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Up to 1900 
 756 - An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang of China flees the capital Chang'an as An Lushan's forces advance toward the city.
 1223 – Louis VIII becomes King of France.
 1769 - Spanish soldier Gaspar de Portola leads the first European land expedition to present-day California.
 1771 - Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junipero Serra.
 1789 – The Bastille is attacked, starting the French Revolution.
 1790 – The citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fete de la Federation.
 1798 - La Marseillaise becomes the national anthem of France
 1798 - The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States, making it a federal crime to write, publish or say heavily critical or false statements about the United States Government.
 1853 - Start of the first major World's Fair to take place in the United States, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
1865 – The first ascent of the Matterhorn is made, by a team lead by Edward Whymper. Four members of the group die on the way back down.
 1865 - Piz Buin, the highest peak in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, first climbed by a team of four led by Joseph Anton Specht.
 1881 – At Fort Sumner, New Mexico, Pat Garrett shoots and kills Billy the Kid.
 1900 - The Armies of the Eight Nation Alliance capture Tientsin, China, during the Boxer Rebellion.
1901  2000 
 1902 - The Campanile in Saint Mark's Square, Venice, collapses.
 1911 - Henry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright Brothers, lands his airplane on the South Lawn of the White House.
 1916 - World War I: Start of the Battle of Delville Wood as an action within the Battle of the Somme.
 1920 - The Red Army conquers Vilnius during the Polish-Soviet War.
 1933 – Gleichschaltung: All political parties, apart from the Nazi Party, are banned in Germany.
 1943 - In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the US National Monument in honor of an African American.
 1948 - Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded outside the Italian Parliament.
 1950 - Korean War: North Korean troops start the Battle of Taejon.
 1951 - At Silverstone, England, Argentina's Jose Froilan Gonzalez achieves Ferrari's first Formula One Grand Prix victory.
 1957 - In Egypt, Rawya Ateya becomes the first Member of the Parliament in the Arab world.
1958 – King Faisal II of Iraq is killed, and the monarchy is overthrown by forces lead by Abdul Karim Kassem, who takes over as head of state.
 1958 - In Ghana, the Ghanaian pound replaces the colonial British West African pound.
 1960 - Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
 1964 - Frenchman Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France and his 4th in a row.
 1965 - The Mariner 4 fly-by of Mars takes the first close-up photographs of a planet other than Earth.
 1969 – Football War: After Honduras loses a football match against El Salvador, riots break out against El Salvadoran migrant workers in Honduras.
 1969 - In the US, 500, 1000, 5000 and 10 000 dollar bills are withdrawn from circulation.
 1976 - Capital punishment is banned in Canada.
 1987 - Montreal is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal flood of 1987.
 2000 - A powerful solar flare causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
From 2001 
 2002 – An assassination attempt is made on French President Jacques Chirac at a Bastille Day parade.
 2003 – The United States Government admits the existence of Area 51.
 2006 - Tropical storm Bilis strikes the Chinese mainland - Hunan province experiences its worst flooding in 100 years.
 2007 - The Gran Telescopio Canarias reflecting telescope begins operations on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands.
 2011 – The United Nations admits South Sudan as the 193rd member nation.
 2014 - The Church of England votes in favor of having female bishops at its General Synod (its official meeting).
 2015 - The novel Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee goes on sale.
 2015 - A deal is struck on limiting Iran's nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief.
 2015 - The New Horizons space probe passes by the dwarf planet Pluto.
 2016 - 2016 Nice attack: A truck is driven through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, Southern France, killing 84 people.
2018 - Tennis: Angelique Kerber becomes the first German to win the women's singles title at the Wimbledon championships since Steffi Graf in 1996, by defeating Serena Williams in two sets in the final.
 2019 - Novak Djokovic wins a five-set final against Roger Federer to win his fifth singles title at the Wimbledon championships.
 2019 - England wins the men's Cricket World Cup for the first time, defeating New Zealand in a close match in the final.
 2019 - US President Donald Trump causes controversy and debate with a Twitter attack on four ethnic minority Democrat Congresswomen also known as "The Squad" - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley.
Up to 1900 
 1454 – Poliziano, Italian humanist (d. 1494)
 1602 – Jules Mazarin, French statesman and cardinal (d. 1661)
 1610 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
 1634 - Pasquier Quesnel, French theologian (d. 1719)
 1675 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French nobleman, soldier and adventurer (d. 1747)
 1676 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian and poet (d. 1763)
 1743 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816)
 1743 - William Paley, English theologian and philosopher (d. 1805)
 1798 - Alessandro Antonelli, Italian architect (d. 1888)
 1829 – Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1896)
 1830 - Henry Bird, English chess player (d. 1908)
 1858 – Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1928)
 1859 - Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928)
 1860 – Owen Wister, American writer (d. 1938)
 1862 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)
 1865 - Arthur Capper, 20th Governor of Kansas (d. 1951)
1866 - Ragnar Ostberg, Swedish architect (d. 1945)
 1868 – Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (d. 1926)
 1872 - Albert Marque, French sculptor and doll maker (d. 1939)
 1874 – Khedive Abbas II of Egypt and Sudan (d. 1944)
 1882 - Teddy Billington, American racing cyclist (d. 1966)
 1885 – King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959)
 1888 - Scipio Slataper, Italian author and critic (d. 1915)
 1889 – Ante Pavelic, Croatian fascist leader (d. 1959)
 1891 - Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and screenwriter (d. 1977)
 1893 - Clarence J. Brown, American publisher and politician (d. 1965)
 1893 - Garimella Satyanarayana, Indian poet and freedom fighter (d. 1952)
 1893 - J. G. Strijdom, Prime minister of South Africa (d. 1958)
 1894 - Dave Fleischer, American animator, director and producer (d. 1979)
 1896 – Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (d. 1936)
 1897 - Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Thai general and politician, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 1964)
1901  1950 
 1901 - George Tobias, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
 1903 – Irving Stone, American writer (d. 1989)
 1904 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish Yiddish writer (d. 1991) (possibly born on November 21)
 1906 – William H. Tunner, American general (d. 1983)
 1910 – William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)
 1912 – Northrop Frye, American literary critic (d. 1991)
 1912 – Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (d. 1967)
 1913 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)
 1916 – Natalia Ginzburg, writer (d. 1991)
 1917 - George Bookasta, American actor and director (d. 2014)
 1918 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish movie and theatre director (d. 2007)
 1918 – Arthur Laurents, American playwright, novelist, and director (d. 2011)
 1919 – Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (d. 1987)
 1921 – Leon Garfield, English children's writer (d. 1996)
 1921 - Sixto Durán Ballén, 48th President of Ecuador (d. 2016)
 1921 – Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist (d. 1996)
1922 – Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (d. 2007)
 1923 - Dale Robertson, American actor (d. 2013)
 1923 - Willie Steele, American long jumper (d. 1989)
 1925 - Francisco Alvarez Martinez, Spanish former Archbishop of Toledo
 1926 – Harry Dean Stanton, American actor (d. 2017)
 1928 - Laurie Mitchell, American actress (d. 2018)
 1930 - Polly Bergen, American actress and singer (d. 2014)
 1931 - Jacqueline de Ribes, French fashion designer and sculptor
 1932 - Anatoli Isayev, Russian footballer (d. 2016)
 1933 – Franz, Duke of Bavaria, head of Wittelsbach family and part of Jacobite Succession
 1933 - Robert Bourassa, 22nd Premier of Quebec (d. 1996)
 1935 - Ei-ichi Negishi, Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize winner
 1936 - Robert F. Overmyer, American pilot and astronaut (d. 1996)
 1937 - Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician, former Prime Minister of Japan
 1938 – Jerry Rubin, American activist (d. 1994)
 1938 - Tommy Vig, Hungarian vibraphone player, drummer and composer
1939 – George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer
 1939 – Karel Gott, Czech singer (d. 2019)
 1939 - Sid Haig, American actor (d. 2019)
 1941 - Gérard Férey, French chemist (d. 2017)
 1941 – Maulana Karenga, American writer amd activist
 1942 – Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief
 1945 - Jim Gordon, American musician
 1946 - Sue Lawley, English broadcaster
 1946 - Vincent Pastore, American actor
 1946 – John Wood, Australian actor
 1947 – Navin Ramgoolam, Prime Minister of Mauritius
 1948 - Goodwill Zwelithni kaBhekuzulu, Zulu king
 1948 - Eliza Manningham-Buller, British MI5 director
 1948 - Earl Williams, American baseball player (d. 2013)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)
 1952 - Bob Casale, American guitarist
 1952 - Eric Laneuville, American director, actor and producer
 1953 - Bebe Buell, American model and actress
 1954  Sally Farmiloe, British actress (b. 2014)
 1955 - L. Brent Bozell III, American journalist and activist
 1957 - Scot Breithaupt, American motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
 1958 - Anne Hegerty, English quiz player and television personality
 1959 - Aubrey McClendon, American businessman (d. 2016)
 1960 – Anna Bligh, Australian politician, former Premier of Queensland
 1960 – Jane Lynch, American actress
 1960 - Angélique Kidjo, Beninese singer-songwriter and activist
 1960 - Kyle Gass, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
 1960 - Mike McPhee, Canadian ice hockey player
 1961 – Jackie Earle Haley, American actor
 1962 - Antonio Díaz Sánchez, Cuban activist
 1963 - Jacques Lacombe, Canadian organist and conductor
 1963 - John Colquhoun, Scottish footballer
 1966 – Matthew Fox, American actor
1966 – Owen Coyle, Scottish football manager
 1966 - Ellen Reid, Canadian singer and pianist (Crash Test Dummies)
 1967 – Madalina Manole, Romanian singer (d. 2010)
 1967 – Patrick J. Kennedy, American politician
 1967 – Robin Ventura, baseball player
 1969 - Carlo de Gavardo, Chilean rally driver and motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
 1971 - Pui Fan Lee, English actress and presenter
 1971 – Howard Webb, English football referee
 1971 - Nick McCabe, English guitarist
 1971 - Madhu Sapre, Indian model
 1973 – Kota Hirano, Japanese manga artist
 1973 - Halil Mutlu, Turkish weightlifter
 1974 – David Mitchell, British comedian
 1975 – Taboo, American rapper
From 1976 
 1976 – Geraint Jones, English cricketer
 1977 – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
 1979 - Sergei Ignashevich, Russian footballer
 1979 – Axel Teichmann, German cross-country skier
 1981 – Lee Mead, English stage actor
 1982 – Fernando Lope de Vergara, Argentinian handball manager
 1983 – Igor Andreev, Russian tennis player
 1984 – Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Brazilian footballer
 1984 - Mounir El Hamdaoui, Moroccan footballer
 1984 - Samir Handanovic, Slovenian footballer
 1986 - Alexander Gerndt, Swedish footballer
 1986 - Dan Smith, English singer (Bastille)
 1987 - Sara Canning, Canadian actress
 1987 – Adam Johnson, English footballer
 1987 - Ryan Sweeting, American tennis player
 1988 - Olli Muotka, Finnish ski jumper
 1989 - Sean Flynn, American singer and actor
 1991 - Shabazz Napier, American basketball player
 1995 - Kim Hyo-joo, South Korean golfer
 1999 - Camryn, American singer and actress

Deaths
Up to 1900 
 664 - Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
 937 - Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria
 1223 – King Philip II of France (b. 1165)
 1486 – Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland (b. 1456)
 1575 - Richard Taverner, English translator of the Bible (b. 1505)
 1614 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian priest and saint (b. 1550)
 1704 - Sophia Alexeyevna of Russia (b. 1657)
 1742 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
 1789 – Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (b. 1721)
 1789 – Bernard-Rene de Launay, Governor of the Bastille prison (b. 1740)
 1790 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (b. 1717)
 1809 - Nicodemus the Hagiorite, Greek monk and saint (b. 1749)
 1816 – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (b. 1750)
 1817 - Germaine de Stael, Swiss writer (b. 1766)
 1827 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788)
 1850 – August Neander, German theologian (b. 1789)
 1876 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English architect (b. 1816)
1901  2000 
 1904 – Paul Kruger, South African Boer politician (b. 1824)
 1907 - William Henry Perkin, British chemist (b. 1838)
 1910 - Marius Petipa, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1898)
 1917 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b. 1887)
 1918 - Quentin Roosevelt, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
 1924 - Isabella Ford, British suffragette, activist and peer (b. 1855)
 1935 - Edoardo Agnelli, Italian industrialist (b. 1892)
 1936 - Ghan Gopal Mukerji, Indian writer (b. 1890)
 1939 – Alphonse Mucha, Czech artist (b. 1860)
 1954 – Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer (b. 1866)
 1954 - Jackie Saunders, American actress (b. 1892)
 1958 – King Faisal II of Iraq (b. 1935)
 1965 – Adlai Stevenson, American politician (b. 1900)
 1966 - Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
 1967 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880)
 1968 – Ilzas Tsirimkas, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1907)
 1970 - Luis Mariano, Spanish Basque singer (b. 1914)
 1974 - Carl Spaatz, American air force (b. 1891)
1990 - Walter Sedlmayer, German actor (b. 1926)
 1993 - Léo Ferré, French singer-songwriter, poet and pianist (b. 1916)
 1994 - César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1940)
 1998 - Richard McDonald, American businessman (b. 1909)
From 2001 
 2002 – Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
 2005 - Cicely Saunders, British nurse  (b. 1918)
 2005 - Tilly Fleischer, German athlete (b. 1911)
 2010 – Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor (b. 1925)
 2010 – Madalina Manole, Romanian singer (b. 1967)
 2012 - Sixten Jernberg, Swedish skier (b. 1929)
 2014 - Alice Coachman, American athlete (b. 1923)
 2014 - Leopoldo Verona, Argentine actor (b. 1931)
 2014 - Vange Leonel, Brazilian singer-songwriter, journalist, novelist, playwright and activist (b. 1963)
 2014 - Martin Richard Hoffmann, American politician (b. 1932)
 2014 - Tom Rolf, Swedish-American film editor (b. 1931)
 2015 - M. S. Viswanathan, Indian film score composer (b. 1928)
 2015 - Olaf Pooley, English actor (b. 1914)
 2016 - Hallard White, New Zealand rugby league player (b. 1929)
 2016 - Helena Benitez, Filipino politician and educator (b. 1914)
 2016 - Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer (b. 1949)
 2016 - Sharon Runner, American politician (b. 1954)
2016 - Michael J. Elliott, British journalist and magazine editor (b. 1951)
 2016 - Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, Tunisian terrorist, perpetrator of the 2016 Nice attack (b. 1985)
 2017 - Mahi Beamer, American singer and dancer (b. 1928)
 2017 - Anne Golon, French novelist and journalist (b. 1921)
 2017 - Julia Hartwig, Polish poet and journalist (b. 1921)
 2017 - William "Hootie" Johnson, American banker and sports administrator (b. 1931)
 2017 - Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (b. 1977)
 2018 - Mario Casalinuovo, Italian politician (b. 1922)
 2018 - Gordon Chong, Canadian politician (b. 1943)
 2018 - Theo-Ben Gurirab, Prime minister of Namibia (b. 1938)
 2018 - Masa Saito, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1942)
 2018 - Petr Weigl, Czech director and playwright (b. 1939)
 2018 - Hans Kronberger, German-Austrian politician (b. 1951)
 2019 - Hussain Muhammad Ershad, President of Bangladesh (b. 1930)
 2019 - Terry Hodgkinson, British businessman (b. 1949)
2019 - Nereo Laroni, Italian politician (b. 1942)
 2019 - Pernell Whitaker, American boxer (b. 1964)
 2019 - Paul Albert Zipfel, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1935)
Observances 
 Bastille Day (France)
 Republic Day (Iraq)
 International Non-Binary People's Day

References 

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a difficult siege.
 1149 - The rebuilt Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
 1207 – John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton.
 1240 - Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes at the Battle of the Neva.
 1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England.
 1410 – Battle of Grunwald (a.k.a. Tannenberg or Zalgiris): power of the Teutonic Knights broken by a defeat from Poles and Lithuanians.
 1482 - Muhammad XII of Granada becomes the 22nd and last Nasrid King of Granada.
 1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemore on 6 July 1685.
1741 - Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska and sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first European to land in mainland Alaska.
 1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, by acclamation, named colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
 1799 – Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta, by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard.
 1806 – Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.
 1815 – Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard HMS Bellerophon.
 1834 - The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded  after nearly 356 years.
 1862 – American Civil War: Confederates break naval blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
 1870 – Post-American-Civil-War Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1870 – Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.
 1888 – The Bandai volcano in Japan erupts, killing 477 people.
 1895 – Archie MacLaren scores County Championship record cricket innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton.
1901  2000 
 1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
 1918 – World War I: Second Battle of the Marne – The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
 1922 - The Japanese Communist Party is created in Japan.
 1926 – BEST buses make its début in Mumbai.
 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
 1929 – First weekly radio broadcast of Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word.
 1931 – Kid Chocolate becomes Cuba's first world boxing champion.
 1945 – US President Harry Truman disembarks the heavy cruiser the USS Augusta (CA-31) in Antwerp en route to Potsdam for the Potsdam Conference.
 1953 – John Reginald Christie, British serial killer executed.
 1954 – First flight of the Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner.
1955 - Eighteen Nobel Prize winners sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by 34 others.
 1958 – In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to provide military support to the pro-Western government there.
 1965 - The Mariner 4 sends the first close-up pictures of a planet other than Earth, when it sends pictures from Mars.
 1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
 1974 – Christine Chubbock, a TV host in Sarasota, Florida commits suicide during the taping of her show live on air.
 1975 – Apollo Soyuz Test Project: Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space.
 1977 – Griffith N.S.W, Anti – Drug campaigner Donald Mackay disappears presumed murdered.
1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his famous "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation."
 1988 – Die Hard opens in theaters, starring Bruce Willis
 1989 – Punk rock band Bad Religion releases their sixth album, No Control.
 1992 – A major fire consumes an entire city block in tourist destination Gatlinburg, Tennessee, destroying the Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Museum and several other local businesses in the process. The block was rebuilt and re-opened in 1995.
 1994 – Albert Belle of the Cleveland Indians caught with a corked bat.
 1995 – Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter becomes the first item sold on Amazon.com
 1996 – MSNBC cable-DBS channel launched
1996 – A Royal Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. Thirty-two people die in the flames, two people die of their injuries, and Seven people sustain severe burns.
 1997 – In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
 1999 – Safeco Field opens in Seattle, Washington.
 1999 - The first flights from the United Kingdom to Argentina since the Falklands War occur.
From 2001 
 2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and for the possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. Lindh agrees to serve 10 years in prison for each of the charges.
 2002 – Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other suspects convicted of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
 2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
 2004 – Monorail service begins in Las Vegas.
 2004 – The BBC airs the documentary The Secret Agent, exposing racism by members of the British National Party.
 2005 – Jack Nicklaus plays his last hole of competitive golf during The Open Championship at Hole 18 at St Andrews, finishing with a birdie.
 2005 – Disneyland "re-launches" Space Mountain in Anaheim, California.
 2006 - Twitter is launched.
 2007 - Shimon Peres becomes President of Israel.
2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes in Northwestern Iran, killing 153 people.
 2016 - Sections of the military attempt a coup in Turkey.
 2018 - 2018 FIFA World Cup: France defeat first-time finalists Croatia 4-2 in the Final to win their second FIFA World Cup trophy.
 2019 - It is announced that Alan Turing will appear on the new 50-pound Bank of England note.
Up to 1900 
 1273 - Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and saint (d. 1352)
 1353 - Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
 1471 - Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1494) 
 1553 – Archduke Ernest of Austria (d. 1595)
 1573 – Inigo Jones, English architect (d. 1652)
 1606 – Rembrandt, Dutch artist (d. 1669)
 1626 - Christiane Sehested, daughter of Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1671)
 1626 - Hedvig Uffeldt, daughter of Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1678)
 1631 - Jens Juel, Danish Governor-General of Norway (d. 1700)
 1638 - Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1693)
 1737 – Princess Louise Marie of France (d. 1787)
 1765 - Charles Goldsborough, American politician, Governor of Maryland (d. 1834)
 1779 – Clement Clarke Moore, American educator, writer, and poet (d. 1863)
 1790 - William Henry Playfair, Scottish architect (d. 1857)
 1796 – Thomas Bulfinch, American mythologist (d. 1796)
 1799 - Reuben Chapman, American politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (d. 1882)
1804 - Jane Stirling, Scottish pianist (d. 1859)
 1808 – Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, English Catholic archbishop (d. 1892)
 1812 – James Hope-Scott, English barrister (d. 1873)
 1817 - Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English civil engineer (d. 1898)
 1827 - William Wallace Thayer, American politician, 6th Governor of Oregon (d. 1899)
 1837 – Stephanie von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Queen Consort of Portugal (d. 1859)
 1848 – Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923)
 1850 – Mother Cabrini, Italian-born Roman Catholic saint (d. 1917)
 1851 - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentine author (d. 1889)
 1858 - Emmeline Pankhurst, English activist (d. 1928)
 1864 - Marie Tempest, English actress and singer (d. 1942)
 1865 - Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Irish-English publisher (d. 1922)
 1865 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (d. 1945)
 1867 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French scientist (d. 1936)
 1870 – Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Russian publisher and politician (d. 1922)
1871 – Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer (d. 1908)
 1884 – Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, 1st Prime Minister of Siam, present-day Thailand (d. 1948)
 1892 – Walter Benjamin, German literary critic and writer (d. 1940)
 1897 - Sam H. Jones, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1978)
 1899 – Seán F. Lemass, Irish leader and Taoiseach (d. 1971)
1901  1950 
 1902 – Jean Rey, Belgian politician and President of the European Commission (d. 1983)
 1911 – Edward Shackleton, English explorer (d. 1994)
 1913 – Hammond Innes, English writer (d. 1998)
 1913 - Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1963)
 1913 - Abraham Sutzkever, Russian poet (d. 2010)
 1914 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 2010)
 1917 - Robert Conquest, English-American historian (d. 2015)
 1918 - Nuur Muhammad Taraki, President of Afghanistan (d. 1979)
 1918 – Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
 1918 - Brenda Milner, English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic
 1919 – Iris Murdoch, English writer (d. 1999)
 1921 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist (d. 2006)
 1922 – Leon M. Lederman, American physicist (d. 2018)
 1924 - Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (d. 2014)
 1925 – Philip Carey, American actor (d. 2009)
 1925 - Taylor Hardwick, American architect (d. 2014)
1925 - D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (d. 2019)
 1926 - Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (d. 2015)
 1926 – Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
 1926 – Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan writer (d. 2007)
 1927 – Nan Clow Martin, actress
 1927 - Carmen Zapata, American actress (d. 2014)
 1928 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist (d. 2012)
 1930 – Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
 1930 – Stephen Smale, American mathematician
 1931 – Clive Cussler, American writer
 1932 – Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
 1933 – Julian Bream, English guitarist and lutenist
 1933 – Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003)
 1934 – Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
 1934 – Risto Jarva, Finnish movie maker (d. 1977)
 1935 – Diahann Carroll, American actress
 1936 - George Voinovich, American politician, 65th Governor of Ohio (d. 2016)
 1939 - Abdulhussain Abdulredha, Kuwaiti actor and writer (d. 2017)
1939 – Aníbal Cavaco Silva, former President of Portugal
 1939 - Patrick Wayne, American actor
 1940 – Robert Winston, British scientist, politician and television presenter
 1942 – Mil Mascaras, Mexican professional wrestler
 1943 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Northern Irish astrophysicist, astronomer and academic
 1944 – Millie Jackson, American singer
 1945 – Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (d. 2003)
 1946 – Linda Ronstadt, American singer
 1946 – Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
 1946 – Dieter Herzog, German footballer
 1947 - Peter Banks, English guitarist (d. 2013)
 1948 - Twinkle, English singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
 1948 - Artimus Pyle, American drummer and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
 1949 – Carl Bildt, Swedish politician, former Prime Minister of Sweden
 1949 – Trevor Horn, English musician
 1950 - Colin Barnett, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Western Australia
 1950 – Arianna Huffington, Greek-American journalist (Huffington Post)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (d. 2010)
 1951 – Jesse Ventura, American professional wrestler and former Governor of Minnesota
 1952 - David A. Granger, 9th President of Guyana
 1952 - Celia Imrie, English actress
 1952 - Yuriko Koike, Japanese politician, Governor of Tokyo
 1952 – Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, United States Congresswoman from Florida
 1953 - Sultanah Haminah Hamidun, Queen of Malaysia
 1953 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former President of Haiti
 1953 – John Denham, British politician
 1954 – Mario Kempes, Argentine footballer
 1954 - Tarak Dhiab, Tunisian footballer
 1954 - Jeff Jarvis, American journalist and blogger
 1956 – Ian Curtis, British musician, singer and lyricist (Joy Division) (d. 1980)
 1956 – Barry Melrose, Canadian hockey player, coach, and commentator
 1956 – Marky Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
 1958 – Mac Thornberry, American politician
 1960 – Willie Aames, American actor
 1961 – Forest Whitaker, American actor
1961 - Scott Ritter, American weapons inspector
 1961 - Jean-Christophe Grangé, French journalist and screenwriter
 1963 - Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-American model, actress and singer
 1965 - Alistair Carmichael, Scottish politician
 1965 – David Miliband, English politician
 1966 - Jason Bonham, English drummer
 1966 – Irène Jacob, French-born Swiss actress
 1968 – Eddie Griffin, American actor
 1968 – Stan Kirsch, American actor
 1968 - Shirley Robertson, Scottish sailor
 1970 - Angela Constance, Scottish politician
 1970 - Gabriel Weston, English surgeon and author
 1970 – Chi Cheng, American musician
 1971 – John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born drummer (System of a Down)
 1971 - Jim Rash, American actor, producer and screenwriter
 1972 - Yao Defen, Chinese world's tallest-living woman record holder (d. 2012)
 1972 - Scott Foley, American actor
 1972 - Beth Ostrosky Stern, American model and actress 
 1973 – Brian Austin Green, American actor
From 1976 
 1976 – Diane Kruger, German actress and model
 1976 - Shuba Jay, Malaysian actress (d. 2014)
 1976 – Marco Di Vaio, Italian footballer
 1977 - Kitana Baker, American model and actress
 1977 - Lana Parrilla, American actress
 1979 – Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer
 1981 – Alou Diarra, French footballer
 1981 – Peter Odemwingie, Nigerian footballer
 1981 - Taylor Kinney, American actor and model
 1983 - Heath Slater, American wrestler
 1986 - Tyler Kennedy, Canadian ice hockey player
 1989 - Alisa Kleybanova, Russian tennis player
 1989 - Anthony Randolph, American basketball player
 1989 - Tristan Wilds, American actor and singer
 1990 - Olly Alexander, English singer-songwriter and actor (Years and Years)
 1990 - Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player
 1990 - Tyler Honeycutt, American basketball player (d. 2018)
 1990 - Damian Lillard, American basketball player
 1991 - Derrick Favors, American basketball player
 1991 - Yuki Kashiwagi, Japanese singer and actress
1992 – Koharu Kusume, Japanese singer, former member of Morning Musume
 1992 - Tobias Harris, American basketball player
 1992 - Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter
 1992 - Porter Robinson, American DJ and producer
 1996 - Vivianne Miedema, Dutch footballer
Up to 1900 
 756 - Yang Guifei, Chinese consort (b. 719)
 1085 – Robert Guiscard, Norman adventurer (b. c. 1015)
 1274 - Bonaventure, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1221)
 1291 – Rudolph I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1218)
 1406 - William, Duke of Austria (b. 1370)
 1445 - Jean Beaufort, Queen of Scots (b. 1406)
 1521 – Juan Ponce de León, Spanish explorer and Conquistador (b. c. 1474)
 1571 – Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
 1655 - Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
 1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of England (b. 1649)
 1750 - Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1686)
 1767 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (b. 1746)
 1782 – Farinelli, Italian castrato (b. 1705)
 1828 – Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
 1839 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet (b. 1802)
 1844 – Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772)
 1851 - Juan Felipe Ibarra, Argentine soldier and politician (b. 1787)
1857 – Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
 1890 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819)
1901  2000 
 1904 – Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
 1907 - Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1875)
 1916 – Elie Metchnikoff, Russian scientist (b. 1845)
 1919 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
 1929 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (b. 1874)
 1930 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1845)
 1931 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (b. 1868)
 1933 – Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (b. 1865)
 1933 – Freddie Keppard, American musician (b. 1890)
 1940 – Robert Wadlow, American, tallest human on record (b. 1918)
 1940 - Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and physician (b. 1857)
 1946 – Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
 1947 – Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
 1948 – John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860)
 1953 – John Reginald Christie, British murderer (b. 1899)
 1957 – George Cleveland, Canadian actor (b. 1885)
 1957 – James M. Cox, American politician (b. 1870)
1958 - Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon (b. 1914)
 1959 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880)
 1960 – Lawrence Tibbett, American actor (b. 1896)
 1961 – John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
 1965 – Francis Cherry, American politician (b. 1908)
 1979 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1911)
 1989 - Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
 1990 - Margaret Lockwood, English actress and singer (b. 1913)
 1991 – Bert Convy, American actor (b. 1933)
 1992 – Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
 1992 - Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist and author (b. 1960)
 1996 – Dana Hill, American actress (b. 1964)
 1997 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
From 2001 
 2003 – Adi Preißler, German footballer (b. 1921)
 2003 – Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953)
 2008 - Karl Unterkircher, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1970)
 2009 – Natalya Estemirova, Russian activist (b. 1958)
 2012 - Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
 2014 - James MacGregor Burns, American historian and political scientist (b. 1918)
 2014 - Robert A. Roe, American politician (b. 1924)
 2015 - Wan Li, Chinese politician (b. 1916)
 2015 - Fred Wendorf, American archaeologist (b. 1924)
 2016 - Qandeel Baloch, Pakistani model and social media celebrity (b. 1990)
 2016 - Janez Bernik, Slovenian painter (b. 1933)
 2016 - Duncan M. Gray, Jr., American prelate (b. 1926)
 2017 - Anne Buttimer, Irish geographer (b. 1938)
 2017 - Martin Landau, American actor (b. 1928)
 2017 - Babe Parilli, American football player (b. 1930)
 2017 - Bob Wolff, American broadcaster (b. 1920)
 2017 - Vjekoslav Vojo Radoicic, Croatian painter, sculptor and stage designer (b. 1930)
2018 - Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
 2019 - Mortimer Caplin, American lawyer and educator (b. 1916)
 2019 - Ousmane Tanor Dieng, Senegalese politician (b. 1947)
 2019 - Craig Fallon, British judoka (b. 1982)
 2019 - Werner Müller, German politician and businessman (b. 1946)
Observances 
 Saint Swithin's Day (England), according to legend, supposed to predict weather for the rest of the Summer
 Sultan's birthday (Brunei)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 390 BC – Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
 64 – Great fire of Rome: A fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control while Emperor Nero reportedly plays his lyre and sings while watching the blaze from a safe distance.
 362 - Roman-Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrives at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary force of around 60,000 soldiers and stays for nine months to launch a campaign  against the Persian Empire.
 1195 – Battle of Alarcos, great victory of Almohad ruler Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur over the Castilian King Alfonso VIII.
 1290 - King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion against all Jews in England, saying that they have to leave the country.
 1334 - The Bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new Campanile (Bell tower) of Florence Cathedral, designed by architect Giotto di Bondone.
1389 - France and England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem, beginning a 13-year peace, the longest period of continued peace during the Hundred Years' War.
 1656 - Polish-Lithuanian forces clash with Sweden and its Brandenburg allies in the start of what becomes known as the Battle of Warsaw, which becomes a decisive Swedish victory.
 1830 – Uruguay adopts its first constitution.
 1841 - Emperor Pedro II of Brazil is crowned.
 1857 - Louis Faidherbe, French Governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's rebellion against the French.
 1863 – American Civil War: The first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, unsuccessfully assaults Confederate-held Fort Wagner but their valiant fighting still proves the worth of African American soldiers during the war.
 1873 – Oscar II of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
1879 - Swedish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiold and his ship Vega escape from Arctic pack ice and continue on their route through the Northeast Passage.
 1898 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the discovery of a new element and proposed to call it polonium.
1901  2000 
 1914 – The United States Army's Signal Corps is formed, giving definite status to its air service for the first time.
 1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
 1936 - An army uprising in Spanish Morocco starts the Spanish Civil War.
 1942 – World War II: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jets for the first time.
 1944 – World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
 1947 – President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law which places the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the United States Vice President.
 1966 - Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes the docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
1968 – Vietnam War: The two-day Honolulu Conference begins in Honolulu, Hawaii between US President Lyndon B. Johnson and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu.
 1968 – Intel is incorporated.
 1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
 1969 – Apollo 11 makes preparations for landing on the Moon.
 1976 – Gymnast Nadia Comaneci, aged 14, scores first ever perfect 10 at the Olympics.
 1980 - India becomes the 6th country to send a rocket and a satellite into space.
 1982 – 268 campesinos are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt's Guatemala.
 1984 – McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty kills 21 people and injures 19 others before being shot dead by police.
 1986 – A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station's helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter.
1986 – The movie Aliens opens in theaters.
 1992 – The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappeared from their university in Lima.
 1994 – In Buenos Aires, an explosion destroys a building housing several Jewish organizations killing 96 and injuring many more.
 1995 – On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufriere Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee.
 1995 - Fabio Casartelli is killed in a fall on the 15th stage of the Tour de France cycling race.
 1996 – Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River in Quebec, beginning one of Canada's costliest natural disasters ever.
 1996 – In an event very similar to the Oklahoma tornado that would occur three years later, a tornado ranking as a F5 hit the town of Oakfield, Wisconsin.
 2000 - Queen Elizabeth II opens the new British Embassy in Berlin, as the first British Head of State to open a diplomatic mission.
From 2001 
 2001 – In Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derailment occurs in a tunnel sparking a fire that will last days and virtually shut down downtown Baltimore.
 2003 – The body of British UN weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly is found.
 2007 - Nelson Mandela (on his 89th birthday) and Desmond Tutu co-found The Elders, an influential group of Elder statesmen.
 2013 - The city of Detroit declares bankruptcy with debts of over 20 billion dollars.
 2019 - An arson attack on an anime studio in Fushimi of Kyoto, Japan, kills 34 people.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1439  John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1507)
 1501  Isabella of Burgundy, Queen of Denmark (d. 1526)
 1504  Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
 1552  Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1612)
 1634  Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1695)
 1635  Robert Hooke, English scientist (d. 1703)
 1659  Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (d. 1743)
 1670  Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian composer (d. 1747)
 1718  Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (d. 1808)
 1720  Gilbert White, English naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1793)
 1724  Duchess Anna Antonia of Bavaria (d. 1780)
 1797  Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1879)
 1804  Elizabeth Gould, English illustrator (d. 1841)
 1811  William Makepeace Thackeray, English writer (d. 1863)
 1818  Louis Gerard De Geer, first Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1896)
 1821  Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (d. 1910)
 1826  Mariano Ignacio Prado, President of Peru (d. 1901)
1831  Johann Martin Schleyer, German priest and poet (d. 1912)
 1837  Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary and national hero (d. 1873)
 1848  W. G. Grace, English cricketer (d. 1915)
 1853  Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist (d. 1928)
 1862  Nikolai Yudenich, Russian general (d. 1933)
 1864  Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician (d. 1937)
 1867  Margaret Brown, American socialite and philanthropist (d. 1932)
 1871  Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (d. 1958)
 1871  Sada Yacco, Japanese dancer (d. 1946)
 1883  Jiang Kanghu, Chinese politician and activist (d. 1954)
 1884  Alberto di Jorio, head of the Vatican Bank (d. 1979)
 1886  Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., American general (d. 1945)
 1887  Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier, politician and traitor (d. 1945)
 1890  Frank Forde, 15th and shortest-serving Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1983)
 1892  Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (d. 1969)
 1895  Olga Spessivtseva, Russian ballerina (d. 1991)
1895  Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (d. 1954)
 1897  Ernest Eldridge, English racing driver (d. 1935)
 1900  Nathalie Sarraute, French writer (d. 1999)
1901  1950 
 1901  Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Polish politician (d. 1966)
 1906  Clifford Odets, American director, playwright and screenwriter (d. 1963)
 1908  Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (d. 1944)
 1909  Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (d. 1989)
 1909  Mohammed Daoud Khan, President of Afghanistan (d. 1994)
 1909  Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress (d. 1994)
 1910  Mamadou Dia, Prime Minister of Senegal (d. 2009)
 1911  Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (d. 2003)
 1912  Max Rousié, French rugby player (d. 1950)
 1913  Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)
 1914  Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (d. 2000)
 1914  Jo Cals, 41st Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1971)
 1916  Owen Woodhouse, New Zealand judge (d. 2014)
 1917  Henri Salvador, French singer (d. 2008)
 1918  Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 2013)
 1921  John Glenn, American astronaut and politician (d. 2016)
 1921  Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist
1922  Thomas Kuhn, American physicist, historian and philosopher of science (d. 1996)
 1923  Michael Medwin, British actor
 1924  Norbert Tiemann, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (d. 2012)
 1925  Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete (d. 2004)
 1926  Joshua Fishman, American linguist (d. 2015)
 1927  Kurt Masur, Silesian-born conductor (d. 2015)
 1928  Andrea Gallo, Italian priest (d. 2013)
 1928  Billy Harrell, American baseball player (d. 2014)
 1929  Dick Button, American figure skater
 1929  Franca Rame, Italian actress and playwright (d. 2013)
 1929  Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American singer (d. 2000)
 1930  Burt Kwouk, English actor (d. 2016)
 1930  James I. Robertson Jr., American historian (d. 2019)
 1932  Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (d. 2017)
 1933  Jean Yanne, French movie actor and director (d. 2003)
 1935  Jayendra Saraswathi, Indian guru
 1937  Roald Hoffmann, Polish-born American Nobel Prize-winning chemist
 1937  Hunter S. Thompson, American writer (d. 2005)
1938  Paul Verhoeven, Dutch movie director
 1938  Perch Zeytuntsyan, Egyptian-Armenian playwright and screenwriter (d. 2017)
 1938  Ian Stewart, Scottish musician (d. 1995)
 1940  Joe Torre, American baseball player and manager
 1940  James Brolin, American actor
 1941  Frank Farian, German music producer
 1941  Lonnie Mack, American country musician (d. 2016)
 1941  Martha Reeves, American singer, actress and politician
 1942  Adolf Ogi, Swiss politician
 1942  Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (d. 2006)
 1945  Boomer Castleman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
 1948  Hartmut Michel, German chemist
 1950  Richard Branson, British businessman
 1950  Glenn Hughes, American singer (Village People) (d. 2001)
 1950  Kostas Eleftherakis, Greek footballer
 1950  Jack Layton, Canadian politician, leader of the New Democratic Party (d. 2011)
1951  1975 
 1951  Elio Di Rupo, 50th Prime Minister of Belgium
 1951  Margo Martindale, American actress
 1951  Bruce Lietzke, American golfer (d. 2018)
 1952  Ian Gibbons, English keyboardist (d. 2019)
 1953  Post Bahadur Bogati, Nepalese politician (d. 2014)
 1954  Ricky Skaggs, American musician, singer, producer and composer
 1957  Keith Levene, British musician
 1957  Nick Faldo, British golfer
 1957  Audrey Landers, American actress and singer
 1959  Pauline Quirke, English actress
 1960  Anne-Marie Johnson, American actress
 1961  David Irons, Scottish footballer and coach
 1961  Elizabeth McGovern, American actress
 1961  Alan Pardew, English football manager
 1962  Lee Arenberg, American actor
 1962  Jack Irons, American drummer
 1963  Martín Torrijos, former President of Panama
 1964  Wendy Williams, American talk show host, actress and author
 1965  Steve Webb, English politician
 1966  Lori Alan, American actress
 1967  Vin Diesel, American actor
1968  Jonathan Gould, Scottish footballer and coach
 1969  Masanori Murakawa, Japanese wrestler
 1970  Gruff Rhys, Welsh musician, composer, producer, moviemaker and author
 1971  Sarah McLeod, New Zealand actress
 1971  Penny Hardaway, American basketball player
 1971  Sukhwinder Singh, Indian singer-songwriter and actor
 1972  Hannes Stefánsson, Icelandic chess player
 1975  Daron Malakian, Armenian-American musician (System of a Down)
 1975  Torii Hunter, American baseball player