Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
From 2001 
 2002 – Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)
 2003 – Jean Yanne, French actor, writer, director and composer (b. 1933)
 2006 – Kazimierz Gorski, Polish footballer (b. 1921)
 2006 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
 2008 – Heinz Kwiatkowski, German footballer (b. 1926)
 2008 - Utah Phillips, American singer-songwriter, poet and activist (b. 1935)
 2009 – Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea (b. 1946)
 2010 – Leonida Georgievna, Grand Duchess of Russia (b. 1914)
 2011 – Nasser Hejazi, Iranian footballer (b. 1949)
 2011 – Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (b. 1978)
 2012 - Paul Fussell, American historian, writer and educator (b. 1924)
 2013 - Georges Moustaki, French singer and composer (b. 1934)
 2013 - James Sisnett, Barbadian supercentenarian (b. 1900)
 2014 - Joel Camargo, Brazilian footballer (b. 1946)
 2014 - Walter Romberg, East German politician (b. 1928)
 2014 - Mona Freeman, American actress (b. 1926)
 2015 - Aleksey Mozgovoy, Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist (b. 1975)
2015 - John Forbes Nash Jr., American mathematician (b. 1928)
 2015 - Anne Meara, American actress and comedienne (b. 1929)
 2015 - Ali Raymi, Yemeni boxer (b. 1973)
 2016 - John Brophy, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
 2016 - Joe Fleishaker, American actor (b. 1954)
 2017 - Roger Moore, English actor (b. 1927)
 2017 - Stefano Farina, Italian football referee (b. 1962)
 2017 - Jerry Perenchio, American businessman (b. 1930)
 2017 - William Carney, American politician (b. 1942)
 2017 - Kaoru Yosano, Japanese politician (b. 1938)
 2018 - Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban militant (b. 1928)
 2018 - Antonio Horvath, Chilean civil servant and politician (b. 1950)
 2018 - Richard Peck, American novelist (b. 1934)
 2018 - Daniel Robin, French wrestler (b. 1943)
 2019 - Dumiso Dabengwa, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1939)
 2019 - Bobby Joe Long, American serial killer (b. 1953)
 2019 - Hosei Norota, Japanese politician (b. 1929)
 2019 - Beaton Tulk, Canadian politician, 7th Premier of Newfoundland (b. 1944)
Observances 
 Gravity Day
 Birthday of Guru Amar Das (Sikhism)
 Declaration of the Bab (Baha'i faith)
 Labour Day (Jamaica)
 Students' Day (Mexico)
 World Turtle Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 334 BC - The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia.
 337 (AD) - Roman Emperor Constantine I dies.
 853 - A Byzantine Empire fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
 896 - Pope Stephen VII is elected.
 1176 - The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo, present-day Syria.
 1200 - King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
 1246 - Henry Raspe is elected Anti-King of Germany, in opposition to Conrad IV of Germany.
 1455 – Wars of the Roses: In the First Battle of St. Albans, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
 1629 - Thirty Years' War: The Treaty of Luebeck is signed by Ferdinand IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Christian IV of Denmark to end Danish intervention in the war.
 1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
 1762 - The Trevi Fountain in Rome is completed, and opened by Pope Clement XIII.
1768 - Pentecost Island in present-day Vanuatu is reached by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, whose expedition members become the first Europeans to see it. It is named after the Christian feast day of Pentecost.
 1807 - Most of the town of Chudleigh in Devon, southwest England, is destroyed by fire.
 1809 - Napoleonic Wars: Second day of the Battle of Apern-Essling.
 1819 – The SS Savannah sets sail from Savannah, Georgia to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
 1826 – HMS Beagle sets sail on its first voyage.
 1840 - Transportation of British convicts to New South Wales is banned.
 1848 – Slavery is abolished (banned) in Martinique.
 1849 - Abraham Lincoln is given a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river. As he later becomes US president in 1861, he is the only President of the United States to be granted a patent.
 1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson - Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
1901  2000 
 1902 – The Crater Lake National Park in Oregon is created by Theodore Roosevelt.
 1906 - The Wright brothers are given a patent for their "Flying Machine".
 1915 – Lassen Peak in California erupts. Along with the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, this is one of only two volcanic eruptions in the contiguous United States in the 20th Century.
 1915 – The Quintinshill rail crash near Gretna Green, southern Scotland, kills 227 people. It is the deadliest-ever accident on the railways in the United Kingdom.
 1927 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.9 strikes Tsinghai, China, killing around 200,000 people.
 1939 – Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
 1942 – World War II: Mexico enters the war on the side of the Allies.
 1945 - Operation Paperclip: The United States Army forms plans to evacuate German scientists and engineers to the United States to help in the development of rocket technology.
 1946 – Shigeru Yoshida is elected Prime Minister of Japan.
1958 - Ethnic riots break out in Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka, mostly against the minority Tamil population, killing 300 people over the following five days.
 1960 – A major earthquake and a series of Tsunamis hit Chile. The effects are felt as far away as Hawaii where the town of Hilo is hit by a Tsunami. (See Great Chilean Earthquake).
 1962 - Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board, killing all 45 people on board.
 1963 - Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is shot, and dies on May 27.
 1967 - The L'Innovation Department Store fire in Brussels, Belgium, kills 323 people and injures 150.
 1967 - Vietnam War: Vinh Xuan massacre.
 1968 - US U-boat USS Scorpion (SSN-589) sinks in the Atlantic Ocean southwest of the Azores, with 99 people on board.
 1969 - The Apollo 10 mission's Snoopy module with Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene Cernan on board flies to within 15.6 kilometers of the Moon's surface.
 1971 – An earthquake in Anatolia, Turkey, kills around 1,000 people.
1972 – Ceylon changes its name to Sri Lanka, becomes a republic, and adopts a new constitution.
 1972 – Richard Nixon arrives in Moscow for talks with Soviet leaders.
 1980 – Pac-Man is released in Japan.
 1981 – The Yorkshire Ripper serial killer Peter Sutcliffe is jailed for life.
 1987 – The first-ever Rugby World Cup begins in Auckland. Host country New Zealand defeats Italy in the opening match.
 1990 – Yemen becomes a united country.
 1990 - Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
 1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the UN.
 1992 – Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
 1998 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes Bolivia, killing 105 people.
From 2001 
 2003 – The final manuscript of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which was annotated by the composer, is auctioned off for $3.47 million.
 2004 – Manmohan Singh becomes Prime Minister of India.
 2004 – Hallam, Nebraska is wiped out by a Force 4 tornado.
 2004 - In Spain, Felipe, Prince of Asturias marries Letizia, Princess of Asturias.
 2010 – An Air India Express Flight 812 airplane overshoots the runway and bursts into flames in Mangalore, southern India, killing 158 people. 8 people survive.
 2011 – A tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 162 people.
 2012 - The Tokyo Sky Tree is opened to the public in Japan. It is the tallest free-standing tower and second-tallest freestanding man-made structure in the world, after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
 2013 - British soldier Lee Rigby is murdered on a Woolwich, London, street by two Islamic extremists.
2014 - General Prayuth Chan-ocha of the Royal Thai Armed Forces announces a military coup in Thailand after months of political unrest. Government and Television are taken over by the military.
 2014 - 31 people are killed in a bomb attack in Northwest China.
 2014 - Elections to the European Parliament begin, being held until May 25. The United Kingdom and the Netherlands are first to vote.
 2015 - The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country where same-sex marriage is legalized through a referendum, with 62% of voters supporting the change.
 2016 - Alexander Van der Bellen narrowly defeats far-right candidate Norbert Hofer in Austria's Presidential election, getting 50.3% compared to 49.7% for Hofer. Van der Bellen also wins the re-run of the election in December of the same year.
 2017 - Manchester Arena bombing: A suicide bomber detonates an explosive device at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, killing 22 people.
Up to 1900 
 1408 - Annamacharya, Hindu saint (d. 1503)
 1570 - John II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1605)
 1622 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (d. 1698)
 1711 - Guillaume de Tillot, French politician (d. 1774)
 1715 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794)
 1724 - Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (d. 1772)
 1733 - Hubert Robert, French artist (d. 1808)
 1770 – Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
 1772 – Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (d. 1833)
 1781 - Newton Cannon, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1841)
 1783 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor (d. 1850)
 1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
 1823 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
 1833 - Félix Bracquemond, French painter (d. 1914)
 1834 - Niwa Nagakuni, Japanese daimyo (d. 1904)
 1844 – Mary Cassatt, American painter (d. 1926)
 1846 - Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican poet, educator and activist (d. 1908)
1849 - Louis Perrier, Swiss politician (d. 1913)
 1859 - Tsubouchi Shoyo, Japanese writer (d. 1935)
 1859 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish physician and writer (Sherlock Holmes) (d. 1930)
 1865 - Enric Morera i Viura, Spanish composer (d. 1942)
 1874 – Daniel François Malan, Apartheid-era Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959)
 1876 - Antonius Bouwens, Dutch sports shooter (d. 1963)
 1879 - Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian actress, scriptwriter and politician (d. 1945)
 1879 - Jean Cras, French composer and naval officer (d. 1932)
 1885 - Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (d. 1957)
 1885 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (d. 1924)
 1887 - Frank Nelson, American pole vaulter (d. 1970)
 1890 - Per Collinder, Swedish astronomer (d. 1975)
 1897 - Marcelle Meyer, French pianist (d. 1958)
 1897 - Jeanne de Casalis, British actress (d. 1966)
 1898 - Rito Selvaggi, Italian composer, pianist, conductor and poet (d. 1972)
 1900 – Yvonne de Gaulle, First Lady of France (d. 1979)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Maurice J. Tobin, 56th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1953)
 1903 – Yves Rocard, French physicist (d. 1992)
 1904 – Pyotr Sobolevsky, Soviet actor (d. 1977)
 1905 - Bodo von Borries, German physicist (d. 1956)
 1907 – Hergé, Belgian cartoonist (d. 1983)
 1907 – Laurence Olivier, British actor (d. 1989)
 1908 - Rattana Pestonji, Thai director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer (d. 1970)
 1908 - Horton Smith, American golfer (d. 1970)
 1911 - Anatol Rapoport, Russian-American psychologist (d. 2007)
 1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist (d. 2004)
 1914 – Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
 1917 - Georg Tintner, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1999)
 1917 - George Aratani, Japanese-American entrepreneur (d. 2013)
 1919 – Paul Vanden Boeynants, Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2001)
 1920 - Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist (d. 2004)
 1923 - Faye Adams, American singer
 1924 – Charles Aznavour, Armenian-French singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2018)
1925 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (d. 1991)
 1927 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist (d. 2017)
 1927 – Michael Constantine, American actor
 1927 - Peter Matthiessen, American writer (d. 2014)
 1928 - Jackie Cain, American jazz singer (d. 2014)
 1928 - T. Boone Pickens, American businessman and financier
 1929 - Sergio Mantovani, Italian racing driver (d. 2001)
 1930 – Harvey Milk, American politician (d. 1978)
 1930 – Marisol Escobar, American artist and sculptor (d. 2016)
 1932 - Tavo Burat, Italian journalist, writer and politician (d. 2009)
 1932 - Robert Spitzer, American psychiatrist (d. 2015)
 1936 - George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (d. 2014)
 1937 - Guy Marchand, French actor and director
 1938 - Richard Benjamin, American actor and movie director
 1938 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999)
 1939 - Adamou Moumouni Djermakoye, Nigerien officer, politician and diplomat
 1940 - Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (d. 2011)
1941 – Menzies Campbell, Scottish athlete and politician, former leader of the Liberal Democrats
 1942 - Calvin Simon, American singer and musician
 1942 – Ted Kaczynski, American terrorist, the 'Unabomber'
 1943 – Gesine Schwan, German politician
 1943 – Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner
 1943 - David Bernstein, English businessman
 1944 - Beaton Tulk, Canadian politician, 7th Premier of Newfoundland (d. 2019)
 1945 - Piero Ferrari, Italian businessman
 1946 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2005)
 1946 - Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (d. 2015)
 1949 - Ieuan Wyn Jones, Welsh politician, former leader of Plaid Cymru
 1950 - Bernie Taupin, English singer-songwriter and poet
1951  1975 
 1952 - Louise Christian, British human rights lawyer
 1953 – Cha Bum-Kun, South Korean footballer
 1953 - Paul Mariner, English football manager
 1954 - Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American electronic engineer
 1955 – Dale Winton, English television and radio presenter (d. 2018)
 1957 – Lisa Murkowski, American politician
 1958 – Denise Welch, British actress
 1959 – Steven Morrissey, British singer
 1959 - Andres Luure, Estonian philosopher and translator
 1959 - Jon Sopel, British journalist
 1960 - Hideaki Anno, Japanese animator and movie director
 1961 - Wang Xiaoshuai, Chinese actor, screenwriter and movie director
 1964 - Mark Christopher Lawrence, American actor and comedian
 1964 - Ramunas Butautas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
 1965 - Jay Carney, American journalist
 1966 – Kenny Hickey, American guitarist (Type O Negative)
 1966 - Wang Xiaoshuai, Chinese film director and screenwriter
 1968 - Michael Kelly, American actor
 1970 – Naomi Campbell, British model
1972 - Alison Eastwood, American actress and model
 1972 - Jaouad Gharib, Moroccan long-distance runner
 1972 - Anna Belknap, American actress
 1974 - Arseniy Yatsenyuk, former Prime Minister of Ukraine
 1975 - Janne Niinimaa, Finnish ice hockey player
From 1976 
 1976 - Daniel Erlandsson, Swedish musician
 1976 – Lee Hughes, English footballer
 1978 – Katie Price, English model and television personality
 1978 – Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
 1979 - Maggie Q, American actress
 1980 – Lucy Gordon, British actress (d. 2009)
 1980 - Róbert Gunnarsson, Icelandic handball player
 1980 - Shinu K Abraham, Indian football player
 1981 – Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
 1981 – Melissa Gregory, American figure skater
 1981 - Bassel Khartabil, Palestinian-Syrian software engineer
 1982 - Erin McNaught, Australian model and television host
 1982 - Sara Pascoe, English comedienne
 1983 – Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani, Saudi footballer
 1983 – John Hopkins, American motorcycle racer
 1984 - Dustin Moskovitz, American entrepreneur (Facebook)
 1985 – Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
 1985 – Chris Salvatore, American actor, singer-songwriter, model and same-sex rights activist
 1985 - Hideaki Takeda, Japanese footballer
1985 - Mauro Boselli, Argentine footballer
 1986 - Luca Gentili, Italian footballer
 1986 – Matt Jarvis, English footballer
 1987 – Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
 1987 – Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer
 1988 - Chris Budinger, American actress
 1989 - Giordano Benedetti, Italian runner
 1991 - Kyle Bartley, English footballer
 1992 - Chinami Tokunaga, Japanese singer
 1999 - Camren Bicondova, American actress and singer
Up to 1900 
 192 - Dong Zhuo, Chinese politician and warlord (b. 138)
 337 – Constantine I of the Roman Empire, Roman emperor (b. 272)
 748 – Emperor Gensho of Japan (b. 680)
 985 – Saint Bobo of Provence
 1068 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)
 1455 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician
 1455 – Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (b. 1406)
 1457 - Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381)
 1540 – Francesco Guicciardini (b. 1483)
 1666 - Gaspar Schott, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
 1667 – Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
 1746 – Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (b. 1660)
 1795 - Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg, Prussian statesman (b. 1725)
 1802 - Martha Washington, First Lady of the United States (b. 1731)
 1849 - Maria Edgeworth, Irish-English writer (b. 1767)
 1859 – Emperor Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)
 1861 – Thornsbury Bailey Brown, American soldier (b. 1829)
 1873 – Alessandro Manzoni, Italian poet (b. 1785)
1873 - Per-Georg Scheutz, Swedish inventor (b. 1877)
 1885 – Victor Hugo, French writer (b. 1802)
1901  2000 
 1901 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian anarchist (b. 1869)
 1910 - Jules Renard, French writer (b. 1864)
 1932 - Augusta, Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (b. 1852)
 1933 - Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav, Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1894)
 1934 - Joseph M. Dixon, American politician, Governor of Montana (b. 1867)
 1939 – Ernst Toller, German writer
 1939 – Jiri Mahen, Czech writer (b. 1882)
 1943 - Helen Herron Taft, First Lady of the United States (b. 1861)
 1949 – Klaus Mann, German writer (b. 1906)
 1966 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
 1967 – Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902)
 1970 - Goodwin Knight, 31st Governor of California (b. 1896)
 1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis, poet and writer (b. 1904)
 1972 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
 1975 - Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
 1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (b. 1899)
 1984 - Karl-August Fagerholm, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1901)
1985 - Wolfgang Reithermann, German-American Disney animator, director and producer (b. 1909)
 1988 - Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (b. 1914)
 1990 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)
 1992 – Zellig Harris, linguist (b. 1909)
 1992 - Elizabeth David, English cookery writer (b. 1913)
 1997 - Myrtle Bachelder, American chemist (b. 1908)
 1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist (b. 1908)
 1997 - Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor (b. 1930)
 1998 – John Derek, American actor, director and photographer (b. 1926)
From 2001 
 2002 - Xi Zhongxun, Chinese politician (b. 1913)
 2004 – Richard Biggs, actor (b. 1960)
 2004 – Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
 2005 – Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (b. 1914)
 2005 – Thurl Ravenscroft, voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
 2005 – Julia Randall, poet (b. 1924)
 2006 – Lee Jong-wook, South Korean Director-General of the WHO (b. 1945)
 2007 - Pemba Doma Sherpa, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1970)
 2010 – Martin Gardner, American writer (b. 1914)
 2012 - Flinder Anderson Khonglam, Indian physician and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Meghalaya (b. 1945)
 2013 - Henri Dutilleux, French composer (b. 1916)
 2013 - Andrea Gallo, Italian priest (b. 1928)
 2013 - Lee Rigby, British soldier (b. 1987)
 2015 - Marques Haynes, American basketball player (b. 1926)
 2015 - Radomir Naumov, Serbian politician (b. 1946)
 2015 - Terry Sue-Patt, English actor (b. 1964)
 2016 - Adolf Born, Czech painter, filmmaker, illustrator and caricaturist (b. 1930)
2016 - Leonorilda Ochoa, Mexican actress and comedienne (b. 1939)
 2016 - Bata Zivojinovic, Serbian actor (b. 1922)
 2016 - Lucjan Avgustini, Albanian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1963)
 2016 - Velimir Sombolac, Serbian footballer and coach (b. 1939)
 2017 - Oscar Fulloné, Argentine footballer and coach (b. 1939)
 2017 - Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (b. 1981)
 2017 - Dina Merrill, American actress (b. 1923)
 2017 - Zbigniew Wodecki, Polish singer, composer and television presenter (b. 1950)
 2017 - Leonhard Nagenrauft, German luger (b. 1938)
 2017 - Mickey Roker, American jazz drummer (b. 1932)
 2018 - Alberto Dines, Brazilian journalist (b. 1932)
 2018 - Philip Roth, American writer (b. 1933)
 2018 - Daniela Samulski, German swimmer (b. 1984)
 2018 - Júlio Pomar, Portuguese painter and illustrator (b. 1926)
 2019 - Judith Kerr, German-born British writer and illustrator (b. 1923)
 2019 - Ahmad Shah of Pahang, former King of Malaysia (b. 1930)
Observances 
 Saint of the Day: Saint Rita of Cascia
 Republic Day (Sri Lanka)
 Unity Day or National Day (Yemen)
 National Sovereignty Day (Haiti)
 International Day for Biological Diversity
 Harvey Milk Day (California)
 National Maritime Day (United States)
 Abolition Day (Martinique)

References

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1279 BC – Rameses II (the Great) becomes Pharaoh of Egypt.
 455 - Roman Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
 526 – Antioch, Turkey is hit by an earthquake kills 250,000 people.
 1578 – Henry II of France lays the first stone of the Point Neuf (New Bridge) in Paris.
 1578 - Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada to mine fool's gold, used to pave the streets in London.
 1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys makes the last entry in his diary.
 1740 - Frederick II of Prussia becomes King.
 1790 – Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the strait of Juan de Fuca.
 1795 - French Revolution: The Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
 1813 - In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth reach Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route crossing the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
 1854 - The civil death procedure is banned in France.
 1859 – Big Ben in London, UK starts keeping time.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor.
 1884 - John Harvey Kellogg receives a patent for Cornflakes.
 1889 – Johnstown flood: A dam break causes a flash flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing more than 2,000 people.
 1890 - In Ulm, southern Germany, Ulm Minster, the city's cathedral, is completed.
1901  2000 
 1902 - The Second Boer War ends, through the Treaty of Vereeniging, ensuring British control over South Africa.
 1906 – An attack on the wedding of King Alfonso XIII of Spain kills more than 20 people.
 1910 – The Union of South Africa is formed.
 1911 – The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is launched.
 1911 – President Porfirio Díaz flees Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Jutland is fought.
 1921 – Tulsa, Oklahoma race riot: At least 39 people are killed.
 1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line.
 1929 – The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse is released.
 1935 – An earthquake in Quetta, Pakistan, kills around 40,000 people.
 1941 – World War II: 38 people are killed in an air raid in Dublin.
 1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy Submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
 1946 - A magnitude 6 earthquake in Turkey kills around 1,200 people.
1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower ends his service with the United States Military.
 1961 – The Republic of South Africa is founded.
 1962 - The West Indies Federation dissolves.
 1962 – Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is executed.
 1970 – Ancash Earthquake: Southern Peru is hit by a major earthquake. Along with resulting avalanches, it kills 47,000 people. 20,000 people alone are killed in a single avalanche that hit the town of Yungay.
 1970 – Brasilia Cathedral, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, is completed.
 1970 - The 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico begins.
 1971 - Memorial Day in the United States is held on the last Monday in May for the first time, instead of the traditional May 30 date.
 1973 - The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets in Cambodia.
 1977 – The Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline is completed.
 1981 - Burning of the Jaffna Library in Sri Lanka.
 1985 – 76 people are killed in a tornado outbreak in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario.
From 2001 
 2002 – The 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan begins, where the Senegal national football team beats the France national football team 1-0.
 2003 – Aung San Suu Kyi is arrested in Burma.
 2005 – Mark Felt is revealed to have been 'Deep Throat', a key figure in the Watergate scandal.
 2009 – The last-living survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking, Millvina Dean, dies aged 97.
 2010 – Germany's President Horst Koehler resigns from office. Christian Wulff succeeds him over a month later.
 2010 – Israeli forces storm the Gaza-bound international flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 9 Turkish activists.
 2013 - A series of anti-government protests in Turkey begins in Istanbul.
 2013 - Asteroid (285263) 1998 GE-2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
 2013 - A tornado measuring 2.6 miles (4.2 kilometers) wide hits El Reno, Oklahoma.
 2017 - A massive bomb attack in central Kabul kills at least 150 people.
2018 - The discovery of dunes of methane on the dwarf planet Pluto is announced.
 2018 - US President Donald Trump imposes tariffs on products from the European Union, Canada and Mexico.
 2019 - Virginia Beach shooting: 12 government employees are shot dead by their colleague DeWayne Craddock in Virginia Beach, before he is killed in a shoot-out with police.
Up to 1800 
 1048 – Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher (d. 1131)
 1162 – Genghis Khan, Mongol ruler (d. 1227)
 1243 - King James II of Majorca (d. 1311)
 1443 – Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
 1469 – King Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1521)
 1491 - Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish Jesuit (d. 1556)
 1535 – Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (d. 1607)
 1557 – Feodor I of Russia (d. 1598)
 1577 - Nur Jahan, Mughal Empress (d. 1645)
 1613 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1680)
 1640 – Michael of Poland (d. 1673)
 1641 – Dositheus, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (d. 1707)
 1656 – Marin Marais, French composer and violin player (d. 1728)
 1683 - Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1755)
 1744 - Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Irish writer and engineer (d. 1817)
 1750 – Karl August of Hardenberg, statesman and reformer (d. 1822)
 1753 – Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
1754 – Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (d. 1817)
 1773 – Ludwig Tieck, German poet and writer (d. 1853)
 1791 - John Brown Francis, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1864)
1801  1900 
 1801 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist (d. 1887)
 1809 - Federico de Roncali, 1st Count of Alcoy, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1857)
 1816 - Dimitrie Ghica, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1897)
 1817 - Georg Herwegh, German poet (d. 1875)
 1817 - Edouard Deldevez, French violinist and conductor (d. 1897)
 1818 - John Albion Andrew, 25th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1867)
 1819 – Walt Whitman, American poet (d. 1892)
 1825 - Domenico Agostini, Italian cardinal (d. 1891)
 1838 – Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (d. 1900)
 1852 – Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (d. 1919)
 1852 - Julius Richard Petri, German bacteriologist (d. 1921)
 1857 – Pope Pius XI (d. 1939)
 1858 - Graham Wallas, English socialist, psychologist and educator (d. 1932)
 1860 – Walter Sickert, English painter (d. 1942)
 1862 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (d. 1942)
 1863 - Francis Younghusband, English army officer, explorer and writer (d. 1942)
 1866 - Vladimir Rebikov, Russian composer (d. 1920)
1872 – Heath Robinson, English cartoonist (d. 1944)
 1872 – Charles Greeley Abbot, American astrophysicist (d. 1973)
 1882 – Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician (d. 1956)
 1883 – Lauri Kristian Relander, 2nd President of Finland (d. 1942)
 1885 – Alois Hudal, Austrian Roman Catholic bishop, helped Nazi war criminals escape (d. 1963)
 1887 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and poet (d. 1975)
 1892 – Michel Kikoine, Belarussian painter (d. 1968)
 1892 - Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian writer (d. 1968)
 1892 – Gregor Strasser, German politician (d. 1934)
 1894 – Fred Allen, American comedian (d. 1956)
 1898 – Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman (d. 1993)
 1899 - Madge Blake, American actress (d. 1969)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Alfredo Antonini, Italian-American conductor and composer (d. 1983)
 1908 – Don Ameche, American actor (d. 1993)
 1908 - Nils Poppe, Swedish actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2000)
 1909 - Aurore Gagnon, Canadian child abuse victim (d. 1920)
 1909 - Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2000)
 1911 – Maurice Allais, French economist (d. 2010)
 1912 - Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist (d. 1997)
 1912 – Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979)
 1914 - Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (d. 2006)
 1915 - Carmen Herrera, Cuban-American artist
 1916 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch movie and documentary director (d. 1997)
 1916 - Bernard Lewis, British-American historian (d. 2018)
 1917 - Jean Rouch, French filmmaker and anthropologist (d. 2004)
 1921 - Alida Valli, Italian actress (d. 2006)
 1921 - Edna Doré, English actress (d. 2014) 
 1922 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (d. 1992)
 1923 – Prince Rainier III of Monaco (d. 2005)
1923 - Ellsworth Kelly, American painter, sculptor and printmaker (d. 2015)
 1925 - Frei Otto, German architect (d. 2015)
 1926 - Domenico De Simone, Italian politician (d. 2019)
 1926 – James Krüss, writer (d. 1997)
 1927 – Red Holloway, American musician (d. 2012)
 1927 - Joe Robinson, British actor (d. 2017)
 1928 - Édouard Molinaro, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
 1929 – Menahem Golan, Israeli director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2014)
 1929 - Andreas Meyer-Landrut, German diplomat
 1930 – Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, producer
 1930 – Elaine Stewart, American actress (d. 2011)
 1931 – Shirley Verrett, American soprano (d. 2010)
 1931 – John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist
 1932 – Jay Miner, American microchip designer (d. 1994)
 1933 - Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar, Indian writer and curator (d. 2019)
 1935 – Jim Bolger, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
 1938 – Johnny Paycheck, American country music singer (d. 2003)
1938 – John Prescott, former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 1938 – Peter Yarrow, American folk singer ("Peter, Paul and Mary")
 1939 – Terry Waite, British humanitarian
 1939 – Haraldur Sigurdsson, Icelandic  volcanologist and geochemist
 1940 - Anatoliy Bondarchuk, Ukrainian hammer thrower and coach
 1941 – Louis Ignarro, American pharmacologist
 1942 - Minos Kyriakou, Greek businessman (d. 2017)
 1943 – Sharon Gless, American actress
 1943 – Joe Namath, American football star
 1945 - Pepe Eliaschev, Argentine journalist and writer (d. 2014)
 1945 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German actor and director (d. 1982)
 1945 – Laurent Gbagbo, former President of Ivory Coast
 1947 - Junior Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter
 1948 - Svetlana Alexievich, Belarussian journalist and writer
 1948 – John Bonham, English musician, drummer with Led Zeppelin (d. September 25, 1980)
 1948 – Lynda Bellingham, English actress and broadcaster (d. 2014)
1948 - Duncan Hunter, American lieutenant, lawyer and politician
 1949 – Tom Berenger, American actor
 1950 – Gregory Harrison, actor
1951  1975 
 1952 – Karl Bartos, German musician (Kraftwerk)
 1955 - Tommy Emmanuel, Australian guitarist and singer
 1955 - Lynne Truss, English writer
 1956 - Gerd Weber, East German footballer
 1959 - Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver (d. 2014)
 1960 – Peter Winterbottom, English rugby player
 1960 – Chris Elliott, American comedian
 1961 – Lea Thompson, American actress
 1962 – Corey Hart, Canadian singer-songwriter
 1963 – Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary
 1963 – Wesley Willis, American musician
 1964 - Yukio Edano, Japanese politician
 1965 – Brooke Shields, American model and actress
 1966 - Roshan Mahamana, Sri Lankan cricketer
 1966 - Nick Scotti, American model, actor and singer
 1967 - Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress
 1972 – Antti Niemi, Finnish footballer
 1972 – Frode Estil, Norwegian cross-country skier
 1972 - Sarah Murdoch, English-Australian model and actress
 1973 - Kate Howey, British judoka
 1974 – Chad Campbell, American golfer
 1974 - Kenan Dogulu, Turkish singer
1974 - Tristram Hunt, English politician
 1975 – Toni Nieminen, Finnish ski jumper
 1975 - Antonín Kinsky, Czech footballer
From 1976 
 1976 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor
 1976 - Matt Harping, American basketball player
 1976 - Tonka Tomicic, Chilean model and television host
 1977 – June Sarpong, British television presenter
 1977 - Eric Christian Olsen, American actor
 1977 - Katrín Jónsdóttir, Icelandic footballer
 1977 – Moses Sichone, Zambian footballer
 1978 - Eric Moussambani, Equatoguinean swimmer
 1978 - Robert Rinder, English barrister and television personality 
 1979 - Jean-François Gillet, Belgian footballer
 1980 – Andy Hurley, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
 1981 - Yoon Mi-rae, American-Korean singer and songwriter
 1981 – Mikael Antonsson, Swedish footballer
 1981 - Daniele Bonera, Italian footballer
 1981 - Marlies Schild, Austrian skier
 1983 – Reggie Yates, British television presenter
 1984 – Jason Smith, Australian actor
 1984 – Nate Robinson, American basketball player
 1984 - Daniela Samulski, German swimmer (d. 2018)
 1986 – Sopho Khalvashi, Georgian singer
 1988 – Lisa Bund, German singer
1989 – Marco Reus, German footballer
 1989 - Pablo Alboran, Spanish singer
 1989 - Bas Dost, Dutch footballer
 1990 - Erik Karlsson, Swedish ice hockey player
 1991 - Azealia Banks, American rapper, singer and songwriter.
Up to 1900 
 455 – Petronius Maximus, West Roman Emperor
 1076 - Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria (b. 1050)
 1162 – Geza II of Hungary (b. 1130)
 1246 – Isabella of Angoulême, queen of John of England (b. 1188)
 1349 – Thomas Wake
 1408 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1358)
 1495 – Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (b. 1415)
 1594 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (b. 1518)
 1680 – Joachim Neander, German Calvinist clergyman (b. 1650)
 1740 – King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (b. 1688)
 1747 – Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
 1799 – Pierre Lemonnier, French astronomer (b. 1715)
 1809 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1732)
 1809 – Jean Lannes, French Marshal of Empire (b. 1769)
 1831 – Samuel Bentham, mechanical engineer (b. 1757)
 1832 – Evariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811)
 1837 – Joseph Grimaldi, British clown (b. 1779)
 1846 – Philip Marheineke, German Protestant divine (b. 1780)
1847 – Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, educator, writer, and scientist (b. 1780)
 1848 – Eugénie de Guérin, writer (b. 1805)
 1881 - Hugh J. Anderson, Governor of Maine (b. 1801)
 1887 - Moritz Wagner, German geographer and naturalist (b. 1813)
 1899 - Elisha Baxter, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1827)
1901  2000 
 1908 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian writer, poet and politician (b. 1839) 
 1910 – Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States (b. 1821)
 1918 – Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (b. 1836)
 1920 – Nasrullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan
 1945 – Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi officer (b. 1904)
 1957 – Stefanos Sarafis, Greek Resistance activist (b. 1890)
 1957 – Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
 1960 – Walther Funk, Nazi leader (b. 1890)
 1960 – Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (b. 1882)
 1961 - Walter Little, Canadian politician (b. 1877)
 1962 – Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (b. 1906)
 1963 – Edith Hamilton, German-American writer and teacher (b. 1867)
 1967 - Billy Strawhorn, American composer, pianist and arranger (b. 1915)
 1970 – Terry Sawchuk, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
 1976 – Jacques Monod, French biologist (b. 1910)
 1977 – William Castle, American director (b. 1914)
 1978 – Jozsef Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925)
1981 – Gyula Lorant, Hungarian footballer (b. 1928)
 1981 – Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician (b. 1902)
 1982 - Carlo Mauri, Italian mountaineer (b. 1930)
 1983 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer (b. 1895)
 1986 – James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
 1986 - Gaston Rebuffat, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
 1994 - Herva Nelli, Italian-American soprano (b. 1909)
 1996 – Paul Peter Piech, artist (b. 1920)
 1996 – Timothy Leary, American LSD advocate (b. 1920)
 1999 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
 2000 – Tito Puente, musician (b. 1923)
 2000 – Johnnie Taylor, vocalist (b. 1938)
From 2001 
 2001 - Arlene Francis, American actress (b. 1907)
 2002 - Subhash Gupte, Indian cricketer (b. 1929)
 2003 - Francesco Colasuonno, Italian cardinal (b. 1925)
 2004 – Robert Quine, guitarist (b. 1942)
 2006 – Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist (b. 1914)
 2009 – Millvina Dean, last-living RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1912)
 2009 – George Tiller, American abortion doctor (b. 1941)
 2010 – Louise Bourgeois, French-born sculptor (b. 1911)
 2011 – Pauline Betz, American tennis player (b. 1919)
 2011 - Andy Robustelli, American football player (b. 1925)
 2011 – Ezzatollah Sahabi, Iranian politician (b. 1930)
 2013 - Jean Stapleton, American actress (b. 1923)
 2013 - Tim Samaras, American storm chaser (b. 1957)
 2013 - Paul Samaras, American storm chaser (b. 1988)
 2014 - Marilyn Beck, American entertainment journalist (b. 1928)
 2014 - Hoss Ellington, American NASCAR driver (b. 1935)
 2014 - Martha Hyer, American actress (b. 1924)
 2014 - Brajanath Ratha, Indian poet (b. 1936)
2014 - Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, daughter of Winston Churchill (b. 1922)
 2014 - Marinho Chagas, Brazilian footballer (b. 1952)
 2015 - Karl Wlaschek, Austrian executive (b. 1917)
 2015 - Mario Saliwa, South African cricketer (b. 1984)
 2015 - Slim Richey, American guitarist (b. 1938)
 2016 - Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (b. 1947)
 2016 - Jan Crouch, American televangelist and broadcasting executive (b. 1938)
 2016 - Antonio Imbert Barrera, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1920)
 2016 - Carla Lane, English television writer (b. 1928)
 2016 - Rupert Neudeck, German journalist and humanitarian (b. 1939)
 2016 - David Tod Roy, Chinese translator (b. 1933)
 2016 - Corry Brokken, Dutch singer (b. 1932)
 2017 - Lubomyr Husar, Ukrainian religious figure (b. 1933)
 2017 - Tino Insana, American actor (b. 1948)
 2017 - Fred Kummerow, American science professor (b. 1914)
 2017 - Bern Nix, American jazz guitarist (b. 1947)
2017 - Jiri Belohlavek, Czech conductor (b. 1946)
 2018 - Michael D. Ford, English art director and set decorator (b. 1928)
 2018 - Aníbal Quijano, Peruvian sociologist (b. 1928)
 2019 - Roky Erickson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
Observances 
 Anti-Tobacco Day
 Castile-La Mancha Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 495 BC - A newly built temple in honour of the god Mercury is dedicated in Ancient Rome on the Circus Maximus, between the Aventine and Palatine Hills.
 392 - Roman Emperor Valentinian II mysteriously dies while advancing into Gaul (present-day France) against the Frankish usurper Arbogast. It is not clear if he was murdered or committed suicide.
 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad extirpanda, which allows, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
 1464 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Hexham - York defeats Lancaster.
 1536 - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is put on trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest. It will result in her execution four days later.
 1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
 1602 - Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to sight Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
 1618 - Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion.
1648 - The Treaty of Westphalia is signed.
 1701 - The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
 1718 - James Buckle, a London lawyer, patents the first machine gun.
 1776 - American Revolutionary War: The Virginia Convention tells its Continental Congress delegation to propose resolution of independence from Great Britain.
 1792 - War of the First Coalition: France declares war on the Kingdom of Sardinia.
 1793 - Diego Marin Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters" at a height of 5–6 meters.
 1796 - First Coalition: Napoleon Bonaparte enters Milan in triumph.
 1800 - King George III of the United Kingdom survives an assassination attempt by James Hadfield.
 1811 - Paraguay declares itself independent from Spain.
 1849 - Troops of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily.
 1850 - The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California. A large number of Pomo Native Americans are slaughtered by the regiment of the United States Cavalry.
1851 - The first Australian gold rush is proclaimed, although the gold was discovered three months earlier. 
 1858 - Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
 1860 - Battle of Calatafilmi in Sicily: Giuseppe Garibaldi's "Red Shirts" defeat the Army of the Kingdom of Naples.
 1869 - In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
1901  1950 
 1904 - Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur, China, and sinks Japanese ships Hatsuse and Yashima.
 1904 - The cruiser "Yoshino" collides with armored cruiser "Kasaga" to the east of China and sinks, killing 329 out of the 419 people on board.
 1905 - Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45 square kilometers), in what later becomes the downtown area, are auctioned off.
 1910 - The German football club FC St. Pauli is founded. It is based in Hamburg.
 1919 - The Winnipeg Strike begins. By 11:00am, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, had walked off the job.
 1919 - The Greek invasion of Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey) occurs, in which the Greek army kills over 350 Turks. Those responsible are punishes by Greek commander Aristiades Stergiades.
 1926 - The New York Rangers ice hockey team is founded.
 1928 - Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in the cartoon "Plane Crazy".
1929 - A fire at a clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, kills 123 people.
 1932 - Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed in a coup attempt.
 1934 - Karlis Ulmanis creates an authoritarian government in Latvia.
 1935 - The Moscow Metro is opened to the public.
 1940 - World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly-trained and equipped Dutch surrender to Germany, beginning five years of occupation.
 1940 - McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
 1945 - World War II: The Battle of Poljana is fought in Slovenia, as the last battle in Europe during the war.
 1948 - The Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia all declare war on the newly declared State of Israel.
1951  2000 
 1951 - Polish writer Czeslaw Milosz asks the government of France for political asylum.
 1955 - Austria regains its independence.
 1955 - Lionel Terray and Jean Couzy of France climb Makalu in the Himalayas. It is the world's 5th-highest mountain.
 1957 - At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, the United Kingdom tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
 1958 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
 1960 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
 1963 - Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9, with L. Gordon Cooper on board, is successful. He is the first American to spend more than a day in space.
 1966 - After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam's ruling junta, launches a military attack on the forces of General Ton That Dinh, forcing him to abandon his command.
 1970 - US President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington as the first female United States Army generals.
1972 - The US returns Okinawa to Japanese control.
 1972 – Governor George Wallace of Alabama is shot by Arthur H. Bremer at a Laurel, Maryland political rally.
 1974 - Ma'a lot massacre: Members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack and take hostages at an Israeli school, killing 31 people, including 22 schoolchildren.
 1974 - Walter Scheel is elected President of the Federal Republic of Germany, a post he takes up on July 1.
 1980 - West Germany's National Olympic Committee decides to join the United States in boycotting the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
 1988 - The Soviet Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. 
 1990 - The Vincent van Gogh painting A Portrait of Dr. Gachet sells for 82.5 million US Dollars, a then-record for a work of art sold at auction.
 1991 - Edith Cresson becomes the first female Prime Minister of France.
 1997 - The US acknowledges a "Secret War" in Laos.
From 2001 
 2004 – South Africa is announced as the host of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
 2004 - Ruslana, representing Ukraine, wins the 49th Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul, Turkey.
 2008 - California legalizes same-sex marriage.
 2010 - Jessica Watson becomes the then-youngest person to sail single-handedly around the world.
 2012 - François Hollande becomes President of France, replacing Nicolas Sarkozy.
 2013 - An upsurge in violence in Iraq kills 389 people in three days.
 2014 - US President Barack Obama opens a 9/11 memorial museum.
 2016 - Max Verstappen becomes the youngest-ever driver to win a Formula One race.
 2017 - French President Emmanuel Macron names Edouard Philippe as Prime Minister of France.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1397 - Sejong the Great, Korean King (d. 1450)
 1567 – Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
 1689 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (d. 1762)
 1720 - Maximilian Hell, Hungarian astronomer (d. 1792)
 1749 - Levi Lincoln, Sr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1820)
 1764 - Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, German organist and composer (d. 1827)
 1767 - Ezekiel Hart, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1843)
 1773 - Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, German-Austrian statesman (d. 1859)
 1817 - Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (d. 1905)
 1827 - Knud Bergslien, Norwegian painter (d. 1908)
 1838 - Nicolae Grigorescu, Romanian painter (d. 1907)
 1841 - James Henderson Berry, American politician, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1913)
 1842 - Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria (d. 1919)
 1845 - Jan Czerski, Polish-Russian scientist (d. 1892)
 1845 - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian zoologist and immunologist (d. 1916)
 1848 - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (d. 1926)
1854 - Ioannes Psycharis, Ukrainian-French philologist and writer (d. 1929)
 1856 - L. Frank Baum, American writer (d. 1919)
 1856 - Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1917)
 1857 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer (d. 1911)
 1859 – Pierre Curie, French physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1906)
 1860 – Ellen Louise Wilson, American First Lady, wife of Woodrow Wilson (d. 1914)
 1862 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist (d. 1931)
 1863 - Frank Hornby, English businessman and politician, inventor of Meccano (d. 1936)
 1867 - Hjalmar Johansen, Norwegian explorer (d. 1913)
 1867 - Henry Stuart Jones, British classical philologist and historian (d. 1939)
 1869 - Paul Probst, Swiss target shooter (d. 1945)
 1873 - Pavlo Skoropadskiy, Ukrainian politician (d. 1945)
 1873 - Nikolai Tcherepnin, Russian composer (d. 1945)
 1890 - Katherine-Anne Porter, American journalist and writer (d. 1980)
 1891 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (d. 1940)
1891 - Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist (d. 1971)
 1892 - Charles E. Rosendahl, American admiral (d. 1977)
 1892 - Jimmy Wilde, Welsh boxer (d. 1969)
 1895 – Astrid Zachrison, Swedish supercentenarian, oldest Swedish person on record (d. 2008)
 1895 - Prescott Bush, American politician (d. 1972)
 1895 - William D. Byron, American politician (d. 1941)
 1898 - Arletty, French actress, model and singer (d. 1992)
 1898 - Richard W. Leche, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1965)