the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1992 - Frankie Howerd, British comedian and actor (b. 1917)
1993 – David Koresh, American cult leader (b. 1959)
1993 - George S. Mickelson, 28th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1941)
1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican writer (b. 1914)
2001 - Meldrim Thomson, Jr., 73rd Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1912)
2004 – Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records (b. 1925)
2004 – John Maynard Smith, British theoretical evolutionary biologist (b. 1920)
2005 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
2006 - Albert Scott Crossfield, American engineer, pilot and astronaut (b. 1921)
2007 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
2008 - Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist and Resistance activist (b. 1907)
2009 – J. G. Ballard, British writer (b. 1930)
2010 – Guru, American rapper (b. 1961)
2011 – Elisabeth Sladen, British actress (b. 1948)
2011 – Grete Waitz, Norwegian marathon runner (b. 1953)
2012 - Valeri Vasiliev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
2012 - Levon Helm, American musician and actor (b. 1940)
2013 - François Jacob, French biologist (b. 1920)
2013 - Al Neuharth, American journalist, author and publisher (b. 1924)
2014 - Frits Thors, Dutch journalist (b. 1909)
2014 - Mimi Kok, Dutch actress (b. 1934)
2014 - Sonia Silvestre, Dominican singer (b. 1952)
2014 - Luciano do Valle, Brazilian sports commentator (b. 1947)
2015 - Elio Toaff, Italian rabbi (b. 1915)
2015 - Tom McCabe, Scottish politician (b. 1954)
2015 - Uche Chukwumerije, Nigerian politician (b. 1939)
2015 - Theodosia Okoh, Ghanaian flag designer and sports administrator (b. 1922)
2015 - Raymond Carr, British historian (b. 1919)
2015 - Ali Abu Mukhammad, Dagestani-Russian Islamist leader (b. 1972)
2016 - Patricio Aylwin, President of Chile (b. 1918)
2016 - Estelle Balet, Swiss snowboarder (b. 1994)
2016 - Ronit Elkabetz, Israeli actress (b. 1964)
2016 - Walter Kohn, Austrian-American theoretical physicist (b. 1923)
2016 - Mehrdad Oladi, Iranian footballer (b. 1985)
2016 - Milt Pappas, American baseball player (b. 1939)
2016 - Billy Redmayne, Manx motorcycle racer (b. 1990)
2017 - Delbert Daisey, American conservationist (b. 1928)
2017 - Aaron Hernandez, American football player (b. 1989)
2017 - Lyda Ann Thomas, American politician (b. 1936)
2018 - Cornelius Jakobs, Estonian-Russian Orthodox hierarch (b. 1924)
2018 - Luis Montes Mieza, Spanish anaesthetist and activist (b. 1949)
2018 - Walter Moody, American murderer (b. 1935)
2018 - Gil Santos, American sports announcer (b. 1938)
2019 - Martin Böttcher, German film composer and conductor (b. 1927)
2019 - Massimo Marino, Italian television presenter (b. 1960)
2019 - Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (b. 1944)
2019 - Rodolfo Severino Jr., Filipino diplomat (b. 1936)
2019 - Okiharu Yasuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1939)
Dutch-American friendship day
King Mswati III's birthday (Swaziland)
Patriots' Day (Massachusetts, Maine, Wisconsin)
Beginning of Independence Movement (Venezuela)
Most common date for Easter, last in 1992
238 - Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws Emperor Maximus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.
1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil.
1509 – Henry VIII ascends the throne of England after the death of his father.
1519 - Hernan Cortes establishes a settlement in Veracruz, Mexico.
1529 – The Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Moluccas.
1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
1863 – American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins – troops under Union Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
1864 – The United States Congress passes the Coinage Act which mandates that the inscription "In God We Trust" be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
1876 - The first-ever National League baseball game is played.
1889 – Oklahoma land rush: President of the United States Benjamin Harrison opens the Unassigned Lands in what is now central Oklahoma to white settlement.
1898 – Spanish-American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports and the USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
1906 - Start of the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens.
They are not officially counted as part of the modern Olympic Games.
1906 - End of the Mount Vesuvius eruption that started on April 4.
In total, 1,000 people are estimated to have died as a result of the effects from the eruption.
1911 - Tsinghua University, one of China's top universities, is founded.
1912 - Pravda begins publication in Saint Petersburg, known as the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1914 – Babe Ruth, age 19, pitches his first professional game for the minor league Baltimore Orioles.
1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
1943 – Albert Hofmann writes his first report about the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia area of New Guinea.
1945 – World War II: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.
1946 – The first installment of the popular Japanese comic strip, Sazae-san, is published in the Fukunichi Shimbun.
1948 - 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa is captured from Arab forces.
1954 – Red Scare: Army-McCarthy Hearings begin.
1964 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its first season.
1969 - British yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnston completes the first solo round-the-world journey.
1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated.
1971 – John Kerry, dressed in combat fatigues, testifies on his views of the Vietnam War before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
1972 – Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts antiwar protests in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
1974 - A PanAm Boeing 707 crashes into a mountain on Bali, as it approaches to land.
All 107 people on board are killed.
1975 – Barbara Walters signs a five-year $5 million contract with the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), becoming the highest paid television newsperson.
1978 – The Blues Brothers make their first appearance on Saturday Night Live.
1979 – Brent Mydland performs his first show with the Grateful Dead at Spartan Stadium, San Jose, California.
1980 - Filipino ferry Don Juan sinks after a collision with a tanker.
1991 - A magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Costa Rica kills 47 people.
1992 – Several explosions in underground canals in Guadalajara, Mexico, kill 200 people.
1993 – In Washington, DC, the Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated.
1993 – The web browser Mosaic version 1.0 is released.
1993 - The racially motivated murder of 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence is committed in Southeast London.
1996 – Cisco Systems acquires StrataCom for $4B
1997 – Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria; 93 villagers killed.
1997 – A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru ends after government commandos storm and capture the building, rescuing 71 hostages.
One hostage dies of a heart attack, two soldiers are killed from rebel fire, and all 14 rebels are slain.
1998 - Disney's Animal Kingdom opens in Florida.
2000 – In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida.
2000 – The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
2001 - Hasim Rahman defeats the highly favored Lennox Lewis to win the boxing heavyweight title.
2004 – Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
2005 – Mordechai Vanunu is installed as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow.
2010 – Deepwater Horizon oil spill: After an explosion two days earlier, and a subsequent fire, the BP and Transocean operated drilling rig Deepwater Horizon sinks.
11 people are killed, and the worst oil spill in US history is caused.
2012 – French Presidential Election: Incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy goes through to the second round on May 6, along with François Hollande, who finishes ahead of him.
Hollande defeats Sarkozy in the run-off on May 6.
2018 - A bomb attack on a voter registration centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills at least 57 people.
596 – Empress Kotoku of Japan (d. 654)
1444 - Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk (d. 1503)
1451 – Isabella I of Castile (d. 1504)
1610 – Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
1658 - Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (d. 1709)
1690 - John Garteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (d. 1763)
1707 – Henry Fielding, English writer (d. 1754)
1724 – Immanuel Kant, Prussian philosopher (d. 1804)
1744 – James Sullivan, 7th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1808)
1757 - Alessandro Rolla, Italian composer and music teacher (d. 1841)
1766 – Madame de Staël, French writer (d. 1817)
1812 – Solomon Caesar Malan, orientalist (d. 1894)
1812 - James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, Scottish Governor-General of India (d. 1860)
1832 - Julius Sterling Morton, American politician (d. 1902)
1840 – Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916)
1844 – Lewis Powell, American attempted assassin (d. 1865)
1852 – Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)
1854 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer (d. 1943)
1866 - Hans von Seeckt, German military officer and politician (d. 1936)
1868 – Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (d. 1924)
1870 (N.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Soviet-Russian Communist revolutionary and political leader (d. 1924)
1872 - Princess Margaret of Prussia (d. 1954)
1873 – Ellen Glasgow, American writer (d. 1945)
1873 – Luigi Lucheni, Italian anarchist (d. 1910)
1876 – Róbert Bárány, Austrian Nobel Prize winner in medicine (d. 1936)
1881 – Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician (d. 1970)
1884 - Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (d. 1939)
1891 – Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer (d. 1989)
1891 – Nicola Sacco, anarchist (d. 1927)
1899 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1902 - Megan Lloyd George, Welsh politician (d. 1966)
1903 - Daphne Akhurst, Australian tennis player (d. 1930)
1904 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)
1906 – Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Vasterbotten, Swedish royal, father of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (d. 1947)
1906 – Snorri Hjartarson, Icelandic writer (d. 1986)
1906 – Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005)
1908 - Ivan Yefremov, Russian paleontologist and science fiction writer (d. 1972)
1909 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, Nobel Prize winner (d. 2012)
1909 - Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist, writer and historian (d. 2001)
1910 – Norman Steenrod, American mathematician (d. 1971)
1912 - Kaneto Shindo, Japanese director (d. 2012)
1912 – Kathleen Ferrier, English contralto (d. 1953)
1914 – Jan de Hartog, Dutch writer (d. 2002)
1916 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (d. 1999)
1917 – Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (d. 1992)
1917 - Yvette Chauviré, French actress and ballerina (d. 2016)
1918 - William Jay Smith, American poet (d. 2015)
1919 - Antonio Nirta, Italian criminal (d. 2015)
1919 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist (d. 2001)
1922 – Charles Mingus, American jazz musician (d. 1979)
1922 – Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist (d. 1973)
1923 – Bettie Page, American pin-up model (d. 2008)
1923 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer, writer (d. 2006)
1923 - Paula Fox, American writer (d. 2017)
1924 - Nam Duck-woo, 12th Prime Minister of South Korea (d. 2013)
1925 - George Cole, English actor (d. 2015)
1926 – James Stirling, British architect (d. 1992)
1926 - Ted Hibberd, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
1926 – Charlotte Rae, American actress (d. 2018)
1929 - Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban writer (d. 2005)
1930 - Enno Penno, Estonian politician (d. 2016)
1931 - John Buchanan, Canadian politician, 20th Premier of Nova Scotia
1932 - Isao Tomita, Japanese musician and composer (d. 2016)
1933 - Mark Damon, American movie actor and producer
1933 - Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American astronaut (d. 2013)
1935 - Mario Machado, Chinese-American journalist and actor (d. 2013)
1936 – Glen Campbell, American musician and singer (d. 2017)
1937 – Jack Nicholson, American actor
1937 – Jack Nitzsche, American composer, arranger (d. 2000)
1939 – Theo Waigel, German politician
1939 - John Chilcot, English civil servant
1939 – Jason Miller, American playwright (d. 2001)
1939 - Mel Carter, American singer and actor
1942 - Giorgio Agamben, Italian philosopher
1943 – Louise Glück, American poet
1944 - Doug Jarrett, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1944 – Steve Fossett, American millionaire and adventurer (d. 2007)
1945 - Demetrio Stratos, Italian musician (d. 1979)
1945 - Gopal Krishna Gandhi, Indian politician, 22nd Governor of West Bengal
1946 – John Waters, American movie maker
1947 - Barry Guy, British composer and musician
1947 - Neil Horan, Irish priest
1950 – Peter Frampton, English musician
1951 – Robin Bartlett, American actress
1952 – Marilyn Chambers, American erotic actress (d. 2009)
1953 - Valeri Bondarenko, Estonian footballer and coach
1954 – Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
1957 – Donald Tusk, President of the European Council and former Prime Minister of Poland
1959 – Ryan Stiles, Canadian-American actor, comedian
1959 - Catherine Mary Stewart, Canadian actress
1959 - Terry Francona, American baseball player, coach and manager
1960 – Mart Laar, former Prime Minister of Estonia
1960 - Gary Rhodes, English chef
1961 - Ann McKechin, Scottish politician
1963 - Sean Lock, English comedian and actor
1964 - James Langevin, American politician
1964 - Massimo Carrera, Italian footballer
1967 - Sherri Shepherd, American comedienne, actress and talk show host
1967 – Sheryl Lee, American actress
1969 – Dion Dublin, English footballer
1969 - Billy McKinlay, Scottish footballer
1969 - Vanessa Goodwin, Australian politician (d. 2018)
1970 - Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer, actress and producer
1971 – Eric Mabius, American actor
1971 – Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born Yemeni terrorist (d. 2011)
1972 - Anna Falchi, Finnish-Italian actress
1973 - Brian Marshall, American musician
1974 – Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born bassist for System of a Down
1977 – Mark van Bommel, Dutch footballer
1977 - Ambra Angiolini, Italian actress
1979 – Zoltán Gera, Hungarian footballer
1981 - Jonathan Trott, South African-English cricketer
1982 – Kaka, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Cassidy Freeman, American actress, singer and musician
1983 - Jos Hooiveld, Dutch footballer
1983 - Daniel Sjolund, Finnish footballer
1983 - Francis Capra, American actor
1984 – Amelle Berrabah, English singer (Sugababes)
1984 – Michelle Ryan, English actress
1986 – Amber Heard, American actress
1986 - Kim Noorda, Dutch model
1987 – David Luiz, Brazilian footballer
1987 – Mikel John Obi, Nigerian footballer
1989 - Louis Smith, English gymnast
1989 - Thomas James Longley, English actor and model
1989 - Jasper Cillessen, Dutch footballer
1990 - Victor Dubuisson, French cyclist
1990 - Machine Gun Kelly, American rapper
1990 – Eve Muirhead, Scottish curler
1992 - Rolene Strauss, South African model
1996 - Wendy Sulca, Peruvian singer
296 – Pope Caius
536 – Pope Agapetus I
1592 – Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1511)
1672 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (b. 1598)
1699 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (b. 1646)
1758 – Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1686)
1778 - James Hargreaves, English inventor (b. 1720)
1806 – Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (stabbed) (b. 1763)
1827 – Thomas Rowlandson, English painter and caricaturist (b. 1756)
1833 – Richard Trevithick, English inventor (b. 1771)
1854 - Nicolas Bravo, 11th President of Mexico (b. 1786)
1884 - Marie Taglioni, Swedish ballerina (b. 1804)
1892 – Edouard Lalo, French composer (b. 1823)
1893 – Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian inventor and academic (b. 1825)
1896 – Thomas Meik, British civil engineer (b. 1812)
1908 – Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836)
1925 – André Caplet, French composer (b. 1878)
1930 – Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish poet and novelist (b. 1866)
1933 – Henry Royce, British automobile manufacturer (b. 1863)
1945 – Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (b. 1867)
1946 – Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1872)
1951 – Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (b. 1870)
1968 – Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (b. 1911)
1978 – Will Geer, American actor and activist (b. 1902)
1980 – Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (b. 1902)
1980 - Jane Froman, American actress (b. 1907)
1983 – Earl "Fatha" Hines, American jazz pianist (b. 1903)
1984 – Ansel Adams, American photographer (b. 1902)
1986 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian writer and philosopher (b. 1907)
1989 - Emilio G. Segre, Italian-American physicist (b. 1905)
1990 - Albert Salmi, American actor (b. 1928)
1993 - Stephen Lawrence, English student (b. 1974)
1994 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913)
1995 – Maggie Kuhn, American activist (b. 1905)
1996 – Erma Bombeck, American humorist and writer (b. 1927)
1999 - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (b. 1938)
2002 – Linda Lovelace, American actress (b. 1949)
2003 – Martha Griffiths, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1912)
2003 – Michael Larrabee, American athlete (b. 1933)
2004 – Pat Tillman, American football player and U.S. Army Ranger (killed in action) (b. 1976)
2005 – Philip Morrison, American physicist (b. 1915)
2005 – Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish artist and sculptor (b. 1924)
2006 - Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)
2009 – Jack Cardiff, English director (b. 1914)
2009 – Ken Annakin, English director (b. 1914)
2013 - Richie Havens, American folk singer and guitarist (b. 1941)
2013 - Vivi Bach, Danish actress (b. 1939)
2014 - Oswaldo Vigas, Venezuelan painter (b. 1924)
2015 - Lois Lilienstein, Canadian singer and musician (Sharon, Lois & Bram) (b. 1936)
2015 - Dick Balharry, Scottish conservationist, writer and wildlife photographer (b. 1937)
2015 - Gennadi Vengerov, Belarussian-born actor (b. 1959)
2015 - Dorothy Custer, American comedienne (b. 1911)
2016 - Jory Prum, American audio engineer and video game developer (b. 1975)
2016 - Peter Sellers, New Zealand broadcaster (b. 1921)
2017 - Hubert Dreyfus, American philosopher (b. 1929)
2017 - William Hjortsberg, American writer and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2017 - Jess Kersey, American basketball official (b. 1941)
2017 - Erin Moran, American actress (b. 1960)
2017 - Attilio Nicora, Italian cardinal (b. 1937)
2017 - Witold Pyrkosz, Polish actor (b. 1926)
2017 - Gustavo Rojo, Uruguayan actor (b. 1923)
2017 - Michele Scarponi, Italian racing cyclist (b. 1979)
2018 - Demeter Bitenc, Slovenian actor (b. 1922)
2018 - Nino Khurtsidze, Georgian chess player (b. 1975)
2018 - Dave Nelson, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2019 - Krasimir Bezinski, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1961)
2019 - Robert L. Butler, American politician (b. 1927)
2019 - Heather Harper, Northern Irish soprano (b. 1930)
2019 - Ventseslav Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer and translator (b. 1940)
2019 - Le Duc Anh, former President of Vietnam (b. 1920)
2019 - Billy McNeill, Scottish footballer (b. 1940)
2019 - Oiva Toikka, Finnish glass designer (b. 1931)
2019 - Julio César Toresani, Argentine footballer (b. 1967)
Arbor Day in parts of the United States
Discovery Day (Brazil)
Stephen Lawrence Day (United Kingdom), to be observed from 2019
753 BC – Romulus founds Rome (traditional).
1506 - End of the three-day Lisbon massacre, in which 1,900 people were slaughtered.
1509 – Henry VIII of England becomes King of England after the death of his father, Henry VII of England.
1526 - The last ruler of the Lodi Dynasty in Northern India, Ibrahim Lodi, is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.
1734 - The shorter of the two Golden Horns of Gallehus, Denmark's most famous archaeological finds, is discovered.
The longer one had been discovered in 1639.
1782 - The city now known as Krung Thep, or Bangkok, is founded in Siam, present-day Thailand.
1792 – Tiradentes, a revolutionary who was leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged.
1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of San Jacinto – Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
1863 – Bahá'u'lláh is proclaimed as the head of the Bahá'í Faith.
1863 – Quantrill's Raiders launch a reprisal raid Lawrence, Kansas in the Battle of Lawrence, killing a number of civilians.
1889 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Edgar is first performed in Milan.
1894 – Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen rifle as the main weapon of its armed forces.
It remained in service for almost 50 years.
1898 – Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain as of this date.
1908 – North Pole dispute: Frederick Cook claims to have reached the North Pole on this date, almost a year before Robert Peary claims to have reached it, on April 6, 1909.
1912 – The New York Giants and New York Yankees play an exhibition game to benefit survivors of the RMS Titanic.
1914 - Ypiranga Incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the United States Navy near Veracruz.
1918 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron," is shot down and killed by Allied over Vaux sur Somme in France.
1926 - Future Queen, Elizabeth II, is born in London.
At the time of her birth she is not expected to become Queen.
1930 – A fire at a Columbus, Ohio,  USA, penitentiary kills 320 people.
1934 - The "Surgeon's Photograph", allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, appears in the Daily Mail.
It is revealed to be a hoax in 1999.
1935 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits Taiwan, killing 3,276 people.
1944 – Women in France receive the right to vote.
1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
1952 – Secretaries Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
1955 – Bob Hope's radio program airs its last segment.
1956 – Elvis Presley's song "Heartbreak Hotel" becomes the "King's" first song to reach the top of the Cash Box magazine music charts.
1960 – Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated.
At 9:30 am the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
1960 – Founding of the Orthodox Baha'i faith in Washington, DC.
1961 - Dirk Stikker succeeds Paul-Henri Spaak as Secretary-General of NATO.
1962 - The Seattle World's Fair opens.
The Space Needle, now a symbol of the city, was completed just before the event.
1965 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
1966 – Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
1967 – A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
1970 - The Principality of Hutt River declares itself independent from Australia, and is one of world's most famous micronations.
It is 517 kilometers (354 miles) north of Perth, Western Australia.
1971 - Siaka Stevens becomes the 1st President of Sierra Leone.
1971 - Haitian leader François Duvalier (Papa Doc) dies.
His then-19-year-old son, Jean-Claude Duvalier, takes over from him.
1975 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
1977 - The musical Annie has its Broadway premiere.
1982 - Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher in baseball to record 300 saves.
1985 - In Brazil, President-elect Tancredo Neves dies before he can take office.
José Sarney becomes President instead.
1985 –  Ayrton Senna wins the first of 41 Formula One championship races at the Portuguese Grand Prix in Estoril.
1986 – Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on live television and finds nothing.
1987 – The Tamil Tigers is blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, killing 106 people.
1989 – Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate the late Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
1989 – Nintendo releases the Game Boy, an idea of Gunpei Yokoi.
1992 – U.S. death penalty: After 13 years on death row, convicted murderer Robert Alton Harris is executed in California's gas chamber.
1994 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
2002 – French Presidential Election: In the first round Jacques Chirac comes through, along with National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.
2004 – Suicide bombers target police stations in Basra, Iraq, killing 74 people.
2005 – John Negroponte becomes the first United States Director of National Intelligence.
2010 – After a week of being shut down due to the Eyjafjallajokull eruption, UK airspace reopens.
2014 - The Boston Marathon is held for the first time since it was targeted by bombers in 2013.
Rita Jeptoo wins the women's race, while Meb Keflezighi wins the men's race, becoming the first US citizen to win it in over 30 years.
2019 - Sri Lanka Easter bombings: More than 350 people are killed in bomb attacks on Easter Sunday targeting churches and hotels across Sri Lanka, most of them in or near Colombo.
2019 - Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky is elected President of Ukraine, defeating Petro Poroshenko.
1488 – Ulrich von Hutten, German humanist (d. 1523)
1555 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)
1652 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)
1671 - John Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729)
1673 – Wilhelmina of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1742)
1713 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (d. 1793)
1730 – Antonin Kammel, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1788)
1774 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1862)
1782 – Friedrich Froebel, German educator (d. 1852)
1790 – Manuel Blanco Encalada, Chilean officer and politician (d. 1876)
1801 - Robert Francis Withers Allston, Governor of South Carolina (d. 1864)
1806 - George Cornewall Lewis, British statesman (d. 1863)
1809 - Robert M. T. Hunter, American politician (d. 1887)
1810 - John Putnam Chapin, 10th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1864)
1811 - Alson Sherman, 8th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1903)
1816 – Charlotte Brontë, English writer (d. 1855)
1825 - Louise Rasmussen, Danish ballet dancer (d. 1874)
1837 – Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician (d. 1922)
1838 – John Muir, Scottish conservationist, environmentalist and writer (d. 1914)
1843 - Walther Flemming, German biologist (d. 1905)
1851 - Alexander Macfarlane, Scottish logician, physicist and mathematician (d. 1913)
1864 – Max Weber, German sociologist (d. 1920)
1870 - Edwin Stanton Porter, American director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1941)
1873 - Philip Collier, 14th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1948)
1879 – Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (d. 1904)
1882 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist (d. 1961)
1885 - Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish athlete (d. 1967)
1887 - Joe McCarthy, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1889 – Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist (d. 1971)
1889 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russian-American violinist, composer, teacher and conductor (d. 1985)
1889 – Manuel Prado Ugarteche, President of Peru (d. 1967)
1889 - Pietro Calamandrei, Italian lawyer, professor and politician (d. 1956)
1893 - Walter Christaller, German geographer (d. 1969)
1898 - Maurice Wilson, English soldier, mystic, mountaineer and pilot (d. 1934)
1904 – Odilo Globocnik, Austrian SS officer (d. 1945)
1905 – Pat Brown, Governor of California (d. 1996)
1911 – Ivan Combe, American entrepreneur (d. 2000)
1912 – Marcel Camus, French movie director (d. 1982)
1912 – Eve Arnold, American photographer (d. 2012)
1913 - Norman Parkinson, English photographer (d. 1990)
1913 - Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, English engineer and Head of British Railways (d. 1985)
1914 - Angelo Savoldi, Italian-American professional wrestler
1915 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (d. 2001)
1919 – Don Cornell, American singer (d. 2004)
1919 - Licio Gelli, Italian financier (d. 2015)
1920 – Bruno Maderna, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1973)
1920 – Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
1922 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish writer (d. 1987)
1922 - Nazim Al-Haqqani, Turkish Cypriot spiritual leader (d. 2014)
1923 - John Mortimer, English barrister and writer (d. 2009)
1924 - Ira Louvin, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1965)
1925 - Anthony Mason, 9th Chief Justice of Australia
1925 – Alfred Kelbassa, German footballer (d. 1988)
1926 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth realms
1928 - Georg Kronawitter, German politician (d. 2016)
1930 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
1930 - Jack Taylor, English football referee (d. 2012)
1930 - Mario Covas, Brazilian politician (d. 2001)
1930 - Dieter Roth, German artist (d. 1998)
1931 - Gabriel de Broglie, French historian
1931 - Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Iraqi-Syrian Orthodox Church leader (d. 2014)
1932 - Angela Mortimer, English tennis player
1932 - Elaine May, American comedienne
1935 - Charles Grodin, American actor
1935 - Thomas Kean, 48th Governor of New Jersey
1941 - David L. Boren, 21st Governor of Oklahoma
1942 - Geoffrey Palmer, 33rd Prime Minister of New Zealand
1943 - Jan de Graaff, Dutch television journalist (d. 2014)
1944 - Russell Boyd, Australian cameraman
1944 - Paul Geremia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 - Guity Novin, Iranian-Canadian artist
1947 – Iggy Pop, American musician (The Stooges)
1947 - John Weider, English musician
1948 - Gary Condit, American politician
1951 - Tony Danza, American actor
1951 - David Mallett, American singer-songwriter
1951 - Michael Hartley Freedman, American mathematician
1951 - Kim Young-ae, South Korean actress (d. 2017)
1952 - Cheryl Gillan, British politician
1954 - James Morrison, American actor
1955 - Murathan Mungan, Turkish author, short story writer, playwright and poet
1956 - Peter Kosminsky, English director, producer and screenwriter
1957 - Herbert Wetterauer, German painter, sculptor and author
1958 – Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist (d. 2009)
1958 – Andie MacDowell, American actress
1959 - Jerry Only, American singer and musician
1959 - Robert Smith, English singer-songwriter and musician
1959 - Arno Pijpers, Dutch football coach
1960 - Julius Korir, Kenyan athlete
1961 - Carey Hayes, American screenwriter and producer
1961 - Chad Hayes, American actor, screenwriter and producer
1961 - Cathy Cavadini, American voice actress and singer
1962 - Craig Robinson, American basketball coach and brother of Michelle Obama
1962 - Sergei Zalyotin, Russian cosmonaut
1963 – Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor
1964 – Ludmila Engquist, Russian-Swedish athlete
1965 - Thomas Helmer, German footballer
1968 - Peter van Vossen, Dutch footballer
1969 – Toby Stephens, British actor
1969 – Robin Meade, American news anchor
1970 – Nicole Sullivan, American actress
1971 - Alexander Kravchenko, Russian poker player
1971 - Axl Rotten, American professional wrestler (d. 2016)
1972 - José Luis Munuera, Spanish comic artist
1972 - Vidar Riseth, Norwegian footballer
1973 - Steve Backshall, English television presenter
1974 - John Hasler, English actor and voice actor
1976 - Abir Goswami, Indian actor (d. 2013)
1978 - Jukka Nevalainen, Finnish drummer
1979 – Tobias Linderoth, Swedish footballer
1979 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor
1980 – Vincent Lecavalier, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Tony Romo, American football player
1983 – Pawel Brozek, Polish footballer
1983 – Marco Donadel, Italian footballer
1983 - Sebastian Ingrosso, Swedish DJ and producer (Swedish House Mafia)
1986 – Alexander Edler, Swedish ice hockey player
1986 – Rodney Stuckey, American basketball player
1987 – Nadif Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cricketer
1987 – Eric Devendorf, American basketball player
1987 - Anastasia Prikhodko, Ukrainian singer
1988 - Adam Rooney, Irish footballer
1989 - Tatyana McFadden, Russian-born American Paralympic athlete
1991 - Max Chilton, British racing driver
1992 - Deng Linlin, Chinese gymnast
1992 - Isco, Spanish footballer
2007 – Princess Isabella of Denmark
43 BC – Aulus Hirtius, Roman writer and politician (b. 90 BC)
1073 - Pope Alexander II
1109 – Anselm of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1033)
1142 - Peter Abelard, French philosopher and theologian (b. 1079)
1329 - Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)
1509 – King Henry VII of England (b. 1457)
1551 - Oba Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
1557 – Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495)
1574 – Cosimo de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1519)
1699 – Jean Racine, French writer (b. 1639)
1701 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (b. 1667)
1719 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian (b. 1640)
1736 - Prince Eugene of Savoy (b. 1663)
1792 – Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1746)
1852 – Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
1894 - James W. Throckmorton, Governor of Texas (b. 1825)
1900 - Vikramatji Khimojiraj, Indian Maharajah (b. 1819)
1910 – Mark Twain, American writer (b. 1835)
1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, German fighter pilot (b. 1892)
1922 - Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato singer (b. 1858)
1924 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
1932 - Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1864)
1938 – Muhammad Iqbal, national poet of Pakistan (b. 1877)
1941 - Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast (b. 1875)
1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883)
1952 - Stafford Cripps, British politician (b. 1889)
1965 – Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist (b. 1892)
1971 – Francois Duvalier (Papa Doc), dictator of Haiti (b. 1907)
1973 – Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1977 – Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892)
1980 - Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894)
1983 - Walter Slezak, Austrian-born actor (b. 1902)
1984 – Marcel Janco, Romanian-Israeli artist, writer and architect (b. 1895)
1985 – Tancredo Neves, Brazilian politician, President-elect (b. 1910)
1990 – Romain de Tirtoff (Erte), Russian-born French artist (b. 1892)
1996 – Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen politician (b. 1944)
2003 – Nina Simone, American singer (b. 1933)
2005 – Gerry Marshall, British racing driver (b. 1941)
2005 - Gwynfor Evans, Welsh politician, leader of Plaid Cymru (b. 1912)
2005 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (b. 1904)
2008 – Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939)
2010 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish Olympic official (b. 1920)
2011 – Harold Garfinkel, American sociologist (b. 1917)
2012 – Charles Colson, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1931)
2013 - Shakuntala Devi, Indian mathematician (b. 1929)
2013 - Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor, author and educator (b. 1905)
2013 - Chrissy Amphlett, American singer and actress (b. 1959)
2014 - Alexander Lenkov, Russian actor (b. 1943)
2014 - Win Tin, Burmese journalist and former political prisoner (b. 1930)
2014 - Janet Gray Hayes, American politician, 60th Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1926)
2014 - Herb Gray, Canadian politician and former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1931)
2014 - Arlene McQuade, American actress (b. 1936)
2014 - Mundo Earwood, American country music singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
2014 - George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (b. 1936)
2015 - Janaki Ballabh Patnaik, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Odisha (b. 1927)
2015 - Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi, Egyptian poet (b. 1938)
2015 - Steve Byrnes, American sports announcer (b. 1959)
2015 - Roy Mason, British politician (b. 1924)
2015 - Mary Doyle Keefe, American model (b. 1922)
2015 - Gideon Eilat, German-Israeli soldier (b. 1924)
2015 - Cindy Yang, Taiwanese model and actress (b. 1990)
2015 - Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, Russian movie director (b. 1965)
2015 - M. H. Abrams, American literary critic (b. 1912)
2016 - Prince, American singer, songwriter and musician (b. 1958)
2016 - Hans Koschnick, German politician (b. 1929)
2016 - Marco Leto, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2016 - Lonnie Mack, American singer and guitarist (b. 1941)
2017 - Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer (b. 1972)
2017 - Cecilia Alvear, Ecuadorean-American journalist (b. 1939)
2017 - Carl Christ, American economist (b. 1923)
2018 - Firmin Le Bourhis, French author (b. 1950)
2018 - Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian film director (b. 1928)
2018 - Nabi Tajima, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1900)
2018 - Verne Troyer, American actor (b. 1969)
2018 - Huguette Tourangeau, Canadian mezzo-soprano (b. 1940)
2019 - Peter Colotka, Slovakian academic, lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
2019 - Hannelore Elsner, German actress (b. 1942)
2019 - Steve Golin, American film producer (b. 1955)
2019 - Aminul Haque, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1943)
2019 - Ken Kercheval, American actor (b. 1935)
2019 - Shantha Mayadunne, Sri Lankan chef (b. 1968)
2019 - Amelia Vargas, Cuban actress (b. 1925)
John Muir Day (California)
San Jacinto Day (Texas)
Kartini Day (Indonesia)
National Tree Planting Day (Kenya)
First Day of Ridvan (Baha'i faith)
Grounation Day (Rastafari movement)
Tiradentes Day (Brazil)
711 -Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula.
1429 – Battle of Orléans: French troops led by Joan of Arc lifted the English Siege of Orleans, a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.
1483 - Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands, is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.
1521 - Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops under Gustav Vasa defeat a Danish force under Didrik Slagheck in the Battle of Vasteras.
1587 - Francis Drake leads a raid in the Bay of Cadiz, sinking at least 23 ships of the Spanish fleet.
1672 – Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
1770 – James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
1854 – The Ashmun Institute is officially begins as the first college for African American students.
1861 – American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to split from the Union
1862 – American Civil War: New Orleans falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
1882 - The Elektromote, a forerunner of the trolleybus, is tested by Eduard Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
1903 – A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
1910 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
1916 – Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
1944 – Dancing Romeo, the last Our Gang movie, is shown for the first time.
1945 – World War II: The German Army in Italy surrenders (gives up) to the Allies.
1945 – Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and decides that Admiral Karl Dönitz will be the next ruler.
1945 – Holocaust: The Dachau concentration camp is freed by United States troops.
1946 – Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are accused of war crimes.
1967 – After refusing to go into the United States Army the day before (because of religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
1968 - The musical Hair opens on Broadway.
1969 – Jazz musician Duke Ellington receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1970 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces go into Cambodia to hunt NLF soldiers.
1974 – Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited word copies of White House tape recordings that deal with the scandal.
1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind – The last U.S. citizens begin to leave Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover.
United States part in the war comes to an end.
1986 - Fire at central library of the Los Angeles Public Library damages over 400,000 books and other items.
1986 - Funeral of Wallis Simpson, who had died five days earlier.
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom had left the throne in order to marry her.
1991 – Bangladesh is hit by a cyclone, killing at least 138,000 people.
1991 – A train crash in Hunan province in China kills over 200 people.
1992 – 1992 Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, follow the release of police officers charged with too much strength and force in the beating of Rodney King.
Over the next three days, 54 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
1992 - NBA player Michael Jordan scores 56 points in a playoff game against the Miami Heat in what is considered one of the greatest games of his career.
1997 – The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, and makes the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons illegal.
1999 – The Avala TV tower in Belgrade in destroyed by NATO allied bombing.
2002 – The United States is re-elected (chosen again) to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.
2004 - Oldsmobile builds its final car, ending 107 years of production.
2005 – Syrian troops complete their withdrawal from Lebanon.
2011 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge marries Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London.
2013 - NBA player Jason Collins announces that he is openly gay, the first American sportsman to come out as gay while still active.
2015 - Members of the Bali Nine are executed for drug trafficking in Indonesia.
2015 - The World Health Organization declares that rubella has been eradicated from the Americas.
2017 - Access to Wikipedia is blocked in Turkey.
2018 - Amber Rudd resigns as the British Home Secretary and is succeeded by Sajid Javid.
2019 - The Indonesian government announces plan to move the country's capital city away from Jakarta.
1667 – John Arbuthnot, Scottish doctor, mathematician and writer (d. 1735)
1686 - Vasily Tartishchev, Russian statesman, historian and geographer (d. 1750)
1727 – Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer, founder of modern ballet (d. 1810)
1745 – Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1807)
1762 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (d. 1833)
1766 - Nicolas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley, English statesman (d. 1851)
1780 - Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)
1784 - Samuel Turrell Armstrong, Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1850)
1818 – Tsar Alexander II of Russia (d. 1881)
1820 - Henry Watkins Alley, Confederate general and Governor of Louisiana (d. 1866)
1823 - Konrad von Mauer, German legal historian (d. 1902)
1824 – Francisco Pi y Margell, Catalan-Spanish politician and writer (d. 1901)
1837 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891)
1847 - Joachim Andersen, Danish flautist, conductor and composer (d. 1909)
1848 - Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter (d. 1906)
1854 – Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
1857 – Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (d. 1905)
1863 – Constantine Cavafy, Greek poet (d. 1933)
1863 – William Randolph Hearst, American media tycoon (d. 1951)
1868 – Alice Keppel, English socialite and mistress to Edward VII (d. 1947)
1871 - William Stern, German psychologist (d. 1938)
1872 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman, lawyer and horse-breeder (d. 1930)
1875 - Margaret Preston, Australian artist (d. 1963)
1875 - Rafael Sabatini, Italian-English writer (d. 1950)
1876 – Zauditu, Empress of Ethiopia (d. 1930)
1879 – Thomas Beecham, British conductor (d. 1961)
1882 - Hendrik Nicolaes Werkman, Dutch artist and painter (d. 1945)
1885 – Egon Erwin Kisch, Czech journalist and writer (d. 1948)
1887 - Raymond Thorne, American freestyle swimmer (d. 1921)
1891 - Bharathidasan, Indian Tamil poet (d. 1964)
1893 – Harold C. Urey, American chemist (d. 1981)
1894 - Marietta Blau, Austrian physicist (d. 1970)
1895 - Vladimir Propp, Russian folkorist (d. 1970)
1895 – Malcolm Sargent, British conductor (d. 1967)
1899 – Duke Ellington, American pianist and jazz musician (d. 1974)
1901 – Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (d. 1989)
1907 – Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born movie director (d. 1997)
1907 - Chuya Nakahara, Japanese poet (d. 1937)
1907 - Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (d. 1983)
1909 - Tom Ewell, American actor (d. 1994)
1915 – Donald Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers) (d. 1999)
1917 - Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
1917 - Maya Deren, Ukrainian-American director, poet and photographer (d. 1961)
1917 - Urie Bronfenbrenner, Russian-American psychologist (d. 2005)
1919 - Alla Rakha, Indian tabla player (d. 2000)
1921 – Cornelis de Jager, Dutch astronomer
1922 – Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician and harmonica player (d. 2016)
1923 – Irvin Kershner, American movie director (d. 2010)
1924 - Zizi Jeanmaire, French dancer and actress
1925 – Iwao Takamoto, Japanese-American animator and movie director (d. 2007)
1925 – John Compton, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2007)
1925 - Ned Austin, American actor (d. 2007)
1925 - Colette Marchand, French dancer and actress (d. 2015)
1926 – Paul Baran, American computer pioneer (d. 2011)
1927 - Dorothy Manley, British athlete
1927 - Bill Slater, British footballer (d. 2018)
1928 - Heinz Wolff, German-British scientist and broadcaster (d. 2017)
1929 – Walter Kempowski, German writer (d. 2007)
1929 - Ray Barretto, American jazz musician (d. 2006)
1929 - Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer and conductor (d. 2014)
1929 - Maurice Strong, Canadian businessman and diplomat (d. 2015)
1929 - Jeremy Thorpe, English politician (d. 2014)
1930 - Joe Porcaro, American musician
1930 - Henri Coppens, Belgian footballer (d. 2015)
1930 - Claus Ogerman, German-American composer
1930 - Jean Rochefort, French actor and director (d. 2017)
1931 - Frank Auerbach, German-British painter
1931 - Lonnie Donegan, Scottish singer, songwriter and musician (d. 2002)
1933 – Mark Eyskens, former Prime Minister of Belgium
1933 - Rod McKuen, American poet and composer (d. 2015)
1933 - Willie Nelson, American singer and musician
1934 – Pedro Pires, former President of Cape Verde
1934 - Bill Vander Zalm, Dutch-Canadian politician, 28th Premier of British Columbia
1935 - April Ashley, English model
1936 – Zubin Mehta, Indian-born conductor
1936 - Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentine poet (d. 1972)
1936 - Lane Smith, American actor (d. 2005)
1938 - Klaus Voormann, German artist, musician and producer
1938 – Bernard Madoff, American financier and convict
1938 - E. Ahamed, Indian politician (d. 2017)
1941 - Toney Anaya, former Governor of New Mexico
1942 - Galina Kulakova, Soviet cross-country skier
1942 - Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, English politician
1944 – Hermann Scheer, German politician (d. 2010)
1944 – Princess Benedikte of Denmark
1944 - Richard Kline, American actor and director
1945 - Tammi Terrell, American singer (d. 1970)
1947 - Joey Levine, American singer and composer
1947 - Jim Ryun, American athlete and politician
1949 - Anita Dobson, English actress
1950 – Phillip Noyce, Australian movie director
1951 - John Holmes, British diplomat
1951 – Dale Earnhardt, American racing driver (d. 2001)
1952 – David Icke, British writer, and former footballer and journalist
1952 - Rob Nicholson, Canadian politician
1953 - Nikolai Budarin, Russian cosmonaut
1954 – Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
1955 – Kate Mulgrew, American actress
1955 - Klaus Siebert, German biathlete (d. 2016)
1957 – Daniel Day-Lewis, British actor
1957 - Timothy Treadwell, American activist (d. 2003)
1958 – Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
1958 - Giovanni Galli, Italian footballer
1960 - Lachele Carl, American voice actress
1964 – Federico Castelluccio, Italian-American actor
1965 - Angelo Alessio, Italian footballer
1966 - Ramón Medina Bello, Argentine footballer
1966 – Phil Tufnell, English cricketer
1967 - Master P, American rapper
1967 - Curtis Joseph, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1968 - Michael Herbig, German actor, comedian, director and producer
1970 – Andre Agassi, American tennis player
1970 – Uma Thurman, American actress
1972 – Marko Rehmer, German footballer
1972 - Derek Mears, American actor and stuntman
1972 - Takahiro Yamada, Japanese footballer
1973 - David Belle, French actor
1974 - Anggun, Indonesian-French singer-songwriter
1978 – Bob Bryan, American tennis player
1978 – Mike Bryan, American tennis player
1979 – Lee Dong-Gook, South Korean footballer