Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
From 2001 
 2001 - The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
 2002 – Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian security forces storm a theatre building in Moscow, which had been occupied by terrorists for three days
 2003 – The Cedar fire occurs in California, killing 15 people, destroying 1, 000 square kilometres of forests, and 2,200 homes around San Diego.
 2012 - Media tycoon and former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of tax fraud.
 2015 - An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 strikes Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing at least 365 people.
 2017 - Jacinda Ardern becomes the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand, leading a Labour-New Zealand First Party coalition government.
 2017 - The Tangerang fireworks disaster near Jakarta, Indonesia, kills at least 47 people.
2018 - October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts: Police in Florida arrest a 56-year-old suspect, Cesar Sayoc, in their hunt for the sender of several mail bombs to well-known figures in the US Democratic party and people who have criticized US President Donald Trump.
 2018 - Michael D. Higgins is re-elected President of Ireland; on the same day the country's voters also vote to get rid of its blasphemy law.
 2019 - Climbing the rock Uluru in Australia is officially banned.
 2019 - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, is reported to have blown himself up during a US military operation in Northern Syria.
Up to 1900 
 968 - Emperor Kazan of Japan (d. 1008)
 1416 - Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent, English nobleman (d. 1490)
 1427 – Archduke Sigismund of Austria (d. 1496)
 1431 - Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Italian nobleman (d. 1505)
 1473 - Friedrich of Saxony, German nobleman (d. 1510)
 1491 – Zhengde, Chinese Emperor (d. 1521)
 1609 - William Sprague, English-born co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)
 1673 - Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldovan prince and polymath (d. 1723)
 1684 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (d. 1757)
 1685 – Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1757)
 1694 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (d. 1758)
 1697 – John Peter Zenger, German-American journalist, publisher and editor (d. 1746)
 1757 – Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (d. 1823)
 1759 - Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary leader (d. 1794)
 1768 - Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (d. 1844)
1778 - Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg, Scottish politician and colonial administrator (d. 1866)
 1794 – Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881) (Nov 6 in Gregorian calendar)
 1800 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (d. 1891)
 1802 – King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866)
 1803 - Joseph Hansom, English architect and inventor (d. 1882)
 1842 – Vasily Vereshchagin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
 1849 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917)
 1850 - Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian, archaeologist (d. 1909)
 1859 - Elizabeth Nourse, American painter (d. 1938)
 1861 - Richard Sears, American tennis player (d. 1943)
 1862 - Hilma af Klint, Swedish artist and mystic (d. 1944)
 1865 - Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (d. 1912)
 1869 – Washington Martínez Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (d. 1967)
 1872 - Harold Fraser, American golfer (d. 1945)
 1873 – Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1942)
1874 - Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American art collector (d. 1948)
 1874 - Martin Lowry, English physical chemist (d. 1936)
 1880 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (d. 1934)
 1880 - Dmitry Karbyshev, Russian general (d. 1945)
 1881 - Louis Bastien, French cyclist (d. 1963)
 1883 - Napoleon Hill, American writer and philosopher (d. 1970)
 1883 - Paul Pilgrim, American runner (d. 1958)
 1890 - Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, Indian journalist and freedom fighter (d. 1931)
 1900 - Karin Boye, Swedish writer (d. 1941)
 1900 – Ibrahim Abboud, President of Sudan (d. 1983)
1901  1950 
 1902 - Beryl Markham, British aviation pioneer (d. 1986)
 1902 - Henrietta Hill Swope, American astronomer (d. 1980)
 1906 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (d. 1967)
 1909 - Ignace Lepp, French psychologist, writer and priest (d. 1966)
 1910 - John Krol, American cardinal (d. 1996)
 1911 - Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (d. 1996)
 1911 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer (d. 1972)
 1912 – Don Siegel, American director (d. 1991)
 1913 - Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader (d. 1991)
 1914 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (d. 1984)
 1916 – François Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996)
 1919 – Edward Brooke, American politician (d. 2015)
 1919 – Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (d. 1980)
 1919 - Princess Ashraf of Iran (d. 2016)
 1919 - Thomas Funck, Swedish writer (d. 2010)
 1919 - Jacob Pressman, American rabbi (d. 2015)
 1922 - Madelyn Dunham, grandmother of Barack Obama (d. 2008)
 1922 - Darcy Ribeiro, Brazilian anthropologist, author and politician (d. 1997)
1924 - Shaw Taylor, English actor and television presenter (d. 2015)
 1924 - Reg Withers, Australian politician (d. 2014)
 1926 – Bernhard Klodt, German footballer (d. 1996)
 1926 - Bo Carpelan, Finnish writer (d. 2011)
 1928 - Albert Brewer, former Governor of Alabama (d. 2017)
 1930 - John Arden, British writer and dramatist (d. 2012)
 1931 - Ronald Drever, Scottish physicist (d. 2017)
 1933 - Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek movie director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
 1934 - Jacques Loussier, French pianist (d. 2019)
 1934 - Ulrich Plenzdorf, German author, screenwriter and dramatist (d. 2007)
 1934 - Rod Hundley, American basketball player (d. 2015)
 1935 - Mike Gray, American writer, screenwriter, cinematographer and producer (d. 2013)
 1936 - Shelley Morrison, American actress (d. 2019)
 1936 - György Pauk, Hungarian violinist
 1939 - Willie Stevenson, Scottish footballer
 1940 - Eddie Henderson, American jazz musician
 1941 - Charlie Landsborough, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 - Milton Nascimento, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1942 – Bob Hoskins, English actor (d. 2014)
 1944 - Jim McCann, Irish musician (d. 2015)
 1945 - Pat Conroy, American writer (d. 2016)
 1945 - Jaclyn Smith, American actress
 1946 - Kevin Barron, English politician
 1946 - Pat Sajak, American television host
 1946 - Holly Woodlawn, American actress (d. 2015)
 1947 – Hillary Clinton, 67th United States Secretary of State, and former First Lady of the United States
 1947 – Christian Ude, German politician and former Mayor of Munich
 1947 - Reg Empey, Northern Irish politician
 1949 - Steve Rogers, American baseball player
1951  1975 
 1951 - Bootsy Collins, American musician
 1951 - Tommy Mars, American musician
 1952 - Arthur Graham, Scottish footballer
 1952 – Andrew Motion, English poet
 1952 - Lars Peter Hansen, American economist
 1953 - Keith Strickland, American musician
 1953 - Maureen Teefy, American actress
 1955 - Baltasar Garzón, Spanish judge
 1956 - Regina Benjamin, 18th Surgeon General of the United States
 1956 - Rita Wilson, American actress
 1957 - Hugh Dallas, Scottish football referee
 1958 – Shaun Woodward, British politician
 1959 – Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
 1960 - Carlo Lucarelli, Italian writer and journalist
 1961 - Dylan McDermott, American actor
 1961 - Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya
 1962 - Cary Elwes, English actor and writer
 1963 - Natalie Merchant, American singer
 1963 - Ted Demme, American director, producer and actor (d. 2002)
 1963 - Tom Kavanagh, Canadian actor and director
 1965 – Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress
 1966 - Steve Valentine, Scottish actor
1966 - Judge Jules, English DJ and producer
 1967 – Keith Urban, New Zealand singer
 1967 – Douglas Alexander, British politician
 1968 - Robert Jarni, Croatian footballer
 1970 - Lisa Ryder, Canadian actress
 1971 - Audley Harrison, English boxer
 1971 - Anthony Rapp, American actor
 1971 - Rosemarie DeWitt, American actress
 1972 - Riaz, Bangladeshi movie actor
 1972 - Shan Sa, Chinese-French author and painter
 1973 – Seth MacFarlane, American animator, voice actor, producer and director, creator of Family Guy and American Dad
 1973 – Austin Healey, English rugby player
 1974 - Lisa, Japanese musician
From 1976 
 1977 - Sarah Storey, British Paralympic swimmer and cyclist
 1977 - Jon Heder, American actor
 1978 – CM Punk, American professional wrestler
 1979 - Movsar Barayev, Chechnen militant (d. 2002)
 1980 – Cristian Chivu, Romanian footballer
 1980 - Khalid Abdalla, British actor
 1981 - Martina Schild, Swiss apline skier
 1981 - Guy Sebastian, Australian singer
 1982 - Nicola Adams, British boxer
 1983 – Dmitri Sychev, Russian footballer
 1983 – Luke Watson, South African rugby player
 1984 – Adriano Correia Claro, Brazilian footballer
 1984 – Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
 1984 – Jefferson Farfán, Peruvian footballer
 1985 – Kieran Read, New Zealand rugby player
 1985 - Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player
 1985 - Monta Ellis, American basketball player
 1985 - Asin, Indian actress
 1985 - Kafoumba Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer
 1986 - Marco Ruben, Argentine footballer
 1986 - Schoolboy Q, American hip hop musician
 1988 – Greg Zuerlein, American ice dancer
1992 - Cody Zeller, American basketball player
 1993 - Sergey Karasev, Russian footballer
 1994 - Allie DeBerry, American actress
 1996 - Rebecca Tunney, British gymnast
 2002 - Emma Schweiger, German actress
 2009 - Nathan Colwell, Professional nerd
Up to 1900 
 664 - Cedd, English Anglo-Saxon monk and Bishop of London (b. around 620)
 899 – Alfred the Great, Saxon king of England (b. 849)
 1235 – King Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1175)
 1440 – Gilles de Rais, French serial killer (b. 1404)
 1580 - Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (b. 1549)
 1609 - Matsudaira Tadayori, Japanese daimyo and samurai (b. 1582)
 1633 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
 1675 - William Sprague, English-born co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
 1679 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman and dramatist (b. 1621)
 1717 - Catherine Sedley, English royal mistress (b. 1657)
 1764 – William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697)
 1773 - Amedée-François Frezier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
 1806 – John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
 1864 - William T. Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1838)
 1871 - Thomas Ewing, American politician (b. 1789)
1890 – Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (Pinocchio) (b. 1826)
 1896 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
1901  2000 
 1901 - Alfred Tysoe, British athlete (b. 1874)
 1902 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist, suffragette (b. 1815)
 1909 – Prince Hirobumi Ito, former Japanese governor of Korea, and first Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1841)
 1929 - Aby Warburg, German academic (b. 1866)
 1931 – Charles Comiskey, American baseball owner (b. 1859)
 1932 - Margaret Brown, American philanthropist, socialite and activist (b. 1867)
 1937 – Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general, commander of Greater Poland Uprising in 1919 (b. 1867)
 1941 – Arkady Gaidar, Soviet/Russian children's writer, died in combat (b. 1904)
 1944 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (b. 1857)
 1944 - William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
 1945 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1863)
 1945 - Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878)
 1946 – Ioannis Rallis, Greek Prime Minister (b. 1878)
 1947 – Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, Rector of Hexham Abbey and St Bartholomew the Great (b. 1861)
1952 – Hattie McDaniel, American singer (b. 1895)
 1956 – Walter Gieseking, French conductor (b. 1895)
 1957 – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883)
 1957 - Gerty Cori, Czech-born American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1896)
 1965 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (b. 1949)
 1966 – Alma Cogan, British singer (b. 1932)
 1971 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
 1972 – Igor Sikorsky, helicopter pioneer (b. 1889)
 1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (b. 1917)
 1983 – Alfred Tarski, Polish mathematician (b. 1901)
 1984 - Marc Kac, Polish mathematician (b. 1914)
 1986 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
 1989 – Charles J. Pedersen, American organic chemist (b. 1904)
 1995 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913)
 1999 – Hoyt Axton, musician (b. 1938)
 1999 - Rex Gildo, German actor and singer (b. 1936)
From 2001 
 2002 – Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908)
 2002 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (b. 1979)
 2005 - Rong Yiren, Chinese politician (b. 1916)
 2007 - Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
 2007 – Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American scientist (b. 1918)
 2008 – Tony Hillerman, American writer (b. 1925)
 2009 - George Na'ope, American musician (b. 1928)
 2010 – Paul the Octopus, FIFA World Cup 'oracle' (b. 2008)
 2011 – Jona Senilagakali, Fijian politician, diplomat and physician (b. 1929)
 2012 - John M. Johansen, American architect (b. 1916)
 2013 - Ron Davies, Welsh photographer (b. 1921)
 2014 - Oscar Taveras, Dominican baseball player (b. 1992)
 2014 - Mo Collins, American football player (b. 1976)
 2014 - Germain Gagnon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1942)
 2014 - Jeff Robinson, American baseball player (b. 1961)
 2014 - Genpei Akasegawa, Japanese author and artist (b. 1937)
 2014 - Senzo Meyiwa, South African footballer (b. 1987)
 2015 - Ed Walker, American radio personality (b. 1932)
2015 - Leo Kadanoff, American physicist (b. 1937)
 2017 - Ali Ashraf Darvishian, Iranian writer (b. 1941)
 2017 - Arnett E. Girardeau, American politician (b. 1929)
 2017 - Nelly Olin, French politician (b. 1941)
 2017 - Stephen Toulouse, American policy specialist and policy relations manager (b. 1972)
 2017 - Shea Norman, American gospel singer (b. 1971)
 2018 - Nikolai Karachentsov, Russian actor (b. 1944)
 2018 - Ana González de Recabarren, Chilean human rights activist (b. 1925)
 2018 - Warren B. Hamilton, American geologist (b. 1925)
 2018 - György Károly, Hungarian poet and novelist (b. 1953)
 2019 - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi terrorist, leader of the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (b. 1971)
 2019 - Paul Barrere, American guitarist (b. 1948)
 2019 - Enriqueta Basilio, Mexican sprinter and hurdler (b. 1948)
 2019 - Robert Evans, American film producer (b. 1930)
 2019 - Chuck Meriwether, American baseball umpire (b. 1956)
 2019 - V. Nanammal, Indian yoga teacher (b. 1920)
2019 - Natalya Pugacheva, Russian singer (Buranovskiye Babushki) (b. 1935)
 2019 - Gregory E. Pyle, American politician (b. 1949)
 2019 - Pascale Roberts, French actress (b. 1930)
Observances 
 National Holiday in Austria
 Angam Day (Nauru)
 Armed Forces Day (Benin)
 Accession Day (Jammu and Kashmir)
 Intersex Awareness Day

Days of the year
Up to 1950 
 1548 - The city of La Paz, Bolivia, is founded.
 1708 - The new Saint Paul's Cathedral in London, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.
 1714 - George I of Great Britain and Ireland is crowned.
 1720 - Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy.
 1728 - The Great Fire of Copenhagen break out, and lasts for three days.
 1740 – Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria, and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
 1803 – United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
 1818 - The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and United Kingdom. Among other things, it settles most of the Canada-United States border to run along the 49th parallel.
1827 – Battle of Navarino – a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is destroyed by an allied British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece. The most important result of this battle is the end of the Greek Liberation War and the affirmation of independence of modern Greece.
 1831 - First day of trading on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
 1883 – Peru and Chile signed the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province was ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
 1904 - Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship.
 1910 - The hull of the ship RMS Olympic is launched in Belfast.
 1914 - World War I: The First Battle of Flanders begins.
 1935 – The Long March ends in China.
 1943 - Cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by allied aircraft at Suda Bay, Crete and sunk. 2,098 Italian POWs drown.
 1944 – The Soviet army captures Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
1944 – Liquid natural gas leaks from storange tanks in Cleveland, Ohio, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
 1947 – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
 1948 - A KLM Lockheed L-049 Constellation airliner crashes at Glasgow Prestwick Airport in Scotland, killing all 40 people on board.
From 1951 
 1952 - In then-British Kenya, leaders of the Mau-Mau uprising are arrested, including Jomo Kenyatta.
 1968 – Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
 1970 - Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state.
 1971 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
 1971 – The Nepal stock exchange collapses.
 1973 – The Saturday Night Massacre: President Nixon fires Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
 1973 – The Sydney Opera House opens.
 1973 – The Six Million Dollar Man premieres on ABC.
 1976 - The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship on the Mississippi River in Louisiana, killing 78 people. 18 survive.
 1977 – A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing several band members, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines.
1982 – St. Louis Cardinals defeat Milwaukee Brewers 6-3 to win 9th World Series Championship.
 1986 – Yitzhak Shamir begins his second office term as Israel's prime minister.
 1991 – A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in northern India kills around 1,000 people.
 1991 – The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage.
 1995 - NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes resigns.
 1999 – Abdurrahman Wahid is elected President of Indonesia.
 2004 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono becomes President of Indonesia.
 2007 – South Africa wins the Rugby World Cup, defeating England in the final.
 2011 – 2011 Libyan civil war: Forces loyal to the National Transitional Council take the city of Sirte, the last remaining pro-Gaddafi stronghold. Subsequently, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi is captured and killed.
 2013 - Luxembourg holds an early election after long-serving Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker was involved in a spy scandal.
2014 - Joko Widodo becomes President of Indonesia.
 2018 - Around 700,000 people march against Brexit (and for a second referendum on the issue) in London, in the biggest such gathering in the United Kingdom since 2003.
 2018 - Donald Trump decides to pull the United States out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia.
Up to 1900 
 1435 - Andrea Della Robbia, Italian sculptor (died 1525)
 1463 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (died 1512)
 1469 – Guru Nanak Dev ji, The Founder of the Sikh religion.
 1496 - Claude, Duke of Guise, French general (d. 1550)
 1616 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician and theologian (died 1680)
 1632 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (died 1723)
 1677 – Stanislaw I Leszczynski, King of Poland (died 1766)
 1711 - Timothy Ruggles, American politician (died 1795)
 1759 – Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (died 1815)
 1780 - Pauline Bonaparte, French sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (died 1825)
 1784 – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1865)
 1785 - George Ormerod, British historian and antiquarian (died 1873)
 1801 - Melchior Berri, Swiss architect (died 1854)
 1808 – Karl Andree, German geographer (died 1875)
 1819 – The Báb, prophet founder of the Bábí Faith, precursor to the Bahá'í Faith (died 1850)
1819 - Carl Mikuli, Polish pianist (died 1897)
 1822 – Thomas Hughes, novelist (died 1896)
 1825 - Daniel Sickles, American politician, soldier and diplomat (died 1914)
 1832 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (died 1894)
 1836 - Daniel Owen, Welsh novelist (died 1895)
 1847 - Oscar Swahn, Swedish archer (died 1927)
 1854 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (died 1891)
 1854 - James F. Hinkle, 6th Governor of New Mexico (died 1951)
 1858 – John Burns, English politician (died 1943)
 1859 – John Dewey, American philosopher (died 1952)
 1864 - James F. Hinkle, American politician, 6th Governor of New Mexico (died 1951)
 1866 - Kazimierz Twardowski, Polish philosopher (died 1938)
 1869 - Robin Welsh, Scottish curler and rugby union player (died 1934)
 1873 - Nellie McClung, Canadian politician and activist (died 1951)
 1874 – Charles Ives, American composer (died 1954)
 1876 - Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (died 1953)
 1882 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (died 1956)
1882 – Margaret Dumont, American actress (died 1965)
 1887 - Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Japanese diplomat (died 1981)
 1890 – Jelly Roll Morton, American composer, musician (died 1941)
 1891 – Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (died 1978)
 1891 – James Chadwick, English physicist (died 1974)
 1893 – Charley Chase, early movie comedian (died 1940)
 1894 - Olive Thomas, American actress and model (died 1920)
 1895 - Rex Ingram, American actor (died 1969)
 1897 – Crown Prince Eun of Korea (died 1970)
 1900 – Wayne Morse, Senator from Oregon (died 1974)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Adelaide Hall, American-British pianist, composer and bandleader (died 1993)
 1904 – Anna Neagle, English actress (died 1986)
 1904 – Tommy Douglas, Scottish-Canadian politician, founder of public healthcare in Canada (died 1986)
 1905 – Frederic Dannay (Ellery Queen), mystery novelist (died 1982)
 1907 – Arlene Francis, television personality (died 2001)
 1909 - Carla Laemmle, American actress (died 2014)
 1910 - Bob Sheppard, American sportscaster (died 2010)
 1913 – Grandpa Jones, American country music performer (died 1998)
 1917 - Stéphane Hessel, French diplomat and activist (died 2013)
 1917 - Jean-Pierre Melville, French director and screenwriter (died 1973)
 1918 – Robert Lochner, journalist, creator of Kennedy's "ish been oin bear-lee-ner" (died 2003)
 1920 – Janet Jagan, American-born President of Guyana (died 2009)
 1920 - Nick Cardy, American illustrator (died 2013)
 1920 - Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (died 2010)
1923 - Robert Craft, American conductor (died 2015)
 1923 – Otfried Preussler, German children's writer (died 2013)
 1923 – Herschel Bernardi, actor (died 1986)
 1924 - Robert Peters, American poet, scholar, playwright, editor and actor (died 2014)
 1925 – Art Buchwald, newspaper columnist
 1925 - Roger Hanin, French director and actor (died 2015)
 1926 - Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, English politician (died 2015)
 1927 – Joyce Brothers, American psychologist, television personality (died 2013)
 1928 - Li Peng, Chinese politician (died 2019)
 1931 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (died 1995)
 1931 - Richard Caliguiri, 54th Mayor of Pittsburgh (died 1988)
 1931 - Zeke Bratkowski, American football player (died 2019)
 1932 – Rosey Brown, American Pro Football Hall of Famer (died 2004)
 1932 – William Christopher, American actor (died 2016)
 1934 – Empress Michiko of Japan
 1934 - Taku Mayumura, Japanese science fiction novelist (died 2019)
1934 – Eddie Harris, American jazz saxophonist (died 1996)
 1934 – Timothy West, English actor
 1934 - Bill Chase, American trumpeter (died 1974)
 1935 - Roy Bailey, English folk singer and guitarist (died 2018)
 1935 – Jerry Orbach, American actor (Law & Order) (died 2004)
 1936 - Bobby Seale, American activist
 1937 – Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player
 1937 - Wanda Jackson, American singer
 1938 - Kathy Kirby, English singer (died 2011)
 1942 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist
 1945 – Romeo Benetti, Italian footballer
 1946 – Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature
 1946 - Chris Woodhead, English civil servant and academic (died 2015)
 1947 - Tom Smith, American politician (died 2015)
 1948 - Sandra Dickinson, British actress
 1949 – Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
 1950 – Tom Petty, American musician (died 2017)
 1950 - Chris Cannon, American politician
1951  1975 
 1951 – Claudio Ranieri, Italian footballer and manager
 1951 - Alma Muriel, Mexican actress (died 2014)
 1951 – Al Greenwood, American rock musician
 1953 – Bill Nunn, American actor
 1955 - Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Senator
 1955 – Aaron Pryor, world boxing champion
 1955 - Thomas Newman, American composer and conductor
 1956 – Danny Boyle, British movie director
 1957 - Jane Bonham-Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yanbury, British politician
 1957 - Hilda Solis, American politician
 1958 – Viggo Mortensen, American actor
 1958 – Ivo Pogorelic, Croatian pianist
 1959 - Eriko Asai, Japanese long-distance runner
 1959 - Akif Pirinçci, Turkish-German author
 1960 – Konstantin Aseev, chess player (died 2004)
 1960 - Lepa Brena, Bosnian singer and actress
 1961 – Ian Rush, Welsh footballer
 1961 - Kate Mosse, English writer
 1961 - Michio Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress
 1962 - David M. Evans, American director and screenwriter
 1963 - Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer
1963 – Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut and Governor General of Canada
 1964 - Kamala Harris, American lawyer and politician
 1965 – Billy Zabka, American actor
 1966 – Stefan Raab, German entertainer
 1966 – Allan Donald, South African cricketer
 1966 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant and al-Qaeda member (died 2006)
 1966 - Patrick Volkerding, American computer scientist and engineer
 1967 – Monica Ali, British writer
 1969 – Juan Gonzalez, baseball player
 1970 - Nikky Smedley, British actress
 1971 - Karl Collins, British actor
 1971 – Dannii Minogue, Australian singer
 1971 – Snoop Dogg, American rapper
 1971 - Eddie Jones, American basketball player
 1972 – Will Greenwood, English rugby player
 1972 - Brian Schatz, American politician, United States Senator for Hawaii
From 1976 
 1976 – Nicola Legrottaglie, Italian footballer
 1976 - Dan Fogler, American actor and director
 1977 – Elena Berezhnaya, figure skating star
 1978 – Paul Wilson, Scottish musician (Snow Patrol)
 1978 – Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
 1979 – John Krasinski, American actor
 1981 – Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
 1981 - Francisco Rodríguez, Mexican footballer
 1981 – Willis McGahee, American football player
 1983 - Michel Vorm, Dutch footballer
 1984 – Andrew Trimble, Northern Irish rugby player
 1984 - Mitch Lucker, American singer-songwriter (died 2012)
 1985 – Dominic McGuire, American basketball player
 1986 – Priyanka Sharma, Indian actress
 1988 – Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
 1988 - Candice Swanepoel, South African model
 1989 - Jess Glynne, English singer-songwriter
 1989 - Yanina Wickmayer, Belgian tennis player
 1992 - Ksenia Semenov, Russian gymnast
 1994 – Morgan Featherstone, Australian model
 1995 - Zhenwei Wang, Chinese actor and martial artist

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1950 
 460 - Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine Empress
 1139 - Henry X, Duke of Bavaria
 1631 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
 1640 – John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
 1652 - Antonio Coello, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1611)
 1713 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
 1740 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
 1842 - Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
 1896 – Felix Tisserand, French astronomer (b. 1845)
 1900 – Naim Frasheri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
 1907 – Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b. 1834)
 1910 - David B. Hill, 29th Governor of New York (b. 1843)
 1926 - Eugene V. Debs, American politician (b. 1855)
 1935 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician (b. 1863)
 1936 – Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
 1940 - Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (b. 1885)
 1946 - Piero Campelli, Italian footballer (b. 1893)
 1950 - Henry L. Stimson, American statesman, lawyer and politician (b. 1867)
1951  2000 
 1957 - Michalis Dorizas, Greek javelin thrower (b. 1890)
 1964 – Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
 1966 - Harry F. Byrd, Governor of Virginia (b. 1887)
 1967 – Shigeru Yoshida, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
 1968 – Bud Flanagan, British wartime entertainer (b. 1896)
 1972 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885)
 1977 – Cassie Gaines, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1948) (plane crash)
 1977 – Steve Gaines, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1949) (plane crash)
 1977 – Ronnie Van Zant, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1948) (plane crash)
 1978 – Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish racing driver (b. 1948)
 1984 – Paul Dirac, English physicist (b. 1902)
 1984 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech doctor, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
 1987 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
 1989 - Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913)
 1994 – Sergei Bondarchuk, Russian actor and director (b. 1920)
1994 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
 1999 – Jack Lynch, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1917)
From 2001 
 2005 - Shirley Horn, American jazz pianist (b. 1934)
 2005 - André van der Louw, Dutch politician, Mayor of Rotterdam (b. 1933)
 2006 - Maxi Herber, German figure skater (b. 1920)
 2008 – Soeur Emmanuelle, French-Belgian nun and humanitarian (b. 1908)
 2010 – Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan (b. 1940)
 2010 – Bob Guccione, American publisher (b. 1930)
 2011 – Muammar al-Gaddafi, colonel and military ruler of Libya (b. 1942)
 2012 - E. Donnall Thomas, American physician and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1920)
 2012 - Paul Kurtz, American academic (b. 1925)
 2013 - Jovanka Broz, former First Lady of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
 2013 - Lawrence Klein, American economist (b. 1920)
 2014 - Ox Baker, American wrestler and actor (b. 1938)
 2014 - Oscar de la Renta, Dominican Republic fashion designer (b. 1932)
 2014 - René Burri, Swiss photographer (b. 1933)
 2014 - Pavle Merku, Slovenian composer (b. 1927)
 2014 - Christophe de Margerie, French businessman (b. 1951)
2015 - Michael Meacher, English politician (b. 1939)
 2015 - Cory Wells, American singer (b. 1941)
 2017 - Federico Luppi, Argentine-Spanish actor (b. 1936)
 2017 - Stan Kowalski, American professional wrestler (b. 1926)
 2018 - Wim Kok, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1938)
 2018 - Zheng Xiaosong, Chinese politician (b. 1959)
 2019 - Eric Cooper, American baseball umpire (b. 1966)
 2019 - Thomas D'Alesandro III, American politician (b. 1929)
 2019 - Huang Yong Ping, Chinese-French avant-garde artist (b. 1954)
 2019 - Aquilino Pimentel Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1933)
Observances 
 Kenyatta Day (Kenya)
 Revolution Day (Guatemala)
 Arbor Day (Czech Republic)
 World Osteoporosis Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 97 - Roman Emperor Nerva adopts the then-44-year-old Trajan.
 710 - Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
 939 – Edmund I of England becomes king.
 1275 – Traditional founding of Amsterdam.
 1524 - Italian Wars: French troops lay siege to Pavia.
 1553 - Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
 1644 - The Second Battle of Newbury takes place in the English Civil War.
 1662 - Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France.
 1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
 1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, establishing boundaries between the US and the Spanish colonies.
 1806 – The French Army enters Berlin.
 1810 – The US annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
 1827 - Vincenzo Bellini's third opera, Il pirata, has its first performance at La Scala, Milan.
 1838 - Governor of Missouri Lilburn Boggs issues an extermination order to Mormons in the state, which would force them either to leave or be killed.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Francois Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion to the Siege of Metz.
 1892 - British passenger steamer Roumania crashes into rocks off Peniche, Portugal.
1901  2000 
 1904 – New York City's first underground Subway opens.
 1907 - Cernova massacre: 15 people are killed in the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church for its consecration.
 1914 - World War I: British super dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious is sunk off Tory Island, northwest of Ireland, by a minefield laid by German merchant cruiser Berlin.
 1916 - Battle of Segale in Ethiopia.
 1922 – Italian fascists, led by Benito Mussolini, begin their March on Rome.
 1922 - A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation (being taken control of) to the Union of South Africa.
 1924 - Soviet Union: The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic is founded.
 1936 – Wallis Simpson files for divorce. She later marries Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, after he abdicates the throne.
 1944 - World War II: German troops end the Slovak National Uprising in Banska Bystrica.
 1953 - British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African American to join the United States Air Force.
 1958 – Iskandar Mirza is deposed as President of Pakistan.
 1961 – Mauritania and Mongolia join the UN.
 1961 - NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission-Saturn Apollo 1.
 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: A nuclear war is narrowly avoided.
 1962 - Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
 1962 - A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, a post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
 1962 - Australian Dawn Fraser swims the 100 meter-backstroke in less than a minute, as the first woman to do so.
 1964 - Ronald Reagan delivers "A Time for Choosing" speech at a Barry Goldwater campaign. 
 1966 - The UN removes South Africa's mandate over Namibia.
 1968 - The 1968 Summer Olympics end in Mexico City.
 1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
 1979 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines become independent.
1981 - Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
 1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
 1994 – Gliese 229B is the first substellar mass object to be unquestionably identified.
 1995 – Latvia applies for EU membership.
 1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in-absentia (without attending) for corruption.
 1997 - Global stock markets crash because of financial meltdown fears. 
 1999 – Gunmen open fire on the Armenian Parliament.
From 2001 
 2002 – The volcano Mount Etna on Sicily erupts.
 2002 – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected to succeed Fernando Henrique Cardoso as President of Brazil.
 2003 – In Malaga, where Pablo Picasso was born, the Museo Picasso (Picasso Museum) is opened.
 2003 - Bomb attacks in Baghdad kill over 40 people.
 2005 – Riots begin in France after the accidental deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
 2006 – Opening of Arsenal F.C.'s Emirates Stadium.
 2010 – Former President of Argentina Néstor Kirchner dies aged 60. He had been expected to run for president again in 2011.
 2011 - Michael D. Higgins is elected President of Ireland.
 2013 - Sebastian Vettel becomes the fourth driver to win four Formula One world titles in a row, and the youngest driver, at age 26, to do so.
 2013 - Storms begin to affect parts of western and central Europe, causing destruction and disruption the next day.
2017 - The Parliament of Catalonia declares the region's independence from Spain; The central government in Madrid decides to impose direct rule on Catalonia.
 2018 - Pittsburgh synagogue shooting: A gunman shoots and kills 11 people worshipping at a synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighbourhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
 2018 - 2018 Leicester City F.C. helicopter crash: A helicopter crash near Leicester City F.C.'s King Power Stadium in Leicester, England, kills 5 people, including the club's Thai owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.
 2019 - Sophie Wilmès becomes the first female Prime Minister of Belgium, succeeding Charles Michel, who had been chosen to succeed Donald Tusk as President of the European Council.
 2019 - Alberto Fernández wins Argentina's Presidential election against the incumbent Mauricio Macri.
Up to 1900 
 921 - Chai Rong, Chinese Emperor (d. 959)
 1156 - Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (d. 1222)
 1401 – Catherine of Valois, Queen Consort of England (d. 1437)
 1466 (assumed) – Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch writer and philosopher (d. 1536)
 1703 - Johann Gottfried Graun, German violinist and composer (d. 1771)
 1728 – James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779)
 1736 - James Macpherson, Scottish writer, poet and politician (d. 1796)
 1744 – Mary Moser, English painter and one of only two female founder members of the Royal Academy (d. 1819)
 1760 - August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
 1761 - Geir Vídalín, Bishop of Iceland (d. 1823)
 1763 - William Maclure, Scottish geologist (d. 1840)
 1782 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
 1811 – Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine (d. 1875)
 1811 – Stevens Thomson Mason, first Governor of Michigan (d. 1843).
 1828 - Jacob Dolson Cox, 28th Governor of Ohio (d. 1900)
1838 - John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
 1842 – Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (d. 1928)
 1844 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist (d. 1916)
 1854 - William Alexander Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
 1857 - Ernst Trygger, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1943)
 1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (d. 1919)
 1858 - Saito Makoto, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1936)
 1868 - William Gillies, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Queensland (d. 1928)
 1869 - Viola Allen, American actress (d. 1948)
 1873 - James J. Davis, Welsh-born American politician (d. 1947)
 1877 - Walt Kuhn, American painter and cartoonist (d. 1949)
 1877 – George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
 1885 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter (d. 1948)
 1889 - Enid Bagnold, English author and playwright (d. 1981)
 1889 - Fanny Durack, Australian swimmer (d. 1956)
 1894 - Oliver Leese, English general (d. 1978)
1901  1950 
 1902 – Emil Jónsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1986)
 1904 – Erno Schwarz, Hungarian footballer (d. 1974)
 1906 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (d. 2010)
 1908 – Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
 1910 - Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
 1911 - Leif Erickson, American actor (d. 1986)
 1913 - Joe Medicine Crow, American tribal historian, anthropologist and author (d. 2016)
 1914 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
 1915 - Harry Saltzman, Canadian theatre and film producer (d. 1994)
 1916 - Kazimierz Brandys, Polish writer (d. 2000)
 1917 – Oliver Tambo, South African activist (d. 1993)
 1917 - Arne Andersson, Swedish athlete (d. 2009)
 1918 - Edgar Herschler, 28th Governor of Wyoming (d. 1990)
 1918 – Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
 1919 - Tim M. Babcock, 16th Governor of Montana (d. 2015)
 1920 – Nanette Fabray, American actress (d. 2018)
 1920 – K. R. Narayanan, President of India (d. 2005)
 1921 - Warren Allen Smith, American activist (d. 2017)
1922 - Ruby Dee, American actress (d. 2014)
 1922 - Ralph Kiner, American baseball player (d. 2014)
 1922 - Michel Galabru, French actor (d. 2016)
 1922 - Carlos Andrés Pérez, President of Venezuela (d. 2010)
 1922 - George Young, Scottish footballer (d. 1997)
 1923 – Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist (d. 1997)
 1923 - Ned Wertimer, American actor (d. 2013)
 1924 - Bonnie Lou, American singer (d. 2015)
 1925 – Warren Christopher, former United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
 1925 - Gianni Bonagura, Italian actor (d. 2017)
 1930 - Leo Baxendale, English cartoonist (d. 2017)
 1931 – Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian writer
 1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
 1932 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
 1933 - Floyd Cramer, American musician (d. 1997)
 1934 - Elías Querejeta, Spanish film producer and screenwriter (d. 2013)
 1937 - Peter Lustig, German television presenter (d. 2016)
 1938 - Maurice Hinchey, American politician (d. 2017)
1939 – John Cleese, British actor, writer, and Monty Python member
 1939 - Marino Perani, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
 1939 - Albert Wendt, Samoan writer
 1940 – John Gotti, New York mafia boss (d. 2002)
 1941 - Dick Trickle, American racing driver (d. 2013)
 1943 - Sherman Kelly, American singer-songwriter (Boffalongo)
 1944 - Nikolai Karachentsov, Russian actor (d. 2018)
 1945 – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 35th President of Brazil
 1945 - Arild Andersen, Norwegian composer and bassist
 1946 - Steven R. Nagel, American astronaut, pilot and engineer (d. 2014)
 1946 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
 1946 - Ivan Reitman, Czech-Canadian actor, producer and director
 1949 - Garry Talent, American musician (E Street Band)
 1950 – Fran Lebowitz, American writer
 1950 - Sue Lloyd-Roberts, English journalist (d. 2015)
1951  1975 
 1951 - K. K. Downing, English musician (Judas Priest)
 1951 - Carlos Frenk, Mexican-English physicist, cosmologist and academic
 1952 – Roberto Benigni, Italian actor and director
 1952 - Francis Fukuyama, American political scientist, economist and author
 1952 - Atsuyoshi Furuta, Japanese footballer
 1953 - Peter Firth, English actor
 1954 - Frank Gray, Scottish footballer
 1954 - Mike Kelley, American artist (d. 2012)
 1956 - Michèle Chardonnet, French athlete
 1956 - Christiane Wartenberg, German athlete
 1957 – Jeff East, American actor
 1957 – Glenn Hoddle, English footballer and manager
 1958 – Simon Le Bon, English musician (Duran Duran)
 1958 - Manu Katché, French musician
 1959 - Rick Carlisle, American basketball player and coach
 1961 - Margaret Mazzantini, Italian actress
 1962 - Stewart McKimmie, Scottish footballer
 1963 - Marla Maples, American actress and model
 1963 - Farin Urlaub, German musician and songwriter
 1964 - Mary T. Meagher, American swimmer
1967 – Scott Weiland, American musician Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver (d. 2015)
 1967 - Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer
 1970 – Adrian Erlandsson, musician (Cradle of Filth)
 1971 - Elissa, Lebanese singer
 1971 – Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
 1972 – Maria Mutola, Mozambican athlete
 1972 – Evan Coyne Maloney, documentary movie maker
 1972 – Brad Radke, American baseball player
 1975 - Zadie Smith, English novelist
 1975 - Aron Ralston, American mountaineer and engineer
From 1976 
 1976 – Ariel Ibagaza, Argentine footballer
 1977 – Jiří Jarosík, Czech footballer
 1977 - Sheeri Rappaport, American actress
 1978 - Toby Petersen, American ice hockey player
 1978 – Vanessa-Mae, Singapore-born British musician
 1980 - Tanel Padar, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1980 - Václav Noid Bárta, Czech singer and actor
 1981 – Volkan Demirel, Turkish footballer
 1982 - Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor and singer
 1984 – Kelly Osbourne, daughter of Ozzy Osbourne
 1984 - Kostas Kapetanos, Greek footballer
 1984 - Emilie Ullerup, Danish actress
 1986 - David Warner, Australian cricketer
 1987 - Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player
 1987 - Viktor Genev, Bulgarian footballer
 1988 – Evan Turner, American basketball player
 1992 - Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian footballer
 1992 - Emily Hagins, American director, producer and screenwriter
 1994 - Eddie Alderson, American actor
 1997 - Eden Taylor-Draper, English actress
 1999 - Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
2007 - Dev Singh, SuperIndian
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 673 - Pope Agatho of Alexandria (b. 654)
 939 – King Athelstan I of England (b. 895)
 1271 - Hugh II, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
 1303 - Beatrice of Castile (b. 1242)
 1312 - John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
 1327 - Elizabeth de Burgh, wife of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
 1430 – Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350)
 1439 – Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1392)
 1449 - Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer, mathematician and Sultan (b. 1394)
 1485 - Rudolf Agricola, Dutch writer and educator (b. 1444)
 1505 – Tsar Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
 1553 – Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and doctor (b. 1511)
 1561 - Lope de Aguirre, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
 1605 – Akbar the Great, Mughal Emperor (b. 1542)
 1674 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet and hymnist (b. 1614)
 1675 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
 1789 - John Cook, Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
 1880 - Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1827)
1901  2000 
 1917 - Arthur Rhys-Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
 1926 - Warren Wood, American golfer (b. 1887)
 1935 - Ernest Eldridge, English racing driver (b. 1897)
 1942 – Helmuth Hubener, German resistance activist (b. 1925)
 1954 - Harry Tate, American soccer player (b. 1886)
 1962 - Rudolf Anderson, American pilot (b. 1927)
 1962 – Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
 1968 – Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
 1975 – Rex Stout, American novelist (b. 1886)
 1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1949)
 1980 – John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist (b. 1899)
 1986 - Sherman Adams, 67th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1899)
 1990 – Xavier Cugat, Catalan-born bandleader (b. 1900)
 1990 - Jacques Demy, French director (b. 1931)
 1990 - Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
 1999 – Vazgen Sargsyan, Prime Minister of Armenia (b. 1959)
 1999 – Karen Demirchyan, Chairman of the Armenian Parliament (b. 1932)
From 2001 
 2001 - Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor, director and producer (b. 1925)
 2003 – Walter Washington, American politician (b. 1915)
 2003 - Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and producer (b. 1949)
 2006 – Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)
 2010 – Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina (b. 1950)
 2012 - Natina Reed, American singer, producer and rapper (b. 1979)
 2012 - Hans Peter Henze, German composer (b. 1926)
 2013 - Lou Reed, American musician (b. 1942)
 2014 - Daniel Boulanger, French actor and writer (b. 1922)
 2014 - Starke Taylor, American politician, Mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1922)
 2014 - Shin Hae-chul, South Korean singer (b. 1968)
 2015 - Philip French, British film critic (b. 1933)
 2016 - Prince Mikasa, Japanese royal (b. 1915)
 2017 - Hans Kraay Sr., Dutch footballer (b. 1936)
 2017 - Punathil Kunjabdulla, Indian writer and physician (b. 1942)
 2018 - Freddie Hart, American musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
2018 - Madan Lal Khurana, Indian politician (b. 1936)
 2018 - Mario Segale, American businessman (b. 1934)
 2018 - Ntozake Shange, American poet and playwright (b. 1948)
 2018 - Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai businessman and owner of Leicester City F.C. (b. 1958)
 2019 - Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian-British human rights activist and dissident (b. 1942)
 2019 - Stephen P. Cohen, American political scientist and security expert (b. 1936)
 2019 - John Conyers, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1929)
 2019 - Ivan Milat, Australian serial killer (b. 1944)
 2019 - Anne Phelan, Australian actress (b. 1940s)
 2019 - Hans-Peter Uhl, German politician (b. 1944)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Turkmenistan)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 312 - Constantine I enters Rome after his victory at the Milvian Bridge.
 969 - Byzantine troops occupy Antioch, Syria.
 1390 - The first witchcraft trial to take place in Paris begins, later ending in three people being executed.
 1422 - Charles VII of France becomes king.
 1618 – English explorer and statesman Walter Raleigh is executed.
 1675 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
 1787 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni is publicly performed for the first time, in Prague.
 1792 - The Mount Hood volcano in Oregon is given its name.
 1863 – At a meeting in Geneva, 18 countries agree to form the International Red Cross.
 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie takes place.
 1867 - Near the British Virgin Islands, the British ship RMS Rhone sinks in a strong hurricane, killing at least 24 people.