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Observances 
 End of Independence War Day (Mexico)
 Holiday for the French-speaking community, Belgium

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 275  In Rome, the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Roman Emperor.
 303  On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, northern France.
 1066  The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.
 1237  Scotland and England sign the Treaty of York, marking their common border.
 1396  Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
 1493  From Cadiz, Spain, Christopher Columbus sets sail on his second voyage.
 1513  Spanish explorers become the first Europeans to sight the Pacific Ocean.
 1621  Swedish  troops take Riga in the Polish-Swedish War.
 1775  American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City.
 1789  The United States Congress passes twelve amendments (changes) to the United States Constitution.
1790  Peking opera begins, to celebrate the birthday of Qianlong Emperor of China.
 1804  The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
 1846  Mexican-American War: US forces under Zachary Taylor capture Monterrey, Mexico.
 1868  The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.
 1890  Sequoia National Park in California is founded.
1901  2000 
 1906  In presence of the King of Spain and a big crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of 'Telekino' in the Basque port city of Bilbao, guiding a boat from shore, in what is now considered the birth of the remote control.
 1911  Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
 1912  Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
 1913  Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.
 1915  World War I: Start of the Second Battle of Champagne.
 1926  The International Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
 1929  Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field, proving that full instrument flying from take-off to landing is possible.
 1937  Second Sino-Japanese War: Minor but morale-boosting victory for Chinese forces.
 1938  American Don Budge becomes the first tennis player to win all four Grand Slams in one year.
1942  Holocaust: Switzerland denies entry to Jewish refugees.
 1944  World War II: The British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem, Netherlands, ending Operation Market Garden.
 1950  Korean War: UN forces enter Seoul.
 1955  The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
 1956  TAT-1, the first submarine (under the sea) transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
 1957  Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas is integrated with help from United States Army troops.
 1959  Sri Lankan Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike is shot by Buddhist monk Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
 1962  The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is proclaimed.
 1962  The North Yemen Civil War begins.
 1964  Mozambique's War of Independence from Portugal begins.
 1969  The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
 1972  In a referendum, voters in Norway reject membership of the European Community.
 1976 – Irish rock band U2 forms in Dublin, Ireland.
1977  The first Chicago Marathon takes place, with around 4,200 runners taking part.
 1978  A mid-air collision between two planes over San Diego, California results in 144 deaths.
 1981  Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
 1981  Belize joins the UN.
 1983  The UK's biggest prison break-out since World War II occurs when 38 Republican prisoners at Maze Prison, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out.
 1983  The TGV high-speed train track, from Paris to Lyon, is opened along its entire length.
 1992  NASA launches the Mars Observer to the planet Mars. It would fail 11 months later.
 1996  The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland.
 1998  Mikulas Dzurinda becomes Prime Minister of Slovakia.
 2000  With the Islamic King Fahd Cultural Centre, the biggest Mosque in Latin America is opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
From 2001 
 2003  A magnitude 8 earthquake hits Hokkaido, Japan.
 2003  It is announced that 14,802 people died in France during the previous month's heatwave.
 2005  Fernando Alonso wins the Formula One world championship, becoming the youngest Formula One world champion in history at the time, though the record has since been beaten by Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel.
 2007  Yasuo Fukuda becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
 2008  Thabo Mbeki resigns as President of South Africa, and is replaced by Kgalema Motlanthe.
 2008  The Shenzhou spacecraft is launched by China.
 2009  In a joint television appearance at the G-20 Summit, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy accuse Iran of building a uranium enrichment facility.
 2010  Ed Miliband becomes leader of the British Labour Party.
 2017  Iraqi Kurdistan holds a vote on independence.
 2018  American comedian Bill Cosby is sentenced to between three and ten years in prison.
Up to 1900 
 1358  Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
 1403  Louis III of Naples (d. 1434)
 1525  Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
 1599  Francesco Borromini, Swiss-Italian architect (d. 1667)
 1613  Claude Perrault, French architect, physician and naturalist (d. 1688)
 1644  Ole Romer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
 1683  Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
 1694  Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1754)
 1711  Qianlong, Chinese Emperor (d. 1799)
 1725  Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (d. 1804)
 1729  Christian Gottlob Heyne, German classical scholar (d. 1812)
 1734  Cardinal de Rohan, French cardinal and Bishop of Strasbourg (d. 1803)
 1738  Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and politician (d. 1789)
 1741  Wenzel Pichl, Czech composer, violinist, music director and writer (d. 1805)
 1744  Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1797)
 1749  Abraham Gottlob Werner, German mineralogist (d. 1817)
1764  Fletcher Christian, English mutineer (d. 1793)
 1766  Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1822)
 1773  Agostino Bassi, Italian naturalist, entomologist and botanist (d. 1856)
 1782  Charles Maturin, Irish dramatist and writer (d. 1824)
 1793  Felicia Hemans, British poet (d. 1835)
 1807  Alfred Vail, American engineer (d. 1859)
 1816  Georg August Rudolph, German politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (d. 1893)
 1825  Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (d. 1879)
 1829  Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904)
 1860  John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, 1st Governor-General of Australia (d. 1908)
 1862  Billy Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
 1866  Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist (d. 1945)
 1867  Augusto de Vasconcelos, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1951)
 1877  Plutarco Elías Calles, President of Mexico (d. 1945)
 1879  Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader (d. 1963)
 1881  Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
1889  Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, Scottish author (d. 1930)
 1896  Sandro Pertini, President of Italy (d. 1990)
 1897  William Faulkner, American writer (d. 1962)
1901  1950 
 1901  Robert Bresson, French director (d. 1999)
 1903  Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter (d. 1970)
 1906  José Figueres Ferrer, Costa Rican politician (d. 1990)
 1906  Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
 1908  Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (d. 1977)
 1911  Eric Williams, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
 1914  Elena Lucena, Argentine actress (d. 2015)
 1915  Ethel Rosenberg, American executed for espionage (d. 1953)
 1917  Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
 1920  Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1994)
 1921  Robert Muldoon, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
 1922  Hammer DeRoburt, 1st President of Nauru (d. 1992)
 1922  Roger Etchegaray, French cardinal (d. 2019)
 1923  Sam Rivers, American musician (d. 2011)
 1924  Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, Indian activist and politician (d. 2016)
 1925  Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (d. 2016)
 1927  Colin Davis, British conductor (d. 2013)
1929  Ronnie Barker, British comedian and actor (d. 2005)
 1929  Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
 1930  Nino Cerruti, Italian fashion designer
 1930  Shel Silverstein, American humorist, singer-songwriter and writer (d. 1999)
 1932  Jerry Medwin, Welsh footballer
 1932  Adolfo Suárez, former Prime Minister of Spain (d. 2014)
 1932  Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (d. 1982)
 1934  Jean Sorel, French actor
 1935  Maj Sjöwall, Swedish writer
 1936  Juliet Prowse, South African actress and dancer (d. 1996)
 1936  Moussa Traoré, former President of Mali
 1938  Jonathan Motzfeldt, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (d. 2010)
 1939  Feroz Khan, Indian actor (d. 2009)
 1939  Harald Ringstorff, German politician
 1939  Gianfranco Leoncini, Italian footballer (d. 2019)
 1939  Leon Brittan, English politician (d. 2015)
 1940  Takao Sakurai, Japanese boxer
 1942  John Taylor, American jazz musician (d. 2015)
 1942  Henri Pescarolo, French Formula One driver
 1943  Massimo Mattioli, Italian cartoonist (d. 2019)
1943  Robert Walden, American actor
 1943  Robert Gates, American politician
 1944  Michael Douglas, American actor
 1944  José Sacal, Mexican sculptor (d. 2018)
 1945  Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
 1945  Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (d. 2008)
 1946  Felicity Kendal, British actress
 1947  Cheryl Tiegs, American model and actress
 1949  Steve Mackay, American saxophonist (d. 2015)
 1949  Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker
1951  1975 
 1951  Mark Hamill, American actor
 1952  Bell hooks, American author, feminist and social activist
 1952  Christopher Reeve, American actor (d. 2004)
 1954  Sakis Boulas, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
 1954  Joep Lange, Dutch physician and academic (d. 2014)
 1954  Juande Ramos, Spanish football manager
 1955  Zucchero Fornaciari, Italian singer-songwriter and musician
 1955  Steven Severin, English musician, songwriter and producer
 1955  Peter Müller, German politician
 1955  Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer
 1956  Salvatore Bagni, Italian footballer
 1957  Vladimir Popovkin, Russian politician (d. 2014)
 1957  Michael Madsen, American actor and producer
 1960  Ihor Belanov, Soviet-Ukrainian footballer
 1960  Shinji Tanaka, Japanese footballer
 1961  Heather Locklear, American actress
 1961  Mark Gil, Filipino actor (d. 2014)
 1962  Aida Turturro, American actress
 1962  Dariusz Wdowczyk, Polish footballer and coach
 1963  Tate Donovan, American actor
1963  Mikael Persbrandt, Swedish actor
 1964  Barbara Dennerlein, German jazz musician
 1965  Kenta Hasegawa, Japanese footballer
 1965  Scottie Pippen, American basketball player
 1966  Jason Flemyng, British actor
 1968  Will Smith, American actor and rapper
 1968  Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, Prince of the Netherlands (d. 2013)
 1969  Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
 1969  Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
 1969  Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, American guitarist, songwriter and producer
 1971  Jessie Wallace, English actress
 1974  Richie Edwards, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1974  Víctor Pacheco, Colombian footballer
 1975  Declan Donnelly, English actor, television presenter and musician (Ant and Dec)
From 1976 
 1976  Petit, Portuguese footballer
 1976  Charlotte Ayanne, Puerto Rican actress and model
 1978  Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
 1978  Jodie Kidd, English model
 1978  Ryan Leslie, American music producer and singer-songwriter
 1979  Jason Koumas, Welsh footballer
 1980  Nikola Zigic, Serbian footballer
 1983  Donald Glover, American actor, rapper, producer and screenwriter
 1983  Yuhei Tokunaga, Japanese footballer
 1983  Glenn Murray, English footballer
 1984  Siphiwe Tshabalala, South African footballer
 1984  Matías Silvestre, Argentine footballer
 1986  John Barclay, Scottish rugby union player
 1988  Joe Prospero, English actor
 1989  Samantha Murray, English athlete
 1990  Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
 1991  Emmy Clarke, American actress
 1992  Keauna McLaughlin, American figure skater
 1994  Jansen Panettiere, American actor
 1995  Ryan Beatty, American singer
 1995  Caitlin Fields, American figure skater
 1997  Suzanne Schulting, Dutch short-track speed skater

Deaths
Up to 1900 
 303  Saint Fermin of Pamplona
 1066  Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria (b. 1020)
 1066  King Harald III of Norway (b. 1015)
 1086  William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
 1333  Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
 1496  Pietro Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
 1506  Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)
 1534  Pope Clement VII (b. 1478)
 1602  Caspar Peucer, German physician, scholar and reformer (b. 1525)
 1617  Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1572)
 1617  Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (b. 1548)
 1630  Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbeses, Italian general and politician (b. 1569)
 1665  Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (b. 1610)
 1777  Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer (b. 1728)
 1792  Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
 1794  Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
 1849  Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (b. 1804)
 1900  Félix-Gabriel Marchand, 11th Premier of Quebec (b. 1832)
1901  2000 
 1901  Arthur Fremantle, English general (b. 1835)
 1918  Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev, Russian general (b. 1857)
 1928  Richard F. Outcault, American cartoonist (b. 1863)
 1931  Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, German classical philologist (b. 1848)
 1933  Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
 1940  Marguerite Clark, American actress (b. 1883)
 1941  Foxall P. Keane, American polo player, golfer and racing driver (b. 1867)
 1944  Walter Breisky, Austrian politician (b. 1871)
 1958  John B. Watson, American psychologist (b. 1878)
 1960  Emily Post, American author (b. 1873)
 1970  Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (b. 1898)
 1971  Hugo Black, American politician and jurist (b. 1886)
 1979  Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish javelin thrower, actor and singer (b. 1915)
 1980  John Bonham, British musician (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
 1980  Lewis Milestone, Russian-American director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1895)
 1983  King Leopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
1983  Gunnar Thoroddsen, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1910)
 1984  Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)
 1986  Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist (b. 1896)
 1987  Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906)
 1990  Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1897)
 1991  Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (b. 1913)
 1992  Joseph Arthur Ankrah, Ghanaian politician (b. 1947)
 1995  Annie Elizabeth Delany, American dentist and author (b. 1891)
 1996  Nicu Ceausescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
From 2001 
 2003  Franco Modigliani, Italian economist (b. 1918)
 2003  Edward Said, Palestinian-American critic (b. 1935)
 2005  Don Adams, American actor (b. 1923)
 2005  George Archer, American golfer (b. 1939)
 2007  Nobuo Matsunaga, Japanese footballer (b. 1921)
 2008  Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician (b. 1931)
 2009  Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (b. 1923)
 2010  Art Gilmore, American voice actor (b. 1912)
 2011  Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmental and political activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1940)
 2012  Andy Williams, American singer and entertainer (b. 1927)
 2014  Sulejman Tihic, Bosnian politician (b. 1951)
 2014  Ulrick Chérubin, Canadian politician (b. 1943)
 2014  Dorothy Tyler-Odam, English athlete (b. 1920)
 2015  Moti Kirschenbaum, Israeli television personality (b. 1939)
 2015  Claudio Baggini, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1936)
 2015  John Galvin, American general (b. 1929)
 2016  Arnold Palmer, American golfer (b. 1929)
2016  David Padilla, President of Bolivia (b. 1927)
 2017  M. Cherif Bassiouni, Egyptian-American lawyer and human rights activist (b. 1937)
 2017  Antony Booth, English actor (b. 1931)
 2017  Nora Marks Dauenhauer, American author, poet and scholar (b. 1927)
 2017  Elizabeth Dawn, English actress (b. 1939)
 2017  Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, Egyptian world's second-heaviest woman (b. 1980)
 2017  Helga Grebing, German historian (b. 1930)
 2017  Anatoly Gromyko, Soviet-Russian scientist and diplomat (b. 1932)
 2017  Bobby Knutt, English actor (b. 1945)
 2018  Helena Almeida, Portuguese photographer and painter (b. 1934)
 2018  Marie Colton, American politician (b. 1922)
 2018  Ivan Kapitanets, Soviet-Russian military officer (b. 1928)
 2018  Danny Lewicki, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
 2019  Jesper Hoffmeyer, Danish biologist (b. 1942)
 2019  Donald Nicholls, Baron Nicholls of Birkenhead, British peer (b. 1933)
 2019  Arne Weise, Swedish journalist and television personality (b. 1930)
Observances 
 Armed Forces/Revolution Day (Mozambique)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 331 BC  Alexander the Great crosses the Tigris on his way to conquering the Persians.
 1058  Agnes de Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to talk about the border zone in present-day Burgenland.
 1187  Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
 1260  The Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.
 1459  First documented mention of Bucharest.
 1498  An earthquake and tsunami washes away the building housing the Great Buddha at Kotoku-in in Kamagura, Kanagawa, Japan. Since then, the Buddha statue has sat in open-air.
 1519  Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Spain with 270 crew members, of whom only 18 return home in 1522. Magellan is killed in the Philippines in 1521.
 1596  Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey, Mexico.
 1697  The Treaty of Rijswijk is signed by France, England, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, ending the Nine Years' War.
 1848  The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
1854  Crimean War: British and French troops defeat the Russians in the Battle of Alma.
 1859  For the electric oven, American George B. Simpson is given a US patent.
 1860  Future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (then the Prince of Wales), visits the United States.
 1863  American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends in Confederate victory.
 1870  The Unification of Italy is completed.
 1881  Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States. This is after the death of James Garfield the previous day, as a result of injuries from being shot on July 2 by Charles J. Guiteau.
 1893  The first gasoline-powered car in America debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1901  2000 
 1906  The Cunard Line's ship RMS Mauretania is launched in Newcastle upon Tyne.
 1908  Near Prince of Wales Island, Southeast Alaska, the barque (a type of ship) Star of Bengal collides with a rock and sinks, killing 110 people.
 1909  The British Parliament passes the South Africa Act of 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British colonies of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River and Transvaal.
 1910  The Ocean Liner SS France is launched.
 1911  The White Star line's RMS Olympic collides with British warship HMS Hawke.
 1914  World War I: The cathedral in Reims, France, is severely damaged by German artillery.
 1920  Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
 1932  Mahatma Gandhi begins a hunger strike in prison in Pune, India.
 1942  Holocaust: In Letychev, Ukraine, the SS murders 3,000 Jews in two days.
 1946  The first Cannes Film Festival is held. It still takes place every year, in May.
 1961  Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1962  African American James Meredith is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
 1967  The ship RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at Clydebank near Glasgow.
 1971  Hurricane Irene crosses the Caribbean Sea, through Nicaragua, to the Pacific Ocean to become Hurricane Olivia; This is the first time a hurricane is known to have crossed from the Caribbean to the Pacific.
 1973  Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in a 'Battle of the Sexes' tennis match in Houston, Texas.
 1977  The Socialist Republic of Vietnam joins the UN.
 1978  Johannes Rau, future President of Germany, is chosen as Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, a position he will hold for 20 years.
 1979  In the present-day Central African Republic, Jean Bedel Bokassa, self-declared Emperor Bokassa I, is overthrown.
 1982  NFL players begin a 57-day strike.
 1984  A bomb attack targets the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
 1990  South Ossetia declares its independence from the Republic of Georgia.
From 2001 
 2001  George W. Bush declares War on Terror.
 2002  A Rock-Ice Slide occurs with the partial collapse of the Kolka Glacier in North Ossetia, southern Russia. The resulting avalanche kills 125 people.
 2003  Voters in Latvia approve entry to the EU in a referendum.
 2004  Wikipedia publishes articles in its 100th language.
 2008  A bomb attack at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad kills 54 people.
 2011  Former President of Afghanistan Burhanuddin Rabbani is assassinated.
 2014  Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key wins a third term in office, after his New Zealand National Party wins the parliamentary election.
 2017  Hurricane Maria hits Puerto Rico, where it kills thousands of people and cuts the whole island's electricity supply.
 2019  Led by school pupils, worldwide protests take place calling for politicians to act on climate change.

Births
Up to 1900 
 524  Kan B'alam I, ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque (d. 583)
 1486  Arthur Tudor, son of Henry VII of England (d. 1502)
 1503  Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, Polish scholar, humanist and theologian (d. 1572)
 1593  Gottfried Scheidt, German composer and organist (d. 1661)
 1599  Christian the Younger of Brunswick, German Protestant military leader (d. 1626)
 1685  Giuseppe Matteo Alberti, Italian baroque composer and violinist (d. 1751)
 1710  Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (d. 1761)
 1735  James Keir, Scottish chemist, geologist and inventor (d. 1820)
 1746  Maurice Benyovszky, Hungarian explorer and writer (d. 1786)
 1758  Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti (d. 1806)
 1778  Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian naval officer and explorer (d. 1852)
 1800  Benjamin Franklin White, American singer and composer (d. 1879)
 1815  Richard Dry, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1869)
 1820  John F. Reynolds, American general (d. 1863)
1830  Yoshida Shoin, Japanese intellectual, teacher and revolutionary (d. 1859)
 1831  Kate Harrington, American teacher, writer and poet (d. 1917)
 1832  Johann Joseph Abert, German-Bohemian composer and conductor (d. 1915)
 1833  Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist (d. 1918)
 1842  James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist (d. 1923)
 1843  Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (d. 1865)
 1851  Henry Arthur Jones, English writer (d. 1929)
 1853  Rama V, King of Siam (d. 1910)
 1860  James Gillett, 22nd Governor of California (d. 1937)
 1861  Herbert Putnam, American Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
 1872  Maurice Gamelin, French army general (d. 1958)
 1873  Sidney Olcott, Canadian movie director (d. 1949)
 1873  Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian racing driver (d. 1944)
 1875  Matthias Erzberger, German publicist and politician (d. 1921)
 1878  Upton Sinclair, American writer (d. 1968)
 1884  Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher (d. 1947)
1885  Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz pianist (d. 1941)
 1885  Enrico Mizzi, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1950)
 1889  Charles Reidpath, American city planner and athlete (d. 1975)
 1890  Linda Eenpalu, Estonian politician and activist (d. 1962)
 1893  Hans Scharoun, German architect (d. 1972)
 1897  Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, President of Brazil (d. 1967)
 1899  Leo Strauss, German-born philosopher (d. 1973)
 1900  Nikolay Timofeev-Ressowski, Russian geneticist (d. 1981)
1901  1950 
 1908  Ernest Manning, Canadian preacher and politician, Premier of Alberta (d. 1996)
 1911  Pandit Shri Ram Sharma Acharya, Indian philosopher (d. 1991)
 1914  Kenneth More, English actor (d. 1982)
 1916  Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani politician (d. 2003)
 1917  Red Auerbach, American basketball coach (d. 2006)
 1917  Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (d. 1994)
 1917  Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1996)
 1920  Alberto de Lacerda, Portuguese poet (d. 2007)
 1920  Jay Ward, American animator, producer and screenwriter (d. 1989)
 1921  Chico Hamilton, American jazz drummer and bandleader (d. 2013)
 1921  Carlo Parola, Italian footballer (d. 2000)
 1923  Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Indian actor and producer (d. 2014)
 1924  Gogi Grant, American singer (d. 2016)
 1925  Ananda Mahidol, King of Thailand (d. 1946)
 1925  James Bernard, English movie composer (d. 2001)
 1925  Bobby Nunn, American singer (d. 1986)
 1926  Libero Liberati, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 1962)
1927  John Dankworth, English jazz musician (d. 2010)
 1927  Rachel Roberts, Welsh actress (d. 1980)
 1928  William J. Edwards, American politician (d. 2019)
 1928  Donald Hall, American poet (d. 2018)
 1929  Anne Meara, American comic and actress (d. 2015)
 1929  Hans von Borsody, Austrian-German actor (d. 2013)
 1929  Joe Temperley, Scottish jazz saxophonist (d. 2016)
 1934  Sophia Loren, Italian actress
 1935  Walter Eschweiler, German football referee
 1936  Andrew Davies, Welsh writer
 1937  Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician
 1937  Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2005)
 1940  Taro Aso, former Prime Minister of Japan
 1942  Gerald Tremblay, 41st Mayor of Montreal
 1942  Rose Francine Rogombé, Interim President of Gabon (d. 2015)
 1943  Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (d. 1998)
 1946  Dorothy Hukill, American politician (d. 2018)
 1947  Wojciech Kurtyka, Polish mountaineer
 1947  Mia Martini, Italian singer and actress (d. 1995)
1948  George R. R. Martin, American writer, screenwriter and producer
 1948  Chuck Panozzo, American musician
 1948  John Panozzo, American musician (d. 1996)
 1949  Anthony Denison, American actor
 1949  Mahesh Bhatt, Indian director, producer and screenwriter
 1949  Victoria Mallory, American singer and actress (d. 2014)
1951  1975 
 1952  Manuel Zelaya, former President of Honduras
 1954  Anne McIntosh, Scottish politician
 1956  Gary Cole, American actor
 1956  Steve Coleman, American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer
 1959  Joseph Alessi, American trombonist
 1960  Dave Hemingway, English singer-songwriter
 1961  Caroline Flint, English politician
 1962  Jim Al-Khalili, English physicist, writer and broadcaster
 1966  Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese guitarist, singer-songwriter and record producer
 1966  Douglas Gordon, Scottish artist
 1967  Kristen Johnston, American actress
 1967  Gunnar Nelson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1967  Matthew Nelson, American singer-songwriter and bass player
 1969  Richard Witschge, Dutch footballer
 1971  Tinna Björk Baldvinsdóttir, Icelandic footballer and psychologist
 1971  Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer
 1972  Victor Ponta, former Prime Minister of Romania
 1973  Jo Pavey, English runner
 1975  Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
From 1976 
 1976  Jon Bernthal, American actor
 1977  Namie Amuro, Japanese pop singer
 1979  Dan Gillespie Sells, British musician (The Feeling)
 1980  Judith Schalansky, German writer, book designer and publisher
 1980  Robert Koren, Slovenian footballer
 1980  Igor Vori, Croatian handball player
 1981  Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player
 1981  Ryan Tandy, Australian rugby league player (d. 2014)
 1982  Aaron Burkart, German rally driver
 1982  Brian Fortuna, American dancer and choreographer
 1983  Freya Murray, Scottish athlete
 1984  Brian Joubert, French figure skater
 1987  Gain, South Korean singer, actress and entertainer
 1987  Deon McCaulay, Belizean footballer
 1987  Reza Ghoochannejhad, Iranian footballer
 1988  Sergei Bobrovsky, Russian ice hockey player
 1990  John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
 1990  Phillip Phillips, American Idol winner
 1990  Waylon Francis, Costa Rican footballer
 1991  Spencer Locke, American actress
 1992  Safura Alizadeh, Azerbaijani singer
1992  Peter Prevc, Slovenian ski jumper
 1993  Julian Draxler, German footballer
 1995  Laura Dekker, Dutch-New Zealand sailor
 1995  Sammi Hanratty, American actress
 1996  Marlos Moreno, Colombian footballer
Up to 1950 
 911  Louis the Child, King of the East Franks (b. 893)
 1328  Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian theologian and scholar (b. 1263)
 1384  King Louis of Naples (b. 1339)
 1460  Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer (b. 1400)
 1590  Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534)
 1629  Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Dutch colonial governor (b. 1587)
 1630  Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (b. 1586)
 1684  Kim Seok-ju, Korean scholar, politician and author (b. 1634)
 1793  Fletcher Christian, English mutineer (b. 1764)
 1839  Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, British admiral (b. 1769)
 1840  Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia, Paraguayan politician (b. 1766)
 1845  Matvei Gedenschtorm, Russian explorer (b. 1780)
 1852  Philander Chase, American bishop and educator (b. 1775)
 1863  Jacob Grimm, German writer and folklorist (b. 1785)
 1898  Theodor Fontane, German writer (b. 1819)
 1908  Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)
 1919  Ramón Barros Luco, President of Chile (b. 1835)
1927  George Nichols, American actor (b. 1864)
 1930  Gombojab Tsybikov, Russian anthropologist and explorer (b. 1873)
 1932  John Ellis, English executioner (b. 1874)
 1933  Annie Besant, British writer, philosopher and journalist (b. 1847)
 1945  Augusto Tasso Fragoso, President of Brazil (b. 1869)
 1945  William Seabrook, American occultist, journalist and explorer (b. 1884)
 1946  Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
 1947  Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City (b. 1882)
 1948  Husain Salaahudin, Maldivian scholar, poet and writer (b. 1881)
1951  2010 
 1957  Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)
 1970  Alexandros Othonaios, Greek general and Prime Minister (b. 1879)
 1971  Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet (b. 1900)
 1973  Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
 1975  Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer (b. 1887)
 1979  Ludvik Svoboda, Czechoslovakian politician (b. 1895)
 1993  Erich Hartmann, German pilot and fighter ace (b. 1922)
 1994  Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author (b. 1921)
 1996  Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
 1996  Reuben Kamenga, 1st Vice president of Zambia (b. 1929)
 1998  Muriel Humphrey Brown, United States Senator and wife of Hubert Humphrey (b. 1912)
 1999  Raisa Gorbachova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1932)
 2002  Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Russian actor (b. 1971)
 2003  Gordon Mitchell, American actor (b. 1923)
 2003  Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1922)
 2004  Brian Clough, English football manager (b. 1935)
 2005  Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor (b. 1908)
2006  Sven Nykvist, Swedish cameraman and director (b. 1922)
 2010  Fud Leclerc, Belgian singer (b. 1924)
From 2011 
 2011  Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan (b. 1940)
 2012  Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (b. 1935)
 2014  Anatoly Berezovoy, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (b. 1942)
 2014  Polly Bergen, American actress (b. 1930)
 2014  Rob Bironas, American football player (b. 1978)
 2014  Vince Callahan, American politician (b. 1931)
 2014  Pino Cerami, Italian-Belgian cyclist (b. 1922)
 2014  Takako Doi, Japanese politician (b. 1928)
 2014  George Sluizer, Dutch film director (b. 1932)
 2015  Jack Larson, American actor, screenwriter and producer (b. 1928)
 2015  C. K. Williams, American poet (b. 1936)
 2015  Siegfried Gottwald, German mathematician (b. 1943)
 2016  Richie Dunn, American ice hockey player (b. 1957)
 2016  Peter Leo Gerety, American bishop (b. 1912)
 2016  Curtis Hanson, American movie director and screenwriter (b. 1945)
 2017  Ene Mihkelson, Estonian novelist (b. 1944)
 2017  Lillian Ross, American journalist and author (b. 1918)
 2017  Teddy Taylor, British politician (b. 1937)
2017  Arne Solli, Norwegian military officer (b. 1938)
 2018  Fadhil Jalil al-Barwari, Iraqi military officer (b. 1966)
 2018  John Cunliffe, English children's writer (b. 1933)
 2018  Inge Feltrinelli, German-Italian publisher and photographer (b. 1930)
 2018  George N. Hatsopoulos, Greek-born American chemical engineer (b. 1927)
 2018  Laurie Mitchell, American actress (b. 1928)
 2018  K-Run's Park Me In First, American-bred show dog (b. 2005)
 2018  Mohamed Sahnoun, Algerian politician and diplomat (b. 1931)
 2018  Reinhard Tritscher, German skier (b. 1946)
 2018  Henry Wessel Jr., American photographer (b. 1942)
 2019  Robert Boyd, American journalist (b. 1928)
 2019  Howard Cassady, American football player (b. 1934)
 2019  Séamus Hegarty, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1940)
 2019  Jan Merlin, American actor (b. 1925)
 2019  Gregorio Martínez Sacristán, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1946)
 2019  Yonrico Scott, American drummer (b. 1955)
 2019  Su Beng, Taiwanese dissident (b. 1918)
Observances 
 National Youth Day (Thailand)
 Constitution Day (Nepal)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1217  Livonian Crusade: Estonian tribal leader Lembitu and Livonian tribal leader Kaupo are killed in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day.
 1327  After rejecting the throne, King Edward II of England is murdered in Berkeley, Gloucester.
 1435  An agreement between Charles VII of France and Philip the Good ends the partnership between the English and Burgundy in the Hundred Years' War.
 1745  A Hanoverian army is defeated at the Battle of Prestonpans by the Jacobites under Charles Edward Stuart.
 1776  Parts of New York City are burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
 1780  Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
 1792  The National Convention in France abolishes the monarchy.
 1843  John Williams Wilson takes control of the Strait of Magellan, representing the newly independent Chilean government.
 1846  Mexican-American War: The Battle of Monterrey begins.
 1860  In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
1896  A British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola, Sudan.
 1898  Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
1901  2000 
 1921  A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 561 people.
 1934  A large typhoon hits western Honshu, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
 1937  J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
 1938  The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island, killing between 500 and 700 people.
 1939  Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is killed by ultranationalist members of the Iron Guard.
 1942  In Dunaivtski, Ukraine, the Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
 1949  The People's Republic of China established in Beijing.
 1960  The Flag of Panama is flown next to the Flag of the United States at the Panama Canal for the first time.
 1961  First flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
 1964  Malta becomes independent.
 1965  Gambia, the Maldives and Singapore join the UN.
 1971  Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the UN.
 1972  Ferdinand Marcos declares Martial Law in the Philippines.
 1976  The Seychelles join the UN.
 1981  Belize is granted independence from the United Kingdom.
1984  Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the United States Senate to become the first female Justice on the United States Supreme Court.
 1984  Brunei joins the UN.
 1989  Hurricane Hugo hits the US state of South Carolina.
 1991  Armenia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
 1993  The Russian Constitutional Crisis of 1993 begins, as President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution.
 1993  A Tupolev Tu-134 aircraft is shot down by Abkhazian separatists near Sokhumi, Georgia.
 1999  An earthquake in Taiwan leaves 2,400 people dead.
From 2001 
 2001  31 people are killed in a chemical explosion in Toulouse, France.
 2003  The Galileo mission is ended by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
 2004  In Dubai, building work begins on what would become the Burj Khalifa. It was opened on January 4, 2010 as the world's tallest building, at a height of 828 metres.
 2013  Westgate shopping mall shooting: A shooting attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, kills at least 68 people, and many people are taken hostage. Somali militant group Al-Shabaab claims responsibility.
 2013  An attack at a funeral in Sadr City, Iraq, kills at least 60 people.
 2016  A boat estimated to be carrying hundreds of people sinks off Alexandria, Egypt, and is believed to have killed most of those on board.

Births
Up to 1800 
 1051  Bertha of Savoy, German queen and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1087)
 1154  Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (d. 1208)
 1328  Hongwu, Emperor of China (d. 1398)
 1371  Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1440)
 1411  Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, pretender to the English throne (d. 1460)
 1415  Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493)
 1428  Jingtai, Emperor of China (d. 1457)
 1452  Girolamo Savonarola, Italian philosopher and priest (d. 1498)
 1457  Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1502)
 1559  Cigoli, Florentine painter, architect and sculptor (d. 1613)
 1629  Philip Howard, English cardinal (d. 1594)
 1640  Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1701)
 1645  Louis Jolliet, French-Canadian explorer (d. 1700)
 1705  Dick Turpin, English outlaw (d. 1739)
 1706  Polyxena of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg, Queen of Sardinia (d. 1735)
 1752  Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern, wife of Charles Eduard Stuart (d. 1824)
1756  John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer and road builder (d. 1836)
 1757  James Jackson, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1806)
 1758  Christopher Gore, 8th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1827)
 1760  Ivan Dimitriev, Russian statesman (d. 1837)
 1788  Margaret Taylor, First Lady of the United States (d. 1852)
 1791  Istvan Szechenyi, Hungarian entrepreneur and state reformer (d. 1860)
 1792  Johann Peter Eckermann, German poet (d. 1854)
1801  1900 
 1801  Moritz Hermann von Jacobi, German-Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1874)
 1817  John Allan Broun, Scottish scientist (d. 1879)
 1819  Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1864)
 1840  Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
 1842  Abd-ul-Hamid, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
 1845  Prince Ernest Augustus, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (d. 1923)
 1846  Mihaly Kolossa, Hungarian-Slovenian writer (d. 1906)
 1849  Maurice Barrymore, Indian-American actor (d. 1905)
 1853  Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1913 (d. 1926)
 1859  Francesc Macia i Llussa, Catalan army officer and politician (d. 1933)
 1863  John Bunny, American movie comedian (d. 1915)
 1864  Elena Vacarescu, Romanian writer (d. 1947)
 1866  H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
 1866  Charles Nicolle, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1928 (d. 1936)
 1867  Henry L. Stimson, American politician (d. 1950)
 1869  Carlo Airoldi, Italian marathon runner (d. 1929)
1872  Henry Tingle Wilde, British chief officer of the RMS Titanic (d. 1912)
 1873  Papa Jack Laine, American musician (d. 1966)
 1874  Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934)
 1890  Max Immelmann, German fighter pilot (d. 1918)
 1896  Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian (d. 2011)
 1899  Frederick Coutts, 8th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1986)
1901  1950 
 1902  Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963)
 1902  E. E. Evans-Pritchard, British ethnologist (d. 1973)
 1902  Toyen, Czech painter (d. 1980)
 1909  Kwame Nkrumah, 1st President of Ghana (d. 1972)
 1912  Chuck Jones, American animator (d. 2002)
 1912  Gyorgy Sandor, Hungarian pianist (d. 2005)
 1916  Françoise Giroud, French feminist journalist and writer (d. 2003)
 1918  John Gofman, American scientist (d. 2007)
 1919  Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist
 1924  Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1957)
 1926  Donald A. Glaser, American physicist (d. 2013)
 1926  Don Dunstan, 35th Premier of South Australia (d. 1999)
 1926  Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (d. 2000)
 1928  Edouard Glissant, French writer (d. 2011)
 1929  Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (d. 1979)
 1929  Bernard Williams, English philosopher (d. 2003)
 1931  Larry Hagman, American actor (d. 2012)
 1932  Don Preston, American musician and movie score composer
1932  Shirley Conran, English journalist and writer
 1934  Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, musician, poet and writer (d. 2016)
 1934  David J. Thouless, Scottish-American physicist (d. 2019)
 1935  Jimmy Armfield, English footballer (d. 2018)
 1936  Sunny Murray, American jazz drummer (d. 2017)
 1936  Yury Luzhkov, Russian politician, former Mayor of Moscow
 1939  Agnivesh, Indian activist and politician
 1940  Rick May, Canadian-American actor and voice actor (d. 2020)
 1941  R. James Woolsey, Jr., American 16th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
 1944  Fannie Flagg, American actress, comedienne and author
 1944  Steve Beshear, American politician, Governor of Kentucky
 1945  Bjarni Tryggvason, Iceland-born Canadian engineer and astronaut
 1945  Jerry Bruckheimer, American movie and television producer
 1945  Shaw Clifton, 18th General of the Salvation Army
 1946  Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss Federal Councillor
 1946  Mart Siimann, former Prime Minister of Estonia
 1947  Stephen King, American writer
1947  Don Felder, American rock music guitarist
 1947  Nick Castle, American actor
 1947  Ed Nimmervoll, Austrian-Australian rock musician, journalist, author and historian (d. 2014)
 1947  Keith Harris, English ventriloquist (d. 2015)
 1947  Rói Patursson, Faroese writer and philosopher
 1949  Odilo Scherer, Brazilian cardinal
 1950  Charles Clarke, British politician
 1950  Bill Murray, American actor
1951  1975 
 1951  Bruce Arena, American soccer coach
 1951  Aslan Maskhadov, President of Chechnya (d. 2005)
 1952  Anneliese Michel, German exorcism victim (d. 1976)
 1953  Reinhard Marx, German archbishop and cardinal
 1954  Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2022)
 1954  Phil Taylor, British musician (Motorhead) (d. 2015)
 1955  Richard Hieb, American astronaut
 1955  Mika Kaurismaki, Finnish director
 1957  Ethan Coen, American movie director
 1957  Sidney Moncrief, American basketball player
 1957  Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia
 1958  Rick Mahorn, American basketball player
 1959  Crin Antonescu, Romanian politician
 1959  Dave Coullier, American actor
 1961  Nancy Travis, American actress
 1961  Dan Borislow, American entrepreneur, sports team owner and inventor (d. 2014)
 1962  Rob Morrow, American actor
 1963  Curtly Ambrose, Antiguan-Barbudan cricketer
 1964  Carlos Aguilera, Uruguayan footballer
 1965  Cheryl Hines, American actress
 1965  David Wenham, Australian actor
1967  Faith Hill, American singer
 1967  Suman Pokhrel, Nepalese poet
 1967  Tyler Stewart, Canadian drummer (Barenaked Ladies)
 1968  Ricki Lake, American actress and talk show hostess
 1970  Rob Benedict, American actor
 1970  Samantha Power, Irish-born 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
 1971  Alfonso Ribeiro, American actor
 1971  Luke Wilson, American actor
 1972  David Silveria, American musician
 1972  Liam Gallagher, English singer (Oasis)
 1973  Oswaldo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
 1974  Henning Fritz, German handball player
 1975  Ronny Deila, Norwegian football manager
From 1976 
 1978  Doug Howlett, New Zealand rugby player
 1978  Mario Miranda, Brazilian mixed martial artist
 1979  Chris Gayle, Jamaican cricketer
 1979  Richard Dunne, Irish footballer
 1979  James Allan, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1980  Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
 1980  Autumn Reeser, American actress
 1980  Tomas Scheckter, South African racing driver
 1980  Nyree Kindred, Welsh swimmer
 1981  Rimi Sen, Indian actress
 1981  Nicole Richie, American socialite
 1982  Marat Izmailov, Russian footballer
 1983  Anna Meares, Australian cyclist
 1983  Fernando Cavenaghi, Argentine footballer
 1983  Maggie Grace, American actress
 1983  Greg Jennings, American football player
 1987  Ryan Guzman, American actor
 1987  Ashley Paris, American basketball player
 1987  Courtney Paris, American basketball player
 1988  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pakistani politician
 1989  Jason Derulo, American singer
 1989  Emma Watkins, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
1990  Al-Farouq Aminu, Nigerian-American basketball player
 1990  Christian Serratos, American actress
 1990  Allison Scagliotti, American actress
 1992  Chen, South Korean singer
 1994  Ben Proud, English swimmer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 19 BC  Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)
 454  Flavius Aetius, Roman general (b. 396)
 687  Pope Conon (b. 630)
 1217  Lembitu, Estonian tribal leader
 1217  Kaupo, Livonian tribal leader
 1327  King Edward II of England (b. 1284)
 1558  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500)
 1576  Gerolamo Cardano, Italian doctor, philosopher and mathematician (b. 1501)
 1643  Huang Taiji, Chinese Emperor (b. 1592)
 1743  Jai Singh II, Indian King (b. 1688)
 1798  George Read, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733)
 1810  Mir Taqi Mir, Urdu poet (b. 1723)
 1832  Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771)
 1852  William Badger, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1779)
 1860  Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
 1880  Manuel Montt, 6th President of Chile (b. 1809)
 1895  Viktor Rydberg, Swedish writer (b. 1828)
1901  2000 
 1904  Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader (b. 1840)
 1906  Samuel Arnold, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
 1926  Léon Charles Thévenin, French engineer (b. 1857)
 1929  Nathaniel Edwin Harris, American politician (b. 1846)
 1933  Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese author and poet (b. 1896)
 1939  Armand Calinescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1893)
 1943  Kingsley Wood, British politician (b. 1881)
 1947  Harry Carey, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1846)
 1953  Necmettin Sadak, Turkish politician (b. 1890)
 1954  Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
 1957  Haakon VII, King of Norway (b. 1872)
 1963  Paulino Masip, Spanish author, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1899)
 1966  Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister of France (b. 1878)
 1971  Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian doctor, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1887)
 1974  Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
1976  Orlando Letelier, Chilean economist, politician and diplomat (b. 1932)
 1982  Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897)
 1985  Gu Long, Chinese author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
 1987  Jaco Pastorius, American musician (b. 1951)
 1990  Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek movie director and screenwriter (b. 1933)
 1995  Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
 1997  Jennifer Holt, American actress (b. 1920)
 1998  Florence Griffith-Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959)
From 2001 
 2007  Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian skier (b. 1929)
 2011  Paulette Dubost, French actress (b. 1910)
 2011  Troy Davis, American high-profile death row inmate (b. 1968)
 2012  Henry Bauchau, Belgian psychoanalyst and author (b. 1913)
 2012  Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author (b. 1917)
 2012  Michael Rye, American actor (b. 1918)
 2014  Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and playwright (b. 1953)
 2014  Caldwell Jones, American basketball player (b. 1950)
 2014  Cecilia Cenci, Argentine actress (b. 1942)
 2014  Frieda Szwillus, German supercentenarian (b. 1902)
 2014  Mike Harari, Israeli intelligence officer (b. 1927)
 2015  Armen Movsisyan, Armenian politician (b. 1962)
 2015  Yoram Gross, Polish-born Australian animation producer and director (b. 1926)
 2017  Liliane Bettencourt, French businesswoman, socialite and heiress (b. 1922)
 2017  William G. Stewart, British game show host (b. 1933)
 2018  Vitaliy Masol, former Prime minister of Ukraine (b. 1928)