the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1982 – Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
1984 – Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by automatic gunfire coming from the Libyan People's Bureau in central London.
She had been policing a small demonstration outside the embassy.
Ten other people are wounded.
The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building.
1991 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever (3,004.46).
2002 – Four Canadian Forces soldiers are killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire from two U.S. Air Force F-16s, the first deaths in a combat zone for Canada since the Korean War.
2004 – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero becomes Prime Minister of Spain.
2013 - The Parliament of New Zealand votes by a majority to legalize same-sex marriage in the country, making it the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to do so.
2013 - The funeral of Margaret Thatcher takes place in London.
See Death and funeral of Margaret Thatcher.
2013 - West Fertilizer Plant explosion: An explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas kills 15 people and injures over 160.
2014 - NASA's Kepler telescope confirms the discovery of the planet Kepler-186f in the habitable zone of another solar system.
2019 - Indonesia holds presidential and parliamentary elections.
2019 - Former President of Peru Alan García commits suicide by gunshot while police prepare to arrest him over corruption allegations.
2019 - A bus carrying German tourists crashes in Madeira, Portugal, killing 29 people.
1278 – Michael IX Palaiologus, co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor (d. 1320)
1573 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1651)
1586 – John Ford, English dramatist (d. 1639)
1598 – Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer (d. 1671)
1620 - Marguerite Bourgeoys, French saint (d. 1700)
1622 – Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (d. 1695)
1676 - King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
1699 - Robert Blair, Scottish poet (d. 1746)
1734 – Taksin, King of Siam (d. 1782)
1741 - Samuel Chase, American founding father (d. 1811)
1750 – Francois de Neufchateau, French statesman (d. 1828)
1756 – Dheeran Chinnamalai, Tamil revolutionary (d. 1805)
1766 - Colin McKinney, American surveyor, merchant and politician (d. 1861)
1770 - Mahlon Dickerson, American politician (d. 1853)
1795 - George Edmund Badger, United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1866)
1799 - Edward Williams Clay, American artist (d. 1857)
1820 – Alexander Cartwright, American, figure in the history of baseball (d. 1892)
1824 - John Basson Humffray, Welsh-Australian politician (d. 1891)
1833 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian violinist, composer and conductor (d. 1900)
1837 – J. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1913)
1842 - Maurice Rouvier, 53rd Prime Minister of France (d. 1911)
1849 - William R. Day, 36th United States Secretary of State (d. 1923)
1852 - Cap Anson, American baseball player and manager (d. 1922)
1863 - Augustus Edward Hough Love, English mathematician (d. 1940)
1865 - Ursula Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian nun and saint (d. 1939)
1866 - Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (d. 1927)
1877 - Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat (d. 1949)
1879 - Henri Tauzin, French athlete (d. 1918)
1882 – Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d. 1951)
1885 – Karen Blixen, Danish writer (d. 1962)
1888 – Jan Vos, Dutch footballer (d. 1939)
1891 - George Adamski, Polish-American ufologist and author (d. 1965)
1894 – Nikita Krushchev, Soviet political leader (d. 1971)
1895 - Robert Dean Frisbie, American author (d. 1948)
1897 – Thornton Wilder, American writer and playwright (d. 1975)
1897 - Edouard Wyss-Dunant, Swiss physician and mountaineer (d. 1983)
1899 - Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete and coach (d. 1958)
1903 – Gregor Piatigorsky, Ukrainian-born cellist (d. 1976)
1903 - Nicolas Nabokov, Russian-American composer and educator (d. 1978)
1903 - Morgan Taylor, American hurdler (d. 1975)
1909 – Alain Poher, French politician (d. 1996)
1910 – Helenio Herrera, French footballer and manager (d. 1997)
1910 - Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter and producer (d. 1999)
1911 - Hervé Bazin, French author (d. 1996)
1911 - George Seaton, American director and producer (d. 1979)
1912 – Marta Eggerth, Hungarian actress and singer (d. 2013)
1914 - Dovey Johnson Roundtree, American civil rights activist and attorney (d. 2018)
1915 - Joe Foss, American politician, 20th Governor of North Dakota (d. 2003)
1916 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 2000)
1917 – Bill Clements, American politician, Governor of Texas (d. 2011)
1918 - William Holden, American actor (d. 1981)
1918 - Carol Rama, Italian painter (d. 2015)
1919 - Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2012)
1920 - Edmonde Charles-Roux, French writer (d. 2016)
1923 – Gianni Raimondi, Italian tenor (d. 2008)
1923 - Lindsay Anderson, British director
1923 - Neville McNamara, Royal Australian Air Force commander (d. 2014)
1924 - Donald Richie, American-Japanese author and critic (d. 2013)
1925 - René Moawad, 13th President of Lebanon (d. 1989)
1926 - Joan Lorring, American actress and singer (d. 2014)
1927 - Margot Honecker, German politician (d. 2016)
1928 – Cynthia Ozick, American writer
1929 – James Last, German musician (d. 2015)
1931 - John Barrett, English tennis player
1931 - Malcolm Browne, American journalist and photographer (d. 2012)
1931 - Howard Honig, American actor
1933 – Joachim Kroll, German serial killer (d. 1991)
1934 – Don Kirshner, American composer (d. 2011)
1934 - Peter Morris, Australian-English surgeon
1935 – Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek movie director and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1940 – Billy Fury, British singer (d. 1983)
1940 - Chuck Menville, American animator and screenwriter (d. 1992)
1942 – Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician
1943 - Roy Estrada, American musician
1946 - Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist (d. 1995)
1947 - Linda Martin, Irish singer-songwriter
1948 - Jan Hammer, Czech composer, pianist and keyboardist
1948 - Pekka Vasala, Finnish middle-distance runner
1948 - John N. Gray, English philosopher
1951 – Horst Hrubesch, German footballer
1951 – Olivia Hussey, Argentine-British actress
1954 – Riccardo Patrese, Italian racing driver
1954 – Lester Square, Canadian musician
1955 - Mike Stroud, English physician and explorer
1957 – Nick Hornby, British writer
1959 – Sean Bean, British actor
1959 - Li Meisu, Chinese shot putter
1959 - Peter Doig, Scottish painter
1960 - Vladimir Polyakov, Russian pole vaulter
1961 - Bella Freud, English fashion designer
1963 – Joel Murray, American actor
1963 - Penny Villagos, Canadian swimmer
1963 - Vicky Villagos, Canadian swimmer
1964 – Maynard James Keenan, American singer, musician and actor
1964 - Ken Daneyko, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 - Lela Rochon, American actress
1966 - Vikram, Indian actor, singer and producer
1967 – Henry Ian Cusick, Peruvian-born actor
1967 - Birgitta Jonsdottir, Icelandic politician
1970 - Redman, American rapper, producer and actor
1972 – Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lankan cricketer
1972 – Claire Sweeney, British actress and television personality
1972 – Jennifer Garner, American actress
1974 – Victoria Beckham, English singer
1974 - Mikael Akerfeldt, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1975 – Stefano Fiore, Italian footballer
1977 – Chad Hedrick, American speed skater
1977 - Frederik Magle, Danish composer and pianist
1978 - David Murdoch, Scottish curler
1978 – Jason White, Scottish rugby player
1978 - Jordan Hill, American singer
1979 - Siddharth, Indian actor, singer and producer
1980 – Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player
1981 - Michael Mifsud, Maltese footballer
1981 - Jenny Meadows, English middle-distance runner
1981 - Zhang Yaokun, Chinese footballer
1981 - Myuran Sukumaran, Australian drug trafficker (d. 2015)
1983 – Andrea Marcato, Italian rugby player
1983 – Roberto Jiménez, Peruvian footballer
1984 - Rosanna Davison, Irish model and actress
1985 – Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
1985 - Rooney Mara, American actress
1985 - Luke Mitchell, Australian actor
1985 - Takuya Honda, Japanese footballer
1986 – Romain Grosjean, Swiss-French racing driver
1987 - Eelco Sintnicolaas, Dutch decathlete
1987 - Jacqueline McInnes Wood, Canadian actress and singer
1988 - Takahiro Morita, Japanese singer
1990 - Gia Mantegna, American actress
1991 - Tessa James, Australian actress
1992 - Shkodran Mustafi, German footballer
1996 – Dee Dee Davis, American actress
326 – Alexander of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria
485 - Proclus, Greek philosopher (b. 412)
1080 – King Harald III of Denmark (b. 1041)
1427 – John IV, Duke of Brabant (b. 1403)
1539 - George, Duke of Saxony (b. 1471)
1574 - Joachim Camerarius, German scholar (b. 1500)
1669 - Antonio Bertali, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1605)
1680 - Kateri Jekakwitha, American saint (b. 1656)
1711 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1678)
1742 – Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (b. 1664)
1790 – Benjamin Franklin, American politician, scientist and writer (b. 1706)
1799 - Richard Jupp, English architect (b. 1728)
1843 – Samuel Morey, American inventor (b. 1762)
1849 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman and priest (b. 1777)
1873 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (b. 1783)
1882 - George Jennings, English engineer and plumber (b. 1810)
1888 - E. G. Squier, American archaeologist and journalist (b. 1821)
1892 – Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1822)
1902 – Francis of Spain, King Consort of Spain (b. 1822)
1921 - Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, author and philosopher (b. 1860)
1930 - Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (b. 1863)
1933 - Kote Marjanishvili, Georgian director and playwright (b. 1872)
1936 – Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1873)
1937 - Yi Sang, Korean poet (b. 1910)
1941 - Al Bowlly, Mozambican-English singer-songwriter and bandleader (b. 1899)
1942 – Jean Perrin, French physicist (b. 1870)
1960 – Eddie Cochran, American musician (b. 1938)
1975 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and President of India (b. 1888)
1976 – Henrik Dam, Danish chemist, won the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
1977 - William Conway, Irish cardinal (b. 1913)
1979 - Yukio Tsuda, Japanese footballer (b. 1917)
1983 - Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, bass player and producer (b. 1939)
1984 - Claude Provost, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1933)
1984 – Yvonne Fletcher, British police officer (b. 1958)
1985 - Evadne Price, Australian-British writer, actress and astrologer (b. 1888)
1990 – Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights activist (b. 1926)
1990 – Angelo Schiavio, Italian footballer (b. 1905)
1993 – Turgut Ozal, 8th President of Turkey (b. 1927)
1994 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist (b. 1913)
1996 – Piet Hein, Danish scientist and poet (b. 1905)
1997 – Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (b. 1918)
1998 – Linda McCartney, American designer and photographer (b. 1941)
2003 – Robert Atkins, American dietician (b. 1930)
2003 – John Paul Getty, Jr., American-born millionnaire (b. 1932)
2003 - Koji Kondo, Japanese footballer (b. 1972)
2004 – Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, Hamas leader (b. 1947)
2005 – Konrad Spindler, German scientist (b. 1939)
2007 – Kitty Carlisle, American singer and actress (b. 1910)
2008 – Aimé Césaire, French-Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913)
2008 – Danny Federici, American musician (b. 1950)
2011 – Bhawani Singh, Indian nobleman (b. 1931)
2014 - Karpal Singh, Malaysian politician (b. 1940)
2014 - Cheo Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter (b. 1935)
2014 - Henry Maksoud, Brazilian businessman (b. 1929)
2014 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist, won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1927)
2015 - Francis George, American cardinal (b. 1937)
2015 - Robert P. Griffin, American politician, United States Senator (b. 1923)
2015 - Mariano Gago, Portuguese engineer and politician (b. 1948)
2015 - Viktor Korshunov, Russian actor (b. 1929)
2015 - Jeremiah J. Rodell, American brigadier general and priest (b. 1921)
2016 - Cyril Leonoff, Canadian civil engineer and historian (b. 1925)
2016 - Doris Roberts, American actress (b. 1925)
2017 - Dawson Mathis, American politician (b. 1940)
2017 - John T. Noonan Jr., American judge (b. 1926)
2017 - Rosey, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1970)
2018 - Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States (b. 1925)
2018 - Big Tom, Irish singer (b. 1936)
2018 - Carl Kasell, American radio journalist and quiz show judge (b. 1934)
2018 - Vel Phillips, American attorney and politician (b. 1923)
2018 - T. V. R. Shenoy, Indian journalist and columnist (b. 1941)
2018 - Philibert Randriambololona, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1927)
2019 - Alan García, 61st and 64th President of Peru (b. 1949)
2019 - Kazuo Koike, Japanese manga artist (b. 1936)
2019 - Ya'akov Nehoshtan, Israeli politician and diplomat (b. 1925)
2019 - Pieter Verhoeff, Dutch film director (b. 1938)
National Day of Syria
Flag Day (American Samoa)
Women's Day (Gabon)
World Hemophilia Day
69 - Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Roman Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
70 - Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of Emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions.
193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (Balkan peninsula).
966 - Mieszko I of Poland converts to Christianity.
1028 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor is elected King of Germany.
1205 - Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
1434 - The foundation stone is laid for St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Nantes, France.
1471 – Yorkists under Edward IV defeat Lancastrians under Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet.
The Earl of Warwick is killed and Edward IV becomes King.
1775 - The first abolition society in North America is founded.
1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
1849 – Hungary declares independence, with Lajos Kossuth as regent.
1860 - The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
1862 – Australian bushranger Ben Hall takes part in his first robbery.
1865 – US President Abraham Lincoln is shot at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
Lincoln dies the next day, of his injuries.
1865 – United States Secretary of State William H. Seward is attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
1890 - The Pan-American Union is founded by the first International Conference of American States in Washington, DC.
1894 - The first-ever commercial movie house opens in New York City.
1903 – Turkey is hit by an earthquake, killing 1,700 people.
1909 – A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia
1912 – The RMS Titanic hits an iceberg, and sinks on April 15th in the early morning.
1927 – The first Volvo makes its debut in Gothenburg in Sweden.
1928 - The Bremen, a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, East of Canada, the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
1931 - The first edition of the Highway Code is published in the United Kingdom.
1931 – Spanish Cortes depose King Alfonso XIII, and proclaim the 2nd Republic.
1935 – In the Dust Bowl, the Black Sunday storm strikes parts of the Central United States.
Worst affected is Oklahoma, where settlers are forced to leave, as crops are destroyed.
1939 - The Grapes of Wrath, a novel by John Steinbeck, is published for the first time.
1942 - Malta receives the George Cross for bravery during World War II.
1944 – Carrying explosives, British freight ship Port Stikine explodes in Bombay harbour, killing over 1,000 people and injuring around 3,000.
1945 – World War II: Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from Fascist rule.
1956 - Videotape is first demonstrated in Chicago.
1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit around the Earth, after 162 days.
This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
1967 – Gnassingbe Eyadema installs himself as President of Togo, a post he holds until his death in February 2005.
1969 - At the Academy Awards, there is a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand for Best Actress.
1975 – In a referendum, voters in Sikkim vote in favour of Union with India.
1978 – Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to  change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
1980 - The movie version of the Günter Grass novel The Tin Drum wins the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
1981 - STS-1 mission, on Space Shuttle Columbia, is completed.
1985 - Bernhard Langer becomes the first German golfer to win the US Masters at Augusta, Georgia, United States.
1986 – 1 kilogram hailstones fall in the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92 people.
They are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
1999 – Sydney, Australia is hit by a severe hailstorm.
2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returns to office, three days after being ousted and arrested by the military in a US-backed coup.
2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed, with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
2003 – US troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of a Palestinian group that killed a US citizen on the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
2008 – Silvio Berlusconi is elected to replace Romano Prodi as Prime Minister of Italy.
2010 – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes Yushu district in China's Qinghai province, killing almost 2,700 people.
2010 – The eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland begins to shut down air travel in Europe.
2014 - Bomb blasts in Abuja, Nigeria, kill dozens of people.
2014 - Boko Haram militants abduct 276 schoolgirls from Chibok in northeastern Nigeria.
International campaigns are soon launched to find them, including #BringBackOurGirls.
2015 - Around 400 people are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya.
2016 - The first quake (magnitude 6.5) of Kumamoto earthquakes happens (quakes happen to April 16 when that of magnitude 7.0 is observed).
2018 - The United States, United Kingdom and France carry out air strikes in Syria in response to a suspected chemical attack.
2019 - Tiger Woods wins The Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, United States, winning a major golf competition for the first time in almost 11 years.
1126 - Averroes, Arab Spanish polymath (d. 1198)
1336 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (d. 1374)
1527 - Abraham Ortelius, Flemish mapmaker (d. 1598).
1572 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician (d. 1632)
1578 – King Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)
1629 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physicist (d. 1695)
1668 - Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general and politician (d. 1741)
1678 - Abraham Darby, English engineer (d. 1717)
1738 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1809)
1741 – Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
1765 – Landgravine Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Bavaria (d. 1796)
1773 - Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French statesman (d. 1854)
1788 - David G. Burnet, President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)
1814 - Dimitri Kipiani, Georgian politician and writer (d. 1887)
1818 - Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Queen of Hanover (d. 1907)
1852 - Meijer de Haan, Dutch painter (d. 1895)
1857 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (d. 1944)
1862 – Pyotr Stolypin, Russian statesman (d. 1911)
1866 – Anne Sullivan, American teacher of Helen Keller (d. 1936)
1868 – Peter Behrens, German architect (d. 1940)
1870 - Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (d. 1929)
1870 - Victor Boris-Musatov, Russian painter (d. 1905)
1872 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-Islamic scholar and translator (d. 1953)
1879 - James Branch Cabell, American writer (d. 1958)
1881 - Husain Salaahudin, Maldivian poet and scholar (d. 1948)
1882 – Moritz Schlick, German philosopher (d. 1936)
1889 – Arnold Joseph Toynbee, English historian (d. 1975)
1889 – Efim Bogolyubov, Ukrainian chess player (d. 1952)
1891 – B. R. Ambedkar, Indian social activist (d. 1956)
1892 - Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1963)
1892 – Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)
1902 - Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and referee (d. 1974)
1903 - Henry Corbin, French philosopher and educator (d. 1978)
1904 – John Gielgud, British actor (d. 2000)
1905 - Jean Pierre-Bloch, French activist, politician and writer (d. 1999)
1905 - Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (d. 1999)
1907 – François Duvalier (Papa Doc), President of Haiti (d. 1971)
1912 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer (d. 1994)
1918 - Mary Healy, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
1919 - Shamshan Begum, Indian singer (d. 2013)
1920 - Ivor Guest, English ballet historian and lawyer
1920 - Schubert Gambetta, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1991)
1921 – Thomas Schelling, American economist (d. 2016)
1922 - Audrey Long, American actress (d. 2014)
1923 - Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentine golfer (d. 2017)
1924 - Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, British philosopher (d. 2019)
1925 – Abel Muzorewa, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (d. 2010)
1925 - Gene Ammons, American saxophonist (d. 1974)
1925 - Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)
1926 – Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 2008)
1926 - Gloria Jean, American actress
1927 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist (d. 2007)
1929 – Chadli Bendjedid, former President of Algeria (d. 2012)
1929 - Gerry Anderson, British writer, director and producer (d. 2012)
1931 - Dimitar Dobrev, Bulgarian wrestler (d. 2019)
1932 – Atef Ebeid, former Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2014)
1932 – Loretta Lynn, American country musician and singer
1933 - Boris Strugatsky, Russian writer (d. 2012)
1933 - Paddy Hopkirk, Northern Irish racing driver
1934 - Fredric Jameson, American philosopher and theorist
1935 - Susan Cunliffe-Lister, British paralympian and disabled rights campaigner
1935 – Erich von Daniken, Swiss writer
1936 - Ivan Dias, Indian cardinal (d. 2017)
1936 - Bobby Nichols, American golfer
1936 - Arlene Martel, American actress (d. 2014)
1936 - Kenneth Mars, American actor (d. 2011)
1937 - Sepp Mayerl, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2012)
1940 – Julie Christie, British actress
1941 - Pete Rose, American baseball player and manager
1942 – Valentin Lebedev, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut
1942 - Valeriy Brumel, Soviet-Russian Olympic athlete (d. 2003)
1943 – Nikolay Petrov, Russian pianist (d. 2011)
1944 – John Sergeant, English journalist
1945 – Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist (Deep Purple)
1945 - Uwe Beyer, German hammer thrower
1945 - Roger Frappier, Canadian actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1945 – Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, Samoan Prime Minister
1947 - Dominique Baudis, French journalist and politician (d. 2014)
1948 - Berry Berenson, American photographer, actress and model (d. 2001)
1949 – Chris Langham, British actor
1949 – John Shea, American actor
1949 - Eric Cunningham, Canadian politician (d. 2015)
1950 - Francis Collins, American physician and geneticist
1951 – Julian Lloyd Webber, British cellist
1954 - Katsuhiro Otomo, Japanese artist, screenwriter and director
1954 - Bruce Sterling, American science fiction author
1955 - Aleksey Lebed, Russian military officer and politician (d. 2019)
1956 - Barbara Bonney, American soprano
1957 - Richard Jeni, American comedian and actor (d. 2007)
1957 - Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, composer and conductor
1958 – Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor and director
1959 - Steve Byrnes, American sports announcer (d. 2015)
1960 – Brad Garrett, American actor
1961 – Robert Carlyle, Scottish actor
1964 – Gina McKee, English actress
1966 - Lloyd Owen, English actor
1967 - Nicola Berti, Italian footballer
1967 - Francis Tsai, American comic book, movie and video game concept artist (d. 2015)
1967 - Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1999)
1967 - Julie Zemio, French-Australian actress and singer
1968 - Anthony Michael Hall, American actor
1971 - Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer (d. 2012)
1972 - Dean Potter, American rock climber and BASE jumper (d. 2015)
1973 - David Miller, American tenor (Il Divo)
1973 – Roberto Ayala, Argentine footballer
1973 – Adrien Brody, American actor
1975 - Anderson Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1975 - Amy Birnbaum, American voice actress
1976 - Georgina Chapman, English model, actress and fashion designer
1976 - Francoise Mbango Etone, Cameroonian athlete
1976 - Kyle Farnsworth, American baseball player
1977 – Cristiano Zanetti, Italian footballer
1977 – Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
1980 - Win Butler, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1980 - Steven Holcomb, American bobsledder (d. 2017)
1981 - Amy Leach, English director
1982 - Ugur Boral, Turkish footballer
1983 – James McFadden, Scottish footballer
1983 – Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Georgian basketball player
1984 - Harumafuji Kohei, Mongolian sumo wrestler
1986 – Matt Derbyshire, English footballer
1986 – Anne Watanabe, Japanese model
1987 – Erwin Hoffer, Austrian footballer
1987 - Wilson Kiprop, Kenyan long-distance runner
1989 - Aleksei Alekseyev, Russian footballer
1989 - Dafina Zeqiri, Albanian-Kosovan-Swedish singer and dancer
1993 - Vivien Cardone, American actress
1993 - Graham Phillips, American actor and singer
1994 - Skyler Samuels, American actress
1996 – Abigail Breslin, American actress
1999 - Anita Simoncini, Sammarinese singer
1132 - Mstislav I of Kiev (b. 1076)
1471 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker (b. 1428)
1574 - Louis of Nassau (b. 1538)
1578 - James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots
1721 - Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652)
1758 – Clara, famous rhinoceros
1759 – George Frideric Handel, German composer (b. 1685)
1785 - William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
1792 - Maximilian Hell, Hungarian astronomer (b. 1720)
1816 - Bussa, African-born Barbadian slave and national hero of Barbados
1843 – Joseph Lanner, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1801)
1895 - James Dwight Dana, American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist (b. 1813)
1910 - Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)
1912 – Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835)
1914 – Hubert Bland, co-founder of Fabian Society (b. 1855)
1917 – L. L. Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto (b. 1859)
1925 – John Singer Sargent, English artist (b. 1856)
1930 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (b. 1893)
1935 – Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
1943 – Yakov Dzhugashvili, son of Joseph Stalin (b. 1907)
1950 – Ramana Maharshi, Indian guru (b. 1879)
1951 - Al Christie, Canadian-American director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1881)
1962 - Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer, scholar and statesman (b. 1860)
1964 - Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician (b. 1876)
1964 – Rachel Carson, American writer (b. 1907)
1965 - Richard Hickock, American murderer (b. 1931)
1965 - Perry Edward Smith, American murderer (b. 1928)
1968 – Al Benton, Major League Baseball player (b. 1911)
1975 – Fredric March, actor (b. 1897)
1983 - Pete Farndon, English musician (b. 1952)
1986 – Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b. 1908)
1989 – Pete Farndon, British musician (The Pretenders)
1995 – Burl Ives, American folk singer and actor (b. 1909)
1999 – Anthony Newley, actor, singer (b. 1931)
1999 – Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
1999 – Bill Wendell, American broadcaster (b. 1931)
2000 – Phil Katz, American computer programmer (b. 1962)
2000 - Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)
2001 – Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927)
2001 - Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (b. 1939)
2007 – Ladislav Adamec, Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1926)
2009 – Maurice Druon, French writer, dramatist and politician (b. 1918)
2010 - Israr Ahmed, Pakistani theologian and scholar (b. 1932)
2010 – Peter Steele, American musician (b. 1962)
2011 – Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian (b. 1896)
2011 – William Lipscomb, American chemist (b. 1919)
2012 – Emile Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919)
2012 – Piermario Morosini, Italian footballer (b. 1986)
2012 - Jonathan Frid, Canadian actor (b. 1924)
2013 - Colin Davis, British conductor (b. 1927)
2013 - Armando Villanueva, Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1915)
2014 - Brian Harradine, Australian politician (b. 1935)
2014 - Armando Peraza, Cuban-American Latin jazz percussionist (b. 1924)
2014 - Mick Staton, American politician (b. 1940)
2014 - Albert Manent, Spanish writer (b. 1930)
2014 - Manuel Ortega, Spanish painter (b. 1921)
2015 - Ameril Umbra Kato, Filipino warlord (b. 1946)
2015 - Percy Sledge, American singer (b. 1941)
2015 - Norman H. Bangerter, American politician, 13th Governor of Utah (b. 1933)
2015 - Homaro Cantu, American chef (b. 1976)
2015 - Klaus Bednarz, German journalist and writer (b. 1942)
2015 - Meir Rosenne, Israeli lawyer and diplomat (b. 1931)
2015 - Roberto Tucci, Italian cardinal (b. 1921)
2016 - Nguyen Anh 9, Vietnamese songwriter and pianist (b. 1940)
2016 - Ahmed Brahim, Tunisian politician (b. 1946)
2016 - Malick Sidibé, Malian photographer (b. 1935)
2016 - Liang Sili, Chinese missile control scientist and academic (b. 1924)
2016 - David J. C. MacKay, British author, physicist and professor (b. 1967)
2017 - Henry Hillman, American venture capitalist and philanthropist (b. 1918)
2017 - Robert Taylor, American computer scientist and internet pioneer (b. 1932)
2018 - Isabella Biagini, Italian actress (b. 1943)
2018 - Hal Greer, American basketball player (b. 1936)
2018 - Jean-Claude Malgoire, French conductor (b. 1940)
2018 - Jon Michelet, Norwegian author (b. 1944)
2018 - Gerald Nachman, American critic and author (b. 1938)
2018 - Robert Holmes, American football player (b. 1945)
2019 - Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (b. 1935)
2019 - Giuseppe Ciarrapico, Italian politician (b. 1934)
2019 - Colin Collindridge, English footballer (b. 1929)
2019 - Abdallah Lamrani, Moroccan footballer (b. 1946)
2019 - Gene Wolfe, American writer (b. 1931)
New Year Festivals in many South and Southeast Asian cultures
Georgian language Day
Youth Day (Angola)
Ambedkar Jayanti (India), celebrating the birthday of social activist B. R. Ambedkar
Pan-American Day
Black Day (South Korea)
Dhivehi language Day (Maldives)
January 3 – Apple Computer is incorporated
February 18 – 2000 AD, a British comic, is first published
March 10 – The rings of Uranus are discovered
April 22 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic
May 25 – George Lucas' Star Wars opens in movie theaters
June – Hot Press, an Irish music magazine debuts
June 27 – Djibouti receives its independence from France
July 13 – The New York City blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours
August 7 – Mount Usu volcano in Japan erupts
September 11 – Atari, Inc. releases its Video Computer System in North America
October 18 – Reggie Jackson hits 3 home runs to lead the New York Yankees to a World Series victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers
November – Blue Öyster Cult release their album Spectres
November 13 – Shirley Jones and Marty Ingels marry
December 20 – Djibouti and Vietnam join the United Nations
January 8 – Amber Benson, American actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
January 13 – Orlando Bloom, English actor (The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, Troy)
January 28 – Daunte Culpepper, NFL quarterback
February 2 – Shakira, Colombian musician
February 3 – Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican singer
February 14 – Cadel Evans, first Australian Tour de France winner
March 2 – Chris Martin, English singer (Coldplay)
March 8 – James Van Der Beek, American actor
April 9 – Gerard Way, American singer (My Chemical Romance)
April 14 – Sarah Michelle Gellar American actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
April 23 – John Cena, American professional wrestler, hip hop musician and actor
May 8 – Bad News Brown, Canadian musician (d. 2011)
May 19 – Natalia Oreiro, Uruguayan singer
May 22 – djBJoRN, Canadian/Swedish DJ and producer
June 10 – Schapelle Corby, Australian criminal
July 1 – Naofumi Yamamoto,  Japanese professional wrestler
July 8 – Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
July 14 – Princess Victoria of Sweden, heiress apparent of Sweden
July 17 – M.I.A., English musician
August 3 – Oscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist
August 4 – Yūko Kohara, Japanese manga artist
August 17 – William Gallas, French footballer
August 17 – Thierry Henry, French footballer
August 24 – Robert Enke, German footballer
August 31 – Jeff Hardy, American wrestler
September 15 – Angela Aki, Japanese singer
September 20 – Namie Amuro, Japanese singer
September 26 – Hugo de Jonge, Dutch politician
November 10 – Brittany Murphy, American actress
November 16 – Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater
December 1 – Melinda Doolittle, American singer
December 3 – Adam Małysz, Polish ski jumper
December 7 – Dominic Howard, English musician (Muse)
January 14 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
February 9 – Queen Alia, Queen of Jordan (b. 1948)
March 4 – Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician (b. 1887)
April 5 – Carlos Prío Socarrás, President of Cuba (suicide) (b. 1903)
May 5 – Ludwig Erhard, German politician (b. 1897)
June 16 – Wernher von Braun, German-born American rocket scientist (b. 1912)
July 2 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (b. 1899)
August 16 – Elvis Presley, American singer (b. 1935)
August 19 – Groucho Marx, American actor (b. 1890)
September 16- Marc Bolan, British pop singer (b. 1947)
September 18 – Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
October 14 – Bing Crosby, American actor and singer (b. 1903)
October 18 – Andreas Baader, German terrorist (b. 1943)
November 14 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religion leader (b. 1896)
December 5 - Katherine Milhous, American illustrator and children's book author (b. 1894)
December 10 – Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach (b. 1901)
December 25 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor (b. 1889)
Ali Shariati, Iranian writer and philosopher (b. 1933)
Nobel Prize in Physics shared by Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
Nobel Prize in Chemistry won by Ilya Prigogine, Belgian physical chemist
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shared by Roger Guillemin, Andrew Schally, and Rosalyn Yalow for their work on neurohormones
Nobel Prize in Literature won by Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet
Nobel Peace Prize won by Amnesty International, a group focused on human rights
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – Bertil Ohlin, a Swedish economist and politician, and James Meade, a British economist
Annie Hall, winner of 4 Academy Awards
Candleshoe, starring David Niven, Helen Hayes, and Jodie Foster
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven Spielberg
The Deep, directed by Peter Yates
The Goodbye Girl, winning Academy Award for Best Actor for Richard Dreyfuss
Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney
The Spy Who Loved Me, the tenth James Bond movie
"Alison" – Elvis Costello
"American Girl" – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Amoureuse de la vie" – Dalida
"Angel In Your Arms" – Hot
"Another Star" – Stevie Wonder
"April Sun In Cuba" – Dragon
"As" – Stevie Wonder
"Baby What A Big Surprise" – Chicago
"Barracuda" – Heart
"Black Betty" – Ram Jam
"Blue Bayou" – Linda Ronstadt
"Boogie Nights" – Heatwave
"California" – Manfred Mann's Earth Band
"Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft" – The Carpenters
"Captain Sky" – Dalida
"Carry On Wayward Son" – Kansas
"Cold As Ice" – Foreigner
"Come Sail Away" – Styx
"Complete Control" – The Clash
"Coyote" – Joni Mitchell
"Dancing In The Moonlight(It's Caught Me In The Spotlight)" – Thin Lizzy
"Dancing The Night Away" – The Motors
"Daytime Friends" – Kenny Rogers
"Disco Inferno" – The Trammps
"Do Anything You Wanna Do" – Eddie and the Hotrods
"Don't Believe A Word" – Thin Lizzy
"Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" – Crystal Gayle
"Don't Stop" – Fleetwood Mac
"Down To Zero" – Joan Armatrading
"Dr Love" – Tina Charles
"Dreamboat Annie" – Heart
"Fanfare For The Common Man" – Emerson Lake and Palmer
"Father Christmas" – The Kinks
"Feels Like The First Time" – Foreigner
"Femme est la Nuit" – Dalida
"Fly Like An Eagle" – Steve Miller Band
"(Get A)Grip(On Yourself)" – The Stranglers
"Give A Little Bit" – Supertramp
"Go Your Own Way" – Fleetwood Mac
"God Save The Queen" – The Sex Pistols
"Heard It In A Love Song" – Marshall Tucker
"Heartsong" – Gordon Giltrap
"Hello Stranger" – Yvonne Elliman
"Help Is On It's Way" – Little River Band
"Here Come Those Tears Again" – Jackson Browne
"Heroes" – David Bowie
"Holidays In The Sun" – The Sex Pistols
"I Need A Man" – Grace Jones
"I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" – Warren Zevon
"I'm In You" – Peter Frampton
"In The Flesh" – Blondie
"Jamming/Punky Reggae Party" – Bob Marley and the Wailers
"Jet Airliner" – Steve Miller Band
"Jungle Love" – Steve Miller Band
"Killing of Georgie, Pt.
1-2" – Rod Stewart
"Let There Be Rock" – AC/DC
"Lido Shuffle" – Boz Scaggs
"Life In The Fast Lane" – The Eagles
"Like A Huricane" – Neil Young
"Livin' Thing" – Electric Light Orchestra
"Living Next Door To Alice" – Smokie
"Lonely Boy" – Andrew Gold
"Love Is The Answer" – Utopia
"Ma Baker" – Boney M
"Magazine Madonna – Sherbet
"Mannequin" – Wire
"Margaritaville" – Jimmy Buffett
"Maybe I'm Amazed" (live) – Paul McCartney & Wings
"Memory Motel" – The Rolling Stones
"More Than A Feeling" – Boston
"Motorhead" – Motorhead
"No More Heroes" – The Stranglers
"Nobody Does It Better" – Carly Simon
"Peaches/Go Buddy Go" – The Stranglers
"Pearl's A Singer" – Elkie Brooks
"Portsmouth" – Mike Oldfield
"The Pretender" – Jackson Browne
"Pretty Vacant" – The Sex Pistols
"Really Free" – John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett
"Remember... C'était loin" – Dalida & Richard Chanfray as St-Germain
"Rip To Her Shreds" – Blondie
"Rockaria" – Electric Light Orchestra
"Rockin' All Over The World" – Status Quo
"Rose Of Cimarron(EP)" – Poco
"Salma Ya Salama" – Dalida
"Save It For A Rainy Day" – Stephen Bishop
"Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll" – Ian Dury
"She's Not There" – Santana
"Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" – The Ramones
"Smoke On The Water" – Deep Purple
"Solsbury Hill" – Peter Gabriel
"Something Better Change/Straighten Out" – The Stranglers
"Sometimes When We Touch" - Dan Hill
"Sound And Vision" – David Bowie
"Things We Do For Love" – 10cc
"This Is Tomorrow" – Bryan Ferry
"Ti Amo (Je t'aime)" – Dalida
"Tie Your Mother Down" – Queen
"2-4-6-8 Motorway" – Tom Robinson Band
"Tumbling Dice" – Linda Ronstadt
"Walk This Way" – Aerosmith
"Watching The Detectives" – Elvis Costello
"We Are The Champions" – Queen
"We Will Rock You" – Queen
"We Just Disagree" – Dave Mason
"White Riot" – The Clash
"Whole Wide World" – Wreckless Eric
"Wild Side Of Life" – Status Quo
"Wonderous Stories" – Yes
"Year Of The Cat" – Al Stewart
"You And Me" – Alice Cooper
"You Yesyesyes" – The Residents
"You're In My Heart" – Rod Stewart
"You're Moving Out Today" – Carole Bayer Sager
"(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher" – Rita Coolidge
"Your Song" – Billy Paul
The Amityville Horror – Jay Anson
Beggarman, Thief – Irwin Shaw
Bloodline – Sidney Sheldon
A Bonus – Elizabeth Smart
The Chancellor Manuscript – Robert Ludlum
Child of the Morning – Pauline Gedge
The Complete Book of Running – Jim Fixx
Daniel Martin – John Fowles
Dreams Die First – Harold Robbins
The Honourable Schoolboy – John le Carré
How to Save Your Own Life – Erica Jong
Illusions – Richard Bach
James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me – Christopher Wood
Oliver's Story – Erich Segal
The Plague Dogs – Richard Adams
Rage – Richard Bachman
Refiner's Fire – Mark Helprin
A Scanner Darkly – Philip K. Dick
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
The Shining – Stephen King
The Silmarillion – J. R. R. Tolkien
The Slave Girl – Buchi Emecheta
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
Terms of Endearment – Larry McMurtry
The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough
The True American, A Folk Fable – Melvin Van Peebles
The Wars – Timothy Findley
Rocky Marciano.
Biography of A First Son – Everett M. Skehan
1401 – Turko-Mongol Emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
1603 – King James VI of Scotland becomes James VI and I as the crowns of the Kingdom of Scotland, the Kingdom of England, and the Kingdom of Ireland are joined following the death of Elizabeth I.
1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun.
1663 – The Province of Carolina is granted  by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England, Ireland and Scotland to the throne.
1720 – Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (Frederick I of Sweden) is elected King of Sweden.
1765 – American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the 13 colonies on the east coast of North America to house British troops.
1829 – Roman Catholics are allowed to serve in the British Parliament.
1837 – African Canadian men are given the right to vote.
1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing over 300 people.
1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, responsible for causing tuberculosis.
1896 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks new ground for new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1902 – The Flag of New Zealand is adopted.
1922 – Irish War of Independence: In Belfast, Northern Irish policemen break into the home of a Catholic family, shooting all eight males inside.
1923 – Greece becomes a Republic.
1923 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake in China kills 5,000 people.
1927 – Nanjing Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of foreign citizens within the city.
1934 – The United States Congress allows the Philippines to become a self-governing Commonwealth.
1944 – World War II: German troops kill 335 Italian citizens in Rome.
1958 – Elvis Presley is drafted into the US Army.
1962 – Pak Chong Hui is chosen by the military as President of South Korea.
1965 – Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery, in Alabama, ends.
1972 – Northern Ireland is placed under direct rule from London.
1973 – Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles, California.
1976 – Jorge Rafael Videla takes power in Argentina, starting a 7-year military dictatorship in which many people disappear and are tortured and killed.
1980 – El Salvadorean archbishop Oscar Romero is killed.
1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground on Prince William Sound in Alaska, causing a massive oil spill.
Until the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, it was the worst oil spill in US history.
1993 – The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is discovered.
1998 – A cyclone in Bangladesh kills over 250 people.
1998 – A tornado in Dantan, India, kills 250 people and injures 300.
1998 – Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson (aged 11) and Andrew Golden (aged 13), fire on teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas, killing 5 people and injuring 10.
1999 – NATO bomb-attacks on cities in Serbia.
1999 – A fire that started in a lorry spreads in the Mont Blanc tunnel, killing 39 people.
2002 - Academy Awards: The Best Actor and Best Actress awards are given to Denzel Washington and Halle Berry, making it the first time that both these awards were won by African American actors at the same time.
2004 – Cyclone Catarina forms off Brazil in the South Atlantic.
2005 – Anti-government protests in Kyrgyzstan lead to the resignation of the President, Askar Akayev.
2007 - The Montenegro national football team plays its first match, a 2–1 win over the Hungary national football team.
2008 – Bhutan's first-ever general election takes place.
2010 – South Talpatty Island, disputed between India and Bangladesh, disappears due to rising sea levels.
2011 – 2011 Burma earthquake: 68 people are killed as a magnitude 7 earthquake strikes Burma.
2014 – Leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States agree to suspend Russia from the G8, and announce that the planned G8 summit to be held in Sochi is no longer taking place.
This is after events in Crimea.
2015 – Germanwings Flight 9525, travelling from Barcelona, Spain to Düsseldorf, Germany, crashes in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
The co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, is later found to have crashed the plane deliberately.
2016 – Results show that voters in New Zealand, by a majority, have voted to keep the country's existing flag in a referendum.
2016 – Former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is found guilty of war crimes by the International Criminal Court in The Hague; he is sentenced to 40 years in jail.
1494 – Georg Agricola, German scientist (d. 1555)
1657 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)
1693 – John Harrison, English inventor and clockmaker (d. 1776)
1725 – Samuel Ashe, 9th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)
1725 – Thomas Cushing, American member of the Continental Congress (d. 1788)
1755 – Rufus King, American politician (d. 1827)
1756 – Francesca Lebrun, German soprano and composer (d. 1791)
1760 – Jesse Franklin, 20th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1823)
1762 – Marcos Portugal, Portuguese composer (d. 1830)
1775 – Muthuswami Dikshitar, South Indian poet and composer (d. 1835)
1782 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
1782 – William Owsley, 16th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1862)
1808 – Maria Malibran, Spanish-French singer (d. 1836)
1809 – Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (d. 1837)
1809 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (d. 1882)
1820 – A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
1828 – Horace Gray, American jurist (d. 1902)
1829 – Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862)
1834 – William Morris, English writer and designer (d. 1896)
1843 – Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (d. 1871)
1848 – Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1906)
1851 – Jim Hogg, 21st Governor of Texas (d. 1906)
1855 – Andrew W. Mellon, 49th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1937)
1863 – William Sherman Jennings, 18th Governor of Florida (d. 1920)
1869 – Emile Fabre, French playwright (d. 1955)
1874 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926)
1874 – Luigi Einaudi, 2nd President of Italy (d. 1961)
1878 – Alexey Novikov-Priboy, Russian writer (d. 1944)
1879 – Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish poet, satirist and performer (d. 1953)
1884 – Peter Debye, Dutch chemist (d. 1966)
1884 – Eugene Tisserant, French cardinal (d. 1972)
1886 – Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)
1887 – Fatty Arbuckle, American actor (d. 1933)
1889 – Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969)
1890 – Agnes Macphail, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
1891 – Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Soviet physicist (d. 1951)
1892 – Marston Morse, American mathematician (d. 1977)
1893 – Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960)
1896 – Franz Blücher, German politician (d. 1959)
1896 – George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1897 – Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-born psychotherapist (d. 1957)
1901 – Ub Iwerks, American animator (d. 1971)
1902 – Thomas E. Dewey, American politician, 1948 Presidential candidate (d. 1971)
1903 – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist (d. 1995)
1903 – Malcolm Muggeridge, British author and scholar (d. 1990)
1906 – Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet singer (d. 1984)
1907 – Paul Sauvé, Canadian politician, 17th Premier of Quebec (d. 1960)
1909 – Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde) (d. 1934)
1910 – Richard Conte, American actor (d. 1975)
1911 – Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
1912 – Dorothy Height, American activist (d. 2010)
1917 – John Kendrew, British molecular biologist (d. 1997)
1919 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American author and publisher
1921 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d. 2010)
1923 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986)
1924 – Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998)
1926 – Dario Fo, Italian writer and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2016)
1926 – Desmond Connell, former cardinal-Archbishop of Dublin (d. 2017)
1927 – John Woodland Hastings, American photo biologist (d. 2014)
1927 – Martin Walser, German writer
1930 – David Dacko, President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)
1930 – Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
1931 – Hanno Drechsler, German politician (d. 2003)
1933 – Shigeo Yaegashi, Japanese footballer (d. 2011)
1935 – Peret, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
1935 – Mary Berry, British cookery writer and television presenter
1937 – Lynn Borden, American actress (d. 2015)
1938 – Jean-Pierre Coffe, French radio and television presenter, food critic and author (d. 2016)
1938 – David Irving, British historian
1942 - Stephen Yardley, British actor
1944 – Vojislav Kostunica, former Prime Minister of Serbia
1945 – Robert Bakker, American paleontologist