the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
2018 - 5 August 2018 Lombok earthquake: An earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Lombok, killing over 560 people.
2019 - The government of India removes Indian-administered Kashmir's special status with immediate effect.
1301 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330)
1397 – Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer (d. 1474)
1461 - Alexander Jagiellon, King of Poland (d. 1506)
1540 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, Dutch philologist (d. 1609)
1623 - Pietro Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (d. 1669)
1737 - Antonio Franconi, Italian impresario (d. 1836)
1737 - Johann Friedrich Struensee, German physician and minister in Denmark (d. 1772)
1742 - Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz, Czech composer and harpist (d. 1790)
1749 - Thomas Lynch, Jr., signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1779)
1758 - Emperor Go-Momozono of Japan (d. 1779)
1795 - Byron Diman, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1865)
1797 - Friedrich August Kummer, German composer (d. 1879)
1802 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829)
1811 - Ambroise Thomas, French composer (d. 1896)
1813 – Ivar Aasen, Norwegian poet and linguist (d. 1896)
1815 – Edward John Eyre, English explorer and colonial official (d. 1901)
1827 – Deodoro da Fonseca, first President of Brazil (d. 1892)
1828 – Louise of the Netherlands, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1871)
1833 - Carola Vasa, consort of Albert of Saxony (d. 1907)
1843 - James Scott Skinner, Scottish violinist and composer (d. 1927)
1844 – Ilya Repin, Ukrainian painter (d. 1930)
1850 – Guy de Maupassant, French writer (d. 1893)
1862 – Joseph Merrick, British man, who through his deformities, was often referred to as the Elephant Man (d. 1890)
1866 - Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (d. 1917)
1868 - Oskar Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1924)
1869 - J. C. W. Beckham, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (d. 1940)
1872 - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (d. 1917)
1872 - Thomas Wyllie, Scottish footballer (d. 1943)
1875 – Malin Craig, American general (d. 1945)
1877 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917)
1880 - Hermann Lüdemann, German politician (d. 1959)
1889 - Conrad Aiken, American author and poet (d. 1973)
1890 – Naum Gabo, American sculptor and architect (d. 1977)
1890 – Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 1956)
1897 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (d. 1972)
1900 - Rudolf Schottlaender, German philosopher, translator and classicist (d. 1988)
1905 - Artem Mikoyan, Soviet-Armenian aircraft designer (d. 1970)
1905 – Wassily Leontief, Russian-American economist (d. 1999)
1906 – John Huston, American director (d. 1987)
1906 – Joan Hickson, British actress (d. 1998)
1907 - Syd Ward, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2010)
1908 – Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
1908 – Miriam Rothschild, British conservationist (d. 2005)
1910 - Herminio Masantonio, Argentine footballer (d. 1956)
1915 - Hans Schnitger, Dutch field hockey player (d. 2013)
1918 - Kondapalli Koteswaramma, Indian Communist revolutionary and writer (d. 2018)
1919 - David Morgenthaler, American businessman (d. 2016)
1922 - L. Tom Perry, American religious leader (d. 2015)
1923 – Devan Nair, former President of Singapore (d. 2005)
1925 - Albert Eschenmoser, Swiss organic chemist
1926 - Per Wahlöö, Swedish writer (d. 1975)
1926 - Betsy Jolas, French composer
1926 - Clifford Husbands, former Governor-General of Barbados (d. 2017)
1928 - Carla Lane, English television writer (d. 2016)
1929 - Al Alvarez, English poet and writer (d. 2019)
1929 - Don Matheson, American actor (d. 2014)
1929 - Nathalia Timberg, Brazilian actress
1930 – Neil Armstrong, American pilot and astronaut, first person to walk on the Moon (d. 2012)
1930 - Richie Ginther, American racing driver (d. 1989)
1930 - Michal Kovac, Slovakian politician and former President (d. 2016)
1931 - Billy Bingham, Northern Irish footballer
1931 - Gita Dey, Indian actress (d. 2011)
1932 - Vladimir Fedoseyev, Russian conductor
1934 - Giovanni Anselmo, Italian artist
1934 - Cammie King, American actress (d. 2010)
1934 – Zakes Mokae, South African actor (d. 2009)
1935 - Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (d. 2017)
1935 - Wanda Ventham, British actress
1937 - Brian G. Marsden, British astronomer (d. 2010)
1937 - Herb Brooks, American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2003)
1937 - Manuel Pinta da Costa, President of Sao Tomé and Principe
1939 – Princess Irene of the Netherlands
1940 - Ally Shewan, Scottish footballer
1941 – Leonid Kizim, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2010)
1941 - Bob Clark, American movie producer and director (d. 2007)
1941 - Airto Moreira, Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist
1943 - Leo Kinnunen, Finnish racing driver (d. 2017)
1943 - Andy Roxburgh, Scottish footballer and manager
1943 - Sammi Smith, American singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
1944 - Stellan Bojerud, Swedish politician (d. 2015)
1944 - Polycarp Pengo, Archbishop of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
1944 - Hans-Peter Uhl, German politician
1946 - Loni Anderson, American actress
1946 - Shirley Ann Jackson, American physicist
1946 - Xavier Trias, 118th Mayor of Barcelona
1946 - Reinhard Tritscher, German skier (d. 2019)
1947 - Angry Anderson, Australian actor and singer
1948 – Ray Clemence, English footballer
1948 - David Hungate, American bassist (Toto)
1948 - Carole Laure, Canadian actress and singer
1950 – Rosi Mittermaier, German skier
1952 - Louis Walsh, Irish music manager
1955 – John Whitaker, British equestrian showjumper
1955 - Eddie Ojeda, American guitarist
1956 - Christopher Chessun, English bishop
1956 - Jerry Ciccoritti, Canadian actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1956 - Maureen McCormack, American actress, author and recording artist
1959 - Pete Burns, English singer (d. 2016)
1959 – Pat Smear, American musician
1960 - David Baldacci, American writer
1960 - Gérard Onesta, French politician
1961 - Janet McTeer, English actress
1961 - Greg Kite, American basketball player
1962 – Patrick Ewing, American basketball player
1963 - Doris Schröder-Köpf, German author and politician
1963 - Mark Strong, English actor
1963 - Brian Sandoval, American politician, 30th Governor of Nevada
1964 - Adam Yauch, American singer and musician (Beastie Boys) (d. 2012)
1964 - Dougie Arnott, Scottish footballer
1965 - Motoi Sakuraba, Japanese composer
1965 - Jean-Marc Morandini, French television host
1966 - Jonathan Silverman, American actor
1966 - Senarath Attanayake, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 2017)
1967 - Kazunori Yamauchi, Japanese Vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment
1968 – Terri Clark, Canadian country music singer
1968 - Katrina Adams, American tennis player
1968 - Kendo Kashin, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 - Marine Le Pen, French politician
1968 – Oleh Luzhny, Ukrainian footballer
1968 – Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (d. 2007)
1968 - Stephanie Flanders, English journalist, former BBC Economics editor
1968 - John Olerud, American baseball player
1969 - Jackie Doyle-Price, English politician
1969 - Venkatesh Prasad, Indian cricketer
1970 - James Gunn, American director, screenwriter, producer and actor
1970 - Leonid Stadnyk, Ukrainian claimant to world's tallest man title (d. 2014)
1971 – Valdis Dombrovskis, former Prime Minister of Latvia
1971 - Jared Hasselhoff, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1974 - Antoine Sibierski, French footballer
1974 - Julio César Enciso, Paraguayan footballer
1975 – Kajol, Indian actress
1975 - Eicca Toppinen, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica)
1976 - Jewel De'Nyle, American pornographic actress
1977 - Soraya Jiménez, Mexican weightlifter (d. 2013)
1977 - Santiago Pérez, Spanish cyclist
1977 - Hunico, Mexican-American professional wrestler
1978 – Kim Gevaert, Belgian athlete
1979 – David Healy, Northern Irish footballer
1980 – Wayne Bridge, English footballer
1980 – Jason Culina, Australian footballer
1980 - Salvador Cabañas, Paraguayan footballer
1980 - Morten Solem, Norwegian ski jumper
1980 - Sophie Winkleman, English actress
1981 – Carl Crawford, American baseball player
1981 – Erik Guay, Canadian skier
1981 - Cory Williams, American actor
1981 - Jesse Williams, American actor
1982 – LoLo Jones, American athlete
1982 - Michele Pazienza, Italian footballer
1982 - Ryu Seung-min, South Korean table tennis player
1983 - Dawn Richard, American singer
1983 - Kara Tointon, English actress
1984 - Helene Fischer, Russian-born German singer and television presenter
1985 – Salomon Kalou, footballer from Ivory Coast
1985 - Laurent Ciman, Belgian footballer
1987 - Lexi Belle, American pornographic actress
1987 - Genelia D'Souza, Indian actress
1988 – Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer
1988 - Michael Jamieson, Scottish swimmer
1989 - Ryan Bertrand, English footballer
1991 - Esteban Gutiérrez, Mexican Formula One racing driver
1991 - Andreas Weimann, Austrian footballer
1992 - Tray Walker, American football player (d. 2016)
1993 - Sverrir Ingi Ingason, Icelandic footballer
1995 - Kylian Hazard, Belgian footballer
1997 - Olivia Holt, American actress
1997 - Adam Irigoyen, American actor
1998 - Kanon Suzuki, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
642 - Oswald of Northumbria (b. 604)
882 - King Louis III of France (b. 863)
1063 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd (b. 1007)
1364 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313)
1579 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (b. 1504)
1633 - George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)
1729 - Thomas Newcomen, English engineer (b. 1664)
1792 – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1732).
1862 - Felix de Muelenaere, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1793)
1868 - Jacques Boucher de Crevecoeur de Perthes, French archaeologist (b. 1788)
1877 - Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Swedish royal (b. 1799)
1880 - Ferdinand von Hebra, Austrian physician (b. 1816)
1888 - Philip Sheridan, American general (b. 1831)
1895 – Friedrich Engels, German thinker who wrote about Communism with Karl Marx (b. 1820).
1901 – Victoria, Princess Royal, British princess and Empress of Germany (b. 1840).
1911 - Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (b. 1864)
1921 - Dimitrios Rallis, Greek politician (b. 1844)
1929 – Millicent Fawcett, British suffragette (b. 1847)
1933 - Charles Harold Davis, American painter (b. 1856)
1940 - Frederick Cook, American physician and explorer, claimed to be first at the North Pole (b. 1865).
1943 - Liane Berkowitz, German resistance activist (b. 1923)
1944 - Maurice Turnbull, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1906)
1946 – Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
1955 – Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1909)
1957 – Heinrich Wieland, German biochemist (b. 1877)
1959 - Edgar Guest, English-American poet (b. 1881)
1960 – Arthur Meighen, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
1961 - Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1893)
1962 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress (b. 1926)
1963 - Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
1964 - Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1886)
1968 - Luther Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1928)
1978 - Jesse Haines, American baseball player (b. 1893)
1983 - Judy Canova, American actress (b. 1913)
1984 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (b. 1925)
1991 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese businessman (b. 1906)
1992 – Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1921)
1992 – Jeff Porcaro, American musician (b. 1954)
1998 – Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian dictator (b. 1911)
1998 - Otto Kretschmer, German U-boat commander (b. 1912)
2000 - Artur Erikson, Swedish singer and preacher (b. 1918)
2000 – Alec Guinness, British actor (b. 1914)
2001 - Duong Van Minh, South Vietnamese politician and general (b. 1916)
2001 - Otema Allimadi, Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1929)
2002 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
2006 – Susan Butcher, American dogsledder (b. 1954)
2007 - Jean-Marie Lustiger, French cardinal (b. 1926)
2009 – Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
2010 – Godfrey Binaisa, former President of Uganda (b. 1920)
2011 - Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician (b. 1954)
2011 - Francesco Quinn, American actor (b. 1963)
2012 - Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1919)
2013 - George Duke, American keyboardist (b. 1946)
2014 - Marilyn Burns, American actress (b. 1949)
2014 - Scott Ciencin, American novelist (b. 1962)
2014 - Harold J. Greene, American general  (b. 1959)
2014 - Chapman Pincher, English journalist (b. 1914)
2014 - Yoshiki Sasai, Japanese biologist (b. 1962)
2014 - Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, 11th Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1927)
2014 - Vladimir Orlov, Russian author (b. 1936)
2014 - Dmitri Anosov, Russian mathematician (b. 1936)
2014 - Elfriede Brüning, German writer (b. 1910)
2015 - George Cole, English actor (b. 1925)
2015 - Ellen Vogel, Dutch actress (b. 1922)
2016 - Alphons Egli, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1924)
2017 - Irina Berezhna, Ukrainian politician (b. 1980)
2017 - Bruno Canfora, Italian composer, conductor and jazz musician (b. 1929)
2017 - Dionigi Tettamanzi, Italian cardinal (b. 1934)
2017 - Mark White, American politician, 43rd Governor of Texas (b. 1940)
2017 - Ernst Zündel, German publisher and Holocaust denier (b. 1939)
2017 - Hélène Martini, French night club owner (b. 1924)
2017 - George Bundy Smith, American lawyer, civil rights activist and judge (b. 1937)
2018 - Barry Chuckle, English entertainer (b. 1944)
2018 - Robert Dugard, English speedway rider (b. 1942)
2018 - Ellen Joyce Loo, Canadian-Hong Kong singer-songwriter (b. 1986)
2018 - Alan Rabinowitz, American zoologist (b. 1953)
2018 - Charlotte Rae, American actress (b. 1926)
2018 - Piotr Szulkin, Polish film director (b. 1950)
2019 - Josef Kadraba, Czech footballer (b. 1933)
2019 - Bjorg Lambrecht, Belgian cyclist (b. 1997)
2019 - Asif Mohseni, Afghan religious leader (b. 1935)
2019 - Toni Morrison, American writer (b. 1931)
Independence Day (Burkina Faso)
Victory Day (Croatia)
International Beer Day
August 05
364 – Roman Emperor Jovian dies under suspicious circumstances, after a short reign of eight months.
1164 – A major flood on what is now Germany's North Sea coast, kills 20,000 people.
1370 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
1400 - The body of Richard II of England is put on display at the Old St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
1600 - Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned to death for heresy in Rome.
1621 - Myles Standish is appointed as the first commander of Plymouth Colony.
1753 – Sweden changes from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
February 17 is followed by March 1.
1801 – The United States House of Representatives chooses Thomas Jefferson to become the next President of the United States.
1854 – The United Kingdom recognises the independent Orange Free State.
1863 - A group of citizens from Geneva founds the International Committee for Relief of the Wounded, which later becomes the International Red Cross.
1864 - American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic.
1865 - American Civil War: Union troops capture Columbia, South Carolina.
As this state is particularly seen as responsible for starting the war, the city is virtually flattened.
1867 – Gyula Andrassy is declared Prime Minister of Hungary after the creation of the co-operative monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
1871 – The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris after the end of the Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War.
1900 - Wilhelm II of Germany declares the Western Samoan Islands a "German Protectorate".
1904 – Madame Butterfly premieres at La Scala opera house in Milan.
1913 - The Armory Art Show begin in New York City, showing works by artists who become influential later in the 20th century.
1917 – The French troop transporter Athos is sunk, killing 754 people.
1924 – Johnny Weissmuller sets a world record in the 100-metre freestyle swimming.
1933 – Newsweek magazine is published for the first time.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins, ending in an American victory over Japanese forces on February 22.
1949 - Chaim Weizmann becomes President of Israel.
1959 - Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite, is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
1962 - Parts of northern Germany are severely flooded in the night from February 16, causing 300 deaths in the city of Hamburg alone.
1964 - President of Gabon Leon M'ba is removed from office in a coup by his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame.
M'ba is reinstated by France the next day.
1965 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 space probe is launched to the "Sea of Tranquility" on the Moon.
1968 – In Springfield, Massachusetts, the James Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon visits China.
1979 – The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
1980 – Krzyzstof Wielicki and Leszek Clichy becomes the first people to reach the top of Mount Everest during the winter season.
1992 – American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is sentenced to life imprisonment.
1993 - The Neptune ferry sinks off Haiti.
It is not known exactly how many people were killed, though it is thought to have been at least 1,500.
1995 – The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador is ended by a United Nations ceasefire.
1996 - An earthquake of magnitude 8.2 strikes Irian Jaya, the Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea, killing 166 people.
1996 – The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft is launched to the asteroid 433 Eros.
1996 – After being defeated in a game of chess on February 10, Garry Kasparov wins a six-match series 4-2 against the computer Deep Blue.
1998 – Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Armenian troops kill between 70 and 90 Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Qaradagli.
2003 – London's Congestion charging system begins.
2006 – A massive mudslide in Southern Leyte, Philippines, kills 1,126 people.
2008 – Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.
However, Serbia does not recognise Kosovo as an independent state, and its status is still in dispute as of 2014.
2011 – Bahraini security forces launch a pre-dawn raid on protesters at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama.
2011 – Protests begin in Libya against Muammar al-Gaddafi.
Soon after, Libya enters into a state of civil war between pro- and anti-Gaddafi fighters.
Gaddafi is killed in October.
2012 – President of Germany Christian Wulff resigns over a home-loan scandal, becoming the shortest-serving President ever of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Horst Seehofer becomes interim-President until a successor can be found.
Joachim Gauck becomes President just over a month later.
2014 - A building collapse in Geongju, South Korea, kills at least 10 people, most of them students.
624 - Wu Zetian, Chinese Empress of the Zhou Dynasty (d. 705)
1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
1490 - Charles III, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1527)
1519 – Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563)
1524 - Charles of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1574)
1581 - Fausto Poli, Italian cardinal (d. 1653)
1653 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (d. 1713)
1699 – Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Prussian soldier, painter and architect (d. 1753)
1718 - Matthew Tilgh, American Continental Congressman (d. 1790)
1723 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (d. 1762)
1740 - John Sullivan, American general, politician and Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1795)
1752 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (d. 1831)
1754 - Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803)
1781 – René Laennec, French physician (d. 1826)
1782 – Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy, Russian aristocrat (d. 1846)
1792 - Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876)
1796 – Giovanni Pacini, Italian opera composer (d. 1867)
1796 – Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (d. 1886)
1817 - Edouard Thilges, 7th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1904)
1820 - Elzear-Alexandre Taschereau, French cardinal (d. 1898)
1820 - Henri Vieutemps, Belgian composer (d. 1881)
1821 – Lola Montez, Irish dancer (d. 1861)
1836 - Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Spanish poet (d. 1870)
1848 - Louisa Lawson, Australian writer and feminist (d. 1920)
1848 – Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner (d. 1920)
1854 – Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1902)
1861 – Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (d. 1922)
1862 – Mori Ogai, Japanese novelist and poet (d. 1922)
1862 - Eugen Schmidt, Danish athlete (d. 1931)
1863 - Fyodor Sologub, Russian writer (d. 1927)
1864 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (d. 1941)
1866 - Henry Hollis Horton, 40th Governor of Tennessee (d. 1934)
1877 - Isidora Sekulic, Serbian writer (d. 1958)
1877 - Andre Maginot, French politician (d. 1932)
1885 – Romano Guardini, German theologian (d. 1968)
1887 - Joseph Bech, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1975)
1888 – Otto Stern, German physicist (d. 1969)
1890 - Ronald Fisher, English statistician, biologist and geneticist (d. 1962)
1891 – Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician (d. 1965)
1892 - Marjorie Fielding, British actress (d. 1956)
1893 - Wally Pipp, American baseball player (d. 1965)
1894 - Hendrik Kramers, Dutch physicist (d. 1952)
1901 - Philotheus Boehner, German monk and medieval scholar (d. 1955)
1903 - Sadeq Hedayat, Iranian writer (d. 1951)
1904 – Hans Morgenthau, German political philosopher (d. 1980)
1908 - Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (d. 2005)
1908 - Jacobus van Egmond, Dutch cyclist (d. 1969)
1910 - Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (d. 1979)
1916 – Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and England rugby player (d. 1940)
1917 – Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher (d. 2002)
1917 – Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, Mexican inventor (d. 1965)
1918 - Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Prime Minister of Ukraine (d. 1990)
1919 – Kathleen Freeman, American actress (d. 2001)
1920 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated movie director (d. 2001)
1920 - Annie Glenn, American activist (d. 2020)
1923 - Buddy DeFranco, American jazz musician (d. 2014)
1923 - John M. Allegro, English archaeologist and author (d. 1988)
1923 - Alden W. Clausen, American banker (d. 2013)
1924 – Margaret Truman, American writer (d. 2008)
1925 - Hal Holbrook, American actor
1925 - Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor
1927 – Juan Almeida Bosque, Cuban Communist revolutionary (d. 2009)
1929 - Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chilean writer
1929 – Patricia Routledge, British actress
1930 – Ruth Rendell, British writer (d. 2015)
1931 - Buddy Ryan, American football coach (d. 2016)
1931 - Jirina Jiraskova, Czech actress (d. 2013)
1933 - Craig L. Thomas, American politician (d. 2007)
1933 - Larry Jennings, American magician (d. 1997)
1934 – Barry Humphries, Australian actor and comedian
1934 – Alan Bates, British actor (d. 2003)
1935 - Christina Pickles, British actress
1937 – Willi Koslowski, German footballer
1937 - Rita Süssmuth, German politician
1937 - Mary Ann Mobley, American actress and beauty queen (d. 2014)
1939 - Clement Richard, Canadian businessman and politician
1940 – Gene Pitney, American singer (d. 2006)
1941 - Julia McKenzie, English actress and theatre director
1942 – Huey Newton, American political activist (d. 1989)
1943 - Costas Azariadis, Greek economist
1944 – Bruce Fogle, Canadian-born British veterinarian and writer
1944 - Karl Jenkins, Welsh saxophonist, keyboardist and composer
1945 - Brenda Fricker, Irish actress
1946 - André Dussollier, French actor
1948 - Rick Majerus, American basketball player
1948 - Don Scardino, American television director and actor
1948 - José José, Mexican singer-songwriter, producer and actor
1949 - Fred Frith, English musician and composer
1949 - Dennis Green, American football coach (d. 2016)
1950 - Rickey Medlocke, American guitarist
1950 - Graham Stringer, English politician
1954 – Rene Russo, American actress
1955 - Mo Yan, Chinese novelist and Nobel Prize winner
1957 - Loreena McKennitt, Canadian singer-songwriter, harpist and pianist
1959 - Aryeh Deri, Israeli rabbi and politician
1959 - Rowdy Gaines, American swimmer
1961 - Andrey Korotayev, Russian anthropologist and economic historian
1961 - Panna Rittikrai, Thai actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1961 - Angela Eagle, English politician
1961 - Maria Eagle, English politician
1962 - Sarah Wollaston, English politician
1962 – Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
1963 – Michael Jordan, American basketball player
1963 – Alison Hargreaves, British mountain climber (d. 1995)
1963 – Larry the Cable Guy, American comedian and actor
1964 - Jim Jordan, American politician
1965 – Michael Bay, American director and producer
1966 - Luc Robitaille, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Giuseppe Signori, Italian footballer
1969 - Tuesday Knight, American actress
1970 - Dominic Purcell, English-Australian actor
1971 – Denise Richards, American actress
1971 - Carlos Gamarra, Paraguayan footballer
1972 – Billie Joe Armstrong, American lead singer of Green Day
1972 – Philippe Candeloro, French figure skater
1972 – Taylor Hawkins, American musician
1973 - Shirley Clamp, Swedish singer
1976 - Kelly Carlson, American actress
1979 – Cara Black, Zimbabwean tennis player
1981 – Paris Hilton, American socialite and heiress
1981 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor
1981 - Pontus Segerström, Swedish footballer (d. 2014)
1981 - Andrew Stephenson, English politician
1982 – Daniel Merriwether, Australian singer
1982 – Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer
1983 - Nguyen Tien Minh, Vietnamese badminton player
1984 - AB de Villiers, South African cricketer
1984 - Drew Miller, American ice hockey player
1985 - Anders Jacobsen, Norwegian ski jumper
1985 – Mario Bolatti, Argentine footballer
1988 – Natascha Kampusch, Austrian kidnapping victim
1989 – Rebecca Adlington, British swimmer
1989 - Stacey McClean, British singer
1989 - Chord Overstreet, American actor
1991 – Ed Sheeran, British singer-songwriter
1991 – Bonnie Wright, British actress
1992 - Meaghan Jette Martin, American actress
1993 - Marc Marquez, Spanish racing driver
1993 - Nicola Leali, Italian footballer
1993 - Philip Wiegratz, German actor
1996 – Sasha Pieterse, South African-born American actress
197 – Clodius Albinus, would-be Roman emperor (killed in battle)
306 - Theodore of Amasea, Roman soldier and Christian martyr
364 – Jovian, Roman emperor (b. ca.
1339 – Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria
1371 - Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
1600 – Giordano Bruno, Italian religious reformer (burned at the stake) (b. 1548)
1609 – Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)
1652 - Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1582)
1673 – Molière, French playwright (b. 1622)
1680 – Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (b. 1637)
1768 - Arthur Onslow, English lawyer and politician (b. 1691)
1827 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educator and reformer (b. 1746)
1848 - George W. Campbell, Scottish-born 5th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1769)
1854 – John Martin, English painter (b. 1789)
1856 – Heinrich Heine, German writer (b. 1797)
1883 - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (b. 1855)
1883 – Napoleon Coste, French guitarist, composer (b. 1806)
1890 – Christopher Latham Sholes, American inventor (b. 1819)
1891 - Theophil Hansen, Danish-Austrian educator and architect (b. 1813)
1901 - Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and composer (b. 1862)
1905 - William Bickerton, English-American religious leader (b. 1815)
1909 – Geronimo, Apache leader (b. 1829)
1912 - Edgar Evans, Welsh navy officer (b. 1876)
1919 – Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
1924 - Oskar Merikanto, Finnish composer (b. 1868)
1934 – King Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
1934 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (b. 1862)
1939 - Willy Hess, German violinist (b. 1859)
1943 – Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (b. 1872)
1943 – Armand J. Piron, American jazz musician (b. 1888)
1946 - Dorothy Gibson, American actress and singer (b. 1889)
1961 - Nita Noldi, American actress (b. 1894)
1962 - Joseph Kearns, American actor (b. 1907)
1962 – Bruno Walter, German conductor (b. 1876)
1970 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer (b. 1888)
1970 - Alfred Newman, American movie composer (b. 1900)
1982 – Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (b. 1917)
1982 – Lee Strasberg, American acting teacher, actor (b. 1901)
1986 - Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1895)
1988 - Karpoori Thakur, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1924)
1988 - John M. Allegro, English archaeologist and scholar (b. 1923)
1989 - Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (b. 1908)
1990 - Jean-Marc Bolvin, French mountaineer (b. 1951)
1994 - Gretchen Fraser, American ski racer (b. 1919)
1994 – Randy Shilts, writer, AIDS activist (b. 1951)
1998 – Ernst Jünger, militaristic German writer (b. 1895)
2001 – Khalid Abdul Muhammed, Nation of Islam spokesman (b. 1948)
2004 – José López Portillo, former President of Mexico (b. 1920)
2005 – Dan O'Herlihy, Irish movie actor (b. 1919)
2005 – Omar Sivori, Argentine footballer (b. 1935)
2007 – Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (b. 1910)
2010 – Kathryn Grayson, American singer and actress (b. 1922)
2011 – Perry Moore, American writer and movie producer (b. 1971)
2012 - Ulric Neisser, German-born American psychologist (b. 1928)
2013 - Richard Briers, British actor (b. 1934)
2013 - Mindy McCready, American country music singer (b. 1975)
2014 - Frankie Kao, Taiwanese singer (b. 1950)
2014 - Loni Nest, German-American actress (b. 1915)
2014 - Joe Bell, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1923)
2015 - Andrzej Koszewski, Polish composer (b. 1922)
2015 - Cathy Ubels-Veen, Dutch politician (b. 1928)
2016 - Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Egyptian journalist (b. 1923)
2016 - Alexander Gutman, Russian film director (b. 1945)
2016 - Akbar Kakkattil, Indian writer (b. 1954)
2016 - Andrzej Zulawski, Polish film director and writer (b. 1940)
2017 - Nicole Bass, American bodybuilder and professional wrestler (b. 1964)
2017 - Warren Frost, American actor (b. 1925)
2017 - Börge Hellström, Swedish writer (b. 1957)
2017 - Erland Kops, Danish badminton player (b. 1937)
2017 - Robert H. Michel, American politician (b. 1923)
2017 - Michael Novak, American theologian and writer (b. 1933)
2017 - Tom Regan, American philosopher (b. 1938)
2017 - Peter Skellern, English singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
Celebrated as Independence Day in Kosovo
Revolution Day (Libya)
758 - Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
1226 - Tran Thu Do, head of the Tran clan of Vietnam, forces Ly Hue Tong, the last emperor of the Ly Dynasty, to commit suicide.
1270 - The Eighth Crusade and Siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily and the Sultan of Tunis.
1340 - Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Marinid invasion in the Battle of Rio Soldado.
1470 – Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle.
1485 – Henry VII of England is crowned King.
1534 - The English Parliament passes the Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII of England head of the English Church, a title previously held by the Pope.
1657 - Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1813 - French troops surrender at Pamplona, ending Spain's War of Independence.
1817 - The independent government of Venezuela is formed by Simon Bolivar.
1831 - Nat Turner, who led the Slave Rebellion, is detained.
1863 - Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to become King George I of Greece.
1864 - The Second War of Schleswig ends: Denmark surrenders its claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian control.
1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch."
1880 - Tegucigalpa becomes the capital city of Honduras.
1905 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
1918 – The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
1920 - The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
1921 - The Argentina national football team wins the Campeonato Sudamericana for the first time.
The competition later becomes the Copa America.
1922 - Victor Emmanuel III of Italy names Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
1925 - John Logie Baird creates the United Kingdom's first television transmitter.
1929 - The Stuttgart cable car is built in Stuttgart, Germany.
1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic.
1941 – World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
1944 – Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1945 - Baseball player Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, leading to the breaking of the color barrier in the sport.
1953 - George Marshall wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
1960 - Michael Woodruff performs his first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1961 – The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba.
It is the largest nuclear device ever detonated.
Nikita Khrushchev says that the scientists had planned to make it larger, but had reduced the yield to prevent breaking all the windows in Moscow.
1961 – Due to "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
1965 – Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines stop an large attack of NLF forces, killing 56 guerrillas.
Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
1970 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
1972 - Two commuter trains collide in Chicago, Illinois, kills 45 people.
1973 - The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul is completed.
1974 – "The Rumble in the Jungle": Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship.
1975 – Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
1980 – El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
1983 – An earthquake in eastern Turkey, near Erzurum, kills around 1,300 people.
1985 - The Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off on what would become its final successful mission.
1988 - Ayrton Senna wins his first Formula One title.
1991 – The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
1995 – Quebec independence referendum: Voters in Quebec narrowly choose to stay part of Canada.
1997 - Mary McAleese is elected President of Ireland.
1998 - 5,500 people are killed by Hurricane Mitch in Honduras.
2000 – The Somoni replaces the Rouble as the currency of Tajikistan.
2002 – British television Service Freeview starts transmitting throughout parts of the United Kingdom.
2003 - Basketball player LeBron James makes his first appearance in the NBA, for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
2005 – Having been destroyed in the Firebombing of Dresden in World War II, the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady), is reconsecrated.
2007 - The hosting of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup is given to Germany, and it is announced that the 2014 FIFA World Cup would take place in Brazil.
2013 - A bus fuel tank catches fire in Mahabubnagar, India, killing 45 people.
2014 - Emergency rule is declared in Burkina Faso after protests in the capital Ouagadougou against President Blaise Compaoré extending his time in office.
2014 - Sweden becomes the first European Union country to recognize the State of Palestine.
2015 - A fire at a nightclub in Bucharest, Romania, kills 64 people.
2019 - Chile withdraws as host of the December 2019 International climate change summit over the 2019 Chilean protests; Madrid offers to host it instead.
39 BC - Julia the Elder, daughter of Augustus Caesar (d. 14)
1218 – Emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234)
1327 - Andrew, Duke of Calabria (d. 1345)
1513 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (d. 1593)
1580 – Dirk Hartog, Dutch explorer (d. 1621)
1624 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693)
1632 – Christopher Wren, English architect (d. 1723)
1668 – Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Queen of Prussia (d. 1705)
1735 – John Adams, 1st Vice President and 2nd President of the United States (d. 1826)
1741 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter (d. 1807)
1748 - Martha Jefferson, first wife of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1782)
1751 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish satirist, playwright and poet (d. 1816)
1763 - Heinrich Cotta, German forester (d. 1844)
1776 - George M. Bibb, American politician (d. 1859)
1778 - Benjamin Ames, Governor of Maine (d. 1835)
1785 - Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau, Prussian lieutenant (d. 1871)
1789 - Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark (d. 1864)
1794 - Prince Frederick of Prussia, Prussian prince and general (d. 1863)
1804 - Charles II, Duke of Brunswick (d. 1873)
1816 - Henry L. Dawes, American politician (d. 1903)
1829 - Suzanne Manet, wife and model of the painter Edouard Manet (d. 1906)
1836 - Camillo Boito, Italian writer and architect (d. 1914)
1839 – Alfred Sisley, Anglo-French painter (d. 1899)
1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
1847 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)
1853 - Louise Abbéma, French painter (d. 1927)
1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)
1859 - Karl von Stürgkh, Austrian politician (d. 1916)
1861 - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)
1871 - Paul Valéry, French poet (d. 1945)
1871 - Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)
1873 – Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (d. 1913)
1877 - Hugo Celmins, Prime Minister of Latvia (d. 1941)
1881 - Elizabeth Roberts, American poet and writer (d. 1941)
1882 - Oldrich Duras, Czech chess player (d. 1957)
1882 - William F. Halsey, Jr., American naval commander (d. 1959)
1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
1886 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
1887 - Sukumar Ray, Bengali writer (d. 1923)
1887 - Georg Heym, German writer (d. 1912)
1888 - Louis Menges, American soccer player (d. 1969)
1888 - Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek Olympic champion (d. 1913)
1890 - Tommy Cairns, Scottish footballer (d. 1967)
1893 - Charles Atlas, Italian bodybuilder (d. 1972)
1893 - Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (d. 1945)
1894 - Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977)
1894 - Peter Warlock, English composer (d. 1930)
1895 – Gerhard Domagk,  German  doctor,  won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1964)
1895 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician (d. 1973)
1896 – Harry Randall Truman, Guardian of Mt. St. Helens (d. 1980)
1896 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)
1896 - Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)
1897 - Agustín Lara, Mexican composer (d. 1970)
1899 - Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (d. 1980)
1900 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist (d. 1991)
1905 - Johnny Miles, Canadian marathon runner (d. 2003)
1906 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian racing driver (d. 1966)
1906 – Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)
1908 - U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (d. 1963)
1908 - Patsy Montana, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
1908 - Dmitry Ustinov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1984)
1909 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)
1909 - Jerry Dawson, Scottish footballer (d. 1977)
1910 - Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian harpsichordist  and composer (d. 1994)
1911 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
1914 - Anna Wing, British actress (d. 2013)
1914 - Leabua Jonathan, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (d. 1987)
1915 - Jane Randolph, American actress (d. 2009)
1915 - Fred W. Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)
1917 - Maurice Trintignant, French racing driver (d. 2005)
1917 - Anna Marly, Russian-born French singer and songwriter (d. 2006)
1917 - Nikolai Ugarkov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1994)
1925 - Gus Savage, American politician (d. 2015)
1926 - Tommy Ridgley, American singer (d. 1999)
1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist (d. 1999)
1930 – Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1956)
1931 - Vince Callahan, American politician (d. 2014)
1932 - Louis Malle, French movie director (d. 1995)
1934 - Frans Brüggen, Dutch conductor and flautist (d. 2014)
1935 – Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer (d. 2011)
1935 – Michael Winner, English movie director (d. 2013)
1937 – Claude Lelouch, French director
1938 - Ed Lauter, American actor (d. 2013)
1939 – Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist
1939 - Eddie Holland, American songwriter
1939 - Grace Slick, American rock music singer, songwriter, musician, artist and model
1941 - Theodor W. Haensch, German physicist
1941 - Otis Williams, American singer
1943 - David Triesman, Baron Triesman, English politician
1944 - Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi politician (d. 2015)
1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor, director and producer
1946 - William Thurston, American mathematician (d. 2012)
1946 - Robert L. Gibson, American astronaut
1946 - Chris L. Slade, Welsh drummer
1947 - Timothy B. Schmit, American rock musician
1951 - Harry Hamlin, American actor
1952 - Ana Paula Ribeiro Tavares, Angolan historian and poet
1953 - Pete Hoekstra, United States Congressman
1954 – Mario Testino, Peruvian-born fashion photographer
1954 - Mahmoud El Khatib, Egyptian footballer
1955 - Heidi Heitkamp, American politician
1956 - Juliet Stevenson, English actress
1957 - Kevin Pollak, American actor and director
1960 – Diego Armando Maradona, Argentine footballer
1961 - Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek economist and politician
1962 - Courtney Walsh, Jamaican cricketer
1962 – Stefan Kuntz, German footballer
1964 – Jean-Marc Bosman, Belgian footballer
1965 - Gavin Rossdale, British musician
1966 - Scott Innes, American voice actor
1966 - Zoran Milanovic, 10th Prime Minister of Croatia
1967 - Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 - Stanislav Gross, 5th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (d. 2015)
1969 - Snow, Canadian musician
1970 - Xie Jun, Chinese chess player
1970 - Nia Long, American actress
1970 - Ben Bailey, American comedian and talk show host
1970 - Tony Belleci, American visual effects designer and TV host
1971 – Fredi Bobic, German footballer
1971 - Emma Tate, British voice actress
1971 - Tzanis Stavrakopoulos, Greek basketball player
1972 - Jessica Hynes, British actress and writer
1973 - Edge, Canadian actor and professional wrestler
1975 - Maria Thayer, American actress
1976 – Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
1978 – Matthew Morrison, American actor and singer
1979 - Jason Bartlett, American baseball player
1981 - Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
1981 - Ayaka Kimura, Japanese actress
1981 - Ivanka Trump, American model, businesswoman and socialite
1982 - Manny Parra, American baseball player
1983 - Diana Karazon, Jordanian singer, television host and actress
1984 - Tyson Strachan, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Eva Marcille, American actress, TV host and model
1986 – Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian skijumper
1986 - Margareta Kozuch, German volleyball player
1988 - Janel Parrish, American actress and singer
1989 - Jay Asforis, British actor, singer and dancer (S Club 7)
1989 - Vanessa White, British singer (The Saturdays)
1989 – Seth Adkins, American actor
1989 – Nastia Liukin, American gymnast
1989 - Ashley Barnes, Austrian-English footballer
1996 – Mizuki Fukumura, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1998 - Meimi Tamura, Japanese singer
1226 - Ly Hue Tong, Emperor of Vietnam
1459 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (b. 1380)
1522 - Jean Houton, French composer (b. 1459)
1553 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)
1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
1611 – King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
1626 - Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580)
1632 - Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer (b. 1595)
1654 – Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633)
1685 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603)
1757 - Osman III, Ottoman Sultan
1802 - Charles Alexandre de Colonna, French statesman (b. 1734)
1809 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
1816 - Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
1842 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish author and poet (b. 1784)
1853 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786)
1883 - Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815)
1893 – John Abbott, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
1894 - Honoré Mercier, 9th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
1910 – Henry Dunant, Swiss founder of the International Red Cross, co-winner of the first Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)
1912 – James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
1915 – Charles Tupper, shortest-serving Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
1923 – Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
1951 - Tom Perry, 14th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1879)
1956 – Pio Baroja, Spanish writer (b. 1872)
1957 - Fred Beebe, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1961 – Luigi Einaudi, 2nd President of Italy (b. 1874)
1963 - U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (b. 1908)
1965 - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.,
American historian (b. 1888)
1968 - Ramon Novarro, Mexican actor, singer and director (b. 1899)
1968 - Conrad Richter, American author and playwright (b. 1890)
1968 - Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and writer (b. 1886)
1975 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist (b. 1887)
1979 - Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer (b. 1887)
1979 - Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
1985 - Kirby Grant, American actor (b. 1911)
1993 - Paul Grégoire, Archbishop of Montreal (b. 1911)
1997 – Samuel Fuller, American movie director (b. 1912)
2000 – Steve Allen, American comedian, writer, and composer (b. 1921)
2002 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2004 - Peggy Ryan, American actress (b. 1924)
2005 - Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian Communist leader (b. 1942)
2006 - Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
2007 – Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)
2009 - Juvenal Amarijo, Brazilian footballer (b. 1923)
2009 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist (b. 1908)
2010 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (b. 1927)
2013 - Ralph Tarrant, English supercentenarian (b. 1903)
2014 - Thomas Menino, American politician, longest-serving Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (b. 1942)
2014 - Bob Geigel, American wrestling promoter (b. 1924)
2015 - Mel Daniels, American basketball player (b. 1944)
2015 - Al Molinaro, American actor (b. 1919)
2016 - Tammy Grimes, American actress (b. 1934)
2017 - Fred Beckey, American rock climber, mountaineer and author (b. 1923)
2017 - Frank Doran, Scottish politician (b. 1949)
2017 - Kim Joo-hyuk, South Korean actor (b. 1972)
2017 - James D. Martin, American businessman and politician (b. 1918)
2017 - Judy Martz, American politician, 22nd Governor of Montana (b. 1943)
2017 - Melanmai Ponnusamy, Indian writer and journalist (b. 1951)
2017 - Daniel Te'o-Nesheim, American football player (b. 1987)
2017 - Daniel Viglietti, Uruguayan singer, guitarist, composer and activist (b. 1939)
2018 - David Azulai, Israeli politician (b. 1954)
2018 - Whitey Bulger, American criminal (b. 1929)
2018 - Bill Fischer, American baseball player (b. 1930)
2018 - María Irene Fornés, Cuban-American playwright (b. 1930)
2018 - Jin Yong, Hong Kong essayist and journalist (b. 1924)
2018 - Erika Mahringer, Austrian alpine skier (b. 1924)
2018 - Beverly McClellan, American singer and musician (b. 1969)
2018 - Teodoro Petkoff, Venezuelan journalist and politician (b. 1932)
2018 - Sangharakshita, British Buddhist writer and educator (b. 1925)
2018 - Bob Skoronski, American football player (b. 1934)
2019 - Russell Brookes, British rally driver (b. 1945)
2019 - Ron Fairly, American baseball player and broadcaster (b. 1938)
2019 - Jim Gregory, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive (b. 1935)
2019 - William J. Hughes, American politician and diplomat (b. 1932)
2019 - Mobolaji Johnson, Nigerian military officer and politician (b. 1936)
2019 - Bernard Slade, Canadian-American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2019 - Azam Taleghani, Iranian politician, activist and journalist (b. 1943)
2019 - J. Bob Traxler, American politician (b. 1931)
Anniversary of the Declaration of the Slovak nation
Mischief Night (United States)
The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest living member of the cat family, the Felidae.
It feeds by hunting.
It lives in Asia, mainly India, Bhutan, China, Korea and Siberian Russia.
Tigers are solitary animals.
Tigers have orange [[flakes to
]] with black stripes, and a white belly.
The black stripes usually extend to the white underside.
The stripes are used to keep them camouflaged while hunting.