| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
|---|
| 0685 | Ecgfrith | King of Northumbria | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1277 | John XXI | Pope |  Portugal |
| 1285 | John II of Jerusalem | King of Cyprus |  Cyprus |
| 1444 | Saint Bernardino of Siena | Italian priest, preacher, Franciscan missionary and Christian saint |  Italy |
| 1503 | Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici | Italian banker and politician | Italy |
| 1506 | Christopher Columbus | Genoese navigator, colonizer and explorer | Italy |
| 1550 | Ashikaga Yoshiharu | 12th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate |  Japan |
| 1622 | Osman II | Ottoman Sultan |  Turkey |
| 1648 | Wladyslaw IV | King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth |  Poland |
| 1650 | Francesco Sacrati | Italian composer | Italy |
| 1677 | George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol | English statesman | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1713 | Thomas Sprat | English divine | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1717 | John Trevor (Speaker) | English lawyer and politician | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1722 | Sebastien Vaillant | French botanist |  France |
| 1732 | Thomas Boston | Scottish church leader | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1782 | William Emerson (mathematician) | English mathematician | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1793 | Charles Bonnet | Swiss naturalist and writer |  Switzerland |
| 1812 | Count Hieronymus von Colloredo | Prince-Bishop of Gurk and Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg |  Austria |
| 1825 | Papaflessas | Greek patriot, priest and government official of the old Flessas Family |  Greece |
| 1834 | Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette | French soldier and statesman | France |
| 1841 | Joseph Blanco White | Spanish theologian and poet |  Spain |
| 1864 | John Clare | English poet | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1873 | George-Etienne Cartier | French-Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation |  Canada |
| 1875 | Amalia of Oldenburg | Queen of Greece |  Germany |
| 1880 | Ana Neri | Brazilian nurse |  Brazil |
| 1896 | Clara Schumann | German pianist and composer | Germany |
| 1909 | Ernest Hogan | The first African American entertainer to produce and star in a Broadway show (The Oyster Man in 1907) and helped create the musical genre of ragtime | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1917 | Philipp von Ferrary | Legendary stamp collector | Italy |
| 1917 | Valentine Fleming | British Conservative Member of Parliament who was killed in World War I | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1925 | Elias M. Ammons | The elected Democratic governor of Colorado |  Georgia |
| 1927 | Peter Oscar Stribolt | Danish stage and film actor |  Denmark |
| 1932 | Bipin Chandra Pal | Indian freedom fighter |  India |
| 1940 | Verner von Heidenstam | Swedish poet and novellist, a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature |  Sweden |
| 1942 | Ray Hildebrand | American singer | United States(USA) |
| 1946 | Jacob Ellehammer | Danish inventor | Denmark |
| 1947 | Philipp Lenard | Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate | Austria |
| 1947 | Georgios Siantos | Prominent figure of the Greek Communist party | Greece |
| 1950 | John Gould Fletcher | Pulitzer Prize winning Imagist poet and author | United States(USA) |
| 1956 | Max Beerbohm | British caricaturist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1957 | Prof Gilbert Murray | Australian classical scholar |  Australia |
| 1961 | Josef Priller | German World War II fighter ace | Germany |
| 1963 | Walter Russell | American polymath | United States(USA) |
| 1971 | Waldo Williams | Welsh poet | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1973 | Jarno Saarinen | Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer |  Finland |
| 1974 | Jean Danielou | French cardinal | France |
| 1974 | Leontine Sagan | Austrian actress and theatre director | Austria |
| 1975 | Barbara Hepworth | Major British sculptor and artist of the twentieth century | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1976 | Syd Howe | Canadian professional ice hockey left winger | Canada |
| 1976 | Zelmar Michelini | Uruguayan reporter and politician |  Uruguay |
| 1976 | Hector Gutierrez Ruiz | Uruguayan political figure | Uruguay |
| 1989 | John Hicks | British economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1989 | Gilda Radner | American comedienne and actress | United States(USA) |
| 1995 | Ulysses Kay | African-American composer | United States(USA) |
| 1996 | Jon Pertwee | British actor | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1999 | Karnail Pitts | American rapper | United States(USA) |
| 2000 | Jean-Pierre Rampal | French flautist | France |
| 2000 | Malik Sealy | American professional basketball player | United States(USA) |
| 2001 | Renato Carosone | Italian musician | Italy |
| 2002 | Conrad L. Raiford | Champion athlete, educator, goodwill ambassador | United States(USA) |
| 2002 | Stephen Jay Gould | American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and historian of science | United States(USA) |
| 2003 | Paul Hagen | Danish film actor | Denmark |
| 2005 | J.D. Cannon | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | William Seawell | United States Army Brigadier General | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | Paul Ricoeur | French philosopher | France |
| 2007 | Norman Von Nida | Australian golfer | Australia |
| 2008 | Hamilton Jordan | Chief of Staff to President of the United States Jimmy Carter | United States(USA) |
| 2009 | Prof Jerzy Zubrzycki | Polish-born Australian sociologist | Australia |
| 2009 | Lucy Gordon (actress) | British actress and model | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2009 | Arthur Erickson | Internationally celebrated Canadian architect and urban planner | Canada |
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