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1951  2000 
 1951 – Japan Airlines is established.
 1954 – First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio, also involving Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni. The lack of credit given to Walter Bonatti causes a lot of controversy in the years to come.
 1956 – Jim Laker sets extraordinary record at Old Trafford in the fourth Test of taking nineteen wickets in a first-class match (the previous best was seventeen.
 1961 – At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain.
 1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes).
 1969 - The Mariner 6 probe flies by Mars and sends photographs to Earth.
 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
1973 – A Delta Air Lines jetliner crashes while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89
 1975 – In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.
 1976 – NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1.
 1976 – Flooding on the Big Thompson River in Colorado kills 143 people.
 1977 – David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam serial killer, carries out his last murder, shooting Stacey Moskowitz.
 1981 – A 7-week strike by Major League Baseball players ends.
 1987 – A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
 1988 – 32 people are killed when a bridge collapses in Penang, Malaysia.
 1991 – The United States and Soviet Union sign the START I arms reduction treaty.
 1991 – A Soviet OMON attacks a Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai.
 1992 – China General Aviation flight 7552 crashes at take-off from Nanking, to Xiamen.
1992 – A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into mountain south of Kathmandu, Nepal killing 113.
 1992 – The Republic of Georgia joins the United Nations.
 1996 – MIL-STD-1750A is declared inactive for use in new designs.
 1998 – The United Kingdom imposes a total landmine ban.
 1999 – NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
 2000 – The Knesset (Israeli parliament) chooses Moshe Katsav as the next President.
From 2001 
 2006 – Fidel Castro transfers power in Cuba to his brother Raul Castro.
 2007 - Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
 2008 – Scientists report that the Phoenix spacecraft had confirmed the presence of frozen water on the planet Mars.
 2012 - Michael Phelps beats Larisa Latynina's record number of Olympic medals.
 2013 - Zimbabwe holds a Presidential election. The main candidates are long-time President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. Mugabe's ZANU-PF Party claims a landslide victory, but Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change declares the election null and void on the grounds of vote-rigging.
 2014 - Shortly before midnight, gas explosions occur in the city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, killing at least 26 people.
 2015 - Beijing is given the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
2017 - Los Angeles, California, volunteers to host the 2028 Summer Olympics, effectively giving the 2024 Summer Olympics to Paris.
 2017 - US President Donald Trump fires White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, only ten days after giving him the job.
Up to 1900 
 1143 – Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165)
 1396 – Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467)
 1443 - Albert III, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
 1526 - Augustus, Elector of Saxony (d. 1586)
 1527 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
 1598 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654)
 1702 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (d. 1768)
 1704 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (d. 1752)
 1718 – John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772)
 1720 - Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, French soldier and statesman (d. 1788)
 1724 – Noël-François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801)
 1737 – Princess Augusta of Great Britain (d. 1813) (sources vary between July 31 and August 31)
 1777 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman and priest (d. 1849)
 1800 – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (d. 1882)
 1803 – John Ericsson, Swedish engineer (d. 1889)
 1804 – George Baxter, English engraver and printer (d. 1867)
1812 – Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Empress of Brazil (d. 1873)
 1816 – Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1867)
 1816 - George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870)
 1822 – Abram Stevens Hewitt, Mayor of New York City (d. 1903)
 1824 - Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, French aristocrat (d. 1890)
 1825 – William S. Clark, American senator and scholar (d. 1885)
 1826 - George Hoadly, 36th Governor of Ohio (d. 1902)
 1828 - François-Auguste Gevaert, Belgian composer (d. 1908)
 1831 - Ilya Ulyanov, Russian teacher and father of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1886)
 1835 – Henri Brisson, French politician (d. 1912)
 1839 - Ignacio Andrade, 25th President of Venezuela (d. 1925)
 1843 – Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (d. 1918)
 1847 – Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1905)
 1854 - José Canalejas, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1912)
 1858 – Richard Dixon Oldham, English geologist (d. 1936)
 1863 - Sidney Johnston Catts, 22nd Governor of Florida (d. 1936)
1875 – Jacques Villon, French painter and printmaker (d. 1963)
 1875 - Kunio Yanagita, Japanese scholar (d. 1962)
 1877 - Louisa Bolus, South African botanist and taxonomist (d. 1970)
 1880 – Munshi Premchand, Indian writer (d. 1936)
 1886 – Fred Quimby, American movie producer (d. 1965)
 1886 - Harry Tate, American soccer player (d. 1954)
 1892 - Joseph Charbonneau, French-Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1959)
 1892 - Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist (d. 1986)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
 1902 - Gubby Allen, Australian-English cricketer (d. 1989)
 1904 - John Carberry, American cardinal (d. 1998)
 1907 – Roy Milton, American jump blues singer, drummer and bandleader (d. 1983)
 1908 - Franz Meyers, German politician (d. 2002)
 1911 – George Liberace, American musician (d. 1983)
 1912 – Milton Friedman, American economist (d. 2006)
 1912 - Irv Kupcinet, American columnist (d. 2003)
 1913 – Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
 1914 – Louis de Funès, French actor and comedian (d. 1983)
 1914 - Mario Bava, Italian movie director, cameraman and screenwriter (d. 1980)
 1914 – Raymond Aubrac, French Resistance activist (d. 2012)
 1916 - Bill Todman, American game show producer (d. 1979)
 1918 – Paul D. Boyer, American chemist (d. 2018)
 1918 – Hank Jones, American pianist (d. 2010)
 1919 – Primo Levi, Italian writer and chemist (d. 1987)
 1919 - Robert Morgenthau, American lawyer (d. 2019)
1921 – Peter Benenson, British founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005)
 1922 - Lorenzo Antonetti, Italian cardinal (d. 2013)
 1923 – Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish-born record company executive (d. 2006)
 1923 - Jimmy Evert, American tennis player and coach (d. 2015)
 1923 - Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist, engineer and inventor of Kevlar (d. 2014)
 1926 – Hilary Putnam, American philosopher (d. 2016)
 1927 - Bunny Carr, Irish television presenter (d. 2018)
 1928 - Bill Frenzel, American politician (d. 2014)
 1929 – Don Murray, American actor
 1929 – José Santamaría, Uruguayan footballer
 1930 - Oleg Popov, Russian clown (d. 2016)
 1931 - Nick Bollettieri, American tennis coach
 1931 – Ivan Rebroff, German singer (d. 2008)
 1932 – Ted Cassidy, American actor (d. 1979)
 1932 – John Searle, American philosopher
 1932 - Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern (d. 2016)
 1933 - Cees Nooteboom, Dutch writer
 1935 - Yvon Deschamps, Canadian comedian, actor and author
 1935 - Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (d. 2015)
1937 - Isabelle Daniels, American sprinter (d. 2017)
 1938 - Saeed Saleh, Egyptian actor (d. 2014)
 1939 - Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (d. 2015)
 1939 - France Nuyen, French actress
 1940 - Roy Walker, Irish comedian, actor and television host
 1941 – Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (d. 2004)
 1943 - Lobo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1943 – William Bennett, American politician
 1944 – Jonathan Dimbleby, British journalist and TV presenter
 1944 - Robert C. Merton, American economist
 1944 - Geraldine Chaplin, American-British actress
 1944 - David Norris, Irish scholar, senator and activist
 1945 – William Weld, 68th Governor of Massachusetts
 1947 - Richard Griffiths, British actor (d. 2013)
 1947 - Hubert Védrine, French politician
 1948 - Russell Morris, Australian singer
 1950 - Richard Berry, French actor, director and singer
1951  1975 
 1951 – Evonne Goolagong, Australian tennis player
 1951 - Barry Van Dyke, American actor
 1952 - Alan Autry, American football player, actor and politician
 1952 – Helmuts Balderis, Latvian ice hockey player
 1952 - Faye Kellerman, American author
 1953 – Ted Baillieu, Australian politician
 1956 – Deval Patrick, American politician, 71st Governor of Massachusetts
 1956 - Mark Arden, British actor
 1956 – Michael Biehn, American actor and movie producer
 1957 - Mark Thompson, English media executive, former Director-General of the BBC
 1957 - Daniel Ash, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1958 – Bill Berry, American musician in band R.E.M.
 1959 – Andrew Marr, British broadcast journalist
 1959 – Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist
 1960 - Dale Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
 1961 - Frank Gardner, English journalist and correspondent
 1961 - Peter O'Brien, American drummer (Orleans)
 1962 - Jackie Bird, Scottish broadcast journalist
 1962 - Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist
1962 – Wesley Snipes, American actor
 1963 – Brian Skrudland, Canadian ice hockey player
 1963 - Fatboy Slim, English DJ and musician
 1964 – Wendell Alexis, American basketball player
 1964 - Jean-Paul Vonderburg, Swedish footballer
 1964 – Jim Corr, Irish musician
 1965 – J. K. Rowling, British writer (Harry Potter)
 1965 - Pat Finn, American actor
 1965 - Scott Brooks, American basketball coach
 1965 - Mario Von Appen, German canoeist
 1966 - Tatsuya Ishihara, Japanese animator and director
 1966 - Yoshiyuki Matsuyama, Japanese footballer
 1966 – Dean Cain, American actor
 1966 – Valdas Ivanauskas, Lithuanian footballer and football manager
 1967 – Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005)
 1969 - Antonio Conte, Italian footballer
 1969 - Loren Dean, American actor
 1970 - Ben Chaplin, English actor
 1971 - Christina Cox, Canadian actress
 1971 - Elivélton, Brazilian footballer
 1973 - Jacob Aagaard, Danish-Scottish chess player
 1973 – Abdulaziz Khathron, Saudi Arabian footballer
1973 – Wail al-Shehri, Saudi Arabian terrorist (d. 2001)
 1974 – Emilia Fox, British actress
 1975 – Ruben Patterson, American basketball player
From 1976 
 1976 – Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballer
 1978 – Will Champion, English musician (Coldplay)
 1978 - Justin Wilson, English racing driver (d. 2015)
 1978 – Zac Brown, American country music singer
 1979 – Carlos Marchena, Spanish footballer
 1979 - B. J. Novak, American actor, comedian, screenwriter and director
 1980 – Mils Muliaina, New Zealand rugby player
 1981 - Clemente Rodríguez, Argentine footballer
 1981 – Titus Bramble, English footballer
 1981 - M. Shadows, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
 1982 - Hayuma Tanaka, Japanese footballer
 1982 - Mira Craig, Norwegian singer
 1982 – Michael Jung, German equestrian
 1982 – DeMarcus Ware, American football player
 1984 - Joseph Benavidez, American mixed martial artist
 1985 - Alissa White-Gluz, Canadian singer
 1986 - Shinzo Koroki, Japanese footballer
 1987 – Michael Bradley, American footballer
 1987 – Brittany Byrnes, American actress
 1988 - Krystal Meyers, American singer-songwriter
 1988 - Michelle Sabogal, Colombian actress
1989 – Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player
 1989 - Zelda Williams, American actress
 1990 - Besart Abdurahimi, Macedonian footballer
 1992 - Lizzy, South Korean singer, dancer and actress
 1992 - Kyle Larson, American racing driver
 1996 - Blake Michael, American actor, director and producer
 2000 - Kim Sae-ron, South Korean actress
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 54 BC - Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar (b. 120 BC)
 855 - Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Arab scholar and theologian (b. 780)
 1099 – El Cid, Spanish warrior (b. 1044)
 1396 – William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury
 1508 – Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (killed in battle)
 1556 – Ignatius Loyola, Spanish priest, founder of the Jesuits (b. 1491)
 1726 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
 1750 – King John V of Portugal (b. 1689)
 1784 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1713)
 1805 - Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian soldier (b. 1756)
 1849 - Sandor Petofi, Hungarian poet (b. 1823)
 1875 – Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
 1884 – Kien Phuc, Vietnamese Emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty (b. 1869)
 1886 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (b. 1811)
1901  2000 
 1914 – Jean Jaurès, French politician (b. 1859)
 1917 – Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881)
 1920 – Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat, writer and revolutionary (b. 1878)
 1929 - José de Castro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1868)
 1940 – Udham Singh, Indian revolutionary (b. 1899)
 1944 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer disappeared (b. 1900)
 1952 - Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (b. 1880)
 1953 – Robert Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio and Presidential candidate (b. 1889)
 1966 - Bud Powell, American pianist (b. 1924)
 1969 - Charles Edison, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1890)
 1971 - Walter P. Carter, American activist (b. 1923)
 1972 – Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1899)
 1973 - Azumafuji Kin'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1921)
 1980 – Mohammed Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924)
 1980 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
 1981 – Omar Torrijos, military leader of Panama (b. 1929)
 1986 – Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
1990 – Albert Leduc, French-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
 1993 – King Baudouin I of Belgium (b. 1930)
From 2001 
 2001 – Poul Anderson, science fiction writer (b. 1926)
 2001 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (b. 1914)
 2003 – Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (b. 1933)
 2004 - Laura Betti, Italian actress and singer (b. 1927)
 2004 – Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1907)
 2005 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker and economist (b. 1935)
 2009 – Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (b. 1933)
 2010 – Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Italian screenwriter (b. 1914)
 2010 - Mitch Miller, American entertainer (b. 1911)
 2011 – Eliseo Alberto, Cuban-Mexican writer (b. 1951)
 2012 - Alfredo Ramos de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1924)
 2012 – Gore Vidal, American writer (b. 1925)
 2013 - John Graves, American writer (b. 1920)
 2013 - Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor (b. 1922)
 2014 - Jorge Jacobson, Argentine journalist (b. 1936)
 2014 - Kenny Ireland, Scottish actor (b. 1945)
 2014 - Warren Bennis, American scholar and academic (b. 1925)
 2014 - Mukku Raju, Indian actor (b. 1931)
2014 - Nabarun Bhattacharya, Indian author (b. 1948)
 2015 - Billy Pierce, American baseball player (b. 1927)
 2015 - Alan Cheuse, American writer and critic (b. 1940)
 2015 - Roddy Piper, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1954)
 2015 - Howard W. Jones, American physician (b. 1910)
 2015 - Richard Schweiker, American politician (b. 1926)
 2016 - Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1955)
 2016 - Fazil Iskander, Abkhazian writer (b. 1929)
 2016 - Seymour Papert, South African-American mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1928)
 2016 - Destin Onka Malonga, Congolese footballer (b. 1988)
 2017 - Liu Wen-hsiung, Taiwanese politician (b. 1954)
 2017 - Jeanne Moreau, French actress (b. 1928)
 2017 - Les Murray, Hungarian-Australian broadcaster (b. 1945)
 2017 - Francesco La Macchia, Italian sprint canoeist (b. 1938)
 2018 - Hélio Bicudo, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
 2018 - Alex Fergusson, Scottish politician (b. 1949)
 2018 - Bassano Staffieri, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1931)
Observances 
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Aileen Carol Wuornos Pralle (born Aileen Carol Pittman; February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer. She was born in Rochester, Michigan. She confessed to killing six men in Florida and was executed in Florida State Prison by lethal injection for the murders. Wuornos said that the men she killed had raped her or tried to rape her while she was working as a prostitute.

Wuornos was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder and borderline personality disorder.

The movie, Monster is about her life. Two documentaries were made about her.

Early life
Wuornos was born Aileen Carol Pittman in Rochester, Michigan. She never met her father. Wuornos was adopted by her grandparents. When she was 13 she became pregnant. She started working as a prostitute when she was 14.

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People from Troy, Michigan
Up to 1900 
 325 - First Council of Nicea: The First Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held.
 526 – An earthquake in Syria and Antiochia kills 300,000 people.
 685 - The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
 1202 – The Mediterranean Sea area and the Middle East are shaken by a strong earthquake, which is believed to have killed a million people.
 1449 - The Battle of Alfarrobeira is fought, establishing the House of Braganza as the main Royal Family of Portugal.
 1497 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol to look for a route westwards.
 1498 – Portuguese seafarer Vasco da Gama arrives in Calicut, now Kozhikode, India.
 1506 – Christopher Columbus dies, still believing he had reached Asia on his expeditions.
 1520 - The massacre at the Festival of Toxcatl occurs during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.
1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first Atlas.
 1631 - The city of Magdeburg is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of the people who live there are massacred, as one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
 1813 - Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony. The French troops win the battle on the next day.
 1840 – York Minster is badly damaged by fire.
 1861 - American Civil War: Kentucky declares its neutrality.
 1862 – Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act.
 1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a US patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
 1875 - Signing of the Metre Convention by 17 countries, leading to the creation of the International System of Units.
 1882 – Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary form a Triple Alliance.
 1883 – Krakatau begins a series of eruptions that end really violently in August.
 1884 – Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo becomes the King of the Zulu nation.
1891 - First public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
 1899 - The first traffic ticket in the US is handed out, to taxi driver Jacob German, who is arrested.
1901  2000 
 1902 – Cuba gains independence from the United States, with Tomas Estrada Palma as its first President.
 1927 - Treaty of Jeddah: The UK recognizes the sovereignty of Ibn Saud in the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, which later becomes Saudi Arabia.
 1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland, on a flight across the Atlantic Ocean. She lands in Ireland the next day.
 1940 – Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at Auschwitz.
 1941 - World War II: Battle of Crete - German paratroops invade Crete.
 1948 – Chiang Kai-shek is elected the first President of the Republic of China.
 1949 - In the US, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the forerunner of the National Security Agency, is established.
 1956 – The US drops the first airborne hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
 1958 - Spain joins the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
 1965 – PIA Flight 705, a Boeing 720, crashes on landing at Cairo International Airport in Egypt, killing 119 people.
1968 - Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War.
 1969 - Vietnam War: End of the Battle of Hamburger Hill.
 1980 - Voters in Quebec reject independence from Canada in a referendum, with 60% voting that way.
 1983 – First publication of the discovery of the HIV virus that leads to AIDS, in the Science journal, by Luc Montagnier.
 1989 – Authorities in China declare martial law, leading to the crushing of pro-democracy protests on Tiananmen Square two weeks later.
 1990 – Romania holds its first elections following Communist rule.
 1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope sends its first photograph to Earth.
From 2001 
 2001 - The Spanish language Wikipedia starts.
 2002 – East Timor becomes independent from Indonesia.
 2006 - Nearly 1.8 million garment workers in Bangladesh go on strike, starting a series of strikes  against poor working conditions.
 2006 – Finnish monster-rock band Lordi wins the 51st Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, Greece, with 292 points.
 2012 – Taur Matan Ruak becomes President of East Timor on the 10th anniversary of its independence from Indonesia.
 2012 – A magnitude 6 earthquake strikes Northern Italy, killing 7 people and destroying many historic buildings.
 2012 – A solar eclipse is seen over part of East Asia, the North Pacific Ocean and Western North America.
 2013 - Over 70 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks across Iraq.
 2013 - 2013 Moore tornado: A tornado strikes the suburbs of Oklahoma City, with the suburb of Moore being worst affected. 24 people are killed.
 2014 - Over 100 people are killed in a bomb attack in Jos, Nigeria.
2014 - Martial law is declared in Thailand during an ongoing political crisis.
 2017 - Francisco Guterres becomes President of East Timor.
 2019 - Volodymyr Zelensky becomes President of Ukraine.
Up to 1800 
 1315 – Bonne of Luxembourg, queen of John II of France (d. 1349)
 1470 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal (d. 1547)
 1554 – Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (d. 1594)
 1593 - Salomo Glassius, German theologian (d. 1656)
 1660 – Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor (d. 1714)
 1663 – William Bradford, British-born printer (d. 1752)
 1706 – Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (d. 1777)
 1726 – Francis Cotes, English painter (d. 1770)
 1734 - Anton Jansa, Slovenian painter and beekeeper (d. 1773)
 1737 – William Petty Fitzmaurice, British statesman (d. 1805)
 1743 - Toussaint Louverture, Haitian revolutionary (d. 1803)
 1759 – William Thornton, West Indian-born architect (d. 1828)
 1764 - Johann Gottfried Schadow, Prussian sculptor and graphic artist (d. 1850)
 1768 – Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (d. 1849)
 1776 - Simon Fraser, American-Canadian fur trader and explorer (d. 1862)
 1780 - Bernardino Rivadavia, Argentine statesman (d. 1845)
1772 – Sir William Congreve, English inventor (d. 1828)
 1799 – Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)
1801  1900 
 1802 - David Octavius Hill, Scottish artist and photographer (d. 1870)
 1806 – John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (d. 1873)
 1811 - Alfred Domett, 4th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1887)
 1818 - William Fargo, American businessman and politician (d. 1881)
 1822 – Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1912)
 1830 – Hector Malot, French writer (d. 1907)
 1832 – Garretson W. Gibson, President of Liberia (d. 1910)
 1838 – Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925)
 1851 – Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (d. 1929)
 1860 – Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
 1882 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
 1882 - Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish statesman (d. 1943)
 1883 – King Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933)
 1883 - Jan Kaspar, Czech engineer and pilot (d. 1927)
 1883 - Johnny Arthur, American actor (d. 1951)
 1886 – Ali Sami Yen, Turkish footballer (d. 1951)
1889 - Karin Molander, Swedish actress (d. 1978)
 1893 – Asmundur Sveinsson, Icelandic sculptor (d. 1972)
 1895 – R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (d. 1937)
 1897 - Diego Abad de Santillan, Spanish writer and economist (d. 1983)
1901  1925 
 1901 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (d. 1981)
 1904 - Margery Allingham, English crime fiction writer (d. 1966)
 1906 – Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
 1908 – James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)
 1908 - Louis Daquin, French actor and director (d. 1980)
 1908 - Henry Bolte, Australian politician, 38th Premier of Victoria (d. 1990)
 1911 – Gardner Fox, American writer (d. 1986)
 1912 – Moses I. Finley, American-British historian (d. 1986)
 1912 – Wilfrid Sellars, American philosopher (d. 1989)
 1912 - Nereo Rocco, Italian footballer (d. 1979)
 1913 - Teodoro Fernandez, Peruvian footballer (d. 1996)
 1913 – William Hewlett, American engineer and computer manufacturer (d. 2001)
 1915 - Peter Copley, British actor (d. 2008)
 1915 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician (d. 1981)
 1916 - Owen Chadwick, English rugby player, historian, writer and theologian (d. 2015)
 1916 – Trebisonda Valla, Italian athlete (d. 2006)
1916 – Alexei Petrovich Maresiev, Russian flying ace (d. 2001)
 1917 – Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, Icelandic politician (d. 2005)
 1917 - Tony Cliff, British activist (d. 2000)
 1918 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
 1919 – George Gobel, American comedian (d. 1991)
 1920 – Betty Driver, English singer and actress (d. 2011)
 1921 – Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947)
 1921 - Karl Dedecius, Polish-born German translator (d. 2016)
 1921 – Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (d. 1998)
 1923 - Israel Gutman, Israeli historian (d. 2013)
 1924 - David Chavchavadze, American writer and former CIA officer (d. 2014)
 1925 – Alexei Tupolev, Russian engineer and aircraft designer (d. 2001)
1926  1950 
 1926 – Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (d. 1956)
 1927 – Bud Grant, American football coach
 1927 - Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (d. 2016)
 1931 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player (d. 1982)
 1935 – José Mujica, 40th President of Uruguay
 1936 - Nickey Iyambo, Vice president of Namibia (d. 2019)
 1936 – Anthony Zerbe, American actor
 1938 - Glauco Sansovini, former Captain-Regent of San Marino (d. 2019)
 1938 – Marinella, Greek singer and actress
 1938 - Astrid Kirchherr, German photographer
 1939 - Balu Mahendra, Indian movie director, screenwriter and actor (d. 2014)
 1940 – Stan Mikita, Slovak-born hockey player (d. 2018)
 1940 – Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball player
 1941 – Goh Chok Tong, former Prime Minister of Singapore
 1941 – John Strasberg, American actor
 1942 - Raymond Chrétien, Canadian lawyer and diplomat 
 1943 – Al Bano, Italian singer
 1944 – Joe Cocker, British singer (d. 2014)
 1944 – Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer
1944 – Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman
 1945 - Anton Zeilinger, Austrian quantum physicist
 1945 - Wally Herger, American politician
 1946 – Cher, American actress and singer
 1946 - Robert Chua, Singaporean broadcaster
 1946 - Bobby Murcer, American baseball player, manager, coach and sportscaster (d. 2008)
 1947 – Greg Dyke, British broadcast and football executive
 1947 - Sky du Mont, Argentine-German actor
 1948 - Jon Amiel, British-American director and producer
 1950 - Reinaldo Merlo, Argentine footballer
 1950 - Wei Jingsheng, Chinese activist
1951  1975 
 1951 – Thomas Akers, American astronaut
 1952 – Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer
 1953 – Robert Doyle, Australian politician
 1954 - Esko Aho, former Prime Minister of Finland
 1954 – David Paterson, American politician, 55th Governor of New York
 1954 – Cindy McCain, American businesswoman and wife of John McCain
 1955 – Zbigniew Preisner, Polish movie composer
 1955 - Anton Corbijn, Dutch photographer and movie director
 1956 – Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Norwegian writer
 1957 – Yoshihiko Noda, former Prime Minister of Japan
 1958 – Ron Reagan, American dancer and talk show host
 1958 – Jane Wiedlin, American singer (The Go-Go's)
 1959 – Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian-American singer (d. 1997)
 1959 – Bronson Pinchot, American actor
 1960 – John Billingsley, American actor
 1960 – Chuck Brodsky, American musician
 1960 – Tony Goldwyn, American actor
 1961 - Clive Allen, English footballer
 1961 - Anna Signeul, Swedish football coach
 1962 – Mike Jeffries, American soccer coach
1964 - Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, British peer, brother of Diana, Princess of Wales
 1966 – Mindy Cohn, American actress
 1967 - Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
 1967 - Gabriele Muccino, Italian director, producer and screenwriter
 1967 - Ramzi Yousef, Kuwaiti-Pakistani terrorist
 1968 - Waisale Serevi, Fijian rugby player and coach
 1968 – Timothy Olyphant, American actor
 1970 – Louis Theroux, British television presenter
 1971 – Tony Stewart, American race car driver
 1972 – Tina Hobley, British actress
 1972 – Busta Rhymes, American singer and rapper
 1973 - Elsa Lunghini, French singer-songwriter and actress
 1973 - Juris Razgulajevs, Latvian figure skater
From 1976 
 1976 – Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
 1977 – Miriam Parrish, American actress
 1977 - Vesa Toskala, Finnish ice hockey player
 1978 - Nils Schumann, German athlete
 1979 - Rick Edwards, English television presenter
 1979 - Andrew Scheer, Canadian politician
 1981 – Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer
 1981 – Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player
 1982 – Petr Cech, Czech footballer
 1982 - Natalia Podolskaya, Belarussian singer
 1982 - Daniel Ribeiro, Brazilian director, producer and screenwriter
 1983 – Oscar Cardozo, Paraguayan footballer
 1984 – Patrick Ewing, Jr., American basketball player
 1985 - Chris Froome, British cyclist
 1986 - Dexter Blackstock, English footballer
 1987 - Mike Havenaar, Dutch-Japanese footballer
 1987 - Taku Takeuchi, Japanese ski jumper
 1987 - Julian Wright, American basketball player
 1988 - Miyu Nagase, Japanese singer and guitarist
 1991 - Henrik Ojamaa, Estonian footballer
 1992 – Cate Campbell, Australian swimmer
1992 - Vaclav Kadlec, Czech footballer
 1992 - Jack Gleeson, Irish actor
 1993 – Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
Up to 1950 
 685 – King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645)
 1277 – Pope John XII (b. 1215)
 1285 – John II of Jerusalem, King of Cyprus (b. 1259)
 1444 – Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (b. 1380)
 1449 – Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra, Prince-regent of Portugal (b. 1392)
 1503 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian banker, politician and patron of the arts (b. 1463)
 1506 – Christopher Columbus, Italian-Spanish seafarer (b. 1451)
 1550 – Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (b. 1510)
 1622 – Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1604)
 1648 – Wladislaus IV of Poland (b. 1595)
 1717 - John Trevor, English politician (b. 1637)
 1793 – Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720)
 1841 - Joseph Blanco White, Spanish theologian and poet (b. 1775)
 1873 - Georges-Etienne Cartier, Canadian politician (b. 1814)
 1880 - Henry S. Foote, Governor of Mississippi (b. 1804)
 1885 - Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, American politician, 29th United States Secretary of State (b. 1817)
1896 – Clara Schumann, German pianist (b. 1819)
 1903 - Gertrude Guillaume-Schack, German-Swiss activist (b. 1845)
 1909 - Ernest Hogan, American actor and composer (b. 1859)
 1917 - Philipp von Ferrary, French stamp collector (b. 1850)
 1925 - Joseph Howard, 1st Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1862)
 1925 - Elias M. Ammons, 18th Governor of Colorado (b. 1860)
 1940 – Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer (b. 1871)
 1946 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish aviation pioneer and engineer (b. 1871)
 1947 – Philipp Lenard, German physicist (b. 1862)
 1949 - Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens (b. 1891)
From 1951 
 1957 – Gilbert Murray, Australian philologist (b. 1866)
 1961 – Josef Priller, German military aviator (b. 1915)
 1964 – Rudy Lewis, American singer (b. 1936)
 1973 – Renzo Pasolini, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1938)
 1973 – Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
 1974 – Jean Daniélou, French cardinal (b. 1905)
 1975 – Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor (b. 1903)
 1976 – Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
 1984 – Olafur Johannesson, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1913)
 1989 – John Hicks, English economist (b. 1904)
 1989 – Gilda Radner, American comedienne and actress (b. 1946)
 1992 – Giovanni Colombo, Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Milan (b. 1902)
 1996 – Jon Pertwee, British actor (b. 1919)
 2000 – Charles Antenen, Swiss footballer (b. 1929)
 2000 – David Pearce, British professional boxer (b. 1959)
 2000 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flautist (b. 1922)
 2001 – Renato Carosone, Italian pianist and bandleader (b. 1920)
2002 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941)
 2005 – Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (b. 1913)
 2007 – Stanley Miller, American biologist and chemist (b. 1930)
 2008 – Hamilton Jordan, 8th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)
 2009 – Lucy Gordon, British actress (b. 1980)
 2010 – Walter Rudin, Austrian-born mathematician (b. 1921)
 2011 – Randy Savage, American pro wrestler (b. 1952)
 2012 – Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Libyan intelligence officer, only person convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing (b. 1952)
 2012 – Robin Gibb, British singer and musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
 2012 – Eugene Polley, American inventor of the TV remote control (b. 1915)
 2013 – Ray Manzarek, American musician and singer (The Doors) (b. 1939)
 2014 – Barbara Murray, English actress (b. 1929)
 2014 – Arthur Gelb, American editor and writer (b. 1924)
 2014 – Charles W. Robinson, American businessman and diplomat (b. 1919)
 2015 – Sudha Shivpuri, Indian actress (b. 1937)
 2015 – Bob Belden, American musician (b. 1956)
2016 – Patricia M. Derian, American activist (b. 1928)
 2016 – Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo, Spanish journalist and athlete (b. 1932)
 2016 – Wheelock Whitney, Jr., American businessman (b. 1926)
 2016 – Gert Bals, Dutch footballer (b. 1936)
 2016 – Brandon Grove, Jr., American diplomat (b. 1929)
 2017 – Albert Bouvet, French cyclist (b. 1930)
 2017 – Syed Abdullah Khalid, Bangladeshi sculptor (b. 1942)
 2017 – Joy Corning, American politician (b. 1932)
 2017 – Emile Degelin, Belgian film director (b. 1926)
 2017 – Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov, Russian politician (b. 1951)
 2018 – Jaroslav Brabec, Czech shot putter (b. 1949)
 2018 – Bill Gold, American movie poster artist (b. 1921)
 2018 – Richard N. Goodwin, American speechwriter (b. 1931)
 2018 – Koo Bon-moo, South Korean business executive (b. 1945)
 2018 - Patricia Morison, American actress (b. 1915)
 2018 - Rolf Sand, Norwegian actor (b. 1920)
 2019 - Sandy D'Alemberte, American lawyer, professor and politician (b. 1933)
2019 - Niki Lauda, Austrian racing driver (b. 1949)
 2019 - Miguel Montes Busto, Spanish footballer (b. 1939)
 2019 - John Moore, Baron Moore of Lower Marsh, British politician (b. 1939)
 2019 - Charles C. Pattillo, American Air Force Lieutenant General (b. 1924)
 2019 - Ronnie Virgets, American writer and reporter (b. 1942)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Cuba and East Timor)
 Day of Remembrance (Cambodia)
 Emancipation Day (Florida)
 Day of National Awakening (Indonesia)
 European Maritime Day
 National Day (Cameroon)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
 1429 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Jargeau.
 1488 - The Battle of Sauchieburn is fought between rebel Lords and King James III of Scotland, who dies in the battle.
 1509 – Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
 1594 - King Philip II of Spain recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines.
 1641 - Caracas is struck by its first major earthquake since its founding.
 1770 – James Cook reaches the Great Barrier Reef, after his ship, the HMS Endeavour, ran aground there.
 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The war's first naval battle is fought in the Battle of Machias.
 1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston to the committee of five, to draft the Declaration of Independence.
 1788 - Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
1805 - Large parts of Detroit are destroyed by fire.
 1865 - The naval Battle of Riachuelo in the War of the Triple Alliance is fought, with Brazil defeating Paraguay. This battle is important in the Triple Alliance defeating Paraguay in the war.
 1881 – The current National Theatre of the Czech Republic, in Prague, is opened.
 1898 - Spanish-American War: US warships set sail for Cuba.
 1898 - The Hundred Days Reform is started by Guangxu Emperor in China.
1901  2000 
 1901 – New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
 1903 - A group of Serbian military officer storm the royal palace in Belgrade and kill King Alexander Obrenovich and Queen Draga of Serbia.
 1917 - Alexander of Greece becomes King, after Constantine I of Greece abdicates the throne under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
 1935 - Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, in Alpine, New Jersey.
 1936 - The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London.
 1937 – Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese nationalist government under Chiang Kai-shek orders the flooding of the Yellow River to halt Japanese forces, though more than 500,000 people are killed after not being warned before the flooding.
 1938 - Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan begins.
 1945 - The Communist Party of Germany is re-formed.
 1947 – US sugar rationing ends.
1955 – More than 80 people are killed in the Le Mans Disaster, the deadliest disaster in motorsport.
 1961 - In the night to June 12, 37 electricity pylons are blown up in South Tyrol, a region of Northern Italy that used to be part of Austria. Members of the separatist underground network are considered to be responsible.
 1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin escape from Alcatraz prison, but are never seen again.
 1963 – Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc sets himself on fire with gasoline in Saigon, in protest at the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam, under Ngo Dinh Diem.
 1963 – Alabama Governor George Wallace refuses to let African American students Vivian Malone Jones and James Hood enroll at the University of Alabama, though he later gives in.
1964 – Retired World War II veteran Walter Seifert, on his 42nd birthday, runs amok in a Cologne school, killing at least 8 children and two teachers and injures many more with a flame thrower and a lance. He poisons himself and dies the next day.
 1970 - Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington become the first female United States Army generals.
 1971 – The prison island of Alcatraz is cleared, and the prison is shut down.
 1981 – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hits Golbaf, in Iran, killing at least 2,000 people.
 1987 – Margaret Thatcher is elected to a third term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
 1994 - A law in Germany against homosexuality among people aged under 18 is removed.
 1996 - A bomb attack on the Moscow Metro kills 4 people and injures 12.
From 2001 
 2001 – Timothy McVeigh is executed for the Oklahoma bombing.
 2002 – United States Congress recognises Antonio Meucci as the inventor of the telephone.
 2004 – The Cassini-Huygens probe makes its closest flyby of Saturn's moon Phoebe.
 2007 - Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh kill 130 people.
 2008 – Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper makes a historic apology to the First Nations for abuse in the separation of children from their homes, families and cultures.
 2010 – The 2010 FIFA World Cup begins in South Africa. It is the first FIFA World Cup to be held in Africa. The opening game ends in a 1-1 draw between South Africa and Mexico.
 2019 - Botswana decriminalises homosexuality, due to a ruling by the country's highest law court.
 2019 - 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup: The United States sets a tournament record for the margin of victory, defeating Thailand 13-0 in its opening game of the competition.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1403 – John IV, Duke of Brabant (d. 1427)
 1456 – Anne Neville, wife of Richard III of England (d. 1485)
 1572 - Ben Jonson, English playwright, poet, actor and literary critic (d. 1637)
 1672 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
 1690 - Giovanni Antonio Giay, Italian composer (d. 1764)
 1696 – Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)
 1697 – Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian composer, musical theorist and organist (d. 1780)
 1704 – Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (d. 1742)
 1723 – Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788)
 1726 - Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain (d. 1746)
 1741 – Joseph Warren, American doctor and soldier (d. 1775)
 1776 – John Constable, English painter (d. 1837)
 1797 - José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran theorist and philosopher (d. 1855) 
 1815 – Julia Margaret Cameron, English photographer (d. 1879)
 1818 - Alexander Bain, Scottish philosopher (d. 1903)
1829 - Edward Braddon, Australian politician, 18th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1904)
 1832 - Augustus Hill Garland, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1899)
 1842 – Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)
 1847 – Millicent Fawcett, British suffragette and feminist (d. 1929)
 1857 – Antoni Grabowski, early supporter of Esperanto (d. 1921)
 1861 - Alexander Peacock, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria (d. 1933)
 1864 – Richard Strauss, German composer (d. 1949)
 1871 - Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (d. 1928)
 1875 - George Herbert Walker, American banker (d. 1953)
 1879 - Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player and manager (d. 1944)
 1880 – Jeannette Rankin, American politician, feminist and pacifist (d. 1973)
 1888 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1927)
 1894 - Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese entrepreneur (d. 1952)
 1894 - Dai Vernon, Canadian magician (d. 1992)
 1895 – Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet politician (d. 1975)
 1897 - Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian revolutionary (d. 1927)
1901  1950 
 1903 – Ernie Nevers, American football player (d. 1976)
 1904 - Pinetop Smith, American blues pianist (d. 1929)
 1908 - Francisco Marto, Portuguese religious figure (d. 1919)
 1908 - Karl Hein, German hammer thrower (d. 1982)
 1910 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French documentary movie maker and marine biologist (d. 1997)
 1910 – Carmine Coppola, American composer, director and songwriter (d. 1991)
 1912 - James Algar, American film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 1998)
 1913 – Vince Lombardi, American football coach (d. 1970)
 1914 - Rufus Isaacs, American mathematician (d. 1977)
 1914 - Gerald Mohr, American actor (d. 1968)
 1915 - Magda Gabor, Hungarian-American actress (d. 1997)
 1915 - Nicholas Metropolis, American physicist, mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1999)
 1918 - Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player (d. 1980)
 1919 – Richard Todd, Irish-British actor (d. 2009)
 1920 – King Mahendra of Nepal (d. 1972)
 1920 - Keith Seaman, 29th Governor of South Australia (d. 2013)
1920 – Hazel Scott, Trinidad and Tobago-born American singer (d. 1981)
 1922 – Michael Cacoyannis, Cypriot movie director and producer (d. 2011)
 1922 - Alberto Bovone, Italian cardinal (d. 1998)
 1922 – Walter Seifert, German retired World War II veteran, ran amok in a Cologne school (d. 1964)
 1925 – William Styron, American writer (d. 2006)
 1927 - Asghar Bichareh, Iranian photographer and actor (d. 2016)
 1928 – Queen Fabiola of Belgium, former Queen Consort of Belgium (d. 2014)
 1929 - Antonio Pujía, Argentine sculptor (d. 2018)
 1930 - Charles B. Rangel, American politician
 1930 - Ellen Schwiers, German actress (d. 2019)
 1932 - Athol Fugard, South African-American actor, director and playwright
 1932 - Tim Sainsbury, English businessman and politician
 1933 – Gene Wilder, American actor, director, screenwriter and author (d. 2016)
 1934 – Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark (d. 2018)
 1936 - Chad Everett, American actor (d. 2012)
 1937 - Rino Marchesi, Italian footballer
1937 – Robin Warren, Australian pathologist
 1939 – Jackie Stewart, Scottish racing driver
 1939 - Diana Moran, English model, fitness expert and journalist
 1942 - Gunter Gabriel, German singer, musician and composer (d. 2017)
 1943 - Henry Hill, American convict (d. 2012)
 1945 – Adrienne Barbeau, American actress
 1945 - Robert Munsch, Canadian children’s author
 1946 - Jenny Pitman, English racehorse trainer
 1947 - Richard Palmer-James, English musician
 1947 - Lalu Prasad Yadav, Indian politician, 20th Chief Minister of Bihar
 1948 - Lynsey de Paul, English singer-songwriter, pianist and actress (d. 2014)
 1949 – Frank Beard, American musician (ZZ Top)
 1949 - Tom Pryce, Welsh racing driver (d. 1977)
 1949 - Ingrid Newkirk, English-American animal rights activist, co-founder of PETA
1951  1975 
 1952 - Yekaterina Podkopayeva, Russian middle-distance runner
 1952 – Anote Tong, former President of Kiribati
 1952 – Donnie Van Zant, American rock musician and singer
 1952 - Doris Maletzki, German athlete
 1953 - Peter Bergman, American actor
 1956 – Joe Montana, American football player
 1959 – Hugh Laurie, British actor
 1960 – Mehmet Oz, Turkish-American television host, surgeon and inventor
 1961 - María Barranco, Spanish actress
 1962 – Jack Irons, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
 1962 - Mano Menezes, Brazilian footballer and coach
 1963 – Bruce Kimball, American diver
 1963 - Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (d. 2000)
 1964 - Kim Gallagher, American athlete
 1965 – Joey Santiago, Filipino guitarist
 1965 – Manuel Uribe, Mexican computer repairman, one of the heaviest people on record (d. 2014).
 1968 – Prince Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein
 1969 – Peter Dinklage, American actor
 1969 - Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)
1970 - Chris Rice, American singer
 1971 - Liz Kendall, English politician
 1975 - Choi Ji Woo, South Korean actress and model
From 1976 
 1977 - Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer
 1977 – Ryan Dunn, American television star and stuntman (d. 2011)
 1977 - Ben Peyton, British actor
 1978 – Joshua Jackson, Canadian actor
 1982 – Johnny Candido, American professional wrestler
 1982 - Joey Graham, American basketball player
 1982 - Stephen Graham, American basketball player
 1982 - Haakon Opdal, Norwegian footballer
 1982 – Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
 1983 – Chuck Hayes, American basketball player
 1984 - Vágner Love, Brazilian footballer
 1986 – Shia LaBeouf, American actor.
 1986 - Magaly Solier, Peruvian actress and singer
 1987 – TiA, Japanese singer
 1987 – Didrik Solli-Tangen, Norwegian singer
 1987 – Dappy, English rapper and actor (N-Dubz)
 1988 - Yui Aragaki, Japanese actress and model
 1988 - Claire Holt, Australian actress and model
 1989 - Maya Moore, American basketball player
 1990 - Christophe Lemaitre, French sprinter
 1990 - Sherina Munaf, Indonesian actress and singer
1991 - Dan Powell, English YouTube personality
 1992 - Jordanne Whiley, English wheelchair tennis player
 1994 – Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress
 1996 - Ayaka Sasaki, Japanese singer