the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1846 - Prince Geatan, Count of Girgenti, son of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and Infante of Spain (d. 1871)
1849 - Murphy J. Foster, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1921)
1849 - Jean Béraud, Russian-French painter (d. 1935)
1852 - Joseph Joffre, French general (d. 1931)
1853 - Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (d. 1925)
1856 – John Singer Sargent, American painter (d. 1925)
1863 – Swami Vivekananda, Indian philosopher (d. 1902)
1869 - Bhagwan Das, Indian politician and educator (d. 1958)
1873 – Spiridon Louis, Greek athlete (d. 1940)
1874 - James Juvenal, American rower (d. 1942)
1876 - Fevzi Cakmak, Turkish field marshal and Prime Minister (d. 1950)
1876 – Jack London, American writer (d. 1916)
1877 - Frank J. Corr, American politician (d. 1934)
1878 - Ferenc Molnár, Hungarian writer and journalist (d. 1952)
1879 - Anton Uesson, Estonian politician and engineer (d. 1942)
1882 - Milton Sills, American actor (d. 1930)
1884 - Texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)
1890 - Johannes Vares, Estonian poet, physician and politician (d. 1946)
1892 – Mikhail Gurevich, Russian engineer (d. 1976)
1893 – Hermann Göring, Nazi official (d. 1946)
1894 - Georges Carpentier, French boxer (d. 1975)
1896 - Keen Johnson, American politician, 45th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1970)
1899 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist (d. 1965)
1899 - Pierre Bernac, French baritone (d. 1979)
1903 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)
1905 - Tex Ritter, American country music singer and actor (d. 1974)
1906 - Emmanuel Levinas, French philosopher (d. 1995)
1907 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966)
1908 – Jean Delannoy, French director (d. 2008)
1910 – Luise Rainer, German actress (d. 2014)
1910 - Géry Leuliet, French bishop (d. 2015)
1910 - Patsy Kelly, American actress (d. 1981)
1916 – Pieter Willem Botha, South African politician (d. 2006)
1917 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritualist (d. 2008)
1920 - Katja of Sweden, Swedish fashion designer (d. 2017)
1923 - Ira Hayes, American marine who raised the US Flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1955)
1923 - Alice Miller, Polish-born Swiss psychologist, author and painter (d. 2010)
1925 - Katherine MacGregor, American actress (d. 2018)
1925 - Bill Burrud, American television host (d. 1990)
1926 - Ray Price, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1926 - Shumon Miura, Japanese author (d. 2017)
1926 – Morton Feldman, American composer (d. 1987)
1927 - Ignatz Bubis, chairman of the Federal Council of Jews in Germany (d. 1999)
1927 - Leopoldo Federico, Argentine musician, arranger, director and producer (d. 2014)
1928 - George E. R. Kinnear II, American admiral (d. 2015)
1929 – Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher (d. 2015)
1929 - Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish-American philosopher
1932 - Des O'Connor, British television presenter and entertainer
1933 – Michael Aspel, British television presenter
1933 - Boris Khimichev, Russian actor (d. 2014)
1934 - Ebrahim Nafae, Egyptian journalist (d. 2018)
1936 - Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet, British engineering businessman (d. 2018)
1936 - Raimonds Pauls, Latvian pianist and composer
1936 - Brajanath Ratha, Indian poet (d. 2014)
1936 - Jennifer Hilton, Baroness Hilton of Eggardon, English police officer and politician
1937 - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish opera singer (d. 2002)
1937 - Marie Dubois, French actress (d. 2014)
1944 – Joe Frazier, American boxer (d. 2011)
1944 - Vlastimil Hort, Czech-German chess player
1944 - Jim Gray, American computer scientist (d. 2007)
1946 - George Duke, American keyboardist (d. 2013)
1946 - Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove, Scottish lawyer and judge
1948 – Gordon Campbell, Canadian politician
1948 - Brendan Foster, English athlete and athletics commentator
1949 - Bagrat de Bagration y de Baviera, Spanish royal (d. 2017)
1949 – Ottmar Hitzfeld, German football manager
1949 – Haruki Murakami, Japanese writer
1949 - Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (d. 2007)
1949 - Hamadi Jebali, Tunisian politician
1950 – Dorrit Moussaieff, former First Lady of Iceland
1950 - Sheila Jackson-Lee, American politician
1950 - Patrice Dominguez, French tennis player (d. 2015)
1951 – Kirstie Alley, American actress
1951 – Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality, writer and political commentator
1951 - Larry Hoppen, American singer-songwriter and musician (Orleans) (d. 2012)
1952 - Walter Mosley, American writer
1952 - John Walker, New Zealand runner
1954 - Felipe Rose, American musician
1954 – Howard Stern, American radio personality and writer
1956 - Marie Colvin, American journalist (d. 2012)
1958 - Alexander Pochinok, Russian economist and politician (d. 2014)
1958 - Christiane Amanpour, Iranian-British journalist
1959 - Nick Nairn, Scottish celebrity chef
1959 – Per Gessle, Swedish songwriter and musician (Roxette)
1959 - Blixa Bargeld, German musician
1960 - Oliver Platt, American actor
1960 - Dominique Wilkins, American basketball player
1961 – Andrea Carnevale, Italian footballer
1962 - Joe Quesada, American comic book writer and artist
1964 – Jeff Bezos, American entrepreneur, founder of Amazon.com
1964 - Laura Gildemeister, Argentine tennis player
1964 - Clare Holman, British actress
1965 - Rob Zombie, American musician
1966 - Olivier Martinez, French actor
1968 – Heather Mills, British activist
1968 – Mauro Silva, Brazilian footballer
1969 – David Mitchell, British writer
1970 – Zack de la Rocha, American musician
1970 - Raekwon, American rapper
1971 – David McAllister, German politician
1971 - Scott Burrell, American basketball player
1971 - Peter Madsen, Danish engineer, entrepreneur and murder suspect
1972 - Priyanka Gandhi, Indian politician
1972 - Espen Knutsen, Norwegian ice hockey player
1973 - Hande Yener, Turkish singer
1974 - Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skier
1974 – Melanie Chisholm, British singer, formerly of the Spice Girls
1975 - Jocelyn Thibault, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 - Jason Freese, American musician
1976 - Piolo Pascual, Filipino actor, director and producer
1978 – Bonaventure Kalou, Ivorian footballer
1979 - Lee Bo-young, South Korean actress and model
1979 – Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
1981 - Amerie, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress
1981 - Tony Lochhead, New Zealand footballer
1982 - Paul-Henri Mathieu, French tennis player
1982 - Dean Whitehead, English footballer
1984 - Oribe Peralta, Mexican footballer
1984 - Andrew Chan, Australian drug trafficker (d. 2015)
1986 - Pablo Daniel Osvaldo, Argentine-Italian footballer
1986 - Kieron Richardson, English actor
1987 - Naya Rivera, American actress and singer
1987 - Edoardo Mortara, Italian racing driver
1988 - Claude Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 - Axel Witsel, Belgian footballer
1990 – Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian-born Russian chess player
1991 – Pixie Lott, English singer-songwriter and actress
1992 - Mao Kobayashi, Japanese model and singer
1992 - Georgia May Jagger, English model
1993 – Zayn Malik, English singer (One Direction)
1994 - Emre Can, German footballer
1996 - Ai Hashimoto, Japanese actress and fashion model
1996 - Ella Henderson, English singer-songwriter
1998 - Nathan Gamble, American actor
690 - Benedict Biscop, English saint (b. 628)
1167 - Aelred of Rievaulx, English saint (b. 1110)
1321 - Maria of Brabant, Queen of France (b. 1256)
1519 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
1665 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (b. 1601)
1674 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (b. 1605)
1705 – Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b. 1634)
1735 - John Eccles, English composer (b. 1668)
1759 – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1709)
1781 - Richard Challoner, English bishop (b. 1691)
1829 – Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (b. 1772)
1834 – William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
1856 – L'udovit Stur, Slovakian politician and writer of the Slovak language (b. 1815)
1875 – Tongzhi Emperor of China (b. 1856)
1875 - Thomas E. Bramlette, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1817)
1897 – Isaac Pitman, British inventor (b. 1813)
1909 - Hermann Minkowski, Polish-German mathematician (b. 1864)
1911 - Georg Jellinek, German public lawyer (b. 1851)
1916 - Georgios Theotokis, Greek politician, 80th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844)
1921 - Gervase Elwes, English tenor (b. 1866)
1926 - Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
1934 - Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and composer (b. 1887)
1938 – Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor (b. 1890)
1943 - Jan Campert, Dutch composer and writer (b. 1902)
1960 - Nevil Shute, English writer (b. 1899)
1962 - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian journalist and activist (b. 1869)
1964 - Boss Johnson, Canadian politician (b. 1890)
1965 - Lorraine Hansberry, American author, playwright and director (b. 1930)
1974 - Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886)
1976 – Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
1977 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, French movie director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
1983 - Rebop Kwaku Baah, Ghanaian musician (b. 1944)
1983 – Nikolai Podgorny, President of the USSR (b. 1903)
1997 – Charles B. Huggins, Canadian cancer researcher (b. 1901)
1999 - Betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress (b. 1914)
2002 – Cyrus Vance, United States Secretary of State (b. 1917)
2003 – Maurice Gibb, British singer (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
2003 – Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine military leader (b. 1926)
2004 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1922)
2005 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
2007 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
2009 – Claude Berri, French movie director (b. 1934)
2009 – Arne Naess, Norwegian philosopher (b. 1912)
2010 - Daniel Bensaïd, French philosopher (b. 1946)
2010 - Notable victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, including:
Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker (b. 1934)
Georges Anglade, Haitian writer (b. 1944)
Serge Marcil, Canadian politician (b. 1944)
Flo Mcgarrell, Italian artist (b. 1974)
Hédi Annabi, Tunisian diplomat (b. 1943)
Jimmy O, Haitian hip hop musican (b. 1974)
2012 - Reginald Hill, British writer (b. 1936)
2012 – Bill Janklow, American politician, former Governor of South Dakota (b. 1939)
2013 - Koto Okubo, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1897)
2014 - Alexandra Bastedo, British actress (b. 1946)
2014 - Frank Marth, American actor (b. 1923)
2014 - John Horsley, British actor (b. 1920)
2014 - John Button, British racing driver (b. 1943)
2015 - Elena Obraztsova, Russian mezzo-soprano (b. 1939)
2015 - Carl Long, American baseball player (b. 1935)
2015 - James Naanman Daman, Nigerian bishop (b. 1956)
2015 - Frank Glazer, American pianist and composer (b. 1915)
2015 - Steve Gold, British computer scientist (b. 1956)
2015 - Robert Gover, American author (b. 1929)
2015 - Paul Morgan, Welsh rugby player (b. 1974)
2015 - Bonnie Christensen, American children's book author and illustrator (b. 1951)
2016 - Ivan Bukavshin, Russian chess player (b. 1995)
2016 - Andrew Smith, American basketball player (b. 1990)
2016 - Robert Black, Scottish serial killer (b. 1947)
2016 - Rose Chibambo, Malawian politician (b. 1928)
2016 - William Needles, American actor (b. 1919)
2016 - Dave Sime, American sprinter (b. 1936)
2016 - Carolyn D. Wright, American poet (b. 1949)
2017 - Giulio Angioni, Italian writer and anthropologist (b. 1939)
2017 - Meir Banai, Israeli singer (b. 1961)
2017 - William Peter Blatty, American writer (b. 1928)
2017 - Anthony King, Canadian-British political scientist (b. 1934)
2017 - Milton Metz, American radio and television sports presenter (b. 1921)
2017 - Vsevolod Murakhovsky, Ukrainian-Russian politician (b. 1926)
2017 - Graham Taylor, English football manager (b. 1944)
2018 - Frankie Muse Freeman, American civil rights attorney (b. 1916)
2018 - John V. Tunney, American politician, former United States Senator from California (b. 1934)
2018 - Jean-Louis Koszul, French mathematician (b. 1921)
2018 - Keith Jackson, American sportscaster (b. 1928)
2018 - Doodhnath Singh, Indian writer (b. 1936)
2018 - Eddy Beugels, Dutch cyclist (b. 1944)
2018 - Bella Emberg, English actress (b. 1937)
2018 - Pierre Pincemaille, French organist
2019 - George Brady, Czech-Canadian Holocaust survivor (b. 1928)
2019 - Etsuko Ichihara, Japanese actress (b. 1936)
2019 - Joe M. Jackson, American United States Air Force officer (b. 1923)
2019 - Batton Lash, American comic book writer and activist (b. 1953)
2019 - Jaime Rosenthal, Vice president of Honduras (b. 1936)
2019 - Patricia Wald, American judge (b. 1928)
Memorial Day (Turkmenistan)
National Youth Day (India)
Zanzibar Revolution Day (Tanzania)
888 - Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
1328 – Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault.
1733 – James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive at Charleston, South Carolina.
1750 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Madrid to agree on their colonial policy.
1822 – The design of the Flag of Greece is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
1830 – The Great Fire of New Orleans begins.
1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks 4 miles off Long Island, New York, killing 139 people.
1893 – The independent British Labour Party holds its first meeting.
1893 - United States marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the ship USS Boston to prevent Queen Liliuokalani from abandoning the Bayonet Constitution.
1898 - Émile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
1908 - The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killing 171 people.
1910 - The first public radio broadcast takes place from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
1915 - An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy, kills 29,800 people.
1917 - A train crash near Ciurea, Romania, kills between 600 and 1,000 people.
1930 – An expedition led by Douglas Mawson discovers the Aagaard Islands off Antarctica.
1935 – Most voters in Saarland decide to become part of Germany.
1939 - The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, killing 71 people.
1942 - Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile.
1951 - First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen begins, later ending in French victory.
1953 – Josip Broz Tito is chosen as the President of Yugoslavia.
1963 – A coup in Togo kills the country's first President, Sylvanus Olympio.
1964 – An Anti-Muslim riot in Calcutta leaves 100 people dead.
1964 – Karol Woityla, later Pope John Paul II, becomes archbishop of Krakow.
1972 – A coup occurs in Ghana.
1974 - Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport opens to the public.
1982 - Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge, shortly after take-off, and falls into the Potomac River, killing 74 people on board, and 4 motorists on the bridge.
1985 – Africa's worst rail disaster occurs in Awash, northeastern Ethiopia, when a train plunges into a ravine, killing 428 people.
1986 – Voyager 2 discovers three moons of Uranus: Desdemona, Belinda and Rosalind.
1986 - A civil war begins in Yemen.
1990 – The US' first elected African American state Governor, L. Douglas Wilder, takes office in Virginia.
1991 – Soviet troops crush a pro-independence demonstration in Vilnius, Lithuania, killing 14 people, and wounding over 1,000.
1993 – Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off, as STS-54 launches from Cape Canaveral.
1993 – Erich Honecker and his wife Margot go into exile in Chile.
2001 – An earthquake that was 7.6 on the Richter scale hits all of El Salvador, killing over 800 people.
2012 – The 2012 Winter Youth Olympics begin in Innsbruck, Austria.
These are the first Winter Youth Olympics.
2012 - Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia crashes onto rocks off the island of Giglio, off the coast of Tuscany, Italy, killing 32 people.
2018 - 2018 Hawaii false missile alert: An alert falsely claiming there was an incoming missile causes panic in Hawaii.
2019 - Pawel Adamowicz, Mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk, is stabbed during a charity event; he dies the next day, aged 53.
5 BC - Emperor Guangwu of Han, Chinese ruler (d. 57)
101 - Lucius Aelius, adoptive son of Roman Emperor Hadrian (d. 138)
1334 – Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)
1338 - Jeong Mong-ju, Korean politician, diplomat and scholar (d. 1392)
1505 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1571)
1596 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch artist (d. 1656)
1610 – Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)
1615 - Henrik Bjelke, Norwegian admiral (d. 1683)
1683 - Christoph Graupner, German composer (d. 1760)
1698 - Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
1763 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, French-Russian general (d. 1831)
1777 – Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1820)
1779 - William Badger, 20th Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1852)
1787 - John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)
1805 – Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)
1808 – Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)
1812 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)
1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and writer (d. 1899)
1836 - Giuseppe Abbati, Italian painter (d. 1868)
1845 – Félix Tisserand, French astronomer (d. 1896)
1855 – Otto Lehmann, German physicist (d. 1922)
1858 - Oskar Minkowski, Lithuanian biologist (d. 1931)
1859 - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (d. 1943)
1861 – Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)
1864 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist (d. 1928)
1865 - Princess Marie of Orleans, French-Danish princess (d. 1908)
1866 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901)
1869 - Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1931)
1869 - William G. Bulow, Governor of South Dakota (d. 1960)
1870 - Jedrzej Moraczewski, Polish politician (d. 1944)
1870 – Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist (d. 1959)
1880 - Herbert Brenon, American director, screenwriter and actor (d. 1958)
1883 – Prince Arthur of Connaught (d. 1938)
1884 - Sophie Tucker, Ukrainian-American singer and actress (d. 1966)
1885 - Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 1964)
1887 - George Gurdjieff, Russian-French mystic and philosopher (d. 1949)
1887 - Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (d. 1917)
1890 – Jüri Uluots, Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1945)
1892 - Ermanni Aebi, Italian-Swiss footballer (d. 1976)
1893 - Clark Ashton Smith, American sculptor, writer and painter (d. 1961)
1893 - Roy Cazaly, Australian footballer (d. 1963)
1898 – Kaj Munk, Danish pastor, poet and Resistance activist (d. 1944)
1898 - Carlo Tagliabue, Italian baritone (d. 1978)
1899 - Lev Kuleshov, Soviet-Russian director (d. 1970)
1901 - Mieczyslaw Zywczysnki, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978)
1904 - Richard Addinsell, British composer (d. 1977)
1905 - Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)
1906 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist (d. 2017)
1908 - Enrico Paoli, Italian chess player (d. 2005)
1908 - Earle G. Wheeler, American general (d. 1975)
1909 - Danny Barker, American jazz musician and bandleader (d. 1994)
1909 - Martinus van der Lubbe, Dutch Communist (d. 1934)
1911 – Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)
1911 - Guido del Mestri, German cardinal (d. 1993)
1913 - Jeff Morrow, American actor (d. 1993)
1916 - Liselotte Landbeck, Austrian skater (d. 2013)
1919 - Robert Stack, American actor, sportsman and television host (d. 2003)
1920 – Knut Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1984)
1922 - Albert Lamorisse, French movie director and producer (d. 1970)
1923 - Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist (d. 1997)
1923 - Willem Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (d. 2003)
1924 – Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994)
1924 – Roland Petit, French choreographer (d. 2011)
1925 - Rosemary Murphy, German-born American actress (d. 2014)
1926 – Michael Bond, British writer, creator of Paddington Bear (d. 2017)
1927 – Sydney Brenner, South African-British biologist
1928 - Gregory Walcott, American actor (d. 2015)
1929 - Joe Pass, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
1931 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007)
1932 - Barry Bishop, American mountaineer (d. 1994)
1933 - Shahnon Ahmad, Malaysian writer (d. 2017)
1934 - Carolyn See, American novelist, professor and critic (d. 2016)
1934 - Rip Taylor, American actor
1935 - Mauro Forghieri, Italian racecar designer
1936 - Renato Bruson, Italian operatic baritone
1938 - Daevid Allen, Australian singer, guitarist and composer (d. 2015)
1938 - Richard Anthony, French singer (d. 2015)
1938 - Cabu, French cartoonist (d. 2015)
1938 - Shivkumar Sharma, Indian composer
1939 - Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer
1939 - Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentine author, screenwriter and director
1941 – Pascual Maragall i Mira, Catalan politician
1942 - Carol Cleveland, English actress
1942 - Piero Marini, Italian archbishop
1943 – Richard Moll, American actor
1947 – Jacek Majchrowski, Polish politician and Krakow Mayor
1947 - Erland Kolding Nielsen, Danish academic (d. 2017)
1947 – Carles Rexach, Catalan-Spanish footballer
1948 - Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur
1949 – Rakesh Sharma, Indian astronaut
1950 - Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer (d. 2014)
1951 – Bernard Loiseau, French chef (d. 2003)
1951 - Kim Manners, American television producer, director and actor (d. 2009)
1951 - Antoni Szymanowski, Polish footballer
1952 - John Lee Hooker, Jr., American blues singer
1954 - Bruno Coulais, French movie score composer
1954 - Trevor Rabin, South African rock musician and composer
1955 – Huh Jung-Moo, South Korean footballer
1955 – Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter
1955 - Jay McInerney, American writer
1955 - Anne Pringle, English diplomat
1955 - Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean footballer (d. 2015)
1956 - Toshio Nakanishi, Japanese musician (d. 2017)
1956 - Greg Trooper, American singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
1957 - Claudia Emerson, American poet (d. 2014)
1957 – Mark O'Meara, American golfer
1957 - Daniel Scioli, 33rd Vice President of Argentina
1957 - Mary Glindon, English politician
1957 - Dusan Bukovac, Bulgarian footballer
1958 - Francisco Buyo, Spanish footballer and manager
1959 - Jay Lomenzo, American musician
1960 - Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, 2014 Nobel Prize winner
1960 - Matthew Bourne, English choreographer and director
1961 – Suggs, English singer (Madness)
1961 – Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress
1961 - Jeremy Bamber, English murderer
1963 – Charles Muscat, Maltese footballer (d. 2011)
1964 – Bill Bailey, British comedian
1964 – Penelope Ann Miller, American actress
1964 – Ronan Rafferty, Northern Irish golfer
1966 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor
1966 - Simon Shelton, English actor (d. 2018)
1968 – Chara, Japanese singer and actress
1968 - Antonio Tartaglia, Italian bobsledder
1969 - Stefania Belmondo, Italian skier
1969 – Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player
1970 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
1970 - Gavin Whittaker, Australian rugby league player (d. 2017)
1970 - Shonda Rhimes, American screenwriter, director and producer
1971 - John Mallory Asher, American movie actor and director
1972 - Nicole Eggert, American actress
1972 - Park Jin-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer and actor
1973 - Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player
1974 - Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player
1975 - Daniel Kehlmann, Austrian-German writer
1976 – Bic Runga, New Zealand singer
1976 – Mario Yepes, Colombian footballer
1976 - Tania Vicent, Canadian speed skater
1977 – Orlando Bloom, British actor
1978 - Nate Silver, American journalist and statistician
1979 - Katy Brand, British actress and comedienne
1980 - María de Villota, Spanish racing driver (d. 2013)
1980 - Michael Rupp, American ice hockey player
1980 – Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer
1981 - Jason James, Welsh musician
1982 – Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
1982 - Kamran Akmal, Pakistani cricketer
1982 - Ruth Wilson, English actress
1983 - William Hung, Chinese singer
1984 - Raif Badawi, Saudi writer, blogger and activist
1984 - Kamghe Gaba, German athlete
1985 - Qi Hui, Chinese swimmer
1986 – Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater
1987 – Marc Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 – Lee Seung-gi, Korean singer & actor
1989 - Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer
1989 - Beau Mirchoff, American-Canadian actor
1990 - Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor
1991 - Goo Ha-ra, South Korean singer, dancer and actress
1992 - Adam Matthews, Welsh footballer
1993 - Max Whitlock, British gymnast
1995 - Qaasim Middleton, American musician and actor
1995 - Eros Vlahos, English actor and comedian
86 BC – Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)
533 - Saint Remigius, Bishop of Reims (b. 437)
614 – Saint Kentigern (Saint Mungo), patron saint of Glasgow
703 - Empress Jiti of Japan (b. 645)
858 – Ethelwulf of Wessex (b. 795)
888 – Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 839)
1138 - Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
1151 - Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (b. 1081)
1177 – Henry II of Austria (b. 1107)
1330 – Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)
1625 – Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (b. 1568)
1630 - Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese military commander (b. 1584)
1658 - Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)
1717 - Maria Sibylla Merian, German-Swiss entomologist and illustrator (b. 1647)
1766 – Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
1796 - John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)
1797 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, consort of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715)
1832 - Thomas Lord, English cricketer (b. 1755)
1838 - Ferdinand Ries, German composer (b. 1784)
1852 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, German-Russian explorer (b. 1778)
1853 – Theophilus Kairis, Greek revolutionary (b. 1783)
1864 – Stephen Foster, American musician (b. 1826)
1885 – Schuyler Colfax, Vice President of the United States (b. 1823)
1889 - Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823)
1897 - David Schwarz, Austro-Hungarian aviation pioneer and inventor (b. 1850)
1905 – George Thorn, Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
1915 – Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
1916 – Victoriano Huerta, President of Mexico (b. 1850)
1923 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842)
1928 - Mara Buneva, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1902)
1929 – Wyatt Earp, American Western figure (b. 1848)
1932 – Sophia of Prussia, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1870)
1934 - Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860)
1941 – James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)
1943 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889)
1949 – Aino Aalto, Finnish architect and designer (b. 1894)
1958 - Jesse L. Lasky, American movie producer (b. 1910)
1961 - Herman Glass, American gymnast (b. 1880)
1962 - Ernie Kovacs, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)
1963 – Sylvanus Olympio, 1st President of Togo (b. 1902)
1969 - Li Zongren, Chinese politician (b. 1890)
1974 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904)
1978 – Hubert Humphrey, Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
1980 - Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-born music conductor and arranger (b. 1901)
1982 – Marcel Camus, French movie director (b. 1912)
1982 - Arland D. Williams, Jr., American airline passenger (b. 1935)
1986 - Abdul Fattah Ismail, 4th President of South Yemen (b. 1939)
1988 – Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
1993 - Camargo Guarneri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)
2000 - Elizabeth Kerr, American actress (b. 1912)
2002 – Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman (b. 1897)
2002 - Paul J. Fannin, Governor of Arizona (b. 1907)
2004 – Harold Shipman, British doctor and serial killer (b. 1946)
2006 - Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
2007 - Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)
2008 - Sergej Larin, Latvian-Lithuanian tenor (b. 1956)
2009 – Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)
2010 – Teddy Pendergrass, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
2011 – Charles Muscat, Maltese footballer (b. 1963)
2012 – Rauf Denktas, 1st President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (b. 1924)
2012 - Lefter Küçükonyadis, Turkish footballer (b. 1925)
2013 - Bille Brown, Australian actor (b. 1952)
2014 - Menachem Zilberman, Israeli comedian and songwriter (b. 1946)
2014 - Anjali Devi, Indian actress and movie producer (b. 1927)
2014 - Mihai Fotino, Romanian actor (b. 1930)
2015 - Mark Juddery, Australian author and journalist (b. 1971)
2015 - Keith Wright, Australian politician (b. 1942)
2015 - Hara Patnaik, Indian actor and movie director (b. 1958)
2015 - Jack Hayward, English businessman (b. 1923)
2015 - Robert White, American diplomat (b. 1926)
2015 - Trevor Colbourn, Australian educator and academic (b. 1927)
2016 - J. F. R. Jacob, Indian military officer (b. 1923)
2016 - Giorgio Gomelsky, Georgian filmmaker, songwriter and record producer (b. 1934)
2016 - Brian Bedford, British actor (b. 1935)
2016 - William Craig, American philosopher (b. 1918)
2016 - Bern Herbolsheimer, American composer (b. 1948)
2016 - Conrad Phillips, British actor (b. 1925)
2016 - Lawrence Phillips, American football player (b. 1975)
2016 - Jim Simpson, American sportscaster (b. 1927)
2016 - Tera Wray, American pornographic actress (b. 1982)
2017 - Gilberto Agustoni, Swiss cardinal (b. 1922)
2017 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (b. 1930)
2017 - Mark Fisher, British writer (b. 1968)
2017 - Horacio Guarany, Argentine singer and writer (b. 1925)
2017 - John Jacobs, English golfer (b. 1925)
2017 - Magic Alex, Greek electronics engineer (b. 1942)
2017 - David Modell, American businessman (b. 1960)
2017 - Anton Nanut, Slovenian conductor (b. 1932)
2017 - Ari Rath, Austrian-Israeli journalist (b. 1925)
2017 - Udo Ulfkotte, German journalist (b. 1960)
2018 - Doug Harvey, American baseball umpire (b. 1930)
2018 - Tzimis Panousis, Greek rock musician and comedian (b. 1954)
2018 - Jean Porter, American actress (b. 1922)
2018 - Eliyahu Winograd, Israel judge (b. 1926)
2018 - Byron Langley, American politician (b. 1926)
2019 - Bonnie Guitar, American country singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1923)
2019 - Phil Masinga, South African footballer (b. 1969)
2019 - Alfred K. Newman, American Navajo code talker (b. 1924)
2019 - Mel Stottlemyre, American baseball player (b. 1941)
Korean American Day
Old New Year (parts of Eastern Europe)
Saint Knut's Day, end of the Christmas period (Finland, Norway, Sweden)
Constitution Day (Mongolia)
Democracy Day (Cape Verde)
Liberation Day (Togo)
1301 - Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Arpad Dynasty in Hungary.
1343 - Arnost of Barbudice becomes the last Bishop of Prague.
1539 – Spain annexes Cuba.
1639 - "Fundamental Orders": The first written Constitution that created a government is created in Connecticut.
1724 – King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
1784 – American Revolutionary War: The United States ratifies a peace treaty with England.
1814 – Frederick VI of Denmark gives Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
1822 - Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrios Ypsilantis.
1832 – American writer Edgar Allan Poe publishes his first short story, "Metzengerstein".
1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
1897 - Matthias Zurbriggen becomes the first person to climb Aconcagua, in Argentina, the highest mountain in the Southern hemisphere.
1900 - Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca is performed for the first time, at the Teatro Constanzi in Rome.
1907 - A magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits Kingston, Jamaica, killing 1,600 people.
1911 - Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition lands on the eastern Ross Ice Shelf.
1917 - Japanese warship Tsukuba sinks after fire and an explosion in Yokosuka Bay, killing 200 of the 817 on board.
1938 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
1943 – Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II).
1950 – The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
1952 - NBC's long-running news program Today is broadcast for the first time, with host Dave Garroway.
1953 - Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as President of Yugoslavia.
1954 - Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star Joe DiMaggio.
1957 - Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaja is named the fifth Jagad guru (meaning "world teacher") after giving seven days of speeches in front of 500 Hindu scholars.
1960 - The Reserve Bank of Australia is created.
1967 – The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
Between 20,000 and 30,000 people attend.
1968 - The Soviet Union launches the Soyuz 4 probe.
1969 - An accidental explosion on the ship USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.
1972 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
1973 – Super Bowl VII: The Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington Redskins.
The Dolphins become the first NFL team to go undefeated in a season.
1979 - The first Paris-Dakar Rally reaches its finish line in Dakar, Senegal.
1980 - Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India for a second time.
1994 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords.
1998 – Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis).
1998 – An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people.
1999 - Major snowfall affects Toronto, and Mayor Mel Lastman calls the army in to help with emergency evacuations.
2000 – A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
2004 – The national flag of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", was restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
2005 – Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan.
2011 - Arab Spring: In the wake of anti-government demonstrations, Tunisia's President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali dissolves the government and resigns from office.
2015 - Giorgio Napolitano resigns as President of Italy at the age of 89 for age and health reasons.
Pietro Grasso becomes Interim President.
2015 - Two climbers, Kevin Jorgesen and Tommy Caldwell, become the first people to successfully climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, California.
2016 - Bomb attacks in Jakarta kill 5 attackers and 2 civilians.
2016 - Jimmy Morales becomes President of Guatemala.
2019 - Mayor of Gdansk Pawel Adamowicz dies of injuries sustained in a stabbing the previous evening, aged 53.
83 BC - Mark Antony, Roman politician (d. 30 BC)
47 BC – Marcus Antonius Antyllus, Roman son of Mark Antony (d. 30 BC)
38 BC - Nero Claudius Drusus, Roman politician and military commander (d. 9 BC)
1131 – King Valdemar I of Denmark (d. 1182)
1273 – Joan I of Navarre (d. 1305)
1451 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian music theorist (d. 1522)
1477 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (d. 1552)
1507 – Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal (d. 1578)
1615 - John Biddle, English theologian (d. 1662)
1683 - Gottfried Silbermann, German instrument maker (d. 1753)
1684 - Johann Matthias Hase, German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer (d. 1742)
1684 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (d. 1745)
1699 - Jakob Adlung, German organist, teacher, instrument maker, musician, theologian and historian (d. 1762)
1700 - Picander, German poet (d. 1764)
1702 – Emperor Nakamikado of Japan (d. 1737)
1705 - Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French governor (d. 1786)
1730 - William Whipple, American politician (d. 1785)
1741 – Benedict Arnold, American-British general (d. 1801)
1751 - Corona Schröter, German musician (d. 1802)
1767 - Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Saxony (d. 1829)
1793 - John C. Clark, American politician (d. 1852)
1798 – Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (d. 1872)
1801 - Adolphe Brongniart, French botanist (d. 1876)
1806 - Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria (d. 1855)
1806 - Matthew Fontaine Maury, American astronomer, historian and oceanographer (d. 1873)
1818 - Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (d. 1898)
1819 - Dimitrie Bolinteanu, Romanian poet and politician (d. 1872)
1835 - Marcelo Spinola y Maestre, Spanish cardinal (d. 1906)
1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
1840 - Hilarion Daza, President of Bolivia (d. 1894)
1841 – Berthe Morisot, French painter (d. 1895)
1845 - Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, British Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India (d. 1927)
1850 - Jean de Reszke, Polish operatic tenor (d. 1925)
1858 - P. J. Kennedy, American businessman and politician (d. 1929)
1861 – Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1926)
1863 – Manuel Gomes da Costa, Portuguese politician (d. 1929)
1863 - Richard F. Outcault, American comic strip creator (d. 1928)
1875 – Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician (d. 1965)
1875 - Felix Hamrin, shortest-serving Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1937)
1883 – Nina Ricci, Italian-French fashion designer (d. 1970)
1886 – Hugh Lofting, English writer (d. 1947)
1892 – Martin Niemöller, German theologian and Resistance activist (d. 1984)
1892 – Hal Roach, American movie producer (d. 1992)
1897 - Hasso von Manteuffel, German general and politician (d. 1978)
1899 – Carlos P. Romulo, Filipino politician and diplomat (d. 1985)
1901 – Alfred Tarski, Polish logician and mathematician (d. 1983)
1901 - Bebe Daniels, American actress (d. 1971)
1904 – Cecil Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980)
1905 – Takeo Fukuda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1995)
1911 – Anatoly Rybakov, Russian writer (d. 1998)
1913 - Motoo Tatsuhara, Japanese footballer (d. 1984)
1919 – Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2013)
1919 – Andy Rooney, American journalist (d. 2011)
1920 - Bertus de Harder, Dutch footballer (d. 1982)
1921 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
1925 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970)
1926 - Mahasweta Devi, Indian writer (d. 2016)
1926 - Warren Mitchell, English actor (d. 2015)
1926 - Sid Sheinberg, American lawyer and studio executive (d. 2019)
1926 - Tom Tryon, American actor (d. 1991)
1928 - Ali Akbar Moinfar, Iranian politician (d. 2018)
1930 - Kenny Wheeler, Canadian jazz trumpeter and composer (d. 2014)
1931 - Caterina Valente, French-Italian singer, dancer and actress
1934 - Richard Briers, English actor (d. 2013)
1936 - Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (d. 1999)
1938 – Morihiro Hosokawa, former Prime Minister of Japan
1938 - Allen Toussaint, American singer (d. 2015)
1938 - Leo Kadanoff, American physicist (d. 2015)
1939 - J. Bernlef, Dutch writer (d. 2012)
1940 - Julian Bond, American activist (d. 2015)
1940 – Trevor Nunn, British movie and theatre director
1941 – Faye Dunaway, American actress
1941 - Barry Jenner, American actor
1941 - Milan Kucan, Slovenian statesman
1942 - Ian Brayshaw, Australian cricketer and footballer
1943 – Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor
1943 – Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian immunologist, posthumous (after death) Nobel Prize winner (d. 2011)
1943 - Shannon Lucid, American astronaut
1943 - Manfred Wolke, German boxer
1943 - Angelo Bagnasco, Italian cardinal
1944 – Peter Fechter, first person to be shot dead at the Berlin Wall (d. 1962)
1944 – Nina Totenberg, American journalist
1945 – Einar Hakonarson, Icelandic artist
1945 - Maina Gielgud, British ballet dancer
1946 – Harold Shipman, British doctor and serial killer (d. 2004)
1947 – Bev Perdue, American politician, 73rd Governor of North Carolina
1948 – Jocky Scott, Scottish football manager
1948 – Valeri Kharlamov, Soviet-Russian ice hockey player
1948 – T-Bone Burnett, American rock musician
1949 - Lamar Williams, American musician (d. 1983)
1949 - Ilyas Salman, Turkish actor, movie director, author, screenwriter and musician
1950 - Jagadguru Rambhadracharya, Indian religious leader, scholar and author
1952 – Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, Romanian Prime Minister
1952 - Teitur Thordarson, Icelandic footballer
1952 - Konstantinos Iosifidis, Greek footballer
1952 - Maureen Dowd, American singer
1953 - Denzil Douglas, 2nd Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis
1955 - Dominique Rocheteau, French footballer
1957 - Stuart Timmons, American historian and academic (d. 2017)
1959 - Nguyen Le, Vietnamese-French jazz guitarist and composer
1961 - Mike Tramp, Danish singer
1963 – Steven Soderbergh, American director
1964 – Mark Addy, British actor
1965 – Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, British chef
1965 - Jill Saward, British campaigner (d. 2017)
1966 - Marco Hietala, Finnish singer and bassist
1966 - Dan Schneider, American screenwriter, movie producer and actor
1967 - Zakk Wylde, American guitarist, pianist and singer
1967 – Emily Watson, British actress
1968 – LL Cool J, American rapper and actor
1969 – Dave Grohl, American musician
1969 - Jason Bateman, American actor
1970 - Imam Samudra, Indonesian terrorist (d. 2008)
1971 - Lasse Kjus, Norwegian skier
1971 - Bert Konterman, Dutch footballer
1971 - Antonios Nikopolidis, Greek footballer
1973 – Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian race car driver
1975 - Georgina Cates, English actress
1977 - Narain Karthikeyan, Indian racing driver
1978 - Shawn Crawford, American athlete
1979 - Soprano, French rapper
1980 - Carlos Alvarado Quesada, President of Costa Rica
1981 – Pitbull, American rapper
1982 – Caleb Followill, American singer (Kings of Leon)
1982 – Victor Valdés, Spanish footballer
1985 – Shawn Sawyer, Canadian figure skater
1986 - Yohan Cabaye, French footballer
1989 - Adam Clayton, English footballer
1989 – Frankie Bridge, English singer (The Saturdays)
1989 - Liu Xiaodong, Chinese footballer
1990 - Lelisa Desisa, Ethiopian runner
1990 - Grant Gustin, American actor
1991 - Jeanine Mason, American actress and dancer
1992 - Robbie Brady, Irish footballer
1994 - Abi Phillips, English actress and singer-songwriter
1994 - Ross Murdoch, Scottish swimmer
1997 - Tolmachevy Sisters, Russian singers and actresses
1999 - Declan Rice, English-Irish footballer
1092 – Vratislaus II of Bohemia (b. 1032)
1163 – Ladislaus I of Hungary (b. 1131)
1235 - Saint Sava, Serbian archbishop and saint (b. 1175)
1301 - King Andrew III of Hungary (b. 1231)
1331 - Odoric, Italian explorer (b. 1286)
1648 - Caspar Barlaeus, Dutch polymath (b. 1584)
1676 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b. 1602)
1679 - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602)
1701 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese daimyo (b. 1628)
1742 – Edmond Halley, English scientist (b. 1656)
1753 – George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (b. 1685)
1766 - Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
1786 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)
1786 - Michael Warne, English composer (b. 1741)
1867 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
1872 – Greyfriars Bobby, world famous dog (b. 1856)
1874 – Johann Philipp Reis, German inventor (b. 1834)
1883 - Napoléon Coste, French guitarist and composer (b. 1806)
1892 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (b. 1864)
1898 – Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832)
1905 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)
1907 - Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet, Scottish Governor of New Zealand (b. 1832)
1908 - Holger Drachmann, Danish poet and dramatist (b. 1846)
1920 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (b. 1864)
1923 - Zübeyde Hanım, mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (b. 1857)
1934 - Ioan Cantacuzino, Romanian physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863)
1937 - Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet, dramatist and novelist (b. 1889)
1945 - Heinrich Schroth, German actor (b. 1871)
1949 – Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
1951 - Gregorios Xenopoulos, Greek novelist, journalist and playwright (b. 1867)
1952 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878)
1957 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
1960 – Ralph Chubb, British poet (b. 1892)
1965 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903)
1966 – Sergey Korolyov, Soviet engineer (b. 1907)
1966 - Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)
1972 – King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899)
1976 – Tun Abdul Razak, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1922)
1977 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
1977 – Peter Finch, British actor (b. 1916)
1977 – Anaïs Nin, French-American writer (b. 1903)
1978 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)
1978 - Harold Abrahams, English sprinter, lawyer and journalist (b. 1899)
1981 - John O'Grady, Australian writer (b. 1907)
1984 – Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1902)
1986 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
1986 - Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
1987 - Douglas Sirk, German-American director (b. 1900)
1988 – Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov, Soviet politician (b. 1902)
1999 – Muslimgauze, British musician (b. 1961)
1999 - Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
2004 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress (b. 1919)
2006 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
2009 - Jan Kaplicky, Czech-British architect (b. 1937)
2009 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-American actor (b. 1920)
2010 - Bobby Charles, American singer (b. 1938)
2010 - Petra Schürmann, German actress, model and presenter (b. 1933)
2011 – Mississippi Winn, American supercentenarian (b. 1897)
2012 - Txillardegi, Basque writer and politician (b. 1929)
2013 - Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (b. 1923)
2014 - Juan Gelman, Argentine poet (b. 1930)
2014 - Mae Young, American wrestler (b. 1923)
2015 - Zhang Wannian, Chinese general (b. 1928)
2015 - Bob Boyd, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2015 - Lotte Hass, Austrian model and underwater diver (b. 1928)
2015 - Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, Israeli rabbi (b. 1943)
2015 - Nélida Romero, Argentine actress (b. 1926)
2015 - Jerry Dempsey, American politician (b. 1933)
2015 - Warren Weinstein, American economist (b. 1941)
2016 - Alan Rickman, English actor (b. 1946)
2016 - Shaolin, Brazilian cartoonist and humorist (b. 1971)
2016 - Leonid Zhabotinsky, Soviet-Ukrainian weightlifter (b. 1938)
2016 - René Angélil, Canadian singer and manager (b. 1942)
2016 - Franco Citti, Italian actor (b. 1935)
2016 - Ellen Meiksins Wood, American historian and scholar (b. 1942)
2016 - George Carroll, American lawyer and politician (b. 1922)
2016 - Rajesh Vivek, Indian actor (b. 1949)
2017 - Surjit Singh Barnala, Indian politician (b. 1925)
2017 - Yama Buddha, Nepalese rapper (b. 1987)
2017 - Mohammed bin Faisal Al Saud, Saudi royal and businessman (b. 1937)
2017 - Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist and supercentenarian (b. 1906)
2017 - Herbert Mies, German politician (b. 1929)
2017 - Nicodemo Scarfo, American mobster (b. 1929)
2018 - Dan Gurney, American racing driver (b. 1931)
2018 - Max Labovitch, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
2018 - Erling Mandelmann, Danish photojournalist (b. 1935)
2018 - Spanky Manikan, Filipino actor (b. 1942)
2018 - Cyrille Regis, English footballer (b. 1958)
2018 - Hugh Wilson, American film and television director (b. 1943)
2018 - John Pierik, Dutch sports shooter (b. 1950)
2019 - Pawel Adamowicz, Polish politician, Mayor of Gdansk (b. 1965)
2019 - Eli Grba, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2019 - Lenin Rajendran, Indian film director and screenwriter (b. 1951)
2019 - Gavin Smith, Canadian poker player (b. 1968)
2019 - Julio Vallejo Ruiloba, Spanish psychiatrist (b. 1945)
New Year's Day in Eastern Orthodoxy, see Julian Calendar.
National Flag Day and National Theatre Day (Georgia)
National Forest Conservation Day (Thailand)
27 BC – Octavian Caesar given the title Augustus by the Roman Senate (people who were in charge of the Roman Empire).
378 - General Sijay K'ak' conquers Tikal in present-day Guatemala.
550 - Gothic Wars: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
929 – Emir Abd-ar-rahman III declares himself caliph, thereby establishing the Caliphate of Cordoba.
1219 – A North Sea flood kills 36,000 people.
1362 – A great wave in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt.
1412 – Medici family made official bankers (money handlers) of the Papacy.
1456 – Painter Filippo Lippi marries with Lucrezia Buti, a young nun from the convent of Saint Margherita.
1492 – The first grammar (how words form sentences) of a modern language, in Spanish, is presented to Queen Isabella.
1511 - A major North Sea flood occurs, as several communities have to be evacuated in Ostfriesland, present-day northwest Germany.
1547 – Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar (an emperor) of Russia.
1556 – Philip II becomes King of Spain.
1572 – The Duke of Norfolk is tried for betraying a country for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore The Catholic Church in England.
1581 – English Parliament (group of lawmakers) outlaws The Roman Catholic Church.
1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes was made into books in Madrid.