| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | British-American geneticist Oliver Smithies died. | Death day |
| 2017 | German politician Roman Herzog died. | Death day |
| 2015 | Chess grandmaster from Serbia, Slobodan Martinovic died. | Death day |
| 1998 | Chess grandmaster from India, Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan was born. | Birthday |
| 1997 | Scottish chemist The Lord Todd died. | Death day |
| 1992 | Chess grandmaster from Germany, Andreas Heimann was born. | Birthday |
| 1989 | Soviet engineer Valentyn Glushko died. | Death day |
| 1986 | Czechoslovak writer Jaroslav Seifert died. | Death day |
| 1986 | Chinese badminton player He Hanbin was born. | Birthday |
| 1986 | Chinese badminton player Chen Jin was born. | Birthday |
| 1984 | Balkan Bulgarian Airlines (LZ-TUR) aircraft incident at Sofia, Bulgaria, killed 50 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1977 | American tennis player Roscoe Tanner won his first title in 1977 Australian Open (January). | Achievement |
| 1977 | American chef Ruth Graves Wakefield died. | Death day |
| 1976 | 23 people died in Pathfinder Hotel fire at Fremont, Nebraska, United States. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1974 | Indian actor Hrithik Roshan was born. | Birthday |
| 1970 | Astronaut from Soviet Union, Pavel Belyayev died. | Death day |
| 1964 | Chess grandmaster from North Macedonia, Dragoljub Jacimovic was born. | Birthday |
| 1959 | Canadian engineer and inventor Simon Sunatori was born. | Birthday |
| 1957 | Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral died. | Death day |
| 1956 | American singer-songwriter and musician Shawn Colvin was born. | Birthday |
| 1952 | Chess grandmaster from Ukraine, Oleg Romanishin was born. | Birthday |
| 1952 | Hollywood film The Greatest Show on Earth was released in theaters. This is one of the highest grossing movies. | Release Date |
| 1951 | American novelist Sinclair Lewis died. | Death day |
| 1949 | Chess grandmaster from United States, Walter Browne was born. | Birthday |
| 1945 | German anatomist Gunther von Hagens was born. | Birthday |
| 1936 | American physicist Robert Woodrow Wilson was born. | Birthday |
| 1934 | Ukrainian politician Leonid Kravchuk was born. | Birthday |
| 1922 | Japanese politician okuma Shigenobu died. | Death day |
| 1916 | Swedish biochemist Sune Bergstrom was born. | Birthday |
| 1916 | Golfer from United States, Bob Hamilton was born. | Birthday |
| 1898 | American physicist Katharine B. Blodgett was born. | Birthday |
| 1890 | Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak was born. | Birthday |
| 1883 | 71 people died in Newhall House Hotel fire at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1864 | Irish priest and scientist Nicholas Callan died. | Death day |
| 1862 | American inventor and industrialist Samuel Colt died. | Death day |
| 1778 | Swedish botanist and physician Carl Linnaeus died. | Death day |
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