Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1963 - Giovanni Francini, Italian footballer
1963 - Lisa Ann Walter, American actress
1964 - Lucky Dube, South African singer (d. 2007)
1964 – Abhisit Vejjajiva, former Prime Minister of Thailand
1964 - Nate McMillan, American basketball player
1965 - Jordi Sans Juan, Spanish water polo player
1966 – Brent Butt, Canadian actor and comedian
1967 - Mathieu Kassovitz, French actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1968 - Eyjolfur Sverrisson, Icelandic footballer
1968 - Isao Yukisoda, Japanese film director
1969 - Doug Overton, American basketball player
1970 - Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game designer
1970 - Masaharu Suzuki, Japanese footballer
1970 – Gina G, Australian singer
1970 - Stephen Carpenter, American guitarist and songwriter
1971 - Kazuaki Tasaka, Japanese footballer
1972 - Erika Marozsan, Hungarian actress
1972 - Sandis Ozolins, Latvian ice hockey player
1975 - Felix Brych, German football referee
From 1976 
1977 – Tom Brady, American football player
1977 – Angela Beesley, British Internet entrepreneur
1977 - Oscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist
1977 - Tómas Lemarquis, Icelandic actor
1978 - Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer
1978 - Collin Benjamin, Namibian footballer
1979 - Maria Haukans Mittet, Norwegian singer and actress
1979 – Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress and model
1980 - Hannah Simone, Canadian actress, model and television presenter
1982 - Kaspar Kokk, Estonian skier
1983 - Mamie Gummer, American actress
1984 - Mile Jedinak, Australian footballer
1984 – Ryan Lochte, American swimmer
1984 – Sunil Chhetri, Indian footballer
1984 - Chris Maurer, American singer and musician (Suburban Legends)
1985 - Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby player
1985 - Brent Kuzle, American bass player and producer
1986 – Prince Louis Xavier Marie Guillaume, Prince of Luxembourg and of Nassau
1986 - Charlotte Casiraghi, Monegasque royalty
1987 - Gary Medel, Chilean footballer
1988 - Sven Ulreich, German footballer
1989 - Jules Bianchi, French racing driver (d. 2015)
1992 - Lum Rexhepi, Finnish footballer
1992 - Karlie Kloss, American model
1993 - Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer
1993 - Ola Abidogun, English sprinter
1994 - Corentin Tolisso, French footballer
2000 - Landry Bender, American actress
Up to 1900 
1181 – Pope Alexander III
1460 – King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
1527 - Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
1546 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)
1546 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)
1604 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander (b. circa 1540)
1667 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss architect (b. 1599)
1712 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
1720 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)
1721 – Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648)
1761 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)
1780 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, philosopher (b. 1715)
1784 - Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian composer (b. 1706)
1792 – Richard Arkwright, industrialist, and inventor of the Water Frame (b. 1732)
1797 – Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)
1800 - Friedrich Gilly, German writer (b. 1772)
1839 - Dorothea Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763)
1857 – Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
1867 – Philipp August Böckh, scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1877 – William B. Ogden, first Mayor of Chicago (b.1805)
1879 – Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
1881 - William Fargo, American expressman (b. 1818)
1901  2000 
1916 – Sir Roger Casement, Irish activist (hanged) (b. 1864)
1917 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (b. 1849)
1924 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer (b. 1857)
1929 – Emil Berliner, telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
1929 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)
1942 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
1947 - José Pardo y Barreda, President of Peru (b. 1864)
1954 – Colette, French writer (b. 1873)
1964 – Flannery O'Connor, American writer (b. 1925)
1966 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
1973 – Richard Marshall, general (b. 1895)
1977 – Alfred Lunt, actor (b. 1892)
1977 – Archbishop Makarios III of Cyprus (b. 1913)
1979 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist (b. 1899)
1979 - Alfredo Ottaviani, Italian cardinal (b. 1890)
1983 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1929)
1995 – Ida Lupino, actress, director (b. 1914)
1995 – Edward Whittemore, writer (b. 1933)
1998 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)
From 2001 
2002 - Carmen Silvera, Canadian-English actress (b. 1922)
2003 - Joseph Saidu Momoh, President of Sierra Leone (b. 1937)
2003 - Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1954)
2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)
2005 – Steven Vincent, journalist (b. unknown)
2006 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German singer (b. 1915)
2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (b. 1918)
2011 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (b. 1945)
2011 – Nikolay Petrov, Russian pianist (b. 1943)
2014 - Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal (b. 1923)
2014 - Lydia Yu-Jose, Filipino political scientist (b. 1944)
2014 - Miangul Aurangzeb, Pakistani politician (b. 1928)
2014 - Christian Frémont, French politician (b. 1942)
2015 - Margot Loyola, Chilean musician and folk singer (b. 1918)
2015 - Coleen Gray, American actress (b. 1922)
2015 - Mel Farr, American football player (b. 1944)
2015 - Robert Conquest, English-American historian (b. 1917)
2015 - Johanna Quandt, German businesswoman (b. 1926)
2016 - Chris Amon, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1943)
2017 - Angel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer (b. 1947)
2017 - Bonaventura Duda, Croatian friar and theologian (b. 1924)
2017 - Richard Dudman, American reporter and journalist (b. 1918)
2017 - Ty Hardin, American actor (b. 1930)
2017 - Robert Hardy, English actor (b. 1925)
2017 - Dickie Hemric, American basketball player (b. 1933)
2017 - Eberhard von Koerber, German manager (b. 1938)
2018 - Matija Barl, Slovenian actor (b. 1940)
2018 - Carlos Buttice, Argentine footballer (b. 1942)
2018 - Ingrid Espelid Hovig, Norwegian television chef and cookbook author (b. 1924)
2018 - Moshé Mizrahi, Israeli film director (b. 1931)
2018 - Tommy Peoples, Irish fiddler (b. 1948)
2018 - John Schella, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1947)
2019 - Miklós Ambrus, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1933)
2019 - Jean-Claude Bouttier, French boxer and actor (b. 1944)
2019 - Cliff Branch, American football player (b. 1948)
2019 - Brian Lochore, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1940)
2019 - Thomas Remengesau Sr., 2nd President of Palau (b. 1929)
2019 - John Philip Saklil, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1960)
2019 - Mike Troy, American swimmer (b. 1940)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Niger)
 Emancipation Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
 Day of the National Flag (Venezuela)

August 03
Up to 1940 
 338 BC  Rise of Macedon: Philip II of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea.
 216 BC  Punic Wars: In the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal destroys the Roman army of Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro in what is considered one of the great masterpieces of the tactical art.
 AD 461  Majorian resigns as Western Roman Emperor; shortly afterwards Libius Severus is declared western Roman emperor by Ricimer.
 1274  Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King 17 days later.
 1377  Russian troops are defeated at the Battle of Pyana River because of drunkenness.
 1610  Henry Hudson sails into what is now Hudson Bay, thinking he had reached the Pacific Ocean through the Northwest Passage.
 1776  Delegates to the Continental Congress begin to sign the United States Declaration of Independence.
1790  First US Census; records are missing for five states: Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey and Virginia. Destroyed somewhere between that date and 1830.
 1798  Second Coalition: End of the Battle of the Nile between French and British navies; France defeated.
 1830  Charles X of France leaves the throne to his grandson Henri, Count of Chambord, who is, disputedly, King of France until August 9.
 1832  Battle of Bad Axe: US troops defeat Native American Chief Black Hawk.
 1858  British Columbia becomes a British colony.
 1869  Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
 1870  Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
 1873  The Clay Street Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
 1874  Iceland celebrates 1,000 years of settlement.
1876  In Deadwood, South Dakota, Jack McCall shoots and kills American Western figure Wild Bill Hickok, who was playing a game of cards at the time. The combination of cards he held at the time is now referred to as Dead Man's Hand.
 1897  Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends.
 1903  Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden uprising.
 1909  The 'Tragic Week' uprising in Barcelona against Spain's colonial politics in Morocco is violently crushed by police. Over 100 people are killed.
 1916  World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
 1918  Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
 1918  The first General Strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
 1922  A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China, killing over 50,000 people.
1923  After the death of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge becomes President of the United States.
 1934  Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
 1937  Marijuana is made illegal in the United States.
 1939  Leó Szilárd and Albert Einstein sign a letter to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning of the dangers posed by Nazi Germany and calling for the development of a nuclear weapon.
From 1941 
 1943  PT-109, with future president of the United States Lieutenant John F. Kennedy aboard, sinks. He manages to save most of the crew.
 1944  The Socialist Republic of Macedonia is created.
 1944  Beginning of the Treblinka uprising.
 1945  World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
 1947  A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain on a flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago de Chile. The wreckage disappears under a glacier and only reappears over 50 years later. The meaning of its last message, "STENDEC", remains a mystery.
 1950  The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was published on Yankee Stadium, New York.
 1955  Velcro is patented.
 1964  North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
 1967  The second Blackwall Tunnel opened in Greenwich, London.
 1967  Turkish sports club Trabzonspor is founded in Trabzon.
1968  An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines, killing over 270 people.
 1970  Powder Ridge Rock Festival
 1973  A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.
 1975  In New Orleans, Louisiana, the Superdome officially opens with an American football game between the New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers.
 1976  An intruder breaks into Priscilla Davis's Mockingbird Lane mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. Priscilla Davis and a friend are injured while Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr are killed. T. Cullen Davis is tried and found innocent of the crime.
 1980  A terrorist bombing at the railway station in Bologna, Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
 1980  Hard rock band AC/DC release Back in Black, their first album with lead singer Brian Johnson and their best-selling
 1985  A Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas, killing 137.
 1989  Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations.
1989  A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peacekeeping Force in Sri Lanka, killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
 1990  On the orders of Saddam Hussein, Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
 1994  Popular Japanese television and movie actor Beat Takeshi is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.
 1997  Australian ski instructor Stuart Diver is rescued as the sole survivor from the Thredbo landslide in New South Wales, Australia, in which 18 people died.
 1998  The Second Congo War begins.
 2003  A 65th anniversary edition of The Beano is released.
 2005  Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames. All on board survive, with 12 injured.
 2007  Crews from the Russian submarines Mir 1 and Mir 2 plant the Flag of Russia in the seabed beneath the North Pole.
 2014  A factory explosion near Shanghai kills 146 people.
2018  Apple Inc. becomes the first company to reach a worth of a trillion United States dollars.
 2018  The first multi-sport European Championships, co-hosted by Glasgow (Scotland) and Berlin (Germany), begin.
Up to 1900 
 1455  John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1499)
 1533  Theodor Zwinger, medical scholar (d. 1588)
 1612  Saskia van Uylenburgh, wife of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (d. 1642)
 1627  Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter and writer (d. 1678)
 1672  Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
 1674  Philip II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (d. 1723)
 1696  Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
 1702  Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1769)
 1703  Lorenzo Ricci, General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1775)
 1754  Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect, city planner (d. 1825)
 1780  Marie-Anne Gaboury, French-Canadian settler in Manitoba (d. 1875)
 1788  Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
 1802  Nicholas Wiseman, English theologian, cardinal and archbishop (d. 1865)
 1808  Augustus French, 9th Governor of Illinois (d. 1864)
 1815  Adolf Friedrich von Schack, writer (d. 1894)
 1820  John Tyndall, British physicist (d. 1893)
 1824  Princess Francisca of Brazil (d. 1898)
1825  J. Neely Johnson, 4th Governor of California (d. 1872)
 1827  Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Albuquerque, Spanish general (d. 1895)
 1834  Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
 1835  Elisha Gray, American inventor and founder of Western Electric (d. 1901)
 1849  Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (d. 1882)
 1854  Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
 1858  Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1934)
 1862  Duncan Campbell Scott, Canadian writer (d. 1947)
 1865  Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
 1865  John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955)
 1866  Adrien de Gerlache, Belgian explorer (d. 1934)
 1866  Charles Francis Adams III, American politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1954)
 1867  Ernest Dowson, English poet (d. 1900)
 1868  King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
 1870  Marianne Weber, German sociologist (d. 1954)
 1871  John French Sloan, artist (d. 1951)
 1875  Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian general (d. 1957)
1876  Pingali Venkayya, designer of the Flag of India (d. 1963)
 1877  Ravishankar Shukla, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh (d. 1956)
 1878  Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian writer (d. 1956)
 1880  Arthur Dove, American artist (d. 1946)
 1882  Albert Bloch, American painter, writer and translator (d. 1961)
 1882  Red Ames, American baseball player (d. 1936)
 1883  Jonathan Wainwright, American general (d. 1953)
 1884  Rómulo Gallegos, 46th President of Venezuela (d. 1969)
 1886  John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Canadian aviator (d. 1961)
 1891  Arthur Bliss, English composer and conductor (d. 1975)
 1891  Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian and linguist (d. 1971)
 1892  Jack Warner, Canadian movie producer (d. 1978)
 1894  Carlo Galimberti, Italian weightlifter (d. 1939)
 1897  Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1974)
 1897  Karl Otto Koch, German SS officer (d. 1945)
 1899  Charles Bennett, English director and screenwriter (d. 1995)
1901  1950 
 1902  Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Egyptian Coptic Church Patriarch (d. 1971)
 1905  Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963)
 1905  Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
 1905  Rudolf Prack, Austrian actor (d. 1981)
 1912  Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)
 1912  Ann Dvorak, American actress (d. 1979)
 1914  Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)
 1915  Gary Merrill, American actor (d. 1990)
 1919  Carlo Savina, Italian movie score composer (d. 2002)
 1919  Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American actor
 1920  François Flohic, French admiral (d. 2018)
 1921  Ruth Barcan Marcus, American philosopher and logician (d. 2012)
 1921  Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 2013)
 1922  Paul Laxalt, American politician, 22nd Governor of Nevada (d. 2018)
 1923  Shimon Peres, 9th President of Israel (d. 2016)
 1924  James Baldwin, American writer (d. 1987)
 1924  Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
 1925  John McCormack, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
1925  Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator (d. 2013)
 1928  Luigi Colani, German industrial designer (d. 2019)
 1929  Irwin Fridovich, American biochemist (d. 2019)
 1929  Ursula Karusseit, German actress (d. 2019)
 1929  K.M. Peyton, English writer
 1929  David Waddington, Baron Waddington, British Governor of Bermuda (d. 2017)
 1929  Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician (d. 2013)
 1931  Karl Miller, British literary editor, critic and writer (d. 2014)
 1932  Peter O'Toole, Irish-British actor (d. 2013)
 1932  Lamar Hunt, American sportsman (d. 2006)
 1933  Lorenzo Milam, writer and broadcaster
 1934  Valery Bykovsky, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (d. 2019)
 1935  Alex Parker, Scottish footballer
 1937  Garth Hudson, Canadian musician, organist/keyboardist with The Band
 1937  Gundula Janowitz, Austrian soprano
 1937  Jim McLean, Scottish footballer
 1938  Timo Konietzka, German-Swiss footballer and manager (d. 2012)
 1938  Paul Jenkins, American actor (d. 2013)
1939  Wes Craven, American movie director (d. 2015)
 1939  Benjamin Barber, American theorist, author and academic (d. 2017)
 1939  John W. Snow, American politician
 1941  Jules Hoffmann, Luxembourg-French biologist and Nobel Prize winner
 1941  François Weyergans, Belgian writer and director (d. 2019)
 1941  Doris Coley, singer (Shirelles) (d. 2000)
 1941  Fabio Testi, Italian actor
 1942  Isabel Allende, Chilean-American writer
 1942  Leo Beenhakker, Dutch football coach
 1942  Juan Formell, Cuban musician and composer (d. 2014)
 1943  Jon R. Cavaiani, American soldier (d. 2014)
 1943  Max Wright, American actor
 1943  Rose Tremain, British writer
 1944  Jim Capaldi, British drummer, singer, and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)
 1944  Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian singer and musician (d. 2016)
 1945  Joanna Cassidy, American actress
 1947  Massiel, Spanish singer, actress and television presenter
 1948  Dennis Prager, radio talk show host and writer
 1949  Mario Illien, Swiss engineer
1950  Jussi Adler-Olsen, Danish writer
 1950  Lance Ito, American judge
 1950  Mathieu Carrière, German actor
 1950  Ken Kutaragi, Japanese businessman, founder of PlayStation
1951  1975 
 1951  Per Westerberg, Swedish politician
 1951  Joe Lynn Turner, American singer
 1951  Marcel Iures, Romanian actor
 1952  Alain Giresse, French footballer and manager
 1953  Donnie Munro, Scottish musician and singer, formerly of the band Runrig
 1953  Butch Patrick, American actor
 1954  Ken MacLeod, Scottish writer
 1954  Sammy McIlroy, Irish footballer
 1954  Enrique Saura, Spanish footballer
 1956  Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist, astrophysicist and writer
 1956  Isabel Pantoja, Spanish singer
 1957  Mojo Nixon, musician and actor
 1958  Elaine C. Smith, Scottish actress and comedienne
 1959  Johnny Kemp, Bahamian singer (d. 2015)
 1960  Olivier Gruner, French actor
 1961  Linda Fratianne, American figure skater
 1961  Mike Ross, American politician
 1963  Laura Bennett, American fashion designer
 1964  Mary-Louise Parker, American actress
 1965  Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach
 1965  Joe Hockey, Australian politician
1967  Marco Giampaolo, Italian footballer and manager
 1967  Aaron Krickstein, American tennis player
 1968  Chrystia Freeland, Canadian politician
 1968  Stefan Effenberg, German footballer
 1968  Russell Latapy, Trinidadian footballer
 1969  Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
 1969  Angélica Rivera, Mexican actress and First Lady
 1970  Tony Amonte, American ice hockey player
 1970  Kevin Smith, American actor, director, comedian and writer
 1972  Muriel Bowser, American politician, 8th Mayor of the District of Columbia
 1972  Corinne Rey-Bellet, Swiss ski racer (d. 2006)
 1972  Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer
 1972  Carol Monaghan, Scottish politician
 1972  Mohamed Al-Deayea, Saudi Arabian footballer
 1973  Miguel Mendonça, Anglo-Azorean writer
 1973  Susie O'Neill, Australian swimmer
 1974  Jeremy Castle, singer and songwriter
 1975  Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-born German badminton player
 1975  Mineiro, Brazilian footballer
From 1976 
 1976  Sam Worthington, Australian actor
 1976  Kati Wilhelm, German biathlete
 1977  Edward Furlong, American actor
 1978  Deividas Semberas, Lithuanian footballer
 1982  Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
 1983  Laura Bassett, English footballer
 1983  Michel Bastos, Brazilian footballer
 1984  Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer
 1985  Stephen Ferris, Irish rugby player
 1985  Britt Nicole, American singer
 1985  David Hart Smith, Canadian professional wrestler
 1986  Alisha Annas, musician
 1986  Mathieu Razanakolona, Malagasy skier
 1987  Yura Movsisyan, Armenian footballer
 1989  Nacer Chadli, Belgian footballer
 1990  Skylar Diggins, American basketball player
 1991  Skyler Day, American actress
 1991  Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir, Icelandic swmmer
 1992  Charli XCX, English singer and songwriter
 1992  Hallie Kate Eisenberg, American actress
 1997  Christina Robinson, American actress

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 640  Pope Severinus
 686  Pope John V
 924  King Ælfweard of Wessex (b. 904)
 1100  King William II of England (b. 1056)
 1222  Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (b. 1156)
 1316  Louis of Burgundy (b. 1297)
 1332  King Christopher II of Denmark (b. 1276)
 1512  Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician and philosopher (b. 1463)
 1546  Peter Faber, Jesuit priest (b. 1506)
 1589  King Henry III of France (b. 1551)
 1611  Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
 1644  Bernardo Strozzi, Italian Baroque painter (b. 1581)
 1667  Francesco Borromini, Swiss architect (b. 1599)
 1788  Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (b. 1727)
 1799  Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
 1823  Lazare Carnot, French general, politician and mathematician (b. 1753)
 1849  Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Egyptian military officer and statesman (b. 1769)
 1859  Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
 1876  Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)
1901  2000 
 1913  Ferenc Pfaff, Hungarian architect (b. 1861)
 1921  Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
 1922  Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-American inventor (b. 1847)
 1923  Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
 1929  Mae Costello, American actress (b. 1882)
 1932  Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1876)
 1934  Paul von Hindenburg, German military figure and President (b. 1847)
 1936  Louis Blériot, French aviator (b. 1872)
 1938  Yakov Yurovsky, Russian Bolshevik, led the execution of the family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1878)
 1945  Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863)
 1955  Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1901)
 1973  Jean-Pierre Melville, French movie director (b. 1917)
 1976  Fritz Lang, Austrian movie director (b. 1890)
 1978  Antony Noghès, French businessman (b. 1890)
 1979  Thurman Munson, American baseball player (b. 1947)
 1988  Raymond Carver, American writer (b. 1938)
1992  Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter and songwriter (b. 1947)
 1996  Mohamed Farah Aidid, Somali warlord (b. 1934)
 1996  Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
 1997  Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician (b. 1938)
 1997  William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914)
 1998  Shari Lewis, American television host and puppeteer (b. 1933)
From 2001 
 2004  François Craenhals, Belgian comics artist (b. 1926)
 2004  José Pastoriza, Argentine footballer (b. 1942)
 2005  Jay Hammond, former Governor of Alaska (b. 1922)
 2007  Holden Roberto, Angolan rebel and activist (b. 1923)
 2007  Kay Dotrice, British actress (b. 1929)
 2011  Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1920)
 2012  Mihaela Ursuleasa, Romanian pianist (b. 1978)
 2014  Barbara Prammer, Austrian politician (b. 1954)
 2014  James Thompson, American-Finnish author (b. 1964)
 2014  Pete van Wieren, American sports broadcaster (b. 1944)
 2015  Piet Fransen, Dutch footballer (b. 1936)
 2015  Forrest Bird, American aviator and inventor (b. 1921)
 2015  Giovanni Conso, Italian jurist and politician (b. 1922)
 2015  Natalia Molchanova, Russian freediver (b. 1962)
 2016  Jonathan Borwein, Scottish mathematician (b. 1951)
 2016  Forbes Carlile, Australian swimming coach and modern pentathlete (b. 1921)
 2016  Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (b. 1927)
2016  Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian chemist (b. 1946)
 2017  Wanda Chotomska, Polish writer (b. 1929)
 2017  John Graham, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1935)
 2017  Judith Jones, American cookbook author (b. 1924)
 2017  Daniel Licht, American composer and musician (b. 1957)
 2017  Jim Marrs, American newspaper journalist and author (b. 1943)
 2017  Ara Parseghian, American football player and coach (b. 1923)
 2017  Shen Daren, Chinese politician (b. 1928)
 2017  Santosh Mohan Dev, Indian politician (b. 1934)
 2018  Neil Argo, American composer (b. 1947)
 2018  Armand de Las Cuevas, French cyclist (b. 1968)
 2018  Herbert King, Colombian actor (b. 1963)
 2018  Winston Ntshona, South African actor and playwright (b. 1941)
 2018  Daan Schrijvers, Dutch footballer (b. 1941)
 2019  Vahakn Dadrian, Armenian-American sociologist and historian (b. 1926)
 2019  Deepak Obhrai, Canadian politician (b. 1950)
 2019  Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau, Canadian politician (b. 1955)
 2019  Alexandra Strelchenko, Russian folk singer (b. 1937)
Observances 
 The Catholic Church celebrates on August 2, starting at noon of the preceding day, the "Perdono di Assisi", the plenary indulgence related to Saint Francis of Assisi.
 Republic Day (North Macedonia)
 Emancipation Day (Bahamas)

August 02
Up to 1900 
 30 BC - Octavian, later known as Augustus Caesar, enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing the city under the control of the Roman Republic. Mark Antony commits suicide on the same day.
 69 - Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (present-day Netherlands), revolt under leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
 527 – Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor.
 607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
 1192 - King Richard I of England enters Jaffa and defeats the army of Saladin.
 1291 – The Swiss Confederation is formed.
 1461 - Edward IV is crowned king of England.
 1492 – Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain.
 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela.
 1619 – The first African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
 1664 – The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
1714 – Queen Anne of Great Britain dies, without any surviving children. George of Hanover succeeds her.
 1747 - In reaction to the Second Jacobite uprising, kilts and tartan are banned in Scotland. 
 1759 – Seven Years' War: In the Battle of Minden, Great Britain, Hanover and Prussia defeat a force from France and Saxony.
 1774 – The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley.
 1776 – Formal signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.
 1790 – The first US census is completed, establishing the population of the United States at the time as 4 million.
 1798 – Battle of the Nile starts between French and British fleets.
 1800 – The Act of Union of 1800 is signed, by which the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland are to merge.
 1820 – London's Regent's Canal opens.
 1831 – London Bridge opens.
 1832 – The Black Hawk War ends.
 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
 1838 – Slaves in Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated.
1844 - Berlin Zoo opens for the first time.
 1855 – First successful climb of the Dufourspitze in Switzerland.
 1864 – The Elgin Watch Company is founded in Elgin, Illinois
 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
 1891 – Switzerland celebrates its national holiday on this date for the first time.
 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
1901  1950 
 1902 – The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.
 1907 – First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.
 1914 – Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.
 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
 1936 – The Berlin 1936 Summer Olympics open.
 1937 – Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
 1941 – The first Jeep is produced.
 1944 – Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.
 1944 – Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
 1945 – Mel Ott becomes the third member of the 500 home run club with a home run at the Polo Grounds in New York, New York.
 1946 – The Japanese Federation of Trade Unions is formed.
1951  2000 
 1952 – Asgeir Asgeirsson becomes President of Iceland.
 1956 - Belgium becomes the last European country to introduce the driving test.
 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
 1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France
 1960 – Communist PAI is banned in Senegal.
 1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
 1961 – Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags park, opens.
 1965 – Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.
 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 15 people shooting from a tower at the University of Texas in Austin, in the United States, before being killed by the police.
 1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
 1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
 1968 – Coronation of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei.
1968 – Kristjan Eldjarn becomes President of Iceland.
 1970 – Powder Ridge Rock Festival
 1971 – George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in New York City features, among others, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Leon Russell.
 1971 – Apollo 15 astronauts discover rocks which could date back to the origin of the Moon.
 1974 – Cyprus dispute: The UN Security Council authorises the UN Peacekeeping Force to create the Green Line splitting the island in two.
 1976 – Racing driver Niki Lauda is left in a critical condition after a crash in the German Grand Prix. He survives the crash.
 1980 – Vigdis Finnbogadottir becomes President of Iceland.
 1980 - A train crash in County Cork, Republic of Ireland, kills 18 people.
 1981 – First broadcasts by MTV. The first video played was "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.
 1993 - The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 is at its worst.
 1994 – Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumors that they had married eleven weeks earlier.
1996 – Olafur Ragnar Grimsson becomes President of Iceland.
 1996 – Olympic Games: Michael Johnson wins the 200 meters in 19.32 seconds, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds.
 2000 – Moshe Katsav becomes President of Israel.
From 2001 
 2001 – An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia.
 2001 – Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
 2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a -ton Ten Commandments monument installed in the rotunda of the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 215 people and injures 300 in Asunción, Paraguay.
 2005 – German spelling reform of 1996 is formally implemented.
 2005 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies. His half-brother, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, succeeds him.
 2005 – Disneyland Resort Line of the Hong Kong MTR opens to public.
 2007 – The I-35 Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during evening rush hour.
 2008 - A solar eclipse is visible over most of Europe and Asia, with totality passing over the Arctic, Russia and China.
2008 - 11 mountaineers die in an accident on K2, in the deadliest incident on the world's second-highest mountain.
 2009 – Corazon Aquino, former President of the Philippines, dies at the age of 76.
 2009 – A shooting attack at a Gay and Lesbian association in Tel-Aviv, Israel, kills 2 people.
 2013 - An Italian court confirms the prison sentence for former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of tax fraud.
 2013 - Edward Snowden is given temporary asylum in Russia, leaving the transit area of a Moscow airport, five-and-a-half weeks after landing there.
 2013 - 2013 Cleveland, Ohio, missing trio: Ariel Castro is sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping Amanda Berry, Gina de Jesus and Michelle Knight, and holding them captive in his house for around a decade. He commits suicide on September 3.
 2016 - Guðni Th. Jóhannesson becomes President of Iceland.
 2017 - Jacinda Ardern becomes leader of the New Zealand Labour Party; she becomes Prime Minister of New Zealand less than three months later.
2017 - Shahid Khaqan Abbasi becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan.
 2017 - A bomb attack in Herat, Afghanistan, kills 20 people.
 2018 - Violent clashes occur in Harare over a delay in the announcement of Zimbabwe's Presidential election result.
 2019 - A Houthi missile attack on a military parade in Aden, Yemen, kills 32 people.
 2019 - The residents of Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, England, are told to leave their homes because a local dam is in danger of collapse.
Up to 1900 
 10 BC – Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. AD 54)
 126 – Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
 1313 – Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)
 1377 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
 1520 – Sigismund II Augustus of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572)
 1545 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
 1579 – Lupe Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
 1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, rabbi  and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean Movement (d. 1676)
 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
 1659 - Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter (d. 1734)
 1713 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1780)
 1714 - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
 1744 – Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829)
 1770 – William Clark, American explorer (d. 1838)
 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)
 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
 1799 – Sophie de Ségur, French writer (d. 1874)
1807 - Robert McClelland, American politician (d. 1880)
 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and writer (d. 1882)
 1817 - Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, German aristocrat (d. 1893)
 1817 – Richard Dadd, English painter (d. 1886)
 1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
 1819 – Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
 1819 – Augustus Gregory, Australian explorer (d. 1905)
 1837 – Mary Harris Jones, American labor organiser (d. 1930)
 1838 - Prince Louis, Count of Trani, Italian aristocrat (d. 1886)
 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American politician (d. 1926)
 1847 - Anton Reichenow, German ornithologist (d. 1941)
 1856 - George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
 1858 – Hans Rott, composer (d. 1884)
 1863 – Gaston Doumergue, President of France (d. 1937)
 1865 - Prince Eugen, Duke of Narke, Swedish royal (d. 1947)
 1867 - William Speirs Bruce, Scottish polar explorer (d. 1921)
 1871 - John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
1873 - Gabriel Terra, President of Uruguay (d. 1942)
 1879 – Augusto Samuel Boyd, 19th President of Panama (d. 1957)
 1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
 1888 - Charles Winslow, South African tennis player (d. 1963)
 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
 1891 – Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
 1893 – Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920)
 1894 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
 1899 - Jimmie Angel, American pilot (d. 1965)
1901  1950 
 1905 - Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1993)
 1906 - W. K. C. Guthrie, Scottish philologist (d. 1981)
 1907 – Eric Shipton, British mountaineer (d. 1977)
 1910 – Gerda Taro, German photographer (d. 1937)
 1911 - Pericle Felici, Italian cardinal (d. 1982)
 1912 - David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1979)
 1912 - Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
 1914 - J. Lee Thompson, English film director (d. 2002)
 1916 - Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
 1918 - Artur Brauner, German film producer (d. 2019)
 1920 - Sammy Lee, American diver (d. 2016)
 1920 - Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (d. 1953)
 1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player (d. 2009)
 1922 – Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (d. 2006)
 1922 – Pat McDonald, actress (d. 1990)
 1924 – Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
 1924 - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (d. 2015)
 1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
1927 – Raymond Leppard, English conductor
 1929 - Leila Abashidze, Georgian actress (d. 2018)
 1929 – Hafizullah Amin, President of Afghanistan (d. 1979)
 1930 – Lionel Bart, English songwriter (d. 1999)
 1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
 1930 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat and 62nd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
 1930 - Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, choreographer, artist and director (d. 2014)
 1931 - Hal Connolly, American hammer thrower (d. 2010)
 1931 – Tom Wilson, cartoonist
 1931 – Ramblin' Jack Elliott, American folk singer
 1931 - Dino da Costa, Brazilian-Italian footballer
 1932 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d. 1972)
 1932 – Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
 1933 - Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player (d. 2019)
 1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, comedian (d. 2009)
 1933 – Antonio Negri, Italian political philosopher
 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008)
1936 - W. D. Hamilton, British biologist (d. 2000)
 1936 - Claudio Baggini, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2015)
 1936 - Chadlia Caid Essebsi, First Lady of Tunisia (d. 2019)
 1937 – Al D'Amato, United States Senator from New York
 1938 - Jacques Diouf, Senegalese diplomat (d. 2019)
 1939 - Stephen Sykes, English bishop (d. 2014)
 1939 - Bob Frankford, Canadian politician (d. 2015)
 1940 - Franklin Cleckley, American state judge (d. 2017)
 1940 - Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer
 1941 – Jordi Savall, Catalan musicologist
 1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor
 1942 – André Gagnon, French-Canadian pianist and composer
 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American guitarist, lyricist and singer (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
 1942 - Michael Martchenko, Canadian illustrator
 1945 – Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
 1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
 1946 – Dick Covey, American astronaut
 1946 - Karen Pendleton, American actress (d. 2019)
1948 - Cliff Branch, American football player (d. 2019)
 1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, former President of Kyrgyzstan
 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet, actor
 1950 – Roy Williams, American basketball coach
1951  1975 
 1951 - Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)
 1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
 1953 – Robert Cray, American blues singer
 1955 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer
 1956 – Tom Leykis, American radio personality
 1957 - Yoshio Kato, Japanese footballer
 1957 - Taylor Negron, American actor, comedian, painter and playwright (d. 2015)
 1958 - Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player
 1959 - Satoshi Yamaguchi, Japanese footballer
 1959 – Joe Elliott, musician (Def Leppard)
 1960 – Chuck D, American rapper (Public Enemy)
 1960 – Richard Roeper, American newspaper columnist and movie critic
 1963 – Coolio, American rapper
 1963 - Amber Rudd, English politician, former UK Home Secretary
 1963 - Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut and engineer
 1963 - Mark Wright, English footballer
 1964 - Fiona Hyslop, Scottish politician
 1964 - Kaspar Capparoni, Italian actor
 1965 – Sam Mendes, English stage and movie director
1967 - Clare Adamson, Scottish politician
 1967 - José Padilha, Brazilian director, producer and screenwriter
 1968 - Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Japanese baseball player
 1969 - Graham Thorpe, English cricketer
 1970 – David James, English footballer
 1970 - Sibel Can, Turkish singer
 1970 - Elon Lindenstrauss, Israeli mathematician
 1971 - Charles Malik Whitfield, American actor
 1973 - Edurne Pasaban, Spanish mountaineer
 1973 - Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
 1973 – Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
From 1976 
 1976 – Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
 1976 - Ivan Duque, Colombian politician, President of Colombia
 1976 – Hasan Sas, Turkish footballer
 1978 - Chris Iwelumo, Scottish footballer
 1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player
 1979 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer (d. 2019)
 1979 – Honeysuckle Weeks, British actress
 1979 - Jason Momoa, American actor
 1980 – Mancini, Brazilian footballer
 1981 - Hans Lindberg, Danish handball player
 1981 - Pia Haraldsen, Norwegian journalist and author
 1981 – Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
 1981 – Taylor Fry, actress
 1982 – Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
 1982 - Montserrat Lombard, English actress
 1984 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
 1985 – Stuart Holden, Scottish-American footballer
 1986 – Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
 1986 - Mike Wallace, American football player
 1987 - Lee Wallace, Scottish footballer
 1987 - Karen Carney, English footballer
 1988 - Mustafa Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
1988 - Max Carver, American actor
 1988 - Nemanja Matic, Serbian footballer
 1989 – Tiffany, South Korean singer
 1990 - Jack O'Connell, English actor
 1992 - Austin Rivers, American basketball player
 1993 - Alejandro Abrines Redondo, Spanish basketball player
 1993 - Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
 1994 - Domenico Berardi, Italian footballer
 1994 - Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer
 1995 - Jason Cummings, Scottish footballer
 1996 - Cymphonique Miller, American actress and singer
 1998 - Khamani Griffin, American actor
Up to 1900 
 30 BC – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (b. 83 BC)
 371 – St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop
 527 – Justin I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 450)
 1137 – King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
 1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
 1252 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian Franciscan monk and explorer (b. 1185)
 1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
 1457 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist
 1464 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)
 1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
 1546 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
 1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
 1580 – Albrecht Giese IV, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
 1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
 1598 – Abraham Ortelius, Belgian cartographer (b. 1527)
 1714 – Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
 1787 – Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist and entomologist (b. 1735)
 1798 – François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1853)
 1812 - Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (b. 1763)
 1851 – William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
 1865 - Byron Diman, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1795)
 1866 – John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
 1869 – Alexandrine Tinné, Dutch adventurer, explorer and photographer (b. 1835)
1901  1950 
 1903 – Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (b. 1852)
 1907 - Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro, three-time Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1849)
 1911 – Konrad Duden, German teacher and philologist (b. 1829)
 1911 - Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter (b. 1852)
 1913 – Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian poet (b. 1871)
 1917 – Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
 1917 – Enric Prat de la Riba, Catalan politician (b. 1870)
 1918 – John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
 1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
 1929 - Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
 1943 – Lydia Litvyak, Soviet flying ace (b. 1921)
 1944 – Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
 1945 – Gyula Csortos, Hungarian movie actor (b. 1883)
1951  2000 
 1959 - Jean Behra, French racing driver (b. 1921)
 1964 – Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934)
 1966 – Charles Whitman, American gunman (b. 1941)
 1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
 1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
 1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German chemist, won the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1883)
 1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
 1973 – Walter Ulbricht, leader of East Germany (b. 1893)
 1977 – Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
 1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
 1986 - Carlo Confalonieri, Italian cardinal (b. 1893)
 1987 - Pola Negri, Polish actress (b. 1897)
 1989 – John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
 1990 – Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947)
 1990 – Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
 1996 – Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
 1996 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician, surgeon and aid worker (b. 1929)
 1996 - Mohamed Farrah Aidid, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
 1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1927)
 1999 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Anglo-Indian writer (b. 1897)
From 2001 
 2001 – Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
 2001 - Mario Perazzolo, Italian footballer (b. 1911)
 2003 – Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
 2003 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
 2004 – Philip Hauge Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
 2005 – Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
 2005 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
 2005 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
 2005 – Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
 2006 - Ferenc Szusza, Hungarian footballer (b. 1923)
 2009 – Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
 2012 – Aldo Maldera, Italian footballer (b. 1953)
 2013 - John Amis, British broadcaster and writer (b. 1922)
 2013 - Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (b. 1931)
 2014 - Mike Smith, English radio and television presenter (b. 1955)
 2014 - Rod de'Ath, Welsh drummer (b. 1950)
 2014 - Charles T. Payne, American soldier (b. 1925)
 2014 - Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarussian footballer (b. 1973)