| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | The closing ceremony of XXIII Olympic Winter Games, or 2006 Winter olympics was held in Turin. | |
| 2004 | Macedonian politician Boris Trajkovski died. | Death day |
| 1998 | American economist Theodore Schultz died. | Death day |
| 1997 | Chinese badminton player Zheng Siwei was born. | Birthday |
| 1996 | Sudanese Air Force aircraft incident at Jabal Awliya, Sudan, killed 91 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1986 | Chess grandmaster from Georgia, Levan Pantsulaia was born. | Birthday |
| 1985 | Dutch economist Tjalling Koopmans died. | Death day |
| 1984 | Chess grandmaster from Germany, Leonid Kritz was born. | Birthday |
| 1982 | Chinese tennis player Li Na was born. | Birthday |
| 1982 | American singer and songwriter Nate Ruess was born. | Birthday |
| 1980 | Chess grandmaster from United States, Bryan Smith was born. | Birthday |
| 1973 | American swimmer Jenny Thompson was born. | Birthday |
| 1969 | Israeli politician Levi Eshkol died. | Death day |
| 1967 | Chess grandmaster from Czech Republic, Petr Velicka was born. | Birthday |
| 1965 | Polish-Russian stop-motion animator Ladislas Starevich died. | Death day |
| 1958 | Astronaut from United States, Susan Helms was born. | Birthday |
| 1954 | Turkish politician Recep T. Erdogan was born. | Birthday |
| 1952 | Greek politician Theodoros Pangalos died. | Death day |
| 1950 | New Zealand politician Helen Clark was born. | Birthday |
| 1947 | Hungarian physicist Kalman Tihanyi died. | Death day |
| 1946 | Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail was born. | Birthday |
| 1936 | Japanese politician Takahashi Korekiyo died. | Death day |
| 1936 | Japanese politician Saito Makoto died. | Death day |
| 1931 | German chemist Otto Wallach died. | Death day |
| 1928 | Israeli politician Ariel Sharon was born. | Birthday |
| 1928 | Astronaut from Soviet Union, Anatoly Filipchenko was born. | Birthday |
| 1925 | West Indian cricketer Everton Weekes was born. | Birthday |
| 1924 | Japanese politician Noboru Takeshita was born. | Birthday |
| 1918 | Happy Valley Racecourse fire in Hong Kong killed 614 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1903 | Italian chemist Giulio Natta was born. | Birthday |
| 1903 | American inventor Richard J. Gatling died. | Death day |
| 1902 | American tinsmith John Landis Mason died. | Death day |
| 1874 | Russian surgeon Nikolai Korotkov was born. | Birthday |
| 1868 | Brazilian politician Venceslau Bras was born. | Birthday |
| 1852 | American nutritionist and inventor John Harvey Kellogg was born. | Birthday |
| 1829 | German-American businessman Levi Strauss was born. | Birthday |
| 1725 | French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot was born. | Birthday |
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