August 30
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
- 1721 - The Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia ends in the Treaty of Nystad.
- 1727 - Anne, [Princess Royal and Princess of Orange|Anne], eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
- 1757 - Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: Russian force under Field Marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin beats a smaller Prussian force commanded by Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt, during the Seven Years' War.
- 1791 - sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
- 1799 - The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
- 1800 - Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
- 1813 - First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
- 1813 - Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
- 1835 - Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.
- 1836 - The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.
- 1873 - Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
- 1896 - Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
1901–present
- 1909 - Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
- 1914 - World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
- 1916 - Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
- 1917 - Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
- 1918 - Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
- 1922 - Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War.
- 1936 - The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.
- 1940 - The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
- 1941 - The Tighina Agreement, a treaty regarding administration issues of the Transnistria Governorate, is signed between Germany and Romania.
- 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
- 1945 - The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
- 1945 - The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
- 1945 - The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
- 1959 - South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Dan was elected to the National Assembly despite soldiers being bussed in to vote for President Ngo Dinh Diem's candidate.
- 1962 - Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
- 1963 - The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
- 1967 - Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Associate [Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|Justice] of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1974 - A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
- 1974 - A powerful bomb 1974 [Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing|explodes] at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975, by Japanese authorities.
- 1974 - The Third World Population Conference ends in Bucharest, Romania. At the end of the ceremony, the UN-Romanian Demographic Centre is inaugurated.
- 1981 - President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing. The office of Iran's Prosecutor General blames the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
- 1983 - Aeroflot Flight 5463 crashes into Dolan Mountain while approaching Almaty International Airport in present-day Kazakhstan, killing all 90 people on board.
- 1983 - STS-8: The Space Shuttle Challenger takes off on the first night launch of the shuttle program. Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space on this mission.
- 1984 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
- 1991 - Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
- 1992 - The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.
- 1995 - Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
- 1998 - Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
- 2002 - Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 crashes on approach to Rio Branco International Airport, killing 23 of the 31 people on board.
- 2008 - A Conviasa Boeing 737 2008 [Conviasa Boeing 737 crash|crashes] into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board.
- 2014 - Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.
- 2021 - The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war.
- 2023 - Gabonese coup d'état: After Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection, a military coup ousted him, ending 56 years of Bongo family rule in Gabon.
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
- 1609 - Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet, English politician
- 1609 - Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor
- 1627 - Itō Jinsai, Japanese philosopher
- 1716 - Capability Brown, English landscape architect
- 1720 - Samuel [Whitbread (1720–1796)|Samuel Whitbread], English brewer and politician, founded Whitbread
- 1748 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter and illustrator
- 1768 - Joseph Dennie, American author and journalist
- 1797 - Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright
- 1812 - Agoston Haraszthy, Hungarian-American businessman, founded Buena Vista Winery
- 1818 - Alexander H. Rice, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts
- 1822 - Adolph Strauch, Prussian American landscape architect
- 1839 - Gulstan Ropert, French-American bishop and missionary
- 1842 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia
- 1844 - Emily Ruete/Salama bint Said, also called Sayyida Salme, a Princess of Zanzibar and Oman
- 1848 - Andrew Onderdonk, American surveyor and contractor
- 1850 - Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino journalist and lawyer
- 1852 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1852 - J. Alden Weir, American painter and academic
- 1855 - Evelyn De Morgan, English painter
- 1856 - Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist
- 1858 - Ignaz Sowinski, Galician architect
- 1860 - Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and illustrator
- 1870 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia
- 1871 - Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1883 - Theo van Doesburg, Dutch artist
- 1884 - Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1885 - Tedda Courtney, Australian rugby league player and coach
- 1887 - Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and composer
- 1890 - Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English captain and pilot
- 1893 - Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana
- 1896 - Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor and playwright
- 1898 - Shirley Booth, American actress and singer
1901–present
- 1901 - John Gunther, American journalist and author
- 1901 - Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist
- 1903 - Bhagwati Charan Verma, Indian author
- 1906 - Joan Blondell, American actress and singer
- 1906 - Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian mathematician
- 1907 - Leonor Fini, Argentine painter, illustrator, and author
- 1907 - Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist
- 1907 - John Mauchly, American physicist and co-founder of the first computer company
- 1908 - Fred MacMurray, American actor
- 1909 - Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator
- 1910 - Roger Bushell, South African-English soldier and pilot
- 1912 - Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1912 - Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain
- 1913 - Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1915 - Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland
- 1915 - Robert Strassburg, American composer, conductor, and educator
- 1916 - Shailendra, Pakistani-Indian songwriter
- 1917 - Dan Enright, American television producer
- 1917 - Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- 1917 - Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia
- 1918 - Harold Atcherley, English businessman
- 1918 - Billy Johnson, American baseball player
- 1918 - Ted Williams, American baseball player and manager
- 1919 - Maurice Hilleman, American microbiologist and vaccinologist
- 1919 - Wolfgang Wagner, German director and manager
- 1919 - Kitty Wells, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1920 - Arnold Green, Estonian soldier and politician
- 1922 - Lionel Murphy, Australian jurist and politician, 22nd Attorney-General of Australia
- 1922 - Regina Resnik, American soprano and actress
- 1923 - Barbara Ansell, English physician and author
- 1923 - Charmian Clift, Australian journalist and author
- 1923 - Vic Seixas, American tennis player
- 1924 - Kenny Dorham, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player
- 1924 - Lajos Kisfaludy, Hungarian chemist and engineer
- 1924 - Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer
- 1925 - Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator
- 1925 - Donald Symington, American actor
- 1926 - Daryl Gates, American police officer, created the D.A.R.E. Program
- 1927 - Bill Daily, American actor and comedian
- 1927 - Piet Kee, Dutch organist and composer
- 1928 - Lloyd Casner, American race car driver
- 1928 - Harvey Hart, Canadian director and producer
- 1928 - Johnny Mann, American singer-songwriter and conductor
- 1929 - Guy de Lussigny, French painter and sculptor
- 1929 - Ian McNaught-Davis, English mountaineer and television host
- 1930 - Warren Buffett, American businessman and philanthropist
- 1930 - Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer and basketball player
- 1931 - Jack Swigert, American pilot and astronaut
- 1933 - Don Getty, Canadian football player and politician, 11th Premier of Alberta
- 1934 - Antonio Cabangon Chua, Filipino media mogul and businessman
- 1935 - John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1935 - Alexandra Bellow, Romanian-American mathematician
- 1936 - Peter North, English scholar and academic
- 1937 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car driver and engineer, founded the McLaren racing team
- 1938 - Murray Gleeson, Australian lawyer and judge, 11th Justice of Australia">Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States">Justice of Australia
- 1939 - Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
- 1939 - John Peel, English radio host and producer
- 1940 - Jack Biondolillo, American bowler
- 1941 - Ignazio Giunti, Italian race car driver
- 1941 - Ben Jones, American actor and politician
- 1941 - Sue MacGregor, English journalist and radio host
- 1941 - John McNally, English singer and guitarist
- 1942 - Jonathan Aitken, Irish-British journalist and politician, Minister for Defence Procurement
- 1942 - John Kani, South African actor
- 1942 - Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricketer
- 1943 - Tal Brody, American-Israeli basketball player and coach
- 1943 - Robert Crumb, American illustrator
- 1943 - Colin Dann, English author
- 1943 - Nigel Hall, English sculptor and academic
- 1943 - Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
- 1943 - David Maslanka, American composer and academic
- 1944 - Frances Cairncross, English economist, journalist, and academic
- 1944 - Freek de Jonge, Dutch singer and comedian
- 1944 - Molly Ivins, American journalist and author
- 1944 - Tug McGraw, American baseball player
- 1944 - Alex Wyllie, New Zealand rugby player and coach
- 1946 - Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
- 1946 - Peggy Lipton, American model and actress
- 1947 - Allan Rock, Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
- 1948 - Lewis Black, American comedian, actor, and author
- 1948 - Fred Hampton, American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party
- 1948 - Victor Skumin, Russian psychiatrist, psychologist, and academic
- 1949 - Ted Ammon, American financier and banker
- 1949 - Don Boudria, Canadian public servant and politician, 2nd Canadian Minister for International Cooperation
- 1950 - Antony Gormley, English sculptor and academic
- 1950 - Dana Rosemary Scallon, Irish singer and activist
- 1951 - Timothy Bottoms, American actor
- 1951 - Gediminas Kirkilas, Lithuanian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Lithuania
- 1951 - Jim Paredes, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor
- 1952 - Simon Bainbridge, English composer and educator
- 1952 - Wojtek Fibak, Polish tennis player
- 1953 - Ron George, American businessman and politician
- 1953 - Lech Majewski, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1953 - Horace Panter, English bass player
- 1953 - Robert Parish, American basketball player
- 1954 - Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian marshal and politician, 1st President of Belarus
- 1954 - Ravi Shankar Prasad, Indian lawyer and politician, Ministry of [Communications and Information Technology (India)|Indian Minister of Communications and IT]
- 1954 - David Paymer, American actor and director
- 1955 - Jamie Moses, English-American guitarist
- 1955 - Martin Jackson, English drummer
- 1956 - Frank Conniff, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1957 - Gerald Albright, American musician
- 1958 - Karen Buck, Northern Irish politician
- 1958 - Fran Fraschilla, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1958 - Muriel Gray, Scottish journalist and author
- 1958 - Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and activist
- 1958 - Peter Tunks, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
- 1959 - Mark "Jacko" Jackson, Australian footballer, actor, and singer
- 1960 - Ben Bradshaw, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
- 1960 - Gary Gordon, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient
- 1960 - Guy A. Lepage, Canadian comedian and producer
- 1962 - Ricky Sanders, American football player
- 1962 - Craig Whittaker, English businessman and politician
- 1963 - Dave Brockie, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1963 - Michael Chiklis, American actor, director, and producer
- 1963 - Sabine Oberhauser, Austrian physician and politician
- 1963 - Phil Mills, Welsh race car driver
- 1964 - Gavin Fisher, English engineer and designer
- 1964 - Ra Luhse, Estonian architect
- 1966 - Peter Cunnah, Northern Irish singer-songwriter and producer
- 1966 - Joann Fletcher, English historian and academic
- 1966 - Michael Michele, American actress
- 1967 - Frederique van der Wal, Dutch model and actress
- 1967 - Justin Vaughan, New Zealand cricketer
- 1968 - Diran Adebayo, English author and critic
- 1968 - Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1969 - Vladimir Jugović, Serbian footballer
- 1969 - Dimitris Sgouros, Greek pianist and composer
- 1970 - Carlo Checchinato, Italian rugby player and manager
- 1970 - Paulo Sousa, Portuguese footballer and manager
- 1970 - Michael Wong, Malaysian-Chinese singer-songwriter
- 1971 - Lars Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1971 - Julian Smith, Scottish politician
- 1972 - Cameron Diaz, American model, actress, and producer
- 1972 - Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer
- 1972 - Hani Hanjour, Saudi terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 during the September 11 attacks
- 1973 - Lisa Ling, American journalist and author
- 1974 - Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist
- 1975 - Radhi Jaïdi, Tunisian footballer and coach
- 1976 - Mike Koplove, American baseball player
- 1977 - Shaun Alexander, American football player
- 1977 - Marlon Byrd, American baseball player
- 1977 - Raúl Castillo, American actor
- 1977 - Michael Gladis, American actor
- 1977 - Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
- 1977 - Félix Sánchez, American-Dominican runner and hurdler
- 1978 - Sinead Kerr, Scottish figure skater
- 1978 - Cliff Lee, American baseball player
- 1979 - Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player
- 1979 - Leon Lopez, English singer-songwriter and actor
- 1979 - Scott Richmond, Canadian baseball player
- 1980 - Roberto Hernández, Dominican baseball player
- 1981 - Germán Legarreta, Puerto Rican-American actor
- 1981 - Adam Wainwright, American baseball player
- 1982 - Will Davison, Australian race car driver
- 1982 - Andy Roddick, American tennis player
- 1983 - Emmanuel Culio, Argentine footballer
- 1983 - Gustavo Eberto, Argentine footballer
- 1983 - Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer, dancer, and actor
- 1983 - Simone Pepe, Italian footballer
- 1983 - Tian Qin, Chinese canoe racer
- 1983 - Marco Vianello, Italian footballer
- 1984 - Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1984 - Joe Staley, American football player
- 1984 - Michael Grant Terry, American actor
- 1985 - Duane Brown, American football player
- 1985 - Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
- 1985 - Joe Inoue, American singer-songwriter
- 1985 - Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
- 1985 - Éva Risztov, Hungarian swimmer
- 1985 - Steven Smith, Scottish footballer
- 1985 - Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
- 1985 - Anna Ushenina, Ukrainian chess player
- 1985 - Holly Weston, English actress
- 1986 - Theo Hutchcraft, English singer-songwriter
- 1986 - Lelia Masaga, New Zealand rugby player
- 1986 - Ryan Ross, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1986 - Zafer Yelen, Turkish footballer
- 1987 - Johanna Braddy, American actress
- 1987 - Tania Foster, English singer-songwriter
- 1988 - Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
- 1989 - Simone Guerra, Italian footballer
- 1989 - Ronald Huth, Paraguayan footballer
- 1989 - Bebe Rexha, American singer-songwriter
- 1991 - Seriki Audu, Nigerian footballer
- 1991 - Jacqueline Cako, American tennis player
- 1991 - Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer
- 1992 - Jessica Henwick, British actress
- 1994 - Monika Povilaitytė, Lithuanian volleyball player
- 1994 - Heo Young-ji, South Korean singer
- 1994 - Kwon So-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress
- 1996 - Mikal Bridges, American basketball player
- 1996 - Trevor Jackson, American actor and singer-songwriter
- 2002 - Fábio Carvalho, Portuguese footballer
- 2002 - Drake Maye, American football player
Deaths
Pre-1600
1601–1900
- 1604 - John Juvenal Ancina, Italian Oratorian and bishop
- 1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord
- 1621 - Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, co-founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy
- 1751 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and engineer
- 1773 - Peshwa Narayan Rao, Prime Minister of Maratha Empire
- 1856 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English lawyer and author
- 1856 - Sir John Ross, Scottish naval officer and explorer
- 1879 - John Bell Hood, American/Confederate general
- 1886 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general and politician
- 1896 - Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia
1901–present
- 1906 - Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland
- 1907 - Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager
- 1908 - Alexander P. Stewart, American general
- 1928 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1935 - Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author
- 1935 - Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator
- 1936 - Ronald Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn, English peer
- 1938 - Max Factor, Sr., Polish-born American make-up artist and businessman, founded the Max Factor Company
- 1940 - J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer
- 1943 - Eddy de Neve, Indonesian-Dutch footballer and lieutenant
- 1943 - Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest and missionary
- 1945 - Alfréd Schaffer, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager
- 1946 - Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian lawyer
- 1947 - Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director
- 1948 - Alice Salomon, German-American social reformer
- 1949 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer
- 1951 - Konstantin Märska, Estonian director and cinematographer
- 1954 - Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal
- 1961 - Cristóbal de Losada y Puga, Peruvian mathematician
- 1961 - Charles Coburn, American actor
- 1963 - Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy
- 1964 - Salme Dutt, Estonian-English lawyer and politician
- 1967 - Ad Reinhardt, American painter, illustrator, and academic
- 1968 - William Talman, American actor and screenwriter
- 1970 - Del Moore, American comedian and actor
- 1970 - Abraham Zapruder, American clothing manufacturer, witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy
- 1971 - Ali Hadi Bara, Iranian-Turkish sculptor
- 1979 - Jean Seberg, American actress
- 1981 - Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer
- 1981 - Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian politician, 2nd President of Iran
- 1985 - Taylor Caldwell, English-American author
- 1988 - Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 1989 - Seymour Krim, American journalist and critic
- 1990 - Bernard D. H. Tellegen, Dutch engineer and academic
- 1991 - Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager
- 1991 - Vladimír Padrůněk, Czech bass player
- 1991 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor
- 1993 - Richard Jordan, American actor
- 1994 - Lindsay Anderson, English director and screenwriter
- 1995 - Fischer Black, American economist and academic
- 1995 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist and singer
- 1996 - Christine Pascal, French actress, director, and screenwriter
- 1999 - Reindert Brasser, Dutch discus thrower
- 1999 - Raymond Poïvet, French illustrator
- 2001 - Govan Mbeki, ANC activist and father of President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki
- 2002 - J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
- 2003 - Charles Bronson, American actor and soldier
- 2003 - Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic
- 2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic
- 2006 - Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand lawyer and judge
- 2006 - Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor and producer
- 2006 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
- 2007 - Michael Jackson, English author and journalist
- 2007 - Charles Vanik, American soldier and politician
- 2008 - Brian Hambly, Australian rugby player and coach
- 2008 - Killer Kowalski, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer
- 2009 - Klaus-Peter Hanisch, German footballer
- 2010 - J. C. Bailey, American wrestler
- 2010 - Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter
- 2010 - Myrtle Edwards, Australian cricketer and softball player
- 2010 - Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer
- 2013 - William C. Campbell, American golfer
- 2013 - Howie Crittenden, American basketball player and coach
- 2013 - Allan Gotthelf, American philosopher and academic
- 2013 - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 2013 - Leo Lewis, American football player and coach
- 2014 - Charles Bowden, American non-fiction author, journalist and essayist
- 2014 - Bipan Chandra, Indian historian and academic
- 2014 - Igor Decraene, Belgian cyclist
- 2014 - Andrew V. McLaglen, English-American director and producer
- 2014 - Felipe Osterling, Peruvian lawyer and politician
- 2015 - Wes Craven, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
- 2015 - Edward Fadeley, American lawyer and politician
- 2015 - M. M. Kalburgi, Indian scholar, author, and academic
- 2015 - Marvin Mandel, American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland
- 2015 - Oliver Sacks, English-American neurologist, author, and academic
- 2017 - Louise Hay, American motivational author
- 2017 - Skip Prokop, Canadian drummer, guitarist and keyboardist
- 2019 - Valerie Harper, American actress and writer
- 2022 - Mikhail Gorbachev, 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union
- 2024 - Tūheitia Paki, Māori King
- 2024 - Fatman Scoop, American rapper, hype man and radio personality
Holidays and observances