the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1997 - Daphne Blunt, American actress and singer
1998 - Amandla Stenberg, American actress
42 BC – Marcus Junius Brutus (suicide) (b. 85 BC)
877 - Ignatius, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 797)
891 - Yazaman al-Khadim, Arab military leader
930 – Emperor Daigo of Japan (b. 885)
1157 - Sweyn III of Denmark (b. 1120)
1456 - Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1381)
1581 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
1616 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
1774 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. 1715)
1869 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
1872 – Théophile Gautier, French writer (b. 1811)
1885 - Charles S. West, Texan jurist and politician (b. 1829)
1893 - Alexander Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria (b. 1857)
1896 - Columbus Delano, American politician (b. 1809)
1910 – Chulalongkorn (Rama V), King of Siam (now Thailand) (b. 1853)
1915 – W. G. Grace, English cricketer (b. 1848)
1921 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (b. 1840)
1930 - Vicente Casanova y Marzol, Archbishop of Granada (b. 1854)
1938 - Jean-Guy Gautier, French rugby player (b. 1875)
1939 – Zane Grey, American writer (b. 1872)
1940 - George R. Cortelyou, American politician (b. 1862)
1944 – Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist (b. 1877)
1944 - Hana Brady, Czech Holocaust victim (b. 1931)
1948 - Carl Edward Bailey, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1894)
1950 – Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886)
1957 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905)
1959 - Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
1979 - Antonio Caggiano, Argentine cardinal (b. 1889)
1983 – Jessica Savitch, journalist (b. 1947)
1984 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922)
1986 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, won the 1843 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
1988 - Asashio Taro III, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1929)
1989 - Armida, Mexican-American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1911)
1990 – Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (b. 1918)
1994 - Robert Lansing, American actor (b. 1928)
1997 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1916)
2000 - Rodney Adnoa'i, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2003 – Tony Capstick, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster (b. 1944)
2003 – Soong May-ling, widow of Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1898)
2004 - George Silk, New Zealand-American photographer (b. 1916)
2005 - John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
2009 – Lou Jacobi, Canadian actor (b. 1913)
2010 – David Thompson, Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1961)
2011 - Nusrat Bhutto, former First Lady of Pakistan (b. 1929)
2011 – Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1987)
2011 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning chemist (b. 1917)
2011 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist (b. 1927)
2011 - Bronislovas Lubys, former Prime Minister of Lithuania (b. 1938)
2012 - Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian novelist and poet (b. 1934)
2012 - Wilhelm Brasse, Polish photographer (b. 1917)
2013 - Bill Mazer, American TV and radio presenter (b. 1920)
2013 - Anthony Caro, British sculptor (b. 1924)
2014 - Alvin Stardust, British singer (b. 1942)
2014 - Ghulam Azam, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1922)
2014 - John Bramlett, American football player (b. 1941)
2014 - Bernard Mayes, British author and broadcaster (b. 1929)
2014 - André Piters, Belgian footballer (b. 1931)
2014 - Tullio Regge, Italian physicist (b. 1931)
2015 - Krunoslav Hulak, Croatian chess player (b. 1951)
2015 - Leon Bibb, American folk singer (b. 1922)
2015 - Paride Tumburus, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
2015 - Jimmy Roberts, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1946)
2016 - Jimmy Perry, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1923)
2016 - Pete Burns, English singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
2016 - Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, former Emir of Qatar (b. 1932)
2017 - Walter Lassally, German-born British-Greek cinematographer (b. 1926)
2017 - Paul J. Weitz, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1932)
2018 - Skip Campbell, American politician (b. 1948)
2018 - James Karen, American actor (b. 1923)
2018 - Alojz Rebula, Italian-Slovenian writer, playwright and essayist (b. 1924)
2018 - Laurens van Ravens, Belgian football referee (b. 1922)
2019 - Santos Juliá, Spanish historian and sociologist (b. 1940)
2019 - James W. Montgomery, American Episcopalian prelate (b. 1921)
2019 - Alfred Znamierowski, Polish vexillologist (b. 1940)
Mole Day (Chemists)
Chulalongkorn Day (Thailand)
National Day of Hungary
Day of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle
1341 - The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 begins.
1597 - Imjin War: Admiral Yi Sun-sin decisively defeats the Japanese navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships of his own.
1640 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of Scotland and England.
1689 – The Bill of Rights 1689 is recognised by Great Britain's dual monarchy.
1689 - General Enea Silvio Piccolimini of Austria burns down Skopje, in the present-day Republic of Macedonia.
1708 - The final stone of the newly-rebuilt St. Paul's Cathedral in London is laid by the son of Christopher Wren.
1774 - The First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1775 - George III of Great Britain and Ireland authorises military force against the American colonies.
1776 - Benjamin Franklin leaves the United States for France to seek French support for the American Revolutionary War.
1811 - Argentina's government declares the freedom of expression for the press by decree.
1813 - War of 1812: A combined force of British regulars, Canadian militia and Mohawks defeats the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.
1825 – The Erie Canal opens, linking Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
1859 - British clipper Royal Charter gets into a storm of the island of Anglesey, Wales, being thrown against rocks before sinking, killing 449 people, including all the women and children on board.
1861 - The Pony Express officially ends operations.
1863 - The English Football Association is founded.
1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place in Tombstone, Arizona.
1896 – Addis Ababa agreement forces Italy to recognise Ethiopia's independence.
1905 – Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
1909 – Japanese Governor of Korea, Hirobumi Ito is shot dead by Korean nationalist Ahn Jung-geun in Harbin, Manchuria.
1912 - First Balkan War: Thessaloniki officially unites with Greece.
1917 - World War I: In the Battle of Caporetto, Italy is decisively defeated by forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany.
1917 - World War I: Brazil declares a state of war against the Central Powers.
1918 - General Erich Ludendorff is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to take part in peace negotiations.
1921 - The Chicago Theatre opens.
1936 - The first electric generator at the Hoover Dam, on the Arizona-Nevada border, goes into full operation.
1942 - World War II: Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in the Guadalcanal Campaign, ending in Japanese victory.
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends in US victory.
1947 - The Maharaja, state ruler, of Kashmir & Jammu agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
1951 - Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a second time.
1955 – Austria declares permanent neutrality.
1955 – Ngo Dinh Diem declares himself leader of South Vietnam.
1958 - Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.
1964 - Eric Edgar Cooke is the last person to be executed in Western Australia.
1965 - Austria celebrates its national holiday on this date for the first time.
1967 - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, ruler of Iran, officially has himself crowned.
1968 - Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
1977 - The last natural case of Smallpox is discovered in Somalia.
1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is murdered by Kim Jae-kyu.
Choi Kyu-ha becomes acting President.
1984 – The movie The Terminator, directed by James Cameron, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, is released.
1984 - The 1984-85 NBA regular season begins.
1985 – Uluru (Ayers Rock) is returned to Pitjantjiara Aborigines.
1994 – Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty.
1995 – An avalanche hits the village of Flateyri, in Iceland's West Fjords, killing 20 people.
1995 - The European Parliament condemns French nuclear testing in the Pacific.
1997 - Canadian Jacques Villeneuve becomes the Formula One world champion.
1998 - President of Ecuador Jamil Mahuad and President of Peru Alberto Fujimori meet in Brasilia to agree to an end to their countries' border war.
2000 – Laurent Gbagbo becomes President of the Ivory Coast.
2001 - The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
2002 – Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian security forces storm a theatre building in Moscow, which had been occupied by terrorists for three days.
2003 – The Cedar fire occurs in California, killing 15 people, destroying 1, 000 square kilometres of forests, and 2,200 homes around San Diego.
2012 - Media tycoon and former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of tax fraud.
2015 - An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 strikes Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing at least 365 people.
2017 - Jacinda Ardern becomes the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand, leading a Labour-New Zealand First Party coalition government.
2017 - The Tangerang fireworks disaster near Jakarta, Indonesia, kills at least 47 people.
2018 - October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts: Police in Florida arrest a 56-year-old suspect, Cesar Sayoc, in their hunt for the sender of several mail bombs to well-known figures in the US Democratic party and people who have criticized US President Donald Trump.
2018 - Michael D. Higgins is re-elected President of Ireland; on the same day the country's voters also vote to get rid of its blasphemy law.
2019 - Climbing the rock Uluru in Australia is officially banned.
2019 - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, is reported to have blown himself up during a US military operation in Northern Syria.
968 - Emperor Kazan of Japan (d. 1008)
1416 - Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent, English nobleman (d. 1490)
1427 – Archduke Sigismund of Austria (d. 1496)
1431 - Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Italian nobleman (d. 1505)
1473 - Friedrich of Saxony, German nobleman (d. 1510)
1491 – Zhengde, Chinese Emperor (d. 1521)
1609 - William Sprague, English-born co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)
1673 - Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldovan prince and polymath (d. 1723)
1684 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (d. 1757)
1685 – Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1757)
1694 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (d. 1758)
1697 – John Peter Zenger, German-American journalist, publisher and editor (d. 1746)
1757 – Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (d. 1823)
1759 - Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary leader (d. 1794)
1768 - Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (d. 1844)
1778 - Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg, Scottish politician and colonial administrator (d. 1866)
1794 – Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881) (Nov 6 in Gregorian calendar)
1800 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (d. 1891)
1802 – King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866)
1803 - Joseph Hansom, English architect and inventor (d. 1882)
1842 – Vasily Vereshchagin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
1849 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917)
1850 - Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian, archaeologist (d. 1909)
1859 - Elizabeth Nourse, American painter (d. 1938)
1861 - Richard Sears, American tennis player (d. 1943)
1862 - Hilma af Klint, Swedish artist and mystic (d. 1944)
1865 - Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (d. 1912)
1869 – Washington Martínez Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (d. 1967)
1872 - Harold Fraser, American golfer (d. 1945)
1873 – Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1942)
1874 - Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American art collector (d. 1948)
1874 - Martin Lowry, English physical chemist (d. 1936)
1880 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (d. 1934)
1880 - Dmitry Karbyshev, Russian general (d. 1945)
1881 - Louis Bastien, French cyclist (d. 1963)
1883 - Napoleon Hill, American writer and philosopher (d. 1970)
1883 - Paul Pilgrim, American runner (d. 1958)
1890 - Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, Indian journalist and freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1900 - Karin Boye, Swedish writer (d. 1941)
1900 – Ibrahim Abboud, President of Sudan (d. 1983)
1902 - Beryl Markham, British aviation pioneer (d. 1986)
1902 - Henrietta Hill Swope, American astronomer (d. 1980)
1906 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (d. 1967)
1909 - Ignace Lepp, French psychologist, writer and priest (d. 1966)
1910 - John Krol, American cardinal (d. 1996)
1911 - Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (d. 1996)
1911 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer (d. 1972)
1912 – Don Siegel, American director (d. 1991)
1913 - Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader (d. 1991)
1914 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (d. 1984)
1916 – François Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996)
1919 – Edward Brooke, American politician (d. 2015)
1919 – Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (d. 1980)
1919 - Princess Ashraf of Iran (d. 2016)
1919 - Thomas Funck, Swedish writer (d. 2010)
1919 - Jacob Pressman, American rabbi (d. 2015)
1922 - Madelyn Dunham, grandmother of Barack Obama (d. 2008)
1922 - Darcy Ribeiro, Brazilian anthropologist, author and politician (d. 1997)
1924 - Shaw Taylor, English actor and television presenter (d. 2015)
1924 - Reg Withers, Australian politician (d. 2014)
1926 – Bernhard Klodt, German footballer (d. 1996)
1926 - Bo Carpelan, Finnish writer (d. 2011)
1928 - Albert Brewer, former Governor of Alabama (d. 2017)
1930 - John Arden, British writer and dramatist (d. 2012)
1931 - Ronald Drever, Scottish physicist (d. 2017)
1933 - Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek movie director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1934 - Jacques Loussier, French pianist (d. 2019)
1934 - Ulrich Plenzdorf, German author, screenwriter and dramatist (d. 2007)
1934 - Rod Hundley, American basketball player (d. 2015)
1935 - Mike Gray, American writer, screenwriter, cinematographer and producer (d. 2013)
1936 - Shelley Morrison, American actress (d. 2019)
1936 - György Pauk, Hungarian violinist
1939 - Willie Stevenson, Scottish footballer
1940 - Eddie Henderson, American jazz musician
1941 - Charlie Landsborough, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 - Milton Nascimento, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 – Bob Hoskins, English actor (d. 2014)
1944 - Jim McCann, Irish musician (d. 2015)
1945 - Pat Conroy, American writer (d. 2016)
1945 - Jaclyn Smith, American actress
1946 - Kevin Barron, English politician
1946 - Pat Sajak, American television host
1946 - Holly Woodlawn, American actress (d. 2015)
1947 – Hillary Clinton, 67th United States Secretary of State, and former First Lady of the United States
1947 – Christian Ude, German politician and former Mayor of Munich
1947 - Reg Empey, Northern Irish politician
1949 - Steve Rogers, American baseball player
1951 - Bootsy Collins, American musician
1951 - Tommy Mars, American musician
1952 - Arthur Graham, Scottish footballer
1952 – Andrew Motion, English poet
1952 - Lars Peter Hansen, American economist
1953 - Keith Strickland, American musician
1953 - Maureen Teefy, American actress
1955 - Baltasar Garzón, Spanish judge
1956 - Regina Benjamin, 18th Surgeon General of the United States
1956 - Rita Wilson, American actress
1957 - Hugh Dallas, Scottish football referee
1958 – Shaun Woodward, British politician
1959 – Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
1960 - Carlo Lucarelli, Italian writer and journalist
1961 - Dylan McDermott, American actor
1961 - Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya
1962 - Cary Elwes, English actor and writer
1963 - Natalie Merchant, American singer
1963 - Ted Demme, American director, producer and actor (d. 2002)
1963 - Tom Kavanagh, Canadian actor and director
1965 – Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress
1966 - Steve Valentine, Scottish actor
1966 - Judge Jules, English DJ and producer
1967 – Keith Urban, New Zealand singer
1967 – Douglas Alexander, British politician
1968 - Robert Jarni, Croatian footballer
1970 - Lisa Ryder, Canadian actress
1971 - Audley Harrison, English boxer
1971 - Anthony Rapp, American actor
1971 - Rosemarie DeWitt, American actress
1972 - Riaz, Bangladeshi movie actor
1972 - Shan Sa, Chinese-French author and painter
1973 – Seth MacFarlane, American animator, voice actor, producer and director, creator of Family Guy and American Dad
1973 – Austin Healey, English rugby player
1974 - Lisa, Japanese musician
1977 - Sarah Storey, British Paralympic swimmer and cyclist
1977 - Jon Heder, American actor
1978 – CM Punk, American professional wrestler
1979 - Movsar Barayev, Chechnen militant (d. 2002)
1980 – Cristian Chivu, Romanian footballer
1980 - Khalid Abdalla, British actor
1981 - Martina Schild, Swiss apline skier
1981 - Guy Sebastian, Australian singer
1982 - Nicola Adams, British boxer
1983 – Dmitri Sychev, Russian footballer
1983 – Luke Watson, South African rugby player
1984 – Adriano Correia Claro, Brazilian footballer
1984 – Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
1984 – Jefferson Farfán, Peruvian footballer
1985 – Kieran Read, New Zealand rugby player
1985 - Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player
1985 - Monta Ellis, American basketball player
1985 - Asin, Indian actress
1985 - Kafoumba Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer
1986 - Marco Ruben, Argentine footballer
1986 - Schoolboy Q, American hip hop musician
1988 – Greg Zuerlein, American ice dancer
1992 - Cody Zeller, American basketball player
1993 - Sergey Karasev, Russian footballer
1994 - Allie DeBerry, American actress
1996 - Rebecca Tunney, British gymnast
2002 - Emma Schweiger, German actress
664 - Cedd, English Anglo-Saxon monk and Bishop of London (b. around 620)
899 – Alfred the Great, Saxon king of England (b. 849)
1235 – King Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1175)
1440 – Gilles de Rais, French serial killer (b. 1404)
1580 - Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (b. 1549)
1609 - Matsudaira Tadayori, Japanese daimyo and samurai (b. 1582)
1633 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
1675 - William Sprague, English-born co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
1679 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman and dramatist (b. 1621)
1717 - Catherine Sedley, English royal mistress (b. 1657)
1764 – William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697)
1773 - Amedée-François Frezier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
1806 – John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
1864 - William T. Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1838)
1871 - Thomas Ewing, American politician (b. 1789)
1890 – Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (Pinocchio) (b. 1826)
1896 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
1901 - Alfred Tysoe, British athlete (b. 1874)
1902 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist, suffragette (b. 1815)
1909 – Prince Hirobumi Ito, former Japanese governor of Korea, and first Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1841)
1929 - Aby Warburg, German academic (b. 1866)
1931 – Charles Comiskey, American baseball owner (b. 1859)
1932 - Margaret Brown, American philanthropist, socialite and activist (b. 1867)
1937 – Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general, commander of Greater Poland Uprising in 1919 (b. 1867)
1941 – Arkady Gaidar, Soviet/Russian children's writer, died in combat (b. 1904)
1944 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (b. 1857)
1944 - William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
1945 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1863)
1945 - Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878)
1946 – Ioannis Rallis, Greek Prime Minister (b. 1878)
1947 – Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, Rector of Hexham Abbey and St Bartholomew the Great (b. 1861)
1952 – Hattie McDaniel, American singer (b. 1895)
1956 – Walter Gieseking, French conductor (b. 1895)
1957 – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883)
1957 - Gerty Cori, Czech-born American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1896)
1965 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (b. 1949)
1966 – Alma Cogan, British singer (b. 1932)
1971 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
1972 – Igor Sikorsky, helicopter pioneer (b. 1889)
1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (b. 1917)
1983 – Alfred Tarski, Polish mathematician (b. 1901)
1984 - Marc Kac, Polish mathematician (b. 1914)
1986 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
1989 – Charles J. Pedersen, American organic chemist (b. 1904)
1995 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913)
1999 – Hoyt Axton, musician (b. 1938)
1999 - Rex Gildo, German actor and singer (b. 1936)
2002 – Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908)
2002 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (b. 1979)
2005 - Rong Yiren, Chinese politician (b. 1916)
2007 - Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
2007 – Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American scientist (b. 1918)
2008 – Tony Hillerman, American writer (b. 1925)
2009 - George Na'ope, American musician (b. 1928)
2010 – Paul the Octopus, FIFA World Cup 'oracle' (b. 2008)
2011 – Jona Senilagakali, Fijian politician, diplomat and physician (b. 1929)
2012 - John M. Johansen, American architect (b. 1916)
2013 - Ron Davies, Welsh photographer (b. 1921)
2014 - Oscar Taveras, Dominican baseball player (b. 1992)
2014 - Mo Collins, American football player (b. 1976)
2014 - Germain Gagnon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1942)
2014 - Jeff Robinson, American baseball player (b. 1961)
2014 - Genpei Akasegawa, Japanese author and artist (b. 1937)
2014 - Senzo Meyiwa, South African footballer (b. 1987)
2015 - Ed Walker, American radio personality (b. 1932)
2015 - Leo Kadanoff, American physicist (b. 1937)
2017 - Ali Ashraf Darvishian, Iranian writer (b. 1941)
2017 - Arnett E. Girardeau, American politician (b. 1929)
2017 - Nelly Olin, French politician (b. 1941)
2017 - Stephen Toulouse, American policy specialist and policy relations manager (b. 1972)
2017 - Shea Norman, American gospel singer (b. 1971)
2018 - Nikolai Karachentsov, Russian actor (b. 1944)
2018 - Ana González de Recabarren, Chilean human rights activist (b. 1925)
2018 - Warren B. Hamilton, American geologist (b. 1925)
2018 - György Károly, Hungarian poet and novelist (b. 1953)
2019 - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi terrorist, leader of the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (b. 1971)
2019 - Paul Barrere, American guitarist (b. 1948)
2019 - Enriqueta Basilio, Mexican sprinter and hurdler (b. 1948)
2019 - Robert Evans, American film producer (b. 1930)
2019 - Chuck Meriwether, American baseball umpire (b. 1956)
2019 - V. Nanammal, Indian yoga teacher (b. 1920)
2019 - Natalya Pugacheva, Russian singer (Buranovskiye Babushki) (b. 1935)
2019 - Gregory E. Pyle, American politician (b. 1949)
2019 - Pascale Roberts, French actress (b. 1930)
National Holiday in Austria
Angam Day (Nauru)
Armed Forces Day (Benin)
Accession Day (Jammu and Kashmir)
Intersex Awareness Day
1548 - The city of La Paz, Bolivia, is founded.
1708 - The new Saint Paul's Cathedral in London, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.
1714 - George I of Great Britain and Ireland is crowned.
1720 - Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy.
1728 - The Great Fire of Copenhagen break out, and lasts for three days.
1740 – Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria.
France, Prussia, Bavaria, and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
1803 – United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
1818 - The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and United Kingdom.
Among other things, it settles most of the Canada-United States border to run along the 49th parallel.
1827 – Battle of Navarino – a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is destroyed by an allied British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece.
The most important result of this battle is the end of the Greek Liberation War and the affirmation of independence of modern Greece.
1831 - First day of trading on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
1883 – Peru and Chile signed the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province was ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
1904 - Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship.
1910 - The hull of the ship RMS Olympic is launched in Belfast.
1914 - World War I: The First Battle of Flanders begins.
1935 – The Long March ends in China.
1943 - Cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by allied aircraft at Suda Bay, Crete and sunk.
2,098 Italian POWs drown.
1944 – The Soviet army captures Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
1944 – Liquid natural gas leaks from storange tanks in Cleveland, Ohio, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
1947 – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
1948 - A KLM Lockheed L-049 Constellation airliner crashes at Glasgow Prestwick Airport in Scotland, killing all 40 people on board.
1952 - In then-British Kenya, leaders of the Mau-Mau uprising are arrested, including Jomo Kenyatta.
1968 – Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
1970 - Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state.
1971 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
1971 – The Nepal stock exchange collapses.
1973 – The Saturday Night Massacre: President Nixon fires Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
1973 – The Sydney Opera House opens.
1973 – The Six Million Dollar Man premieres on ABC.
1976 - The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship on the Mississippi River in Louisiana, killing 78 people.
1977 – A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing several band members, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines.
1982 – St. Louis Cardinals defeat Milwaukee Brewers 6-3 to win 9th World Series Championship.
1986 – Yitzhak Shamir begins his second office term as Israel's prime minister.
1991 – A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in northern India kills around 1,000 people.
1991 – The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage.
1995 - NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes resigns.
1999 – Abdurrahman Wahid is elected President of Indonesia.
2004 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono becomes President of Indonesia.
2007 – South Africa wins the Rugby World Cup, defeating England in the final.
2011 – 2011 Libyan civil war: Forces loyal to the National Transitional Council take the city of Sirte, the last remaining pro-Gaddafi stronghold.
Subsequently, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi is captured and killed.
2013 - Luxembourg holds an early election after long-serving Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker was involved in a spy scandal.
2014 - Joko Widodo becomes President of Indonesia.
2018 - Around 700,000 people march against Brexit (and for a second referendum on the issue) in London, in the biggest such gathering in the United Kingdom since 2003.
2018 - Donald Trump decides to pull the United States out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia.
1435 - Andrea Della Robbia, Italian sculptor (died 1525)
1463 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (died 1512)
1469 – Guru Nanak Dev ji, The Founder of the Sikh religion.
1496 - Claude, Duke of Guise, French general (d. 1550)
1616 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician and theologian (died 1680)
1632 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (died 1723)
1677 – Stanislaw I Leszczynski, King of Poland (died 1766)
1711 - Timothy Ruggles, American politician (died 1795)
1759 – Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (died 1815)
1780 - Pauline Bonaparte, French sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (died 1825)
1784 – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1865)
1785 - George Ormerod, British historian and antiquarian (died 1873)
1801 - Melchior Berri, Swiss architect (died 1854)
1808 – Karl Andree, German geographer (died 1875)
1819 – The Báb, prophet founder of the Bábí Faith, precursor to the Bahá'í Faith (died 1850)
1819 - Carl Mikuli, Polish pianist (died 1897)
1822 – Thomas Hughes, novelist (died 1896)
1825 - Daniel Sickles, American politician, soldier and diplomat (died 1914)
1832 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (died 1894)
1836 - Daniel Owen, Welsh novelist (died 1895)
1847 - Oscar Swahn, Swedish archer (died 1927)
1854 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (died 1891)
1854 - James F. Hinkle, 6th Governor of New Mexico (died 1951)
1858 – John Burns, English politician (died 1943)
1859 – John Dewey, American philosopher (died 1952)
1864 - James F. Hinkle, American politician, 6th Governor of New Mexico (died 1951)
1866 - Kazimierz Twardowski, Polish philosopher (died 1938)
1869 - Robin Welsh, Scottish curler and rugby union player (died 1934)
1873 - Nellie McClung, Canadian politician and activist (died 1951)
1874 – Charles Ives, American composer (died 1954)
1876 - Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (died 1953)
1882 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (died 1956)
1882 – Margaret Dumont, American actress (died 1965)
1887 - Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Japanese diplomat (died 1981)
1890 – Jelly Roll Morton, American composer, musician (died 1941)
1891 – Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (died 1978)
1891 – James Chadwick, English physicist (died 1974)
1893 – Charley Chase, early movie comedian (died 1940)
1894 - Olive Thomas, American actress and model (died 1920)
1895 - Rex Ingram, American actor (died 1969)
1897 – Crown Prince Eun of Korea (died 1970)
1900 – Wayne Morse, Senator from Oregon (died 1974)
1901 - Adelaide Hall, American-British pianist, composer and bandleader (died 1993)
1904 – Anna Neagle, English actress (died 1986)
1904 – Tommy Douglas, Scottish-Canadian politician, founder of public healthcare in Canada (died 1986)
1905 – Frederic Dannay (Ellery Queen), mystery novelist (died 1982)
1907 – Arlene Francis, television personality (died 2001)
1909 - Carla Laemmle, American actress (died 2014)
1910 - Bob Sheppard, American sportscaster (died 2010)
1913 – Grandpa Jones, American country music performer (died 1998)
1917 - Stéphane Hessel, French diplomat and activist (died 2013)
1917 - Jean-Pierre Melville, French director and screenwriter (died 1973)
1918 – Robert Lochner, journalist, creator of Kennedy's "ish been oin bear-lee-ner" (died 2003)
1920 – Janet Jagan, American-born President of Guyana (died 2009)
1920 - Nick Cardy, American illustrator (died 2013)
1920 - Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (died 2010)
1923 - Robert Craft, American conductor (died 2015)
1923 – Otfried Preussler, German children's writer (died 2013)
1923 – Herschel Bernardi, actor (died 1986)
1924 - Robert Peters, American poet, scholar, playwright, editor and actor (died 2014)
1925 – Art Buchwald, newspaper columnist
1925 - Roger Hanin, French director and actor (died 2015)
1926 - Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, English politician (died 2015)
1927 – Joyce Brothers, American psychologist, television personality (died 2013)
1928 - Li Peng, Chinese politician (died 2019)
1931 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (died 1995)
1931 - Richard Caliguiri, 54th Mayor of Pittsburgh (died 1988)
1931 - Zeke Bratkowski, American football player (died 2019)
1932 – Rosey Brown, American Pro Football Hall of Famer (died 2004)
1932 – William Christopher, American actor (died 2016)
1934 – Empress Michiko of Japan
1934 - Taku Mayumura, Japanese science fiction novelist (died 2019)
1934 – Eddie Harris, American jazz saxophonist (died 1996)
1934 – Timothy West, English actor
1934 - Bill Chase, American trumpeter (died 1974)
1935 - Roy Bailey, English folk singer and guitarist (died 2018)
1935 – Jerry Orbach, American actor (Law & Order) (died 2004)
1936 - Bobby Seale, American activist
1937 – Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player
1937 - Wanda Jackson, American singer
1938 - Kathy Kirby, English singer (died 2011)
1942 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist
1945 – Romeo Benetti, Italian footballer
1946 – Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature
1946 - Chris Woodhead, English civil servant and academic (died 2015)
1947 - Tom Smith, American politician (died 2015)
1948 - Sandra Dickinson, British actress
1949 – Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
1950 – Tom Petty, American musician (died 2017)
1950 - Chris Cannon, American politician
1951 – Claudio Ranieri, Italian footballer and manager
1951 - Alma Muriel, Mexican actress (died 2014)
1951 – Al Greenwood, American rock musician
1953 – Bill Nunn, American actor
1955 - Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Senator
1955 – Aaron Pryor, world boxing champion
1955 - Thomas Newman, American composer and conductor
1956 – Danny Boyle, British movie director
1957 - Jane Bonham-Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yanbury, British politician
1957 - Hilda Solis, American politician
1958 – Viggo Mortensen, American actor
1958 – Ivo Pogorelic, Croatian pianist
1959 - Eriko Asai, Japanese long-distance runner
1959 - Akif Pirinçci, Turkish-German author
1960 – Konstantin Aseev, chess player (died 2004)
1960 - Lepa Brena, Bosnian singer and actress
1961 – Ian Rush, Welsh footballer
1961 - Kate Mosse, English writer
1961 - Michio Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress
1962 - David M. Evans, American director and screenwriter
1963 - Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer
1963 – Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut and Governor General of Canada
1964 - Kamala Harris, American lawyer and politician
1965 – William Zabka, American actor
1966 – Stefan Raab, German entertainer
1966 – Allan Donald, South African cricketer
1966 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant and al-Qaeda member (died 2006)
1966 - Patrick Volkerding, American computer scientist and engineer
1967 – Monica Ali, British writer
1969 – Juan Gonzalez, baseball player
1970 - Nikky Smedley, British actress
1971 - Karl Collins, British actor
1971 – Dannii Minogue, Australian singer
1971 – Snoop Dogg, American rapper
1971 - Eddie Jones, American basketball player
1972 – Will Greenwood, English rugby player
1972 - Brian Schatz, American politician, United States Senator for Hawaii
1976 – Nicola Legrottaglie, Italian footballer
1976 - Dan Fogler, American actor and director
1977 – Elena Berezhnaya, figure skating star
1978 – Paul Wilson, Scottish musician (Snow Patrol)
1978 – Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
1979 – John Krasinski, American actor
1981 – Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
1981 - Francisco Rodríguez, Mexican footballer
1981 – Willis McGahee, American football player
1983 - Michel Vorm, Dutch footballer
1984 – Andrew Trimble, Northern Irish rugby player
1984 - Mitch Lucker, American singer-songwriter (died 2012)
1985 – Dominic McGuire, American basketball player
1986 – Priyanka Sharma, Indian actress
1988 – Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1988 - Candice Swanepoel, South African model
1989 - Jess Glynne, English singer-songwriter
1989 - Yanina Wickmayer, Belgian tennis player
1992 - Ksenia Semenov, Russian gymnast
1994 – Morgan Featherstone, Australian model
1995 - Zhenwei Wang, Chinese actor and martial artist
460 - Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine Empress
1139 - Henry X, Duke of Bavaria
1631 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
1640 – John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
1652 - Antonio Coello, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1611)
1713 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
1740 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
1842 - Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
1896 – Felix Tisserand, French astronomer (b. 1845)
1900 – Naim Frasheri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
1907 – Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b. 1834)
1910 - David B. Hill, 29th Governor of New York (b. 1843)
1926 - Eugene V. Debs, American politician (b. 1855)
1935 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician (b. 1863)
1936 – Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
1940 - Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (b. 1885)
1946 - Piero Campelli, Italian footballer (b. 1893)
1950 - Henry L. Stimson, American statesman, lawyer and politician (b. 1867)
1957 - Michalis Dorizas, Greek javelin thrower (b. 1890)
1964 – Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
1966 - Harry F. Byrd, Governor of Virginia (b. 1887)
1967 – Shigeru Yoshida, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
1968 – Bud Flanagan, British wartime entertainer (b. 1896)
1972 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885)
1977 – Cassie Gaines, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1948) (plane crash)
1977 – Steve Gaines, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1949) (plane crash)
1977 – Ronnie Van Zant, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1948) (plane crash)
1978 – Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish racing driver (b. 1948)
1984 – Paul Dirac, English physicist (b. 1902)
1984 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech doctor, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
1987 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
1989 - Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913)
1994 – Sergei Bondarchuk, Russian actor and director (b. 1920)
1994 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
1999 – Jack Lynch, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1917)
2005 - Shirley Horn, American jazz pianist (b. 1934)
2005 - André van der Louw, Dutch politician, Mayor of Rotterdam (b. 1933)
2006 - Maxi Herber, German figure skater (b. 1920)
2008 – Soeur Emmanuelle, French-Belgian nun and humanitarian (b. 1908)
2010 – Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan (b. 1940)
2010 – Bob Guccione, American publisher (b. 1930)
2011 – Muammar al-Gaddafi, colonel and military ruler of Libya (b. 1942)
2012 - E. Donnall Thomas, American physician and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1920)
2012 - Paul Kurtz, American academic (b. 1925)
2013 - Jovanka Broz, former First Lady of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
2013 - Lawrence Klein, American economist (b. 1920)
2014 - Ox Baker, American wrestler and actor (b. 1938)
2014 - Oscar de la Renta, Dominican Republic fashion designer (b. 1932)
2014 - René Burri, Swiss photographer (b. 1933)
2014 - Pavle Merku, Slovenian composer (b. 1927)
2014 - Christophe de Margerie, French businessman (b. 1951)
2015 - Michael Meacher, English politician (b. 1939)
2015 - Cory Wells, American singer (b. 1941)
2017 - Federico Luppi, Argentine-Spanish actor (b. 1936)
2017 - Stan Kowalski, American professional wrestler (b. 1926)
2018 - Wim Kok, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1938)
2018 - Zheng Xiaosong, Chinese politician (b. 1959)
2019 - Eric Cooper, American baseball umpire (b. 1966)
2019 - Thomas D'Alesandro III, American politician (b. 1929)
2019 - Huang Yong Ping, Chinese-French avant-garde artist (b. 1954)
2019 - Aquilino Pimentel Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1933)
Kenyatta Day (Kenya)
Revolution Day (Guatemala)
Arbor Day (Czech Republic)
World Osteoporosis Day
97 - Roman Emperor Nerva adopts the then-44-year-old Trajan.
710 - Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
939 – Edmund I of England becomes king.
1275 – Traditional founding of Amsterdam.
1524 - Italian Wars: French troops lay siege to Pavia.
1553 - Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
1644 - The Second Battle of Newbury takes place in the English Civil War.
1662 - Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France.
1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, establishing boundaries between the US and the Spanish colonies.
1806 – The French Army enters Berlin.
1810 – The US annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1827 - Vincenzo Bellini's third opera, Il pirata, has its first performance at La Scala, Milan.
1838 - Governor of Missouri Lilburn Boggs issues an extermination order to Mormons in the state, which would force them either to leave or be killed.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Francois Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion to the Siege of Metz.
1892 - British passenger steamer Roumania crashes into rocks off Peniche, Portugal.
1904 – New York City's first underground Subway opens.
1907 - Cernova massacre: 15 people are killed in the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church for its consecration.
1914 - World War I: British super dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious is sunk off Tory Island, northwest of Ireland, by a minefield laid by German merchant cruiser Berlin.
1916 - Battle of Segale in Ethiopia.
1922 – Italian fascists, led by Benito Mussolini, begin their March on Rome.
1922 - A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation (being taken control of) to the Union of South Africa.
1924 - Soviet Union: The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic is founded.
1936 – Wallis Simpson files for divorce.
She later marries Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, after he abdicates the throne.
1944 - World War II: German troops end the Slovak National Uprising in Banska Bystrica.
1953 - British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African American to join the United States Air Force.
1958 – Iskandar Mirza is deposed as President of Pakistan.
1961 – Mauritania and Mongolia join the UN.
1961 - NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission-Saturn Apollo 1.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: A nuclear war is narrowly avoided.
1962 - Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1962 - A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, a post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
1962 - Australian Dawn Fraser swims the 100 meter-backstroke in less than a minute, as the first woman to do so.
1964 - Ronald Reagan delivers "A Time for Choosing" speech at a Barry Goldwater campaign.
1966 - The UN removes South Africa's mandate over Namibia.
1968 - The 1968 Summer Olympics end in Mexico City.
1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
1979 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines become independent.
1981 - Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
1994 – Gliese 229B is the first substellar mass object to be unquestionably identified.
1995 – Latvia applies for EU membership.
1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in-absentia (without attending) for corruption.
1997 - Global stock markets crash because of financial meltdown fears.
1999 – Gunmen open fire on the Armenian Parliament.
2002 – The volcano Mount Etna on Sicily erupts.
2002 – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected to succeed Fernando Henrique Cardoso as President of Brazil.
2003 – In Malaga, where Pablo Picasso was born, the Museo Picasso (Picasso Museum) is opened.
2003 - Bomb attacks in Baghdad kill over 40 people.
2005 – Riots begin in France after the accidental deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
2006 – Opening of Arsenal F.C.'s Emirates Stadium.
2010 – Former President of Argentina Néstor Kirchner dies aged 60.
He had been expected to run for President again in 2011.
2011 - Michael D. Higgins is elected President of Ireland.
2013 - Sebastian Vettel becomes the fourth driver to win four Formula One world titles in a row, and the youngest driver, at age 26, to do so.
2013 - Storms begin to affect parts of western and central Europe, causing destruction and disruption the next day.
2017 - The Parliament of Catalonia declares the region's independence from Spain; The central government in Madrid decides to impose direct rule on Catalonia.
2018 - Pittsburgh synagogue shooting: A gunman shoots and kills 11 people worshipping at a synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighbourhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2018 - 2018 Leicester City F.C. helicopter crash: A helicopter crash near Leicester City F.C.'s King Power Stadium in Leicester, England, kills 5 people, including the club's Thai owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.
2019 - Sophie Wilmès becomes the first female Prime Minister of Belgium, succeeding Charles Michel, who had been chosen to succeed Donald Tusk as President of the European Council.
2019 - Alberto Fernández wins Argentina's Presidential election against the incumbent Mauricio Macri.
921 - Chai Rong, Chinese Emperor (d. 959)
1156 - Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (d. 1222)
1401 – Catherine of Valois, Queen Consort of England (d. 1437)
1466 (assumed) – Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch writer and philosopher (d. 1536)
1703 - Johann Gottfried Graun, German violinist and composer (d. 1771)
1728 – James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779)
1736 - James Macpherson, Scottish writer, poet and politician (d. 1796)
1744 – Mary Moser, English painter and one of only two female founder members of the Royal Academy (d. 1819)
1760 - August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
1761 - Geir Vídalín, Bishop of Iceland (d. 1823)
1763 - William Maclure, Scottish geologist (d. 1840)
1782 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
1811 – Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine (d. 1875)
1811 – Stevens Thomson Mason, first Governor of Michigan (d. 1843).
1828 - Jacob Dolson Cox, 28th Governor of Ohio (d. 1900)
1838 - John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
1842 – Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (d. 1928)
1844 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist (d. 1916)
1854 - William Alexander Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
1857 - Ernst Trygger, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1943)
1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (d. 1919)
1858 - Saito Makoto, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1936)
1868 - William Gillies, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Queensland (d. 1928)
1869 - Viola Allen, American actress (d. 1948)
1873 - James J. Davis, Welsh-born American politician (d. 1947)
1877 - Walt Kuhn, American painter and cartoonist (d. 1949)
1877 – George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
1885 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter (d. 1948)
1889 - Enid Bagnold, English author and playwright (d. 1981)
1889 - Fanny Durack, Australian swimmer (d. 1956)
1894 - Oliver Leese, English general (d. 1978)
1896 – Edith Brown, RMS Titanic survivor (d. 1997)
1902 – Emil Jónsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1986)
1904 – Erno Schwarz, Hungarian footballer (d. 1974)
1906 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (d. 2010)
1908 – Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
1910 - Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
1911 - Leif Erickson, American actor (d. 1986)
1913 - Joe Medicine Crow, American tribal historian, anthropologist and author (d. 2016)
1914 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
1915 - Harry Saltzman, Canadian theatre and film producer (d. 1994)
1916 - Kazimierz Brandys, Polish writer (d. 2000)
1917 – Oliver Tambo, South African activist (d. 1993)
1917 - Arne Andersson, Swedish athlete (d. 2009)
1918 - Edgar Herschler, 28th Governor of Wyoming (d. 1990)
1918 – Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
1919 - Tim M. Babcock, 16th Governor of Montana (d. 2015)
1920 – Nanette Fabray, American actress (d. 2018)
1920 – K. R. Narayanan, President of India (d. 2005)
1921 - Warren Allen Smith, American activist (d. 2017)
1922 - Ruby Dee, American actress (d. 2014)
1922 - Ralph Kiner, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1922 - Michel Galabru, French actor (d. 2016)
1922 - Carlos Andrés Pérez, President of Venezuela (d. 2010)
1922 - George Young, Scottish footballer (d. 1997)
1923 – Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist (d. 1997)
1923 - Ned Wertimer, American actor (d. 2013)
1924 - Bonnie Lou, American singer (d. 2015)
1925 – Warren Christopher, former United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
1925 - Gianni Bonagura, Italian actor (d. 2017)
1930 - Leo Baxendale, English cartoonist (d. 2017)
1931 – Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian writer
1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
1932 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
1933 - Floyd Cramer, American musician (d. 1997)
1934 - Elías Querejeta, Spanish film producer and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1937 - Peter Lustig, German television presenter (d. 2016)
1938 - Maurice Hinchey, American politician (d. 2017)
1939 – John Cleese, British actor, writer, and Monty Python member
1939 - Marino Perani, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
1939 - Albert Wendt, Samoan writer
1940 – John Gotti, New York mafia boss (d. 2002)