| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Astronaut from Soviet Union, Georgy Grechko died. | Death day |
| 2013 | British politician Margaret Thatcher died. | Death day |
| 2000 | American actress Claire Trevor died. | Death day |
| 1996 | American actor Ben Johnson died. | Death day |
| 1996 | American inventor Benjamin Eisenstadt died. | Death day |
| 1992 | Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist Daniel Bovet died. | Death day |
| 1989 | Chess grandmaster from Hungary, Tamas Banusz was born. | Birthday |
| 1984 | Soviet physicist Pyotr Kapitsa died. | Death day |
| 1983 | Indian actor Allu Arjun was born. | Birthday |
| 1978 | Chess grandmaster from Georgia, Tamaz Gelashvili was born. | Birthday |
| 1976 | Chess grandmaster from Germany, Daniel Hausrath was born. | Birthday |
| 1973 | Chess grandmaster from China, Peng Xiaomin was born. | Birthday |
| 1968 | American actress Patricia Arquette was born. | Birthday |
| 1967 | Korean Air Force aircraft incident at near Yeouido, South Korea, killed 59 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1963 | English cricketer Alec Stewart was born. | Birthday |
| 1938 | Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan was born. | Birthday |
| 1936 | Austro-Hungarian otologist Robert Barany died. | Death day |
| 1933 | Canadian physician and scientist Thomas Chang was born. | Birthday |
| 1931 | Swedish poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt died. | Death day |
| 1911 | American chemist Melvin Calvin was born. | Birthday |
| 1910 | Chess grandmaster from United States, Arthur Dake was born. | Birthday |
| 1904 | British economist John Hicks was born. | Birthday |
| 1892 | Canadian-born American actress Mary Pickford was born. | Birthday |
| 1886 | Golfer from England, Jim Barnes was born. | Birthday |
| 1869 | American pathologist James Homer Wright was born. | Birthday |
| 1861 | American industrialist Elisha Otis died. | Death day |
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