Delaware becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Constitution. AI analysis
The first American president, George Washington, gives his Farewell Address. AI analysis
Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas. AI analysis
The first opium war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Nanking. AI analysis
The Wyoming Territory becomes the first U.S. territory to grant women the right to vote. AI analysis
The Battle of the Falkland Islands takes place during World War I. AI analysis
The Japanese attack the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, leading the U.S. to enter World War II. AI analysis
The People's Republic of China announces its plans to move its capital from Nanjing to Beijing. AI analysis
The United States successfully tests its first hydrogen bomb. AI analysis
The United States creates the National Security Agency’s (NSA) "Project Minaret" to monitor foreign communications. AI analysis
Apollo 17, the last Apollo mission, is launched to the moon. AI analysis
The U.S. and Soviet Union sign the Helsinki Accords to ease Cold War tensions. AI analysis
The Iran-Contra Affair scandal is revealed. AI analysis
The Oslo Accords are signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). AI analysis
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is established. AI analysis
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of George W. Bush in the disputed 2000 presidential election. AI analysis
The United States begins military operations in Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attacks. AI analysis
The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, aiming to combat global climate change. AI analysis
The United States announces the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. AI analysis
The United Nations General Assembly votes to condemn the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. AI analysis
Columba
Irish missionary, monk, and saint
(d. 597)
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
Persian astronomer and author
(d. 986)
Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr
Persian Sufi poet
(d. 1049)
Azzone Visconti
Italian nobleman
(d. 1339)
Louis I
German nobleman and politician
(d. 1605)
Henry Stuart
English-Scottish husband of Mary, Queen of Scots
(d. 1567)
Kikkawa Hiroie
Japanese daimyō
(d. 1625)
Injo of Joseon
Korean king
(d. 1649)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian sculptor and painter
(d. 1680)
Giovanni Battista Falda
Italian architect and engraver
(d. 1678)
Bernardo Pasquini
Italian organist and composer
(d. 1710)
John Littlejohn
American sheriff and Methodist preacher
(d. 1836)
Claude Victor-Perrin
French general and politician
(d. 1841)
Allan Cunningham
Scottish author and poet
(d. 1842)
Ferenc Novák
Hungarian-Slovene priest and poet
(d. 1836)
Abraham Jacob van der Aa
Dutch author and academic
(d. 1857)
Johann Nestroy
Austrian actor and playwright
(d. 1862)
Josef Hyrtl
Hungarian-Austrian anatomist and biologist
(d. 1894)
Theodor Schwann
German physiologist and biologist
(d. 1882)
Leopold Kronecker
Polish-German mathematician and academic
(d. 1891)
Thomas Bent
Australian businessman and politician, 22nd Premier of Victoria
(d. 1909)
Joseph Cook
English-born Australian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Australia
(d. 1947)
Henri Mathias Berthelot
French general during World War I
(d. 1931)
Paul Adam
French author
(d. 1920)
Felix Calonder
Swiss soldier and politician, 36th President of the Swiss Confederation
(d. 1952)
Pietro Mascagni
Italian composer and conductor
(d. 1945)
Richard Warren Sears
American businessman, co-founded Sears
(d. 1914)
Frank Laver
Australian cricketer
(d. 1919)
Willa Cather
American novelist, short story writer, and poet
(d. 1947)
Akiko Yosano
Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer
(d. 1942)
Rudolf Friml
Czech-American pianist, composer, and academic
(d. 1972)
John Carpenter
American sprinter
(d. 1933)
Mason Phelps
American golfer
(d. 1945)
Peter Sturholdt
American boxer and painter
(d. 1919)
Ernst Toch
Austrian-American composer and songwriter
(d. 1964)
Joyce Cary
Irish novelist
(d. 1957)
Hamilton Fish III
American captain and politician
(d. 1991)
Stuart Davis
American painter and academic
(d. 1964)
Fay Bainter
American actress
(d. 1968)
Hermann Balck
German general
(d. 1982)
Freddie Adkins
English author and illustrator
(d. 1986)
Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur
Ukrainian folk artist
(d. 1961)
Hilda Taba
Estonian architect, author, and educator
(d. 1967)
Danilo Blanuša
Croatian mathematician, physicist, and academic
(d. 1987)
Clarence Nash
American voice actor and singer
(d. 1985)
Gerard Kuiper
Dutch-American astronomer and academic
(d. 1973)
Erika Fuchs
German translator
(d. 2005)
Fred Rose
Polish-Canadian politician and spy
(d. 1983)
Nikola Vaptsarov
Bulgarian poet and author
(d. 1942)
Duncan McNaughton
Canadian high jumper and geologist
(d. 1998)
Louis Prima
American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and actor
(d. 1978)
Daniel Jones
Welsh captain and composer
(d. 1993)
Kersti Merilaas
Estonian author and poet
(d. 1986)
Leigh Brackett
American author and screenwriter
(d. 1978)
Eli Wallach
American actor
(d. 2014)
Tatamkhulu Afrika
South African poet and author
(d. 2002)
Fiorenzo Magni
Italian cyclist
(d. 2012)
Walter Nowotny
Austrian-German soldier and pilot
(d. 1944)
Pramukh Swami Maharaj
Indian guru and scholar
(d. 2016)
Intizar Hussain
Indian-Pakistani author and scholar
(d. 2016)
Ted Knight
American actor and comedian
(d. 1986)
Bent Fabric
Danish pianist and composer
(d. 2020)
John Love
Zimbabwean race car driver
(d. 2005)
Mary Ellen Rudin
American mathematician
(d. 2013)
Mário Soares
Portuguese historian, lawyer, and politician, 17th President of Portugal
(d. 2017)
Hermano da Silva Ramos
French-Brazilian race car drive
r
Max Zaslofsky
American basketball player and coach
(d. 1985)
William John McNaughton
American bishop
(d. 2020)
Jack S. Blanton
American businessman and philanthropist
(d. 2013)
Helen Watts
Welsh opera singer
(d. 2009)
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and philosophe
r
Mickey Thompson
American race car driver
(d. 1988)
Christopher Nicole
Guyanese-English author
(d. 2017)
Hal Smith
American baseball player
(d. 2020)
Allan B. Calhamer
American game designer, created Diplomacy
(d. 2013)
Bobby Osborne
American bluegrass singer and musician
(d. 2023)
Ellen Burstyn
American actres
s
Oktay Ekşi
Turkish journalist and politicia
n
Rosemary Rogers
American journalist and author
(d. 2019)
J. B. Sumarlin
Indonesian economist and politician, 17th Indonesian Minister of Finance
(d. 2020)
Bobby Whitton
Australian rugby league player
(d. 2008)
Krsto Papić
Croatian director and screenwriter
(d. 2013)
Armando Manzanero
Mexican musician, singer and composer
(d. 2020)
Stan Boardman
English comedia
n
Thad Cochran
American lawyer and politician
(d. 2019)
Gerry Cheevers
Canadian ice hockey player and coac
h
Melba Pattillo Beals
American journalist and activis
t
Harry Chapin
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(d. 1981)
Alex Johnson
American baseball player
(d. 2015)
Reginald F. Lewis
American businessman
(d. 1993)
Peter Tomarken
American game show host and producer
(d. 2006)
Susan Isaacs
American author and screenwrite
r
Jóhann Ársælsson
Icelandic politicia
n
Nick Katz
American mathematician and academi
c
Bernard C. Parks
American police officer and politicia
n
John Bennett Ramsey
American businessman and pilo
t
Daniel Chorzempa
American organist and composer
(d. 2023)
Miroslav Macek
Czech dentist and politician
(d. 2024)
Johnny Bench
American baseball player and sportscaste
r
Anne Fine
English autho
r
James Keach
American actor, producer, and directo
r
Garry Unger
Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaste
r
Gary Morris
American country singer-songwriter and acto
r
Tony Thomas
American screenwriter and produce
r
James Rivière
Italian sculptor and jewele
r
Tom Waits
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and acto
r
Ron Hynes
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
(d. 2015)
Susan Collins
American politicia
n
Eckhard Märzke
German footballer and manage
r
Mary Fallin
American businesswoman and politician, 27th Governor of Oklahom
a
John Watkins
Australian educator and politician, 14th Deputy Premier of New South Wale
s
Larry Bird
American basketball player and coac
h
Chuy Bravo
Mexican-American comedian and actor
(d. 2019)
Anna Soubry
British politicia
n
Geoff Lawson
Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaste
r
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande
Nigerian career-diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly
(2019)
Tom Winsor
English lawyer and civil servan
t
Tim Butler
English bass player and songwrite
r
Rick Rude
American wrestler and sportscaster
(d. 1999)
Saleem Yousuf
Pakistani crickete
r
Craig Scanlon
English guitarist and songwrite
r
Alain Blondel
French decathlet
e
Jeffrey Donaldson
Northern Irish politicia
n
Imad Mughniyah
Lebanese activist
(d. 2008)
Theo Snelders
Dutch footballer and coac
h
Katsuya Terada
Japanese illustrato
r
Barbara Weathers
American R&B/soul singe
r
Hugo Blick
English filmmake
r
Patrick Fabian
American acto
r
Peter Laviolette
American ice hockey player and coac
h
Deborah Bassett
Australian rowe
r
Colin Hendry
Scottish footballer and manage
r
Jeffrey Wright
American acto
r
C. Thomas Howell
American actor, director, producer, and screenwrite
r
Shinichi Ito
Japanese motorcycle race
r
Kazue Itoh
Japanese actres
s
Andres Kasekamp
Canadian-Estonian historian and academi
c
Louise Post
American singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Mark Geyer
Australian rugby league player and sportscaste
r
Tino Martinez
American baseball player, coach, and sportscaste
r
Nina Turner
American politicia
n
Vladimir Akopian
Azerbaijani-Armenian chess playe
r
Hermann Maier
Austrian skie
r
Tammy Lynn Sytch
American wrestler and manage
r
İbrahim Kutluay
Turkish basketball playe
r
Hack Meyers
American wrestler and trainer
(d. 2015)
Terrell Owens
American football playe
r
Fabien Pelous
French rugby player and coac
h
Damien Rice
Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record produce
r
Nicole Appleton
Canadian singer and actres
s
Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez
Spanish shot putter and acto
r
Jamie Clapham
English footballer and coac
h
Alan Faneca
American football playe
r
Ivan Franceschini
Italian footballe
r
Georges Laraque
Canadian ice hockey player and politicia
n
Derek Ramsay
Filipino-British actor, model and television personalit
y
Sunny Sweeney
American singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Benoît Tréluyer
French race car drive
r
Joris Vandenbroucke
Belgian politicia
n
Eric Chavez
American baseball player and sportscaste
r
Luke Donald
English golfe
r
Dominic Howard
English drummer and produce
r
Shiri Appleby
American actress, director, and produce
r
Suzannah Lipscomb
English historian, academic and television presente
r
Sara Bareilles
American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actres
s
Jennifer Carpenter
American actres
s
Lampros Choutos
Greek-Italian footballe
r
Ayako Fujitani
Japanese actress and screenwrite
r
Dan Bilzerian
American poker player and internet celebrit
y
John Terry
English footballe
r
Lou Amundson
American basketball playe
r
Jack Huston
English acto
r
Mike Mucitelli
American mixed martial artis
t
Al Thornton
American basketball playe
r
Aaron Gray
American basketball playe
r
Robert Kubica
Polish race car drive
r
Milan Michálek
Czech ice hockey playe
r
Luca Rigoni
Italian footballe
r
Jon Moxley
American wrestle
r
Billy Horschel
American golfe
r
Nita Strauss
American guitaris
t
Aaron Carter
American singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer, and actor
(d. 2022)
Nathan Adrian
American swimme
r
Emily Browning
Australian actress and singe
r
Angelina Gabueva
Russian tennis playe
r
Andrew Goudelock
American basketball playe
r
Kyle Hendricks
American baseball playe
r
Nicholas Hoult
English acto
r
Philip Larsen
Danish ice hockey playe
r
Alessandro Marchi
Italian footballe
r
Kevin Séraphin
French basketball playe
r
Cameron Bairstow
Australian basketball playe
r
David Goffin
Belgian tennis playe
r
Aleksandr Menkov
Russian long jumpe
r
Yasiel Puig
Cuban baseball playe
r
Urszula Radwańska
Polish tennis playe
r
Eugenio Pisani
Italian race car drive
r
Sean Couturier
American-Canadian ice hockey playe
r
Rahama Sadau
Nigerian actres
s
Pete Alonso
American baseball playe
r
Geno Chiarelli
American politicia
n
Yuzuru Hanyu
Japanese figure skate
r
Hunter Henry
American football playe
r
Abi Harrison
Scottish footballe
r
Tommy Nelson
American acto
r
Tony Yike Yang
Canadian pianis
t
Pavol Regenda
Slovak ice hockey playe
r
Cicero
Roman philosopher, lawyer, and politician
(b. 106 BC)
Eutychian
pope of the Catholic Churc
h
Anspert
archbishop of Mila
n
Otto II
Holy Roman Emperor
(b. 955)
Innocent IV
pope of the Catholic Church
(b. 1195)
Bolesław V
High Duke of Poland
(b. 1226)
Gilbert de Clare
7th Earl of Gloucester, English officer
(b. 1243)
Wenceslaus I
duke of Luxembourg
(b. 1337)
Alexander Hegius von Heek
German poet
(b. 1433)
Adrian Willaert
Dutch-Italian composer and educator
(b. 1490)
Charles Garnier
French missionary and saint
(b. 1606)
Richard Bellingham
English-American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
(b. 1592)
Peter Lely
Dutch-English painter
(b. 1618)
Algernon Sidney
English philosopher and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
(b. 1623)
Jan Santini Aichel
Czech architect, designed the Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk and Karlova Koruna Chateau
(b. 1677)
Florent Carton Dancourt
French actor and playwright
(b. 1661)
Martín Sarmiento
Spanish monk, scholar, and author
(b. 1695)
Charles Saunders
English admiral and politician
(b. 1715)
Joseph Bara
French soldier and drummer
(b. 1779)
Küçük Hüseyin Pasha
Turkish admiral and politician
(b. 1757)
Michel Ney
German-French general
(b. 1769)
William Bligh
English admiral and politician, 4th Governor of New South Wales
(b. 1745)
Robert Nicoll
Scottish poet
(b.1814)
Thomas Hamilton
Scottish philosopher and author
(b. 1789)
Constantin von Tischendorf
German theologian, scholar, and academic
(b. 1815)
Jón Sigurðsson
Icelandic scholar and politician, 1st Speaker of the Parliament of Iceland
(b. 1811)
Arthur Blyth
English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of South Australia
(b. 1823)
Ferdinand de Lesseps
French businessman and diplomat, co-developed the Suez Canal
(b. 1805)
Juan Luna
Filipino painter and sculptor
(b. 1857)
Thomas Nast
German-American cartoonist
(b. 1840)
Élie Ducommun
Swiss journalist and educator, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1833)
Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano
Italian cardinal
(b. 1828)
Ludwig Minkus
Austrian violinist and composer
(b. 1826)
Frank Wilson
English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Western Australia
(b. 1859)
Mervyn S. Bennion
American captain
(b. 1887)
Frederick Curtice Davis
American sailor
(b. 1915)
Julius Ellsberry
American sailor
(b. 1921)
John C. England
American sailor
(b. 1920)
Edwin J. Hill
American sailor
(b. 1894)
Ralph Hollis
American sailor
(b. 1906)
Herbert C. Jones
American sailor
(b. 1918)
Isaac C. Kidd
American admiral
(b. 1884)
Robert Lawrence Leopold
American sailor
(b. 1916)
Herbert Hugo Menges
American sailor
(b. 1917)
Thomas James Reeves
American sailor
(b. 1895)
Aloysius Schmitt
American priest and sailor
(b. 1909)
Robert R. Scott
American sailor
(b. 1915)
Peter Tomich
American sailor
(b. 1893)
Robert Uhlmann
American sailor
(b. 1919)
Franklin Van Valkenburgh
American captain
(b. 1888)
Eldon P. Wyman
American sailor
(b. 1917)
Tristan Bernard
French author and playwright
(b. 1866)
Nicholas Murray Butler
American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1862)
Rex Beach
American author, playwright, and water polo player
(b. 1877)
Huntley Gordon
Canadian-American actor
(b. 1887)
Reşat Nuri Güntekin
Turkish author and playwright
(b. 1889)
Ioannis Demestichas
Greek admiral and politician
(b. 1882)
Kirsten Flagstad
Norwegian opera singer
(b. 1895)
Lefty O'Doul
American baseball player and manager
(b. 1897)
Eric Portman
English actor
(b. 1903)
Rube Goldberg
American cartoonist, sculptor, and author
(b. 1883)
Thornton Wilder
American novelist and playwright
(b. 1897)
Hardie Albright
American actor
(b. 1903)
Paul Bragg
American nutritionist
(b. 1895)
Paul Gibb
English cricketer and umpire
(b. 1913)
Peter Carl Goldmark
Hungarian-American engineer
(b. 1906)
Georges Grignard
French race car driver
(b. 1905)
Alexander Wetmore
American ornithologist and paleontologist
(b. 1886)
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
English-American astronomer and astrophysicist
(b. 1900)
Darby Crash
American punk rock vocalist and songwriter
(b. 1958)
Jack Mercer
American voice actor
(b. 1910)
LeeRoy Yarbrough
American race car driver
(b. 1938)
J. R. Eyerman
American photographer and journalist
(b. 1906)
Robert Graves
English poet, novelist, critic
(b. 1895)
Potter Stewart
American soldier and jurist
(b. 1915)
Haystacks Calhoun
American wrestler and actor
(b. 1934)
Hans Hartung
French-German painter
(b. 1904)
Joan Bennett
American actress
(b. 1910)
Jean Paul Lemieux
Canadian painter and educator
(b. 1904)
Richard J. Hughes
American politician, 45th Governor of New Jersey, and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
(b. 1909)
Abidin Dino
Turkish-French painter and illustrator
(b. 1913)
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Ivoirian physician and politician, 1st President of Ivory Coast
(b. 1905)
Kathleen Harrison
English actress
(b. 1892)
Billy Bremner
Scottish footballer and manager
(b. 1942)
John Addison
English-American composer and conductor
(b. 1920)
Martin Rodbell
American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1925)
Azie Taylor Morton
American educator and politician, 36th Treasurer of the United States
(b. 1933)
Frederick Fennell
American conductor and educator
(b. 1914)
Jerry Scoggins
American singer and guitarist
(b. 1913)
Jay Van Andel
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Amway
(b. 1924)
Bud Carson
American football player and coach
(b. 1931)
Jeane Kirkpatrick
American academic and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
(b. 1926)
Herbert Hutner
American banker and lawyer
(b. 1908)
Elizabeth Edwards
American lawyer and author
(b. 1949)
Kari Tapio
Finnish singer
(b. 1945)
Harry Morgan
American actor
(b. 1915)
Roelof Kruisinga
Dutch physician and politician, Dutch Minister of Defence
(b. 1922)
Ralph Parr
American colonel and pilot
(b. 1924)
Marty Reisman
American table tennis player and author
(b. 1930)
Saul Steinberg
American businessman and financier
(b. 1939)
Édouard Molinaro
French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
(b. 1928)
Chick Willis
American singer and guitarist
(b. 1934)
Mark Lewis
American author and educator
(b. 1954)
Gerhard Lenski
American sociologist and academic
(b. 1924)
Hyron Spinrad
American astronomer and academic
(b. 1934)
Peter Westbury
English race car driver
(b. 1938)
Junaid Jamshed
Pakistani recording artist, television personality, fashion designer, occasional actor, singer-songwriter and preacher.
(b. 1964)
Shirley Stelfox
English actress
(b. 1941)
Greg Lake
English musician
(b. 1947)
Steve Reevis
Native American actor
(b. 1962)
Ron Saunders
English football player and manager
(b. 1932)
Dick Allen
American baseball player and tenor
(b. 1942)
Chuck Yeager
American aviator
(b. 1923)
Benjamin Zephaniah
British writer and dub poet
(b.1958)
Refaat Alareer
Palestinian professor and writer
(b.1979)
Emiko Miyamoto
Japanese volleyball player
(b.1937)