the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
2019  Edith González, Mexican actress (b. 1964)
2019  Geoff Lees, English footballer (b. 1933)
2019  Heinrich Reichert, Swiss neurobiologist (b. 1949)
2019  Wilhelm Wieben, German television journalist, actor and author (b. 1935)
2020  Sheikh Md Abdullah, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1945)
2020  Dick Garmaker, American basketball player (b. 1932)
2020  Jim Grelle, American runner (b. 1936)
2020  B. Kannan, Indian cinematographer (b. 1951)
2020  Mohammed Nasim, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1948)
2020  Maurice Rajsfus, French writer and historian (b. 1928)
2020  Jean Raspail, French author and explorer (b. 1925)
2020  Tineke Verburg, Dutch journalist and television presenter (b. 1956)
2020  Marc Zermati, French record producer (b. 1945)
Inventors' Day (Hungary)
1057  Pope Stephen IX is elected.
1158  Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.
1177  The Cham people conquer the Khmer city of Angkor in present-day Cambodia, where the Angkor Wat temple is located.
They came over the Tonle Sap lake on their way there.
1216  First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France captures the city of Winchester and then conquers over half of the Kingdom of England.
1276  While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince, Zhao Shi, making Emperor Duanzong of Song.
1285  Forces led by Prince Tran Quang Khai of Vietnam's Tran Dynasty destroys most of the invading Mongol naval fleet in the Battle of Chuong Duong.
1381  Richard II of England meets with leaders of the Peasants' Revolt.
1645  English Civil War: The Battle of Naseby results in 12,000 royalists being defeated by 15,000 parliamentarian soldiers.
1648  Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston, Massachusetts, being the first execution for witchcraft in the Massachusetts colony.
1775  The Continental Army is founded by the Continental Congress.
This is regarded as the founding of the United States Army.
1777  The Stars and Stripes is chosen as the national flag of the United States.
1789  After the Mutiny on the Bounty, William Bligh and 18 other survivors reach the island of Timor, after a 7,400-kilometre open-boat journey.
1797  The Ligurian Republic is declared in Genoa.
1800  Napoleonic Wars: The French re-conquer Italy after defeating the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo.
1807  Napoleon Bonaparte's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in what was then part of Poland, ending the War of the Fourth Coalition
1811  Harriet Beecher Stowe, writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin, is born.
1822  Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine to the Royal Astronomical Society, which he describes as 'note on application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables'.
1830  The French invasion of Algiers begins.
1839  The first Henley-on-Thames Royal Regatta takes place in Oxfordshire.
1846  Not knowing of the Mexican-American War, 22 American settlers  found the Republic of California, which is annexed by the United States soon after.
1863  American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester.
1872  Trade Unions are legalised in Canada.
1891  A bridge collapse near Munchenstein in Switzerland, causes a train to derail, killing 78 people.
1900  Hawaii is annexed by the United States.
1900  The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
1907  Norway gives women the right to vote.
1913  Football: The club Racing Santander is founded in Santander, Cantabria, Spain.
1914  The five-ring flag of the Olympics is first raised.
1919  John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight.
1926  Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
1937  Itatiaia National Park becomes the first National Park in Brazil.
1937  Pennsylvania starts to celebrate Flag Day as a public holiday.
1940  World War II: Paris falls under German occupation.
1940  Holocaust: The Auschwitz Concentration Camp is opened.
1940  The Soviet Union issues an ultimatum to Lithuania, ending its independence.
1941  June deportation: The first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murders of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians begins.
1942  Anne Frank starts to write in her diary.
1949  Bao Dai is installed as the South Vietnamese leader in Saigon.
1951  UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) is dedicated by the US Census bureau.
1954  Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill adding 'under God' into the US Pledge of Allegiance.
1955  Chile signs the Buenos Aires Convention.
1962  The European Space Research Organisation is founded in Paris, later becoming the European Space Agency.
1965  Nguyen Cao Ky becomes leader of South Vietnam, leading a military junta.
1967  The Mariner 5 space probe is launched to Venus.
1967  The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
1982  The Falklands War comes to an end, as Argentine forces surrender to the British in Port Stanley.
1985  TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens.
1994  A riot occurs in Vancouver after a Stanley Cup ice hockey match, where the New York Rangers defeated the Vancouver Canucks.
1998  The Storebaelt Bridge, consisting of Western and Eastern sections and connecting the Danish islands of Funen and Zealand, is opened to traffic.
1998  The Chicago Bulls win a 6th NBA championship in 8 years.
Part of the successful team was Michael Jordan.
1999  Thabo Mbeki is chosen to succeed Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa.
2002  Near-Earth asteroid "2002 MN" misses the Earth by 121,000 kilometers (75,000 miles).
2003  In a referendum, a majority of voters in the Czech Republic approves entry to the EU.
2013  The Airbus A350 aircraft has its first flight.
2015  The Philae spacecraft, which made the first successful landing on a comet in November 2014, wakes up.
It had gone into hibernation a few days after landing.
2015  Flooding in Tbilisi, Georgia, kills 12 people and results in several zoo animals either being killed or escaping onto the streets.
2017  Grenfell Tower fire: A massive fire occurs in a tower block in North Kensington, London, killing 72 people.
2017  2017 Congressional baseball shooting: Gunman James T. Hodgkinson opens fire on a baseball practice session among US Republican members of Congress, before being shot dead by police.
Congressman Steve Scalise is severely injured in the attack.
2017  Leo Varadkar becomes Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
2018  The 2018 FIFA World Cup starts in Moscow, as hosts Russia defeat Saudi Arabia 5-0.
2019  The 2019 Copa América, in Brazil, starts; the hosts start the tournament with a 3-0 win over Bolivia.
1444  Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1544)
1463  Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1514)
1479  Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (d. 1552)
1529  Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria (d. 1595)
1691  Jan Francisci, Hungarian organist and composer (d. 1758)
1712  Sayat-Nova, Armenian singer, poet and composer (d. 1795)
1726  James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
1726  Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist (d. 1798)
1730  Antonio Sacchini, Italian composer (d. 1786)
1736  Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (d. 1806)
1763  Simon Mayr, German composer (d. 1845)
1780  Henry Salt, English artist, diplomat and Egyptologist (d. 1827)
1796  Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (d. 1866)
1798  Frantisek Palacky, Czech scholar and politician (d. 1876)
1801  Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
1811  Harriet Beecher Stowe, American writer (d. 1896)
1812  Fernando Wood, Mayor of New York City (d. 1881)
1819  Henry Gardner, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1892)
1832  Nikolaus Otto, German engineer (d. 1891)
1835  Nikolai Rubinstein, Russian composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1881)
1838  Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese military leader, and two-time Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1922)
1840  William F. Nast, American attaché, railroad executive and inventor (d. 1893)
1855  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.,
20th Governor of Wisconsin (d. 1925)
1856  Andrei Markov, Russian mathematician (d. 1922)
1862  John Ulric Nef, Swiss-born chemist (d. 1915)
1864  Alois Alzheimer, German doctor, discovered Alzheimer's disease (d. 1915)
1868  Karl Landsteiner, Austrian doctor, won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1943)
1870  Sophia of Prussia, Queen consort of Greece (d. 1932)
1871  Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (d. 1946)
1877  Jane Bathori, French soprano (d. 1970)
1884  John McCormack, Irish fencer (d. 1945)
1884  Georg Zacharias, German swimmer (d. 1953)
1888  Jacques de Lacretelle, French writer (d. 1985)
1893  Siggie Nordstrom, Swedish singer (d. 1980)
1894  Marie-Adelaide, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924)
1895  Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1968)
1895  Pan Yuliang, Chinese painter (d. 1977)
1899  Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer (d. 1972)
1903  Alonzo Church, American mathematician and theorist (d. 1995)
1907  Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1989)
1909  Burl Ives, American musician (d. 1995)
1910  Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976)
1910  Carlo Ceseroli, Italian footballer (d. 1995)
1916  Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish philosopher (d. 2003)
1917  Lise Norgaard, Danish journalist, novelist and screenwriter
1919  Gene Barry, American actor (d. 2009)
1919  Sam Wanamaker, American actor (d. 1993)
1920  Jacques Datin, French songwriter (d. 1973)
1921  Martha Greenhouse, American actress (d. 2013)
1922  Kevin Roche, Irish architect (d. 2019)
1923  Judith Kerr, German-born English writer (d. 2019)
1924  James W. Black, Scottish physician (d. 2010)
1925  Serge Moscovici, French psychologist (d. 2014)
1925  Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician (d. 2004)
1926  Hermann Kant, German writer (d. 2016)
1928  Che Guevara, Argentinian Marxist revolutionary (d. 1967)
1928  Robert Brout, Belgian physicist (d. 2011)
1929  Gunilla Pontén, Swedish fashion designer (d. 2019)
1930  Odile Versois, French actress (d. 1980)
1931  Marla Gibbs, American actress, singer and screenwriter
1931  Junior Walker, American saxophonist and singer (d. 1995)
1933  Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American writer (d. 1991)
1933  Vladislav Rastorotsky, Soviet gymnastics coach
1936  Renaldo Benson, American singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
1936  George Hugh Niederauer, American bishop (d. 2017)
1939  Steny Hoyer, American politician
1940  Jack Bannon, American actor (d. 2017)
1940  Francesco Guccini, Italian singer, musician and actor
1942  Andy Irvine, English-Irish singer-songwriter and bouzouki player
1943  Piet Keizer, Dutch footballer (d. 2017)
1945  Rod Argent, English rock musician
1945  Carlos Reichenbach, Brazilian director and producer (d. 2012)
1946  Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer (d. 1979)
1946  Donald Trump, American businessman, politician and 45th President of the United States
1946  Robert Louis-Dreyfus, French businessman (d. 2009)
1947  Barry Melton, American guitarist
1949  Jim Lea, British musician (Slade)
1949  Papa Wemba, Congolese singer and musician (d. 2016)
1949  Alan White, British musician
1950  Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury
1951  Paul Boateng, British politician
1952  Pat Summitt, American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
1953  Hana Laszlo, Israeli actress and comedienne
1954  Frank Hadden, Scottish rugby union coach
1955  Kirron Kher, Indian actress
1955  Paul O'Grady, British TV presenter and entertainer
1955  Michael D. Duvall, American politician
1956  King Diamond, Danish singer
1956  Gianna Nannini, Italian singer-songwriter and musician
1958  Olaf Scholz, German politician, former Mayor of Hamburg
1958  Eric Heiden, American speed skater
1958  Pamela Geller, American blogger, author, political activist and animator
1961  Boy George, British singer
1961  Dusan Kojic, Serbian singer-songwriter and musician
1966  Traylor Howard, American actress
1968  Yasmine Bleeth, American actress
1969  Steffi Graf, German tennis player
1969  Kyle Hebert, American actor
1970  Heather McDonald, American actress, comedienne and author
1971  Ramon Vega, Swiss footballer
1971  Bruce Bowen, American basketball player
1973  Sami Kapanen, Finnish ice hockey player
1976  Alan Carr, British comedian
1976  Massimo Oddo, Italian footballer
1977  Joe Worsley, English rugby player
1978  Diablo Cody, American screenwriter
1979  Paradorn Srichaphan, Thai tennis player
1981  Lonneke Engel, Dutch model
1981  Elano, Brazilian footballer
1981  Alastair Kellock, Scottish rugby union player
1982  Lang Lang, Chinese pianist
1982  Luda Kroiter, Moldovan 5-time world salsa champion
1984  Siobhan Donaghy, British singer
1984  Yury Prilukov, Russian swimmer
1985  Oleg Medvedev, Russian luger
1986  Haley Hudson, American actress and singer
1988  Dayo Okeniyi, Nigerian actor
1988  Kevin McHale, American actor
1989  Lucy Hale, American actress
1989  Cory Higgins, American basketball player
1989  Joao Rojas, Ecuadorean footballer
1990  Patrice Cormier, Canadian ice hockey player
1991  Erick Barrondo, Guatemalan race walker
1991  Kostas Manolas, Greek footballer
1991  André Carrillo, Peruvian footballer
1991  Jesy Nelson, English singer (Little Mix)
1992  Daryl Sabara, American actor
1992  Evan Sabara, American actor
1993  Svetlana Issakova, Estonian figure skater
1993  Callum McGregor, Scottish footballer
1161  Emperor Qinzong of China (b. 1100)
1205  Walter, Count of Brienne
1349  Günther von Schwarzburg, King of Germany (b. 1304)
1381  Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
1497  Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia, son of Pope Alexander VI (b. 1474)
1516  John III of Navarre (b. 1469)
1544  Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1489)
1548  Carpentras, French composer (b. 1470)
1594  Orlande di Lasso, Flemish composer (b. 1532)
1642  Saskia van Uylenburgh, wife of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (b. 1612)
1648  Margaret Jones, first person to be executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts
1662  Henry Vane the Younger, English colonial governor and politician (b. 1613)
1703  Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (b. 1625)
1746  Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (b. 1698)
1800  Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (b. 1768)
1801  Benedict Arnold, American soldier (b. 1841)
1825  Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and designer (b. 1754)
1837  Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798)
1883  Charles J. Jenkins, Governor of Georgia (b. 1805)
1886  Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (b. 1823)
1908  Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, British Governor-General of Canada (b. 1841)
1914  Adlai E. Stevenson, American politician (b. 1835)
1920  Max Weber, German sociologist and political economist (b. 1864)
1923  Isabelle Bogelot, French philanthropist (b. 1838)
1926  Mary Cassatt, American painter (b. 1843)
1927  Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (b. 1894)
1927  Jerome K. Jerome, British writer (b. 1859)
1928  Emmeline Pankhurst, British women's rights campaigner (b. 1858)
1931  2010
1932  Peter Adler Alberti, Danish politician and swindler (b. 1851)
1936  G. K. Chesterton, British writer (b. 1874)
1936  Hans Poelzig, German architect, painter and designer (b. 1869)
1946  John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor and television pioneer (b. 1888)
1953  Klement Gottwald, Czech politician (b. 1896)
1968  Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer (b. 1901)
1976  Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (b. 1900)
1979  Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer (b. 1946)
1986  Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer and poet (b. 1899)
1986  Alan Jay Lerner, American composer (b. 1918)
1991  Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (b. 1907)
1994  Henry Mancini, American composer (b. 1924)
1994  Marcel Mouloudji, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
1996  Noemi Gerstein, Argentine artist (b. 1908)
1997  Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926)
2000  Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (b. 1911)
2004  Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (b. 1900)
2005  Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor (b. 1914)
2007  Ruth Graham, American poet, wife of Billy Graham (b. 1920)
2007  Kurt Waldheim, Austrian UN Secretary-General (b. 1918)
2007  Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (b. 1922)
2009  Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
2010  Leonid Kizim, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1941)
2011  Peter Schamoni, German movie director and producer (b. 1934)
2012  Carlos Reichenbach, Brazilian director and producer (b. 1945)
2013  Gene Mako, Hungarian-American tennis player (b. 1916)
2014  Sam Kelly, English actor (b. 1943)
2014  Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French-American actress (b. 1935)
2014  Robert Lebeck, German photojournalist (b. 1929)
2014  Francis Matthews, English actor (b. 1927)
2014  Benjamin Winter, German equestrian (b. 1988)
2015  Hugo Blanco, Venezuelan musician (b. 1940)
2015  Zito, Brazilian footballer (b. 1932)
2015  Qiao Shi, Chinese politician (b. 1924)
2015  Anne Nicol Gaylor, American activist (b. 1926)
2016  Henry McCullough, Northern Irish guitarist (b. 1943)
2016  Irma Roy, Argentine actress and politician (b. 1932)
2016  Ronnie Claire Edwards, American actress (b. 1933)
2016  Anatoli Grishin, Russian sprint canoeist (b. 1939)
2016  Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress (b. 1928)
2016  Gertrude Kerbis, American architect (b. 1926)
2016  Gilles Lamontagne, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
2017  James T. Hodgkinson, American home inspector, businessman and gunman (b. 1951)
2017  Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine newspaper editor (b. 1925)
2017  Arthur J. Jackson, American military officer (b. 1924)
2018  Vincent R. Gray, English-New Zealand chemist (b. 1922)
2018  Mongi Kooli, Tunisian politician (b. 1930)
2018  Stanislav Govorukhin, Russian film director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2018  Sonia Scurfield, Canadian businesswoman and sports team owner (b. 1928)
2018  Fazlullah, Pakistani terrorist (b. 1974)
2019  Bernard M. Judge, American newspaper editor (b. 1940)
2019  Ricardo Migliorisi, Paraguayan painter and designer (b. 1948)
2019  Roger Béteille, French aeronautical engineer and businessman (b. 1921)
2019  George E. Felton, British computer scientist (b. 1921)
2019  Ebert Van Buren, Honduran-American football player (b. 1924)
2019  James Wyngaarden, American physician (b. 1924)
2020  Luce Douady, French climber (b. 2003)
2020  Elsa Joubert, South African writer (b. 1922)
2020  Noel Kelly, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1936)
2020  Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz, Iranian actor (b. 1930)
2020  Aarón Padilla Gutiérrez, Mexican footballer (b. 1942)
2020  Sushant Singh Rajput, Indian actor (b. 1986)
2020  Haroldo Rodas, Guatemalan politician (b. 1946)
2020  Claude Samuel, French music critic and radio businessman (b. 1931)
2020  Keith Tippett, British jazz pianist and composer (b. 1947)
2020  Raj Mohan Vohra, Indian army lieutenant general (b. 1932)
Flag Day (United States)
Freedom Day (Malawi)
Liberation Day (Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
Women's Day (Iraq)
World Blood Donor Day (after birthday of Karl Landsteiner)
Mourning and Commemoration Day (Estonia)
Mourning and Hope Day (Lithuania)
Day of Memory for Repressed People (Armenia)
763 BC  The Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
923  Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and Charles the Simple is arrested by supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
1184  King Magnus V of Norway is killed in battle.
1215  King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
1219  Northern Crusades: Danish victory at Battle of Lyndanisse (present-day Tallinn) leads to the Danish Duchy of Estonia being established.
In Legend, it was also the first time that the Dannebrog was used.
1300  The city of Bilbao in the Basque Country is founded.
1389  Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats the Serbs and Bosnians.
1502  Christopher Columbus reaches the island of Martinique.
1520  Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther.
1580  Philip II of Spain declares William the Silent an outlaw.
1667  The first blood transfusion is administered by Doctor Jean-Baptiste Denys.
1741  Vitus Bering sets sail on his voyage from Petropavlovsk, Russia that will lead him to Alaska.
1775  American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
1776  Delaware votes to suspend government under the British crown, and separates from Pennsylvania.
1785  Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight (in 1783), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever air crash casualties when their hot-air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.
1804  New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution, after approving the 12th Amendment.
1808  Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
1836  Arkansas becomes the 25th State of the United States.
1844  Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
1846  The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as being the longest part of the Canada-United States border.
1859  The shooting of a pig in the San Juan Islands on the Pacific Ocean coast of North America leads to the so-called "Pig War" between the United States and Canada, which was then under British control.
1862  Australian bushranger Frank Gardiner and his gang, hold up a coach carrying gold at Eugowra, New South Wales.
This is the biggest robbery in Australian history.
1864  Arlington National Cemetery is established in the United States.
1877  Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
1878  Eadward Muybridge takes a series of photographs that prove that all four of a horse's legs leave the ground when it is running.
This is also a key milestone in the development of moving pictures.
1888  Wilhelm II becomes Kaiser of Germany.
1896  A tsunami in Japan kills more than 22,000 people.
1904  The paddle stramer General Slocum sinks on the East River in New York City, killing 1,388 people.
1910  Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica leaves Cardiff.
1916  Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.
1919  John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown complete the first trans-Atlantic flight when they land in Ireland.
1920  A border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
1934  Great Smoky Mountains National Park is established in the Appalachian Mountains.
1937  A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses 16 members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas.
1940  World War II: Allied troops start to evacuate Paris, following the German take-over.
1944  World War II: The US invades the Japanese-occupied island of Saipan.
1954  UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is founded.
1969  Georges Pompidou is elected President of France.
1970  Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
1972  Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
1977  In the first Spanish election since the Francisco Franco dictatorship, Adolfo Suarez is elected Prime Minister of Spain.
1978  King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who chooses to be known as Queen Noor of Jordan.
1991  After showing activity since April 2, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines enters its most destructive phase.
1994  Formal relations between Israel and Vatican City are officially established.
1996  The Provisional IRA explode a large bomb in the centre of Manchester.
2002  A near-Earth asteroid misses the Earth by 121,000 kilometres.
2006  Microsoft announces the resignation of its "Chief Software Architect" Bill Gates.
2008  Kosovo's Constitution takes effect, following the declaration of independence in February, which Serbia disagrees with.
2011  2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot: Rioting occurs in Vancouver, Canada, following the Vancouver Canucks ice hockey team's defeat in the final of the Stanley Cup.
2012  Nik Wallenda successfully walks on a tightrope across Niagara Falls.
2013  The 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup begins with the Brazil national football team defeating the Japan national football team 3-0.
2018  The Glasgow School of Art's Mackintosh building is hit by a second fire in just over four years, causing a lot of damage to it.
1330  Edward, the Black Prince, heir to the throne of England (d. 1376)
1479  Lisa del Giocondo, Italian model (d. 1542)
1519  Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, son of Henry VIII of England (d. 1536)
1534  Henri I de Montmorency, French nobleman (d. 1614)
1542  Richard Grenville, English captain and explorer (d. 1591)
1594  Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
1623  Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
1640  Bernard Lamy, French mathematician (d. 1715)
1749  Georg Joseph Vogler, German composer, organist and theorist (d. 1814)
1763  Franz Danzi, German cellist, composer and conductor (d. 1826)
1765  Martin Baum, American businessman and politician (d. 1831)
1765  Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bonnenberger, German mathematician (d. 1831)
1767  Rachel Jackson, wife of Andrew Jackson before he became US President (d. 1828)
1792  Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
1798  Alexander Gorchakov, Russian diplomat (d. 1883)
1801  Benjamin Wright Raymond, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1883)
1805  William Butler Ogden, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1877)
1835  Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet (d. 1868)
1843  Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (d. 1907)
1848  Gheevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala, Indian bishop and saint (d. 1902)
1867  Konstantin Balmont, Russian songwriter (d. 1942)
1875  Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-born cross country skier and supercentenarian (d. 1987)
1876  Margaret Abbott, American golfer (d. 1955)
1882  Ion Antonescu, Romanian military leader (d. 1946)
1882  Morgan Foster Larson, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1961)
1884  Harry Langdon, American actor (d. 1944)
1888  Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (d. 1921)
1890  Wilhelm Leuschner, German political activist and member of the Resistance (d. 1944)
1894  Trygve Gulbranssen, Norwegian writer (d. 1962)
1894  Robert Russell Bennett, American composer and arranger (d. 1981)
1894  Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1947)
1900  Otto Luening, German-born American composer (d. 1996)
1902  Erik Erikson, German-born psychoanalyst (d. 1994)
1906  Gordon Welchman, British mathematician (d. 1985)
1908  Sam Giancana, American mafioso (d. 1975)
1910  David Rose, American songwriter, composer and orchestra leader (d. 1990)
1911  Wilbert Awdry, British children's writer (d. 1997)
1914  Yuri Andropov, Soviet political leader (d. 1984)
1915  Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist (d. 2008)
1916  Horacio Salgan, Argentine pianist, composer, orchestra leader and arranger
1916  Herbert Simon, American economist (d. 2001)
1917  John Bennett Fenn, American chemist (d. 2010)
1920  Alberto Sordi, Italian actor and director (d. 2003)
1923  Erland Josephson, Swedish actor (d. 2012)
1923  Ninian Stephen, 20th Governor-General of Australia (d. 2017)
1923  Erroll Garner, American jazz pianist and composer (d. 1977)
1924  Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (d. 2005)
1925  Richard Baker, English broadcaster (d. 2018)
1926  Shigeru Kayano, Japanese activist (d. 2006)
1927  Hugo Pratt, Italian writer and artist (d. 1995)
1930  John Fretwell, English diplomat (d. 2017)
1930  Marcel Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1932  Mario Cuomo, American politician, former Governor of New York (d. 2015)
1933  Mohammad-Ali Rajai, 2nd President of Iran (d. 1981)
1933  Yasukazu Tanaka, Japanese footballer
1934  Rubén Aguirre, Mexican actor (d. 2016)
1934  Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (d. 2008)
1936  Claude Brasseur, French actor
1936  William Levada, American cardinal (d. 2019)
1937  Waylon Jennings, American musician (d. 2002)
1937  Anna Hazare, Indian activist
1938  Billy Williams, American baseball player
1939  Brian Jacques, British writer (d. 2011)
1941  Harry Nilsson, American singer and composer (d. 1994)
1942  John E. McLaughlin, American deputy director of the CIA
1943  Johnny Hallyday, French rock musician and singer (d. 2017)
1943  Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, former Prime Minister of Denmark
1943  Muff Winwood, English musician
1945  Robert Sarah, Guinean cardinal
1945  Miriam Defensor Santiago, Filipina politician (d. 2016)
1946  Brigitte Fossey, French actress
1946  Noddy Holder, British singer (Slade)
1946  Demis Roussos, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1948  Henry McLeish, 2nd First Minister of Scotland
1948  Alan Huckle, English politician and diplomat, Governor of Anguilla
1948  José Huerta, Peruvian politician (d. 2019)
1949  Simon Callow, English actor
1949  Simone Rethel, German actress
1949  Jim Varney, American actor (d. 2000)
1950  Lakshmi Mittal, Indian industrialist
1951  John Redwood, English politician
1953  Rita Lee, American model
1953  Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
1954  James Belushi, American actor
1954  Beverley Whitfield, Australian swimmer (d. 1996)
1955  Julie Hagerty, American actress
1955  David Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1984)
1955  Mauril Bélanger, Canadian politician
1956  Robin Curtis, American actress
1956  Yevgeny Kiselyov, Russian journalist
1958  Wade Boggs, American baseball player
1958  Riccardo Paletti, Italian racing driver (d. 1982)
1959  Alan Brazil, Scottish footballer
1959  Eileen Davidson, American actress
1961  Laurent Cantet, French director
1963  Mario Gosselin, Canadian ice hockey player
1963  Helen Hunt, American actress
1963  Blanca Portillo, Spanish actress
1963  Nigel Walker, Welsh rugby player
1964  Courteney Cox, American actress
1964  Michael Laudrup, Danish footballer
1964  Gavin Greenaway, English composer and conductor
1965  Karim Massimov, 7th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
1966  Raimonds Vejonis, 9th President of Latvia
1968  Samira Ahmed, British journalist and presenter
1969  Oliver Kahn, German goalkeeper
1969  Ice Cube, American rapper
1969  Bashar Warda, Iraqi archbishop
1970  Leah Remini, American actress
1971  Edwin Brienen, Dutch-German actor, director and producer
1971  Bif Naked, Indian-Canadian singer-songwriter, actress and poet
1972  Marcus Hahnemann, American goalkeeper
1973  Neil Patrick Harris, American actor, singer and director
1973  Tore André Flo, Norwegian footballer
1973  Greg Vaughan, American actor
1974  Chakri, Indian movie composer and singer (d. 2014)
1976  Gary Lightbody, Northern Irish singer (Snow Patrol)
1977  Michael Doleac, American basketball player
1978  Wilfred Bouma, Dutch footballer
1979  Danielle Lineker, British model
1979  Yulia Nesterenko, Belarussian athlete
1980  Iker Romero, Spanish handball player
1980  Almudena Cid Tastado, Spanish rhythmic gymnast
1980  Mary Carey, American pornographic actress
1981  John Paintsil, Ghanaian footballer
1981  Emma Snowsill, Australian triathlete
1981  Billy Martin, American musician (Good Charlotte)
1982  Mike Delany, New Zealand rugby player
1982  Katie Chapman, English footballer
1982  Atli Gregersen, Faroese footballer
1983  Laura Imbruglia, Australian musician
1984  Amber Coffman, American musician
1984  Tim Lincecum, American baseball player
1985  Nadine Coyle, Northern Irish singer (Girls Aloud)
1986  Stoya, American pornographic actress, writer and model
1988  Barakat Al-Hartini, Omani sprinter
1988  Miku Ishida, Japanese singer and actress
1990  Miwa, Japanese singer-songwriter and musician
1990  Denzel Whitaker, American actor
1992  Mohamed Salah, Egyptian footballer
1992  Dafne Schippers, Dutch heptathlete and sprinter
1993  Kanna Arihara, Japanese singer (Cute)
1994  Rina Hidaka, Japanese voice actress
1994  Iñaki Williams, Spanish footballer
707  Emperor Mommu of Japan
923  King Robert I of France  (b. 866)
991  Theophanu, consort of Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 960)
1073  Emperor Go-Sanjo of Japan (b. 1073)
1184  King Magnus V of Norway (b. 1156)
1189  Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese warrior (b. 1159)
1246  Frederick II of Austria (b. 1219)
1381  Wat Tyler, English peasant leader (b. 1341)
1383  John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1292)
1389  Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1326)
1389  Lazar of Serbia, Serbian saint (b. 1329)
1416  John, Duke of Berry (b. 1340)
1467  Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1396)
1586  Primoz Trubar, Slovenian religious reformer (b. 1508)
1768  James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
1772  Louis-Claude Daguin, French composer (b. 1694)
1785  Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier, French physicist and balloonist (b. 1757)
1849  James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795)
1888  Kaiser Friedrich III of Germany (b. 1831)
1889  Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (b. 1850)
1890  Unryu Kyukichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1822)
1917  Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
1934  Alfred Bruneau, French composer (b. 1857)
1938  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter and printmaker (b. 1880)
1945  Carl Gustaf Ekman, Swedish politician (b. 1872)
1961  Giulio Cabianca, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)
1962  Alfred Cortot, French-Swiss pianist (b. 1877)
1971  Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist (b. 1904)
1976  Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
1982  Art Pepper, American saxophonist (b. 1925)
1989  Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
1991  Arthur Lewis, British economist (b. 1915)
1991  Happy Chandler, 44th and 49th Governor of Kentucky and Commissioner of Baseball (b. 1898)
1993  John Connally, Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
1993  James Hunt, English racing driver (b. 1947)
1994  Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (b. 1925)
1995  John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (b. 1903)
1996  Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
1996  Fitzroy MacLean, Scottish soldier, writer and politician (b. 1911)
2001  Jay Moriarty, American surfer (b. 1978)
2002  Choi Hong Hi, founder of Taekwondo (b. 1918)
2003  Hume Cronin, Canadian actor (b. 1911)
2005  Suzanne Flon, French actress (b. 1918)
2007  Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
2008  Stan Winston, American filmmaker (b. 1946)
2010  Heidi Kabel, German actress (b. 1914)
2013  Heinz Flohe, German footballer (b. 1948)
2013  Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist (b. 1936)
2013  José Froilán González, Argentine racing driver (b. 1922)
2014  Ray Fox, American NASCAR engine builder and team owner (b. 1916)
2014  Casey Kasem, American radio presenter, DJ and voice actor (b. 1932)
2014  Daniel Keyes, American author (b. 1927)
2015  Jean Doré, Canadian politician, 39th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1944)
2015  Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman (b. 1917)
2015  Blaze Starr, American burlesque dancer, stripper and model (b. 1932)
2015  Jeanna Friske, Russian actress, singer and socialite (b. 1974)
2015  Harry Rowohlt, German writer (b. 1945)
2015  Mighty Sam McClain, American soul-blues singer (b. 1943)
2016  Lois Duncan, American writer (b. 1934)
2016  Claude Confortès, French actor (b. 1928)
2017  Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor (b. 1928)
2017  Ibrahim Abouleish, Egyptian pharmacologist (b. 1937)
2017  Ajmer Singh Aulakh, Indian playwright (b. 1942)
2017  P. N. Bhagwati, Indian judge (b. 1921)
2017  Wilma de Faria, Brazilian politician (b. 1945)
2017  Bill Dana, American comedian, actor and screenwriter (b. 1924)
2018  Leslie Grantham, English actor (b. 1947)
2018  Enoch zu Guttenberg, German conductor (b. 1946)
2018  Matt Murphy, American blues guitarist (b. 1929)
2019  Marta Harnecker, Chilean sociologist, political scientist, journalist and activist (b. 1937)
2019  Wilhelm Holzbauer, Austrian architect (b. 1930)
2019  Kevin Killian, American poet, author and playwright (b. 1952)
2019  Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director (b. 1923)
2020  Giulio Giorello, Italian philosopher and mathematician (b. 1945)
2020  Nagendra Nath Jha, Indian politician (b. 1935)
2020  Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1951)
2020  Marinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1957)
2020  Anton Schlembach, German Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1932)
Separation Day (Delaware)
Statehood Day (Arkansas)
Arbor Day (Costa Rica)
Flag Day (Denmark)
National Salvation Day (Azerbaijan)
Engineers' Day (Italy)
Global Wind Day
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
Saint Vitus' Day
363 - Emperor Julian marches up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships.
During the withdrawal, Roman forces suffer several attacks from the Persians.
632 - Yazdegerd III becomes Shah of Persia, as the last ruler of the Sassanid Dynasty.
1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, the end of the Wars of the Roses.
1494 - A tropical storm strikes the island of Hispaniola.
It is believed to have been the first Caribbean hurricane to have been observed by Europeans.
1586 - Mary, Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.
1745 – British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
1745 – Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
1746 – War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza
1755 – French and Indian War: French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians
1774 – Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
1779 - Spain declares war on the United Kingdom and the Siege of Gibraltar begins.
1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo.
1836 – Formation of the London Working Men's Association begins the Chartist Movement
1846 – The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes.
Pope Pius IX is elected pope, beginning the longest reign in the history of the post-apostolic papacy.
1858 – Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois
1858 – The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
1871 – University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
1883 - The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, North East England, kills 183 children.
1884 – The first roller coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York
1891 – John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
1896 - British passenger steamer Drummond Castle strikes a reef off the French island of Ouessant in deep fog, killing 243 out of the 246 people on board.
1897 - A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the US is signed.
It enters into effect the following year.
1902 – Australia: Female British subjects (with the glaring exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
1903 – Ford Motor Company incorporates.
1903 – Roald Amundsen commences first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
1904 – James Joyce uses this day as the setting for his novel Ulysses, a day in the life of Leopold Bloom.
Known as Bloomsday.
1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite struck Earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin, damaging a barn.
1911 – IBM is founded.
1915 – Foundation of the British Women's Institute
1922 – General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-treaty Sinn Féin
1924 – Whampoa Military Academy is founded
1925 – Artek, the most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, established.
1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France
1940 – A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
1944 - George Stinney, aged 14, becomes the youngest American to be executed in the 20th century when he is wrongly executed for murder.
1947 - The Saar Mark is introduced as a currency in Saarland.
1948 – The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by the Cathay Pacific airline, marks the first skyjacking of a commercial plane.
1954 - The 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland starts.
1955 – Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Perón.
1956 – Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath.
1958 - Imre Nagy, Pal Maleter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
1960 – Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho opens in New York.
1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris.
1962 – Two U.S. Army officers are killed in Saigon, Vietnam.
1963 – Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
1966 - The ship Texaco Massachusetts, loaded with naphtha, collides with British tanker Alva Cape outside Manhattan, starting a massive fire, killing 33 people.
1972 – Burglars are caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in the night on June 17.
1972 – Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
1972 – Opening of the New York Jazz Museum.
1972 – Largest single-site hydro-electric power project starts at Churchill Falls Newfoundland.
1976 – Apartheid: A non-violent march by 15000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children.
1977 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the Soviet Union
1981 – Ken Taylor honoured for helping six Americans escape from Iran during hostage crisis
1983 – Yuri Andropov becomes president of the Soviet Union.
1984 - Cirque du Soleil is founded in Montreal.
1989 - Imre Nagy is reburied in Budapest.
1994 – A Chinese operated Northwest Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160
1995 – The Astronomy Picture of the Day begins
1996 – First round of voting in the Russian presidential election
1997 – Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; some 50 people killed.
1999 – Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa.
1999 - Japan allows the contraceptive pill.
2001 – George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin meet in Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia
2002 – Politically Incorrect is cancelled (from sponsors dropping the show) after host Bill Maher makes controversial comments on air regarding the integrity of President George W. Bush.
2003 – The Hatfields and McCoys sign a formal truce.
2003 - The Church of All Saints is consecrated in Yekaterinburg, on the site of the Ipatiev House, where Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family were executed in 1918.
2010 - Bhutan bans tobacco.
2012 - Liu Yang becomes China's first female astronaut.
2012 - Aung San Suu Kyi accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in person, having won it in 1991 while she was under house arrest.
2014 - A terrorist attack in Kenya kills 48 people.
2014 - It is announced that Michael Schumacher is no longer in a coma following his skiing accident on December 29, 2013.
He is moved from a hospital in Grenoble, France to Switzerland.
2015 - Donald Trump announces his intention to run for US President in 2016.
2016 - British Member of Parliament Jo Cox dies after being attacked in her constituency.
2018 - Iceland, the least-populated country ever to play in the competition, picks up its first FIFA World Cup point, and scores its first goal in the competition, drawing 1-1 with Argentina.
2019 - A widespread power outage affects most of Argentina and Uruguay, as well as parts of Paraguay.
2020 - Twenty Indian soldiers are killed in a border clash with the People's Republic of China.
2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The number of recorded COVID-19 cases worldwide reaches 8 million.
1139 - Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155)
1313 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (d. 1375)
1332 - Isabella de Coucy, daughter of Edward III of England (d. 1382)
1514 – John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557)
1583 – Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654)
1591 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655)
1606 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675)
1612 – Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640)
1613 – John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
1633 – Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667)
1644 – Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670)
1713 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786)
1723 – Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher (d. 1790)
1738 – Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816)
1752 - Salawat Yulayev, Russian Bashkir national hero (d. 1800)
1792 – John Linnell, English artist (d. 1882)
1792 – Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
1793 - Diego Portales, Chilean politician (d. 1837)
1801 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
1806 – Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor (d. 1885)
1813 – Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
1820 – Athanase Coquerel, French Protestant preacher (d. 1875)
1821 - Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908)
1826 – Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
1829 – Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909)
1836 – Wesley Merritt, American soldier (d. 1910)
1837 – Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885)
1838 – Cushman Davis, American politician (d. 1900)
1838 - Frederic Archer, British composer, conductor and organist (d. 1901)
1840 – Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
1851 - Peter Adler Alberti, Danish politician and swindler (d. 1932)
1851 - Georg Jellinek, German public lawyer (d. 1911)
1858 – King Gustav V of Sweden (d. 1950)
1858 - John Peter Russell, Australian painter (d. 1930)
1862 - Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian rifle shooter (d. 1947)
1863 - Paul Vidal, French composer (d. 1931)
1874 – Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960)
1880 – Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist and historian (d. 1963)
1880 - Alice Bailey, British author (d. 1949)
1881 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (d. 1962)
1882 - Mohammad Mosaddegh, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
1888 - Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925)
1888 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)
1890 – Stan Laurel, British-born actor and comedian (d. 1965)
1894 - Norman Kerry, American actor (d. 1956)
1896 – Murray Leinster, American writer (d. 1976)
1897 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
1897 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize winner (d. 1987)
1899 - Helen Traubel, American singer (d. 1972)
1901 - Henri Lefebvre, French sociologist and philosopher (d. 1991)
1902 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist (d. 1992)
1902 – George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984)
1903 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972)
1907 – Jack Albertson, American actor (d. 1981)
1908 - Sarit Thanarat, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 1963)
1909 – Archie Fairley Carr, biologist (d. 1987)
1910 – Juan Velasco, President of Peru (d. 1977)
1912 – Enoch Powell, British politician (d. 1998)
1915 – Mariano Rumor, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1990)
1916 – Hank Luisetti, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1917 – Katharine Graham, American publisher (d. 2001)
1917 – Irving Penn, American photographer (d. 2009)
1917 – Phaedon Gizikis, Greek army officer and President (d. 1999)
1917 - Aurelio Lampredi, Italian automobile and aircraft designer (d. 1989)
1920 – José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
1920 – John Howard Griffin, American writer (d. 1980)
1920 - Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Bengali singer, composer and producer (d. 1989)
1922 - Frances Rafferty, American actress and dancer (d. 2004)
1924 - Faith Domergue, American actor (d. 1999)
1925 - Jean d'Ormesson, French novelist (d. 2017)
1925 - Otto Muehl, Austrian artist
1926 - Efraín Ríos Montt, 26th President of Guatemala (d. 2018)
1927 – Tom Graveney, English cricketer (d. 2015)
1927 – Herbert Lichtenfeld, German writer and playwright (d. 2001)
1927 - Ariano Suassuna, Brazilian playwright and author (d. 2014)
1928 - Pierrette Bloch, Swiss artist (d. 2017)
1928 - Annie Cordy, Belgian singer and actress
1929 – Ramón Bieri, American actor (d. 2001)
1929 - Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait
1929 - Pauline Yates, English actress (d. 2015)
1930 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2016)
1934 – Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress
1934 - Jane Henson, American puppeteer (d. 2013)
1934 – William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist
1935 – Jim Dine, American artist
1935 - James Bolam, English actor
1936 - Lincoln Almond, former Governor of Rhode Island
1936 - Ann Carter, American actress (d. 2014)
1936 - Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Nigerian cardinal
1937 – Erich Segal, American writer (d. 2010)
1937 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha, Bulgarian royal and Prime Minister
1938 – Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist
1938 - Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2017)
1940 – Neil Goldschmidt, former Governor of Oregon
1941 – Lamont Dozier, American record company executive
1942 – Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist
1942 - John Rostill, British musician (d. 1973)
1943 - Joan Van Ark, American actress