| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Chess grandmaster from Hungary, Győző Forintos died. | Death day |
| 2013 | South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela died. | Death day |
| 2006 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, David Bronstein died. | Death day |
| 1995 | Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 56 aircraft incident at Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, killed 52 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1991 | Indonesian badminton player Angga Pratama was born. | Birthday |
| 1988 | Chess grandmaster from Sweden, Erik Lundin died. | Death day |
| 1986 | Chess grandmaster from Poland, Zbigniew Pakleza was born. | Birthday |
| 1985 | Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan was born. | Birthday |
| 1985 | American basketball player Josh Smith was born. | Birthday |
| 1982 | American basketball player Eddy Curry was born. | Birthday |
| 1982 | Golfer from United States, Ryan Moore was born. | Birthday |
| 1979 | Chess grandmaster from Uzbekistan, Rustam Kasimdzhanov was born. | Birthday |
| 1976 | Astronaut from Japan, Norishige Kanai was born. | Birthday |
| 1973 | Scottish pioneer radar technolog, Robert Watson-Watt died. | Death day |
| 1967 | Chess grandmaster from Latvia, Viesturs Meijers was born. | Birthday |
| 1965 | American physiologist Joseph Erlanger died. | Death day |
| 1963 | Pakistani politician Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy died. | Death day |
| 1956 | Chess grandmaster from United States, Ron Henley was born. | Birthday |
| 1951 | Chess grandmaster from Indonesia, Haji Ardiansyah was born. | Birthday |
| 1951 | Golfer from United States, Tom Purtzer was born. | Birthday |
| 1949 | Golfer from United States, Lanny Wadkins was born. | Birthday |
| 1949 | Astronaut from United States, Bruce Melnick was born. | Birthday |
| 1947 | Astronaut from Mongolia, Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa was born. | Birthday |
| 1945 | Israeli politician Moshe Katsav was born. | Birthday |
| 1932 | American physicist Sheldon Lee Glashow was born. | Birthday |
| 1925 | Polish novelist Władysław Reymont died. | Death day |
| 1915 | English electrical engineer and inventor Thomas Parker died. | Death day |
| 1903 | English physicist C. F. Powell was born. | Birthday |
| 1901 | German physicist Werner Heisenberg was born. | Birthday |
| 1896 | Czech-American biochemist Carl Ferdinand Cori was born. | Birthday |
| 1881 | Russian scientist Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov died. | Death day |
| 1876 | 278+ people died in Brooklyn Theatre fire at Brooklyn, New York, United States. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1782 | American politician Martin Van Buren was born. | Birthday |
| 1590 | Papacy of Pope Gregory XIV began. | Papacy began |
| 1443 | Pope Julius II was born. | Birthday |
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