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1951  2000 
 1951 – Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin.
 1951 – Randy Turpin becomes the middleweight boxing champion after defeating Sugar Ray Robinson.
 1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
 1967 – Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
 1968 – Maurice Couve de Murville becomes prime minister of France
 1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the British Commonwealth.
 1973 – The National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh as an independent state.
 1976 – An environmental disaster occurs at a chemical plant in Seveso, Italy.
 1978 – Moktar Ould Daddah is ousted in a coup as president of Mauritania.
 1980 – London's Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
 1985 – Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by French DGSE agents.
1985 – In response to market demand, Coca-Cola re-introduces its old formula cola as "Coca-Cola Classic" (see New Coke).
 1991 – Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected president of Russia.
 1991 – The South African cricket team is re-admitted to the International Cricket Council after being banned for its Apartheid policy.
 1992 – In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
 1997 – London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
 1998 – The remains of United States Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Joseph Blassie are returned to his family in St. Louis, Missouri from the Tomb of the Unknowns upon identification through DNA analysis. The remains had been in the first tomb since 1984.
1998 – Catholic priests' sex abuse scandal: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
 2000 – A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
 2000 – EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group, is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
From 2001 
 2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" is sold for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Kenneth Thomson.
 2003 – A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest bus accident to date in Hong Kong.
 2003 – Wikibooks, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, is created.
 2006 – For the first time in history, the positions of president and prime minister in a country are held by twin brothers (In Poland, with Lech Kaczynski and Jaroslaw Kaczynski respectively).
 2010 – A week-long manhunt comes to an end in Northumberland, England, when fugitive criminal Raoul Moat commits suicide by gunshot after a stand-off with police.
 2011 – British Sunday tabloid newspaper, The News of the World, ends publication after a major phone-hacking scandal.
2011 – Russian river cruiser Bulgaria sinks on the Volga River, killing over 100 people.
 2016 – Portugal wins UEFA Euro 2016, defeating host nation France in extra time in the final.
 2019 – Kim Darroch resigns as Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the United States following a leak of comments criticising the administration of Donald Trump and Trump's subsequent reaction to them.
Up to 1900 
 1419 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
 1451 – James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
 1509 – John Calvin, Swiss reformer (d. 1564)
 1515 – Francisco de Toledo, Spanish Viceroy of Peru (d. 1582)
 1517 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal (d. 1571)
 1592 – Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist (d. 1660)
 1625 – Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)
 1640 – Aphra Behn, English writer, spy and feminist (d. 1689)
 1682 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
 1723 – William Blackstone, English jurist, professor and politician (d. 1780)
 1724 – Eva Ekeblad, Swedish countess and scientist (d. 1786)
 1736 – Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807)
 1792 – George M. Dallas, 11th vice president of the United States (d. 1864)
 1804 – Emma Smith, American religious leader (d. 1879)
 1830 – Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
 1832 – Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
 1834 – James McNeill Whistler, American painter (d. 1903)
1835 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)
 1839 – Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)
 1849 – John W. Griggs, American politician (d. 1927)
 1856 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian physicist and inventor (d. 1943)
 1867 – Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
 1871 – Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
 1871 – Hugh M. Dorsey, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1948)
 1872 – Ivar Wickman, Swedish physician (d. 1914)
 1874 – Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
 1875 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator (d. 1955)
 1877 – Hélène Dutrieux, Belgian pilot (d. 1961)
 1883 – Friedrich Flick, German industrialist and Nazi war criminal (d. 1972)
 1888 – Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978)
 1888 – Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese evangelist, author and activist (d. 1960)
 1894 – Jimmy McHugh, American composer (d. 1969)
 1895 – Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
 1895 – Nahum Goldmann, founder of the World Jewish Congress (d. 1982)
1897 – Karl Plagge, German army officer, engineer and humanitarian (d. 1957)
 1899 – John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
 1899 – Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
1901  1925 
 1902 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
 1903 – John Wyndham, British writer (d. 1969)
 1903 – Werner Best, German SS officer (d. 1989)
 1904 – Lili Damita, French-American actress (d. 1994)
 1905 – Wolfram Sievers, German Nazi physician (d. 1948)
 1907 – Blind Boy Fuller, American singer and guitarist (d. 1941)
 1914 – Joe Shuster, Canadian cartoonist (d. 1992)
 1917 – Don Herbert, American television host and producer (d. 2007)
 1917 – Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (d. 1998)
 1919 – Pierre Gamarra, French poet and writer (d. 2009)
 1920 – David Brinkley, American television reporter (d. 2003)
 1920 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
 1921 – Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)
 1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist (d. 2009)
 1922 – Jake LaMotta, American boxer (d. 2017)
 1922 – Herb McKenley, Jamaican sprinter (d. 2007)
 1923 – Jean Kerr, American writer (d. 2003)
1923 – Earl Hamner Jr., American writer and television producer (d. 2016)
 1924 – Johnny Bach, American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
 1924 – Bobo Brazil, American wrestler (d. 1998)
 1925 – Mahathir Mohamad, 4th and 7th prime minister of Malaysia
1926  1950 
 1926 – Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)
 1927 – Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician (d. 2018)
 1927 – David Dinkins, 106th Mayor of New York City
 1929 – Winnie Ewing, Scottish lawyer and politician
 1929 – George Clayton Johnson, American writer (d. 2015)
 1929 – Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (d. 2004)
 1930 – Susan Cummings, German-American actress (d. 2016)
 1931 – Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)
 1931 – Alice Munro, Canadian writer
 1932 – Carlo Maria Abate, Italian racing driver (d. 2019)
 1933 – C.K. Yang, Taiwanese decathlete and pole vaulter (d. 2007)
 1934 – Alfred Biolek, German entertainer
 1934 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor (d. 2012)
 1936 – Lois Lilienstein, Canadian singer and musician (Sharon, Lois & Bram) (d. 2015)
 1937 – Edwards Barham, American businessman and politician (d. 2014)
 1938 – Paul Andreu, French architect
 1939 – Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
1940 – Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, Indian-English economist and politician
 1940 – Tom Farmer, Scottish businessman
 1940 – Helen Donath, American soprano
 1940 – Erich Iltgen, German politician (d. 2019)
 1941 – David G. Hartwell, American critic, publisher and editor (d. 2016)
 1942 – Pyotr Klimuk, Soviet cosmonaut
 1942 – Sixto Rodriguez, Mexican-American folk musician and singer-songwriter
 1942 – Ronnie James Dio, American musician (d. 2010)
 1943 – Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian-Dutch academic (d. 2010)
 1943 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
 1945 – Virginia Wade, English tennis player
 1945 – Ron Glass, American actor
 1945 – John Motson, English sports broadcaster
 1946 – Stuart Christie, Scottish anarchist and writer
 1946 – Sue Lyon, American actress
 1946 – Henryk Kasperczak, Polish footballer and coach
 1947 – Arlo Guthrie, American musician
 1950 – Prokopis Pavlopoulos, president of Greece
1951  1975 
 1951 – Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
 1952 – Lee Hae-chan, former prime minister of South Korea
 1954 – Neil Tennant, British musician (Pet Shop Boys)
 1957 – Cindy Sheehan, American activist
 1958 – Fiona Shaw, Irish actress
 1958 – Bela Fleck, American musician
 1959 – Anjani, American singer-songwriter and pianist
 1965 – Princess Alexa of Greece and Denmark
 1968 – Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
 1970 – John Simm, English actor
 1970 – Jason Orange, English singer (Take That)
 1970 – Lisa Coleman, English actress
 1970 – Adam Hills, Australian comedian, actor and presenter
 1971 – Adam Foote, Canadian ice hockey player
 1972 – Peter Serafinowicz, English comedian
 1972 – Sofía Vergara, Colombian actress
 1972 – Tilo Wolff, German singer, pianist and composer
 1973 – Annie Mumolo, American actress, screenwriter and producer
 1974 – Daniele Adani, Italian footballer
 1974 – Imelda May, Irish singer-songwriter
 1975 – Andrew Firestone, American businessman
1975 – Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
 1975 – Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor (d. 2018)
From 1976 
 1976 – Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
 1976 – Adrian Grenier, American actor
 1976 – Lars Ricken, German footballer
 1977 – Schapelle Corby, Australian criminal
 1977 – Chiwetel Ejiofor, British actor
 1977 – Levan Kobiashvili, Georgian footballer
 1977 – Moktar Ali Zubeyr, Somali militant (d. 2014)
 1979 – Tobias Unger, German athlete
 1980 – Katrina Bryan, Scottish actress
 1980 – Alejandro Millan, Mexican singer-songwriter and keyboardist
 1980 – Thomas Ian Nicholas, British actor
 1980 – Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
 1980 – James Rolfe, American actor, director and producer
 1980 – Jessica Simpson, American singer
 1981 – Aleksandar Tunchev, Bulgarian footballer
 1982 – Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
 1983 – Kim Heechul, South Korean singer and actor
 1983 – Golshifteh Farahani, Iranian actress, musician and singer
 1984 – María Julia Mantilla, Peruvian model
 1985 – Park Chu-young, South Korean footballer
 1985 – Mario Gómez, German footballer
1989 – Carlos Zambrano, Peruvian footballer
 1990 – Sung Joon, South Korean model and actress
 1991 – Matsuko Maeda, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48)
 1993 – Perrie Edwards, English singer (Little Mix)
 1995 – Ada Hegerberg, Norwegian footballer
 1997 – Rena Kato, Japanese singer, dancer, model and actress
 1998 – Haley Pullos, American actress
 2001 – Isabela Moner, American actress and singer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 138 – Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
 649 – Emperor Taizong of Tang of China (b. 598)
 983 – Pope Benedict VII
 1103 – Eric I of Denmark
 1290 – Ladislaus II of Hungary (b. 1262)
 1461 – Stephen Thomas of Bosnia (b. 1412)
 1510 – Caterina Comaro, Queen of Cyprus
 1559 – Henry II of France (b. 1519)
 1584 – William the Silent (William of Orange), Dutch leader (b. 1533)
 1590 – Archduke Charles II of Austria, regent of Inner Austria (b. 1540)
 1805 – Thomas Wedgwood, English photography pioneer (b. 1771)
 1806 – George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
 1820 – William Wyatt Bibb, American politician, 1st Governor of Alabama (b. 1781)
 1851 – Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist (b. 1787)
 1881 – Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect and educator (b. 1812)
 1884 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
1901  2000 
 1908 – Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (b. 1839)
 1910 – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (b. 1812)
 1920 – Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
 1927 – Louise Abbéma, French painter (b. 1853)
 1934 – Erich Mühsam, German writer, journalist and anarchist (b. 1878)
 1941 – Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz musician (b. 1890)
 1970 – Bjarni Benediktsson, prime minister of Iceland (b. 1908)
 1972 – Lovie Austin, American pianist, composer and bandleader (b. 1887)
 1978 – John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)
 1978 – Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
 1979 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
 1985 – Fernando Pereira, Portuguese-Dutch photographer (b. 1950)
 1987 – John Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
 1989 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
From 2001 
 2003 – Lord Shawcross, Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
 2003 – Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
 2004 – Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Portuguese politician (b. 1930)
 2004 – Inge Meysel, German actress (b. 1910)
 2008 – Hiroaki Aoki, Japanese-American wrestler and businessman (b. 1938)
 2010 – Raoul Moat, British fugitive criminal (b. 1973)
 2010 – Sugar Minott, Jamaican musician (b. 1956)
 2011 – Roland Petit, French choreographer (b. 1924)
 2012 – Lol Coxhill, English saxophonist (b. 1933)
 2013 – Concha García Campoy, Spanish journalist (b. 1958)
 2013 – Ibrahim Youssef, Egyptian footballer (b. 1959)
 2014 – Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress and choreographer (b. 1912)
 2014 – Robert C. Broomfield, American judge (b. 1933)
 2015 – Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (b. 1932)
 2015 – Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor (b. 1944)
 2015 – Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
 2016 – Robert E. Cooper, Sr., American judge (b. 1920)
2016 – Anatoli Isayev, Russian footballer (b. 1932)
 2016 – Alfred G. Knudson, American geneticist (b. 1927)
 2017 – Jim Bush, American track and field coach (b. 1926)
 2017 – Isabelle Sadoyan, French actress (b. 1928)
 2017 – Mangesh Tendulkar, Indian cartoonist (b. 1935)
 2017 – Augustin Buzura, Romanian writer and journalist (b. 1937)
 2018 – Clive King, English author (b. 1924)
 2018 – John Laird, Baron Laird, British politician (b. 1944)
 2018 – Henry Morgenthau III, American author and television producer (b. 1917)
 2018 – Jan Henry T. Olsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1956)
 2018 – Darryl Rogers, American football coach (b. 1935)
 2018 – José María Setién, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1928)
 2018 – Mien Schopman-Klaver, Dutch athlete (b. 1911)
 2018 – John A. Stormer, American political writer (b. 1928)
 2018 – Ye Lwin, Burmese guitarist and peace activist (b. 1947)
 2019 – Paulo Henrique Amorim, Brazilian journalist (b. 1942)
2019 – Jim Bouton, American baseball player, writer and actor (b. 1939)
 2019 – Valentina Cortese, Italian actress (b. 1923)
 2019 – Motto McLean, Scottish-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
 2019 – Walt Michaels, American football player and coach (b. 1929)
 2019 – Denise Nickerson, American actress (b. 1957)
Observances 
 Independence Day – the Bahamas
 Statehood Day – Wyoming
 Silence Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 356 BC  The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (present-day Turkey), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is destroyed in an arson attack.
 230  Pope Pontian succeeds Pope Urban I.
 285  Diocletian appoints Maximian as Roman Caesar and co-ruler.
 365  After a magnitude 8 earthquake, and a tsunami, around 50,000 people are killed in and around Alexandria, Egypt.
 1342  The St. Mary Magdalene's flood leads to several rivers in central Europe bursting their banks. It is Europe's worst flood of the second millennium.
 1403  Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels in the north of the county of Shropshire.
 1545  The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight, during the island's French invasion.
 1645  Qing Dynasty regent Dorgon issues an edict ordering all Han Chinese men to shave their forehead and braid the rest of their hair into a queue identical to those of the Manchus.
 1656  The Raid on Malaga takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1718  The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
 1774  The First Russo-Turkish War ends.
 1795  Mungo Park becomes the first European to reach the River Niger.
 1798  Battle of the Pyramids: Napoleon Bonaparte's army defeats the army of the Mamluks under the leadership of Mourad Bey.
 1822  Agustin de Iturbide becomes Emperor of Mexico.
 1831  The British Guyana colony is created.
 1831  Leopold I, King of the Belgians becomes Belgium's first king.
 1843  Antwerp Zoo is founded, becoming the first zoo in Belgium.
 1847  Spain recognizes Bolivia's independence.
 1861  American Civil War: The First Battle of Bull Run at Manassas ends in Confederate victory.
 1865  Wild Bill Hickok shoots Davis Tutt in one of the first Western showdowns.
 1873  At Adair, Iowa Jesse James and the James Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the Old American West.
 1897  London's Tate Gallery opens.
1901  2000 
 1902  The steamer Primus sinks in the Elbe River near Hamburg, killing 101 people.
 1904  Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the  barrier on land. He drove a 15-litre Gobron-Brille in Ostend, Belgium.
 1907  The passenger steamer SS Columbia collides with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California. The Columbia sinks, killing 88 people.
 1914  Romania, it is decided, is neutral in World War I, after a decision by the country's crown council.
 1925  Tennessee high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching the theory of evolution. He is fined 100 dollars.
 1925  Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to break the  land barrier at Pendine Sands, Wales. He drove a Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of .
 1938  In a peace deal at the end of the Chaco War, Bolivia loses part of its territory to Paraguay. That makes Paraguay twice as big.
 1944  Leaders of the July 20 plot to kill Adolf Hitler are executed.
1944  World War II: The Battle of Guam begins.
 1949  The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
 1951  The Dalai Lama returns to Tibet from exile.
 1954  Publication of the first part of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.
 1954  The Geneva Conference decides to split Vietnam into North and South.
 1959  Pumpsie Green becomes the first African American to play for the Boston Red Sox baseball team.
 1961  Gus Grissom becomes the second American in space.
 1962  British band the Rolling Stones play their first show, at the Marquee Club in London.
 1969  At 2:56 am on this day (July 20 in the US), Apollo 11 lands, leading to Neil Armstrong becoming the first person to walk on the Moon.
 1970  In Egypt, the Aswan Dam is completed.
 1972  The Troubles: Bloody Friday - Provisional IRA members detonate 22 bombs in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the space of 80 minutes.
1973  Lillehammer affair: The Mossad kills waiter Ahmed Bouchiki in Norway, mistakenly thinking he was terrorist leader Ali Hassan Salameh.
 1974  Eddy Merckx wins his 5th Tour de France.
 1977  Start of the four-day Libyan-Egyptian War.
 1983  The lowest-measured temperature is recorded as  at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica.
 1992  Russia and Moldova enter into a peace agreement.
 1994  Tony Blair becomes leader of the British Labour Party.
 1994  Jacques Santer is elected President of the European Commission.
 1996  Bjarne Riis becomes the first Scandinavian to win the Tour de France.
From 2001 
 2001  At the end of a fireworks display in Okura Beach, Akashi, Hyogo, Japan, the footbridge connecting the beach to the JR Asagiri railway station becomes crowded, with the resulting crush killing 11 people and injuring 120.
 2005  Four suicide bombers fail to detonate their bombs on London's underground and bus systems.
 2005  Horst Koehler dissolves the Bundestag (German Parliament) ahead of an early election.
 2007  The last novel in the Harry Potter series goes on sale.
 2008  Former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is arrested on war crimes charges in Belgrade, after several years in disguise.
 2011  The Space Shuttle program ends, as the Space Shuttle Atlantis returns safely to Earth on its last mission.
 2013  King Albert II of Belgium leaves the throne to his son, who becomes King Philippe of Belgium, and is therefore the 7th King of the Belgians.
 2013  British cyclist Chris Froome wins the 100th Tour de France.
2016  Donald Trump accepts the Republican Party nomination for US president.
Up to 1900 
 1414  Pope Sixtus IV (d. 1484)
 1515  Philip Neri, Italian saint (d. 1595)
 1620  Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682)
 1664  Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (d. 1721)
 1693  Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1768)
 1766  Thomas Charles Hope, Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1844)
 1808  Simion Barnutiu, Romanian philosopher, liberal politician, jurist and historian (d. 1864)
 1810  Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist and physicist (d. 1878)
 1816  Paul Reuter, German-British journalist (d. 1899)
 1821  Vasile Alecsandri, Romanian poet, dramatist and politician (d. 1890)
 1843  Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal (d. 1884)
 1851  Sam Bass, American train robber and outlaw (d. 1878)
 1856  Wilhelm Geiger, German indologist (d. 1943)
 1858  Maria Christina of Austria, Queen of Spain (d. 1929)
 1858  Lovis Corinth, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1925)
1864  Frances Folsom Cleveland, First Lady of the United States (d. 1947)
 1870  Emil Orlik, Czech painter and graphic artist (d. 1932)
 1873  Charles Schlee, Danish-American cyclist (d. 1947)
 1875  Charles Gondouin, French rugby player (d. 1947)
 1879  Joseph A. A. Burnquist, Governor of Minnesota (d. 1961)
 1880  Milan Rastislav Stefanik, Slovakian politician and astronomer (d. 1919)
 1882  David Burliuk, Ukrainian illustrator, publicist and author (d. 1967)
 1885  Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, screenwriter and movie director (d. 1948)
 1891  Julius Saaristo, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 1969)
 1893  Hans Fallada, German writer (d. 1947)
 1893  Margarete Sommer, German humanitarian (d. 1965)
 1897  Edmund Heines, German Nazi politician (d. 1934)
 1899  Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)
 1899  Ernest Hemingway, American writer (d. 1961)
1901  1950 
 1903  Roy Neuberger, American financier and art collector (d. 2010)
 1908  Ljerko Spiller, Argentine conductor and violinist (d. 2008)
 1908  Harold "Jug" McSpaden, American golfer (d. 1996)
 1911  Marshall McLuhan, Canadian writer (d. 1980)
 1914  Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Italian screenwriter (d. 2010)
 1919  Nuto Revelli, Italian military, resistance activist, professor and writer (d. 2004)
 1920  John Horsley, English actor (d. 2014)
 1920  Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (d. 2001)
 1920  Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 2005)
 1920  Mohammed Dib, Algerian journalist and writer (d. 2003)
 1921  James Cooke Brown, American sociologist (d. 2000)
 1922  Jay Hammond, Governor of Alaska (d. 2005)
 1922  Kay Starr, American entertainer (d. 2016)
 1922  Molly Sugden, British actress (d. 2009)
 1923  Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian chemist
 1924  Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani politician, 7th Governor of Balochistan
 1924  Don Knotts, American actor (d. 2006)
1925  Anne Meacham, American actress (d. 2006)
 1926  Norman Jewison, Canadian movie director
 1926  Bill Pertwee, English actor (d. 2013)
 1926  Karel Reisz, Czech-English director (d. 2002)
 1930  Helen Merrill, American jazz singer
 1933  John Gardner, American writer (d. 1982)
 1934  Jonathan Miller, British director, actor and author
 1935  Norbert Blüm, German politician
 1938  Janet Reno, United States Attorney General (d. 2016)
 1938  Anton Kuerti, Austrian-Canadian pianist, composer and conductor
 1939  Helmut Haller, German footballer (d. 2012)
 1939  Kim Fowley, American record producer (d. 2015)
 1941  Martin Bandier, music publisher
 1943  Edward Herrmann, American actor (d. 2014)
 1943  Henry McCullough, Northern Irish guitarist, singer and songwriter (d. 2016)
 1944  Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian novelist (d. 2017)
 1944  John Atta Mills, President of Ghana (d. 2012)
 1944  Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (d. 2002)
 1945  Lydia Shum, Hong Kong actress and singer (d. 2008)
1945  John Lowe, English darts player
 1945  Wendy Cope, English poet
 1946  Ken Starr, American lawyer and judge
 1946  Jüri Tarmak, Estonian high jumper  
 1947  Chetan Chauan, Indian cricketer
 1947  Co Adriaanse, Dutch football manager
 1948  Beppe Grillo, Italian actor, comedian and political activist (Five Star Movement)
 1948  Ed Hinton, sportswriter
 1948  Yusuf Islam, English singer, formerly known as Cat Stevens
 1948  Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist
 1948  Litto Nebbia, Argentine tango and rock musician
 1948  Snooty, American manatee (d. 2017)
 1950  Susan Kramer, English politician
1951  1975 
 1951  Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (d. 2014)
 1953  John Salazar, American politician
 1953  Jeff Fatt, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
 1955  Marcelo Bielsa, Argentine footballer and manager
 1955  Taco, Indonesian-born Dutch singer
 1955  Howie Epstein, American bass player, songwriter and producer (d. 2003)
 1955  Béla Tarr, Hungarian actor, director and screenwriter
 1955  Dannel Malloy, American politician, 88th Governor of Connecticut
 1957  Stefan Löfven, Prime Minister of Sweden
 1957  Jon Lovitz, American comedian
 1958  Dave Henderson, American baseball player (d. 2015)
 1960  Lance Guest, American actor
 1962  Mokgweetsi Masisi, 5th President of Botswana
 1964  Ross Kemp, British actor
 1964  Jens Weissflog, German ski jumper
 1965  Gudni Bergsson, Icelandic footballer
 1968  Brandi Chastain, American soccer player
 1968  Lyle Odelein, hockey player
 1969  Emerson Hart, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
 1970  Angus MacNeil, Scottish politician
1971  Charlotte Gainsbourg, French actress
 1972  Catherine Ndereba, Kenyan long-distance runner
 1972  Simon Reeve, English television presenter and writer
 1973  Roberto Bisconti, Belgian footballer
 1973  Ali Landry, American model and actress
 1973  Caroline Néron, Canadian singer, actress and fashion designer
From 1976 
 1977  Paul Casey, British golfer
 1977  Jaime Murray, British actress
 1978  Kyoko Iwasaki, Japanese swimmer
 1978  Gary Teale, Scottish footballer
 1978  Josh Hartnett, American actor
 1978  Damian Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer
 1979  David Carr, American football player
 1979  Dorinel Gurbina, Romanian handball player
 1979  Andriy Voronin, Ukrainian footballer
 1980  CC Sabathia, American baseball player
 1981  Paloma Faith, English singer-songwriter and actress
 1981  Yushin Okami, Japanese mixed martial artist
 1981  Joaquín Sánchez, Spanish footballer
 1982  Mao Kobayashi, Japanese actress
 1983  Kellen Winslow Jr., American football player
 1983  Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer and composer
 1984  Liam Ridgewell, English footballer
 1985  Von Wafer, American basketball player
 1986  Anthony Annan, Ghanaian footballer
 1986  Livia Brito, Cuban-Mexican actress and model
 1986  Rebecca Ferguson, English singer
 1988  DeAndre Jordan, American basketball player
1989  Rory Culkin, American actor
 1989  Ali Cobrin, American actress
 1989  Juno Temple, English actress
 1989  Marco Fabian, Mexican footballer
 1989  Chris Gunter, Welsh footballer
 1990  Chris Martin, English footballer
 1992  Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
 1992  Jessica Barden, English actress
 1995  Baekho, South Korean singer
Up to 1950 
 1403  Henry Percy, English nobleman and soldier (b. 1364)
 1425  Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350)
 1552  Antonio de Mendoza, 1st Viceroy of New Spain (b. 1495)
 1793  Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)
 1796  Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759)
 1796  Philip Carteret, English explorer (b. 1733)
 1859  John Gayle, American politician (b. 1792)
 1865  Davis Tutt, American gambler and salloon drinker (b. 1836)
 1878  Sam Bass, American train robber and outlaw (b. 1851)
 1880  Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
 1889  Nelson Dewey, American politician (b. 1813)
 1899  Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier and politician (b. 1833)
 1907  Nicolae Grigorescu, Romanian painter (b. 1838)
 1938  Owen Wister, American writer (b. 1860)
 1941  Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
 1943  Charley Paddock, American politician (b. 1900)
 1944  Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, leader of the July 20 plot to kill Hitler (b. 1907)
1944  Ludwig Beck, German Chief of Staff (b. 1880)
 1946  Gualberto Villarroel, 45th President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
 1948  Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1904)
1951  2010 
 1967  Albert Lutuli, South African political activist (b. 1898)
 1967  Basil Rathbone, British actor (b. 1892)
 1968  Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)
 1970  Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
 1972  Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1928)
 1972  Ralph Craig, American sprinter (b. 1889)
 1973  Ahmed Bouchiki, Algerian-born victim of mistaken identity, killed by the Mossad in Norway (b. 1943)
 1982  Dave Garroway, American journalist (b. 1913)
 1991  Paul Warwick, English racing driver (b. 1969)
 1998  Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
 1998  Alan Shepard, the first American to travel into space (b. 1923)
 2004  Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist (b. 1918)
 2010  Anthony Rolfe Johnson, British operatic tenor (b. 1940)
 2010  Luis Corvalán, Chilean Communist politician (b. 1916)
From 2011 
 2011  Kazimierz Świątek, former Catholic Cardinal of Belarus, Gulag survivor (b. 1914)
 2011  Bruce Sundlum, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1920)
 2012  Susanne Lothar, German actress (b. 1960)
 2013  Denys de La Patellière, French director (b. 1921)
 2014  Kevin Skinner, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1927)
 2014  John M. Coyne, American politician (b. 1916)
 2014  Hans-Peter Kaul, German judge (b. 1943)
 2014  Dan Borislow, American telecommunications executive (b. 1961)
 2014  Harald Hove, Norwegian politician (b. 1949)
 2015  Dick Nanninga, Dutch footballer (b. 1949)
 2015  Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor (b. 1924)
 2015  Robert Broberg, Swedish singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
 2015  E. L. Doctorow, American writer (b. 1931)
 2015  Luiz Paulo Conde, Brazilian politician and architect (b. 1934)
 2017  Howard Eichenbaum, American psychologist and neuroscientist (b. 1947)
 2017  John Heard, American actor (b. 1945)
 2017  Yami Lester, Australian activist (b. 1942)
2017  Geoff Mack, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
 2017  Deborah Watling, English actress (b. 1948)
 2017  Stubbs, American cat, Honorary Mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska (b. 1997)
 2017  Jon van Rood, Dutch immunologist (b. 1926)
 2018  Jonathan Gold, American food critic (b. 1965)
 2018  Don McCarthy, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1955)
 2018  Elmarie Wendel, American actress (b. 1928)
 2018  Alene Duerk, American admiral (b. 1920)
 2019  José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Spanish cardinal (b. 1926)
 2019  Hugo Cóccaro, Argentine politician (b. 1954)
 2019  Antonino Cuffaro, Italian politician (b. 1932)
 2019  Francisco Grau, Spanish military officer and composer (b. 1947)
 2019  Paul Krassner, American writer and political activist (b. 1932)
 2019  Robert Morgenthau, American lawyer (b. 1919)
Observances 
 National Day of Belgium
 Liberation Day in Guam
 Racial Harmony Day (Singapore)

Days of the year
Up to 1950 
 838  Battle of Anzen: Byzantine Emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
 1099  First Crusade: Godfrey de Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre.
 1209  Massacre of Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
 1298  William Wallace fights the English at the Battle of Falkirk.
 1456  Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade - John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire.
 1499  Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeats the army of Emperor Maximilian I.
 1587  Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off present-day North Carolina to re-establish a deserted colony.
 1706  The Acts of Union of 1707 are agreed upon by Commissioners from the Kingdoms of England and Scotland.
 1786  Albany, New York is officially chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
1793  Alexander McKenzie reaches the Pacific coast of North America, becoming the first Euro-American to cross Canada.
 1796  Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland", after General Moses Cleveland.
 1797  Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars.
 1802  Gia Long conquers Hanoi and unifies modern-day Vietnam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.
 1805  Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition - Battle of Cape Finisterre.
 1812  Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War - Battle of Salamanca.
 1864  American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta.
 1894  The first-ever motor race is held in France between Paris and Rouen.
 1916  A bomb explodes during a 'Preparedness Day' parade in Market Street in San Francisco, California, killing 10 people and injuring 40.
1927  Sheep herder Killar Kashirov of the Kabardin people becomes the first person to reach the top of the Eastern summit of Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia, considered the highest mountain in Europe.
 1933  Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world, travelling 25,099 kilometres (15,596 miles) in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
 1934  A man identified as American bank robber John Dillinger is shot dead.
 1942  World War II: Start of the fighting on the Kokoda Track in New Guinea between Australia and Japan.
 1943  World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo.
 1944  The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting Communist rule in Poland.
 1946  A terrorist attack on the King David Hotel in Jerusalem kills at least 91 people.
From 1951 
 1951  Dezik and Tsygan are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
 1954  Laos becomes independent from France.
 1962  The Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after take-off and has to be destroyed.
 1969  Francisco Franco declares that the Juan Carlos will be his successor.
 1976  Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes in World War II.
 1977  Deng Xiaoping returns to power in China.
 1983  Martial Law in Poland is officially revoked.
 1986  The United Kingdom bans corporal punishment in schools.
 1991  Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.
 1992  In Medellin, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from the luxury prison.
 1993  Kaskasia, Illinois, is evacuated in the Great Flood of 1993.
 1994  Gambia's President Dawda Jawara is removed from office in a coup, to be replaced by Yahya Jammeh.
2003  A US airstrike on a compound in Mosul, Iraq, kills Saddam Hussein's sons Uday Hussein, Qusay Hussein (and his son Mustapha) and a security guard.
 2005  In London, officers of the Metropolitan Police shoot and kill Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes when he boards a tube train.
 2005  Yelena Isinbayeva becomes the first woman to clear 5 metres in the High Jump.
 2009  A Solar eclipse is seen over East Asia and the Pacific Ocean, and is the longest such event of the 21st century. It is also believed to have been witnessed by more people than any solar eclipse in history.
 2010  The International Court of Justice rules that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia was not illegal.
 2011  2011 Norway attacks: An explosion in Oslo city centre kills 8 people. Two hours later, 69 people are killed in a shooting at a political youth event on the island of Utoya, carried out by Anders Behring Breivik.
 2012  Bradley Wiggins becomes the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France.
2013  Two earthquakes in Gansu province, People's Republic of China, kill at least 90 people.
 2013  A baby boy, Prince George of Cambridge, third in line to the British throne, is born to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. It comes just a day after nearby Belgium got its new King, Philippe.
 2016  Nine people are killed in a shooting in and around a shopping mall in Munich, Germany. The attacker then kills himself.
 2019  Jo Swinson becomes the first woman to be chosen to lead the British Liberal Democrats.
Up to 1900 
1210  Joan of England, Queen of Scots (d. 1238)
1361  Carlos III of Navarre (d. 1425)
1478  King Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
1510  Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
1519  Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
1535  Katarina Stenbock, Queen of Sweden (d. 1621)
1559  Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (d. 1619)
1596  Tsar Michael I of Russia (d. 1645)
1702  Alessandro Besozzi, Italian composer and oboist (d. 1775)
1711  Georg Wilhelm Richmann, German Baltic physicist (d. 1753)
1733  Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and historian (d. 1790)
1751  Caroline Matilda of Wales (d. 1775)
1755  Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1839)
1784  Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician (d. 1846)
1822  Gregor Mendel, Austrian pioneering geneticist (d. 1884)
1831  Emperor Komei of Japan (d. 1867)
1844  William Archibald Spooner, known for verbal inversions called spoonerisms (d. 1930)
1848  Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
1856  Kamran Mirza, Prime Minister of Persia (d. 1927)
1859  Emma Lazarus, American poet (d. 1887)
1877  Giovanni Giorgio Tressino, Italian horse rider (d. 1963)
1882  Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)
1886  Hella Wuolijoki, Finnish author (d. 1954)
1887  Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German quantum physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1975)
1888  Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist (d. 1973)
1889  James Whale, English movie director, actor and screenwriter (d. 1957)
1890  Rose Kennedy, mother of John F. Kennedy (d. 1995)
1893  Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1893  Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (d. 1990)
1894  Oskar Maria Graf, writer (d. 1967)
1895  Pavel Sukhoi, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1975)
1898  Stephen Vincent Benét, American writer (d. 1943)
1898  Alexander Calder, American artist (d. 1976)
1899  Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (d. 1982)
1901  1950 
1905  Doc Cramer, American Major League Baseball player (d. 1990)
1908  Amy Vanderbilt, writer on etiquette (d. 1974)
1909  Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (d. 2000)
1913  Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (d. 1995)
1916  Marcel Cerdan, world champion boxer  (d. 1949)
1923  Bob Dole, United States Senator from Kansas, Presidential candidate (d. 2021)
1923  Mukesh, singer (d. 1976)
1923  Netti Witziers-Timmer, Dutch sprinter (d. 2005)
1923  The Fabulous Moolah, American wrestler (d. 2007)
1924  Margaret Whiting, American singer (d. 2011)
1925  Joseph Sargent, American movie director (d. 2014)
1926  Bryan Forbes, English actor (d. 2013)
1926  Wolfgang Iser, German literary scholar (d. 2007)
1927  Johan Ferner, Norwegian sailor (d. 2015)
1928  Nedelcho Beronov, Bulgarian politician (d. 2015)
1928  Jimmy Hill, English football manager and pundit (d. 2015)
1928  Orson Bean, American actor
1931  Guido de Marco, 6th President of Malta (d. 2010)
1932  Oscar de la Renta, Dominican fashion designer (d. 2014)
1934  Louise Fletcher, American Academy Award-winning actress (in 1976)
1936  Tom Robbins, American writer
1939  Terence Stamp, actor
1939  Erhard Walther, artist
1940  Alex Trebek, American game show host (d. 2020)
1941  Estelle Bennett, American singer (The Ronettes) (d. 2009)
1941  George Clinton, musician
1942  Peter Habeler, Austrian mountaineer
1943  Kay Bailey Hutchison, American politician
1943  Bobby Sherman, American singer and actor
1944  Anand Satyanand, former Governor-General of New Zealand
1944  Rick Davies, English musician
1946  Danny Glover, American actor and activist
1946  Mireille Mathieu, French singer
1946  Johnson Toribiong, former President of Palau
1946  Paul Schrader, American movie director
1947  Albert Brooks, American comedian
1947  Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician
1947  Don Henley, drummer, singer, and songwriter
1948  Otto Waalkes, German comedian, actor and entertainer
1948  Ana de Palacio, Spanish politician
1948  Alfonso Cano, Colombian guerrilla (FARC) (d. 2011)
1949  Alan Menken, American composer
1949  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai
1949  Lasse Virén, Finnish athlete
1950  S. E. Hinton, American writer
1951  1975 
1951  Patriarch Daniel of Romania
1951  J. V. Cain, American football player (d. 1979)
1953  René Vandereycken, Belgian footballer
1953  Jimmy Bruno, American guitarist
1954  Al Di Meola, American guitarist
1955  Willem Dafoe, American actor
1957  Alvaro Corcuera, Mexican priest (d. 2014)
1958  Tatsunori Hara, Japanese baseball player
1959  Lon Bender, American sound editor
1960  Barbara Cassani, American businesswoman
1961  Keith Sweat, singer
1962  Alvin Robertson, American basketball player
1964  John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor
1964  Bonnie Langford, English actress and dancer
1964  David Spade, American comedian
1965  Shawn Michaels, retired American professional wrestler
1965  Robert Aderholt, American politician
1967  Irene Bedard, American actress
1967  Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor
1969  Jason Becker, American actor
1969  Despina Vandi, Greek singer
1970  Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player
1970  Devendra Fadnavis, Indian politician
1971  Kristine Lilly, American soccer player
1972  Andrew Holness, Prime minister of Jamaica
1972  Paulinho, footballer
1972  Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor
1972  Keyshawn Johnson, American football player
1973  Rufus Wainwright, Canadian singer and songwriter
1973  Daniel Jones, English-Australian musician
1974  Franka Potente, German actress
1975  Markus Metzenthin, economist
From 1976 
1976  Kokia, Japanese singer
1978  Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
1979  Anna Belen-Zarska, Polish tennis player
1980  Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
1980  Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
1982  Anna Chicherova, Russian high jumper
1983  Sharni Vinson, Australian actress
1983  Shelby Belle, actress
1984  Stewart Downing, English footballer
1987  Charlotte Kalla, Swedish skier
1987  Joshua Small, singer, songwriter
1987  Andrey Golubev, Kazakhstani tennis player
1989  Keegan Allen, American actor
1989  Baltasar Breki Samper, Icelandic actor
1992  Selena Gomez, American singer and actress
1993  Amber Beattie, English actress
1993  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Chechen-American suspected terrorist
1994  Emina Jonasson, Swedish handball player
1996  Skyler Gisondo, American actor
1998  Madison Pettis, American actress
2002  Prince Felix of Denmark
2013  Prince George of Cambridge, son of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1900 
1387  Frank Ackerman, Flemish statesman (b. 1330)
1461  Charles VII of France (b. 1403)
1525  Richard Wingfield, English diplomat (b. 1426)
1540  John Zapolya, Hungarian King
1619  Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (b. 1559)
1645  Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares, Duke of San Lucar (b. 1587)
1676  Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
1734  Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1669)
1802  Marie François Xavier Bichet, French anatomist and physiologist (b. 1771)
1813  George Shaw, English naturalist (b. 1751)
1826  Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer, mathematician and theologian (b. 1746)
1832  Napoleon II of France (b. 1811)
1845  Count Heinrich von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (b. 1757)
1869  John August Roebling, German-American engineer and bridge builder (b. 1806)
1893  John Rae, Orcadian explorer (b. 1813)
1901  2000 
1903  Cassius Marcellus Clay, American lawyer, publisher and politician (b. 1810)
1904  Wilson Barrett, actor (b. 1846)
1908  Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist (b. 1828)
1909  Detlev von Liliencron, German poet and writer (b. 1844)
1915  Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian inventor of Standard time (b. 1827)
1916  James Whitcomb Riley, American writer and poet (b. 1849)
1918  Indra Lal Roy, Indian flying ace (b. 1898)
1920  William Kissam Vanderbilt, American businessman and horsebreeder (b. 1849)
1922  Jokichi Takamine, chemist (b. 1854)
1932  Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., American theatrical producer (b. 1867)
1932  Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
1932  Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor (b. 1866)
1934  John Dillinger, American bank robber, shot at the Biograph Theater in Chicago (b. 1903)
1936  Andreas Hinterstoisser, German mountaineer (b. 1914)
1936  Toni Kurz, German mountaineer (b. 1913)
1950  William Lyon Mackenzie King, tenth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
1967  Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)
1968  Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (b. 1908)
1974  Wayne Morse, former Senator from Oregon
1979  Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
1979  J. V. Cain, American football player (b. 1951)
1988  Duane Jones, American actor (b. 1936)
1989  Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
1990  Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (b. 1932)
1996  Rob Collins, English keyboardist (The Charlatans) (b. 1956)
1998  Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
1998  Alan Shepard, American astronaut (b. 1923)
1999  Gar Samuelson, American drummer (Megadeth) (b. 1958)
2000  Eric Christmas, British actor (born 1916)
2000  Claude Sautet, French movie director (b. 1924)
From 2001 
2001  Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1909)
2003  Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist (b. 1954)
2003  Qusay Hussein of Iraq, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)
2003  Uday Hussein of Iraq, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
2004  Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)
2004  George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917)
2005  Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian shooting victim (b. 1978)
2007  Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953)
2007  Laszlo Kovacs, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1933)
2008  Estelle Getty, American actress (b. 1923)
2010  Kenny Guinn, American politician, 27th Governor of Nevada (b. 1936)
2011  Linda Christian, American actress (b. 1924)
2011  Tore Eikeland, Norwegian youth politician (b. 1989) (2011 Norway attacks)
2012  Bohdan Stupka, Ukrainian actor and former culture minister (b. 1941)
2012  George Armitage Miller, American psychologist (b. 1920)
2012  Oswaldo Payá, Cuban activist (b. 1952)
2013  Dennis Farina, American actor (b. 1944)
2013  Lawrie Reilly, Scottish footballer (b. 1928)
2014  John Blundell, English economist (b. 1952)
2015  Christopher M. Fairman, American legal scholar (b. 1960)
2015  Eddie Hardin, British rock musician (b. 1949)
2015  Jeannette Cathy, American philanthropist (b. 1923)
2016  Viktor Kryzhanivskyi, Ukrainian artist (b. 1950)
2016  Ursula Franklin, German-American scientist, author and educator (b. 1921)
2017  Kostiantyn Sytnyk, Ukrainian botanist and politician (b. 1926)
2017  Artyom Tarasov, Russian businessman and political activist (b. 1950)
2017  Jim Vance, American news anchor (b. 1942)
2017  Fritz Hellwig, German politician (b. 1912)
2018  Rene Portland, American basketball player (b. 1953)
2018  Chiyo Miyako, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1901)
2018  Tony Sparano, American football coach (b. 1961)
2018  Tor Erling Staff, Norwegian lawyer (b. 1932)
2018  Manos Eleutheriou, Greek poet (b. 1938)
2019  Peter Hamm, German poet and journalist (b. 1937)
2019  Christopher C. Kraft Jr., American aerospace engineer (b. 1924)
2019  Brigitte Kronauer, German writer (b. 1940)
2019  Hans Lagerqvist, Swedish pole vaulter (b. 1940)
2019  Art Neville, American musician (b. 1937)
2019  Li Peng, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1928)
Observances 
 Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene
 Pi Approximation Day

Days of the year