Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1951  1975 
 1951  John Redwood, English politician
 1953  Rita Lee, American model
 1953  Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
 1954  James Belushi, American actor
 1954  Beverley Whitfield, Australian swimmer (d. 1996)
 1955  Julie Hagerty, American actress
 1955  David Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1984)
 1955  Mauril Bélanger, Canadian politician
 1956  Robin Curtis, American actress
 1956  Yevgeny Kiselyov, Russian journalist
 1958  Wade Boggs, American baseball player
 1958  Riccardo Paletti, Italian racing driver (d. 1982)
 1959  Alan Brazil, Scottish footballer
 1959  Eileen Davidson, American actress
 1961  Laurent Cantet, French director
 1963  Mario Gosselin, Canadian ice hockey player
 1963  Helen Hunt, American actress
 1963  Blanca Portillo, Spanish actress
 1963  Nigel Walker, Welsh rugby player
 1964  Courteney Cox, American actress
 1964  Michael Laudrup, Danish footballer
 1964  Gavin Greenaway, English composer and conductor
1965  Karim Massimov, 7th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
 1966  Raimonds Vejonis, 9th President of Latvia
 1968  Samira Ahmed, British journalist and presenter
 1969  Oliver Kahn, German goalkeeper
 1969  Ice Cube, American rapper
 1969  Bashar Warda, Iraqi archbishop
 1970  Leah Remini, American actress
 1971  Edwin Brienen, Dutch-German actor, director and producer
 1971  Bif Naked, Indian-Canadian singer-songwriter, actress and poet
 1972  Marcus Hahnemann, American goalkeeper
 1973  Neil Patrick Harris, American actor, singer and director
 1973  Tore André Flo, Norwegian footballer
 1973  Greg Vaughan, American actor 
 1974  Chakri, Indian movie composer and singer (d. 2014)
From 1976 
 1976  Gary Lightbody, Northern Irish singer (Snow Patrol)
 1977  Michael Doleac, American basketball player
 1978  Wilfred Bouma, Dutch footballer
 1979  Danielle Lineker, British model
 1979  Yulia Nesterenko, Belarussian athlete
 1980  Iker Romero, Spanish handball player
 1980  Almudena Cid Tastado, Spanish rhythmic gymnast
 1980  Mary Carey, American pornographic actress
 1981  John Paintsil, Ghanaian footballer
 1981  Emma Snowsill, Australian triathlete
 1981  Billy Martin, American musician (Good Charlotte)
 1982  Mike Delany, New Zealand rugby player
 1982  Katie Chapman, English footballer
 1982  Atli Gregersen, Faroese footballer
 1983  Laura Imbruglia, Australian musician
 1984  Amber Coffman, American musician
 1984  Tim Lincecum, American baseball player
 1985  Nadine Coyle, Northern Irish singer (Girls Aloud)
 1986  Stoya, American pornographic actress, writer and model
 1988  Barakat Al-Hartini, Omani sprinter
 1988  Miku Ishida, Japanese singer and actress
1990  Miwa, Japanese singer-songwriter and musician
 1990  Denzel Whitaker, American actor
 1992  Mohamed Salah, Egyptian footballer
 1992  Dafne Schippers, Dutch heptathlete and sprinter
 1993  Kanna Arihara, Japanese singer (Cute)
 1994  Rina Hidaka, Japanese voice actress
 1994  Iñaki Williams, Spanish footballer
Up to 1900 
 707  Emperor Mommu of Japan
 923  King Robert I of France  (b. 866)
 991  Theophanu, consort of Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 960)
 1073  Emperor Go-Sanjo of Japan (b. 1073)
 1184  King Magnus V of Norway (b. 1156)
 1189  Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese warrior (b. 1159)
 1246  Frederick II of Austria (b. 1219)
 1381  Wat Tyler, English peasant leader (b. 1341)
 1383  John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1292)
 1389  Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1326)
 1389  Lazar of Serbia, Serbian saint (b. 1329)
 1416  John, Duke of Berry (b. 1340)
 1467  Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1396)
 1586  Primoz Trubar, Slovenian religious reformer (b. 1508)
 1768  James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
 1772  Louis-Claude Daguin, French composer (b. 1694)
 1785  Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier, French physicist and balloonist (b. 1757)
 1849  James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795)
 1888  Kaiser Friedrich III of Germany (b. 1831)
1889  Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (b. 1850)
 1890  Unryu Kyukichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1822)
1901  2000 
 1917  Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
 1934  Alfred Bruneau, French composer (b. 1857)
 1938  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter and printmaker (b. 1880)
 1945  Carl Gustaf Ekman, Swedish politician (b. 1872)
 1961  Giulio Cabianca, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)
 1962  Alfred Cortot, French-Swiss pianist (b. 1877)
 1971  Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist (b. 1904)
 1976  Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
 1982  Art Pepper, American saxophonist (b. 1925)
 1989  Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
 1991  Arthur Lewis, British economist (b. 1915)
 1991  Happy Chandler, 44th and 49th Governor of Kentucky and Commissioner of Baseball (b. 1898)
 1993  John Connally, Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
 1993  James Hunt, English racing driver (b. 1947)
 1994  Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (b. 1925)
 1995  John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (b. 1903)
 1996  Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
From 2001 
 2001  Jay Moriarty, American surfer (b. 1978)
 2002  Choi Hong Hi, founder of Taekwondo (b. 1918)
 2003  Hume Cronin, Canadian actor (b. 1911)
 2005  Suzanne Flon, French actress (b. 1918)
 2007  Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
 2008  Stan Winston, American filmmaker (b. 1946)
 2010  Heidi Kabel, German actress (b. 1914)
 2013  Heinz Flohe, German footballer (b. 1948)
 2013  Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist (b. 1936)
 2013  José Froilán González, Argentine racing driver (b. 1922)
 2014  Ray Fox, American NASCAR engine builder and team owner (b. 1916)
 2014  Casey Kasem, American radio presenter, DJ and voice actor (b. 1932)
 2014  Daniel Keyes, American author (b. 1927)
 2015  Jean Doré, Canadian politician, 39th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1944)
 2015  Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman (b. 1917)
 2015  Blaze Starr, American burlesque dancer, stripper and model (b. 1932)
 2015  Jeanna Friske, Russian actress, singer and socialite (b. 1974)
2015  Harry Rowohlt, German writer (b. 1945)
 2015  Mighty Sam McClain, American soul-blues singer (b. 1943)
 2016  Lois Duncan, American writer (b. 1934)
 2016  Claude Confortès, French actor (b. 1928)
 2017  Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor (b. 1928)
 2017  Ibrahim Abouleish, Egyptian pharmacologist (b. 1937)
 2017  Ajmer Singh Aulakh, Indian playwright (b. 1942)
 2017  P. N. Bhagwati, Indian judge (b. 1921)
 2017  Wilma de Faria, Brazilian politician (b. 1945)
 2017  Bill Dana, American comedian, actor and screenwriter (b. 1924)
 2018  Leslie Grantham, English actor (b. 1947)
 2018  Enoch zu Guttenberg, German conductor (b. 1946)
 2018  Matt Murphy, American blues guitarist (b. 1929)
 2019  Marta Harnecker, Chilean sociologist, political scientist, journalist and activist (b. 1937)
 2019  Wilhelm Holzbauer, Austrian architect (b. 1930)
 2019  Kevin Killian, American poet, author and playwright (b. 1952)
 2019  Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director (b. 1923)
2020  Giulio Giorello, Italian philosopher and mathematician (b. 1945)
 2020  Nagendra Nath Jha, Indian politician (b. 1935)
 2020  Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1951)
 2020  Marinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1957)
 2020  Anton Schlembach, German Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1932)
Observances 
 Separation Day (Delaware)
 Statehood Day (Arkansas)
 Arbor Day (Costa Rica)
 Flag Day (Denmark)
 National Salvation Day (Azerbaijan)
 Engineers' Day (Italy)
 Global Wind Day
 World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
 Saint Vitus' Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 363 - Emperor Julian marches up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal, Roman forces suffer several attacks from the Persians.
 632 - Yazdegerd III becomes Shah of Persia, as the last ruler of the Sassanid Dynasty.
 1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, the end of the Wars of the Roses.
 1494 - A tropical storm strikes the island of Hispaniola. It is believed to have been the first Caribbean hurricane to have been observed by Europeans.
 1586 - Mary, Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.
 1745 – British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
 1745 – Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
 1746 – War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza
1755 – French and Indian War: French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians
 1774 – Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
 1779 - Spain declares war on the United Kingdom and the Siege of Gibraltar begins.
 1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo.
 1836 – Formation of the London Working Men's Association begins the Chartist Movement
 1846 – The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected pope, beginning the longest reign in the history of the post-apostolic papacy.
 1858 – Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois
 1858 – The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
 1871 – University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
 1883 - The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, North East England, kills 183 children.
1884 – The first roller coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York
 1891 – John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
 1896 - British passenger steamer Drummond Castle strikes a reef off the French island of Ouessant in deep fog, killing 243 out of the 246 people on board.
 1897 - A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the US is signed. It enters into effect the following year.
1901  1950 
 1902 – Australia: Female British subjects (with the glaring exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
 1903 – Ford Motor Company incorporates.
 1903 – Roald Amundsen commences first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
 1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
 1904 – James Joyce uses this day as the setting for his novel Ulysses, a day in the life of Leopold Bloom. Known as Bloomsday.
 1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite struck Earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin, damaging a barn.
 1911 – IBM is founded.
 1915 – Foundation of the British Women's Institute
 1922 – General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-treaty Sinn Féin
 1924 – Whampoa Military Academy is founded
 1925 – Artek, the most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, established.
 1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France
1940 – A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
 1944 - George Stinney, aged 14, becomes the youngest American to be executed in the 20th century when he is wrongly executed for murder.
 1947 - The Saar Mark is introduced as a currency in Saarland.
 1948 – The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by the Cathay Pacific airline, marks the first skyjacking of a commercial plane.
1951  2000 
 1954 - The 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland starts.
 1955 – Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Perón.
 1956 – Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath.
 1958 - Imre Nagy, Pal Maleter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
 1960 – Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho opens in New York.
 1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris.
 1962 – Two U.S. Army officers are killed in Saigon, Vietnam.
 1963 – Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
 1966 - The ship Texaco Massachusetts, loaded with naphtha, collides with British tanker Alva Cape outside Manhattan, starting a massive fire, killing 33 people.
 1972 – Burglars are caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in the night on June 17.
 1972 – Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
 1972 – Opening of the New York Jazz Museum.
 1972 – Largest single-site hydro-electric power project starts at Churchill Falls Newfoundland.
1976 – Apartheid: A non-violent march by 15000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children.
 1977 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the Soviet Union
 1981 – Ken Taylor honoured for helping six Americans escape from Iran during hostage crisis
 1983 – Yuri Andropov becomes president of the Soviet Union.
 1984 - Cirque du Soleil is founded in Montreal.
 1989 - Imre Nagy is reburied in Budapest.
 1994 – A Chinese operated Northwest Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160
 1995 – The Astronomy Picture of the Day begins
 1996 – First round of voting in the Russian presidential election
 1997 – Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; some 50 people killed.
 1999 – Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa.
 1999 - Japan allows the contraceptive pill.
From 2001 
 2001 – George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin meet in Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia
 2002 – Politically Incorrect is cancelled (from sponsors dropping the show) after host Bill Maher makes controversial comments on air regarding the integrity of President George W. Bush.
 2003 – The Hatfields and McCoys sign a formal truce.
 2003 - The Church of All Saints is consecrated in Yekaterinburg, on the site of the Ipatiev House, where Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family were executed in 1918.
 2010 - Bhutan bans tobacco.
 2012 - Liu Yang becomes China's first female astronaut.
 2012 - Aung San Suu Kyi accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in person, having won it in 1991 while she was under house arrest.
 2014 - A terrorist attack in Kenya kills 48 people.
 2014 - It is announced that Michael Schumacher is no longer in a coma following his skiing accident on December 29, 2013. He is moved from a hospital in Grenoble, France to Switzerland.
2015 - Donald Trump announces his intention to run for US President in 2016.
 2016 - British Member of Parliament Jo Cox dies after being attacked in her constituency.
 2018 - Iceland, the least-populated country ever to play in the competition, picks up its first FIFA World Cup point, and scores its first goal in the competition, drawing 1-1 with Argentina.
 2019 - A widespread power outage affects most of Argentina and Uruguay, as well as parts of Paraguay.
 2020 - Twenty Indian soldiers are killed in a border clash with the People's Republic of China.
 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The number of recorded COVID-19 cases worldwide reaches 8 million.
Up to 1800 
 1139 - Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155)
 1313 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (d. 1375)
 1332 - Isabella de Coucy, daughter of Edward III of England (d. 1382)
 1514 – John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557)
 1583 – Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654)
 1591 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655)
 1606 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675)
 1612 – Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640)
 1613 – John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
 1633 – Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667)
 1644 – Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670)
 1713 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786)
 1723 – Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher (d. 1790)
 1738 – Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816)
 1752 - Salawat Yulayev, Russian Bashkir national hero (d. 1800)
 1792 – John Linnell, English artist (d. 1882)
1792 – Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
 1793 - Diego Portales, Chilean politician (d. 1837)
1801  1900 
 1801 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
 1806 – Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor (d. 1885)
 1813 – Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
 1820 – Athanase Coquerel, French Protestant preacher (d. 1875)
 1821 - Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908)
 1826 – Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
 1829 – Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909)
 1836 – Wesley Merritt, American soldier (d. 1910)
 1837 – Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885)
 1838 – Cushman Davis, American politician (d. 1900)
 1838 - Frederic Archer, British composer, conductor and organist (d. 1901)
 1840 – Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
 1851 - Peter Adler Alberti, Danish politician and swindler (d. 1932)
 1851 - Georg Jellinek, German public lawyer (d. 1911)
 1858 – King Gustav V of Sweden (d. 1950)
 1858 - John Peter Russell, Australian painter (d. 1930)
 1862 - Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian rifle shooter (d. 1947)
1863 - Paul Vidal, French composer (d. 1931)
 1874 – Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960)
 1880 – Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist and historian (d. 1963)
 1880 - Alice Bailey, British author (d. 1949)
 1881 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (d. 1962)
 1882 - Mohammad Mosaddegh, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
 1888 - Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925)
 1888 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)
 1890 – Stan Laurel, British-born actor and comedian (d. 1965)
 1894 - Norman Kerry, American actor (d. 1956)
 1896 – Murray Leinster, American writer (d. 1976)
 1897 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
 1897 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize winner (d. 1987)
 1899 - Helen Traubel, American singer (d. 1972)
1901  1925 
 1901 - Henri Lefebvre, French sociologist and philosopher (d. 1991)
 1902 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist (d. 1992)
 1902 – George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984)
 1903 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972)
 1907 – Jack Albertson, American actor (d. 1981)
 1908 - Sarit Thanarat, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 1963)
 1909 – Archie Fairley Carr, biologist (d. 1987)
 1910 – Juan Velasco, President of Peru (d. 1977)
 1912 – Enoch Powell, British politician (d. 1998)
 1915 – Mariano Rumor, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1990)
 1916 – Hank Luisetti, American baseball player (d. 2002)
 1917 – Katharine Graham, American publisher (d. 2001)
 1917 – Irving Penn, American photographer (d. 2009)
 1917 – Phaedon Gizikis, Greek army officer and President (d. 1999)
 1917 - Aurelio Lampredi, Italian automobile and aircraft designer (d. 1989)
 1920 – José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
 1920 – John Howard Griffin, American writer (d. 1980)
1920 - Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Bengali singer, composer and producer (d. 1989)
 1922 - Frances Rafferty, American actress and dancer (d. 2004)
 1924 - Faith Domergue, American actor (d. 1999)
 1925 - Jean d'Ormesson, French novelist (d. 2017)
 1925 - Otto Muehl, Austrian artist
1926  1950 
 1926 - Efraín Ríos Montt, 26th President of Guatemala (d. 2018)
 1927 – Tom Graveney, English cricketer (d. 2015)
 1927 – Herbert Lichtenfeld, German writer and playwright (d. 2001)
 1927 - Ariano Suassuna, Brazilian playwright and author (d. 2014)
 1928 - Pierrette Bloch, Swiss artist (d. 2017)
 1928 - Annie Cordy, Belgian singer and actress
 1929 – Ramón Bieri, American actor (d. 2001)
 1929 - Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait
 1929 - Pauline Yates, English actress (d. 2015)
 1930 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2016)
 1934 – Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress
 1934 - Jane Henson, American puppeteer (d. 2013)
 1934 – William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist
 1935 – Jim Dine, American artist
 1935 - James Bolam, English actor
 1936 - Lincoln Almond, former Governor of Rhode Island
 1936 - Ann Carter, American actress (d. 2014)
 1936 - Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Nigerian cardinal
 1937 – Erich Segal, American writer (d. 2010)
1937 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha, Bulgarian royal and Prime Minister
 1938 – Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist
 1938 - Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2017)
 1940 – Neil Goldschmidt, former Governor of Oregon
 1941 – Lamont Dozier, American record company executive
 1942 – Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist
 1942 - John Rostill, British musician (d. 1973)
 1943 - Joan Van Ark, American actress
 1946 – Rick Adelman, American basketball player and coach
 1946 - Jodi Rell, 87th Governor of Connecticut
 1946 - Derek Sanderson, Canadian ice hockey player
 1947 - Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice of Kenya
 1947 - Günther Kaufmann, German actor (d. 2012) 
 1948 - Leopoldo María Panero, Spanish poet (d. 2014)
 1950 - Mithun Chakraborty, Indian actor
 1950 - Klaus Lage, German musician
1951  1975 
 1951 – Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
 1952 – George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece
 1952 – Gino Vannelli, Canadian singer and songwriter
 1954 - Jeffrey Ashby, American astronaut
 1955 – Laurie Metcalf, American actress
 1955 - Patrizio Sala, Italian footballer
 1957 - Ian Buchanan, Scottish-American actor
 1957 - Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer
 1958 - Darrell Griffith, American basketball player
 1958 - Johannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist and pilot
 1959 - The Ultimate Warrior, American professional wrestler (d. 2014)
 1962 - Femi Kuti, Nigerian singer-songwriter and musician
 1966 – Jan Zelezný, Czech athlete
 1967 - Jürgen Klopp, German footballer and coach
 1967 – John Franklin, American actor
 1968 - James Patrick Stuart, American actor
 1969 - Shami Chakrabarti, British academic and activist
 1970 – Phil Mickelson, American golfer
 1970 – James Shaffer, American guitarist (KoЯn)
 1970 – Cobi Jones, American soccer player
 1970 - Clifton Collins, Jr., American actor
1971 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor (d. 1996)
 1971 – Derek R. Audette, Canadian artist and poet
 1972 - Simon Coveney, Irish politician
 1972 – Hank von Helvete, Norwegian musician
 1972 - John Cho, Korean-American actor and musician
 1973 - Eddie Cibrian, American actor
 1973 - Federica Mogherini, Italian politician, former European Union foreign policy chief
 1974 - Joseph May, Canadian voice actor
From 1976 
 1976 – Edwin Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer
 1976 - Cian Ciaran, Welsh musician
 1977 – Kerry Wood, American baseball player
 1978 – Daniel Brühl, Spanish-German actor
 1978 - Dainius Zubrus, Lithuanian ice hockey player
 1978 - Fish Leong, Malaysian singer
 1980 - Brandon Armstrong, American basketball player 
 1980 – Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
 1980 – Martin Stranzl, Austrian footballer
 1980 – Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress
 1980 - Sibel Kekilli, German actress
 1981 – Laron Kevin Mathieu, American poet and world traveler
 1981 - Benjamin Becker, German tennis player
 1982 - Albert Rocas, Spanish handball player
 1983 - Olivia Hack, American actress
 1983 – Armend Dallku, Albanian footballer
 1984 – Steven Whittaker, Scottish footballer
 1985 - Cat Smith, English politician
 1986 – Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer
 1987 - Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Norwegian footballer
 1987 – Abby Elliott, American actress and comedienne
 1988 – Keshia Chanté, Canadian singer
1988 - Banks, American singer and songwriter
 1989 - Jelena Glabova, Estonian figure skater
 1989 - Odion Ighalo, Nigerian footballer
 1989 - Yuichi Maruyama, Japanese footballer
 1990 - John Newman, English singer
 1991 – Joe McElderry, English singer
 1991 - Siya Kolisi, South African rugby union player
 1994 - Caitlyn Taylor Love, American actress and singer
 1995 - Joo Da-young, South Korean actress
 1998 - Lauren Taylor, American actress and singer
 2000 - Bianca Andreescu, Canadian tennis player
Up to 1900 
 AD 1216 – Pope Innocent III
 1397 – Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
 1464 – Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1399)
 1468 – Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395)
 1622 – Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
 1623 – Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599)
 1666 – Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator, and diplomat (b. 1608)
 1671 – Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed)
 1707 – Marie d'Orléans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)
 1712 - Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1657)
 1722 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650)
 1749 – Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
 1752 – Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
 1752 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
 1777 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
1778 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
 1779 – Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
 1792 - Benjamin Tupper, American general (b. 1738)
 1804 – Johann Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
 1817 – Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (b. 1759)
 1824 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, French statesman (b. 1839)
 1849 – Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (b. 1780)
 1850 - William Lawson, explorer of Australia (b. 1774)
 1855 – John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
 1858 – John Snow, English obstetrician (b. 1813)
 1862 - Hidenoyama Raigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1808)
 1866 – Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
 1869 – Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
 1872 – Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
 1878 – Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
 1881 – Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795)
 1885 – Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
1901  2000 
 1902 - Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
 1925 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
 1925 – Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903)
 1929 - Bramwell Booth, 2nd General of the Salvation Army (b. 1871)
 1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor (b. 1860)
 1930 – Ezra Fitch, American founder of the Abercrombie & Fitch clothing retailer (b. 1865)
 1939 - Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1905)
 1940 – DuBose Heyward, American writer (b. 1885)
 1944 – Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
 1944 - George Stinney, African American wrongly executed for murder (b. 1929)
 1952 – Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist (b. 1861)
 1953 – Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
 1958 – Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1896)
 1958 - Pál Maléter, Hungarian revolution leader (b. 1917)
 1959 – George Reeves, American actor (b. 1914)
 1969 – Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891)
1970 – Heino Eller, Estonian composer (b. 1887)
 1970 – Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
 1971 – Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889)
 1973 - Louise Latimer, American actress (b. 1913)
 1976 – Hector Pieterson, South African schoolboy and symbol of anti-Apartheid movement (b. 1963) (shot)
 1977 – Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1912)
 1979 – Nicholas Ray, American movie director (b. 1911)
 1979 - Ignatius KutuAcheampong, Ghanaian leader (b. 1931)
 1981 – Jule Gregory Charney, meteorologist (b. 1917)
 1982 - James Honeyman-Scott, British musician (b. 1956)
 1986 – Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
 1988 – Kim Milford, American actor (b. 1951)
 1990 – Gertrude Baniszewski, American murderer (of Sylvia Likens) (b. 1929)
 1991 - Vicki Brown, English singer (b. 1940)
 1993 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
 1994 - Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (b. 1967)
 1996 – Mel Allen, baseball announcer (b. 1913)
1996 – Curt Swan, American comic book artist (b. 1920)
 1998 - Jafar Sharif-Emami, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1910)
 1999 – Screaming Lord Sutch, British musician and politician (b. 1940)
 2000 – Empress Nagako of Japan (b. 1903)
From 2001 
 2003 – Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
 2004 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1912)
 2005 – Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
 2008 – Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer (b. 1921)
 2008 - Tom Compernolle, Belgian runner (b. 1975)
 2010 – Ronald Neame, British cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director (b. 1911)
 2010 - Marc Bazin, 49th President of Haiti (b. 1932)
 2012 - Nils Karlsson, Swedish cross-country skier (b. 1917)
 2012 - Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (b. 1934)
 2013 - Ottmar Walter, German footballer (b. 1924)
 2013 - Hans Hass, Austrian diver (b. 1919)
 2014 - Tony Gwynn, American baseball player (b. 1960)
 2014 - Pierre D'Archambeau, Belgian-American violinist (b. 1927)
 2015 - Charles Correa, Indian architect (b. 1930)
 2015 - Tony Ranasinghe, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1937)
 2016 - Jo Cox, English politician (b. 1974)
 2016 - Bill Berkson, American poet and art critic (b. 1939)
2016 - Irving Moskowitz, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1928)
 2016 - Pat Suggate, British-New Zealand geologist (b. 1922)
 2016 - Jerome Teasley, American drummer (b. 1948)
 2017 - Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1930)
 2017 - John G. Avildsen, American film director (b. 1935)
 2017 - Curt Hanson, American politician (b. 1943)
 2017 - Stephen Furst, American actor (b. 1955)
 2018 - Martin Bregman, American film producer (b. 1926)
 2018 - Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor (b. 1931)
 2019 - Bishop Bullwinkle, American singer and comedian (b. 1948)
 2019 - Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1924)
 2019 - Frank LaMere, Native American activist (b. 1950)
 2019 - Simona Mafai De Pasquale, Italian politician (b. 1928)
 2020 - Mohammad Asghar, Welsh politician (b. 1945)
 2020 - Eduardo Cojuangco Jr., Filipino businessman and politician (b. 1935)
 2020 - Fred Jarvis, English trade union leader (b. 1924)
 2020 - John Madigan, Australian politician (b. 1966)
2020 - Patrick Poivey, French actor (b. 1948)
 2020 - John G. Richardson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1957)
Observances 
 International Day of the African child
 Youth Day (South Africa), commemorating the Soweto Uprising
 Bloomsday (Ireland), celebrating the work of James Joyce
 Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev (Sikhism)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
1462  Vlad III the Impaler attempts to kill Ottoman Empire Sultan Mehmed II forcing him to retreat to Wallachia.
1497  Battle of Deptford Bridge – Forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
1565  Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
1579  Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
1596  Willem Barents reaches Svalbard during his attempt to find the Northeast Passage.
1631  Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years having her tomb, the Taj Mahal, built.
1673  French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet reach the Mississippi River.
1775  American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bunker Hill – The British forces take Bunker Hill outside of Boston.
1789  In France, the Third Estate declares itself as a national assembly.
1839  In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of Toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands.  The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established as a result.
1843  The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Maori and British settlers in the New Zealand Land Wars, takes place.
1863  Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War
1876  American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
1877  American Indian Wars: The Nez Perce defeat United States Cavalry in the Battle of White Bird Canyon, in what was then the Idaho Territory.
1885  The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1898  The Navy Hospital Corps is established.
1900  Boxer Rebellion: Allied Japanese and Western forces capture Taku Forts, Tianjin, China.
1901  2000 
1911  The University of Iceland is founded.
1928  Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean. She was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon, mechanic.
1929  A magnitude 7.8 earthquake hits Murdison, New Zealand, killing 17 people. It was New Zealand's deadliest natural disaster at the time.
1930  U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff into law.
1930  Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans mass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1933  Union Station Massacre:  In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash were gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
1939  Convicted murderer Eugen Weidmann is executed in the last public guillotining in France.
1940  World War II:  Operation Ariel begins – Allied troops start to  evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
1940  World War II:  Sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
1940  The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
1944  Iceland becomes independent from Denmark and forms a republic.
1948  A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Air Lines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
1953  Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
1958  The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, while being built to connect Vancouver to North Vancouver in Western Canada, collapses into the Burrard Inlet, killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
1961  The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
1963  The United States Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
1967  The People's Republic of China announces its first test of a thermonuclear weapon.
1969  Boris Spassky defeats Tigran Petrosian to become world chess champion.
1971  Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, setting out a plan where the U.S. would return control of Okinawa.
1971  Richard Nixon declares the US War on Drugs.
1972  Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for breaking in to the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
1974  The IRA carries an attack on the British Parliament in London.
1982  The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi, is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
1985  Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on Mission STS-51-G. On board is Saudi Arabian Prince Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, the first Arab in space.
1987  The Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
1991  Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required all racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
1992  A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin  (this would be later codified in START II).
1994  Following a televised highway chase and a failed attempt at suicide, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
From 2001 
2012  Greece holds its second parliamentary election in the space of six weeks, with no party winning overall control.
2012  Egypt holds the second round of its first Presidential election since Hosni Mubarak left office following the 2011 Egyptian protests.
2013  Singapore is hit by the worst haze since 1997. The PSI levels reaches levels not seen since 2006, with a PSI of 155 recorded at 10pm, after air quality plummeted into the "Unhealthy" range at 2pm.
2015  Charleston church shooting: 9 people are killed in a shooting at a prayer meeting in Charleston, South Carolina. Local politician and pastor Clementa C. Pinckney is among those killed.
2017  The 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup starts, with hosts Russia defeating New Zealand 2-0.
2017  Massive wildfires break out in central Portugal, killing at least 60 people.
2018  2018 FIFA World Cup: Mexico defeat defending champions Germany in both teams' first group match of the competition.
2019  Former President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi reportedly dies after fainting while on trial in Cairo.
2020  The English Premier League returns after being halted in March because of COVID-19.
Up to 1900 
801  Drogo of Metz, son of Charlemagne (d. 855)
1239  King Edward I of England (d. 1307)
1530  François de Montmorency, French politician (d. 1579)
1603  Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (d. 1663)
1604  John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1679)
1625  Peder Hansen Resen, Danish historian and legal scholar (d. 1688)
1631  Gauhara Begum, daughter of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal (d. 1706)
1658  Diogo de Medonca Corte-Real, Portuguese diplomat and statesman (d. 1736)
1682  King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718)
1691  Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (d. 1765)
1703  John Wesley, English theologian, founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
1714  César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (d. 1784)
1808  Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian writer (d. 1845)
1810  Ferdinand Freiligrath, German writer (d. 1876)
1811  Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence fighter (d. 1879)
1811  Adolphe d'Ennery, French writer (d. 1899)
1818  Charles Gounod, French composer (d. 1893)
1818  Sophie of Württemberg, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1877)
1832  Sir William Crookes, physicist and chemist (d. 1919)
1835  Eugene Borel, Swiss politician (d. 1892)
1858  Ebenezer Sumner Draper, 44th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1914)
1861  Omar Bundy, American general (d. 1940)
1863  Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1934)
1867  Henry Lawson, Australian poet (d. 1922)
1867  John Robert Gregg, American educator, publisher and humanitarian (d. 1948)
1869  Aloys, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1955)
1880  Carl Van Vechten, American photographer (d. 1964)
1881  Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer  (d. 1955)
1882  Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (d. 1971)
1882  Adolphus Frederick IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1918)
1884  Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland, Swedish royal (d. 1965)
1897  Maria Izilda de Castro Ribeiro, Brazilian saint (d. 1911)
1898  M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972)
1898  Harry Patch, British World War I veteran and supercentenarian (d. 2009)
1898  Carl Hermann, German physicist (d. 1961)
1900  Martin Bormann, Nazi official (d. 1945)
1901  1950 
1903  Ruth Graves Wakefield, American inventor of the chocolate-chip cookie (d. 1977)
1904  Ralph Bellamy, American actor and comedian (d. 1987)
1907  Charles Eames, American designer and architect (d. 1978)
1907  Maurice Cloche, French director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1909  Elmer L. Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004)
1910  Red Foley, American country musician (d. 1968)
1914  John Hersey, American writer (d. 1993)
1914  Julian Marias, Spanish philosopher (d. 2005)
1915  Karl Targownik, psychiatrist (d. 1996)
1915  David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player and actor  (d. 1973)
1915  Mario Echandi Jiménez, President of Costa Rica (d. 2011)
1916  Terry Gilkyson, American singer, songwriter, guitarist and composer (d. 1999)
1917  Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician
1917  Dufferin Roblin, Premier of Manitoba (d. 2010)
1919  Beryl Reid, English actress (d. 1996)
1920  François Jacob, French biologist and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2013)
1920  Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress (d. 2015)
1922  John Amis, British journalist and critic (d. 2013)
1923  Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, American football player (d. 2004)
1923  Anthony Bevilacqua, American cardinal (d. 2012)
1923  Larry Kwong, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019)
1924  William MacDonald, English-Australian serial killer (d. 2014)
1925  Alexander Shulgin, American pharmacologist and chemist (d. 2014)
1928  Juan María Bordaberry, President of Uruguay (d. 2011)
1928  Peter Shirayanagi, Japanese cardinal (d. 2009)
1929  Tigran Petrosian, Armenian chess player (d. 1984)
1929  James Shigeta, American actor (d. 2014)
1930  Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco (d. 2011)
1930  Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)
1931  John Baldessari, American painter (d. 2020)
1932  Derek Ibbotson, English runner
1932  Peter Lupus, American actor
1932  John Murtha, American politician (d. 2010)
1933  Harry Browne, American actor
1933  Christian Ferras, French violinist (d. 1982)
1936  Ken Loach, British movie director
1937  Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian entertainer (d. 2009)
1937  Ted Nelson, American sociologist and philosopher
1938  Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (d. 1990)
1939  Krzysztof Zanussi, Polish film and theatre director
1940  George Akerlof, American economist
1942  Roger Steffens, American actor, author, photographer and producer
1942  Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian International Atomic Energy Agency Director
1943  Newt Gingrich, American politician
1943  Barry Manilow, American musician
1944  Chris Spedding, British guitarist
1945  Ken Livingstone, British politician, former Mayor of London
1945  Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist
1945  Frank Ashmore, American actor
1946  Eduardo Camaño, Argentine politician
1946  Peter Rosei, Austrian writer
1947  Linda Chavez, American writer
1947  George S. Clinton, American composer, songwriter and musician
1948  Hrafn Gunnlaugsson, Icelandic movie director
1948  Joaquín Almunia, Spanish politician
1949  Tom Corbett, American politician, 46th Governor of Pennsylvania
1949  Snakefinger, British musician, singer and songwriter (d. 1987)
1949  John Craven, English economist and academic
1951  1975 
1951  John Garrett, Canadian ice hockey player
1951  Paul McGuinness, manager of U2
1951  Starhawk, American author and activist
1952  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, English politician
1952  Judith Macgregor, English diplomat
1952  Sergio Marchionne, Italian-Canadian businessman (d. 2018)
1952  Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player, coach and manager
1954  Mark Linn-Baker, American actor and director
1957  Phil Chevron, Irish musician, singer and songwriter (d. 2013)
1957  Jon Gries, American actor
1958  Jello Biafra, American musician, politician
1959  Nikos Stavropoulos, Greek basketball player
1959  Baltazar Maria de Morais Junior, Brazilian footballer
1960  Thomas Haden Church, American actor
1963  Christophe Barratier, French film producer, director and screenwriter
1963  Greg Kinnear, American actor
1964  Michael Gross, swimmer
1966  Jason Patric, American actor
1966  Tory Burch, American fashion designer, businesswoman and philanthropist
1967  Eric Stefani, American musician (No Doubt)
1968  Minoru Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts artist
1969  Paul Tergat, Kenyan runner
1969  Ilya Tsymbalar, Russian footballer (d. 2013)
1970  Michael Showalter, American actor, writer and director
1971  Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer
1972  Sebastian White, English musician (Oasis)
1973  Leander Paes, Indian tennis player
1975  Chloe Jones, American pornographic actress (d. 2005)
1975  Joshua Leonard, American actor
1975  Néstor Pitana, Argentine football referee
From 1976 
1976  Scott Adkins, English actor and martial artist
1976  Peter Svidler, Russian chess player
1978  Isabelle Delobel, French ice dancer
1979  Nick Rimando, footballer
1979  Young Maylay, American rapper
1980  Venus Williams, American tennis player
1980  Kimeru, Japanese singer and actor
1981  Shane Watson, Australian cricketer
1982  Arthur Darvill, English actor
1982  Alex Rodrigo Dias da Costa, Brazilian footballer
1983  Connie Fisher, British stage actress
1983  Lee Ryan, British singer (Blue)
1983  Kazunari Ninomiya, Japanese actor
1985  Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player
1985  Rafael Sobis, Brazilian footballer
1986  Apoula Edel, American footballer
1986  Helen Glover, British rower
1987  Nozomi Tsuji, Japanese singer 
1987  Kendrick Lamar, American rapper
1987  L'ubos Kamenar, Slovakian footballer
1988  Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player
1988  Stephanie Rice, Australian swimmer
1989  Simone Battle, American actress and singer (d. 2014)
1990  Alan Dzagoev, Russian footballer
1990  Joel Robles, Spanish footballer
1990  Jordan Henderson, English footballer
1990  Laura Wright, English singer
1993  Jean Marie Froget, Mauritian swimmer
1995  Arkadiusz Reca, Polish footballer
Up to 1900 
676  Pope Adeodatus II
850  Tachibana no Kachiko, Japanese Empress (b. 786)
924  Edward the Elder, Saxon King of England (b. 874)
1025  Boleslaw I the Brave, King of Poland (b. 967)
1091  Dirk V, Count of Holland (b. 1052)
1463  Princess Catherine of Portugal (b. 1436)
1501  John I Albert, King of Poland (b. 1459)
1565  Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1536)
1631  Mumtaz Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan, inspiration for the Taj Mahal (b. 1593)
1694  Philip Howard, English cardinal (b. 1629)
1696  John III Sobieski, King of Poland (b. 1629)
1719  Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (b. 1672)
1734  Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (b. 1653)
1740  William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, British politician (b. 1687)
1775  John Pitcairn, British military officer (b. 1722)
1775  Joseph Warren, American soldier (b. 1741)
1797  Agha Muhammad Khan, Persian Shah of Qajar dynasty (b. 1742)
1813  Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Scottish-English admiral and politician (b. 1726)
1839  Lord William Bentinck, British Governor-General of India (b. 1774)
1842  Arthur Conolly, British traveler, military and diplomat (b. 1807)
1858  Rani Lakshmibai, Indian political figure (b. 1828)
1866  Lewis Cass, American politician (b. 1782)
1898  Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833)
1901  2000 
1904  Nikolai Bobrikov, Russian politician (b. 1839)
1917  José Manuel Pando, Bolivian politician (b. 1848) 
1936  Henri Louis Le Chatelier, French chemist and physicist (b. 1850)
1936  Julius Seljamaa, Estonian politician, diplomat and journalist (b. 1883) 
1939  Eugen Weidmann, last public guillotine execution in France (b. 1908)
1940  Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1941  Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer and organist (b. 1862)
1956  Paul Rostock, German doctor (b. 1892)
1957  Dorothy Richardson, English feminist writer (b. 1873)
1960  Pierre Reverdy, French writer (b. 1889)
1961  Jeff Chandler, actor (b. 1918)
1963  Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician (b. 1882)
1968  José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)
1968  A. M. Cassandre, Ukrainian-French artist (b. 1901)
1979  Duffy Lewis, Major League Baseball player (b. 1888)
1982  Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920)
1986  Kate Smith, American singer (b. 1907)
1987  Dick Howser, American baseball player and manager (b. 1936)
1996  Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (b. 1922)
1998  John Carberry, American cardinal (b. 1904)
1999  Basil Hume, English Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1931)
2000  Ismail Mahomed, 17th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1931)
From 2001 
2001  Donald J. Cram, American chemist (b. 1919)
2001  Thomas Joseph Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow (b. 1925)
2002  Willie Davenport, athlete (b. 1943)
2002  Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)
2004  Gerry McNeil, hockey player (b. 1926)
2004  Sara Lidman, Swedish writer (b. 1923)
2006  Arthur Franz, American actor (b. 1920)
2007  Angelo Felici, Italian cardinal (b. 1919)
2008  Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
2008  Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress (b. 1921)
2009  Ralf Dahrendorf, German-born sociologist and politician (b. 1929)
2012  Rodney King, American victim of police brutality (b. 1965)
2013  James Holshouser, 68th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1934)
2014  Jorge Romo, Mexican footballer (b. 1924)
2014  Larry Zeidel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
2014  Patsy Byrne, English actress (b. 1933)
2015  Ron Clarke, Australian athlete and former Mayor of Gold Coast, Queensland (b. 1937)
2015  Süleyman Demirel, 9th President of Turkey (b. 1924)