April 7
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
- 1724 - Premiere performance of Bach's St John Passion, BWV 245, at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
- 1767 - End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767).
- 1788 - Settlers establish Marietta, Ohio, the first permanent settlement created by U.S. citizens in the recently organized Northwest Territory.
- 1790 - Russo-Turkish war (1787–1792): Greek privateer Lambros Katsonis loses three of his ships in the Battle of Andros.
- 1795 - The French First Republic adopts the kilogram and gram as its primary unit of mass.
- 1798 - The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and the Spanish Empire. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
- 1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
- 1805 - German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premieres his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
- 1824 - The Mechanics' Institution is established in Manchester, England at the Bridgewater Arms hotel, as part of a national movement for the education of working men. The institute is the precursor to three Universities in the city: the University of Manchester, UMIST and the Metropolitan University of Manchester.
- 1831 - Pedro II becomes Emperor of Empire of Brazil.
- 1862 - American Civil War: The Union's Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee.
- 1868 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, is assassinated by a Fenian activist.
1901–present
- 1906 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
- 1906 - The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
- 1922 - Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
- 1926 - Violet Gibson attempts to assassinate Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.
- 1927 - AT&T engineer Herbert Ives transmits the first long-distance public television broadcast.
- 1933 - Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to [the United States Constitution].
- 1933 - Nazi Germany issues the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service banning Jews and political dissidents from civil service posts.
- 1939 - Benito Mussolini declares an Italian protectorate over Albania and forces King Zog I into exile.
- 1939 - Benito Mussolini invades Albania.
- 1940 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
- 1943 - The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
- 1943 - Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
- 1943 - The National Football League makes helmets mandatory.
- 1944 - In the Fragheto massacre, soldiers belonging to the German 356th Infantry Division kill 30 Italian civilians and 15 partisans near Casteldelci in central-northern Italy.
- 1945 - World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato, one of the two largest ever constructed, is sunk by United States Navy aircraft during Operation Ten-Go.
- 1946 - The Soviet Union annexes East Prussia as the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
- 1948 - The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
- 1954 - United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
- 1955 - Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
- 1956 - Francoist Spain agrees to surrender its protectorate in Morocco.
- 1964 - IBM announces the System/360.
- 1965 - Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians testify before members of the US Senate in Washington, D.C., against the termination of the Colville tribe.
- 1968 - Two-time Formula One British World Champion Jim Clark dies in an accident during a Formula Two race in Hockenheim.
- 1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
- 1971 - Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
- 1972 - Vietnam War: Communist forces overrun the South Vietnamese town of Loc Ninh.
- 1976 - Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party after being arrested for faking his own death.
- 1977 - German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
- 1978 - Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
- 1980 - During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.
- 1982 - Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh is arrested.
- 1983 - During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
- 1988 - Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov orders the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
- 1989 - Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway, killing 42 sailors.
- 1990 - A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.
- 1990 - John Poindexter is convicted for his role in the Iran–Contra affair. In 1991 the convictions are reversed on appeal.
- 1994 - Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda, and soldiers kill the civilian Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
- 1994 - Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.
- 1995 - First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
- 1999 - Turkish Airlines Flight 5904 crashes near Ceyhan in southern Turkey, killing six people.
- 2001 - NASA launches the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter.
- 2003 - Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later.
- 2003 - Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide demands reparations of $21 billion from France for the Haiti Independence Debt.
- 2005 - First release of Git distributed version control system.
- 2009 - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
- 2009 - Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
- 2011 - The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza, marking the first short-range missile intercept ever.
- 2011 - A gunman opens fire at an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing twelve children and injuring 22 others before committing suicide.
- 2017 - A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people and injuring fifteen others.
- 2017 - U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile strike against Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.
- 2018 - Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is arrested for corruption by determination of Judge Sérgio Moro, from the "Car-Wash Operation". Lula stayed imprisoned for 580 days, after being released by the Brazilian Supreme Court.
- 2018 - Syria launches the Douma chemical attack during the Eastern Ghouta offensive of the Syrian Civil War.
- 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan.
- 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier.
- 2021 - COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.
- 2022 - Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice.
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
- 1613 - Gerrit Dou, Dutch painter
- 1644 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, French general
- 1648 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English poet and politician, Lord President of the Council
- 1652 - Pope Clement XII
- 1713 - Nicola Sala, Italian composer and theorist
- 1718 - Hugh Blair, Scottish minister and author
- 1727 - Michel Adanson, French botanist, entomologist, and mycologist
- 1763 - Domenico Dragonetti, Italian bassist and composer
- 1770 - William Wordsworth, English poet
- 1772 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher
- 1780 - William Ellery Channing, American preacher and theologian
- 1803 - James Curtiss, American journalist and politician, 11th Mayor of Chicago
- 1803 - Flora Tristan, French author and activist
- 1811 - Hasan Tahsini, Albanian astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher
- 1817 - Francesco Selmi, Italian chemist and patriot
- 1848 - Randall Davidson, Scottish archbishop
- 1859 - Walter Camp, American football player and coach
- 1860 - Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company
- 1867 - Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist and academic
- 1870 - Gustav Landauer, German theorist and activist
- 1871 - Epifanio de los Santos, Filipino jurist, historian, and scholar
- 1873 - John McGraw, American baseball player and manager
- 1874 - Frederick Carl Frieseke, German-American painter
- 1876 - Fay Moulton, American sprinter, football player, coach, and lawyer
- 1882 - Bert Ironmonger, Australian cricketer
- 1882 - Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany
- 1883 - Gino Severini, Italian-French painter and author
- 1884 - Clement Smoot, American golfer
- 1886 - Ed Lafitte, American baseball player and soldier
- 1889 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1890 - Paul Berth, Danish footballer
- 1890 - Victoria Ocampo, Argentine writer
- 1890 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American journalist and activist
- 1891 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman, founded the Lego Group
- 1892 - Julius Hirsch, German footballer
- 1893 - José Sobral de Almada Negreiros, Portuguese artist
- 1893 - Allen Dulles, American lawyer and diplomat, 5th Director of Central Intelligence
- 1895 - John Bernard Flannagan, American soldier and sculptor
- 1895 - Margarete Schön, German actress
- 1896 - Frits Peutz, Dutch architect, designed the Glaspaleis
- 1897 - Erich Löwenhardt, Polish-German lieutenant and pilot
- 1897 - Walter Winchell, American journalist and radio host
- 1899 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist and composer
- 1900 - Adolf Dymsza, Polish actor
- 1900 - Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, English race walker
1901–present
- 1902 - Eduard Eelma, Estonian footballer
- 1903 - M. Balasundaram, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician
- 1903 - Edwin T. Layton, American admiral
- 1904 - Roland Wilson, Australian economist and statistician
- 1908 - Percy Faith, Canadian composer, conductor, and bandleader
- 1908 - Pete Zaremba, American hammer thrower
- 1909 - Robert Charroux, French author and critic
- 1910 - Melissanthi, Greek poet, teacher and journalist
- 1913 - Louise Currie, American actress
- 1913 - Charles Vanik, American soldier, judge, and politician
- 1914 - Ralph Flanagan, American pianist, composer, and conductor
- 1914 - Domnitsa Lanitou-Kavounidou, Greek sprinter
- 1915 - Stanley Adams, American actor and screenwriter
- 1915 - Billie Holiday, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1915 - Henry Kuttner, American author
- 1916 - Anthony Caruso, American actor
- 1917 - R. G. Armstrong, American actor and playwright
- 1918 - Bobby Doerr, American baseball player and coach
- 1919 - Roger Lemelin, Canadian author and screenwriter
- 1919 - Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer
- 1920 - Ravi Shankar, Indian-American sitar player and composer
- 1921 - Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist
- 1922 - Mongo Santamaría, Cuban-American drummer
- 1924 - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian-English author and screenwriter
- 1925 - Chaturanan Mishra, Indian trade union leader and politician
- 1925 - Jan van Roessel, Dutch footballer
- 1927 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian-American drummer, educator, and activist
- 1927 - Leonid Shcherbakov, Russian triple jumper
- 1928 - James Garner, American actor, singer, and producer
- 1928 - Alan J. Pakula, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1928 - James White, Northern Irish author and educator
- 1929 - Bob Denard, French soldier
- 1929 - Joe Gallo, American gangster
- 1930 - Jane Priestman, English interior designer
- 1930 - Yves Rocher, French businessman, founded the Yves Rocher Company
- 1930 - Andrew Sachs, German-English actor and screenwriter
- 1930 - Roger Vergé, French chef and restaurateur
- 1931 - Donald Barthelme, American short story writer and novelist
- 1931 - Daniel Ellsberg, American activist and author
- 1931 - Ted Kotcheff, Canadian film and television director
- 1932 - Cal Smith, American singer and guitarist
- 1933 - Wayne Rogers, American actor, investor, and producer
- 1933 - Sakıp Sabancı, Turkish businessman and philanthropist
- 1934 - Ian Richardson, Scottish-English actor
- 1935 - Bobby Bare, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1935 - Hodding Carter III, American journalist and politician, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
- 1937 - Charlie Thomas, American singer
- 1938 - Jerry Brown, American lawyer and politician, 34th and 39th Governor of California
- 1938 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer
- 1938 - Freddie Hubbard, American trumpet player and composer
- 1938 - Iris Johansen, American author
- 1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1939 - David Frost, English journalist and game show host
- 1939 - Gary Kellgren, American record producer, co-founded Record Plant
- 1939 - Brett Whiteley, Australian painter
- 1940 - Marju Lauristin, Estonian academic and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Social Affairs
- 1941 - James Di Pasquale, American composer
- 1941 - Peter Fluck, English puppet maker and illustrator
- 1941 - Cornelia Frances, English-Australian actress
- 1941 - Gorden Kaye, English actor
- 1942 - Jeetendra, Indian actor, TV and film producer
- 1943 - Mick Abrahams, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1943 - Dennis Amiss, English cricketer and manager
- 1944 - Shel Bachrach, American insurance broker, investor, businessman and philanthropist
- 1944 - Warner Fusselle, American sportscaster
- 1944 - Oshik Levi, Israeli singer and actor
- 1944 - Julia Phillips, American film producer and author
- 1944 - Gerhard Schröder, German lawyer and politician, 7th Chancellor of Germany
- 1944 - Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager
- 1945 - Megas, Icelandic singer-songwriter
- 1945 - Gerry Cottle, English circus owner
- 1945 - Marilyn Friedman, American philosopher and academic
- 1945 - Martyn Lewis, Welsh journalist and author
- 1945 - Joël Robuchon, French chef and author
- 1945 - Werner Schroeter, German director and screenwriter
- 1945 - Hans van Hemert, Dutch songwriter and producer
- 1946 - Zaid Abdul-Aziz, American basketball player
- 1946 - Colette Besson, French runner and educator
- 1946 - Herménégilde Chiasson, Canadian poet, playwright, and politician, 29th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
- 1946 - Robert Metcalfe, American engineer and entrepreneur
- 1946 - Dimitrij Rupel, Slovenian politician and diplomate
- 1946 - Stan Winston, American special effects designer and makeup artist
- 1947 - Patricia Bennett, American singer
- 1947 - Florian Schneider, German singer and drummer
- 1947 - Michèle Torr, French singer and author
- 1948 - John Oates, American singer-songwriter guitarist, and producer
- 1948 - Arnie Robinson, American athlete
- 1948 - Ecaterina Andronescu, Romanian politician
- 1949 - Mitch Daniels, American academic and politician, 49th Governor of Indiana
- 1950 - Brian J. Doyle, American press secretary
- 1950 - Neil Folberg, American-Israeli photographer
- 1951 - Bruce Gary, American drummer
- 1951 - Janis Ian, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1952 - David Baulcombe, English geneticist and academic
- 1952 - Jane Frederick, American hurdler and heptathlete
- 1952 - Gilles Valiquette, Canadian actor, singer, and producer
- 1952 - Dennis Hayden, American actor
- 1953 - Santa Barraza, American mixed media artist
- 1953 - Douglas Kell, English biochemist and academic
- 1954 - Jackie Chan, Hong Kong martial artist, actor, stuntman, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1954 - Tony Dorsett, American football player
- 1955 - Tim Cochran, American mathematician and academic
- 1955 - Gregg Jarrett, American lawyer and journalist
- 1956 - Annika Billström, Swedish businesswoman and politician, 16th Mayor of Stockholm
- 1956 - Christopher Darden, American lawyer and author
- 1956 - Georg Werthner, Austrian decathlete
- 1957 - Kim Kap-soo, South Korean actor
- 1957 - Thelma Walker, British politician
- 1958 - Brian Haner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1958 - Hindrek Kesler, Estonian architect
- 1960 - Buster Douglas, American boxer and actor
- 1960 - Sandy Powell, English costume designer
- 1961 - Thurl Bailey, American basketball player and actor
- 1961 - Pascal Olmeta, French footballer
- 1961 - Brigitte van der Burg, Tanzanian-Dutch geographer and politician
- 1962 - Jon Cruddas, English lawyer and politician
- 1962 - Andrew Hampsten, American cyclist
- 1963 - Jaime de Marichalar, Spanish businessman
- 1963 - Nick Herbert, English businessman and politician, Minister for Policing
- 1963 - Dave Johnson, American decathlete and educator
- 1964 - Jace Alexander, American actor and director
- 1964 - Russell Crowe, New Zealand-Australian actor
- 1964 - Steve Graves, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1965 - Bill Bellamy, American comedian, actor, and producer
- 1965 - Rozalie Hirs, Dutch composer and poet
- 1965 - Alison Lapper, English painter and photographer
- 1965 - Nenad Vučinić, Serbian-New Zealand basketball player and coach
- 1966 - Richard Gomez, Filipino actor and politician
- 1966 - Zvika Hadar, Israeli entertainer
- 1966 - Béla Mavrák, Hungarian tenor singer
- 1966 - Gary Wilkinson, English snooker player
- 1967 - Artemis Gounaki, Greek-German singer-songwriter
- 1967 - Bodo Illgner, German footballer
- 1967 - Simone Schilder, Dutch tennis player
- 1968 - Duncan Armstrong, Australian swimmer and sportscaster
- 1968 - Jennifer Lynch, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1968 - Jože Možina, Slovenian historian, sociologist and journalist
- 1968 - Vasiliy Sokov, Russian triple jumper
- 1969 - Ricky Watters, American football player
- 1970 - Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian pianist and educator
- 1970 - Alexander Karpovtsev, Russian ice hockey player and coach
- 1971 - Guillaume Depardieu, French actor
- 1971 - Victor Kraatz, German-Canadian figure skater
- 1972 - Tim Peake, British astronaut
- 1973 - Marco Delvecchio, Italian footballer
- 1973 - Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of Defence
- 1973 - Carole Montillet, French skier
- 1973 - Christian O'Connell, British radio DJ and presenter
- 1973 - Brett Tomko, American baseball player
- 1975 - Karin Dreijer Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer
- 1975 - Ronde Barber, American football player and sportscaster
- 1975 - Tiki Barber, American football player and journalist
- 1975 - Ronnie Belliard, American baseball player
- 1975 - John Cooper, American singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1975 - Simon Woolford, Australian rugby league player
- 1976 - Kevin Alejandro, American actor and producer
- 1976 - Martin Buß, German high jumper
- 1976 - Jessica Lee, English lawyer and politician
- 1976 - Aaron Lohr, American actor
- 1976 - Barbara Jane Reams, American actress
- 1976 - Gang Qiang, Chinese anchor
- 1977 - Tama Canning, Australian-New Zealand cricketer
- 1977 - Karin Haydu, Slovak actress
- 1978 - Jo Appleby, English soprano
- 1978 - Duncan James, English singer-songwriter and actor
- 1978 - Lilia Osterloh, American tennis player
- 1979 - Adrián Beltré, Dominican-American baseball player
- 1979 - Patrick Crayton, American football player
- 1979 - Pascal Dupuis, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 - Danny Sandoval, Venezuelan-American baseball player
- 1980 - Dragan Bogavac, Montenegrin footballer
- 1980 - Bruno Covas, Brazilian lawyer, politician
- 1980 - Tetsuji Tamayama, Japanese actor
- 1981 - Hitoe Arakaki, Japanese singer
- 1981 - Kazuki Watanabe, Japanese songwriter and guitarist
- 1981 - Vanessa Olivarez, American singer-songwriter, and actress
- 1981 - Suzann Pettersen, Norwegian golfer
- 1982 - Silvana Arias, Peruvian actress
- 1982 - Sonjay Dutt, American wrestler
- 1982 - Kelli Young, English singer
- 1983 - Hamish Davidson, Australian musician
- 1983 - Franck Ribéry, French footballer
- 1983 - Jon Stead, English footballer
- 1983 - Jakub Smrž, Czech motorcycle rider
- 1983 - Janar Talts, Estonian basketball player
- 1984 - Hiroko Shimabukuro, Japanese singer
- 1985 - KC Concepcion, Filipino actress and singer
- 1985 - Humza Yousaf, Scottish politician
- 1986 - Brooke Brodack, American comedian
- 1986 - Jack Duarte, Mexican actor, singer, and guitarist
- 1986 - Andi Fraggs, English singer-songwriter and producer
- 1986 - Christian Fuchs, Austrian footballer
- 1986 - Choi Si-won, South Korean singer and actor
- 1987 - Martín Cáceres, Uruguayan footballer
- 1987 - Eelco Sintnicolaas, Dutch decathlete
- 1987 - Jamar Smith, American football player
- 1988 - Antonio Piccolo, Italian footballer
- 1988 - Ed Speleers, English actor and producer
- 1989 - Franco Di Santo, Argentinian footballer
- 1989 - Mitchell Pearce, Australian rugby league player
- 1989 - Teddy Riner, French judoka
- 1990 - Nickel Ashmeade, Jamaican sprinter
- 1990 - Anna Bogomazova, Russian-American kick-boxer, martial artist, and wrestler
- 1990 - Sorana Cîrstea, Romanian tennis player
- 1990 - Trent Cotchin, Australian footballer
- 1991 - Luka Milivojević, Serbian footballer
- 1991 - Anne-Marie, English singer-songwriter
- 1992 - Andreea Acatrinei, Romanian gymnast
- 1992 - Guilherme Negueba, Brazilian footballer
- 1993 - Ichinojō Takashi, Mongolian sumo wrestler
- 1994 - Johanna Allik, Estonian figure skater
- 1994 - Aaron Gray, Australian rugby league player
- 1994 - Josh Hader, American baseball player
- 1996 - Emerson Hyndman, American international soccer player
- 1997 - Rafaela Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player
Deaths
Pre-1600
1601–1900
- 1606 - Edward Oldcorne, English martyr
- 1614 - El Greco, Greek-Spanish painter and sculptor
- 1638 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyō
- 1651 - Lennart Torstensson, Swedish field marshal and engineer
- 1658 - Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic and philosopher
- 1661 - Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English commander and politician
- 1663 - Francis Cooke, English-American settler
- 1668 - William Davenant, English poet and playwright
- 1719 - Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French priest and saint, founded the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
- 1739 - Dick Turpin, English criminal
- 1747 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
- 1761 - Thomas Bayes, English minister and mathematician
- 1766 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic
- 1767 - Franz Sparry, Austrian composer and director
- 1779 - Martha Ray, English singer
- 1782 - Taksin, Thai king
- 1789 - Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman sultan
- 1789 - Petrus Camper, Dutch physician, anatomist, and physiologist
- 1801 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer and author
- 1804 - Toussaint Louverture, Haitian general
- 1811 - Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician
- 1823 - Jacques Charles, French physicist and mathematician
- 1833 - Antoni Radziwiłł, Lithuanian composer and politician
- 1836 - William Godwin, English journalist and author
- 1849 - Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentinian priest and politician
- 1850 - William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic
- 1858 - Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer and publisher
- 1868 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Irish-Canadian journalist, activist, and politician
- 1879 - Begum Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Awadh, was the second wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
- 1884 - Maria Doolaeghe, Flemish novelist
- 1885 - Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist and zoologist
- 1889 - Youssef Bey Karam, Lebanese soldier and politician
- 1889 - Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Mexican politician and president, 1872-1876
- 1891 - P. T. Barnum, American businessman and politician, co-founded The Barnum & Bailey Circus
1901–present
- 1917 - Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer and playwright
- 1918 - David Kolehmainen, Finnish wrestler
- 1918 - George E. Ohr, American potter
- 1920 - Karl Binding, German lawyer and jurist
- 1922 - James McGowen, Australian politician, 18th Premier of New South Wales
- 1928 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician, philosopher, and author
- 1932 - Grigore Constantinescu, Romanian priest and journalist
- 1938 - Suzanne Valadon, French painter
- 1939 - Joseph Lyons, Australian educator and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia
- 1943 - Jovan Dučić, Serbian-American poet and diplomat
- 1943 - Alexandre Millerand, French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France
- 1947 - Henry Ford, American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company
- 1949 - John Gourlay, Canadian soccer player
- 1950 - Walter Huston, Canadian-American actor and singer
- 1955 - Theda Bara, American actress
- 1956 - Fred Appleby, English runner
- 1960 - Henri Guisan, Swiss general
- 1965 - Roger Leger, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1966 - Walt Hansgen, American race car driver
- 1968 - Edwin Baker, Canadian co-founder of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind
- 1968 - Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver
- 1972 - Joe Gallo, American gangster
- 1972 - Abeid Karume, Tanzanian politician, 1st President of Zanzibar
- 1981 - Kit Lambert, English record producer and manager
- 1981 - Norman Taurog, American director and screenwriter
- 1982 - Harald Ertl, Austrian race car driver and journalist
- 1984 - Frank Church, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
- 1985 - Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and jurist
- 1986 - Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist
- 1990 - Ronald Evans, American captain, engineer, and astronaut
- 1991 - Memduh Ünlütürk, Turkish general
- 1992 - Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1992 - Antonis Tritsis, Greek high jumper and politician, 71st Mayor of Athens
- 1994 - Lee Brilleaux, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1994 - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer, manager, and politician
- 1994 - Golo Mann, German historian and author
- 1994 - Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Rwandan chemist, academic, and politician, Prime Minister of Rwanda
- 1995 - Philip Jebb, English architect and politician
- 1997 - Luis Aloma, Cuban-American baseball player
- 1997 - Georgy Shonin, Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut
- 1998 - Alex Schomburg, Puerto Rican painter and illustrator
- 1999 - Heinz Lehmann, German-Canadian psychiatrist and academic
- 2001 - David Graf, American actor
- 2001 - Beatrice Straight, American actress
- 2002 - John Agar, American actor
- 2003 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French pianist and author
- 2003 - David Greene, English-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 2004 - Victor Argo, American actor
- 2004 - Konstantinos Kallias, Greek politician
- 2005 - Cliff Allison, English race car driver
- 2005 - Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer-songwriter
- 2005 - Bob Kennedy, American baseball player, coach, and manager
- 2005 - Melih Kibar, Turkish composer and educator
- 2007 - Johnny Hart, American author and illustrator
- 2007 - Barry Nelson, American actor
- 2008 - Ludu Daw Amar, Burmese journalist and author
- 2009 - Dave Arneson, American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons
- 2011 - Pierre Gauvreau, Canadian painter
- 2012 - Steven Kanumba, Tanzanian actor and director
- 2012 - Satsue Mito, Japanese zoologist and academic
- 2012 - Ignatius Moses I Daoud, Syrian cardinal
- 2012 - David E. Pergrin, American colonel and engineer
- 2012 - Bashir Ahmed Qureshi, Pakistani politician
- 2012 - Mike Wallace, American television news journalist
- 2013 - Marty Blake, American businessman
- 2013 - Les Blank, American director and producer
- 2013 - Andy Johns, English-American record producer
- 2013 - Lilly Pulitzer, American fashion designer
- 2013 - Irma Ravinale, Italian composer and educator
- 2013 - Mickey Rose, American screenwriter
- 2013 - Carl Williams, American boxer
- 2014 - George Dureau, American painter and photographer
- 2014 - James Alexander Green, American-English mathematician and academic
- 2014 - V. K. Murthy, Indian cinematographer
- 2014 - Zeituni Onyango, Kenyan-American computer programmer
- 2014 - John Shirley-Quirk, English opera singer
- 2014 - George Shuffler, American guitarist
- 2014 - Josep Maria Subirachs, Spanish sculptor and painter
- 2014 - Royce Waltman, American basketball player and coach
- 2015 - Tim Babcock, American soldier and politician, 16th Governor of Montana
- 2015 - José Capellán, Dominican-American baseball player
- 2015 - Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer
- 2015 - Richard Henyekane, South African footballer
- 2015 - Geoffrey Lewis, American actor
- 2016 - Blackjack Mulligan, American professional wrestler
- 2017 - Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca, Romanian historian and philologist
- 2019 - Seymour Cassel, American actor
- 2020 - John Prine, American country folk singer-songwriter
- 2020 - Herb Stempel, American television personality
- 2021 - Tommy Raudonikis, Australian rugby league player and coach
- 2023 – Ben Ferencz, American lawyer
- 2023 - Philippe Bouvatier, French cyclist
- 2024 – Jerry Grote, American baseball player
- 2024 - Joe Kinnear, Irish football player and manager
- 2025 – William Finn, American composer and lyricist
- 2025 - Greg Millen, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
Holidays and observances