Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
2015 - Luiz Henrique da Silveira, Brazilian politician (b. 1940)
 2015 - Kim Kyok-sik, North Korean military officer (b. 1938)
 2015 - Chris Burden, American artist (b. 1946)
 2016 - Louis van Gasteren, Dutch movie director (b. 1922)
 2016 - Ilkka Hanski, Finnish ecologist (b. 1953)
 2016 - Kang Young-hoon, Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1922)
 2016 - Riki Sorsa, Finnish singer (b. 1952)
 2016 - Gene Gutowski, American film producer (b. 1925)
 2016 - Mark Lane, American lawyer and author (b. 1927)
 2017 - Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor (b. 1924)
 2017 - Greg Forristall, American politician (b. 1950)
 2017 - Nelson Xavier, Brazilian actor (b. 1941)
 2017 - Silvano Basagni, Italian sport shooter (b. 1938)
 2017 - Emmanuèle Bernheim, French author and screenwriter (b. 1955)
 2017 - Ted Hibberd, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
 2018 - David Goodall, English-Australian botanist (b. 1914)
 2018 - Alfonso Lovo Cordero, Nicaraguan politician (b. 1927)
 2018 - Evgeni Vasiukov, Russian chess player (b. 1933)
2018 - Ken Hodgkisson, English footballer (b. 1933)
 2018 - Kevin Kamenetz, American politician (b. 1957)
 2018 - Graham Lovett, English footballer (b. 1947)
 2018 - Adam Parfrey, American novelist, editor and publisher (b. 1957)
 2019 - Frederick Brownell, South African vexillologist (b. 1940)
 2019 - Hector Busby, New Zealand Maori navigator (b. 1932)
 2019 - Bert Cooper, American boxer (b. 1966)
 2019 - Gordon Neate, English footballer (b. 1941)
 2019 - Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician (b. 1951)
 2019 - Paul-Werner Scheele, German Roman Catholic theologian and bishop (b. 1928)
 2019 - Dick Tomey, American football coach (b. 1938)
Observances 
 Confederate Memorial Day (North Carolina and South Carolina)
 Constitution Day (Federated States of Micronesia)
 Mother's Day (El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico)
 Western Christianity: Earliest day on which Pentecost can fall

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 330 – Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
 868 - A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest-known dated printed book.
 1502 – Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.
 1647 - Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.
 1672 - Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
 1745 – War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army.
 1792 – Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented Caucasian to visit the Columbia River.
 1812 – British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is shot and killed by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
1813 - In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory B. Laxland and William Wentworth lead an expedition westward from Sydney.
 1818 – Charles XIV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
 1820 - The HMS Beagle has its official launch. Later, one of its most famous passengers would be Charles Darwin.
 1846 - President of the United States James K. Polk asks for a declaration of war against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War.
 1857 – Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
 1858 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
 1862 – American Civil War: The ironclad CSS Virginia is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia.
 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Yellow Tavern – Confederate General JEB Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, Virginia.
 1867 – Luxembourg gains its independence.
 1880 - Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough tragedy, a gun battle in California.
 1892 – Johan Petter Johansson of Sweden is granted a patent for the Monkey wrench.
1901  2000 
 1907 - 32 Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in California.
 1910 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
 1911 – The United States becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
 1918 - The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is created.
 1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
 1928 – The first analog TV service is inaugurated by WGY, Schenectady, New York.
 1934 – Dust Bowl: A strong two-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl in North America.
 1942 – William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
 1943 – World War II: American troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
 1944 – World War II: The Allies start a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line.
 1949 – Siam changes its name to Thailand.
1949 – Israel joins the United Nations.
 1953 – The Waco Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
 1960 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann, living under the assumed name Ricardo Klement.
 1960 – The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market.
 1967 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and socialist, is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta.
 1969 – Vietnam War: Operation Apache Snow – Near the Laos border, American and South Vietnamese forces fight North Vietnamese troops for Ap Bia Mountain (aka Hill 937 or "Hamburger Hill").
 1970 – Henry "Dickie" Marrow" is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, N.C..
 1970 – The Lubbock Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, killing 26.
 1973 – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times dismissed.
1974 – An earthquake in Sichuan and Yunnan in China kills 20,000 people.
 1976 – The last episode of the TV medical drama Marcus Welby, M.D. is aired.
 1983 - Aberdeen F.C. defeats Real Madrid 2-1 to win the European Cup Winners' Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden.
 1984 – A transit of Earth from Mars takes place; no one is there to observe it.
 1985 – 56 spectators die when a flash fire strikes a football ground during a match in Bradford, England.
 1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
 1987 – The first heart-lung transplant takes place (Baltimore, Maryland).
 1995 – In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
 1996 – On what was until that point the deadliest day on Mt. Everest, 8 climbers are killed in a snowstorm.
1996 – After taking-off from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.
 1997 – IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player.
 1998 – Nuclear testing: In the Rajasthan Desert, India conducts its first underground nuclear tests violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and inflaming its rival neighbor Pakistan (who already has nuclear weapons).
 1998 – ZDTV, "the official technology television network", starts broadcasting. It lasted six years until the G4techTV Merger and it turned into a gaming channel.
 2000 – India announces that it's reached the population of 1 billion.
From 2001 
 2003 – Rafael Palmeiro becomes the 19th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at The Ballpark in Arlington, Texas.
 2004 – The Stockline Plastics factory explosion in Glasgow kills nine people.
 2005 – The eleventh edition of the International Trade Fair KOSOVA opens in Gjakova, Kosovo.
 2010 – David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
 2011 – Two earthquakes in southern Spain kill at least 10 people.
 2013 - Over 40 people are killed in a bomb attack in Turkey's Hatay province, near the Syrian border.
 2013 - A parliamentary election is held in Pakistan, with a record voter turnout. This leads to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returning as Prime Minister on June 5.
 2013 - Wigan Athletic F.C. wins its first FA Cup after a surprise win over Manchester City in the final, as the first surprise result in the final for a number of years.
 2015 - Pablo Picasso's Women of Algiers becomes the most expensive painting to sell at auction, being bought for $179.3 million.
2016 - Italy legalizes same-sex civil partnerships.
 2016 - A series of bomb attacks in Baghdad kills around 90 people.
 2016 - President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff is impeached.
Up to 1900 
 478 – Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor (d. 565)
 1366 - Anne of Bohemia, Queen Consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394)
 1568 - Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (d. 1630)
 1571 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyo and retainer (d. 1637)
 1715 – Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, son of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1739)
 1720 – Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, officer and adventurer (d. 1797)
 1722 - Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (d. 1789)
 1733 - Princess Victoire of France (d. 1799)
 1752 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)
 1763 – János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (d. 1845)
 1801 – Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875)
 1811 – Chang and Eng Bunker, famous Siamese twins (d. 1874)
 1811 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (d. 1951)
 1815 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, British statesman (d. 1891)
 1817 - Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1909)
 1827 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)
1835 – Karlis Baumanis, Latvian composer and poet (d. 1905)
 1852 – Charles W. Fairbanks, 26th Vice President of the United States (d. 1918)
 1854 - Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (d. 1932)
 1855 - Anatoly Lyadov, Russian composer (d. 1914)
 1862 - Franklin S. Billings, Governor of Vermont (d. 1935)
 1871 – Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (d. 1928)
 1874 – Einar Jonsson, Icelandic sculptor (d. 1954)
 1875 – Harriet Quimby, American pilot (d. 1912)
 1881 – Al Cabrera, Spanish-born Cuban baseball player (d. 1964)
 1881 - Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944)
 1885 – Joe "King" Oliver, American cornet player and bandleader (d. 1938)
 1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (d. 1961)
 1888 – Irving Berlin, Russian-American composer (d. 1989)
 1890 - Woodall Rodgers, American attorney, businessman and politician (d. 1961)
 1891 – Henry Morgenthau, American politician (d. 1967)
 1892 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress (d. 1972)
1894 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)
 1895 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (d. 1986)
 1896 – Josip Štolcer-Slavenski Croatian composer (d. 1955)
 1897 – Kurt Gerron German movie director (d. 1944)
 1897 - George Murdock, American anthropologist (d. 1985)
 1899 - Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (d. 1963)
 1900 - Pridi Phanomyong, Prime Minister of Siam (d. 1983)
1901  1950 
 1903 – Charlie Gehringer, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1993)
 1904 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (d. 1989)
 1907 – Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988)
 1907 - Rip Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1989)
 1911 – Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985)
 1912 – Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani short story writer of the Urdu language (d. 1955)
 1912 – Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (d. 2001)
 1913 – Robert Jungk, Austrian publicist (d. 1994)
 1914 - Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist (d. 1998)
 1916 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer (d. 2002)
 1918 – Richard Feynman, American physicist (d. 1988)
 1921 – Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician (d. 2016)
 1924 – Antony Hewish, British radio astronomer
 1924 - Eugene Dynkin, Russian-born American mathematician (d. 2014)
 1924 - Jackie Milburn, English footballer (d. 1988)
 1925 – Max Morlock, German footballer (d. 1994)
 1925 – Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006)
1927 – Mort Sahl, Canadian comedian and political commentator
 1927 - Bernard Fox, Welsh-American actor (d. 2016)
 1927 - Gene Savoy, American explorer, writer and scholar (d. 2007)
 1928 – Marco Ferreri, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1997)
 1930 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
 1930 – William P. Carey, American investment banker and philanthropist (d. 2012)
 1932 - Mustafa Tlass, Syrian military officer and politician (d. 2017)
 1932 - John Vasconcellos, American politician (d. 2014)
 1932 - Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer
 1933 – Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader
 1934 - Jim Jeffords, American politician, United States Senator from Vermont (d. 2014)
 1935 - Dick Leitsch, American LGBT rights activist (d. 2018)
 1936 - Tony Barrow, British press officer (d. 2016)
 1936 – Carla Bley, American musician and composer
 1939 - Frank Quilici, American baseball player (d. 2018)
 1940 – Juan Downey, Chilean video artist (d. 1993)
1941 – Graham Miles, English snooker player
 1941 - Ian Redpath, Australian cricketer
 1943 – Les Chadwick, English musician (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
 1945 - Floyd Adams, Jr., American politician (d. 2014)
 1946 – Robert Jarvik, American physicist and inventor
 1947 - Butch Trucks, American musician
 1948 – Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese folk musician
 1950 – Jeremy Paxman, British journalist and writer
 1950 - John F. Kelly, 28th White House Chief of Staff
 1950 - Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (d. 2014)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Ed Stelmach, Canadian politician, former Premier of Alberta
 1951 - Johnny Doyle, Scottish footballer (d. 1981)
 1952 – Renaud Séchan, French composer
 1952 – Mike Lupica, sports journalist
 1952 – Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian actress
 1952 – Frances Fisher, British-American actress
 1953 – Boyd Gaines, actor
 1953 – David Gest, American television producer (d. 2016)
 1956 – Theresa Burke, Canadian journalist
 1956 – Alex Lester, British broadcaster
 1957 - Peter North, Canadian pornographic actor, director, producer and dancer
 1958 - Peter Antonie, Australian rower
 1959 - Silvio Barbato, Italian-Brazilian opera conductor and composer (d. 2009)
 1959 – Martha Quinn, American television personality
 1960 - Jürgen Schult, German athlete 
 1963 - Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish politician
 1963 - Masatoshi Hamada, Japanese comedian
 1963 – Natasha Richardson, English actress (d. 2009)
 1964 – John Parrott, English snooker player
 1965 – Stefano Domenicali, Italian Formula One team principal
1966 – Christoph Schneider, German drummer (Rammstein)
 1966 – Nancy Hower, American actress, sceenwriter, director, and producer
 1968 - Jeffrey Donovan, American actor
 1968 - Ana Jara, Peruvian lawyer and politician, former Prime Minister of Peru
 1973 - James Haven, American actor
 1973 - Tsuyoshi Ogata, Japanese marathon runner
 1974 - DJ Zany, Dutch DJ
 1975 - Coby Bell, American actor and producer
From 1976 
 1977 – Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper
 1977 - Victor Matfield, South African rugby player
 1978 – Laetitia Casta, French model and actress
 1978 - Perttu Kivilaakso, Finnish cellist and composer (Apocalyptica)
 1979 – Gonzalo Colsa, Spanish footballer
 1979 - Tim Baillie, Scottish slalom canoeist
 1980 – Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa, Icelandic footballer
 1980 - Ernest Vardanean, Armenian-Moldovan political scientist and journalist
 1981 – Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player
 1982 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and musician (d. 2013)
 1982 – Jonathan Jackson, actor
 1983 – Matt Leinart, American football player
 1983 – Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer
 1983 - Steven Sotloff, American journalist (d. 2014)
 1984 – Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer
 1984 - Arttu Lappi, Finnish ski jumper
 1986 – Abou Diaby, French footballer
 1988 - Ace Hood, American rapper
 1988 - Marcel Kittel, German cyclist
 1988 - Brad Marchand, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 - Severin Freund, German ski jumper
 1989 – Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer
 1989 - Prince Royce, American singer and songwriter
 1989 - Cam Newton, American football player
 1991 - Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh, Iranian footballer
 1992 - Thibaut Courtois, Belgian footballer
 1993 - Jirapong Meenapra, Thai sprinter
 1993 - Maurice Harkless, American basketball player
 1994 - Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopian long-distance runner
 1995 - Yassi Pressman, Filipina actress and dancer
 1999 - Sabrina Carpenter, American actress and singer
 1999 - Madison Lintz, American actress
Up to 1975 
 912 – Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (b. 866)
 1304 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)
 1610 - Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (b. 1552)
 1642 – Safi of Persia (b. 1611)
 1686 - Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (b. 1602)
 1760 – Alaungpaya, Burmese ruler (b. 1714)
 1778 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1708)
 1812 – Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1762).
 1848 - Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)
 1849 – Otto Nicolai, German composer (b. 1810)
 1871 – John Herschel, British mathematician and astronomer (b. 1792)
 1883 - Julie Drouet, French actress (b. 1806)
 1887 - Ion Keith-Falconer, Scottish missionary (b. 1856)
 1889 - John Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1801)
 1891 – A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)
 1915 - Arthur Hussey, American golfer (b. 1882)
 1916 - Max Reger, German pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1873)
 1916 - Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
1927 – Juan Gris, Spanish Cubist painter (b. 1887)
 1929 - Jozef Murgas, Slovakian inventor, architect, botanist, painter, patriot and priest (b. 1864)
 1934 - Blaise Diagne, Senegalese politician (b. 1872)
 1937 - Afonso Costa, Portuguese politician (b. 1871)
 1952 - Alessio Ascalesi, Italian cardinal (b. 1872)
 1955 - Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
 1956 - Walter Sydney Adams, American astronomer (b. 1876)
 1960 – John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1874)
 1962 - Hans Luther, Chancellor of Germany in the Weimar Republic (b. 1879)
 1963 – Herbert Gasser, American doctor, won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1888)
 1966 - Henry S. Caulfield, 31st Governor of Missouri (b. 1873)
 1971 - Seán Lamass, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1902)
 1973 - Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
1976  2010 
 1976 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898)
 1981 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist (b. 1897)
 1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae musician (b. 1945)
 1984 – Toni Turek, German footballer (b. 1919)
 1986 - Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl worker (b. 1953)
 1988 – Kim Philby, British agent and spy (b. 1912)
 1994 - Timothy Carey, American actor (b. 1928)
 1996 - Yasuko Namba, Japanese mountaineer (b. 1949)
 1996 – Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)
 1996 – Nnamdi Azikiwe, first President of Nigeria (b. 1904)
 1996 - Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (b. 1961)
 1998 – Ernst Ising, German mathematician (b. 1900)
 2000 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)
 2001 – Douglas Adams, English writer (b. 1952)
 2002 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian mob boss (b. 1905)
 2002 - Bill Peet, American screenwriter and animator (b. 1915)
 2003 – Noel Redding, English musician (b. 1945)
 2006 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
2007 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan Head of State (b. 1913)
 2008 – Bruno Neves, Portuguese cyclist (b. 1981)
From 2011 
 2011 - Maurice Goldhaber, physicist (b. 1911)
 2014 - Francisco Sobrino, Mexican-Spanish sculptor (b. 1932)
 2014 - Barbara Knudson, American actress (b. 1927)
 2014 - Reg Gasnier, Australian rugby league player (b. 1939)
 2015 - Jef Geeraerts, Belgian writer (b. 1930)
 2015 - Stan Cornyn, American record label executive (b. 1933)
 2015 - John Hewie, South African-Scottish footballer (b. 1927)
 2015 - John Watts, Grenadian politician (b. 1921)
 2016 - Motiur Rahman Nizami, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1943)
 2016 - Peter Behrens, German musician (b. 1947)
 2016 - Tony Cozier, Barbadian cricket writer and commentator (b. 1940)
 2016 - Katherine Dunn, American writer (b. 1945)
 2016 - Michael Ratner, American lawyer (b. 1943)
 2016 - Joe Temperley, Scottish saxophonist (b. 1929)
 2017 - Gabriel Chiramel, Indian Roman Catholic priest, educator, zoologist and writer (b. 1914)
 2017 - Mark Colvin, British-born Australian journalist and radio presenter (b. 1952)
2017 - Clelio Darida, Italian politician, former Mayor of Rome (b. 1927)
 2018 - Mikhail Alperin, Ukrainian-Norwegian jazz pianist (b. 1956)
 2018 - Gérard Genette, French literary theorist (b. 1930)
 2018 - Hugo Guerra, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1966)
 2018 - Peter Mayer, British-American publisher (b. 1936)
 2018 - Bengt Nilsson, Swedish high jumper (b. 1934)
 2018 - Ulla Sallert, Swedish actress (b. 1923)
 2019 - Gianni De Michelis, Italian politician (b. 1940)
 2019 - Silver King, Mexican wrestler and actor (b. 1968)
 2019 - Peggy Lipton, American actress and model (b. 1946)
 2019 - Pua Magasiva, New Zealand actor (b. 1980)
 2019 - Jon Gittens, English footballer (b. 1964)
 2019 - Robert D. Maxwell, American colonel (b. 1920)
 2019 - Thomas Silverstein, American murderer (b. 1952)
Observances 
 National Technology Day (India)
 Statehood Day (Minnesota)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
 1483 – Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable").
 1509 – Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.
 1607 – The settlement of Jamestown, Virginia is founded.
 1608 - The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen, Bavaria.
 1610 - King Henry IV of France is murdered, leaving the throne to his son, King Louis XIII of France, who dies exactly 33 years later, on the same date.
 1643 – Four year-old Louix XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. Louis XIV's reign would become the longest in European history, lasting until 1715.
 1747 – A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
 1787 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new Constitution for the United States.
1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
 1811 – Paraguay gains independence from Spain.
 1858 – As one of three explorers, John McDouall Stuart starts a journey that crosses Australia.
 1861 – The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.
 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Jackson.
 1868 - Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikko.
 1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
 1879 - The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji.
 1889 – The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London.
 1894 - In Blackpool, Lancashire, England, the Blackpool Tower is opened to the public.
1897 - Stars and Stripes Forever id first performed in public near Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 1900 – The 1900 Summer Olympics open in Paris.
1901  2000 
 1901 - In Adalen, Sweden, five people are killed as soldiers fire on a trade union demonstration.
 1913 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
 1914 – The Hellenic Holocaust starts, according to an official document from Talaat Bey (Minister of the Interior) to the prefect of Smyrna.
 1927 – Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg.
 1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
 1930 - The Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico become a National Park.
 1935 – The Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.
 1939 – Lina Medina, from Peru, becomes the world's youngest alleged mother in medical history at the age of five.
 1940 – World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
 1940 – World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany.
1943 - World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks the ship AMS Centaur off Queensland, Australia.
 1948 – Israel declares itself to be an independent state and a provisional government is established.
 1948 – The murder of a three-year-old girl in Blackburn, northern England, leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city in an attempt to find the murderer.
 1955 – Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union sign a mutual defence treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
 1955 - The United States carries out Operation Wigwam - atomic bomb tests around 900 kilometers southwest of San Diego, California in the Pacific Ocean.
 1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.
 1963 - Kuwait joins the UN.
 1970 – The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
 1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket.
1988 - Carrollton Bus Collision: A drunk driver travelling the wrong way on the Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. 27 people die in the resulting crash and fire.
 1989 - Carlos Menem is elected President of Argentina.
 1995 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
 1998 – After nine years on the air, the series finale of the television sitcom Seinfeld is aired on NBC.
From 2001 
 2004 – The marriage of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and Mary Donaldson takes place in Copenhagen.
 2004 – Piers Morgan is fired as editor of the Daily Mirror, when photographs that had been published in the newspaper of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers were proved to be fake.
 2004 – Insurgents or terrorists in Iraq detonate a 155 mm shell containing several liters of binary precursors for sarin. The shell was designed to mix the chemicals as it spun during flight and the explosion failed to mix them properly. Although it only resulted in a small release of sarin, two U.S. soldiers are treated for exposure after displaying the early symptoms.
 2005 – Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood.
 2005 – Nintendo opens up its first retail store, Nintendo World, in Rockefeller Center in New York City. They celebrated the grand opening with a block party in Rockefeller Plaza.
2006 - The final episode of US sitcom Malcolm in the Middle is broadcast.
 2011 – Ell and Nikki of Azerbaijan win the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
 2012 - Agni Air Flight CHT crashes near the airport in Jamsom, Nepal, after a failed turnaround, killing 15 people.
 2013 - President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in the Northeastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa due to the terrorist activities of Boko Haram.
 2013 - Brazil effectively legalizes same-sex marriage.
 2016 - Crimean-Tatar artist Jamala wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 for Ukraine with the ballad 1944, in Stockholm. Dami Im (Australia) and Sergey Lazarev (Russia) finish second and third respectively.
 2017 - Emmanuel Macron takes office as the youngest-ever President of France, at the age of 39.
2017 - An election in Germany's most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia results in the SPD-Green Party coalition under Hannelore Kraft losing its majority. The CDU under Armin Laschet makes significant gains.
 2018 - Israeli troops kill 58 Palestinian protesters on the same day the Israel's new United States Embassy is opened in Jerusalem to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the declaration of the State of Israel.
Up to 1800 
 1265 – Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (d. 1321)
 1316 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378)
 1414 - Francis I, Duke of Bretagne (d. 1450)
 1553 – Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615)
 1574 - Francesco Rasi, Italian composer, singer, musician and poet (d. 1621)
 1630 - Katakura Kagenaga, Japanese samurai (d. 1681)
 1657 - Sambhaji, Indian emperor (d. 1689)
 1666 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
 1699 – Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
 1700 - Mary Delany, English artist and letter writer (d. 1788)
 1701 – William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)
 1710 – King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771)
 1725 – Ludovico Manin, last Doge of Venice (d. 1802)
 1727 – Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (d. 1788)
 1737 - George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, British statesman and diplomat (d. 1806)
 1759 - Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1805)
 1761 - Samuel Dexter, American politician (d. 1816)
 1771 – Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)
1771 - Thomas Wedgwood, British photography pioneer (d. 1805)
 1781 – Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian (d. 1873)
1801  1900 
 1814 – Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)
 1817 – Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893)
 1832 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903)
 1836 - Wilhelm Steinitz, German chess player (d. 1900)
 1850 - Alva Adams, Governor of Colorado (d. 1922)
 1852 - Alton B. Parker, American politician (d. 1926)
 1867 – Kurt Eisner, German politician (d. 1919)
 1868 - Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (d. 1935)
 1869 - Concha Espina, Spanish writer (d. 1955)
 1872 – Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinal (d. 1961)
 1874 - Polaire, French singer and actress (d. 1939)
 1878 – James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
 1880 – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971)
 1881 – G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
 1885 – Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (d. 1973)
 1885 - Nikolai Krylenko, Russian revolutionary and politician (d. 1938)
 1893 - Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)
1897 – Sidney Bechet, American jazz musician (d. 1959)
 1897 - Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)
 1899 – Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
 1899 - Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976)
 1900 - Hal Borland, American writer (d. 1978)
 1900 - Walter Rehberg, Swiss pianist, composer and writer (d. 1957)
 1900 - Leo Smit, Dutch composer (d. 1943)
1901  1950 
 1904 - Hans Albert Einstein, Swiss-American engineer and educator, son of Albert Einstein (d. 1973)
 1905 - Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet-Ukrainian politician (d. 1997)
 1905 – Jean Daniélou, French cardinal (d. 1974)
 1906 – Hastings Banda, 1st President of Malawi (d. 1996)
 1907 – Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
 1907 – Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat, member of the European Commission (d. 2005)
 1909 - Godfrey Rampling, British sprinter (d. 2009)
 1916 – Del Moore, American comedian (d. 1970)
 1917 – Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)
 1919 – John Hope, American meteorologist (d. 2002)
 1921 – Richard Deacon, American actor (d. 1984)
 1922 - Sinan Hasani, President of Yugoslavia (d. 2010)
 1922 – Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (d. 1999)
 1923 – Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician
 1923 - Mrinal Sen, Indian director, screenwriter and producer
 1925 – Patrice Munsel, American opera soprano (d. 2016)
 1925 - Oona O'Neill, wife of Charlie Chaplin (d. 1991)
1925 - François Maistre, French actor (d. 2016)
 1926 – Eric Morecambe, British comedian (d. 1984)
 1927 – Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer
 1928 - Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch scientist, inventor and engineer (d. 2015)
 1929 - Barbara Branden, Canadian writer (d. 2013)
 1929 – Henry McGee, British actor (d. 2006)
 1929 – Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
 1931 – Alvin Lucier, American composer
 1933 – Michael Chevalier, German voice actor
 1934 – Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
 1934 - Eric Caldow, Scottish footballer (d. 2019)
 1936 – Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)
 1936 - Waheeda Rehman, Indian actress
 1938 - Clive Rowlands, Welsh rugby player and coach
 1939 - Rupert Neudeck, German journalist and humanitarian (d. 2016)
 1939 – Troy Shondell, American singer (d. 2016)
 1941 - Ada den Haan, Dutch swimmer
 1942 - Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green, British politician (d. 2014)
 1942 – Valeriy Brumel, Soviet athlete (d. 2003)
1943 - Derek Leckenberg, English guitarist (d. 1994)
 1943 - Jack Bruce, Scottish musician (d. 2014)
 1943 – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, 5th President of Iceland
 1944 – George Lucas, American movie director
 1944 - Francesca Annis, British actress
 1945 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician (d. 2010)
 1945 – Yochanan Vollach, former Israeli football player and current president of the Maccabi Haifa association
 1946 – Eric Peterson, Canadian actor
 1946 - Elmar Brok, German politician
 1947 – Tamara Dobson, American actress (d. 2006)
 1948 – Bob Woolmer, English cricket player and coach (d. 2007)
 1949 – Klaus-Peter Thaler, German cyclist
 1949 - Walter Day, American game designer and businessman
 1950 – Adolfo Dominguez, Spanish fashion designer
 1950 - Jill Stein, American physician and politician
1951  1975 
 1952 – David Byrne, Scottish-American musician (Talking Heads)
 1952 - Michael Fallon, British politician
 1952 – Robert Zemeckis, American movie director
 1952 - Donald R. McMonagle, American colonel, pilot and astronaut
 1953 – Tom Cochrane, Canadian musician (Red Rider)
 1953 – Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
 1953 - Hywel Williams, Welsh politician
 1954 – Jens Sparschuh, German writer
 1955 – Dennis Martínez, Nicaraguan baseball player
 1955 - Big Van Vader, American professional wrestler (d. 2018)
 1956 - Hazel Blears, British politician
 1957 – Leon White, American professional wrestler
 1959 – Patrick Bruel, French singer
 1959 - Markus Büchel, Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (d. 2013) 
 1960 – Anne Clark, English singer
 1960 - Simonetta Sommaruga, Swiss Federal Councillor
 1961 – Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
 1961 - Ian Blackford, Scottish politician
 1961 – Tim Roth, English actor
 1962 - Ferran Adria, Spanish chef and restaurateur
1962 – C.C. DeVille, American musician (Poison)
 1963 - David Yelland, English journalist and broadcaster
 1964 - Néstor Gorosito, Argentine footballer
 1964 - James M. Kelly, American astronaut
 1964 - Rosen Plevneliev, former President of Bulgaria
 1965 – Eoin Colfer, Irish writer
 1966 - Marianne Denicourt, French actress
 1966 - Mike Inez, American musician and songwriter
 1966 - Fab Morvan, French singer-songwriter, musician and producer
 1966 - Raphael Saadiq, American singer-songwriter and musician
 1968 - Greg Davies, British actor and comedian
 1969 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
 1969 - Danny Wood, American singer, songwriter and musician
 1970 - Kenichi Shimokawa, Japanese footballer
 1971 – Sofia Coppola, American movie director and producer
 1971 - Oséas, Brazilian footballer
 1972 - Kirstjen Nielsen, 6th United States Secretary of Homeland Security
 1972 - Mark Ruskell, Scottish politician
 1973 - Natalie Appleton, Canadian singer and actress
1973 - Fraser Nelson, Scottish journalist, Editor of The Spectator
 1973 - Julian White, English rugby player
 1973 - Voshon Lenard, American basketball player
From 1976 
 1976 – Martine McCutcheon, English actress
 1977 - Sophie Anderton, English model
 1977 - Roy Halladay, American baseball player (d. 2017) 
 1977 - Pusha T, American rapper
 1978 - Eddie House, American basketball player
 1978 - Lee McCulloch, Scottish footballer
 1978 – Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer
 1979 – Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer
 1979 - Dan Auerbach, American singer-songwriter
 1979 - Clinton Morrison, Irish footballer
 1980 - Julia Sebestyen, Hungarian figure skater
 1980 – Zdenek Grygera, Czech footballer
 1980 – Hugo Southwell, Scottish rugby player
 1982 - Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
 1983 - Amber Tamblyn, American actress
 1984 – Michael Rensing, German footballer
 1984 – Nigel Reo-Coker, English footballer
 1984 – Olly Murs, English singer
 1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, American internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Facebook
 1986 - Alyosha, Ukrainian singer
 1987 - Zarine Khan, Indian model and actress
 1987 – Franck Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
1987 - François Steyn, South African rugby player
 1990 - Olga Ikonnikova, Estonian figure skater
 1990 - Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer
 1993 – Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
 1993 - Kristina Mladenovic, French tennis player
 1994 - Edison Flores, Peruvian footballer
 1996 - Martin Garrix, Dutch DJ and producer
 1996 - McKaley Miller, American actress
Up to 1950 
 694 - Pope Theodore I
 964 - Pope John XII (b. 927)
 1470 – King Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
 1574 – Guru Amar Das, Sikh guru (b. 1479)
 1608 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
 1610 – King Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
 1643 – King Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)
 1761 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b. 1710)
 1847 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1805)
 1860 - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
 1873 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (b. 1797)
 1878 - Okubo Tashimichi, Japanese statesman and samurai (b. 1830)
 1879 - Henry Sewell, 1st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1807)
 1881 - Mary Seacole, Jamaican nurse (b. 1805)
 1893 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810)
 1897 - Richard Coke, Governor of Texas (b. 1829)
 1906 - Carl Schurz, German-American statesman (b. 1829)
 1912 – King Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)
 1912 – August Strindberg, Swedish writer and playwright (b. 1849)
1919 - Henry J. Heinz, German-American businessman (b. 1844)
 1923 – Charles de Freycinet, Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
 1930 - John P. Buchanan, American politician, 28th Governor of Tennessee (b. 1847)
 1931 - Viktor Dyk, Czech poet (b. 1877)
 1931 - David Belasco, American producer, director and playwright (b. 1853)
 1935 - Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (b. 1868)
 1940 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)
 1943 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer (b. 1854)
 1945 - Heber J. Grant, American Mormon leader (b. 1856)
From 1951 
 1957 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian painter (b. 1884)
 1959 – Sidney Bechet, American jazz musician (b. 1897)
 1959 - Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (b. 1862)
 1960 - Lucrezia Bori, Spanish soprano (b. 1887)
 1962 - Florence Auer, American actress (b. 1880)
 1967 - Osvaldo Moles, Brazilian journalist (d. 1967)
 1968 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)
 1969 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1880)
 1973 - Jean Gelser, German linguist, philosopher and poet (b. 1905)
 1976 - Keith Relf, English singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
 1983 – Miguel Aleman Valdes, President of Mexico (b. 1900)
 1988 – Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)
 1991 – Jiang Qing, First Lady of the People's Republic of China (b. 1914)
 1992 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese military leader (b. 1899)
 1995 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist (b. 1916)
 1998 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and entertainer (b. 1915)
 2000 – Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
2001 - Gil Langley, Australian cricketer, footballer and politician (b. 1919)
 2003 – Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)
 2004 - Jesus Gil y Gil, Spanish businessman (b. 1933)
 2006 – Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
 2006 - Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist (b. 1921)
 2007 - Ulo Jogi, Estonian historian and patriot (b. 1921)
 2014 - Stephen Sutton, British cancer charity fundraiser (b. 1994)
 2015 - B.B. King, American blues and rock musician (b. 1925)
 2016 - Darwyn Cooke, Canadian comic book artist (b. 1962)
 2016 - Christy O'Connor Snr, Irish golfer (b. 1924)
 2016 - Tony Barrow, British press officer (b. 1936)
 2016 - Monteagle Stearns, American diplomat (b. 1924)
 2017 - Powers Boothe, American actor (b. 1948)
 2017 - Dilbagh Singh Athwal, Indian geneticist and agriculturist (b. 1928)
 2017 - Bruce Hill, American racing driver (b. 1949)
 2017 - Frank Brian, American basketball player (b. 1923)
 2017 - Brad Grey, American producer (b. 1957)
2017 - Tom McClung, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1957)
 2017 - Brad Grey, American producer (b. 1957)
 2018 - Elaine S. Edwards, American politician (b. 1929)
 2018 - Doug Ford, American golfer (b. 1922)
 2018 - Frank Quilici, American baseball player (b. 1939)
 2018 - E. C. George Sudarshan, Indian theoretical physicist and professor (b. 1931)
 2018 - Tom Wolfe, American writer and journalist (b. 1930)
 2018 - Roberto Farias, Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1932)
 2018 - William Vance, Belgian comics artist (b. 1935)
 2019 - Leopoldo Brizuela, Argentine writer and translator (b. 1963)
 2019 - Grumpy Cat, American-bred cat and internet celebrity (b. 2012)
 2019 - Tim Conway, American actor (b. 1933)
 2019 - Sven Lindqvist, Swedish author (b. 1932)
 2019 - Alice Rivlin, American politician and economist (b. 1931)
 2019 - Remig Stumpf, German cyclist (b. 1966)
Observances 
 National Unification Day (Liberia)
 Hastings Banda's Birthday (Malawi)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 293 - Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian.
 878 - Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim Sultan of Sicily.
 879 - Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people.
 996 - Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned.
 1085 - The city of Helsingborg is founded in what is now southern Sweden.
 1471 - Henry VI of England, the last King from the House of Lancaster, is murdered in the Tower of London on the orders of King Edward IV of England.
 1502 – The island of Saint Helena is discovered by Portuguese explorer Joao da Nova.
 1674 – The nobility elect John Sobieski to become King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
 1792 - The Unzen volcano in Japan erupts, resulting in thousands of people getting killed.
 1809 - Napoleonic Wars: First day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling - Austria, under Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen and France, under Napoleon Bonaparte, meet in battle, with Napoleon's side winning the next day.
1851 – Colombia abolishes slavery.
 1856 – The town of Lawrence, Kansas, is captured and burned by pro-Slavery forces.
 1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army closes off the last escape route  from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
 1863 - Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States.
 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
 1871 - French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting.
 1879 – War of the Pacific: The naval Battle of Iquique takes place between Chile and Peru.
 1881 – The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton.
 1894 - The Manchester Ship Canal is opened in England by Queen Victoria.
1901  2000 
 1904 - FIFA, the world governing body of football, is founded in Paris.
 1911 - President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and revolutionary Francisco I. Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juarez.
 1917 - A significant part of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, is destroyed by fire.
 1924 - University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
 1925 - In Tokyo, Japan, scientist Hidesaburo Ueno dies. His dog, Hachiko, keeps waiting for him, and becomes well known for his loyalty.
 1927 – Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic Ocean.
 1932 - Amelia Earhart is forced by bad weather to land near Derry, Northern Ireland, after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
 1934 - Oskaloosa, Iowa becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
 1939 - Canada's National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI of the United Kingdom and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
1946 - Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with a demon core at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, United States.
 1965 - The current Flag of Ontario is adopted.
 1966 - The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the IRA.
 1976 - The Yuba City bus disaster in Martinez, California kills 29 people.
 1990 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen and North Yemen agree to merge to become the Republic of Yemen.
 1991 – Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam flees Ethiopia.
 1991 – Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is murdered in Sriperumbudur in southern India.
 1994 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen tries to secede, leading to the break-out of war.
 1996 – The ship MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing around 1,000 people.
 1998 - President of Indonesia Suharto announces his resignation.
From 2001 
 2003 – An earthquake in northern Algeria kills more than 2,000 people.
 2005 – Elena Paparizou wins the 50th Eurovision Song Contest for Greece, in Kiev, Ukraine.
 2006 – The majority of voters in Montenegro vote to split from Serbia and Montenegro. Montenegro becomes independent on June 3.
 2007 – The clipper Cutty Sark is damaged by fire in London, UK.
 2011 - American pastor Harold Camping predicted the end of the world to begin on this date, with the rapture, supposedly leading to the end itself on October 21. Despite his prediction, life continued as normal.
 2012 - A bombing in Sana'a, Yemen kills 120 people.
 2013 - Far-right French historian Dominique Venner commits suicide by gunshot in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.
 2022 - 2022 Australian federal election is held.

Births
Up to 1900 
 427 BC – Plato, Influential Greek philosopher (d. 347 BC)
 120 BC - Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar (d. 54 BC)
 1471 – Albrecht Dürer, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1528)
 1527 – King Philip II of Spain (d. 1598)
 1653 – Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria (d. 1697)
 1688 – Alexander Pope, English poet (d. 1744)
 1759 - Joseph Fouché, French politician (d. 1820)
 1780 – Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (d. 1845)
 1785 - August Immanuel Bekker, German classical philologist (d. 1871)
 1792 – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
 1799 - Mary Anning, English paleontologist (d. 1847)
 1827 - William P. Sprague, American politician (d. 1899)
 1837 - Itagaki Taisuke, Japanese politician (d. 1919)
 1843 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914)
 1843 - Louis Renault, French jurist (d. 1918)
 1844 – Henri Rousseau, French artist (d. 1910)
 1850 – Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
1851 – Léon Bourgeois, French statesman (d. 1925)
 1853 - Edward Gawlor Prior, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of British Columbia (d. 1920)
 1855 - Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet (d. 1916)
 1856 – Jose Batlle y Ordonez, Uruguayan politician (d. 1929)
 1857 - Francisco Aguilar Barquero, President of Costa Rica (d. 1924)
 1860 – Willem Einthoven, Dutch doctor, won the 1924 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, inventor of the electrocardiogram (d. 1927)
 1863 – Archduke Eugen of Austria (d. 1954)
 1864 – Princess Stephanie of Belgium (d. 1945)
 1873 - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941)
 1878 - Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (d. 1930)
 1880 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian poet and writer (d. 1967)
 1884 - Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920) 
 1898 – Armand Hammer, physician, entrepreneur, oil magnate, and art collector (d. 1990)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Horace Heidt, band leader (d. 1986)
 1901 – Sam Jaffe, American producer (d. 2000)
 1902 – Earl Averill, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1983)
 1902 – Marcel Lajos Breuer, architect (d. 1981)
 1903 – Manly Wade Wellman, writer (d. 1986)
 1904 – Fats Waller, African-American pianist (d. 1943)
 1904 – Robert Montgomery, American actor (d. 1981)
 1907 - John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (d. 1979)
 1912 – Monty Stratton, American Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 1982)
 1916 – Harold Robbins, American novelist (d. 1997)
 1916 – Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter (d. 2002)
 1917 – Raymond Burr, American actor (d. 1993)
 1920 - John Chadwick, British classical philologist (d. 1998)
 1921 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and human rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1989)
 1922 - Pio Laghi, Italian cardinal (d. 2009)
 1923 – Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003)
 1923 – Ara Parseghian, American football coach (d. 2017)