March 5

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Events

Pre-1600

363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1279 – The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.

1601–1900

1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
1811 – Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cádiz in the Battle of Barrosa.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1824 – First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1825 – Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1836 – Samuel Colt established his first factory to produce recently patented production-model revolver, the .34-caliber "Paterson".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1868 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito, receives its premiere performance at La Scala.
1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.

1901–present

1906 – Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1931 – The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
1933 – Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: The National Defence Council seizes control of the republican government in a coup d'etat, with the intention of negotiating an end to the war.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1940 – Six high-ranking members of the Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
1943 – World War II: General strike and protest march in Athens against rumours of forced mobilization of Greek workers for work in Germany, resulting in clashes with the Axis occupation forces and collaborationist police. The decree is withdrawn on the next day.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1944 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
1946 – Cold War: Winston Churchill delivers his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1953 – Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
1957 – Sutton Wick air crash a Blackburn Beverley of 53 Squadron, Royal Air Forces, crashes into the village of Sutton Wick, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) killing most of the crew and passengers and two local residents.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1960 – Indonesian President Sukarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members.
1963 – American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.
1963 – Aeroflot Flight 191 crashes while landing at Aşgabat International Airport, killing 12.
1965 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against the British colonial presence.
1966 – BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1967 – Lake Central Airlines Flight 527 crashes near Marseilles, Ohio, killing 38.<ref name="ad2">Template:Cite web</ref>
1968 – Air France Flight 212 crashes into La Grande Soufrière, killing all 63 aboard.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1970 – The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1973 – An Iberia McDonnell Douglas DC-9 collide in mid-air with a Spantax Convair 990 Coronado over Nantes, France, killing all 68 people aboard the DC-9, including music manager Michael Jeffery.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1979 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1Template:Frac million units around the world.
1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus.
1991 – Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 109 crashes in Venezuela, killing 45.<ref name="aviation-safety">Template:Cite web</ref>
1993 – Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301 crashes at Skopje International Airport in Petrovec, North Macedonia, killing 83.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2001 – In Mina, Saudi Arabia, 35 pilgrims are killed in a stampede on the Jamaraat Bridge during the Hajj.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2002 – An earthquake in Mindanao, Philippines, kills 15 people and injures more than 100.<ref name="inq72">Template:Cite news</ref>
2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.
2011 – An Antonov An-148 crashes in Russia's Alexeyevsky District, Belgorod Oblast during a test flight, killing all seven aboard.<ref name="FI353959">Template:Cite news</ref>
2012 – Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2012 – Two people are killed and six more are injured in a shooting at a hair salon in Bucharest, Romania.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2018 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pause the Deir ez-Zor campaign due to the Turkish-led invasion of Afrin.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news Template:Cbignore</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2021 – Pope Francis begins a historical visit to Iraq<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2021 – Twenty people are killed and 30 injured in a suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2023 – The 2023 Estonian parliamentary election is held, with two centre-right liberal parties gaining an absolute majority for the first time.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2023 – A group of four prisoners escape from the Nouakchott Civil Prison, before being caught the next day.<ref name="Nouakchott Prison Break">Template:Cite news</ref>

Births

Pre-1600

1133 – Henry II of England (d. 1189)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1224 – Saint Kinga of Poland (d. 1292)
1324 – David II of Scotland (d. 1371)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1326 – Louis I of Hungary (d. 1382)
1340 – Cansignorio della Scala, Lord of Verona (d. 1375)
1451 – William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English Earl (d. 1491)
1512 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (d. 1594)
1523 – Rodrigo de Castro Osorio, Spanish cardinal (d. 1600)
1527 – Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1603)
1539 – Christoph Pezel, German theologian (d. 1604)
1563 – John Coke, English civil servant and politician (d. 1644)
1575 – William Oughtred, English minister and mathematician (d. 1660)
1585 – John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)
1585 – Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1638)

1601–1900

1637 – Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and engineer (d. 1712)
1658 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, French explorer and politician, 3rd Colonial Governor of Louisiana (d. 1730)
1693 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian and scholar (d. 1754)
1696 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
1703 – Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1768)
1713 – Edward Cornwallis, English general and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (d. 1776)
1713 – Frederick Cornwallis, English archbishop (d. 1783)
1723 – Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773)
1733 – Vincenzo Galeotti, Italian-Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1816)
1739 – Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel and physician (d. 1819)
1748 – Jonas Carlsson Dryander, Swedish botanist and biologist (d. 1810)
1748 – William Shield, English violinist and composer (d. 1829)
1750 – Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French scholar and academic (d. 1805)
1751 – Jan Křtitel Kuchař, Czech organist, composer, and educator (d. 1829)<ref>Template:Cite Grove</ref>
1774 – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Danish organist and composer (d. 1842)<ref>Template:Cite Grove</ref>
1779 – Benjamin Gompertz, English mathematician and statistician (d. 1865)
1785 – Carlo Odescalchi, Italian cardinal (d. 1841)
1794 – Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (d. 1872)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1794 – Robert Cooper Grier, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1870)
1800 – Georg Friedrich Daumer, German poet and philosopher (d. 1875)
1814 – Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian and academic (d. 1889)
1815 – John Wentworth, American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1888)
1817 – Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist, academic, and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (d. 1894)
1830 – Étienne-Jules Marey, French physiologist and chronophotographer (d. 1904)
1830 – Charles Wyville Thomson, Scottish historian and zoologist (d. 1882)
1834 – Félix de Blochausen, Luxembourgian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1915)
1834 – Marietta Piccolomini, Italian soprano (d. 1899)
1853 – Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)
1862 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (d. 1934)
1867 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
1869 – Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (d. 1952)
1870 – Frank Norris, American journalist and author (d. 1902)
1870 – Evgeny Paton, French-Ukrainian engineer (d. 1953)
1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and philosopher (d. 1919)
1871 – Konstantinos Pallis, Greek general and politician, Minister Governor-General of Macedonia (d. 1941)
1873 – Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian skier and explorer (d. 1961)
1874 – Henry Travers, English-American actor (d. 1965)
1875 – Harry Lawson, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Victoria (d. 1952)
1876 – Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote, English lawyer and politician, 8th Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1947)
1876 – Elisabeth Moore, American tennis player (d. 1959)
1879 – William Beveridge, English economist and academic (d. 1963)
1879 – Andres Larka, Estonian general and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of War (d. 1943)
1880 – Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1968)
1882 – Dora Marsden, English author and activist (d. 1960)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1883 – Pauline Sperry, American mathematician (d. 1967)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1885 – Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and academic (d. 1969)
1886 – Dong Biwu, Chinese judge and politician, Chairman of the People's Republic of China (d. 1975)
1886 – Freddie Welsh, Welsh boxer (d. 1927)
1887 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 1959)<ref>Template:Cite Grove</ref>
1894 – Henry Daniell, English-American actor (d. 1963)
1898 – Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
1898 – Misao Okawa, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2015)
1900 – Lilli Jahn, Jewish German doctor (d. 1944)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1900 – Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974)

1901–present

1901 – Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg (d. 1971)
1901 – Julian Przyboś, Polish poet, essayist and translator (d. 1970)
1904 – Karl Rahner, German priest and theologian (d. 1984)
1905 – László Benedek, Hungarian-American director and cinematographer (d. 1992)
1908 – Fritz Fischer, German historian and author (d. 1999)
1908 – Irving Fiske, American author and playwright (d. 1990)
1908 – Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)<ref name="UPI">Template:Cite web</ref>
1910 – Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, founded Nissin Foods (d. 2007)
1910 – Ennio Flaiano, Italian author, screenwriter, and critic (d. 1972)
1911 – Subroto Mukerjee, Indian Air Marshall, Father of the Indian Air Force (d. 1960)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1912 – Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer, and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1988)
1915 – Henry Hicks, Canadian academic and politician, 16th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1990)
1915 – Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician and academic (d. 2002)
1917 – Raymond P. Shafer, American attorney and politician, 39th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 2006)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1918 – Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2017)
1918 – Red Storey, Canadian football player, referee, and sportscaster (d. 2006)
1918 – James Tobin, American economist and academic (d. 2002)
1920 – José Aboulker, Algerian surgeon and activist (d. 2009)
1920 – Virginia Christine, American actress (d. 1996)
1920 – Rachel Gurney, English actress (d. 2001)
1920 – Wang Zengqi, Chinese writer (d. 1997)
1921 – Arthur A. Oliner, American physicist and electrical engineer (d. 2013)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1921 – Elmer Valo, American baseball player and coach (d. 1998)
1922 – James Noble, American actor (d. 2016)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1922 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1975)
1923 – Juan A. Rivero, Puerto Rican biologist and academic (d. 2014)
1923 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (d. 2003)
1924 – Roger Marche, French footballer (d. 1997)
1927 – Jack Cassidy, American actor and singer (d. 1976)<ref name="UPI"/>
1927 – Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, Scottish businessman and politician (d. 2023)
1928 – J. Hillis Miller, American academic and critic (d. 2021)
1929 – Erik Carlsson, Swedish race car driver (d. 2015)
1929 – J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1967)
1930 – John Ashley, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 2008)
1930 – Del Crandall, American baseball player and manager (d. 2021)
1931 – Fred, French author and illustrator (d. 2013)
1931 – Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn player and educator (d. 2020)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1932 – Paul Sand, American actor<ref name="AP"/>
1933 – Walter Kasper, German cardinal and theologian
1934 – Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American economist and psychologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2024)
1934 – James B. Sikking, American actor (d. 2024)<ref name="AP"/>
1935 – Letizia Battaglia, Italian photographer and journalist (d. 2022)
1935 – Philip K. Chapman, Australian-American astronaut and engineer (d. 2021)
1935 – Shamsuddin Qasemi, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician (d. 1996)<ref name="nizam">Template:Cite book</ref>
1936 – Canaan Banana, Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
1936 – Dale Douglass, American golfer (d. 2022)
1936 – Dean Stockwell, American actor (d. 2021)<ref name="UPI"/>
1937 – Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian general and politician, 5th President of Nigeria
1938 – Paul Evans, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1938 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (d. 2011)
1938 – Fred Williamson, American football player, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter<ref name="AP"/>
1939 – Samantha Eggar, English actress<ref name="AP"/>
1939 – Tony Rundle, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (d. 2025)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1939 – Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian actor and comedian (d. 1995)
1939 – Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer (d. 2010)
1939 – Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef
1940 – Tom Butler, English bishop
1940 – Ken Irvine, Australian rugby league player (d. 1990)<ref>Rugby League Project</ref>
1940 – Graham McRae, New Zealand race car driver (d. 2021)
1940 – Sepp Piontek, German footballer and manager
1941 – Des Wilson, New Zealand-English businessman and activist
1942 – Felipe González, Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain
1942 – Mike Resnick, American author and editor (d. 2020)
1943 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
1944 – Peter Brandes, Danish painter and sculptor
1944 – Roy Gutman, American journalist and author
1945 – Wilf Tranter, English footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1946 – Richard Bell, Canadian pianist (d. 2007)
1946 – Guerrino Boatto, Italian illustrator and painter (d. 2018)
1946 – Graham Hawkins, English footballer and manager (d. 2016)
1946 – Murray Head, English actor and singer
1947 – Clodagh Rodgers, Northern Irish singer and actress (d. 2025)
1947 – Kent Tekulve, American baseball player and sportscaster
1948 – Eddy Grant, Guyanese-British singer-songwriter and musician<ref name="AP"/>
1948 – Richard Hickox, English conductor and scholar (d. 2008)
1948 – Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
1948 – Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
1948 – Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer and coach (d. 2011)
1949 – Bernard Arnault, French businessman, philanthropist, and art collector
1949 – Franz Josef Jung, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Defence
1949 – Tom Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 – Rodney Hogg, Australian cricketer and coach
1952 – Petar Borota, Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2010)
1952 – Alan Clark, English musician and songwriter<ref name="AP"/>
1952 – Robin Hobb, American author<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1952 – Mike Squires, American baseball player and scout<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1953 – Katarina Frostenson, Swedish poet and author
1953 – Michael J. Sandel, American philosopher and academic
1953 – Tokyo Sexwale, South African businessman and politician, 1st Premier of Gauteng<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1954 – João Lourenço, Angolan politician, 3rd President of Angola<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1954 – Marsha Warfield, American actress<ref name="AP"/>
1955 – Penn Jillette, American magician, actor, and author<ref name="AP">Template:Cite web</ref>
1956 – Adriana Barraza, Mexican actress<ref name="AP"/>
1956 – Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2010)
1956 – Christopher Snowden, English engineer and academic
1957 – Mark E. Smith, English singer, songwriter and musician (d. 2018)
1957 – Ray Suarez, American journalist and author<ref name="UPI"/>
1958 – Volodymyr Bezsonov, Ukrainian footballer and manager
1958 – Bob Forward, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1958 – Andy Gibb, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1988)<ref name="UPI"/>
1959 – Talia Balsam, American actress<ref name="AP"/>
1959 – Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian colonel and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 1999)
1960 – Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson, English businessman and politician, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology
1960 – Mike Munchak, American football player and coach<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1963 – Joel Osteen, American pastor, author, and television host<ref name="UPI"/>
1964 – Bertrand Cantat, French singer-songwriter
1964 – Scott Skiles, American basketball player and coach<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1964 – Gerald Vanenburg, Dutch footballer and manager
1964 – Reggie Williams, American basketball player and coach<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1965 – José Semedo, Portuguese footballer and coach
1966 – Oh Eun-sun, South Korean mountaineer
1966 – Bob Halkidis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1966 – Michael Irvin, American football player, sportscaster, and actor<ref name="UPI"/>
1966 – Aasif Mandvi, Indian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1966 – Zachary Stevens, American singer-songwriter
1968 – Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian businessman and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Hungary
1968 – Theresa Villiers, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
1969 – Paul Blackthorne, English actor and producer<ref name="AP"/>
1969 – Danny King, English author and playwright
1969 – Moussa Saïb, Algerian footballer and manager
1969 – M.C. Solaar, Senegalese-French rapper
1970 – Mike Brown, American basketball player and coach
1970 – John Frusciante, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer<ref name="AP"/>
1970 – Yuu Watase, Japanese illustrator
1970 – Aleksandar Vučić, Serbian president<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1971 – Greg Berry, English footballer and coach
1971 – Jeffrey Hammonds, American baseball player and scout
1971 – Yuri Lowenthal, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter
1971 – Filip Meirhaeghe, Belgian cyclist
1971 – Mark Protheroe, Australian rugby league player<ref>Rugby League Project</ref>
1972 – Brian Grant, American basketball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1973 – Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer and manager
1973 – Nelly Arcan, Canadian author (d. 2009)
1973 – Juan Esnáider, Argentine footballer and manager
1973 – Ryan Franklin, American baseball player
1973 – Nicole Pratt, Australian tennis player, coach, and sportscaster
1973 – Špela Pretnar, Slovenian skier
1974 – Kevin Connolly, American actor and director<ref name="AP"/>
1974 – Jens Jeremies, German footballer
1974 – Matt Lucas, English actor, comedian, writer, and television personality<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1974 – Eva Mendes, American model and actress<ref name="AP"/>
1975 – Jolene Blalock, American model and actress<ref name="AP"/>
1975 – Luciano Burti, Brazilian race car driver and sportscaster
1975 – Sasho Petrovski, Australian footballer
1975 – Chris Silverwood, English cricketer and coach
1976 – Neil Jackson, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
1976 – Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
1976 – Paul Konerko, American baseball player
1976 – Norm Maxwell, New Zealand rugby player
1977 – Taismary Agüero, Cuban-Italian volleyball player
1977 – Bryan Berard, American ice hockey player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1977 – Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player and sportscaster<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1978 – Jared Crouch, Australian footballer
1978 – Mike Hessman, American baseball player and coach
1978 – Kimberly McCullough, American actress, singer, and dancer<ref name="AP"/>
1978 – Carlos Ochoa, Mexican footballer
1979 – Martin Axenrot, Swedish drummer
1979 – Érik Bédard, Canadian baseball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1979 – Lee Mears, English rugby player
1980 – Shay Carl, American businessman, co-founded Maker Studios
1981 – Barret Jackman, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 – Paul Martin, American ice hockey player
1981 – Karolina Wydra, Polish-American actress and model<ref name="AP"/>
1982 – Dan Carter, New Zealand rugby player
1982 – Philipp Haastrup, German footballer
1983 – Édgar Dueñas, Mexican footballer
1984 – Branko Cvetković, Serbian basketball player
1984 – Guillaume Hoarau, French footballer
1985 – David Marshall, Scottish footballer
1985 – Kenichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
1985 – Brad Mills, American baseball player
1986 – Alexandre Barthe, French footballer
1986 – Corey Brewer, American basketball player and coach<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1986 – Matty Fryatt, English footballer
1986 – Shikabala, Egyptian footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1987 – Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
1987 – Chris Cohen, English footballer
1988 – Jovana Brakočević, Serbian volleyball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1988 – Liassine Cadamuro-Bentaïba, Algerian footballer
1989 – Sterling Knight, American actor, singer, and dancer<ref name="AP"/>
1989 – Jake Lloyd, American actor<ref name="AP"/>
1990 – Danny Drinkwater, English footballer
1990 – Mason Plumlee, American basketball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1990 – Alex Smithies, English footballer
1991 – Ramiro Funes Mori, Argentine footballer
1991 – Daniil Trifonov, Russian pianist and composer
1992 – Sam Bankman-Fried, American businessman and fraudster<ref>birth certificate published by Astrodatabank, https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/File:SBF_birth_certificate.jpg Template:Webarchive</ref>
1993 – El Hadji Ba, French footballer
1993 – Joshua Coyne, American violinist and composer
1993 – Fred, Brazilian footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1993 – Ahmed Hassan, Egyptian footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1993 – Harry Maguire, English footballer
1993 – Kyle Schwarber, American baseball player
1994 – Daria Gavrilova, Russian-Australian tennis player
1994 – MJ, South Korean singer and actor<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1996 – Taylor Hill, American model
1996 – Emmanuel Mudiay, Congolese-American basketball player
1997 – Milena Venega, Cuban rower<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1998 – Bo Bichette, American baseball player
1999 – Madison Beer, American singer-songwriter<ref>My precious baby turns 21 today – Twitter</ref>
1999 – Justin Fields, American football player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1999 – Yeri, South Korean singer and actress<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2000 – Doug Edert, American basketball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2007 – Roman Griffin Davis, English actor<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Deaths

Pre-1600

254 – Pope Lucius I
824 – Suppo I, Frankish nobleman
1239 – Hermann Balk, German knight
1410 – Matthew of Kraków, Polish reformer (b. 1335)
1417 – Manuel III Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1364)
1534 – Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter and educator (b. 1489)
1539 – Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese admiral and politician, Governor of Portuguese India (b. 1487)
1599 – Guido Panciroli, Italian historian and jurist (b. 1523)

1601–1900

1611 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyō (b. 1533)
1622 – Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
1695 – Henry Wharton, English writer and librarian (b. 1664)
1726 – Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1655)
1770 – Crispus Attucks, American slave, sailor, and stevedore, generally regarded as the first victim of the Boston Massacre (b. 1723)
1778 – Thomas Arne, English composer and educator (b. 1710)
1815 – Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (b. 1734)
1827 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749)
1827 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1745)
1829 – John Adams, English sailor and mutineer (b. 1766)
1849 – David Scott, Scottish historical painter (b. 1806)
1876 – Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author (b. 1805)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1889 – Mary Louise Booth, American writer, editor and translator (b. 1831)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1893 – Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (b. 1828)
1895 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1831)
1895 – Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (b. 1810)

1901–present

1907 – Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (b. 1843)
1925 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
1927 – Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840)
1929 – David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (b. 1854)
1934 – Reşit Galip, Turkish academic and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Education (b. 1893)
1935 – Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer (b. 1877)
1940 – Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher and academic (b. 1868)
1942 – George Plant, executed Irish Republican (b. 1904)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1944 – Max Jacob, French poet and author (b. 1876)
1945 – Lena Baker, African American held captive post slavery-era (b. 1900)
1947 – Alfredo Casella, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1883)
1950 – Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, author, and playwright (b. 1868)
1950 – Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian general and politician (b. 1907)
1953 – Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1897)
1953 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1891)
1953 – Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator and politician of Georgian descent, 2nd leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1878)
1955 – Antanas Merkys, Lithuanian lawyer and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Lithuania (b. 1888)
1963 – Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
1963 – Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1913)
1963 – Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1921)
1965 – Chen Cheng, Chinese general and politician, 27th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1897)
1965 – Pepper Martin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1904)
1966 – Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet, author, and translator (b. 1889)
1967 – Mischa Auer, Russian-American actor (b. 1905)
1967 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iranian political scientist and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1882)
1967 – Georges Vanier, Canadian general and politician, 19th Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
1971 – Allan Nevins, American journalist and author (b. 1890)
1973 – Robert C. O'Brien, American journalist and author (b. 1918)
1974 – John Samuel Bourque, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1894)
1974 – Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. 1907)
1974 – Sol Hurok, Ukrainian-American businessman (b. 1888)
1976 – Otto Tief, Estonian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1889)
1977 – Tom Pryce, Welsh race car driver (b. 1949)
1980 – Jay Silverheels, Canadian-American actor (b. 1912)
1981 – Yip Harburg, American songwriter and composer (b. 1896)
1982 – John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
1984 – Tito Gobbi, Italian operatic baritone (b. 1913)
1984 – William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)
1988 – Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor (b. 1933)
1990 – Gary Merrill, American actor and director (b. 1915)
1995 – Vivian Stanshall, English singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1943)
1996 – Whit Bissell, American character actor (b. 1909)
1997 – Samm Sinclair Baker, American writer (b. 1909)
1997 – Jean Dréville, French director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
1999 – Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (b. 1922)
2000 – Lolo Ferrari, French dancer, actress and singer (b. 1963)
2005 – David Sheppard, English cricketer and bishop (b. 1929)
2008 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German computer scientist and author (b. 1923)
2010 – Charles B. Pierce, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
2010 – Richard Stapley, British actor and writer (b. 1923)
2011 – Manolis Rasoulis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
2012 – Paul Haines, New Zealand-Australian author (b. 1970)
2012 – Philip Madoc, Welsh-English actor (b. 1934)
2012 – William O. Wooldridge, American sergeant (b. 1922)
2013 – Paul Bearer, American wrestler and manager (b. 1954)
2013 – Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
2013 – Duane Gish, American biochemist and academic (b. 1921)
2014 – Geoff Edwards, American actor and game show host (b. 1931)
2014 – Ailsa McKay, Scottish economist and academic (b. 1963)
2014 – Leopoldo María Panero, Spanish poet and translator (b. 1948)
2014 – Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1931)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2015 – Vlada Divljan, Serbian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958)
2015 – Edward Egan, American cardinal and former Archbishop of New York (b. 1932)
2016 – Hassan Al-Turabi, Sudanese activist and politician (b. 1932)
2016 – Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer and engineer (b. 1941)
2016 – Al Wistert, American football player and coach (b. 1920)
2017 – Kurt Moll, German opera singer (b. 1938)

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