Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1840  Ingram Bywater, British classical philologist (d. 1914)
1846  Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist political leader (d. 1891)
1850  Lafcadio Hearn, writer (d. 1904)
1869  Hans Spemann, German doctor and zoologist, won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
1869  Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-American anarchist, feminist, free love advocate (d. 1940)
1870  Frank Rattray Lillie, zoologist, embryologist (d. 1947)
1880  Helen Keller, American writer and spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)
1882  Eduard Spranger, philosopher, psychologist and educator (d. 1963)
1884  Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (d. 1962)
1885  Guilhermina Suggia, Portuguese cellist (d. 1950)
1885  Pierre Montet, French Egyptologist (d. 1966)
1888  Antoinette Perry, American actress and director (d. 1946)
1890  Roberto Urdaneta, 44th President of Colombia (d. 1972)
1891  Vladimir Petlyakov, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1942)
1892  Paul Colin, French illustrator (d. 1985)
1893  Ivan Belov, Soviet military (d. 1938)
1899  Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981)
1901  1950 
1904  Alberta Vaughn, American actress (d. 1992)
1905  Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
1906  Catherine Cookson, British writer (d. 1998)
1906  Vernon Watkins, Welsh-American poet (d. 1967)
1907  John McIntire, American actor (d. 1991)
1908  Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazilian writer (d. 1967)
1909  Billy Curtis, American actor (d. 1988)
1910  Pierre Joubert, French artist (d. 2002)
1913  Willie Mosconi, professional billiards player (d. 1993)
1914  Robert Aickman, English writer (d. 1981)
1914  Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (d. 1988)
1915  Grace Lee Boggs, American writer, activist and feminist (d. 2015)
1918  Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer (d. 2017)
1921  Muriel Pavlow, English actress
1925  Michael Dummett, English philosopher (d. 2011)
1925  Jerome Felder, AKA Doc Pomus, American musician, composer (d. 1991)
1927  Otto Herbert Hajek, German sculptor (d. 2005)
1928  Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995)
1930  Ross Perot, American billionaire and politician (d. 2019)
1930  Tommy Kono, American weightlifter (d. 2016)
1931  Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist
1931  Magali Noel, French actress and singer (d. 2015)
1932  Anna Moffo, American soprano (d. 2006)
1934  Alberto Bevilacqua, Italian writer, poet and journalist (d. 2013)
1935  Laurent Terzieff, French actor (d. 2010)
1938  Bruce Babbitt, American politician
1938  Yevgeniy Ivchenko, Soviet race walker
1940  Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, Scottish politician
1941  Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish movie director (d. 1996)
1942  Bruce Johnston, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1942  Danny Schechter, American television producer, moviemaker, blogger and media critic (d. 2015)
1949  Rafael Chirbes, Spanish writer (d. 2015)
1949  Vera Wang, American fashion designer
1951  1975 
1951  Mary McAleese, former President of Ireland
1951  Julia Duffy, American actress
1951  Ulf Andersson, Swedish chess player
1952  Madan Kumar Bhandari, Nepalese politician (d. 1993)
1952  Mary Rosenblum, American author (d. 2018)
1955  Isabelle Adjani, French actress
1956  Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince and astronaut
1957  Gabriella Dorio, Italian middle-distance runner
1958  Lisa Germano, American musician
1958  Magnus Lindberg, Finnish pianist and composer
1959  Clint Boon, musician best known for playing keyboards in the band Inspiral Carpets
1960  David Cholmondeley, British aristocrat
1960  Craig Hodges, American basketball player
1961  Tim Whitnall, British voice actor
1961  Meera Syal, British actress, comedienne and writer
1962  Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong actor
1962  Michael Ball, British singer and actor
1962  Carrie Gracie, British journalist and news presenter, former BBC News China editor
1962  Sunanda Pushkar, Indian-Canadian businesswoman (d. 2014)
1962  Ollanta Humala, 94th President of Peru
1963  Wendy Alexander, Scottish politician
1963  Jay Karnes, American actor
1964  Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch director, producer and screenwriter
1964  Chuck Person, American basketball player and coach
1964  Taimak, American martial arts actor and stuntman
1965  Simon Sebag Montefiore, English journalist, historian and author
1965  Ange Postecoglou, Australian footballer and coach
1966  J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
1966  Aigars Kalvitis, former Prime Minister of Latvia
1969  Alessandro Esseno, Italian composer and pianist
1969  Viktor Petrenko, Ukrainian figure skater
1970  John Eales, Australian rugby player
1970  Jim Edmonds, American baseball player
1970  Vitamin C, pop singer
1971  Jo Frost, English nanny and television personality
1971  Dipendra of Nepal (d. 2001)
1971  Régine Cavagnoud, French skier (d. 2001)
1972  Dmytro Tymchuk, Ukrainian politician, military expert and blogger (d. 2019)
1974  Christian Kane, American actor and singer
1974  Christopher O'Neill, British-American businessman and husband of Princess Madeleine of Sweden
1975  Tobey Maguire, American actor
From 1976 
1976  Nekima Levy-Pounds, American lawyer, professor, activist and writer
1977  Raúl, Spanish footballer
1977  Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer
1978  Anna Kumble, British singer
1978  Courtney Ford, American actress
1978  Marc Terenzi, American singer
1979  Fabrizio Miccoli, Italian footballer
1980  Kevin Pietersen, South African-born English cricketer
1980  Takahiro Futagawa, Japanese footballer
1981  Andrew Embley, Australian footballer
1981  Cléber Santana, Brazilian footballer (d. 2016)
1983  Alsou, Russian singer
1984  José Holebas, German-born Greek footballer
1984  Gökhan Inler, Swiss footballer
1984  Khloe Kardashian, American reality television personality
1985  Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
1985  James Hook, Welsh rugby player
1985  Nico Rosberg, Finnish-German racing driver
1986  LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter
1986  Sam Claflin, English actor
1987  Ed Westwick, English actor
1988  Célia Sasic, German footballer
1988  Matthew Spiranovic, Australian footballer
1988  Alanna Masterton, American actress
1989  Matthew Lewis, English actor
1990  Taylor Phinney, American cyclist
1991  Madylin Sweeten, American actress
1992  Sohee, South Korean singer, dancer and actress
1999  Chandler Riggs, American actor
Up to 1900 
363  Emperor Julian (b. 313)
1149  Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch (b. 1099)
1458  Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
1462  Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
1497  Michael An Gof, Cornish rebel
1497  Thomas Flamank, Cornish rebel
1574  Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist (b. 1511)
1648  Arngrimur Jonsson, Icelandic academic (b. 1568)
1655  Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
1794  Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
1794  Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French nobleman (b. 1715)
1794  Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French noblewoman (b. 1729)
1823  Pierre Antoine Delalande, French explorer and naturalist (b. 1787)
1829  James Smithson, founder of the Smithsonian Institute
1831  Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
1839  Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire (b. 1780)
1844  Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (b. 1800)
1844  Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1805)
1852  Lemuel H. Arnold, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1792)
1878  Sarah Helen Whitman, American poet (b. 1803)
1901  2000 
1907  Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
1916  Stefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
1917  Karl Allmenroder, German World War I ace (b. 1896)
1934  Francesco Buhagiar, 2nd Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1876)
1935  Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (b. 1857)
1944  Milan Hodza, Slovakian politician (b. 1878)
1946  Juan Antonio Ríos, President of Chile (b. 1888)
1952  Elmo Lincoln, actor (b. 1889)
1957  Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1924)
1957  Malcolm Lowry, novelist (b. 1909)
1959  Giovanni Pastrone, Italian filmmaker (b. 1883)
1960  Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
1961  Hélène Dutrieu, French pilot (b. 1877)
1970  Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
1986  George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
1989  Alfred Jules Ayer, British philosopher (b. 1910)
1991  Molly Geertsema, Dutch politician (b. 1918)
1996  Albert R. Broccoli, American movie producer (b. 1909)
1998  Kerim Tekin, Turkish singer
1999  Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek military leader (b. 1919)
2000  Pierre Pflimlin, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
From 2001 
2001  Jack Lemmon, American actor and movie director (b. 1925)
2001  Tove Jansson, Finnish writer of the Moomin books (b. 1914)
2002  John Entwistle, English musician, bass player for The Who (b. 1944)
2003  David Newman, American director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1937)
2004  Darrell Russell, NHRA drag racer (b. 1968)
2004  Fred Ramdat Misier, President of Suriname (b. 1926)
2005  Shelby Foote, American historian and author (b. 1917)
2007  Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
2011  Elaine Stewart, American actress (b. 1930)
2013  Alain Mimoun, French runner (b. 1921)
2013  Stefano Borgonovo, Italian footballer (b. 1964)
2014  Leslie Manigat, 43rd President of Haiti (b. 1930)
2014  Bobby Womack, American musician (b. 1944)
2014  Rachid Solh, Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1926)
2014  Rex Whitehead, Australian cricket umpire (b. 1948)
2014  Tymon Mabaleka, Zimbabwean footballer and music producer (b. 1950)
2015  Chris Squire, English bass guitarist (Yes) (b. 1948)
2015  Zvi Elpeleg, Polish-Israeli diplomat (b. 1926)
2016  Bud Spencer, Italian swimmer and actor (b. 1929)
2016  Simon Ramo, American engineer, business leader and author (b. 1913)
2016  Alvin Toffler, American writer and futurist (b. 1928)
2016  Elmer Cravalho, American politician (b. 1926)
2016  Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Danish composer (b. 1932)
2016  Harry Halbreich, Belgian musicologist (b. 1931)
2016  Mack Rice, American songwriter and singer (b. 1933)
2017  Geri Allen, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1957)
2017  Piotr Bikont, Polish journalist, critic and author (b. 1955)
2017  Michael Bond, English author (Paddington Bear) (b. 1926)
2017  Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor (b. 1960)
2017  Suh Yun-bok, South Korean athlete (b. 1923)
2017  Ric Suggitt, Canadian rugby coach (b. 1958)
2017  Peter L. Berger, Austrian-American sociologist (b. 1929)
2017  Anthony Young, American baseball player (b. 1966)
2017  Toytown, English eventing horse (b. 1992)
2017  Better Talk Now, American racehorse (b. 1999)
2018  Harlan Ellison, American science fiction writer (b. 1934)
2018  Joe Jackson, American talent manager, patriarch of the Jackson family (b. 1928)
2018  Steve Soto, American punk guitarist (b. 1963)
2018  Vladimir Andreyevich Uspensky, Russian mathematician and writer (b. 1930)
2018  Paola Paternoster, Italian discus and javelin thrower (b. 1935)
2018  Steven Hilliard Stern, Canadian-American director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
2018  Steve Ditko, American comic book artist and writer (b. 1927)
2019  Gualberto Castro, Mexican singer, actor and television personality (b. 1934)
2019  David Golomb, Israeli politician (b. 1933)
2019  Justin Raimondo, American author (b. 1951)
Observances 
 Independence Day in Djibouti
 Canadian Multiculturalism Day
 Seven Sleepers Day in Germany (According to legend, the weather on this date is supposed to be the same as in the rest of the Summer)
 National Unity Day (Tajikistan)
 Mixed Race Day (Brazil)

Days of the year
Up to 1950 
 217 BC  Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
 168 BC  Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War.
 816  Pope Stephen IV is elected.
 1593  Battle of Sisak: Slovene – Croat troops defeat the Turks.
 1622  Portuguese forces repel a Dutch invasion at the Battle of Macau during the Dutch-Portuguese War.
 1633  The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
 1634  Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn marries Saskia van Uylenburgh.
 1675  The Greenwich Royal Observatory is founded.
 1774  The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules for governance of the colony of Quebec in what was then British North America.
 1783  The poisonous cloud from the erupting Laki volcanic crater in Iceland reaches Le Havre, on France's English Channel coast.
1813  War of 1812: After learning of American plans to carry out a surprise attack on the Beavers Dams, Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn James FitzGibbon.
 1825  British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
 1866  Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
 1870  The United States Congress creates the United States Department of Justice.
 1893  The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
 1898  Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
 1906  The Flag of Sweden is adopted as the country's official national flag.
 1907  The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
1911  George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII, who had died in 1910.
 1918  The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 people and injures 127 in Hammond, Indiana. 
 1919  Law student Jens Oliver Lisberg first raises the current Flag of the Faroe Islands in the village of Famjin.
 1922  Herrin massacre: 19 strikeboarders and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
 1936  Austrian philosopher Moritz Schlick is murdered by a former student at the University of Vienna.
 1937  Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France.
 1940  France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany.
 1941  Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II.
 1941  First Croatian anti-fascist armed unit (partisans) founded near Sisak, Croatia.
 1941  June coup in Lithuania against the Soviets starts.
 1942  Erwin Rommel is promoted to the rank of Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk, in Libya.
1944  Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre.
 1945  World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
 1950  The longship replica Ormen Friske , en route from Birka to Rotterdam, broke apart in the North Sea because of improper construction. All 15 crew members drowned.
1951  2000 
 1955  The Disney film Lady and the Tramp has its premiere.
 1957  The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time.
 1962  An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies killing 113
 1963  Pope Paul VI elected by College of Cardinals.
 1964  François Duvalier (Papa Doc) is officially declared "President for Life" in Haiti.
 1974  In Hamburg, during the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the East Germany national football team defeats the West Germany national football team 1-0 in a Group Stage match, with the goal scored by Jürgen Sparwasser.
 1976  Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
 1978  Pluto's moon Charon is discovered.
 1984  William Schnoebelen and his wife Sharon are "saved" by a tract from Chick Publications. There is some debate over the reliability of this, however.
 1986  Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scores the Hand of God goal and the "Goal of the Century" against England during the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.
1989  Dublin City University and University of Limerick are established in Ireland.
 1990  Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin is removed.
 1993  Dr. Charles Epstein of Tiburon, California, United States is injured by a mail bomb sent by the Unabomber.
 1996  The Quake computer game is released.
 2000  A ferry sinking on the Yangtze River in Sichuan province, China, kills 131 people.
From 2001 
 2002  An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people
 2003  The largest hailstone ever recorded falls from a thunderstorm in Aurora, Nebraska, United States.
 2004  In Belgium, Marc Dutroux is sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, raping and murdering young girls.
 2006  At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Ronaldo of Brazil equals Gerd Müller's overall World Cup goal-scoring record of 14. He beats the record five days later.
 2008  Filipino ferry Princess of the Stars runs aground in a typhoon, killing around 800 people.
 2009  Two Washington, DC metro trains collide, killing 9 people.
 2010  The longest match in professional tennis history begins at Wimbledon, in which John Isner defeats Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the fifth, and deciding, set two days later.
 2012  President of Paraguay Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and is succeeded by Federico Franco.
2012  A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter airplane is shot down by Syrian Armed Forces, killing both pilots on board. This worsens the already strained relations between Turkey and Syria.
 2019  Mohamed Ould Ghazouani is elected President of Mauritania, in what would be the country's first peaceful transfer of power since gaining independence from France in 1960.
 2022  June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake occurs, killing at least 1000 people.
Up to 1900 
662  Emperor Ruizong of Tang of China (d. 716)
1000  Robert I, Duke of Normandy (d. 1035)
1680  Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)
1684  Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1762)
1738  Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813)
1757  George Vancouver, English navigator, naval surveyor (d. 1798)
1767  Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
1792  James Baeumont Neilson, Scottish inventor (d. 1865)
1805  Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian jurist and activist (d. 1872)
1820  James Hutchison Stirling, Scottish physician and philosopher (d. 1909)
1821  Theodor Möbius, German philologist (d. 1890)
1830  Theodor Leschetizky, Polish pianist, professor and composer (d. 1915)
1837  Ernst Ziller, German architect (d. 1923)
1837  Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
1845  Richard Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1906)
1856  H. Rider Haggard, writer (d. 1925)
1861  Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914)
1864  Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (d. 1909)
1871  Arthur Wynne, English-American inventor of the Crossword (d. 1945)
1871  William MacDougall, English psychologist and polymath (d. 1938)
1874  Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, shooter, gymnast and athlete (d. 1930)
1874  Walter F. Otto, German scholar (d. 1958)
1876  Gwen John, Welsh painter (d. 1939)
1879  John J. Dempsey, American politician, 13th Governor of New Mexico (d. 1958)
1880  Johannes Drost, Dutch backstroke swimmer (d. 1954)
1884  James Rector, American sprinter (d. 1949)
1885  Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
1887  Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
1888  Harold Ritz Burton, 45th Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1964)
1890  Aleksander Warma, Estonian commander and politician (d. 1970)
1892  Emil Telmanyi, Hungarian violinist and conductor (d. 1988)
1896  Leonard W. Murray, Canadian admiral (d. 1971)
1897  Norbert Elias, German sociologist (d. 1990)
1898  Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
1899  Michal Kalecki, Polish economist (d. 1970)
1899  Artur Kukk, Estonian wrestler (d. 1958)
1899  Richard Gurley Drew, American engineer (d. 1980)
1900  Oskar Fischinger, German animator, filmmaker and painter (d. 1967)
1901  1930 
1902  Marguerite De La Motte, American movie actress (d. 1950)
1903  Carl Hubbell, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1988)
1903  John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
1906  Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American writer and aviator (d. 2001)
1906  Billy Wilder, Austrian-born director (d. 2002)
1907  Marta Colvin, Chilean sculptor (d. 1995)
1909  Buddy Adler, American film producer (d. 1960)
1909  Katherine Dunham, American dancer (d. 2006)
1909  Mike Todd, American movie and theatre producer (d. 1958)
1910  John Hunt, Indian-British mountaineer (d. 1998)
1910  Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
1910  Konrad Zuse, German engineer (d. 1995)
1912  Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1983)
1919  Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1980)
1920  Paul Frees, cartoon voice-over artist (d. 1986)
1920  Jovito Salonga, Filipino politician (d. 2016)
1921  Joseph Papp, director, producer (d. 1991)
1922  Osvaldo Fattori, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
1924  Géza Vermes, Hungarian-British scholar (d. 2013)
1926  Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish writer and filmmaker (d. 2015)
1926  Rachid Solh, Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2014)
1928  Steingrimur Hermannsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 2010)
1928  Ralph Waite, American actor (d. 2014)
1929  Bruce Kent, British social activist
1930  Yuri Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1998)
1930  Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and young victim of crime (d. 1932)
1930  John Joseph Scanlan, Roman Catholic prelate
1930  Walter Bonatti, Italian mountaineer (d. 2011)
1931  1950 
1932  Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
1932  Prunella Scales, British actress
1932  Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Queen Consort of Iran (d. 2001)
1933  Dianne Feinstein, United States Senator and former Mayor of San Francisco
1933  Libor Pesek, Czech conductor
1936  Kris Kristofferson, American country music singer, songwriter and actor
1936  Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian composer and musician
1936  Izatullo Khayoyev, Prime Minister of Tajikistan (d. 2015)
1937  Bernie McGann, American musician (d. 2013)
1938  Virginio De Paoli, Italian footballer (d. 2009)
1939  Robert Kramer, American actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1939  Ada Yonath, Israeli chemist, Nobel Prize winner
1940  Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1940  Esther Rantzen, British television presenter
1941  Marco Aurélio Garcia, Brazilian politician (d. 2017)
1941  Ed Bradley, American journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent (d. 2006)
1943  Brit Hume, American FOX News anchor and commentator
1943  Eumir Deodato, Brazilian pianist, composer and producer
1943  Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor
1944  Helmut Dietl, German movie director (d. 2015)
1944  Gérard Mourou, French physicist
1945  Rainer Brüderle, German politician
1946  Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club)
1946  Józef Oleksy, Polish politician (d. 2015)
1947  Octavia E. Butler, American science fiction author (d. 2006)
1947  David Lander, American actor, baseball scout (Laverne and Shirley)
1947  David Landau, British-Israeli journalist (d. 2015)
1947  Bruno Latour, French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist
1947  Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana (d. 2020)
1948  Todd Rundgren, American singer, songwriter and recording producer
1949  Meryl Streep, American actress
1949  Lindsay Wagner, American actress
1949  Alan Osmond, American singer
1949  Larry Gunstrom, American bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1949  Elizabeth Warren, American politician
1949  Carlo Petrini, Italian journalist, activist and writer
1950  Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
1950  Adrian Nastase, Romanian politician
1951  1970 
1951  Craig Gruber, American musician (d. 2015)
1952  Graham Greene, Canadian actor
1952  Alastair Stewart, English journalist and newsreader
1953  Cyndi Lauper, American singer
1953  Wim Eijk, Dutch archbishop
1954  Wolfgang Becker, German film director and writer
1954  Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977)
1956  Wang Guozhen, Chinese poet (d. 2015)
1956  Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani politician
1956  Derek Forbes, Scottish musician (Simple Minds)
1957  Danny Baker, English comedy writer, journalist, DJ and screenwriter
1957  Arkadi Ghukasyan, former President of Nagorno-Karabakh
1958  Bruce Campbell, American actor
1960  Erin Brockovich, American activist
1960  Tracy Pollan, American actress
1961  Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician
1962  Bobby Gillespie, Scottish singer and musician
1962  Clyde Drexler, former NBA player
1962  Campino, German singer
1962  Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress and musician
1963  Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler
1964  Amy Brenneman, American actress
1964  Miroslav Kadlec, Czech footballer
1964  Dan Brown, American writer (The Da Vinci Code)
1964  John Penrose, English politician
1965  Uwe Boll, German director
1965  L'ubomir Moravcik, Slovakian footballer
1968  Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player
1968  Melinda Nadj Abonji, Hungarian-Swiss writer and musician
1970  Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician and businessman
1970  Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies)
1971  1985 
1973  Carson Daly, American talk show host, MTV VJ
1974  Jo Cox, British politician (d. 2016) 
1974  Joseph Vijay, Indian actor
1974  Sabina Nore, Austrian artist
1974  Donald Faison, American actor
1976  Gordon Moakes, English singer and musician
1978  Champ Bailey, American football player
1978  Dan Wheldon, British IRL race car driver (d. 2011)
1979  Jai Rodriguez, American television personality
1979  Leire Martinez, Basque singer and songwriter
1980  Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player
1981  Sione Lauaki, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2017)
1981  Chris Urbanowicz, British guitarist (Editors)
1981  Monty Oum, American animator (d. 2015)
1982  Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
1984  Janko Tipsarevic, Serbian tennis player
1984  Giorgos Apostolidis, Greek basketball player
1984  Dustin Johnson, American golfer
1984  Ruben Ivan Martinez, Spanish footballer
1985  Sofaklis Schortsanitis, Greek basketball player
1985  Rosa Kato, Italian-Japanese model and actress
From 1986 
1986  Dwayne Anderson, American basketball player
1986  Ramin Ott, American Samoan footballer
1987  Nikita Rukavytsya, Ukrainian-Australian footballer
1987  Danny Green, American basketball player
1987  Cory Gunz, American rapper and songwriter
1987  Lee Min Ho, South Korean actor, model and singer
1988  Portia Doubleday, American actress
1989  Jung Yong-hwa, South Korean musician, singer and songwriter
1989  Andreas Mikkelsen, Norwegian rally driver
1989  Karla Crome, British actress
1989  Cédric Mongongu, Congolese footballer
1990  Sebastian Jung, German footballer
1991  Giuseppe De Luca, Italian footballer
1991  Katie Jarvis, English actress
1991  Emil Larsen, Danish footballer
1993  Caydee Denney, American figure skater
1993  Loris Karius, German footballer
2006  Anna Hursey, Welsh table tennis player

Deaths
Up to 1950 
431  Paulinus of Nola, Latin poet
1276  Pope Innocent V (b. 1225)
1429  Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
1535  John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, executed on Tower Hill (b. 1469)
1691  Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1642)
1699  Josiah Child, English merchant, economist and politician (b. 1630)
1727  King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)
1813  Anton Graff, Swiss painter (b. 1736)
1868  Heber C. Kimball, Mormon church leader (b. 1801)
1872  Rudecindo Alvarado, Argentine general (b. 1795)
1874  Howard Staunton, English chess player (b. 1810)
1892  Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (b. 1819)
1896  Benjamin Bristow, American politician (b. 1832)
1905  Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1913  Stefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (b. 1875)
1925  Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)
1931  Armand Fallières, President of France (b. 1841)
1933  Henry Birkin, English racing driver (b. 1896)
1935  Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
1936  Moritz Schlick, German philosopher (b. 1882)
1942  August Froehlich, German priest and Resistance activist (b. 1891)
1945  Isamu Cho, Japanese general (b. 1895)
1945  Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (b. 1887)
1945  Jambyl, KazakhstanI folk singer (b. 1846)
1951  2000 
1956  Walter de la Mare, English author and poet (b. 1873)
1959  Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)
1961  Maria of Yugoslavia, Romanian-born Consort of Yugoslavia (b. 1900)
1965  David O. Selznick, American movie producer (b. 1902)
1969  Judy Garland, American singer and actress (b. 1922)
1974  Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
1977  Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1978  Jens Otto Krag, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1914)
1979  Louis Chiron, Monegasque racing driver (b. 1899)
1987  Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (b. 1899)
1988  Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b. 1916)
1990  Ilya Frank, Russian physicist (b. 1908)
1992  Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)
1993  Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
1995  Al Hansen, American artist, grandfather of rock musician Beck (b. 1927)
1995  Yves Congar, French theologian and cardinal (b. 1904)
1997  Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1919)
From 2001 
2001  Luis Carniglia, Argentine footballer and coach (b. 1917)
2002  Darryl Kile, American Major League baseball player (b. 1968)
2002  Ann Landers, American writer (b. 1918)
2004  Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990)
2004  Bob Bemer, American computer pioneer (b. 1920)
2008  George Carlin, American comedian and actor (b. 1937)
2013  Allan Simonsen, Danish racing driver (b. 1978)
2013  Henning Larsen, Danish architect (b. 1925)
2013  Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, Scottish politician (b. 1945)
2014  Fouad Ajami, Lebanese-American university professor and writer (b. 1945)
2015  Laura Antonelli, Italian actress (b. 1941)
2015  James Horner, American film score composer (b. 1953)
2015  James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife, Scottish nobleman (b. 1929)
2016  Amjad Sabri, Pakistani singer (b. 1970)
2016  Joan Acker, American sociologist (b. 1924)
2016  John William Ashe, Antiguan diplomat (b. 1954)
2016  Vasily Bochkaryov, Russian politician (b. 1949)
2016  Jim Boyd, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
2016  Marc Allan Feldman, American physician and politician (b. 1960)
2016  David J. Hickson, British theorist (b. 1931)
2016  Harry Rabinowitz, British composer and conductor (b. 1916)
2017  Gunter Gabriel, German singer, musician and composer (b. 1942)
2017  Frank Kush, American football player (b. 1929)
2017  Keith Loneker, American football player and actor (b. 1971)
2017  Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (b. 1925)
2017  Nikolai Zhugan, Soviet-Russian pilot (b. 1917)
2018  Geoff Case, Australian rules football player (b. 1935)
2018  Nahum Korzhavin, Russian-American poet (b. 1925)
2018  Dick Leitsch, American LGBT rights activist (b. 1935)
2018  Deanna Lund, American actress (b. 1937)
2018  Geoffrey Oryema, Ugandan-born French guitarist (b. 1953)
2018  Vinnie Paul, American rock music drummer (b. 1964)
2018  Waldir Pires, Brazilian politician (b. 1926)
2018  Sally Pierone, American art director and psychiatrist (b. 1921)
2019  Judith Krantz, American author (b. 1928)
2019  Leevi Lehto, Finnish poet, translator and programmer (b. 1951)
2019  Se'are Mekonnen, Ethiopian army officer
2019  Stepan Shakaryan, Azerbaijani-Armenian composer (b. 1935)
Holidays 
Roman Catholic Church: Feast day of Thomas More
Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatia)
Teachers' Day (El Salvador)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 229  Sun Quan declares himself Chinese Emperor of the Wu Dynasty.
 1280  The Emirate of Granada defeats the Kingdom of Castile in the Battle of Moclin.
 1295  Pope Boniface VIII enters Rome.
 1305  Flemish-French peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
 1314  Start of the Battle of Bannockburn south of Stirling, Edward II of England and Robert I of Scotland met in battle. Scotland won and Edward fled the field and Scotland.
 1532  Henry VIII & François I sign secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
 1611  The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in the Atlantic Ocean; they are never heard from again.
 1661  Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catharina of Portugal.
 1683  William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Native Americans in Pennsylvania.
 1713  French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
1724  Russia and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople.
 1757  Battle of Plassey – 3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj-ud-Dawlah at Plassey.
 1758  Seven Years War: Battle of Krefeld – British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
 1760  Seven Years War: Battle of Landshut – Austria beats Prussia.
 1794  Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kyiv.
 1810  John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
 1812  War of 1812: The United Kingdom removes the restrictions on American commerce, therefore eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
 1848  Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
 1858  Six-year-old Edgardo Mortara is seized by Papal authorities.
 1860  The US Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
 1865  American Civil War: At Fort Towson in Oklahoma Territory Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
1868  Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for the typewriter.
 1887  The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
 1888  Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for US president.
 1894  International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
 1897  The first women's international chess tournament begins in London.
1901  2000 
 1913  Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
 1914  Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta
 1915  First wholesale slaughter of Armenian men in Harput (Kharpert), Turkey.
 1919  Estonian War of Independence: Decisive defeat of the "Baltische Landswehr" in the Battle of Cesis.
 1924  German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is captured.
 1925  Mount Logan, Canada's highest peak at 5959 metres above sea level, in the Yukon, is climbed for the first time, by a team of 6 climbers, led by Albert MacCarthy.
 1931  Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.  
 1938  The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
 1938  Marineland opens near St. Augustine, Florida.
 1940  World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now-occupied France.
1941  Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence (June independence) of Lithuania from Soviet Union; it was only brief however as Nazis occupied Lithuania a few weeks later.
 1942  Holocaust: The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place, on a train full of Jews from Paris.
 1943  World War II: British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Asciangihi in the Mediterranean Sea, after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
 1944  Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen.
 1946  An earthquake strikes Vancouver Island.
 1947  The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
 1956  Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt.
 1958  The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
1959  Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career).
 1959  A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people.
 1960  Japan signs security treaty with the U.S.
 1961  Having been signed on December 1, 1959, the Antarctic Treaty goes into effect.
 1967  Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
 1968  74 are killed and 150 injured in a soccer stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
 1969  Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring chief Earl Warren.
1972  Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
 1974  In Switzerland, the Canton of Jura separates from the Canton of Bern.
 1979  Sydney: New South Wales Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern Suburbs Railway. It operates as a shuttle between Central & Bondi Junction until full integration with the Illawarra Line during 1980.
 1983  Pope John Paul II meets imprisoned Solidarity leader Lech Walesa in Poland.
 1985  A Boeing 747 carrying Air India Flight 182 blew up at 31,000 feet (9500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, South of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
 1989  The movie Batman is released in the United States.
 1990  Moldova declares independence.
1992  Mafia boss John Gotti is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering on April 2.
 1992  Yitzhak Rabin wins the Israeli parliamentary elections.
 2000  A ferry sinks on the Yangtze river, near Luzhou, in China's Sichuan province, killing 131 people.
From 2001 
 2001  A magnitude 8.4 earthquake strikes off the coast of Peru.
 2006  Harriet the tortoise dies as one of the world's oldest living creatures, aged around 176 years.
 2013  Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tightrope.
 2013  The health of former South African President Nelson Mandela is first reported to be in a "critical" state.
 2014  Three journalists working for Al-Jazeera are sentenced to prison in Egypt on accusations of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.
 2016  The Colombian government and FARC guerrillas sign a peace treaty.
 2016  United Kingdom European Union membership referendum: A majority (51.9%) vote to leave the European Union, making the United Kingdom the first independent country to do so. Majorities in Scotland, Northern Ireland and London all vote to remain.
 2018  Thousands of people protest in Central London against Brexit, two years to the day of the United Kingdom's narrow-majority vote to leave the European Union.
2018  A bomb is detonated at a political rally attended by Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in what is considered as an attempt to kill him.
 2018  Tham Luang cave rescue: 12 boys and their assistant football coach get stuck in the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand; they are discovered alive on July 2, with the internationally followed rescue being completed on July 10.
 2019  Ekrem Imamoglu wins the re-run of the mayoral election in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city; he defeats Binali Yildirim, who was formerly Prime minister of Turkey in Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party.
Up to 1900 
 47 BC  Ptolemy Caesarion of Egypt (d. 30 BC)
 1373  Queen Joan II of Naples (d. 1435)
 1435  Francis II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1488)
 1456  Margaret of Denmark, Queen Consort of Scotland (d. 1486)
 1534  Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582)
 1612  André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (d. 1660)
 1668  Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744)
 1703  Marie Leszczynska, Queen Consort of France (d. 1768)
 1711  Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Italian instrument maker (d. 1786)
 1763  Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (d. 1814)
 1772  Cristobal Mendoza, 1st President of Venezuela (d. 1829)
 1800  Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)
 1815  Robert Milligan McLane, American politician and diplomat (d. 1898)
 1824  Carl Reinecke, German musician and composer (d. 1910)
 1863  Sándor Bródy, Hungarian author and journalist (d. 1924)
 1875  Carl Milles, Swedish sculptor (d. 1955)
 1875  Norman Pritchard, Indian athlete (d. 1929)
1884  Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1979)
 1887  Ernst Rowohlt, German publisher (d. 1960)
 1888  Bronson M. Cutting, American politician (d. 1935)
 1888  Lee Moran, American actor (d. 1961)
 1889  Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (d. 1966)
 1894  King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972)
 1894  Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
 1897  Alexandru Giugaru, Romanian actor (d. 1986)
1901  1950 
 1906  King Tribhuvan of Nepal (d. 1955)
 1907  James Meade, English economist (d. 1995)
 1909  Georges Rouquier, French actor, movie director and screenwriter (d. 1989)
 1910  Milt Hinton, American jazz musician (d. 1990)
 1910  Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)
 1910  Gordon B. Hinckley, American Mormon leader (d. 2008)
 1912  Alan Turing, British mathematician (d. 1954)
 1913  William P. Rogers, American politician (d. 2001)
 1916  Ernst Willimowski, Polish footballer (d. 1987)
 1919  Hermann Gmeiner, founder of SOS Children's Villages (d. 1986)
 1919  Mohamed Boudiaf, Algerian political leader (d. 1992)
 1923  Johnny Barnes, Bermudian entertainer (d. 2016)
 1923  Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian Resistance activist (d. 1945)
 1923  Walter Wolfgang, German-British socialist and peace activist (d. 2019)
 1925  John Shepherd-Barron, Scottish inventor (d. 2010)
 1925  Art Modell, American businessman (d. 2012)
 1925  Oliver Smithies, British-American geneticist (d. 2017)
1926  Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italian sculptor
 1927  Bob Fosse, American choreographer (d. 1987)
 1928  Klaus von Dohnanyi, former Mayor of Hamburg
 1929  June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
 1930  Donn F. Eisele, American colonel, pilot and astronaut (d. 1987)
 1931  Ola Ullsten, former Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 2018)
 1931  Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (d. 1981)
 1935  Maurice Ferré, 32nd Mayor of Miami, Florida
 1936  Richard Bach, American writer and pilot
 1936  Jan Hoet, Belgian art historian (d. 2014)
 1936  Costas Simitis, former Prime Minister of Greece
 1937  Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland
 1940  Stuart Sutcliffe, British musician (d. 1962)
 1940  Wilma Rudolph, American runner (d. 1994)
 1940  Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d. 2003)
 1940  Derry Irvine, Scottish lawyer, judge and politician
 1940  Willie Wallace, Scottish footballer
 1942  Martin Rees, English cosmologist and astrophysicist
 1943  Albert Pintat, former Prime Minister of Andorra
1943  James Levine, American conductor
 1943  Vint Cerf, American computer scientist and author
 1945  John Garang, South Sudanese politician (d. 2005)
 1948  Clarence Thomas, American jurist
 1948  Nabarun Bhattacharya, Indian author (d. 2015)
 1950  Orani Joao Tempesta, Brazilian cardinal
1951  1975 
 1951  Michèle Mouton, French rally driver
 1951  Sergei Skripal, Russian double-agent
 1953  Armen Sarkissian, former Prime Minister and current President of Armenia
 1955  Maggie Philbin, English television and radio presenter
 1955  Jean Tigana, French footballer
 1956  Randy Jackson, American music producer
 1957  Frances McDormand, American actress
 1957  Jochen Schweizer, German entrepreneur
 1960  Tatsuya Uemura, Japanese musician and programmer
 1960  Donald Harrison, American saxophonist, composer and producer
 1960  Fadil Vokrri, Kosovar footballer (d. 2018)
 1961  Andrea Borella, Italian fencer
 1961  John Nicolson, Scottish politician
 1963  Colin Montgomery, Scottish golfer
 1964  Joss Whedon, American television director and movie director
 1964  Kenji Honnami, Japanese footballer
 1965  Paul Arthurs, British guitarist (Oasis)
 1969  Fernanda Ribeiro, Portuguese athlete
 1970  Yann Tiersen, French musician and songwriter
 1972  Zinedine Zidane, French footballer
1972  Go Oiwa, Japanese footballer
 1972  Selma Blair, American actress
 1973  Marie N, Latvian singer
 1973  Eisuke Nakanishi, Japanese footballer
 1975  KT Tunstall, Scottish singer
 1975  Shuhei Terada, Japanese footballer
From 1976 
 1976  Patrick Vieira, French footballer
 1976  Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress, singer, songwriter and model
 1977  Hayden Foxe, Australian footballer
 1977  Miguel Angel Angulo, Spanish footballer
 1977  Jason Mraz, American singer
 1978  Memphis Bleek, American rapper
 1978  Frédéric Leclercq, French singer-songwriter and musician
 1980  Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player
 1980  Melissa Rauch, American actress
 1981  Antony Costa, British singer (Blue)
 1982  Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
 1983  José Manuel Rojas, Chilean footballer
 1984  Takeshi Matsuda, Japanese swimmer
 1984  Duffy, Welsh singer
 1987  Alessia Filippi, Italian swimmer
 1988  Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast
 1989  Jordan Nolan, Canadian ice hockey player
 1989  Ayana Taketatsu, Japanese voice actress
 1989  Lauren Bennett, British dancer, singer and model
 1989  Billie Kay, American professional wrestler
 1991  Katie Armiger, American singer
 1992  Luiza Galiulina, Uzbek gymnast
1995  Hao Yun, Chinese swimmer
 1995  Danna Paola, Mexican singer and actress
 2004  Mana Ashida, Japanese actress and singer
Up to 2000 
 79  Vespasian, Roman Emperor (b. 9)
 679  Aethelthryth, Queen of Northumbria
 1018  Henry I, Margrave of Austria
 1222  Constance of Aragon, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1179)
 1516  Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
 1555  Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (b. 1470)
 1565  Dragut, Ottoman general (b. 1485)
 1582  Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b. 1537)
 1615  Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b. 1545)
 1677  William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1647)
 1686  William Coventry, English statesman (b. 1628)
 1691  Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1642)
 1707  John Mill, English theologian (b. 1645)
 1779  Mikael Sehul, Ethiopian warlord (b. 1691)
 1806  Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and philosopher (b. 1723)
 1832  James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
 1836  James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1773)
 1856  Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (b. 1806)
 1881  Matthias Jakob Scheiden, German botanist (b. 1804)
1891  Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804)
 1893  William Fox, four-times Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1812)
 1893  Theophilus Shepstone, British-South African politician (b. 1817)
 1914  Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Indian philosopher and spiritual reformist (b. 1838)
 1926  Jon Magnusson, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1859)
 1945  Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian Resistance activist (b. 1923)
 1959  Boris Vian, French polymath (b. 1920)
 1970  Roscoe Turner, American aviator (b. 1895)
 1980  Varahagiri Venkata Giri, 4th President of India (b. 1894)
 1980  Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi (b. 1946)
 1981  Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1907)
 1986  Moses I. Finley, British historian (b. 1912)
 1991  Lea Padovani, Italian movie actress (b. 1920)
 1995  Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (b. 1918)
 1995  Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (b. 1914)
 1996  Andreas Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
 1997  Betty Shabazz, American activist (b. 1934)
1998  Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (b. 1911)
 1999  Buster Merryfield, English actor (b. 1920)
 2000  Peter Dubovsky, Slovakian footballer (b. 1972)
From 2001 
 2001  Yvonne Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets (b. 1934)
 2001  Corinne Calvet, French actress (b. 1925)
 2006  Aaron Spelling, American TV producer (b. 1923)
 2006  Harriet, Galapagos Tortoise (b. 1830)
 2008  Arthur Chung, former President of Guyana (b. 1918)
 2009  Hanne Hiob, German actress (b. 1923)
 2009  Ed McMahon, American television personality (b. 1923)
 2010  Mohammed Mzali, Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1925)
 2011  Gene Colan, American comic book artist (b. 1926)
 2011  Dennis Marshall, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1985)
 2011  Peter Falk, American actor (b. 1927)
 2012  Alan McDonald, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1963)
 2012  Brigitte Engerer, French pianist (b. 1952)
 2013  Bobby Bland, American singer-songwriter (b. 1930)
 2013  Richard Matheson, American author (b. 1926)
 2014  Steve Viksten, American television writer and voice actor (b. 1960)
 2015  Chris Woodhead, English educationist (b. 1946)
 2015  Helmuth Lohner, Austrian actor and theatre director (b. 1933)