Events

305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor.
524 - King Sigismund of Burgundy is executed at Orléans after an 8-year reign and is succeeded by his brother Godomar.
880 - The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
1169 - Norman mercenaries land at Bannow Bay in Leinster, marking the beginning of the Norman invasion of Ireland.
1328 - Wars of Scottish Independence end: By the Treaty of Edinburgh/Northampton the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
1455 - Battle of Arkinholm, Royal forces end the Black Douglas hegemony in Scotland.
1576 - Stephen Báthory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become co-rulers of the Polish/Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1707 - The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1753 - Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
1759 - Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
1776 - Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
1778 - American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
1785 - Kamehameha I, the king of Hawaiai, defeats Kalanik-pule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaiai.
1786 - In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
1794 - War of the Pyrenees: The Battle of Boulou ends, in which French forces defeat the Spanish and regain nearly all the land they lost to Spain in 1793.
1820 - Execution of the Cato Street Conspirators
1840 - The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
1844 - Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
1846 - The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally dedicate the Nauvoo Temple.
1851 - Queen Victoria opens The Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace in London.
1852 - The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation.
1856 - The Province of Isabela was created in the Philippines in honor of the Queen Isabela II.
1862 - American Civil War: The Union Army completes its capture of New Orleans.
1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
1865 - The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.
1866 - The Memphis Race Riots begin. In three days time, 46 blacks and two whites were killed. Reports of the atrocities influenced passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1869 - The Folies Bergère opens in Paris.
1875 - Alexandra Palace reopens after being burned down in a fire in 1873.
1884 - Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
1884 - Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
1885 - The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business.
1886 - Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
1893 - The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
1894 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
1898 - Spanish/American War: Battle of Manila Bay: The United States Navy destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first major battle of the war.
1900 - The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
1901 - The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York.
1915 - The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
1919 - German troops enter Munich to squash the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
1925 - The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members.
1925 - The first Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is held at the University of Toronto, Canada.
1927 - The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
1927 - The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
1929 - The 7.2 Mw Kopet Dag earthquake shakes the Iran/Turkmenistan border region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing up to 3,800 and injuring 1,121.
1930 - The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
1931 - The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
1933 - The Roca/Runciman Treaty between Argentina and Great Britain is signed by Julio Argentino Roca, Jr., and Sir Walter Runciman.
1933 - The Humanist Manifesto I published.
1933 - The Catholic Worker begins publishing
1940 - The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
1941 - World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk.
1944 - World War II: Two hundred Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani in Athens, Greece in reprisal for the killing of General Franz Krech by partisans at Molaoi.
1945 - World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin.
1945 - World War II: Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Führerbunker. Their children are also killed by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths by their mother, Magda.
1945 - World War II: Forces of the Soviet Red Army liberate Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at Stalag Luft I near Barth, Germany.
1945 - World War II: Up to 2,500 people die in a mass suicide in Demmin following the advance of the Red Army.
1945 - World War II: Yugoslav Partisans free Trieste.
1946 - Start of three-year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
1946 - The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.
1947 - Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader.
1950 - Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth.
1956 - The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
1956 - A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
1957 - Thirty-four people are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire England.
1960 - Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. Also known as "Maharashtra Day".
1960 - Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
1961 - The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
1965 - Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place.
1970 - Protests erupt in Seattle, following the announcement by U.S. President Richard Nixon that U.S. Forces in Vietnam would pursue enemy troops into Cambodia, a neutral country.
1971 - Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.
1974 - The Argentine terrorist organization Montoneros is expelled from Plaza de Mayo by president Juan Perón.
1977 - Thirty-six people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
1978 - Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
1982 - The 1982 World's Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1982 - Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.
1983 - Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.
1987 - Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
1989 - Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1990 - The former Philippine Episcopal Church (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church in the Philippines.
1991 - Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics steals his 939th base, making him the all-time leader in this category. However, his accomplishment is overshadowed later that evening by Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers, when he pitches his seventh career no-hitter, breaking his own record.
1993 - Dingiri Banda Wijetunga became president of Sri Lanka automatically after killing of R Premadasa in LTTE bomb explosion
1994 - Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
1995 - Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence.
1999 - The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
1999 - SpongeBob SquarePants premieres on Nickelodeon after the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards.
2001 - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares the existence of "a state of rebellion", hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion.
2002 - OpenOffice.org released version 1.0, the first stable version of the software.
2003 - Invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".
2004 - Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
2006 - The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.
2007 - The Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department's response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy.
2009 - Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
2011 - Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
2016 - A wildfire starts in Fort McMurray, Alberta, causing a mandatory evacuation and a provincial state of emergency.

Births

1218 - John I, Count of Hainaut (died 1257)
1218 - Rudolf I of Germany (died 1291)
1225 - Jean de Joinville, French historian and author (died 1317)
1285 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (died 1326)
1579 - Wolphert Gerretse, Dutch-American farmer, co-founded New Netherland (died 1662)
1582 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (died 1643)
1585 - Sophia Olelkovich Radziwill, Belarusian saint (died 1612)
1591 - Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German missionary and astronomer (died 1666)
1594 - John Haynes, English-American politician, 1st Governor of the Colony of Connecticut (died 1653)
1672 - Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician (died 1719)
1730 - Joshua Rowley, English admiral (died 1790)
1735 - Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen, Dutch admiral and philanthropist (died 1819)
1751 - Judith Sargent Murray, American poet and playwright (died 1820)
1764 - Benjamin Henry Latrobe, English-American architect, designed the United States Capitol (died 1820)
1769 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Irish-English field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1852)
1803 - James Clarence Mangan, Irish poet and author (died 1849)
1824 - Alexander William Williamson, English chemist and academic (died 1904)
1825 - Johann Jakob Balmer, Swiss mathematician and physicist (died 1898)
1825 - George Inness, American painter and educator (died 1894)
1827 - Jules Breton, French painter (died 1906)
1829 - José de Alencar, Brazilian author and playwright (died 1877)
1829 - Frederick Sandys, English painter and illustrator (died 1904)
1830 - Guido Gezelle, Belgian priest and poet (died 1899)
1831 - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and activist (died 1903)
1847 - Henry Demarest Lloyd, American journalist and politician (died 1903)
1848 - Adelsteen Normann, Norwegian painter (died 1919)
1850 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (died 1942)
1852 - Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and professional scout (died 1903)
1852 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1934)
1853 - Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin, Ukrainian-American journalist, actor, and playwright (died 1909)
1855 - Cecilia Beaux, American painter and academic (died 1942)
1857 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch art dealer (died 1891)
1859 - Jacqueline Comerre-Paton, French painter and sculptor (died 1955)
1862 - Marcel Prévost, French novelist and playwright (died 1941)
1864 - Anna Jarvis, American founder of Mother's Day (died 1948)
1871 - Seakle Greijdanus, Dutch theologian and scholar (died 1948)
1872 - Hugo Alfvén, Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter (died 1960)
1872 - Sidónio Pais, Portuguese soldier and politician, 4th President of Portugal (died 1918)
1872 - Harry Leon Wilson, American author and playwright (died 1939)
1874 - Romaine Brooks, American-French painter and illustrator (died 1970)
1874 - Paul Van Asbroeck, Belgian target shooter (died 1959)
1875 - Dave Hall, American runner (died 1972)
1881 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French priest, palaeontologist, and philosopher (died 1955)
1884 - Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, English race car driver and politician (died 1964)
1885 - Clément Pansaers, Belgian poet (died 1922)
1885 - Ralph Stackpole, American sculptor and painter (died 1973)
1887 - Alan Cunningham, Anglo-Irish general and diplomat, High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan (died 1983)
1896 - Herbert Backe, German agronomist and politician (died 1947)
1896 - Mark W. Clark, American general (died 1984)
1896 - J. Lawton Collins, American general (died 1987)
1898 - Alfred Schmidt, Estonian weightlifter (died 1972)
1900 - Ignazio Silone, Italian journalist and politician (died 1978)
1900 - Aleksander Wat, Polish poet, writer, art theoretician and memorialist (died 1967)
1901 - Sterling Allen Brown, American poet, academic, and critic (died 1989)
1901 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1985)
1901 - Antal Szerb, Hungarian scholar and author (died 1945)
1905 - Paul Desruisseaux, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1982)
1905 - Henry Koster, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1988)
1906 - Horst Schumann, German SS officer and physician (died 1983)
1907 - Hayes Alvis, American bassist (Mills Blue Rhythm Band) (died 1972)
1907 - Kate Smith, American singer and actress (died 1986)
1908 - Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist and author (died 1968)
1908 - Morris Kline, American mathematician and academic (died 1992)
1909 - Endel Puusepp, Estonian-Soviet military pilot and politician (died 1996)
1909 - Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet and playwright (died 1990)
1910 - Behice Boran, Turkish sociologist and politician (died 1987)
1910 - Raya Dunayevskaya, Ukrainian-American philosopher and activist (died 1987)
1910 - Dirk Andries Flentrop, Dutch organ builder (died 2003)
1910 - J. Allen Hynek, American astronomer and ufologist (died 1986)
1910 - Nejdet Sançar, Turkish literature teacher (died 1975)
1911 - Wilfred Watson, English-Canadian poet, playwright and educator (died 1998)
1912 - Otto Kretschmer, Polish-German admiral (died 1998)
1913 - Louis Nye, American actor (died 2005)
1913 - Walter Susskind, Czech-English pianist, conductor, and educator (died 1980)
1914 - Jaap van der Poll, Dutch javelin thrower (died 2010)
1915 - Hanns Martin Schleyer, German businessman (died 1977)
1916 - Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor and producer (died 2006)
1917 - John Beradino, American baseball player and actor (died 1996)
1917 - Ulric Cross, Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat (died 2013)
1917 - Danielle Darrieux, French actress and singer
1917 - Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (died 2001)
1918 - Gersh Budker, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (died 1977)
1918 - Raymond Mailloux, Canadian captain and politician (died 1995)
1918 - Jack Paar, American comedian, author and talk show host (died 2004)
1919 - Lewis Hill, American broadcaster, co-founded Pacifica Radio (died 1957)
1919 - Mohammed Karim Lamrani, Moroccan businessman and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Morocco
1919 - Dan O'Herlihy, Irish-American actor (died 2005)
1921 - Vladimir Colin, Romanian journalist and author (died 1991)
1921 - Boo Morcom, American pole vaulter and jumper (died 2012)
1922 - Alastair Gillespie, Canadian scholar and politician
1923 - Joseph Heller, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 1999)
1923 - Antônio Maria Mucciolo, Italian-Brazilian archbishop (died 2012)
1923 - Marcel Rayman, Polish soldier (died 1944)
1924 - Art Fleming, American actor and game show host (died 1995)
1924 - Evelyn Boyd Granville, American mathematician, computer scientist, and academic
1924 - Terry Southern, American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter (died 1995)
1925 - Helen Bamber, English psychotherapist and academic (died 2014)
1925 - Chuck Bednarik, American lieutenant and football player (died 2015)
1925 - Scott Carpenter, American commander, pilot, and astronaut (died 2013)
1925 - Sardar Fazlul Karim, Bangladeshi philosopher, scholar, and academic (died 2014)
1926 - Peter Lax, Hungarian-American mathematician and academic
1927 - Gary Bertini, Israeli conductor and composer (died 2005)
1927 - Laura Betti, Italian actress (died 2004)
1927 - Bernard Vukas, Yugoslav-Croatian footballer (died 1983)
1928 - Sonny James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2016)
1929 - Ralf Dahrendorf, German-English sociologist and politician (died 2009)
1929 - Sonny Ramadhin, Trinidadian cricketer
1930 - Little Walter Jacobs, American blues harp player and singer (died 1968)
1930 - Ollie Matson, American sprinter and football player (died 2011)
1930 - Richard Riordan, American lieutenant and politician, 39th Mayor of Los Angeles
1931 - Naim Attallah, Palestinian author and publisher
1932 - Sandy Woodward, English admiral (died 2013)
1934 - Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Mexican politician
1934 - Shirley Horn, American singer and pianist (died 2005)
1934 - Phillip King, Tunisian-English sculptor
1934 - John Meillon, Australian actor (died 1989)
1936 - Danièle Huillet, French filmmaker (died 2006)
1936 - Jerry Mander, American author and activist
1936 - Hans E. Wallman, Swedish director, producer, and composer (died 2014)
1937 - Tamsyn Imison, English illustrator and educator
1937 - Una Stubbs, English actress and dancer
1939 - Judy Collins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1939 - Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch model (died 1980)
1939 - Victor Davies, Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor
1939 - Max Robinson, American journalist and academic (died 1988)
1940 - Jüri Kukk, Estonian chemist and Soviet dissident (died 1981)
1940 - Yury Yershov, Russian mathematician and academic
1941 - Asil Nadir, Cypriot-English businessman
1942 - Charlie Allen, singer-songwriter (Pacific Gas and Electric) (died 1990)
1942 - Stephen Macht, American actor
1943 - Vassal Gadoengin, Nauruan politician (died 2004)
1943 - Joe Walsh, Irish politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (died 2014)
1944 - Suresh Kalmadi, Indian businessman and politician
1945 - Rita Coolidge, American singer-songwriter
1945 - Carson Whitsett, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (The Imperial Show Band and Booker T. and the M.G.'s) (died 2007)
1946 - Joanna Lumley, English actress, voice-over artist, author and activist
1946 - John Woo, Hong Kong director, producer, and screenwriter
1947 - Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist (died 2015)
1947 - Sergio Infante, Chilean-Swedish poet and author
1948 - Györgyi Balogh, Hungarian sprinter
1948 - Patricia Hill Collins, American sociologist and scholar
1948 - Conrad Palmisano, American stuntman and director
1949 - Jim Clench, Canadian bass player (April Wine and Bachman/Turner Overdrive) (died 2010)
1949 - Tim Hodgkinson, English saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer
1949 - Paul Teutul, Sr., American motorcycle designer, co-founded Orange County Choppers
1950 - John Diehl, American actor and producer
1950 - Dann Florek, American actor and director
1950 - Danny McGrain, Scottish footballer and coach
1951 - Gordon Greenidge, Barbadian cricketer and coach
1951 - Geoff Lees, English race car driver
1952 - Richard Blundell, English economist and academic
1952 - Kim Lewison, English lawyer and judge
1952 - Peter Smith, Malaysian-born English academic and judge
1953 - Glen Ballard, American songwriter and producer
1953 - Naoya Uchida, Japanese voice actor, actor, and singer
1954 - Ray Parker, Jr., American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Raydio)
1954 - Joel Rosenberg, Canadian-American author and activist (died 2011)
1955 - Alex Cunningham, Scottish politician
1955 - Martin O'Donnell, American composer
1956 - Phil Foglio, American illustrator
1956 - Frank Szymanski, German educator and politician
1957 - Rick Darling, Australian cricketer
1957 - Kow Otani, Japanese pianist and composer
1957 - Uberto Pasolini, Italian banker, director, and producer
1959 - Yasmina Reza, French actress and playwright
1959 - Lawrence Seeff, South African cricketer and basket weaver
1960 - Steve Cauthen, American jockey and sportscaster
1961 - Clint Malarchuk, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1961 - Marilyn Milian, American judge
1961 - Vasiliy Sidorenko, Russian hammer thrower
1962 - Maia Morgenstern, Romanian actress
1962 - Ted Sundquist, American football player, coach, and manager
1964 - Will Kimbrough, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1964 - Yvonne van Gennip, Dutch speed skater
1967 - Tim McGraw, American singer-songwriter and actor
1968 - Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer and manager
1968 - Johnny Colt, American bass player (The Black Crowes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Train, and Rock Star Supernova)
1968 - Kelly Killoren Bensimon, American model, television personality and author
1969 - Wes Anderson, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1969 - Billy Owens, American basketball player
1970 - Bernard Butler, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Suede, The Tears, and McAlmont and Butler)
1971 - Ajith Kumar South Indian Actor
1971 - Stuart Appleby, Australian golfer
1971 - Kim Grant, South African tennis player
1971 - Artur Kohutek, Polish hurdler and soldier
1972 - Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Yemeni terrorist
1972 - Julie Benz, American actress
1973 - Mike Jesse, German footballer
1973 - Curtis Martin, American football player
1973 - Oliver Neuville, German footballer
1975 - Austin Croshere, American basketball player and sportscaster
1975 - Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (died 2003)
1975 - Nina Hossain, English journalist
1975 - Alexey Smertin, Russian footballer
1976 - Darius McCrary, American actor and singer
1976 - Patricia Stokkers, Dutch swimmer
1977 - Vera Lischka, Austrian swimmer and politician
1978 - James Badge Dale, American actor
1978 - Sachie Hara, Japanese model and actress
1978 - John Linehan, American basketball player
1979 - Mauro Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
1979 - Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (died 2003)
1980 - Marvin Cabrera, Mexican footballer
1980 - Jan Heylen, Belgian race car driver
1980 - Jay Reatard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2010)
1981 - Derek Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer
1981 - Alexander Hleb, Belarusian footballer
1981 - Wes Welker, American football player
1982 - Jamie Dornan, Northern Irish model and actor
1982 - Mark Farren, Irish footballer (died 2016)
1982 - Tommy Robredo, Spanish tennis player
1983 - Alain Bernard, French swimmer
1983 - Human Tornado, American wrestler
1984 - David Backes, American ice hockey player
1984 - Patrick Eaves, American ice hockey player
1984 - Alexander Farnerud, Swedish footballer
1984 - Keiichiro Koyama, Japanese singer and actor (News)
1984 - Víctor Montaño, Colombian footballer
1984 - Mark Seaby, Australian footballer
1985 - Shahriar Nafees, Bangladeshi cricketer
1986 - Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer (died 2013)
1986 - Adam Casey, Australian footballer
1986 - Brent Stanton, Australian footballer
1987 - Leonardo Bonucci, Italian footballer
1987 - Glen Coffee, American football player
1987 - Marcus Drum, Australian footballer
1987 - Amir Johnson, American basketball player
1987 - Shahar Pe'er, Israeli tennis player
1988 - Maria Balaba, Latvian figure skater
1989 - Alejandro Arribas, Spanish footballer
1990 - Uriel Álvarez, Mexican footballer
1990 - Diego Contento, German footballer
1990 - Caitlin Stasey, Australian actress
1991 - Bartosz Salamon, Polish footballer
1992 - Hani, South Korean singer and television personality (EXID)
1992 - You Kikkawa, Japanese singer (MilkyWay)
1993 - Jean-Christophe Bahebeck, French footballer
1994 - Wallace, Brazilian footballer
1996 - William Nylander, Swedish ice hockey player

Deaths

408 - Arcadius, Byzantine emperor (born 337)
1118 - Matilda of Scotland (born 1080)
1277 - Stefan Urok I of Serbia (born 1223)
1308 - Albert I of Germany (born 1255)
1539 - Isabella of Portugal (born 1503)
1555 - Pope Marcellus II (born 1501)
1572 - Pope Pius V (born 1504)
1731 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German violinist and composer (born 1677)
1738 - Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English politician, First Lord of the Treasury (born 1669)
1772 - Gottfried Achenwall, Polish-German historian, economist, and jurist (born 1719)
1813 - Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French general (born 1768)
1838 - Antoine Louis Dugès, French obstetrician and naturalist (born 1797)
1856 - John Wilbur, American minister and theologian (born 1774)
1873 - David Livingstone, Scottish-English missionary and explorer (born 1813)
1899 - Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist and physician (born 1824)
1913 - John Barclay Armstrong, American lieutenant (born 1850)
1920 - Princess Margaret of Connaught (born 1882)
1927 - Oscar Swahn, Swedish shooter (born 1847)
1935 - Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (born 1889)
1937 - Snitz Edwards, Hungarian-American actor (born 1868)
1943 - Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader, founded the Brunstad Christian Church (born 1871)
1945 - Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1897)
1945 - Magda Goebbels, German wife of Joseph Goebbels (born 1901)
1953 - Everett Shinn, American painter and illustrator (born 1876)
1956 - LeRoy Samse, American pole vaulter (born 1883)
1960 - Charles Holden, English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library (born 1875)
1963 - Lope K. Santos, Filipino lawyer and politician (born 1879)
1965 - Spike Jones, American singer and bandleader (born 1911)
1968 - Jack Adams, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (born 1895)
1968 - Harold Nicolson, English author and politician (born 1886)
1970 - Yi Un, Korean prince (born 1897)
1973 - Asger Jorn, Danish painter and sculptor (born 1914)
1976 - T. R. M. Howard, American surgeon and activist (born 1908)
1976 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek poet and politician (born 1939)
1978 - Aram Khachaturian, Georgian-Armenian composer and conductor (born 1903)
1982 - William Primrose, Scottish viola player and educator (born 1903)
1984 - Jüri Lossmann, Estonian-Swedish runner (born 1891)
1985 - Denise Robins, English journalist and author (born 1897)
1986 - Hylda Baker, English actress and singer (born 1905)
1986 - Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and producer (born 1916)
1988 - Ben Lexcen, Australian sailor and architect (born 1936)
1989 - Sally Kirkland, American journalist (born 1912)
1989 - V. M. Panchalingam, Sri Lankan civil servant (born 1930)
1989 - Patrice Tardif, Canadian farmer and politician (born 1904)
1989 - Douglass Watson, American actor (born 1921)
1990 - Sergio Franchi, Italian-American tenor and actor (born 1926)
1991 - Richard Thorpe, American director and screenwriter (born 1896)
1993 - Pierre Bérégovoy, French metallurgist and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1925)
1993 - Ranasinghe Premadasa, Sri Lankan politician, 3rd President of Sri Lanka (born 1924)
1994 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (born 1960)
1995 - Antonio Salemme, Italian-American painter (born 1892)
1996 - Luana Patten, American actress and singer (born 1938)
1997 - Fernand Dumont, Canadian sociologist, philosopher, and poet (born 1927)
1998 - Eldridge Cleaver, American author and activist (born 1935)
1999 - Jos LeDuc, Canadian-American wrestler (born 1944)
2000 - Steve Reeves, American bodybuilder and actor (born 1926)
2002 - Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh, Indian poet and author (born 1908)
2000 - Jukka Tapanimäki, Finnish game programmer (born 1961)
2002 - John Nathan-Turner, English screenwriter and producer (born 1947)
2003 - Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler and manager (born 1960)
2003 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (born 1923)
2004 - Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (born 1919)
2004 - Larkin Kerwin, Canadian physicist and academic (born 1924)
2005 - Kenneth Clark, American psychologist and academic (born 1914)
2006 - Big Hawk, American rapper (Screwed Up Click) (born 1969)
2006 - Rob Lacey, English actor and author (born 1962)
2008 - Anthony Mamo, Maltese judge and politician, 1st President of Malta (born 1909)
2008 - Deborah Jeane Palfrey, American madam (born 1956)
2008 - Philipp von Boeselager, German soldier and economist (born 1917)
2010 - Rob McConnell, Canadian trombonist, composer, and educator (born 1935)
2010 - Helen Wagner, American actress (born 1918)
2010 - Danny Aiello III, American stunt performer, stunt coordinator, director, and film and television actor (born 1957)
2011 - Henry Cooper, English boxer (born 1934)
2011 - Ted Lowe, English sportscaster (born 1920)
2012 - Shanmugasundari, Indian actress (born 1937)
2012 - James Kinley, Canadian engineer and politician, 29th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (born 1925)
2012 - Mordechai Virshubski, German-Israeli lawyer and politician (born 1930)
2013 - Chris Kelly, American rapper (Kris Kross) (born 1978)
2013 - Pierre Pleimelding, French footballer and manager (born 1952)
2014 - Adamu Atta, Nigerian lawyer and politician, 5th Governor of Kwara State (born 1927)
2014 - Radhia Cousot, Tunisian-American computer scientist and academic (born 1947)
2014 - Assi Dayan, Israeli actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1945)
2014 - Juan de Dios Castillo, Mexican footballer and coach (born 1951)
2014 - Juan Formell, Cuban singer-songwriter and bass player (Los Van Van) (born 1942)
2015 - Geoff Duke, English-Manx motorcycle racer (born 1923)
2015 - Vafa Guluzade, Azerbaijani political scientist, academic, and diplomat (born 1940)
2015 - María Elena Velasco, Mexican actress, singer, director, and screenwriter (born 1940)
2015 - Grace Lee Whitney, American actress and singer (born 1930)