| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Hollywood film Star Wars: The Last Jedi was released in theaters. This is one of the highest grossing movies. | Release Date |
| 2017 | Chinese film Youth was released in theaters. This is one of the highest grossing non-English movies in the world. | Release Date |
| 2017 | Supercentenarian from Spain, Ana María Vela Rubio died at the age of 116 years, 47 days. | Death day |
| 2013 | American actress Joan Fontaine died. | Death day |
| 2005 | Chess grandmaster from Italy, Enrico Paoli died. | Death day |
| 1997 | Chess grandmaster from Italy, Pier Luigi Basso was born. | Birthday |
| 1997 | Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 aircraft incident at Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, killed 85 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1986 | Chess grandmaster from Azerbaijan, Djakhangir Agaragimov was born. | Birthday |
| 1966 | West Indian cricketer Carl Hooper was born. | Birthday |
| 1964 | Italy's first artificial satellite San Marco 1 was launched. | Launch Day |
| 1962 | English actor Charles Laughton died. | Death day |
| 1958 | Austrian-born physicist Wolfgang Pauli died. | Death day |
| 1943 | British mathematician and computer scientist Bernard de Neumann was born. | Birthday |
| 1939 | Hollywood film Gone with the Wind was released in theaters. This is one of the highest grossing movies. | Release Date |
| 1916 | New Zealand-born British physicist Maurice Wilkins was born. | Birthday |
| 1913 | Japanese politician Masayoshi Ito was born. | Birthday |
| 1907 | Soviet engineer Nikolai Nikitin was born. | Birthday |
| 1889 | Supercentenarian from Spain, Joan Riudavets Moll was born. He died at the age of 114 years, 81 days. | Birthday |
| 1861 | Finnish politician Pehr Evind Svinhufvud was born. | Birthday |
| 1860 | Faroese physician Niels Ryberg Finsen was born. | Birthday |
| 1859 | Polish ophthalmologist Ludwik Lazarz Zamenhof was born. | Birthday |
| 1857 | English engineer and inventor George Cayley died. | Death day |
| 1852 | French physicist Henri Becquerel was born. | Birthday |
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