| 1991 | Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. |
| 1992 | The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia. |
| 1992 | The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. They discovered two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12. |
| 1996 | First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians. |
| 1997 | Comair Flight 3272 crashes in Raisinville Township in Monroe County, Michigan, killing 29 people. |
| 2003 | TANS Perú Flight 222 crashes on approach to Chachapoyas Airport in Chachapoyas, Peru, killing 46 people. |
| 2004 | An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula en route to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28. This is the second deadliest marine disaster in Albanian history. |
| 2005 | Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to succeed Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority, replacing interim president Rawhi Fattouh. |
| 2005 | The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War. |
| 2007 | Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco. |
| 2011 | Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Urmia in the northwest of the country, in icy conditions, killing 77 people. |
| 2014 | An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others. |
| 2015 | The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes. |
| 2015 | A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was contaminated with Burkholderia gladioli leaves 75 dead and over 230 people ill. |
| 2021 | Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes north of Jakarta, Indonesia, killing all 62 people on board. |
| 1987 | The birth of Jami Puustinen, Finnish footballer |
| 1988 | The birth of Lee Yeon-hee, South Korean actress |
| 1989 | The birth of Michael Beasley, American basketball player |
| 1989 | The birth of Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress |
| 1989 | The birth of Yana Maksimava, Belarusian heptathlete |
| 1989 | The birth of Chris Sandow, Australian rugby league player |
| 1989 | The birth of Haris Sohail, Pakistani cricketer |
| 1991 | The birth of Álvaro Soler, Spanish singer-songwriter |
| 1992 | The birth of Joseph Parker, Samoan heavyweight boxer |
| 1993 | The birth of Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English long jumper and heptathlete |
| 1995 | The birth of Braden Hamlin-Uele, New Zealand rugby league player |
| 1995 | The birth of Nicola Peltz, American actress |
| 1998 | The birth of Brent Rivera, American social media personality and actor |
| 2001 | The birth of Peter Mamouzelos, Australian rugby league player |
| 2004 | The birth of Souhardya De, Indian author and columnist |
| 2014 | The death of Dale T. Mortensen, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1939) |
| 2015 | The death of Michel Jeury, French author (b. 1934) |
| 2015 | The death of Józef Oleksy, Polish economist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1946) |
| 2015 | The death of Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, Malaysian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Sarawak (b. 1928) |
| 2015 | The death of Roy Tarpley, American basketball player (b. 1964) |
| 2016 | The death of John Harvard, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b. 1938) |
| 2016 | The death of Angus Scrimm, American actor and author (b. 1926) |
| 2017 | The death of Zygmunt Bauman, Polish sociologist (b. 1925) |
| 2018 | The death of Kato Ottio, Papua New Guinean rugby league player (b. 1994) |
| 2019 | The death of Verna Bloom, American actress (b. 1938) |
| 2019 | The death of Paul Koslo, German-Canadian actor (b. 1944) |
| 2021 | The death of John Reilly, American actor (b. 1934) |
| 2022 | The death of Bob Saget, American comedian, actor, and television host (b. 1956) |
| 2022 | The death of Maria Ewing, American opera singer (b.1950) |
| 2023 | The death of Séamus Begley, Irish accordion player, fiddler and Irish traditional musician (b. 1949) |