| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | American physicist Hugh Bradner died. | Death day |
| 2007 | Kenya Airways Flight 507 aircraft incident at Douala, Cameroon, killed 114 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 2007 | American engineer Theodore Maiman died. | Death day |
| 1998 | Peruvian Air Force (FAP-351) aircraft incident at Andoas, Peru, killed 75 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1995 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Mikhail Botvinnik died. | Death day |
| 1993 | Golfer from United States, Dick Metz died. | Death day |
| 1988 | English singer and songwriter Adele Adkins was born. | Birthday |
| 1988 | English singer and songwriter Adele was born. | Birthday |
| 1987 | Chess grandmaster from Ukraine, Volodymyr Eryomenko was born. | Birthday |
| 1985 | American basketball player P. J. Tucker was born. | Birthday |
| 1985 | Chess grandmaster from Georgia, Konstantine Shanava was born. | Birthday |
| 1983 | Golfer from United States, Olin Dutra died. | Death day |
| 1977 | Romanian engineer Aurel Persu died. | Death day |
| 1972 | Alitalia Flight 112 aircraft incident at Cinisi, Sicily, Italy, killed 115 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1970 | Chess grandmaster from Georgia, Lasha Janjgava was born. | Birthday |
| 1966 | Russian skier Lyubov Yegorova was born. | Birthday |
| 1965 | Astronaut from China, Fei Junlong was born. | Birthday |
| 1960 | Astronaut from United States, Douglas Wheelock was born. | Birthday |
| 1959 | Argentine politician Carlos Saavedra Lamas died. | Death day |
| 1953 | German engineer Dieter Zetsche was born. | Birthday |
| 1951 | Golfer from United States, Leo Diegel died. | Death day |
| 1944 | Chess grandmaster from United States, Roman Dzindzichashvili was born. | Birthday |
| 1941 | Astronaut from Soviet Union, Anatoly Levchenko was born. | Birthday |
| 1921 | Austrian Jewish pacifist Alfred Hermann Fried died. | Death day |
| 1921 | American physicist Arthur Leonard Schawlow was born. | Birthday |
| 1921 | English inventor William Friese-Greene died. | Death day |
| 1919 | Greek politician Georgios Papadopoulos was born. | Birthday |
| 1916 | Indian politician Zail Singh was born. | Birthday |
| 1912 | The opening ceremony of Games of the V Olympiad, or 1912 Summer olympics was held in Stockholm. | |
| 1911 | Chess grandmaster from Hungary, Andor Lilienthal was born. | Birthday |
| 1884 | American sports shooter Carl Osburn was born. | Birthday |
| 1854 | Russian inventor Nikolay Slavyanov was born. | Birthday |
| 1846 | Polish journalist and novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz was born. | Birthday |
| 1785 | French inventor Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar was born. | Birthday |
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