| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Spanair Flight 5022 aircraft incident at Madrid, Spain, killed 154 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 2006 | Russian inventor Dmitri Garbuzov died. | Death day |
| 1995 | 358 people died in Firozabad rail disaster. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1987 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Anton Demchenko was born. | Birthday |
| 1975 | ČSA Flight 542 aircraft incident at Damascus, Syria, killed 126 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1974 | Chess grandmaster from Armenia, Narek Seferjan was born. | Birthday |
| 1961 | American physicist Percy Williams Bridgman died. | Death day |
| 1953 | Chess grandmaster from Serbia, Vladimir Kostić was born. | Birthday |
| 1946 | French politician Laurent Fabius was born. | Birthday |
| 1944 | Indian politician Rajiv Gandhi was born. | Birthday |
| 1938 | Astronaut from France, Jean-Loup Chrétien was born. | Birthday |
| 1936 | Japanese chemist Hideki Shirakawa was born. | Birthday |
| 1917 | German chemist Adolf von Baeyer died. | Death day |
| 1917 | German chemist Adolf von Baeyer died. | Death day |
| 1915 | German-Jewish physician Paul Ehrlich died. | Death day |
| 1914 | Pope Pius X died. | Death day |
| 1914 | Soviet inventor Alexander Nadiradze was born. | Birthday |
| 1913 | American neuropsychologist Roger Wolcott Sperry was born. | Birthday |
| 1910 | Around 87 people died because of Wildfire in Montana and Idaho, United States. This is one of the deadliest wildfires. | Natural Disaster |
| 1901 | Sicilian novelist and poet Salvatore Quasimodo was born. | Birthday |
| 1879 | Swedish sport shooter Alfred Swahn was born. | Birthday |
| 1860 | French politician Raymond Poincare was born. | Birthday |
| 1859 | Mexican politician Juan Bautista Ceballos died. | Death day |
| 1833 | American politician Benjamin Harrison was born. | Birthday |
| 1823 | Pope Pius VII died. | Death day |
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