Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1936  Ruth Buzzi, comedienne
1936  Dan Inosanto, American martial artist and actor
1937  Manoj Kumar, Indian actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1939  Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (d. 2013)
1940  Stanley Hauerwas, Christian theologian
1942  Chris Sarandon, American actor
1944  Jan-Carl Raspe, German Red Army Faction militant (d. 1977)
1945  Azim Premji, Indian businessman
1947  Robert Hays, actor
1947  Peter Serkin, American pianist
1949  Michael Richards, American actor and comedian
1949  Joan Enric Vives Sicília, Catalan bishop and co-Prince of Andorra
1951  1975 
1951  Lynda Carter, American actress
1951  Chris Smith, British politician
1952  Carsten Jensen, Danish writer
1952  Gus Van Sant, American movie director
1953  Claire McCaskill, American politician, United States Senator for Missouri
1956  Charlie Crist, American politician, 44th Governor of Florida, 2007  2011
1956  Pat Finn, American game show host and producer
1957  Pam Tillis, American country music singer
1958  Konrad Graber, Swiss politician
1958  Jim Leighton, Scottish footballer
1960  Catherine Destivelle, Algerian-born French rock climber and mountaineer
1963  Karl Malone, American basketball player
1964  Pedro Passos Coelho, former Prime Minister of Portugal
1964  Barry Bonds, American Major League Baseball player
1964  Banana Yoshimoto, Japanese writer
1965  Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player and broadcaster
1965  Kadeem Hardison, actor
1966  Martin Keown, English footballer
1966  Hilarion, Russian writer and theologian
1968  Kristin Chenoweth, American actress and singer
1968  Laura Leighton, American actress
1969  Rick Fox, American basketball player
1969  Jennifer Lopez, American actress, dancer, fashion designer and singer
1970  Julia Bradbury, English journalist and presenter
1971  Dino Baggio, Italian footballer
1971  John Partridge, English actor, singer and dancer
1974  Eugene Mirman, Russian-American actor, comedian and writer
1974  Boogie2988, American Internet personality (Francis)
1975  Tracey Crouch, English politician
1975  Eric Szmanda, American actor
From 1976 
1976  Rashida Tlaib, American politician
1977  Danny Dyer, British actor
1977  Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian footballer
1978  Andy Irons, American surfer (d. 2010)
1979  Rose Byrne, Australian actress
1979  Ryan Humphrey, American basketball player
1981  Gauge, actress
1981  Summer Glau, American actress
1982  Elisabeth Moss, American actress
1982  Anna Paquin, Canadian-born actress
1983  Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer
1985  Lukas Rosol, Czech tennis player
1986  Andrei Lutai, Russian figure skater
1986  Vugar Gashimov, Azerbaijani chess player (d. 2014)
1986  Natalie Tran, Australian actress and writer
1987  Mara Wilson, American actress
1987  Jovan Belcher, American football player (d. 2012)
1989  Kim Tae-Hwan, South Korean footballer
1989  Felix Loch, German luger
1990  Daveigh Chase, American actress
1990  Jay McGuiness, English singer (The Wanted)
1991  Lin Yue, Chinese diver
1991  Emily Bett Rickards, Canadian actress
1992  Mitch Grassi, American singer
1992  Mikael Kingsbury, Canadian skier
1998  Bindi Irwin, daughter of Steve Irwin
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 811  Gao Yang, Chinese chancellor (b. 740)
 1115  Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046)
 1129  Shirakawa, Emperor of Japan (b. 1053)
 1568  Carlos, Prince of Asturias, son of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)
 1594  John Boste, English martyr and saint (b. 1544)
 1739  Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1686)
 1768  Nathaniel Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684)
 1862  Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782)
 1883  Matthew Webb, British swimmer (b. 1848)
 1891  Hermann Raster, German-American journalist and politician (b. 1827)

1901 – 1950
 1906  Ferdinand von Saar, Austrian writer, dramatist and poet (b. 1833)
 1908  Vicente Acosta, El Salvadorean poet (b. 1867)
 1910  Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)
 1920  Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (b. 1855)
 1922  Saint George Ashe, British rower (b. 1871)
 1927  Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)
1951  2000 
 1957  Sacha Guitry, French actor and director (b. 1885)
 1960  Hans Albers, German actor and singer (b. 1891)
 1962  Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer (b. 1917)
 1965  Constance Bennett, American actress (b. 1904)
 1969  Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (b. 1904)
 1970  Beatrice Roberts, American actress (b. 1901)
 1973  Konstantinos Dovas, Greek general and Prime Minister (b. 1898)
 1974  James Chadwick, British physicist (b. 1891)
 1976  Julius Döpfner, German cardinal (b. 1913)
 1980  Peter Sellers, British actor (b. 1925)
 1980  Uttam Kumar, Indian actor, director and producer (b. 1926)
 1985  Ezechiele Ramini, Italian missionary and martyr (b. 1953)
 1986  Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist (b. 1899)
 1991  Isaac Bashevis Singer, writer, received Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978 (b. 1902)
 1992  Arletty, French singer and actress (b. 1898)
 1995  Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress and occultist (b. 1922)
 1996  Mohammed Farah Aidid, Somali warlord
1997  William J. Brennan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1906)
 1997  Saw Maung, Burmese dictator (b. 1928)
From 2001 
 2005  Richard Doll, British epidemiologist (b. 1912)
 2008  Norman Dello Joio, American composer (b. 1913)
 2010  Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (b. 1949)
 2010  Theo Albrecht, German businessman (Aldi Nord) (b. 1922)
 2011  Virgilio Noe, Italian cardinal (b. 1922)
 2011  Dan Peek, American singer (b. 1951)
 2012  Larry Hoppen, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1951)
 2012  John Atta Mills, President of Ghana (b. 1944)
 2012  Sherman Hemsley, American actor (b. 1938)
 2012  Chad Everett, American actor (b. 1936)
 2013  Fred Dretske, American philosopher (b. 1932)
 2013  Steve Berrios, American drummer (b. 1945)
 2013  Virginia E. Johnson, American sexologist (b. 1925)
 2014  Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer (b. 1973)
 2014  Jaan Arder, Estonian singer (b. 1952)
 2014  Dale Schlueter, American basketball player (b. 1945)
 2015  Peg Lynch, American comedy writer and actress (b. 1916)
 2016  Marni Nixon, American singer and actress (b. 1930)
2017  Michiko Inukai, Japanese writer (b. 1921)
 2017  Yash Pal, Indian scientist and educator (b. 1926)
 2017  Udupi Ramachandra Rao, Indian space scientist (b. 1932)
 2017  Niculae Nedeff, Romanian handball player and coach (b. 1928)
 2018  Mary Ellis, British World War II aviator (b. 1917)
 2018  Walter Hirrlinger, German politician (b. 1926)
 2018  Tony Cloninger, American baseball player (b. 1940)
 2019  Claes Andersson, Finnish psychiatrist, writer and politician (b. 1937)
 2019  Margaret Fulton, Scottish-born Australian chef and cookbook writer (b. 1924)
 2019  Cathy Inglese, American college basketball coach (b. 1958)
Holidays and observances
Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela – Simón Bolívar Day
Utah – Pioneer Day (1847)
Vanuatu – Children's Day
Venezuela – Birth of the Libertador (Simón Bolívar Day)
Ancient Latvia – Jekaupa Diena held

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 472 - After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in Saint Peter's Basilica and put to death.
 1174 - Baldwin IV, aged 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.
 1302 – Battle of the Golden Spurs () – the Flemish cities beat the king of France.
 1346 – Charles IV of Luxembourg elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
 1405 - Ming Dynasty admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
 1502 - The Caribbean island of Hispaniola is ravaged by a hurricane, killing 500 people.
 1533 - King Henry VIII of England is excommunicated.
 1576 – Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
 1613 - Mikhail Romanov is crowned as Tsar of Russia. The Romanov Dynasty rules Russia until Tsar Nicholas II of Russia is removed during the Russian Revolution in 1917.
 1616 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
1735 - Dwarf planet Pluto is in Neptune's orbit for the last time until 1979.
 1740 – Jews expelled from Little Russia.
 1750 – Halifax, Nova Scotia almost completely destroyed by fire.
 1776 – Captain James Cook begins third voyage.
 1789 - Jacques Necker is dismissed as French finance minister, leading to the Storming of the Bastille three days later.
 1796 – The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
 1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
 1801 - French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. He will later go on to discover another 36 comets over the following 27 years - more than any other person has discovered.
 1804 – In a duel, Vice President Aaron Burr kills Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
1810 - Frederick Hasselborough sights the Sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, named after Lachlan Macquarie, the Scottish Governor of New South Wales. It currently belongs to Australia.
 1811 – Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoire about molecular content of gases.
 1848 – The Waterloo railway station in London opens.
 1859 – A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published.
 1864 – Confederate forces attempt an invasion of Washington, DC.
 1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
 1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
 1893 - A revolution led by general and politician Jose Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
 1895 – The brothers Lumière show movie for scientists.
 1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to try to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
1901  2000 
 1914 – Babe Ruth debuts in major league baseball.
 1914 - The warship USS Nevada (BB-36) is launched.
 1919 – Eight-hour working day and free Sunday made into law in the Netherlands.
 1921 – Truce called in the Irish War of Independence; see Irish calendar.
 1921 – Former US President William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.
 1921 – Mongolia becomes independent (from China).
 1930 - Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a world-record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a test match against England.
 1934 - Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport with assisted take-off.
 1936 – Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
1940 – Vichy Regime formally established in France. (and Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France).
 1943 – World War II: The Germans counter-attack on Sicily, following the start of the Allied invasion of the island.
 1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt says he will run for a fourth term as president of the United States.
 1950 - Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
 1955 – The phrase In God We Trust is added to all US currency.
 1957 - Prince Karim Hosseini becomes the Aga Khan IV.
 1960 – The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is published for the first time.
 1960 – Dahomey (now Benin), Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), and Niger all gain independence.
 1960 - The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
 1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
 1962 – Soviet cosmonaut Micolaev is four days in space, a record.
 1966 - The 1966 FIFA World Cup in England begins.
1971 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalised by the government of Salvador Allende.
 1972 - The first game of the 1972 World Chess Championship is played in Reykjavik, Iceland, in which Bobby Fischer ends up defeating Boris Spassky on September 1.
 1973 – A Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, resulting in the death of 122 people.
 1975 – Chinese archeologists discover a large burial site with 6,000 clay statutes of warriors from 221 BC.
 1977 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously rewarded the Medal of Freedom.
 1978 - Los Alfaques Disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain, killing 216 tourists.
 1979 – The space station Skylab returns to Earth.
 1982 – Defeating West Germany 3–1 at Santiago Bernabéu stadium, Italy wins the 1982 edition of the Football World Cup.
 1983 – A Boeing 727 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
1987 – According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 mark.
 1991 – A Nigerian DC-8 crashes while landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia killing 261
 1991 – Total solar eclipse in Hawaii, Pacific Ocean, Mexico and parts of Central and South America.
 1995 – Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam.
 1995 – Bosnian Serbs capture the Muslim city of Srebrenica. Many inhabitants are murdered, beginning the Srebrenica Massacre, the biggest massacre in Europe since World War II.
 1995 – A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov AN-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44.
From 2001 
 2006 – A series of bomb attacks devastates Mumbai, India, killing 207 people.
 2010 – 2010 FIFA World Cup: Spain wins the FIFA World Cup for the first time, after a 1-0 extra time win over the Netherlands, who had also never won the World Cup before. The game was overshadowed by some violent tackling, and referee Howard Webb gave out a record number of yellow cards for a World Cup final.
 2010 - Two suicide bombings occur in Kampala, Uganda, killing 74 people.
 2012 - Astronomers announce the discovery of Styx, a moon of Pluto.
 2013 - Luxembourg's government under Jean-Claude Juncker is brought down by a spy scandal.
 2016 - Theresa May is designated as leader of the British Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (from July 13) after Andrea Leadsom withdraws her candidacy. She succeeds David Cameron in both positions.

Births
Up to 1900 
 154 - Bardaisan, Syrian astrologer, scholar and philosopher (d. 222)
 1274 – King Robert I of Scotland, also known as "Robert the Bruce" (d. 1329)
 1366 – Anne of Bohemia, Queen Consort of England (d. 1394)
 1376 - King Ladislaus II of Naples (d. 1414)
 1603 - Kenelm Digby, English courtier and diplomat (d. 1665)
 1628 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese daimyo (d. 1701)
 1653 - Sarah Good, American woman accused of witchcraft (d. 1692)
 1657 – King Frederick I of Prussia (d. 1713)
 1662 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1726)
 1667 - Anna Maria de' Medici, Italian aristocrat (d. 1743)
 1709 – Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist (d. 1785)
 1723 - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and author (d. 1799)
 1732 - Jerome Lalande, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1807)
 1751 - Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (d. 1775) 
 1754 - Thomas Bowdler, English physician (d. 1825)
 1767 – John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (d. 1848)
1774 - Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist and mineralogist (d. 1854)
 1826 - Alexander Afanasyev, Russian author (d. 1871)
 1832 - Charilaos Trikoupis, 55th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1896)
 1832 - Carlos Holguin Mallarino, 24th President of Colombia (d. 1894)
 1834 - James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American painter (d. 1903)
 1846 – Léon Bloy, French writer (d. 1917)
 1851 - Millie and Christine McKoy, American conjoined twins (d. 1912)
 1857 - David Prain, Scottish physician (d. 1944)
 1866 - Princess Irene of Hesse and By Rhine (d. 1953)
 1867 - John J. Cornwell, American politician, Governor of West Virginia (d. 1953)
 1880 - Friedrich Lahrs, German architect (d. 1964)
 1881 - Isabel Martin Lewis, American astronomer (d. 1955)
 1882 – James Larkin White, American, discovered the Carlsbad Caverns (d. 1946)
 1886 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d. 1939)
 1888 - Carl Schmitt, German jurist and philosopher (d. 1985)
 1889 - Eduard Heimann, German economic and social scientist (d. 1967)
1890 - John S. Battle, American politician, Governor of Virginia (d. 1972)
 1892 - Trafford Leigh-Mallory, English Royal Air Force officer (d. 1944)
 1892 – Thomas Mitchell, American actor (d. 1962)
 1896 - Ludwik Fleck, Polish physician and biologist (d. 1961)
 1897 - Gregorio Fuentes, Lanzarote-born Cuban fisherman (d. 2002)
 1899 – E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)
 1899 - Wilfrid Israel, Anglo-German businessman and philanthropist (d. 1943)
1901  1950 
 1902 - Samuel Goudsmit, Dutch-American physicist (d. 1978)
 1906 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
 1912 - Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (d. 1996)
 1916 - Mortimer Caplin, American lawyer and educator (d. 2019)
 1916 – Gough Whitlam, 21st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2014)
 1916 – Alexander Prokhorov, Russian physicist (d. 2002)
 1916 – Reg Varney, English actor (d. 2008)
 1918 - Venetia Burney, English girl who named the dwarf planet Pluto (d. 2009)
 1920 – Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
 1920 - Zecharia Sitchin, Russian-American author (d. 2010)
 1921 – Ilse Werner, Dutch-born actress (d. 2005)
 1922 – Gene Evans, American actor (d. 1998)
 1923 – Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, Brazilian footballer (d. 2010)
 1923 - Richard Pipes, Polish-American historian and academic (d. 2018)
 1923 - Tun Tun, Indian playback singer, actress and comedienne (d. 2003)
 1924 - Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971)
1924 - Brett Somers, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2007)
 1925 - Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
 1927 - Theodore Maiman, American physicist (d. 2007)
 1928 - Greville Janner, British politician (d. 2015)
 1929 - David Kelly, Irish actor (d. 2012)
 1930 - Harold Bloom, American author and critic
 1930 - Murphy J. Foster Jr., American politician, former Governor of Louisiana (d. 2020)
 1931 - John N. Dalton, American politician, Governor of Virginia (d. 1986)
 1931 - Dick Gray, American baseball player (d. 2013)
 1931 - Tab Hunter, American actor (d. 2018)
 1931 - Tullio Regge, Italian physicist (d. 2014)
 1932 - Jean-Guy Talbot, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
 1933 - Frank Kelso, American admiral (d. 2013)
 1933 - A. J. Langguth, American historian and journalist (d. 2014)
 1934 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
 1935 - Oliver Napier, Irish politician (d. 2011)
 1939 - Seth Gaaikema, Dutch comedian and writer (d. 2014)
1943 – Rolf Stommelen, German racing driver (d. 1983)
 1943 - Howard Gardner, American psychologist
 1943 - Tom Holland, American actor, director and screenwriter
 1943 - Robert Malval, 5th Prime Minister of Haiti
 1944 - Lou Hudson, American basketball player (d. 2014)
 1947 - John Holt, Jamaican singer (d. 2014)
 1950 - Bonnie Pointer, American singer (The Pointer Sisters)
1951  1975 
 1951 - Vyacheslav Anisin, Russian ice hockey player
 1952 - Stephen Lang, American actor
 1952 - Bill Barber, Canadian ice hockey player
 1953 – Leon Spinks, American boxer
 1956 - Robin Renucci, French actor and director
 1957 - Johann Lamont, Scottish politician, leader of the Scottish Labour Party
 1957 - Peter Oborne, English journalist
 1958 - Hugo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
 1959 – Richie Sambora, American singer (Bon Jovi)
 1959 – Suzanne Vega, American singer
 1961 - Antony Jenkins, English businessman
 1962 - Pauline McLynn, Irish actress
 1963 - Lisa Rinna, American actress
 1964 - Kyril, Prince of Preslav
 1966 - Greg Grunberg, American actor
 1966 - Rod Strickland, American basketball player
 1966 - Mick Molloy, Australian actor, screenwriter and producer
 1970 - Justin Chambers, American actor
 1970 - Sajjad Karim, English politician
 1971 - Leisha Hailey, Japanese-American singer-songwriter and actress
 1972 – Jussi 69, Finnish musician
1972 - Michael Rosenbaum, American actor, director and producer
 1973 - Andrew Bird, American singer-songwriter and violinist
 1973 - Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
 1974 – Hermann Hreidarsson, Icelandic footballer
 1974 – André Ooijer, Dutch footballer
 1975 – Samer El Nahal, Finnish musician (Lordi)
 1975 – Lil' Kim, American rapper, singer and actress
 1975 - Choi Ji-woo, South Korean actress
 1975 – Nadya Suleman, American, famous mother of octuplets
From 1976 
 1979 – Eric Abidal, French footballer
 1979 - Im Soo-jung, South Korean actress
 1980 - Tyson Kidd, Canadian wrestler
 1983 - Marie Serneholt, Swedish singer
 1984 - Rachael Taylor, Australian actress
 1984 - Morné Steyn, South African rugby player
 1985 - Robert Adamson, American actor
 1985 - Aki Maeda, Japanese actress and singer
 1986 - Ian Cathro, Scottish football manager
 1986 – Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer
 1986 - Jonathan Sexton, Irish rugby player
 1989 - David Henrie, American actor
 1990 – Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player
 1990 - Mona Barthel, German tennis player
 1990 - Kelsey Sanders, American actress and singer
 1994 - Lucas Ocampos, Argentine footballer
 1994 - Nina Nesbitt, Scottish singer
 1996 - Alessia Cara, Canadian singer
 1996 - Tyler Medeiros, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 ca. 155 – Pope Pius I
 472 – Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Empire (legal murder)
 937 – Rudolph II of Burgundy (b. 880)
 969 – Olga of Kiev (b. 890)
 1174 - Amalric I of Jerusalem (b. 1136)
 1183 - Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1117)
 1302 - Robert II, Count of Artois (b. 1250)
 1535 - Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1484)
 1553 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)
 1688 – King Narai of Siam (b. 1629)
 1804 – Alexander Hamilton, United States Secretary of the Treasury (duel) (b. 1757)
 1825 - Thomas P. Grosvenor, American soldier and politician (b. 1744)
 1844 - Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
 1879 - William Allen, 31st Governor of Ohio (b. 1803)
1901  2000 
 1908 - Friedrich Traun, German tennis player (b. 1876)
 1909 - Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
 1916 – Jon Olafsson, Icelandic editor, journalist and poet (b. 1850)
 1920 - Eugénie de Montijo, Spanish wife of Napoleon III of France (b. 1826)
 1937 – George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)
 1941 - Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (b. 1851)
 1957 - Aga Khan III (b. 1877)
 1959 – Charlie Parker, cricketer (b. 1882)
 1962 - Owen D. Young, American lawyer, diplomat, industrialist and businessman (b. 1874)
 1966 - Delmore Schwartz, American poet and author (b. 1913)
 1967 - Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, judge and politician (b. 1917)
 1971 – John W. Campbell, science fiction writer and editor (b. 1910)
 1974 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
 1987 - Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
 1989 – Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor (b. 1907)
1991 – Hitoshi Igarashi, English-Japanese translator, of The Satanic Verses (b. 1947)
 1991 - Mokhtar Dahari, Malaysian footballer (b. 1953)
 1994 – Gary Kildall, computer programmer (b. 1942)
 1995 - Don Starr, American actor (b. 1917)
 1999 – Helen Forrest, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
 2000 – Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
From 2001 
 2001 – Herman Brood, singer and artist (suicide) (b. 1946)
 2003 – Zahra Kazemi, Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer (b. 1949)
 2004 – Laurance Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910)
 2005 – Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)
 2007 – Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
 2007 – Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, 32nd President of Colombia (b. 1913)
 2008 – Michael DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor (b. 1908)
 2009 – Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer (b. 1972)
 2010 – Bob Sheppard, American announcer (b. 1910)
 2011 - Tom Gehrels, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1925)
 2013 - Zeb Alley, American politician (b. 1928)
 2013 - Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician (b. 1936)
 2014 - Charlie Haden, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
 2014 - Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American musician (b. 1952)
 2014 - Howard Cooke, Governor-General of Jamaica (b. 1915)
 2014 - John Seigenthaler, American journalist and writer (b. 1927)
2014 - Carin Mannheimer, Swedish writer (b. 1934)
 2014 - Ray Lonnen, British actor (b. 1940)
 2014 - Randall Stout, American architect (b. 1958)
 2015 - Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (b. 1928)
 2015 - Satoru Iwata, Japanese President and CEO of Nintendo (b. 1959)
 2015 - James U. Cross, American military pilot and author (b. 1920)
 2015 - Hussein Fatal, American rapper (b. 1977)
 2016 - John Brademas, American politician and educator (b. 1927)
 2016 - Emma Cohen, Spanish actress (b. 1946)
 2016 - Elaine Fantham, English classicist (b. 1933)
 2016 - Corrado Farina, Italian movie director, screenwriter and novelist (b. 1939)
 2016 - Jim Metzen, American politician (b. 1943)
 2017 - Fikret Hakan, Turkish actor (b. 1934)
 2017 - Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Italian musicologist and composer (b. 1929)
 2017 - Denis Mack Smith, British historian (b. 1920)
 2017 - Buddy Wolfe, American professional wrestler (b. 1941)
 2018 - Richard John Garcia, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1947)
2018 - Liu Zhenhua, Chinese general and politician (b. 1921)
 2018 - Pat Swindall, American politician (b. 1950)
 2018 - Abdelkhader Houamel, Algerian painter (b. 1936)
 2018 - Mai Tai Sing, American actress and businesswoman (b. 1923)
 2019 - Brendan Grace, Irish actor, comedian and singer (b. 1951)
Observances 
 Feast Day of Saint Benedict of Nursia
 Day of the Flemish Community in Belgium
 First Day of Naadam (Mongolia)
 National Day of Commemoration (Republic of Ireland)
 Eleventh Night (Northern Ireland)
 World Population Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 927 - Aethelstan, King of England, secures a pledge from Constantine II of Scotland that he (Constantine) will not ally with Viking Kings, beginning the process of unifying Great Britain.
 1191 - Third Crusade: Saladin's garrison surrenders to Philip Augustus, ending the two-year siege of Acre.
 1470 - The Ottoman Empire capture Euboea.
 1493 - Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published.
 1543 – King Henry VIII of England married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace.
 1561 - Moscow's St. Basil's Cathedral is consecrated.
 1562 - Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the sacred books of the Maya.
 1573 – Spanish forces under the Duke of Alva capture Haarlem after a seven-month siege.
 1580 - The Ostrog Bible is published. It is one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language.
1690 – Williamite War in Ireland: Battle of the Boyne (Gregorian calendar) – The army of William III of England defeats that of the deposed King James VII of Scotland and II of England.
 1691 – Williamite War in Ireland: Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar) – The decisive victory of William III's forces in Ireland.
 1730 - Lorenzo Corsini, in old age and almost blind, becomes Pope Clement XII.
 1759 – Seven Years' War – French and Indian War: British cannon start firing on French at Quebec City, from Lévis, Quebec.
 1776 - James Cook begins his voyage.
 1801 - French Revolutionary Wars: British Royal Navy ships inflict heavy damage against Spanish and French ships in the Second Battle of Algeciras.
 1806 – Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and formed the Confederation of the Rhine. On the same day, Liechtenstein is granted full sovereignty.
 1812 – War of 1812: The United States invades Canada at Windsor, Ontario.
 1862 – Medal of Honor authorized by the United States Congress.
1879 - The National Guards Unit of Bulgaria is founded.
 1892 – A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side of Mont Blanc, flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers in Saint Gervais.
1901  2000 
 1906 - French military officer Alfred Dreyfus is rehabilitated after his wrongful conviction in the so-called Dreyfus Trial over 12 years earlier.
 1913 - Second Balkan War: Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin.
 1917 - World War I: German troops first use mustard gas.
 1917 - Bisbee Deportation: Vigilantes kidnap and deport near 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
 1918 - Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachiblows up at Shunan, Western Honshu, killing 621 people.
 1920 - In the Soviet-Lithuanian Peace Treaty, Soviet Russia recognizes Lithuanian independence.
 1924 - The marathon at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris is run in the heat of 45 degrees Celsius. Only 15 out of 38 runners reach the finish line. Paavo Nurmi of Finland finishes first.
 1932 – Lambeth Bridge, London, opened by King George V of the United Kingdom
1932 – Hedley Verity establishes a first-class record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
 1933 – Congress passes the first federal minimum wage law in the United States: 33 cents per hour.
 1943 – World War II: Battle of Kursk – German and Soviet forces engage in largest tank engagement of all time.
 1950 – René Pleven becomes Prime Minister of France.
 1960 – Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
 1961 - Due to heavy rain, two reservoirs in the Indian state of Maharashtra break, causing heavy flooding in the city of Pune, killing 1,000 to 2,000 people.
 1962 - The Rolling Stones perform their first concert at the Marquee Club in London.
 1967 – Four days of race riots begin in Newark, New Jersey that will claim the lives of 27 people.
 1970 - Fire destroys the wooden home of Norwegian composer Geir Tveitt. 90 percent of his output is destroyed.
1971 - The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time.
 1973 – The 1973 National Archives Fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center.
 1975 – São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence.
 1979 – The island nation of Kiribati declares independence.
 1979 – Reinhold Messner and Michael Dacher climb to the top of K2 without oxygen supplies.
 1979 – Disco Demolition Night held at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois
 1993 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off the shore of Hokkaido, Japan launches a devastating tsunami, killing 202 on the small island of Okushiri.
 1998 – KDE 1.0 released.
 1998 – 1998 FIFA World Cup: The France national football team beats the Brazil national football team 3-0, to win the FIFA World Cup for the first time, and in front of their home support. Before the final, there had been controversy over whether Brazil's Ronaldo would play in the game.
From 2001 
 2002 – Gay rights: The Superior Court of Ontario orders Ontario to recognize same-sex marriages.
 2004 – An earthquake strikes in Posočje, Slovenia, with 2 dead, and measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale.
 2004 – Pedro Santana Lopes is officially appointed Prime Minister of Portugal.
 2005 – Prince Albert II is enthroned as ruler of the Principality of Monaco.
 2006 – War erupts between Israel and Lebanon.
 2012 - A tank truck explosion in Okogie, Nigeria, kills over 100 people.
 2013 - Malala Yousafzai speaks at the UN Headquarters on her 16th birthday, in support of education for all.
 2013 - A train crash near Paris kills 6 people.
 2014 - 2014 FIFA World Cup: After being humiliated a few days earlier (7-1) by the Germany national football team in the Semi-Final, the Brazil national football team, hosting the tournament, also loses the Third-Place play-off against the Netherlands national football team, 3-0.
 2016 - A train collision in Apulia, South-eastern Italy, kills 27 people.
2017 - A massive iceberg, 5,800 square kilometres (2,200 square miles) large, breaks away from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica.
 2017 - Malta's parliament votes to legalise same-sex marriage.
 2018 - US President Donald Trump starts a four-day visit to the United Kingdom.
 2019 - Asasey hotel attack: Gunmen storm the Asasey hotel in Kismayo, Somalia, killing 26 people.
Births

Up to 1850 
 100 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman soldier and politician (d. 44 BC)
 1394 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d. 1441)
 1468 – Juan del Encina, poet and composer
 1596 – Tsar Michael I of Russia (d. 1645)
 1607 - Jean Petitot, Swiss painter (d. 1691)
 1675 - Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1742)
 1730 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (d. 1795)
 1784 - Juan Mora Fernandez, Costa Rican Head of State (d. 1854)
 1803 - Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841)
 1807 – Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (d. 1893)
 1813 – Claude Bernard, French physiologist (d. 1878)
 1817 – Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher (d. 1862)
 1819 – Charles Kingsley, English writer (d. 1875)
 1824 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)
 1828 - Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (d. 1889)
 1849 – Sir William Osler, Canadian physician, writer, professor of medicine (d. 1919)
 1850 – Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (d. 1912)
1851  1900 
 1852 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (d. 1933)
 1854 – George Eastman, American inventor (d. 1932)
 1854 - Juan Gualberto Gómez, Cuban revolutionary leader (d. 1933)
 1855 – Edward 'Ned' Hanlan, rower (d. 1908)
 1861 - Anton Arensky, Russian composer, pianist and educator (d. 1906)
 1863 - Albert Calmette, French physician (d. 1933)
 1863 - Paul Drude, German physicist (d. 1906)
 1864 – George Washington Carver, American botanist (d. 1943)
 1868 – Stefan George, German poet (d. 1933)
 1870 – Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949)
 1876 – Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944)
 1880 – Tod Browning, American movie director (d. 1962)
 1884 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920)
 1886 – Jean Hersholt, Danish movie director and actor (d. 1956)
 1892 – Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1942)
 1892 – Harry Piel, actor, movie director, and producer (d. 1963)
 1895 – Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (d. 1962)
 1895 – R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect (d. 1983)
1901  1950 
 1902 – Günther Anders, philosopher and writer (d. 1992)
 1904 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize recipient (d. 1973)
 1905 – Prince John of the United Kingdom (d. 1919)
 1906 - Pietro Tordi, Italian actor (d. 1990)
 1908 – Milton Berle, American comedian (d. 2002)
 1909 – Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (d. 1993)
 1909 - Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer (d. 1999)
 1913 – Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
 1916 - Robert E. Gilka, American photojournalist (d. 2013)
 1917 – Andrew Wyeth, American artist (d. 2009)
 1920 – Beah Richards, American actress (d. 2000)
 1920 – Pierre Berton, Canadian journalist and writer (d. 2004)
 1922 – Mark Hatfield, U.S. Senator and Governor from Oregon (d. 2011)
 1922 – Michael Ventris, English architect and philologist (d. 1956)
 1923 - René Favaloro, Argentine heart surgeon (d. 2000)
 1923 - Jonás Gómez Gallo, Chilean businessman and politician (d. 2019)
 1925 – Roger B. Smith, American automobile executive
1926 - Carl Adam Petri, German mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2010)
 1927 - Conte Candoli, American trumpeter (d. 2001)
 1928 - Jo Myong-rok, North Korean politician (d. 2010)
 1928 – Elias James Corey, American chemist
 1928 - Kathy Staff, English actress (d. 2008)
 1930 – Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director, and writer
 1932 – Otis Davis, American runner
 1932 - Monte Hellman, American movie director, producer and editor
 1932 - Eddy Wally, Belgian singer (d. 2016)
 1933 - Brian Cant, English actor, presenter and writer (d. 2017)
 1933 – Donald E. Westlake, American writer (d. 2008)
 1934 – Van Cliburn, American pianist (d. 2013)
 1935 - Roy Barraclough, English actor (d. 2017)
 1935 – Hans Tilkowski, German footballer
 1937 – Bill Cosby, American comedian and actor
 1937 – Lionel Jospin, former Prime Minister of France
 1937 - Michel Louvin, Canadian singer
 1938 - Jaishankar, Indian actor (d. 2000)
 1943 - Paul Silas, American basketball player and coach
1943 – Christine McVie, singer, musician, and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
 1944 - Delia Ephron, American author, screenwriter and playwright
 1945 - Leopoldo Mastelloni, Italian actor
 1946 – Valentina Tolkunova, Russian singer (d. 2010)
 1946 – Gareth Edwards, Welsh rugby player
 1947 - Wilko Johnson, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
 1948 – Richard Simmons, American fitness trainer, actor, comedian, producer and writer
 1948 – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sufi musician (d. 1997)
 1948 - Jay Thomas, American actor (d. 2017)
 1948 - Ben Burtt, American sound designer
 1948 - Walter Egan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1950 – Eric Carr, American drummer (Kiss) (d. 1991)
 1950 - Gilles Meloche, Canadian ice hockey player
1951  1975 
 1951 - Cheryl Ladd, American actress and singer
 1952 - Voja Antonic, Serbian inventor and journalist
 1952 - Irina Bokova, Bulgarian politician, Director-General of UNESCO
 1952 - Philip Taylor Kramer, American bass player (Iron Butterfly) (d. 1995)
 1952 - Liz Mitchell, Jamaican performer (Boney M)
 1953 – John Ausonius, Swedish criminal
 1954 – Wolfgang Dremmler, German footballer
 1955 - Jimmy LaFave, American singer-songwriter and folk musician (d. 2017)
 1956 - Mario Soto, Dominican baseball player
 1957 - Dave Semenko, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
 1959 - King Tupou VI of Tonga
 1959 - Charlie Murphy, American actor and writer (d. 2016)
 1960 - Corynne Charby, French model, actress and singer
 1961 - Masaaki Mori, Japanese footballer
 1961 - Shiva Rajkumar, Indian actor, singer and producer
 1962 - Luc De Vos, Belgian musician and writer (d. 2014)
 1962 - Dean Wilkins, English footballer
 1964 – Gaby Roslin, English television presenter
1966 - Annabel Croft, English tennis player
 1966 - Tamsin Greig, English actress
 1966 - Ana Torrent, Spanish actress
 1967 – Richard Herring, English comedian
 1967 - John Petrucci, American guitarist
 1967 - Bruny Surin, Haitian-Canadian athlete
 1969 - Jesse Pintado, American guitarist (d. 2006)
 1969 - Chantal Jouanno, French politician
 1971 – Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater
 1972 – Travis Best, NBA player
 1973 - Magoo, American rapper
 1973 – Christian Vieri, Italian footballer
 1974 – Stelios Giannakopoulos, Greek footballer
 1974 - Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer and composer
 1974 - Gregory Helms, American professional wrestler
 1975 - Cheyenne Jackson, American actor and singer
 1975 - Carolina Kasting, Brazilian actress
 1975 - Anastassia Michaeli, Israeli journalist, television presenter and politician
From 1976 
 1976 – Anna Friel, English actress
 1977 – Brock Lesnar, American professional wrestler
 1978 – Topher Grace, American actor
 1978 - Michelle Rodriguez, American actress
 1980 - Tom Price, Welsh actor
 1982 – Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer
 1984 – Gareth Gates, English singer
 1984 - Michael McGovern, Northern Irish footballer
 1985 - Emil Hegle Svendsen, Norwegian biathlete
 1985 - Paulo Vitor Barreto, Brazilian footballer
 1986 – Simone Laudehr, German footballer
 1986 - Didier Digard, French footballer
 1986 - Krystal Forscutt, Australian model, actress and singer
 1988 - Patrick Beverley, American basketball player
 1989 - Nick Palmieri, American ice hockey player
 1989 - Phoebe Tonkin, Australian actress and model
 1991 - James Rodríguez, Colombian footballer
 1991 – Erik Per Sullivan, American actor
 1992 – Eoghan Quigg, Northern Irish singer
 1995 - Luke Shaw, English footballer
 1995 - Jordyn Wieber, American artistic gymnast
 1996 – Jordan Romero, American mountain climber
1996 - Moussa Dembélé, French footballer
 1997 - Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for education
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 783 – Bertrada, wife of Pippin III (b. 720)
 1441 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (b. 1394)
 1536 – Erasmus, Dutch writer and philosopher (b. around 1466)
 1645 - Tsar Michael I of Russia (b. 1596)
 1664 – Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (b. 1610)
 1682 – Jean Picard, French astronomer (b. 1620)
 1712 – Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1626)
 1742 - Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Italian composer (b. 1675)
 1773 – Johann Joachim Quantz, German flutist and composer (b. 1697)
 1804 – Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1755)
 1838 - Ezra Butler, American politician, Governor of Vermont (b. 1763)
 1845 – Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian writer (b. 1808)
 1845 - Ludwig Persius, Prussian architect (b. 1803)
 1855 - Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (b. 1802)
 1849 – Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (b. 1768)
 1892 - Alexander Cartwright, American inventor of baseball (b. 1820)
1901  2000 
 1901 - Richard B. Hubbard, 17th Governor of Texas (b. 1832)
 1910 – Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and aviator (b. 1887)
 1918 – Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (b. 1864)
 1923 - William P. Dillingham, Governor of Vermont (b. 1843)
 1926 – Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (b. 1868)
 1931 – Nathan Söderblom, Swedish clergyman, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1866)
 1934 - Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor (b. 1877)
 1935 – Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (b. 1859)
 1944 - Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1887)
 1945 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1871)
 1945 - Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (b. 1895)
 1947 - Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
 1949 – Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
 1950 – Elsie De Wolfe, actress and interior decorator (b. 1865)
 1960 - Buddy Adler, American movie producer (b. 1909)
1962 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907)
 1969 - Henry George Lamond, Australian novelist (b. 1885)
 1978 - Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere, English politician and media magnate (b. 1898)
 1979 - Minnie Riperton, American singer (b. 1947)
 1982 - Kenneth More, English actor (b. 1914)
 1988 – Josh Logan, movie director and writer
 1990 - Joao Saldanha, Brazilian footballer, manager and journalist (b. 1917)
 1996 – John Chancellor, American television journalist (b. 1927)
 1996 – Jonathan Melvoin, musician and keyboardist (The Smashing Pumpkins) (b. 1961)
 1998 - Jimmy Driftwood, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (b. 1907)
 1999 – Bill Owen, British actor (b. 1914)
 1999 – Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1929)
From 2001 
 2003 – Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907)
 2007 – Kesha Wizzart, British singer (b. 1988)
 2008 - Tony Snow, American journalist (b. 1955)
 2010 – Günter Behnisch, German architect (b. 1922)
 2010 – Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer and artist (b. 1939)
 2011 - Sherwood Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1916)
 2012 - Dara Singh, Indian wrestler and actor (b. 1928)
 2013 - Pran, Indian actor (b. 1920)
 2013 - Amar Bose, American sound engineer and entrepreneur (b. 1929)
 2013 - Alan Whicker, English broadcaster (b. 1925)
 2014 - Nestor Basterretxea, Basque artist (b. 1924)
 2014 - Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Russian liberal politician (b. 1950)
 2014 - Emil Bobu, Romanian politician (b. 1927)
 2014 - Kenneth J. Gray, American politician (b. 1924)
 2014 - Alberto Cassano, Argentine engineer and academic (b. 1935)
 2015 - Chenjerai Hove, Zimbabwean writer (b. 1956)
 2015 - Cheng Siwei, Chinese economist (b. 1935)
2015 - Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist monk (b. 1950)
 2015 - Javier Krahe, Spanish singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
 2016 - Zygmunt Zimowski, Polish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1949)
 2017 - Chuck Blazer, American soccer administrator (b. 1945)
 2017 - Gerrit Braks, Dutch politician (b. 1933)
 2017 - Sam Glanzman, American comic artist (b. 1924)
 2017 - Tamara Miansarova, Russian pop singer (b. 1931)
 2017 - Ray Phiri, South African jazz musician (b. 1947)
 2017 - Tod Sloan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
 2018 - Abbas Amir-Entezam, Iranian politician and political prisoner (b. 1932)
 2018 - Alain Fauré, French politician (b. 1962)
 2018 - Roger Perry, American actor (b. 1933)
 2018 - Dada Vaswani, Indian spiritual leader and writer (b. 1918)
 2018 - Robert Wolders, Dutch actor (b. 1936)
 2018 - Xerardo Fernández Albor, Spanish politician, President of Galicia (b. 1917)
 2019 - Fernando J. Corbató, American computer scientist (b. 1926)
 2019 - Hodan Nalayeh, Somali-Canadian journalist (b. 1976)
2019 - Claudio Naranjo, Chilean psychiatrist (b. 1932)
 2019 - M. J. Radhakrishnan, Indian cinematographer (b. 1957/1958)
 2019 - Jean-Pierre Worms, French sociologist and politician (b. 1934)
Observances 
 Independence Day in Kiribati and São Tomé and Príncipe
 Second Day of Naadam (Mongolia)
 The Twelfth, or Orangeman's Day, commemorating the Battle of the Boyne (Northern Ireland)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 48 BC – Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
 988 – Founding date of the city of Dublin.
 1212 – London is almost completely destroyed by fire.
 1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes Henry VI of England prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
 1499 – Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion to Vasco da Gama, who died on December 24 the previous year.
 1519 – Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming Dynasty Zhengde Emperor as a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
 1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the English throne following the death of 15-year-old Edward VI of England on July 6. She becomes known as the "Nine-day queen".
 1584 – William I of Orange is assassinated in Delft by Balthasar Gérard.
 1645 – English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
 1789 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River Delta.
 1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
 1832 – US president Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
 1850 – Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th president of the United States.
 1882 – War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepcion when a garrison of 77 men is virtually wiped out by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
 1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
1901  1950 
 1908 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes manages to turn helium into liquid.
 1913 – Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States. In 2012 it is also recognized as the hottest-recorded temperature in the world after a record set in Libya in 1922 is discredited.
 1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses are destroyed during rioting and gun battles.
 1925 – Meher Baba begins his 44-year silence.
 1925 – The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union, is established.
 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
 1931 – Norway annexes Erik Raudes Land (Eric the Red Land) in eastern Greenland.
 1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.
1940 – World War II: Vichy France government established.
 1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – The German Luftwaffe begin to hit British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
 1942 – The Netherlands and Soviet Union start diplomatic relations.
 1943 – World War II: Operation Husky – British, American and Canadian troops land on Sicily.
 1945 – Saarland changes its occupying force from American to French.
 1946 – A hyperinflation (a big and quick increase in prices) record is set in Hungary.
 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British prime minister Clement Attlee.