Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1801 to 1900 
 1810 – Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor (d. 1849)
 1812 – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer and academic (d. 1910)
 1835 – Ramón Barros Luco, President of Chile (d. 1919)
 1836 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and politician (d. 1917)
 1837 – Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, English author (d. 1919)
 1842 – Hazard Stevens, American military officer, mountaineer, politician and writer (d. 1918)
 1843 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
 1845 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, English soldier, academic, and politician, 36th Governor-General of India (d. 1914)
  1845   – Frank Norton, American baseball player (d. 1920)
 1849 – Michael Ancher, Danish painter and academic (d. 1927)
 1851 – Charles Joseph Bonaparte, American lawyer and politician, 46th United States Attorney General (d. 1921)
 1861 – Pierre Duhem, French physicist, mathematician, and historian (d. 1916)
1861   – Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Russian-German chemist and physicist (d. 1938)
 1864 – Jeanne Bérangère, French actress (d. 1928)
 1865 – Albéric Magnard, French composer and educator (d. 1914)
  1865   – Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1931)
 1868 – Jane Avril, French model and dancer (d. 1943)
 1874 – Launceston Elliot, Scottish weightlifter and wrestler (d. 1930)
 1875 – Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
 1879 – Harry DeBaecke, American rower (d. 1961)
 1882 – Robert Kerr, Irish-Canadian sprinter and coach (d. 1963)
 1885 – Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, Polish general and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Poland (d. 1962)
 1890 – Leslie Banks, English actor, director, and producer (d. 1952)
 1891 – Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (d. 1964)
 1893 – Irish Meusel, American baseball player and coach (d. 1963)
 1895 – Archie Weston, American football player and journalist (d. 1981)
1898 – Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)
 1900 – Fred Waring, American singer, bandleader, and television host (d. 1984)
1901 to 1925 
 1902 – Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1969)
 1903 – Felice Bonetto, Italian race car driver (d. 1953)
  1903   – Marcia Davenport, American author and critic (d. 1996)
 1906 – Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice (d. 1997)
 1908 – Luis Kutner, American lawyer, author, and activist (d. 1993)
  1908   – Branch McCracken, American basketball player and coach (d. 1970)
 1910 – Robert Cummings, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1990)
  1910   – Ted Hicks, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (d. 1984)
 1912 – Ingolf Dahl, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1970)
 1915 – Jim McDonald, American football player and coach (d. 1997)
  1915   – Les Paul, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2009)
 1916 – Jurij Brězan, German soldier and author (d. 2006)
  1916   – Siegfried Graetschus, German SS officer (d. 1943)
1916   – Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2009)
 1917 – Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-English historian and author (d. 2012)
 1918 – John Hospers, American philosopher and politician (d. 2011)
 1921 – Arthur Hertzberg, American rabbi and scholar (d. 2006)
  1921   – Jean Lacouture, French journalist, historian, and author (d. 2015)
 1922 – George Axelrod, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
  1922   – John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Chinese-American pilot and poet (d. 1941)
  1922   – Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (d. 1988)
 1923 – Gerald Götting, German politician (d. 2015)
 1924 – Tony Britton, English actor (d. 2019)
 1924 – Ed Farhat, American wrestler and manager (d. 2003)
 1925 – Keith Laumer, American soldier and author (d. 1993)
  1925   – Herman Sarkowsky, German-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Seattle Seahawks (d. 2014)
1926 to 1950 
 1926 – Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, American singer and bass player (d. 2010)
  1926   – Mona Freeman, American actress and painter (d. 2014)
  1926   – Happy Rockefeller, American philanthropist, 31st Second Lady of the United States (d. 2015)
 1927 – Jim Nolan, American basketball player (d. 1983)
 1928 – R. Geraint Gruffydd, Welsh critic and academic (d. 2015)
 1929 – Johnny Ace, American singer and pianist (d. 1954)
 1930 – Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
  1930   – Jordi Pujol, Spanish physician and politician, 126th President of the Generalitat de Catalonia
 1931 – Jackie Mason, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
  1931   – Nandini Satpathy, Indian author and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Odisha (d. 2006)
  1931   – Bill Virdon, American baseball player, coach, and manager
 1932 – Denise Robertson, English television personality (d. 2016)
 1933 – Al Cantello, American javelin thrower and coach
 1934 – Michael Mates, English colonel and politician
1934   – Jackie Wilson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
 1935 – Dutch Savage, American wrestler and promoter (d. 2013)
 1936 – Mick O'Dwyer, Irish Gaelic footballer and manager
  1936   – George Radda, Hungarian chemist and academic
 1937 – Harald Rosenthal, German hydrobiologist and academic
 1938 – Jeremy Hardie, English economist and businessman
  1938   – Giles Havergal, Scottish actor, director, and playwright
  1938   – Charles Wuorinen, American composer and educator (d. 2020)
 1939 – Ileana Cotrubaș, Romanian soprano and actress
  1939   – Eric Fernie, Scottish historian and academic
  1939   – David Hobbs, English race car driver and sportscaster
  1939   – Dick Vitale, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
  1939   – Charles Webb, American author
 1940 – André Vallerand, Canadian businessman and politician
 1941 – Jon Lord, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 2012)
 1942 – Anton Burghardt, German footballer and manager
  1942   – Nicholas Lloyd, English journalist
1943 – John Fitzpatrick, English race car driver
  1943   – Charles Saatchi, Iraqi-English businessman, co-founded Saatchi & Saatchi
 1944 – Janric Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon, English accountant and politician
  1944   – Wally Gabler, American football player and sportscaster
 1946 – Deyda Hydara, Gambian journalist and publisher, co-founded The Point (d. 2004)
  1946   – James Kelman, Scottish author and playwright
  1946   – Peter Kilfoyle, English politician
  1946   – Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, Italian politician and diplomat, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
 1947 – Robert Indermaur, Swiss painter
  1947   – Robbie Vincent, UK disc jockey and radio presenter
 1948 – Jim Bailey, American football player
  1948   – Gudrun Schyman, Swedish social worker and politician
 1949 – Kiran Bedi, Indian police officer and activist
 1950 – Trevor Bolder, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (d. 2013)
  1950   – Fred Jackson, American football player and coach
1951 to 1975 
 1951 – Michael Patrick Cronan, American graphic designer and academic (d. 2013)
  1951   – James Newton Howard, American composer, conductor, and producer
  1951   – Dave Parker, American baseball player and coach
  1951   – Brian Taylor, American basketball player
 1952 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
  1952   – Billy Knight, American basketball player
 1953 – Ken Navarro, Italian-American guitarist and composer
 1954 – Pete Byrne, English singer-songwriter (Naked Eyes)
  1954   – Paul Chapman, Welsh guitarist and songwriter (d. 2020)
  1954   – Gregory Maguire, American author
  1954   – Elizabeth May, American-Canadian environmentalist, lawyer, and politician
  1954   – George Pérez, American author and illustrator
 1956 – Berit Aunli, Norwegian skier
 1956  – Patricia Cornwell, American journalist and author
 1956  – Marek Gazdzicki, Polish nuclear physicist
 1956  – Joaquín, Spanish footballer
 1956  – John Le Lievre, British squash player
1956  – Kayhan Mortezavi, Iranian director
 1956  – Francine Raymond, French Canadian singer songwriter
 1956  – Nikolai Tsonev, Bulgarian politician
 1956  – Rudolf Wojtowicz, Polish footballer
 1957 – Randy Read, English crystallographer and academic
 1958 – David Ancrum, American basketball player and coach
  1958   – Tony Horwitz, American journalist and author (d. 2019)
 1959 – Peter Fowler, Australian golfer
  1959   – Benny Gantz, Israeli politician
 1960 – Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist and author
 1961 – Thomas Benson, American football player
  1961   – Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer, and author
  1961   – Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer, and playwright
 1962 – Yuval Banay, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
  1962   – Ken Rose, American football player
  1962   – David Trewhella, Australian rugby league player
 1963 – Gilad Atzmon, Israeli-English saxophonist, author, and activist
  1963   – Johnny Depp, American actor
1963   – David Koepp, American director, producer, and screenwriter
 1964 – Gloria Reuben, Canadian-American actress
  1964   – Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player and bass player (d. 2009)
 1967 – Rubén Maza, Venezuelan runner
 1968 – Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper and coach
 1969 – André Racicot, Canadian ice hockey player
  1969   – Eric Wynalda, American soccer player, coach, and sportscaster
 1971 – Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer and sportscaster
  1971   – Jean Galfione, French pole vaulter and sportscaster
  1971   – Jackie McKeown, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1972 – Matt Horsley, Australian footballer and coach
 1973 – Aigars Apinis, Latvian discus thrower and shot putter
  1973   – Tedy Bruschi, American football player and sportscaster
  1973   – Frédéric Choffat, Swiss director, producer, and cinematographer
  1973   – Grant Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
 1974 – Samoth, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 – Otto Addo, German-Ghanaian footballer and manager
  1975   – Andrew Symonds, English-Australian cricketer
From 1976 
 1977 – Usman Afzaal, Pakistani-English cricketer
  1977   – Paul Hutchison, English cricketer
  1977   – Olin Kreutz, American football player
  1977   – Peja Stojaković, Serbian basketball player
 1978 – Shandi Finnessey, American model and actress, Miss USA 2004
  1978   – Miroslav Klose, German footballer
  1978   – Heather Mitts, American soccer player
  1978   – Hayden Schlossberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter
 1979 – Dario Dainelli, Italian footballer
  1979   – Amanda Lassiter, American basketball player
 1980 – D'banj, Nigerian singer-songwriter and harmonica player
  1980   – Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
  1980   – Udonis Haslem, American basketball player
  1980   – Lehlohonolo Seema, South African footballer
 1981 – Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress
 1982 – Yoshito Ōkubo, Japanese footballer
  1982   – Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer-songwriter
 1983 – Firas Al-Khatib, Syrian footballer
  1983   – Josh Cribbs, American football player
1983   – Dwayne Jones, American basketball player
  1983   – Danny Richar, Dominican-American baseball player
 1984 – Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
  1984   – Jake Newton, Guyanese footballer
  1984   – Asko Paade, Estonian basketball player
  1984   – Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
  1984   – Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
 1985 – Richard Kahui, New Zealand rugby player
  1985   – Sonam Kapoor, Indian model and actress
  1985   – Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
 1986 – Doug Legursky, American football player
  1986   – Yadier Pedroso, Cuban baseball player (d. 2013)
  1986   – Ashley Postell, American gymnast
 1987 – Jaan Mölder, Estonian race car driver
 1988 – Jason Demers, Canadian ice hockey defenseman
  1988   – Sara Isaković, Slovenian swimmer
  1988   – Mae Whitman, American actress
 1989 – Dídac Vilà, Spanish footballer
  1989   – Tanya Burr, English YouTuber
 1990 – Matthias Mayer, Austrian skier
  1992   – Zach Hyman, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 – Yannick Agnel, French swimmer
  1992   – Boyd Cordner, Australian rugby league player
 1993 – George Jennings, Australian rugby league player
 2000 – Laurie Hernandez, American artistic gymnast
Up to 1900 
 AD 68 – Nero, Roman emperor (b. 37)
 373 – Ephrem the Syrian, hymnographer and theologian (b. 306)
 597 – Columba, Irish missionary and saint (b. 521)
 630 – Shahrbaraz, king of the Persian Empire
 889 – Aimoin, Frankish monk and archivist
 908 – Yang Wo, Prince of Hongnong
 1075 – Gebhard of Supplinburg, Saxon count
 1087 – Otto I of Olomouc (b. 1045)
 1238 – Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester
 1252 – Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
 1348 – Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (b. 1290)
 1361 – Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet (b. 1291)
 1563 – William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English accountant and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1506)
 1572 – Jeanne d'Albret, Navarrese queen and Huguenot leader (b. 1528)
 1583 – Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1525)
 1597 – José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1534)
 1647 – Leonard Calvert, Colonial governor of Maryland (b. 1606)
1656 – Thomas Tomkins, Welsh-English composer (b. 1572)
 1716 – Banda Singh Bahadur, Indian commander (b. 1670)
 1717 – Jeanne Guyon, French mystic and author (b. 1648)
 1834 – William Carey, English minister and missionary (b. 1761)
 1870 – Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (b. 1812)
 1875 – Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and conchologist (b. 1795)
 1889 – Mike Burke, American baseball player (b. 1854)
 1892 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (b. 1863)
1901 to 2000 
 1901 – Adolf Bötticher, German historian and author (b. 1842)
 1923 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (b. 1846)
 1927 – Victoria Woodhull, American activist for women's rights (b. 1838)
 1929 – Louis Bennison, American stage and silent film actor (b. 1884)
  1929   – Margaret Lawrence, American stage actress (b. 1889)
 1942 – František Erben, Czech gymnast (b. 1874)
 1952 – Adolf Busch, German-Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1891)
 1953 – Ernest Graves, Sr., American football player, coach, and general (b. 1880)
 1954 – Alain LeRoy Locke, American writer, professor and philosopher (b. 1885)
 1956 – Chandrashekhar Agashe, Indian industrialist and lawyer (b. 1888)
 1956 – Hans Bergsland, Norwegian fencer (b. 1878)
 1956 – Thomas Hicks, Australian tennis player (b. 1869)
 1956 – Ferdinand Jodl, German general (b. 1896)
 1958 – Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
 1959 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
1960 – Harry S. Hammond, American football player and businessman (b. 1884)
 1961 – Camille Guérin, French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist (b. 1872)
 1963 – Jacques Villon, French painter (b. 1875)
 1964 – Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, British businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1879)
 1968 – Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
 1972 – Gilberto Parlotti, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1940)
 1973 – Chuck Bennett, American football player and coach (b. 1907)
  1973   – John Creasey, English author and politician (b. 1908)
  1973   – Erich von Manstein, German general (b. 1887)
 1974 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
 1979 – Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant (b. 1884)
 1981 – Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)
 1984 – Helen Hardin, American painter (b. 1943)
1989 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
 1991 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-American pianist and educator (b. 1903)
 1993 – Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1921)
 1994 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
 1997 – Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian academic and politician (b. 1908)
 1998 – Lois Mailou Jones, American painter and academic (b. 1905)
 2000 – John Abramovic, American basketball player (b. 1919)
  2000   – Jacob Lawrence, American painter and academic (b. 1917)
From 2001 
 2004 – Rosey Brown, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
  2004   – Brian Williamson, Jamaican activist, co-founded J-FLAG (b. 1945)
 2006 – Drafi Deutscher, German singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
 2007 – Frankie Abernathy, American purse designer, cast-member on The Real World: San Diego (b. 1981)
 2008 – Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American author and critic (b. 1931)
  2008   – Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian and author (b. 1919)
 2009 – Dick May, American race car driver (b. 1930)
 2010 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (b. 1908)
 2011 – M. F. Husain, Indian painter and director (b. 1915)
  2011   – Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (b. 1970)
  2011   – Mike Mitchell, American basketball player (b. 1956)
 2012 – Régis Clère, French cyclist (b. 1956)
  2012   – John Maples, Baron Maples, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (b. 1943)
  2012   – Ivan Minatti, Slovene poet and translator (b. 1924)
2012   – Hawk Taylor, American baseball player and coach (b. 1939)
  2012   – Abram Wilson, American-English trumpet player and educator (b. 1973)
 2013 – Iain Banks, Scottish author (b. 1954)
  2013   – Bruno Bartoletti, Italian conductor (b. 1926)
  2013   – John Burke, English rugby player (b. 1948)
  2013   – Walter Jens, German philologist, historian, and academic (b. 1923)
  2013   – Zdeněk Rotrekl, Czech poet and historian (b. 1920)
 2014 – Bernard Agré, Ivorian cardinal (b. 1926)
  2014   – Reinhard Höppner, German politician (b. 1948)
  2014   – Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1958)
  2014   – Elsie Quarterman, American ecologist and academic (b. 1910)
  2014   – Alicemarie Huber Stotler, American lawyer and judge (b. 1942)
  2014   – Gustave Tassell, American fashion designer (b. 1926)
  2014   – Bob Welch, American baseball player and coach (b. 1956)
 2015 – Pumpkinhead, American rapper (b. 1975)
  2015   – James Last, German musician and bandleader (b. 1929)
2015   – Fred Anton Maier, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1938)
  2015   – Pedro Zerolo, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1960)
 2016 – Hamza Ali, English cricketer (b. 1996)
 2017 – Adam West, American actor and investor (b. 1928)
  2017   – Natig Aliyev, Azerbaijani politician (b. 1947)
  2017   – Andrzej Baturo, Polish photographer (b. 1940)
 2018 – Fadil Vokrri, Kosovo Albanian football administrator and player (b. 1960)
2018 – Reinhard Hardegen, German U-boat commander and politician (b. 1913)
 2019 – Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (b. 1966)
  2019   – Erich Iltgen, German politician (b. 1940)
  2019   – Juhani Wahlsten, Finnish ice hockey player (b. 1938)
  2019   – William D. Wittliff, American screenwriter (b. 1940)
 2020 – Parviz Aboutaleb, Iranian footballer (b. 1942)
  2020   – Paul Chapman, Welsh musician (b. 1954)
  2020   – Pau Donés, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1966)
  2020   – Simon Henshaw, American politician
  2020   – Ain Kaalep, Estonian novelist, poet and editor (b. 1926)
  2020   – Kim Chang-sop, North Korean politician (b. 1946)
  2020   – Nemir Kirdar, Iraqi-British banker (b. 1933)
 2022 – Matt Zimmerman, Canadian actor (b. 1934)
Holidays and observances
 Anniversary of the Accession of King Abdullah II (Jordan)
 Autonomy Day (Åland Islands)
 Christian feast day:
 Aidan of Lindisfarne (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
 Bede (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
 Columba
 Ephrem the Syrian (Roman Catholic Church and Church of England)
 José de Anchieta
 Primus and Felician
 June 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 Coral Triangle Day
 La Rioja Day (La Rioja)
 Murcia Day (Murcia)
 National Heroes' Day (Uganda)

References

June 09
Up to 1950 
 68 – The Roman Senate proclaims Galba Emperor.
 218 - Battle of Antioch.
 793 – Vikings or raiding tribes from Scandinavia, attack and steal valuable objects from Lindisfarne, a monastery off the coast of Northumbria in England.
 1042 - Edward the Confessor becomes King of England.
 1191 – Richard I of England arrives in Acre, Palestine, beginning his Crusade.
 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois Rivieres - American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec, present-day Canada.
 1783 – An eruption occurs in the Laki crater in Iceland. It causes widespread famine, killing several thousand Icelanders and also has devastating effects on other parts of Europe and in other parts of the World.
 1794 – Maximilien Robespierre founds the cult of Supreme Being.
 1856 – A group of Pitcairn Islanders, descendents of Bounty mutineers, land on Norfolk Island and settle there.
 1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys - Confederate forces save the army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula.
 1866 - Canada's Parliament meets at Parliament Hill in Ottawa for the first time.
 1867 - Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Elisabeth of Bavaria are crowned King and Queen of Hungary in Budapest.
 1887 - Herman Hollerith applies for a US patent for his punched card calculator.
 1895 - In Ecuador, Eloy Alfaro comes to power in a military coup and starts a series of liberal reforms.
 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law.
 1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
 1912 – In the High Jump, Marc Wright becomes the first person to clear a height of 4 metres.
 1914 - The Brazilian Sports Federation is founded - a precursor to the Brazilian Football Federation.
 1924 – Climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine go missing while attempting to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. It is unknown whether they managed to reach the summit.
1928 – The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, renaming it Beiping.
 1929 – Margaret Bondfield becomes the first female cabinet minister in the UK, when she becomes Minister of Labour.
 1930 - Carol II of Romania becomes King.
 1941 – World War II: The Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
 1942 – World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell Sydney and Newcastle, New South Wales.
 1949 – The novel 1984 by George Orwell goes on sale in London.
 1949 - The FBI publishes a list of celebrities it considers to be members of the Communist Party.
 1950 - Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born field marshal in Australian history.
From 1951 
 1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, DC can't refuse to serve black patrons.
 1953 – Flint, Michigan is hit by a tornado, killing 115 people.
 1959 - The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
 1966 – Topeka, Kansas is hit by a tornado that kills 16 people.
 1966 - An F-4 Starfighter aircraft collides with an XB-70 Valkyrie Prototype No.2, destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base, killing 2 people.
 1967 - Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 people and injuring 171. On the same day, Israel's army enters Hebron.
 1968 – James Earl Ray is arrested in London for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr..
 1972 – US bombers drop a napalm bomb in South Vietnam. One of the most striking images of the Vietnam War was taken on this day, of 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc running down a road with burns resulting from the attack.
1975 - The Soviet Venera 9 probe is sent to Venus.
 1982 – Falklands War: 56 servicemen are killed in an Argentine attack on two British landing ships.
 1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in New South Wales.
 1986 - Kurt Waldheim is elected President of Austria over Kurt Steyrer.
 1987 - The New Zealand government creates a national nuclear-free zone.
 1990 – The 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy begins.
 1992 – World Ocean Day is observed for the first time.
 1996 – UEFA Euro 1996 in England begins.
 2001 - Mamoru Takuma kills 8 people and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka prefecture of Japan.
 2002 - Lennox Lewis defeats Mike Tyson in their Heavyweight Boxing fight in Memphis, Tennessee. They had previously fought each other during a press conference in January of the same year.
 2003 – In a referendum in Poland, 77% of voters approve joining the EU.
 2004 - The first transit of Venus since 1882 occurs.
2006 - Raphaella de Gouvello reaches the island of Réunion, completing the first journey-by-surfboard across the Indian Ocean.
 2007 - Newcastle, New South Wales is hit by flooding, killing 9 people.
 2007 – Paris Hilton, heiress and celebrity, gets a 45-day jail sentence for drunk driving which gets much attention.
 2008 – Akihabara shopping district, Chiyoda, Tokyo: Tomohiro Kato drives a two-ton truck into a crowd before attacking people with a knife.
 2009 – Gabon's President Omar Bongo dies after more than  years in office.
 2012 – UEFA Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine begins. In the opening game, the Poland national football team and the Greece national football team draw 1-1.
 2014 - Abdel Fattah el-Sisi becomes President of Egypt.
 2014 - At least 28 people are killed in an attack on Jinnah International Airport in Lahore, Pakistan.
2017 - United Kingdom general election, 2017: Theresa May's Conservative Party loses its overall majority despite keeping its status as the largest party and making gains in Scotland; Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party performs better than expected, including gains in Kensington and Canterbury; The Scottish National Party loses 21 seats but remains by-far the largest Scottish party; UKIP lose heavily.
 2023 - Very bad flooding starts in South Korea.
Up to 1900 
 862 - Emperor Xizong of Tang (d. 888)
 1438 - Melozzo de Forli, Italian painter (d. 1494)
 1552 - Gabriello Chiabera, Italian poet (d. 1638)
 1594 – Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim, German general (d. 1632)
 1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist (d. 1712)
 1671 - Tommaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
 1717 - John Collins, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1795)
 1724 – John Smeaton, British civil engineer (d. 1794)
 1743 – Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian adventurer (d. 1795)
 1745 – Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (d. 1818)
 1772 - Robert Stevenson, Scottish civil engineer (d. 1850)
 1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
 1837 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887)
 1840 - Manuel José de Arriaga, President of Portugal (d. 1917)
 1842 – John Q. A. Brackett, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)
 1847 – Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States (d. 1907)
 1851 - Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist, physician and inventor (d. 1940)
1852 - Guido Banti, Italian physician (d. 1925)
 1855 - George Charles Haité, British painter and illustrator (d. 1924)
 1859 – Smith Wigglesworth, British religious figure (d. 1947)
 1860 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (d. 1940)
 1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d. 1959)
 1872 - Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
 1885 - Karl Genzken, German physician (d. 1957)
 1895 – Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
 1897 – John G. Bennett, British scientist and writer (d. 1974)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Salustiano Sanchez, Spanish-American supercentenarian, oldest-living man (d. 2013)
 1903 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-born American writer (d. 1987)
 1903 – Ralph Yarborough, U.S. Senator and Texas politician (d. 1996)
 1904 - Bruce Goff, American architect (d. 1982)
 1910 – Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d. 2003)
 1910 – John W. Campbell Jr., science fiction writer, publisher, editor (d. 1971)
 1911 – Edmundo Rivero, Argentine singer (d. 1986)
 1912 – Harry Holtzman, American abstract artist (d. 1987)
 1915 - Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian independence activist (d. 2015)
 1916 – Francis Crick, British scientist, Nobel laureate, helped discover the molecular structure of DNA (d. 2004)
 1916 – Luigi Comencini, Italian movie director (d. 2007)
 1917 – Byron White, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 2002)
 1918 – Robert Preston, actor (d. 1987)
 1918 - John D. Roberts, American chemist
 1918 - George Edward Hughes, British philosopher and logician (d. 1994)
1921 – Suharto, former President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
 1921 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993)
 1923 - Alice Coleman, English geographer and academic
 1924 – Lyn Nofziger, American political operative
 1924 - Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (d. 2013)
 1925 – Barbara Bush, former First Lady of the United States (d. 2018)
 1926 - Julio Silva Solar, Chilean lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
 1927 – LeRoy Neiman, American painter
 1929 – Jerry Stiller, American comedian, actor
 1930 – Robert Aumann, German-Israeli mathematician
 1930 - Marcel Léger, Canadian politician (d. 1993)
 1933 – Joan Rivers, American comedienne, writer (d. 2014)
 1934 – Millicent Martin, English singer and actress
 1934 - Mikio Aoki, Japanese politician
 1936 – James Darren, actor, singer
 1936 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist (d. 2013)
 1936 - Robert Floyd, American computer scientist (d. 2001)
 1938 - Angelo Amato, Italian cardinal
 1939 - Bernie Casey, American football player and actor
1940 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer
 1941 – Fuzzy Haskins, American musician ("P Funk")
 1941 - George Pell, Australian cardinal and Archbishop of Sydney
 1942 - Jacques Dubochet Swiss biochemist
 1942 - Chuck Negron, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1942 – Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
 1942 – Horst Wolter, German footballer
 1943 – Colin Baker, British actor
 1943 – William Calley, American war criminal
 1944 – Boz Scaggs, singer, songwriter
 1944 - Marc Ouellet, Canadian cardinal
 1946 - Graham Henry, New Zealand rugby player and coach
 1946 – Pearlette Louisy, Governor-General of Saint Lucia
 1947 – Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist
 1947 – Sara Paretsky, American writer
 1947 - Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter
 1948 – Jürgen von der Lippe, German show master
 1950 – Sonia Braga, Brazilian actress
 1950 - Kathy Baker, American actress
 1950 - Steven Fromholz, American entertainer, singer and songwriter (d. 2014)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer and guitarist
 1953 – Ivo Sanader, former Prime Minister of Croatia
 1953 - Olav Stedje, Norwegian singer-songwriter
 1954 - Sergei Storchak, Russian politician
 1954 - Greg Ginn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1955 – Griffin Dunne, actor
 1955 – Sir Tim Berners-Lee, British inventor of the World Wide Web
 1955 - José Antonio Camacho, Spanish footballer
 1956 – Udo Bullmann, German politician
 1957 – Scott Adams, American cartoonist ("Dilbert")
 1957 - Dimple Kapadia, Indian movie actress
 1958 – Keenen Ivory Wayans, comedian, actor, director
 1960 – Mick Hucknall, English singer/songwriter ("Simply Red")
 1961 - Mary King, English equestrian
 1962 – Nick Rhodes, English musician ("Duran Duran")
 1962 - Thomas Steen, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
 1962 - Kristine W, American singer-songwriter and producer
 1964 - Butch Reynolds, American athlete
 1965 – Rob Pilatus, German-born singer and dancer (d. 1998)
1966 – Julianna Margulies, American actress (ER)
 1969 – Marcos Siega, American director
 1970 – Gabrielle Giffords, United States Congresswoman
 1970 – Kelli Williams, actress (The Practice)
 1970 - Kwame Kilpatrick, 68th Mayor of Detroit
 1971 – Troy Vincent, American football player
 1973 – Lexa Doig, Canadian actress (Andromeda)
 1973 - Shappi Khorsandi, Iranian-English comedienne
 1973 - Bryant Reeves, American basketball player
 1975 – Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
From 1976 
 1976 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
 1977 – Kanye West, American rapper, producer
 1978 - Eun Ji Won, South Korean rapper, producer and actor
 1978 – Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse)
 1979 - Derek Trucks, American musician
 1981 - Alex Band, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
 1981 - Rachel Held Evans, American Christian author (d. 2019)
 1981 – Sara Watkins, violinist (Nickel Creek)
 1982 - Irina Lazareanu, Romanian model
 1982 – Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer
 1982 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
 1983 – Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
 1983 – Pantelis Kapetanos, Greek footballer
 1984 – Javier Mascherano, Argentine footballer
 1984 – Andrea Casiraghi, Monegasque royalty
 1985 – Pierre Spies, South African rugby player
 1985 - Alexandre Despatie, Canadian diver
 1986 - Carl Ikeme, English-born footballer
 1986 - Patrick Kaleta, American ice hockey player
 1987 - Issiar Dia, Senegalese footballer
 1987 - Danielle Foote, Australian singer
1989 - Amaury Vassili, French singer
 1989 - Richard Fleeshman, English singer-songwriter and actor
 1990 - Mickey Bushell, British Paralympic athlete
 1990 - Alexander Yakin, Russian actor
 1991 - Nick Benson, American actor
 1997 - Jelena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
 2002 - Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau van Amsberg, Dutch royal
 2004 - Francesca Capaldi, American actress
 2006 - Deng Minghe, Chinese actor (d. 2015)
Up to 1900 
 62 - Octavia, daughter of Nero
 632 – Muhammad the Prophet, founder of Islam (b. 570)
 1042 – Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England (b. 1018)
 1154 - William of York, English saint and archbishop
 1376 – Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)
 1383 - Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English crusader (b. 1338)
 1384 – Kanami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)
 1476 - George Neville, English archbishop and statesman (b. 1432)
 1505 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (b. 1470)
 1611 - Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1522)
 1621 - Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)
 1628 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
 1701 - Philippe, Duke of Orléans (b. 1640)
 1714 – Sophia of Hanover (b. 1630)
 1716 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
 1771 - George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, British statesman (b. 1716)
 1795 – Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
 1809 – Thomas Paine, American writer (b. 1737)
 1835 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
1845 – Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
 1874 – Cochise, Apache chief (b. between 1810 and 1823)
 1876 – George Sand, French writer (b. 1804)
 1889 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (b. 1844)
 1900 - Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington, English nobleman (b. 1846)
1901  2000 
 1924 – George Mallory, English mountain climber (b. 1886)
 1924 – Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (b. 1902)
 1945 – Karl Hanke, Nazi official (b. 1903)
 1951 - Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
 1956 – Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
 1966 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
 1969 - Aino Sibelius, wife of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (b. 1871)
 1970 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (b. 1908)
 1980 – Ernst Busch, German actor and singer (b. 1900)
 1980 – Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Brazilian footballer (b. 1904)
 1982 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
 1984 - Gordon Jacob, English composer (b. 1895)
 1987 - Alexander Iolas, Greek-American gallery owner and art collector (b. 1907)
 1990 – José Figueres Ferrer, President of Costa Rica (b. 1906)
 1993 - Root Boy Slim, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
 1998 – Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
From 2001 
 2003 - Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
 2006 - Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
 2007 – Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, 1st President of Somalia (b. 1908)
 2007 – Richard Rorty, American philosopher (b. 1931)
 2009 – Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
 2009 - Harold Norse, American writer and poet (b. 1916)
 2013 - Willi Sitte, German artist (b. 1921)
 2013 - Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli writer, artist and journalist (b. 1930)
 2013 - Taufiq Kiemas, Indonesian politician, husband of Megawati Sukarnoputri (b. 1942)
 2013 - Paul Cellucci, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1948)
 2014 - Yoshihito, Prince Katsura, Japanese royal (b. 1948)
 2014 - Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist and supercentenarian, oldest-living man (b. 1903)
 2014 - J. Stanley Marshall, American educator and academic (b. 1923)
 2015 - Chea Sim, Cambodian politician (b. 1932)
 2015 - David Rotem, Israeli politician (b. 1949)
 2015 - Frank Cappuccino, American boxing referee (b. 1929)
2016 - Qahhor Mahkamov, former President of Tajikistan (b. 1932)
 2016 - Pierre Aubert, Swiss politician (b. 1927)
 2016 - Sascha Lewandowski, German football manager (b. 1971)
 2016 - Marina Malfatti, Italian actress (b. 1933)
 2017 - Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaraguan diplomat, priest and politician (b. 1933)
 2017 - Marcelo Guinle, Argentine politician (b. 1947)
 2017 - Glenne Headly, American actress (b. 1955)
 2017 - Jan Notermans, Dutch footballer (b. 1932)
 2017 - Jill Singer, Australian journalist (b. 1957)
 2017 - Sam Panopoulos, Greek-American cook (b. 1934)
 2017 - Norro Wilson, American country singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1938)
 2018 - Per Ahlmark, Swedish politician and writer (b. 1939)
 2018 - Anthony Bourdain, American chef, author and television personality (b. 1956)
 2018 - Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player (b. 1939)
 2018 - Freddy Eugen, Danish cyclist (b. 1941)
 2018 - Eunice Gayson, British actress (b. 1928)
2018 - Danny Kirwan, British singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
 2018 - Liu Yichang, Hong Kong writer (b. 1918)
 2018 - John McKenzie, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1937)
 2018 - Theodore J. Sophocleus, American politician (b. 1939)
 2018 - Thomas Stuttaford, British medical columnist and politician (b. 1931)
 2019 - Lucho Avilés, Uruguayan-Argentine entertainment journalist (b. 1938)
 2019 - Spencer Bohren, American guitarist (b. 1950)
 2019 - Jorge Brovetto, Uruguayan engineer, academic and politician (b. 1933)
 2019 - Norman Dewis, British racing driver and engineer (b. 1920)
 2019 - Justin Edinburgh, English footballer and manager (b. 1969)
 2019 - Frank Lucchesi, American baseball player, coach and manager (b. 1927)
 2019 - Andre Matos, Brazilian heavy metal singer and guitarist (b. 1971)
Observances 
 World Ocean Day
 Bounty Day (Norfolk Island)
 Primoz Trubar Day (Slovenia)
 Engineers' Day (Peru)
 World Brain Tumor Day

June 08
Up to 1900 
 1099 - First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
 1420 - Troops of the Republic of Venice capture the city of Udine.
 1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas splits the "New World" between Spain and Portugal.
 1628 - The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted Royal Assent by King Charles I of England and becomes law.
 1654 – Louis XIV of France is crowned King.
 1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is destroyed by an earthquake, killing 1,000 people.
 1776 - Richard Henry Lee presents the Lee Resolution to the Continental Congress.
 1788 - Citizens of Grenoble, France, toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
 1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
 1810 - The "Gazeta de Buenos Ayres" newspaper in Argentina is published for the first time.
 1832 - Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, killing 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
 1840 - Frederick William IV of Prussia becomes King.
1862 - The United States and United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
 1880 - War of the Pacific: Battle of Arica (then part of Peru, now part of Chile).
 1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first US President to attend a baseball game.
 1893 - Mahatma Gandhi does his first act of civil disobedience, while living in South Africa.
1901  2000 
 1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves the Union with Sweden.
 1906 - The Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard in Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland.
 1909 - Mary Pickford makes her first movie appearance at the age of 16.
 1913 - Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America, is climbed successfully for the first time, by Hudson Stuck.
 1917 - World War I: Battle of Messines - Allied ammonal mines  underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
 1919 - Sette Giugno: A riot in Malta kills 4 people.
 1929 – The Lateran Treaty creates the Vatican City state, the world's smallest country.
 1940 – Haakon VII of Norway and Crown Prince Olav go into exile in London. They return to Norway five years later.
 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
 1942 - World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign - Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu Island and Kiska.
1944 - World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 360 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans is sunk without survivors off the island of Santorini.
 1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy - At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian POWs.
 1945 - Norway's Royal Family returns from exile, after the end of World War II and Nazi occupation of Norway.
 1948 - Edvard Benes resigns as President of Czechoslovakia, in order to avoid signing the Ninth of May Constitution that makes his country a Communist state.
 1959 - The Viqueque Rebellion begins against Portuguese colonists in present-day East Timor.
 1967 – Israeli forces enter Jerusalem in the Six-Day War.
 1968 - The first LEGOLAND opens in Billund, Denmark.
 1973 – Willy Brandt becomes the first Chancellor of Germany to visit Israel.
 1973 - Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Federal Republic of Germany.
 1975 – The first Cricket World Cup begins in England.
1977 - 500 million people watch television coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee (25th anniversary of her reign in the UK and Commonwealth realms).
 1979 - The first elections to the European Parliament are held.
 1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Usiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
 1982 - Rebel leader Hissene Habri takes power through a coup in Chad.
 1982 - Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public.
 1989 – Suriname Airways Flight 764 crashes in jungle near Paramaribo in thick fog. More than 170 people on board are killed.
 1991 – Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupts.
 1995 - The long-range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
 2000 – The UN defines the Blue Line as the Israel-Lebanon border.
From 2001 
 2001 - Tony Blair is elected to a second term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
 2006 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, is killed in a US airstrike.
 2008 – UEFA Euro 2008 begins as the Switzerland national football team, as co-host with Austria, loses the opening match to the Czech Republic national football team.
 2009 – In European elections, Social-Democratic political parties suffer heavy losses, as more Conservative MEPs are elected. Far-right politicians also gain several seats in the European Parliament.
 2013 - A bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Xiamen, killing at least 47 people.
 2014 - At least 37 people are killed in an attack in South Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
 2014 - Petro Poroshenko is sworn in as President of Ukraine.
 2016 - Hillary Clinton declares victory in the race for the Democratic nomination for US president, which would make her the first woman to achieve this.
2017 - 2017 Tehran attacks: 12 people are killed in attacks on the Iranian parliament and mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran. 
 2019 - The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup begins: Hosts France beat South Korea 4-0 in the opening game.
Up to 1900 
 1502 - King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
 1529 - Etienne Pasquier, French lawyer and writer (d. 1615)
 1561 - Johann VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1623)
 1660 - King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
 1686 - Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1852)
 1687 - Gaetano Berenstadt, Italian alto castrato (d. 1734)
 1732 - Giuseppe Demachi, Italian composer (d. 1791)
 1757 - Georgina Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806)
 1761 - John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
 1770 – Robert Jenkinson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
 1809 - William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and antiquarian (d. 1892)
 1811 – James Young Simpson, Scottish physician (d. 1870)
 1825 - R. D. Blackmore, English novelist (d. 1900)
 1831 - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
 1837 – Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903)
 1840 - Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (d. 1927)
1845 - Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930)
 1848 – Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)
 1849 - Manuel Bonilla, President of Honduras (d. 1913)
 1851 - Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (d. 1922)
 1862 – Philipp Lenard, German physicist (d. 1947)
 1863 - Bones Ely, American baseball player (d. 1952)
 1868 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish artist and architect (d. 1928)
 1877 - Roelof Klein, Dutch rower (d. 1960)
 1879 – Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic explorer (d. 1933)
 1880 - Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (d. 1956)
 1883 - Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
 1886 - Henri Coanda, Romanian engineer and inventor (d. 1972)
 1888 - Clarence DeMar, American long-distance runner (d. 1958)
 1892 - Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1975)
 1894 - Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American aviator, author and inventor (d. 1974)
 1896 – Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist (d. 1986)
 1896 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
1897 - Kirill Meretskov, Russian marshal (d. 1968)
 1897 - George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor (d. 1970)
1901  1950 
 1906 - Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1963)
 1907 - Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg, Swedish royal (d. 2002)
 1909 – Jessica Tandy, British actress (d. 1994)
 1909 - Virginia Apgar, American physician (d. 1974)
 1909 - Peter W. Rodino, American politician (d. 2005)
 1910 - Bradford Washburn, American explorer, mountaineer, photographer and mapmaker (d. 2007)
 1910 - Arthur Gardner, American actor and movie producer (d. 2014)
 1911 - Mario Perazzolo, Italian footballer (d. 2001)
 1914 - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Indian director, producer and journalist (d. 1987)
 1917 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
 1917 – Dean Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1995)
 1920 - Georges Marchais, French politician (d. 1997)
 1921 - Brian Talboys, New Zealand politician (d. 2012)
 1922 - Leo Reise, Jr., Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
 1927 - Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (d. 1953)
 1927 - Ian McColl, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2008)
1927 - Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (d. 2014)
 1928 - Dave Bowen, Welsh footballer (d. 1995)
 1928 - James Ivory, American director
 1928 – Randy Turpin, English boxer (d. 1966)
 1929 – John Turner, former Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2020)
 1929 - Antonio Carbajal, Mexican footballer
 1929 - Mickey Duff, Polish-born British boxing trainer and promoter (d. 2014)
 1930 - Hilderaldo Bellini, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014)
 1930 - Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1974)
 1931 – Virginia McKenna, English actress
 1933 - Arkady Arkanov, Russian writer and satirist (d. 2015)
 1936 - Pippo Baudo, Italian television presenter
 1937 - Neeme Jarvi, Estonian conductor
 1938 - Ian St John, Scottish footballer
 1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer
 1940 - Ronald Pickup, English actor
 1942 – Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libyan colonel and military leader (d. 2011)
 1943 - Ken Osmond, American actor
 1944 - Annette Lu, Taiwanese politician and lawyer
1944 - Miguel Ríos, Spanish singer
 1945 – Wolfgang Schüssel, former Chancellor of Austria
 1947 - Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)
 1949 - Lou Macari, Scottish footballer
 1950 - Gary Graham, American actor