the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
2017  Karl Otto Götz, German artist, filmmaker and writer (b. 1914).
2017  Dick Gregory, American comedian, writer and activist (b. 1932).
2017  Bea Wain, American singer (b. 1917).
2017  Gérard Férey, French chemist (b. 1941).
2017  Alan Sayers, New Zealand journalist, photographer and athlete (b. 1915).
2018  Bazlur Rahman Badal, Bangladeshi folk dancer (b. 1922)
2018  Rafael Calventi, Dominican architect and diplomat (b. 1932)
2018  Margareta Niculescu, Romanian artist and puppeteer (b. 1926)
2018  Khaira Arby, Malian singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
2019  Al Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1935)
2019  Mohammed Zahur Khayyam, Indian music director and film score composer (b. 1927)
2019  Gina Lopez, Filipino environmentalist and politician (b. 1953)
2019  Jan Ruff O'Herne, Dutch-Australian comfort women's rights activist (b. 1923)
2019  Larry Taylor, American guitarist (b. 1942)
World Humanitarian Day
Independence Day (Afghanistan)
National Aviation Day (United States)
International Photography Day
1201 – The city of Riga in present-day Latvia is founded.
1487 - The Siege of Malaga comes to an end, with the taking of the city by Castilian and Aragonese forces.
1572 – Henry IV of France and Margaret of Valois marry.
1587 - Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, Virginia, becomes the first child of English parents to be born in the Americas.
Exactly three years later, White returns from a supply trip to England to find that everyone from the colony had disappeared.
1612 - The trial of the Pendle witches, one of England's most well-known witch trials, begins at Lancaster Assizes.
1634 - Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudon, France.
1783 - A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
1807 - Napoleon Bonaparte creates the Kingdom of Westphalia and installs his brother Jerome Bonaparte as its king.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern.
1868 - French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte.
1877 – Mars' moon Phobos is discovered by Asaph Hall.
1891 – A major hurricane strikes Martinique, killing around 700 people.
1917 – The city of Thessaloniki in present-day Greece is largely destroyed by fire.
1920 - The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women the right to vote.
1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain's "Hardest Day", on which both sides suffer their heaviest losses.
1945 - Sukarno becomes President of Indonesia, a day after declaring Indonesia independent from the Netherlands.
1946 - The Vergarolla explosion in Croatia kills 70 people.
1948 - The Australian cricket team completes a 4-0 Ashes series win over England during its undefeated "Invincibles" tour.
1950 - Julien Lahaut, chairman of the Belgian Communist Party, is murdered by far-right extremists.
1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
1958 - Brojen Das from Bangladesh becomes the first Asian to swim across the English Channel.
1959 – The Mini automobile goes on sale.
1960 - The combined oral contraceptive pill becomes available in the United States.
1963 - James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1965 - Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins - US marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the major American ground battle of the war.
1966 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phuoc Tuy province.
1971 - Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
1976 - The Soviet Luna 24 probe lands on the Moon.
1976 - In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom, the axe murder incident results in the deaths of two US soldiers.
1977 – Steve Biko is arrested.
His death a few weeks later, at the hands of the police, makes him a symbol of the brutality of South Africa's apartheid system.
1983 – Hurricane Alicia hits Texas, killing 22 people.
1988 – George H. W. Bush makes his campaign promise Read my lips, no new taxes during a speech in Louisiana.
1989 - Leading Presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galan is murdered near Bogota, Colombia.
1991 – The August Coup against Mikhail Gorbachev begins.
1994 - A magnitude 5.9 earthquake kills 159 people in Algeria.
2005 – A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting around 100 million people.
2008 – Pervez Musharraf announces his resignation as President of Pakistan.
Asif Ali Zardari succeeds him in September.
2017 - Two people are killed and several are injured in a stabbing attack in Turku, Finland.
2018 - The 2018 Asian Games, co-hosted by the cities of Jakarta and Palembang (in Indonesia), begin.
2018 - Former cricketer Imran Khan becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1414 - Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492)
1450 - Marko Marulic, Croatian poet (d. 1524)
1497 - Francesco Canovada Milano, Italian composer (d. 1543)
1587 – Virginia Dare, first child of English parents to be born in what is now the United States (d. before 1591)
1596 - Jean Bolland, Flemish painter (d. 1665)
1606 - Maria Anna of Spain (d. 1646)
1611 - Marie Louise Gonzaga, Queen Consort of Poland (d. 1667)
1657 - Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and painter (d. 1743)
1685 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician (d. 1731)
1692 - Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1740)
1700 - Baji Rao I, Indian Emperor (d. 1740)
1748 - Pierre Sonnerat, French naturalist and explorer (d. 1814)
1750 – Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (d. 1825)
1774 – Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (d. 1809)
1786 - Jean Guillaume Lugol, French physician (d. 1851)
1792 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1878)
1803 - Nathan Clifford, 19th United States Attorney General (d. 1881)
1807 - Charles Francis Adams, Jr., American lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer (d. 1886)
1819 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1876)
1822 - Isaac P. Rodman, American general (d. 1862)
1830 – Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (d. 1916)
1855 - Alfred Wallis, British painter (d. 1942)
1856 - Ahad Ha'am, Hebrew essayist and Zionist thinker (d. 1927)
1857 - Eusebius Mandyczewski, Austrian composer and musicologist (d. 1929)
1859 – Anna Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1935)
1870 - Lavr Kornilov, Russian general (d. 1918)
1875 – King Prithvi of Nepal (d. 1911)
1877 - Jimmy Michael, Welsh cyclist (d. 1904)
1879 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (d. 1970)
1879 - Manuel Arce y Ochoterena, Spanish cardinal, Archbishop of Tarragona (d. 1948)
1882 - Herman Groman, American runner (d. 1954)
1883 - Sidney Hatch, American runner (d. 1966)
1890 – Walther Funk, Nazi politician (d. 1960)
1892 - Hal Foster, Canadian-American illustrator (d. 1982)
1893 - Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1985)
1896 - Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor (d. 1933)
1900 - Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian politician ans diplomat (d. 1990)
1901 - Arne Borg, Swedish swimmer (d. 1987)
1901 - Jean Guitton, French philosopher and writer (d. 1999)
1904 – Max Factor, Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 1996)
1908 - Edgar Faure, French politician and historian (d. 1988)
1908 - Sam English, Irish footballer (d. 1967)
1911 - Amelia Boynton Robinson, American activist (d. 2015)
1912 – Ertugrul Osman, head of the Ottoman dynasty (d. 2009)
1913 - Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1983)
1915 - Joseph Arthur Ankrah, leader of Ghana (d. 1992)
1916 - Neagu Djuvara, Romanian historian, journalist and diplomat (d. 2018)
1916 - Don Keefer, American actor (d. 2014)
1917 – Caspar Weinberger, American politician (d. 2006)
1919 – Wally Hickel, American politician, 2nd and 8th Governor of Alaska (d. 2010)
1920 - Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006)
1921 - Lydia Litvyak, Soviet pilot (d. 1943)
1921 - Zdzislaw Zigulski, Jr., Polish art historian (d. 2015)
1922 – Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer and movie maker (d. 2008)
1924 - Julien Bogaert, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2018)
1925 – Brian Aldiss, British science-fiction writer (d. 2017)
1927 – Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady of the United States
1929 - Hugues Aufray, French singer
1930 - Bo Hi Pak, South Korean church leader
1930 - Liviu Librescu, Romanian-American scientist (d. 2007)
1931 - Bramwell Tillsley, 14th General of the Salvation Army
1931 - Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician (d. 2010)
1932 - Luc Montagnier, French microbiologist
1933 – Just Fontaine, French footballer
1933 – Roman Polanski, movie director
1934 - Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 1972)
1934 - Ronnie Carroll, Northern Irish singer, entertainer and political candidate (d. 2015)
1935 – Hifikepunye Pohamba, 2nd President of Namibia
1935 - Rafer Johnson, American athlete and actor
1936 - Gulzar, Indian director, producer and songwriter
1936 – Robert Redford, American actor
1939 – Johnny Preston, American singer (d. 2011)
1940 - Stanley Johnson, British author and politician, father of Boris Johnson
1941 – Mohamed Ghannouci, former Prime Minister of Tunisia
1941 - Christopher Jones, American actor (d. 2014)
1943 - Norma Pons, Argentine actress (d. 2014)
1943 – Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer and politician
1943 – Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer (d. 2010)
1943 - Carl Wayne, British singer and actor (d. 2004)
1945 - Paula Danziger, American author (d. 2004)
1950 - Dennis Elliott, English drummer and sculptor
1952 – Patrick Swayze, American actor, singer and dancer (d. 2009)
1952 - Ricardo Villa, Argentine footballer
1952 - Mohammad Sarwar, British-Pakistani politician, former Glasgow MP and two-time Governor of the Punjab.
1953 - Sergio Castellitto, Italian actor, screenwriter and director
1954 - Umberto Guidoni, Italian astronaut
1954 - Rustem Khamitov, Russian politician
1954- VK Sasikala,Indian Busniesswoman turned politician.
1957 – Denis Leary, American actor
1957 - Carole Bouquet, French actress and model
1957 - Harald Schmidt, German television presenter
1958 - Reg E. Cathey, American actor (d. 2018)
1958 - Sergei Treshchov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut
1958 – Madeleine Stowe, American actress
1961 - Huw Edwards, Welsh journalist and news presenter
1961 - Timothy Geithner, 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury
1962 – Felipe Calderon, former President of Mexico
1963 - Billy Reid, Scottish footballer
1964 - Kenny Walker, American basketball player
1968 - Lee Seung-yeon, South Korean actress and talk show host
1969 – Edward Norton, American actor
1969 – Christian Slater, American actor
1970 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor
1971 – Aphex Twin, Irish-born musician
1972 - Masahiro Nakai, Japanese actor, singer and television presenter
1972 - Keiko Yamada, Japanese singer
1972 - Victoria Coren Mitchell, British television presenter and poker player
1973 - Paulo Schroeber, Brazilian guitarist (d. 2014)
1975 - Kaitlin Olson, American actress
1977 - Régine Chassagne, Canadian singer-songwriter (Arcade Fire)
1978 - Steve Chen, Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur, co-founder of YouTube
1978 - Andy Samberg, American actor and comedian
1980 – Esteban Cambiasso, Argentine footballer
1981 – Dimitris Salpingidis, Greek footballer
1981 – Jan Frodeno, German triathlete
1982 – Florian Kringe, German footballer
1983 – Kris Boyd, Scottish footballer
1983 – Mika, Lebanese-English singer
1983 - Georgina Bardach, Argentine swimmer
1983 - Danny!,
American rapper and producer
1984 – Robert Huth, German footballer
1985 - Bryan Ruiz Gonzalez, Costa Rican footballer
1986 – Ross McCormack, Scottish footballer
1987 - Tine Thing Helseth, Norwegian trumpeter
1987 - Mika Boorem, American actress
1988 - Luke Jackson, British author
1988 - Eggert Jónsson, Icelandic footballer
1988 - G-Dragon, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer
1992 - Elizabeth Beisel, American swimmer
1992 - Amy Willerton, English model
1992 – Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love
1993 - Maia Mitchell, Australian actress
1995 - Parker McKenna Posey, American actress
1997 - Renato Sanches, Portuguese footballer
353 - Decentius, Roman usurper
440 - Pope Sixtus III
472 - Ricimer, Roman general (b. 405)
673 - Kim Yu-shin, Korean general (b. 595)
1095 – Olaf I of Denmark (b. 1050)
1227 – Genghis Khan, Mongol ruler (b. around 1160)
1258 - Theodore II Laskaris, Byzantine-Greek Emperor (b. 1222)
1276 - Pope Adrian V (b. 1520)
1503 – Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
1559 – Pope Paul IV (b. 1476)
1613 - Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer, theorist and thinker (b. 1540)
1620 – Wanli, Chinese emperor (b. 1563)
1642 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1775)
1645 - Eudoxia Streshneva, Russian Empress (b. 1608)
1648 - Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1615)
1707 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and politician (b. 1640)
1765 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
1842 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779)
1850 – Honoré de Balzac, French writer (b. 1799)
1886 - Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor (b. 1795)
1919 - Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1841)
1939 - Frank Wild, English explorer (b. 1873)
1940 – Walter Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875)
1942 - Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-American actress (b. 1888)
1944 - Ernst Thalmann, German politician (b. 1886)
1945 – Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian independence fighter (b. 1897)
1950 - Julien Lahaut, Belgian politician (b. 1884)
1952 - Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, writer and saint (b. 1901)
1963 - Clifford Odets, American playwright (b. 1906)
1968 - Cy Walter, American pianist (b. 1915)
1970 - Soledad Miranda, Spanish actress (b. 1943)
1981 - Anita Loos, American screenwriter and author (b. 1889)
1989 - Luis Carlos Galan, Colombian politician (b. 1943)
1990 – B. F. Skinner, American psychological theorist (b. 1904)
1992 – John Sturges, American director (b. 1910)
1994 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British chemist (b. 1914)
2003 - Tony Jackson, British musician (b. 1938)
2004 – Hiram Fong, United States Senator for Hawaii (b. 1906)
2005 - Gao Xiumin, Chinese actress (b. 1959)
2009 – Kim Dae Jung, President of South Korea (b. 1925)
2010 - Hal Connolly, American hammer thrower (b. 1931)
2010 – Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1930)
2012 - Jesse Robredo, Filipino politician (b. 1958)
2012 - Scott McKenzie, American singer (b. 1939)
2013 - Rolv Wesenlund, Norwegian actor (b. 1936)
2013 - Dezso Gyarmati, Hungarian polo player (b. 1927)
2014 - Jim Jeffords, United States Senator for Vermont (b. 1934)
2014 - Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer (b. 1918)
2014 - Levente Lengyel, Hungarian chess player (b. 1933)
2014 - Gordon Faber, American politician (b. 1931)
2014 - Hashim Khan, Pakistani squash player (b. 1914)
2015 - Suvra Mukherjee, Indian philosopher and dancer, First Lady of India (b. 1940)
2015 - Khaled Asaad, Syrian scholar (b. 1932)
2015 - Louis Stokes, American politician (b. 1925)
2015 - William Jay Smith, American poet (b. 1918)
2017 - Pertti Alaja, Finnish footballer (b. 1952)
2017 - Alfonso Azpiri, Spanish comic artist (b. 1947)
2017 - Dave Creighton, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1930)
2017 - Bruce Forsyth, English entertainer and television presenter (b. 1928)
2017 - Venero Mangano, American mobster (b. 1921)
2017 - Duncan Russell, English football manager (b. 1958)
2017 - Don Shepherd, Welsh cricketer (b. 1927)
2017 - Sonny Burgess, American rockabilly singer (b. 1929)
2017 - Vicente Iturat, Spanish racing cyclist (b. 1928)
2018 - Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat, 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1938)
2018 - Jack Costanzo, American percussionist and actor (b. 1919)
2018 - Ronnie Moore, Australian-born New Zealand speedway rider (b. 1933)
2018 - Peter Tapsell, British politician (b. 1930)
2018 - Henk Wesseling, Dutch historian (b. 1937)
2019 - Kathleen Blanco, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1942)
2019 - Karel Kuklík, Czech photographer (b. 1937)
2019 - Encarna Paso, Spanish actress (b. 1931)
2019 - Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster (b. 1924)
National Science Day (Thailand)
310  Pope Eusebius is banished by Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, where he dies.
682  Pope Leo II is elected.
986  A Byzantine army is destroyed at the pass of Trajan by Bulgarians.
1386  Karl Topia, ruler of the Princedom of Albania, creates an alliance with the Republic of Venice.
1424  Hundred Years' War: Battle of Verneuil - English victory over the French.
1498  Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first cardinal to-date to resign from his post.
1560  Protestantism becomes the official religion of Scotland.
1585  Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city.
1668  A magnitude 8.0 earthquake kills around 8,000 people in northern Anatolia, Ottoman Empire.
1740  Pope Benedict XIV is elected.
1771  Edinburgh botanist James Robertson makes the first recorded successful climb of Ben Nevis, the highest point in both Scotland and the whole of the present-day United Kingdom.
1786  Frederick II of Prussia dies, having been a very influential leader in Prussia.
His son, Frederick William II of Prussia, succeeds him.
1807  Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany on the Hudson River.
1862  American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota.
1864  American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville - Confederate forces defeat Union forces near Gainesville, Florida.
1896  Bridget Driscoll becomes the first-recorded person to be killed in an automobile accident when she is run over in the grounds of London's Crystal Palace by a Benz car.
1908  Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Emil Cohl is shown in Paris.
1914  The first pilots are trained for the Royal Australian Air Force.
1915  A category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas.
1918  Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moises Uritsky is assassinated.
1942  World War II: The first US bombing raid in Europe takes place.
1943  World War II: The US Seventh Army under George S. Patton and the British 8th Army under field marshal Bernard Montgomery enter Messina, Sicily, completing the allied conquest of Sicily.
1945  Indonesia declares independence from the Netherlands.
The Netherlands only recognize Indonesian independence in 1949.
1947  The Radcliffe Line is set to mark the border between India and Pakistan.
1959  Quake Lake in Yellowstone National Park is formed by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake centred near Hebgen Lake, Montana.
1960  Gabon becomes independent from France.
1962  East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter.
1969  Hurricane Camille kills 243 people in the Southern United States.
1970  The Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 is sent to the planet Venus.
1977  Soviet nuclear icebreaker Arktika becomes the first vessel to cross the North Pole overwater.
1978  US balloonists, Ben Abruzzo, Larry Newman and Max Anderson, become the first people to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a hot-air balloon.
1982  The first CDs are released to the public in Germany.
1987  At age 18, Steffi Graf becomes women's singles Number One in tennis.
She goes on to hold this position for 377 weeks.
1987  Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, dies aged 93, as the last prisoner at Spandau Prison.
1988  Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq is killed in a plane crash near Bahawalpur, Punjab.
1996  Claudie André-Deshays becomes the first Frenchwoman in space.
1998  US President Bill Clinton admits an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
1999  A magnitude 7.4 earthquake hits İzmit in northwestern Turkey, killing more than 17,000 people, and injuring around 44,000.
2002  The water levels of the River Elbe reach their highest-recorded level.
The city of Dresden is among the places flooded.
2004  New state symbols are adopted by Serbia.
2005  The first forced evacuation of settlers as part of the Israeli unilateral disengagement plan begins.
2005  Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at around 300 locations in 63 out of 64 districts in Bangladesh.
2008  Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win 8 individual gold medals at a single Olympic Games.
2009  An accident occurs at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam in Khakassia, Russia, killing 75 people and shutting down the hydroelectric power station.
2015  A bomb explodes at the Ratchaprasong Intersection near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing 23 people and injuring over 100.
2017  2017 Barcelona attack: A vehicle is driven at people on the street Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, killing 13 people.
2019  A bomb attack on a wedding party in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills at least 63 people and wounds 180.
1465  Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1482)
1473  Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower (d. 1483?)
1556  Alexander Briant, English martyr and saint (d. 1581)
1586  Johann Andreas Valentinus Andreae, German theologian, writer and mathematician (d. 1654)
1601  Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
1603  Lennart Torstensson, Swedish field marshal and military officer (d. 1651)
1629  John III of Poland (d. 1696)
1686  Nicola Porpora, Italian composer and teacher (d. 1768)
1699  Bernard Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1777)
1735  Tobias Furneaux, British explorer (d. 1781)
1755  Thomas Stothard, British painter (d. 1834)
1761  William Carey, English botanist and missionary (d. 1824)
1768  Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (d. 1800)
1786  Davy Crockett, American frontiersman, soldier (d. 1836)
1786  Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, mother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1861)
1798  Thomas Hodgkin, English physician (d. 1866)
1799  Robert von Mohl, German jurist (d. 1875)
1800  Charles Rogier, 4th, 10th and 13th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1885)
1801  Fredrika Bremer, Swedish writer (d. 1865)
1828  Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897)
1844  Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1913)
1863  Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and photographer (d. 1924)
1866  Julia Marlowe, née Sarah Frost, Shakespearean actress (d. 1950)
1870  Liberato Marcial Rojas, President of Paraguay (d. 1922)
1877  Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (d. 1923)
1877  Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (d. 1906)
1887  Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born American black leader (d. 1940)
1887  Emperor Karl of Austria (d. 1922)
1887  Samuel Stritch, American cardinal (d. 1958)
1890  Harry Hopkins, American politician (d. 1946)
1890  Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (d. 1920)
1893  Mae West, American actress and playwright (d. 1980)
1893  Walter Noddack, German chemist (d. 1960)
1894  Otto Suhr, German politician (d. 1957)
1896  Johannes Kleiman, Dutch helper of Anne Frank (d. 1959)
1901  Hedin Bru, Faroese writer (d. 1987)
1904  Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
1906  Marcelo Caetano, Portuguese politician (d. 1980)
1907  Gustav Schwarzenegger, Austrian police chief and postal inspector, father of Arnold Schwarzenegger (d. 1972)
1909  Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1985)
1910  Erkki Aaltonen, Finnish composer (d. 1990)
1911  Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion (d. 1995)
1911  Martin Sandberger, German military officer (d. 2010)
1913  Mark Felt, American agent, 'Deep Throat' in the Watergate scandal (d. 2008)
1913  Rudy York, American Major League Baseball All-Star (d. 1970)
1913  Oscar Alfredo Galvez, Argentine racing driver (d. 1989)
1914  Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., son of Franklin D. Roosevelt (d. 1988)
1919  Georgia Gibbs, American singer (d. 2006)
1920  Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress (d. 2015)
1922  Frederick B. Dent, American politician
1923  Larry Rivers, American artist, musician, filmmaker and actor (d. 2002)
1926  George Melly, British singer (d. 2007)
1926  Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
1926  Jean Poiret, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1992)
1929  Francis Gary Powers, American U-2 pilot (d. 1977)
1929  Jimmy Donley, American singer-songwriter (d. 1963)
1930  Glenn Corbett, actor (d. 1993)
1930  Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
1932  V. S. Naipaul, Trinidad and Tobago-born writer (d. 2018)
1932  Jean-Jacques Sempe, French cartoonist
1933  Tom Courtney, American athlete
1933  Gene Kranz, American NASA flight director and manager
1934  Carin Mannheimer, Swedish writer (d. 2014)
1936  Margaret Hamilton, American computer scientist
1937  Ronnie Butler, Bahamian singer
1938  Theodoros Pangalos, Greek politician
1939  Luther Allison, American blues musician, guitarist (d. 1997)
1940  Eduardo Mignona, Argentine director (d. 2006)
1941  Lothar Bisky, German politician (d. 2013)
1941  Fritz Wepper, German actor
1941  Ibrahim Babangida, Nigerian military leader
1943  Robert De Niro, American actor
1943  John Humphrys, British broadcaster
1943  Yukio Kasaya, Japanese ski jumper
1943  Dave "Snaker" Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944  Rexhep Meidani, former President of Albania
1944  Bobby Murdoch, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)
1946  Patrick Manning, former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2016)
1946  Angel Romero, Spanish guitarist and conductor
1947  Mohamed Abdelaziz, Western Sahara politician (d. 2016)
1948  Chico Maki, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1949  Julian Fellowes, English actor, producer and director
1949  Mitsunori Fujiguchi, Japanese footballer
1949  Norm Coleman, American lawyer and politician
1951  Robert Joy, Canadian actor
1951  Alan Minter, boxer
1951  Elba Ramalho, Brazilian singer-songwriter
1952  Nelson Piquet, Brazilian racing driver
1952  Mario Theissen, German Formula 1 team principal
1952  Guillermo Vilas, Argentine tennis player
1953  Herta Müller, Romanian-German writer, Nobel Prize winner
1953  Kevin Rowland, British musician
1954  Andrés Pastrana Arango, former President of Colombia
1956  Fabio Armiliato, Italian tenor
1957  Robin Cousins, British figure skater
1958  Michael Brooks, American basketball player
1958  Belinda Carlisle, American singer, guitarist
1958  Kirk Stevens, Canadian snooker player
1958  Fred Goodwin, Scottish banker, former head of the Royal Bank of Scotland
1959  Jonathan Franzen, American writer
1959  David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993)
1960  Sean Penn, American actor, director
1962  Gilby Clarke, American musician (Guns N'Roses)
1963  Maritza Marbén, Cuban discus thrower
1963  Shankar, Indian director and producer
1964  Colin James, American blues musician
1965  Sergio Vargas, Chilean footballer
1966  Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder
1968  Helen McCrory, British actress
1968  Ed McCaffrey, American football player
1968  Anthony E. Zuiker, American television producer
1968  Andriy Kuzmenko, Ukrainian singer, writer, presenter, producer and actor (d. 2015)
1968  Andrew Koenig, American actor (d. 2010)
1969  Christian Laettner, American basketball player
1969  Donnie Wahlberg, American actor and singer
1970  Jim Courier, American tennis player
1970  Rupert Degas, Australian voice actor
1971  Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
1971  Jorge Posada, American Major League Baseball All-Star
1972  Habibul Bashar, Bangladeshi cricketer
1974  Tomomi Kahala, Japanese singer
1976  Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer (d. 2014)
1977  William Gallas, French footballer
1977  Thierry Henry, French footballer
1977  Tarja Turunen, Finnish lead singer of Nightwish
1977  Mike Lewis, Welsh guitarist
1977  Claire Richards, English singer (Steps)
1980  Jan Kromkamp, Dutch footballer
1980  Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer
1980  Daniel Güiza, Spanish footballer
1982  Phil Jagielka, English footballer
1982  Karim Ziani, French-Algerian footballer
1982  Mark Salling, American actor (d. 2018)
1983  Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player
1984  Dee Brown, American basketball player
1985  Troy Brouwer, Canadian ice hockey player
1986  Marcus Berg, Swedish footballer
1986  Denis Kornilov, Russian ski jumper
1986  Rudy Gay, American basketball player
1989  Rachel Corsie, Scottish footballer
1989  Elena Hight, American snowboarder
1990  Rachel Hurd-Wood, English actress
1991  Austin Butler, American actor
1993  Cinta Laura, Indonesian actress and singer
1993  Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer
1994  Taissa Farmiga, American actress
1153  Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne, son of King Stephen of England (b. 1130)
1304  Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
1324  Irene of Brunswick, Empress of Constantinople (b. 1293)
1338  Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese samurai (b. 1301)
1510  Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. 1462)
1657  Robert Blake, English admiral (b. 1599)
1673  Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
1769  Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and writer (b. 1703)
1785  Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1710)
1786  Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1712)
1838  Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian poet (b. 1749)
1850  Jose de San Martin, Argentine revolutionary (b. 1778)
1870  Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician and freedom fighter (b. 1818)
1880  Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810)
1886  Alexander Butlerov, Russian chemist (b. 1828)
1896  Bridget Driscoll, English automobile accident victim (b. 1851)
1897  William Jervois, British Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1821)
1898  Carl Zeller, Austrian jurist and composer (b. 1842)
1900  Raimundo Andueza Palacio, 24th President of Venezuela (b. 1846)
1903  Hans Gude, Norwegian painter (b. 1825)
1918  Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1873)
1925  Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist (b. 1848)
1935  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American writer and feminist (b. 1860)
1935  Adam Gunn, American athlete (b. 1860)
1939  Wojciech Korfanty, Polish journalist and politician (b. 1873)
1942  Herman Auerbach, Polish mathematician (b. 1901)
1954  Billy Murray, American singer (b. 1877)
1962  Peter Fechter, shooting victim at the Berlin Wall (b. 1944)
1969  Otto Stern, German physicist (b. 1888)
1969  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (b. 1886)
1971  Maedayama Eigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1914)
1973  Conrad Aiken, American author and poet (b. 1889)
1974  Aldo Palozzeschi, Italian poet and writer (b. 1885)
1979  Vivian Vance, American actress (b. 1909)
1979  John C. Allen, American rollercoaster designer (b. 1907)
1983  Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1987  Rudolf Hess, Nazi leader (b. 1894)
1988  Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
1988  Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., son of Franklin D. Roosevelt (b. 1914)
1990  Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (b. 1918)
1994  Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American racing driver (b. 1901)
1995  Howard E. Koch, American screenwriter (b. 1902)
1995  Ted Whitten, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1933)
1998  Wladyslaw Komar, Polish athlete (b. 1940)
1998  Tadeusz Slusarski, Polish athlete (b. 1950)
1998  Tameo Ide, Japanese footballer (b. 1908)
1999  Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (b. 1936)
2003  Mazen Dana, Palestinian journalist (b. 1962)
2005  John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist (b. 1934)
2006  Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet, columnist and writer (b. 1929)
2007  Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)
2010  Francesco Cossiga, 8th President of Italy (b. 1928)
2011  Pierre Quinon, French pole vaulter (b. 1962)
2013  Claus Jacobi, German journalist (b. 1927)
2014  Wolfgang Leonhard, German political author and historian (b. 1921)
2014  Sophie Masloff, American politician, 56th Mayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1917)
2014  Pierre Vassiliu, French singer (b. 1937)
2014  Ger van Elk, Dutch artist (b. 1941)
2015  Eduardo Guerrero, Argentine rower (b. 1928)
2015  László Paskai, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1927)
2015  Arsen Dedic, Croatian poet (b. 1938)
2015  Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican-Israeli theoretical physicist (b. 1947)
2015  Yvonne Craig, American actress (b. 1937)
2015  Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, German football executive (b. 1933)
2016  Arthur Hiller, Canadian-American film director (b. 1923)
2017  Sonny Landham, American actor and politician (b. 1941)
2017  M. T. Liggett, American sculptor (b. 1930)
2017  Sirkka Selja, Finnish poet (b. 1920)
2017  Fadwa Soliman, Syrian actress and activist (b. 1970)
2017  Mohamed Refaat El-Saeed, Egyptian politician and scholar (b. 1932)
2018  Leonard Boswell, American politician (b. 1934)
2018  Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actor (b. 1924)
2018  David McReynolds, American political activist and politician (b. 1929)
2018  Linton Freeman, American sociologist (b. 1927)
2019  Cedric Benson, American football player (b. 1982)
2019  Walter Buser, Swiss Federal Chancellor (b. 1926)
2019  Jacques Diouf, Senegalese diplomat (b. 1938)
2019  Donald A. B. Lindberg, American physician (b. 1933)
2019  José A. Martínez Suárez, Argentine film director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2019  Bill McDonagh, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
Independence Day (Indonesia, Gabon)
29 BC  Octavian is celebrated as conqueror of Egypt and takes over the ruling of the Roman Empire, later changing his name to Augustus.
927  The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
982  Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Cape Colonna, in Calabria.
1040  King Duncan I of Scotland is killed in a battle he fought against his first cousin, and rival, Macbeth.
1057  King Macbeth is killed in battle.
1185  The cave city of Vardzia is founded in Georgia, by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
1237  The Battle of the Puig takes place during the Spanish Reconquista.
The Kingdom of Aragon defeats the Tarifa of Valencia.
1248  The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral is laid.
1271  Philip III of France is crowned King.
1281  Attempted Mongol invasions of Japan: A Mongolian fleet led by Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "Divine Wind" for the second time in the Battle of Koan.
1430  Francesco Sforza, Lord of Milan, conquers Lucca.
1483  Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
1511  The city of Baracoa, Cuba, is founded by Diego Velazquez de Cuellar.
1519  Panama City is founded.
1537  The city of Asuncion in present-day Paraguay is founded, named after the religious feast day of the Assumption of Mary.
1540  The city of Arequipa in present-day Peru is founded.
1549  Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima, Japan.
1695  French forces end the bombardment of Brussels, leaving a third of the city's buildings in ruins.
1760  Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz - Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
1769  Napoleon, French general and emperor, is born on the island of Corsica.
1824  Freed African-American slaves found Liberia.
1843  The Tivoli Gardens theme park in Copenhagen, Denmark, opens.
1843  The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated.
It is now the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the city.
1869  The Meiji Government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
1912  Eduardo Schaerer becomes President of Paraguay.
1914  The Panama Canal opens.
1935  Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during take-off from Barrow, Alaska.
1939  The Wizard of Oz movie premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.
1941  Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad in the Tower of London, being the last person executed there for treason.
1945  Japan surrenders, ending World War II.
1945  World War II: Liberation of Korea.
1947  India becomes independent (separate) from the United Kingdom from the formal Transfer of Power as the Empire is partitioned and adopts the name Bharat, while the new mainly Islamic state of Pakistan is created.
1947  Muhammad Ali Jinnah becomes Governor-General of Pakistan.
1948  The Republic of Korea (South Korea) is founded south of the 38th parallel.
1950  Assam is struck by a major earthquake.
1952  The village of Lynmouth in Devon, England, is hit by a flash flood.
1954  In Paraguay, the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner begins.
1960  The Republic of the Congo becomes independent, with Fulbert Youlou as President.
Exactly three years later, he is removed from office in a military coup.
1961  Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the building of the Berlin Wall.
1963  Henry John Burnett is executed, becoming the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
1963  President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital Brazzaville.
1965  The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 in New York City, an event later considered to be the birth of stadium rock.
1968  An earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
1969  The Woodstock music festival takes place in the State of New York.
1970  Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play a professional game of American football.
1971  Bahrain becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1973  US bombing of Cambodia ends.
1974  The Seoul metro is opened, becoming the first metro in South Korea.
1974  Toronto Zoo is opened.
1975  Along with members of his family, Bangladeshi political leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is killed in a coup.
1989  F. W. de Klerk becomes President of South Africa.
1993  Juan Carlos Wasmosy becomes President of Paraguay.
1998  The Omagh bombing is carried out by the IRA in Northern Ireland, killing 29 people.
1999  The Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria kills 29 people at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border.
2004  Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, gives his official royal duties over to his son, Alois, but remains as Head of State.
2005  Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements begins.
2007  A magnitude 8 earthquake centred off Peru's Pacific coast, devastates Ica province, killing 514 people, and injuring over 1000.
2008  Fernando Lugo becomes President of Paraguay.
2013  Horacio Cartes becomes President of Paraguay.
2013  The discovery of a species of mammal in northwestern South America is announced.
It is named Olinguito.
2018  A bomb attack on an education centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills 34 people; on the same day, an attack in the country's Baghlan Province kills 9 police officers and 35 soldiers.
2018  Mario Abdo Benítez becomes President of Paraguay.
774  Emperor Heizei of Japan (d. 824)
1171  King Alfonso IX of León (d. 1230)
1195  Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (d. 1231)
1250  Matteo I Visconti, ruler of Milan (d. 1322)
1402  Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English politician (d. 1460)
1432  Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (d. 1484)
1455  George, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1503)
1575  Bartol Kasic, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650)
1613  Gilles Menage, French scholar (d. 1692)
1736  Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer (d. 1803)
1717  Blind Jack, English engineer (d. 1810)
1740  Matthias Claudius, German poet and journalist (d. 1815)
1743  Thomas Henderson, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1824)
1769  Napoleon, Emperor of France (d. 1821)
1771  Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (d. 1832)
1785  Thomas De Quincey, British writer (d. 1859)
1794  Elias Magnus Fries, Swedish botanist (d. 1878)
1795  Aaron V. Brown, 13th Governor of Tennessee (d. 1859)
1798  Sangolli Rayanna, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1831)
1813  Jules Grévy, 3rd President of France (d. 1891)
1817  James Wilson Henderson, 4th Governor of Texas (d. 1880)
1824  John Chisum, American cattle baron (d. 1884)
1828  Jean-Baptiste Billot, French general and statesman (d. 1907)
1836  Pyotr Boborykin, Russian writer, playwright and journalist (d. 1921)
1845  Walter Crane, English painter (d. 1915)
1846  Charles Woodruff, American archer (d. 1927)
1856  Keir Hardie, Scottish socialist and labor leader (d. 1915)
1856  Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (d. 1916)
1858  Edith Nesbit, English writer (d. 1924)
1858  Michael Hainisch, President of Austria (d. 1940)
1859  Charles Comiskey, American baseball owner (d. 1931)
1860  Florence Harding, First Lady of the United States (d. 1924)
1860  Henrietta Vinton Davis, American actress and playwright (d. 1941)
1863  Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (d. 1945)
1865  Mikao Usui, Japanese spiritual figure (d. 1926)
1872  Sri Aurobindo, Indian writer and guru (d. 1950)
1875  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer and musician (d. 1912)
1876  Stylianos Gonatas, Greek military officer and politician (d. 1966)
1877  Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1941)
1878  Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1928)
1879  Ethel Barrymore, American actress (d. 1959)
1881  Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (d. 1956)
1890  Elizabeth Bolden, American supercentenarian (d. 2006)
1890  Jacques Ibert, French composer (d. 1962)
1892  Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist (d. 1987)
1892  Walther Nehring, German general (d. 1983)
1893  Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and mechanical computation designer (d. 1950)
1896  Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist (d. 1957)
1896  Léon Theremin, Russian inventor (d. 1993)
1897  Benedetta Cappa, Italian painter (d. 1977)
1900  Estelle Brody, American actress (d. 1995)
1901  Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician (d. 1975)
1901  Arnulfo Arias, three-time President of Panama (d. 1988)
1904  George Klein, Canadian inventor (d. 1992)
1909  Hugo Winterhalter, American composer and bandleader (d. 1973)
1912  Naoto Tajima, Japanese athlete (d. 1990)
1912  Julia Child, American cook (d. 2004)
1912  Wendy Hiller, English actress (d. 2003)
1912  Guido Morselli, Italian novelist and essayist (d. 1973)
1917  Jack Lynch, 5th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1999)
1917  Oscar Romero, Salvadoran priest (d. 1980)
1917  Yukio Tsuda, Japanese footballer (d. 1979)
1919  Dina Wadia, daughter of Muhammad Ali Jinnah (d. 2017)
1920  Huntz Hall, American actor (d. 1999)
1921  August Kowalczyk, Polish actor, director and Holocaust survivor (d. 2012)
1922  Mary Fairfax, Polish-born Australian philanthropist (d. 2017)
1922  Lukas Foss, German-born composer (d. 2009)
1923  Rose Marie, American actress (d. 2017)
1924  Robert Bolt, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1995)
1924  Jo Benkow, Norwegian politician (d. 2013)
1924  Hedy Epstein, German-American political activist (d. 2016)
1924  Phyllis Schlafly, American conservative political activist and author (d. 2016)
1925  Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-French pianist (d. 2015)
1925  Leonie Ossowski, German writer (d. 2019)
1925  Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (d. 2007)
1926  Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, former President of Greece (d. 2016)
1928  Carl Joachim Classen, German classical philologist (d. 2013)
1928  Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 2002)
1928  Malcolm Glazer, American businessman and sports team owner (d. 2014)
1928  Paul Adderley, acting Governor-General of the Bahamas (d. 2012)
1928  Nicolas Roeg, English film director and cinematographer (d. 2018)
1929  Anna Walentynowicz, Polish activist (d. 2010)
1931  Richard F. Heck, American chemist (d. 2015)
1932  Jim Lange, American game show and DJ (d. 2014)
1934  Ebrahim Abadi, Iranian actor (d. 2019)
1934  Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer and actor (d. 1998)
1934  Bobby Byrd, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2007)
1934  Darrell K. Sweet, American illustrator (d. 2011)
1935  Régine Deforges, French author, editor and playwright (d. 2014)
1938  Pran Kumar Sharma, Indian cartoonist (d. 2014)
1938  Bounnhang Vorachith, President of Laos
1938  Maxine Waters, American politician
1940  Gudrun Ensslin, member of the Red Army Faction (d. 1977)
1942  Pete York, English musician
1943  Jean-Luc Mandaba, Central African politician, former Prime Minister of the Central African Republic
1943  Eileen Bell, Northern Irish politician
1943  Eni Faleomavaega, American Samoan politician (d. 2017)
1944  Sylvie Vartan, Bulgarian-French singer and actress
1944  Thomas J. Murphy, Jr., American politician, 56th Mayor of Pittsburgh
1945  Khaleda Zia, 9th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
1945  Alain Juppé, former Prime Minister of France
1946  William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, English politician
1946  Jimmy Webb, American songwriter and composer
1946  Tony Robinson, English actor and television presenter
1949  Richard Deacon, Welsh sculptor
1950  Anne, Princess Royal, member of the British royal family
1950  Tommy Aldridge, American drummer
1952  Rudi Kargus, German footballer
1952  Bernard Lacombe, French footballer
1953  Vigdís Grímsdóttir, Icelandic writer
1953  Wolfgang Hohlbein, German writer
1953  Mark Thatcher, British businessman and son of Margaret Thatcher
1953  Carol Thatcher, daughter of Margaret Thatcher
1954  Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer (d. 2004)
1955  Roger Willemsen, German author, essayist and television presenter (d. 2016)
1958  Simon Baron-Cohen, British psychiatrist and writer
1958  Craig MacTavish, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1959  Scott Altman, American astronaut
1961  Arjun, Indian movie actor and director
1961  Ed Gillespie, former White House counsel
1962  Moreno Mannini, Italian footballer
1963  Valery Levaneuski, Russian activist
1963  Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican film director and producer
1964  Melinda Gates, wife of Bill Gates
1966  Dimitris Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player
1967  Alan Henning, British humanitarian and aid worker (d. 2014)
1968  Debra Messing, American actress
1969  Bernard Fanning, Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist (Powderfinger)
1969  Juli Minoves Triquell, Andorran diplomat and writer
1970  Anthony Anderson, American comedian and actor
1970  Masahiro Endo, Japanese footballer
1970  Ben Silverman, American television producer
1970  Maya Soetoro-Ng, sister of Barack Obama
1972  Ben Affleck, American actor
1973  Amitabh Bhattacharjee, Indian actor
1975  Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi, Japanese footballer
1975  Vijay Bharadwaj, Indian cricketer
1975  Brendan Morrison, Canadian ice hockey player
1976  Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopian politician, Prime minister of Ethiopia
1976  Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch footballer
1977  Martin Biron, Canadian ice hockey player
1978  Lilia Podkopayeva, Ukrainian gymnast
1981  Brendan Hansen, American swimmer
1982  Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Japanese actor
1983  Luke McCormick, English footballer
1985  Nipsey Hussle, American rapper (d. 2019)
1985  Emily Kinney, American actress, singer, model and composer
1986  Natalia Kills, British singer-songwriter, musician and actress
1986  Besik Kudukhov, Russian wrestler (d. 2013)
1988  Oussama Assaidi, Moroccan footballer
1989  Kristina Karjalainen, Estonian-Finnish model
1989  Carlos Pena, Jr., American actor, dancer and singer
1989  Joe Jonas, American actor and singer (Jonas Brothers)
1990  Jennifer Lawrence, American actress
1990  Danny Verbeek, Dutch footballer
1991  Petja Piiroinen, Finnish snowboarder
1992  Baskaran Adhiban, Indian chess player
1993  Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, English footballer
1998  Gulliver McGrath, Australian actor
423  Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (b. 384)
465  Libius Severus, Roman Emperor
778  Roland, Frankish commander
1038  King Stephen I of Hungary
1040  King Duncan I of Scotland
1057  King Macbeth of Scotland
1118  Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1048)
1196  Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)
1274  Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and educator (b. 1201)
1369  Philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of Edward III of England
1464  Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
1528  Odet de Foix, French general (b. 1485)
1552  Hermann of Wied, German archbishop (b. 1477)
1621  John Barclay, Scottish poet (b. 1582)
1714  Constantin Brancoveanu, Romanian prince (b. 1654)
1728  Marin Marais, French composer (b. 1656)
1758  Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (b. 1698)
1799  Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (b. 1729)
1860  Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Grand Duchess of Russia (b. 1781)
1904  John Henry Kinkead, Governor of Nevada (b. 1826)
1909  Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian author, publicist and engineer (b. 1866)
1925  Konrad Magi, Estonian artist (b. 1878)
1931  Nigar Shikhlinskaya, Azerbaijani World War I nurse (b. 1878)
1933  Christie Fuller, Australia Singer
1935  Paul Signac, French painter (b. 1863)
1935  Wiley Post, American pilot (b. 1898)
1935  Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (b. 1879)
1936  Grazia Deledda, Italian writer (b. 1871)
1941  Josef Jakobs, German spy (b. 1898)
1942  Mahadev Desai, Indian activist and writer (b. 1892)
1945  Korechika Anami, Japanese Minister of War (b. 1887)
1951  Artur Schnabel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1882)
1953  Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
1962  Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (b. 1940)
1963  Henry John Burnett, last person to be hanged in Scotland (b. 1942)
1964  Dr. Atl, Mexican painter and writer (b. 1875)
1967  René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)