| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Chess grandmaster from Cuba, Luis Ernesto Quesada Perez was born. | Birthday |
| 1994 | Danish badminton player Viktor Axelsen was born. | Birthday |
| 1993 | Chess grandmaster from United Arab Emirates, Salem A. R. Saleh was born. | Birthday |
| 1992 | Chinese badminton player Liu Cheng was born. | Birthday |
| 1990 | 307 people died in Sukkur rail disaster. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1987 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Artem Iljin was born. | Birthday |
| 1981 | Indonesian badminton player Vita Marissa was born. | Birthday |
| 1981 | Chinese badminton player Zhang Jiewen was born. | Birthday |
| 1974 | American record producer and songwriter Christopher Stewart was born. | Birthday |
| 1971 | Chess grandmaster from Greece, Ioannis Nikolaidis was born. | Birthday |
| 1970 | Astronaut from United States, Christopher Cassidy was born. | Birthday |
| 1967 | Golfer from United States, David Toms was born. | Birthday |
| 1965 | British playwright T. S. Eliot died. | Death day |
| 1965 | Aeroflot Flight 20 aircraft incident at Almaty, Kazakh SSR, USSR, killed 64 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1963 | Norwegian psychologist May-Britt Moser was born. | Birthday |
| 1961 | Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger died. | Death day |
| 1960 | French philosopher and author Albert Camus died. | Death day |
| 1957 | Golfer from United States, Al Espinosa died. | Death day |
| 1945 | American chemist Richard R. Schrock was born. | Birthday |
| 1941 | French-Jewish philosopher Henri Bergson died. | Death day |
| 1941 | Golfer from Scotland and United States, Clarence Hackney died. | Death day |
| 1940 | Chinese novelist and playwright Gao Xingjian was born. | Birthday |
| 1940 | Welsh physicist Brian David Josephson was born. | Birthday |
| 1925 | Finnish skier Veikko Hakulinen was born. | Birthday |
| 1848 | Japanese politician Katsura Taro was born. | Birthday |
| 1809 | French educator and inventor Louis Braille was born. | Birthday |
| 1643 | English mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton was born. | Birthday |
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