October 25
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
- 1616 - Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
- 1747 - War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.
- 1760 - King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.
- 1809 - Golden Jubilee of George III is celebrated in Britain as he begins the fiftieth year of his reign.
- 1812 - War of 1812: The American frigate,, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate.
- 1822 - Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.
- 1854 - The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War. It is soon memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade.
- 1861 - The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
- 1868 - The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
- 1875 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B♭ minor, Op. 23 premieres in Boston, Massachusetts, with Benjamin Johnson Lang as conductor and Hans von Bülow as soloist.
1901–present
- 1911 - The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Fengshan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps.
- 1917 - Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
- 1920 - After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
- 1924 - The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
- 1927 - The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
- 1932 - George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party.
- 1940 - Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
- 1944 - World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
- 1944 - World War II: The under Richard O'Kane is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
- 1944 - World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
- 1945 - Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control.
- 1949 - The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.
- 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
- 1968 - A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people.
- 1968 - Soyuz 2 is launched.
- 1971 - The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.
- 1973 - Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.
- 1980 - Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude.
- 1983 - The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.
- 1989 - The first leg of the 1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira is held at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal.
- 1990 - The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union.
- 1995 - A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
- 1997 - After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.
- 1999 - A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart and golf course designer Bruce Borland.
- 2001 - Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.
- 2009 - The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721.
- 2010 - Mount Merapi in Indonesia begins a month-long series of violent eruptions that kill 353 people and cause the evacuation of another 350,000 people.
- 2010 - A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people.
- 2023 - A mass shooting occurs in two locations in Lewiston, Maine. 18 people are killed and 13 more injured.
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
- 1612 - James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish soldier
- 1667 - Louis Frederick I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- 1683 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, English-Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
- 1692 - Elisabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain
- 1709 - Georg Gebel, German organist and composer
- 1714 - James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge
- 1736 - Thomas Mullins, 1st Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer
- 1743 - Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
- 1749 - Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, Swedish chamberlain
- 1754 - Richard Howell, 3rd Governor of New Jersey
- 1755 - François Joseph Lefebvre, French military commander
- 1757 - Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian statesman
- 1759 - Maria Feodorovna, Russian wife of Paul I of Russia
- 1759 - William Grenville, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1760 - Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren, German historian
- 1767 - Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French philosopher and politician
- 1768 - Frederick William, ruler of Nassau-Weilburg
- 1772 - Victoire de Donnissan de La Rochejaquelein, French memoirist
- 1772 - Géraud Duroc, French general and diplomat
- 1779 - Pedro Velarde y Santillán, Spanish artillery captain
- 1781 - Friedrich von Berchtold, Bohemian physician and botanist
- 1782 - Levi Lincoln Jr., American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Massachusetts
- 1789 - Carlos María de Alvear, Argentine soldier and statesman
- 1789 - Heinrich Schwabe, German astronomer
- 1790 - Robert Stirling, Scottish clergyman and inventor
- 1792 - Jeanne Jugan, French nun
- 1795 - John P. Kennedy, American novelist and Whig politician
- 1800 - Maria Jane Jewsbury, English writer, poet, literary reviewer
- 1800 - Thomas Babington Macaulay, English poet, historian, and politician, Secretary at War
- 1800 - Jacques Paul Migne, French priest
- 1800 - Julius von Mohl, German orientalist
- 1802 - Richard Parkes Bonington, English painter
- 1802 - Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman
- 1803 - Maria Doolaeghe, Flemish novelist
- 1806 - Max Stirner, German philosopher and author
- 1811 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist
- 1814 - Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours
- 1815 - Camillo Sivori, Italian virtuoso violinist and composer
- 1819 - Christian August Friedrich Garcke, German botanist
- 1821 - Antonio Ciseri, Swiss-Italian painter
- 1825 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator
- 1825 - Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, German astronomer and geophysicist
- 1827 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician
- 1832 - Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia
- 1838 - Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer
- 1838 - James Maybrick, English cotton merchant, victim of the "Aigburth Poisoning"
- 1844 - Philip Wicksteed, English economist
- 1848 - Carlo Emery, Italian entomologist
- 1848 - Karl Emil Franzos, Austrian novelist
- 1852 - Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Russian author
- 1853 - Karl August Otto Hoffmann, German botanist
- 1856 - Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, Croatian geologist, paleontologist, and archaeologist
- 1858 - Take Ionescu, Romanian politician, diplomat, journalist and lawyer
- 1864 - John Francis Dodge, American businessman, co-founded the Dodge Company
- 1864 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian-American pianist and composer
- 1864 - Toktogul Satylganov, Kyrgyz Akyn, poet and singer
- 1866 - Thomas Armat, American mechanic and inventor
- 1866 - Norbert Klein, Bishop of Brno
- 1866 - Georg Schumann, German composer
- 1867 - Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general
- 1868 - Dan Burke, American baseball player
- 1868 - Oskar Kallas, Estonian linguist and diplomat
- 1870 - Elsa Reger, German writer
- 1874 - Emma Gramatica, Italian actress
- 1874 - Victor Sonnemans, Belgian water polo player
- 1874 - Huang Xing, Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman
- 1875 - Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, American author and educator
- 1875 - Arthur Birkett, British cricketer
- 1877 - Adolf Moller, German rower
- 1877 - Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer
- 1879 - Fritz Haarmann, German serial killer
- 1880 - Bohumír Šmeral, Czech politician
- 1881 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor
- 1882 - John T. Flynn, American journalist and author
- 1882 - Tony Jackson, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1882 - André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien, French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1882 - Theodora Agnes Peck, American author and poet
- 1883 - Nikolay Krestinsky, Russian revolutionary and politician
- 1884 - Maria Czaplicka, Polish cultural anthropologist
- 1885 - Sam M. Lewis, American singer and lyricist
- 1885 - Xavier Lesage, French equestrian
- 1886 - Leo G. Carroll, English-American actor
- 1886 - Karl Polanyi, Austro-Hungarian economist and historian
- 1887 - Alexander McCulloch, British rower
- 1888 - Richard E. Byrd, American admiral and pilot
- 1888 - Nils Dardel, Swedish-American painter
- 1888 - Jan Palouš, Czechoslovak ice hockey player
- 1888 - Léon Tom, Belgian fencer and bobsledder
- 1889 - Abel Gance, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1890 - Floyd Bennett, American aviator
- 1890 - Kōtarō Tanaka, Japanese jurist and politician
- 1891 - Charles Coughlin, Canadian-American priest and radio host
- 1891 - Karl Elmendorff, German conductor
- 1892 - Nell Shipman, Canadian-American actress, screenwriter, and producer
- 1894 - Claude Cahun, French photographer and sculptor
- 1894 - Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu, Turkish poet and songwriter
- 1894 - Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Prime Minister of Finland
- 1895 - Levi Eshkol, Ukrainian-Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel
- 1895 - Vsevolod Merkulov, Russian head of the NKGB
- 1895 - Arthur Schmidt, German officer
- 1896 - Nils Backlund, Swedish water polo player
- 1897 - Erwin von Lahousen, German Abwehr official
- 1897 - Karl Olivecrona, Swedish lawyer and philosopher
- 1897 - Luigi Pavese, Italian actor
- 1898 - Karl Anton, German director, screenwriter and producer
- 1899 - Armand Thirard, French cinematographer
- 1900 - Johan Greter, Dutch equestrian
- 1900 - Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian educator and activist
- 1900 - William Stevenson, American track and fielder
1901–present
- 1901 - Roy Fox, British dance bandleader
- 1902 - Henry Steele Commager, American historian and author
- 1902 - Carlo Gnocchi, Italian priest, educator and writer
- 1902 - Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist
- 1903 - Piet van der Horst, Dutch cyclist
- 1904 - Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor
- 1904 - Denny Shute, American golfer
- 1904 - Bill Tytla, Ukrainian-American animator
- 1905 - Bob McPhail, Scottish footballer
- 1906 - Karl Humenberger, Austrian footballer
- 1908 - Carmen Dillon, English film and production designer
- 1908 - Gotthard Handrick, German fighter pilot and Olympic athlete
- 1908 - Polly Ann Young, American actress
- 1909 - Whit Bissell, American actor
- 1909 - Ken Domon, Japanese photographer
- 1909 - Edward Flynn, American boxer
- 1909 - Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French actor, director and screenwriter
- 1910 - William Higinbotham, American physicist and video game designer
- 1910 - Johnny Mauro, American race car driver
- 1910 - Tyrus Wong, Chinese-American artist
- 1912 - Abdelkader Ben Bouali, French footballer
- 1912 - Alfred Klingler, German field handballer
- 1912 - Minnie Pearl, American entertainer and philanthropist
- 1912 - Luigi Raimondi, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1913 - Klaus Barbie, German SS captain
- 1913 - Larry Itliong, Filipino-American union organizer
- 1913 - Anton Kochinyan, Soviet-Armenian politician
- 1914 - John Berryman, American poet and scholar
- 1915 - Ivan M. Niven, Canadian-American mathematician and academic
- 1916 - Helge Larsson, Swedish canoeist
- 1917 - Carl Forssell, Swedish fencer
- 1917 - Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union
- 1918 - David Ausubel, American psychologist
- 1919 - Beate Uhse-Rotermund, German pilot and entrepreneur
- 1919 - Raoul Remy, French cyclist
- 1920 - Megan Taylor, British figure skater
- 1921 - Michael I of Romania
- 1922 - Gloria Lasso, Spanish singer
- 1923 - Achille Silvestrini, Italian prelate
- 1923 - Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian-American director and producer
- 1923 - Bobby Thomson, Scottish-American baseball player
- 1924 - Billy Barty, American actor
- 1924 - Earl Palmer, American Hall of Fame drummer
- 1925 - Oralia Dominguez, Mexican operatic mezzo-soprano singer
- 1925 - Joseph Michel, Belgian politician
- 1926 - Bo Carpelan, Finnish poet and author
- 1926 - Jimmy Heath, American saxophonist and composer
- 1926 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian-American soprano and actress
- 1927 - Barbara Cook, American singer and actress
- 1927 - Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Uruguay
- 1927 - Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist and author
- 1927 - Lauretta Masiero, Italian actress and singer
- 1928 - Jeanne Cooper, American actress
- 1928 - Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect
- 1928 - Anthony Franciosa, American actor
- 1928 - Adolphe Gesché, Belgian Catholic priest and theologian
- 1928 - Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist, astronomer, and academic
- 1928 - Marion Ross, American actress
- 1928 - Yakov Rylsky, Soviet sabre fencer
- 1929 - Michel Knuysen, Belgian rower
- 1929 - Zdravko Milev, Bulgarian chess player
- 1929 - Claude Rouer, French cyclist
- 1929 - Peter Rühmkorf, German writer
- 1930 - Harold Brodkey, American author and academic
- 1930 - Karoly Honfi, Hungarian chess player
- 1931 - Annie Girardot, French actress and singer
- 1931 - Jimmy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and manager
- 1932 - Vitold Fokin, Ukrainian first deputy prime minister
- 1932 - Jerzy Pawłowski, Polish fencer and double agent
- 1932 - Theodor Pištěk, Czech costume designer
- 1933 - René Brodmann, Swiss footballer
- 1933 - Martti Mansikka, Finnish gymnast
- 1934 - Carlos Sherman, Belarusian–Spanish translator, writer, activist
- 1935 - Rusty Schweickart, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut
- 1936 - Martin Gilbert, English historian, author, and academic
- 1936 - Arnfinn Nesset, Norwegian nurse and convicted serial killer
- 1936 - Masako Nozawa, Japanese actress and singer
- 1937 - Vendramino Bariviera, Italian cyclist
- 1937 - Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, Spanish prelate
- 1937 - Roberto Menescal, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1938 - Bob Webster, American diver
- 1939 - Zelmo Beaty, American basketball player and coach
- 1939 - Sara Dylan, American actress and model
- 1939 - Nikolay Kiselyov, Soviet Nordic combined athlete
- 1939 - Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1939 - Dave Simmonds, British motorcycle racer
- 1939 - Robin Spry, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1940 - Jimmy Herman, Canadian actor
- 1940 - Bob Knight, American basketball player and coach
- 1941 - Lynda Benglis, American sculptor and painter
- 1941 - Helen Reddy, Australian-American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1941 - Gordon Tootoosis, Aboriginal Canadian actor
- 1941 - Anne Tyler, American author and critic
- 1941 - Dave Weill, American discus thrower
- 1942 - Terumasa Hino, Japanese jazz trumpeter
- 1942 - Gloria Katz, American screenwriter and producer
- 1942 - Franklin Loufrani, French President of the Smiley Company
- 1943 - Orso Maria Guerrini, Italian actor
- 1943 - Roy Lynes, English keyboardist and singer
- 1944 - Azizan Abdul Razak, Malaysian politician, 10th Menteri Besar of Kedah
- 1944 - Jon Anderson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1944 - James Carville, American lawyer and political consultant
- 1944 - Donald Ford, Scottish footballer
- 1944 - Fred Housego, Scottish-English taxi driver and game show host
- 1944 - Kati Kovács, Hungarian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1944 - Ren Zhengfei, Chinese businessman
- 1945 - Peter Ledger, Australian-American painter and illustrator
- 1945 - Yuriy Meshkov, Ukrainian politician and Russian separatist
- 1945 - Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Polish lawyer, screenwriter and politician
- 1945 - Francisco Sá, Argentine footballer
- 1945 - Phil Volk, American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer
- 1945 - David S. Ward, American director and screenwriter
- 1945 - Keaton Yamada, Japanese voice actor
- 1946 - Elías Figueroa, Chilean footballer
- 1946 - Peter Lieberson, American composer
- 1947 - Requena Nozal, Spanish artist
- 1947 - Glenn Tipton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1948 - Dave Cowens, American basketball player and coach
- 1948 - Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach
- 1948 - Dan Issel, American basketball player and coach
- 1948 - Sigleif Johansen, Norwegian biathlete
- 1949 - Réjean Houle, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
- 1949 - Walter Hyatt, American singer-songwriter
- 1949 - Brian Kerwin, American actor
- 1949 - Wilfried Louis, Haitian footballer
- 1950 - Anne Alvaro, French actress
- 1950 - Fernando Arêas Rifan, Brazilian bishop
- 1950 - Roger Davies, English footballer
- 1950 - John Matuszak, American footballer
- 1950 - Francisco Oscar Lamolina, Argentine football referee
- 1950 - Chris Norman, English singer-songwriter
- 1951 - Richard Lloyd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1952 - Samir Geagea, Lebanese commander and politician
- 1952 - Wendy Hall, English computer scientist, mathematician, and academic
- 1952 - Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager
- 1952 - Tove Nilsen, Norwegian author
- 1953 - Daniele Bagnoli, Italian volleyball coach
- 1953 - Jasem Yaqoub, Kuwaiti footballer
- 1954 - Mike Eruzione, American ice hockey player and coach
- 1954 - Ed Powers, American founder of Ed Powers Productions
- 1955 - Glynis Barber, South African-English actress
- 1955 - Robin Eubanks, American trombonist and educator
- 1955 - Gale Anne Hurd, American producer
- 1955 - Matthias Jabs, German guitarist and songwriter
- 1955 - Leena Lander, Finnish author
- 1955 - Lito Lapid, Filipino actor
- 1956 - Stephen Leather, British author
- 1957 - Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress
- 1957 - Enrique López Zarza, Mexican footballer
- 1957 - Robbie McIntosh, English guitarist
- 1957 - Piet Wildschut, Dutch footballer
- 1958 - Kornelia Ender, East German swimmer
- 1958 - Kjell Inge Røkke, Norwegian businessman and philanthropist
- 1959 - Óscar Aguirregaray, Uruguayan footballer
- 1959 - Chrissy Amphlett, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1960 - Hong Sang-soo, South Korean director and screenwriter
- 1961 - John Sivebæk, Danish footballer
- 1961 - Chad Smith, American drummer
- 1962 - David Furnish, Canadian filmmaker
- 1962 - Steve Gainer, American cinematographer and director
- 1962 - Steve Hodge, English footballer and manager
- 1962 - John Stollmeyer, American soccer player
- 1963 - John Levén, Swedish bassist
- 1963 - Michael Lynagh, Australian rugby union footballer
- 1963 - Melinda McGraw, American actress
- 1963 - Tracy Nelson, American actress
- 1963 - José Ortiz, Puerto Rican basketball player
- 1964 - Michael Boatman, American actor
- 1964 - Johan de Kock, Dutch footballer
- 1964 - Nicole, German singer
- 1964 - Kevin Michael Richardson, American voice actor and singer
- 1965 - 2 Cold Scorpio, American wrestler
- 1965 - Mathieu Amalric, French actor and director
- 1965 - Valdir Benedito, Brazilian footballer
- 1965 - Claire Colebrook, Australian philosopher, theorist, and academic
- 1965 - Dominique Herr, Swiss footballer
- 1965 - Derrick Rostagno, American tennis player
- 1965 - Rainer Strecker, German actor
- 1966 - Zana Briski, British photographer and filmmaker
- 1966 - Lionel Charbonnier, French footballer
- 1966 - Wendel Clark, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1966 - Perry Saturn, American wrestler
- 1967 - Martin Marinov, Australian canoeist
- 1967 - Taiyō Matsumoto, Japanese manga artist
- 1967 - Gary Sundgren, Swedish footballer
- 1968 - Doris Fitschen, German footballer
- 1968 - Christopher McQuarrie, American filmmaker
- 1968 - Speech, American rapper
- 1969 - Samantha Bee, Canadian-American comedian and television host
- 1969 - Josef Beránek, Czech ice hockey player and coach
- 1969 - Slavko Cicak, Swedish chess Grandmaster
- 1969 - Nika Futterman, American voice actress, comedian and singer
- 1969 - Ibragim Gasanbekov, Azerbaijani footballer
- 1969 - Oleg Salenko, Russian footballer
- 1969 - Alex Webster, American bass player
- 1970 - J. A. Adande, American journalist and academic
- 1970 - Peter Aerts, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist
- 1970 - Adam Goldberg, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1970 - Damir Mršić, Bosnian basketball player
- 1970 - Adam Pascal, American actor and singer
- 1970 - Rafa, Spanish footballer
- 1970 - Ed Robertson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1970 - Daniel Scheinhardt, German footballer
- 1970 - Chely Wright, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1971 - Simon Charlton, English footballer and manager
- 1971 - Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer
- 1971 - Neil Fallon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1971 - Leslie Grossman, American actress
- 1971 - Rosie Ledet, American singer-songwriter and accordion player
- 1971 - Pedro Martínez, Dominican-American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1971 - Midori, Japanese-American violinist and educator
- 1971 - Craig Robinson, American actor and singer
- 1971 - Elif Şafak, French-Turkish journalist, author, and academic
- 1972 - Cristian Dulca, Romanian footballer
- 1972 - Rodolfo Falcón, Cuban swimmer
- 1972 - Maxi Mounds, American nude big-bust model and pornographic actress
- 1972 - Jonathan Torrens, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1972 - Persia White, American actress, singer, and musician
- 1973 - Fırat Aydınus, Turkish football referee
- 1973 - Lamont Bentley, American actor and rapper
- 1973 - Michael Weston, American actor
- 1974 - Lee Byung-kyu, South Korean baseball player
- 1974 - Yoo Yong-sung, South Korean badminton player
- 1975 - Eirik Glambek Bøe, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1975 - Ryan Clement, American football player
- 1975 - Agustín Julio, Colombian footballer
- 1975 - Zadie Smith, English author and academic
- 1975 - Antony Starr, New Zealand actor
- 1976 - Deon Burton, Jamaican footballer
- 1976 - Ahmed Dokhi, Saudi Arabian footballer
- 1976 - Akihisa Ikeda, Japanese manga artist
- 1976 - Steve Jones, Northern Irish footballer
- 1976 - Brett Kirk, Australian footballer and coach
- 1976 - Anton Sikharulidze, Russian pair skater
- 1977 - The Alchemist, American rapper, DJ, and producer
- 1977 - Rodolfo Bodipo, Equatoguinean retired footballer
- 1977 - Mitică Pricop, Romanian sprint canoer
- 1977 - Birgit Prinz, German footballer and psychologist
- 1977 - Rakan Rushaidat, Croatian actor
- 1977 - Kateryna Serebrianska, Ukrainian gymnast
- 1977 - Mihai Tararache, Romanian footballer
- 1977 - Yeho, Israeli singer and actor
- 1978 - Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer
- 1978 - Zachary Knighton, American actor
- 1978 - Bobby Madden, Scottish football referee
- 1978 - Robert Mambo Mumba, Kenyan footballer
- 1978 - Markus Pöyhönen, Finnish sprinter
- 1978 - An Yong-hak, North Korean footballer
- 1979 - Bat for Lashes, English singer
- 1979 - Rob Hulse, English footballer
- 1979 - Mariana Klaveno, American actress
- 1979 - João Lucas, Portuguese footballer
- 1979 - Rosa Mendes, Canadian-American wrestler and model
- 1980 - Mehcad Brooks, American model and actor
- 1980 - Félicien Singbo, Beninois footballer
- 1981 - Hiroshi Aoyama, Japanese motorcycle racer
- 1981 - Josh Henderson, American actor and singer
- 1981 - Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer
- 1982 - Victoria Francés, Spanish illustrator
- 1982 - Devin Green, American basketball player
- 1982 - Guido Grünheid, German basketball player
- 1982 - Camilla Jensen, Danish curler
- 1982 - Michael Sweetney, American basketball player
- 1982 - Mickaël Tavares, Senegalese footballer
- 1983 - Hotaru Akane, Japanese actress and activist
- 1983 - Stanislav Bohush, Ukrainian footballer
- 1983 - Daniele Mannini, Italian footballer
- 1983 - Princess Yōko of Mikasa
- 1983 - Han Yeo-reum, South Korean actress
- 1984 - Nicolas Besch, French ice hockey player
- 1984 - Ticia Gara, Hungarian chess player
- 1984 - Sara Lumholdt, Swedish singer and dancer
- 1984 - Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1984 - Iván Ramis, Spanish footballer
- 1984 - Karolina Šprem, Croatian tennis player
- 1985 - Ciara, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
- 1985 - Óscar Granados, Costa Rican footballer
- 1985 - Kara Lynn Joyce, American swimmer
- 1985 - Daniele Padelli, Italian footballer
- 1986 - Tweety Carter, American basketball player
- 1986 - Roger Espinoza, Honduran footballer
- 1986 - Eddie Gaven, American soccer player
- 1986 - Kristian Sarkies, Australian footballer
- 1986 - Ekaterina Shumilova, Russian biathlete
- 1987 - Bill Amis, American basketball player
- 1987 - Darron Gibson, Irish footballer
- 1987 - Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast
- 1988 - Robson Conceição, Brazilian boxer
- 1988 - Lewis McGugan, English professional footballer
- 1988 - Chandler Parsons, American basketball player
- 1988 - Kaz Patafta, Australian footballer
- 1988 - Karim Yoda, French footballer
- 1989 - Filip Grgić, Croatian taekwondo practitioner
- 1989 - Sten Grytebust, Norwegian footballer
- 1989 - David Hala, Australian rugby league player
- 1989 - Ivan Marconi, Italian footballer
- 1989 - Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress
- 1990 - Mattia Cattaneo, Italian cyclist
- 1990 - Sara Chafak, Finnish beauty pageant winner
- 1990 - Asha Philip, British athlete
- 1990 - Milena Rašić, Serbian volleyball player
- 1990 - Dzina Sazanavets, Belarusian weightlifter
- 1991 - Davide Faraoni, Italian footballer
- 1991 - Isabella Shinikova, Bulgarian tennis player
- 1992 - Clarisse Agbegnenou, French judoka
- 1992 - Davide Formolo, Italian cyclist
- 1992 - Sergey Ridzik, Russian freestyle skier
- 1993 - Isaiah Austin, American basketball player
- 1993 - Iván Garcia, Mexican diver
- 1993 - William Howard, French basketball player
- 1993 - Rachel Matthews, American actress
- 1994 - Richard Jouve, French cross-country skier
- 1994 - Jefferson Lerma, Colombian footballer
- 1994 - Matteo Lodo, Italian rower
- 1994 - Gor Minasyan, Armenian weightlifter
- 1994 - Ray Robson, American chess Grandmaster
- 1995 - Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress
- 1995 - Jock Landale, Australian basketball player
- 1995 - Patrick McCaw, American basketball player
- 1996 - PJ Dozier, American basketball player
- 1997 - Federico Chiesa, Italian footballer
- 1998 - Juan Soto, Dominican baseball player
- 1998 - Lee Know, South Korean singer
- 1999 - Romeo Langford, American basketball player
- 2000 - Dominik Szoboszlai, Hungarian footballer
- 2000 - Vincent Zhou, American figure skater
- 2001 - Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant
Deaths
Pre-1600
- 625 - Pope Boniface V
- 912 - Rudolph I, king of Burgundy
- 1047 - Magnus the Good, Norwegian king
- 1053 - Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu
- 1154 - Stephen, King of England
- 1180 - John of Salisbury, French bishop
- 1200 - Conrad of Wittelsbach, German cardinal
- 1230 - Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier
- 1292 - Robert Burnell, Lord Chancellor of England
- 1349 - James III of Majorca
- 1359 - Beatrice of Castile, queen consort of Portugal
- 1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer, English philosopher, poet, and author
- 1415 - Charles I of Albret
- 1415 - Philip II, Count of Nevers
- 1415 - Frederick I, Count of Vaudémont
- 1415 - Jean I, Duke of Alençon
- 1415 - Anthony, Duke of Brabant
- 1415 - Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk, English soldier
- 1415 - Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, English politician
- 1415 - Dafydd Gam, Welsh nobleman
- 1478 - Catherine of Bosnia
- 1492 - Thaddeus McCarthy, Irish bishop
- 1495 - John II of Portugal
- 1514 - William Elphinstone, Scottish bishop and academic, founded University of Aberdeen
- 1557 - William Cavendish, English courtier and civil servant
1601–1900
- 1647 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician
- 1651 - Saint Job of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian saint
- 1683 - William Scroggs, English judge and politician, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
- 1733 - Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher
- 1757 - Antoine Augustin Calmet, French monk and theologian
- 1760 - George II of Great Britain
- 1806 - Henry Knox, American general and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of War
- 1826 - Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist
- 1833 - Abbas Mirza, Persian prince
- 1852 - John C. Clark, American lawyer and politician
- 1889 - Émile Augier, French playwright
- 1895 - Charles Hallé, German-English pianist and conductor
1901–present
- 1902 - Frank Norris, American journalist and novelist
- 1910 - Willie Anderson, Scottish-American golfer
- 1916 - William Merritt Chase, American painter and educator
- 1919 - William Kidston, Scottish-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Queensland
- 1920 - Alexander of Greece
- 1920 - Terence MacSwiney, Irish playwright, politician, Lord Mayor of Cork died on hunger strike
- 1920 - Joe Murphy,, died on hunger strike during the 1920 Cork hunger strike
- 1921 - Bat Masterson, American lawman, buffalo hunter, and sport writer
- 1924 - Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, poet, and activist
- 1938 - Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet and author
- 1940 - Thomas Waddell, Irish-Australian politician, 15th Premier of New South Wales
- 1941 - Franz von Werra, Swiss-German captain and pilot
- 1945 - Robert Ley, German politician
- 1949 - Mary Acworth Orr Evershed, English astronomer and Dante scholar
- 1953 - Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist and academic
- 1954 - Purshottam Narayan Gadgil, Indian jeweller and namesake of P. N. Gadgil Jewellers
- 1955 - Sadako Sasaki, Japanese girl
- 1956 - Risto Ryti, Finnish lawyer, politician and Governor of the Bank of Finland; 5th President of Finland
- 1957 - Albert Anastasia, Italian-American mob boss
- 1957 - Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, English-Irish author, poet, and playwright
- 1960 - Harry Ferguson, Irish-English engineer, founded the Ferguson Company
- 1963 - Roger Désormière, French conductor and composer
- 1967 - Margaret Ayer Barnes, American author and playwright
- 1969 - Ellinor Aiki, Estonian painter
- 1970 - Ülo Sooster, Estonian painter
- 1971 - Mikhail Yangel, Soviet missile designer
- 1972 - Johnny Mantz, American race car driver
- 1973 - Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner
- 1973 - Cleo Moore, American actress
- 1973 - Robert Scholl, German accountant and politician
- 1975 - Vladimir Herzog, Brazilian journalist and activist
- 1976 - Raymond Queneau, French poet and author
- 1977 - Félix Gouin, French politician
- 1979 - Gerald Templer, English field marshal and politician, British High Commissioner in Malaya
- 1980 - Virgil Fox, American organist and educator
- 1980 - Víctor Galíndez, Argentine boxer
- 1980 - Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter
- 1982 - Bill Eckersley, English footballer
- 1982 - Arvid Wallman, Swedish diver
- 1985 - Gary Holton, English singer-songwriter
- 1986 - Forrest Tucker, American actor
- 1989 - Mary McCarthy, American novelist and critic
- 1990 - Alberto da Costa Pereira, Portuguese footballer
- 1991 - Bill Graham, German-American concert promoter
- 1992 - Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1992 - Richard Pousette-Dart, American painter and educator
- 1993 - Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1993 - Vincent Price, American actor
- 1994 - Kara Hultgreen, American lieutenant and pilot
- 1994 - Mildred Natwick, American actress
- 1995 - Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress
- 1995 - Bobby Riggs, American tennis player
- 1999 - Leonard Boyle, Irish and Canadian palaeographer and medievalist
- 1999 - Payne Stewart, American golfer
- 2000 - Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese commander
- 2002 - Richard Harris, Irish actor and singer
- 2002 - René Thom, French mathematician and biologist
- 2002 - Paul Wellstone, American academic and politician
- 2003 - Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian spiritual leader and philosopher
- 2003 - Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish skier and technician
- 2004 - John Peel, English radio host and producer
- 2010 - Lisa Blount, American actress
- 2010 - Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter
- 2010 - Vesna Parun, Croatian poet and author
- 2012 - Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author
- 2012 - Jaspal Bhatti, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 2012 - John Connelly, English footballer
- 2012 - Emanuel Steward, American boxer, trainer, and sportscaster
- 2013 - Ron Ackland, New Zealand rugby player and coach
- 2013 - Arthur Danto, American philosopher and critic
- 2013 - Nicholas Hunt, Welsh-English admiral
- 2013 - Hal Needham, American actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter
- 2013 - Paul Reichmann, Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Olympia and York
- 2013 - Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach
- 2013 - Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian
- 2014 - Jack Bruce, Scottish singer-songwriter and bass player
- 2014 - Carlos Morales Troncoso, Dominican lawyer and politician, 34th Vice President of the Dominican Republic
- 2015 - David Cesarani, English historian and author
- 2015 - Lisa Jardine, English historian, author, and academic
- 2015 - Cecil Lolo, South African footballer
- 2015 - Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach
- 2016 - Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian football player and manager
- 2016 - Bob Hoover, USAF, Test, and Airshow pilot
- 2018 - Thomas Keating, American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer
- 2019 - Dilip Parikh, Indian politician
- 2024 - Phil Lesh, American bassist
- 2024 - Kim Soo-mi, South Korean actress
- 2025 - Satish Shah, Indian actor and comedian
- 2025 - Rolf Dupuy, anarchist and historian of the anarchist movement in France and Spain
Holidays and observances