Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
Up to 1900 
 1201 - Richard de Fournival, French philosopher (d. 1260)
 1344 - Mary Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1362)
 1470 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1520)
 1486 - Charles III of Savoy (d. 1553)
 1567 - Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain (d. 1597)
 1669 - Johann Nicolaus Bach, German composer (d. 1753)
 1678 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (d. 1743)
 1684 – Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)
 1700 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)
 1731 – Henry Cavendish, English scientist (d. 1810)
 1738 - Benjamin West, American painter (d. 1820)
 1780 – John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)
 1794 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)
 1813 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901)
 1819 - Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, German theologian (d. 1883)
 1825 – Paul Kruger, South African Boer politician (d. 1904)
 1828 - Samuel J. Randall, American politician (d. 1890)
 1830 – Isabella II of Spain (d. 1904)
1834 – Aleksis Kivi, Finnish writer (d. 1872)
 1837 - Robert Gould Shaw, American army officer (d. 1863)
 1858 - Maurice Prendergast, American painter (d. 1924)
 1860 - Joan Maragall, Catalan poet (d. 1911)
 1861 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian polar explorer, scientist and diplomat (d. 1930)
 1861 - Edouard Dujardin, French writer (d. 1949)
 1861 - Claudio Williman, President of Uruguay (d. 1934)
 1863 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)
 1863 - Vladimir Obruchev, Russian geographer, geologist and writer (d. 1956)
 1870 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer (d. 1953)
 1870 - Louise Mack, Australian writer (d. 1935)
 1878 - Blanche Lazzell, American painter, printmaker and designer (d. 1956)
 1885 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962)
 1885 - José Alvalade, Portuguese football team founder (d. 1918)
 1888 - Pietro Lana, Italian footballer (d. 1950)
 1889 - Kermit Roosevelt, American writer, businessman and military officer (d. 1943)
 1890 - Morley Griswold, Governor of Nevada (d. 1951)
1895 - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
 1899 – Wilhelm Röpke, German economist (d. 1966)
 1900 - Helen Hayes, American actress and singer (d. 1993)
1901  1925 
 1901 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
 1903 – Charles, Prince Regent of Belgium (d. 1983)
 1910 - Price Daniel, Governor of Texas (d. 1988)
 1910 - Harold LeVander, Governor of Minnesota (d. 1992)
 1911 - Clare Hollingworth, English journalist and author (d. 2017)
 1913 – Claude Simon, French writer (d. 2005)
 1917 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz musician (d. 1962)
 1918 - John W. King, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1996)
 1918 - Yigal Allon, Israeli politician (d. 1980)
 1919 - Edgar Laprade, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
 1920 - Gail Halvorsen, American pilot, took part in the Berlin Airlift
 1923 - Nicholas Parsons, British actor and presenter (d. 2020)
 1923 – Murray Walker, British sports commentator
 1923 – James Jabara, American air force pilot (d. 1966)
 1924 – James Clavell, Australian writer (d. 1994)
 1924 - Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballerina, sculptor, actress, painter, choreographer and author (d. 2004)
1926  1950 
 1926 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 2007)
 1926 - Oscar Brown, Jr., American singer, poet and activist (d. 2005)
 1927 - Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, Indian singer (d. 2014)
 1929 - Bernard Mayes, British broadcaster (d. 2014)
 1930 – Yves Chauvin, French chemist (d. 2015)
 1930 – Harold Pinter, British playwright (d. 2008)
 1933 - Daniel Massey, British actor (d. 1998)
 1933 – Jay Sebring, American hairstylist and murder victim (d. 1969)
 1935 - Abu Jihad, Palestinian founder of Fatah (d. 1988)
 1935 – Hermann Nuber, German footballer
 1936 – Gerhard Ertl, German chemist
 1936 - Judith Chalmers, English television host
 1937 - Peter Underwood, 27th Governor of Tasmania (d. 2014)
 1940 - Nol Heijerman, Dutch footballer (d. 2015)
 1940 – Winston Spencer-Churchill, British politician, grandson of Winston Churchill (d. 2010)
 1941 – Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and activist (d. 1995)
 1941 - Peter Coyote, American actor
 1942 – Radu Vasile, former Prime Minister of Romania (d. 2013)
1943 – Reinhard Libuda, German footballer (d. 1996)
 1945 - Edoardo Reja, Italian footballer and coach
 1946 – Charles Dance, English actor
 1946 – Naoto Kan, former Prime Minister of Japan
 1946 - John Prine, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (d. 2020)
 1946 – Chris Tarrant, English television presenter
 1946 - Ann Mather, English author
 1948 - Sue Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Loughborough, English academic and businesswoman
 1948 - Roger B. Wilson, former Governor of Missouri
 1949 - Lance Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
 1949 - Wang Wanxing, Chinese activist
 1950 – Nora Roberts, American novelist
1951  1975 
 1951 - Epeli Ganilau, Fijian statesman
 1953 – Midge Ure, Scottish musician
 1954 - David Lee Roth, American singer (Van Halen)
 1954 – Rekha, Indian actress
 1954 - Fernando Santos, Portuguese footballer and manager
 1956 - Taur Matan Ruak, Prime minister and former President of East Timor
 1956 - Amanda Burton, British actress
 1956 - Fiona Fullerton, British actress
 1956 - David Hempleman-Adams, English businessman and adventurer
 1956 - Paul Sturrock, Scottish footballer and manager
 1957 – Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese mangaka
 1958 - Tanya Tucker, American country music singer and musician
 1959 – Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)
 1959 - Julia Sweeney, American actress
 1959 - Bradley Whitford, American actor
 1960 - Simon Townshend, English guitarist, singer and songwriter
 1961 - Martin Kemp, English singer and actor (Spandau Ballet)
 1964 - Sarah Lancashire, English actress
 1964 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)
 1965 - Toshi, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
1965 - Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
 1965 - Rebecca Pidgeon, American-English actress and singer-songwriter
 1966 – Tony Adams, English footballer
 1967 - Jonathan Littell, American-French writer
 1967 - Mike Malinin, American drummer (Goo Goo Dolls)
 1967 - Gavin Newsom, American politician, current Governor of California and former Mayor of San Francisco
 1969 – Brett Favre, American football player
 1970 – Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German luger
 1970 – Matthew Pinsent, British rower
 1970 - Dean Kiely, Irish footballer
 1970 - Bai Ling, Chinese actress
 1971 - Graham Alexander, British footballer and manager
 1971 - Markus Heitz, German author
 1972 - Alexei Zhitnik, Russian ice hockey player
 1972 - Nicky Morgan, English politician
 1974 – Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentine footballer
 1974 - Dale Earnhardt, Jr., American racing driver
 1975 - Ihsahn, Norwegian singer-songwriter, musician and producer
 1975 - Jacqueline Pirie, Scottish actress
From 1976 
 1976 – Shane Doan, Canadian ice hockey player
 1979 – Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player
 1979 - Mya, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer and actress
 1979 - Kangta, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer and actress
 1980 - Sherine, Egyptian singer and actress
 1980 - Tim Maurer, American singer-songwriter (Suburban Legends)
 1981 - Una Healy, Irish singer (The Saturdays)
 1982 - Logi Geirsson, Icelandic handball player
 1982 - Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi Arabian footballer
 1983 – Nikos Spiropoulos, Greek footballer
 1984 - Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
 1985 – Marina Diamandis, Welsh singer-songwriter (Marina and the Diamonds)
 1987 - Colin Slade, New Zealand rugby player
 1988 - Luis Cardozo, Paraguayan footballer
 1989 - Aimee Teegarden, American actress
 1991 – Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer
 1991 - Xherdan Shaqiri, Swiss footballer
 1991 - Michael Carter-Williams, American basketball player
 1992 - Jano Ananidze, Georgian footballer
1992 - Gabrielle Aplin, English singer-songwriter
 1994 - Bae Suzy, South Korean singer, dancer and actress
Up to 1900 
 19 – Germanicus, father of Caligula and brother of Claudius (b. 15 BC)
 680 – Husayn bin Ali, grandson of Muhammad (b. 626)
 1359 - Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
 1459 – Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist, classicist (b. 1380)
 1531 – Huldrych Zwingli, leader of Swiss Reformation (b. 1484)
 1659 – Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)
 1708 - David Gregory, Scottish mathematician (b. 1659)
 1723 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, English politician (b. 1665)
 1725 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, French politician (b. 1643)
 1747 – John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
 1795 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
 1806 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b. 1772)
 1825 - Dmitry Bortniansky, Russian and Ukrainian composer (b. 1751)
 1827 – Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer (b. 1778)
 1837 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)
 1872 – William H. Seward, Secretary of State (b. 1801)
1875 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
 1893 – Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
1901  2000 
 1901 – Lorenzo Snow, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
 1911 - Jack Daniel, American businessman (b. 1849)
 1913 – Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
 1913 - Adolphus Busch, German-American brewer and businessman (b. 1839)
 1914 – Charles I of Romania (b. 1839)
 1927 – Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
 1940 – Berton Churchill, American pioneer Hollywood actor (b. 1876)
 1962 – Trygve Gulbranssen, Norwegian writer (b. 1894)
 1964 – Eddie Cantor, American singer, vaudeville performer (b. 1892)
 1964 - Guru Dutt, Indian actor, producer and director (b. 1925)
 1966 - Charlotte Cooper, English tennis player (b. 1870)
 1970 - Edouard Daladier, French politician (b. 1884)
 1971 – John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
 1973 - Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (b. 1881)
 1978 – Ralph Metcalfe, track and field athlete (b. 1910)
 1979 – Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
1983 – Ralph Richardson, actor (b. 1902)
 1985 – Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1920)
 1985 – Orson Welles, American director, actor (b. 1915)
 1998 - Marvin Gay, Sr., father and killer of Marvin Gaye (b. 1914)
 1998 – Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
 2000 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan Prime Minister (b. 1916)
From 2001 
 2003 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
 2004 – Arthur H. Robinson, cartographer (b. 1915)
 2004 – Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
 2004 – Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
 2004 – Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
 2005 – Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1924)
 2008 - Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (b. 1947)
 2009 – Stephen Gately, Irish singer (Boyzone) (b. 1976)
 2010 – Solomon Burke, American soul singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
 2010 – Hwang Jang-yop, North Korean politician and defector (b. 1923)
 2010 – Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (b. 1926)
 2011 – Albert Rosellini, American politician (b. 1910)
 2011 - Jagjit Singh, Indian musician (b. 1941)
 2012 - Kevin Curran, Zimbabwean cricketer (b. 1959)
 2012 - Alex Karras, American football player and actor (b. 1935)
 2012 - Amanda Todd, American student, victim of cyberbullying (b. 1996)
 2013 - Scott Carpenter, American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut (b. 1925)
2014 - Valeri Karpov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1971)
 2014 - Ed Nimmervoll, Austrian-Australian music journalist and author (b. 1947)
 2014 - Finn Lied, Norwegian military researcher and politician (b. 1916)
 2015 - Richard F. Heck, American chemist (b. 1931)
 2017 - Cho Jin-ho, South Korean footballer (b. 1973)
 2017 - Don Pedro Colley, American actor (b. 1938)
 2017 - Pentti Holappa, Finnish poet, writer and politician (b. 1927)
 2017 - Bob Schiller, American television writer (b. 1918)
 2018 - Mary Midgley, English philosopher (b. 1919)
 2018 - Raye Montague, American naval engineer (b. 1935)
 2018 - Tex Winter, American basketball coach (b. 1922)
 2019 - Ugo Colombo, Italian cyclist (b. 1940)
 2019 - Richard Jeranian, Armenian-French painter and draftsman (b. 1921)
 2019 - Tarek Kamel, Egyptian politician and computer engineer (b. 1962)
 2019 - Juliette Kaplan, British actress (b. 1939)
 2019 - Enrique Moreno, Mexican-American lawyer (b. 1955)
 2019 - Marie-José Nat, French actress (b. 1940)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Fiji)
 National Day of the Republic of China
 World Mental Health Day
 International Day Against the Death Penalty
 Arbor Day (Poland)
 Army Day (Sri Lanka)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1138  1138 Aleppo earthquake: A massive earthquake destroys much of Aleppo, Syria.
 1142  A peace treaty between the Jin Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty is formally ratified when a Jin Dynasty envoy arrives at the Song court.
 1531  Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
 1634  A flood disaster kills 15,000 people in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
 1649  After a 10-day siege, the English New Model Army under Oliver Cromwell storms the town of Wexford, Ireland - 2,000 Irish troops and 1,500 civilians are killed.
 1727  King George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned king and queen.
 1737  Calcutta is struck by an earthquake, killing around 300,000 people.
 1746  War of Austrian Succession: The French defeat an army consisiting of Austrians, Dutch and British troops.        
 1767  Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line, separating Maryland and Pennsylvania, is completed.
1776  American War of Independence: In the Battle of Valcou, British forces destroy most United States Navy ships.
 1797  French Revolutionary Wars: The Royal Navy captures eleven Dutch Navy ships without any losses in the Battle of Camperdown.
 1809  Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies in mysterious circumstances.
 1833  A big demonstration at the gates of the legislature of Buenos Aires forces the ousting of governor Juan Ramon Balcarce and his replacement with Juan Jose Viamonte.
 1852  The University of Sydney, Australia is inaugurated.
 1864  Campina Grande, Brazil becomes a city.
 1890  In Washington, DC, the group Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
 1899  The Second Boer War erupts between the United Kingdom and the Boers of Transvaal and the Orange Free State in present-day South Africa.
1901  2000 
 1906  The San Francisco school board orders Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools (different schools from White American students), sparking a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan.
 1910  Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to fly in an airplane.
 1912  First Balkan War: The Greek army liberates the city of Kozani.
 1918  The San Fermin earthquake hits Puerto Rico.
 1941  Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
 1942  World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance - In northwest Guadalcanal, US troops intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
 1949  Wilhelm Pieck is elected the first, and only, President of East Germany.
 1954  Frist Indochina War: The Viet Minh takes control of North Vietnam.
 1957  M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik's booster rocket's orbit.
 1958  NASA launches the Pioneer 1 lunar probe, which falls back to Earth and burns up.
1963  West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, aged 87, submits his resignation.
 1968  NASA launches the Apollo 7 mission; Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham on board.
 1975  Saturday Night Live is first broadcast.
 1982  The Tudor warship Mary Rose, which sank in 1545, is salvaged near Portsmouth, England.
 1984  On board the Space Shuttle Challenger, Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a spacewalk.
 1984  An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-54 airplane crashes into maintenance vehicles in Omsk, Siberia, killing 178 people.
 1986  Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan meet for talks in Reykjavik, Iceland.
 1987  German politician Uwe Barschel is found dead in his hotel room in Geneva, Switzerland.
 1996  A wood lorry and a school bus collide in Jogeva County, Estonia, killing 8 children.
 2000  The 100th Space Shuttle mission launches, with the Space Shuttle Discovery.
From 2001 
 2002  7 people are killed in a bomb attack on a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland.
 2006  A small aircraft piloted by baseball player Cory Lidle crashes into a residential building (a building where people live) in New York City, killing both Lidle and his flight instructor, with 21 people being injured.
 2008  Austrian far-right politician Jörg Haider is killed in a car crash.
 2012  The UN designates this the first International Day of the Girl Child.
 2013  The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins the Nobel Peace Prize, the second time in a row that an organization has won the prize outright.
 2013  At least 30 people die when a boat carrying them from North Africa gets into trouble off Lampedusa, in the Mediterranean Sea, just over a week after over 300 people are killed in a similar accident there.
 2014  Charles Michel becomes Prime Minister of Belgium, replacing Elio Di Rupo.
 2019  Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1335  Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1408)
 1616  Andreas Gryphius, German poet (d. 1664)
 1661  Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (d. 1742)
 1671  King Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1730)
 1672  Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian diplomat (d. 1742)
 1675  Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (d. 1729)
 1738  Arthur Phillip, British admiral, Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814)
 1739  Grigory Potemkin, Russian military leader and statesman (d. 1791)
 1755  Fausto Elhuyar, Spanish chemist (d. 1833)
 1758  Hermann Wilhelm Olbers, German physician and astronomer (d. 1840)
 1788  Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (d. 1867)
 1806  Alexander Karadordevic, Prince of Serbia (d. 1886)
 1814  Jean Baptiste Lamy, first Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1888)
 1815  Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte, Italian-born adventurer (d. 1881)
 1821  George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (d. 1905)
 1844  Henry Heinz, American food manufacturer (d. 1916)
 1846  Carlos Pellegrini, President of Argentina (d. 1906)
1863  Louis Cyr, famous Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
 1865  Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian philologist and author (d. 1926)
 1871  Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader (d. 1943)
 1872  Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946)
 1872  Emily Davison, British Women's Rights activist (d. 1913)
 1876  Paul Masson, French cyclist (d. 1944)
 1879  Ernst Mally, Austrian philosopher (d. 1944)
 1881  Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist
 1881  Lewis Fry Richardson, British meteorologist (d. 1953)
 1884  Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
 1884  Eleanor Roosevelt, American human rights activist, First Lady of the United States (d. 1962)
 1884  Sig Ruman, American actor (d. 1967)
 1885  François Mauriac, French writer (d. 1970)
 1885  Alfred Haar, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1933)
 1887  Willie Hoppe, American billiards champion (d. 1959)
 1891  Kim Seong-Su, Korean journalist and politician (d. 1955)
 1895  Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (d. 1982)
1901  1950 
 1902  Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1979)
 1905  Jean-Marie Villot, French cardinal (d. 1979)
 1905  Fred Trump, American businessman, father of Donald Trump (d. 1999)
 1911  Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentine long-distance runner (d. 1983)
 1913  Joe Simon, American comic book artist and writer (d. 2011)
 1918  Jerome Robbins, choreographer (d. 1998)
 1919  Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (d. 1990)
 1919  Kader Firoud, Algerian footballer (d. 2005)
 1919  Jean Vander Pyl, voice of Wilma Flintstone in The Flintstones cartoon (d. 1999).
 1920  James Aloysius Hickey, American cardinal (d. 2004)
 1920  Edgar Negret, Colombian sculptor (d. 2012)
 1924  Mal Whitfield, American runner (d. 2015)
 1925  Elmore Leonard, American novelist (d. 2013)
 1926  Jean Alexander, English actress (d. 2016)
 1926  Thich Nhat Wanh, Vietnamese author, monk and poet
 1926  Neville Wran, former Premier of New South Wales (d. 2014)
 1927  Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (d. 2005)
1927  William Perry, former United States Secretary of Defense
 1927  Jim Prior, English politician (d. 2016)
 1928  Marquis Alfonso de Portago, Grand Prix driver (d. 1957)
 1929  Curtis Amy, American saxophonist (d. 2002)
 1929  Raymond Moriyama, Canadian architect
 1929  Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress
 1930  Ronnie Simpson, Scottish footballer (d. 2004)
 1932  Dottie West, country music singer (d. 1991)
 1936  C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut (d. 2013)
 1937  Bobby Charlton, English footballer
 1937  Jaan Kundla, Estonian politician
 1939  Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player (d. 2018)
 1940  Pouri Banayi, Iranian actress
 1942  Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor, singer, producer, UNICEF Ambassador.
 1942  Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton, British academic and politician
 1943  John Nettles, British actor
 1943  Ilmar Reepalu, Swedish politician
 1946  Sawao Kato, Japanese gymnast
 1946  Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer (d. 2011)
1947  Lucas Papademos, Greek economist and former Prime Minister of Greece
 1947  Al Atkins, English singer-songwriter (Judas Priest)
 1948  Cecilia, Spanish singer (d. 1976)
 1948  Peter Turkson, Ghanaian cardinal
 1949  Daryl Hall, musician
 1950  Robert Pugh, Welsh actor
1951  1975 
 1951  Jean-Jacques Goldman, French pop singer, songwriter
 1951  Kim Ja-ok, South Korean actress (d. 2014)
 1951  Charles Shyer, American director, producer and writer
 1953  David Morse, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
 1955  Hans-Peter Briegel, German footballer
 1956  Nicanor Duarte Frutos, former President of Paraguay
 1957  Dawn French, British comedienne
 1958  Gregory Dudek, Canadian computer scientist and academic
 1959  Allan Little, Scottish BBC correspondent
 1961  Steve Young, American football player
 1962  Joan Cusack, American actress
 1962  Andy McCoy, Finnish-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
 1963  Jordi Villacampa, Spanish basketball player
 1963  Prince Faisal bin Al-Hussein of Jordan
 1963  Ronny Rosenthal, Israeli footballer
 1965  Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor
 1965  Juan Ignacio Cirac, Spanish physicist
 1966  Luke Perry, American actor (d. 2019)
 1966  Todd Snider, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967  Daniel Razon, Filipino TV host, singer and minister
 1968  Claude Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player
 1969  Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
 1969  Merieme Chadid, Moroccan astronomer
 1972  Cherokee Parks, American basketball player
 1973  Steven Pressley, Scottish footballer
 1975  Orlando Maturana, Colombian footballer
From 1976 
 1976  Emily Deschanel, American actress
 1976  Dominic Aitchison, Scottish bass player and songwriter
 1976  Raivo Kotov, Estonian architect
 1976  Claudia Black, Australian actress
 1977  Ty Wigginton, American baseball player
 1979  Bae Doona, South Korean model and actress
 1979  Andy Douglas, American professional wrestler
 1980  Juan José Ribera, Chilean footballer
 1981  Beau Brady, Australian actor
 1982  Jermaine V. Mitchell, Rap musician
 1983  Bradley James, British actor
 1983  Ruslan Ponomariov, Ukrainian chess player
 1985  Michelle Trachtenberg, actress
 1985  Alvaro Fernandez, Uruguayan footballer
 1985  Margaret Berger, Norwegian singer
 1987  Mike Conley, Jr., American basketball player
 1988  Cinthia Fernandez, Argentine acrobat-dancer, actress and model
 1988  Omar Gonzalez, American soccer player
 1988  Seamus Coleman, Irish footballer
 1989  Michelle Wie, American golfer
 1991  Jack Garratt, English singer and songwriter
 1992  Cardi B, American rapper
1992  Emilia Bottas, Finnish swimmer
 1993  Sean Murray, Irish footballer
 2001  Daniel Maldini, Italian footballer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 1188  Robert I, Count of Dreux (b. 1123)
 1303  Pope Boniface VIII
 1347  Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)
 1424  Jan Zizka, Czech general (b. 1360)
 1531  Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (b. 1484)
 1705  Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)
 1708  Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician, physicist and physician and philosopher (d. 1651)
 1779  Casimir Pulaski, Polish fighter for American independence (b. 1745)
 1809  Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (suicide) (b. 1774)
 1811  Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (b. 1724)
 1813  Robert Kerr, Scottish physician, writer and zoologist (b. 1757)
 1830  José de La Mar, President of Peru (b. 1778)
 1852  Ferdinand Eisenstein, mathematician (b. 1823)
 1889  James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b. 1818)
 1896  Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
 1896  Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
1901  2000 
 1915  Jean-Henri Fabre, French writer, poet and naturalist (b. 1823)
 1916  King Otto of Bavaria (b. 1848)
 1940  Lluís Companys, Spanish President of Generalitat of Catalonia, (shot) (b. 1882)
 1940  Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
 1961  Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
 1963  Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
 1963  Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)
 1965  Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
 1965  Walther Stampfli, Swiss politician (b. 1884)
 1971  Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1944)
 1976  Alfredo Bracchi, Italian writer (b. 1897)
 1977  MacKinlay Kantor, American writer (b. 1904)
 1987  Uwe Barschel, German politician (b. 1944)
 1989  M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1904)
 1991  Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (b. 1902)
 1993  Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927)
 1996  Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)
 1996  Renato Russo, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
1998  Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
 2000  Donald Dewar, main writer of the Scotland Act and initial First Minister of the Scottish Parliament (b. 1937)
From 2001 
 2003  Edward Breathitt, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1924)
 2004  Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)
 2005  Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister-in-exile (b. 1915)
 2006  Cory Lidle, American baseball player (b. 1972)
 2007  Werner von Trapp, one of the von Trapp family singers (b. 1915)
 2007  Sri Chinmoy, Indian spiritual teacher (b. 1931)
 2008  Jörg Haider, Austrian far-right politician (car crash) (b. 1950)
 2012  Helmut Haller, German footballer (b. 1939)
 2012  Edgar Negret, Colombian sculptor (b. 1920)
 2013  María de Villota, Spanish racing driver (b. 1980)
 2013  Erich Priebke, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1913)
 2014  Carmelo Simeone, Argentine footballer (b. 1933)
 2014  Tanhum Cohen-Mintz, Israeli basketball player (b. 1939)
 2015  Steve Mackay, American saxophonist (b. 1949)
 2016  Patricia Barry, American actress (b. 1922)
 2017  James R. Ford, American politician (b. 1925)
 2017  Clifford Husbands, Governor-General of Barbados (b. 1926)
2018  Doug Ellis, English businessman (b. 1924)
 2018  Labinot Harbuzi, Swedish footballer (b. 1986)
 2018  Dieter Kemper, German cyclist (b. 1937)
 2018  Pran Nevile, Indian art historian (b. 1922)
 2018  Yoshito Sengoku, Japanese politician (b. 1946)
 2018  Hege Skjeie, Norwegian political scientist and columnist (b. 1955)
 2018  Greg Stafford, American game designer (b. 1948)
 2018  Hebe Uhart, Argentine novelist and columnist (b. 1936)
 2019  Sam Bobrick, American television writer (b. 1932)
 2019  Robert Forster, American actor (b. 1941)
 2019  John Giorno, American poet and performance artist (b. 1936)
 2019  Kadri Gopalnath, Indian saxophonist and composer (b. 1949)
 2019  Alexei Leonov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (b. 1934)
 2020  Hugo Arana, Argentine actor and comedian (b. 1943)
 2020  Harold Betters, American jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
 2020  Gary F. Jones, American racehorse trainer (b. 1944)
 2020  Terry McBrayer, American politician (b. 1937)
 2020  Ilya Moiseev, Russian chemist (b. 1929)
2020  Joe Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1943)
 2020  John A. Ruthven, American wildlife artist (b. 1924)
Observances
 International Day of the Girl Child
 National Coming Out Day in some countries
 Revolution Day (Republic of Macedonia)
 Old Michaelmas (Christianity)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 42 BC - Roman civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi - Mark Antony and Octavian defeat the army of Marcus Junius Brutus, who commits suicide shortly after.
 425 – Valentinian III becomes Roman Emperor, at the age of 6.
 1086 - Battle of az-Zallaqah: The army of Yusuf ibn Tashfa defeats forces of King Alfonso VI of Castile.
 1157 - The Battle of Grathe-Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I of Denmark takes over. 
 1295 – Scotland and France sign the first treaty of the 'Auld Alliance' in Paris, against England.
 1520 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned in Aachen.
 1642 – English Civil War: The Battle of Edgehill
 1707 – The first parliament of Great Britain meets.
 1739 - War of Jenkins' Ear: British Prime Minister Robert Walpole reluctantly declares war on Spain.
1812 - Charles Francois de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow then-Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, by falsely claiming that he (Napoleon) had died in his attempt to conquer Russia.
 1850 - The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts.
 1864 - American Civil War: Union forces defeat the Confederates in the Battle of Westport.
 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz concludes with a decisive Prussian victory.
1901  2000 
 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an aircraft in the first heavier-than-air flight, in Paris.
 1912 – The Battle of Kumanovo between Russian and Ottoman forces begins.
 1915 - 25,000 to 33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue in New York City to advocate their right to vote.
 1917 - Vladimir Lenin calls for the October Revolution in Russia.
 1929 – Great Depression: The first signs of panic show.
 1940 - Norwegian Hurtigruten passenger steamer Prinsesse Ragnhild sinks after an explosion off northern Norway, killing 299 people on board.
 1941 – World War II: Georgy Zhukov takes command of the Red Army operation to prevent the Nazis' further advances into Russia.
 1942 – World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein takes place, as the British Eighth Army begins an offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.
 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Henderson Field begins in the Guadalcanal Campaign, lasting until October 26.
 1944 – World War II: The Red Army enters Hungary.
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines.
 1946 – In New York, the UN General Assembly meets for the first time.
 1956 – The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against Soviet rule begins.
 1958 - The Smurfs cartoons appear for the first time.
 1958 - The Springhill Mine Bump mining disaster in Nova Scotia, killing 74 people, with 100 surviving the accident.
 1970 - Gary Gabelich sets a land-speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled by natural gas.
 1972 - Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker - The US ends a bombing campaign of North Vietnam following the Easter Offensive.
 1973 - A UN-sanctioned ceasefire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.
 1983 – A truck bomb hits a US barracks in Lebanon, killing 241 troops. On the same day, another truck bomb hits a French barracks, killing 58 military personnel.
 1989 – The Hungarian Republic is declared.
 1989 - The Philips Disaster in Pasadena, Texas kills 23 people.
1992 – Akihito becomes the first Japanese Emperor to stand on Chinese soil.
 1995 - Yolanda Saldivar is convicted of murdering the singer Selena on March 31 of the same year.
From 2001 
 2001 – The iPod is released.
 2002 – The Moscow Theatre Siege begins, as Chechen terrorists take around 700 theatregoers hostage.
 2003 - The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, designed by Frank Gehry, is opened.
 2004 – An earthquake in the Niigata Prefecture in Japan kills 35 people and injures around 2,200.
 2005 – Hurricane Wilma hits the Yucatán, in Mexico.
 2005 – Lech Kaczynski is elected President of Poland, ahead of Donald Tusk.
 2011 – New Zealand wins the Rugby World Cup, defeating France 8-7 in Auckland.
 2011 – Motorcycle rider Marco Simoncelli is killed in a crash at the Malaysian Moto GP.
 2011 – A powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits Van Province, in eastern Turkey.
 2012 - The BBC ends its 38-year teletext service Ceefax, with Northern Ireland completing the United Kingdom's transition to digital television broadcasting.
2015 - Hurricane Patricia is measured as the heaviest hurricane ever to hit North or Central America, as it hits the Pacific Ocean coast of Mexico.
 2015 - 43 people, mostly pensioners on a day-trip, die in a coach crash in Southwestern France, in one of the country's deadliest-ever road accidents.
 2018 - The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge is officially opened by Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping.
 2018 - October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts: A mail bomb addressed to former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is caught by police, after one addressed to George Soros was caught the previous day.
 2019 - The bodies of 39 people are found in a lorry trailer at Purfleet, Essex, England.
Up to 1900
 63 BC - Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Roman general (d. 12 BC)
 1503 – Isabella of Portugal (d. 1539)
 1516 – Charlotte of Valois, French princess (d. 1524)
 1634 - Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1715)
 1654 - Johann Bernhard Staudt, Austrian Jesuit composer (d. 1712)
 1713 - Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist (d. 1778)
 1715 – Tsar Peter II of Russia (d. 1730)
 1762 - Samuel Morey, American inventor (d. 1843)
 1770 - George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, Scottish soldier and colonial administrator (d. 1838)
 1771 - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813)
 1796 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1857)
 1801 – Albert Lortzing, German composer (d. 1851)
 1813 – Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer (d. 1848)
 1815 - Joao Mauricio Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (d. 1889)
 1817 - Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875)
 1831 - Basil Lanneau Gilders Lane, American classical scholar (d. 1924)
1835 – Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
 1844 - Robert Bridges, English poet (d. 1930)
 1857 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter (d. 1899)
 1868 - Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, British industrialist, financier and politician (d. 1930)
 1869 – John Heisman, American football player and coach (d. 1936)
 1871 - Gjergj Fishta, Albanian poet (d. 1940)
 1873 - William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (d. 1975)
 1875 - Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946)
 1876 - Franz Schlegelberger, German politician (d. 1970)
 1880 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (d. 1959)
 1885 - Lawren Harris, Canadian painter (d. 1970)
 1893 – Gummo Marx, American actor (d. 1977)
 1894 - Rube Bressler, American baseball player (d. 1966)
 1896 - Roman Jakobson, Russian-born linguist (d. 1982)
 1896 - Lilyan Tashman, American actress (b. 1934)
1901  1950 
 1905 – Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist (d. 1983)
 1905 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
 1905 - Yen Chia-han, President of the Republic of China (d. 1993)
 1908 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist (d. 1990)
 1910 - Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (d. 1993)
 1910 - Hayden Rorke, American actor (d. 1987)
 1911 - Jack Keller, American hurdler (d. 1978)
 1918 - James Daly, American actor (d. 1978)
 1919 - Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist (d. 1992)
 1920 - Lygia Clark, Brazilian artist (d. 1988)
 1920 - Bob Montana, American cartoonist (d. 1975)
 1922 - Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington, English politician (d. 2018)
 1922 - Coleen Gray, American actress (d. 2015)
 1923 - Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, Vice President of India (d. 2010)
 1925 – Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (d. 1994)
 1925 – Johnny Carson, American television host (d. 2005)
 1927 - Barron Hilton, American businessman (d. 2019)
 1927 – Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher (d. 2009)
1927 - Dezso Gyarmati, Hungarian water polo player (d. 2013)
 1928 - Zhu Rongji, Chinese politician
 1929 - Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet, columnist and journalist (d. 2006)
 1931 - Diana Dors, British actress (d. 1984)
 1931 – Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician
 1936 – Philip Kaufman, American director
 1938 – H. John Heinz III, American politician (d. 1991)
 1940 – Pelé, Brazilian footballer
 1940 - Jane Holzer, American model, actress, producer and art collector
 1941 - Lawrence Foster, American conductor
 1941 - Igor Smirnov, Moldovan politician
 1942 - Bernd Erdmann, German footballer
 1942 – Michael Crichton, American writer (d. 2008)
 1942 – Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (d. 2007)
 1945 - Maggi Hambling, British painter and sculptor
 1945 – Kim Larsen, Danish musician and singer (d. 2018)
 1945 - Michel Vautrot, French football referee
 1947 - Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (d. 1989)
 1947 – Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, leader of Hamas (d. 2004)
1948 - Gerry Robinson, Irish businessman and television presenter
 1949 – Michael Burston (Wurzel), British musician (Motorhead) (d. 2011)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Charly García, Argentine singer
 1951 – Fatmir Sejdiu, former President of Kosovo
 1951 - Angel de Andres Lopez, Spanish actor (d. 2016)
 1952 - Ken Tipton, American entrepreneur, actor, director, writer and producer
 1954 – Ang Lee, Taiwanese movie director
 1954 - Uli Stein, German footballer
 1956 - Dianne Reeves, American jazz singer
 1956 - Dwight Yoakam, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
 1957 - Martin Luther King III, American activist
 1957 - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda
 1959 - Sam Raimi, American movie director
 1959 – "Weird Al" Yankovic, American musical parodist
 1960 – Randy Pausch, American computer scientist and writer (d. 2008)
 1961 – Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer
 1962 - Stefano Colantuono, Italian footballer and coach
 1963 - Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (d. 2012)
 1964 – Robert Trujillo, American musician (Metallica)
 1967 - Omar Linares, Cuban baseball player
 1968 - Maria Darling, English voice actress
1969 - Trudi Canavan, Australian writer
 1969 - Dolly Buster, Czech-German pornographic actress
 1970 - Matthew Barzun, American diplomat
 1971 - Bohuslav Sobotka, Czech politician, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
 1973 – Christian Dailly, Scottish footballer
 1975 - Yoon Sun-ha, South Korean actress and singer
From 1976 
 1976 - Cat Deeley, British television personality
 1976 – Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor
 1978 – Jimmy Bullard, English footballer
 1978 – Archie Thompson, Australian footballer
 1978 - Steve Harmison, English cricketer
 1978 - John Lackey, American baseball player
 1979 – Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
 1984 – Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model
 1984 - Meghan McCain, American columnist and author
 1985 - Masiela Lusha, Albanian-born American writer and actress
 1985 - Lachlan Gillespie, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
 1985 - Mohammed Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
 1986 - Briana Evigan, American actress
 1986 - Jessica Stroup, American actress
 1986 - Emilia Clarke, English actress
 1987 - Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer
 1988 - Jordan Crawford, American basketball player
 1989 - Andriy Yarmolenko, Ukrainian footballer
 1990 – Paradise Oskar, Finnish singer
 1991 – Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan
 1992 - Alvaro Morata, Spanish footballer
 1993 - Taylor Spreitler, American actress
1994 - Georgia Toffolo, English television personality
 1997 - Daphne Blunt, American actress and singer
 1998 - Amandla Stenberg, American actress
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 42 BC – Marcus Junius Brutus (suicide) (b. 85 BC)
 877 - Ignatius, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 797)
 891 - Yazaman al-Khadim, Arab military leader
 930 – Emperor Daigo of Japan (b. 885)
 1157 - Sweyn III of Denmark (b. 1120)
 1456 - Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1381)
 1581 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
 1616 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
 1774 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. 1715)
 1869 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
 1872 – Théophile Gautier, French writer (b. 1811)
 1885 - Charles S. West, Texan jurist and politician (b. 1829)
 1893 - Alexander Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria (b. 1857)
 1896 - Columbus Delano, American politician (b. 1809)
1901  2000 
 1910 – Chulalongkorn (Rama V), King of Siam (now Thailand) (b. 1853)
 1915 – W. G. Grace, English cricketer (b. 1848)
 1921 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (b. 1840)
 1930 - Vicente Casanova y Marzol, Archbishop of Granada (b. 1854)
 1938 - Jean-Guy Gautier, French rugby player (b. 1875)
 1939 – Zane Grey, American writer (b. 1872)
 1940 - George R. Cortelyou, American politician (b. 1862)
 1944 – Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist (b. 1877)
 1944 - Hana Brady, Czech Holocaust victim (b. 1931)
 1948 - Carl Edward Bailey, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1894)
 1950 – Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886)
 1957 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905)
 1959 - Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
 1979 - Antonio Caggiano, Argentine cardinal (b. 1889)
 1983 – Jessica Savitch, journalist (b. 1947)
 1984 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922)
 1986 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, won the 1843 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
1988 - Asashio Taro III, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1929)
 1989 - Armida, Mexican-American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1911)
 1990 – Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (b. 1918)
 1994 - Robert Lansing, American actor (b. 1928)
 1997 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1916)
 2000 - Rodney Adnoa'i, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
From 2001 
 2003 – Tony Capstick, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster (b. 1944)
 2003 – Soong May-ling, widow of Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1898)
 2004 - George Silk, New Zealand-American photographer (b. 1916)
 2005 - John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
 2009 – Lou Jacobi, Canadian actor (b. 1913)
 2010 – David Thompson, Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1961)
 2011 - Nusrat Bhutto, former First Lady of Pakistan (b. 1929)
 2011 – Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1987)
 2011 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning chemist (b. 1917)
 2011 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist (b. 1927)
 2011 - Bronislovas Lubys, former Prime Minister of Lithuania (b. 1938)
 2012 - Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian novelist and poet (b. 1934)
 2012 - Wilhelm Brasse, Polish photographer (b. 1917)
 2013 - Bill Mazer, American TV and radio presenter (b. 1920)
 2013 - Anthony Caro, British sculptor (b. 1924)
 2014 - Alvin Stardust, British singer (b. 1942)
2014 - Ghulam Azam, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1922)
 2014 - John Bramlett, American football player (b. 1941)
 2014 - Bernard Mayes, British author and broadcaster (b. 1929)
 2014 - André Piters, Belgian footballer (b. 1931)
 2014 - Tullio Regge, Italian physicist (b. 1931)
 2015 - Krunoslav Hulak, Croatian chess player (b. 1951)
 2015 - Leon Bibb, American folk singer (b. 1922)
 2015 - Paride Tumburus, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
 2015 - Jimmy Roberts, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1946)
 2016 - Jimmy Perry, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1923)
 2016 - Pete Burns, English singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
 2016 - Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, former Emir of Qatar (b. 1932)
 2017 - Walter Lassally, German-born British-Greek cinematographer (b. 1926)
 2017 - Paul J. Weitz, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1932)
 2018 - Skip Campbell, American politician (b. 1948)
 2018 - James Karen, American actor (b. 1923)
 2018 - Alojz Rebula, Italian-Slovenian writer, playwright and essayist (b. 1924)
2018 - Laurens van Ravens, Belgian football referee (b. 1922)
 2019 - Santos Juliá, Spanish historian and sociologist (b. 1940)
 2019 - James W. Montgomery, American Episcopalian prelate (b. 1921)
 2019 - Alfred Znamierowski, Polish vexillologist (b. 1940)
Observances 
 Mole Day (Chemists)
 Chulalongkorn Day (Thailand)
 National Day of Hungary
 Day of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1341 - The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 begins.
 1597 - Imjin War: Admiral Yi Sun-sin decisively defeats the Japanese navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships of his own.
 1640 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of Scotland and England.
 1689 – The Bill of Rights 1689 is recognised by Great Britain's dual monarchy.
 1689 - General Enea Silvio Piccolimini of Austria burns down Skopje, in the present-day Republic of Macedonia.
 1708 - The final stone of the newly rebuilt St. Paul's Cathedral in London is laid by the son of Christopher Wren.
 1774 - The First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 1775 - George III of Great Britain and Ireland authorises military force against the American colonies.
 1776 - Benjamin Franklin leaves the United States for France to seek French support for the American Revolutionary War.
 1811 - Argentina's government declares the freedom of expression for the press by decree.
1813 - War of 1812: A combined force of British regulars, Canadian militia and Mohawks defeats the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.
 1825 – The Erie Canal opens, linking Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
 1859 - British clipper Royal Charter gets into a storm of the island of Anglesey, Wales, being thrown against rocks before sinking, killing 449 people, including all the women and children on board.
 1861 - The Pony Express officially ends operations.
 1863 - The English Football Association is founded.
 1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place in Tombstone, Arizona.
 1896 – Addis Ababa agreement forces Italy to recognise Ethiopia's independence.
1901  2000 
 1905 – Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
 1909 – Japanese Governor of Korea, Hirobumi Ito is shot dead by Korean nationalist Ahn Jung-geun in Harbin, Manchuria.
 1912 - First Balkan War: Thessaloniki officially unites with Greece.
 1917 - World War I: In the Battle of Caporetto, Italy is decisively defeated by forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany.
 1917 - World War I: Brazil declares a state of war against the Central Powers.
 1918 - General Erich Ludendorff is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to take part in peace negotiations.
 1921 - The Chicago Theatre opens.
 1936 - The first electric generator at the Hoover Dam, on the Arizona-Nevada border, goes into full operation.
 1942 - World War II: Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in the Guadalcanal Campaign, ending in Japanese victory.
 1944 - World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends in US victory.
 1947 - The Maharaja, state ruler, of Kashmir & Jammu agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
1951 - Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a second time.
 1955 – Austria declares permanent neutrality.
 1955 – Ngo Dinh Diem declares himself leader of South Vietnam.
 1958 - Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.
 1964 - Eric Edgar Cooke is the last person to be executed in Western Australia.
 1965 - Austria celebrates its national holiday on this date for the first time.
 1967 - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, ruler of Iran, officially has himself crowned.
 1968 - Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
 1977 - The last natural case of Smallpox is discovered in Somalia.
 1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is murdered by Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes acting president.
 1984 – The movie The Terminator, directed by James Cameron, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, is released.
 1984 - The 1984-85 NBA regular season begins.
1985 – Uluru (Ayers Rock) is returned to Pitjantjiara Aborigines.
 1994 – Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty.
 1995 – An avalanche hits the village of Flateyri, in Iceland's West Fjords, killing 20 people.
 1995 - The European Parliament condemns French nuclear testing in the Pacific.
 1997 - Canadian Jacques Villeneuve becomes the Formula One world champion.
 1998 - President of Ecuador Jamil Mahuad and President of Peru Alberto Fujimori meet in Brasilia to agree to an end to their countries' border war.
 2000 – Laurent Gbagbo becomes President of the Ivory Coast.