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Pre-1600

* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the '' Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of
Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...
. * 1258Siege of Baghdad: Hulegu Khan, a prince of the
Mongol Empire The Mongol Empire was the List of largest empires, largest contiguous empire in human history, history. Originating in present-day Mongolia in East Asia, the Mongol Empire at its height stretched from the Sea of Japan to parts of Eastern Euro ...
, orders his army to sack and plunder the city of
Baghdad Baghdad ( or ; , ) is the capital and List of largest cities of Iraq, largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the List of largest cities in the A ...
, which they had just captured. * 1322 – The central tower of
Ely Cathedral Ely Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely, is an Church of England, Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. The cathedral can trace its origin to the abbey founded in Ely in 67 ...
falls on the night of 12th–13th. * 1352War of the Straits: The Battle of the Bosporus is fought in a stormy sea into the night between the Genoese, Venetian, Aragonese, and Byzantine fleets. * 1462 – The Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles. * 1503Challenge of Barletta: Tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta. * 1542Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of
Henry VIII of England Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is known for his Wives of Henry VIII, six marriages and his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. ...
, is executed for adultery.


1601–1900

* 1633Galileo Galilei arrives in
Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...
for his trial before the Inquisition. * 1642 – The Clergy Act becomes law, excluding
bishop A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...
s of the
Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the State religion#State churches, established List of Christian denominations, Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the mother church of the Anglicanism, Anglican Christian tradition, ...
from serving in the
House of Lords The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the lower house, the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. One of the oldest ext ...
. * 1660 – With the accession of young Charles XI of Sweden, his regents begin negotiations to end the
Second Northern War The second (symbol: s) is a unit of time derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes, and finally to 60 seconds each (24 × 60 × 60 = 86400). The current and formal definition in the International System of ...
. * 1689
William William is a masculine given name of Germanic languages, Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman Conquest, Norman conquest in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle ...
and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of
England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...
. * 1692Massacre of Glencoe: Almost 80 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange. * 1726Parliament of Negrete between
Mapuche The Mapuche ( , ) also known as Araucanians are a group of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-ranging e ...
and Spanish authorities in Chile bring an end to the Mapuche uprising of 1723–26. * 1755Treaty of Giyanti signed by VOC, Pakubuwono III and Prince Mangkubumi. The treaty divides the Javanese kingdom of Mataram into two: Sunanate of Surakarta and Sultanate of Yogyakarta. * 1849 – The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Șaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the ''General Petition of Romanian leaders in
Transylvania Transylvania ( or ; ; or ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjen'') is a List of historical regions of Central Europe, historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and ...
,
Banat Banat ( , ; ; ; ) is a geographical and Historical regions of Central Europe, historical region located in the Pannonian Basin that straddles Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe. It is divided among three countries: the eastern part lie ...
and Bukovina'', which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized. * 1861Italian unification: The Siege of Gaeta ends with the capitulation of the defending fortress, effectively bringing an end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. * 1867 – Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying
Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...
's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards. * 1880
Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison (February11, 1847October18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, ...
observes Thermionic emission.


1901–present

* 1913 – The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims
Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are other ethnic groups s ...
an independence following a period of domination by Manchu
Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the ...
and initiated a period of almost four decades of independence. * 1914
Copyright A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, ...
: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members. * 1920 – The Negro National League is formed. * 1931 – The
British Raj The British Raj ( ; from Hindustani language, Hindustani , 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the colonial rule of the British The Crown, Crown on the Indian subcontinent, * * lasting from 1858 to 1947. * * It is also called Crown rule ...
completes its transfer from
Calcutta Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern ba ...
to
New Delhi New Delhi (; ) is the Capital city, capital of India and a part of the Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the Government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Parliament ...
. *
1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...
– A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh. * 1945
World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army. * 1945 – World War II:
Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of t ...
bombers are dispatched to
Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...
, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment. * 1951
Korean War The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea; ROK) and their allies. North Korea was s ...
: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences. * 1954Frank Selvy becomes the only
NCAA Division I NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest division of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athlet ...
basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game. * 1955
Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
obtains four of the seven
Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts, ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period (516 BCE – 70 CE). They were discovered over a period of ten years, between ...
. * 1955 – Twenty-nine people are killed when Sabena Flight 503 crashes into Monte Terminillo near Rieti, Italy. * 1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed " Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons. * 1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in
Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and List of municipalities in Tennessee, most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County in Middle Tennessee, locat ...
. * 1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug. * 1967 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by
Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested o ...
in the National Library of Spain. * 1975 – Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York. *
1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...
Hilton bombing: A bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman. *
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
– An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. * 1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in
Louisville, Kentucky Louisville is the List of cities in Kentucky, most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast, and the list of United States cities by population, 27th-most-populous city ...
. * 1983 – A cinema fire in
Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...
, Italy, kills 64 people. * 1984Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU),. Abbreviated in Russian as КПСС, ''KPSS''. at some points known as the Russian Communist Party (RCP), All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet ...
. * 1991
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: Two laser-guided " smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in
Baghdad Baghdad ( or ; , ) is the capital and List of largest cities of Iraq, largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the List of largest cities in the A ...
. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed. * 1996 – The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre). * 2001An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits
El Salvador El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is S ...
, killing at least 315. *
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
– The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known
diamond Diamond is a Allotropes of carbon, solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond is tasteless, odourless, strong, brittle solid, colourless in pure form, a poor conductor of e ...
,
white dwarf A white dwarf is a Compact star, stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. A white dwarf is very density, dense: in an Earth sized volume, it packs a mass that is comparable to the Sun. No nuclear fusion takes place i ...
star A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma (physics), plasma held together by Self-gravitation, self-gravity. The List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs, nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night sk ...
'' BPM 37093''. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after
The Beatles The Beatles were an English Rock music, rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are widely regarded as the Cultural impact of the Beatle ...
' song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". * 2007
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...
opposition leader
Ma Ying-jeou Ma Ying-jeou ( zh, t=馬英九; pinyin: ''Mǎ Yīngjiǔ''; ; born 13 July 1950) is a Taiwanese politician, lawyer, and legal scholar who served as the sixth president of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT ...
resigns as the chairman of the
Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT) is a major political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was the one party state, sole ruling party of the country Republic of China (1912-1949), during its rule from 1927 to 1949 in Mainland China until Retreat ...
party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of
Taipei , nickname = The City of Azaleas , image_map = , map_caption = , pushpin_map = Taiwan#Asia#Pacific Ocean#Earth , coordinates = , subdivision_type = Country ...
; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. * 2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the
Indigenous Australians Indigenous Australians are people with familial heritage from, or recognised membership of, the various ethnic groups living within the territory of contemporary Australia prior to History of Australia (1788–1850), British colonisation. The ...
and the Stolen Generations. * 2010A bomb explodes in the city of
Pune Pune ( ; , ISO 15919, ISO: ), previously spelled in English as Poona (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1978), is a city in the state of Maharashtra in the Deccan Plateau, Deccan plateau in Western ...
,
Maharashtra Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...
, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more. *
2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
– For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a
bison A bison (: bison) is a large bovine in the genus ''Bison'' (from Greek, meaning 'wild ox') within the tribe Bovini. Two extant taxon, extant and numerous extinction, extinct species are recognised. Of the two surviving species, the American ...
just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855. * 2012 – The
European Space Agency The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 23-member International organization, international organization devoted to space exploration. With its headquarters in Paris and a staff of around 2,547 people globally as of 2023, ESA was founded in 1975 ...
(ESA) conducted the first launch of the European '' Vega'' rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. * 2017Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. * 2021 – Former U.S. President
Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served as the 45 ...
is acquitted in his second impeachment trial. * 2021 – A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in
Texas Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we ...
and northern
Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...
.


Births


Pre-1600

* 1440Hartmann Schedel, German physician (died 1514) * 1457Mary of Burgundy, Sovereign Duchess regnant of Burgundy, married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1482) * 1469Elia Levita, Renaissance Hebrew grammarian (died 1549) * 1480Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (died 1542) * 1523Valentin Naboth, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1593) * 1539Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine (died 1582) * 1569Johann Reinhard I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (died 1625) * 1599Pope Alexander VII (died 1667)


1601–1900

* 1602William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (died 1637) * 1672Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (died 1731) * 1683Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter (died 1754) * 1719George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral and politician (died 1792) * 1721John Reid, Scottish general (died 1807) * 1728John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and anatomist (died 1793) * 1766Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and scholar (died 1834) * 1768Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French general and politician, 15th
Prime Minister of France The prime minister of France (), officially the prime minister of the French Republic (''Premier ministre de la République française''), is the head of government of the French Republic and the leader of its Council of Ministers. The prime ...
(died 1835) * 1769Ivan Krylov, Russian author, poet, and playwright (died 1844) * 1805Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (died 1859) * 1811François Achille Bazaine, French general (died 1888) * 1815Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, editor, poet and critic (died 1857) * 1819Francis Smith, Haitian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Tasmania (died 1909) * 1831John Aaron Rawlins, American general and politician, 29th United States Secretary of War (died 1869) * 1834Heinrich Caro, Sephardic Jewish Polish-German chemist and academic (died 1910) * 1835Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader (died 1908) * 1849Lord Randolph Churchill, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1895) * 1855Paul Deschanel, Belgian-French politician, 11th President of France (died 1922) * 1863Hugo Becker, German cellist and composer (died 1941) * 1867Harold Mahony, Scottish-Irish tennis player (died 1905) * 1870Leopold Godowsky, Polish-American pianist and composer (died 1938) * 1871Joseph Devlin, Northern Irish political leader ( Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)) (died 1934) * 1873Feodor Chaliapin, Russian opera singer (died 1938) * 1876Fritz Buelow, German-American baseball player and umpire (died 1933) * 1879Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and activist (died 1949) * 1880Dimitrie Gusti, Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and philosopher (died 1955) * 1881Eleanor Farjeon, English author, poet, and playwright (died 1965) * 1883Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (died 1947) * 1883 – Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Russian-Armenian actor and director (died 1922) * 1884Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (died 1961) * 1885Bess Truman, 35th
First Lady of the United States First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS) is a title typically held by the wife of the president of the United States, concurrent with the president's term in office. Although the first lady's role has never been Code of law, codified or offici ...
(died 1982) * 1887Géza Csáth, Hungarian playwright and critic (died 1919) * 1888Georgios Papandreou, Greek lawyer, economist, and politician, 162nd Prime Minister of Greece (died 1968) * 1889Leontine Sagan, Austrian actress and director (died 1974) * 1891Kate Roberts, Welsh author and activist (died 1985) * 1891 – Grant Wood, American painter and academic (died 1942) * 1892Robert H. Jackson, American politician, 57th
United States Attorney General The United States attorney general is the head of the United States Department of Justice and serves as the chief law enforcement officer of the Federal government of the United States, federal government. The attorney general acts as the princi ...
,
Nuremberg Nuremberg (, ; ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the Franconia#Towns and cities, largest city in Franconia, the List of cities in Bavaria by population, second-largest city in the States of Germany, German state of Bav ...
prosecutor, and Supreme Court justice (died 1954) * 1898Hubert Ashton, English cricketer and politician (died 1979) * 1899Rolf Stenersen, Norwegian businessman (died 1978) * 1900Barbara von Annenkoff, Russian-born German film and stage actress (died 1979)


1901–present

* 1901Paul Lazarsfeld, Austrian-American sociologist and academic (died 1976) * 1902Harold Lasswell, American political scientist and theorist (died 1978) * 1903Georgy Beriev, Georgian-Russian engineer, founded the Beriev Design Bureau (died 1979) * 1903 – Georges Simenon, Belgian-Swiss author (died 1989) * 1906Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher and author (died 1994) * 1907Katy de la Cruz, Filipino-American singer and actress (died 2004) * 1910William Shockley, English-American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; ; ) are awards administered by the Nobel Foundation and granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind". The prizes were first awarded in 1901, marking the fifth anniversary of Alfred N ...
laureate (died 1989) * 1911Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Indian-Pakistani poet and journalist (died 1984) * 1911 – Jean Muir, American actress and educator (died 1996) * 1912Harald Riipalu, Russian-Estonian commander (died 1961) * 1912 – Margaretta Scott, English actress (died 2005) * 1913Khalid of Saudi Arabia (died 1982) * 1915Lyle Bettger, American actor (died 2003) * 1915 – Aung San, Burmese general and politician, 5th Premier of British Crown Colony of Burma (died 1947) * 1916Dorothy Bliss, American invertebrate zoologist (died 1987) * 1919Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (died 1991) * 1919 – Eddie Robinson, American football player and coach (died 2007) * 1920Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (died 1987) * 1920 – Eileen Farrell, American soprano and educator (died 2002) * 1921Jeanne Demessieux, French pianist and composer (died 1968) * 1921 – Aung Khin, Burmese painter (died 1996) * 1922Francis Pym, Baron Pym, Welsh soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (died 2008) * 1922 – Gordon Tullock, American economist and academic (died 2014) * 1923Michael Anthony Bilandic, American soldier, judge, and politician, 49th Mayor of Chicago (died 2002) * 1923 – Chuck Yeager, American general and pilot; first test pilot to break the sound barrier (died 2020) * 1924Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist and politician (died 2006) * 1926Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, American nuclear physicist (died 2012) * 1928Gerald Regan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (died 2019) * 1929Omar Torrijos, Panamanian commander and politician, Military Leader of Panama (died 1981) * 1930Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 2015) * 1930 – Israel Kirzner, English-American economist, author, and academic * 1932Susan Oliver, American actress (died 1990) * 1933Paul Biya, Cameroon politician, 2nd President of Cameroon * 1933 – Kim Novak, American actress * 1933 – Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer (died 2019) * 1934George Segal, American actor (died 2021) * 1937Ali El-Maak, Sudanese author and academic (died 1992) * 1937 – Sigmund Jähn, German pilot and cosmonaut (died 2019) * 1937 – Angelo Mosca, American-Canadian football player and wrestler (died 2021) *
1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...
Oliver Reed, English actor (died 1999) * 1940Bram Peper, Dutch sociologist and politician, Mayor of Rotterdam (died 2022) * 1941Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (died 2010) * 1941 – Bo Svenson, Swedish-American actor, director, and producer * 1942Carol Lynley, American model and actress (died 2019) * 1942 – Peter Tork, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor (died 2019) * 1942 – Donald E. Williams, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 2016) *
1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 � ...
Elaine Pagels, American theologian and academic * 1944
Stockard Channing Stockard Channing (born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard; February 13, 1944) is an American actress. List of awards and nominations received by Stockard Channing, Her accolades include three Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a nomination for an Acade ...
, American actress * 1944 –
Jerry Springer Gerald Norman Springer (February 13, 1944 – April 27, 2023) was a British-American broadcaster, journalist, actor, lawyer, and politician. He was best known for hosting the controversial tabloid talk show '' Jerry Springer'' from 1991 to 2 ...
, English-American television host, actor, and politician, 56th Mayor of Cincinnati (died 2023) * 1945Marian Dawkins, English biologist and academic * 1945 – King Floyd, American singer-songwriter (died 2006) * 1945 – Simon Schama, English historian and author * 1945 – William Sleator, American author and composer (died 2011) *
1946 1946 (Roman numerals, MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th centur ...
Richard Blumenthal Richard Blumenthal ( ; born February 13, 1946) is an American politician, lawyer, and United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps veteran serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, senior United States Senate, United States senator from ...
, American sergeant and politician, 23rd Attorney General of Connecticut * 1946 – Janet Finch, English sociologist and academic * 1946 – Colin Matthews, English composer and educator * 1947Stephen Hadley, American soldier and diplomat, 21st United States National Security Advisor * 1947 – Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach * 1947 – Bogdan Tanjević, Montenegrin-Bosnian basketball coach * 1947 – Kevin Bloody Wilson, Australian comedian, singer-songwriter, and guitarist *
1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2025 * January 2 – Luis ...
Peter Kern, Austrian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015) * 1950Vera Baird, English lawyer and politician * 1950 – Peter Gabriel, English singer-songwriter and musician * 1951David Naughton, American actor and singer * 1952Ed Gagliardi, American musician (died 2014) *
1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...
Akio Sato, Japanese wrestler and manager * 1954Donnie Moore, American baseball player (died 1989) * 1955Joe Birkett, American lawyer, judge, and politician *
1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...
Peter Hook, English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer * 1957Denise Austin, American fitness trainer and author * 1958Pernilla August, Swedish actress * 1958 – Øivind Elgenes, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and composer * 1958 – Marc Emery, Canadian publisher and activist * 1958 – Jean-François Lisée, Canadian journalist and politician * 1958 – Derek Riggs, English painter and illustrator * 1959Gaston Gingras, Canadian ice hockey player * 1960Pierluigi Collina, Italian footballer and referee * 1960 – John Healey, English journalist and politician * 1960 – Gary Patterson, American football player and coach * 1960 – Matt Salinger, American actor * 1960 – Artur Yusupov, Russian-German chess player and author * 1961Marc Crawford, Canadian ice hockey player and coach * 1961 – cEvin Key, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboard player, and producer * 1961 – Henry Rollins, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor * 1962Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician * 1962 – Baby Doll, American wrestler and manager * 1962 – Michele Greene, American actress * 1964Stephen Bowen, American engineer, captain, and astronaut * 1964 – Ylva Johansson, Swedish educator and politician, Swedish Minister of Employment *
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...
Peter O'Neill, Papua New Guinean accountant and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea * 1966Neal McDonough, American actor and producer * 1966 – Jeff Waters, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer * 1966 – Freedom Williams, American rapper and singer * 1967Stanimir Stoilov, Bulgarian footballer and coach * 1968Kelly Hu, American actress * 1969Joyce DiDonato, American soprano and actress * 1969 – Bryan Thomas Schmidt, American science fiction author and editor * 1970Elmer Bennett, American basketball player * 1970 – Karoline Krüger, Norwegian singer-songwriter and pianist *
1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...
Sonia Evans, English singer-songwriter * 1971 – Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player * 1971 – Todd Williams, American baseball player *
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...
Virgilijus Alekna, Lithuanian discus thrower * 1972 – Juha Ylönen, Finnish ice hockey player * 1974Fonzworth Bentley, American rapper and actor * 1974 –
Robbie Williams Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer and songwriter. He found fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995, launching a solo career in 1996. His debut studio album, ''Life thru a Lens'', was re ...
, English singer-songwriter * 1975Ben Collins, English race car driver * 1975 – Katie Hopkins, English media personality and columnist *
1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...
Jörg Bergmeister, German race car driver * 1976 – Feist, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician * 1977Randy Moss, American football player and coach *
1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...
Niklas Bäckström, Finnish ice hockey player * 1978 – Philippe Jaroussky, French singer * 1978 – Cory Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach *
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
Anders Behring Breivik, Norwegian mass murderer * 1979 – Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer * 1979 – Rachel Reeves, English economist and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer * 1979 – Mena Suvari, American actress and fashion designer * 1980Carlos Cotto, Puerto Rican-American wrestler and boxer * 1981Luisão, Brazilian footballer * 1981 – Luke Ridnour, American basketball player * 1982Even Helte Hermansen, Norwegian guitarist and composer * 1982 – Michael Turner, American football player * 1983Mike Nickeas, Canadian baseball player * 1983 – Anna Watkins, English rower * 1984Hinkelien Schreuder, Dutch swimmer * 1985Somdev Devvarman, Indian tennis player * 1985 – J. R. Giddens, American basketball player * 1985 – Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress * 1985 – Al Montoya, American ice hockey player * 1986Luke Moore, English footballer * 1986 – Aqib Talib, American football player * 1987Eljero Elia, Dutch footballer * 1988Ryan Goins, American baseball player * 1988 – Dave Rudden, Irish author * 1989Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian footballer * 1990Nathan Eovaldi, American baseball player * 1990 – Mamadou Sakho, French footballer * 1991Eliaquim Mangala, French footballer * 1991 – Vianney, French singer * 1991 – Luke Voit, American baseball player * 1992Keith Appling, American basketball player * 1994Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer * 1995Kendall Fuller, American football player * 1995 – Georges-Kévin Nkoudou, French-Cameroonian footballer * 2000Vitinha, Portuguese footballer * 2001Kaapo Kakko, Finnish ice hockey player * 2002Jaden Ivey, American basketball player * 2002 – Sophia Lillis, American actress


Deaths


Pre-1600

* 106Emperor He of Han (Han Hedi) of the Chinese Eastern
Han dynasty The Han dynasty was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–206 BC ...
(born AD 79) * 721
Chilperic II Chilperic II ( 672 – 13 February 721) was King of the Franks from 715 until his death. He was a son of Childeric II and his half-cousin wife, Bilichild, both of whom were assassinated, along with their eldest son Dagobert, in 675. Still a ...
, Frankish king (born 672) * 858
Kenneth MacAlpin Kenneth MacAlpin (; ; 810 – 13 February 858) or Kenneth I was King of Dál Riada (841–850), and King of the Picts (848–858), of likely Gaelic origin. According to the traditional account, he inherited the throne of Dál Riada from his fa ...
, Scottish king (probable; b. 810) * 921Vratislaus I, duke of Bohemia * 936Xiao Wen, empress of the Liao dynasty * 942Muhammad ibn Ra'iq, Abbasid emir and regent * 988Adalbert Atto, Lombard nobleman * 1021Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Fatimid caliph (born 985) * 1130Honorius II, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1060) * 1141Béla II, king of Hungary and Croatia (born 1110) *
1199 Year 1199 (Roman numerals, MCXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * January 13 – A short-lived truce is declared, between the Kings Richard I of England, Richard I (the Lionh ...
Stefan Nemanja, Serbian grand prince (born 1113) * 1219Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shōgun (born 1192) * 1332
Andronikos II Palaiologos Andronikos II Palaiologos (; 25 March 1259 – 13 February 1332), Latinization of names, Latinized as Andronicus II Palaeologus, reigned as Byzantine emperor from 1282 to 1328. His reign marked the beginning of the recently restored em ...
, Byzantine emperor (born 1259) * 1351Kō no Morofuyu, Japanese general * 1539Isabella d'Este, Italian noblewoman (born 1474) * 1542Catherine Howard, English wife of
Henry VIII of England Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is known for his Wives of Henry VIII, six marriages and his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. ...
(executed; b. 1521) * 1571Benvenuto Cellini, Italian painter and sculptor (born 1500) * 1585Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish priest and scholar (born 1515)


1601–1900

* 1602Alexander Nowell, English clergyman and theologian (born 1507) * 1660Charles X Gustav, king of Sweden (born 1622) * 1662Elizabeth Stuart, queen of Bohemia (born 1596) * 1693Johann Caspar Kerll, German organist and composer (born 1627) * 1727William Wotton, English linguist and scholar (born 1666) * 1728Cotton Mather, American minister and author (born 1663) * 1732Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian and author (born 1640) * 1741Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer and theorist (born 1660) * 1787Roger Joseph Boscovich, Croatian physicist, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (born 1711) * 1787 – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French lawyer and politician, Foreign Minister of France (born 1717) *
1795 Events January–June * January – Central England records its coldest ever month, in the CET records dating back to 1659. * January 14 – The University of North Carolina opens to students at Chapel Hill, becoming the ...
George (Konissky), Orthodox archbishop, preacher, philosopher and theologian (born 1717) * 1813Samuel Ashe, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of North Carolina (born 1725) *
1818 Events January–March * January 1 ** Battle of Koregaon: Troops of the British East India Company score a decisive victory over the Maratha Confederacy, Maratha Empire. ** English author Mary Shelley publishes the novel ''Frankenstein ...
George Rogers Clark, American general (born 1752) * 1826Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, Russian general and politician, Governor-General of Baltic provinces (born 1745) * 1831Edward Berry, English admiral (born 1768) * 1837Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author (born 1809) * 1845Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher and poet (born 1773) * 1859Eliza Acton, English food writer and poet (born 1799) * 1877Costache Caragiale, Romanian actor and manager (born 1815) * 1883
Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most o ...
, German composer (born 1813) * 1888Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (born 1814) * 1892
Provo Wallis Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy), Admiral of the Fleet Sir Provo William Parry Wallis, (12 April 1791 – 13 February 1892) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer, following the Capture of USS Chesapeake, capture of USS ''Chesapeake'' by ...
, Canadian-English admiral (born 1791) * 1893Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Mexican intellectual and journalist (born 1834)


1901–present

* 1905Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (born 1844) * 1906Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (born 1866) * 1934József Pusztai, Slovene-Hungarian poet and journalist (born 1864) * 1942Otakar Batlička, Czech journalist (born 1895) * 1942 – Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th President of Brazil (born 1865) * 1950
Rafael Sabatini Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian people, Italian-born British writer of novels, writer of romance novel, romance and adventure novel, adventure novels. He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers: ''The Sea ...
, Italian-English novelist and short story writer (born 1875) * 1951Lloyd C. Douglas, American minister and author (born 1877) * 1952Josephine Tey, Scottish author and playwright (born 1896) * 1954Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician (born 1890) *
1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...
Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish mathematician and philosopher (born 1878) * 1958Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the
Women's Social and Political Union The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom founded in 1903. Known from 1906 as the suffragettes, its membership and p ...
(born 1880) * 1958 – Georges Rouault, French painter and illustrator (born 1871) * 1964Paulino Alcántara, Filipino-Spanish footballer and manager (born 1896) * 1964 – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist and academic (born 1902) * 1967Yoshisuke Aikawa, entrepreneur, businessman, and politician, founded Nissan Motor Company (born 1880) * 1967 – Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico (1932–1934) (born 1889) * 1968Mae Marsh, American actress (born 1895) * 1968 – Portia White, Canadian opera singer (born 1911) *
1973 Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...
Marinus Jan Granpré Molière, Dutch architect and educator (born 1883) * 1975André Beaufre, French general (born 1902) *
1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...
Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian general and politician, 4th President of Nigeria (born 1938) * 1976 – Lily Pons, French-American soprano and actress (born 1904) * 1980David Janssen, American actor (born 1931) * 1984Cheong Eak Chong, Singaporean entrepreneur (born 1888) * 1986Yuri Ivask, Russian-American poet and critic (born 1907) * 1989Wayne Hays, American lieutenant and politician (born 1911) * 1991Arno Breker, German sculptor and illustrator (born 1900) * 1992Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and physicist (born 1909) * 1996Martin Balsam, American actor (born 1919) * 1997Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman (born 1906) * 1997 – Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician and academic (born 1920) * 2000Anders Aalborg, Canadian educator and politician (born 1914) * 2000 – James Cooke Brown, American sociologist and author (born 1921) * 2000 – John Leake, English soldier (born 1949) * 2002
Waylon Jennings Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He is considered one of the pioneers of the Outlaw country, outlaw movement in country music. Jennings started playing ...
, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937) * 2003Kid Gavilán, Cuban-American boxer (born 1926) * 2003 – Walt Whitman Rostow, American economist; 7th United States National Security Advisor (born 1916) *
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic (born 1942) * 2004 – Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen politician, 2nd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (born 1952) *
2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
Nelson Briles, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1943) * 2005 – Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (born 1907) * 2006P. F. Strawson, English philosopher and author (born 1919) * 2007Elizabeth Jolley, English-Australian author and academic (born 1923) * 2007 – Charlie Norwood, American captain and politician (born 1941) * 2007 – Richard Gordon Wakeford, English air marshal (born 1922) * 2008Kon Ichikawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1915) *
2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
Edward Upward, English author and educator (born 1903) * 2010Lucille Clifton, American poet and academic (born 1936) * 2010 – Dale Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936) * 2012Russell Arms, American actor and singer (born 1920) * 2012 – Louise Cochrane, American-English screenwriter and producer (born 1918) * 2012 – Daniel C. Gerould, American playwright and academic (born 1928) *
2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
Gerry Day, American journalist and screenwriter (born 1922) * 2013 – Miles J. Jones, American pathologist and physician (born 1952) * 2013 – Pieter Kooijmans, Dutch judge and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for The Netherlands (born 1933) * 2013 – Andrée Malebranche, Haitian artist (born 1916) * 2013 – Yuko Tojo, Japanese activist and politician (born 1939) *
2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
Balu Mahendra, Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1939) * 2014 – Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (born 1937) * 2014 – Ralph Waite, American actor and activist (born 1928) * 2014 – Laura Motta, Brazilian catholic nun (born 1919) * 2015Faith Bandler, Australian activist and author (born 1918) * 2015 – Stan Chambers, American journalist and actor (born 1923) * 2016O. N. V. Kurup, Indian poet and academic (born 1931) * 2016 – Antonin Scalia, American lawyer and judge,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a Justice (title), justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States. The number of associate justices is eight, as set by the J ...
(born 1936) * 2017Ricardo Arias Calderón, Panamanian politician (born 1933) * 2017 – Aileen Hernandez, American union organizer and activist (born 1926) * 2017 – Seijun Suzuki, Japanese filmmaker (born 1923) * 2017 – Kim Jong-nam, North Korean politician (born 1971) * 2017 – E-Dubble, American rapper (born 1982) * 2018Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, French-born Danish royal (born 1934) * 2019Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic and politician (born 1936) * 2021Kadir Topbaş, Turkish politician (born 1945) *
2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...
Jim Guy Tucker, American lawyer and politician, 43rd
Governor of Arkansas The governor of Arkansas is the head of government of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Governor (United States), governor is the head of the Executive (government), executive branch of the Politics and government of Arkansas, Arkansas government a ...
(born 1943)


Holidays and observances

* Black Love Day (United States) * Children's Day (Myanmar) *Christian feast day: ** Absalom Jones ( Episcopal Church (USA)) ** Beatrice of Ornacieux ** Castor of Karden ** Catherine of Ricci ** Dyfnog ** Ermenilda of Ely ** Fulcran ** Jordan of Saxony ** Polyeuctus (
Roman Catholic Church The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...
) ** February 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) * World Radio Day


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