Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. AI analysis
Battle of Morgarten: Swiss defeat Habsburg army. AI analysis
John of Canterbury appointed Archbishop by Pope Boniface IX. AI analysis
Christopher Columbus notes first recorded reference to tobacco. AI analysis
Francisco Pizarro enters Cuzco, establishing Spanish rule. AI analysis
Francis Drake departs on circumnavigation of world. AI analysis
William Herschel, discoverer of Uranus, born in Germany. AI analysis
Continental Congress approves Articles of Confederation. AI analysis
First Catholic college in US, Georgetown University, opens. AI analysis
Pike expedition discovers Mount Pike (later Pikes Peak). AI analysis
Creek Indians sign away the last of their lands in Georgia. AI analysis
First constitutional monarchy in Latin America established in Brazil. AI analysis
Sherman begins "March to the Sea" during Civil War. AI analysis
First stock ticker debuts in New York City. AI analysis
Brazil is declared a republic. AI analysis
First edition of Der Muller, Adolf Hitler's newspaper, published. AI analysis
League of Nations holds first assembly in Geneva. AI analysis
NBC Radio Network first broadcasts. AI analysis
Warsaw Ghetto sealed by Nazis. AI analysis
First U.S. Congress of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. AI analysis
Elvis Presley's first film, "Love Me Tender," premieres. AI analysis
First color photograph of Earth from outer space. AI analysis
Gemini 12 splashes down successfully. AI analysis
First commercial flight of Boeing 747. AI analysis
Intel releases world's first commercial microprocessor. AI analysis
First Spanish-language network in US, Univision, launches. AI analysis
Soviet Union launches Buran space shuttle. AI analysis
Dow Jones closes above 5,000 for first time. AI analysis
PlayStation 2 launches in Europe. AI analysis
World's tallest bridge, Millau Viaduct, completed in France. AI analysis
Xi Jinping becomes China's leader. AI analysis
Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi sells for $450.3 million. AI analysis
Venice experiences second worst flooding in recorded history. AI analysis
SpaceX launches first operational Crew Dragon mission. AI analysis
COP26 concludes with Glasgow Climate Pact. AI analysis
Bʼutz Aj Sak Chiik
Mayan king
(d. 501)
John I
king of France and Navarre
(d. 1316)
Nicholas V
pope of the Catholic Church
(d. 1455)
Eleanor of Austria
queen of Portugal and France
(d. 1558)
Johannes Secundus
Dutch poet and author
(d. 1536)
Jacques Davy Duperron
French cardinal
(d. 1618)
Madeleine de Scudéry
French author
(d. 1701)
Hermann von der Hardt
German historian and orientalist
(d. 1746)
Christoph von Graffenried
Swiss-American settler and author
(d. 1743)
Eusebius Amort
German poet and theologian
(d. 1775)
William Pitt
1st Earl of Chatham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain
(d. 1778)
William Herschel
German-English astronomer and composer
(d. 1822)
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Swiss poet and physiognomist
(d. 1801)
Joseph Quesnel
French-Canadian poet, playwright, and composer
(d. 1809)
Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher
Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic
(d. 1830)
José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi
Mexican journalist and author
(d. 1827)
Jérôme Bonaparte
French husband of Catharina of Württemberg
(d. 1860)
Friedrich Ernst Scheller
German lawyer, jurist, and politician
(d. 1869)
Michel Chasles
French mathematician and academic
(d. 1880)
Mary E. Byrd
American astronomer and educator
(d. 1934)
Tewfik Pasha
Egyptian ruler
(d. 1892)
Christopher Hornsrud
Norwegian businessman and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Norway
(d. 1960)
Gerhart Hauptmann
German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1946)
John Earle
Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania
(d. 1932)
Cornelia Sorabji
Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer
(d. 1954)
Emil Krebs
German polyglot
(d. 1930)
Emil Racoviță
Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer
(d. 1947)
Sara Josephine Baker
American physician and academic
(d. 1945)
Dimitrios Golemis
Greek runner
(d. 1941)
August Krogh
Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1949)
Lewis Stone
American actor
(d. 1953)
Franklin Pierce Adams
American journalist and author
(d. 1960)
Felix Frankfurter
Austrian-American lawyer and jurist
(d. 1965)
René Guénon
French-Egyptian philosopher and author
(d. 1951)
Marianne Moore
American poet, critic, and translator
(d. 1972)
Georgia O'Keeffe
American painter and educator
(d. 1986)
Artie Matthews
American pianist and composer
(d. 1958)
Richmal Crompton
English author and educator
(d. 1969)
W. Averell Harriman
American businessman and politician, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce
(d. 1986)
Erwin Rommel
German field marshal
(d. 1944)
Naomi Childers
American actress
(d. 1964)
Antoni Słonimski
Polish journalist, poet, and playwright
(d. 1976)
Leonard Lord
English businessman
(d. 1967)
Aneurin Bevan
Welsh journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Health
(d. 1960)
Sacheverell Sitwell
English author and critic
(d. 1988)
Avdy Andresson
Estonian-American soldier and diplomat, Estonian Minister of War
(d. 1990)
Stewie Dempster
New Zealand cricketer and coach
(d. 1974)
Mantovani
Italian conductor and composer
(d. 1980)
Curtis LeMay
American general and politician
(d. 1990)
Claus von Stauffenberg
German colonel
(d. 1944)
Carlo Abarth
Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth
(d. 1979)
Harald Keres
Estonian physicist and academic
(d. 2010)
Yi Wu
Japanese-Korean colonel
(d. 1945)
Jack Dyer
Australian footballer and coach
(d. 2003)
Arthur Haulot
Belgian journalist and poet
(d. 2005)
V. R. Krishna Iyer
Indian lawyer and judge
(d. 2014)
Nita Barrow
Barbadian nurse and politician, 7th Governor-General of Barbados
(d. 1995)
Bill Melendez
Mexican-American voice actor, animator, director, and producer
(d. 2008)
Carol Bruce
American singer and actress
(d. 2007)
Joseph Wapner
American judge and television personality
(d. 2017)
Vasilis Diamantopoulos
Greek actor, director, and screenwriter
(d. 1999)
Francis Brunn
German juggler
(d. 2004)
David Sidney Feingold
American biochemist and academic
(d. 2019)
Francesco Rosi
Italian director and screenwriter
(d. 2015)
Văn Cao
Vietnamese composer, poet, and painter
(d. 1995)
Samuel Klein
Polish-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, founded Casas Bahia
(d. 2014)
Gianni Ferrio
Italian composer and conductor
(d. 2013)
Howard Baker
American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff
(d. 2014)
Thomas Williams
American author and academic
(d. 1990)
Bill Rowling
New Zealand politician, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand
(d. 1995)
Ed Asner
American actor, singer, and producer
(d. 2021)
Joe Hinton
American singer
(d. 1968)
J. G. Ballard
English novelist, short story writer, and essayist
(d. 2009)
Olene Walker
American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Utah
(d. 2015)
John Kerr
American actor, singer, and lawyer
(d. 2013)
Mwai Kibaki
Kenyan economist and politician, 3rd President of Kenya
(d. 2022)
Pascal Lissouba
Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo
(d. 2020)
Petula Clark
English singer-songwriter and actres
s
Clyde McPhatter
American singer
(d. 1972)
Alvin Plantinga
American philosopher, author, and academi
c
Gloria Foster
American actress
(d. 2001)
Theodore Roszak
American scholar and author
(d. 2011)
Joanna Barnes
American actress and author
(d. 2022)
Peter Dickinson
English pianist and composer
(d. 2023)
Nera White
American basketball player
(d. 2016)
H. B. Bailey
American race car driver
(d. 2003)
Wolf Biermann
German singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Tara Singh Hayer
Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher
(d. 1998)
Little Willie John
American singer-songwriter
(d. 1968)
Terry Bradbury
English footballer and manage
r
Yaphet Kotto
American actor and screenwriter
(d. 2021)
Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde
Finnish physician and parapsychologist
(d. 2015)
Roberto Cavalli
Italian fashion designer
(d. 2024)
Tony Mendez
American CIA technical operations officer
(d. 2019)
Ulf Pilgaard
Danish actor and screenwrite
r
Hank Wangford
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and physicia
n
Sam Waterston
American acto
r
Rick Kemp
English singer-songwriter, bass player, and produce
r
Daniel Pinkwater
American author and illustrato
r
Daniel Barenboim
Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conducto
r
Roger Donaldson
Australian director, producer, and screenwrite
r
Bob Gunton
American actor and singe
r
Anni-Frid Lyngstad
Norwegian-Swedish singe
r
Vassilis Goumas
Greek basketball playe
r
Bob Dandridge
American basketball playe
r
Malcolm Ranjith
Sri Lankan cardina
l
Bill Richardson
American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations
(d. 2023)
Ken Sutcliffe
Australian journalist and sportscaste
r
Jimmy Choo
Malaysian fashion designe
r
Teodoro Locsin
Jr., Filipino journalist, lawyer, politician and diploma
t
Egon Vaupel
German lawyer and politician, 16th Mayor of Marbur
g
Beverly D'Angelo
American actress, singer, and produce
r
Rick Atkinson
American journalist, historian, and autho
r
Randy Savage
American wrestler
(d. 2011)
Alexander O'Neal
American R&B singer-songwriter and arrange
r
James Widdoes
American actor, director, and produce
r
Kevin S. Bright
American director and produce
r
Emma Dent Coad
British politicia
n
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Polish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Polan
d
Randy Thomas
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and produce
r
Tony Thompson
American R&B, disco, and rock drummer
(d. 2003)
Joe Leeway
English pop singer-songwriter and percussionis
t
Michael Hampton
American guitarist and produce
r
Gerry Connolly
Australian comedian and acto
r
Kevin Eubanks
American guitarist and compose
r
Harold Marcuse
American historian and educato
r
Michael Woythe
German footballer and manage
r
Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Australian actor and directo
r
Gu Kailai
Chinese lawyer and businesswoma
n
Lesley Laird
British politicia
n
Tibor Fischer
English autho
r
Dawn Airey
English broadcaste
r
Hugh McGahan
New Zealand rugby league playe
r
Mark Acres
American basketball player and educato
r
Judy Gold
American comedian, actress, and produce
r
Andrew Castle
English tennis player and television hos
t
Benny Elias
Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and sportscaste
r
Kevin J. O'Connor
American acto
r
Stelios Aposporis
Greek footballer and manage
r
Mikhail Rusyayev
Russian footballer, coach, and manager
(d. 2011)
Tiit Sokk
Estonian basketball player and coac
h
Nigel Bond
English snooker playe
r
Stefan Pfeiffer
German swimme
r
Rachel True
American actres
s
Greg Anthony
American basketball player and sportscaste
r
Cynthia Breazeal
American computer scientist, roboticist, and academi
c
E-40
American rapper and acto
r
Wayne Harrison
English footballer
(d. 2013)
François Ozon
French director, producer, and screenwrite
r
Gus Poyet
Uruguayan footballer and manage
r
Jon Preston
New Zealand rugby playe
r
Ol' Dirty Bastard
American rapper and producer
(d. 2004)
Fausto Brizzi
Italian director, producer, and screenwrite
r
Teodoro Casiño
Filipino journalist and politicia
n
Jennifer Charles
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and produce
r
Uwe Rösler
German footballer and manage
r
Ilija Aračić
Croatian footballer and coac
h
Jack Ingram
American singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Alexander Kvitashvili
Georgian-Ukrainian academic and politician, 19th Ukrainian Minister of Healthcar
e
Patrick M'Boma
Cameroonian footballe
r
Jay Harrington
American acto
r
Martin Pieckenhagen
German footballe
r
Jonny Lee Miller
English-American acto
r
Sydney Tamiia Poitier
American actres
s
Alamgir Sheriyar
English crickete
r
Chad Kroeger
Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and produce
r
Scott Henshall
English fashion designe
r
Yannick Tremblay
Canadian ice hockey playe
r
Boris Živković
Croatian footballe
r
Brandon DiCamillo
American comedian, actor, and stuntma
n
Virginie Ledoyen
French actres
s
Sule
Indonesian comedian and acto
r
Richard Lintner
Slovak ice hockey playe
r
Steven Miles
Australian politician, 40th Premier of Queenslan
d
Sean Murray
American acto
r
Peter Phillips
English businessma
n
Robaire Smith
American football playe
r
Floyd Womack
American football playe
r
Brooks Bollinger
American football player and coac
h
Josemi
Spanish footballe
r
Brett Lancaster
Australian cyclis
t
Ace Young
American singer-songwriter and acto
r
Drew Hodgdon
American football playe
r
Lorena Ochoa
Mexican golfe
r
D. J. Fitzpatrick
American football playe
r
Rio Hirai
Japanese actres
s
Joe Kowalewski
American football playe
r
Benjamin Krause
German rugby playe
r
Giaan Rooney
Australian swimme
r
Lofa Tatupu
American football playe
r
Kalu Uche
Nigerian footballe
r
Dominic Carroll
Gibraltarian runne
r
Sophia Di Martino
English actres
s
Aleksandar Pavlović
Serbian basketball playe
r
Fernando Verdasco
Spanish tennis playe
r
John Heitinga
Dutch footballer and coac
h
Asia Kate Dillon
American actor and produce
r
Lily Aldridge
American mode
l
Charron Fisher
American basketball playe
r
Simon Spender
Welsh footballe
r
Winston Duke
Tobagonian-American acto
r
Coye Francies
American football playe
r
Sania Mirza
Indian tennis playe
r
Jerry Roush
American singer-songwrite
r
Sergio Llull
Spanish basketball playe
r
B.o.B
American rapper, songwriter, and produce
r
Quanitra Hollingsworth
American-Turkish basketball playe
r
Morgan Parra
French rugby playe
r
Billy Twelvetrees
English rugby playe
r
Jona Viray
Filipino singe
r
Maxime Colin
French footballe
r
Shailene Woodley
American actres
s
Dylan Bundy
American baseball playe
r
Sofia Goggia
Italian skie
r
Minami Minegishi
Japanese singe
r
Daniela Seguel
Chilean tennis playe
r
Trevor Story
American baseball playe
r
Kevin Wimmer
Austrian footballe
r
Arik Armstead
American football playe
r
Paulo Dybala
Argentine footballe
r
Saaya Irie
Japanese actress and singe
r
Ekaterina Alexandrova
Russian tennis playe
r
Emma Dumont
American actress and mode
l
Bryce Cartwright
Australian rugby league playe
r
Blake Pieroni
American swimme
r
Karl-Anthony Towns
Dominican-American basketball playe
r
Kim Min-jae
South Korean footballe
r
Paula Badosa
Spanish tennis playe
r
TyTy Washington Jr.
American basketball playe
r
Mattathias
Jewish resistance leade
r
Malo
Breton bishop and sain
t
Æthelhere
king of East Angli
a
Penda of Mercia
king of Merci
a
Odo II
French nobleman
(b. 983)
Leopold III
margrave of Austria
(b. 1073)
Margaret I
countess of Flander
s
Frederick of Isenberg
German nobleman
(b. 1193)
Albertus Magnus
German bishop, theologian, and philosopher
(b. 1193)
James I of Urgell
Spanish nobleman
(b. 1321)
Joanna of Pfirt
duchess of Austri
a
Otto V
duke of Bavari
a
Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini
Italian noblema
n
Catherine of York
English princess
(b. 1479)
Ferenc Dávid
Hungarian preacher, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania
(b. 1510)
Roque González de Santa Cruz
Paraguayan missionary and martyr
(b. 1576)
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer and mathematician
(b. 1571)
John Amos Comenius
Czech bishop, philosopher, and educator
(b. 1592)
Aelbert Cuyp
Dutch painter
(b. 1620)
Tsangyang
Tibetan dalai lama
(b. 1683)
James Hamilton
4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire
(b. 1658)
Charles Mohun
4th Baron Mohun, English politician
(b. 1675)
Christoph Willibald Gluck
German composer
(b. 1714)
John Witherspoon
Scottish-American minister and academic
(b. 1723)
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
French painter
(b. 1719)
Jean-Baptiste Say
French economist and businessman
(b. 1767)
Herman of Alaska
Russian missionary and saint
(b. 1750s)
William Knibb
English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary
(b. 1803)
Maria II
Portuguese queen and regent
(b. 1819)
Thomas Neill Cream
Scottish-Canadian serial killer
(b. 1850)
Alfred Kennerley
English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania
(b. 1810)
Cixi
China empress dowager and regent
(b. 1835)
Wilhelm Raabe
German author
(b. 1831)
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1846)
Émile Durkheim
French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher
(b. 1858)
Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky
Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor
(b. 1862)
Mohammad Farid
Egyptian lawyer and politician
(b. 1868)
Alfred Werner
French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1866)
Tadhg Barry
veteran Irish republican and leading trade unionist
(b. 1880)
Dimitrios Gounaris
Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece
(b. 1866)
Petros Protopapadakis
Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece
(b. 1854)
Nikolaos Stratos
Greek lawyer and politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece
(b. 1872)
Wal Handley
English motorcycle racer
(b. 1902)
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Swiss author and photographer
(b. 1908)
Frank Chapman
American ornithologist and photographer
(b. 1864)
Narayan Apte
Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
(b. 1911)
Nathuram Godse
Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
(b. 1910)
Frank Weston Benson
American painter and educator
(b. 1862)
Lionel Barrymore
American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter
(b. 1878)
Emma Richter
German paleontologist
(b. 1888)
Tyrone Power
American actor, singer, and producer
(b. 1914)
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1869)
Robert Raymond Cook
Canadian murderer
(b. 1937)
Elsie Ferguson
American actress
(b. 1883)
Johanna Westerdijk
Dutch pathologist and academic
(b. 1883)
Fritz Reiner
Hungarian-American conductor
(b. 1888)
Dimitrios Tofalos
Greek weightlifter and wrestler
(b. 1877)
William Zorach
Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter
(b. 1887)
Michael J. Adams
American soldier, pilot, and astronaut
(b. 1930)
Konstantinos Tsaldaris
Egyptian-Greek politician
(b. 1884)
Rudolf Abel
English-Russian colonel
(b. 1903)
Jean Gabin
French actor, singer, and producer
(b. 1904)
Margaret Mead
American anthropologist and author
(b. 1901)
Bill Lee
American actor and singer
(b. 1916)
Steve Macko
American baseball player and coach
(b. 1954)
Enid Markey
American actress
(b. 1894)
Khawar Rizvi
Pakistani poet and scholar
(b. 1938)
Vinoba Bhave
Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee
(b. 1895)
Martín de Álzaga
Argentinian race car driver
(b. 1901)
John Grimaldi
English keyboard player and songwriter
(b. 1955)
Charlie Grimm
American baseball player and manager
(b. 1898)
John Le Mesurier
English actor
(b. 1912)
Baby Fae
American infant, who received baboon heart
(b. 1984)
Méret Oppenheim
German-Swiss painter, photographer, and poet
(b. 1913)
Billo Frómeta
Dominican conductor and composer
(b. 1915)
Ieronymos I of Athens
Greek archbishop and theologian
(b. 1905)
Elizabeth George Speare
American author
(b. 1908)
Alger Hiss
American lawyer and diplomat
(b. 1904)
Saul Chaplin
American director and composer
(b. 1912)
Stokely Carmichael
Trinidadian-American activist
(b. 1941)
Ludvík Daněk
Czech discus thrower
(b. 1937)
Edoardo Agnelli
son of industrialist Gianni Agnelli, converted to Shia Islam
(b. 1954)
Ray Lewis
Canadian runner
(b. 1910)
Dorothy Loudon
American actress and singer
(b. 1925)
Laurence Tisch
American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation
(b. 1923)
Speedy West
American guitarist and producer
(b. 1924)
Elmer L. Andersen
American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota
(b. 1909)
John Morgan
Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter
(b. 1930)
Adrian Rogers
American pastor and author
(b. 1931)
Arto Salminen
Finnish journalist and author
(b. 1959)
David K. Wyatt
American historian and author
(b. 1937)
Joe Nuxhall
American baseball player and sportscaster
(b. 1928)
Grace Hartigan
American painter
(b. 1922)
Larry Evans
American chess player and journalist
(b. 1932)
Ed Kirkpatrick
American baseball player
(b. 1944)
William Edwin Self
American actor, director, and producer
(b. 1921)
Oba Chandler
American murderer
(b. 1946)
Théophile Abega
Cameroonian footballer and politician
(b. 1954)
Luís Carreira
Portuguese motorcycle racer
(b. 1976)
Maleli Kunavore
Fijian rugby player
(b. 1983)
K. C. Pant
Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence
(b. 1931)
Frode Thingnæs
Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor
(b. 1940)
Sheila Matthews Allen
American actress and producer
(b. 1929)
Glafcos Clerides
Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus
(b. 1919)
Mike McCormack
American football player and coach
(b. 1930)
Jack Bridger Chalker
English painter and academic
(b. 1918)
Lucien Clergue
French photographer and educator
(b. 1934)
Valéry Mézague
Cameroonian footballer
(b. 1983)
Reg Withers
Australian soldier and politician, Australian Minister for the Capital Territory
(b. 1924)
Gisèle Prassinos
French author
(b. 1920)
Herbert Scarf
American economist and academic
(b. 1930)
Saeed Jaffrey
Indian-British actor
(b. 1929)
Mose Allison
American pianist and songwriter
(b. 1927)
Lil Peep
American singer and rapper
(b. 1996)
Žarko Laušević
Serbian actor
(b. 1960)