the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1955 - Pino Daniele, Italian musician (d. 2015)
1956 – Yegor Gaidar, Soviet politician (d. 2009)
1958 - Fred Stoller, American comedian, actor and voice artist
1959 - Terry Hall, British singer
1961 – Jos Lansink, Dutch-Belgian equestrian
1961 – Rune Bratseth, Norwegian footballer
1961 – Dana Reeve, American actress (d. 2006)
1966 - Michael Crockart, Scottish politician
1966 – Olaf Marschall, German footballer
1967 - Vladimir Konstantinov, Russian ice hockey player
1967 - Katia Tiutiunnik, Australian violist and composer
1968 - Tyrone Hill, American basketball player
1969 - Gary Jules, American singer
1973 - Ashley Giles, English cricketer
1973 - Sergey Makarov, Russian javelin thrower
1976 – Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer
1976 - Rachel Blanchard, Canadian actress
1977 - Jorma Taccone, American director, actor and screenwriter
1977 - Fayez Banihammad, 9-11 terrorist (d. 2001)
1979 - Franco Brienza, Italian footballer
1979 – Christos Patsatzoglou, Greek footballer
1979 – Hedo Turkoglu, Turkish basketball player
1979 – Ivan Ljubicic, Croatian tennis player
1979 – Abby Brammell, American actress
1981 – Kolo Touré, Ivorian footballer
1982 – Brad Jones, Australian footballer
1982 - Eduardo Saverin, Brazilian entrepreneur
1983 - Evan Bourne, American professional wrestler
1984 - Tanushree Dutta, Indian model and actress
1986 – Tyler Bozak, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 - AJ Lee, American professional wrestler
1987 – Milos Teodosic, Serbian basketball player
1988 - Clayton Kershaw, American baseball player
1991 - Aleksandr Kokorin, Russian footballer
1997 - Ruta Meilutyte, Lithuanian swimmer
1999 – Tatum McCann, American actress
2007 – Prince Abdullah bin Ali of Jordan
1238 – Duke Henry I of Poland (b. 1163)
1279 - Emperor Bing of Song of China (b. 1271)
1286 – Alexander III of Scotland (b. 1241)
1330 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1301)
1406 – Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (b. 1332)
1612 - Sophia Olelkovich Radziwill, Belarussian saint (b. 1585)
1623 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
1637 - Peter Pazmany, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1570)
1649 - Gerardus Vossius, Dutch classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
1687 - Robert Cavalier de La Salle, French explorer (b. 1643)
1721 – Pope Clement XI (b. 1649)
1746 - Grand Duchess Anna Leopolodovna of Russia (b. 1718)
1783 – Charles Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1713)
1806 - James Jackson, English-born American politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1757)
1816 - Philip Mazzai, Italian physician (b. 1730)
1866 – John Dunn, Australian bushranger hanged in Sydney (b. c. 1840)
1871 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (b. 1795)
1882 - Karl Robert Jakobson, Estonian politician, journalist and teacher (b. 1841)
1884 – Elias Lönnrot, Finnish physician and writer (b. 1802)
1900 - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (b. 1815)
1908 – Eduard Zeller, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1814)
1914 – Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
1915 - Antonio Agliardi, Italian cardinal (b. 1832)
1916 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
1930 – Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
1939 - Lloyd L. Gaines, American activist (b. 1911)
1942 - Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1855)
1943 - Frank Nitti, Italian-American gangster (b. 1883)
1944 - William Hale Thompson, mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
1950 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer (b. 1875)
1950 – Walter Haworth, British chemist (b. 1883)
1950 - Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1872)
1974 – Edward Platt, American actor (b. 1916)
1976 - Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (b. 1889)
1978 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)
1982 - Randy Rhoads, American musician (b. 1956)
1986 - Sabino Barinaga, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
1987 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist (b. 1892)
1988 - Bun Cook, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)
1989 - Valérie Quennessen, French actress (b. 1957)
1995 - Yasuo Yamada, Japanese voice actor (b. 1932)
1997 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (b. 1904)
1998 - E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (b. 1909)
1999 – Tofilau Eti Alesana, Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
2005 - John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman (b. 1925)
2007 – Luther Ingram, American soul singer and songwriter (b. 1937)
2008 – Arthur C. Clarke, British writer (b. 1917)
2008 – Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (b. 1929)
2008 – Paul Scofield, British actor (b. 1921)
2009 - Paul Angelis, English actor (b. 1943)
2011 – Knut, famous polar bear (b. 2006)
2011 - Gustav Lantschner, Austrian-German skier (b. 1910)
2013 - Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor (b. 1924)
2013 - Irina Petrescu, Romanian actress (b. 1941)
2014 - Robert Schwarz Strauss, American politician and diplomat (b. 1918)
2014 - Heather Robertson, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1942)
2014 - Lawrence Walsh, American lawyer and judge (b. 1912)
2014 - Patrick Joseph McGovern, American technology executive (b. 1937)
2014 - Ernest Mühlen, Luxembourg politician (b. 1926)
2014 - Fred Phelps, American pastor (Westboro Baptist Church) (b. 1929)
2015 - Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
2015 - Gus Douglass, American politician (b. 1927)
2015 - Danny Schechter, American journalist and moviemaker (b. 1942)
2016 - Roger Agnelli, Brazilian businessman (b. 1959)
2016 - José Artetxe, Spanish footballer (b. 1930)
2016 - Jack Mansell, English footballer (b. 1927)
2017 - Jimmy Breslin, American journalist and author (b. 1928)
2017 - Li Li-Hua, Chinese actress (b. 1924)
2017 - Len Mitzel, Canadian politician (b. 1946)
2017 - Chinu Modi, Indian poet and critic (b. 1939)
2017 - Roger Pingeon, French cyclist (b. 1940)
Saint Joseph's Day (Roman Catholicism, Church of England) and related observances:
Las Fallas (Valencia, Spain)
Father's Day (Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, Honduras, Bolivia)
Unity Day (Kashubia, northern Poland)
In the Roman calendar March 15 was known as the Ides of March, and it was on this day that Julius Caesar was murdered.
44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
280 - Sun Hao of Eastern Wu surrenders to Sima Yan, beginning the Jin Dynasty.
933 - After a 10-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut River.
1311 – Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
1545 – First meeting of the Council of Trent.
1672 – Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
1781 - French astronomer Pierre Mechain discovers the spiral galaxies Messier 98, Messier 99 and Messier 100.
1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy.
The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
1820 – Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
1827 – The University of Toronto is chartered.
1848 – Revolution breaks out in Pest in Hungary.
The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
1867 - Hungary gains autonomy.
1875 - Archbishop of New York John McCloskey becomes the first American cardinal.
1877 – The first Test cricket match begins, between England and Australia.
1888 - The Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888 begins.
1892 – Liverpool FC is founded.
1906 – Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
1909 – Selfridges department store opens in London.
1916 – President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the Mexican border to pursue Pancho Villa.
1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates himself and his son from the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.
1919 – The American Legion forms in Paris.
1922 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
1926 - In Greece, Theodoros Pangalos is elected President without opposition.
1931 - The ship SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 people on board.
1933 - Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting an Austrofascist dictatorship.
1939 – World War II: Nazi troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
1941 - The first Philippine Airlines flight takes place, from Manila to Baguio City.
1943 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retook the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino – Allied aircraft bomb the Nazi-held monastery and stage an assault.
1944 - First flight of a Philippines Airlines plane.
It is the oldest airline in Asia to operate under its original name.
1945 - World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia.
1952 – In Cilaos, Réunion, 73 inches (1,870mm) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
1956 – The Broadway musical My Fair Lady opens in New York City.
1961 – South Africa withdraws from the British Commonwealth.
1963 – Victor Feguer, a Federal prisoner, is put to death at the Fort Madison, Iowa prison.
This would be the last execution of a Federal prisoner until the execution of Timothy McVeigh in 2001.
1965 - Lyndon B. Johnson says "We Shall Overcome" in support of the Voting Rights Act.
1970 – The Expo '70 world's fair opens in Osaka, Japan.
1976 – KISS releases the legendary album Destroyer.
1978 - Somalia and Ethiopia sign a truce to end the Ethiopian-Somali War.
1985 - The first internet domain name is registered - symbolics.com.
1985 - Brazil's military dictatorship ends.
1986 - The New World Hotel in Singapore collapses, killing 33 people.
1988 – Publication of Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind theory.
1988 – The Halabja poison gas attack of the Iran-Iraq War begins.
1989 – The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established.
1990 – Gulf War: Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
1990 – The Soviet Union announces that Lithuania's declaration of independence is invalid.
1990 – The ethnic clashes of Targu Mures begin on the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
1991 – Four Los Angeles, California police officers are indicted for the videotaped March 3, 1991 beating of motorist Rodney King during an arrest.
1991 – Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.
2001 - An explosion occurs on a Petrobras oil platform off Brazil, causing a major oil spill.
2003 - Hu Jintao becomes the leader of the People's Republic of China, with Wen Jiabao as Premier.
2003 - The Central African Republic's President Ange-Félix Patassé is removed in a coup by Francois Bozizé.
2004 – Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed.
2008 - An explosion occurs at an Albanian Army and Munitions base, killing 26 people.
It happens near the village of Gerdec.
2011 - Arab Spring: The currently still ongoing civil war in Syria begins.
2013 - A transition of power within the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China is completed, with Xi Jinping as President and Li Keqiang as Premier.
2019 - Two shootings happen in Christchurch, New Zealand during a white supremacist terrorist attack.
They killed 50 people.
933 – Romanos II, Byzantine Emperor (d. 963)
1275 - Margaret of England, English princess (d. 1333)
1455 - Pietro Accotti, Italian cardinal (d. 1532)
1584 - Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (d. 1663)
1591 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary and lexicographer (d. 1660)
1611 - Jan Fyt, Flemish painter (d. 1661)
1638 – Shunzhi Emperor of China (d. 1661)
1660 - Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish anatomist and botanist (d. 1740)
1684 - Francesco Durante, Italian composer (d. 1755)
1713 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762)
1737 - Amarindra, Queen Consort of Siam (d. 1826)
1738 - Cesare Beccaria, Italian philosopher (d. 1794)
1754 - Archibald Menzies, Scottish naturalist and surgeon (d. 1842)
1767 – Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845)
1770 - Samuel Bell, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1850)
1772 - Jozsef Ficzko, Burgenland Croatian writer (d. 1843)
1779 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
1792 - Virginie Ancelot, French painter, writer and playwright (d. 1875)
1794 - Friedrich Christian Diez, German philologist (d. 1876)
1809 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (d. 1876)
1809 - William Cannon, Governor of Delaware (d. 1865)
1813 - John Snow, English physician (d. 1858)
1818 - Mariano Alvarez, Filipino general (d. 1924)
1821 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian physicist and chemist (d. 1895)
1824 - Jules Chevalier, French priest (d. 1907)
1830 – Paul von Heyse, German writer (d. 1914)
1830 - Elisée Reclus, French geographer (d. 1905)
1831 - Daniel Comboni, Italian missionary and saint (d. 1881)
1835 - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (d. 1916)
1838 - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (d. 1889)
1851 - William Mitchell Ramsay, Scottish archaeologist (d. 1939)
1852 - Augusta, Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (d. 1932)
1854 – Emil Adolf von Behring, German doctor, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1901) (d. 1917)
1857 – Christian Michelsen, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1925)
1864 - Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (d. 1935)
1865 - Manuk Abeghian, Armenian author and scholar (d. 1944)
1866 - Johan Vaaler, Norwegian inventor (of the paperclip) (d. 1910)
1868 - Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician (d. 1944)
1869 – Stanislaw Wojciechowski, President of Poland (d. 1953)
1874 - Eugene Fiset, Canadian physician and politician (d. 1951)
1874 - Harold L. Ickes, American politician (d. 1952)
1878 - Reza Shah Pahlavi of Persia (d. 1944)
1882 - James Lightbody, American middle-distance runner (d. 1953)
1887 - Marjorie Merriwether Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1973)
1890 - Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)
1897 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (d. 1986)
1900 - Frances Partridge, English writer (d. 2004)
1902 - Hu Gwan-sun, South Korean activist (d. 1920)
1905 - Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, German lawyer (d. 1944)
1907 – Zarah Leander, Swedish singer and actress (d. 1981)
1910 - Tom Richards, Welsh runner (d. 1985)
1912 – Lightning Hopkins, American musician (d. 1982)
1913 - Rosita Contreras, Argentine actress (d. 1962)
1916 - Fadil Hoxha, Yugoslavian politician (d. 2001)
1916 - Harry James, American musician and bandleader (d. 1983)
1918 - Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and manager (d. 1987)
1919 – Lawrence Tierney, American actor (d. 2002)
1920 - Lawrence Sanders, American writer (d. 1998)
1920 – E. Donnall Thomas, American physician (d. 2012)
1921 - Jean Freeman, Welsh actress
1924 - Yuri Bondarev, Russian writer
1924 - Walter Gotell, German-British actor (d. 1997)
1926 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football player and coach (d. 1983)
1927 - Maija Isola, Finnish designer (d. 2001)
1927 - Christian Marquand, French director and actor (d. 2000)
1928 - Bob Wilber, American clarinetist and saxophonist
1930 – Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist (d. 2019)
1930 - Martin Karplus, Austrian-American chemist
1931 - Bill Burlison, American politician (d. 2019)
1932 - Alan Bean, American astronaut (d. 2018)
1933 - Philippe de Broca, French movie director
1933 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 2020)
1934 - Aldo Giorgini, Italian artist (d. 1994)
1935 – Judd Hirsch, American actor
1935 – Jimmy Swaggart, American televangelist
1936 - David Andrews, Irish politician
1936 - Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (d. 1986)
1937 - Valentin Rasputin, Russian poet and writer (d. 2015)
1939 - Ted Kaufman, American politician
1940 - Frank Dobson, British politician
1940 – Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead)
1941 - Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1942 - The Iron Sheik, Iranian-American professional wrestler
1943 – David Cronenberg, Canadian director
1943 - Lynda La Plante, English author and screenwriter
1943 - Sly Stone, American singer-songwriter and producer
1944 - Chi Cheng, Taiwanese athlete and politician
1944 - Francis Mankiewicz, Canadian movie director and screenwriter (d. 1993)
1944 - Jacques Doillon, French movie director
1945 - Mark J. Green, American politician
1946 - Bobby Bonds, American baseball player
1947 – Ry Cooder, American guitarist
1948 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
1950 - Jorgen Olsen, Danish singer
1952 - Howard Koh, American politician
1952 - Philip Green, English businessman
1952 - Earl Ray Tomblin, Governor of West Virginia
1953 - Kumba Iala, former President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2014)
1953 - Richard Bruton, Irish politician
1954 - Massimo Bubola, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1954 - Bob Budiansky, American comic book writer, illustrator and editor
1955 - Dee Snider, American singer
1955 - Roberto Maroni, Italian politician
1956 - Paramanga Ernest Yonli, Burkina Faso politician
1957 – Joaquim de Almeida, Portuguese-American actor
1957 - Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque politician
1957 - David Silverman, American animator
1959 - Harold Baines, baseball player
1959 – Ben Okri, Nigerian writer
1960 - Phil Walsh, Australian rules footballer and coach (d. 2015)
1961 - Terry Cummings, American basketball player
1961 - Craig Ludwig, American ice hockey player
1962 - Jimmy Baio, American actor
1962 – Markus Merk, German football referee
1962 - Terence Trent D'Arby, American singer
1963 - Bret Michaels, American musician
1964 - Fernando De Napoli, Italian footballer
1965 - Svetlana Medvedeva, former First Lady of Russia
1967 – Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese artist
1968 – Kahimi Karie, Japanese singer
1968 – Mark McGrath, American musician
1968 - Sabrina Salerno, Italian singer, actress and producer
1968 - Jon Schaffer, American musician
1969 - Rona Ambrose, Canadian politician
1971 - Penny Lancaster, English model and photographer
1972 – Mark Hoppus, American musician (+44 and blink-182)
1972 - Holger Stromberg, German chef
1973 - Robin Hunnicke, American video game designer and producer
1973 - Lee Jung-jae, South Korean actor
1973 - Masayuki Naruse, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
1974 - Robert Fick, American baseball player
1974 - Anders Andersson, Swedish footballer
1975 – Eva Longoria, American actress
1975 – Will.i.am, American musician (Black Eyed Peas)
1976 - Katherine Brooks, American director, producer and screenwriter
1977 - Joe Hahn, American musician (Linkin Park)
1978 – Takeru Kobayashi, Japanese competitive eater
1978 - Sid Wilson, American musician (Slipknot)
1981 – Mikael Forssell, Finnish footballer
1981 - Veronica Maggio, Swedish singer
1982 - Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich, Kenyan long jumper
1982 - Jordan Hastings, Canadian drummer
1984 - Yo Yo Honey Singh, Indian rapper, producer and actor
1985 - Eva Amurri, American actress
1985 - Tom Chilton, English racing driver
1985 - Javier Garrido, Spanish footballer
1985 – Curtis Davies, English footballer
1985 - Cat Boyd, Scottish trade unionist
1988 - James Reimer, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 - Sandro Raniere, Brazilian footballer
1990 - Siobhan Magnus, American singer-songwriter
1991 - Xavier Henry, American basketball player
1991 – Kii Kitano, Japanese actress
1992 - Anna Shaffer, English actress
1993 - Alia Bhatt, Indian actress and singer
1993 - Paul Pogba, French footballer
1993 – Alyssa Reid, Canadian singer
1994 - Nijel Amos, Botswana athlete
2000 - Kristian Kostov, Bulgarian-Russian singer
44 BC – Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC)
220 – Cao Cao, King of Wei (b. 155)
493 - Odoacer, King of Italy (b. 435)
963 - Romanos II, Byzantine Emperor (b. 938)
1145 - Pope Lucius II
1311 - Battle of Halmyros:
Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens
Thomas d'Autrementcourt, Lord of Salona, Marshal of Achaea
Albert Pallavicini, Margrave of Bodonitza
Giorgio I Ghisi, Triarch of Euboea, Lord of Tinos, Mykonos, Serifos and Keos
1346 - Shah Jalal of Bengal (b. 1271)
1416 - John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (b. 1340)
1575 - Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (b. 1527)
1587 - Kaspar Olevianus, German theologian (b. 1536)
1644 - Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (b. 1576)
1670 - John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597)
1673 - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (b. 1615)
1711 - Eusebio Kino, Italian priest and missionary (b. 1645)
1820 - Clemens Maria Hofbauer, Patron Saint of Vienna (b. 1751)
1842 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (b. 1760)
1849 - Giuseppe Caspar Mezzafanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
1886 - Michael Hahn, 19th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1830)
1898 - Henry Bessemer, English engineer, inventor and businessman (b. 1813)
1907 - William D. Bloxham, Governor of Florida (b. 1835)
1921 - Talaat Pasha, Ottoman politician (b. 1874)
1937 – H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
1938 - Nikolai Bukharin, Soviet-Russian revolutionary and politician (b. 1888)
1941 - Alexei von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
1951 - John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer (b. 1889)
1959 - Lester Young, American musician (b. 1909)
1961 – Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (b. 1882)
1962 – Arthur Compton, American physicist (b. 1892)
1966 - Abe Saperstein, American basketball player and coach (b. 1902)
1969 - Musashiyama Takeshi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1909)
1971 - Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948)
1972 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910)
1975 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1900)
1981 - René Clair, French movie director (b. 1898)
1983 – Rebecca West, English writer (b. 1892)
1988 - Dmitri Polyakov, Soviet double-agent (b. 1926)
1990 – Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-British journalist (b. 1958)
1991 - Bud Freeman, American jazz musician (b. 1906)
1993 – Karl Mai, German footballer (b. 1928)
1998 – Benjamin Spock, American paediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
2003 - Thora Hird, British actress (b. 1911)
2004 - William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (b. 1910)
2004 – John Pople, English chemist (b. 1925)
2006 – George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
2009 – Ron Silver, American actor (b. 1946)
2011 – Nate Dogg, American musician (b. 1969)
2012 - Bernardino Gonzalez Ruiz, President of Panama (b. 1911)
2013 - Booth Gardner, former Governor of Washington (b. 1936)
2014 - David Brenner, American comedian (b. 1936)
2014 - Scott Asheton, American musician (b. 1949)
2014 - Clarissa Dickson Wright, English chef (b. 1947)
2014 - Cees Veerman, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
2015 - Mike Porcaro, American musician (Toto) (b. 1955)
2015 - Xu Caihou, Chinese army general (b. 1943)
2015 - Narayan Desai, Indian writer (b. 1924)
2015 - Sally Forrest, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
2015 - Curtis Gans, American activist (b. 1937)
2016 - Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs, British historian and codebreaker (b. 1921)
2016 - Tamara Grigsby, American politician (b. 1974)
2016 - Earline W. Parmon, American politician  (b. 1943)
2016 - Seru Rabeni, Fijian rugby player (b. 1978)
2016 - Ralph C. Johnson, American politician (b. 1953)
2016 - Lyubka Rondova, Bulgarian folk singer (b. 1936)
2016 - Sylvia Anderson, British television producer and voice actress (b. 1927)
2017 - Sok An, Cambodian politician (b. 1950)
2017 - Enrique Morea, Argentine tennis player (b. 1924)
2017 - Dave Stallworth, American basketball player (b. 1941)
2018 - Tom Benson, American automobile dealer, philanthropist and sports team owner (b. 1927)
2018 - Ed Charles, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2018 - Augie Garrido, American baseball coach (b. 1939)
2018 - Mohamed Sayah, Tunisian politician (b. 1933)
2018 - Larry Kwong, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1923)
2019 - Okwui Enwezor, Nigerian art critic and writer (b. 1963)
2019 - Dave Hood Jr., American politician (b. 1954)
2019 - W. S. Merwin, American poet (b. 1927)
2020 - Vittorio Gregotti, Italian architect (b. 1927)
National Day of Hungary - Revolution of 1848
Holiday in Liberia - Birthday of the country's first President, Joseph Jenkins Roberts
Honen Matsuri (Japan)
Constitution Day (Belarus)
World Day for Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film
World Consumer Rights Day
Anniversary of the 2019 New Zealand Christchurch Mosque Shooting
44 BC - Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before Julius Caesar's killing, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
1489 - Queen of Cyprus Catherine Cornaro sells her kingdom to Venice.
1590 - Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and a force of Huguenots defeat forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
1647 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1743 – The first town meeting was held in Boston, Massachusetts, at Faneuil Hall.
1780 - American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in then-Spanish Louisiana.
1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for cotton gin.
1800 - Giorgio Barnaba Luigi Chiaramonti is elected to become Pope Pius VII.
1879 - Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Southern Germany.
1883 - Communist thinker Karl Marx dies aged 64.
1885 - The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.
1888 – A three-day snowstorm in the Eastern US leaves 400 people dead.
1898 – Young Boys Berne Football Club is founded.
1899 - The Belgica expedition in Antarctica can continue again after just over a year of being stuck in pack-ice.
1900 - The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States Currency on the gold standard.
1903 - The Hay-Herran Treaty is ratified by the United States Senate, giving the United States the right to build the Panama Canal.
It is later rejected by the Senate of Colombia, which at the time still included present-day Panama.
1903 - The Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is created by Theodore Roosevelt.
1905 – Chelsea FC is founded.
1910 - Blow-out of the Lakeview Number One oil gusher in California.
1915 - World War I: German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned by her crew, after being cornered by the Royal Navy off Chile.
1926 - A train crash between Heredia and Tibas in Costa Rica kills 248 people.
1931 - Aram Ara, India's first talking movie, is released.
1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
1942 - Orvan Hess and John Bumstead become the first doctors in the US to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
1943 - Holocaust: The Krakow Ghetto is "liquidated".
1945 - World War II: Royal Air Force's first operational use of a "Grand Slam" bomb in Bielefeld.
1950 - The FBI publishes its Ten Most Wanted list for the first time.
1951 – Korean War: For the second time, UN troops recapture Seoul.
1964 – Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald.
1967 - The body of John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent resting place in Arlington National Cemetery.
1972 - Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed in an explosion in Segrate.
1978 - The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon.
1979 - In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident aircraft crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200 people.
1980 – A plane crash in Poland kills 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
1988 - China defeats Vietnam in a naval battle.
This is after China attempted to create oceanographic posts on the disputed Spratly Islands.
1993 - In a referendum, most voters in Andorra decide to adopt a democratic constitution.
1995 – Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut on board a Russian launch vehicle.
1997 - Chongqing is placed under rule from the Government of the People's Republic of China.
2004 – Russian President Vladimir Putin wins a second term in office.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe deems the election only partially democratic.
2004 – Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is elected Prime Minister of Spain, succeeding Jose Maria Aznar, whose response to the Madrid bombings is seen as a deciding factor in the outcome of the election.
2006 – Members of the Chadian military stage a coup attempt.
2008 - Widespread protests begin in Lhasa and across Tibet.
2012 – The International Criminal Court finds the leader of the Union of Congolese patriots Thomas Lubanga guilty of war crimes.
2012 – United Kingdom: Perth (Scotland), Chelmsford (Essex, England) and Saint Asaph (Wales) become cities.
2015 - Cyclone Pam: A tropical cyclone sweeps across the Pacific island country of Vanuatu, with an unknown number of casualties, and extensive damage.
2016 - The European Space Agency and Roscosmos launch the joint Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter on a mission to Mars.
2018 - Angela Merkel starts her fourth term as Chancellor of Germany after over five months of coalition negotiations.
2018 - The United Kingdom expels 23 Russian diplomats during an ongoing political row between the two countries over the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury.
2019 - The House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes by a majority to extend Brexit.
2019 - Cyclone Idai makes landfall in Mozambique, leading to hundreds of deaths and a humanitarian crisis across the Southeast African region.
1271 - Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1310)
1638 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)
1681 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)
1782 - Thomas Hunt Benton, American politician (d. 1858)
1790 – Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)
1801 – Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet (d. 1822)
1804 – Johann Strauß, Sr.,
Austrian composer (d. 1849)
1807 – Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876)
1820 – Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy, 1st King of Italy (d. 1878)
1821 – Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, Danish archaeologist (d. 1885)
1822 - Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (d. 1889)
1824 - John Robson, Premier of British Columbia (d. 1892)
1833 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first female dentist in the United States (d. 1910)
1835 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)
1836 - Isabella Mary Beeton, English cookery writer (d. 1865)
1844 – King Umberto I of Italy (d. 1900)
1848 - Albert Robida, French writer, artist and caricaturist (d. 1926)
1851 - John Sebastian Little, 21st Governor of Arkansas (d. 1916)
1853 - Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
1854 – Paul Ehrlich, German doctor, won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1915)
1854 – Thomas R. Marshall, 28th Vice President of the United States (d. 1925)
1854 - Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (d. 1929)
1862 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (d. 1951)
1864 - Alfred Redl, Austro-Hungarian army chief and Russian spy (d. 1913)
1866 - Alexei Troitsky, Russian chess problemist (d. 1942)
1868 - Emily Murphy, Canadian women's rights activist (d. 1933)
1869 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951)
1874 - Anton Philips, Dutch electronics businessman (d. 1951)
1879 – Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
1880 – Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1945)
1882 – Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
1887 - Charles Reisner, American actor and director (d. 1962)
1894 - Osa Johnson, American director and explorer (d. 1953)
1899 - Ricardo Adolfo de Guardia Arango, 21st President of Panama (d. 1969)
1901 - Francisco Gamborena, Spanish footballer (d. 1982)
1903 - Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (d. 1979)
1904 - Doris Eaton Travis, American actress (d. 2010)
1905 - Raymond Aron, French journalist, sociologist and philosopher (d. 1983)
1908 – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher (d. 1961)
1911 – Akira Yoshizawa, Japanese origamist (d. 2005)
1912 - Les Brown, American bandleader (d. 2001)
1920 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
1920 - Dorothy Tyler-Odam, British high jumper (d. 2014)
1921 - S. Truett Cathy, American entrepreneur (d. 2014)
1922 - China Zorrilla, Uruguayan actress (d. 2014)
1922 - Les Baxter, American orchestra leader and arranger (d. 1996)
1923 – Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)
1925 - William Clay Ford, Sr.,
American businessman (d. 2014)
1926 - François Morel, Canadian pianist, conductor and music educator
1927 - Philippe Lemaire, French actor (d. 2004)
1928 – Frank Borman, American astronaut
1928 - Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (d. 1980)
1929 - Kirill Kovaldzhi, Russian author, poet and critic (d. 2017)
1931 – Lisbet Palme, wife of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme (d. 2018)
1932 – Naina Yeltsina, wife of Russian President Boris Yeltsin
1932 - Mark Murphy, American jazz singer (d. 2015)
1933 - René Felber, Swiss politician
1933 - Ian Pieris, Sri Lankan cricketer (d. 2016)
1933 – Michael Caine, British actor and director
1933 – Quincy Jones, American musician and bandleader
1934 – Eugene Cernan, American astronaut (d. 2017)
1934 - Paul Rader, 15th General of the Salvation Army
1934 - Dionigi Tettamanzi, Italian cardinal (d. 2017)
1936 - Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer
1938 - Jan Crouch, American televangelist (d. 2016)
1939 – Pilar Bardem, Spanish actress
1939 - Bertrand Blier, French movie director and screenwriter
1939 - Yves Boisset, French movie director and screenwriter
1939 - Raymond J. Barry, American television, movie and stage actor
1940 - Masahiro Hamazaki, Japanese footballer
1940 - Julian Hunte, Saint Lucian diplomat
1941 - Gordon Neate, English footballer (d. 2019)
1941 – Wolfgang Petersen, German director
1942 - Rita Tushingham, British actress
1944 - Vaclav Nedomansky, Czech ice hockey player
1945 – Jasper Carrott, British comedian
1945 – Pakalitha Mosisili, Prime Minister of Lesotho
1945 - Walter Parazaider, American jazz saxophonist
1946 - Zygmunt Anczok, Polish footballer
1946 - Gianni Bella, Italian singer
1946 - Steve Kanaly, American actor
1946 - Wes Unseld, American basketball player
1947 – Pam Ayres, British poet
1947 - William J. Jefferson, American politician
1947 - Peter Skellern, English singer and composer (d. 2017)
1948 – Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian
1948 - Tom Coburn, American politician (d. 2020)
1948 - Theo Jansen, Dutch artist
1949 - Helle Meri, former First Lady of Estonia
1951 - Jerry Greenfield, American businessman, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
1955 - Daniel Bertoni, Argentine footballer
1956 – Tessa Sanderson, British athlete
1956 - Sean Mathias, Welsh theatre and movie director, actor and writer
1957 - Franco Frattini, Italian politician
1957 - Tad Williams, American writer
1958 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco
1958 - Leonhard Stock, Austrian skier
1958 - Francine Stock, British broadcaster
1959 - Steve Byrnes, American producer (d. 2015)
1959 - Laila Robins, American actress
1959 - Tamara Tunie, American actress
1960 - Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1961 - Mike Lazaridis, Turkish-Canadian businessman
1962 - Narumi Tsunoda, Japanese voice actress
1963 - Pedro Duque, Spanish astronaut
1963 - Mahiro Maeda, Japanese animator, anime director and character designer
1964 - Dario Bisso, Italian conductor and composer
1965 – Aamir Khan, Indian actor
1965 - Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter, producer, director and actor
1965 - Kiana Tom, American actress, television host and author
1966 - Johan Elmer, Danish movie director, screenwriter and actor
1966 - Elise Neal, American actress
1966 - Gary Anthony Williams, American actor
1967 - Michael Fincke, American astronaut
1968 - Megan Follows, American actress
1970 - Junior Baiano, Brazilian footballer
1970 - Chris Hondros, American photographer (d. 2011)
1972 - Irom Sharmila, Indian Manipuri activist
1973 - Rohit Shetty, Indian movie director
1974 - Patrick Traverse, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Fredrik Ericsson, Swedish climber (d. 2010)
1975 - Steve Harper, English footballer
1975 - Rushanara Ali, Bangladeshi-English politician
1976 – Phil Vickery, English rugby player
1976 - Daniel Gillies, Canadian-New Zealand actor
1977 - Kim Nam-Il, South Korean footballer
1977 – Matthew Booth, South African footballer
1977 – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (d. 2011)
1977 – Vadims Fjodorovs, Latvian footballer
1977 - Ida Corr, Danish singer and composer
1978 – Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (d. 2001)
1978 – Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
1979 – Gao Ling, Chinese badminton player
1979 – Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
1980 - Matteo Grassotto, Italian racing driver
1981 - Jan Polak, Czech footballer
1982 – François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (d. 2008)
1982 – Carlos Marinelli, Argentine footballer
1982 - Kate Maberly, English actress and musician
1983 - Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakhstani boxer
1983 – Taylor Hanson, American musician
1983 - Anas Sarwar, Scottish politician
1984 - Liesel Pritzker Simmons, American actress
1985 – Idaira, Spanish singer
1985 - Ian Black, Scottish footballer
1985 - Eva Angelina, American pornographic actress and model
1985 - Brianna Love, American pornographic actress
1986 – Jamie Bell, English actor
1988 - Lautaro Acosta, Argentine footballer
1988 – Stephen Curry, American basketball player
1988 - Sasha Grey, American pornographic actress and musician
1989 - Colby O'Donis, American singer
1990 - Joe Allen, Welsh footballer
1990 - Kolbeinn Sigthorsson, Icelandic footballer
1990 - Triin Ojaste, Estonian skier
1991 - Gotoku Sakai, Japanese footballer
1992 - Jasmine Murray, American singer
1994 - Ansel Elgort, American actor
1997 - Simone Biles, American gymnast
313 – Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor (b. 284)
840 - Einhard, French writer and historian (b. 770)
968 – Matilda of Ringelheim, German Queen (b. 895)
1457 – Jingtai Emperor of China (b. 1428)
1632 – Tokugawa Hidetada, Japanese shogun (b. 1579)
1647 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
1757 - John Byng, English admiral (b. 1704)
1765 - Ayagawa Gorogi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1703)
1803 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German writer (b. 1774)
1805 - Stanislaw Szczesny Potocki, Russian general (b. 1753)
1811 – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, British Prime Minister (b. 1735)
1860 - Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian engineer (b. 1802)
1877 – Juan Manuel de Rosas, Argentine military leader (b. 1793)
1883 – Karl Marx, German political theorist (b. 1818)
1884 – Quintino Sella, Italian statesman (b. 1827)
1921 - Larry McLean, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1881)
1932 – George Eastman, American inventor (b. 1854)
1933 - Balto, famous Siberian husky (b. 1919)
1946 - Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (b. 1878)
1949 - John Callan O'Laughlin, American journalist and politician (b. 1873)
1953 - Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovakian politician (b. 1896)
1957 - Evagoras Pallikarides, Greek-Cypriot freedom fighter (b. 1938)
1965 - Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (b. 1879)
1972 - Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Italian publisher and political activist (b. 1926)
1973 – Howard Aiken, American engineer (b. 1900)
1973 - Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
1973 - Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907)
1975 - Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
1975 - Günther Reindorff, Estonian graphic designer (b. 1899)
1976 - Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b. 1895)
1977 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American Civil Rights activist (b. 1917)
1980 – Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician (b. 1902)
1980 - Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (b. 1928)
1983 - Maurice Ronet, French movie actor (b. 1927)
1984 - Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet (b. 1915)
1989 – Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of Austria (b. 1892)
1989 – Edward Abbey, American writer and environmental activist (b. 1927)
1991 – Howard Ashman, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1950)
1991 - Doc Pomus, American singer-songwriter (b. 1925)
1992 – Jean Noiret, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
1995 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist (b. 1911)
1997 - Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director (b. 1907)
2005 – Akira Yoshizawa, Japanese origamist (b. 1911)
2006 – Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (b. 1929)
2007 - Lucie Aubrac, French Resistance activist (b. 1912)
2008 – Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist and founder of the Focolare (b. 1920)
2009 – Alain Bashung, French singer and actor (b. 1947)
2010 – Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926)
2012 – Censu Tabone, 4th President of Malta (b. 1913)
2013 - Mirja Hietamies, Finnish skier (b. 1931)
2013 - Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian Khmer Rouge politician (b. 1925)
2014 - Tony Benn, British politician (b. 1925)
2014 - Otakar Brousek, Sr.,
Czech actor (b. 1924)
2014 - Meir Har-Zion, Israeli military commando (b. 1934)
2014 - Ken Utsui, Japanese actor (b. 1931)
2014 - Werner Rackwitz, German opera director (b. 1929)
2014 - Sam Lacey, American basketball player (b. 1948)
2015 - Valentin Rasputin, Russian writer (b. 1937)
2016 - Peter Maxwell Davies, British composer (b. 1934)
2016 - Riccardo Garrone, Italian actor (b. 1926)
2016 - Suranimala Rajapaksha, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1949)
2016 - John W. Cahn, American metallurgist (b. 1928)
2016 - Davy Walsh, Irish footballer (b. 1923)
2017 - Jack H. Harris, American film producer (b. 1918)
2017 - Jim McAnearney, Scottish footballer (b. 1935)
2017 - Royal Robbins, American rock climber and writer (b. 1935)
2017 - Rodrigo Valdéz, Colombian boxer (b. 1946)
2017 - John Van de Kamp, American politician and attorney (b. 1936)
2017 - André Tosel, French philosopher (b. 1941)
2018 - Stephen Hawking, British physicist, cosmologist and mathematician (b. 1942)
2018 - Jim Bowen, British comedian and television presenter (b. 1937)
2018 - Emilio Disi, Argentine actor and humourist (b. 1943)
2018 - Marielle Franco, Brazilian politician (b. 1979)
2018 - Narendra Jha, Indian actor (b. 1962)
2018 - Adrian Lamo, Colombian-American computer hacker and political activist (b. 1981)
2018 - Liam O'Flynn, Irish uilleann piper (b. 1945)
2019 - Birch Bayh, American politician and United States Senator (b. 1928)
2019 - Godfried Danneels, Belgian cardinal (b. 1933)
2019 - Ralph Metzner, American psychologist (b. 1936)
2019 - William Stanley Peart, British physician and clinical researcher (b. 1922)
2019 - Charlie Whiting, British motorsports director (b. 1952)
National Mother Tongue Day (Estonia) celebrating the birthday of the poet Kristjan Jaak Peterson
White Day (Japan and Korea)
Spring Day (Albania)
Heroes' Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
Nanakshahi New Year (Sikhism)
483 – St. Felix becomes Pope.
874 – The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Apostles, Constantinople.
1138 – Cardinal Gregory is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
1639 – Harvard College was named for clergyman John Harvard.
1781 – William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
1809 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
1848 - The March Revolution in Vienna begins.
1862 – American Civil War:the US federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America reluctantly agrees to the use of African American troops.
1881 – Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (
Gregorian date: it was 1 March in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
1884 – The siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins (ends on January 26, 1885).
1897 – San Diego State University founded.
1900 – Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
1900 – In France, length of a workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
1920 - The "Wolfgang Kapp Putsch" briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
1921 – Mongolia, under Black Baron, declares its independence from China.
1925 – Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
1933 – Great Depression: Banks in the United States begin to re-open after the Presidentially mandated "bank holiday".
1940 – Winter War ended.
1943 – World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
1943 – Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
1954 – Battle of Dien Bien Phu: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
1957 – The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery.
1964 – A young woman, Kitty Genovese, is murdered in front of multiple witnesses who all fail to help her, in an incident which shocks the world and prompts investigation into the Bystander effect.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
1971 – In New York City, Rock group The Allman Brothers Band record a concert that will be released as their classic live album At Fillmore East
1979 – The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'état in Grenada.
1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in world, is opened, connecting Aomori and Hakodate in Japan.
1988 – I. King Jordan becomes the first Deaf president of Gallaudet University after the Deaf President Now demonstrations.
1990 - Ertha Pascal-Trouillot becomes the first female President of Haiti.
1991 – The United States Justice Department announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
1992 – In eastern Turkey, an earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500.
1993 – The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Québec.
1996 – The Dunblane Massacre: In Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 adult teacher are shot dead by a spree killer who then commits suicide.
1997 – India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
1997 – In Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona, the Phoenix Lights, one of the most widely witnessed UFO sightings, take place.
2000 – After 17 seasons in the NFL, Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino retires.
2003 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints have been found in Italy.
2005 - A Presidential election takes place in Kyrgyzstan.
Controversy around this election leads to the removal of President Askar Akayev.
2012 - Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica announce that they are to stop publishing its print edition, in order to focus on its online edition.
2012 - 28 people are killed as a bus returning from a school trip back to Belgium crashes in a tunnel in Canton Valais, Switzerland.
2013 - cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is elected Pope, choosing to be known as Pope Francis.
He is the first Pope from Latin America as well as the first Jesuit Pope.
2015 - Iceland withdraws its application for European Union membership.
2016 - 17 people are killed in an armed attack on a hotel in the Ivory Coast.
2016 - 37 people are killed in bomb attack in Ankara, Turkey.
2017 - Nicola Sturgeon asks for permission to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence.
2018 - US President Donald Trump fires his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and nominates CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him.
2019 - A school shooting in Suzano, São Paulo, Brazil, kills 8 people.
2019 - A school collapse in Lagos, Nigeria, kills 8 people.
2019 - The House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes by a majority against a "No-Deal" Brexit.
1372 - Louis of Valois, Duke of Orleans, brother of Charles VI of France (d. 1407)
1593 - Georges de La Tour, French painter (d. 1652)
1615 – Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700)
1683 - John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-British politician (d. 1744)
1696 - Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Marshal of France (d. 1788)
1700 - Michel Blavet, French flautist (d. 1768)
1720 – Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793)
1733 – Joseph Priestley, English scientist (d. 1804)
1741 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790)
1764 – Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845)
1770 - Daniel Lambert, English man known for his obesity (d. 1809)