Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1984 - Ernesto Mascheroni, Uruguayan-Italian footballer (b. 1907)
 1986 – Rudy Vallée, American singer (b. 1901)
 1987 - Viola Dana, American actress (b. 1897)
 1989 – Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
 1991 - Le Van Thiem, Vietnamese mathematician (b. 1918)
 1991 - Domingo Tarasconi, Argentine footballer (b. 1903)
 1993 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
 1993 – Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
 1994 - Lew Hood, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
 1995 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)
 1995 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
 1998 – Danielle Bunten Berry, software developer (b. 1949)
 1999 – Mark Sandman, musician (Morphine (band)) (b. 1952) (heart attack)
 2000 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
From 2001 
 2001 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian writer (b. 1931)
 2003 – Gaetano Alibrandi, papal diplomat (b. 1914)
 2004 – Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1929)
 2005 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1914)
 2005 - Gaylord Nelson, American politician, 35th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1914)
 2006 - Joseph Goquen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
 2007 - Claude Pompidou, First Lady of France (b. 1912)
 2009 – Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuadorean writer (b. 1926)
 2010 – Abu Daoud, Palestinian military commander (b. 1937)
 2010 – Herbert Erhardt, German footballer (b. 1930)
 2011 – Anna Massey, British actress (b. 1937)
 2012 - Andy Griffith, American actor, singer and producer (b. 1926)
 2012 - Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer and politician (b. 1926)
 2013 - Radu Vasile, 57th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1942)
 2014 - Jini Dellaccio, American photographer (b. 1917)
 2014 - Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ukrainian-born American rabbi (b. 1924)
2015 - Phil Walsh, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1960)
 2015 - Boyd K. Packer, American religious leader, member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1924)
 2015 - Jacques Sernas, Lithuanian-French actor (b. 1925)
 2015 - Diana Douglas, Bermudan-American actress (b. 1923)
 2015 - John A. Williams, American writer (b. 1925)
 2015 - György Szabad, Hungarian politician and historian (b. 1924)
 2016 - Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark (b. 1927)
 2016 - Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
 2016 - Uma Shankar Mishra, Indian politician (b. 1923)
 2016 - Noel Neill, American actress (b. 1920)
 2016 - Mauricio Walerstein, Mexican film director (b. 1945)
 2016 - Markus Werner, Swiss writer (b. 1944)
 2017 - José Luis Cuevas, Mexican painter (b. 1934)
 2017 - Rudy Rotta, Italian guitarist and singer (b. 1950)
 2017 - Solvi Stubing, German actress and model (b. 1941)
 2017 - Paolo Villaggio, Italian actor and writer (b. 1932)
2017 - Tom Blom, Dutch radio and television presenter (b. 1946)
 2017 - Spencer Johnson, American author (b. 1938)
 2017 - Joe Robinson, British actor (b. 1927)
 2018 - Richard Swift, American singer-songwriter (b. 1977)
Holidays and observances 
 Emancipation Day (United States Virgin Islands)
 Independence Day (Belarus)

July 03
Up to 1900 
 1189 - Richard I of England comes to the throne. He is known as "Richard the Lionheart" and spends most of his reign abroad fighting in the Crusades.
 1348 - Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death.
 1411 - Ming Dynasty China's Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presents the Sinhalese King, captured during the Ming-Kotte War, to the Yongle Emperor.
 1415 - Bohemian Christian reformer Jan Hus is burned and the stake and becomes a martyr.
 1483 - King Richard III of England is crowned.
 1484 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cao finds the mouth of the Congo River.
 1495 - First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo - Charles VIII, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Holy League.
 1535 - Thomas More is executed for treason on the orders of King Henry VIII of England.
1553 - King Edward VI of England dies at the age of 16. A succession crisis initially puts Lady Jane Grey on the throne for nine days, before Edward's sister becomes Queen Mary I of England.
 1557 - King Philip II of Spain, consort of Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France. It results in England losing Calais and Mary and Philip never seeing each other again.
 1560 - The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed between Scotland and England.
 1573 - The city of Cordoba, Argentina, is founded by Jeronimo Luis de Cabrera.
 1609 - Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
 1630 - Thirty Years' War: 4,000 Swedish troops under King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden land in Pomerania on what is now Germany's Baltic Sea coast.
 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga - After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
1779 - Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
 1785 – The dollar is chosen as the US monetary unit.
 1801 - First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras.
 1854 – The Republican Party meets for the first time, in Jackson, Mississippi.
 1885 – Louis Pasteur tests the vaccine for rabies.
 1887 - David Kalakaua, King of Hawai'i, is forced at gunpoint by the Americans to sign the Bayonet Constitution, giving the Americans more power in Hawai'i, while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
 1892 - Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian member of the UK Parliament.
 1893 - The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injuring 200.
1901  2000 
 1905 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
 1917 - World War I: Arabian troops under T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and Auda ibn Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire.
 1937 - Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Brunete begins with Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
 1939 - Holocaust: The last-remaining Jewish-owned businesses in Germany are shut down.
 1942 – Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the secret annex in Amsterdam.
 1944 - A circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut kills around 168 people.
 1947 – The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
 1950 - The Oder-Neisse Line is determined as the border between Poland and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
 1957 – In Tennis, Althea Gibson becomes the first African American to win a Wimbledon title.
 1957 – Paul McCartney and John Lennon meet for the first time.
1962 - The Late Late Show is first broadcast on US television.
 1964 – Malawi becomes independent.
 1966 – Malawi becomes a Republic, with Hastings Banda as president under a one-party system.
 1967 – The Biafran War begins, as Biafra tries to become independent from Nigeria.
 1967 - A train crash near Magdeburg in what was then East Germany kills 94 people.
 1975 – The Comoros declare independence.
 1988 – In the North Sea, a major fire occurs on the Piper Alpha oil rig off the east coast of Scotland, killing 167 people.
 1989 - Tel Aviv-Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: 14 bus passengers are killed when an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus was driving was driven off the edge of a cliff.
 1995 - Bosnian-Serb forces under Ratko Mladic start their assault on the town of Srebrenica.
 2000 - Germany is given the right to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
From 2001 
 2003 – Tennis: Roger Federer wins his first Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Mark Philippoussis of Australia in three sets. It is also the first of Federer's five consecutive Wimbledon titles.
 2005 – The 2012 Summer Olympics are given to London at an IOC sitting in Singapore.
 2005 - The 2005 G8 summit, lasting until July 9, held at Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland, begins.
 2008 – Tennis: Rafael Nadal wins the men's singles title at Wimbledon, ending Roger Federer's run of five consecutive titles there.
 2009 – Jadranka Kosor becomes Prime Minister of Croatia.
 2011 – Pyeongchang, South Korea is announced as the host city for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
 2013 - A 73-car oil train derails in Lac Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying much of the town center.
 2017 - The European Union and Japan agree a trade deal.
2018 - Shoko Asahara and other members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult are executed for the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack, which was carried out in 1995.
 2018 - Belgium defeat Brazil 2-1 in the Quarter Finals of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, meaning that, for the first time, neither Argentina, Brazil or Germany are in the semi-finals of the tournament.
Up to 1900 
 1387 - Blanche I of Navarre (d. 1441)
 1555 - Louis II, Cardinal of Guise (d. 1588)
 1623 - Jacopo Melani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1676)
 1678 - Nicola Francesco Haym, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1729)
 1686 - Antoine de Jussieu, French biologist (d. 1758)
 1724 - Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1748)
 1747 – John Paul Jones, British-American naval commander (d. 1792)
 1766 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (d. 1813)
 1782 - Maria Luisa of Spain (d. 1824)
 1785 – William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (d. 1865)
 1789 - Maria Isabella of Spain (d. 1846)
 1796 – Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)
 1808 - Johann Gustav Droysen, German historian (d. 1884)
 1818 – Adolf Anderssen, chess player (d. 1879)
 1824 - John Lourie Beveridge, American politician, 16th Governor of Illinois (d. 1910)
 1831 - Sylvester Pennoyer, American politician, 8th Governor of Oregon (d. 1902)
 1832 – Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (d. 1867)
1838 – Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian scholar (d. 1923)
 1854 - Manuel Iradier, Spanish explorer (d. 1911)
 1859 – Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer (d. 1940)
 1864 - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer and conductor (d. 1920)
 1868 – Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1935)
 1875 - Charles Perrin, French rower (d. 1954)
 1876 - Louis J. Brann, American politician, Governor of Maine (d. 1948)
 1878 – Eino Leino, Finnish poet (d. 1926)
 1884 – Harold Vanderbilt, American businessman (d. 1970)
 1885 - Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945)
 1886 - Marc Bloch, French historian (d. 1944)
 1887 - Marc Chagall, Belarus-born French artist (d. 1985)
 1887 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (d. 1975)
 1887 – Walter Flex, writer (d. 1917)
 1897 - Richard Krautheimer, German-American historian and scholar (d. 1994)
 1898 – Hanns Eisler, German composer (d. 1962)
 1899 - Susannah Mushatt Jones, American supercentenarian (d. 2016)
1901  1950 
 1903 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist (d. 1982)
 1904 - Erik Wickberg, Swedish General of the Salvation Army (d. 1996)
 1907 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
 1907 - George Stanley, Canadian soldier, historian and author (d. 2002)
 1912 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and geographer (d. 2006)
 1914 - Vince McMahon, Sr., American wrestling promoter (d. 1981)
 1916 - Harold Norse, American poet (d. 2009)
 1917 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand runner and coach (d. 2004)
 1917 - Heribert Barrera, Catalan chemist and politician (d. 2011)
 1918 – Sebastian Cabot, English actor (d. 1977)
 1919 – Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor (d. 2007)
 1919 - Unica Zürn, German author and artist (d. 1970)
 1921 – Nancy Reagan, American actress and First Lady of the United States (d. 2016)
 1921 - Allan MacEachen, Canadian economist and politician (d. 2017)
 1922 - William Schallert, American actor (d. 2016)
 1923 – Wojciech Jaruzelski, President of Poland (d. 2014)
1924 - Louie Bellson, American jazz musician (d. 2009)
 1925 – Merv Griffin, American game show developer and television show host (d. 2007)
 1925 – Bill Haley, American singer (Bill Haley and the Comets) (d. 1981)
 1927 – Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004)
 1927 – Hein Donner, Dutch chess player
 1927 – Dolores Claman, musician and composer
 1927 – Pat Paulsen, American comedian and Presidential candidate (d. 1997)
 1930 - Ian Burgess, British racing driver (d. 2012)
 1930 – Herbert Erhardt, German footballer (d. 2010)
 1931 – Della Reese, American singer and actress (d. 2017)
 1931 - Carl E. Reichardt, American banking executive (d. 2017)
 1931 - Antonella Lualdi, Italian actress
 1932 - Herman Hertzberger, Dutch architect and educator
 1935 – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
 1936 – Dave Allen, Irish comedian (d. 2005)
 1937 – Ned Beatty, American actor
 1937 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor
 1937 - Michael Sata, 5th President of Zambia (d. 2014)
1939 – Jet Harris, English musician (The Shadows) (d. 2011)
 1939 - Bruce Hunter, American swimmer (d. 2018)
 1939 - Mary Peters, British pentathlete
 1940 – Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan
 1942 - Izora Armstead, American singer (The Weather Girls) (d. 2004)
 1944 - Bernhard Schlink, German jurist and writer
 1945 - Burt Ward, American actor
 1946 – Peter Singer, Australian philosopher
 1946 – Sylvester Stallone, American actor
 1946 – George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
 1946 - Toquinho, Brazilian musician
 1949 - Phyllis Hyman, American singer and songwriter (d. 1995)
 1949 - Noli de Castro, 14th Vice President of the Philippines
1951  1975 
 1951 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
 1952 - Hilary Mantel, English writer
 1952 - Grant Goodeve, American actor and television host
 1953 – Nanci Griffith, American singer and songwriter
 1953 - Kaiser Kalambo, Zambian footballer (d. 2014)
 1958 – Jennifer Saunders, English actress and comedienne
 1959 – Richard Dacoury, French basketball player
 1960 - Asahifuji Seiya, Japanese sumo wrestler
 1961 - Jonas Jonasson, Swedish writer and journalist
 1961 - Benita Fitzgerald-Brown, American Olympic hurdler
 1962 - Peter Hedges, American author, director and screenwriter
 1967 – Heather Nova, British-Bermudan guitarist and singer
 1969 - Fernando Redondo, Argentine footballer
 1970 – Roger Cicero, German singer and musician (d. 2016)
 1970 – Inspectah Deck, American rapper
 1972 - Isabelle Boulay, Canadian singer
 1974 – Zé Roberto, Brazilian footballer
 1975 – 50 Cent, American rapper
From 1976 
 1977 - Audrey Fleurot, French actress
 1977 – Max Mirnyi, Belarussian tennis player
 1978 - Tamera Mowry, American actress
 1978 - Tia Mowry, American actress
 1979 - Kevin Hart, American actor and comedian
 1980 – Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player
 1982 – Brandon Jacobs, American football player
 1982 - Misty Upham, American actress (d. 2014)
 1983 - Gregory Smith, Canadian-American actor
 1984 - Zhang Hao, Chinese figure skater
 1984 - Lauren Harris, English singer and actress
 1984 - Natasha Zlobina, Uzbek-French actress and model
 1985 - Ranveer Singh, Indian actor
 1987 – Kate Nash, English singer and songwriter
 1987 - Sophie Auster, American actress and singer
 1988 - Brittany Underwood, American actress and singer
 1989 - Elias Harris, German basketball player
 1990 - Ajoo, South Korean singer and dancer
 1991 - Victoire Thivisol, French actress
 1994 – Camilla Rosso, British actress
 1994 - Rebecca Rosso, British actress
 1996 - Robert Naylor, Canadian actor

Deaths
Up to 1900 
 371 BC - Cleombrotus I, Spartan King
 649 - Goar of Aquitaine, French-German bishop and saint (b. 585)
 918 - William I, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 875)
 1189 – King Henry II of England (b. 1133)
 1218 - Odo III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
 1249 - King Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198)
 1415 – Jan Hus, Bohemian religious reformer and Christian martyr (b. 1369)
 1476 - Regiomontanus, German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer (b. 1436)
 1480 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1416)
 1533 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474)
 1535 – Thomas More, English philosopher and Christian martyr (b. 1478)
 1553 – King Edward VI of England (b. 1537)
 1762 – Tsar Peter III of Russia (b. 1728)
 1809 – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (b. 1775)
 1835 - John Marshall, 4th United States Secretary of State (b. 1755)
 1854 – Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)
 1868 - Harada Sanosuke, Japanese captain (b. 1840)
 1893 – Guy de Maupassant, French writer (b. 1850)
1901  2000 
 1901 - Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (b. 1819)
 1902 - Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (b. 1890)
 1904 - Abai Qunanbaiuli, Kazakhstani poet and philosopher (b. 1845)
 1916 - Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
 1930 - Cormic Cosgrove, American soccer player (b. 1869)
 1932 – Kenneth Grahame, British writer (b. 1859)
 1937 - Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, 31st President of Colombia (b. 1867)
 1952 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French-Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (b. 1867)
 1954 - Julio Acosta Garcia, President of Costa Rica (b. 1872)
 1959 – George Grosz, German painter (b. 1893)
 1960 – Aneurin Bevan, Welsh politician (b. 1897)
 1962 – William Faulkner, American writer (b. 1897)
 1962 - Paul Boffa, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1890)
 1962 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria (b. 1872)
 1963 - George, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1899)
 1971 – Louis Armstrong, American musician (b. 1901)
 1973 – Otto Klemperer, German conductor (b. 1895)
1974 - Francis Blanche, French actor (b. 1921)
 1976 - Zhu De, Chinese general and politician (b. 1886)
 1986 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
 1989 – Janos Kadar, Hungarian politician (b. 1912)
 1997 - Chetan Anand, Indian director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1921)
 1998 - Roy Rogers, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
 1999 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1901)
 2000 – Wladyslaw Szpilman, Polish pianist, composer and writer (b. 1911)
From 2001 
 2002 - John Frankenheimer, American movie director (b. 1930)
 2004 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932)
 2004 - Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
 2005 – Claude Simon, French writer (b. 1913)
 2005 – Evan Hunter, American writer (b. 1926)
 2009 – Robert McNamara, American politician (b. 1916)
 2009 – Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (b. 1932)
 2009 - Bleddyn Williams, Welsh rugby player (b. 1923)
 2013 - Ruby Keeling, American basketball player and coach (b. 1947)
 2014 - Benedito de Assis da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1952)
 2014 - Alan J. Dixon, former United States Senator from Illinois (b. 1927)
 2014 - Andrew Mango, Turkish-English author (b. 1926)
 2014 - Granville Austin, American historian and academic (b. 1927)
 2015 - Jerry Weintraub, American film producer (b. 1937)
 2016 - John McMartin, American actor (b. 1929)
 2016 - Danny Smythe, American drummer (b. 1948)
 2017 - Joan B. Lee, English-American actress (b. 1921)
2017 - Heinz Schneiter, Swiss footballer (b. 1935)
 2017 - Michel Aurillac, French lawyer, politician and author (b. 1928)
 2017 - Diane Von Hoffman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
 2018 - Shoko Asahara, Japanese founder of cult group Aum Shinrikyo (b. 1955)
 2018 - Tyler Honeycutt, American basketball player (b. 1990)
 2018 - Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer (b. 1985)
 2018 - Giuseppina Projetto, Italian supercentenarian (b. 1902)
 2018 - Bruce Hunter, American swimmer (b. 1939)
Observances 
 Independence Day in Malawi (1966), and the Comoros (1975)
 Jan Hus Day (Czech Republic)
 Statehood Day (Lithuania)
 First Day of the San Fermin Bull run festival in Pamplona, northern Spain

July 06
Events

Up to 1900 
 1456 – A retrial verdict clears Joan of Arc of heresy, 25 years after she was burnt to death at the stake.
 1534 – The first exchange between Europeans and Native Americans takes place in present-day New Brunswick.
 1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg.
 1575 - Raid of the Redeswine, the last major battle between England and Scotland.
 1585 - The Treaty of Nemours bans tolerance of Protestants in France.
 1770 - The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and Ottoman Empire is fought.
 1777 - American Revolutionary War: American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated at the Battle of Hubbardton.
 1807 - Napoleonic Wars: The Peace of Tilsit between France, Russia and Prussia ends the War of the Fourth Coalition.  
 1846 – California is annexed by the United States.
 1865 – The conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, are executed.
 1881 - Pinocchio, written by Carlo Collodi, is published for the first time.
 1898 – Hawaii becomes a United States Territory.
1901  2000 
 1911 - The United States, United Kingdom, France and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911, banning open-water seal hunting.
 1915 - World War I: End of the First Battle of Isonzo.
 1915 - An International Railway trolley overloaded with 157 passengers  crashes near Queenston, Ontario, Canada, killing 15 people.
 1928 – Commercially sliced bread is first sold in Chillicothe, Missouri.
 1930 – Work on the Hoover Dam begins.
 1937 – The Second Sino-Japanese War begins.
 1941 – World War II: US forces land in Iceland.
 1944 - World War II: American forces carry out an air raid over Leipzig, Germany.
 1946 - Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
 1947 - Roswell incident: Alleged crash of an alien spaceship in Roswell, New Mexico, United States.
 1953 - Che Guevara starts out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.
1956 - Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers become the first people climb Gasherbrum II in the Himalayas.
 1958 – Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law, allowing Alaska to become a State of the US on January 3, 1959.
 1974 – West Germany beats the Netherlands 2-1 to win its second FIFA World Cup.
 1978 – The Solomon Islands become independent.
 1980 - Sharia law is installed in Iran.
 1980 - During the Civil War in Lebanon, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what becomes known as the Safra massacre.
 1981 - Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female member of the United States Supreme Court.
 1983 – US schoolgirl Samantha Smith visits the Soviet Union, after an invitation from Yuri Andropov. Samantha Smith had written him a letter, expressing her fears over a nuclear war.
 1985 – Boris Becker wins his first Wimbledon tennis title, aged 17.
From 2001 
 2003 - NASA's Opportunity rover is launched into space on a Delta II rocket.
 2003 - A Boeing 737 of Sudan Airways crashes in Port Sudan, Sudan, shortly after take-off, killing 116 people.
 2005 – Four suicide bombers kill 52 people on London's public transport system. They are the first suicide bombers ever to strike in Europe.
 2007 – Live Earth concerts take place worldwide, promoting protection of the Environment.
 2009 - A public funeral service is held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, for Michael Jackson, who had died on June 25 aged 50. 
 2011 – Part of a roof at a football stadium in Enschede, the Netherlands, collapses, killing at least one person.
 2011 - Adolf Hitler is removed as an honorary citizen in his birthplace of Braunau am Inn in Austria.
 2013 - Andy Murray defeats Novak Djokovic to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon, becoming the first British player in 77 years (since Fred Perry) to win the men's title there.
Up to 1900 
 1053 – Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
 1119 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
 1207 - Elizabeth of Hungary (d. 1231)
 1528 – Archduchess Anna of Austria (d. 1590)
 1656 - Guru Har Kishan, 8th Sikh Guru (d. 1664)
 1752 – Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834)
 1805 - Victor de Tornaco, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1875)
 1836 - Rudolf Wolf, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1893)
 1843 – Camillo Golgi, Italian doctor, won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1926)
 1846 - Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian nationalist leader, doctor and author (d. 1916)
 1848 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, 5th President of Brazil (d. 1919)
 1852 - Vera Figner, Russian revolutionary (d. 1942)
 1855 - Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)
 1860 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911)
 1861 - Nettie Stevens, American geneticist (d. 1912)
 1873 - A. Victor Donahey, American politician, 50th Governor of Ohio (d. 1946)
1874 - Wladyslaw Grabski, Polish politician, economist and historian (d. 1938)
 1880 - Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer, invented commercially sliced bread (d. 1960)
 1882 - Yanka Kupala, Belarussian writer (d. 1942)
 1883 - Toivo Kuula, Finnish composer and conductor (d. 1918)
 1884 – Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)
 1887 – Marc Chagall, Belarussian-born painter (d. 1985)
 1891 - Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Japanese general (d. 1945)
 1891 - Virginia Rappe, American model and actress (d. 1921)
 1893 - Herbert Feis, American author (d. 1972)
 1893 - Miroslav Krloza, Croatian author, poet and playwright (d. 1981)
 1898 - Arnold Horween, American football player (d. 1985)
 1898 - Teresa Hsu Chi Sing, Singaporean social worker and supercentenarian (d. 2011)
 1899 - George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)
 1900 - Earle E. Partridge, American general (d. 1990)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and director (d. 1974)
 1901 - Sam Katzman, American director and producer (d. 1973)
 1901 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese cinematographer (d. 1970)
 1903 - Ralph Tarrant, English supercentenarian (d. 2013)
 1906 – Anton Karas, Austrian zither player (d. 1985)
 1906 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
 1906 - William Feller, American mathematician (d. 1970)
 1907 – Robert A. Heinlein, American writer (d. 1988)
 1911 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (d. 2007)
 1911 – Gretchen Franklin, English actress (d. 2005)
 1913 – Pinetop Perkins, American musician (d. 2011)
 1917 - Iva Withers, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2014)
 1917 - Fidel Sanchez Hernandez, President of El Salvador (d. 2003)
 1919 – Jon Pertwee, British actor (d. 1996)
 1921 - Ezzard Charles, American boxer (d. 1975)
 1924 - Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (d. 2007)
 1927 - Henri Dirickx, Belgian footballer (d. 2018)
1927 - Alan J. Dixon, former United States Senator for Illinois (d. 2014)
 1930 - Hamish MacInnes, Scottish mountaineer and author
 1930 - Theodore Edgar McCarrick, American cardinal
 1930 - Hank Mobley, American jazz composer (d. 1986)
 1931 – David Eddings, American writer (d. 2009)
 1932 - Joe Zawinul, Austrian-American keyboardist and composer (d. 2007)
 1936 - Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician (d. 2013)
 1937 – Tung Chee-hwa, Chinese politician
 1938 - Jan Assmann, German Egyptologist and cultural theorist
 1939 - Elena Obraztsova, Russian soprano and actress (d. 2015)
 1940 – Ringo Starr, English drummer (in the Beatles)
 1940 – Wolfgang Clement, German politician, former Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
 1941 – Michael Howard, British politician
 1941 – Bill Oddie, British comedian and ornithologist
 1943 - Toto Cutugno, Italian singer-songwriter
 1944 - Feleti Sevele, former Prime Minister of Tonga
 1944 - Tony Jacklin, English golfer
 1944 - Glenys Kinnock, Welsh politician
1945 - Michael Ancram, English-Scottish lawyer and politician
 1945 - Manuel Chaves, Spanish politician, former Prime Minister of Andalusia
 1945 - Matti Salminen, Finnish opera singer
 1947 – Gyanendra, former King of Nepal
 1947 - Victor Manuel, Spanish singer-songwriter
 1947 - Rob Townsend, English drummer
 1948 - Kathy Reichs, American writer and forensic anthropologist
 1949 – Shelley Duvall, American actress
 1950 - Gerda Hasselfeldt, German politician
 1950 - Vaughn Armstrong, American actor
1951  1975 
 1952 - Mando Guerrero, Mexican-American wrestler and stuntman
 1954 - Rami Fortis, Israeli singer
 1955 - Rolf Saxon, American actor and voice actor
 1957 - Berry Sakharof, Israeli singer
 1957 - Jonathan Dayton, American director and producer
 1958 - Alexander Svinin, Russian figure skater and coach
 1959 – Billy Campbell, American actor
 1959 - Jessica Hahn, American model and actress
 1959 - Alessandro Nannini, Italian racing driver
 1960 - Kevin A. Ford, American colonel and astronaut
 1960 - Ralph Sampson, American basketball player and coach
 1963 – Vonda Shepard, American singer-songwriter
 1963 - Geir Karlstad, Norwegian speed skater
 1964 - Jennifer Gibney, Irish actress
 1965 – Jeremy Guscott, English rugby player
 1965 - Jeremy Kyle, English television presenter
 1966 - Gundula Krause, German-American violinist
 1968 - Amy Carlson, American actress
 1968 – Jorja Fox, American actress
 1969 – Sylke Otto, German luger
 1969 - Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player
1970 - Robia LaMorte, American actress
 1970 - Zoe Tyler, English voice coach, singer and performer
 1970 – Erik Zabel, German cyclist
 1972 – Lisa Leslie, American basketball player
 1972 - Kirsten Vangsness, American actress
 1973 - Kailash Kher, Indian singer
 1973 - Troy Garity, American actor
 1973 - Karlis Skrastins, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
 1973 - Natsuki Takaya, Japanese illustrator
 1974 - Jennifer Jones, Canadian curler
 1975 – Nina Hoss, German actress
 1975 - Richard Arkless, Scottish politician
From 1976 
 1976 - Vasily Petrenko, Russian conductor
 1976 - Erciment Olgundeniz, Turkish athlete
 1976 - Hamish Linklater, American actor
 1980 – Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
 1981 - Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
 1981 - Synyster Gates, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold)
 1982 - George Owu, Ghanaian footballer
 1983 - Justin Davies, Australian footballer
 1983 - Jakob Poulsen, Danish footballer
 1984 – Alberto Aquilani, Italian footballer
 1985 - Brandon Rush, American basketball player
 1986 - Ana Kasparian, American journalist and producer
 1987 - Julianna Guill, American actress
 1988 - Iban Rubin, American drummer
 1988 - Kaci Brown, American singer
 1988 - Jack Whitehall, English comedian and actor
 1989 - Kim Bum, South Korean actor and singer
 1991 - Alesso, Swedish DJ and producer
 1992 - Toni Garrn, German model
 1994 - Ashton Irwin, Australian singer, 5 Seconds of Summer. 
 1997 - Erina Ikuta, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
 1998 - Dylan Sprayberry, American actor
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 1162 – Haakon II of Norway (b. 1147)
 1304 – Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)
 1307 – King Edward I of England (b. 1239)
 1537 – Madeleine of Valois, French-born Queen Consort of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
 1647 - Thomas Hooker, English Puritan settler in Connecticut (b. 1586)
 1718 - Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (b. 1690)
 1790 - Francois Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (b. 1721)
 1819 – Sophie Blanchard, French balloonist (b. 1778)
 1865 - Conspirators in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln:
George Atzerodt (b. 1853)
David Herold (b. 1842)
Lewis Payne (b. 1844)
Mary Surratt (b. 1823)
 1889 - Giovanni Bottesini, Italian composer, conductor and double-bass virtuoso (b. 1821)
 1890 – Henri Nestlé, German confectioner and businessman (b. 1814)
1901  2000 
 1901 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (b. 1827)
 1922 - Cathal Brugha, Irish soldier and politician (b. 1874)
 1930 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (b. 1859)
 1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian author (b. 1880)
 1932 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian and educator (b. 1844)
 1939 - Deacon White, American baseball player and manager (b. 1847)
 1950 - Fats Navarro, American trumpeter and composer (b. 1923)
 1954 - Idabelle Smith Firestone, American composer and songwriter (b. 1874)
 1956 - Gottfried Benn, German author and poet (b. 1886)
 1964 - Lillian Copeland, American discus thrower (b. 1904)
 1965 – Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
 1967 – Vivian Leigh, British actress (b. 1913)
 1971 – Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b. 1901)
 1972 – King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
 1972 - Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (b. 1886)
 1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
1973 - Veronica Lake, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
 1976 - Walter Giesler, American soccer player and referee (b. 1910)
 1976 – Gustav Heinemann, President of Germany (b. 1899)
 1978 - Francisco Mendes, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1933)
 1983 – Herman Kahn, American futurologist (b. 1922)
 1984 - Carl Bienish, American BASE jumper and cinematographer (b. 1941)
 1987 - Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch-French pianist (b. 1902)
 1990 – Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920)
 1990 - Cazuza, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1958)
 1992 - Josy Barthel, Luxembourgish athlete (b. 1927)
 1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
 1994 - Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer (b. 1924)
 1994 - Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
 1998 - Lenore Romney, mother of Mitt Romney (b. 1908)
From 2001 
 2003 - Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian conductor (b. 1924)
 2003 - Vlado Kristl, Croatian painter, animator and director (b. 1923)
 2006 – Syd Barrett, British musician (b. 1946)
 2006 – Rudi Carrell, Dutch singer and entertainer (b. 1934)
 2008 - Giovanni Viola, Italian footballer (b. 1926)
 2008 - Dorian Leigh, American model (b. 1917)
 2012 - Mouss Diouf, French actor (b. 1964)
 2012 - Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician (b. 1925)
 2013 - Anna Wing, English actress (b. 1914)
 2014 - Peter Underwood, 27th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1937)
 2014 - Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet-Georgian politician, Soviet foreign minister and President of Georgia (b. 1928)
 2014 - Andrew Mango, Turkish-British journalist (b. 1926)
 2014 - Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer (b. 1926)
 2014 - Dick Jones, American actor (b. 1927)
 2015 - Maria Barroso, Portuguese actress and politician (b. 1925)
 2015 - Fons van Wissen, Dutch footballer (b. 1933)
 2016 - Sally Beauman, British writer (b. 1944)
2016 - James Gilbert, Scottish television producer (b. 1923)
 2016 - Leonard Lee, Canadian businessman (b. 1938)
 2016 - Cinna Lomnitz, German-born Chilean-Mexican geophysicist (b. 1925)
 2016 - John O'Rourke, English footballer (b. 1945)
 2016 - Wolfram Siebeck, German journalist and food critic (b. 1928)
 2017 - Pam McConnell, Canadian politician (b. 1946)
 2017 - Egil Monn-Iversen, Norwegian composer (b. 1928)
 2017 - Jean-Pierre Bernard, French actor (b. 1933)
 2017 - Pierrette Bloch, French-Swiss artist (b. 1928)
 2017 - James B. Nutter Sr., American mortgage lender, philanthropist and power broker (b. 1928)
 2017 - Marina Ratner, Russian-American mathematician (b. 1938)
 2017 - Kenneth Silverman, American biographer (b. 1936)
 2018 - William Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcyclist (b. 1985)
 2018 - Hacène Lalmas, Algerian footballer (b. 1943)
 2018 - Levko Lukyanenko, Ukrainian politician (b. 1928)
 2018 - Firuz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani politician and former Prime minister of Azerbaijan (b. 1933)
Observances 
 National Holiday of the Solomon Islands
 Tanabata Matsuri (Japan)
 San Fermín festival in Pamplona, northern Spain: the bull run takes place.

July 07
Up to 1900 
 437 - Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire.
 626 - China: Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
 706 - In China, Emperor Zhongzhong of Tang inters  the bodies of relatives in the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang, outside Chang'an.
 1266 - The Treaty of Perth settles a territorial dispute between Scotland and Norway over the Hebrides and the Isle of Man.
 1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.
 1555 - The Ottoman admiral Turgut Reis sacks the city of Paola.
 1561 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
 1578 – Martin Frobisher becomes the first European to reach Baffin Island.
 1582 - Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomo Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
 1644 - English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
 1679 - Europeans visit present-day Minnesota for the first time.
 1698 - Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
1767 - Philip Carteret's expedition discovers Pitcairn Island in the Southern Pacific Ocean, naming it after sea cadet Robert Pitcairn, who first sighted it.
 1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution, severing ties with Great Britain.
 1777 – Vermont abolishes Slavery.
 1823 - Bahia Independence Day: End of Portuguese rule in Brazil.
 1839 – Near Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves take over the ship, Amistad.
 1853 - The Russian Army crosses the Pruth River into the Danubian Principalities - Moldavia and Wallachia - the final spark that set off the Crimean War.
 1860 – The Russian city of Vladivostok is founded as a naval post.
 1871 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome, having conquered it from the Papal States.
 1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots US President James A. Garfield, who dies of an infection on September 19.
 1897 – Guglielmo Marconi gets a patent for the radio in London.
 1900 - The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen, Southern Germany.
1901  2000 
 1921 - World War I: US President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox-Porter Resolution, formally ending the US' state of war with Imperial Germany.
 1928 – British women over the age of 21 are given the right to vote.
 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's purge of his political rivals, ends with the death of Ernst Roehm.
 1937 – Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan go missing while flying over the Pacific Ocean. No remains are ever found, and many conspiracy theories have come out of their disappearance.
 1940 - Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
 1950 - The Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan, burns down.
 1962 – The first Wal-Mart store opens in Rodgers, Arkansas.
 1964 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
 1966 – France carries out its first nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific Ocean.
 1974 - A magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes Iran, killing 1,200 people.
1976 - Fall of the Republic of Vietnam.
 1990 - A mass panic in a pedestrian tunnel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, kills 1,427 people who were there for the Hajj pilgrimage.
 1994 – Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer, is shot dead. The killer's motive was his own goal in the FIFA World Cup.
 2000 – Vicente Fox is elected President of Mexico.
 2000 - The France national football team wins UEFA Euro 2000, defeating the Italy national football team 2-1 in extra time.
From 2001 
 2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to travel solo around the world in a hot-air balloon.
 2003 – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insults German MEP Martin Schulz, comparing him to a Concentration camp guard.
 2005 – Live 8 concerts take place worldwide.
 2008 – After a captivity of more than six years, Ingrid Betancourt is released from FARC Guerrillas in Colombia.
 2010 – A tanker explosion in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo kills more than 230 people.
 2011 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco marries Charlene Wittstock.
 2011 – Petra Kvitova wins the Women's Singles tennis title at Wimbledon, defeating Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-4.
 2015 - A ferry capsizes  in Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines, killing 62 people.
 2016 - A terrorist attack and hostage taking in Dhaka, Bangladesh, results in the deaths of 20 people, mainly non-Bangladeshi citizens.
Up to 1900 
 419 – Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455)
 1262 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
 1363 - Maria, Queen of Sicily (d. 1401)
 1486 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1570)
 1489 – Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556)
 1644 - Abraham a Santa Clara, German theologian and writer (d. 1709)
 1648 - Arp Schnitger, German organ builder (d. 1719)
 1667 - Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (d. 1740)
 1698 - Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena (d. 1780)
 1714 – Christoph Willibald von Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
 1724 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)
 1790 - Leopold, Prince of Salerno (d. 1851)
 1807 - Arthur Conolly, British traveler, military and diplomat (d. 1842)
 1819 - Charles-Louis Hanon, French pianist and composer (d. 1900)
 1819 - Thomas Anderson, Scottish chemist (d. 1874)
 1821 – Charles Tupper, shortest-serving Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915)
 1824 - Juan N. Méndez, President of Mexico (d. 1895)
1841 - Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaitsev, Russian chemist (d. 1910)
 1843 - Antonio Labriola, Italian philosopher (d. 1904)
 1849 - Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (d. 1919)
 1855 - Louis Maxson, American archer (d. 1916)
 1862 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist (d. 1942)
 1865 - Lily Braun, German author (d. 1916)
 1869 - Liane de Pougy, French dancer (d. 1950)
 1874 - Pedro Paulet, Peruvian scientist (d. 1945)
 1876 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (d. 1933)
 1876 – Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1933)
 1877 – Hermann Hesse, German writer (d. 1962)
 1881 - Royal Hurlburt Weller, American lawyer and politician (d. 1929)
 1882 – Marie Bonaparte, French psychoanalyst and writer (d. 1962)
 1884 – Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
 1896 - Lydia Mei, Estonian painter (d. 1965)
1901  1950 
 1902 - Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch pianist (d. 1987)
 1903 – King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
 1903 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
 1904 – René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman (d. 1996)
 1906 – Hans Bethe, German physicist (d. 2005)
 1906 - Séra Martin, French runner (d. 1993) 
 1908 – Thurgood Marshall, United States Supreme Court Justice (d. 1993)
 1911 - Reg Parnell, English racing driver (d. 1964)
 1914 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (d. 2004)
 1914 - Mario Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
 1914 - Alois Andritzki, German priest and martyr (d. 1943)
 1915 - Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, English nobleman (d. 2014)
 1916 - Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
 1916 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German colonel and pilot (d. 1982)
 1917 - André Lafargue, French journalist (d. 2017)
 1917 – Murry Wilson, American songwriter and record producer (d. 1973)
1922 - Pierre Cardin, Italian-French fashion designer
 1923 – Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet (d. 2012)
 1925 – Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician (d. 1961)
 1925 – Medgar Evans, American civil rights activist (d. 1963)
 1927 - Brock Peters, American actor (d. 2005)
 1928 - Line Renaud, French singer and actress
 1929 – Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines
 1930 – Carlos Menem, former President of Argentina (d. 2021)
 1930 - Ahmad Jamal, American jazz pianist
 1932 – Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's fast food chain (d. 2002)
 1935 - Alain Berbérian, Lebanese-born French film director and screenwriter (d. 2017)
 1936 - Omar Suleiman, Vice President of Egypt (d. 2012)
 1937 – Polly Holliday, American actress
 1937 - Richard Petty, American racing driver
 1938 - David Owen, British politician
 1939 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet (d. 1976)
 1940 - Robert Broberg, Swedish singer and songwriter (d. 2015)
 1940 - Christopher Awdry, son of Wilbert Awdry
1940 – Kenneth Clarke, British politician
 1942 – Vicente Fox, former President of Mexico
 1943 - Iva Eenmaa, Estonian politician
 1943 - Walter Godefroot, Belgian singer
 1946 – Richard Axel, American neuroscientist
 1946 – Ron Silver, American actor (d. 2009)
 1947 – Larry David, American television producer
 1947 - Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton, English politician
 1949 – Roy Bittan, American musician (E Street Band)
1951  1975 
 1952 – Ahmed Ouyahia, former Prime Minister of Algeria
 1953 - Jean-Claude Borelly, French trumpeter and composer
 1953 - Mark Hart, American guitarist and keyboardist
 1954 - Pete Briquette, Irish bass player, songwriter and producer
 1954 – Chris Huhne, British politician
 1954 - Wendy Schaal, American actress
 1957 - Bret Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
 1959 - Mirandinha, Brazilian footballer
 1960 - Maria Lourdes Sereno, Filipina lawyer
 1961 - Samy Naceri, French actor
 1963 - Mark Kermode, English movie critic
 1964 – José Canseco, Cuban-American baseball player
 1964 – Ozzie Canseco, Cuban-American baseball player
 1964 - Doug Benson, American stand-up comedian and actor
 1964 - Alan Tait, Scottish rugby player and coach
 1966 - Jean-François Richet, French director, producer and screenwriter
 1967 - Claudio Biaggio, Argentine footballer
 1969 - Jenni Rivera, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress (d. 2012)
 1971 - Bryan Redpath, Scottish rugby player and coach
1971 - Samantha Giles, English actress
 1972 - Darren Shan, Irish author
 1973 – Peter Kay, English comedian
 1974 - Rocky Gray, American drummer, guitarist and songwriter
From 1976 
 1977 - Carl Froch, English boxer
 1978 - Jüri Ratas, Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia
 1978 - Owain Yeoman, Welsh actor
 1979 - Walter Davis, American triple jumper
 1979 – Joe Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
 1980 – Alexander Petersson, Latvian-Icelandic handball player
 1980 - Rachel Brown, English footballer
 1983 - Michelle Branch, American singer, songwriter and guitarist
 1984 - Ryan Keely, American pornographic actress, columnist and model
 1984 - Maarten Martens, Belgian footballer
 1984 – Johnny Weir, American figure skater
 1985 - Corey Bringas, American actor
 1985 - Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer (d. 2018)
 1985 – Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
 1986 – Lindsay Lohan, American actress
 1987 – Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (d. 2008)
 1988 – Lee Chung-Yong, South Korean footballer
 1988 - Porta, Spanish rapper
 1989 - Dev, American singer-songwriter and rapper
 1989 - Alex Morgan, American soccer player
 1990 – Roman Lob, German singer
1990 - Margot Robbie, Australian actress
 1990 - Danny Rose, English footballer
 1992 - Madison Chock, American ice dancer
 1993 - Deysi Cori, Peruvian chess player
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 626 - Li Jiancheng, Chinese prince (b. 589)
 626 - Li Yuanji, Chinese prince (b. 603)
 649 - Li Jing, Chinese general (b. 571)
 862 – Swithun, Anglo-Saxon bishop of Winchester (b. 789)
 1298 - Adolf, King of Germany (b. 1220)
 1504 - Stephen III of Moldavia (b. 1434)
 1566 – Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)
 1591 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian lute player and composer (b. 1520)
 1621 - Thomas Harriot, English astronomer and mathematician (b. 1560)
 1743 - Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1673)
 1778 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher (b. 1712)
 1822 – Denmark Vesey, freed slave (b. 1767) (hanged)
 1833 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1757)
 1843 – Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755)
 1850 – Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1788)
 1857 - Carlo Pisacane, Italian patriot and philosopher (b. 1818)
1901  2000 
 1903 – Ed Delahanty, American baseball player (b. 1867)
 1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician (b. 1836)
 1915 – Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (b. 1830)
 1916 - Louis Maxson, American archer (b. 1855)
 1929 - Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1893)
 1931 - Peter Kürten, German serial killer (b. 1883) 
 1932 – King Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
 1934 – Ernst Roehm, Nazi politician (b. 1887)
 1934 - Henry Hollis Horton, American politician, 40th Governor of Tennessee (b. 1866)
 1937 – Amelia Earhart, American pilot (b. 1897)
 1937 – Fred Noonan, American aviator (b. 1893)
 1946 - Mary Alden, American actress (b. 1883)
 1949 - Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian politician (b. 1882)
 1950 - Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer (b. 1872)
 1961 – Ernest Hemingway, American writer (b. 1899)
 1966 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet and author (b. 1900)
 1969 - Michael DiBiase, Italian-American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
1972 - Joseph Fielding Smith, American Mormon Church leader (b. 1876)
 1973 – Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
 1977 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (b. 1899)
 1986 - Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
 1989 – Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (b. 1909)
 1991 - Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
 1994 – Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (b. 1967)
 1997 – James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
 1999 – Mario Puzo, American writer (b. 1920)