On This Day

English racing driver

British actor

American chemist, inventor of Kevlar

Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer

French actor and comedian

American economist and statistician

French artist

President of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998

al-Qaeda terrorist leader (1951–2022), Muslim jurist and theologian (Sunni), surgeon

American basketball player

British filmmaker

French actress, singer, screenwriter and director

MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator

Canadian professional wrestler

American writer

English association football player and manager

fifth king of the Belgians

Japanese diplomat, Righteous Among the Nations

Indian playback singer

Belgian politician

French writer and aviator

French / Occitan Socialist leader

President of the United States from 1865 to 1869

Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary

monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France

Swedish nun, mystic, and saint (c.1303–1373)