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1967  The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
 1972  The United States loses its first international basketball game in a disputed match versus the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
 1974  Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
 1976  A British Airways Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
 1977  Last execution by Guillotine takes place in France. Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, is executed at Baumettes Prison in Marseille.
 1988  Steffi Graf wins the Singles Title at the US Open Tennis, managing to win all four Grand Slams in one year. She later wins the Olympic Gold in the same year in order to achieve a historic "Golden Slam".
 1989  A Bulgarian tug boat collides with Romanian passenger ship Mogasoaia on the Danube, near Galati, Romania, killing 207 people.
From 2001 
 2001  Charles Ingram cheats his way to winning a million pounds on the British quiz programme Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
 2001  Kjell Magne Bondevik is elected Prime Minister of Norway.
 2002  Switzerland, known for its neutrality, finally joins the United Nations.
 2002  The U.S. Homeland Security Advisory System is set to Orange, or High Condition, for the first time.
 2003  Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is stabbed fatally while shopping, and dies of her wounds on September 11.
 2006  Michael Schumacher announces his first retirement from Formula One. On the same day, in Hungary, Jenson Button wins a Grand Prix for the first time.
 2006  King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga dies, aged 88. His son, George Tupou V, takes over, and reigns until his own death in 2012.
 2007  Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after over seven years in exile.
 2008  The Large Hadron Collider at CERN on the French-Swiss border is switched on for the first time.
2011  Tanzanian ferry MV Spice Islander sinks off Zanzibar, killing 1,573 people.
 2013  German Thomas Bach is chosen to succeed Jacques Rogge as President of the International Olympic Committee.
 2014  The first Invictus Games, for injured military servicemen, take place in London.
 2015  Scientists announce the discovery, in South Africa, of Homo naledi, a species of early human.
Up to 1900 
 920  King Louis IV of France (d. 954)
 1169  Alexios Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
 1487  Pope Julius III (d. 1555)
 1561  Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Paraguayan-Argentine soldier and politician (d. 1634)
 1624  Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
 1638  Maria Theresa of Austria, wife of King Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)
 1659  Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
 1753  John Sloane, English architect (d. 1837)
 1786  Nicolas Bravo, 11th President of Mexico (d. 1854)
 1788  Jacques Boucher de Crevecoeur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
 1801  Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
 1809  Thomas Campbell Eyton, English naturalist (d. 1880)
 1817  Richard Spruce, English botanist (d. 1893)
 1821  William Jervois, 10th Governor of South Australia (d. 1897)
 1836  Joseph Wheeler, American Confederate general and politician (d. 1906)
 1839  Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher, mathematician and scientist (d. 1914)
1844  Abel Hoadley, English-Australian candy maker (d. 1918)
 1852  Alice Brown Davis, American chief of the Seminole tribe in Oklahoma (d. 1935)
 1857  James Edward Keeler, American astrophysicist (d. 1900)
 1861  Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1941)
 1866  Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish writer (d. 1930)
 1871  Charles Collett, English engineer (d. 1952)
 1872  Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (d. 1933)
 1872  Vladimir Arsenyev, Russian explorer (d. 1930)
 1885  Johannes de Jong, Dutch cardinal (d. 1955)
 1886  H.D., American writer (d. 1961)
 1887  Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd President of Italy (d. 1978)
 1887  Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (d. 1961)
 1890  Bob Heffron, 30th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1978)
 1890  Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturier (d. 1973)
 1890  Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (d. 1945)
 1891  Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss diplomat, essayist and historian (d. 1974)
 1892  Arthur Compton, American physicist (d. 1962)
1893  Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian (d. 2009)
 1894  Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet-Ukrainian screenwriter, producer and director (d. 1956)
 1895  Viswanathan Satyanarayana, Indian poet (d. 1976)
 1896  Robert Tascheraeu, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1970)
 1896  Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946)
 1896  Adele Astaire, American dancer (d. 1981)
 1897  Georges Bataille, French philosopher and writer (d. 1962)
 1898  Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986)
1901  1950 
 1904  Max Shachtman, American theorist and politician (d. 1972)
 1904  Juan José Arévalo, President of Guatemala (d. 1990)
 1906  Karl Wien, German mountaineer (d. 1937)
 1908  Angus Bethune, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (d. 2004)
 1910  Franz Hengsbach, German cardinal (d. 1991)
 1911  Renée Simonot, French actress
 1911  Nelly Omar, Argentine actress and singer (d. 2013)
 1912  Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian politician (d. 2002)
 1914  Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Irish politician (d. 1990)
 1914  Robert Wise, American director and producer (d. 2005)
 1918  Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932)
 1920  C. R. Rao, Indian-American mathematician and statistician
 1921  Alfred Bengsch, German cardinal (d. 1979)
 1922  Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer (d. 2008)
 1923  Shmuel Eisenstadt, Israeli sociologist (d. 2010)
 1924  Boyd K. Packer, American educator and religious leader (d. 2015)
 1925  Roy Brown, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
1925  Hubert Hammerer, Austrian Olympic shooter
 1926  Ladislav Adamec, Czechoslovakian politician (d. 2007)
 1926  Beryl Cook, British painter (d. 2008)
 1927  Gerhard Jahn, German politician (d. 1998)
 1928  Jean Vanier, Canadian theologian and philosopher
 1928  Otto F. Kernberg, Austrian psychoanalyst
 1929  Arnold Palmer, American golfer (d. 2016)
 1931  Philip Baker Hall, American actor
 1932  Félix Malloum, President of Chad (d. 2009)
 1933  Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
 1933  Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000)
 1934  Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
 1934  Jim Oberstar, American politician (d. 2014)
 1935  Giacomo Losi, Italian footballer
 1936  Peter Lovesey, English crime fiction writer
 1937  Jared Diamond, American evolutionary biologist
 1939  Cynthia Lennon, English ex-wife of John Lennon (d. 2015)
 1939  Hans Sotin, German opera singer
 1940  Roy Ayers, American jazz musician
 1941  Stephen Jay Gould, American palaeontologist (d. 2002)
1941  Christopher Hogwood, English conductor (d. 2014)
 1941  Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game designer (d. 1997)
 1945  José Feliciano, Puerto Rican musician, singer and composer
 1946  Michèle Alliot-Marie, French politician
 1946  Don Powell, English drummer (Slade)
 1946  Shlomo Sand, Israeli historian
 1948  Margaret Trudeau, Canadian actress, writer and biographer
 1948  Bob Lanier, American basketball player
 1948  Brian Donohoe, Scottish politician
 1948  Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese author
 1948  Ted Poe, American politician
 1950  Joe Perry, American singer-songwriter
1951  1975 
 1951  Eliseo Alberto, Cuban writer (d. 2011)
 1952  Bruno Giacomelli, Italian racing driver
 1952  Medea Benjamin, American activist
 1952  Patrick McGorry, Australian psychiatrist
 1953  Amy Irving, American actress, movie producer and singer
 1953  John Thurso, Scottish politician
 1954  Jackie Ashley, English journalist
 1954  Lorely Burt, English politician
 1954  Clark Johnson, American actor, director and movie producer
 1956  Johnnie Fingers, Irish musician, songwriter and producer
 1957  Carol Decker, English singer-songwriter
 1958  Chris Columbus, American movie director, producer and screenwriter
 1958  Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer-songwriter and producer
 1960  Colin Firth, English actor
 1960  Margaret Ferrier, Scottish politician
 1963  Randy Johnson, American baseball pitcher, five-time Cy Young Award winner
 1964  John E. Sununu, American politician
 1964  Edmund de Waal, English artist
 1966  Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player
 1968  Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer
1968  Guy Ritchie, British director, screenwriter and producer
 1968  Big Daddy Kane, American rapper and producer
 1968  Juan Maldacena, Argentine-American physicist
 1969  David Trueba, Spanish writer, journalist, screenwriter, actor and director
 1970  Ménélik, French rapper
 1972  Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete
 1973  Deniz Yücel, German journalist
 1974  Ryan Philippe, American actor
 1975  Viktor Kassai, Hungarian footballer and referee
From 1976 
 1976  Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
 1976  Vassilis Lakis, Greek footballer
 1978  Julia Goldsworthy, English politician
 1980  Mikey Way, musician, bassist for My Chemical Romance
 1982  Stephen McManus, Scottish footballer
 1983  Fernando Belluschi, Argentine footballer
 1983  Jérémy Toulalan, French footballer
 1985  David Clarkson, Scottish footballer
 1985  Aya Kamiki, Japanese musical artist
 1985  Laurent Koscielny, French footballer
 1986  Hiroki Uchi, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor
 1986  Eoin Morgan, Irish cricketer
 1987  Nana Tanimura, Japanese singer-songwriter
 1987  Paul Goldschmidt, American baseball player
 1988  Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
 1988  Jared Lee Loughner, American murderer
 1990  Chandler Massey, American actor
 1993  Ruggero Pasquarelli, Italian actor and singer
 1997  Brooke Henderson, Canadian golfer

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 210 BC  Qin Shi Huang, Chinese Emperor (b. 259 BC)
 918  Baldwin II, Count of Flanders (b. 865)
 954  King Louis IV of France (b. 920)
 1167  Empress Matilda of England (b. 1102)
 1197  Henry II, Count of Champagne (b. 1166)
 1306  Nicholas of Tolentino, Italian saint and mystic (b. 1245)
 1308  Emperor Go-Nijo of Japan (b. 1285)
 1382  Louis I of Hungary (b. 1326)
 1419  John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1371)
 1482  Federico da Montefeltro, Italian warlord (b. 1422)
 1591  Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542)
 1669  Henrietta Maria of France (b. 1609)
 1797  Mary Wollstonecraft, British female philosopher (b. 1759)
 1815  John Singleton Copley, American artist (b. 1738)
 1827  Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet and novelist (b. 1778)
 1842  William Hobson, 1st Governor of New Zealand (b. 1792)
 1842  Letitia Christian Tyler, First Lady of the United States (b. 1790)
 1889  Charles III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1818)
 1898  Empress Elizabeth of Austria (b. 1837)
1901  2000 
 1915  Charles Boucher de Boucherville, 3rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
 1923  Sukumar Ray, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1887)
 1931  Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
 1935  Huey Long, American politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1893)
 1937  Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
 1938  Charles Cruft, British businessman (b. 1852)
 1948  King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
 1952  Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese engineer and architect (b. 1866)
 1954  Peter Anders, German tenor (b. 1908)
 1961  Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880)
 1961  Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928)
 1965  Father Divine, American spiritual leader (b. 1880)
 1966  Ernst Julius Gumbel, German mathematician (b. 1891)
 1971  Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)
 1975  George Paget Thomson, English physicist (b. 1892)
 1977  Hamida Djandoubi, last person to be executed by guillotine in France (b. 1949)
 1979  Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola (b. 1922)
1983  Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist (b. 1905)
 1983  John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915)
 1983  Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest-recorded person (b. 1941)
 1983  Norah Lofts, English novelist (b. 1904)
 1985  Jock Stein, Scottish football manager (b. 1922)
 1991  Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
 1994  Max Morlock, German footballer (b. 1925)
 1995  Charles Denner, French actor (b. 1926)
 1996  Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923)
 1996  Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)
From 2001 
 2004  Glyn Owen, Welsh actor (b. 1928)
 2005  Hermann Bondi, Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (b. 1919)
 2006  Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (b. 1918)
 2007  Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b. 1942)
 2007  Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
 2011  Cliff Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
 2012  Vondell Darr, American actress (b. 1919)
 2012  Lance LeGault, American actor (b. 1935)
 2014  Richard Kiel, American actor (b. 1939)
 2014  Emilio Botin, Spanish businessman (b. 1934)
 2015  Dickie Moore, American actor (b. 1925)
 2015  Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer (b. 1928)
 2015  Norman Farberow, American psychologist (b. 1918)
 2015  Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor (b. 1931)
 2015  James E. Proctor, Jr., American politician (b. 1936)
 2015  Antoine Lahad, Lebanese military officer (b. 1927)
 2016  Jutta Limbach, German jurist (b. 1934)
 2017  Hans Alfredson, Swedish actor, director, writer and comedian (b. 1931)
2017  Xavier Atencio, American animator, lyricist and engineer (b. 1919)
 2017  Nancy Dupree, American historian (b. 1927)
 2017  René Laurentin, French theologian (b. 1917)
 2017  Don Ohlmeyer, American entertainment executive (b. 1945)
 2017  B. V. Radha, Indian actress (b. 1948)
 2017  Len Wein, American comic book writer (b. 1948)
Observances 
 National Day (Gibraltar)
 Teacher's Day (People's Republic of China and Hong Kong)
 International Suicide Prevention Day
 Children's Day (Honduras)

Days of the year
It is the last day of the third quarter of the year.

Events
Up to 1950 
 489  Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under King Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time in Verona, present-day Northern Italy.
 1061  Pope Alexander II is elected.
 1399  Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
 1512  A rock avalanche buries most of the town of Biasca in Ticino, in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. Hundreds of people are killed.
 1744  France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
 1791  First performance of The Magic Flute: This is the last opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to have its premiere.
 1791  The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jerome Petion as 'incorruptible patriots'.
 1813  Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
 1860  The UK's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
 1867  The US takes control of the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
1882  The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
 1885  Bechuanaland, in present-day Botswana, becomes a British Protectorate.
 1888  Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
 1895  Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
 1906  Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana.
 1907  Opening of the McKinley National Memorial in Canton, Ohio. It is the final resting place of US President William McKinley and his family.
 1911  The dam of the Austin Reservoir in Pennsylvania bursts, killing 78 people.
 1915  A Serbian army private becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
 1927  Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a single season.
1935  The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
 1935  "The Adventures of Dick Tracy" is first heard on the Mutual Radio Network.
 1938  The Munich Pact is signed.
 1938  The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
 1939  General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
 1941  Holocaust: The Nazis complete the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine, in which thousands of people are killed.
 1945  The Bourne End rail crash in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43 people.
 1947  The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joined the United Nations.
 1947  Baseball: The World Series, featuring New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
 1949  The Berlin Airlift ends.
 1950  Korean War: South Korean troops cross the 38th Parallel for the first time.
1951  2000 
 1953  On board the bathyscaphe Trieste, Auguste Piccard and Jacques Piccard travel to a depth 3,150 meters below the surface of the sea, which at that time had been the deepest point anyone had travelled.
 1954  The U.S. Navy submarine [[USS Nautilus (SSN-571)|USS Nautilus]] is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
 1955  James Dean dies in a car crash.
 1960  The last episode of The Howdy Doody Show airs on NBC.
 1960  The first episode of The Flintstones is shown on television.
 1962  Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
 1962  James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
 1962  Last episodes of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar broadcast on CBS Radio, marking the end of The Golden Age of Radio.
 1965  Civil unrest follows a failed coup attempt by Indonesia Communist Party (PKI). More than a million people died.
1966  The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
 1967  BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names. Tony Blackburn presents the first show.
 1967  Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation is launched in Colombo; the station was formerly known as Radio Ceylon.
 1968  The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
 1970  Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine for the release of the remaining  hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
 1972  Baseball: Roberto Clemente has the 3,000th hit of his career.
 1975  The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
 1976  Muhammad Ali defends his Heavyweight Boxing Title, against Ken Norton.
 1979  Niki Lauda retires from Formula One racing.
1980  Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
 1982  Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol scare.
 1982  The TV sitcom Cheers premieres.
 1986  Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed Israel's covert nuclear programme to British media, is kidnapped in Rome by the Israeli Mossad.
 1989  Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.
 1991  President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.
 1993  An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
 1997  Origin Systems Inc. releases Ultima Online, a massively multiplayer game, opening the door for a new video gaming genre.
1999  Japan's then-worst nuclear accident occurs at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo. Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels.
From 2001 
 2004  AIM-54 Phoenix which became the primary missile for the Northrop Grumman F-14 Tomcat retired from U.S. Navy.
 2004  The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat is taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
 2005  The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
 2005  The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
 2009  A magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes western Sumatra, killing over 1,000 people.
 2010  In Ecuador, police officers, supported by parts of the army, attempt a failed coup against President Rafael Correa.
 2012  British entertainer Jimmy Savile, who had died in October 2011, is revealed to have carried out sexual abuses over a period of decades.
 2012  Europe wins the Ryder Cup golf tournament, with a comeback against the United States from 10-6 behind to win 14.5 to 13.5.
2013  Pope Francis announces that Pope John Paul II is to become a saint in April 2014, nine years after his death.
 2022 - Vladimir Putin pronounces the Annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine.
Up to 1900 
 1207  Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273).
 1227  Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292).
 1530  Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist (d. 1606).
 1550  Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631).
 1689  Jacques Aubert, French composer and violinist (d. 1753).
 1710  John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771).
 1710  Stanislaw Konarski, Polish monk, poet and playwright (d. 1773).
 1715  Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780).
 1732  Jacques Necker, Swiss-French politician (d. 1804).
 1743  Christian Ehregott Weinlig, German composer (d. 1813).
 1765  José Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815).
 1800  Decimus Burton, English architect (d. 1881).
 1811  Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Queen of Prussia and Empress of Germany (d. 1890).
 1813  John Rae, Orcadian physician and explorer of the Canadian Arctic (d. 1893)
 1827  Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918).
 1832  Ann Jarvis, American labor activist (d. 1905).
1833  Ferdinand von Saar, Austrian writer (d. 1906).
 1836  Remigio Morales Bermúdez, President of Peru (d. 1894).
 1848  Robert Walker Macbeth, Scottish painter (d. 1910).
 1852  Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, conductor and educator (d. 1924)
 1859  George Henry Slight, Scottish engineer, creator of the Chilean lighthouse service (d. 1934)
 1861  William Wrigley, Jr., American industrialist (d. 1932).
 1868  José Serrato, 24th President of Uruguay (d. 1960).
 1870  Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist (d. 1942).
 1882  Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945).
 1883  Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, British-born American engineer, architect and Women's Rights activist (d. 1945).
 1883  Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (d. 1945).
 1887  Lil Dagover, Dutch-born actress (d. 1980).
 1891  Otto Schmidt, Russian politician, mathematician, geophysicist and Arctic explorer (d. 1956).
 1895  Lewis Milestone, Russian-born movie director (d. 1980).
1897  Gaspar Cassado, Spanish cellist and composer (d. 1966).
 1898  Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977).
1901  1950 
 1902  Ryuzo Shimizu, Japanese footballer (date of death unknown).
 1904  Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d. 1971).
 1905  Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist (d. 1996).
 1905  Michael Powell, British screenwriter, movie director and producer (d. 1990).
 1906  Mireille Hartuch, French singer, composer and actress (d. 1996).
 1908  David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974).
 1910  Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish military officer (d. 1962).
 1912  Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985).
 1913  Bill Walsh, American movie producer and writer (d. 1975).
 1914  Baby Ray, American football player (d. 1986).
 1915  Lester Maddox, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 2003).
 1916  Richard K. Guy, British mathematician
 1917  Yuri Lyubimov, Russian stage actor and director (d. 2014).
 1917  Pak Chong Hui, President of South Korea (d. 1979).
 1917  Buddy Rich, American big band jazz drummer (d. 1987).
 1918  René Rémond, French historian and economist (d. 2007).
1918  Giovanni Canestri, Italian cardinal (d. 2015).
 1919  William L. Guy, 26th Governor of North Dakota (d. 2013).
 1920  Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (d. 1995).
 1921  Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007).
 1921  Stanislaw Nagy, Polish cardinal (d. 2013).
 1922  Oscar Pettiford, American jazz musician and composer (d. 1960).
 1924  Truman Capote, American writer (d. 1984).
 1926  Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2012).
 1927  Hossein Dehlavi, Iranian composer (d. 2019).
 1927  W. S. Merwin, American poet (d. 2019).
 1928  Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born Holocaust survivor, activist and writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 2016).
 1928  Takeshi Inoue, Japanese footballer (d. 1992).
 1929  Helen M. Marshall, American politician (d. 2017).
 1931  Angie Dickinson, American actress.
 1931  Teresa Gorman, English politician (d. 2015).
 1932  Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese writer and politician.
 1932  Anthony Hawkins, Australian actor.
 1933  Michel Aoun, President of Lebanon.
1933  Cissy Houston, American singer.
 1934  Marco Dezzi Bardeschi, Italian architect (d. 2018).
 1934  Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer (d. 2014).
 1934  Anna Kashfi, Indian-born actress (d. 2015).
 1935  Johnny Mathis, American singer.
 1936  Jim Sasser, 6th United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.
 1939  Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist.
 1940  Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, English politician.
 1941  Kamalesh Sharma, 5th Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations.
 1942  Frankie Lymon, American rock and roll musician (d. 1968).
 1943  Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist.
 1943  Ian Ogilvy, English actor.
 1944  Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (d. 2006).
 1945  Ehud Olmert, Israeli politician, former Prime Minister of Israel.
 1945  José Manuel Fuente, Spanish cyclist (d. 1996).
 1946  Fran Brill, American actress, singer and puppeteer.
 1946  Claude Vorilhon, French journalist.
 1946  Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican salsa singer (d. 1993).
 1947  Marc Bolan, English rock musician (d. 1977).
1947  Rula Lenska, English actress.
 1950  Laura Esquivel, Mexican author.
1951  1975 
 1951  Barry Marshall, Australian physician.
 1951  Simon White, English astrophysicist and academic.
 1952  John Lombardo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
 1954  Mitch Lewis, Canadian multi-instrumentalist
 1954  Basia, Polish singer-songwriter.
 1955  Andy Bechtolsheim, German engineer, co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
 1956  Frank Arnesen, Danish footballer.
 1957  Fran Drescher, American actress, producer, comedienne and activist.
 1958  Marty Stuart, American country musician.
 1959  Debrah Farentino, American actress.
 1959  Ettore Messina, Italian basketball player and coach.
 1960  Blanche Lincoln, American politician.
 1961  Eric Stoltz, American actor.
 1961  Crystal Bernard, American singer-songwriter and actress.
 1961  Mel Stride, English politician.
 1962  Frank Rijkaard, Dutch footballer.
 1964  Monica Bellucci, Italian actress.
 1964  Trey Anastasio, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
 1964  Robby Takac, American singer-songwriter and bass player.
1965  Omid Djalili, English comedian and actor.
 1965  Matt Fallon, American singer-songwriter
 1965  Kathleen Madigan, American comedienne and actress.
 1966  Gary Armstrong, Scottish rugby player.
 1967  Steve Kean, Scottish football manager.
 1969  Alex Rae, Scottish footballer.
 1970  Damian Mori, American actor.
 1970  Prosenjit Chatterjee, Indian actor and producer.
 1971  Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia, Italian actor.
 1971  Jenna Elfman, American actress.
 1972  Ari Behn, Norwegian writer.
 1974  Tom Greatrex, English politician.
 1974  Daniel Wu, American-Hong Kong actor, director and producer.
 1975  Marion Cotillard, French actress.
 1975  Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player.
 1975  Wopke Hoekstra, Dutch politician.
From 1976 
 1977  Sun Juhai, Chinese footballer.
 1977  Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer.
 1978  Candice Michelle, American female wrestler.
 1979  Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer.
 1979  Primoz Kozmus, Slovenian hammer thrower.
 1979  Cameron Bruce, Australian footballer.
 1980  Christian Cantwell, American shot putter.
 1980  Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player.
 1981  Cecelia Ahern, Irish writer.
 1982  Lacey Chabert, American actress.
 1982  Kieran Culkin, American actor.
 1982  Ola Jordan, Polish-British ballroom dancer.
 1982  Teal Redmann, American actress.
 1982  Yan Stastny, Canadian ice hockey player.
 1984  Keisha Buchanan, English singer (Sugababes).
 1984  Georgios Eleftheriou, Greek footballer.
 1985  Dmytro Grabovskyy, Ukrainian cyclist (d. 2017).
 1985  T-Pain, American rapper.
 1985  Cristian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer.
 1986  Olivier Giroud, French footballer.
 1986  Cristian Zapata, Colombian footballer.
 1987  Lauren Holiday, American soccer player.
1987  Rumi Harai, Japanese actress, model and gymnast.
 1992  Ezra Miller, American actor.
 1994  Aliya Mustafina, Russian gymnast.
 1996  Lewis Morgan, Scottish footballer.
 1997  Yana Kudryavtseva, Russian rhythmic gymnast.
 1997  Max Verstappen, Belgian-Dutch racing driver.
 2002  Maddie Ziegler, American dancer and actress.
Up to 1900 
 420  Jerome, Roman priest, theologian and historian (b. 347)
 653  Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury 
 954  King Louis IV of France (b. 920)
 1101  Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan
 1246  Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191)
 1440  Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Ruthin, Welsh soldier and politician (b. 1362)
 1487  John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
 1560  Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
 1572  Saint Francis of Borgia, Jesuit priest (b. 1510)
 1626  Taizu Emperor, Chinese Emperor (b. 1559)
 1628  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet and politician (b. 1554)
 1770  Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat (b. 1695)
 1865  Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar (b. 1800)
 1888  Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
 1888  Catherine Eddowes, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
 1891  Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
1901  2000 
 1910  Maurice Levy, French engineer (b. 1838)
 1914  Yu Kil-chun, Korean politician (b. 1856)
 1932  Constantin Coanda, Romanian politician (b. 1857)
 1934  Giuseppe Mori, Italian cardinal (b. 1850)
 1942  Hans-Joachim Marseille, German pilot (b. 1919)
 1943  Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)
 1948  Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1861)
 1953  Lewis Fry Richardson, British meteorologist (b. 1881)
 1955  James Dean, American actor (b. 1931)
 1973  Peter Pitseolak, Canadian photographer and actor (b. 1902)
 1974  Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General (b. 1915)
 1977  Mary Ford, American singer (b. 1924)
 1985  Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
 1985  Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)
 1990  Patrick White, Australian writer (b. 1912)
 1994  André Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist (b. 1902)
 1994  Roberto Eduardo Viola, Argentine politician (b. 1924)
From 2001 
 2002  Göran Kropp, Swedish mountaineer (b. 1966)
 2002  Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1913)
 2003  Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (b. 1944)
 2004  Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor, director and politician (b. 1936)
 2004  Jacques Levy, American director and songwriter (b. 1935)
 2004  Michael Relph, English director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1915)
 2007  Joe Mitty, English humanitarian, founder of Oxfam (b. 1919)
 2010  Stephen J. Cannell, American television producer (b. 1941)
 2011  Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and Islamist militant (b. 1971)
 2011  Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian immunologist (b. 1943)
 2012  Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (b. 1928)
 2012  Barry Commoner, American biologist (b. 1917)
 2013  Kazys Bobelis, Lithuanian politician (b. 1923)
 2013  Rangel Valchanov, Bulgarian actor and director (b. 1928)
 2014  Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Kashmiri Shia cleric, politician and businessman (b. 1942)
2014  Jerrie Mock, American pilot (b. 1925)
 2014  Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist (b. 1927)
 2015  Kelly Gissendaner, American criminal (b. 1968)
 2015  Claude Dauphin, French businessman (b. 1951)
 2015  Guido Altarelli, Italian theoretical physicist (b. 1941)
 2015  Ricky Talan, Dutch footballer (b. 1960)
 2016  Oscar Brand, Canadian-American folk singer-songwriter and author (b. 1920)
 2016  Mike Towell, Scottish boxer (b. 1991) 
 2017  Monty Hall, Canadian-American game show host (b. 1921)
 2017  Frank Hamblen, American basketball coach (b. 1947)
 2017  Donald Malarkey, American army officer (b. 1921)
 2017  Joe Tiller, American football player (b. 1942)
 2017  Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian-American mathematician (b. 1966) 
 2018  Edredon Bleu, British-bred racehorse (b. 1992)
 2018  Geoffrey Hayes, English television presenter and actor (b. 1942)
 2018  Kim Larsen, Danish rock musician (b. 1945)
 2018  René Pétillon, French cartoonist (b. 1945)
2019  David Akers-Jones, British politician (b. 1927)
 2019  Wayne Fitzgerald, American film and television title designer (b. 1930)
 2019  Viju Khote, Indian actor (b. 1941)
 2019  Kornel Morawiecki, Polish politician and theoretical physicist (b. 1941)
 2019  Jessye Norman, American opera singer (b. 1945)
 2019  Ben Pon, Dutch racing driver (b. 1936)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Botswana)
 International Translation Day (after Jerome, Bible translator)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1066  William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.
 1422  After the brief Gollub War, the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
 1529  The Siege of Vienna begins, as Suleiman I attacks the city.
 1540  The Society of Jesus receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
 1590  The death of Pope Urban VII ends the shortest papacy in history, lasting just 13 days.
 1605  The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kirchholm.
 1777  Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital city of the United States for a day.
 1821  Mexico gains independence from Spain.
 1822  Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone.
 1825  The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens in northern England, having the first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
1854  Steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board in the Atlantic Ocean.
 1865  Chile declares war on Spain.
1901  2000 
 1903  The "Wreck of the Old 97" train crash occurs near Danville, Virginia, killing 11 people (including one who later died on October 6), and injuring 7. The crash later becomes well known through songs and musical pieces.
 1905  The formula E=mc squared is introduced, devised by Albert Einstein.
 1908  The first production of the Ford Model T automobile is built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
 1916  Iyasu V is officially deposed in a palace coup in Ethiopia, in favor of his aunt, Zauditu.
 1922  Constantine I of Greece abdicates the throne. His eldest son succeeds him as George II of Greece.
 1928  The Republic of China is recognised by the United States.
 1930  Bobby Jones wins the US Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of winning all the major golf tournaments of the year.
 1937  The Balinese Tiger is declared extinct.
 1938  The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow, Scotland.
 1940  World War II: Germany, Japan and Italy sign the "Tripartite Pact".
1942  World War II: Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escapes after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River.
 1949  The design of the Flag of the People's Republic of China (which is founded on October 1) is accepted by the National People's Congress.
 1957  In the Azores, the Capelinho volcano erupts on the island of Faial. 300 homes are destroyed and 2,000 people are evacuated.
 1959  Almost 5,000 people are killed when a typhoon strikes the island of Honshu, Japan.
 1961  Sierra Leone joins the UN.
 1968  The stage musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London.
 1973  The Soviet Union launches the Soyuz 12 spacecraft.
 1979  The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the United States Congress to become the 13th US cabinet agency.
 1983  Richard Stallman announces the GNU Project.
 1987  In Cairo, Egypt, the first Metro line in Africa is opened.
1988  Canadian athlete Ben Johnson is stripped of his Olympic gold medal, after failing a drug test.
 1993  The Sokhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
 1996  Afghan forces are routed as the Taleban seizes control of Kabul.
 1997  The Julie N tanker ship crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine, spilling hundreds of gallons of oil.
 1997  Communication is lost with the Mars Pathfinder Probe.
 1998  Google is founded.
 1998  Gerhard Schröder is elected Chancellor of Germany, succeeding Helmut Kohl.
From 2001 
 2001  In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 people, of which 14 are killed. He then kills himself.
 2002  East Timor joins the UN.
 2003  The Smart 1 satellite is launched.
 2005  Tom and Jerry airs its 162nd, and last, episode.
 2007  NASA launches the Dawn probe.
 2008  Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese astronaut to perform a space walk.
 2009  German Parliamentary Election: Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel of the CDU is allowed to serve a second term in office, after defeating SPD candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier. She enters into a coalition with the Free Democrats under Guido Westerwelle.
 2014  The Mount Ontake volcano in Japan erupts.

Births
Up to 1900 
 823  Ermentrude of Orléans, Frankish Queen (d. 869)
 1271  Wenceslaus II of Bohemia, and Poland (d. 1305)
 1275  John II of Brabant (d. 1312)
 1389  Cosimo de' Medici, Italian art patron and ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
 1533  Stephen Bathory, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1586)
 1544  Takenaka Shigeharu, Japanese samurai (d. 1579)
 1601  King Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)
 1643  Solomon Stoddard, American Puritan clergyman (d. 1729)
 1657  Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, regent of Russia (d. 1704)
 1677  Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, Italian musical composer (d. 1754)
 1696  Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Italian bishop and saint (d. 1787)
 1722  Samuel Adams, American patriot, revolutionary, writer and statesman (d. 1803)
 1729  Michael Denis, Austrian writer, priest and scientist (d. 1800)
 1765  Antoine Philippe de la Tremouille, French counter-revolutionary (d. 1794)
 1772  Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1836)
 1781  William I of Württemberg (d. 1864)
1783  Agustín de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico (d. 1824)
 1792  George Cruikshank, British artist (d. 1878)
 1818  Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (d. 1884)
 1821  Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss philosopher, poet and critic (d. 1881)
 1824  William "Bull" Nelson, American Civil War general (d. 1862)
 1826  Armand David, French monk and naturalist (d. 1900)
 1830  William Babcock Hazen, American Civil War general (d. 1887)
 1838  Lawrence Sullivan Ross, American Confederate general and 19th Governor of Texas (d. 1898)
 1840  Thomas Nast, German-American political cartoonist (d. 1902)
 1840  Alfred Thayer Mahan, American admiral (d. 1914)
 1842  Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist (d. 1903)
 1861  Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, sister of Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1933)
 1862  Louis Botha, South African politician (d. 1919)
 1864  Andrej Hlinka, Slovakian politician and priest (d. 1938)
 1866  Eurosia Fabris, Italian saint (d. 1932)
 1867  Giovanni Bonzano, Italian cardinal (d. 1927)
1871  Grazia Deledda, Italian writer (d. 1936)
 1871  Martin H. Glynn, 40th Governor of New York (d. 1924)
 1880  Jacques Thibaud, French violinist (d. 1953)
 1894  Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (d. 1922)
 1898  Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (d. 1946)
1901  1950 
 1907  Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
 1907  Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and theorist (d. 2003)
 1907  Bernard Miles, English actor, director, producer and producer (d. 1991)
 1916  S. Yizhar, Israeli writer (d. 2006)
 1918  Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer (d. 1984)
 1919  James Wilkinson, British mathematician (d. 1986)
 1919  Johnny Pesky, American baseball player (d. 2012)
 1919  Jayne Meadows, American actress (d. 2015)
 1920  William Conrad, American actor (d. 1994)
 1921  John Malcolm Patterson, former Governor of Alabama (d. 2021)  
 1921  Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian movie director (d. 2014)
 1921  Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1991)
 1922  Arthur Penn, American screenwriter (d. 2010)
 1922  Heinrich Boere, German Nazi war criminal (d. 2013)
 1924  Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (d. 1966)
 1924  Josef Skvorecky, Czech writer and publisher (d. 2012)
 1925  Robert G. Edwards, British biologist and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2013)
1927  Chrysostomos I, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Cyprus (d. 2007)
 1927  Adhemar da Silva, Brazilian triple jumper (d. 2001)
 1929  Barbara Murray, English actress (d. 2014)
 1929  Txillardegi, Basque linguist, writer and politician (d. 2012)
 1931  Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer
 1932  Yash Chopra, Indian director (d. 2012)
 1932  Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
 1933  Greg Morris, American actor
 1933  Will Sampson, American actor and artist (d. 1987)
 1934  Wilford Brimley, American actor (d. 2020)
 1936  Don Cornelius, American television host (d. 2012)
 1936  Sancho Gracia, Spanish television presenter (d. 2012)
 1937  Vasyl Durdynets, 8th Prime Minister of Ukraine
 1938  Jean-Loup Dabadie, French journalist, songwriter and screenwriter
 1940  Josephine Barstow, English soprano
 1940  Fatima Mernissi, Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist (d. 2015)
 1941  Peter Bonetti, English footballer and coach
 1942  Dith Pran, Cambodian photojournalist (d. 2008)
1942  Alvin Stardust, English singer (d. 2014)
 1943  Randy Bachman, Canadian musician
 1943  Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Italian nobleman
 1943  Walter Riester, German politician
 1946  Nicos Anastasiades, Greek-Cypriot politician, President of Cyprus
 1946  Naiyyum Choudhury, Bangladeshi biochemist (d. 2019)
 1946  Robin Nedwell, English actor (d. 1999)
 1947  Barbara Dickson, Scottish singer
 1947  Denis Lawson, Scottish actor
 1947  Vic Snyder, American politician
 1947  Meat Loaf, American singer (d. 2022)
 1947  Dick Advocaat, Dutch football manager
 1948  Duncan Fletcher, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
 1950  Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa, Japanese-American actor and martial artist
1951  1975 
 1951  Jim Shooter, American writer
 1951  Anthony Laciura, American operatic tenor
 1952  Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian cosmonaut
 1952  Didier Dubois, French mathematician
 1952  Katie Fforde, English author
 1953  Diane Abbott, English politician
 1953  Claudio Gentile, Italian footballer
 1953  Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian guru and saint
 1953  Robbie Shakespeare, Jamaican musician and producer
 1953  Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian engineer and astronaut
 1954  Dougie MacLean, Scottish singer-songwriter
 1954  Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Russian violinist and composer
 1956  Milan Smrčka, Czech musician
 1956  Steve Archibald, Scottish footballer
 1957  John Inverdale, English broadcaster
 1957  Peter Sellars, American theatre director
 1958  Irvine Welsh, Scottish writer
 1960  Jean-Marc Barr, German-born French-American movie actor, director and producer
 1964  Stephan Jenkins, American musician and producer
 1965  Bernard Lord, Canadian politician, 30th Premier of New Brunswick
1965  Peter MacKay, Canadian politician
 1966  Uche Okechukwu, Nigerian footballer
 1966  Jovanotti, Italian singer
 1966  Debbie Wasserman Schultz, American politician
 1966  Stephanie Wilson, American engineer and astronaut
 1967  Willie Rennie, Scottish politician
 1967  Llewella Gideon, English voice actor
 1968  Mari Kiviniemi, former Prime Minister of Finland
 1968  Patrick Muldoon, American actor
 1972  Lhasa de Sela, Mexican-American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
 1972  Clara Hughes, Canadian cyclist
 1972  Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress
 1973  Vratislav Lokvenc, Czech footballer
 1974  Carrie Brownstein, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress
From 1976 
 1976  Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
 1976  Matt Harding, American video game designer and dancer
 1978  Mihaela Ursuleasa, Romanian pianist (d. 2012)
 1978  Pastora Soler, Spanish singer
 1979  Shinji Ono, Japanese footballer
 1980  Olivier Kapo, French footballer
 1980  Asashoryu Akinori, Mongolian sumo wrestler
 1981  Brendon McCallum, New Zealand cricketer
 1981  Mirjam Weichselbraun, Austrian television host and actress
 1982  Markus Rosenberg, Swedish footballer
 1982  Lil Wayne, American rapper
 1982  Darrent Williams, American football player
 1983  Jeon Hye-bin, South Korean actress and singer
 1984  Davide Capello, Italian footballer
 1984  Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer
 1984  Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (d. 2011)
 1985  Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (d. 2014)
 1987  Adam Bogdan, Hungarian footballer
 1991  Simona Halep, Romanian tennis player
 1992  Granit Xhaka, Swiss footballer
 1993  Monica Puig, Puerto Rican tennis player
 1995  Lina Leandersson, Swedish actress
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 855  Lothair I, King of the Romans (b. 795)
 1162  Odo II, Duke of Burgundy
 1249  Count Raymond VII of Toulouse (b. 1197)
 1404  William of Wykeham, English bishop (b. 1320)
 1547  Lady Eleanor Brandon (b. 1519)
 1557  Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1492)
 1590  Pope Urban VII (b. 1521)
 1651  Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)
 1660  Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (b. 1581)
 1700  Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)
 1832  Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (b. 1781)
 1833  Ram Mohan, Indian reformer (b. 1772)
 1876  Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
 1886  Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist (b. 1804)
 1891  Ivan Goncharev, Russian writer (b. 1812)
1901  2000 
 1917  Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834)
 1921  Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)
 1940  Walter Benjamin, German philosopher (b. 1892)
 1940  Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian doctor, won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
 1956  Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (b. 1911)
 1960  Sylvia Pankhurst, British Women's Rights activist (b. 1882)
 1961  H.D., American writer (b. 1886)
 1965  Clara Bow, American actress (b. 1905)
 1967  Felix Yusupov, Russian prince, participated in the killing of Grigori Rasputin (b. 1887)
 1972  S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
 1974  Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer (b. 1907)
 1975  Jack Lang, 23rd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1876)
 1979  Gracie Fields, British comedienne (b. 1898)
 1981  Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish athlete (b. 1951)
 1986  Cliff Burton, American bassist (Metallica) (b. 1962)
 1991  Oona O'Neill, English actress (b. 1926)
 1993  Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b. 1896)
From 2001 
 2004  John E. Mack, American psychiatrist (b. 1929)
 2005  Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian and actor (b. 1929)
 2007  Kenji Nagai, Japanese photographer and journalist (b. 1957)
 2008  Mahendra Kapoor, Indian singer (b. 1934)
 2009  William Safire, American columnist (b. 1929)
 2011  David Croft, British writer, producer and director (b. 1922)
 2011  Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (b. 1935)
 2012  Herbert Lom, Czech-born British actor (b. 1917)
 2014  Eugie Foster, American science fiction writer (b. 1971)
 2014  James Traficant, American politician (b. 1941)
 2014  Taylor Hardwick, American architect (b. 1925)
 2014  Zhang Xianliang, Chinese author and poet (b. 1936)
 2014  Abdelmajid Lakhal, Tunisian actor and director (b. 1939)
 2014  Jean-Jacques Pauvert, French publisher (b. 1926)
 2015  Syed Ahmed, Indian politician (b. 1945)
 2015  Pietro Ingrao, Italian politician (b. 1915)
 2015  Wilton Felder, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1940)
 2015  Frank Tyson, English cricketer (b. 1930)
2015  John Guillermin, English movie director and producer (b. 1925)
 2015  Denise Lor, American singer and actress (b. 1929)
 2016  Sebastian Papaiani, Romanian actor (b. 1936)
 2017  Joy Fleming, German singer (b. 1944)
 2017  Hiromi Hayakawa, Japanese-Mexican actress and singer (b. 1982)
 2017  Hugh Hefner, American adult magazine publisher and businessman (Playboy) (b. 1926)
 2017  Anne Jeffreys, American actress (b. 1923)
 2018  Marty Balin, American rock singer and musician (b. 1942)
 2018  Brian A. Joyce, American politician (b. 1962)
 2018  James G. March, American sociologist (b. 1928)
 2019  William J. Edwards, American politician (b. 1928)
 2019  Rob Garrison, American actor (b. 1960)
 2019  John J. Snyder, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1925)
 2019  Joseph C. Wilson, American writer (b. 1949)