the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1823 - Joseph Monier, French gardener, inventor and businessman (d. 1906)
1831 - Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, English poet and diplomat, 30th Governor-General (d. 1880)
1836 - Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911)
1837 – Ilia Chavchavadze, national hero of Georgia (d. 1907)
1846 - William Robertson Smith, Scottish orientalist, Old Testament scholar and Free Church of Scotland minister (d. 1894)
1847 – Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (Dracula) (d. 1912)
1847 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
1848 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1925)
1852 – Lin Shu, Chinese translator (d. 1924)
1854 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)
1864 - Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1910)
1866 - Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941)
1868 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)
1869 - Zinaida Gippius, Russian poet (d. 1945)
1869 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious leader (d. 1942)
1873 - Gaetano Salvemini, Italian politician, historian and publicist (d. 1957)
1875 - Qiu Jin, Chinese writer (d. 1907)
1881 - Clarence Gagnon, French-Canadian artist and painter (d. 1942)
1883 - Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953)
1884 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922)
1885 - Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (d. 1966)
1885 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese admiral (d. 1946)
1893 – Clarence Williams, American pianist and composer (d. 1965)
1893 – Prajadhipok, King of Siam (d. 1941)
1897 - Dorothy Day, American social activist and journalist (d. 1980)
1898 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
1900 – Margaret Mitchell, American writer (d. 1949)
1900 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete (d. 1943)
1903 - Luigi Allemandi, Italian footballer (d. 1978)
1910 - Elfriede Brüning, German journalist and novelist (d. 2014)
1912 - Stylianos Pattakos, Greek military officer (d. 2016)
1912 – June Havoc, Canadian-American actress (d. 2010)
1914 - Norman Lloyd, American director, producer and actor (d. 2021)
1914 - George Dantzig, American mathematician (d. 2005)
1916 - Peter Weiss, German-born Swedish writer, painter and experimental movie maker (d. 1982)
1918 - Hermann Zapf, German designer (d. 2015)
1920 - Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
1922 – Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (d. 2001)
1922 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996)
1923 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer (d. 2005)
1925 - Asunción Balaguer, Spanish actress (d. 2019)
1927 - L. K. Advani, Indian politician
1927 - Patti Page, American singer (d. 2013)
1927 – Ken Dodd, English comedian (d. 2018)
1927 – Nguyen Khanh, South Vietnamese Prime Minister (d. 2013)
1929 – Jona Senilagakali, Fijian physician, diplomat and 7th Prime Minister of Fiji (d. 2011)
1931 – Morley Safer, Canadian-American journalist (d. 2016)
1931 - Dorla Hood, American actress (d. 1979)
1932 - Simo Salminen, Finnish comic actor (d. 2015)
1933 - Peter Arundell, British racing driver (d. 2009)
1935 - Alain Delon, French movie actor
1936 - Edward Wilson, American astronaut
1936 - Virna Lisi, Italian actress (d. 2014)
1938 - Richard Stoker, English composer and writer
1938 - Murtala Mohammed, President of Nigeria (d. 1976)
1939 - Elizabeth Dawn, English actress (d. 2017)
1940 - Charles T. Kowal, American astronomer (d. 2011)
1941 - Nerys Hughes, Welsh actress
1942 - Sandro Mazzola, Italian footballer
1943 – Martin Peters, English footballer
1945 - Arduino Cantafora, Italian-Swiss architect and writer
1945 - Vincent Nichols, English cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster
1946 – Guus Hiddink, Dutch football manager
1946 - Roy Wood, British musician
1947 - Minnie Riperton, American singer (d. 1979)
1947 - Margaret Rhea Seddon, American physician and astronaut
1948 - Dale Gardner, American astronaut (d. 2014)
1949 - Bonnie Raitt, American rock musician
1949 - Wayne LaPierre, American Executive President of the National Rifle Association
1950 - Mary Hart, American television host
1952 - Christie Hefner, former CEO of Playboy Enterprises
1952 - Alfre Woodard, American actress
1953 - John Musker, American animation director
1954 - Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-British writer
1954 - Bill Joy, American computer scientist
1954 - Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk)
1954 - Rickie Lee Jones, American singer-songwriter
1955 - Patricia Barber, American singer, songwriter, pianist and bandleader
1956 - Mari Boine, Norwegian musician
1956 – Richard Curtis, English screenwriter
1957 – Alan Curbishley, English football manager
1957 - Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure)
1958 - Don Byron, American jazz musician
1960 - Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor
1960 - Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor (d. 2017)
1961 - Leif Garrett, American singer-songwriter
1965 - Robert Tappan Morris, American computer scientist
1966 – Gordon Ramsay, Scottish chef and television personality
1967 - José Luis Caminero, Spanish footballer
1967 - Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
1968 - Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer
1968 – Parker Posey, American actress
1968 - Zara Whites, Dutch-French pornographic actress
1969 - Roxana Zal, American actress
1970 – Tom Anderson, co-founder of Myspace
1970 - José Porras, Costa Rican footballer
1972 - Aksel V. Johannesen, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1972 – Gretchen Mol, American actress
1974 - Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga writer
1974 - Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga writer
1974 – Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor
1975 - Tara Reid, American actress and producer
1976 – Brett Lee, Australian cricketer
1978 – Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer
1978 - Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
1979 – Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
1979 - Paul Sackey, English rugby player
1980 – Luís Fabiano, Brazilian footballer
1981 – Joe Cole, English footballer
1982 – Sam Sparro, Australian singer, performer and producer
1982 - Mika Kallio, Finnish motorcycle racer
1982 - Ted DiBiase, Jr., American professional wrestler
1982 - Lynndie England, former United States Army reservist
1983 - Chris Rankin, New Zealand actor
1983 - Pavel Pogrebnyak, Russian footballer
1983 - Blanka Vlasic, Croatian high jumper
1985 - Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress
1985 – Jack Osbourne, English television personality
1986 – Aaron Swartz, American activist and computer programmer (Twitter) (d. 2013)
1986 - Jamie Roberts, Welsh rugby player
1987 - Kazuchika Okada, Japanese professional wrestler
1987 - Samantha Droke, American actress
1987 - Eduardo Gurbindo, Spanish handball player
1988 - Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress
1989 - Morgan Schneiderlin, French footballer
1991 - Riker Lynch, American singer, actor and musician
1994 - Lauren Alaina, American country music singer
2000 - Jasmine Thompson, British pianist, dancer, singer and actress
2001 - Matilda Ramsay, British chef and television personality
2003 – Lady Louise Windsor, British royal
397 - Saint Martin of Tours
618 - Pope Adeodatus I
955 - Pope Agapetus II
1115 - Godfrey of Amiens, French bishop (b. 1066)
1171 - Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
1195 - Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1135)
1226 – King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)
1246 - Berengaria of Castile (b. 1180)
1308 – Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher
1517 - Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, Spanish statesman and cardinal (b. 1436)
1599 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
1605 - Robert Catesby, English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (b. 1573)
1627 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor (b. 1569)
1658 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch captain (b. 1599)
1674 - John Milton, English poet (b. 1608)
1719 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
1817 - Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (b. 1754)
1830 – King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
1858 - Benjamin Franklin Butler, United States Attorney General (b. 1795)
1873 - Breton de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (b. 1796)
1887 – Doc Holliday, American Western figure (b. 1851)
1890 – César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1822)
1905 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
1917 - Colin Blythe, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1879)
1933 - Mohammed Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan (b. 1883)
1934 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
1944 - Walter Nowotny, Austrian-German soldier and pilot (b. 1920)
1949 - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian-Austrian priest and activist (b. 1874)
1953 – Ivan Bunin, Russian writer (b. 1870)
1959 - Frank S. Land, American activist (b. 1890)
1965 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American actress and television presenter (b. 1913)
1968 - Peter Mohr Dam, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1898)
1976 - Giorgio Ferrini, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
1978 – Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894)
1979 – Yvonne de Gaulle, First Lady of France (b. 1900)
1983 - James Booker, American jazz singer (b. 1939)
1985 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourg cyclist (b. 1899)
1985 - Masten Gregory, American racing driver (b. 1932)
1986 – Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet politician (b. 1890)
1998 – John Hunt, Baron Hunt, English mountaineer (b. 1910)
1998 - Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
1999 - Leon Stukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)
2007 - Stephen Fumio Hamao, Japanese cardinal (b. 1930)
2007 – Chad Varah, English humanitarian (b. 1911)
2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
2010 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer (b. 1925)
2011 – Hal Bruno, American journalist (b. 1928)
2011 – Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, Russian footballer (b. 1934)
2011 – Heavy D, American rapper (b. 1967)
2012 - Lucille Bliss, American actress (b. 1916)
2014 - Phil Crane, American politician (b. 1930)
2014 - Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian-American basketball player (b. 1928)
2014 - Otto Ziege, German cyclist (b. 1926)
2015 - Rhea Chiles, American philanthropist (b. 1930)
2017 - Antonio Carluccio, Italian chef (b. 1937)
2017 - Roger Grenier, French writer and journalist (b. 1919)
2017 - Wood Moy, Chinese-American actor (b. 1918)
2018 - Harold Basch, American-born Israeli chemist (b. 1940)
2018 - Bartolomé Bennassar, French historian (b. 1929)
2018 - François N. Macerola, Canadian lawyer and film executive (b. 1942)
2018 - Wallace Triplett, American football player (b. 1926)
2018 - Marvin Zuckerman, American psychologist and writer (b. 1928)
2019 - Fred Bongusto, Italian singer-songwriter and composer (b. 1935)
2019 - Lucette Destouches, French ballet dancer and instructor (b. 1912)
2019 - Jackie Moore, American singer (b. 1946)
World Radiography Day
November 08
1282 - Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
1313 - Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin, Frederick I of Austria, in the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1456 - Ulrich II of Celje, the last prince of the Celje principality in present-day Slovenia, is murdered in Belgrade.
1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
1494 – Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence.
1520 - Over 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
1620 - Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at present-day Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1688 - Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter, Devon.
1729 – Spain, France & England sign the Treaty of Seville.
1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Fishdam Ford.
1791 - Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire.
1802 - From Callao, Peru, Alexander von Humboldt observes the transit of the planet Mercury.
1861 - The first-documented Canadian football match is played at University College, University of Toronto.
1862 - American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside takes over control of the Army of the Potomac.
1867 - The Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872 occurs in Boston, Massachusetts.
1880 - A large earthquake strikes Zagreb, present-day Croatia.
The city's cathedral is among the buildings either destroyed or heavily damaged.
1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country (to inspect progress on the Panama Canal).
1907 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to Edward VII of the United Kingdom on his 66th birthday.
1913 - The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 occurs, destroying 19 ships and killing over 250 people.
1914 - World War I: The SMS Emden is sunk by the HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
1917 - Joseph Stalin enters the Provisional Governor of Soviet Russia.
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1918 – Kurt Eisner, Provisional National Council Minister-President, declares Bavaria to be a republic.
1923 – In Munich, Germany, policeman and troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch coup attempt by the Nazi Party.
1936 - Nazis remove the statue of Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig in the night to November 10.
1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
1938 – Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins.
1944 - Otto Hahn wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1953 – Cambodia becomes independent from France.
1953 - Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, the first King of Saudi Arabia, dies.
As of 2013, he is the father of all the Saudi Kings that have reigned since his death.
1960 - Robert McNamara becomes President of the Ford Motor Company, the first person from outside Henry Ford's family to get this position.
1963 - At Miike Coal Mine in Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458 people and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
1965 - In the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos is elected President over Diosdado Macapagal.
1965 - A large power blackout affects the Northeastern United States and parts of Southeastern Canada.
1967 – NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
1967 - The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published.
1985 – Garry Kasparov of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest world chess champion, defeating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
1989 – Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany.
1993 – The Stari most (Old Bridge) in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina collapses in the Balkan War, and becomes a symbol of the conflict.
1994 – Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.
1997 - BBC News 24, now called the BBC News Channel, goes on transmission.
2000 - The Indian state of Uttarakhand is created out of parts of Uttar Pradesh.
2004 – Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released.
This has become one of Microsoft Internet Explorer's biggest competitors.
2005 - The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2005 – A suicide bombing in Amman, Jordan, kills at least 60 people.
2007 - The German Bundestag passes the controversial Data Retention Bill, allowing storage of citizens'  telecommunications traffic data for six months.
2012 - Justin Welby is announced as the successor to Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury.
2012 - David Petraeus resigns as head of the CIA.
2014 - Catalonia holds a symbolic vote on independence from Spain.
2016 - A tram crashes in Croydon, South London, killing 7 people.
2019 - A religious site disputed by both Muslims and Hindus in Ayodhya, India, is given to Hindus by a court decision.
955 - Gyeongjong of Korea (d. 981)
1389 – Isabella of Valois, Queen-consort of England (d. 1409)
1414 - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
1522 – Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
1606 - Hermann Conring, German philosopher (d. 1681)
1664 - Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)
1664 - Johann Speth, German organist and composer (d. 1719)
1697 - Claudio Casciolini, Italian composer (d. 1760)
1719 - Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Italian law professor, priest, chess player, composer and theoretician (d. 1796)
1721 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
1723 - Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Prussian royal and composer (d. 1787)
1731 - Benjamin Banneker, African American astronomer (d. 1806)
1787 - Johann Natterer, Austrian explorer and naturalist (d. 1843)
1799 – Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)
1801 - Gail Borden, American publisher and inventor (d. 1874)
1802 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
1810 - Thomas Bragg, American politician (d. 1872)
1818 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
1825 - A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
1829 - Peter Lumsden, British general (d. 1918)
1832 - Emile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
1840 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, 5th Premier of Quebec (d. 1898)
1841 – Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
1850 – Louis Lewin, German pharmacologist (d. 1929)
1853 - Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
1855 - Alexandros Zaimis, Greek politician (d. 1936)
1862 - Gigo Gabashvili, Georgian painter (d. 1936)
1869 - Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress (d. 1934)
1871 - Florence Sabin, American anatomist (d. 1953)
1872 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
1873 - Fritz Thyssen, German businessman (d. 1951)
1874 - Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (d. 1954)
1876 - Ahn Changho, Korean independence activist (d. 1938)
1877 – Enrico de Nicola, 1st President of Italy (d. 1959)
1877 – Muhammad Iqbal, national poet of Pakistan (d. 1938)
1878 - An Chang-ho, Korean independence activist (d. 1938)
1880 - Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and designer (d. 1960)
1882 - Roy E. Ayers, 11th Governor of Montana (d. 1955)
1883 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)
1883 - Charles Demuth, American painter (d. 1935)
1885 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
1886 - Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
1888 - Jean Monnet, French businessman and statesman (d. 1979)
1892 - Mabel Normand, American actress (d. 1930)
1894 - Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
1897 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist (d. 1978)
1902 - Anthony Asquith, British movie director (d. 1968)
1903 - Josefina Pla, Spanish poet, playwright, art critic, painter and journalist (d. 1999)
1904 - Viktor Brack, German Nazi physician and war criminal (d. 1945)
1905 – Erika Mann, German writer (d. 1969)
1907 - Ko Takamoro, Japanese footballer (d. 1995)
1914 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
1915 – Sargent Shriver, American politician (d. 2011)
1918 – Choi Hong Hi, co-founder of Taekwondo (d. 2002)
1918 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States and 55th Governor of Maryland (d. 1996)
1918 - Thomas Ferebee, American Enola Gay bombardier (d. 2000)
1919 - Eva Todor, Hungarian-Brazilian actress (d. 2017)
1920 - Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin and white supremacist (d. 2001)
1921 - Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (d. 1984)
1922 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
1922 - Augusto Vargas Alzamora, Archbishop of Lima (d. 2000)
1923 - Alice Coachman, American athlete (d. 2014)
1923 - James Schuyler, American poet, playwright and novelist (d. 1991)
1924 - Joy Page, American actress (d. 2008)
1925 - Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (d. 2016)
1925 - Alistair Horne, English journalist, biographer and historian (d. 2017)
1925 - Helmut Rohde, German politician (d. 2016)
1926 - Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
1926 - Vicente Aranda, Spanish movie director (d. 2015)
1927 - Shlomo Lahat, Israeli general and politician (d. 2014)
1928 - Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
1929 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer (d. 2016)
1929 - Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Russian composer
1931 - Whitey Herzog, American baseball player
1934 – Ingvar Carlsson, 29th Prime Minister of Sweden
1934 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer (d. 1996)
1934 - Ronald Harwood, British movie producer and actor
1935 - Bob Gibson, American baseball player
1936 – Bob Graham, American politician, 38th Governor of Florida
1936 - Eduard Punset, Spanish politician and science populariser (d. 2019)
1936 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d. 1992)
1936 – Mary Travers, American singer (d. 2009)
1937 – Roger McGough, English poet
1937 - Clyde Wells, 5th Premier of Newfoundland
1939 - Björn Engholm, German politician
1941 - Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1990)
1942 – Tom Weiskopf, American golfer
1944 – Herbert Wimmer, German footballer
1944 - Phil May, English singer
1947 – Robert David Hall, American actor
1948 – Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian football manager
1948 - Viktor Matviyenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2018)
1948 - Bille August, Danish director, cinematographer and screenwriter
1948 - Jane Humphries, English economist, historian and academic
1951 – Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder
1952 – Jack W. Szostak, British-American molecular biologist
1952 - Sherrod Brown, American politician and United States Senator from Ohio
1954 – Dennis Stratton, British musician
1955 – Karen Dotrice, British actress
1955 - Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian movie director
1956 - Lei Clijsters, Belgian footballer (d. 2009)
1959 - Tony Slattery, British actor
1959 - Frances O'Grady, British union leader
1959 – Thomas Quasthoff, German operatic baritone
1960 – Andreas Brehme, German footballer
1961 - Jill Dando, English television presenter (d. 1999)
1961 - Jackie Kay, Scottish poet
1962 - Sergio Batista, Argentine footballer
1965 – Bryn Terfel, Welsh operatic baritone
1965 - Daphne Guinness, English-Irish model and actress
1967 - Yoshiro Moriyama, Japanese footballer
1969 - Pepa, American rapper
1970 – Scarface, American rapper
1970 - Bill Guerin, American ice hockey player
1970 - Chris Jericho, American professional wrestler, actor, radio presenter and rock musician
1971 - Sabri Lamouchi, French football coach and manager
1972 – Eric Dane, American actor
1973 – Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer
1973 - Nick Lachey, American singer
1973 - Belén Esteban, Spanish journalist and television presenter
1974 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
1974 - Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian actress
1975 - Gareth Malone, English choirmaster and broadcaster
1975 - Maria Ribeiro, Brazilian actress
1975 - Raphaël Enthoven, French philosophy teacher, radio host and television host
1977 - Omar Trujillo, Mexican footballer
1978 - Olga Brusnikina, Russian synchronized swimmer
1979 - Adam Dunn, American baseball player
1979 – Martin Taylor, English footballer
1979 - Caroline Flack, English television presenter
1980 - James Harper, English footballer
1980 - Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder
1980 - Vanessa Minnillo, Filipina television host and actress
1981 - Scottie Thompson, American actress
1981 - Termanology, American rapper
1982 - Jana Pittman, Australian athlete
1982 - Boaz Myhill, Welsh footballer
1983 - Gabriel Tamas, Romanian footballer
1984 - French Montana, Moroccan-American singer and rapper
1985 - Ku Hye Sun, South Korean actress
1985 – Bakary Soumaré, Malian footballer
1986 - Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1986 - Prince Tagoe, Ghanaian footballer
1988 – Nikki Blonsky, American actress
1988 - Analeigh Tipton, American model, actress and figure skater
1988 - Cheyenne Tozzi, Australian model and singer
1989 - Baptiste Giabiconi, French singer and male model
1990 - Frankie Jones, Welsh rhythmic gymnast
1990 - Nosa Igiebor, Nigerian footballer
1993 - Pete Dunne, English wrestler
1996 - Momo Hirai, Japanese singer
1999 - Karol Sevilla, Mexican actress, singer and YouTuber
959 – Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)
1187 – Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
1208 - Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (b. 1155)
1456 - Ulrich II, Count of Celje (b. 1406)
1516 - Ferdinand of Aragon (b. 1452)
1581 - Bayinnaung, King of Burma (b. 1516)
1641 - Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, Spanish Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
1699 - Hortense Mancini, Italian mistress to Charles II (b. 1646)
1766 - Unico Wilhelm von Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
1778 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720)
1848 – Robert Blum, German politician and revolutionary (b. 1807)
1856 - John M. Clayton, United States Secretary of State (b. 1796)
1875 – William Hovell, English explorer of Australia (b. 1786)
1888 – Mary Jane Kelly, the fifth murder victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1863)
1911 - Howard Pyle, American illustrator and writer (b. 1853)
1918 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
1918 - Peter Lumsden, British general (b. 1829)
1919 - Eduard Müller, Swiss politician (b. 1848)
1924 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1850)
1937 – Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
1940 – Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
1942 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
1944 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
1952 – Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (b. 1874)
1952 - Philip Murray, American labor leader (b. 1886)
1953 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and writer (b. 1914)
1953 – Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
1953 - Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1859)
1956 - Aino Kallas, Finnish author (b. 1878)
1962 - Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian Saint (b. 1858)
1970 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)
1980 - Toyen, Czech Surrealist painter (b. 1902)
1988 - David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (b. 1924)
1988 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
1991 – Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
1992 - Charles Fraser-Smith, British inventor (b. 1904)
1996 - Joe Ghiz, 27th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1945)
1997 – Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher (b. 1905)
1997 – Helenio Herrera, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1910)
1998 - Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
1999 - Mabel King, American actress (b. 1932)
2000 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1916)
2001 – Giovanni Leone, Italian politician (b. 1908)
2003 – Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
2004 – Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (b. 1947)
2004 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer (b. 1954)
2005 – K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1920)
2006 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
2006 - Markus Wolf, East German intelligence director (b. 1923)
2008 - Executions for the Bali bombings:
Huda bin Abdul Haq, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1960)
Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1962)
Imam Samudra, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1970)
2011 - Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-born American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1922)
2012 - Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1905)
2012 - Bill Tarmey, British actor (b. 1941)
2012 - Joseph D. Early, American politician (b. 1933)
2013 - Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (b. 1947)
2014 - M. V. Raghavan, Indian politician (b. 1933)
2014 - Myles Munroe, Bahamian pastor (b. 1954)
2014 - Joe Walsh, Irish politician (b. 1943)
2015 - Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter (b. 1930)
2015 - Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (b. 1986)
2017 - Grete Berget, Norwegian politician (b. 1954)
2017 - Fred Cole, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
2017 - John Hillerman, American actor (b. 1932)
2017 - Chuck Mosley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1959)
2017 - Priyan, Indian cinematographer (b. 1964)
2017 - Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress (b. 1982)
2017 - Gene Kotlarek, American ski jumper (b. 1940)
2017 - Chuck Nergard, American politician (b. 1929)
2018 - Richard Paul Conaboy, American judge (b. 1925)
2018 - Roger Hoy, English footballer (b. 1946)
2019 - John Gokongwei, Filipino businessman and philanthropist (b. 1926)
2019 - Noel Ignatiev, American author and historian (b. 1940)
2019 - Brian Mawhinney, British politician (b. 1940)
Observances and Significance
Independence Day in Cambodia
Schicksalstag in Germany, remembering several historic events in Germany that occurred on November 9
Inventor's Day (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
Birthday of Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan)
November 09
1497 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
1515 - Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially marry at Greenwich.
1568 – Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
1572 - Pope Gregory XIII is elected.
During his time, some countries in Europe would become the first to use the Gregorian calendar, which is named after him.
1607 – Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as an English colony.
1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
1647 – 12,000 people are killed in an earthquake in Santiago, Chile.
1648 - Building work on the Red Fort in Delhi, India, is completed.
1779 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war.
In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from them (the Inn District).
1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with the First Fleet, 11 ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1830 – Ecuador gains its independence.
1846 – Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
1848 – First performance of Finland's national anthem.
1861 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of Britain issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
1861 - The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
1861 - The first railway line in present-day Pakistan, then-part of British India, is opened between Karachi and Kotri.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
1909 – The first Giro d'Italia took place in Milan.
Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna was the winner.
1912 – In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) was established.
1913 – Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
1917 – Three peasant children claim to see the Blessed Virgin Mary above a holmoak tree in Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal.
1940 – World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River.
Churchill makes his "blood, tears, toil and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Britain.
Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
1943 – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
1948 – First Kashmir War between India and Pakistan
1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
1950 - The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone racecourse in Northamptonshire.
1952 - The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, holds it first sitting.
1958 - Ben Carlin becomes the first, and only, person to circumnavigate (travel round) the world in an amphibious vehicle, a vehicle that can travel both in water and on land.
1958 - May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers, demanding a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle as its head, in order to defend French control in Algeria.
1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
1958 – Pierre Pflimlin becomes Prime Minister of France
1958 – Velcro's trade mark is registered.
1960 – First ascent of Dhaulagiri, world's seventh-highest mountain.
1967 - Zakir Hussain becomes President of India, as the first person of Islamic faith to hold the post of President in India.
1969 – Race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, later known as the 13 May Incident.
1972 – A nightclub fire in Osaka kills 119 people.
1972 - The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional Irish Republican Army, the Ulster Volunteer Force and the British Army, killing 7 people and injuring 66.
1976 – The New York Nets defeat the Denver Nuggets and win the American Basketball Association championship, 112-106, in the final ABA game ever played.
1980 - A Force-2 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome.
1985 – The mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, orders police to storm the radical group's MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off.
The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents in the resulting fire.
1989 - Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, and begin a hunger strike.
1994 - Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance.
1995 – In Dublin, Ireland, Secret Garden win the fortieth Eurovision Song Contest for Norway performing "Nocturne".
1996 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1997 – Storms in Yunnan and Guangdong kill 290 people.
1998 – Following India's second round of nuclear tests the United States and Japan impose economic sanctions.
1998 - Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
The country's President, Suharto, resigns a week later.
2000 – In Stockholm, Sweden, the Olsen Brothers win the forty-fifth Eurovision Song Contest for Denmark singing "Fly On The Wings of Love".
2000 – In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately f 1,000,000,000 (€450,000,000) damage.
2005 - The Binh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
2005 – The final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise airs in the United States, bringing to a close an 18-year uninterrupted television franchise.
2005 – The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
2008 - Bombings in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, kill dozens of people.
2011 - The Charsadda bombing in Pakistan occur, as two bombs explode, killing 98 people, and injuring 140.
2012 – Pastor Maldonado becomes the first Venezuelan to win a Formula One Grand Prix, in Spain.
2014 - A mine explosion in Soma, Western Turkey, kills around 300 people.
2015 - Discord releases, a instant messaging software.
2016 - President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro declares a 60-day state of emergency.
2017 - Salvador Sobral wins the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv for Portugal, with the song "Amar Pelos Dois".
2018 - Manchester City F.C. becomes the first team in the English Premier League to achieve 100 points in a single league season.
1024 - Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)
1221 - Alexander Nevsky, Russian prince and saint (d. 1263)
1254 – Maria of Brabant, Queen of France (d. 1321)
1588 – Ole Worm, Danish physician and archaeologist (d. 1654)
1655 – Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
1699 - Sebastiao Jose de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquess of Pombal, Portuguese statesman (d. 1782)
1713 - Alexis Clairault, French mathematician, astronomer and geophysicist (d. 1765)
1717 – Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (d. 1780)
1730 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1782)
1742 – Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)
1750 - Lorenzo Mascheroni, Italian mathematician (d. 1800)
1753 - Lazare Carnot, French general, mathematician and politician (d. 1823)
1767 – John VI of Portugal (d. 1826)
1778 - Honoré V, Prince of Monaco (d. 1841)
1785 – Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, German historian and statesman (d. 1860)
1792 – Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)
1795 - Gerard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)
1822 – Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (d. 1902)
1830 – Zebulon Baird Vance, three-time Governor of North Carolina (d. 1894)
1840 - Alphonse Daudet, French novelist (d. 1897)
1842 - Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900)
1850 - Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian dramatist, librettist and translator (d. 1916)
1851 - Laza Lazarevic, Serbian writer, psychiatrist and neurologist (d. 1891)
1857 – Ronald Ross, English doctor, won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1932)
1868 - Sumner Paine, American sports shooter (d. 1904)
1878 - Muriel Robb, British tennis player (d. 1907)
1881 - Lima Barreto, Brazilian writer (d. 1922)
1882 – Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963)
1883 – Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor and inventor (d. 1962)
1885 - Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (d. 1984)
1888 - Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (d. 1993)
1894 – Asgeir Asgeirsson, second President of Iceland (d. 1972)
1898 – Justin Tuveri, Italian-French World War I veteran (d. 2007)
1901 - Witold Pilecki, Polish general and Resistance activist (d. 1948)
1901 - William S. Beardsley, 31st Governor of Iowa (d. 1954)
1901 - Murilo Mendes, Brazilian poet (d. 1975)
1905 - Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, President of India (d. 1977)
1907 – Daphne du Maurier, British writer (d. 1989)
1908 - Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1996)
1909 - Ken Darby, American composer, songwriter and conductor (d. 1992)
1912 - Gil Evans, Canadian pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader (d. 1988)
1913 – William Tolbert, President of Liberia (d. 1980)
1914 – Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)
1922 – Bea Arthur, American actress (d. 2009)
1924 – Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer and politician (d. 2010)
1927 - Herbert Ross, American choreographer and movie director (d. 2001)
1928 - Enrique Bolaños, former President of Nicaragua (d. 2021)
1928 - Theo Saat, Dutch sprinter (d. 2015)
1928 - Edouard Molinaro, French actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1929 - John Galvin, American general (d. 2015)
1929 - Fred Martin, Scottish footballer (d. 2013)
1930 - Sammy Baird, Scottish footballer (d. 2010)
1930 – Vernon Shaw, former President of Dominica (d. 2013)
1930 – Mike Gravel, United States Senator (d. 2021)
1930 - José Jiménez Lozano, Spanish writer
1931 – Jim Jones, American religious cult leader (d. 1978)
1934 - Adolf Muschg, Swiss writer
1935 - Jan Saudek, Czech photographer and painter
1935 - Kaja Saudek, Czech author and illustrator (d. 2015)
1937 - Trevor Baylis, English stuntman and inventor (d. 2018)
1939 – Harvey Keitel, American actor
1940 - Bruce Chatwin, British writer (d. 1989)
1941 – Ritchie Valens, American musician (d. 1959)
1941 – Senta Berger, Austrian actress
1942 - Pal Schmitt, Hungarian fencer and politician, former President of Hungary
1944 – Uwe Barschel, German politician (d. 1987)
1944 - Sir Crispin Agnew, 11th Baronet, Scottish judge and explorer
1945 - Sam Anderson, American actor
1945 - Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
1945 - Lou Marini, American saxophonist and composer
1946 - Tim Pigott-Smith, British actor (d. 2017)
1949 - Jane Glover, British conductor
1949 – Zoe Wanamaker, American-British actress
1950 – Stevie Wonder, American singer
1950 – Danny Kirwan, British musician (Fleetwood Mac) (d. 2018)
1951 – Paul Thompson, British musician (Roxy Music)
1951 – Selina Scott, British broadcast journalist
1952 – Wang Xiaobo, Chinese writer
1952 - John Kasich, 69th Governor of Ohio
1954 - Johnny Logan, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist and composer
1956 – Richard Madeley, British TV presenter
1956 - Sri Sri Ravishankar, Indian spiritual leader
1957 – Alan Ball, American screenwriter
1957 – Andrea Klump, former Red Army Faction member
1957 - Carrie Lam, 4th Chief Executive of Hong Kong
1957 - Koji Suzuki, Japanese writer
1958 – Frances Barber, British actress
1961 - Danny Leiner, American actor (d. 2018)
1961 – Dennis Rodman, American basketball player
1962 - Roxana Baldetti, Guatemalan Vice President
1963 - Wally Masur, Australian tennis player, coach and sportscaster
1963 - Andrea Leadsom, English politician
1964 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian
1964 – Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder
1964 - Masha Rasputina, Russian pop singer
1965 - Hikari Ota, Japanese writer
1966 – Alison Goldfrapp, English musician
1966 - Staffan Hellstrand, Swedish singer
1967 - Chuck Schuldinger, American singer-songwriter and musician
1967 - Melanie Thornton, American-German singer (d. 2001)
1968 – Miguel Angel Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1997)
1968 - Scott Morrison, Australian politician, 30th Prime Minister of Australia
1968 - Dmitriy Shevchenko, Russian discus thrower
1968 - Sonja Zietlow, German television host
1969 - Buckethead, American musician
1972 - Darryl Sydor, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 - Brian Geraghty, American actor
1976 - Ana Popovic, Serbian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 - Samantha Morton, English actress
1977 - Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer (The Common Linnets)
1977 - Neil Hopkins, American actor
1977 - Aleksei Terentjev, Estonian ice hockey player
1978 - Mike Bibby, American basketball player
1979 – Prince Carl Philip of Sweden
1979 - Michael Madden, American musician (Maroon 5)
1979 - Lauren Phoenix, Canadian pornographic actress
1981 - Luciana Berger, English politician
1982 - Albert Crusat, Spanish footballer
1982 – Oguchi Onyewu, American soccer player
1982 - Casey Stoney, English footballer
1983 – Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
1983 – Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer
1983 - Johnny Hoogerland, Dutch cyclist
1983 - Anita Gorbicz, Hungarian handball player
1985 – Jaroslav Halak, Slovakian ice hockey player
1985 - Iwan Rheon, Welsh actor and singer
1986 – Robert Pattinson, English actor
1986 – Alexander Rybak, Norwegian singer, fiddler and composer
1986 - Lena Dunham, American movie maker and actress
1987 - Candice Accola, American actress and musician
1987 - Hunter Parrish, American actor and singer
1987 - Laura Izibor, Irish singer-songwriter, pianist and producer
1987 - Marianne Vos, Dutch cyclist
1988 – Casey Donovan, Australian singer
1993 – Romelu Lukaku, Belgian footballer
1993 - Debby Ryan, American actress
1176 – Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
1312 – Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
1573 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
1619 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
1646 - Maria Anna of Spain (b. 1606)
1742 - Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
1759 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
1782 - Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
1832 - Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (b. 1769)
1835 – John Nash, architect (b. 1752)
1884 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809)
1885 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
1901 - Leopoldo Alas, Spanish novelist (b. 1851)
1903 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
1916 – Sholom Aleichem, writer (b. 1859)
1921 - Jean Aicard, French author, poet and playwright (b. 1848)
1926 – Libert H. Boeynaems, ss.cc.,
Roman Catholic prelate
1930 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer and diplomat (b. 1861)
1937 – Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
1938 – Charles Edouard Guillaume, Swiss physicist (b. 1861)
1941 – Onishiki Uichiro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1891)
1945 – Tubby Hall, American jazz musician (b. 1895)
1947 - Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian-Bengali poet and playwright (b. 1926)
1957 - Michael Fikete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician (b. 1886)
1961 – Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
1963 – Alois Hudal, Austrian Roman Catholic bishop, helped Nazi war criminals escape (b. 1885)
1972 – Dan Blocker, actor (b. 1928)
1975 – Bob Wills, American country musician (b. 1905)
1977 – Mickey Spillane, gangster (b. 1934)
1982 - Billy Steel, Scottish footballer (b. 1923)
1988 – Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929)
1999 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
2001 – R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
2002 – Valeriy Lobanovskiy, Ukrainian footballer and coach (b. 1939)
2003 – John Savage, former Premier of Nova Scotia
2005 – George Dantzig, American mathematician
2008 – Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1930)
2009 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountain climber (b. 1914)
2009 - Monica Bleibtreu, German actress (b. 1944)
2011 – Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
2011 – Bernard Greenhouse, American cellist (b. 1916)
2012 - Nguyen Van Thien, Vietnamese bishop (b. 1906)
2012 – Donald "Duck" Dunn, American musician (b. 1941)
2013 - Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (b. 1924)
2013 - Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and TV personality (b. 1927)
2014 - David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher (b. 1926)
2014 - Malik Bendjelloul, Swedish moviemaker and actor (b. 1977)
2015 - Derek Davis, Irish broadcaster (b. 1948)
2015 - Gainan Saidkhuzhin, Russian cyclist (b. 1937)
2015 - Anna Levinson, German zoologist (b. 1939)
2016 - Sammy Ellis, American baseball player (b. 1941)
2016 - David McNiven Gardner, New Zealand oceanographer (b. 1928)
2016 - Baba Hardev Singh, Indian spiritual guru (b. 1954)
2017 - John Cygan, American actor (b. 1954)
2017 - Yanko Daucik, Czech footballer (b. 1957)
2017 - Alain Delfossé, French novelist and translator (b. 1957)
2017 - Marcel Pelletier, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2018 - Edgardo Angara, Filipino politician (b. 1934)
2018 - Glenn Branca, American composer and guitarist (b. 1948)
2018 - Steve Hogan, American politician (b. 1948)
2018 - Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress (b. 1948)
2018 - Baadur Tsuladze, Georgian actor, film director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
2018 - Balkavi Bairagi, Indian poet and politician (b. 1931)
2018 - Epitácio Cafeteira, Brazilian politician (b. 1924)
2019 - Unita Blackwell, American civil rights activist (b. 1933)
2019 - Doris Day, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
2019 - Lajos Faragó, Hungarian footballer (b. 1932)
2019 - Jörg Kastendiek, German politician (b. 1964)
2019 - Hayat Saif, Bangladeshi poet and literary critic (b. 1942)
Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima (Roman Catholicism)
768 - Carloman and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of the Franks.
1000 – Leif Ericson discovers Vinland, becoming the first known European to set foot in North America.
1238 – James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founded the Kingdom of Valencia.
1264 - The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez, under Islamic control since 711.
1446 – The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1514 – Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor
1604 - Supernova 1604 is observed; It is the last supernova to-date to be observed in the Milky Way.
1635 – Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
1708 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
1740 - Dutch colonists and others begin massacring Chinese people at Batavia (now Jakarta), eventually killing 10,000 people and leading to war.
1760 - Seven Years' War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
1767 - Surveying of the Mason–Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland is completed, unofficially marking the boundary between Northern and Southern US States.
1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
1788 – The first bridge in Australia is built over the Tank Stream in Sydney.
1799 - Sinking of the ship HMS Lutine, killing 240 people.
1803 - Flooding on the Portuguese island of Madeira kills 600 people.
1804 – Hobart, Tasmania is founded.
1806 - Prussia declares war on France.
1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships; the HMS Detroit and the HMS Caledonia.
1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
1824 - Costa Rica gets rid of slavery.
1829 - A climbing expedition led by Friedrich Parrot reaches the summit of Mount Ararat, the highest mountain in Turkey.
1831 – Capo d'Istria is assassinated.
1834 - Opening of the Dublin to Kingstown railway, the first public railway in Ireland.
1854 - Start of the Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War.
1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rita Island.