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- ANZAC Day (Australia, New Zealand)
- Christian Feast Day
- DNA Day
- Flag Day (Faroe Islands)
- Freedom Day (Portugal)
- Liberation Day (Italy)
- Malaria Awareness Day (International)
- Military Foundation Day (North Korea)
- Red Hat Society Day
- Robigalia, in honor of Robigus. (Roman Empire)
- Sinai's Liberation Day (Egypt)
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- 2007 - Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
- 2005 - The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in .
- 2005 - Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
- 2005 - 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
- 2003 - The Human Genome Project comes to an end 2.5 years before first anticipated.
- 1988 - In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
- 1986 - Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
- 1983 - American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
- 1983 - Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
- 1982 - Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
- 1981 - More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
- 1975 - As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
- 1974 - Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrow the Estado Novo regime.
- 1972 - Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
- 1966 - The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
- 1965 - Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.
- 1961 - Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
- 1959 - The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
- 1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
- 1945 - Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
- 1945 - The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini tries to escape. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy.
- 1945 - Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
- 1945 - Last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
- 1944 - The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
- 1943 - The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
- 1939 - DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.
- 1938 - U.S. Supreme Court delivers opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
- 1916 - Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declare martial law in Ireland.
- 1916 - Anzac Day commemorated for the first time, on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
- 1915 - World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins—The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
- 1901 - New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
- 1898 - Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
- 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut capture the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
- 1861 - American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
- 1859 - British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
- 1849 - The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
- 1847 - The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
- 1846 - Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
- 1829 - Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
- 1792 - Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
- 1792 - La Marseillaise (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
- 1707 - The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- 1607 - Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
- -404 - Peloponnesian War: Lysander's Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.
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- 1996 - Allisyn Ashley Arm, American child actress
- 1989 - Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama
- 1988 - James Sheppard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987 - Johann Smith, American soccer player
- 1987 - Jay Park, b-boy & musician, part of Art of Movement
- 1985 - Giedo van der Garde, Dutch racing driver
- 1985 - Jadyn Maria, Puerto Rican singer & songwriter
- 1984 - Robert Andino, American baseball player
- 1984 - Melonie Diaz, American actress
- 1984 - Andre' Woodson, American football player
- 1983 - DeAngelo Williams, American football player
- 1983 - J.P. Howell, American baseball player
- 1983 - Joanne Peh, Singaporean actress
- 1982 - Brian Barton, American baseball player
- 1982 - Monty Panesar, English cricketer for England
- 1982 - Marco Russo, Italian footballer
- 1981 - Dwone Hicks, American football player
- 1981 - Felipe Massa, Brazilian Formula One driver
- 1981 - John McFall, British Paralympic sprinter
- 1981 - Anja Pärson, Swedish skier
- 1980 - Alejandro Valverde, Spanish cyclist
- 1980 - Daniel MacPherson, Australian actor
- 1980 - Bruce Martin, New Zealand cricketer
- 1980 - Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese baseball player
- 1978 - Letícia Birkheuer, Brazilian model
- 1978 - Matt Walker, British Paralympic swimmer
- 1977 - Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer
- 1977 - Marguerite Moreau, American actress
- 1977 - Matthew West, American Christian singer
- 1977 - Ilias Kotsios, Greek footballer
- 1977 - Paavo Siljamäki, Finnish musician
- 1977 - Kim Jong Kook, South Korean singer
- 1976 - Tim Duncan, American basketball player
- 1976 - Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
- 1976 - Gilberto, Brazilian footballer
- 1975 - Emily Bergl, British-American actress
- 1975 - Jacque Jones, American baseball player
- 1974 - Dean Phoenix American gay pornographic actor
- 1973 - Fredrik Larzon, Swedish drummer (Millencolin)
- 1972 - Sara Baras, Spanish ballerina
- 1971 - Tomoko Kawakami, voice actress, Japanese Seiyuu
- 1970 - Jason Lee, American actor
- 1970 - Jason Wiles, American actor
- 1969 - Joe Buck, American sports broadcaster
- 1969 - Gina Torres, American actress
- 1969 - Darren Woodson, American football player
- 1969 - Renée Zellweger, American actress
- 1966 - James Stacy Barbour, American actor and singer
- 1966 - Erik Pappas, Greek-American baseball player
- 1966 - Diego Domínguez, Argentine-born Italian rugby player
- 1965 - Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction, Deconstruction, Polar Bear)
- 1965 - Simon Fowler, English musician (Ocean Colour Scene)
- 1965 - Mark Bryant, American basketball player
- 1964 - Hank Azaria, American actor and voice actor
- 1964 - Andy Bell, English singer and songwriter (Erasure)
- 1963 - David Moyes, Everton Football Club manager
- 1961 - Dinesh D'Souza, American author
- 1960 - Bruce Redman, Australian film producer
- 1959 - Dominique Blanc, French actress
- 1958 - Fish, Scottish singer and lyricist (ex-Marillion)
- 1956 - Jaroslava Schallerová, Hungarian actress
- 1955 - Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor
- 1955 - Américo Gallego, Argentine footballer
- 1955 - Christopher Tyng, American composer
- 1953 - Ron Clements, American animation director
- 1952 - Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist
- 1952 - Vladislav Tretiak, Soviet ice hockey player
- 1951 - Ian McCartney, British Member of Parliament
- 1950 - Steve Ferrone, English drummer
- 1950 - Peter Jurasik, American actor
- 1949 - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer, and politician
- 1949 - Vicente Pernía, Argentine footballer
- 1949 - James Fenton, English poet
- 1948 - Yu Shyi-kun, former Premier of Taiwan
- 1947 - Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer
- 1947 - Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor
- 1946 - Talia Shire, American actress
- 1946 - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician
- 1945 - Stu Cook, American rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
- 1945 - Richard C. Hoagland, American conspiracy theorist
- 1945 - Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
- 1942 - Jon Kyl, American politician, junior senator of Arizona
- 1942 - Katsuji Adachi, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1941 - Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter and actor
- 1941 - Princess Muna al-Hussein, of Jordan
- 1940 - Jochen Borchert, German politician
- 1940 - Al Pacino, American actor
- 1939 - Ted Kooser, American poet and US Poet Laureate
- 1938 - Ton Schulten, Dutch artist
- 1935 - April Ashley, English model
- 1934 - Peter McParland, Northern Irish footballer
- 1933 - Jerry Leiber, American composer
- 1932 - William Roache, British television actor (Coronation Street)
- 1932 - Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player
- 1931 - Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)
- 1930 - Paul Mazursky, American film director and writer
- 1929 - Yvette Williams, first woman New Zealander to go to Olympics
- 1927 - Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
- 1927 - Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist (d. 2009)
- 1926 - Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
- 1925 - Sammy Drechsel, German journalist, film director, and cabaret performer (d. 1986)
- 1925 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1924 - Franco Mannino, Italian composer (d. 2005)
- 1923 - Melissa Hayden, American ballerina (d. 2006)
- 1923 - Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
- 1921 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)
- 1918 - Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (d. 1995)
- 1918 - Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (d. 2006)
- 1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)
- 1914 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)
- 1913 - Nikolaos Roussen, Greek naval officer in World War II (d. 1944)
- 1909 - William Pereira, American architect (d. 1985)
- 1908 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)
- 1906 - William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)
- 1905 - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1986)
- 1903 - Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987)
- 1902 - Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
- 1900 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1898 - Fred Haney, baseball player (d. 1977)
- 1897 - Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (d. 1965)
- 1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
- 1873 - Walter de la Mare, English poet (d. 1956)
- 1868 - John Bevins Moisant, American aviator (d. 1910)
- 1862 - Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, British politician (d. 1933)
- 1851 - Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist (d. 1901)
- 1850 - Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer (d. 1927)
- 1849 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (d. 1925)
- 1843 - Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1878)
- 1776 - Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857)
- 1775 - Charlotte of Spain, Spanish Infanta and queen of Portugal (d. 1830)
- 1770 - Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)
- 1767 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (d. 1847)
- 1725 - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1786)
- 1710 - James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1776)
- 1694 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (d. 1753)
- 1621 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679)
- 1608 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (d. 1660)
- 1599 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1658)
- 1502 - Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (d. 1574)
- 1287 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (d. 1330)
- 1284 - King Edward II of England (d. 1327)
- 1228 - Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254)
- 1214 - King Louis IX of France (d. 1270)