the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
2002 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian mob boss (b. 1905)
2002 - Bill Peet, American screenwriter and animator (b. 1915)
2003 – Noel Redding, English musician (b. 1945)
2006 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
2007 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan Head of State (b. 1913)
2008 – Bruno Neves, Portuguese cyclist (b. 1981)
2011 - Maurice Goldhaber, physicist (b. 1911)
2014 - Francisco Sobrino, Mexican-Spanish sculptor (b. 1932)
2014 - Barbara Knudson, American actress (b. 1927)
2014 - Reg Gasnier, Australian rugby league player (b. 1939)
2015 - Jef Geeraerts, Belgian author (b. 1930)
2015 - Stan Cornyn, American record label executive (b. 1933)
2015 - John Hewie, South African-Scottish footballer (b. 1927)
2015 - John Watts, Grenadian politician (b. 1921)
2016 - Motiur Rahman Nizami, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1943)
2016 - Peter Behrens, German musician (b. 1947)
2016 - Tony Cozier, Barbadian cricket writer and commentator (b. 1940)
2016 - Katherine Dunn, American writer (b. 1945)
2016 - Michael Ratner, American lawyer (b. 1943)
2016 - Joe Temperley, Scottish saxophonist (b. 1929)
2017 - Gabriel Chiramel, Indian Roman Catholic priest, educator, zoologist and author (b. 1914)
2017 - Mark Colvin, British-born Australian journalist and radio presenter (b. 1952)
2017 - Clelio Darida, Italian politician, former Mayor of Rome (b. 1927)
2018 - Mikhail Alperin, Ukrainian-Norwegian jazz pianist (b. 1956)
2018 - Bessie Camm, British supercentenarian (b. 1904)
2018 - Gérard Genette, French literary theorist (b. 1930)
2018 - Hugo Guerra, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1966)
2018 - Peter Mayer, British-American publisher (b. 1936)
2018 - Bengt Nilsson, Swedish high jumper (b. 1934)
2018 - Ulla Sallert, Swedish actress (b. 1923)
2019 - Gianni De Michelis, Italian politician (b. 1940)
2019 - Silver King, Mexican wrestler and actor (b. 1968)
2019 - Peggy Lipton, American actress and model (b. 1946)
2019 - Pua Magasiva, New Zealand actor (b. 1980)
2019 - Jon Gittens, English footballer (b. 1964)
2019 - Robert D. Maxwell, American colonel (b. 1920)
2019 - Thomas Silverstein, American murderer (b. 1952)
National Technology Day (India)
Statehood Day (Minnesota)
1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
1483 – Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable").
1509 – Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.
1607 – The settlement of Jamestown, Virginia is founded.
1608 - The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen, Bavaria.
1610 - King Henry IV of France is murdered, leaving the throne to his son, King Louis XIII of France, who dies exactly 33 years later, on the same date.
1643 – Four year-old Louix XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
Louis XIV's reign would become the longest in European history, lasting until 1715.
1747 – A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
1787 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new Constitution for the United States.
1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
1811 – Paraguay gains independence from Spain.
1858 – As one of three explorers, John McDouall Stuart starts a journey that crosses Australia.
1861 – The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Jackson.
1868 - Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikko.
1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
1879 - The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji.
1889 – The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London.
1894 - In Blackpool, Lancashire, England, the Blackpool Tower is opened to the public.
1897 - Stars and Stripes Forever id first performed in public near Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1900 – The 1900 Summer Olympics open in Paris.
1901 - In Adalen, Sweden, five people are killed as soldiers fire on a trade union demonstration.
1913 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
1914 – The Hellenic Holocaust starts, according to an official document from Talaat Bey (Minister of the Interior) to the prefect of Smyrna.
1927 – Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg.
1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
1930 - The Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico become a National Park.
1935 – The Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.
1939 – Lina Medina, from Peru, becomes the world's youngest alleged mother in medical history at the age of five.
1940 – World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
1940 – World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany.
1943 - World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks the ship AMS Centaur off Queensland, Australia.
1948 – Israel declares itself to be an independent state and a provisional government is established.
1948 – The murder of a three-year-old girl in Blackburn, northern England, leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city in an attempt to find the murderer.
1955 – Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union sign a mutual defence treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
1955 - The United States carries out Operation Wigwam - atomic bomb tests around 900 kilometers southwest of San Diego, California in the Pacific Ocean.
1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.
1963 - Kuwait joins the UN.
1970 – The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket.
1988 - Carrollton Bus Collision: A drunk driver travelling the wrong way on the Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group.
27 people die in the resulting crash and fire.
1989 - Carlos Menem is elected President of Argentina.
1995 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
1998 – After nine years on the air, the series finale of the television sitcom Seinfeld is aired on NBC.
2004 – The marriage of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and Mary Donaldson takes place in Copenhagen.
2004 – Piers Morgan is fired as editor of the Daily Mirror, when photographs that had been published in the newspaper of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers were proved to be fake.
2004 – Insurgents or terrorists in Iraq detonate a 155 mm shell containing several liters of binary precursors for sarin.
The shell was designed to mix the chemicals as it spun during flight and the explosion failed to mix them properly.
Although it only resulted in a small release of sarin, two U.S. soldiers are treated for exposure after displaying the early symptoms.
2005 – Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood.
2005 – Nintendo opens up its first retail store, Nintendo World, in Rockefeller Center in New York City.
They celebrated the grand opening with a block party in Rockefeller Plaza.
2006 - The final episode of US sitcom Malcolm in the Middle is broadcast.
2011 – Ell and Nikki of Azerbaijan win the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
2012 - Agni Air Flight CHT crashes near the airport in Jamsom, Nepal, after a failed turnaround, killing 15 people.
2013 - President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in the Northeastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa due to the terrorist activities of Boko Haram.
2013 - Brazil effectively legalizes same-sex marriage.
2016 - Crimean-Tatar artist Jamala wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 for Ukraine with the ballad 1944, in Stockholm.
Dami Im (Australia) and Sergey Lazarev (Russia) finish second and third respectively.
2017 - Emmanuel Macron takes office as the youngest-ever President of France, at the age of 39.
2017 - An election in Germany's most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia results in the SPD-Green Party coalition under Hannelore Kraft losing its majority.
The CDU under Armin Laschet makes significant gains.
2018 - Israeli troops kill 58 Palestinian protesters on the same day the Israel's new United States Embassy is opened in Jerusalem to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the declaration of the State of Israel.
1316 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378)
1414 - Francis I, Duke of Bretagne (d. 1450)
1553 – Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615)
1574 - Francesco Rasi, Italian composer, singer, musician and poet (d. 1621)
1630 - Katakura Kagenaga, Japanese samurai (d. 1681)
1657 - Sambhaji, Indian emperor (d. 1689)
1666 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
1699 – Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
1700 - Mary Delany, English artist and letter writer (d. 1788)
1701 – William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)
1710 – King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771)
1725 – Ludovico Manin, last Doge of Venice (d. 1802)
1727 – Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (d. 1788)
1737 - George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, British statesman and diplomat (d. 1806)
1759 - Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1805)
1761 - Samuel Dexter, American politician (d. 1816)
1771 – Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)
1771 - Thomas Wedgwood, British photography pioneer (d. 1805)
1781 – Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian (d. 1873)
1814 – Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)
1817 – Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893)
1832 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903)
1836 - Wilhelm Steinitz, German chess player (d. 1900)
1850 - Alva Adams, Governor of Colorado (d. 1922)
1852 - Alton B. Parker, American politician (d. 1926)
1867 – Kurt Eisner, German politician (d. 1919)
1868 - Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (d. 1935)
1869 - Concha Espina, Spanish writer (d. 1955)
1872 – Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinal (d. 1961)
1874 - Polaire, French singer and actress (d. 1939)
1878 – James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
1880 – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971)
1881 – G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
1885 – Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (d. 1973)
1885 - Nikolai Krylenko, Russian revolutionary and politician (d. 1938)
1893 - Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)
1897 – Sidney Bechet, American jazz musician (d. 1959)
1897 - Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)
1899 – Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
1899 - Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1900 - Hal Borland, American writer (d. 1978)
1900 - Walter Rehberg, Swiss pianist, composer and writer (d. 1957)
1900 - Leo Smit, Dutch composer (d. 1943)
1904 - Hans Albert Einstein, Swiss-American engineer and educator, son of Albert Einstein (d. 1973)
1905 - Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet-Ukrainian politician (d. 1997)
1905 – Jean Daniélou, French cardinal (d. 1974)
1906 – Hastings Banda, 1st President of Malawi (d. 1996)
1907 – Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
1907 – Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat, member of the European Commission (d. 2005)
1909 - Godfrey Rampling, British sprinter (d. 2009)
1916 – Del Moore, American comedian (d. 1970)
1917 – Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)
1919 – John Hope, American meteorologist (d. 2002)
1921 – Richard Deacon, American actor (d. 1984)
1922 - Sinan Hasani, President of Yugoslavia (d. 2010)
1922 – Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (d. 1999)
1923 – Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician
1923 - Mrinal Sen, Indian director, screenwriter and producer
1925 – Patrice Munsel, American opera soprano (d. 2016)
1925 - Oona O'Neill, wife of Charlie Chaplin (d. 1991)
1925 - François Maistre, French actor (d. 2016)
1926 – Eric Morecambe, British comedian (d. 1984)
1927 – Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer
1928 - Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch scientist, inventor and engineer (d. 2015)
1929 - Barbara Branden, Canadian writer (d. 2013)
1929 – Henry McGee, British actor (d. 2006)
1929 – Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1931 – Alvin Lucier, American composer
1933 – Michael Chevalier, German voice actor
1934 – Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
1934 - Eric Caldow, Scottish footballer (d. 2019)
1936 – Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)
1936 - Waheeda Rehman, Indian actress
1938 - Clive Rowlands, Welsh rugby player and coach
1939 - Rupert Neudeck, German journalist and humanitarian (d. 2016)
1939 – Troy Shondell, American singer (d. 2016)
1941 - Ada den Haan, Dutch swimmer
1942 - Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green, British politician (d. 2014)
1942 – Valeriy Brumel, Soviet athlete (d. 2003)
1943 - Derek Leckenberg, English guitarist (d. 1994)
1943 - Jack Bruce, Scottish musician (d. 2014)
1943 – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, 5th President of Iceland
1944 – George Lucas, American movie director
1944 - Francesca Annis, British actress
1945 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician (d. 2010)
1945 – Yochanan Vollach, former Israeli football player and current president of the Maccabi Haifa association
1946 – Eric Peterson, Canadian actor
1946 - Elmar Brok, German politician
1947 – Tamara Dobson, American actress (d. 2006)
1948 – Bob Woolmer, English cricket player and coach (d. 2007)
1949 – Klaus-Peter Thaler, German cyclist
1949 - Walter Day, American game designer and businessman
1950 – Adolfo Dominguez, Spanish fashion designer
1950 - Jill Stein, American physician and politician
1952 – David Byrne, Scottish-American musician (Talking Heads)
1952 - Michael Fallon, British politician
1952 – Robert Zemeckis, American movie director
1952 - Donald R. McMonagle, American colonel, pilot and astronaut
1953 – Tom Cochrane, Canadian musician (Red Rider)
1953 – Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
1953 - Hywel Williams, Welsh politician
1954 – Jens Sparschuh, German writer
1955 – Dennis Martínez, Nicaraguan baseball player
1955 - Big Van Vader, American professional wrestler (d. 2018)
1956 - Hazel Blears, British politician
1957 – Leon White, American professional wrestler
1959 – Patrick Bruel, French singer
1959 - Markus Büchel, Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (d. 2013)
1960 – Anne Clark, English singer
1960 - Simonetta Sommaruga, Swiss Federal Councillor
1961 – Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
1961 - Ian Blackford, Scottish politician
1961 – Tim Roth, English actor
1962 - Ferran Adria, Spanish chef and restaurateur
1962 – C.C. DeVille, American musician (Poison)
1963 - David Yelland, English journalist and broadcaster
1964 - Néstor Gorosito, Argentine footballer
1964 - James M. Kelly, American astronaut
1964 - Rosen Plevneliev, former President of Bulgaria
1965 – Eoin Colfer, Irish writer
1966 - Marianne Denicourt, French actress
1966 - Mike Inez, American musician and songwriter
1966 - Fab Morvan, French singer-songwriter, musician and producer
1966 - Raphael Saadiq, American singer-songwriter and musician
1968 - Greg Davies, British actor and comedian
1969 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
1969 - Danny Wood, American singer, songwriter and musician
1970 - Kenichi Shimokawa, Japanese footballer
1971 – Sofia Coppola, American movie director and producer
1971 - Oséas, Brazilian footballer
1972 - Kirstjen Nielsen, 6th United States Secretary of Homeland Security
1972 - Mark Ruskell, Scottish politician
1973 - Natalie Appleton, Canadian singer and actress
1973 - Fraser Nelson, Scottish journalist, Editor of The Spectator
1973 - Julian White, English rugby player
1973 - Voshon Lenard, American basketball player
1976 – Martine McCutcheon, English actress
1977 - Sophie Anderton, English model
1977 - Roy Halladay, American baseball player (d. 2017)
1977 - Pusha T, American rapper
1978 - Eddie House, American basketball player
1978 - Lee McCulloch, Scottish footballer
1978 – Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer
1979 – Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer
1979 - Dan Auerbach, American singer-songwriter
1979 - Clinton Morrison, Irish footballer
1980 - Julia Sebestyen, Hungarian figure skater
1980 – Zdenek Grygera, Czech footballer
1980 – Hugo Southwell, Scottish rugby player
1982 - Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
1983 - Amber Tamblyn, American actress
1984 – Michael Rensing, German footballer
1984 – Nigel Reo-Coker, English footballer
1984 – Olly Murs, English singer
1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, American internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Facebook
1986 - Alyosha, Ukrainian singer
1987 - Zarine Khan, Indian model and actress
1987 – Franck Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
1987 - François Steyn, South African rugby player
1990 - Olga Ikonnikova, Estonian figure skater
1990 - Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer
1993 – Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
1993 - Kristina Mladenovic, French tennis player
1994 - Edison Flores, Peruvian footballer
1996 - Martin Garrix, Dutch DJ and producer
1996 - McKaley Miller, American actress
694 - Pope Theodore I
964 - Pope John XII (b. 927)
1470 – King Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
1574 – Guru Amar Das, Sikh guru (b. 1479)
1608 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
1610 – King Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
1643 – King Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)
1761 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b. 1710)
1847 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1805)
1860 - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
1873 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (b. 1797)
1878 - Okubo Tashimichi, Japanese statesman and samurai (b. 1830)
1879 - Henry Sewell, 1st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1807)
1881 - Mary Seacole, Jamaican nurse (b. 1805)
1893 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810)
1897 - Richard Coke, Governor of Texas (b. 1829)
1906 - Carl Schurz, German-American statesman (b. 1829)
1912 – King Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)
1912 – August Strindberg, Swedish writer and playwright (b. 1849)
1919 - Henry J. Heinz, German-American businessman (b. 1844)
1923 – Charles de Freycinet, Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
1930 - John P. Buchanan, American politician, 28th Governor of Tennessee (b. 1847)
1931 - Viktor Dyk, Czech poet (b. 1877)
1931 - David Belasco, American producer, director and playwright (b. 1853)
1935 - Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (b. 1868)
1940 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)
1943 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer (b. 1854)
1945 - Heber J. Grant, American Mormon leader (b. 1856)
1957 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian painter (b. 1884)
1959 – Sidney Bechet, American jazz musician (b. 1897)
1959 - Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (b. 1862)
1960 - Lucrezia Bori, Spanish soprano (b. 1887)
1962 - Florence Auer, American actress (b. 1880)
1968 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)
1969 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1880)
1973 - Jean Gelser, German linguist, philosopher and poet (b. 1905)
1976 - Keith Relf, English singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
1983 – Miguel Aleman Valdes, President of Mexico (b. 1900)
1988 – Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)
1991 – Jiang Qing, First Lady of the People's Republic of China (b. 1914)
1992 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese military leader (b. 1899)
1995 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist (b. 1916)
1998 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and entertainer (b. 1915)
2000 – Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
2001 - Gil Langley, Australian cricketer, footballer and politician (b. 1919)
2003 – Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)
2004 - Jesus Gil y Gil, Spanish businessman (b. 1933)
2006 – Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
2006 - Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist (b. 1921)
2007 - Ulo Jogi, Estonian historian and patriot (b. 1921)
2014 - Stephen Sutton, British cancer charity fundraiser (b. 1994)
2015 - B.B. King, American blues and rock musician (b. 1925)
2016 - Darwyn Cooke, Canadian comic book artist (b. 1962)
2016 - Christy O'Connor Snr, Irish golfer (b. 1924)
2016 - Tony Barrow, British press officer (b. 1936)
2016 - Monteagle Stearns, American diplomat (b. 1924)
2017 - Powers Boothe, American actor (b. 1948)
2017 - Dilbagh Singh Athwal, Indian geneticist and agriculturist (b. 1928)
2017 - Bruce Hill, American racing driver (b. 1949)
2017 - Frank Brian, American basketball player (b. 1923)
2017 - Brad Grey, American producer (b. 1957)
2017 - Tom McClung, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1957)
2018 - Elaine S. Edwards, American politician (b. 1929)
2018 - Doug Ford, American golfer (b. 1922)
2018 - Frank Quilici, American baseball player (b. 1939)
2018 - E. C. George Sudarshan, Indian theoretical physicist and professor (b. 1931)
2018 - Tom Wolfe, American writer and journalist (b. 1930)
2018 - Roberto Farias, Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1932)
2018 - William Vance, Belgian comics artist (b. 1935)
2019 - Leopoldo Brizuela, Argentine writer and translator (b. 1963)
2019 - Grumpy Cat, American-bred cat and internet celebrity (b. 2012)
2019 - Tim Conway, American actor (b. 1933)
2019 - Sven Lindqvist, Swedish author (b. 1932)
2019 - Alice Rivlin, American politician and economist (b. 1931)
2019 - Remig Stumpf, German cyclist (b. 1966)
National Unification Day (Liberia)
Hastings Banda's Birthday (Malawi)
293 - Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian.
878 - Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim Sultan of Sicily.
879 - Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people.
996 - Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned.
1085 - The city of Helsingborg is founded in what is now southern Sweden.
1471 - Henry VI of England, the last King from the House of Lancaster, is murdered in the Tower of London on the orders of King Edward IV of England.
1502 – The island of Saint Helena is discovered by Portuguese explorer Joao da Nova.
1674 – The nobility elect John Sobieski to become King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
1792 - The Unzen volcano in Japan erupts, resulting in thousands of people getting killed.
1809 - Napoleonic Wars: First day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling - Austria, under Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen and France, under Napoleon Bonaparte, meet in battle, with Napoleon's side winning the next day.
1851 – Colombia abolishes slavery.
1856 – The town of Lawrence, Kansas, is captured and burned by pro-Slavery forces.
1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army closes off the last escape route  from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
1863 - Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States.
1871 - French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting.
1879 – War of the Pacific: The naval Battle of Iquique takes place between Chile and Peru.
1881 – The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton.
1894 - The Manchester Ship Canal is opened in England by Queen Victoria.
1904 - FIFA, the world governing body of football, is founded in Paris.
1911 - President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and revolutionary Francisco I. Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juarez.
1917 - A significant part of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, is destroyed by fire.
1924 - University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
1925 - In Tokyo, Japan, scientist Hidesaburo Ueno dies.
His dog, Hachiko, keeps waiting for him, and becomes well known for his loyalty.
1927 – Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic Ocean.
1932 - Amelia Earhart is forced by bad weather to land near Derry, Northern Ireland, after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1934 - Oskaloosa, Iowa becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
1939 - Canada's National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI of the United Kingdom and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
1946 - Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with a demon core at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, United States.
1965 - The current Flag of Ontario is adopted.
1966 - The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the IRA.
1976 - The Yuba City bus disaster in Martinez, California kills 29 people.
1990 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen and North Yemen agree to merge to become the Republic of Yemen.
1991 – Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam flees Ethiopia.
1991 – Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is murdered in Sriperumbudur in southern India.
1994 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen tries to secede, leading to the break-out of war.
1996 – The ship MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing around 1,000 people.
1998 - President of Indonesia Suharto announces his resignation.
2003 – An earthquake in northern Algeria kills more than 2,000 people.
2005 – Elena Paparizou wins the 50th Eurovision Song Contest for Greece, in Kiev, Ukraine.
2006 – The majority of voters in Montenegro vote to split from Serbia and Montenegro.
Montenegro becomes independent on June 3.
2007 – The clipper Cutty Sark is damaged by fire in London, UK.
2011 - American pastor Harold Camping predicted the end of the world to begin on this date, with the rapture, supposedly leading to the end itself on October 21.
Despite his prediction, life continued as normal.
2012 - A bombing in Sana'a, Yemen kills 120 people.
2013 - Far-right French historian Dominique Venner commits suicide by gunshot in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.
427 BC – Plato, Influential Greek philosopher (d. 347 BC)
120 BC - Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar (d. 54 BC)
1471 – Albrecht Dürer, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1528)
1527 – King Philip II of Spain (d. 1598)
1653 – Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria (d. 1697)
1688 – Alexander Pope, English poet (d. 1744)
1759 - Joseph Fouché, French politician (d. 1820)
1780 – Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (d. 1845)
1785 - August Immanuel Bekker, German classical philologist (d. 1871)
1792 – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
1799 - Mary Anning, English paleontologist (d. 1847)
1827 - William P. Sprague, American politician (d. 1899)
1837 - Itagaki Taisuke, Japanese politician (d. 1919)
1843 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914)
1843 - Louis Renault, French jurist (d. 1918)
1844 – Henri Rousseau, French artist (d. 1910)
1850 – Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
1851 – Léon Bourgeois, French statesman (d. 1925)
1853 - Edward Gawlor Prior, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of British Columbia (d. 1920)
1855 - Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet (d. 1916)
1856 – Jose Batlle y Ordonez, Uruguayan politician (d. 1929)
1857 - Francisco Aguilar Barquero, President of Costa Rica (d. 1924)
1860 – Willem Einthoven, Dutch doctor, won the 1924 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, inventor of the electrocardiogram (d. 1927)
1863 – Archduke Eugen of Austria (d. 1954)
1864 – Princess Stephanie of Belgium (d. 1945)
1873 - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941)
1878 - Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (d. 1930)
1880 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian poet and writer (d. 1967)
1884 - Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)
1898 – Armand Hammer, physician, entrepreneur, oil magnate, and art collector (d. 1990)
1901 – Horace Heidt, band leader (d. 1986)
1901 – Sam Jaffe, American producer (d. 2000)
1902 – Earl Averill, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1983)
1902 – Marcel Lajos Breuer, architect (d. 1981)
1903 – Manly Wade Wellman, writer (d. 1986)
1904 – Fats Waller, African-American pianist (d. 1943)
1904 – Robert Montgomery, American actor (d. 1981)
1907 - John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (d. 1979)
1912 – Monty Stratton, American Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 1982)
1916 – Harold Robbins, American novelist (d. 1997)
1916 – Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter (d. 2002)
1917 – Raymond Burr, American actor (d. 1993)
1920 - John Chadwick, British classical philologist (d. 1998)
1921 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and human rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1989)
1922 - Pio Laghi, Italian cardinal (d. 2009)
1923 – Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003)
1923 – Ara Parseghian, American football coach (d. 2017)
1923 – Vernon Biever, American photographer (d. 2010)
1924 - Atanas Semerdzhiev, Vice President of Bulgaria (d. 2015)
1924 - Peggy Cass, American actress, comedienne, game show panellist and announcer (d. 1999)
1930 - Gil Bartosh, American football player and coach (d. 2016)
1930 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2015)
1932 - Inese Jaunzeme, Latvian javelin thrower (d. 2011)
1932 - Jean Stablinski, French cyclist (d. 2007)
1932 – Gabriele Wohmann, German writer (d. 2015)
1933 – Maurice André, French trumpet player (d. 2012)
1934 – Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist
1934 - Jack Twyman, American basketball player (d. 2012)
1935 - Terry Lightfoot, English clarinettist and bandleader
1936 - Günter Blobel, German biologist (d. 2018)
1938 - Urs Widmer, Swiss writer (d. 2014)
1939 - Heinz Holliger, Swiss musician, composer and conductor
1940 - Tony Sheridan, English musician (d. 2013)
1941 – Martin Carthy, English singer and guitarist
1941 - Ronald Isley, American singer-songwriter, producer and actor
1942 - David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, English politician
1943 - Hilton Valentine, English musician
1944 – Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland
1945 – Ernst Messerschmid, German physicist and astronaut
1948 – Leo Sayer, English musician
1948 - Denis MacShane, Scottish politician
1949 - Andrew Neil, Scottish broadcasting executive
1951 – Al Franken, American comedian and former United States Senator
1951 - Adrian Hardiman, Irish judge (d. 2016)
1952 – Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud), American actor
1954 - Janice Karman, American voice actress
1954 - Kathleen Wynne, Canadian politician, 25th Premier of Ontario
1956 – Judge Reinhold, American actor
1957 – Nadine Dorries, British politician
1957 - Tony Hayward, British businessman
1957 – Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
1959 - Abdulla Yameen, 6th President of the Maldives
1959 - Loretta Lynch, 83rd United States Attorney General
1959 - Nick Cassavetes, American actor and director
1960 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d. 1994)
1963 - Kevin Shields, American-Irish singer-songwriter
1964 – Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1964 - Drew Hendry, Scottish politician
1966 - Andrzej Lesiak, Polish footballer
1967 – Chris Benoit, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1967 – Lisa Edelstein, American actress
1968 - Tom Goodman-Hill, English actor
1968 - Julie Vega, Filipino actress and singer (d. 1985)
1969 – Georgiy Gongadze, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist (d. 2000)
1969 - Pierluigi Brivio, Italian footballer
1972 – The Notorious B.I.G., American musician (d. 1997)
1972 - Adriano Cintra, Brazilian singer, guitarist and producer
1973 - Noel Fielding, English comedian, actor and screenwriter
1973 – Stewart Cink, American golfer
1975 - Lee Gaze, Welsh guitarist (Lostprophets)
1975 - Juuso Pykalisto, Finnish rally driver
1976 - Stuart Bingham, English snooker player
1976 - Aditi Govitrikar, Indian model, actress and physician
1977 - Quinton Fortune, South African footballer
1978 – Briana Banks, American actress
1979 - Jamie Hepburn, Scottish footballer
1980 – Gotye, Belgian-born Australian singer and musician
1980 - Chris Raab, American actor and stuntman
1980 - Anna Rogowska, Polish athlete
1981 - Edson Buddle, American soccer player
1981 – Max, German singer
1985 – Mutya Buena, English singer (Sugababes)
1985 – Mark Cavendish, Manx cyclist
1985 – Alexander Dale Oen, Norwegian swimmer (d. 2012)
1985 - Marco Carta, Italian singer
1986 – Mario Mandzukic, Croatian footballer
1987 – Ashlie Brillault, actress
1987 - Masato Morishige, Japanese footballer
1988 - Claire Cashmore, British paralympic swimmer
1988 - Park Gyu-ri, South Korean singer and actress
1989 - Emily Robins, New Zealand actress and singer
1989 - Hal Robson-Kanu, Welsh footballer
1991 - Sarah Ramos, American actress
1992 - Olivia Olson, American actress and singer-songwriter
1992 - Hutch Dano, American actor
1994 – Tom Daley, British diver
987 – King Louis V of France (b. 967)
1237 - Olaf the Black, King of Mann and the Isles
1254 - Conrad IV of Germany (b. 1228)
1471 – King Henry VI of England (b. 1421)
1481 – King Christian I of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (b. 1426)
1512 - Pandolfo Petrucci, Italian ruler (b. 1452)
1542 – Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer and conquistador (b. c. 1496)
1639 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian (b. 1568)
1670 - Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1586)
1686 – Otto von Guericke, German scientist (b. 1602)
1719 - Pierre Poiret, French mystic and philosopher (b. 1646)
1844 - Giuseppe Baini, Italian composer (b. 1775)
1879 – Arturo Prat, Chilean naval officer (b. 1848)
1891 - Alphonso Taft, American politician (b. 1810)
1895 - Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (b. 1819)
1911 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish astronomer (b. 1857)
1915 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (b. 1875)
1915 - Knud Knudsen, Norwegian photographer (b. 1832)
1919 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1853)
1920 – Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico (b. 1859)
1924 - Bobby Franks, American teenager, murdered in "thrill killing" (b. 1910)
1925 - Hidesaburo Ueno, Japanese scientist (b. 1872)
1929 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
1935 – Jane Addams, American social reformer (b. 1860)
1946 - Louis Slotin, physicist
1952 - John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913)
1957 - Alexander Vertinsky, Russian actor, singer, composer and poet (b. 1889)
1964 – James Franck, German-born physicist (b. 1882)
1965 – Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (b. 1882)
1973 - Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian writer and poet (b. 1893)
1973 - Vaughn Monroe, American singer, trumpeter, bandleader and actor (b. 1911)
1988 - Sammy Davis, Sr.,
American dancer (b. 1900)
1991 – Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1944)
1994 - Giovanni Goria, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1943)
1994 - Ralph Miliband, Belgian-born sociologist and father of David and Ed Miliband (b. 1924)
1995 - Les Aspin, 18th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1938)
1998 - Robert Gist, American actor and director (b. 1917)
2000 – Dame Barbara Cartland, English writer (b. 1901)
2000 – John Gielgud, English actor (b. 1904)
2000 - Erich Mielke, East German politician (b. 1907)
2002 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French painter (b. 1930)
2003 - Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine racing driver (b. 1928)
2003 - Frank D. White, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1933)
2006 - Katherine Dunham, American dancer, director, educator and writer (b. 1909)
2011 – Bill Hunter, Australian actor (b. 1940)
2013 - Trevor Bolder, English rock musician, songwriter and record producer (b. 1950)
2013 - Mohammad Khaled Hossain, Bangladeshi mountaineer (b. 1979)
2013 - Dominique Venner, French historian and writer (b. 1935)
2014 - Jaime Lusinchi, former President of Venezuela (b. 1924)
2014 - Poni Adams, American actress (b. 1918)
2014 - Alireza Soleimani, Iranian wrestler (b. 1956)
2015 - Annarita Sidoti, Italian race walker (b. 1970)
2015 - Twinkle, British singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
2015 - Louis Johnson, American musician (b. 1955)
2016 - Gaston Berghmans, Belgian comedian and actor (b. 1926)
2016 - Sándor Tarics, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1913)
2016 - Akhtar Mansour, Afghan Islamist (b. 1968)
2016 - Nick Menza, American drummer (Megadeth) (b. 1964)
2017 - Kenny Cordray, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1954)
2017 - Paul Judge, British businessman and political executive (b. 1949)
2017 - Jimmy LaFave, American folk musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1955)
2017 - Bill White, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)
2018 - Anna Maria Ferrero, Italian actress (b. 1934)
2018 - Dovey Johnson Roundtree, American civil rights activist and attorney (b. 1914)
2018 - Pedro Tenorio, Governor of the Northern Marianas (b. 1934)
2018 - Clint Walker, American actor (b. 1927)
2018 - Faith Whittlesey, American politician and diplomat (b. 1939)
2018 - António Arnault, Portuguese poet and politician (b. 1936)
2018 - Gholamreza Hassani, Iranian Islamic leader (b. 1928)
2018 - Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress (b. 1926)
2019 - Glauco Sansovini, former Captain-Regent of San Marino (b. 1938)
2019 - Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer (b. 1971)
2019 - Ali Mohammad Mahar, Pakistani politician (b. 1967)
Navy Day (Chile)
Afro-Colombian Day (Colombia)
Independence Day (Montenegro)
Saint Helena Day
Day of Patriots and the Military (Hungary)
Up to 1930
1153 - Malcolm IV of Scotland becomes King.
1199 - King John of England is crowned.
1293 - A massive earthquake hits Kamakura, Japan.
1328 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.
1644 - Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun Dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer Beijing.
1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1799 - War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the Northeast Swiss plateau because of the town's location at the junction of the seven cross-roads.
1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
1849 – The Great Hall of Euston station, London opened.
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1895 – Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for sodomy.
1896 – The F5-strength East St. Louis Tornado hits in East Saint Louis, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri, killing 255 people.
1901 – In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
1907 – A bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
1915 - Off Sheerness, minelayer Princess Irene runs over laid mines and explodes, killing 400 people.
1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
1923 – The first 24 hours of Le Mans race ends.
1924 – The Music Corporation of America (MCA) is founded.
1927 – The Ford Motor Company stops making the Ford Model T and gets ready to make Ford Model As.
1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tall Chrysler Building in New York (tallest man-made structure at the time) opens to the public.
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1932 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens.
1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1933 – The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago.
1934 - The 1934 FIFA World Cup in Italy begins, with a series of knock-out games.
1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
1936 – The RMS Queen Mary begins her first voyage.
1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.
1939 – DC Comics prints its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time.
1940 – World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk.
The German commander, Captain Fritz Knochlein, is later hanged for war crimes.
1941 – World War II: US President Franklin Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing 2,300 men.
1942 - World War II: Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich is wounded in Prague and dies over a week later.
1960 – In Turkey, General Cemal Gürsel leads a military coup d'état removing President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government.
1963 – Folk music singer Bob Dylan releases The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best-known songs.
1964 – Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office.
1965 – Vietnam War: United States warships begin bombing of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam for the first time.
1967 – Australians vote to change the Constitution to give Indigenous Australians equal rights
1968 – Future U.S. President George W. Bush joins the Texas Air National Guard.
1971 - The Dahlerau train disaster near Wuppertal, then-West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25.
1974 – Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France.
1975 - The Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 people, in the United Kingdom's deadliest-ever road accident.
1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: air force and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
1995 – In Charlottesville, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed (not able to move) from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
1996 – First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and agrees to a cease-fire in the war.
1997 – The F5-strength Jarrell Tornado slams into the small town of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
1999 – The International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands charges Slobodan Milošević and 4 others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
2005 – Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years in jail for marijuana smuggling in Indonesia.
2006 – An earthquake in Java kills over 6,600 people and destroys the cities of Bantul and Yogyakarta.
2009 - A suicide bombing kills at least 35 people in Lahore, Pakistan.
2015 - Football's world governing body FIFA is accused by US law enforcement officials of bribery totaling hundreds of dollars over more than 20 years, including a scheme involving the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
Fourteen people are arrested, and President Sepp Blatter is under pressure over his position.
2016 - Barack Obama becomes the first serving President of the United States to visit Hiroshima and meet victims of the atomic bomb.
2017 - A computer failure at British Airways leads to the airline's flights around the world being cancelled.
742 - Emperor Dezong of Tang of China (d. 805)
1332 – Ibn Khaldun, Arab polymath (d. 1406)
1519 – Girolamo Mei, Italian historian (d. 1594)
1623 – William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687)
1626 – William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)
1651 - Louis Antoine de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729)
1652 – Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (Charlotte Elizabeth, Duchesse d'Orléans) (d. 1722)
1738 – Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d. 1796)
1756 - King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1825)
1774 – Francis Beaufort, Irish scientist and admiral (d. 1857)
1794 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, entrepreneur (d. 1877)
1818 - Amelia Bloomer, American activist (d. 1894)
1818 - Franciscus Donders, Dutch ophthalmologist (d. 1889)
1819 – Julia Ward Howe, composer ("The Battle Hymn of the Republic") (d. 1910)
1819 – George V of Hanover (d. 1878)
1820 – Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904)
1822 - Joachim Raff, Swiss-German composer (d. 1882)
1832 - Zenas Ferry Moody, American politician, 7th Governor of Oregon (d. 1917)
1832 - Lizardo Montero Flores, President of Peru (d. 1905)
1836 – Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892)
1837 – Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
1860 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (d. 1941)
1864 – Ante Trumbić, Croat politician (d. 1938)
1867 – Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)
1871 – Georges Rouault, painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)
1876 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author (d. 1945)
1876 - William Stanier, English engineer (d. 1965)
1877 – Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927)
1879 – Karl Bühler, psychologist (d. 1963)
1884 – Max Brod, writer (d. 1968)
1888 – Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979)
1893 – Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentenarian, world's oldest man from November 19, 2004 (d. 2005)
1894 – Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)
1894 – Dashiell Hammett, American writer (d. 1961)
1895 - Douglas Lloyd Campbell, 13th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1995)
1897 – John Cockcroft, British physicist (d. 1967)
1900 - Ethel Lang, British supercentenarian (d. 2015)
1902 - Fanny Godin, Belgian supercentenarian (d. 2014)
1904 – Chohei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
1906 - Buddhadasa, Thai monk and philosopher (d. 1993)
1907 - Carl Falck, Norwegian businessman and centenarian (d. 2016)
1907 – Rachel Carson, American ecologist (d. 1964)
1909 – Dolores Hope, American singer (d. 2011)
1909 - Don Finlay, English hurdler and pilot (d. 1970)
1911 – Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (d. 1978)
1911 – Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem (d. 2007)
1911 – Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
1912 – John Cheever, writer (d. 1982)
1912 – Sam Snead, American golf champion (d. 2002)
1913 – Wols, German painter (d. 1951)
1915 – Herman Wouk, American writer (d. 2019)
1917 – Yasuhiro Nakasone, former Prime Minister of Japan
1920 - Gabrielle Wittkop, French writer, essayist, journalist and artist (d. 2002)
1921 – Caryl Chessman, American, executed for murder (d. 1960)
1921 - Bob Godfrey, English animator (d. 2013)
1922 – Christopher Lee, English actor (d. 2015)
1922 - Otto Carius, German World War II tank commander (d. 2015)
1922 – John David Vanderhoof, 36th Governor of Colorado (d. 2013)
1923 – Henry Kissinger, American politician, 37th United States Secretary of State, received the Nobel Peace Prize
1923 - Inge Morath, Austrian-American photographer (d. 2002)
1923 – Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur
1924 - Jaime Lusinchi, President of Venezuela (d. 2014)
1925 – Tony Hillerman, American mystery writer (d. 2008)
1928 - Thea Musgrave, Scottish-American composer
1930 – John Barth, American novelist
1930 – Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer (d. 2010)
1930 – William S. Sessions, FBI director
1931 - Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress (d. 2015)
1934 - Enzo Siciliano, Italian writer (d. 2006)
1934 – Harlan Ellison, American science fiction writer (d. 2018)
1934 - Uwe Friedrichsen, German actor (d. 2016)
1935 – Lee Meriwether, American actress and former Miss America
1935 - Luud Schimmelpennink, Dutch inventor, entrepreneur and politician
1936 – Louis Gossett Jr., American actor
1936 - Marcel Masse, Canadian politician (d. 2014)
1937 – Allan Carr, producer, writer (d. 1999)
1940 - Mike Gibson, Australian sports journalist (d. 2015)
1942 - Piers Courage, English racing driver (d. 1970)
1943 – Cilla Black, English singer (d. 2015)
1943 - Robert Axelrod, American political scientist
1944 - Alain Souchon, French singer-songwriter, guitarist and author
1945 – Bruce Cockburn, Canadian musician
1946 - Lewis Collins, English actor (d. 2013)
1946 – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz musician (d. 2005)
1947 - Henry McMaster, American politician, 117th Governor of South Carolina
1947 – Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer
1949 - Terry Collins, American baseball manager
1951 – Ana Belén, Spanish singer and actress
1955 – Eric Bischoff, American WWE performer
1956 - Giuseppe Tornatore, Italian director and screenwriter
1957 – Siouxsie Sioux, English musician ("Siouxsie and the Banshees")
1957 – Duncan Goodhew, English swimmer
1958 - Jesse Robredo, Filipino politician (d. 2012)
1958 – Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter
1958 – Linnea Quigley, American actress
1958 – Wayne Williams, American child murderer
1959 - Donna Strickland, Canadian physicist
1960 - Ray Armstead, American athlete
1961 – Peri Gilpin, American actress
1962 - David Mundell, Scottish politician
1962 - Steven Brill, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1962 - Ravi Shastri, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
1963 - Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Cuban pianist and composer
1964 – Adam Carolla, American comedian, television host and actor