the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1707 - The Parliament of Scotland agrees to the Act of Union.
Soon after, Scotland unites with England and Wales to form Great Britain.
1761 – British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
1777 – Vermont declares that it is separate from New York.
1780 – American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
1786 - Virginia enacts the Statute of Freedom, authored by Thomas Jefferson.
1795 – French take control of Utrecht, Netherlands.
1809 – Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
1839 - The United Kingdom takes Aden, Yemen, from the Ottoman Empire.
1847 – John C. Fremont is made Governor (a kind of leader) of the new California Territory.
1862 - Hartley Colliery Disaster: 204 men and boys are killed in a mining disaster in England.
1883 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, making the United States Civil service, is passed.
1900 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounced its claims to the Samoan islands.
1909 – Ernest Shackleton's journey finds the magnetic South Pole.
1917 – German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends the Zimmermann Telegram to Mexico, telling about a German-Mexican team against the United States
1919 – Temperance movement: The 18th Amendment to the US constitution, authorizing Prohibition (ban of alcohol), was passed by the Congress of the United States.
It went into effect one year later, on January 16, 1920.
1920 – Founding date of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.
1924 - Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a fourth time.
1938 – Benny Goodman plays at Carnegie Hall.
1939 - The Irish Republican Army begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
1941 - World War II: On the Rockall sandbank, British passenger ship Oropesa is torpedoed by a German U-boat, killing 106 people.
1942 - The crash of TWA Flight 3 kills all 22 people on board, including actress Carole Lombard.
1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1956 – President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt agrees to take over Palestine again.
1957 – The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool, England.
1961 – Mickey Mantle becomes the highest paid baseball player by signing a $75,000 contract.
1962 - Filming of the first James Bond movie, Dr. No, begins in Jamaica.
1964 – The first musical version of Hello, Dolly!
opens at New York City's St. James Theatre.
1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City.
1969 – Czech student Jan Palach kills himself by self-immolation (self-burning) in Prague, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
1969 - Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only such transfer accomplished with a space walk.
1970 – Buckminster Fuller gets the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
1970 – Curt Flood goes to court, saying that Major League Baseball had gone against the American anti-trust laws (laws against a group of people controlling many companies).
1977 – The Marx Brothers were entered into the Motion Picture Hall of Fame.
1979 – The Shah of Iran leaves Iran with his family and goes to Egypt.
1986 – Herbert W. Armstrong, the maker of the Worldwide Church of God (the Church of God in Philadelphia Era) died.
1988 – Sports reporter Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder is fired by CBS a day after saying in public that African Americans had been made to produce stronger children during slavery.
1991 – American serial killer Aileen Wuornos confesses that she killed six men.
1992 – El Salvador officials and rebel (people who are against something) leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City.
This ends a 12-year civil war that killed at least 75,000 people.
1995 - An avalanche strikes the village of Sudavik, in Icelands West Fjords, killing 14 people.
1995 - The Great Leader of Baltic Kingdom Sir Karl Eerik Jahu of Nõmmeville is born.
1996 - A coup in Sierra Leone removes Valentine Strasser from power.
His deputy, Julius Maada Rio, succeeds him.
1997 – Ennis Cosby, the only son of actor Bill Cosby, is killed by a person with a gun while changing a flat tire in Los Angeles, California.
1998 – NASA says that John Glenn will return to space when Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off in October 1998.
2000 – In Sacramento, California a company's truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the state capitol building killing the driver.
2001 – Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
2002 – A student shoots 6 people at the Appalachian School of Law.
Three of those shot die.
2002 – John Ashcroft says that so-called "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh would be tried in a court in the United States.
2002 – Everyone in the United Nations Security Council makes an arms embargo and make Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban not being able to use money.
2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which will be its final one.
Columbia disintegrates 16 days later on re-entry.
2004 – Goatse.cx (a shock site is shut down by the Christmas Island Registry)
2005 – Adriana Iliescu has a baby at age 66 and becomes the oldest woman in the world, at the time, to do so.
2006 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf becomes President of Liberia.
She is the first female President in Africa.
2007 - A bomb attack on a university in Baghdad kills 65 people.
2013 - An estimated 41 international workers are taken hostage in an attack on the town of In Amenas in Algeria.
Many die a few days later, during an attempted Algerian-led rescue operation.
2016 - A terrorist attack is carried out on a hotel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, killing 28 people.
2016 - The International Atomic Energy Agency announces that Iran has properly dismantled its nuclear weapons programme, allowing the United Nations to end sanctions immediately.
2019 - British Prime Minister Theresa May wins a vote of confidence in her government, a day after her proposed Brexit deal was heavily defeated.
972 - Emperor Shengzhong of Liao in China (d. 1031)
1093 - Isaac Komnenos, Byzantine prince (d. 1152 or after)
1245 – Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster (British title) (d. 1296)
1409 - René of Anjou, King of Naples (d. 1480)
1516 - Bayinnaung, King of Burma (d. 1581)
1604 – Loreto Vittori, Italian poet and composer (d. 1670)
1634 – Dorthe Engelbretsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716)
1675 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French soldier, diplomat and author (d. 1755)
1728 – Niccolo Riccinni, Italian composer (d. 1800)
1731 - Tyge Rothe, Danish writer (d. 1795)
1749 - Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist (d. 1803)
1795 – Carl Christian Rafn, Danish archaeologist (d. 1864)
1802 - Friedrich Julius Stahl, German politician, philosopher and lawyer (d. 1861)
1815 - Henry W. Halleck, American Civil War general (d. 1872)
1821 – John C. Breckinridge, Kentucky Senator 1861, Confederate General and US Vice President (d. 1875)
1834 - Robert R. Hitt, American politician (d. 1906)
1836 – Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1894)
1838 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
1844 - Ismail Quemali, Albanian nationalist (d. 1919)
1853 - Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, British general (d. 1947)
1853 - Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Russian philosopher (d. 1900)
1853 – André Michelin, French industrialist (d. 1931)
1855 - Eleanor Marx, British activist and author (d. 1898)
1858 - Elwood Mead, American engineer (d. 1936)
1859 – Jon Magnusson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1926)
1868 - Armin Otto Leuschner, American astronomer and philosopher (d. 1953)
1870 – Jüri Jaakson, Estonian politician (d. 1942)
1872 - Henri Busser, French composer (d. 1973)
1872 - Edward Gordon Craig, English actor, producer and director (d. 1966)
1874 – Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (d. 1958)
1878 - Harry Carey, American silent movie actor (d. 1947)
1885 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer and translator (d. 1967)
1885 - Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, Polish politician (d. 1947)
1886 – John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958)
1896 – Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978)
1897 - Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (d. 1972)
1898 – Margaret Booth, American movie editor (d. 2002)
1900 - Edith Frank, mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
1901 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
1901 – Fulgencio Batista, President of Cuba (d. 1973)
1902 – Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945)
1907 – Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004)
1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress, singer (d. 1984)
1910 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player on the Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1974)
1910 - Walter Schellenberg, German SS officer (d. 1952)
1911 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, 28th President of Chile (d. 1982)
1912 – Franz Tumler, Austrian story teller (d. 1998)
1915 - Leslie H. Martinson, American television and movie director (d. 2016)
1917 – Buddy Lester, American actor (d. 2002)
1917 – Justin Ahomadegbe-Tometin, President of Benin (d. 2002)
1918 – Allan Ekelund, Swedish movie producer (d. 2009)
1918 – Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (d. 1996)
1920 – Stephanos II Ghattas, Egyptian Coptic Church Patriarch (d. 2009)
1921 – Francesco Scavullo, photographer (d. 2004)
1922 – Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
1923 – Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
1924 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
1925 - Amelia Vargas, Cuban actress (d. 2019)
1927 - Jerrold Meinwald, American chemist (d. 2018)
1928 – William Kennedy, writer
1931 – Johannes Rau, President of Germany (d. 2006)
1932 – Dian Fossey, American zoologist (studies animals) (d. 1985)
1933 – Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004)
1934 – Marilyn Horne, American mezzo-soprano
1935 – Udo Lattek, German footballer and coach (d. 2015)
1935 – A.J. Foyt, automobile racer
1935 - Inger Christensen, Danish writer (d. 2009)
1936 - Peter Bares, German composer (d. 2014)
1936 - Michael White, Scottish theatre and film producer (d. 2016)
1937 - Francis George, American cardinal (d. 2015)
1938 - Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2015)
1940 – Franz Müntefering, German politician
1942 - René Angélil, Canadian singer and manager (d. 2016)
1942 - Barbara Lynn, American singer
1943 – Brian Ferneyhough, composer
1944 - Dieter Moebius, German musician (d. 2015)
1944 - Judy Baar Topinka, American politician (d. 2014)
1944 – Jim Stafford, singer
1944 – Ronnie Milsap, American country music singer
1945 – Birte Tove, Danish actress (d. 2016)
1946 – Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
1946 – Ronnie Milsap, singer
1946 – Katia Ricciarelli, Italian opera singer
1947 – Laura Schlessinger, psychiatrist, radio talk show host
1947 - Sara Jane Olson, American political activist
1948 – John Carpenter, American movie director
1948 – Dalvanius, New Zealand entertainer (d. 2002)
1948 - Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro, Italian bishop
1948 – Gregor Gysi, German politician
1948 – Anatoly Solovyev, Soviet cosmonaut
1948 – Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
1950 – Debbie Allen, American actress, dancer and choreographer
1950 – Caroline Munro, actress
1950 - Daniel Vischer, Swiss politician (d. 2017)
1952 – Fuad II of Egypt
1953 - L. Blaine Hammond, NASA astronaut
1954 - Wolfgang Schmidt, German discus thrower
1954 – Nancy Richards-Akers, novelist (d. 1999)
1954 - Vasili Zhupikov, Russian footballer (d. 2015)
1955 - Jerry M. Linenger, NASA astronaut
1956 – Martin Jol, Dutch footballer and coach
1957 - Jurijs Andrejevs, Latvian footballer
1957 - Ricardo Darin, Argentine actor, screenwriter and director
1957 - Paul Holmes, English politician
1958 - Lena Ek, Swedish politician
1958 – Tony Pulis, Welsh footballer and coach
1958 - Andris Skele, Prime Minister of Latvia
1958 – Anatoli Boukreev, Russian climber (d. 1997)
1958 - Andriy Bal, Ukrainian footballer (d. 2014)
1959 – Sade, Nigerian singer
1959 - Juanita Bynum, American televangelist
1961 - Paul Raven, British musician (d. 2007)
1963 – James May, British television presenter
1965 - John Carver, British footballer and manager
1969 – Roy Jones, Jr., American boxer
1969 - Neil Back, English rugby player
1970 - Brendan O'Hare, Scottish drummer
1971 - Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player
1971 - Jonathan Mangum, American actor and comedian
1972 - Greg Page, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
1972 - Radivoje Manic, Serbian footballer
1974 – Kate Moss, English supermodel
1974 - Mattias Jonsson, Swedish footballer
1976 - Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie, Bahamian athlete
1977 – Jeff Foster, American professional basketball player
1979 – Aaliyah, American singer (d. 2001)
1979 - Muntadhar al-Zaidi, Iraqi journalist
1979 - Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Albert Pujols, Dominican baseball player
1980 - Lin-Manuel Miranda, American stage actor, composer, singer and playwright
1980 – Seydou Keita, Malian footballer
1981 – Bobby Zamora, English footballer
1981 – Nick Valensi, American guitarist
1981 - Vlad Munteanu, Romanian footballer
1982 – Tuncay Sanli, Turkish footballer
1983 – Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
1983 – Andriy Rusol, Ukrainian footballer
1983 - Derek Riordan, Scottish footballer
1984 - Craig Beattie, Scottish footballer
1984 – Stephan Lichtsteiner, Swiss footballer
1985 - Daisuke Sakata, Japanese footballer
1985 – Pablo Zabaleta, Argentine footballer
1985 – Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (d. 2008)
1986 - Aija Andrejeva, Latvian singer
1986 - Mason Gamble, American actor
1986 - Irina Kuzmina, Latvian tennis player
1986 - Daiki Niwa, Japanese footballer
1987 - Lauren McAvoy, British fashion model
1987 - Park Joo-ho, South Korean footballer
1988 – Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
1988 - FKA twigs, English singer-songwriter, producer and dancer
1989 - Paul Sweeney, Scottish politician
1989 - Yvonne Zima, American actress
1991 - Matt Duchene, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 - Maja Keuc, Slovenian singer
1995 - Takumi Minamino, Japanese footballer
378 - Great Jaguar Paw, Mayan King of Tikal
654 - Gao Yifu, Chinese chancellor (b. 596)
960 - Patriarch Polyeuctus of Constantinople
1327 - Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine scholar and statesman (b. 1250)
1369 - Peter I of Cyprus (b. 1328)
1387 – Elizabeth of Bosnia, Queen of Hungary and regent (b. 1340)
1554 – Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1484)
1710 – Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
1747 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
1750 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (b. 1667)
1794 – Edward Gibbon, historian (b. 1737)
1806 – William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
1809 - John Moore, British general (b. 1761)
1817 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman (b. 1759)
1834 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
1886 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian opera composer (b. 1834)
1891 – Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)
1901 - Hiram Revels, United States Senator (b. 1822)
1907 - Helene Napoleone Bonaparte, French noblewoman, might be a daughter of Napoleon (b. 1816)
1912 - Georg Heym, German writer (b. 1887)
1917 – George Dewey, admiral (high title in the Navy) (b. 1837)
1919 – Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (b. 1848)
1935 - Fred Barker, American criminal (b. 1901)
1935 - Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
1936 – Albert Fish, American serial killer (put to death by court) (b. 1870)
1942 – Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)
1942 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, British royal (b. 1850)
1957 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
1957 - Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, English Governor-General of Canada (b. 1874)
1962 – Ivan Meštrović, carving maker (b. 1883)
1969 - Vernon Duke, Russian-American composer and songwriter (b. 1903)
1971 - Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
1972 - Teller Ammons, 28th Governor of Colorado (b. 1895)
1972 – Ross Bagdasarian, actor and songwriter (b. 1919)
1979 – Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932)
1979 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)
1981 – Bernard Lee, British actor (b. 1908)
1982 – Red Smith, sports columnist (b. 1905)
1986 – Herbert W. Armstrong, evangelist (religious person), writer, and publisher (b. 1892)
1988 – Ballard Berkeley, British actor (b. 1904)
1993 – Jon Pall Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (b. 1960)
1993 - Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930)
1995 – Eric Mottram, poet, teacher, critic, and editor (b. 1924)
2001 – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (assassinated; death officially confirmed on January 18)
2002 – Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)
2002 – Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (b. 1948)
2002 – Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)
2002 – Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)
2004 – Kalevi Sorsa, former Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
2005 – Marjorie Williams, Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair (b. 1958)
2007 - Rudolf August Oetker, German businessman (b. 1916)
2007 - Ron Carey, American actor (b. 1935)
2009 - John Mortimer, British lawyer and writer (b. 1923)
2009 – Andrew Wyeth, American painter (b. 1917)
2011 – Steve Prestwich, Australian musician (b. 1954)
2012 - Gustav Leonhardt, Dutch keyboardist, conductor and musicologist (b. 1928)
2013 - Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Russian cross-country skier (b. 1931)
2013 - Pauline Phillips, American columnist and radio host (b. 1918)
2014 - Russell Johnson, American actor (b. 1924)
2014 - Ruth Duccini, American actress (b. 1918)
2014 - Hiroo Onoda, Japanese soldier (b. 1922)
2015 - Ian Athfield, New Zealand architect (b. 1940)
2015 - Ted Harrison, Canadian artist (b. 1926)
2015 - Rimma Markova, Russian actress (b. 1925)
2015 - Miriam Akavia, Israeli writer and Holocaust survivor (b. 1927)
2015 - Yao Beina, Chinese singer b. 1981)
2015 - Andrew Benson, American biologist (b. 1917
2015 - Stuart Loory, American journalist (b. 1932)
2016 - Ted Marchibroda, American football player (b. 1931)
2016 - Carina Jaarnek, Swedish singer (b. 1962)
2016 - Rudy Migay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
2017 - Eugene Cernan, American astronaut (b. 1934)
2017 - Amin Nasir, Singaporean footballer (b. 1968)
2017 - William A. Hilliard, American journalist (b. 1927)
2017 - Franz Jarnach, German actor and musician (b. 1943)
2017 - Peter Jones, Australian politician (b. 1933)
2017 - Charles "Bobo" Shaw, American jazz drummer (b. 1947)
2017 - Steve Wright, American bass guitarist (b. 1950)
2018 - Bill Bain, American management consultant (b. 1937)
2018 - George Bandy, American politician (b. 1945)
2018 - Bradford Dillman, American actor (b. 1930)
2018 - Kingdon Gould Jr., American diplomat (b. 1924)
2018 - Peter Groeger, German actor (b. 1933)
2018 - Madalena Iglésias, Portuguese actress and singer (b. 1939)
2018 - Jo Jo White, American basketball player (b. 1946)
2018 - Anatoly Glushenkov, Russian politician (b. 1942)
2019 - John C. Bogle, American investor and writer (b. 1929)
2019 - Mirjam Pressler, German writer and translator (b. 1940)
2019 - Chris Wilson, Australian musician (b. 1956)
2019 - Yu Min, Chinese nuclear physicist (b. 1926)
Teacher's Day (Thailand)
Flag Day (Israel)
350 - General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.
1126 - Song Dynasty China: Emperor Huizong of Song decides to leave the throne to his son, Emperor Qinzong of Song.
1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York.
1535 - Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, the present-day capital city of Peru.
1562 - Pope Pius IV re-opens the Council of Trent the its third and final session.
1591 - King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat.
1671 - English pirate Henry Morgan plunders Panama City and sets it on fire, as well as massacring people who live there.
1701 - Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Konigsberg.
1778 - Captain James Cook reaches the Hawaiian Islands, naming them "Sandwich Islands".
1788 - The first members of the First Fleet of convicts from England arrives in Botany Bay, present-day Sydney, Australia.
1825 - Moscow's Bolshoi Theater re-opens.
1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany become the first German Emperor.
1884 - Passenger steamer City of Columbus sinks off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, killing 103 people, including all women and children on board.
1884 - Dr. William Price tries to cremate his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, eventually leading to a change in UK cremation law.
1886 - The Hockey Association is founded in England, setting out the rules of modern field hockey.
1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay.
This is the first successful landing of an aircraft on a ship.
1913 - First Balkan War: Greece secures the northern Aegean Sea islands after defeating the Ottoman Empire navy in the Battle of Lemnos.
1915 - Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
1916 - A 611-gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
1919 - The Paris Peace Conference begins in Versailles.
1919 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes the first Prime Minister of newly independent Poland.
1919 - Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
1934 - An earthquake in the present-day Indian state of Bihar kills around 10,000 people.
1941 - World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against then-Italian East Africa.
1944 - For the first time, the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert.
Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw are among the musicians performing.
1944 - World War II: Soviet forces liberate Leningrad.
1958 - Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian in the NHL, makes his first appearance for the Boston Bruins.
1960 - Capital Airilnes Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles County, Virginia, killing all 50 people on board.
1967 - Albert DeSalvo is found guilty of being the Boston Strangler serial killer.
1969 - United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay, killing all 32 passengers and 6 crew members.
1976 - Lebanese Christian militias carry out the Karantina massacre in Beirut, killing around 1,000 people.
1976 - Bangladesh and Pakistan fully have foreign bilateral relations between Islamabad and Dacca Officials.
1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of Legionnaires' disease.
1977 - A train crash at Granville, Sydney, Australia, kills 83 people.
1977 - Yugoslavian Prime Minister Dzemal Bijedic, his wife, and six other people are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1978 - The European Court of Human Rights finds the UK government guilty of poor treatment of prisoners in Northern Ireland, but finds it not guilty of torture.
1981 - Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston, Texas, skyscraper.
1983 - The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
1993 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is observed in all 50 states of the US for the first time.
The holiday was first observed in 1986.
1997 - Borge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and without help.
2000 - A meteor impacts on Tagish Lake in Northern Canada.
2002 - The Sierra Leone Civil War is officially declared over.
2003 - A bush fire kills four people in Canberra and destroys over 500 homes.
2005 - The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled in a ceremony in Toulouse, France.
2007 - Hurricane Kyrill, a major storm, hits several countries in Western and Central Europe, killing 44 people in total (including 14 in the UK and 13 in Germany) and causing power failures and major damage.
2009 - A ceasefire is agreed in the Israel-Gaza War.
The conflict had started with Operation Cast Lead on December 27, 2008.
2012 - The English language edition of Wikipedia blacks out for 24 hours, from midnight to midnight (Eastern Standard Time) in protest against the SOPA and PIPA internet laws proposed by the United States Congress.
2017 - An avalanche (after two earthquakes) buries a hotel in Abruzzo, Central Italy.
2018 - A bus fire near Aktobe, Kazakhstan, kills at least 52 people.
2019 - Andry Rajoelina takes office as President of Madagascar.
2019 - A fuel pipeline explosion in Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico, kills at least 85 people.
885 – Daigo, Emperor of Japan (d. 930)
1519 - Isabella Jagiellon, Queen of Hungary (d. 1559)
1543 – Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (d. 1588)
1634 - Madame de Lafayette, French aristocrat and writer (d. 1693)
1641 – François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691)
1659 - Damaris Cudworth Marsham, English philosopher (d. 1708)
1669 - Maria Antonia of Austria (d. 1692)
1672 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)
1688 – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)
1689 – Montesquieu, French writer (d. 1755)
1751 - Ferdinand Kauer, Austrian composer and pianist (d. 1831)
1779 – Peter Roget, British lexicographer (d. 1869)
1782 – Daniel Webster, American statesman (d. 1852)
1795 - Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Russian-born Queen Consort of the Netherlands (d. 1865)
1813 – Joseph Glidden, American farmer who patented barbed wire (d. 1906)
1815 - Warren De la Rue, British chemist, inventor and astronomer (d. 1889)
1815 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German theologian (d. 1874)
1835 - César Cui, Russian composer (d. 1918)
1840 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (d. 1921)
1842 – Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)
1848 – Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925)
1849 – Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)
1849 - Eugène Carrière, French painter (d. 1906)
1850 – Seth Low, American politician, Mayor of New York City (d. 1916)
1854 – Thomas Watson, American telephone pioneer (d. 1934)
1867 - Rubén Dario, Nicaraguan journalist, diplomat and poet (d. 1916)
1868 - Suzuki Kantaro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
1871 - Benjamin I of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1946)
1878 - Thomas Edward Campbell, Governor of Arizona (d. 1944)
1879 - Henri Giraud, French general (d. 1949)
1879 - Tane Ikai, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 1995)
1880 - Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian physicist (d. 1928)
1880 - Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (d. 1954)
1881 - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (d. 1975)
1882 – A. A. Milne, English writer (d. 1956)
1888 – Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (d. 1989)
1892 – Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (d. 1957)
1892 – Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956)
1896 - Ville Ritola, Finnish long-distance runner (d. 1982)
1896 - Luigi Bianchi, Italian mathematician (d. 1928)
1898 - Albert Kivikas, Estonian writer and journalist (d. 1978)
1903 - Gladys Hooper, English supercentenarian (d. 2016)
1904 – Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
1905 – Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (d. 2002)
1908 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born mathematician, poet, and physicist (d. 1974)
1908 - Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1972)
1911 – Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
1911 - Jose Maria Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet and anthropologist (d. 1969)
1914 – Arno Schmidt, German writer (d. 1979)
1914 – William Stafford, American poet (d. 1993)
1915 - Santiago Carrillo, Spanish Communist politician (d. 2012)
1915 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
1918 - Gustave Gingras, Canadian physician (d. 1996)
1918 - Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant (d. 2013)
1919 - Toni Turek, German footballer (d. 1984)
1921 - Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist (d. 2015)
1922 – Bob Bell, American clown (d. 1997)
1923 - Gerrit Voorting, Dutch road bicycle racer (d. 2015)
1924 - Max Labovitch, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2018)
1925 - Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995)
1925 - John V. Evans, former Governor of Iowa (d. 2014)
1927 - Sundaram Balachander, Indian actor, director and producer (d. 1990)
1928 - Alexander Gomelsky, Russian basketball coach
1931 – Chun Doo-hwan, President of South Korea
1932 – Robert Anton Wilson, American writer
1933 – John Boorman, Irish movie director
1933 - Ray Dolby, American engineer and inventor (d. 2013)
1933 - Emeka Anyaoku, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations
1934 – Raymond Briggs, English writer and illustrator
1934 - Hendrick Chin A Sen, Surinamese politician
1935 - Gad Yaacobi, Israeli academic and diplomat (d. 2007)
1936 - David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, English politician
1937 – John Hume, Northern Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998
1938 - Anthony Giddens, British sociologist
1938 – Curt Flood, American baseball player (d. 1997)
1939 - Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Japanese swimmer (d. 2017)
1940 - Iva Zanicchi, Italian singer
1940 - Pedro Rodriguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1971)
1941 – David Ruffin, American singer (d. 1991)
1943 – Kay Granger, American politician
1943 - Paul Angelis, English actor (d. 2009)
1944 – Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia
1944 - Alexander Van der Bellen, President of Austria
1945 - José Luis Perales, Spanish singer
1946 – Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councilor
1946 - Henrique Pereira Rosa, caretaker President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2013)
1947 – Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
1949 – Philippe Starck, French designer
1950 – Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)
1950 - Michael Tomasello, American anthropologist
1951 - Renato Zaccarelli, Italian footballer
1951 - Bob Latchford, English footballer
1951 - Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (d. 1982)
1952 - Michael Angelis, English actor (d. 2020)
1952 – R. Stevie Moore, American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer
1953 – Brett Hudson, American actor
1955 – Kevin Costner, American actor
1955 - Frankie Knuckles, American DJ and producer (d. 2014)
1955 - Fernando Trueba, Spanish movie director, screenwriter and producer
1956 – Sharon Mitchell, American actress
1956 – Tom Bailey, British singer (Thompson Twins)
1958 - Jeffrey Williams, American astronaut
1960 - Mark Rylance, British actor
1960 - Peter Charles, British equestrian
1961 - Peter Beardsley, English footballer
1961 - Bobby Hansen, American basketball player
1961 – Mark Messier, Canadian hockey player
1961 – Carole Paulson American writer, humor columnist
1962 – Jeff Yagher, American actor
1963 - Martin O'Malley, former Governor of Maryland
1963 - Vera Pauw, Dutch footballer and coach
1963 - Yury Zakharevich, Soviet-Russian weightlifter
1964 - Richard Dunwoody, British jockey
1964 – Jane Horrocks, British actress
1964 - Nadia Sawalha, British television personality
1965 – Dave Attell, American writer and comedian
1966 – David Bautista, American professional wrestler
1967 – Kim Perrot, American basketball player (d. 1999)
1967 - Ivan Zamorano, Chilean footballer
1967 - Anjem Choudary, English Islamist preacher
1969 – Jesse L. Martin, American actor
1970 – DJ Quik, American rapper
1971 – Jonathan Davis, American musician (KoЯn)
1971 – Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver
1971 - Pep Guardiola, Spanish footballer and football manager
1972 - Vinod Kambli, Indian cricketer, sportscaster and actor
1972 – Mike Lieberthal, American baseball player
1973 – Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker)
1973 - Ben Jealous, African American NAACP leader
1974 – Michael Tunn, Australian television and radio
1974 - Princess Claire of Belgium
1974 - Devon Odessa, American actress
1976 - Damian Leith, Irish-born Australian singer
1976 - Subhrajit Mitra, Indian moviemaker
1977 - Didier Dinart, French handball player
1979 – Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
1979 – Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer and producer
1979 - Willie Collum, Scottish football referee
1979 - Peter Gionta, American ice hockey player
1979 - Ruslan Fedotenko, Ukrainian ice hockey player
1979 - Leo Varadkar, Irish Taoiseach
1980 - Estelle, English singer and songwriter
1980 – Julius Peppers, American football player
1980 – Robert Green, English footballer
1980 - Jason Segel, American actor, writer and screenwriter
1981 - Olivier Rochus, Belgian tennis player
1982 – Quinn Allman, American musician (The Used)
1983 – Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
1984 - Seung-Hui Cho, Korean-American spree killer (d. 2007)
1985 - Riccardo Montolivo, Italian footballer
1986 - Marya Roxx, Estonian singer
1987 - Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer
1988 - Ronnie Day, Australian singer-songwriter
1988 - Angelique Kerber, German tennis player
1990 - Alex Pietrangelo, Canadian ice hockey player
1991 - Britt McKillip, Canadian singer and actress
1991 - Diego Simoes, Brazilian footballer
1993 - Morgan York, American actress
1994 - Kang Jiyoung, South Korean singer, rapper and dancer
1996 - Sarah Gilman, American actress
1999 - Karan Brar, American actor
52 BC – Publius Clodius Pulcher (murdered) (b. 93 BC)
474 – Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
1213 – Queen Regnant Tamar of Georgia (b. c. 1160)
1367 – King Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)
1425 – Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
1471 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
1547 - Pietro Bembo, Italian scholar, humanist and cardinal (b. 1470)
1586 – Margaret of Austria, regent of The Netherlands (b. 1522)
1664 – Moses Amyraut, French theologian (b. 1596)
1677 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch merchant (b. 1619)
1803 – Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
1862 – John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
1873 – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English writer (b. 1803)
1878 – Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1886 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
1892 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
1896 – Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)
1923 – Wallace Reid, actor (b. 1891)
1936 – Rudyard Kipling, British writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1865)
1940 – Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer (b. 1865)
1949 - Carlo Ponzi, Italian-American criminal, origin of the term Ponzi scheme (b. 1882)
1951 – Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary (b. 1867)
1952 – Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)
1954 – Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
1963 – Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labour Party (b. 1906)
1966 – Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880)
1967 – Goose Tatum, American basketball player (b. 1921)
1969 – Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)
1970 – David O. McKay, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
1971 – Virgil Finlay, American horror illustrator (b. 1914)
1971 - Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, American architect and women's rights activist (b. 1883)
1975 – Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
1977 - Carl Zuckmayer, German writer (b. 1896)
1977 - Luciano Re Cecconi, Italian footballer (b. 1948)
1977 - Dzemal Bijedic, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1917)
1978 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer (b. 1919)
1978 – Carl Betz, American movie and television actor (b. 1921)
1978 – Walter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective, bodyguard of Winston Churchill (b. 1890)
1980 – Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)
1982 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (b. 1895)
1984 – Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
1985 – Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912)
1989 – Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)
1990 – Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
1993 – Eleanor Hibbert, English writer
1994 - Denis Henry Desty, English scientist and inventor (b. 1923)
1995 – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1903)
1995 – Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
1996 – Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor (b. 1923)
1997 – Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1941)
2000 – Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
2001 – Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
2003 – Edward "The Sheik" Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1926)
2005 – Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
2006 – Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
2007 – Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange/Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
2008 – Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (b. 1927)
2008 – Frank Lewin, American composer and music theorist (b. 1925)
2008 – John Stroger, first African-American Cook County Board President (b. 1929)
2009 – Tony Hart, British artist and TV presenter (b. 1925)
2009 – Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet (b. 1935)
2009 – Bob May, American actor (b. 1939)
2009 - Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian politician and lawyer (b. 1950)
2010 - Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2011 - Sargent Shriver, American politician (b. 1915)
2013 - Walmor Chagas, Brazilian actor (b. 1930)
2014 - Komla Dumor, Ghanaian journalist (b. 1972)
2014 - Dennis Frederiksen, American musician (b. 1951)
2014 - Sarah Marshall, British-American actress (b. 1933)
2015 - Alberto Nisman, Argentine lawyer (b. 1963)
2015 - Paul O'Grady, Australian politician (b. 1960)
2015 - Kjell Arnljot Wig, Norwegian media personality (b. 1924)
2015 - Piet van der Sanden, Dutch politician (b. 1924)
2015 - Tony Verna, American television producer (b. 1933)
2015 - José Carrasco, Peruvian politician (b. 1944)
2016 - Johnny Bach, American basketball player (b. 1924)
2016 - Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (b. 1948)
2016 - Michel Tournier, French writer (b. 1924)
2017 - Peter Abrahams, South African-Jamaican writer (b. 1919)
2017 - Red Adams, American baseball player (b. 1921)
2017 - Yosl Bergner, Austrian-Israeli painter (b. 1920)
2017 - Ion Besoiu, Romanian actor (b. 1931)
2017 - David P. Buckson, American politician, Governor of Delaware (b. 1920)
2017 - Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, English cricketer (b. 1939)
2017 - Johnny Little, Canadian-Scottish footballer (b. 1930)
2017 - William Margold, American pornographic actor and director (b. 1943)
2017 - Roberta Peters, American soprano (b. 1930)
2017 - Mike Kellie, English musician and record producer (b. 1947)
2018 - Ishfaq Ahmad, Pakistani nuclear physicist and professor (b. 1930)
2018 - Wallis Grahn, Swedish actress (b. 1945)
2018 - Lucas Mangope, South African politician (b. 1923)
2018 - Nancy Richler, Canadian novelist (b. 1957)
2018 - Stansfield Turner, American admiral (b. 1923)
2018 - Chick Webster, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
2018 - Borys Yukhymovych Steklyar, Ukrainian military officer (b. 1923)
2018 - Javiera Muñoz, Swedish singer (b. 1977)
2019 - John Coughlin, American figure skater (b. 1985)
2019 - Cees Haast, Dutch racing cyclist (b. 1938)
2019 - Ivan Vutsov, Bulgarian footballer and coach (b. 1939)
Royal Thai Armed Forces Day
Revolution Day (Tunisia)
World Religion Day
1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England in England's reconquest of Normandy.
1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden, is injured in the Battle of Bogesund, leading to his death on February 3.
1607 - The San Agustin Church in Manila is completed.
It is the oldest church in the Philippines still standing.
1788 - A second group of the First Fleet of convicts from Great Britain arrives at Botany Bay, present-day Sydney, Australia.
1795 – The Batavian Republic is founded in the Netherlands.
1806 – The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
1812 - Peninsular War: After a ten-day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington orders British soldiers of the Light and Third Divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
1817 - An army led by Jose de San Martin crosses the Andes from Argentina to Chile, having already liberated Argentina.
1829 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 is performed for the first time.
1839 - The British East India Company captures Aden, Yemen.
1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica.
1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore is performed for the first time, in Rome.
1861 - Confederate States of America: Georgia leaves the Union, becoming the 5th state to do so.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs, the first important Confederate defeat of the war.
1871 - Franco-Prussian War: Prussia wins in the Battle of Saint Quentin.
1883 - German passenger steamer Cimbria sinks after a collision off the island of Borkum in the North Sea, killing 437 people.
1893 - Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder is performed for the first time, in Berlin.
1899 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
1915 - Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
1915 - World War I: German zeppelins bomb Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, killing over 20 people.
1917 – A Munitions Plant Explosion in London kills 73 people.
1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
1937 - Howard Hughes sets a new air record, by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
1942 - Canadian passenger steamer RMS Lady Hawkins is sunk by a German U-boat off North Carolina, killing 251 people.
1945 - World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Lodz ghetto.
1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo.
1949 – Cuba recognises Israel as an independent country.
1953 - Almost 72% of US television sets are tuned in to I Love Lucy, to watch Lucy give birth.
1958 - An expedition led by Vivian Fuchs reaches the South Pole, the fourth expedition to do so.
1965 - The unmanned spacecraft Gemini 2 is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1966 – Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India.
1969 – Czechoslovakian student Jan Palach dies, three days after setting himself on fire in an act of protest.
1975 - A large earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India.
1977 - Rare snowfalls occur in Miami, Florida and the Bahamas.
1977 - Gerald Ford pardons World War II propagandist Iva Toguri D'Aquino.
1978 - The last Volkswagen Beetle to be produced in Europe runs off the assembly line in Emden, Germany.
They continue to be produced in Latin America until 2003.
1981 - Iran hostage crisis: US and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months in captivity.
1983 - The Apple Lisa commercial personal computer is announced by Apple Inc.
1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second scud missile into Israel.
1993 – The Czech Republic and Slovakia join the UN.
1996 - The North Cape Oil Spill occurs off Rhode Island.
1997 - Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron, West Bank, after 30 years.
2006 – NASA's New Horizons probe launches to Pluto.
2007 – Journalist Hrant Dink is murdered in front of his newspaper office.
2012 - Wikipedia's English language edition ends its blackout from the previous day, which was a protest action against the SOPA and PIPA laws proposed by the United States Congress.
2013 - Bulgarian politician Ahmed Dogan survives an attempt to kill him, when his attacker is stopped by security guards.
2013 - An EU-wide driving licence is introduced.
2014 - Anti-government protests escalate in Ukraine, as a new anti-protest law comes into force.
2014 - A bomb attack on an army convoy in the northern Pakistani city of Bannu kills 26 soldiers and injures 38 others.
399 – Pulcheria, Byzantine Empress (d. 453)
1544 – Francis II of France (d. 1560)
1676 - John Weldon, English musician and composer (d. 1736)
1736 – James Watt, Scottish engineer (d. 1819)
1737 - Giuseppe Millico, Italian singer, composer and music teacher (d. 1802)
1739 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d. 1808)
1757 - Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German princess (d. 1831)
1788 - Pavel Kivelyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
1798 - Auguste Comte, French philosopher (d. 1857)
1807 – Robert E. Lee, American Confederate General (d. 1870)
1808 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (d. 1849)
1813 - Henry Bessemer, English engineer and inventor (d. 1898)
1832 - Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (d. 1875)
1833 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (d. 1872)
1839 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
1845 - Joseph M. Carey, Governor of Wyoming (d. 1924)
1848 – Matthew Webb, English swimmer and diver (d. 1883)
1851 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922)
1866 - Harry Davenport, American actor (d. 1949)
1871 - Dame Gruev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1906)
1874 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1922)
1876 – Hakashima Gonshiri, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1943)
1876 – Dragotin Kette, Slovenian poet (d. 1899)
1878 – Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1934)
1880 - James G. Scrugham, 14th Governor of Nevada (d. 1945)
1889 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter, sculptor and designer (d. 1943)
1890 - Elmer Niklander, Finnish sportsman (d. 1942)
1892 – Olafur Thors, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1964)
1893 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian classical pianist (d. 1986)
1901 - Hans Moser, Swiss equestrian (d. 1974)
1905 – Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian movie producer, director and administrator (d. 1991)
1908 - Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (d. 1971)
1909 – Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
1912 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist (d. 1986)
1913 - Rudolph Wanderone, American pocket billiards player (d. 1996)
1917 - John Raitt, American singer and actor (d. 2005)
1920 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian UN Secretary-General (d. 2020)
1920 - Aleksander Jackowski, Polish anthropologist (d. 2018)
1920 - Roberto M. Levingston, Argentine general and politician, 36th President of Argentina (d. 2015)
1920 - Bruce Sundlun, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 2011)
1921 – Patricia Highsmith, American writer (d. 1995)
1922 - Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer and journalist (d. 2015)
1922 – Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish movie director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1922 - Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
1923 – Jean Stapleton, American actress (d. 2013)
1925 - Nina Bawden, English writer (d. 2012)
1926 - Fritz Weaver, American actor
1930 - Tippi Hedren, American actress
1932 – Richard Lester, British movie director
1932 - Harry Lonsdale, American scientist and businessman (d. 2014)
1935 - Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor
1935 – Owsley Stanley, American sound engineer and LSD supplier (d. 2011)
1936 – Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
1937 - Giovanna Marini, Italian singer-songwriter
1937 - Princess Birgitta of Sweden
1939 – Phil Everly, American musician (Everly Brothers) (d. 2014)
1940 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (d. 1992)
1940 - Mike Reid, English actor and comedian (d. 2007)
1941 - Tony Anholt, English actor (d. 2002)
1941 – Pat Patterson, Canadian professional wrestler
1942 – Michael Crawford, British singer and actor
1942 - Thom Mayne, American architect
1943 – Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970)
1943 – Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
1944 – Laurie London, British singer
1944 - Dan Reeves, American football coach
1945 - Dragan Holcer, Croatian footballer (d. 2015)
1945 - C. B. Forgotston, American political blogger (d. 2016)
1945 - Trevor Williams, British musician
1946 – Julian Barnes, British writer
1946 – Dolly Parton, American country music singer
1947 – Rod Evans, British musician (Deep Purple)
1948 - Frank McKenna, Canadian politician and diplomat, 27th Premier of New Brunswick
1948 - Amanda Holden, English playwright and composer
1949 – Dennis Taylor, Northern Irish snooker player
1949 – Robert Palmer, English singer (d. 2003)
1949 - Lindsay Roy, Scottish politician
1951 - Gerald Tinker, American athlete
1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
1954 – Cindy Sherman, American photographer
1954 – Katharina Thalbach, German actress and movie director
1954 - Katey Sagal, American actress
1955 – Simon Rattle, British conductor
1957 - Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician
1958 - Thomas Kinkade, American painter (d. 2012)
1958 - Don Austen, English puppeteer
1960 – Mauro Tassotti, Italian footballer
1960 - Al Joyner, American athlete
1961 - Wayne Hemingway, English fashion designer
1963 – Martin Bashir, English journalist
1963 – John Bercow, English politician, Speaker of the House of Commons
1963 - Michael Adams, American basketball player
1964 - Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer-songwriter and basketball player
1966 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
1966 – Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
1969 – Steve Staunton, Irish footballer
1969 - Junior Seau, American football player (d. 2012)
1969 - Luc Longley, Australian basketball player
1971 - Shawn Wayans, American actor
1972 - Angham, Egyptian singer, record producer and actress
1972 - Princess Kalina of Bulgaria
1973 - Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist
1973 - Frank Caliendo, American comedian, actor and screenwriter