Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Hispaniola. AI analysis
The Edict of Nantes is issued in France, granting religious tolerance to Protestants. AI analysis
The first public transportation system begins in Paris, France. AI analysis
The War of 1812 officially ends with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. AI analysis
The Battle of Ayacucho takes place, securing independence for South America from Spain. AI analysis
U.S. President James K. Polk announces his doctrine that led to the annexation of Texas. AI analysis
The Meiji Restoration in Japan begins, initiating major political and social reforms. AI analysis
The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal. AI analysis
The Qing Dynasty falls in China after the Xinhai Revolution. AI analysis
The Balfour Declaration is issued, supporting the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. AI analysis
The Empire State Building is officially opened in New York City. AI analysis
The United States enters World War II after Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. AI analysis
The Soviet Union launches the Venera 1 spacecraft to Venus. AI analysis
The United States launches its first combat troops into Vietnam. AI analysis
The United Kingdom and China sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the future of Hong Kong. AI analysis
The Soviet Union dissolves, marking the end of the Cold War. AI analysis
U.S. President Bill Clinton is impeached by the House of Representatives. AI analysis
The United Nations convenes the World Conference on Human Rights in Geneva. AI analysis
The European Union expands to include Bulgaria and Romania as full members. AI analysis
The United Nations grants the Palestinian Authority non-member observer state status. AI analysis
Peter
Duke of Coimbra
(d. 1449)
Frederick II
Elector Palatine
(d. 1556)
Íñigo López de Mendoza
4th Duke of the Infantado
(d. 1566)
Gemma Frisius
Dutch mathematician and cartographer
(d. 1555)
Edwin Sandys
English lawyer and politician
(d. 1629)
Metius
Dutch mathematician and astronomer
(d. 1635)
Martin de Porres
Peruvian saint
(d. 1639)
John Milton
English poet and philosopher
(d. 1674)
Baldassare Ferri
Italian singer and actor
(d. 1680)
Richard Lovelace
English poet
(d. 1657)
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus
German physician and botanist
(d. 1723)
William Whiston
English mathematician, historian, and theologian
(d. 1752)
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
German archaeologist and historian
(d. 1768)
Peter Pelham
English-American organist and composer
(d. 1805)
Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi
Italian composer
(d. 1804)
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish Pomeranian and German pharmaceutical chemist
(d. 1786)
Maddalena Laura Sirmen
Italian violinist and composer
(d. 1818)
Claude Louis Berthollet
French chemist and academic
(d. 1822)
Antoine Étienne de Tousard
French general and engineer
(d. 1813)
Joseph Desha
American politician
(d. 1842)
John Dobson
English architect, designed Eldon Square and Lilburn Tower
(d. 1865)
Tabitha Babbitt
American tool maker and inventor
(d. 1853)
Jean-Olivier Chénier
Canadian physician
(d. 1838)
Thomas Andrews
Irish chemist and physicist
(d. 1885)
Émile Waldteufel
French pianist, composer, and conductor
(d. 1915)
Peter Kropotkin
Russian zoologist, economist, geographer, and philosopher
(d. 1921)
Joel Chandler Harris
American journalist and author
(d. 1908)
Emma Abbott
American soprano and actress
(d. 1891)
Hélène Smith
French psychic and occultist
(d. 1929)
Gregorios Xenopoulos
Greek journalist and author
(d. 1951)
Fritz Haber
Polish-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1934)
Ida S. Scudder
Indian physician and missionary
(d. 1960)
Francisco S. Carvajal
Mexican lawyer and politician, president 1914
(d. 1932)
Joe Kelley
American baseball player and manager
(d. 1943)
George Blewett
Canadian philosopher, author, and academic
(d. 1912)
Harry Miller
American engineer
(d. 1943)
Berton Churchill
Canadian-American actor and singer
(d. 1940)
Elmer Booth
American actor
(d. 1915)
Joaquín Turina
Spanish-French composer, critic, and educator
(d. 1949)
Nikolai Luzin
Russian mathematician, theorist, and academic
(d. 1950)
Alexander Papagos
Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece
(d. 1955)
Joseph Pilates
German-American fitness expert, developed Pilates
(d. 1967)
Clarence Birdseye
American businessman, founded Birds Eye
(d. 1956)
Tim Moore
American actor
(d. 1958)
Hannes Kolehmainen
Finnish-American runner
(d. 1966)
Laura Salverson
Canadian author
(d. 1970)
Maksim Bahdanovič
Belarusian poet and critic
(d. 1917)
André Randall
French actor
(d. 1974)
Dolores Ibárruri
Spanish activist, journalist and politician
(d. 1989)
Conchita Supervía
Spanish soprano and actress
(d. 1936)
Hermione Gingold
English actress and singer
(d. 1987)
Irene Greenwood
Australian radio broadcaster and feminist and peace activist
(d. 1992)
Emmett Kelly
American clown and actor
(d. 1979)
Jean de Brunhoff
French author and illustrator
(d. 1937)
Margaret Brundage
American illustrator, known for illustrating pulp magazine Weird Tales
(d. 1976)
Albert Weisbord
American activist, founded the Communist League of Struggle
(d. 1977)
Jean Mermoz
French pilot and politician
(d. 1936)
Ödön von Horváth
Hungarian-German author and playwright
(d. 1938)
Margaret Hamilton
American schoolteacher, actress and voice artist
(d. 1985)
Robert Livingston
American actor and singer
(d. 1988)
Dalton Trumbo
American author, screenwriter, and blacklistee
(d. 1976)
Grace Hopper
American admiral and computer scientist, designed COBOL
(d. 1992)
Freddy Martin
American bandleader and tenor saxophonist
(d. 1983)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
American captain, actor, and producer
(d. 2000)
Vere Bird
first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
(d. 1999)
Broderick Crawford
American actor
(d. 1986)
Ryūzō Sejima
Japanese colonel and businessman
(d. 2007)
Tip O'Neill
American lawyer and politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
(d. 1994)
Jim Turnesa
American golfer
(d. 1971)
Max Manus
Norwegian lieutenant
(d. 1996)
Frances Reid
American actress
(d. 2010)
Ljubica Sokić
Serbian painter and illustrator
(d. 2009)
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
American author
(d. 2000)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
German-Austrian soprano and actress
(d. 2006)
Jerome Beatty Jr.
American soldier, journalist, and author
(d. 2002)
Kirk Douglas
American actor, singer, and producer
(d. 2020)
Colin McCool
Australian cricketer
(d. 1986)
James Jesus Angleton
American CIA agent
(d. 1987)
James Rainwater
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1986)
V. Dakshinamoorthy
Indian singer-songwriter
(d. 2013)
William Lipscomb
American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2011)
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Italian economist and politician, 10th President of Italy
(d. 2016)
Bruno Ruffo
Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver
(d. 2007)
Redd Foxx
American actor
(d. 1991)
Roy Rubin
American basketball player and coach
(d. 2013)
Henry Way Kendall
American physicist, photographer, and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1999)
Jan Křesadlo
Czech-English psychologist and author
(d. 1995)
David Nathan
British journalist
(d. 2001)
Lorenzo Wright
American sprinter and coach
(d. 1972)
Pierre Henry
French composer
(d. 2017)
Joan Blos
American author and educator
(d. 2017)
André Milhoux
Belgian race car drive
r
Dick Van Patten
American actor
(d. 2015)
John Cassavetes
American actor, director, and screenwriter
(d. 1989)
Bob Hawke
Australian union leader and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia
(d. 2019)
Buck Henry
American actor, director, and screenwriter
(d. 2020)
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores
Guatemalan soldier and politician, 27th President of Guatemala
(d. 2016)
Cliff Hagan
American basketball player-coac
h
William Reynolds
American actor
(d. 2022)
Ladislav Smoljak
Czech actor, director, and screenwriter
(d. 2010)
Donald Byrd
American trumpet player and academic
(d. 2013)
Bill Hartack
American jockey
(d. 2007)
Billy Edd Wheeler
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and playwrigh
t
Ashleigh Brilliant
English-American author and illustrato
r
Milt Campbell
American decathlete and football player
(d. 2012)
Morton Downey Jr.
American actor and talk show host
(d. 2001)
Orville Moody
American golfer
(d. 2008)
Judi Dench
English actres
s
Alan Ridout
English composer and teacher
(d. 1996)
Junior Wells
American blues singer-songwriter and harmonica player
(d. 1998)
David Houston
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(d. 1993)
Deacon Jones
American football player, sportscaster, and actor
(d. 2013)
Dimitrios Trichopoulos
Greek epidemiologist, oncologist, and academic
(d. 2014)
Clancy Eccles
Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer
(d. 2005)
Mehmet Ali Birand
Turkish journalist and author
(d. 2013)
Beau Bridges
American actor, director, and produce
r
Dan Hicks
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(d. 2016)
Billy Bremner
Scottish footballer and manager
(d. 1997)
Dick Butkus
American football player, sportscaster, and actor
(d. 2023)
Germain Gagnon
Canadian ice hockey player
(d. 2014)
Fred Jones
Australian rugby league player
(d. 2021)
Joe McGinniss
American journalist and author
(d. 2014)
William Turnage
American conservationist
(d. 2017)
Pit Martin
Canadian ice hockey player
(d. 2008)
Joanna Trollope
English author, playwright, and directo
r
Kenny Vance
American singer-songwriter and music produce
r
Neil Innes
English singer-songwriter
(d. 2019)
Ki Longfellow
American author, playwright, and producer
(d. 2022)
Bob O'Connor
American businessman and politician, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh
(d. 2006)
Michael Nouri
American acto
r
David Currie
Baron Currie of Marylebone, English economist and academi
c
Dennis Dunaway
American bass player and songwrite
r
Sonia Gandhi
Italian-Indian politicia
n
Nicholas Reade
English bisho
p
Tom Daschle
American soldier, academic, and politicia
n
Jaak Jõerüüt
Estonian politician, 24th Estonian Minister of Defens
e
Allan Jones
English cricketer and umpir
e
Marleen Gorris
Dutch director and screenwrite
r
Jonathan Sumption
English historian, author, and judg
e
Tom Kite
American golfer and architec
t
Joan Armatrading
Kittian-English singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Liaqat Baloch
Pakistani politicia
n
Michael Dorn
American actor and voice artis
t
Cornelis de Bondt
Dutch composer and educato
r
World B. Free
American basketball playe
r
John Malkovich
American actor and produce
r
Jean-Claude Juncker
Luxembourger lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Luxembour
g
Henk ten Cate
Dutch footballer and manage
r
Otis Birdsong
American basketball player and radio hos
t
Chamras Saewataporn
Thai singer-songwrite
r
Sylvia
American country singer-songwrite
r
Jean-Pierre Thiollet
French journalist and autho
r
Peter O'Mara
Australian guitarist and compose
r
Donny Osmond
American singer-songwriter, dancer, and acto
r
Steve Taylor
American singer-songwriter and produce
r
Susan Bullock
English sopran
o
Mario Cantone
American comedian, actor, and write
r
Stefen Fangmeier
American visual effects designer and directo
r
Caroline Lucas
English activist and politicia
n
Dobroslav Paraga
Croatian politicia
n
Juan Samuel
Dominican baseball player and manage
r
David Anthony Higgins
American actor and screenwrite
r
Joe Lando
American acto
r
Felicity Huffman
American actress and produce
r
Roxanne Swentzell
Santa Clara Pueblo
(Native American) ceramic sculptor
Dave Hilton Jr.
Canadian boxe
r
Empress Masako
Japanese consort of Emperor Naruhit
o
Michael Foster
American drumme
r
Ross Harrington
Australian rugby league playe
r
Hape Kerkeling
German actor and singe
r
Johannes B. Kerner
German journalist and sportscaste
r
Les Kiss
Australian rugby league playe
r
Paul Landers
German guitaris
t
Joe Ausanio
American baseball player and coac
h
Kirsten Gillibrand
American lawyer and politicia
n
Dave Harold
English snooker playe
r
Gideon Sa'ar
Israeli lawyer and politician, 24th Israeli Minister of Internal Affair
s
Martin Taylor
English footballer and coac
h
Joshua Bell
American violinist and conducto
r
Jason Dozzell
English footballer and manage
r
Kurt Angle
American freestyle and professional wrestle
r
Brian Bell
American singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Brent Price
American basketball playe
r
Jakob Dylan
American singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Saskia Garel
Jamaican-Canadian singer-songwrite
r
Lori Greiner
American businesswoman and television personalit
y
Annick Lambrecht
Belgian politicia
n
Bixente Lizarazu
French footballe
r
Raphaël Rouquier
French mathematician and academi
c
Allison Smith
American actres
s
Kara DioGuardi
American singer-songwriter and produce
r
Lance Krall
American actor, director, producer, and screenwrite
r
Geoff Barrow
English drummer, DJ, composer, and produce
r
Nick Hysong
American pole vaulter and coac
h
Petr Nedvěd
Czech-Canadian ice hockey playe
r
Reiko Aylesworth
American actres
s
Tré Cool
German-American drummer and songwrite
r
Michael Corcoran
American singer-songwriter and produce
r
Fabrice Santoro
Tahitian-French tennis player and sportscaste
r
Saima Wazed
Bangladeshi psychologis
t
Stacey Abrams
American politician and activis
t
Fabio Artico
Italian footballe
r
Vénuste Niyongabo
Burundian runne
r
Bárbara Padilla
Mexican-American sopran
o
David Akers
American football playe
r
Canibus
Jamaican-American rappe
r
Aloísio da Silva Filho
Brazilian footballe
r
Wendy Dillinger
American soccer player, coach, and manage
r
Fiona MacDonald
Scottish curle
r
Mona Hanna-Attisha
American pediatrician, professor, and public health advocat
e
Shayne Graham
American football playe
r
Imogen Heap
English singer-songwriter and keyboard playe
r
Gastón Gaudio
Argentinian tennis playe
r
Jesse Metcalfe
American actor and musicia
n
Olivia Lufkin
Japanese-American singer-songwrite
r
Stephen McPhail
Irish footballe
r
Aiko Uemura
Japanese skie
r
Simon Helberg
American actor, comedian, and musicia
n
Ryder Hesjedal
Canadian cyclis
t
Mark Riddell
Australian rugby league player and sportscaste
r
Mardy Fish
American tennis playe
r
Tamilla Abassova
Russian cyclis
t
Nathalie De Vos
Belgian runne
r
Ryan Grant
American football playe
r
Jim Slater
American ice hockey playe
r
Bastian Swillims
German sprinte
r
Jermaine Beckford
English-Jamaican footballe
r
Neslihan Demir Darnel
Turkish volleyball playe
r
Dariusz Dudka
Polish footballe
r
Jolene Purdy
American actres
s
Ángel Guirado
Spanish–Filipino footballe
r
Leon Hall
American football playe
r
Wil Besseling
Dutch golfe
r
Aron Baynes
Australian basketball playe
r
Kostas Giannoulis
Greek footballe
r
Gerald Henderson Jr.
American basketball playe
r
Mat Latos
American baseball playe
r
Hikaru Nakamura
Japanese-American chess playe
r
Jeff Petry
American ice hockey playe
r
Joshua Sasse
English acto
r
Kwadwo Asamoah
Ghanaian footballe
r
Eric Bledsoe
American basketball playe
r
Ashleigh Brewer
Australian actres
s
Denise Hannema
Dutch crickete
r
Langston Galloway
American basketball playe
r
Choi Min-ho
South Korean singer and acto
r
Mark McMorris
Canadian snowboarde
r
Laura Smulders
Dutch cyclis
t
Ryan Lomberg
Canadian ice hockey playe
r
Simone Fontecchio
Italian basketball playe
r
McKayla Maroney
American gymnas
t
Kelly Oubre Jr.
American basketball playe
r
Mackenzie Blackwood
Canadian ice hockey playe
r
Kyle Connor
American ice hockey playe
r
MyKayla Skinner
American gymnas
t
Diāna Ņikitina
Latvian figure skate
r
Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah
Arab genera
l
Nasr ibn Sayyar
Umayyad general and politician
(b. 663)
Li Congrong
prince of Later Tan
g
Gertrude of Brunswick
Markgräfin of Meiße
n
Richard le Gras
Lord Keeper of England and Abbot of Evesha
m
Vaišvilkas
Prince of Black Ruthenia, Grand Duke of Lithuani
a
Bohemond I
Archbishop of Trie
r
Sigismund
Holy Roman Emperor
(b. 1368)
Teofilo Folengo
Italian poet
(b. 1491)
William Watson
English priest
(b. 1559)
Ubbo Emmius
Dutch historian and geographer
(b. 1547)
Fabian Birkowski
Polish preacher and author
(b. 1566)
Anthony van Dyck
Belgian-English painter and illustrator
(b. 1599)
Edward Hyde
1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
(b. 1609)
Vincenzo Coronelli
Italian monk and cartographer
(b. 1650)
Tarabai
Queen of Chatrapati Rajaram
(b. 1675)
Yolande de Polastron
French-Austrian educator
(b. 1749)
Johann Reinhold Forster
German pastor, botanist, and ornithologist
(b. 1729)
Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher
Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic
(b. 1757)
William Thornhill
English army officer
(b. 1768)
Almeida Garrett
Portuguese journalist and author
(b. 1799)
Robert Baldwin
Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada West
(b. 1804)
Mahmadu Lamine
Senegalese religious leade
r
Ferdinand Brunetière
French author and critic
(b. 1849)
Eva Nansen
Norwegian mezzo-soprano singer and pioneer on women's skiing
(b. 1858)
Natsume Sōseki
Japanese author and poet
(b. 1867)
Bernard Zweers
Dutch composer and educator
(b. 1854)
Rube Foster
American baseball player and manager
(b. 1879)
Karl Blossfeldt
German photographer, sculptor, and educator
(b. 1865)
Begum Rokeya
Bangladeshi social worker and author
(b. 1880)
Walter Liggett
American journalist and activist
(b. 1886)
Lilias Armstrong
English phonetician
(b. 1882)
Gustaf Dalén
Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1869)
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Russian author, poet, and philosopher
(b. 1865)
Georges Dufrénoy
French painter
(b. 1870)
Laird Cregar
American actor
(b. 1913)
Yun Chi-ho
South Korean activist and politician
(b. 1864)
Ali İhsan Sâbis
Turkish general
(b. 1882)
Daniel O. Fagunwa
Nigerian author and educator
(b. 1903)
Perry Miller
American historian, author, and academic
(b. 1905)
Edith Sitwell
English poet and critic
(b. 1887)
Branch Rickey
American baseball player and manager
(b. 1884)
Charles Léon Hammes
Luxembourgian lawyer and judge, 3rd President of the European Court of Justice
(b. 1898)
Enoch L. Johnson
American mob boss
(b. 1883)
Artem Mikoyan
Armenian-Russian engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau
(b. 1905)
Feroz Khan Noon
Pakistani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan
(b. 1893)
Ralph Bunche
American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1904)
Sergey Konenkov
Russian sculptor and painter
(b. 1874)
Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams
Church of Scotland Minister, Missionary in India and China, writer and poet
(b. 1886)
Louella Parsons
American writer and columnist
(b. 1881)
William A. Wellman
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
(b. 1896)
Fulton J. Sheen
American archbishop
(b. 1895)
Leon Jaworski
American lawyer and politician
(b. 1905)
Berenice Abbott
American photographer
(b. 1898)
Vincent Gardenia
American actor
(b. 1922)
Danny Blanchflower
Northern Irish footballer and manager
(b. 1926)
Toni Cade Bambara
American author and academic
(b. 1939)
Douglas Corrigan
American pilot
(b. 1907)
Patty Donahue
American singer-songwriter
(b. 1956)
Mary Leakey
English archaeologist and anthropologist
(b. 1913)
Alain Poher
French lawyer and politician
(b. 1909)
Diana Morgan
Welsh playwright and screenwriter
(b. 1908)
Shaughnessy Cohen
Canadian lawyer and politician
(b. 1948)
Archie Moore
American boxer and actor
(b. 1913)
Michael Carver
Baron Carver, English field marshal
(b. 1915)
Mary Hansen
Australian singer and guitarist
(b. 1966)
Ian Hornak
American painter and sculptor
(b. 1944)
Stan Rice
American painter and poet
(b. 1942)
Norm Sloan
American basketball player and coach
(b. 1926)
Paul Simon
American soldier, journalist, and politician, 39th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
(b. 1928)
György Sándor
Hungarian-American pianist and educator
(b. 1912)
Robert Sheckley
American author
(b. 1928)
Georgia Gibbs
American singer
(b. 1919)
Rafael Sperafico
Brazilian race car driver
(b. 1981)
Gordon Zahn
American sociologist, author, and academic
(b. 1918)
Ibrahim Dossey
Ghanaian footballer
(b. 1972)
Yury Glazkov
Russian general, pilot, and astronaut
(b. 1939)
Gene Barry
American actor
(b. 1919)
James Moody
American saxophonist, flute player, and composer
(b. 1925)
Dov Shilansky
Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and politician, 10th Speaker of the Knesset
(b. 1924)
Béla Nagy Abodi
Hungarian painter and academic
(b. 1918)
Patrick Moore
English lieutenant, astronomer, and educator
(b. 1923)
Alex Moulton
English engineer and businessman, founded the Moulton Bicycle Company
(b. 1920)
Jenni Rivera
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
(b. 1969)
Charles Rosen
American pianist and musicologist
(b. 1927)
Riccardo Schicchi
Italian director and producer, co-founded Diva Futura
(b. 1953)
Norman Joseph Woodland
American inventor, co-created the bar code
(b. 1921)
Hristu Cândroveanu
Romanian editor, literary critic and writer
(b. 1928)
John Gabbert
American soldier, lawyer, and judge
(b. 1909)
Barbara Hesse-Bukowska
Polish pianist and educator
(b. 1930)
Eleanor Parker
American actress
(b. 1922)
John Wilbur
American football player
(b. 1943)
Sacvan Bercovitch
Canadian-American author, critic, and academic
(b. 1933)
Jane Freilicher
American painter and poet
(b. 1924)
Jorge María Mejía
Argentinian cardinal
(b. 1923)
Mary Ann Mobley
American model and actress, Miss America 1959
(b. 1937)
Blagoje Paunović
Serbian footballer and manager
(b. 1947)
Jože Toporišič
Slovenian linguist and author
(b. 1926)
Soshana Afroyim
Austrian painter
(b. 1927)
Norman Breslow
American statistician and academic
(b. 1941)
Juvenal Juvêncio
Brazilian lawyer and politician
(b. 1934)
Julio Terrazas Sandoval
Bolivian cardinal
(b. 1936)
Speedy Duncan
American football player
(b. 1942)
Demaryius Thomas
American football player
(b. 1987)
Jovit Baldivino
Filipino singer and actor
(b. 1993)