1785 - Church of England organizes in New England
1798 - Beginning of a 5 day New England Blizzard that covers thousands of houses and kills hundreds
1863 - Abraham Lincoln begins first draft of his Gettysburg Address
1953 - St Louis Browns officially become the Baltimore Baseball Club Inc
1960 - New MLB Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada
2001 - 66th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 31-7 in Auburn
2013 - 50 people are killed after a Boeing 737 aircraft crashes in Kazan, Russia
2021 - Garbiñe Muguruza becomes first Spanish player to win WTA Finals defeating Estonian Anett Kontaveit 6–3, 7–5 in Zapopan, Mexico

1865 - John Stanley Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), born in Hickson, Ontario (d. 1941)
1897 - Frank Fay, American vaudeville comedian and actor (God's Gift to Women, Love Nest), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1961)
1899 - Douglas Shearer, Canadian film engineer, made technological sound advances in film at MGM, born in Quebec Westmount, Quebec, born in Westmount, Quebec (d. 1971)
1930 - Bob Mathias, American decathlete (Olympic gold 1948, 52) and congressman, born in Tulare, California (d. 2006)
1935 - Toni Sailer, Austrian alpine skier (Olympic gold Downhill, Slalom, Giant slalom 1956; World C'ship gold x 7), born in Kitzbühel, Austria (d. 2009)
1936 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet and translator, born in Ramat Gan, Palestine (d. 2005)
1940 - Luke Kelly, Irish folk music singer and banjo player, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1984)
1943 - Lauren Hutton [Mary], model/actress (American Gigolo), born in Charleston, South Carolina
1983 - Harry Lloyd, British actor (Arcane, The Theory of Everything), born in London
1999 - Paris Paloma, British folk-pop singer-songwriter and guitarist ("Labour", "The Fruits"), born in Glasgow, Scotland

594 - St Gregory of Tours, Gallo-Roman chronicler and bishop (History of the Franks), dies at 55
1302 - St. Gertrude the Great, German Benedictine nun (b. 1256)
1905 - Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders and son of Leopold I, dies at 68
1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (Baiser, Thinker), dies at 77
1943 - Paul Charles Rene Landormy, French musicologist, music critic, and composer, dies at 74
1947 - Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
1986 - Georges Besse, French president-director of Renault, murdered
1991 - Kelly Jean Van Dyke-Nance, American actress, adult film performer and Jerry Van Dyke's daughter, commits suicide at 33
1994 - G Waller, German/Swiss movie journalist (NRC/Variety), dies at 82
2018 - Richard Baker, English broadcaster (newsreader for BBC News, 1954-1982), dies at 93