** Josef Mengele, German Nazi war criminal ( d. 1979 )

** Josef Beranek, Czech ice hockey player

** Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of Nazi-occupied Norway ( suicide ) ( b. 1898 )

** Josef Bachmann tries to assassinate Rudi Dutschke, leader of the left-wing movement ( APO ) in Germany, and tries to commit suicide afterwards, failing in both, although Dutschke dies of his brain injuries 11 years later.

** Franz Josef Strauß, the West German defense minister, is relieved of his duties over the Spiegel scandal, due to his alleged involvement in police action against the magazine.

** Benjamin Britten's opera Gloriana is given its US premiere in Cincinnati, in concert form conducted by Josef Krips.

** Slalom: Josef Stiegler, Austria

** Anton Josef Kirchweger, Latin Pietist author

** Simon Josef, Herder and the problematization of metaphysics.

** Josef Grassi, Austrian portrait painter ( died 1838 )

** Rear Guard: General-Major Josef Philipp Vukassovich

** Prince Guillaume Franz Josef Maria Windisch-Graetz ( born 1950 ; unmarried ).

** Franz Josef Land

** Josef Sudek Gallery

** Singoalla, A Legend-Story, translated by Josef Fredbärj, 1904.

** Brigade: General-Major Josef von Clary ( 12 squadrons, 6 guns ) ( 4 squadrons attached to Thierry )

** Johann Josef Vinzenz Handke (), also Moravian painter

** Lifetime achievement: Josef Leu, National Councillor CVP / LU ( parliamentary work )

** Josef Knapp, Ein Lebensbild von Oehler ( Tübingen, 1876 )

** Munich – Franz Josef Strauß Airport

** Josef Kajetán Tyl Theatre ( Divadlo Josefa Kajetána Tyla ), a main theatre in Plzeň

** Děti si hrají ( Josef Hora )

** Josef Elßler

** Munich-Franz Josef Strauss Airport

** Yalta Conference, wartime meeting from 4 February 1945 to 11 February 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively — for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization, intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.

** Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, second wife of Joseph Stalin ( died 1932 )

** Milovan Djilas, former vice-president of Yugoslavia, is given further sentence for publishing Conversations with Stalin.

** Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke after an all-night dinner with Soviet Union interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev.

** Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.

** Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator ( d. 1953 )

** In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot and killed at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolaev ( it is widely thought that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered this murder ).

** Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or TV Film, Stalin

** Stalin Society

** Stalin and antisemitism

** List of places named after Stalin

** Joseph Stalin, former leader of the Soviet Union

** Before Stalin, the fight with Trotskyism was purely ideological ; Stalin introduced the notion of the " enemy of the people " to be used as " heavy artillery " from the late 1920s

** Stalin violated the Party norms of collective leadership

** Stalin ordered that the persecution be enhanced: NKVD is " four years late " in crushing the opposition, according to his principle of " aggravation of class struggle "

** The Majilis of Kazakhstan approves the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and agrees to dismantle the more than 100 missiles left on its territory by the fall of the USSR.

** The Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific War against Japan once hostilities against Germany are concluded.

** The USSR agrees to withdraw all 73, 500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991.

** In Thailand, Suchinda Kraprayoon agrees to resign.

** Iran – Contra affair: Alan Fiers agrees to plead guilty to two charges of having lied to the U. S. Congress.

** Qantas agrees to pay $ 500, 000 to bomb hoaxer-extortionist Mr. Brown ( Peter Macari ), who is later arrested.

** Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.

** Union Carbide agrees to pay USD $ 470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster.

** NATO agrees to talks with the Soviet Union on reducing the number of short-range nuclear weapons in Europe.

** Record-setting baseball player Pete Rose agrees to a lifetime ban from the sport following allegations of illegal gambling, thereby preventing his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

** Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 1441.

** The Ciskei's government agrees to pay pension benefits to public servants who threatened " Bophuthatswana-style action " if their demands were not met

** 29 August – At Berwick, agrees the dower lands of his widowed step mother, Christina.