| 1700 | Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician |
| 1885 | Alban Berg, Austrian composer |
| 1891 | Ronald Colman, English born film actor |
| 1939 | Janet Suzman, Actress |
| 1940 | Brian Bennett, Drummer with the 'Shadows' group |
| 1941 | Carole King, American singer/songwriter |
| 1945 | Mia Farrow, American film actress |
| 1830 | Charles Sturt discoverd the source of the Murray river in Australia |
| 1970 | The worlds first nerve transplant took place in Germany |
| 1971 | The first British soldier was killed in Northern Ireland |
| 1972 | A State of Emergency was declared in Britain because of the third month of a miners strike |
| 1974 | Miners began striking over a wage dispute |
| 1981 | Billy Haley, the American rock and roll musician, died |
| 1983 | The Derby Winner Shergar was stolen; a 2 million ransom was demanded |
| 1989 | Neo-Nazi groups were outlawed in West Germany |
| 1992 | Fighting between government and guerrilla forces in Rwanda continued |