Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1928 - Ruth Westheimer, German-American therapist and writer
1929 – Karolos Papoulias, former President of Greece
1930 - Viktor Tikhonov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (died 2014)
1930 - Morgana King, American singer and actress
1932 - John Drew Barrymore, American actor (died 2004)
1933 - Godfried Danneels, Belgian cardinal
1933 – Frank D. White, 41st Governor of Arkansas (died 2003)
1934 – Daphne Sheldrick, Kenyan writer and conservationist (died 2018)
1934 – Monica Dacon, former acting Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1936 - Nutan, Indian actress and singer (died 1991)
1936 - Oleg Fedoseyev, Russian triple jumper (died 2001)
1936 – Bruce Dern, American actor
1937 - Freddy Fender, American musician (died 2006)
1938 - John Harvard, Canadian politician (died 2015)
1939 - George Reid, Scottish politician
1942 - Louis Reichardt, American mountaineer
1944 – Michelle Phillips, American actress and singer (The Mamas & the Papas)
1946 - S. Balasubrahmanyan, Indian singer, actor, director and movie producer
1947 – Viktor Klima, former Chancellor of Austria
1948 – Jürgen Sparwasser, German footballer
1948 - Bob Champion, English jockey
1951  1975 
1951 - Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish athlete
1952 – Bronislaw Komorowski, former President of Poland
1953 - Walter Novellino, Italian footballer
1953 – Linda Lingle, American politician, 6th State Governor of Hawaii
1954 - Luc-Adolphe Tiao, Prime Minister of Burkina Faso
1954 - Raphael Ravenscroft, English musical composer and writer (died 2014)
1955 – Val McDermid, Scottish writer
1956 – Martin Adams, English darts player
1958 - Eddie Velez, American actorwriter
1959 - Juan Camacho, Bolivian runner
1960 - Bradley Walsh, English actor
1960 - Milos Delmas, Serbian footballer
1961 – Ferenc Gyurcsany, former Prime Minister of Hungary
1961 - Dani Kouyaté, Burkinabé movie director
1964 – Sean Pertwee, British actor
1964 - Koji Yamamura, Japanese animator
1965 – Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer
1965 - Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player
1966 – Cecilia Bartoli, Italian opera singer
1967 - Robert Shane Kimbrough, American astronaut
1968 - Roger Lim, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1969 – Horatio Sanz, Chilean-born comedian
1970 - Izabella Scorupco, Polish-Swedish actress and model
1971 – Noah Wyle, American actor
1971 – Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
1972 – Derian Hatcher, American ice hockey player
1972 - Stoja, Serbian singer
1975 – Russell Brand, British comedian
1975 – Angelina Jolie, American actress
1975 - Julian Marley, Jamaican-British reggae musician
From 1976 
1977 – Alex Manninger, Austrian footballer
1977 – Navi Rawat, American actress
1977 – Berglind Icey, Icelandic swimmer and actress
1977 – Ingrid Visser, Dutch volleyball player (died 2013)
1977 – Tetiana Chornovol, Ukrainian journalist, politician and activist
1979 – Christopher Dorner, American police officer and murderer (died 2013)
1979 – Naohiro Takahara, Japanese footballer
1980 – Francois Beauchemin, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 – Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spanish tennis player
1983 – Emmanuel Eboué, Ivorian footballer
1983 – Koffi Ndri Romaric, Ivorian footballer
1985 – Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
1985 – Lukas Podolski, German footballer
1985 – Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian model (died 2006)
1986 – Shelly Woods, British athlete
1986 – Oona Chaplin, British actress
1986 – Yoochun, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
1987 – Mollie King, British singer (The Saturdays)
1988 – Li Man, Chinese actress
1989 – Eldar Gasimov, Azerbaijani singer (Ell & Nikki)
1990 – Jetsun Pema, Queen of Bhutan
1990 – Zac Farro, American singer and drummer (Paramore)
1991 – Jordan Hinson, American actress
1991 – Lorenzo Insigne, Italian footballer
1991 – Kathryn Prescott, English actress
1991 – Megan Prescott, English actress
1992 – Morgan Griffin, Australian actress
1992 – Brooke Vincent, English actress
1999 – Kim So-hyun, South Korean actress
Up to 1900 
1039 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (born (about) 990)
1094 - Sancho Ramirez, King of Aragon and Navarra (born around 1043)
1102 - Wladyslaw I Herman, Duke of Poland (born 1043)
1134 - King Magnus I of Sweden (born 1106)
1135 – Emperor Huizong of China (born 1082)
1206 - Adele of Champagne, Queen Consort of France (born 1140)
1257 – Duke Przemysl I of Poland (born (about) 1220)
1394 - Mary de Bohun, Queen Consort of England (born 1369)
1472 – Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec ruler, philosopher and poet (born 1402)
1585 - Muretus, Flemish humanist (born 1526)
1663 – William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1582)
1798 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian lover (born 1725)
1801 – Frederick Muhlenberg, first speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1750)
1830 - Antonio José de Sucre, 2nd President of Bolivia (born 1795)
1872 – Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (born 1798)
1875 – Eduard Mörike, German poet (born 1804)
1876 – Abdulaziz, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (born 1830)
1901  2000 
1916 – Herbert Horatio Kitchener (Lord Kitchener), British Secretary of State for War (born 1850)
1922 - W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist (born 1864)
1926 - Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer (born 1853)
1928 – Chang Tso-lin, Chinese warlord (born 1873)
1929 - Harry Frazee, American director, producer and agent (born 1881)
1937 - Ketevan Galadze, mother of Joseph Stalin (born 1858)
1939 – Tommy Ladnier, American jazz musician (born 1900)
1941 – Kaiser Wilhelm II, last German emperor (born 1859)
1942 – Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (born 1904)
1951 – Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (born 1874)
1956 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress (born 1881)
1968 – Dorothy Gish, American actress (born 1898)
1971 - Georg Lukacs, Hungarian philosopher (born 1885)
1973 – Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician (born 1878)
1973 - Murry Wilson, American songwriter, producer and manager (born 1917)
1983 – Ivan Tors, producer, writer, animal trainer
1990 – Stiv Bators, American musician ("The Dead Boys") (born 1949)
1992 - Carl Stotz, American businessman (born 1910)
1994 – Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (born 1953)
1994 - Derek Leckenby, English guitarist (born 1943)
1997 - Ronnie Lane, English singer-songwriter, musician and producer (born 1946)
From 2001 
2001 – King Dipendra of Nepal (born 1971)
2001 – John Hartford, American musician, composer (born 1937)
2002 – Fernando Belaunde Terry, Peruvian politician, President of Peru (born 1912)
2004 – Steve Lacy, American saxophonist (born 1934)
2004 – Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (born 1921)
2005 - Chloe Jones, American pornographic actress (born 1975)
2007 – Craig L. Thomas, American politician (born 1933)
2010 – John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (born 1910)
2011 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat and politician, 62nd United States Secretary of State (born 1930)
2011 – Lilian Jackson Braun, American writer (born 1913)
2012 – Eduard Khil, Russian baritone singer (born 1934)
2014 - Doc Neeson, Australian musician (born 1947)
2014 - Don Zimmer, American baseball player (born 1931)
2014 - George Ho, American-Hong Kong businessman (born 1919)
2014 - Chester Nez, American soldier (born 1921)
2015 - Leonid Plyushch, Ukrainian-Soviet dissident and mathematician (born 1938)
2015 - Kurt Weber, Polish cinematographer (born 1928)
2015 - Bengt Berndtsson, Swedish footballer (born 1933)
2015 - Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer (born 1918)
2015 - Albert West, Dutch singer (born 1949)
2016 - Sulabha Deshpande, Indian actress (born 1937)
2016 - Antti Hyry, Finnish writer (born 1931)
2016 - Gil Bartosh, American football player and coach (born 1956)
2016 - Phyllis Curtin, American soprano (born 1921)
2016 - Carmen Pereira, Guinea-Bissau politician (born 1937)
2017 - Juan Goytisolo, Spanish essayist, poet and novelist (born 1931)
2017 - Babatunde Osotimehin, Nigerian politician and civil servant (born 1949)
2017 - Roger Smith, American actor (born 1932)
2017 - Zhang Tianfu, Chinese agronomist and tea expert (born 1910)
2018 - Dwight Clark, American football player (born 1957)
2018 - Eunice Lam, Hong Kong columnist and socialite (born 1943)
2018 - J. B. Munro, New Zealand politician and disability activist (born 1936)
Holidays and observances
Feast day of St Francis Caracciolo
Feast day of Saint Petrock of Cornwall
International Innocent Child Abuse Victim Day
Independence Day (Tonga)
National Unity Day (Hungary)
Flag Day (Estonia)

Other websites 
 BBC: On This Day

June 04
Events

Up to 1900 
 764 – Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
 1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of dying Constantine VIII
 1439 – Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
 1555 - The English Parliament decides that Roman Catholicism will be the state religion of England.
 1602 - Sebastian Viscaino lands at, and names, San Diego, California.
 1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is executed on the guillotine.
 1892 - William Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, taking part in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
 1893 - The Treaty of the Durand is signed between present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan; the Durand Line has become the international border between the two countries.
1901  2000 
 1905 - Newly independent Norway holds a referendum on its system of government. Most voters decide to have a monarch as their Head of State, over having a president.
 1908 - An explosion at a mine shaft in Hamm, present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, kills 348 people.
 1912 - The bodies of Robert Falcon Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf.
 1918 – Austria becomes a republic.
 1920 - Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
 1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with complete control of the Soviet Union.
 1928 - The ship SS Vestris sinks around 200 miles (320 kilometers) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing over 110 people.
 1933 - Hugh Gray takes the first-known photograph alleged to show the Loch Ness Monster.
 1936 – The San Francisco Bay Bridge is opened.
1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days.
 1944 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches one of the most successful bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz off the coast of Norway.
 1945 - Sudirman is elected as the first commander-in-chief of the Indonesian Armed Forces.
 1948 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
 1956 - Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the UN.
 1958 - A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first successful climb of the "Nose" on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, California.
 1968 - Equatorial Guinea joins the UN.
 1969 – Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre – Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempt to destroy a rotting bleached sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now-infamous "exploding whale" incident.
 1973 - It is announced that Gerald Ford is to succeed Spiro Agnew as Vice President of the United States.
 1975 – The Comoros join the UN.
 1980 – The Voyager 1 space probe takes images of Saturn's rings.
 1981 - The Space Shuttle Columbia launches on its second flight.
 1982 – In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid Brezhnev.
 1982 – Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is released.
 1985 - Xavier Suarez becomes Miami's first Cuban-American Mayor.
 1990 – Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch. He had already succeeded his father Hirohito, who died on January 7, 1989.
 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1991 – Dili Massacre: Indonesian forces opened fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
 1994 - Chandrika Kumaratunga becomes President of Sri Lanka.
 1995 - Mozambique joins the Commonwealth. As a former Portuguese colony, it is the first Commonwealth member not to have had any historical links with the present-day United Kingdom.
 1995 - Azerbaijan holds its first parliamentary elections.
 1996 - A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin II-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, India, killing 349 people in the deadliest mid-air collision to date.
 1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of planning the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
From 2001 
 2001 – Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Northern Alliance troops.
 2001 – A plane crash in the New York Borough of Queens kills all (260) of those on board, and 5 people on the ground. American Airlines Flight 587 had come down shortly after take-off and was bound for the Dominican Republic.
 2003 - Iraq War: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, including the war's first Italian casualties, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on the Italian police base.
 2003 - Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record, 501 kilometers per hour (311 miles per hour), for commercial railways systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.
 2004 – Official Guided by Voices Day in Los Angeles, California.
 2004 – Resignation of Colin Powell as United States Secretary of Defense.
 2010 - The 16th Asian Games begin in Guangzhou, China.
2011 – In the wake of an economic crisis, Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy. Mario Monti is selected to replace him shortly after.
 2013 - One World Trade Center is announced as being the tallest building in the United States.
 2014 - The Philae lander from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe lands on the surface of the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It is the first man-made object to land on a comet.
 2015 - At least 40 people are killed in suicide bomb attacks in Beirut, Lebanon.
 2017 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes the Iran-Iraq border area, killing at least 450 people and injuring hundreds.
Up to 1900 
 1493 – Bartolomeo Bandelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
 1528 - Qi Jiquang, Chinese general (d. 1588)
 1547 – Claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575)
 1615 – Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)
 1651 - Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican nun and poet (d. 1695)
 1679 - Firmin Bauzit, French scholar (d. 1767)
 1729 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811)
 1746 - Jacques Charles, French physicist (d. 1823)
 1755 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (d. 1813)
 1774 - Charles Bell, Scottish physiologist and anatomist (d. 1842)
 1790 – Letitia Christian Tyler, American First Lady, wife of John Tyler (d. 1842)
 1815 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (d. 1902)
 1817 – Baha'u'llah, religious leader of the Baha'i faith (d. 1892)
 1830 - Brynjulf Bergslien, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1898)
 1833 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (d. 1887)
 1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)
 1841 - Preston Lea, Governor of Delaware (d. 1916)
1842 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Raleigh, English physicist (d. 1919)
 1850 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)
 1865 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary and politician (d. 1925)
 1872 - William Fay, Irish actor and theatre musician (d. 1947)
 1881 - Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (d. 1948)
 1882 - Infanta María Teresa of Spain (d. 1912)
 1883 - James W. Mott, American politician (d. 1945)
 1886 - Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)
 1890 - Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)
 1891 - Seth Barnes Nicholson, American astronomer (d. 1963)
 1892 - Tudor Davies, Welsh operatic tenor (d. 1958)
 1895 - Amandus Adamson, Estonian sculptor (d. 1929)
 1898 - Leon Stukelj, Slovenian gymnast (d. 1999)
1901  1950 
 1901 - James Luther Adams, American theologian (d. 1994)
 1903 - Jack Oakie, American actor (d. 1978)
 1908 - Harry Blackmun, United States Supreme Court justice (d. 1999)
 1911 - Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1991)
 1911 – Chad Varah, British founder of the Samaritans telephone helpline (d. 2007)
 1915 – Roland Barthes, French writer and philosopher (d. 1980)
 1917 - Jo Stafford, American singer (d. 2008)
 1920 - Richard Quine, American actor (d. 1989)
 1922 - Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002)
 1923 – Loriot, German comedian, humorist, producer and writer (d. 2011)
 1923 - Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Mexican poet and scholar (d. 2013)
 1924 - Sam Jones, American jazz musician (d. 1981)
 1928 - Bob Holness, South African-born television presenter and actor (d. 2012)
 1929 – Michael Ende, German writer (d. 1995)
 1929 – Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (d. 1982)
 1930 - Bob Crewe, American songwriter, dancer, singer and record producer (d. 2014)
1931 - Norman Y. Mineta, American politician
 1933 – Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq (d. 2017)
 1934 – Vavá, Brazilian footballer (d. 2002)
 1934 - Leonid Stein, Soviet-Ukrainian chess player (d. 1973)
 1934 – Charles Manson, American cult leader (d. 2017)
 1935 – Lyudmila Gurchenko, Russian actress and singer (d. 2011)
 1936 – Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (d. 2004)
 1936 - Mills Lane, American boxer, referee, lawyer and judge
 1937 - Richard H. Truly, American astronaut
 1938 – Benjamin Mkapa, former President of Tanzania
 1938 - Mort Shuman, American singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
 1939 - Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (d. 1993)
 1939 - Ruby Nash Garnett, American singer
 1940 - Jürgen Todenhöfer, German judge and politician
 1941 - Cristina Peri Rossi, Uruguayan writer
 1943 – Errol Brown, English singer (d. 2015)
 1943 - Bjorn Waldegard, Swedish rally driver (d. 2014)
 1943 - Wallace Shawn, American actor and playwright
 1944 - Booker T. Jones, American rock musician
1944 - Al Michaels, American sportscaster
 1945 - Dale Schlueter, American basketball player (d. 2014)
 1945 – Neil Young, Canadian singer
 1946 – Krister Henriksson, Swedish actor
 1948 - Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran
 1949 – Jack Reed, American politician
1951  1975 
 1952 - Ernie Fletcher, 60th Governor of Kentucky
 1952 - Stuart Cosgrove, Scottish broadcaster and journalist
 1955 - Louan Gideon, American actress (d. 2014)
 1955 - Les McKeown, Scottish singer
 1957 - Tim Samaras, American storm chaser (d. 2013)
 1957 - Cécilia Attias, former First Lady of France
 1958 – Megan Mullally, American actress
 1959 - Toshihiko Sahashi, Japanese composer
 1960 - Maurane, Belgian singer (d. 2018)
 1961 – Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast
 1961 – Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer
 1962 - Naomi Wolf, American author and feminist
 1962 - Mariella Frostrup, Norwegian-British journalist
 1962 - Mark Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager
 1963 - Susumu Terajimi, Japanese actor
 1964 - Danny Ellefson, American musician
 1964 – Thomas Berthold, German footballer
 1964 – Vic Chesnutt, American musician (d. 2009)
 1964 - Michael Kremer, American economist
 1965 - Eddie Mair, Scottish journalist
 1968 - Aya Hisakawa, Japanese voice actress and singer
1968 – Kathleen Hanna, American musician and activist
 1968 – Sammy Sosa, Dominican baseball player
 1970 – Tonya Harding, American figure skater
 1971 - Chen Guangcheng, Chinese human rights activist
 1973 - Radha Mitchell, American actress
 1974 – Alessandro Birindelli, Italian footballer
 1975 - Katherine Grainger, Scottish rower
 1975 – Dario Simic, Croatian footballer
From 1976 
 1976 – Miroslaw Szymkowiak, Polish footballer
 1977 – Benni McCarthy, South African footballer
 1978 - Eric Addo, Ghanaian footballer
 1978 - Ashley Williams, American actress
 1980 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor
 1980 - Charlie Hodgson, English rugby player
 1981 - D. J. Campbell, English footballer
 1982 - Maxim Tchoudov, Russian biathlete
 1982 – Anne Hathaway, American actress
 1983 – Carlton Cole, English footballer
 1984 - Omarion, American singer
 1985 - Adlène Guedioura, French-Algerian footballer
 1987 - Bryan Little, Canadian ice hockey player
 1988 - Russell Westbrook, American basketball player
 1988 - Paul Samaras, American storm chaser (d. 2013)
 1989 - Hiroshi Kiyotake, Japanese footballer
 1990 - Taulupe Faletau, Welsh rugby union player
 1990 - Florent Manaudou, French swimmer
 1990 - James McCarthy, Irish footballer
 1992 - Adam Larsson, Swedish ice hockey player
 1992 - Giulietta, Australian singer
 1992 - Trey Burke, American basketball player
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 607 - Pope Boniface III
 1035 – Canute the Great, Danish king of England, Denmark, Norway and part of Sweden (b. 995)
 1094 – King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
 1139 – King Magnus IV of Norway (b. 1115)
 1202 – King Canute VI of Denmark (b. 1163)
 1434 - King Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)
 1595 – John Hawkins, English shipbuilder, merchant, and slavetrader (b. 1532)
 1671 - Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (b. 1612)
 1720 - Peter Tordenskiold, Danish-Norwegian naval officer (b. 1690)
 1742 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
 1757 - Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
 1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French politician, first Mayor of Paris (executed on the Guillotine) (b. 1736)
 1813 - J. Hector St John de Crèvecoeur, French-American writer (b. 1735) 
 1836 – Juan Ramon Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
 1857 - Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan politician (b. 1792)
 1865 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English writer (b. 1810)
1901  2000 
 1902 - William Henry Barlow, British railway engineer (b. 1812)
 1903 – Camille Pissarro, French painter (b. 1830)
 1912 - José Canalejas, Spanish politician and writer (b. 1854)
 1916 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer (b. 1855)
 1933 - John Cady, American golfer (b. 1866)
 1933 - F. Holland Day, American photographer (b. 1864)
 1939 – Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890)
 1942 - Laura Hope Crews, American actress (b. 1879)
 1944 - Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (b. 1876)
 1945 - James W. Mott, American politician (b. 1883)
 1946 - Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer (b. 1875)
 1946 - Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian academic and politician (b. 1861)
 1948 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
 1950 - Lesley Ashburner, American athlete (b. 1883)
 1958 - James Michael Curley, American politician, Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1874)
 1969 - Iskander Mirza, President of Pakistan (b. 1899)
 1969 – Liu Shaoqi, Chinese revolutionary and politician (b. 1898)
1974 – Thorbergur Thordarson, Icelandic writer (b. 1889)
 1976 - Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894)
 1990 – Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
 1994 - Wilma Rudolph, American runner (b. 1940)
 1997 - Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
 2000 – Leah Rabin, widow of Yitzhak Rabin (b. 1928)
From 2001 
 2003 - Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
 2007 – Ira Levin, American writer (b. 1929)
 2008 - Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (b. 1947)
 2010 – Henryk Gorecki, Polish composer (b. 1933)
 2012 - Sergio Oliva, Cuban-born American bodybuilder (b. 1941)
 2013 - Aleksandr Serebrov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (b. 1944)
 2013 - John Tavener, English composer (b. 1944)
 2014 - Warren Clarke, English actor (b. 1947)
 2014 - Marge Roukema, American politician (b. 1929)
 2014 - Rebekah Gibbs, English actress (b. 1973)
 2015 - Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer (b. 1983)
 2015 - Aaron Shikler, American artist (b. 1922)
 2015 - Jihadi John, Kuwaiti-British terrorist (b. 1988)
 2016 - Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress (b. 1910)
 2017 - Bernard Panafieu, French cardinal (b. 1931)
 2017 - Jack Ralite, French politician (b. 1928)
 2017 - Edith Savage-Jennings, American activist (b. 1924)
 2017 - Liz Smith, American gossip columnist (b. 1923)
 2017 - Santiago Vernazza, Argentine footballer (b. 1928)
2018 - Ananth Kumar, Indian politician (b. 1959)
 2018 - Stan Lee, American comic book writer, publisher and actor (b. 1922)
 2018 - Igor Luchenok, Belarussian composer (b. 1938)
 2018 - David Pearson, American racing driver (b. 1934)
 2018 - Stuart H. Walker, American yachtsman (b. 1923)
 2019 - Edwin Bramall, British army officer (b. 1923)
 2019 - Herb Dickenson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
 2019 - Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1936)
 2019 - Víctor Manuel Pérez Rojas, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1940)
 2019 - Mitsuhisa Taguchi, Japanese footballer (b. 1955)
 2020 - Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physician (b. 1926)
Observances 
 Birth of Baha'u'llah (Baha'i faith)
 Birth of Sun Yat-sen (Republic of China)
 World Pneumonia Day
 Constitution Day (Azerbaijan)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 AD 81  Domitian becomes Roman Emperor.
 1180  Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
 1509  Constantinople is hit by an earthquake, killing 13,000.
 1515  After the Battle of Marignano and defeat to French forces, Switzerland declares itself 'for ever' neutral.
 1741  George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.
 1752  The British Empire adopts the Gregorian Calendar. In the change, the dates from September 3 to September 13 are missed out.
 1763  Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole, during Pontiac's War.
 1791  The Papal States lose Avignon to France.
 1808  Finnish War: Russian forces defeat Swedish ones in the Battle of Oravais.
 1812  Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow.
 1814  The poem Defense of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used for the words in The Star-Spangled Banner.
 1829  The Russo-Turkish War ends.
 1846  Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese Royal Court.
1847  Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
 1856  Battle of San Jacinto in Nicaragua.
 1862  American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
 1897  Battleship SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II is launched.
1900  2000 
 1901  President of the United States William McKinley dies more than one week after being shot by Leon Czolgosz. He is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt, who becomes the 26th President of the United States.
 1917  Russia is officially proclaimed a Republic.
 1923  Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain.
 1939  World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzel in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify taking over Estonia.
 1940  The Hungarian army, supported by local Hungarians, kills 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Salay, Transylvania.
 1944  World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by the Allies.
 1954  In a top-secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40-kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
 1958  The first two Post-World War II German rockets, designed by engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
1959  The Soviet Lunik 2 probe crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach the Moon.
 1960  The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
 1960  With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power from Patrice Lumumba in the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, suspending the parliament and constitution.
 1973  The Gauja National Park is founded in present-day Latvia.
 1975  Rembrandt van Rijn's painting, The Night Watch, is attacked and damaged by a man with a knife at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
 1975  The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
 1979  President of Afghanistan Nur Muhammad Taraki is deposed and killed on the orders of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes President.
 1982  Lebanese President-elect Bachir Gemayel is shot dead.
 1982  Grace Kelly dies after becoming seriously injured in a car crash.
 1984  Joe Kittinger flies a hot-air balloon across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming the first person to do so.
1985  The Penang Bridge, connecting the island of Penang to mainland Malaysia, is opened.
 1987  Baseball: The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
 1988  Hurricane Gilbert hits Mexico.
 1990  Start of the Human Genome Project.
 1992  The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the break-away Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
 1994  The Major League Baseball season is cancelled because of a strike.
 1999  Kiribati, Tonga and Nauru join the United Nations.
 2000  Microsoft releases Windows ME.
From 2001 
 2003  Estonia approves EU membership.
 2003  In a coup in Guinea-Bissau, Kumba Iala is removed from power by Verissimo Correia Seabra, who takes measures towards democratisation of the country.
 2007  British bank Northern Rock experiences the first Bank Run in the UK for 150 years.
 2008  Sebastian Vettel becomes the youngest Formula One driver to win a Grand Prix.
 2008  Aeroflot Flight 821 crashes on approach to Perm Airport, Russia, killing all 88 people on board.
 2014  Sweden's parliamentary election ends with the Social Democrats under Stefan Löfven as the largest party.
 2015  Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott loses a vote of confidence within the Liberal Party. Malcolm Turnbull becomes the 29th Prime Minister of Australia the next day. 
 2015  The first observation of gravitational waves is made.
 2017  A series of bomb attacks near Nasiriyah, Iraq, results in 84 deaths.
2018  Hurricane Florence, downgraded to a tropical storm, hits the states of North and South Carolina on the east coast of the United States.
 2019  An attack in Saudi Arabia affects 5% of the world's oil supply.
Up to 1900 
 208  Diadumenian, son of Roman Emperor Macrinus (d. 218)
 1169  Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
 1388  Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer (d. 1438)
 1486  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist (d. 1535)
 1543  Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (d. 1615)
 1547  Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (d. 1619)
 1580  Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
 1605  Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Icelandic bishop (d. 1675)
 1713  Johann Kies, German mathematician (d. 1781)
 1721  Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (d. 1807)
 1737  Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1806)
 1760  Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (d. 1842)
 1769  Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (d. 1859)
 1774  Lord William Bentinck, British Governor-General of India (d. 1839)
 1783  Henry Johnson, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1864)
 1817  Theodor Storm, German writer (d. 1888)
 1817  Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary (d. 1867)
1827  Hermann Krone, German photographer (d. 1916)
 1836  Alfred B. Swineford, American politician (d. 1909)
 1837  Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (d. 1903)
 1847  William Edward Ayton, British physicist (d. 1908)
 1849  Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, psychologist & physician (d. 1936)
 1853  Ponnambayalam Arunachalam, Ceylon Tamil statesman (d. 1924)
 1859  Janis Cakste, 1st President of Latvia (d. 1927)
 1860  Hamlin Garland, American writer and poet (d. 1940)
 1864  Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British diplomat (d. 1958)
 1867  Charles Dana Gibson, American illustrator (d. 1944)
 1868  Theodor Botrel, French singer-songwriter and playwright (d. 1925)
 1878  Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat, writer and revolutionary (d. 1920)
 1879  Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist (d. 1966)
 1880  Archie Hahn, German-American runner (d. 1955) 
 1886  Jan Masaryk, Czech diplomat (d. 1948)
 1887  Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and composer (d. 1934)
1889  Maria Esther de Capovilla, Ecuadorean supercentenarian, World's oldest woman (d. 2006)
 1891  Ivan Mitveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (d. 1983)
 1895  Robert A. Lovett, American politician (d. 1986)
 1898  Ernest Nash, German-born archaeologist (d. 1974)
 1898  Okey L. Patteson, Governor of West Virginia (d. 1989)
 1899  Hal B. Wallis, American movie producer (d. 1986)
1901  1950 
 1901  Alex James, Scottish footballer (d. 1953)
 1901  Andrey Vlasov, Russian general (d. 1946)
 1902  Nikolay Kamov, Russian engineer (d. 1973)
 1902  Giorgos Papasideris, Greek musician (d. 1977)
 1902  Alice Tully, American music promoter and philanthropist (d. 1993)
 1907  Solomon Asch, Polish-born American psychologist (d. 1996)
 1907  Edel Quinn, Irish missionary (d. 1944)
 1909  Peter Scott, British naturalist and explorer (d. 1989)
 1909  Stuff Smith, American jazz violinist (d. 1967)
 1910  Jack Hawkins, British actor (d. 1973)
 1912  Eduard von Falz-Fein, Russian-Liechtensteiner businessman, journalist and sportsman (d. 2018)
 1913  Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (d. 1971)
 1913  Severino Varela, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1995)
 1914  Clayton Moore, American actor (d. 1999)
 1914  Pietro Germi, Italian movie director, screenwriter, actor and producer (d. 1995)
 1915  John Dobson, American astronomer (d. 2014)
 1916  Eric Bentley, English-American critic, playwright and singer
1916  Luis Corvalán, Chilean Communist politician (d. 2010)
 1917  Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss conductor and violinist (d. 2002)
 1917  Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect and designer (d. 2007)
 1919  Gil Langley, Australian cricketer, footballer and politician (d. 2001)
 1920  Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (d. 2009)
 1920  Lawrence Klein, American economist (d. 2013)
 1922  Zizinho, Brazilian footballer (d. 2002)
 1923  Ram Jethmalani, Indian lawyer (d. 2019)
 1924  Jerry Coleman, American baseball player (d. 2014)
 1924  Wim Polak, Mayor of Amsterdam (d. 1999)
 1924  Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and writer (d. 2004)
 1926  Richard Ellsasser, American concert organist, composer and conductor (d. 1972)
 1926  Michel Butor, French writer (d. 2016)
 1926  Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Spanish noblewoman (d. 2017)
 1927  Jim Fanning, American-Canadian baseball player and manager (d. 2015)
 1927  Edmund Szoka, American cardinal (d. 2014)
 1928  Alberto Korda, Cuban photographer (d. 2001)
1928  Angus Ogilvy, British royal (d. 2004)
 1929  Ferdinand Oyono, Cameroonian writer (d. 2010)
 1929  Larry Collins, American writer (d. 2005)
 1929  Hans Clarin, German actor (d. 2005)
 1930  George V. Hansen, American politician (d. 2014)
 1930  Eugene I. Gordon, American physicist (d. 2014)
 1932  Harry Sinden, Canadian ice hockey player
 1934  Sarah Kofman, French philosopher (d. 1994)
 1934  Kate Millett, American sculptor, activist and writer (d. 2017)
 1935  Amanda Barrie, British actress
 1936  Walter Koenig, American actor
 1936  Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist
 1936  Lucas Samaras, Greek-American painter and sculptor
 1937  Renzo Piano, Italian architect
 1940  Larry Brown, American basketball player and coach
 1940  Jacques Godin, Canadian movie and television actor
 1942  Bernard MacLaverty, Northern Irish writer
 1943  Marcos Valle, Brazilian singer and musician
 1944  Günter Netzer, German footballer
 1947  Sam Neill, New Zealand actor
1949  Steve Gaines, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
 1949  Ed King, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2018)
 1950  Eugene H. Trinh, Vietnamese-American astronaut
1951  1975 
 1953  Robert Wisdom, American actor
 1956  Kostas Karamanlis, former Prime Minister of Greece
 1956  Maxime Verhagen, Dutch politician
 1956  Ray Wilkins, English footballer (d. 2018)
 1958  Billy Abercromby, Scottish footballer
 1959  Morten Harket, Norwegian musician (a-ha)
 1960  Callum Keith Rennie, English-Canadian actor
 1960  Melissa Leo, American actress
 1964  Faith Ford, American actress
 1964  Stephen Dunham, American actor (d. 2012)
 1965  Mariana Briski, Argentine actress (d. 2014)
 1965  Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister, and former President, of Russia
 1966  Catherine West, English politician
 1967  Jens Lien, Norwegian director, producer and screenwriter
 1968  Grant Shapps, English politician
 1971  Kimberly Williams-Paisley, American actress
 1971  Andre Matos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and writer
 1971  Christopher McCulloch, American voice actor, director and writer
 1972  Marc Silk, English voice actor
 1973  Nas, American rapper
 1974  Sunday Oliseh, Nigerian footballer
From 1976 
 1977  Yang Yang, Chinese ice skater
 1977  Malik Bendjelloul, Swedish filmmaker and actor (d. 2014)
 1977  Alexsandro de Souza, Brazilian footballer
 1978  Carmen Kass, Estonian model
 1979  Ivica Olic, Croatian footballer
 1980  Hip Hop Pantsula, South African rapper (d. 2018)
 1980  Ivan Radeljic, Croatian-Bosnian footballer
 1981  Yumi Adachi, Japanese actress, model and singer
 1981  Ashley Roberts, American singer, dancer and actress (Pussycat Dolls)
 1983  Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
 1983  Arash Borhani, Iranian footballer
 1984  Lethal Bizzle, English rapper
 1984  Adam Lamberg, American actor
 1984  Fernanda Vasconcellos, Brazilian actress and model
 1986  Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
 1986  Tinchy Stryder, English rapper and singer
 1986  Steven Naismith, Scottish footballer
 1986  Jonathan Monaghan, American artist and animator
 1988  Martin Fourcade, French biathlete
 1988  Kirsten Haglund, American model
1989  Logan Henderson, American singer-songwriter and actor
 1989  Jesse James, American actor
 1989  Lee Jong-suk, South Korean actor and model
 1989  Jimmy Butler, American basketball player
 1990  Cecilie Pedersen, Norwegian footballer
 1991  Nana, South Korean singer
 1994  Daniel O'Shaughnessy, Finnish footballer
Up to 1900 
 23  Drusus Julius Caesar, son of Tiberius (b. 13 BC)
 258  Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage
 407  John Chrysostom, Byzantine archbishop (b. 347)
 585  Emperor Bidatsu of Japan (b. 538)
 775  Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 718)
 891  Pope Stephen V
 1164  Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)
 1214  Albert Avogadro, Italian lawyer and bishop (b. 1149)
 1321  Dante Alighieri, Italian writer (b. 1265)
 1404  Albert IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1377)
 1435  John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (b. 1389)
 1523  Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)
 1538  Henry III of Nassau-Breda (b. 1483)
 1605  Jan Tarnowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1550)
 1638  John Harvard, American clergyman (b. 1607)
 1712  Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer (b. 1625)
 1759  Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (b. 1712)
 1836  Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (b. 1756)
 1851  James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (b. 1789)
1852  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1769)
 1852  Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812)
 1862  Charles Pearson, British social reformer (b. 1793)
 1898  William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857)
1901  2000 
 1901  William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843)
 1905  Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian-French explorer (b. 1852)
 1916  José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer (b. 1832)
 1927  Isadora Duncan, American dancer (b. 1877)
 1936  Irving Thalberg, American movie producer (b. 1899)
 1936  Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor (b. 1878)
 1937  Tomas Masaryk, Czech politician (b. 1850)
 1951  Fritz Busch, German conductor (b. 1890)
 1952  John McPhee, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1874)
 1965  Lydia Mei, Estonian artist (b. 1896)
 1966  Nikolay Cherkasov, Soviet actor (b. 1903)
 1966  Gertrude Berg, American actress (b. 1899)
 1970  Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (b. 1891)
 1975  Walter Herbert, German conductor and impresario (b. 1902)
 1977  Shogo Kamo, Japanese footballer (b. 1915)
 1979  Nur Muhammad Taraki, President of Afghanistan (b. 1917)
 1982  Kristjan Eldjarn, 3rd President of Iceland (b. 1916)
1982  Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese politician (b. 1947)
 1982  Grace Kelly, American actress, Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)
 1984  Janet Gaynor, American actress (b. 1903)
 1995  Maurice K. Goddard, American state government official (b. 1912)
 1996  Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (b. 1937)
 1998  Yang Shangkun, Chinese leader (b. 1907)
 1999  Charles Crichton, British movie director (b. 1910)
 2000  Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (b. 1906)
From 2001 
 2001  Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (b. 1931)
 2003  Yetunde Price, sister of Venus and Serena Williams (b. 1972)
 2005  Robert Wise, American movie director and producer (b. 1914)
 2006  Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
 2007  Jacques Martin, French television host and producer (b. 1933)
 2009  Patrick Swayze, American actor (b. 1952)
 2009  Keith Floyd, British chef (b. 1943)
 2011  Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist (b. 1929)
 2012  Stephen Dunham, American actor (b. 1964)
 2014  Tony Auth, American cartoonist (b. 1942)
 2014  Miroslav Hlinka, Slovakian ice hockey player (b. 1972)
 2014  Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, Head of the House of Romanov (b. 1922)
 2014  Angus Lennie, Scottish actor (b. 1930)
 2014  Boris Khimichev, Russian actor (b. 1933)
 2014  Assheton Gorton, British production designer (b. 1930)
 2014  Philip Somerville, English milliner (hat maker) (b. 1930)
 2015  Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Romanian politician, journalist and writer (b. 1949)
2015  Fred DeLuca, American businessman, co-founder of Subway (b. 1947)
 2015  Adam Purple, American environmental activist (b. 1930)
 2017  Arnold Chan, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1967)
 2017  Marcel Herriot, French bishop (b. 1934)
 2017  Otto Wanz, Austrian professional wrestler (b. 1943)
 2018  Alan Abel, American comedian and writer (b. 1924)
 2018  Max Bennett, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)
 2018  Anneke Grönloh, Dutch singer (b. 1942)
 2018  Zienia Merton, British actress (b. 1945)
 2018  Branko Grünbaum, Yugoslavian-American mathematician (b. 1929)
 2019  John Ralston, American football player and coach (b. 1927)
Observances 
 Hindi Day (India)
 Day of San Jacinto (Nicaragua)
 Christian Feast of the Cross

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 634  Battle of Ajnadayn: Byzantine Empire forces under Theodore are defeated by the Rashidun Caliphate near Beit Shemesh in present-day Israel.
 762  Baghdad is founded.
 1419  First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill 7 members of the Prague city council.
 1502  Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay of Islands off present-day Honduras during his fourth voyage.
 1619  Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative factory in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, meets for the first time.
 1629  An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills around 10,000 people.
 1635  Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins. Frederick Henry, Prince Orange begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish army.
 1656  Swedish forces under Charles X Gustaf of Sweden defeat forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
1676  Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the people of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion, against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
 1729  The city of Baltimore in Maryland is founded.
 1775  James Cook returns to England from his second voyage to the Pacific Ocean.
 1792  La Marseillaise, the current national anthem of France, is sung for the first time.
 1811  The Mexican revolutionary Miguel Hidalgo is executed.
 1859  First successful climb of Grand Combin in the Alps.
 1863  American Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, agreeing to stop the harassment of emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
 1864  American Civil War: Battle of the Crater - Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
 1865  The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers.
1901  2000 
 1912  Emperor Meiji of Japan dies, being succeeded by his son Yoshihito, now known as Emperor Taisho.
 1917  An earthquake in China kills around 1,800 people.
 1930  Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup, beating Argentina 4-2 in the final.
 1932  The 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, begin.
 1932  Walt Disney's "Flowers and Trees" is shown for the first time. It is the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award-winning short.
 1945  World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 people.
 1956  'In God We Trust' becomes the national motto of the United States.
 1962  The Trans-Canada Highway opens.
 1965  In the US, the Medicare insurance programme for senior citizens is signed into law.
 1966  England wins the FIFA World Cup, beating West Germany 4-2, in a match that included the disputed Wembley Goal.
1971  An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 aircraft and a Japanese Air Force F-86 plane collide over Morioka, Japan, killing 162 people.
 1971  Apollo program: Apollo 15 mission - David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon'' land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
 1975  Teamsters Union President Jimmy Hoffa disappears from a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, and is never seen or heard from again.
 1978  Car traffic in Okinawa switches from the right to the left side of the road.
 1980  The New Hebrides become independent, and change their name to Vanuatu.
 1991  Luciano Pavarotti celebrates 30 years in opera by giving a free concert in Hyde Park, London.
 2000  Norway gifts the Heimaey Stave Church to Iceland to mark the country's 1000 years of Christianity.
From 2001 
 2003  The last Old Style Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line in Mexico.
 2004  Gas pipeline explodes in the village of Ghislenghien in Belgium, killing 24 people and injuring 132.
 2006  The BBC music programme Top of the Pops is shown for the last time, after a run of more than 42 years.
 2006  The Israeli air force bombs the town of Qana in Lebanon, killing 28 people.
 2007  Movie directors Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman die on the same day as each other.
 2008  Radovan Karadzic is transferred to The Hague after being arrested on war crimes charges.
 2009  A bomb explodes in Palma Nova, Mallorca, killing 2 police officers. ETA carried out the attack.
 2012  A massive power grid failure affects 22 states and over 700 million people in northern India.
 2012  A train fire in Andhra Pradesh, India, kills 32 people.
 2017  Russian President Vladimir Putin expels 755 American diplomats in response to US sanctions against Russia.
Up to 1900 
 1470  Hongzhi Emperor of China's Ming Dynasty (d. 1505)
 1511  Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, writer and architect (d. 1574)
 1549  Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
 1641  Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
 1683  Countess Sophie of Erbach-Erbach, German aristocrat (d. 1742)
 1751  Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (d. 1829)
 1763  Samuel Rogers, English poet (d. 1855)
 1813  William Spurrell, Welsh printer and publisher (d. 1889)
 1818  Emily Brontë, English writer (d. 1848)
 1818  Jan Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1897)
 1825  Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian inventor, academic and memoirs writer (d. 1893)
 1832  George Lemuel Woods, American lawyer, judge and politician, 3rd Governor of Oregon (d. 1890)
 1833  Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria (d. 1896)
 1855  Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1919)
 1856  Richard Burton Haldane, Scottish philosopher, lawyer and statesman (d. 1928)
1857  Thorstein Veblen, American political economist (d. 1929)
 1863  Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
 1872  Princess Clementine of Belgium (d. 1955)
 1881  Smedley Butler, American marine general (d. 1940)
 1887  Marquard Schwarz, American swimmer (d. 1968)
 1888  Werner Jaeger, German classical philologist (d. 1961)
 1888  Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-American physicist and inventor (d. 1982)
 1890  Casey Stengel, American baseball manager (d. 1975)
 1893  Fatimah Jinnah, sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah (d. 1967)
 1895  Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
 1898  Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)