the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1819 - Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet (died 1890)
1821 – Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (died 1894)
1824 – Levi P. Morton, 22nd Vice President of the United States and 31st Governor of New York (died 1920)
1827 – Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect (died 1921)
1827 - Norman Jay Coleman, American politician (died 1911)
1831 – David Edward Hughes, British inventor and musician (died 1900)
1834 - Hobart B. Bigelow, Governor of Connecticut (died 1891)
1845 – Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian biologist, won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1916)
1849 - Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, British statesman (died 1917)
1882 – Anne McCormick, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (died 1954)
1883 - Celal Bayar, President of Turkey (died 1986)
1886 – Ernest Burgess, sociologist (died 1966)
1887 - Jakob van Hoddis, German poet (died 1942)
1888 – Royal Raymond Rife, American inventor (died 1971)
1891 – Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (died 1948)
1897 – Zvi Ziternik, Israeli entomologist (died 1994)
1898 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish painter (died 1980)
1898 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese movie director (died 1956)
1905 – Henry Fonda, American actor (died 1982)
1906 – Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer, diplomat and politician (died 2001)
1909 – Margaret Sullavan, American actress (died 1960)
1910 – Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (died 1972)
1910 - Higashifushimi Kunihide, Japanese monk and educator, uncle of Emperor Akihito (died 2014)
1910 - Luigi Villoresi, Italian racing driver (died 1997)
1912 – Studs Terkel, American writer (died 2008)
1913 – Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (died 1987)
1913 - Sebastiano Baggio, Italian cardinal (died 1993)
1914 - Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist and ethnologist (died 2009)
1915 - Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2010)
1916 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli President and scientist (died 2009)
1917 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (died 1986)
1917 - George Gaynes, Finnish-American actor (died 2016)
1919 – Liberace, American pianist (died 1987)
1919 - Sik Kok Kwong, Hong Kong Buddhist monk (died 2014)
1919 – Gisela Uhlen, German actress (died 2007)
1920 - Martine Carol, French actress (died 1967)
1921 - Harry Carey, Jr., American actor (died 2012)
1923 – Merton Miller, American economist (died 2000)
1924 – Dawda Jawara, 1st President of the Gambia
1925 – Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian singer (died 2010)
1925 – Robert Pierpoint, American journalist (died 2011)
1925 - Nancy Roman, American astronomer (died 2018)
1925 – Nilton Santos, Brazilian footballer (died 2013)
1928 – Billy Martin, American baseball player and coach (died 1989)
1929 – John Conyers, American politician (died 2019)
1929 – Adrienne Rich, American poet, writer and feminist (died 2012)
1929 – Friedrich Nowottny, German journalist
1929 - Alberto Terry, Peruvian footballer (died 2006)
1929 – Betty Carter, American singer (died 1998)
1931 - Vujadin Boskov, Serbian footballer (died 2014)
1931 – K. Natwar Singh, Indian politician
1931 - Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., American politician, 85th Governor of Connecticut
1936 – Karl Lehmann, German cardinal and theologian (d. 2018)
1936 – Roy Hudd, British radio and television actor
1936 - Manfred Stolpe, German politician
1937 - Yvonne Craig, American actress (d. 2015)
1937 – Antonio Rattin, Argentine footballer
1938 - Edmond Classen, Dutch actor (d. 2014)
1940 - Ole Ernst, Danish actor (d. 2013)
1943 - Kay Andrews, Baroness Andrews, English politician
1943 - Dan Coats, American politician and diplomat, 29th United States Ambassador to Germany
1944 – Danny Trejo, American actor
1944 - Billy Cobham, American drummer and bandleader
1945 - Carlos Osoro, Archbishop of Valencia
1946 – Robert Fripp, British guitarist
1948 - Emma Georgina Rothschild, British historian
1948 – Judy Finnigan, British TV presenter
1948 - Mariano Gago, Portuguese engineer and politician (d. 2015)
1948 - Jimmy Hood, Scottish politician (d. 2017)
1949 - Karlheinz Hackl, Austrian actor (d. 2014)
1950 – J. Georg Bednorz, German physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1987
1951 - Christian Lacroix, French fashion designer
1953 – Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2015)
1953 – Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
1954 - Jónína Leósdóttir, Icelandic writer
1954 - Dafydd Williams, Canadian physician and astronaut
1955 – Olga Korbut, Belarussian gymnast
1955 – Jack Morris, American baseball pitcher
1955 – Hazel O'Connor, British singer
1955 – Debra Winger, American actress
1957 - Bob Suter, American ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1957 - Nigel Twiston-Davies, English horse trainer
1958 – Amp Fiddler, musician (P Funk)
1961 - Sarah Boyack, Scottish politician
1961 - Kevin McDonald, Canadian actor
1963 – Rosie Perez, American actress
1964 - John Salley, American basketball player and actor
1964 - Milton Jones, English comedian
1965 - Danel Tammet, Estonian computer scientist and politician
1965 – Krist Novoselic, American musician, former bassist for Nirvana
1966 – Janet Jackson, American singer
1966 – Thurman Thomas, American football player
1969 - David Boreanaz, American actor
1969 – Steve Lewis, American athlete
1969 – Tucker Carlson, American print and television commentator
1969 - Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Finnish ski jumper
1970 – Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
1972 - Andrzej Duda, President of Poland
1973 – Tori Spelling, American actress
1973 – Jason Acuña "Wee-Man", American television personality
1974 – Laura Pausini, Italian pop singer
1974 - Adam Richman, American actor and TV presenter (Man v. Food)
1974 – Sonny Sandoval, American singer (P.O.D.)
1975 – Tony Kakko, Finnish singer (Sonata Arctica)
1975 – Tonéx, American singer
1976 - Christian Califano, French rugby player
1977 – Dolcenera, Italian singer
1977 – Emilíana Torrini, Icelandic singer
1977 – Jean-Sébastien Giguère, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – David Ford, English singer/songwriter
1978 – Olga Zaitseva, Russian athlete
1978 – Lionel Scaloni, Argentine footballer
1979 – McKenzie Lee, English pornographic actress
1980 – Mikel Alonso, Spanish footballer
1980 – Michael Ryan, American ice hockey player
1980 - Jens Spahn, German politician
1981 – Jim Sturgess, English actor
1982 – Joo Ji Hoon, Korean actor and model
1982 – Łukasz Kubot, Polish tennis player
1983 – Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer
1983 – Gordon McRory, Scottish Drummer (The Fratellis)
1983 – Kyle Wellwood, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Mickie Knuckles, American female professional wrestler
1984 – Jensen Lewis, American baseball player
1984 – Rick Rypien, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2011)
1985 – Stanislav Ianevski, Bulgarian actor
1985 – Anja Mittag, German footballer
1985 – Corey Perry, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - Tadayoshi Okura, Japanese singer-songwriter, dancer and actor
1986 – Megan Fox, American actress
1986 - Andy Keogh, Irish footballer
1987 - Olena Khomrova, Ukrainian fencer
1990 – Thomas Sangster, English actor
1991 – Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgarian tennis player
1993 – IU, South Korean singer
1994 - Aaron Moores, British Paralympic swimmer
1998 - Ariel Waller, Canadian actress
2002 - Ryan Gravenberch, Dutch footballer
583 – Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)
1265 - Simon Stock, English-French saint (b. 1165)
1620 – William Adams, English navigator and Japanese samurai (born 1564)
1669 - Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter and architect (born 1596)
1703 – Charles Perrault, French writer (born 1628)
1782 – Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (born 1736)
1830 – Joseph Fourier, French scientist (born 1768)
1882 - Reuben Chapman, 13th Governor of Alabama (born 1799)
1891 – Ion C. Bratianu, Romanian statesman (born 1821)
1913 - Louis Perrier, Swiss Federal Councillor (born 1849)
1920 – Levi P. Morton, 22nd Vice President of the United States and 31st Governor of New York (born 1824)
1920 - Joselito, Spanish bullfighter (born 1895)
1926 – Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (born 1861)
1931 – Emiliano Figueroa, President of Chile (born 1866)
1942 – Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish anthropologist (born 1884)
1944 – George Ade, writer (born 1866)
1947 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English chemist, won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1861)
1947 - Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (born 1903)
1953 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian jazz musician (born 1910)
1954 - Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (born 1893)
1955 – James Agee, American writer (born 1909)
1957 – Eliot Ness, American federal agent (born 1903)
1963 - Oleg Penkovsky, Soviet-Russian agent (born 1919)
1971 - Gregoire-Pierre Agagianian, Armenian cardinal (born 1895)
1977 – Modibo Keita, 1st President of Mali (born 1915)
1981 - Ernie Freeman, American pianist, composer and bandleader (born 1922)
1984 – Andy Kaufman, American comedian (born 1949)
1984 – Irwin Shaw, American writer (born 1913)
1985 – Margaret Hamilton, American actress (born 1902)
1988 – Charles Keeping, illustrator (born 1924)
1989 - Leila Kasra, Iranian poet and lyricist (born 1939)
1990 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, creator of the Muppets (born 1936)
1990 – Sammy Davis, Jr., American singer, actor and comedian (born 1925)
1993 - Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1938)
1994 - Alain Cuny, French actor (born 1908)
2002 – Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (born 1968)
2003 – Mark McCormack, American sports business pioneer, founder of IMG (born 1930)
2008 – Robert Mondavi, pioneer California winemaker (born 1913)
2008 - David Mitton, English model-maker (born 1938)
2010 – Oswaldo López Arellano, President of Honduras (born 1921)
2010 – Hank Jones, American jazz pianist (born 1918)
2010 – Ronnie James Dio, American musician (born 1942)
2011 – Edward Hardwicke, British actor (born 1932)
2013 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (born 1933)
2013 - Paul Shane, British actor (born 1940)
2013 - Dick Trickle, racing driver (born 1941)
2014 - Viktor Sukhodrev, Russian interpreter (born 1932)
2015 - Yeung Kwong, Hong Kong Communist activist (born 1926)
2015 - Moshe Levinger, Israeli rabbi (born 1935)
2015 - Flora MacNeil, Scottish singer (born 1928)
2015 - Dean Potter, American rock climber and BASE jumper (born 1972)
2015 - John Templeton Jr., American physician (born 1940)
2015 - Elias Gleizer, Brazilian actor (born 1934)
2016 - Bobby Freeman, American politician (born 1934)
2016 - Romaldo Giurgola, Italian-born American-Australian architect (born 1920)
2016 - Emilio Navaria, American country and Tejano singer (born 1962)
2016 - Gavyn Farr Arthur, British judge (born 1951)
2016 - Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (born 1925)
2016 - Lino Toffolo, Italian actor (born 1934)
2016 - Aar de Goede, Dutch politician (born 1928)
2016 - Jim McMillian, American basketball player (born 1948)
2016 - David Rendel, British politician (born 1949)
2016 - François Maistre, French actor (born 1925)
2016 - Huguette Dreyfus, French harpsichordist (born 1928)
2017 - Bernard Bosson, French politician (born 1948)
2017 - Outi Ojala, Finnish politician (born 1946)
2017 - Doug Somers, American professional wrestler (born 1951)
2017 - Gunnar Möller, German actor (born 1928)
2018 - François Bréda, Romanian writer and literary critic (born 1956)
2018 - Joseph Campanella, American actor (born 1924)
2018 - Diana E. Murphy, American judge (born 1934)
2018 - Michael Slive, American college sports executive (born 1940)
2018 - Gérard Jouannest, French pianist (born 1933)
2018 - Eloísa Mafalda, Brazilian actress (born 1924)
2018 - Lucian Pintilie, Romanian film director (born 1933)
2019 - David Cervinski, Australian footballer (born 1970)
2019 - Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (born 1929)
2019 - Ashley Massaro, American professional wrestler and television personality (born 1979)
2019 - I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (born 1917)
2019 - Sol Yaged, American jazz clarinetist (born 1922)
2021 - Bruno Covas, Brazilian lawyer and politician (born 1980)
2021 - Rildo da Costa Menezes, Brazilian footballer (born 1942)
2021 - M. S. Narasimhan, Indian mathematician (born 1932)
In the Irish Calendar – Feast of Saint Brendan the Navigator
The feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
Ubaldus
Saint Honoré
John of Ponuk or John Nepomucene (1330 – 1393)
Simon Stock
National Day of South Sudan
Teachers' Day (Malaysia)
28 BC - A sunspot is observed by Han Dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han.
70 - Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city's Third Wall to the northwest.
1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England.
1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there.
1534 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
1612 – Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan marries Arjumand Banu Begum, who receives the name Mumtaz Mahal.
1655 - England annexes Jamaica from Spain.
1768 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton severely criticizing King George III.
This action provokes rioting in London.
1774 – Louis XVI becomes King of France.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Fort Ticonderoga is taken by a small force led by Colonel Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the 13 colonies of the United States meet in Philadelphia and raise the Continental Army to defend the new republic.
They place it under command of Cavalier George Washington of Virginia.
1796 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the River Adda in Italy.
The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States.
1824 - The National Gallery in London opens to the public.
1837 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
1849 - The Astor Place riot occurs in Manhattan after a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing over 25 people.
1857 – Indian Mutiny: In India, the Sepoys revolt against the British Army.
1863 - American Civil War: Confederate general Stonewall Jackson dies of his injuries after the previous week's Battle of Chancellorsville.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Spotsylvania.
1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
1865 – American Civil War: Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill in Kentucky (he lingered until his death on June 6).
1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah).
1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
1877 – Romania declares itself independent from Turkey, recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence.
1893 - The United States Supreme Court rules that a tomato is a vegetable instead of a fruit.
1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, United States).
1922 - The United States takes control of the Kingman Reef.
1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remained so until his death in 1972.
1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
1940 – World War II: The first German bombs were dropped on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
1940 – World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1940 – World War II: UK forces land in Iceland.
1940 - World War II: The German Luftwaffe mistakenly bombs the city of Freiburg im Breisgau in the southwest of Germany, killing 57 people.
1941 – World War II: The House of Commons in London is destroyed by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
1941 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland in order to try and negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
1946 - First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
1954 – Bill Haley and the Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the charts.
1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
1962 - Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
1969 – The first rural outdoor rock concert at Zap, North Dakota, is ended prematurely as North Dakota National Guard is ordered to disperse the unruly crowd.
1979 – The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
1981 – François Mitterrand takes office as the first Socialist President of France.
1988 – Michel Rocard becomes Prime Minister of France.
1993 – Kyrgyzstan replaces the ruble with the som as its national currency.
1994 – The U.S. state of Illinois executes serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murder of 33 young men and boys.
1994 – Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa.
1994 – An annular eclipse of the sun is visible across much of North America.
1996 – A "rogue storm" near the summit of Mount Everest kills eight climbers, making this the deadliest day in the mountain's history.
Among the dead are experienced climbers Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, both of whom were leading paid expeditions to the summit.
1997 – An earthquake near Ardekul in northeastern Iran kills at least 2,400 people.
1997 - Dutch storm surge barrier Maeslantkering is opened by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
1998 – National elections are held in Hungary.
2001 – In Ghana, a stampede at a football game kills over 120 spectators.
2002 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
2002 – Lynda Lyon Block is executed in Yellow Mama, the electric chair of Alabama.
2003 – May 2003 tornado outbreak ends.
2005 – A live hand grenade lands about 100 feet from US President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate.
2005 – Designed by Peter Eisenman, a memorial to Jews killed in the Holocaust is unveiled in Berlin.
2008 - A tornado on the Oklahoma-Kansas state line kills 21 people.
2012 - A car bombing in Damascus kills 55 people.
2013 - One World Trade Center in New York City becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
2014 - Conchita Wurst (Tom Neuwirth) of Austria wins the 59th Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen, Denmark, with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix".
2017 - Moon Jae-in becomes President of South Korea.
2018 - Mahathir Mohamad, at age 92, becomes Prime minister of Malaysia for a second time.
This makes him the world's oldest elected leader.
2019 - The United States' 25% tariff increase on 200 million United States dollars of Chinese imports takes effect.
213 – Claudius II, Roman Emperor (d. 270)
850 - Emperor Seiwa of Japan (d. 881)
1265 - Emperor Fushimi of Japan (d. 1317)
1548 - Antonio Priuli, Doge (ruler) of Venice (d. 1623)
1604 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist (d. 1686)
1641 – Dudley North, English economist (d. 1691)
1697 - Jean-Marie Leclair, French violinist and composer (d. 1764)
1714 - Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1792)
1725 - John Hope, Scottish physician and botanist (d. 1786)
1727 - Anne-Robert-Jacques, Baron de Laune, French statesman (d. 1781)
1746 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician, physicist and chemist (d. 1818)
1755 – Robert Gray, American sea captain (d. 1806)
1756 – Singu Min, King of Burma (d. 1782)
1760 – Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (d. 1782)
1760 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French army officer and composer (d. 1836)
1770 – Louis-Nicolas Davout, French general (d. 1823)
1775 - Antoine Charles Louise Lasalle, French general (d. 1809)
1788 - Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1819)
1788 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer (d. 1827)
1801 - Hugh J. Anderson, Governor of Maine (d. 1881)
1812 - William Henry Barlow, British railway engineer (d. 1902)
1813 - Montgomery Blair, American politician (d. 1883)
1823 - John Sherman, American politician (d. 1900)
1827 - William Windom, American politician (d. 1891)
1830 - Henry Calderwood, Scottish minister and philosopher (d. 1897)
1838 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor who killed Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)
1840 - Hadzhi Dimitar, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1868)
1843 - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish writer (d. 1920)
1848 - Thomas Lipton, Scottish merchant and yachtsman (d. 1931)
1855 – Sri Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru (d. 1936)
1874 - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (d. 1941)
1876 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (d. 1918)
1878 – Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
1886 – Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant theologian (d. 1968)
1886 - Olaf Stapledon, English writer and philosopher (d. 1950)
1888 – Max Steiner, Austrian composer (d. 1971)
1888 - Lucy Wills, English physician and researcher (d. 1964)
1890 – Alfred Jodl, German general (d. 1946)
1894 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-born movie composer and conductor (d. 1979)
1895 – Kama Chinen, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2010)
1897 – Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1987)
1899 – Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987).
1899 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979)
1900 – Ernst Ising, German mathematician (d. 1998)
1902 – David O. Selznick, American movie producer (d. 1965)
1902 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born movie director (d. 1974)
1908 - Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician (d. 2000)
1909 – Maybelle Carter, American musician (d. 1978)
1911 - Bel Kaufman, German-born American teacher and author (d. 2014)
1912 – Olga Bancic, Romanian resistance activist (d. 1944)
1912 - Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, Scottish-born mother of Donald Trump (d. 2000)
1915 – Monica Dickens, English writer (d. 1992)
1915 – Denis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher (d. 2003)
1916 – Milton Babbitt, American composer (d. 2011)
1918 - George Welch, American pilot (d. 1954)
1922 - David Azrieli, Canadian-Israeli tycoon, developer, designer, architect and philanthropist (d. 2014)
1923 – Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan (d. 2003)
1925 – Néstor Rossi, Argentine footballer (d. 2007)
1926 – Hugo Banzer, President of Bolivia (d. 2002)
1928 - Marcel Rigout, French politician (d. 2014)
1928 – Arnold Rüütel, former President of Estonia
1929 – Antonine Maillet, French-Canadian novelist and playwright
1929 - George Coe, American actor (d. 2015)
1930 - Pat Summerall, American football player and broadcaster (d. 2013)
1930 - George E. Smith, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
1931 - Ettore Scola, Italian moviemaker (d. 2016)
1932 - Christiane Kubrick, German actress, dancer, painter and singer
1933 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer
1934 - Cliff Wilson, Welsh snooker player (d. 1994)
1934 - Gary Owens, American DJ and voice actor (d. 2015)
1935 - William Duborgh Jensen, Norwegian fashion designer (d. 2017)
1935 - Larry Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist and producer (d. 1980)
1937 - Tamara Press, Soviet-Ukrainian athlete
1938 – Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player
1940 - Wayne Dyer, American psychologist and author (d. 2015)
1941 - Ken Kennedy, Irish rugby player
1942 - Peter Prince, British novelist
1942 - Jim Calhoun, American basketball player
1944 – Jim Abrahams, American movie producer and screenwriter
1944 - Marie France-Pisier, French actress (d. 2011)
1946 – Donovan, Scottish musician
1946 – Dave Mason, English musician
1946 – Maureen Lipman, English actress
1946 - Diderik Wagenaar, Dutch composer and theorist
1947 - Colin Stein, Scottish footballer
1950 - Natalya Bondarchuk, Russian actress and movie director
1952 – Manuel Mora Morales, Spanish director and writer
1952 - Kikki Danielsson, Swedish singer
1952 - Roland Kaiser, German Schlager singer
1952 - Vanderlei Luxemburgo, Brazilian footballer and manager
1953 – Tito Santana, Mexican-American professional wrestler
1954 - Mike Hagerty, American actor
1955 – Mark David Chapman, American murderer of John Lennon
1956 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (d. 1995)
1957 – Sid Vicious, English musician (d. 1979)
1958 – Rick Santorum, American politician
1960 – Bono (Paul Hewson), Irish singer, lead vocalist of U2
1960 - Dean Heller, United States Senator from Nevada
1960 - Victoria Rowell, American actress and writer
1961 - Blyth Tait, New Zealand equestrian
1961 - Johanna ter Steege, Dutch actress
1962 - John Ngugi, Kenyan long-distance runner
1963 - Anatoly Lebed, Estonian-Russian lieutenant (d. 2012)
1963 – Lisa Nowak, American astronaut
1965 – Linda Evangelista, Canadian supermodel
1966 – Jonathan Edwards, British athlete
1966 - Deborah Criddle, British paralympic equestrian
1966 - David Mackenzie, Scottish film director
1967 – Nobuhiro Takeda, Japanese footballer and sportscaster
1967 – Young MC, American rapper
1967 - Jon Ronson, English journalist and writer
1968 – Al Murray, British comedian
1969 – Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer
1970 – Gabriela Montero, Venezuelan pianist
1970 – David Weir, Scottish footballer
1970 - Sally Phillips, English actress
1971 - Adriano Giannini, Italian actor
1971 - Monisha Kaltenborn, Austrian Formula One team principal
1971 - Kim Jong-nam, North Korean political figure (d. 2017)
1971 - Linda Papadopoulos, Canadian psychologist
1972 – Christian Wörns, German footballer
1974 – Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer
1976 – Rachel Gordon, Australian actress
1977 – Henri Camara, Senegalese footballer
1977 - David Menkin, American voice actor
1977 – Nick Heidfeld, German racing driver
1977 - Anna Maxwell Martin, English actress
1980 – Namitha Kapoor, Indian actress
1981 – Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer
1983 – Gustav Fridolin, Swedish politician
1983 - Natalia Zabala, Spanish model
1985 – Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Emilio Izaguirre, Honduran footballer
1986 - Pendyana Harikrishna, Indian chess player
1987 - Wilson Chandler, American basketball player
1987 - Emmanuel Emenike, Nigerian footballer
1988 - Adam Lallana, English footballer
1989 - Lindsey Shaw, American actress
1990 – Lauren Potter, American actress
1992 - Jake Zyrus, Filipino singer and actor
1993 – Mirai Shida, Japanese actress
1994 - Yuki Ito, Japanese ski jumper
1995 - Missy Franklin, American swimmer
2013 - Prince Taufa'ahau Manumataongo of Tonga
689 - Kasakabe, Japanese prince (b. 662)
1034 – Mieszko II Lambert, King of Poland (b. 990)
1290 – Duke Rudolph II of Austria
1424 – Go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan
1482 – Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1397)
1493 - Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1433)
1521 - Sebastian Brant, German humanist (b. 1457)
1566 - Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (b. 1501)
1641 - Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal (b. 1596)
1657 – Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (b. 1592)
1696 – Jean de La Bruyere, French writer (b. 1645)
1717 – John Hathorne, magistrate (b. 1641)
1737 – Emperor Nakamikado of Japan (b. 1702)
1774 – King Louis XV of France (b. 1710)
1775 - Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, Queen Consort of Denmark-Norway (b. 1751)
1787 – William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)
1794 - Princess Elisabeth of France (executed) (b. 1764)
1798 – George Vancouver, English naval officer and explorer (b. 1757)
1807 - Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b. 1725)
1818 – Paul Revere, engraver, American patriot (b. 1735)
1829 – Thomas Young, decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphics
1863 – Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general (b. 1824)
1889 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826)
1897 - Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician (b. 1863)
1904 – Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
1904 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh explorer (b. 1841)
1910 - Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (b. 1826)
1911 - La Fayette Grover, American politician, Governor of Oregon (b. 1823)
1916 - Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian nationalist leader, doctor and author (b. 1846)
1944 – Olga Bancic, Romanian resistance activist (b. 1912)
1955 – Tommy Burns, Canadian World Heavyweight Boxing Champion (b. 1881)
1967 – Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racing driver (b. 1935)
1977 – Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1904)
1982 – Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b. 1916)
1984 - Joaquim Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist (b. 1943)
1988 – Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
1989 - Woody Shaw, American jazz musician, composer and bandleader (b. 1944)
1990 – Walker Percy, American writer (b. 1916)
1992 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
1994 – John Wayne Gacy, serial killer (executed) (b. 1942)
1999 – Shel Silverstein, poet, composer (b. 1930)
2001 - Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, 16th Governor of Himachal Pradesh (b. 1934)
2002 - Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1920)
2002 – Lynda Lyon Block, American murderer (b. 1948)
2003 – Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer (b. 1937)
2005 – David Wayne, singer for the heavy metal group Metal Church (b. 1958)
2006 – Soraya, Colombian-American singer and musician (b. 1969)
2010 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (b. 1928)
2012 – Gunnar Sonsteby, Norwegian resistance activist (b. 1918)
2012 - Carroll Shelby, American racing driver and auto designer (b. 1923)
2012 - Günther Kaufmann, German actor (b. 1947)
2014 - Patrick Lucey, 38th Governor of Wisconsin and former US Ambassador to Mexico (b. 1918)
2014 - Lem Johns, American secret service agent (b. 1925)
2014 - Andres Carrasco, Argentine neurologist (b. 1946)
2015 - Ninad Bedekar, Indian historian and writer (b. 1949)
2015 - Luiz Henrique da Silveira, Brazilian politician (b. 1940)
2015 - Kim Kyok-sik, North Korean military officer (b. 1938)
2015 - Chris Burden, American artist (b. 1946)
2016 - Louis van Gasteren, Dutch movie director (b. 1922)
2016 - Ilkka Hanski, Finnish ecologist (b. 1953)
2016 - Kang Young-hoon, Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1922)
2016 - Riki Sorsa, Finnish singer (b. 1952)
2016 - Gene Gutowski, American film producer (b. 1925)
2016 - Mark Lane, American lawyer and author (b. 1927)
2017 - Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor (b. 1924)
2017 - Greg Forristall, American politician (b. 1950)
2017 - Nelson Xavier, Brazilian actor (b. 1941)
2017 - Silvano Basagni, Italian sport shooter (b. 1938)
2017 - Emmanuèle Bernheim, French author and screenwriter (b. 1955)
2017 - Ted Hibberd, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
2018 - David Goodall, English-Australian botanist (b. 1914)
2018 - Alfonso Lovo Cordero, Nicaraguan politician (b. 1927)
2018 - Evgeni Vasiukov, Russian chess player (b. 1933)
2018 - Ken Hodgkisson, English footballer (b. 1933)
2018 - Kevin Kamenetz, American politician (b. 1957)
2018 - Graham Lovett, English footballer (b. 1947)
2018 - Adam Parfrey, American novelist, editor and publisher (b. 1957)
2019 - Frederick Brownell, South African vexillologist (b. 1940)
2019 - Hector Busby, New Zealand Maori navigator (b. 1932)
2019 - Bert Cooper, American boxer (b. 1966)
2019 - Gordon Neate, English footballer (b. 1941)
2019 - Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician (b. 1951)
2019 - Paul-Werner Scheele, German Roman Catholic theologian and bishop (b. 1928)
2019 - Dick Tomey, American football coach (b. 1938)
Confederate Memorial Day (North Carolina and South Carolina)
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Mother's Day (El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico)
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330 – Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
868 - A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest-known dated printed book.
1502 – Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.
1647 - Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.
1672 - Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
1745 – War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army.
1792 – Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented Caucasian to visit the Columbia River.
1812 – British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is shot and killed by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
1813 - In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory B. Laxland and William Wentworth lead an expedition westward from Sydney.
1818 – Charles XIV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1820 - The HMS Beagle has its official launch.
Later, one of its most famous passengers would be Charles Darwin.
1846 - President of the United States James K. Polk asks for a declaration of war against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War.
1857 – Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
1858 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
1862 – American Civil War: The ironclad CSS Virginia is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Yellow Tavern – Confederate General JEB Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, Virginia.
1867 – Luxembourg gains its independence.
1880 - Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough tragedy, a gun battle in California.
1892 – Johan Petter Johansson of Sweden is granted a patent for the Monkey wrench.
1894 – Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.
1907 - 32 Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in California.
1910 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
1911 – The United States becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
1918 - The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is created.
1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
1928 – The first analog TV service is inaugurated by WGY, Schenectady, New York.
1934 – Dust Bowl: A strong two-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl in North America.
1942 – William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
1943 – World War II: American troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
1944 – World War II: The Allies start a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line.
1949 – Siam changes its name to Thailand.
1949 – Israel joins the United Nations.
1953 – The Waco Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
1960 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann, living under the assumed name Ricardo Klement.
1960 – The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market.
1967 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and socialist, is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta.
1969 – Vietnam War: Operation Apache Snow – Near the Laos border, American and South Vietnamese forces fight North Vietnamese troops for Ap Bia Mountain (aka Hill 937 or "Hamburger Hill").
1970 – Henry "Dickie" Marrow" is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, N.C..
1970 – The Lubbock Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, killing 26.
1973 – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times dismissed.
1974 – An earthquake in Sichuan and Yunnan in China kills 20,000 people.
1976 – The last episode of the TV medical drama Marcus Welby, M.D. is aired.
1983 - Aberdeen F.C. defeats Real Madrid 2-1 to win the European Cup Winners' Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1984 – A transit of Earth from Mars takes place; no one is there to observe it.
1985 – 56 spectators die when a flash fire strikes a football ground during a match in Bradford, England.
1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
1987 – The first heart-lung transplant takes place (Baltimore, Maryland).
1995 – In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
1996 – On what was until that point the deadliest day on Mt. Everest, 8 climbers are killed in a snowstorm.
1996 – After taking-off from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.
1997 – IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player.
1998 – Nuclear testing: In the Rajasthan Desert, India conducts its first underground nuclear tests violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and inflaming its rival neighbor Pakistan (who already has nuclear weapons).
1998 – ZDTV, "the official technology television network", starts broadcasting.
It lasted six years until the G4techTV Merger and it turned into a gaming channel.
2000 – India announces that it's reached the population of 1 billion.
2003 – Rafael Palmeiro becomes the 19th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at The Ballpark in Arlington, Texas.
2004 – The Stockline Plastics factory explosion in Glasgow kills nine people.
2005 – The eleventh edition of the International Trade Fair KOSOVA opens in Gjakova, Kosovo.
2010 – David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
2011 – Two earthquakes in southern Spain kill at least 10 people.
2013 - Over 40 people are killed in a bomb attack in Turkey's Hatay province, near the Syrian border.
2013 - A parliamentary election is held in Pakistan, with a record voter turnout.
This leads to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returning as Prime Minister on June 5.
2013 - Wigan Athletic F.C. wins its first FA Cup after a surprise win over Manchester City in the final, as the first surprise result in the final for a number of years.
2015 - Pablo Picasso's Women of Algiers becomes the most expensive painting to sell at auction, being bought for $179.3 million.
2016 - Italy legalizes same-sex civil partnerships.
2016 - A series of bomb attacks in Baghdad kills around 90 people.
2016 - President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff is impeached.
478 – Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor (d. 565)
1366 - Anne of Bohemia, Queen Consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394)
1568 - Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (d. 1630)
1571 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyo and retainer (d. 1637)
1715 – Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, son of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1739)
1720 – Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, officer and adventurer (d. 1797)
1722 - Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (d. 1789)
1733 - Princess Victoire of France (d. 1799)
1752 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)
1763 – János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (d. 1845)
1801 – Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875)
1811 – Chang and Eng Bunker, famous Siamese twins (d. 1874)
1811 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (d. 1951)
1815 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, British statesman (d. 1891)
1817 - Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1909)
1827 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)
1835 – Karlis Baumanis, Latvian composer and poet (d. 1905)
1852 – Charles W. Fairbanks, 26th Vice President of the United States (d. 1918)
1854 - Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (d. 1932)
1855 - Anatoly Lyadov, Russian composer (d. 1914)
1862 - Franklin S. Billings, Governor of Vermont (d. 1935)
1871 – Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (d. 1928)
1874 – Einar Jonsson, Icelandic sculptor (d. 1954)
1875 – Harriet Quimby, American pilot (d. 1912)
1881 – Al Cabrera, Spanish-born Cuban baseball player (d. 1964)
1881 - Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944)
1885 – Joe "King" Oliver, American cornet player and bandleader (d. 1938)
1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (d. 1961)
1888 – Irving Berlin, Russian-American composer (d. 1989)
1890 - Woodall Rodgers, American attorney, businessman and politician (d. 1961)
1891 – Henry Morgenthau, American politician (d. 1967)
1892 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress (d. 1972)
1894 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)
1895 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (d. 1986)
1896 – Josip Štolcer-Slavenski Croatian composer (d. 1955)
1897 – Kurt Gerron German movie director (d. 1944)
1897 - George Murdock, American anthropologist (d. 1985)
1899 - Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (d. 1963)
1900 - Pridi Phanomyong, Prime Minister of Siam (d. 1983)
1903 – Charlie Gehringer, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1993)
1904 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (d. 1989)
1907 – Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988)
1907 - Rip Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1989)
1911 – Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985)
1912 – Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani short story writer of the Urdu language (d. 1955)
1912 – Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (d. 2001)
1913 – Robert Jungk, Austrian publicist (d. 1994)
1914 - Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist (d. 1998)
1916 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer (d. 2002)
1918 – Richard Feynman, American physicist (d. 1988)
1921 – Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician (d. 2016)
1924 – Antony Hewish, British radio astronomer
1924 - Eugene Dynkin, Russian-born American mathematician (d. 2014)
1924 - Jackie Milburn, English footballer (d. 1988)
1925 – Max Morlock, German footballer (d. 1994)
1925 – Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006)
1927 – Mort Sahl, Canadian comedian and political commentator
1927 - Bernard Fox, Welsh-American actor (d. 2016)
1927 - Gene Savoy, American explorer, author and scholar (d. 2007)
1928 – Marco Ferreri, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1930 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
1930 – William P. Carey, American investment banker and philanthropist (d. 2012)
1932 - Mustafa Tlass, Syrian military officer and politician (d. 2017)
1932 - John Vasconcellos, American politician (d. 2014)
1932 - Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer
1933 – Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader
1934 - Jim Jeffords, American politician, United States Senator from Vermont (d. 2014)
1935 - Dick Leitsch, American LGBT rights activist (d. 2018)
1936 - Tony Barrow, British press officer (d. 2016)
1936 – Carla Bley, American musician and composer
1939 - Frank Quilici, American baseball player (d. 2018)
1940 – Juan Downey, Chilean video artist (d. 1993)
1941 – Graham Miles, English snooker player
1941 - Ian Redpath, Australian cricketer
1943 – Les Chadwick, English musician (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
1945 - Floyd Adams, Jr., American politician (d. 2014)
1946 – Robert Jarvik, American physicist and inventor
1947 - Butch Trucks, American musician
1948 – Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese folk musician
1950 – Jeremy Paxman, British journalist and writer
1950 - John F. Kelly, 28th White House Chief of Staff
1950 - Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (d. 2014)
1951 – Ed Stelmach, Canadian politician, former Premier of Alberta
1951 - Johnny Doyle, Scottish footballer (d. 1981)
1952 – Renaud Séchan, French composer
1952 – Mike Lupica, sports journalist
1952 – Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian actress
1952 – Frances Fisher, British-American actress
1953 – Boyd Gaines, actor
1953 – David Gest, American television producer (d. 2016)
1956 – Theresa Burke, Canadian journalist
1956 – Alex Lester, British broadcaster
1957 - Peter North, Canadian pornographic actor, director, producer and dancer
1958 - Peter Antonie, Australian rower
1959 - Silvio Barbato, Italian-Brazilian opera conductor and composer (d. 2009)
1959 – Martha Quinn, American television personality
1960 - Jürgen Schult, German athlete
1963 - Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish politician
1963 - Masatoshi Hamada, Japanese comedian
1963 – Natasha Richardson, English actress (d. 2009)
1964 – John Parrott, English snooker player
1965 – Stefano Domenicali, Italian Formula One team principal
1966 – Christoph Schneider, German drummer (Rammstein)
1966 – Nancy Hower, American actress, sceenwriter, director, and producer
1968 - Jeffrey Donovan, American actor
1968 - Ana Jara, Peruvian lawyer and politician, former Prime Minister of Peru
1973 - James Haven, American actor
1973 - Tsuyoshi Ogata, Japanese marathon runner
1974 - DJ Zany, Dutch DJ
1975 - Coby Bell, American actor and producer
1977 – Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper
1977 - Victor Matfield, South African rugby player
1978 – Laetitia Casta, French model and actress
1978 - Perttu Kivilaakso, Finnish cellist and composer (Apocalyptica)
1979 – Gonzalo Colsa, Spanish footballer
1979 - Tim Baillie, Scottish slalom canoeist
1980 – Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa, Icelandic footballer
1980 - Ernest Vardanean, Armenian-Moldovan political scientist and journalist
1981 – Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player
1982 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and musician (d. 2013)
1982 – Jonathan Jackson, actor
1983 – Matt Leinart, American football player
1983 – Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer
1983 - Steven Sotloff, American journalist (d. 2014)
1984 – Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer
1984 - Arttu Lappi, Finnish ski jumper
1986 – Abou Diaby, French footballer
1988 - Ace Hood, American rapper
1988 - Marcel Kittel, German cyclist
1988 - Brad Marchand, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 - Severin Freund, German ski jumper
1989 – Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer
1989 - Prince Royce, American singer and songwriter
1989 - Cam Newton, American football player
1991 - Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh, Iranian footballer
1992 - Thibaut Courtois, Belgian footballer
1993 - Jirapong Meenapra, Thai sprinter
1993 - Maurice Harkless, American basketball player
1994 - Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopian long-distance runner
1995 - Yassi Pressman, Filipina actress and dancer
1999 - Sabrina Carpenter, American actress and singer
1999 - Madison Lintz, American actress
912 – Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (b. 866)
1304 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)
1610 - Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (b. 1552)
1642 – Safi of Persia (b. 1611)
1686 - Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (b. 1602)
1760 – Alaungpaya, Burmese ruler (b. 1714)
1778 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1708)
1812 – Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1762).
1848 - Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)
1849 – Otto Nicolai, German composer (b. 1810)
1871 – John Herschel, British mathematician and astronomer (b. 1792)
1883 - Julie Drouet, French actress (b. 1806)
1887 - Ion Keith-Falconer, Scottish missionary (b. 1856)
1889 - John Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1801)
1891 – A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)
1915 - Arthur Hussey, American golfer (b. 1882)
1916 - Max Reger, German pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1873)
1916 - Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
1927 – Juan Gris, Spanish Cubist painter (b. 1887)
1929 - Jozef Murgas, Slovakian inventor, architect, botanist, painter, patriot and priest (b. 1864)
1934 - Blaise Diagne, Senegalese politician (b. 1872)
1937 - Afonso Costa, Portuguese politician (b. 1871)
1952 - Alessio Ascalesi, Italian cardinal (b. 1872)
1955 - Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
1956 - Walter Sydney Adams, American astronomer (b. 1876)
1960 – John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1874)
1962 - Hans Luther, Chancellor of Germany in the Weimar Republic (b. 1879)
1963 – Herbert Gasser, American doctor, won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1888)
1966 - Henry S. Caulfield, 31st Governor of Missouri (b. 1873)
1971 - Seán Lamass, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1902)
1973 - Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
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1976 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898)
1981 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist (b. 1897)
1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae musician (b. 1945)
1984 – Toni Turek, German footballer (b. 1919)
1986 - Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl worker (b. 1953)
1988 – Kim Philby, British agent and spy (b. 1912)
1994 - Timothy Carey, American actor (b. 1928)
1996 - Yasuko Namba, Japanese mountaineer (b. 1949)
1996 – Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)
1996 – Nnamdi Azikiwe, first President of Nigeria (b. 1904)
1996 - Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (b. 1961)
1998 – Ernst Ising, German mathematician (b. 1900)
2000 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)
2001 – Douglas Adams, English writer (b. 1952)