| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 120+ people died in Jilin Baoyuanfeng poultry plant fire at Dehui, China. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 2012 | American chemist William Standish Knowles died. | Death day |
| 1997 | 59 people died in Uphaar Cinema fire at Green Park, Delhi, India. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1993 | Astronaut from United States, Donald Slayton died. | Death day |
| 1987 | American actress Geraldine Page died. | Death day |
| 1986 | Golfer from Australia, Jim Ferrier died. | Death day |
| 1979 | Chess grandmaster from Ukraine, Maxim Pavlov was born. | Birthday |
| 1979 | Thai badminton player Saralee Thungthongkam was born. | Birthday |
| 1976 | British tennis player Sue Barker won her first title in 1976 French Open. | Achievement |
| 1972 | Hungarian biophysicist Georg von Bekesy died. | Death day |
| 1968 | Chess grandmaster from Netherlands, Ivan Sokolov was born. | Birthday |
| 1964 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Vadim Ruban was born. | Birthday |
| 1962 | Chess grandmaster from Scotland, Paul Motwani was born. | Birthday |
| 1957 | Russian footballer Rinat Dasayev was born. | Birthday |
| 1951 | Australian politician Ben Chifley died. | Death day |
| 1947 | Macedonian politician Savo Klimovski was born. | Birthday |
| 1947 | Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 410 aircraft incident at Shannondale, West Virginia, US, killed 50 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1946 | American chemist Paul L. Modrich was born. | Birthday |
| 1945 | Astronaut from United States, Ronald Grabe was born. | Birthday |
| 1935 | Thai politician Samak Sundaravej was born. | Birthday |
| 1933 | Chess grandmaster from Hungary, Levente Lengyel was born. | Birthday |
| 1928 | American mathematician and economist John Forbes Nash, Jr. was born. | Birthday |
| 1918 | American actor Ben Johnson was born. | Birthday |
| 1911 | American physicist Luis Walter Alvarez was born. | Birthday |
| 1897 | Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi was born. | Birthday |
| 1870 | Belgian immunologist and microbiologist Jules Bordet was born. | Birthday |
| 1865 | Irish poet W. B. Yeats was born. | Birthday |
| 1854 | Anglo-Irish engineer Charles Algernon Parsons was born. | Birthday |
| 1831 | Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell was born. | Birthday |
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