the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1781 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect (d. 1841)
1798 – Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States (d. 1853)
1815 - James Curtis Hepburn, American physician and Christian missionary (d. 1911)
1825 – Hans Gude, Norwegian painter (d. 1903)
1829 - Richard Coke, 16th Governor of Texas (d. 1897)
1842 - Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1929)
1845 - Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Polish linguist (d. 1929)
1855 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916)
1857 - B. H. Roberts, Mormon leader, historian and politician (d. 1935)
1860 – Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903)
1864 - Alexei von Jawlensky, Russian painter (d. 1941)
1870 - Albert Meyer, Swiss politician (d. 1953)
1874 - Ellery Clark, American athlete (d. 1949)
1883 - Enrico Toselli, Italian composer and pianist (d. 1926)
1884 - Hugh Walpole, English novelist (d. 1941)
1886 – Home Run Baker, American baseball player (d. 1963)
1888 – Paul Morand, French writer (d. 1976)
1890 - Fritz Busch, German conductor (d. 1951)
1895 - Luigi Cevenini, Italian footballer (d. 1968)
1897 - Yeghishe Charents, Armenian poet, writer and public activist (d. 1937)
1898 - Henry Hathaway, American movie director and producer (d. 1985)
1899 - Bela Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)
1899 – John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist (d. 1980)
1900 - Salote Tupou III, Queen of Tonga (d. 1965)
1900 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet (d. 1971)
1902 - Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (d. 1991)
1903 - Yasutaro Koide, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2016)
1906 - Nguyen Van Thien, Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2012)
1907 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian and author (d. 1986)
1908 - Walter Annenberg, American philanthropist, editor and diplomat (d. 2002)
1910 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
1910 - Sammy Kaye, American saxophonist, bandleader and songwriter (d. 1987)
1910 - Kemal Tahir, Turkish novelist and intellectual (d. 1973)
1911 – L. Ron Hubbard, American founder of Scientology (d. 1986)
1913 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer (d. 2009)
1913 – William Casey, American CIA director (d. 1987)
1916 - Jacque Fresco, American futurist, writer and engineer (d. 2017)
1921 - Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
1921 - Gitta Sereny, Austrian-British biographer, historian and investigative journalist (d. 2012)
1923 – Dimitrios Ioannidis, Greek military officer (d. 2010)
1923 - William F. Bolger, 65th Postmaster General of the United States (d. 1989)
1925 - Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer
1926 – Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003)
1927 - Ivan Irwin, American-Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019)
1928 - Douglas Rain, Canadian actor (d. 2018)
1929 - Zbigniew Messner, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2014)
1929 - Bunny Yeager, American model and photographer (d. 2014)
1929 - Peter Breck, American actor (d. 2012)
1929 - Joseph Mascolo, American musician and actor (d. 2016)
1930 - Günther Uecker, German painter
1931 - Wolfgang Kohlhaase, German screenwriter and movie director
1933 - Pee Wee Gaskins, American serial killer (d. 1991)
1933 - Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and futurologist (d. 2014)
1934 - Mario David, Italian footballer (d. 2005)
1934 - Mario Missiroli, Italian director (d. 2014)
1935 - David Nobbs, English comedy writer (d. 2015)
1936 - José Mojica Marins, Brazilian filmmaker and actor
1936 - Michael Checkland, former Director-General of the BBC
1937 - Vladimir Makanin, Russian writer (d. 2017)
1938 - Erma Franklin, American singer (d. 2002)
1938 - Tochinoumi Teruyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler
1939 - Yoshinobu Ishii, Japanese footballer (d. 2018)
1939 – Neil Sedaka, American singer-songwriter
1940 - Christopher Gable, British dancer, choreographer and actor (d. 1998)
1940 - Jacqueline Sassard, French actress
1941 - John Clark, Scottish footballer
1941 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet (d. 2008)
1942 – Scatman John, American singer (d. 1999)
1942 - Geoffrey Hayes, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2018)
1942 - Dave Cutler, American computer scientist and engineer
1943 - Giancarlo De Sisti, Italian footballer
1943 - André Téchiné, French director and songwriter
1945 – Anatoly Fomenko, Russian mathematician
1946 – Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier (d. 1976)
1947 - Lesley Collier, English ballerina and educator
1949 - Sian Elias, New Zealand judge, 12th Chief Justice of New Zealand
1950 – William H. Macy, American actor
1952 - Wolfgang Rihm, German composer and essayist
1953 – Deborah Raffin, American actress (d. 2012)
1953 - Ridley Pearson, American writer
1954 – Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, British politician and diplomat
1955 – Bruno Conti, Italian footballer
1955 - Olga Rukavishnikova, Russian athlete
1956 - Dana Delany, American actress
1957 - John Hoeven, 31st Governor of North Dakota
1958 – Linda Robson, English actress
1959 - Kathy Hilton, American socialite
1960 – Adam Clayton, Irish bassist (U2)
1960 - Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist
1960 - Jorge Sampaoli, Argentine footballer and manager
1961 – Sebastiano Nela, Italian footballer
1962 - Terence Blanchard, American trumpeter and composer
1967 – Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (d. 1994)
1969 – Luca Bucci, Italian footballer
1971 – Annabeth Gish, American actress
1971 - Carme Chacón, Spanish politician (d. 2017)
1973 – Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer
1973 - David Draiman, American musician
1974 – Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player
1977 – Momo Sylla, Guinean footballer
1979 - Spanky G, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1979 - Johan Santana, Venezuelan baseball player
1979 - Cedric van Branteghem, Belgian athlete
1980 - Sara Bergmark Elfgren, Swedish writer
1980 - Caron Butler, American basketball player
1980 - Molly Stanton, American actress
1980 - Flavia Cacace, Italian dancer
1981 – Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player
1981 - April Matson, American actress and singer
1982 - Jeremy Curl, English explorer, author and photographer
1982 - Gisela Mota Ocampo, Mexican politician (d. 2016)
1985 - Ben Lowe, Australian rugby player
1985 - Naughty Boy, English DJ and producer
1986 - Shunsuke Daito, Japanese actor
1987 - Marco Andretti, American racing driver
1987 – Andreas Beck, German footballer
1989 – Holger Badstuber, German footballer
1989 – Marko Marin, German footballer
1989 - Peaches Geldof, British television personality (d. 2014)
1989 - Harry Helling, British actor
1991 - Kim Eli, South Korean singer (U-KISS)
1991 - Le Quang Liem, Vietnamese chess player
1991 - Tristan Thompson, Canadian basketball player
1991 - Luan Santana, Brazilian singer and composer
1992 - Lucy Fry, Australian actress
1992 - Kaya Scodelario, British actress
1994 - Gerard Deulofeu, Spanish footballer
1995 - Mikaela Shiffrin, American skier
600 - Leander of Seville, Spanish bishop (b. 534)
1202 - Mieszko III the Old, Duke of Greater Poland (b. 1126)
1395 - John Barbour, Scottish priest and poet (b. 1320)
1516 - King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456)
1569 - Louis, Prince of Condé (b. 1530)
1767 – Maria Josepha of Saxony, mother of Louis XVI of France (b. 1731)
1773 - Philibert Commerson, French historian and explorer (b. 1727)
1808 – King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)
1842 – Henry Shrapnel, English soldier and inventor (b. 1761)
1854 - Jean-Baptiste Villèle, Prime Minister of France (b. 1773)
1873 - David Swinson Maynard, founder of Seattle (b. 1808)
1879 – Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (b. 1818)
1881 – Tsar Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818)
1901 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)
1906 – Susan B. Anthony, American suffragette (b. 1820)
1913 - Ernst Georg Ravenstein, German-English geographer and cartographer (b. 1834)
1914 - Hakeem Noord-ud-Din, Muslim scholar
1918 – César Cui, Russian composer (b. 1835)
1936 - Francis Bell, 20th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1851)
1938 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)
1938 – Clarence Darrow, American attorney (b. 1857)
1938 - Carlo Minoretti, Italian cardinal (b. 1861)
1949 - Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
1955 – King Tribhuvan of Nepal (b. 1906)
1964 - Kitty Genovese, American murder victim (b. 1935)
1965 - Fan S. Noli, 14th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1882)
1975 – Ivo Andric, Serbo-Croatian writer (b. 1892)
1987 – Bernhard Grzimek, German zoologist, movie maker and writer (b. 1909)
1990 – Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American child psychologist (b. 1903)
1990 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
1995 - Odette Hallowes, French nurse and spy (b. 1912)
1996 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish movie director (b. 1941)
1998 - Judge Dread, English singer-songwriter (b. 1911)
1998 - Hans von Ohain, German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1911)
1999 – Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1912)
2001 - Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian and educator (b. 1895)
2002 – Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
2004 - Vilayat Khan, Indian sitar player and composer (b. 1928)
2006 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
2006 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
2006 – Robert C. Baker, inventor of the Chicken Nugget (b. 1921)
2009 - Andrew Martin, American professional wrestler (b. 1975)
2010 – He Pingping, smallest man in the world with the ability to walk (b. 1988)
2011 – Owsley Stanley, LSD supplier (b. 1935)
2012 – Michel Duchaussoy, French actor (b. 1938)
2012 - Jacques Villiers, French engineer (b. 1924)
2013 - Tore Lokoloko, 2nd Governor-General of Papua New Guinea (b. 1930)
2013 - Malachi Throne, American actor (b. 1928)
2014 - Reubin Askew, 37th Governor of Florida (b. 1937)
2014 - Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (b. 1932)
2014 - Icchokas Mera, Lithuanian writer (b. 1934)
2015 - Daevid Allen, Australian musician (b. 1938)
2015 - Irwin Hasen, American cartoonist and comic artist (b. 1918)
2015 - Al Rosen, American baseball player (b. 1924)
2016 - Adrienne Corri, British actress (b. 1930)
2016 - Martin Olav Sabo, American politician (b. 1938)
2016 - Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1926)
2017 - Adib Boroumand, Iranian poet and politician (b. 1924)
2017 - Kika de la Garza, American politician (b. 1927)
2017 - Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, German nobleman (b. 1934)
2017 - Amy Krouse Rosenthal, American author and film director (b. 1965)
2017 - Ed Whitlock, English-Canadian long-distance runner (b. 1931)
2017 - Hiroto Muraoka, Japanese footballer (b. 1931)
2017 - Henri Cueco, French painter and writer (b. 1929)
2017 - Morton Deutsch, American social psychologist (b. 1920)
2017 - André Jagendorf, American plant biologist (b. 1926)
2017 - Sarah Jiménez, Mexican artist (b. 1927)
2017 - Richard H. Solomon, American diplomat (b. 1939)
2018 - T. Berry Brazelton, American paediatrician and author (b. 1918)
2018 - Bebeto de Freitas, Brazilian volleyball coach and football manager (b. 1950)
2018 - Jens Nilsson, Swedish politician (b. 1948)
2018 - Leonid Kvinikhidze, Russian screenwriter and director (b. 1937)
2018 - Gordon Walgren, American politician and convicted fraudster (b. 1933)
2019 - Frank Cali, American crime boss (b. 1965)
2019 - Harry Hughes, American politician, 57th Governor of Maryland (b. 1926)
2019 - Ghazali Jaafar, Filipino militant and politician (b. 1943)
2019 - Andrea Pollack, German swimmer (b. 1961)
2019 - Leroy Stanton, American baseball player (b. 1946)
515 BC – Construction is completed on the Temple in Jerusalem.
1550 - Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche at the Battle of Penco during the Arauco War in present-day Chile.
1622 - Ignatius of Loyola and Saint Francis Xavier are canonized as Saints of the Roman Catholic Church.
1664 – New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain.
1689 - The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
1811 - Peninsular War: A day after a successful rear guard action, French Marshal Michel Neyonce again successfully delays the pursuing an Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
1868 - Henry O'Farrell attempts to kill Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
1871 - Karl Theodor Robert Luther discovers Jupiter's moon Amalthea.
1878 - Walvis Bay in present-day Namibia comes under British control.
1881 - Andrew Watson makes his first appearance for the Scotland national football team, as the world's first black footballer to turn out for a national side.
1894 – Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts in the US) are founded in the US.
1913 – Canberra becomes the capital of Australia.
1918 - Moscow becomes the capital city of Russia.
1922 - Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan form the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.
1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing 400 people.
1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march known as Dandi March to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
1933 – Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States.
This was also the first of his "Fireside Chats."
1934 - Konstantin Pats and General John Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia.
1934 - Japanese torpedo boat Tomozuru sinks in a storm off Sasebo, Nagasaki, killing 100 out of the 113 people on board.
1938 – Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation declared the following day.
1940 – Winter War: Finland signs a harsh peace treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.
Finnish troops and remaining population are immediately evacuated.
1947 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
1950 - Llandow Air Disaster: In South Wales, an aircraft crashes near the village of Sigingstone, killing 80 people.
1951 – The Dennis the Menace comic strip appears in newspapers across the USA for the first time.
1956 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 500 for the first time (500.24)
1958 – In Hilversum, Netherlands, André Claveau wins the third Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Dors, mon amour" (Sleep, my love).
1960 – A fire at a chemical plant in Pusan, Korea kills 68.
1961 - The Eiger north face is climbed outside the main climbing season for the first time.
1967 – Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia.
1968 – Mauritius achieves independence.
1984 - National Union of Mineworkers leader Arthur Scargill, call for a nationwide strike against the economic policies of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher.
1987 – Les Misérables opens on Broadway.
1992 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the British Commonwealth.
1993 – Several bombs explode in Bombay, India killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
1993 – North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.
1993 - The Blizzard of '93 hits the eastern United States, with heavy snowfall, high winds and tornadoes.
1994 – A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof' of the Loch Ness monster, is confirmed to be a hoax.
1994 – The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
1997 – Mikail Markhasev is arrested in Los Angeles, California and charged with shooting Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son, Ennis Cosby.
1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).
2002 – In Texas, Andrea Yates is found guilty of drowning her five children on June 20, 2001.
She is later sentenced to life in prison.
2003 – Zoran Djindjic, Prime Minister of Serbia, assassinated in Belgrade.
2003 – Elizabeth Smart, a kidnapped teenager is found and returned to her family in Utah.
2004 – Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
2005 – Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, stepped down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.
2010 - The Winter Paralympics begin in Vancouver.
2011 - Fukushima nuclear disaster: After the previous day's earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant fails in several reactors, causing a nuclear disaster, as explosions occur.
2014 - An explosion at the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills 8 people and injures around 70.
2017 - A landslide at a landfill site outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, kills 72 people.
2019 - British Prime Minister Theresa May loses a second vote on her Brexit deal in the House of Commons.
1270 - Charles, Count of Valois, son of Philip III of France (d. 1325)
1479 - Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours, ruler of Florence (d. 1516)
1607 – Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (d. 1676)
1620 - Johann Heinrich Hottinger, Swiss philologist and theologian (d. 1667)
1626 - John Aubrey, English writer (d. 1697)
1637 - Anne Hyde, wife of James VII of Scotland/James II of England (d. 1671)
1685 – George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (d. 1753)
1710 – Thomas Arne, English composer (d. 1778)
1713 - Johann Adolph Hass, German instrument maker (d. 1771)
1763 - Martin Chittenden, American politician, Governor of Vermont (d. 1840)
1769 - Archibald Campbell, British general (d. 1843)
1781 - Frederica of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1826)
1795 - George T. Wood, 2nd Governor of Texas (d. 1858)
1806 – Jane Pierce, First Lady of the United States (d. 1863)
1821 – John Abbott, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1893)
1821 - Luitpold, Prince of Bavaria (d. 1912)
1824 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (d. 1887)
1832 – Charles Boycott, British land agent (d. 1897)
1835 - Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1909)
1837 - Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (d. 1911)
1838 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist (d. 1907)
1851 - Theodore Thurston Geer, American politician, 10th Governor of Oregon (d. 1924)
1858 - Adolph Ochs, American newspaper publisher (d. 1935)
1863 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer and politician (d. 1938)
1864 - Alice Tegnér, Swedish composer and organist (d. 1943)
1864 - W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist (d. 1922)
1869 - George Forbes, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1947)
1876 - Elbert Lee Trinkle, Governor of Virginia (d. 1939)
1878 - Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint (d. 1903)
1881 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, First President of Turkey (d. 1938)
1884 – Vittorio Pozzo, Italian footballer and coach (d. 1968)
1889 – Thorbergur Thordarson, Icelandic writer (d. 1974)
1890 – King Idris of Libya (d. 1983)
1890 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1950)
1908 - David Marshall, 1st Chief Minister of Singapore (d. 1995)
1910 – Masayoshi Ohira, Japanese statesman (d. 1980)
1911 - Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, President of Mexico (d. 1979)
1912 - Paul Weston, American pianist, arranger and conductor (d. 1996)
1913 - Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician (d. 1984)
1913 - Agathe von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (d. 2010)
1914 - Julia Lennon, John Lennon's mother (d. 1958)
1917 - Leonard Chess, American company executive (d. 1969)
1918 - Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
1919 – Michael Stepovich, Territorial Governor of Alaska, last-surviving territorial Governor in the US (d. 2014)
1921 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian automobile executive (d. 2003)
1921 - Ulo Jogi, Estonian anti-Soviet activist (d. 2007)
1921 - Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (d. 1986)
1922 – Jack Kerouac, American writer (d. 1969)
1923 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (d. 2007)
1923 - Clara Fraser, American activist (d. 1998)
1923 – Hanne Hiob, German actress (d. 2009)
1923 - Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 2013)
1923 - Mae Young, American wrestler (d. 2014)
1924 - Mary Lee Woods, British mathematician and computer programmer (d. 2017)
1925 - Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist
1925 - Harry Harrison, American writer (d. 2012)
1925 - Georges Delerue, French movie score composer (d. 1992)
1926 - Gudrun Ure, Scottish actress
1926 – George Ariyoshi, American politician, former Governor of Hawaii
1926 - Minerva Mirabal, Dominican activist (d. 1960)
1927 – Raul Alfonsin, President of Argentina (d. 2009)
1927 - Ragne Tangen, Norwegian children's television presenter (d. 2015)
1928 – Edward Albee, American dramatist (d. 2016)
1930 - Win Tin, Burmese politician (d. 2014)
1931 - Robert B. Oakley, American diplomat (d. 2014)
1932 - Andrew Young, 14th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1933 - Ken Hodgkisson, English footballer (d. 2018)
1933 - Barbara Lee Feldon, American actress and model
1935 - Valentyna Shevchenko, Soviet-Ukrainian politician
1936 - Eddie Sutton, American college basketball coach
1937 - Valentina Eiduka, Latvian javelin thrower and coach
1940 – Al Jarreau, American singer (d. 2017)
1940 – M. A. Numminen, Finnish singer and writer
1942 - Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player
1943 - Ratko Mladic, Serbian military commander, currently on trial for war crimes
1946 – Liza Minnelli, American singer and actress
1946 – Frank Welker, American actor
1947 – Mitt Romney, American politician, former Governor of Massachusetts and Presidential candidate
1947 – Peter Harry Carstensen, German politician, former Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
1948 – James Taylor, American musician
1948 - Kent Conrad, American politician
1948 - Roger Mullin, Scottish politician
1948 - Virginia Bottomley, Scottish politician
1949 - David Mellor, English journalist, lawyer and politician
1950 – Javier Clemente, Spanish football manager
1952 - Jon Provost, American actor
1952 – Yasuhiko Okudera, Japanese footballer
1953 – Carl Hiaasen, American journalist and writer
1953 - Ron Jeremy, American actor
1954 - Anish Kapoor, Indian-British sculptor and artist
1956 – Pim Verbeek, Dutch football manager
1956 - Steve Harrison, British musician (Iron Maiden)
1957 - Jerry Levine, American actor and director
1957 – Patrick Battiston, French footballer
1957 – Marlon Jackson, American singer and musician
1958 - Alan Sneddon, Scottish footballer
1959 - Mark Easton, Scottish journalist
1962 – Andreas Köpke, German footballer
1962 – Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player
1963 – Ian Holloway, English footballer and manager
1963 - Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner
1963 - Princess Farahnaz Pahlavi of Iran
1965 - Coleen Nolan, British singer (The Nolans)
1967 - Massimiliano Frezzato, Italian author
1968 - Tammy Duckworth, United States Senator for Illinois
1968 – Aaron Eckhart, American actor
1969 - Graham Coxon, British musician (Blur)
1970 - Karen Bradley, British politician
1971 - Andy Nicol, Scottish rugby player
1971 - Isaiah Rider, American basketball player
1972 – Hector Luis Bustamente, Colombian actor
1975 - Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, Prime Minister of Iceland
1975 - Kéllé Bryan, English singer
1976 - Zhao Wei, Chinese actress
1979 – Pete Doherty, English musician
1979 – Shaun Rodgers, American football player
1980 - Douglas Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Ruth Hunt, Welsh activist
1981 - Kristjan Makke, Estonian basketball player
1981 - Peter Waterfield, English diver
1982 - Hisato Sato, Japanese footballer
1982 - Yuto Sato, Japanese footballer
1982 – Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer
1983 - Mikko Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player
1984 - Jaimie Alexander, American actress
1985 - Stromae, Belgian singer, rapper and producer
1985 – Bradley Wright-Phillips, English footballer
1986 – Danny Jones, English singer (McFly)
1987 - Jessica Hardy, American swimmer
1987 - Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player
1987 - Rico Vonck, Dutch darts player
1990 - Lawrence Clarke, English athlete
1991 - Felix Kroos, German footballer
1992 - Scott Robinson, Scottish footballer
1994 - Christina Grimmie, American pianist and singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
1994 - Tyler Patrick Jones, American actor
1994 - Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist
1995 - Kanon Fukuda, Japanese singer and voice actress
1999 - Sakura Oda, Japanese singer
417 - Pope Innocent I
604 - Pope Gregory I
1289 - King Demetre II of Georgia (b. 1259)
1316 - King Stephen Dragutin of Serbia (b. 1253)
1374 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (b. 1336)
1447 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377)
1507 - Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman (b. 1475)
1628 - John Bull, English composer (b. 1562)
1648 – Tirso de Molina, Spanish dramatist and poet (b. 1571)
1699 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (b. 1635)
1820 - Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish explorer (b. 1764)
1832 – Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (b. 1786)
1872 – Zeng Guofan, Chinese politician and general (b. 1811)
1894 - Ilarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840)
1898 – Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (b. 1818)
1899 - Julius Vogel, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1835)
1914 - George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (b. 1846)
1916 – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (b. 1830)
1925 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary and politician (b. 1866)
1929 - Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b. 1851)
1932 - Ivar Kreuger, Swedish businessman (b. 1880)
1935 - Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
1937 - Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1844)
1942 - Robert Bosch, German industrialist (b. 1861)
1943 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
1946 - Ferenc Szalasi, Hungarian politician (b. 1897)
1947 - Winston Churchill, American novelist (b. 1871)
1955 – Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1920)
1963 - Arthur Grimsdell, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1894)
1978 - John Cazale, American actor (b. 1935)
1985 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (b. 1899)
1991 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist (b. 1900)
1991 – William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist (b. 1900)
1991 - LeRoy Collins, Governor of Florida (b. 1909)
1992 - Heinz Kühn, German politician (b. 1912)
1995 - Juanin Clay, American actress (b. 1949)
1998 – Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
1999 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (b. 1916)
2001 – Robert Ludlum, American writer (b. 1927)
2002 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot politician (b. 1932)
2003 – Zoran Djindjic, President of Serbia and Montenegro (b. 1952)
2003 - Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b. 1948)
2006 - Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident, journalist and priest (b. 1947)
2008 – Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French supercentenarian and World War I veteran (b. 1897)
2010 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish writer (b. 1920)
2013 - Clive Burr, British musician (Iron Maiden) (b. 1957)
2014 - Vera Chytilova, Czech movie director (b. 1929)
2014 - José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal (b. 1936)
2014 - Richard Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
2014 - Ola L. Mize, American colonel (b. 1931)
2014 - Jackie Gaughan, American casino owner and gambler (b. 1920)
2014 - Jean Vallée, Belgian songwriter (b. 1941)
2014 - David Sive, American environmental lawyer (b. 1922)
2014 - Paul C. Donnelly, American aerospace pioneer (b. 1923)
2014 - Kjell Nupen, Norwegian artist (b. 1955)
2015 - Terry Pratchett, English writer (b. 1948)
2015 - Michael Graves, American architect (b. 1934)
2015 - Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet (b. 1924)
2016 - Rafiq Azad, Bangladeshi poet (b. 1941)
2016 - Lloyd Shapley, American economist (b. 1923)
2016 - Erik Duval, Belgian computer scientist (b. 1965)
2017 - Murray Ball, New Zealand cartoonist (b. 1939)
2017 - Horst Ehmke, German politician (b. 1927)
2017 - Probyn Inniss, Saint Kitts and Nevis lawyer (b. 1936)
2017 - Ray Hassall, English politician (b. 1943)
2018 - Nokie Edwards, American musician and actor (b. 1935)
2018 - Rudolf Mang, German weightlifter (b. 1950)
2018 - Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor (b. 1935)
2018 - Henry Minarik, American football player (b. 1927)
2019 - Eurico Miranda, Brazilian football chairman and politician (b. 1944)
National Day of Mauritius
Youth Day (Zambia)
Arbor Day (China and Taiwan)
Aztec New Year
222 - Roman Emperor Elagabalus and his mother, Julia Soaemias are murdered by the Praetorian Guard.
1513 – Leo X is elected Pope.
1649 – The Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
1702 – The first regular English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published in London.
1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from a militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
1770 - James Cook reaches the Solander Islands off southern New Zealand.
1784 - The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore  brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
1824 – The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1845 – The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Maoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
1851 - The opera Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi is performed for the first time, in Venice.
1861 – American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.
1867 - The opera Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi is performed for the first time, in Paris.
1872 - Meiji Japan officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa Prefecture.
1888 – The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
1897 – A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia.
The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
1900 – Second Boer War: Boer leader Paul Kruger's peace overtures are rejected by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Lord Salisbury.
1917 – Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Maude.
1918 - The first case of Spanish flu
1927 – In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
1936 – British Prime Minister pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany.
1941 – World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur abandons Corregidor.
1945 - The Empire of Vietnam, a brief puppet state, led by Bao Dai, is declared.
1951 - The first Asian Games end in New Delhi.
1959 – In Cannes, France, Teddy Scholten wins the fourth Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands singing "Een beetje" (A little bit).
1966 – President Sukarno of Indonesia was forced to give up his executive power.
1966 – A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people.
1977 – 130+ hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined negotiations.
1978 – Nine Palestinian Al Fatah guerillas hijack a bus in Israel, killing 34 civilians and wounding 70 before being killed by security forces.
The Israelis retaliate by invading southern Lebanon three days later, under codename Operation Litani.
1983 – Bob Hawke becomes 23rd Prime Minister of Australia.
1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader.
1988 – Iran-Iraq War: ceasefire declared.
1989 – The television show COPS premieres.
1990 – Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1990 – Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically elected Chilean President since 1970.
1991 – A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.
1993 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
1996 – John Howard comes to power as the twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia.
1997 – An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Japan exposes 35 workers to low-level radioactive contamination in the worst nuclear accident in Japan's history.
1999 – Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2003 – The International Criminal Court is founded in The Hague.
2004 – Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid kill 191 people.
2005 – Judge Rowland Barnes, court reporter Julie Brandau and deputy Hoyt Teasley are all murdered in the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia; the main suspect being Brian Nichols who surrendered to police on the 12th.
2006 – Former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic dies while on trial for war crimes in The Hague.
2006 – Michelle Bachelet becomes the first female President of Chile.
2009 – 17 people are killed in a shooting in Winnenden, Germany.
2010 - Sebastian Pinera becomes President of Chile.
2011 – 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami: A powerful magnitude 9.1 earthquake strikes off the east coast of Honshu, Japan, killing more than 5,000 people and leaving many more missing, destroying buildings, as tsunamis are triggered.
The quake also leads to a nuclear accident, the Fukushima nuclear disaster, causing concern about radiation levels.
2012 - A US soldier kills 16 civilians in Panjwayi District, Afghanistan.
2014 - Michelle Bachelet becomes President of Chile for a second time, having previously held this office from 2006 to 2010.
2017 - Twin bombings in Damascus kill 74 people and injure at least 120.
2018 - The Congress of the Communist Party of China votes to extend Xi Jinping's term as President beyond the previous maximum 10-year limit.
2018 - Sebastian Pinera becomes President of Chile for a second time.,
having previously held this office from 2010 to 2014.
1444 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1495)
1683 - Caroline of Ansbach (d. 1737)
1726 – Vasily Chichagov, Russian admiral and polar explorer (d. 1809)
1738 - Benjamin Tupper, American Continental Army officer (d. 1792)
1745 – Bodawpaya, King of Burma (d. 1819)
1787 – Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852)
1811 – Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1877)
1818 - Marius Petipa, French-Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher (d. 1910)
1819 – Henry Tate, British sugar merchant and philanthropist (d. 1899)
1822 - Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (d. 1900)
1838 – Okuma Shigenobu, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1922)
1847 – Sidney Sonnino, Italian politician (d. 1922)
1868 – Matti Kekki, Finnish politician (d. 1933)
1870 - Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (d. 1946)
1872 - Siegfried Flesch, Austrian fencer (d. 1939)
1872 - Kathleen Clarice Groom, Australian-English author and screenwriter (d. 1954)
1876 - Carl Ruggles, American composer (d. 1971)
1878 - Umegatani Totaro II, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1927)
1884 - Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (d. 1974)
1885 – Malcolm Campbell, English racing driver (d. 1948)
1887 – Raoul Walsh, American director (d. 1980)
1890 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (d. 1974)
1891 – Gertrud Wolle, German actress (d. 1952)
1894 – Otto Grotewohl, German politician (d. 1964)
1895 - Shemp Howard, American comedian (d. 1955)
1897 - Henry Cowell, American composer and impresario (d. 1965)
1898 – Dorothy Gish, American actress (d. 1968)
1899 - John Campbell Ross, Australian supercentenarian (d. 2009)
1899 – King Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972)
1903 – Ronald Syme, New Zealand historian (d. 1989)
1903 - James Franklin Hyde, American chemist and inventor (d. 1991)
1903 – Lawrence Welk, American musician (d. 1992)
1904 - Harold F. Cherniss, American historian of ancient philosophy (d. 1987)
1908 - Matti Sippala, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 1997)
1910 - Robert Havemann, German chemist (d. 1982)
1910 – Jacinta Marto, Portuguese religious figure (d. 1920)
1911 - Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet, Scottish soldier, writer and politician (d. 1996)
1912 – Paul Janes, German footballer (d. 1987)
1913 - Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke, German pilot (d. 1944)
1914 - William Lloyd Webber, English composer (d. 1982)
1915 – Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer (d. 2004)
1915 - Hans Peter Keller, German writer (d. 1988)
1916 – Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
1920 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist (d. 2017)
1920 – Kenneth Dover, British classicist (d. 2010)
1922 – Abdul Razak Hussein, Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1976)
1922 - Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek-French political philosopher (d. 1997)
1923 – Agatha Barbara, President of Malta (d. 2002)
1923 - Louise Brough, American tennis player (d. 2014)
1924 - Franco Basaglia, Italian psychiatrist (d. 1980)
1925 - Rodney Wilkes, Trinidadian weightlifter (d. 2014)
1926 – Ralph Abernathy, American Civil rights campaigner (d. 1990)
1927 - Robert Mosbacher, American politician (d. 2010)
1927 – Joachim Fuchsberger, German actor and entertainer (d. 2014)
1927 - Josep Maria Subirachs, Catalan sculptor and painter (d. 2014)
1927 - Freda Meissner-Blau, German-Austrian politician (d. 2015)
1928 - Albert Salmi, American actor (d. 1990)
1929 - Timothy Carey, American actor (d. 1994)
1931 – Janosch, Silesian writer and illustrator
1931 - Marisa Del Frate, Italian actress (d. 2015)
1931 – Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American media tycoon
1932 – Nigel Lawson, British politician
1932 – Leroy Jenkins, American composer (d. 2007)
1933 – Jesus Gil y Gil, Spanish politician and businessman (d. 2004)
1933 - Sandra Milo, Italian actress
1934 - Sam Donaldson, American journalist
1935 - Nancy Kovack, American actress
1935 - Peter Walsh, Australian politician (d. 2015)
1936 - Harald zur Hausen, German physician and Nobel Prize winner
1936 – Antonin Scalia, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 2016)
1940 - Alberto Cortez, Argentine singer and songwriter (d. 2019)
1942 - Joel Steiger, American writer and producer
1942 - Marcus Borg, American scholar, theologian and author (d. 2015)
1943 - Arturo Merzario, Italian racing driver
1945 - Harvey Mandel, American musician
1945 - Tricia O'Neil, American actress
1945 - Pirri, Spanish footballer
1946 - Mark Metcalf, American actor
1947 - Alan Yentob, English television presenter
1948 - Roy Barnes, American politician, 80th Governor of Georgia
1950 - Bobby McFerrin, American singer-songwriter, producer and conductor
1950 – Jerry Zucker, American director and screenwriter
1951 - Dominique Sanda, French actress and model
1952 – Douglas Adams, English writer (d. 2001)
1952 - Ricardo Martinelli, former President of Panama
1954 - Gale Norton, American politician, 48th United States Secretary of the Interior
1955 – Nina Hagen, German singer
1956 - Helen Rollason, English sports journalist and television presenter (d. 1999)
1956 - Curtis Brown, American astronaut
1956 - Rob Paulsen, American actor
1958 - Eddie Lawson, American motorcycle racer
1958 - Tetsuro Oda, Japanese singer, songwriter and record producer
1958 – Anissa Jones, American actress (d. 1976)
1959 - Manuel Negrete Arias, Mexican footballer
1959 - Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian-American writer
1959 - Nina Hartley, American pornographic actress
1959 - Martin Loeb, French actor
1960 - Robert Glenister, English actor
1962 - Matt Mead, 32nd Governor of Wyoming
1963 - Alex Kingston, British actress
1963 – David LaChapelle, American photographer and director
1964 - Emma Chambers, British actress (d. 2018)
1964 – Leena Lehtolainen, Finnish writer
1964 - Peter Berg, American director, actor and producer
1964 – Vinnie Paul, American guitarist (d. 2018)
1965 – Nigel Adkins, English football manager
1965 – Jesse Jackson, Jr., American politician
1965 - Wallace Langham, American actor
1965 - Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, English interior designer
1965 - Jenny Packham, English fashion designer
1965 - Michelle Thomson, Scottish politician
1967 – John Barrowman, Scottish-American actor, singer and dancer
1968 – Lisa Loeb, American singer-songwriter
1969 - Soraya, Colombian-American musician (d. 2006)
1969 - Terrence Howard, American actor
1971 - Johnny Knoxville, American comedian
1971 - Martin Rucinsky, Czech ice hockey player
1973 – Martin Hiden, Austrian footballer
1974 - Bobby Abreu, Venezuelan baseball player
1975 - Eric Lynch, American actor and radio personality (d. 2014)
1976 – Thomas Gravesen, Danish footballer
1977 - Becky Hammon, American basketball player
1978 – Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer
1978 – Albert Luque, Spanish footballer
1979 – Benji Madden, American singer (Good Charlotte)
1979 – Joel Madden, American guitarist (Good Charlotte)
1979 - Elton Brand, American basketball player
1980 – Paul Scharner, Austrian footballer
1981 - Matthias Schweighöfer, German actor
1981 - Luke Johnson, British musician
1981 - Russell Lissack, British musician (Bloc Party)
1981 – LeToya Luckett, American singer
1982 – Thora Birch, American actress
1984 – Anna Tsuchiya, Japanese model, actress and singer
1984 - Tom James, Welsh rower
1985 - Sonia Radeva, Bulgarian figure skater
1986 - Dario Cologna, Swiss skier
1986 - Mariko Shinoda, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48)
1988 - Fabio Coentrao, Portuguese footballer
1989 - Zaven Andriasian, Armenian chess player
1989 - Shin Soohyun, South Korean singer (U-KISS)
1989 - Anton Yelchin, Russian-American actor (d. 2016)
1991 – Lin Lin, Chinese-born Japanese singer
1991 - Poonam Pandey, Indian actress and model
1991 – Jack Rodwell, English footballer
1992 - Sacha Parkinson, English actress
1993 - Jodie Comer, English actress
1993 - Anthony Davis, American basketball player
1994 - Andrew Robertson, Scottish footballer
1425 BC – Thutmose III, Egyptian Pharaoh
222 – Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
222 – Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180)
638 - Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem (b. 560)
859 - Eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish martyr
928 - Tomislav of Croatia
1198 - Marie of France, Queen of France (b. 1145)
1486 - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1414)
1514 – Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
1759 - John Forbes, English general (b. 1710)
1820 - Benjamin West, English-American painter (b. 1738)
1847 – Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer agronomist (b. 1774)
1851 - George McDuffie, 55th Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
1869 - Vladimir Oboevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1803)
1870 – Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho
1874 – Charles Sumner, American politician (b. 1811)
1892 - Archibald Scott Couper, Scottish chemist (b. 1831)
1898 - Dikran Tchouhadjian, Armenian composer and conductor (b. 1837)
1907 - Jean Casimir-Perier, 6th President of France (b. 1847)
1908 – Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1811)
1920 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer, mathematician and engineer (b. 1865)
1929 - Joseph Toole, American politician, 1st Governor of Montana (b. 1851)
1931 – Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German movie director (b. 1888)
1933 – Matti Kekki, Finnish politician (b. 1868)
1937 - Joseph S. Cullinan, American businessman (b. 1860)
1949 - Anastasios Charalambis, Greek politician (b. 1862)
1950 - Heinrich Mann, German writer (b. 1871)
1952 – Pierre Renoir, French actor and director (b. 1885)
1955 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
1955 - Oscar F. Mayer, German-American businessman (b. 1859)
1957 – Richard E. Byrd, American naval officer and explorer (b. 1888)
1958 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor (Lego) (b. 1891)
1958 - John J. Dempsey, 13th Governor of New Mexico (b. 1879)
1969 – John Wyndham, English writer (b. 1903)
1971 – Philo T. Farnsworth, American inventor (b. 1906)
1978 - Claude François, French singer (b. 1939)
1978 - Sofia Vembo, Greek singer and actress (b. 1910)
1980 - Chandra Bhanu Gupta, Indian politician, 4th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1902)
1982 - Horace Gregory, American poet (b. 1898)
1985 - Tom Adams, Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1931)
1989 - John J. McCloy, American lawyer and banker (b. 1895)
1992 - Richard Brooks, American movie director (b. 1912)
1995 - Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (b. 1945)
2002 – Rudolf Hell, German inventor (b. 1901)
2002 - Marion Dönhoff, German publicist (b. 1909)
2002 – James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
2003 - Ivar Hansen, Danish politician (b. 1938)
2006 – Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)
2007 – Betty Hutton, American actress (b. 1921)
2011 – Hugh Martin, American songwriter (b. 1914)
2013 - Tony Gubba, British journalist (b. 1943)
2014 - Bob Crow, British trade union leader (b. 1961)
2014 - Marga Spiegel, German author (b. 1912)
2015 - Jimmy Greenspoon, American musician (b. 1948)
2015 - Martin H:son Holmdahl, Swedish academic (b. 1923)
2015 - Walter Burkert, German philologist (b. 1931)
2016 - Doreen Massey, British geographer (b. 1944)
2016 - Louis Meyers, American festival organiser (b. 1955)
2016 - Lawrence Van Gelder, American news columnist (b. 1933)
2017 - Kitty Courbois, Dutch actress (b. 1937)
2017 - Mohamed Mijarul Quayes, Bangladeshi diplomat (b. 1960)
2017 - Paul Mitchell, American football player (b. 1920)
2018 - Ken Dodd, English comedian and singer-songwriter (b. 1927)
2018 - Siegfried Rauch, German actor (b. 1932)
2018 - Karl Lehmann, German cardinal (b. 1936)
2018 - Mary Rosenblum, American author and pilot (b. 1952)
2019 - Hal Blaine, American drummer (b. 1929)
2019 - Coutinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1943)
Re-establishment of Independence (Lithuania)
Moshoeshoe Day (Lesotho)
Johnny Appleseed Day (United States)
257 BC – A solar eclipse is seen over southern Gaul and Tuscany.
33 – Crucifixion of Jesus (traditional date)
1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
1559 – The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
1764 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned Roman-German King in Frankfurt.
1834 – The Generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
1860 – The first successful Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California is started (completed on April 13).
1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the break-away Confederate States of America.
1881 - The Greek island of Chios is hit by a major earthquake.
People do not return to the island until 1911.
1882 - American Old West: Outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
1884 - Belgian passenger ship Daniel Steinmann sinks in a storm of Halifax, Nova Scotia, killing 121 people.
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
1895 - The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins.
It eventually leads to imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1896 - La Gazzetta dello Sport first goes on sale in Italy.
It is the world's oldest sports paper.
1905 – Boca Juniors football club is founded in Buenos Aires.
1922 – Joseph Stalin succeeds Vladimir Lenin as leader of the Soviet Union.
1926 - Honduras introduces the Lempira as its currency.
1933 - The first flight over Mount Everest occurs, as part of a British expedition led by Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
1941 – Hungarian and German troops march into Yugoslavia.
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces begin an all-out assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
Bataan fell on April 9 and the Bataan Death March began.
1944 - A mine explosion in Heessen, Westphalia, Germany, kills 169 miners.
1946 – Japanese Lt.
General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
1948 – President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
1948 - In Jeju, South Korea, a civil war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins.
1954 - Oxford University wins the 100th Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.
1956 - A deadly Force 5 tornado hits the western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
1961 - Leadbeater's Possum is re-discovered in Australia, after 72 years.
1968 – Elvis Presley sings Heartbreak Hotel on the Milton Berle Show with an estimated 25% of the United States population viewing.
1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "mountaintop" speech.
1973 – The first ever Mobile phone call is placed by Martin Cooper, in New York City
1974 – The Super Outbreak occurred.
148 tornadoes affected 13 states and 1 Canadian province in 18 hours.
It was the biggest tornado outbreak in the planet's recorded history.
315 people die, nearly 5,500 are injured.
1975 - Bobby Fischer refuses to play a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, who wins the world championship by default as a result.
1979 - Spain holds its first local elections since the death of Francisco Franco.
1981 - Osborne 1, the first-ever portable computer, is unveiled in San Francisco.
1984 - Lansana Conté comes to power in Guinea through a military coup.
1986 – IBM unveils the PC Convertible, their first laptop computer.
1991 - Miguel Trovoada becomes President of São Tomé and Príncipe.