Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
2015  Jeralean Talley, American supercentenarian (b. 1899)
2015  Roberto M. Levingston, Argentine general and politician (b. 1920)
2015  Clementa C. Pinckney, American politician and pastor (b. 1973)
2015  Nelson Doubleday, Jr., American publisher (b. 1933)
2015  John David Crow, American football player (b. 1935)
2015  Nicola Badalucco, Italian screenwriter and journalist (b. 1929)
2015  Chang Ch'ung-ho, Chinese-American poet, calligrapher and opera singer (b. 1914)
2016  Rubén Aguirre, Mexican actor (b. 1934)
2016  Attrell Cordes, American singer (P.M. Dawn) (b. 1970)
2016  Ron Lester, American actor (b. 1970)
2016  David Morgenthaler, American businessman (b. 1919)
2017  Baldwin Lonsdale, President of Vanuatu (b. 1950)
2017  Luis Lusquiños, Argentine politician (b. 1951)
2017  Venus Ramey, American beauty pageant contestant (b. 1924)
2017  Leopoldo S. Tumulak, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1944)
2017  Elias Burstein, American physicist (b. 1917)
2017  Pierre Imhasly, Swiss author and poet (b. 1939)
2017  Emil Wojtaszek, Polish politician (b. 1927)
2018  Elizabeth Brackett, American journalist (b. 1941)
2018  Zhao Nanqi, Korean-born Chinese general and politician (b. 1927)
2018  Igor Muradyan, Armenian political activist (b. 1957)
2019  Philipp Bobkov, Russian intelligence officer (b. 1925)
2019  Darwin Hindman, American politician (b. 1933)
2019  Mohamed Morsi, 5th President of Egypt (b. 1951)
2019  Salvatore Senese, Italian magistrate and politician (b. 1935)
2019  Gloria Vanderbilt, American socialite, fashion designer and artist (b. 1924)
2020  Marlene Ahrens, Chilean athlete (b. 1933)
2020  Tariq Aziz, Pakistani actor and television host (b. 1936)
2020  William C. Dement, American sleep researcher (b. 1928)
2020  Terry Dicks, British politician (b. 1937)
2020  György Kárpáti, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1935)
2020  Petr Král, Czech writer (b. 1941) 
2020  Jean Kennedy Smith, American diplomat (b. 1928)
2020  Willie Thorne, British snooker player (b. 1954)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Iceland)
 Day of German Unity, observed on June 17 in West Germany until 1990, to commemorate East Germany's Workers' Uprising in 1953
 Soviet occupation Day (Latvia)
 Father's Day (El Salvador, Guatemala)
 Bunker Hill Day (Sussex County, Massachusetts)
 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 618  Tang Dynasty rule begins in China, with the accession of Emperor Gaozu of Tang (Li Yuan).
 1053  Battle of Civitate: 3,000 horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey of Hauteville heavily defeat the troops of Pope Leo IX.
 1264  The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, as the first known meeting of an Irish legislature.
 1429  French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the English army under John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay, helping to turn the tide in the Hundred Years' War.
 1633  Charles I is crowned King of Scots at Saint Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh.
 1757  Battle of Polin: Between the Prussians under Frederick the Great and the Austrians in the Seven Years' War.
 1767  English captain Samuel Wallis sights Tahiti, possibly being the first European to sight the island in present-day French Polynesia.
 1778  American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia.
1812  The United States declares war on the United Kingdom, starting the War of 1812.
 1815  Battle of Waterloo: British, Russian and Prussian forces defeat a French army led by Napoleon Bonaparte.
 1830  The French colonisation of Algeria begins.
 1858  Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace with almost-identical conclusions about Evolution.
 1859  First successful climb of the Aletschhorn mountain in the Swiss Alps.
 1873  Susan B. Anthony is fined for her attempt to vote in the 1872 US Presidential Election.
 1897  Kyoto University is founded.
 1900  Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders that all foreigners be killed.
1901  2000 
 1908  Japanese immigration to Brazil begins.
 1908  The University of the Philippines is founded.
 1928  As a passenger, Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, from Newfoundland to Wales. Her pilot was Wilmer Shutz and Lou Gordon was her mechanic.
 1928  Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen goes missing on a rescue mission in the Arctic Ocean. His plane is most likely to have crashed near Svalbard.
 1932  FIBA, the world's governing authority on basketball, is founded in Geneva, Switzerland.
 1940  Charles de Gaulle makes the appeal of June 18th, calling on the French to resist the Nazis.
 1940  Winston Churchill makes his famous "Finest Hour" speech, to raise the spirits of the British people during World War II.
 1945  William Joyce is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda during World War II.
 1946  Italy is formally proclaimed a Republic after a referendum on June 2 when a majority of voters chose not to have the monarchy.
1953  Egypt becomes a Republic.
 1953  A US Air Force C-124 plane crashes and burns in Tokyo, Japan, killing 129 people.
 1954  Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
 1965  The US uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrillas in South Vietnam.
 1972  The Staines Air Disaster occurs near London Heathrow Airport.
 1979  US President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II arms reduction treaty in Vienna.
 1981  The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.
 1981  The Treaty of Basseterre is signed, creating the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States.
 1982  After defeat in the Falklands War, Argentine military leader Leopoldo Gualtieri resigns from office.
 1983  Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
 1983  Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and 9 other women are executed for their membership of the Baha'i faith.
1994  The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force attack a crowded bar in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland with assault rifles, killing 6 people.
 1996  Ted Kaczynski, the suspected Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
 2000  Ethiopia and Eritrea sign an agreement to end their border war.
From 2001 
 2006  Kazakhstan launches its first space satellite, KazSat.
 2007  The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire in Charleston, South Carolina kills 9 firefighters.
 2009  The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA robotic spacecraft, is launched.
 2010  The US' first execution by firing squad in 14 years occurs in the state of Utah.
 2014  2014 FIFA World Cup: The Spain national football team, defending champion, is knocked out at the group stage by the Chile national football team.  Four years earlier, then-defending champion, the Italy national football team, also got knocked out at this stage.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1269  Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (d. 1298)
 1318  Princess Eleanor of Woodstock (d. 1355)
 1466  Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d. 1539)
 1511  Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (d. 1892)
 1517  Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
 1667  Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
 1673  Antonio de Libres, Spanish composer (d. 1747)
 1677  Antonio Maria Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1726)
 1757  Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine political leader (d. 1833)
 1757  Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-French composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1831)
 1769  Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Anglo-Irish politician (d. 1822
 1799  William Lassell, English astronomer (d. 1880)
 1799  Prosper Menière, French physician (d. 1862)
 1812  Ivan Goncharov, Russian writer (d. 1891)
 1816  Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte, daughter of Napoleon (d. 1907) 
 1816  Jung Bahadur Rana, Nepali ruler (d. 1877)
1839  William H. Seward Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (d. 1920)
 1845  Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French doctor, won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922)
 1845  Gustav Storm, Norwegian historian, writer and professor (d. 1903)
 1850  Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (d. 1914)
 1857  Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1930)
 1868  Miklós Horthy, Hungarian regent (d. 1957)
 1870  Edouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician (d. 1954)
 1874  George Tupou II, King of Tonga (d. 1918)
 1877  James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (d. 1960)
 1882  Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist leader (d. 1949)
 1883  Mary Alden, American actress (d. 1946)
 1884  Edouard Daladier, French politician (d. 1970)
 1886  George Mallory, English mountaineer (d. 1924)
 1886  Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (d. 1978)
 1891  Mae Busch, Australian-American actress (d. 1946)
1896  Blanche Sweet, American actress (d. 1986)
 1897  Martti Marttelin, Finnish long-distance runner (d. 1940)
1901  1950 
 1901  Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
 1902  Boris Barnet, Soviet movie director, actor and boxer (d. 1965)
 1903  Jeanette McDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
 1903  Raymond Radiguet, French novelist and poet (d. 1923)
 1904  Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (d. 2003)
 1907  Frithjof Schuon, Swiss-American metaphysicist, philosopher and author (d. 1998)
 1910  Ray McKinley, American musician (d. 1995)
 1912  Glenn Morris, American decathlete and actor (d. 1974)
 1913  Robert Mondavi, American winemaker (d. 2008)
 1915  Red Adair, American firefighter (d. 2004)
 1916  Julio César Turbay Ayala, 25th President of Colombia (d. 2005)
 1917  Erik Ortvad, Danish painter (d. 2008)
 1917  Richard Boone, American actor (d. 1981)
 1918  Jerome Karle, American chemist (d. 2013)
 1918  Franco Modigliani, Italian economist (d. 2003)
 1920  Lode van den Bergh, Belgian writer
 1922  Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
1922  Donald Keene, Japanese and American scholor and expert of Japan studies (d. 2019)
 1923  Veronica Carstens, First Lady of Germany (d. 2012)
 1923  Szymon Szurmiej, Polish actor and director (d. 2014)
 1924  George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005)
 1925  Robert Arthur, American actor (d. 2008)
 1927  Eva Bartok, Hungarian-American actress (d. 1998)
 1929  Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher
 1929  Ann Mara, American businesswoman (d. 2015)
 1929  Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-American soldier (d. 2015)
 1931  Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 34th President of Brazil, 1995-2003
 1932  Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist
 1932  Geoffrey Hill, English poet (d. 2016)
 1936  Denny Hulme, New Zealand racing driver (d. 1992)
 1936  Barack Obama, Sr. (d. 1982), Kenyan father of Barack Obama
 1936  Norodom Monineath, Cambodian Queen Mother
 1936  Ronald Venetiaan, former President of Suriname
 1937  Vitaly Zholobov, Soviet cosmonaut
 1937  Jay Rockefeller, American politician
1939  Jack Herer, American writer and activist (d. 2010)
 1940  Mirjam Pressler, German writer (d. 2019)
 1941  Delia Smith, British cookery writer
 1941  Roger Lemerre, French footballer and manager
 1942  Thabo Mbeki, former President of South Africa
 1942  Roger Ebert, American movie critic (d. 2013)
 1942  Sir Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter and musician (The Beatles)
 1942  Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
 1942  Carl Radle, American bass player and producer
 1943  Raffaella Carra, Italian singer, dancer and actress
 1944  Salvador Sánchez Cerén, President of El Salvador
 1946  Maria Bethania, Brazilian singer 
 1946  Fabio Capello, Italian football manager
 1947  Bernard Giraudeau, French actor, director and writer (d. 2010)
 1949  Jaroslaw Kaczynski, former Prime Minister of Poland
 1949  Lech Kaczynski, President of Poland (d. 2010)
 1949  Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician (d. 1999)
 1950  Annelie Ehrhardt, German athlete
1950  Rod de'Ath, Welsh drummer (d. 2014)
 1950  Mike Johanns, 38th Governor of Nebraska
1951  1975 
 1951  Jerry McNerney, American politician
 1951  Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess player (d. 2014)
 1952  John Carl Buechler, American visual effects artist and film director (d. 2019)
 1952  Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress
 1952  Marcella Bella, Italian singer
 1952  Denis Herron, Canadian ice hockey player
 1952  Lee Soo-man, South Korean businessman
 1953  Sandy Allen, American, world's tallest woman (d. 2008)
 1953  Vladislav Terzyul, Ukrainian mountaineer (d. 2004)
 1954  Tinna Gunnlaugsdottir, Icelandic actress
 1955  Misia, Portuguese singer
 1957  Andrea Evans, American actress
 1957  Miguel Angel Lotina, Spanish footballer
 1957  Irene Epple, German skier
 1958  Peter Altmaier, German politician
 1961  Alison Moyet, British singer
 1962  Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (d. 2009)
 1964  Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003)
 1965  Robin Christopher, American actress
 1970  Ivan Kozak, Slovakian footballer
 1970  Katie Derham, English broadcaster
1971  Nigel Owens, Welsh rugby referee
 1971  Jason McAteer, English-Irish footballer and manager
 1971  Gaute Kivistik, Estonian journalist and author
 1972  Anu Tali, Estonian pianist and conductor
 1973  Julie Depardieu, French actress
 1973  Ray LaMontagne, American singer-songwriter and musician
 1973  Alexandros Papadimitriou, Greek hammer thrower
 1974  Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer
 1974  Sergey Sharikov, Russian fencer
 1975  Jem, Welsh singer-songwriter and producer
 1975  Jamel Debbouze, French-Moroccan actor and producer
From 1976 
 1976  Alana de la Garza, American actress
 1976  Blake Shelton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1978  Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player
 1978  Lilia Kopylova, Russian-English professional dancer
 1979  Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
 1980  Kevin Bishop, English actor and comedian
 1981  Marco Streller, Swiss footballer
 1982  Nadir Belhadj, Algerian footballer
 1982  Marco Borriello, Italian footballer
 1984  Janne Happonen, Finnish ski jumper
 1986  Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
 1986  Richard Madden, Scottish actor
 1987  Omar Arellano, Mexican footballer
 1987  Melanie Iglesias, American model and actress
 1987  Marcelo Martins Moreno, Bolivian footballer
 1988  Elini Dimoutsos, Greek footballer
 1988  Islam Slimani, Algerian footballer
 1988  Josh Dun, American musician (Twenty One Pilots)
 1989  Renee Olstead, American actress and singer
 1989  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Gabonese footballer
 1990  Luke Adam, Canadian ice hockey player
1990  Sandra Izbasa, Romanian gymnast
 1991  Rei Okamoto, Japanese model and actress
 1997  Max Records, American actor
 2006  Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkrouwe van Amsberg, Dutch royal
Up to 1950 
 741  Leo III the Issaurian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 685)
 1234  Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218)
 1291  King Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
 1464  Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1400)
 1629  Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander (b. 1577)
 1650  Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer (b. 1575)
 1673  Jeanne Mance, French settler in New France, present-day Quebec (b. 1606)
 1680  Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)
 1726  Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
 1742  John Aislabie, English politician (b. 1670)
 1749  Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674)
 1772  Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German jurist and philosopher (b. 1706)
 1794  François Nicolas Léonard Buzet, French revolutionary figure (b. 1760)
 1815  Thomas Picton, British general (b. 1758)
 1886  Prince Sigismund of Prussia (b. 1864)
 1902  Samuel Butler, English writer (b. 1835)
 1905  Carmine Crocco, Italian soldier (b. 1830)
 1915  Eufemio Zapata, brother of Emiliano Zapata (b. 1873)
1916  Max Immelmann, German flying ace (b. 1890)
 1917  Tito Maiorescu, Romanian Prime Minister (b. 1840)
 1922  Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851)
 1928  Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1872)
 1929  Carlo Airoldi, Italian marathon runner (b. 1869)
 1936  Maxim Gorky, Russian writer (b. 1868)
 1937  Gaston Doumergue, French politician (b. 1863)
 1942  Arthur Pryor, American trombonist and bandleader (b. 1870)
 1945  Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (b. 1886)
 1947  Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
1951  2010 
 1959  Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
 1963  Pedro Armendariz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
 1967  Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver (b. 1942)
 1967  Geki, Italian racing driver (b. 1942)
 1971  Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist (b. 1889)
 1974  Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
 1978  Walter C. Alvarez, American physician (b. 1884)
 1980  André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904) 
 1982  Djuna Barnes, American writer (b. 1892)
 1983  Mona Mahmudnizhad, Iranian Baha'i
 1986  Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1921)
 1989  I. F. Stone, American journalist (b. 1907)
 1992  Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896)
 1997  Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)
 2006  Vincent Sherman, American actor and director (b. 1906)
 2007  Bernard Manning, English comedian (b. 1930)
 2007  Hank Medress, American singer (The Tokens) (b. 1938)
 2008  Jean Delannoy, French movie director and producer (b. 1908)
 2010  José Saramago, Portuguese writer (b. 1922)
From 2011 
 2011  Frederick Chiluba, 2nd President of Zambia (b. 1943)
 2011  Yelena Bonner, Russian human rights activist (b. 1923)
 2011  Ulrich Biesinger, German footballer (b. 1934)
 2011  Clarence Clemons, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
 2012  Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrin, 109th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1919) 
 2013  Michael Hastings, American journalist (b. 1980)
 2014  Claire Martin, Canadian author (b. 1914)
 2014  Vladimir Popovkin, Russian general, Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency (b. 1957)
 2014  Horace Silver, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1928)
 2014  Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist, invented Kevlar (b. 1923)
 2014  Johnny Mann, American musician, composer, conductor and entertainer (b. 1928)
 2015  Ralph J. Roberts, American businessman (b. 1920)
 2015  Jack Rollins, American movie producer (b. 1915)
 2015  Allen Weinstein, American historian (b. 1937)
 2015  Patrick Eisdell Moore, New Zealand surgeon (b. 1928)
2016  Vittorio Merloni, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1933)
 2016  Paul Cox, Dutch-Australian film director (b. 1940)
 2016  Sverre Kjelsberg, Norwegian musician (b. 1946)
 2016  William J. Livsey, American army general (b. 1931)
 2016  Wu Jianmin, Chinese diplomat (b. 1939)
 2017  Pierluigi Chicca, Italian fencer (b. 1937)
 2017  Tim Hague, Canadian mixed martial artist (b. 1983)
 2017  Tony Liscio, American football player (b. 1940)
 2017  Shih Chun-jen, Taiwanese neurosurgeon (b. 1923)
 2017  Hans Breder, German-American artist (b. 1935)
 2017  Keith Farnham, American politician (b. 1947)
 2018  Walter Bahr, American soccer player (b. 1927)
 2018  Kostas Politis, Greek basketball player (b. 1942)
 2018  XXXTentacion, American rapper (b. 1998)
 2018  Big Van Vader, American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
 2018  Bertha Sanseverino, Uruguayan politician (b. 1946)
 2018  Nathan Shaham, Israeli writer (b. 1925)
 2019  Stephen Blaire, American bishop (b. 1941)
2020  Tibor Benedek, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1972)
 2020  John Bredenkamp, Zimbabwean rugby union player and businessman (b. 1940)
 2020  Dame Vera Lynn, British singer and actress (b. 1917)
Observances
 Autistic Pride Day
 Evacuation Day (Egypt)
 International Sushi Day
 National Day (Seychelles)

Days of the year
Up to 1950 
 936  Louis IV of France is crowned as the West Frankish King in the city of Laon.
 1179  Battle of Kalskinnet in takes place outside Nidaros (present-day Trondheim). Earl Erling Skakke is killed, as the battle changes the progress of the civil wars.
 1269  Louis IX of France orders that all Jews in public in France without their yellow badge should be fined 10 livres of silver.
 1306  The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Robert the Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
 1586  English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
 1770  Emmanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ is his work True Christian Religion.
 1815  A day after the Battle of Waterloo, the Battle of Wavre is fought, as the last battle of the Napoleonic Wars.
 1816  Battle of Seven Oaks between the Northwest Company and the Hudson's Bay Company near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1821  The Coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom takes place in London. The expensive (costs a lot of money) coronation banquet is the last-to-date at the crowning of a British monarch. 
 1846  The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules in Hoboken, New Jersey.
 1850  Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries the future King Charles XIII of Sweden.
 1862  US Congress prohibits Slavery in US territories.
 1865  Slaves in Galveston, Texas, are informed of their freedom, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Texas and thirteen other US states celebrate this as "Juneteenth".
 1867  Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico is executed by a firing squad.
 1875  The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
 1910  The first Father's Day is observed in Spokane, Washington. In some Western countries, including the US and UK, it is still observed on the third Sunday in June.
 1911  Norwegian football club Molde FK is founded.
1913  The Natives' Land Act in South Africa is introduced.
 1936  Max Schmeling defeats Joe Louis to win the World Heavyweight Boxing title.
 1938  In France, the Italy national football team wins the FIFA World Cup for a second time, defeating the Hungary national football team 4-2.
 1944  World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1951  2010 
 1953  After being convicted of espionage, Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg are executed in New York City.
 1961  Kuwait declares independence from the UK.
 1964  The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved in the US.
 1965  In Algeria, President Ahmed Ben Bella is removed in a military coup, and replaced by Houari Boumedienne.
 1970  The Patent Convention Treaty is signed.
 1976  King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Sommerlath.
 1978  Jim Davis' comic strip about a lazy and overeating cat named Garfield is published for the first time.
 1982  The body of "God's banker" Roberto Calvi is found hanging at the Blackfriars Bridge in London.
 1987  Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its worst terrorist attacks, on a supermarket in Barcelona.
 1990  The current international law defending indigenous peoples, the Indigenous Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
 1991  In the Croatian War of Independence, the Battle of Dubrovnik starts.
1991  Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
 1992  In Heavyweight Boxing, Evander Holyfield becomes world champion, defeating Larry Holmes.
 1999  The computer game Counter-strike is released.
 1999  In Seoul, South Korea, it is announced that Turin, Italy, is to host the 2006 Winter Olympics.
 2002  Steve Fossett starts his round-the-world journey in a hot-air balloon.
 2006  Prime Ministers of several Northern European countries participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway.
 2007  The Al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad kills 78 people.
 2009  Mass riots involving thousands of civilians and police officers break out in Shishou, China, after the unexplained death of a local chief.
 2010  Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden marries Daniel Westling.
From 2011 
 2012  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asks for asylum in Ecuador at the country's embassy in London.
 2013  At 10pm, Singapore's 3-hour PSI reading set an all-time high record of 321 in the Hazardous range, surpassing the previous record of 226 during the 1997 haze. This is the first time that Singapore's PSI has entered the Hazardous range. 
 2014  King Felipe VI of Spain ascends to the throne after the abdication of his father, King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
 2016  Virginia Raggi, of the Five Star Movement, is elected as the first female Mayor of Rome.
 2017  2017 Finsbury Park attack: A van is driven into a crowd of Muslim worshippers in London's Finsbury Park area, causing several injuries; the attacker is arrested by police.
 2018  The United States pulls out of the United Nations Human Rights council.
 2018  Canada decides to legalise the recreational use of cannabis.
Up to 1900 
 1301  Prince Morikuni, Japanese Shogun (d. 1333)
 1566  King James VI of Scotland (James I of England) (d. 1625)
 1595  Guru Hargobind, Indian religious figure (d. 1644)
 1606  James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
 1623  Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662)
 1701  François Rebel, French composer (d. 1775)
 1717  Johann Stamitz, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1757)
 1731  Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (d. 1822)
 1764  José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan national hero (d. 1850)
 1771  Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
 1790  John Gibson, Welsh sculptor (d. 1866)
 1792  Gustav Schwab, German writer (d. 1850)
 1795  James Braid, Scottish surgeon (d. 1860)
 1815  Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
 1816  William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist (d. 1899)
 1842  Carl Zeller, Austrian jurist, politician and composer (d. 1898)
 1846  Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
1850  David Jayne Hill, American diplomat and historian (d. 1932)
 1854  Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer (d. 1893)
 1861  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British field marshal and soldier (d. 1928)
 1861  Jose Rizal, Filipino national hero (d. 1896)
 1865  May Whitty, English actress (d. 1948)
 1871  Alajor Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper and physician (d. 1932)
 1874  Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (d. 1941)
 1877  Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
 1878  Yakov Yurovsky, Russian Bolshevik, chief executioner of the Tsarist family (d. 1938)
 1880  Jóhann Sigurjónsson, Icelandic playwright and poet (d. 1919)
 1884  Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French artist and writer (d. 1974)
 1891  John Heartfield, German painter and photomontage artist (d. 1968)
 1893  Madeleine Astor, American survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1940)
 1896  Wallis Simpson, American, Duchess of Windsor through marriage to the abdicated Edward VIII (d. 1986)
1897  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist (d. 1967)
 1897  Moe Howard, American comedian (d. 1975)
 1900  Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (d. 1986)
1901  1950 
 1901  Piero Gobetti, Italian journalist, intellectual and activist (d. 1926)
 1902  Guy Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1979)
 1903  Hans Litten, German jurist (d. 1938)
 1903  Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
 1903  Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
 1905  Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
 1906  Ernst Boris Chain, German biochemist, won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)
 1907  Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1985)
 1909  Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
 1909  Midori Naka, Japanese actress (d. 1945)
 1910  Paul Flory, American chemist (d. 1985)
 1910  Sydney Allard, English racing driver (d. 1966)
 1914  Alan Cranston, American politician (d. 2000)
 1914  Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1979)
 1915  Julius Schwartz, American publisher, writer and editor (d. 2004)
 1917  Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean politician (d. 1999)
 1919  Pauline Kael, American writer and critic (d. 2001)
1920  Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (d. 2002)
 1921  Doris Sands Johnson, Bahamian teacher, suffragette and politician (d. 1983)
 1921  Louis Jourdan, French actor (d. 2015)
 1922  Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d. 2009)
 1923  Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti, President of Paraguay (d. 1997)
 1926  Anneliese Rothenberger, German soprano (d. 2010)
 1928  Tommy DeVito, American singer and guitarist
 1930  Gena Rowlands, American actress
 1931  Sudarshan Agarwal, Indian politician (d. 2019)
 1932  Pier Angeli, Italian actress (d. 1971)
 1932  Marisa Pavan, Italian actress
 1933  Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
 1934  Gérard Latortue, Haitian politician
 1934  Terence Clark, English diplomat
 1936  Zacharias Heinesen, Faroese painter
 1937  André Glucksmann, French philosopher (d. 2015)
 1938  Jean-Claude Labrecque, Canadian director and cinematographer
 1938  Karl Moik, Austrian entertainer (d. 2015)
 1939  Al Wilson, American singer (d. 2008)
1940  Paul Shane, English actor (d. 2013)
 1941  Vaclav Klaus, former President of the Czech Republic
 1944  Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer-songwriter and poet
 1945  Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician and pro-Democracy campaigner, Nobel Peace Prize winner
 1945  Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian-Serb politician, on trial for war crimes
 1946  Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme, English diplomat
 1947  Salman Rushdie, Indian-born writer
 1948  Nick Drake, English musician and singer (d. 1974)
 1948  Phylicia Rashad, American actress
 1949  Hassan Shehata, Egyptian football manager
 1950  Ann Wilson, American singer
1951  1975 
 1951  Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
 1951  Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist (al-Qaeda)
 1952  Bob Ainsworth, British politician
 1953  Larry Dunn, American musician (Earth, Wind & Fire)
 1954  Kathleen Turner, American actress
 1955  Don McCarthy, British businessman (d. 2018)
 1957  Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Foreign minister (d. 2003)
 1958  Sergei Makarov, Soviet ice hockey player
 1959  Anne Hidalgo, French politician, Mayor of Paris
 1959  Christian Wulff, former President of Germany
 1959  Mark DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and trumpeter
 1959  Sophie Grigson, English cookery writer and chef
 1961  Bidhya Devi Bhandari, 2nd President of Nepal
 1962  Masanao Sasaki, Japanese footballer
 1962  Paula Abdul, American dancer and singer; American Idol judge
 1962  Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
 1964  Boris Johnson, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 1965  Sadie Frost, English actress
 1967  Bjorn Daehlie, Norwegian skier
1967  Mia Sara, American actress
 1969  Yoshiaki Sato, Japanese footballer
 1970  Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
 1970  Quincy Watts, American athlete
 1970  Brian Welch, American musician
 1972  Jean Dujardin, French actor
 1972  Brian McBride, American soccer player
 1972  Robin Tunney, American actress
 1972  Ilya Markov, Russian athlete
 1972  Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
 1972  Dagur B. Eggertsson, Icelandic politician, Mayor of Reykjavik
 1973  Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer and actress
 1973  Yasuhito Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
 1973  Nadiya, French singer
 1975  Hugh Dancy, British actor
From 1976 
 1977  Rebecca Loos, Dutch model
 1977  Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (d. 2007)
 1977  Sacha Modolo, Italian road-racing cyclist
 1978  Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
 1978  Zoe Saldana, American actress
 1978  Maria Maestro, Argentine actress and singer
 1979  José Kléberson, Brazilian footballer
 1980  Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress
 1980  Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer
 1982  Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer
 1982  Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player
 1983  Mark Selby, British snooker player
 1983  Macklemore, American rapper
 1984  Paul Dano, American actor
 1984  Helen George, English actress
 1985  Kajal Aggarwal, Indian actress
 1985  Chikashi Masuda, Japanese footballer
 1986  Dimitris Sialmas, Greek footballer
 1986  Marvin Williams, American basketball player
 1986  Marie Dorin Habert, French biathlete
 1986  Ragnar Sigurdsson, Icelandic footballer
 1987  Beattie Edmondson, English actress
 1987  Miho Fukuhara, Japanese singer
1990  Moa Hjelmer, Swedish athlete
 1992  Oscar Taveras, Dominican baseball player (d. 2014)
 1995  Blake Woodruff, American actor
 1996  Larisa Iordache, Romanian gymnast
 1998  Atticus Shaffer, American actor
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 1027  Romuald, Italian saint (b. 951)
 1179  Earl Erling Skakke, Norwegian nobleman
 1205  Roman the Great, Russian prince (b. 1151)
 1282  Eleanor de Montfort, wife of Llywelyn the Last (b. 1252)
 1542  Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (b. 1482)
 1545  Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
 1584  Francis, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
 1715  Nicolas Lemery, French chemist (b. 1645)
 1747  Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
 1762  Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (b. 1702)
 1820  Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
 1850  Margaret Fuller, American writer and journalist (b. 1810)
 1865  Evangelos Zappas, Greek patriot, philanthropist and businessman (b. 1800)
 1867  Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (b. 1832)
 1884  Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentine politician and writer (b. 1810)
 1897  Charles Boycott, British land owner in Ireland (b. 1832)
1901  2000 
 1902  Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
 1903  Herbert Vaughan, English archbishop (b. 1832)
 1922  Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1874)
 1937  J. M. Barrie, Scottish writer (b. 1860)
 1939  Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
 1940  Maurice Jaubert, French composer (b. 1900)
 1953  Ethel Rosenberg, American convicted of Espionage (b. 1915)
 1953  Julius Rosenberg, American convicted of Espionage (b. 1918)
 1957  Karl Plagge, German army officer and humanitarian (b. 1897)
 1968  James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (b. 1898)
 1975  Sam Giancana, American mafioso (b. 1908)
 1977  Olave Baden-Powell, founder of the Girl Guides (b. 1899)
 1979  Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar (b. 1888)
 1981  Lotte Reiniger, German illustrator (b. 1899)
 1984  Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
 1986  Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
 1986  Coluche, French comedian and actor (b. 1944)
 1993  William Golding, British writer (b. 1911)
1995  Peter Townsend, British military officer (b. 1914)
 2000  Christiane Herzog, First Lady of Germany (b. 1936)
From 2001 
 2003  Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
 2007  Antonio Aguilar, Mexican actor, singer, producer and screenwriter (b. 1919)
 2007  El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (b. 1937)
 2009  Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest man at the time of his death (b. 1895)
 2010  Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
 2010  Carlos Monsivais, Mexican writer (b. 1938)
 2012  Nobert Tiemann, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
 2013  Slim Whitman, American country music singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1923)
 2013  Gyula Horn, former Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
 2013  James Gandolfini, American actor (b. 1961)
 2014  Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (b. 1939)
 2014  Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (b. 1985)
 2014  Alan Moller, American meteorologist, storm chaser and photographer (b. 1950)
 2015  Phil Austin, American comedian, writer and musician (b. 1941)
 2015  Jack Aeby, American photographer (b. 1923)
 2015  James Salter, American writer (b. 1925)
2015  Harold Battiste, American jazz and R&B composer (b. 1931)
 2015  Fredrik Fasting Torgersen, Norwegian convicted murderer (b. 1934)
 2015  Wendell Holmes, American musician (b. 1944)
 2016  Götz George, German actor (b. 1938)
 2016  Anton Yelchin, Russian-American actor (b. 1989)
 2017  Brian Cant, English actor and television presenter (b. 1933)
 2017  Ivan Dias, Indian cardinal (b. 1936)
 2017  Otto Warmbier, American student (b. 1994)
 2017  Tony DiCicco, American soccer player and coach (b. 1948)
 2017  Tabaré Hackenbruch, Uruguayan politician (b. 1928)
 2017  Mustafa Tlass, Syrian military officer and politician (b. 1932)
 2018  Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (b. 1926)
 2018  Princess Elisabeth of Denmark (b. 1935)
 2018  Koko, American-bred Western lowland gorilla (b. 1971)
 2018  Ivan Drach, Ukrainian poet and screenwriter (b. 1936)
 2018  Hubert Green, American golfer (b. 1946)
 2018  Paul John Marx, French-born Papua New Guinean Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1935)
2019  Peng Xiaolian, Chinese film director (b. 1953)
 2019  Rafael de la Sierra, Spanish politician (b. 1948)
 2019  Dmytro Tymchuk, Ukrainian politician, military expert and blogger (b. 1972)
 2019  Etika, American YouTuber (b. 1990)
 2020  Ian Holm, English actor (b. 1931)
Observances 
 Day of Independent Hungary
 Juneteenth (United States)
 Labour Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
 Never Again Day (Uruguay)
 World Sickle Cell Day

References 

Days of the year
Up to 1950 
 4  Roman Emperor Augustus adopts Tiberius.
 221  Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir.
 363  Roman Emperor Julian is killed during retreat from the Sassanid Empire. Troops on the battlefield proclaim Jovian Emperor.
 687  Benedict II becomes Pope.
 1409  Western Schism: The Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
 1483  Richard III becomes king of England.
 1492  Mont Aiguille, in the Western Alps in France is climbed for the first time by Antoine de Ville.
 1541  Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima.
 1718  Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia (son of Peter I of Russia) dies mysteriously after his father sentenced him to death for plotting against him. (occurred on July 7 in the Gregorian calendar)
 1723  After a siege, and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
1740  A combined force of Spanish, free Blacks, and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine, Florida in the War of Jenkins' Ear.
 1819  The bicycle is patented.
 1830  King George IV of the United Kingdom dies. His brother succeeds him as William IV of the United Kingdom.
 1843  The Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, effectively giving Hong Kong to the United Kingdom.
 1848  End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
 1857  First Investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
 1860  In Durban, South Africa, Africa's first railway is opened.
 1870  Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the US.
 1879  Egypt sells its parts of the Suez Canal to the United Kingdom.
 1886  Henri Moissan isolates elemental fluorine for the first time.
 1889  Bangui, now-capital city of the Central African Republic, is founded.
 1905  A telegram is sent to Iceland for the first time, from Cornwall.
1906  The 1906 French Grand Prix is held, as the first Grand Prix motor racing event ever held.
 1917  World War I: US troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany.
 1920  Antonio Maria da Silva becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
 1924  American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
 1934  President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
 1934  Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
 1940  World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and northern part of Bukovina.
 1945  The United Nations Charter is signed.
 1945  In Germany, the CDU political party is founded.
 1948  The Western allies start an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union has blockaded West Berlin.
1951  2000 
 1954  The FIFA World Cup's most goal-filled match occurs in Lausanne, Switzerland, as the Austria national football team wins 7-5 against the Switzerland national football team.
 1959  Ingemar Johansson of Sweden becomes Boxing Heavyweight World Champion when he defeats Floyd Patterson.
 1959  The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
 1960  Former British Protectorate of Somaliland (British Somaliland) gains its independence.
 1960  Madagascar becomes independent from France.
 1963  John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" at a speech in Berlin.
 1964  The Beatles release the album A Hard Day's Night.
 1966  The Basel Canton in Switzerland allows women to vote.
 1973  On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 persons were killed at an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
 1974  The first retail product (a pack of chewing gum) was sold using a barcode reader.
 1975  Indira Gandhi establishes authoritarian rule in India.
1976  The CN Tower in Toronto is officially opened.
 1977  The last concert of Elvis Presley takes place.
 1978  Air Canada Flight 221 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine.
 1979  Muhammad Ali retires.
 1987  Convention against Torture entered into force.
 1991  The Yugoslav People's Army  begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia and Croatia.
 1995  Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak survives an assassination attempt in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
 1995  Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani becomes Emir of Qatar after deposing his father, Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani in a bloodless coup.
 1996  Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot dead in Dublin, Ireland.
 1997  Bertie Ahern becomes Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
 1997  The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment.
1997  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the U.S.), the first book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published.
 2000  Human Genome Project: The completion of the first rough map of the human genetic code is announced.
From 2001 
 2003  The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.
 2006  East Timorese Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri resigns after weeks of political unrest.
 2007  In Zheijiang, China, the Huangzhou Bay Bridge is opened.
 2007  Lina Hahne, a 23-year-old medical student, is crowned Miss Sweden after the original winner was dethroned.
 2013  Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard loses a vote within the Australian Labor Party against previous Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who succeeds her the next day.
 2014  2014 FIFA World Cup: FIFA hands out its heaviest FIFA World Cup ban to Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini two days earlier. The Uruguayan Football Association appeals the decision.
2015  Islamist Terror attacks occur in France, Kuwait and Tunisia. A local businessman is decapitated in Southeast France; At least 27 people killed in a bombing at a mosque in Kuwait; A gun attack on foreign tourists in Sousse, Tunisia, kills at least 38 people.
 2015  The Supreme Court of the United States rules that all states of the United States are to recognize same-sex marriage.
 2016  Chile defeats Argentina in the final of the Copa América Centenario. Argentina's Lionel Messi announces his retirement from the national team after the match.
 2017  Theresa May's Conservative Party agrees a deal with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party in order to stay in power in the United Kingdom.
 2018  The United States Supreme Court, in a majority decision, rules in favour of Donald Trump's travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority countries.
Up to 1900 
 1501  Cho Shik, Korean scholar, politician, educator and poet (d. 1572)
 1557  Leandro Bassano, Italian painter (d. 1622)
 1575  Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)
 1582  Johannes Schultz, German composer (d. 1653)
 1653  Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV (d. 1743)
 1681  Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (d. 1708)
 1689  Edward Holyoke, American clergyman and academic (d. 1769)
 1726  Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (d. 1796)
 1730  Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
 1741  John Langdon, American politician (d. 1819)
 1753  Antoine de Rivarol, French writer (d. 1801)
 1760  Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1836)
 1786  Sunthorn Phu, Thai poet (d. 1855)
 1817  Branwell Bronte, English painter and poet (d. 1848)
 1819  Abner Doubleday, American major general (d. 1893)
 1821  Bartolomé Mitre, 6th President of Argentina (d. 1906)
 1824  William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish physicist (d. 1907)
1826  Adolf Bastian, German polymath (d. 1905)
 1839  Sam Watkins, American Confederate soldier and writer (d. 1901)
 1854  Robert Laird Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1937)
 1865  Bernard Berenson, art connoisseur (d. 1959)
 1866  George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923)
 1871  Johan Anker, Norwegian sailor (d. 1940)
 1880  Mitchell Lewis, American movie actor (d. 1956)
 1892  Pearl S. Buck, American writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1973)
 1893  Big Bill Broonzy, American blues musician and composer (d. 1958)
 1895  George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1956)
 1897  Viola Dana, American actress (d. 1987)
 1898  Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978)
 1899  Maria Nikolaevna Romanova, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra Fyodorovna (d. 1918)
 1899  Elvy Kalep, Estonian pilot and artist (d. 1989)
1901  1950 
 1902  Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor (d. 2010)
 1904  Peter Lorre, Hungarian actor (d. 1964)
 1904  Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951)
 1906  Edward Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana (d. 1979)
 1908  Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973)
 1909  Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997)
 1909  Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director and producer (d. 1985)
 1911  Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer (d. 1956)
 1912  Jay Silverheels, actor (d. 1980)
 1913  Aimé Césaire, French-Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
 1913  Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist (d. 2010)
 1914  Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician (d. 1991)
 1914  Laurie Lee, English poet, novelist and screenwriter (d. 1997)
 1914  Wolfgang Windgassen, German tenor (d. 1974)
 1916  Giuseppe Taddei, Italian baritone (d. 2010)
 1919  Richard Neustadt, political historian (d. 2003)
 1920  Jean-Pierre Roy, Canadian baseball player (d. 2014)
1922  Eleanor Parker, American actress (d. 2013)
 1922  Dick Smith, American special effects make-up artist (d. 2014)
 1924  Richard Bull, American actor (d. 2014)
 1925  Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1970)
 1925  Wolfgang Unzicker, German chess player (d. 2006)
 1927  Dimitar Iliev Popov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 2015)
 1928  Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
 1929  Milton Glaser, American graphic designer, typographer and teacher
 1930  Jackie Fargo, American professional wrestler (d. 2013)
 1933  Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (d. 2014)
 1933  David Winnick, English politician
 1934  Dave Grusin, American jazz pianist
 1934  Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965)
 1936  Robert Maclennan, British politician
 1936  Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (d. 2015)
 1936  Benjamin Adekunle, Nigerian general (d. 2014)
 1936  Hal Greer, American basketball player
 1937  Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist (d. 2013)
1938  Neil Abercrombie, American politician, 7th Governor of Hawaii
 1939  Chuck Robb, American politician, 64th Governor of Virginia
 1942  Gilberto Gil, first Minister of Culture of Brazil, singer, songwriter and musician
 1944  Wolfgang Weber, German footballer
 1945  Dwight York, musician, fashion consultant, cult leader and child molester
 1947  Peter Sloterdijk, German philosopher
 1948  Sergei Bodrov, Russian movie director, screenwriter and producer
 1949  Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist (d. 2015)
 1950  Michael Paul Chan, American actor
1951  1975 
 1951  Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)
 1951  Jürgen Rüttgers, German politician
 1952  Gordon McQueen, Scottish footballer
 1952  Simon Mann, English mercenary
 1954  Luis Arconada, Basque-Spanish footballer
 1954  Steve Barton, American actor, singer and dancer (d. 2001)
 1955  Mick Jones, British musician, guitarist with The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite
 1956  Chris Isaak, American pop singer and actor
 1956  Patrick Mercer, British politician
 1957  Pietro Paolo Virdis, Italian footballer
 1957  Philippe Mabboux, French organist and composer
 1957  Patty Smyth, American singer-songwriter
 1958  Pedro Cateriano, former Prime Minister of Peru
 1958  Riho Sibul, Estonian singer and guitarist
 1959  Mark McKinney, Canadian actor and screenwriter
 1960  Mark Durkan, Northern Irish politician
 1961  Greg Lemond, cyclist
 1961  Toni Barry, British voice actress
 1961  Terri Nunn, American singer (Berlin)
 1962  Jerome Kersey, American basketball player (d. 2015)