Martin Luther publicly burns the Papal Bull of Excommunication in Wittenberg. AI analysis
Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state. AI analysis
The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. AI analysis
The Battle of the Falkland Islands takes place during World War I, resulting in a decisive British victory. AI analysis
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The United States and the United Kingdom declare war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. AI analysis
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. AI analysis
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Martin Luther King Jr. for his work in advancing civil rights through nonviolent resistance. AI analysis
The last Apollo mission, Apollo 17, is launched to the moon. AI analysis
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her bodyguards. AI analysis
The Soviet Union officially dissolves, marking the end of the Cold War. AI analysis
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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is executed. AI analysis
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The United Nations climate change conference in Paris (COP21) adopts the Paris Agreement. AI analysis
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Houzhu
emperor of the Chen dynasty
(d. 604)
Edmund Mortimer
English nobleman and rebel
(d. 1409)
Johannes Stöffler
German mathematician and astronomer
(d. 1531)
Anne de Mowbray
8th Countess of Norfolk
(d. 1481)
Gaston of Foix
Duke of Nemours
(d. 1512)
Isaac Beeckman
Dutch scientist and philosopher
(d. 1637)
Adriaen van Ostade
Dutch painter
(d. 1685)
Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole
Italian painter
(d. 1719)
Lancelot Blackburne
Archbishop of York
(d. 1743)
Johann Nicolaus Mempel
German cantor and organist
(d. 1747)
George Shaw
English botanist and zoologist
(d. 1813)
María Bibiana Benítez
Puerto Rican poet and playwright
(d. 1873)
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
American educator, founded the American School for the Deaf
(d. 1851)
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
German mathematician and academic
(d. 1851)
William Lloyd Garrison
American journalist and activist, founded The Liberator
(d. 1879)
Joseph Škoda
Czech physician, dermatologist, and academic
(d. 1881)
Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer
American poet, biographer, and editor
(d. 1894)
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician and computer scientist
(d. 1852)
Nikolay Nekrasov
Russian poet and critic
(d. 1877)
César Franck
Belgian organist and composer
(d. 1890)
George MacDonald
Scottish minister, author, and poet
(d. 1905)
Eugene O'Keefe
Canadian businessman and philanthropist
(d. 1913)
Emily Dickinson
American poet
(d. 1886)
Melvil Dewey
American librarian, created the Dewey Decimal System
(d. 1931)
Louis Bolk
Dutch anatomist and biologist
(d. 1930)
Jadunath Sarkar
Indian historian
(d. 1958)
Adolf Loos
Austrian architect and theoretician
(d. 1933)
Pierre Louÿs
Belgian-French author and poet
(d. 1925)
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian lawyer and politician, 45th Governor-General of India
(d. 1972)
Mohammad Ali Jauhar
Indian Muslim activist
(d. 1931)
Otto Neurath
Austrian sociologist and philosopher
(d. 1945)
Shigenori Tōgō
Japanese politician, 37th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs
(d. 1950)
Giovanni Messe
Italian field marshal and politician
(d. 1968)
Elizabeth Baker
American economist and academic
(d. 1973)
Marios Varvoglis
Greek composer and conductor
(d. 1967)
Victor McLaglen
English-American actor
(d. 1959)
Ray Collins
American actor
(d. 1965)
László Bárdossy
Hungarian politician and diplomat, 33rd Prime Minister of Hungary
(d. 1946)
Harold Alexander
1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada
(d. 1969)
Arlie Mucks
American discus thrower and shot putter
(d. 1967)
Nelly Sachs
German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1970)
Torsten Bergström
Swedish actor and director
(d. 1948)
Una Merkel
American actress
(d. 1986)
Antonín Novotný
Czechoslovak politician, President of Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
(d. 1975)
Harold Adamson
American lyricist
(d. 1980)
Jules Ladoumègue
French runner
(d. 1973)
Rumer Godden
English author and poet
(d. 1998)
Lucien Laurent
French footballer and coach
(d. 2005)
Amedeo Nazzari
Italian actor
(d. 1979)
Olivier Messiaen
French composer and ornithologist
(d. 1992)
Hermes Pan
American dancer and choreographer
(d. 1990)
Ambrosio Padilla
Filipino basketball player and politician
(d. 1996)
Chet Huntley
American journalist
(d. 1974)
Philip Hart
American lawyer and politician, 49th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
(d. 1976)
Tetsuji Takechi
Japanese theatrical and film director, critic, and author
(d. 1988)
René Toribio
Guadeloupean politician
(d. 1990)
Pannonica de Koenigswarter
English-American jazz patron and writer
(d. 1988)
Morton Gould
American pianist, composer, and conductor
(d. 1996)
Harry Locke
English actor
(d. 1987)
Ray Nance
American trumpeter, violinist, and singer
(d. 1976)
Dorothy Lamour
American actress and singer
(d. 1996)
Nicky Barr
Australian rugby player, soldier, and pilot
(d. 2006)
Walt Arfons
American race car driver
(d. 2013)
Anne Gwynne
American actress
(d. 2003)
Anatoli Tarasov
Russian ice hockey player and coach
(d. 1995)
Alexander Courage
American composer and conductor
(d. 2008)
Clarice Lispector
Ukrainian-Brazilian journalist and author
(d. 1977)
Reginald Rose
American screenwriter and producer
(d. 2002)
Toh Chin Chye
Singaporean academic and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
(d. 2012)
Agnes Nixon
American television writer and director
(d. 2016)
Harold Gould
American actor
(d. 2010)
Clorindo Testa
Italian-Argentinian architect, designed the National Library of the Argentine Republic and Marriott Plaza Hotel
(d. 2013)
Ken Albers
American singer and musician
(d. 2007)
Michael Manley
Jamaican pilot and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica
(d. 1997)
Carolyn Kizer
American poet and academic
(d. 2014)
Guitar Slim
American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist
(d. 1959)
Bob Farrell
American businessman, founded Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour
(d. 2015)
Danny Matt
German-Israeli general
(d. 2013)
Barbara Nichols
American actress
(d. 1976)
Wayne D. Anderson
American baseball player and coach
(d. 2013)
Ray Felix
American basketball player
(d. 1991)
Michael Jopling
Baron Jopling, English farmer and politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Foo
d
Peter Baker
English-South African footballer and manager
(d. 2016)
Philip R. Craig
American author
(d. 2007)
Mako Iwamatsu
Japanese actor
(d. 2006)
Howard Martin Temin
American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1994)
Terry Allcock
English footballer and crickete
r
Jaromil Jireš
Czech director and screenwriter
(d. 2001)
Howard Smith
American journalist, director, and producer
(d. 2014)
Bill Dunk
Australian golfe
r
Yuri Temirkanov
Russian viola player and conductor
(d. 2023)
Dick Bavetta
American basketball player and refere
e
Barry Cunliffe
English archaeologist and academi
c
Ken Campbell
English actor, director, and screenwriter
(d. 2008)
Fionnula Flanagan
Irish actress and produce
r
Tommy Kirk
American actor
(d. 2021)
Tommy Rettig
American child actor
(d. 1996)
Kyu Sakamoto
Japanese singer and actor
(d. 1985)
Ann Gloag
Scottish nurse and businesswoma
n
Andris Bērziņš
Latvian businessman and politician, 8th President of Latvi
a
John Birt
Baron Birt, English businessma
n
Steve Renko
American baseball playe
r
Mukhtar Altynbayev
Kazakhstani general and politician, 3rd Defence Minister of Kazakhsta
n
Douglas Kenney
American satirist
(d. 1980)
Rasul Guliyev
Azerbaijani engineer and politician, 22nd Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaija
n
Dušan Bajević
Bosnian footballer and manage
r
Jessica Cleaves
American singer-songwriter
(d. 2014)
Jasuben Shilpi
Indian sculptor
(d. 2013)
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Ugandan-English journalist and autho
r
David Perdue
American politicia
n
John Boozman
American football player, lawyer, and politicia
n
Simon Owen
New Zealand golfe
r
Johnny Rodriguez
American country music singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Clive Anderson
English lawyer and television hos
t
Susan Dey
American actres
s
Greg Mortimer
Australian geologist and mountainee
r
Greg Laurie
American author and pasto
r
Paul Varul
Estonian lawyer and politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Justic
e
Chris Bury
American journalist and academi
c
Eudine Barriteau
Barbadian economist and academi
c
Price Cobb
American race car driver and manage
r
Jack Hues
English singer-songwriter and musicia
n
Rod Blagojevich
American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Illinoi
s
Roberto Cassinelli
Italian lawyer and politicia
n
Jan van Dijk
Dutch footballer and manage
r
Michael Clarke Duncan
American actor
(d. 2012)
Paul Hardcastle
English composer and produce
r
Prem Rawat
Indian-American guru and educato
r
Cornelia Funke
German-American autho
r
Kathryn Stott
English pianist and academi
c
Mark Aguirre
American basketball player and coac
h
Udi Aloni
American-Israeli director and autho
r
Kevin Ash
English journalist and author
(d. 2013)
Wolf Hoffmann
German guitaris
t
Kenneth Branagh
British actor director, producer, and screenwrite
r
Kōichi Satō
Japanese acto
r
Mark McKoy
Canadian hurdler and sprinte
r
Nia Peeples
American singer and actres
s
Rakhat Aliyev
Kazakh politician and diplomat
(d. 2015)
John de Wolf
Dutch footballer and manage
r
Jahangir Khan
Pakistani squash playe
r
Stephen Billington
English acto
r
Stef Blok
Dutch banker and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interio
r
Bobby Flay
American chef and autho
r
Edith González
Mexican actress
(d. 2019)
Greg Giraldo
American lawyer, comedian, actor, and screenwriter
(d. 2010)
J Mascis
American singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Stephanie Morgenstern
Swiss-Canadian actress, producer, and screenwrite
r
Rein Ahas
Estonian geographer and academi
c
Robin Brooke
New Zealand rugby playe
r
Mel Rojas
Dominican baseball playe
r
Penelope Trunk
American write
r
Yōko Oginome
Japanese singer, actress, and voice actres
s
Darren Berry
Australian cricketer and coac
h
Rob Blake
Canadian ice hockey player and executiv
e
Kevin Sharp
American singer-songwriter
(d. 2014)
Bryant Stith
American basketball player and coac
h
Donavon Frankenreiter
American surfer, singer-songwriter, and guitaris
t
Brian Molko
British-Belgian singer-songwrite
r
Rusty LaRue
American basketball player and coac
h
Gabriela Spanic
Venezuelan actres
s
Meg White
American drumme
r
Steve Bradley
American wrestler
(d. 2008)
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Canadian actres
s
Josip Skoko
Australian footballe
r
Shane Byrne
English motorcycle race
r
Anna Jesień
Polish hurdle
r
Summer Phoenix
American actres
s
Matt Bentley
American wrestle
r
Iain Brunnschweiler
English crickete
r
Yang Jianping
Chinese recurve arche
r
Sarah Chang
American violinis
t
Taufik Batisah
Singaporean singe
r
Rene Bourque
Canadian ice hockey playe
r
Fábio Rochemback
Brazilian footballe
r
Claudia Hoffmann
German sprinte
r
Sultan Kösen
Turkish farmer, tallest living perso
n
Patrick Flueger
American acto
r
Xavier Samuel
Australian acto
r
JTG
American wrestle
r
Charlie Adam
Scottish footballe
r
Roman Červenka
Czech ice hockey playe
r
Matt Forte
American football playe
r
Trésor Mputu
Congolese footballe
r
Raven-Symoné
American actress, singer, and dance
r
Lê Công Vinh
Vietnamese footballe
r
Kahlil Bell
American football playe
r
Gonzalo Higuaín
French-Argentinian footballe
r
Wilfried Bony
Ivorian footballe
r
Neven Subotić
Serbian footballe
r
Marion Maréchal-Le Pen
French politicia
n
Tom Sexton
Australian-Irish rugby playe
r
Kazenga LuaLua
Congolese-English footballe
r
Sakiko Matsui
Japanese singer and actres
s
Wil Myers
American baseball playe
r
Teyana Taylor
American singer, songwriter, choreographer, and actres
s
Shoya Tomizawa
Japanese motorcycle racer
(d. 2010)
KiKi Layne
American actres
s
Eric Reid
American football playe
r
Dion Waiters
American basketball playe
r
Carlos Rodón
American baseball playe
r
Melissa Roxburgh
Canadian-American actres
s
Richard Kennar
Samoan rugby league playe
r
Matti Klinga
Finnish footballe
r
Tacko Fall
Senegalese basketball playe
r
Joe Burrow
American football playe
r
Kang Daniel
South Korean singer and entrepreneu
r
Viktoriia Savtsova
Ukrainian Paralympic swimme
r
Lucia Bronzetti
Italian tennis playe
r
Sancho I
king of Pamplon
a
Herman I
Duke of Swabi
a
Folcmar
bishop of Utrech
t
Michael IV the Paphlagonian
Byzantine emperor
(b. 1010)
Nikephoros III Botaneiates
deposed Byzantine Emperor
(b. c.1002)
Radwan
ruler of Alepp
o
Stephen I
Duke of Bavaria
(b. 1271)
Ignatius Behnam Hadloyo
Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch
.
Paolo Uccello
Italian painter
(b. 1397)
René II
Duke of Lorraine
(b. 1451)
Thomas Culpeper
English courtier
(b. 1514)
Francis Dereham
English courtier
(b. c. 1513)
Caspar Schwenckfeld
German theologian and write
r
Giulio Caccini
Italian composer and educator
(b. 1551)
Edmund Gunter
English mathematician and academic
(b. 1581)
Tarquinio Merula
Italian organist, violinist, and composer
(b. 1594)
António Manoel de Vilhena
Portuguese soldier and politician
(b. 1663)
Jacob Frank
Polish religious leader
(b. 1726)
Thomas Johann Seebeck
German physicist and academic
(b. 1770)
Józef Bem
Polish general and physicist
(b. 1794)
François Sulpice Beudant
French mineralogist and geologist
(b. 1787)
Sakamoto Ryōma
Japanese samurai and politician
(b. 1836)
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize
(b. 1833)
Red Cloud
American tribal chief
(of the Oglala nation) (b. 1822)
Joseph Dalton Hooker
English botanist and explorer
(b. 1817)
Mackenzie Bowell
English-Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada
(b. 1823)
Horace Elgin Dodge
American businessman, co-founded Dodge
(b. 1868)
Clement Lindley Wragge
English meteorologist and author
(b. 1852)
Nikola Pašić
Serbian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Serbia
(b. 1845)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Scottish architect and painter
(b. 1868)
Harry Crosby
American publisher and poet
(b. 1898)
Joseph Carruthers
Australian politician, 16th Premier of New South Wales
(b. 1857)
Bobby Abel
English cricketer
(b. 1857)
Luigi Pirandello
Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1867)
John Grieb
American gymnast and triathlete
(b. 1879)
Colin Kelly
American captain and pilot
(b. 1915)
John Brunt
English captain, Victoria Cross recipient
(b. 1922)
Theodor Dannecker
German captain
(b. 1913)
Walter Johnson
American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
(b. 1887)
Damon Runyon
American newspaperman and short story writer
(b. 1884)
Na Hye-sok
South Korean journalist, poet, and painter
(b. 1896)
Algernon Blackwood
English author and playwright
(b. 1869)
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Indian-English scholar and translator
(b. 1872)
David Shimoni
Russian-Israeli poet and translator
(b. 1891)
Napoleon Zervas
Greek general
(b. 1891)
Adolfo Camarillo
American horse breeder, rancher, and philanthropist
(b. 1864)
K. M. Panikkar
Indian historian and diplomat
(b. 1894)
Otis Redding
American singer-songwriter and producer
(b. 1941)
Karl Barth
Swiss theologian and author
(b. 1886)
George Forrest
Northern Irish lawyer and politician
(b. 1921)
Thomas Merton
American monk and author
(b. 1915)
Chen Qiyou
Chinese politician and revolutionary
(b. 1892)
Mark Van Doren
American poet, critic, and academic
(b. 1894)
Wolf V. Vishniac
German-American microbiologist and academic
(b. 1922)
Toshinari Shōji
Japanese general
(b. 1890)
Adolph Rupp
American basketball player and coach
(b. 1901)
Ed Wood
American director, producer, and screenwriter
(b. 1924)
Ann Dvorak
American actress
(b. 1911)
Freeman Gosden
American actor and screenwriter
(b. 1899)
Jascha Heifetz
Lithuanian-American violinist and educator
(b. 1901)
Richard S. Castellano
American actor
(b. 1933)
Johnny Lawrence
English cricketer and coach
(b. 1911)
Dorothy de Rothschild
English philanthropist and activist
(b. 1895)
Armand Hammer
American businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum
(b. 1898)
Greta Kempton
Austrian-American painter and academic
(b. 1901)
Dan Maskell
English tennis player and sportscaster
(b. 1908)
Alice Tully
American soprano
(b. 1902)
Keith Joseph
English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Education
(b. 1918)
Alex Wilson
Canadian-American sprinter
(b. 1905)
Darren Robinson
American rapper
(b. 1967)
Faron Young
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
(b. 1932)
Rick Danko
Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
(b. 1943)
Franjo Tuđman
Croatian general and politician, 1st President of Croatia
(b. 1922)
Woodrow Borah
American historian of Spanish America
(b. 1912)
Marie Windsor
American actress
(b. 1919)
Ashok Kumar
Indian actor, singer, and producer
(b. 1911)
Andres Küng
Swedish journalist and politician
(b. 1945)
Ian MacNaughton
Scottish actor, director, and producer
(b. 1925)
Sean McClory
Irish actor and director
(b. 1924)
Gary Webb
American journalist and author
(b. 1955)
Mary Jackson
American actress
(b. 1910)
Eugene McCarthy
American poet, academic, and politician
(b. 1916)
Richard Pryor
American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
(b. 1940)
Olivia Coolidge
English-American author and educator
(b. 1908)
Augusto Pinochet
Chilean general and dictator, 30th President of Chile
(b. 1915)
Vitali Hakko
Turkish businessman, founded Vakko
(b. 1913)
Vladimir Teplyakov
Russian soldier and physicist
(b. 1925)
John Fenn
American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1917)
J. Michael Hagopian
Armenian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
(b. 1913)
MacKenzie Miller
American horse trainer and breeder
(b. 1921)
Iajuddin Ahmed
Bangladeshi academic and politician, 13th President of Bangladesh
(b. 1931)
Antonio Cubillo
Spanish lawyer and politician
(b. 1930)
Tommy Roberts
English fashion designer
(b. 1942)
Alan Coleman
English-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
(b. 1936)
Jim Hall
American guitarist and composer
(b. 1930)
Don Lund
American baseball player and coach
(b. 1923)
Srikanta Wadiyar
Indian politician and the titular Maharaja of Mysore
(b. 1946)
Ralph Giordano
German author and publicist
(b. 1923)
Robert B. Oakley
American diplomat, 19th United States Ambassador to Pakistan
(b. 1931)
Bob Solinger
Canadian ice hockey player
(b. 1925)
Judy Baar Topinka
American journalist and politician
(b. 1944)
Gerard Vianen
Dutch cyclist
(b. 1944)
Ron Bouchard
American race car driver and businessman
(b. 1948)
Denis Héroux
Canadian director and producer
(b. 1940)
Arnold Peralta
Honduran footballer
(b. 1989)
Dolph Schayes
American basketball player and coach
(b. 1928)
Bruce Brown
American filmmaker
(b. 1937)
Max Clifford
British publicist
(b. 1943)
Charles M. Green Jr.
American Internet personality
(b. 1950)
Curtis W. Harris
American minister
(b. 1924)
Philip McKeon
American actor
(b. 1964)
Gershon Kingsley
American composer and musician
(b. 1922)
Emily Mason
American painter
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Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr.
American actor and wrestler
(b. 1958)
Joseph Safra
Lebanese-Brazilian financier
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Carol Sutton
American actress
(b. 1944)
Barbara Windsor
English actress
(b. 1937)
Michael Nesmith
American musician
(The Monkees), songwriter, actor, producer, and novelist (b. 1942)
Julian Carroll
American politician, 54th Governor of Kentucky
(b. 1931)