| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 aircraft incident at Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, killed 112 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 2014 | Astronaut from Netherlands, Wubbo Ockels died. | Death day |
| 2013 | Chess grandmaster from Germany, Lothar Schmid died. | Death day |
| 2007 | French physicist Pierre-Gilles de Gennes died. | Death day |
| 2004 | American chemist and inventor Arnold O. Beckman died. | Death day |
| 1999 | Chess grandmaster from China, Bai Jinshi was born. | Birthday |
| 1992 | Chess grandmaster from Azerbaijan, Eltaj Safarli was born. | Birthday |
| 1972 | Aeroflot Flight 1491 aircraft incident at near Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, killed 122 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1960 | French tennis player Yannick Noah was born. | Birthday |
| 1958 | Sabena (OO-SFA) aircraft incident at Casablanca, Morocco, killed 61 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1951 | Dutch chemist Ben Feringa was born. | Birthday |
| 1943 | Chess grandmaster from Netherlands, Gennadi Sosonko was born. | Birthday |
| 1939 | German physicist Peter Grünberg was born. | Birthday |
| 1933 | Indian politician H. D. Deve Gowda was born. | Birthday |
| 1930 | Astronaut from United States, Don Lind was born. | Birthday |
| 1922 | French physician Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran died. | Death day |
| 1920 | Pope John Paul II was born. | Birthday |
| 1901 | American chemist Vincent du Vigneaud was born. | Birthday |
| 1897 | Italian-American film director Frank Capra was born. | Birthday |
| 1896 | New Zealand politician Daniel Pollen died. | Death day |
| 1883 | Brazilian politician Eurico Gaspar Dutra was born. | Birthday |
| 1872 | British philosopher and writer Bertrand Russell was born. | Birthday |
| 1817 | Hungarian chemist and inventor Janos Irinyi was born. | Birthday |
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