Births (450 years ago today): 1571 – Abbas I of Persia (d. 1629)

Births (400 years ago today): 1621 – Thomas Willis, English physician and anatomist (d. 1675)

Births (200 years ago today): 1821 – John Chivington, American colonel and pastor (d. 1892)

Births (100 years ago today): 1921 – Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)

Births (50 years ago today): 1971 – Patrice Brisebois, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Deaths (100 years ago today): 1921 – Maurice Buckley, Australian sergeant (b. 1891)

Deaths (50 years ago today): 1971 – Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemalan captain and politician, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)

Commemorations:
International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust