| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Malift Air (9Q-COS) aircraft incident at Kinshasa, DR Congo, killed 51 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 2004 | Astronaut from United States, Gordon Cooper died. | Death day |
| 2001 | Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 aircraft incident at Black Sea, area of Ünye, Turkey, killed 78 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 2000 | British-born Canadian chemist Michael Smith died. | Death day |
| 1999 | Chess grandmaster from Spain, Miguel Santos Ruiz was born. | Birthday |
| 1997 | Japanese video game designer Gunpei Yokoi died. | Death day |
| 1995 | American businessman and entrepreneur Ed Lowe died. | Death day |
| 1993 | Georgian Air Force aircraft incident at near Svaneti, Georgia, killed 60 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1991 | Chinese badminton player Lu Kai was born. | Birthday |
| 1989 | Chinese badminton player Hong Wei was born. | Birthday |
| 1977 | Chess grandmaster from Poland, Bartłomiej Macieja was born. | Birthday |
| 1973 | Chess grandmaster from Serbia, Branko Tadic was born. | Birthday |
| 1972 | American basketball player Kurt Thomas was born. | Birthday |
| 1972 | 208 people died in Saltillo Coahuila. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1966 | Independence Day of Lesotho. | National Holiday |
| 1965 | Russian cybersecurity expert Eugene Kaspersky was born. | Birthday |
| 1960 | Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 aircraft incident at Boston, Massachusetts, US, killed 62 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1957 | Soviet Union's first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 was launched. | Launch Day |
| 1957 | Astronaut from United States, Gregory Linteris was born. | Birthday |
| 1956 | German-Austrian actor Christoph Waltz was born. | Birthday |
| 1947 | German physicist Max Planck died. | Death day |
| 1946 | American actress Susan Sarandon was born. | Birthday |
| 1938 | Swiss chemist Kurt Wuthrich was born. | Birthday |
| 1923 | American actor Charlton Heston was born. | Birthday |
| 1921 | Russian and Armenian scientist Alexander Kemurdzhian was born. | Birthday |
| 1918 | Japanese chemist Kenichi Fukui was born. | Birthday |
| 1916 | Soviet and Russian physicist Vitaly Ginzburg was born. | Birthday |
| 1903 | American physicist and inventor John Vincent Atanasoff was born. | Birthday |
| 1881 | Romanian scientist and engineer George Constantinescu was born. | Birthday |
| 1859 | Russian painter and architect Sergey Malyutin was born. | Birthday |
| 1858 | Serbian American physicist Michael I. Pupin was born. | Birthday |
| 1858 | French industrialist Leon Serpollet was born. | Birthday |
| 1841 | Brazilian politician Prudente de Morais was born. | Birthday |
| 1832 | English inventor William Griggs was born. | Birthday |
| 1822 | American politician Rutherford B. Hayes was born. | Birthday |
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