the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1934 – Pratibha Patil, former President of India
1935 – Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)
1936 - Marian McKnight, American model
1938 – Karel Svoboda, Czech composer (d. 2007)
1940 – Phil Ochs, singer, songwriter (d. 1976)
1941 – Maurice White, American musician (d. 2016)
1941 – Lee Myung-bak, former President of South Korea
1942 – Cornell Dupree, American musician (d. 2011)
1943 - Sam Kelly, English actor (d. 2014)
1944 – Richard Leakey, Kenyan anthropologist (d. 2022)
1944 – Alvin Lee, British musician (d. 2013)
1946 – Robert Urich, American actor (d. 2002)
1947 - Jimmy Bain, Scottish musician (d. 2016)
1949 – Jupp Kapellmann, German footballer
1949 – Nasser Hejazi, Iranian footballer (d. 2011)
1949 – Claudia Kolb, swimmer
1949 - Carlos Gomes Junior, former Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
1950 - Walter Frosch, German footballer (d. 2013)
1951 - Mohammed Reza Aref, 2nd Vice President of Iran
1952 - Walter Murphy, American songwriter and musician
1955 - Rob Portman, American politician
1956 – Jens Fink-Jensen, Danish writer
1957 – Kevin McHale, American basketball player
1957 - Cyril Collard, French actor, director and composer (d. 1993)
1957 - Michael E. Fossum, American astronaut
1957 - John Gulager, American actor, cinematographer and director
1958 - José Aguilar, Cuban boxer (d. 2014)
1959 - Ivan Vallejo, Ecuadorean footballer
1960 – Mike Lookinland, actor
1961 - Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist
1961 – Reggie White, American football player (d. 2004)
1963 - Til Schweiger, German actor
1963 - Jennifer Beals, American actress
1964 – Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player
1964 - Béatrice Dalle, French actress
1965 - Jessica Steen, Canadian actress
1965 – Chito Martinez, Belizean baseball player
1966 - Alberto Tomba, Italian skier
1967 – Criss Angel, American illusionist
1968 - Ken Marino, American actor and comedian
1968 - Kristina Keneally, 42nd Premier of New South Wales
1969 – Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Azerbaijani composer, pianist and singer
1969 – Kristy Swanson, American actress
1969 – Richard Hammond, British television presenter
1971 – Tiffany Towers, American actress
1972 – Alyssa Milano, American actress
1972 – Warren Sapp, American football player
1974 – Jake Plummer, American football player
1974 – Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer
1978 - Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor
1979 – Gareth Williams, Welsh rugby player
1980 – Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
1980 - Billy O'Sullivan, American actor
1980 – Marla Sokoloff, actress
1982 - Tero Pitkamaki, Finnish javelin thrower
1983 – Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - Neil Kilkenny, Australian footballer
1985 – Gary Cahill, English footballer
1985 – Lady Sovereign, English musician
1985 - Dan Logan, English bass player
1986 – Ryan Babel, Dutch footballer
1987 – Karim Benzema, French footballer
1988 – Alexis Sanchez, Chilean footballer
1989 - Yong Jun-hyung, South Korean singer, rapper and actor
1991 – Declan Galbraith, English singer
1991 - Edwin Jackson, American football player (d. 2018)
1991 - Jorge Blanco, Mexican actor and singer
1992 - Iker Muniain, Spanish footballer
1993 - Leonardo Bittencourt, German footballer
1994 - Michele Bravi, Italian singer
1994 - Estelle Balet, Swiss snowboarder (d. 2016)
1995 - Brandur Olsen, Faroese footballer
1998 - Frans Jeppsson Wall, Swedish singer
211 - Geta, Roman Emperor
401 – Pope Anastasius I
1075 – Edith of Wessex, queen of Edward the Confessor of England
1111 - Al-Ghazali, Persian theologian and philosopher
1123 - Saint Berardo, Italian bishop
1327 – Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
1370 – Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
1475 - Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol (b. 1418)
1737 – James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)
1741 – Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (b. 1681)
1745 – Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)
1749 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)
1751 – Louise of Great Britain, queen of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)
1807 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723)
1813 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1744)
1814 - Joseph Bramah, English inventor and locksmith (b. 1748)
1819 – Sir Thomas Fremantle, English naval officer and politician (b. 1765)
1848 – Emily Brontë, English writer (b. 1818)
1851 – J. M. W. Turner, English painter (b. 1775)
1859 - Mirabeau B. Lamar, American politician and President of Texas (b. 1798)
1860 - Konstantin Aksakov, Russian writer (b. 1817)
1899 - Henry Ware Lawton, American Civil War general (b. 1843)
1915 – Alois Alzheimer, German neuroscientist (b. 1864)
1916 - Thibaw Min, King of Burma (b. 1859)
1927 - Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900)
1927 - Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian activist (b. 1897)
1927 - Roshan Singh, Indian activist (b. 1892)
1932 – Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean resister against Japanese occupation (executed) (b. 1908)
1933 - George Jackson Churchward, English engineer (b. 1857)
1939 – Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (b. 1894)
1944 - Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
1944 - Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856)
1946 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (b. 1872)
1953 – Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
1967 – Harold Holt, seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
1968 – Norman Thomas, American socialist (b. 1884)
1976 – Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (b. 1893)
1977 – Nellie Tayloe Ross, Governor of Wyoming (b. 1876)
1982 - Dwight Macdonald, American philosopher, author and critic (b. 1906)
1988 - Robert Bernstein, American author and playwright (b. 1919)
1989 – Stella Gibbons, English writer (b. 1902)
1993 - Michael Clarke, American drummer (b. 1946)
1996 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
1997 - Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (b. 1908)
1998 - Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (b. 1922)
1999 – Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (b. 1914)
2000 - Pops Staples, American singer (b. 1915)
2000 - John Lindsay, 103rd Mayor of New York City (b. 1921)
2000 - Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1958)
2003 – Peter Carter-Ruck, British lawyer (b. 1914)
2003 – Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1941)
2004 – Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
2004 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)
2008 - Carol Chomsky, American linguist and educator (b. 1930)
2009 – Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Iranian cleric (b. 1922)
2009 – Kim Peek, American megasavant, inspiration for the movie Rain Man (b. 1951)
2012 - Peter Struck, German politician (b. 1943)
2012 - Robert Bork, American judge and scholar (b. 1927)
2013 - Herb Geller, American-German saxophonist and composer (b. 1928)
2013 - Ned Vizzini, American writer (b. 1981)
2014 - Igor Rodionov, Russian general and politician (b. 1936)
2014 - Philip Bradbourn, English politician (b. 1951)
2014 - Arthur Gardner, American movie and television producer (b. 1910)
2015 - Jimmy Hill, English footballer and pundit (b. 1928)
2015 - Kurt Masur, German conductor (b. 1927)
2015 - Greville Janner, British politician (b. 1928)
2015 - Karin Söder, Swedish politician (b. 1928)
2015 - Dickie Moore, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
2015 - Selma Reis, Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1960)
2016 - Andrei Karlov, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to Turkey (b. 1954)
2017 - Lito Cruz, Argentine actor (b. 1941)
2017 - Clifford Irving, American author (b. 1930)
2017 - Hiep Thi Le, Vietnamese-American actress (b. 1971)
2018 - Tömür Dawamat, Chinese Uighur politician; b. '27
2018 - Mel Hutchins, American basketball player; b. '28
2018 - Geetha Salam, Indian actor; b. '48
Ricardo de Aparici, Argentine lawyer and politician; b. '40
Francisco Brennand, Brazilian sculptor; b. '27
Jules Deelder, Dutch poet; b. '44
Jan de Laval, Swedish actor; b. '48
Ward Just, American journalist and writer; b. '35
George Metallinos, Greek priest; b. '40
Yoshio Mochizuki, Japanese politician; b. '47
Shahdon Winchester, Trinidadian footballer
Alba Zaluar, Brazilian anthropologist; b. '42
Liberation Day (Goa)
National Heroes and Heroines Day (Anguilla)
795 - Pope Leo III is elected.
838 - A North Sea flood affecting Friesland kills around 2,500 people.
1135 - Stephen of England is crowned King.
1481 – Battle of Westbroek – Holland defeats troops of Utrecht
1606 – King Lear performed in the Court of England
1620 – Elizabeth Báthory's crimes are uncovered
1620 – Pilgrim Fathers land of what becomes New Plymouth in Massachusetts
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The British were defeated in the Battle of Trenton
1790 – Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution
1792 – Final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris
1793 – Battle of Geisberg – French defeat Austrians
1793 – Wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
1805 - Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
1806 – Battle of Pultusk – indecisive battle between Napoleon and the Russians.
1811 - In Richmond, Virginia, the worst theatre fire in US history kills 72 people, including then-Governor of Virginia George William Smith.
1812 – The Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay are blocked off by ships during the War of 1812.
1825 – Several Imperial Russia army officers lead 3000 soldiers to the Senate Square in the failed Decembrist uprising
1825 – The Erie Canal opens
1861 – Confederate diplomatic envoys James Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and Britain
1862 – 38 starving and angry Lakota men are hanged for killing white people after a brief rebellion
1862 – American Civil War: Start of the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou.
1871 - Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on the opera Thespis.
It is another four years before they work together again.
1898 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1900 - A relief crew arrives at the lighthouse in the Flannan Islands off the west coast of Scotland, only to find that the previous crew had disappeared without a trace.
1906 – The world's first full-length feature movie is made in Australia, The Story of the Kelly Gang.
1908 – Jack Johnson becomes the first African American heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.
1916 - Joseph Joffre is made Marshal of France.
1919 - Babe Ruth of the baseball team Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by team owner Harry Frazee.
1925 – The Communist Party of India is founded.
1925 – Turkey adopts the Gregorian Calendar, which it uses from January 1, 1926.
1931 – Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity was founded
1933 – The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo, Japan
1933 – FM radio is patented.
1941 - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing Thanksgiving Day as a holiday on the fourth Thursday in November.
1943 – The German warship Scharnhorst sinks off the coast of North Cape in Norway after being attacked by the British Royal Navy late the previous evening.
1943 – At the Cairo Conference, Winston Churchill decides that Germany needs to be defeated before Japan.
1944 – The play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams was first publicly performed.
1944 – American troops repulse German forces at Bastogne.
1945 – CFP franc and CFA franc are created.
1946 – Flamingo Hotel opens in Las Vegas.
1947 – 26 inches of snowfall in 16 hours in New York City.
1948 – Cardinal Mindszenty arrested in Hungary.
1963 - The Beatles release the singles I Want to Hold Your Hand and I Saw Her Standing There in the United States, starting the so-called Beatlemania internationally.
1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
1973 – Comet Kohoutek reaches perihelion but is not such a display as expected.
1973 - The horror movie The Exorcist, directed by William Friedkin, is released in US cinemas.
1973 – Soyuz 13 lands.
1974 – Salyut 4 launched.
1975 – Tupolev Tu-144 goes into service in the Soviet Union.
1976 – Foundation of the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist).
1978 - The first Paris to Dakar Rally starts in Paris.
1979 – Soviet Special forces troops take over presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan.
1980 – Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service.
1982 – TIME magazine's Man of the Year was for the first time given to a non-human; the personal computer.
1984 – Princess Astrid of Belgium marries Archduke Lorenz of Austria-Este.
1986 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after thirty-five years on the air.
1988 – Start of the Nanjing Anti-African protests.
1991 – Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR.
1996 – JonBenét Ramsey, a six-year-old beauty queen, was found murdered in her family's basement in Boulder, Colorado.
1996 – United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification goes into force.
1997 - The Soufriere Hills volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat explodes.
1998 – Iraq announced its intention to fire upon US and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern "no-fly zones".
1998 – Severe gales over Ireland, northern England, and southern Scotland.
Widespread disruption, widespread power outages in Northern Ireland and southern Scotland.
1999 – On the 26-28th, France and countries to the east, including Germany, are hit by severe storms and rain.
Over 100 people were killed, and the storm caused extensive damage to property and trees and the French national power grid.
2002 – French Raelian scientist Brigitte Boisselier says Clonaid has delivered the first of a supposed five clone babies through cesarean section.
2003 – Major earthquake, of magnitude 6.6, devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands; citadel of Arg-é Bam is destroyed.
2004 – A massive earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter magnitude scale creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, The Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean.
The death toll is currently estimated at more than 300,000.
Officials say the true toll may never be known, due to rapid burials.
Indonesia was worst affected with as many as 219,000 people killed.
2004 – In a re-run of Ukraine's Presidential election Viktor Yushchenko defeats Viktor Yanukovich.
2006 – At least 260 people are killed when an oil pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria, explodes.
2012 - Shinzo Abe becomes Prime Minister of Japan for a second time.
2016 - Shinzo Abe becomes the first Prime Minister of Japan to visit the site of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, Hawaii.
2017 - Honduras and Panama decide to move their embassies in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
2017 - Former professional footballer George Weah is elected President of Liberia.
1194 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1250)
1532 – Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (d. 1576)
1536 – Yi I of Joseon, Confucian scholar (d. 1584)
1622 - Cort Adeler, Norwegian admiral (d. 1675)
1687 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist and composer (d. 1755)
1716 – Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (d. 1771)
1723 – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807)
1735 – Prince Josias of Coburg, Holy Roman Empire general (d. 1815)
1751 – Clement Hofbauer, missionary (d. 1820)
1769 – Ernst Moritz Arndt, German writer (d. 1860)
1771 - Julie Clary, French wife of Joseph Bonaparte (d. 1845)
1777 - Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1848)
1780 – Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872)
1785 - Etienne Constantin de Gerlache, 1st Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1871)
1791 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (d. 1871)
1819 – E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist (d. 1899)
1822 – Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright (d. 1890)
1837 – George Dewey, U. S. admiral (d. 1917)
1837 - Morgan Bulkeley, 54th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1922)
1853 – René Bazin, French novelist (d. 1932)
1859 - William Stephens, 24th Governor of California (d. 1944)
1863 – Charles Pathé, French movie pioneer (d. 1957)
1867 - Phan Boi Chau, Vietnamese nationalist (d. 1940)
1872 – Norman Angell, British writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 1967)
1874 - Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi educator, theologian and social reformer (d. 1965)
1880 - Elton Mayo, Australian psychologist (d. 1949)
1883 – Maurice Utrillo, French painter (d. 1955)
1890 – Uncle Charlie Osborne, fiddler (d. 1992)
1891 – Henry Miller, American writer (d. 1980)
1893 – Mao Zedong, Chinese military leader and politician (d. 1976)
1894 - Jean Toomer, American writer (d. 1967)
1902 - Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian writer (d. 1980)
1903 – Elisha Cook Jr., actor (d. 1995)
1904 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (d. 1980)
1905 – Anfilogino Guarisi, Brazilian-Italian footballer (d. 1974)
1905 - Mario Varglien, Italian footballer (d. 1978)
1906 – Imperio Argentina, Argentine-Spanish actress and singer (d. 2003)
1907 - Albert Gore, Sr.,
American politician (d. 1998)
1909 - Matt Gordy, American pole vaulter (d. 1989)
1911 – Princess Takamatsu of Japan (d. 2004)
1912 - Henk de Looper, Dutch field hockey player (d. 2006)
1913 - Elizabeth David, English cookery writer (d. 1992)
1914 – Richard Widmark, American actor (d. 2008)
1918 – George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2006)
1921 – Steve Allen, American actor, comedian, composer, and writer (d. 2000)
1923 - Richard Artschwager, American artist (d. 2013)
1926 – Gina Pellón, Cuban painter
1926 - Earle Brown, American composer (d. 2002)
1927 – Alan King, American comedian and actor (d. 2004)
1927 - Stu Miller, American baseball player (d. 2015)
1931 - Roger Piantoni, French footballer
1933 – Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer
1935 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma, President of Togo (d. 2005)
1937 - John Horton Conway, British mathematician
1938 - Bahram Bayzai, Iranian director, screenwriter and producer
1939 - Fred Schepisi, Australian director
1939 – Phil Spector, American music producer
1940 – Edward C. Prescott, American economist
1941 - Daniel Schmid, Swiss movie director
1942 – Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo, 28th President of Guatemala
1942 – Gray Davis, former Governor of California
1945 – John Walsh, American talk show host
1947 – Carlton Fisk, American Baseball Hall of Famer
1947 - Liz Lochhead, Scottish poet
1949 – José Ramos-Horta, East Timorean human rights activist and former President of East Timor
1949 - Mikhail Boyarsky, Russian actor and singer
1950 - Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, former Prime Minister of Pakistan
1951 - C. J. Henderson, American writer, critic and editor (d. 2014)
1951 - John Scofield, American jazz guitarist and composer
1952 - Alexander Ankvab, Abkhazian politician
1953 – Henning Schmitz, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1953 – Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia
1953 – Leonel Fernandez, former President of the Dominican Republic
1953 - Michel Guimond, Canadian politician (d. 2015)
1954 - Peter Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and son of Edmund Hillary
1954 - Susan Butcher, American dogsledder (d. 2006)
1954 - Tony Rosato, Italian-born Canadian actor (d. 2017)
1954 – Ozzie Smith, American Baseball Hall of Famer
1955 – Evan Bayh, US Senator from Indiana
1956 – David Sedaris, American essayist
1957 - Dermot Murnaghan, British newsreader
1959 – Koji Morimoto, Japanese director
1959 - Hans Nielsen, Danish speedway rider
1960 - Andrew Graham-Dixon, British art historian and broadcaster
1962 - James Kottak, German musician
1963 – Lars Ulrich, Danish musician (Metallica)
1969 – Thomas Linke, German footballer
1969 – Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, American-born German equestrian
1971 – Mika Nurmela, Finnish footballer
1971 – Jared Leto, American actor, singer and musician
1975 – Marcelo Rios, Chilean tennis player
1976 – Lea De Mae, Czech actress (d. 2004)
1976 - Janina Karolchyk-Pravalinska, Belarussian athlete
1977 - Fatih Akyel, Turkish footballer
1979 - Fabian Carini, Uruguayan footballer
1979 – Mark Cueto, English rugby player
1979 – Chris Daughtry, American singer
1981 - Ilia Kandelaki, Georgian footballer
1982 - Shun Oguri, Japanese actor and model
1982 – Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian skier
1984 - Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker
1985 - Beth Behrs, American actress
1986 - Hugo Lloris, French footballer
1986 - Kit Harington, English actor
1987 - Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstani tennis player
1989 - Yohan Blake, Jamaican athlete
1989 - Sofiane Feghouli, Algerian footballer
1990 - Andy Biersack, American singer
1990 – Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
1990 - Denis Cheryshev, Russian footballer
1991 - Eden Sher, American actress
1992 - Jade Thirlwall, English singer (Little Mix)
1994 – Souleymane Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer
1994 - Stephanie Boscarino, American actress
1994 - Luisa Hartema, German model
1995 – Zach Mills, American actor
268 - Pope Dionysius
418 - Pope Zosinos
831 - Euthymius of Sardis, Byzantine bishop and saint (b. 754)
865 - Empress Dowager Zheng of China
1350 - Jean de Marigny, French archbishop
1458 - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1393)
1476 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1444)
1530 – Babur, Mughal Emperor (b. 1483)
1624 – Simon Marius, German astronomer (b. 1573)
1780 - John Fothergill, English physician (b. 1712)
1784 – Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (b. 1743)
1786 - Gasparo Gozzi, Italian playwright and critic (b. 1713)
1811 - George William Smith, Governor of Virginia (b. 1762)
1867 – Jozsef Kossics, Slovenian writer (b. 1788)
1869 - Jean Leonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
1890 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (b. 1822)
1909 - Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1761)
1923 - Dietrich Eckart, German journalist and politician (b. 1868)
1931 - Melvil Dewey, American librarian (b. 1851)
1933 – Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (b. 1875)
1960 - Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese philosopher (b. 1889)
1970 – Lillian Board, British athlete (b. 1948)
1972 – Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (b. 1884)
1973 – Harold B. Lee, American Mormon leader (b. 1899)
1974 - Farid al-Atrash, Syrian-Egyptian singer-songwriter, musician and actor (b. 1915)
1977 - Howard Hawks, American director (b. 1896)
1981 - Savitri, Indian actress, director and producer (b. 1937)
1983 - Violet Carson, English actress (b. 1898)
1985 – Dian Fossey, American gorilla specialist (b. 1932)
1985 - Harold P. Warren, American movie director (b. 1928)
1986 – Elsa Lanchester, British actress (b. 1902)
1994 - Pietro Pavan, Italian cardinal (b. 1903)
1999 – Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India (b. 1918)
1999 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician (b. 1942)
2000 - Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)
2001 – Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (b. 1929)
2004 – Marianne Heiberg, Norwegian mediator (b. 1945)
2004 – Khun Bhumi Jensen, Thai royal (b. 1983) (2004 Indian Ocean earthquake)
2004 - Angus Ogilvy, British businessman (b. 1928)
2005 - Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (b. 1937)
2005 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (b. 1948)
2006 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)
2006 - Ivar Formo, Norwegian cross-country skier (b. 1951)
2009 - Giuseppe Chiappella, Italian footballer (b. 1924)
2010 – Salvador Jorge Blanco, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1926)
2010 – Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
2011 - Sarekoppa Bangarappa, Indian politician (b. 1932)
2011 – Sam Rivers, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1923)
2011 - Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Mexican actor (b. 1940)
2012 - Gerry Anderson, British writer, director and producer (b. 1929)
2012 - Fontella Bass, American singer (b. 1940)
2013 - Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-American actress (b. 1912)
2013 - Dr. Tangalanga, Argentine comedian (b. 1916)
2014 - Leo Tindemans, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1922)
2014 - James B. Edwards, American politician, 110th Governor of South Carolina and 3rd United States Secretary of Energy (b. 1927)
2014 - Roberto Delmastro, Chilean politician (b. 1945)
2015 - Jim O'Toole, American baseball player (b. 1937)
2016 - Ashot Anastasian, Armenian chess player (b. 1964)
2017 - Shahnon Ahmad, Malaysian writer (b. 1933)
2017 - Johnny Bower, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
2017 - Gualtiero Marchesi, Italian chef (b. 1930)
Boxing Day in the Commonwealth of Nations, except if 26 December happens to be a Sunday.
If it is a Sunday, it is moved to December 27 by Royal Proclamation.
Saint Stephen's Day in Roman Catholicism, holiday in some European countries
First Day of Kwanzaa (United States)
Second Day of Christmas
69 - Vespasian enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor.
1192 - Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria.
1522 – Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate.
They eventually re-settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.
1606 - The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and set sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
1803 – Louisiana Purchase is completed.
1808 - Peninsular War: The Siege of Zaragoza begins.
1860 – South Carolina becomes first state to secede from the United States.
1870 - The Cape Blanco lighthouse goes into operation at the western tip of Oregon.
1915 – The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli during World War I.
1917 – Cheka, first Soviet secret police, is founded.
1924 - Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.
1942 - World War II: Japanese air forces bomb Calcutta.
1942 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Erbaa, Turkey, kills around 3,000 people.
1946 - The popular Christmas movie It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.
1946 - The Tonankai earthquake in Japan kills around 1,300 people.
1951 - The EBR in Arco, Idaho, becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity.
1952 – United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington, killing 87.
1955 - Cardiff is officially proclaimed as the capital city of Wales.
1957 - The European Nuclear Energy Agency is founded.
1957 - The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight.
1960 – National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.
1961 - The Dominican Republic holds its first elections.
1967 - A Pennsylvania Railroad metroliner reaches over the limit of 155 miles per hour in speed on its New York Division.
1968 - The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
1971 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto becomes the 4th President of Pakistan.
1973 - Spanish Prime Minister Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco is assassinated by a car bomb in Madrid.
1977 - Djibouti and Vietnam join the UN.
1984 – The Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines, England.
1985 - Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.
1988 – The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
1989 – Operation Just Cause: United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega.
1991 - Paul Keating becomes the 24th Prime Minister of Australia.
1995 – The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
1995 – An American Airlines Flight 965 Boeing 757 crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160.
1999 – Vermont's Supreme Court rules that homosexual couples are entitled to same benefits and protections as married heterosexual couples.
1999 – Macau is handed over to the People's Republic of China by Portugal.
1999 - NASA starts the ACRIMSat satellite to study the Sun.
2002 – US Senator Trent Lott resigns as majority leader.
2004 - A gang of thieves steal 26.5 million pounds from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2007 - Elizabeth II overtakes Queen Victoria as the UK's oldest-ever monarch, having reached an age of 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.
As of December 2014, Elizabeth is 88 years of age.
2015 - Spain holds its parliamentary election, with no party winning overall control.
2016 - A fireworks market explosion near Mexico City kills at least 30 people.
1537 – King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
1579 - John Fletcher, English dramatist (d. 1625)
1629 – Pieter de Hooch, painter (d. 1684)
1633 - Abbas II of Persia (d. 1666)
1648 - Tommaso Ceva, Italian poet and mathematician (d. 1736)
1717 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French politician and diplomat (d. 1787)
1740 - Arthur Lee, American diplomat (d. 1792)
1786 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (d. 1853)
1792 – Nicolas Charlet, painter (d. 1845)
1805 – Thomas Graham, Father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869)
1833 – Samuel Mudd, physician, possible conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1883)
1838 – Edwin Abbott Abbott, schoolmaster/theologian/writer of Flatland (d. 1926)
1841 – Ferdinand Buisson, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1927 (d. 1932)
1856 – Ferdinand Avenarius, writer (d. 1923)
1858 - Kuno Meyer, German scholar (d. 1919)
1860 – Dan Leno, English entertainer (d. 1904)
1861 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovene painter (d. 1926)
1865 – Elsie De Wolfe, aka Lady Mendl, actress & interior decorator (d. 1950)
1868 - Arturo Alessandri, President of Chile (d. 1950)
1868 – Harvey Firestone, automobile pioneer (d. 1938)
1873 - Mahmet Akif Ersoy, Turkish poet, writer, academic and politician (d. 1936)
1876 - Walter Sydney Adams, American astronomer (d. 1956)
1881 – Branch Rickey, baseball executive (d. 1965)
1886 – Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis star (d. 1974)
1890 – Yvonne Arnaud, French actress (d. 1958)
1890 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1967)
1891 - Erik Almlöf, Swedish triple jumper (d. 1971)
1893 – Charlotte Bühler, psychologist
1894 – Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1978)
1898 – Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)
1898 - Konstantinos Dovas, Greek general and politician (d. 1973)
1899 - Martin Lloyd-Jones, Welsh preacher and physician (d. 1981)
1901 – Robert Van de Graaff, physicist, inventor (d. 1967)
1902 – Sidney Hook, American philosopher (d. 1989)
1902 – Max Lerner, American educator (d. 1992)
1902 – George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)
1904 - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1908 - Dennis Morgan, American actor (d. 1994)
1914 – Harry F. Byrd, Jr., American politician (d. 2013)
1916 - Gonzalo Rojas, Chilean poet (d. 2011)
1917 - David Bohm, American-born philosopher, physicist and neuropsychologist (d. 1992)
1918 - Audrey Totter, American actress (d. 2013)
1918 - Jean Marchand, Canadian trade union leader and politician (d. 1988)
1922 – George Roy Hill, American movie director (d. 2002)
1923 – James Leasor, mystery writer
1924 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer and politician (d. 1980)
1924 – Friederike Mayröcker, writer
1924 - Charlie Callas, American comedian (d. 2011)
1925 - Benito Lorenzo, Italian footballer (d. 2007)
1926 – Sir Geoffrey Howe (Lord Howe of Aberavon), British politician (d. 2015)
1926 – Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician (d. 2009)
1927 – Kim Young-sam, President of South Korea (d. 2015)
1927 - Jim Simpson, American sportscaster (d. 2016)
1927 - Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark (d. 2016)
1930 – Noel Ferrier, producer and actress
1932 - John Hillerman, American actor (d. 2017)
1933 – Jean Carnahan, US Senator
1934 - Julius Darmaatmadja, Indonesian cardinal
1939 - Kathryn Joosten, American actress (d. 2012)
1942 - Jean-Claude Trichet, French economist and banker
1942 – Bob Hayes, track and field star, American football star (d. 2002)
1944 - Bobby Colomby, American drummer and producer
1945 - Peter Criss, American musician
1945 - Tom Tancredo, American politician
1945 - Pierre Bürcher, Swiss bishop
1946 – Dick Wolf, American TV drama series creator
1946 – Uri Geller, Israeli-British psychic TV presenter
1946 - Sonny Perdue, American politician, former Governor of Georgia and 31st United States Secretary of Agriculture
1946 - John Spencer, American actor (d. 2005)
1947 - Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer
1951 - Kate Atkinson, English writer
1951 - Lynne Featherstone, English politician
1951 - Peter May, Scottish author and screenwriter
1951 - Christopher Le Brun, English painter and sculptor
1952 – Jenny Agutter, English actress
1952 - Sky Gilbert, Canadian drag queen performer, actor and producer
1954 – Michael Badalucco, actor
1954 - Sandra Cisneros, American writer
1955 – Lonesome Bob, singer, songwriter
1955 - Binali Yildirim, Prime Minister of Turkey
1955 - Martin Schulz, German politician, President of the European Parliament
1956 - Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of Mauritania
1957 – Anna Vissi, Greek singer
1957 – Billy Bragg, English singer, songwriter
1957 – Mike Watt, bassist
1958 - Jürgen Raab, German footballer
1959 - Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, former Prime Minister of Poland
1960 – Nalo Hopkinson, science fiction writer
1963 - Infanta Elena of Spain
1963 - Mats Gren, Swedish footballer
1965 – Rich Gannon, American football quarterback
1970 – Nicole DeBoer, actress (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Dead Zone)
1972 - Anders Odden, Norwegian musician
1975 - Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer
1976 - Aubrey Hoff, American baseball player
1976 - Nenad Vuckovic, Croatian footballer
1977 - Sonja Aldén, Swedish singer
1978 - Andrei Markov, Russian-Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Bouabdellah Tahri, French runner
1979 - George Lamb, English television presenter
1980 - Ashley Cole, English footballer
1980 - Martin Demichelis, Argentine footballer
1981 - Julien Benneteau, French tennis player
1982 - David Cook, American singer
1982 - David Wright, American baseball player
1982 - Keny Arkana, French singer and rapper
1982 - Mohammed Asif, Pakistani cricketer
1983 - Lara Stone, Dutch model
1983 - Jonah Hill, American actor
1983 - Lucy Pinder, English model and actress
1983 - Mapei, Swedish-American singer
1987 - Michihiro Yasuda, Japanese footballer
1990 – Joanna Levesque, AKA JoJo, American singer
1990 - Marta Xargay, Spanish basketball player
1991 - Hunter Gomez, American actor
1992 - Ksenia Makarova, Russian-American figure skater
1995 - Feliks Zembegs, Australian speed cuber
1997 - Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer and model
1998 - Kylian Mbappé, French footballer
69 - Vitellius, Roman Emperor
217 - Pope Zephyrinus
860 - Ethelbald of Wessex (b. 834)
910 - King Alfonso III of Leon (b. 848)
1022 - Elvira Mendes, Queen of Castile (b. 996)
1295 - Margaret of Provence (b. 1221)
1355 - Stefan Dusan, Emperor of Serbia (b. 1308)
1494 - Matteo Maria Boiardi, Italian poet (b. 1434)
1524 - Thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician (b. 1460)
1539 - Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer (b. 1506)
1552 - Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther (b. 1499)
1722 - Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654)
1765 - Louis, Dauphin of France, son of Louis XV of France (b. 1729)
1768 - Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, Italian poet and academic (b. 1692)
1783 - Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (b. 1729)
1812 - Sacagawea, Native American member of the Lewis and Clark expedition (b. 1788)
1856 - Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820)
1915 - Upendrakishore Ray, Indian writer, painter and composer (b. 1863)
1917 - Lucien Petit-Breton, French racing cyclist (b. 1882)
1927 - Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1872)
1929 - Emile Loubet, French statesman (b. 1838)
1937 - Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)
1941 - Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (b. 1887)
1950 - Enrico Mizzi, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1885)
1961 - Earle Page, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
1961 - Moss Hart, American dramatist (b. 1904)
1968 - Max Brod, Austrian-Israeli writer and composer (b. 1884)
1968 - John Steinbeck, American writer (b. 1902)
1971 - Roy O. Disney, American entertainment industry executive (b. 1893)
1971 - Shigeyoshi Suzuki, Japanese footballer (b. 1902)
1973 - Bobby Darin, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1936)
1973 - Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1904)
1976 - Richard J. Daley, American politician (b. 1902)
1982 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist (b. 1887)
1989 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (b. 1908)
1994 - Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (b. 1909)
1996 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (b. 1934)
1997 - Juzo Itami, Japanese actor and director (b. 1933)
1998 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist (b. 1916)
2000 - Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, Bangladeshi statesman and philanthropist (b. 1920)
2001 - Leopold Sedar Senghor, 1st President of Senegal (b. 1906)
2009 - Brittany Murphy, American actress (b. 1977)
2010 - Brian Hanrahan, British journalist (b. 1949)
2011 - Hana Andronikova, Czech writer (b. 1967)
2012 - Jimmy McCracklin, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1921)
2013 - Nelly Omar, Argentine actress and singer (b. 1911)
2014 - John Freeman, English politician, diplomat and broadcaster (b. 1915)
2014 - Bob Lanier, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Houston (b. 1925)
2015 - Ray Mathews, American football player (b. 1929)
2015 - Patricia Elliott, American actress (b. 1938)
2016 - Michèle Morgan, French actress (b. 1920)
2017 - William Agee, American business executive (b. 1938)
2017 - Florence Bjelke-Petersen, Australian politician (b. 1920)
2017 - Henryk Cioch, Polish lawyer and politician (b. 1951)
2017 - Annie Goetzinger, French comic artist (b. 1951)
2017 - Bernard Francis Law, American cardinal (b. 1931)
2017 - Red Murrell, American basketball player (b. 1933)
2017 - Stan Pilecki, Polish-born Australian rugby player (b. 1947)
2017 - Randolph Quirk, British linguist and life peer (b. 1920)
2018 - F. W. Bernstein, German poet and cartoonist (b. 1938)
2018 - Klaus Hagerup, Norwegian author (b. 1946)
2018 - Donald Moffat, English-American actor (b. 1930)
2019 - Fazle Hasan Abed, Bangladeshi philanthropist (b. 1936)
2019 - Matti Ahde, Finnish politician (b. 1945)
2019 - Zilda Cardoso, Brazilian actress (b. 1936)
2019 - Thomas Chandy, Indian politician (b. 1947)
2019 - Junior Johnson, American racing driver (b. 1931)
2019 - Eduard Krieger, Austrian footballer (b. 1946)
2019 - Roland Matthes, German swimmer (b. 1950)
2019 - Yuri Pshenichnikov, Uzbek-Russian handball player (b. 1940)
2019 - Daniel Selvaraj, Indian writer (b. 1938)
2020 - Nicette Bruno, Brazilian actress (b. 1933)
2020 - Doug Anthony, Australian politician (b. 1929)
2020 - Fanny Waterman, British pianist (b. 1920)
2020 - Ezra Vogel, American sociologist (b. 1930)
Earliest possible date for the December Solstice (usually on December 21 or 22)
International Day of Human Solidarity
418 – St. Boniface I becomes Pope.
457 - Majorian is crowned West Roman Emperor.
484 - Alaric II becomes King of the Visigoths.
856 - A Viking attack on Paris occurs.
893 - An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia.
1065 – Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
1308 – The reign of Emperor Hanazono, the 95th imperial ruler of Japan, began.
1612 – Galileo Galilei was the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune when it was in conjunction with Jupiter, yet there is dispute as to whether he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star because of its extremely slow motion along the ecliptic at that time.
Neptune was not officially discovered until 1846, about 234 years after Galileo first sighted it with his telescope.
1768 - Taksin is crowned King of Siam.
1832 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
1835 – Osceola led his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the U.S. Army.
1836 – South Australia and Adelaide are founded
1836 – Spain recognizes independence of Mexico.
1846 – Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
1867 - The United States claims Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, northwest of Hawaii.
This is the first US annexation of territory outside the North American continent.
1879 – The Tay Rail Bridge Disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.
1885 - The Indian National Congress is founded.
1895 – The Lumiere brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines—this date is commonly considered the debut of the cinema.
1895 - Wilhelm Roentgen publishes a paper detailing  his discovery of a new type of radiation later known as X-Rays.
1897 – The play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris.
1902 – The first indoor professional American football game is played in New York City at Madison Square Garden.
1904 - Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly discovers a comet that is named after him.
1908 – An earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily, killing over 75,000 people.
1918 - Constance Markievicz, while detained at Holloway prison, becomes the first woman to be elected an MP in the British House of Commons.
1935 - Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives the New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.
1944 - Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight goals in a single ice hockey match.
1945 – The U.S. Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance.
1948 - The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.
1950 – The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
1958 - Greatest Game Ever Played: The Baltimore Colts win in overtime against the New York Giants.
1972 - Having already led the country since the late 1940s, Kim Il-Sung is declared President of North Korea.
1973 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn publishes The Gulag Archipelago.
1973 - The US Endangered Species Act is passed in the US.
1974 - A magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes Pakistan.
1978 - Heavy snowfall affects Northern Europe.
1981 – The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born (Norfolk, Virginia).
1984 - The Indian National Congress wins elections in India.
1989 - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
1991 – Nine are crushed while a crowd pushes their way into a basketball game at City College of New York.
1991 – Sonic the Hedgehog Game Gear version is released in Japan.
1995 – CompuServe sets a precedent by blocking access to sex-oriented newsgroups after being pressured by German prosecutors.
1998 – Claudia Benton of West University Place, Texas is murdered in her home by Angel Maturino Resendiz.
This is Angel's third victim in his third incident.
1999 – Saparmurat Niyazov is proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan.
2000 – Adrian Năstase becomes the Prime Minister of Romania.
2000 – U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
2007 – Nepal announces its intention to become a Republic.
2008 - War in Somalia: Militaries of Somalia's transitional federal government take Mogadishu unopposed.
2008 - The Detroit Lions become the first team with no wins and 16 losses after their loss to the Green Bay Packers in week 17.
2009 – 43 people are killed in a suicide bombing in Karachi.
2010 - Arab Spring: Protests begin in Algeria.
2011 - Turkish war planes bomb 34 Kurds of Turkish nationality in the district of Uludere.
2012 - Jiroemon Kimura surpasses Christian Mortensen's record as the oldest-recorded man ever.
2014 - Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 disappears on a flight from Surabaya, Java, Indonesia to Singapore, with 162 people on board.
It is now known to have crashed with the loss of all of the people on board.
2014 - A ferry travelling from Patras, Greece to Ancona, Italy, catches fire in the Adriatic Sea west of the island of Corfu.
Five people are killed, while hundreds are rescued in difficult weather conditions.
2015 - War in Iraq: Iraqi forces retake the city of Ramadi from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant forces.
2017 - Anti-government protests begin across Iran.
2017 - 41 people are killed in a bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan.
2017 - A fire at an apartment block in The Bronx, New York City, kills 12 people.
1164 – Emperor Rokujo, Japanese Emperor (d. 1176)
1522 - Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583)
1550 - Vicente Espinel, Spanish writer, musician and priest (d. 1624)
1635 - Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of Charles I of England (d. 1650)
1651 - Johann Krieger, German composer and organist (d. 1735)
1655 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, English politician (d. 1698)
1665 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (d. 1716)
1769 - Alexander John Forsyth, Scottish clergyman and inventor (d. 1843)
1789 - Thomas Ewing, American politician (d. 1871)
1798 - Thomas James Henderson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1844)
1818 - Carl Remigius Fresenius, German chemist (d. 1897)
1835 - Archibald Geikie, Scottish geologist and writer (d. 1924)
1842 – Calixa Lavallée, Canadian composer (d. 1891)
1849 – Herbert von Bismarck, German politician (d. 1904)
1851 - Joseph Mackey Brown, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1932)
1852 - Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Spanish mathematician and inventor (d. 1936)
1856 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States (d. 1924)
1865 – Félix Vallotton, Swiss-French artist (d. 1925)
1866 - Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian and diplomat (d. 1935)
1870 - Charles Bennett, British athlete (d. 1949)
1872 – Pio Baroja, Spanish writer (d. 1956)
1879 - Billy Mitchell, American military aviation pioneer (d. 1936)
1882 – Arthur Stanley Eddington, British astrophysicist (d. 1942)
1882 - Lili Elbe, Danish artist and model (d. 1931)
1887 - Werner Kolhörster, German physicist (d. 1946)
1887 - Walter Ruttmann, German cameraman and film director (d. 1941)
1888 – Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German-American movie director (d. 1931)
1890 – Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor (d. 1938)
1896 - Roger Sessions, American composer (d. 1985)
1898 – Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (d. 1957)
1898 - Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (d. 1947)
1899 – Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (d. 1943)
1901 - Thomas Cooray, Sri Lankan cardinal (d. 1988)
1902 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d. 2001)
1902 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (d. 1988)
1903 – John von Neumann, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1957)
1903 – Earl Hines, American musician (d. 1983)
1904 - Sergei Yutkevich, Russian movie director (d. 1985)
1905 – Cliff Arquette, American actor (d. 1973)
1905 - Fulvio Bernardino, Italian footballer (d. 1984)
1907 – Erich Mielke, East German politician (d. 2000)
1908 – Lew Ayres, American actor (d. 1996)
1910 - Billy Williams, American singer (d. 1972)
1913 – Lou Jacobi, Canadian actor (d. 2009)
1915 - Pops Staples, American musician (d. 2000)
1917 – Ellis Clarke, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2010)
1917 - Mouloud Mammeri, Algerian writer, poet, anthropologist and linguist (d. 1989)
1920 - Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, Monegasque royal (d. 2011)
1920 - Steve Van Buren, American football player (d. 2012)
1921 – Johnny Otis, American songwriter (d. 2012)
1921 - Al Wistert, American football player (d. 2016)
1922 – Stan Lee, American comic writer
1924 - Girma Wolde-Giorgis, former President of Ethiopia
1925 – Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005)
1925 – Hildegard Knef, German actress (d. 2002)
1926 - Donna Hightower, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1927 - Edward Babiuch, Polish politician
1929 – Terry Sawchuk, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1970)
1930 - Franzl Lang, German singer and musician (d. 2015)
1931 – Guy Debord, French writer (d. 1994)
1931 - Martin Milner, American actor (d. 2015)
1932 – Nichelle Nichols, American actress
1932 – Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (d. 1990)
1932 - Roy Hattersley, British politician
1932 - Cornelius Gurlitt, German art collector (d. 2014)
1932 - Dorsey Burnette, American singer-songwriter (d. 1979)
1933 - John Y. Brown Jr., 55th Governor of Kentucky
1934 - Alasdair Gray, Scottish writer and artist
1934 - Rudi Fassnacht, German football manager (d. 2000)
1934 – Maggie Smith, British actress
1936 - Lawrence Shiller, American journalist, director and producer
1936 - Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (d. 1979)
1937 – Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
1938 - Frank Kelly, Irish actor (d. 2016)
1938 – Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician (d. 1999)
1938 - Dick Sudhalter, American jazz musician (d. 2008)
1938 - Charles Neville, American musician
1939 - Frank McClintock, Scottish footballer
1940 - Don Francisco, Chilean television presenter
1941 - Intikhab Alam, Indian-Pakistani cricketer and coach
1942 - Roger Swerts, Belgian cyclist
1943 – Keith Floyd, British chef (d. 2009)
1943 – Richard Whiteley, British television presenter (d. 2005)
1943 - David Peterson, Canadian politician, 20th Premier of Ontario
1943 - Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Peruvian cardinal and Archbishop of Lima
1943 - Joan Ruddock, Welsh politician