| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Chess grandmaster from Indonesia, Herman Suradiradja died. | Death day |
| 2016 | Chess grandmaster from Switzerland, Viktor Korchnoi died. | Death day |
| 2013 | American chemist Jerome Karle died. | Death day |
| 2009 | French immunologist Jean Dausset died. | Death day |
| 2005 | Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal won his first title in 2005 French Open. | Achievement |
| 2005 | American actress Anne Bancroft died. | Death day |
| 2001 | Supercentenarian from France, Marie Brémont died at the age of 115 years, 42 days. | Death day |
| 1997 | Japanese badminton player Akane Yamaguchi was born. | Birthday |
| 1996 | American geneticist George Davis Snell died. | Death day |
| 1995 | Chess grandmaster from Germany, Heinz Lehmann died. | Death day |
| 1994 | China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 aircraft incident at Xian, China, killed 160 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1987 | German tennis player Steffi Graf won her first title in 1987 French Open. | Achievement |
| 1981 | Around 500–800 people died in Bihar train derailment. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1978 | Chess grandmaster from Bulgaria, Milen Vasilev was born. | Birthday |
| 1971 | Hughes Airwest Flight 706 and US Marine Corps (151458) aircraft incident at San Gabriel Mts., near Duarte, California, US, killed 50 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1967 | Chess grandmaster from Austria, Josef Klinger was born. | Birthday |
| 1967 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Vladimir Burmakin was born. | Birthday |
| 1965 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Aleksandr Poluljahov was born. | Birthday |
| 1962 | French artist Yves Klein died. | Death day |
| 1956 | Swedish tennis player Bjorn Borg was born. | Birthday |
| 1956 | Astronaut from United States, Jay Buckey was born. | Birthday |
| 1946 | German dramatist and novelist Gerhart Hauptmann died. | Death day |
| 1944 | American geneticist Phillip Allen Sharp was born. | Birthday |
| 1943 | American chemist Richard Smalley was born. | Birthday |
| 1934 | American inventor Charles Francis Jenkins died. | Death day |
| 1933 | Swiss physicist Heinrich Rohrer was born. | Birthday |
| 1932 | Astronaut from United States, David Scott was born. | Birthday |
| 1918 | American biochemist Edwin G. Krebs was born. | Birthday |
| 1916 | Swedish Flag Day, National Day (1983) of Sweden. | National Holiday |
| 1891 | Canadian politician John A. Macdonald died. | Death day |
| 1884 | Golfer from Scotland and United States, Jock Hutchison was born. | Birthday |
| 1878 | Scottish engineer Reverend Dr Robert Stirling died. | Death day |
| 1875 | German novelist Thomas Mann was born. | Birthday |
| 1850 | German physicist Karl Ferdinand Braun was born. | Birthday |
| 1850 | German inventor and physicist Karl Ferdinand Braun was born. | Birthday |
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