Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
From 2001 
2003  Lester Maddox, segregationist Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)
2006  Kenneth Griffith, British actor and director (b. 1921)
2008  Erika Crusardson, artist and actress (b. 1975)
2009  Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947)
2009  Michael Jackson, American entertainer and singer (b. 1958)
2009  Sky Saxon, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1937)
2011  Margaret Tyzack, British actress (b. 1931)
2013  Robert E. Gilka, American photographer and journalist (b. 1916)
2014  Ana Maria Matute, Spanish writer (b. 1925)
2014  Nigel Calder, English science writer (b. 1931)
2014  Arvid Jacobsen, Norwegian newspaper editor (b. 1938)
2015  Patrick Macnee, English-American actor (b. 1922)
2016  Bill Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1929)
2016  Giuseppe Ferrara, Italian movie director (b. 1932)
2016  Patrick Mayhew, British politician, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (b. 1929)
2016  Nicole Courcel, French actress (b. 1931)
2016  Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo, Indian writer (b. 1926)
2017  Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician (b. 1938)
2017  Elsa Daniel, Argentine actress (b. 1938)
2017  K. R. Mohanan, Indian film director (b. 1947)
2017  José Manuel Mourinho Félix, Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1938)
2017  Walter Fillmore, American general (b. 1933)
2018  Paul Gérin-Lajoie, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1920)
2018  Richard Benjamin Harrison, American businessman and television presenter (b. 1941)
2018  David Goldblatt, South African photographer and critic of Apartheid (b. 1930)
2018  James M. Keck, American lieutenant general (b. 1921)
2019  Kevin McKenna, Irish politician (b. 1945)
2019  Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress and model (b. 1929)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Mozambique)
 National Day of Slovenia and Croatia
 Statehood Day (Virginia)
 National Catfish Day (United States)
 Arbor Day (Philippines)

Days of the year
Up to 1960 
 313  The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-Emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia.
 1373  The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance takes effect.
 1381  The Peasants' Revolt in England, led by Wat Tyler, ends in the burning of the Savoy Palace.
 1525  Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora.
 1625  Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland marries Henrietta Maria of France.
 1665  Anglo-Dutch War: English victory at the naval Battle of Lowestoft.
 1733  The island of Croix in the Caribbean goes from French control to the Danish West India Company.
 1740  In the present-day United States, Georgia's Governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of Saint Augustine.
 1774  Rhode Island bans the import of slaves.
 1777  American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
1805  Lewis and Clark Expedition: Meriwether Lewis and four companions see the Great Falls on the Missouri River.
 1858  Up to 250 passengers are killed in an explosion on the paddle steamer Pennsylvania on the Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tennessee.
 1881  The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
 1886  A fire destroys much of Vancouver.
 1886  Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in the Starnberger See (Starnberg Lake). His doctor was also found dead. The exact circumstances of their deaths remain a mystery.
 1893  Grover Cleveland secretly undergoes a successful operation to remove a large cancerous  portion of his jaw.
 1898  The Yukon Territory is split from Canada's Northwest Territories. Dawson becomes the capital. Later, the capital moves to Whitehorse
 1910  The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is founded.
 1917  A World War I German air raid on London kills 162 people.
1927  Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
 1934  Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Venice.
 1935  Jim Braddock wins the World Heavyweight Boxing title by defeating Max Baer.
 1946  King Umberto II of Italy goes into exile in Portugal as Italy becomes a republic after a referendum on June 2.
 1950  Hugo Koblet wins the 33rd edition of the Giro d'Italia cycling race. As a Swiss, he is the first non-Italian to win the event.
 1952  Catalina Affair: A Swedish DC-3 aircraft is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
 1955  The Mir Mine, the first Soviet diamond mine, is discovered.
 1956  In football, Real Madrid wins the first European Cup, defeating Stade Reims 4-3 in Paris.
1961  2000 
 1967  Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice on the United States Supreme Court.
 1967  The Soviet Union calls for action against Israel.
 1970  The Long and Winding Road becomes The Beatles' last US Number One hit song.
 1971  The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
 1974  The 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany begins.
 1977  James Earl Ray, who was convicted of killing Martin Luther King, Jr., is recaptured following his escape from prison three days earlier.
 1978  Israel's Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
 1981  Marcus Serjeant fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II during the Trooping the Colour parade.
 1982  Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia, succeeding his deceased half-brother Khalid.
 1982  Racing driver Riccardo Paletti is killed when he crashes on the start grid of the Canadian Grand Prix.
 1983  Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the Solar System.
 1990  Official demolition of the Berlin Wall begins.
1991  The 1998 Winter Olympics are given to Nagano, Japan.
 1994  A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazlewood for the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989.
 1995  Jacques Chirac announces that France will continue to carry out nuclear testing in French Polynesia.
 1996  Guernsey votes to end its ban on abortion.
 1997  The Uphaar cinema fire in New Delhi kills 59 people.
 1997  Timothy McVeigh is sentenced to death for the Oklahoma bombing.
 2000  South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il meet at the first inter-Korean summit, in Pyongyang.
 2000  Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot at Pope John Paul II in 1981.
From 2001 
 2002  The US withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
 2002  Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle on the Yangju highway, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the US and South Korea.
 2005  Irish becomes one of the official languages of the European Union.
 2005  Michael Jackson is found not guilty of child molestation at his Neverland Ranch.
 2011  Two strong aftershocks, following the February 22 earthquake, hit Christchurch, New Zealand, measuring at 5.5 and 6 magnitude, causing more damage, liquefaction, and 10 injuries.
 2012  At least 93 people are killed in a series of bombings across Iraq.
 2014  2014 FIFA World Cup: Previous champions, Spain, are beaten 5-1 by the Netherlands in a group match. They had beaten the Dutch in the final of the previous World Cup. It is the worst opening-day result of any defending champion in the history of tournament.
Up to 1800 
 40  Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (d. 93)
 823  Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the West Franks (d. 877)
 839  Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Franks (d. 888)
 1508  Alesandro Piccolomini, Italian writer and philosopher (d. 1579)
 1584  Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese Samurai warrior, artist and writer (d. 1645)
 1595  Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician and scientist (d. 1667)
 1615  Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700)
 1649  Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
 1672  Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1741)
 1752  Fanny Burney, English novelist (d. 1840)
 1753  Johan Afzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1837)
 1761  Antonin Vranicky, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1820)
 1763  José Bonifacio de Andrade, Brazilian statesman (d. 1838)
 1773  Thomas Young, English polymath (d. 1829)
 1775  Antoni Radziwill, Polish politician (d. 1833)
 1786  Winfield Scott, American general (d. 1866)
1801  1900 
 1809  Heinrich Hoffmann, German painter and writer (d. 1894)
 1821  Albert, 4th duc de Broglie, French historian, publicist and statesman (d. 1901)
 1822  Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1894)
 1827  Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
 1831  James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish inventor and physicist (d. 1879)
 1854  Charles Algernon Parsons, Anglo-Irish engineer (d. 1931)
 1863  Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
 1864  Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish professor (d. 1922)
 1865  William Butler Yeats, Irish writer (d. 1939)
 1866  Aby Warburg, German art historian (d. 1929)
 1870  Jules Bordet, Belgian doctor, won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1961)
 1874  Leopoldo Lugones, Argentine poet (d. 1938)
 1875  Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer and physician (d. 1932)
 1876  William Sealey Gosset, English chemist and statistician (d. 1937)
 1882  Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1960)
1884  Dobri Bozhilov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1945)
 1884  Burrill Bernard Crohn, American physician (d. 1983)
 1884  Anton Drexler, German political figure (d. 1942)
 1885  Henry George Lamond, Australian novelist (d. 1959)
 1887  André François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat (d. 1978)
 1887  Bruno Frank, German writer (d. 1957)
 1888  Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer (d. 1935)
 1892  Basil Rathbone, British actor (d. 1967)
 1893  Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer (d. 1957)
 1894  Dr. Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician (d. 1981)
 1894  Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (d. 1986)
 1894  Tay Garnett, American movie director (d. 1977)
 1897  Paavo Nurmi, Finnish athlete (d. 1973)
 1899  Carlos Chavez, Mexican composer, conductor, theorist and journalist (d. 1978)
1901  1950 
 1901  Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)
 1903  Red Grange, American football player (d. 1991)
 1905  Doc Cheatham, American trumpeter, singer and bandleader (d. 1997)
 1905  Xian Xinghai, Chinese composer (d. 1945)
 1906  Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1985)
 1908  Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter (d. 1992)
 1908  Hassan ibn Yahya, Prime Minister of North Yemen (d. 2003)
 1909  E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 1998)
 1910  Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Galician writer (d. 1999)
 1910  Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)
 1910  Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
 1911  Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist (d. 1988)
 1914  Barbara Reynolds, English author and lexicographer (d. 2015)
 1915  Don Budge, American tennis player (d. 2000)
 1917  Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan writer (d. 2005)
 1917  Teddy Turner, English actor and comedian (d. 1992)
 1920  Rolf Huisgen, German chemist (d. 2020)
1921  Lennart Strand, Swedish runner (d. 2004)
 1926  Paul Lynde, American comedian and actor (d. 1982)
 1926  Jerome Lejeune, French physician and geneticist (d. 1994) 
 1927  Slim Dusty, Australian singer (d. 2003)
 1928  John Forbes Nash, American mathematician (d. 2015)
 1928  Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (d. 2015)
 1928  Li Ka-shing, Chinese businessman
 1929  Ralph McQuarrie, American production designer (d. 2012)
 1929  Robert W. Scott, 67th Governor of North Carolina (d. 2009)
 1932  Bob McGrath, American actor and singer
 1935  Samak Sundaravej, former Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2009)
 1935  Christo, Bulgarian artist (d. 2020)
 1935  Jeanne-Claude, French artist (d. 2009)
 1937  Erich Ribbeck, German football manager
 1939  Siegfried, German-born tiger trainer and magician (Siegfried and Roy) (d. 2021)
 1940  Bobby Freeman, American singer-songwriter, pianist and producer (d. 2017)
 1940  Gojko Mitic, Serbian actor
 1941  Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
1941  Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player, coach and manager
 1942  Abdulsalami Abubakar, former President of Nigeria
 1943  Malcolm McDowell, English actor
 1943  Jim Guy Tucker, 43rd Governor of Arkansas
 1944  Ban Ki-moon, South Korean Secretary-General of the United Nations
 1946  Gonzalo Aja, Spanish cyclist
 1946  Sher Bahadur Deuba, 32nd Prime Minister of Nepal
 1946  Paul L. Modrich, American biochemist
 1948  Garnet Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 2001)
 1948  Joe Roth, American director and producer
 1949  Ulla Schmidt, German politician
 1950  Gerd Zewe, German footballer
 1950  Nick Brown, British politician
1951  1975 
 1951  Richard Thomas, American actor
 1951  Stellan Skarsgaard, Swedish actor
 1953  Tim Allen, American actor
 1954  Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician (d. 2011)
 1954  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian economist and politician
 1955  Alan Hansen, Scottish footballer
 1957  Roy Cooper, American politician, 75th Governor of North Carolina
 1958  Peter Scudamore, British jockey and trainer
 1959  Lance Kinsey, Canadian actor
 1959  Boyko Borisov, three-time Prime Minister of Bulgaria
 1959  Klaus Iohannis, 5th President of Romania
 1961  Bob Crow, English trade union leader (d. 2014)
 1962  Ally Sheedy, American actress
 1964  Kathy Burke, English actress
 1964  Sarunas Marciulionis, Lithuanian basketball player
 1965  Lisa Vidal, American actress
 1965  Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca, Spanish royal
 1966  Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
 1966  Naoko Hattori, Japanese racing driver
 1968  David Gray, British singer
 1968  Marcel Theroux, British writer and broadcaster
1969  Virginie Despentes, French writer, novelist and movie maker
 1969  Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian athlete
 1969  Soren Rasted, Danish singer-songwriter, musician and producer
 1969  Jamie Walters, American entertainer
 1970  Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
 1970  Rivers Cuomo, American musician
 1970  Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
 1973  Mattias Hellberg, Swedish musician
 1973  Kasia Kowalska, Polish singer-songwriter, producer and actress
 1974  Selma Björnsdóttir, Icelandic singer
 1974  Steve-O, American stunt performer and TV personality
 1975  Ante Covic, Australian footballer
From 1976 
 1976  Kym Marsh, English singer, actress and TV presenter
 1978  Mikako Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
 1978  Richard Kingson, Ghanaian footballer
 1980  Sarah Connor, German singer
 1980  Darius Vassell, English footballer
 1980  Florent Malouda, French footballer
 1980  Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player
 1981  Julie-Marie Parmentier, French actress
 1981  Radim Vrbata, Czech ice hockey player
 1982  Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian long-distance runner
 1982  Chris Cusiter, Scottish rugby union player
 1986  Mary-Kate & Ashely Olsen, American actresses
 1986  Keisuke Honda, Japanese footballer
 1986  Kat Dennings, American actress
 1986  Mans Zelmerlow, Swedish singer
 1989  Lisa Tucker, American singer and actress
 1990  Aaron Johnson, English actor
 1991  Barbara Bonansea, Italian footballer
 1991  Anatoly Zabolotny, Russian footballer
 1992  Kim Jin-su, South Korean footballer
 1993  Simona Senoner, Italian ski jumper (d. 2011)
1993  Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (d. 2018)
 1996  Kodi Smit-McPhee, Australian actor
Up to 1975 
 1036  Ali az-Zahir, Islamic ruler (b. 1005)
 1231  Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)
 1256  Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
 1645  Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman and author (b. 1584)
 1762  Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, German doctor (b. 1715)
 1784  Henry Middleton, American politician (b. 1717)
 1817  Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Irish author and engineer (b. 1744)
 1846  Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyries, French geographer, author and translator (b. 1767)
 1881  Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)
 1886  King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
 1898  Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, 5th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
 1901  Leopoldo Alas, Spanish writer (b. 1852)
 1905  Theodoros Deligiannis, Greek statesman (b. 1820)
 1908  Antonio Gonzalez de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1824)
 1918  Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1878)
 1930  Henry Segrave, American-English racing driver (b. 1896)
1931  Kitasato Shibasaburo, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
 1948  Osamu Dazai, Japanese writer (b. 1909)
 1951  Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
 1957  Irving Baxter, American athlete (b. 1876)
 1965  Martin Buber, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1878)
 1972  Georg von Bekesy, Hungarian biophysicist (b. 1899)
 1972  Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (b. 1891)
1976  2010 
 1979  Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1945)
 1980  Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942)
 1982  Riccardo Paletti, Italian racing driver (b. 1958)
 1982  King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
 1986  Benny Goodman, American musician (b. 1909)
 1987  Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
 1993  Deke Slayton, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1924)
 1997  Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer (b. 1909)
 1998  Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
 2003  Malik Meraj Khalid, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
 2003  Hassan ibn Yahya, Prime Minister of North Yemen (b. 1908)
 2004  Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
 2006  Charles Haughey, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1925)
 2007  Walid Eido, Lebanese politician (b. 1942)
 2008  Tim Russert, American broadcast journalist (b. 1950)
 2009  Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (b. 1962)
 2010  Jimmy Dean, American singer (b. 1928)
From 2011 
 2012  William Standish Knowles, American chemist (b. 1917)
 2012  Roger Garaudy, French philosopher, author and Holocaust denier (b. 1913)
 2014  Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer (b. 1926)
 2014  Robert Peters, American poet, playwright and actor (b. 1924)
 2014  Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and futurologist (b. 1933)
 2014  Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
 2014  Robert Peters, American poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor and actor (b. 1924)
 2014  Jim Keays, Australian rock musician (b. 1946)
 2014  Sara Widén, Swedish opera singer (b. 1980) 
 2015  Drs. P, Swiss-Dutch singer-songwriter, poet and writer (b. 1919)
 2015  Buddy Boudreaux, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1917)
 2016  Ofelya Hambardzumyan, Armenian singer (b. 1925)
 2016  Oleg Karavaychuk, Soviet-Russian composer (b. 1927)
 2016  Chips Moman, American songwriter (b. 1937)
 2017  A. R. Gurney, American playwright (b. 1927)
2017  Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (b. 1924)
 2017  Jack Ong, American actor (b. 1940)
 2017  Anita Pallenberg, Italian actress (b. 1944)
 2017  Ulf Stark, Swedish screenwriter and author (b. 1944)
 2018  Arkangel de la Muerte, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1966)
 2018  Anne Donovan, American basketball player and coach (b. 1961)
 2018  D. J. Fontana, American rock music drummer (b. 1931)
 2018  Charles Vinci, American weightlifter (b. 1933)
 2019  Pat Bowlen, American sports executive (b. 1944)
 2019  Nature Ganganbaigal, Chinese musician and composer (b. 1990)
 2019  Edith González, Mexican actress (b. 1964)
 2019  Geoff Lees, English footballer (b. 1933)
 2019  Heinrich Reichert, Swiss neurobiologist (b. 1949)
 2019  Wilhelm Wieben, German television journalist, actor and author (b. 1935)
 2020  Sheikh Md Abdullah, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1945)
 2020  Dick Garmaker, American basketball player (b. 1932)
 2020  Jim Grelle, American runner (b. 1936)
2020  B. Kannan, Indian cinematographer (b. 1951)
 2020  Mohammed Nasim, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1948)
 2020  Maurice Rajsfus, French writer and historian (b. 1928)
 2020  Jean Raspail, French author and explorer (b. 1925)
 2020  Tineke Verburg, Dutch journalist and television presenter (b. 1956)
 2020  Marc Zermati, French record producer (b. 1945)
Holidays and Observances 
 Inventors' Day (Hungary)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1057  Pope Stephen IX is elected.
 1158  Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.
 1177  The Cham people conquer the Khmer city of Angkor in present-day Cambodia, where the Angkor Wat temple is located. They came over the Tonle Sap lake on their way there.
 1216  First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France captures the city of Winchester and then conquers over half of the Kingdom of England.
 1276  While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince, Zhao Shi, making Emperor Duanzong of Song.
 1285  Forces led by Prince Tran Quang Khai of Vietnam's Tran Dynasty destroys most of the invading Mongol naval fleet in the Battle of Chuong Duong.
 1381  Richard II of England meets with leaders of the Peasants' Revolt.
 1645  English Civil War: The Battle of Naseby results in 12,000 royalists being defeated by 15,000 parliamentarian soldiers.
1648  Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston, Massachusetts, being the first execution for witchcraft in the Massachusetts colony.
 1775  The Continental Army is founded by the Continental Congress. This is regarded as the founding of the United States Army.
 1777  The Stars and Stripes is chosen as the national flag of the United States.
 1789  After the Mutiny on the Bounty, William Bligh and 18 other survivors reach the island of Timor, after a 7,400-kilometre open-boat journey.
 1797  The Ligurian Republic is declared in Genoa.
 1800  Napoleonic Wars: The French re-conquer Italy after defeating the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo.
 1807  Napoleon Bonaparte's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in what was then part of Poland, ending the War of the Fourth Coalition
 1811  Harriet Beecher Stowe, writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin, is born.
1822  Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine to the Royal Astronomical Society, which he describes as 'note on application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables'.
 1830  The French invasion of Algiers begins.
 1839  The first Henley-on-Thames Royal Regatta takes place in Oxfordshire.
 1846  Not knowing of the Mexican-American War, 22 American settlers  found the Republic of California, which is annexed by the United States soon after.
 1863  American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester.
 1872  Trade Unions are legalised in Canada.
 1891  A bridge collapse near Munchenstein in Switzerland, causes a train to derail, killing 78 people.
 1900  Hawaii is annexed by the United States.
 1900  The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
1901  2000 
 1907  Norway gives women the right to vote.
 1913  Football: The club Racing Santander is founded in Santander, Cantabria, Spain.
 1914  The five-ring flag of the Olympics is first raised.
 1919  John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight.
 1926  Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
 1937  Itatiaia National Park becomes the first National Park in Brazil.
 1937  Pennsylvania starts to celebrate Flag Day as a public holiday.
 1940  World War II: Paris falls under German occupation.
 1940  Holocaust: The Auschwitz Concentration Camp is opened.
 1940  The Soviet Union issues an ultimatum to Lithuania, ending its independence.
 1941  June deportation: The first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murders of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians begins.
 1942  Anne Frank starts to write in her diary.
 1949  Bao Dai is installed as the South Vietnamese leader in Saigon.
1951  UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) is dedicated by the US Census bureau.
 1954  Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill adding 'under God' into the US Pledge of Allegiance.
 1955  Chile signs the Buenos Aires Convention.
 1962  The European Space Research Organisation is founded in Paris, later becoming the European Space Agency.
 1965  Nguyen Cao Ky becomes leader of South Vietnam, leading a military junta.
 1967  The Mariner 5 space probe is launched to Venus.
 1967  The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
 1982  The Falklands War comes to an end, as Argentine forces surrender to the British in Port Stanley.
 1985  TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens.
 1993  Tansu Ciller becomes the first female Prime Minister of Turkey.
 1994  A riot occurs in Vancouver after a Stanley Cup ice hockey match, where the New York Rangers defeated the Vancouver Canucks.
1998  The Storebaelt Bridge, consisting of Western and Eastern sections and connecting the Danish islands of Funen and Zealand, is opened to traffic.
 1998  The Chicago Bulls win a 6th NBA championship in 8 years. Part of the successful team was Michael Jordan.
 1999  Thabo Mbeki is chosen to succeed Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa.
From 2001 
 2002  Near-Earth asteroid "2002 MN" misses the Earth by 121,000 kilometers (75,000 miles).
 2003  In a referendum, a majority of voters in the Czech Republic approves entry to the EU.
 2013  The Airbus A350 aircraft has its first flight.
 2015  The Philae spacecraft, which made the first successful landing on a comet in November 2014, wakes up. It had gone into hibernation a few days after landing.
 2015  Flooding in Tbilisi, Georgia, kills 12 people and results in several zoo animals either being killed or escaping onto the streets.
 2017  Grenfell Tower fire: A massive fire occurs in a tower block in North Kensington, London, killing 72 people.
 2017  2017 Congressional baseball shooting: Gunman James T. Hodgkinson opens fire on a baseball practice session among US Republican members of Congress, before being shot dead by police. Congressman Steve Scalise is severely injured in the attack.
 2017  Leo Varadkar becomes Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
2018  The 2018 FIFA World Cup starts in Moscow, as hosts Russia defeat Saudi Arabia 5-0.
 2019  June Spencer, English actress, becomes a centenarian.
Up to 1900 
 1444  Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1544)
 1463  Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1514)  
 1479  Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (d. 1552)
 1529  Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria (d. 1595)
 1691  Jan Francisci, Hungarian organist and composer (d. 1758)
 1712  Sayat-Nova, Armenian singer, poet and composer (d. 1795)
 1726  James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
 1726  Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist (d. 1798)
 1730  Antonio Sacchini, Italian composer (d. 1786)
 1736  Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (d. 1806)
 1763  Simon Mayr, German composer (d. 1845)
 1780  Henry Salt, English artist, diplomat and Egyptologist (d. 1827)
 1796  Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (d. 1866)
 1798  Frantisek Palacky, Czech scholar and politician (d. 1876)
 1801  Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
 1811  Harriet Beecher Stowe, American writer (d. 1896)
 1812  Fernando Wood, Mayor of New York City (d. 1881)
1819  Henry Gardner, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1892)
 1832  Nikolaus Otto, German engineer (d. 1891)
 1835  Nikolai Rubinstein, Russian composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1881)
 1838  Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese military leader, and two-time Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1922)
 1840  William F. Nast, American attaché, railroad executive and inventor (d. 1893)
 1855  Robert M. La Follette, Sr., 20th Governor of Wisconsin (d. 1925)
 1856  Andrei Markov, Russian mathematician (d. 1922)
 1862  John Ulric Nef, Swiss-born chemist (d. 1915)
 1864  Alois Alzheimer, German doctor, discovered Alzheimer's disease (d. 1915)
 1868  Karl Landsteiner, Austrian doctor, won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1943)
 1870  Sophia of Prussia, Queen consort of Greece (d. 1932)
 1871  Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (d. 1946)
 1877  Jane Bathori, French soprano (d. 1970)
 1884  John McCormack, Irish fencer (d. 1945)
 1884  Georg Zacharias, German swimmer (d. 1953)
1888  Jacques de Lacretelle, French writer (d. 1985)
 1893  Siggie Nordstrom, Swedish singer (d. 1980)
 1894  Marie-Adelaide, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924)
 1895  Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1968)
 1895  Pan Yuliang, Chinese painter (d. 1977)
 1899  Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer (d. 1972)
1901  1950 
 1903  Alonzo Church, American mathematician and theorist (d. 1995)
 1907  Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1989)
 1909  Burl Ives, American musician (d. 1995)
 1910  Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976)
 1910  Carlo Ceseroli, Italian footballer (d. 1995)
 1916  Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish philosopher (d. 2003)
 1917  Lise Norgaard, Danish journalist, novelist and screenwriter
 1919 – June Spencer, English actress
 1919  Gene Barry, American actor (d. 2009)
 1920  Jacques Datin, French songwriter (d. 1973)
 1921  Martha Greenhouse, American actress (d. 2013)
 1922  Kevin Roche, Irish architect (d. 2019)
 1923  Judith Kerr, German-born English writer (d. 2019)
 1924  James W. Black, Scottish physician (d. 2010)
 1925  Serge Moscovici, French psychologist (d. 2014)
 1925  Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician (d. 2004)
 1926  Hermann Kant, German writer (d. 2016)
 1928  Che Guevara, Argentinian Marxist revolutionary (d. 1967)
1928  Robert Brout, Belgian physicist (d. 2011)
 1929  Gunilla Pontén, Swedish fashion designer (d. 2019)
 1930  Odile Versois, French actress (d. 1980)
 1931  Marla Gibbs, American actress, singer and screenwriter
 1931  Junior Walker, American saxophonist and singer (d. 1995)
 1933  Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American writer (d. 1991)
 1933  Vladislav Rastorotsky, Soviet gymnastics coach
 1936  Renaldo Benson, American singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
 1936  George Hugh Niederauer, American bishop (d. 2017)
 1939  Steny Hoyer, American politician
 1940  Jack Bannon, American actor (d. 2017)
 1940  Francesco Guccini, Italian singer, musician and actor
 1942  Andy Irvine, English-Irish singer-songwriter and bouzouki player
 1943  Piet Keizer, Dutch footballer (d. 2017)
 1945  Rod Argent, English rock musician
 1945  Carlos Reichenbach, Brazilian director and producer (d. 2012)
 1946  Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer (d. 1979)
 1946  Donald Trump, American businessman, politician and 45th President of the United States
1946  Robert Louis-Dreyfus, French businessman (d. 2009)
 1947  Barry Melton, American guitarist
 1949  Jim Lea, British musician (Slade)
 1949  Papa Wemba, Congolese singer and musician (d. 2016)
 1949  Alan White, British musician
 1950  Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury
1951  1975 
 1951  Paul Boateng, British politician
 1952  Pat Summitt, American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
 1953  Hana Laszlo, Israeli actress and comedienne
 1954  Frank Hadden, Scottish rugby union coach
 1955  Kirron Kher, Indian actress
 1955  Paul O'Grady, British TV presenter and entertainer
 1955  Michael D. Duvall, American politician
 1956  King Diamond, Danish singer
 1956  Gianna Nannini, Italian singer-songwriter and musician
 1958  Olaf Scholz, German politician, former Mayor of Hamburg
 1958  Eric Heiden, American speed skater
 1958  Pamela Geller, American blogger, author, political activist and animator
 1961  Boy George, British singer
 1961  Dusan Kojic, Serbian singer-songwriter and musician
 1966  Traylor Howard, American actress
 1968  Yasmine Bleeth, American actress
 1969  Steffi Graf, German tennis player
 1969  Kyle Hebert, American actor
 1970  Heather McDonald, American actress, comedienne and author
 1971  Ramon Vega, Swiss footballer
1971  Bruce Bowen, American basketball player
 1973  Sami Kapanen, Finnish ice hockey player
From 1976 
 1976  Alan Carr, British comedian
 1976  Massimo Oddo, Italian footballer
 1977  Joe Worsley, English rugby player
 1978  Diablo Cody, American screenwriter
 1979  Paradorn Srichaphan, Thai tennis player
 1981  Lonneke Engel, Dutch model
 1981  Elano, Brazilian footballer
 1981  Alastair Kellock, Scottish rugby union player
 1982  Lang Lang, Chinese pianist
 1982  Luda Kroiter, Moldovan 5-time world salsa champion
 1984  Siobhan Donaghy, British singer
 1984  Yury Prilukov, Russian swimmer
 1985  Oleg Medvedev, Russian luger
 1986  Haley Hudson, American actress and singer
 1988  Dayo Okeniyi, Nigerian actor
 1988  Kevin McHale, American actor
 1989  Lucy Hale, American actress
 1989  Cory Higgins, American basketball player
 1989  Joao Rojas, Ecuadorean footballer
 1990  Patrice Cormier, Canadian ice hockey player
 1991  Erick Barrondo, Guatemalan race walker
 1991  Kostas Manolas, Greek footballer
 1991  André Carrillo, Peruvian footballer
 1991  Jesy Nelson, English singer (Little Mix)
1992  Daryl Sabara, American actor
 1992  Evan Sabara, American actor
 1993  Svetlana Issakova, Estonian figure skater
 1993  Callum McGregor, Scottish footballer
Up to 1930 
 1161  Emperor Qinzong of China (b. 1100)
 1205  Walter, Count of Brienne
 1349  Günther von Schwarzburg, King of Germany (b. 1304) 
 1381  Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
 1497  Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia, son of Pope Alexander VI (b. 1474)
 1516  John III of Navarre (b. 1469)
 1544  Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1489)
 1548  Carpentras, French composer (b. 1470)
 1594  Orlande di Lasso, Flemish composer (b. 1532)
 1642  Saskia van Uylenburgh, wife of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (b. 1612)
 1648  Margaret Jones, first person to be executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts
 1662  Henry Vane the Younger, English colonial governor and politician (b. 1613)
 1703  Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (b. 1625)
 1746  Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (b. 1698)
 1800  Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (b. 1768)
 1801  Benedict Arnold, American soldier (b. 1841)
 1825  Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and designer (b. 1754)
1837  Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798)
 1883  Charles J. Jenkins, Governor of Georgia (b. 1805)
 1886  Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (b. 1823)
 1908  Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, British Governor-General of Canada (b. 1841)
 1914  Adlai E. Stevenson, American politician (b. 1835)
 1920  Max Weber, German sociologist and political economist (b. 1864)
 1923  Isabelle Bogelot, French philanthropist (b. 1838)
 1926  Mary Cassatt, American painter (b. 1843)
 1927  Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (b. 1894)
 1927  Jerome K. Jerome, British writer (b. 1859)
 1928  Emmeline Pankhurst, British women's rights campaigner (b. 1858)
1931  2010 
 1932  Peter Adler Alberti, Danish politician and swindler (b. 1851)
 1936  G. K. Chesterton, British writer (b. 1874)
 1936  Hans Poelzig, German architect, painter and designer (b. 1869)
 1946  John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor and television pioneer (b. 1888)
 1953  Klement Gottwald, Czech politician (b. 1896)
 1968  Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer (b. 1901)
 1976  Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (b. 1900)
 1979  Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer (b. 1946)
 1986  Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer and poet (b. 1899)
 1986  Alan Jay Lerner, American composer (b. 1918)
 1991  Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (b. 1907)
 1994  Henry Mancini, American composer (b. 1924)
 1994  Marcel Mouloudji, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
 1996  Noemi Gerstein, Argentine artist (b. 1908)
 1997  Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926)
 2000  Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (b. 1911)
 2004  Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (b. 1900)
 2005  Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor (b. 1914)
2007  Ruth Graham, American poet, wife of Billy Graham (b. 1920)
 2007  Kurt Waldheim, Austrian UN Secretary-General (b. 1918)
 2007  Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (b. 1922)
 2009  Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
 2010  Leonid Kizim, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1941)
From 2011 
 2011  Peter Schamoni, German movie director and producer (b. 1934)
 2012  Carlos Reichenbach, Brazilian director and producer (b. 1945)
 2013  Gene Mako, Hungarian-American tennis player (b. 1916)
 2014  Sam Kelly, English actor (b. 1943)
 2014  Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French-American actress (b. 1935)
 2014  Robert Lebeck, German photojournalist (b. 1929)
 2014  Francis Matthews, English actor (b. 1927)
 2014  Benjamin Winter, German equestrian (b. 1988)
 2015  Hugo Blanco, Venezuelan musician (b. 1940)
 2015  Zito, Brazilian footballer (b. 1932)
 2015  Qiao Shi, Chinese politician (b. 1924)
 2015  Anne Nicol Gaylor, American activist (b. 1926)
 2016  Henry McCullough, Northern Irish guitarist (b. 1943)
 2016  Irma Roy, Argentine actress and politician (b. 1932)
 2016  Ronnie Claire Edwards, American actress (b. 1933) 
 2016  Anatoli Grishin, Russian sprint canoeist (b. 1939)
 2016  Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress (b. 1928)
 2016  Gertrude Kerbis, American architect (b. 1926)
2016  Gilles Lamontagne, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
 2017  James T. Hodgkinson, American home inspector, businessman and gunman (b. 1951)
 2017  Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine newspaper editor (b. 1925)
 2017  Arthur J. Jackson, American military officer (b. 1924)
 2018  Vincent R. Gray, English-New Zealand chemist (b. 1922)
 2018  Mongi Kooli, Tunisian politician (b. 1930)
 2018  Stanislav Govorukhin, Russian film director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1936)
 2018  Sonia Scurfield, Canadian businesswoman and sports team owner (b. 1928)
 2018  Fazlullah, Pakistani terrorist (b. 1974)
 2019  Bernard M. Judge, American newspaper editor (b. 1940)
 2019  Ricardo Migliorisi, Paraguayan painter and designer (b. 1948)
 2019  Roger Béteille, French aeronautical engineer and businessman (b. 1921)
 2019  George E. Felton, British computer scientist (b. 1921)
 2019  Ebert Van Buren, Honduran-American football player (b. 1924)
 2019  James Wyngaarden, American physician (b. 1924)
2020  Luce Douady, French climber (b. 2003)
 2020  Elsa Joubert, South African writer (b. 1922)
 2020  Noel Kelly, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1936)
 2020  Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz, Iranian actor (b. 1930)
 2020  Aarón Padilla Gutiérrez, Mexican footballer (b. 1942)
 2020  Sushant Singh Rajput, Indian actor (b. 1986)
 2020  Haroldo Rodas, Guatemalan politician (b. 1946)
 2020  Claude Samuel, French music critic and radio businessman (b. 1931)
 2020  Keith Tippett, British jazz pianist and composer (b. 1947)  
 2020  Raj Mohan Vohra, Indian army lieutenant general (b. 1932)
Observances 
 Flag Day (United States)
 Freedom Day (Malawi)
 Liberation Day (Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
 Women's Day (Iraq)
 World Blood Donor Day (after birthday of Karl Landsteiner)
 Mourning and Commemoration Day (Estonia)
 Mourning and Hope Day (Lithuania)
 Day of Memory for Repressed People (Armenia)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
763 BC  The Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
923  Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and Charles the Simple is arrested by supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
1184  King Magnus V of Norway is killed in battle.
1215  King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
1219  Northern Crusades: Danish victory at Battle of Lyndanisse (present-day Tallinn) leads to the Danish Duchy of Estonia being established. In Legend, it was also the first time that the Dannebrog was used.
1300  The city of Bilbao in the Basque Country is founded.
1389  Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats the Serbs and Bosnians.
1502  Christopher Columbus reaches the island of Martinique.
1520  Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther.
1580  Philip II of Spain declares William the Silent an outlaw.
1667  The first blood transfusion is administered by Doctor Jean-Baptiste Denys.
1741  Vitus Bering sets sail on his voyage from Petropavlovsk, Russia that will lead him to Alaska.
1775  American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
1776  Delaware votes to suspend government under the British crown, and separates from Pennsylvania.
1785  Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight (in 1783), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever air crash casualties when their hot-air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.
1804  New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution, after approving the 12th Amendment.
1808  Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
1836  Arkansas becomes the 25th State of the United States.
1844  Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
1846  The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as being the longest part of the Canada-United States border.
1859  The shooting of a pig in the San Juan Islands on the Pacific Ocean coast of North America leads to the so-called "Pig War" between the United States and Canada, which was then under British control.
1862  Australian bushranger Frank Gardiner and his gang, hold up a coach carrying gold at Eugowra, New South Wales. This is the biggest robbery in Australian history.
1864  Arlington National Cemetery is established in the United States.
1877  Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
1878  Eadward Muybridge takes a series of photographs that prove that all four of a horse's legs leave the ground when it is running. This is also a key milestone in the development of moving pictures.
1888  Wilhelm II becomes Kaiser of Germany.
1896  A tsunami in Japan kills more than 22,000 people.
1901  2000 
1904  The paddle stramer General Slocum sinks on the East River in New York City, killing 1,388 people.
1910  Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica leaves Cardiff.
1916  Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.
1919  John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown complete the first trans-Atlantic flight when they land in Ireland.
1920  A border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
1934  Great Smoky Mountains National Park is established in the Appalachian Mountains.
1937  A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses 16 members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas.
1940  World War II: Allied troops start to evacuate Paris, following the German take-over.
1944  World War II: The US invades the Japanese-occupied island of Saipan.
1954  UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is founded.
1969  Georges Pompidou is elected President of France.
1970  Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
1972  Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
1977  In the first Spanish election since the Francisco Franco dictatorship, Adolfo Suarez is elected Prime Minister of Spain.
1978  King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who chooses to be known as Queen Noor of Jordan.
1991  After showing activity since April 2, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines enters its most destructive phase.
1994  Formal relations between Israel and Vatican City are officially established.
1996  The Provisional IRA explode a large bomb in the centre of Manchester.
From 2001 
2002  A near-Earth asteroid misses the Earth by 121,000 kilometres.
2006  Microsoft announces the resignation of its "Chief Software Architect" Bill Gates.
2008  Kosovo's Constitution takes effect, following the declaration of independence in February, which Serbia disagrees with.
2011  2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot: Rioting occurs in Vancouver, Canada, following the Vancouver Canucks ice hockey team's defeat in the final of the Stanley Cup.
2012  Nik Wallenda successfully walks on a tightrope across Niagara Falls.
2013  The 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup begins with the Brazil national football team defeating the Japan national football team 3-0.
2018  The Glasgow School of Art's Mackintosh building is hit by a second fire in just over four years, causing a lot of damage to it.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1330  Edward, the Black Prince, heir to the throne of England (d. 1376)
 1479  Lisa del Giocondo, Italian model (d. 1542)
 1519  Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, son of Henry VIII of England (d. 1536)
 1534  Henri I de Montmorency, French nobleman (d. 1614)
 1542  Richard Grenville, English captain and explorer (d. 1591)
 1594  Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
 1623  Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
 1640  Bernard Lamy, French mathematician (d. 1715)
 1749  Georg Joseph Vogler, German composer, organist and theorist (d. 1814)
 1763  Franz Danzi, German cellist, composer and conductor (d. 1826)
 1765  Martin Baum, American businessman and politician (d. 1831)
 1765  Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bonnenberger, German mathematician (d. 1831)
 1767  Rachel Jackson, wife of Andrew Jackson before he became US President (d. 1828)
 1792  Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
 1798  Alexander Gorchakov, Russian diplomat (d. 1883)
1801  Benjamin Wright Raymond, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1883)
 1805  William Butler Ogden, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1877)
 1835  Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet (d. 1868)
 1843  Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (d. 1907)
 1848  Gheevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala, Indian bishop and saint (d. 1902)
 1867  Konstantin Balmont, Russian songwriter (d. 1942)
 1875  Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-born cross country skier and supercentenarian (d. 1987)
 1876  Margaret Abbott, American golfer (d. 1955)
 1882  Ion Antonescu, Romanian military leader (d. 1946)
 1882  Morgan Foster Larson, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1961)
 1884  Harry Langdon, American actor (d. 1944)
 1888  Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (d. 1921)
 1890  Wilhelm Leuschner, German political activist and member of the Resistance (d. 1944)
 1894  Trygve Gulbranssen, Norwegian writer (d. 1962)
 1894  Robert Russell Bennett, American composer and arranger (d. 1981)
 1894  Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1947)
1901  1950 
 1902  Erik Erikson, German-born psychoanalyst (d. 1994)
 1906  Gordon Welchman, British mathematician (d. 1985)
 1908  Sam Giancana, American mafioso (d. 1975)
 1910  David Rose, American songwriter, composer and orchestra leader (d. 1990)
 1911  Wilbert Awdry, British children's writer (d. 1997)
 1914  Yuri Andropov, Soviet political leader (d. 1984)
 1915  Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist (d. 2008)
 1916  Horacio Salgan, Argentine pianist, composer, orchestra leader and arranger
 1916  Herbert Simon, American economist (d. 2001)
 1917  John Bennett Fenn, American chemist (d. 2010)
 1920  Alberto Sordi, Italian actor and director (d. 2003)
 1923  Erland Josephson, Swedish actor (d. 2012)
 1923  Ninian Stephen, 20th Governor-General of Australia (d. 2017)
 1923  Erroll Garner, American jazz pianist and composer (d. 1977)
 1924  Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (d. 2005)
 1925  Richard Baker, English broadcaster (d. 2018)
 1926  Shigeru Kayano, Japanese activist (d. 2006)
1927  Hugo Pratt, Italian writer and artist (d. 1995)
 1930  John Fretwell, English diplomat (d. 2017)
 1930  Marcel Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
 1932  Mario Cuomo, American politician, former Governor of New York (d. 2015)
 1933  Mohammad-Ali Rajai, 2nd President of Iran (d. 1981)
 1933  Yasukazu Tanaka, Japanese footballer
 1934  Rubén Aguirre, Mexican actor (d. 2016)
 1934  Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (d. 2008)
 1936  Claude Brasseur, French actor
 1936  William Levada, American cardinal (d. 2019)
 1937  Waylon Jennings, American musician (d. 2002)
 1937  Anna Hazare, Indian activist
 1938  Billy Williams, American baseball player
 1939  Brian Jacques, British writer (d. 2011)
 1941  Harry Nilsson, American singer and composer (d. 1994)
 1942  John E. McLaughlin, American deputy director of the CIA
 1943  Johnny Hallyday, French rock musician and singer (d. 2017)
 1943  Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, former Prime Minister of Denmark
 1943  Muff Winwood, English musician
1945  Robert Sarah, Guinean cardinal
 1945  Miriam Defensor Santiago, Filipina politician (d. 2016)
 1946  Brigitte Fossey, French actress
 1946  Noddy Holder, British singer (Slade)
 1946  Demis Roussos, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
 1948  Henry McLeish, 2nd First Minister of Scotland
 1948  Alan Huckle, English politician and diplomat, Governor of Anguilla
 1948  José Huerta, Peruvian politician (d. 2019)
 1949  Simon Callow, English actor
 1949  Simone Rethel, German actress
 1949  Jim Varney, American actor (d. 2000)
 1950  Lakshmi Mittal, Indian industrialist