| Leon Schlumpf | 2/3/1925 | Birth | member of the Swiss Federal Council |
| George-Étienne Cartier | 9/6/1814 | Birth | Canadian politician |
| Louis J. Robichaud | 10/21/1925 | Birth | Canadian premier of New Brunswick |
| Terry Fox | 7/28/1958 | Birth | Canadian athlete and activist |
| Friedrich Peter | 7/13/1921 | Birth | Austrian poltitician |
| Aung San | 2/13/1915 | Birth | Burmese general and politician |
| King Louis I of Naples | 7/23/1339 | Birth | |
| William I of Orange | 4/24/1533 | Birth | |
| Marais Viljoen | 1/4/2007 | Death | South African politician |
| Daniel J. Boorstin | 2/28/2004 | Death | US historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress |
| Elmer L. Andersen | 11/15/2004 | Death | Governor of Minnesota |
| Francis Lewis | 12/30/1803 | Death | signer of the US Declaration of Independence |
| Kazimierz Pułaski | 10/11/1779 | Death | Polish fighter for US independence |
| Leon Sullivan | 4/24/2001 | Death | US civil rights leader and pastor |
| Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of S... | 5/4/1471 | Death | English military commander (executed) |
| Edward of Westminster | 5/4/1471 | Death | Prince of Wales (killed in battle) |
| Igor Sikorsky | 10/26/1972 | Death | Kiev, Russian Empire (currently Ukraine) born inventor |
| Leo V | 12/25/820 | Death | Byzantine Emperor |
| Bernardino Machado | 4/29/1944 | Death | President of Portugal |
| King Przemysł II of Poland | 2/8/1296 | Death | |
| Malik Meraj Khalid | 6/13/2003 | Death | Former caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan |
| Adam Malik | 12/5/1984 | Death | Third Vice President of Indonesia |
| Amintore Fanfani | 11/20/1999 | Death | Italian politician and prime minister |
| Theodosius II | 7/28/450 | Death | Roman Emperor |
| Duke Albert of Prussia | 3/20/1568 | Death | |
| Duke Leopold VI of Austria | 7/28/1230 | Death | |
| King Henry III of France | 8/2/1589 | Death | |
| King Louis XIV of France | 9/1/1715 | Death | |
| Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt | 8/2/1849 | Death | |
| Ben Chifley | 6/13/1951 | Death | Prime Minister of Australia |
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| * 3/30/1870 — Florida territorial government is established. |
| * 4/4/1865 — US Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits... |
| * 5/4/1471 — Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward Princ... |
| * 7/8/1822 — Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom. |
| * 9/11/1185 — Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the re... |
| * 6/23/1941 — The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Gover... |
| * 2/23/1957 — The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar. |
| * 2/3/1509 — The Battle of Diu between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India. |
| * 9/26/1950 — United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans. |
| * 5/29/1914 — Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost. |
| * 9/26/1950 — Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations. |
| * 11/20/1947 — The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London. |
| * 9/1/1715 — King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch. |
| * 3/15/221 — Liu Bei a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and cla... |
| * 3/5/1999 — Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut. |
| * 7/13/1973 — Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigat... |
| * 8/27/1928 — The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first fifteen nations to do so. Ultimately sixty-o... |