Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
From 1976 
 1978  Tomas Danilevicius, Lithuanian footballer
 1978  Shane Horgan, Irish rugby player
 1978  Virginia Raggi, Italian politician, Mayor of Rome
 1979  Jason Weaver, American actor
 1979  Jermaine Paul, American singer-songwriter and musician
 1980  Kristen Bell, American actress
 1980  Ryoko Hirosue, Japanese actress and singer
 1981  Dennis Seidenberg, German ice hockey player
 1982  Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress
 1982  Ryan Cabrera, American musician and TV host
 1983  Carlos Diogo, Uruguayan footballer
 1983  Jan Schlaudraff, German footballer
 1985  Chace Crawford, American actor
 1985  Jan Hopsin, American rapper
 1988  Cesar Villaluz, Mexican footballer
 1988  Sofia Kvatsabaia, Georgian tennis player
 1989  Jamie Benn, Canadian ice hockey player
 1989  Yohan Mollo, French footballer
 1990  Canelo Álvarez, Mexican professional boxer
 1991  Karina Pasian, American singer and pianist
 1993  Nabil Fekir, French footballer
 1993  Lee Taemin, South Korean singer, dancer, rapper and actor
Up to 1900 
 707  Emperor Monmu of Japan (b. 683)
 715  Muhammad bin Qasim al-Thaqafi, founded Islam in South Asia (b. 695)
 912  Zhu Wen, Emperor Taizu of Later Liang (b. 1852)
 1488  Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
 1566  Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish bishop (b. 1484)
 1591  Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (b. 1550)
 1608  Joachim Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)
 1610  Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (b. 1573)
 1695  Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634)
 1698  Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
 1721  Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684)
 1730  François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
 1792  John Paul Jones, American naval commander (b. 1747)
 1817  Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)
 1826  Isaac Shelby, 1st Governor of Kentucky (b. 1750)
 1863  Robert Gould Shaw Colonel of the 54th Massachusetts infantry (b. 1837).
 1872  Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (b. 1806)
1875  Jane Franklin, British adventurer (b. 1791)
 1890  Lydia Becker, British activist (b. 1827)
 1892  Thomas Cook, British pioneer travel agent (b. 1808)
1901  2000 
 1918  Princess Elizabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1864)
 1919  Raymonde de Laroche, French pilot (b. 1886)
 1925  Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal and archbishop (b. 1840)
 1938  Queen Marie of Romania (b. 1875)
 1947  Heiti Talvik, Estonian poet (b. 1904)
 1947  Evald Tipner, Estonian footballer, ice hockey and bandy player (b. 1906)
 1949  Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
 1953  Lucy Booth, daughter of William Booth and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)
 1954  Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)
 1966  Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
 1967  Humberto Alencar Castelo Branco, President of Brazil (b. 1897)
 1968  Corneille Heymans, Belgian doctor, won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1892)
 1969  Mary Jo Kopechne, American Robert F. Kennedy campaign worker (b. 1940)
 1982  Roman Jakobson, Russian philologist and linguist (b. 1896)
 1985  Louisa Ghijs, Belgian stage actress (b. 1902)
1988  Nico, German-American model and singer (b. 1938)
 1988  Joly Braga Santos, Portuguese composer and conductor (b. 1924)
 1989  Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (b. 1967)
 1990  Yun Poson, President of South Korea (b. 1897)
 1990  Johnny Wayne, Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1918)
 1995  Fabio Casartelli, Italian professional cyclist (b. 1970)
 1995  Srinagarindra, Queen Mother of Thailand (b. 1900)
 1997  Eugene Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1928)
From 2001 
 2001  Fabio Taglioni, Italian automotive engineer (b. 1920)
 2001  James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958)
 2004  Paul Foot, British journalist (b. 1937)
 2005  William Westmoreland, American military officer (b. 1914)
 2005  Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager (b. 1938)
 2009  Henry Allingham, British World War I veteran and supercentenarian, oldest man in the world at the time of his death (b. 1896)
 2012  Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor, producer and politician (b. 1942)
 2012  Jean François-Poncet, French politician (b. 1928)
 2013  Nobuyuki Aihara, Japanese gymnast (b. 1934)
 2014  Andreas Biermann, German footballer (b. 1980)
 2014  Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro, Brazilian writer (b. 1941)
 2014  James Govan, American singer (b. 1949)
 2015  Alex Rocco, American actor (b. 1936)
 2015  George Coe, American actor (b. 1929)
 2016  Manuel G. Batshaw, Canadian social worker (b. 1915)
 2016  Uri Coronel, Dutch sports director (b. 1946)
2016  Bloeme Evers-Emden, Dutch teacher, child psychologist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1926)
 2016  Agata Karczmarek, Polish long jumper (b. 1963)
 2016  Jeffrey Montgomery, American LGBT rights activist (b. 1953)
 2016  Billy Name, American photographer (b. 1940)
 2017  José Bragato, Italian-Argentine cellist, composer and conductor (b. 1915)
 2017  Max Gallo, French writer, historian and politician (b. 1932)
 2017  Shigeaki Hinohara, Japanese physician (b. 1911)
 2017  André Lafargue, French journalist (b. 1917)
 2017  Andrew Paulson, American executive (b. 1958)
 2017  Gustavo Alessandri Valdés, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
 2017  Red West, American actor, stuntman and songwriter (b. 1936)
 2017  Ben's Cat, American racehorse (b. 2006)
 2018  Adrian Cronauer, American disc jockey (b. 1938)
 2018  Gopaldas Neeraj, Indian poet and writer (b. 1925)
 2018  Burton Richter, American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (b. 1918)
 2018  Geoffrey Wellum, British fighter pilot (b. 1921)
2018  Anne Olivier Bell, English literary editor and arts scholar (b. 1916)
 2018  John Banks Elliott, Ghanaian diplomat (b. 1917)
 2018  Ronald H. Griffith, American military officer (b. 1936)
 2018  Rob van Mesdag, Dutch rower (b. 1930)
 2019  Charles Ceccaldi-Raynaud, French lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
 2019  Luciano De Crescenzo, Italian screenwriter (b. 1928)
 2019  Kurt Julius Isselbacher, German-born American physician (b. 1925)
 2019  Roelof Nelissen, Dutch politician and banker (b. 1931)
 2019  Yukiya Amano, Japanese diplomat (b. 1947)
 2019  David Hedison, American actor (b. 1927)
Observances 
 Mandela Day
 Constitution Day (Uruguay)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 64  The Great Fire of Rome starts.
 484  Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern Emperor at Tarsus in modern-day Turkey.
 711  Ummayad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete - Ummayad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic.
 1333  Wars of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Halidon Hill ends in an English victory.
 1545  The Tudor battleship Mary Rose sinks.
 1553  In England, Lady Jane Grey is replaced as queen by Mary I of England, having been queen for only a few days.
 1572  Wanli Emperor takes control in China, becoming the 13th Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
 1588  Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - The Spanish Armada is seen in the English Channel.
 1692  In the Salem Witch Trials, five women are hanged for witchcraft.
 1701  Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
1702  Great Northern War: A larger Polish-Saxon Army of Augustus III the Strong, operating from a better defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish Army half its size under the command of Charles XII of Sweden, in the Battle of Klissow.
 1821  George IV of the United Kingdom is crowned king.
 1832  The British Medical Association is founded by Charles Hastings.
 1843  Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship, the SS Great Britain is launched.
 1848  A Women's rights convention begins in Seneca Falls, New York.
 1864  Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking - Qing Dynasty defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
 1870  Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
 1900  The first line of the Paris Metro opens.
From 1901 
 1903  Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
 1908  The Dutch football club Feyenoord of Rotterdam is founded.
 1912  A meteorite estimated to weigh 190 kilograms explodes over Holbrook, Arizona, causing around 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the village.
 1916  World War I: Battle of Fromelles - British and Australian troops attack German trenches.
 1920  Antonio Joaquim Granjo becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
 1936  The Sieges of Oviedo and Gijon begin shortly after the start of the Spanish Civil War.
 1941  British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launches the V for Victory campaign.
 1943  World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft.
 1947  Several leading Burmese politicians, including Bogyoko Aung San, are executed by Galon U Saw.
 1950  West Germany and the Saarland join the European Council.
 1952  The Summer Olympics in Helsinki begin.
 1961  Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte.
1965  The Mont Blanc road tunnel is opened.
 1971  The South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City opens.
 1976  The Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
 1979  The Sandinistas take official control of the government in Nicaragua.
 1979  Two oil tankers collide near Trinidad and Tobago, causing an oil spill, and killing 29 seamen in the fire resulting from the collision.
 1980  The Summer Olympics in Moscow begin. Some Western countries, including the United States and West Germany, boycott the event.
 1981  French President Francois Mitterrand privately reveals to US President Ronald Reagan documents showing the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.
 1985  The Val di Stava dam collapses in Italy, killing 268 people.
 1987  In Portugal, the Social Democrats under Anibal Cavaco Silva become the first political party during the Third Republic to form an overall majority in parliament.
1989  A United Airlines airplane crashes in Sioux City, Iowa, and bursts into flames, killing 112 out of the 296 people on board.
 1992  Anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino and two police officers are killed by a car-bomb attack in Palermo, Sicily.
 1996  Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is forced out of office. Wanted on war crimes charges, he goes into hiding until his arrest in 2008.
 1996  The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta begin, with Muhammad Ali lighting the Olympic flame.
 1997  The Provisional IRA resumes a ceasefire during the Northern Ireland Troubles.
 2002  In Scotland, the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park is created.
 2003  The first successful tongue transplant is carried out in Vienna.
 2007  Pratibha Patil becomes the first woman to be chosen to become President of India.
 2018  Israel's Knesset passes a law defining the country as a Jewish Nation State.
2018  A duck boat capsizes on Table Rock Lake in Southwestern Missouri, United States, killing 17 people (out of 31 on board), including 9 from the same family. 
 2019  Iran seizes two British oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.
Up to 1900 
 1670  Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
 1688  Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
 1698  Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss writer and poet (d. 1783)
 1739  Joseph Stanton, Jr., American politician (d. 1807)
 1744  Heinrich Christian Boie, German poet (d. 1806)
 1759  Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)
 1764  Juan José Castelli, Argentine politician (d. 1812)
 1789  John Martin, English painter (d. 1854)
 1800  Juan José Flores, first President of Ecuador (d. 1864)
 1806  Alexander Dallas Bache, American physicist (d. 1867)
 1814  Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862)
 1819  Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (d. 1890)
 1822  Princess Augusta of Cambridge (d. 1916)
 1827  Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (d. 1857)
 1834  Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917)
 1840  José Manuel Balmaceda, President of Chile (d. 1891)
 1842  Frederick T. Greenhalge, English-American lawyer and politician, 38th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1848  Pedro Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil (d. 1850)
 1860  Lizzie Borden, American accused murderess (d. 1927)
 1863  Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer and dramatist (d. 1934)
 1865  Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
 1876  Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)
 1876  Ignaz Seipel, Austrian politician (d. 1952)
 1877  Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)
 1881  Friedrich Dessauer, German philosopher and physicist (d. 1963)
 1883  Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and movie producer (d. 1972)
 1884  Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1954)
 1886  Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician (d. 1957)
 1890  King George II of Greece (d. 1947)
 1892  Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1957)
 1893  Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1930)
 1894  Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
1894  Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (d. 1959)
 1895  Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)
 1896  A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (d. 1981)
 1898  Herbert Marcuse, German-born philosopher (d. 1979)
1901  1950 
 1904  Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, American lawyer (d. 1985)
 1914  Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)
 1917  William Scranton, American politician and diplomat, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
 1920  Robert Mann, American violinist, composer and conductor (d. 2018)
 1920  Aldo Protti, Italian opera singer (d. 1995)
 1921  André Moynet, French fighter pilot, businessman, politician and racing driver (d. 1993)
 1921  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2011)
 1921  Harold Camping, American evangelist and religious broadcaster, predicted the rapture (d. 2013)
 1922  Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan, 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia (d. 2008)
 1922  George McGovern, American politician (d. 2012)
 1923  Lon Simmons, American sportscaster (d. 2015)
 1923  Joseph Hansen, American writer (d. 2004)
 1923  Alex Hannum, American basketball player (d. 2002)
 1924  Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (d. 2005)
 1924  Pat Hingle, American actor (d. 2009)
1924  Arthur Rankin, Jr., American director, producer and writer (d. 2014)
 1925  Otto Arosemena, President of Ecuador (d. 1984)
 1926  Helen Gallagher, American actress, Ryan's Hope
 1928  Bobby Davidson, Scottish football referee (d. 1993)
 1929  Martin Grüner, German politician (d. 2018)
 1932  Erró, Icelandic artist
 1934  Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
 1935  Vasily Livanov, Russian movie actor and screenwriter
 1935  Nick Koback, American baseball player (d. 2015)
 1935  Gerd Albrecht, German conductor (d. 2014)
 1937  George Hamilton IV, American country music singer (d. 2014)
 1938  Vakhtang Kikabidze, Georgian movie actor, director and singer
 1938  Richard Jordan, American actor (d. 1993)
 1941  Vikki Carr, American singer
 1943  Thomas J. Sargent, American economist
 1945  George Dzundza, American actor
 1945  Paule Baillargeon, Canadian actress, director and screenwriter
 1945  Richard Henderson, Scottish molecular biologist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry laureate
1946  Alan Gorrie, Scottish musician (Average White Band)
 1946  Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player
 1947  Bernie Leadon, American musician (The Eagles)
 1947  Brian May, English guitarist (Queen)
 1947  Hans-Jürgen Kreische, East German footballer
 1948  Atilio Ancheta, Uruguayan footballer
 1948  Keith Godchaux, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1980)
 1949  Kgalema Motlanthe, former President of South Africa
 1950  Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
 1950  Freddy Moore, American songwriter
1951  1975 
 1952  Allen Collins, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1990)
 1952  Robert A. Ficano, County Executive for Wayne County, Michigan (Detroit and environs)
 1954  Alvan Adams, American basketball player
 1954  Srđa Trifković, Serbian-American journalist
 1955  Dalton McGuinty, Canadian politician, 24th Premier of Ontario
 1956  Nikki Sudden, American musician (d. 2006)
 1958  Peter Houston, Scottish footballer and coach
 1958  Kazushi Kimura, Japanese footballer
 1958  Reuben Kane, American professional wrestler
 1958  Angharad Tomos, Welsh author and language activist
 1959  Juan José Campanella, Argentine director
 1960  Atom Egoyan, Canadian movie maker
 1960  Steve Viksten, American television writer and voice actor
 1961  Campbell Scott, American actor and director
 1961  Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
 1961  Niall Mackenzie, Scottish motorcycle road racer
 1961  Benoît Mariage, Belgian movie director
 1961  Hideo Nakata, Japanese movie director
1961  Lisa Lampanelli, American comedienne
 1962  Anthony Edwards, American actor
 1964  Masahiko Kondo, Japanese singer, lyricist and actor
 1965  Evelyn Glennie, Scottish percussionist
 1965  Hailemariam Desalegn, Prime Minister of Ethiopia
 1965  Stuart Scott, American sportscaster (d. 2015)
 1966  Nancy Carell, American actress
 1968  Pavel Kuka, Czech footballer
 1968  Robert Flynn, American musician (Machine Head)
 1969  Gabrielle, English singer
 1970  Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish politician, 5th First Minister of Scotland
 1971  Urs Bühler, Swiss tenor (Il Divo)
 1971  Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer and politician, Mayor of Kiev
 1971  Naoki Soma, Japanese footballer
 1971  Russell Allen, American singer
 1971  Alan Marriott, Canadian voice actor
 1972  Ebbe Sand, Danish footballer
 1972  David Lammy, English politician
 1973  Martin Powell, English musician (Cradle of Filth)
 1973  Scott Walker, Canadian hockey player
 1974  Preston Wilson, American baseball player
From 1976 
 1976  Eric Prydz, Swedish DJ and producer
 1976  Benedict Cumberbatch, British actor
 1976  Vinessa Shaw, American actress
 1976  Gonzalo de los Santos, Uruguayan footballer
 1976  Angela Griffin, English actress
 1977  Tony Mamaluke, American wrestler
 1977  Charles John Spencer, American professional wrestler
 1978  Chiara Zanni, Canadian actress
 1979  Luke Young, English footballer
 1979  Rick Ankiel, American baseball pitcher
 1980  Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player
 1980  Michelle Heaton, English singer and model (Liberty X)
 1980  Mark Webber, American actor
 1981  Didz Hammond, bassist/backing vocalist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause)
 1981  Nikki Osborne, Australian actress
 1981  Chris Spicuzza, American musician (Chimaira)
 1982  Jared Padalecki, American actor
 1982  Stuart Parnaby, English footballer
 1983  Brooke Kinsella, English actress
 1983  Helen Skelton, English television presenter
 1984  Diana Mocanu, Romanian swimmer
1984  Adam Morrison, American basketball player
 1985  LaMarcus Aldridge, American basketball player
 1985  Hadi Norouzi, Iranian footballer (d. 2015)
 1986  Leandro Greco, Italian footballer
 1987  Hugh Harris, English singer and guitarist (The Kooks)
 1988  Shane Dawson, American comedian and actor
 1988  Kevin Grosskreutz, German footballer
 1990  Aron Pálmarsson, Icelandic handball player
 1990  Steven Anthony Lawrence, American actor
 1995  Maria Paseka, Russian gymnast
 1996  Oh Ha-young, South Korean singer
 1998  Erin Cuthbert, Scottish footballer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 514  Pope Symmachus
 806  Li Shigu, Chinese general (b. 778)
 931  Uda of Japan (b. 867)
 1374  Francesco Petrarca, Italian poet (b. 1304)
 1415  Philippa of Lancaster (b. 1359)
 1543  Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn (b. 1499)
 1631  Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
 1682  Yohannes I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1640)
 1692  Sarah Good, accused at the Salem Witch Trials (b. 1653)
 1692  Susannah Martin, accused at the Salem Witch Trials (b. 1621)
 1742  William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
 1810  Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia (b. 1776)
 1814  Matthew Flinders, English explorer of Australia (b. 1774)
 1824  Agustin de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico (b. 1783)
 1838  Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (b. 1785)
 1838  Christmas Evans, Welsh minister (b. 1766)
 1850  Margaret Fuller, American writer (b. 1810)
 1857  Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1796)
 1878  Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
1901  2000 
 1911  Manuel Iradier, Spanish explorer (b. 1854)
 1913  Climaco Calderon, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
 1925  Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1840)
 1943  Yekaterina Budanova, Soviet flying ace (b. 1916)
 1947  Aung San, Burmese revolutionary, nationalist, general, and politician (b. 1915)
 1947  U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
 1947  Lyuh Woon-hyung, South Korean politician (b. 1886)
 1965  Rhee Syng-man, President of South Korea (b. 1875)
 1970  Egon Eiermann, German architect and designer (b. 1904)
 1974  Erno Schwarz, Hungarian footballer (b. 1904)
 1975  Lefty Frizzell, American country musician and singer (b. 1928)
 1977  Karl Ristikivi, Estonian writer (b. 1912)
 1980  Nihat Erim, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1912)
 1980  Hans Morgenthau, German political philosopher (b. 1904)
 1982  Hugh Everett, American physicist (b. 1930)
 1984  Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
 1989  Kazimierz Sabbat, President of Poland (b. 1913)
From 2001 
 2003  Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1908)
 2004  Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
 2007  Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist (b. 1944)
 2009  Frank McCourt, Irish-American writer (b. 1930)
 2009  Henry Surtees, British racing driver (b. 1991)
 2010  David Warren, Australian inventor (b. 1925)
 2012  Omar Suleiman, Egyptian army general, intelligence officer and politician (b. 1936)
 2012  Hans Nowak, German footballer (b. 1937)
 2013  Bert Trautmann, German footballer (b. 1923)
 2013  Mel Smith, British comedian, actor, director and writer (b. 1952)
 2013  Simon Pimenta, Indian cardinal (b. 1920)
 2014  Lionel Ferbos, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1911)
 2014  John Fasano, American screenwriter, producer and director (b. 1961)
 2014  David Easton, Canadian political scientist (b. 1917)
 2014  Ingemar Odlander, Swedish journalist (b. 1936)
 2014  Yehuda Nir, Polish-born psychiatrist (b. 1930)
 2014  Iring Fetscher, German political scientist (b. 1922)
2014  Rubem Alves, Brazilian theologian and philosopher (b. 1933)
 2014  Paul M. Fleiss, American pediatrician (b. 1933)
 2014  Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress (b. 1992)
 2014  James Garner, American actor (b. 1928)
 2015  Gennadiy Seleznyov, Russian politician (b. 1947)
 2015  Galina Prozumenshchikova, Russian swimmer (b. 1948)
 2015  Van Alexander, American jazz composer, arranger and bandleader (b. 1915)
 2015  Stellan Bojerud, Swedish politician (b. 1944)
 2015  Carmino Ravosa, Argentine composer (b. 1930)
 2016  Carlos Gorostiza, Argentine playwright, theatre director and novelist (b. 1920)
 2016  Garry Marshall, American director, actor, producer and writer (b. 1934)
 2016  Chief Zee, American football fan (Washington Redskins) (b. 1941)
 2017  Miguel Blesa, Spanish banker (b. 1947)
 2017  Jake Butcher, American banker and politician (b. 1936)
 2017  Blaoui Houari, Algerian singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
 2017  Ralph Regula, American politician (b. 1924)
2018  Rayo de Jalisco Sr., Mexican professional wrestler and actor (b. 1932)
 2018  Jon Schnepp, American film director and animator (b. 1967)
 2018  Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (b. 1993)
 2019  Agnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1929)
 2019  César Pelli, Argentine architect (b. 1926)
 2019  Yao Lee, Chinese singer (b. 1922)
 2019  John Elya, Lebanese-born religious figure (b. 1928)
 2019  Bert Rechichar, American football player (b. 1930)
 2019  Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (b. 1944)
 2019  Don Mossi, American baseball player (b. 1929)
Observances 
 Sandinista Day (Nicaragua)
 Martyrs' Day (Burma)
 Christopher Street Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1054  Siward, Earl of Northumbria invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, somewhere North of the Firth of Forth.
 1202  Georgian-Seljuk Wars: At the Battle of Basian, the Kingdom of Georgia defeats the Sultanate of Rum.
 1214  Battle of Bouvines: Philip II of France decisively defeats Imperial, English and Flemish armies.
 1299  According to Edward Gibbon, Osman I invades the territory of Nicomedia for the first time, usually considered to be the founding date of the Ottoman State.
 1302  Battle of Bopheus: Ottoman victory over the Byzantines, opening up Bahynia for Turkish conquest.
 1549  Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.
 1663  The English Parliament passes the Second Navigation Act, requiring that all goods bound for American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports.
 1689  The Jacobite Army defeats Government forces in the Battle of Killiecrankie.
 1694  A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England.
1778  American Revolution: First Battle of Usant - British and French fleets fight to a stand-off.
 1789  The United States Department of Foreign Affairs is founded, later being renamed the United States Department of State.
 1793  Maximilien Robespierre takes control of the 'Committee of Public Safety'.
 1794  Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 'Enemies of the Revolution'.
 1830  The July Revolution in France against King Charles II of France.
 1862  Sailing from San Francisco to Panama City, the SS Golden Gate catches fire and sinks off Manzanillo, Mexico.
 1865  Welsh settlers arrive in Chubut, Argentina.
 1866  The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, from Valentia Island, Ireland to Heart's Content, Newfoundland.
 1880  Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand - Afghan forces led by Mohammad Ayub Khan defeats a British Army.
1890  Vincent van Gogh is believed to have shot himself, leading to his death two days later.
 1900  Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany makes a speech comparing the Germans to the Huns. The word 'Huns' has often been used as an offensive word to describe Germans ever since.
1901  2000 
 1919  The Chicago Race Riot breaks out after an incident on the South Side. Subsequent rioting leads to 38 deaths.
 1921  University of Toronto researchers, led by Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulation regulates blood sugar.
 1924  The 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris come to an end.
 1929  The Third Geneva Convention, on dealing with prisoners of war, is signed by 53 nations.
 1940  Bugs Bunny makes his debut (first appearance) on television.
 1941  World War II: Japanese troops occupy French Indochina, in what is now Vietnam.
 1942  World War II: Allied forces successfully halt a final Axis advance into Egypt.
 1945  Clement Attlee becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
 1953  The Korean War ends.
 1955  The Allied occupation of Austria officially ends.
 1976  Former Prime Minister of Japan Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws.
1983  At Weikada High Security Prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 18 Tamil prisoners are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners.
 1990  Belarus declares independence.
 1990  The Jamaat al-Muslimeen group attempts a coup d'état in Trinidad and Tobago.
 1995  The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC.
 1996  A bomb explodes at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, US, killing 1 person. Eric Rudolph carried out the attack.
 1997  Jan Ullrich becomes the first German to win the Tour de France.
 1997  About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
From 2001 
 2002  In New Zealand's election, Helen Clark's Labor Party Government is reelected.
 2002  The world's worst ever air show disaster occurs in Lviv, Ukraine, as a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes, killing 85 people.
 2005  NASA suspends Space Shuttle flights, just a day after the Discovery launch, as, during it, part of the foam insulation sheds from the fuel tank. Repairs are performed on space walks and the Shuttle lands safely on August 9.
 2006  The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
 2007  Two news helicopters, from TV Stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Phoenix, Arizona, while covering a police chase.
 2012  The 2012 Summer Olympics in London begin.
 2013  Between 65 and 100 people are estimated to have been killed in clashes between the military, and supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo, Egypt.
Up to 1900 
1452  Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1508)
1667  Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
1733  Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
1734  Princess Sophie of France (d. 1782)
1740  Jeanne Baret, French naturalist (d. 1803)
1768  Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter (d. 1839)
1768  Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat who killed Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
1773  Jacob Aall, Norwegian politician and historian (d. 1844)
1773  Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily (d. 1802)
1781  Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
1784  Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
1824  Alexandre Dumas, fils, French writer (d. 1895)
1833  Thomas George Bonney, geologist (d. 1923)
1834  Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian national hero (d. 1879)
1835  Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer (d. 1907)
1848  Lorand Eotvos, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919)
1851  Guillermo Billinghurst, President of Peru (d. 1915)
1851  Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery, British noblewoman (d. 1890)
1853  Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (d. 1921)
1854  Takahashi Korekiyo, 20th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1936)
1857  José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican political leader (d. 1921)
1857  Augusta Stowe-Gullen, Canadian physician and feminist (d. 1943)
1857  E. A. Wallis Budge, English Egyptologist and philologist (d. 1934)
1866  Antonio José de Almeida, Portuguese politician (d. 1929)
1867  Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (d. 1916)
1870  Hilaire Belloc, English writer (d. 1953)
1877  Ernst von Dohnanyi, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1960)
1878  Iwane Matsui, Japanese general (d. 1948)
1879  Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1960)
1880  Joe Tinker, American baseball player (d. 1948)
1881  Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945)
1882  Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (d. 1965)
1886  Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970)
1896  Robert George, Scottish-born 24th Governor of South Australia (d. 1967)
1896  Henri Longchambon, French politician (d. 1969)
1901  1950 
1903  Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (d. 2002) 
1903  Nikolai Cherkasov, actor (d. 1966)
1904  Lyudmila Rudenko, Russian chess player (d. 1986)
1905  Leo Durocher, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1991)
1906  Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (d. 2000)
1907  Gregory Vlastos, American philosopher (d. 1991)
1908  Joseph Mitchell, American writer (d. 1996)
1910  Julien Gracq, French writer (d. 2007)
1910  Lupita Tovar, Mexican actress (d. 2017)
1915  Mario Del Monaco, Italian tenor (d. 1982)
1916  Elizabeth Hardwick, novelist (d. 2007)
1916  Keenan Wynn, American character actor (d. 1986)
1916  Amha Selassie, Crown Prince of Ethiopia (d. 1997)
1917  Bourvil, French actor (d. 1970)
1918  Leonard Rose, American cellist (d. 1984)
1919  Jack Goody, English social anthropologist (d. 2015)
1922  Norman Lear, American television writer and producer
1923  Masutatsu Oyama, founder of Kyokushin marshal art (d. 1994)
1924  Vincent Canby, movie critic  (d. 2000)
1927  Heinz Wewers, German footballer (d. 2008)
1927  John Seigenthaler, American journalist and academic (d. 2014)
1927  Guy Carawan, American folk musician (d. 2015)
1928  Karl Mai, German footballer (d. 1993)
1928  Joe Kittinger, American pilot
1929  Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher (d. 2007)
1930  Shirley Williams, British politician
1931  Jerry Van Dyke, American actor (d. 2018)
1931  Khieu Samphan, Cambodian politician
1937  Don Galloway, American actor (d. 2009)
1938  Isabelle Aubret, French singer
1938  Gary Gygax, American game creator (d. 2008)
1939  Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet
1939  William Eggleston, American photographer
1940  Pina Bausch, German dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)
1940  Gary Kurtz, American film producer (d. 2018)
1942  John Pleshette, American actor, director and screenwriter
1942  Dennis Ralston, American tennis player
1943  Jeremy Greenstock, English diplomat
1943  John Button, English racing driver (d. 2014)
1944  Tony Capstick, English comedian (d. 2003)
1944  Bobbie Gentry, American singer-songwriter
1944  Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist
1944  Barbara Thompson, British musician and composer
1948  Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
1948  Hans Rosling, Swedish physician, academic, statistician and public speaker (d. 2017)
1949  André Dupont, Canadian ice hockey player
1949  Rory MacDonald, Scottish musician (Runrig)
1949  Maureen McGovern, American singer and Broadway actress
1949  Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (d. 2010)
1951  1975 
1951  Roseanna Cunningham, Scottish politician
1951  Eduardo Gómez, Spanish actor and comedian (d. 2019)
1952  Roxanne Hart, American actress
1954  Peter L. Allen, actor and musician
1954  Philippe Alliot, French racing driver
1957  Bill Engvall, American comedian
1957  Allan Simmons, English Scrabble player
1958  Christopher Dean, English figure skater
1958  Barbara Rudnik, German actress (d. 2009)
1959  Siobhan Redmond, Scottish actress
1960  Conway Savage, Australian rock singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2018)
1960  Emily Thornberry, English politician
1960  Jo Durie, English tennis player
1961  Daniel C. Burbank, American astronaut
1962  Tony Leung, Chinese actor
1963  Donnie Yen, Chinese-Hong Kong actor, director, producer and martial artist
1965  José Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan footballer
1965  Trifon Ivanov, Bulgarian footballer (d. 2016) 
1967  Juliana Hatfield, musician
1967  Monique Sluyter, Dutch model
1967  Kellie Waymire, actress (d. 2003)
1968  Cliff Curtis, New Zealand actor
1969  Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Italian actress
1969  Triple H, American professional wrestler
1969  Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer
1972  Jill Arrington, American sports reporter
1972  Maya Rudolph, American actress, singer and screenwriter
1972  Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Malaysian surgeon and astronaut
1973  Abe Cunningham, American drummer (Deftones)
1974  Eason Chan, Hong Kong pop singer
1975  Alessandro Pistone, Italian footballer
1975  Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player
1975  Alex Rodriguez, American baseball player
From 1976 
1976  Fernando Ricksen, Dutch footballer (d. 2019)
1977  Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, British actor
1977  Björn Dreyer, German footballer
1979  Sidney Govou, French footballer
1979  Shannon Moore, American professional wrestler
1980  Nick Nemeth, American professional wrestler
1983  Goran Pandev, Macedonian footballer
1983  Lorik Cana, Albanian footballer
1984  Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Japanese baseball player
1984  Arynne Sherouse, American writer, actor, and singer
1984  Iekeliene Stange, Dutch model
1985  Matteo Pratichetti, Italian rugby player
1986  DeMarre Carroll, American basketball player
1986  Ryan Flaherty, American baseball player
1987  Marek Hamsik, Slovakian footballer
1987  Jordan Hill, American basketball player
1989  Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress
1989  Mohamed Bangura, Sierra Leonean footballer
1990  Indiana Evans, Australian actress
1990  Nick Hogan, American reality TV personality
1990  Cheyenne Kimball, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1991  Rena Matsui, Japanese singer (AKB48)
1993  Jordan Spieth, American golfer
1994  Winnie Harlow, Canadian model
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 432  Pope Celestine I
 916  Clement of Ohrid, Slavic archbishop and scholar (b. 840)
 1101  Conrad II of Italy (b. 1074)
 1276  King James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
 1365  Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1339)
 1382  Joanna I of Naples (b. 1326)
 1656  Salomo Glassius, German theologian (b. 1593)
 1675  Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, French general (b. 1611)
 1759  Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (b. 1698)
 1770  Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1693)
 1783  Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German composer and music theorist (b. 1721)
 1841  Mikhail Lermontov, Russian writer, poet and painter (b. 1814)
 1844  John Dalton, English physicist and chemist (b. 1776)
 1863  William Lowndes Yancey, American journalist and politician (b. 1813)
 1873  Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian poet (b. 1803)
 1883  Montgomery Blair, American politician (b. 1813)
1901  2000 
 1917  Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss doctor, won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1841)
 1924  Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist (b. 1866)
 1946  Gertrude Stein, American writer and publicist (b. 1874)
 1948  Joe Tinker, American baseball player (b. 1880)
 1962  Richard Herrmann, German footballer (b. 1923)
 1962  James H. Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (b. 1895)
 1970  António de Oliveira Salazar, President of Portugal (b. 1889)
 1971  Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1924)
 1978  Bob Heffron, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1890)
 1978  Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (b. 1907)
 1980  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1919)
 1985  Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball player (b. 1889)
 1987  Travis Jackson, American baseball player, coach and manager (b. 1903)
 1988  Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
 1990  Elizabeth Allan, British actress (b. 1908)
 1991  Gino Colaussi, Italian footballer (b. 1914)
1995  Miklos Rozsa, Hungarian-American composer (b. 1907)
 1995  Melih Esenbel, Turkish politician (b. 1915)
 1999  Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1912)
From 2001 
 2001  Leon Wilkeson, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
 2003  Bob Hope, English-American comedian (b. 1903)
 2008  Horst Stein, German conductor (b. 1928)
 2010  Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (b. 1949)
 2011  Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer (b. 1935)
 2012  Jack Taylor, English football referee (b. 1930)
 2012  Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (b. 1944)
 2012  Norman Alden, American actor (b. 1924)
 2012  R. G. Armstrong, American actor (b. 1917)
 2012  Tony Martin, American singer (b. 1913)
 2012  Russ Mayberry, Scottish-American television director (b. 1926)
 2013  Lindy Boggs, American politician (b. 1916)
 2013  Jon Leyne, British journalist (b. 1958)
 2014  Francesco Marchisano, Italian cardinal (b. 1929)
 2014  Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, Japanese-American Rinzai Zen teacher (b. 1907)
 2014  Paul Schell, 50th Mayor of Seattle (b. 1937)
 2014  George Freese, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2015  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian scientist and politician, 11th President of India (b. 1931)
 2015  Samuel Pisar, Polish-born American lawyer and author (b. 1929)
 2016  Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (b. 1928)
 2016  Jack Davis, American artist (b. 1924)
 2016  Richard Thompson, American cartoonist (b. 1957)
 2016  James Alan McPherson, American writer (b. 1943)
 2016  Jerry Doyle, American actor, broadcaster and political commentator (b. 1956)
 2016  Piet de Jong, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1915)
 2017  D. L. Menard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)
 2017  Ovidio Messa, Bolivian footballer (b. 1952)
 2017  Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor (b. 1943)
 2017  Marty Sklar, American businessman (b. 1934)
 2017  Magnus Böcker, Swedish businessman (b. 1961)
 2018  Michael P. DeLong, United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General (b. 1945) 
 2018  Marco Aurelio Denegri, Peruvian sexologist and television presenter (b. 1938)
2018  Bernard Hepton, English actor (b. 1925)
 2018  Vladimir Voinovich, Russian novelist and journalist (b. 1932)
 2018  Gervase Markham, British computer programmer (b. 1978)
 2018  Enrique Verástegui, Peruvian poet, physicist and philosopher (b. 1950)
 2019  Carlos Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan artist (b. 1923)
 2019  Humphrey Mijnals, Surinamese-Dutch footballer (b. 1930)
 2019  Mike Roarke, American baseball player (b. 1930)
 2019  John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist (b. 1931)
Observances 
 National Sleepy Head Day (Finland)
 Victory Day (North Korea)
 José Celso Barbosa Day (Puerto Rico)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1364  Troops of the Republic of Pisa and Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
 1540  Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex is executed at the order of King Henry VIII of England, who marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
 1566  A storm sinks several ships off the coast of the island of Gotland, Sweden, killing around 6,000 people.
 1609  Bermuda is settled by English sailors, after their ship, the Sea Venture, runs aground, on the way to Virginia.
 1794  French revolutionary leaders Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Saint-Just are executed on the guillotine.
 1800  First successful climb of the Grossglockner in the Austrian Alps by Martin and Sepp Klotz.
 1809  Napoleonic Wars: In the Battle of Talavera an army led by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington prevents Joseph Bonaparte from advancing into Portugal.
 1821  Peru declares independence from Spain, through Jose de San Martin.
1835  Joseph Fieschi and co-plotters attempt an attack on Louis Philippe of France, who survives with slight injuries, though several people are killed.
 1858  Fingerprints are used for the first time to prove identity. William Herschel, Indian Civil service, used Rajyadhar Konai's print on the back of an envelope.
 1864  American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church - Confederate forces fail their third attempt to drive Union forces out of Atlanta.
 1865  Welsh settlement of Chubut, Argentina, begins.
 1866  At age 18, Vinnie Ream becomes the first and youngest woman to be commissioned by the United States Government for a statue (of Abraham Lincoln).
 1868  The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing African Americans citizenship.
 1883  The Italian island of Ischia is struck by a powerful earthquake, killing 2,300 people.
 1896  The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
1901  2000 
 1914  World War I starts when Austria-Hungary goes to war with Serbia.
 1932  US President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, DC.
 1933  Spain and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
 1935  First flight of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
 1938  The Hawaii Clipper disappears  between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in the Trans-Pacific China Clipper service. 
 1942  World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order Number 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union. Under the order, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions, without orders to do so, are to be executed.
 1943  World War II: British bombers bomb the city of Hamburg, causing a firestorm which kills around 42,000 people.
 1945  A US Army plane crashes into the Empire State Building in New York, killing 14 people.
1947  An ammonium nitrate-loaded ship, Ocean Liberty, explodes in the harbor of Brest, Brittany, France, killing 21 people and injuring over 100.
 1957  Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, Kyushu, Japan, kill 992 people.
 1965  US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the increase of US troops in Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
 1973  Summer Jam at Watkins Glen:  600,000 people attend a rock music festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
 1976  A strong earthquake, estimated at magnitude 8.2, strikes Tangshan, China. It kills 242,769 people. The estimated number of people injured is 164,851.
 1977  Spain applies for membership of the European Community.
 1981  An earthquake in Iran kills 1,500 people.
 1984  The 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, begin.
 1987  A rock fall buries the village of Morignone in upper Valtellina, northern Italy, killing 53 people and making 1,500 homeless.
 1990  Alberto Fujimori becomes President of Peru.
1991  Miguel Indurain wins his first Tour de France.
 1993  Andorra joins the United Nations.
 1996  Ivan Milat is found guilty of 7 murders in the Sydney backpacker trial.
 1996  Remains of a prehistoric man are discovered in Kennewick, Washington, later known as the Kennewick Man.
From 2001 
 2001  Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win 6 gold medals at a single World Championship.
 2001  Alejandro Toledo becomes President of Peru.
 2005  Tornadoes hit residential areas of Birmingham and Coventry, England, injuring 14 people.
 2005  The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to  its 30-year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
 2006  Alan García becomes President of Peru.
 2008  The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare, England, burns down for the second time in 80 years.
 2010  A plane crash in the Margalla Hills, near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 152 people.
 2011  Ollanta Humala becomes President of Peru.
 2013  Jewels worth 103 million euros are stolen in Cannes, France.
 2013  A coach carrying 50 people crashes into a ravine near Avellino, Campania region, Italy, killing 38 people. It was travelling to nearby Naples when it crashed.
2014  2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow: Host nation Scotland achieves its highest-ever gold medal total at the Commonwealth Games, winning a 12th one with six days of competition remaining.
 2016  Pedro Pablo Kuczynski becomes President of Peru.
 2016  Hillary Clinton accepts the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States, becoming the first woman to become the candidate of a major US political party.
 2017  Nawaz Sharif resigns as Prime Minister of Pakistan after being ruled unfit for office over his family's involvement in the Panama Papers scandal.
 2019  Egan Bernal becomes the first Colombian cyclist to win the Tour de France and, at age 22, the youngest cyclist to win it in 110 years.
Up to 1900 
 1165  Ibn Arabi, Spanish sufi (d. 1240)
 1347  Margaret of Durazzo (d. 1412)
 1456  Jacopo Sannazzaro, Italian poet (d. 1530)
 1522  Margaret of Parma (d. 1586)
 1609  Judith Leyster, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
 1635  Robert Hooke, English polymath (d. 1703)
 1643  Antonio Tarsia, Slovenian composer (d. 1722)
 1645  Marguerite Louise d'Orleans, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1721)
 1746  Thomas Heyward, Jr., American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1809)
 1777  William II, Elector of Hesse (d. 1847)
 1804  Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)
 1815  Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian military figure (d. 1889)
 1844  Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
 1859  Mary Anderson, American actress (d. 1940)
 1860  Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
 1860  Elias M. Ammons, 18th Governor of Colorado (d. 1925)
 1863  Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
 1866  Beatrix Potter, British writer (d. 1943)
1866  Albertson Van Zo Post, American fencer (d. 1938)
 1867  Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (d. 1951)
 1872  Albert Sarraut, French politician (d. 1962)
 1873  Louisa Garrett Anderson, British physician and suffragette (d. 1943)
 1874  Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (d. 1945)
 1879  Lucy Burns, American Women's rights activist (d. 1966)
 1879  Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter (d. 1944)
 1887  Marcel Duchamp, French painter (d. 1968)
 1891  Ron Oxenham, Australian cricketer (d. 1939)
 1896  Barbara La Marr, American actress (d. 1926)
1901  1950 
 1901  Harry Bridges, Australian-American labor leader (d. 1990)
 1901  Rudy Vallée, American singer (d. 1986)
 1901  Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player, coach and manager (d. 1979)
 1902  Albert Namatjira, Australian artist (d. 1959)
 1902  Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher (d. 1994)
 1903  Roger Mynors, British classical philologist (d. 1989)
 1904  Selwyn Lloyd, British politician (d. 1978)
 1904  Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist (d. 1990)
 1907  Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)
 1909  Malcolm Lowry, English writer (d. 1957)
 1914  Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
 1915  Charles Hard Townes, American physicist (d. 2015)
 1915  Frankie Yankovic, American polka musician (d. 1998)
 1916  David Brown, American producer (d. 2010)
 1920  Andrew V. McLaglen, English-American movie and television director (d. 2014)
 1922  Jacques Piccard, Belgian-Swiss undersea explorer (d. 2008)
 1923  Kent Lee, American Vice Admiral (d. 2017)