Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1924 - Ahmadou Ahidjo, President of Cameroon (d. 1989)
 1927 – Harry Markowitz, American economist
 1927 - Anjali Devi, Indian actress and producer (d. 2014)
 1927 - Guido Ceronetti, Italian journalist and poet (d. 2018)
 1929 – Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority (d. 2004)
 1932 – Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster and cardinal (d. 2017)
 1934 - Kenny Baker, English actor (d. 2016)
 1935 - Tsutomu Hata, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2017)
 1936 - Kenny Guinn, 27th Governor of Nevada (d. 2010)
 1936 - A. S. Byatt, English writer
 1939 - Michael E. Phelps, American biophysicist
 1940 - Francine Lalonde, Canadian politician (d. 2014)
 1941 - Jürgen Eschert, German canoeist
 1942 - Max Cleland, American politician (d. 2021)
 1943 - John Cipollina, American guitarist (d. 1995)
 1943 - Dafydd Iwan, Welsh singer and politician
 1944 - Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996)
 1944 – Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1945 – Vince McMahon, American Professional Wrestling promoter
 1945 - Ken Hensley, English musician (Uriah Heep)
 1945 - Ronee Blakley, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress
 1946 - Vic Akers, English football coach
 1946 - Rick Loomis, American game designer (d. 2019)
 1946 - Manfred Zapf, German footballer
 1947 – Paulo Coelho, Brazilian writer
 1947 – Joe Manchin, American politician, former Governor of West Virginia
 1947 - Steve Pearce, American politician
 1947 - Anne Archer, American actress
 1947 – Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
 1948 – Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician
 1948 – Alexander McCall Smith, Scottish writer and professor
 1948 - Sauli Niinistö, 12th President of Finland
 1949 - Stephen Paulus, American composer (d. 2014)
1951  1975 
 1951 - Oscar Hijuelos, American writer (d. 2013)
 1951 - Orson Scott Card, American writer
 1952 - Bob Corker, American politician, United States Senator for Tennessee
 1952 - Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jamaican poet
 1953 – Sam Torrance, Scottish golfer
 1955 – Mike Huckabee, American politician, former Governor of Arkansas and Presidential candidate
 1956 - John Culberson, American politician
 1956 - Gerry Cooney, American boxer
 1957 – Stephen Fry, English actor, comedian, presenter and writer
 1957 - Marcel Vanthilt, Belgian singer and television host
 1958 – Steve Guttenberg, American actor
 1959 - Meg Munn, English politician
 1960 - Takashi Miike, Japanese director, producer, writer and actor
 1960 – Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player
 1960 - Steven Lindsey, American astronaut
 1961 – Jared Harris, English actor
 1963 - Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game creator
 1963 - Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Icelandic writer
 1964 - Dana Gould, American comedian and writer
1964 - Salizhan Sharipov, Kyrgyz cosmonaut
 1965 – Marlee Matlin, American actress
 1965 - Reggie Miller, American basketball player
 1968 - Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler
 1968 - James Toney, American boxer
 1969 - Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor
 1972 - Jean-Luc Brassard, Canadian freestyle skier
 1973 - Andrew Brunette, Canadian ice hockey player
 1973 – Dave Chappelle, American comedian and actor
 1973 - Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
 1973 - Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor and musician
 1974 - Takuya Yamada, Japanese footballer
 1975 - Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
From 1976 
 1976 - Yang Yang (A), Chinese short-track speed skater
 1976 - Alex O'Loughlin, Australian actor
 1977 – Robert Enke, German football goalkeeper (d. 2009)
 1977 – Jürgen Macho, Austrian football goalkeeper
 1977 – Denilson, Brazilian footballer
 1979 – Orlando Engelaar, Dutch footballer
 1979 - Kaki King, American guitarist and composer
 1979 - Yelena Chernykh, Russian theatre actress (d. 2011)
 1981 - Jiro Wang, Taiwanese singer and actor
 1981 - Chad Michael Murray, American actor
 1982 - José Bosingwa, Portuguese footballer
 1982 – Kim Kallstrom, Swedish footballer
 1984 - Charlie Villanueva, Dominican-American basketball player
 1986 - Fabiano Santacroce, Brazilian-Italian footballer
 1986 - Joseph Akpala, Nigerian footballer
 1986 - Stewart McDonald, Scottish politician
 1987 - Daichi Miura, Japanese singer-songwriter, dancer and choreographer
 1987 - Jon Scheyer, American basketball player
 1988 – Rupert Grint, British actor
 1988 - Maya Yoshida, Japanese footballer
1989 - Richie Gray, Scottish rugby union player
 1997 - Alan Walker, English-Norwegian music producer
 1998 - Robin, Finnish singer
 2003 – Alexandre Coste, son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Up to 1900 
79 – Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)
1042 – Michael V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1015)
1103 – King Magnus III of Norway (b. 1073)
1217 – Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate
1313 - Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1278)
1540 – Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)
1542 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)
1572 – Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre:
 Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (b. 1519)
 Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515)
 Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier
1595 – Thomas Digges, English astronomer (b. 1546)
1617 - Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)
1647 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586)
1664 – Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer
1679 – Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (b. 1614)
1680 – Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (b. 1618)
1683 – John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
1759 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (b. 1715)
1779 – Kosmas Aitolos, Greek Orthodox martyr (b. 1714)
1831 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
1832 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
1841 – Theodore Edward Hook, English writer (b. 1788)
1856 - William Buckland, English geologist (b. 1784)
1883 - Henri, Count of Chambord, claimant to the French throne (b. 1820)
1888 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (b. 1822)
1897 - Mutsu Munemitsu, Japanese politician (b. 1844)
1901  2000 
1921 – Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)
1940 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German television pioneer (b. 1860)
1943 – Simone Weil, French philosopher and social activist (b. 1909)
1946 – James Clark McReynolds, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
1950 - Arturo Alessandri, President of Chile (b. 1868)
1954 – Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (b. 1882)
1956 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese movie director (b. 1898)
1957 - Ronald Knox, British theologian and crime fiction writer (b. 1888)
1961 – Günter Litfin, first shooting victim at the Berlin Wall (b. 1937)
1967 – Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882)
1974 - Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American aviator, author and inventor (b. 1894)
1975 – Éamon de Valera, President of Ireland (b. 1882)
1978 – Louis Prima, American band leader (b. 1910)
1979 – Hanna Reitsch, German pilot (b. 1912)
1985 – Paul Creston, American composer (b. 1906)
1990 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (b. 1941)
1991 – Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (b. 1904)
1995 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born photographer (b. 1898)
1998 – E.G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)
1999 - Mary Jane Croft, American actress (b. 1916)
2000 - Andy Hug, Swiss martial artist and kickboxer (b. 1964)
From 2001 
2001 - Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)
2002 – Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2003 – Sir Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer (b. 1910)
2004 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)
2005 – Ambrogio Fogar, Italian sailor, writer, rally driver and all-round adventurer and television presenter (d. 1941)
2007 - Andrée Boucher, 39th Mayor of Quebec City (b. 1937)
2009 – Toni Sailer, Austrian skier (b. 1935)
2012 - Pauli Ellefsen, 6th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1936)
2012 - Steve Franken, American actor (b. 1923)
2012 - Félix Miéli Venerando, Brazilian footballer (b. 1937)
2013 - Julie Harris, American actress (b. 1925)
2013 - Newton de Sordi, Brazilian footballer (b. 1931)
2014 - Richard Attenborough, English actor and movie director (b. 1923)
2014 - Leonid Stadnyk, Ukrainian claimant to world's tallest man title (b. 1970)
2015 - Justin Wilson, English racing driver (b. 1978)
2015 - Cees van Kooten, Dutch footballer (b. 1948)
2015 - Chico Maki, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)
2016 - Henning Voscherau, German politician (b. 1941)
2016 - Walter Scheel, German politician, President of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1919)
2016 - Roger Y. Tsien, Chinese-American biologist (b. 1952)
2017 - Cecil D. Andrus, American politician, Governor of Idaho (b. 1931)
2017 - Alan Boswell, English footballer (b. 1943)
2017 - Charlie Robertson, American politician (b. 1934)
2017 - Jay Thomas, American actor (b. 1948)
2017 - Amelyn Veloso, Filipino journalist and broadcaster (b. 1974)
2018 - Lawrence J. DeNardis, American politician (b. 1938)
2018 - Tom Frost, American rock climber (b. 1938)
2018 - Robin Leach, British writer and television host (b. 1941)
2018 - Princeton Lyman, American diplomat (b. 1935)
2018 - Javier Ochoa Palacios, Spanish cyclist (b. 1974)
2018 - Aleksei Paramonov, Soviet-Russian footballer (b. 1925)
2018 - Valentina Rastvorova, Soviet-Russian fencer (b. 1933)
2018 - Ciril Zlobec, Slovenian poet, writer and politician (b. 1925)
2019 - Arun Jaitley, Indian politician (b. 1952)
2019 - Sidney Rittenberg, American journalist and linguist (b. 1921)
Observances

 National Day of Ukraine
 Christian Feast Day of Saint Bartholomew
 Night of Nostalgia, Eve of Independence Day (Uruguay)

References

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 450  Pulcheria becomes Empress of the Byzantine Empire after her brother Theodosius II is killed during a hunting accident.
 1248  The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, Archbishop of Utrecht.
 1537  The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and second most senior, is founded.
 1580  Battle of Alcantara: Spain defeats Portugal.
 1609  Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
 1718  New Orleans is founded by French settlers.
 1758  Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
 1768  James Cook begins his first voyage.
 1778  Triglav in the Julian Alps, which is Slovenia's highest peak, is successfully climbed for the first time, by Lovrenc Willomitzer.
 1810  Briton Paul Durand receives a patent for the tin can.
 1825  Uruguay declares independence from Brazil.
 1830  The Belgian Revolution begins.
1835  The New York Sun carries out the Great Moon Hoax.
 1844  Australia's first synagogue is started in Melbourne.
 1856  The Teatro Solis theatre opens in Montevideo, Uruguay.
 1861  The Clayton Tunnel train crash in the UK kills 23 people and injures 176.
 1875  Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to successfully swim across the English Channel, from Dover, England, UK to Calais, France.
 1894  Kitasato Shibasaburo discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague.
 1898  700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mon in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
1901  2000 
 1912  The Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) is founded.
 1914  World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army.
 1916  The United States National Park Service is created.
 1920  Polish-Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends as the Red Army is defeated.
 1927  Japanese destroyer Warabi sinks after a collision with the light cruiser Jintsu, killing 102 people.
 1933  The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China, killing 9,000 people.
 1938  Inauguration of the Obelisk of Montevideo on Uruguayan Independence Day.
 1939  The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the United Kingdom promises to defend Poland in the case of invasion by a foreign power. Nazi Germany invades Poland just a week later, after which the United Kingdom and France both declare war on Germany on September 3.
 1941  World War II: British and Soviet troops enter Iran.
1942  World War II: Battle of Milne Bay.
 1944  World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
 1945  Ten days after the Japanese surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill American Baptist missionary John Birch. Some people on the American political right regard this as the start of the Cold War.
 1945  Emperor Bao Dai of Vietnam resigns, leaving Ho Chi Minh in power.
 1950  US President Harry Truman gets the army to take over the railways to stop a strike.
 1956  Off Stockholm, Sweden, the wreck of the ship Vasa is found. It had sunk at the start of its first voyage in 1628.
 1960  The 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, begin.
 1961  President of Brazil Janio Quadros resigns after just seven months in power.
 1975  Australian band, the Little River Band puts out its first recording, Curiosity Killed the Cat.
 1980  Zimbabwe joins the UN.
 1981  Voyager 2 approaches Saturn.
 1988  Most of the old town of Lisbon, Portugal, is destroyed by fire.
1989  Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.
 1989  Voyager 2 approaches Neptune.
 1991  Belarus declares independence from the Soviet Union.
 1991  Croatian War of Independence: The Battle of Vukovar begins, as an 87-day siege in the city of Vukovar begins, by the Yugoslav People's Army, supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces.
 1991  Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what would become Linux.
 1991  First flight of an Airbus A340.
 1992  Siege of Sarajevo: The National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina is deliberately set on fire, with thousands of irreplaceable works being destroyed.
 1995  First flight of an Airbus A319.
 1997  Former leader of East Germany Egon Krenz is convicted of ordering a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
From 2001 
 2001  Marriage of Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway and Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway.
 2002  For the first time, in election for Chancellor of Germany, the main candidates face each other in a television debate. The election is mainly between then-incumbent Gerhard Schröder and his challenger Edmund Stoiber.
 2003  The Delta II rocket launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, sending the Spitzer space telescope into space.
 2006  Because of difficult situation in East Timor, the UN sends an integrated mission there.
 2012  The Voyager 1 spacecraft becomes the first man-made object to enter interstellar space. This occurs on the same day as the death of astronaut Neil Armstrong.
 2013  At least 42 people are killed in bomb attacks in Iraq. On the same day, neighboring Syria announces it will allow UN weapons inspectors into the country, during its civil war.
 2017  Riots in Northern India result in at least 36 deaths, after the rape conviction of religious leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
2017  Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas, causing several days of heavy rain and flooding. The city of Houston is among the places heavily flooded.
 2018  Pope Francis visits the Republic of Ireland.
Births

Up to 1800 
1530  Ivan IV of Russia ("Ivan the Terrible") (d. 1584)
1561  Philippe van Landsberge, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (d. 1632)
1635  Sir Henry Morgan, privateer (d. 1688)
1662  John Leverett the Younger, American lawyer, politician and academic (d. 1724)
1691  Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (d. 1737)
1707  King Louis I of Spain (d. 1724)
1724  George Stubbs, English painter (d. 1806)
1744  Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (d. 1803)
1767  Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794)
1785  Adam Wilhelm Moltke, 1st Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1864)
1786  King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
1789  John Miers, English botanist and engineer (d. 1879)
1796  James Lick, California land baron (d. 1876)
1801  1900 
1802  Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (d. 1850)
1803  Luis Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, Brazilian army officer, politician and monarchist (d. 1880)
1817  Marie-Eugenie de Jesus, French nun and saint (d. 1898)
1819  Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (d. 1884)
1822  Gardiner Greene Hubbard, American lawyer, philanthropist and 1st President of the National Geographic Society (d. 1897)
1829  Carlo Acton, Italian composer and concert pianist (d. 1909)
1836  Bret Harte, American writer (d. 1902)
1841  Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss doctor, won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1917)
1845  King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
1850  Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist (d. 1935)
1850  Pavel Axelrod, Russian revolutionary (d. 1928)
1862  Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (d. 1934)
1865  Arthur Hinsley, Archbishop of Westminster (d. 1943)
1869  Tom Kiely, Irish athlete (d. 1951)
1871  Nils Edén, 15th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1945)
1879  John Randolph Bray, American animator (d. 1978)
1882  Seán T. O'Kelly, President of Ireland (d. 1966)
1889  Alexander Mair, Australian politician, 16th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1969)
1891  David Shimoni, Russian-Israeli poet and writer (d. 1956)
1894  Nick Winter, Australian triple jumper (d. 1955)
1895  Robert A. Hurley, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1968)
1898  Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975)
1899  Guy Butler, British athlete (d. 1981)
1900  Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, German scientist (d. 1981)
1901  1950 
1902  Stefan Wolpe, composer (d. 1972)
1903  Arpad Elo, Hungarian-American chess player (d. 1992)
1905  Mary Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun, mystic and saint (d. 1938)
1909  Eileen Hiscock, British athlete (d. 1958)
1909  Ruby Keeler, Canadian singer and actress (d. 1993)
1909  Michael Rennie, British actor (d. 1971)
1910  Dorothea Tanning, American painter (d. 2012)
1911  Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese general and statesman (d. 2013)
1911  Vivi-Anne Hultén, Swedish figure skater (d. 2003)
1912  Erich Honecker, head of state of East Germany (d. 1994)
1913  Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
1916  Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist (d. 2003)
1916  Van Johnson, American actor (d. 2008)
1917  Mel Ferrer, American actor (d. 2008)
1918  Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990)
1919  Ernst Barkmann, German tank commander (d. 2009)
1919  George Wallace, Governor of Alabama (d. 1998)
1921  Monty Hall, Canadian game show host (d. 2017)
1921  Brian Moore, Irish-born Canadian writer (d. 1999)
1923  Alvaro Mutis, Colombian writer (d. 2013)
1924  Allan Edwall, Swedish actor, director, composer and singer (d. 1997)
1924  Yasuzo Masumura, Japanese film director (d. 1986)
1925  Hilmar Hoffmann, German stage and film director, politician and academic (d. 2018)
1927  Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)
1928  Herbert Kroemer, German physicist
1929  Gordon Sherwood, American composer
1930  Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor
1931  Regis Philbin, American television host (d. 2020)
1931  Peter Gilmore, British actor (d. 2013)
1931  Cecil D. Andrus, 26th and 28th Governor of Idaho (d. 2017)
1932  Tomohiko Ikoma, Japanese footballer (d. 2009)
1933  Wayne Shorter, American jazz musician
1933  Tom Skerritt, American actor
1934  Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker (d. 2010)
1934  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former President of Iran (d. 2017)
1935  Charles Wright, American poet
1936  Hugh Hudson, British movie director
1938  David Canary, American actor
1938  Frederick Forsyth, English writer
1939  John Bardon, English actor (d. 2014)
1939  John Badham, English-American movie director
1940  José Van Dam, Belgian baritone
1941  Marshall Brickman, screenwriter
1941  Mario Corso, Italian footballer
1941  Angelo Dominghini, Italian footballer
1942  Nathan Deal, 82nd Governor of Georgia, US
1942  Ivan Koloff, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2017)
1942  Howard Jacobson, English journalist, writer and broadcaster
1944  Anthony Heald, actor
1944  Pat Martino, American musician
1944  Conrad Black, Canadian newspaper magnate
1946  Rollie Fingers, American baseball player
1946  Charlie Sanders, American football player (d. 2015)
1949  Salif Keita, Malian singer-songwriter
1949  Martin Amis, British novelist
1949  John Savage, actor
1949  Gene Simmons, Israeli-born American bassist (Kiss)
1951  1975 
1951  Rob Halford, English singer
1951  Robert Joseph Glass, artist
1952  Geoff Downes, English keyboardist, songwriter and producer
1952  Peter Wolf, singer and composer
1952  Vijayakanth, Indian actor and politician
1953  Maurizio Malvestiti, Italian bishop
1954  Jim Wallace, Scottish politician
1954  Elvis Costello, English musician
1956  Takeshi Okada, Japanese football manager
1956  Stig Strand, Swedish skier
1956  Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally driver (d. 1986)
1957  Sikander Bakht, Pakistani cricketer
1958  Tim Burton, American movie director, producer, and screenwriter
1959  Sönke Wortmann, German movie director
1960  Jonas Gahr Store, Norwegian politician
1961  Yutaka Ikeuchi, Japanese footballer
1961  Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer
1961  Joanne Whalley, British actress
1962  Viv Campbell, American guitarist (Def Leppard)
1962  Maris Bruziks, Latvian triple jumper
1963  Roberto Mussi, Italian footballer
1963  Miro Cerar, Slovenian politician, former Prime Minister of Slovenia
1964  Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
1964  Blair Underwood, actor
1964  Clive Myrie, British television news journalist
1965  Mia Zapata, American singer (d. 1993)
1965  Sanjeev Sharma, Indian cricketer
1966  Tracy-Ann Oberman, British actress
1966  Derek Sherinian, American keyboardist, composer and producer
1967  Tom Hollander, British actor
1968  Rafet El Roman, singer, composer
1968  Rachael Ray, American cook and television host
1968  Stuart Murdoch, Scottish singer and songwriter
1969  Catriona Matthew, Scottish golfer
1969  Cameron Mathison, Canadian actor
1970  Claudia Schiffer, German model
1971  Felix da Housecat, American DJ
1972  Marvin Harrison, American football player
1973  Ryuji Michiki, Japanese footballer
1973  Kang We-suck, South Korean activist
1973  Fatih Akin, German movie director
1974  Mario Jeckle, German computer scientist (d. 2004)
From 1976 
1976  Alexander Skarsgaard, Swedish actor
1977  Jonathan Togo, American actor
1977  Andy McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player
1977  Ramil Safarov, Azrebaijani convicted murderer
1979  Marlon Harewood, English footballer
1979  Philipp Missfelder, German politician (d. 2015) 
1980  Ryan Horn, writer and commentator
1981  Rachel Bilson, American actress
1985  Hendra Setiawan, Indonesian badminton player
1987  Velimir Jovanovic, Serbian footballer
1987  Liu Yifei, Chinese actress and singer
1987  Rona Nishliu, Kosovo-Albanian singer
1987  Blake Lively, American actress and model
1987  Amy MacDonald, Scottish singer
1988  Alexandra Burke, English singer
1989  Keegan Joyce, Australian actor
1989  Amber Le Bon, English model
1992  Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese actress and singer
1998  China Anne McClain, American actress and singer
1998  Abraham Mateo, Spanish actor and pop music singer

Deaths
Up to 1900 
 79  Pliny the Elder, Roman writer, naturalist, philosopher and military commander (b. 23)
 383  Gratian, Roman Emperor (b. 359)
 471  Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople
 1192  Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)
 1270  King Louis IX of France (b. 1214)
 1482  Margaret of Anjou, Queen of Henry VI of England (b. 1429)
 1632  Thomas Dekker, English playwright (b. 1572)
 1688  Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer (b. 1635)
 1699  King Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646)
 1740  Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (b. 1874)
 1742  Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (b. 1704)
 1776  David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)
 1779  Thomas Chittenden, 1st Governor of Vermont (b. 1730)
 1792  Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
 1819  James Watt, Scottish engineer and inventor (b. 1736)
 1822  William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1738)
 1846  Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveler and naturalist (b. 1773)
 1867  Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
1886  Zinovios Valvis, Greek politician and Prime Minister (b. 1791)
 1900  Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)
 1900  Kiroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
1901  2000 
 1904  Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
 1908  Henri Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1852)
 1938  Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer (b. 1870)
 1939  Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)
 1942  George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
 1945  John Birch, American Baptist missionary and intelligence officer (b. 1918)
 1956  Alfred Kinsey, American research biologist (b. 1894)
 1957  Leo Perutz, Austrian writer (b. 1882)
 1967  Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
 1967  George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party (b. 1918)
 1970  Tachii Naito, Japanese architect and engineer (b. 1886)
 1971  Ted Lewis, American singer and bandleader (b. 1890)
 1976  Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer (b. 1900)
 1979  Stan Kenton, American musician and bandleader (b. 1911)
 1980  Gower Champion, American actor, director and choreographer (b. 1919)
 1984  Truman Capote, American writer (b. 1924)
 1984  Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (b. 1899)
1984  Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (b. 1921)
 1985  Samantha Smith, American activist (b. 1972)
 1988  Price Daniel, American politician, Governor of Texas (b. 1910)
 1988  Art Rooney, American businessman (b. 1901)
 1996  Reinhard Libuda, German footballer (b. 1943)
 2000  Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
From 2001 
 2001  Philippe Léotard, French actor and singer (b. 1940)
 2001  Aaliyah, American singer (b. 1979)
 2006  Noor Hassanali, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1918)
 2007  Raymond Barre, French politician (b. 1924)
 2009  Mandé Sidibé, Malian politician (b. 1940)
 2009  Edward Kennedy, American politician (b. 1932)
 2012  Neil Armstrong, American astronaut and first person to walk on the Moon (b. 1930)
 2013  Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
 2013  William Froug, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1922)
 2014  Alfredo Martini, Italian cyclist (b. 1921)
 2014  Jason Curley, Australian musician (b. 1972)
 2014  Marcel Masse, Canadian politician (b. 1936)
 2015  Francis Sejersted, Norwegian history professor (b. 1936)
 2016  Margaret Anstee, British diplomat (b. 1926)
 2016  James Cronin, American physicist (b. 1931)
 2016  Maria Eugénia, Portuguese actress (b. 1927)
 2016  Justin du Fresne, New Zealand radio broadcaster (b. 1942)
2016  Warren Hinckle, American political journalist (b. 1938)
 2016  Rodolfo Illanes, Bolivian politician (b. 1958)
 2016  Marvin Kaplan, American actor (b. 1927)
 2016  Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (b. 1930)
 2016  Eddy Silitonga, Indonesian singer (b. 1949)
 2017  Margaret Moser, American journalist (b. 1954)
 2017  Rich Piana, American bodybuilder and internet personality (b. 1971)
 2018  Lindsay Kemp, English choreographer and actor (b. 1938)
 2018  John McCain, American politician, United States Senator for Arizona and former presidential candidate (b. 1936)
 2018  Noam Sheriff, Israeli composer and conductor (b. 1935)
 2019  Timothy Bell, Baron Bell, British advertising and public relations executive (b. 1941)
 2019  Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian businessman and engineer (b. 1937)
 2019  Mona Lisa, Filipina actress (b. 1922)
 2019  Vince Naimoli, American businessman (b. 1937)
 2019  Anne Grete Preus, Norwegian rock singer and musician (b. 1957)
2019  Jerry Rook, American basketball player (b. 1943)
 2019  Jafar Umar Thalib, Indonesian Islamic militant (b. 1961)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Uruguay)
 Liberation Day (Paris)
 Soldier's Day (Brazil)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 55 BC  Julius Caesar attempts to conquer Britannia.
 1071  Battle of Manzikert: Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert.
 1278  Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar I of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Durnkrut in then-Moravia.
 1346  Cannons are used for the first time in a European battle, the Battle of Crecy.
 1444  Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: A vastly outnumbered forces of Swiss Confederates is defeated by Dauphin Louis (future King Louis IX of France) and his army near Basel.
 1498  Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pieta.
 1542  Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and his expedition reach the Amazon Delta.
 1768  James Cook sets sail from England on the HMS Endeavour.
 1789  The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Assembly at the Palace of Versailles.
 1791  John Fitch is granted a US patent for the steam boat.
1810  Former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
 1813  War of the Sixth Coalition: An impromptu battle takes place when French and Russian-Prussian forces accidentally run into each other near what is now Legnica, Poland.
 1814  Chilean War of Independence: Infighting between rebel forces of José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins erupts in the Battle of Las Tres Acequias.
 1821  The University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is founded.
 1865  A monument to Albert, Prince Consort is unveiled in Coburg, Germany.
 1878  Uyedineniya Island (also known as Lonely Island), one of Russia's remotest islands, located in the Arctic Ocean, is discovered by Norwegian seafarer Edvard Holm Johannesen.
 1883  Krakatoa's 1883 eruption reaches its final stage, ending in a major explosion and tsunamis the following day.
 1883  The Ashes, a cricket prize, is given to English captain, Ivo Bligh.
1901  2000 
 1914  World War I: French and British forces invade the then-German colony of Togoland, (covering present-day Togo and western Ghana) in West Africa, taking it after five days.
 1920  An amendment to the United States Constitution allows women in the United States the right to vote.
 1922  The Japanese cruiser Niitaka sinks in a storm off the west coast of Kamchatka, eastern Russia, killing all 400 people on board.
 1940  World War II: Under Governor Felix Eboue, Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies.
 1942  Holocaust: In Chortkiav, Eastern Ukraine, German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120 people and deports them to Belzec Death Camp.
 1944  World War II: Bulgaria declares that it is neutral.
 1944  World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
 1961  Changing its Constitution, Burma adopts Buddhism as its official state religion.
 1966  The Namibian War of Independence begins.
1970  The then-New Feminist Movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a women's national strike, for equality.
 1972  The 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich begin, officially opened by German President Gustav Heinemann.
 1977  Benin gets a Marxist-Leninist Constitution.
 1977  The Charter of the French language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec. 
 1978  East German cosmonaut Sigmund Jaehn becomes the first German in space.
 1978  Albino Luciani (Pope John Paul I) is elected Pope. He dies just 33 days later, on September 28.
 1980  John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
 1988  Aung San Suu Kyi holds a pro-democracy speech at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Burma as part of the 8888 Revolution.
 1997  Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria: Between 60 and 100 people are killed.
 1999  Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the invasion of Dagestan, by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
From 2001 
 2002  The 2002 Earth Summit meeting in Johannesburg begins.
 2005  The highest court in Fiji declares the ban on Homosexuality unconstitutional.
 2008  Russia unilaterally recognises the Republic of Georgia's break-away territories Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
 2011  Naoto Kan announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Japan.
 2014  A ceasefire enters into force between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
 2018  Jacksonville Landing shooting: A participant at a gaming competition in Jacksonville, Florida shoots two people dead before turning the gun on himself.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1469  Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496).
 1540  King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583).
 1596  Frederick V, Elector of the Palatinate, German aristocrat (d. 1632).
 1676  Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1745).
 1694  Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale college (d. 1755).
 1695  Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, French singer and composer (d. 1791).
 1728  Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss scientist (d. 1777).
 1740  Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1810).
 1743  Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794).
 1787  Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Russian general, admiral and statesman (d. 1869).
 1789  Abbas Mirza, Prince of Persia (d. 1833).
 1792  Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857).
 1797  Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest (d. 1879).
 1802  Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, German sculptor (d. 1848).
 1819  Albert, Prince Consort (d. 1861).
 1826  Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (d. 1875).
 1828  Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (d. 1875).
1845  Mary Ann Nichols, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888).
 1850  Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1935).
 1854  Arnold Fothergill, English cricketer (d. 1932).
 1864  Anna Ulyanova, older sister of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1935).
 1873  Lee De Forest, American inventor (d. 1961).
 1874  Zona Gale, American novelist (d. 1938).
 1875  John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist and Governor-General of Canada (d. 1940).
 1880  Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (d. 1918).
 1882  James Franck, German-born physicist (d. 1964).
 1885  Jules Romains, French novelist, dramatist and poet (d. 1972).
 1886  Jerome Hunsaker, American aeronautical engineer (d. 1984).
 1892  Ruth Roland, American actress and movie producer (d. 1937).
 1895  Earl Long, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1960).
 1896  Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990).
 1896  Besse Cooper, American supercentenarian (d. 2012).
1897  Yun Poson, President of South Korea (d. 1990).
 1898  Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979).
 1900  Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980).
 1900  Mark Sandrich, American movie director (d. 1945).
1901  1950 
 1901  Chen Yi, Chinese Communist military commander and politician (d. 1972).
 1901  Maxwell D. Taylor, American army officer (d. 1987).
 1901  Eleanor Dark, Australian writer (d. 1985).
 1903  Jimmy Rushing, American singer and pianist (d. 1972).
 1904  Christopher Isherwood, English writer (d. 1986).
 1906  Albert Sabin, Polish-American polio researcher (d. 1993).
 1906  Bunny Austin, British tennis player (d. 2000).
 1908  Jacques-Paul Martin, French cardinal (d. 1992).
 1909  Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981).
 1910  Mother Theresa, Catholic nun and missionary, Nobel Prize winner (d. 1997).
 1913  Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer.
 1914  Julio Cortazar, Argentine author (d. 1984).
 1918  Katherine Johnson, American physicist, mathematician and space scientist
 1920  Prem Tinsulanonda, 16th Prime Minister of Thailand.
 1921  Benjamin C. Bradlee, American journalist (d. 2014).
 1923  Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist (d. 2013).
1924  Jacques Villiers, French aerospace engineer (d. 2012).
 1925  Alain Peyrefitte, French politician (d. 1999).
 1925  Pyotr Todorovsky, Ukrainian-Russian director and screenwriter (d. 2013).
 1926  Anahit Tsitsikian, Armenian violinist (d. 2007).
 1928  Santiago Vernazza, Argentine footballer (d. 2017).
 1929  Reuben Kamanga, 1st Vice president of Zambia (d. 1996).
 1929  Yoga Bhajan, Indian yoga teacher (d. 2004).
 1932  Lygia Bojunga Nunes, Brazilian writer.
 1933  Robert Chartoff, American movie producer (d. 2015).
 1935  Karen Sparck Jones, British computer scientist (d. 2007).
 1935  Geraldine Ferraro, American lawyer and politician (d. 2011).
 1936  Benedict Anderson, American political scientist (d. 2015).
 1936  Francine York, American actress (d. 2017).
 1937  Nina Companeez, French screenwriter and movie director (d. 2015).
 1937  Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician (d. 2010).
 1938  Jet Black, English musician (The Stranglers).
 1939  Todor Kolev, Bulgarian actor and singer (d. 2013).
1940  Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (d. 2008).
 1941  Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress.
 1941  Barbet Schroeder, French director, actor and producer.
 1941  Chris Curtis, British musician.
 1942  Vic Dana, American singer and dancer.
 1944  Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, member of the extended British royal family.
 1944  Maurice Tucker, American singer-songwriter and drummer.
 1945  Tom Ridge, American politician.
 1946  Alison Steadman, English actress.
 1946  Valerie Simpson, American singer.
 1946  Zhou Ji, Chinese politician.
 1946  Chantal Renaud, Canadian actress, singer and scriptwriter.
 1947  Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (d. 2007).
 1949  Leon Redbone, Canadian singer and guitarist.
1951  1975 
 1951  Edward Witten, American physicist.
 1952  Michael Jeter, American actor (d. 2003).
 1954  Steve Wright, British DJ.
 1956  Brett Cullen, American actor.
 1957  Rick Hansen, Canadian athlete.
 1957  Dr. Alban, Nigerian-born Swedish singer and musician.
 1958  Nichi Vendola, Italian politician.
 1959  Oliver Colvile, English politician.
 1960  Branford Marsalis, American musician.
 1962  Roger Kingdom, American athlete.
 1962  Tariq Ramadan, Swiss academic, philosopher and writer.
 1963  Ludger Beerbaum, German equestrian showjumper.
 1963  Stephen J. Dubner, American journalist.
 1964  Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese blogger and journalist (d. 2017).
 1964  Allegra Huston, English-American writer and editor.
 1965  Chris Burke, American actor.
 1965  Marcus du Sautoy, British mathematics professor.
 1966  Shirley Manson, British singer.
 1966  Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player.
 1967  Michael Gove, British politician.
 1968  Chris Boardman, British racing cyclist.
1969  Adrian Young, American rock musician.
 1970  Melissa McCarthy, American actress.
 1970  Brett Schultz, South African cricketer.
 1971  Thalia, Mexican singer.
 1974  Kelvin Cato, American basketball player.
From 1976 
 1976  Amaia Montero, Spanish singer-songwriter.
 1977  Morris Peterson, American basketball player.
 1979  Cristian Mora, Ecuadorean footballer.
 1980  Macaulay Culkin, American actor.
 1980  Chris Pine, American actor.
 1981  Vangelis Moras, Greek footballer.
 1982  Noah Welch, American ice hockey player.
 1983  Mattia Cassani, Italian footballer.
 1983  Nicol David, Malaysian squash player.
 1985  Brandon McDonald, American football player.
 1986  Cassie, American singer.
 1986  Colin Kazim-Richards, Turkish footballer.
 1987  Greg Halman, Dutch baseball player (d. 2011).
 1987  Riley Steele, American pornographic actress.
 1988  Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este.
 1988  Lars Stindl, German footballer.
 1988  Wayne Simmonds, Canadian ice hockey player.
 1989  James Harden, American basketball player.
 1989  Héloïse Guérin, French model.
 1990  Lil' Chris, English singer (d. 2015).
 1991  Tommy Bastow, English actor and singer.
1991  Jessica Diggins, American cross-country skier.
 1992  Yang Yilin, Chinese gymnast.
 1992  Hayley Hasselhoff, American actress.
 1993  Keke Palmer, American actress.
 1994  Taylor Bright, American singer and actress.
Up to 1900 
303  Alexander of Bergamo, Italian Catholic saint.
526  Theodoric the Great, Ostrogoth King.
887  Emperor Koko of Japan (b. 830).
1214  Patriarch Michael IV of Constantinople
1278  King Ottokar II of Bohemia
1346  Killed in the Battle of Crécy:
Charles II of Alençon (b. 1297)
Louis I of Flanders (b. 1304)
John I, Count of Luxemburg (b. 1296)
Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)
1349  Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury
1551  Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
1572  Petrus Ramus, French philosopher (b. 1515)
1595  Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531)
1607  Giorgio Basta, Habsburg general (b. 1550).
1666  Frans Hals, Dutch painter
1714  Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632)
1723  Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
1785  George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
1795  Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian alchemist and adventurer (b. 1743)
1810  Santiago Liniers, Viceroy of Rio de la Plata (b. 1753)
1850  Louis-Philippe I of France (b. 1773)
1865  Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (b. 1791)
1901  2000 
1902  George Hoadly, 36th Governor of Ohio (b. 1826).
1910  William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842).
1915  John Bunny American comedian (b. 1863)
1921  Matthias Erzberger, German politician (b. 1875).
1921  Ludwig Thoma, German writer (b. 1867).
1921  Sandor Wekerle, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1848).
1930  Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (b. 1883)
1944  Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat opposing the Nazi regime (executed) (b. 1909)
1945  Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (b. 1890)
1946  Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
1956  Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (b. 1881).
1958  Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872)
1962  Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Icelandic-Canadian explorer (b. 1879)
1968  Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1899)
1972  Francis Chichester, British sailor and adventurer (b. 1901).
1974  Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (b. 1902)
1976  Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)
1977  H. A. Rey, German-American author and illustrator (b. 1898).
1978  Charles Boyer, French actor (b. 1899)
1978  José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1916)
1979  Mika Waltari, Finnish writer (b. 1908)
1980  Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874)
1980  Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
1981  Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
1986  Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
1987  Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1987  John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer (b. 1919)
1988  Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (b. 1957)
1989  Irving Stone, American writer (b. 1903)
1990  Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (b. 1913)
1992  Bob de Moor, Belgian comic artist (b. 1925)
1998  Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2000  Bunny Austin, British tennis player (b. 1906).
From 2001 
2001  Marita Petersen, 8th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1940).
2003  Jim Wacker, American football coach (b. 1937)
2004  Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1952)
2005  Robert Denning, Interior designer (b. 1927)
2006  Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924)
2007  Gaston Thorn, Luxembourg politician (b. 1928)
2010  Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (b. 1918)
2010  William B. Lenoir, American astronaut (b. 1939)
2011  George Band, British mountaineer (b. 1929)
2011  Aloysius Ambrozic, Slovenian-born Canadian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto (b. 1930)
2013  John J. Gilligan, 62nd Governor of Ohio (b. 1921)
2014  Christian Bourquin, French politician (b. 1954)
2014  Simon Featherstone, British diplomat (b. 1958)
2014  Peter Bacon Hales, American historian and photographer (b. 1950)
2014  Samuel Sadela, Nigerian pastor, claimant to world's oldest man title (b. either in or after 1900)
2014  Lars Mortimer, Swedish comic artist (b. 1946)
2015  Peter Kern, Austrian actor and filmmaker (b. 1949)
2015  Amelia Boynton Robinson, American civil rights activist (b. 1911)
2015  Alison Parker, American journalist (b. 1991)
2015  Adam Ward, American cameraman (b. 1988)
2015  Vester Flanagan, American gunman (b. 1973)
2017  Tobe Hooper, American film director and novelist (b. 1943)
2017  Grzegorz Miecugow, Polish television news presenter and columnist (b. 1955)
2017  Josef Musil, Czech volleyball player (b. 1932)
2017  Wilson das Neves, Brazilian percussionist and singer (b. 1936)
2017  Horacio White, Argentine swimmer (b. 1927)
2018  Rosa Bouglione, French circus performer (b. 1910)
2018  Kerry Hill, Australian architect (b. 1943)
2018  Tony Hiller, British songwriter (b. 1927)
2018  Neil Simon, American playwright (b. 1927)
Observances 
 Saint Alexander of Bergamo, martyr
 Heroes Day (Namibia)
 Women's Equality Day (United States)
 Repentance Day (Papua New Guinea)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
479 BC  Battle of Plataea ends the Persian invasion of Greece, Mardonius routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army.
55 BC  Julius Caesar Lands in Britain for the first time.
AD 410  Vandal sack of Rome ends after three days.
1172  Henry the Young King and Margaret of France crowned as junior king and queen of England.
1593  Pierre Barriere fails in his attempt to kill King Henry IV of France.
1597  Japan defeats Korea in the Naval Battle of Chilchonryang during the Imjin War, following several mistakes by the Korean admiral Won Gyun.
1664  After officially taking control of the former Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, British colonists rename it New York.
1664  The French East India Company is officially founded by Louis XIV of France.
1728  On this date in the Gregorian calendar, Vitus Bering lands on the Diomede Islands in the now-named Bering Strait between Alaska, now in the US, and the Russian far east.
1776  Battle of Long Island, in present-day Brooklyn, New York British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
1793  French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic.
1810  The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbor of Grand Port and Ile de France.
1813  Napoleon defeats the Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1820  Along with two other people, Josef Naus becomes the first person to climb Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany.
1828  The Russians defeat the Turks at Akhaltzikke.
1832  Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to US forces.
1859  Petroleum discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania - the world's first successful oil well.
1861  American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
1883  The after effects caused by the Krakatoa explosion in Indonesia kill over 36,000 people, as the eruption ends in a loud explosion, which causes deadly tsunamis.
1896  The shortest war in the world - 9:02 - 9:40 between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar
1900  British defeat Boer commandos at Bergendal.
1901  2000 
1912  The novel Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs goes on sale.
1914  World War I: French and British troops occupy the then-German colony of Togoland.
1916  World War I: Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1921  The British Faisal I as King of Iraq.
1927  Five Canadian women file a petition  to the Supreme Court of Canada asking whether the word 'persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act of 1867, includes female persons.
1928  The Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, is signed by sixty nations.
1939  First jet aircraft flight.
1943  World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during the war.
1952  Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg; West Germany to pay 3 billion Deutschmarks.
1955  The Guinness Book of Records goes on sale for the first time.
1957  The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.
1962  The Mariner 2 space probe is launched.
1971  A failed military coup occurs in Chad.
1975  The Governor of Portuguese Timor (now East Timor) abandons his capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
1979  An IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten and 3 others on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Another near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland kills 18 British soldiers.
1982  Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altikat is shot dead in Ottawa, Canada. The group Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claims responsibility.
1985  The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by army chief Ibrahim Babangida.
1990  The British Broadcasting Corporation launches BBC Radio Five Live at 9am GMT with a mixture of sports, news, and children's programming. The station broadcasts for eighteen hours per day.
1991  The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
1991  Moldova declares independence from the USSR.