the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
1871 – The Great Chicago Fire is brought under control.
1874 – General Postal Union was created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
1888 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
1900 - The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
1911 - An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China, leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Dynasty.
1913 - Steamship SS Volturna catches fire in the Mid-Atlantic Ocean, killing 136 people.
Over 300 lives are saved.
1914 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
1919 – Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
1934 - In Marseille, King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and then-foreign minister of France Louis Barthou are assassinated.
1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to transmit electricity from the Colorado River 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – During a nighttime air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral is pierced by a bomb.
1941 - A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia to be the country's President.
1942 – Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalizes Australian autonomy.
1944 – World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin begin a nine-day conference in Moscow to discuss the future of Europe.
1957 – Neil H. McElroy was sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United States.
1959 - The Conservatives under Harold Macmillan win the United Kingdom general election.
1962 – Uganda becomes a republic.
1963 – In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
1967 – A day after being caught, Che Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1969 – In Chicago, Illinois, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection to the trial of the "Chicago Eight" (trial started on September 24).
1969 – Students from the University of the Philippines formed the first Upsilonian Congress and established the Upsiloan Alpha Beta Grand Fraternity in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1980 - Pope John Paul II shakes hands with Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama in a private audience in Vatican City.
1981 - End of capital punishment in France.
1983 - Attempted killing of President of South Korea Chun Doo-hwan.
He survives, though 17 people are killed.
1986 – United States District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.
1989 – An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
1989 – In Leipzig, East Germany, 70,000 protesters demand the legalization of opposition groups and democratic reforms.
1991 – Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.)
meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
2002 – After losing a massive amount of ground during the summer of 2002, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 7,286.27, its lowest level in five years.
The NASDAQ also hit a six-year low of 1,114.11.
2004 - The new Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh is officially opened.
2004 – Jo Brauner resigns as the anchor of German Tagesschau news show after 30 years.
2004 – Democratic elections held for the first time in Afghanistan.
2004 – The tri-annual federal election is held in Australia and Liberal Party of Australia leader, John Howard, wins a fourth term as Prime Minister in a landslide victory over opponent, Mark Latham of the Australian Labor Party.
2005 – China's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping officially announced the new accurate height of Mount Everest is 8848.43 m.
2005 - 16- and 17-year-olds are allowed to vote in the state election in Burgenland, Austria.
2006 – North Korea carries out its first-reported bomb test.
2007 - Yoko Ono opens the John Lennon Imagine Peace tower on the island of Videy near Reykjavik, Iceland.
2009 – First Lunar impact of the Centaur & LCROSS spacecrafts, as part of NASA's Precursor Robotic Programme.
2009 – Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
2011 - Sebastian Vettel wins his second Formula One World title, as the youngest driver to win two Formula One World Championships in-a-row.
2012 - Members of the Pakistan Taliban attempt to kill education activist Malala Yousafzai, by shooting her in the head.
She survives the attack after receiving medical treatment.
2014 - UKIP wins its first parliamentary seat in a UK by-election in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, through defected Conservative MP Douglas Carswell.
2017 - Iceland becomes the least-populated country to qualify for a FIFA World Cup, defeating Kosovo 2-0 in Reykjavik.
1201  Robert de Sorbonne, French theologian (d. 1274)
1261  King Denis of Portugal (d. 1325)
1328  King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
1581  Claude Gaspard Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician, poet and scholar (d. 1638)
1586  Archduke Leopold of Austria (d. 1632)
1704  Johann Andreas Segner, German physician, physicist and mathematician (d. 1777)
1757  King Charles X of France (d. 1836)
1782  Lewis Cass, American politician (d. 1866)
1788  Jozsef Kossics, Slovenian writer (d. 1867)
1796  Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
1833  Eugen Langen, German entrepreneur, engineer and inventor (d. 1895)
1835  Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
1840  Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
1846  Julius Maggi, Swiss businessman (Maggi condiment) (d. 1912)
1848  Caroline Alice Elgar, English author (d. 1920)
1852  Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist (d. 1919)
1854  Myron T. Herrick, Governor of Ohio (d. 1929)
1858  Mihaijlo Idvorski Pupin, Serbian-American physicist (d. 1935)
1859  Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)
1863  Alexander Siloti, Ukrainian pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1945)
1873  Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1946)
1874  Nicholas Roerich, Russian polymath (d. 1947)
1879  Max von Laue, German physicist (d. 1960)
1880  Charlie Faust, American baseball player (d. 1915)
1881  Victor Klemperer, German writer (d. 1960)
1886  Rube Marquard, American baseball player and manager (d. 1980)
1888  Nikolai Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
1888  Irving Cummings, American actor and director (d. 1959)
1892  Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian writer (d. 1975)
1893  Mario de Andrade, Brazilian writer (d. 1945)
1897  M. V. Bhaktavatsalam, Indian politician (d. 1987)
1900  Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976)
1900  Joseph Friedman, American inventor (d. 1982)
1903  Walter O'Malley, American sports executive (d. 1979)
1906  Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
1906  Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian journalist and Islamist thinker (d. 1966)
1907  Jacques Tati, French director and producer (d. 1982)
1907  Quintin Hogg, Baron Halisham of St Marylebone, English politician (d. 2001)
1908  Werner Haeften, German officer and Resistance activist (d. 1944)
1909  Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
1909  V. Nalliah, Sri Lankan Tamil politician
1911  Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
1915  Clifford M. Hardin, American politician (d. 2010)
1918  E. Howard Hunt, American spy (d. 2007)
1918  Lila Kedrova, Russian actress (d. 2000)
1920  Jason Wingreen, American actor (d. 2015)
1920  Yusef Lateef, American musician and composer (d. 2013)
1921  Tadeusz Rozewicz, Polish poet and playwright (d. 2014)
1922  Fyvush Finkel, American actor (d. 2016)
1923  Donald Sinden, English actor (d. 2014)
1925  Robert Docking, American politician, 38th Governor of Kansas (d. 1983)
1926  Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (d. 2015)
1928  Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (d. 2016)
1929  William M. Gray, American scientist (d. 2016)
1931  Antony Booth, British actor (d. 2017)
1933  Peter Mansfield, British physicist (d. 2017)
1934  Abdullah Ibrahim, South African pianist and composer
1935  Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
1936  Edmond Keosayan, Armenian-Soviet musician and movie director (d. 1994)
1936  Brian Blessed, British actor
1938  Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician, former President of Austria
1939  Nicholas Grimshaw, English architect
1940  John Lennon, English musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. December 8, 1980)
1940  Gordon J. Humphrey, American politician
1941  Chucho Valdés, Cuban pianist and composer
1941  Giancarlo Bercellino, Italian footballer
1942  Shukri Ghanem, Prime Minister of Libya (d. 2012)
1943  Renato Cappellini, Italian footballer
1944  John Entwistle, British musician (d. 2002)
1944  Nona Hendryx, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress
1944  Francis Girod, French movie director (d. 2006)
1946  Fernando Brant, Brazilian poet and journalist (d. 2015)
1947  France Gall, French singer (d. 2018)
1947  Joe Wark, Scottish footballer (d. 2015)
1947  Bob Moose, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1948  Paul LePage, American politician, Governor of Maine
1948  Jackson Browne, American musician
1949  Bob Leinbach, American singer-songwriter and musician (Orleans)
1949  Rod Temperton, English songwriter and producer (d. 2016)
1950  Reichi Nakaido, Japanese rock music guitarist
1950  Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, Nobel Peace Prize winner
1952  Sharon Osbourne, wife of Ozzy Osbourne
1952  Dennis Stratton, English guitarist (Iron Maiden)
1953  Tony Shalhoub, American actor
1954  Scott Bakula, American actor
1954  James Fearnley, British musician (The Pogues)
1955  Steve Ovett, British athlete
1958  Alan Nunnelee, American politician (d. 2015)
1959  Boris Nemtsov, Russian politician (d. 2015)
1960  Kenny Garrett, American jazz saxophonist
1961  Ellen Wheeler, American actress, director and producer
1962  Hugh Robertson, English politician
1962  Onokuni Yasushi, Japanese sumo wrestler
1962  Jorge Burruchaga, Argentine footballer
1964  Guillermo del Toro, Mexican movie director
1964  John Ralston, Canadian actor
1966  David Cameron, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1967  Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1967  Artur Davis, American politician
1968  Troy Davis, American high-profile death row inmate (d. 2011)
1969  PJ Harvey, English musician
1969  Steve McQueen, English artist and director (12 Years a Slave)
1970  Steve Jablonsky, American movie and television composer
1970  Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
1970  Kenny Anderson, American baseball player
1971  Jason Jones, American director, producer and actor
1973  Erin Daniels, American actress
1973  Fabio Lione, Italian singer-songwriter and keyboardist
1973  Carlos Pavon, Honduran footballer
1974  Shmuel Herzfeld, American rabbi and activist
1975  Sean Lennon, American musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
1975  Mark Viduka, Australian footballer
1976  Nick Swardson, American actor and comedian
1978  Nicky Byrne, Irish singer (Westlife)
1979  Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
1979  Brandon Routh, American actor
1979  Chris O'Dowd, Irish actor
1979  DJ Rashad, American DJ and musician (d. 2014)
1979  Alex Greenwald, American musician, actor and record producer
1980  Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1981  Darius Miles, American basketball player
1982  Antonio Mendonca, Angolan footballer
1982  Shi Jun, Chinese footballer
1983  Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
1983  Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
1983  Spencer Grammer, American actress
1983  Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter
1983  Zeng Jinyan, Chinese blogger and human rights activist
1984  Djamel Mesbah, French-Algerian footballer
1986  Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
1987  Samantha Murray, English tennis player
1990  Marcus Willis, English tennis player
1992  Tyler James Williams, American actor and singer
1993  Lauren Davis, American tennis player
1993  Scotty McCreery, American singer
1994  Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
1996  Bella Hadid, American model
2008  Bo, dog of Barack Obama
1047 – Pope Clement II (b. 1005)
1253 – Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop
1273 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
1390 - King John I of Castile (b. 1358)
1555 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
1562 – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist (b. 1523)
1569 – Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
1581 - Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1526)
1597 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
1691 – William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
1709 – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
1729 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
1793 – Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
1806 – Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b. 1731)
1808 - John Claiborne, American politician (b. 1777)
1831 – John Capodistria, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
1841 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Prussian architect and painter (b. 1781)
1857 - Josef Ressel, Austrian inventor (b. 1793)
1873 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1897 - Jan Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818)
1900 - Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
1934 – King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (assassinated) (b. 1888)
1934 – Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1862)
1937 - Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (b. 1868)
1941 – Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1950 - George Hainsworth, NHL goaltender (b. 1895)
1953 - Jimmy Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
1955 – Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1875)
1956 – Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
1958 – Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
1961 – Werner Jaeger, German mathematician (b. 1888)
1962 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)
1967 – Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader (executed) (b. 1928)
1967 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist (b. 1897)
1967 - Andre Maurois, French writer (b. 1885)
1972 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
1974 – Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
1976 - Walter Warlimont, German general (b. 1894)
1976 - Bob Moose, American baseball player (b. 1947)
1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian musician (b. 1929)
1985 - Emilio Garrastazu Medici, President of Brazil (b. 1905)
1987 – Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)
1987 – Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
1987 – William P. Murphy, American doctor, won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)
1988 - Felix Wankel, German engineer (b. 1902)
1989 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and writer (b. 1940)
1991 - Dagmar Lange (Maria Lang), Swedish writer (b. 1914)
1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)
1995 - Kukrit Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911)
1996 – Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913)
2000 – David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
2001 – Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
2002 – Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (b. 1956)
2005 - Louis Nye, American actor (b. 1913)
2006 – Paul Hunter, British snooker player (b. 1978)
2008 - Gidget Gein, American musician (b. 1969)
2009 – Horst Szymaniak, German footballer (b. 1934)
2010 – Maurice Allais, French economist (b. 1911)
2012 - Paddy Roy Bates, British founder of the Sealand micronation (b. 1921)
2013 - Chopper Read, Australian crime figure and author (b. 1954)
2013 - Wilfried Martens, former Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1936)
2014 - Peter A. Peyser, American politician (b. 1921)
2014 - Jan Hooks, American actress and comedienne (b. 1957)
2015 - Ravindra Jain, Indian composer (b. 1944)
2015 - Tony Rafty, Australian caricaturist (b. 1915)
2015 - Du Runsheng, Chinese politician (b. 1913)
2015 - Jerry Parr, American secret service agent (b. 1930)
2015 - Geoffrey Howe, British politician (b. 1926)
2016 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish movie director (b. 1926)
2017 - Manuel Busto, French cyclist (b. 1932)
2017 - Allan Chumak, Russian faith healer (b. 1935)
2017 - Rafe Mair, Canadian lawyer, political commentator, journalist and politician (b. 1931)
2017 - Jean Rochefort, French actor (b. 1930)
2017 - Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian painter, printmaker and sculptor (b. 1925)
2017 - Michel Diefenbacher, French politician (b. 1947)
2017 - Hessie, Cuban textile artist (b. 1936)
2018 - Warner Saunders, American news anchor (b. 1935)
2018 - Thomas A. Steitz, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (b. 1940)
2018 - Carolyn Warner, American politician (b. 1930)
Independence Day (Uganda)
Hangul Day (South Korea)
October 09
3761 BC – The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar.
336 – Pope Marcus ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
1428 - Start of the English siege of Orléans in the Hundred Years' War.
1477 - Opening of Uppsala University in Sweden.
1492 – Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course.
1506 – Pope Julius II and France occupy Bologna.
1513 – Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramon de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1520 – First public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain.
1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast.
1571 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain, Venice, and Papal States) destroys Turkish fleet.
1637 – Prince Frederick Henry of Orange occupies Breda.
1690 – English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade.
1702 – English/Dutch troops under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough occupy Roermond.
1714 – Beer tax riots in Alkmaar, Netherlands.
1737 – 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India).
1756 - Flooding on the Elbe near what is now Germany's North Sea coast kills 600 people.
1763 – George III of Great Britain issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
1765 – Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY.
1769 – English explorer, Captain Cook, reaches New Zealand.
Abel Tasman had been the first European to land there over a century earlier.
1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: Americans beat the British in the Battle of Second Saratoga and the Battle of Bemis Heights.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
1806 – Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood.
1816 – The first double-decked steamboat, the "Washington," arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1826 – Granite Railway (first chartered railway in the U.S.) begins operations.
1828 – The city of Patras, Greece is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under General Maison.
1840 – Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1864 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Darbytown Road, the Confederate forces' attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond is stopped.
1864 – American Civil War: Capture of the CSS Florida — Union warship captures the USS Wachusett — Confederate raider ship while in port in Bahia, Brazil.
1865 – The Morant Bay Rebellion starts in Jamaica.
1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; student enrollment is 412, the most at any American university to that date.
1870 – Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon.
1879 – Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
1882 – Baseball: First World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0.
1886 – Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.
1900 – The term "orienteering" is first used for an event.
1904 – Baseball: New York Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12).
1907 – France's Henry Farman flies 30 m in a double decker plane.
1908 – Crete revolts against the Ottoman Empire and aligns with Greece.
1908 – Serbia and Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact.
1910 – Absinthe is banned in Switzerland.
1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided victory in American college football.
1918 - The Governing Council in Warsaw declares Poland to be an independent state.
1919 – KLM of the Netherlands was founded.
It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1919 – First London-Amsterdam airline service (Britain Aerial Transport and KLM).
1922 – Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria.
1922 – First radio link, WNJ (Newark, New Jersey) and WGY (Schenectady) link for World Series.
1924 – Greek government of Dikalekopoulis forms.
1928 – Ras Tafari Makonnen crowned negus of Abyssinia by Empress Zauditu.
1928 – Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0).
1929 – Ramsay MacDonald is the first British premier to address the U.S. Congress.
1931 – First infra-red photograph, Rochester, New York.
1933 - Air France, the national airline of France, is created after the merger of five smaller airlines.
1938 – Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J.
1940 – Germany invades Romania.
1941 – German army occupies Viarma, U.S.S.R.
1941 – John Curtin becomes the 14th Prime Minister of Australia
1942 – the McCollum memo conspires to bring the United States to war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1942 – U.S. and British government announce establishment of United Nations.
1942 – Maxwell Anderson's "Eve of St. Mark," premieres in New York City.
1942 – Salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in Stalingrad.
1943 – Japan executes 100 American civilian prisoners on Wake Island.
1944 – Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp.
1944 – Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums.
1944 – Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel is ordered to return to Berlin.
1944 – Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen.
1949 – German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
1949 – One of the earliest television shows, "Ford Theater" debuts
1950 – United States forces cross the 38th parallel in the Korean War.
1950 - Missionaries of Charity is founded by Mother Teresa.
1951 – Malayan Emergency: Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA) ambushes and kills British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney.
1951 – David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government.
1957 – Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" debuts.
1958 – President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
1958 – U.S. manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury.
1958 – Potter Stewart appointed to U.S. Supreme Court.
1959 – Far side of the Moon seen for first time, compliments of U.S.S.R.'s Luna 3.
1960 – Second Kennedy and Nixon debate Cold War foreign policy in the second of four scheduled debates.
1960 - Nigeria joins the UN.
1962 – U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, U.S.S.R.
1963 – John F. Kennedy signs ratification for the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
1963 – Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and the Dominican Republic, kills 7,190.
1968 – Hollywood adopts the movie ratings system.
1970 – Richard Nixon announces a new five-point peace proposal to end the Vietnam War.
1971 - Oman joins the UN.
1976 - Hua Guofeng becomes Chairman of the Communist Party of China.
1977 – The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
1982 – Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
1984 – NFL running back Walter Payton breaks Jim Brown's rushing record.
1985 – The "Achille Lauro" is hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.
1985 – The Mameyes disaster occurs in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
1996 – The Fox News Channel, an American cable news network, is launched.
2000 – Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg abdicates in favour of his son, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
2000 – Germany wins 1-0 against England in the last game at the Old Wembley Stadium.
2001 – Start of United States war in Afghanistan with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
2002 – Maher Arar is deported by the US government to Syria, where he is tortured and held without charge for a year before being returned home to Canada.
2003 – California recall: California governor Gray Davis is recalled from office and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
2004 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates.
2005 - Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency win the Nobel Peace Prize.
2006 – Sport: The first Lusophone Games, for Portuguese-speaking countries begin in Macao.
2006 – Palau's capital is moved from Koror to Ngerulmud in the state of Melekeok.
2006 – Russian journalist and writer Anna Politkovskaya is murdered.
2011 – The Nobel Peace Prize is shared between Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakel Karman of Yemen.
2012 - Hugo Chávez is re-elected President of Venezuela against Henrique Capriles.
Chavez dies less than five months later, on March 5, 2013.
2014 - Lunar Eclipse: A "Blood Moon", or red-appearing Moon, is seen in most of the world except Europe and Africa.
2016 - President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
2019 - Saturn overtakes Jupiter as the planet in the Solar System with the most known Moons (82, compared to Jupiter's 79).
2019 - Eight people are injured in a lorry-ramming attack in Limburg an der Lahn, Germany.
13 BC  Drusus Julius Caesar, adoptive son of Roman Emperor Tiberius (d. 23)
1471  King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)
1573  William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645)
1576  John Marston, English poet and playwright (d. 1634)
1589  Maria Magdalena of Austria (d. 1631)
1728  Caesar Rodney, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1784)
1744  Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
1746  William Billings, American composer (d. 1800)
1748  King Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)
1769  Solomon Sibley, American politician (d. 1846)
1798  Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French violinmaker, businessman and inventor (d. 1875)
1822  Rudolf Leuckert, German zoologist (d. 1898)
1835  Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913)
1836  Henri Elzear Taschereau, 4th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1911)
1841  King Nicholas of Montenegro (d. 1921)
1846  Wladimir Köppen, German scientist (d. 1940)
1849  James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d. 1916)
1857  George P. McLean, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1932)
1866  Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)
1870  Uncle Dave Macon, American banjo player, singer, songwriter and comedian (d. 1952)
1873  Alfred Ander, Swedish criminal, last person to be executed in Sweden (d. 1910)
1877  Thomas Archibald Sprague, Scottish botanist (d. 1958)
1881  Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
1884  Harold Geiger, US Army aviation pioneer (d. 1927)
1885  Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d. 1962)
1888  Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
1889  Robert Z. Leonard, American movie director, actor, producer and screenwriter (d. 1968)
1892  Dwain Esper, American director and producer (d. 1982)
1894  Del Lord, American director (d. 1970)
1897  Elijah Muhammad, American Muslim leader (d. 1975)
1897  Charles Chauvel, Australian screenwriter, movie director and producer (d. 1959)
1898  Alfred Wallenstein, American cellist and conductor (d. 1983)
1900  Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (d. 1945)
1901  Souvanna Phouma, Prime Minister of Laos (d. 1984)
1904  Armando Castellazzi, Italian footballer (d. 1968)
1905  Andy Devine, American actor (d. 1977)
1909  Anni Blomqvist, Finnish writer (d. 1990)
1909  Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian-American pianist (d. 1995)
1909  Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (d. 1983)
1911  Vaughn Monroe, American singer-songwriter and bandleader (d. 1973)
1912  Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002)
1913  Walt Whitman Rostow, American economist (d. 2003)
1914  Alfred Drake, American actor (d. 1992)
1914  Begum Akhtar, Indian singer (d. 1974)
1914  Sarah Churchill, British actress (d. 1982)
1915  Charles Templeton, Canadian cartoonist and television evangelist (d. 2001)
1917  June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006)
1918  Harry V. Jaffa, American historian (d. 2015)
1919  Zelman Cowen, Australian academic and Governor-General of Australia (d. 2011)
1920  Georg Leber, German politician (d. 2012)
1921  Raymond Goethals, Belgian footballer and coach (d. 2004)
1922  William Zinsser, American writer, editor, literary critic and teacher (d. 2015)
1926  Marcello Abbado, Italian composer and pianist
1927  Ronald David Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (d. 1989)
1927  Al Martino, American singer and actor (d. 2009)
1928  Sanne Ledermann, friend of Anne Frank (d. 1943)
1928  Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
1928  Ali Kafi, Algerian politician (d. 2013)
1929  Hans-Peter Dürr, German physicist (d. 2014)
1929  Graeme Ferguson, Canadian director and producer
1931  Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 2021)
1932  Joannes Gijsen, Dutch-born former Catholic bishop of Reykjavik (d. 2013)
1934  Amiri Baraka, American poet, playwright and academic (d. 2014)
1934  Ulrike Meinhof, German left-wing militant and Red Army Faction member (d. 1976)
1935  Thomas Keneally, Australian writer
1936  Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
1937  Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician
1937  Christopher Booker, English journalist and author
1938  Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer, actor and poet (d. 1992)
1938  Ann Jones, English tennis player
1939  Clive James, Australian TV presenter and writer
1939  Harry Kroto, English chemist (d. 2016)
1939  John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
1939  Enrique Pinti, Argentine actor, comedian, theatre director and writer
1942  Joy Behar, American talk show host and actress
1943  José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player
1943  Oliver North, American former military officer and politician
1944  Donald Tsang, former Chief Executive of Hong Kong
1944  Pete van Wieren, American sportscaster (d. 2014)
1945  Kevin Godley, English singer-songwriter
1946  Bernard Lavilliers, French singer-songwriter and actor
1946  Pengiran Anak Saleha, Queen of Brunei
1950  Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician, 4th President of Tanzania
1951  David J. Halberstam, American sportscaster
1951  John Mellencamp, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
1952  Mary Badham, American actress
1952  Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
1953  Ronald Worm, German footballer
1953  Tico Torres, American musician (Bon Jovi)
1953  Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and playwright (d. 2014)
1954  Christian Bourquin, French politician (d. 2014)
1955  Yo-Yo Ma, French-born cellist
1955  Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist
1956  Brian Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
1957  Jayne Torvill, English figure skater
1959  Simon Cowell, English media personality
1959  Lourdes Flores Nano, Peruvian politician
1960  Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer
1964  Sam Brown, American singer
1964  Dan Savage, American LGBT activist, journalist and television producer
1966  Marco Beltrami, American movie score composer
1966  Sherman Alexie, American author, humourist and screenwriter
1967  Toni Braxton, American soul music singer
1968  Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead
1968  Pippa Funnell, British equestrian
1969  Francesco Buzzurro, Italian guitarist
1969  Karen L. Nyberg, American engineer and astronaut
1970  Nicole Ari Parker, American actress
1971  Ismael Urzaiz, Spanish footballer
1971  Michelle Mone, Scottish businesswoman
1972  Loek van Wely, Dutch chess player
1972  Ben Younger, American screenwriter
1973  Dida, Brazilian footballer
1973  Grigol Mgalobishvili, 7th Prime Minister of Georgia
1974  Charlotte Perrelli, Swedish singer
1975  Tim Minchin, Australian comedian
1976  Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
1976  Santiago Solari, Argentine footballer
1976  Taylor Hicks, American singer
1978  Alesha Dixon, English singer
1978  Jake Humphrey, English sports television presenter
1978  Omar Benson Miller, American actor
1979  Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979  Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979  Simona Amanar, Romanian gymnast
1980  Jean-Marc Gaillard, French cross-country skier
1982  Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
1982  Jermain Defoe, English footballer
1982  Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
1983  Aaron Parks, American jazz musician
1984  Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
1984  Simon Poulsen, Danish footballer
1985  Evan Longoria, American baseball player
1986  Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
1986  Kaitlyn, American wrestler and model
1986  Bree Olson, American pornographic actress
1987  Sam Querrey, American tennis player
1987  Cian Healy, Irish rugby union player
1987  Lauren Mayberry, Scottish singer (Chvrches)
1988  Diego Costa, Brazilian-Spanish footballer
1988  Holland Roden, American actress
1990  Ayla Kell, American actress
1991  Nicole Jung, American-Korean singer
1991  Lay, Chinese-Korean entertainer
1996  Lewis Capaldi, Scottish singer and songwriter
1997  Kira Kosarin, American actress and singer
2001  Princess Senate Seeiso, Princess of Lesotho
336  Pope Mark
929  Charles the Simple, King of France (b. 879)
1368  Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (b. 1338)
1577  George Gascoigne, English soldier, courtier and poet (b. 1535)
1612  Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, dramatist and diplomat (b. 1538)
1637  Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
1653  Fausto Poli, Italian cardinal (b. 1581)
1708  Guru Gobind Singh, 10th Sikh Guru (b. 1666)
1787  Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the American Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
1796  Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
1849  Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809)
1857  Louis McLane, United States Secretary of State (b. 1786)
1870  Majid bin Said of Zanzibar, Sultan of Zanzibar (b. 1834)
American writer (b. 1809)
1896  Emma Wedgwood, British naturalist (b. 1808)
1903  Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
1906  Honoré Beaugrand, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
1919  Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
1925  Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1926  Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (b. 1856)
1943  Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
1943  Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b. 1880)
1943  Archibald Warden, English tennis player (b. 1869)
1951  Anton Philips, Dutch businessman (b. 1874)
1956  Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
1959  Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)
1967  Norman Angell, British politician (b. 1872)
1991  Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
1992  Tevfik Esenc, last speaker of the Ubykh language (b. 1904)
1993  Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (b. 1910)
1994  Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (b. 1911)
2002  Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
2004  Kenneth Bigley, English engineer (b. 1942)
2006  Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and writer (b. 1958)
2007  Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
2008  Peter Copley, British actor (b. 1915)
2008  George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist (b. 1912)
2009  Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)
2010  Milka Planinc, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
2011  Ramiz Alia, last Communist leader of Albania, and President (b. 1925)
2012  Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, Mexican drug lord (b. 1974)
2013  Ovadia Yosef, Israeli Chief Rabbi (b. 1920)
2013  Patrice Chéreau, French director, movie maker, actor and producer (b. 1944)
2014  Siegfried Lenz, German writer (b. 1926)
2014  Iva Withers, Canadian-American theatre actress and singer (b. 1917)
2014  Nika Kiladze, Georgian footballer (b. 1988)
2014  Zilpha Keatley Snyder, American writer (b. 1927)
2014  Cigar, American racehorse (b. 1990)
2015  Dominique Dropsy, French footballer (b. 1951)
2015  Elena Lucena, Argentine actress (b. 1914)
2015  Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)
2015  W. R. Mitchell, British writer (b. 1928)
2015  Jurelang Zedkaia, 5th President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1950)
2016  Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austro-Hungarian-born British photographer and cinematographer (b. 1912)
2017  Konstantin Sarsania, Russian footballer (b. 1968)
2017  Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov, Russian philologist (b. 1929)
2017  Jim Landis, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2017  Washington SyCip, Filipino-American World War II veteran (b. 1921)
2017  Kazys Almenas, Lithuanian physicist, engineer and publisher (b. 1935)
2017  Ole Krarup, Danish politician (b. 1935)
2018  Peggy McCay, American actress (b. 1927)
2018  Oleg Pavlov, Russian novelist (b. 1970)
2018  Celeste Yarnall, American actress (b. 1944)
2019  Pepe Oneto, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1942)
2019  Ella Vogelaar, Dutch politician (b. 1949)
Teacher's Day (Laos)
National Day of East Germany (1949 to 1989)
October 07
105 BC – Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict a major defeat on the Roman army of Mallius Maximus.
69 BC - Battle of Tigranocerta: Forces of the Roman Republic defeat the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes the Great.
23 - Rebels kill and behead Xin Dynasty Emperor Wang Mang in China.
404 - Byzantine Empress Eudoxia ends her seventh pregnancy in a miscarriage.
She bleeds to death shortly after.
891 – Formosus becomes Pope.
1539 - Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army enter the Apalachee capital city of Anhaica, present-day Tallahassee, Florida.
1600 – Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence.
1683 - German immigrant families found Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1762 - Seven Years' War: End of the Battle of Manila between British and Spanish forces, resulting in British occupation of the city until the end of the war.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: General Henry Clinton leads British forces in the capture of the Continental Army defenses on the Hudson River in the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery.
1789 - French Revolution: Louis XVI of France returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by Parisian woman on the previous day.
1849 - Execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian War of Independence.
1854 - The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead begins shortly after midnight, killing 53 people.
1860 - The Introduction of the so-called Section 377 of the British Indian penal code (Law) was enacted in British India respectively.
1876 - The American Library Association is founded.
1884 – The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
1889 – Thomas Edison shows his first movie.
1889 – Hans Meyer and Ludwig Purtschneller make the first ascent of Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa in what is now Tanzania.
1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1908 – Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1910 - Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time.
1921 – International PEN is founded in London.
1923 - The Great Powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
1928 – Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
1939 - World War II: The German invasion of Poland is completed.
1942 - World War II: The United States Marine Corps begins the October Matanikau Action on Guadalcanal, present-day Solomon Islands, against the Imperial Japanese Army.
1955 – A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, killing 66 people.
1966 – LSD is declared illegal in the United States.
1973 – The Yom Kippur War begins, as Egypt and Syria launch an attack on Israel.
1976 – Cubana Flight 455 crashes due to sabotage, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados.
1976 – New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
1978 – Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad and Benny Andersson, members of the Swedish pop group ABBA, are married.
Incidentally, this is also the day that their single "Summer Night City" hits No.1 in Sweden.
1979 - Pope John Paul II visits the White House.
1981 – President of Egypt Anwar Sadat is assassinated, while inspecting a military parade.
1985 - Police Constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
1987 – Fiji becomes a Republic.
1991 - The Social Democratic Party under Anibal Cavaco Silva wins the Portuguese parliamentary election.
1993 - Michael Jordan surprisingly announces his retirement from basketball.
1995 – 51 Pegasi, in the constellation of Pegasus, 47.9 light-years away from Earth, was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
1998 – Gay-bashing: Near Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard is viciously attacked by two assailants for being gay (he died on October 12).
1999 - Filming of the Lord of the Rings trilogy begins in New Zealand.
2000 – Slobodan Milosevic resigns as President of Yugoslavia.
2000 - Argentine Vice President Carlos Alvarez resigns.
2002 – French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
2006 - Fredrik Reinfeldt becomes Prime Minister of Sweden after being elected on September 17.
2007 - Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered round-the-world journey.
2008 - Then-Prime Minister of Iceland Geir Haarde announces that his country is close to becoming bankrupt.
2017 - The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
210 BC - Ptolemy V Epiphanes, Pharaoh of Egypt (d. 181 BC)
1289 – Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
1459 – Martin Behaim, navigator, geographer (d. c. 1507)
1510 – Rowland Taylor, pastor, martyr (d. 1555)
1552 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1610)
1591 - Settimia Caccini, Italian composer and singer (d. 1638)
1738 - Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789)
1742 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian-Danish poet (d. 1786)
1744 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813)
1767 – Henri Christophe, King of Haiti (d. 1820)
1768 - Samuel C. Crafts, Governor of Vermont (d. 1853)
1769 – Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, British commander during the War of 1812 (d. 1812)
1773 - John MacCulloch, Scottish geologist (d. 1835)
1773 – King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
1783 - François Magendie, French physician (d. 1855)
1801 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)
1803 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
1808 – King Frederick VII of Denmark (d. 1863)
1820 – Jenny Lind, Swedish singer (d. 1887)
1831 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)
1838 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
1842 - Felice Cavallotti, Italian politician (d. 1898)
1846 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914)
1849 - Basil Zaharoff, Greek weapons dealer (d. 1936)
1862 - Albert J. Beveridge, American historian and politician (d. 1927)
1866 - Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor (d. 1932)
1868 – George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post (d. 1937)
1872 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
1874 - Frank G. Allen, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
1882 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (d. 1937)
1886 – Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
1886 - Georges Vantongerloo, Belgian painter, sculptor and architect (d. 1965)
1887 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
1887 - Maria Jeritza, Austrian soprano (d. 1982)
1888 - Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
1889 - Zalman Shazar, President of Israel (d. 1974)
1890 - Jan Grijseels, Dutch runner (d. 1961)
1891 - David Sholtz, Governor of Florida (d. 1953)
1891 - Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet (d. 1946)
1892 - Jackie Saunders, American silent movie actress (d. 1954)
1893 - Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist (d. 1956)
1898 - Mitchell Leisen, American director, producer and costume designer (d. 1972)
1900 - Willy Merkl, German mountaineer (d. 1934)
1903 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (d. 1995)
1905 – Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)
1906 – Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
1907 - Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Mexican composer (d. 1990)
1908 – Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
1908 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
1910 – Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, British Labour politician (d. 2002)
1913 - Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss artist and writer (d. 1985)
1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, leader of the Kon-Tiki expedition (d. 2002)
1916 - Chiang Wei-kuo, Chinese general (d. 1997)
1917 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (d. 1977)
1921 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
1923 - Yasar Kemal, Turkish writer (d. 2015)
1925 - Lyuben Berov, 43rd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 2006)
1927 - Emmanuel III Delly, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2014)
1928 - Barbara Werle, American actress (d. 2013)
1929 – Bruno Cremer, French actor (d. 2010)
1929 - Einar H. Ingman, Jr., American soldier (d. 2015)
1930 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
1930 – Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer (d. 2015)
1931 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
1931 – Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American physicist (d. 2018)
1934 - Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist (d. 2015)
1935 - Ernesto Laclau, Argentine philosopher and political theorist (d. 2014)
1935 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American professional wrestler
1937 – Mario Capecchi, Italian-American molecular geneticist
1939 - Melvyn Bragg, British broadcaster
1940 - Jan Keizer, Dutch football referee
1940 - Ellen Travolta, American actress
1941 - Winston Ntshona, South African playwright and actor (d. 2018)
1941 - Paul Popham, American soldier and activist (d. 1987)
1942 – Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
1943 - Ottavio Bianchi, Italian footballer
1943 - Cees Veerman, Dutch musician (d. 2014)
1944 - Boris Mikhailov, Soviet ice hockey player
1945 - Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
1946 – Lloyd Doggett, American politician
1946 - Tony Greig, South African-born English cricketer (d. 2012)
1947 - Patxi Andion, Spanish singer-songwriter
1947 - Klaus Dibiasi, diver
1948 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
1948 - Glenn Branca, American composer and guitarist
1949 - Jim Gilmore, American politician, former Governor of West Virginia
1949 - Bobby Farrell, Aruban-born performer (d. 2010)
1949 - Leslie Moonves, American businessman (CBS Corporation)
1950 – David Brin, American science fiction writer
1951 – Kevin Cronin, American musician
1951 – Manfred Winkelhock, German auto racing driver (d. 1985)
1951 - Clive Rees, Welsh rugby player
1953 - Claas Bruinsma, Dutch drugs dealer (d. 1991)
1960 - Richard Jobson, Scottish singer and musician
1960 - Yves Leterme, former Prime Minister of Belgium
1961 - Ben Summerskill, English businessman, Chief Executive of the LGBT rights charity Stonewall
1963 - Sven Andersson, Swedish footballer
1963 – Elisabeth Shue, American actress
1964 - Knut Storberget, Norwegian lawyer and politician
1964 - Mark Field, English politician
1966 - Fito Cabrales, Spanish singer, guitarist and composer
1966 – Niall Quinn, Irish footballer
1967 - Attila Ambrus, Hungarian bank robber and ice hockey player
1967 - Kennet Andersson, Swedish footballer
1967 - Svend Carlsen, Norwegian strongman and bodybuilder
1967 - Steven Woolfe, English politician
1969 - Muhammad V of Kelantan, former Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
1969 – Troy Shaw, English snooker player
1970 - Shauna MacDonald, Canadian actress
1971 – Alan Stubbs, English footballer
1972 – Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer
1972 - Dominic Andres, Swiss curler
1973 – Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
1973 - Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player
1974 – Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer
1974 - Jeremy Sisto, American actor, producer and screenwriter
1975 - Peter Pellegrini, Slovakian politician, Prime minister of Slovakia
1977 – Melinda Doolittle, American singer
1977 - Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer
1977 – Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer
1978 – Ricky Hatton, British boxer
1979 – David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)
1981 – Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
1982 – Levon Aronian, Armenian chess player