the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1921 - Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (d. 1999)
1922 - Michael Bentine, British comedian (d. 1996)
1922 - Ellen Vogel, Dutch actress (d. 2015)
1923 - Anne Jeffreys, American actress and singer (d. 2017)
1924 - Alice Babs, Swedish singer and actress (d. 2014)
1924 - Annette Strauss, Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1998)
1925 – Paul Newman, American actor (d. 2008)
1925 - Joan Leslie, American actress (d. 2015)
1926 - Joseph Bacon Fraser, Jr., American businessman (d. 2014)
1927 – José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (d. 2005)
1928 - Abdellatif Filali, Prime Minister of Morocco (d. 2009)
1928 – Roger Vadim, French movie director and actor (d. 2000)
1931 - Bernard Panafieu, French cardinal (d. 2017)
1931 - Mary Murphy, American movie actress
1932 - George Clements, American priest and activist
1933 - Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist
1934 - Fernando Cardenal, Nicaraguan Jesuit, theologian and politician (d. 2016)
1934 - Roger Landry, Canadian businessman and newspaper publisher
1935 - Corrado Augias, Italian journalist, writer and television personality
1935 - Paula Rego, Portuguese-British artist
1935 - Bob Uecker, American baseball player and broadcaster
1935 – Fridrik Olafsson, Icelandic chess player
1936 - Sal Buscema, American comic book artist
1936 - Theophanis Lamboukas, Greek-French actor and singer (d. 1970)
1937 – Joseph Saidu Momoh, former President of Sierra Leone (d. 2003)
1941 - Scott Glenn, American actor
1943 – Jack Warner, Trinidadian FIFA official
1944 – Angela Davis, American Civil Rights activist
1944 - Jerry Sandusky, American football coach and convicted child-sex offender
1945 – Jacqueline du Pré, British cellist (d. 1987)
1945 – Jeremy Rifkin, American sociologist, economist and publicist
1946 - Michel Delpech, French singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2016)
1946 - Christopher Hampton, British dramatist, screenwriter and director
1946 - Deon Jackson, American soul singer and songwriter
1947 - Patrick Dewaere, French actor (d. 1982)
1947 - Redmond Morris, 4th Baron Killanin, Irish director, producer and production designer
1947 - Michel Sardou, French singer-songwriter
1949 - David Strathairn, American actor
1950 – Jörg Haider, Austrian far-right politician (d. 2008)
1953 - Alik L. Alik, Micronesian politician
1953 – Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Danish politician, former Secretary-General of NATO and former Prime Minister of Denmark
1953 – Lucinda Williams, American singer
1955 – Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American musician (Van Halen) (d. 2020)
1958 – Gian Piero Gasperini, Italian footballer and coach
1958 – Ellen DeGeneres, American actress and comedienne
1958 – Anita Baker, American singer
1961 – Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Li Cunxin, Chinese-Australian ballet dancer
1961 - Mark Urban, English journalist and author
1962 - John Brown, Scottish footballer
1962 – Oscar Ruggeri, Argentine footballer
1962 - Guo Jian, Chinese-Australian artist
1963 – José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager
1963 – Andrew Ridgeley, British musician
1964 - Adam Crozier, British businessman
1964 – Torkil Nielsen, Faroese footballer and chess player
1965 - Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet gymnast
1970 - Bjarni Benediktsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland
1971 – Dorian Gregory, American actor
1973 – Mayu Shinjo, Japanese manga artist
1973 - Brendan Rodgers, Northern Irish footballer and manager
1974 - Rokia Traoré, Malian singer
1976 - Hitomi, Japanese singer-songwriter
1981 - Gustavo Dudamel, Venezuelan conductor and composer
1982 – Brahim Takioullah, Guinness World Record holder for the largest feet
1984 - Luo Xuejian, Chinese swimmer
1984 - Antonio Rukavina, Serbian footballer
1985 - Heather Stanning, British rower
1986 – Hero, South Korean singer
1987 - Gojko Kacar, Serbian footballer
1987 - Sebastian Giovinco, Italian footballer
1988 – Yukio Mine, Japanese footballer
1988 – Gary Hooper, English footballer
1989 – Emily Hughes, American figure skater
1990 – Christopher Massey, American actor
1990 - Sergio Pérez, Mexican racing driver
1993 – Cameron Bright, Canadian actor
1996 – Tyger Drew-Honey, British actor
1996 - Igor Decraene, Belgian cyclist (d. 2014)
1997 - Ieva Gaile, Latvian figure skater
1997 - Gedion Zelalem, German-American soccer player
2008 - Paul the Octopus, FIFA World Cup 'oracle' (d. 2010)
946 - Eadgyth, German Queen (b. 910)
1567 – Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
1630 – Henry Briggs, English mathematician (born 1556)
1636 – Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (born 1552)
1697 – Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (born 1640)
1713 - Jean Chardin, French explorer (born 1643)
1744 – Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (born 1683)
1750 – Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (born 1686)
1795 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (born 1732)
1799 – Gabriel Christie, British general (born 1722)
1823 – Edward Jenner, English physician (born 1749)
1824 – Théodore Géricault, French painter (born 1791)
1849 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet, dramatist and physician (born 1803)
1855 – Gérard de Nerval, French writer (born 1808)
1870 – Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (born 1785)
1877 - Daniel Haines, Governor of New Jersey (born 1801)
1879 - Julia Margaret Cameron, English photographer (born 1815)
1885 – Edward Davy, English inventor, physician, and scientist (born 1806)
1885 – Charles George Gordon, British general (born 1833)
1886 – David Rice Atchison, American politician (born 1807)
1891 – Nikolaus August Otto, German inventor of the internal-combustion engine (born 1833)
1893 – Abner Doubleday, Major General, United States Army and purported inventor of baseball (born 1819)
1895 - Arthur Cayley, British mathematician (born 1821)
1899 - Augustus Hill Garland, Governor of Arkansas (born 1832)
1904 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (born 1846)
1927 - Lyman J. Gage, American politician (born 1836)
1932 - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (born 1861)
1942 – Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (born 1868)
1943 – Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (born 1880)
1943 – Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist (born 1887)
1946 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch astronomer (born 1884)
1946 - Oskar Kallas, Estonian linguist and diplomat (born 1868)
1947 – Grace Moore, American soprano (plane crash) (born 1898)
1947 – Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Westrobothnia, second in line to the Swedish throne, father of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (born 1906)
1952 – Horloogiyn Choybalsan, leader of Mongolia (born 1895)
1961 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer (born 1900)
1962 – Lucky Luciano, American mobster (born 1897)
1968 – Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher, and aviation promoter (born 1883)
1968 – Yvor Winters, American poet and critic (born 1900)
1973 – Edward G. Robinson, American actor (born 1893)
1979 – Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States (born 1908)
1980 - Simon Kapwepwe, 2nd Vice President of Zambia (born 1922)
1983 – Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (born 1913)
1990 - Higashikuni Naruhiko, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1887)
1990 – Lewis Mumford, American historian (born 1895)
1992 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (born 1912)
1993 – Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (born 1905)
1993 – Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada (born 1922)
1996 – Harold Brodkey, American writer (born 1930)
1996 – Dave Schultz, American wrestler (born 1959)
1997 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (born 1904)
1998 – Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (born 1898)
2000 – Don Budge, American tennis player (born 1915)
2000 – Kathleen Hale, British writer (born 1898)
2000 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born writer (born 1912)
2001 – Al McGuire, American basketball coach (born 1928)
2003 – Valeriy Brumel, Russian athlete (born 1942)
2003 – Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (born 1917)
2003 – George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Scottish politician (born 1931)
2004 – Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (born 1979)
2006 - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania (born 1920)
2007 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1929)
2010 - Geoffrey Burbidge, British astrophysicist (born 1925)
2012 - Colin Tarrant, British actor (born 1952)
2014 - José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican writer (born 1939)
2014 - Paula Gruden, Australian poet and translator (born 1921)
2014 - Margery Mason, English actress (born 1913)
2015 - Tom Uren, Australian politician (born 1921)
2015 - Lee Spick, English snooker player (born 1980)
2015 - R. K. Laxman, Indian cartoonist and humorist (born 1921)
2015 - Lucjan Lis, Polish-German cyclist (born 1950)
2016 - Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, Pakistani politician and diplomat (born 1920)
2016 - Abe Vigoda, American actor (born 1921)
2016 - Black, English singer-songwriter (born 1962)
2016 - Tommy Kelly, American actor (born 1925)
2017 - Tam Dalyell, Scottish politician (born 1932)
2017 - Alexander Kadakin, Russian diplomat (born 1949)
2017 - Mike Connors, American actor (born 1925)
2017 - Barbara Hale, American actress (born 1922)
2017 - Luciano Ravaglia, Italian engineer (born 1923)
2017 - Anne-Marie Colchen, French athlete and basketball player (born 1925)
2017 - Laurie Salas, New Zealand activist (born 1922)
2017 - Michael Tönnies, German footballer (born 1959)
2018 - Elizabeth Hawley, American journalist and Himalayan travel writer (born 1923)
2018 - Jacques Languirand, Canadian radio host, writer and actor (born 1931)
2018 - Hiromu Nonaka, Japanese politician (born 1925)
2018 - Yukiaki Okabe, Japanese swimmer (born 1941)
2019 - Jean Guillou, French composer, organist and pianist (born 1930)
2019 - Michel Legrand, French composer (born 1932)
2019 - Ndaye Mulamba, Congolese footballer (born 1948)
2019 - Giuseppe Zamperletti, Italian politician (born 1933)
2020 - Kobe Bryant, American basketball player (born 1978)
Australia Day – holiday to commemorate the first Europen settlement in Australia.
Republic Day – India
Duarte Day (Dominican Republic)
Liberation Day (Uganda)
Engineer's Day (Panama)
World Customs Day
98 – Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
447 - Constantinople is hit by a strong earthquake.
672 – St. Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
847 – Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
1186 – Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds Constance of Sicily.
1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
1593 – Vatican opens 7-year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno.
1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins.
It ends in their execution on January 31.
1695 – Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II.
Mustafa rules until his death in 1703.
1776 - American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "Noble Train of Artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1785 – The University of Georgia is founded.
1825 – U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
1865 - Spain and Peru end the Spanish-South American War.
1870 – The first college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.
1880 – Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
1888 – In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded.
1900 – Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, China demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.
1909 – The Young Left is founded in Norway.
1915 – United States Marines occupy Haiti.
1918 - Finland: The Finnish Civil War begins.
1926 – John Logie Baird demonstrates the first television broadcast.
1927 - Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
It later unites with Hejaz to form Saudi Arabia.
1939 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of United States war planes to France.
1941 – World War II: Fighting at Derna, Libya, begins.
Following the capture of Tobruk, two brigades of the 6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay pursue the Italians westwards and encounters an Italian rear guard at Derna.
1943 – World War II: Fifty bombers mount the first entirely American air raid against Germany, targeting Wilhelmshaven.
1944 – World War II: The two-year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
1945 – World War II: The Red Army arrives at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
They find the Nazi concentration camp where 1.1-1.5 million people had been murdered.
1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.
1961 - Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all lives lost.
1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
1967 – More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
1973 – Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War.
1974 - Brisbane River breaches its banks causing Brisbane's largest flood of the 20th century.
1980 - Robert Mugabe returns to Zimbabwe (then-called Rhodesia) after a five-year exile.
1983 – World's longest underwater tunnel (53.90 km) opens in Japan connecting the islands of Honshū and Hokkaido.
1984 – Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world jumping record by 9.25 inches (23.5 centimeters) with a 28-foot, 10¼-inch (8.795-meter) jump.
1984 – Michael Jackson suffers severe burns to his scalp while filming a Pepsi commercial after a spark ignites his hair on fire due to a pyrotechnical fault.
He is rushed to hospital.
1991 – Muhammad Siyad Barre flees his compound in Mogadishu.
1991 – Super Bowl XXV: The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills, 20-19.
1992 – Mike Tyson goes on trial charged with raping a 1991 Miss Black America contestant.
1993 - American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Taro becomes the first foreign-born wrestler of the sport to be given the title of Yokozuna.
1996 – Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
1996 – Germany observes its 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day.
1997 – It is revealed that French museums have nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.
1998 – American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today Show calling the attacks against her husband part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
2001 – Professors Suzanne and Half Zantop are killed in the Dartmouth Murders.
2001 – Ten members of the Oklahoma State University men's basketball team and support staff die in a plane crash in Colorado.
2002 – Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kill more than 1,000.
2010 – The 2009 Honduran political crisis ends, as Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes President.
2013 - A fire in a nightclub in the city of Santa Maria, Southern Brazil, kills over 230 people.
2019 - Two bombs explode at a Roman Catholic church service in Jolo, southern Philippines, killing 18 people.
1443 – Albert, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
1546 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1608)
1571 – Abbas I of Persia (d. 1629)
1585 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)
1662 – Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (d. 1742)
1687 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
1708 - Anna Petrovna of Russia (d. 1728)
1741 - Hester Thrale, Welsh author (d. 1821)
1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
1775 – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (d. 1854)
1790 - William Davies Evans, Welsh sailor, chess player and inventor (d. 1872)
1795 - Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor (d. 1886)
1805 – Maria Anna of Bavaria, Queen Consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
1805 – Sophie of Bavaria, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1872)
1805 - Samuel Palmer, English artist (d. 1881)
1814 – Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879)
1823 - Edouard Lalo, French composer (d. 1892)
1826 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d. 1889)
1826 - Richard Taylor, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
1829 - Isaac Roberts, Welsh astronomer (d. 1904)
1832 – Lewis Carroll, English writer (d. 1898)
1836 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (d. 1895)
1841 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (d. 1910)
1850 - Samuel Gompers, American trade union leader (d. 1924)
1850 – Edward J. Smith, British captain (d. 1912)
1859 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (d. 1941)
1864 - John Walter Gregory, English geologist and explorer (d. 1932)
1867 - Katherine Mayo, American journalist (d. 1940)
1871 - Samuel Peploe, Scottish painter (d. 1935)
1885 – Jerome Kern, American composer (d. 1945)
1891 – Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer and journalist (d. 1967)
1893 – Soong Ching-ling, Chinese political figure and spouse of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)
1895 - Harry Ruby, American composer and screenwriter (d. 1974)
1899 - Béla Guttmann, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)
1901 – Willy Fritsch, German actor (d. 1973)
1901 - Art Rooney, Pittsburgh Steelers founder and owner (d. 1988)
1902 - Carl Berner, German-American supercentenarian (d. 2013)
1903 – Sir John Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist (d. 1997)
1908 - William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American journalist and publisher (d. 1993)
1910 – Edward Kardelj, Yugoslavian politician (d. 1979)
1912 – Arne Naess, Norwegian philosopher (d. 2009)
1918 - Skitch Henderson, American bandleader (d. 2005)
1918 - Elmore James, American blues musician (d. 1963)
1919 – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.,
American musician (d. 1972)
1920 – Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
1921 - Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
1924 – Rauf Denktas, 1st President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (d. 2012)
1924 - Brian Rix, English actor and activist (d. 2016)
1926 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
1928 – Hans Modrow, East German Premier
1930 – Aloysius Ambrozic, Slovenian-Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 2011)
1930 - Bobby Bland, American musician (d. 2013)
1931 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian writer (d. 2001)
1933 - Jerry Buss, American businessman and sports team owner (d. 2013)
1933 – Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman and billionaire
1934 – Edith Cresson, former Prime Minister of France
1936 - Barry Barish, American physicist
1936 – Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist
1936 - Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
1937 – John Ogdon, British pianist (d. 1989)
1940 – Petru Lucinschi, 2nd President of Moldova
1940 – James Cromwell, American actor
1940 - Reynaldo Rey, American actor, comedian and television personality (d. 2015)
1941 - Bobby Hutcherson, American composer, vibraphone and marimba player
1942 - Tasuku Honjo, Japanese immunologist
1942 – Kate Wolf, American folk singer and musician (d. 1986)
1942 - Steve Wynn, American real estate businessman and art collector
1944 – Mairead Maguire, Northern Irish activist
1944 – Nick Mason, English drummer (Pink Floyd)
1946 – Nedra Talley, American singer (Ronettes)
1948 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Latvian-born dancer and choreographer
1948 – Valeri Brainin, Russian-German musicologist, poet, educator, composer
1948 - Jean-Philippe Collard, French pianist
1949 - Marilyn Musgrave, American politician
1950 - Alex Norton, Scottish actor
1950 - Derek Acorah, English spirit medium
1951 - Brian Downey, Irish musician
1952 - Brian Gottfried, American tennis player
1952 - Klan Slavovici, Croatian musician and politician
1955 – John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States
1956 - Mimi Rogers, American actress
1956 - Sean O'Keefe, 10th Head of NASA
1957 – Janick Gers, British guitarist (Iron Maiden)
1957 - Frank Miller, American comic book author and movie director
1958 - Alan Milburn, British politician
1958 - Susanna Thompson, American actress
1961 - Gillian Gilbert, British musician
1963 - Luigi Ambrosio, Italian mathematician
1963 - Mark Moraghan, English actor and singer
1963 - George Monbiot, English writer and activist
1964 – Bridget Fonda, American actress
1964 - Jack Haley, American basketball player (d. 2015)
1965 – Alan Cumming, Scottish actor and movie director
1965 – Mike Newell, English football manager
1967 - Dave Manson, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Tricky, English rapper
1968 – Mike Patton, American singer
1969 – Patton Oswalt, American actor and comedian
1969 - Cornelius, Japanese singer, guitarist and producer
1971 - Patrice Brisebois, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 - Mirjam Ott, Swiss curler
1972 – Mark Owen, English singer (Take That)
1972 – Keith Wood, Irish rugby player
1972 – Josh Randall, American actor
1973 - Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarussian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1974 - Ole Einar Bjorndalen, Norwegian biathlete
1974 - Andrei Pavel, Romanian tennis player
1976 – Ahn Jung-Hwan, South Korean footballer
1979 – Rosamund Pike, English actress
1980 – Marat Safin, Russian tennis player and politician
1980 – Eva Padberg, German model
1981 - Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player
1981 – Tony Woodcock, New Zealand rugby player
1983 - Carlo Colaiacov, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 - Paulo Colaiacov, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Giorgi Loria, Georgian footballer
1987 – Lily Donaldson, British model
1987 - Michael Marrone, Australian footballer
1987 - Anton Shunin, Russian footballer
1989 - Ricky van Wolfswinkel, Dutch footballer
1989 - Daisy Lowe, English model
1998 - Rebeka Kim, South Korean ice dancer
98 – Nerva, Roman Emperor (b. 35)
457 - Marcian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 392)
672 - Pope Vitalian
1490 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b. 1435)
1540 - Saint Angela Merici, Italian religious leader and saint (b. 1474)
1629 – Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560)
1638 – Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist
1651 - Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch painter and printmaker (b. 1566)
1731 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (b. 1655)
1740 – Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692)
1754 - Ludvig Holberg, Danish playwright (b. 1684)
1814 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1761)
1816 – Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (b. 1724)
1851 – John James Audubon, French-American naturalist, ornithologist, and painter (b. 1785)
1851 - Cornelius P. Comegys, Governor of Delaware (b. 1780)
1860 – János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1860)
1880 – Edward Middleton Barry, English architect (b. 1830)
1901 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
1910 – Thomas Crapper, English plumber (b. 1836)
1913 - Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1827)
1919 – Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1877)
1922 - Nellie Bly, American journalist and author (b. 1864)
1940 – Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (b. 1894)
1942 - Kaarel Eenpalu, Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1888)
1956 – Erich Kleiber, German conductor (b. 1890)
1965 - Hassan Ali Mansour, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1923)
1965 - C. Douglass Buck, American politician, Governor of Delaware (b. 1890)
1967 – Crew of Apollo 1:
Roger Chaffee (b. 1935)
Virgil "Gus" Grissom (b. 1926)
Edward White (b. 1930)
1970 – Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908)
1971 – Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
1972 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
1973 - William Nolde, last American combat casualty of the Vietnam War (b. 1929)
1974 - Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general of the Greek Army (b. 1898)
1975 – Bill Walsh, American producer and writer (b. 1913)
1983 - Louis de Funes, French actor (b. 1914)
1986 – Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (b. 1914)
1988 – Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian writer (b. 1938)
1989 – Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (b. 1888)
1992 – Allan Jones, actor and singer (b. 1908)
1993 – André the Giant, professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946)
1994 – Claude Akins, actor (b. 1926)
1996 – Ralph Yarborough, American politician (b. 1903)
2001 - Marie Jose of Belgium, last Queen Consort of Italy (b. 1906)
2003 - Henryk Jablonski, President of Poland (b. 1909)
2004 – Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)
2006 – Johannes Rau, President of Germany (b. 1931).
2007 - Marcheline Bertrand, American actress (b. 1950).
2008 – Suharto, second President of Indonesia (b. 1921).
2008 - Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader (b. 1910).
2009 - R. Venkataraman, President of India (b. 1910).
2009 - Mino Reitano, Italian singer (b. 1944).
2009 – John Updike, American writer (b. 1932).
2010 – Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (b. 1932).
2010 – J. D. Salinger, American writer (b. 1919).
2010 – Howard Zinn, American historian (b. 1922).
2011 - Charlie Callas, American comedian (b. 1927)
2013 - Pham Duy, Vietnamese singer-songwriter (b. 1921)
2014 - Pete Seeger, American folk musician (b. 1919)
2014 - Edmond Classen, Dutch actor (b. 1938)
2015 - Wilfred Agbonavbare, Nigerian footballer (b. 1966)
2015 - Henk Faanhof, Dutch road bicycle racer (b. 1922)
2015 - David Landau, British-Israeli journalist (b. 1947)
2015 - Charles Hard Townes, American physicist (b. 1915)
2015 - John T. Myers, American politician (b. 1927)
2015 - Rocky Bridges, American baseball player (b. 1927)
2016 - Augusto Giomo, Italian basketball player (b. 1940)
2016 - Carlos Loyzaga, Filipino basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
2017 – Wim Anderiesen Jr., Dutch footballer (b. 1931)
2017 - Valery Bolotov, Ukrainian militant leader (b. 1970)
2017 - Bob Holiday, American actor (b. 1932)
2017 - Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (b. 1927)
2017 - Billy Simpson, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1929)
2017 - Gisella Sofio, Italian actress (b. 1931)
2017 - Henry-Louis de La Grange, French musicologist (b. 1924)
2017 - Atanas Kirov, Bulgarian weightlifter (b. 1948)
2017 - Brunhilde Pomsel, German broadcaster (b. 1911)
2017 - Arthur H. Rosenfeld, American physicist (b. 1926)
2018 - Robert McCormick Adams, Jr., American anthropologist (b. 1926)
2018 - Royal Galipeau, Canadian politician (b. 1947)
2018 - Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman (b. 1926)
2018 - Dennis Peron, American cannabis and LGBT activist and businessman (b. 1946)
2018 - Mort Walker, American comic artist (b. 1923)
2018 - John Wall, English engineer and astronomer (b. 1932)
2019 - Henry Chapier, Romanian-born French television journalist (b. 1933)
2019 - Nina Fyodorova, Russian cross-country skier (b. 1947)
2019 - Peter Magowan, American businessman (b. 1942)
2019 - Erica Yohn, American actress (b. 1928)
Holocaust Memorial Day
1327 – Edward III is crowned King of England.
1329 - King John of Bohemia captures Medvegalis, an important fortress of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and baptizes 6,000 of its defenders.
1662 – The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being stranded on one of the Juan Fernandez Islands (now belonging to Chile).
This inspires the story of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
1713 – The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
1788 – Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat.
1790 – In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
1793 – France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
1814 – The Mayon Volcano, in the Philippines, erupts, killing around 1,200 people.
This is the most devastating eruption of Mayon Volcano.
1835 - Slavery is banned in Mauritius.
1861 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
1862 – Julia Ward Howe's "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is published for the first time (Atlantic Monthly).
1865 - Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, banning slavery and slave keeping.
1880 – First edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published.
1884 – Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1893 – Thomas Edison finishes construction of the first movie studio (West Orange, New Jersey).
1895 - Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
1896 – The opera La bohème premieres (Turin).
1897 - The Shinhan Bank opens in Seoul.
It is the oldest bank in what is now South Korea.
1904 - Iceland gets increased autonomy from Denmark.
1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
1913 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station.
1915 - Photographs are required in United Kingdom passports for the first time.
1918 – Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1919 – The first Miss America is crowned (New York City).
1920 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.
1924 – The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR.
1929 – Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method.
1933 - Paul von Hindenburg dissolves the Reichstag under recommendation from Adolf Hitler.
1942 – World War II: Vidkun Quisling is appointed Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers.
1942 - Voice of America begins broadcasting.
1946 – Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
1946 - Hungary is declared a republic with Zoltan Tildy as President.
1948 - The Federation of Malaya is founded.
1953 – In the night following January 31 large parts of the Netherlands, Belgium and the southeastern United Kingdom are flooded after heavy storms.
1958 – Merger of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961.
1959 - Neuchatel and Vaud become the first cantons of Switzerland to allow women to vote.
1960 – Four black students stage a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1964 - The Beatles have their first US Number One - "I Want to Hold Your Hand"..
1965 - Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada, is renamed Churchill River, after Winston Churchill, who had died just over a week earlier.
1968 – Vietnam War: NLF officer Nguyen Van Lem is executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan a South Vietnamese National Police Chief.
The execution was videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams and helped sway public opinion against the war.
1970 - Two trains collide in Benavidez, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
With 236 people being killed, this is the deadliest accident in Argentine rail travel.
1972 - Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by Royal Charter.
1974 - Kuala Lumpur is declared a federal territory of Malaysia.
1974 – In São Paulo, Brazil, a fire in a 25-story office building kills 189 and injures 293.
Kuala Lumpur declared a Federal Territory.
1978 – Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.
1978 - In Finland, Urho Kekkonen is elected to a fifth term in-a-row as President.
1979 – Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back into Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
1982 – Senegal and The Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
1985 - Aeroflot Flight 7841 crashes shortly after take-off from Minsk, killing 58 people.
1989 - Boulder and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia form the city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
1991 - USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 collide on the runway at Los Angeles International Airport, killing 34 people.
1992 – The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal Disaster case.
1993 - Gary Bettman becomes the first commissioner of the NHL.
1994 – In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
1995 – Manic Street Preachers lyricist Richey James Edwards goes missing from the Embassy Hotel in London, UK.
1996 – The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1998 - Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral.
1999 – North Dakota Public Radio is launched.
2002 - Having been taken hostage, American journalist Daniel Pearl is killed by his captors.
2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry killing all seven astronauts on board.
2004 – At least 244 people are trampled to death in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
2004 – At the Super Bowl half-time show, part of Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during a routine with Justin Timberlake.
This started the 'Nipplegate' scandal.
2009 – Johanna Sigurdardottir becomes Prime Minister of Iceland.
She is the world's first national head of government in a same-sex relationship.
2012 – Violence following a football match in Port Said, Egypt, results in 74 deaths.
2013 - John Kerry becomes United States Secretary of State.
2013 - The Shard in London, the EU's tallest building, opens to the public.
2014 - Janet Yellen becomes the first woman to serve as Head of the United States Federal Reserve, succeeding Ben Bernanke.
2016 - The Zika virus, spread by mosquitoes and causing deformities in newborn babies in South America and Central America, is declared a major world health emergency by the World Health Organization.
2017 - Rex Tillerson is confirmed as United States Secretary of State.
2021 - The coup d'état in Myanmar happens.
1261 - Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (d. 1326)
1394 - Ikkyu, Japanese Zen master and poet (d. 1481)
1435 - Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (d. 1472)
1459 - Conrad Celtis, German poet (d. 1508)
1462 - Johannes Trithemius, German lexicographer, historian and cryptographer (d. 1516)
1501 - Queen Munjeong of Korea (d. 1565)
1552 – Edward Coke, English jurist and politician (d. 1634)
1648 - Elkanah Settle, English poet and playwright (d. 1724)
1659 – Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (d. 1729)
1673 - Alessandro Marcello, Italian poet, composer and philosopher (d. 1747)
1687 – Johann Adam Birkenstock, German composer and violinist (d. 1733)
1690 – Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (d. 1768)
1701 - Johan Agrell, Swedish-born German composer (d. 1765)
1761 – Christian Hendrik Persoon, mycologist (d. 1836)
1801 – Thomas Cole, English-born American painter (d. 1848)
1807 - William B. Campbell, 16th Governor of Tennessee (d. 1867)
1825 - James W. Throckmorton, 25th Governor of Texas (d. 1894)
1844 – G. Stanley Hall, psychologist (d. 1844)
1851 - Durham Stevens, American diplomat (d. 1908)
1858 - Ignacio Bonillas, Mexican diplomat (d. 1942)
1859 – Victor Herbert, composer (d. 1924)
1872 - Clara Butt, English contralto (d. 1936)
1873 - Joseph Allard, Canadian fiddler (d. 1947)
1874 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (d. 1929)
1878 - Alfred Hajos, Hungarian swimmer and architect (d. 1955)
1878 - Milan Hodza, Slovakian politician (d. 1944)
1878 - Hattie Wyatt Caraway, United States Senator (d. 1950)
1879 - Henry Chrétien, French astronomer, professor and inventor (d. 1956)
1882 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent, twelfth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
1882 - Prince Andrew of Greece (d. 1944)
1884 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (d. 1937)
1885 - Camille Chautemps, Prime Minister of France (d. 1963)
1887 – Charles Nordhoff, English-born writer (d. 1947)
1888 - Charles January, American soccer player (d. 1970)
1894 – John Ford, American director and producer (d. 1973)
1894 – James P. Johnson, pianist, composer (d. 1955)
1894 - Lucian Grigorescu, Romanian painter (d. 1965)
1896 - Anastasio Somoza Garcia, President of Nicaragua (d. 1956)
1898 – Leila Denmark, American physician and supercentenarian (d. 2012)
1901 – Frank Buckles, American World War I veteran and supercentenarian (d. 2011)
1901 – Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
1902 – Langston Hughes, American writer (d. 1967)
1904 - Franciska Gaal, Jewish-Hungarian cabaret artist and actress (d. 1973)
1904 – S. J. Perelman, humorist, writer (d. 1979)
1905 – Emilio G. Segré, Italian physicist (d. 1989)
1906 - Adetokunbo Ademola, Chief Justice of Nigeria (d. 1993)
1907 – Günter Eich, lyricist (d. 1972)
1908 – George Pal, director, producer (d. 1980)
1909 - George Beverly Shea, Canadian-American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1910 – Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Tibetan politician (d. 2009)
1915 – Stanley Matthews, English footballer (d. 2000)
1915 - Alicia Rhett, American actress (d. 2014)
1915 - Victor Shem-Tov, Bulgarian-Israeli politician (d. 2014)
1917 - Eiji Sawamura, Japanese baseball player
1918 – Dame Muriel Spark, Scottish writer (d. 2006)
1921 – Peter Sallis, English actor (d. 2017)
1921 - Ann Z. Caracristi, American cryptanalyst (d. 2016)
1921 - Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (d. 2002)
1922 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004)
1924 - Richard Hooker, American writer (d. 1997)
1924 - Emmanuel Scheffer, German-born Israeli footballer and coach (d. 2012)
1925 – Alfred Grosser, political scientist and publicist
1927 - Galway Kinnell, American poet and academic (d. 2014)
1927 – Günter Guillaume, German spy (d. 1995)
1928 – Tom Lantos, American politician (d. 2008)
1928 (or 1929) – Stuart Whitman, American actor
1930 - Maria Helena Walsh, Argentine writer and journalist (d. 2011)
1930 – Shahabuddin Ahmed, former President of Bangladesh
1930 - Hussein Muhammad Ershad, former President of Bangladesh
1931 – Iajuddin Ahmed, former President of Bangladesh (d. 2012)
1931 – Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia (d. 2007)
1932 - Hassan al-Turabi, Sudanese religious and political leader (d. 2016)
1933 - Wendell R. Anderson, former Governor of Minnesota
1934 - Nicolae Breban, Romanian writer
1934 - Ninan Koshy, Indian thinker, theologian and social analyst (d. 2015)
1934 - Bob Shane, American singer
1935 – Dieter Kühn, writer
1936 - Azie Taylor Morton, American politician, 36th Treasurer of the United States (d. 2003)
1937 – Don Everly, American musician
1937 – Garrett Morris, American comedian
1938 – Sherman Hemsley, American comedian and actor (d. 2012)
1939 – Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina (d. 2009)
1939 – Fritjof Capra, Austrian physicist, philosopher and writer
1939 - Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (d. 2014)
1939 - Claude François, French singer and composer (d. 1978)
1939 - Yuri Rost, Russian photographer, journalist and traveller
1940 – Bibi Besch, Austrian-American actress (d. 1996)
1941 - Jerry Spinelli, American writer
1941 - Teofil Codreanu, Romanian footballer (d. 2016)
1942 – Terry Jones, British actor and writer (Monty Python's Flying Circus) (d. 2020)
1942 - Muna Wassef, Syrian actress
1943 - Rosemarie Frankland, Welsh actress and model (d. 2000)
1944 - Petru Popescu, Romanian-American writer, director, movie producer and writer
1944 - Dick Snyder, American basketball player
1944 – Mike Enzi, United States Senator for Wyoming (d. 2021)
1946 – Bart Braverman, American actor
1946 - Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (d. 2011)
1947 - Adam Ingram, Scottish politician
1947 – Jessica Savitch, American journalist (d. 1983)
1948 – Rick James, American musician, composer (d. 2004)
1949 - Franco Causio, Italian footballer
1950 - Mike Campbell, American guitarist and producer
1950 - Ali Haydar Konca, Turkish politician
1950 - Alan Moller, American meteorologist, storm chaser and photographer (d. 2014)
1951 - John McNally, Scottish politician
1951 - Andrew Smith, English politician
1952 - Roger Y. Tsien, Chinese-American cell biologist and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2016)
1953 - Periko Alonso, Spanish footballer
1954 – Bill Mumy, American actor and musician
1955 - Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, Indonesian politician (d. 2012)
1955 - Ernie Camacho, American baseball player
1956 - Brahmanandam, Indian actor
1956 – Exene Cervenka, American musician (X)
1956 - Mike Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 - Renae Jacobs, American voice actress
1957 - Walter Schachner, Austrian footballer
1958 - William Dufris, American voice actor and audiobook narrator (d. 2020)
1958 - Ryo Horikawa, Japanese guitarist
1958 - Margie Abbott, wife of Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott
1958 - Eleanor Laing, Scottish lawyer and politician
1961 - Daniel M. Tani, American engineer and astronaut
1962 - Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi politician
1962 – Tomoyasu Hotei, Japanese rock guitarist
1963 - Takashi Murakami, Japanese artist
1964 - Linus Roache, British actor
1964 – Jani Lane, American musician (d. 2011)
1965 – Brandon Lee, American actor (d. 1993)
1965 – Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
1965 – Sherilyn Fenn, American actress
1966 - Vasilis Dimitriades, Greek footballer
1966 – Michelle Akers, American soccer player
1968 – Lisa Marie Presley, American actress
1968 – Pauly Shore, American comedian
1969 – Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer
1969 – Joshua Redman, American jazz musician
1969 - Brian Krause, American actor
1969 - Nino Salukvadze, Georgian sports shooter
1969 - Andrew Breitbart, American conservative publicist and journalist (d. 2012)
1971 – Jill Kelly, erotic actress
1971 – Zlatko Zahovič, Slovenian footballer
1971 – Michael C. Hall, American actor
1972 - Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
1972 – Christian Ziege, German footballer
1972 - Johan Wadem, Belgian footballer
1973 - Oscar Perez, Mexican footballer
1974 - Walter McCarty, American basketball player
1975 - Katerina Thanou, Greek athlete
1975 – Big Boi, American musician (Outkast)
1976 - Katrin Jakobsdottir, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland
1977 - Kevin Kilbane, English-Irish footballer
1977 - Libor Sionko, Czech footballer
1978 - K'naan, Somali singer
1978 – Julie Roberts, American country music singer
1979 – Juan Silveira dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
1980 – Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer (d. 2005)
1980 - Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Héctor Luna, Dominican baseball player
1981 – Graeme Smith, South African cricketer
1982 - Daisy Betts, Australian actress
1982 – Gavin Henson, Welsh rugby player
1982 - Shoaib Malik, Pakistani cricketer
1982 - Kim Jong-wook, South Korean singer
1983 - Andrew VanWyngarden, American musician
1984 – Darren Fletcher, Scottish footballer
1984 - Lee Thompson Young, American actor (d. 2013)
1985 - Karine Sergerie, Canadian taekwondo world champion
1985 – Dean Shiels, Northern Irish footballer
1986 - Jorrit Bergsma, Dutch speed skater
1986 – Lauren Conrad, American television personality
1986 – Johan Vonlanthen, Swiss footballer
1987 - Heather Morris, American actress and dancer
1987 - Sebastian Boenisch, Polish footballer
1987 - Ronda Rousey, American mixed martial artist, judoka and actress
1989 - Alfred Finnbogason, Icelandic footballer
1990 - Dan Gosling, English footballer
1990 – Laura Marling, English singer-songwriter
1994 - Harry Styles, English singer (One Direction)
1994 - Skylar Laine, American singer-songwriter
1995 - Oliver Heldens, Dutch DJ, musician and producer
1996 - Dionne Bromfield, English singer-songwriter
2000 - Paris Smith, American actress and singer
772 - Pope Stephen III (b. 720)
1248 – Henry II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1207)
1328 – Charles IV of France (b. 1294)
1542 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (b. 1480)
1563 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia
1691 – Pope Alexander VIII (b. 1610)
1733 – Augustus III of Poland (b. 1670)
1734 - John Floyer, English physician and writer (b. 1649)
1743 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (b. 1657)
1750 - Bakar of Georgia, Georgian prince and politician (b. 1699)
1793 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, English statesman (b. 1717)
1851 – Mary Shelley, British writer of Frankenstein (b. 1797)
1871 - Alexander Serov, Russian composer (b. 1820)
1873 - Matthew Fontaine Maury, American naval officer (b. 1806)
1893 - George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)
1897 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (b. 1826)
1903 - George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (b. 1819)
1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863)
1908 – Luis Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal (b. 1887)
1922 - William Desmond Taylor, American actor and director (b. 1872)
1928 - Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
1936 – Georgios Kondylis, Greek general and Prime Minister (b. 1878)
1941 - Walter Abbott, English footballer (b. 1877)
1944 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch artist (b. 1872)
1945 – Prince Kiril of Bulgaria (b. 1895)
1949 - Nicolae Dumitru Cocea, Romanian journalist, novelist, critic and activist (b. 1880)
1957 – Friedrich Paulus, German general (b. 1890)
1958 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist (b. 1888)
1966 – Buster Keaton, American actor (b. 1895)
1976 – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist (b. 1901)
1976 – George Whipple, American doctor, won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1878)
1980 - Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (b. 1930)
1981 - Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (b. 1908)
1986 – Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician and diplomat (b. 1902)
1987 - Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director (b. 1900)
1988 – Heather O'Rourke, American child actress (b. 1975)
1989 - Elaine de Kooning, American painter (b. 1918)
1995 - Richey James Edwards, Welsh singer and musician (b. 1967)
1999 - Baris Manco, Turkish musician (b. 1943)
2002 – Hildegard Knef, German actress (b. 1925)
2002 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist
2003 - Deaths in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster:
Michael P. Anderson, American astronaut (b. 1959)
David M. Brown, American astronaut (b. 1956)
Kalpana Chawla, Indian astronaut (b. 1961)
Laurel Clark, American astronaut (b. 1961)
Rick D. Husband, American astronaut (b. 1957)
Willie McCool, American astronaut (b. 1961)
Ilan Ramon, Israeli astronaut (b. 1954)
2004 – Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer (b. 1931)
2007 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (b. 1911)
2007 – Ahmed Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader (b. 1946)
2009 – Lukas Foss, German-born composer (b. 1922)
2010 – Steingrimur Hermannsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1928)
2010 – Justin Mentell, American actor (b. 1982)
2012 – Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet (b. 1923)
2012 – Angelo Dundee, American boxing trainer (b. 1921)
2012 - Don Cornelius, American TV host (b .
2013 - Ed Koch, 105th Mayor of New York City (b. 1924)
2013 - Barney, pet dog of George W. Bush (b. 2000)
2013 - Robin Sachs, British actor (b. 1951)
2014 - Luis Aragonés, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1938)
2014 - Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2014 - Vasily Ivanovich Petrov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1917)
2014 - Rene Ricard, American poet (b. 1946)
2015 - Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-French pianist (b. 1925)
2015 - Ann Mara, American football team owner (b. 1929)
2015 - Monty Oum, American animator (b. 1981)
2016 - Thomas Tigue, American politician (b. 1945)
2016 - Paul Pholeros, Australian architect (b. 1953)
2017 - E. Ahamed, Indian politician (b. 1938)
2017 - Albano Bortoletto Cavallin, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1930)
2017 - Sandy Gandhi, Indian-Australian comedian (b. 1958)
2017 - Desmond Carrington, English actor (b. 1926)
2017 - Stig Grybe, Swedish actor (b. 1928)
2017 - Ken Morrison, English businessman (b. 1931)
2017 - Cor van der Hoeven, Dutch footballer (b. 1921)
2017 - Asim Basu, Indian theatre director (b. 1935)
2017 - Lars-Erik Berenett, Swedish actor (b. 1942)
2017 - Edward Tipper, American World War II veteran (b. 1921)
2018 - Niranjan Bhagat, Indian poet (b. 1926)
2018 - Hazar Khan Bijarani, Pakistani politician (b. 1946)
2018 - Dennis Edwards, American singer (b. 1943)
2018 - Barys Kit, Belarussian mathematician, physicist, chemist and rocket scientist (b. 1910)
2018 - Su Bai, Chinese archaeologist (b. 1922)
2018 - Omar Aggad, Palestinian-Saudi businessman (b. 1927)
2018 - John Jacob Lavranos, South African botanist (b. 1926)
Start of Black History Month (Canada and United States)
Start of LGBT History Month (UK)
Freedom Day (United States)
Heroes Day (Rwanda)
Imbolc, a cross-quarter day in the Celtic calendar
St. Brigid's Day (Ireland)
Basque region - The alluvial Pheasant Island is controlled by Spain from this date until July 31
146 BC - Third Punic War: The Romans take over Carthage.
2 BC - The Roman senate grants Augustus Caesar the title of "Pater Patriae", meaning "Father of the Fatherland".
62 - An earthquake strikes Pompeii.
756 - An Lushan in China declares himself Emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
1597 - A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
1638 – The city of Rheinfelden, Switzerland was attacked.
1778 - South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1782 – Spain defeats British forces to win control of Minorca.
1783 – A series of earthquakes begins in Calabria, Italy.
1805 – The ship Earl of Abergavenny sinks off Weymouth, southern England, killing 261 people.
1810 - The Siege of Cadiz begins during the Peninsular War.
1811 – Due to the continuous health problems of King George III, his son, the future King George IV of the United Kingdom becomes regent.
1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte becomes king of Sweden.