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- 1528 – Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.
- 1554 – Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, is crowned King of Burma.
- 1616 – The city of Belém is founded in Pará, Brazil by Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.
- 1777 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.
- 1808 – The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- 1808 – John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church, Reculver, founded in 669, from coastal erosion was abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture and sculpture.
- 1848 – The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
- 1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
- 1872 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
- 1895 – The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
- 1898 – Itō Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
- 1899 – Thirteen crew members and five apprentices are rescued from the stricken schooner Forest Hall by the Lynmouth Lifeboat when the former founders off the coast of Devon.
- 1906 – Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.
- 1908 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
- 1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
- 1915 – The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
- 1915 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
- 1918 – Finland's "Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens.
- 1921 – Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
- 1926 – Original Sam 'n' Henry aired on Chicago, Illinois radio later renamed Amos 'n' Andy in 1928.
- 1932 – Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
- 1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
- 1959 – The Caves of Nerja are rediscovered in Spain.
- 1962 – Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
- 1964 – Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
- 1966 – Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
- 1967 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
- 1969 – The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
- 1970 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
- 1971 – The Harrisburg Seven: Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
- 1971 – All in the Family The famous situation comedy premieres on CBS
- 1976 – The United Nations Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
- 1986 – Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a Mission Specialist.
- 1991 – Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
- 1998 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
- 2001 – Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
- 2004 – The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
- 2005 – Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket.
- 2006 – A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
- 2006 – The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
- 2007 – Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
- 2010 – The 2010 Haiti earthquake occurs killing an estimated 316,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince.
Births[edit]
- 1483 – Henry III of Nassau-Breda (d. 1538)
- 1562 – Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1630)
- 1576 – Petrus Scriverius, Dutch scholar (d. 1660)
- 1577 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist and physician (d. 1644)
- 1580 – Alexander Ruthven, Scottish traitor (d. 1600)
- 1588 – John Winthrop, English-American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1649)
- 1591 – José Ribera, Spanish painter (d. 1652)
- 1597 – François Duquesnoy, Flemish sculptor (d. 1643)
- 1628 – Charles Perrault, French author (d. 1703)
- 1711 – Gaetano Latilla, Italian composer (d. 1788)
- 1715 – Jacques Duphly, French organist and composer (d. 1789)
- 1716 – Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and politician, 1st Spanish Governor of Louisiana (d. 1795)
- 1721 – Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, Prussian field marshal (d. 1792)
- 1723 – Samuel Langdon, American clergyman and educator (d. 1797)
- 1724 – Frances Brooke, English author and playwright (d. 1789)
- 1729 – Edmund Burke, Irish politician and philosopher (d. 1797)
- 1746 – Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss philosopher and educator (d. 1827)
- 1751 – Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1825)
- 1772 – Mikhail Speransky, Russian reformer (d. 1839)
- 1786 – Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1855)
- 1792 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (d. 1841)
- 1797 – Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (d. 1873)
- 1810 – Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1859)
- 1822 – Étienne Lenoir, French engineer, designed the internal combustion engine (d. 1900)
- 1837 – Adolf Jensen, German pianist and composer (d. 1879)
- 1849 – Jean Béraud, French painter (d. 1935)
- 1856 – John Singer Sargent, American painter (d. 1925)
- 1860 – Louis Dutfoy, French target shooter (d. 1904)
- 1863 – Swami Vivekananda, Indian philosopher (d. 1902)
- 1873 – Spiridon Louis, Greek runner (d. 1940)
- 1874 – Laura Adams Armer, American author and photographer (d. 1963)
- 1874 – James Juvenal, American rower (d. 1942)
- 1876 – Fevzi Çakmak, Turkish field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the Turkish Provisional Government (d. 1950)
- 1876 – Jack London, American author (d. 1916)
- 1876 – Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (d. 1948)
- 1877 – Frank J. Corr, American politician, 45th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1934)
- 1878 – Ferenc Molnár, Hungarian-American author and playwright (d. 1952)
- 1879 – Ray Harroun, American race car driver (d. 1968)
- 1879 – Anton Uesson, Estonian engineer and politician (d. 1942)
- 1882 – Milton Sills, American actor (d. 1930)
- 1884 – Texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)
- 1889 – Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, Indian-Pakistani spiritual leader (d. 1965)
- 1890 – Johannes Vares, Estonian poet, physician, and politician (d. 1946)
- 1892 – Mikhail Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer, co-founded the Russian Aircraft Corporation (d. 1976)
- 1893 – Hermann Göring, German commander, pilot, and politician, Minister President of Prussia (d. 1946)
- 1893 – Alfred Rosenberg, Estonian-German architect and politician (d. 1946)
- 1894 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer (d. 1975)
- 1895 – Leo Aryeh Mayer, Israeli scholar (d. 1959)
- 1896 – David Wechsler, American psychologist (d. 1981)
- 1899 – Pierre Bernac, French opera singer (d. 1979)
- 1899 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
- 1901 – Karl Künstler, German Nazi concentration camp commandant (d. 1945)
- 1903 – Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)
- 1904 – Mississippi Fred McDowell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1972)
- 1905 – James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (d. 1997)
- 1905 – Tex Ritter, American singer and actor (d. 1974)
- 1905 – Nihal Atsız, prominent Turkish nationalist writer, novelist, poet and philosopher (d. 1975)
- 1906 – Emmanuel Lévinas, French philosopher (d. 1995)
- 1907 – Sergei Korolev, Russian engineer (d. 1966)
- 1908 – Jean Delannoy, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
- 1908 – Clement Hurd, American illustrator (d. 1988)
- 1910 – Patsy Kelly, American actress (d. 1981)
- 1910 – Luise Rainer, German-English actress (d. 2014)
- 1912 – Richard Kuremaa, Estonian footballer (d. 1991)
- 1915 – Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1997)
- 1915 – Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Canadian archbishop (d. 2013)
- 1916 – P. W. Botha, South African politician, 1st executive State President of South Africa (d. 2006)
- 1916 – Jay McShann, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2006)
- 1916 – William Pleeth, English cellist and educator (d. 1999)
- 1917 – Walter Hendl, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2007)
- 1917 – Jimmy Skinner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2007)
- 1917 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru (d. 2008)
- 1920 – James L. Farmer, Jr., American activist, co-founded Congress of Racial Equality (d. 1999)
- 1920 – Jerzy Zubrzycki, Polish-Australian sociologist (d. 2009)
- 1922 – Paul Hansard, German actor (d. 2013)
- 1922 – Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist and historian (d. 1994)
- 1923 – Vic Allen, English sociologist, economist, and historian (d. 2014)
- 1923 – Ira Hayes, American marine, who raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1955)
- 1924 – Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (d. 1998)
- 1924 – Grethe Holmer, Danish actress (d. 2004)
- 1924 – Chris Chase, American model, actress, and journalist (d. 2013)
- 1925 – Bill Burrud, American television host, producer, and actor (d. 1990)
- 1925 – Katherine MacGregor, American actress
- 1925 – Bodil Udsen, Danish actress (d. 2008)
- 1925 – Gabriel Vanel, French archbishop (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Morton Feldman, American composer (d. 1987)
- 1926 – Andrew Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2011)
- 1926 – Ray Price, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Lloyd Ruby, American race car driver (d. 2009)
- 1929 – Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish-American philosopher
- 1929 – Guram Sagaradze, Georgian actor (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1974)
- 1930 – Jennifer Johnston, Irish author
- 1930 – Glenn Yarbrough, American singer and actor (The Limeliters)
- 1932 – Tzeni Karezi, Greek actress (d. 1992)
- 1932 – Des O'Connor, English comedian, singer, and television host
- 1933 – Michael Aspel, English television host
- 1933 – Pavlos Matesis, Greek author and playwright (d. 2013)
- 1934 – Metin Serezli, Turkish actor (d. 2013)
- 1934 – Alan Sharp, Scottish-American author and screenwriter (d. 2013)
- 1934 – Mick Sullivan, English rugby player and coach
- 1935 – Kreskin, American magician
- 1935 – Tomiko Ishii, Japanese actress
- 1936 – Jennifer Hilton, Baroness Hilton of Eggardon, English police officer and politician
- 1936 – Raimonds Pauls, Latvian pianist and composer
- 1936 – Brajanath Ratha, Indian poet (d. 2014)
- 1937 – Marie Dubois, French actress (d. 2014)
- 1937 – Shirley Eaton, English actress
- 1937 – Vicente Sardinero, Spanish opera singer (d. 2002)
- 1938 – Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Pakistani scholar and politician (d. 2013)
- 1938 – Lewis Fiander, Australian actor
- 1939 – William Lee Golden, American singer (The Oak Ridge Boys)
- 1939 – Jim Palosaari, American evangelist (d. 2011)
- 1940 – Ronald Shannon Jackson, American drummer and composer (Last Exit) (d. 2013)
- 1941 – Long John Baldry, English-Canadian singer-songwriter and voice actor (Blues Incorporated, The Steampacket, and Bluesology) (d. 2005)
- 1941 – Fiona Caldicott, English psychiatrist
- 1941 – Chet Jastremski, American swimmer (d. 2014)
- 1942 – Bernardine Dohrn, American activist
- 1944 – Hans Henning Atrott, Prussian author and theorist
- 1944 – Joe Frazier, American boxer (d. 2011)
- 1944 – Vlastimil Hort, Czech chess player
- 1944 – Viktoria Postnikova, Russian pianist
- 1944 – Carlos Villagrán, Mexican actor
- 1945 – Maggie Bell, Scottish singer-songwriter (Stone the Crows and The British Blues Quintet)
- 1945 – André Bicaba, Burkinabé sprinter
- 1946 – Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove, Scottish lawyer and judge
- 1946 – George Duke, American keyboard player, composer, and educator (d. 2013)
- 1946 – Cynthia Robinson, American trumpet player and singer (Sly and the Family Stone and Graham Central Station)
- 1947 – Richard Carwardine, English historian and academic
- 1947 – Tom Dempsey, American football player
- 1947 – Sally Hamwee, Baroness Hamwee, English politician
- 1948 – Kenny Allen, English footballer
- 1948 – Anthony Andrews, English actor
- 1948 – Gordon Campbell, Canadian politician, 34th Premier of British Columbia
- 1948 – John Etheridge, English guitarist (Soft Machine)
- 1948 – Brendan Foster, English sportscaster
- 1948 – Khalid Abdul Muhammad, American activist (d. 2001)
- 1948 – William Nicholson, English author and screenwriter
- 1949 – Kentarō Haneda, Japanese composer (d. 2007)
- 1949 – Ottmar Hitzfeld, German footballer and manager
- 1949 – Hamadi Jebali, Tunisian engineer, journalist, and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Tunisia
- 1949 – Haruki Murakami, Japanese author
- 1949 – Michael W. Vannier, American radiologist
- 1949 – Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1950 – Sheila Jackson Lee, American lawyer and politician
- 1950 – Göran Lindblad, Swedish politician
- 1950 – Bob McEwen, American politician
- 1950 – Dorrit Moussaieff, Israeli-Icelandic jewelry designer and businesswoman, 5th First Lady of Iceland
- 1950 – Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (d. 1992)
- 1950 – Greg X. Volz, American singer (Petra)
- 1951 – Kirstie Alley, American actress and producer
- 1951 – Ann Althouse, American academic and author
- 1951 – Rush Limbaugh, American talk show host and author
- 1951 – Drew Pearson, American football player
- 1952 – Charles Faulkner, American-English computer programer and author
- 1952 – Walter Mosley, American author
- 1952 – Ponvannan, Indian actor
- 1952 – John Walker, New Zealand runner
- 1953 – Mary Harron, Canadian director and screenwriter
- 1954 – Howard Stern, American radio host, actor, and author
- 1955 – Tom Ardolino, American drummer (NRBQ and The Minus 5) (d. 2012)
- 1955 – Rockne S. O'Bannon, American screenwriter and producer
- 1956 – Marie Colvin, American journalist (d. 2012)
- 1957 – Brian Blair, American wrestler
- 1957 – John Lasseter, American animator, director, and producer
- 1957 – Jeremy Sams, English director, playwright, and composer
- 1958 – Christiane Amanpour, English-American journalist
- 1958 – Curt Fraser, American-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1959 – Blixa Bargeld, German singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Einstürzende Neubauten)
- 1959 – Per Gessle, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Roxette and Gyllene Tider)
- 1959 – Nick Nairn, Scottish chef
- 1960 – Theologis Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1960 – Oliver Platt, American actor
- 1960 – Dominique Wilkins, American basketball player
- 1961 – Simon Russell Beale, English actor
- 1961 – Tahawwur Hussain Rana, Pakistani-Canadian physician and terrorist
- 1962 – Joe Quesada, American author and illustrator
- 1962 – Luna Vachon, American-Canadian wrestler (d. 2010)
- 1963 – François Girard, Canadian director and screenwriter
- 1963 – Nando Reis, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Nando Reis e os Infernais and Titãs)
- 1964 – Jeff Bezos, American businessman, founded Amazon.com
- 1964 – Laura Gildemeister, Argentinian tennis player
- 1964 – Clare Holman, English actress
- 1965 – Mark Moore, English DJ and producer (S'Express)
- 1965 – Alexandra Wentworth, American actress and producer
- 1965 – Rob Zombie, American singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and director (White Zombie)
- 1966 – Olivier Martinez, French actor
- 1967 – Spencer Dale, English economist
- 1967 – Vendela Kirsebom, Swedish-American model and actress
- 1967 – Grigoriy Yegorov, Kazakhstani pole vaulter
- 1968 – Keith Anderson, American singer-songwriter
- 1968 – Big Dick Dudley, American wrestler (d. 2002)
- 1968 – Rachael Harris, American actress
- 1968 – Junichi Masuda, Japanese programmer, director, and composer
- 1968 – Heather Mills, English model and activist
- 1968 – Mauro Silva, Brazilian footballer
- 1969 – David Mitchell, English author
- 1969 – Margaret Nagle, American screenwriter and producer
- 1969 – Robert Prosinečki, Croatian footballer
- 1970 – Raekwon, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
- 1970 – Mig Ayesa, Filipino-Australian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1970 – Zack de la Rocha, American singer-songwriter (Rage Against the Machine, One Day as a Lion, and Inside Out)
- 1971 – Scott Burrell, American basketball player
- 1972 – Espen Knutsen, Norwegian ice hockey player
- 1972 – Jason Sklar, American comedian and sportscaster
- 1972 – Randy Sklar, American comedian and sportscaster
- 1972 – Priyanka Vadra, Indian politician
- 1973 – Brian Culbertson, American contemporary jazz musician
- 1973 – Dan Haseltine, American singer-songwriter (Jars of Clay)
- 1973 – Maret Vaher, Estonian orienteer
- 1973 – Matt Wong, American bass player (Reel Big Fish)
- 1973 – Hande Yener, Turkish singer-songwriter and producer
- 1974 – Melanie C, English singer-songwriter and actress (Spice Girls)
- 1974 – Claudia Conserva, Chilean model and actress
- 1974 – Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian skier
- 1975 – Aikaterini Deli, Greek basketball player
- 1975 – Jason Freese, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer
- 1975 – Jocelyn Thibault, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976 – Miki Nakatani, Japanese actress and singer
- 1977 – Stéphan Buckland, Mauritian sprinter
- 1977 – Yoandy Garlobo, Cuban baseball player
- 1977 – Cade McNown, American football player
- 1977 – Piolo Pascual, Filipino actor, singer, and producer
- 1978 – Luis Ayala, Mexican baseball player
- 1978 – Jeremy Camp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1978 – Bonaventure Kalou, Ivorian footballer
- 1978 – Kim Sa-rang, South Korean actress
- 1978 – Maurizio Zaffiri, Italian rugby player
- 1979 – Marián Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player
- 1979 – Lee Bo-young, South Korean actress and model
- 1979 – Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
- 1979 – David Zabriskie, American cyclist
- 1980 – Bobby Crosby, American baseball player
- 1980 – Marco Jaggi, Swiss wrestler
- 1981 – Amerie, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1981 – João Paulo Daniel, Brazilian footballer
- 1981 – Kristin Eubanks, American wrestler
- 1981 – Dan Klecko, American football player
- 1981 – Angus Macdonald, New Zealand rugby player
- 1981 – Luis Ernesto Pérez, Mexican footballer
- 1982 – Sherzod Abdurahmonov, Uzbek boxer
- 1982 – Paul-Henri Mathieu, French tennis player
- 1982 – Chris Ray, American baseball player
- 1982 – Dimitrios Tsiamis, Greek triple jumper
- 1982 – Hans Van Alphen, Belgian decathlete
- 1982 – Dean Whitehead, English footballer
- 1982 – Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player
- 1983 – Styliani Kaltsidou, Greek basketball player
- 1984 – Chaunté Lowe, American athlete
- 1984 – Scott Olsen, American baseball player
- 1984 – Oribe Peralta, Mexican footballer
- 1984 – Daniel Sepulveda, American football player
- 1984 – Jonathan Zydko, French footballer
- 1985 – Yohana Cobo, Spanish actress
- 1985 – Gerard Lawson, American football player
- 1985 – Artem Milevskiy, Ukrainian footballer
- 1985 – Borja Valero, Spanish footballer
- 1986 – Gemma Arterton, English actress
- 1986 – Kehoma Brenner, German rugby player
- 1986 – Miguel Ángel Nieto, Spanish footballer
- 1986 – Pablo Daniel Osvaldo, Argentinian-Italian footballer
- 1986 – Kieron Richardson, English actor
- 1987 – Andi Muise, Canadian model
- 1987 – Naya Rivera, American actress and singer
- 1987 – Will Rothhaar, American actor
- 1987 – Salvatore Sirigu, Italian footballer
- 1988 – Ytalo, Brazilian footballer
- 1988 – Chris Casement, Irish footballer
- 1988 – Holder da Silva, Guinea-Bissauan sprinter
- 1988 – Claude Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1988 – Andrew Lawrence, American actor
- 1989 – Thiemo-Jérôme Kialka, German footballer
- 1990 – Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian chess player
- 1990 – Sergei Muhhin, Estonian figure skater
- 1991 – Pixie Lott, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
- 1992 – Ishak Belfodil, Algerian footballer
- 1992 – Georgia May Jagger, English model
- 1992 – Mao Kobayashi, Japanese model and singer
- 1992 – Samuele Longo, Italian footballer
- 1993 – Aika Mitsui, Japanese singer (Morning Musume, Guardians 4, and Tanpopo)
- 1993 – D.O. , South Korean singer, dancer and actor, Exo (band)
- 1993 – Simone Pecorini, Italian footballer
- 1994 – Emre Can, German footballer
- 1996 – Ai Hashimoto, Japanese actress and fashion model
- 1996 – Ella Henderson, English singer-songwriter
- 1998 – Nathan Gamble, American actor
Deaths[edit]
- 690 – Benedict Biscop, English saint, founded the Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey (b. 628)
- 1167 – Aelred of Rievaulx, English saint (b. 1110)
- 1321 – Marie of Brabant, Queen of France (b. 1256)
- 1519 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
- 1665 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (b. 1601)
- 1674 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (b. 1605)
- 1700 – Marguerite Bourgeoys, French saint (b. 1620)
- 1732 – John Horsley, English-Scottish archaeologist (b. 1685)
- 1735 – John Eccles, English composer (b. 1668)
- 1759 – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1709)
- 1765 – Johann Melchior Molter, German violinist and composer (b. 1696)
- 1777 – Hugh Mercer, Scottish-American general and physician (b. 1726)
- 1778 – François Bigot, French politician (b. 1703)
- 1781 – Richard Challoner, English bishop (b. 1691)
- 1829 – Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (b. 1772)
- 1833 – Marie-Antoine Carême, French chef (b. 1784)
- 1834 – William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
- 1856 – Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician and author (b. 1815)
- 1861 – Václav Hanka, Czech philologist, (b. 1791)
- 1892 – William Reeves, Irish bishop (b. 1815)
- 1899 – Hiram Walker, American businessman, founded Canadian Club (b. 1816)
- 1909 – Hermann Minkowski, Polish-German mathematician (b. 1864)
- 1911 – Andreas Papagiannakopoulos, Greek judge and politician (b. 1845)
- 1916 – Georgios Theotokis, Greek politician, 80th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844)
- 1921 – Gervase Elwes, English tenor (b. 1866)
- 1926 – Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
- 1929 – Ivar Böhling, Finnish wrestler (b. 1889)
- 1934 – Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and composer (b. 1887)
- 1934 – Surya Sen, Indian educator and activist (b. 1894)
- 1938 – Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor (b. 1890)
- 1940 – Edward Smith, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1899)
- 1943 – Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and critic (b. 1902)
- 1944 – Lance C. Wade, American pilot (b. 1915)
- 1956 – Norman Kerry, American actor (b. 1894)
- 1957 – Ken Wharton, English race car driver (b. 1916)
- 1958 – Charles Hatfield, American meteorologist (b. 1875)
- 1960 – Nevil Shute, English engineer and author (b. 1899)
- 1962 – Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian journalist and activist (b. 1869)
- 1965 – Lorraine Hansberry, American author, playwright, and director (b. 1936)
- 1971 – John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, English admiral (b. 1885)
- 1973 – Roy Franklin Nichols, American historian (b. 1896)
- 1974 – Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886)
- 1976 – Agatha Christie, English author (b. 1890)
- 1977 – Henri-Georges Clouzot, French director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
- 1983 – Rebop Kwaku Baah, Ghanaian drummer (Traffic and Can) (b. 1944)
- 1983 – Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian engineer and politician (b. 1903)
- 1988 – Connie Mulder, South African politician (b. 1925)
- 1990 – Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-American educator and author (b. 1919)
- 1991 – Mary Francis Shura, American author (b. 1923)
- 1994 – Gustav Naan, Estonian physicist and philosopher (b. 1919)
- 1996 – Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician (b. 1926)
- 1997 – Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (b. 1936)
- 1997 – Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
- 1998 – Roger Clark, English race car driver(b. 1939)
- 1999 – Betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress (b. 1914)
- 1999 – Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1961)
- 2000 – Marc Davis, American animator (b. 1913)
- 2000 – Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b. 1969)
- 2001 – Affirmed, American race horse (b. 1975)
- 2001 – Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1922)
- 2001 – William Redington Hewlett, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (b. 1913)
- 2002 – Stanley Unwin, South African actor (b. 1911)
- 2002 – Cyrus Vance, American lawyer and politician, 57th U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1917)
- 2003 – Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (b. 1912)
- 2003 – Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
- 2003 – Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine general and politician, 44th President of Argentina (b. 1926)
- 2003 – Maurice Gibb, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
- 2003 – Alan Nunn May, English physicist and spy (b. 1911)
- 2004 – Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
- 2004 – Randy VanWarmer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1955)
- 2005 – Alessia di Matteo, Italian organ transplant patient (b. 2003)
- 2005 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
- 2005 – Edmund S. Valtman, Estonian-American cartoonist (b. 1914)
- 2006 – Faisal bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahraini prince (b. 1991)
- 2007 – Alice Coltrane, American pianist and composer (b. 1937)
- 2007 – James Killen, Australian politician (b. 1925)
- 2009 – Claude Berri, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
- 2009 – Russ Conway, Canadian-American actor (b. 1913)
- 2009 – Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher (b. 1912)
- 2010 – Daniel Bensaïd, French philosopher (b. 1946)
- 2010 – Hasib Sabbagh, Palestinian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Consolidated Contractors Company (b. 1920)
- 2011 – Paul Picerni, American actor (b. 1922)
- 2012 – MS-1, Mexican wrestler (b. 1956)
- 2012 – Bjørn G. Andersen, Norwegian geologist and academic (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Glenda Dickerson, American director, choreographer, and educator (b. 1945)
- 2012 – Reginald Hill, English author (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Bill Janklow, American lawyer and politician, 27th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1939)
- 2012 – Shiv Kumari of Kotah (b. 1916)
- 2012 – Charles H. Price II, American businessman and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Rosalind Runcie, English pianist (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Jim Stanley, American football player and coach (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Ourasi, French race horse (b. 1980)
- 2013 – Precious Bryant, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Chuck Dalton, Canadian basketball player (b. 1927)
- 2013 – Helen Elliot, Scottish table tennis player (b. 1927)
- 2013 – Bubba Harris, American baseball player (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Anna Lizaran, Spanish actress (b. 1944)
- 2013 – William Andrew MacKay, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1929)
- 2013 – Koto Okubo, Japanese super-centenarian (b. 1897)
- 2013 – Eugene Patterson, American journalist and activist (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Steven Utley, American author and poet (b. 1948)
- 2014 – Neal Barrett, Jr., American author (b. 1929)
- 2014 – Alexandra Bastedo, English actress (b. 1946)
- 2014 – Connie Binsfeld, American politician, 58th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (b. 1924)
- 2014 – George Dement, American soldier, businessman, and politician (b. 1922)
- 2014 – Tony Harding, English illustrator (b. 1942)
- 2014 – John Horsley, English actor (b. 1920)
- 2014 – E. Holman Jones, American journalist and politician (b. 1926)
- 2014 – Frank Marth, American actor (b. 1922)
- 2014 – Robert H. Quinn, American lawyer and politician, 49th Massachusetts Attorney General (b. 1928)
- 2014 – Michael L. Strang, American banker and politician (b. 1929)
- 2014 – Halet Çambel, Turkish fencer and archaeologist (b. 1916)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Earliest day on which Lee-Jackson Day can fall while January 18 is the latest, celebrated on the Friday before Martin Luther King Day. (Commonwealth of Virginia)
- Memorial Day (Turkmenistan)
- National Youth Day (India)
- Zanzibar Revolution Day (Tanzania)