| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Japanese chemist Osamu Shimomura died. | Death day |
| 2017 | Indian film Secret Superstar was released in theaters. This is one of the highest grossing movies in India. | Release Date |
| 2017 | Supercentenarian from France, Honorine Rondello died at the age of 114 years, 83 days. | Death day |
| 2011 | Isle of Man's first artificial satellite ViaSat-1 was launched. | Launch Day |
| 2004 | Canadian chemical engineer and inventor Lewis Urry died. | Death day |
| 2002 | Astronaut from Soviet Union, Nikolay Rukavishnikov died. | Death day |
| 1990 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Mikhail Mozharov was born. | Birthday |
| 1990 | Chess grandmaster from Sweden, Erik Blomqvist was born. | Birthday |
| 1990 | Golfer from United States, Lew Worsham died. | Death day |
| 1989 | South Korean badminton player Shin Baek Cheol was born. | Birthday |
| 1988 | Indian Airlines Flight 113 aircraft incident at Ahmedabad, India, killed 133 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1987 | 156 people died in Bintaro train crash. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1978 | American actor Gig Young died. | Death day |
| 1970 | Mexican politician Lazaro Cardenas died. | Death day |
| 1967 | Bulgarian inventor and engineer Assen Jordanoff died. | Death day |
| 1961 | Filipino politician Sergio Osmena died. | Death day |
| 1959 | Chess grandmaster from Germany, Ralf Lau was born. | Birthday |
| 1959 | American lawyer and businessman Brian Moynihan was born. | Birthday |
| 1945 | British-American economist Angus Deaton was born. | Birthday |
| 1945 | Mexican politician Plutarco Elias Calles died. | Death day |
| 1937 | New Zealand-born British physicist and chemist Ernest Rutherford died. | Death day |
| 1926 | Romanian physician and bacteriologist Victor Babes died. | Death day |
| 1916 | French immunologist Jean Dausset was born. | Birthday |
| 1910 | Indian American physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born. | Birthday |
| 1910 | Golfer from United States, Vic Ghezzi was born. | Birthday |
| 1909 | Pakistani politician Mohammad Ali Bogra was born. | Birthday |
| 1899 | Guatemalan poet and novelist Miguel Angel Asturias was born. | Birthday |
| 1897 | American engineer George Pullman died. | Death day |
| 1875 | English scientist and inventor Charles Wheatstone died. | Death day |
| 1872 | Swiss chemist and textile engineer Jacques E. Brandenberger was born. | Birthday |
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