• 395 – Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.
• 757 – Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.
• 877 – Louis the Stammerer (son of Charles the Bald) is crowned king of the West Frankish Kingdom at Compiègne.
• 1432 – The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most active phase of the Lithuanian Civil War.
• 1504 – Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah penned his Oran fatwa, arguing for the relaxation of Islamic law requirements for the forcibly converted Muslims in Spain.
• 1660 – A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
• 1813 – Premiere of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
• 1854 – In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin.
• 1864 – Pope Pius IX promulgates the encylical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.
• 1907 – King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
• 1912 – Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
• 1914 – World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
• 1922 – Northern Ireland ceases to be part of the Irish Free State.
• 1927 – The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
• 1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.
• 1941 – World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere.)
• 1943 – World War II: The German 117th Jäger Division destroys the monastery of Mega Spilaio in Greece and executes 22 monks and visitors as part of reprisals that culminated a few days later with the Massacre of Kalavryta.
• 1953 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
• 1955 – The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe.
• 1962 – Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
• 1963 – Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, killing all 81 people on board.
• 1966 – The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
• 1969 – Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90 people in the worst crash of a Douglas DC-6 in history.
• 1971 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi.
• 1972 – United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45. This is the first-ever loss of a Boeing 737.
• 1974 – A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.
• 1980 – Former Beatle John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City.
• 1985 – The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union in South Asia is established.
• 1987 – Cold War: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House.
• 1987 – An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, which has been cited as one of the events which sparked the First Intifada.
• 1988 – A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.
• 1991 – The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
• 1998 – Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
• 2004 – The Cusco Declaration is signed in Cusco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
• 2009 – Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 people and injure 448 others.
• 2010 – With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
• 2010 – The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.
• 2013 – Riots break out in Singapore after a fatal accident in Little India.
• 2013 – Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first band to perform on all 7 continents.
• 2016 – Syrian Army starts final phase of the attack and progress has been made in the district of, "Sheikh Said" and preparing to storm the neighborhood "Sukkari" in East of Aleppo.

• 65 BC – Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC)^[1]
• 1021 – Wang Anshi, Chinese economist and chancellor (d. 1086)
• 1412 – Astorre II Manfredi, Italian lord (d. 1468)
• 1418 – Queen Jeonghui, Queen consort of Korea (d. 1483)
• 1424 – Anselm Adornes, Belgian merchant, politician and diplomat (d. 1483)^[2]
• 1499 – Sebald Heyden, German musicologist and theologian (d. 1561)
• 1538 – Miklós Istvánffy, Hungarian politician (d. 1615)
• 1542 – Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1587)
• 1558 – François de La Rochefoucauld, Catholic cardinal (d. 1645)^[3]
• 1626 – Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689)
• 1678 – Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, English politician and diplomat, British Ambassador to France (d. 1757)
• 1699 – Maria Josepha of Austria (d. 1757)
• 1708 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765)
• 1724 – Claude Balbastre, French organist and composer (d. 1799)
• 1730 – Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician, physiologist, and botanist (d. 1799)
• 1731 – František Xaver Dušek, Czech pianist and composer (d. 1799)
• 1756 – Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria (d. 1801)
• 1765 – Eli Whitney, American engineer, invented the cotton gin (d. 1825)
• 1795 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1874)
• 1807 – Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (d. 1893)
• 1813 – August Belmont, Prussian-American financier and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (d. 1890)
• 1815 – Adolph Menzel, German painter and illustrator (d. 1905)
• 1817 – Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish lawyer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1896)
• 1818 – Charles III, Prince of Monaco (d. 1889)
• 1822 – Jakov Ignjatović, Hungarian-Serbian author (d. 1889)
• 1832 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)
• 1860 – Amanda McKittrick Ros, Irish author and poet (d. 1939)
• 1861 – William C. Durant, American businessman, founded General Motors and Chevrolet (d. 1947)
• 1861 – Aristide Maillol, French sculptor and painter (d. 1944)
• 1861 – Georges Méliès, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1938)
• 1862 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (d. 1921)
• 1863 – Charles Lincoln Edwards, American zoologist (d. 1937)
• 1864 – Camille Claudel, French illustrator and sculptor (d. 1943)
• 1865 – Rüdiger von der Goltz, German general (d. 1946)
• 1865 – Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic (d. 1963)
• 1865 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer (d. 1957)^[4]
• 1874 – Ernst Moro, Austrian physician and pediatrician (d. 1951)
• 1875 – Frederik Buch, Danish actor and screenwriter (d. 1925)
• 1877 – Paul Ladmirault, French pianist, violinist, and composer (d. 1944)
• 1880 – Johannes Aavik, Estonian linguist and philologist (d. 1973)
• 1881 – Albert Gleizes, French painter (d. 1953)
• 1884 – Francis Balfour, English colonel and politician (d. 1965)
• 1886 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter and educator (d. 1957)
• 1890 – Bohuslav Martinů, Czech-American pianist and composer (d. 1959)
• 1892 – Marcus Lee Hansen, American historian, author, and academic (d. 1938)
• 1894 – E. C. Segar, American cartoonist, created Popeye (d. 1938)
• 1894 – James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (d. 1961)
• 1899 – Arthur Leslie, English-Welsh actor and playwright (d. 1970)
• 1899 – John Qualen, Canadian-American actor (d. 1987)
• 1900 – Sun Li-jen, Chinese general and politician (d. 1990)
• 1900 – Ants Oras, Estonian-American author and academic (d. 1982)
• 1902 – Wifredo Lam, Cuban-French painter (d. 1982)
• 1908 – Concha Piquer, Spanish singer and actress (d. 1990)
• 1908 – John A. Volpe, American soldier and politician, 61st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1994)
• 1911 – Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976)
• 1911 – Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and songwriter (d. 1992)
• 1913 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet and short story writer (d. 1966)
• 1914 – Floyd Tillman, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Ernie Toshack, Australian cricketer (d. 2003)
• 1915 – Ernest Lehman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2005)
• 1916 – Richard Fleischer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer and administrator (d. 1998)
• 1919 – Peter Tali Coleman, Samoan-American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of American Samoa (d. 1997)
• 1919 – Julia Robinson, American mathematician and theorist (d. 1985)
• 1919 – Kateryna Yushchenko, Ukrainian computer scientist and academic (d. 2001)
• 1920 – McDonald Bailey, Trinidadian-English sprinter and rugby player (d. 2013)^[5]
• 1922 – Lucian Freud, German-English painter and illustrator (d. 2011)
• 1922 – Jean Ritchie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
• 1923 – Dewey Martin, American actor (d. 2018)
• 1923 – Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-American soldier and chemist
• 1924 – Lionel Gilbert, Australian historian, author, and academic (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Sammy Davis, Jr., American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1990)
• 1925 – Nasir Kazmi, Pakistani Urdu poet (d. 1972)
• 1925 – Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author and poet (d. 2000)
• 1925 – Jimmy Smith, American organist (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Vladimir Shatalov, Kazakhstani general, pilot, and astronaut
• 1927 – Niklas Luhmann, German thinker and social theorist (d. 1998)
• 1928 – Bill Hewitt, Canadian journalist and sportscaster (d. 1996)
• 1928 – Ulric Neisser, German-American psychologist, neuroscientist, and academic (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Julian Critchley, English journalist and politician (d. 2000)
• 1930 – Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Bob Arum, American boxing promoter, founded Top Rank
• 1933 – Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (d. 1998)
• 1935 – Dharmendra, Indian actor, producer, and politician
• 1935 – Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Russian-Israeli chess player (d. 2017)
• 1936 – David Carradine, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2009)
• 1936 – Michael Hobson, American publisher
• 1936 – Peter Parfitt, English cricketer
• 1937 – James MacArthur, American actor (d. 2010)
• 1937 – Arne Næss, Jr., German-Norwegian mountaineer and businessman (d. 2004)
• 1939 – Red Berenson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1939 – Jerry Butler, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1939 – James Galway, Irish flute player
• 1939 – Felipe Gozon, Filipino lawyer and businessman
• 1939 – Dariush Mehrjui, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1939 – Soko Richardson, American drummer (d. 2004)
• 1940 – Brant Alyea, American baseball player
• 1941 – Ed Brinkman, American baseball player and coach (d. 2008)
• 1941 – Bob Brown, American football player
• 1941 – Duke Cunningham, American commander and politician
• 1941 – Bobby Elliott, English drummer
• 1941 – Geoff Hurst, English footballer and manager
• 1943 – Larry Martin, American paleontologist and ornithologist (d. 2013)
• 1943 – Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter and poet (d. 1971)
• 1943 – James Tate, American poet (d. 2015)
• 1943 – Bodo Tümmler, German runner
• 1943 – Mary Woronov, American actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1944 – George Baker, Dutch singer-songwriter
• 1944 – Bertie Higgins, American singer-songwriter
• 1944 – Ted Irvine, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1944 – Vince MacLean, Canadian educator and politician
• 1945 – John Banville, Irish novelist and screenwriter
• 1946 – John Rubinstein, American actor, director, and composer
• 1946 – Chava Alberstein, Polish-Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 – Gregg Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
• 1947 – Gérard Blanc, French singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 2009)
• 1947 – Thomas Cech, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1947 – Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Finnish author and poet
• 1947 – Margaret Geller, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
• 1948 – Luis Caffarelli, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic
• 1948 – John Waters, English-Australian actor, singer-songwriter, and guitarist
• 1949 – Mary Gordon, American author, critic, and academic
• 1949 – Nancy Meyers, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1949 – Ray Shulman, English violinist, guitarist, and producer
• 1949 – Robert Sternberg, American psychologist and academic
• 1950 – Rick Baker, American actor and makeup artist
• 1950 – Tim Foli, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1950 – Dan Hartman, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1994)
• 1951 – Bill Bryson, American essayist, travel and science writer
• 1951 – Richard Desmond, English publisher and businessman, founded Northern & Shell
• 1951 – Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 – Khaw Boon Wan, Malayan-Singaporean politician, Singaporean Minister of Health
• 1952 – Steve Atkinson, English-Hong Kong cricketer
• 1953 – Kim Basinger, American actress
• 1953 – Roy Firestone, American sportscaster and journalist
• 1953 – Norman Finkelstein, American author, academic, and activist
• 1953 – Sam Kinison, American comedian (d. 1992)
• 1953 – Władysław Kozakiewicz, Lithuanian-Polish pole vaulter and coach
• 1953 – Steve Yates, English footballer
• 1954 – Harold Hongju Koh, American lawyer, academic, and politician
• 1954 – Frits Pirard, Dutch cyclist
• 1955 – Kasim Sulton, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1955 – Milenko Zablaćanski, Serbian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
• 1956 – Warren Cuccurullo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 – Andrius Kubilius, Lithuanian academic and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Lithuania
• 1956 – Slick, American wrestler and manager
• 1957 – James Cama, American martial artist and educator (d. 2014)
• 1957 – Phil Collen, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 – Rob Byrnes, American author and blogger
• 1958 – Rob Curling, Malayan-English journalist
• 1958 – Michel Ferté, French race car driver
• 1958 – Bob Greene, American physiologist and author
• 1958 – Mirosław Okoński, Polish footballer
• 1959 – Stephen Jefferies, South African cricketer and coach
• 1959 – Mark Steyn, Canadian-American author and critic
• 1960 – Aaron Allston, American game designer and author (d. 2014)
• 1960 – Lim Guan Eng, Malaysian accountant and politician, 4th Chief Minister of the State of Penang and incumbent Minister of Finance.
• 1960 – Bill McKibben, American author and environmentalist
• 1961 – Ann Coulter, American lawyer, journalist, and author

• 1961 – Conceição Lima, São Toméan poet^[6]

• 1961 – Mikey Robins, Australian comedian and television host
• 1962 – Steve Elkington, Australian-American golfer
• 1962 – Marty Friedman, American-Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and television host
• 1962 – Nikos Karageorgiou, Greek footballer and manager
• 1962 – Berry van Aerle, Dutch footballer
• 1963 – Greg Howe, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1963 – Toshiaki Kawada, Japanese wrestler
• 1963 – Ricky Walford, Australian rugby league player
• 1964 – James Blundell, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1964 – Teri Hatcher, American actress
• 1964 – Chigusa Nagayo, Japanese wrestler
• 1964 – Óscar Ramírez, Costa Rican footballer and coach
• 1965 – David Harewood, English actor
• 1965 – Theo Maassen, Dutch actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (Geto Boys)
• 1966 – Les Ferdinand, English footballer and coach
• 1966 – Tyler Mane, Canadian wrestler and actor
• 1966 – Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer-songwriter
• 1967 – Jeff George, American football player
• 1967 – Andy Kapp, German curler
• 1967 – Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1967 – Darren Sheridan, English footballer and manager
• 1968 – Mike Mussina, American baseball player and coach
• 1968 – Doriano Romboni, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2013)
• 1969 – Kristin Lauter, American mathematician and cryptographer
• 1971 – Abdullah Ercan, Turkish footballer and manager
• 1972 – Marco Abreu, Angolan footballer
• 1972 – Indrek Allmann, Estonian architect
• 1972 – Janae Marie Kroczaleski, American powerlifter^[7]
• 1972 – Édson Ribeiro, Brazilian sprinter
• 1973 – Corey Taylor, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
• 1974 – Cristian Castro, Mexican singer
• 1974 – Tony Simmons, American football player and coach
• 1974 – Nick Zinner, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1975 – Kevin Harvick, American race car driver
• 1976 – Brettina, Bahamian-American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1976 – Reed Johnson, American baseball player
• 1976 – Dominic Monaghan, German-born English actor
• 1976 – Zoe Konstantopoulou, Greek lawyer and politician
• 1977 – Ryan Newman, American race car driver
• 1977 – Aleksandra Olsza, Polish tennis player
• 1977 – Anita Weyermann, Swiss runner and journalist
• 1978 – John Oster, English-Welsh footballer
• 1978 – Frédéric Piquionne, French footballer
• 1978 – Anwar Siraj, Ethiopian footballer
• 1978 – Ian Somerhalder, American actor
• 1978 – Vernon Wells, American baseball player
• 1979 – Daniel Fitzhenry, Australian rugby player
• 1979 – Johan Forssell, Swedish lawyer and politician
• 1979 – Raymond Lam, Chinese actor and singer
• 1979 – Ingrid Michaelson, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1979 – José Peña, Venezuelan sprinter
• 1979 – Christian Wilhelmsson, Swedish footballer
• 1980 – Yuliya Krevsun, Ukrainian runner
• 1981 – Jeremy Accardo, American baseball player
• 1981 – Simon Finnigan, English rugby league player
• 1981 – Philip Rivers, American football player
• 1982 – Alfredo Aceves, American baseball player
• 1982 – Chrisette Michele, American singer-songwriter
• 1982 – Nicki Minaj, Trinidadian-American rapper and actress
• 1983 – Neel Jani, Swiss race car driver
• 1983 – Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2014)
• 1984 – Emma Green Tregaro, Swedish high jumper
• 1984 – Greg Halford, English footballer
• 1984 – Sam Hunt, American singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Josh Donaldson, American baseball player
• 1985 – Meagan Duhamel, Canadian figure skater
• 1985 – Dwight Howard, American basketball player
• 1985 – Oleksiy Pecherov, Ukrainian basketball player
• 1986 – Enzo Amore, American wrestler and rapper
• 1986 – Amir Khan, English boxer
• 1986 – Sam Tagataese, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player
• 1986 – Kate Voegele, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
• 1987 – Jana Juricová, Slovak tennis player
• 1989 – Drew Doughty, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Jesse Sene-Lefao, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1992 – Yui Yokoyama - Japanese idol, model, and actress
• 1993 – Janari Jõesaar, Estonian basketball player
• 1993 – Jordan Obita, English footballer
• 1993 – AnnaSophia Robb, American actress
• 1993 – Cara Mund, Miss America 2018
• 1994 – Conseslus Kipruto, Kenyan runner
• 1994 – Raheem Sterling, English footballer
• 1995 – Jordon Ibe, English footballer

• 855 – Drogo of Metz, illegitimate son of Charlemagne (b. 801)
• 899 – Arnulf of Carinthia (b. 850)
• 964 – Zhou the Elder, Chinese queen consort
• 1186 – Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringen (b.c 1125)
• 1292 – John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1365 – Nicholas II, Duke of Opava (b. 1288)
• 1431 – Hedwig Jagiellon, Polish and Lithuanian princess (b. 1408)
• 1550 – Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian humanist, poet, dramatist and diplomat (b. 1478)
• 1626 – John Davies, English poet, lawyer, and politician (b. 1569)
• 1632 – Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1561)
• 1638 – Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (b. 1589)
• 1643 – John Pym, English politician (b. 1583)
• 1649 – Noël Chabanel, French missionary and saint (b. 1613)
• 1680 – Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English lawyer and politician (b. 1606)
• 1691 – Richard Baxter, English minister, poet, and hymn-writer (b. 1615)
• 1695 – Barthélemy d'Herbelot, French orientalist and academic (b. 1625)
• 1709 – Thomas Corneille, French playwright and philologist (b. 1625)
• 1722 – Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine (b. 1652)
• 1744 – Marie Anne de Mailly, French mistress of Louis XV of France (b. 1717)
• 1745 – Étienne Fourmont, French orientalist and academic (b. 1683)
• 1746 – Charles Radclyffe, English courtier and soldier (b. 1693)
• 1756 – William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, English politician and diplomat, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1690)
• 1768 – Jean Denis Attiret, French painter and missionary (b. 1702)
• 1779 – Nathan Alcock, English physician (b. 1707)
• 1815 – Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Methodist preacher and philanthropist (b. 1739)
• 1830 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French philosopher and author (b. 1767)
• 1856 – Theobald Mathew, Irish social reformer and temperance movement leader (b. 1790)
• 1859 – Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author (b. 1785)
• 1864 – George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1815)
• 1869 – Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian saint (b. 1832)
• 1885 – William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1821)
• 1886 – Isaac Lea, American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (b. 1792)
• 1894 – Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1821)
• 1903 – Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1907 – Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
• 1913 – Camille Jenatzy, Belgian race car driver (b. 1868)
• 1914 – Melchior Anderegg, Swiss mountain guide (b. 1828)
• 1914 – Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral (b. 1861)
• 1917 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (b. 1836)
• 1918 – Josip Štadler, Croatian archbishop (b. 1843)
• 1919 – J. Alden Weir, American painter (b. 1852)
• 1937 – Hans Molisch, Czech-Austrian botanist and academic (b. 1856)
• 1938 – Friedrich Glauser, Swiss author (b. 1896)
• 1940 – George Lloyd, English-Canadian bishop and theologian (b. 1861)
• 1942 – Albert Kahn, American architect, Fisher Building, Packard Automotive Plant, Ford River Rouge Complex (b. 1869)
• 1952 – Charles Lightoller, English sailor (b. 1874)
• 1954 – Claude Cahun, French artist, photographer, and writer (b. 1894)^[8]
• 1954 – Gladys George, American actress (b. 1904)
• 1954 – Joseph B. Keenan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1888)
• 1958 – Tris Speaker, American baseball player and manager (b. 1888)
• 1963 – Sarit Thanarat, Thai field marshal and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
• 1966 – Ward Morehouse, American playwright, author, and critic (b. 1899)
• 1971 – Ernst Krenkel, Russian geographer and explorer (b. 1903)
• 1971 – Eleni Ourani, Greek poet and critic (b. 1896)
• 1975 – Gary Thain, New Zealand bass player (b. 1948)
• 1978 – Golda Meir, Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898)
• 1980 – John Lennon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
• 1982 – Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist and politician (b. 1951)
• 1982 – André Kamperveen, Surinamese footballer and manager (b. 1924)
• 1982 – Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter and race car driver (b. 1925)
• 1982 – Haim Laskov, Israel Defense Forces fifth Chief of Staff (b. 1919)
• 1983 – Keith Holyoake, New Zealand farmer and politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)
• 1983 – Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1984 – Luther Adler, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1984 – Robert Jay Mathews, American militant leader, founded The Order (b. 1953)
• 1984 – Semih Sancar, Turkish general (b. 1911)
• 1991 – Buck Clayton, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1911)
• 1992 – William Shawn, American journalist (b. 1917)
• 1993 – Yevgeny Minayev, Russian weightlifter (b. 1933)
• 1994 – Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Howard Rollins, American actor (b. 1950)
• 1996 – Kashiwado Tsuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 47th Yokozuna (b. 1938)
• 1997 – Bob Bell, American clown and actor (b. 1922)
• 1999 – Péter Kuczka, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 2001 – Mirza Delibašić, Bosnian basketball player and coach (b. 1954)
• 2001 – Betty Holberton, American computer scientist and programmer (b. 1917)
• 2003 – Rubén González, Cuban pianist (b. 1919)
• 2004 – Dimebag Darrell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1966)
• 2006 – Martha Tilton, American singer (b. 1915)
• 2006 – José Uribe, Dominican baseball player (b. 1959)
• 2007 – Gerardo García Pimentel, Mexican journalist (b. 1983)
• 2008 – Oliver Postgate, English voice actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Robert Prosky, American actor (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Luis Días, Dominican singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Jerry Brown, American football player (b. 1987)
• 2012 – John Gowans, Scottish-English 16th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Johnny Lira, American boxer (b. 1951)
• 2013 – John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Sándor Szokolay, Hungarian composer and academic (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Richard S. Williamson, American lawyer and diplomat (b. 1949)
• 2014 – Tom Gosnell, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1951)
• 2014 – Russ Kemmerer, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Knut Nystedt, Norwegian organist and composer (b. 1915)
• 2015 – Mattiwilda Dobbs, American soprano and actress (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Alan Hodgkinson, English footballer and coach (b. 1936)
• 2015 – Douglas Tompkins, American businessman, co-founded The North Face and Esprit Holdings (b. 1943)
• 2015 – John Trudell, American author, poet, and actor (b. 1946)
• 2015 – Elsie Tu, English-Hong Kong educator and politician (b. 1913)
• 2016 – John Glenn, American astronaut and senator, first American to go into orbit (b. 1921)

Grammys 2019: Snubs and surprises

More than 21,000 recordings were submitted, and 13,000 people voted.

Now the Recording Academy has revealed the nominees for the 2019 Grammy Awards.

It's a year of upheaval, with several major artists overlooked in favour of fresh, new, agenda-setting talent.

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The Grammys aren't exactly known for their brevity; and this year's list of nominees runs to 84 categories across a rainforest-destroying 55 pages. 

Matters haven't been helped by the decision to expand the marquee categories - album of the year, record of the year, song of the year and best new artist - to eight nominees, instead of the traditional five.

The idea was to improve diversity , following criticism that only one female artist (Lorde) was nominated for best album last year; and that genres like jazz and classical were being overlooked. 

Not that you'll actually find any jazz or classical in those categories in 2019 but, hey, it's the thought that counts.

Instead, the extra slots give exposure to some lesser-known artists including R&B star H.E.R; experimental vocal group Chloe x Halle; and retro rock band Greta Van Fleet - who are the only guitar-led act to feature in the main categories.

All hail King Kendrick

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He didn't even have an album out this year, but Kendrick Lamar wins eight nominations thanks to the soundtrack for Black Panther, which he curated and produced at the start of 2018.

The single All The Stars, featuring the Compton-born rapper his label-mate SZA, is up for both record and song of the year; while the album itself becomes the first movie soundtrack to be nominated for album of the year since 2002.

Back then, it was the Coen Brothers' O Brother Where Art Thou that secured a nomination - and it went on to win the main prize. Can King Kendrick do the same?

Will there be a Beyonce boycott?

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Over the years, Beyonce and Jay-Z have had multiple opportunities to practice their "gracious loser" face at the Grammys - with neither artist winning best album, despite multiple nominations.

"What does Beyonce have to do to win album of the year," asked a mystified Adele at the podium in 2017, having just beaten the star's Lemonade record to the main prize.

This year, though, it got worse: The couple's joint album Everything Is Love failed to secure a nomination in any of the big four categories. 

Maybe Jay-Z's attack on the Recording Academy made voters uncomfortable ("please inform the Grammys that the 0-for-8 situation is unacceptable," he says, in slightly more colourful language, on the single Apes***). 

The record still gets a couple nods in the urban and video categories - but that raises the question of whether the couple, who've historically been a front-row fixture at the ceremony, will see fit to boycott the event? 

Kanye and Drake have done it in the past... but we'd be gutted to miss another moment like this.

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Cardi B is making money moves

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With Bodak Yellow, Cardi B became the first female rapper to top the US charts without a featured artist since Lauryn Hill in 1998.

That song's success earned her two Grammy nominations last year - putting her out of contention for best new artist this year - but she's cleaned up in five other categories.

Her critically-acclaimed debut album, Invasion of Privacy, is up for best rap album and album of the year; while her Latin-flavoured party anthem I Like It is a strong contender for record of the year. 

She might not win them all, but as she summarises on Best Life: "Went from small-ass apartments to walking red carpets / I'm like gold, I'm life goals, man, I'm chosen, I'm floatin', ay?"

Was Ariana Grande robbed?

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She's one of pop's biggest stars but Ariana Grande has never won a Grammy. That could change this year, with her cathartic, confessional Sweetener album up for best pop record and the single God Is A Woman up for best pop vocal.

But it's a surprise to see her omitted from the big four categories, given the emotional and cultural impact she's had over the past year. 

Even more unusual is the total absence of No Tears Left To Cry, her uplifting response to the Manchester Arena bombings, from the nominations list.

Was Taylor Swift also robbed?

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Taylor Swift is a darling of the Grammys, with 10 wins under her belt - including two album of the year awards.

But the Academy has no love for her Reputation album, which gains a single nomination in the pop category. 

The signs were there last year, when the record's first single, Look What You Made Me Do, failed to secure a nomination - but after selling two million albums, breaking YouTube records and staging the highest-grossing tour of 2018, many assumed Swift would walk away with a clutch of nominations.

It wasn't to be - but voters beware. Swift buries hatchets, but she keeps maps of where she put 'em. 

Who on earth is Kacey Musgraves?

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The holder of precisely zero top 40 singles in the UK, Kacey Musgraves is nonetheless one of the biggest stars in her home country.

The Texas native wrote songs for Martina McBride and Miranda Lambert before getting a deal with Mercury Records in 2012 - but her new album, Golden Hour, tweaks the traditions and challenges the conventions of country music.

A leisurely, sensual and emotionally-candid record, it was written with one question in mind: "If Sade made a country album, what would it sound like?"

For the crime of dispensing with tradition, Musgraves was frozen out by the small-minded, conservative world of US country radio, receiving almost no airplay - which made it all the more surprising (and gratifying) when she picked up album of the year at the recent Country Music Awards.

That sets her up for a successful Grammys where voters are likely to respond to Golden Hours' timeless melodies and effortless charm.

Will it get political?

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There were plenty of political moments at the 2018 Grammys - Kendrick Lamar rapping about black power, Kesha addressing the #MeToo movement and Camila Cabello's poignant speech about immigration. But the awards themselves played it safe - rewarding Bruno Mars's airbrushed R&B at the expense of Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar.

This year could be different, with Childish Gambino's powerful and singular This Is America nominated for both song and record of the year. The song's brutally compelling video, meanwhile, is surely the only real contender for video of the year.

There could also be recognition for Dirty Computer - a bold and funky album from Janelle Monae that tackles identity politics, gender fluidity, discrimination and the battle for America's soul.

Responding to her nomination on Friday morning, the singer said: "This album is so much bigger than me. It's not about me, it's about marginalised voices.

"Being a young black queer voice in America, there was something I had to say, and people I had to represent. I hope they feel loved and I hope they feel celebrated."

Other facts and trivia

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Guns N' Roses could win their first ever Grammy for the deluxe edition of 1987's Appetite for Destruction - an album which didn't receive a single nomination the year it was released.

Post Malone was barred from competing in the rap field because his album doesn't contain enough rapping. He was also ruled out of the best new artist category for being too popular!

Kanye West - one of hip-hop's most innovative and respected producers - receives his first ever nomination in the producer of the year category for the sequence of five albums he worked on this year - including Pusha T's Daytona, Teyana Taylor's KTSE and his own record, Ye.

Drake is back! After withholding his More Life mixtape from consideration last year, he's all over the 2019 nominations list with his attention-sapping double album Scorpion. 

Dua Lipa and Jorja Smith are the first British stars to be nominated for Best New Artist since James Bay in 2016.

The soundtrack to A Star Is Born was released after the eligibility period - but one song, Shallow, was released as a single days before the deadline, and earned nominations for both record of the year (recognising everyone who worked on the track) and song of the year (which goes to the writers). It's likely to be a big Oscar contender, too.

Sting and Shaggy get a nomination for best reggae album for their weird-but-not-awful-but-still-what-were-they-thinking collaboration 44/876.

• 480 – Odoacer, first King of Italy, occupies Dalmatia. He later establishes his political power with the co-operation of the Roman Senate.
• 536 – Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flee the capital.
• 730 – Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, Al-Jarrah Ibn Abdallah Al-Hakami.
• 1425 – The Catholic University of Leuven is founded.
• 1531 – The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
• 1688 – Glorious Revolution: Williamite forces defeat Jacobites at Battle of Reading, forcing flight of James II from the country.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.
• 1793 – New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
• 1824 – Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.
• 1835 – Texas Revolution: The Texian Army captures San Antonio, Texas.
• 1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
• 1856 – The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.
• 1872 – In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of a U.S. state.
• 1892 – English soccer club Newcastle United is founded
• 1897 – Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.
• 1905 – In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
• 1911 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
• 1917 – World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem, Palestine.
• 1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.
• 1931 – The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
• 1935 – Student protests in Beiping (now Beijing)'s Tiananmen Square, dispersed by government.
• 1935 – Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
• 1935 – The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded for the first time. The winner is halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
• 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing (Nanking).
• 1940 – World War II: Operation Compass: British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.
• 1941 – World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan.
• 1941 – World War II: The American 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
• 1946 – The "Subsequent Nuremberg trials" begin with the "Doctors' trial", prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.
• 1946 – The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
• 1948 – The Genocide Convention is adopted.
• 1950 – Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
• 1953 – Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
• 1956 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
• 1958 – The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
• 1960 – The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
• 1961 – Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
• 1962 – The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
• 1965 – Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.
• 1965 – A Charlie Brown Christmas, first in a series of Peanuts television specials, debuts on CBS.
• 1968 – Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
• 1969 – U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.
• 1971 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
• 1973 – British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.
• 1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).
• 1982 – Explosion in office belonging to the Kuwait Airways in Athens.
• 1987 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
• 1988 – The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland, is officially opened.
• 1992 – American troops land in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope.
• 1996 – Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topfree in Ontario, Canada.
• 2003 – A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
• 2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
• 2012 – A plane crash in Mexico kills seven people.
• 2013 – At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.
• 2015 – The start of the thirty-sixth GCC summit in Riyadh business.
• 2016 – President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is impeached by the country's National Assembly in response to a major political scandal. Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn becomes Acting President, later declining to run for a full term.
• 2016 – At least 57 people are killed and a further 177 injured when two schoolgirl suicide bombers attack a market area in Madagali, Northeastern Nigeria in the Madagali suicide bombings.
• 2017 – Australia becomes the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage.

• 1392 – Peter, Duke of Coimbra (d. 1449)
• 1447 – Chenghua Emperor of China (d. 1487)
• 1482 – Frederick II, Elector Palatine (d. 1556)
• 1493 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado (d. 1566)
• 1508 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)
• 1561 – Edwin Sandys, English lawyer and politician (d. 1629)
• 1571 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
• 1579 – Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)
• 1594 – Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
• 1608 – John Milton, English poet and philosopher (d. 1674)
• 1610 – Baldassare Ferri, Italian singer and actor (d. 1680)
• 1617 – Richard Lovelace, English poet (d. 1657)
• 1652 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (d. 1723)
• 1667 – William Whiston, English mathematician, historian, and theologian (d. 1752)
• 1717 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist and historian (d. 1768)
• 1721 – Peter Pelham, English-American organist and composer (d. 1805)
• 1728 – Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer (d. 1804)
• 1742 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish Pomeranian and German pharmaceutical chemist
• 1745 – Maddalena Laura Sirmen, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1818)
• 1748 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist and academic (d. 1822)
• 1752 – Antoine Étienne de Tousard, French general and engineer (d. 1813)
• 1787 – John Dobson, English architect, designed Eldon Square and Lilburn Tower (d. 1865)
• 1779 – Tabitha Babbitt, American tool maker and inventor (d. 1853)
• 1806 – Jean-Olivier Chénier, Canadian physician (d. 1838)
• 1813 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist and physicist (d. 1885)
• 1837 – Émile Waldteufel, French pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1915)
• 1842 – Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, economist, geographer, and philosopher (d. 1921)
• 1845 – Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (d. 1908)
• 1850 – Emma Abbott, American soprano and actress (d. 1891)
• 1861 – Hélène Smith, French psychic and occultist (d. 1929)
• 1867 – Gregorios Xenopoulos, Greek journalist and author (d. 1951)
• 1868 – Fritz Haber, Polish-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
• 1870 – Ida S. Scudder, Indian physician and missionary (d. 1960)
• 1871 – Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager (d. 1943)
• 1873 – George Blewett, Canadian philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1912)
• 1875 – Harry Miller, American engineer (d. 1943)
• 1876 – Berton Churchill, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1940)
• 1882 – Elmer Booth, American actor (d. 1915)
• 1882 – Joaquín Turina, Spanish-French composer, critic, and educator (d. 1949)
• 1883 – Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician, theorist, and academic (d. 1950)
• 1883 – Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1955)
• 1883 – Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness expert, developed Pilates (d. 1967)
• 1886 – Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (d. 1956)
• 1887 – Tim Moore, American actor (d. 1958)
• 1889 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish-American runner (d. 1966)
• 1890 – Laura Salverson, Canadian author (d. 1970)
• 1891 – Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet and critic (d. 1917)
• 1892 – André Randall, French actor (d. 1974)
• 1895 – Dolores Ibárruri, Spanish activist, journalist and politician (d. 1989)
• 1895 – Conchita Supervía, Spanish soprano and actress (d. 1936)
• 1897 – Hermione Gingold, English actress and singer (d. 1987)
• 1898 – Emmett Kelly, American clown and actor (d. 1979)
• 1899 – Jean de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator (d. 1937)
• 1900 – Margaret Brundage, American illustrator, known for illustrating pulp magazine Weird Tales (d. 1976)
• 1900 – Albert Weisbord, American activist, founded the Communist League of Struggle (d. 1977)
• 1901 – Jean Mermoz, French pilot and politician (d. 1936)
• 1901 – Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-German author and playwright (d. 1938)
• 1902 – Margaret Hamilton, American schoolteacher, actress and voice artist (d. 1985)
• 1904 – Robert Livingston, American actor and singer (d. 1988)
• 1905 – Dalton Trumbo, American author, screenwriter, and blacklistee (d. 1976)
• 1906 – Grace Hopper, American admiral and computer scientist, designed COBOL (d. 1992)
• 1906 – Freddy Martin, American bandleader and tenor saxophonist (d. 1983)
• 1909 – Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (d. 2000)
• 1911 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 1986)
• 1911 – Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese colonel and businessman (d. 2007)
• 1912 – Tip O'Neill, American lawyer and politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)
• 1912 – Jim Turnesa, American golfer (d. 1971)
• 1914 – Max Manus, Norwegian lieutenant (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Frances Reid, American actress (d. 2010)
• 1914 – Ljubica Sokić, Serbian painter and illustrator (d. 2009)
• 1915 – Eloise Jarvis McGraw, American author (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-Austrian soprano and actress (d. 2006)
• 1916 – Jerome Beatty Jr., American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 2002)
• 1916 – Kirk Douglas, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1916 – Colin McCool, Australian cricketer (d. 1986)
• 1917 – James Jesus Angleton, American CIA agent (d. 1987)
• 1917 – James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 1918 – Joyce Redman, Irish-born British actress (d. 2012)
• 1919 – V. Dakshinamoorthy, Indian singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
• 1919 – William Lipscomb, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian economist and politician, 10th President of Italy (d. 2016)
• 1920 – Bruno Ruffo, Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Redd Foxx, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1925 – Roy Rubin, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, photographer, and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• 1926 – David Nathan, British journalist (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Jan Křesadlo, Czech-English psychologist and author (d. 1995)
• 1926 – Lorenzo Wright, American sprinter and coach (d. 1972)
• 1927 – Pierre Henry, French composer (d. 2017)
• 1928 – Joan Blos, American author and educator (d. 2017)
• 1928 – André Milhoux, Belgian race car driver
• 1928 – Dick Van Patten, American actor (d. 2015)
• 1929 – John Cassavetes, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1989)
• 1929 – Bob Hawke, Australian union leader and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia
• 1930 – Buck Henry, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1930 – Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores, Guatemalan soldier and politician, 27th President of Guatemala (d. 2016)
• 1931 – William Reynolds, American actor
• 1931 – Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1931 – Paddi Edwards, English-American actress (d. 1999)
• 1932 – Donald Byrd, American trumpet player and academic (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Bill Hartack, American jockey (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Billy Edd Wheeler, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and playwright
• 1933 – Ashleigh Brilliant, English-American author and illustrator
• 1933 – Milt Campbell, American decathlete and football player (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Morton Downey Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (d. 2001)
• 1933 – Orville Moody, American golfer (d. 2008)
• 1934 – Judi Dench, English actress
• 1934 – Junior Wells, American blues singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d. 1998)
• 1938 – David Houston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
• 1938 – Deacon Jones, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Greek epidemiologist, oncologist, and academic (d. 2014)
• 1940 – Clancy Eccles, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2005)
• 1941 – Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkish journalist and author (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Beau Bridges, American actor, director, and producer
• 1941 – Dan Hicks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016)
• 1942 – Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1997)
• 1942 – Dick Butkus, American football player, sportscaster, and actor
• 1942 – Germain Gagnon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
• 1942 – Joe McGinniss, American journalist and author (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Pit Martin, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
• 1943 – Joanna Trollope, English author, playwright, and director
• 1943 – Kenny Vance, American singer-songwriter and music producer
• 1944 – Neil Innes, English singer-songwriter
• 1944 – Ki Longfellow, American author, playwright, and producer
• 1944 – Bob O'Connor, American businessman and politician, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh (d. 2006)
• 1945 – Michael Nouri, American actor
• 1946 – David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone, English economist and academic
• 1946 – Dennis Dunaway, American bass player and songwriter
• 1946 – Sonia Gandhi, Italian-Indian politician
• 1946 – Nicholas Reade, English bishop
• 1947 – Tom Daschle, American soldier, academic, and politician
• 1947 – Jaak Jõerüüt, Estonian politician, 24th Estonian Minister of Defense
• 1947 – Allan Jones, English cricketer and umpire
• 1948 – Marleen Gorris, Dutch director and screenwriter
• 1948 – Jonathan Sumption, English historian, author, and judge
• 1949 – Tom Kite, American golfer and architect
• 1950 – Joan Armatrading, Kittian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 – Liaqat Baloch, Pakistani politician
• 1952 – Michael Dorn, American actor and voice artist
• 1953 – Cornelis de Bondt, Dutch composer and educator
• 1953 – World B. Free, American basketball player
• 1953 – John Malkovich, American actor and producer
• 1954 – Phil Bryant, American academic and politician, 63rd Governor of Mississippi
• 1954 – Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourger lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Luxembourg
• 1954 – Henk ten Cate, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1955 – Otis Birdsong, American basketball player and radio host
• 1955 – Chamras Saewataporn, Thai singer-songwriter
• 1956 – Sylvia, American country singer-songwriter
• 1956 – Jean-Pierre Thiollet, French journalist and author
• 1957 – Peter O'Mara, Australian guitarist and composer
• 1957 – Donny Osmond, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1957 – Steve Taylor, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1958 – Nick Seymour, Australian bass player, songwriter, and producer
• 1959 – Susan Bullock, English soprano
• 1960 – Stefen Fangmeier, American visual effects designer and director
• 1960 – Caroline Lucas, English activist and politician
• 1960 – Terry Moran, American journalist
• 1960 – Dobroslav Paraga, Croatian politician
• 1960 – Juan Samuel, Dominican-American baseball player and manager
• 1961 – David Anthony Higgins, American actor and screenwriter
• 1962 – Felicity Huffman, American actress and producer
• 1962 – Roxanne Swentzell, Santa Clara Pueblo (Native American) ceramic sculptor
• 1963 – Masako, Crown Princess of Japan
• 1963 – Dave Hilton Jr., Canadian boxer
• 1964 – Michael Foster, American drummer
• 1964 – Hape Kerkeling, German actor and singer
• 1964 – Les Kiss, Australian rugby league player
• 1964 – Johannes B. Kerner, German journalist and sportscaster
• 1964 – Paul Landers, German guitarist
• 1965 – Joe Ausanio, American baseball player and coach
• 1966 – Kirsten Gillibrand, American lawyer and politician
• 1966 – Dave Harold, English snooker player
• 1966 – Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli lawyer and politician, 24th Israeli Minister of Internal Affairs
• 1966 – Martin Taylor, English footballer and coach
• 1967 – Joshua Bell, American violinist and conductor
• 1967 – Jason Dozzell, English footballer and manager
• 1968 – Brian Bell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 – Brent Price, American basketball player
• 1969 – Jakob Dylan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 – Saskia Garel, Jamaican-Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1969 – Lori Greiner, American businesswoman
• 1969 – Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
• 1969 – Raphaël Rouquier, French mathematician and academic
• 1970 – Kara DioGuardi, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1970 – Lance Krall, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Geoff Barrow, English drummer, DJ, composer, and producer
• 1971 – Nick Hysong, American pole vaulter and coach
• 1971 – Petr Nedvěd, Czech-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1972 – Reiko Aylesworth, American actress
• 1972 – Tré Cool, German-American drummer and songwriter
• 1972 – Michael Corcoran, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1972 – Saima Wazed Hossain, Bangladeshi psychologist^[1]
• 1972 – Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-French tennis player and sportscaster
• 1973 – Fabio Artico, Italian footballer
• 1973 – Vénuste Niyongabo, Burundian runner
• 1973 – Bárbara Padilla, Mexican-American soprano
• 1974 – Canibus, Jamaican-American rapper
• 1974 – Aloísio da Silva Filho, Brazilian footballer
• 1974 – Wendy Dillinger, American soccer player, coach, and manager
• 1976 – Chris Booker, American baseball player
• 1977 – Shayne Graham, American football player
• 1977 – Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1978 – Gastón Gaudio, Argentinian tennis player
• 1978 – Jesse Metcalfe, American actor and musician
• 1979 – Olivia Lufkin, Japanese-American singer-songwriter
• 1979 – Stephen McPhail, Irish footballer
• 1979 – Aiko Uemura, Japanese skier
• 1980 – Simon Helberg, American actor, comedian, and musician
• 1980 – Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian cyclist
• 1980 – Mark Riddell, Australian rugby league player and spostscaster
• 1981 – Mardy Fish, American tennis player
• 1982 – Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist
• 1982 – Nathalie De Vos, Belgian runner
• 1982 – Ryan Grant, American football player
• 1982 – Bastian Swillims, German sprinter
• 1983 – Jermaine Beckford, English-Jamaican footballer
• 1983 – Neslihan Demir Darnel, Turkish volleyball player
• 1983 – Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
• 1984 – Michael Adam, German politician
• 1984 – Ángel Guirado, Spanish–Filipino footballer
• 1984 – Leon Hall, American football player
• 1985 – Wil Besseling, Dutch golfer
• 1987 – Kostas Giannoulis, Greek footballer
• 1987 – Mat Latos, American baseball player
• 1987 – Hikaru Nakamura, Japanese-American chess player
• 1988 – Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer
• 1990 – Denise Hannema, Dutch cricketer
• 1991 – Choi Minho, Korean singer and actor
• 1993 – Mark McMorris, Canadian snowboarder
• 1993 – Laura Smulders, Dutch cyclist
• 1995 – McKayla Maroney, American gymnast
• 1996 – MyKayla Skinner, American gymnast
• 1999 – Riley Clemmons, American Christian musician
• 2000 – Diāna Ņikitina, Latvian figure skater

• 638 – Sergius I of Constantinople
• 730 – Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah, Arab general
• 748 – Nasr ibn Sayyar, Umayyad general and politician (b. 663)
• 933 – Li Congrong, prince of Later Tang
• 1048 – Al-Biruni, Persian mathematician (b. 973)
• 1117 – Gertrude of Brunswick, Markgräfin of Meißen
• 1165 – Malcolm IV of Scotland (b. 1141)
• 1242 – Richard le Gras, Lord Keeper of England and Abbot of Evesham
• 1268 – Vaišvilkas, Prince of Black Ruthenia, Grand Duke of Lithuania
• 1299 – Bohemond I, Archbishop of Trier
• 1437 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)
• 1544 – Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491)
• 1565 – Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)
• 1603 – William Watson, English priest (b. 1559)
• 1625 – Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)
• 1636 – Fabian Birkowski, Polish preacher and author (b. 1566)
• 1641 – Anthony van Dyck, Belgian-English painter and illustrator (b. 1599)
• 1669 – Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)
• 1674 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1609)
• 1706 – Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
• 1718 – Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian monk and cartographer (b. 1650)
• 1793 – Yolande de Polastron, French-Austrian educator (b. 1749)
• 1798 – Johann Reinhold Forster, German pastor, botanist, and ornithologist (b. 1729)
• 1830 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (b. 1757)
• 1854 – Almeida Garrett, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1799)
• 1858 – Robert Baldwin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada West (b. 1804)
• 1887 – Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese religious leader
• 1906 – Ferdinand Brunetière, French author and critic (b. 1849)
• 1916 – Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (b. 1867)
• 1924 – Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1930 – Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
• 1932 – Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)
• 1932 – Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)
• 1935 – Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (b. 1886)
• 1937 – Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882)
• 1937 – Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1941 – Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865)
• 1943 – Georges Dufrénoy, French painter (b. 1870)
• 1944 – Laird Cregar, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1945 – Yun Chi-ho, South Korean activist and politician (b. 1864)
• 1957 – Ali İhsan Sâbis, Turkish general (b. 1882)
• 1963 – Daniel O. Fagunwa, Nigerian author and educator (b. 1903)
• 1963 – Perry Miller, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1905)
• 1964 – Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (b. 1887)
• 1965 – Branch Rickey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1884)
• 1967 – Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge, 3rd President of the European Court of Justice (b. 1898)
• 1968 – Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (b. 1883)
• 1970 – Artem Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mikoyan Company (b. 1905)
• 1970 – Feroz Khan Noon, Pakistani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
• 1971 – Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1971 – Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor and painter (b. 1874)
• 1972 – Louella Parsons, American writer and columnist (b. 1881)
• 1975 – William A. Wellman, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1979 – Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop (b. 1895)
• 1982 – Leon Jaworski, American lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
• 1991 – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898)
• 1992 – Vincent Gardenia, American actor (b. 1922)
• 1993 – Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• 1995 – Toni Cade Bambara, American author and academic (b. 1939)
• 1995 – Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (b. 1907)
• 1996 – Patty Donahue, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 1996 – Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
• 1996 – Alain Poher, French lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
• 1996 – Diana Morgan, Welsh playwright and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1998 – Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1948)
• 1998 – Archie Moore, American boxer and actor (b. 1913)
• 2001 – Michael Carver, Baron Carver, English field marshal (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Mary Hansen, Australian singer and guitarist (b. 1966)
• 2002 – Ian Hornak, American painter and sculptor (b. 1944)
• 2002 – Stan Rice, American painter and poet (b. 1942)
• 2003 – Norm Sloan, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Paul Simon, American soldier, journalist, and politician, 39th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (b. 1928)
• 2005 – György Sándor, Hungarian-American pianist and educator (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Georgia Gibbs, American singer (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Rafael Sperafico, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1981)
• 2007 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1972)
• 2008 – Yury Glazkov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1939)
• 2009 – Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2010 – James Moody, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Dov Shilansky, Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and politician, 10th Speaker of the Knesset (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Béla Nagy Abodi, Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Patrick Moore, English lieutenant, astronomer, and educator (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Alex Moulton, English engineer and businessman, founded the Moulton Bicycle Company (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Jenni Rivera, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (b. 1969)
• 2012 – Charles Rosen, American pianist and musicologist (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Riccardo Schicchi, Italian director and producer, co-founded Diva Futura (b. 1953)
• 2012 – Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (b. 1921)
• 2013 – John Gabbert, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (b. 1909)
• 2013 – Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, Polish pianist and educator (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (b. 1922)
• 2013 – John Wilbur, American football player (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Sacvan Bercovitch, Canadian-American author, critic, and academic (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Jane Freilicher, American painter and poet (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Jorge María Mejía, Argentinian cardinal (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Mary Ann Mobley, American model and actress, Miss America 1959 (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Blagoje Paunović, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1947)
• 2014 – Jože Toporišič, Slovenian linguist and author (b. 1926)
• 2015 – Soshana Afroyim, Austrian painter (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Norman Breslow, American statistician and academic (b. 1941)
• 2015 – Juvenal Juvêncio, Brazilian lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
• 2015 – Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (b. 1936)

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