the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1991  Ryo Ishikawa, Japanese golfer
1994  Taylor Ware, American singer
2008  Mia Talerico, American actress
454  Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria
456  Remistus, Roman general
1179  Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098)
1322  Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)
1422  Constantine II of Bulgaria
1574  Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Spanish admiral and explorer (b. 1519)
1575  Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
1665  King Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)
1676  Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, founder of the Jewish Sabbatean Movement (b. 1626)
1679  John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)
1762  Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (b. 1687)
1802  Richard Owen Cambridge, English poet and historian (b. 1717)
1808  Benjamin Bourne, American jurist and politician (b. 1755)
1836  Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
1863  Alfred de Vigny, French author, poet and playwright (b. 1797)
1877  Henry Fox Talbot, British inventor and photography pioneer (b. 1800)
1894  Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
1904  Kartini, Indonesian activist (b. 1879)
1907  Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1846)
1908  Thomas Selfridge, First Lieutenant of the United States Army (b. 1882)
1909  Thomas Bent, Premier of Victoria (b. 1838)
1916  Hermann Krone, German photographer (b. 1827)
1923  Stephanos Dragoumis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1842)
1948  Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (b. 1895)
1951  Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
1961  Adnan Menderes, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1899)
1965  Alejandro Casona, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1903)
1966  Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)
1970  France Bevk, Slovenian writer (b. 1890)
1972  Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)
1973  Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)
1980  Anastasio Somoza Debayle, former President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
1985  Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (b. 1925)
1991  Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
1993  Willie Mosconi, American pool player (b. 1913)
1994  Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher (b. 1902)
1994  Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)
1996  Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
1997  Red Skelton, American entertainer (b. 1913)
2000  Paula Yates, British television personality (b. 1959)
2003  Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
2006  Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1924)
2009  Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist militant (b. 1968)
2011  Kurt Sanderling, German conductor (b. 1912)
2012  Russell Train, American politician (b. 1920)
2013  Eiji Toyoda, Japanese industrialist (b. 1913)
2013  Marti de Riquer i Morera, Spanish-Catalan linguist (b. 1914)
2014  Andriy Husin, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1972)
2014  China Zorrilla, Uruguayan actress (b. 1922)
2014  George Hamilton IV, American country music singer (b. 1937)
2014  Peter von Bagh, Finnish movie historian (b. 1943)
2014  Lorna Thomas, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1917)
2015  Dettmar Cramer, German football manager (b. 1925)
2015  Milo Hamilton, American sportscaster (b. 1927)
2015  David Willcocks, British choirmaster (b. 1919)
2015  Vadim Kuzmin, Russian theoretical physicist (b. 1937)
2016  Bahman Golbarnezhad, Iranian Paralympic cyclist (b. 1968)
2016  Charmian Carr, American actress (b. 1942)
2016  Sigge Parling, Swedish footballer (b. 1930)
Constitution Day (United States)
Heroes' Day (Angola)
19 - Roman general Germanicus dies under mysterious circumstances in Antioch in present-day Turkey.
It is believed that he was poisoned on the orders of Emperor Tiberius.
680 – Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shi'a Muslims as Aashurah.
732 – Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe.
The governor of Cordoba, Abd-ar-Rahman, is killed during the battle.
1471 – Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.
1575 – Battle of Dormans: Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeated the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
1631 – Thirty Years' War: A Saxon army takes over Prague.
1760 - In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname, descended from escaped slaves, gain extra freedom.
1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
1798 - British troops occupy Menorca.
1845 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.
1846 - Neptune's moon Triton is discovered by British astronomer William Lassell.
1868 – Carlos Céspedes issued the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence.
1871 - Chicago burns after an accident.
1877 – Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer is given a funeral with full military honors.
1882 - The Bank of Japan is founded.
1892 - British passenger ship Bokhara sinks in a Typhoon off the west of Taiwan, killing 125 people.
1897 - German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
1908 – Baseball Writers Association forms.
1910 – Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is established at Columbia University.
1911 – Wuchang Uprising which led to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last emperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
1913 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
1920 – The Carinthian Plebiscite determined that the larger part of Carinthia became part of Austria.
1928 – Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
1933 – A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage while en route from Cleveland, Ohio to Chicago, Illinois, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
1935 - A coup occurs in Athens the royalist leadership of the Greek Army.
1938 – The Blue Water Bridge opens, connecting Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
1938 – World War II: The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Germany.
1942 - The Soviet Union and Australia create diplomatic relations.
1944 – Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at Auschwitz death camp.
1957 - The Windscale fire occurs in Cumbria, England, in the world's first nuclear accident.
1957 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he was refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
1963 - France cedes control of Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
1964 – The 1964 Summer Olympics open in Tokyo, Japan
1966 – Simon and Garfunkel release the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
1967 - The Outer Space Treaty comes into force, having been signed on January 27.
1970 – Fiji becomes independent.
1970 – In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
1971 – Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, the London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
1973 – Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
1975 - Papua New Guinea joins the UN.
1978 – US President Jimmy Carter signs a bill into law that authorizes the minting of the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
1979 – The Pac-Man arcade game is released to the Japanese market by Namco.
1980 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits the town of El Asnam, Algeria, killing 3,500 people.
1985 – United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
1986 – An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
1987 – Fiji becomes a republic.
1997 – An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
1998 - A Lignes Aeriennes Congolaises Boeing 727 airplane is shot down by rebels over Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
1999 - In London, the London Eye is raised.
2001 – US President George W. Bush presents a list of 22 most wanted terrorists.
2005 – Channel 4's new 'adult' entertainment channel More4 starts broadcasting on ntl, Sky Digital and Freeview in the UK.
2005 – Angela Merkel is announced to be the new Chancellor of Germany.
She officially becomes Chancellor on November 22.
2005 – Most Aardman Animations props are melted in a warehouse fire.
Props from Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit are destroyed.
2008 - Martti Ahtisaari wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
2008 - A bomb attack in Orakzai, Pakistan, kills 110 people.
2010 – The Netherlands Antilles are split up.
The islands of Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius becomes special municipalities of the Netherlands proper.
Curaçao and Sint Maarten become constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
2014 - The Nobel Peace Prize is shared between Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai, who also becomes the youngest-ever winner of a Nobel Prize.
2015 - Two bomb attacks at a peace demonstration in Ankara kill at least 102 people.
2017 - President of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont delays his region's declaration of independence from Spain.
2018 - Hurricane Michael makes landfall in Florida, as one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the mainland of the United States.
2019 - Olga Tokarczuk (for 2018) and Peter Handke win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
2020 - A ceasefire takes effect after almost two weeks of intense fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh.
1201 - Richard de Fournival, French philosopher (d. 1260)
1344 - Mary Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1362)
1470 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1520)
1486 - Charles III of Savoy (d. 1553)
1567 - Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain (d. 1597)
1669 - Johann Nicolaus Bach, German composer (d. 1753)
1678 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (d. 1743)
1684 – Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)
1700 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)
1731 – Henry Cavendish, English scientist (d. 1810)
1738 - Benjamin West, American painter (d. 1820)
1780 – John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)
1794 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)
1813 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901)
1819 - Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, German theologian (d. 1883)
1825 – Paul Kruger, South African Boer politician (d. 1904)
1828 - Samuel J. Randall, American politician (d. 1890)
1830 – Isabella II of Spain (d. 1904)
1834 – Aleksis Kivi, Finnish writer (d. 1872)
1837 - Robert Gould Shaw, American army officer (d. 1863)
1858 - Maurice Prendergast, American painter (d. 1924)
1860 - Joan Maragall, Catalan poet (d. 1911)
1861 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian polar explorer, scientist and diplomat (d. 1930)
1861 - Edouard Dujardin, French writer (d. 1949)
1861 - Claudio Williman, President of Uruguay (d. 1934)
1863 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)
1863 - Vladimir Obruchev, Russian geographer, geologist and writer (d. 1956)
1870 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer (d. 1953)
1870 - Louise Mack, Australian writer (d. 1935)
1878 - Blanche Lazzell, American painter, printmaker and designer (d. 1956)
1885 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962)
1885 - José Alvalade, Portuguese football team founder (d. 1918)
1888 - Pietro Lana, Italian footballer (d. 1950)
1889 - Kermit Roosevelt, American writer, businessman and military officer (d. 1943)
1890 - Morley Griswold, Governor of Nevada (d. 1951)
1895 - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1899 – Wilhelm Röpke, German economist (d. 1966)
1900 - Helen Hayes, American actress and singer (d. 1993)
1901 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
1903 – Charles, Prince Regent of Belgium (d. 1983)
1910 - Price Daniel, Governor of Texas (d. 1988)
1910 - Harold LeVander, Governor of Minnesota (d. 1992)
1911 - Clare Hollingworth, English journalist and author (d. 2017)
1913 – Claude Simon, French writer (d. 2005)
1917 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz musician (d. 1962)
1918 - John W. King, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1996)
1918 - Yigal Allon, Israeli politician (d. 1980)
1919 - Edgar Laprade, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1920 - Gail Halvorsen, American pilot, took part in the Berlin Airlift
1923 - Nicholas Parsons, British actor and presenter (d. 2020)
1923 – Murray Walker, British sports commentator
1923 – James Jabara, American air force pilot (d. 1966)
1924 – James Clavell, Australian writer (d. 1994)
1924 - Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballerina, sculptor, actress, painter, choreographer and author (d. 2004)
1924 - Ed Wood, American director, producer, actor and screenwriter (d. 1978)
1926 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 2007)
1926 - Oscar Brown, Jr., American singer, poet and activist (d. 2005)
1927 - Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, Indian singer (d. 2014)
1929 - Bernard Mayes, British broadcaster (d. 2014)
1930 – Yves Chauvin, French chemist (d. 2015)
1930 – Harold Pinter, British playwright (d. 2008)
1933 - Daniel Massey, British actor (d. 1998)
1933 – Jay Sebring, American hairstylist and murder victim (d. 1969)
1935 - Abu Jihad, Palestinian founder of Fatah (d. 1988)
1935 – Hermann Nuber, German footballer
1936 – Gerhard Ertl, German chemist
1936 - Judith Chalmers, English television host
1937 - Peter Underwood, 27th Governor of Tasmania (d. 2014)
1940 - Nol Heijerman, Dutch footballer (d. 2015)
1940 – Winston Spencer-Churchill, British politician, grandson of Winston Churchill (d. 2010)
1941 – Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and activist (d. 1995)
1941 - Peter Coyote, American actor
1942 – Radu Vasile, former Prime Minister of Romania (d. 2013)
1943 – Reinhard Libuda, German footballer (d. 1996)
1945 - Edoardo Reja, Italian footballer and coach
1946 – Charles Dance, English actor
1946 – Naoto Kan, former Prime Minister of Japan
1946 - John Prine, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (d. 2020)
1946 – Chris Tarrant, English television presenter
1946 - Ann Mather, English author
1948 - Sue Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Loughborough, English academic and businesswoman
1948 - Roger B. Wilson, former Governor of Missouri
1949 - Lance Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
1949 - Wang Wanxing, Chinese activist
1950 – Nora Roberts, American novelist
1951 - Epeli Ganilau, Fijian statesman
1953 – Midge Ure, Scottish musician
1954 - David Lee Roth, American singer (Van Halen)
1954 – Rekha, Indian actress
1954 - Fernando Santos, Portuguese footballer and manager
1956 - Taur Matan Ruak, Prime minister and former President of East Timor
1956 - Amanda Burton, British actress
1956 - Fiona Fullerton, British actress
1956 - David Hempleman-Adams, English businessman and adventurer
1956 - Paul Sturrock, Scottish footballer and manager
1957 – Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese mangaka
1958 - Tanya Tucker, American country music singer and musician
1959 – Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)
1959 - Julia Sweeney, American actress
1959 - Bradley Whitford, American actor
1960 - Simon Townshend, English guitarist, singer and songwriter
1961 - Martin Kemp, English singer and actor (Spandau Ballet)
1964 - Sarah Lancashire, English actress
1964 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)
1965 - Toshi, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
1965 - Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
1965 - Rebecca Pidgeon, American-English actress and singer-songwriter
1966 – Tony Adams, English footballer
1967 - Jonathan Littell, American-French writer
1967 - Mike Malinin, American drummer (Goo Goo Dolls)
1967 - Gavin Newsom, American politician, current Governor of California and former Mayor of San Francisco
1969 – Brett Favre, American football player
1970 – Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German luger
1970 – Matthew Pinsent, British rower
1970 - Dean Kiely, Irish footballer
1970 - Bai Ling, Chinese actress
1971 - Graham Alexander, British footballer and manager
1971 - Markus Heitz, German author
1972 - Alexei Zhitnik, Russian ice hockey player
1972 - Nicky Morgan, English politician
1974 – Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentine footballer
1974 - Dale Earnhardt, Jr., American racing driver
1975 - Ihsahn, Norwegian singer-songwriter, musician and producer
1975 - Jacqueline Pirie, Scottish actress
1976 – Shane Doan, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player
1979 - Mya, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer and actress
1979 - Kangta, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer and actress
1980 - Sherine, Egyptian singer and actress
1980 - Tim Maurer, American singer-songwriter (Suburban Legends)
1981 - Una Healy, Irish singer (The Saturdays)
1982 - Logi Geirsson, Icelandic handball player
1982 - Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi Arabian footballer
1983 – Nikos Spiropoulos, Greek footballer
1984 - Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
1985 – Marina Diamandis, Welsh singer-songwriter (Marina and the Diamonds)
1987 - Colin Slade, New Zealand rugby player
1988 - Luis Cardozo, Paraguayan footballer
1989 - Aimee Teegarden, American actress
1991 – Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer
1991 - Xherdan Shaqiri, Swiss footballer
1991 - Michael Carter-Williams, American basketball player
1992 - Jano Ananidze, Georgian footballer
1992 - Gabrielle Aplin, English singer-songwriter
1994 - Bae Suzy, South Korean singer, dancer and actress
19 – Germanicus, father of Caligula and brother of Claudius (b. 15 BC)
680 – Husayn bin Ali, grandson of Muhammad (b. 626)
1359 - Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
1459 – Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist, classicist (b. 1380)
1531 – Huldrych Zwingli, leader of Swiss Reformation (b. 1484)
1659 – Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)
1708 - David Gregory, Scottish mathematician (b. 1659)
1723 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, English politician (b. 1665)
1725 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, French politician (b. 1643)
1747 – John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
1795 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
1806 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b. 1772)
1827 – Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer (b. 1778)
1837 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)
1872 – William H. Seward, Secretary of State (b. 1801)
1875 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
1893 – Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
1901 – Lorenzo Snow, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
1911 - Jack Daniel, American businessman (b. 1849)
1913 – Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
1913 - Adolphus Busch, German-American brewer and businessman (b. 1839)
1914 – Charles I of Romania (b. 1839)
1927 – Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
1940 – Berton Churchill, American pioneer Hollywood actor (b. 1876)
1962 – Trygve Gulbranssen, Norwegian writer (b. 1894)
1964 – Eddie Cantor, American singer, vaudeville performer (b. 1892)
1964 - Guru Dutt, Indian actor, producer and director (b. 1925)
1966 - Charlotte Cooper, English tennis player (b. 1870)
1970 - Edouard Daladier, French politician (b. 1884)
1971 – John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
1973 - Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (b. 1881)
1978 – Ralph Metcalfe, track and field athlete (b. 1910)
1979 – Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
1983 – Ralph Richardson, actor (b. 1902)
1985 – Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1920)
1985 – Orson Welles, American director, actor (b. 1915)
1998 - Marvin Gay, Sr.,
father and killer of Marvin Gaye (b. 1914)
1998 – Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
2000 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan Prime Minister (b. 1916)
2003 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
2004 – Arthur H. Robinson, cartographer (b. 1915)
2004 – Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
2004 – Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
2004 – Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
2005 – Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1924)
2008 - Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (b. 1947)
2009 – Stephen Gately, Irish singer (Boyzone) (b. 1976)
2010 – Solomon Burke, American soul singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
2010 – Hwang Jang-yop, North Korean politician and defector (b. 1923)
2010 – Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (b. 1926)
2011 – Albert Rosellini, American politician (b. 1910)
2011 - Jagjit Singh, Indian musician (b. 1941)
2012 - Alex Karras, American football player and actor (b. 1935)
2012 - Amanda Todd, American student, victim of cyberbullying (b. 1996)
2013 - Scott Carpenter, American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut (b. 1925)
2014 - Valeri Karpov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1971)
2014 - Ed Nimmervoll, Austrian-Australian music journalist and author (b. 1947)
2014 - Finn Lied, Norwegian military researcher and politician (b. 1916)
2015 - Richard F. Heck, American chemist (b. 1931)
2017 - Cho Jin-ho, South Korean footballer (b. 1973)
2017 - Don Pedro Colley, American actor (b. 1938)
2017 - Pentti Holappa, Finnish poet, writer and politician (b. 1927)
2017 - Bob Schiller, American television writer (b. 1918)
2018 - Mary Midgley, English philosopher (b. 1919)
2018 - Raye Montague, American naval engineer (b. 1935)
2018 - Tex Winter, American basketball coach (b. 1922)
2019 - Ugo Colombo, Italian cyclist (b. 1940)
2019 - Richard Jeranian, Armenian-French painter and draftsman (b. 1921)
2019 - Tarek Kamel, Egyptian politician and computer engineer (b. 1962)
2019 - Juliette Kaplan, British actress (b. 1939)
2019 - Enrique Moreno, Mexican-American lawyer (b. 1955)
2019 - Marie-José Nat, French actress (b. 1940)
2020 - Vasili Kulkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1966)
Independence Day (Fiji)
National Day of the Republic of China
World Mental Health Day
International Day Against the Death Penalty
Arbor Day (Poland)
Army Day (Sri Lanka)
1138  1138 Aleppo earthquake: A massive earthquake destroys much of Aleppo, Syria.
1142  A peace treaty between the Jin Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty is formally ratified when a Jin Dynasty envoy arrives at the Song court.
1531  Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
1634  A flood disaster kills 15,000 people in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
1649  After a 10-day siege, the English New Model Army under Oliver Cromwell storms the town of Wexford, Ireland - 2,000 Irish troops and 1,500 civilians are killed.
1727  King George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned king and queen.
1737  Calcutta is struck by an earthquake, killing around 300,000 people.
1746  War of Austrian Succession: The French defeat an army consisiting of Austrians, Dutch and British troops.
1767  Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line, separating Maryland and Pennsylvania, is completed.
1776  American War of Independence: In the Battle of Valcou, British forces destroy most United States Navy ships.
1797  French Revolutionary Wars: The Royal Navy captures eleven Dutch Navy ships without any losses in the Battle of Camperdown.
1809  Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies in mysterious circumstances.
1833  A big demonstration at the gates of the legislature of Buenos Aires forces the ousting of governor Juan Ramon Balcarce and his replacement with Juan Jose Viamonte.
1852  The University of Sydney, Australia is inaugurated.
1864  Campina Grande, Brazil becomes a city.
1890  In Washington, DC, the group Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
1899  The Second Boer War erupts between the United Kingdom and the Boers of Transvaal and the Orange Free State in present-day South Africa.
1906  The San Francisco school board orders Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools (different schools from White American students), sparking a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan.
1910  Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to fly in an airplane.
1912  First Balkan War: The Greek army liberates the city of Kozani.
1918  The San Fermin earthquake hits Puerto Rico.
1941  Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
1942  World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance - In northwest Guadalcanal, US troops intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
1949  Wilhelm Pieck is elected the first, and only, President of East Germany.
1954  Frist Indochina War: The Viet Minh takes control of North Vietnam.
1957  M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik's booster rocket's orbit.
1958  NASA launches the Pioneer 1 lunar probe, which falls back to Earth and burns up.
1963  West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, aged 87, submits his resignation.
1968  NASA launches the Apollo 7 mission; Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham on board.
1975  Saturday Night Live is first broadcast.
1982  The Tudor warship Mary Rose, which sank in 1545, is salvaged near Portsmouth, England.
1984  On board the Space Shuttle Challenger, Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a spacewalk.
1984  An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-54 airplane crashes into maintenance vehicles in Omsk, Siberia, killing 178 people.
1986  Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan meet for talks in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1987  German politician Uwe Barschel is found dead in his hotel room in Geneva, Switzerland.
1996  A wood lorry and a school bus collide in Jogeva County, Estonia, killing 8 children.
2000  The 100th Space Shuttle mission launches, with the Space Shuttle Discovery.
2002  7 people are killed in a bomb attack on a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland.
2006  A small aircraft piloted by baseball player Cory Lidle crashes into a residential building (a building where people live) in New York City, killing both Lidle and his flight instructor, with 21 people being injured.
2008  Austrian far-right politician Jörg Haider is killed in a car crash.
2012  The UN designates this the first International Day of the Girl Child.
2013  The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins the Nobel Peace Prize, the second time in a row that an organization has won the prize outright.
2013  At least 30 people die when a boat carrying them from North Africa gets into trouble off Lampedusa, in the Mediterranean Sea, just over a week after over 300 people are killed in a similar accident there.
2014  Charles Michel becomes Prime Minister of Belgium, replacing Elio Di Rupo.
2019  Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
1335  Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1408)
1616  Andreas Gryphius, German poet (d. 1664)
1661  Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (d. 1742)
1671  King Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1730)
1672  Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian diplomat (d. 1742)
1675  Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (d. 1729)
1738  Arthur Phillip, British admiral, Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814)
1739  Grigory Potemkin, Russian military leader and statesman (d. 1791)
1755  Fausto Elhuyar, Spanish chemist (d. 1833)
1758  Hermann Wilhelm Olbers, German physician and astronomer (d. 1840)
1788  Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (d. 1867)
1806  Alexander Karadordevic, Prince of Serbia (d. 1886)
1814  Jean Baptiste Lamy, first Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1888)
1815  Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte, Italian-born adventurer (d. 1881)
1821  George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (d. 1905)
1844  Henry Heinz, American food manufacturer (d. 1916)
1846  Carlos Pellegrini, President of Argentina (d. 1906)
1863  Louis Cyr, famous Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
1865  Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian philologist and author (d. 1926)
1871  Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader (d. 1943)
1872  Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946)
1872  Emily Davison, British Women's Rights activist (d. 1913)
1876  Paul Masson, French cyclist (d. 1944)
1879  Ernst Mally, Austrian philosopher (d. 1944)
1881  Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist
1881  Lewis Fry Richardson, British meteorologist (d. 1953)
1884  Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
1884  Eleanor Roosevelt, American human rights activist, First Lady of the United States (d. 1962)
1884  Sig Ruman, American actor (d. 1967)
1885  François Mauriac, French writer (d. 1970)
1885  Alfred Haar, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1933)
1887  Willie Hoppe, American billiards champion (d. 1959)
1891  Kim Seong-Su, Korean journalist and politician (d. 1955)
1895  Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (d. 1982)
1899  Eddie Dyer, American baseball player (d. 1964)
1902  Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1979)
1905  Jean-Marie Villot, French cardinal (d. 1979)
1905  Fred Trump, American businessman, father of Donald Trump (d. 1999)
1911  Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentine long-distance runner (d. 1983)
1913  Joe Simon, American comic book artist and writer (d. 2011)
1918  Jerome Robbins, choreographer (d. 1998)
1919  Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (d. 1990)
1919  Kader Firoud, Algerian footballer (d. 2005)
1919  Jean Vander Pyl, voice of Wilma Flintstone in The Flintstones cartoon (d. 1999).
1920  James Aloysius Hickey, American cardinal (d. 2004)
1920  Edgar Negret, Colombian sculptor (d. 2012)
1924  Mal Whitfield, American runner (d. 2015)
1925  Elmore Leonard, American novelist (d. 2013)
1926  Jean Alexander, English actress (d. 2016)
1926  Thich Nhat Wanh, Vietnamese author, monk and poet
1926  Neville Wran, former Premier of New South Wales (d. 2014)
1927  Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (d. 2005)
1927  William Perry, former United States Secretary of Defense
1927  Jim Prior, English politician (d. 2016)
1928  Marquis Alfonso de Portago, Grand Prix driver (d. 1957)
1929  Curtis Amy, American saxophonist (d. 2002)
1929  Raymond Moriyama, Canadian architect
1929  Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress
1930  Ronnie Simpson, Scottish footballer (d. 2004)
1932  Dottie West, country music singer (d. 1991)
1936  C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut (d. 2013)
1937  Bobby Charlton, English footballer
1937  Jaan Kundla, Estonian politician
1939  Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player (d. 2018)
1940  Pouri Banayi, Iranian actress
1942  Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor, singer, producer, UNICEF Ambassador.
1942  Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton, British academic and politician
1943  John Nettles, British actor
1943  Ilmar Reepalu, Swedish politician
1946  Sawao Kato, Japanese gymnast
1946  Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer (d. 2011)
1947  Lucas Papademos, Greek economist and former Prime Minister of Greece
1947  Al Atkins, English singer-songwriter (Judas Priest)
1948  Cecilia, Spanish singer (d. 1976)
1948  Peter Turkson, Ghanaian cardinal
1949  Daryl Hall, musician
1950  Robert Pugh, Welsh actor
1951  Jean-Jacques Goldman, French pop singer, songwriter
1951  Kim Ja-ok, South Korean actress (d. 2014)
1951  Charles Shyer, American director, producer and writer
1953  David Morse, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1955  Hans-Peter Briegel, German footballer
1956  Nicanor Duarte Frutos, former President of Paraguay
1957  Dawn French, British comedienne
1958  Gregory Dudek, Canadian computer scientist and academic
1959  Allan Little, Scottish BBC correspondent
1961  Steve Young, American football player
1962  Joan Cusack, American actress
1962  Andy McCoy, Finnish-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1963  Jordi Villacampa, Spanish basketball player
1963  Prince Faisal bin Al-Hussein of Jordan
1963  Ronny Rosenthal, Israeli footballer
1965  Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor
1965  Juan Ignacio Cirac, Spanish physicist
1966  Luke Perry, American actor (d. 2019)
1966  Todd Snider, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967  Daniel Razon, Filipino TV host, singer and minister
1968  Claude Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player
1969  Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
1969  Merieme Chadid, Moroccan astronomer
1972  Cherokee Parks, American basketball player
1973  Steven Pressley, Scottish footballer
1975  Orlando Maturana, Colombian footballer
1976  Emily Deschanel, American actress
1976  Dominic Aitchison, Scottish bass player and songwriter
1976  Raivo Kotov, Estonian architect
1976  Claudia Black, Australian actress
1977  Ty Wigginton, American baseball player
1979  Bae Doona, South Korean model and actress
1979  Andy Douglas, American professional wrestler
1980  Juan José Ribera, Chilean footballer
1981  Beau Brady, Australian actor
1982  Jermaine V. Mitchell, Rap musician
1983  Bradley James, British actor
1983  Ruslan Ponomariov, Ukrainian chess player
1985  Michelle Trachtenberg, actress
1985  Alvaro Fernandez, Uruguayan footballer
1985  Margaret Berger, Norwegian singer
1987  Mike Conley, Jr., American basketball player
1988  Cinthia Fernandez, Argentine acrobat-dancer, actress and model
1988  Omar Gonzalez, American soccer player
1988  Seamus Coleman, Irish footballer
1989  Michelle Wie, American golfer
1991  Jack Garratt, English singer and songwriter
1992  Cardi B, American rapper
1992  Emilia Bottas, Finnish swimmer
1993  Sean Murray, Irish footballer
2001  Daniel Maldini, Italian footballer
1188  Robert I, Count of Dreux (b. 1123)
1303  Pope Boniface VIII
1347  Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)
1424  Jan Zizka, Czech general (b. 1360)
1531  Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (b. 1484)
1705  Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)
1708  Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician, physicist and physician and philosopher (d. 1651)
1779  Casimir Pulaski, Polish fighter for American independence (b. 1745)
1809  Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (suicide) (b. 1774)
1811  Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (b. 1724)
1813  Robert Kerr, Scottish physician, writer and zoologist (b. 1757)
1830  José de La Mar, President of Peru (b. 1778)
1852  Ferdinand Eisenstein, mathematician (b. 1823)
1889  James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b. 1818)
1896  Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
1896  Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
1915  Jean-Henri Fabre, French writer, poet and naturalist (b. 1823)
1916  King Otto of Bavaria (b. 1848)
1940  Lluís Companys, Spanish President of Generalitat of Catalonia, (shot) (b. 1882)
1940  Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
1961  Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
1963  Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
1963  Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)
1965  Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
1965  Walther Stampfli, Swiss politician (b. 1884)
1971  Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1944)
1976  Alfredo Bracchi, Italian writer (b. 1897)
1977  MacKinlay Kantor, American writer (b. 1904)
1987  Uwe Barschel, German politician (b. 1944)
1989  M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1904)
1991  Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (b. 1902)
1993  Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927)
1996  Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)
1996  Renato Russo, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
1998  Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
2000  Donald Dewar, main writer of the Scotland Act and initial First Minister of the Scottish Parliament (b. 1937)
2003  Edward Breathitt, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1924)
2004  Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)
2005  Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister-in-exile (b. 1915)
2006  Cory Lidle, American baseball player (b. 1972)
2007  Werner von Trapp, one of the von Trapp family singers (b. 1915)
2007  Sri Chinmoy, Indian spiritual teacher (b. 1931)
2008  Jörg Haider, Austrian far-right politician (car crash) (b. 1950)
2012  Helmut Haller, German footballer (b. 1939)
2012  Edgar Negret, Colombian sculptor (b. 1920)
2013  María de Villota, Spanish racing driver (b. 1980)
2013  Erich Priebke, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1913)
2014  Carmelo Simeone, Argentine footballer (b. 1933)
2014  Tanhum Cohen-Mintz, Israeli basketball player (b. 1939)
2015  Steve Mackay, American saxophonist (b. 1949)
2016  Patricia Barry, American actress (b. 1922)
2017  James R. Ford, American politician (b. 1925)
2017  Clifford Husbands, Governor-General of Barbados (b. 1926)
2018  Doug Ellis, English businessman (b. 1924)
2018  Labinot Harbuzi, Swedish footballer (b. 1986)
2018  Dieter Kemper, German cyclist (b. 1937)
2018  Pran Nevile, Indian art historian (b. 1922)
2018  Yoshito Sengoku, Japanese politician (b. 1946)
2018  Hege Skjeie, Norwegian political scientist and columnist (b. 1955)
2018  Greg Stafford, American game designer (b. 1948)
2018  Hebe Uhart, Argentine novelist and columnist (b. 1936)
2019  Sam Bobrick, American television writer (b. 1932)
2019  Robert Forster, American actor (b. 1941)
2019  John Giorno, American poet and performance artist (b. 1936)
2019  Kadri Gopalnath, Indian saxophonist and composer (b. 1949)
2019  Alexei Leonov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (b. 1934)
2020  Hugo Arana, Argentine actor and comedian (b. 1943)
2020  Harold Betters, American jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
2020  Gary F. Jones, American racehorse trainer (b. 1944)
2020  Terry McBrayer, American politician (b. 1937)
2020  Ilya Moiseev, Russian chemist (b. 1929)
2020  Joe Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1943)
2020  John A. Ruthven, American wildlife artist (b. 1924)
International Day of the Girl Child
National Coming Out Day in some countries
Revolution Day (Republic of Macedonia)
Old Michaelmas (Christianity)
42 BC - Roman civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi - Mark Antony and Octavian defeat the army of Marcus Junius Brutus, who commits suicide shortly after.
425 – Valentinian III becomes Roman Emperor, at the age of 6.
1086 - Battle of az-Zallaqah: The army of Yusuf ibn Tashfa defeats forces of King Alfonso VI of Castile.
1157 - The Battle of Grathe-Heath ends the civil war in Denmark.
King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I of Denmark takes over.
1295 – Scotland and France sign the first treaty of the 'Auld Alliance' in Paris, against England.
1520 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned in Aachen.
1642 – English Civil War: The Battle of Edgehill
1707 – The first parliament of Great Britain meets.
1739 - War of Jenkins' Ear: British Prime Minister Robert Walpole reluctantly declares war on Spain.
1812 - Charles Francois de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow then-Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, by falsely claiming that he (Napoleon) had died in his attempt to conquer Russia.
1850 - The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts.
1864 - American Civil War: Union forces defeat the Confederates in the Battle of Westport.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz concludes with a decisive Prussian victory.
1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an aircraft in the first heavier-than-air flight, in Paris.
1912 – The Battle of Kumanovo between Russian and Ottoman forces begins.
1915 - 25,000 to 33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue in New York City to advocate their right to vote.
1917 - Vladimir Lenin calls for the October Revolution in Russia.
1929 – Great Depression: The first signs of panic show.
1940 - Norwegian Hurtigruten passenger steamer Prinsesse Ragnhild sinks after an explosion off northern Norway, killing 299 people on board.
1941 – World War II: Georgy Zhukov takes command of the Red Army operation to prevent the Nazis' further advances into Russia.
1942 – World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein takes place, as the British Eighth Army begins an offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.
1942 - World War II: The Battle of Henderson Field begins in the Guadalcanal Campaign, lasting until October 26.
1944 – World War II: The Red Army enters Hungary.
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines.
1946 – In New York, the UN General Assembly meets for the first time.
1956 – The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against Soviet rule begins.
1958 - The Smurfs cartoons appear for the first time.
1958 - The Springhill Mine Bump mining disaster in Nova Scotia, killing 74 people, with 100 surviving the accident.
1970 - Gary Gabelich sets a land-speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled by natural gas.
1972 - Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker - The US ends a bombing campaign of North Vietnam following the Easter Offensive.
1973 - A UN-sanctioned ceasefire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.
1983 – A truck bomb hits a US barracks in Lebanon, killing 241 troops.
On the same day, another truck bomb hits a French barracks, killing 58 military personnel.
1989 – The Hungarian Republic is declared.
1989 - The Philips Disaster in Pasadena, Texas kills 23 people.
1992 – Akihito becomes the first Japanese Emperor to stand on Chinese soil.
1995 - Yolanda Saldivar is convicted of murdering the singer Selena on March 31 of the same year.
2001 – The iPod is released.
2002 – The Moscow Theatre Siege begins, as Chechen terrorists take around 700 theatregoers hostage.
2003 - The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, designed by Frank Gehry, is opened.
2004 – An earthquake in the Niigata Prefecture in Japan kills 35 people and injures around 2,200.
2005 – Hurricane Wilma hits the Yucatan, in Mexico.
2005 – Lech Kaczynski is elected President of Poland, ahead of Donald Tusk.
2011 – New Zealand wins the Rugby World Cup, defeating France 8-7 in Auckland.
2011 – Motorcycle rider Marco Simoncelli is killed in a crash at the Malaysian Moto GP.
2011 – A powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits Van Province, in eastern Turkey.
2012 - The BBC ends its 38-year teletext service Ceefax, with Northern Ireland completing the United Kingdom's transition to digital television broadcasting.
2015 - Hurricane Patricia is measured as the heaviest hurricane ever to hit North or Central America, as it hits the Pacific Ocean coast of Mexico.
2015 - 43 people, mostly pensioners on a day-trip, die in a coach crash in Southwestern France, in one of the country's deadliest-ever road accidents.
2018 - The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge is officially opened by Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping.
2018 - October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts: A mail bomb addressed to former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is caught by police, after one addressed to George Soros was caught the previous day.
2019 - The bodies of 39 people are found in a lorry trailer at Purfleet, Essex, England.
63 BC - Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Roman general (d. 12 BC)
1503 – Isabella of Portugal (d. 1539)
1516 – Charlotte of Valois, French princess (d. 1524)
1634 - Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1715)
1654 - Johann Bernhard Staudt, Austrian Jesuit composer (d. 1712)
1713 - Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist (d. 1778)
1715 – Tsar Peter II of Russia (d. 1730)
1762 - Samuel Morey, American inventor (d. 1843)
1770 - George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, Scottish soldier and colonial administrator (d. 1838)
1771 - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813)
1796 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1857)
1801 – Albert Lortzing, German composer (d. 1851)
1813 – Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer (d. 1848)
1815 - Joao Mauricio Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (d. 1889)
1817 - Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875)
1831 - Basil Lanneau Gilders Lane, American classical scholar (d. 1924)
1835 – Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
1844 - Robert Bridges, English poet (d. 1930)
1857 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter (d. 1899)
1868 - Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, British industrialist, financier and politician (d. 1930)
1869 – John Heisman, American football player and coach (d. 1936)
1871 - Gjergj Fishta, Albanian poet (d. 1940)
1873 - William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (d. 1975)
1875 - Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946)
1876 - Franz Schlegelberger, German politician (d. 1970)
1880 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (d. 1959)
1885 - Lawren Harris, Canadian painter (d. 1970)
1893 – Gummo Marx, American actor (d. 1977)
1894 - Rube Bressler, American baseball player (d. 1966)
1896 - Roman Jakobson, Russian-born linguist (d. 1982)
1896 - Lilyan Tashman, American actress (b. 1934)
1905 – Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist (d. 1983)
1905 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
1905 - Yen Chia-han, President of the Republic of China (d. 1993)
1908 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist (d. 1990)
1910 - Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (d. 1993)
1910 - Hayden Rorke, American actor (d. 1987)
1911 - Jack Keller, American hurdler (d. 1978)
1918 - James Daly, American actor (d. 1978)
1919 - Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist (d. 1992)
1920 - Lygia Clark, Brazilian artist (d. 1988)
1920 - Bob Montana, American cartoonist (d. 1975)
1922 - Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington, English politician (d. 2018)
1922 - Coleen Gray, American actress (d. 2015)
1923 - Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, Vice President of India (d. 2010)
1925 – Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (d. 1994)
1925 – Johnny Carson, American television host (d. 2005)
1927 - Barron Hilton, American businessman (d. 2019)
1927 – Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher (d. 2009)
1927 - Dezso Gyarmati, Hungarian water polo player (d. 2013)
1928 - Zhu Rongji, Chinese politician
1929 - Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet, columnist and journalist (d. 2006)
1931 - Diana Dors, British actress (d. 1984)
1931 – Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician
1936 – Philip Kaufman, American director
1938 – H. John Heinz III, American politician (d. 1991)
1940 – Pelé, Brazilian footballer
1940 - Jane Holzer, American model, actress, producer and art collector
1941 - Lawrence Foster, American conductor
1941 - Igor Smirnov, Moldovan politician
1942 - Bernd Erdmann, German footballer
1942 – Michael Crichton, American writer (d. 2008)
1942 – Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (d. 2007)
1945 - Maggi Hambling, British painter and sculptor
1945 – Kim Larsen, Danish musician and singer (d. 2018)
1945 - Michel Vautrot, French football referee
1947 - Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (d. 1989)
1947 – Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, leader of Hamas (d. 2004)
1948 - Gerry Robinson, Irish businessman and television presenter
1949 – Michael Burston (Wurzel), British musician (Motorhead) (d. 2011)
1951 – Charly García, Argentine singer
1951 – Fatmir Sejdiu, former President of Kosovo
1951 - Angel de Andres Lopez, Spanish actor (d. 2016)
1952 - Ken Tipton, American entrepreneur, actor, director, writer and producer
1954 – Ang Lee, Taiwanese movie director
1954 - Uli Stein, German footballer
1956 - Dianne Reeves, American jazz singer
1956 - Dwight Yoakam, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
1957 - Martin Luther King III, American activist
1957 - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda
1959 - Sam Raimi, American movie director
1959 – "Weird Al" Yankovic, American musical parodist
1960 – Randy Pausch, American computer scientist and writer (d. 2008)
1961 – Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer
1962 - Stefano Colantuono, Italian footballer and coach
1963 - Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (d. 2012)
1964 – Robert Trujillo, American musician (Metallica)
1967 - Omar Linares, Cuban baseball player
1968 - Maria Darling, English voice actress
1969 - Trudi Canavan, Australian writer
1969 - Dolly Buster, Czech-German pornographic actress
1970 - Matthew Barzun, American diplomat
1971 - Bohuslav Sobotka, Czech politician, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
1973 – Christian Dailly, Scottish footballer
1975 - Yoon Sun-ha, South Korean actress and singer
1976 - Cat Deeley, British television personality
1976 – Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor
1978 – Jimmy Bullard, English footballer
1978 – Archie Thompson, Australian footballer
1978 - Steve Harmison, English cricketer
1978 - John Lackey, American baseball player
1979 – Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
1984 – Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model
1984 - Meghan McCain, American columnist and author
1985 - Masiela Lusha, Albanian-born American writer and actress
1985 - Lachlan Gillespie, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
1985 - Mohammed Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
1986 - Briana Evigan, American actress
1986 - Jessica Stroup, American actress
1986 - Emilia Clarke, English actress
1987 - Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer
1988 - Jordan Crawford, American basketball player
1989 - Andriy Yarmolenko, Ukrainian footballer
1990 – Paradise Oskar, Finnish singer
1991 – Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan
1992 - Alvaro Morata, Spanish footballer
1993 - Taylor Spreitler, American actress
1994 - Georgia Toffolo, English television personality