the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1974 - Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer
1979 - Wiley, British rapper
1979 - Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast
1980 - Pasha Kovalev, Russian-born dancer
1980 – Jenson Button, British racing driver
1981 – Asier del Horno, Spanish footballer
1982 – Jodie Sweetin, American actress
1985 – Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1985 – Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player
1985 - Pascal Behrenbruch, German decathlete
1986 - Claudio Marchisio, Italian footballer
1986 - Loren Geller-Rabinowitz, American ice dancer
1987 – Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer
1988 - Alexey Vorobyov, Russian singer and actor
1991 – Erin Sanders, American actress
1992 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnast
1992 - Mac Miller, American rapper, producer and actor
1992 - Logan Lerman, American actor
520 - John of Cappadocia, Patriarch of Constantinople
639 – Dagobert I, king of the Franks
1526 – Isabella of Burgundy, queen of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)
1576 - Hans Sacher, German meistersinger (b. 1494)
1661 - Thomas Venner, English Fifth monarchist (b. 1599)
1729 – William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1718)
1833 - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (b. 1791)
1847 – Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer (b. 1799)
1851 - Esteban Echeverria, Argentine writer (b. 1805)
1865 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
1869 - Carl Reichenbach, German philosopher and chemist (b. 1788)
1874 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798)
1878 – Henri Victor Regnault, French physicist and chemist (b. 1810)
1883 - Richard England, British general (b. 1793)
1905 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
1906 - Bartolomé Mitre, President of Argentina (b. 1821)
1925 - Maria Sophia of the Two Sicilies (b. 1841)
1927 - Charlotte of Belgium (b. 1840)
1930 - Frank Plumpton Ramsey, British philosopher (b. 1903)
1948 - Tony Garnier, French architect (b. 1869)
1954 - Mohamed Amin Didi, President of the Maldives (b. 1910)
1957 - Jozsef Dudas, Hungarian-Romanian Resistance fighter (b. 1912)
1968 – Ray Harroun, first winner of the Indianapolis 500 (b. 1879)
1969 – Jan Palach, Czech student, political activist (b. 1948)
1971 – Harry Shields, jazz musician (b. 1899)
1972 – Michael Rabin, concert violinist (b. 1936)
1975 – Thomas Hart Benton, painter (b. 1889)
1979 - Tuffy Leemans, American football player (b. 1912)
1980 – William O. Douglas, United States Supreme Court Associate Justice (b. 1898)
1982 - Elis Regina, Brazilian soprano (b. 1945)
1984 - Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
1990 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (b. 1906)
1990 – Rajneesh, religious leader (b. 1931)
1991 – John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
1996 – Don Simpson, American movie producer (b. 1943)
1997 – James Dickey, poet, novelist (b. 1923)
1998 – Carl Perkins, guitarist (b. 1932)
2000 – Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
2000 – Hedy Lamarr, actress (b. 1913)
2003 - Françoise Giroud, French journalist, screenwriter and politician (b. 1916)
2003 - Milton Flores, Honduran footballer (b. 1974)
2004 – David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)
2005 – Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924)
2005 – Donald Beardslee, United States murderer, executed in California (b. 1943)
2005 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974)
2005 – Ricardo Suriñach, Catholic Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico (2000-2003) (b. 1928)
2006 – Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
2007 – Scott Bigelow, American professional wrestler (b. 1961).
2007 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. 1954)
2007 - Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (b. 1940)
2008 - Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
2009 – Beatrice Farve, American supercentenarian (b. 1895)
2010 – Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby commentator (b. 1923)
2010 – Panajot Pano, Albanian footballer (b. 1939)
2012 - Sarah Burke, Canadian freestyle skier (b. 1982)
2013 - Stan Musial, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2013 - Earl Weaver, American baseball manager (b. 1930)
2013 - Taiho Koki, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1940)
2014 - Christopher Chataway, English athlete, broadcaster, politician and businessman (b. 1931)
2014 - Bert Williams, English footballer (b. 1920)
2014 - Azaria Alon, Israeli environmentalist (b. 1918)
2014 - Steven Fromholz, American entertainer, singer and songwriter (b. 1945)
2015 - Michel Guimond, Canadian politician (b. 1953)
2015 - Vladimir Kesarev, Russian footballer (b. 1930)
2015 - Anne Kirkbride, English actress (Coronation Street) (b. 1954)
2015 - Arthit Kamlang-ek, Thai general (b. 1925)
2015 - Bob Symes, English inventor and television presenter (b. 1924)
2015 - Karl H. Pribram, American neuroscientist and educator (b. 1919)
2015 - Adam Yahiye Gadahn, American Al-Qaeda operative (b. 1978)
2016 - Yasutaro Koide, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest-living man (b. 1903)
2016 - Ettore Scola, Italian movie director (b. 1931)
2016 - M. K. A. D. S. Gunawardana, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1947)
2016 - Robert M. Carter, English paleontologist (b. 1942)
2016 - Sheila Sim, English actress (b. 1922)
2016 - Frank Sullivan, American baseball player (b. 1930)
2016 - Richard Levins, American mathematical ecologist and population geneticist (b. 1930)
2016 - William Y. Smith, American air force general (b. 1925)
2017 - Jalal Allakhverdiyev, Azerbaijani mathematician (b. 1929)
2017 - Wayne Barrett, American journalist (b. 1945)
2017 - Loalwa Braz, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1953)
2017 - Miguel Ferrer, American actor (b. 1955)
2017 - Eddie Filgate, Irish politician (b. 1915)
2017 - Jan Kruis, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1933)
2017 - Ger van Mourik, Dutch footballer (b. 1931)
2017 - Edwin Pope, American journalist (b. 1928)
2017 - Walt Streuli, American baseball player (b. 1935)
2017 - James S. Vlasto, American public servant (b. 1934)
2017 - H. Boyd Woodruff, American microbiologist (b. 1917)
2017 - Teori Zavascki, Brazilian judge (b. 1948)
2018 - Ute Bock, Austrian educator and humanitarian (b. 1942)
2018 - Anna Campori, Italian actress (b. 1917)
2018 - Saqi Farooqi, Pakistani poet (b. 1926)
2018 - Red Fisher, Canadian sports journalist (b. 1926)
2018 - Dorothy Malone, American actress (b. 1924)
2018 - Fredo Santana, American rapper (b. 1990)
2018 - Allison Shearmur, American film producer (b. 1963)
Epiphany in the Eastern Orthodox Church
Southern US States commemorate Robert E. Lee on this date.
250 - Emperor Decius begins widespread persecution of Christians in Rome
1265 – The English Parliament conducts its first meeting.
1320 - Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes King of Poland.
1356 – Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scotland.
1523 – Christian III is forced to abdicate the thrones of Denmark and Norway.
1576 - The city of León in Mexico is founded.
1649 – King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland goes on trial for treason and 'high crimes'.
1778 - James Cook lands on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i.
1783 - Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain.
1788 - The third and main part of the First Fleet of convicts from Great Britain arrives at Botany Bay.
Arthur Phillip decides to move the convict colony slightly further along the coast to Port Jackson, present-day Sydney, Australia.
1801 – John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the United States.
1839 – Battle of Yungay: Chile defeats Peru and Bolivia.
1840 – Jules Dumont D'Urville's expedition to Antarctica discovers Adelie Land.
1841 – Hong Kong comes under British control.
1855 - LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents the roller coaster.
1877 - Last day of the Constantinople Conference, which results in an agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
1885 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
1887 - Off the Brazilian coast, British immigrant ship Kapunda collides with the barque Ada Melmore, causing it to sink within 5 minutes, killing 297 of the 313 people on board, including all women and children.
1887 - The United States Senate allows the United States Navy to lease Pearl Harbor, Hawaii as a naval base.
1892 - The first basketball game under rules invented by James Naismith takes place in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1905 - The Egyptian Bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia, collapses.
1920 - The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
1921 – Turkey's first constitution is adopted.
1929 - In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking movie filmed outdoors, is released.
1934 – The photography and electronics company Fujimovie is founded in Tokyo.
1936 – King George V of the United Kingdom dies.
His son, Edward VIII, succeeds him.
1937 – At his second inauguration, Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first US President to be inaugurated on January 20.
1941 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to start a third term in office.
He starts his fourth term on this date in 1945 and dies shortly after.
1941 - World War II: A German police officer is murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers.
1942 – Senior Nazi officials meet at the Wannsee Conference, to plan the Holocaust.
1945 – World War II: Hungary agrees to an Armistice with the Allies.
1945 - World War II: Germany begins with the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia.
1949 – Harry S. Truman proposes Point Four program to help the world's less developed areas.
1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President of the United States; he is the first President from the Republican Party since Herbert Hoover left office in 1933.
1960 - Hendrik Verwoerd announces a vote on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
1961 – John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as President of the United States.
1969 - Richard Nixon becomes President of the United States.
1972 - Pakistan launches its nuclear weapons program.
1977 - Jimmy Carter becomes President of the United States.
1980 – Jimmy Carter announces that the US will not participate at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
1981 – The Iran hostage crisis ends within minutes of Ronald Reagan becoming US President.
1985 - President Ronald Reagan is inaugurated for the second time.
He becomes the first president in over a decade to serve two terms.
1986 – In the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is marked as a federal holiday for the first time.
1987 – Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon.
1989 – George H. W. Bush becomes President of the United States succeeding President Ronald Reagan.
1990 – Soviet forces kill civilians in Baku, Azerbaijan.
1991 - Sudan's government imposes Islamic law around the country, worsening the civil war between the mainly Muslim North and mainly Christian South, which would become South Sudan in 2011.
1992 - Air Inter Flight 148 crashes near Strasbourg, France, killing 87 people.
1993 – Bill Clinton becomes President of the United States, as the first Democratic President since Jimmy Carter left office in 1981.
1995 - Jean-Claude Juncker becomes Prime Minister of Luxembourg.
He is Europe's longest-serving Prime Minister at the time he leaves office on December 4, 2013.
1996 – Yasser Arafat is elected Palestinian President.
1999 - The China News Service announces new government limits on internet use.
2001 – In a coup in the Philippines, Joseph Estrada is replaced as President by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
2001 – George W. Bush becomes President of the United States.
2006 - People report seeing a bottlenose whale in the Thames in London.
It dies late the next day after failed attempts to lead it back to the sea.
2007 - A three-man team, only on skis and kites completes a 1759-kilometer (1093-mile) journey to the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, becoming the first people to do this without mechanical help.
2009 – Barack Obama becomes the first African American President of the United States.
2013 - Barack Obama starts his second term as President of the United States, becoming the third US President in a row to serve two terms in office.
2014 - The European Rosetta comet chaser spacecraft is reawakened after a 31-month hibernation on its way to attempt landing on a comet.
2016 - A terrorist attack is carried out on the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, Pakistan, killing 21 people.
2016 - Scientists announce that they are "90% certain" of the existence of a 9th planet in the solar system beyond the Kuiper belt.
2017 – Donald Trump becomes President of the United States.
225 – Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)
1292 - Elisabeth of Bohemia (d. 1330)
1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese Shogun (d. 1490)
1488 – Sebastian Münster, German humanist and teacher (d. 1552)
1554 – King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
1703 - Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Flemish composer and violinist (d. 1741)
1716 – King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
1732 - Richard Henry Lee, American statesman (d. 1794)
1761 - Giovanni Domenico Perotti, Italian composer (d. 1825)
1775 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836)
1783 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
1798 – Anson Jones, President of Texas (d. 1858)
1812 – Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
1832 - William Larrabee, 13th Governor of Iowa (d. 1912)
1834 - George D. Robinson, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1855 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
1867 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
1873 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer (d. 1950)
1876 - Josef Hofmann, Polish inventor, composer and pianist (d. 1957)
1878 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer (d. 1968)
1880 - Walter W. Bacon, American politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (d. 1962)
1889 - Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation executive (d. 1969)
1891 - Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 1967)
1894 - Walter Piston, American composer (d. 1976)
1894 - Harold Gray, American cartoonist (d. 1968)
1895 - Gabor Szego, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1985)
1896 – George Burns, American actor and comedian (d. 1996)
1896 - Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
1898 – U Razak, Burmese politician (d. 1947)
1899 - Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese television pioneer (d. 1990)
1899 – Clarice Cliff, English ceramic artist (d. 1972)
1902 – Leon Ames, American actor (d. 1993)
1907 - Paul Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
1910 – Joy Adamson, Austrian-Czech conservationist (d. 1980)
1911 - Alfredo Foni, Italian footballer (d. 1985)
1913 - Cleon Skousen, American writer and political theorist (d. 2006)
1915 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
1920 – Federico Fellini, Italian movie director (d. 1993)
1920 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
1920 – Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian writer and ski jumper (d. 2006)
1922 - Ray Anthony, American jazz musician and actor
1922 - Don Mankiewicz, German-American screenwriter and inventor (d. 2015)
1923 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (d. 2015)
1923 - Slim Whitman, American singer (d. 2013)
1924 - Yvonne Loriod, French pianist (d. 2010)
1925 - Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, politician and activist
1926 - Vitaly Vorotnikov, Soviet politician (d. 2012)
1926 – Patricia Neal, American actress (d. 2010)
1926 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer
1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American Apollo 11 astronaut
1931 – David Lee, American physicist
1931 - Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist
1932 - Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player
1933 - Don Thompson, British athlete (d. 2006)
1934 – Tom Baker, British actor
1936 – Frances Shand Kydd (d. 2004), mother of Diana, Princess of Wales
1939 - Chandra Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan-British mathematician and astronomer
1940 - Mande Sidibe, Prime Minister of Mali (d. 2009)
1941 - Pierre Lalonde, Canadian singer and television presenter
1943 - Armando Guebuza, President of Mozambique
1945 - Eric Stewart, British musician and songwriter
1945 – Christopher Martin-Jenkins, British sportscaster and cricket journalist (d. 2013)
1946 – David Lynch, American movie director
1946 - Vladimir Merta, Czech singer-songwriter, journalist and writer
1947 - Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist
1948 - Mel Pritchard, English musician
1948 - Natan Sharansky, Russian-Israeli physicist and politician
1948 - Nigel Williams, English novelist
1949 – Göran Persson, former Prime Minister of Sweden
1950 – Mahamane Ousmane, former President of Niger
1950 - Liza Goddard, British actress
1952 – Ian Hill, British musician
1952 – Paul Stanley, American musician
1952 - Ute Hommola, German athlete
1953 - Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sexual abuser
1954 - Rudy la Scala, Venezuelan singer-songwriter
1955 - McKeeva Bush, Cayman Islands politician
1956 - Bill Maher, American writer, comedian and political activist
1956 - Maria Larsson, Swedish politician
1957 - Andy Sheppard, English jazz saxophonist
1958 - Lorenzo Lamas, American actor
1959 - R. A. Salvatore, American science fiction author
1960 - Apa Sherpa, Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer
1963 - David Baszucki, Founder of Roblox
1963 - James Denton, American actor
1964 - Ozzie Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player
1965 – Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer
1965 – Greg Kriesel, American musician
1965 – Heather Small, British singer
1965 – Sophie, Countess of Wessex
1966 – Rainn Wilson, American actor
1966 - Stacey Dash, American actress
1969 – Nicky Wire, British musician
1970 - Skeet Ulrich, American actor
1971 – Gary Barlow, British singer (Take That)
1971 – Derrick Green, American singer
1971 - Wakanohana Masaru, Japanese sumo wrestler
1972 - Nikki Haley, American politician, 116th Governor of South Carolina
1973 - Stephen Crabb, British politician
1973 – Mathilde, Queen Consort of Belgium
1973 – Josh Weston, American gay porn actor (d. 2012)
1974 - Alvin Harrison, American athlete
1976 - Kirsty Gallacher, British television presenter
1977 – Sid Wilson, American musician (Slipknot)
1978 – Sonja Kesselschlaeger, German athlete
1979 – Will Young, British singer
1979 – Rob Bourdon, American musician (Linkin Park)
1980 - Philippe Cousteau, Jr., French-American oceanographer
1981 – Owen Hargreaves, English footballer
1981 - Freddy Guzman, Dominican baseball player
1982 - Joe Swash, English actor
1983 – Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1984 – Olivia Hallinan, English actress
1984 - Lil Scrappy, American rapper
1984 - Federico Peluso, Italian footballer
1985 - Johan Erikson, Swedish ski jumper
1985 - Marina Inoue, Japanese voice actress
1987 – Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2011)
1987 - Evan Peters, American actor
1991 - Polona Hercog, Slovenian tennis player
1995 - Joey Badass, American rapper
1995 - Calum Chambers, English footballer
1999 - Shannon Tavarez, American actress (d. 2010)
250 - Pope Fabian
842 - Theophilos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 813)
1156 - Bishop Henry, patron saint of Finland
1191 - Fredrick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)
1410 - King Martin of Aragon (b. 1356)
1479 – King John II of Aragon (b. 1397)
1568 - Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator
1612 – Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1552)
1639 - Mustafa I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1591)
1666 – Anna of Austria (b. 1601)
1745 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1697)
1770 - Charles Yorke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722)
1779 - David Garrick, English actor (b. 1717)
1819 – King Charles IV of Spain (b. 1748)
1837 - John Soane, English architect (b. 1753)
1841 – Minh Mang, Vietnamese Emperor (b. 1791)
1848 – King Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786)
1852 - Onomatsu Midorinusuke, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1794)
1859 – Bettina von Arnim, German writer (b. 1785)
1891 – King David Kalakaua of Hawaii (b. 1836)
1892 – John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1819)
1900 – John Ruskin, English art critic (b. 1819)
1901 - Zenobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (b. 1826)
1913 - Jose Guadalupe Posada, Mexican engraver and illustrator (b. 1852)
1936 – King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
1940 - Omar Bundy, American general (b. 1861)
1957 – James Brendan Connolly, American athlete (b. 1865)
1971 - Minanogawa Tozo, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1903)
1971 - Broncho Bill Anderson, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1880)
1973 – Amilcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissau politician (b. 1924)
1979 - Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (b. 1925)
1983 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
1984 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
1989 - Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1938)
1990 - Hayedeh, Iranian singer (b. 1942)
1990 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907)
1993 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born actress (b. 1929)
1994 – Matt Busby, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1909)
1996 - Gerry Mulligan, American musician (b. 1927)
1997 - Curt Flood, American baseball player (b. 1938)
1998 – Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
2003 - Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (b. 1903)
2005 – Per Borten, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)
2005 – Miriam Rothschild, English conservationist (b. 1908)
2008 - Louis de Cazenave, French World War I veteran and supercentenarian (b. 1897)
2009 – Stephanos II Ghattas, Patriarch of the Egyptian Coptic Church (b. 1920)
2011 - Sexy Cora, German pornographic actress (b. 1987)
2012 - Jiri Raska, Czech ski jumper (b. 1941)
2012 – Etta James, American singer (b. 1938)
2014 - Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (b. 1933)
2014 - Vern Benson, American baseball player (b. 1924)
2015 - Anatol Hrytskievich, Belarussian historian (b. 1929)
2015 - Hitoshi Saito, Japanese gymnast (b. 1961)
2015 - Edgar Froese, German musician (b. 1944)
2015 - Ricardo dos Santos, Brazilian surfer (b. 1990)
2015 - James Walker, Australian television writer (b. 1973)
2016 - Edmonde Charles-Roux, French writer (b. 1920)
2016 - George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, Austrian-British publisher, philanthropist and newspaper columnist (b. 1919)
2016 - Ronald Greenwald, American rabbi and activist (b. 1934)
2016 - David G. Hartwell, American editor, publisher and critic (b. 1941)
Armed Forces Day (Mali)
Martyrs' Day (Azerbaijan)
Inauguration Day (United States) every four years, last in 2013 and next in 2017.
Public inauguration of the US President is on January 21 if the 20th is a Sunday (like in 2013).
US Presidents inaugurated on January 20
1937 – Franklin D. Roosevelt
1941 – Franklin D. Roosevelt
1945 – Franklin D. Roosevelt
1949 – Harry S. Truman
1953 – Dwight D. Eisenhower
1957 – Dwight D. Eisenhower
1961 – John F. Kennedy
1965 – Lyndon B. Johnson
1969 – Richard Nixon
1973 – Richard Nixon
1977 – Jimmy Carter
1981 – Ronald Reagan
1985 – Ronald Reagan
1989 – George H. W. Bush
1993 – Bill Clinton
1997 – Bill Clinton
2001 – George W. Bush
2005 – George W. Bush
2009 – Barack Obama
2013 - Barack Obama
2017 - Donald Trump
2021 - Joe Biden
1189 – Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
1276 – Innocent V becomes Pope.
1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
1643 – Abel Tasman discovers Tonga.
1720 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
1749 - The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, northern Italy, is destroyed by fire.
It is rebuilt in 1754.
1789 – The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1793 – After being found guilty for treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is guillotined.
1840 - Adelie Land in Antarctica is discovered.
1853 – Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope-folding machine.
1854 - Iron clipper RMS Tayleur of the White Star Line sinks in the Irish Sea during its first voyage, killing 362 people.
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
1864 – The Tauranga Campaign starts during the Maori Wars.
1887 – The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed.
1899 – Opel Motors opens for business.
1904 - Oprera Jenůfa by Leoš Janáček first performed.
1908 – New York City passes a law, the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public only to be vetoed by the mayor.
1911 – The first Monte Carlo Rally.
1915 – Kiwanis International founded in Detroit, Michigan.
1917 - An earthquake in Bali kills 15,000 people.
1919 – Meeting in the Mansion House Dublin, the Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution.
1924 – Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.
1925 – Albania declares itself a republic.
1931 - Isaac Isaacs becomes the first Governor-General of Australia who was born in Australia.
1940 - Off the Mediterranean Sea coast of France, an explosion occurs on Italian passenger ship Orazio, causing a fire on board, before the ship sinks, killing 106 people.
1941 – World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya.
1948 - The Flag of Quebec is flown over the National Assembly of Quebec for the first time.
1950 – Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
1951 - The Lamington volcano erupts on the island of New Guinea, killing 3,000 people.
1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, then the First Lady of the United States.
1960 - Avianca Flight 671 crashes and burns while landing in Montego Bay, Jamaica, killing 37 people.
1961 - 435 workers are buried alive when a mine in Coalbrook, South Africa, collapses.
1968 – Simon & Garfunkel release the Original Soundtrack to The Graduate.
It quickly goes to #1 on the pop charts and which will bring Simon a Grammy Award for Best Original Score.
1969 – An experimental underground nuclear reactor at Lucens Vad, Switzerland, released radiation into a cavern, which was then sealed.
1976 – The first commercial service Concorde flights take off from London and Paris.
1977 – President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all Vietnam War draft evaders.
1980 - The Great Wall of China is placed under protection.
1980 - A plane crash during a snowstorm in Tehran kills 128 people.
1985 - After being moved to this date because January 20 was a Sunday, Ronald Reagan's second inauguration as President of the United States is held indoors, because of cold and windy weather.
1994 – Lorena Bobbitt is found not-guilty by reason of temporary insanity for severing the penis of her husband John Bobbitt.
1997 – Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
1998 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to visit Cuba.
1999 – War on Drugs: In one of the one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard stops a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4,300 kg) of cocaine on board.
2000 - Jamil Mahuad is removed as President of Ecuador in a coup led by Lucio Gutiérrez.
2003 - A magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes the state of Colima, Mexico.
2004 – Canada: The residence of reporter, Juliet O'Neill was searched by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigating leaks concerning the deportation of Maher Arar.
2004 – NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceased communication with mission control.
The problem was with Flash Memory management and fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
2005 – In Belize's capital city, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
2008 – Black Monday on the world's stock markets, the worst day for financial markets since September 11, 2001.
2008 – Marie Smith Jones, the last-surviving speaker of the Eyak language, dies, rendering the language extinct.
2012 - 16-year-old Laura Dekker becomes the youngest person to sail around the world on her own, though this category is no longer included in the Guinness Book of Records.
2013 - Barack Obama's second public inauguration as President of the United States takes place.
A private inauguration took place the previous day, which was a Sunday.
1277 - Galeazzo I Visconti, ruler of Milan (d. 1328)
1338 – King Charles V of France (d. 1380)
1721 - James Murray, British Governor of Quebec (d. 1794)
1735 - Johann Gottfried Eckard, German pianist and composer (d. 1809)
1738 – Ethan Allen, American freedom fighter (d. 1789)
1763 - Augustin Robespierre, French politician (d. 1794)
1784 - Andrew Stevenson, American politician (d. 1857)
1813 - John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer and politician (d. 1890)
1815 - John Bingham, American lawyer, judge and politician (d. 1900)
1824 – Stonewall Jackson, American Confederate General (d. 1870)
1825 - Imre Madach, Hungarian writer (d. 1864)
1827 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900)
1829 – King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d. 1907)
1846 - Pieter Hendrik Schoute, Dutch mathematician (d. 1923)
1846 - Nathaniel Edwin Harris, Governor of Georgia (d. 1929)
1848 – Henri Duparc, French composer (d. 1933)
1855 - John Browning, American inventor (d. 1926)
1860 – Karl Staaff, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915)
1864 - Paul Troje, German politician (d. 1942)
1867 - Maxime Weygand, French general (d. 1965)
1867 – Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921)
1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk, mystic and spiritual healer (d. 1916)
1881 - Ernst Fast, Swedish long-distance runner (d. 1959)
1882 – Pavel Florensky, Russian theologian, philosopher and mathematician (d. 1937)
1883 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (d. 1929)
1883 - James H. Duff, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1969)
1885 – Umberto Nobile, Italian aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer (d. 1978)
1887 – Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926)
1895 - Cristobal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (d. 1972)
1899 – Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian-born American composer (d. 1977)
1901 – Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
1905 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)
1905 – Karl Wallenda, German-born acrobat (d. 1978)
1908 - Raymond D. Gary, Governor of Oklahoma (d. 1993)
1910 - Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1910 – Albert Rosellini, American politician (d. 2011)
1911 - Bill Graber, American pole vaulter (d. 1996)
1912 – Konrad Emil Bloch, German biochemist (d. 2000)
1915 - Orazio Mariani, Italian sprinter (d. 1981)
1915 - Bill Sefton, American pole vaulter (d. 1982)
1916 – Pietro Rava, Italian footballer (d. 2006)
1918 – Richard Winters, American paratrooper (d. 2011)
1919 - Lennie Bluett, American actor (d. 2016)
1919 - Eric Brown, Scottish test pilot (d. 2016)
1921 - Howard Unruh, American murderer (d. 2009)
1922 – Paul Scofield, British actor (d. 2008)
1922 – Telly Savalas, American actor and singer (d. 1994)
1923 - Lola Flores, Spanish singer, dancer and actress (d. 1995)
1924 – Benny Hill, British comedian (d. 1992)
1926 - Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
1928 - Reynaldo Bignone, Argentine general and former military leader
1929 - Denis Sanders, American movie director, producer and screenwriter
1930 - Mainza Chona, 3rd Vice President of Zambia (d. 2001)
1932 - John Chaney, American basketball coach
1933 - Joseph W. Eschbach, American physician (d. 2007)
1934 - Audrey Dalton, Irish actress
1936 - Koji Hashimoto, Japanese movie director (d. 2005)
1937 - Prince Max, Duke of Bavaria
1938 - Wolfman Jack, American DJ and actor (d. 1995)
1938 - Ken Maginnis, Northern Irish soldier, educator and politician
1939 – Friedel Lutz, German footballer
1940 – Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
1941 – Plácido Domingo, Spanish opera singer and conductor
1941 – Richie Havens, American musician (d. 2013)
1942 - Mac Davis, American musician
1945 – Martin Shaw, English actor
1947 - Jonathan Meades, English journalist and author
1949 - Gennaro Contaldo, Italian chef
1950 – Billy Ocean, Trinidadian musician
1950 - Zelimkhan Yaqub, Azerbaijani poet (d. 2016)
1950 – Gary Locke, American politician
1951 – Eric Holder, American jurist, United States Attorney General
1953 – Paul Allen, American entrepreneur and co-founder of Microsoft
1954 – Thomas de Maizière, German politician
1954 – Idrissa Ouedraogo, Burkina Faso movie maker
1955 – Jeff Koons, American artist
1955 – Peter Fleming, American tennis player
1956 – Geena Davis, American actress
1957 – Greg Ryan, American soccer coach
1958 – Frank Ticheli, American composer
1959 – Alex McLeish, Scottish footballer and manager
1962 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
1962 – Tyler Cowen, American economist
1963 – Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-American basketball player
1965 – Jam Master Jay, American DJ (d. 2002)
1968 – Charlotte Ross, American actress
1969 – Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese manga artist
1969 – Karina Lombard, American actress
1969 – M. K. Hobson, American writer
1971 – Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
1971 – Doug Weight, American ice hockey player
1971 – Sergey Klevchenya, Russian speed skater
1972 – Yasunori Matsuda, Japanese composer
1974 – Kim Dotcom, German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur and founder of Megaupload
1975 – Nicky Butt, English footballer
1975 – Ito, Spanish footballer
1976 – Igors Stepanovs, Latvian footballer
1976 – Emma Bunton, English singer (Spice Girls)
1977 – Phil Neville, English footballer
1977 - Jerry Trainor, American actor
1977 - Bradley Carnell, South African footballer
1978 - Phil Stacey, American singer
1978 - Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player
1979 – Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby player
1979 - Johann Hari, Scottish journalist
1980 – Dave Kitson, English footballer
1980 - Nana Mizuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress
1982 – Nicolas Mahut, French tennis player
1982 – Dean Whitehead, English footballer
1982 – Simon Rolfes, German footballer
1983 – Moritz Volz, German footballer
1983 – Maryse Ouellet, Canadian professional wrestler
1984 - Raymond Gutierrez, American-Filipino actor and television host
1984 - Richard Gutierrez, American-Filipino actor
1985 - Justin Ingram, American basketball player
1985 - Adrian Lewis, English darts player
1985 - Aura Dione, Danish singer and songwriter
1986 - Jonathan Quick, American ice hockey player
1987 – Joe Ledley, Welsh footballer
1987 - Darren Helm, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 - Jacob Smith, American actor
1993 - Chiara Pierobon, Italian cyclist (d. 2015)
1994 – Laura Robson, British tennis player
1994 - Kang Seung-yoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
1994 - Marny Kennedy, Australian actress, singer and model
1994 - Booboo Stewart, American actor, singer and sportsman
1997 - Jeremy Shada, American actor
2001 – Jackson Brundage, American actor
2004 – Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway
304 – Saint Agnes, Christian martyr (b. 291)
917 - Erchanger, Duke of Swabia (b. 880)
1118 – Pope Paschal II
1519 – Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1527 - Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (b. 1489)
1546 - Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)
1609 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant scholar (b. 1540)
1638 - Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (b. 1570)
1773 – Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689)
1774 – Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717)
1775 - Yemelyan Pugachev, Russian rebel (b. 1742)
1789 - Baron d'Holbach, French-German author, philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1723)
1793 – King Louis XVI of France (b. 1754)
1795 - Samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)
1809 - Josiah Hornblower, American engineer and politician (b. 1729)
1831 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (b. 1781)
1851 – Albert Lertzing, German composer (b. 1801)
1872 – Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (b. 1791)
1891 – Calixa Lavallée, Canadian composer (b. 1842)
1901 – Elisha Gray, American inventor (b. 1835)
1919 - Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Ottoman general and Grand Vizier (b. 1839)
1919 – Gojong of the Korean Empire, Emperor of Korea (b. 1852)
1924 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian political leader (b. 1870)
1926 – Camillo Golgi, Italian doctor, won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843)
1928 - George Goethals, American army engineer (b. 1858)
1932 – Giles Lytton Strachey, British writer (b. 1880)
1937 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1898)
1938 - Georges Méliès, French director (b. 1861)
1940 - Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (b. 1888)
1945 - Rash Behari Bose, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1886)
1950 – George Orwell, British writer (b. 1903)
1959 – Cecil B. DeMille, American director (b. 1881)
1961 – Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (b. 1903)
1967 - Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915)
1977 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet (b. 1906)
1989 – Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)
1989 - Carl Furillo, American baseball player (b. 1922)
1990 - Mariano Rumor, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1915)
1994 - Bassel al-Assad, brother of Bashar al-Assad (b. 1962)
1994 - Andrejs Kapmals, Latvian runner (b. 1889)
1997 – Colonel Tom Parker, American music manager (b. 1909)
1998 - Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
1999 - Charles Brown, American blues singer and musician (b. 1920)
1999 - Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
2001 - Byron De La Beckwith, American murderer (b. 1920)
2004 - Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (b. 1929)
2006 – Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
2007 - Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (b. 1977)
2007 - U-Nee, South Korean singer, dancer and actress (b. 1981)
2008 – Marie Smith Jones, last speaker of the Eyak language (b. 1918)
2011 – Dennis Oppenheim, American artist (b. 1938)
2013 - Michael Winner, British movie director, producer and food critic (b. 1935)
2013 - Alden W. Clausen, American banker and former World Bank President (b. 1923)
2014 - Manfred Bleskin, German journalist (b. 1949)
2015 - Kemal Monteno, Bosnian singer (b. 1948)
2015 - Leon Brittan, British politician (b. 1939)
2015 - Marcus Borg, American theologian (b. 1942)
2015 - Pauline Yates, English actress (b. 1929)
2016 - Bill Johnson, American skier (b. 1960)
2016 - Robert Sassone, French cyclist (b. 1978)
2016 - Derrick Todd Lee, American serial killer (b. 1968)
2016 - Mrinalini Sarabhai, Iranian classical dancer and choreographer (b. 1918)
2020 - Terry Jones, English comedy writer (b. 1942)
Flag Day (Quebec)
Christian feast day of Saint Agnes
Errol Barrow Day (Bahamas)
National Hug Day (United States)
Lady of Altagracia Day (Dominican Republic)
565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
1462 - The Portuguese reach Sao Vicente, Cape Verde.
1506 - The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive in Vatican City.
1517 - The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures the area that is now Egypt in the Battle of Ridaniya.
1521 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor opens the Diet of Worms.
1555 - The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now present-day Burma.
1689 - The Convention Parliament convenes on whether James II of England/James VII of Scotland abandoned the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland when he fled to France in 1688.
1771 – Spain gives Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to England.
1824 - The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast, present-day Ghana.
1840 – British colonists reach New Zealand.
1849 - Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last defenders  of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
1863 - The January Uprising begins the Poland, Lithuania and Belarus against Russian rule.
1873 - The British clipper Northfleet collides with Spanish steamship Murillo off Kent, killing 293 people.
1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: In the Battle of Rorke's Drift, 139 British soldiers successfully defend  their garrison against an onslaught by 3 to 4,000 Zulu warriors.
On the same day, Zulu warriors defeat British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana.
1890 - The United Mine Workers of America trade union is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1899 – Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss uniting.
1901 – Edward VII becomes King after Queen Victoria, dies.
Her death ends the Victorian era, having reigned longer than any British monarch before her.
1905 - Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg: Start of the 1905 Revolution in Russia.
1906 - The ship SS Valencia runs aground on Vancouver Island, killing more than 130 people.
1915 - Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when their train plunges off the tracks into a canyon.
1917 – World War I: US President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
1924 - Ramsay MacDonald becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
He is the first Prime Minister from the Labour Party.
1927 - Teddy Wakelam gives his first live video commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal FC and Sheffield United.
1931 – Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
1941 - World War II: British and Commonwealth forces capture Tobruk in Libya from the Italians in Operation Bypass.
1944 – World War II: Allies begin Operation Shingle (an attack on Anzio, Italy).
1946 - The "Central Intelligence Group" is created.
It is a forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
1953 – The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller, starts on Broadway.
1957 – Israel leaves the Sinai Peninsula.
1959 - The Knox Mine Disaster occurs in Patston City, Pennsylvania kills 12 people, as water breaches the mine.
1962 – The Organization of American States (OAS) makes Cuba no longer a member.
1963 - The Elysee Treaty of cooperation between France and the Federal Republic of Germany is signed by French President Charles de Gaulle and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
1968 - Apollo 5 lifts off, carrying the first lunar module into space.
1969 - A gunman attempts to kill Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
1970 - The world's first jumbo jet, a Boeing 747, enters commercial service for the first time, flying from New York City to London.
1971 - The Singapore Declaration, an important part of the treaty of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1973 - A Boeing 737 of the Royal Jordanian Airline explodes at Kano Airport in northern Nigeria, killing 176 people.
1973 - George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier to win the World Heavyweight Boxing champion.
1973 – The Supreme Court of the United States shows its decision in Roe vs. Wade, stopping laws that limit abortion during the first six months of being pregnant.
1980 – Andrei Sakharov is arrested in Moscow.
1984 - The Apple Macintosh computer is introduced.
1987 - Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a live press conference.
1987 - Philippine Security forces open fire on a crowd  of 10,000 to 15,000 demonstrators in Manila, killing 13 people.
1991 - Gulf War: Three SCUDs and one patriot missile hit Ramat Gan, Israel, killing 96 people.
2003 – The Netherlands vote for a new parliament after the one before had only been into power for 86 days.
2006 - Anibal Cavaco Silva is elected President of Portugal.
2006 - Evo Morales becomes President of Bolivia.
2006 – Russia uncovers that the UK spied through a device disguised as a rock.
2007 - More than 88 people are killed in two car bombings in Baghdad.
2015 - After Houthi rebels seize the Presidential palace in the capital, Sana'a, Yemen's President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi resigns following months of unrest.
2018 - Former footballer George Weah becomes President of Liberia.
826 - Emperor Montoku of Japan (d. 858)
1263 - Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian scholar and theologian (d. 1328)
1440 – Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)
1552 - Walter Raleigh, English poet, soldier, courtier, spy and explorer (d. 1618)
1561 – Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher (d. 1626)
1592 – Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher (d. 1655)
1690 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
1729 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German writer and philosopher (d. 1781)
1733 – Philip Carteret, English navy captain, discovered Pitcairn Island (d. 1796)
1781 - François Habeneck, French violinist and conductor (d. 1849)
1788 – Lord Byron, English poet (d. 1824)
1796 - Karl Ernst Claus, Russian chemist (d. 1864)
1797 – Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826)
1814 – Eduard Zeller, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1908)
1831 – Prince Christian III of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1917)
1840 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907)
1843 - Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (d. 1907)
1849 – August Strindberg, Swedish novelist and playwright (d. 1912)
1855 - Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, German physician (d. 1916)
1858 - Beatrice Webb, American sociologist and economist (d. 1943)
1865 - Wilbur Scoville, American pharmacologist and chemist (d. 1942)
1869 - José Vicente de Freitas, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1952)
1874 - Vincenzo Lapuma, Italian cardinal (d. 1943)
1875 – D. W. Griffith, American actor, movie director and movie producer (d. 1948)
1877 – Hjalmar Schacht, German banker and politician (d. 1970)
1879 – Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)
1880 - Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
1882 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-American actor, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1958)
1885 - Eugène Christophe, French cyclist (d. 1970)
1890 – Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1953)
1891 – Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher and political theorist (d. 1937)
1892 - Marcel Dassault, French businessman (d. 1986)
1893 - Conrad Veidt, German actor (d. 1943)
1897 - Blind Willie Johnson, American blues and gospel musician (d. 1945)
1897 - Rosa Ponselle, American soprano (d. 1981)
1898 - Ross Barnett, American politician, 52nd Governor of Mississippi (d. 1987)
1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian movie director (d. 1948)
1900 - Ernst Busch, German actor and singer (d. 1980)
1901 - Walther Sommerlath, German businessman, father of Queen Silvia of Sweden (d. 1990)
1901 - Ken G. Hall, Australian movie producer, director and screenwriter (d. 1994)
1904 – George Balanchine, Georgian-born choreographer (d. 1983)
1904 – Arkady Gaidar, Russian writer (d. 1941)
1907 – Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
1908 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Soviet physicist (d. 1968)
1909 – U Thant, Burmese diplomat and United Nations Secretary-General (d. 1974)
1909 - Ann Sothern, American actress (d. 2004)
1911 – Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
1913 - Henry Bauchau, Belgian psychoanalyst (d. 2012)
1913 - William Conway, Irish cardinal (d. 1977)
1915 - Heinrich Albertz, Mayor of Berlin (d. 1993)
1916 - Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1972)
1916 - Henri Dutilleux, French composer (d. 2013)
1918 - Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1918 - Bruno Zevi, Italian architect, historian and professor (d. 2000)
1920 – Irving Kristol, American political commentator (d. 2009)
1920 – Chiara Lubich, Italian religious leader (d. 2008)
1920 – Alf Ramsey, English football manager (d. 1999)
1922 - Howard Moss, American poet, playwright and critic (d. 1987)
1923 - Diana Douglas, Bermudan-American actress (d. 2015)
1924 - Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (d. 1999)
1925 – Bobby George, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1929 - Petr Eben, Czech composer, organist and choirmaster (d. 2007)
1931 - Galina Zybina, Russian shot putter and javelin thrower
1932 – Piper Laurie, American actress
1934 - Vijay Anand, Indian actor, director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2004)
1934 – Bill Bixby, American actor (d. 1993)
1935 - Seymour Cassel, American actor
1936 – Ong Teng Cheong, President of Singapore (d. 2002)
1936 – Alan J. Heeger, American chemist
1936 - Valerio Zanone, Italian politician (d. 2016)
1938 – Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Brazilian footballer
1939 - J. C. Trembley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1994)
1939 – Alfredo Palacio, former President of Ecuador
1940 – John Hurt, British actor (d. 2017)
1940 - Gillian Shepherd, British educator and politician
1941 - Jaan Kaplinski, Estonian writer and philosopher
1942 - Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer
1945 - Jean-Pierre Nicolas, French rally driver
1945 - Alojz Uran, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Ljubljana
1945 - Christoph Schönborn, Austrian cardinal
1946 – Malcolm McLaren, British music manager (d. 2010)
1946 - Serge Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
1948 - Gilbert Levine, American conductor
1949 - Steve Perry, American singer, composer and musician
1951 - Ondrej Nepela, Slovakian figure skater (d. 1989)
1953 - Myung-whun Chung, South Korean pianist and conductor
1954 – Chris Lemmon, American actor
1955 - Keiko Takahashi, Japanese actress
1955 - Thomas David Jones, American astronaut
1955 - Neil Bush, American businessman, brother of George W. Bush
1957 – Francis Wheen, English writer and journalist
1958 - Nikos Anastopoulos, Greek footballer
1959 – Linda Blair, American actress
1959 – Urs Meier, Swiss football referee
1960 – Michael Hutchence, Australian musician (d. 1997)
1962 – Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, Malaysian Head of State
1963 - Neeraj Vora, Indian actor (d. 2017)
1964 – Nigel Benn, English boxer
1965 – Steven Adler, American drummer (Guns N' Roses)