the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1746  Bernardo de Galvez y Madrid, Spanish general and politician (d. 1786)
1773  Thomas Brisbane, Scottish general and politician, 6th Governor of New South Wales (d. 1860)
1777  Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)
1796  Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868)
1804  Jane Irwin Harrison, acting First Lady of the United States (d. 1845)
1820  Julia Gardiner Tyler, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
1823  Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop (d. 1894)
1824  Kuno Fischer, German philosopher (d. 1907)
1838  Edouard Colonne, French violinist and conductor (d. 1910)
1851  Peder Severin Kroyer, Danish painter (d. 1909)
1856  Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist (d. 1920)
1864  Apolinario Mabini, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (d. 1903)
1865  Max Heindel, Dutch occultist and mystic (d. 1919)
1865  Henry Norris, English businessman, politician and football club director (d. 1934)
1866  Francesca Cilea, Italian composer (d. 1950)
1871  Tsunesaburō Makiguchi (Japanese old Lunar calendar 6 June was an incorrect date using in Gregorian calendar), Winston Lim Zhi Hao "13 Bro" former lifetime, reformed educator and philosopher, Lotus Sutra Buddhism and Soka Gakkai International (SGI) founder (d. 1944)
1872  Edward Adrian Wilson, English Antarctic explorer (d. 1912)
1878  James Thomas Milton Anderson, Canadian politician, 5th Premier of Saskatchewan (d. 1946)
1884  Emil Jannings, Swiss-German actor (d. 1950)
1885  Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-American businessman (d. 1935)
1886  Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat and writer (d. 1978)
1886  Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
1888  Raymond Chandler, American novelist (d. 1959)
1892  Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (d. 1975)
1894  Arthur Treacher, English-American actor and singer (d. 1975)
1895  Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)
1898  Bengt Djurberg, Swedish actor and singer (d. 1941)
1898  Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1987)
1899  Gustav Heinemann, President of Germany (d. 1976)
1900  John Babcock, Canadian World War I veteran (d. 2010)
1905  Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor (d. 2013)
1906  Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist (d. 1998)
1906  Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian activist (d. 1931)
1909  John William Finn, American naval officer (d. 2010)
1912  M. H. Abrams, American literary critic (d. 2015)
1913  Michael Foot, British politician (d. 2010)
1913  Coral Browne, Australian-American actress (d. 1991)
1918  Ruth Duccini, American actress (d. 2014)
1918  Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1999)
1919  Héctor German Oesterhell, Argentine screenwriter (d. 1977)
1920  Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer (d. 1999)
1921  Robert Brown, English actor (d. 2003)
1922  Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1923  Luis Aloma, Cuban-American baseball player (d. 1997)
1923  Morris Halle, Latvian-American linguist and academic (d. 2018)
1923  Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer and actress (d. 2001)
1925  Tajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1975)
1925  Alain Decaux, French historian and author (d. 2016)
1925  Gloria DeHaven, American actress and singer (d. 2016)
1925  Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (d. 2017)
1926  Cedella Booker, mother of Bob Marley (d. 2008)
1926  Ludvik Vaculik, Czech writer and journalist (d. 2015)
1927  Al McCandless, American politician (d. 2017)
1928  Leon Fleisher, American pianist and conductor
1928  Vera Rubin, American astronomer (d. 2016)
1929  Danny Barcelona, American drummer (d. 2007)
1931  Queen Te Atairangikaahu of the New Zealand Maori (d. 2006)
1931  Guy Fournier, French Canadian writer and screenwriter
1931  Claude Fournier, French Canadian director and screenwriter
1932  Jorge Arvizu, Mexican voice actor (d. 2014)
1933  Bert Convy, American actor, singer and game show host (d. 1991)
1933  Richard Rogers, Italian-English architect
1934  Steve Lacy, American jazz musician (d. 2004)
1936  Anthony Kennedy, American lawyer and jurist
1936  Don Drysdale, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1938  Ronny Cox, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
1938  Mickey Curtis, Japanese actor, singer and television personality
1938  Götz George, German actor (d. 2016)
1938  Juliet Anderson, American pornographic actress (d. 2010)
1940  Don Imus, American talk show host
1940  Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian banker and economist (d. 2010)
1941  Richie Evans, American racing driver (d. 1985)
1941  Sergio Mattarella, Italian lawyer, judge and politician, 12th President of Italy
1942  Myra Hindley, English murderer (d. 2002)
1944  Maria Joao Pires, Portuguese pianist
1946  Rene Ricard, American poet, art critic and painter (d. 2014)
1947  David Essex, English singer
1948  John Hall, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and musician (Orleans)
1950  Len McCluskey, English trade union leader
1951  Edie McClurg, American actress and voice actress
1953  Claude Barzotti, Belgian-Italian singer
1953  Najib Razak, 6th Prime minister of Malaysia
1953  Graham Gooch, English cricketer
1957  Theo van Gogh, Dutch movie director (d. 2004)
1957  Jo Brand, English comedienne, actress and presenter
1958  Frank Mill, German footballer
1961  Woody Harrelson, American actor
1961  Martin Gore, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (Depeche Mode)
1962  Eriq LaSalle, American actor, director and producer
1962  Hiroshi Mikami, Japanese actor
1963  Phil Boswell, Scottish politician
1964  Uwe Barth, German politician
1964  Nick Menza, German-American drummer (d. 2016)
1965  Grace Mugabe, former First Lady of Zimbabwe
1965  Slash, English-American musician (Guns N'Roses)
1967  Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (d. 2014)
1967  Titiyo, Swedish singer-songwriter
1968  Elden Campbell, American basketball player
1968  Gary Payton, American basketball player and actor
1968  Stephanie Seymour, American actress and model
1969  Marco Bode, German footballer
1969  Andrew Cassels, Canadian ice hockey player
1969  David Kaufman, American voice-over artist and actor
1970  Charisma Carpenter, American actress
1971  Alison Krauss, American singer, violinist and fiddler
1972  Marlon Wayans, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1973  Francis Healy, British singer-songwriter and guitarist
1973  Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern
1973  Himesh Reshammiya, Indian singer-songwriter, producer, actor and director
1974  Stephanie March, American actress
1975  Alessio Tacchinardi, Italian footballer
1975  Suriya, Indian actor and producer
1976  Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
1977  Kalup Linzy, American video and performance artist
1977  Shawn Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
1978  Gail Emms, British badminton player
1978  Lauren Groff, American novelist and short story writer
1979  Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Greek footballer
1980  Michelle Williams, American singer (Destiny's Child)
1981  Steve Jocz, Canadian musician (Sum 41)
1981  Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player
1981  Natasha Yarovenko, Ukrainian actress and model
1983  Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
1984  Walter Gargano, Uruguayan footballer
1984  Brandon Roy, American basketball player
1984  Arnór Atlason, Icelandic handball player
1985  Blake Harrison, English actor
1985  Anna Maria Mühe, German actress
1986  Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress
1986  Yelena Sokolova, Russian long jumper
1989  Daniel Radcliffe, British actor
1990  Ryan Castro, American actor
1990  Kevin Reynolds, Canadian figure skater
1990  Young JV, Filipino actor, singer, dancer and host
1991  Lauren Mitchell, Australian gymnast
1992  Danny Ings, English footballer
1996  Rachel G. Fox, American actress and singer
1996  Danielle Bradbery, American singer
1227  Qiu Chuji, Chinese religious leader (b. 1148)
1373  Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (b. 1303)
1645  Tsar Michael I of Russia (b. 1596)
1692  Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
1727  Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1661)
1757  Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1685)
1773  George Edwards, English naturalist (b. 1693)
1781  John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor and politician (b. 1724)
1793  Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1721)
1853  Andries Pretorius, Boer leader (b. 1798)
1875  Isaac Singer, American inventor (b. 1811)
1878  Carl von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician, pathologist and politician (b. 1804)
1885  Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)
1901  Kliment Turnovski, Bulgarian religious leader, writer and politician (b. 1838)
1916  Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1919  Spyridon Lambros, Greek historian, professor and Prime Minister (b. 1851)
1920  Conrad Kohrs, German-born rancher (b. 1835)
1923  Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)
1924  Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1850)
1926  Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
1930  Glenn Curtiss, American pilot and engineer (b. 1878)
1932  Tenby Davies, Welsh runner (b. 1884)
1932  Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian inventor (b. 1873)
1941  George Lyman Kittredge, American scholar and educator (b. 1860)
1941  José Quiñones Gonzales, Peruvian soldier and pilot (b. 1914)
1942  Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880)
1942  Andy Ducat, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)
1942  Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian poet and Communist leader (b. 1909)
1948  D. W. Griffith, American movie director (b. 1875)
1951  Henri Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France (b. 1856)
1951  Robert J. Flaherty, American director and producer (b. 1884)
1952  Carl Severing, German politician (b. 1875)
1954  Hermann Groman, American runner (b. 1882)
1955  Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State (b. 1871)
1966  Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
1967  Ahmet Kutsi Tecer, Turkish poet and politician (b. 1901)
1968  Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist, won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1875)
1971  Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910)
1973  Eddie Rickenbacker, American pilot (b. 1890)
1980  Sarto Fournier, 38th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
1980  Keith Godchaux, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1948)
1980  Mollie Steimer, Russian exilee and political activist (b. 1897)
1982  Vic Morrow, American actor (b. 1929)
1983  Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
1989  Donald Barthelme, American writer (b. 1931)
1996  Jean Muir, American actress and singer (b. 1911)
1997  Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904)
1999  King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
2001  Eudora Welty, American writer (b. 1909)
2002  Leo McKern, Australian actor (b. 1920)
2002  Dr. William L. Pierce, American writer and activist (b. 1933)
2002  Chaim Potok, American novelist and rabbi (b. 1929)
2003  James E. Davis, New York City councilman (murdered) (b. 1962)
2004  Carlos Paredes, Portuguese musician and composer (b. 1925)
2004  Mehmood, Indian actor (b. 1932)
2007  Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
2007  Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist (b. 1918)
2008  Kurt Furgler, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1924)
2010  Daniel Schorr, American journalist (b. 1916)
2011  Nguyen Cao Ky, South Vietnamese air force chief and Prime Minister (b. 1930)
2011  Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (b. 1983)
2011  John Shalikashvili, American Chief of Staff (b. 1936)
2011  Robert Ettinger, American academic and pioneer of Cryonics (b. 1918)
2012  Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut, first American woman in space (b. 1951)
2013  Emile Griffith, American boxer (b. 1938)
2013  Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1929)
2013  Jokichi Igarashi, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1902)
2013  Rona Anderson, Scottish actress (b. 1926)
2014  Dora Bryan, English actress (b. 1923)
2014  Saado Ali Warsame, Somali politician and folk singer (b. 1950)
2014  Norman Leyden, American conductor, composer and musician (b. 1917)
2014  Ariano Suassuna, Brazilian writer (b. 1927)
2015  José Sazatornil, Spanish actor (b. 1925)
2015  William Wakefield Baum, American cardinal (b. 1926)
2016  Thorbjorn Falldin, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1926)
2016  Carl Falck, Norwegian businessman and centenarian (b. 1907)
2016  S. H. Raza, Indian artist (b. 1922)
2017  Bob DeMoss, American football player and coach (b. 1927)
2017  Thomas Fleming, American novelist (b. 1927)
2017  John Kundla, American basketball coach (b. 1916)
2017  Lau Wong-fat, Hong Kong businessman and politician (b. 1936)
2017  Waldir Peres, Brazilian footballer (b. 1951)
2017  Mervyn Rose, American tennis player (b. 1930)
2017  Flo Steinberg, American comic book publisher and secretary (b. 1939)
2017  Snooty, American manatee (b. 1948)
2018  Maryon Pittman Allen, American journalist and politician (b. 1925)
2018  Harry Gulkin, Canadian film director (b. 1927)
2018  Elbert Howard, American political activist (b. 1938)
2018  Roh Hoe-chan, South Korean politician (b. 1956)
2018  Khalid Salleh, Malaysian actor (b. 1948)
2018  Oksana Shachko, Ukrainian artist and human rights activist (b. 1987)
2019  Maxim Dadashev, Russian boxer (b. 1990)
2019  Barney Smith, American plumber, artist and museum curator (b. 1921)
2019  Ferdinand von Bismarck, German businessman and lawyer (b. 1930)
2019  Lois Wille, American journalist (b. 1931)
Birthday of Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (Ras-Tafari Movement)
Revolution Day (Egypt)
Children's Day (Indonesia)
National Hot Dog Day (United States)
Renaissance Day (Oman)
National Remembrance Day (Papua New Guinea)
1419  John of Burgundy is assassinated by friends of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
1509  A strong earthquake hits Constantinople, referred to by people at the time as the "Lesser Judgement Day".
1515  Thomas Wolsey becomes a cardinal.
1547  Battle of Pinkie Cleugh: Last major battle engagement between England and Scotland, which ends in victory for the forces of Edward VI of England.
1608  John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
1776  American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy.
1798  At the Battle of St. George, British Honduras defeats Spain.
1813  The U.S. defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
1823  Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
1846  Elias Howe gets a patent for the sewing machine.
1858  George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1897  In the Lattimer Massacre, a sheriff's posse kills more than nineteen unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
1898  Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni, at Lake Geneva, Switzerland.
1913  The first paved coast-to-coast U.S. highway opens.
1918  Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures the city of Kazan.
1919  Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
1927  France had its first Davis Cup win, though it had competed since 1905.
1932  The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned "IND", is opened.
1933  Ramon Grau San Martin becomes leader of Cuba.
1936  The first World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship is held at Wembley Stadium
1939  The submarine HMS Oxley is sunk by mistake by the submarine HMS Triton off the coast of Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss in World War II.
1939  World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany.
1942  World War II: The Allies carry out an amphibious landing at Majunga, north-west Madagascar, to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
1943  Tottori, Japan is struck by a magnitude 7.4 earthquake, killing 1,190 people.
1943  World War II: German forces began their occupation of Rome during World War II.
1944  World War II: American troops liberate Luxembourg.
1945  In Norway, Vidkun Quisling is sentenced to death for collaboration with Nazi Germany.
1951  The United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran.
1960  Mickey Mantle hits what is thought to be the Major League baseball's longest home run, sending the ball an estimated 643 feet.
1960  At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila becomes the first person from SubSaharan Africa to win an Olympic gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
1961  Italian Grand Prix: German racing driver Wolfgang von Trips is killed in a crash.
Being crushed under his Ferrari, 13 spectators are also killed.
1963  20 African-American students enter public schools in the U.S. state of Alabama.
1967  The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
1972  The United States loses its first international basketball game in a disputed match versus the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
1974  Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
1976  A British Airways Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
1977  Last execution by Guillotine takes place in France.
Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, is executed at Baumettes Prison in Marseille.
1988  Steffi Graf wins the Singles Title at the US Open Tennis, managing to win all four Grand Slams in one year.
She later wins the Olympic Gold in the same year in order to achieve a historic "Golden Slam".
1989  A Bulgarian tug boat collides with Romanian passenger ship Mogasoaia on the Danube, near Galati, Romania, killing 207 people.
1990  The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire – the largest church in Africa and perhaps the world – is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
2001  Charles Ingram cheats his way to winning a million pounds on the British quiz programme Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
2001  Kjell Magne Bondevik is elected Prime Minister of Norway.
2002  Switzerland, known for its neutrality, finally joins the United Nations.
2002  The U.S. Homeland Security Advisory System is set to Orange, or High Condition, for the first time.
2003  Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is stabbed fatally while shopping, and dies of her wounds on September 11.
2006  Michael Schumacher announces his first retirement from Formula One.
On the same day, in Hungary, Jenson Button wins a Grand Prix for the first time.
2006  King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga dies, aged 88.
His son, George Tupou V, takes over, and reigns until his own death in 2012.
2007  Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after over seven years in exile.
2008  The Large Hadron Collider at CERN on the French-Swiss border is switched on for the first time.
2011  Tanzanian ferry MV Spice Islander sinks off Zanzibar, killing 1,573 people.
2013  German Thomas Bach is chosen to succeed Jacques Rogge as President of the International Olympic Committee.
2014  The first Invictus Games, for injured military servicemen, take place in London.
2015  Scientists announce the discovery, in South Africa, of Homo naledi, a species of early human.
920  King Louis IV of France (d. 954)
1169  Alexios Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
1487  Pope Julius III (d. 1555)
1561  Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Paraguayan-Argentine soldier and politician (d. 1634)
1624  Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
1638  Maria Theresa of Austria, wife of King Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)
1659  Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
1753  John Sloane, English architect (d. 1837)
1786  Nicolas Bravo, 11th President of Mexico (d. 1854)
1788  Jacques Boucher de Crevecoeur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
1801  Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
1809  Thomas Campbell Eyton, English naturalist (d. 1880)
1817  Richard Spruce, English botanist (d. 1893)
1821  William Jervois, 10th Governor of South Australia (d. 1897)
1836  Joseph Wheeler, American Confederate general and politician (d. 1906)
1839  Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher, mathematician and scientist (d. 1914)
1844  Abel Hoadley, English-Australian candy maker (d. 1918)
1852  Alice Brown Davis, American chief of the Seminole tribe in Oklahoma (d. 1935)
1857  James Edward Keeler, American astrophysicist (d. 1900)
1861  Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1941)
1866  Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish writer (d. 1930)
1871  Charles Collett, English engineer (d. 1952)
1872  Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (d. 1933)
1872  Vladimir Arsenyev, Russian explorer (d. 1930)
1885  Johannes de Jong, Dutch cardinal (d. 1955)
1886  H.D., American writer (d. 1961)
1887  Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd President of Italy (d. 1978)
1887  Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (d. 1961)
1890  Bob Heffron, 30th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1978)
1890  Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturier (d. 1973)
1890  Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (d. 1945)
1891  Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss diplomat, essayist and historian (d. 1974)
1892  Arthur Compton, American physicist (d. 1962)
1893  Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian (d. 2009)
1894  Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet-Ukrainian screenwriter, producer and director (d. 1956)
1895  Viswanathan Satyanarayana, Indian poet (d. 1976)
1896  Robert Tascheraeu, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1970)
1896  Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946)
1896  Adele Astaire, American dancer (d. 1981)
1897  Georges Bataille, French philosopher and writer (d. 1962)
1898  Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986)
1904  Max Shachtman, American theorist and politician (d. 1972)
1904  Juan José Arévalo, President of Guatemala (d. 1990)
1906  Karl Wien, German mountaineer (d. 1937)
1908  Angus Bethune, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (d. 2004)
1910  Franz Hengsbach, German cardinal (d. 1991)
1911  Renée Simonot, French actress
1911  Nelly Omar, Argentine actress and singer (d. 2013)
1912  Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian politician (d. 2002)
1914  Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Irish politician (d. 1990)
1914  Robert Wise, American director and producer (d. 2005)
1918  Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932)
1920  C. R. Rao, Indian-American mathematician and statistician
1921  Alfred Bengsch, German cardinal (d. 1979)
1922  Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer (d. 2008)
1923  Shmuel Eisenstadt, Israeli sociologist (d. 2010)
1924  Boyd K. Packer, American educator and religious leader (d. 2015)
1925  Roy Brown, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
1925  Hubert Hammerer, Austrian Olympic shooter
1926  Ladislav Adamec, Czechoslovakian politician (d. 2007)
1926  Beryl Cook, British painter (d. 2008)
1927  Gerhard Jahn, German politician (d. 1998)
1928  Jean Vanier, Canadian theologian and philosopher
1928  Otto F. Kernberg, Austrian psychoanalyst
1929  Arnold Palmer, American golfer (d. 2016)
1931  Philip Baker Hall, American actor
1932  Félix Malloum, President of Chad (d. 2009)
1933  Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
1933  Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000)
1934  Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1934  Jim Oberstar, American politician (d. 2014)
1935  Giacomo Losi, Italian footballer
1936  Peter Lovesey, English crime fiction writer
1937  Jared Diamond, American evolutionary biologist
1939  Cynthia Lennon, English ex-wife of John Lennon (d. 2015)
1939  Hans Sotin, German opera singer
1940  Roy Ayers, American jazz musician
1941  Stephen Jay Gould, American palaeontologist (d. 2002)
1941  Christopher Hogwood, English conductor (d. 2014)
1941  Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game designer (d. 1997)
1945  José Feliciano, Puerto Rican musician, singer and composer
1946  Michèle Alliot-Marie, French politician
1946  Don Powell, English drummer (Slade)
1946  Shlomo Sand, Israeli historian
1948  Margaret Trudeau, Canadian actress, writer and biographer
1948  Bob Lanier, American basketball player
1948  Brian Donohoe, Scottish politician
1948  Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese author
1948  Ted Poe, American politician
1950  Joe Perry, American singer-songwriter
1951  Eliseo Alberto, Cuban writer (d. 2011)
1952  Bruno Giacomelli, Italian racing driver
1952  Medea Benjamin, American activist
1952  Patrick McGorry, Australian psychiatrist
1953  Amy Irving, American actress, movie producer and singer
1953  John Thurso, Scottish politician
1954  Jackie Ashley, English journalist
1954  Lorely Burt, English politician
1954  Clark Johnson, American actor, director and movie producer
1956  Johnnie Fingers, Irish musician, songwriter and producer
1957  Carol Decker, English singer-songwriter
1958  Chris Columbus, American movie director, producer and screenwriter
1958  Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer-songwriter and producer
1960  Colin Firth, English actor
1960  Margaret Ferrier, Scottish politician
1963  Randy Johnson, American baseball pitcher, five-time Cy Young Award winner
1964  John E. Sununu, American politician
1964  Edmund de Waal, English artist
1966  Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player
1968  Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer
1968  Guy Ritchie, British director, screenwriter and producer
1968  Big Daddy Kane, American rapper and producer
1968  Juan Maldacena, Argentine-American physicist
1969  David Trueba, Spanish writer, journalist, screenwriter, actor and director
1970  Ménélik, French rapper
1972  Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete
1973  Deniz Yücel, German journalist
1974  Ryan Philippe, American actor
1975  Viktor Kassai, Hungarian footballer and referee
1976  Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
1976  Vassilis Lakis, Greek footballer
1978  Julia Goldsworthy, English politician
1980  Mikey Way, musician, bassist for My Chemical Romance
1982  Stephen McManus, Scottish footballer
1983  Fernando Belluschi, Argentine footballer
1983  Jérémy Toulalan, French footballer
1985  David Clarkson, Scottish footballer
1985  Aya Kamiki, Japanese musical artist
1985  Laurent Koscielny, French footballer
1986  Hiroki Uchi, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor
1986  Eoin Morgan, Irish cricketer
1987  Nana Tanimura, Japanese singer-songwriter
1987  Paul Goldschmidt, American baseball player
1988  Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
1988  Jared Lee Loughner, American murderer
1990  Chandler Massey, American actor
1993  Ruggero Pasquarelli, Italian actor and singer
1997  Brooke Henderson, Canadian golfer
210 BC  Qin Shi Huang, Chinese Emperor (b. 259 BC)
918  Baldwin II, Count of Flanders (b. 865)
954  King Louis IV of France (b. 920)
1167  Empress Matilda of England (b. 1102)
1197  Henry II, Count of Champagne (b. 1166)
1306  Nicholas of Tolentino, Italian saint and mystic (b. 1245)
1308  Emperor Go-Nijo of Japan (b. 1285)
1382  Louis I of Hungary (b. 1326)
1419  John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1371)
1482  Federico da Montefeltro, Italian warlord (b. 1422)
1591  Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542)
1669  Henrietta Maria of France (b. 1609)
1797  Mary Wollstonecraft, British female philosopher (b. 1759)
1815  John Singleton Copley, American artist (b. 1738)
1827  Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet and novelist (b. 1778)
1842  William Hobson, 1st Governor of New Zealand (b. 1792)
1842  Letitia Christian Tyler, First Lady of the United States (b. 1790)
1889  Charles III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1818)
1898  Empress Elizabeth of Austria (b. 1837)
1915  Charles Boucher de Boucherville, 3rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
1923  Sukumar Ray, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1887)
1931  Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
1935  Huey Long, American politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1893)
1937  Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1938  Charles Cruft, British businessman (b. 1852)
1948  King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
1952  Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese engineer and architect (b. 1866)
1954  Peter Anders, German tenor (b. 1908)
1961  Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880)
1961  Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928)
1965  Father Divine, American spiritual leader (b. 1880)
1966  Ernst Julius Gumbel, German mathematician (b. 1891)
1971  Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)
1975  George Paget Thomson, English physicist (b. 1892)
1977  Hamida Djandoubi, last person to be executed by guillotine in France (b. 1949)
1979  Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola (b. 1922)
1983  Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist (b. 1905)
1983  John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915)
1983  Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest-recorded person (b. 1941)
1983  Norah Lofts, English novelist (b. 1904)
1985  Jock Stein, Scottish football manager (b. 1922)
1991  Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
1994  Max Morlock, German footballer (b. 1925)
1995  Charles Denner, French actor (b. 1926)
1996  Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923)
1996  Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)
2004  Glyn Owen, Welsh actor (b. 1928)
2005  Hermann Bondi, Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (b. 1919)
2006  Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (b. 1918)
2007  Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b. 1942)
2007  Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
2011  Cliff Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
2012  Vondell Darr, American actress (b. 1919)
2012  Lance LeGault, American actor (b. 1935)
2014  Richard Kiel, American actor (b. 1939)
2014  Emilio Botin, Spanish businessman (b. 1934)
2015  Dickie Moore, American actor (b. 1925)
2015  Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer (b. 1928)
2015  Norman Farberow, American psychologist (b. 1918)
2015  Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor (b. 1931)
2015  James E. Proctor, Jr., American politician (b. 1936)
2015  Antoine Lahad, Lebanese military officer (b. 1927)
2016  Jutta Limbach, German jurist (b. 1934)
2017  Hans Alfredson, Swedish actor, director, writer and comedian (b. 1931)
2017  Xavier Atencio, American animator, lyricist and engineer (b. 1919)
2017  Nancy Dupree, American historian (b. 1927)
2017  René Laurentin, French theologian (b. 1917)
2017  Don Ohlmeyer, American entertainment executive (b. 1945)
2017  B. V. Radha, Indian actress (b. 1948)
2017  Len Wein, American comic book writer (b. 1948)
National Day (Gibraltar)
Teacher's Day (People's Republic of China and Hong Kong)
International Suicide Prevention Day
Children's Day (Honduras)
489  Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under King Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time in Verona, present-day Northern Italy.
1061  Pope Alexander II is elected.
1399  Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
1512  A rock avalanche buries most of the town of Biasca in Ticino, in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland.
1744  France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
1791  First performance of The Magic Flute: This is the last opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to have its premiere.
1791  The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jerome Petion as 'incorruptible patriots'.
1813  Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
1860  The UK's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
1867  The US takes control of the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
1882  The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
1885  Bechuanaland, in present-day Botswana, becomes a British Protectorate.
1888  Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1895  Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
1906  Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana.
1907  Opening of the McKinley National Memorial in Canton, Ohio.
It is the final resting place of US President William McKinley and his family.
1911  The dam of the Austin Reservoir in Pennsylvania bursts, killing 78 people.
1915  A Serbian army private becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
1927  Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a single season.
1935  The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1935  "The Adventures of Dick Tracy" is first heard on the Mutual Radio Network.
1938  The Munich Pact is signed.
1938  The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1939  General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
1941  Holocaust: The Nazis complete the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine, in which thousands of people are killed.
1945  The Bourne End rail crash in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43 people.
1947  The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joined the United Nations.
1947  Baseball: The World Series, featuring New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
1949  The Berlin Airlift ends.
1950  Korean War: South Korean troops cross the 38th Parallel for the first time.
1953  On board the bathyscaphe Trieste, Auguste Piccard and Jacques Piccard travel to a depth 3,150 meters below the surface of the sea, which at that time had been the deepest point anyone had travelled.
1954  The U.S. Navy submarine [[USS Nautilus (SSN-571)|USS Nautilus]] is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1955  James Dean dies in a car crash.
1960  The last episode of The Howdy Doody Show airs on NBC.
1960  The first episode of The Flintstones is shown on television.
1962  Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
1962  James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
1962  Last episodes of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar broadcast on CBS Radio, marking the end of The Golden Age of Radio.
1965  Civil unrest follows a failed coup attempt by Indonesia Communist Party (PKI).
More than a million people died.
1966  The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.
Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
1967  BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names.
Tony Blackburn presents the first show.
1967  Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation is launched in Colombo; the station was formerly known as Radio Ceylon.
1968  The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
1970  Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine for the release of the remaining  hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
1972  Baseball: Roberto Clemente has the 3,000th hit of his career.
1975  The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
1976  Muhammad Ali defends his Heavyweight Boxing Title, against Ken Norton.
1979  Niki Lauda retires from Formula One racing.
1980  Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1982  Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area.
Seven were killed in all.
The incident is known as the Tylenol scare.
1982  The TV sitcom Cheers premieres.
1986  Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed Israel's covert nuclear programme to British media, is kidnapped in Rome by the Israeli Mossad.
1989  Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.
1991  President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.
1993  An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
1997  Origin Systems Inc. releases Ultima Online, a massively multiplayer game, opening the door for a new video gaming genre.
1999  Japan's then-worst nuclear accident occurs at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels.
2004  AIM-54 Phoenix which became the primary missile for the Northrop Grumman F-14 Tomcat retired from U.S. Navy.
2004  The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat is taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
2005  The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
2005  The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
2009  A magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes western Sumatra, killing over 1,000 people.
2010  In Ecuador, police officers, supported by parts of the army, attempt a failed coup against President Rafael Correa.
2012  British entertainer Jimmy Savile, who had died in October 2011, is revealed to have carried out sexual abuses over a period of decades.
2012  Europe wins the Ryder Cup golf tournament, with a comeback against the United States from 10-6 behind to win 14.5 to 13.5.
2013  Pope Francis announces that Pope John Paul II is to become a saint in April 2014, nine years after his death.
1207  Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273).
1227  Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292).
1530  Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist (d. 1606).
1550  Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631).
1689  Jacques Aubert, French composer and violinist (d. 1753).
1710  John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771).
1710  Stanislaw Konarski, Polish monk, poet and playwright (d. 1773).
1715  Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780).
1732  Jacques Necker, Swiss-French politician (d. 1804).
1743  Christian Ehregott Weinlig, German composer (d. 1813).
1765  José Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815).
1800  Decimus Burton, English architect (d. 1881).
1811  Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Queen of Prussia and Empress of Germany (d. 1890).
1813  John Rae, Orcadian physician and explorer of the Canadian Arctic (d. 1893)
1827  Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918).
1832  Ann Jarvis, American labor activist (d. 1905).
1833  Ferdinand von Saar, Austrian writer (d. 1906).
1836  Remigio Morales Bermúdez, President of Peru (d. 1894).
1848  Robert Walker Macbeth, Scottish painter (d. 1910).
1852  Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, conductor and educator (d. 1924)
1859  George Henry Slight, Scottish engineer, creator of the Chilean lighthouse service (d. 1934)
1861  William Wrigley, Jr., American industrialist (d. 1932).
1868  José Serrato, 24th President of Uruguay (d. 1960).
1870  Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist (d. 1942).
1882  Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945).
1883  Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, British-born American engineer, architect and Women's Rights activist (d. 1945).
1883  Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (d. 1945).
1887  Lil Dagover, Dutch-born actress (d. 1980).
1891  Otto Schmidt, Russian politician, mathematician, geophysicist and Arctic explorer (d. 1956).
1895  Lewis Milestone, Russian-born movie director (d. 1980).
1897  Gaspar Cassado, Spanish cellist and composer (d. 1966).
1898  Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977).
1902  Ryuzo Shimizu, Japanese footballer (date of death unknown).
1904  Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d. 1971).
1905  Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist (d. 1996).
1905  Michael Powell, British screenwriter, movie director and producer (d. 1990).
1906  Mireille Hartuch, French singer, composer and actress (d. 1996).
1908  David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974).
1910  Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish military officer (d. 1962).
1912  Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985).
1913  Bill Walsh, American movie producer and writer (d. 1975).
1914  Baby Ray, American football player (d. 1986).
1915  Lester Maddox, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 2003).
1916  Richard K. Guy, British mathematician
1917  Yuri Lyubimov, Russian stage actor and director (d. 2014).
1917  Pak Chong Hui, President of South Korea (d. 1979).
1917  Buddy Rich, American big band jazz drummer (d. 1987).
1918  René Rémond, French historian and economist (d. 2007).
1918  Giovanni Canestri, Italian cardinal (d. 2015).
1919  William L. Guy, 26th Governor of North Dakota (d. 2013).
1920  Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (d. 1995).
1921  Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007).
1921  Stanislaw Nagy, Polish cardinal (d. 2013).
1922  Oscar Pettiford, American jazz musician and composer (d. 1960).
1924  Truman Capote, American writer (d. 1984).
1926  Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2012).
1927  Hossein Dehlavi, Iranian composer (d. 2019).
1927  W. S. Merwin, American poet (d. 2019).
1928  Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born Holocaust survivor, activist and writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 2016).
1928  Takeshi Inoue, Japanese footballer (d. 1992).
1929  Helen M. Marshall, American politician (d. 2017).
1931  Angie Dickinson, American actress.
1931  Teresa Gorman, English politician (d. 2015).
1932  Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese writer and politician.
1932  Anthony Hawkins, Australian actor.
1933  Michel Aoun, President of Lebanon.
1933  Cissy Houston, American singer.
1934  Marco Dezzi Bardeschi, Italian architect (d. 2018).
1934  Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer (d. 2014).
1934  Anna Kashfi, Indian-born actress (d. 2015).
1935  Johnny Mathis, American singer.
1936  Jim Sasser, 6th United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.
1939  Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist.
1940  Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, English politician.
1941  Kamalesh Sharma, 5th Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1942  Frankie Lymon, American rock and roll musician (d. 1968).
1943  Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist.
1943  Ian Ogilvy, English actor.
1944  Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (d. 2006).
1945  Ehud Olmert, Israeli politician, former Prime Minister of Israel.
1945  José Manuel Fuente, Spanish cyclist (d. 1996).
1946  Fran Brill, American actress, singer and puppeteer.
1946  Claude Vorilhon, French journalist.
1946  Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican salsa singer (d. 1993).
1947  Marc Bolan, English rock musician (d. 1977).
1947  Rula Lenska, English actress.
1950  Laura Esquivel, Mexican author.
1951  Barry Marshall, Australian physician.
1951  Simon White, English astrophysicist and academic.
1952  John Lombardo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
1954  Mitch Lewis, Canadian multi-instrumentalist
1954  Basia, Polish singer-songwriter.
1955  Andy Bechtolsheim, German engineer, co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
1956  Frank Arnesen, Danish footballer.
1957  Fran Drescher, American actress, producer, comedienne and activist.
1958  Marty Stuart, American country musician.
1959  Debrah Farentino, American actress.
1959  Ettore Messina, Italian basketball player and coach.
1960  Blanche Lincoln, American politician.
1961  Eric Stoltz, American actor.
1961  Crystal Bernard, American singer-songwriter and actress.
1961  Mel Stride, English politician.
1962  Frank Rijkaard, Dutch footballer.
1964  Monica Bellucci, Italian actress.
1964  Trey Anastasio, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
1964  Robby Takac, American singer-songwriter and bass player.
1965  Omid Djalili, English comedian and actor.
1965  Matt Fallon, American singer-songwriter
1965  Kathleen Madigan, American comedienne and actress.
1966  Gary Armstrong, Scottish rugby player.
1967  Steve Kean, Scottish football manager.
1969  Alex Rae, Scottish footballer.
1970  Damian Mori, American actor.
1970  Prosenjit Chatterjee, Indian actor and producer.
1971  Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia, Italian actor.
1971  Jenna Elfman, American actress.
1972  Ari Behn, Norwegian writer.
1974  Tom Greatrex, English politician.
1974  Daniel Wu, American-Hong Kong actor, director and producer.
1975  Marion Cotillard, French actress.
1975  Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player.
1975  Wopke Hoekstra, Dutch politician.
1977  Sun Juhai, Chinese footballer.
1977  Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer.
1978  Candice Michelle, American female wrestler.
1979  Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer.
1979  Primoz Kozmus, Slovenian hammer thrower.
1979  Cameron Bruce, Australian footballer.
1980  Christian Cantwell, American shot putter.
1980  Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player.
1981  Cecelia Ahern, Irish writer.
1982  Lacey Chabert, American actress.
1982  Kieran Culkin, American actor.
1982  Ola Jordan, Polish-British ballroom dancer.
1982  Teal Redmann, American actress.
1982  Yan Stastny, Canadian ice hockey player.
1984  Keisha Buchanan, English singer (Sugababes).
1984  Georgios Eleftheriou, Greek footballer.
1985  Dmytro Grabovskyy, Ukrainian cyclist (d. 2017).
1985  T-Pain, American rapper.
1985  Cristian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer.
1986  Olivier Giroud, French footballer.
1986  Cristian Zapata, Colombian footballer.
1987  Lauren Holiday, American soccer player.
1987  Rumi Harai, Japanese actress, model and gymnast.
1992  Ezra Miller, American actor.
1994  Aliya Mustafina, Russian gymnast.
1996  Lewis Morgan, Scottish footballer.
1997  Yana Kudryavtseva, Russian rhythmic gymnast.
1997  Max Verstappen, Belgian-Dutch racing driver.
2002  Maddie Ziegler, American dancer and actress.
420  Jerome, Roman priest, theologian and historian (b. 347)
653  Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury
1101  Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan
1246  Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191)
1440  Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Ruthin, Welsh soldier and politician (b. 1362)
1487  John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
1560  Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
1572  Saint Francis of Borgia, Jesuit priest (b. 1510)
1626  Taizu Emperor, Chinese Emperor (b. 1559)
1628  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet and politician (b. 1554)
1770  Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat (b. 1695)
1865  Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar (b. 1800)
1888  Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
1888  Catherine Eddowes, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
1891  Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
1897  Therese of Liseaux, French nun and saint (b. 1873)
1910  Maurice Levy, French engineer (b. 1838)
1914  Yu Kil-chun, Korean politician (b. 1856)
1932  Constantin Coanda, Romanian politician (b. 1857)
1934  Giuseppe Mori, Italian cardinal (b. 1850)
1942  Hans-Joachim Marseille, German pilot (b. 1919)
1943  Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)
1948  Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1861)
1953  Lewis Fry Richardson, British meteorologist (b. 1881)
1955  James Dean, American actor (b. 1931)
1973  Peter Pitseolak, Canadian photographer and actor (b. 1902)
1974  Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General (b. 1915)
1977  Mary Ford, American singer (b. 1924)
1985  Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
1985  Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)
1990  Patrick White, Australian writer (b. 1912)
1994  André Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist (b. 1902)
1994  Roberto Eduardo Viola, Argentine politician (b. 1924)
2002  Göran Kropp, Swedish mountaineer (b. 1966)
2002  Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1913)
2003  Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (b. 1944)
2004  Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor, director and politician (b. 1936)
2004  Jacques Levy, American director and songwriter (b. 1935)
2004  Michael Relph, English director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1915)
2007  Joe Mitty, English humanitarian, founder of Oxfam (b. 1919)
2010  Stephen J. Cannell, American television producer (b. 1941)
2011  Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and Islamist militant (b. 1971)
2011  Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian immunologist (b. 1943)
2012  Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (b. 1928)
2012  Barry Commoner, American biologist (b. 1917)
2013  Kazys Bobelis, Lithuanian politician (b. 1923)
2013  Rangel Valchanov, Bulgarian actor and director (b. 1928)
2014  Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Kashmiri Shia cleric, politician and businessman (b. 1942)
2014  Jerrie Mock, American pilot (b. 1925)
2014  Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist (b. 1927)
2015  Kelly Gissendaner, American criminal (b. 1968)
2015  Claude Dauphin, French businessman (b. 1951)
2015  Guido Altarelli, Italian theoretical physicist (b. 1941)
2015  Ricky Talan, Dutch footballer (b. 1960)
2016  Oscar Brand, Canadian-American folk singer-songwriter and author (b. 1920)
2016  Mike Towell, Scottish boxer (b. 1991)
2017  Monty Hall, Canadian-American game show host (b. 1921)
2017  Frank Hamblen, American basketball coach (b. 1947)
2017  Donald Malarkey, American army officer (b. 1921)
2017  Joe Tiller, American football player (b. 1942)
2017  Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian-American mathematician (b. 1966)
2018  Edredon Bleu, British-bred racehorse (b. 1992)
2018  Geoffrey Hayes, English television presenter and actor (b. 1942)
2018  Kim Larsen, Danish rock musician (b. 1945)
2018  René Pétillon, French cartoonist (b. 1945)
2019  David Akers-Jones, British politician (b. 1927)
2019  Wayne Fitzgerald, American film and television title designer (b. 1930)
2019  Viju Khote, Indian actor (b. 1941)
2019  Kornel Morawiecki, Polish politician and theoretical physicist (b. 1941)