Christopher Columbus sets sail on his second voyage to the Americas. AI analysis
The United States Bill of Rights is ratified. AI analysis
The Battle of Wagram occurs during the Napoleonic Wars. AI analysis
The Texas Revolution begins with the Siege of Bexar. AI analysis
The Battle of Nashville takes place during the American Civil War. AI analysis
The Wounded Knee Massacre occurs in South Dakota. AI analysis
The Battle of Verdun, one of the longest and bloodiest battles of World War I, ends. AI analysis
The first successful kidney transplant is performed in Boston, USA. AI analysis
The United States declares war on Germany and Italy, joining World War II. AI analysis
The United Nations establishes the Republic of Korea as a member. AI analysis
The Soviet Union and the United States hold talks on a potential nuclear test ban treaty. AI analysis
The Paris Peace Accords are signed, marking the end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. AI analysis
The Soviet Union launches the space station Cosmos 1402. AI analysis
The Dayton Agreement is signed, ending the Bosnian War. AI analysis
The United Nations General Assembly votes to impeach U.S. President Bill Clinton. AI analysis
The United States announces the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in response to 9/11. AI analysis
The Treaty of Lisbon is signed by the European Union, aiming to enhance institutional efficiency. AI analysis
WikiLeaks begins publishing a significant number of classified U.S. diplomatic cables. AI analysis
The United Nations votes to make Palestine a non-member observer state. AI analysis
The United Nations adopts a resolution condemning Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories. AI analysis
Nero
Roman emperor
(d. 68)
Lucius Verus
Roman emperor
(d. 169)
Prince Munetaka
Japanese shōgun
(d. 1274)
Albert IV
Duke of Bavaria
(d. 1508)
Christoph Demantius
German composer, poet, and theorist
(d. 1643)
David Teniers the Younger
Flemish painter
(d. 1690)
Michel Richard Delalande
French organist and composer
(d. 1726)
Jean-Joseph Fiocco
Flemish violinist and composer
(d. 1746)
Francesco Zahra
Maltese painter
(d. 1773)
Carlos Soublette
Venezuelan general and politician, 11th President of Venezuela
(d. 1870)
Gustave Eiffel
French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower
(d. 1923)
E. W. Bullinger
English minister, scholar, and theologian
(d. 1913)
Henri Becquerel
French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1908)
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish linguist and ophthalmologist, created Esperanto
(d. 1917)
Niels Ryberg Finsen
Faroese-Danish physician and educator, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1904)
Abner Powell
American baseball player and manager
(d. 1953)
Charles Duryea
American engineer and businessman, co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company
(d. 1938)
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd President of Finland
(d. 1944)
Arthur Dehon Little
American chemist and engineer
(d. 1935)
Leon Marchlewski
Polish chemist and academic
(d. 1946)
Emilio Jacinto
Filipino journalist and activist
(d. 1899)
Hans Carossa
German author and poet
(d. 1956)
Leonid Pitamic
Slovenian lawyer, philosopher, and academic
(d. 1971)
Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz
Polish politician and resistance fighter
(d. 1968)
Florence Jepperson Madsen
American contralto singer and professor of music
(d. 1977)
Maxwell Anderson
American journalist and playwright
(d. 1959)
Harry Babcock
American pole vaulter
(d. 1965)
A.P. Carter
American country singer-songwriter and musician
(d. 1960)
J. Paul Getty
American-English businessman and art collector, founded Getty Oil
(d. 1976)
Vibert Douglas
Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer
(d. 1988)
Josef Imbach
Swiss sprinter
(d. 1964)
Betty Smith
American author and playwright
(d. 1972)
Harold Abrahams
English sprinter, lawyer, and journalist
(d. 1978)
Robert F. Bradford
American lawyer and politician, 57th Governor of Massachusetts
(d. 1983)
Tamanishiki San'emon
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 32nd Yokozuna
(d. 1938)
Gordon Douglas
American actor, director, and screenwriter
(d. 1993)
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect, designed the United Nations Headquarters and the Cathedral of Brasília
(d. 2012)
Swami Ranganathananda
Indian monk, scholar, and author
(d. 2005)
Sattar Bahlulzade
Azerbaijani-Russian painter
(d. 1974)
Eliza Atkins Gleason
American librarian
(d. 2009)
John Hammond
American record producer and critic
(d. 1987)
Nicholas P. Dallis
American psychiatrist and illustrator
(d. 1991)
Stan Kenton
American pianist and composer
(d. 1979)
Roger Gaudry
Canadian chemist and businessman
(d. 2001)
Muriel Rukeyser
American poet, academic, and activist
(d. 1980)
Eila Campbell
English geographer and cartographer
(d. 1994)
Miguel Arraes
Brazilian lawyer and politician, Governor of Pernambuco
(d. 2005)
Buddy Cole
American pianist and conductor
(d. 1964)
Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2004)
Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee
Indian-Pakistani linguist and lexicographer
(d. 2005)
Jeff Chandler
American actor
(d. 1961)
Chihiro Iwasaki
Japanese painter and illustrator
(d. 1974)
Max Yasgur
American dairy farmer and host of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair
(d. 1973)
Gamal al-Banna
Egyptian author and scholar
(d. 2013)
Kurt Schaffenberger
German-American sergeant and illustrator
(d. 2002)
Alan Freed
American radio host
(d. 1965)
Pierre Cossette
American producer and manager
(d. 2009)
Freeman Dyson
English-American physicist and mathematician
(d. 2020)
Uziel Gal
German-Israeli engineer, designed the Uzi gun
(d. 2002)
Valentin Varennikov
Russian general and politician
(d. 2009)
Frank W. J. Olver
English-American mathematician and academic
(d. 2013)
Ruhi Sarıalp
Turkish triple jumper and educator
(d. 2001)
Kasey Rogers
American actress and author
(d. 2006)
Bill Pitt
Australian race car driver
(d. 2017)
Ernest Ashworth
American singer-songwriter
(d. 2009)
Ida Haendel
Polish-English violinist and educator
(d. 2020)
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Austrian-New Zealand painter and architect
(d. 2000)
Edna O'Brien
Irish novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer
(d. 2024)
Klaus Rifbjerg
Danish author and poet
(d. 2015)
Jesse Belvin
American singer-songwriter and pianist
(d. 1960)
John Meurig Thomas
Welsh chemist and academi
c
Bapu
Indian director and screenwriter
(d. 2014)
Tim Conway
American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
(d. 2019)
Donald Woods
South African journalist and activist
(d. 2001)
Joe D'Amato
Italian director and producer
(d. 1999)
Michael Bogdanov
Welsh director and screenwriter
(d. 2017)
Billy Shaw
American football player
(d. 2024)
Cindy Birdsong
American singer-songwrite
r
Dave Clark
English musician and songwrite
r
Nick Buoniconti
American football player and sportscaster
(d. 2019)
Kathleen Blanco
American educator and politician, 54th Governor of Louisiana
(d. 2019)
Lucien den Arend
Dutch sculpto
r
Jim Leyland
American baseball player and manage
r
Chico Mendes
Brazilian trade union leader and activist
(d. 1988)
Heather Booth
American civil rights activist, feminist, and political strategis
t
Ivor Crewe
English political scientist and academi
c
Carmine Appice
American drummer and songwrite
r
Art Howe
American baseball player and manage
r
Genny Lim
American write
r
Comunardo Niccolai
Italian footballer
(Torres, Cagliari, national team) (d. 2024)
Cassandra Harris
Australian actress
(d. 1991)
Charlie Scott
American basketball playe
r
Don Johnson
American acto
r
Brian Roper
English economist and academi
c
Melanie Chartoff
American actress and comedia
n
Sylvester James Gates
American theoretical physicist and professo
r
George Donikian
Australian journalis
t
Joe Jordan
Scottish footballer and manage
r
Tim Webster
Australian journalist and sportscaste
r
Rudi Protrudi
American singer-songwriter and produce
r
Allan Simonsen
Danish footballer and manage
r
Julie Taymor
American director, producer, and screenwrite
r
John R. Allen
American general and diploma
t
J. M. DeMatteis
American autho
r
Robert Charles Wilson
American-Canadian autho
r
Alex Cox
English film director, screenwriter, actor, non-fiction author and broadcaste
r
Oliver Heald
English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wale
s
Mark Warner
American businessman and politician, 69th Governor of Virgini
a
Hector Sants
English banke
r
Paul Simonon
English singer-songwriter and bass playe
r
John Lee Hancock
American screenwriter, film director, and produce
r
Tony Leon
South African lawyer and politicia
n
Mario Marois
Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaste
r
Mike McAlary
American journalist and author
(d. 1998)
Tim Reynolds
German-American singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Carlo J. Caparas
Filipino director and produce
r
Richard Kastle
American classical pianis
t
Greg Matthews
Australian crickete
r
Alan Whetton
New Zealand rugby playe
r
Gary Whetton
New Zealand rugby playe
r
Walter Werzowa
Austrian composer and produce
r
Karin Resetarits
Austrian journalist and politicia
n
Tim Gaines
American bass playe
r
Simon Hodgkinson
English rugby player and coac
h
Ellie Cornell
American actress and produce
r
Norman J. Grossfeld
American screenwriter and produce
r
Helen Slater
American actres
s
David Wingate
American basketball playe
r
Paul Kaye
English acto
r
Carl Hooper
Guyanese cricketer and coac
h
Molly Price
American actres
s
David Howells
English footballer and coac
h
Mo Vaughn
American baseball playe
r
Garrett Wang
American acto
r
Ralph Ineson
English acto
r
Chantal Petitclerc
Canadian wheelchair racer and senato
r
Adam Setliff
American discus thrower and lawye
r
Frankie Dettori
Italian jocke
y
Lawrence Funderburke
American basketball playe
r
Michael Shanks
Canadian actor, screenwriter and directo
r
Clint Lowery
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and produce
r
Rodney Harrison
American football player and sportscaste
r
Lee Jung-jae
South Korean acto
r
Stuart Townsend
Irish acto
r
Alexandra Tydings
American actress, director, writer and produce
r
Surya Bonaly
French figure skate
r
Ryoo Seung-wan
South Korean actor, director, and screenwrite
r
Garath Archer
English rugby playe
r
P. J. Byrne
American acto
r
Samira Saraya
Palestinian actor, filmmaker, poet and rappe
r
Baichung Bhutia
Indian footballer and manage
r
Kim Eagles
Canadian sport shoote
r
Aaron Miles
American baseball player and coac
h
Todd Tichenor
American baseball player and umpir
e
Mehmet Aurélio
Brazilian-Turkish footballer and manage
r
Geoff Stults
American actor and produce
r
Ned Brower
American drumme
r
Mark Jansen
Dutch guitarist and songwrite
r
Jerome McDougle
American football playe
r
Adam Brody
American acto
r
Eric Young
Canadian-American wrestle
r
Élodie Gossuin
French beauty pageant titleholder and mode
l
Sergio Pizzorno
English singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Manuel Wilhelm
German rugby playe
r
Michelle Dockery
English actres
s
Brendan Fletcher
Canadian actor and screenwrite
r
Andy González
Puerto Rican-American baseball playe
r
Thomas Herrion
American football player
(d. 2005)
Roman Pavlyuchenko
Russian footballe
r
Charlie Cox
English acto
r
Borja García
Spanish race car drive
r
George O. Gore II
American actor and comedia
n
Tatiana Perebiynis
Ukrainian tennis playe
r
Delon Armitage
Trinidadian-English rugby playe
r
René Duprée
Canadian professional wrestle
r
Camilla Luddington
English actres
s
Ronnie Radke
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and produce
r
Sophia Young
Vincentian-American basketball playe
r
Martyn Bernard
English high jumpe
r
Martin Škrtel
Slovak footballe
r
Diogo Fernandes
Brazilian footballe
r
Kim Junsu
South Korean singer-songwriter and dance
r
Iveta Mazáčová
Czech sprinte
r
Keylor Navas
Costa Rican footballe
r
Snejana Onopka
Ukrainian mode
l
Josh Norman
American football playe
r
Erik Gustafsson
Swedish ice hockey playe
r
Emily Head
English actres
s
Steven Nzonzi
French footballe
r
Nichole Bloom
American actress and mode
l
Conor Daly
American race car drive
r
Yanni Gourde
Canadian ice hockey playe
r
Alana Haim
American musician and actres
s
Daiamami Genki
Japanese sumo wrestle
r
Jesse Lingard
English footballe
r
Alex Telles
Brazilian footballe
r
Daniel Ochefu
American basketball playe
r
Jahlil Okafor
American basketball playe
r
Jenifer Brening
German singe
r
Oleksandr Zinchenko
Ukrainian footballe
r
Maude Apatow
American actres
s
Zach Banks
American race car drive
r
Magdalena Fręch
Polish tennis playe
r
Stefania LaVie Owen
New Zealand-American actres
s
Chandler Canterbury
American acto
r
Kayvon Thibodeaux
American football playe
r
Li Siyuan
Chinese emperor
(b. 867)
Basil II
Byzantine emperor
(b. 958)
Alp Arslan
Turkish sultan
(b. 1029)
Wanyan Liang
Chinese emperor
(b. 1122)
Ottokar I
duke of Bohemia
(b. 1155)
Philip I
Latin emperor
(b. 1243)
Hasan Kucek
Chopanid prince
(b. c. 1319)
Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna
archbishop and regent of Sweden
(b. 1417)
Selim II
Ottoman sultan
(b. 1524)
Philips of Marnix
Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, Dutch nobleman
(b. 1540)
Charles d'Albert
duc de Luynes, French courtier, Constable of France
(b. 1578)
Margaret Cavendish
Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English noblewoman
(b. 1623)
Johannes Vermeer
Dutch painter and educator
(b. 1632)
Izaak Walton
English author
(b. 1593)
Gaspar Fagel
Dutch lawyer and politician
(b. 1634)
Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart
French nobleman
(b. 1636)
George Hickes
English minister and scholar
(b. 1642)
Richard Boyle
3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect and politician, designed Chiswick House
(b. 1694)
Joseph Martin Kraus
Swedish pianist, violinist, and composer
(b. 1756)
Shneur Zalman
Russian rabbi, author and founder of Chabad
(b. 1745)
Federigo Zuccari
astronomer, director of the Astronomical Observatory of Naples
(b. 1783)
Daniel Rutherford
Scottish chemist and physician
(b. 1749)
Jacques Charles François Sturm
French mathematician and academic
(b. 1803)
Alfred Bird
English chemist and businessman, invented baking powder
(b. 1811)
Sitting Bull
Hunkpapa Lakota tribal chief
(b. 1831)
Fats Waller
American singer-songwriter and pianist
(b. 1904)
Glenn Miller
American bandleader and composer
(b. 1904)
Arthur Machen
Welsh journalist and author
(b. 1863)
Crawford Vaughan
Australian politician, 27th Premier of South Australia
(b. 1874)
Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India
(b. 1875)
Wolfgang Pauli
Austrian-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1900)
Charles Laughton
English-American actor, director, and producer
(b. 1899)
M. Balasundaram
Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician
(b. 1903)
Keith Arbuthnott
15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Indian-Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire
(b. 1897)
Walt Disney
American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company
(b. 1901)
Antonio Barrette
Canadian politician, 18th Premier of Quebec
(b. 1899)
Jess Willard
American boxer and actor
(b. 1881)
Karl Theodor Bleek
German lawyer and politician, 12th Mayor of Marburg
(b. 1898)
Paul Lévy
French mathematician and theorist
(b. 1886)
Anatole Litvak
Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
(b. 1902)
Wilfred Kitching
English 7th General of The Salvation Army
(b. 1893)
Chill Wills
American actor
(b. 1903)
Peter Gregg
American race car driver
(b. 1940)
Jan Peerce
American tenor and actor
(b. 1904)
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
Mauritian physician and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius
(b. 1900)
Serge Lifar
Russian-French ballet dancer and choreographer
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Edward Underdown
English actor and jockey
(b. 1908)
Vasily Zaytsev
Russian captain
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William Dale Phillips
American chemist and engineer
(b. 1925)
Haris Brkić
Bosnian-Serbian basketball player
(b. 1974)
Vincent Apap
Maltese sculptor
(b. 1909)
George Fisher
American cartoonist
(b. 1923)
Keith Magnuson
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
(b. 1947)
Vassal Gadoengin
Nauruan educator and politician, Speaker of the Nauru Parliament
(b. 1943)
Heinrich Gross
Austrian physician and psychiatrist
(b. 1914)
Stan Leonard
Canadian golfer
(b. 1915)
William Proxmire
American soldier, journalist, and politician
(b. 1915)
Darrell Russell
American football player
(b. 1976)
Clay Regazzoni
Swiss race car driver
(b. 1939)
Mary Stolz
American journalist and author
(b. 1920)
Julia Carson
American lawyer and politician
(b. 1938)
León Febres Cordero
Ecuadorian engineer and politician, 46th President of Ecuador
(b. 1931)
Eliza Atkins Gleason
American librarian
(b. 1909)
Oral Roberts
American evangelist, founded the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association
(b. 1918)
Blake Edwards
American director, producer, and screenwriter
(b. 1922)
Bob Feller
American baseball player and sportscaster
(b. 1918)
Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
American psychoanalyst and theorist
(b. 1940)
Bob Brookmeyer
American trombone player and composer
(b. 1929)
Christopher Hitchens
English-American essayist, literary critic, and journalist
(b. 1949)
Owoye Andrew Azazi
Nigerian general
(b. 1952)
Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa
Nigerian politician, 18th Governor of Kaduna State
(b. 1948)
Olga Zubarry
Argentinian actress
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Harold Camping
American evangelist, author, radio host
(b. 1921)
Joan Fontaine
British-American actress
(b. 1917)
Dyron Nix
American basketball player
(b. 1967)
Donald Metcalf
Australian physiologist and immunologist
(b. 1929)
Fausto Zapata
Mexican journalist, lawyer, and politician, Governor of San Luis Potosí
(b. 1940)
Harry Zvi Tabor
English-Israeli physicist and engineer
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Craig Sager
American sports journalist
(b. 1951)
Heinz Wolff
scientist and TV presenter
(b. 1928)
Calestous Juma
academic
(b. 1953)
Eryue He
Chinese historical fiction writer
(b.1945)
Girma Wolde-Giorgis
President of Ethiopia
(b. 1924)
Saufatu Sopoanga
Tuvaluan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
(b. 1952)