the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
George Pal, Hungarian-born animator and producer (b. 1904)
Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-born cricketer (b. 1891)
Kay Hammond, English actress (b. 1909)
Josip Broz Tito,  Croatian-born Yugoslav communist military and political leader, 19th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia and 1st President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
May 5 – Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist and co-creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (b. 1897)
Isla Cameron, British actress (b. 1930)
Margaret Cole, British politician (b. 1893)
May 8 – Geoffrey Baker, English field marshal (b. 1912)
Prince Himalaya of Nepal (b. 1921)
Kate Molale, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1928)
May 12 – Lillian Roth, American actress (b. 1910)
Carl Ebert, German theatre and opera director (b. 1887)
Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
José Calvo, Spanish actor (b. 1916)
Marin Preda, Romanian writer (b. 1922)
David A. Johnston, American volcanologist (b. 1949) (killed by eruption of Mount St. Helens)
Ian Curtis, English musician and singer (b. 1956)
Reid Blackburn, photojournalist for National Geographic (b. 1952; also killed by eruption of Mount St. Helens)
Harry R. Truman, Owner/Operator of Mt. St. Helens Lodge (b. 1896; killed by eruption of Mount St. Helens)
May 20 – Jack Walsh, Australian cricketer (b. 1912)
May 21 – Ida Kamińska, Polish-born Jewish actress, playwright and translator (b. 1899)
May 25 – George West, British Anglican missionary (b. 1893)
May 28 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
May 30 – Carl Radle, American bassist (b. 1942)
June 1 – Rube Marquard, American baseball player (New York Giants) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1886)
Richard Bonelli, American opera baritone (b. 1889)
Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
Elizabeth Craig, British chef and writer (b. 1883)
Salvator Gotta, Italian writer (b. 1887)
Philip Guston, American painter (b. 1912)
Marian Spychalski, Polish architect and politician, former head of State (b. 1908)
Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Brazilian football player (b. 1904)
June 9 – Shyam Kumari Khan, Indian lawyer (b. 1904)
Billy Butlin, South African-born Canadian founder of Butlins Holiday Camps (b. 1899)
Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1910)
Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
June 13 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)
June 14 – Sante Spessotto, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1923)
June 18 – Terence Fisher, British director (b. 1904)
June 20 – Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet (b. 1892)
June 21 – Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)
Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
John Laurie, Scottish actor (b. 1897)
V. V. Giri, Indian politician and 4th President of India (b. 1894)
June 24 – Boris Kaufman, Russian cinematographer (b. 1897)
June 26 – Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch Ignatius Jacob III (b. 1912)
June 27 – Carey McWilliams, American author, editor and lawyer (b. 1905)
June 28 – José Iturbi, Spanish conductor and musician (b. 1895)
July – Robert Brackman, American painter (b. 1898)
July 1 – C. P. Snow, British physicist and novelist (b. 1905)
Deng Hua, Chinese general (b. 1910)
Abdelhamid Sharaf, 51st Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1939)
July 4 – Gregory Bateson, British anthropologist, anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (b. 1904)
July 6 – Gail Patrick, American actress (b. 1911)
Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1901)
Reginald Gardiner, English actor (b. 1903)
Dore Schary, American film writer, director and producer (b. 1905)
Dan White, American actor (b. 1908)
July 8 – Rudolf Creutz, Austrian criminal (b. 1896)
July 9 – Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian writer, poet and diplomat (b. 1913)
July 13 – Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana (b. 1921)
July 15 – Ben Selvin, American orchestra leader and recording artist (b. 1898)
Red Barry, American actor (b. 1912)
Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
July 19 – Nihat Erim, Turkish politician and jurist, 30th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1912)
July 20 – Lado Gudiashvili, Soviet painter (b. 1896)
July 21 – Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Syrian politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1912)
July 22 – Hans-Georg Bürger, German racing driver (b. 1952)
July 23 – Keith Godchaux, American musician (b. 1948)
July 24 – Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925)
Tony Catalano, American football player (b. 1895)
Vladimir Vysotsky, Soviet singer-songwriter, poet and actor (b. 1938)
Allen Hoskins, American actor (b. 1920)
Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (b. 1927)
July 27 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1919)
July 28 – Maria Luisa Monteiro da Cunha, Brazilian librarian (b. 1908)
July 30 – Lucien Dalsace, French actor (b. 1893)
Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
Bobby Van, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1928)
Patrick Depailler, French racing driver (b. 1944)
Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
August 2 – Donald Ogden Stewart, American writer (b. 1894)
Harry Bell, Australian footballer (b. 1897)
Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906)
Elliott Nugent, American actor (b. 1896)
Gareth Evans, British philosopher (b. 1946)
Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and statesman, 3rd President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
August 14 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (murdered) (b. 1960)
August 15 – William Hood Simpson, American general (b. 1888)
August 18 – Arman, Iranian-born Soviet actor (b.  1921)
August 19 – Otto Frank, German father of Jewish diarist Anne Frank (b. 1889)
August 20 – Joe Dassin, American-born French singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
August 22 – Norman Shelley, British actor (b. 1903)
August 24 – Yootha Joyce, British actress (b. 1927)
August 25 – Gower Champion, American theatre director, choreographer and dancer (b. 1919)
August 26 – Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
Barbara O'Neil, American actress (b. 1909)
Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926)
Duncan Renaldo, American actor (b. 1904)
Pepe Abad, Spanish-born Chilean television presenter and radio host (b. 1932)
George Murray Burnett, British mathematician and chemist (b. 1921)
September 8 – Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
September 9 – Manzoor Ali Khan, Pakistani classical singer (b. 1922)
September 12 – Lillian Randolph, American actress (b. 1898)
September 14 – Domingo Acedo, Spanish football player (b. 1898)
September 15 – Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1929)
Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
Julio Franco Arango, Colombian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1914)
September 17 – Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicataguan politician, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
September 18 – Katherine Anne Porter, American author (b. 1890)
September 19 – Sol Lesser, American film producer (b. 1890)
September 23 – Jacobus Johannes Fouché, 5th President of South Africa (b. 1898)
John Bonham, British rock drummer (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
Lewis Milestone, American film director (b. 1895)
Marie Under, Estonian poet (b. 1883)
John McGuire, American actor (b. 1929)
Peter, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1922)
October 2 – John Kotelawala, Sri Lanka soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon (b. 1895)
October 6 – Hattie Jacques, British actress (b. 1922)
October 7 – Sydney Gordon Russell, English designer and craftsman (b. 1892)
October 10 – Billie Thomas, American actor (b. 1931)
October 12 – Alberto Demicheli, Uruguayan political figure, President of Uruguay ("de facto") (b. 1896)
October 15 – Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (b. 1908)
October 18 – Hans Ehard, German lawyer and politician (b. 1887)
Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome was named (b. 1906)
Valko Chervenkov, Bulgarian politician, 34th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1900)
Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Argentine general, 28th President of Argentina (d. 1887)
October 23 – Mariano Suárez, Ecuadorian politician, 27th President of Ecuador (b. 1897)
Virgil Fox, American organist (b. 1912)
Víctor Galíndez, Argentine boxer (race car accident) (b. 1948)
Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu/Hindustani poet and Hindi film lyricist (b. 1921)
October 26 – Marcelo Caetano, Portuguese politician and scholar, 101st Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1906)
Steve Peregrin Took, British rock musician (b. 1949)
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
October 29 – Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese politician and statesman, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1911)
October 31 – Elizebeth Smith Friedman, American cryptographer (b. 1892)
Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1904)
Johnny Owen, Welsh professional boxer (b. 1956)
November 7 – Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
Gloria Guinness, Mexican-born American fashion icon (b. 1912)
Carmel Myers, American actress (b. 1899)
Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1915)
Boris Aronson, Russian set designer (b. 1898)
Imogen Hassall, English actress (b. 1942)
November 18 – Conn Smythe, Canadian NHL coach (b. 1895)
November 19 – E. J. Bowen, English chemist (b. 1898)
Avtandil Gogoberidze, Soviet football player (b. 1922)
John McEwen, Australian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
November 21 – Sara García, Mexican actress (b. 1895)
Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901)
Mae West, American actress (b. 1893)
November 24 – George Raft, American actor (b. 1901)
November 26 – Rachel Roberts, British actress (b. 1927)
November 27 – F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
Dorothy Day, American journalist, activist, Roman Catholic convert and Servant of God (b. 1897)
Babe London, American actress and comedian (b. 1901)
Jean Donovan, American Roman Catholic missionary (b. 1953)
Murder of the Three American Roman Catholic fellow missionaries by Salvadorian military:
Maura Clarke (b. 1931)
Ita Ford (b. 1940)
Dorothy Kazel (b. 1939)
Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born writer (b. 1914)
December 3 – Sir Oswald Mosley, British fascist leader (b. 1896)
Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Portuguese lawyer, 109th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)
Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-born runner (b. 1911)
December 7 – Darby Crash, American rock songwriter, singer  (b. 1958)
December 8 – John Lennon, British singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
December 9 – Patriarch Benedict I of Jerusalem (b. 1892)
December 11 – Dorothy West, American actress (b. 1891)
Bruno Bartolozzi, Italian composer (b. 1911)
Erich Jantsch, Austrian astrophysicist (b. 1929)
Severino Montano, Filipino actor, director and playwright (b. 1915)
December 14 – Elston Howard, American baseball player (b. 1929)
Colonel Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (b. 1890)
Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
Peter Collinson, British film director (b. 1936)
December 17 – Chiang Kuei, Chinese novelist (b.  1908)
Frances Fuller, American actress (b. 1907)
Alexei Kosygin, Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)
Sir Albert Margai, 2nd Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (b. 1910)
December 19 – Héctor José Cámpora, Argentine Peronist politician, 38th President of Argentina (b. 1909)
December 21 – Marc Connelly, American playwright (b. 1890)
December 23 – Frank Norman, English novelist, playwright and autobiographer (b. 1930)
Karl Dönitz, German admiral and 4th President of Germany (b. 1891)
Heikki Liimatainen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1894)
Siggie Nordstrom, American model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer (b. 1893)
December 25 – Victoria Drummond, first woman marine engineer in Britain (b. 1894)
Alfredo Barrera Vásquez, Mexican anthropologist (b. 1900)
Sam Levene, American actor (b. 1905)
December 29 – Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
December 30 – Giuseppe Carraro, Italian Roman Catholic bishop and venerable (b. 1899)
Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and professor (b. 1911)
Raoul Walsh, American film director (b. 1887)
Date Unknown
Nureddine Rifai, 25th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1899)
The Blue Lagoon The Blues Brothers The Gods Must Be Crazy The Island Popeye Stir Crazy Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back Used Cars 9 to 5 TV Series
Gumby Adventures – The first Gumby in 1980's.
Gumby episode is "The Music Ball", "Shrink-a-Dink" and "Hatching Out" in November 1, 1980 first aired.
"A Forest" – The Cure
"All Out of Love" – Air Supply
"Any Way You Want It" – Journey
"Another One Bites The Dust"-Queen
"Ashes To Ashes" – David Bowie
"Babe" – Styx
"Back Together Again" – Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway
"Borrowed Time" – Styx
"Breaking the Law" – Judas Priest
"Cheap Wine" – Cold Chisel
"Fool in the Rain" – Led Zeppelin
"Freewill" – Rush
"Good Morning Girl" – Journey
"Hungry Heart" – Bruce Springsteen
"I Can't Tell You Why" – The Eagles
"I Hope I Never – Split Enz
"Living After Midnight" – Judas Priest
"Love The World Away" – Kenny Rogers
"Metal Gods" – Judas Priest
"On And On And On" – ABBA
"People – Mi-Sex
"Remember (Walking in the Sand)" – Aerosmith
"Sexy Eyes" – Dr. Hook
"Stay Awhile" – Journey
"Suddenly" – Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard
"Super Trouper" – ABBA
"The Winner Takes It All" – ABBA
"Too Late" – Journey
"Train in Vain" – The Clash
"Tulsa Time" – Eric Clapton
"Turn It On Again" – Genesis
"Why Me" – Styx
"You May Be Right" – Billy Joel
(Just Like) Starting Over – John Lennon
Another Brick In The Wall, Part II – Pink Floyd
Another One Bites The Dust- Queen
Call Me – Blondie
Coming Up – Paul McCartney & Wings
Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen
It's Still Rock And Roll To Me – Billy Joel
Lady – Kenny Rogers
Magic -Olivia Newton-John
Rock With You – Michael Jackson
Upside Down – Diana Ross
Woman In Love'' – Barbra Streisand
January 2 – Roger Miller, American singer (d. 1992)
January 28 – Alan Alda, American actor
March 9 – Mickey Gilley, American singer, Nightclub owner
March 26 - Giora Feidman, Israeli clarinetist
May 7 – Tony O'Reilly, Irish billionaire
May 16 - Edmond Classen, Dutch actor (d. 2014)
May 17 – Dennis Hopper, American actor (d. 2010)
June 2 – Sally Kellerman, American actress
July 10 - Lois Lilienstein, Canadian singer and musician (Sharon, Lois & Bram) (d. 2015)
December 22 – Wojciech Frykowski, Polish actor (d. 1969)
September 21 – Yury Luzhkov, Mayor of Moscow
October 10 – Gerhard Ertl, German physicist, Nobel prize winner (chemistry)
January 16 - Albert Fish (executed by electrocution)
January 18 – Rudyard Kipling, British writer
March 9 – Sri Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru.
January 15 – The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.
January 16 – Serial killer Albert Fish executed in Sing Sing
January 20 – Death of George V of the United Kingdom.
His son Edward VIII succeedes him as King of the United Kingdom, King of Ireland and Emperor of India.
January 24 – Albert Serraut's government begins in France.
January 31 – The Green Hornet radio show debuts.
February 4 – Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
February 6 – The 1936 Winter Olympic Games opens in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
February 10-15 – Italian troops defeat Abyssinian army in Enderta
From February 14, 1936, to March 1, 1945, AG Weser launched a total of 162 U-boats.
February 19 – Manuel Aznar's government begins in Spain
February 26 – 1400 Japanese soldiers invade government offices in Tokyo.
They demand arrest of general Kazushige Ugaki and that general Sadao Araki made head of the Kwantung Army and death of the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, the minister of Finance and Inspector General of Military Education
February 29 – Emperor Hirohito orders Japanese army to arrest 123 conspirators in Tokyo government offices – 19 of them are executed in July.
December 11 – King Edward VIII gives up his throne to marry the woman he loves.
Summer-The central and southern United States are hit by a major heat wave.
After the Thin Man
"The Way You Look Tonight" – by Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern, from the movie Swing Time, won the Academy Award for the best song.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Henry Hallett Dale, and Otto Loewi.
1046 – Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he would later describe in his book Safarnameh.
1279 - The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
1496 – England King Henry VII issued letters patern to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to discover of unknown lands.
1616 - Nicolaus Copernicus' book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Roman Catholic Church.
1689 – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department.
1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are killed by British troops in an event that would help start the American Revolutionary War five years later.
1784 – Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade.
1793 – French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured.
1811 - Peninsular War: A French force under command of Marshal Victor is heavily defeated while trying to prevent an English-Spanish-Portuguese army from ending the Siege of Cadiz in the Battle of Barrosa.
1821 – James Monroe is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
1824 – First Burmese War: The British officially declares war on Burma.
1836 – Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber).
1842 – Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.
1848 – Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance.
1849 – Zachary Taylor is inaugurated as the 12th President of the United States.
1850 – The Britannia Bridge, a railway bridge, linking the Isle of Anglesey to mainland Wales across the Menai Strait, opens.
1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referenda to join Kingdom of Sardinia.
1861 – The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.
1861 – Montgomery Blair is named 23rd Postmaster General of the United States by Abraham Lincoln
1868 – A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.
1868 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito premieres at La Scala.
1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1877 – Rutherford B. Hayes is publicly inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (he was privately inaugurated on March 3).
1878 - Manchester United Football Club is founded under the name of Newton Heath LYR FC.
1888 – Samuel Teleki and Ludwig von Hoehnal reach Lake Rudolf, present-day Lake Turkana in the Great Rift Valley.
It lies in what is now Kenya.
1894 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.
1901 - 1950
1904 – Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of ball lightning formation.
1905 – Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.
1907 – The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
1912 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1915 – World War I: LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
1916 – Spanish football club Real Club Deportivo Mallorca founded.
1916 - Off Santos, Brazil, Spanish luxury liner Principe de Asturias hits a rock and sinks within five minutes, killing 445 people.
1917 – Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
1918 – Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
1919 - The main railway station in Helsinki opens.
1924 – Shefqet Verlaci becomes Prime Minister of Albania.
1929 – LanChile airline begins operations.
1931 – Daniel Salamanca Urey is named President of Bolivia.
1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933 – In Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
1936 – First flight of fighter airplane Spitfire Type 300.
1940 – Members of Soviet politbiuro sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 22000 Polish POW, known also as Katyn massacre.
1943 – First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in Britain.
1946 – Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
1946 - The Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the left bloc.
1948 – US rocket flies a record 4800 km/h to 126 km height.
1949 – The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
1951 - 2000
1953 – Both Josef Stalin and Sergei Prokofiev die in Soviet Union.
1955 – President of Lithuania, Antanas Merkys dies, after having been imprisoned and deported to the Soviet Union.
1956 – Ernie Terrell becomes the WBA world heavyweight champion, beating Eddie Machen.
1956 – "King Kong" first televised.
1958 – Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.
1958 – Explorer 2 spacecraft launches, fails to reach Earth orbit.
1960 - Alberto Korda takes the famous "Guerrillero Heroico" photograph of Che Guevara.
1960 – Elvis Presley is discharged from a 2-year hitch in the United States Army.
1963 – Country singer Patsy Cline dies in a plane crash.
1964 – Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr announces a baseball team is moving there.
1964 – Ceylon declares emergency crisis due to unrest.
1965 – First performance of Walter Piston's Eighth Symphony.
1966 – A BOAC Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan killing 124
1966 – In Luxembourg, Udo Jürgens wins the eleventh Eurovision Song Contest for Austria.
1966 – Bob Seagren vaults 5.19m, an indoor world record.
1968 – US launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops Island to study the Sun.
1970 – A nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1970 – Dubnium atoms first detected conclusively.
1971 – First live performance of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."
1973 – Two Spanish aircraft collide in mid-air over France, killing 68 people.
1973 – Donald DeFreeze, future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.
1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdrew from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1974 – "Candide", by Leonard Bernstein, opens at Broadway Theatre in NYC for 740 performances.
1976 – British pound falls below $2 US for the first time.
1978 – Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California.
1979 – Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1979 – Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter, 172000 miles.
1980 – Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49.
1981 – Cannibal Alferd Packer pardoned posthumously.
1982 – SNL star John Belushi dies of a drug overdose in his hotel room.
1982 – Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus.
1983 – Bob Hawke becomes Australian prime minister after defeating Malcolm Fraser in Australian elections.
1983 - In the oldest regular match in international rugby union, Scotland achieves its most recent away win over England to-date, winning 22-12 at Twickenham Stadium in London.
1984 - 6,000 miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
1985 – The body of undercover DEA agent Enrique Camarena is found.
1988 – Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands restored and revised.
1991 – Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners
1993 – Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is banned from international competition for life after testing positive for banned substances for the second time.
1998 – NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony.
1998 – NASA announces the choice of United States Air Force Lt.
Eileen Collins as the first woman commander of a space shuttle mission.
1999 – Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
2001 – In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
2001 – In Santee, California, a school massacre occurs at Santana High School, leaving 2 dead and 15 wounded.
2002 – MTV begins airing The Osbournes.
2003 – University of Manchester and UMIST announce agreement to merge operations.
2003 – Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks provokes controversy in the U.S. by stating that the band was "ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas."
2003 – Nature withdraws several papers as a result of the Jan Hendrik Schön scandal.
2006 - The BBC's major nature documentary series "Planet Earth" is broadcast for the first time.
2013 - President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez dies, after a Presidency of over 14 years, of complications from cancer.
1133 – King Henry II of England (d. 1189)
1324 – King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)
1326 – King Louis I of Hungary (d. 1382)
1512 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish map maker (d. 1594)
1563 - John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
1575 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (d. 1660)
1585 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)
1658 - Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)
1685 - George Frideric Handel, German composer (d. 1759)
1693 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
1696 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
1703 - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
1713 – Edward Cornwallis, English military officer (d. 1776)
1713 – Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1783)
1723 – Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773)
1739 - Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American physician and statesman (d. 1819)
1756 - Nathaniel Alexander, 13th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1808)
1794 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872)
1815 - John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)
1832 - Isaac Israel Hayes, American physician and polar explorer (d. 1881)
1836 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
1853 - Howard Pyle, American writer and illustrator (d. 1911)
1855 - Archduchess Sophie of Austria (d. 1857)
1858 - José Relvas, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1929)
1862 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934)
1867 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
1869 - Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (d. 1952)
1870 – Frank Norris, American writer (d. 1902)
1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, German Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)
1873 – Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961)
1874 – Henry Travers, British actor (d. 1965)
1879 – William Henry Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
1882 - Arthur Hussey, American golfer (d. 1915)
1886 - Dong Biwu, Chinese politician (d. 1975)
1887 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
1888 - Jeff Tesreau, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1890 - Wilhelm Boden, German politician (d. 1961)
1893 - Konstantin Muraviev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1973)
1897 - Set Persson, Swedish Communist politician (d. 1960)
1898 - Misao Okawa, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest-living person (d. 2015)
1898 – Soong May-ling, First Lady of the Republic of China (d. 2003)
1898 – Zhou Enlai, Chinese Communist politician (d. 1976)
1900 - Anna Henderson, American supercentenarian (d. 2014)
1901 - Louis Kahn, Estonian-American architect (d. 1974)
1904 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
1908 – Rex Harrison, British actor (d. 1990)
1908 - Irving Fiske, American writer and playwright (d. 1990)
1910 – Momofuko Ando, Taiwanese businessman (d. 2007)
1910 - Ennio Flaiano, Italian writer, journalist and screenwriter (d. 1972)
1912 - Jack Marshall, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1988)
1914 - Philip Farkas, American horn player and teacher (d. 1992)
1915 - Henry Hicks, Canadian politician, 16th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1990)
1915 - Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)
1918 - Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager
1918 – James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1920 - José Aboulker, Algerian surgeon and activist (d. 2009)
1922 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian director (d. 1975)
1923 - Andrea Aureli, Italian actor
1924 - Jacques Vergès, French lawyer (d. 2013)
1927 – Jack Cassidy, American actor (d. 1976)
1929 - Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (d. 2015)
1929 - J. B. Lenoir, American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
1930 - John Ashley, NHL referee (d. 2008)
1930 - Del Crandall, American baseball player
1931 - Jerrie Cobb, American aviator (d. 2019)
1933 - Don L. Anderson, American geophysicist (d. 2014)
1933 - Walter Kasper, German cardinal
1933 - Evgeni Vasiukov, Russian chess player (d. 2018)
1933 – Tommy Tucker, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1982)
1934 – Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist
1934 - James B. Sikking, American actor
1935 - Philip K. Chapman, Australian astronaut and scientist
1936 – Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
1937 – Olusegun Obasanjo, two-time former President of Nigeria
1938 – Lynn Margulis, American evolutionary biologist (d. 2011)
1938 - Fred Williamson, American football player, actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1940 – Josef Piontek, German footballer
1940 - John W. Carlin, 40th Governor of Kansas
1942 – Felipe Gonzalez, former Prime Minister of Spain
1942 - Mike Resnick, American science fiction writer
1943 - Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
1943 - Christian Führer, German pastor and activist (d. 2014)
1944 - Roy Gutman, American journalist
1946 - Murray Head, British actor and singer
1947 - John Kitzhaber, former Governor of Oregon
1948 – Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
1948 - Eddy Grant, Guyanese-British musician
1948 – Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer (d. 2011)
1948 - Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
1949 – Franz Josef Jung, German politician
1952 – Alan Clark, British musician (Dire Straits)
1952 - Fernando de Piedade Dios dos Santos, former Prime Minister of Angola
1953 – Michael Sandel, American political philosopher
1954 - Steve Prestwich, English-Australian musician and songwriter (d. 2011)
1955 - Penn Jillette, American illusionist, comedian, musician and writer
1956 - Marco Paolini, Italian stage actor and writer
1956 – Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
1957 - Mark E. Smith, English musician (d. 2018)
1958 – Andy Gibb, English-born Australian singer and teen idol (d. 1988)
1959 – Vazgen Sargsyan, Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 1999)
1959 - David Fury, American television and producer
1962 – The Proclaimers, Scottish singers and musicians
1963 - Lotta Engberg, Swedish singer
1963 - Joel Osteen, American televangelist
1964 - Bertrand Cantat, French singer-songwriter
1966 - Oh Eun-Sun, South Korean mountaineer
1968 – Gordon Bajnai, former Prime Minister of Hungary
1968 – Theresa Villiers, British politician
1970 – John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1970 - Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress (d. 2013)
1972 - Brian Grant, American basketball player
1972 - Luca Turilli, Italian guitarist and songwriter
1973 - Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer
1974 – Kevin Connolly, American actor and comedian
1974 – Matt Lucas, British actor and comedian
1974 – Jens Jeremies, German footballer
1974 – Eva Mendes, American actress
1975 – Nelly Arcan, Canadian writer (d. 2009)
1976 – Sarunas Jasikevicius, Lithuanian basketball player
1977 - Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player
1978 - Kimberly McCullough, American actress
1978 - Carlos Ochoa, Mexican footballer
1981 – Andreas Wiig, Norwegian snowboarder
1982 – Dan Carter, New Zealand rugby union player
1982 - Nikki Walker, Scottish rugby union player
1982 - Giorgia Palmas, Italian television personality and model
1984 - Aarthi Agarwal, Indian actress (d. 2015)
1985 - Kenichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
1985 – David Marshall, Scottish footballer
1985 - Brad Mills, American baseball player
1986 - Ellen Whitaker, British equestrian showjumper
1987 – Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
1987 – Ishmael Miller, English footballer
1988 - Bjarni Vidarsson, Icelandic footballer
1989 - Kensuke Nagai, Japanese footballer
1989 - Sterling Knight, American actor and singer
1989 – Jake Lloyd, American actor
1990 - Danny Drinkwater, English footballer
1991 - Michael Hayböck, Austrian ski jumper
1993 - Harry Maguire, English footballer
1994 - Daria Gavrilova, Russian tennis player
1999 - Madison Beer, American singer
254 - Pope Lucius I (b. 200)
1534 - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)
1539 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese admiral and politician (b. 1487)
1592 - Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
1611 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
1622 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
1695 - Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
1770 – Crispus Attucks, American revolutionary figure
1776 – Yeongjo of Joseon of Korea (b. 1694)
1778 – Thomas Arne, English composer (b. 1710)
1815 – Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologer (b. 1734)
1827 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)
1827 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and inventor (b. 1745)
1895 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b. 1831)
1925 – Jonas Jensen, Danish mathematician (b. 1859)
1926 - Clement Ader, French engineer (b. 1841)
1929 – David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American engineer, inventor and industrialist (b. 1854)
1940 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
1944 – Max Jacob, French poet and writer (b. 1876)
1947 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)
1950 - Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, biographer and dramatist (b. 1868)
1953 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
1953 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (b. 1891)
1953 – Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1879) is assassinated with rat poison
1955 – Antanas Merkys, Lithuanian politician (b. 1888)
1963 – Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
1963 - Cowboy Copas, American singer (b. 1913)
1963 - Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer (b. 1921)
1965 - Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)
1965 - Pepper Martin, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1966 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
1967 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian Prime Minister (b. 1882)
1967 - Georges Vanier, 19th Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
1974 - Sol Hurok, American impresario (b. 1888)
1976 - Otto Tief, Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1889)
1977 – Tom Pryce, Welsh racing driver (b. 1949)
1980 – Winifred Wagner, German opera producer (b. 1897)
1980 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)
1982 – John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
1984 - Pierre Cochereau, French organist and composer (b. 1924)
1984 - Tito Cobbi, Italian baritone (b. 1915)
1990 – Edmund Conen, German footballer (b. 1914)
1990 – Gary Merrill, American actor (b. 1915)
1995 – Vivian Stanshall, British musician (b. 1943)
1999 – Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
2000 – Lolo Ferrari, French dancer, singer and pornographic actress (b. 1963)
2004 - Masanori Tokita, Japanese footballer (b. 1925)
2006 - Milan Babic, Serbian politician (b. 1956)
2008 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American computer science professor (b. 1923)
2010 – Philip Langridge, English operatic tenor (b. 1939)
2011 – Alberto Granado, Argentine biochemist, writer and travel companion of Che Guevara (b. 1922)
2012 - Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter (b. 1925)
2013 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
2013 - Paul Bearer, American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1954)
2013 - Dieter Pfaff, German actor (b. 1947)
2014 - Leopoldo Maria Panero, Spanish poet (b. 1948)
2014 - Geoff Edwards, American actor and presenter (b. 1931)
2015 - Edward Egan, American cardinal (b. 1932)
2015 - Jim McCann, Irish musician (b. 1944)
2015 - Vlada Divljan, Serbian musician (b. 1958)
2016 - Hassan al-Turabi, Sudanese religious and political leader (b. 1932)
2016 - Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer (b. 1941)
2016 - Al Wistert, American football player (b. 1920)
2016 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian cellist (b. 1929)
2016 - James Douglas, American actor (b. 1929)
2017 - Anthony C. Beilenson, American politician (b. 1932)
2017 - Douglas Henry, American politician (b. 1926)
2017 - Florence S. Jacobsen, American Mormon leader and missionary (b. 1913)
2017 - Jay Lynch, American cartoonist (b. 1945)
2018 - Trevor Baylis, British inventor (b. 1937)
2018 - John Hall Buchanan Jr., American politician (b. 1928)
2018 - Tomas Aguon Camacho, Northern Marianas Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1933)
2018 - Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer (b. 1925)
2018 - André S. Labarthe, French actor and film director (b. 1931)
2018 - Uri Lubrani, Israeli diplomat and military official (b. 1926)
2018 - Jam Saqi, Pakistani politician (b. 1944)
2018 - Helmut Maucher, German businessman (b. 1927)
2018 - Stephan Tanneberger, German oncologist and chemist (b. 1935)
2018 - Hayden White, American historian (b. 1928)
2019 - Chu Shijian, Chinese businessman (b. 1928)
2019 - Jacques Loussier, French businessman (b. 1934)
Custom Chief's Day (Vanuatu)
Lei Feng Day (China)
National Tree Planting Day (Iran)
St. Piran's Day (Cornwall)
March 05
1963 (MCMLXIII) was .
January 5 – The Beach Boys record one of their trademark songs, "Surfin' USA"
February 11 – The Beatles record 10 songs for the album "Please Please Me"
June 1 – Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first Prime Minister of Kenya
September 15 – "Birmingham Sunday" when a bomb killed 4 black girls in a church in Birmingham, Alabama
September – The X-Men make their debut
November 22 – John F. Kennedy assassinated, Lyndon Johnson sworn in as President
November 23 – Doctor Who airs for the first time in the United Kingdom
December 12 - Kenya is officially independent from the United Kingdom
December 31 – The Central African Federation breaks apart.
It eventually became Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia
The cassette tape was invented
January 2 - Edgar Martínez, American baseball player
March 9 - Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian director (d. 2021)
March 21 – Shawn Lane, American musician
May 8 – Helena Blagne Zaman, Slovene singer
May 8 - Anthony Field, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
May 9 – Barry Douglas Lamb, rock musician, writer, Christian preacher
May 11 – Natasha Richardson, actress
May 12 – Vanessa A. Williams, actress
May 24 – Joe Dumars, basketball star
May 25 – Mike Myers, actor, comedian
June 6 – Jason Isaacs, actor
June 9 – Johnny Depp, actor
June 13 – Bettina Bunge, tennis player.
June 17 – Greg Kinnear, TV host and actor
June 18 – Bruce Smith, American football player
June 23 – Colin Montgomerie, golfer.
June 25 – George Michael, singer
June 27 – Meera Syal, comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress
July 9 – Johnny Depp, American actor
July 16 – Phoebe Cates, actress
July 17 - Regina Belle, American singer
July 24 – Karl Malone, basketball
July 30 – Lisa Kudrow, American actress
August 3 – James Hetfield, Metallica frontman and co-founder
August 6 – Kevin Mitnick, computer cracker
August 19 – Joey Tempest, Europe frontman
August 19 – John Stamos, actor
August 23 – Kenny Wallace, NASCAR race car driver
August 24 – Hideo Kojima, video game director
August 30 – Paul Oakenfold, DJ
September 7 – Eazy-E, American rapper
September 10 – Randy Johnson, baseball pitcher, five-time Cy Young Award winner
September 21 – Cecil Fielder, baseball player
September 29 – Dave Andreychuk, NHL player
October 1 – Mark McGwire, baseball star
October 4 – Mark Powley, English actor
October 10 – Daniel Pearl, journalist (d. 2002)
October 22 – Brian Boitano, figure skater
October 26 – Natalie Merchant, singer/songwriter/musician
October 31 – Fred McGriff, baseball player
November 13 – Vinny Testaverde, American football quarterback
November 18 – Dante Bichette, baseball player
November 19 – Terry Farrell, actress
November 21 – Nicolette Sheridan, actress
November 24 – Iris Erlingsdottir, OMD, writer, journalist
December 2 – John Kennedy Morrisey, entertainer/athlete/storyteller
December 13 – Ilkka Remes, writer
December 16 – Benjamin Bratt, actor
December 18 – Brad Pitt, actor
December 23 – Jim Harbaugh, American football player
January 2 – Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904)
January 2 – Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910)
January 5 – Rogers Hornsby, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1896)
January 18 – Edward Charles Titchmarsh, British mathematician (b. 1899)
January 29 – Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
January 30 – Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
February 11 – Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist (suicide) (b. 1932)
February 28 – Eppa Rixey, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1891)
March 4 – William Carlos Williams, American writer (b. 1883)
March 5 – Patsy Cline, singer (Cowboy Copas) (b. 1932)
April 6 – Otto Struve, astronomer (b. 1897)
April 9 – Eddie Edwards, jazz musician (b. 1891)
May 12 – Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882)
May 31 – Edith Hamilton, educator and writer (b. 1867)
June 3 – Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
June 11 – Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese Bhuddist monk (suicide)(b.
June 18 – Pedro Armendariz, Mexican actor (suicide)(b.
1912)
August 5 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)
August 23 – Glen Gray, saxophonist and conductor (b. 1906)
August 31 – Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
September 11 – Suzanne Duchamp, French painter (b. 1889)
Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)
November 1 – Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (b. 1901)
November 15 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1888)
John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
J. D. Tippit, Police officer (b. 1924)
Aldous Huxley, English novelist (b. 1894)
C. S. Lewis, English novelist and Christian apologist (b. 1898)
November 24 – Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy alleged assassin (shot) (b. 1939)
November – Luis Cernuda, Spanish writer (b. 1902)
December 1 – Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, American spy in World War II
December 2 – Thomas Hicks, American marathon runner (b. 1875)
December 5 – Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji, Hindu saint (b. 1828)
December 5 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905)
December 28 – Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895)
Nobel Prize in Physics – Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen
Chemistry – Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
Medicine – Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley
Literature – Giorgos Seferis
Peace – International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
8½, an Italian movie directed by Federico Fellini
An Actor's Revenge
La Baie des anges
The Birds,  directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Bye Bye Birdie, a musical comedy
Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, and Richard Burton
From Russia With Love, the second James Bond movie
Hud, winning Academy Award for Best Actress for Patricia Neal and Best Supporting Actor for Melvyn Douglas
Lawrence of Arabia starring Peter O'Toole
Mépris, Le
The Sword in the Stone, an animated movie by Walt Disney Productions
Tom Jones, winning both Academy Award for Best Picture and Academy Award for Best Director
The V.I.P.s, winning Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Margaret Rutherford
Zuo ye meng hun zhong
"Dominique" – The Singing Nun
"Please Please Me" – The Beatles
"She Loves You" – The Beatles
"Love Me Do" – The Beatles
"I Want To Hold Your Hand" – The Beatles
"From Me To You" – The Beatles
"In Dreams" – Roy Orbison
"Blue Bayou" – Roy Orbison
"Mean Woman Blues" – Roy Orbison
"Pretty Paper" – Roy Orbison
"Hey Paula" – Paul & Paula
"He's So Fine" – The Chiffons
"Bo Diddley" – Buddy Holly
"Brown Eyed Handsome Man" – Buddy Holly
"Surf City" – Jan & Dean
"It's My Party" – Lesley Gore
"Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa" – Gene Pitney
"Be My Baby" – The Ronettes
"Wipe Out" – The Surfaris
"If I Had A Hammer" – Trini Lopez
"Da Doo Ron Ron" – The Crystals
"Pipeline" – The Chantays
"Walk Like A Man" – Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
"Heat Wave" – Martha & the Vandellas
"Up On The Roof" – The Drifters
"I Can't Stay Mad At You" – Skeeter Davis
"Only In America" – Jay & the Americans
"Who Stole The Keeshka?" –
Matys Brothers
"Wonderful Summer" – Robin Ward
"I Only Want to Be With You" – Dusty Springfield
"The Folk Singer" – Tommy Roe
"Guilty" – Jim Reeves
"Is This Me" – Jim Reeves
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Benefactor – Susan Sontag
Caravans – James A. Michener
Cat's Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
City of Night – John Rechy
The Collector – John Fowles
Elizabeth Appleton – John O'Hara
False Colours – Georgette Heyer
John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure – John Cleland
The Glass-Blowers – Daphne du Maurier
Gradmother and the Priests – Taylor Caldwell
The Group – Mary McCarthy
Happiness Is a Warm Puppy – Charles M. Schulz
The Making of the English Working Class – E. P. Thompson
On Her Majesty's Secret Service – Ian Fleming
Planet of the Apes (La Planète des Singes) – Pierre Boulle
The Rise of the West – William H. McNeill
The Sand Pebbles – Richard McKenna
Second Skin – John Hawkes
The Shoes of the Fisherman – Morris West
Six Easy Pieces – Richard P. Feynman
The Spy who Came in from the Cold – John le Carré
That Summer in Paris – Morley Callaghan
1080 - King Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by King Canute IV of Denmark, who later became the first Dane to be canonized.
1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.
1492 – Spain and Christopher Columbus sign a contract for him to sail to Asia to get spices.
1521 – Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
1524 – Giovanni da Verrazano reaches New York harbor.
1555 - After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine Imperial Army.
1694 – Pope Patricus I is assassinated outside St Peter's Basilica.
1797 - Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico, in what would become one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in the Americas.
1797 - Citizens of Verona, Italy begin an eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces which will end unsuccessfully.
1861 – American Civil War: Virginia secedes from the Union.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Plymouth begins – Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
1865 – Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
1882 – Copies of Pat Garrett's biography of Billy the Kid, An Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, arrive at the Library of Congress.
1895 – The Treaty of Maguan (also known as the "Treaty of Shimonoseki") between China and Japan is signed.
This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
1907 - The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than any other day.
1912 - Russian troops shoot striking goldfield workers in Northeastern Siberia, killing at least 50.
1924 – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios is formed from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Company.
1937 – Daffy Duck first appears in Warner Bros' short Porky's Duck Hunt.
1941 – World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
1942 – POW French General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.
1945 – In Strassfurt, Germany, U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Boris T. Pash seizes half a ton of uranium, in an attempt to foil Soviet Union plans to build an atomic bomb.
1946 – Syria gains full independence from France.
1951 - The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first national park.
1958 - Brussels holds its first International Exposition since World War II.
The Atomium, built for the exposition, becomes a symbol of the city.
1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA-financed and -trained Cuban refugees lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1964 – The Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Mustang at the New York World's Fair.
1964 – Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
1969 - British passenger steamer "Sir Harvey Adamson" disappears without a trace after leaving Rangoon, Burma, with 269 people on board.
1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
1969 – Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
1970 – Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
1971 - The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
1975 – Cambodian Civil War ends: The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.