the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
The exact time the second third of the year starts is 4:00 p.m. In countries that use summer time the actual exact time of the midpoint in a common year is at 5:00 p.m for locations in the northern hemisphere, or 3:00 p.m. for locations in the southern hemisphere; this is when 121 days and 16 hours have elapsed and there are 243 days and 8 hours remaining.
In a leap year in those countries, the second third of the year starts at midnight.
In countries that use summer time, the second third starts at 1:00 a.m. on May 2, or 11:00 p.m. on May 1 in the southern hemisphere.
1194 - Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
1335 - Otto, Duke of Austria, known as "Otto the Merry", becomes Duke of Carinthia.
1536 - Anne Boleyn is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
1559 - John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become leader of the Scottish Reformation.
1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
1611 – The King James Bible is published.
1670 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company, to open up fur trade in Canada.
1808 – The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation.
This event is later memorised in a painting by Francisco de Goya.
1829 - Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger declares the Swan River Colony in present-day Western Australia.
1863 - American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson is wounded in the Battle of Chancellorsville.
He dies of his injuries on May 10.
1866 - Peruvian defenders fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
1876 - Start of the April Uprising in Bulgaria.
In the Julian calendar used at the time, this date was April 20, which is why the uprising is named after the month of April.
1879 - The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is founded in Madrid by Pablo Iglesias.
1885 - The first issue of Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale.
1885 - King Leopold II of Belgium creates the Congo Free State, the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Central Africa.
It is estimated that millions may have died during the colonial rule there.
1889 – Menelik II of Ethiopia signs a treaty that gives Italy control of Eritrea.
1906 - Closing ceremony of the 1906 Olympics, which are not officially recognized by the IOC as part of the modern Olympic Games.
1918 - General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company in Delaware.
1920 - The first Negro National League baseball game is played in Indianapolis.
1933 - Adolf Hitler bans trade unions in Germany.
1945 – The Soviet Union captures Berlin in World War II.
1946 - "Battle of Alcatraz" - In one of the most violent events on the prison island in San Francisco Bay - kills two guards and three inmates.
1952 - The first jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1, makes its first flight from London to Johannesburg.
1953 - Hussein of Jordan becomes King, after his father, Talal of Jordan, is declared unfit to rule.
1964 - Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the ship USS Card while it is in the dock at Saigon.
The Viet Cong is suspected of having carried out the attack.
1964 - First successful climb of Shishapangma, the 14th-highest mountain in the world, and the smallest of those with a height over 8000 metres.
1969 – The Ocean Liner Queen Elizabeth 2 leaves for its first voyage to New York.
1972 - An early-morning fire at Sunshine Mine between the towns of Kellogg and Wallace, Indiana, kills 91 workers.
1982 – Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
1986 - Chernobyl is evacuated, six days after the nuclear reactor disaster there.
1989 – Hungary opens its western border.
1994 - A bus crash in Gdansk kills 32 people.
1995 - Croatian War of Independence: Serbian forces fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing 7 people and injuring 175.
1997 – Tony Blair takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, after his Labour Party won the previous day's General Election with a landslide win over John Major's Conservative Party.
1998 – The European Central Bank is formed in Brussels.
1999 – Mireya Moscoso is elected as the first female President of Panama.
2004 - Over 630 Muslim nomads are killed by Christians in religious violence in Nigeria.
2006 – The band Tool releases its 4th album 10,000 Days.
2008 – Tropical Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma, where it kills tens of thousands of people.
2008 - The Chaiten volcano in Chile begins erupting.
4,500 people are evacuated from their homes.
2011 – US President Barack Obama announces the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a US military operation in Pakistan.
2011 - A Europe-wide E. coli outbreak, centred in Germany, begins.
2011 - Stephen Harper's Conservative Party of Canada wins an overall majority in parliament in Canada's election.
The Liberal Party of Canada finishes third, behind the New Democratic Party of Jack Layton, who dies a few months later.
2012 – A pastel version of Edvard Munch's The Scream sells for 120 million US Dollars, setting a new record for a work of art sold at auction.
2014 - A landslide in Afghanistan kills at least 350 people, with many reported missing.
2014 - Violent clashes in Odessa during the Ukrainian political crisis lead to a building fire in which at least 31 pro-Russian activists are killed.
2018 - Basque separatist group ETA announces its intention to dissolve.
1360 – Yongle, Chinese Emperor (d. 1424)
1451 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1503)
1458 - Eleanor of Viseu, Queen of Portugal (d. 1525)
1551 - William Camden, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1623)
1579 - Tokugawa Hidetada, Japanese shogun (d. 1632)
1601 – Athanasius Kircher, German scholar (d. 1680)
1660 – Antonio Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1725)
1702 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (d. 1782)
1729 – Empress Catherine II of Russia (d. 1796)
1737 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1805)
1740 - Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and statesman (d. 1821)
1754 - Vicente Martín y Soler, Spanish composer (d. 1806)
1772 – Novalis, German writer and philosopher (d. 1801)
1773 - Henrik Steffens, Norwegian philosopher (d. 1845)
1797 - Abraham Pineo Gesner, Canadian physician and geologist (d. 1864)
1802 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German scientist (d. 1870)
1806 – Charles Gleyre, Swiss painter (d. 1874)
1808 - Emma Wedgwood, English naturalist (d. 1896)
1810 - Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (d. 1874)
1815 - William Buell Richards, 1st Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1889)
1830 - Otto Staudinger, German entomologist (d. 1900)
1843 - Elijah McCoy, Canadian-American inventor and engineer (d. 1929)
1856 - Vasily Rozanov, Russian philosopher (d. 1919)
1859 – Jerome K. Jerome, English writer (d. 1927)
1860 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian writer and Zionist (d. 1904)
1860 - D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Scottish biologist, mathematician and classical scholar (d. 1948)
1860 - John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936)
1868 - Robert W. Wood, American experimental physicist (d. 1955)
1872 - Karl Nessler, American hairdresser (d. 1951)
1879 - James F. Byrnes, 49th United States Secretary of State and 104th Governor of South Carolina (d. 1972)
1880 - Bill Horr, American athlete (d. 1955)
1881 - Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician (d. 1970)
1885 - Hedda Hopper, American actress and columnist (d. 1966)
1886 - Gottfried Benn, German writer (d. 1956)
1889 - Ki Hajar Dewantara, Indonesian education pioneer (d. 1959)
1890 - E. E. Smith, American food engineer (d. 1965)
1892 – Manfred von Richthofen, German fighter pilot (d. 1918)
1895 - Lorenz Hart, American playwright (d. 1943)
1896 – Helen of Greece of Denmark (d. 1982)
1902 - Arturo Licata, Sicilian supercentenarian (d. 2014)
1903 – Benjamin Spock, American writer (d. 1998)
1913 - Nigel Patrick, English actor (d. 1981)
1915 - Van Alexander, American jazz composer, arranger and bandleader (d. 2015)
1917 - Van Tien Dung, Vietnamese general and politician (d. 2002)
1917 - Albert Castelyns, Belgian water polo player and bobsledder (d. unknown)
1920 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
1920 - Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-Brazilian activist (d. 2000)
1920 - Vasantrao Deshpande, Indian singer and sitar player (d. 1983)
1920 - Guinn Smith, American pole vaulter, 1948 Olympic champion (d. 2004)
1921 – Satyajit Ray, Indian movie maker (d. 1992)
1923 – Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland (d. 2008)
1924 - Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor and singer (d. 2015)
1924 - Hugh Cortazzi, English businessman and diplomat (d. 2018)
1925 - Maria Barroso, Portuguese actress and politician (d. 2015)
1928 – Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (d. 1972)
1929 – Edouard Balladur, former Prime Minister of France
1929 - Eddie Garcia, Filipino actor, director and television personality (d. 2019)
1930 - Marco Pannella, Italian politician and activist (d. 2016)
1930 - Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter, journalist and critic (d. 2013)
1931 - Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, English lawyer and judge
1932 - Bruce Glover, American actor
1933 - Gérard Jouannest, French pianist (d. 2018)
1933 - Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, English lawyer and judge
1935 - Luis Suárez Miramontes, Spanish footballer
1935 – King Faisal II of Iraq (d. 1958)
1936 - Norma Aleandro, Argentine actress, director and screenwriter
1936 – Engelbert Humperdinck, British singer
1937 - Lance LeGault, American actor (d. 2012)
1937 - Lorenzo Music, American screenwriter, actor and producer (d. 2001)
1938 – King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (d. 1996)
1941 – Jules Wijdenbosch, former President of Suriname
1941 - Eddy Louiss, French jazz musician (d. 2015)
1942 – Jacques Rogge, Belgian Olympic official (d. 2021)
1943 - Manfred Schnelldorfer, German figure skater
1944 - Kim Yong-il, North Korean politician
1945 – Judge Dread, English musician (d. 1998)
1945 – Bianca Jagger, Nicaraguan-born activist
1946 - Lesley Gore, American singer (d. 2015)
1946 – David Suchet, British actor
1947 – James Dyson, British inventor
1947 - Prashanta Nanda, Indian actor, director, producer and politician
1949 - Alan Titchmarsh, British television presenter
1949 - Alfons Schuhbeck, German chef and cookery writer
1949 - Alan Gross, American government contractor
1950 - Lou Gramm, American singer
1951 - John Glascock, English musician (d. 1979)
1952 – Christine Baranski, American actress
1952 - Christopher Doyle, Australian director and screenwriter
1953 – Valery Gergiev, Russian conductor
1955 - Donatella Versace, Italian fashion designer
1956 - Régis Lebeaume, Canadian politician, 41st Mayor of Quebec City
1958 - Yasushi Akimoto, Japanese television writer, songwriter, record producer and professor
1958 – David O'Leary, Irish footballer
1962 – Jimmy White, English snooker player
1964 – Silvia Neid, German footballer and coach
1967 - Bengt Akerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (d. 1995)
1967 - Luigi Apolloni, Italian footballer
1968 - Hikaru Midorikawa, Japanese voice actor
1968 - Ziana Zain, Malaysian singer-songwriter and actress
1969 – Brian Lara, West Indies cricketer
1971 - Musashimaru Koyo, American Samoan sumo wrestler
1972 - Dwayne Johnson, American professional wrestler and actor
1972 - Ahti Heinla, Estonian programmer and entrepreneur
1973 - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German movie director
1974 - Matt Berry, English actor
1975 – David Beckham, English footballer
1975 – Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger, American astronaut
1977 - Jan Fitschen, German runner
1977 - Kalle Palander, Finnish skier
1979 - Jason Chimera, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
1980 – Tim Borowski, German footballer
1980 – Zat Knight, English footballer
1980 - Troy Murphy, American basketball player
1980 - Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Canadian skateboarder
1981 – Chris Kirkland, English footballer
1981 – Tiago Mendes, Portuguese footballer
1982 - Lorie, French singer
1982 - Johan Botha, South Korean cricketer
1983 - Alessandro Diamanti, Italian footballer
1983 - Derek Boateng, Ghanaian footballer
1983 - Maynor Figueroa, Honduran footballer
1983 – Tina Maze, Slovenian skier
1985 – Lily Allen, English singer
1985 - Kyle Busch, American racing driver
1985 – Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
1985 – David Nugent, English footballer
1985 - Oh Land, Danish singer-songwriter and record producer
1985 – Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1986 - Emily Hart, American actress
1986 - Sani Kaita, Nigerian footballer
1987 - Saara Aalto, Finnish singer
1987 - Kris Russell, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 - Nana Kitade, Japanese singer-songwriter and musician
1988 - Stephen Henderson, Irish footballer
1990 – Kay Panabaker, American actress
1990 - Paul George, American basketball player
1991 - Jeong Jinwoon, South Korean actor and singer
1994 - Josh Bolt, English actor
1996 - Julian Brandt, German footballer
1997 - Bambam, South Korean dancer, rapper and singer
2015 - Princess Charlotte of Cambridge
373 - Athanasius of Alexandria (b. 298)
756 - Emperor Shomu of Japan (b. 701)
907 - Boris I of Bulgaria
1219 – Leo I, King of Armenia (b. 1150)
1300 - Blanche of Artois (b. 1248)
1519 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and inventor (b. 1452)
1627 - Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (b. 1560)
1802 - Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (b. 1762)
1819 - Mary Moser, English painter (b. 1744)
1821 - Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (b. 1741)
1825 – Michail Leontievich Bulatov, Russian military (b. 1760)
1857 - Alfred de Busset, French writer (b. 1810)
1864 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (b. 1791)
1880 - Eberhard Anheuser, German-American businessman (b. 1805)
1880 - Tom Willis, Australian cricketer and co-founder of Australian rules football (b. 1835)
1909 - Manuel Amador Guerrero, 1st President of Panama (b. 1833)
1915 - Clara Immerwahr, German chemist, doctor and activist (b. 1870)
1918 - Jüri Vilms, Estonian politician (b. 1889)
1927 - Ernest Starling, English physiologist (b. 1866)
1930 - Isidor Gunsberg, Hungarian chess player (b. 1854)
1945 – Martin Bormann, Nazi politician (b. 1900)
1957 – Joseph McCarthy, US Senator (b. 1908)
1960 – Caryl Chessman, American, controversially executed (b. 1921)
1964 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-British politician (b. 1879)
1969 – Franz von Papen, German politician (b. 1879)
1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI (b. 1895)
1979 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist (b. 1903)
1983 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (b. 1926)
1983 - Pridi Banomyong, Prime minister of Thailand (b. 1900)
1984 - Bob Clampett, American animator, producer and director (b. 1913)
1985 - Attilio Bettega, Italian rally driver (b. 1953)
1989 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (b. 1902)
1989 - Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal (b. 1902)
1993 - André Moynet, French fighter pilot, entrepreneur, politician and racing driver (b. 1921)
1995 - Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)
1995 - Werner Veigel, German television journalist (b. 1928)
1997 - Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher (b. 1921)
1997 – Sir John Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist (b. 1903)
1998 – Hide, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
1998 – Justin Fashanu, English footballer (b. 1961)
1998 - Kevin Lloyd, British actor (b. 1949)
1999 - Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
2005 – Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)
2009 – Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director (b. 1931)
2009 – Jack Kemp, American politician and football player (b. 1935)
2010 – Kama Chinen, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
2010 – Lynn Redgrave, British actress (b. 1943)
2011 – Osama Bin Laden, Saudi Islamist terrorist (b. 1957)
2012 – Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, Indonesian physician and politician (b. 1955)
2012 – Junior Seau, American football player (b. 1969)
2013 - Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (b. 1980)
2013 - Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist (Slayer) (b. 1964)
2014 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (b. 1918)
2014 - Mohammad-Reza Lotfi, Iranian classical musician (b. 1947)
2014 - Nigel Stepney, English mechanic (b. 1958)
2014 - Pauline Wagner, American actress (b. 1910)
2015 - Ruth Rendell, English writer (b. 1930)
2015 - Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1925)
2015 - Konstantin K. Kuzminsky, Russian performance poet (b. 1940)
2015 - Sarah Correa, Brazilian swimmer (b. 1992)
2015 - Guy Carawan, American folk musician (b. 1927)
2015 - Michael Blake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1945)
2015 - Stuart Archer, British recipient of the George Cross (b. 1915)
2015 - Philip S. Goodman, American director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1926)
2016 - Afeni Shakur, African American music businesswoman, philanthropist, political activist, and Black Panther.
Mother of Tupac Shakur (b. 1947)
2016 - Jonathan Cainer, British astrologer (b. 1957)
2016 - John Kaye, Australian politician (b. 1955)
2016 - Roger Millward, British rugby league player (b. 1947)
2017 - Harold Bedoya Pizarro, Colombian military commander and politician (b. 1938)
2017 - Abelardo Castillo, Argentine author and essayist (b. 1935)
2017 - Kevin Garcia, American musician (b. 1975)
2017 - Heinz Kessler, German politician (b. 1920)
2017 - George Hugh Niederauer, American archbishop (b. 1936)
2017 - Leo K. Thorsness, American air force officer (b. 1932)
2017 - Moray Watson, British actor (b. 1928)
2017 - Roy Gater, English footballer (b. 1940)
2018 - Gord Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1960)
2018 - Tony Cucchiara, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
2018 - Herman Krebbers, Dutch violinist (b. 1923)
2018 - Vadim Mulerman, Soviet-Ukrainian singer (b. 1938)
2018 - Bill Torrey, Canadian ice hockey executive (b. 1934)
2018 - Wang Danfeng, Chinese actress (b. 1924)
2018 - Wolfgang Völz, German actor (b. 1930)
2018 - János Juszkó, Hungarian cyclist (b. 1939)
2019 - Michel Crauste, French rugby union player (b. 1934)
2019 - Rafael Hernández Colón, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1936)
2019 - Fatimih Dávila, Uruguayan model (b. 1988)
2019 - Master Hirannaiah, Indian actor (b. 1934)
2019 - Frank Ivancie, American businessman and politician (b. 1924)
2019 - Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2019 - Micha Lindenstrauss, German-born Israeli judge (b. 1937)
2019 - Ali Mroudjaé, Prime minister of the Comoros (b. 1939)
2019 - Lord Toby Jug, British politician (b. 1935)
2019 - Chris Reccardi, American animator (b. 1964)
2019 - John Starling, American bluegrass musician (b. 1940)
2019 - Juan Vicente Torrealba, Venezuelan harpist and composer (b. 1917)
Polish Flag day celebrated
Last day of the Bahá'í festival to select members of the Universal House of Justice.
National Education Day (Indonesia)
Teachers' Day (Iran, Bhutan)
May 02
1430 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while loading an army to relieve Compiegne.
1498 - Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
1533 - The marriage between King Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1555 - Giovanni Pietro Carafa becomes Pope Paul VI.
1568 - The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.
1568 - Dutch rebels, lead by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, starting the Eighty Years' War.
1609 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
1618 - The Second Defenestration of Prague leads to the start of the Thirty Years' War.
1701 - After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is executed by hanging in London.
1706 - Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough defeats a French army under Marshal Francois de Neufville, duc de Villeroi.
1788 - South Carolina becomes the 8th State of the US.
1793 - Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy in Milan Cathedral.
1829 - A patent for the accordion is granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austria.
1844 - Declaration of the Bab: A merchant from Shiraz, Persia, announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that is later crushed by the Persian government.
This movement is considered to be a forerunner of the Baha'i faith, in which this date is celebrated as a holy day.
1846 - Mexican-American War: President of Mexico Mariano Paredes unofficially declares war on the United States.
1873 - The Canadian government creates the North-West Mounted Police force.
This is a forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police force.
1911 - The New York Public Library is opened.
1915 - World War I: Italy joins the Allies against Austria-Hungary.
1932 - In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a protest against the country's leader Getulio Vargas in São Paulo.
1934 – The outlaws Bonnie and Clyde are shot dead by law officers in the Texas–Louisiana border region.
1939 - The United States Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off New Hampshire.
1945 - SS leader Heinrich Himmler commits suicide.
1945 - The Flensburg Government under Karl Doenitz is dissolved when its members are arrested by British forces in the city of Flensburg in Northern Germany, next to the border with Denmark.
1949 – The Federal Republic of Germany is founded.
1951 - Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with China.
1958 - Space probe Explorer 1 ceases (ends) transmission.
1960 – Israel announces the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who was hiding in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1967 - Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat, Israel, at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea, to Israeli shipping.
1992 - Italian anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, along with his wife and three bodyguards, is killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily.
1993 - Cambodia holds its first free elections in over 20 years.
1994 - Roman Herzog is elected President of Germany.
1997 - Mohammad Khatami is elected President of Iran.
1998 - Voters in Northern Ireland approve the Good Friday Agreement in a referendum.
1999 - Johannes Rau is elected President of Germany.
2002 - Iceland ratifies the Kyoto protocol.
2004 – Horst Köhler is chosen as the new German President, to succeed Johannes Rau.
2004 - Part of the roof of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing 4 people.
2006 - Alaskan volcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
2008 - The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) is founded.
2009 - Former President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun commits suicide, while facing a corruption investigation.
2009 - Horst Koehler is elected to a second term as President of Germany.
However, he resigns just over a year later, on May 31, 2010.
2014 - The Glasgow School of Art, one of the most famous buildings in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, is heavily damaged by fire.
2015 - Mans Zelmerlow of Sweden wins the 60th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria.
Special guest Australia, represented by Guy Sebastian, finishes 5th out of 27.
Host nation Austria finishes joint-bottom with Germany on 0 points, making it the worst performance of a host nation in the contest's history.
2016 - Bomb attacks in western Syria result in the deaths of more than 100 people.
2019 - Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party wins India's general election, giving it a big parliamentary majority.
2019 - The 2019 election to the European Parliament begin.
635 - K'inich Kan B'alam II, Mayan King (d. 702)
1052 – King Philip I of France (d. 1108)
1100 – Emperor Quinzong of China (d. 1161)
1606 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish philosopher, mathematician and writer (d. 1682)
1617 - Elias Ashmole, English astrologer and politician (d. 1692)
1696 - Johann Caspar Vogler, German organist and composer (d. 1763)
1707 – Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish biologist (d. 1778)
1718 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (d. 1783)
1729 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian writer (d. 1799)
1734 – Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician (d. 1815)
1741 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (d. 1815)
1754 - Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (d. 1817)
1790 – Jules Dumont D'Urville, French explorer (d. 1842)
1794 - Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso (d. 1870)
1795 - Charles Barry, English architect (d. 1860)
1810 – Margaret Fuller, American journalist and feminist (d. 1850)
1820 - James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (d. 1887)
1824 – Ambrose Burnside, American general (d. 1881)
1827 - Milton Latham, 6th Governor of California (d. 1882)
1834 - Carl Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)
1837 - Anatole Mallet, Swiss engineer (d. 1919)
1840 - George Throssell, Irish-Australian politician, 30th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1910)
1842 - Maria Konopnicka, Polish writer (d. 1910)
1844 – Abdu'l Baha, leading member of the Baha'i faith (d. 1921)
1848 – Otto Lilienthal, German aviator (d. 1896)
1865 – Epitacio Pessoa, President of Brazil (d. 1942)
1872 - Julio Acosta Garcia, President of Peru (d. 1954)
1883 - Ferenc Talanyi, Slovenian writer, journalist and painter (d. 1959)
1883 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939)
1884 - Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965)
1887 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)
1888 - Zack Wheat, American baseball player (d. 1972)
1889 - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (d. 1967)
1890 – Herbert Marshall, English actor (d. 1969)
1891 – Par Lagerkvist, Swedish writer (d. 1974)
1892 - Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, British nobleman (d. 1975)
1892 – Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (d. 1922)
1896 - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German SS officer (d. 1966)
1898 - Georgios Grivas, Greek-Cypriot political activist (d. 1974)
1898 - Scott O'Dell, American writer (d. 1989)
1898 – Josef Terboven, Nazi Reichskommissar in occupied Norway (d. 1945)
1899 - Jeralean Talley, American supercentenarian (d. 2015)
1900 – Hans Frank, Nazi official (d. 1946)
1905 - Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, Spanish writer, journalist and politician (d. 1936)
1908 – John Bardeen, American physicist (d. 1991)
1908 - Hélène Boucher, French pilot (d. 1934)
1908 - Max Abramovitz, American architect (d. 2004)
1910 – Scatman Crothers, American musician (d. 1986)
1910 – Artie Shaw, American musician (d. 2004)
1911 – Paul Mayer, German cardinal (d. 2010)
1911 - Betty Nuthall, English tennis player (d. 1983)
1912 - Jean Françaix, French composer, pianist and orchestrator (d. 1997)
1912 - John Payne, American movie actor (d. 1989)
1917 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008)
1918 - Denis Compton, English cricketer (d. 1997)
1919 – Betty Garrett, American actress (d. 2011)
1921 – Humphrey Lyttelton, British musician (d. 2008)
1921 - James Blish, American science fiction writer (d. 1975)
1923 – Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (d. 2009)
1924 – Karlheinz Deschner, German writer and humanist (d. 2014)
1925 – Joshua Lederberg, American biologist (d. 2008)
1926 - Joe Slovo, Lithuanian-South African politician (d. 1995)
1927 - Dieter Hildebrandt, German entertainer (d. 2013)
1928 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
1928 – Nigel Davenport, British actor (d. 2013)
1929 - Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
1933 – Joan Collins, British actress
1933 - Ove Fundin, Swedish motorcycle racer
1933 - Alberto Natusch, Bolivian military leader (d. 1994)
1934 – Robert Moog, American inventor (d. 2005)
1935 - Susan Cooper, British writer
1936 - Ingeborg Hallstein, German soprano and actress
1936 - Charles Kimbrough, American actor
1938 - Johnny Ball, British television personality
1938 - Peter Preston, British journalist and newspaper editor (d. 2018)
1939 - Michel Colombier, French-American composer and conductor (d. 2004)
1940 - Levan Mesashvili, Georgian basketball player and coach
1942 - Gabriel Liiceanu, Romanian philosopher
1942 - José Omar Pastoriza, Argentine footballer
1943 - Peter Kenilorea, 1st Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (d. 2016)
1944 - John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
1944 – Lena Nyman, Swedish actress (d. 2011)
1945 - Lauren Chapin, American actress
1948 - Myriam Boyer, French actress, director and producer
1949 – Alan García, former President of Peru (d. 2019)
1950 – Martin McGuinness, Northern Irish politician (d. 2017)
1951 – Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
1951 – Antonis Samaras, Greek politician, former Prime Minister of Greece
1952 - Anne-Marie David, French singer
1954 - Hans Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
1956 - Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician
1957 - Craig Brown, English journalist and critic
1958 - Mitch Albom, American journalist, author and screenwriter
1958 - Drew Carey, American actor, comedian and game show host
1958 - Thomas Reiter, German astronaut
1959 – Ryuta Kawashima, Japanese neuroscientist, creator of Brain Training
1959 – Bob Mortimer, English comedian
1960 - Michel Roux Jr., French-English chef
1965 - Manuel Sanchis Hontiyuelo, Spanish footballer
1965 - Melissa McBride, American actress
1967 – Phil Selway, American drummer (Radiohead)
1967 - Carlos Mercenario, Mexican race walker
1970 - Matt Flynn, American drummer and producer (Maroon 5)
1970 – Yigal Amir, assassin of Yitzhak Rabin
1971 – George Osborne, British politician, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
1972 – Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian Formula One racecar driver
1973 - Maxwell, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
1974 - Manuela Schwesig, German politician
1974 – Ken Jennings, American gameshow contestant
1974 – Jewel, American singer
1976 – Ricardinho, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Richard Ayoade, English actor, writer, comedian and presenter
1978 - Mike Gonzalez, American baseball player
1980 – Theofanis Gekas, Greek footballer
1981 - Tim Robinson, American comedian
1983 – Heidi Range, British singer (The Sugababes)
1984 – Hugo Almeida, Portuguese footballer
1984 - Lizzie Waterworth, English voice actress
1984 - Adam Wylie, American actor
1985 – Ross Wallace, Scottish footballer
1985 - Sebastian Fernandez, Uruguayan footballer
1985 - Wim Stroetinga, Dutch cyclist
1988 - Lorenzo De Silvestri, Italian footballer
1988 – Morgan Pressel, American golfer
1990 - Ricardo dos Santos, Brazilian surfer (d. 2015)
1991 – Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer
1992 - Olesia Karmi, Finnish figure skater
1993 - Sargis Adamyan, Armenian footballer
1995 - Jillian Janson, American pornographic actress
230 - Pope Urban I
779 - Emperor Daizong of Tang, Chinese Emperor (b. 727)
1125 – Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1081)
1498 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (b. 1452)
1523 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (b. 1466)
1524 – Ismail I, Shah of Persia (b. 1487)
1669 - Joris van der Haagen, Dutch painter (b. 1615)
1670 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1610)
1691 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (b. 1622)
1701 – William Kidd, Scottish pirate (b. 1645)
1754 - John Wood, the Elder, English architect (b. 1704)
1786 - Maurice Benyovszky, Hungarian count, explorer and writer (b. 1746)
1825 – Gugsa of Yejju, Regent of Ethiopia
1841 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1765)
1857 - Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (b. 1789)
1868 – Kit Carson, American Western figure (b. 1809)
1886 - Leopold von Ranke, German historian (b. 1795)
1893 – Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (b. 1805)
1895 - Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (b. 1798)
1906 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer and playwright (b. 1828)
1914 - William O'Connell Bradley, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1847)
1917 – Ranavalona III, Queen of Madagascar (b. 1861)
1921 - August Nilsson, Swedish athlete (b. 1872)
1934 – Bonnie and Clyde, American outlaws (b. 1909 and 1910)
1937 – John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1839)
1944 - Thomas Curtis, American hurdler (b. 1870)
1945 – Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (b. 1900)
1947 - Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
1955 - Roy E. Ayers, American politician, Governor of Montana (b. 1882)
1960 - Georges Claude, French engineer and inventor (b. 1870)
1965 - Earl Webb, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1966 – Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902)
1967 - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)
1981 - George Jessel, American actor, singer and producer (b. 1898)
1986 - Sterling Hayden, American actor and writer (b. 1916)
1989 - Karl Koch, German computer hacker (b. 1965)
1991 - Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (b. 1895)
1991 - Jean Van Houtte, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1907)
1992 – Giovanni Falcone, Italian magistrate and anti-Mafia judge (b. 1939)
1992 - Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1908)
1996 - Bernhard Klodt, German footballer (b. 1926)
1999 – Owen Hart, professional wrestler (b. 1965)
2002 – Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)
2003 – Jean Yanne, French actor, writer, director and composer (b. 1933)
2006 – Kazimierz Gorski, Polish footballer (b. 1921)
2006 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
2008 – Heinz Kwiatkowski, German footballer (b. 1926)
2008 - Utah Phillips, American singer-songwriter, poet and activist (b. 1935)
2009 – Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea (b. 1946)
2010 – Leonida Georgievna, Grand Duchess of Russia (b. 1914)
2011 – Nasser Hejazi, Iranian footballer (b. 1949)
2011 – Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (b. 1978)
2012 - Paul Fussell, American historian, writer and educator (b. 1924)
2013 - Georges Moustaki, French singer and composer (b. 1934)
2013 - James Sisnett, Barbadian supercentenarian (b. 1900)
2014 - Joel Camargo, Brazilian footballer (b. 1946)
2014 - Walter Romberg, East German politician (b. 1928)
2014 - Mona Freeman, American actress (b. 1926)
2015 - Aleksey Mozgovoy, Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist (b. 1975)
2015 - John Forbes Nash Jr., American mathematician (b. 1928)
2015 - Anne Meara, American actress and comedienne (b. 1929)
2015 - Ali Raymi, Yemeni boxer (b. 1973)
2016 - John Brophy, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
2016 - Joe Fleishaker, American actor (b. 1954)
2017 - Roger Moore, English actor (b. 1927)
2017 - Stefano Farina, Italian football referee (b. 1962)
2017 - Jerry Perenchio, American businessman (b. 1930)
2017 - William Carney, American politician (b. 1942)
2017 - Kaoru Yosano, Japanese politician (b. 1938)
2018 - Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban militant (b. 1928)
2018 - Antonio Horvath, Chilean civil servant and politician (b. 1950)
2018 - Richard Peck, American novelist (b. 1934)
2018 - Daniel Robin, French wrestler (b. 1943)
2019 - Dumiso Dabengwa, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1939)
2019 - Bobby Joe Long, American serial killer (b. 1953)
2019 - Hosei Norota, Japanese politician (b. 1929)
2019 - Beaton Tulk, Canadian politician, 7th Premier of Newfoundland (b. 1944)
2019 - Anna Udvardy, Hungarian film producer (b. 1949)
Gravity Day
Birthday of Guru Amar Das (Sikhism)
Declaration of the Bab (Baha'i faith)
Labour Day (Jamaica)
Students' Day (Mexico)
334 BC - The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia.
337 (AD) - Roman Emperor Constantine I dies.
853 - A Byzantine Empire fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
896 - Pope Stephen VII is elected.
1176 - The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo, present-day Syria.
1200 - King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
1246 - Henry Raspe is elected Anti-King of Germany, in opposition to Conrad IV of Germany.
1455 – Wars of the Roses: In the First Battle of St. Albans, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
1629 - Thirty Years' War: The Treaty of Luebeck is signed by Ferdinand IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Christian IV of Denmark to end Danish intervention in the war.
1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
1762 - The Trevi Fountain in Rome is completed, and opened by Pope Clement XIII.
1768 - Pentecost Island in present-day Vanuatu is reached by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, whose expedition members become the first Europeans to see it.
It is named after the Christian feast day of Pentecost.
1807 - Most of the town of Chudleigh in Devon, southwest England, is destroyed by fire.
1809 - Napoleonic Wars: Second day of the Battle of Apern-Essling.
1819 – The SS Savannah sets sail from Savannah, Georgia to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
1826 – HMS Beagle sets sail on its first voyage.
1840 - Transportation of British convicts to New South Wales is banned.
1848 – Slavery is abolished (banned) in Martinique.
1849 - Abraham Lincoln is given a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river.
As he later becomes US President in 1861, he is the only President of the United States to be granted a patent.
1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson - Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
1897 - The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is opened.
1902 – The Crater Lake National Park in Oregon is created by Theodore Roosevelt.
1906 - The Wright brothers are given a patent for their "Flying Machine".
1915 – Lassen Peak in California erupts.
Along with the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, this is one of only two volcanic eruptions in the contiguous United States in the 20th Century.
1915 – The Quintinshill rail crash near Gretna Green, southern Scotland, kills 227 people.
It is the deadliest-ever accident on the railways in the United Kingdom.
1927 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.9 strikes Tsinghai, China, killing around 200,000 people.
1939 – Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
1942 – World War II: Mexico enters the war on the side of the Allies.
1945 - Operation Paperclip: The United States Army forms plans to evacuate German scientists and engineers to the United States to help in the development of rocket technology.
1946 – Shigeru Yoshida is elected Prime Minister of Japan.
1958 - Ethnic riots break out in Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka, mostly against the minority Tamil population, killing 300 people over the following five days.
1960 – A major earthquake and a series of Tsunamis hit Chile.
The effects are felt as far away as Hawaii where the town of Hilo is hit by a Tsunami. (
See Great Chilean Earthquake).
1962 - Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board, killing all 45 people on board.
1963 - Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is shot, and dies on May 27.
1967 - The L'Innovation Department Store fire in Brussels, Belgium, kills 323 people and injures 150.
1967 - Vietnam War: Vinh Xuan massacre.
1968 - US U-boat USS Scorpion (SSN-589) sinks in the Atlantic Ocean southwest of the Azores, with 99 people on board.
1969 - The Apollo 10 mission's Snoopy module with Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene Cernan on board flies to within 15.6 kilometers of the Moon's surface.
1971 – An earthquake in Anatolia, Turkey, kills around 1,000 people.
1972 – Ceylon changes its name to Sri Lanka, becomes a republic, and adopts a new constitution.
1972 – Richard Nixon arrives in Moscow for talks with Soviet leaders.
1980 – Pac-Man is released in Japan.
1981 – The Yorkshire Ripper serial killer Peter Sutcliffe is jailed for life.
1987 – The first-ever Rugby World Cup begins in Auckland.
Host country New Zealand defeats Italy in the opening match.
1990 – Yemen becomes a united country.
1990 - Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the UN.
1992 – Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
1998 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes Bolivia, killing 105 people.
2003 – The final manuscript of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which was annotated by the composer, is auctioned off for $3.47 million.
2004 – Manmohan Singh becomes Prime Minister of India.
2004 – Hallam, Nebraska is wiped out by a Force 4 tornado.
2004 - In Spain, Felipe, Prince of Asturias marries Letizia, Princess of Asturias.
2010 – An Air India Express Flight 812 airplane overshoots the runway and bursts into flames in Mangalore, southern India, killing 158 people.
8 people survive.
2011 – A tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 162 people.
2012 - The Tokyo Sky Tree is opened to the public in Japan.
It is the tallest free-standing tower and second-tallest freestanding man-made structure in the world, after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
2013 - British soldier Lee Rigby is murdered on a Woolwich, London, street by two Islamic extremists.
2014 - General Prayuth Chan-ocha of the Royal Thai Armed Forces announces a military coup in Thailand after months of political unrest.
Government and Television are taken over by the military.
2014 - 31 people are killed in a bomb attack in Northwest China.
2014 - Elections to the European Parliament begin, being held until May 25.
The United Kingdom and the Netherlands are first to vote.
2015 - The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country where same-sex marriage is legalized through a referendum, with 62% of voters supporting the change.
2016 - Alexander Van der Bellen narrowly defeats far-right candidate Norbert Hofer in Austria's Presidential election, getting 50.3% compared to 49.7% for Hofer.
Van der Bellen also wins the re-run of the election in December of the same year.
2017 - Manchester Arena bombing: A suicide bomber detonates an explosive device at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, killing 22 people.
2020 - Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes in Karachi, killing 97 people, leaving two survivors from the plane and eight injuries on the ground.
1408 - Annamacharya, Hindu saint (d. 1503)
1570 - John II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1605)
1622 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (d. 1698)
1711 - Guillaume de Tillot, French politician (d. 1774)
1715 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794)
1724 - Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (d. 1772)
1733 - Hubert Robert, French artist (d. 1808)
1770 – Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
1772 – Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (d. 1833)
1781 - Newton Cannon, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1841)
1783 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor (d. 1850)
1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
1823 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
1833 - Félix Bracquemond, French painter (d. 1914)
1834 - Niwa Nagakuni, Japanese daimyo (d. 1904)
1844 – Mary Cassatt, American painter (d. 1926)
1846 - Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican poet, educator and activist (d. 1908)
1849 - Louis Perrier, Swiss politician (d. 1913)
1859 - Tsubouchi Shoyo, Japanese writer (d. 1935)
1859 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish physician and writer (Sherlock Holmes) (d. 1930)
1865 - Enric Morera i Viura, Spanish composer (d. 1942)
1874 – Daniel François Malan, Apartheid-era Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959)
1876 - Antonius Bouwens, Dutch sports shooter (d. 1963)
1879 - Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian actress, scriptwriter and politician (d. 1945)
1879 - Jean Cras, French composer and naval officer (d. 1932)
1885 - Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (d. 1957)
1885 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (d. 1924)
1887 - Frank Nelson, American pole vaulter (d. 1970)
1890 - Per Collinder, Swedish astronomer (d. 1975)
1897 - Marcelle Meyer, French pianist (d. 1958)
1897 - Jeanne de Casalis, British actress (d. 1966)
1898 - Rito Selvaggi, Italian composer, pianist, conductor and poet (d. 1972)
1900 – Yvonne de Gaulle, First Lady of France (d. 1979)
1901 – Maurice J. Tobin, 56th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1953)
1903 – Yves Rocard, French physicist (d. 1992)
1904 – Pyotr Sobolevsky, Soviet actor (d. 1977)
1905 - Bodo von Borries, German physicist (d. 1956)
1907 – Hergé, Belgian cartoonist (d. 1983)
1907 – Laurence Olivier, British actor (d. 1989)
1908 - Rattana Pestonji, Thai director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer (d. 1970)
1908 - Horton Smith, American golfer (d. 1970)
1911 - Anatol Rapoport, Russian-American psychologist (d. 2007)
1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist (d. 2004)
1914 – Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
1917 - Georg Tintner, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1999)
1917 - George Aratani, Japanese-American entrepreneur (d. 2013)
1919 – Paul Vanden Boeynants, Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2001)
1920 - Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist (d. 2004)
1923 - Faye Adams, American singer
1924 – Charles Aznavour, Armenian-French singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2018)
1925 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (d. 1991)
1927 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist (d. 2017)
1927 – Michael Constantine, American actor
1927 - Peter Matthiessen, American writer (d. 2014)
1928 - Jackie Cain, American jazz singer (d. 2014)
1928 - T. Boone Pickens, American businessman and financier
1929 - Sergio Mantovani, Italian racing driver (d. 2001)
1930 – Harvey Milk, American politician (d. 1978)
1930 – Marisol Escobar, American artist and sculptor (d. 2016)
1932 - Tavo Burat, Italian journalist, writer and politician (d. 2009)
1932 - Robert Spitzer, American psychiatrist (d. 2015)
1936 - George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (d. 2014)
1937 - Guy Marchand, French actor and director
1938 - Richard Benjamin, American actor and movie director
1938 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999)
1939 - Adamou Moumouni Djermakoye, Nigerien officer, politician and diplomat
1940 - Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (d. 2011)
1941 – Menzies Campbell, Scottish athlete and politician, former leader of the Liberal Democrats
1942 - Calvin Simon, American singer and musician
1942 – Ted Kaczynski, American terrorist, the 'Unabomber'
1943 – Gesine Schwan, German politician
1943 – Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner
1943 - David Bernstein, English businessman
1944 - Beaton Tulk, Canadian politician, 7th Premier of Newfoundland (d. 2019)
1945 - Piero Ferrari, Italian businessman
1946 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2005)
1946 - Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (d. 2015)
1949 - Ieuan Wyn Jones, Welsh politician, former leader of Plaid Cymru
1950 - Bernie Taupin, English singer-songwriter and poet
1952 - Louise Christian, British human rights lawyer
1953 – Cha Bum-Kun, South Korean footballer
1953 - Paul Mariner, English football manager
1954 - Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American electronic engineer
1955 – Dale Winton, English television and radio presenter (d. 2018)
1957 – Lisa Murkowski, American politician
1958 – Denise Welch, British actress
1959 – Steven Morrissey, British singer
1959 - Andres Luure, Estonian philosopher and translator
1959 - Jon Sopel, British journalist
1960 - Hideaki Anno, Japanese animator and movie director
1961 - Wang Xiaoshuai, Chinese actor, screenwriter and movie director
1964 - Mark Christopher Lawrence, American actor and comedian
1964 - Ramunas Butautas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
1965 - Jay Carney, American journalist
1966 – Kenny Hickey, American guitarist (Type O Negative)
1966 - Wang Xiaoshuai, Chinese film director and screenwriter
1968 - Michael Kelly, American actor
1970 – Naomi Campbell, British model
1972 - Alison Eastwood, American actress and model
1972 - Jaouad Gharib, Moroccan long-distance runner
1972 - Anna Belknap, American actress
1974 - Arseniy Yatsenyuk, former Prime Minister of Ukraine
1975 - Janne Niinimaa, Finnish ice hockey player
1976 - Daniel Erlandsson, Swedish musician
1976 – Lee Hughes, English footballer
1978 – Katie Price, English model and television personality
1978 – Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
1979 - Maggie Q, American actress
1980 – Lucy Gordon, British actress (d. 2009)
1980 - Róbert Gunnarsson, Icelandic handball player
1980 - Shinu K Abraham, Indian football player
1981 – Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
1981 – Melissa Gregory, American figure skater
1981 - Bassel Khartabil, Palestinian-Syrian software engineer
1982 - Erin McNaught, Australian model and television host
1982 - Sara Pascoe, English comedienne
1983 – Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani, Saudi footballer
1983 – John Hopkins, American motorcycle racer
1984 - Dustin Moskovitz, American entrepreneur (Facebook)
1985 – Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
1985 – Chris Salvatore, American actor, singer-songwriter, model and same-sex rights activist
1985 - Hideaki Takeda, Japanese footballer
1985 - Mauro Boselli, Argentine footballer
1986 - Luca Gentili, Italian footballer
1986 – Matt Jarvis, English footballer
1987 – Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
1987 – Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer
1988 - Chris Budinger, American actress
1989 - Giordano Benedetti, Italian runner
1991 - Kyle Bartley, English footballer
1992 - Chinami Tokunaga, Japanese singer
1999 - Camren Bicondova, American actress and singer
192 - Dong Zhuo, Chinese politician and warlord (b. 138)