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August 31 – Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist and psychologist (b. 1832)
September 7 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, Premier of Quebec (b. 1855)
September 10 – Olive Thomas, American actress (b. 1894)
September 18 – Robert Beaven, Canadian politician (b. 1836)
September 24 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian jeweler (b. 1846)
September 25 – Jacob Schiff, German-born banker and philanthropist (b. 1847)
September 30 – William Wilfred Sullivan, Canadian journalist, politician, and jurist (b. 1843)
October 2 – Winthrop M. Crane, Governor of Massachusetts and Senator (b. 1853)
October 10 – Hudson Stuck, English mountaineer (b. 1865)
October 19 – John Reed, American journalist (b. 1887)
October 20 – Max Bruch, German composer (b. 1838)
October 24 – Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1853)
November 4 – Ludwig Struve, Russian astronomer (b. 1858)
November 13 – Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter and illustrator (b. 1846)
November 23 – George Callaghan, British admiral (b. 1852)
November 25 – Gaston Chevrolet, Swiss-born automobile race driver and manufacturer (b. 1892)
November 30 – Eugene W. Chafin, American politician (b. 1852)
December 3 – William de Wiveleslie Abney, English astronomer and photographer (b. 1843)
December 11 – Olive Schreiner, South African writer (b. 1855)
December 12 – Edward Gawler Prior, Canadian mining engineer and politician (b. 1854)
December 14 – George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)
The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari is released.
Cardinal numbers (or cardinals) are numbers that say how many of something there are, for example: one, two, three, four, five, six.
They are sometimes called counting numbers.
In mathematics, people also study infinite cardinal numbers.
The first infinite cardinal number was named  (pronounced "Aleph null", "Aleph-zero" or "Aleph-naught") by Georg Cantor.
is the number of numbers that are in the group 0, 1, 2, 3, ... (which goes on forever).
Both the set of natural numbers and the set of rational numbers are of size  (that is, they are both countable).
Another infinite cardinal number is the number of numbers in the set of real numbers, and is represented by the symbol  (or , the cardinality of the continuum).
Cantor proved that there are many different infinite cardinal numbers that are bigger than .
A famous theorem of Cantor is that the cardinality of the real numbers is larger than the cardinality of the natural numbers.
The continuum hypothesis is the statement that there is no middle cardinal number strictly between that of natural numbers and real numbers.
January – State of emergency is lifted in Kenya – Mau Mau Rebellion is officially over
January 1 – Independence of Cameroon
January 9 – Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt
January 14 – Ralph Chubb, the gay poet and printer, dies at Fair Oak Cottage in Hampshire.
January 14 – Reserve bank and Commonwealth Bank created (a)
January 23 – Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh in the bathyscaphe USS Trieste break a depth record when they descend to the bottom of Challenger Deep 35,820 feet (10,750 meters) below sea level in the Pacific Ocean
January 24 – A major insurrection in Algiers against French colonial policy
January 25 – The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disk jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records
February 1 – (Greensboro, N.C.) Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter.
Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter.
The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the South.
Six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter.
February 9 – Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
February 9 – Adolph Coors III, chairman of the board of the Coors Brewing Company, is kidnapped and captors demand $500.000.
Coors is later found killed and Joseph Corbett Jr is indicted
February 11 – The airship ZPG-3W is destroyed in a storm in Massachusetts
February 13 – Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb
February 29 – Earthquake totally destroys Agadir, Morocco.
March 21 – The Sharpeville Massacre occurs in South Africa.
April 4 – Senegal becomes independent.
April 27 – Togo becomes independent.
May 1 – A Lockheed U-2 piloted by Francis Gary Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union, making an international incident.
May 11 – Nazi politician Adolf Eichmann is captured in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by the Mossad.
May 22 – The Great Chilean Earthquake occurs.
June 26 – The British protectorate Somaliland becomes independent.
June 26 – Madagascar becomes independent.
June 30 – The present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo becomes independent.
July 1 – Somalia becomes independent.
July 1 – Ghana becomes a Republic.
August 1 – Benin becomes independent.
August 3 – Niger becomes independent.
August 5 – Upper Volta becomes independent.
It is later renamed Burkina Faso.
August 11 – Chad becomes independent.
August 13 – The Central African Republic becomes independent.
August 15 – The Republic of the Congo becomes independent.
August 17 – Gabon becomes independent.
October 1 – Nigeria becomes independent.
October 24 – Zambia becomes independent.
November 8 – John F. Kennedy is elected President of the United States.
November 28 – Mauritania becomes independent.
January 4 – Michael Stipe, singer for R.E.M.
January 6 – Nigella Lawson, celebrity chef, writer
January 6 – Howie Long, American football star
January 11 – Stanley Tucci, actor
January 12 – Oliver Platt, actor
January 13 – Kevin Anderson, actor
January 22 – Michael Hutchence, musician ("INXS") (d. 1997)
January 28 – Robert von Dassanowsky, cultural historian, writer, producer
January 29 – Greg Louganis, Olympics gold medalist in diving
February 7 – James Spader, actor (Pretty in Pink, Stargate, The Practice)
February 11 – Richard Mastracchio, astronaut
February 13 – Pierluigi Collina, football referee
February 14 – Jim Kelly, American football quarterback
February 19 – Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth II
February 29 – Cheb Khaled, Algerian musician
February 29 – Tony Robbins, motivational speaker
March 4 – Mykelti Williamson, actor
March 7 – Joe Carter, baseball star
March 7 – Ivan Lendl, tennis player
March 13 – Adam Clayton, bassist for the rock band U2
March 18 – Richard Biggs, actor
March 21 – Ayrton Senna, automobile racer (d. 1994)
March 24 – Nena Kerner, German singer
March 26 – Marcus Allen, American football star
March 29 – Marina Sirtis, actress
April 2 – Linford Christie, British athlete
April 3 – Elizabeth Gracen, American actress, model, winner of 1982 Miss America pageant
April 4 – Jane Eaglin, English soprano
April 4 – Hugo Weaving, actor
April 12 - Dennis Bateman, American voice actor
April 14 – Brad Garrett, actor
April 15 – Crown Prince Philippe of Belgium
April 16 – Rafael Benitez, Spanish football manager
April 16 – Pierre Littbarski, German football player and manager
April 19 – Frank Viola, baseball player
April 26 – Roger Taylor, musician ("Duran Duran")
April 28 – Ian Rankin, Scottish writer
May 4 – Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria.
May 10 – Bono, singer of U2
May 18 – Jari Kurri, Hockey Hall of Famer
May 18 – Yannick Noah, tennis player
May 19 – Gadi Eizenkot, Israeli general
May 20 – John Billingsley, actor
May 21 – Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer (d. 1994)
May 24 – Kristin Scott Thomas, British actress
June 6 – Gary Graham, actor
June 6 – Steve Vai, musician
June 8 – Mick Hucknall singer/songwriter of Simply Red
June 20 – John Taylor, musician, Duran Duran
June 28 – John Elway, Pro Football Hall of Famer
June 30 - Murray Cook, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
July 21 – Ezequiel Viñao, composer
August 4 – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain
August 7 – David Duchovny, actor (The X-Files)
August 10 – Antonio Banderas, actor (Desperado, Spy Kids)
August 19 – Morten Andersen, American football player
August 24 – Cal Ripken, Jr., baseball star
August 26 – Branford Marsalis, jazz musician
September 1 - Joseph Williams, American singer (Toto)
September 9 – Hugh Grant, English actor
September 10 – Colin Firth, actor
September 16 – John Franco, baseball relief pitcher
September 17 – Damon Hill, 1996 Formula 1 World Champion
September 26 – Jouke de Vries, Frisian politician and professor
October 5 – Daniel Baldwin, actor
October 7 – Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese rock singer
October 30 – Diego Maradona, football (soccer) player
November 3 – Karch Kiraly, volleyball star
November 9 – Andreas Brehme, German footballer
November 10 – Neil Gaiman, writer
November 25 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., lawyer and journalist (d. 1999)
November 25 – Amy Grant, contemporary Christian music star
November 27 – Tim Pawlenty, American politician
November 27 – Paul Robinson, writer
November 27 – Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian politician
November 30 – Gary Lineker, English footballer.
December 2 – Rick Savage, bass guitarist (Def Leppard).
December 3 – Julianne Moore, actress
December 4 – Glynis Nunn, Australian heptathlete
December 9 – Caroline Lucas, British politician
December 10 – Kenneth Branagh, actor, movie director
December 18 – Kazuhide Uekusa, former Japanese professor of graduate school at Waseda University, economist
December 19 – Mike Lookinland, television actor
December 27 – Maryam d'Abo, actress
December 31 – John Allen Muhammad, convicted Beltway sniper
December 31 – Steve Bruce, English football player and manager
January 4 – Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize winner (b. 1913)
January 12 – Nevil Shute, English writer (b. 1899)
January 24 – Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
February 3 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)
February 10 – Aloysius Stepinac, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1898)
February 11 – Ernö Dohnányi, Hungarian conductor (b. 1877)
February 29 – Walter Yust, American editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica (b.1894)
March 2 – Stanisław Taczak, Polish general (b. 1874)
April 1 – Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan and 1st Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (b. 1895)
May 8 – J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b. 1904).
May 30 – Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist (b. 1890)
May 31 – Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (b. 1890)
June 23 – Frantisek Omelka, Czech educator (b. 1904)
June 25 – Tommy Corcoran, baseball player (b. 1869)
June 27 – Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
August 5 – Arthur Meighen, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
August 28 – John O'Hara, U.S. Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1888)
August 29 – Vicki Baum, Jewish writer (b. 1888)
September 1 – Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah, Sultan of Selangor and 2nd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (b. 1898)
September 9 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
October 15 – Henny Porten, German movie producer
November 2 – Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (b. 1896)
November 5 – Mack Sennett, Canadian movie producer and director (b. 1880)
November 16 – Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901)
December 26 – Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (b. 1889)
"Only The Lonely" – Roy Orbison
"Today's Teardrops" – Roy Orbison, written by Gene Pitney
"I'm Sorry" – Brenda Lee
"True Love Ways" – Buddy Holly
"Chain Gang" – Sam Cooke
"Save The Last Dance For Me" – The Drifters
"Stay" – Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs
"Walk, Don't Run" – The Ventures
"Rubber Ball" – Bobby Vee
"Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" – Brian Hyland
"Cathy's Clown" – The Everly Brothers
"Sink the Bismarck" – Johnny Horton
"North To Alaska" – Johnny Horton
"Everybody's Somebody's Fool" – Connie Francis
"Good Timin'" – Jimmy Jones
"You're Sixteen" – Johnny Burnette
"You Talk Too Much" – Joe Jones
"Georgia On My Mind" – Ray Charles
"It's Now Or Never" – Elvis Presley
"Road Runner" – Bo Diddley
"Exodus" – Ferrante & Teicher
"Dreamin' " – Johnny Burnette
"Alley-Oop" – Hollywood Argyles
"Mission Bell" – Donnie Brooks
"What In the World's Come Over You" – Jack Scott
"Burning Bridges" – Jack Scott
"T'Aimer Follement" – Dalida
"L'Arlequin de Tolède" – Dalida
"Les Enfants du Pirée" – Dalida
"Romantica" – Dalida
"Itsi Bitsi Petit Bikini" – Dalida
"'O Sole Mio" – Dalida
"Tall Oak Tree" – Dorsey Burnette
"Wild One" – Bobby Rydell
"Teen Angel" – Mark Dinning
"Mule Skinner Blues" – The Fendermen
"Corinna, Corinna" – Ray Peterson
"Tell Laura I Love Her" – Ray Peterson
Critique of Dialectical Reason – Jean-Paul Sartre
Green Eggs and Ham – Dr. Seuss
New Maps of Hell – Kingsley Amis (non-fiction)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William L. Shirer
Tintin in Tibet- Hergé
Truth and Method – Hans-Georg Gadamer
The Summer Olympics were held in Melbourne, Australia.
The Winter Olympics were held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
This was the first Olympic Games in which the USSR competed.
February 11 – British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean appear in the Soviet Union after being missing for 5 years
March 2 – Morocco declares its independence from France
April 19 – American actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
May 2 – The United Methodist Church in America grants women full ordained clergy status
June 5 – Elvis Presley performs "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show.
His dancing causes a scandal.
July 25 – The Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Swedish ship SS Stockholm, killing 51
August 17 – West Germany bans the Communist Party of Germany
September 16 – Television broadcasting begins in Australia
October 26 – Red Army troops invade Hungary
October 29 – November 7 – Suez Crisis: France, Israel and the United Kingdom in war with Egypt.
November 30 – Floyd Patterson wins the world heavyweight boxing championship
December 5 – Rose Heilbron becomes Britain's first female judge
January 3 – Mel Gibson, American-Australian actor
January 28 – Dario Chioli, Italian poet
February 6 - Jerry Marotta, American drummer (Orleans)
February 16 – Peter Hook, English bass guitarist
February 26 – Emanuel Radovan, Romanian politician of Albanian nationality.
February 27 – Csaba Vrabie, Romanian politician of Hungarian nationality from UDMR.
February 27 – Angela Aames, American actress (d. 1988)
February 29 – Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (d. 2002)
March 24 – Steve Ballmer, American business person, CEO of Microsoft
April 5 – Dwight Hicks, American NFL player
April 12 – Andy García, American actor
April 19 - Lane Hoppen, American singer-songwriter and musician (Orleans)
May 7 – Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime minister of the Netherlands
May 17 – Bob Saget, American actor and comedian
June 2 – Mani Ratnam, Indian movie director
June 4 – Martin Adams, English darts player
June 11 – Joe Montana, American NFL player
June 11 – Ray Nagin, American politician, mayor of New Orleans
July 9 – Tom Hanks, American actor
July 13 – Michael Spinks, American boxer
July 15 – Joe Satriani, Italian-American guitar virtuoso
August 4 – Margaret Whitman, American business person, CEO of Ebay
August 26 – Sally Beamish, English composer
August 31 – Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television performer
August 31 - Mark Mangini, American sound editor
September 14 – Maxime Verhagen, Dutch politician
September 17 – Andreas Starke, German politician, Lord Mayor of Bamberg
September 27 – Milan Smrčka, Czech musician
October 1 — Theresa May, British Prime Minister
October 2 – Mike Scully, American television writer
October 28 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 6th President of Iran
November 11 – Ian Craig Marsh, English musician
December 6 - Peter Buck, American guitarist (R.E.M.)
December 9 - Jean-Pierre Thiollet, French author
Hugh Cook, English-born New Zealand writer
Hans Enoksen, Prime minister of Greenland
January 18 – Konstantin Päts, 1st President of Estonia (b. 1874)
January 27 – Erich Kleiber, German conductor (b. 1890)
February 10 – Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, British marshal of the Royal Air Force (b. 1873)
February 29 – Elpidio Quirino, 6th President of the Philippines (b. 1890)
March 8 – Drastamat Kanayan, Armenian military leader and politician (b. 1884))
March 17 – Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1897)
April 13 – Emil Nolde, German-Danish painter (b. 1867)
May 18 – Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895)
June 22 – Walter de la Mare, English poet, short story writer, and novelist (b. 1873)
June 26 – Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1930)
July 11 – John T. Raulston, Scopes Monkey Trial judge (b. 1868)
August 11- Jackson Pollack, American painter
August 14 – Bertolt Brecht, German playwright (b. 1898)
August 25 – Alfred Kinsey, American sex researcher (b. 1894)
September 22 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
October 25 – Risto Ryti, 5th President of Finland (b. 1889)
October 30 – Pio Baroja, Spanish writer (b. 1872)
November 22 – Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born ballet dancer, choreographer and actor (b. 1882)
December 14 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi, 7th President of Finland (b. 1870)
December 16 – Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (b. 1890)
Nobel Prize in Physics won by William Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain for inventing the point-contact transistor
Nobel Prize in Chemistry won by Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English physical chemist, and Nikolay Semyonov, Russian/Soviet physicist and chemist
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by André Frédéric Cournand, Werner Forssmann, and Dickinson W. Richards for the development of cardiac catheterization
Nobel Prize in Literature won by Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet
Nobel Peace Prize – Not Awarded
Around the World in 80 Days winning the Academy Award for Best Picture
Bus Stop starring Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray
Giant starring Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean
Hollywood or Bust the final Martin and Lewis movie
The King and I winning Best Actor for Yul Brynner
The Searchers starring John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter
The Ten Commandments starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner
War and Peace starring Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda
Agatha Christie – Dead Man's Folly
Arthur C. Clarke – The City and the Stars
Ian Fleming – Diamonds Are Forever
Fred Gipson – Old Yeller
Alf Prøysen – Little Old Mrs Pepperpot
From 1793 – 1933, March 4 was Inauguration Day for the President of the United States.
Since 1937, Inauguration Day has been January 20.
51 - Nero is given the title of Princeps Iuventutis (Head of the Youth).
1152 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
1226 - The city of Hamm, in North Rhine-Westphalia, present-day Germany, is founded.
1275 - Chinese astronomers observe a solar eclipse.
1351 – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 – Wladyslaw II Jagiello (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
1461 – The Lancastrian King Henry VI of England is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, King Edward IV of England.
1493 – Christopher Columbus arrives in Portugal after the voyage that took him to the Caribbean.
1519 – Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico.
1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a royal charter.
1665 – England's King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands.
1675 – In England, John Flamsteed is appointed as the first Astronomer Royal.
1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn, to colonise what is now Pennsylvania.
1769 - The Orion Nebula is first observed by Charles Messier.
1776 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
1789 – In New York City, the first United States Congress meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.
1790 – France is divided into 83 Departements.
1791 – Vermont becomes the 14th State of the US.
1793 – John Adams becomes the first US President to be inaugurated on March 4.
1794 - The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed by the United States Congress.
1837 - The city of Chicago is incorporated.
1848 - Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the Constitution of the Kingdom of Italy.
1861 – Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States.
During his time in office, he will be faced with the American Civil War.
1861 – The Stars and Bars Flag of the Confederate States of America is introduced.
1865 – The third national flag of the Confederate States of America is introduced.
1882 – The United Kingdom's first electric trams run in London.
1877 – The ballet Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
1890 – The Forth Rail Bridge is opened in Scotland.
1899 – Cyclone Mahina passes to the north of Cooktown, Queensland, Australia, with 12-metre waves travelling inland by as much as five kilometres, killing 300 people.
1902 - The American Automobile Club is founded in Cleveland, Ohio.
1908 - The Collinwood School Fire near Cleveland, Ohio kills 174 people.
1913 - The United States Department of Labor is created.
1917 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman in the House of Representatives.
1918 – The first case of the Spanish flu pandemic occurs.
1918 - The ship USS Cyclops leaves Barbados, never to be seen again.
It is one of several disappearances in the so-called Bermuda Triangle.
1929 – Herbert Hoover becomes President of the United States.
At the same time, Charles Curtis becomes the first Vice President of the United States of Native American ancestry.
1933 – Chancellor of Austria Engelbert Dolfuss begins authoritarian rule by decree.
1933 – Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the last President of the United States to be inaugurated on March 4.
1933 – Frances Perkins becomes the first woman in the United States Cabinet, as she becomes Secretary for Labor.
1936 - The Hindenburg airship makes its first test-flight over Lake Constance.
1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea ends.
1943 - British passenger steamer City of Pretoria is sunk by a German U-boat in the North Atlantic Ocean.
No-one on board survives.
1945 – Lapland War: Finland declares war on Germany.
1960 – The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havanna, Cuba.
1962 - A Caledonia Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after take-off in Cameroon, killing 111 people.
1966 – A Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
1966 - John Lennon of The Beatles says that the band is probably "Bigger than Jesus".
1970 - French submarine Erydice explodes underwater, killing the entire 57-man crew.
1974 - People magazine is first published in the United States, under the name "People Weekly".
1976 - Northern Ireland is directly ruled from London from this date.
1977 – An earthquake strikes southeastern Europe.
Bucharest, Romania, is among the places that suffer damage, as around 1,500 people are killed.
1980 – Robert Mugabe is elected Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
1983 - Bertha Wilson becomes the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
1985 – The US Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS.
1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 space probe starts to return images of Halley's Comet, including its nucleus.
1987 - President Ronald Reagan apologizes to the American people on a live televised address about the Iran-Contra affair.
1991 - For the first time since Iraq's invasion, Prime Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah returns to his country.
1996 - A train that has crashed off the tracks in Weyauwega, Wisconsin.
causes an emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
2000 – Play Station 2 is released for the first time, in Japan.
2001 – A car bomb explodes outside the BBC television centre, seriously injuring one person.
2001 – A Bridge collapse in northern Portugal kills up to 70 people.
2001 - A majority of voters in Switzerland rejects membership of the European Union.
2007 – In Estonia, approximately 30,000 voters make uses of electronic voting, which had previously never been used in an election, for the Estonian Parliamentary Election.
2009 – The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for a sitting head of state for the first time, for Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, President of Sudan, on war crimes charges in relation to the crisis in Darfur.
2012 – More than 100 people are killed in a munitions dump fire in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.
2012 – Vladimir Putin declares victory in the Russian Presidential Election, allowing him to become President of Russia for a second time.
2014 - Prime Minister of Estonia Andrus Ansip resigns from office after nine years, being succeeded by Taavi Roivas.
2015 - A mine explosion in Rebel-controlled Eastern Ukraine kills 34 miners.
2018 - The German Social Democrats vote in favour of a new governing coalition under Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU, ending a period of political uncertainty after the Bundestag election over five months earlier.
2018 - Italian general election, 2018: Italy holds its general election, with no party gaining an overall majority and populist and right-wing parties gaining seats.
2018 - Russian former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury, England.
895 - Liu Zhiyuan, Chinese Emperor (d. 948)
1188 – Blanche of Castile, Queen of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252)
1394 – Henry the Navigator (d. 1460)
1484 - George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, follower of Martin Luther (d. 1543)
1492 - Francesco de Loyolle, Italian composer (d. 1540)
1525 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer of Renaissance music (d. 1594)
1610 – William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
1645 - Johann Ambrosius Bach, German musician (d. 1695)
1665 - Philip Christoph von Konigsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694)
1678 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
1702 - Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee (d. 1724)
1706 - Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect (d. 1759)
1715 - James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (d. 1763)
1745 - Kazimierz Pulaski, Polish-American general (d. 1779)
1756 – Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823)
1770 - Joseph Jacotot, French teacher and educational philosopher (d. 1840)
1782 - Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist (d. 1830)
1792 - Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
1793 – Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
1808 - Frederik Stang, Norwegian politician (d. 1884)
1811 - John Lawrence, Irish nobleman and British Viceroy of India (d. 1879)
1817 - Edwards Pierrepoint, 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
1820 - Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)
1826 - Elme Marie Caro, French philosopher (d. 1887)
1838 - Paul Lacome, French composer (d. 1920)
1847 – Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
1851 - Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek writer (d. 1911)
1852 – Kristjan Jonsson, 3rd Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1926)
1856 - Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)
1862 - Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
1870 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944)
1871 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
1873 – John H. Trumbull, 70th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1961)
1875 – Mihaly Karolyi, Prime Minister and President of Hungary (d. 1955)
1875 - Enrique Larreta, Argentine writer, academic, writer and art collector (d. 1961)
1878 – P. D. Ouspensky, Russian esoterist and writer (d. 1947)
1879 – Bernhard Kellermann, German writer and poet (d. 1951)
1879 – Josip Murn, Slovenian poet (d. 1901)
1881 - Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1924)
1882 - Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat and politician (d. 1941)
1883 - Maude Fealy, American actress (d. 1971)
1888 – Knute Rockne, Norwegian-born American football coach (d. 1931)
1889 – Oren E. Long, Territorial Governor of Hawaii and US Senator (d. 1965)
1889 - Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1957)
1891 - Lois W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1988)
1899 - Liana Del Balzo, Argentine-Italian actress (d. 1982)
1901 - Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy-French poet (d. 1937)
1904 – Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1973)
1908 - Thomas Shaw, American blues musician (d. 1977)
1910 - Tancredo Neves, Brazilian politician (d. 1985)
1913 - John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
1914 – Gino Colaussi, Italian footballer (d. 1991)
1914 – Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
1915 - Carlos Surinach, Catalan composer and conductor (d. 1997)
1915 - Laszlo Csatary, Hungarian war criminal (d. 2013)
1916 - Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer and poet (d. 2000)
1918 - Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (d. 2012)
1921 - Olev Olesk, Estonian politician
1921 - Kaljo Raid, Estonian cellist, composer and clergyman (d. 2005)
1922 - Iring Fetscher, German political scientist (d. 2014)
1922 - Xenia Stad-de Jong, Dutch athlete (d. 2012)
1923 – Patrick Moore, British astronomer, writer and television presenter (d. 2012)
1923 - Piero D'Inzeo, Italian equestrian show jumper (d. 2014)
1925 - Inezita Barroso, Brazilian folk singer (d. 2015)
1926 - Pascual Pérez, Argentine boxer (d. 1977)
1926 - Fran Warren, American singer and actress (d. 2013)
1927 - Phil Batt, former Governor of Idaho
1928 - Samuel Adler, German-American composer
1928 – Alan Sillitoe, British writer (d. 2010)
1929 - Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor and violinist
1930 - John Toohey, Australian judge (d. 2015)
1931 - William H. Keeler, American cardinal (d. 2017)
1932 - Brunella Bovo, Italian actress (d. 2017)
1932 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer (d. 2008)
1932 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
1932 – Frank Wells, American businessman, president of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1994)
1934 - Mario Davidovsky, Argentine-American composer
1934 - Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident (d. 2014)
1935 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (d. 2010)
1935 - Prabha Rau, Indian politician (d. 2010)
1936 – Jim Clark, Scottish racing driver (d. 1968)
1936 – Aribert Reimann, German composer
1938 – Paula Prentiss, American actress
1938 - Alpha Condé, Guinean politician
1938 - Angus MacLise, American drummer (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1979)
1943 – Lucio Dalla, Italian singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2012)
1944 - Bobby Womack, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
1945 – Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager
1945 - Dieter Meier, Swiss musician, singer and artist
1945 - Femi Benussi, Italian actress
1946 - Michael Ashcroft, British politician
1947 - Jan Garbarek, Norwegian jazz saxophonist
1947 - Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic-American actor (d. 2015)
1948 – Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
1948 - Chris Squire, English bass guitarist (Yes) (d. 2015)
1948 - Brian Cummings, American voice actor
1948 – James Elroy, American writer
1949 – Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian politician (d. 2011)
1950 – Rick Perry, American politician, former Governor of Texas
1951 – Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and manager
1951 - Zoran Zizic, Montenegrin politician (d. 2013)
1952 – Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
1952 – Svend Robinson, Canadian politician
1953 – Pawel Janas, Polish football manager
1953 - Rose Laurens, French singer-songwriter
1954 – François Fillon, former Prime Minister of France
1954 - Boris Moiseev, Russian singer, choreographer, dancer, writer and actor
1954 - Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress
1954 - Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer and dissident
1954 – Willie Thorne, English snooker player
1955 - Joey Jones, Welsh footballer
1955 - Dominique Pinon, French actor
1958 - Massimo Mascioletti, Italian rugby player and coach
1958 - Patricia Heaton, American actress
1960 – John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer
1961 - Ray Mancini, American boxer
1962 – Lolo Ferrari, French actress (d. 2000)
1963 - Jason Newsted, American musician (Metallica)
1963 - Daniel Roebuck, American actor
1964 - Dave Colclough, Welsh computer programmer and poker player
1965 – Khaled Hosseini, Afghan writer and physician
1965 - Yury Loncharov, Russian cosmonaut
1966 - Kevin Johnson, American basketball player and politician
1967 - Sam Taylor-Wood, English conceptual artist
1967 – Kubilay Türkyilmaz, Turkish-Swiss footballer
1967 – Tim Vine, British actor and comedian
1968 – Patsy Kensit, British actress
1968 - Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politician
1968 - Christina McKelvie, Scottish politician
1969 - Chaz Bono, American actor and LGBT activist
1969 – Pierluigi Casiraghi, Italian footballer and manager
1971 - Fergal Lawler, Irish musician (The Cranberries)
1971 - Claire Baker, Scottish politician
1972 - Jos Verstappen, Dutch racing driver
1972 – Alison Wheeler, British singer (The Beautiful South)
1972 – Ivy Queen, Puerto Rican musician
1973 - Massimo Brambilla, Italian footballer
1973 – Len Wiseman, American movie director and screenwriter
1973 - Penny Mordaunt, English politician
1974 – Ariel Ortega, Argentine footballer
1974 - Joaquim Alberto Silva, Angolan footballer (d. 2019)
1975 – Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player
1976 - Gary Shortland, English figure skater
1977 - Christian Jessen, English doctor and television host
1977 - Tonga Lea'aetoa, Tongan-New Zealand rugby player
1977 - Jason Marsalis, American drummer
1978 - Jean-Marc Pelletier, American ice hockey player
1979 - Vyacheslav Malafeev, Russian footballer
1979 – Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer
1980 – Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
1980 – Phil McGuire, Scottish footballer
1981 - Laura Michelle Kelly, English actress and singer
1982 - Elia Rigotto, Italian cyclist
1982 - Ludmila Ezhova, Russian gymnast
1982 – Landon Donovan, American soccer player
1983 - Adam Deacon, English actor, rapper and director
1984 – Tamir Cohen, Israeli footballer
1984 - Phillip Inzerillo, American trombone player
1985 - Park Min-young, South Korean actress
1985 - Mathieu Montcourt, French tennis player (d. 2009)
1986 - Manu Vatuvei, New Zealand rugby player
1986 – Tom De Mul, Belgian footballer
1988 - Cody Longo, American actor and singer
1989 - Erin Heatherton, American model
1990 – Andrea Bowen, American actress
1992 – Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Prince Albert II, Prince of Monaco
1992 - Erik Lamela, Argentine footballer
1992 - Jared Sullinger, American basketball player
1993 - Jenna Boyd, American actress
1993 - Bobbi Kristina Brown, American media personality and singer (b. 2015)
1995 - Bill Milner, English actor
251 – Pope Lucius I
561 - Pope Pelagius I
1172 – King Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147)
1193 – Saladin, Turkish sultan (b. 1137)
1238 – Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland (b. 1210)
1238 - Yuri II of Vladimir (b. 1189)
1303 - Daniel of Moscow, Russian prince and Grand Duke of Muscovy (b. 1261)
1484 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
1496 – Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)
1615 - Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
1619 - Anne of Denmark, Queen of James VI of Scotland/James I of England (b. 1574)
1710 - Louis, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)
1762 – Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)
1793 - Louis de Bourbon, French admiral (b. 1725)
1795 - John Collins, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1717)
1805 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
1807 - Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
1832 – Jean-François Champollion, French scholar and Egyptologist (b. 1790)
1852 – Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
1858 – Matthew C. Perry, American naval officer (b. 1794)
1883 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1812)
1888 – Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher and writer (b. 1799)
1903 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1854)
1906 - John Schofield, American general and politician (b. 1831)
1915 - William Willett, founder of British Summer Time (b. 1856)
1925 - John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1941 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist (b. 1858)
1944 – Rene Lefebvre, martyr of the French Resistance (b. 1879)
1944 - Louis Capone, Italian-American gangster (b. 1896)
1945 - Mark Sandrich, American movie director, writer and producer (b. 1900)
1946 – Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886)
1948 – Antonin Artaud, French actor and director (b. 1896)
1950 - Adam Rainer, Austrian dwarf and giant (b. 1899)
1952 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English doctor, won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
1960 - Herbert O'Conor, Governor of Maryland (b. 1896)
1973 - Samuel Tolansky, British scientist (b. 1907)
1976 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
1977 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician (b. 1897)
1978 - William Bolin, 15th Governor of Arizona (b. 1909)
1980 - Luis Piazzini, Argentine chess player (b. 1905)
1981 - Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer, German admiral (b. 1900)
1986 – Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
1993 - Richard Sale, American screenwriter and director (b. 1911)
1994 – John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1950)
1999 - Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician (b. 1917)
2001 – Glenn Hughes, American singer (b. 1950)
2001 - Jim Rhodes, 61st Governor of Ohio (b. 1909)
2001 - Harold Stassen, 25th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1907)
2004 - John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist (b. 1955)
2006 - Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
2008 - George Walter, former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1928)
2008 – Gary Gygax, American games designer who made Dungeons & Dragons (b. 1938).
2010 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician (b. 1945)
2011 – Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist (b. 1925)
2011 – Johnny Preston, American singer (b. 1939)
2011 – Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924)
2013 - Seki Matsunaga, Japanese footballer (b. 1928)
2013 - Fran Warren, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
2014 - Wu Tianming, Chinese movie director (b. 1939)
2014 - Mark Freidkin, Russian writer (b. 1953)
2015 - Ninan Koshy, Indian thinker, theologian and social analyst (b. 1934)
2016 - Bud Collins, American sports journalist (b. 1929)
2016 - Pat Conroy, American author (b. 1945)
2016 - P. A. Sangma, Indian politician (b. 1947)
2016 - Abbas Vaez-Tabasi, Iranian cleric (b. 1935)
2016 - Morgan F. Murphy, American politician (b. 1932)
2017 - Edi Fitzroy, Jamaican singer-songwriter (b. 1955)
2017 - Helen M. Marshall, American politician (b. 1929)
2017 - Clayton Keith Yeutter, American politician (b. 1930)
2018 - Davide Astori, Italian footballer (b. 1987)
2018 - Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet, British engineering businessman (b. 1936)
2018 - Farhang Mehr, Iranian-American scholar and writer (b. 1923)
2018 - H. Wayne Norman, Jr., American politician (b. 1955)
2018 - James Luna, American performance artist (b. 1950)
2019 - King Kong Bundy, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
2019 - Eric Caldow, Scottish footballer (b. 1934)
2019 - Juan Corona, Mexican-American serial killer (b. 1934)
2019 - Keith Flint, English singer (The Prodigy) (b. 1969)
2019 - Ted Lindsay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2019 - Klaus Kinkel, German politician (b. 1936)
2019 - Luke Perry, American actor (b. 1966)
2019 - Johnny Romano, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2019 - Jean Starobinski, Swiss literary critic (b. 1920)
Saint Casimir's Day (Poland and Lithuania)
Historical Significance
Inauguration Day of Presidents of the United States from 1793 to 1933.
From 1937, the inaugurations take place on January 20.
March 04
Merchant marine is a term used in many places to talk about commercial ships and crews.
A country's merchant marine is made up of all the ships owned by companies or individuals in that country which are used to make money.
Most of a country's merchant marine is usually made of ships that carry things from place to place, like oil tankers and freighters.
Other ships, like cruise ships and ferries, are also included because they are used to make money.
When a country is at peace, its merchant marine works independently.
Some countries, though, require merchant ships to work for their armed forces in times of war.
In the United States, "Merchant Marine" has a different meaning.
The United States Merchant Marine (USMM) is a part of the military which is controlled by the government in both peace and war.
When the United States is at war, the USMM is used to carry military supplies.
In World War II, nearly one out of every twenty-six American merchant mariners was killed, a higher portion of men than in the Army, Navy, or even the Marines.
The Marine Society
International Merchant Marine Community
United States Merchant Marine Academy
Canadian Merchant Navy: Second World War
Official database of deceased Canadian Merchant Mariners
SwissWorld: The Swiss Merchant Navy
Photos of the Merchant Marine Memorials in London
Naval transport
FreeBSD is an operating system for many different kinds of computers.
This means that if the user has a computer around the house and want to run FreeBSD on it, the user probably can.
Computers that run Microsoft Windows will also run FreeBSD.
It is based on BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley.
FreeBSD is open source.
This means that anyone can download the source code and change, or learn from it.
The people who work on FreeBSD do not usually get paid.
They keep working on it because they enjoy it or want to become more experienced programmers.
Operating systems based on FreeBSD
Operating systems with a GUI
DesktopBSD
FreeBSD software
Other interesting information about FreeBSD including One Floppy FreeBSD MP3 and CD Player
mdoc.su — short manual page URLs, a URL shortener written in nginx
BXR.SU — FreeBSD source code search
FreeBSD 9.1 - Announcement of FreeBSD 9.1
Marshall wrote for comedians Joey Bishop and Phil Foster.
Soon he moved on to writing for television series, including The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Tonight Show.
In 1970, he adapted the Neil Simon play and 1968 movie The Odd Couple into a popular television series starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman.
It was very successful.
Marshall worked on Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley (which co-starred his sister Penny), and Mork and Mindy.
Both of there were spin-offs from Happy Days and just as successful and well-known.
He directed and acted in several movies including Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride.
BoJack Horseman - Abe
Father of the Pride - Bernie
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero - Soda Jerk
Pinky and the Brain - Mr. Itch (The Devil)
Rugrats - Fred
The Looney Tunes Show - Dr. Weisberg
The Simpsons - Larry Kidkill, Sheldon Leavitt
Happy Days - Drum Player, Prom Drummer
Laverne & Shirley - Drummer
The Naked Truth - Garry Marshall
The Odd Couple - Walter Madison
A League of Their Own - Walter Harvey
Can't Be Heaven - Pawn Shop Broker
Chicken Little - Buck Cluck
Finding Bliss - Garry Marshall
Hocus Pocus - Devil (Husband)
Orange County - Arthur Gantner
Pretty Woman - Bum Tour Guide
Race to Witch Mountain - Dr. Donald Harlan
Runaway Bride - First Baseman in Softball
Scooby-Doo and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery - Manny Goldman
The Strangest Rugrats Adventure - Garry Marshall
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Los Angeles County, California
Infectious disease deaths in Los Angeles County, California
Writers from the Bronx
January 1 – Alcatraz becomes a federal prison.
January 1 – Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring."
January 7 – First Flash Gordon comic strip is published.
January 10 – Execution of Marinus van der Lubbe
January 24 – Albert Einstein visits the White House
January 26 – The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, New York City.
February 9 – Gaston Boumerque forms a new government in France
February 12 – The Export-Import Bank is incorporated.
February 12 to February 16 – Austrian Civil War
February 23 – Léopold III becomes King of Belgium.
March 1 – Manchuria becomes Manchukuo
March 3 – John Dillinger escapes from jail in Crown Point, Indiana, using a wooden pistol
March 8 – Prince Sigvard of Sweden loses his titles because of his marriage
March 20 – All the police forces in Germany come under command of Heinrich Himmler
April 1 – Clyde Barrow and Henry Methvin kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
April 6 – Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
April 19 – Surgeon R.K. Wilson allegedly takes a photograph of the Loch Ness Monster.
April 22 – John Dillinger and two others shoot their way out of the FBI ambush in northern Wisconsin
May 23 - American outlaws Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed and killed by law officers on a rural road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana
January 13 - Nick Clooney, American journalist (father of George Clooney)
January 20 – Tom Baker
February 10 – Barrie Ingham, English actor
May 2 - László-Arsenije Mert
May 28 – Dionne Quintuplets
July 1 – Jamie Farr
September 21 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian folk musician (d. 2016)
October 19 - William Frates, American war veteran and radiologist
November 9 – Carl Sagan (d. 1996)
November 13 – Garry Marshall (d. 2016)
January 10 – Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag (executed) (born 1909)
January 29 – Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1868)
February 17 – Albert I of Belgium (born 1875)
February 23 – Edward Elgar, English composer (born 1857)
March 29 – Otto Hermann Kahn, German-born millionaire philanthropist (born 1867)
May 23 – Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (shot) (born 1909)
May 23 – Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (shot) (born 1910)
May 25 – Gustav Holst, English composer (born 1874)
May 30 – Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (born 1848)
June 10 – Frederick Delius, English composer (born 1862)
June 11 – Lev Vygotsky, Russian developmental psychologist (born 1896)
July 4 – Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Polish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and physics (born 1867)
July 8 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (born 1848)
July 22 – John Dillinger, American criminal (born 1903)
July 25 – François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (born 1874)
July 25 – Englebert Dolfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (born 1892)
July 25 – Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (born 1889)
July 26 – Winsor McCay, American comic creator and animator (born 1871)
July 28 – Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (born 1868)
August 2 – Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician (born 1847)
September 2 – Alcide Nunez, American musician (born 1884)
October 9 – King Alexander of Yugoslavia (born 1888)
November 2 – Edmond James de Rothschild, French philanthropist (born 1845)
November 16 – Alice Liddell, inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (born 1852)
November 27 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (born 1908)
December 1 – Sergei Kirov, Soviet leader (born 1886)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by George Whipple, American doctor, George Minot and William Parry for their discoveries about liver therapy in cases of anaemia.
"The Continental" – by Herb Magidson and Con Conrad, from the movie Gay Divorce, won the Academy Award for best song.
"Down Yonder" – by L.Wolfe Gilbert, and recorded by a hillbilly group, Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers, sold more than a million copies.
365 - The Alamanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul.
Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and to defend the Gallic tribe.
996 – First documented mention of Austria.
1141 - Empress Matilda's reign as "Lady of the English" ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title King of England.
1197 - Philip II is crowned King of France.
1503 - Pope Julius II is elected.
1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited for the first time.
1520 - Ferdinand Magellan and his crew enter the now-named Magellan Strait, linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, south of mainland South America.
It is navigated by November 28.
1555 - French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony near present-day Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
It lasts only 12 years.
1570 - The All Saints' Day flood devastates the Dutch coast.
1604 - William Shakespeare's play Othello is performed for the first time at Whitehall Palace, London.
1611 - William Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time at Whitehall Palace, London.
1683 - The British crown colony of New York is sub-divided into 12 counties.
1700 - King Charles II of Spain dies at the age of almost 39, sparking the War of the Spanish Succession.
1755 – A major Earthquake and subsequent Tsunamis hit the city of Lisbon, Portugal, as thousands are killed, and the effects of the earthquake are felt around Europe, Morocco and Algeria.
1765 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
1800 - John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion, which is now known as the White House.