the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
2019 - Alberto Bucci, Italian basketball coach (b. 1948)
2019 - Bernard Binlin Dadié, Ivorian novelist, playwright and poet (b. 1916)
2019 - Vladimir Etush, Russian actor (b. 1922)
2019 - Harry Howell, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
Teacher's Day (Lebanon)
March 09
241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands – The Romans sinks the Carthaginian fleet; end of First Punic War.
298 - Roman Emperor Maximian completes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphant entry to Carthage in present-day Tunisia.
1496 – Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.
1535 – Tomas de Berlanga reaches the Galapagos Islands after sailing off course in a storm.
1607 - Susenyos defeats combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
1629 – Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament.
1661 - Louis XIV of France takes absolute government powers.
1792 - Huguenot Jean Calas, wrongly convicted for killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities.
This inspires Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
1801 – The United Kingdom's first national census is carried out.
1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
1814 – Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
1831 – The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
1848 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.
1861 – El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Segou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.
1864 – Montana vigilantes hang Jack Slade.
1864 – American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1880 – Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.
1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
1893 – Côte d'Ivoire becomes a French colony.
1902 – Second Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.
1902 – A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.
1902 – Tochangri, Turkey, is completely destroyed by an earthquake.
1906 – Europe's worst mining disaster occurs at Courrieres, northern France, as 1,099 miners are killed.
1909 - The Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 is signed.
1912 – Yuan Shikai is sworn in as the second Provisional President of the Republic of China.
1922 - Mahatma Gandhi is arrested for sedition by British colonial authorities.
1923 – The Spanish football club Villarreal is founded.
1926 – The first Book-of-the-Month-Club selection is produced
1933 – An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 120 people.
1945 – The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1948 – The Indian Union Muslim League is founded, by remnants of the old Muslim League.
1951 – Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.
1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
1959 - Tibetan Uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by the Government of the People's Republic of China, 300,000 Tibetans surround Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.
1964 – The Ford Mustang is first produced by the Ford Motor Company.
1966 – Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg.
1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. Ray would later retract his guilty plea.
1970 – Vietnam War: Capt.
Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes.
1971 – William McMahon becomes Prime Minister of Australia.
1975 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thout, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
1977 – Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
1982 – The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.
1982 – Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun.
1987 – Reproductive rights: The Holy See condemns the practice of surrogate motherhood, along with test-tube babies and artificial insemination.
1987 - A magnitude 7 earthquake hits Colombia and Ecuador, killing 1,000 people.
1990 – In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
1991 – Gulf War: Operation Phase Echo – 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf.
1996 – The "Summit of Peacemakers" takes place in Egypt.
1998 – American troops stationed in the Persian Gulf begin to receive the first vaccinations against anthrax.
1998 - Suharto claims a sixth election victory as President of Indonesia.
This leads to protests which eventually lead to his resignation in May of the same year, after over 32 years in power.
2000 – The NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5048.62, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
2004 – Six Flags sells 8 of its theme parks to private investors.
2004 – Kostas Karamanlis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
2005 – In Edmonton, Alberta, the largest memorial (of its kind) in Canadian history was held for four RCMP constables who were gunned down March 3, 2005.
2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at the planet Mars.
2006 - The 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin begin.
2008 – The New York Times reveals that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer patronised a prostitution service, and he resigns shortly after.
2014 - President of Bayern Munich football club Uli Hoeness goes on trial on charges of tax fraud.
2015 - A court rules that the tune from Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams' track Blurred Lines was copied from a song by Marvin Gaye.
2017 - South Korean President Park Geun-hye is officially removed from office by the country's constitutional court over a corruption scandal, following her impeachment three months earlier.
2017 - The United Nations warns that up to 20 million people could be affected by a famine affecting parts of Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.
2019 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 103, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on a flight due to go to Nairobi, Kenya, killing all 157 people on board.
1415 – Vasili II of Russia (d. 1462)
1452 – Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1516)
1503 – Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1564)
1536 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1572)
1628 – Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (d. 1694)
1709 - Georg Wilhelm Steller, German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer (d. 1746)
1748 - John Playfair, Scottish scientist and mathematician (d. 1819)
1749 - Lorenzo da Ponte, Italian opera librettist and poet (d. 1838)
1760 - Leandro Fernandez de Moratin, Spanish poet and writer (d. 1829)
1772 – Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Schlegel, German poet, critic and scholar (d. 1829)
1776 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Consort of Prussia (d. 1810)
1779 – Frances Trollope, English writer (d. 1863)
1786 - José Maria Vargas, President of Venezuela (d. 1854)
1787 – Francisco de Paula Martinez de la Rosa, Spanish statesman and dramatist (d. 1862)
1787 – William Etty, English painter (d. 1849)
1788 - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German polymath (d. 1857)
1789 – Manuel de la Peña y Peña, President of Mexico (d. 1850)
1810 - Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet (d. 1886)
1833 - Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, Spanish writer (d. 1891)
1839 - Dudley Buck, American composer, organist and writer (d. 1909)
1842 - Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (d. 1912)
1844 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist (d. 1908)
1845 – Tsar Alexander III of Russia (d. 1894)
1845 - Hallie Quinn Brown, African-American educator and activist (d. 1949)
1847 - Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragist (d. 1934)
1850 - Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (d. 1906)
1853 - Thomas Mackenzie, Scottish-born 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
1854 - Arnost Muka, Sorbian writer (d. 1932)
1867 - Hector Guimard, French architect and designer (d. 1942)
1867 - Lillian Wald, American nurse, humanitarian and author (d. 1940)
1873 - Jakob Wassermann, German writer (d. 1934)
1875 - Alexander Goldenweiser, Russian pianist, composer and educator (d. 1961)
1876 - Edvard Eriksen, Danish sculptor (d. 1959)
1876 – Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish nobleman and assassin (d. 1948)
1877 - Emile Sarrade, French rugby player (d. 1953)
1879 - Hans Luther, Chancellor of Germany in the Weimar Republic (d. 1962)
1885 - Tamara Karsavina, Russian ballerina (d. 1978)
1887 – Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d. 1972)
1891 - Sam Jaffe, American actor, teacher, musician and engineer (d. 1984)
1892 – Arthur Honegger, Swiss-French composer (d. 1955)
1892 - Gregory La Cava, American movie director and cartoonist (d. 1952)
1897 – Robert Meier, German World War I veteran (d. 2007)
1900 – Pandelis Pouliopoulos, Secretary of the Greek Communist Party (d. 1943)
1903 – Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (d. 1931)
1905 - Richard Haydn, British actor (d. 1985)
1907 - Christopher Del Sesto, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1973)
1909 - LeRoy Collins, Governor of Florida (d. 1991)
1915 - Charles Groves, English conductor (d. 1992)
1915 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist (d. 1978)
1918 – Günther Rall, German fighter pilot (d. 2009)
1923 – Val Logsdon Fitch, American nuclear physicist (d. 2015)
1923 - Hans Riegel, German entrepreneur (Haribo) (d. 2013)
1925 - Bob Lanier, American politician, 58th Mayor of Houston, Texas (d. 2014)
1926 - Marques Haynes, American basketball player (d. 2015)
1927 – Jupp Derwall, German footballer and manager (d. 2007)
1928 - Sara Montiel, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2013)
1928 – James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 1998)
1929 - Arthur Barnard, American hurdler
1930 - Jimmie Macgregor, Scottish folk music singer and broadcaster
1932 - Marcia Falkender, English politician
1933 - Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell, Argentine poet and translator (d. 2004)
1933 - Ralph Emery, American television host
1936 - Alfredo Zitarrosa, Uruguayan singer, poet and composer (d. 1989)
1936 – Sepp Blatter, Swiss President of FIFA
1938 – Ieronymus II, Archbishop of Athens
1938 - Norman Blake, American musician
1939 - Ashgar Ali Engineer, Indian writer and activist (d. 2013)
1940 – Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist
1946 - Peter Temple, Australian writer (d. 2018)
1947 – Kim Campbell, 19th Prime Minister of Canada
1947 - Piers Corbyn, brother of Jeremy Corbyn
1947 – Tom Scholz, American songwriter and guitarist
1948 - Austin Carr, American basketball player
1948 - Pat Gallagher, Irish politician
1949 - Bill Buxton, Canadian computer scientist and designer
1950 – Colin McGinn, British philosopher
1951 - Brad Fiedel, American movie score composer
1951 - Gloria Diaz, Filipino model and actress
1952 - Mike O'Donnell, English musician and composer
1952 – Morgan Tsvangirai, former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (d. 2018)
1953 – Paul Haggis, Canadian screenwriter, producer and movie director
1954 - Luc Dardenne, Belgian movie director, producer and screenwriter
1955 - Yousra, Egyptian actress and singer
1956 - Robert Llewellyn, British writer, actor and presenter
1956 - Henry Smith, Scottish footballer
1957 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist (al-Qaeda) (d. 2011)
1957 - Hilary Devey, English businesswoman
1957 – Hans-Peter Friedrich, German politician
1957 - Terry Holmes, Welsh rugby player
1957 – Shannon Tweed, Canadian actress and model
1958 – Sharon Stone, American actress
1958 - Garth Crooks, English footballer and pundit
1958 - Frankie Ruiz, American singer (d. 1998)
1960 - Antonio Corgos, Spanish long jumper
1961 – Laurel Clark, American physician and astronaut (d. 2003)
1961 - Mitch Gaylord, American gymnast, actor and stuntman
1962 - Jasmine Guy, American actress
1962 - Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer
1963 – Jeff Ament, American musician
1964 - Dave Bowman, Scottish footballer
1964 – Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
1964 – Neneh Cherry, Swedish singer
1966 - Edie Brickell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968 - Pavel Srnicek, Czech footballer (d. 2015)
1969 - Paget Brewster, American actress
1971 – Jon Hamm, American actor
1971 - Steve Arnold, British racing driver
1972 - Timbaland, American rapper
1973 – Eva Herzigova, Czech model
1973 – Chris Sutton, English footballer
1973 - Mauricio Taricco, Argentine footballer
1974 – Keren Ann, Israeli-Dutch singer
1974 - Biz Stone, American businessman, co-founder of Twitter
1975 - Jerry Horton, American guitarist
1976 – Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese singer
1976 - Kisaki, Japanese bass player, singer and songwriter
1976 - Ane Brune, Norwegian singer
1977 – Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer
1977 - Shannon Miller, American gymnast
1977 – Colin Murray, Northern Irish radio and television presenter
1977 - Robin Thicke, American singer (Blurred Lines)
1977 - Bree Turner, American actress
1978 – Neil Alexander, Scottish footballer
1978 - Benjamin Burnley, American musician
1978 - Camille, French singer
1979 - Danny Pudi, American actor and comedian
1981 – Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer
1981 – Kokkai Futoshi, Georgian-Japanese sumo wrestler
1981 - Steven Reid, Irish footballer
1982 – Kwame Brown, American basketball player
1983 - Rafe Spall, English actor
1983 - Janet Mock, American writer, television host and activist
1983 – Carrie Underwood, American singer
1984 - Carol Castro, Brazilian actress
1984 – Olivia Wilde, American actress
1985 – Lassana Diarra, French footballer
1985 - Pastor Maldonado, Venezuelan racing driver
1987 - Emeli Sandé, Scottish singer
1987 - Ebba Jungmark, Swedish athlete
1987 - Tuukka Rask, Finnish ice hockey player
1987 - Liu Shishi, Chinese actress and ballerina
1988 – Ivan Rakitic, Croatian footballer
1990 - Inna Deriglazova, Russian foil fencer
1991 - Kadeena Cox, English Paralympic athlete
1992 – Emily Osment, American actress and singer
1993 - Jack Butland, English footballer
1993 - Nooa Takooa, Kiribati athlete
1994 - JoJo Offerman, American wrestler and singer
1995 - Sergey Mozgov, Russian ice dancer
1997 - Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player
483 - Pope Simplicius
1291 - Arghun, Persian ruler
1315 - Agnes Blannbekin, Austrian mystic and saint (b. 1244)
1391 - Tvrtko I, King of Bosnia (b. 1338)
1588 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (b. 1533)
1607 - Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1590)
1792 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1713)
1826 – King John VI of Portugal (b. 1767)
1832 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (b. 1752)
1861 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (b. 1814)
1864 – Maximilian II of Bavaria (b. 1811)
1864 – Jack Slade, American frontier figure (b. 1831)
1872 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (b. 1805)
1889 - Yohannes IV, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1831)
1889 - Antonio de Trueba, Spanish writer (b. 1819)
1895 - Charles Frederick Worth, English-French fashion designer (b. 1826)
1897 - Savitribai Phule, Indian poet and activist (b. 1831)
1898 - Marie-Eugenie de Jesus, French Catholic nun (b. 1817)
1910 – Carl Reinecke, German pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1824)
1910 – Karl Lueger, Mayor of Vienna (b. 1844)
1913 – Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820)
1924 - Chester Hardy Aldrich, American politician, 17th Governor of Nebraska (b. 1862)
1937 – Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (b. 1884)
1940 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist (b. 1862)
1948 – Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian politician (b. 1886)
1948 – Zelda Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1900)
1950 - Marguerite Da La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)
1951 – Kijuro Shidehara, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1872)
1966 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist (b. 1888)
1982 - Minoru Shirota, inventor of Yakult (b. 1899)
1984 - June Marlowe, American actress (b. 1903)
1985 – Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)
1985 – C. B. van Niel, Dutch microbiologist (b. 1897)
1986 - Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor (b. 1907)
1988 – Andy Gibb, English-born singer (b. 1958)
1992 - Giorgos Zampetas, Greek composer and musician (b. 1925)
1997 - LaVern Baker, American actor (b. 1913)
1998 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
2001 – Massimo Morsello, Italian musician and activist (b. 1958)
2006 – John Profumo, British politician (b. 1915)
2007 - Richard Jeni, American actor (b. 1957)
2010 – Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)
2010 – Dorothy Janis, American actress (b. 1910)
2010 – Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian Muslim cleric (b. 1928)
2012 – Jean Giraud, French comic book artist (b. 1938)
2012 – Nick Zoricic, Canadian skier (b. 1983)
2012 - Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and physicist (b. 1927)
2013 - Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, British-born Swedish royal (b. 1915)
2014 - Cynthia Lynn, Latvian-American actress (b. 1937)
2014 - Joe McGinniss, American journalist and author (b. 1942)
2015 - Stuart Wagstaff, British-Australian entertainer (b. 1925)
2015 - Claude Sitton, American newspaper reporter (b. 1925)
2016 - Ken Adam, German-English production designer (b. 1921)
2016 - Ernestine Anderson, American jazz and blues singer (b. 1928)
2016 - Anita Brookner, English writer (b. 1928)
2016 - Keith Emerson, English keyboardist and songwriter (b. 1944)
2016 - Claude Estier, French politician (b. 1925)
2016 - Bill Gadsby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2016 - Gogi Grant, American singer (b. 1924)
2016 - Roberto Perfumo, Argentine footballer (b. 1942)
2016 - Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1920)
2017 - Gido Kokars, Latvian choir conductor (b. 1921)
2017 - Bill Leak, Australian cartoonist (b. 1956)
2017 - John Surtees, English racing driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1934)
2017 - John Forgeham, English actor (b. 1941)
2017 - Tony Haygarth, English actor (b. 1945)
2017 - Joni Sledge, American singer and songwriter (b. 1956)
2017 - Anna Tramontano, Italian biologist (b. 1957)
2017 - Richard Wagamese, Canadian author and journalist (b. 1955)
2017 - Robert James Waller, American writer (b. 1939)
2018 - Garech Browne, Irish arts patron (b. 1939)
2018 - Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer (b. 1927)
2018 - Wally Gould, English footballer (b. 1938)
2018 - Ralf Waldmann, German motorcycle racer (b. 1966)
2018 - Michel Raynaud, French mathematician (b. 1938)
2019 - William Powers Jr., American educator (b. 1946)
Mar.10 Day: Mario Day of Nintendo
Tibetan Uprising Day (Tibetan Independence Supporters)
598 - Balkan campaign: The Avars lift the siege of the Byzantine Empire stronghold of Tomis.
1282 - The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin King, Charles I of Naples, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
1296 – Edward I storms Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking the then-Scottish border town, slaughtering almost everyone, even those fleeing to the churches.
1492 – Ferdinand and Isabella sign a decree aimed at expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.
1533 – Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.
1814 - Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire the unification of Italy into being one country.
1822 – Florida Territory created in the United States.
1841 - The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.
1842 – Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long.
1844 – One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
1855 – Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas – "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
1856 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
1858 – Hyman Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser.
1863 – Prince Wilhelm Georg of Sleeswÿk-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg is chosen as King George I of Greece.
1867 – Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
The news media call this Seward's Folly.
1870 – Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
1899 - British passenger steamship Stella hits a rock off Guernsey in the English Channel, in thick fog, sinking within eight minutes.
1909 – In New York City the Queensboro Bridge connecting Manhattan and Queens is opened to traffic.
1912 – Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
1939 - The Henkel He 100 fighter aircraft sets a record airspeed of 745 kilometers per hour (463 miles per hour).
1940 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking to be the capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei.
1944 - World War II: Allied bombing raid on Nuremberg.
1944 - World War II: The Allies conduct their most severe bombing raid on Sofia, Bulgaria.
1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna; Alger Hiss congratulated in Moscow for his part in bringing about the Western betrayal at the Yalta Conference.
1949 - Riots occur in Reykjavik after the decision of Iceland's government for the country to join NATO.
1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1954 – The first subway in Canada opens after five years of construction, in Toronto.
1961 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.
1962 – Jack Paar hosts his last episode of The Tonight Show.
1964 – The game show Jeopardy!
debuts on television.
1965 – Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
1972 – Vietnam War: The Eastertide Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
1974 – The Ramones play their first ever gig as a trio at CBGB's in New York City.
1976 - First Land Day protests in Israel and Palestine.
1981 – President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr., family friend of the Vice President.
1982 - Space Shuttle program: The STS-3 mission ends, with the landing of the Space Shuttle Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, United States.
1987 – One of Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" paintings is bought by Japanese insurance magnate Yasuo Goto for $39.85 million.
2001 - The result of the People's Republic of China's census is announced.
The population at this time is estimated at 1,285,830,000.
2002 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother, dies at Windsor Castle, aged 101, just seven weeks after her daughter, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.
2006 – The United Kingdom Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.
2006 – Marcos Pontes becomes the first Brazilian in space on board the Soyuz TMA-8 aircraft, to the International Space Station.
2008 – The controversial 2008 Zimbabwean Presidential election is held.
2017 - SpaceX conducts the world's first re-flight of an orbital-class rocket.
1135 – Maimonides, Jewish philosopher (d. 1204)
1326 – Ivan II of Russia (d. 1359)
1432 – Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1481)
1510 - Antonio de Cabezon, Spanish composer and organist (d. 1566)
1566 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian nobleman, composer and murderer (d. 1613)
1633 - Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1708)
1727 - Tommaso Traetta, Italian composer (d. 1779)
1746 – Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (d. 1828)
1750 - John Stafford Smith, English organist and composer (d. 1836)
1757 - Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier, French physicist and aviation pioneer (d. 1785)
1785 - Henry Hardinge, Governor-General of India (d. 1856)
1793 – Juan Manuel de Rosas, Argentine military leader (d. 1877)
1805 - Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, German-Swedish linguist (d. 1887)
1811 - Robert Bunsen, German chemist (d. 1899)
1818 - Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, German social reformer (d. 1888)
1820 – Anna Sewell, British writer (d. 1878)
1844 – Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896)
1853 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
1857 – Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)
1863 - Joseph Caillaux, Prime Minister of France (d. 1944)
1863 - Mary Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (d. 1930)
1864 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (d. 1943)
1874 - Charles Lightoller, English 2nd Officer of the RMS Titanic (d. 1952)
1874 - Nicolae Radescu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1953)
1879 - Coen de Koning, Dutch ice skater (d. 1954)
1879 - Bernhard Schmidt, German optician (d. 1935)
1880 – Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist (d. 1964)
1882 - Melanie Klein, Austrian-British psychoanalyst (d. 1960)
1892 - Stefan Banack, Polish mathematician (d. 1945)
1892 - Fortunato Depero, Italian painter, writer, sculptor and graphic designer (d. 1960)
1892 - Sanzo Nozaka, Japanese politician (d. 1993)
1892 - Sidney Soyers, CIA director (d. 1973)
1894 – Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer (d. 1977)
1894 - Tommy Green, English race walker (d. 1975)
1895 - Jean Giono, French author (d. 1970)
1899 - Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali writer (d. 1970)
1900 – Santos Urdinaran, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1979)
1902 - Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (d. 2007)
1902 - Victor E. Anderson, Governor of Nebraska (d. 1962)
1902 - Frieda Szwillus, German supercentenarian (d. 2014)
1905 – Albert Pierrepoint, British executioner (d. 1992)
1908 - Leo A. Hoegh, Territorial Governor of Hawaii (d. 2000)
1909 - John A. Burns, Governor of Hawaii (d. 1975)
1910 – Jozef Marcinkiewicz, Polish mathematician (d. 1940)
1913 – Frankie Laine, American singer (d. 2007)
1913 – Censu Tabone, former President of Malta (d. 2012)
1913 – Richard Helms, American CIA director (d. 2002)
1913 – Marc Davis, American animator (d. 2000)
1914 – Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (d. 1948)
1915 - Arsenio Erico, Paraguayan footballer (d. 1977)
1915 - Pietro Ingrao, Italian politician (d. 2015)
1917 - Els Aarne, Estonian composer (d. 1995)
1919 - McGeorge Bundy, American diplomat (d. 1996)
1922 – Virgilio Noè, Italian cardinal (d. 2011)
1923 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (d. 1986)
1924 - Milko Kelemen, Croatian composer (d. 2018)
1926 – Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman (IKEA) (d. 2018)
1926 - Peter Marshall, American actor, singer and game show host
1926 - Larissa Volpert, Russian chess player (d. 2017)
1928 - Tom Sharpe, British author (d. 2013)
1929 - Richard Dysart, American actor (d. 2015)
1930 - John Astin, American actor
1930 – Rolf Harris, Australian artist, singer and entertainer
1933 - Anna-Lisa, Norwegian-American actress (d. 2018)
1933 - Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (d. 2007)
1934 - Mahmut Atalay, Turkish wrestler (d. 2004)
1934 - Hans Hollein, Austrian architect and designer (d. 2014)
1937 – Warren Beatty, American actor
1938 - Klaus Schwab, German economist and engineer
1940 - Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer
1940 - Jerry Lucas, American basketball player
1940 - Uwe Timm, German actor
1941 – Wasim Sajjad, former President of Pakistan
1942 – Ruben Kun, former President of Nauru
1943 - Jay Traynor, American singer (d. 2014)
1943 - Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa, Malagasy sprinter (d. 2016)
1945 – Eric Clapton, British guitarist and singer
1945 - Johnnie Walker, British DJ and broadcaster
1945 - Bob Miller, former Governor of Nevada
1947 - Ryszard Kotla, Polish writer and activist
1947 - Dick Roche, Irish politician
1948 – Eddie Jordan, Irish racing driver and team owner
1948 – Mervyn King, British economist
1948 - Naomi Sims, model
1950 – Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor
1950 - Beverley Hughes, English politician
1950 - Frans Bolweg, Dutch sailor (d. 2015)
1951 - Yves Séguin, Quebec politician and actor
1956 - Juanito Oiarzabal, Basque mountaineer
1957 - Michael Lehmann, American director
1957 - Paul Reiser, American actor and screenwriter
1958 - Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor
1959 - Sabine Meyer, German classical clarinettist
1959 - Martina Cole, English author
1960 - Bill Johnson, American skier
1962 – M.C. Hammer, American rapper and musician
1962 – Bil Dwyer, American actor
1962 - Mark Begich, American politician
1963 - Eli-Eri Moura, Brazilian composer and conductor
1963 - Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko, Ukrainian footballer and coach
1963 - Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, 4th President of Mongolia
1964 – Tracy Chapman, American singer
1964 - Abu Anas al-Libi, Libyan terrorist (d. 2015)
1965 – Piers Morgan, British journalist and television personality
1966 - Joey Castillo, American drummer
1967 - Megumi Hayashibara, Japanese voice actor and singer
1968 – Céline Dion, Canadian singer
1968 - Donna D'Errico, American actress and model
1971 - Mark Consuelos, Spanish-American motorcycle racer
1972 - Karel Poborsky, Czech footballer
1973 – Jan Koller, Czech footballer
1973 - Adam Goldstein, American keyboardist, DJ and producer (d. 2009)
1975 - Paul Griffen, New Zealand-Italian rugby player
1976 - Ty Conklin, American ice hockey player
1976 - Ayako Kawasumi, Japanese voice actress
1976 - Mark McClelland, Irish musician
1976 - Troels Lund Poulsen, Danish politician
1978 – Chris Paterson, Scottish rugby player
1978 - Simon Webbe, English singer (Blue)
1978 - Teemu Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player
1979 – Anatoliy Tymoschuk, Ukrainian footballer
1979 – Norah Jones, American singer and musician
1980 – Ricardo Osorio, Mexican footballer
1981 – Andrea Masi, Italian rugby player
1981 - Jammal Brown, American football player
1981 - Katy Mixon, American actress
1982 - A-Trak, Canadian DJ and record producer
1982 - Jason Dohring, American actor
1982 - Philippe Mexès, French footballer
1983 - Sarah Stevenson, British taekwondoka
1984 – Mario Ancic, Croatian tennis player
1984 – Samantha Stosur, Australian tennis player
1986 – Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer
1986 - Beni, Japanese singer
1987 - Juan Pablo Pino, Colombian footballer
1987 - Calum Elliot, Scottish footballer
1987 - Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 - Richard Sherman, American football player
1990 - Lee Gi-kwang, South Korean singer, dancer and actor
1990 - Cassie Scerbo, American singer, dancer and actress
1992 - Stuart Armstrong, Scottish footballer
1993 - Anitta, Brazilian singer, songwriter, actress and dancer
1993 - Song Min-ho, South Korean rapper, composer and songwriter
1994 - Haruka Shimazaki, Japanese singer (AKB48)
1994 - Sarah Solovay, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1994 - Jetro Willems, Dutch footballer
116 - Quirinus of Neuss, Roman martyr and saint
365 – Jin Aidi, Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (b. 341)
987 - Arnulf II of Flanders
1202 - Joachim Fiore, Italian mystic and theologian (b. 1135)
1472 - Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (b. 1435)
1486 - Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury
1526 – Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)
1559 – Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492)
1587 - Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b. 1507)
1764 – Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (b. 1695)
1783 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
1804 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, French aristocrat and soldier (b. 1718)
1830 – Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden (b. 1763)
1864 - Louis Schindelmeisser, German clarinetist, composer and conductor (b. 1811)
1873 - Benedict Morel, French physicist (b. 1809)
1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b. 1815)
1886 - Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, 6th Premier of Quebec (b. 1838)
1896 – Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek Prime Minister (b. 1832)
1912 – Karl May, German writer (b. 1842)
1914 – John Henry Poynting, English physicist (b. 1852)
1925 – Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (b. 1861)
1935 - Romanos Melikian, Armenian composer (b. 1873)
1939 - Richard Steiff, German businessman and teddy bear creator (b. 1877)
1943 - Jan Bytnar, Polish activist (b. 1921)
1943 - Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920)
1949 – Friedrich Bergius, German chemist (b. 1884)
1950 – Léon Blum, Prime Minister of France (b. 1872)
1952 – Jigme Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1905)
1954 - Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and director (b. 1881)
1955 - Harl McDonald, American pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1899)
1959 - Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906)
1959 - Riccardo Zandla, Italian-Slovenian poet (b. 1875)
1961 - Philibert Jacques Melotte, British astronomer (b. 1880)
1963 - Alexander Gauk, Russian conductor and composer (b. 1893)
1964 - Nella Larsen, American writer (b. 1891)
1965 – Philip Showalter Hench, American physician (b. 1896)
1966 - Erwin Piscator, German director and producer (b. 1893)
1967 - Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
1968 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937)
1970 – Heinrich Bruening, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885)
1973 - Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish aristocrat and aviator (b. 1903)
1977 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)
1979 - Airey Neave, English soldier and politician (b. 1916)
1984 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (b. 1904)
1985 - Harold Peary, American actor and singer (b. 1908)
1986 – James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)
1988 - Edgar Faure, Prime Minister of France (b. 1908)
1990 - Harry Peary, Australian-American union leader (b. 1901)
2000 – Rudolf Kirchschlaeger, President of Austria (b. 1915)
2002 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)
2003 – Valentin Pavlov, Soviet politician (b. 1937)
2003 - Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)
2005 – Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968)
2008 – Dith Pran, Cambodian photojournalist (b. 1942)
2010 – Martin Sandberger, German military officer (b. 1911)
2011 – Lyudmila Gurchenko, Russian actress and singer (b. 1935)
2013 - Phil Ramone, South African-American record producer (b. 1934)
2013 - Valeri Zolotuchin, Russian actor (b. 1941)
2014 - Phuntsok Wangyal, Tibetan-Chinese politician (b. 1922)
2014 - Kate O'Mara, British actress (b. 1939)
2014 - Jan de Graaff, Dutch television journalist (b. 1943)
2015 - Helmut Dietl, German movie director (b. 1944)
2015 - Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Dutch astronomer (b. 1921)
2015 - Philip A. Potter, Dominican Methodist church leader (b. 1921)
2016 - Anne Aasheim, Norwegian newspaper editor (b. 1962)
2016 - Bernard Lamarre, Canadian engineer and businessman (b. 1931)
2016 - Bill Rosendahl, American politician (b. 1945)
2016 - Gianmaria Testa, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1958)
2016 - Shirley Hufstedler, American lawyer and judge (b. 1925)
2016 - Khuzaima Qutbuddin, Indian Islamic leader (b. 1940)
2017 - Richard Bustillo, American martial arts instructor (b. 1942)
2017 - Donald Harvey, American serial killer (b. 1952)
2018 - André Bo-Boliko Lokonga, 9th Prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1934)
2018 - Bill Maynard, English actor (b. 1928)
2020 - Bill Withers, American musician (b. 1938)
Land Day (Palestine)
National Doctors' Day (United States)
47 BC – The Relocation of Power of Cleopatra VII with help Roman dictator Julius Caesar in Egypt.
1306 – Robert I of Scotland and Elizabeth de Burgh are crowned King and Queen of the Scots.
1513 – (not 1512 as often cited) – Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island.
1625 – Charles I becomes King of England and Scotland.
1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1794 – The government of the United States establishes a permanent United States Navy and authorizes the building of six sailing frigates.
1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
1846 – Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
1851 – First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley.
1854 - Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
1871 – The first international rugby football match, Scotland v. England, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1886 - Apache warrior Geronimo surrenders to the United States Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
1890 - A tornado hits Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 people.
1899 - Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time in the Philippine-American War.
1910 - A fire at a barn-dance in Hungary kills 312 people.
1915 - Mary Mallon, known as Typhoid Mary, is quarantined for the rest of her life.
1918 – Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
1923 – FART construction completed.
1941 – Britain supports Peter II of Yugoslavia in a coup in Yugoslavia.
1942 – World War II: United Kingdom forces raid the U-boat base at St. Nazaire, France.
1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.
1952 – Sun Records begins operations.
1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
1963 – Dr Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
See Beeching axe.
1964 – The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
1969 – Mariner 7 is launched.
1975 - Building work on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline begins in Alaska.
1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington, DC subway system is opened.
1977 – Tenerife disaster: Two jumbo jets collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583.
1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1981 - The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a "warning strike", as 12 million workers walk out for 4 hours.
1984 - The musical Starlight Express is first performed in London.
1986 – Car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer.
1988 – Moudud Ahmed becomes Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
1989 – Generations, the first American soap opera to have an entire black family in its original core cast, commences telecasts on NBC.
1990 – Propaganda: The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba.
1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1993 – Albert Zafy becomes President of Madagascar.
1993 – Mahamane Ousmane becomes President of Niger.
1994 – One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States.
One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
1995 - Forrest Gump wins six awards at the 67th Academy Awards.
1996 – Yigal Amir is sentenced to life in prison for murdering Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
2002 – Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 28 people in Netanya, Israel.
2002 - Nanterre Massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire on councilors at the end of a town council meeting, killing 8 councilors and injuring 19.
2003 – An explosion in the Nitrochimie dynamite factory in Billy-Berclau, France, kills 4 people.
2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
2006 – The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
2008 – Geert Wilders releases a movie called Fitna.
The next days protests were held by people in the Middle East.
2009 – The Situ Gintung Dam breaks in Indonesia, leading to at least 99 deaths.
2009 - A suicide bomber kills at least 48 people at a mosque in Khyber Agency, Pakistan.
2016 - A bomb attack on people celebrating Easter in Lahore, Pakistan, kills over 70 people.
45 - Statius, Roman poet (d. 96)
765– Harun al-Rashid, Abbasid Caliph (d. 809)
972 – Robert II of France (d. 1031)
1123 – Emperor Shizong of Jin (d. 1189)
1196 - Sviatoslav III of Vladimir (d. 1252)
1306 - Philip III of Navarre (d. 1343)
1416 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1480)
1416 - Francis of Paola, Italian friar and saint (d. 1507)
1679 - Domenico Lalli, Italian poet and librettist (d. 1741)
1702 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (d. 1762)
1710 - Joseph Abaco, Belgian cellist and composer (d. 1805)
1714 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian historian and theologian (d. 1795)
1753 - Edward Pigott, British astronomer (d. 1825)
1761 – James Sykes, 14th Governor of Delaware (d. 1822)
1765 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
1767 - Charles Didelot, Swedish-French dancer and choreographer (d. 1837)
1785 – King Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
1802 – Charles-Mathias Simons, 3rd Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1874)
1809 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French civic engineer (d. 1891)
1809 – Jean-Louis Beaudry, 11th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1886)
1813 - Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (d. 1888)
1813 - David Monro, Scottish-New Zealand physician and politician (d. 1877)
1817 – Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss botanist and biologist (d. 1891)
1822 - Henri Murger, French author and poet (d. 1861)
1824 - Virginia Minor, American activist (d. 1894)
1827 - Ernesto Rossi, Italian actor and playwright (d. 1896)
1839 - John Ballance, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1893)
1845 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
1847 – Otto Wallach, German chemist (d. 1931)
1849 - Carlo Dossi, Italian author and diplomat (d. 1910)
1854 - Georges Eekhoud, novelist (d. 1927)
1857 - Karl Pearson, British mathematician (d. 1936)
1861 - Nikolay Demyanov, Russian chemist (d. 1938)
1863 – Henry Royce, English automobile pioneer (d. 1933)
1865 - Alessandro Verde, Italian cardinal (d. 1958)
1866 - John Allan, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Victoria (d. 1936)
1869 – James McNeill, 2nd Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1938)
1869 - Walter Dohm, American runner (d. 1894)
1871 – Heinrich Mann, German writer (d. 1950)
1873 - Christophorus III, Georgian Patriarch (d. 1932)
1874 – Andrés de Segurola, Spanish bass (d. 1953)
1876 – Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti, Italian cardinal (d. 1943)
1879 – Edward Steichen, Luxembourg-American photographer (d. 1973)
1879 - Sandor Garbai, 19th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1947)
1885 - Julio Lozano Diaz, 40th President of Honduras (d. 1957)
1886 – Sergey Kirov, Soviet politician (d. 1934)
1886 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d. 1969)
1891 – Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian playwright and writer (d. 1974)
1893 – Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist and philosopher(d.
1894 - Soeprapto, Indonesian lawyer and judge (d. 1964)
1898 – Alma Tell, American stage and movie actress (d. 1937)
1898 - Titina De Filippo, Italian actress (d. 1963)
1898 - Maria Rasputin, daughter of Grigori Rasputin (d. 1977)
1899 – Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
1900 - Arleigh Winston Scott, Governor-General of Barbados (d. 1976)
1901 – Carl Barks, American cartoonist and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1901 – Erich Ollenhauer, German publicist, historian and writer (d. 1963)
1901 – Eisaku Sato, Japanese statesman, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1975)
1901 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d. 1971)
1903 – Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican dramatist (d. 1950)
1905 - Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, German military officer and Resistance activist (d. 1980)
1906 – Pee Wee Russell, American clarinet player and songwriter (d. 1969)
1909 - Golo Mann, German writer, historian and publicist (d. 1994)
1912 – James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
1913 - Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (d. 1945)
1914 – Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter (d. 2009)
1915 - Bernardo Poli, Italian footballer (d. 1944)
1915 - Wang Daohan, Chinese politician, Mayor of Shanghai (d. 2005)
1917 – Cyrus Vance, 57th United States Secretary of State (d. 2002)
1920 - Richard Hayman, American musician and conductor (d. 2014)
1921 – Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Brazilian footballer (d. 2000)
1921 – Fred Foy, American radio and television presenter (d. 2010)
1922 – Dick King-Smith, British writer (d. 2011)
1923 - Lorenzo Semple Jr., American screenwriter (d. 2014)
1924 - Sarah Vaughan, American jazz singer and pianist (d. 1990)
1925 - Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, English farmer and politician
1927 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
1930 – Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss artist, writer and director
1931 - Stephen Reinhardt, American judge (d. 2018)
1932 – Roberto Farias, Brazilian screenwriter and director
1932 - Bailey Olter, 3rd President of the Federated States of Micronesia (d. 1999)
1934 – Peter Schamoni, German movie director, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2011)
1934 - Jutta Limbach, German jurist and politician (d. 2016)
1934 - Ioannis Paleokrassas, Greek politician
1935 - Lars Andreas Larssen, Norwegian actor (d. 2014)
1937 - Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
1937 - Alan Hawkshaw, English keyboardist and songwriter
1941 – Liese Prokop, Austrian politician (d. 2006)
1941 – Ivan Gasparovic, former President of Slovakia
1942 – John E. Sulston, British chemist (d. 2018)
1942 – Michael York, British actor
1944 - Enrique Baron Crespo, Spanish politician
1944 – Miguel Enríquez, Chilean physician and activist (d. 1974)
1944 - Lydia Yu-Jose, Filipino political scientist (d. 2014)
1945 – Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (d. 2004)
1945 - Harry Rowohlt, German writer (d. 2015)
1946 – Olaf Malolepski, German musician
1946 – Michael Aris, British psychologist and writer, husband of Aung San Suu Kyi (d. 1999)
1947 – Aleksandr Viktorenko, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut
1947 - Daphne Todd, English painter
1947 - John Mayhew, English-American musician (Genesis) (d. 2009)
1950 – Tony Banks, British musician (Genesis)
1950 - Julia Alvarez, Dominican-American poet and novelist
1952 – Maria Schneider, French actress (d. 2011)
1953 - Gabriele Gatti, Sammarinese politician
1955 – Mariano Rajoy, Prime Minister of Spain
1955 – Christian Sarron, French motorcycle racer
1958 - Peter Howson, Scottish painter
1960 – Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
1961 – Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist and songwriter (B'z)
1962 – John O'Farrell, English writer and broadcaster
1963 – Quentin Tarantino, American director, writer, and producer
1963 - Xuxa, Brazilian actress and singer
1964 - Clive Rowe, English actor
1964 - Ann Sidney, English actress and television host
1967 - Anthony Thornton, New Zealand field hockey player
1967 - Talisa Soto, American actress and model
1968 - Isabelle Tuchband, French-Brazilian sculptor and painter
1969 - Gianluigi Lentini, Italian footballer
1970 – Mariah Carey, American singer-songwriter
1970 – Derek Aucoin, Canadian baseball player
1970 - Jarrod McCracken, New Zealand rugby player
1971 – Matthew Pegg, English bass player and songwriter (Procol Harum)
1971 – David Coulthard, Scottish racing driver and sports commentator (BBC)
1971 – Leila Pahlavi, Iranian princess (d. 2001)
1972 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer
1972 – Charlie Haas, American professional wrestler
1973 – Rui Jorge, Portuguese footballer
1973 - Ade Adepitan, British basketball player
1974 – Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
1975 – Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson, American musician (Black Eyed Peas)
1976 – Danny Fortson, American basketball player
1977 - Noname Jane, American pornographic actress
1979 – Lee Ji-hoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
1979 – Denis Golovanov, Russian tennis player
1980 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian singer-songwriter and actor
1981 – Cacau, Brazilian-German footballer
1981 – JJ Lin, Chinese singer-songwriter and actor
1981 - Brian Miner, American comedian
1982 - Tracy Phillips, American actress, dancer and choreographer
1984 - Adam Ashley-Cooper, Australian rugby player
1984 – Brett Holman, Australian footballer
1985 – Oren Eizenman, Israeli-Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Manuel Neuer, German footballer
1987 – Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 - Lene Egeli, Norwegian model
1987 - Polina Gagarina, Russian singer
1988 – Jessie J, English singer
1988 – Brenda Song, American actress
1988 - Atsuto Uchida, Japanese footballer
1990 - Kimbra, New Zealand singer-songwriter
1990 - Joselu, German-Spanish footballer
1991 - Shayne Whittington, American basketball player
1993 - Matt Hobden, English cricketer (d. 2016)
1997 - Princess Sara bint Al Faisal of Jordan
1997 - Princess Aisha bint Al Faisal of Jordan
1997 - Lisa Manoban, member of Kpop girl group Blackpink
2000 - Sophie Nélisse, Canadian actress