the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1977 - Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
1979 - The first election to the European Parliament takes place.
1980 - The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight for imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
1991 – The American military's Clark Air Base in the Philippines is evacuated, because of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo.
1991 – Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped by Philip Garrido in California.
He holds her captive until 2009, and fathers two daughters with her.
1996 – Peace negotiations begin in Northern Ireland, without the participation of Sinn Féin.
1997 – Fleeing his main stronghold, former Cambodian dictator Pol Pot orders the killing of his former defense chief Son Sen, and of 11 of Sen's family members.
1998 - The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France begins.
1999 – NATO's air war over Kosovo ends, as Serbian forces withdraw.
2000 – Syrian President Hafez al-Assad dies.
His son Bashar al-Assad replaces him.
2000 – UEFA Euro 2000 begins in the Netherlands and Belgium.
2001 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
2002 - The first director electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Briton Kevin Warwick.
2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Explorer Rover System.
2003 - Wicked begins on Broadway, later winning 40 awards.
2005 – The Svinesund Bridge between Norway and Sweden is opened.
2014 - Militants from the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant", affiliated with Al-Qaeda, take control of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city.
2014 - Reuven Rivlin is chosen to succeed Shimon Peres as President of Israel.
He is sworn in on July 24.
2016 - The UEFA Euro 2016 football championship in France begins.
2016 - American singer Christina Grimmie is shot at a concert in Orlando, Florida, and dies later the same evening, aged 22.
1213 – Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher (d. 1289)
1493 – Anton Fugger, German banker (d. 1560)
1513 - Louis, Duke of Montpensier, French aristocrat (d. 1582)
1637 – Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1675)
1657 - James Craggs the Elder, English politician (d. 1921)
1688 – James Francis Edward Stuart ("The Old Pretender"), claimant to the British throne (d. 1766)
1713 – Princess Caroline of Great Britain (d. 1757)
1716 - Carl Gustaf Ekeberg, Swedish physician and explorer (d. 1784)
1753 – William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
1775 – James Barbour, American lawyer, politician and 19th Governor of Virginia (d. 1842)
1804 – Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
1819 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
1825 – Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897)
1825 – Princess Hildegard of Bavaria (d. 1864)
1832 – Nikolaus August Otto, German engineer (d. 1891)
1832 – Stephen Mosher Wood, American politician (d. 1920)
1835 – Rebecca Latimer Felton, American politician (d. 1930)
1835 – Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1908)
1839 – Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912)
1839 - Ion Creanga, Romanian writer (d. 1889)
1840 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920)
1843 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1900)
1844 - Carl Hagenbeck, German zoo director (d. 1913)
1855 - Charles Allen Culberson, Governor of Texas (d. 1925)
1859 – Emanuel Nobel, Swedish-Russian oil baron (d. 1932)
1863 – Louis Couperus, Dutch writer (d. 1923)
1865 – Frederick Cook, American physician and explorer, claimed to be first at the North Pole (d. 1940)
1870 - Constantin Angelescu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1948)
1876 - William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German aristocrat (d. 1923)
1887 - Harry F. Byrd, Governor of Virginia (d. 1966)
1891 - Al Dubin, American songwriter (d. 1945)
1894 - Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia (d. 1918)
1895 – Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952)
1895 - Immanuel Velikovsky, Russian-born psychoanalyst and author (d. 1979)
1897 – Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1899 - Stanislaw Czaykowski, Polish racing driver (d. 1933)
1901 – Frederick Loewe, German-born composer (d. 1988)
1903 - Theo Lingen, German actor and director (d. 1978)
1904 - Lin Huiyin, Chinese architect and poet (d. 1955)
1910 – Howlin' Wolf, American blues singer and musician (d. 1976)
1911 - Terence Rattigan, British playwright (d. 1977)
1912 - Jean Lesage, 11th Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
1915 – Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist (d. 2005)
1916 - Peride Celal, Turkish novelist and short story writer (d. 2013)
1918 - Patachou, French singer and actress (d. 2015)
1918 - Barry Morse, English actor (d. 2008)
1919 - Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian physician and politician (d. 2007)
1919 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish footballer, rugby player and physician (d. 2006)
1920 – Ruth Graham, American poet, wife of Billy Graham (d. 2007)
1921 - Jean Robic, French motorcycle racer (d. 1980)
1921 – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (d. 2021)
1921 - Oskar Gröning, German SS member (d. 2018)
1922 – Judy Garland, American actress (d. 1969)
1922 - Bill Kerr, Australian actor (d. 2014)
1923 – Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media tycoon (d. 1991)
1924 - Friedrich L. Bauer, German computer scientist (d. 2014)
1925 - James Salter, American writer (d. 2015)
1925 - Leo Gravelle, Canadian ice hockey player
1926 – Lionel Jeffries, British actor (d. 2010)
1927 - Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician (d. 2013)
1928 – Maurice Sendak, American writer and illustrator (d. 2012)
1929 - E. O. Wilson, American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author
1929 – Harald Juhnke, German actor and comedian (d. 2005)
1929 - James McDivitt, American astronaut
1929 - Lyudmila Zykina, Russian singer (d. 2009)
1929 - Yevgeniy Chazov, Russian physician
1930 - Aranka Siegal, Czech-born American writer and Holocaust survivor
1930 - Ilya Glazunov, Russian painter (d. 2017)
1930 - Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (d. 2013)
1931 - Bryan Cartledge, English diplomat
1931 – Joao Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist
1932 - Philipp Jenninger, German politician (d. 2018)
1933 – Georgi Atanasov, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria
1934 - Alois Mock, Austrian politician (d. 2017)
1936 - Eugenio Bersellini, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
1938 – Violetta Villas, Belgian-born Polish singer, songwriter, composer and actress (d. 2011)
1939 - Joe Bossano, former Chief Minister of Gibraltar
1941 – Jürgen Prochnow, German actor
1941 – Shirley Owens, American singer (Shirelles)
1941 - Mickey Jones, American drummer and actor
1942 - Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton, Scottish judge
1942 - Lopo do Nascimento, 1st Prime Minister of Angola
1943 - Simon Jenkins, English journalist
1943 - Edward Peel, English actor
1944 - Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-born Israeli weightlifter (d. 1972)
1947 - Nicole Bricq, French politician (d. 2017)
1949 - Frankie Faison, American actor
1949 – John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
1949 - Kevin Corcoran, American actor (d. 2015)
1953 – John Edwards, American politician
1953 - Bill Longmuir, Scottish golfer
1954 - Rich Hall, American comedian and writer
1955 – Annette Schavan, German politician
1956 – Rolandas Paksas, former President of Lithuania
1959 – Carlo Ancelotti, Italian footballer and football manager
1959 – Eliot Spitzer, American politician, former Governor of New York
1960 – Mark-Anthony Turnage, English composer
1960 – Maxi Priest, English singer
1961 - Kim Deal, American singer-songwriter and musician
1962 – Gina Gershon, American actress
1962 - Akie Abe, wife of Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe
1963 - Nadia Hasnaoui, Norwegian television presenter
1963 - Brad Henry, American politician, 26th Governor of Oklahoma
1963 - Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress
1964 - Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician
1964 - Stuart McCall, Scottish footballer and manager
1964 – Kate Flannery, American actress
1965 – Elizabeth Hurley, British actress
1965 - Veronica Ferres, German actress
1965 - Joey Santiago, Filipino-American musician and songwriter
1966 – David Platt, English footballer
1967 - Paul Maskey, Northern Irish politician
1967 - Heimir Hallgrímsson, Icelandic dentist and football coach
1968 - Bill Burr, American comedian and writer
1969 – Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian footballer
1969 - Helen Young, English television presenter
1969 - Jane Hill, English television journalist
1970 - Chris Coleman, Welsh footballer and coach
1970 - Katsuhiro Harada, Japanese game designer, director and producer
1971 – Bruno N'Gotty, French footballer
1971 – Bobby Jindal, American politician, former Governor of Louisiana
1973 – Faith Evans, American singer
1974 - Dustin Lance Black, American director, producer and screenwriter
1974 - Simon Elliott, New Zealand footballer
1974 - Mohamed Emara, Egyptian footballer
1975 – Henrik Pedersen, Danish footballer
1975 - Risto Jussilainen, Finnish ski jumper
1976 - George Friedrich, Prince of Prussia
1978 – Shane West, American musician and actor
1979 - Assi Azar, Israeli television host
1980 - Wang Yaegu, Singaporean table tennis player
1980 - Jessica DiCicco, American actress
1981 – Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein of Jordan
1981 – Nicky Whelan, Australian actress and model
1982 - Laleh Pourkarim, Iranian-Swedish singer
1982 – Princess Madeleine of Sweden
1982 – Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
1983 – Leelee Sobieski, American actress
1983 - Steve von Bergen, Swiss footballer
1983 - Marion Barber III, American football player
1985 - Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1985 - Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player
1985 – Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer
1985 – Andy Schleck, Luxembourg cyclist
1986 - Keith Harkin, Irish singer-songwriter and actor
1987 – Martin Harnik, Austrian footballer
1989 – Alexandra Stan, Romanian singer
1991 - Juan Jesus, Brazilian footballer
1992 - Kate Upton, American model and actress
1994 - Annefleur Kalvenhaar, Dutch cyclist (d. 2014)
1996 - Kristjan Ilves, Estonian skier
1999 - Blanche, Belgian singer
2001 – Sasha Obama, daughter of Barack Obama
323 BC – Alexander the Great (b. c. 355 BC)
38 – Julia Drusilla, sister of Caligula (b. 16)
223 - Liu Bei, Chinese Emperor (b. 161)
1075 – Ernest, Margrave of Austria (b. 1027)
1190 – Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (Frederick Barbarossa) (b. 1122)
1556 – Martin Agricola, German composer (b. 1486)
1580 – Luis de Camoes, Portuguese poet
1654 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
1680 – Johan Goransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
1692 – Bridget Bishop, English-born alleged witch (b. 1632)
1776 – Hsinbyushin, Burmese King (b. 1736)
1799 - Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Caribbean-French violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1745)
1811 - Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, German aristocrat (b. 1728)
1836 – Andre-Marie Ampere, French mathematician (b. 1775)
1896 – Amelia Dyer, British murderer of babies (b. 1829)
1898 - Tuone Udaina, Croatian-Italian barber, last speaker of the Dalmatian language
1899 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
1902 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
1903 - Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician, statistician and politician (b. 1830)
1906 – Richard Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1845)
1918 - Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (b. 1842)
1923 - Pierre Loti, French soldier and author (b. 1850)
1924 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian Socialist politician (b. 1885)
1926 – Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect (b. 1852)
1930 - Adolf von Harnack, German historian and theologian (b. 1851)
1934 – Frederick Delius, English composer (b. 1862)
1937 – Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
1940 – Marcus Garvey, African American publicist and political activist (b. 1887)
1946 – Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
1949 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer (b. 1882)
1955 - Margaret Abbott, American golfer (b. 1876)
1962 - Francisco Bru, Spanish footballer, coach and referee (b. 1885)
1967 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
1974 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900)
1976 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian producer (b. 1873)
1982 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director and actor (b. 1945)
1988 – Louis L'Amour, American writer (b. 1908)
1992 - Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese composer and pianist (b. 1931)
1993 – Les Dawson, English comedian (b. 1934)
1996 - Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1914)
1998 – Hammond Innes, English actor (b. 1914)
2000 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)
2001 - Leila Pahlavi, daughter of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (b. 1970)
2002 – John Gotti, American criminal (b. 1940)
2003 – Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
2004 – Ray Charles, American singer (b. 1930)
2004 – Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)
2007 – Laurence Mancuso, American religious leader (b. 1934)
2008 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyz writer (b. 1928)
2010 – Ferdinand Oyono, Cameroonian writer (b. 1929)
2010 – Sigmar Polke, German painter (b. 1941)
2011 - Patrick Leigh Fermor, British soldier and writer (b. 1915)
2012 – George Saitoti, Kenyan politician (b. 1945)
2013 - Enrique Orizaola, Spanish footballer (b. 1922)
2013 - Barbara Vucanovich, American politician (b. 1921)
2014 - Gerald Nicholas McAllister, American Anglican prelate (b. 1923)
2015 - Wolfgang Jeschke, German science fiction writer (b. 1936)
2015 - Robert Chartoff, American movie producer (b. 1933)
2016 - Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
2016 - Alex Govan, Scottish footballer (b. 1929)
2016 - Habib, Iranian singer (b. 1952)
2016 - Mary Feik, American aviatrix (b. 1924)
2016 - Alexander Gorlov, Russian politician (b. 1931)
2016 - Gopal Gurung, Nepalese politician and author (b. 1935)
2016 - Alfred Oftedal Telhaug, Norwegian educator (b. 1934)
2016 - Giuseppe Virgili, Italian footballer (b. 1935)
2016 - Christina Grimmie, American singer (b. 1994)
2017 - Chi Po-lin, Taiwanese photographer and director (b. 1964)
2017 - Austin Deasy, Irish politician (b. 1936)
2017 - Samuel V. Wilson, American army general (b. 1923)
2017 - Helen Freedhoff, Canadian theoretical physicist (b. 1940)
2018 - Neal E. Boyd, American pop singer and reality show contestant (b. 1975)
2018 - Liliana Ross, Italian-Chilean actress (b. 1939)
2019 - Girish Karnad, Indian actor, writer and director (b. 1938)
2019 - Lee Hee-ho, First Lady of South Korea (b. 1922)
2019 - Crazy Mohan, Indian comedian, actor and screenwriter (b. 1952)
2019 - Paul "Lil' Buck" Sinegal, American guitarist and singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
2019 - Wang Jun, Chinese business executive (b. 1941)
Day of Camoes, Portugal Day (Portugal)
Reconciliation Day (Republic of the Congo)
Army Day (Jordan)
Abolition Day (French Guiana)
253  Pope Cornelius is executed by beheading.
524  The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vezeronce.
841  Battle of Fontenay: Forces lead by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
1530  At the Diet of Augsburg, the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and electors of Germany.
1658  Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1678  Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to get a Doctorate of Philosophy, graduating from the University of Padua.
1741  Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
1786  Gavriil Pribylov discovers Saint George Island in the Pribilof Islands (now belonging to Alaska, US) in the Bering Sea.
1788  Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 10th state of the United States.
1876  Battle of the Little Big Horn and the death of Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
1888  Fire destroys Sundsvall, Sweden.
1900  Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts of great historical significance, in the Magao Caves at Dunhuang, China.
1903  Marie Curie announces the discovery of radium.
1910  Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird" is first performed in Paris.
1935  Colombia and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
1938  Dr. Douglas Hyde is elected the first President of Ireland.
1940  World War II: France officially surrenders to Germany.
1943  The Holocaust: Jews in the Czestochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
1944  World War II: The Nordic countries' biggest battle of the war, of Tali-Ihantala, begins.
1945  Seán T. O'Kelly is elected the second President of Ireland.
1947  The Diary of a Young Girl (Diary of Anne Frank) is first published.
1948  The Berlin airlift begins.
1949  "Long-Haired Hare", starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theatres.
1950  The beginning of the Korean War.
1953  In the UK, the murderer John Christie is sentenced to death.
1959  Éamon de Valera is elected the third President of Ireland.
1960  Two cryptographers  working on the US National Security Agency leave for vacation in Mexico, and from there they defect to the Soviet Union.
1967  First global satellite television programme – "Our World".
1973  Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.
1975  Mozambique gains independence from Portugal.
1975  A State of Emergency is declared in India.
1976  A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in New Guinea kills 422 people.
1978  The Rainbow flag for Gay pride is flown for the first time in San Francisco.
1978  Argentina wins the FIFA World Cup, beating the Netherlands 3-1 in extra time.
1981  Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1982  A match-fixing scandal erupts after West Germany and Austria both qualify from the group stage of the 1982 FIFA World Cup in a very slow-paced match, at Algeria's expense.
1982  Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.
1988  In West Germany, the Netherlands wins the UEFA European Championship, defeating the Soviet Union 2-0.
In the game, Dutch striker Marco van Basten scores a goal that is widely considered to be the best in European Championship history.
1991  Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
1993  David Letterman airs his last episode of Late Night with David Letterman.
1993  Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
1993  Tansu Ciller becomes the first female Prime Minister of Turkey.
1993  Vienna Declaration is adopted by World Conference on Human Rights.
1996  Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.
1997  The Soufriere Hills volcano on Montserrat erupts, killing 19 people.
1997  An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian Space Station Mir.
1998  Microsoft Windows 98 is released.
1998  In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
1999  The American soap opera Another World airs its 8891st and final episode.
2001  A typhoon strikes Fujian province of China, killing over 100 people.
2006  Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is kidnapped by Palestinian militants.
2007  British soldiers leave Northern Ireland after 37 years.
2009  Pop star Michael Jackson dies suddenly, aged 50, leading to a worldwide outpouring of grief.
2013  Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani becomes the 8th Emir of Qatar.
2014  An explosion in Abuja, Nigeria, kills over 20 people.
1242  Beatrice of England, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1275)
1328  William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
1373  Joanna II of Naples (d. 1435)
1560  Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
1568  Gunilla Bielke, Queen of Sweden (d. 1597)
1612  John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
1646  Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, Italian philosopher (d. 1684)
1715  Jean-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
1726  Thomas Pennant, British naturalist (d. 1798)
1755  Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
1768  Lazare Hoche, French general (d. 1797)
1799  David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
1821  Bartolomé Mitre, President of Argentina (d. 1906)
1825  James Farnell, Australian politician, 8th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1888)
1842  Eloy Alfaro, 15th President of Ecuador (d. 1912)
1852  Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (d. 1926)
1858  Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
1860  Gustave Charpentier, French composer (d. 1956)
1863  Emile Francqui, Belgian soldier and diplomat (d. 1935)
1864  Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1941)
1865  Robert Henri, painter (d. 1929)
1870  Yi-junyong, Korean Joseon Dynasty politician (d. 1917)
1884  Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
1886  Henry H. Arnold, American general (d. 1950)
1887  Frigyes Karinthy, Hungarian writer and journalist (d. 1938)
1887  George Abbott, American playwright, screenwriter, producer, director and actor (d. 1995)
1894  Hermann Oberth, physicist (d. 1989)
1896  Alfred Anderson, Scottish centenarian and World War I veteran (d. 2005)
1900  Marta Abba, Italian actress (d. 1988)
1900  Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (d. 1979)
1902  Prince Chichibu of Japan (d. 1953)
1903  George Orwell, English writer (d. 1950)
1903  Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
1903  Bob Skelton, American swimmer (d. 1977)
1904  Vladimir Kokkinaki, Russian test pilot (d. 1985)
1905  Rupert Wildt, German-American astronomer (d. 1976)
1907  J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (d. 1973)
1908  Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
1911  William Howard Stein, American chemist (d. 1980)
1912  William T. Cahill, American politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
1913  Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
1915  Peter Lind Hayes, actor (d. 1998)
1917  Nils Karlsson, Swedish cross-country skier (d. 2012)
1917  Claude Seignolle, French author (d. 2018)
1921  Heinrich Windelen, German politician (d. 2015)
1923  Nicholas Mosley, British writer (d. 2017)
1923  Sam Francis, American painter (d. 1994)
1924  Sidney Lumet, American actor, director and producer (d. 2011)
1925  June Lockhart, American actress
1925  Robert Venturi, American architect (d. 2018)
1926  Margaret Anstee, British diplomat (d. 2016)
1926  Ingeborg Bachmann, writer (d. 1973)
1926  Kep Enderby, Australian lawyer, judge and politician (d. 2015)
1927  Antal Roka, Hungarian athlete (d. 1970)
1928  Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist (d. 2017)
1928  Peyo, Belgian comic book artist (d. 1992)
1928  Alex Toth, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
1929  Eric Carle, American children's writer (d. 2021)
1929  Francesco Marchisano, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
1930  George Murdock, American actor (d. 2012)
1931  Mrunalini Devi Puar, Indian educator (d. 2015)
1931  V. P. Singh, Prime Minister of India (d. 2008)
1932  George Sluizer, Dutch filmmaker (d. 2014)
1932  Peter Blake, British artist
1933  James Meredith, American civil rights activist
1935  Charles Sheffield, English mathematician, physicist and science fiction author (d. 2002)
1935  Larry Kramer, American writer and activist
1936  Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, 3rd President of Indonesia, 1998 – 1999
1937  Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
1940  Denys Arcand, French-Canadian movie director, screenwriter and producer
1940  Peer Augustinski, German actor (d. 2014)
1940  Mary Beth Peil, American opera singer and actress
1942  Michel Tremblay, Canadian playwright
1945  Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter
1945  Kevin McKenna, Irish politician (d. 2019)
1946  Roméo Dallaire, Canadian senator
1946  Ian McDonald, British musician
1949  Brigitte Bierlein, Austrian jurist and Chancellor of Austria
1952  Martin Gerschwitz, German singer-songwriter, musician and composer
1954  Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
1954  Mario Lessard, Canadian ice hockey player
1954  David Paich, American singer-songwriter
1954  Alison Leslie, British diplomat
1955  Terry Chimes, musician
1956  Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
1956  Anthony Bourdain, American chef and writer (d. 2018)
1957  Greg Millen, Canadian ice hockey player
1959  Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper
1960  Aldo Serena, Italian footballer
1960  Brian Hayward, Canadian ice hockey player
1961  Ricky Gervais, British comedian and actor
1961  Timur Bekmambetov, Kazakhstani producer and director
1962  Phill Jupitus, British comedian and broadcaster
1963  George Michael, British singer (d. 2016)
1963  Yann Martel, Spanish-Canadian writer
1963  Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
1963  John Benjamin Hickey, American actor
1964  Johnny Herbert, British Formula One driver
1964  Greg Raymer, American poker player
1966  Richard Matt, American murderer and prison escapee (d. 2015)
1966  Dikembe Mutombo, basketball player
1969  Zim Sum, American guitarist
1970  Lucy Benjamin, British actress
1971  Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
1971  Scott Maslen, English actor
1971  Jason Lewis, American actor
1972  Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player
1972  Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Libyan politician
1973  Milan Hnilicka, Czech ice hockey player
1973  Jamie Redknapp, English footballer
1973  Sunetra Sarker, English actress
1974  Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
1975  Derek Adams, Scottish footballer and coach
1975  Linda Cardellini, American actress
1975  Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
1975  Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
1976  José Cancela, Uruguayan footballer
1976  Carlos Niesto, Argentine-Italian rugby player
1976  Iestyn Harris, Welsh rugby player
1976  Gavin Williamson, English politician
1977  Lola Ponce, Argentine-born Italian singer, actress and model
1979  Daniel Jensen, Danish footballer
1979  La La, American actress and TV host
1981  Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
1981  Sheridan Smith, English actress and singer
1981  Pooja Umashankar, Indian actress
1982  Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
1982  Rain, Korean singer and actor
1982  Cécile Cassel, French actress and singer
1983  Marc Janko, Austrian footballer
1984  Lauren Bush, American model and fashion designer
1985  Scott Brown, Scottish footballer
1985  Hanna Pérez Moza, Mexican singer (Ha*Ash)
1985  Karim Matmour, Algerian footballer
1986  Gabriele Grunewald, American runner (d. 2019)
1986  Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
1986  Charlie Davies, American soccer player
1987  Claudio Corti, Italian motorcycle racer
1987  Alissa Czisny, American figure skater
1988  Jhonas Enroth, Swedish ice hockey player
1989  Edgar Morais, Portuguese actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1989  Rafael Morais, Portuguese actor, director and screenwriter
1991  Kyousuke Hamao, Japanese actor, singer and model
1991  Victor Wanyama, Kenyan footballer
1991  Simone Zaza, Italian footballer
1993  Barney Clark, English actor
1997  Rodrigo Bentancur, Uruguayan footballer
2002  Mason Vale Cotton, American actor
253  Pope Cornelius
635  Emperor Gaozu, 1st Emperor of the Tang Dynasty in China (b. 566)
1134  King Niels of Denmark (b. 1034)
1218  Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, Norman crusader (b. 1160)
1291  Eleanor of Provence (b. 1223)
1533  Mary Tudor, Queen of France (b. 1496)
1579  Hatano Hideharu, Japanese daimyo and samurai (b. 1541)
1593  Michele Mercati, Italian physician (b. 1541)
1634  John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
1638  Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
1665  Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (b. 1630)
1671  Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
1686  Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)
1767  Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
1792  Thomas Peters, Sierra Leone founding father (b. 1738)
1822  E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer, composer, and painter (b. 1776)
1857  Langdon Cheves, American politician (b. 1776)
1861  Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
1864  King William I of Württemberg (b. 1781)
1866  Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
1868  Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
1876  George Armstrong Custer, American army officer (b. 1839)
1876  Thomas Custer, American army officer (b. 1845)
1876  Boston Custer, American guide, forager, packer and scout (b. 1848)
1882  François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
1884  Hans Rott, composer (b. 1858)
1886  Jean-Louis Beaudry, 11th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1809)
1889  Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady of the United States (b. 1831)
1898  Ferdinand Julius Cohn, German botanist and microbiologist (b. 1828)
1906  Stanford White, American architect (b. 1853)
1916  Thomas Eakins, artist (b. 1844)
1922  Satyendranath Dutta, Bengali poet (b. 1882)
1929  Georges Courteline, French dramatist and novelist (b. 1858)
1932  Howard Valentine, American track and field athlete (b. 1881)
1933  Giovanni Giacometti, Swiss painter (b. 1868)
1937  Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
1939  Dick Seaman, English racing driver (b. 1913)
1944  Dénes Berinkey, 18th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1871)
1944  Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
1948  William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895)
1949  Buck Freeman, American baseball player (b. 1871)
1960  Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (b. 1869)
1971  John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician (b. 1880)
1974  Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893)
1976  Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
1977  Bob Skelton, American swimmer (b. 1903)
1979  Dave Fleischer, American animator, director and producer (b. 1894)
1983  Oddbjorn Hagen, Norwegian skier (b. 1908)
1984  Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
1988  Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist (b. 1962)
1992  James Stirling, British architect (b. 1926)
1995  Warren E. Burger, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice (b. 1907)
1995  Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (b. 1905)
1997  Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer, scientist, movie maker and inventor (b. 1910)
1999  Tommy Ivan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
2003  Lester Maddox, segregationist Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)
2006  Kenneth Griffith, British actor and director (b. 1921)
2008  Erika Crusardson, artist and actress (b. 1975)
2009  Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947)
2009  Michael Jackson, American entertainer and singer (b. 1958)
2009  Sky Saxon, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1937)
2011  Margaret Tyzack, British actress (b. 1931)
2013  Robert E. Gilka, American photographer and journalist (b. 1916)
2014  Ana Maria Matute, Spanish writer (b. 1925)
2014  Nigel Calder, English science writer (b. 1931)
2014  Arvid Jacobsen, Norwegian newspaper editor (b. 1938)
2015  Patrick Macnee, English-American actor (b. 1922)
2016  Bill Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1929)
2016  Giuseppe Ferrara, Italian movie director (b. 1932)
2016  Patrick Mayhew, British politician, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (b. 1929)
2016  Nicole Courcel, French actress (b. 1931)
2016  Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo, Indian writer (b. 1926)
2017  Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician (b. 1938)
2017  Elsa Daniel, Argentine actress (b. 1938)
2017  K. R. Mohanan, Indian film director (b. 1947)
2017  José Manuel Mourinho Félix, Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1938)
2017  Walter Fillmore, American general (b. 1933)
2018  Paul Gérin-Lajoie, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1920)
2018  Richard Benjamin Harrison, American businessman and television presenter (b. 1941)
2018  David Goldblatt, South African photographer and critic of Apartheid (b. 1930)
2018  James M. Keck, American lieutenant general (b. 1921)
2019  Kevin McKenna, Irish politician (b. 1945)
2019  Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress and model (b. 1929)
Independence Day (Mozambique)
National Day of Slovenia and Croatia
Statehood Day (Virginia)
National Catfish Day (United States)
Arbor Day (Philippines)
313  The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-Emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia.
1373  The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance takes effect.
1381  The Peasants' Revolt in England, led by Wat Tyler, ends in the burning of the Savoy Palace.
1525  Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora.
1625  Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland marries Henrietta Maria of France.
1665  Anglo-Dutch War: English victory at the naval Battle of Lowestoft.
1733  The island of Croix in the Caribbean goes from French control to the Danish West India Company.
1740  In the present-day United States, Georgia's Governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of Saint Augustine.
1774  Rhode Island bans the import of slaves.
1777  American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
1805  Lewis and Clark Expedition: Meriwether Lewis and four companions see the Great Falls on the Missouri River.
1858  Up to 250 passengers are killed in an explosion on the paddle steamer Pennsylvania on the Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tennessee.
1881  The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1886  A fire destroys much of Vancouver.
1886  Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in the Starnberger See (Starnberg Lake).
His doctor was also found dead.
The exact circumstances of their deaths remain a mystery.
1893  Grover Cleveland secretly undergoes a successful operation to remove a large cancerous  portion of his jaw.
1898  The Yukon Territory is split from Canada's Northwest Territories.
Dawson becomes the capital.
Later, the capital moves to Whitehorse
1910  The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is founded.
1917  A World War I German air raid on London kills 162 people.
1927  Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
1934  Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Venice.
1935  Jim Braddock wins the World Heavyweight Boxing title by defeating Max Baer.
1946  King Umberto II of Italy goes into exile in Portugal as Italy becomes a republic after a referendum on June 2.
1950  Hugo Koblet wins the 33rd edition of the Giro d'Italia cycling race.
As a Swiss, he is the first non-Italian to win the event.
1952  Catalina Affair: A Swedish DC-3 aircraft is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
1955  The Mir Mine, the first Soviet diamond mine, is discovered.
1956  In football, Real Madrid wins the first European Cup, defeating Stade Reims 4-3 in Paris.
1961  2000
1967  Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice on the United States Supreme Court.
1967  The Soviet Union calls for action against Israel.
1970  The Long and Winding Road becomes The Beatles' last US Number One hit song.
1971  The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
1974  The 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany begins.
1977  James Earl Ray, who was convicted of killing Martin Luther King, Jr., is recaptured following his escape from prison three days earlier.
1978  Israel's Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
1981  Marcus Serjeant fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II during the Trooping the Colour parade.
1982  Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia, succeeding his deceased half-brother Khalid.
1982  Racing driver Riccardo Paletti is killed when he crashes on the start grid of the Canadian Grand Prix.
1983  Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the Solar System.
1990  Official demolition of the Berlin Wall begins.
1991  The 1998 Winter Olympics are given to Nagano, Japan.
1994  A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazlewood for the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989.
1995  Jacques Chirac announces that France will continue to carry out nuclear testing in French Polynesia.
1996  Guernsey votes to end its ban on abortion.
1997  The Uphaar cinema fire in New Delhi kills 59 people.
1997  Timothy McVeigh is sentenced to death for the Oklahoma bombing.
2000  South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il meet at the first inter-Korean summit, in Pyongyang.
2000  Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot at Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2002  The US withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2002  Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle on the Yangju highway, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the US and South Korea.
2005  Irish becomes one of the official languages of the European Union.
2005  Michael Jackson is found not guilty of child molestation at his Neverland Ranch.
2011  Two strong aftershocks, following the February 22 earthquake, hit Christchurch, New Zealand, measuring at 5.5 and 6 magnitude, causing more damage, liquefaction, and 10 injuries.
2012  At least 93 people are killed in a series of bombings across Iraq.
2014  2014 FIFA World Cup: Previous champions, Spain, are beaten 5-1 by the Netherlands in a group match.
They had beaten the Dutch in the final of the previous World Cup.
It is the worst opening-day result of any defending champion in the history of tournament.
2019  Two oil tankers are attacked in the Strait of Hormuz; The governments of the United States and United Kingdom blame Iran for the attacks.
40  Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (d. 93)
823  Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the West Franks (d. 877)
839  Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Franks (d. 888)
1508  Alesandro Piccolomini, Italian writer and philosopher (d. 1579)
1584  Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese Samurai warrior, artist and writer (d. 1645)
1595  Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician and scientist (d. 1667)
1615  Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700)
1649  Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
1672  Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1741)
1752  Fanny Burney, English novelist (d. 1840)
1753  Johan Afzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1837)
1761  Antonin Vranicky, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1820)
1763  José Bonifacio de Andrade, Brazilian statesman (d. 1838)
1773  Thomas Young, English polymath (d. 1829)
1775  Antoni Radziwill, Polish politician (d. 1833)
1786  Winfield Scott, American general (d. 1866)
1790  José Antonio Sáez, President of Venezuela (d. 1873)
1809  Heinrich Hoffmann, German painter and writer (d. 1894)
1821  Albert, 4th duc de Broglie, French historian, publicist and statesman (d. 1901)
1822  Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1894)
1827  Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
1831  James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish inventor and physicist (d. 1879)
1854  Charles Algernon Parsons, Anglo-Irish engineer (d. 1931)
1863  Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
1864  Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish professor (d. 1922)
1865  William Butler Yeats, Irish writer (d. 1939)
1866  Aby Warburg, German art historian (d. 1929)
1870  Jules Bordet, Belgian doctor, won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1961)
1874  Leopoldo Lugones, Argentine poet (d. 1938)
1875  Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer and physician (d. 1932)
1876  William Sealey Gosset, English chemist and statistician (d. 1937)
1882  Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1960)
1884  Dobri Bozhilov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1945)
1884  Burrill Bernard Crohn, American physician (d. 1983)
1884  Anton Drexler, German political figure (d. 1942)
1885  Henry George Lamond, Australian novelist (d. 1959)
1887  André François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat (d. 1978)
1887  Bruno Frank, German writer (d. 1957)
1888  Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer (d. 1935)
1892  Basil Rathbone, British actor (d. 1967)
1893  Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer (d. 1957)
1894  Dr. Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician (d. 1981)
1894  Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (d. 1986)
1894  Tay Garnett, American movie director (d. 1977)
1897  Paavo Nurmi, Finnish athlete (d. 1973)
1899  Carlos Chavez, Mexican composer, conductor, theorist and journalist (d. 1978)
1901  Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)
1903  Red Grange, American football player (d. 1991)
1905  Doc Cheatham, American trumpeter, singer and bandleader (d. 1997)
1905  Xian Xinghai, Chinese composer (d. 1945)
1906  Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1985)
1908  Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter (d. 1992)
1908  Hassan ibn Yahya, Prime Minister of North Yemen (d. 2003)
1909  E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 1998)
1910  Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Galician writer (d. 1999)
1910  Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)
1910  Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
1911  Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist (d. 1988)
1914  Barbara Reynolds, English author and lexicographer (d. 2015)
1915  Don Budge, American tennis player (d. 2000)
1917  Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan writer (d. 2005)
1917  Teddy Turner, English actor and comedian (d. 1992)
1920  Rolf Huisgen, German chemist (d. 2020)
1921  Lennart Strand, Swedish runner (d. 2004)
1926  Paul Lynde, American comedian and actor (d. 1982)
1926  Jerome Lejeune, French physician and geneticist (d. 1994)
1927  Slim Dusty, Australian singer (d. 2003)
1928  John Forbes Nash, American mathematician (d. 2015)
1928  Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (d. 2015)
1928  Li Ka-shing, Chinese businessman
1929  Ralph McQuarrie, American production designer (d. 2012)
1929  Robert W. Scott, 67th Governor of North Carolina (d. 2009)
1932  Bob McGrath, American actor and singer
1935  Samak Sundaravej, former Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2009)
1935  Christo, Bulgarian artist (d. 2020)
1935  Jeanne-Claude, French artist (d. 2009)
1937  Erich Ribbeck, German football manager
1939  Siegfried, German-born tiger trainer and magician (Siegfried and Roy) (d. 2021)
1940  Bobby Freeman, American singer-songwriter, pianist and producer (d. 2017)
1940  Gojko Mitic, Serbian actor
1941  Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
1941  Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player, coach and manager
1942  Abdulsalami Abubakar, former President of Nigeria
1943  Malcolm McDowell, English actor
1943  Jim Guy Tucker, 43rd Governor of Arkansas
1944  Ban Ki-moon, South Korean Secretary-General of the United Nations
1946  Gonzalo Aja, Spanish cyclist
1946  Sher Bahadur Deuba, 32nd Prime Minister of Nepal
1946  Paul L. Modrich, American biochemist
1948  Garnet Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 2001)
1948  Joe Roth, American director and producer
1949  Ulla Schmidt, German politician
1950  Gerd Zewe, German footballer
1950  Nick Brown, British politician
1951  Richard Thomas, American actor
1951  Stellan Skarsgaard, Swedish actor
1953  Tim Allen, American actor
1954  Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician (d. 2011)
1954  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian economist and politician
1955  Alan Hansen, Scottish footballer
1957  Roy Cooper, American politician, 75th Governor of North Carolina
1958  Peter Scudamore, British jockey and trainer
1959  Lance Kinsey, Canadian actor
1959  Boyko Borisov, three-time Prime Minister of Bulgaria
1959  Klaus Iohannis, 5th President of Romania
1961  Bob Crow, English trade union leader (d. 2014)
1962  Ally Sheedy, American actress
1964  Kathy Burke, English actress
1964  Sarunas Marciulionis, Lithuanian basketball player
1965  Lisa Vidal, American actress
1965  Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca, Spanish royal
1966  Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
1966  Naoko Hattori, Japanese racing driver
1968  David Gray, British singer
1968  Marcel Theroux, British writer and broadcaster
1969  Virginie Despentes, French writer, novelist and movie maker
1969  Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian athlete
1969  Soren Rasted, Danish singer-songwriter, musician and producer
1969  Jamie Walters, American entertainer
1970  Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
1970  Rivers Cuomo, American musician
1970  Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
1973  Mattias Hellberg, Swedish musician
1973  Kasia Kowalska, Polish singer-songwriter, producer and actress
1974  Selma Björnsdóttir, Icelandic singer
1974  Steve-O, American stunt performer and TV personality
1975  Ante Covic, Australian footballer
1976  Kym Marsh, English singer, actress and TV presenter
1978  Mikako Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
1978  Richard Kingson, Ghanaian footballer
1980  Sarah Connor, German singer
1980  Darius Vassell, English footballer
1980  Florent Malouda, French footballer
1980  Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player
1981  Julie-Marie Parmentier, French actress
1981  Radim Vrbata, Czech ice hockey player
1982  Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian long-distance runner
1982  Chris Cusiter, Scottish rugby union player
1986  Mary-Kate & Ashely Olsen, American actresses
1986  Keisuke Honda, Japanese footballer
1986  Kat Dennings, American actress
1986  Mans Zelmerlow, Swedish singer
1989  Lisa Tucker, American singer and actress
1990  Aaron Johnson, English actor
1991  Barbara Bonansea, Italian footballer
1991  Anatoly Zabolotny, Russian footballer
1992  Kim Jin-su, South Korean footballer
1993  Simona Senoner, Italian ski jumper (d. 2011)
1993  Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (d. 2018)
1996  Kodi Smit-McPhee, Australian actor
1036  Ali az-Zahir, Islamic ruler (b. 1005)
1231  Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)
1256  Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
1645  Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman and author (b. 1584)
1762  Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, German doctor (b. 1715)
1784  Henry Middleton, American politician (b. 1717)
1817  Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Irish author and engineer (b. 1744)
1846  Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyries, French geographer, author and translator (b. 1767)
1881  Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)
1886  King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1898  Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, 5th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
1901  Leopoldo Alas, Spanish writer (b. 1852)
1905  Theodoros Deligiannis, Greek statesman (b. 1820)
1908  Antonio Gonzalez de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1824)
1918  Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1878)
1930  Henry Segrave, American-English racing driver (b. 1896)
1931  Kitasato Shibasaburo, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
1948  Osamu Dazai, Japanese writer (b. 1909)
1951  Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
1957  Irving Baxter, American athlete (b. 1876)
1965  Martin Buber, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1878)
1972  Georg von Bekesy, Hungarian biophysicist (b. 1899)
1972  Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (b. 1891)
1979  Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1945)
1980  Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942)
1982  Riccardo Paletti, Italian racing driver (b. 1958)
1982  King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
1986  Benny Goodman, American musician (b. 1909)
1987  Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
1993  Deke Slayton, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1924)
1997  Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer (b. 1909)
1998  Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
2003  Malik Meraj Khalid, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
2003  Hassan ibn Yahya, Prime Minister of North Yemen (b. 1908)
2004  Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
2006  Charles Haughey, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1925)
2007  Walid Eido, Lebanese politician (b. 1942)
2008  Tim Russert, American broadcast journalist (b. 1950)
2009  Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (b. 1962)
2010  Jimmy Dean, American singer (b. 1928)
2012  William Standish Knowles, American chemist (b. 1917)
2012  Roger Garaudy, French philosopher, author and Holocaust denier (b. 1913)
2014  Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer (b. 1926)
2014  Robert Peters, American poet, playwright and actor (b. 1924)
2014  Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and futurologist (b. 1933)
2014  Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
2014  Robert Peters, American poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor and actor (b. 1924)
2014  Jim Keays, Australian rock musician (b. 1946)
2014  Sara Widén, Swedish opera singer (b. 1980)
2015  Drs.
P, Swiss-Dutch singer-songwriter, poet and writer (b. 1919)
2015  Buddy Boudreaux, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1917)
2016  Ofelya Hambardzumyan, Armenian singer (b. 1925)
2016  Oleg Karavaychuk, Soviet-Russian composer (b. 1927)
2016  Chips Moman, American songwriter (b. 1937)
2017  A. R. Gurney, American playwright (b. 1927)
2017  Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (b. 1924)
2017  Jack Ong, American actor (b. 1940)
2017  Anita Pallenberg, Italian actress (b. 1944)
2017  Ulf Stark, Swedish screenwriter and author (b. 1944)
2018  Arkangel de la Muerte, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2018  Anne Donovan, American basketball player and coach (b. 1961)
2018  D. J. Fontana, American rock music drummer (b. 1931)
2018  Charles Vinci, American weightlifter (b. 1933)
2019  Pat Bowlen, American sports executive (b. 1944)
2019  Nature Ganganbaigal, Chinese musician and composer (b. 1990)