Charles Darwin embarks on his voyage aboard HMS Beagle. AI analysis
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie premieres in London. AI analysis
The first full-length sound film, The Jazz Singer, premieres in New York City. AI analysis
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is created. AI analysis
Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the Moon, successfully completes its first orbit. AI analysis
Spain's new constitution is approved by referendum. AI analysis
A terrorist bombing at a U.S. embassy annex in Kuwait kills six. AI analysis
The Romanian Revolution reaches its peak, leading to the overthrow of Nicolae Ceaușescu. AI analysis
The Soviet Union is formally dissolved, marking the end of the Cold War. AI analysis
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is established. AI analysis
The Kyoto Protocol is adopted by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. AI analysis
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bush v. Gore, effectively ending the Florida recount. AI analysis
A powerful earthquake strikes off the coast of Sumatra, triggering the Indian Ocean tsunami. AI analysis
The last U.S. troops leave Iraq, ending the Iraq War. AI analysis
The European Union receives the Nobel Peace Prize for its contributions to peace and democracy. AI analysis
The United Nations announces the largest-ever peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. AI analysis
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Anne de Mortimer
claimant to the English throne
(d. 1411)
John I Albert
King of Poland
(d. 1501)
Casimir
Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Margrave of Bayreuth
(d. 1527)
Johann Pfeffinger
German theologian
(d. 1573)
Jan Jesenius
Bohemian physician, politician and philosopher
(d. 1621)
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer
(d. 1630)
Johannes Vodnianus Campanus
Czech poet, playwright, and composer
(d. 1622)
Philipp Julius
Duke of Pomerania
(d. 1625)
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
hetman of Ukraine
(d. 1657)
Teofil Rutka
Polish philosopher
(d. 1700)
Jean de Lamberville
French missionary
(d. 1714)
William Whitelock
English gentleman, Member of Parliament
(d. 1717)
Petar Kanavelić
Venetian writer
(d. 1719)
Giovanni Antonio Viscardi
Swiss architect
(d. 1713)
Abstrupus Danby
English politician
(d. 1727)
Veronica Giuliani
Italian Capuchin mystic
(d. 1727)
Johann Melchior Roos
German painter
(d. 1731)
Conyers Middleton
English priest and theologian
(d. 1750)
Jacob August Franckenstein
Encyclopedia editor, professor
(d. 1733)
Francis Blake Delaval
British Royal Navy officer and Member of Parliament
(d. 1752)
Sollom Emlyn
Irish legal writer
(d. 1754)
Prince Frederick Henry Eugen of Anhalt-Dessau
German prince of the House of Ascania
(d. 1781)
Giovanni Battista Borra
Italian architect and engineer
(d. 1770)
George Whitefield
English preacher and saint
(d. 1770)
Philippe de Noailles
French general
(d. 1794)
François Hemsterhuis
Dutch philosopher and author
(d. 1790)
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly
Russian field marshal and politician, Governor-General of Finland
(d. 1818)
George Cayley
English engineer and politician
(d. 1857)
Nikolay Kamensky
Russian general
(d. 1811)
Ghalib
Indian poet
(d. 1869)
Charles Hodge
American theologian
(d. 1878)
François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier
Canadian activist
(d. 1839)
Alexandros Rizos Rangavis
Greek poet and politician, Foreign Minister of Greece
(d. 1892)
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
(d. 1895)
Mackenzie Bowell
English-Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada
(d. 1917)
Stanisław Mieroszewski
Polish-born politician, writer, historian and member of the Imperial Council of Austria
(d. 1900)
Pavel Tretyakov
Russian businessman and philanthropist, founded the Tretyakov Gallery
(d. 1897)
Lars Oftedal
Norwegian priest, social reformer, politician, and newspaper editor
(d. 1900)
Juan Luis Sanfuentes
Chilean lawyer and politician, 17th President of Chile
(d. 1930)
Louis Lincoln Emmerson
American lawyer and politician, 27th Governor of Illinois
(d. 1941)
Hermann-Paul
French painter and illustrator
(d. 1940)
Kalle Korhonen
Finnish politician
(d. 1938)
Sydney Greenstreet
English-American actor
(d. 1954)
Mina Loy
British modernist poet and artist
(d. 1966)
Cyrus S. Eaton
Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist
(d. 1979)
Thea von Harbou
German actress, director, and screenwriter
(d. 1954)
Alfred Edwin McKay
Canadian captain and pilot
(d. 1917)
Louis Bromfield
American author and theorist
(d. 1956)
Maurice De Waele
Belgian cyclist
(d. 1952)
Carl Zuckmayer
German author and playwright
(d. 1977)
Inejiro Asanuma
Japanese politician
(d. 1960)
Hans Stuck
German racing driver
(d. 1978)
Marlene Dietrich
German-American actress and singer
(d. 1992)
Irene Handl
English actress
(d. 1987)
René Bonnet
French racing driver and engineer
(d. 1983)
Cliff Arquette
American actor and comedian
(d. 1974)
Oscar Levant
American pianist, composer, and actor
(d. 1972)
Asaf Halet Çelebi
Turkish poet
(d. 1958)
Sebastian Haffner
German journalist and author
(d. 1999)
Mary Howard
English author
(d. 1991)
Conrad L. Raiford
American baseball player and activist
(d. 2002)
Willem van Otterloo
Dutch conductor and composer
(d. 1978)
James Riddell
English skier and author
(d. 2000)
Charles Olson
American poet and educator
(d. 1970)
Anna Russell
English-Canadian singer and actress
(d. 2006)
Elizabeth Smart
Canadian poet and novelist
(d. 1986)
William Masters
American gynecologist, author, and academic
(d. 2001)
Gyula Zsengellér
Hungarian-Cypriot footballer and manager
(d. 1999)
Werner Baumbach
German pilot
(d. 1953)
Cathy Lewis
American actress
(d. 1968)
Buddy Boudreaux
American saxophonist and clarinet player
(d. 2015)
T. Nadaraja
Sri Lankan lawyer and academic
(d. 2004)
Onni Palaste
Finnish soldier and author
(d. 2009)
John Celardo
American captain and illustrator
(d. 2012)
Charles Sweeney
American general and pilot
(d. 2004)
Bruce Hobbs
American jockey and trainer
(d. 2005)
John Whitworth
English countertenor
(d. 2013)
Bruno Bobak
Polish-Canadian painter and educator
(d. 2012)
Lucas Mangope
South African politician
(d. 2018)
Jean Bartik
American computer scientist and engineer
(d. 2011)
James A. McClure
American soldier, lawyer, and politician
(d. 2011)
Michel Piccoli
French actor, singer, director, and producer
(d. 2020)
Jerome Courtland
American actor, director, and producer
(d. 2012)
Antony Gardner
English engineer and politician
(d. 2011)
Nityanand Swami
Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
(d. 2012)
Audrey Wagner
American baseball player, obstetrician, and gynecologist
(d. 1984)
Marshall Sahlins
American anthropologist and academic
(d. 2021)
Wilfrid Sheed
English-born American novelist and essayist
(d. 2011)
Scotty Moore
American guitarist and songwriter
(d. 2016)
Dave Marr
American golfer
(d. 1997)
Larisa Latynina
Ukrainian gymnast and coac
h
Jeffrey Sterling
Baron Sterling of Plaistow, English businessma
n
Michael Turnbull
English bisho
p
Phil Sharpe
English cricketer
(d. 2014)
Eve Uusmees
Estonian swimmer and coac
h
John Amos
American actor
(d. 2024)
David Shepherd
English cricketer and umpire
(d. 2009)
Miles Aiken
American basketball player and coac
h
Mike Pinder
English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
(d. 2024)
Nolan Richardson
American basketball player and coac
h
Byron Browne
American baseball playe
r
Thomas Menino
American politician, 53rd Mayor of Boston
(d. 2014)
Ron Rothstein
American basketball player and coac
h
Cokie Roberts
American journalist and author
(d. 2019)
Joan Manuel Serrat
Spanish singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Peter Sinfield
English songwriter and produce
r
Roy White
American baseball player and coac
h
Mick Jones
English guitarist, songwriter, and produce
r
Lenny Kaye
American guitarist, songwriter, and produce
r
Joe Kinnear
Irish footballer and manager
(d. 2024)
Janet Street-Porter
English journalist and produce
r
Polly Toynbee
English journalist and autho
r
Bill Eadie
American wrestler and coac
h
Doug Livermore
English footballer and manage
r
Willy Polleunis
Belgian runne
r
Gérard Depardieu
French-Russian acto
r
Terry Ito
Japanese director, producer, and criti
c
Haris Alexiou
Greek singer-songwrite
r
Roberto Bettega
Italian footballer and manage
r
Terry Bozzio
American drummer and songwrite
r
Karla Bonoff
American singer-songwrite
r
Ernesto Zedillo
Mexican economist and politician, 54th President of Mexic
o
Jay Hill
Canadian farmer and politicia
n
David Knopfler
Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and produce
r
Kent Benson
American basketball playe
r
Mandie Fletcher
English director, producer, and production manage
r
Teo Chee Hean
Singaporean politician and 5th Senior Minister of Singapor
e
Brad Murphey
American race car drive
r
Barbara Olson
American journalist and author
(d. 2001)
Doina Melinte
Romanian runne
r
Steve Jones
American golfe
r
Gerina Dunwich
American astrologer, historian, and autho
r
Andre Tippett
American football player and coac
h
Maryam d'Abo
English actres
s
Donald Nally
American conductor and academi
c
Terry Price
Australian golfe
r
Guido Westerwelle
German lawyer and politician, 15th Vice-Chancellor of Germany
(d. 2016)
Mark Few
American basketball player and coac
h
John Kampfner
Singaporean journalist and autho
r
Bill Self
American basketball player and coac
h
Sherri Steinhauer
American golfe
r
Gaspar Noé
Argentine-French director and screenwrite
r
Ian Gomez
American acto
r
Theresa Randle
American actres
s
Salman Khan
Indian film actor and produce
r
Marianne Elliott
English director and produce
r
Bill Goldberg
American football player, wrestler and acto
r
Eva LaRue
American model and actres
s
Jean-Christophe Boullion
French racing drive
r
Chyna
American professional wrestler and actress
(d. 2016)
Sarah Vowell
American author and journalis
t
Brendon Cook
Australian racing driver and rugby playe
r
Lorenzo Neal
American football player and radio hos
t
Naoko Yamazaki
Japanese pilot and astronau
t
Duncan Ferguson
Scottish footballer and coac
h
Guthrie Govan
English guitarist and educato
r
Savannah Guthrie
American television journalis
t
Colin Charvis
Welsh rugby union player and coac
h
Kevin Ollie
American basketball player and coac
h
Matt Slocum
American guitarist and songwrite
r
Wilson Cruz
American acto
r
Kristoffer Zegers
Dutch pianist and compose
r
Tomáš Janků
Czech high jumpe
r
Masi Oka
Japanese-American actor and visual effects designe
r
Fumiko Orikasa
Japanese voice actress and singe
r
Jay Pandolfo
American ice hockey player and coac
h
Aigars Fadejevs
Latvian race walker and therapis
t
Heather O'Rourke
American actress
(d. 1988)
Nikolaos Georgeas
Greek footballe
r
Piotr Morawski
Polish mountaineer
(d. 2009)
Daimí Pernía
Cuban basketball player and hurdle
r
Fernando Pisani
Canadian-Italian ice hockey playe
r
Jacqueline Pillon
Canadian actres
s
Chris Tate
English footballe
r
Deuce McAllister
American football playe
r
Lisa Jakub
Canadian actres
s
Pascale Dorcelus
Canadian weightlifte
r
David Dunn
English footballer and manage
r
Carson Palmer
American football playe
r
Bernard Berrian
American football playe
r
Claudio Castagnoli
Swiss wrestle
r
Dahntay Jones
American basketball playe
r
Meelis Kompus
Estonian journalis
t
David Aardsma
American baseball playe
r
Emilie de Ravin
Australian actres
s
Jay Ellis
American acto
r
Moise Joseph
American-Haitian runne
r
Patrick Sharp
Canadian ice hockey playe
r
Erin E. Stead
American illustrato
r
Anthony Boric
New Zealand rugby union playe
r
Cole Hamels
American baseball playe
r
Jesse Williams
American high jumpe
r
Andrejs Perepļotkins
Ukrainian-Latvian footballe
r
Gilles Simon
French tennis playe
r
Logan Bailly
Belgian footballe
r
Jérôme d'Ambrosio
Belgian racing drive
r
Paul Stastny
Canadian-American ice hockey playe
r
Torah Bright
Australian snowboarde
r
Jamaal Charles
American football playe
r
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Jamaican sprinte
r
Lily Cole
English mode
l
Jorge Gutiérrez
Mexican basketball playe
r
Hera Hilmar
Icelandic actres
s
Zavon Hines
Jamaican-English footballe
r
Ok Taec-yeon
South Korean singer and acto
r
Rick Porcello
American baseball playe
r
Hayley Williams
American singer-songwrite
r
Ingrid Várgas Calvo
Peruvian tennis playe
r
Max Lindholm
Finnish figure skate
r
Jonathan Marchessault
Canadian ice hockey playe
r
Milos Raonic
Canadian tennis playe
r
Zelina Vega
American wrestle
r
Chloe Bridges
American actres
s
Michael Morgan
Australian rugby league playe
r
Beth Potter
Scottish triathlete and long-distance runne
r
Danny Wilson
Scottish footballe
r
Joel Indermitte
Estonian footballe
r
Maicel Uibo
Estonian decathlet
e
Olivia Cooke
English actres
s
Timothée Chalamet
French-American acto
r
Nick Chubb
American football playe
r
Mark Lapidus
Estonian chess playe
r
Vachirawit Chivaaree
Thai actor and singe
r
Ana Konjuh
Croatian tennis playe
r
Luka Garza
American basketball playe
r
Brock Purdy
American football playe
r
Gaozong of Tang
founding emperor of the Chinese Tang dynasty
(b. 628)
Aeneas of Paris
Frankish bisho
p
Balderic
bishop of Utrecht
(b. 897)
Emma of Blois
French duchess and regen
t
Nilus the Younger
Byzantine abbot
(b. 910)
Sviatoslav II
Grand Prince of Kiev
(b. 1027)
Bertha of Savoy
Holy Roman Empress
(b. 1051)
Edmund Mortimer
3rd Earl of March, English politician
(b. 1352)
Mahmood Shah Bahmani II
sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate
(b. c. 1470)
George
margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
(b. 1484)
Francesco Spiera
Italian lawyer and jurist
(b. 1502)
Thomas Cartwright
English minister and theologian
(b. 1535)
Vincenzo Giustiniani
Italian banker
(b. 1564)
Francis van Aarssens
Dutch diplomat
(b. 1572)
Herman op den Graeff
Dutch bishop
(b. 1585)
Andrew White
English Jesuit missionary
(b. 1579)
Hervey Bagot
English politician
(b. 1591)
Christine of France
Duchess of Savoy
(b. 1606)
Jacques Rohault
French philosopher
(b. 1618)
Maria Francisca of Savoy
Queen consort of Portugal
(b. 1646)
Gervase Bryan
English clergyman
(b. 1622)
Henri de Villars
French prelate
(b. 1621)
Henrik Span
naval officer in the Dutch
(b. 1634)
Hans Albrecht von Barfus
Prussian field marshal and politician
(b. 1635)
Jean Mabillon
French monk and scholar
(b. 1632)
Robert Leke
3rd Earl of Scarsdale, English earl, politician
(b. 1654)
William Bowyer
English printer
(b. 1663)
Hyacinthe Rigaud
French painter
(b. 1659)
Henri Pitot
French engineer, invented the Pitot tube
(b. 1695)
Johann Rall
Hessian colonel
(b. c. 1726)
Henry Home
Lord Kames, Scottish judge and philosopher
(b. 1697)
Hugh Blair
Scottish minister and author
(b. 1718)
Joanna Southcott
English religious leader
(b. 1750)
Charles Lamb
English essayist and poet
(b. 1775)
Stephen F. Austin
American soldier and politician
(b. 1793)
Alexandre Pierre François Boëly
French pianist and composer
(b. 1785)
Eivind Astrup
Norwegian explorer
(b. 1871)
John Brown
English businessman and politician
(b. 1816)
William Armstrong
1st Baron Armstrong, English engineer and businessman, founded Armstrong Whitworth
(b. 1810)
Charles Martin Hall
American chemist and engineer
(b. 1863)
Achilles Alferaki
Russian-Greek composer and politician, Governor of Taganrog
(b. 1846)
Gustave Eiffel
French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower
(b. 1832)
Agda Meyerson
Swedish nurse and healthcare activist
(b. 1866)
Mehmet Akif Ersoy
Turkish poet, academic, and politician
(b. 1873)
Calvin Bridges
American geneticist and academic
(b. 1889)
Osip Mandelstam
Polish-Russian poet and critic
(b. 1891)
Zona Gale
American novelist, short story writer, and playwright
(b. 1874)
Rinaldo Cuneo
American painter
(b. 1877)
Ants Kurvits
Estonian general and politician, 10th Estonian Minister of War
(b. 1887)
Max Beckmann
German-American painter and sculptor
(b. 1884)
Patrick Joseph Hartigan
Australian priest, author, and educator
(b. 1878)
Şükrü Saracoğlu
Turkish soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Turkey
(b. 1887)
Julian Tuwim
Polish poet and author
(b. 1894)
Alfred Carpenter
English admiral, Victoria Cross recipient
(b. 1881)
Lambert McKenna
Irish priest and lexicographer
(b. 1870)
Edgar Ende
German painter
(b. 1901)
Lester B. Pearson
Canadian historian and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1897)
Vladimir Fock
Russian physicist and mathematician
(b. 1898)
Amy Vanderbilt
American author
(b. 1908)
Chris Bell
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(b. 1951)
Houari Boumediene
Algerian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Algeria
(b. 1932)
Bob Luman
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(b. 1937)
Hafizullah Amin
Afghan educator and politician, 2nd General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
(b. 1929)
Hoagy Carmichael
American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
(b. 1899)
Jack Swigert
American pilot, astronaut, and politician
(b. 1931)
Jean Rondeau
French racing driver
(b. 1946)
George Dangerfield
English-American historian and journalist
(b. 1904)
Dumas Malone
American historian and author
(b. 1892)
Rewi Alley
New Zealand writer and political activist
(b. 1897)
Hal Ashby
American director and producer
(b. 1929)
Kay Boyle
American novelist, poet, and educator
(b. 1902)
Feliks Kibbermann
Estonian chess player and philologist
(b. 1902)
Evald Mikson
Estonian footballer
(b. 1911)
André Pilette
Belgian racing driver
(b. 1918)
Fanny Cradock
English author and critic
(b. 1909)
J. B. L. Reyes
Filipino lawyer and jurist
(b. 1902)
Shura Cherkassky
Ukrainian-American pianist
(b. 1909)
Genrikh Kasparyan
Armenian chess player and composer
(b. 1910)
Brendan Gill
American journalist and essayist
(b. 1914)
Billy Wright
Northern Irish loyalist leader
(b. 1960)
Michael McDowell
American author and screenwriter
(b. 1950)
George Roy Hill
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
(b. 1921)
Alan Bates
English actor
(b. 1934)
Iván Calderón
Puerto Rican-American baseball player
(b. 1962)
Hank Garland
American guitarist
(b. 1930)
Benazir Bhutto
Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan
(b. 1953)
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Polish director and screenwriter
(b. 1922)
Jaan Kross
Estonian author and poet
(b. 1920)
Delaney Bramlett
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
(b. 1939)
Robert Graham
Mexican-American sculptor
(b. 1938)
Isaac Schwartz
Ukrainian-Russian composer and educator
(b. 1923)
Catê
Brazilian footballer and manager
(b. 1973)
Michael Dummett
English soldier, philosopher, and academic
(b. 1925)
Helen Frankenthaler
American painter and educator
(b. 1928)
Johnny Wilson
Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
(b. 1929)
Harry Carey
Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter
(b. 1921)
Lloyd Charmers
Jamaican singer, keyboard player, and producer
(b. 1938)
Tingye Li
Chinese-American physicist and engineer
(b. 1931)
Archie Roy
Scottish astronomer and academic
(b. 1924)
Norman Schwarzkopf
Jr., American general and engineer
(b. 1934)
Salt Walther
American race car driver
(b. 1947)
Richard Ambler
English-Scottish biologist and academic
(b. 1933)
Mohamad Chatah
Lebanese economist and politician, Lebanese Minister of Finance
(b. 1951)
Gianna D'Angelo
American soprano and educator
(b. 1929)
John Matheson
Canadian colonel, lawyer, and politician
(b. 1917)
Farooq Sheikh
Indian actor, philanthropist and a popular television presenter
(b. 1948)
Ben Ammi Ben-Israel
American-Israeli religious leader, founded the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem
(b. 1939)
Ulises Estrella
Ecuadorian poet and academic
(b. 1939)
Ronald Li
Hong Kong accountant and businessman
(b. 1929)
Karel Poma
Belgian bacteriologist and politician
(b. 1920)
Stein Eriksen
Norwegian-American skier
(b. 1927)
Dave Henderson
American baseball player and sportscaster
(b. 1958)
Ellsworth Kelly
American painter and sculptor
(b. 1923)
Meadowlark Lemon
American basketball player and minister
(b. 1932)
Alfredo Pacheco
Salvadoran footballer
(b. 1982)
Stevie Wright
English-Australian singer-songwriter
(b. 1947)
Carrie Fisher
American actress, screenwriter, author, producer, and speaker
(b. 1956)
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
Sri Lankan politician
(b. 1933)
Frank Blaichman
Polish resistance fighter
(b. 1922)
Maria Creveling
American League of Legends player
(b. 1995)
Lee Sun-kyun
South Korean actor
(b. 1975)
Gaston Glock
Austrian firearm engineer and founder of Glock
(b. 1929)