| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Hungarian and American chemist George Andrew Olah died. | Death day |
| 2014 | Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 aircraft incident at Unknown, possibly Indian Ocean, killed 239 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1998 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, David Paravyan was born. | Birthday |
| 1990 | Czech tennis player Petra Kvitova was born. | Birthday |
| 1990 | Chess grandmaster from Spain, Xavier Vila Gazquez was born. | Birthday |
| 1984 | New Zealand cricketer Ross Taylor was born. | Birthday |
| 1975 | American film director George Stevens died. | Death day |
| 1964 | Chess grandmaster from Croatia, Bogdan Lalić was born. | Birthday |
| 1963 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Alexey Kuzmin was born. | Birthday |
| 1960 | Chess grandmaster from Italy, Lexy Ortega was born. | Birthday |
| 1957 | Australian inventor and artist Myra Juliet Farrell died. | Death day |
| 1952 | Astronaut from Soviet Union, Vladimir Vasyutin was born. | Birthday |
| 1949 | Peruvian footballer Teófilo Cubillas was born. | Birthday |
| 1947 | American lyricist and singer Carole Bayer Sager was born. | Birthday |
| 1930 | American politician William H. Taft died. | Death Day |
| 1925 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Efim Geller was born. | Birthday |
| 1924 | Polish-born French physicist Georges Charpak was born. | Birthday |
| 1923 | Dutch physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals died. | Death day |
| 1922 | German born American inventor and game developer Ralph H. Baer was born. | Birthday |
| 1917 | German general and inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin died. | Death day |
| 1910 | American actress Claire Trevor was born. | Birthday |
| 1907 | Greek politician Konstantinos Karamanlis was born. | Birthday |
| 1906 | Swedish inventor Victor Hasselblad was born. | Birthday |
| 1889 | Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson died. | Death day |
| 1886 | American chemist Edward Calvin Kendall was born. | Birthday |
| 1879 | German chemist Otto Hahn was born. | Birthday |
| 1874 | American politician Millard Fillmore died. | Death Day |
| 1839 | American inventor Josephine Cochrane was born. | Birthday |
| 1822 | Polish pharmacist and engineer Ignacy Lukasiewicz was born. | Birthday |
| 1789 | Mexican politician Miguel Barragan was born. | Birthday |
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