Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
2015  Dick Van Patten, American actor (b. 1928)
 2015  Harvey Pollack, American sport statistician (b. 1922)
 2015  Thé Lau, Dutch singer and guitarist (b. 1952)
 2015  Magali Noël, French actress and singer (b. 1931)
 2016  James Green, American historian (b. 1944)
 2016  Stanley Mandelstam, American theoretical physicist (b. 1928)
 2016  Ralph Stanley, American musician (b. 1927)
 2017  Saman Kelegama, Sri Lankan economist (b. 1959)
 2017  Tonny van der Linden, Dutch footballer (b. 1932)
 2017  Mr. Pogo, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1951)
 2017  Gabe Pressman, American journalist (b. 1924)
 2017  Betty Metcalf, American politician (b. 1921)
 2018  Alberto Fouilloux, Chilean footballer (b. 1940)
 2018  Donald Hall, American poet (b. 1928)
 2018  Kim Jong-pil, Prime minister of South Korea (b. 1926)
 2018  Violeta Rivas, Argentine singer and actress (b. 1937)
 2019  Peter Ball, English bishop and convicted sex offender (b. 1932)
2019  Dave Bartholomew, American musician, bandleader and songwriter (b. 1918)
 2019  Andrey Kharitonov, Russian actor (b. 1959)
 2019  Fernando Roldán, Chilean footballer (b. 1920)
 2019  George Rosenkranz, Hungarian-Mexican chemist (b. 1916)
 2019  Abdul Sattar, Pakistani political scientist and diplomat (b. 1931)
Observances 
 National Day of Luxembourg (Grand Duke's official birthday)
 Saint John's Eve, midsummer celebrations in some Northern Hemisphere countries
 New Year in the Mapuche culture in southern Chile, related to the Southern Hemisphere's Winter solstice
 United Nations Public Service Day
 Victory Day (Estonia)
 Father's Day (Poland, Nicaragua and Uganda)
 Okinawa Memorial Day (after end of Battle of Okinawa)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 79 - Titus becomes Roman Emperor after the previous day's death of his father, Vespasian.
 109 - Roman Emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometers northwest of Rome.
 972 - Battle of Cedynia: First documented victory of Polish forces takes place.
 1128 – Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães. Portuguese forces led by Afonso I beat his mother D.Teresa and D.Fernão Peres de Trava. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" in 1143.
 1230 - The Siege of Jaén starts in the context of the Spanish Recoquista. 
 1314 – End of the Battle of Bannockburn. Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce beat Edward II of England. Scotland regains its independence.
 1340 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys - The French fleet is almost destroyed  by the English fleet commanded personally by King Edward III of England.
1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aix-la-Chapelle, Prussia, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
 1441 – Eton College is founded.
 1497 – John Cabot lands on North America in Newfoundland; first European discovery of the region since the Vikings.
 1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London
 1509 – Henry VIII is crowned King of England.
 1534 – Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
 1535 – The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
 1571 - Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founds Manila.
 1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
 1604 – Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford dies. Leading candidate for true authorship of the Shakespeare canon.
 1622 - Battle of Macau: The Dutch fail in an attempt to capture Macau.
 1662 – The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macao.
1664 – The colony of New Jersey is founded.
 1692 – Kingston, Jamaica is founded.
 1779 - American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
 1793 – First republican constitution in France adopted.
 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins.
 1813 - Battle of Beaver Dams: A British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.
 1821 – Battle of Carabobo: Venezuela gains total independence from Spain.
 1859 – Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns). Sardinia and France defeat Austria in northern Italy.
 1861 – Tennessee becomes the 11th and last state to secede from the US.
 1880 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
 1894 – The IOC decides to hold the Olympic Games every four years.
1901  2000 
 1901 – First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens.
 1902 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
 1910 – Japan invades Korea.
 1913 – Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
 1913 – Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
 1916 – Mary Pickford becomes first movie star to get million dollar contract.
 1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
 1918 – The giant cannon Big Bertha begins bombardments on Paris
 1932 – A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand).
 1938 - Pieces of meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it explodes in the Earth's atmosphere, lands near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
 1939 - Siam is renamed Thailand for the first time, by Prime Minister Plaek Pibulsonggram.
 1940 – France and Italy sign an armistice.
 1941 – Government of briefly independent Lithuania conducts its first meeting under prime minister Juozas Ambrazevičius
1945 – The U.S.S.R. capture the Free Republic of Schwarzenberg.
 1946 – Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of France
 1947 – First known sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold, flying over Washington, USA, notices nine luminous disks in the form of saucers.
 1948 – Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible.
 1957 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
 1963 – Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the UK.
 1967 - The UK's worst caving disaster kills 6 people at Mossdale Caverns.
 1974 – The UPC label is used for the first time to ring up purchases at a supermarket.
 1975 – An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die.
 1981 – For what would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years, the Humber Bridge, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, opens.
1982 – British Airways flight 9 flies into volcanic ash erupting from Mount Galunggung in Indonesia, causing all four of its engines to fail.
 1982 - Jean-Loup Chrétien becomes the first French person to go into space.
 1983 – Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth.
 1983 – Yasser Arafat banned from Damascus.
 1989 - Jiang Zemin becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.
 1993 – Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.
 1995 - South Africa wins the Rugby Union World Cup in front of its home crowd. Nelson Mandela famously hands the trophy to team captain Francois Pienaar.
 1996 – Michael Johnson breaks the world record in the 200 metres with a time of 19.66 seconds
 1999 – The guitar with which Eric Clapton recorded Layla is sold at auction for the astounding price of $497,500.
From 2001 
 2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281 people.
 2003 - Air France's last Concorde flight takes place.
 2004 - In the state of New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
 2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is elected to his first term as President of Iran.
 2007 – Before becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (on June 27) Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as leader of the Labour Party.
 2010 – Julia Gillard becomes the first female Prime Minister of Australia, succeeding Kevin Rudd.
 2010 – The longest match in the history of professional tennis ends at Wimbledon, after two days. John Isner beats Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the deciding set.
 2012 - Lonesome George, the last-known surviving Pinta Island tortoise, dies in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, aged around 100. His sub-species is therefore considered to be extinct.
 2012 - Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood is declared the winner of the previous week's Presidential election in Egypt.
2014 - Albania officially becomes an EU candidate country.
 2014 - Uruguayan footballer Luis Suárez is involved in a biting controversy at the 2014 FIFA World Cup when cameras show him biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during a match. He is suspended from competitive games for four months.
 2016 - David Cameron announces his intention to resign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after 51.9% of British voters decided to leave the European Union in a referendum.
 2017 - 15 people are killed and 93 are missing after a landslide hits Xinmo village in Sichuan, People's Republic of China.
Up to 1800 
 1244  Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (died 1308)
 1293  Joan the Lame, Queen of France (died 1348)
 1314  Philippa of Hainaut, Queen Consort of Edward III of England (died 1369)
 1343  Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre (died 1373)
 1386  John of Capistrano, Italian saint (died 1456)
 1413  John IV, Marquess of Montferrat (died 1464)
 1485  Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (died 1558)
 1519  Theodore Beza, French theologian and reformer (died 1605)
 1532  Edzard II, Count of East Frisia (died 1599)
 1532  William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (died 1592)
 1532  Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (died 1588)
 1535  Joan of Spain, Spanish-born Queen Consort of Portugal (died 1573)
 1542  Saint John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite friar and poet (died 1591)
 1661  Hachisuka Tsunanori, Japanese daimyo (died 1730)
 1694  Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss theorist (died 1748)
 1704  Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French aristocrat (died 1771)
1740  Juan Ignacio Molina, Chilean naturalist (died 1829)
 1755  Anarchasis Clats, Prussian-born French revolutionary (died 1794)
 1767  Jean-Baptiste  Benoit Eyries, French geographer, author and translator (died 1846)
 1770  Albrecht Berblinger, German inventor (died 1829)
 1774  Antonio González de Balcarce, Argentine military commander (died 1819)
 1777  John Ross, naval officer and explorer (died 1856)
 1782  Juan Larrea, Argentine politician and merchant (died 1847)
 1784  Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan revolutionary and political figure (died 1853)
 1795  Ernst Heinrich Weber, anatomist and physiologist (died 1878)
1801  1900 
 1803  George James Webb, composer (died 1887)
 1804  Willard Richards, American religious leader (died 1854)
 1811  John Archibald Campbell, American jurist (died 1889)
 1813  Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (died 1887)
 1818  Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (died 1901)
 1821  Guillermo Rawson, Argentine politician (died 1890)
 1825  Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1844)
 1826  George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (died 1898)
 1833  Gustaf Akerhielm, Prime Minister of Sweden (died 1900)
 1838  Jan Matejko, Polish painter (died 1893)
 1842  Ambrose Bierce, American writer (died 1914)
 1850  Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British general, original Order of Merit member (died 1916)
 1852  Victor Adler, Austrian politician (died 1918)
 1860  Mercedes of Orléans, Queen of Spain (died 1878)
 1869  Prince George of Greece and Denmark (died 1957)
 1869  Caroline Furness, American astronomer (died 1936)
1880  Oswald Veblen, American mathematician (died 1960)
 1882  Carl Diem, German sports scientist and Olympic official (died 1962)
 1883  Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born American physicist (died 1964)
 1883  Frank Venner, American runner (died 1966)
 1884  Frank Waller, American athlete (died 1941)
 1888  Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (died 1964)
 1893  Roy O. Disney, American businessman (died 1971)
 1895  Jack Dempsey, American boxer (died 1983)
 1898  Karl Selter, Estonian politician (died 1958)
1901  1925 
 1901  Harry Partch, composer (died 1974)
 1906  Pierre Fournier, French cellist (died 1986)
 1907  Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (died 1989)
 1908  Hugo Distler, German composer (died 1942)
 1908  Guru Gopinath Indian classical dancer (died 1987)
 1908  Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (died 1976)
 1909  Jean Deslauriers, Canadian conductor, violinist and composer (died 1978)
 1909  William Penney, English mathematician (died 1991)
 1909  David Rose, composer, musician (died 1990)
 1911  Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (died 1995)
 1911  Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer and physicist (died 2011)
 1912  Mary Wesley, British writer (died 2002)
 1913  Gustaaf Detoor, Belgian cyclist (died 2002)
 1914  Robert Aickman, writer (died 1981)
 1915  Fred Hoyle, cosmologist and science fiction writer (died 2001)
 1916  William B. Saxbe, 70th United States Attorney General (died 2010)
 1917  David Easton, Canadian political scientist (died 2014)
 1919  Al Molinaro, American actor (died 2015)
1922  Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) (died 1988)
 1922  Jack Carter, American comedian and actor (died 2015)
 1923  Margaret Olley, Australian artist (died 2011)
 1923  Marc Riboud, French photographer
 1923  Cesare Romiti, Italian businessman and economist
 1923  Yves Bonnefoy, French poet (died 2016)
 1924  Thelma Rogers, English actress (died 2000)
1926  1950 
 1926  Walter Hirrlinger, German politician (died 2018)
 1927  Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist (died 2014)
 1927  James B. Edwards, American politician, 110th Governor of South Carolina and 3rd United States Secretary of Energy (died 2014)
 1928  M. S. Viswanathan, Indian film score composer (died 2015)
 1928  Yvan Delporte, Belgian comics writer (died 2007)
 1928  Wolfgang Altenburg, German general
 1929  Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer
 1930  Claude Chabrol, French movie director (died 2010)
 1930  Dave Creighton, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2017)
 1931  Billy Casper, American golfer (died 2015)
 1933  Sam Jones, American basketball player
 1937  Anita Desai, American novelist
 1938  Lawrence Block, American writer
 1938  Albufaz Elchibey, former President of Azerbaijan
 1940  Vittorio Storaro, Italian cinematographer
 1940  Augusto Fantozzi, Italian lawyer and politician (died 2019)
 1941  Charles Whitman, American murderer (died 1966)
1942  Colin Groves, Australian primatologist (died 2017)
 1942  Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, former President of Chile
 1942  Michele Lee, actress
 1944  Jeff Beck, British guitarist (Yardbirds)
 1944  Chris Wood, British musician (died 1983)
 1945  Colin Blunstone, American musician (The Zombies)
 1945  George Pataki, former Governor of New York
 1945  Betty Stöve, Dutch tennis player
 1946  Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (died 1986)
 1946  Robert Reich, American politician and political commentator
 1947  Clarissa Dickson Wright, English cookery writer and broadcaster (died 2014)
 1947  Mick Fleetwood, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
 1949  Betty Jackson, English fashion designer (born in Lancashire)
 1949  John Illsey, English guitarist (Dire Straits)
 1949  Brigitte Mohnhaupt, German militant, member of the Red Army Faction
 1950  Jan Kulczyk, Polish businessman (d. 2015)
 1950  Wilfried, Austrian singer and actor (d. 2017)
 1950  Moshe Ya'alon, Israeli politician
1951  1975 
 1951  Ivar Formo, Norwegian cross-country skier  (died 2006)
 1951  Raelene Boyle, Australian athlete
 1951  Simon Rouse, English actor
 1952  Dianna Melrose, English diplomat
 1953  William E. Moerner, American chemist and physicist
 1953  Garry Shider, musician (P Funk)
 1954  Mark Edmondson, Australian tennis player
 1956  Owen Paterson, British politician
 1956  Joe Penny, American actor
 1957  Astro, English rapper (UB40)
 1957  Mark Parkinson, 45th Governor of Kansas
 1958  Jean Charest, Quebec politician
 1959  Andy McCluskey, British singer, songwriter and musician
 1960  Elish Angiolini, Scottish judge
 1960  Trisha Meili, writer
 1961  Iain Glen, Scottish actor
 1961  Bernie Nicholls, Canadian ice hockey player
 1963  Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (died 2007)
 1963  Preki, Serbian-American footballer
 1966  Adrienne Shelly, American actress (died 2006)
 1966  Milena Bertolini, Italian footballer and coach
 1967  Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, German guitarist (Rammstein)
1967  Sherry Stringfield, American actress
 1969  Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
 1970  Glenn Medeiros, Hawaiian singer and songwriter
 1971  Ji Jin-hee, South Korean actor
 1971  Christopher Showerman, American actor
 1972  Robbie McEwen, Australian cyclist
 1973  Alexander Beyer, German actor
 1973  Jere Lehtinen, Finnish ice hockey player
 1974  Chris Guccione, American baseball player and umpire
 1975  Marek Malik, Czech ice hockey player
 1975  Federico Pucciarello, Argentine-Italian rugby player
From 1976 
 1977  Dimos Dikoudis, Greek basketball player
 1978  Luis García, Spanish footballer
 1978  Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
 1978  Juan Román Riquelme, Argentine footballer
 1978  Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish)
 1979  Petra Nemcova, Czech model
 1979  Dafydd Jones, Welsh rugby player
 1980  Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
 1980  Minka Kelly, American actress
 1980  John Bryant Davila, American actor
 1981  Siddharth Nair, cartoonist and writer
 1982  Kevin Nolan, English footballer
 1982  Christian Montero, Costa Rican footballer
 1982  Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player
 1983  Rebecca Cooke, English swimmer
 1985  Diego Alves, Brazilian footballer
 1986  Stuart Broad, English cricketer
 1986  Solange Knowles, American actress and singer
 1987  LiSA, Japanese singer and musician
 1987  Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer
 1988  Micah Richards, English footballer
 1991  Rie Kitahara, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
 1992  David Alaba, Austrian footballer
1992  Raven Goodwin, American actress
 1992  Stuart Hogg, Scottish rugby player
 1992  Sam Morrison, Welsh cyclist
 1993  Piero Barone, Italian singer (Il Volo)
 1993  Beanie Feldstein, American actress
Up to 1950 
 238  Maximius Thrax, Roman Emperor (born 173)
 803  Higbald, Bishop of Lindisfarne
 1195  Albert I, Margrave of Meissen (born 1158)
 1314  Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester (born 1291)
 1314  Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford (born 1274)
 1398  Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty (born 1328)
 1439  Frederick IV of Austria, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
 1519  Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara (born 1480)
 1520  Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (born 1489)
 1564  Rani Durgavati, Indian queen (born 1524)
 1604  Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England (born 1550)
 1637  Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (born 1580)
 1766  Adrien Maurice de Noailles, French soldier and politician (born 1678)
 1803  Matthew Thornton, signer of the US Declaration of Independence (born 1714)
 1817  Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician (born 1769)
1835  Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (born 1769)
 1882  Joachim Raff, German-Swiss composer (born 1822)
 1894  Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (born 1837)
 1908  Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (born 1837)
 1909  Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (born 1849)
 1922  Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1867, assassinated)
 1931  Otto Mears, Russian-American businessman (born 1840)
 1931  Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese Communist politician (born 1880)
 1935  Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer-songwriter (born 1890)
 1947  Emil Seidel, American politician and Mayor of Milwaukee (born 1864)
From 1951 
 1953  George Herbert Walker, grandfather of US President George H. W. Bush (born 1875)
 1968  Tony Hancock, British comedian (born 1924)
 1984  Clarence Campbell, Canadian president of the National Hockey League (born 1905)
 1987  Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (born 1916)
 1988  Marta Abba, Italian actress (b. 1900)
 1989  Hibari Misora, Japanese singer and actress (born 1937)
 1993  Archie Williams, American sprinter (b. 1915)
 2000  Vera Atkins, Special Operations Executive intelligence officer (born 1908)
 2000  Rodrigo Bueno, Argentine singer-songwriter (born 1973)
 2002  Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (born 1913)
 2004  Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter (born 1957)
 2007  Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestler (born 1964)
 2007  Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (born 1967)
 2007  Hans Sturm, German footballer (born 1935)
 2007  Natasja Saad, Danish reggae and dance hall artist (born 1924)
2009  Roméo LeBlanc, Governor-General of Canada (born 1927)
 2012  Lonesome George, Ecuadorean Pinta Island tortoise (born around 1912)
 2012  Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player (born 1926)
 2012  Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (born 1988)
 2013  Mick Aston, British archaeologist (born 1946)
 2013  Emilio Colombo, former Prime Minister of Italy (born 1920)
 2013  William Hathaway, American politician (born 1924)
 2014  Ramón José Velásquez, former Acting President of Venezuela (born 1916)
 2014  Eli Wallach, American actor (born 1915)
 2015  Walter Browne, Australian-American chess player (born 1939)
 2015  Mario Biaggi, American politician (born 1917)
 2015  Marva Collins, American educator (born 1936) 
 2016  Bernie Worrell, American musician (born 1944)
 2017  Mats Johansson, Swedish journalist (born 1951)
 2017  Parker Lee McDonald, American jurist (born 1924)
 2017  Maria Mutagamba, Ugandan economist and politician (born 1952)
 2017  Nils Nilsson, Swedish ice hockey player (born 1936)
2018  Frank Heart, American computer engineer (born 1929)
 2018  Constance Adams, American architect and explorer (born 1964)
 2018  Stanley Anderson, American actor (born 1939)
 2018  Darryl N. Johnson, American politician (born 1938)
 2018  Josip Pirmajer, Slovenian footballer and manager (born 1944)
 2019  Jeff Austin, American musician and singer (born 1974)
 2019  Billy Drago, American actor (born 1946)
 2019  Steve Dunleavy, Australian-born American journalist (born 1938)
 2019  Jónas Gómez Gallo, Chilean businessman and politician (born 1923)
 2019  José Huerta, Peruvian politician (born 1948)
 2019  Yekaterina Mikhailovna-Demina, Russian military doctor (born 1925)
 2019  Jörg Stübner, German footballer (born 1965)
Observances 
 Discovery Day (Newfoundland and Labrador)
 National Day of Quebec
 Saint John's Day, day of midsummer celebrations in the Northern Hemisphere
 Flag Day (Estonia, Finland)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 226  Cao Pi dies and his son Cao Rui succeeds him as Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei in present-day China.
 1149  Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
 1194  King Sverre of Norway is crowned.
 1534  Jacques Cartier becomes the first-known European to reach Prince Edward Island.
 1613  The Globe Theatre burns to the ground.
 1644  King Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge.
 1749  New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
 1786  Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
 1807  Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Athos.
 1850  Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
 1855  The Daily Telegraph newspaper is founded in London.
 1863  George Custer is appointed as a U.S. Union brigadier-general
1864  Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire.
 1880  France annexes Tahiti.
 1891  National Forest Service is organized.
 1891  Street railway in Ottawa starts running.
 1895  Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
1901  2000 
 1913  The Second Balkan War begins.
 1914  Jina Guseva attempts to kill Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
 1916  The UK sentences Irish Easter Rising leader Roger Casement to death. He is executed on August 3.
 1922  France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
 1925  Canada House opens in London.
 1926  Arthur Meighen returns as Prime Minister of Canada.
 1927  First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.
 1933  Italian boxer Primo Carnera knocked out American Jack Sharkey to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
 1937  Joseph-Armand Bombardier receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
 1939  The state of Hatay becomes part of the Republic of Turkey.
 1945  Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
1950  At the 1950 FIFA World Cup, the United States national football team, through a goal from Joe Gaetjens, defeats the England national football team 1-0.
 1956  Marilyn Monroe marries Arthur Miller.
 1958  Brazil wins the FIFA World Cup for the first time, beating the host country Sweden 5-2 in the final.
 1974  Isabel Perón takes over Presidential duties in Argentina, as her husband Juan Perón is dying.
 1974  Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
 1975  Steve Wozniak tests his first prototype Apple Inc. I computer.
 1976  The Seychelles become independent.
 1986  Argentina wins the FIFA World Cup, defeating West Germany 3-2.
 1986  Richard Branson sets the record for the fastest powerboat crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.
 1995  The Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Space Station Mir.
 1995  In Seoul, South Korea, the Sampoong department store collapses, killing 501, and injuring 937 people.
1996  Olafur Ragnar Grimsson is elected President of Iceland, taking office on August 1. He succeeds Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, who decided not to run for election for a fifth time.
From 2001 
 2002  Naval clashes occur between North Korea and South Korea. 6 South Korean sailors are killed and a North Korean vessel is sunk.
 2007  Two explosive devices are found in cars outside nightclubs in London, UK.
 2007  The IPhone goes on sale in the United States.
 2008  UEFA Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland: The tournament is won by the Spain national football team, with a goal by Fernando Torres securing a 1-0 victory over the Germany national football team.
 2009  American financier Bernard Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison for a multibillion Dollar fraud.
 2009  Tennis: Wimbledon Centre Court's new roof is used for the first time.
 2014  A building collapse in Delhi, India, kills at least 10 people, and another building collapse in Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu kills at least 17.
 2014  The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares a caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1139  Petronilla of Aragon (d. 1173)
 1397  John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
 1475  Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan (d. 1497)
 1482  Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
 1516  Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist and physician (d. 1585)
 1528  Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1589)
 1543  Christine of Hesse (d. 1604)
 1596  Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
 1609  Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (d. 1680)
 1636  Thomas Hyde, English orientalist (d. 1703)
 1746  Joachim Heinrich Campe, pedagogue (d. 1818)
 1782  Christian Lyngbye, Danish minister and botanist (d. 1837)
 1793  Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor (d. 1857)
 1798  Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
 1798  Willibald Alexis, German writer (d. 1871)
 1818  Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1878)
 1819  Thomas Dunn English, American politician (d. 1902)
 1844  Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
 1845  George W. Atkinson, American politician, 10th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1925)
1847  Paul Flechsig, German neuranatomist (d. 1929)
 1849  John Hunn, American politician, 51st Governor of Delaware (d. 1926)
 1849  Pedro Montt, President of Chile (d. 1910)
 1849  Sergei Witte, Russian politician (d. 1915)
 1858  George Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
 1861  Dr. William Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
 1865 (disputed)  Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese centenarian (d. 1986)
 1868  George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
 1873  Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist, archaeologist (d. 1938)
 1879  Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Italian cardinal (d. 1970)
 1880  Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
 1881  Harry Frazee, American director, producer and agent (d. 1929)
 1882  Henry Hawtrey, English runner (d. 1961)
 1886  Robert Schuman, French politician and statesman (d. 1963)
 1888  Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925)
 1889  Willie McFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
1890  Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 2005)
 1893  Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
 1900  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer (d. 1944)
1901  1925 
 1901  Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
 1901  Putte Kock, Swedish footballer, ice hockey and contract bridge player (d. 1979)
 1903  Alan Blumlein, English engineer (d. 1942)
 1906  Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1945)
 1907  Junji Nishikawa, Japanese footballer (d. unknown)
 1908  Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
 1910  Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
 1911  Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
 1911  Bernard Herrmann, American composer (d. 1975)
 1912  Lucie Aubrac, French Resistance activist (d. 2007)
 1912  José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican composer and conductor (d. 1958)
 1913  Earle Meadows, American pole vaulter (d. 1992)
 1914  Rafael Kubelik, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
 1915  Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
 1919  Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
 1919  Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (d. 2006)
 1920  César Rodriguez Alvarez, Spanish footballer (d. 1995)
1920  Ray Harryhausen, American movie maker (d. 2013)
 1921  Jean Kent, English actress (d. 2013)
 1921  Reinhard Mohn, German publisher (d. 2009)
 1922  Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (d. 1991)
 1924  Philip H. Hoff, American politician, former Governor of Vermont (d. 2018)
 1924  Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
 1925  Giorgio Napolitano, 11th President of Italy
1926  1950 
 1926  Jaber Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
 1926  Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuadorean writer (d. 2009)
 1928  Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
 1929  Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (d. 2006)
 1930  Ernst Albrecht, German politician (d. 2014)
 1931  Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
 1932  Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British politician
 1933  John Bradshaw, American author (d. 2016)
 1936  Harmon Killebrew, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2011)
 1939  Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Brazilian footballer
 1941  Kwame Ture, (born "Stokely Carmichael"), civil rights activist (d. 1998)
 1943  Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
 1943  Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur (d. 2017)
 1944  Gary Busey, American actor
 1944  Sean Patrick O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts
 1944  Roger Wootton, English aeronautical engineer and balloonist (d. 2017)
 1945  Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan politician and former President
1946  Ernesto Pérez Balladares, 46th President of Panama
 1946  Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004) 
 1948  Ian Paice, British musician (Deep Purple)
 1949  Dan Dierdorf, American football player
 1949  Joan Clos i Matheu, 116th Mayor of Barcelona
1951  1975 
 1951  Don Rosa, American cartoonist
 1952  Joe Johnson, English snooker player
 1956  Pedro Santana Lopes, former Prime Minister of Portugal
 1957  Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, President of Turkmenistan
 1957  Michael Nutter, 98th Mayor of Philadelphia
 1958  Rosa Mota, Portuguese runner
 1958  Dieter Althaus, German politician
 1958  Ralf Rangnick, German football manager
 1959  Atsushi Uchiyama, Japanese footballer
 1959  Gary Rydstrom, American sound designer
 1961  Sharon Lawrence, American actress
 1962  Joan Laporta, Spanish lawyer and politician
 1962  George D. Zamka, American colonel, pilot and astronaut
 1963  Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
 1968  Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
 1970  Mike Vallely, American Professional Skateboarder
 1971  Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
 1971  Kaitlyn Ashley, American erotic actress
 1971  Matthew Good, Canadian rock musician and activist
 1971  Nawal Al-Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
From 1976 
 1977  Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
 1978  Nicole Scherzinger, American actress and singer (Pussycat Dolls)
 1979  Tomoyuki Sakai, Japanese footballer
 1980  Katherine Jenkins, Welsh singer
 1981  Nino, Greek singer
 1981  Nicolas Vuyovich, Argentine Formula One driver
 1984  Christopher Egan, Australian actor
 1984  Derek Lee Rock, American musician
 1984  Emil Hallfredsson, Icelandic footballer
 1986  José Manuel Jurado, Spanish footballer
 1987  Jena Lee, French singer
 1988  Troy Deeney, English footballer
 1988  Ever Banega, Argentine footballer
 1988  Adrian Mannarino, French tennis player
 1990  Kim Little, Scottish footballer
 1990  Yann M'Vila, French footballer
 1991  Suk Hyun-Jun, South Korean footballer
 1991  Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player
 1991  Addison Timlin, American actress
 1992  Adam G. Sevani, American dancer and actor
 1993  George Sampson, English dancer and actor
 1993  Fran Kirby, English footballer
 1993  Lorenzo James Henrie, American actor
1994  Shin Dong-ho, South Korean singer (U-KISS)
 1994  Leandro Paredes, Argentine footballer
 2000  Red Gerard, American snowboarder
Up to 1900 
 67  Paul the Apostle, preacher, teacher and writer (b. 5)
 226  Cao Pi, Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei
 1059  Bernard II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 995)
 1149  Raymond of Poitiers (b. 1115)
 1252  King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
 1509  Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
 1520  Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler (b. 1466)
 1575  Baba Nobuharu, Japanese samurai (b. 1515)
 1763  Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Swedish writer (b. 1718)
 1779  Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (b. 1728)
 1831  Heinrich Friedrich Karl von und zum Stein, Prussian politician (b. 1757)
 1837  Nathaniel Macon, American politician (b. 1758) 
 1840  Lucien Bonaparte, French politician (b. 1775)
 1852  Henry Clay, United States Senator (b. 1777)
 1855  John Gorrie, American physician and humanitarian (b. 1803)
 1861  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
 1875  Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
 1895  Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist and educator (b. 1825)
1895  Floriano Peixoto, President of Brazil (b. 1839)
 1900  Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1827)
1901  2000 
 1925  Christian Michelsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1857)
 1928  Alvaro de Castro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1878)
 1933  Olaf Bull, Norwegian poet (b. 1893)
 1933  "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
 1940  Paul Klee, Swiss painter (b. 1879)
 1941  Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
 1950  Melitta Bentz, German businesswoman and inventor of the coffee filter (b. 1873)
 1955  Max Pechstein, German painter (b. 1881)
 1957  Malcolm Lowry, English writer (b. 1909)
 1958  Karl Arnold, German politician (b. 1901)
 1967  Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
 1967  Jayne Mansfield, American actress and singer (b. 1933)
 1969  Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
 1975  Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
 1977  Magda Lupescu, former Queen of Romania (b. 1895)
 1978  Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
 1992  Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
 1994  Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
1994  Jack Unterweger, Austrian writer and murderer (b. 1950)
 1995  Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
 1997  William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
 1998  Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
 1999  Karekin I, Catholicos (Head) of the Armenian Apostolic Church (b. 1950)
From 2001 
 2002  Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
 2002  Rosemary Clooney, American actress and singer (b. 1928)
 2003  Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
 2006  Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
 2008  Don S. Davis, American actor (b. 1942)
 2013  Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist (b. 1922)
 2013  Jim Kelly, American actor and martial artist (b. 1946)
 2014  Damian D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer (b. 1960)
 2014  Dermot Healy, Irish poet, novelist and actor (b. 1947)
 2015  Josef Masopust, Czech footballer (b. 1931)
 2015  Charles Pasqua, French politician (b. 1927)
 2015  Jackson Vroman, American-Lebanese basketball player (b. 1981)
 2016  Inocente Carreño, Venezuelan composer (b. 1919)
 2016  Vasyl Slipak, Ukrainian opera singer (b. 1974)
 2016  Xu Jiatun, Chinese politician and dissident (b. 1916)
 2016  Gunnar Garbo, Norwegian politician (b. 1924)
 2016  Ojo Maduekwe, Nigerian politician (b. 1945)
2017  John Monckton, American swimmer (b. 1938)
 2017  Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur (b. 1943)
 2017  Dave Semenko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1957)
 2018  Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, Ghanaian economist and politician (b. 1951)
 2018  Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler (b. 1979)
 2018  Arvid Carlsson, Swedish pharmacologist (b. 1923)
 2018  Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian dancer and actress (b. 1932)
 2019  Jeon Mi-seon, South Korean actress (b. 1970)
 2019  Gunilla Pontén, Swedish fashion designer (b. 1929)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Seychelles)
 Veterans Day (Netherlands)
 Roman Catholic Feast Day of Saint Peter and Paul

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
1132  Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
1148  King Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
1245  Pope Innocent IV forces King Sancho II of Portugal out, and replaces him with Afonso III of Portugal.
1411  The Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest in Scotland, takes place.
1487  Citizens of Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, strike against a ban on foreign beer.
1534  Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspe peninsula in present-day Quebec, taking possession of the territory and naming it after Francis I of France.
1567  Mary, Queen of Scots, is deposed and replaced by her 1-year-old son King King James VI.
1701  Detroit, Michigan is founded.
1783  The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
1814  War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward Niagara to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
1823  Chile abolishes Slavery.
1823  The Naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo takes place.
1832  Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass.
1847  After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
1864  American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown – Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep Yankees out of the Shenandoah Valley.
1866  Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
1901  1950 
1901  O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1910  James MacGillivray publishes the first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News.
1911  Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu "the Lost City of the Incas".
1915  Passenger ship Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 845 lives.
1922  The draft of the British Mandate for Palestine is officially confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations.
1923  The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
1924  Archaeologist Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1927  The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
1929  The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
1931  A fire at a home for aged people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
1935  The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (44 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1937  Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys."
1938  The first successful climb of the Eiger North Face is made.
1943  World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
1950  Bumper 8 becomes the first aircraft to be launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1951  2000 
1956  At New York City's Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together which started on July 25, 1946, almost exactly ten years earlier.
1959  At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US vice-president Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev have a "kitchen debate."
1965  Vietnam War:  Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are the targets of anti-aircraft missiles in the first such attack against American planes in the war. One is shot down and the other three sustain damage.
1966  Michael Petkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, along with Brian Schubert. They both end up with broken bones.
1967  During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
1969  Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1974  Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rule that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1974  Konstantinos Karamanlis arrives in Greece, following the collapse of the military junta.
1977  End of the four-day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
1983  George Brett, batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".
1990  Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwaiti border, preparing for the invasion on August 2.
1998  Russel Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
From 2001 
2001  Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, and became the only monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office. He becomes Prime Minister under the name Simeon Saksburggotsky.
2001  The Taiwan Solidarity Union is established.
2002  James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
2002  Alfred Moisiu becomes President of Albania.
2005  Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France for seventh consecutive year. After being revealed to have taken illegal drugs to improve his performance during his career, all of his Tour de France titles are removed from the record in 2012.
2010  Love Parade disaster: At a stampede at a music festival in Duisburg, Germany, 19 people are crushed to death. 2 later die in hospital, as a result of their injuries.
2010  Over 80,000 people record their lives for the YouTube documentary A Life in a Day.
2012  President of Ghana John Atta Mills dies aged 68. His Vice President John Dramani Mahama is sworn in as President later the same day.
2013  A passenger train carrying over 218 people crashes just outside Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, northwest Spain, killing at least 80 people and injuring at least 130. It was travelling from Madrid to Ferrol on the Galician coast when it crashed. It occurred a day before the regional July 25 holiday in Galicia.
2014  Air Algerie Flight 5017 crashes in Mali on a flight between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers, Algeria.
2014  Reuven Rivlin becomes the 10th President of Israel, succeeding Shimon Peres.
2015  Barack Obama makes the first visit by a US president to Kenya.
2016  The International Olympic Committee decides against banning the entire Russian team from the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, after its track-and-field athletes had already been banned following a doping scandal.
2019  Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, taking over from Theresa May. One of his first actions is a massive change of the jobs in the cabinet.
Up to 1900 
923  Suzaku, Emperor of Japan (d. 952)
1468  Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1524)
1574  Thomas Platter the Younger, Swiss physician (d. 1629)
1720  Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, Prussian princess and Queen of Sweden (d. 1782)
1725  John Newton, cleric and hymnist (d.  1807)
1737  Alexander Dalrymple, Scottish geographer (d. 1808)
1740  Juan Ignacio Molina, Chilean naturalist (d. 1829)
1757  Vladimir Borovikovski, Russian painter (d. 1825)
1759  King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia (d. 1824)
1783  Simón Bolívar, South American liberator (d. 1830)
1783  Frédéric de Lafresnaye, French ornithologist (d. 1861)
1786  Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer (d. 1843)
1798  John Adams Dix, American general, senator and Governor of New York (d. 1879)
1802  Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer (d. 1870)
1803  Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (d. 1956)
1817  Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1905)
1823  Arthur I. Boreman, Governor of West Virginia (d. 1896)
1826  Ivan Bloch, Polish banker (d. 1902)
1828  Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian writer (d. 1889)
1832  John J. Bagley, 16th Governor of Michigan (d. 1881)
1841  Francisco da Veiga Beirao, Portuguese politician (d. 1916)
1847  Margarete Steiff, German seamstress, known for Steiff stuffed toys (d. 1909)
1851  Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (d. 1935)
1853  William Gillette, actor and writer (d. 1937)
1857  Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer (d. 1943)
1857  Juan Vicente Gomez, Venezuelan officer, politician and dictator (d. 1935)
1858  Wolfgang Kapp, Prussian civil servant and journalist (d. 1922)
1860  Alphonse Mucha, Czech artist (d. 1939)
1860  Princess Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1919)
1864  Frank Wedekind, German writer (d. 1918)
1867  Vicente Acosta, El Salvadorean poet (d. 1908)
1874  Oswald Chambers, Scottish Baptist evangelist and teacher (d. 1917)
1878  Lord Dunsany, writer (d. 1957)
1880  Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (d. 1959)
1883  Katia Mann, wife of Thomas Mann (d. 1980)
1883  Nelle Wilson Reagan, mother of Ronald Reagan (d. 1962)
1884  Maria Caserini, Italian actress (d. 1969)
1886  Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (d. 1965)
1888  Arthur Richardson, Australian cricketer and coach (d. 1973)
1895  Robert Graves, English writer (d. 1985)
1896  Hermann Kasack, writer (d. 1966)
1897  Amelia Earhart, American aviator (d. 1937) (disappeared)
1899  Chief Dan George, Native American actor (d. 1981)
1899  Bernice Madigan, American supercentenarian (d. 2015)
1900  Zelda Fitzgerald, American artist (d. 1948)
1901  1950 
1908  Cootie Williams, trumpeter (d. 1985)
1914  Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian physician (d. 2015)
1914  Edwin Mirvish, retailer and impresario (d. 2007)
1916  John D. MacDonald, novelist (d. 1986)
1917  Robert Farnon, conductor, composer and arranger (d. 2005)
1918  Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist (d. 2012)
1920  Bella Abzug, American politician and activist (d. 1998)
1920  Constance Dowling, American actress (d. 1969)
1921  Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian tenor (d. 2008)
1923  Warren E. Hearnes, 46th Governor of Missouri (d. 2009)
1925  Adele Addison, American soprano
1926  Hans Günter Winkler, German equestrian jumper (d. 2018)
1929  Peter Yates, British movie director (d. 2011)
1930  Keshubhai Patel, Indian politician, former Chief Minister of Gujarat
1931  Ermanno Olmi, Italian director (d. 2018)
1933  John Aniston, Greek-American actor
1933  Doug Sanders, American golfer
1934  Rudy Collins, American drummer (Dizzy Gillespie Quintet)
1935  Pat Oliphant, Australian political cartoonist