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1993  The Gouhou Dam in Gonghe, Qinghai province, breaks, resulting in 240 deaths.
1993  The Florida DOT decides to cease producing its distinctive colored U.S. Highway shields so that it can make use of Federal funds for those signs.
2000  Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, and three people are killed.
From 2001 
2003  Mars makes closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.
2005  The Turning Torso in Malmo, Sweden, which is the tallest residential building in Europe, is opened.
2005  Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama declare a State of Emergency in preparation for Hurricane Katrina.
2006  Comair Flight 5191 crashes on take-off at Lexington, Kentucky, with 49 people out of the 50 on board being confirmed dead within hours of the crash.
2010  Kenya promulgates a new constitution under Mwai Kibaki
2011  Hurricane Irene strikes the east coast of the United States.

Births
Up to 1850 
551 BC  Confucius, Chinese philosopher (died 479 BC)
865  Rhazes, Persian polymath (died 925)
1407  Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Ashikaga shogun (died 1425)
1471  George, Duke of Saxony (died 1539)
1487  Anne of Brandenburg (died 1514)
1545  Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (died 1592)
1619  Anne Genevieve de Bourbon (died 1679)
1624  Koxinga, Chinese Ming dynasty loyalist (died 1662) 
1630  Maria van Oosterwijk, Dutch painter (died 1693)
1669  Anne Marie d'Orléans, Duchess of Saxony (died 1728)
1724  Joan Joachim Zubly, Swiss pastor, planter and statesman (died 1781)
1730  Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher and writer (died 1788)
1770  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (died 1831)
1781  Finnur Magnusson, Icelandic philologist (died 1847)
1785  Agustin Gamarra, Peruvian general and President (died 1841)
1803  Edward Beecher, American theologian (died 1895)
1809  Hannibal Hamlin, 15th Vice President of the United States and 26th Governor of Maine (died 1891)
1812  Bertalan Szemere, 3rd Prime Minister of Hungary (died 1869)
1827  Charles Lilley, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Queensland (died 1897)
1845  Friedrich Martens, Russian diplomat (died 1909)
1851  1900 
1858  Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (died 1932)
1862  Abram Arkhipov, Russian artist (died 1930)
1864  Helena Patursson, Faroese actress and writer (died 1916)
1865  James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (died 1935)
1865  Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States (died 1951)
1868  Hong Beom-do, Korean activist (died 1943)
1869  Karl Haushofer, German geographer (died 1946)
1870  Amado Nervo, Mexican journalist, poet and diplomat (died 1919)
1871  Theodore Dreiser, American writer (died 1945)
1872  Giovanni Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, Archbishop of Bologna (died 1952)
1873  Maud Allan, Canadian-American dancer (died 1956)
1874  Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
1875  Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (died 1967)
1877  Charles Rolls, British co-founder of Rolls-Royce (died 1910)
1877  Ernst Wetter, Swiss Federal Councillor (died 1963)
1878  Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian military figure (died 1928)
1881  Sigurd Islandsmoen, Norwegian composer (died 1964)
1884  Vincent Auriol, President of France (died 1966)
1884  Alfredo Baldomir, President of Uruguay (died 1948)
1886  Eric Coates, English composer (died 1957)
1886  Rebecca Clark, English composer (died 1979)
1887  Jimmy Finlayson, Scottish-born American actor (died 1953)
1890  Man Ray, American photographer and artist (died 1976)
1896  Faina Rainevskaya, Russian actress (died 1984)
1896  Zygmunt Berling, Polish general and politician (died 1980)
1896  Léon Theremin, Russian physicist and inventor (died 1993)
1899  C. S. Forester, British writer (died 1966)
1899  Byron Foulger, American actor (died 1970)
1901  1950 
1904  Norah Lofts, writer (died 1983)
1905  Aris Velouchiotis, Greek military leader (died 1945)
1906  Ed Gein, American serial killer (died 1984)
1908  Don Bradman, Australian cricketer (died 2001)
1908  Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (died 1973)
1908  Frank Leahy, American football coach (died 1945)
1909  Lester Young, American jazz musician (died 1959)
1911  Kay Walsh, British actress (died 2005)
1913  Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, wife of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (died 2006)
1914  Heidi Kabel, German actress (died 2010)
1915  Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American physicist (died 2011)
1916  Martha Raye, American actress (died 1994)
1917  Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player, coach and manager (died 1986)
1918  Jelle Zijlstra, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2001)
1920  James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, Northern Irish politician (died 2015)
1921  Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg (died 1996)
1921  Leo Penn, American actor and director (died 1998)
1925  Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (died 2011)
1925  Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Italian cardinal (died 2017)
1926  Pat Coombs, English actress (died 2002)
1926  Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (died 2002)
1928  Osamu Shimomura, Japanese biochemist
1928  Péter Boross, Hungarian politician and Prime Minister
1928  Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician
1928  Othmar Schneider, Austrian skier (died 2012)
1929  Ira Levin, American writer (died 2007)
1931  Sri Chinmoy, Indian spiritual leader (died 2007)
1931  Sven Tumba, Swedish footballer, ice hockey player and golfer (died 2011)
1932  Saye Zerbo, Burkina Faso politician (died 2013)
1932  Karekin I, former Armenian Apostolic Church leader
1932  Antonia Fraser, British writer
1933  Kerstin Ekman, Swedish writer
1935  Frank Yablans, American movie producer
1937  Alice Coltrane, American pianist and composer (died 2007)
1937  Tommy Sands, American actor and singer
1939  Edward Patten, American singer, songwriter and producer (died 2005)
1941  Bohdan Stupka, Ukrainian actor and Minister of Culture (died 2012)
1941  Cesaria Evora, Cape Verdean singer
1941  Janos Konrad, Hungarian water polo player and swimmer
1942  Brian Peckford, Canadian politician
1942  Robert Marion Berry, American politician
1942  Daryl Dragon, American songwriter (Captain & Tennille) (d. 2019)
1943  Tuesday Weld, American actress
1943  Bob Kerrey, 36th Governor of Nebraska
1943  Wolfgang Nordwig, German high jumper
1945  Jan Sloot, Dutch inventor (died 1999)
1946  Peter Tobin, Scottish serial killer
1947  Barbara Bach, American actress
1948  Philippe Vallois, French screenwriter and director
1950  Neil Murray, Scottish bass player and songwriter
1951  1975 
1952  Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee Herman), American actor
1953  Alex Lifeson, Canadian rock guitarist (Rush)
1953  Peter Stormare, Swedish actor, director, playwright and musician
1954  John Lloyd, British tennis player and coach
1957  Bernhard Langer, German golfer
1957  Jeff Grubb, American game designer and author
1958  Sergei Krikalev, Russian cosmonaut
1958  Marcos Paqueta, Brazilian football manager
1958  Hugh Orde, English senior police officer
1959  Yves Rossy, Swiss pilot, aviation enthusiast and inventor
1959  Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian painter and sculptor
1959  Jeanette Winterson, English novelist
1959  Jürgen Becker, German comedian and performer
1961  Yolanda Adams, American singer, producer and actress
1961  Tom Ford, American fashion designer and director
1962  Sjon, Icelandic writer and artist
1965  Cheryl Fergison, English actress
1965  Paulo Silas, Brazilian footballer 
1966  Juhan Parts, former Prime Minister of Estonia
1968  Daphne Koller, Israeli-American computer scientist
1969  Cesar Millan, Mexican-American dog trainer
1969  Christine O'Donnell, American politician
1969  Chandra Wilson, American actress
1970  Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
1970  Jim Thome, American baseball player
1970  Tony Kanal, English-American musician, songwriter and producer
1970  Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer (died 2008)
1972  Denise Lewis, British athlete
1972  Jimmy Pop, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1973  Dietmar Hamann, German footballer
1974  José Vidro, Major League Baseball player
1974  Mohammad Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer
1975  Jonny Moseley, American skier
From 1976 
1976  Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
1976  Carlos Moya, Spanish tennis player
1976  Mark Webber, Australian race car driver
1977  Deco, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer
1979  Karel Rachunek, Czech ice hockey player (died 2011)
1981  Alessandro Gamberini, Italian footballer
1981  Collin Samuel, Trinidadian footballer
1983  Jamala, Ukrainian singer
1984  David Bentley, English footballer
1984  Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer
1985  Nikica Jelavic, Croatian footballer
1985  Daniel Küblböck, German singer and actor
1985  Alexandra Nechita, Romanian-American artist
1986  Mario, American R&B singer
1986  Sebastian Kurz, Austrian politician, Chancellor of Austria
1988  Alexa Vega, American actress
1990  Taylor Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter (died 2009)
1990  Luuk de Jong, Dutch footballer
1993  Sarah Hecken, German figure skater

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1900 
542  Caesarius of Arles, Archbishop of Arles and Roman Catholic Saint (b. 470)
827  Pope Eugene II
1312  Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)
1394  Emperor Chokei of Japan (b. 1343)
1521  Josquin des Prez, French-Flemish composer (b. 1450)
1577  Titian, Italian painter
1590  Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)
1635  Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)
1773  Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
1828  Eise Eisinga, Dutch astronomer (b. 1744)
1865  Thomas Chandler of Haliburton, Canadian writer (b. 1796)
1871  William Whiting Boarding, American politician (b. 1794)
1874  Stefan Golescu, Romanian statesman (b. 1809)
1875  William Chapman Ralston, founder of the Bank of California (b. 1826)
1879  Rowland Hill, English postal reformer (b. 1795)
1901  2000 
1909  Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist (b. 1842)
1919  Louis Botha, South African politician (b. 1862)
1937  Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, British banker and zoologist (b. 1868)
1937  Andrew W. Mellon, United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1855)
1944  Georg von Boeselager, German aristocrat (b. 1915)
1948  Charles Evans Hughes, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1862)
1950  Cesare Pavese, Italian poet, novelist, critic and translator (b. 1908)
1958  Ernest Lawrence, American physicist (b. 1901)
1963  W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights activist and scholar (b. 1868)
1964  Gracie Allen, American actress (b. 1895)
1965  Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)
1967  Brian Epstein, British music manager (b. 1934)
1968  Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (b. 1906)
1968  Robert Z. Leonard, American movie director, actor, producer and screenwriter (b. 1889)
1969  Erika Mann, German actress and singer (b. 1905)
1975  Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
1976  Mukesh, Indian singer (b. 1923)
1979  Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British statesman (b. 1900)
1980  Douglas Kenney, American actor and writer (b. 1947)
1981  Valeri Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948)
1982  Atilla Altikat, Turkish military diplomat
1990  Stevie Ray Vaughan, American musician (b. 1954)
1999  Helder Camara, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1909)
From 2001 
2001  Abu Ali Mustafa, Palestinian leader (b. 1938)
2006  Maria Esther de Capovilla, Ecuadorean supercentenarian, World's oldest woman (b. 1889)
2006  Jesse Pintado, British musician (b. 1969)
2009  Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer (b. 1913)
2010  Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (b. 1934)
2011  Stetson Kennedy, American writer and Civil Rights activist (b. 1916)
2012  Russell Scott, American TV personality (b. 1920)
2012  Malcolm Browne, American journalist and photographer (b. 1931)
2013  Anatoly Onoprienko, Ukrainian serial killer (b. 1959)
2014  Valeri Petrov, Bulgarian writer (b. 1920)
2014  Sandy Wilson, English composer (b. 1924)
2014  Peret, Spanish musician (b. 1935)
2014  Yehezkel Braun, German-born Israeli composer (b. 1922)
2014  Benno Pludra, German writer (b. 1925)
2014  Jan Groth, Norwegian rock music singer (b. 1946)
2014  Jacques Friedel, French physicist (b. 1921)
2015  Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player (b. 1957)
2015  Joan Garriga, Spanish motorcycle racer (b. 1963)
2017  Yitzhak Pundak, Polish-born Israeli military officer and diplomat (b. 1913)
2017  Ebrahim Yazdi, Iranian politician and diplomat (b. 1931)
2018  Dale M. Cochran, American politician (b. 1928)
2018  Mirka Mora, French-born Australian artist (b. 1928)
2018  Fredd Wayne, American actor and columnist (b. 1924)
2018  Murray Westgate, Canadian actor (b. 1918)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Moldova)
 Lyndon Baines Johnson Day (Texas)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 14  Agrippa Postumus, adopted son of the deceased emperor Augustus, is executed by his guards while in exile under mysterious circumstances.
 636  Battle of Yarmuk: Arab forces led by Khalid bin Walid take control of Syria and Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
 917  Battle of Anchialus: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria invades Thrace and drives the Byzantines out.
 1000  Date of the official founding of Hungary by Saint Stephen.
 1083  Canonization of Saint Stephen of Hungary and his son, Saint Emeric.
 1391  Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Hochmeister of Teutonic Order.
 1467  The Second Battle of Olmedo takes place as part of the succession conflict between Henry IV of Castile and his half-brother, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias.
 1519  Philosopher and General Wang Yangming defeats Zhu Chenhao, ending the Prince of Ning rebellion against the Ming Dynasty's Zhengde Emperor.
1619  First Africans arrive in the US, transported by the Dutch, and are sold as servants in Jamestown, Virginia.
 1630  Lemonade is invented in Paris, France.
 1672  Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother, Cornelis de Witt, are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague.
 1707  The first Siege of Pensacola ends with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida, from the Spanish.
 1710  War of the Spanish Succession: A multinational (of different nationalities) army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maitre, Marquis de Bray in the Battle of Zaragoza.
 1728  Vitus Bering lands on St. Lawrence Island in the now-named Bering Sea. The island is now part of the US state of Alaska.
 1775  Spanish colonists establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson, in the town that would become Tucson, Arizona.
1794  Battle of Fallen Timbers - American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.
 1804  Lewis and Clark Expedition: The "Corps of Discovery", exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when Sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.
 1833  Nat Turner leads his revolt against the Southern plantation owners of Southampton County, Virginia
 1857  The ship Dunbar sinks off Sydney Heads, 121 people drown.
 1857  First book published by an Australian female writer: Gertrude the Emigrant by Caroline Atkinson.
 1858  Charles Darwin first publishes his Theory of Evolution through natural selection alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
 1860  In Melbourne, Robert O'Hara Burke and William Wills begin their south–north expedition of Australia. They successfully go from the South to North but both die on they way back south in late June 1861.
1866  US President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War to be over.
 1868  The Abergele train disaster in North Wales kills 33 people.
 1882  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
 1892  The Celtic Park football stadium opens in Glasgow, Scotland. It is home to Celtic FC.
1901  2000 
 1910  Fire rips through parts of eastern Washington State, northern Idaho and western Montana.
 1914  World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
 1915  World War I: Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
 1920  The National Football League (NFL) is founded.
 1920  The first commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
 1926  Japan's broadcasting company Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) is founded.
 1938  Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career Grand Slam, a record in baseball that still stands.
 1940  Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded in Mexico City by an assassin's ice-ax. He will die the next day.
 1940  Winston Churchill makes a famous speech containing the following quote: Never was so much owed by so many to so few.
 1944  World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a Soviet offensive.
 1950  Korean War: The United Nations repel an offensive by North Korean divisions attempting to cross the Naktong River and assault the city of Taegu.
1955  In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria, raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
 1960  Senegal breaks from the Mali federation, declaring independence.
 1962  The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, starts her first voyage.
 1968  200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization.
 1975  Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
 1977  Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
 1980  Reinhold Messner reaches the top of Mount Everest, both without oxygen, and on his own.
 1982  Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon.
 1986  In Edmond, Oklahoma, US Postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
 1988  Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1988  An earthquake in India and Nepal kills 1,450 people.
 1988  Iran-Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed to end eight years of war.
 1989  The O-Bahn busway opens in Adelaide, South Australia, as the world's longest guided busway.
 1989  The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the Thames in London, killing 51 people.
 1989  In Beverly Hills, California, Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot and kill their wealthy parents.
 1991  Collapse of the Soviet Union: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev.
 1991  Estonia separates from the Soviet Union.
 1993  After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords were signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington D.C. the next month.
 1995  The Hindu temple in Neasden, London, UK, is opened. At the time of its opening, it is the largest Hindu temple outside India.
 1996  Russian soldiers surround Grozny, Chechnya.
1997  Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people killed, 15 kidnapped.
 1998  The Supreme Court of Canada states Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
 1998  1998 U.S. embassy bombings: The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack.
From 2001 
 2002  A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
 2004  Talk show host Regis Philbin breaks the record for Most Hours on Camera, with 15,188.
 2008  A Spanair plane, due to travel from Madrid to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Madrid Barajas Airport, killing 146 people, with 8 dying later. 18 survive.
 2009  Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person to have been convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, who is suffering from prostate cancer, is released from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds, returning to his native Libya. He dies on May 20, 2012.
 2014  A series of landslides in Hiroshima Prefecture kills 72 people, after a month's worth of rain fell in one day.
 2018  Then-15-year-old Greta Thunberg protests outside the Swedish parliament over politicians' lack of action on climate change, starting what would become a worldwide movement of school strikes.
Up to 1900 
 1085  Boleslaw III Wrymouth, Duke of Poland (d. 1138)
 1517  Antoine Perrenot de Granville, French cardinal (d. 1586)
 1561  Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (d. 1633)
 1613  Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, German poet and composer (d. 1676)
 1625  Thomas Corneille, French playwright (d. 1709)
 1710  Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (d. 1761)
 1719  Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783)
 1720  Bernard de Bury, French musician and court composer (d. 1785)
 1761  José, Prince of Brazil, Portuguese royal (d. 1788)
 1777  Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)
 1778  Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean revolutionary (d. 1842)
 1779  Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)
 1786  José Joaquín Prieto Vial, President of Chile (d. 1854)
 1792  Jacques Le Roy de Saint Arnauld, French statesman (d. 1854)
 1799  Heinrich von Gagern, German politician (d. 1880)
 1827  Josef Strauss, Austrian architect, inventor and composer (d. 1870)
1831  Eduard Suess, Austrian geologist and politician (d. 1914)
 1833  Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)
 1843  Edward Lee Greene, American botanist (d. 1915)
 1844  Mutsu Munemitsu, Japanese politician (d. 1897)
 1845  Albert Chmielowski, Polish saint (d. 1916)
 1847  Boleslaw Prus, Polish writer and publicist (d. 1912)
 1860  Raymond Poincaré, President of France and four-times Prime Minister of France (d. 1934)
 1862  Jesse Carleton, American golfer (d. 1921)
 1864  Ion I. C. Bratianu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1927)
 1868  Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (d. 1954)
 1873  Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1950)
 1881  Edgar Guest, English poet (d. 1959)
 1881  Aleksander Hellat, Estonian politician (d. 1943)
 1882  Ricardo Joaquin Alfaro Jovane, President of Panama (d. 1971)
 1883  Robert Lehr, German politician (d. 1956)
 1884  Forrest C. Donnell, 40th Governor of Missouri (d. 1980)
 1885  Dino Campana, Italian poet (d. 1932)
1886  Paul Tillich, German-American theologian (d. 1965)
 1888  Ton Duc Thang, President of North Vietnam (d. 1980)
 1890  H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (d. 1937)
 1898  Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish writer (d. 1973)
 1900  Rita Montaner, Cuban singer and actress (d. 1958)
1901  1950 
 1901  Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer (d. 1968)
 1905  Jack Teagarden, jazz musician (d. 1964)
 1905  Jean Gebser, writer, linguist, and poet (d. 1973)
 1906  Vidrik Bootare, Estonian chess player (d. 1981)
 1908  Al Lopez, American baseball player (d. 2005)
 1910  Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961)
 1913  Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist (d. 1994)
 1918  Jacqueline Susann, novelist (d. 1974)
 1919  Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter and film producer
 1919  Thomas G. Morris, American politician (d. 2016)
 1920  George Zuverink, American baseball player (d. 2014)
 1921  Ursula B. Marvin, American planetary geologist (d. 2018)
 1923  Jim Reeves, American country singer (d. 1964)
 1927  Peter Oakley, English blogger (d. 2014)
 1928  Luciano De Crescenzo, Italian writer, actor and director (d. 2019)
 1930  Jan Olszewski, Polish politician (d. 2019)
 1931  Don King, American boxing promoter
 1932  Anthony Ainley, British actor (d. 2004)
1932  Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (d. 2009)
 1933  George J. Mitchell, American politician and businessman
 1934  Armi Kuusela, Finnish model
 1935  Ron Paul, American politician
 1936  Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize, laureate
 1937  Stelvio Cipriani, Italian composer (d. 2018)
 1937  Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian movie director
 1937  Jim Bowen, English comedian and television personality (d. 2018)
 1937  Sky Saxon, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2009)
 1939  Javier Usabiaga Arroyo, Mexican businessman and politician (d. 2018)
 1939  Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino movie actor and politician (d. 2004)
 1940  Rubén Hinojosa, American politician
 1940  Ronnie McKinnon, Scottish footballer
 1941  Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and Yugoslavia (d. 2006)
 1942  Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, and actor (d. 2008)
 1943  Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor
 1944  Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
1944  José Wilker, Brazilian television director and actor (d. 2014)
 1946  Ralf Hütter, German musician (Kraftwerk)
 1946  Ryszard Czerniawski, Polish lawyer and economist (d. 2019)
 1946  Laurent Fabius, French politician
 1946  Connie Chung, American journalist
 1946  N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
 1948  Robert Plant, British singer (Led Zeppelin)
 1948  Kees van Kooten, Dutch footballer (d. 2015)
 1949  Phil Lynott, Irish musician (d. 1986)
1951  1975 
 1951  Greg Bear, American science fiction writer
 1952  John Hiatt, musician
 1954  Al Roker, American television broadcaster
 1954  Don Stark, American actor
 1955  Danny Murphy, American actor (d. 2014)
 1955  Agnes Chan, singer, professor of education, essayist
 1955  Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, English politician
 1956  Joan Allen, actress
 1956  Roberto Regazzi, Italian violin maker
 1958  Nigel Dodds, Northern Irish politician of the Democratic Unionist Party
 1960  Annabelle Ewing, Scottish politician
 1961  Joe Pasquale, English comedian
 1961  Steve McMahon, English footballer
 1962  James Marsters, American actor
 1962  Sophie Aldred, English voice actress
 1963  Riccardo Ferri, Italian footballer
 1964  Giuseppe Giannini, Italian footballer and coach
 1965  KRS-One (Lawrence Krisna Parker), American rapper
 1966  Dimebag Darrell Abbott, American lead guitar player in Pantera, heavy metal band
 1966  Enrico Letta, former Prime Minister of Italy
1966  Markus Gandler, Austrian skier
 1968  Yuri Shiratori, Japanese seiyū
 1968  Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer (d. 2014)
 1970  John Carmack, computer game programmer
 1970  Fred Durst, American singer
 1971  Jonathan Ke Quan, American actor
 1971  David Walliams, British actor and comedian (Little Britain)
 1973  Todd Helton, American baseball player
 1974  Amy Adams, American actress
 1974  Misha Collins, American actor
 1974  Big Moe, American rapper (d. 2007)
From 1976 
 1976  Chris Drury, American ice hockey player
 1977  Ivar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer
 1977  Stéphane Gillet, Luxembourgish footballer
 1977  Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
 1977  Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
 1978  Neco Martínez, Colombian footballer
 1979  Jamie Cullum, British musician
 1979  Cory Sullivan, American baseball player
 1981  Bernard Mendy, French footballer
 1982  Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer
 1983  Yuri Zhirkov, Russian footballer
 1983  Andrew Garfield, British-American actor
 1985  Alvaro Negredo, Spanish footballer
 1985  Stephen Ward, Irish footballer
 1988  Jerryd Bayless, American basketball player
 1990  Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer
 1990  Leigh Griffiths, Scottish footballer
 1991  Cory Joseph, American basketball player
 1992  Demi Lovato, American singer and actress
 1995  Liana Liberato, American actress

Deaths
Up to 1900 
 2  Lucius Caesar, heir of Augustus Caesar (b. 17 BC)
 14  Agrippa Postumus, Roman son of Marcus Vespasianus Agrippa and Julia the Elder (b. 12 BC)
 480  Leonidas I of Sparta
 768  Eadberht of Northumbria
 984  Pope John XIV
 1153  Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian (b. 1090)
 1384  Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340)
 1572  Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b.1502)
 1580  Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)
 1611  Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. in the 1500s)
 1639  Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (b. 1597)
 1643  Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591)
 1648  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (b. 1583)
 1672  Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625)
 1672  Cornelius de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623)
 1680  William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)
 1701  Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. in the 1600s)
1707  Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627)
 1773  Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701)
 1823  Pope Pius VII (b. 1740)
 1823  Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (b. 1772)
 1854  Shiranui Dakuemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1801)
 1854  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (b. 1775)
 1887  Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
1901  2000 
 1912  William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (b. 1829)
 1914  Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
 1915  Paul Ehrlich, German doctor, won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1854)
 1917  Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
 1919  Greg MacGregor, Scottish cricketer and rugby player (b. 1869)
 1930  Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1851)
 1942  Istvan Horthy, Hungarian admiral (b. 1904)
 1947  Albert Henderson, Canadian soccer player (b. 1881)
 1961  Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
 1965  Jonathan Daniels, American activist (b. 1939)
 1979  Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and writer (b. 1922)
 1980  Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938)
 1982  Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)
 1986  Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923)
 1993  Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (b. 1912)
 1995  Hugo Pratt, Italian author and illustrator (b. 1927)
From 2001 
 2001  Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (b. 1915)
 2005  Thomas Herrion, American football player (b. 1981)
 2005  Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (b. 1970)
 2006  Claude Blanchard, French-Canadian singer, comedian and actor (b. 1932)
 2006  Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1912)
 2008  Hua Guofeng, Chairman of the Chinese Communist party (b. 1921)
 2008  Gene Upshaw, American football player and union leader (b. 1945)
 2012  Phyllis Diller, American actress and comedienne (b. 1917)
 2012  Virginia Dwyer, American actress (b. 1919)
 2012  Dom Mintoff, former Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1916)
 2012  Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia and ex-President of Ethiopia (b. 1955)
 2013  Elmore Leonard, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1925)
 2013  Ted Post, American director (b. 1919)
 2013  Marian McPartland, British-American jazz pianist (b. 1918)
 2014  B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga teacher and author (b. 1918)
2014  Boris Dubin, Russian sociologist and translator (b. 1946)
 2014  Anton Buslov, Russian scientist and blogger (b. 1983)
 2014  Sava Stojkov, Serbian painter (b. 1925)
 2014  Edmund Szoka, American cardinal (b. 1927)
 2015  Lev Durov, Russian actor (b. 1931)
 2015  Lina Morgan, Spanish actress and playwright (b. 1937)
 2015  Harry Volkman, American meteorologist (b. 1926)
 2017  Margot Hielscher, German singer and actress (b. 1919)
 2017  Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian (b. 1926)
 2017  Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1936)
 2017  Nati Mistral, Spanish actress (b. 1928)
 2017  Wilhelm Killmayer, German composer and conductor (b. 1927)
 2017  Gordon M. Williams, Scottish writer (b. 1934)
 2018  John N. Abrams, American general (b. 1946)
 2018  Uri Avnery, Israeli peace activist (b. 1923)
 2018  Jimmy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1931)
 2018  Eddie Willis, American guitarist (b. 1936)
 2019  Rudolf Hundstorfer, Austrian politician (b. 1951)
2019  John H. McArthur, Canadian-American theorist (b. 1934)
 2019  Larry Siegel, American comedy writer (b. 1925)
Observances 
 Saint Stephen's Day (Hungary), commemorating the founding of the Kingdom of Hungary in the year 1000
 Regaining of Independence (Estonia)
 World Mosquito Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 43 BC  Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him as consul.
 1153  Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother, Melisende, and also captures Ascalon.
 1458  Pope Pius II is elected.
 1493  Accession to the throne of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
 1561  Mary, Queen of Scots returns to Scotland after 13 years in France.
 1666  Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships.
 1692  Salem Witch Trials: Five people are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
 1745  Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard at Glenfinnan, beginning the second Jacobite rebellion.
 1759  Seven Years' War: Naval Battle of Lagos off Portugal - The Royal Navy defeats a French fleet.
 1768  St. Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
 1772  Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup, dividing power between the King and the Riksdag (Swedish parliament).
1782  American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks - Last major engagement of the war.
 1812  War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats British frigate HMS Guerriere off Nova Scotia.
 1839  The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift 'free to the world'.
 1848  The New York Herald reports on the gold found in California.
 1854  The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.
 1861  The Weisshorn in the Alps is first climbed, by British scientist John Tyndall.
 1889  Meteorological experiments are carried out on the Eiffel Tower to bring new knowledge of weather patterns to scientists. During this, a lightning bolt strikes the top of the building, something which hardly anyone on the lower deck notices.
 1895  American Frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
1901  2000 
 1909  The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway occurs.
 1914  The alliance between Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire is signed in Sofia.
 1919  Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
 1927  Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
 1934  The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
 1941  On Alaska's Kodiak Island, the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge is founded.
 1942  World War II: Operation Jubilee - British and Canadian landings at Dieppe, northern France, fail.
 1944  World War II: Paris rises up against German occupation, with help from allied troops.
 1945  The Viet Minh, under Ho Chi Minh, take command in Hanoi, Vietnam.
 1953  The CIA helps to overthrow Iranian leader Mohammed Mossadegh, allowing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to return to power.
 1955  Hurricane Diane floods the Northeastern United States, killing 200 people.
1960  The Soviet Union sentences US pilot Francis Gary Powers to ten years in prison.
 1960  Sputnik 5 is launched, with dogs, mice and plants on board. They all return safely back to Earth.
 1965  Eisaku Sato, becomes the first post-World War II Prime Minister of Japan to visit Okinawa.
 1966  An earthquake in Varto, Turkey, kills 2,500 people.
 1978  An attack on the Cinema Rex in Abadan, western Iran, kills over 430 people. It had been carried out by allies of Ayatollah Khomeini in order to damage the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
 1980  A Lockheed L-1011 airplane of the Saudia airline, burns after making an emergency landing at King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people. This is Saudi Arabia's worst-ever air disaster.
 1981  Gulf of Sidra Incident: US fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
 1987  In Hungerford, England, a gunman kills 16 people with an assault rifle, before killing himself.
1989  Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Tadeusz Mazowiecki as the first non-Communist Prime Minister of Poland in 42 years.
 1989  Several East Germans cross the border between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events leading up to the Fall of the Berlin Wall later the same year.
 1991  August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest, while on holiday in Foros, Crimea.
 1999  In Belgrade, tens of thousands of people protest against President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic, demanding his resignation.
From 2001 
 2002  A Russian Mil Mir 26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile, killing 18.
 2003  A car bomb attack on Baghdad's United Nations Headquarters kills 22 people, including Brazilian diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello.
 2003  A bus bombing attack planned by Hamas in Jerusalem kills 23 people.
 2005  The first ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005, begins.
 2005  Strong storms hit southern Ontario, bringing tornadoes and flooding.
 2007  Pro-democracy demonstrations begin in Burma, led by Buddhist monks and nuns.
 2008  President of Zambia Levy Mwanawasa dies aged 59. Rupiah Banda is later elected to replace him.
 2009  A series of bombings in Baghdad kills 101 people, and injures 565.
 2010  The last US combat troops leave Iraq.
 2012  A Sudanese Antonov An-26 airliner crashes near Talodi, Sudan, killing over 30 people.
 2012  Movie director Tony Scott commits suicide at the age of 68.
Up to 1900 
232  Marcus Aurelius Robus, Roman Emperor (d. 282).
1342  Catherine of Bohemia (d. 1395).
1398  Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, 1st marquis of Santillana, Spanish politician and poet (d. 1458).
1557  Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1608)
1558  Francois de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (d. 1614)
1570  Salamone Rossi, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1630).
1596  Elizabeth of Bohemia (d. 1662).
1621  Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674).
1631  John Dryden, English poet (d. 1700).
1646  John Flamsteed, English astronomer (d. 1719).
1689  Samuel Richardson, English writer (d. 1761).
1719  Charlie-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791).
1743  Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793).
1750  Johann Georg August Galletti, German historian and geographer (d. 1828).
1808  James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer and architect (d. 1890).
1819  Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1894).
1830  Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist (d. 1895)
1846  Luis Martin, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906).
1848  Gustave Caillebotte, French painter (d. 1894).
1849  Joaquim Nabuco, Brazilian writer, statesman and abolitionist (d. 1910).
1853  Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926).
1870  Bernard Baruch, American businessman (d. 1965).
1871  Orville Wright of the Wright brothers, American airplane pioneer (d. 1948).
1873  Fred Stone, American actor and producer (d. 1959).
1875  Stepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1936).
1878  Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines (d. 1944).
1881  George Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955).
1881  Kingsley Wood, English politician (d. 1943).
1883  Coco Chanel, French designer (d. 1971).
1883  Leonid Kulik, Russian mineralogist (d. 1942).
1883  Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, Swedish politician (d. 1954).
1883  José Mendes Cabecadas, Portuguese politician (d. 1965).
1883  Elsie Ferguson, American movie actress (d. 1961).
1888  Ton Duc Thang, Vietnamese Communist leader (d. 1980).
1889  Arthur Waley, English orientalist and sinologist (d. 1966).
1890  Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, German-born last Queen Consort of Portugal (d. 1966).
1894  Luis Padilla Nervo, Mexican politician (d. 1985).
1897  Roman Vishniac, Russian-American photographer (d. 1990).
1900  Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976).
1900  Gontran de Poncins, French author and adventurer (d. 1962).
1901  1950 
1902  Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971).
1906  Philo T. Farnsworth, American inventor (d. 1971).
1907  Thurston B. Morton, American politician (d. 1982).
1908  Warren P. Knowles, Governor of Wisconsin (d. 1993).
1913  John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer (d. 2004).
1914  Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (d. 1955).
1914  Lajos Baroti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005).
1915  Ring Lardner, Jr., American journalist and screenwriter (d. 2000).
1918  Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India (d. 1999).
1921  Jonas Algirdas Antanaitis, Lithuanian politician (d. 2018).
1921  Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991).
1924  Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist (d. 2011).
1928  Walter Massey, Canadian actor (d. 2014).
1930  Frank McCourt, Irish-American writer (d. 2009).
1931  Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003).
1932  Banharn Silpa-archa, former Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2016).
1932  Thomas P. Salmon, 75th Governor of Vermont.
1934  Renée Richards, American tennis player.
1935  Zahir Raihan, Bangladeshi writer and movie maker (d. 1972).
1935  Story Musgrave, American astronaut.
1937  Richard Ingrams, English journalist.
1939  Ginger Baker, English musician (Cream) (d. 2019).
1940  Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter.
1940  Jill St. John, American actress.
1942  Jorgelina Aranda, Argentine actress (d. 2015).
1942  Fred Thompson, American actor and politician (d. 2015).
1944  Jakob von Uexküll, Swedish writer, philanthropist and political activist.
1945  Ian Gillan, English singer (Deep Purple).
1946  Christopher Malcolm, Scottish-English actor and singer (d. 2014).
1946  Charles Bolden, American astronaut.
1946  Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States.
1948  Tipper Gore, former Second Lady of the United States.
1948  Tommy Söderberg, Swedish football coach.
1950  Jennie Bond, British journalist.
1951  1975 
1951  John Deacon, British musician.
1951  Jean-Luc Mélenchon, French politician.
1951  Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentine composer and musician.
1952  Jonathan Frakes, American actor.
1953  Nanni Moretti, Italian movie actor, director and producer.
1953  Lynwood Slim, American singer and harmonica player.
1955  Peter Gallagher, American actor, singer and writer.
1955  Manolo García, Spanish musician and composer.
1955  Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, Dominican-born British barrister
1955  Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager.
1956  Adam Arkin, American actor.
1956  Sergio Brio, Italian footballer.
1957  Cesare Prandelli, Italian footballer and coach.
1957  Martin Donovan, American actor.
1957  Gerda Verburg, Dutch diplomat, trade union leader and politician.
1958  Gordon Brand Jnr, Scottish golfer (d. 2019).
1958  Brendan Nelson, Australian politician.
1958  Darryl Sutter, Canadian-born ice hockey coach.
1959  Ricky Pierce, American basketball player.
1961  Jonathan Coe, English author.
1962  Michelangelo Rampulla, Italian footballer.
1962  Raimonds Vilde, Latvian volleyball player and coach.
1963  Hector Pieterson, South African student and symbol of the anti-Apartheid movement (d. 1976).
1963  Joey Tempest, Swedish singer.
1963  Bonnie Bianco, American actress and singer.
1963  John Stamos, American actor.
1965  Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress.
1965  Kyra Sedgwick, American actress.
1965  Kevin Dillon, American actor.
1966  Lee Ann Womack, American country music singer.
1967  Khandro Rinpoche, Indian spiritual leader.
1967  Satya Nadella, Indian-American businessman, CEO of Microsoft.
1968  Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, Greek sailor.
1969  Matthew Perry, American actor.
1969  Nate Dogg, American rapper (d. 2011).
1970  Fat Joe, American rapper.
1971  Mary Joe Fernandez, American tennis player.
1972  Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentine footballer.
1973  Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway.
1973  Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer.
1973  Roy Rogers, American basketball player.
1974  Sarah Burton, British fashion designer.
1975  Tracie Thoms, American actress.
From 1976 
1977  Sara Martins, Portuguese-French actress
1978  Walter Baseggio, Belgian footballer.
1980  Darius Danesh, Scottish singer-songwriter and actor.
1980  Russell Kane, English comedian.
1982  Erika Christensen, American actress.
1983  Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter.
1983  Reeva Steenkamp, South African model (d. 2013).
1984  Simon Bird, English actor and comedian.
1984  Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer.
1985  Lindsey Jacobellis, American snowboarder.
1986  Christina Perri, American singer-songwriter.
1987  Anaïs Lameche, French-Swedish singer.
1987  Nico Hülkenberg, German racing driver.
1987  Richard Stearman, English footballer.
1989  Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper and actor.
1989  Sara Nuru, German model.
1991  Kendall Marshall, American basketball player.
1994  Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete.
1997  Joseph Castanon, American actor and singer.

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 14  Augustus, Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC).
 1186  Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158).
 1245  Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195).
 1297  Saint Louis of Toulouse, French bishop (b. 1274).
 1493  Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415).
 1580  Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (b. 1508).
 1662  Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, philosopher and physicist (b. 1623).
 1680  Jean Eudes, French Catholic priest (b. 1601).
 1692  John Proctor, Salem farmer and tavern keeper (b. 1632).
 1753  Johann Balthasar Neumann, German engineer and architect (b. 1687).
 1819  James Watt, Scottish engineer and inventor (b. 1736).
 1822  Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (b. 1749).
 1883  Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (b. 1810).
 1895  John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (b. 1853).
 1900  Jean Baptiste Accolay, Belgian violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1833).
1901  2000 
 1905  William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French painter (b. 1825).
 1914  Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844).
 1915  Tevfik Fikret, Ottoman poet (b. 1867).
 1923  Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845).
 1928  Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker, diplomat and Prime Minister (b. 1838).
 1929  Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (b. 1872).
 1936  Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet (b. 1898).
 1942  Harald Kaarmann, Estonian footballer (b. 1901).
 1946  Bob McKinney, American baseball player (b. 1875).
 1950  Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871).
 1954  Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881).
 1957  Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898).
 1959  Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (b. 1881).
 1959  Blind Willie McTell, American blues singer (b. 1901).
 1970  Pawel Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909).
 1976  Alistair Sim, British actor (b. 1900).
1977  Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890).
 1979  Dorsey Burnette, American singer-songwriter (b. 1932).
 1980  Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889).
 1981  Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer and dancer (b. 1907).
 1994  Linus Pauling, American chemist (b. 1901).
 1995  Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910).
 2000  Theodore Trautwein, American judge (b. 1920).
 2000  Bineshwar Brahma, Indian religious figure (b. 1948).
From 2001 
 2001  Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939).
 2001  Donald Woods, South African anti-Apartheid activist and journalist (b. 1933).
 2002  Eduardo Chillida, Basque sculptor (b. 1924).
 2003  Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (b. 1926).
 2003  Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948) (killed in a car bombing in Baghdad).
 2005  Mo Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949).
 2008  Levy Mwanawasa, President of Zambia (b. 1948).
 2009  Don Hewitt, American television producer (b. 1922).
 2010  Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet (b. 1920).
 2011  Raul Ruiz, Chilean movie director (b. 1941).
 2011  Gun Hägglund, Swedish television journalist (b. 1932).
 2012  Tony Scott, British movie director and producer (b. 1944).
 2013  Jose Sarria, American political activist (b. 1922).
 2013  Lee Thompson Young, American actor (b. 1984).
 2013  Abdul Rahim Hatef, 8th President of Afghanistan (b. 1926).
 2013  Donna Hightower, American singer (b. 1926).