the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
2017  Klaus Huber, Swiss composer and academic (b. 1924)
2017  Paul Otellini, American businessman (b. 1950)
2017  Tom Petty, American musician (b. 1950)
2017  Robert Yates, American racing team owner (b. 1943)
2018  Smilja Avramov, Serbian law academic (b. 1918)
2018  Balabhaskar, Indian violinist, composer and record producer (b. 1978)
2018  Geoff Emerick, English recording engineer (b. 1945)
2018  Dorothy Hukill, American politician (b. 1946)
2018  Roman Kartsev, Russian actor and comedian (b. 1939)
2018  Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi journalist (b. 1958)
2018  Hermenegildo Sábat, Uruguayan-Argentine political cartoonist and journalist (b. 1933)
2019  Bill Bidwill, American businessman (b. 1931)
2019  Tiny Hill, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1927)
2019  Giya Kancheli, Georgian composer (b. 1935)
2019  Jafar Kashani, Iranian footballer (b. 1944)
2019  John Kirby, American lawyer (b. 1939)
2019  Isaac Promise, Nigerian footballer (b. 1987)
2019  Kim Shattuck, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1963)
2019  Hargovind Laxmishanker Trivedi, Indian nephrologist (b. 1932)
Feast of the Saint Guardian Angels
Gandhi Jayanti (India) and International Day of Non-Violence (birthday of Mahatma Gandhi)
Independence Day (Guinea)
October 02
366 – Many Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine, invading the Roman Empire.
533 – Mercurius became Pope John II.
He was the first pope to use a papal name.
1492 – Reconquista: Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.
1757 – The United Kingdom captures Calcutta, India.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under command of George Washington hold back a British attack at the Battle of Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.
1788 – Georgia becomes the 4th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1793 – Russia and Prussia partition Poland.
1815 – Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke, Seaham, County Durham.
1818 – British Institution of Civil Engineers formed.
1859 – Erastus Beadle publishes The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette.
1860 – The discovery of the planet Vulcan was announced at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
People later realized that this planet does not exist.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River, which started on December 31, 1862, ends in a Union victory.
1870 – Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
1871 – Amadeus I becomes King of Spain.
1872 – Brigham Young is arrested for bigamy (25 wives).
1879 – Fred Spofforth claims the first hat-trick in test cricket.
It happens on the Sydney Cricket Ground against England.
1882 – John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust.
1890 – Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the White House.
1893 – Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: Railroad chronometers.
1900 – John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
1900 – The Chicago Canal opens.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Russian fleet surrenders at Port Arthur, China.
1907 – France officially separates church and state.
1911 – Two people are killed in a gunfight in East London.
1917 – The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank.
1920 – Under A. Mitchell Palmer, United States Attorney General, United States Department of Justice agents launch raids against people with leftist and anarchist views, in 30 cities across 23 US States.
1921 – The Spanish steamship Santa Isabel sinks off the coast of Galicia, killing 213 people.
56 people are rescued.
1921 – The first religious radio broadcast (KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) .
1921 – The DeYoung Museum opens in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
1923 – United States Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall resigns due to the Teapot Dome scandal.
1929 – Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.
1935 – Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
1941 – World War II: German bombing severely damaged the Llandaff Cathedral, built in 1290 on the bank of the River Taff in Cardiff, Wales.
1941 – The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program.
They plan to build 200 freighters.
Over 2,700 ships were built by the end of the war.
1942 – World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces.
1942 – The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1944 – World War II: US and Australian forces land on Papua New Guinea in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat.
1945 – World War II: Nuremberg is severely bombed by the Allies.
1946 – King Zog is unable to resume his rule over Albania after World War II.
He abdicates but still claims to be King of Albania.
1949 – Luis Muñoz Marín became the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
1955 – Panamanian president José Antonio Remon is assassinated.
1955 – The lost Inca city of Paititi is re-discovered by Hans Ertl.
1957 – San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
1959 – The Soviet Union launches the Luna 1 spacecraft.
1959 – CBS Radio cancels four soap operas: Backstage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Road of Life, and This is Nora Drake.
1963 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory in the Battle of Ap Bac.
1967 – Ronald Reagan becomes Governor of California.
1968 – Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the second successful heart transplant.
1971 – 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland.
1974 – Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum US speed limit to 55 miles per hour in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
1976 – The Gale of January 1976 begins, causing flooding on southern North Sea coasts.
82 people are eventually killed.
1979 – Sid Vicious goes on trial for the murder of Nancy Spungen.
1981 – Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, is arrested.
1983 – The musical Annie is ends its first Broadway run after 2,377 shows at the Uris Theatre.
1991 – Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, D.C. becoming the first African American woman to lead a city of that size and importance.
1992 – Paraguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1993 – Leaders of the three warring groups in Bosnia meet to discuss peace plans.
1996 – The Akademia Nauk stratovolcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula erupts.
1998 – Russia begins to circulate new rubles to slow inflation and promote confidence.
1999 – A major snowstorm hits the Midwestern United States, causing  of snow at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and  at Chicago.
In Chicago, temperatures drop to , and 68 deaths are reported.
2002 – Levy Mwanawasa becomes the third President of Zambia.
2002 – Eduardo Duhalde becomes interim President of Argentina.
2003 – The spill from the oil tanker Prestige reaches France.
2004 – Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that it will return to Earth two years later.
2006 – The roof of an ice rink in Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, collapses, killing 15 people.
2006 – 12 miners are killed in an explosion at a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia.
2016 – Saudi Arabia executes 47 prisoners in one day, including Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
2017 – A bomb attack in Baghdad kills at least 35 people.
2018 – A bus plunges off a cliff near Pasamayo, Peru (to the north of Lima), killing at least 48 people.
869 – Emperor Yozei of Japan (d. 949)
1462 – Piero di Cosimo, Italian painter (d. 1521)
1642 – Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1693)
1647 – Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist (d. 1676)
1699 – Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1757)
1713 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
1727 – James Wolfe, British general in French and Indian War (d. 1759)
1752 – Philip Freneau, American poet (d. 1832)
1777 – Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
1822 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist, contributions to thermodynamics (d. 1888)
1827 – Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician (d. 1914)
1833 – Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
1834 – Karl Louis Friedrich Dobermann, German dog breeder (d. 1894)
1836 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian writer (d. 1917)
1836 – Queen Emma of Hawaii (d. 1885)
1837 – Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)
1857 – Martha Carey Thomas, American educator and women's rights activist (d. 1935)
1859 – Anna Sacher, Austrian hotel owner, Hotel Sacher (d. 1930)
1862 – Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician and inventor (d. 1919)
1866 – Gilbert Murray, British philologist (d. 1957)
1870 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor, graphic artist, and poet (d. 1938)
1871 – Nik Welter, Luxembourg professor, writer and statesman (d. 1951)
1872 – Albert C. Barnes, American physician, author, collector and philanthropist (d. 1951)
1873 – Therese of Liseaux, French nun and saint (d. 1897)
1873 – Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer (d. 1960)
1877 – Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d. 1906)
1879 – Rudolf Bauer, Hungarian athlete (d. 1932)
1884 – Oscar Michaux, American writer and movie director (d. 1951)
1886 – Apsley Cherry-Garrard, British explorer of Antarctica (d. 1959)
1886 – Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938)
1889 – Bertram Stevens, Premier of New South Wales (d. 1973)
1889 – Tito Schipa, Italian tenor and composer (d. 1965)
1891 – Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect (d. 1990)
1892 – Edoardo Agnelli, Italian industrialist (d. 1935)
1895 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (d. 1948)
1896 – Dziga Vertov, Russian movie maker (d. 1954)
1904 – Walter Heitler, German physicist (d. 1981)
1904 – Sally Rand, American fan dancer (d. 1979)
1905 – Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)
1905 – Luigi Zampa, Italian movie director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1908 – Lawrence Wetherby, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (d. 1994)
1909 – Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009)
1909 – Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
1912 – Renato Guttuso, Italian painter (d. 1987)
1913 – Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
1917 – Vera Zorina, dancer, actress (d. 2003)
1918 – Willi Graf, German activist (d. 1943)
1918 – Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, German type designer
1919 – William Needles, Canadian theatre actor (d. 2016)
1920 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American science fiction writer (d. 1992)
1920 – Bob Feerick, American basketball player (d. 1976)
1920 – George Herbig, American astronomer (d. 2013)
1920 – Anna Langfus, Polish-French writer (d. 1966)
1922 – Maurice Faure, French diplomat and politician (d. 2014)
1925 – Irina Arkhipova, Russian opera singer (d. 2010)
1925 – Giacomo Furia, Italian actor (d. 2015)
1925 – Larry Harmon, American entertainer and television producer (d. 2008)
1927 – Gino Marchetti, American football player
1928 – Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese writer
1928 – Alberto Zedda, Italian conductor and musicologist (d. 2017)
1930 – Julius La Rosa, American singer (d. 2016)
1931 – Toshiki Kaifu, former Prime Minister of Japan
1931 – James D. Murray, English mathematician
1933 – Richard Riley, 111th Governor of North Carolina
1935 – Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian geographer, stepfather of Barack Obama (d. 1987)
1936 – Roger Miller, American country music singer (d. 1992)
1936 – Kjell Opseth, Norwegian politician (d. 2017)
1937 – Martin Lauer, German athlete and Schlager singer
1938 – Goh Kun, 31st Prime Minister of South Korea
1938 – Ian Brady, British serial killer (d. 2017)
1938 – Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian writer
1939 – Jim Bakker, American televangelist
1939 – Konstanze Vernon, dancer
1940 – Saud bin Faisal, Saudi royal and politician (d. 2015)
1942 – Dennis Hastert, American politician, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
1942 – Hugh Shelton, American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1943 – Baris Manco, Turkish musician (d. 1999)
1944 – Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician
1944 – Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer and conductor
1945 – Slobodan Praljak, Croatian-Bosnian general and politician (d. 2017)
1946 – Sonny Ruberto, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1947 – Alexander Yakushev, Russian ice hockey player
1947 – Calvin Hill, American football player
1947 – Jack Hanna, American zoologist
1947 – David Shapiro, American poet
1948 – Deborah Watling, British actress (d. 2017)
1948 – Tony Judt, British historian (d. 2010)
1948 – Judith Miller, American journalist
1949 – Christopher Durang, American playwright
1951 – Waldir Peres, Brazilian footballer (d. 2017)
1952 – Indulis Emsis, biologist and politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia
1952 – Christine Lavin, American singer-songwriter
1954 – Milovan Rajevac, Serbian footballer and coach
1954 – Henry Bonilla, American politician
1954 – Dawn Silva, singer (The Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk)
1955 – Tex Brashear, American voice actor
1955 – Vivien Savage, French singer-songwriter
1959 – Kirti Azad, Indian cricketer
1960 – Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga artist
1961 – Gabrielle Carteris, American actress
1961 – Neil Dudgeon, British actor
1961 – Todd Haynes, American movie director
1963 – David Cone, American baseball pitcher
1964 – Luis Moro, Cuban-American actor, producer and screenwriter
1964 – Pernell Whitaker, American boxer
1967 – Tia Carrere, American actress
1967 – Jon Gnarr, Icelandic actor, comedian and politician, Mayor of Reykjavik
1967 – Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player
1968 – Goichi Suda, Japanese video game designer
1968 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor
1968 – Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage competitor
1969 – William Fox-Pitt, English equestrian
1969 – Christy Turlington, American fashion model
1969 – Tommy Morrison, American boxer (d. 2013)
1969 – Karl-Heinz Grasser, Austrian politician
1969 – Robby Gordon, American racing driver
1971 – Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress and singer
1972 – Taye Diggs, American actor
1972 – Rodney MacDonald, 26th Premier of Nova Scotia
1973 – Lucy Davis, English actress
1974 – Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model
1975 – Doug Robb, American singer (Hoobastank)
1975 – Dax Shepard, American actor, comedian, writer and director
1976 – Paz Vega, Spanish actress
1976 – Phil Radford, Greenpeace Executive Director
1978 – Kjartan Sveinsson, Icelandic musician
1978 – Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian-American dancer and actress
1979 – Jonathan Greening, English footballer
1980 – Paulo da Silva, Paraguayan footballer
1981 – Hanno Balitsch, German footballer
1981 – Maxi Rodriguez, Argentine footballer
1981 – Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player
1982 – Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker
1983 – Kate Bosworth, American actress
1985 – Heather O'Reilly, American soccer player
1985 – Ivan Dodig, Croatian tennis player
1986 – Asa Akira, Japanese-American pornographic actress
1986 – Trombone Shorty, American jazz musician
1987 – Loïc Rémy, French footballer
1987 – Shelley Hennig, American model and actress
1988 – Jonny Evans, Northern Irish footballer
1989 – Bianca Knight, American sprinter
1991 – Davide Santon, Italian footballer
1991 – Luis Pedro Cavanda, Belgian footballer
1991 – Steele Sidebottom, Australian rules footballer
1993 – Bryson Tiller, American singer-songwriter
1995 – Renata Notni, Mexican actress and model
1512 – Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)
1514 – William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (b. 1460)
1557 – Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
1665 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (b. 1601)
1726 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
1850 – Manuel de la Pena y Pena, President of Mexico (b. 1789)
1861 – Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
1879 – Caleb Cushing, United States Attorney General (b. 1800)
1892 – George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
1904 – James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
1913 – Léon-Philippe Teisserenc, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
1915 – Carl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (b. 1830)
1917 – Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)
1922 – Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
1936 – Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania (b. 1862)
1939 – Roman Tmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
1941 – Mischa Levitzki, Russian-born pianist (b. 1898)
1945 – Bertram Ramsay, British naval commander (b. 1883)
1948 – Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (b. 1893)
1950 – James Dooley, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
1950 – Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1883)
1951 – William Campion, Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)
1955 – José Antonio Remon, President of Panama (b. 1908)
1960 – Fausto Coppi, Italian composer (b. 1919)
1960 – Paul Sauvé, 17th Premier of Quebec (b. 1907)
1960 – Friedrich Adler, Austrian politician and assassin (b. 1897)
1961 – Daniel Chanis Pinzon, President of Panama (b. 1892)
1963 – Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910)
1968 – Cuno Hoffmeister, German astronomer and geophysicist (b. 1892)
1974 – Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
1986 – Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
1987 – Harekrushna Mahatab, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1899)
1989 – Safdar Hashmi, Indian playwright, writer and director (b. 1954)
1990 – Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1921)
1994 – Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (b. 1915)
1994 – Dixy Lee Ray, American politician and Governor of Washington (b. 1917)
1995 – Siad Barre, President of Somalia (b. 1919)
1997 – Randy California, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951)
1999 – Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and writer (b. 1907)
2000 – Nat Adderley, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1931)
2001 – William P. Rogers, United States Secretary of State (b. 1913)
2002 – Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (b. 1958)
2006 – Lidia Wysocka, Polish actress (b. 1916)
2007 – Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born Israeli politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
2008 – Galyani Vadhana, Thai princess, sister of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (b. 1923)
2008 – George MacDonald Fraser, British writer (b. 1925)
2008 – Lee S. Dreyfus, 40th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1926)
2009 – Ryuzo Hiraki, Japanese footballer (b. 1931)
2009 – Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian (b. 1893)
2011 – Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)
2011 – Pete Postlethwaite, British actor (b. 1946)
2011 – Richard Winters, American paratrooper (b. 1918)
2012 – William P. Carey, American investment banker and philanthropist (b. 1930)
2013 – Teresa Toranska, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1944)
2013 – Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1945)
2013 – Mamie Rearden, American supercentenarian (b. 1898)
2013 – Ned Wertimer, American actor (b. 1923)
2014 – Elizabeth Jane Howard, English novelist (b. 1923)
2014 – Dirk Sager, German journalist (b. 1940)
2014 – Thomas Kurzhals, German keyboardist and songwriter (b. 1953)
2014 – Bernard Glasser, American director and producer (b. 1924)
2015 – Lam Po-chuen, Hong Kong dubbing artist (b. 1951)
2015 – Arthur A. Neu, American politician (b. 1933)
2015 – Little Jimmy Dickens, American country music singer (b. 1920)
2015 – Noel Cobb, British philosopher, psychologist and author (b. 1938)
2015 – Tihomir Novakov, American physicist (b. 1929)
2015 – Abu Anas al-Libi, Libyan Al-Qaeda member (b. 1964)
2015 – Basil Hansen, Australian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
2015 – Danny Dunton, English speedway rider and promoter (b. 1924)
2015 – Roger Kitter, English actor (b. 1949)
2016 – Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi cleric (b. 1959)
2016 – Michel Delpech, French singer (b. 1946)
2016 – Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, Indian politician (b. 1924)
2016 – Frances Cress Welsing, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1935)
2016 – Gisela Mota Ocampo, Mexican politician (b. 1982)
2016 – Marcel Barbeau, Canadian artist (b. 1925)
2016 – Shigeji Kaneko, Japanese boxer (b. 1931)
2016 – Matt Hobden, English cricketer (b. 1993)
2017 – John Berger, English art critic, writer and painter (b. 1926)
2017 – Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (b. 1931)
2017 – Albert Brewer, American politician, 47th Governor of Alabama (b. 1928)
2017 – Jean Vuarnet, French skier (b. 1933)
2017 – François Chérèque, French trade unionist (b. 1956)
2017 – Richard Machowicz, American navy SEAL (b. 1965)
2017 – René Ballet, French journalist and author (b. 1928)
2017 – Tom Harpur, Canadian classicist, journalist, theologian an priest (b. 1929)
2018 – Frank Buxton, American actor (b. 1930)
2018 – Rick Hall, American songwriter and recording producer (b. 1932)
2018 – Ferdinando Imposimato, Italian judge and politician (b. 1936)
2018 – Lawal Kaita, Nigerian politician (b. 1932)
2018 – Ali Akbar Moinfar, Iranian politician (b. 1928)
2018 – Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1927)
2019 - Daryl Dragon, American songwriter (Captain & Tennille) (b. 1942)
2022 - Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician (b. 1944)
New Year's Day Bank Holiday (Scotland)
Ancestry Day (Haiti)
Berchtold's Day (Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Alsace)
1066 – Edward the Confessor, King of England, dies.
The resulting crisis leads to the Norman conquest of England later the same year.
1463 – Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.
1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed, Burgundy becomes part of France.
1500 – Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
1527 – Martyrdom of Felix Manz, a Swiss Anabaptist.
1554 – Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
1675 – Battle of Colmar, French army beats Brandenburg.
1757 – Louis XV of France survives the assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France with the traditional and gruesome form of death penalty used for regicides.
1759 – George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
1769 – James Watt patents his steam engine.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
1813 – Denmark is declared bankrupt.
1846 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
1854 – The San Francisco steamer sinks, 300 dead.
1895 – Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1896 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
1900 – Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
1909 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
1913 – First Balkan War: During the Battle of Lemnos, Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
1914 – Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
1919 – The German Workers' Party is founded.
It later becomes the Nazi Party.
1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.
1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
1940 – FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
1944 – The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
1945 – The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
1948 – Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
1949 – US President Harry S. Truman unveils his "Fair Deal" program.
1956 – Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel."
1957 – Major league baseballer Jackie Robinson retires.
1961 – Television: Mr. Ed debuts.
1964 – Pope Paul VI meets the Greek patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem, the first meeting of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity leaders since 1439.
1968 – Alexander Dubček comes to power, "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
1970 – Soap opera All My Children premieres.
1971 – The first one-day international cricket match takes place between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
1972 – President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
1973 – Netherlands recognizes East Germany.
1974 – An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six, and damages hundreds of houses.
1974 – Warmest recorded temperature in Antarctica, at 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit).
1975 – The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
1976 – Cambodia is renamed Democratic Kampuchea.
1980 – Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer.
1984 – Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
1987 – US President Ronald Reagan undergoes prostate surgery causing worries about his health.
1991 – Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, South Ossetia, beginning the 1991-1992 South Ossetia War.
1993 – The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands spilling 84,700 tonnes of oil.
1993 – Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
1996 – Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
1997 – Withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya.
2000 – The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit.
2002 – Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.
2005 – Scientists discover the dwarf planet Eris, near the edge of the Solar System.
2008 – Mikheil Saakashvili is re-elected as President of Georgia.
2012 – Portia Simpson-Miller becomes Prime Minister of Jamaica for a second time.
2015 – The Euro currency plunges to its lowest value in over nine years, while Asian stock markets also experience difficulties.
1209 – Richard I, Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans (d. 1272)
1425 – Henry IV of Castile (d. 1474)
1548 – Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617)
1587 – Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641)
1592 – Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666)
1614 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662)
1640 – Paolo Lorenzani, Italian composer (d. 1713)
1667 – Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (d. 1740)
1679 – Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Italian composer, organist and choirmaster (d. 1750)
1696 – Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect (d. 1757)
1717 – William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793)
1744 – Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Asturian statesman, author and philosopher (d. 1811)
1762 – Constanze Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842)
1767 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist (d. 1832)
1779 – Zebulon Pike, American general and explorer (d. 1813)
1833 – Sophus Bugge, Norwegian philologist (d. 1907)
1834 – William John Wills, Australian explorer (d. 1861)
1838 – Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922)
1846 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer (d. 1926)
1855 – King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932)
1864 – Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (d. 1911)
1865 – Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920)
1866 – Antonio Maria Baptista, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1920)
1867 – Dimitrios Gounaris, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1922)
1874 – Joseph Erlanger, American doctor, won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1965)
1876 – Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1967)
1879 – Marcel Tournier, French harpist and composer (d. 1951)
1879 – Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946)
1881 – Pablo Gargallo, Spanish sculptor and painter (d. 1934)
1891 – Bill Cody, American actor (d. 1948)
1893 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian philosopher and writer (d. 1952)
1895 – Jeannette Piccard, American priest and aeronaut (d. 1981)
1895 – Elizabeth Cotten, American singer-songwriter (d. 1987)
1897 – Theodor Mackeben, German pianist (d. 1953)
1897 – Kiyoshi Miki, Japanese philosopher (d. 1945)
1900 – Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)
1902 – Stella Gibbons, English author (d. 1989)
1904 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)
1906 – Kathleen Kenyon, British archaeologist (d. 1978)
1909 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994)
1909 – Lucienne Bloch, Swiss-born American sculptor, muralist and photographer (d. 1995)
1910 – Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d. 1949)
1914 – George Reeves, American actor (d. 1959)
1917 – Francis L. Kellogg, American diplomat and socialite (d. 2006)
1917 – Wieland Wagner, German stage director (d. 1996)
1917 – Jane Wyman, American actress (d. 2007)
1918 – Dal Richards, Canadian big band leader (d. 2015)
1919 – Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flautist (d. 1992)
1921 – Former Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg (d. 2019)
1921 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
1921 – John H. Reed, 67th Governor of Maine (d. 2012)
1923 – Sam Phillips, American music producer (d. 2003)
1925 – Lou Carnesecca, American basketball coach
1926 – Walther Leisler Kiep, German politician (d. 2016)
1928 – Alexander Dalgarno, British physicist (d. 2015)
1928 – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 1979)
1928 – Walter Mondale, American politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States (d. 2021)
1928 – Preben Hertoft, Danish sexologist (d. 2017)
1929 – Aulis Rytkönen, Finnish footballer (d. 2014)
1931 – Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist
1931 – Alvin Ailey, American choreographer and activist (d. 1989)
1931 – Juan Goytisolo, Spanish writer (d. 2017)
1931 – Robert Duvall, American actor
1932 – Umberto Eco, Italian writer and columnist (d. 2016)
1932 – Raisa Gorbachova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (d. 1999)
1932 – Chuck Noll, American football coach (d. 2014)
1934 – Phil Ramone, South African-born American sound engineer and record producer (d. 2013)
1935 – David Ryall, English actor (d. 2014)
1936 – Florence King, American novelist, essayist and columnist (d. 2016)
1938 – Juan Carlos I, King of Spain from 1975 to 2014
1938 – Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Kenyan writer
1938 – Terry Davis, British politician
1940 – Veikko Kankkonen, Finnish ski jumper
1941 – Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film director, producer, animator and screenwriter
1941 – Chuck McKinley, American tennis player (d. 1986)
1942 – Maurizio Pollini, Italian classical pianist
1944 – Ed Rendell, 45th Governor of Pennsylvania
1946 – Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, Japanese royal (d. 2012)
1946 – Diane Keaton, American actress, movie producer and director
1947 – Mike DeWine, American politician
1947 – Kathrine Switzer, American author, television commentator and marathon runner
1947 – Rita Kühne, German athlete
1948 – Ted Lange, American actor
1948 – Giuseppe Impastato, Italian anti-Mafia campaigner (d. 1978)
1950 – John Manley, Canadian lawyer and politician
1950 – Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, English lawyer and politician
1950 – Ioan P. Culiano, Romanian historian, philosopher and author (d. 1991)
1952 – Uli Hoeness, German footballer
1953 – Steve Archer, American singer
1953 – George Tenet, American former CIA director
1953 – Mike Rann, 44th Premier of South Australia
1954 – Alex English, American basketball player
1954 – Pamela Sue Martin, actress
1955 – Mamata Banerjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal
1955 – Jimmy Mulville, English comedian, actor, producer and screenwriter
1955 – Douglas Chapman, Scottish politician
1956 – Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German politician, President of Germany
1958 – Monica Guerritore, Italian actress
1959 – Clancy Brown, American actor
1960 – Otar Korghalidze, Georgian footballer
1960 – Phil Thornalley, English songwriter, producer and musician
1962 – Suzy Amis, American actress
1963 – Ralf Loose, German footballer
1965 – Vinnie Jones, British footballer and actor
1967 – Joe Flanigan, American actor
1968 – DJ BoBo, Swiss DJ, singer-songwriter and producer
1968 – Carrie Anne Inaba, American actress, singer, dancer and choreographer
1968 – Andrew Golota, Polish boxer
1969 – Giorgi Baranidze, Georgian politician
1969 – Marilyn Manson, American rock singer
1972 – Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer
1972 – Sascha Schmitz, German singer
1972 – Luciana Pedraza, Argentine actress, director and screenwriter
1972 – Philip Davies, English politician
1973 – Uday Chopra, Indian actor
1974 – Iwan Thomas, Welsh sprinter
1975 – Bradley Cooper, American actor
1976 – Matt Wachter, American bass player
1978 – Franck Montagny, French Formula One driver
1978 – January Jones, American actress
1978 – Emilia Rydberg, Swedish singer
1979 – Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Masami Tanaka, Japanese swimmer
1979 – Blanca Soto, Mexican actress and model
1980 – Sebastian Deisler, German footballer
1980 – Santiago Ventura Bertomeu, Spanish tennis player
1980 – Chema Rodriguez, Spanish handball player
1981 – Corey Flynn, New Zealand rugby player
1982 – Janica Kostelic, Croatian skier
1982 – Darren Mackie, Scottish footballer
1982 – Jaroslav Plasil, Czech footballer
1982 – Karel Geraerts, Belgian footballer
1983 – Sean Dockery, American basketball player
1984 – Ikechukwu Uche, Nigerian footballer
1984 – Reinar Hallik, Estonian basketball player
1984 – Amanda Hearst, American model
1985 – Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer
1985 – Yoon So-yi, South Korean actress
1986 – Deepika Padukone, Indian actress
1987 – Kristin Cavallari, American actress
1988 – Miroslav Raduljica, Serbian basketball player
1988 – Nikola Kalinic, Croatian footballer
1989 – Krisztian Nemeth, Hungarian footballer
1990 – Yang Yo-seok, South Korean singer and dancer
1990 – Leroy Fer, Dutch footballer
1991 – Daniel Pacheco, Spanish footballer
1993 – Franz Drameh, British actor
1996 – Max Baldry, British actor
1996 – Emma Bolger, Irish actress
1999 – Marc Yu, American pianist and cellist
1066 – Edward the Confessor, King of England (b. 1004)
1113 – Ulrich I, Duke of Brno, Moravian ruler
1387 – Peter IV of Aragon (b. 1319)
1448 – Christopher III of Bavaria, King of Denmark (b. 1416)
1465 – Charles, Duke of Orleans (b. 1389)
1477 – Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1433)
1527 – Felix Manz, Swiss martyr (b. 1498)
1588 – Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (b. 1528)
1589 – Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France (b. 1519)
1713 – Jean Chardin, French explorer (b. 1643)
1740 – Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1677)
1762 – Elizabeth of Russia (b. 1709)
1771 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (b. 1710)
1816 – George Prevost, British officer and diplomat (b. 1767)
1858 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
1891 – Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849)
1904 – Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (b. 1839)
1910 – Léon Walras, French economist (b. 1834)
1910 – Nikolaos Deligiannis, Greek politician (b. 1844)
1913 – Louis Paul Cailletet, French physicist (b. 1834)
1919 – Sumako Matsui, Japanese actress (b. 1886)
1922 – Ernest Shackleton, Irish Antarctic explorer (b. 1874)
1933 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
1941 – Amy Johnson, English pilot (b. 1903)
1942 – Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, revolutionary and political activist (b. 1896)
1943 – George Washington Carver, American scientist and educator (b. 1864)
1945 – Julius Leber, German politician and resistance activist (b. 1891)
1951 – Seo Jae-pil, Korean journalist and politician (b. 1864)
1952 – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, British Viceroy of India (b. 1887)
1952 – Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1869)
1956 – Mistinguett, French actress and singer (b. 1875)
1970 – Max Born, German physicist (b. 1882)
1971 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American sound designer and engineer (b. 1899)
1976 – John A. Costello, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1891)
1976 – Mal Evans, English band manager (The Beatles) (b. 1935)
1979 – Charles Mingus, American bassist and composer (b. 1922)
1981 – Harold C. Urey, American chemist (b. 1893)
1985 – Robert L. Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1906)
1987 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-Canadian cross country skier (b. 1875)
1991 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (b. 1922)
1993 – Westley Allan Dodd, American murderer (b. 1961)
1994 – Tip O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912)
1997 – Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (b. 1912)
1997 – Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Swedish royal (b. 1912)
1998 – Sonny Bono, American musician, actor and politician (b. 1935)
2003 – Roy Jenkins, British politician (b. 1920)
2003 – Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (b. 1918)
2004 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2006 – Merlyn Rees, British politician (b. 1920)
2007 – Momofuko Ando, Taiwanese businessman (b. 1910)
2009 – Adolf Merckle, German industrialist (b. 1934)
2010 – Kenneth Noland, American painter (b. 1924)
2010 – Toni Tecuceanu, Romanian actor (b. 1972)
2012 – Frederica Sagor Maas, American screenwriter, playwright and writer (b. 1900)
2013 – Reg Dean, British supercentenarian (b. 1902)
2013 – Martha Greenhouse, American actress (b. 1921)
2014 – Eusébio, Portuguese footballer (b. 1942)
2014 – Simon Hoggart, English journalist (b. 1946)
2014 – Carmen Zapata, American actress (b. 1927)
2014 – Alma Muriel, Mexican actress (b. 1951)
2014 – Mogens E. Pedersen, Danish journalist (b. 1928)
2014 – Jerry Coleman, American baseball player (b. 1924)
2015 – Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, American Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1912)
2015 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French racing driver (b. 1937)
2015 – Joy Ali, Fijian boxer (b. 1978)
2015 – Khan Bonfils, English actor (b. 1972)
2015 – King Sporty, Jamaican-American reggae musician (b. 1943)
2016 – Jean-Paul L'Allier, Canadian politician (b. 1938)
2016 – Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor (b. 1925)
2016 – Percy Freeman, English footballer (b. 1945)
2016 – Rudolf Haag, German theoretical physicist and educator (b. 1922)
2016 – Lev Nikolayevich Korolyov, Russian computer scientist (b. 1926)
2016 – Michael Purcell, Australian rugby player (b. 1945)
2017 – Tullio De Mauro, Italian linguist and politician (b. 1932)
2017 – Jill Saward, English campaigner (b. 1965)
2017 – Christopher Weeramantry, Sri Lankan judge (b. 1926)
2017 – Spartak Belyaev, Russian theoretical physicist (b. 1921)
2017 – Géori Boué, French soprano (b. 1918)
2017 – Paul Goble, English-American author and illustrator (b. 1933)
2017 – John Wightman, American politician (b. 1938)
2018 – Antonio Angelillo, Argentine-Italian footballer (b. 1937)
2018 – Carlos Heitor Cony, Brazilian journalist and writer (b. 1926)
2018 – Asghar Khan, Pakistani politician and military officer (b. 1921)
2018 – Marina Ripa Di Meana, Italian writer, actress and television personality (b. 1941)
2018 – Jerry Van Dyke, American actor and comedian (b. 1931)
2018 – John W. Young, American astronaut (b. 1930)
Twelfth Night (Western Christianity) – night to January 6
Since 2021, the terms January 6, January 6th, and 1/6 have been used in the media as a shorthand for the 2021 United States Capitol riots, which occurred on that day
1066 – Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
1118 – Reconquista: Alfonso the Battler conquers Zaragoza.
1311 – Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Italy.
1355 – Charles I of Bohemia is crowned King of Italy in Milan.
1389 – The University of Cologne is opened, with a celebratory church service in Cologne Cathedral on the Feast day of the Three Kings, the city's patron saints.
1492 – The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.
1540 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
1612 – Axel Oxenstierna becomes Lord High Chancellor of Sweden.
1661 – English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
1759 – George Washington marries Martha Dandridge.
1781 – Battle of Jersey: Great Britain defeats the last attempt by France to invade Jersey in the Channel Islands.
1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes.
1839 – Ireland is hit by its most damaging storm in 300 years.
1853 – US President-elect Franklin Pierce's family are involved in a train accident in Andover, Massachusetts, killing Pierce's 11-year-old son Benjamin.
Pierce and his wife suffer from depression after this incident, and Franklin Pierce turns to alcoholism.
1870 – Vienna's Musikverein is inaugurated.
1893 – Washington National Cathedral is chartered by the United States Congress.
1900 – It is reported that millions are starving in India.
1900 – Boers attack Ladysmith, South Africa – over 1000 people killed.
1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome.
1912 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
1912 – Alfred Wegener presents his theory of Continental drift.
1921 – Formation of Iraq's Army.
1926 – Lufthansa, currently Germany's biggest airline, is created.
1929 – Alexander I of Yugoslavia suspends his country's constitution.
1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta.
1930 – The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
1931 – Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
1939 – Al Capone is released early from prison.
1940 – Mass execution of Polish people by Germans in the city of Poznań, Warthegau.
1941 – Franklin D. Roosevelt makes his "Four Freedoms" speech during his State of the Union Address.
1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
1950 – The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China.
The Republic of China ends diplomatic relations with Britain in response.
1951 – Korean War: Ganghwa massacre.
1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb between New York City and Miami.
1967 – United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
1978 – The United States returns the Crown of St. Stephen to Hungary.
1991 – Jorge Antonio Serrano Elias is elected President of Guatemala, becoming the first Protestant Head of State in Latin America.
1992 – The United Nations Security Council condemns Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
1992 – President Zviad Gamsakhurdia leaves Georgia, after a military coup.
1993 – The Indian Border Security Force kills 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir.
1994 – Nancy Kerrigan is attacked during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.
1998 – Unidentified perpetrators saw off the head of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen; this is the second time that the statue has been damaged by this kind of vandalism; it previously happened in 1964.
2001 – Al Gore, as President of the United States Senate, names George W. Bush as the winner of the 2000 United States presidential election.
2005 – Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights activists.
2016 – North Korea declares that nuclear weapons testing of hydrogen atom has been done.
2018 – The "MV Sanchi" oil tanker collides with a Hong Kong-flagged ship near Shanghai, causing an explosion and leaving 32 sailors missing.
1256 – Gertrude the Great, German mystic and theologian (d. 1302)
1367 – Richard II of England (d. 1400)
1412 – Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431)
1486 – Martin Agricola, German composer (d. 1556)
1525 – Caspar Peucer, German reformer and physician (d. 1602)
1561 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physician (d. 1656)
1587 – Gaspar de Guzman, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (d. 1645)
1617 – Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
1655 – Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1720)
1670 – Alexander Gordon, Scottish-Russian general (d. 1752)
1695 – Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian composer (d. 1750)
1714 – Percival Pott, English physician (d. 1788)
1730 – Thomas Crittenden, 1st Governor of Vermont (d. 1797)
1745 – Jacques Etienne Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1799)
1787 – Gaspard Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine, 1st Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1871)
1793 – James Madison Porter, American politician (d. 1862)
1798 – Melchior von Diepenbrock, Prince-Bishop of Breslau (d. 1853)
1799 – Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer and author (d. 1831)
1801 – Daniel Haines, two-time Governor of New Jersey (d. 1877)
1803 – Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1888)
1805 – Charles J. Jenkins, American politician and Governor of Georgia (d. 1883)
1807 – Joseph Petzval, Slovakian inventor (d. 1891)
1811 – Charles Sumner, American politician (d. 1874)
1812 – Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary figure (d. 1919)
1819 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (d. 1886)
1822 – Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
1826 – Adolf Kirchhoff, German philologist (d. 1908)
1827 – John C. Brown, American Confederate general and politician, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1889)
1832 – Gustave Dore, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
1837 – Juan Lindolfo Cuestas, President of Uruguay (d. 1905)
1838 – Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
1842 – Clarence King, American geologist, mountaineer and critic (d. 1901)
1848 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1876)
1850 – Eduard Bernstein, German politician and political theorist (d. 1932)
1850 – Franz Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German pianist and composer (d. 1924)
1856 – Giuseppe Martucci, Italian composer (d. 1909)
1857 – William E. Russell, 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1857 – Hugh Mahon, Australian politician (d. 1931)
1859 – Samuel Alexander, Australian-English philosopher (d. 1938)
1861 – Victor Horta, Belgian architect and designer (d. 1947)
1862 – August Oetker, German businessman (d. 1918)
1868 – Stefan Luchian, Romanian painter (d. 1937)
1868 – Vittorio Monti, Italian composer, conductor and violinist (d. 1922)
1870 – Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1944)
1872 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
1874 – Fred Niblo, American actor, director and producer (d. 1948)
1878 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)
1880 – Tom Mix, American actor, director and producer (d. 1940)
1882 – Sam Rayburn, American politician (d. 1961)
1882 – Fan S. Noli, 14th Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1965)
1883 – Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese writer (d. 1931)
1899 – Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile pioneer (d. 1968)
1900 – Maria of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)
1902 – Helmut Poppendick, German physician (d. 1994)
1913 – Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001)
1913 – Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
1915 – Don Edwards, American politician (d. 2015)
1915 – Alan Watts, English philosopher (d. 1973)
1920 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
1920 – Early Wynn, American baseball player
1922 – George Carroll, American lawyer and politician (d. 2016)
1923 – Norman Kirk, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1974)
1924 – Earl Scruggs, American musician (d. 2012)
1925 – John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman (d. 2005)
1925 – Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen (d. 2010)
1925 – Ari Rath, Austrian-Israeli journalist (d. 2017)
1926 – Ralph Branca, American baseball player (d. 2016)
1926 – Pat Flaherty, American racing driver (d. 2002)
1926 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
1927 – Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, American physician, 11th Surgeon General of the United States (d. 2014)
1928 – Capucine, American actress (d. 1990)
1928 – Derek Saunders, English footballer (d. 2018)
1929 – Babrak Karmal, Afghan politician (d. 1996)
1931 – E. L. Doctorow, American writer (d. 2015)
1931 – Dickie Moore, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1932 – José Saraiva Martins, Portuguese cardinal
1932 – Max Streibl, German politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (d. 1998)
1933 – Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2003)
1933 – Leszek Drogosz, Polish boxer (d. 2012)
1933 – Emil Steinberger, Swiss actor, director and screenwriter
1934 – Sylvia Sims, English actress
1935 – Margarita of Bulgaria
1935 – Claude Steiner, French-born American psychologist and writer (d. 2017)
1935 – Gerald R. Molen, American film producer
1936 – Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre, 49th President of Guatemala
1936 – Julio Maria Sanguinetti, former President of Uruguay
1937 – Harri Holkeri, 57th Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2011)
1937 – Paolo Conte, Italian singer-songwriter, jazz musician and composer
1938 – Adriano Celentano, Italian singer-songwriter, actor and director
1939 – Murray Rose, British-born Australian swimmer (d. 2012)
1939 – Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2002)
1941 – Philippe Busquin, Belgian politician
1942 – Vicki Lansky, American author and publisher (d. 2017)
1943 – Hak Ja Han, South Korean church leader
1943 – Terry Venables, English football manager
1944 – Bonnie Franklin, American actress (d. 2013)
1944 – Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist
1945 – Barry John, Welsh rugby player
1946 – Syd Barrett, English guitarist, singer and songwriter (Pink Floyd) (d. 2006)
1948 – Guy Gardner, American air force officer and astronaut
1949 – Carolyn D. Wright, American poet (d. 2016)
1950 – Louis Freeh, 10th Director of the FBI
1951 – Kim Wilson, American musician
1953 – Malcolm Young, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter, actor and director (d. 2017)
1953 – Manfred Kaltz, German footballer
1954 – Yuji Horii, Japanese video game designer