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Born on this day

• 1904Hans Jenny was born
• 1920Charles Bukowski was born
• 1930Tony Trabert was born
• 1934Diana Wynne Jones was born
• 1958Madonna was born
• 1967Ulla Weigerstorfer was born
• 1968Arvind Kejriwal was born
• 1968Caroline Grothgar was born
• 1973B. Y. Raghavendra was born
• 1981Denis Gremelmayr was born
• 1982Julia Schruff was born
• 1988Kevin Schmidt was born
• 1990Abdoulaye Keita was born
• 1994Koray Günter was born

Died on this day

• 1948Babe Ruth died
• 1977Elvis Presley died
• 1987Andrei Mironov died
• 2005Eva Renzi died
• 2009Khalid bin Mahfouz died
• 2010Leopold Grausam, jun. died
• 2014Peter Scholl-Latour died
• 2018Aretha Franklin died
• 2018Atal Bihari Vajpayee died
• 2020Jean-Michel Savéant died

Also on this day

• 2009Usain Bolt set the 100m world record