1982 - Jessica Sutta, American singer-songwriter, dancer and actress (Pussycat Dolls)
 1984 - Alex Brooker, English comedian and television presenter
 1985 - Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
 1986 - Matias Fernandez, Chilean footballer
 1986 - Adam Moffat, Scottish footballer 
 1987 – Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player
 1987 - Leonardo Mayer, Argentine tennis player
1988 - Jessica Falkholt, Australian actress (d. 2018)
 1989 - James Holland, Australian footballer
 1989 - Sunny, American-South Korean singer, dancer and actress (Girls' Generation)
 1990 - Lee Jong-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
 1991 - Jennifer Hof, German model
 1993 - Mahfizur Rahman Sagor, Bangladeshi swimmer
 1995 - Ksenia Sitnik, Belarussian singer
 1996 - Birdy, English singer
 1997 - Ousmane Dembélé, French footballer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 392 - Valentinian II, Roman emperor (b. 371)
 1036 – Emperor Go-Ichijo of Japan
 1157 - Yuri Dolgorukiy, Russian prince (b. 1099)
 1470 – Charles VIII of Sweden
 1585 – Niwa Nagahide, Japanese retainer, samurai, and daimyo (b. 1535)
 1609 - Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557)
 1634 – Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585)
 1700 - John Hale, American minister (b. 1636)
 1740 – Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopaedist (b. 1680)
 1782 – Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1699)
 1845 - Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican statesman (b. 1800)
 1879 - Gottfried Semper, German architect and educator (b. 1803)
 1886 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
1901  2000 
 1919 - Hasan Tahsan, Turkish nationalist journalist (b. 1888)
 1924 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician (b. 1852)
 1928 - Umegatani Totaro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1845)
 1932 - Inukai Tsuyoshi, Prime Minister of Japan
 1935 - Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter (b. 1878)
 1937 – Phillip Snowden, British politician (b. 1864)
 1945 - Charles Williams, British writer, poet and critic (b. 1886)
 1945 - Kenneth J. Alford, British composer (b. 1881)
 1948 – Father Edward Flanagan, priest, founder of Boys Town
 1956 – Austin Osman Spare, magician (b. 1886)
 1967 – Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)
 1969 - Joe Malone, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1890)
 1971 – Sir Tyrone Guthrie, director, producer, and writer (b. 1900)
 1978 - Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
 1980 - Johann Hafstein, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1915)
 1984 - Francis Schaeffer, American theologian, philosopher and pastor (b. 1912)
1986 - Elio de Angelis, Italian racing driver (b. 1958)
 1986 – Theodore H. White, writer (b. 1915)
 1991 - Ronald Lacey, English actor (b. 1935)
 1993 - Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese poet and diplomat (b. 1933)
 1994 – Gilbert Roland, Mexican actor (b. 1904)
 1995 – Eric Porter, British actor (b. 1928)
 1996 – Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (b. 1910)
 1998 – Earl Manigault, American basketball player (b. 1944)
 1998 - Naim Talu, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1919)
From 2001 
 2003 – June Carter Cash, American musician and singer (b. 1929)
 2003 – George Francis, British mobster
 2003 – Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist
 2005 – Les Bartley, National Lacrosse League coach (b. 1954)
 2007 - Jerry Falwell, American pastor (b. 1933)
 2007 - Yolanda King, American activist (b. 1955)
 2008 – Astrid Zachrison, Swedish supercentenarian, oldest Swedish person on record (b. 1895)
 2008 – Tommy Burns, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1956)
 2009 - Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player (b. 1964)
 2010 - Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, Vice President of India (b. 1923)
 2010 - John Shepherd-Barron, Scottish inventor (b. 1925)
 2010 – Besian Idrizaj, Austrian footballer (b. 1987)
 2011 - Samuel Wanjiru, Kenyan runner (b. 1986)
 2012 - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer (b. 1928)
 2012 - Zakaria Mohieddin, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1918)
 2013 - Henrique Rosa, acting President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1946)
 2014 - Jean-Luc Dehaene, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1940)
2015 - Corey Hill, American mixed martial artist (b. 1978)
 2015 - Carlos Maggi, Uruguayan writer (b. 1922)
 2015 - John Stephenson, American actor (b. 1923)
 2015 - Garo Yepremian, Cypriot-born American football player (b. 1944)
 2015 - Donald Wrye, American film director (b. 1934)
 2015 - Jackie Brookner, American artist (b. 1945)
 2016 - Erika Berger, German television presenter and writer (b. 1930)
 2016 - Clovis Maksoud, American diplomat, journalist and educator (b. 1926)
 2016 - Cauby Peixoto, Brazilian singer and actor (b. 1931)
 2016 - Michael Roberds, Canadian actor (b. 1964)
 2016 - Marion Tournon-Branly, French architect (b. 1924)
 2017 - Karl-Otto Apel, German philosopher (b. 1922)
 2017 - Chu Ke-liang, Taiwanese actor (b. 1946)
 2017 - Nasser Givehchi, Iranian wrestler (b. 1932)
 2017 - Neil Rolde, American historian and politician (b. 1931)
 2017 - Oleg Vidov, Russian-American actor (b. 1943)
 2017 - Ian Brady, British serial killer (Moors murders) (b. 1938)
2017 - Thomas James Kinsman, American soldier (b. 1945)
 2017 - Bob Kuzava, American baseball player (b. 1923)
 2018 - Jlloyd Samuel, Trinidadian footballer (b. 1981)
 2018 - Ray Wilson, English footballer (b. 1934)
Observances 
 International Day of conscientious objectors
 Independence Day (Paraguay)
 Nakba Day (Palestinian Community)
 Army Day (Slovenia)
 Teacher's Day (Mexico and South Korea)
 Constituent Assembly Day (Lithuania)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 218 – Elagabalus is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
 1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
 1527 – The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes a republic.
 1532 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
 1584 - Santiago de Vera becomes the 6th Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
 1605 – Paul V becomes Pope.
 1702 – The city of Uppsala in Sweden is destroyed by fire.
 1770 – 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
 1771 - Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called the "Regulators" occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
1777 – Lachlan McIntosh and Button Gwinnett shoot each other during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, dies three days later.
 1811 – Peninsular War: Spain, the UK and Portugal defeat France in the Battle of Albuera.
 1812 - Russian field marshal Mikhail Kutuzov signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War. Bessarabia, mainly covering present-day Moldova, is annexed by Imperial Russia.
 1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.
 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Champion Hill - Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant defeat Confederate forces under John C. Pemberton.
 1866 – The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel (coin).
 1866 – Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer.
1868 – President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate.
 1874 - A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys most of four villages, killing 139 people.
 1887 - In Washington, DC, Emil Berliner demonstrates the gramophone.
 1888 - Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electrical power over long distances.
1901  2000 
 1910 – The U.S. Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.
 1918 – The Sedition Act is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government a jailable offense.
 1919 – United States Navy Naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
 1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint.
 1929 – In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
 1932 - On the return from its first voyage, French luxury steamer Georges Philippar catches fire in the Gulf of Aden, killing 54 people.
 1938 – A fire at the Terminal Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, kills 35 people.
 1943 – The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
 1943 – World War II: The Dambuster Raids by RAF 617 Squadron on German dams.
 1948 – Chaim Weizmann is elected as the first President of Israel.
1960 – Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from US President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union thus ending a Big Four summit in Paris.
 1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser.
 1961 - Park Chung-hee leads a coup in South Korea.
 1966 – Two extremely influential rock albums are released on the same day: Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde and The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds.
 1969 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
 1974 – Helmut Schmidt is chosen to succeed Willy Brandt as Chancellor of Germany.
 1975 – India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state held a referendum where popular vote was in favour of merging with India.
 1975 – Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
 1983 - The Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
1988 – A report by American Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
 1991 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom becomes the first monarch to speak in front of the United States Congress.
 1992 – STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.
 1995 – The leader of Aum Shinrikyo, Shoko Asahara, is arrested for his role in the Sarin Gas Attack on the Tokyo subway.
 1997 - Zaire leader Mobutu Sese Seko flees the country. Soon after, the country is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
From 2001 
 2002 – Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones opens in cinemas.
 2003 - Four suicide bombs explode in Casablanca, Morocco, killing over 40 people.
 2005 – Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith premieres in London.
 2005 – Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
 2005 – Sony's PlayStation 3 video game console is shown at a press conference (E3).
 2007 – Nicolas Sarkozy becomes President of France, succeeding Jacques Chirac.
 2007 - Alex Salmond becomes First Minister of Scotland. He is the first leader of the Scottish National Party to take this post.
 2009 – In Moscow, Alexander Rybak wins the 54th Eurovision Song Contest for Norway, scoring a record number of points under the then-existing scoring system, 387.
 2011 - The final flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour begins.
 2013 - The Spanish language Wikipedia passes the milestone of a million articles.
Up to 1900 
 1418 - John II of Cyprus (died 1458)
 1490 – Albert of Prussia, first duke of Prussia (died 1568)
 1540 - Paschal Baylon, Spanish friar and saint (died 1592)
 1578 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (died 1606)
 1611 – Pope Innocent XI (died 1689)
 1641 - Dudley North, English economist and politician (died 1691)
 1678 – Andreas Silbermann, organ builder (died 1734)
 1710 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (died 1782)
 1718 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (died 1799)
 1763 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French chemist (died 1829)
 1776 - Luigi Lambruschini, Italian cardinal (died 1854)
 1788 - Friedrich Rückert, German poet, translator and orientalist (died 1866)
 1801 – William H. Seward, 24th United States Secretary of State and 12th Governor of New York (died 1872)
 1805 - Alexander Burnes, Scottish explorer (died 1841)
 1819 - Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet (died 1890)
 1821 – Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (died 1894)
1824 – Levi P. Morton, 22nd Vice President of the United States and 31st Governor of New York (died 1920)
 1827 – Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect (died 1921)
 1827 - Norman Jay Coleman, American politician (died 1911)
 1831 – David Edward Hughes, British inventor and musician (died 1900)
 1834 - Hobart B. Bigelow, Governor of Connecticut (died 1891)
 1845 – Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian biologist, won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1916)
 1849 - Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, British statesman (died 1917)
 1882 – Anne McCormick, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (died 1954)
 1883 - Celal Bayar, President of Turkey (died 1986)
 1886 – Ernest Burgess, sociologist (died 1966)
 1887 - Jakob van Hoddis, German poet (died 1942)
 1888 – Royal Raymond Rife, American inventor (died 1971)
 1891 – Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (died 1948)
 1897 – Zvi Ziternik, Israeli entomologist (died 1994)
 1898 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish painter (died 1980)
1901  1950 
 1905 – Henry Fonda, American actor (died 1982)
 1906 – Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer, diplomat and politician (died 2001)
 1909 – Margaret Sullavan, American actress (died 1960)
 1910 – Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (died 1972)
 1910 - Higashifushimi Kunihide, Japanese monk and educator, uncle of Emperor Akihito (died 2014)
 1910 - Luigi Villoresi, Italian racing driver (died 1997)
 1912 – Studs Terkel, American writer (died 2008)
 1913 – Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (died 1987)
 1913 - Sebastiano Baggio, Italian cardinal (died 1993)
 1914 - Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist and ethnologist (died 2009)
 1915 - Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2010)
 1916 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli President and scientist (died 2009)
 1917 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (died 1986)
 1917 - George Gaynes, Finnish-American actor (died 2016)
 1919 – Liberace, American pianist (died 1987)
1919 - Sik Kok Kwong, Hong Kong Buddhist monk (died 2014)
 1919 – Gisela Uhlen, German actress (died 2007)
 1920 - Martine Carol, French actress (died 1967)
 1921 - Harry Carey, Jr., American actor (died 2012)
 1923 – Merton Miller, American economist (died 2000)
 1924 – Dawda Jawara, 1st President of the Gambia (died 2019)
 1925 – Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian singer (died 2010)
 1925 – Robert Pierpoint, American journalist (died 2011)
 1925 - Nancy Roman, American astronomer (died 2018)
 1925 – Nilton Santos, Brazilian footballer (died 2013)
 1928 – Billy Martin, American baseball player and coach (died 1989)
 1929 – John Conyers, American politician (died 2019)
 1929 – Adrienne Rich, American poet, writer and feminist (died 2012)
 1929 – Friedrich Nowottny, German journalist
 1929 - Alberto Terry, Peruvian footballer (died 2006)
 1929 – Betty Carter, American singer (died 1998)
 1931 - Vujadin Boskov, Serbian footballer (died 2014)
 1931 – K. Natwar Singh, Indian politician
1931 - Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., American politician, 85th Governor of Connecticut
 1936 – Karl Lehmann, German cardinal and theologian (d. 2018)
 1936 – Roy Hudd, British radio and television actor
 1936 - Manfred Stolpe, German politician
 1937 - Yvonne Craig, American actress (d. 2015)
 1937 – Antonio Rattin, Argentine footballer
 1938 - Edmond Classen, Dutch actor (d. 2014)
 1940 - Ole Ernst, Danish actor (d. 2013)
 1943 - Kay Andrews, Baroness Andrews, English politician
 1943 - Dan Coats, American politician and diplomat, 29th United States Ambassador to Germany
 1944 – Danny Trejo, American actor
 1944 - Billy Cobham, American drummer and bandleader
 1945 - Carlos Osoro, Archbishop of Valencia
 1946 – Robert Fripp, British guitarist
 1948 - Emma Georgina Rothschild, British historian
 1948 – Judy Finnigan, British TV presenter
 1948 - Mariano Gago, Portuguese engineer and politician (d. 2015)
 1948 - Jimmy Hood, Scottish politician (d. 2017)
 1949 - Karlheinz Hackl, Austrian actor (d. 2014)
1951  1975 
 1951 - Christian Lacroix, French fashion designer
 1953 – Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2015)
 1953 – Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
 1954 - Jónína Leósdóttir, Icelandic writer
 1954 - Dafydd Williams, Canadian physician and astronaut
 1955 – Olga Korbut, Belarussian gymnast
 1955 – Jack Morris, American baseball pitcher
 1955 – Hazel O'Connor, British singer
 1955 – Debra Winger, American actress
 1957 - Bob Suter, American ice hockey player (d. 2014)
 1957 - Nigel Twiston-Davies, English horse trainer
 1958 – Amp Fiddler, musician (P Funk)
 1961 - Sarah Boyack, Scottish politician
 1961 - Kevin McDonald, Canadian actor
 1963 – Rosie Perez, American actress
 1964 - John Salley, American basketball player and actor
 1964 - Milton Jones, English comedian
 1965 - Danel Tammet, Estonian computer scientist and politician
 1965 – Krist Novoselic, American musician, former bassist for Nirvana
 1966 – Janet Jackson, American singer
 1966 – Thurman Thomas, American football player
1969 - David Boreanaz, American actor
 1969 – Steve Lewis, American athlete
 1969 – Tucker Carlson, American print and television commentator
 1969 - Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Finnish ski jumper
 1970 – Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
 1972 - Andrzej Duda, President of Poland
 1973 – Tori Spelling, American actress
 1973 – Jason Acuña "Wee-Man", American television personality
 1974 – Laura Pausini, Italian pop singer
 1974 - Adam Richman, American actor and TV presenter (Man v. Food)
 1974 – Sonny Sandoval, American singer (P.O.D.)
 1975 – Tony Kakko, Finnish singer (Sonata Arctica)
 1975 – Tonéx, American singer
From 1976 
 1976 - Christian Califano, French rugby player
 1977 – Dolcenera, Italian singer
 1977 – Emilíana Torrini, Icelandic singer
 1977 – Jean-Sébastien Giguère, Canadian ice hockey player
 1978 – David Ford, English singer/songwriter
 1978 – Olga Zaitseva, Russian athlete
 1978 – Lionel Scaloni, Argentine footballer
 1979 – McKenzie Lee, English pornographic actress
 1980 – Mikel Alonso, Spanish footballer
 1980 – Michael Ryan, American ice hockey player
 1980 - Jens Spahn, German politician
 1981 – Jim Sturgess, English actor
 1982 – Joo Ji Hoon, Korean actor and model
 1982 – Łukasz Kubot, Polish tennis player
 1983 – Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer
 1983 – Gordon McRory, Scottish Drummer (The Fratellis)
 1983 – Kyle Wellwood, Canadian ice hockey player
 1984 – Mickie Knuckles, American female professional wrestler
 1984 – Jensen Lewis, American baseball player
 1984 – Rick Rypien, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2011)
 1985 – Stanislav Ianevski, Bulgarian actor
 1985 – Anja Mittag, German footballer
1985 – Corey Perry, Canadian ice hockey player
 1985 - Tadayoshi Okura, Japanese singer-songwriter, dancer and actor
 1986 – Megan Fox, American actress
 1986 - Andy Keogh, Irish footballer
 1987 - Olena Khomrova, Ukrainian fencer
 1990 – Thomas Sangster, English actor
 1991 – Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgarian tennis player
 1993 – IU, South Korean singer
 1994 - Aaron Moores, British Paralympic swimmer
 1998 - Ariel Waller, Canadian actress
 2002 - Ryan Gravenberch, Dutch footballer
Up to 1950 
 583 – Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)
 1265 - Simon Stock, English-French saint (b. 1165)
 1620 – William Adams, English navigator and Japanese samurai (born 1564)
 1669 - Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter and architect (born 1596)
 1703 – Charles Perrault, French writer (born 1628)
 1782 – Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (born 1736)
 1830 – Joseph Fourier, French scientist (born 1768)
 1882 - Reuben Chapman, 13th Governor of Alabama (born 1799)
 1891 – Ion C. Bratianu, Romanian statesman (born 1821)
 1913 - Louis Perrier, Swiss Federal Councillor (born 1849)
 1920 – Levi P. Morton, 22nd Vice President of the United States and 31st Governor of New York (born 1824)
 1920 - Joselito, Spanish bullfighter (born 1895)
 1926 – Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (born 1861)
 1931 – Emiliano Figueroa, President of Chile (born 1866)
 1942 – Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish anthropologist (born 1884)
 1944 – George Ade, writer (born 1866)
1947 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English chemist, won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1861)
 1947 - Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (born 1903)
1951  2000 
 1953 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian jazz musician (born 1910)
 1954 - Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (born 1893)
 1955 – James Agee, American writer (born 1909)
 1957 – Eliot Ness, American federal agent (born 1903)
 1963 - Oleg Penkovsky, Soviet-Russian agent (born 1919)
 1971 - Gregoire-Pierre Agagianian, Armenian cardinal (born 1895)
 1977 – Modibo Keita, 1st President of Mali (born 1915)
 1981 - Ernie Freeman, American pianist, composer and bandleader (born 1922)
 1984 – Andy Kaufman, American comedian (born 1949)
 1984 – Irwin Shaw, American writer (born 1913)
 1985 – Margaret Hamilton, American actress (born 1902)
 1988 – Charles Keeping, illustrator (born 1924)
 1989 - Leila Kasra, Iranian poet and lyricist (born 1939)
 1990 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, creator of the Muppets (born 1936)
 1990 – Sammy Davis, Jr., American singer, actor and comedian (born 1925)
 1993 - Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1938)
 1994 - Alain Cuny, French actor (born 1908)
From 2001 
 2002 – Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (born 1968)
 2003 – Mark McCormack, American sports business pioneer, founder of IMG (born 1930)
 2008 – Robert Mondavi, pioneer California winemaker (born 1913)
 2008 - David Mitton, English model-maker (born 1938)
 2010 – Oswaldo López Arellano, President of Honduras (born 1921)
 2010 – Hank Jones, American jazz pianist (born 1918)
 2010 – Ronnie James Dio, American musician (born 1942)
 2011 – Edward Hardwicke, British actor (born 1932)
 2013 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (born 1933)
 2013 - Paul Shane, British actor (born 1940)
 2013 - Dick Trickle, racing driver (born 1941)
 2014 - Viktor Sukhodrev, Russian interpreter (born 1932)
 2015 - Yeung Kwong, Hong Kong Communist activist (born 1926)
 2015 - Moshe Levinger, Israeli rabbi (born 1935)
 2015 - Flora MacNeil, Scottish singer (born 1928)
 2015 - Dean Potter, American rock climber and BASE jumper (born 1972)
 2015 - John Templeton Jr., American physician (born 1940)
2015 - Moshe Levinger, Israeli rabbi (born 1935)
 2015 - Elias Gleizer, Brazilian actor (born 1934)
 2016 - Bobby Freeman, American politician (born 1934)
 2016 - Romaldo Giurgola, Italian-born American-Australian architect (born 1920)
 2016 - Emilio Navaria, American country and Tejano singer (born 1962)
 2016 - Gavyn Farr Arthur, British judge (born 1951)
 2016 - Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (born 1925)
 2016 - Lino Toffolo, Italian actor (born 1934)
 2016 - Aar de Goede, Dutch politician (born 1928)
 2016 - Jim McMillian, American basketball player (born 1948)
 2016 - David Rendel, British politician (born 1949)
 2016 - François Maistre, French actor (born 1925)
 2016 - Huguette Dreyfus, French harpsichordist (born 1928)
 2017 - Bernard Bosson, French politician (born 1948)
 2017 - Outi Ojala, Finnish politician (born 1946)
 2017 - Doug Somers, American professional wrestler (born 1951)
 2017 - Gunnar Möller, German actor (born 1928)
2018 - François Bréda, Romanian writer and literary critic (born 1956)
 2018 - Joseph Campanella, American actor (born 1924)
 2018 - Diana E. Murphy, American judge (born 1934)
 2018 - Michael Slive, American college sports executive (born 1940)
 2018 - Gérard Jouannest, French pianist (born 1933)
 2018 - Eloísa Mafalda, Brazilian actress (born 1924)
 2018 - Lucian Pintilie, Romanian film director (born 1933)
 2019 - David Cervinski, Australian footballer (born 1970)
 2019 - Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (born 1929)
 2019 - Ashley Massaro, American professional wrestler and television personality (born 1979)
 2019 - I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (born 1917)
 2019 - Sol Yaged, American jazz clarinetist (born 1922)
 2021 - Bruno Covas, Brazilian lawyer and politician (born 1980)
 2021 - Rildo da Costa Menezes, Brazilian footballer (born 1942)
 2021 - M. S. Narasimhan, Indian mathematician (born 1932)
Holidays and observances 
 In the Irish Calendar – Feast of Saint Brendan the Navigator
 The feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
 Ubaldus
 Saint Honoré
 John of Ponuk or John Nepomucene (1330 – 1393)
 Andrew Bobola
 Simon Stock
 National Day of South Sudan
 Teachers' Day (Malaysia)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 28 BC - A sunspot is observed by Han Dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han.
 70 - Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city's Third Wall to the northwest.
 1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England.
 1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
 1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there.
 1534 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
 1612 – Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan marries Arjumand Banu Begum, who receives the name Mumtaz Mahal.
 1655 - England annexes Jamaica from Spain.
 1768 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London.
 1774 – Louis XVI becomes King of France.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Fort Ticonderoga is taken by a small force led by Colonel Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen.
 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the 13 colonies of the United States meet in Philadelphia and raise the Continental Army to defend the new republic. They place it under command of Cavalier George Washington of Virginia.
 1796 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the River Adda in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
 1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States.
 1824 - The National Gallery in London opens to the public.
 1837 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
 1849 - The Astor Place riot occurs in Manhattan after a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing over 25 people.
 1857 – Indian Mutiny: In India, the Sepoys revolt against the British Army.
1863 - American Civil War: Confederate general Stonewall Jackson dies of his injuries after the previous week's Battle of Chancellorsville.
 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Spotsylvania.
 1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
 1865 – American Civil War: Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill in Kentucky (he lingered until his death on June 6).
 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah).
 1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
 1877 – Romania declares itself independent from Turkey, recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence.
 1893 - The United States Supreme Court rules that a tomato is a vegetable instead of a fruit.
1901  2000 
 1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, United States).
 1922 - The United States takes control of the Kingman Reef.
 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remained so until his death in 1972.
 1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
 1940 – World War II: The first German bombs were dropped on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
 1940 – World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
 1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
 1940 – World War II: UK forces land in Iceland.
 1940 - World War II: The German Luftwaffe mistakenly bombs the city of Freiburg im Breisgau in the southwest of Germany, killing 57 people.
 1941 – World War II: The House of Commons in London is destroyed by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
1941 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland in order to try and negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
 1946 - First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
 1954 – Bill Haley and the Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the charts.
 1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
 1962 - Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
 1969 – The first rural outdoor rock concert at Zap, North Dakota, is ended prematurely as North Dakota National Guard is ordered to disperse the unruly crowd.
 1979 – The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
 1981 – François Mitterrand takes office as the first Socialist President of France.
 1988 – Michel Rocard becomes Prime Minister of France.
 1993 – Kyrgyzstan replaces the ruble with the som as its national currency.
1994 – The U.S. state of Illinois executes serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murder of 33 young men and boys.
 1994 – Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa.
 1994 – An annular eclipse of the sun is visible across much of North America.
 1996 – A "rogue storm" near the summit of Mount Everest kills eight climbers, making this the deadliest day in the mountain's history. Among the dead are experienced climbers Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, both of whom were leading paid expeditions to the summit.
 1997 – An earthquake near Ardekul in northeastern Iran kills at least 2,400 people.
 1997 - Dutch storm surge barrier Maeslantkering is opened by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
 1998 – National elections are held in Hungary.
From 2001 
 2001 – In Ghana, a stampede at a football game kills over 120 spectators.
 2002 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
 2002 – Lynda Lyon Block is executed in Yellow Mama, the electric chair of Alabama.
 2003 – May 2003 tornado outbreak ends.
 2005 – A live hand grenade lands about 100 feet from US President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate.
 2005 – Designed by Peter Eisenman, a memorial to Jews killed in the Holocaust is unveiled in Berlin.
 2008 - A tornado on the Oklahoma-Kansas state line kills 21 people.
 2012 - A car bombing in Damascus kills 55 people.
 2013 - One World Trade Center in New York City becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
2014 - Conchita Wurst (Tom Neuwirth) of Austria wins the 59th Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen, Denmark, with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix".
 2017 - Moon Jae-in becomes President of South Korea.
 2018 - Mahathir Mohamad, at age 92, becomes Prime minister of Malaysia for a second time. This makes him the world's oldest elected leader.
 2019 - The United States' 25% tariff increase on 200 million United States dollars of Chinese imports takes effect.
Up to 1800 
 213 – Claudius II, Roman Emperor (d. 270)
 850 - Emperor Seiwa of Japan (d. 881)
 1265 - Emperor Fushimi of Japan (d. 1317)
 1548 - Antonio Priuli, Doge (ruler) of Venice (d. 1623)
 1604 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist (d. 1686)
 1641 – Dudley North, English economist (d. 1691)
 1697 - Jean-Marie Leclair, French violinist and composer (d. 1764)
 1714 - Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1792)
 1725 - John Hope, Scottish physician and botanist (d. 1786)
 1727 - Anne-Robert-Jacques, Baron de Laune, French statesman (d. 1781)
 1746 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician, physicist and chemist (d. 1818)
 1755 – Robert Gray, American sea captain (d. 1806)
 1756 – Singu Min, King of Burma (d. 1782)
 1760 – Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (d. 1782)
 1760 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French army officer and composer (d. 1836)
 1770 – Louis-Nicolas Davout, French general (d. 1823)
 1775 - Antoine Charles Louise Lasalle, French general (d. 1809)
1788 - Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1819)
 1788 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer (d. 1827)
1801  1900 
 1801 - Hugh J. Anderson, Governor of Maine (d. 1881)
 1812 - William Henry Barlow, British railway engineer (d. 1902)
 1813 - Montgomery Blair, American politician (d. 1883)
 1823 - John Sherman, American politician (d. 1900)
 1827 - William Windom, American politician (d. 1891)
 1830 - Henry Calderwood, Scottish minister and philosopher (d. 1897)
 1838 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor who killed Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)
 1840 - Hadzhi Dimitar, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1868)
 1843 - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish writer (d. 1920)
 1848 - Thomas Lipton, Scottish merchant and yachtsman (d. 1931)
 1855 – Sri Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru (d. 1936)
 1874 - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (d. 1941)
 1876 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (d. 1918)
 1878 – Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
 1886 – Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant theologian (d. 1968)
 1886 - Olaf Stapledon, English writer and philosopher (d. 1950)
1888 – Max Steiner, Austrian composer (d. 1971)
 1888 - Lucy Wills, English physician and researcher (d. 1964)
 1890 – Alfred Jodl, German general (d. 1946)
 1894 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-born movie composer and conductor (d. 1979)
 1895 – Kama Chinen, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2010)
 1897 – Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1987)
 1899 – Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987).
 1899 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979)
 1900 – Ernst Ising, German mathematician (d. 1998)
1901  1950 
 1902 – David O. Selznick, American movie producer (d. 1965)
 1902 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born movie director (d. 1974)
 1908 - Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician (d. 2000)
 1909 – Maybelle Carter, American musician (d. 1978)
 1911 - Bel Kaufman, German-born American teacher and author (d. 2014)
 1912 – Olga Bancic, Romanian resistance activist (d. 1944)
 1912 - Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, Scottish-born mother of Donald Trump (d. 2000)
 1915 – Monica Dickens, English writer (d. 1992)
 1915 – Denis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher (d. 2003)
 1916 – Milton Babbitt, American composer (d. 2011)
 1918 - George Welch, American pilot (d. 1954)
 1922 - David Azrieli, Canadian-Israeli tycoon, developer, designer, architect and philanthropist (d. 2014)
 1923 – Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan (d. 2003)
 1925 – Néstor Rossi, Argentine footballer (d. 2007)
 1926 – Hugo Banzer, President of Bolivia (d. 2002)
 1928 - Marcel Rigout, French politician (d. 2014)
1928 – Arnold Rüütel, former President of Estonia
 1929 – Antonine Maillet, French-Canadian novelist and playwright
 1929 - George Coe, American actor (d. 2015)
 1930 - Pat Summerall, American football player and broadcaster (d. 2013)
 1930 - George E. Smith, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
 1931 - Ettore Scola, Italian moviemaker (d. 2016)
 1932 - Christiane Kubrick, German actress, dancer, painter and singer
 1933 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer
 1934 - Cliff Wilson, Welsh snooker player (d. 1994)
 1934 - Gary Owens, American DJ and voice actor (d. 2015)
 1935 - William Duborgh Jensen, Norwegian fashion designer (d. 2017)
 1935 - Larry Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist and producer (d. 1980)
 1937 - Tamara Press, Soviet-Ukrainian athlete
 1938 – Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player
 1940 - Wayne Dyer, American psychologist and author (d. 2015)
 1941 - Ken Kennedy, Irish rugby player
 1942 - Peter Prince, British novelist
 1942 - Jim Calhoun, American basketball player
1944 – Jim Abrahams, American movie producer and screenwriter
 1944 - Marie France-Pisier, French actress (d. 2011)
 1946 – Donovan, Scottish musician
 1946 – Dave Mason, English musician
 1946 – Maureen Lipman, English actress
 1946 - Diderik Wagenaar, Dutch composer and theorist
 1947 - Colin Stein, Scottish footballer
 1950 - Natalya Bondarchuk, Russian actress and movie director
1951  1975 
 1952 – Manuel Mora Morales, Spanish director and writer
 1952 - Kikki Danielsson, Swedish singer
 1952 - Roland Kaiser, German Schlager singer
 1952 - Vanderlei Luxemburgo, Brazilian footballer and manager
 1953 – Tito Santana, Mexican-American professional wrestler
 1954 - Mike Hagerty, American actor
 1955 – Mark David Chapman, American murderer of John Lennon
 1956 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (d. 1995)
 1957 – Sid Vicious, English musician (d. 1979)
 1958 – Rick Santorum, American politician
 1960 – Bono (Paul Hewson), Irish singer, lead vocalist of U2
 1960 - Dean Heller, United States Senator from Nevada
 1960 - Victoria Rowell, American actress and writer
 1961 - Blyth Tait, New Zealand equestrian
 1961 - Johanna ter Steege, Dutch actress
 1962 - John Ngugi, Kenyan long-distance runner
 1963 - Anatoly Lebed, Estonian-Russian lieutenant (d. 2012)
 1963 – Lisa Nowak, American astronaut
 1965 – Linda Evangelista, Canadian supermodel
 1966 – Jonathan Edwards, British athlete
1966 - Deborah Criddle, British paralympic equestrian
 1966 - David Mackenzie, Scottish film director
 1967 – Nobuhiro Takeda, Japanese footballer and sportscaster
 1967 – Young MC, American rapper
 1967 - Jon Ronson, English journalist and writer
 1968 – Al Murray, British comedian
 1969 – Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer
 1970 – Gabriela Montero, Venezuelan pianist
 1970 – David Weir, Scottish footballer
 1970 - Sally Phillips, English actress
 1971 - Adriano Giannini, Italian actor
 1971 - Monisha Kaltenborn, Austrian Formula One team principal
 1971 - Kim Jong-nam, North Korean political figure (d. 2017)
 1971 - Linda Papadopoulos, Canadian psychologist
 1972 – Christian Wörns, German footballer
 1974 – Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer
From 1976 
 1976 – Rachel Gordon, Australian actress
 1977 – Henri Camara, Senegalese footballer
 1977 - David Menkin, American voice actor
 1977 – Nick Heidfeld, German racing driver
 1977 - Anna Maxwell Martin, English actress
 1980 – Namitha Kapoor, Indian actress
 1981 – Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer
 1983 – Gustav Fridolin, Swedish politician
 1983 - Natalia Zabala, Spanish model
 1985 – Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player
 1986 - Emilio Izaguirre, Honduran footballer
 1986 - Pendyana Harikrishna, Indian chess player
 1987 - Wilson Chandler, American basketball player
 1987 - Emmanuel Emenike, Nigerian footballer
 1988 - Adam Lallana, English footballer
 1989 - Lindsey Shaw, American actress
 1990 – Lauren Potter, American actress
 1992 - Jake Zyrus, Filipino singer and actor
 1993 – Mirai Shida, Japanese actress
 1994 - Yuki Ito, Japanese ski jumper
 1995 - Missy Franklin, American swimmer
 2013 - Prince Taufa'ahau Manumataongo of Tonga

Deaths
Up to 1900 
 689 - Kasakabe, Japanese prince (b. 662)
 1034 – Mieszko II Lambert, King of Poland (b. 990)
 1290 – Duke Rudolph II of Austria
 1424 – Go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan
 1482 – Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1397)
 1493 - Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1433)
 1521 - Sebastian Brant, German humanist (b. 1457)
 1566 - Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (b. 1501)
 1641 - Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal (b. 1596) 
 1657 – Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (b. 1592)
 1696 – Jean de La Bruyere, French writer (b. 1645)
 1717 – John Hathorne, magistrate (b. 1641)
 1737 – Emperor Nakamikado of Japan (b. 1702)
 1774 – King Louis XV of France (b. 1710)
 1775 - Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, Queen Consort of Denmark-Norway (b. 1751)
 1787 – William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)
 1794 - Princess Elisabeth of France (executed) (b. 1764)
1798 – George Vancouver, English naval officer and explorer (b. 1757)
 1807 - Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b. 1725)
 1818 – Paul Revere, engraver, American patriot (b. 1735)
 1829 – Thomas Young, decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphics
 1863 – Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general (b. 1824)
 1889 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826)
 1897 - Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician (b. 1863)
1901  2000 
 1904 – Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
 1904 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh explorer (b. 1841)
 1910 - Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (b. 1826)
 1911 - La Fayette Grover, American politician, Governor of Oregon (b. 1823)
 1916 - Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian nationalist leader, doctor and author (b. 1846)
 1944 – Olga Bancic, Romanian resistance activist (b. 1912)
 1955 – Tommy Burns, Canadian World Heavyweight Boxing Champion (b. 1881)
 1967 – Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racing driver (b. 1935)
 1977 – Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1904)
 1982 – Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b. 1916)
 1984 - Joaquim Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist (b. 1943)
 1988 – Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
 1989 - Woody Shaw, American jazz musician, composer and bandleader (b. 1944)
 1990 – Walker Percy, American writer (b. 1916)
 1992 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
 1994 – John Wayne Gacy, serial killer (executed) (b. 1942)
From 2001 
 2001 - Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, 16th Governor of Himachal Pradesh (b. 1934)
 2002 - Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1920)
 2002 – Lynda Lyon Block, American murderer (b. 1948)
 2003 – Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer (b. 1937)
 2005 – David Wayne, singer for the heavy metal group Metal Church (b. 1958)
 2006 – Soraya, Colombian-American singer and musician (b. 1969)
 2010 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (b. 1928)
 2012 – Gunnar Sonsteby, Norwegian resistance activist (b. 1918)
 2012 - Carroll Shelby, American racing driver and auto designer (b. 1923)
 2012 - Günther Kaufmann, German actor (b. 1947) 
 2014 - Patrick Lucey, 38th Governor of Wisconsin and former US Ambassador to Mexico (b. 1918)
 2014 - Lem Johns, American secret service agent (b. 1925)
 2014 - Andres Carrasco, Argentine neurologist (b. 1946)
 2015 - Ninad Bedekar, Indian historian and writer (b. 1949)