the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1605 - Alessandro Ottaviano de Medici is elected Pope, and becomes Pope Leo XI.
1789 – Frederick Muhlenberg is elected as the first speaker of the US House of Representatives.
1790 - William Herschel discovers the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3079.
1814 – The first Gas lighting is used in London's streets.
1826 – Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
1865 - American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks.
1867 – Singapore becomes a British Crown Colony.
1873 – The RMS Atlantic sinks near Nova Scotia, killing 545 people.
1887 - Bombay's Fire Brigade is founded.
1888 - The Dutch football team Sparta Rotterdam is founded.
1891 - The painter Paul Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti.
1891 – The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago.
1893 - The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is created.
1893 - Germany officially adopts "Central European Time", one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.
1897 – The Japanese city of Nagano is founded.
1899 - Germany takes of control of present-day Papua New Guinea, calling it German New Guinea.
1908 - Territorial Force, which is later renamed the Territorial Army, is as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
1918 – The Royal Air Force is founded.
1919 – The Bauhaus school is founded in Germany by the architect Walter Gropius.
1921 – Adrienne Bolland becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Andes, from Mendoza in Argentina to Santiago, Chile.
1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
1924 - Adolf Hitler is sent to five years in prison for his part in the Beer Hall Putsch, he only spends nine months there, writing Mein Kampf.
1933 - England cricketer Wally Hammond sets a record for the highest individual test innings of 336 against New Zealand.
1935 - India's Central Bank is founded.
1936 – Orissa becomes a State of India.
1937 – Aden becomes a British Crown Colony.
1939 – The Spanish Civil War ends, as the last Republicans surrender.
1941 - Fantaba Alba massacre: Between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Guards.
1944 - World War II: Navigation errors lead to a mistaken US air raid on Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
1945 - World War II: As part of Operation Iceberg, US troops land on Okinawa.
1946 - The Malayan Union is formed.
1946 – An earthquake in Alaska leads to a Tsunami which destroys the town of Hilo, Hawaii.
1948 – The Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
1949 – The Irish Free State becomes the Republic of Ireland.
1949 - Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds successful talks with the Kuomintang.
1949 - Canada's government ends Japanese internment (imprisonment) after seven years.
1954 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the creation of the United Air Force Academy in Colorado.
1957 – The BBC current affairs programme Panorama plays an April Fools' Day joke, about a Spaghetti harvest in Switzerland.
1960 - The first Dr. Martens boots go on sale.
1967 - The United States Department of Transportation begins its operations.
1969 - Lin Biao is chosen as future successor to Mao Zedong in the People's Republic of China.
1973 - Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is introduced in India.
1974 - Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan counties are created in the United Kingdom.
1976 – Apple Inc. is founded.
1979 – The Islamic Republic of Iran is founded.
1989 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher introduces the Community Charge (Poll tax) in Scotland.
1992 - Start of the war in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp is seen passing over Perihelion.
1999 – Nunavut becomes a territory of Canada, after being part of the Northwest Territories.
2000 – In the UK the wartime coding machine, used to crack the Enigma code, is stolen.
It is found the following October.
2001 – Slobodan Milosevic is arrested, to be placed on trial for war crimes.
2001 – Same-sex marriage is legalised in the Netherlands, the first country to do so.
2002 – New euthanasia laws come into force in the Netherlands.
2004 - Google announces the creation of Gmail to the public.
2006 - The Serious Organised Crime Agency is created in the United Kingdom.
2009 – Albania and Croatia join NATO.
2009 – Protests occur at the G-20 summit in London.
2009 - A Super Puma helicopter crashes in the North Sea off the east coast of Scotland, killing all 18 people on board.
2012 – Aung San Suu Kyi wins a seat in the Burmese parliament.
2017 - A landslide in Mocoa, Colombia, kills at least 254 people.
2018 - Mokgweetsi Masisi becomes President of Botswana.
2018 - Carlos Alvarado Quesada is elected President of Costa Rica, defeating Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz.
2018 - The People's Republic of China's Tiangong-1 space station breaks up on re-entry to Earth's atmosphere and lands in the Southern Pacific Ocean near Tahiti.
2019 - It is revealed that "Reiwa" will be the name of Japan's new imperial era when Emperor Akihito abdicates at the end of the month in favour of his son Naruhito.
1220 – Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272)
1282 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1347)
1578 – William Harvey, English physician (d. 1657)
1624 – Maria Miloslavskaya, Empress of Russia (d. 1669)
1629 - Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, French harpsichordist and organist (d. 1691)
1640 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (d. 1697)
1647 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (d. 1680)
1697 - Antoine François Prévost, French writer and novelist (d. 1763)
1730 - Salomon Gessner, Swiss poet and artist (d. 1788)
1732 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
1753 - Joseph de Maistre, French philosopher, writer, lawyer and diplomat (d. 1821)
1755 – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French writer, philosopher and gastronome (d. 1826)
1757 - Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Swedish-Finnish statesman, military and diplomat (d. 1814)
1776 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician (d. 1831)
1809 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (d. 1852)
1815 – Otto von Bismarck, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1898)
1815 – Edward Clark, 8th Governor of Texas (d. 1880)
1815 - Henry B. Anthony, 21st Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1884)
1823 - Simon Bolivar Buckner, 30th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1891)
1825 - Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria (d. 1864)
1834 – James Fisk, entrepreneur (d. 1872)
1837 - Jorge Isaacs, Colombian writer (d. 1895)
1848 - Commodore Nutt, American entertainer (d. 1881)
1851 - Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (d. 1928)
1865 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)
1866 – Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1924)
1873 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943)
1873 - Bibb Graves, Governor of Alabama (d. 1942)
1874 - Prince Karl of Bavaria (d. 1927)
1875 – Edgar Wallace, English writer (d. 1932)
1883 – Lon Chaney, Sr.,
American actor (d. 1930)
1885 – Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (d. 1977)
1885 – Wallace Beery, American actor (d. 1949)
1888 - Jean Alavoine, French cyclist (d. 1943)
1889 - K. B. Hedgewar, Indian physician and advocate of Hindu nationalism (d. 1940)
1895 - Alexander Aitken, New Zealand mathematician (d. 1967)
1895 – Alberta Hunter, American singer (d. 1984)
1899 – Gustavs Celmins, politician (d. 1968)
1901 – Whittaker Chambers, American writer and Alger Hiss case witness (d. 1961)
1901 - William Anderson, English ice hockey player (d. 1983)
1902 - Maria Polydouri, Greek poet (d. 1930)
1905 – Gaston Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1988)
1905 - Paul Hasluck, 17th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1993)
1906 – Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989)
1907 - Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, Japanese-American Rinzai Zen teacher and centenarian (d. 2014)
1908 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (d. 1970)
1911 – Fauja Singh, Indian-British marathon runner
1915 – Otto Wilhelm Fischer, Austrian actor (d. 2004)
1917 - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (d. 1950)
1917 - Sydney Newman, Canadian television producer (d. 1997)
1919 – Joseph Murray, American surgeon and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2012)
1920 – Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
1920 - Harry Lewis, American actor (d. 2013)
1921 - Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American composer and producer (d. 2014)
1922 – William Manchester, writer (d. 2004)
1922 - Alan Perlis, American computer scientist (d. 1990)
1923 - Don Butterfield, American tuba player (d. 2006)
1923 - Leora Dana, American actress (d. 1983)
1924 – Brendan Byrne, former Governor of New Jersey (d. 2018)
1926 – Charles Bressler, American tenor
1926 – Anne McCaffrey, American writer (d. 2011)
1927 - Ferenc Puskas, Hungarian footballer (d. 2006)
1927 - Walter Bahr, American soccer player and coach (d. 2018)
1928 - Kiyonori Kikutake, Japanese architect (d. 2011)
1929 – Jane Powell, American dancer, actress and singer
1929 - Jonathan Haze, American actor
1929 – Milan Kundera, Czech writer
1929 – Bo Schembechler, American football coach (d. 2006)
1930 – Grace Lee Whitney, American actress (d. 2015)
1931 – Rolf Hochhuth, German writer
1932 – Gordon Jump, American television actor (d. 2003)
1932 – Debbie Reynolds, American actress and singer (d. 2016)
1933 – Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist
1934 – Rod Kanehl, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
1934 – Jim Ed Brown, American country music singer (d. 2015)
1934 – Don Hastings, American actor
1935 – Larry McDonald, American politician (d. 1983)
1936 - Tarun Gogoi, Indian politician
1936 - Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Swiss politician (d. 1998)
1936 - Dhiraj Choudhury, Indian painter (d. 2018)
1938 - Akihito Kondo, Japanese baseball player (d. 2019)
1939 - Rudolph Isley, American singer (The Isley Brothers)
1939 – Ali MacGraw, American actress
1939 – Phil Niekro, American baseball pitcher
1939 - Vitali Davydov, Soviet-Russian ice hockey player
1940 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan political and environmental activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 2011)
1941 - David Childs, American architect
1942 - Max Keeping, Canadian broadcaster (d. 2015)
1942 – Samuel R. Delany, science fiction writer
1942 - Philip Margo, American singer (The Tokens)
1942 – Annie Nightingale, British disc jockey
1943 – Mario Botta, Swiss architect
1943 - Dafydd Wigley, Welsh academic and politician, former leader of Plaid Cymru
1944 - Rusty Staub, American baseball player (d. 2018)
1946 – Ronnie Lane, British musician (The Small Faces, The Faces) (d. 1997)
1946 – Arrigo Sacchi, Italian football manager
1946 - Nikitas Kaklamanis, 77th Mayor of Athens
1947 – Alain Connes, French mathematician
1947 - Ingrid Steeger, German actress
1947 - Norm Van Lier, American basketball player (d. 2009)
1948 – J. J. Williams, Welsh rugby player
1948 – Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician
1949 – Gil Scott-Heron, American musician and composer (d. 2011)
1949 - Paul Manafort, American lobbyist, lawyer and political consultant
1950 – Samuel Alito, American jurist
1950 - Paolo Conti, Italian footballer
1951 - Brendan Grace, Irish actor, comedian and singer (d. 2019)
1952 – Annette O'Toole, American actress
1952 - Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher
1952 - Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Libyan intelligence officer (d. 2012)
1953 – Barry Sonnenfeld, American producer and director
1953 - Alberto Zaccheroni, Italian footballer and coach
1954 – Giancarlo Antognoni, Italian footballer
1954 – Jeff Porcaro, American musician (Toto) (d. 1992)
1955 - Humayun Akhtar Khan, Pakistani statesman
1955 – Ronnie Burk, artist and AIDS activist (d. 2003)
1955 - Roberto Pruzzo, Italian footballer
1956 – Libby Riddles, American dogsled racer
1957 - David Gower, English cricketer
1957 - Denise Nickerson, American actress (d. 2019)
1958 - Anton Innauer, Austrian ski jumper
1958 – Tita, Brazilian footballer
1959 - Christian Thielemann, German conductor
1960 - Reijo Ruotsalainen, Finnish ice hockey player
1961 – Susan Boyle, Scottish singer
1962 - Chris Grayling, English politician
1962 - Phillip Schofield, English television presenter
1965 - Jane Adams, American actress
1965 - Simona Ventura, Italian journalist and television presenter
1965 – Mark Jackson, American basketball player
1966 - Chris Evans, English television presenter
1968 - Mike Baird, Australian politician, 44th Premier of New South Wales
1968 - Ingrid Klimke, German equestrian
1968 - Alexander Stubb, former Prime Minister of Finland
1969 - Dean Windass, English footballer and coach
1970 – Sung Hi Lee, model
1971 – Method Man, American musician
1971 - Karen Dunbar, Scottish comedienne
1972 - Darren McCarty, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 - Jesse Tobias, American musician
1972 – Allen and Albert Hughes, American movie directors
1973 - Kris Marshall, English actor
1973 - Rachel Maddow, American broadcaster
1975 - Washington Stecanela Cerqueira, Brazilian footballer
1976 – Gábor Király, Hungarian footballer
1976 – David Oyelowo, British actor
1976 – Clarence Seedorf, Dutch footballer
1978 – Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (d. 2009)
1978 – Mirka Federer, Swiss tennis player
1979 - Ivano Balic, Croatian handball player
1980 – Randy Orton, American professional wrestler
1981 – Hannah Spearritt, British actress and singer (S Club 7)
1982 – Róbert Vittek, Slovakian footballer
1983 - Sean Taylor, American football player (d. 2007)
1983 - Sergey Lazarev, Russian singer
1983 – Amr Zaki, Egyptian footballer
1983 – Franck Ribéry, French footballer
1983 - Olafur Ingi Skulason, Icelandic footballer
1984 - Craig Samson, Scottish footballer
1985 - Beth Tweddle, British gymnast
1986 – Haminu Draman, Ghanaian footballer
1986 – Ireen Wüst, Dutch speed skater
1986 – Hillary Scott, American singer (Lady Antebellum)
1987 – Ding Junhui, Chinese snooker player
1987 - Li Ting, Chinese diver
1987 - Vitorino Antunes, Portuguese footballer
1987 - Andrew Considine, Scottish footballer
1987 - José Ortigoza, Paraguayan footballer
1988 – Fatmire Bajramaj, German footballer
1988 - Robin Lopez, American basketball player
1988 - Brook Lopez, American basketball player
1989 – David N'Gog, French footballer
1990 - Justin Hamilton, American basketball player
1993 - Keito Okamoto, Japanese singer
1994 - Ella Eyre, English singer-songwriter
1995 - Logan Paul, American social media entertainer and actor
1997 - Asa Butterfield, English actor
1085 – Emperor Shenzhong of China (b. 1048)
1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine (b. 1122)
1205 – Amalric II of Jerusalem (b. 1145)
1340 - Gerhard III of Holstein (b. 1292)
1580 - Alonso Mudarra, Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1510)
1621 - Cristofori Allori, Italian painter (b. 1577)
1637 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (b. 1571)
1839 – Benjamin Pierce, American politician (b. 1757)
1865 - Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (b. 1797)
1868 - Rasoherina, Queen of Madagascar (b. 1814)
1872 - Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian and academic (b. 1805)
1890 - Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer (b. 1825)
1890 - David Wilber, American politician (b. 1820)
1897 - Jandamarra, Indigenous-Australian resistance leader (b. 1873)
1914 - Rube Waddell, American baseball player (b. 1826)
1917 – Scott Joplin, American musician and composer (b. 1868)
1922 – Emperor Karl I of Austria (b. 1887)
1922 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist (b. 1884)
1930 – Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and widow of Richard Wagner (b. 1837)
1946 - Noah Beery, Sr.,
American actor (b. 1882)
1947 – King George II of Greece (b. 1890)
1950 - Recep Peker, 6th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1889)
1960 - Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, King of Malaysia (b. 1895)
1962 - Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish major (b. 1910)
1966 - Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (b. 1911)
1967 - Dang Van Ngu, Vietnamese doctor and intellectual (b. 1910)
1968 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist (b. 1908)
1976 – Max Ernst, German painter (b. 1891)
1984 – Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)
1990 – Carlos Peucelle, Argentine footballer (b. 1908)
1991 – Martha Graham, American choreographer (b. 1894)
1991 - Jaime Guzman, Chilean politician (b. 1946)
1991 – Detlev Rohwedder, German manager and politician (b. 1932)
1992 - Michael Havers, Baron Havers, English lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
1992 - Nigel Preston, English musician (b. 1959)
1993 - Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Spanish royal (b. 1913)
1994 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer (b. 1912)
1997 - Makar Honcharenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1912)
1998 – Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1922)
2002 – Simo Hayha, Finnish sniper (b. 1905)
2004 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (b. 1946)
2005 – Harald Juhnke, German entertainer (b. 1929)
2006 - In Tam, Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1916)
2007 - Hans Filbinger, German politician (b. 1913)
2009 – Arne Andersson, Swedish middle-distance runner (b. 1917)
2009 - Umberto Betti, Italian cardinal (b. 1922)
2010 – John Forsythe, American actor (b. 1918)
2010 – Ed Roberts, American computer engineer (b. 1941)
2010 – Tzannis Tzannetakis, Greek Prime Minister (b. 1927)
2011 - Varkey Vithayathil, Indian cardinal (b. 1927)
2012 – Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian footballer (b. 1947)
2012 – Leila Denmark, American pediatrician and supercentenarian (b. 1898)
2012 – Miguel de la Madrid, 52nd President of Mexico (b. 1934)
2013 - Moses Blah, President of Liberia (b. 1947)
2014 - Jacques Le Goff, French historian (b. 1924)
2014 - Merimeri Penfold, New Zealand academic (b. 1920)
2014 - Anker Buch, Danish violinist (b. 1940)
2014 - Carlos Oneto, Peruvian actor and comic (b. 1929)
2014 - Bill Mitchell, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1930)
2014 - King Fleming, American jazz pianist (b. 1922)
2015 - Misao Okawa, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1898)
2015 - Cynthia Lennon, first wife of John Lennon and mother of Julian Lennon (b. 1939)
2015 - Eddie LeBaron, American football player (b. 1930)
2015 - Nicolae Rainea, Romanian football referee (b. 1933)
2015 - John Paul Hammerschmidt, American politician (b. 1922)
2016 - Pratyusha Banerjee, Indian actress (b. 1991)
2016 - Emil Keres, Hungarian actor (b. 1925)
2017 - Gary Austin, American theatre writer and director (b. 1941)
2017 - Lonnie Brooks, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1933)
2017 - Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor (b. 1939)
2017 - Darcus Howe, Trinidadian-born British editor and civil rights activist (b. 1943)
2017 - Antonio Lamela, Spanish architect (b. 1926)
2017 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (b. 1932)
2017 - Burton Watson, American translator (b. 1925)
2018 - Bob Beattie, American skiing coach and sports commentator (b. 1933)
2018 - Steven Bochco, American television producer (b. 1943)
2018 - Evert Kroon, Dutch water polo player (b. 1946)
2018 - Avichai Rontzki, Israeli general (b. 1951)
2018 - Michel Sénéchal, French tenor (b. 1927)
2018 - Efraín Ríos Montt, President of Guatemala (b. 1926)
2019 - Dimitar Dobrev, Bulgarian wrestler (b. 1931)
2019 - Francisco Massiani, Venezuelan writer and painter (b. 1944)
2019 - Vonda N. McIntyre, American science fiction author (b. 1948)
2019 - Kit Napier, Scottish footballer (b. 1943)
2019 - Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (b. 1927)
2019 - Ruth-Margret Pütz, German soprano (b. 1930)
Islamic Republic Day in Iran
Orissa Day in Orissa, India
First day of school in Japan
April 01
307 - Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, is poisoned, and succeeded by his son, Jin Huaidi.
871 – Battle of Ashdown – Ethelred of Wessex defeats Danish invasion army.
1198 – Innocent III becomes Pope.
1297 - François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the Rock of Monaco; from then on, his family rules the Principality of Monaco.
1499 - King Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
1697 - Thomas Aikenhead of Edinburgh becomes the last person in Scotland, and in the present-day United Kingdom, to be executed for blasphemy.
1734 – Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
1746 – Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
1781 - An earthquake hits Tabriz, Persia, killing over 50,000 people.
1790 - In New York City, George Washington makes the US' first State of the Union Address.
1806 – Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
1815 – War of 1812: In the Battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
1835 - US national debt is at zero, for the only time in US history.
1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
1856 – Borax is discovered (John Veatch).
1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield.
1867 – African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.
1877 – In Montana, Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry.
1889 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine.
1893 - Captain Thomas Robertson discovers Dundee Island in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica.
1894 – A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago causes a good deal of damage.
1900 – United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
1906 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20 due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.
1908 – A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.
1912 - The African National Congress is founded.
1916 – World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.
1918 – President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
1926 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.
1935 – A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.
1942 - World War II: To stop Japanese advances in the Pacific Ocean, the Allies create the commando ABDACOM.
1953 – René Mayer becomes Prime Minister of France.
1958 – 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.
1959 – Michel Debré becomes Prime Minister of France, while Charles de Gaulle becomes the first President of France's Fifth Republic.
1961 - In a referendum, a majority of French voters supports Charles de Gaulle's policies on Algeria, which would lead towards the country's independence from France.
1963 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC).
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
1971 - Bowing to international pressure, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial begins for seven men accused of placing bugs in United States Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel.
1973 - The Soviet Luna 21 space mission is launched.
1975 – Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.
1977 - Three bombs explode in Moscow, within 37 minutes, killing 7 people.
These attacks are suspected to have been carried out by an Armenian Separatist group.
1982 – AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
1989 – Kegworth Air Disaster: British Midland Flight 92 crashes onto the M1 motorway, killing 47 people out of the 127 on board.
1992 – President of the United States George H. W. Bush becomes ill on a visit in Japan and vomits on the Japanese Prime Minister.
1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir.
He will stay on the space station till March 22, 1995 for a record 437 days in space.
1996 – An Antonov 32 cargo jet crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people
1998 – Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the World Trade Center bombing and for planning Project Bojinka.
1999 – Cosmologists announce that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing.
2003 - In Kosciuszko National Park in Australia, following several lightning strikes during the dry season, bush fires break out.
2003 – US Airways flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina killing all 21 people aboard.
2004 – Queen Elizabeth names the Queen Mary II cruise liner, the largest passenger ship ever built.
2010 – The Togo national football team is targeted in an attack in Cabinda, Angola, and therefore withdraws from the African Cup of Nations.
2011 – 2011 Tucson shooting: Six people are killed in a shooting in Tucson, Arizona, and several are injured, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
Jared Lee Loughner is arrested for the shooting.
2015 - Maithripala Sirisena is elected President of Sri Lanka, defeating Mahinda Rajapaksa, and takes office the next day.
1360 - Ulrich von Jungingen, 26th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d. 1410)
1529 - John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony (d. 1595)
1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer (d. 1616)
1587 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Dutch colonial Governor (d. 1629)
1601 - Baltasar Gracian, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
1735 - John Carroll, first Bishop in the United States (d. 1815)
1788 – Archduke Rudolph of Austria (d. 1831)
1788 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
1805 - John Bigler, 3rd Governor of California (d. 1871)
1817 – Theophilus Shepstone, South African politician (d. 1893)
1821 – James Longstreet, American Confederate General (d. 1904)
1822 - Alfredo Piatti, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1901)
1823 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)
1824 - Wilkie Collins, British writer (d. 1889)
1824 - Francisco Gonzalez Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)
1834 - Larin Paraske, Finnish runic singer (d. 1904)
1849 – Stepan Makarov, Russian admiral, explorer and writer (d. 1904)
1859 - Fanny Bullock Workman, American geographer, cartographer, explorer, traveler and mountaineer (d. 1925)
1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)
1864 – Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892)
1865 - Winnaretta Singer, American patron of French music, arts, sciences and letters (d. 1943)
1866 - William G. Conley, 18th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1940)
1867 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist (d. 1961)
1868 – Frank Dyson, English astronomer (d. 1939)
1870 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (d. 1930)
1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)
1873 – Elena of Montenegro, Queen of Italy (d. 1956)
1873 – Iuliu Maniu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1953)
1876 - Arturs Alberings, Prime Minister of Latvia (d. 1934)
1879 - Charles Bryant, British actor and movie director (d. 1948)
1883 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, American soldier, statesman and diplomat (d. 1963)
1885 – John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1945)
1886 - Thomas January, American soccer player (d. 1957)
1888 - Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972)
1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972)
1891 – Walther Bothe, German physicist (d. 1957)
1894 - Maximilian Kolbe, Polish Franciscan friar (d. 1944)
1896 - Jaromir Weinberger, Czech-American composer (d. 1967)
1897 - Dennis Wheatley, English writer (d. 1977)
1899 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka (d. 1959)
1900 - François de Menthon, French politician and jurist (d. 1984)
1902 – Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)
1902 – Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov, Soviet politician (d. 1988)
1904 - Tampa Red, American blues musician (d. 1981)
1905 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)
1905 – Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher (d. 1997)
1906 - Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter (d. 1969)
1908 – William Hartnell, English actor (d. 1975)
1909 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
1910 – Galina Ulanova, Russian |ballerina (d. 1998)
1912 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor and director (d. 1992)
1912 - Lawrence Walsh, American-Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
1917 - Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, American writer (d. 1994)
1921 - Leonardo Sciascia, Italian writer (d. 1989)
1922 - Dale D. Myers, American Deputy Administrator of NASA (d. 2015)
1922 - Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 1986)
1923 – Larry Storch, American actor
1923 - Bryce DeWitt, American theoretical physicist (d. 2004)
1924 – Ron Moody, English actor (d. 2015)
1925 – Helmuth Hubener, German activist (d. 1942)
1926 - Evelyn Lear, American soprano (d. 2012)
1926 – Soupy Sales, American comedian (d. 2009)
1928 - Luther Perkins, American guitarist (d. 1968)
1929 – Wolfgang Peters, German footballer (d. 2003)
1929 - Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor (d. 2015)
1931 – Bill Graham, German rock music entrepreneur (d. 1991)
1933 - Ko Un, Korean poet
1933 - Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Egyptian actress (d. 2014)
1934 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
1934 – Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988)
1934 - Ronald Greenwald, American rabbi and activist (d. 2016)
1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
1936 - Jyotindra Nath Dixit, Indian diplomat and politician (d. 2005)
1936 - Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-English zoologist, ecologist and academic
1937 – Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
1938 - Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian opera singer
1938 – Bob Eubanks, American game show host
1939 - Nanda, Indian actress (d. 2014)
1941 – Graham Chapman, English comedian (d. 1989)
1942 – Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and writer (d. 2018)
1942 – Junichiro Koizumi, former Prime Minister of Japan
1942 - Vyacheslav Zudov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut
1942 - Valya Balkanska, Bulgarian folk singer
1942 - Robin Ellis, English actor
1942 - Yvette Mimieux, American actress
1944 - Terry Brooks, American author
1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician
1947 - Ashura Hara, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2015)
1947 – David Bowie, English rock music singer, musician and actor (d. 2016)
1947 - Terry Sylvester, English singer and guitarist
1947 - Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician
1948 - Jerzy Kaczmarek, Polish fencer
1949 - John Podesta, American politician, 20th White House Chief of Staff
1949 - Kozo Kinomoto, Japanese footballer (d. 2017)
1951 – Kenny Anthony, former Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
1951 - John McTiernan, American director and producer
1951 - Franz Pachl, German chess player
1958 - Roman Wojcicki, Polish footballer
1958 - Rey Mysterio, Sr.,
Mexican wrestler
1958 - Betsy DeVos, 11th United States Secretary of Education
1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer
1959 - Duk Koo Kim, South Korean boxer (d. 1982)
1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete
1964 - Ron Sexsmith, Canadian singer-songwriter
1964 - José-Luis Carranza, Peruvian footballer
1967 - Willie Anderson, American basketball player
1967 - Tom Watson, English politician
1967 – R. Kelly, American R&B singer
1968 - James Brokenshire, English politician
1969 - Ami Dolenz, American actress
1969 - J. Hunter Johnson, American game designer, author and translator
1971 – Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer
1972 – Giuseppe Favalli, Italian footballer
1972 - Paul Clement, English football manager
1973 – Sean Paul, Jamaican reggae singer
1973 - Henning Solberg, Norwegian rally driver
1975 - Chris Simmons, English actor
1976 – Marcelo Gallardo, Argentine footballer
1977 - Amber Benson, American actress
1978 – Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player
1979 – Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer
1979 - Windell Middlebrooks, American actor (d. 2015)
1979 – Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer
1979 - Sarah Polley, Canadian movie actress, director and screenwriter
1979 - Tomasz Schafernaker, Polish-English meteorologist
1979 – Seol Ki-hyeon, South Korean footballer
1980 – Lee Jung-soo, South Korean footballer
1981 – Genevieve Cortese, American actress
1982 - Huang Sui, Chinese badminton player
1982 – John Utaka, Nigerian footballer
1983 - Felipe Colombo, Mexican-Argentine singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
1983 – Kim Jong-un, North Korean leader
1986 – David Silva, Spanish footballer
1986 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
1989 – Aaron Cruden, New Zealand rugby player
1990 - Xu Xin, Chinese ping-pong player
1991 - Jorge Enriquez, Mexican footballer
1992 - Koke, Spanish footballer
1993 - Tang Yi, Chinese swimmer
1995 - Kyle Edmund, English tennis player
1997 - Jack Andraka, American inventor
2000 – Noah Cyrus, American actress
2011 – Prince Vincent of Denmark
2011 – Princess Josephine of Denmark
307 - Jin Huidi, Emperor of China (b. 259)
482 - Severinus of Noricum, Italian saint (b. 410)
1107 – Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
1198 - Pope Celestine III (b. 1106)
1324 – Marco Polo, Italian trader and explorer (b. 1254)
1337 - Giotto, Italian painter and architect (b. 1266)
1598 - John George, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1525)
1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer (b. 1564)
1697 – Thomas Aikenhead, Scottish student, executed under Blasphemy law (b. 1676)
1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)
1775 - John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)
1794 - Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1729)
1815 – Edward Pakenham, British general (b. 1778)
1818 - Robert Bowie, Governor of Maryland (b. 1750)
1825 – Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
1878 – Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
1880 – Emperor Norton, self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States (b. 1819)
1896 - William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
1918 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
1919 - Peter Altenberg, Austrian writer (b. 1859)
1925 - Fernand Sanz, French cyclist (b. 1881)
1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian poet (b. 1880)
1941 – Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of Scouting (b. 1857)
1943 - Richard Hillary, American pilot and author (b. 1919)
1948 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (b. 1891)
1948 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter (b. 1887)
1950 – Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)
1952 - Antonia Maury, American astronomer (b. 1866)
1953 - Hugh Binney, British naval commander and Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)
1958 - Paul Pilgrim, American runner (b. 1883)
1964 - Julius Raab, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1891)
1969 – Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
1976 – Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
1983 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
1990 - Jaime Gil de Biedma, Spanish poet (b. 1929)
1991 – Steve Clark, British guitarist (b. 1960)
1996 - Metin Göktepe, Turkish photographer and journalist (b. 1968)
1996 – François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
1997 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist (b. 1911)
1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
2002 – Alexander Prokhorov, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
2002 – Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's fast food chain (b. 1932)
2003 - Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925)
2005 – Michel Thomas, Polish-American linguist (b. 1914)
2006 – Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
2007 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian actress (b. 1922)
2007 – Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
2010 – Art Clokey, American animator (b. 1921)
2011 - Jiri Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician (b. 1937)
2011 – John Roll, American judge (b. 1947)
2012 - Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian pianist (b. 1929)
2013 - Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian Inuit artist (b. 1927)
2015 - Kep Enderby, Australian politician and judge (b. 1926)
2015 - Ray McFall, British nightclub owner (b. 1926)
2015 - Andraé Crouch, American gospel singer (b. 1942)
2015 - Hubert Markl, German biologist (b. 1938)
2015 - Leif Rantala, Finnish linguist (b. 1947)
2016 - German Moreno, Filipino television host (b. 1933)
2016 - André Courrèges, French fashion designer (b. 1923)
2016 - Red Simpson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
2016 - Otis Clay, American singer (b. 1942)
2016 - Oscar Fritschi, Swiss politician (b. 1939)
2016 - Royal Parker, American television personality (b. 1929)
2016 - Piet Steenkamp, Dutch footballer (b. 1925)
2017 - James Mancham, 1st President of the Seychelles (b. 1939)
2017 - Ruth Perry, Liberian politician (b. 1939)
2017 - Hashemi Rafsanjani, 4th President of Iran (b. 1934)
2017 - Peter Sarstedt, English singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
2017 - Buddy Bregman, American arranger, producer and composer (b. 1930)
2017 - Klaib Al-Fawwaz, Jordanian diplomat and politician (b. 1950)
2017 - Miriam Goldberg, American newspaper publisher (b. 1916)
2017 - Roy Innis, American civil rights activist and politician (b. 1934)
2017 - Abdulkadir Kure, Nigerian politician (b. 1956)
2017 - Eli Zelkha, Iranian-American entrepreneur (b. 1950)
2017 - Nigel Spearing, British politician (b. 1930)
2018 - George Maxwell Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1931)
2018 - Kato Ottio, Papua New Guinean rugby league player (b. 1994)
2018 - Denise LaSalle, American singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
Commonwealth Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
Celebration of Elvis Presley's Birthday at Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee
Kim Jong-un's Birthday (North Korea)
January 08
23  Rebels capture the then-Chinese capital city Chang'an during a peasant rebellion.
They kill and behead the Emperor, Wang Mang, two days later.
610  Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, otherthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
1511  Formation of a Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States, and the Republic of Venice against France.
1535  The first complete English language Bible is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
1582  Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar.
In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15, skipping over 10 days.
1636  Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
1693  Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
1725  The city of Rosario, Argentina is founded.
1744  British sailing ship Victory is last seen, near the Channel Islands in the English Channel.
During the night, it sinks, killing 1,150 people.
1777  American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Germantown, troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
1824  Mexico becomes a republic.
1830  Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.
1853  Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
1883  First run of the Orient Express
1883  First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
1895  The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship run by the United States Golf Association was played on a nine-hole course in Newport, Rhode Island.
1910  Portugal becomes a republic.
King Manuel II flees to Britain.
1917  World War I: The Battle of Broadseinde is fought between British and German armies in Flanders.
1918  An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys the T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey.
1927  Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
1943  World War II: US forces re-capture the Solomon Islands.
1957  Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1958  The Fifth Republic of France established.
1959  The Soviet Union sends the Lunik 3 probe to the Moon.
1960  An Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-188 Electra flying from Boston crashes killing 62 people after a bird strike.
1963  Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph, driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
1965  Pope Paul VI becomes the first Pope to visit the United States, as he arrives in New York City.
1966  Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
1967  Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, Hassanal Bolkiah.
1974  Founding of the New Democracy political party in Greece.
1983  Richard Noble sets a new land-speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019 kilometres per hour), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
1985  The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts.
1988  Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
1991  The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was opened for signature.
1992  An El Al Boeing 747-200F crashes into 2 apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 38 on the ground.
See Bijlmerramp.
1992  The Rome General Peace Accords end the 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
1993  At the climax of the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders army tanks to begin the storming of the Russian parliament building.
1997  The second-largest cash robbery in United States history takes place in Charlotte, North Carolina.
1998  Leafie Mason of Hughes Springs, Texas is murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz.
She is Angel's second victim in his second incident.
2001  A Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile.
78 people are killed.
2003  Maxim restaurant suicide bombing: A female Palestinian suicide bomber, Hanadi Jaradat, exploded inside the Maxim restaurant in Haifa.
21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, were killed, and 51 others were wounded.
2004  SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
2006  WikiLeaks is launched by Julian Assange.
2006  Lesotho changes its flag.
2010  Toxic red sludge escapes from the Ajka alumina plant in western Hungary, causing an environmental disaster and killing at least nine people.
2016  Hurricane Matthew hits Haiti and the Dominican Republic, causing flooding, destroying homes and killing seven people.
1160  Alys, Countess of Vexin (died 1220)
1268  King Eric II of Norway (died 1299)
1274  Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (died 1319)
1276  Margaret of Brabant, Queen of Germany (died 1311)
1289  King Louis X of France (died 1316)
1379  King Henry III of Castile (died 1406)
1515  Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (died 1586)
1542  Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (died 1621)
1550  King Charles IX of Sweden (died 1611)
1562  Christian Sorensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (died 1647)
1585  Anna of Tyrol, Empress Consort of the Holy Roman Empire (died 1618)
1625  Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy and nun (died 1661)
1626  Richard Cromwell, English politician (died 1712)
1633  Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (died 1714)
1657  Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (died 1747)
1687  Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (died 1768)
1720  Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian painter (died 1778)
1759  Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (died 1803)
1787  François Guizot, French statesman (died 1874)
1797  Jeremias Gotthelf, Swiss writer (died 1854)
1808  Giovanni Battista Pioda, Swiss politician and diplomat (died 1882)
1814  Jean-François Millet, French painter (died 1875)
1819  Francesco Crispi, Italian politician (died 1901)
1822  Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (died 1893)
1833  John Anderson, Scottish zoologist (died 1900)
1835  Grigory Potanin, Russian explorer (died 1920)
1836  Juliette Adam, French writer and activist (died 1936)
1837  Mary Elizabeth Braddon, English writer (died 1915)
1841  Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (died 1912)
1841  Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Queen of the Two Sicilies (died 1925)
1843  Marie Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, Palestinian nun and saint (died 1927)
1858  Michael Pupin, telephone pioneer, Pulitzer Prize winning writer (died 1935)
1861  Frederic Remington, American painter (died 1909)
1862  Edward Stratemeyer, American writer (died 1930)
1863  Samuel Prescott Bush, American industrialist (died 1948)
1868  Marcelo T. de Alvear, Argentine politician (died 1942)
1876  Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (died 1958)
1877  Razor Smith, English cricketer (died 1946)
1880  Damon Runyon, writer (died 1946)
1881  Walther von Brauchitsch, German Commander-in-Chief (died 1948)
1886  Erich Fellgiebel, German military officer and Resistance activist (died 1944)
1888  Friedrich Olbricht, German general and Resistance activist (died 1944)
1892  Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician (died 1934)
1895  Buster Keaton, American comedian, producer and actor (died 1966)
1895  Richard Sorge, German-Soviet spy (died 1944)
1899  Franz Jonas, President of Austria (died 1974)
1903  John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (died 1995)
1903  Ernst Kaltenbrunner, German military officer (died 1946)
1913  Martial Celestin, Prime Minister of Haiti (died 2011)
1914  Jim Cairns, Australian politician (died 2003)
1916  Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (died 2009)
1916  Jan Murray, American comedian, actor and game show host (died 2006)
1916  George Sidney, American director (died 2002)
1917  Luis Carniglia, Argentine footballer (died 2001)
1917  Jan Murray, American comedienne (died 2006)
1918  Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist (died 1998)
1918  Giovanni Cheli, Italian cardinal (died 2013)
1921  Francisco Morales-Bermúdez, former President of Peru
1922  Malcolm Baldridge, American politician (died 1987)
1922  Don Lenhardt, American baseball player (died 2014)
1923  Charlton Heston, American actor (died 2008)
1927  Virginia Luque, Argentine actress and singer (died 2014)
1928  Alvin Toffler, American writer and futurist (died 2016)
1930  Svava Jakobsdóttir, Icelandic author and politician (died 2004)
1931  Richard Rorty, American philosopher and academic (died 2007)
1931  Basil D'Oliveira, South African-born cricketer (died 2011)
1931  Terence Conran, English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer
1931  Thane Baker, American athlete
1933  German Moreno, Filipino television host, actor and comedian (died 2016)
1934  Sam Huff, American football player
1936  Cynthia McLeod, Surinamese writer, daughter of Johan Ferrier
1937  Franz Vranitzky, former Chancellor of Austria
1937  Jackie Collins, English writer (died 2015)
1937  Jim Sillars, Scottish politician
1938  Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1939  Ivan Mauger, New Zealand speedway rider (died 2018)
1940  Silvio Marzolini, Argentine footballer
1941  Anne Rice, American writer
1942  Johanna Sigurdardottir, former Prime Minister of Iceland
1942  Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot (died 1967)
1943  H. Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin), American civil rights activist
1943  Buddy Roemer, former Governor of Louisiana (d. 2021)
1943  Owen Davidson, Australian tennis player
1946  Susan Sarandon, American actress
1946  Chuck Hagel, American politician
1946  Bridget St. John, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947  Jim Fielder, American bass player
1947  Julien Clerc, French singer
1947  Ann Widdecombe, British politician
1949  Antonello Cuccureddu, Italian footballer and coach
1949  Armand Assante, actor
1949  Ally Hunter, Scottish footballer
1953  Tchéky Karyo, actor
1955  John Rutherford, Scottish rugby player
1955  Andy Pichler, Austrian footballer
1955  Jorge Valdano, Argentine footballer
1956  Christoph Waltz, Austrian actor
1958  Yevgeny Bushmin, Russian politician (died 2019)
1958  Anneka Rice, Welsh television and radio presenter
1959  Chris Lowe, English musician (Pet Shop Boys)
1959  Tony Meo, English snooker player
1960  Henry Worsley, English explorer (died 2016)
1961  Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese writer and artist
1961  Philippe Russo, French singer-songwriter
1962  Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer
1962  Marc Minkowski, French conductor
1963  A.C. Green, American basketball player
1963  Mark Powley, English actor
1964  Francis Magalona, Filipino entertainer (died 2009)
1964  Sarah Lancashire, English actress
1964  Yvonne Murray, Scottish athlete
1967  Liev Schreiber, actor
1967  Marcus Bentley, British voice actor
1968  Beverley Allitt, British nurse and serial killer
1975  Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian footballer
1976  Alicia Silverstone, American actress
1976  Mauro Camoranesi, Argentine-Italian footballer
1976  Ueli Steck, Swiss climber (died 2017)
1977  Richard Parry, Canadian musician and songwriter
1978  Kei Horie, Japanese actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1979  Björn Phau, German tennis player
1979  Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress and model
1980  Tomas Rosicky, Czech footballer
1982  Kasia Madera, British television journalist
1982  Ilhan Omar, Somali-born American politician
1984  Elena Sergeyevna Katina, Russian musician (t.A.T.u.)
1985  Shontelle, Barbadian singer-songwriter
1985  Thorsten Wiedemann, German rugby player
1986  Sara Forestier, French actress
1986  Yuridia, Mexican singer
1987  Juan Pablo García, Mexican racing driver
1987  Marina Weisband, German politician
1988  Evgeni Krasnopolski, Israeli figure skater
1988  Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer
1988  Derrick Rose, American basketball player
1988  Magdaléna Rybáriková, Slovakian tennis player
1989  Kimmie Meissner, American figure skater
1989  Lil Mama, American singer and rapper
1989  Stacey Solomon, English singer
1989  Dakota Johnson, American model and actress
1991  Leigh-Anne Pinnock, English singer (Little Mix)
1994  Ignazio Boschetto, Italian singer (Il Volo)