| Catherine of Aragon | 12/16/1485 | Birth | Queen of England |
| Queen Elizabeth I of England | 9/7/1533 | Birth | |
| Étienne de La Boétie | 11/1/1530 | Birth | French judge and writer |
| Naomi Klein | 5/5/1970 | Birth | Canadian author and activist |
| Artur da Silva Bernardes | 8/8/1875 | Birth | President of Brazil |
| Sir Zelman Cowen | 10/7/1919 | Birth | Australian politician |
| Button Gwinnett | 4/10/1735 | Birth | Signer of the US Declaration of Independence |
| Henry I of Hesse | 6/24/1244 | Birth | |
| Hso Khan Pha | 4/15/1938 | Birth | Burmese politician |
| Bob Mathias | 9/2/2006 | Death | US athlete and congressman |
| Melville Weston Fuller | 7/4/1910 | Death | 8th Chief Justice of the United States |
| Elizabeth de Burgh | 10/27/1327 | Death | queen of Robert I of Scotland |
| John Byron, 1st Baron Byron | 8/23/1652 | Death | English royalist politician |
| William Wilberforce | 7/29/1833 | Death | English abolitionist |
| Michael VIII Palaiologos | 12/11/1282 | Death | Greek Byzantine Emperor |
| Tsar Alexander III of Russia | 11/1/1894 | Death | |
| Emperor Takakura of Japan | 1/30/1181 | Death | |
| Morarji Desai | 4/10/1995 | Death | Prime Minister of India |
| Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia | 1/20/1191 | Death | |
| King Charles I of England (exe... | 1/30/1649 | Death | |
| King Rudolph of France | 1/15/936 | Death | |
| Joachim Heer | 3/1/1879 | Death | Swiss politician |
| Alfred Deakin | 10/7/1919 | Death | second Prime Minister of Australia |
| Al-Mu'tasim | 1/5/842 | Death | Abbasid caliph |
| Justiniano Montano | 3/31/2005 | Death | Filipino politician |
| Llywelyn the Last | 12/11/1282 | Death | Prince of Gwynedd |
| Louis of Praet | 10/7/1555 | Death | Habsburg diplomat |
| U Razak | 7/19/1947 | Death | Burmese politician |
| * 4/5/1792 — U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is use... |
| * 7/4/1910 — African-US boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking... |
| * 9/12/1944 — World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina BaÅta in west... |
| * 9/17/1991 — North Korea South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the Un... |
| * 10/27/1795 — The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid which establishes the boundaries between Spanish c... |
| * 7/19/1947 — Prime minister of shadow Burma government ,Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet member... |
| * 10/7/1763 — George III of Great Britain issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763 closing aboriginal lands in North... |
| * 12/11/1282 — Llywelyn the Last the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wal... |
| * 5/5/1762 — Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg. |
| * 11/1/1894 — Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III dies. |
| * 8/3/8 — Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. |
| * 1/30/1649 — King Charles I of England is beheaded. |
| * 10/17/1961 — Scores of Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police at the instigation... |
| * 12/11/1958 — French Upper Volta gains self-government from France and becomes the Republic of Upper Volta, taking me... |
| * 7/9/1541 — Estevão da Gama departs Massawa leaving behind 400 matchlock men and 150 slaves under his brother Chris... |
| * 4/30/1975 — Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditi... |
| * 10/12/1810 — First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the mar... |
| * 12/1/1864 — In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as... |