Events

Up to 1950 
 217 BC  Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
 168 BC  Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War.
 816  Pope Stephen IV is elected.
 1593  Battle of Sisak: Slovene – Croat troops defeat the Turks.
 1622  Portuguese forces repel a Dutch invasion at the Battle of Macau during the Dutch-Portuguese War.
 1633  The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
 1634  Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn marries Saskia van Uylenburgh.
 1675  The Greenwich Royal Observatory is founded.
 1774  The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules for governance of the colony of Quebec in what was then British North America.
 1783  The poisonous cloud from the erupting Laki volcanic crater in Iceland reaches Le Havre, on France's English Channel coast.
 1813  War of 1812: After learning of American plans to carry out a surprise attack on the Beavers Dams, Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn James FitzGibbon.
 1825  British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
 1866  Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
 1870  The United States Congress creates the United States Department of Justice.
 1893  The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
 1898  Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
 1906  The Flag of Sweden is adopted as the country's official national flag.
 1907  The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
 1911  George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII, who had died in 1910.
 1918  The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 people and injures 127 in Hammond, Indiana. 
 1919  Law student Jens Oliver Lisberg first raises the current Flag of the Faroe Islands in the village of Famjin.
 1922  Herrin massacre: 19 strikeboarders and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
 1936  Austrian philosopher Moritz Schlick is murdered by a former student at the University of Vienna.
 1937  Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France.
 1940  France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany.
 1941  Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II.
 1941  First Croatian anti-fascist armed unit (partisans) founded near Sisak, Croatia.
 1941  June coup in Lithuania against the Soviets starts.
 1942  Erwin Rommel is promoted to the rank of Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk, in Libya.
 1944  Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre.
 1945  World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
 1950  The longship replica Ormen Friske , en route from Birka to Rotterdam, broke apart in the North Sea because of improper construction. All 15 crew members drowned.

1951  2000 
 1955  The Disney film Lady and the Tramp has its premiere.
 1957  The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time.
 1962  An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies killing 113
 1963  Pope Paul VI elected by College of Cardinals.
 1964  François Duvalier (Papa Doc) is officially declared "President for Life" in Haiti.
 1974  In Hamburg, during the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the East Germany national football team defeats the West Germany national football team 1-0 in a Group Stage match, with the goal scored by Jürgen Sparwasser.
 1976  Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
 1978  Pluto's moon Charon is discovered.
 1984  William Schnoebelen and his wife Sharon are "saved" by a tract from Chick Publications. There is some debate over the reliability of this, however.
 1986  Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scores the Hand of God goal and the "Goal of the Century" against England during the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.
 1989  Dublin City University and University of Limerick are established in Ireland.
 1990  Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin is removed.
 1993  Dr. Charles Epstein of Tiburon, California, United States is injured by a mail bomb sent by the Unabomber.
 1996  The Quake computer game is released.
 2000  A ferry sinking on the Yangtze River in Sichuan province, China, kills 131 people.

From 2001 
 2002  An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people
 2003  The largest hailstone ever recorded falls from a thunderstorm in Aurora, Nebraska, United States.
 2004  In Belgium, Marc Dutroux is sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, raping and murdering young girls.
 2006  At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Ronaldo of Brazil equals Gerd Müller's overall World Cup goal-scoring record of 14. He beats the record five days later.
 2008  Filipino ferry Princess of the Stars runs aground in a typhoon, killing around 800 people.
 2009  Two Washington, DC metro trains collide, killing 9 people.
 2010  The longest match in professional tennis history begins at Wimbledon, in which John Isner defeats Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the fifth, and deciding, set two days later.
 2012  President of Paraguay Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and is succeeded by Federico Franco.
 2012  A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter airplane is shot down by Syrian Armed Forces, killing both pilots on board. This worsens the already strained relations between Turkey and Syria.
 2019  Mohamed Ould Ghazouani is elected President of Mauritania, in what would be the country's first peaceful transfer of power since gaining independence from France in 1960.

Births

Up to 1900 
662  Emperor Ruizong of Tang of China (d. 716)
1000  Robert I, Duke of Normandy (d. 1035)
1680  Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)
1684  Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1762)
1738  Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813)
1757  George Vancouver, English navigator, naval surveyor (d. 1798)
1767  Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
1792  James Baeumont Neilson, Scottish inventor (d. 1865)
1805  Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian jurist and activist (d. 1872)
1820  James Hutchison Stirling, Scottish physician and philosopher (d. 1909)
1821  Theodor Möbius, German philologist (d. 1890)
1830  Theodor Leschetizky, Polish pianist, professor and composer (d. 1915)
1837  Ernst Ziller, German architect (d. 1923)
1837  Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
1845  Richard Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1906)
1856  H. Rider Haggard, writer (d. 1925)
1861  Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914)
1864  Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (d. 1909)
1871  Arthur Wynne, English-American inventor of the Crossword (d. 1945)
1871  William MacDougall, English psychologist and polymath (d. 1938)
1874  Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, shooter, gymnast and athlete (d. 1930)
1874  Walter F. Otto, German scholar (d. 1958)
1876  Gwen John, Welsh painter (d. 1939)
1879  John J. Dempsey, American politician, 13th Governor of New Mexico (d. 1958)
1880  Johannes Drost, Dutch backstroke swimmer (d. 1954)
1884  James Rector, American sprinter (d. 1949)
1885  Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
1887  Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
1888  Harold Ritz Burton, 45th Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1964)
1890  Aleksander Warma, Estonian commander and politician (d. 1970)
1892  Emil Telmanyi, Hungarian violinist and conductor (d. 1988)
1896  Leonard W. Murray, Canadian admiral (d. 1971)
1897  Norbert Elias, German sociologist (d. 1990)
1898  Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
1899  Michal Kalecki, Polish economist (d. 1970)
1899  Artur Kukk, Estonian wrestler (d. 1958)
1899  Richard Gurley Drew, American engineer (d. 1980)
1900  Oskar Fischinger, German animator, filmmaker and painter (d. 1967)

1901  1930 
1902  Marguerite De La Motte, American movie actress (d. 1950)
1903  Carl Hubbell, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1988)
1903  John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
1906  Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American writer and aviator (d. 2001)
1906  Billy Wilder, Austrian-born director (d. 2002)
1907  Marta Colvin, Chilean sculptor (d. 1995)
1909  Buddy Adler, American film producer (d. 1960)
1909  Katherine Dunham, American dancer (d. 2006)
1909  Mike Todd, American movie and theatre producer (d. 1958)
1910  John Hunt, Indian-British mountaineer (d. 1998)
1910  Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
1910  Konrad Zuse, German engineer (d. 1995)
1912  Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1983)
1919  Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1980)
1920  Paul Frees, cartoon voice-over artist (d. 1986)
1920  Jovito Salonga, Filipino politician (d. 2016)
1921  Joseph Papp, director, producer (d. 1991)
1922  Osvaldo Fattori, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
1924  Géza Vermes, Hungarian-British scholar (d. 2013)
1926  Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish writer and filmmaker (d. 2015)
1926  Rachid Solh, Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2014)
1928  Steingrimur Hermannsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 2010)
1928  Ralph Waite, American actor (d. 2014)
1929  Bruce Kent, British social activist
1930  Yuri Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1998)
1930  Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and young victim of crime (d. 1932)
1930  John Joseph Scanlan, Roman Catholic prelate
1930  Walter Bonatti, Italian mountaineer (d. 2011)

1931  1950 
1932  Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
1932  Prunella Scales, British actress
1932  Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Queen Consort of Iran (d. 2001)
1933  Dianne Feinstein, United States Senator and former Mayor of San Francisco
1933  Libor Pesek, Czech conductor
1936  Kris Kristofferson, American country music singer, songwriter and actor
1936  Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian composer and musician
1936  Izatullo Khayoyev, Prime Minister of Tajikistan (d. 2015)
1937  Bernie McGann, American musician (d. 2013)
1938  Virginio De Paoli, Italian footballer (d. 2009)
1939  Robert Kramer, American actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1939  Ada Yonath, Israeli chemist, Nobel Prize winner
1940  Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1940  Esther Rantzen, British television presenter
1941  Marco Aurélio Garcia, Brazilian politician (d. 2017)
1941  Ed Bradley, American journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent (d. 2006)
1943  Brit Hume, American FOX News anchor and commentator
1943  Eumir Deodato, Brazilian pianist, composer and producer
1943  Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor
1944  Helmut Dietl, German movie director (d. 2015)
1944  Gérard Mourou, French physicist
1945  Rainer Brüderle, German politician
1946  Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club)
1946  Józef Oleksy, Polish politician (d. 2015)
1947  Octavia E. Butler, American science fiction author (d. 2006)
1947  David Lander, American actor, baseball scout (Laverne and Shirley)
1947  David Landau, British-Israeli journalist (d. 2015)
1947  Bruno Latour, French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist
1947  Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana (d. 2020)
1948  Todd Rundgren, American singer, songwriter and recording producer
1949  Meryl Streep, American actress
1949  Lindsay Wagner, American actress
1949  Alan Osmond, American singer
1949  Larry Gunstrom, American bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1949  Elizabeth Warren, American politician
1949  Carlo Petrini, Italian journalist, activist and writer
1950  Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
1950  Adrian Nastase, Romanian politician

1951  1970 
1951  Craig Gruber, American musician (d. 2015)
1952  Graham Greene, Canadian actor
1952  Alastair Stewart, English journalist and newsreader
1953  Cyndi Lauper, American singer
1953  Wim Eijk, Dutch archbishop
1954  Wolfgang Becker, German film director and writer
1954  Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977)
1956  Wang Guozhen, Chinese poet (d. 2015)
1956  Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani politician
1956  Derek Forbes, Scottish musician (Simple Minds)
1957  Danny Baker, English comedy writer, journalist, DJ and screenwriter
1957  Arkadi Ghukasyan, former President of Nagorno-Karabakh
1958  Bruce Campbell, American actor
1960  Erin Brockovich, American activist
1960  Tracy Pollan, American actress
1961  Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician
1962  Bobby Gillespie, Scottish singer and musician
1962  Clyde Drexler, former NBA player
1962  Campino, German singer
1962  Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress and musician
1963  Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler
1964  Amy Brenneman, American actress
1964  Miroslav Kadlec, Czech footballer
1964  Dan Brown, American writer (The Da Vinci Code)
1964  John Penrose, English politician
1965  Uwe Boll, German director
1965  L'ubomir Moravcik, Slovakian footballer
1968  Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player
1968  Melinda Nadj Abonji, Hungarian-Swiss writer and musician
1970  Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician and businessman
1970  Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies)

1971  1985 
1973  Carson Daly, American talk show host, MTV VJ
1974  Jo Cox, British politician (d. 2016) 
1974  Joseph Vijay, Indian actor
1974  Sabina Nore, Austrian artist
1974  Donald Faison, American actor
1976  Gordon Moakes, English singer and musician
1978  Champ Bailey, American football player
1978  Dan Wheldon, British IRL race car driver (d. 2011)
1979  Jai Rodriguez, American television personality
1979  Leire Martinez, Basque singer and songwriter
1980  Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player
1981  Sione Lauaki, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2017)
1981  Chris Urbanowicz, British guitarist (Editors)
1981  Monty Oum, American animator (d. 2015)
1982  Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
1984  Janko Tipsarevic, Serbian tennis player
1984  Giorgos Apostolidis, Greek basketball player
1984  Dustin Johnson, American golfer
1984  Ruben Ivan Martinez, Spanish footballer
1985  Sofaklis Schortsanitis, Greek basketball player
1985  Rosa Kato, Italian-Japanese model and actress
1985  Scott MacIntyre, American singer-songwriter and pianist

From 1986 
1986  Dwayne Anderson, American basketball player
1986  Ramin Ott, American Samoan footballer
1987  Nikita Rukavytsya, Ukrainian-Australian footballer
1987  Danny Green, American basketball player
1987  Cory Gunz, American rapper and songwriter
1987  Lee Min Ho, South Korean actor, model and singer
1988  Portia Doubleday, American actress
1989  Jung Yong-hwa, South Korean musician, singer and songwriter
1989  Andreas Mikkelsen, Norwegian rally driver
1989  Karla Crome, British actress
1989  Cédric Mongongu, Congolese footballer
1990  Sebastian Jung, German footballer
1991  Giuseppe De Luca, Italian footballer
1991  Katie Jarvis, English actress
1991  Emil Larsen, Danish footballer
1993  Caydee Denney, American figure skater
1993  Loris Karius, German footballer
2006  Anna Hursey, Welsh table tennis player

Deaths

Up to 1950 
431  Paulinus of Nola, Latin poet
1276  Pope Innocent V (b. 1225)
1429  Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
1535  John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, executed on Tower Hill (b. 1469)
1691  Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1642)
1699  Josiah Child, English merchant, economist and politician (b. 1630)
1727  King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)
1813  Anton Graff, Swiss painter (b. 1736)
1868  Heber C. Kimball, Mormon church leader (b. 1801)
1872  Rudecindo Alvarado, Argentine general (b. 1795)
1874  Howard Staunton, English chess player (b. 1810)
1892  Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (b. 1819)
1896  Benjamin Bristow, American politician (b. 1832)
1905  Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1913  Stefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (b. 1875)
1925  Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)
1931  Armand Fallières, President of France (b. 1841)
1933  Henry Birkin, English racing driver (b. 1896)
1935  Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
1936  Moritz Schlick, German philosopher (b. 1882)
1942  August Froehlich, German priest and Resistance activist (b. 1891)
1945  Isamu Cho, Japanese general (b. 1895)
1945  Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (b. 1887)
1945  Jambyl, KazakhstanI folk singer (b. 1846)

1951  2000 
1956  Walter de la Mare, English author and poet (b. 1873)
1959  Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)
1961  Maria of Yugoslavia, Romanian-born Consort of Yugoslavia (b. 1900)
1965  David O. Selznick, American movie producer (b. 1902)
1969  Judy Garland, American singer and actress (b. 1922)
1974  Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
1977  Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1978  Jens Otto Krag, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1914)
1979  Louis Chiron, Monegasque racing driver (b. 1899)
1987  Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (b. 1899)
1988  Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b. 1916)
1990  Ilya Frank, Russian physicist (b. 1908)
1992  Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)
1993  Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
1995  Al Hansen, American artist, grandfather of rock musician Beck (b. 1927)
1995  Yves Congar, French theologian and cardinal (b. 1904)
1997  Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1919)

From 2001 
2001  Luis Carniglia, Argentine footballer and coach (b. 1917)
2002  Darryl Kile, American Major League baseball player (b. 1968)
2002  Ann Landers, American writer (b. 1918)
2004  Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990)
2004  Bob Bemer, American computer pioneer (b. 1920)
2008  George Carlin, American comedian and actor (b. 1937)
2013  Allan Simonsen, Danish racing driver (b. 1978)
2013  Henning Larsen, Danish architect (b. 1925)
2013  Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, Scottish politician (b. 1945)
2014  Fouad Ajami, Lebanese-American university professor and writer (b. 1945)
2015  Laura Antonelli, Italian actress (b. 1941)
2015  James Horner, American film score composer (b. 1953)
2015  James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife, Scottish nobleman (b. 1929)
2016  Amjad Sabri, Pakistani singer (b. 1970)
2016  Joan Acker, American sociologist (b. 1924)
2016  John William Ashe, Antiguan diplomat (b. 1954)
2016  Vasily Bochkaryov, Russian politician (b. 1949)
2016  Jim Boyd, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
2016  Marc Allan Feldman, American physician and politician (b. 1960)
2016  David J. Hickson, British theorist (b. 1931)
2016  Harry Rabinowitz, British composer and conductor (b. 1916)
2017  Gunter Gabriel, German singer, musician and composer (b. 1942)
2017  Frank Kush, American football player (b. 1929)
2017  Keith Loneker, American football player and actor (b. 1971)
2017  Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (b. 1925)
2017  Nikolai Zhugan, Soviet-Russian pilot (b. 1917)
2018  Geoff Case, Australian rules football player (b. 1935)
2018  Nahum Korzhavin, Russian-American poet (b. 1925)
2018  Dick Leitsch, American LGBT rights activist (b. 1935)
2018  Deanna Lund, American actress (b. 1937)
2018  Geoffrey Oryema, Ugandan-born French guitarist (b. 1953)
2018  Vinnie Paul, American rock music drummer (b. 1964)
2018  Waldir Pires, Brazilian politician (b. 1926)
2018  Sally Pierone, American art director and psychiatrist (b. 1921)
2019  Judith Krantz, American author (b. 1928)
2019  Leevi Lehto, Finnish poet, translator and programmer (b. 1951)
2019  Se'are Mekonnen, Ethiopian army officer
2019  Stepan Shakaryan, Azerbaijani-Armenian composer (b. 1935)

Holidays 
Roman Catholic Church: Feast day of Thomas More
Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatia)
Teachers' Day (El Salvador)

Days of the year