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1968 - The Gateway Arch in Saint Louis, Missouri is dedicated.
 1969 - Thor Heyerdahl sets off from Morocco on his Papyrus boat Ra, in an attempt to prove that America was directly settled from Africa.
 1977 – Star Wars is released in theatres.
 1977 - The People's Republic of China's government removes its 10-year ban on the work of William Shakespeare.
 1979 – American Airlines Flight 191, a McDonnell Douglas C-10, crashes during take-off from Chicago O'Hare International Airport, killing 273 people (271 on the plane and 2 on the ground).
 1979 – 6-year-old Etan Patz disappears on his way to school near his home in New York City. This becomes one of the most notorious missing-child cases in US history and leads to Ronald Reagan declaring May 25 National Missing Children's Day in 1983.
 1981 – In Riyadh the Guld Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
1982 – British ship HMS Coventry is sunk by Argentine forces during the Falklands War.
 1985 – A cyclone in Bangladesh kills 10,000 people and many more are made homeless.
 1997 – A coup in Sierra Leone removes Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and replaces him with Johnny Paul Koromah as leader.
 2000 – Israel withdraws most of its army from Lebanon.
 2001 – Erik Weihenmayer of Boulder, Colorado becomes the first person with a visual impairment to reach the top of Mount Everest.
 2002 – China Airlines Flight 611, a Boeing 747-200, breaks apart in mid-flight and plunges into the Taiwan Strait, killing 225 people.
 2002 – A train crash kills 197 people in Tenga, Mozambique.
 2003 - Néstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina.
 2005 – Liverpool F.C. win the UEFA Champions League, defeating AC Milan in a penalty shoot-out.
 2009 – North Korea is believed to have tested its second nuclear device.
 2011 – The Oprah Winfrey Show airs for the last time.
2013 - Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.
 2013 - FC Bayern Munich defeat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the first UEFA Champions League final to be contested by two German teams.
 2014 - Elections are held to the European Parliament. Far-right parties make strong gains and finish in the lead in some countries, such as Nigel Farage's UKIP (UK), Marine Le Pen's National Front (France) and Danish People's Party (Denmark). In Greece, the left-wing SYRIZA Party finishes first.
 2014 - Petro Poroshenko is elected President of Ukraine.
 2018 - The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation enters into force.
 2018 - A referendum in the Republic of Ireland results in an-almost two-thirds majority (66.4%) voting to change the country's strict abortion laws.
Up to 1900 
 1048 – Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
 1271 – Shah Jalal of Bengal (d. 1346) 
 1334 – Emperor Suko of Japan (d. 1398)
 1458 – Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (d. 1511)
 1572 - Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1632)
 1606 – Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
 1661 – Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
 1677 - Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1749)
 1713 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1792)
 1725 – Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776)
 1762 - Walter Leake, Governor of Mississippi (d. 1825)
 1783 – Philip Pendleton Barbour, American politician (d. 1841)
 1791 - Ming Mang, Vietnamese Emperor (d. 1841)
 1803 – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
 1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
 1815 - Giovanni Caselli, Italian physicist (d. 1891)
 1818 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian (d. 1897)
1820 – Anne Brontë, English writer (d. 1849)
 1845 – Lip Pike, baseball player (d.1883)
 1846 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
 1846 – Naim Frasheri, Albanian poet and writer (d. 1900)
 1848 - Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, education and publisher (d. 1924)
 1860 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944)
 1863 - Camille Erlanger, French composer (d. 1919)
 1865 – John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955)
 1865 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
 1868 - Charles Hitchcock Adams, American chemist and astronomer (d. 1961)
 1877 – Billy Murray, American singer (d. 1954)
 1878 - Bill Robinson, American tap dancer and actor (d. 1949)
 1879 – Lord Beaverbrook, English publisher (d. 1964)
 1880 – Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
 1882 – Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
 1883 - Carl Johan Lind, Swedish hammer thrower (d. 1965)
1886 – Philip Murray, Scottish-American labor leader (d. 1952)
 1886 – Rash Behari Bose, Indian revolutionary (d. 1945)
 1887 – Francesco Forgione, better known as Padre Pio and also Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, Italian Franciscan Capuchin friar, priest and Saint in the Catholic Church (d. 1968)
 1888 – Miles Malleson, English actor (d. 1969)
 1889 – Igor Sikorsky, Russian inventor (d. 1972)
 1897 - Gene Tunney, American boxer (d. 1978)
 1898 - Bennett Cerf, American publisher (d. 1971)
1901  1950 
 1903 - Binnie Barnes, English-American actress and singer (d. 1998)
 1907 – U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
 1909 - Marie Menken, American actress, director and painter (d. 1970)
 1909 - Alfred Kubel, German politician (d. 1999)
 1912 – Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
 1913 – Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
 1913 - Donald Maclean, British secret agent (d. 1983)
 1916 - Brian Dickinson, Canadian politician (d. 1998)
 1917 - Theodore Hesburgh, American priest (d. 2015)
 1918 – Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
 1921 – Hal David, American lyricist and songwriter (d. 2012)
 1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
 1921 - Giorgio Orelli, Swiss writer (d. 2013)
 1922 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
 1922 - Kitty Kallen, American singer (d. 2016)
 1924 – István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
 1925 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (d. 1974)
 1925 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)
1925 - Claude Pinoteau, French screenwriter and movie director (d. 2012)
 1926 - Bill Sharman, American basketball player (d. 2013)
 1926 – Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1991)
 1927 – Robert Ludlum, writer (d. 2001)
 1927 - Norman Petty, American singer-songwriter, pianist and producer (d. 1984)
 1929 – Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)
 1931 – Aili Jogi, Estonian anti-Communist activist (d. 2007)
 1931 – Georgi Grechko, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2017)
 1931 - Herb Gray, former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2014)
 1932 – John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d. 2003)
 1933 - Jógvan Sundstein, 7th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
 1933 - Sarah Marshall, English-American actress (d. 2014)
 1933 - Basdeo Panday, 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
 1935 – Cookie Gilchrist, American football player
 1936 – Tom T. Hall, American singer and songwriter
 1938 – Raymond Carver, American writer (d. 1988)
 1939 – Dixie Carter, American actress (d. 2010)
 1939 – Ian McKellen, English actor
1939 - Ferdinand Bracke, Belgian cyclist
 1941 – Vladimir Voronin, former President of Moldova
 1943 – Jessi Colter, American singer
 1944 – Frank Oz, English-born puppeteer and director
 1947 - Mitch Margo, American singer (The Tokens) (d. 2017)
 1948 – Klaus Meine, German singer (Scorpions)
 1949 – Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-born novelist
1951  1970 
 1951 - François Bayrou, French politician
 1953 – Daniel Passarella, Argentine footballer
 1953 - Gaetano Scirea, Italian footballer (d. 1989)
 1953 – Eve Ensler, Jewish-American playwright and feminist activist
 1954 - Murali, Indian actor (d. 2009)
 1955 – Alistair Burt, British politician
 1956 – Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer (d. 2010)
 1957 – Alastair Campbell, British politician
 1957 - Robert Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
 1957 - Mark McGhee, Scottish footballer
 1958 – Paul Weller, English musician
 1959 – Julian Clary, English comedian
 1959 - Vladimir Franz, Czech composer and painter
 1960 - Amy Klobuchar, American politician, United States Senator from Minnesota
 1960 - Anthea Turner, English television presenter
 1961 - Robert Brylewski, Polish singer-songwriter (d. 2018)
 1963 – Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian
 1963 - Anne Consigny, French actress
 1963 - Torsten Albig, German politician
 1964 - Ivan Bella, Slovakian astronaut
1965 – Simon Fowler, English singer (Ocean Colour Scene)
 1965 - Yahya Jammeh, former President of the Gambia
 1966 – McLoud, Swiss composer, musician, and multimedia artist
 1966 - Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
 1967 - Luc Nilis, Belgian footballer
 1967 – Poppy Z. Brite, American writer
 1968 – Kendall Gill, American basketball player
 1969 – Anne Heche, American actress
 1969 – Glen Drover, Canadian musician (Megadeth)
 1970 – Jamie Kennedy, American actor
 1970 - Octavia Spencer, American actress
From 1971 
 1971 – Sonya Smith, American actress
 1972 - Karan Johar, Indian director, producer, writer and actor
 1973 - Demetri Martin, American actor, comedian and musician
 1973 - Molly Sims, American model and actress
 1974 - Dougie Freedman, Scottish footballer and manager
 1974 – Monica Keena, American actress
 1974 - Frank Klepacki, American musician
 1975 - Keiko Fujimori, Peruvian politician
 1975 – Lauryn Hill, American singer
 1975 – Blaise Nkufo, Swiss footballer
 1976 – Miguel Tejada, Dominican Major League Baseball player
 1976 - Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
 1977 – Pat Burrell, baseball player
 1978 – Brian Urlacher, American football player
 1979 - Sayed Moawad, Egyptian footballer
 1979 – Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby player
 1979 – Carlos Bocanegra, American soccer player
 1979 - Caroline Ouellette, Canadian ice hockey player
 1980 - Alex Hofmann, German motorcycle racer
 1980 – David Navarro, Spanish footballer
 1982 – Adam Boyd, English footballer
1982 – Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer
 1982 – Roger Guerreiro, Brazilian-Polish footballer
 1984 - Emma Marrone, Italian singer
 1984 - Marion Raven, Norwegian singer-songwriter, musician and actress
 1984 – Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Icelandic model (Miss Iceland), former Miss World
 1985 – Demba Ba, Senegalese footballer
 1985 - Joe Anoa'i, American football player and wrestler
 1986 – Lauren Crace, English actress
 1986 - Yoan Gouffran, French footballer
 1986 - Geraint Thomas, Welsh cyclist
 1987 - Kamil Stoch, Polish ski jumper
 1988 - Cameron van der Burgh, South African swimmer
 1990 - Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player
 1991 - Jillian Wheeler, American singer-songwriter and actress
 1992 - Jon Dadi Bodvarsson, Icelandic footballer
 1994 - Aly Raisman, American gymnast
 1999 - Brec Bassinger, American actress
Up to 1950 
 615 – Pope Boniface IV (b. 550)
 675 - Li Hong, Chinese prince (b. 550)
 709 – Aldhelm, English Christian saint (b. 639)
 967 – Emperor Murakami of Japan (b. 926)
 992 – Mieszko I of Poland (b. 935)
 1085 – Pope Gregory VII (b. 1020)
 1261 – Pope Alexander IV
 1452 – John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
 1555 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and mapmaker (b. 1508)
 1555 – Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
 1595 - Philip Neri, Italian priest and saint (b. 1515)
 1632 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
 1667 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (b. 1620)
 1681 – Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish playwright (b. 1600)
 1693 - Madame de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
 1786 – King Peter III of Portugal (b. 1717)
 1789 - Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
 1805 – William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
 1862 - Johann Nestroy, Austrian playwright, actor and opera singer (b. 1801)
1895 - Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman soldier, intellectual, bureaucrat, administrator and historian (b. 1822)
 1899 - Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (b. 1822)
 1899 - Emilio Castelar y Ripoll, Spanish politician and writer (b. 1832)
 1911 - Vasily Klyuchevsky, Russian historian (b. 1841)
 1912 - Austin Lane Crothers, 46th Governor of Maryland (b. 1860)
 1919 – Madam C. J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon (b. 1867)
 1924 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
 1926 – Symon Petliura, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1879)
 1930 – Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
 1934 – Gustav Holst, English composer (b. 1874)
 1939 - Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (b. 1858)
 1940 - Joe De Grasse, Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1873)
1951  2010 
 1954 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
 1958 - Steinn Steinarr, Icelandic poet (b. 1908)
 1965 - Sonny Boy Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1912)
 1970 - Tom Patey, Scottish mountaineer and writer (b. 1932)
 1977 – Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b. 1904)
 1981 - Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1912)
 1983 – King Idris I of Libya (b. 1890)
 1986 - Chester Bowles, 78th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1901)
 1988 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist (b. 1906)
 1993 - Buddhadasa, Thai monk and philosopher (b. 1906)
 1995 - Dany Robin, French actress (b. 1927)
 1996 - Renzo De Felice, Italian historian and politician (b. 1929)
 2002 – Pat Coombs, English actress (b. 1926)
 2005 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (b. 1929)
 2006 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican musician (b. 1941)
 2009 – Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (b. 1906)
 2010 – Siphiwo Ntshebe, South African singer (b. 1975)
From 2011 
 2011 – Leonora Carrington, British-Mexican painter (b. 1917)
 2012 – Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer (b. 1919)
 2014 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general and politician, last Communist leader of Poland (b. 1923)
 2014 - Bunny Yeager, American model and photographer (b. 1929)
 2014 - Herb Jeffries, American jazz and pop singer (b. 1913)
 2014 - David Allen, English cricketer (b. 1935)
 2014 - Tommy Blom, Swedish radio host and singer (b. 1947)
 2014 - Malcolm Simmons, English motorcycle speedway racer (b. 1946)
 2015 - John M. Murphy, American politician (b. 1926)
 2015 - Mary Ellen Mark, American photographer (b. 1940)
 2015 - Bill O'Herlihy, Irish broadcaster (b. 1938)
 2016 - Yang Jiang, Chinese playwright, author and translator (b. 1911)
 2016 - Gyula Kosice, Czechoslovakian-Argentine poet and sculptor (b. 1924)
 2016 - Nancy Dow, American actress and model (b. 1936)
 2016 - John Webster, British theologian (b. 1955)
 2017 - Alistair Horne, British historian, journalist and spy (b. 1925)
2017 - Eva Estrada Kalaw, Filipino politician (b. 1920)
 2017 - Frédérick Leboyer, French obstetrician and author (b. 1918)
 2017 - Saucy Sylvia, Canadian-American radio personality and singer (b. 1920)
 2018 - Piet Kee, Dutch composer and organist (b. 1927)
 2018 - Sergio Graziani, Italian actor (b. 1930)
 2018 - Naser Malek Motiei, Iranian actor (b. 1930)
 2019 - Margaret-Ann Armour, Scottish-Canadian chemist (b. 1939)
 2019 - Jean Burns, Australian aviatrix (b. 1919)
 2019 - Anthony Graziano, American mobster (b. 1940)
 2019 - Dmytro Kremin, Ukrainian poet, journalist and translator (b. 1953)
 2019 - Thembinkosi Mbamba, South African footballer (b. 1995)
Observances 
 Africa Day
 Geek Pride Day
 Independence Day (Jordan)
 Liberation Day (Lebanon)
 National Day (Argentina)
 National Missing Children's Day (United States), after the disappearance of Etan Patz on this day in 1979

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1395 - In the Battle of Rovine, Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman Empire army.
 1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham is executed for treason.
 1536 - George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason in England.
 1590 – Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
 1642 – Paul Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve (1612 – 1676) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.
 1673 – Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
 1697 - The Tre Kronor castle in Stockholm is almost completely destroyed by fire.
 1724 - The Krafla volcano in Iceland erupts, creating the Viti crater.
 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.
 1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
 1808 – Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
 1814 – Norway gets its own Constitution.
 1814 – Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
1846 – The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax.
 1849 - A large fire almost completely destroys Saint Louis, Missouri.
 1861 - Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell demonstrates the first color photograph, an image of a tartan ribbon.
 1863 – Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, her first book in the Galician language.
 1865 – The International Telegraph Union (the later International Telecommunication Union) is established.
 1875 – Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
 1884 - The "Department of Alaska" is renamed "District of Alaska".
 1900 – Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
1901  2000 
 1902 – Archaeologist Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism.
 1914 - The Protocol of Corfu is signed.
 1915 – The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
 1919 – Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose Winnipeg General Strike.
 1928 - The 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam begin.
 1933 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
 1940 – World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
 1940 - World War II: The German Luftwaffe bombs the city of Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands.
 1943 – World War II: Surviving RAF Dam Busters return.
 1943 – The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
 1944 – Type IX U-boat: U-884 is launched.
 1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
1967 – Six-Day War: President Abdul Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
 1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
 1970 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
 1973 – Watergate scandal: Hearings begin in the United States Senate and are televised.
 1974 – Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
 1974 – Thirty-three people are killed by terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland.
 1980 – General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
 1980 - On the eve of Presidential elections, Maoist Guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, Peru, beginning the internal conflict in Peru.
1983 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
 1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
 1987 – Iran-Iraq War: The USS Stark (FFG-31) is struck by a missile from an Iraqi Mirage fighter killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
 1990 – The World Health Organization removed homosexuality from ICD - the origin of the International Day Against Homophobia.
 1992 – In Thailand, the so-called Black May begins. Thai police and protestors start attacking one another. By midnight, the current Thai government declares a state of emergency, and military troops with M-16 rifles open fire.
 1994 - The first multi-party elections in Malawi are held.
 1995 – After 18 years as the mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac takes office as President of France.
1997 - Troops of Laurent Kabila enter Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
 1999 – Ehud Barak is elected Prime Minister of Israel.
 2000 - Arsenal FC and Galatasaray fans clash before the UEFA Cup final in Copenhagen. Galatasaray wins 4-1 to become the first Turkish football team to win a major European trophy.
From 2001 
 2003 – Mozilla Firefox. Browser renamed from Phoenix to Firebird.
 2004 – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Massachusetts.
 2005 – Reverend Clarence Silva of Oakland is appointed fifth Bishop of Honolulu, Hawaii.
 2006 - Aircraft carrier "USS Oriskany" is sunk off the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
 2007 - Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments.
 2010 - Portugal legalizes same-sex marriage.
 2011 - Elizabeth II makes a historic state visit to the Republic of Ireland.
 2014 - Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia both declare a State of Emergency after experiencing their worst flooding in over 100 years, killing at least 25 people.
 2014 - A plane crash in Northern Laos kills 17 people.
 2015 - Nine people are killed in a shoot-out between two biker gangs in Waco, Texas.
 2016 - Christian Kern succeeds Werner Faymann as Chancellor of Austria.
 2018 - Quim Torra is sworn in as President of Catalonia.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1155 – Jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225)
 1443 – Edmund, Earl of Rutland (d. 1460)
 1550 - Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Italian nobleman (d. 1540)
 1628 – Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria, Regent of the Tyrol and Further Austria
 1682 - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (d. 1722)
 1732 – Francesco Pasquale Ricci, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1817)
 1743 – Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (d. 1784)
 1749 – Edward Jenner, British inventor of the vaccine (d. 1823)
 1758 – John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (d. 1839)
 1763 - Pierre Adet, French physician and chemist (d. 1834)
 1768 – Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales (d. 1821)
 1791 - Silas H. Jennison, Governor of Vermont (d. 1849)
 1794 – Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (d. 1860)
 1821 – Sebastian Kneipp, naturopathist (d. 1897)
 1836 – Wilhelm Steinitz, chess player (d. 1900)
 1836 - Norman Lockyer, British scientist and astronomer (d. 1920)
1842 – August Thyssen, German industrialist (d. 1926)
 1844 – Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (d. 1918)
 1845 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (d. 1902)
 1860 - Austin Lane Crothers, Governor of Maryland (d. 1912)
 1866 – Erik Satie, French composer (d. 1925)
 1868 - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer (d. 1920)
 1873 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (d. 1935)
 1873 – Dorothy Richardson, English feminist writer (d. 1957)
 1879 – Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (d. 1926)
 1886 – King Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)
 1888 – Tich Freeman, record-breaking Kent leg-spinner (d. 1965)
 1889 - Dorothy Gibson, American actress (d. 1946)
 1891 – Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife (d. 1959)
 1895 - Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian-American supercentenarian (d. 2010)
 1897 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist (d. 1981)
 1898 – Alfred Joseph Casson, painter (d. 1992)
 1900 – Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (d. 1989)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Werner Egk, German composer (d. 1983)
 1902 - Khuang Abhaiwongse, Thai politician (d. 1968)
 1903 – Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (d. 1991)
 1904 – Jean Gabin, actor (d. 1976)
 1906 – Zinka Milanov, Croatian opera soprano (d. 1989)
 1911 – Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish-born supermodel (d. 1992)
 1911 – Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (d. 1998)
 1912 - Archibald Cox, American lawyer and politician (d. 2004)
 1912 - Ace Parker, American football player (d. 2013)
 1912 - Percy Young, British composer (d. 2004)
 1913 - Hans Ruesch, Swiss racing driver (d. 2007)
 1913 - Waldemar de Brito, Brazilian footballer (d. 1979)
 1914 - Chang Ch'ung-ho, Chinese-American poet, educator and singer (d. 2015)
 1917 - Boris Schnaiderman, Ukrainian-Brazilian translator, writer and essayist (d. 2016)
 1918 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (d. 2005)
 1919 – Merle Miller, Presidential biographer (d. 1986)
 1919 - Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer, actor, movie producer and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1921 - Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (d. 2003)
 1921 – Dennis Brain, English French horn player (d. 1957)
 1922 – Antje Weisgerber, German actress (d. 2004)
 1924 – Hannes Messemer, actor (d. 1991)
 1925 - Michel de Certeau, French Jesuit and scholar (d. 1986)
 1926 - David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer
 1926 - Dietmar Schönherr, Austrian actor (d. 2014)
 1931 – Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader, Heaven's Gate (d. 1997)
 1932 - Rodric Braithwaite, English diplomat
 1932 - Miloslav Vlk, Czech cardinal (d. 2017)
 1933 - Thérèse Steinmetz, Dutch singer and painter
 1934 – Ronald Wayne, American Apple Inc. co-founder
 1934 - Friedrich-Wilhelm Kiel, German politician
 1934 - Earl Morrall, American baseball player (d. 2014)
 1935 – Dennis Potter, English writer (d. 1994)
 1936 – Dennis Hopper, American actor, director (d. 2010)
 1936 - Philippe Boesmans, Belgian composer
 1936 - Lars Gustafsson, Swedish writer and philosopher (d. 2016)
1937 – Hazel R. O'Leary, United States Secretary of Energy
 1940 – Alan Kay, American computer scientist
 1941 – Ben Nelson, 40th Governor of Nebraska
 1941 – Grace Zabriskie, American actress
 1942 – Taj Mahal, American singer and guitarist
 1943 - Alexander Lenkov, Russian actor (d. 2014)
 1944 - Jesse Winchester, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
 1944 - David Kelly, British weapons expert (d. 2003)
 1945 – Tony Roche, Australian tennis player
 1945 - B. S. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer
 1946 – Udo Lindenberg, German  musician
 1948 - Dick Gaughan, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist and composer
 1948 - Winfried Kretschmann, German politician
 1949 - Andrew Latimer, British musician
 1949 - Bill Bruford, British drummer and songwriter
 1950 – Janez Drnovšek, Slovene politician (d. 2008)
 1950 – Alan Johnson, British politician
 1950 - Howard Ashman, American playwright and lyricist (d. 1991)
 1950 - Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Russian politician (d. 2014)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Simon Hughes, British politician
 1953 - Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kazakhstan
 1953 - Luca Prodan, Italian-Argentine singer-songwriter
 1954 - Dame Patsy Reddy, 21st Governor-General of New Zealand
 1954 - David Zippel, American lyricist
 1955 – Bill Paxton, American actor (d. 2017)
 1956 – Sugar Ray Leonard, American boxer
 1956 - Annise Parker, American politician
 1956 – Bob Saget, actor (d. 2022)
 1957 - Peter Hoeg, Danish writer
 1958 – Paul Di'Anno, English singer
 1958 - Paul Whitehouse, Welsh actor, writer and comedian
 1958 - Ivor Bolton, British conductor
 1959 – Jim Nantz, American broadcaster
 1960 - Lou DiBella, American boxing promoter, actor and producer
 1960 - Simon Fuller, Cypriot-English talent manager and producer
 1961 – Enya, Irish singer
 1962 – Lise Lyng Falkenberg, Danish writer
 1962 - Craig Ferguson, Scottish-American comedian, actor and television host
 1962 – Alan Johnston, Scottish journalist
 1963 - Jon Koncak, American basketball player
1963 - Taimo Toonast, Estonian opera singer
 1965 – Jeremy Vine, British broadcaster
 1965 – Trent Reznor, American singer, songwriter ("Nine Inch Nails")
 1966 – Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003)
 1966 - Hill Harper, American actor
 1967 - Joseph M. Acaba, American astronaut
 1967 - Paul D'Amour, American bass player and author
 1967 - Mohamed Nasheed, former President of the Maldives
 1970 - Jordan Knight, American singer-songwriter
 1970 - Angelica Agurbash, Belarussian singer
 1970 - Jeremy Browne, English politician
 1971 – Maxima Zorreguieta Cerruti, Queen Consort of the Netherlands
 1971 – Shaun Hart, Australian rules footballer
 1971 - Gina Raimondo, American politician, 75th Governor of Rhode Island
 1973 - Sasha Alexander, American actress
 1974 – Andrea Corr, Irish singer (The Corrs)
 1974 – Sendhil Ramamurthy, American actor
 1975 – Jonti Picking, internet cartoonist
 1975 – Laura Voutilainen, Finnish singer
From 1976 
 1976 - Leehom Wang, American-Taiwanese singer-songwriter, actor, producer and director
 1978 – Paddy Kenny, Irish footballer
 1979 - David Jarolim, Czech footballer
 1979 - Jimmie Akesson, Swedish politician
 1980 - Juan Arango, Venezuelan footballer
 1980 - Dallas Taylor, American singer, songwriter and musician
 1981 - Cosma Shiva Hagen, German actress
 1981 – Leon Osman, English footballer
 1982 – Tony Parker, French-American basketball player
 1982 - Clarence Goodson, American soccer player
 1982 – Chloe Smith, British politician
 1982 – Matt Cassel, American football player
 1982 – Reiko Nakamura, Japanese swimmer
 1983 – Channing Frye, American basketball player
 1984 - Christine Ohuruogu, English athlete
 1984 - Passenger, English singer and composer
 1984 - Igor Denisov, Russian footballer
 1984 - Teófilo Gutiérrez, Colombian footballer
 1986 - Amy Gumenick, Swedish-born American actress
 1986 - Bojan Jokic, Slovenian footballer
 1986 - Jodie Taylor, English footballer
1987 - Evald Boasson Hagen, Norwegian cyclist
 1987 - Ott Lepland, Estonian singer
 1988 - Nikki Reed, American actress
 1989 – Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer
 1989 - Sarah Hargreaves, Danish-British handball player
 1990 – Leven Rambin, American actress
 1991 - Johanna Konta, Australian-born British tennis player
 1991 - Daniel Curtis Lee, American actor
 1996 - Ryan Ochoa, American actor
Up to 1900 
 290 – Emperor Wu of Jin of China (b. 236)
 1189 - Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)
 1336 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
 1365 - Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)
 1510 – Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (b. 1445)
 1521 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1748)
 1536 - George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford
 1551 - Shin Saimdang, Korean writer, artist and poet (b. 1504)
 1575 – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1504)
 1626 – Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)
 1643 - Giovanni Picchi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1571)
 1727 – Catherine I of Russia (b. 1683 or 1684)
 1729 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (b. 1675)
 1765 – Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)
 1809 – Leon Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (b. 1722)
 1822 – Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766)
1829 – John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)
 1838 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)
 1838 - René Caillié, French explorer (b. 1799)
 1839 – Archibald Alison, Scottish writer (b. 1757)
 1860 – Martin Kukučín, Slovak writer (b. 1757)
 1870 - David Octavius Hill, Scottish artist and photographer (b. 1802)
 1875 – John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)
 1880 - Ziya Pasha, Ottoman writer and translator (b. 1826)
 1886 - John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer (b. 1804)
 1888 - Giacomo Zanella, Italian poet (b. 1820)
1901  2000 
 1911 - Frederick August Otto Schwarz, German-American businessman (b. 1836)
 1916 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862)
 1917 – Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak (b. 1829)
 1919 – Guido von List, German occultist and writer (b. 1848)
 1923 - Thomas Scott Baldwin, American balloonist and aviation pioneer (b. 1854)
 1935 – Paul Dukas, French composer (b.1865)
 1936 - Panagis Tsaldaris, 124th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1868)
 1943 - Johanna Elberskirchen, German activist (b. 1864)
 1946 – William Jefferson Blythe III, father of U.S. President Bill Clinton (b. 1918)
 1947 – George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
 1947 – Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903)
 1963 - John Wilce, American football player (b. 1888)
 1966 – Randy Turpin, English boxer (b. 1928)
 1969 - Josef Beran, Czech cardinal (b. 1888)
 1985 – Abe Burrows, songwriter, composer, and writer
 1987 – Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist (b. 1898)
1992 – Lawrence Welk, American musician (b. 1903)
 1995 - Joe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1912)
 1999 - Lembit Oll, Estonian chess player (b. 1966)
 2000 – Donald Coggan, 101st Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1909)
From 2001 
 2002 – Dave Berg, cartoonist (b. 1920)
 2002 – Sharon Sheeley, songwriter (b. 1940)
 2002 – Davey Boy Smith, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
 2004 – Tony Randall, American actor (b. 1920)
 2004 – Jørgen Nash, artist (b. 1920)
 2004 – Ezzedine Salim, leader of Iraqi Governing Council
 2005 – Frank Gorshin, actor (b. 1934)
 2007 – Lloyd Alexander, American writer (b. 1924)
 2009 – Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (b. 1920)
 2010 – Khattiya Sawasdipol, Thai general (b. 1951)
 2010 – Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian singer (b. 1925)
 2010 – Yvonne Loriod, French pianist (b. 1924)
 2011 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (b. 1936)
 2012 - Gideon Ezra, Israeli politician (b. 1937)
 2012 – Donna Summer, American disco singer (b. 1948)
 2013 - Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentine military leader (b. 1925)
 2013 - Alan O'Day, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
 2013 - Philippe Gaumont, French cyclist (b. 1973)
 2013 - Peter Schulz, German politician, Mayor of Hamburg (b. 1930)
2014 - Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist (b. 1929)
 2014 - Miss Beazley, pet dog of George W. Bush (b. 2004)
 2015 - Chinx, American rapper (b. 1983)
 2015 - Margaret Dunning, American philanthropist (b. 1910)
 2015 - Michael Alfred Peszke, Polish-born American psychiatrist and historian (b. 1932)
 2016 - Guy Clark, American folk singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
 2016 - Benjamin de Roo, Dutch-Australian gymnast (b. 1940)
 2017 - Viktor Gorbatko, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1934)
 2017 - Roxcy Bolton, American activist (b. 1926)
 2017 - Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politician, First Minister of Wales (b. 1939)
 2017 - Chris Cornell, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1964)
 2018 - Nicole Fontaine, French lawyer and politician (b. 1942)
 2018 - Richard Pipes, Polish-American academic and political expert (b. 1923)
 2018 - Mehdi Tabatabaei, Iranian politician (b. 1936)
 2019 - Rallapalli, Indian actor (b. 1945)
 2019 - Eduardo A. Roca, Argentine diplomat (b. 1921)
2019 - Kadavoor Sivadasan, Indian politician and trade unionist (b. 1932)
 2019 - Herman Wouk, American author (b. 1915)
Observances 
 Constitution Day, National Day of Norway
 Constitution Day (Nauru)
 Liberation Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
 Navy Day (Argentina)
 International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
 National Famine Memorial Day (Republic of Ireland)
 World Information Society Day
 Galician Literature Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 323 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine the Great defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium
 533 – Battle of the Tenth Milestone: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals near Carthage.
 987 – Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty which ruled France till the French Revolution in 1792.
 1035 - William the Conqueror becomes Duke of Normandy.
 1250 – Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
 1608 – Quebec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
 1721 - Norwegian Christian missionary Hans Egede arrives in Greenland expecting to convert descendants of Vikings, not knowing of their mysterious disappearance from there. Instead he converts local Inuit to Christianity.
1754 – George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces during the French and Indian War. He is allowed to retain his colors and march out of the fort with full honors the following day.
 1767 - Norway's oldest newspaper in print, Addresseavisen, is first published.
 1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
 1778 - American Revolutionary War: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley Massacre.
 1836 - Wisconsin becomes a separate US territory from the Michigan territory.
 1844 – The last pair of Great Auks is killed in Iceland.
 1848 - Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands) by Peter Scholten.
 1849 - The French enter Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX.
 1863 – American Civil War: The final and bloodiest day of the Battle of Gettysburg, and the fall of the besieged Vicksburg to Ulysses S. Grant in Pickett's Charge.
1866 – Austro-Prussian War is decided at Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
 1880 - Thomas Edison founds the Science magazine.
 1884 - Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
 1886 - Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen - the first purpose-built automobile.
 1890 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
 1898 - Spanish-American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete is destroyed by the United States Navy at Santiago de Cuba.
1901  2000 
 1938 – World record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the "Mallard", which reaches a speed of 203 km/h (126 mph).
 1940 - World War II: In order to stop the ships from falling into German hands, the French fleet of the Atlantic based near El Kebir is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar.
 1944 - World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
 1952 - The Constitution of Puerto Rico is accepted by the United States Congress.
 1953 – Austrian Hermann Buhl climbs the Himalayan peak Nanga Parbat, at an elevation of 8,125 metres.
 1962 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.
 1969 - The biggest-ever rocket explosion occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and destroys its Launchpad.
1970 – A British chartered jetliner crashes near Barcelona, Spain, killing 112
 1976 – Adolfo Suárez is chosen by King Juan Carlos I of Spain to lead a transitional government as Prime Minister of Spain.
 1976 – Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda.
 1988 – United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
 1996 – The Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
From 2001 
 2001 – A Vladivostokavia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
 2004 – Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.
 2004 – At Wimbledon, Maria Sharapova, then-aged 17, wins her first singles' tennis title, defeating Serena Williams in the final.
 2005 – Same-sex marriage is legalised in Spain.
 2011 – Novak Djokovic wins his first Wimbledon singles' title, defeating Rafael Nadal in a four-set match.
 2013 - King Albert II of Belgium announces his abdication from the throne. His son becomes King Philippe of Belgium on July 21.
 2013 - President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is overthrown in a military coup after widespread protests.
 2016 - A series of terrorist bombings in Baghdad results in 213 people being killed.
 2017 - A bus crashes into a lorry in Northern Bavaria, Germany, and bursts into flames, killing 18 people.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1421 - Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Italian banker and patron of the arts (d. 1463)
 1423 – King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
 1442 – Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
 1518 - Li Shizhen, Chinese physician (d. 1593)
 1590 - Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, Italian singer, organist and composer (d. 1662)
 1676 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1747)
 1709 - Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (d. 1758)
 1728 – Robert Adam, Scottish architect (d. 1792)
 1738 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)
 1743 – Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Queen Consort of Sweden (d. 1813)
 1789 - Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter (d. 1869)
 1844 - Dankmar Adler, German-American architect (d. 1900)
 1846 - Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer (d. 1919)
 1848 - Lothar von Trotha, Prussian military officer (d. 1920)
 1854 – Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
 1860 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (d. 1935)
1863 - Ciro Luis Urriola, 8th President of Panama (d. 1922)
 1866 - Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (d. 1906)
 1869 - Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (d. 1933)
 1870 – Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)
 1874 - Jean Collas, French rugby player (d. 1928)
 1875 – Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951)
 1876 - Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher (d. 1957)
 1876 - Robert Knud Richard Pilger, German botanist (d. 1953)
 1878 - George M. Cohan, American actor, singer and dancer (d. 1942)
 1883 – Franz Kafka, Austrian writer (d. 1924)
 1886 - Harmodio Arias Madrid, 15th President of Panama (d. 1962)
 1888 - Ramon Gomez de la Serna, Spanish playwright (d. 1963)
 1893 – Mississippi John Hurt, American musician (d. 1966)
 1899 - Ernst Fischer, Austrian journalist, writer and politician (d. 1972)
 1900 - Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
1901  1950 
 1903 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
 1906 – George Sanders, Russian-born English actor (d. 1972)
 1908 – M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)
 1908 - Robert B. Meyner, American politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1990)
 1909 – Stavros Spiros Niarchos, Greek ship owner (d. 1996)
 1910 - Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1954)
 1913 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist, and television personality (d. 1965)
 1916 - John Kundla, American basketball player and coach (d. 2017)
 1917 - Joao Saldanha, Brazilian footballer, coach and journalist (d. 1990)
 1918 - S. V. Ranga Rao, Indian actor, director and producer (d. 1974)
 1921 - Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952)
 1921 - François Reichenbach, French director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1993)
 1922 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Dutch artist (d. 2010)
 1924 – S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (d. 2016)
 1926 - Laurence Street, Australian jurist (d. 2018)
1927 – Ken Russell, English director (d. 2011)
 1928 – Günter Bruno Fuchs, writer (d. 1977)
 1928 - Jan Machulski, Polish actor (d. 2008)
 1930 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
 1932 - Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, German politician (d. 2015)
 1934 – Manfred Bieler, writer
 1935 - Cheo Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
 1935 – Harrison Schmitt, American astronaut
 1937 – Tom Stoppard, Czech-born playwright
 1938 - Martin Brandtner, American Marine Corps general (d. 2017)
 1939 – Brigitte Fassbaender, German mezzo-soprano
 1939 - Laszlo Kovacs, Hungarian politician
 1939 - Angelo Sormani, Brazilian footballer
 1940 - Fontella Bass, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
 1940 – Jerzy Buzek, Polish politician, former Prime Minister of Poland
 1940 – César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994)
 1942 - Robert Dugard, English speedway rider (d. 2018)
 1942 - Eddy Mitchell, French singer-songwriter and actor
 1943 - Kurtwood Smith, American actor
1943 - Norman Thagard, American astronaut
 1944 - Michel Polnareff, French singer-songwriter
 1945 – Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, Scottish politician, former Speaker of the UK House of Commons (d. 2018)
 1946 – Leszek Miller, former Prime Minister of Poland
 1946 - Michael Shea, American author (d. 2014)
 1947 – Dave Barry, American writer
 1947 – Betty Buckley, American actress
 1947 - Rob Rensenbrink, Dutch footballer
 1949 – Jan Smithers, American actress
 1949 - Bo Xilai, Chinese politician
 1950 - James Hahn, American politician, 40th Mayor of Los Angeles
1951  1975 
 1951 – Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
 1951 – Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc), Haitian politician (d. 2014)
 1952 – Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
 1952 - Andy Fraser, English songwriter and bass guitarist (d. 2015)
 1955 - Walter Veltroni, Italian politician, former Mayor of Rome
 1956 – Montel Williams, American talk show host
 1957 - Poly Styrene, English singer (d. 2011)
 1958 - Lisa De Leeuw, Dutch pornographic actress
 1959 - Ian Maxtone-Graham, American screenwriter and producer
 1960 - Vince Clarke, British musician
 1961 – Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese principal ballet dancer
 1962 – Tom Cruise, American actor
 1963 – Tracey Emin, English artist
 1964 – Joanne Harris, English writer
 1964 – Yeardley Smith, American actress
 1965 - Connie Nielsen, Danish actress
 1965 - Tommy Flanagan, Scottish actor
 1966 – Moises Alou, American Major League Baseball player
 1966 - Daniel Plaza, Spanish race walker
 1968 - Ramush Haradinaj, 4th Prime Minister of Kosovo
1969 – Kevin Hearn, Canadian singer and keyboardist (Barenaked Ladies)
 1970 - Arlene Foster, Northern Irish politician, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and former First Minister of Northern Ireland
 1970 - Audra McDonald, American actress and producer
 1970 – Teemu Selänne, Finnish ice hockey player
 1971 – Julian Assange, Australian internet activist, founder of the WikiLeaks website
 1973 - Emma Cunniffe, British actress
 1973 – Olafur Stefansson, Icelandic handball player
 1973 - Fyodor Tuvin, Russian footballer (d. 2013)
 1973 - Patrick Wilson, American actor and singer
From 1976 
 1976 – Andrea Barber, American actress
 1976 – Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
 1979 - Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
 1980 - Olivia Munn, American actress
 1980 - Jenny Jones, English snowboarder
 1980 - Harbhajan Singh, Indian cricketer
 1981 - Aoi Tada, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
 1981 - Justin Torkildsen, American actor
 1983 – Steph Jones, American singer and model
 1983 - Edinson Volquez, Dominican baseball player
 1985 - Keisuke Minami, Japanese actor and singer
 1986 - Ola Toivonen, Swedish footballer
 1986 – Oscar Ustari, Argentine footballer
 1987 – Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver
 1988 – Winston Reid, New Zealand footballer
 1988 - Vladislav Sesganov, Russian figure skater
 1988 - James Troisi, Australian footballer
 1989 - Elle King, American singer
 1990 - Carly Lauren, American model
 1991 - Will Grigg, English-Northern Irish footballer
 1991 - Tomoni Itano, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
1991 - Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russian tennis player
 1992 – Nathalia Ramos, Spanish-American actress and singer
 1992 - Molly Sandén, Swedish singer and voice actress
 1992 - Masado Sudo, Japanese singer
 1993 - Roy Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter
 1993 - Kerem Demirbay, German footballer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 458 - Patriarch Anatolius of Constantinople (b. 449)
 710 - Emperor Zhongzhong of Tang, Chinese Emperor (b. 656)
 1570 - Aonio Paleario, Italian reformer (b. 1500)
 1640 - Giuseppe Cesari, Italian painter (b. 1568)
 1642 – Maria de'Medici, Queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)
 1778 – Anna Maria Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
 1795 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general, explorer, author and astronomer (b. 1716)
 1809 - Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (b. 1746)
 1863 - George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
 1863 - Little Crow, American tribal leader (b. 1810)
 1888 - Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1822)
1901  2000 
 1904 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)
 1904 - Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
 1908 - Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (b. 1845)
 1914 – Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)
 1918 – Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
 1918 - Benjamin Tillman, American politician, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1847)
 1933 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
 1935 – André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
 1937 - Jacob Schick, American-Canadian captain and businessman, invented the electric razor (b. 1877)
 1941 - Friedrich Akel, Estonian politician (b. 1871)
 1957 - Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
 1969 – Brian Jones, British musician (the Rolling Stones) (b. 1942)
 1971 – Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
 1973 - Laurens Hammond, American inventor (b. 1895)
 1979 – Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)