the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1248 - Spanish Reconquista: Christian troops under Ferdinand III of Castile conquer Seville.
1510 - First campaign of the Ottoman Empire against the Kingdom of Imereti, present-day western Georgia.
1531 - The Second War of Kappel results in Switzerland's Protestant Alliance dissolving.
1644 - John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet against censorship.
1791 - The Snares Islands to the south of New Zealand are discovered.
1810 - Sarah Booth has her first performance at the Royal Opera House.
1863 – American Civil War: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack Confederate troops.
1889 - The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco, California.
1890 - King William III of the Netherlands dies.
His death ends the shared monarchy between the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
In the Netherlands, his daughter Wilhelmina becomes Queen, with Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont as regent.
In Luxembourg, Grand Duke Adolphe becomes the next monarch.
1904 - The 1904 Olympics in St. Louis officially end.
1910 - Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden before the death penalty becomes illegal there.
1914 – The US Army retreats from Mexico.
1924 - Edwin Hubble's discovery of the Andromeda Galaxy is first published in a newspaper.
Previously, the Milky Way was thought to be the only galaxy in existence.
1936 - Life magazine is re-published as a photograph magazine and becomes an immediate success.
1939 - World War II: German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sink the British aid ship Rawalpindi to the southeast of Iceland, killing 265 people.
1940 - World War II: Romania officially joins the Axis Powers.
1942 - World War II: British steamer Tilawa is sunk in the Indian Ocean by Japanese U-boat I-29, killing 280 people.
1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.
1959 – General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals."
1961 – Sturt's Desert Pea, Swainsona formosa, becomes the floral emblem of South Australia.
1963 – The first episode of the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, "An Unearthly Child", airs on the BBC.
1971 – The representatives of the People's Republic of China first attended the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, as China's representatives.
1974 - Sixty Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.
1976 - Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 meters undersea without breathing equipment.
1978 - A cyclone kills 1,000 people in Eastern Sri Lanka.
1980 – A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people.
1981 – Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1985 - Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while it is travelling from Athens to Cairo.
When the plane lands in Malta, it is stormed by Egyptian commandos, though 60 people die in the raid.
1990 – The first all-woman expedition to the South Pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians), sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70-day, 1287-kilometre ski trek.
1996 – The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization.
1996 – A plane crash in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros kills 125 people.
2001 - The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest.
2003 – Eduard Shevardnadze resigns as President of Georgia.
2004 - Tbilisi's Holy Trinity Cathedral is consecrated.
2005 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is elected President of Liberia, becoming Africa's first female President.
2006 - A series of bombings in Sadr City, Iraq, kills at least 215 people.
2007 – MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands.
2009 – The Maguindanao massacre occurs on the island of Mindanao, Philippines.
2010 – North Korea attacks Yeonpyeong Island, prompting a military response from neighbouring South Korea, in one of the fiercest exchanges since the Korean War.
2019 - People in the autonomous island region of Bougainville start voting on whether they want to be an independent country or whether they want to gain more autonomy as part of Papua New Guinea.
912 – Otto I, Duke of the Saxons, King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)
1221 – King Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284)
1553 - Prospero Alpini, Italian botanist and physician (d. 1617)
1616 – John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)
1709 - Julien Offray de La Mettrie, French physician and philosopher (d. 1751)
1715 - Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)
1749 - Edward Rutledge, American politician (d. 1800)
1754 - Abraham Baldwin, American politician (d. 1807)
1781 - Theodor Valentin Volkmar, German politician, 1st Mayor of Marburg (d. 1847)
1785 - Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest (d. 1853)
1804 – Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)
1815 - William Dennison, Jr., 24th Governor of Ohio (d. 1882)
1820 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (d. 1884)
1837 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist (d. 1923)
1838 - Stephanos Skouloudis, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1928)
1851 – Jonas Basanavicius, Lithuanian physician, scientist and political activist (d. 1927)
1855 - John I. Cox, 33rd Governor of Tennessee (d. 1946)
1859 – Billy the Kid, American outlaw (d. 1881)
1860 – Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1925)
1865 - George P. McClellan, Jr., Mayor of New York City (d. 1940)
1869 - Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)
1871 - William Watt, 24th Premier of Australia (d. 1946)
1875 - Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian politician (d. 1933)
1876 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)
1882 - John Rabe, German businessman and humanitarian (d. 1950)
1883 - José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (d. 1949)
1886 - Eduards Smilgis, Latvian actor and theatre director (d. 1966)
1886 - Lloyd C. Stark, Governor of Missouri (d. 1972)
1887 - Hobart Henley, American actor and director (d. 1964)
1887 – Boris Karloff, British actor (d. 1969)
1887 - Henry Moseley, British physicist (d. 1915)
1888 – Harpo Marx, American actor, comedian and mime (d. 1964)
1888 - George F. Shafer, Governor of South Dakota (d. 1948)
1890 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)
1892 - Erté, French artist (d. 1990)
1896 - Sandy Archibald, Scottish footballer (d. 1946)
1896 - Tsunenohana Kan'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1960)
1896 - Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovakian Communist leader (d. 1953)
1897 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999)
1899 - Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial artist (d. 1974)
1902 - Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (d. 1982)
1906 - Betti Alver, Estonian poet (d. 1989)
1907 - Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist (d. 2014)
1914 - Richard Percival Lister, English author, poet and artist (d. 2014)
1914 - Emmett Ashford, American baseball umpire (d. 1980)
1916 – Michael Gough, British actor (d. 2011)
1919 - P. F. Strawson, British philosopher (d. 2006)
1921 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
1922 - Vo Van Kiet, Vietnamese politician (d. 2008)
1922 - Joan Fuster, Spanish writer (d. 1992)
1922 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, President of Spanish Galicia (d. 2012)
1923 - Daniel Brewster, American politician (d. 2007)
1925 - Jose Napoleon Duarte, President of El Salvador (d. 1990)
1926 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian religious and spiritual leader (d. 2011)
1927 - Angelo Sodano, Italian cardinal
1930 - Herberto Hélder, Portuguese poet (d. 2015)
1930 - Geeta Dutt, Indian singer (d. 1972)
1931 - Tosiwo Nakayama, Micronesian politician, 1st President of the Federated States of Micronesia (d. 2007)
1932 - Renato Martino, Italian cardinal
1933 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
1934 - Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)
1935 - Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
1935 - Volodymyr Sabodan, Ukrainian religious leader (d. 2014)
1935 - Jeremy Stone, American scientist and arms control activist (d. 2017)
1938 - Patrick Kelly, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool
1939 - Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (d. 2001)
1940 - Luis Tiant, Cuban baseballer
1941 - Franco Nero, Italian actor
1943 – Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
1943 - David Nolan, American activist (d. 2010)
1943 - Günther Beckstein, German politician, former Prime Minister of Bavaria
1943 - Sue Nicholls, English actress
1944 - Peter Lindbergh, German-French photographer and director (d. 2019)
1944 - Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-American writer
1944 - James Toback, American screenwriter and movie director
1945 - Assi Dayan, Israeli actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1945 – Jim Doyle, American politician, former Governor of Wisconsin
1945 - Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer (d. 2018)
1946 - Bobby Rush, American politician
1947 - Jean-Pierre Foucault, French television host
1948 - Reiner Calmund, German football official
1949 - Sandra Stevens, British singer
1950 - Chuck Schumer, American lawyer and politician
1953 - Francis Cabrel, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953 - Johan de Meij, Dutch trombonist, conductor and composer
1954 - Bruce Hornsby, American singer, songwriter and pianist
1954 – Ross Brawn, British Formula 1 team principal
1955 - Ludovico Einaudi, Italian composer and pianist
1955 - Mary Landrieu, American politician
1956 - Shane Gould, Australian swimmer
1957 - William Kaelin Jr., American physician and Nobel laureate
1959 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982)
1962 - Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela
1963 - Andreas Schmidt, German actor (d. 2017)
1964 - Frank Rutherford, Bahamian triple jumper
1965 - Sergio Vázquez, Argentine footballer
1966 - Vincent Cassel, French actor
1966 - Kevin Gallacher, Scottish footballer
1966 - Russell Watson, English tenor
1968 - Robert Denmark, English athlete
1968 – Kirsty Young, Scottish television presenter
1968 - Hamid Hassani, Iranian linguist and lexicographer
1970 – Karsten Müller, German chess player and writer
1970 - Zoë Ball, English television presenter
1971 - Khalid Al-Muwallid, Saudi Arabian footballer
1971 - Chris Hardwick, American comedian, actor and TV host
1971 - Sajid Khan, Indian movie actor and director
1972 – Alf-Inge Haaland, Norwegian footballer
1974 - Saku Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player
1978 - Tommy Marth, American musician (d. 2012)
1979 – Nihat Kahveci, Turkish footballer
1979 – Kelly Brook, British actress and model
1979 - Ivica Kostelic, Croatian skier
1980 - Paulie Malignaggi, American boxer
1982 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican runner
1983 - Nasser Al-Shamrani, Saudi Arabian footballer
1984 – Lucas Grabeel, American actor, singer and songwriter
1984 - Amruta Khanvilkar, Indian actress
1985 - Victor Ahn, South Korean speed skater
1985 - Scott Brash, Scottish equestrian show-jumper
1987 - Kasia Struss, Polish model
1987 - Snooki, Chilean-born American reality television personality and author
1990 - Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater
1990 - Eddie Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter and guitarist
1992 – Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer (Hannah Montana)
1992 - Go Eun-bi, South Korean singer (d. 2014)
1996 - James Maddison, English footballer
1996 - Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer
1998 - Bradley Steven Perry, American actor
947 - Berthold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 900)
955 – Edred, King of England (b. c. 923)
1407 - Louis I, Duke of Orleans (b. 1372)
1457 - King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1440)
1499 - Perkin Warbeck, English pretender, executed
1503 - Margaret of York (b. 1446)
1572 - Bronzino, Italian painter and poet (b. 1503)
1585 – Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. 1505)
1616 - Richard Hakluyt, English priest and author (b. 1552)
1814 – Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States (b. 1744)
1826 - Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (b. 1747)
1833 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French general and politician (b. 1762)
1864 – Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German-born Russian astronomer (b. 1793)
1866 - Cave Johnson, American politician (b. 1793)
1890 – King William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
1902 – Walter Reed, American bacteriologist (b. 1851)
1910 - Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862)
1923 - Urmuz, Romanian judge and author (b. 1883)
1934 - Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
1937 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)
1941 - Horace F. Graham, American politician, Governor of Vermont (b. 1862)
1965 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (b. 1876)
1966 – Séan T Ó Ceallaigh, 2nd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
1970 – Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean politician (b. 1910)
1972 - Marie Wilson, American actress (b. 1916)
1973 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor, director and producer (b. 1889)
1974 - Massacre of Sixty in Ethiopia:
Abiye Abebe, Ethiopian general and politician (b. 1918)
Aman Andom, President of Ethiopia (b. 1924)
Aklilu Habte-Wold, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1912)
Asrate Medhin-Kassa, Ethiopian commander (b. 1922)
Endelkachew Makonnen, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1927)
1976 - André Malraux, French theorist and author (b. 1901)
1979 - Merle Oberon, British actress (b. 1911)
1983 – Tom Evans, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1947)
1990 – Roald Dahl, Welsh writer (b. 1916)
1991 – Klaus Kinski, German actor (b. 1926)
1992 - Roy Acuff, American country musician (b. 1903)
1992 - Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922)
1995 - Louis Malle, French director (b. 1932)
1995 - Junior Walker, American singer and saxophonist (b. 1931)
2001 - Gerhard Stoltenberg, German politician (b. 1928)
2001 – Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (b. 1910)
2002 – Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b. 1911)
2005 - Constance Cummings, American-English actress (b. 1910)
2006 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
2006 – Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
2006 - Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
2006 - Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
2010 - Ingrid Pitt, British actress (b. 1937)
2011 – Montserrat Figueras, Spanish operatic soprano (b. 1942)
2012 - Larry Hagman, American actor (b. 1931)
2013 - Jay Leggett, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1963)
2014 - Marion Barry, American politician, Mayor of Washington, DC (b. 1936)
2014 - Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (b. 1916)
2014 - Pat Quinn, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1943)
2015 - Yoram Tsafrir, Israeli archaeologist (b. 1938)
2015 - Manmeet Bhullar, Canadian politician (b. 1980)
2015 - Douglass North, American economist (b. 1920)
2015 - Dan Fante, American author and playwright (b. 1944)
2016 - Ralph Branca, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2016 - Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili, Iranian cleric and jurist (b. 1926)
2016 - Rita Barbera, Spanish politician, former Mayor of Valencia (b. 1948)
2016 - Andrew Sachs, German-born English actor (b. 1930)
2017 - Stela Popescu, Romanian actress (b. 1935)
2018 - Kevin Austin, English-Trinidadian footballer (b. 1973)
2018 - Betty Bumpers, former First Lady of Arkansas (b. 1925)
2018 - Menahem Degani, Israeli basketball player (b. 1927)
2018 - Mick McGeough, Canadian ice hockey referee (b. 1956)
2018 - Bob McNair, American businessman (b. 1937)
2018 - Nicolas Roeg, English film director (b. 1928)
2018 - George Ty, Filipino banker (b. 1932)
2018 - Gerard Unger, Dutch graphic and type designer (b. 1942)
2019 - Asunción Balaguer, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
2019 - Francesc Gambús, Spanish politician (b. 1974)
2019 - Barbara Hillary, American adventurer (b. 1931)
2019 - Catherine Small Long, American politician (b. 1924)
Bahá'í Faith – Feast of Qawl (Speech) – First day of the 14th month of the Bahá'í calendar
Georgia – St George's Day
Japan – Kinro kansha no hi (Labour Thanksgiving Day)
Slovenia – Rudolf Maister Day
284 – Diocletian becomes Roman Emperor.
1194 - Palermo is conquered by Emperor Henry VI.
1272 – Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England.
1316 - King John I of France dies at the age of only 5 days old.
1695 - Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.
1739 - Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1776 - American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee.
The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.
1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1805 - Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, is performed for the first time in Vienna.
1820 - An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the ship Essex, 2,000 miles from the west coast of South America.
1845 - Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
1861 - American Civil War: The Secession Ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate Governor.
1902 – Henri Desgrange and fellow journalist Géo Lefèvre dream up the idea of the Tour de France over lunch at the Cafe de Madrid in Paris.
1910 – From exile in Texas, Francisco I. Madero calls for a Revolution against the rule of Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, starting the Mexican Revolution.
1917 – Ukraine is declared a republic.
1917 - World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins.
1929 – Salvador Dalí, a Spanish artist, opens his first one-man show.
1936 - In Spain, José Antonio Primo de Rivera is killed by a Republican execution squad.
1940 – World War II: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers.
1942 – The Alaska Highway is opened to traffic.
1945 – Nuremberg Trials begin: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals of World War II start at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.
1947 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
1955 – Bo Diddley makes his TV debut on Ed Sullivan's Toast Of The Town show on CBS.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, US President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
1968 - 78 miners are killed in an explosion at Consolidated Coal Company's No.
9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia.
1969 – Vietnam War: The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
1974 - A Lufthansa Boeing 747-130 crashes during take-off from Nairobi, Kenya, killing 59 people.
1975 – Spanish dictator Francisco Franco dies, after more than three-and-a-half decades in power.
1977 – In a speech at the Knesset (Israel's parliament), Egypt's President Anwar Sadat recognises the state of Israel's right to exist.
1979 - Grand Mosque Seizure: 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam, during the Pilgrimage, taking about 6,000 hostages.
French special forces help Saudi Arabia to put down the uprising.
1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
1989 - Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters in Prague, then the capital city of Czechoslovakia, increases to an estimated 500,000.
1991 - An Azrebaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 people - members of a peacekeeping team and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan - is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend district of Azerbaijan.
1992 – Windsor Castle, one of the residences of Elizabeth II, is damaged by fire.
1993 - A plane crash near Ohrid, present-day Republic of Macedonia, kills 115 people, with only one person on board surviving.
1994 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (in 1995 localized fighting resumed).
1998 – A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regards to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
2000 – Honda introduces the humanoid robot ASIMO.
2003 – A second set of bombings in five days hits Istanbul, with the British Consulate as one of the targets.
27 people are killed.
2008 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997.
2009 - The Large Hadron Collider is switched back on, after faults caused it to be shut down over a year earlier.
2011 – Mariano Rajoy is elected Prime Minister in Spain, as the Partido Popular wins the most seats in parliament.
2015 - 19 people are killed in a terrorist attack and siege on a hotel in Bamako, Mali.
2016 - Pukhrayan train derailment: At least 146 people are killed when a train derails (comes off the rail track) near Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
2019 - Prince Andrew, Duke of York announces that he is withdrawing from public duties because of the controversy surrounding his friendship with the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
270 – Maximinus, Roman Emperor (d. 313)
1602 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist (d. 1686)
1620 - Avvakum, Russian priest and saint (d. 1682)
1750 – Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799)
1761 – Pope Pius VIII (d. 1830)
1765 - Thomas Fremantle, English naval officer (d. 1819)
1787 - Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, German inventor (d. 1867)
1801 - Mungo Ponton, Scottish inventor (d. 1880)
1825 - Antonio de Serpa Pimentel, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1900)
1841 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian jurist (d. 1901)
1841 – Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1919)
1851 – Margherita of Savoy, Queen of Italy (d. 1926)
1858 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature winner (d. 1940)
1860 - José Figueroa Alcorta, 16th President of Argentina (d. 1931)
1862 - Georges Palante, French philosopher, author and anarchist (d. 1925)
1866 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American judge and baseball commissioner (d. 1944)
1867 - Patrick Joseph Hayes, Archbishop of New York City (d. 1938)
1869 – Zinaida Gippius, Russian poet and writer (d. 1945)
1873 - Ramon Castillo, President of Argentina (d. 1944)
1873 - Walter Evans Edge, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1956)
1874 - James Michael Curley, 53rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
1875 - Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, German diplomat and Resistance activist (d. 1944)
1877 - Herbert Pitman, English 3rd Officer of the RMS Titanic (d. 1968)
1880 - Walter Brack, German swimmer (d. 1919)
1880 - George McBride, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1886 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist (d. 1982)
1889 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953)
1892 – James Collip, Canadian biochemist (d. 1965)
1896 – Chiyono Hasegawa, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2011)
1900 - Chester Gould, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
1902 – Gianpiero Combi, Italian footballer (d. 1956)
1902 - Erik Eriksen, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1972)
1903 - Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina (d. 1997)
1904 - John MacCormick, Scottish lawyer and politician (d. 1961)
1908 - Alistair Cooke, British-born American journalist (d. 2004)
1911 - Jean Shiley, American high jumper (d. 1958)
1912 – Otto von Habsburg, Austrian aristocrat, nobleman and politician (d. 2011)
1913 - Judy Canova, American actress (d. 1986)
1913 - Kostas Choumis, Greek footballer (d. 1981)
1914 - Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer and politician (d. 1993)
1915 – Kon Ichikawa, Japanese movie director (d. 2008)
1916 - Michael J. Ingelido, American air force general (d. 2015)
1917 - Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987)
1917 – Robert Byrd, American politician (d. 2010)
1919 - Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (d. 2012)
1920 - Shlomo Erell, Israeli military general (d. 2018)
1921 - Jim Garrison, American attorney and judge (d. 1992)
1923 – Nadine Gordimer, South African writer and activist, Nobel Prize in Literature winner (d. 2014)
1924 – Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born French-American mathematician (d. 2010)
1924 - Karen Harup, Danish swimmer (d. 2009)
1925 – Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (d. 1968)
1925 - Kaye Ballard, American actress and singer (d. 2019)
1925 - Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballerina and choreographer (d. 2015)
1925 - George Barris, American automobile designer (d. 2015)
1927 - Estelle Parsons, American actress
1927 - Wolfgang Schreyer, German writer (d. 2017)
1927 - Mikhail Ulyanov, Russian actor (d. 2007)
1928 - Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor and movie director (d. 2017)
1929 - Don January, American golfer
1930 - Bernard Horsfall, English actor (d. 2013)
1932 - Richard Dawson, British-born American actor and game show host (d. 2012)
1934 - Jimmy Millar, Scottish footballer
1935 – Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (d. 2011)
1936 - Charles R. Larson, American admiral (d. 2014)
1937 - Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian playwright
1937 - Eero Mantyranta, Finnish skier (d. 2013)
1939 – Dick Smothers, American comedian (The Smothers Brothers)
1939 - Copi, Argentine comic artist and author (d. 1987)
1940 - Arieh Warshel, Israeli-American chemist, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1940 - Helma Sanders-Brahms, German movie director, screenwriter, producer and actress (d. 2014)
1941 - Dr. John, American musician (d. 2019)
1941 - Haseena Moin, Pakistani screenwriter and playwright
1942 – Joe Biden, 47th Vice President of the United States/soon-to-be 46th President of the United States
1942 - Bob Einstein, American actor (d. 2019)
1942 - Norman Greenbaum, American singer-songwriter
1942 - Meredith Monk, American composer and choreographer
1943 – Veronica Hamel, American actress
1944 - Donald DiFrancesco, American politician, 51st Governor of New Jersey
1945 - Nanette Workman, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
1946 - Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow
1946 - Duane Allman, American guitarist (d. 1971)
1947 - Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and actor
1948 - John R. Bolton, American politician and diplomat
1948 - Barbara Hendricks, American-Swedish soprano
1948 - Richard Masur, American actor
1949 - Ulf Lundell, Swedish singer and musician
1951 - David Walters, American politician, 24th Governor of Oklahoma
1954 - Aneka, Scottish folk singer
1954 - Berit Andnor, Swedish politician
1956 – Bo Derek, American actress
1956 - Gareth Chilcott, English rugby player
1957 – Goodluck Jonathan, former President of Nigeria
1957 - Wylie Stateman, American sound editor
1957 - John Eriksen, Danish footballer (d. 2002)
1959 - James P. McGovern, American politician
1959 - Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, German Roman Catholic Bishop, of Limburg
1959 - Diane James, English politician, leader of UKIP for 18 days in 2016
1961 - Tim Harvey, British racing driver
1962 - Gerardo Martino, Argentine footballer and manager
1963 - Timothy Gowers, British mathematician
1963 - Wan Yanhai, Chinese activist
1964 - Doug Ford, Canadian politician, 26th Premier of Ontario
1965 - Yoshiki, Japanese musician, songwriter and producer
1965 - Sen Dog, Cuban rapper
1965 – Mike D, American hip hop musician
1968 - Tommy Asinga, Surinamese track athlete
1970 – Matt Blunt, American politician, former Governor of Missouri
1970 - Melissa Disney, American actress
1970 - Sabrina Lloyd, American actress
1970 - Phife Dawg, American rapper (d. 2016)
1971 – Joel McHale, American actor and comedian
1973 - Neil Hodgson, English motorcycle racer
1976 – Ji Yun-nam, North Korean footballer
1977 - Fábio Júnior Pereira, Brazilian footballer
1978 – Nadine Velazquez, American actress and model
1979 – Dmitri Bulykin, Russian footballer
1980 - Malachy Tallack, Scottish singer-songwriter, journalist and writer
1981 - Carlos Boozer, American basketball player
1981 - Espen Hoff, Norwegian footballer
1981 – Kimberley Walsh, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1982 - Nathan Vetterlein, American voice actor and Internet personality
1984 – Justin Hoyte, English footballer
1985 – Dan Byrd, American actor
1986 - Jared Followill, American musician
1988 - Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor
1988 - Roberto Rosales, Venezuelan footballer
1989 - Eduardo Vargas, Chilean footballer
1989 - Cody Linley, American actor
1993 - Sumire Sato, Japanese singer (AKB48)
1995 - Michael Clifford, Australian singer, 5 Seconds of Summer.
2000 – Connie Talbot, British singer
2002 - Madisyn Shipman, American actress
811 - Li Fan, Chinese statesman (b. 754)
869 - Edmund of East Anglia (b. 841)
996 - Richard I, Duke of Normandy (b. 938)
1316 - King John I of France (b. November 15, 1316)
1559 – Lady Frances Brandon, mother of Jane Grey, Queen of England (b. 1517)
1591 - Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1540)
1662 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (b. 1614)
1695 - Zumbi, Brazilian King (b. 1655)
1737 – Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
1742 – Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (b. 1661)
1758 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694)
1764 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (b. 1690)
1778 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (b. 1726)
1856 - Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1775)
1894 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1829)
1907 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876)
1908 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (b. 1868)
1910 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (b. 1828)
1925 – Alexandra of Denmark, Queen of the United Kingdom (b. 1844)
1934 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (b. 1877)
1936 – Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (b. 1896)
1936 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (b. 1903)
1938 - Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer (b. 1895)
1938 – Maud of Wales, Queen of Norway (b. 1869)
1945 – Francis William Aston, British chemist (b. 1877)
1950 - Francesco Gilea, Italian composer (b. 1866)
1952 - Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (b. 1866)
1957 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian painter (b. 1875)
1975 – Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (b. 1892)
1978 - Giorgio de Chirico, Italian-Greek painter (b. 1888)
1980 – John McEwen, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
1984 - Kristian Djurhuus, 2nd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1895)
1984 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (b. 1911)
1989 - Leonardo Sciascia, Italian writer (b. 1921)
1998 - Galina Starovoytova, Russian politician (b. 1946)
1999 – Amintore Fanfani, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1908)
2003 – David Dacko, Central African politician (b. 1930)
2003 - Robert Addie, British actor (b. 1960)
2005 - Chris Whitley, American musician (b. 1960)
2006 – Robert Altman, American director (b. 1925)
2007 – Ian Smith, Rhodesian politician (b. 1919)
2008 - Boris Fyodorov, Russian economist and politician (b. 1958)
2009 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2012 - David O'Brien Martin, American politician (b. 1944)
2013 - Dieter Hildebrandt, German performer (b. 1927)
2013 - Pavel Bobek, Czech singer (b. 1937)
2013 - Sylvia Browne, American author (b. 1936)
2013 - Joseph Paul Franklin, American serial killer (b. 1950)
2014 - Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1926)
2014 - Charlie Hall, American politician (b. 1930)
2014 - Marian Brown, American media personality (b. 1927)
2015 - Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1953)
2015 - Keith Michell, Australian actor (b. 1926)
2015 - Carlos Oroza, Spanish poet (b. 1923)
2016 - Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, President of Greece (b. 1926)
2017 - Terry Glenn, American football player (b. 1974)
2017 - John Gordon, English author (b. 1925)
2017 - Peter Berling, German actor and writer (b. 1934)
2018 - Roy Bailey, American folk singer and guitarist (b. 1935)
2018 - James H. Billington, American academic (b. 1929)
2018 - Eddie C. Campbell, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1939)
2018 - Mac Collins, American politician (b. 1944)
2018 - Shlomo Erell, Israeli military general (b. 1920)
2018 - Anvar Khamei, Iranian sociologist, economist and journalist (b. 1917)
2018 - Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-British chemist and biophysicist (b. 1926)
2019 - Fábio Barreto, Brazilian film director (b. 1957)
2019 - Fred Cox, American football player (b. 1938)
2019 - Mary L. Good, American chemist (b. 1931)
2019 - Amos Lapidot, Israeli fighter pilot (b. 1934)
2019 - John Mann, Canadian actor, singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1962)
2019 - John Martin, American racing driver (b. 1939)
2019 - Wataru Misaka, American basketball player (b. 1923)
Revolution Day (Mexico)
Teacher's Day (Vietnam)
Day of National Sovereignty (Argentina)
Black Awareness Day (Brazil)
Universal Children's Day (United Nations)
25 - Louyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
176 - Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of 'Imperator'.
511 - The Kingdom of the Franks is divided between Theodoric I, Chlodomer I, Childebert I and Chlothar I.
1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade.
1703 - The Great Storm of 1703 affecting Great Britain destroys the first Eddystone Lighthouse.
1727 - The foundation stone is laid for Jerusalem's Church of Berlin.
1807 - Portugal's Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops.
1815 – Adoption of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
1830 - Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to  Saint Catherine Labouré in Paris, originating the creation of the sacred medal which came to be known as the Miraculous Medal.
1839 - The American Statistical Association is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
1856 - Coup of 1856 in Luxembourg.
1863 - American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary Prison and return safely to the South.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run.
1886 – German judge Emil Hartwich suffers fatal injuries in a duel.
The incident becomes the background for Theodor Fontane's novel Effi Briest.
1895 – Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, leading to the establishment of the Nobel Prizes.
1901 - The United States Army War College is created.
1912 – Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
1924 – In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
1934 - Bank robber Baby Face Nelson is killed in a shoot-out with the FBI.
1940 - World War II: Members of the Fascist Iron Guard kill 60 allies of King Carol II of Romania, and dissidents.
1942 - World War II: At Toulon, the French navy destroys its ships and submarines to protect them from German attack.
1944 - The RAF Fauld Explosion at a Royal Air Force dump in Staffordshire, England, kills 70 people.
1945 - A magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Iran kills 4,000 people.
1954 - Alger Hiss is released  from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
1957 – Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament.
1963 - A Trans-Canada Douglas DC-8 crashes in Montreal, killing all 118 people on board.
1968 - Penny Ann Early becomes the first woman to play major professional basketball.
1971 - The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter lands on the planet Mars.
1973 – The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35).
1975 – Guinness Book of World Records co-founder Ross McWhirter is shot dead by members of the Provisional IRA.
1978 – The Mayor of San Francisco George Moscone and his supervisor Harvey Milk are killed by former supervisor Dan White.
1978 – The Kurdish PKK terror group is founded in Riha (Urfa), Turkey.
1983 – Avianca Flight 011, a Boeing 747, crashes near Madrid Barajas Airport, killing 181 people.
1989 – Avianca Flight 203, a Boeing 727, explodes over Colombia, killing all 107 on board and 3 people on the ground.
The Medellin drug Cartel claims responsibility.
1990 – The British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1990 – Appenzell Innerrhoden becomes the last Canton in Switzerland to give women the right to vote.
1991 – The United Nations Security Council adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
1992 - For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow President Carlos Andrés Pérez of Venezuela.
1997 - 25 people are killed in the second Souhane Massacre in Algeria.
1999 – Helen Clark becomes the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osinis by the Hubble Space Telescope.
2001 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen becomes Prime Minister of Denmark.
2005 – The first partial human face transplant is successfully completed in Amiens, France.
2006 – The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Quebec a nation within a unified Canada.
2009 – A passenger train is derailed by a bomb between Moscow and St. Petersburg, killing 28 people.
2011 - Wales national football team manager Gary Speed commits suicide, aged 42.
2014 - Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes dies aged 25, as a result of being hit on the neck by a ball two days earlier.
2018 - Ukraine declares martial law after an armed incident in which the Russian Federal Security Service coast guard fired on and captured three Ukrainian Navy vessels attempting to cross from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov through the Kerch Strait.
2019 - A crackdown on protesters in Iraq results in at least 24 deaths.
1127 – Emperor Xiaozong of Song, Emperor of China (d. 1194)
1380 - King Ferdinand I of Aragon (d. 1416)
1576 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyo (d. 1638)
1582 – Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651)
1630 - Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria (d. 1665)
1684 – Tokugawa Yoshimune, 8th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate (d. 1781)
1701 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, creator of the Celsius temperature scale (d. 1744)
1715 – Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, German physician and theologian (d. 1794)
1746 – Robert Livingston, American politician and businessman (d. 1813)
1746 - Increase Sumner, 5th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1799)
1754 – Georg Forster, German scientist (d. 1794)
1779 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general and politician (d. 1865)
1804 - Julius Benedict, German-English conductor and composer (d. 1885)
1809 - Fanny Kemble, English actress, playwright and poet (d. 1893)
1831 – Gustav Radde, German geographer and naturalist (d. 1903)
1833 - Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (d. 1897)
1843 – Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1854 - Louis de Geer, 17th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1935)
1857 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English doctor, won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1952)
1865 - Janez Evangelist Krek, Slovenian journalist and politician (d. 1917)
1867 – Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950)
1870 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi, 7th President of Finland (d. 1956)
1871 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)
1874 – Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (d. 1952)
1876 – Viktor Kaplan, Austrian engineer (d. 1934)
1878 - Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter (d. 1969)
1884 - Vasile Voiculescu, Romanian poet (d. 1963)
1885 - Liviu Rebreanu, Romanian author and playwright (d. 1944)
1887 - Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (d. 1946)
1888 - Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, Indian politician, 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha (d. 1956)
1891 - Pedro Salinas, Spanish writer (d. 1951)
1892 - Prince Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia (d. 1914)
1894 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (d. 1989)
1894 - Katherine Milhous, American illustrator and author (d. 1977)
1894 - Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian monk and saint (d. 1971)
1896 - Prince Sigismund of Prussia (d. 1978)
1897 - Vito Genovese, Italian-American mobster (d. 1969)
1903 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist (d. 1976)
1908 - Tameo Ide, Japanese footballer (d. 1998)
1909 - James Agee, American author and screenwriter (d. 1955)
1909 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967)
1911 - David Merrick, American theatre producer (d. 2000)
1912 - Connie Sawyer, American actress (d. 2018)
1917 - Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d. 1998)
1918 - Borys Paton, Ukrainian engineer and scientist
1920 – Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (d. 1985)
1920 – Buster Merryfield, English actor (d. 1999)
1921 – Alexander Dubcek, Czechoslovakian politician (d. 1992)
1923 – Juvenal Amarijo, Brazilian footballer (d. 2009)
1925 – Ernie Wise, English comedian (d. 1999)
1927 - William E. Simon, 63rd United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 2000)
1929 - Arnold Clark, Scottish businessman (d. 2017)
1932 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino politician (d. 1983)
1934 - Al Jackson, Jr., American drummer, songwriter and producer (d. 1975)
1934 - Gilbert Strong, American mathematician
1935 - Les Blank, American director and producer (d. 2013)
1935 - Daniel Charles, French philosopher (d. 2008)
1936 - Joel Barcellos, Brazilian actor (d. 2018)
1937 - Rodney Bewes, English actor (d. 2017)
1938 - Apolo Nsibambi, former Prime Minister of Uganda (d. 2019)
1939 - Dave Giusti, American baseball player
1939 – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 2001)
1940 – Bruce Lee, Chinese-American actor and martial arts expert (d. 1973)
1941 – Aimé Jacquet, French footballer and coach
1941 - Louis van Dijk, Dutch pianist
1942 – Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970)
1942 - Henry Carr, American athlete
1945 - Barbara Anderson, American actress
1945 - James Avery, American actor (d. 2013)
1945 - Benigno Fitial, 7th Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands
1946 - Kim Howells, British politician
1946 - Richard Codey, American politician, 53rd Governor of New Jersey
1947 - Don Adams, American basketball player
1947 - Ismail Omar Guelleh, President of Djibouti
1950 - Gavyn Davies, English businessman
1951 – Kathryn Bigelow, American movie director
1951 - Vera Fischer, Brazilian actress
1951 - Ivars Godmanis, former Prime Minister of Latvia
1951 - Luis Lusquiños, Argentine politician (d. 2017)
1952 – Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (Genesis)
1952 - Sheila Copps, Canadian politician
1952 - Bappi Lahiri, Indian director and singer
1952 - James D. Wetherbee, American astronaut
1953 - Curtis Armstrong, American actor
1953 - Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian musician
1953 - Steve Bannon, American media executive (Breitbart News) and former White House Chief Strategist
1954 - Arthur Smith, English comedian and actor
1955 – Bill Nye, American engineer and broadcaster
1955 - Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 – Lionello Manfredoni, Italian footballer
1956 – William Fichtner, American actor
1957 – Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy
1957 - Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish racing driver
1958 - Mike Scioscia, American baseball player
1959 – Charlie Burchill, Scottish musician (Simple Minds)
1959 - Victoria Mullova, Russian violinist
1960 – Eike Immel, German footballer
1960 – Tim Pawlenty, American politician, former Governor of Minnesota
1960 – Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian politician, former Prime Minister of Ukraine
1960 - Michael Rispoli, American actor
1960 - Gianni Vernetti, Italian politician
1960 - Nigel Marven, British television presenter and zoologist
1961 – Samantha Bond, British actress
1961 - Steve Oedekerk, American actor, director and screenwriter
1961 - Norbert Dickel, German footballer
1963 - Fisher Stevens, American actor, director and producer
1964 – Roberto Mancini, Italian footballer and coach
1964 - Ronit Elkabetz, Israeli actress (d. 2016)
1964 - Giles Fraser, English Church of England priest, journalist and broadcaster
1964 - Robin Givens, American actress
1965 - Rachida Dati, French politician
1966 – Andy Merrill, American voice actor
1967 - Shane Embury, English musician
1968 - Michael Vartan, French-American actor
1970 - Brooke Langton, American actress
1971 - Troy Corser, Australian motorcycle racer
1972 - Shane Salerno, American screenwriter and producer
1973 – Vratislav Lokvenc, Czech footballer
1974 - Wendy Houvenaghel, Northern Irish cyclist
1976 – Jaleel White, American actor
1978 – Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player
1978 – The Streets, English rapper
1978 – Radek Stepanek, Czech footballer
1979 – Hilary Hahn, American violinist
1979 – Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer
1979 - Shin Hye-sung, South Korean singer
1980 - Jackie Greene, American singer-songwriter and musician
1981 - Bruno Alves, Portuguese footballer
1981 – Matthew Taylor, English footballer
1982 - Tatsuya Tanaka, Japanese footballer
1982 - Alexander Kerzhakov, Russian footballer
1982 - Tommy Robinson, English activist, former leader of the English Defence League
1983 – Professor Green, English rapper
1984 - Sanna Nielsen, Swedish singer
1985 - Alison Pill, Canadian actress
1985 - Lauren C. Mayhew, American actress and singer
1986 - Suresh Kumar Raina, Indian cricketer
1987 - Yuria Haga, Japanese actress
1987 - Tom Allin, English cricketer (d. 2016)
1990 – Josh Dubovie, English singer
1990 - Shane Haboucha, American actor
1992 - Park Chan-yeol, South Korean singer and dancer
1996 - Amanda Todd, American victim of cyberbullying (d. 2012)
8 BC – Horace, Roman Emperor (b. 65 BC)
395 - Ruffinus, Roman statesman
450 - Galla Placidia, Roman daughter of Theodosius I (b. 392)
511 – Clovis I, King of the Franks (c. 466)
602 - Maurice, Byzantine Emperor (b. 539)
1198 - Constance, Queen of Sicily (b. 1154)
1252 - Blanche of Castile, Spanish consort of King Louis VIII of France (b. 1188)
1474 – Guillaume Dufay, French-Flemish composer (b. 1397)
1570 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
1592 – King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1661 - Teofila Zofia Sobieska, Polish noblewoman (b. 1607)
1664 – Francisco Pacheco, Spanish painter (b. 1564)
1680 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1601)
1700 - Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)
1811 - Andrew Meikle, Scottish engineer (b. 1719)
1852 – Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (b. 1815)
1888 - Wilhelm Hertenstein, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
1894 – Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
1895 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French writer (b. 1824)
1899 - Constant Fornerod, Swiss politician (b. 1819)
1916 - Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet (b. 1855)
1919 - Manuel Espinosa, President of Panama (b. 1857)
1934 - Baby Face Nelson, American bank robber (b. 1908)
1936 – Basil Zaharoff, Greek arms dealer (b. 1849)
1937 - Felix Hamrin, shortest-serving Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1875)
1940 - Nicolae Iorga, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1871)
1944 - Leonid Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
1953 – Eugene O'Neill, American writer (b. 1888)
1955 – Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892)
1958 - Georgi Damyanov, Bulgarian politician (b. 1892)
1960 - Dirk Jan de Geer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1870)
1967 – Léon Mba, President of Gabon (b. 1902)
1971 - Joe Guyon, American football player (b. 1892)
1975 – Ross McWhirter, British co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records (b. 1925)
1978 – Harvey Milk, American politician (b. 1930)
1978 – George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1929)
1981 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)
1988 – Angela Aames, American actress (b. 1956)
1988 – John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
1989 - Carlos Arias Navarro, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1908)
1998 - Barbara Acklin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
1999 - Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and writer (b. 1925)
2000 - Willie Cunningham, Scottish footballer (b. 1925)
2000 – Len Shackleton, English footballer (b. 1922)
2005 – Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
2006 – Alan Freeman, English disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (b. 1927)
2008 – V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister of India (b. 1931)
2010 – Irvin Kershner, American director (b. 1923)
2011 – Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and coach (b. 1969)
2011 – Ken Russell, English movie director (b. 1927)
2013 - Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1925)
2013 - Lewis Collins, English actor (b. 1946)
2014 - Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (b. 1988)
2014 - P. D. James, English writer (b. 1920)
2015 - Philippe Washer, Belgian tennis player (b. 1924)
2015 - Maurice Strong, Canadian businessman and diplomat (b. 1929)
2016 - Ioannis Grivas, Greek politician (b. 1923)
2017 - Loïc Bouvard, French politician (b. 1929)
2017 - Bill Harris, American politician (b. 1934)
2017 - James Kisicki, American actor (b. 1938)
2017 - Bud Moore, American racing driver (b. 1925)
2017 - Cristina Stamate, Romanian actress (b. 1946)
2018 - Harold O. Levy, American lawyer and philanthropist (b. 1952)
2018 - Ed Pastor, American politician (b. 1943)
2018 - V. K. Rao, Indian civil servant (b. 1914)
2018 - Barbara Brooks Wallace, American writer (b. 1922)
2019 - Stefan Danailov, Bulgarian actor (b. 1942)
2019 - Clay Evans, American pastor and civil rights activist (b. 1925)