March 12 History

March 12 History

March 12 is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 294 days remain until the end of the year

Our aim is to enhance the knowledge of human beings. We will have 7 years of history on this side. The history of each particular day by date is what happened on a date. The date of death of any person and special person will be reported. If anyone wants to gain this knowledge then please visit our web site. The limit of your knowledge will increase greatly.

আমাদের উদ্দেশ্য হলো মানুয়ের জ্ঞানের পরিধি বাড়ানো। আমাদের এই সাইডে থাকবে ১ বছরের সমস্থ ঘটে যাওয়া ইতিহাস। তারিখ অনুসারে প্রতিটি বিশেষ দিনের  ইতিহাস কোন তারিখে কি ঘটেছিল। কোন ব্যাক্তির জন্য এবং বিশেষ ব্যাক্তির মৃত্যর তারিখ জানানো হবে। যদি কোন মানুষ এই জ্ঞান অর্জন করতে চায় তাহলে আমাদের এই ওয়েবসাইডটি ভিজিট করুন । আপনার জ্ঞানের সীমা অনেক বৃদ্ধি পাবে। 

Events
538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius
1550 – Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro de Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche at the Battle of Penco during the Arauco War in present-day Chile.
1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
1672 – Robert Holmes attacks a Dutch trade convoy, the Smyrna fleet, beginning the Rampjaar.
1689 – The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
1811 – Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delayed the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
1864 – American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as a US Navy fleet of 13 Ironclads and 7 Gunboats and other support ships enter the Red River.
1881 – Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
1885 – Tonkin Campaign: France captures the citadel of Bắc Ninh.
1894 – Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph A. Biedenharn.
1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
1913 – Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remains temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.)
1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
1920 – The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
1921 – İstiklâl Marşı is adopted in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
1922 – Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan form the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.
1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
1930 – Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".
1934 – Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
1938 – Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
1940 – Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated.
1942 – World War II: Pacific War: The Battle of Java ends with an ABDACOM surrender to the Japanese Empire in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.
1943 – Italian occupation of Greece: The Italian occupying forces abandon the town of Karditsa to the partisans. On the same day, an Italian motorized column razes the village of Tsaritsani, burning 360 of its 600 houses and shooting 40 civilians.
1947 – Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
1950 – The Llandow air disaster occurs near Sigingstone, Wales, in which 80 people die when their aircraft crashed, making it the world's deadliest air disaster at the time.
1961 – First winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger.
1967 – Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the MPRS inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.
1968 – Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
1971 – The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Suleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
1992 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 – Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
1993 – North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
1994 – The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
2003 – WHO officially release global warning on pandemic SARS disease.
2004 – The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: The first such impeachment in the nation's history.
2009 – Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street's history.
2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
2014 – A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.
2019 – In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.[1]

Births
1096 – Canute Lavard, Danish prince (d. 1131)
1270 – Charles, Count of Valois (d. 1325)
1386 – Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shōgun (d. 1428)
1475 – Luca Gaurico, Italian astrologer (d. 1558)
1476 – Anna Jagiellon, Duchess of Pomerania, Polish princess (d. 1503)
1479 – Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (d. 1516)
1500 – Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1558)
1501 – Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Italian scientist (d. 1577)
1515 – Caspar Othmayr, German Lutheran pastor and composer (d. 1553)
1573 – Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (d. 1616)
1607 – Paul Gerhardt, German poet and composer (d. 1676)
1613 – André Le Nôtre, French gardener and architect (d. 1700)
1626 – John Aubrey, English historian and philosopher (d. 1697)
1637 – Anne Hyde, Duchess of York and Albany (d. 1671)
1647 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727)
1672 – Richard Steele, Irish-Welsh journalist and politician (d. 1729)
1685 – George Berkeley, Irish bishop and philosopher (d. 1753)
1701 – Johann Friedrich Cotta, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1779)
1710 – Thomas Arne, English composer (d. 1778)
1735 – François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, French politician and diplomat (d. 1821)
1753 – Jean Denis, French politician, lawyer, jurist, journalist, and historian (d. 1827)
1756 – Avram Mrazović, Serbian writer, translator, pedagogue and Senator (d. 1826)
1766 – Claudius Buchanan, Scottish theologian (d. 1815)
1766 – Francisco Javier de Cienfuegos y Jovellanos, Spanish bishop and cardinal (d. 1847)
1774 – Johann Caspar Horner, Swiss physicist, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1834)
1781 – Frederica of Baden (d. 1826)
1784 – William Buckland, English geologist and paleontologist; Dean of Westminster (d. 1856)
1785 – Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen, Dutch and Prussian lawyer (d. 1864)
1795 – William Lyon Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 1st Mayor of Toronto (d. 1861)
1795 – George Tyler Wood, American military officer and politician (d. 1858)
1806 – Jane Pierce, American wife of Franklin Pierce, 15th First Lady of the United States (d. 1863)
1807 – James Abbott, Indian Army officer (d. 1896)
1807 – Albert Mackey, American medical doctor and author (d. 1881)
1812 – Ignacio Comonfort, Mexican politician and soldier (d. 1863)
1815 – Louis-Jules Trochu, French military leader and politician (d. 1896)
1821 – John Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1893)
1821 – Medo Pucić, Croatian writer and politician (d. 1882)
1823 – Katsu Kaishū, Japanese statesman (d. 1899)
1824 – Gustav Kirchhoff, Russian-German physicist and academic (d. 1887)
1831 – Joseph Gérard, French Roman Catholic priest (d. 1914)
1832 – Charles Boycott, English farmer and agent (d. 1897)
1832 – Jean Alfred Fournier, French dermatologist (d. 1914)
1834 – Hilary A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy (d. 1919)
1835 – Gregorio Maria Aguirre y Garcia, Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain
1835 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1909)
1837 – Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (d. 1911)
1838 – William Henry Perkin, English chemist and academic (d. 1907)
1843 – Gabriel Tarde, French sociologist and criminologist (d. 1904)
1845 – William Douglas-Hamilton, Scottish nobleman (d. 1895)
1848 – Cyrill Kistler, German composer (d. 1907)
1851 – Charles Chamberland, French microbiologist (d. 1908)
1852 – Richard Altmann, German pathologist and histologist (d. 1900)
1857 – William V. Ranous, American actor and director (d. 1915)
1857 – Andreas Voss, German botanist and horticulturist (d. 1924)
1858 – Adolph Ochs, American publisher (d. 1935)
1859 – Ernesto Cesàro, Italian mathematician (d. 1906)
1860 – Salvatore Di Giacomo, Italian poet, songwriter, playwright and fascist intellectual (d. 1934)
1860 – Eric Stenbock, Estonian poet and author (d. 1895)
1863 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright (d. 1938)
1863 – Carl Holsøe, Danish artist (d. 1935)
1863 – Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist and chemist (d. 1945)
1864 – W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (d. 1922)
1864 – Alice Tegnér, Swedish organist and composer (d. 1943)
1867 – Raul Brandão, Portuguese writer and journalist (d. 1930)
1869 – George Forbes, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1947)
1874 – Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer (d. 1949)
1877 – Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (d. 1946)
1878 – Musa Ćazim Ćatić, Bosnian poet (d. 1915)
1878 – Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint (d. 1903)
1880 – Henry Drysdale Dakin, English-American chemist and academic (d. 1952)
1881 – Gunnar Nordström, Finnish physicist and academic (d. 1923)
1881 – Pavel Janák, Czech architect (d. 1956)
1881 – Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland (d. 1966)
1882 – Erwin Baker, American motorcycle and automobile racing driver (d. 1960)
1882 – Carlos Blanco Galindo, Bolivian politician (d. 1943)
1883 – Max Braun, American tug of war medalist (d. 1967)
1883 – Sándor Jávorka, Hungarian botanist (d. 1961)
1885 – Mario Sironi, Italian artist (d. 1961)
1886 – Henri Gagnebin, Swiss composer (d. 1977)
1888 – Walter Hermann Bucher, German-American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1965)
1888 – Hans Knappertsbusch, German conductor (d. 1965)
1888 – Florence Lee, American actress (d. 1962)
1888 – Erich Rothacker, German philosopher (d. 1965)
1889 – Idris of Libya (d. 1983)
1890 – Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1950)
1890 – Evert Taube, Swedish singer-songwriter and lute player (d. 1976))
1893 – Jean Brochard, French actor (d. 1972)
1894 – Yoshiki Hayama, Japanese author (d. 1945)
1895 – William C. Lee, American general (d. 1948)
1896 – Jesse Fuller, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1976)
1898 – Tian Han, Chinese playwright (d. 1968)
1898 – Luitpold Steidle, German army officer and politician (d. 1984)
1899 – Ramón Muttis, Argentine footballer (d. 1955)
1900 – Rinus van den Berge, Dutch athlete (d. 1972)
1900 – Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia (d. 1975)
1903 – Max Gordon, Village Vanguard jazz club founder (d. 1989)
1904 – Lyudmila Keldysh, Russian mathematician (d. 1976)
1904 – Bodo Uhse, German writer, journalist and political activist (d. 1963)
1905 – Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (d. 1982)
1907 – Ricardo Faccio, Uruguayan-Italian footballer (d. 1970)
1907 – Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer and academic (d. 2007)
1908 – Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
1908 – David Marshall, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Singapore (d. 1995)
1909 – Petras Cvirka, Lithuanian author (d. 1947)
1910 – Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 68th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1980)
1910 – László Lékai, Archbishop of Esztergom and Cardinal (d. 1986)
1911 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican academic and politician, 49th President of Mexico (d. 1979)
1911 – Manyi Kiss, Hungarian actress (d. 1971)
1911 – William Patrick Stuart-Houston, nephew of Adolf Hitler (d. 1987)
1912 – Ghazi of Iraq, King of The Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq (d. 1939)
1912 – César Benavides, Chilean Army general (d. 2011)
1912 – Irving Layton, Romanian-Canadian poet and academic (d. 2006)
1913 – Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
1913 – Ace Gruenig, American basketball player (d. 1958)
1913 – Agathe von Trapp, Hungarian-American singer and author (d. 2010)
1914 – Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon (d. 1958)
1914 – Frank Soo, English footballer and manager (d. 1991)
1915 – Saifuddin Azizi, first chairman of Xinjiang of the People's Republic of China (d. 2003)
1915 – Alberto Burri, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1995)
1915 – Bruno Knežević, Croatian footballer (d. 1982)
1915 – Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist (d. 1991)
1915 – László Fejes Tóth, Hungarian mathematician (d. 2005)
1917 – Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records (d. 1969)
1917 – Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1917 – Googie Withers, Indian-Australian actress (d. 2011)
1918 – Pádraig Faulkner, Irish Fianna Fáil politician (d. 2012)
1918 – Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic (d. 1989)
1920 – Roland Fraïssé, French mathematical logician (d. 2008)
1921 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (d. 2001)
1921 – Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
1922 – Jack Kerouac, American author and poet (d. 1969)
1922 – Lane Kirkland, American sailor and union leader (d. 1999)
1923 – Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (d. 2013)
1923 – Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (d. 2005)
1923 – Wally Schirra, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2007)
1923 – Mae Young, American wrestler (d. 2014)
1924 – Valerio Bacigalupo, Italian goalkeeper (d. 1949)
1925 – Louison Bobet, French cyclist (d. 1983)
1925 – Georges Delerue, French pianist and composer (d. 1992)
1925 – Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1925 – Harry Harrison, American author and illustrator (d. 2012)
1926 – George Ariyoshi, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Hawaii
1926 – Arthur A. Hartman, American career diplomat (d. 2015)
1926 – John Clellon Holmes, American author and professor (d. 1988)
1926 – David Nadien, American violinist (d. 2014)
1927 – Raúl Alfonsín, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 46th President of Argentina (d. 2009)
1927 – Emmett Leith, professor of electrical engineering and co-inventor of three-dimensional holography (d. 2005)
1927 – Gajo Petrović, Yugoslavian theorist (d. 1993)
1927 – Sudharmono, 5th Vice President of Indonesia (d. 2006)
1928 – Edward Albee, American director and playwright (d. 2016)
1928 – Werner Krolikowski, former East German political official
1928 – Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2007)
1930 – Antony Acland, British former diplomat and Provost of Eton College
1930 – Win Tin, Burmese journalist and politician, co-founded the National League for Democracy (d. 2014)
1931 – Józef Tischner, Polish priest and philosopher (d. 2000)
1932 – Bob Houbregs, Canadian basketball player (d. 2014)
1932 – Andrew Young, American pastor and politician, 14th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1933 – Myrna Fahey, American actress (d. 1973)
1933 – Barbara Feldon, American actress
1933 – Niède Guidon, Brazilian archeologist
1934 – Francisco J. Ayala, Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher
1935 – Valentyna Shevchenko, Ukrainian politician
1936 – Virginia Hamilton, American children's books author (d. 2002)
1936 – Michał Heller, Polish professor of philosophy
1936 – Eddie Sutton, American basketball player and coach
1937 – Zoltán Horvath, Hungarian sabre fencer
1937 – Zurab Sotkilava, Georgian operatic tenor (d. 2017)
1938 – Vladimir Msryan, Armenian actor, (d. 2010)
1938 – Johnny Rutherford, American race car driver and sportscaster
1938 – Juan Horacio Suárez, Argentine bishop
1939 – Jude Milhon, American hacker and author (d. 2003)
1940 – Al Jarreau, American singer (d. 2017)
1940 – Grigori Gorin, Soviet/Russian playwright (d. 2000)
1941 – Josip Skoblar, former Croatian footballer
1943 – Stanislav Galić, Bosnian soldier and commander
1943 – Ratko Mladić, Serbian general
1944 – Erwin Mueller, former American basketball player (d. 2018)
1946 – Dean Cundey, American cinematographer and film director
1946 – Ludo Martens, Belgian Communist political activist (d. 2011)
1946 – Liza Minnelli, American actress, singer and dancer
1946 – Frank Welker, American voice actor and singer
1947 – Peter Harry Carstensen, German educator and politician
1947 – Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland-Swedish politician
1947 – David Rigert, Soviet Olympic weightlifter
1947 – Mitt Romney, American businessman and politician, 70th Governor of Massachusetts
1948 – Virginia Bottomley, Scottish social worker and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
1948 – Sandra Brown, American author
1948 – Kent Conrad, American politician
1948 – James Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 – Yuri Balashov, Russian chess grandmaster
1949 – Rob Cohen, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1950 – Javier Clemente, Spanish footballer and manager
1952 – Boris Anatolyevich Gavrilov, Russian football player and manager
1952 – Julius Carry, American actor (d. 2008)
1952 – André Comte-Sponville, French philosopher
1952 – Yasuhiko Okudera, former Japanese footballer
1953 – Ron Jeremy, American pornographic actor
1953 – Pavel Pinigin, former Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion
1954 – Inese Galante, Latvian soprano
1954 – Anish Kapoor, Indian-English sculptor
1955 – Wang Yang, Chinese politician
1956 – Ove Aunli, former Norwegian cross-country skier
1956 – Stanisław Bobak, Polish ski jumper (d. 2010)
1956 – Jost Gippert, German linguist, Caucasiologist and author
1956 – Steve Harris, English bass player and songwriter
1956 – László Kiss, Hungarian football player and coach
1956 – Lesley Manville, English actress
1956 – Dale Murphy, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
1956 – Pim Verbeek, Dutch football manager
1957 – Patrick Battiston, French footballer and coach
1957 – Marlon Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer
1957 – Andrey Lopatov, Soviet basketball player
1958 – Phil Anderson, English-Australian cyclist
1959 – Milorad Dodik, Bosnian Serb politician and president of Republika Srpska
1959 – Kenji Fukaya, Japanese mathematician
1959 – Luenell, American comedian and actress
1959 – Hermann Parzinger, German historian
1959 – Michael Walter, German luger (d. 2016)
1960 – Jason Beghe, American actor
1960 – Minoru Niihara, Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player
1960 – Courtney B. Vance, American actor and painter
1961 – Titus Welliver, American actor
1962 – Julia Campbell, American actress
1962 – Andreas Köpke, former German footballer
1962 – Chris Sanders, American illustrator and voice actor
1962 – Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player and minister
1963 – John Andretti, American race car driver
1963 – Candy Costie, American swimmer
1963 – Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner and coach
1963 – Reiner Gies, German boxer
1963 – Ian Holloway, English footballer and manager
1963 – Farahnaz Pahlavi, eldest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
1963 – Paul Way, English golfer
1964 – Dieter Eckstein, retired German footballer
1964 – Umirzak Shukeyev, Kazakh chairman of Samruk-Kazyna
1965 – Rolands Bulders, Latvian footballer
1965 – Steve Finley, American baseball player
1965 – Ivari Padar, former Minister of Finance and Minister of Agriculture of the Estonian Social Democratic Party
1965 – Liza Umarova, Chechen singer and actress
1966 – David Daniels, American countertenor
1966 – Suleyman Kerimov, Russian businessman, investor, philanthropist and politician
1966 – Grant Long, American basketball player and sportscaster
1967 – Jenny Erpenbeck, German writer and opera director
1967 – Julio Dely Valdés, Panamanian footballer and manager
1968 – Dylan Carlson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968 – Tammy Duckworth, Thai-American colonel, pilot, and politician
1968 – Aaron Eckhart, American actor and producer
1968 – Jason Lively, American actor
1969 – Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969 – Aleksandr Shmarko, Russian footballer
1969 – Jake Tapper, American journalist and author
1970 – Karen Bradley, British politician
1970 – Dave Eggers, American author and screenwriter
1970 – Mathias Gronberg, Swedish golfer
1970 – Roy Khan, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1970 – Rex Walters, American basketball player and coach
1971 – Isaiah Rider, American basketball player and rapper
1971 – Ogün Sanlısoy, Turkish rock musician
1971 – Dragutin Topić, Serbian high jumper
1972 – Doron Sheffer, Israeli basketball player
1974 – María Adánez, Spanish actress
1974 – Charles Akonnor, former Ghanaian footballer
1974 – Walid Badir, former Israeli footballer
1974 – Matt Barela, American wrestler and actor
1974 – Scarlet Ortiz, Venezuelan actress
1974 – Lisa Werlinder, Swedish actress and jazz musician/singer
1975 – Nicolae Grigore, former Romanian footballer
1975 – Edgaras Jankauskas, former Lithuanian footballer
1975 – Srđan Pecelj, Bosnian footballer
1976 – Deron Quint, American ice hockey defenseman
1976 – Zhao Wei, Chinese actress, film director, producer and pop singer
1977 – Michelle Burgher, track and field athlete
1977 – Ramiro Corrales, American soccer player
1977 – Amdy Faye, former Senegalese footballer
1977 – Brent Johnson, American ice hockey player
1978 – Casey Mears, American race car driver
1978 – Marco Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
1978 – Claudio Sanchez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978 – Arina Tanemura, Japanese author and illustrator
1979 – Rhys Coiro, American actor
1979 – Pete Doherty, English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer, and artist
1979 – Jamie Dwyer, Australian field hockey player and coach
1979 – Gerard López, former Spanish footballer
1979 – Mike Mago, Dutch DJ, music producer and record label owner
1979 – Ben Sandford, New Zealand skeleton racer
1979 – Tim Wieskötter, German sprint canoer
1979 – Edwin Villafuerte, Ecuadorian goalkeeper
1979 – Liu Xuan, Chinese gymnast
1980 – Césinha, Brazilian footballer
1980 – Becky Holliday, American pole vaulter
1980 – Jens Mouris, Dutch cyclist
1980 – Douglas Murray, Swedish ice hockey player
1981 – Kenta Kobayashi, Japanese wrestler and kick-boxer
1981 – Chiwa Saitō, Japanese voice actress
1981 – Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenian tennis player
1981 – Holly Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1982 – Lili Bordán, Hungarian-American actress
1982 – Samm Levine, American actor and comedian
1982 – Ilya Nikulin, Russian ice hockey player
1982 – Hisato Satō, Japanese footballer
1982 – Yūto Satō, Japanese footballer
1982 – Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer
1983 – Atif Aslam, Pakistani singer and actor
1984 – Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer
1984 – Jaimie Alexander, American actress
1985 – Macarena Aguilar, Spanish handballer
1985 – Marco Bonanomi, Italian racing driver
1985 – Aleksandr Bukharov, Russian footballer
1985 – Choi Cheol-han, South Korean Go player
1985 – Ed Clancy, English track and road cyclist
1985 – Andriy Tovt, Ukrainian footballer
1986 – Martynas Andriuškevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
1986 – Campbell Best, Cook Islands footballer
1986 – Oleh Dopilka, Ukrainian footballer
1986 – Danny Jones, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1986 – Ben Offereins, Australian runner
1986 – František Rajtoral, Czech footballer (d. 2017)
1987 – Manuele Boaro, Italian cyclist
1987 – Jessica Hardy, American swimmer
1987 – Maxwell Holt, American volleyball player
1987 – Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player
1987 – Chris Seitz, American soccer player
1987 – Vadim Shipachyov, Russian ice hockey player
1987 – Pablo Velázquez, Paraguayan footballer
1988 – Sebastian Brendel, German canoe racer
1988 – Kostas Mitroglou, Greek footballer
1988 – Cristian Chagas Tarouco, Brazilian footballer
1989 – Jordan Adéoti, French footballer
1989 – Vytautas Černiauskas, Lithuanian footballer
1989 – Tyler Clary, former American swimmer
1989 – Richard Eckersley, English footballer
1989 – Nathan Haas, Australian cyclist
1989 – Chen Jianghua, Chinese basketball player
1989 – Siim Luts, Estonian footballer
1990 – Lawrence Clarke, English hurdler
1990 – Alexander Kröckel, German skeleton racer
1990 – Irakli Kvekveskiri, Georgian footballer
1990 – Dawid Kubacki, Polish ski jumper
1990 – Matias Myttynen, Finnish ice hockey player
1990 – Ilija Nestorovski, Macedonian footballer
1990 – Milena Raičević, Montenegrin handballer
1990 – Mikko Sumusalo, Finnish footballer
1991 – Felix Kroos, German footballer
1991 – Niclas Heimann, German footballer
1991 – Hanna Pysmenska, Ukrainian diver
1991 – Leandro Fernandez, Argentine footballer
1992 – Daniele Baselli, Italian footballer
1992 – Jordan Ferri, French footballer
1992 – Ciara Mageean, Irish middle-distance runner
1992 – Jiří Skalák, Czech footballer
1993 – Shehu Abdullahi, Nigerian footballer
1993 – Amjad Attwan, Iraqi footballer
1993 – Alex Bellemare, Canadian skier
1993 – Anton Shramchenko, Belarusian footballer
1994 – Jerami Grant, American basketball player
1994 – Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist
1994 – Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
1996 – Sehrou Guirassy, French footballer
1996 – Karim Hafez, Egyptian footballer
1996 – Robert Murić, Croatian footballer
1997 – Dean Henderson, English footballer
1997 – Allan Saint-Maximin, French footballer
1997 – Felipe Vizeu, Brazilian footballer
1998 – Alina Müller, Swiss ice hockey player
1998 – Daniel Samohin, Israeli figure skater
1998 – Elizaveta Ukolova, Czech figure skater
1999 – Sakura Oda, Japanese pop singer
2003 – Malina Weissman, American child actress and model
Deaths
417 – Innocent I, pope of the Catholic Church
604 – Gregory I, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 540)
951 – Ælfheah the Bald, bishop of Winchester
969 – Mu Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty (b. 931)
1022 – Symeon the New Theologian, Byzantine monk (b. 949)
1289 – Demetrius II, king of Georgia (b. 1259)
1316 – Stefan Dragutin, king of Serbia (b. 1253)
1374 – Go-Kōgon, Japanese emperor (b. 1338)
1496 – Johann Heynlin, German humanist scholar (b. c. 1425)
1507 – Cesare Borgia, Italian cardinal (b. 1475)
1539 – Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (b.1477)
1608 – Kōriki Kiyonaga, Japanese daimyō (b. 1530)
1628 – John Bull, English organist and composer (b. 1562)
1648 – Tirso de Molina, Spanish monk and poet (b. 1571)
1681 – Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch painter (b. 1635)
1699 – Peder Griffenfeld, Danish politician (b. 1635)
1703 – Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford, English jurist and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (b. 1627)
1731 – Ernest August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1660)
1790 – András Hadik, Hungarian field marshal (b. 1710)
1820 – Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish explorer and politician (b. 1764)
1832 – Friedrich Kuhlau, German-Danish pianist and composer (b. 1786)
1858 – William James Blacklock, English-Scottish painter (b. 1816)
1872 – Zeng Guofan, Chinese general and politician, Viceroy of Liangjiang (b. 1811)
1894 – Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840)
1898 – Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
1909 – Joseph Petrosino, American police officer (b. 1860)
1914 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman (b. 1846)
1916 – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
1925 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
1929 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
1929 – William Turner Dannat, American painter (b. 1853)
1930 – William George Barker, Canadian colonel and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1894)
1930 – Alois Jirásek, Czech author and playwright (b. 1851)
1935 – Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
1937 – Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1858)
1937 – Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1844)
1942 – Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH (b. 1861)
1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1943 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
1945 – Friedrich Fromm, German general (b. 1888)
1946 – Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
1947 – Winston Churchill, American author and playwright (b. 1871)
1949 – Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
1954 – Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)
1955 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1920)
1955 – Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (b. 1892)
1956 – Bolesław Bierut, Polish Communist leader (b. 1892)
1957 – Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877)
1960 – Kshitimohan Sen, Indian historian, author, and academic (b. 1880)
1963 – Arthur Grimsdell, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1894)
1964 – Abbās al-Aqqād, Egyptian journalist, poet and literary critic (b. 1889)
1971 – Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)
1973 – Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
1974 – George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (b. 1904)
1979 – Nader Jahanbani, Iranian general and pilot (b. 1928)
1984 – Arnold Ridley, English actor and playwright (b. 1896)
1985 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899)
1987 – Woody Hayes, American football player and coach (b. 1913)
1989 – Maurice Evans, English-American actor (b. 1901)
1989 – Jakob Gimpel, Polish concert pianist and educator (b. 1906)
1991 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
1991 – William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and author (b. 1900)
1992 – Hans G. Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1921)
1992 – Lucy M. Lewis, American potter (b. 1890)
1998 – Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (b. 1893)
1999 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1916)
2000 – Aleksandar Nikolić, Yugoslav basketball coach (b. 1924)
2001 – Morton Downey Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (b. 1933)
2001 – Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927)
2001 – Victor Westhoff, Dutch botanist and academic (b. 1916)
2002 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (b. 1932)
2002 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
2003 – Howard Fast, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1914)
2003 – Lynne Thigpen, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
2004 – Milton Resnick, Russian-American painter (b. 1917)
2005 – Bill Cameron, Canadian journalist and producer (b. 1943)
2005 – Stavros Kouyioumtzis, Greek composer (b. 1932)
2006 – Victor Sokolov, Russian-American priest and journalist (b. 1947)
2007 – Arnold Drake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1924)
2008 – Jorge Guinzburg, Argentinian journalist and producer (b. 1949)
2008 – Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French soldier and supercentenarian (b. 1897)
2010 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (b. 1920)
2011 – Olive Dickason, Canadian historian and journalist (b. 1920)
2011 – Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (b. 1919)
2012 – Samuel Glazer, American businessman, co-founded Mr. Coffee (b. 1923)
2012 – Dick Harter, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
2012 – Michael Hossack, American drummer (b. 1946)
2012 – Friedhelm Konietzka, German-Swiss footballer and manager (b. 1938)
2013 – George Burditt, American lawyer and politician (b. 1921)
2013 – Clive Burr, English drummer and songwriter (b. 1957)
2013 – Michael Grigsby, English director and producer (b. 1936)
2013 – Ganesh Pyne, Indian painter and illustrator (b. 1937)
2014 – Věra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
2014 – George Donaldson, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1968)
2014 – Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)
2014 – Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1931)
2014 – José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal (b. 1936)
2015 – Willie Barrow, American minister and activist (b. 1924)
2015 – Michael Graves, American architect and academic, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (b. 1934)
2015 – Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet and author (b. 1924)
2015 – Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1948)
2016 – Rafiq Azad, Bangladeshi poet and author (b. 1942)
2016 – Felix Ibru, Nigerian architect and politician, Governor of Delta State (b. 1935)
2016 – Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)