| 1718 | William Hunter, Scottish anatomist |
| 1848 | Otto Lilienthal, German glider builder |
| 1883 | Douglas Fairbanks Snr, American film star |
| 1910 | Scatman Crothers, American actor |
| 1918 | Dennis Compton, Cricketer |
| 1921 | Humphrey Lyttleton, Jazz musician |
| 1933 | Joan Collins Actress and soap star |
| 1954 | Marvin Hagler, American boxer |
| 1618 | The Thirty Years War began |
| 1886 | Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian playwright, died |
| 1887 | The French crown jewels were sold off for six million francs |
| 1903 | Rome and Paris were linked by telephone for the first time |
| 1904 | European ministers were stoned by mobs, in the Haiti capital Port-Au-Prince |
| 1923 | The Belgian airline 'Sabena' was formed |
| 1926 | The Lebanon, in the Middle East, became a republic |
| 1927 | Charles Linbergh, the US aviator, was awarded the Legion Of Honour by the French |
| 1934 | Bonnie & Clyde, the American bank robbers, were shot dead by Texas Rangers |
| 1945 | Hitlers minister, Heinrich Himmler, comitted suicide |
