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Repeated activities
 Round (boxing), a time period within a boxing match
 Grand rounds, a ritual in  medical education and inpatient care
 Round of drinks, a traditional method of paying in a drinking establishment
 Funding round, a discrete round of investment in a business
 Doing the rounds or patrol, moving through an area at regular intervals
 Round (Theosophy), a planetary cycle of reincarnation in Theosophy

Other 
 Round (surname)
 Rounds (surname)
 Roundedness, rounding of lips when pronouncing vowels
 Labialization, rounding of lips when pronouncing consonants
 Round shot
 Cartridge (firearms), a single unit of ammunition
 Round steak, a cut of meat

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Events 
 Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Anastasius I ends a period of moderate ecclestical policy, and starts strongly favoring his own monophysitist beliefs.
 Flavian II, Patriarch of Antioch, is deposed and replaced with Severus.
 The island nation of Usan-guk is conquered by the Korean Silla Dynasty general Lee Sabu.
 Earliest known dated text in the Arabic alphabet, at Zebed in Syria

Births 
 Saint David
Up to 1900 
 474 - Zeno crowned as co-Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
 1555 - Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
 1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope.
 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts to be in rebellion.
 1788 - The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War on the Russian side.
 1796 – Jiaqing takes over from Qianlong as Emperor of China.
 1825 – After an indecisive election, the United States House of Representatives declares John Quincy Adams as President of the United States.
 1839 - In the Southern Ocean, British whaling captain John Balleny discovers Sturge Island, part of the group of islands now known as the Balleny Islands. His companion Thomas Freeman sets foot on the island.
 1849 - The New Roman Republic is created.
 1861 – Jefferson Davis is chosen to become President of the Confederate States of America.
 1870 - US President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress, creating the US Weather Bureau.
1889 - US President Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a cabinet-level agency.
 1895 - William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which later becomes better known as Volleyball.
 1900 – Dwight Filley Davis founds the Davis Cup tennis tournament, which has been named after him.
1901  2000 
 1904 - Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Port Arthur ends.
 1913 - A group of meteors can be seen in the Eastern parts of North America and South America.
 1920 - Under the Svalbard Treaty, Norway's governing of the Svalbard archipelago is recognized.
 1922 – Brazil joins the Berne Convention Copyright Treaty.
 1934 - The Balkan Entente is formed.
 1942 – Year-round Daylight Saving Time is re-introduced in the United States.
 1943 – World War II: The Allies declare the island of Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces.
 1945 - World War II: Battle of the Atlantic - HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedie, Norway in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
 1945 - World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Fordefjorden, Norway. 
 1950 – Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States State Department of being filled with Communists.
 1951 - Korean War: Geochang massacre.
1959 - R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational in Plesetsk, northern Russia, Soviet Union.
 1964 – The Beatles appear on the US TV show, the Ed Sullivan Show.
 1964 – The Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, end.
 1965 – The first US combat troops are sent to Vietnam.
 1969 – First test flight of a Boeing 747
 1971 – Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third human Moon landing.
 1971 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes the San Fernando Valley in California, killing 65 people.
 1975 – The Soviet Soyuz 17 spacecraft returns to Earth.
 1983 – Prize-winning racehorse Shergar is kidnapped in Ireland and is never seen again.
 1986 – Comet Halley passes through Perihelion. It will not do so again until 2061.
 1991 – Lithuania votes for independence.
 1995 – On the Space Shuttle, Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton respectively to perform a space walk.
From 2001 
 2001 - American submarine US Greenville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School, killing 9 crew members.
 2006 - The discovery of a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, is announced.
 2014 - In a referendum, slightly over half of voters in Switzerland support limiting immigration from the European Union.
 2016 - Two trains collide near Bad Aibling, Bavaria, southern Germany, killing 12 people and injuring up to 100.
 2018 - 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang of Republic of Korea (South Korea) begin.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1060 - Pope Honorius II (d. 1130)
 1533 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)
 1645 – Johann Aegidus Bach, German musician (d. 1716)
 1711 - Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla, Spanish sailor and naval commander (d. 1762)
 1737 – Thomas Paine, English-born American intellectual, revolutionary and founding father of the United States (d. 1809)
 1748 – Luther Martin, American patriot (d. 1826)
 1751 – Antoine Bullant, Czech musician and opera composer (d. 1821)
 1763 - Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1830)
 1769 - George W. Campbell, Scottish-born 5th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1848)
 1773 – William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (d. 1841)
 1775 - Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1856)
 1781 – Johann Baptist von Spix, German scientist (d. 1826)
 1783 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)
 1789 - Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of stenography (d. 1849)
 1814 – Samuel J. Tilden, American politician (d. 1886)
1830 – Abd-ul Aziz, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1876)
 1834 – Kamehameha IV, King of Hawaii (d. 1863)
 1839 - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (d. 1896)
 1843 - Nathan Goff, American lawyer and politician (d. 1920)
 1846 – Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and entrepreneur (d. 1929)
 1853 - Leander Starr Jameson, British-born South African politician (d. 1917)
 1856 - Hara Takashi, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1921)
 1865 – Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist (d. 1949)
 1865 - Wilson Bentley, American photographer and scientist (d. 1931)
 1879 - Jacques Bainville, French historian and journalist (d. 1936)
 1880 - Lipot Fejer, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1989)
 1883 - Jules Berry, French actor (d. 1951)
 1885 - Alban Berg, Austrian composer (d. 1935)
 1887 - Toivo Aro, Finnish diver (d. 1962)
 1891 - Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (d. 1980)
 1892 – Peggy Wood, American actress (d. 1978)
 1893 – Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician (d. 1987)
1895 – Hermann Brill, German politician (d. 1959)
 1896 - Alberto Vargas, Peruvian painter (d. 1962)
 1897 - Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian pilot (d. 1935)
1901  1950 
 1902 – Leon M'ba, 1st President of Gabon (d. 1967)
 1907 - Truong Chinh, 4th President of Vietnam (d. 1988)
 1909 – Robert Velter, French comic artist (d. 1991)
 1909 – Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress (d. 1955)
 1909 – Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (d. 1994)
 1910 – Jacques Monod, French biochemist (d. 1976)
 1910 - Elbert N. Carvel, Governor of Delaware (d. 2005)
 1912 - Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1968)
 1912 - Ginette Leclerc, French actress (d. 1992)
 1914 - Ernest Tubb, American singer (d. 1984)
 1920 - Edward Joseph McManus, American politician and jurist (d. 2017)
 1922 – Kathryn Grayson, American singer and actress (d. 2010)
 1923 – Brendan Behan, Irish writer and activist (d. 1964)
 1923 - Tonie Nathan, American political figure (d. 2014)
 1925 – Burkhard Heim, German physicist (d. 2001)
 1926 – Garret FitzGerald, Irish politician and Taoiseach (d. 2011)
 1927 - David Wheeler, British computer scientist
1928 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (d. 2010)
 1928 - Herman Pieter de Boer, Dutch writer, poet and journalist (d. 2014)
 1928 – Rinus Michels, Dutch footballer and coach (d. 2005)
 1928 - Roger Mudd, American journalist
 1929 - A. R. Antulay, Indian politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2014)
 1931 - Josef Masopust, Czech footballer (d. 2015)
 1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and novelist (d. 1989)
 1932 – Gerhard Richter, German artist
 1932 - Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player and manager
 1933 - Arthur A. Neu, American politician (d. 2015)
 1936 – Clive Swift, British actor
 1936 – Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country music singer (d. 2013)
 1937 – Hildegard Behrens, German operatic soprano (d. 2009)
 1939 – Janet Suzman, South African actress
 1940 – J. M. Coetzee, South African-born Australian Nobel Prize-winning writer
 1940 – Brian Bennett, British musician (The Shadows)
 1940 - Enrique Olivera, Argentine politician (d. 2014)
1941 - Sheila Kuehl, American actress, activist and politician
 1942 – Carole King, American singer
 1943 - Ryland Davies, Welsh operatic tenor
 1943 – Joe Pesci, American actor
 1943 – Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist
 1944 - Alice Walker, American writer
 1945 – Mia Farrow, American actress
 1945 - Yoshinori Ohsumi, Japanese cell biologist
 1946 - Jim Webb, United States Senator from Virginia
 1947 – Carla Del Ponte, Swiss UN prosecutor
 1948 - David Hayman, Scottish actor
 1948 - Guy Standing, English economist
 1949 – Judith Light, American actress
 1949 - Bernard Gallacher, Scottish golfer
 1950 - James Luna, American performance artist (d. 2018)
1951  1975 
 1951 - Jay Inslee, 23rd Governor of Washington
 1953 – Ciaran Hinds, Northern Irish actor
 1954 - Mary Jo Duffy, American comic book writer and editor
 1955 - Charles Shaughnessy, British actor
 1957 - Terry McAuliffe, 72nd Governor of Virginia
 1957 - Ruy Ramos, Brazilian-Japanese footballer
 1957 – Gordon Strachan, Scottish footballer and manager
 1958 – Sandy Lyle, Scottish golfer
 1958 - Cyrille Regis, English footballer (d. 2018)
 1959 – Ali Bongo Ondimba, 3rd President of Gabon
 1960 – Holly Johnson, English singer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
 1960 - Peggy Whitson, American biochemist and astronaut
 1961 – Jussi Lampi, Finnish musician and actor
 1963 – Brian Greene, American physicist
 1963 - Travis Titt, American singer-songwriter and producer
 1965 - Dieter Baumann, German athlete
 1965 - Christian Schenk, German athlete
 1965 - Igor Malkov, Russian speed skater
 1965 - Julie Warner, American actress
 1966 - Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
1966 - Harald Eia, Norwegian actor and comedian
 1968 - Alejandra Guzman, Mexican singer and actress
 1970 – Glenn McGrath, Australian cricketer
 1971 – Johan Mjallby, Swedish footballer
 1972 – Darren Ferguson, Scottish footballer
 1973 - Makoto Shinkai, Japanese director, writer, artist and graphic designer
 1974 - Amber Valletta, American model and actress
 1974 - Jordi Cruyff, Dutch footballer
 1974 - Erra Frazira, Malaysian actress and singer
From 1976 
 1978 - A. J. Buckley, Irish-Canadian actor, director and screenwriter
 1979 – Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress
 1979 - Akinora Iwamura, Japanese baseball player
 1979 – David Gray, British snooker player
 1980 – Angelos Charisteas, Greek footballer
 1981 – John Walker Lindh, American Taliban fighter
 1981 – The Rev, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold) (d. 2009)
 1981 - Tom Hiddleston, English actor
 1982 – Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer
 1984 - Han Geng, Chinese singer, actor and dancer
 1985 - David Gallagher, American actor
 1986 – Princess Rajyah bint Al Hussein of Jordan
 1986 - Stina Lykke Petersen, Danish footballer
 1987 – Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
 1987 - Rose Leslie, Scottish actress
 1987 - Michael B. Jordan, American actor
 1988 – Lotte Friis, Danish swimmer
 1989 – Shunta Takahashi, Japanese footballer
 1989 - Gia Farrell, American singer
 1990 – Camille Winbush, American actress
 1992 - Avan Jogia, Canadian actor, singer and dancer
 1993 - Parimarjan Negi, Indian chess player
1993 - Wataru Endo, Japanese footballer
 1996 - Jimmy Bennett, American actor and singer
 1996 - Kelli Berglund, American actress
 2001 - Erraid Davies, Scottish swimmer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 967 - Sayf al-Dawla, Emir of Aleppo (b. 916)
 1011 - Bernard I, Duke of Savoy
 1199 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147)
 1450 - Agnes Sorel, mistress to Charles VIII of France (b. 1421)
 1555 - John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester
 1619 - Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585)
 1675 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
 1751 – Henri Francois d'Agesseau, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)
 1777 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706)
 1782 – Johann Aloysius Assemani, Lebanese orientalist (b. 1710)
 1803 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716)
 1857 – Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet (b. 1798)
 1881 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist (b. 1821)
 1889 – Peter Lalor, leader of the miners at the Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (b. 1827)
 1891 - Johan Barthold Jongkind, Dutch painter (b. 1819)
 1894 - Maxime Du Camp, French writer (b. 1822)
1901  2000 
 1905 - Adolph Menzel, German painter (b. 1815)
 1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet (b. 1872)
 1930 – Richard With, Norwegian businessman (b. 1846)
 1936 - Caroline Furness, American astronomer (b. 1869)
 1936 - Jacques Bainville, French historian and journalist (b. 1879)
 1942 - Lauri Kristian Relander, 2nd President of Finland (b. 1883)
 1948 - Karl Valentin, German comedian, writer and movie producer (b. 1882)
 1957 – Miklos Horthy, Hungarian admiral (b. 1868)
 1960 – Erno Dohnanyi, Hungarian composer (b. 1877)
 1964 - Ary Barroso, Brazilian composer and singer (b. 1903)
 1966 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-American actress and singer (b. 1884)
 1973 - Max Yasgur, American farmer, owned the site of the Woodstock Festival (b. 1919)
 1975 - Pierre Dac, French activist (b. 1893) 
 1977 - Alia al-Hussein, Queen Consort of Jordan (b. 1948)
 1977 – Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1894)
 1979 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-born British physicist (b. 1900)
1981 – Bill Haley, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1925)
 1984 – Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914)
 1989 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (b. 1928)
 1991 - Daigoro Kondo, Japanese footballer (b. 1907)
 1994 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (b. 1934)
 1997 - Barry Evans, British actor (b. 1943)
 1998 - Maurice Schumann, French politician (b. 1911)
From 2001 
 2001 – Herbert Simon, American economist (b. 1916)
 2002 – Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)
 2002 - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (b. 1937)
 2005 - Robert Kearns, American engineer (b. 1927)
 2007 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
 2007 - Alejandro Finisterre, Spanish inventor of table football (b. 1919)
 2009 – Eluana Englaro, Italian patient in right-to-die case (b. 1970)
 2010 – Walter Frederick Morrison, American inventor (b. 1920)
 2014 - Marius, giraffe controversially put to sleep at Copenhagen Zoo (b. 2012)
 2014 - Gabriel Axel, Danish movie director and actor (b. 1918)
 2014 - Ranjit Bhatia, Indian runner (b. 1936)
 2014 - Serafin R. Cuevas, Filipino lawyer (b. 1928)
 2015 - Jorge Sassi, Argentine actor (b. 1950)
 2016 - Sushil Koirala, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1939)
 2016 - André van den Heuvel, Dutch actor, director and singer (b. 1927)
 2016 - Sibghattullah Mojaddedi, President of Afghanistan (b. 1926)
2017 - Serge Baguet, Belgian cyclist (b. 1969)
 2017 - Packy, American-held elephant (b. 1962)
 2017 - André Salvat, French colonel (b. 1920)
 2017 - Radu Gabrea, Romanian film director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
 2018 - Johann Johannsson, Icelandic film score composer (b. 1969)
 2018 - Reg E. Cathey, American actor (b. 1958)
 2018 - Jim Garrett, American football player (b. 1930)
 2018 - Alfonso Lacadena, Spanish academic (b. 1964)
 2018 - Craig MacGregor, American musician (b. 1949)
 2018 - Liam Miller, Irish footballer (b. 1981)
 2018 - Wally Moon, American baseball player (b. 1930)
 2018 - Anne Treisman, English-American psychologist (b. 1935)
Holidays and Observances 
 St. Maroun's Day (Lebanon)

February 09
United Russia () is a Russian political party, which usually labels itself centrist and conservationist. Dmitry Medvedev is leader of this party.

The party has most of the seats in the State Duma and in the Regional Parliaments. Because of this, United Russia is the most powerful political party in Russia. Two large parties merged in 2001 to form United Russia.

Political parties in Russia
Up to 1900 
25 - Gwangwu claims the throne as Emperor during political turmoil, restoring China's Han Dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin Dynasty.
642 – Battle of Maserfeld - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia.
910 - The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex.
1100 – Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
1278 - The Siege of Algeciras ends in the context of the Spanish Reconquista, pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada. It ends in a victory for the Emirate of Granada.
1305 – William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, was captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
1388 - The Battle of Otterburn, a border conflict between Scotland and England, takes place.
1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
1620 - The Mayflower sets sail from Southampton on its first attempt to reach North America.
1689 – 1,500 Iroquois attack village of Lachine, in New France.
1763 – Pontiac's War - Battle of Bushy Run - British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Native Americans at Bushy Run.
1772 – First Partition of Poland begins.
1775 - Spanish seafarer Juan de Ayala cross the Golden Gate in San Francisco Bay, landing on the island of Isla de los Angeles.
1781 - The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place between British and Dutch forces.
1812 – War of 1812: Tecumseh's Native American force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat.
1824 - Greek War of Independence: Constantine Canaris leads a Greek fleet to victory against Ottoman and Egyptian ships in the Battle of Samos.
1858 – Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It operated for less than a month.
1860 – Carl IV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
1861 - The United States Army gets rid of flogging.
1861 – American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government issues the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US$800; rescinded in 1872).
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge - Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Mobile Bay begins - At Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
1874 - Japan begins its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
1882 – Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
1884 – The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
1888 – Bertha Benz makes the first long-distance car journey from Mannheim to Pforzheim in Germany.
1901  2000 
1901 - Peter O'Connor sets a long jump world record of 7.61 meters. The record stands for almost 20 years, when Edward Gourdin jumps 7.69 meters on July 23, 1921.
1906 - Persian Constitutional Reform: Shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar agrees to end feudalism, and for the government to become a constitutional monarchy.
1914 – In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1915 - World War I: German troops occupy Warsaw, Poland.
1925 - The Plaid Cymru political party is founded in Wales. One of its founding aims was to protect and promote the Welsh language, which was close to dying out at the time.
1926 - Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes in a sealed tank, before escaping.
1936 - Jesse Owens wins gold in the 200-metre run at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
1940 - World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.
1941 - World War II: Battle of Smolensk - Germany captures 300,000 Soviet prisoners.
1944 – Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
1944 – At least 545 Japanese soldiers escape from a prisoner of war camp in Cowra, New South Wales.
1949 – In Ecuador an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6000.
1949 - The Mann Gulch fire kills 13 firefighters in Montana.
1957 - The television program American Bandstand first appears on the ABC network.
1960 – Burkina Faso, then known as "Upper Volta", became independent from France
1962 – Movie actress and sex icon, Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her Los Angeles, California home after apparently overdosing on sleeping pills.
1962 - Nelson Mandela is jailed in South Africa.
1963 – United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
1964 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow - American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes attacked US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1965 - The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 starts when Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals.
1969 – Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers).
1969 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a one billion dollar limit on 1974 military aid to South Vietnam.
1971 - The first Pacific Islands Forum is held in Wellington, New Zealand, to encourage countries in Oceania to work together.
1972 - In Uganda, people holding British passports are given two months to leave the country.
1973 - An Arab gunman opens fire in a passenger lounge at Athens International Airport, killing 3 people.
1981 – Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
1983 - IRA members are jailed for a total of 4,000 years.
1989 - The Sandinistas win a majority in Nicaragua's general election.
1995 – The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm.
From 2001 
2003 – A car bomb explodes outside the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 12 people, and injuring around 150.
2009 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad starts his second term as President of Iran.
2009 - The Spanish Wikipedia reaches the milestone of 500,000 articles.
2010 - The Copiapo mining accident occurs in Chile, trapping 33 miners underground. They are discovered to be alive two weeks later, and are successfully rescued in October, in a rescue that is followed around the world.
2011 - Yingluck Shinawatra becomes Prime Minister of Thailand.
2011 - The Juno space probe is launched to the planet Jupiter.
2013 - The first laboratory-grown hamburger is served and eaten in London.
2013 - Two boys are strangled to death by a rock python that escaped from a pet shop in New Brunswick, Eastern Canada.
2015 - A migrant boat capsizes off Sicily, with 200 people being rescued, and many feared drowned.
2015 - A piece of wreckage found on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion on July 29 is identified as belonging to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing on March 8, 2014.
2016 - The opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro takes place. It is the first time that the Olympic Games are held in South America.
2017 - The United Nations Security Council, with all members' support, approves sanctions (punishments) against North Korea over its nuclear testing.
2018 - 5 August 2018 Lombok earthquake: An earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Lombok, killing over 560 people.
2019 - The government of India removes Indian-administered Kashmir's special status with immediate effect.
Up to 1900 
1301 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330)
1397 – Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer (d. 1474)
1461 - Alexander Jagiellon, King of Poland (d. 1506)
1540 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, Dutch philologist (d. 1609)
1623 - Pietro Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (d. 1669)
1737 - Antonio Franconi, Italian impresario (d. 1836)
1737 - Johann Friedrich Struensee, German physician and minister in Denmark (d. 1772)
1742 - Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz, Czech composer and harpist (d. 1790)
1749 - Thomas Lynch, Jr., signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1779)
1758 - Emperor Go-Momozono of Japan (d. 1779)
1795 - Byron Diman, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1865)
1797 - Friedrich August Kummer, German composer (d. 1879)
1802 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829)
1811 - Ambroise Thomas, French composer (d. 1896)
1813 – Ivar Aasen, Norwegian poet and linguist (d. 1896)
1815 – Edward John Eyre, English explorer and colonial official (d. 1901)
1827 – Deodoro da Fonseca, first President of Brazil (d. 1892)
1828 – Louise of the Netherlands, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1871)
1833 - Carola Vasa, consort of Albert of Saxony (d. 1907)
1843 - James Scott Skinner, Scottish violinist and composer (d. 1927)
1844 – Ilya Repin, Ukrainian painter (d. 1930)
1850 – Guy de Maupassant, French writer (d. 1893)
1862 – Joseph Merrick, British man, who through his deformities, was often referred to as the Elephant Man (d. 1890)
1866 - Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (d. 1917)
1868 - Oskar Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1924)
1869 - J. C. W. Beckham, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (d. 1940)
1872 - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (d. 1917)
1872 - Thomas Wyllie, Scottish footballer (d. 1943)
1875 – Malin Craig, American general (d. 1945)
1877 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917)
1880 - Hermann Lüdemann, German politician (d. 1959)
1889 - Conrad Aiken, American writer and poet (d. 1973)
1890 – Naum Gabo, American sculptor and architect (d. 1977)
1890 – Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 1956)
1897 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (d. 1972)
1900 - Rudolf Schottlaender, German philosopher, translator and classicist (d. 1988)
1901  1950 
1905 - Artem Mikoyan, Soviet-Armenian aircraft designer (d. 1970)
1905 – Wassily Leontief, Russian-American economist (d. 1999)
1906 – John Huston, American director (d. 1987)
1906 – Joan Hickson, British actress (d. 1998)
1907 - Syd Ward, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2010)
1908 – Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
1908 – Miriam Rothschild, British conservationist (d. 2005)
1910 - Herminio Masantonio, Argentine footballer (d. 1956)
1915 - Hans Schnitger, Dutch field hockey player (d. 2013)
1918 - Kondapalli Koteswaramma, Indian Communist revolutionary and writer (d. 2018) 
1919 - David Morgenthaler, American businessman (d. 2016)
1922 - L. Tom Perry, American religious leader (d. 2015)
1923 – Devan Nair, former President of Singapore (d. 2005)
1925 - Albert Eschenmoser, Swiss organic chemist
1926 - Per Wahlöö, Swedish writer (d. 1975)
1926 - Betsy Jolas, French composer
1926 - Clifford Husbands, former Governor-General of Barbados (d. 2017)
1928 - Carla Lane, English television writer (d. 2016)
1929 - Al Alvarez, English poet and writer (d. 2019)
1929 - Don Matheson, American actor (d. 2014)
1929 - Nathalia Timberg, Brazilian actress
1930 – Neil Armstrong, American pilot and astronaut, first person to walk on the Moon (d. 2012)
1930 - Richie Ginther, American racing driver (d. 1989)
1930 - Michal Kovac, Slovakian politician and former President (d. 2016)
1931 - Billy Bingham, Northern Irish footballer
1931 - Gita Dey, Indian actress (d. 2011)
1932 - Vladimir Fedoseyev, Russian conductor
1934 - Giovanni Anselmo, Italian artist
1934 - Cammie King, American actress (d. 2010)
1934 – Zakes Mokae, South African actor (d. 2009)
1935 - Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (d. 2017)
1935 - Wanda Ventham, British actress
1937 - Brian G. Marsden, British astronomer (d. 2010)
1937 - Herb Brooks, American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2003)
1937 - Manuel Pinta da Costa, President of São Tomé and Príncipe
1939 – Princess Irene of the Netherlands
1940 - Ally Shewan, Scottish footballer
1941 – Leonid Kizim, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2010)
1941 - Bob Clark, American movie producer and director (d. 2007)
1941 - Airto Moreira, Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist
1943 - Leo Kinnunen, Finnish racing driver (d. 2017)
1943 - Andy Roxburgh, Scottish footballer and manager
1943 - Sammi Smith, American singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
1944 - Stellan Bojerud, Swedish politician (d. 2015)
1944 - Polycarp Pengo, Archbishop of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
1944 - Hans-Peter Uhl, German politician
1946 - Loni Anderson, American actress
1946 - Shirley Ann Jackson, American physicist
1946 - Xavier Trias, 118th Mayor of Barcelona
1946 - Reinhard Tritscher, German skier (d. 2019)
1947 - Angry Anderson, Australian actor and singer
1948 – Ray Clemence, English footballer
1948 - David Hungate, American bassist (Toto)
1948 - Carole Laure, Canadian actress and singer
1950 – Rosi Mittermaier, German skier
1951  1975 
1952 - Louis Walsh, Irish music manager
1955 – John Whitaker, British equestrian showjumper
1955 - Eddie Ojeda, American guitarist
1956 - Christopher Chessun, English bishop
1956 - Jerry Ciccoritti, Canadian actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1956 - Maureen McCormack, American actress, writer and recording artist
1959 - Pete Burns, English singer (d. 2016)
1959 – Pat Smear, American musician
1960 - David Baldacci, American writer
1960 - Gérard Onesta, French politician
1961 - Janet McTeer, English actress
1961 - Greg Kite, American basketball player
1962 – Patrick Ewing, American basketball player
1963 - Doris Schröder-Köpf, German writer and politician
1963 - Mark Strong, English actor
1963 - Brian Sandoval, American politician, 30th Governor of Nevada
1964 - Adam Yauch, American singer and musician (Beastie Boys) (d. 2012)
1964 - Dougie Arnott, Scottish footballer
1965 - Motoi Sakuraba, Japanese composer
1965 - Jean-Marc Morandini, French television host
1966 - Jonathan Silverman, American actor
1966 - Senarath Attanayake, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 2017)
1967 - Kazunori Yamauchi, Japanese Vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment
1968 – Terri Clark, Canadian country music singer
1968 - Katrina Adams, American tennis player
1968 - Kendo Kashin, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 - Marine Le Pen, French politician
1968 – Oleh Luzhny, Ukrainian footballer
1968 – Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (d. 2007)
1968 - Stephanie Flanders, English journalist, former BBC Economics editor
1968 - John Olerud, American baseball player
1969 - Jackie Doyle-Price, English politician
1969 - Venkatesh Prasad, Indian cricketer
1970 - James Gunn, American director, screenwriter, producer and actor
1970 - Leonid Stadnyk, Ukrainian claimant to world's tallest man title (d. 2014)
1971 – Valdis Dombrovskis, former Prime Minister of Latvia
1971 - Jared Hasselhoff, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1974 - Antoine Sibierski, French footballer
1974 - Julio César Enciso, Paraguayan footballer
1975 – Kajol, Indian actress
1975 - Eicca Toppinen, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica)
From 1976 
1976 - Jewel De'Nyle, American pornographic actress
1977 - Soraya Jiménez, Mexican weightlifter (d. 2013)
1977 - Santiago Pérez, Spanish cyclist
1977 - Hunico, Mexican-American professional wrestler
1978 – Kim Gevaert, Belgian athlete
1979 – David Healy, Northern Irish footballer
1980 – Wayne Bridge, English footballer
1980 – Jason Culina, Australian footballer
1980 - Salvador Cabañas, Paraguayan footballer
1980 - Morten Solem, Norwegian ski jumper
1980 - Sophie Winkleman, English actress
1981 – Carl Crawford, American baseball player
1981 – Erik Guay, Canadian skier
1981 - Cory Williams, American actor
1981 - Jesse Williams, American actor
1982 – LoLo Jones, American athlete
1982 - Michele Pazienza, Italian footballer
1982 - Ryu Seung-min, South Korean table tennis player
1983 - Dawn Richard, American singer
1983 - Kara Tointon, English actress
1984 - Helene Fischer, Russian-born German singer and television presenter
1985 – Salomon Kalou, footballer from Ivory Coast
1985 - Laurent Ciman, Belgian footballer
1987 - Lexi Belle, American pornographic actress
1987 - Genelia D'Souza, Indian actress
1988 – Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer
1988 - Michael Jamieson, Scottish swimmer
1989 - Ryan Bertrand, English footballer
1991 - Esteban Gutiérrez, Mexican Formula One racing driver
1991 - Andreas Weimann, Austrian footballer
1992 - Tray Walker, American football player (d. 2016)
1993 - Sverrir Ingi Ingason, Icelandic footballer
1995 - Kylian Hazard, Belgian footballer
1997 - Olivia Holt, American actress
1997 - Adam Irigoyen, American actor
1998 - Kanon Suzuki, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
Up to 1950 
642 - Oswald of Northumbria (b. 604)
882 - King Louis III of France (b. 863)
1063 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd (b. 1007)
1364 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313)
1579 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (b. 1504)
1633 - George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)
1729 - Thomas Newcomen, English engineer (b. 1664)
1792 – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1732).
1862 - Felix de Muelenaere, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1793)
1868 - Jacques Boucher de Crevecoeur de Perthes, French archaeologist (b. 1788)
1877 - Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Swedish royal (b. 1799)
1880 - Ferdinand von Hebra, Austrian physician (b. 1816)
1888 - Philip Sheridan, American general (b. 1831)
1895 – Friedrich Engels, German thinker who wrote about Communism with Karl Marx (b. 1820).
1901 – Victoria, Princess Royal, British princess and Empress of Germany (b. 1840).
1911 - Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (b. 1864)
1921 - Dimitrios Rallis, Greek politician (b. 1844)
1929 – Millicent Fawcett, British suffragette (b. 1847)
1933 - Charles Harold Davis, American painter (b. 1856)
1940 - Frederick Cook, American physician and explorer, claimed to be first at the North Pole (b. 1865).
1943 - Liane Berkowitz, German resistance activist (b. 1923)
1944 - Maurice Turnbull, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1906)
1946 – Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
1951  2000 
1955 – Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1909)
1957 – Heinrich Wieland, German biochemist (b. 1877)
1959 - Edgar Guest, English-American poet (b. 1881)
1960 – Arthur Meighen, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
1961 - Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1893)
1962 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress (b. 1926)
1963 - Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
1964 - Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1886)
1968 - Luther Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1928)
1978 - Jesse Haines, American baseball player (b. 1893)
1983 - Judy Canova, American actress (b. 1913)
1984 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (b. 1925)
1991 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese businessman (b. 1906)
1992 – Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1921)
1992 – Jeff Porcaro, American musician (b. 1954)
1998 – Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian dictator (b. 1911)
1998 - Otto Kretschmer, German U-boat commander (b. 1912)
2000 - Artur Erikson, Swedish singer and preacher (b. 1918)
From 2001 
2001 - Duong Van Minh, South Vietnamese politician and general (b. 1916)
2001 - Otema Allimadi, Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1929)
2002 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
2006 – Susan Butcher, American dogsledder (b. 1954)
2007 - Jean-Marie Lustiger, French cardinal (b. 1926)
2009 – Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
2010 – Godfrey Binaisa, former President of Uganda (b. 1920)
2011 - Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician (b. 1954)
2011 - Francesco Quinn, American actor (b. 1963)
2012 - Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1919)
2013 - George Duke, American keyboardist (b. 1946)
2014 - Marilyn Burns, American actress (b. 1949)
2014 - Scott Ciencin, American novelist (b. 1962)
2014 - Harold J. Greene, American general  (b. 1959)
2014 - Chapman Pincher, English journalist (b. 1914)
2014 - Yoshiki Sasai, Japanese biologist (b. 1962)
2014 - Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, 11th Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1927)
2014 - Vladimir Orlov, Russian writer (b. 1936)
2014 - Dmitri Anosov, Russian mathematician (b. 1936)
2014 - Elfriede Brüning, German writer (b. 1910)
2015 - George Cole, English actor (b. 1925)
2015 - Ellen Vogel, Dutch actress (b. 1922)
2016 - Alphons Egli, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1924)
2017 - Irina Berezhna, Ukrainian politician (b. 1980)
2017 - Bruno Canfora, Italian composer, conductor and jazz musician (b. 1929)
2017 - Dionigi Tettamanzi, Italian cardinal (b. 1934)
2017 - Mark White, American politician, 43rd Governor of Texas (b. 1940)
2017 - Ernst Zündel, German publisher and Holocaust denier (b. 1939)
2017 - Hélène Martini, French night club owner (b. 1924)
2017 - George Bundy Smith, American lawyer, civil rights activist and judge (b. 1937)
2018 - Barry Chuckle, English entertainer (b. 1944)
2018 - Robert Dugard, English speedway rider (b. 1942)
2018 - Ellen Joyce Loo, Canadian-Hong Kong singer-songwriter (b. 1986)
2018 - Alan Rabinowitz, American zoologist (b. 1953)
2018 - Charlotte Rae, American actress (b. 1926)
2018 - Piotr Szulkin, Polish film director (b. 1950)
2019 - Josef Kadraba, Czech footballer (b. 1933)
2019 - Bjorg Lambrecht, Belgian cyclist (b. 1997)
2019 - Asif Mohseni, Afghan religious leader (b. 1935)
2019 - Toni Morrison, American writer (b. 1931)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Burkina Faso)
 Victory Day (Croatia)
 International Beer Day

August 05
Up to 1900 
 364 – Roman Emperor Jovian dies under suspicious circumstances, after a short reign of eight months.
 1164 – A major flood on what is now Germany's North Sea coast, kills 20,000 people.
 1370 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
 1400 - The body of Richard II of England is put on display at the Old St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
 1600 - Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned to death for heresy in Rome.
 1621 - Myles Standish is appointed as the first commander of Plymouth Colony.
 1753 – Sweden changes from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. February 17 is followed by March 1.
 1801 – The United States House of Representatives chooses Thomas Jefferson to become the next President of the United States.
 1854 – The United Kingdom recognises the independent Orange Free State.
 1863 - A group of citizens from Geneva founds the International Committee for Relief of the Wounded, which later becomes the International Red Cross.
1864 - American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic.
 1865 - American Civil War: Union troops capture Columbia, South Carolina. As this state is particularly seen as responsible for starting the war, the city is virtually flattened.
 1867 – Gyula Andrassy is declared Prime Minister of Hungary after the creation of the co-operative monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
 1871 – The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris after the end of the Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War.
 1900 - Wilhelm II of Germany declares the Western Samoan Islands a "German Protectorate".
1901  2000 
 1904 – Madame Butterfly premieres at La Scala opera house in Milan.
 1913 - The Armory Art Show begin in New York City, showing works by artists who become influential later in the 20th century.
 1917 – The French troop transporter Athos is sunk, killing 754 people.
 1924 – Johnny Weissmuller sets a world record in the 100-metre freestyle swimming.
 1933 – Newsweek magazine is published for the first time.
 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins, ending in an American victory over Japanese forces on February 22.
 1949 - Chaim Weizmann becomes President of Israel.
 1959 - Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite, is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
 1962 - Parts of northern Germany are severely flooded in the night from February 16, causing 300 deaths in the city of Hamburg alone.
 1964 - President of Gabon Leon M'ba is removed from office in a coup by his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame. M'ba is reinstated by France the next day.
1965 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 space probe is launched to the "Sea of Tranquility" on the Moon.
 1968 – In Springfield, Massachusetts, the James Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
 1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon visits China.
 1979 – The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
 1980 – Krzyzstof Wielicki and Leszek Clichy becomes the first people to reach the top of Mount Everest during the winter season.
 1992 – American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is sentenced to life imprisonment.
 1993 - The Neptune ferry sinks off Haiti. It is not known exactly how many people were killed, though it is thought to have been at least 1,500.
 1995 – The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador is ended by a United Nations ceasefire.
 1996 - An earthquake of magnitude 8.2 strikes Irian Jaya, the Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea, killing 166 people.
 1996 – The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft is launched to the asteroid 433 Eros.
1996 – After being defeated in a game of chess on February 10, Garry Kasparov wins a six-match series 4-2 against the computer Deep Blue.
 1998 – Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Armenian troops kill between 70 and 90 Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Qaradagli.
From 2001 
 2003 – London's Congestion charging system begins.
 2006 – A massive mudslide in Southern Leyte, Philippines, kills 1,126 people.
 2008 – Kosovo declares independence from Serbia. However, Serbia does not recognise Kosovo as an independent state, and its status is still in dispute as of 2014.
 2011 – Bahraini security forces launch a pre-dawn raid on protesters at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama.
 2011 – Protests begin in Libya against Muammar al-Gaddafi. Soon after, Libya enters into a state of civil war between pro- and anti-Gaddafi fighters. Gaddafi is killed in October.
 2012 – President of Germany Christian Wulff resigns over a home-loan scandal, becoming the shortest-serving President ever of the Federal Republic of Germany. Horst Seehofer becomes interim-President until a successor can be found. Joachim Gauck becomes President just over a month later.
 2014 - A building collapse in Geongju, South Korea, kills at least 10 people, most of them students.

Births
Up to 1800 
 624 - Wu Zetian, Chinese Empress of the Zhou Dynasty (d. 705)
 1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
 1490 - Charles III, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1527)
 1519 – Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563)
 1524 - Charles of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1574)
 1581 - Fausto Poli, Italian cardinal (d. 1653)
 1653 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (d. 1713)
 1699 – Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Prussian soldier, painter and architect (d. 1753)
 1718 - Matthew Tilgh, American Continental Congressman (d. 1790)
 1723 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (d. 1762)
 1740 - John Sullivan, American general, politician and Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1795)
 1752 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (d. 1831)
 1754 - Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803)
 1781 – René Laennec, French physician (d. 1826)
 1782 – Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy, Russian aristocrat (d. 1846)
 1792 - Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876)
1796 – Giovanni Pacini, Italian opera composer (d. 1867)
 1796 – Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (d. 1886)
1801  1900 
 1817 - Edouard Thilges, 7th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1904)
 1820 - Elzear-Alexandre Taschereau, French cardinal (d. 1898)
 1820 - Henri Vieutemps, Belgian composer (d. 1881)
 1821 – Lola Montez, Irish dancer (d. 1861)
 1836 - Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Spanish poet (d. 1870)
 1848 - Louisa Lawson, Australian writer and feminist (d. 1920)
 1848 – Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner (d. 1920)
 1854 – Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1902)
 1861 – Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (d. 1922)
 1862 – Mori Ogai, Japanese novelist and poet (d. 1922)
 1862 - Eugen Schmidt, Danish athlete (d. 1931)
 1863 - Fyodor Sologub, Russian writer (d. 1927)
 1864 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (d. 1941)
 1866 - Henry Hollis Horton, 40th Governor of Tennessee (d. 1934)
 1877 - Isidora Sekulic, Serbian writer (d. 1958)
 1877 - Andre Maginot, French politician (d. 1932)
 1885 – Romano Guardini, German theologian (d. 1968)
 1887 - Joseph Bech, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1975)
1888 – Otto Stern, German physicist (d. 1969)
 1890 - Ronald Fisher, English statistician, biologist and geneticist (d. 1962)
 1891 – Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician (d. 1965)
 1892 - Marjorie Fielding, British actress (d. 1956)
 1893 - Wally Pipp, American baseball player (d. 1965)
 1894 - Hendrik Kramers, Dutch physicist (d. 1952)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Philotheus Boehner, German monk and medieval scholar (d. 1955)
 1903 - Sadeq Hedayat, Iranian writer (d. 1951)
 1904 – Hans Morgenthau, German political philosopher (d. 1980)
 1908 - Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (d. 2005)
 1908 - Jacobus van Egmond, Dutch cyclist (d. 1969)
 1910 - Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (d. 1979)
 1916 – Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and England rugby player (d. 1940)
 1917 – Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher (d. 2002)
 1917 – Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, Mexican inventor (d. 1965)
 1918 - Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Prime Minister of Ukraine (d. 1990)
 1919 – Kathleen Freeman, American actress (d. 2001)
 1920 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated movie director (d. 2001)
 1920 - Annie Glenn, American activist (d. 2020)
 1923 - Buddy DeFranco, American jazz musician (d. 2014)
 1923 - John M. Allegro, English archaeologist and author (d. 1988)
 1923 - Alden W. Clausen, American banker (d. 2013)
 1924 – Margaret Truman, American writer (d. 2008)
1925 - Hal Holbrook, American actor
 1925 - Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor
 1927 – Juan Almeida Bosque, Cuban Communist revolutionary (d. 2009)
 1929 - Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chilean writer
 1929 – Patricia Routledge, British actress
 1930 – Ruth Rendell, British writer (d. 2015)
 1931 - Buddy Ryan, American football coach (d. 2016)
 1931 - Jirina Jiraskova, Czech actress (d. 2013)
 1933 - Craig L. Thomas, American politician (d. 2007)
 1933 - Larry Jennings, American magician (d. 1997)
 1934 – Barry Humphries, Australian actor and comedian
 1934 – Alan Bates, British actor (d. 2003)
 1935 - Christina Pickles, British actress
 1937 – Willi Koslowski, German footballer
 1937 - Rita Süssmuth, German politician
 1937 - Mary Ann Mobley, American actress and beauty queen (d. 2014)
 1939 - Clement Richard, Canadian businessman and politician
 1940 – Gene Pitney, American singer (d. 2006)
 1941 - Julia McKenzie, English actress and theatre director
1942 – Huey Newton, American political activist (d. 1989)
 1943 - Costas Azariadis, Greek economist
 1944 – Bruce Fogle, Canadian-born British veterinarian and writer
 1944 - Karl Jenkins, Welsh saxophonist, keyboardist and composer
 1945 - Brenda Fricker, Irish actress
 1946 - André Dussollier, French actor
 1948 - Rick Majerus, American basketball player
 1948 - Don Scardino, American television director and actor
 1948 - José José, Mexican singer-songwriter, producer and actor
 1949 - Fred Frith, English musician and composer
 1949 - Dennis Green, American football coach (d. 2016)
 1950 - Rickey Medlocke, American guitarist
 1950 - Graham Stringer, English politician