the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
2016 – Gert Bals, Dutch footballer (b. 1936)
2016 – Brandon Grove, Jr., American diplomat (b. 1929)
2017 – Albert Bouvet, French cyclist (b. 1930)
2017 – Syed Abdullah Khalid, Bangladeshi sculptor (b. 1942)
2017 – Joy Corning, American politician (b. 1932)
2017 – Emile Degelin, Belgian film director (b. 1926)
2017 – Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov, Russian politician (b. 1951)
2018 – Jaroslav Brabec, Czech shot putter (b. 1949)
2018 – Bill Gold, American movie poster artist (b. 1921)
2018 – Richard N. Goodwin, American speechwriter (b. 1931)
2018 – Koo Bon-moo, South Korean business executive (b. 1945)
2018 - Patricia Morison, American actress (b. 1915)
2018 - Rolf Sand, Norwegian actor (b. 1920)
2019 - Sandy D'Alemberte, American lawyer, professor and politician (b. 1933)
2019 - Niki Lauda, Austrian racing driver (b. 1949)
2019 - Miguel Montes Busto, Spanish footballer (b. 1939)
2019 - John Moore, Baron Moore of Lower Marsh, British politician (b. 1939)
2019 - Charles C. Pattillo, American Air Force Lieutenant General (b. 1924)
2019 - Ronnie Virgets, American writer and reporter (b. 1942)
Independence Day (Cuba and East Timor)
Day of Remembrance (Cambodia)
Emancipation Day (Florida)
Day of National Awakening (Indonesia)
European Maritime Day
National Day (Cameroon)
1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
1429 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Jargeau.
1488 - The Battle of Sauchieburn is fought between rebel Lords and King James III of Scotland, who dies in the battle.
1509 – Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
1594 - King Philip II of Spain recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines.
1641 - Caracas is struck by its first major earthquake since its founding.
1770 – James Cook reaches the Great Barrier Reef, after his ship, the HMS Endeavour, ran aground there.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: The war's first naval battle is fought in the Battle of Machias.
1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston to the committee of five, to draft the Declaration of Independence.
1788 - Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
1805 - Large parts of Detroit are destroyed by fire.
1865 - The naval Battle of Riachuelo in the War of the Triple Alliance is fought, with Brazil defeating Paraguay.
This battle is important in the Triple Alliance defeating Paraguay in the war.
1881 – The current National Theatre of the Czech Republic, in Prague, is opened.
1898 - Spanish-American War: US warships set sail for Cuba.
1898 - The Hundred Days Reform is started by Guangxu Emperor in China.
1901 – New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
1903 - A group of Serbian military officer storm the royal palace in Belgrade and kill King Alexander Obrenovich and Queen Draga of Serbia.
1917 - Alexander of Greece becomes King, after Constantine I of Greece abdicates the throne under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
1935 - Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, in Alpine, New Jersey.
1936 - The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London.
1937 – Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese nationalist government under Chiang Kai-shek orders the flooding of the Yellow River to halt Japanese forces, though more than 500,000 people are killed after not being warned before the flooding.
1938 - Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan begins.
1945 - The Communist Party of Germany is re-formed.
1947 – US sugar rationing ends.
1955 – More than 80 people are killed in the Le Mans Disaster, the deadliest disaster in motorsport.
1961 - In the night to June 12, 37 electricity pylons are blown up in South Tyrol, a region of Northern Italy that used to be part of Austria.
Members of the separatist underground network are considered to be responsible.
1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin escape from Alcatraz prison, but are never seen again.
1963 – Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc sets himself on fire with gasoline in Saigon, in protest at the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam, under Ngo Dinh Diem.
1963 – Alabama Governor George Wallace refuses to let African American students Vivian Malone Jones and James Hood enroll at the University of Alabama, though he later gives in.
1964 – Retired World War II veteran Walter Seifert, on his 42nd birthday, runs amok in a Cologne school, killing at least 8 children and two teachers and injures many more with a flame thrower and a lance.
He poisons himself and dies the next day.
1970 - Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington become the first female United States Army generals.
1971 – The prison island of Alcatraz is cleared, and the prison is shut down.
1981 – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hits Golbaf, in Iran, killing at least 2,000 people.
1987 – Margaret Thatcher is elected to a third term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1994 - A law in Germany against homosexuality among people aged under 18 is removed.
1996 - A bomb attack on the Moscow Metro kills 4 people and injures 12.
2001 – Timothy McVeigh is executed for the Oklahoma bombing.
2002 – United States Congress recognises Antonio Meucci as the inventor of the telephone.
2004 – The Cassini-Huygens probe makes its closest flyby of Saturn's moon Phoebe.
2007 - Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh kill 130 people.
2008 – Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper makes a historic apology to the First Nations for abuse in the separation of children from their homes, families and cultures.
2010 – The 2010 FIFA World Cup begins in South Africa.
It is the first FIFA World Cup to be held in Africa.
The opening game ends in a 1-1 draw between South Africa and Mexico.
2019 - Botswana decriminalises homosexuality, due to a ruling by the country's highest law court.
2019 - 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup: The United States sets a tournament record for the margin of victory, defeating Thailand 13-0 in its opening game of the competition.
1403 – John IV, Duke of Brabant (d. 1427)
1456 – Anne Neville, wife of Richard III of England (d. 1485)
1572 - Ben Jonson, English playwright, poet, actor and literary critic (d. 1637)
1672 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
1690 - Giovanni Antonio Giay, Italian composer (d. 1764)
1696 – Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)
1697 – Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian composer, musical theorist and organist (d. 1780)
1704 – Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (d. 1742)
1723 – Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788)
1726 - Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain (d. 1746)
1741 – Joseph Warren, American doctor and soldier (d. 1775)
1776 – John Constable, English painter (d. 1837)
1797 - José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran theorist and philosopher (d. 1855)
1815 – Julia Margaret Cameron, English photographer (d. 1879)
1818 - Alexander Bain, Scottish philosopher (d. 1903)
1829 - Edward Braddon, Australian politician, 18th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1904)
1832 - Augustus Hill Garland, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1899)
1842 – Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)
1847 – Millicent Fawcett, British suffragette and feminist (d. 1929)
1857 – Antoni Grabowski, early supporter of Esperanto (d. 1921)
1861 - Alexander Peacock, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria (d. 1933)
1864 – Richard Strauss, German composer (d. 1949)
1871 - Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (d. 1928)
1875 - George Herbert Walker, American banker (d. 1953)
1879 - Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player and manager (d. 1944)
1880 – Jeannette Rankin, American politician, feminist and pacifist (d. 1973)
1888 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1927)
1894 - Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese entrepreneur (d. 1952)
1894 - Dai Vernon, Canadian magician (d. 1992)
1895 – Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet politician (d. 1975)
1897 - Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian revolutionary (d. 1927)
1899 - Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer (d. 1972)
1903 – Ernie Nevers, American football player (d. 1976)
1904 - Pinetop Smith, American blues pianist (d. 1929)
1908 - Francisco Marto, Portuguese religious figure (d. 1919)
1908 - Karl Hein, German hammer thrower (d. 1982)
1910 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French documentary movie maker and marine biologist (d. 1997)
1910 – Carmine Coppola, American composer, director and songwriter (d. 1991)
1912 - James Algar, American film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 1998)
1913 – Vince Lombardi, American football coach (d. 1970)
1914 - Rufus Isaacs, American mathematician (d. 1977)
1914 - Gerald Mohr, American actor (d. 1968)
1915 - Magda Gabor, Hungarian-American actress (d. 1997)
1915 - Nicholas Metropolis, American physicist, mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1999)
1918 - Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player (d. 1980)
1919 – Richard Todd, Irish-British actor (d. 2009)
1920 – King Mahendra of Nepal (d. 1972)
1920 - Keith Seaman, 29th Governor of South Australia (d. 2013)
1920 – Hazel Scott, Trinidad and Tobago-born American singer (d. 1981)
1922 – Michael Cacoyannis, Cypriot movie director and producer (d. 2011)
1922 - Alberto Bovone, Italian cardinal (d. 1998)
1922 – Walter Seifert, German retired World War II veteran, ran amok in a Cologne school (d. 1964)
1925 – William Styron, American writer (d. 2006)
1927 - Asghar Bichareh, Iranian photographer and actor (d. 2016)
1928 – Queen Fabiola of Belgium, former Queen Consort of Belgium (d. 2014)
1929 - Antonio Pujía, Argentine sculptor (d. 2018)
1930 - Charles B. Rangel, American politician
1930 - Ellen Schwiers, German actress (d. 2019)
1932 - Athol Fugard, South African-American actor, director and playwright
1932 - Tim Sainsbury, English businessman and politician
1933 – Gene Wilder, American actor, director, screenwriter and author (d. 2016)
1934 – Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark (d. 2018)
1936 - Chad Everett, American actor (d. 2012)
1937 - Rino Marchesi, Italian footballer
1937 – Robin Warren, Australian pathologist
1939 – Jackie Stewart, Scottish racing driver
1939 - Diana Moran, English model, fitness expert and journalist
1942 - Gunter Gabriel, German singer, musician and composer (d. 2017)
1943 - Henry Hill, American convict (d. 2012)
1945 – Adrienne Barbeau, American actress
1945 - Robert Munsch, Canadian children’s author
1946 - Jenny Pitman, English racehorse trainer
1947 - Richard Palmer-James, English musician
1947 - Lalu Prasad Yadav, Indian politician, 20th Chief Minister of Bihar
1948 - Lynsey de Paul, English singer-songwriter, pianist and actress (d. 2014)
1949 – Frank Beard, American musician (ZZ Top)
1949 - Tom Pryce, Welsh racing driver (d. 1977)
1949 - Ingrid Newkirk, English-American animal rights activist, co-founder of PETA
1952 - Yekaterina Podkopayeva, Russian middle-distance runner
1952 – Anote Tong, former President of Kiribati
1952 – Donnie Van Zant, American rock musician and singer
1952 - Doris Maletzki, German athlete
1953 - Peter Bergman, American actor
1956 – Joe Montana, American football player
1959 – Hugh Laurie, British actor
1960 – Mehmet Oz, Turkish-American television host, surgeon and inventor
1961 - María Barranco, Spanish actress
1962 – Jack Irons, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962 - Mano Menezes, Brazilian footballer and coach
1963 – Bruce Kimball, American diver
1963 - Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (d. 2000)
1964 - Kim Gallagher, American athlete
1965 – Joey Santiago, Filipino guitarist
1965 – Manuel Uribe, Mexican computer repairman, one of the heaviest people on record (d. 2014).
1968 – Prince Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein
1969 – Peter Dinklage, American actor
1969 - Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)
1970 - Chris Rice, American singer
1971 - Liz Kendall, English politician
1975 - Choi Ji Woo, South Korean actress and model
1977 - Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer
1977 – Ryan Dunn, American television star and stuntman (d. 2011)
1977 - Ben Peyton, British actor
1978 – Joshua Jackson, Canadian actor
1982 – Johnny Candido, American professional wrestler
1982 - Joey Graham, American basketball player
1982 - Stephen Graham, American basketball player
1982 - Haakon Opdal, Norwegian footballer
1982 – Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
1983 – Chuck Hayes, American basketball player
1984 - Vágner Love, Brazilian footballer
1986 – Shia LaBeouf, American actor.
1986 - Magaly Solier, Peruvian actress and singer
1987 – TiA, Japanese singer
1987 – Didrik Solli-Tangen, Norwegian singer
1987 – Dappy, English rapper and actor (N-Dubz)
1988 - Yui Aragaki, Japanese actress and model
1988 - Claire Holt, Australian actress and model
1989 - Maya Moore, American basketball player
1990 - Christophe Lemaitre, French sprinter
1990 - Sherina Munaf, Indonesian actress and singer
1991 - Dan Powell, English YouTube personality
1992 - Jordanne Whiley, English wheelchair tennis player
1994 – Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress
1996 - Ayaka Sasaki, Japanese singer
1183 – Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (b. 1155)
1216 – Henry of Flanders, Emperor of the Latin Empire
1298 - Blessed Yolanda of Poland (b. 1235)
1488 – King James III of Scotland (b. 1451)
1557 – King John III of Portugal (b. 1502)
1727 – King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)
1796 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (b. 1720)
1847 – John Franklin, British naval officer and Arctic explorer (b. 1786)
1852 – Karl Briullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)
1859 – Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (b. 1773)
1868 - James Brooke, English adventurer (b. 1803)
1879 – William, Prince of Orange, heir to the throne of the Netherlands (b. 1840)
1882 - Louis Désiré Maigret, French bishop (b. 1804)
1897 - Henry Ayers, 8th Premier of South Australia (b. 1821)
1903 – Nikolai Bulgaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)
1903 – Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia (b. 1876)
1903 – Draga Lunjevica, Queen of Serbia (b. 1861)
1911 - James Curtis Hepburn, American physician and missionary (b. 1815)
1913 - Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (b. 1856)
1914 – Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848)
1924 - Theodore Dubois, French organist, composer and educator (b. 1837)
1934 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (b. 1896)
1941 – Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
1948 - Hugh M. Dorsey, American politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1871)
1949 - Koçi Xoxe, Albanian politician (b. 1911)
1955 – Pierre Levegh, French racing driver (b. 1905)
1956 - Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (b. 1895)
1963 – Thich Quang Duc, Vietnamese Buddhist monk (b. 1897)
1964 – Phibul Songkhram, Thai Prime Minister and military leader (b. 1897)
1965 – José Mendes Cabecades, Portuguese politician (b. 1883)
1967 - Ernesto Ruffini, Italian cardinal (b. 1888)
1970 – Frank Laubach, Christian missionary (b. 1884)
1974 - Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (b. 1883)
1974 - Julius Evola, Italian politician (b. 1922)
1979 – John Wayne, American actor (b. 1907)
1984 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (b. 1922)
1988 – Giuseppe Saragat, 5th President of Italy (b. 1898)
1996 - Brigitte Helm, German actress (b. 1908)
1998 – Catherine Cookson, British writer (b. 1906).
1998 - Thomas Abernethy, American politician, Governor of Mississippi (b. 1903)
1999 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)
2001 - Pierre Eyt, French cardinal (b. 1934)
2001 – Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (b. 1968)
2004 – Mario Jeckle, German computer programmer (b. 1974)
2005 - Vasco Gonçalves, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1922)
2006 - Bruce Shand, father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (b. 1917)
2008 – Ove Andersson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1939).
2008 – Vo Van Kiet, Vietnamese politician (b. 1922).
2010 – Zenani Mandela, great-granddaughter of Nelson Mandela (b. 1997).
2011 – Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player (b. 1930).
2011 – Seth Putnam, American musician (b. 1968).
2011 – Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Israeli physicist (b. 1947).
2012 – Ann Rutherford, Canadian-American actress (b. 1920).
2012 – Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer (b. 1952).
2013 - Robert Fogel, American economic historian (b. 1926).
2013 - Evelyn Kozak, American supercentenarian (b. 1899)
2013 - Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician (b. 1929)
2014 - Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor and composer (b. 1933)
2014 - Mipham Chokyi Lodro, Tibetan Buddhist teacher (b. 1952)
2014 - Ruby Dee, American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and activist (b. 1922)
2014 - Gilles Ségal, French actor and playwright (b. 1929)
2015 - Ron Moody, English actor (b. 1924)
2015 - Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist and free jazz pioneer (b. 1930)
2015 - Dusty Rhodes, American professional wrestler (b. 1945)
2015 - Jack King, American public affairs officer (b. 1931)
2015 - Jim Ed Brown, American country singer (b. 1934)
2015 - Sebastiano Mannironi, Italian weightlifter (b. 1930)
2016 - Rudi Altig, German cyclist (b. 1937)
2016 - Shaibu Amodu, Nigerian football manager (b. 1958)
2016 - Asghar Bichareh, Iranian photographer and actor (b. 1927)
2016 - Bryan Robinson, American football player (b. 1974)
2017 - Errol Christie, British boxer (b. 1963)
2017 - Jim Graham, Scottish-born American politician (b. 1945)
2017 - Geoffrey Rowell, British Anglican prelate (b. 1943)
2018 - Victoria Kalima, Zambian politician (b. 1972)
2018 - Norma Bessouet, Argentine artist (b. 1940)
2018 - John Coates, Australian general (b. 1932)
2018 - Oscar Furlong, Argentine basketball player and tennis coach (b. 1927)
2018 - Yvette Horner, French accordionist (b. 1922)
2019 - Domenico De Simone, Italian politician (b. 1926)
2019 - Martin Feldstein, American economist (b. 1939)
2019 - Gabriele Grunewald, American runner (b. 1986)
2019 - Velvel Pasternak, Canadian-American musicologist (b. 1933)
2019 - Valeria Valeri, Italian actress (b. 1921)
Kamehameha Day, official state holiday in Hawaii
Birthday of Prince Henrik (Denmark)
St. Barnabas Day
823 - Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
1081 - Alexios I Komnenos is crowned Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1242 – During a battle on the ice of Chudskoye Lake, Russian forces rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
1566 - Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrick van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands.
1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth on a return trip to Great Britain.
1654 – The Treaty of Westminster is signed, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War.
1690 – Patrizio Cardinal Ficca is elected pope and takes the name Patricius I.
1710 - The Statute of Anne receives the Royal Assent, establishing the copyright law of Great Britain.
1722 – Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen reaches an island in the South Pacific on Easter Sunday.
He names it Easter Island.
He is the first European to visit the island.
1792 – United States President George Washington vetos a bill designed to apportion representatives among U.S. states.
This is the first time the presidential veto is used in the United States.
1804 – The first recorded meteorite falls in Possil, Scotland (High Possil Meteorite).
1815 - Tambora's eruption in Indonesia begins.
1818 - Battle of Maipu: Chile's independence movement, led by Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose de San Martin, wins a decisive victory over Spain, with 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chileans patriots dying in the battle.
1847 - Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park in the United Kingdom, is opened in Birkenhead.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Yorktown.
The battle begins when Union forces under General George McClellan close in on the Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia.
1879 – Chile declares war on Peru and Bolivia.
1902 – A stand at the Ibrox stadium in Glasgow collapses during a Scotland v. England football match, killing 25 people.
1904 - First international rugby league game.
1908 – The Germany national football team played its first-ever match, losing 5-3 to the Switzerland national football team, which recorded its first-ever win.
1922 - The American Birth Control League is incorporated.
1923 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts production of balloon-tires.
1930 – In an act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
1932 - Alcohol prohibition in Finland ends.
1932 - Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building, leading to the end of self-government.
1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak: A F5 tornado slams into the north side of Tupelo, Mississippi, killing 233.
It is the 4th deadliest tornado in United States history.
1942 – World War II: The Japanese Navy attacks Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
1943 - World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally kill over 900 civilians in the town of Mortsel, Belgium.
1944 - World War II: 270 people living in the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by German troops.
1945 - Georgian Uprising of Texel takes place.
1945 – Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip "Tito" Broz signs an agreement with the USSR allowing "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory."
1946 – Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark, after an 11-month occupation.
1949 – Fireside Theatre is first broadcast on television.
1949 – A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, United States, kills 77 people.
1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.
1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
1956 – In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna won the general elections by many votes and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.
1956 - Fidel Castro declares himself to be at war with the President of Cuba, Fulgencio Batista.
1957 – In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala.
E. M. S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister.
1969 – Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations are held in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and other cities around the United States.
1971 – In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
1972 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese forces invade Binh Long Province, launching a second front of the Nguyen Hue Offensive.
1973 – Pierre Messmer becomes Prime Minister of France
1976 – In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident.
1976 - James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Labour Party, replacing Harold Wilson in both positions.
1980 - A memorial to Chiang Kai-shek is opened in Taipei, Taiwan, on the fifth anniversary of his death.
1986 – Bombing of the La Belle discothèque in West Berlin, Germany, kills three.
1991 – ASA Embraer EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, United States, killing all 23 aboard.
1992 – Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C..
1992 – The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protestor Suada Dilberovic on the Skenderija Bridge.
1993 – The Child Support Act 1991, administered by the Child Support Agency, comes into effect in the United Kingdom.
1994 - Kurt Cobain, popular musician in the rock music band Nirvana, commits suicide at the age of 27.
His body is found three days later.
1998 – In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshu and costing about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
1999 – Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
1999 – In Laramie, Wyoming, United States, Russell Henderson pleads guilty to kidnapping and felony murder in order to avoid a possible death penalty conviction for the hate crime killing of Matthew Shepard.
2005 – ABC News anchor Peter Jennings announces on World News Tonight that he has been diagnosed with lung cancer.
It was his last on-air appearance.
2009 – North Korea launches the Kwangmyongsong rocket, which passed over Japan, and led to international condemnation.
2012 - President of Malawi Bingu wa Mutharika dies aged 78; Joyce Banda replaces him.
2016 - Prime Minister of Iceland Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigns after his name appeared in the Panama Papers about tax schemes of the rich and famous.
1170 - Isabella of Hainault (died 1190)
1288 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (died 1336)
1315 - James III of Mallorca (died 1349)
1472 – Bianca Maria Sforza, daughter of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1510)
1479 – Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (died 1574)
1568 - Pope Urban VIII (died 1644)
1588 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (died 1679)
1593 - George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg (died 1603)
1595 - John Wilson, English composer and educator (died 1674)
1604 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (died 1675)
1622 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (died 1703)
1649 – Elihu Yale, American university benefactor (died 1721)
1692 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (died 1730)
1719 - Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish statesman and soldier (died 1794)
1726 - Benjamin Harrison V, American politician (died 1791)
1727 - Pasquale Anfossi, Italian composer (died 1797)
1732 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (died 1806)
1761 - Sybil Ludington, heroine of the American Revolutionary War (died 1839)
1784 – Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (died 1859)
1816 – Samuel Freeman Miller, United States Supreme Court justice (died 1890)
1820 – Nadar, French photographer, writer and balloonist (died 1910)
1827 – Joseph Lister, English surgeon (died 1912)
1832 - Jules Ferry, French statesman (died 1893)
1837 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (died 1909)
1839 - Robert Smalls, American pilot and politician (died 1915)
1840 - Ghazars Aghayan, Armenian historian and linguist (died 1911)
1856 – Booker T. Washington, American educator (died 1915)
1857 – Alexander of Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria (died 1893)
1863 – Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (died 1950)
1869 - Sergei Chaplygin, Russian physicist and engineer (died 1942)
1869 - Albert Roussel, French composer (died 1937)
1871 – Mirko Seljan, Croatian explorer
1875 – Mistinguett, French vaudeville performer (died 1956)
1877 – Walter Sutton, American geneticist (died 1916)
1878 - Paul Weinstein, German high jumper (died 1964)
1883 - Walter Huston, Canadian-born American actor (died 1950)
1884 - Ion Iaculet, Romanian statesman (died 1940)
1893 - Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (died 1973)
1899 - Alfred Blalock, American surgeon (died 1964)
1899 - Elsie Thompson, American supercentenarian (died 2013)
1900 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (died 1967)
1900 - Herbert Bayer, Austrian-American graphic designer (died 1985)
1900 - Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler (died 1928)
1901 – Melvyn Douglas, American actor (died 1981)
1901 - Chester Bowles, American politician, Governor of Connecticut (died 1986)
1904 - Richard Eberhart, American poet (died 2005)
1905 - Sanya Dharmasakti, Prime Minister of Thailand (died 2002)
1905 – Bill Raisch, American actor (died 1984)
1908 – Bette Davis, American actress (died 1989)
1908 – Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (died 1989)
1908 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (died 1986)
1909 – Albert R. Broccoli, American movie producer (died 1996)
1911 - Hedi Amaira Nouira, Prime Minister of Tunisia (died 1993)
1912 – John Le Mesurier, British actor (died 1983)
1912 - Ricardo Arias, 29th President of Panama (died 1993)
1912 - Makar Honcharenko, Ukrainian footballer (died 1997)
1912 - Bill Roberts, English sprinter (died 2001)
1913 - Ruth Smith, Faroese artist (died 1958)
1916 – Gregory Peck, American actor (died 2003)
1917 – Robert Bloch, American writer (died 1994)
1919 - Les Munro, New Zealand pilot (died 2015)
1920 – Barend Biesheuvel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2001)
1920 - Chatichai Choonhavan, Prime Minister of Thailand (died 1998)
1920 – Arthur Hailey, American writer (died 2004)
1922 – Tom Finney, English footballer (died 2014)
1922 – Gale Storm, American singer and actress
1922 – Christopher Hewett, British actor (died 2001)
1923 – Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnamese president (died 2001)
1923 – Michael Gazzo, American actor (died 1995)
1926 – Roger Corman, American movie director, producer, and writer
1929 – Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (died 2008)
1929 – Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist
1929 - Joe Meek, English record producer (died 1967)
1929 – Nigel Hawthorne, British actor (died 2001)
1930 - Mary Costa, American singer and actress
1931 – Boris Strugatsky, Russian writer (died 1991)
1933 – Larry Felser, American sports columnist and writer
1934 – Frank Gorshin, American actor (died 2005)
1934 – Roman Herzog, German politician, former President of Germany (died 2017)
1934 - Richard Peck, American novelist (died 2018)
1935 - Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist and astronomer
1937 – Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State
1939 – Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, Albanian royal and pretender (died 2011)
1939 - David Winters, English-American actor and choreographer (died 2019)
1939 – Crispian St. Peters, British singer
1941 – Michael Moriarty, American actor and political activist
1942 – Pascal Couchepin, Swiss politician
1942 - Allan Clarke, English singer
1942 – Peter Greenaway, Welsh movie director
1943 - Jean-Louis Tauran, French cardinal (died 2018)
1943 – Max Gail, American actor
1944 - Peter T. King, American politician
1945 - Tommy Smith, English footballer (died 2019)
1946 – Jane Asher, English actress and writer
1947 – Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, 14th President of the Philippines
1947 - Virendra Sharma, Indian-English actor
1948 - Dave Holland, English musician
1948 - Les Binks, Northern Irish drummer
1949 – Judith Resnik, American astronaut (died 1986)
1950 - Spencer Bohren, American guitarist (died 2019)
1950 – Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer (ABBA)
1952 - Alfie Conn Jr., Scottish footballer
1954 – Stan Ridgway, American musician
1955 - Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist
1955 - Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress, producer and screenwriter
1955 – Anthony Horowitz, British writer
1956 – Akmal Shaikh, British citizen executed for drug trafficking in China (died 2009)
1958 - Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sri Lankan journalist (died 2009)
1958 - Johan Kriek, South African tennis player
1961 - Lisa Zane, American actress
1962 – Lana Clarkson, American actress (died 2003)
1962 - Richard Gough, Scottish footballer
1964 - Steve Beaton, English darts player
1964 - Princess Erika, French singer-songwriter and actress
1965 – Mike McCready, American musician (Pearl Jam)
1965 - Aykut Kocaman, Turkish footballer and manager
1970 - Krishnan Guru-Murthy, British journalist
1970 - Miho Hatori, Japanese singer-songwriter
1971 - Ayoko Nishikawa, Japanese television personality, entertainer, comedian and surgeon
1972 – Paul Okon, Australian footballer
1972 - Yasuhiro Takemoto, Japanese animator and movie director
1973 – Pharrell Williams, American musician and producer (The Neptunes)
1974 - Vyacheslav Voronin, Russian high jumper
1975 – John Hartson, Welsh footballer
1975 - Caitlin Moran, English journalist, author and critic
1976 – Kim Collins, Saint Kitts and Nevis athlete
1976 – Simone Inzaghi, Italian footballer
1976 – Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer
1977 - Stella Creasy, English psychologist and politician
1978 – Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer
1978 – Dwain Chambers, British athlete
1978 – Stephen Jackson, American basketball player
1979 - Imany, French singer
1979 – Timo Hildebrand, German footballer, goalkeeper
1979 - Mitsuo Ogasawara, Japanese footballer
1979 - Daniel Majstorovic, Swedish footballer
1979 - Andrius Velicka, Lithuanian footballer
1980 – Joris Mathijsen, Dutch footballer
1980 - Erik Audé, American actor, stuntman and poker player
1981 - Stefan Ludik, Namibian cricketer, actor and singer
1981 - Michael A. Monsoor, American soldier (d. 2006)
1982 – Hayley Atwell, British actress
1982 – Thomas Hitzlsperger, German footballer
1982 – Matt Pickens, American footballer
1983 – Jorge Andrés Martinez, Uruguayan footballer
1984 - Maartje Goderie, Dutch field hockey player
1984 - Kisho Yano, Japanese footballer
1984 - Aram Mp3, Armenian singer
1984 - David Dillehunt, American movie director, producer and composer
1985 - Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean model and actor (died 2008)
1986 - Anna Sophia Berglund, American model
1988 - Christopher Papamichalopoulos, Cypriot skier
1990 - Sophia Papamichalopoulos, Cypriot skier
1990 - Haruma Miura, Japanese actor
1992 - Emmalyn Estrada, Canadian singer and dancer
517 - Timothy I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
582 - Eutychus, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
1419 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350)
1617 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (b. 1555)
1676 – John Winthrop, the Younger, American politician (b. 1606)
1693 - Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (b. 1627)
1697 - King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1655)
1717 – Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647)
1735 - William Derham, English minister and philosopher (b. 1657)
1735 - Samuel Wesley, English clergyman and poet (b. 1662)
1765 - Edward Young, English poet (b. 1683)
1794 - Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1759)
1794 – Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician (b. 1760)
1804 - Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general (b. 1761)
1834 - Richard Goodwin Keats, English admiral (b. 1757)
1864 - Alaric Alexander Watts, English poet and journalist (b. 1797)
1900 - Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (b. 1822)
1918 - George Tupou II, King of Tonga (b. 1874)
1923 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier (b. 1886)
1936 - Chandler Egan, American golfer (b. 1884)
1940 - Charles Freer Andrews, English priest, missionary and educator (b. 1871)
1945 – Karl Otto Koch, German SS officer (b. 1897)
1946 - Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (b. 1898)
1964 – Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880)
1967 – Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist (b. 1890)
1969 - Ain-Erven Mere, Estonian military officer (b. 1903)
1970 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891)
1972 - Brian Donleavy, American actor (b. 1901)
1972 - Isabel Jewell, American actress (b. 1907)
1975 – Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)
1975 – John A. Burns, Governor of Hawaii (b. 1909)
1976 – Howard Hughes, American aviator (b. 1905)
1981 - Bob Hite, American singer (b. 1945)
1987 - Jan Lindblad, Swedish naturalist, writer and photographer (b. 1932)
1991 - Sonny Carter, American astronaut (b. 1947)
1992 – Sam Walton, American businessman (b. 1918)
1994 – Kurt Cobain, American singer/songwriter, frontman of Nirvana. (
b. 1967)
1997 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
1998 - Cozy Powell, English musician (b. 1947)
2002 - Layne Staley, American musician (b. 1967)
2004 – Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (b. 1936)
2005 – Saul Bellow, Canadian writer (b. 1915)
2005 – Dale Messick, American cartoonist (b. 1906)
2006 – Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1940)
2007 - Mark St. John, American musician (b. 1956)
2008 – Charlton Heston, American actor (b. 1923)
2010 – Vitali Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
2011 – Ange-Félix Patassé, former President of the Central African Republic (b. 1937)
2011 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician (b. 1925)
2012 – Barney McKenna, Irish musician (Dubliners) (b. 1939)
2012 – Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi (b. 1934)
2012 - Jim Marshall, businessman and founder of Marshall Amplification (b. 1923)
2012 - Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, German businessman (b. 1935)
2014 - Peter Matthiessen, American author (b. 1927)
2014 - John Pinette, American actor and comedian (b. 1964)
2014 - José Wilker, Brazilian actor, director and producer (b. 1947)
2014 - Wayne Henderson, American jazz trombonist and record producer (b. 1939)
2015 - Donald N. Levine, American sociologist, social theorist and writer (b. 1931)
2015 - Julie Wilson, American actress (b. 1924)
2015 - Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist (b. 1949)
2015 - Richard Dysart, American actor (b. 1929)
2015 - Lon Simmons, American sports broadcaster (b. 1923)
2015 - Gordon Moyes, Australian radio evangelist and politician (b. 1938)
2016 - Roman Gribbs, American politician (b. 1925)
2016 - Zyta Gilowska, Polish politician (b. 1949)
2016 - Zena Latto, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
2016 - E. M. Nathanson, American author (b. 1928)
2017 - Arthur Bisguier, American chess player (b. 1929)
2017 - John Chittick, American health activist (b. 1948)
2017 - David Gove, American ice hockey player (b. 1978)
2017 - Paul O'Neill, American producer, composer and songwriter (b. 1956)
2017 - Memè Perlini, Italian actor and director (b. 1947)
2017 - Atanase Sciotnic, Romanian sprint canoeist (b. 1942)
2017 - Ilkka Sinisalo, Finnish ice hockey player (b. 1958)
2018 - Yuriy Abramochkin, Russian photographer and photojournalist (b. 1936)
2018 - Eric Bristow, English darts player (b. 1957)
2018 - Frederick D. Reese, American civil rights activist (b. 1929)
2018 - Isao Takahata, Japanese film director, animator and screenwriter (b. 1935)
2018 - Cecil Taylor, American jazz pianist and poet (b. 1929)
2018 - Tim O'Connor, American actor (b. 1927)
2018 - Jaime Thorne León, Peruvian politician (b. 1943)
2019 - Sydney Brenner, South African-British biologist (b. 1927)
2019 - Nikolay Kovalyov, Russian politician (b. 1949)
2019 - Gianfranco Leoncini, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
2019 - Lasse Pöysti, Finnish actor, director, theatre manager and writer (b. 1927)
2019 - Shawn Smith, American singer, songwriter and musician (b. 1965)
Feast Day of Saint Vincent Ferrer (Roman Catholicism)
Sikmogil (South Korea)
Children's Day (Palestinian territories)
April 05
1340 – King Edward III of England is declared King of France.
1500 – Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to discover Brazil.
1531 – Lisbon, Portugal hit by an earthquake—thousands die.
1564 - The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a difference between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
1564 - The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula, during the Livonian War.
1699 – Treaty of Carlowitz signed.
1700 – The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the coast of the American Northwest, as evidenced by Japanese records.
1736 – Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
1782 - American War of Independence: The Naval Battle of Saint Kitts between British and French forces ends in British victory under Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, though the French still manage to take over the island anyway.
1785 – Benjamin Franklin writes a letter to his daughter expressing disappointment over the selection of the eagle as the symbol of the United States; he wanted the turkey.
1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sail into Sydney Harbour to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.
Celebrated as Australia Day.
1802 – The U.S. Congress passes an act calling for a library to be established within the U.S. Capitol; eventually this becomes the Library of Congress.
1808 – Rum Rebellion, the only successful (but temporary) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
1837 – Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
1838 – Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
1841 – The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China had given up.
1861 – The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
1863 – American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign.
He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
1863 – American Civil War: The Governor of Massachusetts receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
1870 – American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
1871 - Rome is declared capital of the Kingdom of Italy.
1885 – Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquer Khartoum.
1887 – Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians.
1905 – The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.
1911 – Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
1911 - Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier is performed, at the Dresden State Opera, for the first time.
1915 - Rocky Mountain National Park is created by an Act of the United States Congress.
1918 - Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the Helsinki Workers' Hall, top symbolically mark the start of the war.
1924 - Saint Petersburg is renamed Leningrad, only a few days after Vladimir Lenin's death.
It renamed Saint Petersburg again in 1991.
1930 - The Indian National Congress declares this date to be India's independence day.
1934 – The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, New York City.
1936 - The Niagara Falls are frozen solid because of cold weather.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
1942 – World War II: The first American forces arrive in Europe, landing in Northern Ireland.
1945 - World War II: The Red Army begins surrounding the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil, Prussia.
1946 – Félix Gouin becomes Prime Minister of France.
1947 - A Douglas DC-3 aircraft crashes at Copenhagen Kastrup Airport, killing all 22 people on board, including Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden and the American singer and actress Grace Moore.
1950 – India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President.
1952 - Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper class Egyptian businesses.
1956 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
1958 - The Japanese ferry Nankai Manu capsizes off the southern Awaji Islands, killing 167 people.
1960 - Danny Heater sets a high school basketball record when he scores 135 points in a game for Burnsville High School, West Virginia.
1961 – John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician.
This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.
1962 – Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon.
The space probe later missed the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
1965 – Hindi becomes the official language of India.
1966 – The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach in Adelaide, South Australia.
1966 - Harold Holt becomes Prime Minister of Australia.
1970 – Folk rock duo Simon and Garfunkel release classic album Bridge Over Troubled Water.
1978 - Great Blizzard of 1978: A severe blizzard strikes Ohio and the Great Lakes region, with heavy snow at a wind speed of up to 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour).
1980 – Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
1983 – Lotus 1-2-3 is released.
1986 – Super Bowl XX: The Chicago Bears defeat the New England Patriots, 46-10.
1988 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera is first performed on Broadway, New York City.
1991 - Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia.
1992 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia is going to stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
1992 – Super Bowl XXVI: The Washington Redskins defeat the Buffalo Bills, 37-24.
1993 – Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.
1994 – A man fires two blank shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney, Australia.
1996 – Whitewater scandal: Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before a grand jury.
1997 – Super Bowl XXXI: The Green Bay Packers defeat the New England Patriots, 35-21.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
1998 – Compaq buys Digital Equipment Corporation.
2000 – Robert F. Vasa ordained Bishop of the Diocese of Baker
2000 – XHTML 1.0 becomes a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation.
2001 – A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
2001 – An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
2001 - Joseph Kabila becomes President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2003 – Super Bowl XXXVII: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat the Oakland Raiders, 48-21, earning the Buccaneers their first Vince Lombardi Trophy.
2004 - Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
2004 - A whale explodes in Tainan, Taiwan.
A build-up of gas inside the sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
2005 – Three trains crash, killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California near Los Angeles.
2005 – Having been confirmed earlier in the day by a vote of 85-13 in the United States Senate, Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American woman to hold the post.
2006 - Hamas wins elections in Palestine.
2009 - Rioting occurs in Antananarivo, Madagascar, later developing into a political crisis forcing President Marc Ravalomanana out of office.
2009 - The Icelandic government and banking system collapse and Prime Minister Geir Haarde immediately resigns from office.
Johanna Sigurdardottir succeeds him on February 1.
2015 - Alexis Tsipras becomes Prime Minister of Greece after his left-wing SYRIZA movement won the parliamentary election.
2015 - A Greek fighter jet crashes at Los Llanos Air Base, Spain, killing 11 people.
2015 - A major snowstorm hits the Northeastern United States.
2017 - Alexander Van der Bellen becomes President of Austria.
2019 - Naomi Osaka wins her second Grand Slam singles tennis title in a row, defeating Petra Kvitová in the final of the Australian Open to become the first player from Asia to hold the Number One ranking.
2020 - Five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others are killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.
1497 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)
1595 - Antonio Maria Abbatini, Italian composer (d. 1679)
1708 - William Hayes, English composer, organist, singer and composer (d. 1777)
1714 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785)
1722 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish minister and author (d. 1805)
1763 – Charles XIV John of Sweden (d. 1844)
1781 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (d. 1831)
1800 - Johann Georg Oncken, German Baptist (d. 1884)
1811 - Robert Scott, English philologist (d. 1887)
1813 – Juan Pablo Duarte, founding father of the Dominican Republic (d. 1876)
1826 – Julia Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)
1852 – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, French explorer (d. 1905)
1857 - Trinle Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)
1860 - Harry M. Daugherty, 51st United States Attorney General (d. 1941)
1864 - Jozsef Pusztai, Slovenian-Hungarian writer, poet and journalist (d. 1934)
1866 - John Cady, American golfer (d. 1933)
1877 - Mihail Gerdzhikov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1947)
1877 - Kees van Dongen, Dutch artist (d. 1968)
1880 – Douglas MacArthur, American general (d. 1964)
1882 - André Rischmann, French rugby player (d. 1955)
1885 – Michael Considine, Australian politician (d. 1959)
1887 – François Faber, Luxembourg cyclist (d. 1915)
1891 – August Fröhlich, German priest and Resistance activist (d. 1942)
1891 - Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (d. 1973)
1892 – Bessie Coleman, American pilot (d. 1926)
1900 - Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
1902 - Jokichi Ikarashi, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2013)
1902 - Manno ter Braak, Dutch author (d. 1940)
1904 – Sean MacBride, Irish statesman (d. 1988)
1905 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian singer (d. 1987)
1905 - John Heenan, English cardinal (d. 1975)
1905 - Charles Lane, American actor (d. 2007)
1907 - Dimitrios Holevas, Greek Orthodox priest and Resistance activist (d. 2001)
1908 – Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (d. 1997)
1911 – Polykarp Kusch, German physicist (d. 1993)
1911 - Norbert Schultze, German composer and songwriter (d. 2002)
1913 – Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (d. 1990)
1914 - Princess Durru Shehrar of the Ottoman Empire (d. 2006)
1915 - William Hopper, American actor (d. 1970)
1917 - Louis Zamperini, American runner and captain (d. 2014)
1918 – Philip José Farmer, American writer (d. 2009)
1918 – Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)
1919 – Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
1919 - Bill Nicholson, English footballer (d. 2004)
1921 - Eddie Barclay, French producer (d. 2005)