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1897 - Cornflakes are first served at a sanatorium in Michigan, having been invented by John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg.
 1900 - German liner SS Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
1901  2000 
 1902 - Second Boer War: Battle of Tweebosch - A Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts a heavy defeat on British forces.
 1912 - Roald Amundsen announces that his Norwegian expedition reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
 1914 - Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
 1927 - A magnitude 7.6 earthquake its Tango Province, Japan, killing 3,000 people.
 1936 - Germany re-occupies the Rhineland, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles and Locarno Pact.
 1945 - World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine at Remagen.
 1950 - The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
 1951 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - UN troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
 1965 - A Civil rights march by 600 people in Selma, Alabama, is forcefully broken.
1968 - Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese military forces begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding My Tho.
 1971 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, founding leader of Bangladesh, delivers a historic speech at Suhrawardy Udyan.
 1980 - Oil tanker "Tanio" breaks in two off Brittany.
 1985 - The song "We are the World" receives its international release.
 1986 - Divers from the USS Preserver discover the crew cabin of the Space Shuttle Challenger on the ocean floor.
 1989 - Iran and the United Kingdom break off diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses".
 1992 - Eduard Shevardnadze becomes Head of State in Georgia.
From 2001 
 2002 - The 2002 Winter Paralympics begin in Salt Lake City.
 2004 - Kostas Karamanlis is elected Prime Minister of Greece.
 2004 - The Samson ferry sinks in a cyclone between Madagascar and the Comoros.
 2006 - Terror organization Lashkar-e-Taiba co-ordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
 2007 - The UK House of Commons supports by a majority to have an elected House of Lords.
 2009 - The Kepler space observatory is launched to find Earth-like planets orbiting around other stars.
 2009 - The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians outside a barracks in Northern Ireland.
 2010 - Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director, for her movie The Hurt Locker.
 2014 - The 2014 Winter Paralympics begin in Sochi, Southern Russia.
 2015 - An attack by Boko Haram in Maiduguri, northern Nigeria, leaves an estimated 50 people dead.
Up to 1900 
 189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
 1481 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
 1556 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)
 1663 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1745)
 1671 - Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
 1671 - Ellis Wynne, Welsh clergyman and writer (d. 1734)
 1678 - Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (d. 1736)
 1693 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
 1715 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)
 1715 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755)
 1730 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d. 1807)
 1765 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor of photography (d. 1833)
 1785 - Alessandro Manzoni, Italian writer (d. 1873)
 1788 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
 1792 - John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
 1802 - Edwin Henry Landseer, English painter (d. 1873)
 1835 - Daniel Giraud Elliot, American zoologist (d. 1915)
1837 - Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
 1849 - Luther Burbank, American botanist, horticulturist and agricultural scientist (d. 1926)
 1850 - Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)
 1850 - Champ Clark, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1921)
 1857 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian doctor, won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1940)
 1866 - Hans Fruhstorfer, German explorer and entomologist (d. 1922)
 1868 - Giovanni Giacometti, Swiss painter (d. 1933)
 1872 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch artist (d. 1944)
 1875 – Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
 1878 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)
 1886 - Virginia Pearson, American silent movie actress (d. 1958)
 1888 - Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenbourgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1978)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Beatrice Roberts, American actress (d. 1970)
 1902 - Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)
 1904 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
 1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer (d. 1942)
 1908 - Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
 1911 - Nikolai Baibakov, Soviet politician (d. 2008)
 1914 - John Rodney, American actor (d. 1996)
 1914 - Lee Young, American jazz drummer and singer (d. 2008)
 1915 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)
 1917 - Betty Holberton, American engineer and programmer (d. 2004)
 1922 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)
 1922 - Umberto Betti, Italian cardinal (d. 2009) 
 1924 - Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor and artist (d. 2005)
 1924 - Kobo Abe, Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor (d. 1993)
 1925 - René Gagnon, American navy officer (d. 1979)
 1927 - James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982)
 1927 - Philippe Clay, French singer and actor (d. 2007)
1930 - Robert D. Cardona, American model-maker
 1930 - Stanley Miller, American biologist and chemist (d. 2007)
 1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, British photographer and husband of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2017)
 1933 - Hannelore Kohl, wife of Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (d. 2001)
 1933 - Gordon Walgren, American politician and convicted fraudster (d. 2018)
 1933 - Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
 1934 - Douglas Cardinal, Canadian architect
 1935 - Antonios Naguib, Coptic Catholic Church Patriarch and cardinal
 1936 - Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian archbishop and cardinal (d. 2015)
 1938 - Albert Fert, French physicist
 1938 - David Baltimore, American biologist
 1938 - Petr Skoumal, Czech musician and composer (d. 2014)
 1939 - Panajot Pano, Albanian footballer (d. 2010)
 1940 - Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d. 1979)
 1940 - Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
 1942 - Michael Eisner, American movie studio executive
1942 - Tammy Faye Messner, American televangelist (d. 2007)
 1943 - Chris White, English bass player and songwriter (The Zombies)
 1944 - Ranulph Fiennes, British explorer
 1944 - Michael Rosbash, American biologist and Nobel laureate
 1944 - Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (d. 1997)
 1945 - John Heard, American actor
 1945 - Bob Herbert, American journalist
 1945 - Nicholas Kraemer, English harpsichord player and conductor
 1947 - Richard Lawson, American actor
 1947 - Walter Röhrl, German rally driver
 1949 - Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
 1949 - Genyo Takeda, Japanese video game developer
 1950 - Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
1951  1975 
 1952 - William Boyd, Scottish writer, screenwriter and producer
 1952 - Viv Richards, Antiguan West Indies cricketer
 1952 - Ernie Isley, American guitarist and songwriter (The Isley Brothers)
 1953 - Bernard Voyer, Canadian explorer and mountaineer
 1954 - Eva Brunne, Swedish clergywoman and first openly lesbian bishop
 1955 - Anupam Kher, Indian actor
 1956 - Bryan Cranston, American actor
 1956 - Andrea Levy, British writer (d. 2019)
 1958 - Alan Hale, American astronomer
 1958 - Rik Mayall, British actor and comedian (d. 2014)
 1959 - Tom Lehman, American golfer
 1959 - Donna Murphy, American actress and singer
 1960 - Ivan Lendl, Czech-American tennis player and coach of Andy Murray
 1960 - Kazuo Ozaki, Japanese footballer
 1961 - Mary Beth Evans, American actress
 1962 – Taylor Dayne, American singer
 1963 - Mike Eagles, Canadian ice hockey player
 1963 - E. L. James, English writer (Fifty Shades of Grey)
 1964 - Bret Easton Ellis, American writer and screenwriter
1964 - Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedienne
 1964 - Tommy Sheridan, Scottish politician
 1965 - Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
 1966 - Terry Carkner, Canadian ice hockey player
 1967 - Ruthie Henshall, British theatre actress and singer
 1967 - Ai Yazawa, Japanese manga artist
 1969 - Massimo Lotti, Italian footballer
 1970 - Petra Mede, Swedish comedienne, dancer and television host
 1970 - Rachel Weisz, British actress
 1971 - Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
 1971 - Matthew Vaughn, British movie producer and director
 1972 - Jang Dong-Gun, South Korean actor and musician
 1972 - Simon Pryce, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
 1973 - Sébastien Izambard, Swiss operatic singer (Il Divo)
 1973 - Ray Parlour, English footballer
 1974 - Jenna Fischer, American actress
 1974 - Darryl Stephens, American actor
 1975 - Audrey Marie Anderson, American actress and model
From 1976 
 1977 - Paul Cattermole, English singer and actor
 1977 - Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer
 1977 - Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player
 1977 - Jerome Fernandez, French handball player
 1980 - Murat Boz, Turkish singer-songwriter and actor
 1980 - Eric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player
 1980 - Laura Prepon, American actress
 1982 - Marc Planus, French footballer
 1983 - Manucho, Angolan footballer
 1984 - Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
 1986 - Ben Griffin, Australian footballer
 1987 - Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer
 1987 - Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player
 1987 - Eleni Foureira, Albanian-Greek singer
 1988 - Larry Asante, American football player
 1989 - Gerald Anderson, Filipino-American actor and model
 1990 – Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
 1990 - Lefteris Matsoukas, Greek footballer
 1991 - Quenten Martinus, Curaçaoan footballer
 1991 - Michele Rigione, Italian footballer
 1992 - Bel Powley, English actress
1994 - An-Sophie Mestach, Belgian tennis player
 1994 - Jordan Pickford, English footballer
 2009 - Prince Umberto of Savoy
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 322 BC – Aristotle, Greek philosopher (b. 384 BC)
 161 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)
 203 - Felicity and Perpetua, early Christian martyrs
 413 - Heraclianus, Roman politician
 851 - Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
 1274 - Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher (b. 1225)
 1550 - William IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1493)
 1625 - Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
 1724 - Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
 1778 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)
 1786 - Franz Benda, Bohemian composer (b. 1709)
 1809 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French balloonist (b. 1753)
 1875 - John Edward Gray, British zoologist (b. 1800)
1901  2000 
 1920 - Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
 1932 - Aristide Briand, French politician and diplomat (b. 1862)
 1938 - Andreas Michalakopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
 1942 - Lucy Parsons, American anarchist, Communist and labor organizer (b. 1853)
 1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian Guru (b. 1893)
 1954 - Otto Diels, German chemist (b. 1876)
 1957 - Wyndham Lewis, British writer (b. 1882)
 1961 - Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1887)
 1965 - Louise Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden (b. 1889)
 1967 - Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
 1969 - Sampurnanand, Indian politician (b. 1910)
 1974 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
 1975 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895)
 1981 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
 1983 - Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
 1986 - Jacob J. Javits, American politician (b. 1904)
1988 - Robert Livingston, American actor (b. 1914)
 1988 - Divine, American actor and singer (b. 1945)
 1991 - Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
 1997 - Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist (b. 1912)
 1999 – Stanley Kubrick, American movie director (b. 1928)
 1999 - Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (b. 1918)
 2000 - Pee Wee King, American country musician, songwriter and producer (b. 1914)
 2000 - Hirokazu Ninomiya, Japanese footballer (b. 1917)
From 2001 
 2001 - Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
 2004 - Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
 2005 - John Box, British movie production designer and art director (b. 1920)
 2005 - Debra Hill, American screenwriter and movie producer (b. 1950)
 2006 - John Junkin, British performer (b. 1930)
 2006 - Gordon Parks, American actor, director and photographer (b. 1912)
 2006 - Ali Farka Touré, Malian musician (b. 1939)
 2010 - Kenneth Dover, British classicist (b. 1920)
 2012 - Wlodzimierz Smolarek, Polish footballer (b. 1957)
 2012 - Felicien Marceau, French novelist, playwright and essayist (b. 1913)
 2013 - Peter Banks, English musician (b. 1947)
 2013 - Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
 2013 - Frederick B. Karl, American politician (b. 1924)
 2014 - Heiko Bellmann, German biologist, writer and photographer (b. 1950)
 2014 - Uwe Timm, German writer and anarchist (b. 1932)
 2014 - Hal Douglas, American voice actor and announcer (b. 1924)
2014 - Ned O'Gorman, American poet (b. 1929)
 2015 - Gregorio Bundio, Argentine footballer and manager (El Salvador national football team) (b. 1928)
 2015 - Edmond Malinvaud, French economist (b. 1923)
 2015 - F. Ray Keyser, Jr., American politician, 72nd Governor of Vermont (b. 1927)
 2016 - Adrian Hardiman, Irish judge (b. 1950)
 2016 - Jean-Bernard Raimond, French politician (b. 1926)
 2016 - Michael White, Scottish theatre and film producer (b. 1936)
 2017 - Ron Bass, American professional wrestler (b. 1948)
 2017 - Syed Sajjad Ali Shah, Chief Justice of Pakistan (b. 1933)
 2017 - Helen Sommers, American politician (b. 1932)
 2017 - Lynne Stewart, American attorney (b. 1939)
 2017 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-American physicist (b. 1922)
 2017 - Ronald Drever, Scottish physicist (b. 1931)
 2017 - Peter M. Gruber, Austrian mathematician (b. 1941)
 2017 - Juan Carlos Touriño, Spanish footballer (b. 1944)
 2018 - Reynaldo Bignone, President of Argentina (b. 1928)
2018 - Woody Durham, American basketball radio announcer (b. 1941)
 2018 - Charles Thone, American politician, 34th Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
 2018 - Antonia La Negra, Spanish singer and dancer (b. 1936)
 2019 - Dick Beyer, American professional wrestler (b. 1930)
 2019 - Joseph M. Boardman, American railroad executive (b. 1948)
 2019 - Robert Braithwaite, British marine engineer and entrepreneur (b. 1943)
 2019 - Guillaume Faye, French journalist and writer (b. 1941)
 2019 - Ralph Hall, American politician (b. 1923)
 2019 - Dick Nichols, American banker and politician (b. 1926)
 2019 - Sid Sheinberg, American lawyer and studio executive (b. 1935)
Festivals
Felicity and Perpetua (Roman Catholicism)
Teacher's Day (Albania)

March 07
Up to 1900 
 1356  In the Battle of Poitiers, the English defeat the French, and capture King John II of France.
 1676  Jamestown, Virginia is burned to the ground by forces of Nathaniel Bacon.
 1692  Giles Corey is executed in Salem, Massachusetts after not pleading at the Salem Witch Trials.
 1777  American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
 1778  The Continental Congress passes the first United States budget.
 1796  George Washington's Farewell address is printed across the United States in an open letter to the public.
 1799  French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
 1862  American Civil War: Battle of Iuka - Union troops under William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force under General Sterling Price.
 1863  American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga is fought.
1864  American Civil War: Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia - Union troops under General Philip Sheridan defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Jubal Early.
 1870  Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris begins, resulting in January 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.
 1870  Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome.
 1879  The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
 1881  President of the United States James Garfield dies aged 49, after being shot by Charles J. Guiteau on July 2. Chester A. Arthur succeeds him to become the 21st President of the United States.
 1893  Women in New Zealand are given the right to vote.
1901  2000 
 1934  Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, which occurred in 1932.
 1944  World War II: Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed.
 1945  William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is sentenced to death in London for spreading pro-German propaganda.
 1946  The Council of Europe is founded.
 1946  The first Cannes Film Festival is held in Cannes, France.
 1957  The US carries out its first underground nuclear bomb test.
 1959  Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, on a visit to the United States, is barred from visiting Disneyland, due to security concerns.
 1970  The first Glastonbury Festival is held in Glastonbury, Somerset, England.
 1972  A parcel bomb sent to the Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
 1973  Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture as king.
 1975  The TV show Fawlty Towers premieres in the United Kingdom
 1976  A plane crash in Turkey kills 155 people.
1976  The governing Social Democratic Party loses Sweden's parliamentary election.
 1978  The Solomon Islands join the UN.
 1981  Simon & Garfunkel re-unite for a free concert in New York City's Central Park.
 1982  Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :) and :( on the Carnegie Mellon University Board Systems.
 1983  Saint Kitts and Nevis becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
 1985  1985 Mexico City earthquake: A magnitude 8 earthquake centred near Acapulco kills thousands, and destroys many buildings, around 400 in Mexico City alone.
 1988  Hurricane Gilbert dissolves over Texas.
 1989  UTA Flight 772: A terrorist bomb explodes on a plane over Niger, killing 171 people.
 1991  German tourists discover Otzi the Iceman near the Austrian-Italian border.
 1995  The New York Times and Washington Post publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
 1997  The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people.
From 2001 
 2006  The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok, overthrowing Thaksin Shinawatra. The Constitution is revoked, and martial law is instated.
 2010  Deepwater Horizon oil spill: The leaking oil well is sealed, having leaked oil into the Gulf of Mexico since April 20, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded.
 2014  Alex Salmond announces his intention to resign as First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party after a 55%-45% defeat in the Scottish independence referendum, 2014.
 2015  Rugby union World Cup: Japan, as rank outsiders, pull off one of the biggest surprises in the sport's history, by beating two-time champions South Africa 34-32.
 2017  Hurricane Maria sweeps across the Eastern Caribbean, including the islands of Dominica, Martinique and Guadeloupe.
2017  2017 Puebla earthquake: A major earthquake strikes central Mexico, including Mexico City, on the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 earthquake, killing at least 220 people. It is Mexico's second earthquake in less than two weeks.
 2022 - Statef funeral of Elizabeth II is hold at Westminster Abbey.
Up to 1900 
 86  Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (d. 161)
 866  Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (d. 912)
 1377  Albert IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1404)
 1551  King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
 1683  Lorenz Heister, German anatomist, surgeon and botanist (d. 1758)
 1721  William Robertson, Scottish historian (d. 1793)
 1737  Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1832)
 1749  Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French astronomer (d. 1822)
 1754  Louis Claude Richard, French botanist (d. 1821)
 1774  Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian hyperpolyglot (d. 1849)
 1778  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, English politician (d. 1868)
 1790  René Caillé, French explorer (d. 1838)
 1796  Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849)
 1799  René Caillié, French explorer (d. 1838)
 1802  Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer and regent-President, national hero of Hungary (d. 1894)
 1803  Maria Anna of Savoy, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1884)
1803  Maria Teresa of Savoy (d. 1879)
 1806  William Dyce, Scottish artist (d. 1864)
 1813  Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, German-American astronomer (d. 1890)
 1822  Joseph R. West, American general and politician (d. 1898)
 1826  Antonio Raimondi, Italian-Peruvian geographer and scientist (d. 1890)
 1828  Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss politician (d. 1880)
 1840  Galen Spencer, American archer (d. 1904)
 1853  Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Portuguese royal (d. 1927)
 1862  Arvid Lindman, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1936)
 1864  Ragna Wettergreen, Norwegian actress (d. 1958)
 1869  Ben Turpin, American silent movie comedian (d. 1940)
 1883  Hjalmar Bergman, Swedish writer and playwright (d. 1931)
 1883  Mabel Vernon, American activist (d. 1975)
 1887  Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (d. 1972)
 1888  J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (d. 1971)
 1889  Sarah Louise Delany, American physician and writer (d. 1999)
 1898  Giuseppe Saragat, President of Italy (d. 1988)
1901  1950 
 1901  Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-born movie producer (d. 1991)
 1901  Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Austrian biologist (d. 1972)
 1905  Theodor Blank, German politician (d. 1972)
 1908  Mika Waltari, Finnish writer (d. 1979)
 1909  Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian automobile designer and entrepreneur (d. 1998)
 1910  Margaret Lindsay, English actress (d. 1981)
 1911  William Golding, English writer (d. 1993)
 1912  Kurt Sanderling, German conductor (d. 2011)
 1913  Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
 1914  Rogers Morton, American politician (d. 1979)
 1915  Johann Hafstein, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1980)
 1921  Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and writer (d. 1997)
 1922  Dana Zátopková, Czech athlete
 1922  Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (d. 2000)
 1922  Damon Knight, American science fiction writer (d. 2002)
 1924  Vern Benson, American baseball player and manager (d. 2014)
 1924  Don Harron, Canadian comedian, actor, writer and composer (d. 2015)
1926  Carlo Fruttero, Italian writer, journalist and translator (d. 2012)
 1926  Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist
 1926  James Lipton, American actor
 1926  Nini Rosso, Italian jazz trumpeter and composer (d. 1994)
 1927  Harold Brown, American physicist and politician, former United States Secretary of Defense
 1927  William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)
 1928  Adam West, American actor (d. 2017)
 1928  Wolfram Siebeck, German food critic and journalist (d. 2016)
 1929  Charles Gordon-Lennox, 10th Duke of Richmond, British peer (d. 2017)
 1929  Marge Roukema, American politician (d. 2014)
 1929  Luigi Taveri, Swiss motorcycle racer (d. 2018)
 1929  Gertrude Baniszewski, American murderer (d. 1990)
 1930  Antonio Margheriti, Italian movie maker (d. 2002)
 1930  Muhal Richard Abrams, American educator, composer and musician
 1931  Hiroto Muraoka, Japanese footballer (d. 2017)
 1931  Jean-Claude Carrière, French writer and screenwriter
 1932  Mike Royko, American journalist (d. 1997)
1932  Stefanie Zweig, German writer (d. 2014)
 1933  David McCallum, Scottish actor
 1934  Brian Epstein, English musical group manager (the Beatles) (d. 1967)
 1935  Nick Massi, American musician
 1935  Milan Antal, Slovakian astronomer (d. 1999)
 1936  Al Oerter, American athlete (d. 2007)
 1939  Moshe Weinberg, Israeli weightlifting coach (d. 1972)
 1940  Bill Medley, American singer and songwriter (The Righteous Brothers)
 1941  Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (d. 2013)
 1941  Umberto Bossi, Italian politician
 1941  Cass Elliot, American singer (d. 1974)
 1944  Edmund Joensen, 9th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
 1944  Anders Björck, Swedish politician
 1945  Kate Adie, English journalist
 1947  Tanith Lee, English writer (d. 2015)
 1947  Lol Creme, English musician
 1948  Mykhaylo Fomenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager
 1948  Mihai Timofti, Moldovan actor, director and composer
 1948  Jeremy Irons, English actor
 1949  Twiggy, English model
1949  Sally Potter, English movie director and screenwriter
 1949  Ernie Sabella, American actor
 1950  Michael Proctor, English physicist, mathematician and academic
 1950  Erkki Liikanen, Finnish politician
1951  1975 
 1951  Ian Hudghton, Scottish politician
 1952  Gunnar Hökmark, Swedish politician
 1952  Nile Rodgers, American musician and composer
 1952  Jackie McNamara Sr., Scottish footballer
 1954  Mark Drakeford, Welsh politician, First Minister of Wales
 1954  Michael Wolff, American jazz pianist, composer, producer and actor
 1955  Rex Smith, American singer and actor
 1956  Juan Manuel Fangio II, Argentine racing driver
 1958  Lita Ford, British rock music singer and guitarist
 1958  Kevin Hooks, American actor and director
 1960  Mario Batali, American chef and writer
 1960  Yolanda Saldivar, American murderer
 1962  Cheri Oteri, American actress
 1963  Jarvis Cocker, English musician
 1963  David Seaman, English footballer
 1964  Simon Singh, English journalist, writer and producer
 1965  Sabine Paturel, French singer and actress
 1965  Sunita Williams, American captain, pilot and astronaut
 1966  Heiko Maas, German politician
 1966  Eric Rudolph, American criminal
1967  Aleksandr Karelin, Russian Greco-Roman wrestler
 1970  Victor Williams, American actor
 1972  Ashot Nadanian, Armenian chess player
 1973  Cristiano da Matta, Brazilian racing driver
 1974  Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian
 1974  Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model, actress and singer
From 1976 
 1977  Tasha Danvers, British athlete
 1978  Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
 1980  Dimitri Yachvili, French rugby player
 1980  Amber Lancaster, American model and actress
 1980  Linda Ikeji, Nigerian blogger, writer, actress and model
 1982  Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player
 1982  Jordan Parise, American ice hockey player
 1982  Columbus Short, American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer
 1982  Jesse Blaze Snider, American singer-songwriter, writer and illustrator
 1983  Eamon, American singer
 1984  Kavya Madhavan, Indian actress
 1984  Lydia Hearst, American model, actress, blogger and heiress
 1984  Amber Rayne, American pornographic actress (d. 2016)
 1985  Alun Wyn Jones, Welsh rugby player
 1985  Song Soong-ki, South Korean actor, model and television host
 1985  Woodrow West, Belizean footballer
 1986  Leon Best, English-Irish footballer
 1986  Lauren Goodger, English model, singer and television personality
 1986  Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist
1987  Danielle Panabaker, American actress
 1987  Carlos Quintero, Colombian footballer
 1988  Katrina Bowden, American actress
 1988  Faye Reagan, American pornographic actress
 1989  Tyreke Evans, American basketball player
 1990  Sako Fukuda, Japanese singer
 1990  Evgeny Novikov, Russian racing driver
 1990  Kieran Trippier, English footballer
 1991  C. J. McCollum, American basketball player
 1992  Deyver Vega, Costa Rican footballer
 1992  Diego Antonio Reyes, Mexican footballer
 1996  Haruka Kodama, Japanese singer
 1996  Pia Mia, American singer, actress and model
Up to 1950 
 643  Goeric of Metz, Frankish bishop
 690  Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)
 1123  Emperor Taizu of Jin of China (b. 1068)
 1339  Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)
 1356  Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1311)
 1356  Walter I, Count of Brienne (b. 1304)
 1692  Giles Corey, American farmer killed in the Salem Witch Trials (b. 1612)
 1693  Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (b. 1641)
 1710  Ole Romer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)
 1781  Tobias Furneaux, English explorer (b. 1735)
 1812  Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (b. 1744)
 1833  Mary Jemison, American frontierswoman (b. 1743)
 1843  Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French mathematician, engineer and scientist (b. 1792)
 1868  William Sprague, American minister and politician (b. 1809)
 1881  James Garfield, 20th President of the United States (b. 1831)
 1893  Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician (b. 1817)
 1902  Masaoka Shiki, Japanese poet, writer and critic (b. 1867)
1905  Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (b. 1845)
 1907  Jacob Morenga, Namibian uprising leader (b. 1875)
 1914  Charles de Vendeville, French swimmer (b. 1882)
 1927  Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
 1935  Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskii, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1857)
 1936  Vishnu Narayan Bhatkande, Indian singer (b. 1860)
 1938  Pauline Frederick, American actress (b. 1883)
 1949  Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
1951  2010 
 1954  Miles Franklin, Australian writer (b. 1879)
 1967  Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian painter (b. 1884)
 1968  Chester Carlson, American physicist (b. 1906)
 1968  Red Foley, American singer (b. 1910)
 1969  Rex Ingram, American actor (b. 1895)
 1985  Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)
 1987  Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian politician and Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
 1989  Willie Steele, American long jumper (b. 1923)
 1992  Jacques Pic, French chef (b. 1932)
 1995  Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and businessman (b. 1907)
 2002  Robert Guéï, leader of Ivory Coast (b. 1941)
 2003  Slim Dusty, Australian singer (b. 1927)
 2004  Skeeter Davis, American singer (b. 1931)
 2009  Eduard Zimmermann, German broadcaster (b. 1929)
From 2011 
 2011  Dolores Hope, American singer and philanthropist (b. 1909)
 2011  George Cadle Price, 1st Prime Minister of Belize (b. 1919)
 2013  Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (Nintendo) (b. 1927)
 2013  Saye Zerbo, Burkina Faso politician (b. 1932)
 2013  John D. Vanderhoof, American politician, 37th Governor of Colorado (b. 1922)
 2014  Avraham Heffner, Israeli filmmaker (b. 1935)
 2014  Elaine Lee, South African-Australian actress (b. 1939)
 2014  U. Srinivas, Indian mandolin player (b. 1969)
 2014  Francisco Feliciano, Filipino composer and conductor (b. 1941)
 2014  Iain MacCormick, Scottish politician (b. 1939)
 2014  Audrey Long, American actress (b. 1922)
 2015  Mishael Cheshin, Israeli judge (b. 1936)
 2015  Masajuro Shiokawa, Japanese politician (b. 1921)
 2015  Jackie Collins, English novelist (b. 1937)
 2017  Bernie Casey, American actor and football player (b. 1939)
 2017  Jake LaMotta, American boxer (b. 1922)
 2017  David Shepherd, British artist (b. 1931)
2017  Brian Barder, British diplomat (b. 1934)
 2017  Leonid Kharitonov, Russian opera singer (b. 1933)
 2017  José Salcedo, Spanish film editor (b. 1949)
 2018  Jon Burge, American police officer (b. 1947)
 2018  Bunny Carr, Irish television presenter (b. 1927)
 2018  Kondapalli Koteswaramma, Indian Communist revolutionary and writer (b. 1918)
 2018  Marilyn Lloyd, American politician (b. 1929)
 2018  Arthur Mitchell, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1934)
 2018  Denis Norden, English comedy writer and television presenter (b. 1922)
 2018  Gamil Ratib, Egyptian-French actor (b. 1926)
 2019  Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of Tunisia (b. 1936)
 2019  Irina Bogacheva, Russian mezzo-soprano (b. 1939)
 2019  Wim Crouwel, Dutch graphic designer (b. 1928)
 2019  Marco Feingold, Austrian Holocaust survivor (b. 1913)
 2019  Maurice Ferré, American politician (b. 1935)
 2019  Charles Gérard, French actor (b. 1922)
 2019  Bert Hellinger, German psychotherapist (b. 1925)
2019  Barron Hilton, American businessman (b. 1927)
 2019  Sandie Jones, Irish singer (b. 1951)
 2019  Harold Mabern, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1936)
 2019  María Rivas, Venezuelan Latin jazz singer (b. 1960)
 2019  Levente Riz, Hungarian politician (b. 1974)
 2019  Larry Wallis, English songwriter and guitarist (b. 1949)
Observances 
 National holiday in Saint Kitts and Nevis, commemorating independence from the United Kingdom in 1983
 International Talk like a Pirate Day
 Armed Forces Day (Chile)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 9  Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and heavily defeats Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.
 337  Constantine II, Constantius II and Constans I succeed their father Constantine I as Roman Emperor.
 533  A Byzantine army of 15,000 under Belisarius lands at Caput Vada in modern Tunisia and marches onto Carthage.
 1000  Battle of Svolder – After it, King Olaf I of Norway commits suicide.
 1087  William the Conqueror dies. His son succeeds him as King William II of England.
 1379  Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
 1488  Anne of Brittany becomes Duchess of Brittany.
 1493  Battle of Krbava Field - A decisive defeat of Croats in the Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
 1499  Vasco da Gama returns to Lisbon from his voyage to India.
 1513  In the Battle of Flodden Field James IV of Scotland is defeated.
1543  Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
 1739  Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
 1775  A hurricane strikes Newfoundland, killing 4,000 people.
 1776  The Continental Congress officially names their new country the United States.
 1791  Washington, DC is named after 1st President of the United States George Washington.
 1806  A hurricane kills 457 people in Dominica.
 1839  John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
 1850  California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
 1850  The Compromise of 1850 strips Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) in return for the federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
 1855  Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol ends with the withdrawal of Russian troops.
1863  American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
 1870  Redmond, Washington is founded.
 1886  The Berne Convention is finalized.
 1892  Edward Barnard discovers Jupiter's moon Amalthea.
 1893  A birth occurs in the White House for the only time in its history to date. First Lady Frances Folsom Cleveland gives birth to a girl, Esther.
1901  2000 
 1913  Russian military pilot Pyotr Nesterov performs the first 'Looping' maneuver with his aircraft over Kiev.
 1914  World War I: The Battle of the Marne ends in a French victory.
 1914  World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
 1919  Spanish passenger ferry Valbanera disappears in a hurricane between Cuba and the Florida Keys.
 1922  The Greco-Turkish War ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks. The largest part of the city of Smyrna (on the Minor Asia coast, now Izmir) is burned. The Non-Turkic population flees.
 1923  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, founds the CHP.
 1924  The Hanapepe massacre takes place in Kauai, Hawaii.
 1926  The National Broadcasting Company formed.
 1939  World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest defended pocket of Polish Army Resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
 1940  George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
1940  World War II: Treznea massacre - The Hungarian army, supported by local Hungarians, kills 93 Romanian civilians in Treznea, a village in Northern Transylvania.
 1942  World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.
 1943  World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
 1944  World War II: Bulgaria is liberated by Russia.
 1945  Japan formally surrenders to China.
 1947  "First actual case of (a computer) bug being found" – a moth is lodged in a relay of a Mark II computer at Harvard.
 1948  The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is created, declared by Kim Il-Sung.
 1954  Marilyn Bell swam for 20 hours and 57 minutes under grueling conditions to become the first person to swim across Lake Ontario.
 1954  An earthquake in Algeria kills 1,250 people.
 1956  Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
 1965  The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
1965  Sandy Koufax throws a perfect game against the Chicago Cubs.
 1965  Hurricane Betsy hits New Orleans.
 1966  The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
 1969  Canada's Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal Government.
 1970  A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown into Dawson's Field, Jordan.
 1976  Chinese Communist Leader Mao Zedong dies aged 82.
 1983  Aaron Pryor beats Alexis Arguello by knockout in round ten of a rematch of their 1982 controversial fight, dubbed The Battle of The Champions.
 1990  The Sri Lankan Army kills 184 Tamil civilians in the Batticaloa massacre.
 1990  Liberian leader Samuel K. Doe is overthrown and killed in a coup.
 1991  Tajikistan becomes independent from the Soviet Union.
 1991  Nirvana release their hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which becomes an iconic tune for a whole generation.
1993  The Palestinian Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legal state in its own right.
 1996  Croatia and Yugoslavia take up diplomatic relations after war in the region.
 1999  The Sega Dreamcast is released in the United States
 2000  In the wake of inflation, Ecuador replaces its currency, the Sucre with the US dollar.
From 2001 
 2001  Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan.
 2004  A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing several people.
 2004  Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica reverses a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Colic to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools, and announces that Colic will be replaced.
 2009  09/09/09: The date, when written, has 3 nines in it. As well as that, September has nine letters, and so does Wednesday, the day of the week it falls on. It also fell on the 252nd day of the year, and the digits of 252 add up to nine.
 2011  The 2011 Rugby World Cup begins in New Zealand.
 2012  The 2012 Summer Paralympics in London end.
 2013  Norwegian Parliamentary Election: The Labour Party-led coalition under Jens Stoltenberg loses the election after eight years in government. Erna Solberg of the Centre-Right Venstre Party becomes the next Prime Minister on October 16.
2014  Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper announces that a ship from John Franklin's ill-fated expedition to the Canadian Arctic has been found.
 2015  Elizabeth II overtakes Queen Victoria to becomes the longest-reigning British monarch.
Up to 1900 
 214  Aurelian, Roman Emperor (d. 275)
 384  Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)
 1349  Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
 1466  Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
 1585  Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
 1656  Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, German composer (d. 1746)
 1708  Paul Egede, Danish missionary (d. 1789)
 1711  Thomas Hutchinson, American historian and politician (d. 1780)
 1737  Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
 1754  William Bligh, British naval officer and Governor of New South Wales (d. 1817)
 1769  Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Ukrainian poet (d. 1838)
 1774  Salomon Mayer Rothschild, patriarch of the Rothschild banking family (d. 1855)
 1778  Clemens Brentano, German writer (d. 1842)
 1815  Johann Gottfried Piefke, Prussian military musician and composer (d. 1884)
 1822  Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, French general and politician (d. 1891)
 1826  Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1907)
1828  Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1910)
 1834  Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English writer (d. 1903)
 1834  James E. Bond, Governor of Nebraska (d. 1906)
 1841  Paul Eyschen, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1915)
 1842  Elliott Coues, American army surgeon, historian and writer (d. 1899)
 1848  Elia Millosevich, Italian astronomer (d. 1919)
 1852  John Henry Poynting, British physicist (d. 1914)
 1855  Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British-German writer (d. 1927)
 1855  Anthony Francis Lucas, Croatian-American engineer and explorer (d. 1921)
 1868  Mary Hunter Austin, American writer (d. 1934)
 1872  Phan Chu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (d. 1926)
 1873  Max Reinhardt, movie and theatre director and actor (d. 1943)
 1873  Marcel Jacques Boulenger, French writer and fencer (d. 1932)
 1878  Sergio Osmena, President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
 1887  Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
 1890  Harland D. Sanders, American inventor of KFC (d. 1980)
 1890  Kurt Lewin, German psychologist (d. 1947)
1892  Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-American actress (d. 1961)
 1893  Esther Cleveland, only person to be born in the White House (d. 1980)
 1894  Arthur Freed, American songwriter and movie producer (d. 1973)
 1894  Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
 1898  Styles Bridges, 63rd Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1961)
 1899  C. R. Smith, American politician (d. 1990)
1901  1950 
 1901  Lev Shubnikov, Russian physicist (d. 1937)
 1902  Fred Tootell, American athlete (d. 1964)
 1903  Phyllis Whitney, American writer (d. 2008)
 1904  Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
 1905  Joseph E. Levine, American movie producer (d. 1987)
 1906  Harri Larva, Finnish runner (d. 1980)
 1906  James Quinn, American athlete (d. 2004)
 1908  Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)
 1908  Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese admiral (d. 1945)
 1911  John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)
 1918  Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, former President of Italy (d. 2012)
 1919  Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (d. 1998)
 1920  Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and physicist (d. 1993)
 1922  Hans Georg Dehmelt, German physicist (d. 2017)
 1922  Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian geneticist
 1923  Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist (d. 2008)
 1923  Cliff Robertson, American actor (d. 2011)
 1924  Rik van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
1924  Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
 1926  Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egyptian theologian and writer
 1930  Francis Carroll, Australian archbishop
 1931  Margaret Tyzack, British actress (d. 2011)
 1932  Sylvia Miles, American actress
 1934  Nicholas Liverpool, former President of Dominica (d. 2015)
 1935  Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
 1939  Reuven Rivlin, 10th President of Israel
 1941  Otis Redding, American musician (d. 1967)
 1941  Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (d. 2011)
 1945  Richard Divall, Australian conductor and musicologist (d. 2017)
 1945  Alphonso Jackson, American politician
 1946  Doug Ingle, American musician (Iron Butterfly)
 1946  Jim Keays, Australian musician (d. 2014)
 1947  Freddy Weller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1949  John Curry, British figure skater (d. 1994)
 1949  Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, 6th President of Indonesia
1951  1975 
 1951  Alexander Downer, Australian politician
 1951  Tom Wopat, American actor, singer and director
 1952  David A. Stewart, British musician (Eurythmics)
 1953  Alisher Usmanov, Uzbek-Russian business magnate
 1955  John Kricfalusi, Canadian voice actor, animator, director and screenwriter
 1956  Anatoly Artsebarsky, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut
 1957  Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist and educator
 1959  Tom Foley, American baseball player and coach
 1959  Eric Serra, French composer
 1960  Hugh Grant, English actor
 1960  Bob Hartley, Canadian ice hockey coach
 1961  Matjaz Kek, Slovenian football coach
 1962  Liza Marklund, Swedish writer
 1963  Chris Coons, American politician
 1963  Roberto Donadoni, Italian footballer
 1964  Mike Ashley, English billionaire entrepreneur
 1964  John Hughes, Scottish football manager
 1966  Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian
 1967  Akshay Kumar, Indian actor
 1967  Hana Andronikova, Czech writer (d. 2011)
1968  Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistani politician (d. 2011)
 1968  Julia Sawalha, English actress
 1969  Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model
 1971  Eric Stonestreet, American actor
 1971  Henry Thomas, American actor, singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1972  Goran Visnjic, Croatian actor
 1974  Ana Carolina, Brazilian singer, composer and musician
 1974  Gok Wan, English fashion consultant, writer and television host
 1975  Michael Bublé, Canadian singer
From 1976 
 1976  Chace Ambrose, American actor and screenwriter
 1976  Jerry Newman, American composer and conductor
 1976  Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer
 1977  Fatih Tekke, Turkish footballer
 1977  Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
 1978  Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
 1980  Michelle Williams, American actress
 1980  Todd Coffey, American baseball player
 1980  Vaclav Drobny, Czech footballer (d. 2012)
 1982  Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1982  Graham Onions, English cricketer
 1983  Kim Jung-hwa, South Korean actress and model
 1984  Andrey Silnov, Russian athlete
 1984  Brad Guzan, American footballer
 1985  Luka Modric, Croatian footballer
 1987  Alex Song, Cameroonian footballer
 1987  Andrea Petkovic, German tennis player
 1987  Nicole Aniston, American pornographic actress
 1988  Shizuka Nakamura, Japanese model and actress
 1990  Haley Reinhart, American singer-songwriter
 1991  Kelsey Chow, American actress
 1991  Oscar, Brazilian footballer
1993  Ryohei Kato, Japanese gymnast
 2000  Victoria de Marichalar y Borbon, Spanish royal
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 701  Pope Sergius I
 1000  Olaf I of Norway (b. 963)
 1087  King William I of England (b. 1028)
 1398  King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
 1438  King Edward of Portugal (b. 1391)
 1487  Chenghua, Chinese Emperor  (b. 1447)
 1488  Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433)
 1513  King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)
 1569  Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
 1583  Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer (b. 1539)
 1596  Anna Jagiellon, Queen of Poland (b. 1523)
 1612  Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese daimyo (b. 1570)
 1676  Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, French army officer, founder of Montreal (b. 1612)
 1806  William Paterson, 2nd Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745)
 1815  John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
 1834  James Weddell, British sailor (b. 1787)
 1891  Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
 1898  Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
1901  2000 
 1901  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
 1910  Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (b. 1821)
 1915  Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods maker (b. 1850)
 1939  U Ottama, Burmese national hero
 1941  Hans Spemann, German doctor and zoologist, won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
 1960  Jussi Björling, Swedish opera singer (b. 1911)
 1976  Mao Zedong, political leader (People's Republic of China) (b. 1893)
 1978  Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
 1978  Jack Warner, American Hollywood studio founder (b. 1892)
 1980  John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
 1981  Robert Askin, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1907)
 1981  Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist (b. 1901)
 1983  Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (b. 1901)
 1985  Paul Flory, American chemist (b. 1910)
 1985  Antonio Votto, Italian conductor (b. 1896)
 1986  Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian classical pianist (b. 1893)
1990  Nicola Abbagnano, Italian philosopher (b. 1901)
 1990  Samuel K. Doe, Liberian military officer and President of Liberia (b. 1951)
 1990  Doc Cramer, American Major League Baseball player (b. 1905)
 1993  Helen O'Connell, singer (b. 1920)
 1997  Burgess Meredith, actor (b. 1907)
 1998  Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (b. 1943)
 1999  Jim "Catfish" Hunter, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1946)
 2000  Veerasamy Ringadoo, first President of Mauritius (b. 1920)