| 0 | | Feast of St. Quirinus of Neuss, Patron of Knights, Soldiers, and Cavalrymen |
| 430 | | Battle of Mold: St. Germanus defeats the Picts and Saxons |
| 988 | | Boudouin/Baldwin IV "the Bearded" becomes Count of Flanders (988-1037), |
| 1191 | | King Philip II of France sails from Sicily for the Holy Land (3rd Crusade) |
| 1282 | | "Sicilian Vespers" begin: Palermitans massacre French occupiers, initiating a successful war to transfer the island to the Catalans |
| 1296 | | Battle of Berwick: King Edward I defeats Sir William Douglas & the Scottish Nobles |
| 1533 | | Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon |
| 1603 | | Battle of Mellifont: English defeat the Irish |
| 1639 | | Massacre of Aberdeen: Montrose's Scots Covenanters slaughter the Royalists |
| 1814 | | Battle of Clichy: Austro-Russo-Prussians defeat the French |
| 1844 | | Battle of Santiago de los Caballeros: Dominicans defeat the Haitians |
| 1856 | | Triumphal reception at Paris for Napoleon III to welcome the French Army returning from the Crimea. |
| 1863 | | Pr Wilhelm Georg of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg becomes King George I of Greece (1863-1913) |
| 1942 | | SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp |
| 1944 | | TF 58 begins raids on Palau, Yap, and Ulithi. |
| 1945 | | Soviet troops enter Austria |
| 1945 | | The Red Army captures Danzig |
| 1961 | | NASA pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 51,690 m |
| 1981 | | Pres. Ronald Reagan and two others are wounded in an assassination attempt by John Hinckley, Jr. |
| 365 | | Emperor Ai of Eastern Jin , c. 24 (361–365) |
| 1135 | | Moses Maimonides [Moses ben Maimon], philospher, physician, d. 1204 |
| 1432 | | Ottoman Sultan Mehemet II "the Conqueror" (1444-1446, 1451-81) -- Learn More |
| 1746 | | Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish artist ("The Disasters of War", "The Naked Maja", etc.), d. 1828 |
| 1785 | | Field-Marshal Henry Viscount Hardinge, of the Peninsular War and Sutlej Campaign, d. 1856 |
| 1790 | | Joseph Smith, naval officer, U.S., d. 1877 |
| 1793 | | Juan Manuel de Rosas, Argentine patriot, soldier, politician, and Caudillo, d. 1877 |
| 1823 | | Joseph Farmer Knipe, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1901 |
| 1824 | | Innis Newton Palmer, Brig Gen., U.S., d. 1900 |
| 1825 | | Samuel Bell Maxey, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1895 |
| 1844 | | Paul-Marie Verlaine, French poet who wrote "Wound my heart with a monotonous languor", d. 1896 |
| 1880 | | Walter Short, US Army commander at Pearl Harbor, who didn't understand the words "war warning", d. 1949 -- Learn More |
| 1939 | | Batman, in "Detective Comics" #27 |
| 1957 | | Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova, Russian cosmonaut |
| 317 | BC | Phocion, Strategos of Athens, outstanding admiral, executed at c. 85, having run afoul of his political enemies |
| 116 | | St. Quirinus of Neuss, Roman tribune, executed by Trajan for refusing to execute Christians |
| 943 | | Li Bian, 54, the first Emperor of Southern T'ang, as Zhenglun (937-943) |
| 988 | | Count Arnulf II of Flanders, c. 28 (965-988) |
| 1484 | | Filippo Savelli di Rignano, Marshal of the Holy See, assassinated |
| 1707 | | Sebastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban, fortification engineer, b. 1633 |
| 1840 | | George Bryan "Beau" Brummell, 61, sometime officer, 10th Royal Hussars, English fashionista |
| 1945 | | Maj Gen Maurice Rose (45), 3rd Arm Div, killed while being captured - the highest ranking American Jewish casualty in WW II |
| 1948 | | Mohandas Gandhi, The Mahatma, 78, assassinated in New Delhi |
| 1950 | | Leon Blum, 77, French Popular Front premier (1936-1937, 1938), appeaser |
| 1986 | | James Cagney, actor ("The Fighting 69th", "The Gallant Hours"), 86 |
| 1986 | | John Ciardi, B-29 pilot, poet, translator of Dante, at 69 |
| 2002 | | Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, at 101 |
| 2004 | | Alistair Cooke, 95, British-born American journalist, war correspondent, author, television personality |