Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
From 2001 
 2007 – Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano (b. 1929)
 2010 – Beryl Bainbridge, British writer (b. 1932)
 2010 – Laurent Terzieff, French actor (b. 1935)
 2011 – Itamar Franco, 33rd President of Brazil (b. 1930)
 2013 - Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
 2013 - Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (b. 1921)
 2013 - Anthony Llywellyn, Welsh-American astronaut (b. 1933)
 2014 - Errie Ball, Welsh-American golfer (b. 1910)
 2014 - Chad Brown, American poker player and actor (b. 1961)
 2014 - Louis Zamperini, American athlete and writer (b. 1917)
 2015 - Jacobo Zabludovsky, Mexican journalist (b. 1928)
 2015 - Charlie Sanders, American football player (b. 1946)
 2015 - James C. Weaver, American football player (b. 1945)
 2015 - Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian composer and musician (b. 1929)
 2016 - Caroline Aherne, English actress, comedienne and writer (b. 1963)
 2016 - Roscoe Brown, American World War II veteran (b. 1922)
2016 - Michael Cimino, American screenwriter and director (b. 1939)
 2016 - Roger Dumas, French comedian and actor (b. 1932)
 2016 - Patrick Manning, 4th and 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1946)
 2016 - Robert Nye, British poet (b. 1939)
 2016 - Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France (b. 1930)
 2016 - Jack C. Taylor, American businessman (b. 1922)
 2016 - Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American activist and writer (b. 1928)
 2017 - Smith Hart, American-Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1948)
 2017 - Jack Collom, American poet (b. 1931)
 2017 - Vladimir Malaniuk, Ukrainian chess player (b. 1957)
 2017 - Chris Roberts, German singer (b. 1944)
 2017 - Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Soviet-born Israeli chess player (b. 1935)
 2017 - Ataullah Behmanesh, Iranian wrestler and sports journalist (b. 1923)
 2017 - Minos Kyriakou, Greek businessman (b. 1942)
 2017 - Bert Rossi, English gangster (b. 1922)
 2018 - Henry Butler, American jazz musician (b. 1949)
Observances 
 Canada Day (observed on this date if July 1 is a Sunday)
 Bahia Independence Day (Brazil)

July 02
Up to 1900 
 455 – Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
 660 - Battle of Hwangsanboel: Korean forces under General Kim Yu-shin of Silla defeat the army of Baekje at Nonsan, present-day South Korea.
 869 - A magnitude 8.6 earthquake and tsunami strike the area around Sendai, Northern Honshu, Japan.
 1357 5:31 AM – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assisted laying the foundation stone of the Charles Bridge in Prague.
 1386 - The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its own territory by decisively defeating the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.
 1540 – Henry VIII of England annulled his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
 1572 - Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs in the Dutch town of Gorkum.
 1609 - Bohemia is given freedom of religion through the Letter of Majesty by Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.
 1701 - War of the Spanish Succession: Austrian victory over the French in the Battle of Carpi.
1745 - War of the Austrian Succession: Victory in the Battle of Melle allows the French to capture Ghent in the days after.
 1749 – Naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia founded as British answer to Louisbourg.
 1755 – French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition – British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat to French and Native American forces. During the battle, British General Edward Braddock is mortally wounded. Colonel George Washington survives.
 1776 - George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in New York City.
 1789 – In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
 1790 – Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund – In the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
1793 – Act Against Slavery passed in Upper Canada and importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
 1810 - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the first French Empire. 
 1815 – Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente becomes Prime Minister of France
 1816 – Argentina declares independence from Spain.
 1821 - 470 prominent Cypriots are executed in response to Cypriot aid to the Greek War of Independence.
 1846 – By an Act of Congress, the Washington, DC area south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia.
 1850 – US President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States.
 1868 - The 14th Amendment (change) to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States Due Process of Law.
 1875 - Outbreak of the Herzegovina Uprising against Ottoman Empire rule.
 1877 - The first Wimbledon tennis championships are played.
1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech.
 1900 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gives royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
1901  2000 
 1903 - Joseph Stalin, future-Soviet leader, is exiled to Siberia for three years.
 1918 – Great train wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
 1922 – Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds, breaking a world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
 1932 - The State of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian federal government.
 1942 – Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
 1943 – World War II: Operation Husky – Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.
 1944 - World War II: Battle of Saipan - American forces take Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
 1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy – British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France.
1945 – A forest fire breaks out in the Tillamook Burn, the third fire in that area since 1933.
 1955 – The Russell-Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London.
 1961 - Turkish voters approve the Turkish Constitution of 1961 in a referendum.
 1962 - The United States detonates atom bomb Starfish Prime over Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
 1962 - Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibit opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, California.
 1968 – Official opening of Hayward Gallery on London's South Bank.
 1972 - In Belfast, Northern Ireland, British army snipers shoot and kill 5 civilians in the Springhill massacre.
 1979 – A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
 1981 - Donkey Kong, a video game created by Nintendo, is released. It is also Super Mario's first appearance.
1982 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 people on board and eight others on the ground.
 1986 - Homosexuality is legalized in New Zealand.
 1989 – Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
 1989 - Boris Becker and Steffi Graf win the Men's and Women's Singles titles at Wimbledon respectively, making it the first occasion that two German tennis players win these titles at the same time.
 1991 – International Human Rights Federation cites human rights violations committed by police and military personnel during Oka crisis in Quebec, Canada.
 1991 – South Africa is reintroduced into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion.
 1992 – Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton announces that Tennessee Senator Al Gore will be his running mate.
 1993 - The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act, allowing the creation of the territory of Nunavut on April 1, 1999 out of part of the Northwest Territories.
1995 - The Sri Lankan air force bombs a church in the town of Navaly, killing more than 125 people.
 1997 – Mike Tyson's boxing license is suspended for at least a year and he is fined $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield's ear in a televised match.
 1999 – Days of student protests begins after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory of University of Tehran.
From 2001 
 2002 – The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
 2004 – After José Manuel Durão Barroso's appointment to the European Commission, Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio announces that he will invite the second-in-line leader of PSD, Pedro Santana Lopes to form a government.
 2006 – A plane crash in Irkutsk, Siberia kills 122 people.
 2006 – 2006 FIFA World Cup: Italy wins the FIFA World Cup for a fourth time, by beating France on penalties at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The game is most remembered for Zinedine Zidane's headbut on Marco Materazzi.
 2007 – Argentina's capital city Buenos Aires is hit by its first snowfall since 1918.
 2011 – South Sudan declares independence from Sudan, after a majority of 'yes' votes in a referendum the previous January. Salva Kiir Mayardit becomes the new nation's President.
2016 - Over 100 people are killed in violent clashes in Juba, South Sudan, on the fifth anniversary of the country's independence.
 2016 - Tennis: Serena Williams equals the Open Era record of 22 Grand Slam singles titles, defeating Angelique Kerber in the Wimbledon championships final.
 2018 - Boris Johnson resigns as the British Foreign Secretary; he is replaced with Jeremy Hunt.
 2018 - The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea sign an agreement ending their border war.
Up to 1900 
 1249 - Emperor Kameyama 90th Emperor of Japan (d. 1305)
 1511 - Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1571)
 1578 – Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1637)
 1654 – Emperor Reigen of Japan (d. 1732)
 1689 - Alexis Piron, French playwright (d. 1773)
 1764 - Ann Radcliffe, English author (d. 1823)
 1766 - Johanna Schopenhauer, German author (d. 1838)
 1775 - Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1818)
 1777 - Henry Hallam, English writer and historian (d. 1859)
 1800 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist and anatomist (d. 1885)
 1801 - Zénaïde Bonaparte, Princess of Spain (d. 1854)
 1815 - Oran Milo Roberts, American politician, 18th Governor of Texas (d. 1898)
 1819 – Elias Howe, American inventor (d. 1867)
 1825 - Addison Crandall Gibbs, American politician, 2nd Governor of Oregon (d. 1886)
 1828 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (d. 1913)
 1834 – Jan Neruda, Czech poet (d. 1891)
1835 - William D. Bloxham, American politician, 13th and 17th Governor of Florida (d. 1911)
 1847 - Wong Fei-hung, Chinese physician and martial artist (d. 1924)
 1848 - Robert I, Duke of Parma (d. 1907)
 1850 - Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian historian, writer and politician (d. 1921)
 1853 - William Turner Dannat, American painter (d. 1929)
 1856 - John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (d. 1932)
 1858 – Franz Boas, German anthropologist (d. 1942)
 1867 - Georges Lecomte, French author and playwright (d. 1958)
 1879 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician and parasitologist (d. 1934)
 1879 - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1934)
 1887 - James Ormsbee Chapin, American-Canadian painter and illustrator (d. 1975)
 1889 - Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian ice hockey player, coach and referee (d. 1964)
 1894 – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist (d. 1984)
 1896 – Maria Gomes Valentim, Brazilian supercentenarian (d. 2011)
1897 - Friedrich Adler, Austrian politician and assassin (d. 1960)
 1898 - Petar Grabovski, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1945)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Barbara Cartland, British novelist (d. 2000)
 1905 - Clarence Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 1984)
 1907 - Eddie Dean, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
 1910 – Govan Mbeki, South African anti-Apartheid activist (d. 2001)
 1911 – John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist (d. 2008)
 1911 – Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (d. 1968)
 1914 – Willi Stoph, East German politician (d. 1999)
 1915 - David Diamond, American composer (d. 2005)
 1916 – Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
 1924 - Leonard Pennario, American classical pianist and composer (d. 2008)
 1925 - Guru Dutt, Indian actor, director and producer (d. 1964)
 1926 – Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist
 1926 - Pedro Dellacha, Argentine footballer (d. 2010)
 1927 – Ed Ames, American singer and actor
 1927 - Susan Cabot, American actress (d. 1986)
 1927 - Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and politician
1928 - Federico Bahamontes, Spanish cyclist
 1928 - Vince Edwards, American actor, singer and director (d. 1996)
 1929 – Lee Hazlewood, American singer and songwriter (d. 2007)
 1929 – King Hassan II of Morocco (d. 1999)
 1929 - Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress (d. 2019)
 1930 - Yu So-chow, Chinese actress and singer (d. 2017)
 1930 - Robert Demarco, Scottish artist
 1930 - K. Balachander, Indian actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2014)
 1932 – Donald Rumsfeld, American politician (d. 2021) 
 1932 - Amitzur Shapira, Israeli runner (d. 1972)
 1933 – Oliver Sacks, British-American neurologist and writer (d. 2015)
 1934 - Michael Graves, American architect (d. 2015)
 1935 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician (d. 2005)
 1935 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (d. 2009)
 1936 - Richard Wilson, Scottish actor
 1936 - David Zinman, American conductor and violinist
 1937 – David Hockney, English artist and photographer
 1938 - Brian Dennehy, American actor, director and producer
1938 - Sanjeev Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1985)
 1940 - Jair da Costa, Brazilian footballer
 1940 - David B. Frohnmayer, American attorney and politician (d. 2015)
 1942 - Richard Roundtree, American actor
 1943 - John Casper, American colonel, pilot and astronaut
 1943 - Soledad Miranda, Spanish actress (d. 1970)
 1944 - Judith M. Brown, English historian and academic
 1944 - John Cunniff, American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2002)
 1945 – Dean Koontz, American writer
 1945 - Root Boy Slim, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
 1946 - Natasha Pyne, English actress
 1946 - Bon Scott, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
 1947 - Haruomi Hosono, Japanese singer-songwriter, bass player and producer
 1947 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (d. 2008)
 1947 – O. J. Simpson, American football player, actor and criminal
 1948 - Hassan Wirajuda, Indonesian politician
 1950 - Adriano Panatta, Italian tennis player and sailor
 1950 – Viktor Yanukovych, former President of Ukraine
1951  1975 
 1951 - Chris Cooper, American actor
 1952 - John Tesh, American pianist, composer and radio host
 1955 – Steve Coppell, English football manager
 1955 - Lindsey Graham, American colonel, lawyer and politician
 1956 – Tom Hanks, American actor
 1957 - Marc Almond, English singer-songwriter (Soft Cell)
 1957 – Paul Merton, English comedian
 1959 – Jim Kerr, Scottish singer (Simple Minds)
 1959 - Kevin Nash, American wrestler and actor
 1960 - Marc Mero, American wrestler and boxer
 1960 - Eduardo Montes-Bradley, Argentine journalist, photographer and author
 1962 - Aloyzas Kveinys, Lithuanian chess player (d. 2018)
 1964 – Courtney Love, American musician, singer and actress
 1964 – Gianluca Vialli, Italian footballer
 1966 - Pamela Adlon, American actress
 1968 – Paolo Di Canio, Italian footballer
 1970 - Masami Tsuda, Japanese author and illustrator
 1971 - Marc Andreessen, American software developer
 1971 - Scott Grimes, American singer-songwriter and actor
1972 - Ara Babajian, American drummer and songwriter
 1974 - Ian Bradshaw, Barbadian cricketer
 1975 – Jack White, American singer (The White Stripes)
From 1976 
 1976 – Fred Savage, American actor
 1978 - Linda Park, Korean-American actress
 1982 - Alecko Eskandarian, American soccer player and manager
 1982 - Maggie Ma, Canadian actress, singer and dancer
 1984 - Chris Campoli, Canadian ice hockey player
 1984 – Hanna R. Hall, American actress
 1985 – Ashley Young, English footballer
 1986 - Sébastien Bassong, Cameroonian footballer
 1986 - Kiely Williams, American singer-songwriter, dancer and actress
 1987 - Rebecca Sugar, American animator, screenwriter, producer and screenwriter
 1987 - Amanda Knox, American murder suspect
 1988 - Paul Rusescu, Romanian footballer
 1990 - Rafael Pereira da Silva, Brazilian footballer
 1991 - Mitchel Musso, American actor and singer
 1991 - Kyle Smith, Scottish curler
 1993 - Mitch Larkin, Australian swimmer
 1993 - DeAndre Yedlin, American soccer player
 1993 - Jake Vargas, Filipino actor and singer
 1994 - Akiane Kramarik, American poet and artist 
 1995 – Georgie Henley, English actress
1998 - Robert Capron, American actor
 1999 - Claire Corlett, Canadian actress and singer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 518 - Anastasius I Dicorus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 430)
 1228 - Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1150)
 1386 - Leopold III, Duke of Austria (b. 1351)
 1553 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)
 1654 - Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (b. 1633)
 1677 - Angelus Silesius, German poet (b. 1624)
 1706 - Pierre Lemoyne d'Iberville, Canadian captain and explorer (b. 1661)
 1737 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1671)
 1746 – King Philip V of Spain (b. 1683)
 1766 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (b. 1720)
 1797 – Edmund Burke, Irish-English writer, philosopher and politician (b. 1729)
 1828 - Gilbert Stuart, American painter (b. 1755)
 1850 – The Bab, founder of the Baha'i religion (b. 1819)
 1850 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (b. 1784)
 1852 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1794)
 1856 – Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (b. 1776)
 1880 - Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824)
1901  2000 
 1903 - Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist and photographer (b. 1842)
 1932 - King C. Gillette, American businessman (b. 1855)
 1947 - Lucjan Zeligowski, Polish-Lithuanian general and politician (b. 1865)
 1949 - Fritz Hart, English-Australian composer and conductor (b. 1874)
 1951 - Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1894)
 1955 - Don Beaumon, English racing driver (b. 1928)
 1955 - Adolfo de la Huerta, President of Mexico (b. 1881)
 1962 - Georges Bataille, French philosopher (b. 1897)
 1974 – Earl Warren, American jurist (b. 1891)
 1977 – Alice Paul, American activist (b. 1885)
 1979 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and author (b. 1899)
 1980 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet, playwright and composer (b. 1913)
 1985 – Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
 1986 - Patriarch Nicholas VI of Alexandria (b. 1915)
 1992 - Eric Sevareid, American journalist (b. 1912)
From 2001 
 2002 – Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)
 2004 - Paul Klebnikov, American journalist and historian (b. 1963)
 2004 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (b. 1919)
 2004 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (b. 1917)
 2005 – Yevgeny Grishin, Russian figure skater (b. 1931)
 2011 - Würzel, English guitarist (Motorhead) (b. 1949) 
 2012 - Terepai Maoate, 6th Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1934)
 2012 - Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress (b. 1917)
 2013 - Markus Büchel, 9th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (b. 1959)
 2014 - David Azrieli, Polish-born Canadian-Israeli real estate tycoon, developer, designer, architect and philanthropist (b. 1922)
 2014 - Eileen Ford, American executive and businesswoman (b. 1922)
 2014 - Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes, Brazilian geologist and mineralogist (b. 1950)
 2014 - Don Lenhardt, American baseball player and coach (b. 1922)
 2015 - Saud bin Faisal, Saudi royal and politician (b. 1940)
 2015 - Christian Audigier, French fashion designer (b. 1958)
2015 - Jim Bede, American aircraft designer (b. 1933)
 2015 - Caspar Bowden, British privacy advocate (b. 1961)
 2016 - Johnny Barnes, Bermudian entertainer (b. 1923)
 2016 - Erny Brenner, Luxembourgish footballer (b. 1931)
 2016 - Geneviève Castrée, Canadian musician and comic book artist (b. 1981)
 2016 - Vaughn Harper, American DJ (b. 1945)
 2016 - Hugo Niebeling, German filmmaker (b. 1931)
 2016 - Silvano Piovanelli, Italian cardinal (b. 1924)
 2016 - Sydney Schanberg, American journalist (b. 1934)
 2017 - Naresh Chandra, Indian politician (b. 1934)
 2017 - Ilya Glazunov, Russian painter (b. 1930)
 2017 - Anton Nossik, Israeli-Russian journalist and social media activist (b. 1966)
 2017 - Paquita Rico, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1929)
 2018 - Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, British politician (b. 1919)
 2018 - Stefan Demert, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1939)
 2018 - Hans Günter Winkler, German equestrian (b. 1926)
 2019 - Philip Freelon, American architect (b. 1953)
2019 - Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (b. 1930)
 2019 - Fernando de la Rúa, President of Argentina (b. 1937)
 2019 - Rip Torn, American actor (b. 1931)
Observances 
 Independence Day in Argentina and South Sudan
 Constitution Day in Australia and Palau

July 09
Up to 1900 
 1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
 1283 - War of the Sicilian Vespers: Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese fleet, defeats an Angevin fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta in the Battle of Malta.
 1497 – Vasco da Gama sets sail for his first voyage to India.
 1579 - Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
 1663 - Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
 1709 - Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava - Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XIII of Sweden at Poltava, ending Sweden's role as a major European power.
 1716 - Great Northern War: The naval Battle of Dynekilen takes place.
 1730 - A magnitude 7.8 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages 1,000 kilometers of Chile's coastline.
1760 - French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche - British forces defeat the French in the last battle in New France.
 1776 – The Declaration of Independence is read out for the first time and the Liberty Bell is rung, in Philadelphia.
 1808 - Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as King of Spain.
 1822 - Chippewas turn over a large section of land in present-day Ontario over to the United Kingdom.
 1853 - US Commodore Matthew C. Perry arrives at Edo Bay (present-day Tokyo) with a treaty requesting trade.
 1859 - Charles XV of Sweden/IV of Norway becomes King of Sweden-Norway.
 1879 - Sailing ship USS Jeannette leaves San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
 1889 – The Wall Street Journal is first published.
 1892 - The city of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador is largely damaged by fire.
 1898 – Crime boss Soapy Smith is killed in Skagway, Alaska.
1901  2000 
 1927 - Heavy rain in the night to July 9 causes major flooding in Saxony, Germany, killing 160 people.
 1932 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, at 41.22.
 1937 - Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
 1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
 1948 - The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a programme called Women In the Air Force.
 1960 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
 1966 - King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is removed from power by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
 1982 - Assassination attempt on Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
 1986 - Kurt Waldheim becomes President of Austria.
 1989 - Carlos Menem becomes President of Argentina.
 1990 – Germany wins the FIFA World Cup, defeating Argentina 1-0.
 1992 - Thomas Klestil becomes President of Austria.
1994 – Kim Il-Sung dies. His son Kim Jong-Il takes over the role of supreme leader.
 1997 – NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland to join.
From 2001 
 2001 - Goran Ivanisevic, as a rank outsider, wins the Men's Singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Patrick Rafter in the final.
 2003 - The first attempted separation of conjoined twins, carried in Singapore, fails, as Ladan and Laleh Bijani die of complications from the operation to separate them.
 2004 – Heinz Fischer becomes President of Austria, two days after the death of his predecessor, Thomas Klestil.
 2005 – The G-8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, concludes, with promises of aid to developing countries.
 2007 – Roger Federer wins his fifth consecutive Wimbledon Men's Singles tennis title, defeating Rafael Nadal in five sets.
 2011 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches in the last launch of the Space Shuttle programme.
 2014 - Israel launches Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip, following the killing of Israeli teenagers which had led to tensions between Israel and Hamas.
2014 - Brazil v Germany: In the semi finals of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the Brazil national football team is beaten 7-1 by the Germany national football team in a shock result. Several footballing and World Cup records are beaten in this match, in which Germany's Miroslav Klose scored his record-breaking 16th World Cup goal.
 2016 - The New European, a new British pro-European newspaper, publishes its first weekly edition, in response to the Brexit vote.
 2018 - In the British Government, David Davis resigns as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
Up to 1900 
 1478 - Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian humanist, poet and linguist (d. 1550)
 1528 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580)
 1545 – Carlos, Prince of Asturias (d. 1568)
 1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
 1604 - Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet (d. 1651)
 1621 – Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695).
 1640 - Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1660)
 1735 - Domenico Vandelli, Italian naturalist (d. 1816)
 1760 - Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826)
 1792 – Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Queen of Bavaria (d. 1854)
 1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock, Irish admiral and explorer (d. 1907)
 1830 - Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1911)
 1830 - Frederick W. Seward, American lawyer and politician (d. 1915)
 1831 – John Pemberton, American inventor, of Coca-Cola (d. 1888)
 1836 – Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914).
 1838 - Eli Lilly, American soldier, chemist, industrialist and entrepreneur (d. 1898)
1838 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917).
 1839 – John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1937)
 1851 - Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (d. 1941)
 1857 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist and graphologist (d. 1911)
 1864 - F. Holland Day, American photographer (d. 1933)
 1867 - Kaethe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (d. 1945)
 1878 - Jimmy Quinn, Scottish footballer (d. 1945)
 1882 - Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (d. 1961) 
 1885 – Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (d. 1977)
 1885 - Hugo Boss, German fashion designer (d. 1948)
 1890 - Walter Hasenclever, German playwright and poet (d. 1940)
 1892 - Richard Aldington, English author and poet (d. 1962)
 1892 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967)
 1894 - Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist (d. 1984)
 1895 – Igor Tamm, Russian physicist (d. 1971)
 1898 - Melville Ruick, American actor (d. 1972)
 1900 - George Antheil, American pianist, composer and author (d. 1959)
1901  1950 
 1904 – Henri Cartan, French mathematician (d. 2008)
 1905 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (d. 1997)
 1906 - Philip Johnson, American architect (d. 2005)
 1907 - George W. Romney, American businessman and politician, 43rd Governor of Michigan (d. 1995)
 1908 – Louis Jordan, American jazz and blues musician (d. 1975)
 1908 – Nelson A. Rockefeller, American politician, 41st Vice President of the United States and 49th Governor of New York (d. 1979)
 1914 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (d. 2010)
 1914 - Billy Eckstine, American singer and trumpeter (d. 1993)
 1918 - Paul B. Fay, American politician, 12th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2009)
 1918 - Irwin Hasen, American comic artist and cartoonist (d. 2015)
 1919 – Walter Scheel, President of West Germany (d. 2016)
 1920 – Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman (Lego group) (d. 1995)
 1921 - Edgar Morin, French philosopher and politician
 1923 - Harrison Dillard, American sprinter and hurdler
1924 - Johnnie Johnson, American pianist and blues musician (d. 2005)
 1925 - Nicholas Brathwaite, former Prime Minister of Grenada  (d. 2016)
 1925 - Marco Cé, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
 1926 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychologist and psychiatrist (d. 2004)
 1926 - David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher (d. 2014)
 1930 - Jerry Vale, American singer and actor (d. 2014)
 1931 - Thorvald Stoltenberg, Norwegian politician (d. 2018)
 1932 - Franca Raimondi, Italian singer (d. 1988)
 1933 - Peter Orlovsky, American poet (d. 2010) 
 1934 – Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982)
 1935 - John David Crow, American football player and coach (d. 2015)
 1935 – Vitaly Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2010)
 1938 - Dario Gradi, Italian-English football manager
 1940 - Karin Hannak, Austrian artist
 1941 - Michael K. Frith, British artist and television producer
 1944 - Jai Johanny Johanson, American drummer
 1944 - Jeffrey Tambor, American actor and singer
1945 – Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss Federal Councillor
 1947 - Kim Darby, American actress
 1947 - Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian religious leader
 1948 – Raffi, Canadian children's entertainer
 1949 – Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-born celebrity chef
 1949 - Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (d. 2009)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Anjelica Huston, American actress
 1952 – Ahmad Nazif, former Prime Minister of Egypt
 1952 - Larry Garner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1952 - Marianne Williamson, American author and activist
 1955 – Monty Don, English gardener and television presenter
 1956 - Millard Hampton, American sprinter
 1957 - Carlos Cavazo, Mexican-American guitarist and songwriter
 1957 - Aleksandr Gurnov, Russian journalist and author
 1958 – Kevin Bacon, American actor and musician
 1958 – Tzipi Livni, Israeli politician
 1958 - Neetu Singh, Indian actress and costume designer
 1959 - Tom Egeland, Norwegian writer and journalist
 1959 - Billy Kimball, American screenwriter and producer
 1959 - Robert Knepper, American actor
 1959 – Pauline Quirke, English actress
 1961 - Andrew Fletcher, English keyboardist
 1961 - Toby Keith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1962 - Joan Osborne, American singer and songwriter
 1964 - Linda de Mol, Dutch actress and screenwriter
1964 - Alexei Gusarov, Russian ice hockey player and manager
 1965 - Dan Levinson, American clarinetist, saxophonist and bandleader
 1968 - Billy Crudup, American actor
 1968 - Michael Weatherly, American actor, producer and director
 1970 – Beck, American singer
 1970 - Todd Martin, American tennis player and coach
 1971 - Neil Jenkins, Welsh rugby player and coach
 1971 - Amy O'Neill, American actress
 1973 - Sally Lindsay, British actress
 1973 - Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress and producer
 1974 - Jeanna Friske, Russian actress and singer (d. 2015)
From 1976 
 1976 - Ellen MacArthur, English sailor
 1976 - Wang Liping, Chinese race walker
 1977 – Christian Abbiati, Italian footballer
 1977 - Milo Ventimiglia, American actor, director and producer
 1977 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
 1980 – Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
 1981 – Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
 1982 – Sophia Bush, American actress
 1982 - Pendleton Ward, American animator, screenwriter, producer and voice actor
 1985 - Jamie Cook, English guitarist
 1986 - Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer
 1986 - Kenza Farah, Algerian-French singer-songwriter
 1986 - Jake McDorman, American actor
 1987 - Vlada Roslyakova, Russian model
 1988 - Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (d. 2012)
 1990 - Kevin Trapp, German footballer
 1991 - Jamie Blackley, Manx actor
 1991 - Devon Conway, New Zealand cricketer
 1992 - Sky Ferreira, American singer-songwriter and actress 
 1992 – Benjamin Grosvenor, British pianist
 1992 - Son Heung-min, South Korean footballer
1998 – Jaden Smith, American actor
 2004 - Gayle, American singer
Up to 1900 
 810 - Pepin of Italy (b. 773)
 901 - Grimbald, French-English monk and saint (b. 827)
 975 - Edgar the Peaceful, English King (b. 943)
 1153 - Pope Eugene III (b. 1087)
 1538 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer and general (b. 1475)
 1623 – Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
 1695 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch astronomer and scientist (b. 1629).
 1721 – Elihu Yale, American university benefactor (b. 1649).
 1822 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792).
 1832 - Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (b. 1756)
 1850 - Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
 1855 – William Edward Parry, English arctic explorer (b. 1790).
 1859 – King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799).
 1864 - David Hazzard, American politician, Governor of Delaware (b. 1781)
 1873 - Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter (b. 1805)
 1893 - Abraham K. Allison, American politician, 6th Governor of Florida (b. 1810)
 1897 - Isham G. Harris, American politician, 18th Governor of Tennessee (b. 1818)
1901  2000 
 1905 - Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer (b. 1834)
 1930 – Joseph Ward, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
 1933 - Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (b. 1863)
 1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer and academic (b. 1848)
 1939 - Havelock Ellis, English psychologist and author (b. 1859)
 1941 - Moses Schorr, Polish historian, rabbi and politician (b. 1874)
 1942 - Refik Saydam, 5th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1881)
 1943 – Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)
 1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian sociologist, economist and philosopher (b. 1878)
 1956 - Giovanni Papini, Italian journalist, author and critic (b. 1881)
 1957 – Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (b. 1879).
 1962 – Georges Pataille, French writer and philosopher (b. 1897).
 1967 – Fatimah Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (b. 1893).
 1971 - Charlie Shavers, American trumpeter (b. 1920)
 1973 - Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
1973 - Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli educator and politician (b. 1884)
 1973 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
 1975 - Lennart Skoglund, Swedish footballer (b. 1929)
 1979 – Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist (b. 1906).
 1979 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist (b. 1917)
 1985 - Simon Kuznets, Russian-American economist (b. 1901)
 1985 - Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French movie director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1909)
 1986 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1909)
 1987 - Lionel Chevrier, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
 1987 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
 1988 – Ray Barbuti, American sportsman (b. 1905)
 1990 - Howard Duff, American actor, director and producer (b. 1913)
 1994 – Kim Il-Sung, President of North Korea (b. 1912)
 1994 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American businessman and explorer (b. 1927)
 1995 - Aleksander Arulaid, Estonian chess player (b. 1924)
 1999 - Peter Conrad, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1930)
From 2001 
 2002 – Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914)
 2003 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins (b. 1974)
 2004 – Paula Danziger, American writer (b. 1944)
 2006 – June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
 2007 - Chandra Shekhar, 9th Prime Minister of India (b. 1927)
 2011 – Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (b. 1918)
 2012 - Ernest Borgnine, American actor (b. 1917)
 2014 - Ben Pangelinan, American-Guamanian politician (b. 1955)
 2014 - John V. Evans, American politician, 27th Governor of Idaho (b. 1925)
 2015 - Irwin Keyes, American actor (b. 1952)
 2016 - Javed Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1940)
 2016 - Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist, activist and humanitarian (b. 1928)
 2016 - Harold A. Linstone, German-American mathematician and futurist (b. 1924)
 2016 - William H. McNeill, Canadian-American historian and author (b. 1917)
 2016 - Jacques Rouffio, French director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
 2017 - Nelsan Ellis, American actor (b. 1977)
2017 - Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress and model (b. 1935)
 2017 - Don Johns, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1937)
 2018 - Alan Gilzean, Scottish footballer (b. 1938)
 2018 - Tab Hunter, American actor and musician (b. 1931)
 2018 - M. M. Jacob, Indian politician (b. 1927)
 2018 - Oliver Knussen, Scottish composer (b. 1952)
 2018 - Frank Ramsey, American basketball plauer (b. 1931)
 2018 - Robert D. Ray, American politician, 38th Governor of Iowa (b. 1928)
 2022 – Shinzō Abe, 2-time Prime Minister of Japan, assassinated (b. 1954)
Observances 
 Air Force and Air Defense Forces Day (Ukraine)

July 08
Up to 1900 
 1508 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated in Friuli by Venetian troops.
 1513 - Italian Wars: Battle of Novara: Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored to power.
 1523 – Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, ending the Kalmar Union.
 1586 - Francis Drake's forces raid St. Augustine, Florida.
 1644 - The Qing Dynasty Manchu forces under Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.
 1674 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, is crowned.
 1683 - The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
 1752 - One third of Moscow is destroyed by fire.
 1808 – Joseph Bonaparte is proclaimed King of Spain.
 1809 - Sweden introduces a new constitution.
 1813 - War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek - A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force twice its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
1833 - Andrew Jackson becomes the first President of the United States to ride on a train.
 1838 - The Indian Removal Act enters into force. US troops under Winfield Scott start removing Native American Cherokees from their ancestral homeland to a reservation in Oklahoma in what becomes known as the Trail of Tears in which 4,000 to 10,000 Cherokees die.
 1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association is founded in London.
 1857 - Sophia of Nassau marries future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.
 1859 – Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales.
 1862 - American Civil War: Union forces take Memphis, Tennessee from the Confederates.
 1882 – A tropical storm kills over 100,000 people in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
 1889 – The entire downtown area of Seattle is destroyed by fire.
 1892 - The Chicago 'L' commuter rail system is introduced.
1901  2000 
 1912 – The Novarupta Volcano in Alaska erupts in one of the biggest volcanic eruptions of the 20th century. Because it happened in an uninhabited area, people believed that the nearby Katmai volcano had erupted.
 1918 - World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood - The United States Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood of Chateau-Thierry.
 1920 - The first Reichstag election in Germany's Weimar Republic takes place.
 1921 - Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck.
 1931 - Munich's Glass Palace is set on fire. The whole building, along with over 3,000 paintings, is destroyed.
 1933 - The first drive-in theatre is opened in Camden, New Jersey.
 1934 - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law.
 1942 – World War II: In the Battle of Midway US navy dive bombers sink Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
1944 – World War II: The allied D-Day landings take place in Normandy.
 1946 - The National Basketball Association is created.
 1964 - Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Northern Germany, are abandoned, and never continue.
 1966 – Civil Rights activist James Meredith is shot in the back and legs in Mississippi. He survives the attack.
 1968 – American politician Robert F. Kennedy dies after being shot on the previous day.
 1971 – Soviet space programme: Soyuz 11 launches.
 1971 - A mid-air collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California, kills 50 people.
 1971 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese Communist forces begins.
 1981 – Bihar Train Disaster: A train crash kills an estimated 1,000 people.
 1982 - The 1982 Lebanon War begins.
 1984 - Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, is released.
1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" in Brazil is exhumed. The remains are found to be those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, who died in 1979.
 1993 – Mongolians vote in direct Presidential elections for the first time.
 1994 - A Tupolev Tu-154  of China Northwest Airlines, crashes shortly after take-off from Xi'an, China, killing 160 people.
 1994 - A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Colombia kills  795 people.
From 2001 
 2001 – Argentina's former President Carlos Menem is arrested on charges of selling weapons to Ecuador and Croatia.
 2002 – A near-Earth asteroid explodes over the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Libya.
 2004 - Tamil is established as a classical language of India. 
 2007 – Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is stripped of an honorary degree that was given to him by the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
 2007 - The G-8 summit is held in Heiligendamm on Germany's Baltic Sea coast.
 2012 - The 21st century's last Transit of Venus occurs.
 2014 - Big commemorations are held to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
 2015 - The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup begins in Canada. In Edmonton, Alberta, Canada defeats China 1-0 through a late penalty.

Births
Up to 1900 
1236 - Wen Tianxiang, Chinese general and scholar (d. 1283)
1243 - Alix of Brittany, Dame du Pontarcy, Breton-French noblewoman (d. 1288)
1436 – Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), German astronomer (d. 1472)
1502 – King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
1519 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian botanist (d. 1603)
1553 – Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
1599 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
1606 – Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1684)
1622 – Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1857)
1661 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (d. 1756)
1678 - Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, French aristocrat (d. 1737)
1714 – King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777)
1755 – Nathan Hale, American writer, patriot (d. 1776)
1756 – John Trumbull, American painter (d. 1843)
1772 - Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1807)
1799 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (d. 1837)
1807 - Thieu Tri, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1847)
1810 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German classical scholar (d. 1856)
1821 - François-Marie Luzel, French folklorist and Breton language poet (d. 1895)
1829 – Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d. 1862)
1850 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)
1857 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918)
1862 – Henry John Newbolt, English writer (d. 1938)
1867 - David T. Abercrombie, American businessman (Abercrombie & Fitch) (d. 1931)
1868 – Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (d. 1912)
1868 - Dawid Janowski, Polish chess player (d. 1927) 
1869 - Siegfried Wagner, German composer and conductor (d. 1930)
1872 – Tsarina Alexandra of Russia (d. 1918)
1875 – Thomas Mann, German novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1955)
1880 – W. T. Cosgrave, Irish politician (d. 1965)
1890 – Ted Lewis, American bandleader (d. 1971)
1892 – Donald Duncan, Sr., American marketer, modifier of yo-yo (d. 1971)
1896 – Henry Allingham, British World War I veteran and supercentenarian (d. 2009)
1896 - Italo Balbo, Italian marshal and politician (d. 1940)
1898 – Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer (d. 2001)
1898 - Walter Abel, American actor (d. 1987)
1901  1950 
1901 – Sukarno, first President of Indonesia (d. 1970)
1903 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (d. 1978)
1906 – Max August Zorn, German-American mathematician (d. 1993)
1907 – Bill Dickey, American baseball player, coach, manager, and scout (d. 1993)
1909 - Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-born British political philosopher (d. 1997)
1912 - Joan Hartigan, Australian tennis player (d. 2000)
1912 - María Montez, Dominican actress (d. 1951)
1916 – Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)
1916 – Hamani Diori, first President of Niger (d. 1989)
1917 – Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman (d. 2015)
1918 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist (d. 2009)
1919 - Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, 6th Secretary-General of NATO (d. 2018)
1924 - Orna Porat, German-Israeli actress (d. 2015)
1925 - Fitzhugh L. Fulton, American pilot (d. 2015)
1925 - Maxine Kumin, American poet and author (d. 2014)
1926 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
1928 - George Deukmejian, 35th Governor of California (d. 2018)
1928 - Elio Sgreccia, Italian cardinal (d. 2019)
1929 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician
1930 - Frank Tyson, English cricketer (d. 2015)
1932 - Billie Whitelaw, British actress (d. 2014)
1932 - Anne Claire Poirier, Canadian director, actor and screenwriter
1932 - David Scott, American colonel, engineer and astronaut
1933 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (Nobel Prize 1986 for scanning tunneling microscope) (d. 2013)
1934 – King Albert II of Belgium
1934 – Gilbert Cates, producer, director
1934 - Roy Innis, American activist
1935 – Bobby Mitchel, American football player
1936 – Levi Stubbs, American musician (The Four Tops) (d. 2008)
1936 - Mompati Merafhe, Vice President of Botswana (d. 2015)
1938 - Ryuchi Matsuda, Japanese author (d. 2013)
1938 - Prince Louis of Orléans-Braganza
1939 – Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer
1939 – Gary U.S. Bonds, musician
1939 - Marian Wright Edelman, American activist
1940 – Larry Lujack, American disc jockey
1940 - Willie John McBride, Irish rugby player, coach and manager
1942 - Klaus Bednarz, German journalist (d. 2015)
1942 - Sandra Morgan, Australian swimmer
1942 - Norberto Rivera Carrera, Mexican cardinal
1943 - Asif Iqbal, Pakistani cricketer
1943 - Richard Smalley, American chemist (d. 2005)
1944 - Edgar Froese, German musician (d. 2015)
1944 - Phillip Sharp, American biologist
1945 – David Dukes, American actor (d. 2000)
1947 – David Blunkett, British politician
1947 – Robert Englund, American actor (aka. Freddy Krueger)
1949 - Ioannis Matzourakis, Greek footballer and manager
1949 - Noli de Castro, 14th Vice President of the Philippines
1950 - Chantal Akerman, Belgian movie director (d. 2015)
1951  1975 
1952 - Yukihiro Takahashi, Japanese drummer, producer and actor
1952 - Jean Hamel, Canadian ice hockey player
1953 – Jack Novak, American football player
1954 - Wladyslaw Zmuda, Polish footballer
1954 - Harvey Fierstein, American actor
1954 – Cynthia Rylant, writer
1955 – Sandra Bernhard, American actress, comedian
1955 - Sam Simon, American producer and writer (d. 2015)
1956 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player
1956 – Bubbi Morthens, Icelandic singer, songwriter and musician
1957 - Mike Gatting, English cricketer
1959 - Jimmy Jam, American keyboardist, songwriter and producer
1960 – Gary Graham, American actor
1960 – Steve Vai, American musician
1961 – Tom Araya, Chilean-American musician (Slayer)
1963 - Eric Cantor, American politician
1963 – Wolfgang Drechsler, German social scientist
1963 - Jason Isaacs, British actor
1964 - Jay Bentley, American singer and bass player
1964 - Jay Lake, American author (d. 2014)
1966 - Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer
1967 – Max Casella, American actor
1967 – Paul Giamatti, American actor
1969 - Fernando Redondo, Argentine footballer
1970 - Albert Ferrer, Spanish footballer
1970 – James "Munky" Shaffer, American musician (Korn guitarist)
1970 - Richard Di Natale, Australian politician
1971 - Petr Korbel, Czech table tennis player
1972 - Cristina Scabbia, Italian rock music singer
1974 - Uncle Kracker, American rock musician
1975 – Staci Keanan, American actress