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  • 2023 The Burmese military kills at least 30 villagers, including 3 Buddhist monks, during the Pinlaung massacre in Shan State, Myanmar.
  • 2021 US President Joe Biden signs the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law.
  • 2020 The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the COVID-19 virus epidemic a pandemic.
  • 2018 A Bombardier Challenger 604 crashes into the Zagros Mountains near the Iranian city of Shar-e-kord, killing all 11 people on board.
  • 2012 A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar.
  • 2011 An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
  • 2010 Economist and businessman Sebastián Piñera is sworn in as President of Chile. Aftershocks of the 2010 Pichilemu earthquakes hit central Chile during the ceremony.
  • 2009 Winnenden school shooting: Fifteen are killed and nine are injured before recent graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany.
  • 2008 Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-123, carrying the first component of the Japanese Kibō module to the International Space Station.
  • 2006 Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile.
  • 2004 Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain kill 191 people.
  • 2003 The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
  • 1990 Lithuania declares independence from the Soviet Union.
  • 1990 Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
  • 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, making Gorbachev the USSR's de facto, and last, head of state.
  • 1983 Bob Hawke is appointed Prime Minister of Australia.
  • 1982 Fifteen people are killed when Widerøe Flight 933 crashes into the Barents Sea near Gamvik, Norway.
  • 1981 Hundreds of students protest in the University of Pristina in Kosovo, then part of Yugoslavia, to give their province more political rights. The protests then became a nationwide movement.
  • 1978 Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
  • 1977 The 1977 Hanafi Siege: Around 150 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
  • 1946 Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
  • 1945 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
  • 1945 World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived Japanese puppet state, is established.
  • 1941 World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
  • 1927 In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
  • 1917 World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Frederick Stanley Maude.
  • 1892 The Saint-Germain bombing ushers France into the Ère des attentats (1892-1894).
  • 1888 The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400 people.
  • 1879 Shō Tai formally abdicates his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom.
  • 1872 Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; it is located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
  • 1864 The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England.
  • 1861 American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
  • 1851 The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
  • 1848 Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
  • 1845 Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hōne Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororāreka, New Zealand.
  • 1795 The Battle of Kharda is fought between the Maratha Confederacy and the Nizam of Hyderabad, resulting in Maratha victory.
  • 1784 The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
  • 1708 Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
  • 1702 The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper, is published for the first time.
  • 1649 The Frondeurs and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
  • 1641 Guaraní forces living in the Jesuit reductions defeat bandeirantes loyal to the Portuguese Empire at the Battle of Mbororé in present-day Panambí, Argentina.
  • 1387 Battle of Castagnaro: Padua, led by John Hawkwood, is victorious over Giovanni Ordelaffi of Verona.
  • 1343 Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last Bishop of Prague (3 March 1343 O.S.), and, a year later, the first Archbishop of Prague.
  • 843 Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the veneration of icons in the Orthodox churches in the Byzantine Empire.
  • 2003 Tristan Vukčević, Serbian-Swedish basketball player
  • 1997 Travis Konecny, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1996 Conor Garland, American ice hockey player
  • 1994 Andy Robertson, Scottish footballer
  • 1993 Jodie Comer, English actress
  • 1993 Anthony Davis, American basketball player
  • 1992 Austin Swift, American producer and actor
  • 1990 Ayumi Morita, Japanese tennis player
  • 1989 Malcolm Delaney, American basketball player
  • 1989 Orlando Johnson, American basketball player
  • 1989 Anton Yelchin, Russian-American actor (died 2016)
  • 1988 Pedro Báez, Dominican baseball player
  • 1988 Fábio Coentrão, Portuguese footballer
  • 1988 Cecil Lolo, South African footballer (died 2015)
  • 1987 Marc-André Gragnani, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1987 Tanel Kangert, Estonian cyclist
  • 1987 Ngonidzashe Makusha, Zimbabwean sprinter and long jumper
  • 1986 Dario Cologna, Swiss skier
  • 1985 Paul Bissonnette, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1985 Daniel Vázquez Evuy, Equatoguinean footballer
  • 1985 Cassandra Fairbanks, American journalist and activist
  • 1985 Stelios Malezas, Greek footballer
  • 1985 Greg Olsen, American football player and commentator
  • 1985 Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Australian footballer
  • 1984 Rob Brown, American actor
  • 1983 Lukáš Krajíček, Czech ice hockey player
  • 1982 Brian Anderson, American baseball player
  • 1982 Thora Birch, American actress, producer, and director
  • 1981 David Anders, American actor
  • 1981 Lee Evans, American football player
  • 1981 LeToya Luckett, American singer-songwriter and actress
  • 1980 Rich Hill, American baseball player
  • 1980 Mark Rober, American YouTuber and engineer
  • 1980 Dan Uggla, American baseball player
  • 1979 Elton Brand, American basketball player
  • 1979 Fred Jones, American basketball player
  • 1979 Benji Madden, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1979 Joel Madden, American singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1978 Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer
  • 1978 Albert Luque, Spanish footballer
  • 1977 Becky Hammon, American-Russian basketball player and coach
  • 1977 Michal Handzuš, Slovak ice hockey player
  • 1976 Thomas Gravesen, Danish footballer
  • 1974 Bobby Abreu, Venezuelan baseball player
  • 1971 Johnny Knoxville, American actor and entertainer
  • 1971 Martin Ručinský, Czech ice hockey player
  • 1971 Lee Sang-hoon, South Korean baseball player
  • 1969 Terrence Howard, American actor and producer
  • 1969 Soraya, Colombian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2006)
  • 1968 Lisa Loeb, American singer-songwriter
  • 1967 John Barrowman, Scottish-American actor and singer
  • 1967 Sergei Bautin, Belarusian ice hockey player and coach (died 2022)
  • 1967 Brad Carson, American lawyer and politician
  • 1966 John Thompson III, American basketball player and coach
  • 1965 Nigel Adkins, English footballer and manager
  • 1965 Jesse Jackson, Jr., American lawyer and politician
  • 1965 Wallace Langham, American actor
  • 1965 Jenny Packham, English fashion designer
  • 1964 Peter Berg, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
  • 1964 Raimo Helminen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
  • 1964 Vinnie Paul, American drummer, songwriter and producer (died 2018)
  • 1964 Shane Richie, English actor and singer
  • 1963 Gary Barnett, English footballer and manager
  • 1963 Alex Kingston, English actress
  • 1963 David LaChapelle, American photographer and director
  • 1962 Matt Mead, American politician, 32nd Governor of Wyoming
  • 1962 Jeffrey Nordling, American actor
  • 1961 Elias Koteas, Canadian actor
  • 1961 Bruce Watson, Canadian-Scottish guitarist
  • 1960 Warwick Taylor, New Zealand rugby player
  • 1959 Nina Hartley, American pornographic actress/director, sex educator, sex-positive feminist, and author
  • 1958 Anissa Jones, American child actress (died 1976)
  • 1957 Qasem Soleimani, Former Iranian commander of the Quds Force (died 2020)
  • 1956 Willie Banks, American triple jumper
  • 1956 Helen Rollason, English sports journalist and sportscaster (died 1999)
  • 1955 Leslie Cliff, Canadian swimmer
  • 1955 Nina Hagen, German singer-songwriter
  • 1954 David Newman, American composer and conductor
  • 1954 Gale Norton, American politician, 48th United States Secretary of the Interior
  • 1953 Derek Daly, Irish-American race car driver and sportscaster
  • 1953 Jimmy Iovine, American record producer and businessman, co-founded Beats Electronics
  • 1953 Bernie LaBarge, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1952 Douglas Adams, English author and playwright (died 2001)
  • 1951 Dominique Sanda, French model and actress
  • 1950 Bobby McFerrin, American singer-songwriter, producer, and conductor
  • 1950 Jerry Zucker, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1948 Roy Barnes, American politician, 80th Governor of Georgia
  • 1948 Jim McMillian, American basketball player (died 2016)
  • 1947 Tristan Murail, French composer and educator
  • 1946 Mark Metcalf, American actor
  • 1945 Dock Ellis, American baseball player and coach (died 2008)
  • 1945 Harvey Mandel, American guitarist
  • 1943 Arturo Merzario, Italian race car driver
  • 1941 Shelly Zegart, quilt historian (died 2025)
  • 1940 Alberto Cortez, Argentinian-Spanish singer-songwriter (died 2019)
  • 1936 Antonin Scalia, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 2016)
  • 1934 Sam Donaldson, American journalist
  • 1932 Leroy Jenkins, American violinist and composer (died 2007)
  • 1932 Nigel Lawson, English journalist and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 2023)
  • 1931 Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American businessman and media magnate
  • 1930 David Gentleman, English illustrator and engraver
  • 1930 Claude Jutra, Canadian actor, director and screenwriter (died 1986)
  • 1929 Timothy Carey, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1994)
  • 1929 Jackie McGlew, South African cricketer (died 1998)
  • 1927 Vince Boryla, American basketball player, coach, and executive (died 2016)
  • 1927 Freda Meissner-Blau, Austrian activist and politician (died 2015)
  • 1927 Robert Mosbacher, American businessman, and politician, United States Secretary of Commerce (died 2010)
  • 1927 Josep Maria Subirachs, Spanish sculptor and painter (died 2014)
  • 1926 Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist (died 1990)
  • 1925 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, American biochemist and academic (died 1983)
  • 1923 Louise Brough, American tennis player (died 2014)
  • 1922 Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek economist and philosopher (died 1997)
  • 1922 Abdul Razak Hussein, Malaysian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Malaysia (died 1976)
  • 1922 José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor, costume designer, scenic designer and assistant director (died 2009)
  • 1921 Astor Piazzolla, Argentine tango composer and bandoneon player (died 1992)
  • 1920 Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)
  • 1916 Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1995)
  • 1915 Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer (died 2004)
  • 1915 J. C. R. Licklider, American computer scientist and psychologist (died 1990)
  • 1913 Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke, German colonel and pilot (died 1944)
  • 1911 Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet, Scottish general and politician (died 1996)
  • 1910 Robert Havemann, German chemist and academic (died 1982)
  • 1908 Matti Sippala, Finnish javelin thrower (died 1997)
  • 1907 Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer, and dancer (died 1981)
  • 1903 Ronald Syme, New Zealand historian and scholar (died 1989)
  • 1903 Lawrence Welk, American accordion player and bandleader (died 1992)
  • 1899 Frederik IX of Denmark (died 1972)
  • 1899 James H. Douglas, Jr., American lawyer, and politician, United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (died 1988)
  • 1898 Dorothy Gish, American actress (died 1968)
  • 1897 Henry Cowell, American pianist and composer (died 1965)
  • 1893 Wanda Gág, American author and illustrator (died 1946)
  • 1890 Vannevar Bush, American engineer and academic (died 1974)
  • 1887 Raoul Walsh, American actor and director (died 1980)
  • 1885 Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver (died 1948)
  • 1884 Lewi Pethrus, Swedish minister and hymn-writer (died 1974)
  • 1880 Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist and sociologist (died 1943)
  • 1876 Carl Ruggles, American composer and painter (died 1971)
  • 1870 Louis Bachelier, French mathematician and theorist (died 1946)
  • 1863 Andrew Stoddart, English cricketer and rugby player (died 1915)
  • 1822 Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (died 1900)
  • 1819 Henry Tate, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Tate & Lyle (died 1899)
  • 1818 Marius Petipa, French-Russian dancer and choreographer (died 1910)
  • 1815 Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (died 1879)
  • 1811 Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician and astronomer (died 1877)
  • 1806 Louis Boulanger, French Romantic painter, lithographer and illustrator (died 1867)
  • 1785 John McLean, American jurist and politician (died 1861)
  • 1738 Benjamin Tupper, American general (died 1792)
  • 1544 Torquato Tasso, Italian poet and educator (died 1595)
  • 1278 Mary of Woodstock, daughter of Edward I of England (died c. 1332)
  • 2025 Junior Bridgeman, American basketball player and businessman (born 1953)
  • 2025 Clive Revill, New Zealand actor and singer (born 1930)
  • 2024 Paul Alexander, Polio survivor (born 1946)
  • 2022 Rupiah Banda, President of Zambia (born 1937)
  • 2021 Ray Campi, American singer and musician (born 1934)
  • 2021 Takis Mousafiris, Greek composer and songwriter (born 1936)
  • 2018 Ken Dodd, English comedian and singer (born 1927)
  • 2018 Siegfried Rauch, German actor (born 1932)
  • 2018 Karl Lehmann, German cardinal (born 1936)
  • 2018 Mary Rosenblum, American science fiction and mystery author (born 1952)
  • 2016 Iolanda Balaș, Romanian high jumper (born 1936)
  • 2016 Doreen Massey, English geographer and political activist (born 1944)
  • 2015 Walter Burkert, German philologist and scholar (born 1931)
  • 2015 Jimmy Greenspoon, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (born 1948)
  • 2014 Dean Bailey, Australian footballer and coach (born 1967)
  • 2014 Joel Brinkley, American journalist and academic (born 1952)
  • 2013 Martin Adolf Bormann, German priest and theologian (born 1930)
  • 2013 Simón Alberto Consalvi, Venezuelan journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Venezuela (born 1927)
  • 2012 James B. Morehead, American colonel and pilot (born 1916)
  • 2010 Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1931)
  • 2006 Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1931)
  • 2006 Slobodan Milošević, Serbian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (born 1941)
  • 2002 James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
  • 1999 Herbert Jasper, Canadian psychologist, anatomist, and neurologist (born 1906)
  • 1999 Camille Laurin, Canadian psychiatrist and politician (born 1922)
  • 1996 Vince Edwards, American actor and director (born 1928)
  • 1995 Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress and singer (born 1945)
  • 1992 Richard Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1912)
  • 1989 James Kee, American lawyer and politician (born 1917)
  • 1989 John J. McCloy, American lawyer and diplomat (born 1895)
  • 1986 Sonny Terry, American singer and harmonica player (born 1911)
  • 1982 Edmund Cooper, English poet and author (born 1926)
  • 1982 Horace Gregory, American poet, translator, and academic (born 1898)
  • 1978 Claude François, French entertainer (born 1939)
  • 1971 Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (born 1906)
  • 1971 Whitney Young, American activist (born 1921)
  • 1970 Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (born 1889)
  • 1969 John Wyndham, English author (born 1903)
  • 1967 Geraldine Farrar, American soprano and actress (born 1882)
  • 1960 Roy Chapman Andrews, American paleontologist and explorer (born 1884)
  • 1959 Lester Dent, American author (born 1904)
  • 1957 Richard E. Byrd, American admiral and explorer (born 1888)
  • 1956 Aleksanteri Aava, Finnish poet (born 1883)
  • 1955 Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)
  • 1955 Oscar F. Mayer, German-American businessman, founded Oscar Mayer (born 1859)
  • 1952 Pierre Renoir, French actor and director (born 1885)
  • 1949 Henri Giraud, French general and politician (born 1879)
  • 1944 Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-American journalist and historian (born 1882)
  • 1944 Edgar Zilsel, Austrian historian and philosopher of science, linked to the Vienna Circle (born 1891)
  • 1937 Joseph S. Cullinan, American businessman, co-founded Texaco (born 1860)
  • 1931 F. W. Murnau, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1888)
  • 1915 Thomas Alexander Browne, English-Australian author (born 1826)
  • 1908 Edmondo De Amicis, Italian journalist and author (born 1846)
  • 1908 Benjamin Waugh, English minister and activist (born 1839)
  • 1907 Jean Casimir-Perier, French lawyer and politician, 6th President of France (born 1847)
  • 1898 William Rosecrans, American general and politician (born 1819)
  • 1874 Charles Sumner, American lawyer and politician (born 1811)
  • 1870 Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho (born 1786)
  • 1869 Vladimir Odoyevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (born 1803)
  • 1863 Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (born 1803)
  • 1851 Marie-Louise Coidavid, Queen of Haiti (born 1778)
  • 1851 George McDuffie, American lawyer and politician, 55th Governor of South Carolina (born 1790)
  • 1820 Benjamin West, American-English painter and academic (born 1738)
  • 1759 John Forbes, Scottish general (born 1707)
  • 1722 John Toland, Irish philosopher and theorist (born 1670)
  • 1689 Sambhaji, second Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire (born 1657)
  • 1665 Clemente Tabone, Maltese landowner and militia member (born c. 1575)
  • 1607 Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer and educator (born 1543)
  • 1602 Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian organist and composer (born 1550)
  • 1575 Matthias Flacius, Croatian theologian and reformer (born 1520)
  • 1486 Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1414)
  • 1198 Marie of France, Countess of Champagne (born 1145)
  • 638 Sophronius of Jerusalem (born 560)
  • 222 Elagabalus, Roman emperor (born 203)