| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 43 people died in Northern California Wildfires at Sonoma County, Napa County, Mendocino County, California, United States. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 2001 | Chess grandmaster from Romania, Bogdan-Daniel Deac was born. | Birthday |
| 2001 | SAS Flight 686 and Private aircraft (D-IEVX) aircraft incident at Milan, Italy, killed 118 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1993 | Spanish-Venezuelan tennis player Garbine Muguruza was born. | Birthday |
| 1993 | Golfer from United States, Pete Cooper died. | Death day |
| 1992 | German statesman Willy Brandt died. | Death day |
| 1991 | Independence Day of Croatia. | National Holiday |
| 1987 | Chess grandmaster from Indonesia, Susanto Megaranto was born. | Birthday |
| 1987 | Greek politician Konstantinos Tsatsos died. | Death day |
| 1985 | American singer and songwriter Bruno Mars was born. | Birthday |
| 1982 | British politician and diplomat Philip Noel-Baker died. | Death day |
| 1979 | Chess grandmaster from South Africa, Kenny Solomon was born. | Birthday |
| 1977 | Soviet architect Alexey Dushkin died. | Death day |
| 1972 | Chess grandmaster from France, Hichem Hamdouchi was born. | Birthday |
| 1967 | British politician Clement Attlee died. | Death day |
| 1965 | American swimmer Matt Biondi was born. | Birthday |
| 1959 | Astronaut from United States, Carlos Noriega was born. | Birthday |
| 1957 | Windscale fire nuclear accident | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1956 | Astronaut from United States, Janice Voss was born. | Birthday |
| 1956 | South African inventor Terry Keith Ashwin was born. | Birthday |
| 1952 | 112 people died in Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1929 | Chess grandmaster from United States, Arthur Bisguier was born. | Birthday |
| 1928 | Australian cricketer Neil Harvey was born. | Birthday |
| 1927 | Argentinian biochemist Cesar Milstein was born. | Birthday |
| 1919 | Japanese politician Kiichi Miyazawa was born. | Birthday |
| 1918 | Danish chemist Jens Christian Skou was born. | Birthday |
| 1917 | British biochemist Rodney Robert Porter was born. | Birthday |
| 1908 | Chess grandmaster from Soviet Union, Viacheslav Ragozin was born. | Birthday |
| 1883 | German physiologist Otto Heinrich Warburg was born. | Birthday |
| 1875 | Italian inventor Ignazio Porro died. | Death day |
| 1871 | Around 1,200–2,500 people died because of Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin, United States. This is one of the deadliest wildfires. | Natural Disaster |
| 1869 | American politician Franklin Pierce died. | Death Day |
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