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Up to 1900 
 489 - Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into present-day Italy.
 663 - Silla-Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang.
 1189 - Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre, present-day Lebanon, under Guy of Lusignan.
 1521 – Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
 1524 - The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
 1565 - Pedro Menendez de Aviles sights land near St. Augustine, Florida, which becomes the oldest-continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
 1609 - Henry Hudson reaches Delaware Bay.
 1619 – Ferdinand II is elected Holy Roman Emperor.
 1640 - Second Bishop's War: Charles I of England's army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
 1709 - Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
1789 – William Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn.
 1845 – The first edition of the Scientific American magazine is published.
 1850 - Richard Wagner's Lohengrin Romantic opera is first performed in Weimar, under direction of Franz Liszt.
 1861 - American Civil War: The Union Army successfully extends its blockage strategy by capturing the Confederate forts on North Carolina's Center Banks.
 1862 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run.
 1867 – The United States annexes the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
 1879 – Cetshwayo, the last king of the Zulus is captured by the British.
 1898 - Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that will become known as Pepsi Cola.
1901  2000 
 1909 - A military coup d'état against the government of Dimitrios Rallis in Greece begins.
 1913 – The Peace Palace in The Hague is inaugurated.
 1914 - World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet at the First Battle of Heligoland Bight.
 1916 - World War I: Germany declares war on Romania. On the same day, Italy declares war on Germany.
 1917 - Ten suffragettes (campaigners for women's right to vote) are arrested after a protest outside the White House in Washington, DC.
 1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
 1931 - France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
 1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
 1943 - World War II: A general strike in Denmark against the occupiers begins.
 1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
 1953 – Nippon TV broadcasts Japan's first television programme.
 1955 – African American teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi.
1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his famous I Have a Dream speech, calling for Civil Rights and equal opportunities.
 1963 - The Evergreen Point Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens between Seattle and Medina in Washington state, United States.
 1964 - The Philadelphia race riot begins.
 1968 - Riots occur in Chicago, Illinois during the Democratic Party's National Convention.
 1971 - A fire on the Greek ferry Heleanna kills 26 people.
 1972 - Mark Spitz wins the first two of his total of seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
 1973 - Puebla, Veracruz and Oaxaca in Mexico are struck by an earthquake, killing 1,200 people.
 1979 - An IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt, Brussels, Belgium.
 1984 - In Amstetten, Austria, Josef Fritzl locks up his daughter Elisabeth in a cellar behind his house. She would remain imprisoned there for over 23 years until April 26, 2008.
1988 – Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolore demonstration team collide, with the wreckage falling into the crowd, killing 75 people and injuring 346.
 1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait its newest province.
 1990 - A Force 5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
 1991 – Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
 1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales officially divorce.
From 2001 
 2003 – A power blackout in southeastern England affects 500,000 people.
 2005 – Hurricane Katrina begins to make landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi.
 2007 - Abdullah Gül becomes President of Turkey.
 2008 - Barack Obama accepts the Democrats' nomination for President of the United States, becoming the first African American to do so. 
 2014 - Recep Tayyip Erdogan becomes President of Turkey.

Births
Up to 1900 
933 - Richard I of Normandy (d. 996)
1025 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068)
1582 – Taichang Emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China (d. 1620)
1592 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English diplomat (d. 1627)
1676 - Louise of Mecklenburg, Queen Consort of Denmark (d. 1721)
1714 - Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick (d. 1774)
1728 - John Stark, American general (d. 1822)
1739 - Agostino Accorintoni, Italian composer (d. 1818)
1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, first American-born saint (d. 1821)
1801 - Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1877)
1814 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
1827 - Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1874)
1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1910) (September 9 in Gregorian calendar)
1831 – Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
1833 - Edward Burne-Jones, English painter (d. 1898)
1837 - Francis, Duke of Teck, German-British nobleman (d. 1900)
1840 - Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish pharmacist and businessman (d. 1900)
1853 – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer (d. 1939)
1853 – Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1938)
1859 - Matilda Howell, American archer (d. 1938)
1859 - Vittorio Sella, Italian mountaineer and photographer (d. 1943)
1867 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948)
1878 – George Whipple, American doctor (d. 1976)
1884 – Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1950)
1885 - Vance Palmer, Australian author, playwright and critic (d. 1959)
1887 - August Kippasto, Estonian-Australian wrestler (d. 1973)
1888 - Edward H. Griffith, American director (d. 1975)
1896 - Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian author, poet and critic (d. 1982)
1898 - Charlie Grimm, American baseball player, manager and sportscaster (d. 1983)
1899 – Chang Myon, 4th Vice President of South Korea, 2nd, 7th Prime Minister (d. 1966)
1899 – Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
1899 - Andrei Platonov, Russian author (d. 1951)
1899 - James Wong Howe, Chinese-American cinematographer (d. 1976)
1901  1950 
1903 – Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990)
1904 - Anton Yugov, 35th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1991)
1906 – John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist (d. 1985)
1911 – Joseph Luns, Dutch Secretary-General of NATO (d. 2002)
1913 – Robertson Davies, Canadian writer (d. 1995)
1916 – Jack Vance, American writer (d. 2013)
1917 - Jack Kirby, American comic artist (d. 1994)
1919 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer (d. 2004)
1921 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada, President of Bolivia (d. 2011)
1921 - Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991)
1921 - Mariano Rajoy Sobredo, Spanish judge (d. 2018)
1921 - Fernando Fernan Gomez, Peruvian-Spanish writer, actor and director (d. 2007)
1923 – Guenter Wendt, German-born NASA engineer (d. 2010)
1924 – Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (d. 2004)
1924 - Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (d. 2004)
1924 - Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Polish-American rabbi (d. 2014)
1928 - Vilayat Khan, Indian sitarist and composer (d. 2004)
1930 - Windsor Davies, English actor
1930 - Ben Gazzara, American actor, singer and director (d. 2012)
1931 - Cristina Deutekom, Dutch operatic soprano (d. 2014)
1931 - Ola L. Mize, American general (d. 2014)
1931 - John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone (d. 2014)
1931 - Shunichiro Okano, Japanese footballer (d. 2017)
1932 - Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager (d. 2016)
1933 - Philip French, English film critic (d. 2015)
1936 - Don Denkinger, American baseball player and umpire
1938 – Paul Martin Jr., former Prime Minister of Canada
1939 - John Kingman, English mathematician
1940 - William Cohen, American lawyer and politician
1940 - Ken Jenkins, American actor
1942 - Sterling Morrison, American singer and guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1995)
1942 – José Eduardo dos Santos, former President of Angola
1943 – David Soul, American actor
1943 – Surayud Chulanont, former Prime Minister of Thailand
1943 - Shuja Khanzada, Pakistani politician (d. 2015)
1943 – Lou Piniella, American baseball manager
1947 – Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (d. 2004)
1949 – Hugh Cornwell, English musician (The Stranglers)
1951  1975 
1951 - Dave Hlubek, American musician and songwriter (d. 2017)
1951 – Wayne Osmond, American singer
1952 – Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
1952 – Rita Dove, American poet
1953 – Ditmar Jakobs, German footballer
1954 - George M. Church, American geneticist, chemist and engineer
1957 - Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist and political activist
1957 – Ivo Josipovic, former President of Croatia
1957 - Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, Spanish footballer and coach (d. 2012)
1957 – Daniel Stern, American actor
1958 – Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
1959 - Brian Thompson, American actor
1960 – Emma Samms, English actress
1961 - Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
1961 - Rona Fairhead, former Chair of the BBC Trust
1961 - Kim Appleby, British singer
1963 - Lucjan Avgustini, Albanian bishop (d. 2016)
1964 - Kaj Leo Johannesen, 12th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1965 – Satoshi Tajiri, Japanese, creator of Pokémon
1965 – Shania Twain, Canadian-American singer
1965 - Amanda Tapping, English-Canadian actress, director and producer
1966 - Julen Lopetegui, Spanish football manager
1967 - Greg Clark, English politician
1968 – Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
1969 – Jack Black, American actor and musician
1969 – Jason Priestley, Canadian-American actor
1969 - Mary McCartney, English photographer and actress
1971 - Janet Evans, American swimmer
1971 - Alex Polizzi, English hotelier and television presenter
1972 - Omayra Sanchez, Colombian volcanic eruption victim (d. 1985)
1973 - J. August Richards, American actor
1974 – Carsten Jancker, German footballer
From 1976 
1976 – Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer
1978 - Jess Margera, American drummer
1980 - Carly Pope, Canadian actress
1980 - Rachel Khoo, English chef, writer and broadcaster
1981 - Kezia Dugdale, Scottish politician
1981 – Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer
1982 – LeAnn Rimes, American singer
1982 – Thiago Motta, Italian footballer
1983 - Luke McAlister, New Zealand rugby player
1983 – Christian Pander, German footballer
1983 - Lilli Schwarzkopf, German athlete
1984 - Sarah Roemer, American actress
1984 - Paula Fernandes, Brazilian singer
1985 - Masahiko Inoha, Japanese footballer
1986 – Florence Welch, English singer (Florence and the Machine)
1986 – Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier
1986 - Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (d. 2015)
1987 - Katie Green, English model
1987 - Daigo Nishi, Japanese footballer
1987 - Caleb Moore, American snowmobile racer (d. 2013)
1989 - César Azpilicueta, Spanish footballer
1989 - Valtteri Bottas, Finnish Formula One racing driver
1989 - Jo Kwon, South Korean singer
1989 - Cassadee Pope, American singer and songwriter
1989 - Jamie Murphy, Scottish footballer
1990 – Bojan Krkic, Serbian-Spanish footballer
1991 - Kyle Massey, American actor and rapper
1991 - Andreja Pejic, Bosnian-Australian model
1992 - Sora Amamija, Japanese voice actress and singer
1994 - Felix Jaehn, German DJ and producer
1994 - Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer (d. 2015)
1999 - Prince Nikolai of Denmark
2003 - Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress
Deaths

Up to 1900 
388 - Magnus Maximus, Roman Emperor (b. 335)
430 – Augustine of Hippo, saint and theologian (b. 354)
476 - Orestes, Roman politician
632 - Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad (b. 605)
876 - Louis the German, Frankish King (b. 804)
1027 - Richard II, Duke of Normandy (b. 963)
1481 – King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1432)
1645 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher (b. 1583)
1654 – Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)
1757 - David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
1784 - Junipero Serra, Spanish-American missionary (b. 1713)
1805 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader and author (b. 1722)
1818 - Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, American founder of Chicago (b. 1750)
1888 - Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (b. 1835)
1900 - Henry Sidgwick, English economist and philosopher (b. 1838)
1901  2000 
1903 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
1933 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
1934 - Edgeworth David, Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (b. 1858)
1942 - Belisario Porras Barahona, President of Panama (b. 1856)
1943 – King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
1943 - George Underwood, American runner (b. 1884)
1955 – Emmett Till, American Civil Rights Movement icon (b. 1941) (murdered)
1959 – Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
1965 - Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (b. 1909)
1972 - Prince William of Gloucester (b. 1941)
1976 - Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
1978 - Robert Shaw, English actor, screenwriter and producer (b. 1927)
1981 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)
1984 - Muhammad Naguib, 1st President of Egypt (b. 1901)
1985 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)
1987 – John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)
1988 - Jean Marchand, Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)
1990 - Willy Vandersteen, Belgian comic writer (b. 1913)
1995 – Michael Ende, German writer (b. 1929)
From 2001 
2005 - Hans Clarin, German actor (b. 1929)
2006 – Melvin Schwartz, American physicist (b. 1932)
2006 – William F. Quinn, 1st State Governor of Hawaii (b. 1919)
2006 - Ed Benedict, American animator (b. 1912)
2007 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
2007 - Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-American actress and singer (b. 1929)
2008 – Phil Hill, American racing driver (b. 1927)
2009 - Adam Goldstein, American drummer, DJ and producer (b. 1973)
2010 – Sinan Hasani, President of Yugoslavian (b. 1922)
2012 - Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, Russian spiritual leader (b. 1937)
2013 - Murray Gershenz, American actor (b. 1922)
2014 - Bill Kerr, South African-Australian actor and comedian (b. 1922)
2014 - Glenn Cornick, English guitarist (b. 1947)
2014 - Fernando Zunzunegui, Spanish footballer (b. 1943)
2014 - Jack Kraft, American basketball coach (b. 1921)
2014 - John Anthony Walker, American naval officer (b. 1937)
2014 - Roberto Cairo, Spanish actor (b. 1963)
2015 - Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
2015 - Teresa Gorman, English politician (b. 1931)
2015 - Nelson Shanks, American painter (b. 1937)
2016 - Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
2016 - Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
2016 - Mohammad Shafi Qureshi, Indian politician, Governor of West Bengal (b. 1929)
2016 - Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Israeli politician (b. 1936)
2017 - Senarath Attanayake, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1966)
2017 - Mireille Darc, French actress and model (b. 1938)
2017 - Tsutomu Hata, former Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1935)
2017 - David Torrence, Peruvian-American runner (b. 1985)
2018 - Silvano Campeggi, Italian film poster designer (b. 1923)
2018 - Josep Fontana, Spanish historian and academic (b. 1931)
2018 - Gary Friedrich, American comic book writer (b. 1943)
Observances 
 Christian Feast Day of Assumption (Orthodox Church)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1140  China: Song Dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin Dynasty general Wanyan Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin-Song Wars.
 1192  Minamoto Yoritomo becomes de facto ruler of Japan.
 1526  Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar reaches the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
 1680  Pueblo Native Americans capture Santa Fe from the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
 1689  The Battle of Dunkeld takes place in Scotland.
 1728  Vitus Bering discovers Saint Lawrence Island in the now-named Bering Sea.
 1770  James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
 1772  Half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden is ended when King Gustav III adopts a new constitution.
 1778  American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost of Pondicherry in India.
 1810  The Swedish parliament elects Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte as crown prince.
 1821  Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship Eliza Frances.
1831  Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
 1842  The city of Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
 1852  Tlingits destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon.
 1858  In the United States, the first in a series of debates takes place between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas.
 1863  Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate troops.
 1883  A Force 5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota.
 1888  The first successful adding machine in the US is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
 1891  Chilean Civil War: The Battle of Concon takes place.
 1897  Oldsmobile, a brand of American automobiles, is founded.
1901  2000 
 1911  In the night to August 22, Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, the Mona Lisa, is stolen from the Louvre in Paris. It is recovered two years later.
 1914  World War I: Battle of Charleroi - a successful German attack across the River Sambre.
 1918  World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
 1940  Former Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky dies in Mexico City, one day after being wounded with an ice-ax.
 1942  World War II Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack from Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of Tenaru.
 1942  World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is put on top of Mount Elbrus, the highest point in the Caucasus mountains.
 1944  World War II: The Dumbarton Oaks Conference begins, on the way to creating the UN.
 1944  World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategic town of Falaise, Calvados, France.
1957  The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
 1959  Hawaii becomes the 50th State of the United States.
 1961  Motown releases what would become its first Number One hit, Please, Mr. Postman by the Marvelettes.
 1963  The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhist pagodas, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
 1968  The Prague Spring uprising in Czechoslovakia is brutally crushed by Warsaw Pact forces.
 1969  An Australian, Denis Michael Rohan, sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire.
 1971  A bomb explodes at a Liberal Party campaign rally in Manila, Philippines, injuring several anti-Ferdinand Marcos candidates.
 1979  Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
1982  Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestinian Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon.
 1983  Filipino opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is murdered at Manila International Airport, on his return from exile.
 1986  Carbon dioxide gas erupts from the volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people, within a 20 km range, as they slept.
 1987  Dirty Dancing has its first showing in the United States.
 1991  Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
 1991  The August Coup, a coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, fails.
 1993  NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
From 2001 
 2001  NATO decides to send a peacekeeping force to the Republic of Macedonia.
 2001  The International Red Cross announces that Tajikistan is being struck by a famine, and calls for aid to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
 2007  Hurricane Dean makes landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico, as a category 5 hurricane.
 2010  Australia's 2010 General Election is the closest in years with little to separate Julia Gillard of the Australian Labor Party and Tony Abbott of the Conservative Liberal Party of Australia. Through the support of independent MPs, Julia Gillard is allowed to stay on as Prime Minister of Australia.
 2013  Chemical attacks are carried out in Ghouta, Syria, during the Syrian Civil War, killing hundreds of people.
 2016  The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, end.
 2017  American naval ship "USS John S. McCain" collides with a merchant vessel near Singapore, killing 11 sailors.
2017  A total solar eclipse is seen across several states of the United States, from Oregon to South Carolina, with partial eclipses seen over several other countries and the North Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
 2019  Brazil's Institute for Space Research reports a record number of fires burning in the Amazon rainforest, with 36,000 in the year up to this date, and smoke reaching as far south as Sao Paulo.
Up to 1900 
 1165  King Philip II of France (d. 1223)
 1535  Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
 1567  Francis de Sales, French mystic and church teacher (d. 1622)
 1597  Roger Twysden, English historian and politician (d. 1672)
 1643  King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
 1660  Hubert Gautier, French scientist and civil engineer (d. 1737)
 1665  Giacomo F. Maraldi, Italian-French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1729)
 1725  Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (d. 1805)
 1754  William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)
 1765  King William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
 1773  Jens Christian Djurhuus, Faroese farmer and poet (d. 1853)
 1789  Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857)
 1798  Jules Michelet, French historian (d. 1874)
 1800  Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
 1805  August Bournonville, Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1879)
 1813  Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891)
 1821  Andrew Kim Taegon, South Korean priest (d. 1846)
1823  Nathaniel Everett Green, English painter, educator and astronomer (d. 1899)
 1826  Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903)
 1845  William Healey Dall, American naturalist, palaeontologist and explorer (d. 1927)
 1858  Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria (d. 1889)
 1862  Emilio Salgari, Italian writer (d. 1911)
 1869  William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish-Australian poet (d. 1963)
 1872  Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator (d. 1898)
 1878  Richard Girulaitis, German football manager (d. 1963)
 1884  Chandler Egan, American golfer (d. 1936)
 1887  James Paul Moody, Sixth officer of the RMS Titanic (d. 1912)
 1891  Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican supercentenarian (d. 2007)
 1892  Charles Vanel, French actor and director (d. 1989)
 1893  Lili Boulanger, French composer (d. 1918)
1901  1950 
 1902  Angel Karaliychev, Bulgarian writer (d. 1972)
 1904  Count Basie, American musician, bandleader and composer (d. 1984)
 1906  Friz Freleng, American animator (d. 1995)
 1908  M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004)
 1909  Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian physicist (d. 1992)
 1909  C. Douglas Dillon, American politician (d. 2003)
 1917  Leonid Hurwicz, Polish-born American economist (d. 2008)
 1918  Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
 1920  Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for Winnie the Pooh stories (d. 1996)
 1921  Reuven Feuerstein, Israeli psychologist (d. 2014)
 1923  Keith Allen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)
 1924  Arthur Janov, American psychologist, psychotherapist and writer (d. 2017)
 1926  Marian Jaworski, Polish-Ukrainian cardinal
 1927  Wilhelm Killmayer, German composer and conductor (d. 2017)
 1927  Thomas S. Monson, American Mormon Church leader (d. 2018)
 1928  Chris Brasher, British athlete (d. 2003)
1928  Marie Severin, American comic book artist (d. 2018)
 1929  Herman Badillo, American politician (d. 2014)
 1929  Ahmed Kathrada, South African political activist (d. 2017)
 1930  Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, member of the British royal family (d. 2002)
 1930  Frank Perry, American movie director (d. 1995)
 1932  Menashe Kadishman, Israeli sculptor and painter (d. 2015)
 1932  Melvin Van Peebles, American actor and screenwriter
 1933  Michael Dacher, German mountaineer (d. 1994)
 1933  Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
 1933  Barry Norman, English movie critic (d. 2017)
 1934  John L. Hall, American physicist
 1934  Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, 13th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2001)
 1935  Bernhard Eckstein, German track cyclist (d. 2017)
 1935  Anatoly Gladilin, Russian writer (d. 2018)
 1936  Radish Tordia, Georgian painter
 1936  Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (d. 1999)
 1936  Booth Gardner, former Governor of Washington (d. 2013)
1937  Donald Dewar, Scottish politician, 1st First Minister of Scotland (d. 2000)
 1937  Gustavo Noboa, former President of Ecuador
 1937  Robert Stone, American novelist (d. 2015)
 1938  Nicolás Ardito Barletta Vallarino, former President of Panama
 1938  Steve Cowper, former Governor of Alaska
 1938  Kenny Rogers, American singer (d. 2020)
 1939  Festus Mogae, former President of Botswana
 1939  James Burton, American guitarist
 1943  Gary Friedrich, American comic book writer (d. 2018)
 1943  Clarence Williams III, American actor
 1943  Jonathan Schell, American author (d. 2014)
 1943  Lucius Shepard, American writer (d. 2014)
 1943  Hugh Wilson, American film and television director (d. 2018)
 1944  Peter Weir, Australian movie director
 1944  Perry Christie, former Prime Minister of the Bahamas
 1945  Patty McCormack, American actress
 1945  Basil Poledouris, American movie score composer (d. 2006)
 1946  Margaret Chan, former Director-General of the World Health Organization
1949  Loretta Devine, American actress
 1950  Arthur Bremer, American criminal
 1950  Patrick Juvet, Swiss singer
1951  1975 
 1951  Karekin II, head of the Armenian Apostolic Church
 1951  Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
 1952  Jiri Paroubek, 6th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
 1952  Glenn Hughes, British musician
 1952  Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (d. 2002)
 1954  Archie Griffin, American football player
 1954  Chip Coffey, American psychic, medium and television personality
 1956  Kim Cattrall, British-born actress
 1956  Laura Morante, Italian actress
 1956  Jon Tester, United States Senator
 1957  Budgie, English musician
 1957  Tignous, French cartoonist (d. 2015)
 1961  V. B. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer (d. 2019)
 1961  Stephen Hillenburg, American marine biologist, animator, writer and director, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants (d. 2018)
 1962  Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (d. 2008)
 1963  King Mohammed VI of Morocco
 1965  Nigel Pearson, English football manager
 1967  Charb, French cartoonist and journalist, Editor of Charlie Hebdo (d. 2015)
1967  Serj Tankian, Armenian-American singer (System of a Down)
 1967  Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
 1967  Noel Francisco, 47th Solicitor General of the United States
 1967  Darren Bewick, Australian footballer
 1968  Antonio Benarrivo, Italian footballer
 1968  Laura Trevelyan, British broadcaster
 1969  Julie Etchingham, British journalist and news presenter
 1971  Mamadou Diallo, Senegalese footballer
 1971  Liam Howlett, English musician
 1973  Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player
 1973  Sergey Brin, Russian-born co-founder of Google
 1973  Nikolai Valuev, Russian boxer
 1975  Alicia Witt, American actress
From 1976 
 1976  Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican-American soccer player
 1978  Jason Marquis, American baseball player
 1979  Joel Griffiths, Australian footballer
 1979  Kelis, American singer
 1980  Joanne Froggatt, English actress
 1981  Cameron Winklevoss, American rower and businessman
 1981  Tyler Winklevoss, American rower and businessman
 1983  Scott McDonald, Australian footballer
 1983  Josh Harrington, American BMX rider
 1983  Chantelle Houghton, British television personality
 1983  Brody Jenner, American actor
 1984  Alizée, French singer
 1984  Eve Torres, American dancer, model and wrestler 
 1985  Aleksandra Kiryashova, Russian pole vaulter
 1985  Nicolás Almagro, Spanish tennis player
 1986  Wout Brama, Dutch footballer
 1986  Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter
 1987  Kim Kibum, South Korean singer and actor
 1988  Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer
 1988  Kacey Musgraves, American country music singer
 1989  Judd Trump, British snooker player
 1989  Rob Knox, British actor (d. 2008)
1989  Hayden Panettiere, American actress, model and singer
 1990  Jared Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
 1990  Bo Burnham, American comedian, singer-songwriter, musician and actor
 1990  Omar El Kaddouri, Belgian footballer
 1992  Brad Kavanagh, English songwriter and actor
 1992  RJ Mitte, American actor
 1996  Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 1131  Baldwin of Jerusalem (b. 1060)
 1157  Alfonso VII of Leon and Castile (b. 1104)
 1271  Alphonse, Count of Poitiers, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
 1581  Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
 1614  Elizabeth Bathory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (b. 1560)
 1627  Jacques Mauduit, French composer (b. 1557)
 1762  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
 1763  Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
 1775  Daher el-Omar, Arab ruler of Galilee (b. 1690)
 1796  John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
 1814  Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
 1836  Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)
 1838  Adelbert von Chamisso, German poet and botanist (b. 1781)
 1854  Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
 1870  Ma Xinyi, Chinese Viceroy of Liangjing and statesman (b. 1821)
1901  2000 
 1910  Gustave Moynier, Swiss jurist (b. 1826)
 1919  Laurence Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1875)
 1926  Ugyen Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1862)
 1935  John Hartley, English tennis player (b. 1849)
 1935  Pavlos Kountouriotis, Greek politician (b. 1855)
 1940  Leon Trotsky, Ukrainian revolutionary and Marxist (b. 1879)
 1940  Hermann Obrecht, Swiss politician (b. 1882)
 1940  Ernest Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)
 1943  Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer (b. 1857)
 1947  Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1881)
 1947  Theodore C. Bilbo, Governor of Mississippi (b. 1877)
 1951  Constant Lambert, British composer and conductor (b. 1905)
 1957  Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian oceanographer and professor (b. 1888)
 1964  Palmiro Togliatti, Italian politician (b. 1893)
 1971  George Jackson, American activist and author (b. 1941)
 1978  Charles Eames, American designer and architect (b. 1907)
 1979  Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
1981  Michael Devine, Irish hunger striker (b. 1954)
 1982  Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (b. 1899)
 1983  Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1932)
 1988  Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912)
 1989  Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
 1991  Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German writer (b. 1916)
 1995  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian astrophysicist (b. 1910)
 1997  Misael Pastrana, President of Colombia (b. 1923)
 2000  Daniel Lusilo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
 2000  Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer (b. 1928)
 2000  Bubi Scholz, German boxer (b. 1930)
From 2001 
 2005  Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
 2005  Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)
 2005  Martin Dillon, American opera singer (b. 1957)
 2007  Haley Paige, American pornographic actress (b. 1981)
 2010  Christoph Schlingensief, German director (b. 1960)
 2012  William Thurston, American mathematician (b. 1946)
 2013  C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut (b. 1936)
 2013  Sid Bernstein, American record producer (b. 1918)
 2014  Albert Reynolds, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1932)
 2014  Jean Redpath, Scottish folk singer (b. 1937)
 2014  Robert Hansen, American serial killer (b. 1939)
 2014  Gerry Anderson, Northern Irish broadcaster (b. 1944)
 2014  Raed al Atar, Palestinian military commander (b. 1974)
 2014  Steven R. Nagel, American astronaut (b. 1946)
 2015  Wang Dongxing, Chinese politician (b. 1916)
 2015  Anna Kashfi, British actress (b. 1934)
 2015  Gerry Steinberg, British politician (b. 1945)
2017  James Joseph Dresnok, American Korean War military personnel and actor (b. 1942)
 2017  Greg Evers, American politician (b. 1955)
 2017  Roberto Gottardi, Italian architect (b. 1927)
 2017  Thomas Meehan, American playwright (b. 1929)
 2017  Abdur Razzak, Bangladeshi actor (b. 1942)
 2017  Bajram Rexhepi, Kosovar politician (b. 1954)
 2017  Boris Spremo, Yugoslavian-born Canadian photojournalist (b. 1935)
 2017  Perch Zeytuntsyan, Egyptian-Armenian playwright and screenwriter (b. 1938)
 2018  Barbara Harris, American actress (b. 1935)
 2018  Spencer P. Jones, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958)
 2018  Villano III, Mexican  professional wrestler (b. 1952)
 2018  Stefan Karl Stefansson, Icelandic actor (b. 1975)
 2018  Otávio Frias Filho, Brazilian journalist (b. 1957)
 2018  Charles Gain, American police officer (b. 1923)
 2019  Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Jordanian princess, former Queen Consort of Jordan (b. 1929)
 2019  Norma Croker, Australian athlete (b. 1934)
2019  Babulal Gaur, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh (b. 1930)
 2019  Celso Piña, Mexican singer and musician (b. 1953)
Observances 
 Admission Day (Hawaii)
 Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines)
 Youth Day (Morocco)
 Regaining of Independence (Latvia)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
30 BC - After a successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian has Marcus Antonius Antyllus and Caesarion executed.
79 - Mount Vesuvius starts to show activity, a day before it erupted, destroying Pompeii and Herculaneum.
406 - Gothic king Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by Roman general Stilicho.
476 - Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes, is proclaimed King of Italy by his troops.
1244 - Siege of Jerusalem: The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to the Kharezmian Empire.
1305 – William Wallace is executed.
1328 – Battle of Kassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers
1328 – King Philip VI of France is crowned.
1382 - Siege of Moscow: The Golden Horde led by khan Tokhtamysh lays siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
1521 - Christian II of Denmark is deposed as King of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent.
1540 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1566 – Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands.
1592 - Japanese invasions of Korea: Yeongwon Castle is besieged by the Japanese Fourth Division, led by Ito Suketaka.
1614 – The University of Groningen is established.
1617 – In London, the first one-way street is established.
1628 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham is assassinated by John Felton.
1651 – Charles II enters Worcester and starts a battle.
1655 - Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1784 – Eastern Tennessee declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; the step is rejected by Congress one year later.
1793 – French Revolution: a levée en masse was decreed by the National Convention.
1799 – Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bulow  repulse the French army.
1821 – Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
1833 – Slavery abolished in the British colonies.
1839 – The UK captures Hong Kong.
1858 - The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England.
1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
1866 – Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1873 - The Albert Bridge is opened across the Thames in Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom.
1889 – First wireless message from a ship to the shore received.
1896 - Start of the Philippines Revolution.
1901  1950 
1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
1913 – A statue of the Little Mermaid is put up in Copenhagen.
1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
1921 - British airship R-38 experiences a structural failure over Kingston-Upon-Hull and crashes into the Humber estuary.
1924 – The distance between Earth and Mars is the smallest since the 10th century.
1927 – Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1929 – Arabs attack Jews in Israel.
1938 - English cricketer Len Hutton sets the world record for the highest individual test innings of 364, against Australia.
1939 – World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, Baltic states, Finland and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1940 – World War II: The Germans start bombing London.
1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad
1943 – World War II: Kharkov liberated.
1944 – World War II: Marseille liberated.
1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1944 – A US Army Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
1944 – World War II: Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania, is arrested and a new government is established. Romania exits the war against Russia joining the Allies.
1946 - Three states are created in the British occupation zone of post-World War II Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein, and the short-lived state of Hanover.
1947 – The Maynard Midgets beat Lock Haven 16-7 to win the first-ever Little League World Series championship.
1948 – World Council of Churches is formed.
1950 - The Subansiri Dam break in India kills 532 people.
1951  2000 
1952 – The Arab League goes into effect.
1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1960 – In Equatorial Guinea, the world's largest frog (3.3 kg) is caught.
1962 – First live television connection between the United States and Europe, via the Telstar satellite.
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1968 – Ringo Starr temporarily quits The Beatles
1973 – The Intelsat communication satellite is launched.
1973 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile, named Augusto Pinochet as Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army. Just 19 days later, Pinochet takes power in a coup, overthrowing Allende, who is killed.
1975 – Successful Communist coup in Laos
1976 – A major earthquake in China kills thousands of people.
1979 – Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
1982 - Bachir Gemayel is elected President of Lebanon during his country's civil war. He will not become president, as he is killed on September 14, before he can take office.
1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1987 – Heavy rains and floods in Bangladesh kill hundreds of victims.
1989 – Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic way).
1989 – All of Australia's 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to sack them and sue them over a dispute.
1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages to try to prevent the Gulf War).
1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.
1991 - Tim Berners-Lee opens the World Wide Web to new users.
1992 – Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida.
1993 - The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon orbiting around an asteroid; Dactyl orbits around the asteroid 243 Ida.
1999 – The Federal Republic of Germany is governed from Berlin from this day.
2000 – A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143 people.
2000 – Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.  This basically replaced the Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the BA Convention were also signatories to Berne.
From 2001 
2005 – Hurricane Katrina forms as a tropical depression.
2006 – In Austria, Natascha Kampusch manages to escape from 8 years of captivity. Her captor Wolfgang Priklopil commits suicide soon after.
2010 – Nine people, including the hostage taker, are killed in a hostage crisis on board a bus in Manila, Philippines.
2011 - 2011 Virginia earthquake: A magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes near Mineral, Virginia, and is felt all the way along the eastern seaboard of the United States. No one is killed, but damage is reported on buildings, including monuments in Washington, DC.
2018 - Sexual harassment allegations against former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond are made public.

Births
Up to 1900 
686  Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne (d. 741)
963  Richard II, Duke of Normandy (d. 1027)
1486  Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (d. 1566)
1517  Francis I of Lorraine (d. 1545)
1524  François Hotman, French lawyer and writer (d. 1590)
1623  Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (d. 1675)
1724  Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796)
1740  Tsar Ivan VI of Russia (d. 1764)
1741  Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French explorer (d. 1788)
1754  King Louis XVI of France (d. 1792)
1756  Francois Chabot, French priest and politician (d. 1794)
1757  Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1775)
1769  Georges Cuvier, French biologist and statesman (d. 1832)
1783  William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
1785  Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (d. 1819)
1797  Adhemar Jean Claude Barre de Saint-Venant, French scientist (d. 1886)
1805  Anton von Schmerling, Austrian politician and jurist (d. 1893)
1811  Auguste Bravais, French physicist (d. 1863)
1814  James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop (d. 1877)
1829  Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1920)
1836  Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of Belgium (d. 1902)
1839  James Geikie, Scottish geologist (d. 1915)
1846  Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923)
1847  Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
1849  William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903)
1850  John Cockburn, Scottish-Australian politician, 18th Premier of South Australia (d. 1929)
1852  Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer (d. 1883)
1852  Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (d. 1913)
1854  Moritz Moszkowski, Polish composer and pianist (d. 1925)
1864  Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1936)
1868  Edgar Lee Masters, American writer (d. 1950)
1872  Tanguturi Prakasam, Indian politician (d. 1957)
1875  William Eccles, English radio pioneer (d. 1966)
1880  Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932)
1883  Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, American general (d. 1953)
1884  Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
1887  Albert Gutterson, American athlete (d. 1965)
1887  Friedrich Zander, Baltic German rocket engineer (d. 1933)
1890  Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher (d. 1971)
1896  Jacques Rueff, French politician (d. 1978)
1900  Ernst Krenek, Austrian-born composer (d. 1991)
1901  1950 
1901  John Sherman Cooper, U.S. Senator from Kentucky (d. 1991)
1902  Ida Siekmann, German victim of the Berlin Wall (d. 1961)
1903  William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982)
1905  Constant Lambert, British composer (d. 1951)
1909  Leila Danette, American actress (d. 2012)
1910  Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (d. 1979)
1911  Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (d. 1998)
1911  Betty Robinson, American athlete (d. 1999)
1912  Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor (d. 1996)
1912  Alexey Sudayev, Russian inventor (d. 1946)
1912  Ed Benedict, American animator (d. 2006)
1913  Bob Crosby, American singer, actor and bandleader (d. 1993)
1917  Tex Williams, American singer (d. 1985)
1917  Antonio Innocenti, Italian cardinal (d. 2008)
1918  Bernard Fisher, American surgeon (d. 2019)
1919  Vladimir Rokhlin, Soviet mathematician (d. 1984)
1921  Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
1921  Franco Ossola, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
1922  Jean Darling, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
1922  George Kell, American baseball player (d. 2009)
1923  Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003)
1924  Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer (d. 2005)
1924  Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1925  Robert Mulligan, American movie director (d. 2008)
1926  Leo Leandros, Greek singer, composer and music producer
1927  Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator (d. 2017)
1928  Marian Seldes, American actress (d. 2014)
1929  Vera Miles, American actress
1929  Peter Thomson, Australian golfer (d. 2018)
1930  Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France (d. 2016)
1931  Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist
1932  Houari Boumédiène, President of Algeria (d. 1978)
1932  Mark Russell, American comedian, musician, and political commentator
1933  Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1933  Pete Wilson, former Governor of California
1934  Barbara Eden, American actress
1934  Sonny Jurgensen, American football player
1934  Carlos Amigo Vallejo, Archbishop of Seville and cardinal
1936  Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. 2001)
1940  Thomas A. Steitz, American molecular biologist and biochemist (d. 2018)
1943  Donald Kalpokas, former Prime Minister of Vanuatu (d. 2019)
1943  Raúl Cubas Grau, former President of Paraguay
1943  Nelson DeMille, American novelist
1943  Pino Presti,  Italian bass player, arranger, composer, conductor, record producer
1944  Antonia Novello, 14th Surgeon General of the United States
1945  Bob Peck, British actor (d. 1999)
1945  Rita Pavone, Italian singer
1945  Rayfield Wright, American football player
1946  Keith Moon, English singer and drummer (The Who) (d. 1978)
1947  David Robb, British actor
1947  Willy Russell, British playwright
1948  Andrei Plesu, Romanian philosopher, journalist and politician
1949  Shelley Long, American actress
1949  Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor
1950  Luigi Delneri, Italian football manager
1950  Roza Otunbayeva, former President of Kyrgyzstan
1951  1975 
1951  Queen Noor of Jordan
1951  Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004)
1951  Jimi Jamison, American rock music singer and songwriter (d. 2014)
1952  Vicky Leandros, Greek singer
1952  Santillana, Spanish footballer
1953  Bobby G, English singer (Bucks Fizz)
1953  Arturas Paulauskas, Lithuanian politician
1954  Marc Vann, American actor
1954  Halimah Yacob, 8th President of Singapore
1956  Andreas Floer, German mathematician (d. 1991)
1956  Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian politician
1959  Edwyn Collins, Scottish singer
1959  Jorginho Putinatti, Brazilian footballer
1961  Alexandre Desplat, French composer
1961  Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, 54th Mayor of Tehran
1961  Gary Mabbutt, English footballer
1962  Martin Cauchon, Canadian lawyer and politician
1962  Shaun Ryder, British musician
1963  Park Chan-wook, South Korean film director, screenwriter and producer
1963  Richard Illingworth, English cricketer
1963  Kenny Wallace, American race car driver
1964  Johan Bruyneel, Belgian cyclist
1965  Richard Avary, Canadian movie and television producer, screenwriter and director
1966  Alberto Acosta, Argentine footballer
1966  Rik Smits, Dutch basketball player
1966  Charley Boorman, English actor and adventurer
1967  Jim Murphy, Scottish politician
1967  Ant, American comedian and actor
1968  Chris DiMarco, American golfer
1968  Laura Claycomb, American operatic soprano
1968  Hajime Moriyasu, Japanese footballer
1969  Tinus Linee, South African rugby player (d. 2014)
1970  Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
1970  River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
1971  Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer
1971  Gretchen Whitmer, American politician, Governor of Michigan
1972  Souad Massi, Algerian singer and guitarist
1972  Mark Butcher, English cricketer
1973  Casey Blake, American baseball player
1973  Chelsi Smith, American singer and beauty pageant winner (d. 2018)
1974  Toni Brunner, Swiss politician
1974  Konstantin Novoselov, Russian-British physicist
1974  Ray Park, British actor
1974  Benjamin Limo, Kenyan athlete
1975  Eliza Carthy, English singer and fiddler