| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Dutch politician Wim Kok died. | Death day |
| 2013 | American economist Lawrence Klein died. | Death day |
| 2012 | E. Donnall Thomas died. | Death day |
| 2010 | Pakistani politician Farooq Leghari died. | Death day |
| 2006 | American inventor Paul C. Fisher died. | Death day |
| 2000 | 22 people died in Lobohombo at Mexico City, Mexico. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1996 | Indonesian badminton player Anthony Ginting was born. | Birthday |
| 1994 | American actor Burt Lancaster died. | Death day |
| 1986 | Aeroflot Flight 6502 aircraft incident at Kurumoch, Samara Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR, killed 70 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1984 | Czech-American biochemist Carl Ferdinand Cori died. | Death day |
| 1984 | English physicist Paul Dirac died. | Death day |
| 1982 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Dmitry Bocharov was born. | Birthday |
| 1982 | Luzhniki disaster in Moscow killed 66 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1978 | Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag was born. | Birthday |
| 1967 | Japanese politician Shigeru Yoshida died. | Death day |
| 1966 | South African cricketer Allan Donald was born. | Birthday |
| 1964 | American politician Herbert Hoover died. | Death Day |
| 1963 | Indian cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu was born. | Birthday |
| 1963 | Astronaut from Canada, Julie Payette was born. | Birthday |
| 1960 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Konstantin Aseev was born. | Birthday |
| 1960 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Alexei Gavrilov was born. | Birthday |
| 1956 | English film director Danny Boyle was born. | Birthday |
| 1946 | Austrian playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek was born. | Birthday |
| 1942 | German biologist Christiane Nusslein-Volhard was born. | Birthday |
| 1935 | British politician Arthur Henderson died. | Death day |
| 1925 | Chess grandmaster from Yugoslavia, Borislav Milić was born. | Birthday |
| 1925 | Canadian American geophysicist Anthony R. Barringer was born. | Birthday |
| 1921 | Chess grandmaster from Germany, Heinz Lehmann was born. | Birthday |
| 1919 | American physical chemist Tracy Hall was born. | Birthday |
| 1891 | British physicist James Chadwick was born. | Birthday |
| 1784 | British politician Henry John Temple was born. | Birthday |
| 1687 | Magnitude 8.5 earthquake in Lima, Peru. This is one of the largest earthquake by magnitude. | Natural Disaster |
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