the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1989 – Débora García, Spanish football midfielder
1989   – Oleksandr Isakov, Ukrainian swimmer
1989   – Sophie Luck, Australian actress
1989   – David Timor, Spanish footballer
1990 – Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer
1990   – Maica García Godoy, Spanish water polo player
1990   – Ronald González Tabilo, Chilean footballer
1990   – Saki Kumagai, Japanese footballer
1990   – Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player
1991 – Brenda Asnicar, Argentine actress
1992 – Sam Concepcion, Filipino musician and dancer
1992   – Keerthy Suresh, Indian actress
1993 – Kenneth Omeruo, Nigerian footballer
2001 – Thomas Strudwick, British motorcycle road racer
AD 33 – Agrippina the Elder, Roman wife of Germanicus (b. 14 BC)
532 – Pope Boniface II
866 – Al-Musta'in, Abbasid caliph (b. 836)
1271 – Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir, Icelandic aristocrat and poet
1277 – Beatrice of Falkenburg, German queen consort (b. c. 1254)
1346 – John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray
1346 – Maurice de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn
1456 – Nicolas Grenon, French composer (b. 1375)
1485 – John Scott of Scott's Hall, Warden of the Cinque Ports
1552 – Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (b. 1498)
1575 – Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (b. 1511)
1586 – Philip Sidney, English courtier, poet, and general (b. 1554)
1587 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
1616 – John Pitts, English priest and scholar (b. 1560)
1660 – Adrian Scrope, English colonel and politician (b. 1601)
1673 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1630)
1690 – Margaret Mary Alacoque, French mystic (b. 1647)
1757 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (b. 1683)
1776 – Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (b. 1681)
1780 – William Cookworthy, English pharmacist and minister (b. 1705)
1781 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (b. 1705)
1786 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1723)
1806 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758)
1836 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
1837 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778)
1849 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810)
1868 – Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)
1887 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (b. 1824)
1889 – Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828)
1893 – Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (b. 1808)
1910 – Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (b. 1819)
1918 – Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886)
1928 – Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
1931 – Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (b. 1884)
1937 – J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
1938 – Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher and theoretician (b. 1854)
1948 – Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (b. 1869)
1955 – Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician (b. 1873)
1956 – Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (b. 1920)
1958 – Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
1958   – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1876)
1962 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (b. 1882)
1963 – Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1865)
1965 – Bart King, American cricketer (b. 1873)
1966 – Sidney Hatch, American runner and soldier (b. 1883)
1966   – Wieland Wagner, German director and manager (b. 1917)
1967 – Puyi, Chinese emperor (b. 1906)
1970 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1921)
1970   – Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
1970   – Quincy Wright, American political scientist and academic (b. 1890)
1972 – Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
1972   – George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887)
1973 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (b. 1926)
1978 – George Clark, American race car driver (b. 1890)
1978   – Giovanni Gronchi, Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887)
1979 – S. J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter (b. 1904)
1979   – John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (b. 1898)
1979   – Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (b. 1909)
1981 – Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and songwriter (b. 1927)
1981   – Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (b. 1895)
1981   – Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (b. 1887)
1983 – Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (b. 1905)
1987 – Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
1991 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (b. 1919)
1992 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (b. 1912)
1992   – Orestis Laskos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1993 – Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)
1996 – Chris Acland, English musician & drummer of Lush (b. 1966)
1997 – Larry Jennings, American magician and author (b. 1933)
1998 – Joan Hickson, English actress (b. 1906)
1998   – Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (b. 1920)
1999 – Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1915)
2000 – Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1924)
2000   – Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1964)
2001 – Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
2001   – Micheline Ostermeyer, French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (b. 1922)
2001   – Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli historian, general, and politician, Tourism Minister of Israel (b. 1926)
2002 – Derek Bell, Irish harpist and composer (b. 1935)
2004 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
2006 – Daniel Emilfork, Chilean-French actor (b. 1924)
2006   – Christopher Glenn, American journalist (b. 1938)
2007 – Joey Bishop, American actor and talk show host (b. 1918)
2007   – Teresa Brewer, American singer (b. 1931)
2007   – Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (b. 1939)
2008 – Urmas Ott, Estonian journalist and author (b. 1955)
2008   – Levi Stubbs, American singer (b. 1936)
2008   – Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (b. 1923)
2009 – Norma Fox Mazer, American author and educator (b. 1931)
2009   – Vic Mizzy, American composer (b. 1916)
2011 – Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (b. 1919)
2012 – Milija Aleksic, English-South African footballer (b. 1951)
2012   – Émile Allais, French skier (b. 1912)
2012   – Henry Friedlander, German-American historian and author (b. 1930)
2012   – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress (b. 1952)
2012   – Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (b. 1922)
2012   – Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2013 – Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (b. 1926)
2013   – Terry Fogerty, English rugby player and coach (b. 1944)
2013   – Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1926)
2013   – Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (b. 1928)
2013   – Rene Simpson, Canadian-American tennis player (b. 1966)
2014 – Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (b. 1937)
2014   – Gero Bisanz, German football coach (b. 1935)
2014   – Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (b. 1943)
2014   – Tom Shaw, American bishop (b. 1945)
2014   – Berndt von Staden, German diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States (b. 1919)
2015 – Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (b. 1926)
2015   – Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (b. 1946)
2015   – Anne-Marie Lizin, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
2015   – Tom Smith, American businessman and politician (b. 1947)
2017 – Danielle Darrieux, French actress (b. 1917)
2017   – Gord Downie, Canadian musician (b. 1964)
2018 – Leone Frollo, Italian comic book artist (b. 1931)
2018   – Cornelius Edward Gallagher, American politician (b. 1921)
2018   – Ara Güler, Turkish photojournalist (b. 1928)
2018   – Jacques Monory, French painter and filmmaker (b. 1924)
2018   – Derrick Sherwin, English television producer and actor (b. 1936)
Anstrudis
Catervus
Ethelred and Ethelberht
Florentius of Orange
François-Isidore Gagelin (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)
John the Short (John Colobus)
Marguerite Marie Alacoque (formerly)
Nothhelm
Rule of Andrew
Victor of Capua
October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Dessalines Day (Haiti)
Digital Society Day (India)
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Loyalty Day (Argentina)
Kannemesai Festival (Ise Grand Shrine)
January 1 – Establishment of Republic of China.
January 5 – Prague Party Conference
January 6 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
January 17 – British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the second expedition to reach the South Pole.
January 23 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
February 8 – Mexican Revolution – Military rebellion against the rule of Francisco Madero begins in Mexico City.
Battles last for 10 days
February 12 – Republic of China adopts the Gregorian calendar
February 14 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
February 14 – In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
February 18 – Francisco Madero is forced to resign – battle ends.
All members of Madero's government are arrested.
February 19 – Prizes are included in Cracker Jack candy boxes for the first time
February 22 – Francisco Madero and Pino Suarez are shot, allegedly when they "tried to escape"
March 1 – Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
March 1 – Georg Ritter von Trapp, head of the famous Austrian singing family memorialized in the musical The Sound of Music marries Agathe
March 5 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for a military purpose by using them for reconnaissance west of Tripoli behind Turkish lines.
March 7 – Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
March 7 – French aviator Henri Seimet makes the first non-stop flight from Paris to London in three hours
March 12 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts) are founded.
March 16 – Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time"
March 27 – Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo gives 3,000 cherry blossom trees to be planted in Washington, D.C. to symbolize the friendship between the two countries.
March 30 – France establishes a protectorate over Morocco.
April 14–15 – The R.M.S Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Over 1500 people died.
Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
January 28 – Jackson Pollack (d. 1956)
March 12 – Pat Nixon, 39th First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
March 27 — James Callaghan, British Prime Minister (d. 2005)
June 23 – Alan Turing (d. 1954)
September 5 – John Cage (d. 1992)
October 17 – Pope John Paul I (d. 1978)
December 22 – Lady Bird Johnson, 38th First Lady of the United States (d. 2007)
February 12 – Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian doctor and scientist (b. 1841)
May 30 – Wilbur Wright of the Wright brothers, American co-inventor of the airplane.
April 15 – Over 1500 people die on the R.M.S Titanic
December 11 - James Otis, American children's writer
Art, music, theatre, literature, movies
May 29 - Premiere of Nijinsky's ballet The Afternoon of a Faun in Paris
Ted Cassidy (July 31, 1932 - January 16, 1979) was an American actor.
He was best known for his roles as Lurch and Thing on The Addams Family.
Actors from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1979 deaths
781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781)
904 - Thessaloniki falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
1009 – Pietro Boccapecora becomes Pope Sergius IV
1423 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant – The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
1492 - Jews are expelled from Spain, when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to land on the island of Trinidad.
1588 – The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
1655 – Russo-Polish War of 1654 to 1667: The Russian army enters the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
1658 – Aurangzeb is proclaimed Mughal Emperor of India.
1667 – The Treaty of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam gets tranferred to British control, being renamed New York.
The Dutch get the previously British colony in present-day Suriname.
1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
1712 - Great Northern War: Danish and Swedish ships clash in the Baltic Sea, with an inconclusive result.
1715 - An 11-ship Spanish treasure fleet is lost in a hurricane between the Florida Keys and Havana, Cuba, killing at least 1,000 people.
1741 - Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
1763 – Pontiac's War: The Odawa Chief Pontiac's forces defeat British troops at the Battle of Bloody Run.
1790 – First US patent issued; granted to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
1856 – Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
1865 - The first Narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
1901 - With hot-air balloon Preussen, Arthur Berson and Reinhard Suering reach a record height of 10,800 meters.
1913 - The Balkan States sign an armistice in Bucharest.
1914 - French Socialist politician Jean Jaurès is assassinated in a Paris café by the Nationalist Raoul Villain.
1917 – The Third Battle of Ypres starts in Flanders.
1919 – German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution (to enter into force August 14)
1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
1932 - Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party wins over 38% of the vote in German elections.
1936 – The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics were to be held in Tokyo.
However, the games were given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, and were eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II.
1941 – Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
1945 – Pierre Laval, fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
1948 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
1951 – Japan Airlines is established.
1954 – First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio, also involving Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni.
The lack of credit given to Walter Bonatti causes a lot of controversy in the years to come.
1956 – Jim Laker sets extraordinary record at Old Trafford in the fourth Test of taking nineteen wickets in a first-class match (the previous best was seventeen.
1961 – At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain.
1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes).
1969 - The Mariner 6 probe flies by Mars and sends photographs to Earth.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
1973 – A Delta Air Lines jetliner crashes while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89
1975 – In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.
1976 – NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1.
1976 – Flooding on the Big Thompson River in Colorado kills 143 people.
1977 – David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam serial killer, carries out his last murder, shooting Stacey Moskowitz.
1981 – A 7-week strike by Major League Baseball players ends.
1987 – A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
1988 – 32 people are killed when a bridge collapses in Penang, Malaysia.
1991 – The United States and Soviet Union sign the START I arms reduction treaty.
1991 – A Soviet OMON attacks a Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai.
1992 – China General Aviation flight 7552 crashes at take-off from Nanking, to Xiamen.
1992 – A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into mountain south of Kathmandu, Nepal killing 113.
1992 – The Republic of Georgia joins the United Nations.
1996 – MIL-STD-1750A is declared inactive for use in new designs.
1998 – The United Kingdom imposes a total landmine ban.
1999 – NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
2000 – The Knesset (Israeli parliament) chooses Moshe Katsav as the next President.
2006 – Fidel Castro transfers power in Cuba to his brother Raul Castro.
2007 - Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
2008 – Scientists report that the Phoenix spacecraft had confirmed the presence of frozen water on the planet Mars.
2012 - Michael Phelps beats Larisa Latynina's record number of Olympic medals.
2013 - Zimbabwe holds a Presidential election.
The main candidates are long-time President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
Mugabe's ZANU-PF Party claims a landslide victory, but Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change declares the election null and void on the grounds of vote-rigging.
2014 - Shortly before midnight, gas explosions occur in the city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, killing at least 26 people.
2015 - Beijing is given the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
2017 - Los Angeles, California, volunteers to host the 2028 Summer Olympics, effectively giving the 2024 Summer Olympics to Paris.
2017 - US President Donald Trump fires White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, only ten days after giving him the job.
1143 – Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165)
1396 – Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467)
1443 - Albert III, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
1526 - Augustus, Elector of Saxony (d. 1586)
1527 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
1598 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654)
1702 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (d. 1768)
1704 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (d. 1752)
1718 – John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772)
1720 - Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, French soldier and statesman (d. 1788)
1724 – Noël-François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801)
1737 – Princess Augusta of Great Britain (d. 1813) (sources vary between July 31 and August 31)
1777 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman and priest (d. 1849)
1800 – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (d. 1882)
1803 – John Ericsson, Swedish engineer (d. 1889)
1804 – George Baxter, English engraver and printer (d. 1867)
1812 – Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Empress of Brazil (d. 1873)
1816 – Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1867)
1816 - George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870)
1822 – Abram Stevens Hewitt, Mayor of New York City (d. 1903)
1824 - Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, French aristocrat (d. 1890)
1825 – William S. Clark, American senator and scholar (d. 1885)
1826 - George Hoadly, 36th Governor of Ohio (d. 1902)
1828 - François-Auguste Gevaert, Belgian composer (d. 1908)
1831 - Ilya Ulyanov, Russian teacher and father of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1886)
1835 – Henri Brisson, French politician (d. 1912)
1839 - Ignacio Andrade, 25th President of Venezuela (d. 1925)
1843 – Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (d. 1918)
1847 – Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1905)
1854 - José Canalejas, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1912)
1858 – Richard Dixon Oldham, English geologist (d. 1936)
1863 - Sidney Johnston Catts, 22nd Governor of Florida (d. 1936)
1875 – Jacques Villon, French painter and printmaker (d. 1963)
1875 - Kunio Yanagita, Japanese scholar (d. 1962)
1877 - Louisa Bolus, South African botanist and taxonomist (d. 1970)
1880 – Munshi Premchand, Indian writer (d. 1936)
1886 – Fred Quimby, American movie producer (d. 1965)
1886 - Harry Tate, American soccer player (d. 1954)
1892 - Joseph Charbonneau, French-Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1959)
1892 - Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist (d. 1986)
1901 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
1902 - Gubby Allen, Australian-English cricketer (d. 1989)
1904 - John Carberry, American cardinal (d. 1998)
1907 – Roy Milton, American jump blues singer, drummer and bandleader (d. 1983)
1908 - Franz Meyers, German politician (d. 2002)
1911 – George Liberace, American musician (d. 1983)
1912 – Milton Friedman, American economist (d. 2006)
1912 - Irv Kupcinet, American columnist (d. 2003)
1913 – Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
1914 – Louis de Funès, French actor and comedian (d. 1983)
1914 - Mario Bava, Italian movie director, cameraman and screenwriter (d. 1980)
1914 – Raymond Aubrac, French Resistance activist (d. 2012)
1916 - Bill Todman, American game show producer (d. 1979)
1918 – Paul D. Boyer, American chemist (d. 2018)
1918 – Hank Jones, American pianist (d. 2010)
1919 – Primo Levi, Italian writer and chemist (d. 1987)
1919 - Robert Morgenthau, American lawyer (d. 2019)
1921 – Peter Benenson, British founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005)
1922 - Lorenzo Antonetti, Italian cardinal (d. 2013)
1923 – Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish-born record company executive (d. 2006)
1923 - Jimmy Evert, American tennis player and coach (d. 2015)
1923 - Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist, engineer and inventor of Kevlar (d. 2014)
1926 – Hilary Putnam, American philosopher (d. 2016)
1927 - Bunny Carr, Irish television presenter (d. 2018)
1928 - Bill Frenzel, American politician (d. 2014)
1929 – Don Murray, American actor
1929 – José Santamaría, Uruguayan footballer
1930 - Oleg Popov, Russian clown (d. 2016)
1931 - Nick Bollettieri, American tennis coach
1931 – Ivan Rebroff, German singer (d. 2008)
1932 – Ted Cassidy, American actor (d. 1979)
1932 – John Searle, American philosopher
1932 - Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern (d. 2016)
1933 - Cees Nooteboom, Dutch writer
1935 - Yvon Deschamps, Canadian comedian, actor and author
1935 - Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (d. 2015)
1937 - Isabelle Daniels, American sprinter (d. 2017)
1938 - Saeed Saleh, Egyptian actor (d. 2014)
1939 - Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (d. 2015)
1939 - France Nuyen, French actress
1940 - Roy Walker, Irish comedian, actor and television host
1941 – Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (d. 2004)
1943 - Lobo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – William Bennett, American politician
1944 – Jonathan Dimbleby, British journalist and TV presenter
1944 - Robert C. Merton, American economist
1944 - Geraldine Chaplin, American-British actress
1944 - David Norris, Irish scholar, senator and activist
1945 – William Weld, 68th Governor of Massachusetts
1947 - Richard Griffiths, British actor (d. 2013)
1947 - Hubert Védrine, French politician
1948 - Russell Morris, Australian singer
1950 - Richard Berry, French actor, director and singer
1951 – Evonne Goolagong, Australian tennis player
1951 - Barry Van Dyke, American actor
1952 - Alan Autry, American football player, actor and politician
1952 – Helmuts Balderis, Latvian ice hockey player
1952 - Faye Kellerman, American author
1953 – Ted Baillieu, Australian politician
1956 – Deval Patrick, American politician, 71st Governor of Massachusetts
1956 - Mark Arden, British actor
1956 – Michael Biehn, American actor and movie producer
1957 - Mark Thompson, English media executive, former Director-General of the BBC
1957 - Daniel Ash, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1958 – Bill Berry, American musician in band R.E.M.
1959 – Andrew Marr, British broadcast journalist
1959 – Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist
1960 - Dale Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Frank Gardner, English journalist and correspondent
1961 - Peter O'Brien, American drummer (Orleans)
1962 - Jackie Bird, Scottish broadcast journalist
1962 - Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist
1962 – Wesley Snipes, American actor
1963 – Brian Skrudland, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 - Fatboy Slim, English DJ and musician
1964 – Wendell Alexis, American basketball player
1964 - Jean-Paul Vonderburg, Swedish footballer
1964 – Jim Corr, Irish musician
1965 – J. K. Rowling, British writer (Harry Potter)
1965 - Pat Finn, American actor
1965 - Scott Brooks, American basketball coach
1965 - Mario Von Appen, German canoeist
1966 - Tatsuya Ishihara, Japanese animator and director
1966 - Yoshiyuki Matsuyama, Japanese footballer
1966 – Dean Cain, American actor
1966 – Valdas Ivanauskas, Lithuanian footballer and football manager
1967 – Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005)
1969 - Antonio Conte, Italian footballer
1969 - Loren Dean, American actor
1970 - Ben Chaplin, English actor
1971 - Christina Cox, Canadian actress
1971 - Elivélton, Brazilian footballer
1973 - Jacob Aagaard, Danish-Scottish chess player
1973 – Abdulaziz Khathron, Saudi Arabian footballer
1973 – Wail al-Shehri, Saudi Arabian terrorist (d. 2001)
1974 – Emilia Fox, British actress
1975 – Ruben Patterson, American basketball player
1976 – Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballer
1978 – Will Champion, English musician (Coldplay)
1978 - Justin Wilson, English racing driver (d. 2015)
1978 – Zac Brown, American country music singer
1979 – Carlos Marchena, Spanish footballer
1979 - B. J. Novak, American actor, comedian, screenwriter and director
1980 – Mils Muliaina, New Zealand rugby player
1981 - Clemente Rodríguez, Argentine footballer
1981 – Titus Bramble, English footballer
1981 - M. Shadows, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 - Hayuma Tanaka, Japanese footballer
1982 - Mira Craig, Norwegian singer
1982 – Michael Jung, German equestrian
1982 – DeMarcus Ware, American football player
1984 - Joseph Benavidez, American mixed martial artist
1985 - Alissa White-Gluz, Canadian singer
1986 - Shinzo Koroki, Japanese footballer
1987 – Michael Bradley, American footballer
1987 – Brittany Byrnes, American actress
1988 - Krystal Meyers, American singer-songwriter
1988 - Michelle Sabogal, Colombian actress
1989 – Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player
1989 - Zelda Williams, American actress
1990 - Besart Abdurahimi, Macedonian footballer
1992 - Lizzy, South Korean singer, dancer and actress
1992 - Kyle Larson, American racing driver
1996 - Blake Michael, American actor, director and producer
2000 - Kim Sae-ron, South Korean actress
54 BC - Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar (b. 120 BC)
855 - Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Arab scholar and theologian (b. 780)
1099 – El Cid, Spanish warrior (b. 1044)
1396 – William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury
1508 – Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (killed in battle)
1556 – Ignatius Loyola, Spanish priest, founder of the Jesuits (b. 1491)
1726 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
1750 – King John V of Portugal (b. 1689)
1784 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1713)
1805 - Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian soldier (b. 1756)
1849 - Sandor Petofi, Hungarian poet (b. 1823)
1875 – Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
1884 – Kien Phuc, Vietnamese Emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty (b. 1869)
1886 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (b. 1811)
1914 – Jean Jaurès, French politician (b. 1859)
1917 – Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881)
1920 – Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat, writer and revolutionary (b. 1878)
1929 - José de Castro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1868)
1940 – Udham Singh, Indian revolutionary (b. 1899)
1944 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer disappeared (b. 1900)
1952 - Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (b. 1880)
1953 – Robert Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio and Presidential candidate (b. 1889)
1966 - Bud Powell, American pianist (b. 1924)
1969 - Charles Edison, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1890)
1971 - Walter P. Carter, American activist (b. 1923)
1972 – Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1899)
1973 - Azumafuji Kin'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1921)
1980 – Mohammed Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924)
1980 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
1981 – Omar Torrijos, military leader of Panama (b. 1929)
1986 – Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
1990 – Albert Leduc, French-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1993 – King Baudouin I of Belgium (b. 1930)
2001 – Poul Anderson, science fiction writer (b. 1926)
2001 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (b. 1914)
2003 – Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (b. 1933)
2004 - Laura Betti, Italian actress and singer (b. 1927)
2004 – Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1907)
2005 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker and economist (b. 1935)
2009 – Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (b. 1933)
2010 – Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Italian screenwriter (b. 1914)
2010 - Mitch Miller, American entertainer (b. 1911)
2011 – Eliseo Alberto, Cuban-Mexican writer (b. 1951)
2012 - Alfredo Ramos de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1924)
2012 – Gore Vidal, American writer (b. 1925)
2013 - John Graves, American writer (b. 1920)
2013 - Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor (b. 1922)
2014 - Jorge Jacobson, Argentine journalist (b. 1936)
2014 - Kenny Ireland, Scottish actor (b. 1945)
2014 - Warren Bennis, American scholar and academic (b. 1925)
2014 - Mukku Raju, Indian actor (b. 1931)
2014 - Nabarun Bhattacharya, Indian author (b. 1948)
2015 - Billy Pierce, American baseball player (b. 1927)
2015 - Alan Cheuse, American writer and critic (b. 1940)
2015 - Roddy Piper, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1954)
2015 - Howard W. Jones, American physician (b. 1910)
2015 - Richard Schweiker, American politician (b. 1926)
2016 - Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1955)
2016 - Fazil Iskander, Abkhazian writer (b. 1929)
2016 - Seymour Papert, South African-American mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1928)
2016 - Destin Onka Malonga, Congolese footballer (b. 1988)
2017 - Liu Wen-hsiung, Taiwanese politician (b. 1954)
2017 - Jeanne Moreau, French actress (b. 1928)
2017 - Les Murray, Hungarian-Australian broadcaster (b. 1945)
2017 - Francesco La Macchia, Italian sprint canoeist (b. 1938)
2018 - Hélio Bicudo, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
2018 - Alex Fergusson, Scottish politician (b. 1949)
2018 - Bassano Staffieri, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1931)
2019 - Harold Prince, American theatre director and producer (b. 1928)
Ka Hae Hawaii Day
Ignatius of Loyola (Roman Catholicism)
Aileen Carol Wuornos Pralle (born Aileen Carol Pittman; February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer.
She was born in Rochester, Michigan.
She confessed to killing six men in Florida and was executed in Florida State Prison by lethal injection for the murders.
Wuornos said that the men she killed had raped her or tried to rape her while she was working as a prostitute.
The movie, Monster is about her life.
Two documentaries were made about her.
Wuornos was born Aileen Carol Pittman in Rochester, Michigan.
She never met her father.
Wuornos was adopted by her grandparents.
When she was 13 she became pregnant.
She started working as a prostitute when she was 14.
2002 deaths
American LGBT sex industry people
American prostitutes
Criminals from Michigan
Executed American serial killers
People executed by lethal injection
People with antisocial personality disorder
People from Troy, Michigan
325 - First Council of Nicea: The First Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held.
526 – An earthquake in Syria and Antiochia kills 300,000 people.
685 - The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
1202 – The Mediterranean Sea area and the Middle East are shaken by a strong earthquake, which is believed to have killed a million people.
1449 - The Battle of Alfarrobeira is fought, establishing the House of Braganza as the main Royal Family of Portugal.
1497 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol to look for a route westwards.
1498 – Portuguese seafarer Vasco da Gama arrives in Calicut, now Kozhikode, India.
1506 – Christopher Columbus dies, still believing he had reached Asia on his expeditions.
1520 - The massacre at the Festival of Toxcatl occurs during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.
1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first Atlas.
1631 - The city of Magdeburg is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of the people who live there are massacred, as one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
1813 - Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony.
The French troops win the battle on the next day.
1840 – York Minster is badly damaged by fire.
1861 - American Civil War: Kentucky declares its neutrality.
1862 – Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act.
1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a US patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1875 - Signing of the Metre Convention by 17 countries, leading to the creation of the International System of Units.
1882 – Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary form a Triple Alliance.
1883 – Krakatau begins a series of eruptions that end really violently in August.
1884 – Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo becomes the King of the Zulu nation.
1891 - First public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
1899 - The first traffic ticket in the US is handed out, to taxi driver Jacob German, who is arrested.
1902 – Cuba gains independence from the United States, with Tomas Estrada Palma as its first President.
1927 - Treaty of Jeddah: The UK recognizes the sovereignty of Ibn Saud in the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, which later becomes Saudi Arabia.
1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland, on a flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
She lands in Ireland the next day.
1940 – Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at Auschwitz.
1941 - World War II: Battle of Crete - German paratroops invade Crete.
1948 – Chiang Kai-shek is elected the first President of the Republic of China.
1949 - In the US, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the forerunner of the National Security Agency, is established.
1956 – The US drops the first airborne hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
1958 - Spain joins the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
1965 – PIA Flight 705, a Boeing 720, crashes on landing at Cairo International Airport in Egypt, killing 119 people.
1968 - Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War.
1969 - Vietnam War: End of the Battle of Hamburger Hill.
1980 - Voters in Quebec reject independence from Canada in a referendum, with 60% voting that way.
1983 – First publication of the discovery of the HIV virus that leads to AIDS, in the Science journal, by Luc Montagnier.
1989 – Authorities in China declare martial law, leading to the crushing of pro-democracy protests on Tiananmen Square two weeks later.
1990 – Romania holds its first elections following Communist rule.
1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope sends its first photograph to Earth.
2001 - The Spanish language Wikipedia starts.
2002 – East Timor becomes independent from Indonesia.
2006 - Nearly 1.8 million garment workers in Bangladesh go on strike, starting a series of strikes  against poor working conditions.
2006 – Finnish monster-rock band Lordi wins the 51st Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, Greece, with 292 points.
2012 – Taur Matan Ruak becomes President of East Timor on the 10th anniversary of its independence from Indonesia.
2012 – A magnitude 6 earthquake strikes Northern Italy, killing 7 people and destroying many historic buildings.
2012 – A solar eclipse is seen over part of East Asia, the North Pacific Ocean and Western North America.
2013 - Over 70 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks across Iraq.
2013 - 2013 Moore tornado: A tornado strikes the suburbs of Oklahoma City, with the suburb of Moore being worst affected.
24 people are killed.
2014 - Over 100 people are killed in a bomb attack in Jos, Nigeria.
2014 - Martial law is declared in Thailand during an ongoing political crisis.
2017 - Francisco Guterres becomes President of East Timor.
2019 - Volodymyr Zelensky becomes President of Ukraine.
1315 – Bonne of Luxembourg, queen of John II of France (d. 1349)
1470 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal (d. 1547)
1554 – Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (d. 1594)
1593 - Salomo Glassius, German theologian (d. 1656)
1660 – Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor (d. 1714)
1663 – William Bradford, British-born printer (d. 1752)
1706 – Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (d. 1777)
1726 – Francis Cotes, English painter (d. 1770)
1734 - Anton Jansa, Slovenian painter and beekeeper (d. 1773)
1737 – William Petty Fitzmaurice, British statesman (d. 1805)
1743 - Toussaint Louverture, Haitian revolutionary (d. 1803)
1759 – William Thornton, West Indian-born architect (d. 1828)
1764 - Johann Gottfried Schadow, Prussian sculptor and graphic artist (d. 1850)
1768 – Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (d. 1849)
1776 - Simon Fraser, American-Canadian fur trader and explorer (d. 1862)
1780 - Bernardino Rivadavia, Argentine statesman (d. 1845)
1772 – Sir William Congreve, English inventor (d. 1828)
1799 – Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)
1802 - David Octavius Hill, Scottish artist and photographer (d. 1870)
1806 – John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (d. 1873)
1811 - Alfred Domett, 4th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1887)
1818 - William Fargo, American businessman and politician (d. 1881)
1822 – Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1912)
1830 – Hector Malot, French writer (d. 1907)
1832 – Garretson W. Gibson, President of Liberia (d. 1910)
1838 – Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925)
1851 – Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (d. 1929)
1860 – Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
1882 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
1882 - Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish statesman (d. 1943)
1883 – King Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933)
1883 - Jan Kaspar, Czech engineer and pilot (d. 1927)
1883 - Johnny Arthur, American actor (d. 1951)
1886 – Ali Sami Yen, Turkish footballer (d. 1951)
1889 - Karin Molander, Swedish actress (d. 1978)
1893 – Asmundur Sveinsson, Icelandic sculptor (d. 1972)
1895 – R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (d. 1937)
1897 - Diego Abad de Santillan, Spanish writer and economist (d. 1983)
1901 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (d. 1981)
1904 - Margery Allingham, English crime fiction writer (d. 1966)
1906 – Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
1908 – James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)
1908 - Louis Daquin, French actor and director (d. 1980)
1908 - Henry Bolte, Australian politician, 38th Premier of Victoria (d. 1990)
1911 – Gardner Fox, American writer (d. 1986)
1912 – Moses I. Finley, American-British historian (d. 1986)
1912 – Wilfrid Sellars, American philosopher (d. 1989)
1912 - Nereo Rocco, Italian footballer (d. 1979)
1913 - Teodoro Fernandez, Peruvian footballer (d. 1996)
1913 – William Hewlett, American engineer and computer manufacturer (d. 2001)
1915 - Peter Copley, British actor (d. 2008)
1915 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician (d. 1981)
1916 - Owen Chadwick, English rugby player, historian, writer and theologian (d. 2015)
1916 – Trebisonda Valla, Italian athlete (d. 2006)
1916 – Alexei Petrovich Maresiev, Russian flying ace (d. 2001)
1917 – Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, Icelandic politician (d. 2005)
1917 - Tony Cliff, British activist (d. 2000)
1918 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
1919 – George Gobel, American comedian (d. 1991)
1920 – Betty Driver, English singer and actress (d. 2011)
1921 – Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947)
1921 - Karl Dedecius, Polish-born German translator (d. 2016)
1921 – Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1923 - Israel Gutman, Israeli historian (d. 2013)
1924 - David Chavchavadze, American author and former CIA officer (d. 2014)
1925 – Alexei Tupolev, Russian engineer and aircraft designer (d. 2001)
1926 – Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (d. 1956)
1927 – Bud Grant, American football coach
1927 - Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (d. 2016)
1931 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1935 – José Mujica, 40th President of Uruguay
1936 - Nickey Iyambo, Vice president of Namibia (d. 2019)
1936 – Anthony Zerbe, American actor
1938 - Glauco Sansovini, former Captain-Regent of San Marino (d. 2019)
1938 – Marinella, Greek singer and actress
1938 - Astrid Kirchherr, German photographer
1939 - Balu Mahendra, Indian movie director, screenwriter and actor (d. 2014)
1940 – Stan Mikita, Slovak-born hockey player (d. 2018)
1940 – Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball player
1941 – Goh Chok Tong, former Prime Minister of Singapore
1941 – John Strasberg, American actor
1942 - Raymond Chrétien, Canadian lawyer and diplomat
1943 – Al Bano, Italian singer
1944 – Joe Cocker, British singer (d. 2014)
1944 – Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer
1944 – Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman
1945 - Anton Zeilinger, Austrian quantum physicist
1945 - Wally Herger, American politician
1946 – Cher, American actress and singer
1946 - Robert Chua, Singaporean broadcaster
1946 - Bobby Murcer, American baseball player, manager, coach and sportscaster (d. 2008)
1947 – Greg Dyke, British broadcast and football executive
1947 - Sky du Mont, Argentine-German actor
1948 - Jon Amiel, British-American director and producer
1950 - Reinaldo Merlo, Argentine footballer
1950 - Wei Jingsheng, Chinese activist
1951 – Thomas Akers, American astronaut
1952 – Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer
1953 – Robert Doyle, Australian politician
1954 - Esko Aho, former Prime Minister of Finland
1954 – David Paterson, American politician, 55th Governor of New York
1954 – Cindy McCain, American businesswoman and wife of John McCain
1955 – Zbigniew Preisner, Polish movie composer
1955 - Anton Corbijn, Dutch photographer and movie director
1956 – Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Norwegian writer
1957 – Yoshihiko Noda, former Prime Minister of Japan
1958 – Ron Reagan, American dancer and talk show host
1958 – Jane Wiedlin, American singer (The Go-Go's)
1959 – Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian-American singer (d. 1997)
1959 – Bronson Pinchot, American actor
1960 – John Billingsley, American actor
1960 – Chuck Brodsky, American musician
1960 – Tony Goldwyn, American actor
1961 - Clive Allen, English footballer
1961 - Anna Signeul, Swedish football coach
1962 – Mike Jeffries, American soccer coach
1964 - Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, British peer, brother of Diana, Princess of Wales
1966 – Mindy Cohn, American actress
1967 - Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
1967 - Gabriele Muccino, Italian director, producer and screenwriter
1967 - Ramzi Yousef, Kuwaiti-Pakistani terrorist
1968 - Waisale Serevi, Fijian rugby player and coach
1968 – Timothy Olyphant, American actor
1970 – Louis Theroux, British television presenter
1971 – Tony Stewart, American race car driver
1972 – Tina Hobley, British actress
1972 – Busta Rhymes, American singer and rapper
1973 - Elsa Lunghini, French singer-songwriter and actress
1973 - Juris Razgulajevs, Latvian figure skater
1976 – Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
1977 – Miriam Parrish, American actress
1977 - Vesa Toskala, Finnish ice hockey player
1978 - Nils Schumann, German athlete
1979 - Rick Edwards, English television presenter
1979 - Andrew Scheer, Canadian politician
1981 – Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer
1981 – Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player
1982 – Petr Cech, Czech footballer
1982 - Natalia Podolskaya, Belarussian singer
1982 - Daniel Ribeiro, Brazilian director, producer and screenwriter
1983 – Oscar Cardozo, Paraguayan footballer
1984 – Patrick Ewing, Jr., American basketball player
1985 - Chris Froome, British cyclist
1986 - Dexter Blackstock, English footballer
1987 - Mike Havenaar, Dutch-Japanese footballer
1987 - Taku Takeuchi, Japanese ski jumper
1987 - Julian Wright, American basketball player
1988 - Miyu Nagase, Japanese singer and guitarist
1991 - Henrik Ojamaa, Estonian footballer
1992 – Cate Campbell, Australian swimmer
1992 - Vaclav Kadlec, Czech footballer
1992 - Jack Gleeson, Irish actor
1993 – Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
685 – King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645)
1277 – Pope John XII (b. 1215)
1285 – John II of Jerusalem, King of Cyprus (b. 1259)
1444 – Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (b. 1380)
1449 – Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra, Prince-regent of Portugal (b. 1392)
1503 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian banker, politician and patron of the arts (b. 1463)
1506 – Christopher Columbus, Italian-Spanish seafarer (b. 1451)
1550 – Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (b. 1510)
1622 – Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1604)
1648 – Wladislaus IV of Poland (b. 1595)
1717 - John Trevor, English politician (b. 1637)
1793 – Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720)
1841 - Joseph Blanco White, Spanish theologian and poet (b. 1775)
1873 - Georges-Etienne Cartier, Canadian politician (b. 1814)
1880 - Henry S. Foote, Governor of Mississippi (b. 1804)
1885 - Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, American politician, 29th United States Secretary of State (b. 1817)
1896 – Clara Schumann, German pianist (b. 1819)
1903 - Gertrude Guillaume-Schack, German-Swiss activist (b. 1845)
1909 - Ernest Hogan, American actor and composer (b. 1859)
1917 - Philipp von Ferrary, French stamp collector (b. 1850)
1925 - Joseph Howard, 1st Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1862)
1925 - Elias M. Ammons, 18th Governor of Colorado (b. 1860)
1940 – Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer (b. 1871)
1946 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish aviation pioneer and engineer (b. 1871)
1947 – Philipp Lenard, German physicist (b. 1862)
1949 - Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens (b. 1891)
1957 – Gilbert Murray, Australian philologist (b. 1866)
1961 – Josef Priller, German military aviator (b. 1915)
1964 – Rudy Lewis, American singer (b. 1936)
1973 – Renzo Pasolini, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1938)
1973 – Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
1974 – Jean Daniélou, French cardinal (b. 1905)
1975 – Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor (b. 1903)
1976 – Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
1984 – Olafur Johannesson, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1913)
1989 – John Hicks, English economist (b. 1904)
1989 – Gilda Radner, American comedienne and actress (b. 1946)
1992 – Giovanni Colombo, Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Milan (b. 1902)
1996 – Jon Pertwee, British actor (b. 1919)
2000 – Charles Antenen, Swiss footballer (b. 1929)
2000 – David Pearce, British professional boxer (b. 1959)
2000 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flautist (b. 1922)
2001 – Renato Carosone, Italian pianist and bandleader (b. 1920)
2002 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941)
2005 – Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (b. 1913)
2007 – Stanley Miller, American biologist and chemist (b. 1930)
2008 – Hamilton Jordan, 8th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)
2009 – Lucy Gordon, British actress (b. 1980)
2010 – Walter Rudin, Austrian-born mathematician (b. 1921)
2011 – Randy Savage, American pro wrestler (b. 1952)
2012 – Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Libyan intelligence officer, only person convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing (b. 1952)
2012 – Robin Gibb, British singer and musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
2012 – Eugene Polley, American inventor of the TV remote control (b. 1915)
2013 – Ray Manzarek, American musician and singer (The Doors) (b. 1939)
2014 – Barbara Murray, English actress (b. 1929)
2014 – Arthur Gelb, American editor and author (b. 1924)
2014 – Charles W. Robinson, American businessman and diplomat (b. 1919)
2015 – Sudha Shivpuri, Indian actress (b. 1937)
2015 – Bob Belden, American musician (b. 1956)
2016 – Patricia M. Derian, American activist (b. 1928)
2016 – Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo, Spanish journalist and athlete (b. 1932)
2016 – Wheelock Whitney, Jr., American businessman (b. 1926)