The St. Lucia's flood in the Netherlands causes massive destruction. AI analysis
Mary, Queen of Scots, is born in Linlithgow Palace, Scotland. AI analysis
The first Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia. AI analysis
The Battle of Albuera takes place during the Peninsular War between British and French forces. AI analysis
Alabama is admitted as the 22nd U.S. state. AI analysis
The Decembrist Revolt takes place in Russia. AI analysis
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations opens in London. AI analysis
The Battle of Dranesville occurs during the American Civil War. AI analysis
The first aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier, the HMS Ark Royal, completes the feat. AI analysis
The Soviet Union becomes the first country to recognize the independence of Finland. AI analysis
The Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland begins. AI analysis
The German Luftwaffe begins air raids on London during World War II. AI analysis
The United States declares war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. AI analysis
The Mariner 2 spacecraft successfully flies by Venus. AI analysis
The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. AI analysis
U.S. President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher meet for the first time. AI analysis
The Dayton Agreement is signed, ending the Bosnian War. AI analysis
The United States Supreme Court rules in Bush v. Gore, resolving the disputed 2000 presidential election. AI analysis
The United Nations adopts the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. AI analysis
The United Kingdom General Election takes place, resulting in a victory for the Conservative Party. AI analysis
Go-Suzaku
emperor of Japan
(d. 1045)
Frederick III
German nobleman
(d. 1381)
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and chemist
(d. 1601)
Charles Berkeley
2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge, English politician
(d. 1668)
János Kemény
Hungarian prince
(d. 1662)
Barthélemy d'Herbelot
French orientalist and academic
(d. 1695)
Anne Conway
English philosopher and author
(d. 1679)
Aphra Behn
English playwright and author
(d. 1689)
Daniel Neal
English historian and author
(d. 1743)
Justus Möser
German jurist and theorist
(d. 1794)
Capel Bond
English organist and composer
(d. 1790)
Jan Antonín Koželuh
Czech composer and educator
(d. 1814)
Philander Chase
American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College
(d. 1852)
Thomas Cochrane
10th Earl of Dundonald, Scottish admiral and politician
(d. 1860)
Du Pre Alexander
2nd Earl of Caledon, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone
(d. 1839)
Maria Szymanowska
Polish composer and pianist
(d. 1831)
Charles Wolfe
Irish priest and poet
(d. 1823)
Erastus Corning
American businessman and politician
(d. 1872)
Abraham Hochmuth
Hungarian rabbi and educator
(d. 1889)
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
French painter and illustrator
(d. 1898)
Daniel H. Reynolds
American general, lawyer, and politician
(d. 1902)
Mary Tappan Wright
American novelist and short story writer
(d. 1916)
Daniel De Leon
Curaçaoan-American journalist and politician
(d. 1914)
Louis Marshall
American lawyer and activist
(d. 1929)
Roger Fry
English painter and critic
(d. 1934)
Karl Renner
Austrian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Austria
(d. 1950)
Katherine MacDonald
American actress and producer
(d. 1956)
Manolis Kalomiris
Greek pianist and composer
(d. 1962)
Morihei Ueshiba
Japanese martial artist, developed aikido
(d. 1969)
Jane Cowl
American actress and playwright
(d. 1950)
Xul Solar
Argentinian painter and sculptor
(d. 1963)
Alexander Nelke
Estonian-American painter and carpenter
(d. 1974)
Paul Éluard
French poet and author
(d. 1952)
Jimmy Doolittle
American general and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient
(d. 1993)
Kurt Schuschnigg
Italian-Austrian lawyer and politician, 15th Federal Chancellor of Austria
(d. 1977)
Margaret Chase Smith
American educator and politician
(d. 1995)
DeFord Bailey
American Hall of Fame country and blues musician
(d. 1982)
Henri Cochet
French tennis player
(d. 1987)
Frances Bavier
American actress
(d. 1989)
Herbert Feigl
Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle
(d. 1988)
Walter Rangeley
English sprinter
(d. 1982)
Virginia Coffey
American civil rights activist
(d. 2003)
Morey Amsterdam
American actor, singer, and screenwriter
(d. 1996)
Claude Davey
Welsh rugby player
(d. 2001)
Mária Szepes
Hungarian journalist, author, and screenwriter
(d. 2007)
Edward Lawrie Tatum
American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1975)
Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz
Greek-Polish swimmer and water polo player
(d. 1943)
Spike Jones
American singer and bandleader
(d. 1965)
Hans von Ohain
German-American physicist and engineer
(d. 1998)
Karl Carstens
German lieutenant and politician, 5th President of the Federal Republic of Germany
(d. 1992)
Rosalyn Tureck
American pianist and harpsichord player
(d. 2003)
Dan Dailey
American dancer and actor
(d. 1978)
Shirley Jackson
American novelist and short story writer
(d. 1965)
C.-H. Hermansson
Swedish author and politician
(d. 2016)
Elyse Knox
American actress and fashion designer
(d. 2012)
June Taylor
American dancer and choreographer
(d. 2004)
James T. Aubrey
American broadcaster
(d. 1994)
Radu Beligan
Romanian actor and director
(d. 2016)
B. K. S. Iyengar
Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga
(d. 2014)
Clark Terry
American trumpet player, composer, and educator
(d. 2015)
Nikolay Basov
Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2001)
Don Hewitt
American journalist and producer, created 60 Minutes
(d. 2009)
Junior J. Spurrier
American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient
(d. 1984)
Gerard Reve
Dutch-Belgian author and poet
(d. 2006)
Raj Kapoor
Indian actor, director, and producer
(d. 1988)
Richard Cassilly
American tenor and actor
(d. 1998)
Koos Rietkerk
Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior
(d. 1986)
Ron Jarden
New Zealand rugby player
(d. 1977)
Margaret Bakkes
South African author
(d. 2016)
David R. Harris
English geographer, anthropologist, and archaeologist
(d. 2013)
Jon Elia
Pakistani philosopher, poet, and scholar
(d. 2002)
Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar
Estonian director and politician
(d. 2015)
George Furth
American actor and playwright
(d. 2008)
Abbe Lane
American actress, singer, and dance
r
Charlie Rich
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(d. 1995)
Shyam Benegal
Indian director and screenwrite
r
Charlie Hodge
American guitarist and singer
(d. 2006)
Lewis Arquette
American actor, producer, and screenwriter
(d. 2001)
Lee Remick
American actress
(d. 1991)
Leonardo Boff
Brazilian theologian and autho
r
Charlie Griffith
Barbadian crickete
r
Ann Cryer
English academic and politicia
n
Ernie Davis
American football player
(d. 1963)
Lex Gold
Scottish footballer and civil servan
t
Karan Armstrong
American soprano and actress
(d. 2021)
Ellen Willis
American journalist, critic, and academic
(d. 2006)
Chris Harris
English actor and director
(d. 2014)
Dick Wagner
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(d. 2014)
Tommy McAvoy
Scottish politician
(d. 2024)
Emmett Tyrrell
American journalist, author, and publisher, founded The American Spectato
r
Graham Kirkham
Baron Kirkham, English businessman, founded DF
S
Denis Thwaites
English professional footballer murdered in the 2015 Sousse attacks
(d. 2015)
Antony Beevor
English historian and autho
r
Jane Birkin
English-French actress and singer
(d. 2023)
John Du Prez
English conductor and compose
r
Patty Duke
American actress
(d. 2016)
Ruth Fuchs
German javelin thrower and politician
(d. 2023)
Peter Lorimer
Scottish footballer
(d. 2021)
Michael Ovitz
American talent agent, co-founded Creative Artists Agenc
y
Stan Smith
American tennis player and coac
h
Joyce Vincent Wilson
American singe
r
Christopher Parkening
American guitarist and educato
r
Dilma Rousseff
Brazilian economist and politician, 36th President of Brazi
l
Lester Bangs
American journalist and author
(d. 1982)
Kim Beazley
Australian politician and diplomat, 9th Deputy Prime Minister of Australi
a
Boudewijn Büch
Dutch author, poet, and television host
(d. 2002)
Peeter Kreitzberg
Estonian lawyer and politician
(d. 2011)
Dee Wallace
American actres
s
Bill Buckner
American baseball player and manager
(d. 2019)
David A. Cherry
American artist and illustrato
r
Cliff Williams
Australian bass playe
r
John Brown
American basketball playe
r
Jan Timman
Dutch chess player and autho
r
John Lurie
American actor, saxophonist, painter, director, and produce
r
Vijay Amritraj
Indian tennis player and sportscaste
r
Wade Davis
Canadian anthropologist, author, and photographe
r
René Eespere
Estonian compose
r
Vangelis Meimarakis
Greek lawyer and politician, 4th Greek Minister for National Defenc
e
Mikael Odenberg
Swedish soldier and politician, 29th Swedish Minister for Defenc
e
Alan Kulwicki
American race car driver
(d. 1993)
Steve MacLean
Canadian physicist and astronau
t
Jane Crafter
Australian golfe
r
Jill Pipher
American mathematician and academi
c
T. K. Carter
American acto
r
Linda Fabiani
Scottish politicia
n
Hanni Wenzel
German skie
r
Mike Scott
Scottish singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Spider Stacy
English singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Bob Paris
American-Canadian bodybuilder and acto
r
Jorge Vaca
Mexican boxe
r
James Comey
American lawyer, 7th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio
n
Don Franklin
American acto
r
Chris Waddle
English footballer, manager, and sportscaste
r
Diane Williams
American sprinte
r
Patrik Sundström
Swedish ice hockey playe
r
Greg Abbott
English footballer and manage
r
William Bedford
American basketball playe
r
Diana Gansky
German discus throwe
r
Cynthia Gibb
American actress and mode
l
Craig Biggio
American baseball player and coac
h
Ken Hill
American baseball playe
r
Ted Raimi
American actor, director, and screenwrite
r
Fabrizio Giovanardi
Italian race car drive
r
Carl Herrera
Trinidadian-Venezuelan basketball playe
r
Anthony Mason
American basketball player
(d. 2015)
Bill Ranford
Canadian ice hockey player and coac
h
Tim Sköld
Swedish bass player and produce
r
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Danish academic and politician, 41st Prime Minister of Denmar
k
Ewa Białołęcka
Polish autho
r
Hanne Haugland
Norwegian high jumper and coac
h
Kelley Armstrong
Canadian autho
r
Mohamed Saad
Egyptian acto
r
Scott Hatteberg
American baseball player and sportscaste
r
Archie Kao
American actor and produce
r
Natascha McElhone
English-Irish actres
s
Dave Nilsson
Australian baseball player and manage
r
Arthur Numan
Dutch footballer and manage
r
Anna Maria Jopek
Polish singer-songwriter, pianist, and produce
r
Beth Orton
English singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Michaela Watkins
American actor and comedia
n
Miranda Hart
English actres
s
Marcus Jensen
American baseball player and coac
h
Falk Balzer
German hurdle
r
Pat Burke
Irish basketball playe
r
Tomasz Radzinski
Canadian soccer playe
r
Saulius Štombergas
Lithuanian basketball player and coac
h
Billy Koch
American baseball playe
r
Justin Furstenfeld
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and produce
r
Ben Kay
English rugby playe
r
KaDee Strickland
American actres
s
Tammy Blanchard
American actress and singe
r
Leland Chapman
American bounty hunte
r
Sebastien Chaule
French-German rugby playe
r
André Couto
Portuguese race car drive
r
Santiago Ezquerro
Spanish footballe
r
Brendan Nash
Australian-Jamaican crickete
r
Jamie Peacock
English rugby player and manage
r
Dean Brogan
Australian footballer and coac
h
Shedrack Kibet Korir
Kenyan runne
r
Zdeněk Pospěch
Czech footballe
r
Patty Schnyder
Swiss tennis playe
r
Kim St-Pierre
Canadian ice hockey playe
r
Jean-Alain Boumsong
French footballe
r
Andrei Makrov
Estonian ice hockey playe
r
Kyle Shanahan
American football coac
h
Sophie Monk
English-Australian singer-songwriter and actres
s
Michael Owen
English footballer and sportscaste
r
Rocc
Slovenian opera stage director and designe
r
Thed Björk
Swedish race car drive
r
Gordon Greer
Scottish footballe
r
Didier Zokora
Ivorian footballe
r
Amber Chia
Malaysian mode
l
Johnny Jeter
American wrestle
r
Liam Lawrence
Irish footballe
r
Shaun Marcum
American baseball playe
r
Josh Fields
American baseball playe
r
Steve Sidwell
English footballe
r
Anthony Way
English singer and acto
r
Leanne Mitchell
English singer-songwrite
r
Chris Brunt
Northern Irish footballe
r
Rana Daggubati
Indian actor and produce
r
Ed Rainsford
Zimbabwean crickete
r
Jackson Rathbone
American actor, singer, and musicia
n
Jakub Błaszczykowski
Polish footballe
r
Alex Pennie
Welsh keyboard playe
r
Tom Smith
English-Welsh rugby playe
r
Nonami Takizawa
Japanese actress and singe
r
Kenneth Medwood
Belizean-American hurdle
r
Nicolas Batum
French basketball playe
r
Nate Ebner
American football playe
r
Vanessa Hudgens
American actress and singe
r
Hayato Sakamoto
Japanese baseball playe
r
Pedro Botelho
Brazilian footballe
r
Sam Burgess
English rugby league playe
r
Onew
South Korean singer-songwriter and dance
r
Robert Covington
American basketball playe
r
Ben Henry
New Zealand rugby league playe
r
Offset
American rappe
r
Tori Kelly
American singer-songwrite
r
Ryo Miyaichi
Japanese footballe
r
Antonio Giovinazzi
Italian race car drive
r
Ivan Barbashev
Russian ice hockey playe
r
Calvyn Justus
South African swimme
r
Li Zijun
Chinese figure skate
r
DK Metcalf
American football playe
r
Lonnie Walker IV
American basketball playe
r
Joshua Rush
American actor and activis
t
Xue Rengao
emperor of Qi
n
John III of the Sedre
Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioc
h
Aldfrith
king of Northumbria
(or 705)
Agnes of Poitou
Holy Roman Empress and regent
(b. c. 1025)
Al-Ashraf Khalil
Mamluk sultan of Egyp
t
Margaret of Brabant
German queen consort
(b. 1276)
Rinchinbal Khan
Mongolian emperor
(b. 1326)
Cangrande II della Scala
Lord of Verona
(b. 1332)
John Oldcastle
English Lollard leade
r
Guarino da Verona
Italian scholar and translator
(b. 1370)
Niccolò Perotti
humanist scholar
(b. 1429)
Sten Sture the Elder
regent of Sweden
(b. 1440)
John of the Cross
Spanish priest and saint
(b. 1542)
Henry Hastings
3rd Earl of Huntingdon
(b. 1535)
Charles Howard
1st Earl of Nottingham, English politician, Lord High Admiral
(b. 1536)
Pierre Dupuy
French historian and scholar
(b. 1582)
Thomas Tenison
English archbishop
(b. 1636)
Thomas Tanner
English bishop and historian
(b. 1674)
Charles Rollin
French historian and educator
(b. 1661)
Giovanni Battista Cipriani
Italian painter and engraver
(b. 1727)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
German pianist and composer
(b. 1714)
George Washington
American general and politician, 1st President of the United States
(b. 1732)
Martin Baum
American businessman and politician, 5th Mayor of Cincinnati
(b. 1765)
Jean-Olivier Chénier
Canadian physician
(b. 1806)
Ben Crack-O
king of several tribes around Cape Palma
s
George Hamilton-Gordon
4th Earl of Aberdeen, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(b. 1784)
Albert
Prince Consort of the United Kingdom
(b. 1819)
Johan Georg Forchhammer
Danish geologist and mineralogist
(b. 1794)
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-American zoologist and geologist
(b. 1807)
Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis
English lieutenant and explorer
(b. 1887)
Eva Gouel
French choreographer and girlfriend of Pablo Picass
o
Phil Waller
Welsh rugby player
(b. 1889)
George Gipp
American football player
(b. 1895)
Julian Sochocki
Russian mathematician and academic
(b. 1842)
Henry B. Jackson
British admiral
(b. 1855)
Stanley G. Weinbaum
American author
(b. 1902)
Fabián de la Rosa
Filipino painter and educator
(b. 1869)
Anton Korošec
Slovenian priest and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
(b. 1872)
John Harvey Kellogg
American physician and businessman, co-invented corn flakes
(b. 1852)
Lupe Vélez
Mexican actress
(b. 1908)
Stanley Baldwin
English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(b. 1867)
Edward Higgins
English-American 3rd General of The Salvation Army
(b. 1864)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
American author and academic
(b. 1896)
Juho Kusti Paasikivi
Finnish lawyer and politician, 7th President of Finland
(b. 1870)
Dinah Washington
American singer and pianist
(b. 1924)
William Bendix
American actor
(b. 1906)
Franz Schlegelberger
German judge and politician, German Reich Minister of Justice
(b. 1876)
Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury
Bangladeshi linguist and scholar
(b. 1926)
Munier Choudhury
Bangladeshi author, playwright, and critic
(b. 1925)
Shahidullah Kaiser
Bangladeshi journalist and author
(b. 1927)
Walter Lippmann
American journalist and author
(b. 1889)
Arthur Treacher
English-American entertainer
(b. 1894)
Salvador de Madariaga
Spanish historian and diplomat, co-founded the College of Europe
(b. 1886)
Elston Howard
American baseball player and coach
(b. 1929)
Vicente Aleixandre
Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1898)
Catherine Doherty
Russian-Canadian activist, founded the Madonna House Apostolate
(b. 1896)
Roger Maris
American baseball player and coach
(b. 1934)
Jock Mahoney
American actor and stuntman
(b. 1919)
Andrei Sakharov
Russian physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1921)
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Swiss author and playwright
(b. 1921)
Paula Nenette Pepin
French composer, pianist and lyricist
(b. 1908)
Robert Eddison
Japanese-English actor
(b. 1908)
Jeff Alm
American football player
(b. 1968)
Myrna Loy
American actress
(b. 1905)
Orval Faubus
American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas
(b. 1910)
G. C. Edmondson
American soldier and author
(b. 1922)
Gaston Miron
Canadian poet and author
(b. 1928)
Stubby Kaye
American actor and comedian
(b. 1918)
Emily Cheney Neville
American author
(b. 1919)
Kurt Winter
Canadian guitarist and songwriter
(b. 1946)
Norman Fell
American actor and comedian
(b. 1924)
A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.
American lawyer, judge, and activist
(b. 1928)
Annette Strauss
American philanthropist and politician, Mayor of Dallas
(b. 1924)
W. G. Sebald
German novelist, essayist, and poet
(b. 1944)
Jeanne Crain
American actress
(b. 1925)
Blas Ople
Filipino journalist and politician, 21st President of the Senate of the Philippines
(b. 1927)
Frank Sheeran
American union leader and mobster
(b. 1920)
Rod Kanehl
American baseball player
(b. 1934)
Fernando Poe Jr.
Filipino actor, director, producer, and politician
(b. 1939)
Anton Balasingham
Sri Lankan-English strategist and negotiator
(b. 1938)
Ahmet Ertegun
Turkish-American composer and producer, co-founded Atlantic Records
(b. 1923)
Mike Evans
American actor and screenwriter
(b. 1949)
Alan A'Court
English footballer and manager
(b. 1934)
Timothy Davlin
American politician, Mayor of Springfield
(b. 1957)
Neva Patterson
American actress
(b. 1920)
Dale Roberts
English footballer
(b. 1986)
Joe Simon
American author and illustrator
(b. 1913)
Billie Jo Spears
American singer-songwriter
(b. 1937)
John Graham
English general
(b. 1923)
Edward Jones
American police officer and politician
(b. 1950)
Victoria Leigh Soto
American educator
(b. 1985)
Janet Dailey
American author
(b. 1944)
C. N. Karunakaran
Indian painter and illustrator
(b. 1940)
Dennis Lindley
English statistician and academic
(b. 1923)
Peter O'Toole
British-Irish actor
(b. 1932)
George Rodrigue
American painter
(b. 1944)
Theo Colborn
American zoologist and academic
(b. 1927)
Irene Dalis
American soprano and pianist
(b. 1925)
Louis Alphonse Koyagialo
Congolese politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(b. 1947)
Bess Myerson
American model, activist, game show panelist and television personality; Miss America 1945
(b. 1924)
Fred Thurston
American football player
(b. 1933)
Terry Backer
American soldier and politician
(b. 1954)
Glen Sonmor
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
(b. 1929)
Vadym Tyshchenko
Ukrainian footballer and manager
(b. 1963)
Lillian Vernon
German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company
(b. 1927)
Paulo Evaristo Arns
Brazilian cardinal
(b. 1921)
Bernard Fox
Welsh actor
(b. 1927)
Yu Kwang-chung
Chinese writer
(b. 1928)
Chuy Bravo
Mexican-American comedian and actor
(b. 1956)
Gérard Houllier
French Football manager
(b. 1947)
Jean Franco
American academic and literary critic
(b. 1924)
Tomáš Janovic
Slovak writer
(b. 1937)