The first passenger train to run on Indian soil begins service. AI analysis
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The first game of basketball is played. AI analysis
The first New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square. AI analysis
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The Soviet Union bans the private ownership of land. AI analysis
U.S. forces land on Mindoro Island during World War II. AI analysis
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is established. AI analysis
The Cuban Revolution is complete, and Fidel Castro takes power. AI analysis
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The Soviet Union devalues the ruble. AI analysis
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Muhammad ibn al-Qasim
Umayyad general
(d. 715)
Jacques Cartier
French navigator and explorer
(d. 1557)
Eleonora Gonzaga
Duchess of Urbino
(d. 1570)
Beatrice of Portugal
Duchess of Savoy
(d. 1538)
Andreas Vesalius
Belgian anatomist, physician, and author
(d. 1564)
John Radcliffe
English politician
(d. 1568)
Henry I
Duke of Guise
(d. 1588)
Simon Forman
English occultist and astrologer
(d. 1611)
Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan
(d. 1617)
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
Spanish general and politician, 24th Governor of the Duchy of Milan
(d. 1645)
Herman Boerhaave
Dutch botanist and physician
(d. 1738)
Arima Yoriyuki
Japanese mathematician and educator
(d. 1783)
Charles Edward Stuart
Scottish claimant to the throne of England
(d. 1788)
Charles Cornwallis
1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general and politician, 3rd Governor-General of India
(d. 1805)
Gottfried August Bürger
German poet and academic
(d. 1794)
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve
French admiral
(d. 1806)
Johann Spurzheim
German-American physician and phrenologist
(d. 1832)
Friedrich Robert Faehlmann
Estonian physician, philologist, and academic
(d. 1850)
Marie d'Agoult
German-French historian and author
(d. 1876)
George Meade
American general and engineer
(d. 1872)
Isma'il Pasha
Egyptian ruler
(d. 1895)
Alexander Smith
Scottish poet and critic
(d. 1867)
Hugh Nelson Scottish-Australian politician
11th Premier of Queensland
(d. 1906)
Émile Loubet
French lawyer and politician, 7th President of France
(d. 1929)
Giovanni Boldini
Italian painter
(d. 1931)
Henry Carter Adams
American economist and academic
(d. 1921)
Giovanni Pascoli
Italian poet and scholar
(d. 1912)
King Kelly
American baseball player and manager
(d. 1894)
Joseph S. Cullinan
American businessman, co-founded Texaco
(d. 1937)
Robert Grant Aitken
American astronomer and academic
(d. 1951)
Henri Matisse
French painter and sculptor
(d. 1954)
Fred Marriott
American race car driver
(d. 1956)
Konstantin Konik
Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education
(d. 1936)
Julius Meier
American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of Oregon
(d. 1937)
Lawrence Beesley
English journalist and author
(d. 1967)
Elizabeth Arden
Canadian businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc.
(d. 1966)
Horacio Quiroga
Uruguayan-Argentinian author, poet, and playwright
(d. 1937)
Fred Beebe
American baseball player and coach
(d. 1957)
George Marshall
American general and politician, 50th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1959)
Max Pechstein
German painter and academic
(d. 1955)
Bobby Byrne
American baseball and soccer player
(d. 1964)
Mihály Fekete
Hungarian actor, screenwriter, and film director
(d. 1960)
Silvestre Revueltas
Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor
(d. 1940)
Karl-August Fagerholm
Finnish politician, valtioneuvos, the Speaker of the Parliament and the Prime Minister of Finland
(d. 1984)
Nikos Ploumpidis
Greek educator and politician
(d. 1954)
Lionel Daunais
Canadian singer-songwriter
(d. 1982)
Roy Goodall
English footballer
(d. 1982)
William Heynes
English engineer
(d. 1989)
Helen Dodson Prince
American astronomer and academic
(d. 2002)
Simon Wiesenthal
Ukrainian-Austrian Nazi hunter and author
(d. 2005)
Jonah Jones
American trumpet player and saxophonist
(d. 2000)
Carl Dudley
American director, producer, and screenwriter
(d. 1973)
Enrique Maier
Spanish tennis player
(d. 1981)
Dal Stivens
Australian soldier and author
(d. 1997)
John Frost
Indian-English general
(d. 1993)
Mary Logan Reddick
American neuroembryologist
(d. 1966)
Sam Ragan
American journalist, author, and poet
(d. 1996)
Evelyn Knight
American singer
(d. 2007)
Wilfrid Noyce
English mountaineer and author
(d. 1962)
Ray Graves
American football player and coach
(d. 2015)
Tommy Byrne
American baseball player, coach, and politician
(d. 2007)
Carmen Contreras-Bozak
Puerto Rican-American soldier
(d. 2017)
Rex Allen
American actor and singer-songwriter
(d. 1999)
Tomás Balduino
Brazilian bishop
(d. 2014)
Halina Czerny-Stefańska
Polish pianist and educator
(d. 2001)
Luis Zuloaga
Venezuelan baseball player
(d. 2013)
Giannis Dalianidis
Greek actor, director, and screenwriter
(d. 2010)
Taylor Mead
American actor and poet
(d. 2013)
Irina Korschunow
German author and screenwriter
(d. 2013)
Sri Lal Sukla
Indian author
(d. 2011)
Daphne Oram
British composer and electronic musician
(d. 2003)
Valerie Pearl
English historian and academic
(d. 2016)
Billy Snedden
Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Attorney-General for Australia
(d. 1987)
Ross Barbour
American pop singer
(d. 2011)
Hugh McElhenny
American football player
(d. 2022)
Veijo Meri
Finnish author and translator
(d. 2015)
Tatyana Shmyga
Russian actress and singer
(d. 2011)
Siné
French cartoonist
(d. 2016)
Mies Bouwman
Dutch television host
(d. 2018)
Peter May
English cricketer
(d. 1994)
Jaime Escalante
Bolivian-American educator
(d. 2010)
Odetta
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
(d. 2008)
Bob Shaw
Northern Irish journalist and author
(d. 1996)
Don James
American football player and coach
(d. 2013)
Felix Rexhausen
German journalist and author
(d. 1992)
Edward Bunker
American author, screenwriter, and actor
(d. 2005)
Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan
Indian author, poet, and scholar
(d. 2017)
Avram Hershko
Hungarian-Israeli biochemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureat
e
Barry Hughes
Welsh footballer and manager
(d. 2019)
Tess Jaray
Austrian-English painter and educato
r
Rosalind Cash
American singer and actress
(d. 1995)
Atje Keulen-Deelstra
Dutch speed skater
(d. 2013)
Willye White
American sprinter and long jumper
(d. 2007)
Mani Neumeier
German drumme
r
Sir Alex Ferguson
Scottish footballer and manage
r
Taylor Hackford
American director, producer, and screenwrite
r
Connie Willis
American autho
r
Roy Greenslade
English journalist and academi
c
Bryan Hamilton
Northern Irish footballer and coac
h
Raphael Kaplinsky
South African international development academi
c
Pius Ncube
Zimbabwean archbisho
p
Lyudmila Pakhomova
Russian ice dancer
(d. 1986)
Cliff Richey
American tennis playe
r
Eric Robson
Scottish journalist and autho
r
Nigel Rudd
English businessman, founded Williams Holding
s
Tim Stevens
English bisho
p
Sandy Jardine
Scottish footballer and manager
(d. 2014)
Ellen Datlow
American anthologist and autho
r
Flora Gomes
Bissau-Guinean filmmake
r
Susan Shwartz
American autho
r
Bob Gilder
American golfe
r
Inge Helten
German sprinte
r
Cheryl Womack
American businesswoma
n
Kenny Roberts
American motorcycle race
r
Vaughan Jones
New Zealand mathematician and academic
(d. 2020)
Jean-Pierre Rives
French rugby player, painter, and sculpto
r
Jane Badler
American actres
s
Alex Salmond
Scottish economist and politician, First Minister of Scotland
(d. 2024)
Hermann Tilke
German racing driver, architect and enginee
r
Robert Goodwill
English farmer and politicia
n
Helma Knorscheidt
German shot putte
r
Steve Rude
American author and illustrato
r
Geoff Marsh
Australian cricketer and coac
h
Liveris Andritsos
Greek basketball playe
r
Phill Kline
American lawyer and politician, Kansas Attorney Genera
l
Baron Waqa
Nauruan composer and politician, 14th President of Naur
u
Steve Bruce
English footballer and manage
r
Rick Aguilera
American baseball player and coac
h
Jeremy Heywood
English economist and civil servant
(d. 2018)
Nina Li Chi
Hong Kong actres
s
Tyrone Corbin
American basketball player and coac
h
Chris Hallam
English-Welsh swimmer and wheelchair racer
(d. 2013)
Jennifer Higdon
American compose
r
Winston Benjamin
Antiguan crickete
r
Michael McDonald
American comedian, actor, and directo
r
Tony Dorigo
Australian-English footballer and sportscaste
r
Julie Doucet
Canadian cartoonist and autho
r
Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
Indian crickete
r
Paul McGregor
Australian rugby league player and coac
h
Gerry Dee
Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwrite
r
Junot Diaz
Dominican-born American novelist, short story writer, and essayis
t
Jorjão
Brazilian footballe
r
Danny McNamara
English singer-songwrite
r
Carlos Morales Quintana
Spanish-Danish architect and sailo
r
Bryon Russell
American basketball playe
r
Brent Barry
American basketball player and sportscaste
r
Esteban Loaiza
Mexican baseball playe
r
Heath Shuler
American football player and politicia
n
Grégory Coupet
French footballe
r
Scott Manley
Scottish YouTube personalit
y
Shandon Anderson
American basketball playe
r
Malcolm Middleton
Scottish singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Curtis Myden
Canadian swimme
r
Mario Aerts
Belgian cyclis
t
Tony Kanaan
Brazilian race car drive
r
Ryan Sakoda
Japanese-American wrestler and traine
r
Rami Alanko
Finnish ice hockey playe
r
Toni Kuivasto
Finnish footballer and coac
h
Rob Penders
Dutch footballe
r
Sander Schutgens
Dutch runne
r
Luís Carreira
Portuguese motorcycle racer
(d. 2012)
Matthew Hoggard
English crickete
r
Wardy Alfaro
Costa Rican footballer and coac
h
Paul O'Neill
English racing drive
r
Jeff Waldstreicher
American lawyer and politicia
n
Ricky Whittle
British acto
r
Jesse Carlson
American baseball playe
r
Matt Cross
American wrestle
r
Richie McCaw
New Zealand rugby playe
r
Carsten Schlangen
German runne
r
Jason Campbell
American football playe
r
Francisco García
Dominican basketball playe
r
Matthew Pavlich
Australian footballe
r
Margaret Simpson
Ghanaian heptathlet
e
Julio DePaula
Dominican baseball playe
r
Craig Gordon
Scottish footballe
r
Luke Schenscher
Australian basketball playe
r
The Rocket Summer
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and produce
r
Jana Veselá
Czech basketball playe
r
Corey Crawford
Canadian ice hockey playe
r
Ben Hannant
Australian rugby league playe
r
Édgar Lugo
Mexican footballe
r
Calvin Zola
Congolese footballe
r
Jonathan Horton
American gymnas
t
Jan Smit
Dutch singer and television hos
t
Nate Freiman
American baseball playe
r
Kade Snowden
Australian rugby league playe
r
Javaris Crittenton
American basketball playe
r
Danny Holla
Dutch footballe
r
Nemanja Nikolić
Hungarian footballe
r
Michal Řepík
Czech ice hockey playe
r
Ryo Aitaka
Japanese kickboxer and professional wrestle
r
Kelvin Herrera
Dominican baseball playe
r
Dennis Everberg
Swedish ice hockey playe
r
ND Stevenson
American cartoonis
t
Amy Cure
Australian track cyclis
t
Karl Kruuda
Estonian racing drive
r
Gabby Douglas
American gymnas
t
Edmond Sumner
American basketball playe
r
J. J. Arcega-Whiteside
Spanish-American football playe
r
Cameron Carter-Vickers
English-American soccer playe
r
Alycia Parks
American tennis playe
r
Katie Volynets
American tennis playe
r
Joe Scally
American soccer playe
r
Li Shiji
Chinese general
(b. 594)
Ibn Hawshab
founder of the Isma'ili community in Yeme
n
Ahmad Maymandi
Persian statesman, vizier of the Ghaznavid Empir
e
Leopold V
Duke of Austria
(b. 1157)
Humphrey de Bohun
3rd Earl of Hereford, English politician, Lord High Constable of England
(b. 1249)
Margaret
Countess of Anjou
(b. 1273)
Frederick III
Duke of Lorraine
(b. 1238)
John Wycliffe
English philosopher, theologian, and translator
(b. 1331)
Johanna of Bavaria
Queen of Bohemia
(b. c. 1362)
Thomas Beaufort
Duke of Exeter
(b. 1377)
Margaret Holland
English noblewoman
(b. 1385)
Richard Neville
5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom
(b. 1400)
Bianca Maria Sforza
Holy Roman Empress
(b. 1472)
William Skeffington
English-Irish politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland
(b. 1465)
Shimazu Tadayoshi
Japanese daimyō
(b. 1493)
Pierino Belli
Italian commander and jurist
(b. 1502)
Thomas Erastus
Swiss physician and theologian
(b. 1524)
Ludolph van Ceulen
German-Dutch mathematician and academic
(b. 1540)
Christian
Count of Waldeck-Wildungen, German count
(b. 1585)
Dorgon
Chinese emperor
(b. 1612)
Janusz Radziwiłł
Polish–Lithuanian politician
(b. 1612)
Sir John Wray
2nd Baronet, English politicians and Roundheads supporter
(b. 1586)
Oliver St John
English judge and politician, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
(b. 1598)
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Italian physiologist and physicist
(b. 1608)
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist
(b. 1627)
Dudley North
English merchant and economist
(b. 1641)
John Flamsteed
English astronomer and academic
(b. 1646)
Carlo Gimach
Maltese architect, engineer and poet
(b. 1651)
Charles III Philip
Elector Palatine
(b. 1661)
Richard Montgomery
American general
(b. 1738)
Jean-François Marmontel
French historian and author
(b. 1723)
Jean-Pierre Duport
French cellist
(b. 1741)
Aleksis Kivi
Finnish author and playwright
(b. 1834)
Catherine Labouré
French nun and saint
(b. 1806)
Gustave Courbet
French-Swiss painter and sculptor
(b. 1819)
Samson Raphael Hirsch
German rabbi and scholar
(b. 1808)
Ion Creangă
Romanian author and educator
(b. 1837)
George Kerferd
English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Victoria
(b. 1831)
Pancha Carrasco
Costa Rican soldier
(b. 1826)
Samuel Ajayi Crowther
Nigerian bishop and linguist
(b. 1809)
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes
Dutch mathematician and academic
(b. 1856)
Spencer Trask
American financier and philanthropist
(b. 1844)
Archibald Hoxsey
American pilot
(b. 1884)
John Moisant
American pilot and engineer
(b. 1868)
Boies Penrose
American lawyer and politician
(b. 1860)
Cornelia Clapp
American marine biologist
(b. 1849)
Miguel de Unamuno
Spanish philosopher, author, and poet
(b. 1864)
Malcolm Campbell
English racing driver and journalist
(b. 1885)
Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı
Turkish philosopher, poet, and politician
(b. 1869)
Raimond Valgre
Estonian pianist and composer
(b. 1913)
Charles Koechlin
French composer and educator
(b. 1867)
Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri
Indian Muslim scholar
(b. 1868)
Albert Plesman
Dutch businessman, founded KLM
(b. 1889)
Bobby Byrne
American baseball and soccer player
(b. 1884)
Ólafur Thors
Icelandic lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Iceland
(b. 1892)
Henry Maitland Wilson
English field marshal
(b. 1881)
George Lewis
American clarinet player and composer
(b. 1900)
Cyril Scott
English composer, writer, and poet
(b. 1879)
Roberto Clemente
Puerto Rican-American baseball player and Marine
(b. 1934)
Henry Gerber
German-American activist, founded the Society for Human Rights
(b. 1892)
Basil Wolverton
American illustrator
(b. 1909)
Marshall McLuhan
Canadian philosopher and theorist
(b. 1911)
Raoul Walsh
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
(b. 1887)
Sevim Burak
Turkish author and playwright
(b. 1931)
Ricky Nelson
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
(b. 1940)
Jerry Turner
American journalist
(b. 1929)
Nicolas Calas
Greek-American poet and critic
(b. 1907)
George Allen
American football player and coach
(b. 1918)
Vasily Lazarev
Russian physician, colonel, and astronaut
(b. 1928)
Giovanni Michelucci
Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station
(b. 1891)
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
Georgian anthropologist and politician, 1st President of Georgia
(b. 1939)
Brandon Teena
American murder victim
(b. 1972)
Big Bertha
Irish cattle and twice Guinness World Record holder
(oldest cow, cow with most offspring) (b. 1945)
Woody Strode
American football player, wrestler, and actor
(b. 1914)
Wesley Addy
American actor
(b. 1913)
Floyd Cramer
American singer-songwriter and pianist
(b. 1933)
Billie Dove
American actress
(b. 1903)
Ted Glossop
Australian rugby league player and coach
(b. 1934)
Elliot Richardson
American lawyer and politician, 69th United States Attorney General
(b. 1920)
Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi
Indian Muslim scholar and author
(b. 1914)
Alan Cranston
American journalist and politician
(b. 1914)
José Greco
Italian-American dancer and choreographer
(b. 1918)
Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane
American-Israeli rabbi and scholar
(b. 1966)
Eileen Heckart
American actress
(b. 1919)
Kevin MacMichael
Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer
(b. 1951)
Gérard Debreu
French economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1921)
Enrico Di Giuseppe
American tenor and educator
(b. 1932)
Phillip Whitehead
English screenwriter, producer, and politician
(b. 1937)
Ya'akov Hodorov
Israeli footballer
(b. 1927)
Seymour Martin Lipset
American sociologist, author, and academic
(b. 1922)
George Sisler
Jr., American businessman
(b. 1917)
Roy Amara
American scientific researcher
(b. 1925)
Michael Goldberg
American painter and educator
(b. 1924)
Bill Idelson
American actor, producer, and screenwriter
(b. 1919)
Milton L. Klein
Canadian lawyer and politician
(b. 1910)
Ettore Sottsass
Austrian-Italian architect and designer
(b. 1917)
Donald E. Westlake
American author and screenwriter
(b. 1933)
Cahal Daly
Irish cardinal and philosopher, Archbishop of Armagh
(b. 1917)
Justin Keating
Irish surgeon, journalist, and politician, Minister for Industry and Commerce
(b. 1930)
Raymond Impanis
Belgian cyclist
(b. 1925)
Per Oscarsson
Swedish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
(b. 1927)
Tarak Mekki
Tunisian businessman and politician
(b. 1958)
Jovette Marchessault
Canadian author and playwright
(b. 1938)
Günter Rössler
German photographer and journalist
(b. 1926)
James Avery
American actor
(b. 1945)
Roberto Ciotti
Italian guitarist and composer
(b. 1953)
Bob Grant
American radio host
(b. 1929)
Irina Korschunow
German author and screenwriter
(b. 1925)
Edward Herrmann
American actor
(b. 1943)
Abdullah Hussain
Malaysian author
(b. 1920)
Norm Phelps
American author and activist
(b. 1939)
S. Arthur Spiegel
American captain, lawyer, and judge
(b. 1920)
Valerian Wellesley
8th Duke of Wellington, British soldier and politician
(b. 1915)
Natalie Cole
American singer-songwriter and actress
(b. 1950)
Wayne Rogers
American actor and investor
(b. 1933)
William Christopher
American actor
(b. 1932)
Kader Khan
Indian actor
(b. 1937)
Betty White
American actress, comedian and producer
(b. 1922)
Pope Benedict XVI
German Roman Catholic cardinal and theologian, pope
(2005–2013) and archbishop of Munich and Freising (1977–1982) (b. 1927)
Barry Lane
English golfer
(b. 1960)
Cale Yarborough
American Hall of Fame racing driver and founder of Cale Yarborough Motorsports, NASCAR Cup Series champion
(1976, 1977, 1978) (b. 1939)