the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1901 - Arvid Posse, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1820)
1924 - G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist and educator (b. 1844)
1926 - Sunjong of the Korean Empire (b. 1874)
1931 - David Kldiashvili, Georgian writer (b. 1862)
1938 - George Gray Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
1939 – Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
1941 - Karin Boye, Swedish writer (b. 1900)
1942 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian novelist (b. 1874)
1942 - Leonid Kulik, Russian scientist (b. 1882)
1947 - Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1878)
1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist (b. 1897)
1962 - Emilio Prados, Spanish poet (b. 1899)
1964 – Gerhard Domagk, German  doctor,  won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  (b. 1895)
1965 - Louise Dresser, American actress (b. 1878)
1967 – Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1927)
1968 - Walter Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
1974 - Franz Jonas, President of Austria (b. 1899)
1974 – Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
1980 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904)
1982 - Ville Ritola, Finnish runner (b. 1896)
1983 – Rolf Stommelen, German racing driver (b. 1943)
1986 – Wallis Simpson, wife of the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1896)
1993 – Oliver Tambo, South African politician (b. 1917)
1993 - Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese philosopher (b. 1917)
1996 - Donald Cammell, Scottish film director (b. 1934)
1997 - Pat Paulsen, American comedian and politician (b. 1927)
2004 – Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1906)
2005 – Ezer Weizman, former President of Israel (b. 1924)
2011 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1926)
2011 - Marie-France Pisier, French actress (b. 1944)
2014 - Tadeusz Rozewicz, Polish poet, dramatist and writer (b. 1921)
2014 - Sandy Jardine, Scottish footballer (b. 1948)
2014 - Ricardo Bauleo, Argentine actor (b. 1946)
2014 - Hans Hollein, Austrian architect and designer (b. 1934)
2014 - Arturo Licata, Sicilian supercentenarian and oldest-living man (b. 1902)
2014 - Konstantin Orbelyan, Armenian pianist and composer (b. 1928)
2014 - Shobha Nagi Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1968)
2015 - Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Polish politician, writer and Holocaust survivor (b. 1922)
2015 - Sid Tepper, American songwriter (b. 1918)
2015 - George C. Young, American lawyer and judge (b. 1916)
2015 - Rustum Ghazaleh, Syrian military officer (b. 1953)
2015 - Ismail Hussain, Indian politician (b. 1950)
2015 - Ken Birch, British footballer (b. 1933)
2015 - Valentine Lamb, British journalist (b. 1939)
2015 - Sabeen Mahmud, Pakistani human rights activist (b. 1974)
2016 - Nina Arkhipova, Russian actress (b. 1921)
2016 - Robert Dolan, American marine geologist (b. 1929)
2016 - Manuel de la Torre, American golf instructor (b. 1921)
2016 - Walter Jackson Freeman III, American biologist, neuroscientist and philosopher (b. 1927)
2016 - Tommy Kono, American weightlifter (b. 1930)
2016 - Thinle Lhondup, Nepalese actor (b. 1944)
2016 - Benjamin Manglona, Northern Marianas politician (b. 1938)
2016 - Billy Paul, American singer (b. 1934)
2016 - Klaus Siebert, German biathlete and coach (b. 1955)
2016 - Papa Wemba, Congolese singer and musician (b. 1949)
2017 - Benjamin Barber, American political theorist and author (b. 1939)
2017 - Robert M. Pirsig, American writer and philosopher (b. 1928)
2017 - Agnes Giebel, German soprano (b. 1921)
2017 - Don Gordon, American actor (b. 1926)
2017 - Nicholas Sand, American chemist (b. 1941)
2018 - Dinu C. Giurescu, Romanian historian and politician (b. 1927)
2018 - Paul Gray, Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1963)
2018 - Henri Michel, French footballer and coach (b. 1947)
2018 - Hariton Pushwagner, Norwegian artist (b. 1940)
2019 - Martin Kilson, American political scientist (b. 1931)
2019 - Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (b. 1932)
2019 - Sergey Pogorelov, Russian handball player (b. 1974)
2019 - Dick Rivers, French singer (b. 1945)
Democracy Day (Nepal)
Genocide Day (Armenia)
Republic Day (The Gambia)
Latest date for Holy Saturday
Second-latest date for Easter, last occurred on this date in 2011
33 BC - Lucius Marcius Philippus, step-brother of future Roman Emperor Augustus, celebrates a triumph for his victories while serving as Governor in one of the Provinces of Hispania.
711 - Islamic Conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1296 – First Scottish War of Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan is killed in the Philippines.
1522 - Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
1539 – Re-founding of Bogota, in present-day Colombia.
1565 – Cebu is established as the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
1749 – First performance of George Frideric Handel's Music of the Fireworks in Green Park, London.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Ridgefield - A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
1810 - Ludwig van Beethoven composes the musical piece Für Elise.
1813 - War of 1812: US troops capture the capital city of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present-day Toronto).
1840 – The foundation stone is laid for the new Palace of Westminster.
1865 – The SS Sultana steamboat explodes and sinks on the Mississippi River, killing 1,700 people.
1904 – Chris Watson becomes Prime Minister of Australia.
1908 - The 1908 Summer Olympics in London begin.
1909 – Ottoman Empire Sultan Abdul Hamid II is overthrown by his brother Mehmed V.
1914 – Honduras becomes a signatory of the Buenos Aires Convention.
1927 – The Carabineros de Chile, the national police and gendarmerie of Chile, is created.
1936 - United Auto Workers gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
1941 – World War II: German troops enter Athens.
1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans.
1945 - World War II: German troops are expelled from Finnish Lapland.
1950 - Apartheid: in South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating (separating) Black people from White people.
1950 - The United Kingdom officially recognizes the state of Israel.
1960 – Togo becomes independent from France.
1961 – Sierra Leone becomes independent from the UK.
1967 - The Expo 67, a trade fair, begins in Montreal, Canada.
1974 - 10,000 people march in Washington, DC, calling for the impeachment for Richard Nixon.
1977 - 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1987 – The US Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States over revelations of possible war crimes committed by him during World War II.
1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is created, consisting of Serbia and Montenegro.
1992 – Russia and 12 former Soviet Republics join the International Monetary Fund.
1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first female Speaker of the British House of Commons.
1993 – Several members of the Zambia national football team are killed in a plane crash near Libreville, Gabon.
1994 – South Africa holds its first free and equal elections, with Nelson Mandela being elected President.
1996 - The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
1999 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika becomes President of Algeria.
2005 – The Superjumbo aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight in France.
2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower in New York City.
2007 – The Bronze Soldier Soviet war memorial in Tallinn is removed by Estonian authorities, amidst tensions with Russia.
2009 – The United Kingdom announces its first cases of the 2009 Swine flu outbreak.
2011 - A tornado outbreak kills hundreds of people in the Southeastern United States.
2014 - Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II are declared saints.
2018 - South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet for talks.
85 BC - Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, Roman politician and general (d. 43 BC)
1623 - Johann Adam Reinken, German organist and composer (d. 1722)
1650 – Charlotte-Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1714)
1701 – Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)
1724 - Thomas Gardner, American politician and soldier (d. 1755)
1755 - Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (d. 1836)
1759 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English writer and feminist (d. 1797)
1770 - Edward Codrington, English admiral (d. 1851)
1788 - Charles Robert Cockerell, English architect, archaeologist and writer (d. 1863)
1791 – Samuel Morse, American inventor (d. 1872)
1802 - Louis Niedermeyer, French-Swiss composer and teacher (d. 1861)
1806 – Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (d. 1878)
1820 – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (d. 1908)
1822 – Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
1840 – Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (d. 1911)
1848 – Otto I of Bavaria (d. 1916)
1853 - Jules Lemaitre, French critic and dramatist (d. 1914)
1856 – Tongzhi Emperor of China (d. 1875)
1857 - Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (d. 1914)
1860 – Frank Winkelmeier, Austrian, tallest man at the time of his death (d. 1887)
1862 - Rudolph Schildkraut, Turkish-American actor (d. 1930)
1866 - Marcel Raoul-Duval, French polo player (d. 1916)
1875 – Maurice de Broglie, French physicist (d. 1960)
1878 - John Rimmer, British athlete (d. 1962)
1878 - Frank Gotch, American wrestler (d. 1917)
1880 - Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer and conductor (d. 1958)
1882 - Jessie Redmon Fauset, American author and poet (d. 1961)
1887 - Warren Wood, American golfer (d. 1926)
1888 - Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (d. 1917)
1892 - Albert Rudomine, French photographer (d. 1975)
1893 - Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, coach and manager (d. 1939)
1893 - Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (d. 1976)
1894 - Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian composer, conductor, musician, critic and writer (d. 1995)
1894 – George Petty, American artist (d. 1975)
1896 - William Hudson, Australian engineer (d. 1978)
1896 - Wallace Carothers, American chemist (d. 1937)
1898 - Ludwig Bemelmans, Italian-American author and illustrator (d. 1962)
1899 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (d. 1994)
1902 - Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté, Malian educator and activist (d. 1942)
1903 - Horace Stoneham, American businessman (d. 1990)
1904 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (d. 1972)
1904 - Nikos Zachariadis, Greek politician (d. 1973)
1905 - John Huck, American javelin thrower and shot putter (d. 1986)
1909 - Guillermo León Valencia, President of Colombia (d. 1971)
1910 – Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese-Taiwanese politician (d. 1988)
1911 - Chris Berger, Dutch sprinter (d. 1965)
1912 - Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress, dancer and choreographer (d. 2014)
1912 - Jacques de Bourbon Busset, French novelist, essayist and politician (d. 2001)
1913 - Luz Long, German long jumper (d. 1943)
1918 - Sten Rudholm, Swedish jurist (d. 2008)
1920 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
1920 – Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet (d. 2010)
1921 - Robert Dhéry, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1922 - Martin Gray, Polish Holocaust survivor and writer (d. 2016)
1922 - Jack Klugman, American actor (d. 2012)
1926 - Tim LaHaye, American minister, author and speaker (d. 2016)
1927 – Coretta Scott King, American Civil Rights activist (d. 2006)
1927 - Sheila Scott, English aviator (d. 1988)
1929 - Nina Ponomaryova, Russian athlete (d. 2016)
1931 – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
1931 - Krzysztof Komeda, Polish jazz pianist (d. 1969)
1932 – Anouk Aimée, French actress
1932 – Casey Kasem, American radio show host and voice actor (d. 2014)
1932 - Derek Minter, English motorcycle racer (d. 2014)
1932 – Pik Botha, South African politician (d. 2018)
1932 - Chuck Knox, American football coach (d. 2018)
1932 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
1939 - Stanislaw Dziwisz, Polish cardinal
1939 - Jerry Mercer, Canadian drummer
1939 - Joao Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2009)
1941 - Fethullah Gülen, Turkish politician and religious leader
1942 - Valeri Polyakov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut
1943 - Ryszard Bugajski, Polish film director (d. 2019)
1944 – Michael Fish, English weather presenter
1944 – Cuba Gooding, Sr.,
American singer (d. 2017)
1944 - Stoker Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, English academic and politician
1947 - Nick Greiner, Hungarian-Australian politician, 37th Premier of New South Wales
1947 - Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1975)
1947 - Ann Peebles, American singer-songwriter
1948 – Josef Hickersberger, Austrian footballer and coach
1948 - Frank Abagnale, American security consultant and trickster
1949 - Jean Asselborn, Luxembourgish politician
1950 – Paolo Pulici, Italian footballer
1951 – Ace Frehley, American musician
1951 - Viviane Reding, Luxembourgish journalist and politician
1952 – Ari Vatanen, Finnish rally driver
1953 - Arielle Dombasle, French-American actress and singer
1954 – Frank Bainimarama, Fijian politician
1954 – Herman Edwards, American football manager
1954 - John Cygan, American actor (d. 2017)
1955 - Eric Schmidt, American entrepreneur, former CEO of Google
1956 - Bridget Kendall, English journalist
1957 - Adrian Utley, English musician
1959 - Andrew Fire, American Nobel Prize-winning biologist
1959 – Sheena Easton, Scottish singer
1959 – Jim Duffy, Scottish footballer and coach
1961 - Moana Pozzi, Italian pornographic actress, television personality, model, politician and writer (d. 1994)
1961 - Andrew Schlafly, American conservative lawyer and activist
1962 - Edvard Moser, Norwegian neurologist, 2014 Nobel Prize winner
1963 – Russell T Davies, Welsh television writer
1965 - Anna Chancellor, English actress
1967 – King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
1967 - Tommy Smith, Scottish saxophonist, composer and educator
1968 - Cristian Mungiu, Romanian filmmaker
1969 – Darcey Bussell, English ballerina
1969 – Mica Paris, English singer
1969 – Tess Daly, English television presenter
1969 - Cory Booker, American politician
1971 - Olari Elts, Estonian conductor
1976 - Sally Hawkins, English actress
1976 - Isobel Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter and cellist
1976 - Walter Pandiani, Uruguayan footballer
1976 - Faisal Saif, Indian director, screenwriter and critic
1976 - Olaf Tufte, Norwegian rower
1978 - Jim James, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (My Morning Jacket)
1980 – Christian Lara, Ecuadorean footballer
1981 – Patrik Gerrbrand, Swedish footballer
1981 - Fabrizio Faniello, Maltese singer-songwriter
1982 - Nicole Hosp, Austrian politician
1983 - Ari Gaynor, American actress
1984 – Patrick Stump, American musician
1984 - Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Hannes Thór Halldórsson, Icelandic footballer and filmmaker
1986 - Jenna Coleman, British actress
1986 – Dinara Safina, Russian tennis player
1986 – Elena Risteska, Macedonian singer
1987 - William Moseley, English actor
1988 - Semyon Varlamov, Russian ice hockey player
1989 – Lars Bender, German footballer
1989 – Sven Bender, German footballer
1989 - Emily Rios, American actress and model
1990 - Robin Bengtsson, Swedish singer
1990 - Martin Kelly, English footballer
1991 - Lara Gut, Swiss skier
1992 – Allison Iraheta, American actress
1995 - Nick Kyrgios, Australian tennis player
630 – Ardashir III of Persia
1272 – Zita, Italian saint (b. 1212)
1404 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
1463 – Isidore of Kiev (b. 1385)
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (b. 1480)
1605 – Pope Leo XI (b. 1535)
1613 - Robert Abercromby, Scottish priest and missionary (b. 1532)
1656 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (b. 1596)
1694 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony (b. 1668)
1794 - James Bruce, Scottish traveller and travel writer (b. 1730)
1813 - Zebulon Pike, American general and explorer (b. 1779)
1818 - Christopher Greenup, 3rd Governor of Kentucky (b. 1750)
1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist (b. 1803)
1896 - Henry Parkes, English statesman and politician (b. 1815)
1915 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (b. 1872)
1932 - Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
1937 – Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer and politician (b. 1891)
1952 – Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)
1962 - A. K. Fazlul, Bengali statesman (b. 1883)
1965 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)
1969 – René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (b. 1919)
1972 – Kwame Nkrumah, 1st President of Ghana (b. 1909)
1977 - Stanley Adams, American actor (b. 1915)
1977 - Scott Bradley, American composer, pianist and conductor (b. 1891)
1979 - Celal Atik, Turkish sports wrestler and trainer (b. 1918)
1989 - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
1991 – Robert Velter, French comic writer (b. 1909)
1992 - Olivier Messiaen, French organist and composer (b. 1908)
1996 - Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter (b. 1911)
1996 – William Colby, American CIA director (b. 1920)
1998 – Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian writer (b. 1925)
2000 - Vicki Sue Robinson, American actress and singer (b. 1954)
2002 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman and inventor of the Barbie doll (b. 1916)
2002 - Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Dutch-Swiss businessman (b. 1921)
2006 - Julia Thorne, American writer (b. 1944)
2007 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
2009 - Feroz Khan, Indian actor (b. 1939)
2013 - Aloysius Jin Luxian, Chinese bishop (b. 1916)
2014 - Yigal Arnon, Israeli lawyer (b. 1929)
2014 - Vujadin Boskov, Serbian footballer, coach and manager (b. 1931)
2014 - Harry Firth, Australian racing driver (b. 1918)
2014 - Andréa Parisy, French actress (b. 1935)
2015 - Andrew Lesnie, Australian cinematographer (b. 1956)
2015 - Verne Gagne, American professional wrestler and football player (b. 1926)
2015 - Suzanne Crough, American actress (b. 1963)
2015 - Gene Fullmer, American boxer (b. 1931)
2015 - Guy LeBlanc, Canadian keyboardist (b. 1960)
2015 - Marty Napoleon, American jazz pianist (b. 1921)
2016 - Toms, Indian cartoonist (b. 1929)
2017 - Peter George, Canadian academic (b. 1941)
2017 - Vinod Khanna, Indian actor (b. 1946)
2017 - Vinu Chakravarthy, Indian actor (b. 1945)
2017 - Julius Youngner, American virologist (b. 1920)
2018 - Paul Junger Witt, American film and television producer (b. 1941)
2018 - Roy Young, English singer and pianist (b. 1937)
2018 - Earl Balfour, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
2018 - Michael Luscombe, Australian chief executive (b. 1953)
2018 - Kristin Nelson, American actress, painter and author (b. 1945)
2019 - Aleksey Lebed, Russian military officer and politician (b. 1955)
2019 - Negasso Gidada, President of Ethiopia (b. 1943)
2019 - Bart Chilton, American civil servant (b. 1960)
Independence Day in Togo (1960) and Sierra Leone (1961)
Freedom Day in South Africa
King's Day in the Netherlands from 2014 (to be observed on April 26 when the 27th is a Sunday, including in 2014 itself)
1506 – The cornerstone for the present Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome is laid.
1518 - Bona Sforza is crowned Queen of Poland.
1521 - The trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms.
1689 - Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
1738 – Madrid's Royal Academy of History is founded.
1775 – American Revolution: Paul Revere's ride, to warn the countryside of troop movements.
1797 – France defeats Austria in the Battle of Neuwied.
1807 - A ferry capsizes in the port of Harwich, Essex, England, killing between 60 and 90 people.
1831 – The University of Alabama is founded.
1848 - An American victory at the Battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for the invasion of Mexico in the Mexican-American War.
1880 – A tornado in Marshfield, Missouri, kills 99 people.
1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1888 - British passenger steamer State of Florida sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean after a collision with a sailing ship, killing 130 people.
1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared.
1902 – Quetzaltenango, Guatemala is destroyed by an earthquake.
1906 – 1906 San Francisco earthquake: San Francisco, California is largely destroyed by a major earthquake, and subsequent fires.
Estimates suggest that 3,000 people have died, some of them after Mayor Eugene Schmitz orders a shoot-to-kill policy against looters.
Operatic tenor Enrico Caruso, who was in the city at the time, fled, never to return.
1909 - Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
1912 - Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic sinking to New York City.
1915 - French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
1923 – The Yankee Stadium opens in New York City.
1924 - Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.
1930 - BBC Radio announces that there is no news for that day.
1941 - Vichy France announces its withdrawal from the League of Nations.
1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
1945 – World War II: 1,000 bombers attack the island of Heligoland in the North Sea.
1946 – The International Court of Justice meets for the first time in The Hague.
1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser takes power in Egypt.
1955 – World-famous physicist Albert Einstein dies aged 76.
1955 - Representatives of 29 nations meet in Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
1958 - A US Federal Court rules that controversial poet Ezra Pound can be released from an insane asylum.
1974 - Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto opens Lahore's Dry Port.
1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe becomes independent from the UK, with Canaan Banana as its first President.
Robert Mugabe becomes Prime Minister, assuming the presidency in 1987.
1981 – The longest-ever game of professional baseball begins in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
1983 – The US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, is hit by a suicide bomber, killing 63 people.
1988 - The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian forces in the Iran-Iraq War.
1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammed Najibullah in Afghanistan.
1996 – At least 106 civilians in Lebanon are killed when Israeli Defense Forces shell a UN compound in Qana.
1996 - Islamic fundamentalists carry out a terror attack on a hotel in Cairo, killing 18 Greek tourists, who they mistook for Israelis.
2002 – A light aircraft crashes into the Pirelli building in Milan.
2002 – Thor Heyerdahl, who became world-famous for his Kon-Tiki expedition, dies at the age of 87.
2004 – Spain's Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero orders the withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq.
2005 - Start of the Conclave to elect a successor to Pope John Paul II; Joseph Alois Ratzinger is chosen the next day and becomes Pope Benedict XVI.
2007 – 198 people are killed in a series of bombings across Baghdad.
2007 - UEFA Euro 2012 is announced as being hosted jointly by Poland and Ukraine.
2008 - Cricket: The first season of the Indian Premier League begins.
2013 - A suicide bombing at a café in Baghdad kills 27 people and injures 63.
2014 - An avalanche on Mount Everest kills 12 people.
2015 - A terrorist attack in the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, kills at least 33 people.
2017 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Theresa May calls for an early general election for June 8.
2018 - Saudi Arabia's cinemas open for the first time since 1983.
2018 - NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is launched.
2019 - Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee is shot and killed during rioting in the city of Londonderry.
359 - Gratian, Roman Emperor (d. 383)
1115 - Gertrud of Süpplingenburg, Saxon noblewoman (d. 1143)
1480 – Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler (d. 1519)
1580 - Thomas Middleton, English dramatist (d. 1621)
1590 – Ahmed I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1617)
1605 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (d. 1674)
1647 - Elias Brenner, Finnish-Swedish artist (d. 1717)
1772 - David Ricardo, English political economist (d. 1823)
1782 - Georg August Goldfuss, German palaeontologist and zoologist (d. 1848)
1797 - Adolphe Thiers, 2nd President of France (d. 1877)
1813 - James McCune Smith, American physician and author (d. 1865)
1819 – Carlos Cespedes, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1874)
1838 - Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist (d. 1912)
1857 – Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (d. 1938)
1857 - Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and novelist (d. 1935)
1858 – Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian social reformer (d. 1962)
1858 – Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and novelist (d. 1935)
1863 – Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austrian-Hungarian foreign minister (d. 1942)
1863 - Linton Hope, English architect and sailor (d. 1920)
1864 – Richard Harding Davis, American writer (d. 1916)
1874 – Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German writer (d. 1941)
1877 - Vicente Sotto, Filipino patriot and writer (d. 1950)
1879 - Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist (d. 1962)
1880 - Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach and umpire (d. 1968)
1882 - Leopold Stokowski, Polish conductor (d. 1977)
1882 – Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler and writer (d. 1964)
1884 - Jaan Anvelt, Estonian Communist revolutionary and writer (d. 1937)
1889 - Jessie Street, American activist (d. 1970)
1890 - Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Russian royal (d. 1958)
1893 - Violette Morris, French shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1944)
1896 - Ha Hye-sok, Korean poet, feminist, writer, painter, educator and journalist (d. 1948)
1897 – Ardito Desio, Italian topographer (d. 2001)
1897 - Per-Erik Hedlund, Swedish cross-country skier (d. 1975)
1901 – Al Lewis, American lyricist (d. 1967)
1901 – Elene Akhvlediani, Georgian artist (d. 1975)
1902 – Giuseppe Pella, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
1905 – George H. Hitchings, American scientist (d. 1998)
1907 – Miklos Rozsa, Hungarian composer (d. 1995)
1911 – Maurice Goldhaber, Austrian-American physicist (d. 2011)
1914 - Claire Martin, Canadian writer (d. 2014)
1917 – Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (d. 1981)
1918 – Gabriel Axel, Danish movie director, screenwriter and actor (d. 2014)
1918 - Harry Firth, Australian racing driver (d. 2014)
1918 - Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese screenwriter (d. 2018)
1918 - André Bazin, French critic and theorist (d. 1958)
1919 - Vondell Darr, American actress (d. 2012)
1921 - Jean Richard, French actor (d. 2001)
1922 - Barbara Hale, American actress (d. 2017)
1924 - Clarence Gatemouth Brown, American blues guitarist (d. 2005)
1924 - Roy Mason, British politician (d. 2015)
1925 - Bob Hastings, American actor (d. 2014)
1926 - Harry Volkman, American meteorologist (d. 2015)
1927 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish writer, journalist and politician (d. 2013)
1927 - Charles Pasqua, French politician (d. 2015)
1927 – Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (d. 2008)
1928 - Otto Piene, German artist (d. 2014)
1928 - Karl Josef Becker, German theologian and cardinal (d. 2015)
1929 - Mario Francesco Pompedda, Italian cardinal (d. 2006)
1930 - Jean Guillou, French composer and organist
1931 - Klas Lestander, Swedish biathlete
1933 - Enrico Crispolti, Italian art critic, curator and art historian (d. 2018)
1934 – James Drury, American actor
1934 - Pedro Tenorio, Governor of the Northern Marianas (d. 2018)
1936 - Tarcisio Gitti, Italian politician (d. 2018)
1937 – Jan Kaplicky, Czech-British architect (d. 2009)
1937 - Teddy Taylor, British politician (d. 2017)
1940 – Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist
1940 – Mike Vickers, British musician and composer
1940 - Ira von Fürstenberg, Italian socialite, actress and jewellery designer
1941 – Michael D. Higgins, 9th President of Ireland
1942 – Jochen Rindt, Austrian racecar driver (d. 1970)
1943 - Zeki Alasya, Turkish actor and director (d. 2015)
1944 - Albin Planinc, Yugoslavian chess player (d. 2008)
1944 – Robert Hanssen, American double agent
1944 - Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza, English academic and politician
1945 – Margaret Hassan, Irish aid worker (d. 2004)
1946 - Hayley Mills, British actress
1946 - Irene Fernandez, Malaysian activist (d. 2014)
1946 - Janet Kagan, American writer (d. 2008)
1947 – Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor and director
1947 – Moses Blah, Liberian politician (d. 2013)
1947 – Cindy Pickett, American actress
1947 – James Woods, American actor
1947 - Herbert Mullin, American serial killer
1950 - Kenny Ortega, American director, producer and choreographer
1953 - Rick Moranis, Canadian-American actor, singer and screenwriter
1956 – Eric Roberts, American actor
1956 - Melody Thomas Scott, American actress
1956 - Roberto Calderoli, Italian politician
1958 - Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer
1959 - Frank Mulholland, Scottish lawyer
1960 - Neo Rauch, German artist
1960 - J. Christopher Stevens, American diplomat (d. 2012)
1961 - Jane Leeves, British actress
1961 – Steve Lombardi, American professional wrestler
1963 – Eric McCormack, Canadian actor
1963 – Conan O'Brien, American comedian
1963 - Universo 2000, Mexican professional wrestler (d. 2018)
1964 – Niall Ferguson, British historian
1964 - Rithy Panh, Cambodian documentary moviemaker
1966 - Valeri Kamensky, Russian ice hockey player
1966 - Trine Hattestad, Norwegian javelin thrower
1966 - Camille Coduri, English actress
1967 – Maria Bello, American actress
1968 – David Hewlett, English-Canadian actor
1969 - Princess Sayako of Japan
1970 - Esther Schweins, German actress
1970 – Saad Hariri, Lebanese Prime Minister
1971 – Samantha Cameron, wife of David Cameron
1971 – David Tennant, Scottish actor
1971 – Oleg Petrov, Russian ice hockey player
1972 - Rosa Clemente, American journalist and activist
1972 - Eli Roth, American director
1972 - Lars Christiansen, Danish handball player
1973 – Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian runner
1973 - Arnaud Beltrame, French gendarme (d. 2018)
1974 - Mark Tremonti, American musician
1974 - Edgar Wright, English director and writer
1976 – Melissa Joan Hart, American actress
1976 – Rodrigo de la Serna, Argentine actor
1976 – Sean Maguire, English actor
1977 – Hassan El Fakri, Norwegian footballer
1977 – Jonathan Rowson, Scottish chess player
1979 – Matthew Upson, English footballer
1979 – Kourtney Kardashian, American reality TV personality
1979 – Anthony Davidson, British racing driver
1980 – Rabiu Afolabi, Nigerian footballer
1980 – Carolina Crescentini, Italian actress
1980 – Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 – Milan Jovanovic, Serbian footballer
1982 – Simone Farina, Italian footballer
1983 – Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
1983 – Hernán Rengifo, Peruvian footballer
1984 – America Ferrera, American actress
1985 – Lukasz Fabianski, Polish footballer
1985 – Rachel Smith, American model
1986 – Maurice Edu, American soccer player
1986 – Mateusz Rutkowski, Polish ski jupmer
1987 – Danny Guthrie, English footballer
1987 – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, British model and actress
1987 – Samantha Jade, Australian singer-songwriter
1987 – Cara Maria Wayans, American actress
1988 – Anagabriela Espinoza, Mexican model
1989 – Hannah Wang, Australian actress
1989 – Jessica, Korean-American actress, model and singer (Girls' Generation)
1990 – Wojciech Szczesny, Polish footballer
1990 – Britt Robertson, American actress
1992 – Chloe Bennet, American actress and singer
1993 – Nathan Sykes, British singer (The Wanted)
1995 – Divock Origi, Belgian footballer
1996 – Ski Mask the Slump God, American rapper and songwriter
2007 – Hayah bint Hamzah, Princess of Jordan
1143 - Gertrud of Süpplingenburg, Saxon noblewoman (b. 1115)
1161 – Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
1556 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (b. 1495)
1567 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503)
1674 – John Graunt, English statistician (b. 1620)
1794 – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
1796 - Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (b. 1732)
1802 – Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)
1832 - Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, French painter (b. 1761)
1859 - Tatya Tope, Indian general (b. 1814)
1864 - Juris Alunans, Latvian philologist (b. 1832)
1873 – Justus von Liebig, German scientist (b. 1803)
1898 – Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)
1905 - Juan Valera, Spanish writer, diplomat and politician (b. 1824)
1906 - Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
1936 - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (b. 1879)
1941 - Alexandros Koryzis, Prime minister of Greece (b. 1885)
1942 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor and art collector (b. 1875)
1943 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884)
1945 – John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (b. 1849)
1945 – Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)
1945 – William, Prince of Albania (b. 1876)
1947 – Jozef Tiso, Slovakian politician (b. 1887)
1949 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
1951 – Antonio Oscar Carmona, Portuguese politician (b. 1869)
1955 – Albert Einstein, German physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
1957 - Ben W. Hooper, 33rd Governor of Tennessee (b. 1870)
1958 – Maurice Gamelin, French general (b. 1872)
1964 - Ben Hecht, American director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1894)
1965 - Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, Mexican inventor and engineer (b. 1917)
1974 – Marcel Pagnol, French writer and movie maker (b. 1895)
1976 - Mahmoud Younis, Egyptian engineer (b. 1911)
1988 - Pierre Desproges, French journalist, comedian and actor (b. 1939)
1991 - Gabriel Celaya, Spanish poet (b. 1911)
1992 - Frankie Howerd, English comedian and actor (b. 1917)
1993 - Masahiko Kimura, Japanese judoka (b. 1917)
1995 – Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (b. 1908)
1996 - Piet Hein, Danish scientist, mathematician and inventor (b. 1905)
1998 - Terry Sanford, 65th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1917)
2002 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, ethnographer, zoologist  and writer (b. 1914)
2004 – Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji (b. 1920)
2007 – Iccho Itoh, Japanese politician, Mayor of Nagasaki (b. 1945)
2008 - Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist (b. 1907)
2011 – Pietro Ferrero Jr., Italian businessman (b. 1963)
2011 – William Donald Schaefer, American politician (b. 1921)
2012 – Dick Clark, American radio and television host, and producer (b. 1929)
2013 - Storm Thorgerson, British graphic designer (b. 1944)
2014 - Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer (b. 1994)
2014 - Brian Priestman, British maestro and conductor (b. 1927)
2014 - Derek Cooper, British broadcaster and food naturalist (b. 1925)
2014 - Andrew Sessler, American physicist (b. 1928)
2015 - Mario Pirani, Italian journalist (b. 1925)
2015 - Erwin Waldner, German footballer (b. 1933)
2016 - Yuri Bychkov, Russian art historian (b. 1931)
2016 - Cox Habbema, Dutch actress (b. 1944)
2016 - Eva Henning, Swedish actress (b. 1920)
2016 - Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet, Irish aristocrat and media personality (b. 1916)
2016 - Johan van Minnen, Dutch journalist and politician (b. 1932)
2017 - Yvonne Monlaur, French actress (b. 1939)
2017 - Jaak Panksepp, Estonian-American neuroscientist (b. 1943)
2018 - Luisa Pastor Lillo, Spanish politician (b. 1948)
2018 - Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American professional wrestler (b. 1935)
2018 - Henk Schouten, Dutch footballer (b. 1932)
2018 - Jeanne Wilson, American swimmer (b. 1926)
2018 - Dale Winton, English television presenter (b. 1955)
2019 - Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani linguist, writer and academic (b. 1929)
2019 - Con de Lange, South African-Scottish cricketer (b. 1981)
2019 - Lyra McKee, Northern Irish journalist (b. 1990)
2019 - Lorraine Warren, American paranormal investigator (b. 1927)
Independence Day (Zimbabwe)
Invention Day (Japan)
International Day of Monuments and Sites
Army Day (Iran)
69 - Vitellius is accepted as Roman Emperor.
531 - Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Ar-Raqaah, Syria.
1529 - Protestant Reformation: Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism.
1587 - English seafarer Francis Drake attacks a Spanish fleet in Cadiz harbor.
1689 - Amalienborg castle in Denmark is destroyed by fire.
1770 - James Cook sights the East coast of Australia.
1770 – Marie Antoinette marries the future King Louis XVI of France.
1775 – The American Revolutionary War begins at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent state.
1809 - An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn.
1810 - Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General, is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
1839 - The Treaty of London creates Belgium fully as a kingdom, also separating Luxembourg from Belgium.
1861 - American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861 - A Pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1865 - The funeral of Abraham Lincoln takes place in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC.
1882 – Charles Darwin dies aged 73.
1892 - Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile across the United States.
1897 – The first Boston Marathon takes place.
1897 - Jiroemon Kimura, the oldest man ever, is born in Japan.
1902 - A magnitude 7.5 earthquake strikes Guatemala, killing 2,000 people.
1903 - The Kishinev pogrom begins in present-day Moldova, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western World.
1904 – A fire in Toronto destroys 104 buildings.
1927 - Mae West is sentenced to ten days in prison for obscenity for her play Sex.
1943 – Holocaust: German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto.
1945 – The Soviet Union and Guatemala establish diplomatic relations.
1948 – Burma joins the UN.
1950 - Argentina signs the Buenos Aires Convention.
1951 – Douglas MacArthur retires from the US military.
1954 - The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognizes Urdu and Bengali as the country's official languages.
1956 – Prince Rainier III of Monaco marries Hollywood actress Grace Kelly.
1960 - Students in South Korea hold a nationwide democracy protest against President Rhee Syng-man, who resigns a week later.
1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a Republic, with Siaka Stevens as President.
1971 - Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
1975 - India's first satellite, Aryabhata, is launched.
1984 - Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold become the official national colors.
1985 - The Soviet Union carries out nuclear tests in eastern Kazakhstan.
1987 – The Simpsons premiere on the Tracey Ullman Show.
1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1993 – The 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, ends as fire breaks out, killing 82 cult members, including David Koresh.
1993 - George S. Mickelson, Governor of South Dakota, is killed along with six others, when an airplane crashes in Iowa.
1995 – Timothy McVeigh carries out the Oklahoma City bombing, killing 169 people.
1997 - Grand Forks, South Dakota, is overwhelmed by flooding from the Red River.
1998 - Thomas Klestil is elected to a second term as President of Austria.
1999 – The German Bundestag moves its seat to Berlin.
2000 - A Philippine Airlines Boeing 737-200 crashes on landing at the island of Sanal in the Philippines, killing all 131 people on board.
2005 – Joseph Alois Ratzinger is chosen to become Pope.
He chooses to be known as Pope Benedict XVI.
2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee, after 45 years.
2013 - Jiroemon Kimura becomes the first man to reach the age of 116 years.
He is the oldest man ever; the oldest-ever person is Jeanne Calment, who lived to 122.
2013 - Aftermath of 2013 Boston Marathon bombings: A police officer is shot dead in the early hours of the morning, before one of the suspects is killed in shoot-out with police, after which a lock-down is enforced in Boston.
The second suspect is later arrested after a stand-off in the Watertown area of Greater Boston.
2013 - Nicolas Maduro becomes President of Venezuela.
He had already served in a caretaker capacity after the death of Hugo Chávez on March 5.
2015 - A migrant boat sinks off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, killing an estimated 700 people, making this the deadliest such tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea to date.
2018 - Miguel Diaz-Canel is chosen to succeed Raul Castro as President of Cuba.
2018 - Mswati III of Swaziland, on his 50th birthday, announces a change to the country's official name from "Kingdom of Swaziland" to "Kingdom of eSwatini".
1452 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1504)
1603 – Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)
1605 - Antonio Bertali, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1669)
1613 - Christoph Bach, grandfather of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1661)
1658 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)
1665 – Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)
1686 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750)
1721 – Roger Sherman, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
1721 – Thomas McKean, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1817)
1759 - August Wilhelm Iffland, German actor and dramatist (d. 1814)
1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (d. 1858)
1791 - William Orlando Butler, American politician (d. 1880)
1793 – Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
1832 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize winner (d. 1916)
1847 - Eva Gonzales, French painter (d. 1883)
1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
1877 - Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor (d. 1934)
1882 – Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (d. 1954)
1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian mathematician (d. 1953)
1883 - Henry Jameson, American soccer player (d. 1938)
1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983)
1894 - Elizabeth Dilling, American writer and activist (d. 1966)
1897 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
1897 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest man and oldest man ever (d. 2013)
1898 – Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973)
1899 – George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
1900 – Richard Hughes, British novelist (d. 1976)
1900 - Roland Michener, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1991)
1900 - Aleksandr Ptushko, Soviet-Russian movie director and screenwriter (d. 1973)
1902 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (d. 1989)
1903 – Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
1912 – Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
1914 - Ugo Poletti, Italian cardinal (d. 1997)
1917 - Sven Hassel, Danish author (d. 2012)
1920 - Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (d. 2013)
1921 - Roberto Tucci, Italian cardinal (d. 2015)
1922 – Erich Hartmann, fighter pilot with the most amount of kills (352) (d. 1993)
1924 – Werner Kohlmeyer, German footballer (d. 1974)
1925 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor (d. 2016)
1928 - Azlan Shah of Perak, 9th Yang-di Pertuan Agong (Head of State) of Malaysia and Sultan of Perak (d. 2014)
1928 – Alexis Korner, musician (d. 1984)
1930 – Dick Sargent, actor (d. 1994)
1932 – Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor
1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
1933 – Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire
1934 – Jean Ziegler, Swiss sociologist and politician
1934 - Ox Baker, American wrestler and actor (d. 2014)
1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, musician, comedian, composer (d. 2002)
1935 - Justin Francis Rigali, American cardinal
1936 – Wilfried Martens, former Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2013)
1936 - Séamus Pattison, Irish politician (d. 2018)
1937 – Elinor Donahue, American actress
1937 – Joseph Estrada, Filipino actor and politician, former President of the Philippines
1937 - Antonio Carluccio, Italian-English chef and author (d. 2017)
1938 - Gil Santos, American sports announcer (d. 2018)
1940 - Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (d. 1977)
1940 - Genya Ravan, American singer-songwriter and producer
1941 - Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer and composer
1941 - Alan Price, English musician
1941 - Michel Roux, French-British chef and restaurateur
1942 - Bas Jan Ader, Dutch artist (d. 1975)
1942 – Frank Elstner, German entertainer
1943 - Margo MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician (d. 2014)
1943 - Lorenzo Sanz, Spanish businessman
1944 – James Heckman, American economist, Nobel Prize
1944 – Bernie Worrell, keyboardist (P Funk)
1946 – Tim Curry, British actor
1946 - Mary Jo Slater, American casting director and producer
1947 – Murray Perahia, American pianist
1949 – Joachim Sauer, husband of German Chancellor Angela Merkel
1949 – Paloma Picasso, designer, daughter of Pablo Picasso
1951 – Jóannes Eidesgaard, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1952 – Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (d. 2009)
1953 - Sara Simeoni, Italian athlete
1953 – Ruby Wax, American-born British television personality
1954 - Trevor Francis, English footballer
1956 – Sue Barker, English tennis player and television presenter
1956 - Lane Hoppen, American singer-songwriter and musician (Orleans)
1956 - Randy Carlyle, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1957 - Tony Martin, English singer and musician
1958 - Denis O'Brien, Irish businessman
1960 - Nicoletta Braschi, Italian actress and producer
1960 – Ara Gevorgyan, Armenian musician, composer and musical producer
1960 – Frank Viola, American baseball player
1960 – Roger Merrett, Australian footballer
1962 – Al Unser, Jr., race car driver
1963 - Mika Kojonskoski, Finnish ski jumper
1964 - Gordon Marshall, Scottish footballer and coach
1965 – Suge Knight, record producer
1965 - Natalie Dessay, French soprano
1967 - Philippe Sainte-André, French rugby player and coach
1967 – Steven H Silver, science fiction editor
1967 – Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
1968 – Mswati III, King of Swaziland
1968 – Ashley Judd, American actress
1968 - Arshad Warsi, Indian actor, singer and producer
1968 - Pascal Kleiman, Spanish DJ, producer and songwriter
1969 - Susan Polgar, Hungarian-American chess player
1970 – Kelly Holmes, British athlete, double Olympic champion
1970 – Luis Miguel, Mexican singer
1972 – Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
1972 - Django Asül, German actor and comedian
1973 - Alessandro Preziosi, Italian actor
1975 – Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer
1976 - Scott Padgett, American basketball player, coach and radio host
1978 – James Franco, American actor
1978 – Gabriel Heinze, Argentine footballer
1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress
1979 - Zhao Junzhe, Chinese footballer
1980 - Jason Blaine, Canadian singer-songwriter
1980 - Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 – Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
1981 – Catalina Sandino Moreno, actress
1981 - James Hibberd, English cricketer
1981 – Ryuta Hara, Japanese footballer
1985 – Valon Behrami, Swiss footballer
1986 - Heather Kuzmich, American model
1987 – Joe Hart, English footballer
1987 – Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
1987 - Lauren Wilson, Canadian figure skater
1988 - Haruna Kojima, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
1989 – Daisuke Watabe, Japanese footballer
1990 - Damien Le Tallec, French footballer
1992 - Nick Pope, English footballer
1994 - Lee Areum, South Korean singer
2016 - Prince Alexander, Duke of Södermanland, Swedish royal
1012 - Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)
1054 – Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
1321 - Patriarch Gerasimus I of Constantinople
1390 – King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
1560 - Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497)
1578 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
1588 - Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (b. 1528)
1608 - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)
1689 – Christina of Sweden (b. 1626)
1733 - Elizabeth Villiers, mistress to William III of England (b. 1655)
1768 – Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
1791 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)
1824 – Lord Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
1882 – Charles Darwin, British naturalist (b. 1809)
1906 – Pierre Curie, French scientist (b. 1859)
1906 - Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher (b. 1838)
1916 - Ephraim Shay, American engineer (b. 1839)
1950 - Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886)
1958 - Artur Kukk, Estonian wrestler (b. 1899)
1966 – Javier Solis, Mexican singer (b. 1931)
1967 – Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
1974 – Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1907)
1988 - Kwon Ki-ok, first female pilot in Korea (b. 1901)
1989 – Daphne du Maurier, British writer (b. 1907)
1991 - Stanley Hawes, British-Australian producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)