the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1519 – Catherine of Medici, Queen of France (d. 1589)
1570 – Guy Fawkes, English conspirator (d. 1606)
1573 - Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1625)
1593 - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Stratford, English politician (d. 1641)
1732 – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1792)
1735 - Isaac Low, American merchant and politician (d. 1791)
1743 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
1747 - Louis II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1793)
1771 – Richard Trevithick, Cornish engineer (d. 1833)
1780 - Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer (d. 1868)
1784 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)
1802 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884)
1808 – Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (d. 1889)
1816 - Sterndale Bennett, English composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1875)
1825 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868)
1832 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorean writer (d. 1889)
1850 - Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, Irish astronomer (d. 1917)
1852 - Frank Winfield Woolworth, American businessman (d. 1919)
1860 - James Ensor, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
1864 - Bertha Zuckerkandl, Austrian writer and journalist (d. 1945)
1866 – Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (d. 1908)
1872 – Jan Szczepanik, Polish chemist and inventor (d. 1926)
1872 - John Cameron, Scottish footballer (d. 1935)
1873 - John W. Davis, American politician (d. 1955)
1875 - Ray Lyman Wilbur, American doctor, academic and politician (d. 1949)
1885 - Georg Lukacs, Hungarian philosopher and critic (d. 1971)
1890 - Frank Murphy, 56th United States Attorney General (d. 1949)
1891 - Nella Larsen, American author (d. 1964)
1891 – Robert Scholl, German politician (d. 1973)
1892 – Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1973)
1894 – Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
1897 - Werner Voss, German pilot (d. 1917)
1899 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and inventor of Scrabble (d. 1993)
1899 - Alfred Schütz, Austrian philosopher (d. 1959)
1900 - Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
1906 – Samuel Beckett, Irish playwright (d. 1989)
1906 – Gabriel Ramanantsoa, President of Madagascar (d. 1979)
1907 - Harold Stassen, American politician, 25th Governor of Minnesota (d. 2001)
1909 - Stanislaw Ulam, Ukrainian-American mathematician (d. 1984)
1911 - Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer (d. 1946)
1917 - Bill Clements, American politician, 42nd Governor of Texas (d. 2011)
1919 - Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American activist, founder of American Atheists (d. 1995)
1919 – Howard Keel, American actor (d. 2004)
1920 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)
1920 – Liam Cosgrave, Irish Taoiseach (d. 2017)
1920 - Claude Cheysson, French politician (d. 2012)
1921 - Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Dutch-Swiss businessman (d. 2002)
1921 - Dona Ivone Lara, Brazilian singer and composer (d. 2018)
1922 - John Braine, English novelist (d. 1986)
1922 – Julius Nyerere, 1st President of Tanzania (d. 1999)
1923 – Don Adams, American actor (d. 2005)
1924 - Stanley Donen, American director and choreographer (d. 2019)
1925 - Michael Halliday, English-Australian linguist (d. 2018)
1926 - John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English aristocrat and businessman (d. 2014)
1927 - Maurice Ronet, French actor and director (d. 1983)
1928 – Alan Clark, English politician (d. 1999)
1929 - Marilynn Smith, American golfer (d. 2019)
1930 - Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian director, screenwriter and politician (d. 2013)
1931 - Robert Enrico, French director and screenwriter (d. 2001)
1931 - Jon Stone, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1997)
1932 - Orlando Letelier, Chilean-American economist, politician and educator (d. 1976)
1934 - John Muckler, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager
1937 - Berge Furre, Norwegian politician, historian and theologian (d. 2016)
1939 – Seamus Heaney, Irish writer (d. 2013)
1939 – Paul Sorvino, American actor
1940 – J. M. G. Le Clézio, French writer
1940 – Max Mosley, English racing executive
1940 - Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
1941 – Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist
1941 - Margaret Price, Welsh soprano (d. 2011)
1942 - Bill Conti, American composer and conductor
1946 – Al Green, American singer
1948 - Juan Taverna, Argentine footballer (d. 2014)
1949 – Christopher Hitchens, British journalist, writer and critic (d. 2011)
1950 – Ron Perlman, American actor
1951 – Peter Davison, British actor
1951 – Joachim Streich, East German footballer
1951 - Kaci Kullmann Five, Norwegian politician (d. 2017)
1951 – Max Weinberg, American drummer
1951 - Peabo Bryson, American singer
1953 – Stephen Byers, British politician
1953 - Brigitte Macron, French teacher, wife of Emmanuel Macron
1955 - Ole von Beust, German politician, former Mayor of Hamburg
1960 – Rudi Völler, German footballer
1962 - Edivaldo Martins Fonseca, Brazilian footballer (d. 1993)
1962 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (d. 1988)
1963 – Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player
1964 – Caroline Rhea, Canadian actress
1964 – Andy Goram, Scottish footballer
1964 - John Swinney, Scottish politician
1964 - Davis Love III, American golfer
1966 – Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian footballer
1968 - Margrethe Vestager, Danish politician
1970 - Rick Schroder, American actor and director
1972 – Mariusz Czerkawski, Polish ice hockey player
1974 – David Zdrilic, Australian footballer
1974 - Marta Jandova, Czech singer
1976 - Valentina Cervi, Italian actress
1976 - Yoo Ji-tae, South Korean actor and director
1978 – Carles Puyol, Spanish-Catalan footballer
1978 - James Jordan, English dancer and choreographer
1979 – Meghann Shaugnessy, American tennis player
1979 - Tony Lundon, Irish singer-songwriter, producer and dancer (Liberty X)
1980 - Quentin Richardson, American basketball player
1980 - Jason Maguire, Irish jockey
1980 - Alan Melikdjanian, Latvian-American actor, director and producer
1981 - Gemma Doyle, Scottish politician
1981 - Courtney Peldon, American actress
1983 – Nicole Cooke, Welsh road racing cyclist
1983 – Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
1983 - Claudio Bravo, Chilean footballer
1983 - Heidi Anderson, American voice actress
1984 - Anders Lindegaard, Danish footballer
1985 - Anna Jennings-Edquist, Australian actress, director and producer
1987 - Brandon Hardesty, American actor
1987 - Allison Weiss, American singer-songwriter
1988 - Petteri Kopponen, Finnish basketball player
1988 – Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1989 - Nastassia Mionchyk-Ivanova, Belarussian long jumper
1990 - Alyssa Mendonsa, Indian singer
1992 - George North, Welsh rugby player
1993 - Hannah Marks, American actress
548 - Ly Nam De, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 503)
814 - Krum, Bulgarian ruler
1093 – Prince Vsevolod of Kiev (b. 1030)
1592 - Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1511)
1605 – Tsar Boris Godunov of Russia (b. 1551)
1794 - Nicolas Chamfort, French playwright (b. 1741)
1853 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)
1853 - James Iredell, Jr., American politician, 23rd Governor of North Carolina (b. 1788)
1868 – Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1818)
1880 - Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist (b. 1813)
1882 - Bruno Bauer, German historian and philosopher (b. 1809)
1904 – Vasily Vereshchagin, Russian painter (b. 1842)
1904 – Stepan Makarov, Russian naval commander (b. 1849)
1911 - John McLane, Scottish-American politician, 50th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1852)
1911 - George Washington Glick, American politician, 9th Governor of Kansas (b. 1827)
1912 – Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese writer (b. 1886)
1918 – Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
1927 – Georg Voigt, German politician (b. 1866)
1936 - Konstantinos Demertzis, 129th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
1938 – Grey Owl, English-Canadian conservationist (b. 1888)
1941 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863)
1942 - Anton Uesson, Estonian engineer and politician (b. 1879)
1945 - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)
1954 - Samuel Jones, American high jumper (b. 1880)
1954 - Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1890)
1956 – Emil Nolde, German painter (b. 1867)
1962 - Culbert Olson, American politician, 29th Governor of California (b. 1876)
1966 – Georges Duhamel, French writer (b. 1884)
1966 - Abdul Salam Arif, 2nd President of Iraq (b. 1921)
1972 – Johannes Sveinsson Kjarval, Icelandic painter (b. 1885)
1975 – Larry Parks, American actor (b. 1914)
1975 - François Tombalbaye, 1st President of Chad (b. 1918)
1981 – Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (b. 1887)
1984 – Richard Hurndall, British actor (b. 1910)
1999 - Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (b. 1924)
1999 – Willi Stoph, East German politician (b. 1914)
2000 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (b. 1916)
2002 – Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racing driver (b. 1928)
2004 - Caron Keating, English-Irish television host (b. 1962)
2006 – Muriel Spark, Scottish writer (b. 1918)
2008 – Mark Speight, English children's television presenter (b. 1965) (body found on this date)
2008 – John Archibald Wheeler, American theoretical physicist (b. 1911)
2011 – Buster Martin, French-British marathon runner (b. 1906 or 1913)
2013 - Lin Yang-kang, Chinese-Taiwanese politician (b. 1927)
2014 - Ernesto Laclau, Argentine political theorist (b. 1935)
2014 - Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick, Scottish herald and banker (b. 1929)
2015 - Ronnie Carroll, Northern Irish singer and politician (b. 1934)
2015 - Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player (b. 1918)
2015 - Herb Trimpe, American comic book artist (b. 1939)
2015 - Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist, novelist and writer (b. 1940)
2015 - Günter Grass, German novelist (b. 1927)
2015 - Orma Slack, Canadian supercentenarian (b. 1903)
2016 - Mariano Mores, Argentine tango composer and pianist (b. 1918)
2016 - Manouchehr Sotodeh, Iranian geographer (b. 1913)
2016 - Gareth Thomas, Welsh actor (b. 1945)
2016 - Ray Thornton, American attorney and politician (b. 1928)
2016 - Nera White, American basketball player (b. 1935)
2017 - Fred Goldsmith, Australian football player (b. 1932)
2017 - David Mwiraria, Kenyan politician (b. 1938)
2017 - Dan Rooney, American football executive and diplomat (b. 1932)
2017 - K. S. Chandrasekharan, Indian-Swiss mathematician (b. 1920)
2018 - Art Bell, American author and radio host (b. 1945)
2018 - Joy Laville, English-Mexican sculptor, painter and potter (b. 1923)
2018 - Milos Forman, Czech-American film director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
2019 - Francisca Aguirre, Spanish poet (b. 1930)
2019 - Tony Buzan, English author (b. 1942)
2019 - Neus Catala, Spanish Resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor (b. 1915)
2019 - Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist (b. 1925)
2019 - Norio Kaifu, Japanese astronomer (b. 1943)
2019 - D. Babu Paul, Indian civil servant (b. 1941)
2019 - Paul Raymond, English musician (b. 1945)
2019 - S. K. Shivakumar, Indian rocket scientist (b. 1953)
2019 - Lydia Wideman, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1920)
2019 - Yvette Williams, New Zealand athlete (b. 1929)
Songkan (Laos)
Songkran (Thailand)
Cambodian New Year
Thomas Jefferson's birthday (United States)
1092 – Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
1671 – Thomas Blood attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels.
1763 - The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.
1864 - Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
1868 – Reno, Nevada, is founded.
1873 - The Long Depression begins with the Vienna stock market crash.
1877 - Mihai Kogalniceanu reads out the Declaration of Romania's independence.
1877 – A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Peru kills 2,541 people.
1887 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show begins in London.
1901 – Australia's first parliament opens in Melbourne.
1904 - The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 miles per hour (160.9 kilometers per hour) in speed.
1911 - The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
1915 - World War I: The Second Battle of Artois takes place between French and German forces.
1918 - World War I: German troops repel the second British attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
1926 - Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole, though this claim is later doubted.
1927 – Australia's parliament moves from Melbourne to the new capital city, Canberra.
1934 - In the United States, one of the worst Dust Bowl storms occurs, reaching Chicago on the same day and the East Coast the next day, completely destroying many livelihoods, especially in rural areas.
1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia.
1940 - World War II: A German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris in Den Helder, Netherlands.
1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy.
The Enigma cryptography machine is on board, and is later used to break coded German messages.
1942 - World War II: Officers of the SS murder 588 people in the town of Zinkiv in western Ukraine.
1945 – World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated from German occupation by the British.
1946 – Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy abdicates the throne.
Umberto II of Italy succeeds him.
His reign only lasts a few weeks, as a majority in a June 2 referendum chooses to make Italy a republic.
1948 - Czechoslovakia's 9th May Constitution enters effect.
1949 – Rainier III becomes Prince of Monaco.
1950 – Robert Schuman proposes the creation of an organised Europe.
1950 – L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, is published.
1955 – West Germany joins NATO.
1956 – Yuko Maki climbs Manaslu in Nepal, the 8th highest mountain in the world.
1970 – 70,000 to 100,000 people protest against the Vietnam War in front of the White House.
1974 – Impeachment hearings begin against Richard Nixon.
1977 - The Hotel Polem in Amsterdam burns down, killing 33 and injuring 21.
1978 – Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is murdered by the Red Brigades.
1980 - In Florida, a Liberian freighter, MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay, making a section of it collapse, killing 35 people.
1987 – A plane crash in Warsaw kills 183 people.
1988 – Canberra's Parliament House opens.
1992 – Armenia's army captures Shushi, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
2001 – Ghana: The Accra Stadium Disaster occurs.
129 people are killed.
2002 - A 38-day stand-off at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ends when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to different countries.
2002 - In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a parade, killing 43 people.
2004 – Chechnya's President Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in an attack.
2006 - German cannibal Armin Meiwes is sentenced to life in prison.
2011 - Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt suffers a serious accident during the Giro d'Italia race, dying of his injuries.
2012 - A Sukhoi Superjet 100 crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.
2015 - Russia holds its biggest-ever Victory Day parade in Moscow.
2016 - Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann announces his resignation.
2017 - Moon Jae-in is elected President of South Korea.
2017 - US President Donald Trump fires FBI director James Comey.
2018 - Mahathir Mohamad's opposition coalition wins Malaysia's general election.
Mohamad previously served as the country's prime minister from 1981 to 2003.
2018 - The Patel Dam in Kenya's Nakaru County bursts in heavy rains, killing at least 48 people.
1147 – Minamoto no Yoritomo Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
1439 – Pope Pius III (d. 1503)
1540 - Maharana Pratap, Indian ruler (d. 1597)
1635 - Augustus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg (d. 1699)
1712 - William Pitcairn, Scottish physician and botanist (d. 1791)
1740 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816)
1746 – Theodore Sedgwick, American politician (d. 1813)
1800 – John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
1810 - Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (d. 1883)
1814 – Adolf von Henselt, German pianist (d. 1889)
1823 – Frederick Weld, British colonial governor and 6th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1891)
1830 - Harriet Lane, niece of James Buchanan, acting First Lady of the United States (d. 1903)
1831 - William Watson Goodwin, American classical scholar (d. 1912)
1837 – Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895)
1837 – Ben Hall, Australian bushranger (d. 1865)
1843 – Anton von Werner, Prussian painter (d. 1915)
1845 - Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and inventor (d. 1913)
1860 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish writer (d. 1937)
1866 – Leon Bakst, Russian painter (d. 1924)
1870 – Hans Baluschek, German artist (d. 1935)
1873 – Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
1874 – Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)
1882 – Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (d. 1967)
1882 – George Barker, United States painter (d. 1965)
1882 - Edward Aloysius Mooney, American cardinal (d. 1958)
1883 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)
1892 – Zita of Bourbon-Parma, empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989)
1895 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963)
1895 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961)
1895 - Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (d. 1989)
1896 – Richard Day, Canadian movie art director (d. 1972)
1904 - Gregory Bateson, English-American anthropologist, biologist and philosopher (d. 1980)
1906 - Eleanor Estes, American author (d. 1988)
1907 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
1910 – Barbara Woodhouse, Irish-born animal trainer (d. 1988)
1912 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)
1914 – Hank Snow, Canadian-born country musician (d. 1999)
1914 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian musician and conductor (d. 2005)
1918 – Mike Wallace, American journalist (d. 2012)
1918 – Orville Freeman, American politician, 29th Governor of Minnesota (d. 2003)
1920 – Richard Adams, British writer (d. 2016)
1920 – William Tenn, writer (d. 2010)
1921 - Daniel Berrigan, American Jesuit priest, activist and poet (d. 2016)
1921 – Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter with White Rose in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
1924 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian poet, writer, novelist and musician (d. 1997)
1927 – Wim Thoelke, show master (d. 1995)
1927 – Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist (d. 2019)
1928 – Colin Chapman, engineer, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982)
1928 – Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d. 1995)
1928 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (d. 2012)
1928 - Ralph Goings, American artist (d. 2016)
1929 – Kay Dotrice, English actress (d. 2007)
1930 – Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
1932 – Geraldine McEwan, English actress (d. 2015)
1932 - Javier Ambrois, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1975)
1934 – Alan Bennett, English writer and playwright
1935 – Roger Hargreaves, English writer (The Mr. Men) (d. 1988)
1935 - Nokie Edwards, American guitarist and actor (d. 2018)
1936 – Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician
1936 – Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019)
1937 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
1938 - Charles Simic, Yugoslavian-born poet
1939 – Ralph Boston, American athlete
1940 – James L. Brooks, American producer and writer
1942 – John Ashcroft, former United States Attorney General
1943 – Vince Cable, British politician
1943 - Colin Pillinger, British planetary scientist (d. 2014)
1943 - Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist and historian (d. 2009)
1944 – Richie Furay, American musician ("Poco", "Buffalo Springfield")
1944 - Petra Roth, former Mayor of Frankfurt am Main
1945 – Jupp Heynckes, German footballer
1945 - Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian writer and journalist (d. 2015)
1945 - Steve Katz, American guitarist, songwriter and producer
1946 – Candice Bergen, American actress
1946 – Drafi Deutscher, German musician (d. 2006)
1947 - Michael Levitt, South African-born biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
1948 - Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician
1949 – Billy Joel, American musician
1949 – Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger (d. 1999)
1950 - Tom Petersson, American bass guitar player (Cheap Trick)
1950 - Marcheline Bertrand, American actress (d. 2007)
1950 – Luciano Spinosi, Italian footballer
1950 - Matthew Kelly, British actor and television presenter
1951 - Alley Mills, American actress
1954 - Nicholas Crane, English geographer and journalist
1954 - Marc Sinden, English actor, director and producer
1955 – Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
1955 - Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (d. 1991)
1957 - Fulvio Cullovati, Italian footballer
1959 - Janos Ader, President of Hungary
1960 - Tony Gwynn, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1962 – John Corbett, American actor
1962 - Gary Hume, English artist
1962 - Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter and musician
1962 - Paul Heaton, English singer-songwriter and musician
1964 – Kevin Saunderson, American music producer and DJ
1964 – David Gahan, Singer for Depeche Mode
1965 – Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Marie-José Perec, French athlete
1968 - Masahiko Harada, Japanese ski jumper
1968 – Ruth Kelly, British politician
1969 - Amber, Dutch-German singer, songwriter and producer
1969 - Hudson Leick, American actress
1970 - David Cawthorne Haines, Scottish aid worker (d. 2014)
1970 – Ghostface Killah, American rapper
1970 – Doug Christie, American basketball player
1971 – Paul McGuigan, British musician (Oasis)
1971 - Don Hutchison, English-Scottish footballer
1972 - Dana Perino, American journalist and politician, 27th White House Press Secretary
1975 - Tamia, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer and actress
1975 - Clint Diamantopoulos, Canadian actor
1977 - Marek Jankulovski, Czech footballer
1978 - Leandro Cufré, Argentine footballer
1979 - Rosario Dawson, American actress
1979 – Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1980 – Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
1980 - Sara Widén, Swedish opera singer (d. 2014)
1981 – Evangelos Tsiolis, Greek footballer
1982 – Kim Jung-woo, South Korean footballer
1982 – Rachel Boston, American actress
1983 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
1983 - Alan Campbell, Northern Irish rower
1983 - Gilles Müller, Luxembourgish tennis player
1983 - Leandro Rinaudo, Italian footballer
1984 – Prince Fielder, American baseball player
1985 – Audrina Patridge, American actress and television personality
1986 - Grace Gummer, American actress
1989 - Ellen White, English footballer
1991 - Stasia Rage, Latvian figure skater
1992 - Chris Gutierrez, American-Filipino actor
1993 - Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese actor, singer and dancer
1993 - Laura Muir, Scottish athlete
1997 - Zane Huett, American actor
2016 - Alfie Evans, British infant in parental rights case (d. 2018)
1280 – King Magnus VI of Norway (b. 1238)
1315 – Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
1707 – Dietrich Buxtehude, German composer (b. 1637)
1745 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1663)
1760 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)
1791 - Francis Hopkinson, American judge and politician (b. 1737)
1805 – Friedrich Schiller, German writer (b. 1759)
1836 - Caleb P. Bennett, Governor of Delaware (b. 1758)
1850 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
1850 - Garlieb Merkel, Baltic German writer and activist (b. 1769)
1861 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805)
1864 - John Sedgwick, American general (b. 1813)
1889 - William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
1909 - Margarete Steiff, German founder of the Steiff toy company (b. 1847)
1915 - Tony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player (b. 1883)
1915 - Francois Faber, Luxembourg-French cyclist (b. 1887)
1931 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist (b. 1852)
1942 - Jozef Cebula, Polish priest (b. 1902)
1949 – Prince Louis II of Monaco (b. 1870)
1950 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist and engineer (b. 1883)
1955 - Kate Booth, English Salvation Army officer (b. 1858)
1957 - Enzo Pinza, Italian opera singer (b. 1892)
1959 - Bhaurao Patil, Indian educator and social activist (b. 1887)
1964 - Rico Lebrun, Italian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1900)
1965 – Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (b. 1902)
1968 - Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright and costume designer (b. 1893)
1968 - Harold Gray, American cartoonist (b. 1894)
1970 – Walter Reuther, American labor leader (b. 1907)
1976 – Ulrike Meinhof, member of the Red Army Faction (b. 1934)
1978 - Giuseppe Impastato, Italian political activist (b. 1948)
1978 – Aldo Moro, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)
1986 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountain climber (b. 1914)
1987 - Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian politician (b. 1909)
1989 - Keith Whitley, American singer, guitarist and producer (b. 1955)
1997 – Marco Ferreri, Italian movie director (b. 1928)
1997 - Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician (b. 1926)
1998 – Alice Faye, American actress (b. 1915)
2001 – Nikos Sampson, 2nd President of Cyprus (b. 1935)
2001 – James E. Myers, American songwriter and producer (b. 1919)
2003 - Russell B. Long, American politician (b. 1918)
2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (b. 1951)
2009 – Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (b. 1930)
2010 – Acharya Mahapragya, Indian religious leader (Jainism) (b. 1920)
2010 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
2011 – Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)
2011 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada, former acting President of Bolivia (b. 1921)
2012 – Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser (b. 1928)
2012 - Geoffrey Henry, former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1940)
2013 - George M. Leader, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1918)
2013 - Andrew Simpson, British sailor (b. 1976)
2013 - Ottavio Missoni, Italian fashion designer and hurdler (b. 1921)
2013 - Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor (b. 1933)
2014 - Harlan Mathews, American politician (b. 1926)
2014 - Joe Wilder, American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer (b. 1922)
2014 - Jules Mutebusi, Congolese militant (b. 1960)
2014 - Jorge Zavala, Ecuadorean politician (b. 1921)
2014 - Mel Patton, American sprinter (b. 1924)
2015 - Michael MacKellar, Australian politician (b. 1938)
2015 - Lo Wing-lok, Hong Kong politician (b. 1954)
2015 - Igor Gorynin, Russian metallurgist (b. 1926)
2015 - Kenan Evren, 7th President of Turkey (b. 1917)
2015 - Johnny Gimble, American country musician (b. 1926)
2015 - Odo Marquard, German philosopher (b. 1928)
2015 - Ragne Tangen, Norwegian television presenter (b. 1927)
2015 - Elizabeth Wilson, American actress (b. 1921)
2016 - Gareth Gwenlan, British television producer (b. 1937)
2016 - Walther Leisler Kiep, German politician (b. 1926)
2016 - Karl Maramorosch, American virologist and plant pathologist (b. 1915)
2016 - John Warr, English cricketer (b. 1927)
2017 - Christopher Boykin, American entertainer and musician (b. 1972)
2017 - Robert Miles, Italian musician and record producer (b. 1969)
2017 - Arthur Moulin, French politician (b. 1924)
2017 - Michael Parks, American actor (b. 1940)
2017 - Qian Qichen, Chinese diplomat (b. 1928)
2017 - Wilburn K. Ross, American World War II veteran (b. 1922)
2017 - Edward Lunn Young, American politician (b. 1920)
2018 - Poldine Carlo, American author (b. 1920)
2018 - Delphine Gibson, American supercentenarian (b. 1903)
2018 - Mustafa Nurul Islam, Bangladeshi academic (b. 1927)
2018 - Per Kirkeby, Danish artist (b. 1938)
2018 - Scott Hutchison, Scottish singer and musician (Frightened Rabbit) (b. 1981)
2019 - Abul Khayr Alonto, Filipino politician, lawyer and businessman (b. 1945)
2019 - Sergey Dorenko, Russian journalist and news presenter (b. 1959)
2019 - Jim Hawkes, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2019 - Arif Malikov, Soviet-Azerbaijani composer (b. 1933)
2019 - Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter (b. 1927)
2019 - Freddie Starr, English comedian (b. 1943)
2019 - Yuan Boahua, Chinese politician (b. 1916)
Victory and Peace Day in Armenia, the capture of Shushi in the Karabakh War and the end of Great Patriotic War.
Victory Day observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany (former Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
Independence Day (Romania)
Liberation Day (Channel Islands)
May 09
558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses.
Justinian I immediately orders the dome rebuilt.
973 - Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor takes sole charge of the Holy Roman Empire after the death of his father and co-Emperor Otto I.
1274 – In France, the Second Council of Lyons opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
1429 - Joan of Arc leads a French attack on English bridgeheads on the south side of the Loire River.
1487 - Siege of Malaga during the Spanish Reconquista.
1664 – The Palace of Versailles is inaugurated by Louis XIV of France.
1697 – Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed in a huge fire (in the 18th century, it is replaced with the current Royal Palace).
1718 - City of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville.
1763 – Indian Wars: Pontiac's Rebellion begins – Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
1824 – Ludwig van Beethoven, completely deaf, conducts the debut of his Ninth Symphony in Vienna.
1832 – Greece was recognised independent by the Treaty of London.
Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
1840 – The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, killing 317 people.
It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
1847 – In Philadelphia, the American Medical Association (AMA) is founded.
1864 – American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
1864 - The world's oldest-surviving clipper ship, City of Adelaide, is launched by William Pile in Sunderland, Northeast England.
1895 – In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates an invention which became the prototype of radio.
In the former Soviet Union this day was celebrated as Day of Radio.
1896 – H. H. Holmes is hanged in Philadelphia.
1915 – World War I: a German U-boat sinks the RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people.
1920 – Polish-Bolshevik War: Polish-Ukrainian troops captured Kyiv during the Kiev Offensive.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion arrive in Spain with Heinkel He 51 biplanes to assist Franco's forces.
1940 - The Norway Debate begins in the British House of Commons.
It eventually results in Winston Churchill replacing Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1945 – World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war.
The document will take effect the next day.
1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with about 20 employees.
1947 – Kraft Television Theater debuts, running for the next 11 years.
1948 – The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
1952 – The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
1954 – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
1964 - Pacific Air Lines flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner crashes near San Ramon, California, killing 44.
The pilot and co-pilot  had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
1974 – Willy Brandt resigns as Chancellor of Germany.
1986 - Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb to the top of the Seven Summits.
1992 – Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law.
This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay rise.
1992 – Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its maiden voyage.
1992 – Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery.
It is the first fast-food murder in Canada.
1994 - The Scream by Edvard Munch is recovered after it was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in Oslo, in February.
1995 – Jacques Chirac is elected President of France.
1998 – Apple Computer unveils the iMac.
1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
1999 – Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope that had visited a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
1999 – A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure, after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode.
Schmitz later killed Amedure and the jury awarded Amedure's family US$25 million.
1999 – Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese embassy workers are killed and 20 wounded when a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) aircraft mistakenly bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
1999 – In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
2000 – Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia.
2001 - Wanted train robber Ronnie Biggs returns to the UK after spending over 30 years on the run in Brazil.
2002 – A China Southern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea killing 112 people.
2007 – The tomb of King Herod the Great, who is mentioned in the Bible, is discovered.
2008 – Dmitry Medvedev becomes President of Russia, with Vladimir Putin as Prime Minister.
2010 – Scientists working on the Neanderthal Genome Project announce that modern humans and Neanderthals could have interbred.
2012 – Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia for a second time, swapping places with Dmitry Medvedev, who becomes Prime Minister.
2012 - Victor Ponta is elected Prime Minister of Romania.
2013 - 27 people are killed and over 30 are injured when a tanker truck explodes outside Mexico City.
2014 - Prime Minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra is removed from office for abuse of power.
2015 - The United Kingdom general election, 2015 is held.
The Conservative Party of incumbent Prime Minister David Cameron wins a surprise overall majority, with the Labour Party losing seats across England, Scotland and Wales.
The Scottish National Party wins all but three seats in Scotland.
2016 - Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party becomes Mayor of London, after defeating Conservative Zac Goldsmith in the election.
He is the first Muslim Mayor of a major Western city.
2017 - Emmanuel Macron is elected President of France, defeating Marine Le Pen in the run-off.
1328 - Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1365)
1530 - Louis, Prince de Condé, French general (d. 1569)
1605 – Patriarch Nikon of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 1681)
1643 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (d. 1700)
1704 - Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer and tenor (d. 1759)
1711 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1776)
1724 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Austrian general (d. 1797)
1740 - Nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814)
1748 – Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and feminist revolutionary (d. 1793)
1763 – Jozef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince (d. 1813)
1767 – Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1820)
1787 - Jacques Viger, 1st Mayor of Chicago (d. 1858)
1812 – Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)
1819 – Otto Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (d. 1905)
1826 – Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (d. 1906)
1833 – Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897)
1836 - Joseph Gurney Cannon, American politician (d. 1926)
1837 - Karl Mauch, German geographer and explorer (d. 1875)
1840 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893)
1841 - Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist (d. 1931)
1847 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, British Prime Minister (d. 1929)
1857 - William A. MacCorkle, 9th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1930)
1861 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet and writer of the Bengali language (d. 1941)
1867 – Wladyslaw Reymont, Polish writer (d. 1925)
1875 - William Hoyt, American athlete (d. 1954)
1882 - Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (d. 1960)
1891 - Harry McShane, Scottish engineer and activist (d. 1988)
1892 – Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)
1892 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet and politician (d. 1982)
1893 - Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 1985)
1901 – Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)
1901 - Marcel Poot, Belgian composer (d. 1988)
1905 - Bumble Bee Slim, American musician (d. 1968)
1908 - Max Grundig, German businessman (d. 1989)
1909 – Edwin H. Land, American inventor (d. 1991)
1911 – Ishiro Honda, Japanese movie director (d. 1993)
1913 - Simon Ramo, American physicist (d. 2016)
1914 - Arthur Snelling, English diplomat (d. 1996)
1917 - Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal (d. 2013)
1919 - Joe Mitty, British philanthropist (d. 2007)
1919 – Eva Perón, First Lady of Argentina (d. 1952)
1921 - Gaston Rebuffat, French mountaineer (d. 1985)
1923 - Anne Baxter, American writer and actress (d. 1985)
1923 - Bülend Ulusu, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2015)
1924 - Albert Band, French-American director and producer (d. 2002)
1924 - Marjorie Boulton, British author and poet (d. 2017)
1925 - Lauri Vaska, Estonian-American chemist and academic (d. 2015)
1926 - Val Bisoglio, American actor
1927 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German screenwriter (d. 2013)
1928 - John Ingle, American actor (d. 2012)
1931 – Teresa Brewer, American singer (d. 2007)
1932 - Jordi Bonet, Canadian-Catalan painter, muralist and sculptor (d. 1979)
1932 - Pete Domenici, American politician (d. 2017)
1933 - Nexhmije Pagarusha, Kosovar singer and actress
1935 - Avraham Heffner, Israeli television and movie director, producer and writer (d. 2014)
1936 – Tony O'Reilly, Irish billionaire
1936 - Jimmy Ruffin, American singer (d. 2014)
1939 – Sidney Altman, Canadian molecular biologist
1939 – Ruud Lubbers, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2018)
1939 - Ruggero Deodato, Italian director, actor and screenwriter
1939 - Volker Braun, German writer
1940 - Angela Carter, English novelist and journalist (d. 1992)
1943 – Peter Carey, Australian writer
1944 - Richard O'Sullivan, English actor
1945 - Christy Moore, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945 - Robin Strasser, American actress
1946 - Thelma Houston, American singer-songwriter and actress
1946 – Michael Rosen, English poet and writer
1946 – Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer (The Grateful Dead)
1947 – Gary Herbert, American politician
1947 - Antonio de la Cruz, Spanish footballer
1947 - Numa Sadoul, French writer
1948 – Susan Atkins, American murderer (d. 2009)
1950 – Tim Russert, American broadcast journalist (d. 2008)
1950 - Mark Warawa, Canadian politician (d. 2019)
1951 – Robert Hegyes, American actor (d. 2012)
1956 – Jan Peter Balkenende, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1956 - Nicholas Hytner, English director and producer
1958 – Christine Lieberknecht, German politician
1961 - Hans-Peter Bartels, German politician
1961 - Sue Black, Scottish forensic anthropologist
1962 - Tony Campbell, American basketball player and coach
1962 - Dominik Moll, German-French director and screenwriter
1965 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (died 1999)
1965 - Andrew Little, New Zealand politician
1965 – Norman Whiteside, Northern Irish footballer
1966 - Andrea Tafi, Italian cyclist
1967 – Martin Bryant, Australian criminal
Traci Lords, American actress & singer
Lisa Raitt, Canadian politician
1969 – Rick Porras, American movie producer
1969 - Eagle-Eye Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter
1969 - Katerina Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player
1972 - Jennifer Yuh Nelson, South Korean-American animator
1973 - Paolo Savoldelli, Italian cyclist
1975 – Arni Gautur Arason, Icelandic footballer
1976 - Calvin Booth, American basketball player
1977 – Lisa Kelly, Irish singer
1978 – Stian Arnesen, Norwegian musician and songwriter
1978 – Shawn Marion, American basketball player
1979 – Katie Douglas, American basketball player
1981 - Maria Radner, German opera singer (d. 2015)
1983 – Julio dos Santos, Paraguayan footballer
1983 – Garry O'Connor, Scottish footballer
1983 - Makano, Panamanian singer and composer
1986 – Matt Helders, English musician
1987 – Stefan Read, Canadian ski jumper
1988 - Nathan Burns, Australian footballer
1988 – Natalie Mejia, American dancer and singer
1988 - Takayuki Morimoto, Japanese footballer
1988 - Eino Puri, Estonian footballer
1988 - Sander Puri, Estonian footballer
1989 – Master Shortie, English singer-songwriter, rapper and producer
1989 - Raina, South Korean singer, dancer, model and rapper
1990 - Yoon Bit-Garam, South Korean footballer
1992 - Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor
1992 - Tyler Johnson, American basketball player
1999 – Masaki Sato, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
2000 - Maxwell Perry Cotton, American actor
685 - Mawan I, Umayyah Caliph (b. 623)
973 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 912)
1266 – Farid-ud-din Ganj Shakar, Islamic saint in South Asia (b. 1179)
1539 – Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism (born 1469)
1539 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (born 1466)
1615 - Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (born 1567)
1617 – David Fabricius, German astronomer (born 1564)
1682 – Tsar Feodor III of Russia (born 1661)
1718 - Mary of Modena, wife of James II of England (born 1658)
1793 - Pietro Nardini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1722)
1805 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1737)
1825 – Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (born 1750)
1840 – Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (born 1774)
1868 - Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, English statesman (born 1778)
1872 - Alexander Loyd, 4th Mayor of Chicago (born 1805)
1873 - Salmon P. Chase, American politician (born 1808)
1902 - Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest (born 1818)
1922 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer (born 1857)
1924 - Alluri Sita Rama Raju, Indian activist (born 1897)
1940 - George Lansbury, English politician (born 1859)
1941 – James George Frazer, Scottish ethnologist and classical philologist (born 1854)
1942 – Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (born 1863)
1943 - Fethi Okyar, Turkish diplomat and politician (born 1880)
1951 – Warner Baxter, American actor (born 1889)
1958 - Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer and conductor (born 1880)
1985 - Dawn Addams, British actress (born 1930)
1986 - Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (born 1949)
1986 - Haldun Taner, Turkish playwright and short story writer (born 1915)
1987 – Colin Blakely, English actor (born 1930)
1989 – Guy Williams, American actor (born 1924)
1991 - István Zsolt, Hungarian football referee (born 1921)
1995 – Ray McKinley, American jazz musician (born 1910)
1998 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist (born 1924)
2000 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (born 1909)
2001 - Jacques de Borbon Busset, French novelist, essayist and politician (born 1912)
2005 – Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer (born 1980)
2010 – Wally Hickel, American politician, 2nd Governor of Alaska (born 1919)
2011 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (born 1957)
2011 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist (born 1924)
2011 - Gunter Sachs, German businessman, art patron and playboy (born 1932)
2013 - Ray Harryhausen, American animator, director and producer (born 1920)
2013 - Aubrey Woods, English actor and singer (born 1928)
2013 - Ferruccio Mazzola, Italian footballer and manager (born 1948)
2014 - Colin Pillinger, British planetary scientist (born 1943)
2014 - Nazim Al-Haqqani, Turkish-Cypriot spiritual leader (born 1922)
2014 - Neville McNamara, Royal Australian Air Force commander (born 1923)
2014 - Manuel Jiménez de Parga, Spanish politician (born 1929)
2015 - John Dixon, Australian cartoonist (born 1929)
2015 - Maurice Flanagan, British businessman (born 1928)
2015 - Frank DiPascali, American financier and fraudster (born 1956)
2016 - Bernardo Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer (born 1989)
2016 - John Stabb, American punk music singer (born 1961)
2017 - Gran Apache, Mexican professional wrestler (born 1959)
2017 - Elon Lages Lima, Brazilian mathematician (born 1929)
2017 - Beppo Mauhart, Austrian football executive and journalist (born 1933)
2017 - Gholamreza Pahlavi, Iranian prince and writer (born 1923)
2017 - Lee Weissenborn, American politician (born 1929)
2017 - Wu Wenjun, Chinese mathematician (born 1919)
2018 - Maurane, Belgian singer and actress (born 1960)
2018 - Miki Muster, Slovenian artist (born 1925)
2018 - Jesús Kumate Rodríguez, Mexican physician and politician (born 1924)
2018 - Crosbie E. Saint, American military officer (born 1936)
2019 - Vicente Emano, Filipino politician (born 1943)
2019 - Georg Katzer, German composer (born 1935)
2019 - Te Wharehuia Milroy, New Zealand Maori language academic (born 1937)
2019 - Adam Svoboda, Czech ice hockey player (born 1978)
2019 - Jean Vanier, Canadian philosopher and theologian (born 1928)
2019 - Joel Virador, Filipino politician (born 1967)
Radio Day (Russia, Bulgaria)
Defender of the Fatherland Day (Kazakhstan)
Dien Bien Phu Victory Day (Vietnam)
1191 - King Richard I of England lands in Cyprus during the Third Crusade.
1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome, in what is seen by some to be the end of the Renaissance.
1536 - The Siege of Cuzco starts, in which Incan forces attempt to re-take the city from the Spanish.
1536 - Henry VIII of England orders that English language Bibles should be placed in every church.
1542 - St. Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, capital city of what was then known as Portuguese India.
1659 - English Restoration: A faction of the army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector and re-instates the Rump Parliament.
1682 – King Louis XIV of France moves into the Versailles Palace.
1757 - Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
1782 - Building work begins on the Grand Palace, residence of the Kings of Siam, present-day Thailand, in Bangkok.
1816 - The American Bible Society is founded.
1835 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr.
publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1844 - The Glaciarum, the world's first mechanically-frozen ice rink, opens.
1861 – Arkansas secedes from the Union.
1861 – Richmond, Virginia is chosen as the capital city of the Confederate States of America.
1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the Confederates defeating the Army of the Potomac.
1882 – United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is opened to the public as the World Exposition in Paris begins.
1902 - British ship Carmorta sinks in a cyclone in Burma's Irrawaddy Delta, killing all 739 people on board.
1910 – Edward VII of the United Kingdom dies.
George V succeeds him as king.
1916 - 21 Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Jamal Pasha.
1919 - The Third Anglo-Afghan War begins.
1930 – An earthquake in present-day Iran kills 2,500 people.
1935 - In the US, the Works Progress Administration is created.
1937 – LZ 129 Hindenburg catches on fire while landing in New Jersey, killing 36 people.
1940 - John Steinbeck is given the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
1945 - World War II: In the last part of the war, the Prague Offensive begins.
1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run a mile in less than 4 minutes.
1954 – Alfredo Stroessner comes to power in Paraguay, after leading a military coup against Federico Chaves.
1966 – In the UK, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are sentenced to life in prison for the Moors murders.
1976 – An earthquake in Friuli, Italy kills 989 people and destroys entire villages.
1983 – The so-called Hitler diaries are found to be a hoax.
1991 - Time magazine publishes an article in which Scientology is strongly criticized.
1994 – The Euro Tunnel between the UK and France, opens.
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and President of France Francois Mitterrand jointly open it.
1996 – CIA director William Colby is found dead on a Maryland riverbank, eight days after his disappearance.
1998 – Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev moves his seat of government from Almaty to Akmola, which is renamed Astana.
1999 – The first elections to the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly are held.
2001 – Dennis Tito, the first space tourist, returns to Earth.