| VADM William P. Lawrence | 12/2/2005 | Death | United States Navy |
| Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen | 12/2/1849 | Death | wife of William IV of the United Kingdom |
| George Younger, 4th Viscount Y... | 1/26/2003 | Death | British politician |
| Joseph Williamson | 10/3/1701 | Death | English politician |
| Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Nor... | 5/21/1524 | Death | English soldier |
| King Charles XV / Carl IV of S... | 9/18/1872 | Death | |
| William II of the Netherlands | 3/17/1849 | Death | |
| Alcide De Gasperi | 8/19/1954 | Death | Prime Minister of Italy |
| Ciro Menotti | 5/26/1831 | Death | Italian patriot |
| Galla Placidia | 11/27/450 | Death | daughter of Roman Emperor Theodosius I and his second w... |
| Lal Bahadur Shastri | 1/11/1966 | Death | third Prime Minister of independent India |
| Vladimir Gotovac | 12/7/2000 | Death | Croatian poet and politician |
| Charles III of Alençon | 7/5/1375 | Death | French archbishop |
| Queen Emma of France | 11/2/943 | Death | |
| Renaude Lapointe | 5/11/2002 | Death | French Canadian journalist and senator |
| Abd al-Qadir | 5/26/1883 | Death | Algerian political and military leader |
| Elisabeth of Tirol | 10/28/1312 | Death | German queen |
| Giovanni Diodati | 10/3/1649 | Death | Swiss Protestant clergyman |
| Pam Barrett | 1/21/2008 | Death | Canadian politician |
| Enéas Carneiro | 5/6/2007 | Death | Brazilian politician |
| King Frederick I of Prussia | 2/25/1713 | Death | |
| King Martin I of Aragon | 5/31/1410 | Death | |
| Marcel Léger | 2/5/1993 | Death | Quebec politician |
| Pier Gerlofs Donia | 10/28/1520 | Death | Frisian pirate and freedom fighter |
| * 1/31/1946 — Yugoslavia's new constitution modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia-... |
| * 2/15/1879 — Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases be... |
| * 2/25/1921 — Tbilisi capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia. |
| * 7/30/1974 — Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being o... |
| * 8/4/1969 — Vietnam War: at the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris U.S. representative Henry Ki... |
| * 9/3/1783 — US Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the K... |
| * 11/2/1983 — U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. |
| * 11/7/1874 — A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly is considered the first important use of an elephant as a sy... |
| * 11/22/1963 — In Dallas, Texas US President John F. Kennedy is killed and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously... |
| * 12/12/1787 — Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the United States Constitution five days after Delaware b... |
| * 9/3/1939 — World War II: France the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany after the i... |
| * 11/17/1292 — (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland. |
| * 5/1/1960 — Cold War: U-2 Crisis Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Un... |
| * 7/10/1942 — The diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established. |
| * 8/29/1944 — Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis. |
| * 9/18/1872 — King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway. |
| * 7/20/1932 — Crowds in the capitals of Bolivia and Paraguay demand their governments declare war on the other after fi... |
| * 5/1/1960 — Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. |
| * 12/27/1512 — The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos governing the conduct of settlers with regards to native Ind... |
| * 12/17/1834 — Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway the first public railway on the island of Ireland. |
| * 11/17/1968 — Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopou... |
| * 4/26/1965 — A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting. |
| * 7/5/1999 — Wolverhampton was hit by storms which included a twister. In Pendeford water was reaching depths of 5 fee... |
| * 8/24/1949 — The treaty creating NATO goes into effect. |
| * 10/28/1936 — US President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary. |