The 271st day of the year — 675 recorded moments spanning 135–2025. NASA launches Dawn spacecraft NASA launched the Dawn spacecraft to explore the protoplanets Vesta and Ceres in the asteroid belt. It became the first mission to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies, illuminating early solar system formation. Ben Johnson stripped of Olympic gold The International Olympic Committee stripped Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson of his 100 m gold medal from the Seoul Games after a positive steroid test. The scandal reshaped anti-doping policies and public awareness in international sport. The Tonight Show premieres NBC premiered The Tonight Show, hosted by Steve Allen. It created the template for American late-night talk shows and became the longest-running talk show franchise in television history. Warsaw surrenders to Germany After a brutal siege, Warsaw agreed to surrender to German forces during World War II. The capitulation led to the occupation of Poland's capital and foreshadowed the devastation of the war in Eastern Europe. 2022 POLITICS 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine 2020 SPORTS 2020 Russian Grand Prix 2015 POLITICS 2015 Catalan regional election 2015 SPORTS 2015 Japanese Grand Prix 2014 DISASTER 2014 eruption of Mount Ontake 2009 POLITICS 2009 German federal election 2009 SPORTS 2009 Singapore Grand Prix 2009 POLITICS 2009 Portuguese legislative election 2007 AVIATION & SPACE NASA launches Dawn spacecraft 2001 LAW & CRIME Zug massacre 1999 WAR & MILITARY Batken Conflict 1998 POLITICS 1998 German federal election 1998 SPORTS 1998 Luxembourg Grand Prix 1992 SPORTS 1992 Portuguese Grand Prix 1989 Voronezh UFO incident 1988 SPORTS Ben Johnson stripped of Olympic gold 1987 SPORTS 1987 Spanish Grand Prix 1986 Balloonfest '86 1981 SPORTS 1981 Canadian Grand Prix 1977 DISASTER Japan Airlines Flight 715 1975 LAW & CRIME Last use of capital punishment in Spain 1954 The Tonight Show premieres 1940 POLITICS Tripartite Pact 1939 Warsaw surrenders to Germany 1888 Dear Boss letter 1822 Champollion announces decipherment of hieroglyphs 1821 POLITICS Consummation of Mexican Independence 1810 WAR & MILITARY Battle of Bussaco 1688 Nine Years' War 1605 WAR & MILITARY Battle of Kircholm 1540 Jesuit order formally approved 1331 WAR & MILITARY Battle of Płowce 1066 William the Conqueror sails for England 2011 POLITICS Prince Giorgi Bagrationi 2004 SPORTS João Neves 2004 POLITICS Autumn Peltier 2002 LITERATURE Jenna Ortega 2001 SPORTS Caleb Love 2001 SPORTS David Malukas 2000 SPORTS Liberato Cacace 2000 SPORTS Pfeiffer Georgi 2000 SPORTS Szabolcs Schön 1999 FILM & TV Lu Yuxiao 1999 SPORTS Erick Sánchez 1999 SPORTS Liam Millar 1999 SPORTS Igor Diveyev 1999 SPORTS Anderson Arroyo 1999 SPORTS A.J. Green 1999 SPORTS Felix Agu 1999 FILM & TV Anfisa Vistingausen 1998 FILM & TV Bibi (South Korean singer) 1997 ART Jaiden Animations 1997 SPORTS Dimitri Oberlin 1997 SPORTS Ryotaro Nakamura 1996 Princess Iman bint Abdullah of Jordan 1996 SPORTS Maxwel Cornet 1996 SPORTS Mami Ueno 1996 SPORTS Rikiya Motegi 1995 MUSIC Maybe Baby 1995 SPORTS Yoshihito Nishioka 1995 SPORTS Fran Tudor 1995 SPORTS Christian Wood 1995 FILM & TV Lina Leandersson 1995 MUSIC Kwon Eun-bi 1995 FILM & TV Daeg Faerch 1994 FILM & TV Cindy Bruna 1994 FILM & TV Christie Burke 1994 SPORTS Oleksandr Svatok 1994 SPORTS Ariel Lassiter 1994 FILM & TV Anya Olsen 1993 SPORTS Mónica Puig 1993 SPORTS Peres Jepchirchir 1993 SPORTS Lisandro Magallán 1993 SPORTS Ryan Murray 1993 FILM & TV Patrick Mölleken 1992 SPORTS Luc Castaignos 1992 SPORTS Granit Xhaka 1992 FILM & TV Sam Lerner 1992 SPORTS Pak Kwang-ryong 1992 FILM & TV Ryan O'Shaughnessy 1992 SPORTS Gabriel (Brazilian footballer) 1991 FILM & TV Rio Uchida 1991 FILM & TV Thomas Mann 1991 FILM & TV Dillion Harper 1991 SPORTS Simona Halep 1991 SPORTS Marcel Halstenberg 1991 SPORTS Carlos Cáceda 1991 MUSIC Sierra Hull 1991 MUSIC Rurika Yokoyama 1991 SPORTS Giampaolo Ricci 1990 ART Simon Leviev 1990 SPORTS Emi Nakajima 1990 FILM & TV Lola Kirke 1990 SPORTS José Kanté 1990 MUSIC Mitski 1990 FILM & TV Atsumi Tanezaki 1990 SPORTS Manuchekhr Dzhalilov 1990 SPORTS Dainis Krištopāns 1990 SPORTS André Felipe 1990 SPORTS Hugo Houle 1990 SPORTS Stefan Schwab 1990 FILM & TV Li Qin 1990 SPORTS Frédéric Bulot 1990 SPORTS Ashley Cain 1990 LITERATURE Rie Kudan 1990 SPORTS Dion Lewis 1989 SPORTS Idalys Ortiz 1989 SPORTS Park Tae-Hwan 1989 FILM & TV Rumi Ōkubo 1989 FILM & TV Mikiho Niwa 1989 SPORTS Ariel Francisco Rodríguez 1989 FILM & TV Robi Domingo 1988 LITERATURE Cathy Kelley 1988 SPORTS Ralf Fährmann 1988 MUSIC Alma (French singer) 1988 SPORTS Nicolás Terol 1988 FILM & TV Douglas Silva 1988 SCIENCE Lisa Ryzih 1987 SPORTS Vanessa James 1987 MUSIC Austin Carlile 1987 SPORTS Anthony Mounier 1987 SPORTS Ádám Bogdán 1987 POLITICS Luke Campbell 1987 SPORTS Christian Hammer 1987 SPORTS Olga Puchkova 1986 SPORTS Alexandru Epureanu 1986 FILM & TV Noizy (Albanian rapper and singer) 1986 MUSIC Alison Wonderland 1986 FILM & TV Nadezhda Mikhalkova 1986 SPORTS Stéphane Ruffier 1986 FILM & TV Bae Seul-ki 1986 LITERATURE Tara Westover 1986 SPORTS Magomedrasul Majidov 1986 SPORTS Tamás Priskin 1986 FILM & TV Arielle Vandenberg 1985 SPORTS Daniel Pudil 1985 SPORTS Ibrahim Touré 1985 SPORTS Omar Hawsawi 1985 FILM & TV Grace Helbig 1985 SPORTS Anthony Morrow 1985 FILM & TV Maryam Zakaria 1984 FILM & TV Giulio Berruti 1984 SPORTS Wouter Weylandt 1984 FILM & TV Avril Lavigne 1984 FILM & TV Abhinav Shukla 1984 POLITICS Andrew Garbarino 1984 FILM & TV Gayatri Jayaraman 1984 SPORTS Dalibor Stevanovič 1983 FILM & TV Jeon Hye-bin 1983 SPORTS Jay Bouwmeester 1983 SPORTS Chris Quinn 1983 FILM & TV Fazura Sharifuddin 1983 SPORTS Jason Shackell 1982 SPORTS Markus Rosenberg 1982 MUSIC Anna Camp 1982 FILM & TV Lil Wayne 1982 SPORTS Fabián Estoyanoff 1982 SPORTS Darrent Williams 1982 FILM & TV Ayesha Khan 1982 ART Jason Wu 1982 FILM & TV Mrinalini Sharma 1982 SPORTS Lucas Matthysse 1982 MUSIC Jon McLaughlin 1981 MUSIC Ola Englund 1981 FILM & TV Cytherea (American pornographic actress and model) 1981 FILM & TV Ida Ljungqvist 1981 SPORTS Brendon McCullum 1981 SPORTS Lakshmipathy Balaji 1981 FILM & TV Mirjam Weichselbraun 1980 SPORTS Olivier Kapo 1980 Asashōryū Akinori 1980 FILM & TV Virginia Raffaele 1980 SPORTS Eder Sarabia 1980 MUSIC Moony (Italian singer) 1980 FILM & TV Kristopher Turner 1979 FILM & TV Zita Görög 1979 SPORTS Shinji Ono 1979 WAR & MILITARY Maksym Mirgorodsky 1979 FILM & TV Danilo Gentili 1978 SCIENCE Franky Zapata 1978 MUSIC Ana Nikolić 1978 FILM & TV Ani Lorak 1978 MUSIC Brad Arnold 1978 FILM & TV Bront Palarae 1978 SPORTS Jon Rauch 1977 FILM & TV Slaine (hip hop MC, actor) 1977 FILM & TV Mike Maronna 1977 SPORTS Lucas Bernardi 1977 SPORTS Andrus Värnik 1976 AVIATION & SPACE Luca Parmitano 1976 SPORTS Francesco Totti 1976 FILM & TV Monika Absolonová 1976 ART Matt Harding 1976 MUSIC Yasmin K. 1975 FILM & TV Tucker Max 1975 SPORTS Chris Herren 1975 FILM & TV Sam Lee 1975 SPORTS Krzysztof Nowak 1975 SCIENCE Lorna Slater 1975 POLITICS Alessandro Giuli 1974 FILM & TV Carrie Brownstein 1974 POLITICS Lodewijk Asscher 1974 LITERATURE Justine Lévy 1974 FILM & TV Mavis Hee 1974 FILM & TV Rakshanda Khan 1973 LITERATURE Tim Harford 1973 SPORTS Vratislav Lokvenc 1973 FILM & TV Indira Varma 1973 SPORTS Stanislav Pozdnyakov 1973 RELIGION Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto 1973 MUSIC Barbara Kanam 1973 ART Cyril Takayama 1973 ART Kristoffer Zetterstrand 1972 SPORTS Clara Hughes 1972 SPORTS Alfonso Pérez 1972 FILM & TV Gwyneth Paltrow 1972 MUSIC Lhasa de Sela 1972 POLITICS Igor Lebedev 1972 SPORTS Ángel Casero 1971 FILM & TV Agata Kulesza 1971 FILM & TV Amanda Detmer 1971 FILM & TV Chris Avellone 1971 FILM & TV Caco Ciocler 1971 POLITICS Maya Fernández 1971 ART Marijana Matthäus 1971 FILM & TV Li Yapeng 1971 SPORTS Enderson Moreira 1970 FILM & TV Tamara Taylor 1970 LITERATURE Anna Richardson 1970 FILM & TV Norito Yashima 1970 SPORTS Yoshiharu Habu 1970 MUSIC Park Myeong-su 1970 SPORTS Marcus Gayle 1969 FILM & TV Sofia Milos 1969 MUSIC El General 1969 FILM & TV Paul Rudish 1968 POLITICS Mari Kiviniemi 1968 FILM & TV Kip Williams 1968 MUSIC Víctor Manuelle 1968 FILM & TV Rahul Dev 1968 FILM & TV Patrick Muldoon 1968 MUSIC Joachim Garraud 1967 MUSIC Debi Derryberry 1967 SPORTS Uche Okechukwu 1967 SPORTS Francisco José Camarasa 1967 SPORTS Andrei Piatnitski 1967 FILM & TV Francis Renaud 1967 MUSIC Isidora Žebeljan 1966 POLITICS Debbie Wasserman Schultz 1966 MUSIC Jovanotti (Italian singer-songwriter) 1966 AVIATION & SPACE Stephanie Wilson 1965 LITERATURE Alexis Stewart 1965 FILM & TV Sudha Chandran 1965 BUSINESS Steve Kerr 1965 FILM & TV Atze Schröder 1965 FILM & TV Maria Schrader 1965 POLITICS Peter MacKay 1964 FILM & TV Stephan Jenkins 1964 FILM & TV Gorō Kishitani 1964 SPORTS Masahiro Kawai 1963 FILM & TV Scott Lawrence 1963 FILM & TV Ivana Chýlková 1963 FILM & TV Marc Maron 1963 RELIGION Haïm Korsia 1963 FILM & TV Astrid M. Fünderich 1963 FILM & TV Yōji Enokido 1962 POLITICS Kamchybek Tashiev 1962 POLITICS Gábor Fodor 1962 SPORTS Iosif Rotariu 1962 POLITICS Petr Kolář 1961 FILM & TV Andy Lau 1961 LAW & CRIME Arturo Beltrán Leyva 1961 FILM & TV Akiyuki Shinbo 1961 SCIENCE Joo Hyun-mi 1961 SPORTS Waldemar Matysik 1960 FILM & TV Christopher Cousins 1960 FILM & TV Jean-Marc Barr 1960 FILM & TV Patrick Lindner 1960 SPORTS Leonardo David 1960 MUSIC David Koller 1959 SCIENCE Mark Inglis 1959 POLITICS Magdalena Valerio Cordero 1959 FILM & TV Stephen Caffrey 1959 SPORTS Beth Heiden 1959 WAR & MILITARY Tal Russo 1959 POLITICS Gabriel Serville 1959 FILM & TV Cathryn Harrison 1958 FILM & TV Irvine Welsh 1958 SPORTS Quique Setién 1958 FILM & TV Shaun Cassidy 1958 WAR & MILITARY Madat Guliyev 1958 SPORTS Neil Adams 1958 POLITICS Anne-Marie Slaughter 1958 FILM & TV Persia Monir 1957 FILM & TV Peter Sellars 1957 FILM & TV Emilia Contessa 1957 LITERATURE Johann Lafer 1957 FILM & TV Christophe Bourseiller 1956 LITERATURE Martin Handford 1956 SPORTS Steve Archibald 1956 FILM & TV Lennart Jähkel 1955 POLITICS Thelma Aldana 1955 FILM & TV Aleksandr Galibin 1955 ART Charles Burns 1955 FILM & TV Dai Bradley 1954 POLITICS Sylvester Turner 1954 ART David Oyedepo 1954 POLITICS Adriano Espaillat 1954 SCIENCE Larry Wall 1953 POLITICS Diane Abbott 1953 MUSIC Greg Ham 1953 SPORTS Claudio Gentile 1953 MUSIC Robert Shakespeare 1953 RELIGION Mata Amritanandamayi 1952 ART Michio Hoshino 1952 AVIATION & SPACE Dumitru Prunariu 1952 POLITICS Ed Case 1952 FILM & TV Gail Edwards 1951 FILM & TV Ren Ōsugi 1951 ART Phil Tippett 1950 POLITICS Rachmawati Sukarnoputri 1950 MUSIC Linda Lewis 1950 FILM & TV Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 1950 LITERATURE John Marsden 1950 SPORTS Héctor Scotta 1949 SPORTS Mike Schmidt 1949 SCIENCE Masaaki Shirakawa 1949 MUSIC Jahn Teigen 1948 FILM & TV Michele Dotrice 1948 FILM & TV A Martinez 1948 SPORTS Duncan Fletcher 1948 FILM & TV Tom Braidwood 1948 WAR & MILITARY Anatoly Romanov 1947 FILM & TV Denis Lawson

1947 SPORTS Dick Advocaat 1947 FILM & TV Meat Loaf 1947 FILM & TV Liz Torres 1947 FILM & TV Barbara Dickson 1947 POLITICS Mary Jo White 1947 FILM & TV Dennis Carvalho 1946 FILM & TV Ravi Chopra 1945 SCIENCE Aleksandr Polyakov 1945 POLITICS Aitzaz Ahsan 1944 MUSIC Angélica María 1943 MUSIC Randy Bachman 1943 POLITICS Nikos Anastasiades 1943 BUSINESS Prince Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta 1943 FILM & TV Anna Gaël 1942 BUSINESS Arthur Blank 1942 ART Dith Pran 1942 FILM & TV Alvin Stardust 1941 SPORTS Peter Bonetti 1941 BUSINESS Sam Zell 1940 POLITICS Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah 1940 FILM & TV Rudolph Moshammer 1940 SPORTS Benoni Beheyt 1939 FILM & TV Garrick Hagon 1938 FILM & TV Jean-Loup Dabadie 1938 ART Günter Brus 1937 FILM & TV José Sacristán 1937 POLITICS Valentin Pavlov 1937 POLITICS Vasyl Durdynets 1936 FILM & TV Don Cornelius 1936 ART Cecil Chao 1935 FILM & TV Regina Zbarskaya 1934 FILM & TV Wilford Brimley 1934 FILM & TV Claude Jarman, Jr. 1934 FILM & TV Pier Francesco Pingitore 1933 FILM & TV Nagesh (Indian actor and comedian) 1933 FILM & TV Greg Morris 1933 FILM & TV Will Sampson 1933 FILM & TV Kathleen Nolan 1932 SCIENCE Oliver E. Williamson 1932 SPORTS Geoff Bent 1932 FILM & TV Roger C. Carmel 1932 FILM & TV Yash Chopra 1932 FILM & TV Delores Taylor 1931 FILM & TV Freddy Quinn 1931 LITERATURE Malcolm Caldwell 1930 SCIENCE Alan Shugart 1929 LITERATURE Txillardegi (Spanish writer and politician) 1929 FILM & TV Barbara Murray 1929 FILM & TV Leonard Harris 1928 POLITICS Dariush Homayoon 1927 FILM & TV Sada Thompson 1927 FILM & TV Romano Scarpa 1927 FILM & TV Bing Slamet 1927 MUSIC Red Rodney 1926 POLITICS Jorge Anaya 1925 SCIENCE Robert Edwards 1925 Ahmad Reza Pahlavi 1924 MUSIC Bud Powell 1924 LITERATURE Josef Škvorecký 1924 LITERATURE Ernest Becker 1924 SCIENCE Fred Singer 1922 FILM & TV Arthur Penn 1921 FILM & TV Miklós Jancsó 1921 POLITICS John Malcolm Patterson 1921 WAR & MILITARY Heinrich Boere 1920 Joseph Joestar 1920 FILM & TV William Conrad 1920 POLITICS Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa 1920 FILM & TV Tô Hoài 1919 FILM & TV Jayne Meadows 1919 SCIENCE James H. Wilkinson 1919 POLITICS Charles H. Percy 1918 SCIENCE Martin Ryle 1917 FILM & TV Carl Ballantine 1916 FILM & TV Vittorio Mussolini 1916 SCIENCE S. Yizhar 1914 FILM & TV Jūkichi Uno 1913 SCIENCE Albert Ellis 1913 FILM & TV Margery Mason 1913 SCIENCE Sidney Dancoff 1910 FILM & TV Sergei Lukyanov 1907 POLITICS Raúl Silva Henríquez 1907 FILM & TV Bernard Miles 1907 LITERATURE Maria Treben 1906 FILM & TV Jim Thompson 1906 LITERATURE William Empson 1904 LITERATURE Edvard Kocbek 1903 LITERATURE Alessandro Pavolini 1903 POLITICS Vera Kharuzhaya 1903 FILM & TV Leonard Barr 1900 POLITICS Vittorio Vidali 1899 SPORTS Domingo Tejera 1898 MUSIC Vincent Youmans 1896 POLITICS Aleksei Antonov 1896 POLITICS Sam Ervin 1894 AVIATION & SPACE Lothar von Richthofen 1894 POLITICS Otto Nagel 1892 SCIENCE Mykhailo Kravchuk 1891 WAR & MILITARY Sōsaku Suzuki 1889 BUSINESS Gaetano Reina 1888 SPORTS Richard Kohn 1887 BUSINESS Jean Patou 1886 SPORTS Lucien Gaudin 1886 RELIGION Minnie Vautrin 1885 WAR & MILITARY Gustav Schröder 1882 MUSIC Elly Ney 1881 RELIGION Eugenio Pio Zolli 1880 ART Jacques Thibaud 1879 SCIENCE Hans Hahn 1879 LITERATURE Cyril Scott 1879 FILM & TV Sári Fedák 1878 POLITICS Hassan Taqizadeh 1878 LITERATURE Luigi Federzoni 1878 FILM & TV Bartolomeo Pagano 1877 BUSINESS James Dole 1875 FILM & TV Cléo de Mérode 1873 POLITICS Vithalbhai Patel 1867 SCIENCE Vladimir May-Mayevsky 1865 LITERATURE Emma Orczy 1865 WAR & MILITARY Miguel Malvar 1864 RELIGION Andrej Hlinka 1862 POLITICS Louis Botha 1859 ART Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen 1856 POLITICS Carl Peters 1855 SCIENCE Paul Appell 1854 POLITICS Count Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal 1849 SCIENCE Ivan Pavlov 1849 ART Emile Claus 1840 LITERATURE Alfred Thayer Maan 1840 ART Thomas Nast 1839 Takasugi Shinsaku 1838 POLITICS Lawrence Sullivan Ross 1838 POLITICS Tanaka Yoshio 1832 SCIENCE Zsófia Torma 1827 POLITICS Hiram Rhodes Revels 1827 SCIENCE Pierre Tirard 1824 SCIENCE Benjamin Apthorp Gould 1821 LITERATURE Henri-Frédéric Amiel 1821 Tuone Udaina 1818 SCIENCE Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe 1809 POLITICS Raphael Semmes 1805 RELIGION George Müller 1803 LITERATURE Adèle Foucher 1793 Tōyama Kagemoto 1792 ART George Cruikshank 1783 WAR & MILITARY Agustín I of Mexico 1781 POLITICS Wilhelm I of Württemberg 1772 POLITICS Martha Jefferson Randolph 1772 LITERATURE Sándor Kisfaludy 1763 LITERATURE Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen 1753 Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern 1722 POLITICS Samuel Adams 1719 SCIENCE Abraham Gotthelf Kästner 1696 LITERATURE Alphonsus Maria de Liguori 1685 WAR & MILITARY Charles Augustus of Nassau-Weilburg 1657 POLITICS Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia 1627 RELIGION Jacques Bénigne Bossuet 1626 ART Karel Dujardin 1601 POLITICS Louis XIII of France 1599 ART Francesco Borromini 1580 LITERATURE Francisco Quevedo 1565 POLITICS Edward Fortunatus 1552 RELIGION Paul V 1495 POLITICS Louis X, Duke of Bavaria 1434 POLITICS Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress 1386 LITERATURE Ambrose Traversari 1377 POLITICS Albert IV, Duke of Austria 1300 Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine 1051 POLITICS Bertha of Savoy 892 POLITICS Emperor Ai of Tang 2025 SCIENCE Russell M. Nelson 2025 POLITICS Chang Chun-hsiung 2024 FILM & TV Maggie Smith 2024 POLITICS Hasan Nasrallah 2024 POLITICS Fazile İbrahim 2024 WAR & MILITARY Abbas Nilforoushan 2023 BUSINESS Prince Christoph of Schleswig-Holstein 2023 FILM & TV Michael Gambon 2023 FILM & TV Catherine Lachens 2022 FILM & TV Boris Moiseev 2022 LITERATURE Andrew van der Bijl 2022 SPORTS Bruno Bolchi 2021 SPORTS Roger Hunt 2020 FILM & TV Kōsei Tomita 2020 FILM & TV Yūko Takeuchi 2020 SCIENCE Yuri Orlov 2020 LITERATURE Jaswant Singh 2020 POLITICS Wolfgang Clement 2019 FILM & TV Rob Garrison 2019 LITERATURE Joseph C. Wilson 2018 MUSIC Marty Balin 2018 LITERATURE James G. March 2018 LITERATURE Tara Faris 2018 LITERATURE Namkhai Norbu 2017 LITERATURE Hugh Hefner 2017 MUSIC Joy Fleming 2017 FILM & TV Anne Jeffreys 2017 FILM & TV Hiromi Hayakawa 2016 SCIENCE David Hahn 2015 LITERATURE Pietro Ingrao 2015 FILM & TV John Guillermin 2015 MUSIC Wilton Felder 2014 BUSINESS Gaby Aghion 2014 POLITICS James Traficant 2014 FILM & TV Sarah Danielle Madison 2014 FILM & TV Abdelmajid Lakhal 2013 FILM & TV Tuncel Kurtiz 2013 FILM & TV Jay Robinson 2013 FILM & TV Phyllis Davis 2012 LITERATURE Herbert Lom 2012 SCIENCE Mark Sloan 2011 FILM & TV David Croft 2011 ART Imre Makovecz 2011 SPORTS Jesús María Pereda 2011 SCIENCE Wilson Greatbatch 2011 LITERATURE Cizia Zykë 2011 LITERATURE Ida Fink 2010 FILM & TV Sally Menke 2010 SPORTS George Blanda 2010 SPORTS Trevor Taylor 2009 LITERATURE William Safire 2009 FILM & TV Ivan Dykhovichny 2009 BUSINESS Donald Fisher 2008 MUSIC Mahendra Kapoor 2007 ART Kenji Nagai 2006 FILM & TV Bruni Löbel 2005 MUSIC Ronald Golias 2004 LITERATURE John Edward Mack 2004 BUSINESS Tsai Wan-lin 2004 MUSIC Shobha Gurtu 2003 FILM & TV Donald O'Connor 2001 POLITICS Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy 1998 Narita Brian 1998 SPORTS Doak Walker 1997 WAR & MILITARY Shoichi Yokoi 1996 SCIENCE Mohammad Najibullah 1994 POLITICS Carlos Lleras Restrepo 1993 SCIENCE Jimmy Doolittle 1993 POLITICS Zhiuli Shartava 1991 FILM & TV Oona O'Neill 1990 MUSIC Matvei Blanter 1986 MUSIC Cliff Burton 1986 FILM & TV Éva Ruttkai 1985 FILM & TV Lloyd Nolan 1985 AVIATION & SPACE Nikolai Gulayev 1983 FILM & TV Tino Rossi 1983 LITERATURE Mykhailo Stelmakh 1983 FILM & TV Ben Carruthers 1981 FILM & TV Robert Montgomery 1981 SPORTS Bronisław Malinowski 1980 WAR & MILITARY Dietrich von Saucken 1979 MUSIC Jimmy McCulloch 1979 FILM & TV Gracie Fields 1978 WAR & MILITARY August Sabbe 1977 FILM & TV Willis Bouchey 1977 LITERATURE Maria Rasputin 1976 SCIENCE Pál Turán 1975 FILM & TV Mark Frechette 1975 LITERATURE Kazimierz Moczarski 1972 LITERATURE S. R. Ranganathan 1971 Hermann Ehrhardt 1969 POLITICS Nicolas Grunitzky 1967 BUSINESS Felix Yusupov 1967 ART Hilla von Rebay 1966 ART Albert Renger-Patzsch 1965 FILM & TV Clara Bow 1964 WAR & MILITARY Adib Shishakli 1961 FILM & TV H.D. (American Imagist poet) 1960 LITERATURE Sylvia Pankhurst 1960 POLITICS Carlos Mendieta 1959 LITERATURE Hans Grimm 1957 FILM & TV Leo Longanesi 1956 POLITICS Piero Calamandrei 1956 SPORTS Babe Didrikson Zaharias 1956 MUSIC Gerald Finzi 1954 WAR & MILITARY Maximilian von Weichs 1953 POLITICS Hans Fritzsche 1949 POLITICS Émile Eddé 1947 POLITICS Jan Malypetr 1944 ART Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii 1944 ART Aristide Maillol 1944 LITERATURE Aimee Semple McPherson 1943 POLITICS Mao Zemin 1942 WAR & MILITARY Douglas Albert Munro 1940 POLITICS Julián Besteiro 1940 SCIENCE Julius Wagner-Jauregg 1939 FILM & TV Lyubov Blok 1937 SCIENCE Älihan Bökeihan 1933 LITERATURE Kamini Roy 1933 LITERATURE Ring Lardner 1927 POLITICS Anatoly Koni 1921 LITERATURE Engelbert Humperdinck 1921 LITERATURE Lev Chernyi 1919 MUSIC Adelina Patti 1918 WAR & MILITARY Louise de Bettignies 1917 ART Edgar Degas 1915 LITERATURE Remy de Gourmont 1915 WAR & MILITARY John Kipling 1910 SCIENCE Jorge Chávez 1903 POLITICS Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond 1899 WAR & MILITARY Henry Heth 1891 LITERATURE Ivan Goncharov 1876 WAR & MILITARY Braxton Bragg 1868 LITERATURE Alexandre Colonna-Walewski 1854 ART Frederick Catherwood 1838 SCIENCE Bernard Courtois 1836 LITERATURE Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi 1834 POLITICS Elisa Radziwill 1833 LITERATURE Ram Mohan Roy 1832 LITERATURE Karl Christian Friedrich Krause 1788 Princess Auguste Karoline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 1783 SCIENCE Étienne Bézout 1772 SCIENCE James Brindley 1769 POLITICS Anna Karolina Orzelska 1760 POLITICS Maria Amalia of Saxony 1736 WAR & MILITARY René Duguay-Trouin 1735 POLITICS Diana Spencer, Duchess of Bedford 1735 SCIENCE Peter Artedi 1700 RELIGION Innocent XII 1660 RELIGION Vincent de Paul 1651 POLITICS Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria 1623 WAR & MILITARY John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen 1615 LITERATURE Arbella Stuart 1612 LITERATURE Piotr Skarga 1590 RELIGION Urban VII 1575 LITERATURE Heinrich Bullinger 1574 WAR & MILITARY Pedro Menéndez de Avilés 1547 Frederick II of Legnica 1503 LITERATURE Iovianus Pontanus 1356 WAR & MILITARY Peter I 1356 WAR & MILITARY Walter VI, Count of Brienne 1356 LITERATURE Geoffroi de Charny 1339 POLITICS Go-Daigo 1309 Alonso Pérez de Guzmán 1246 POLITICS Mychailo of Chernigiv 1168 RELIGION Paschal III 1162 Odo II, Duke of Burgundy 1107 POLITICS Raymond of Burgundy 846 LITERATURE Bai Juyi 687 POLITICS Conon (pope) 135 RELIGION Akiva ben Joseph Explore More History Beyond today — browse the most notable moments by theme.