the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1918 - The last monarch of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Adolphus Frederick IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, commits suicide.
1918 - The Red Army recruits its first soldiers.
1919 – Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy.
1927 – The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
1927 - German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1934 – Léopold III becomes King of Belgium.
1940 – World War II: Soviet Union troops conquer Lasi Island.
1940 – The animated movie Pinocchio is released.
1941 - Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Glenn T. Seaborg.
1942 - World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the California coast near Santa Barbara.
1943 - Fire breaks out in St. Joseph's Orphanage in County Cavan, Ireland, killing 35 children and one adult.
1944 - The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the north Caucasus to Central Asia.
1945 – Early in the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Surabachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
The photo would later win a Pulitzer Prize.
1945 – World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by American forces.
1945 – World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań, city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
1945 – World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed by a raid of 379 British bombers.
1947 – International Organization for Standardization(ISO) is founded.
1954 – The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1955 – First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
1955 – Edgar Faure becomes Prime Minister of France
1956 – Nikita Khrushchev attacks the veneration of Joseph Stalin as a "cult of personality".
1957 – The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar.
1958 – Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
1966 – A military coup in Syria replaces the previous government.
1970 – Forbes Burnham declares Guyana a republic, severing ties to the British crown.
1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
1975 – In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States.
1980 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament would decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
1981 – 23-F, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
1982 - In a referendum in Greenland, most voters choose to leave the European Economic Community.
1983 – The Spanish Socialist government of Felipe González and Miguel Boyer nationalizes Rumasa, a holding of José María Ruiz Mateos.
1983 – The Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
1987 – A supernova is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud (see Supernova 1987a).
1991 – Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabia border and enter Iraq, thus starting the ground-phase of the war.
1991 – Thailand: General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
1992 – The Socialist Labour Party is founded in Georgia.
1993 – Gary Coleman wins a $1,280,000 lawsuit against his parents.
1995 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33, closing above 4,000 for the first time.
1997 – A large fire occurs in the Russian Space station, Mir, though it is extinguished after 14 minutes, without anyone on board coming to harm.
1997 - A fire disaster in Orissa, India kills over 100 people.
1998 – Tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
1998 – Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders.
1998 – Netscape Communications Corporation announces the foundation of mozilla.org, to co-ordinate the development of the open source Mozilla web browser.
1999 – Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
1999 – White supremacist John William King is found guilty of kidnapping and killing African American James Byrd Jr by dragging him behind a truck for two miles.
1999 – An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
2002 - In Colombia, Ingrid Betancourt is kidnapped by FARC guerrillas.
2005 - In France, a controversial law on the teaching of French colonialism is passed.
After protests, the law is abandoned about a year later.
2005 – Slovakia Summit 2005 begins, marking the first occasion when a sitting American President visits Slovakia; Bush and Putin are in attendance.
2007 – A passenger train crashes near Grayrigg, Cumbria, killing 1 person and injuring 22.
2010 - Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the River Lambro in Northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.
2014 - The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Southern Russia, end.
The host nation, Russia, ends the games with the most gold medals, making it the second Winter Olympics in a row in which the host country achieves this (after Canada in 2010).
2018 - One of the biggest surprises occurs in Olympic sport occurs, when Germany defeats Canada 4-3 in their men's ice hockey semi-final at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
1417 – Pope Paul II (d. 1471)
1443 – Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (d. 1490)
1583 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer and astronomer (d. 1656)
1633 – Samuel Pepys, English naval officer and diarist (d. 1703)
1646 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)
1649 - John Blow, English composer (d. 1708)
1664 – Georg Dietrich Leyding, German composer and organist (d. 1710)
1680 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767)
1685 – Georg Friedrich Handel, German/British Baroque composer (d. 1759)
1723 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
1729 - Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (d. 1809)
1730 - Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti, Austrian composer (d. 1793)
1744 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812)
1751 - Henry Dearborn, American statesman (d. 1829)
1792 – Jose Joaquin de Herrera, President of Mexico (d. 1854)
1803 – John Sutter, Swiss pioneer in California (d. 1880)
1809 - William Sprague, American minister and politician (d. 1868)
1817 – George Frederic Watts, British painter (d. 1904)
1821 - Amos T. Akerman, United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1880)
1842 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (d. 1906)
1850 – César Ritz, Swiss hotelier (d. 1918)
1852 – Duc Duc, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1883)
1868 - Anna Hoffman-Uddgren, Swedish director and actress (d. 1947)
1868 – W. E. B. Du Bois, American academic, writer and social activist (d. 1963)
1873 – Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (d. 1929)
1874 – Konstantin Pats, President of Estonia (d. 1956)
1879 – Kazimir Malevich, Russian painter (d. 1935)
1883 – Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist and philosopher (d. 1969)
1884 - Casimir Funk, Polish biochemist (d. 1967)
1889 – Victor Fleming, American movie director (d. 1949)
1889 - John Gilbert Winant, 60th Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1949)
1889 - Musidora, French actress and singer (d. 1957)
1893 - Charles Merz, American journalist (d. 1977)
1899 – Erich Kaestner, German writer (d. 1974)
1899 – Norman Taurog, American movie director (d. 1981)
1901 - Ivar Lo-Johansson, Swedish writer (d. 1990)
1904 – William L. Shirer, American historian (d. 1993)
1904 - George Docking, Governor of Kansas (d. 1964)
1906 - Samuel Joensen-Mikines, Faroese painter (d. 1979)
1908 – William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988)
1911 - G. Mennen Williams, Governor of Michigan (d. 1988)
1914 - Theofiel Middelkamp, Dutch cyclist (d. 2005)
1915 – Paul Tibbets, American Air Force pilot (d. 2007)
1923 – Yiannis Grevas, 87th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2016)
1923 - Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan politician (d. 2014)
1924 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist (d. 1998)
1924 - Claude Sautet, French director (d. 2000)
1925 - Louis Stokes, American attorney and politician (d. 2015)
1927 – Willie Ormond, Scottish footballer (d. 1984)
1928 – Vasili Lazarev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1990)
1928 - Hans Herrmann, German racing driver
1929 – Patriarch Alexius II, Head of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 2008)
1929 - Jaan Einasto, Estonian cosmologist
1929 - Elston Howard, American baseball player
1932 - Majel Barrett, American actress (d. 2008)
1935 – Diane Shalet, American actress (d. 2006)
1937 - Tom Osborne, American football player
1938 - Paul Morrissey, American movie director
1938 – Diane Varsi, American actress (d. 1992)
1940 – Peter Fonda, American actor (d. 2019)
1942 - Dioncounda Traoré, Malian politician
1944 – Johnny Winter, American musician (d. 2014)
1944 - Bernard Cornwell, British writer
1947 - Pia Kjaersgaard, Danish politician
1947 - Boris Kuznetsov, Russian boxer (d. 2006)
1948 - Steve Priest, British musician
1949 - Marc Garneau, Canadian astronaut and politician
1950 - Rebecca Goldstein, American writer and philosopher
1952 – Brad Whitford, American musician (Aerosmith)
1953 - Satoru Nakashima, Japanese racing driver
1953 - Adnan Polat, Turkish businessman
1954 – Viktor Yushchenko, former President of Ukraine
1955 - Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
1955 - Francesca Simon, American author
1956 - Paul O'Neill, American producer, composer and songwriter (d. 2017)
1956 – Reinhold Beckmann, German journalist and television presenter
1957 - Andreas Schockenhoff, German politician (d. 2014)
1958 - David Sylvain, English musician
1959 - Clayton Anderson, American astronaut
1959 - Ian Liddell-Grainger, Scottish soldier and politician
1959 - Linda Nolan, Irish singer
1959 - Graeme Morrice, Scottish politician
1960 – Emperor Naruhito of Japan
1963 - Radoslav Sikorski, Polish journalist and politician, foreign minister
1964 – John Norum, Norwegian guitarist
1965 - Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer
1966 - Alexandre Borges, Brazilian actor
1969 - Michael Campbell, New Zealand golfer
1971 – Melinda Messenger, British television presenter
1973 – Lars-Olof Johansson, Swedish musician
1975 - Wilfred Kibet Kigen, Kenyan marathon runner
1975 - Michael Cornacchia, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1976 – Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress
1976 - Satoshi Yoneyama, Japanese professional wrestler
1978 - Jo Joyner, British actress
1978 - Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Kim Kyung-roul, South Korean billiards player (d. 2015)
1981 – Gareth Barry, English footballer
1981 - Jan Böhmermann, German satirist and comedian
1982 - Anna Chapman, Russian agent
1982 - Adam Hann-Byrd, American actor and screenwriter
1982 - Karan Singh, Indian politician
1983 – Mido, Egyptian footballer
1983 – Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
1983 – Emily Blunt, British actress
1983 - Aziz Ansari, American actor, comedian and writer
1984 - Jeong Yu-mi, South Korean actress
1986 - Skylar Grey, American singer-songwriter
1986 - Ola Svensson, Swedish pop singer
1988 - Nicolas Gaitan, Argentine footballer
1989 - Evan Bates, American ice dancer
1989 - Amara Baby, French footballer
1990 - Kevin Cheung, Mauritian swimmer
1992 - Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
1993 - Kasumi Ishikawa, Japanese table tennis player
1994 – Dakota Fanning, American actress
1995 - Andrew Wiggins, Canadian basketball player
2012 – Princess Estelle, Duchess of Ostergotland, second-in-line to the throne of Sweden
1011 - Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz (b. 940)
1072 - Peter Damian, theologian (b. 1007)
1100 – Emperor Zhezong of China (b. 1076)
1270 - Isabel of France (b. 1225)
1447 - Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383)
1447 - Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)
1464 – Zhengtong, Emperor of China (b. 1427)
1603 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician and botanist (b. 1519)
1669 - Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (b. 1600)
1766 – Stanislaw Leszczynski, King of Poland (b. 1677)
1781 - George Taylor, Irish-American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1716)
1792 – Joshua Reynolds, English painter (b. 1723)
1821 – John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
1848 – John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
1855 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
1859 - Zymunt Krasinski, Polish-Roman poet (b. 1812)
1879 – Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1803)
1896 - Justo Arosemena, Colombian politician and writer (b. 1817)
1897 - Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (b. 1828)
1918 - Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1882)
1925 - Samuel Berger, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1884)
1931 – Nellie Melba, Australian operatic soprano (b. 1861)
1934 – Edward Elgar, English composer (b. 1857)
1944 – Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist, inventor of Bakelite (b. 1863)
1946 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885)
1948 - John Robert Gregg, Irish-born publisher and inventor (b. 1866)
1955 – Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
1960 - Arthur Legat, British racing driver (b. 1898)
1965 – Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890)
1969 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
1973 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician (b. 1895)
1974 - Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b. 1895)
1976 – L. S. Lowry, English painter (b. 1887)
1979 - W. A. C. Bennett, 25th Premier of British Columbia (b. 1900)
1983 - Hubert Howells, English composer (b. 1892)
1984 – Uwe Johnson, German writer (b. 1934)
1990 – Jose Napoleon Duarte, President of El Salvador (b. 1925)
1995 - James Herriot, British writer (b. 1916)
1995 - Melvin Franklin, American singer (b. 1942)
1996 – Helmut Schön, German football manager (b. 1915)
2000 – Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
2001 - Sergio Mantovani, Italian racing driver (b. 1929)
2003 - Howie Epstein, American musician (b. 1955)
2004 – Vijay Anand, Indian movie director (b. 1934)
2004 - Sikander Bakht, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala (b. 1918)
2004 - Neil Ardley, English jazz pianist and composer (b. 1955)
2004 - Carl Liscombe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1915)
2006 – Diane Shalet, American actress (b. 1935)
2008 – Janez Drnovsek, Slovenian politician (b. 1950)
2008 - Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver (b. 1917)
2009 – Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect (b. 1924)
2010 – Orlando Zapata, Cuban dissident, died after hunger strike (b. 1967)
2011 - Nirmala Srivastava, Indian religious leader (b. 1923)
2013 - Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (b. 1920)
2014 - Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-born pianist, Holocaust survivor and supercentenarian (b. 1903)
2015 - John Rowlands, Welsh author and novelist (b. 1938)
2016 - Ramon Castro Ruz, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1924)
2016 - Peter Lustig, German sound engineer and television presenter (b. 1937)
2016 - Donald E. Williams, American astronaut (b. 1932)
2017 - Alan Colmes, American political commentator and television presenter (b. 1950)
2017 - Sabine Oberhauser, Austrian physician and politician (b. 1963)
2017 - David Waddington, Baron Waddington, British politician (b. 1929)
2017 - Leon Ware, American musician, record producer and songwriter (b. 1940)
2018 - James Colby, American actor (b. 1961)
2018 - James Laxer, Canadian political economist (b. 1941)
2018 - Lewis Gilbert, British film director (b. 1920)
Republic Day (Guyana)
National Day (Brunei)
Defender of the Fatherland Day (Russia)
138 – Roman Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his heir.
493 - Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theodoric the Great.
1336 - 4,000 defenders of the Pilenai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
1489 - Charles VIII of France recognizes Monaco as an independent state.
1570 – Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1793 - George Washington holds the first cabinet meeting held by a President of the United States.
1831 - Battle of Oloynka Grochowska, part of the Polish November Uprising against the Russian Empire.
1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a US patent for the Colt revolver.
1837 - Thomas Davenport gets the first patent for an electric motor.
1843 - Provisional Cessation of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands is established by Lord George Paulet.
1848 - The Provisional Government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers right.
1856 – A peace conference begins in Paris after the Crimean War.
1866 - Miners at Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull.
1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first African American to serve in the US Congress.
1875 - Guangxu Emperor of China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
1901 - J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
1912 - Marie-Adelaide, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, at age 17, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
1916 - World War I: The Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun.
1917 – The British steamship RMS Laconia is sunk by a German U-boat off the south coast of Ireland, killing 12 people.
1921 – Tbilisi, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
1932 - Adolf Hitler is given German citizenship.
1933 - The USS Ranger is launched.
it is the first US ship built only as an aircraft carrier.
1941 - February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increased anti-Jewish measures by the Nazis.
1945 - World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1947 – The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
1948 - The Communist Party takes control of Czechoslovakia.
1951 – The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes President of Egypt.
1956 – Nikita Krushchev denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
1964 – Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, becomes heavyweight boxing champion, defeating Sonny Liston.
1968 – South Korean troops kill 135 people in Vietnam.
1969 - In Prague, Jan Zajic sets himself on fire in an act of protest against the Communist government.
He dies of his injuries.
1975 - Muhammad Abdullah becomes Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
1980 – Suriname's government is overthrown in a coup in the capital city Paramaribo.
1981 – Adolfo Suárez leaves office as Prime Minister of Spain.
1983 – The Statute of Autonomy for the Canary Islands is approved.
1986 – People Power Revolution: In the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos is forced to resign after a rule of over 20 years.
Corazon Aquino becomes President, the first Asian woman in that position.
1988 – Roh Tae-woo becomes President of South Korea.
1990 - Violeta Chamorro is elected President of Nicaragua, defeating Daniel Ortega.
1991 - End of the Warsaw Pact.
1991 – Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits a US military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 28 reservists from Pennsylvania.
1992 – Khojaly Massacre: Armenian forces kill 613 Azerbaijani civilians in Nagorno Karabakh.
1994 – In the West Bank town of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein kills 29 Palestinian worshippers, before being killed.
1995 - The first Screen Actors Guild Awards are given in Los Angeles, California.
1997 - Yi Han-yong, a North Korean defector, is murdered by unidentified assailants in Bundang, South Korea.
2001 - Non-reformed Communists win the election in Moldova.
2001 - Pedro Pires is elected President of the Cape Verde Islands.
2003 – Roh Moo-hyun becomes President of South Korea.
2008 – Lee Myung-bak becomes President of South Korea.
2009 – Bangladeshi Border Guards kill 74 people in Dhaka, including 57 army officers and family.
2009 – Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashes near Amsterdam, killing 9 people.
2010 – Viktor Yanukovych becomes President of Ukraine, succeeding Viktor Yushchenko.
2011 – The Fianna Fail-led government in the Republic of Ireland, under Brian Cowen, suffers a heavy defeat in the general election.
Enda Kenny is elected to serve as the next Taoiseach.
2013 - Park Geunhye becomes the first female President of South Korea.
2015 - Avalanches in Northeastern Afghanistan kill 310 people.
2018 - The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, end.
1337 - Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1383)
1398 – Emperor Xuande of China (d. 1435)
1552 - Magdalene of Lippe (d. 1587)
1591 – Friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635)
1643 – Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)
1651 - Johann Philipp Krieger, German baroque composer and organist (d. 1725)
1682 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)
1707 – Carlo Goldoni, Italian writer (d. 1793)
1708 - Felix Benda, Bohemian composer and organist (d. 1768)
1714 – Rene Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, French chancellor (d. 1792)
1727 - Armand-Louis Couperin, French composer (d. 1789)
1728 - John Wood, the Younger, English architect (d. 1782)
1752 – John Graves Simcoe, British territorial governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806)
1755 - François René Mallarmé, French lawyer and politician (d. 1835)
1778 – Jose de San Martin, Argentine independence leader, hero in many South American countries (d. 1850)
1812 - Carl Christian Hall, Danish statesman (d. 1888)
1816 - Giovanni Morelli, Italian art critic and political figure (d. 1891)
1833 – John St. John, Governor of Kansas (d. 1916)
1841 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter (d. 1919)
1842 – Karl May, German writer (d. 1912)
1845 – George Reid, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1918)
1848 - William II of Württemberg (d. 1921)
1856 - Karl Gotthard Lamprecht, German historian (d. 1915)
1857 - Robert Bond, 1st Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d. 1927)
1859 - John Burke, Governor of North Dakota (d. 1937)
1861 – Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher and educator (d. 1925)
1865 - Andranik Ozanian, Armenian general, rebel leader and activist (d. 1923)
1866 - Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher, humanist, historian and politician (d. 1952)
1871 – Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1913)
1873 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)
1881 - Alexei Rykov, Soviet politician (d. 1938)
1881 - William Z. Foster, American labour organiser and politician (d. 1961)
1883 - Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (d. 1981)
1885 – Princess Alice of Battenberg (d. 1969)
1888 – John Foster Dulles, 52nd United States Secretary of State (d. 1959)
1889 - Homer S. Ferguson, United States Senator for Michigan (d. 1982)
1890 – Myra Hess, English pianist (d. 1965)
1890 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
1894 - Meher Baba, Indian spiritual figure (d. 1969)
1901 – Zeppo Marx, American actor (d. 1979)
1902 - Virginio Rosetta, Italian footballer (d. 1975)
1903 - King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1906 - Boris Papandopulo, Croatia composer and conductor (d. 1991)
1906 - Domingo Ortega, Spanish matador (d. 1988)
1910 - Millicent Fenwick, American politician (d. 1992)
1913 – Jim Backus, American actor (d. 1989)
1913 - Gert Fröbe, American actor (d. 1988)
1917 – Anthony Burgess, English writer (d. 1993)
1918 - Barney Ewell, American runner (d. 1996)
1918 – Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995)
1919 - Monte Irvin, American baseball player (d. 2016)
1919 - Karl H. Pribram, Austrian-American professor (d. 2015)
1920 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader (d. 2012)
1921 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (d. 1970)
1922 - Molly Bobak, Canadian writer, painter and printmaker (d. 2014)
1924 - Hugh Huxley, British biologist
1927 - Dick Jones, American actor (d. 2014)
1927 - Ralph Stanley, American singer (d. 2016)
1928 – Larry Gelbart, American screenwriter (d. 2009)
1929 - Tommy Newsom, American bandleader (d. 2007)
1930 - Wendy Beckett, British nun, historian and broadcaster
1932 – Tony Brooks, British racing driver
1935 – Sally Jessy Raphael, American talk show host
1936 - Jorge Jacobson, Argentine journalist and writer (d. 2014)
1937 – Tom Courtenay, British actor
1937 – Bob Schieffer, American broadcast journalist
1938 - Malcolm Tierney, British actor (d. 2014)
1940 – Ron Santo, American baseball player (d. 2010)
1941 - Pierluigi Cera, Italian footballer
1943 – George Harrison, English songwriter, guitarist and member of the Beatles (d. 2001)
1943 – Wilson da Silva Piazza, Brazilian footballer
1943 - Boediono, 11th Vice President of Indonesia
1946 - Jan Groth, Norwegian singer and keyboardist (d. 2014)
1946 - Jean Todt, French Formula One executive
1946 - Elkie Brooks, British singer
1947 - Giuseppe Betori, Archbishop of Florence
1947 - Marc Sautet, French writer, teacher, and philosopher (d. 1998)
1947 – Lee Evans, American athlete
1947 - Doug Yule, American musician
1950 – Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina (d. 2010)
1950 - Francisco Fernandez Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (d. 2006)
1950 - Neil Jordan, Irish movie director, screenwriter and novelist
1951 – Don Quarrie, Jamaican runner
1952 - Joey Dunlop, British motorcycle racer (d. 2000)
1953 – Jose Maria Aznar, Spanish politician, former Prime Minister of Spain
1953 - Kim Yeong-cheol, South Korean actor
1954 - Gerardo Pelusso, Uruguayan football manager
1955 – Camille Thériault, Canadian politician, 29th Premier of New Brunswick
1956 - Andres Ammas, Estonian politician (d. 2018)
1957 - Chuck Strahl, Canadian politician
1958 - Kevin Gray, American actor
1958 – Kurt Rambis, American basketball player
1959 - Mike Peters, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist
1961 - Chris Pitman, American keyboardist
1962 - Birgit Fischer, German kayaker
1962 - Mark Heenehan, British theatre actor
1964 – Lee Evans, British comedian
1964 - Luigi Troiani, Italian rugby player
1965 - Sylvie Guillem, French ballet dancer
1965 - Carrot Top, American comedian
1965 - Veronica Webb, American supermodel and actress
1967 - Jonathan Freedland, British journalist and writer
1967 – Ed Balls, British politician
1971 – Sean Astin, American actor
1971 - Sean O'Haire, American professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and kick boxer (d. 2014)
1971 - Christien Anholt, British actor
1973 – Julio Iglesias, Jr., Spanish singer
1974 - Kevin Skinner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 – Chelsea Handler, American comedienne and actress
1975 - Naga Munchetty, British television news presenter
1976 - Rashida Jones, American actress
1977 - Sarah Jezebel Deva, English singer-songwriter
1978 - Yazid Mansouri, Algerian footballer
1978 - Yuji Nakazawa, Japanese footballer
1981 – Shahid Kapoor, Indian actor
1981 – Park Ji-Sung, South Korean footballer
1982 – Chris Baird, Northern Irish footballer
1982 - Bert McCracken, American musician
1982 - Flavia Pennetta, Italian tennis player
1982 - Maria Kanellis, American professional wrestler
1983 – Eduardo da Silva, Brazilian-Croatian footballer
1984 - Xing Huina, Chinese athlete
1984 – Craig Mackail-Smith, British footballer
1985 – Joakim Noah, American basketball player
1986 - Jameela Jamil, British television and radio presenter
1986 - James Phelps, British actor
1986 - Oliver Phelps, British actor
1987 - Justin Abdelkader, American ice hockey player
1987 - Mevlut Erdinc, Turkish footballer
1988 - Luca Di Matteo, Italian footballer
1989 - Kana Hanazawa, Japanese voice actress
1990 - Alejandra Andreu, Spanish model
1990 - Younès Belhanda, Moroccan footballer
1992 - Max Aaron, American figure skater
1993 - Christina Kirkman, American actress
1994 - Eugenie Bouchard, Canadian tennis player
1995 - Francesca Michielin, Italian singer
1997 – Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress
1998 – Brendon Baerg, American actor
1246 – Dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
1495 - Sultan Cem, pretender to the throne of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1459)
1547 - Vittoria Colonna, Italian poet (b. 1492)
1553 - Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat (b. 1492)
1558 – Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)
1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (b. 1566)
1634 – Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (b. 1583)
1643 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (b. 1582)
1655 – Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580)
1682 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (b. 1639)
1713 – King Frederick I of Prussia (b. 1657)
1715 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (b. 1640)
1723 – Christopher Wren, English architect (b. 1632)
1819 - Francisco Manoel de Nascimento, Portuguese poet (b. 1734)
1822 - William Pinkney, American statesman and diplomat (b. 1764)
1831 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (b. 1752)
1841 - Philip Pendleton Barbour, American politician (b. 1783)
1850 – Daoguang, Emperor of China (b. 1782)
1852 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet (b. 1779)
1864 – Anna Harrison, shortest-serving First Lady of the United States (b. 1775)
1865 - Otto Ludwig, German writer (b. 1813)
1877 - Jang Bahadur Rana, Nepalese ruler (b. 1816)
1894 - Steele MacKaye, American playwright, actor and inventor (b. 1842)
1899 – Paul Julius Reuter, German journalist (b. 1816)
1912 – Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)
1922 - Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (b. 1869)
1945 - Mario de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (b. 1893)
1950 – George Minot, American physician (b. 1885)
1953 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)
1957 – Bugs Moran, American gangster (b. 1893)
1964 - Kenneth Lee Spencer, American opera singer and actor (b. 1913)
1964 - Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian artist and sculptor (b. 1887)
1969 - Jan Zajic, Czechoslovakian student (b. 1950)
1970 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter (b. 1903)
1971 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist (b. 1884)
1975 – Elijah Muhammad, American Muslim leader, Nation of Islam (b. 1897)
1983 – Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)
1993 - Eddie Constantine, American-born actor and singer (b. 1917)
1994 – Baruch Goldstein, Israeli army officer (b. 1956)
1997 - Cal Abrams, American baseball player (b. 1924)
1997 - Yi Han-yong, North Korean defector
1999 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist (b. 1912)
2001 – Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)
2003 – Alberto Sordi, Italian actor (b. 1920)
2004 - Donald Hings, Canadian inventor (b. 1907)
2005 - Peter Benenson, English founder of Amnesty International (b. 1921)
2005 - Leo Labine, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
2005 - Edward Patten, American singer (b. 1939)
2009 – Philip Jose Farmer, American writer (b. 1918)
2012 – Maurice André, French classical trumpeter (b. 1933)
2012 – Red Holloway, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1927)
2012 – Erland Josephson, Swedish actor (b. 1923)
2012 – Louisiana Red, American blues musician (b. 1932)
2013 - Ray O'Connor, 22nd Premier of Western Australia (b. 1926)
2013 - C. Everett Koop, American politician and spokesperson (b. 1916)
2014 - Chokwe Lumumba, American politician, Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (b. 1947)
2014 - Mario Coluna, Brazilian footballer (b. 1935)
2014 - Paco de Lucia, Spanish flamenco guitarist, composer and producer (b. 1947)
2015 - Eugenie Clark, American zoologist and professor (b. 1922)
2015 - Terry Gill, Australian actor (b. 1939)
2015 - Marian Szeja, Polish footballer (b. 1941)
2016 - François Dupeyron, French movie director and screenwriter (b. 1950)
2016 - Alfred E. Mann, American entrepreneur and philanthropist (b. 1925)
2016 - Tony Burton, American actor (b. 1937)
2016 - Jim Clark, English movie editor (b. 1931)
2017 - Hassan Al-Jundi, Moroccan actor (b. 1939)
2017 - Neil Fingleton, English basketball player and actor (b. 1980)
2017 - Bill Paxton, American actor (b. 1955)
2017 - Jack Pope, American judge, attorney and author (b. 1913)
2017 - Toshio Nakanishi, Japanese musician (b. 1956)
2017 - Boaz Vaadia, Israeli-born American sculptor (b. 1951)
2018 - Ainsley Gotto, Australian political staffer and interior designer (b. 1946)
National Day (Kuwait)
People Power Day (Philippines)
Soviet Occupation Day (Republic of Georgia)
Memorial Day for Victims of the Communist dictatorships (Hungary)
364 – Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
1266 - Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily.
Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV makes Charles the King of Sicily and Naples.
1548 - Admiral Piri Reis conquers Portuguese-occupied Aden in Yemen for the Ottoman Empire.
1658 – Treaty of Roskilde: After defeat in the Northern Wars, King Frederick III of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly a third of territory to Sweden.
1794 – Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from exile on the island of Elba.
1848 – The Second French Republic is proclaimed.
1852 – The troop transporter Birkenhead of the Royal Navy sinks off South Africa, killing 450 of the 643 people on board.
The call Women and children first is believed to have been used for the first time.
1876 - Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state to Qing Dynasty China.
1885 - The Berlin Africa Conference takes place, deciding the colonial boundaries in Africa, between different European colonial powers.
1909 - Kinemacolor, the first successful color movie process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
1914 – The ship HMHS Britannic is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
1917 – Denali National Park is founded in Alaska, originally named Mt. McKinley National Park.
The mountain's English-language name comes from US President William McKinley.
1918 – A German U-boat sinks the British hospital ship HMHS Glenart Castle, killing 153 people.
1919 – The Grand Canyon becomes part of the Grand Canyon National Park.
1929 – The Grand Teton National Park is founded in Wyoming.
1935 – Robert Watson-Watt demonstrates the radar near Daventry.
1935 - Adolf Hitler orders the re-formation of the Luftwaffe.
1936 – February 26 Incident: Japanese military officers stage a military coup against the government.
1952 - Vincent Massey becomes the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
1960 - A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after take-off, killing 34 of the 52 people on board.
1961 - Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.
1966 - Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of a Saturn IB rocket.
1966 - Vietnam War; The ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army massacres 380 unarmed civilians.
1971 - U Thant signs the United Nations proclamation of the Spring Equinox (March 20/21) as Earth Day.
it is later celebrated on April 22.
1972 – The Buffalo Creek Flood is caused when a dam bursts, in West Virginia, killing 125 people.
1974 - Norway announces the discovery of the Statfjord oil field in the North Sea.
1980 - Egypt and Israel create full diplomatic relations.
1984 – US troops withdraw from Lebanon.
1990 – The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections, also meaning that Violeta Chamorro becomes Nicaragua's first female President.
1991 – The Gulf War ends when Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of all Iraqi troops in Kuwait.
1991 - Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb.
As it is confused with the World Wide Web, it is later renamed Nexus.
1993 – World Trade Center bombing: A bomb explodes in a car park under the North Tower of New York City's World Trade Center, killing 6 people, and injuring over 1,000.
1995 - Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest investment banking institute, collapses.
1997 - The funeral of Deng Xiaoping is broadcast across the People's Republic of China.
2000 – The Hekla volcano in Iceland erupts.
2004 – Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski dies in a plane crash near Mostar, in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2006 – End of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
2012 - Shooting of Trayvon Martin: African American teenager Trayvon Martin is shot dead by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in Florida.
The exact circumstances of his death become subject of debate and controversy.
2012 - Silent movie The Artist wins the most awards in the Academy Awards ceremony.
2013 - A hot-air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.
2016 - Gianni Infantino is elected President of FIFA, the governing body of world football.
1361 – Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)
1416 – Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark (d. 1448)
1564 – Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist (d. 1593)
1584 - Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666)
1587 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (d. 1639)
1671 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (d. 1713)
1672 - Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (d. 1757)
1677 - Nicolas Fago, Italian composer and teacher (d. 1745)
1718 – Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop, botanist and zoologist (d. 1773)
1720 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian cardinal (d. 1803)
1724 - Gottfried Heinrich Bach, son of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1763)
1732 - Francis Marion, American Revolutionary officer (d. 1795)
1746 - Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1806)
1770 – Anton Reicha, Bohemian composer and flautist (d. 1836)
1777 - Matija Nenadovic, Serbian uprising leader (d. 1854)
1786 – François Arago, Catalan-French physicist and politician (d. 1853)
1802 – Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
1808 - Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator and sculptor (d. 1879)
1814 - Charles-Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (d. 1876)
1829 – Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902)
1838 - Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Romanian writer and philologist (d. 1907)
1842 - Camille Flammarion, French astronomer and writer (d. 1952)
1846 – Buffalo Bill, American bison hunter and showman (d. 1917)
1852 – John Harvey Kellogg, American physician (d. 1943)
1861 – King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1939)
1866 - Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (d. 1930)
1869 – Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary, wife of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1939)
1875 - Richard Wetz, German composer and conductor (d. 1935)
1877 - Henry Barwell, Australian politician, 28th Premier of South Australia (d. 1959)
1877 - Rudolph Dirks, German-American illustrator (d. 1968)
1879 – Frank Bridge, English composer (d. 1941)
1880 - Kenneth Edgeworth, Irish astronomer (d. 1972)
1881 – Janus Djurhuus, Faroese poet (d. 1948)
1882 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)
1884 - Francesco Borgongini Duca, Italian cardinal (d. 1954)
1885 – Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania (d. 1969)
1887 - Stefan Grabinski, Polish writer (d. 1936)
1887 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (d. 1950)
1891 - Carlo Carcano, Italian footballer and coach (d. 1965)
1893 - Wallace Fard Muhammad, American religious leader (d. 1934)
1896 - Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, Soviet politician and ideologist (d. 1948)
1899 - Max Petitpierre, Swiss politician (d. 1994)
1900 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (d. 1989)
1902 - Jean Bruller, French writer, caricaturist and resistance activist (d. 1991)
1903 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist (d. 1979)
1906 - Madeleine Carroll, English actress (d. 1987)
1906 - Egidio Vagnozzi, Italian cardinal (d. 1980)
1908 – Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
1909 - Gunnar Andersen, Norwegian ski jumper (d. 1988)
1909 – King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
1909 – Fanny Cradock, British cookery writer and television presenter (d. 1994)
1911 - Taro Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (d. 1996)
1912 - Dane Clark, American actor and director (d. 1998)
1914 – Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)
1916 – Jackie Gleason, American actor and producer (d. 1987)
1917 - Robert Taft, Jr., American politician (d. 1993)
1918 - Pyotr Masherov, Soviet-Belarussian politician (d. 1980)
1918 - Otis R. Bowen, 44th Governor of Indiana and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (d. 2013)
1918 - Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (d. 1985)
1920 - Lucjan Woldanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveler (d. 2006)
1920 – Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
1921 – Betty Hutton, American actress (d. 2007)
1922 - Karl Aage Praest, Danish footballer (d. 2011)
1922 - William Baumol, American economist (d. 2017)
1924 - Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician (d. 2000)
1924 - Marc Bucci, American composer, lyricist and dramatist (d. 2002)
1925 - Everton Weekes, Barbadian cricketer
1926 - Verne Gagne, American wrestler and football player (d. 2015)
1926 - Henry Molaison, American memory disorder patient (d. 2008)
1928 - Anatoly Filipchenko, Soviet cosmonaut
1928 – Fats Domino, American musician (d. 2017)
1928 - Odo Marquard, German philosopher (d. 2015)
1928 - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 2014)
1930 - Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Algerian movie director and screenwriter
1931 – Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer (d. 2004)
1931 - Robert Novak, American journalist and author (d. 2009)
1932 – Johnny Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
1934 - Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Algerian director, producer and screenwriter
1936 - José Policarpo, Roman Catholic Patriarch of Lisbon (d. 2014)
1937 - Cliff Osmond, American actor (d. 2012)
1939 – Josephine Tewson, English actress
1940 - Whitney Smith, American vexillologist (someone who studies flags) (d. 2016)
1942 – Jozef Adamec, Slovakian footballer
1943 - Bill Duke, American actor and director
1943 - Darcus Howe, Trinidad-born British broadcaster, writer and activist (d. 2017)
1943 - Charles P. Thacker, American computer designer (d. 2017)
1944 - Ronald Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress
1945 - Tony deBrum, Marshallese politician (d. 2017)
1945 – Mitch Ryder, American rock musician
1946 – Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian chemist (d. 2016)
1946 – Bobby "Bingo" Smith, American basketball player
1947 – Sandie Shaw, British singer
1948 - David Edgar, British playwright
1949 – Elizabeth George, American writer
1949 – Emma Kirkby, British singer
1949 - Lynda Clark, Baroness Clark of Calton, British politician
1950 – Helen Clark, 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand
1950 - Jonathan Cain, American musician
1950 - Don Shanks, American actor and stuntman
1951 - Steve Bell, English cartoonist
1951 - Wayne Goss, Australian politician, 34th Premier of Queensland (d. 2014)
1952 - Jaan Arder, Estonian singer (d. 2014)
1953 – Michael Bolton, American singer
1954 - Leon de Winter, Dutch writer
1954 – Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey
1954 – Ernst August, Prince of Hanover, German aristocrat, married into the Monegasque royal family
1955 - Andreas Maislinger, Austrian historian
1956 - Kevin Dunn, American actor
1956 - Michel Houellebecq, French writer
1957 - Joe Mullen, American ice hockey player
1957 – David Muldrow, American politician, 113th Governor of South Carolina
1958 – Tim Kaine, American politician, former Governor of Virginia
1958 - Susan Helms, American astronaut
1958 - Greg Germann, American actor
1959 – Rolando Blackman, Panamanian basketball player
1959 - Ahmet Davutoglu, former Prime Minister of Turkey
1962 - Ahn Cheol-soo, South Korean politician, businessman and software entrepreneur
1963 - Chase Masterson, American actress and singer
1964 - Mark Dacascos, American actor and martial artist
1966 - Marc Fortier, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Garry Conille, 14th Prime Minister of Haiti
1966 - Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer-songwriter and producer
1967 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese footballer
1968 - Robin Ammerlaan, Dutch wheelchair tennis player
1969 - Hitoshi Sakimoto, Japanese composer
1969 - Steve Agee, American actor and comedian
1970 - Mark Harper, English politician
1971 – Erykah Badu, American singer
1972 - Jonny Quinn, Northern Irish musician (Snow Patrol)
1973 – Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Norwegian footballer and coach
1973 – Marshall Faulk, American football player
1973 – Jenny Thompson, American swimmer
1974 – Sébastien Loeb, French World-Champion rally driver
1977 – Shane Williams, Welsh rugby player
1977 - Tim Thomas, American basketball player
1978 – Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye, Senegalese footballer
1979 – Corinne Bailey Rae, British singer
1979 – Pedro Mendes, Portuguese footballer
1980 - Steve Blake, American basketball player
1981 – Chris Thile, American musician
1982 – Li Na, Chinese tennis player
1982 - Matt Prior, English cricketer
1983 – Pepe, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer
1984 – Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese footballer
1984 - Alex de Angelis, Sammarinese motorcycle racer
1984 - Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer-songwriter
1985 - Gee Atherton, English mountain biker
1985 – Miki Fujimoto, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1985 – Fernando Llorente, Spanish footballer
1986 – Hannah Kearney, American skier
1986 - Leila Lopes, Angolan model
1986 - Teresa Palmer, Australian model and actress
1989 - Gabriel Obertan, French footballer
1991 - CL, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
1991 - Kevin Plawecki, American baseball player
1992 - Mikael Granlund, Finnish ice hockey player
1993 – Taylor Dooley, American actress
420 - Porphyry of Gaza, Greek bishop and saint (b. 347)
1154 – King Roger II of Sicily (b. 1093)
1266 – King Manfred of Sicily (b. 1232)
1360 – Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (b. 1328)
1577 – King Eric XIV of Sweden (b. 1533)
1611 - Antonio Possevino, Italian Jesuit humanist, diplomat and bibliographer
1726 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1662)
1770 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (b. 1692)
1813 - Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1746)
1815 - Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg Saalfeld (b. 1737)
1864 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian politician (b. 1807)
1883 – Alexandros Koumoundouros, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
1889 - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist and composer (b. 1838)
1903 – Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor (b. 1818)
1909 – Hermann Ebbinghaus, German philosopher (b. 1850)
1931 – Otto Wallach, German chemist (b. 1847)
1933 – Princess Thyra of Denmark (b. 1853)
1936 – Saito Makoto, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1858)
1936 - Takahashi Korekiyo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1854)
1942 - Tommaso Pio Boggiani, Italian cardinal (b. 1863)
1950 - Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer (b. 1870)
1952 - Theodoros Pangalos, Greek interim leader (b. 1878)
1961 – King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
1964 - Homer Martin Atkins, American politician, 32nd Governor of Arkansas (b. 1890)
1966 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian freedom fighter and writer (b. 1883)
1969 – Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist (b. 1883)
1969 – Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
1971 - Fernandel, French actor (b. 1903)
1981 - Howard Hanson, American composer (b. 1896)
1985 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist (b. 1910)
1989 – Roy Eldridge, American musician (b. 1911)
1994 – Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
1995 – Jack Clayton, British movie director (b. 1921)
1998 – Theodore Schultz, American economist (b. 1902)
1998 - James Algar, American director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1912)
2001 - Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (b. 1906)
2002 – Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)
2004 – Boris Trajkovski, President of Macedonia (b. 1956)
2004 - Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician (b. 1929)
2009 – Ruth Drexel, German actress (b. 1930)
2009 – Wendy Richard, British actress (b. 1943)
2009 - Norm Van Lier, American basketball player (b. 1947)
2011 – Arnost Lustig, Czech writer (b. 1926)
2012 - Trayvon Martin, American teenager (shot) (b. 1995)
2013 - Marie-Claire Alain, French organist and teacher (b. 1926)
2013 - Stéphane Hessel, German-born French writer, diplomat and Resistance activist (b. 1917)
2014 - Sorel Etrog, Romanian-Canadian sculptor, painter and illustrator (b. 1935)
2014 - Gordon Nutt, English footballer (b. 1932)
2014 - Tim Wilson, American comedian and country music singer (b. 1961)
2015 - Theodore Hesburgh, American professor and Roman Catholic priest (b. 1917)
2015 - Martha Cohen, Canadian philanthropist (b. 1920)
2015 - Fritz J. Raddatz, German writer (b. 1931)
2015 - Avijit Roy, Bangladeshi/American blogger
2015 - Tom Schweich, American politician (b. 1961)
2015 - Earl Lloyd, American basketball player (b. 1925)
2016 - Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
2016 - Don Getty, Canadian politician, Premier of Alberta (b. 1933)
2016 - Eri Klas, Estonian conductor (b. 1939)
2016 - Karl Dedecius, Polish-German translator (b. 1921)
2017 - Ludvig Faddeev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1934)
2017 - Gerald Kaufman, English politician (b. 1930)
2017 - Joseph Wapner, American judge and television personality (b. 1913)
2017 - Eugene Garfield, American linguist (b. 1925)
2017 - Ned Garver, American baseball player (b. 1925)
2017 - Preben Hertoft, Danish sexologist (b. 1928)