| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Czechoslovak gymnast Vera Caslavska died. | Death day |
| 2013 | Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney died. | Death day |
| 2008 | Golfer from United States, Tommy Bolt died. | Death day |
| 2006 | Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz died. | Death day |
| 2005 | Supercentenarian from Netherlands, Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper died at the age of 115 years, 62 days. | Death day |
| 1995 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Lev Polugaevsky died. | Death day |
| 1990 | Dutch electrical engineer Bernard Tellegen died. | Death day |
| 1988 | New Zealand politician Jack Marshall died. | Death day |
| 1985 | Australian swimmer Leisel Jones was born. | Birthday |
| 1985 | Chess grandmaster from Ukraine, Anna Ushenina was born. | Birthday |
| 1983 | Aeroflot Flight 5463 aircraft incident at near Almaty, Kazakh SSR, USSR, killed 90 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1982 | American tennis player Andy Roddick was born. | Birthday |
| 1981 | Iranian politician Mohammad-Ali Rajai died. | Death day |
| 1976 | Constitution Day of Turks and Caicos Islands. | National Holiday |
| 1974 | 153 people died in Zagreb express train crash. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1974 | Netherlands's first artificial satellite ANS was launched. | Launch Day |
| 1972 | Czech footballer Pavel Nedvěd was born. | Birthday |
| 1972 | Sumo wrestler Susanoumi was born. | Birthday |
| 1971 | Astronaut from United States, Megan McArthur was born. | Birthday |
| 1961 | American actor Charles Coburn died. | Death day |
| 1953 | American basketball player Robert Parish was born. | Birthday |
| 1947 | 87 people died in Cinema fire at Rueil-Malmaison, France. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1940 | English physicist J. J. Thomson died. | Death day |
| 1931 | Astronaut from United States, Jack Swigert was born. | Birthday |
| 1930 | American business magnate Warren Buffett was born. | Birthday |
| 1928 | German physicist Wilhelm Wien died. | Death day |
| 1920 | Egyptian politician Ali Sabri was born. | Birthday |
| 1919 | American microbiologist Maurice Hilleman was born. | Birthday |
| 1913 | British economist Richard Stone was born. | Birthday |
| 1912 | American physicist Edward Mills Purcell was born. | Birthday |
| 1907 | American physicist John W. Mauchly was born. | Birthday |
| 1898 | American actress Shirley Booth was born. | Birthday |
| 1884 | Swedish chemist Theodor Svedberg was born. | Birthday |
| 1871 | New Zealand-born British physicist and chemist Ernest Rutherford was born. | Birthday |
| 1863 | Russian chemist Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky was born. | Birthday |
| 1852 | Dutch chemist Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was born. | Birthday |
| 1751 | Swedish scientist and inventor Christopher Polhem died. | Death day |
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