the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1856 - The paddle steamer Niagara sinks on Lake Michigan, near Port Washington, Wisconsin, killing over 60 people.
1869 – The Black Friday crisis occurs in the United States, in relation to gold prices.
1877 - Battle of Shiroyama: Decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese over the Satsuma Rebellion.
1906 – Devils Tower in Wyoming becomes the first National Monument in the United States.
1932 - Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
1946 - Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1950 - Forest fires black out the Sun over parts of Canada and New England.
1957 – The Camp Nou football (soccer) stadium opens in Barcelona, Spain.
1957 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division  troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce desegregation.
1962 - The United States Court of Appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
1968 – Swaziland joins the UN.
1968 - The TV program 60 Minutes is first broadcast on CBS.
1973 – Guinea-Bissau declares independence from Portugal.
1979 - Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first electronic mail service.
1988 – The National League for Democracy is founded by Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma.
1988 - 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul: Canada's Ben Johnson wins the Men's 100 metres race over Carl Lewis, smashing the world record.
However, Johnson fails a drug test shortly after, leading to a major scandal.
1990 - The Periodic Great White Spot is observed on Saturn.
1991 - Nirvana's Nevermind album is released in the US.
1993 – The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as King.
1996 – Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty at the UN.
2005 – Hurricane Rita strikes land near the Texas–Louisiana border.
2007 - 30,000 to 100,000 people protest in Rangoon against Burma's ruling military junta.
2007 - The sitcom The Big Bang Theory is first broadcast.
2009 - The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, with over 30 global leaders attending.
2013 - A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing over 300 people.
It also creates a small island off the south coast.
2014 - The Mars Orbiter Mission, a Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation, successfully enters into orbit around the planet Mars.
2015 - At least 717 people are crushed to death and 863 wounded in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage near Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
2015 - Pope Francis becomes the first Pope to speak in front of the United States Congress.
2016 - Jeremy Corbyn defeats a challenge from Owen Smith to his leadership of the British Labour Party.
2016 - The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC is officially opened by Barack Obama.
2017 - German federal election, 2017: Angela Merkel's alliance of the CDU and CSU remains the strongest faction in the Bundestag but with a much-reduced vote share at 33%.
The Social Democrats return their worst result ever at 21%; the Free Democrats return to the Bundestag, while the far-right Alternative for Germany party, at 13%, is represented there for the first time.
2019 - The United Kingdom's supreme court rules that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's suspension of parliament was unlawful, thereby declaring the suspension to be null and void.
2019 - Spain's supreme court rules that the remains of General Francisco Franco should be removed from the Valley of the Fallen in the central area of the country.
2019 - An impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump is launched by the US Democrats over a phone call in which he is said to have pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch an investigation on Presidential candidate Joe Biden's son.
15 – Vitellius, Roman Emperor (died 69)
1301 – Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (died 1372)
1473 - Georg von Frundsberg, German soldier (died 1528)
1501 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (died 1576)
1534 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (died 1581)
1564 – William Adams, English navigator and samurai (died 1620)
1583 – Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (died 1634)
1599 - Adam Olearius, German writer and diplomat (died 1671)
1625 – Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (died 1672)
1667 - Jean-Louis Lully, French musician and composer (died 1688)
1705 – Count Leopold Josef von Daun, Austrian field marshal (died 1766)
1714 - Alaungpaya, King of Burma (died 1760)
1717 – Horace Walpole, British novelist and politician (died 1797)
1724 – Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (died 1803)
1739 – Grigory Potyomkin, Russian field marshal (died 1791)
1755 – John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States (died 1835)
1763 - Ezra Butler, 11th Governor of Vermont (died 1838)
1796 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (died 1875)
1801 – Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (died 1862)
1802 – Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (died 1868)
1817 – Ramon de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (died 1901)
1836 - Pablo Arosemena Alba, 5th President of Panama (died 1920)
1851 - Federico Boyd, 4th President of Panama (died 1924)
1852 - Elizabeth Maria Molteno, South African women's rights activist (died 1927)
1857 – Richard Mansfield, German-born actor (died 1907)
1858 - Eugene Foss, 45th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1939)
1859 - S. R. Crockett, Scottish novelist (died 1914)
1861 - Walter Simons, German politician and jurist (died 1937)
1870 - Georges Claude, French chemist and engineer (died 1960)
1871 – Lottie Dod, English tennis player (died 1960)
1872 - Jaan Teemant, Estonian lawyer and politician (died 1941)
1878 – C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (died 1947)
1880 – Sarah Knauss, American supercentenarian (died 1999)
1882 - Max Decugis, French tennis player (died 1978)
1883 - Franklin Clarence Mars, American businessman (died 1934)
1883 - Lawson Robertson, Scottish-American high jumper (died 1951)
1884 – Ismet Inönü, second President of Turkey (died 1973)
1884 – Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (died 1953)
1885 - Artur Lemba, Estonian pianist, composer and educator (died 1963)
1886 - Roberto Maria Ortiz, President of Argentine (died 1942)
1887 - Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Scottish politician and colonial administrator (died 1952)
1890 – A. P. Herbert, British humorist, barrister, novelist (died 1971)
1890 - Mike Gonzalez, Cuban baseball player, coach and manager (died 1977)
1892 - Adélard Godbout, 15th Premier of Quebec (died 1956)
1894 – Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer (died 1968)
1894 - Billy Bletcher, American actor, singer and screenwriter (died 1979)
1895 – André Frédéric Cournand, French born physician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1988)
1896 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (d. 1940)
1898 – Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945 (died 1968)
1898 - Charlotte Moore Sitterly, American astronomer (died 1990)
1899 – Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (died 1970)
1902 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (died 1989)
1905 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish–born biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1993)
1908 - Saizo Saito, Japanese footballer (died 2004)
1909 – Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect and historian of gardens (died 1966)
1910 - Jean Servais, Belgian actor (died 1976)
1911 – Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet premier (died 1985)
1911 - Jimmy Smith, Scottish footballer (died 2005)
1912 – Don Porter, American actor (died 1997)
1913 - Herb Jeffries, American singer and actor (died 2014)
1914 – John Kerr, Governor-General of Australia (died 1991)
1914 - Andrzej Panufnik, Polish composer, pianist and conductor (died 1991)
1917 - Otto Günsche, German SS officer (died 2003)
1918 – Audra Lindley, American actress (died 1997)
1919 – Dayton Allen, American actor and comedian (died 2004)
1921 - Sheila MacRae, English-American actress, singer and dancer (died 2004)
1922 - Bert I. Gordon, American director, producer and screenwriter
1923 – Louis Edmonds, American actor (died 2001)
1924 - Hidemaro Watanabe, Japanese footballer (died 2011)
1924 - Nina Bocharova, Ukrainian gymnast
1924 – Theresa Merritt, American actress (died 1998)
1925 - Geoffrey Burbidge, English astronomer (died 2010)
1925 – Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (died 2004)
1928 - René Lavand, Argentine illusionist (died 2015)
1930 – John Young, American astronaut (died 2018)
1931 - Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Mexican artist (died 2019)
1931 – Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (died 1999)
1931 - Tom Adams, Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 1985)
1931 - Elizabeth Blackadder, Scottish painter
1931 - Brian Glanville, English author
1931 - Leopoldo Verona, Argentine actor (died 2014)
1932 - Miguel Montuori, Italian-Argentine footballer (died 1998)
1933 - Raffaele Farina, Italian cardinal
1934 – Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (died 1994)
1934 - John-Roger Hinkins, American author, public speaker and religious leader (died 2014)
1934 - Donald Wrye, American director, actor and screenwriter (died 2015)
1936 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer (died 1990)
1939 - Wayne Henderson, American musician (died 2014)
1939 - Moti Kirschenbaum, Israeli television personality (died 2015)
1941 – Linda McCartney, American singer and activist (died 1998)
1942 – Ilkka "Danny" Lipsanen, Finnish singer
1942 – Gerry Marsden, English singer (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
1943 - Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer (died 2012)
1945 - John Rutter, English composer
1945 – Lou Dobbs, American journalist
1946 – "Mean" Joe Greene, American football player
1946 – Lars Emil Johansen, former Prime Minister of Greenland
1948 – Gordon Clapp, American actor
1948 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor (died 1998)
1949 – Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish movie director
1950 - Alan Colmes, American talk show host
1950 - Mohinder Amarnath, Indian cricketer, coach and sportscaster
1950 - Harriet Walter, English actress
1952 – Mark Sandman, American musician (died 1999)
1954 – Patrick Kelly, American fashion designer (died 1990)
1954 - Helen Lederer, English comedienne, writer and actress
1954 – Marco Tardelli, Italian footballer
1955 – Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
1955 - Sophie Dessus, French politician (died 2016)
1956 – Hubie Brooks, American baseball player
1956 - Ilona Slupianek, German athlete
1957 - Wolfgang Wolf, German footballer and manager
1957 - Brad Bird, American director, screenwriter, animator, producer and writer
1958 - Murdo MacLeod, Scottish footballer
1958 – Kevin Sorbo, American actor
1959 - Theo Paphitis, Cypriot-British businessman
1959 – Steve Whitmire, American voice actor
1961 - Fiona Corke, Australian actress
1961 - Jack Dee, English comedian
1961 - Luc Picard, Canadian actor, director and screenwriter
1962 – Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress, writer, and comedienne
1962 – Mike Phelan, English footballer
1962 – Ally McCoist, Scottish footballer
1964 - J. Michael Mendel, American television producer (died 2019)
1964 - Osamu Taninaka, Japanese footballer
1964 – Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban-born baseball player
1966 – Michael J. Varhola, American writer, editor, publisher, and game designer.
1966 - Stefan Molyneux, Irish-Canadian blogger and author
1968 - Michael Obiku, Nigerian footballer
1969 – Shawn Crahan, American musician (Slipknot)
1969 – Donald DeGrate, Jr., American music producer
1969 - Goya Toledo, Spanish actress
1970 – Karen Forkel, German athlete
1970 - Gary McSwegan, Scottish footballer
1971 - Craig Burley, Scottish footballer
1972 - Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese politician
1972 - Kate Fleetwood, English actress
1974 - Kati Wolf, Hungarian singer
1976 – Stephanie McMahon, American business person and writer (World Wrestling Entertainment)
1978 – Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
1979 – Casey Johnson, American socialite and heiress (died 2010)
1980 – Petri Pasanen, Finnish footballer
1980 – John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
1980 - Victoria Pendleton, British cyclist
1981 - Drew Gooden, American basketball player
1982 – Morgan Hamm, American gymnast
1982 – Paul Hamm, American gymnast
1982 - Cristian Daniel Ledesma, Argentine-Italian footballer
1985 - Eleanor Catton, Canadian-New Zealand writer
1985 – Jessica Lucas, Canadian actress
1986 - Leah Dizon, American-Japanese singer and model
1987 - Spencer Treat Clark, American actor
1987 - Gürhan Gürsoy, Turkish footballer
1988 - Birgit Oigemeel, Estonian singer
1988 – Kyle Sullivan, American actor
1989 - Pia Wurtzbach, German-Filipina actress and model
1991 - Oriol Romeu, Spanish footballer
1992 - Jack Sock, American tennis player
1997 - Tosin Adarabioyo, English footballer
366 - Pope Liberius (b. 352)
768 – Pippin the Younger, King of the Franks (b. 714)
1054 - Hermann von Reichenau, German scholar, mathematician and astronomer (b. 1013)
1120 - Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1072)
1143 - Agnes of Germany (b. 1072)
1143 - Pope Innocent I
1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)
1435 - Isabeau of Bavaria (b. 1370)
1494 – Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
1522 - Tupac Amaru I, Incan ruler
1541 – Paracelsus, Swiss physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer and general occultist (b. 1493)
1732 – Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
1742 - Johann Matthias Hase, German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer (b. 1684)
1802 – Alexander Radishchev, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1749)
1834 – Emperor Pedro I of Brazil (b. 1798)
1877 – Saigo Takamori, Japanese samurai (b. 1828)
1889 - Daniel Harvey Hill, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
1889 - Charles Leroux, American balloonist (b. 1896)
1896 – Louis Gerard De Geer, first Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1818)
1904 – Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish doctor, won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)
1920 - Peter Carl Faberge, Russian jeweler (b. 1846)
1929 – Mahidol Adulyadej, Prince of Thailand (b. 1892)
1930 - William A. MacCorkle, 9th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
1939 - Carl Laemmle, German-American film producer (b. 1867)
1945 - Hans Geiger, German physicist (b. 1882)
1950 - Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1863)
1969 – Warren McCulloch, American neuropsychologist (b. 1898)
1973 - Josue de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer and activist (b. 1908)
1978 - Hasso von Manteuffel, German general and politician (b. 1897)
1980 - Theodor Luts, Estonian-Brazilian director, producer and cinematographer (b. 1896)
1981 - Patsy Kelly, American actress and singer (b. 1910)
1982 - Sarah Churchill, English actress (b. 1914)
1991 – Dr. Seuss, American writer (b. 1904)
1991 - Peter Bellamy, English singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
1993 - Ian Stuart Donaldson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1957)
1993 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)
1994 - Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b. 1968)
2002 - Tim Rose, American-born English musician (b. 1940)
2004 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
2005 - Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)
2008 - Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2009 – Nelly Arcan, Canadian novelist (b. 1975)
2009 – Susan Atkins, American murderer (b. 1948)
2010 – Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician (b. 1937)
2014 - Greg Mackey, Australian rugby league player (b. 1961)
2014 - Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, English Duchess and last-surviving of the Mitford sisters (b. 1920)
2014 - Christopher Hogwood, English conductor (b. 1941)
2014 - Karl Miller, British literary editor (b. 1931)
2014 - Carlotta Ikeda, Japanese dancer (b. 1941)
2014 - Stephen Sykes, English bishop (b. 1939)
2015 - Ellis Kaut, German author (b. 1920)
2016 - Vladimir Kuzmichyov, Russian footballer (b. 1979)
2016 - Bill Nunn, American actor (b. 1953)
2016 - Bill Mollison, Australian author, physicist and biologist (b. 1928)
2016 - Buckwheat Zydeco, American musician (b. 1947)
2017 - Valery Asapov, Russian army general (b. 1966)
2017 - Washington Benavides, Uruguayan poet, professor and musician (b. 1930)
2017 - Gisèle Casadesus, French actress (b. 1914)
2017 - Joseph M. McDade, American politician (b. 1931)
2017 - Kito Lorenc, German writer and poet (b. 1938)
2017 - Carlos Vidal Layseca, Peruvian physician and politician (b. 1931)
2018 - Norm Breyfogle, American comic book artist (b. 1960)
2018 - Jim Brogan, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
2018 - José María Hurtado Ruiz-Tagle, Chilean politician (b. 1945)
2018 - Ivar Martinsen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1920)
2018 - Tommy McDonald, American football player (b. 1934)
2019 - Donald L. Tucker, American politician (b. 1935)
Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau
Heritage Day in South Africa
Mahidol Day in Thailand
New Caledonia Day
Republic Day in Trinidad and Tobago
1185  Byzantine Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos is brutally put to death in Constantinople.
1309  First Siege of Gibraltar during the Spanish Reconquista.
1556  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor gives up the throne for his brother, Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor.
1609  Henry Hudson explores the Hudson River.
1683  Battle of Kahlenberg: Forces of John III Sobieski of Poland surprise Ottoman Empire forces under Kara Mustafa, defeating them decisively.
1689  Tsar Peter I of Russia assumes absolute power.
1814  War of 1812: Battle of North Point - An American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore, Maryland.
1847  Mexican-American War: The Battle of Chapultepec begins.
1848  Switzerland becomes a federal state.
1857  The ship SS America sinks about 160 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, with 426 people drowning.
It was carrying gold from the California Gold Rush
1861  American Civil War: Battle of Cheat Pike in Virginia.
1885  Arbroath F.C. 36-0 Bon Accord: This scoreline in Scotland is the highest-recorded in professional football.
1890  Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) is founded.
1905  Japanese battleship Mikasa sinks after a munitions explosion.
Out of the 935 men on board, 256 are killed and 343 injured.
1905  Copenhagen town hall is inaugurated in Denmark.
1906  Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, south Wales.
1910  First performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony Number 8, in Munich.
1918  British passenger ship Galway Castle is torpedoed by a German U-boat off Land's End, Cornwall, England, killing 143 people.
1920  The 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp begins.
1928  A hurricane in Guadeloupe kills 1,200 people.
1933  Leó Szilárd has the idea of a nuclear chain reaction.
1940  World-famous cave paintings are discovered in the Lascaux in southern France.
1940  An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenil, New Jersey kills 51 and injures over 200.
1942  World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers, and Italian POWs, is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa, with a heavy loss of life.
1942  World War II: First Day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
US Marines protecting Henderson Field in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, are attacked by Imperial Japanese forces.
1943  World War II: Benito Mussolini is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, led by German commandos under Otto Skorzeny.
1944  World War II: American troops enter Germany near Trier.
1948  Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian army on the day after the death of Pakistan's leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
1949  Theodor Heuss becomes the 1st President of the Federal Republic of Germany.
1953  John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island.
1958  Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
1959  Showing of the first episode of Bonanza, first regularly scheduled television programme presented in colour.
1959  The Soviet Union launches the Lunik II rocket.
1959  Heinrich Lübke becomes the 2nd President of the Federal Republic of Germany.
1961  The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
1964  The Canyonlands National Park in Utah is created.
1966  Gemini 11, of NASA's Gemini program, is launched.
1970  Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan.
Passengers are held at secret locations in the capital city, Amman.
1974  Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I is deposed in a military coup.
1977  Anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.
1979  Indonesia is struck by a magnitude 8.1 earthquake.
1980  A military coup occurs in Turkey.
1988  Hurricane Gilbert hits Jamaica.
1990  The Faroe Islands national football team scores a surprise 1-0 win over the Austria national football team.
The Faroese players are celebrated as heroes after their return home from the match.
1990  East Germany's national football team plays its last-ever match, winning 2-0 against the Belgium national football team.
1992  NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on the STS-47 mission.
On board are Mae Carol Jemison (first African American woman in space), Mamoru Mohri (first Japanese citizen on a US spaceship), and Mark Lee and Jan Davis (first married couple in space).
1992  Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman is arrested in Peru, by special forces.
1994  Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 light aircraft into the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, killing himself.
1999  Indonesia announces it will allow international peacekeepers into East Timor.
2003  The UN lifts sanctions against Libya.
2003  US Forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers in Fallujah.
2005  Hong Kong Disneyland opens.
2007  Former President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder.
2008  The Chatsworth train collision occurs in Los Angeles, California, between a Metrolink commerce train and a Union Pacific Freight train, killing 25 people.
2011  About 100 people are killed by an oil pipeline explosion in Nairobi, Kenya.
2011  Russian ice hockey player Alexander Galimov dies, as the 44th, and final, victim of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which occurred on September 7.
The whole team was killed.
2015  Jeremy Corbyn is elected leader of the British Labour Party.
2015  An explosion in Petlawad in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh kills at least 105 people.
2018  The European Parliament votes by a two-thirds majority to trigger possible sanctions (punishments) against the government of Hungary, over issues of democracy, human rights, judicial freedom and journalistic freedom.
1492  Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (d. 1519)
1494  King Francis I of France (d. 1547)
1575  Henry Hudson, English explorer (d. 1611)
1605  William Dugdale, English antiquarian (d. 1686)
1649  Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, Italian cardinal (d. 1713)
1652  Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental (d. 1697)
1688  Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731)
1690  Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
1725  Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792)
1736  Hsinbyushin, King of Burma (d. 1776)
1740  Johann Heinrich Jung, German writer (d. 1817)
1759  Maximilian von Montgelas, Bavarian politician (d. 1838)
1768  Benjamin Carr, American composer, singer, teacher and publisher (d. 1831)
1800  Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, French chess player (d. 1872)
1812  Richard Hoe, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1886)
1818  Richard Gatling, American weapons inventor (d. 1903)
1818  Theodor Kullak, German pianist and composer (d. 1915)
1829  Anselm Feuerbach, German painter (d. 1880)
1830  William Sprague, 72nd Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1915)
1837  Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1892)
1838  Arthur Auwers, German astronomer (d. 1915)
1852  H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928)
1855  William Sharp, Scottish writer (d. 1905)
1855  Simon-Napoleon Parent, 12th Premier of Quebec (d. 1920)
1857  Manuel Espinosa Batista, Panamanian politician and businessman (d. 1919)
1857  George Hendrik Breitner, Dutch painter (d. 1923)
1865  Sophus Claussen, Danish writer (d. 1931)
1866  Freeman Freeman-Thompson, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, 13th Governor General of Canada (d. 1941)
1875  Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (d. 1926)
1880  H. L. Mencken, American journalist and writer (d. 1956)
1885  Heinrich Hoffmann, German photographer (d. 1957)
1887  Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, Azerbaijani writer and statesman (d. 1943)
1888  Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972)
1889  Ugo Pasquale Mifsud, 3rd Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1942)
1891  Don Pedro Albizu Campos, advocate for Puerto Rican independence (d. 1965)
1891  Fred Kelly, American athlete (d. 1974)
1891  Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (d. 1968)
1892  Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (d. 1984)
1894  Friedrich Ebert, Jr., German politician (d. 1979)
1894  Billy Gilbert, American actor and composer (d. 1971)
1897  Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1956)
1898  Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (d. 1963)
1901  Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (d. 1975)
1901  Shmuel Horowitz, Russian-Israeli agronomist (d. 1999)
1902  Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (d. 1976)
1904  Gavriil Popov, Russian composer (d. 1972)
1904  Istvan Horthy, Hungarian admiral (d. 1942)
1907  Roger Bonvin, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1982)
1912  Frances Lennon, English artist (d. 2015)
1913  Jesse Owens, American athlete, four-time Olympic champion (d. 1980)
1913  Eiji Toyoda, Japanese industrialist (d. 2013)
1914  Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)
1915  Frank McGee, American journalist (d. 1974)
1916  Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961)
1921  Stanislaw Lem, Polish writer (d. 2006)
1922  Antonio Cafiero, Argentine politician (d. 2014)
1924  Amilcar Cabral, Cape Verdean-Guinea-Bissauan politician (d. 1973)
1925  Stan Lopata, American baseball player (d. 2013)
1925  Dickie Moore, American actor (d. 2015)
1927  Mathé Altéry, French soprano and actress
1928  Ernie Vandeweghe, American basketball player (d. 2014)
1930  Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian skier (d. 2005)
1930  Akira Suzuki, Japanese chemist
1931  Sir Ian Holm, English actor
1931  George Jones, American singer (d. 2013)
1931  Adrian Rogers, American religious leader (d. 2005)
1932  Atli Dam, 5th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 2005)
1933  Tatiana Doronina, Russian actress
1934  Jaegwon Kim, Korean-American philosopher
1934  Glenn Davis, American athlete (d. 2009)
1937  George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer
1938  Claude Ruel, French-Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 2015)
1939  Nobuyuki Oishi, Japanese footballer
1939  Henry Waxman, United States Congressman
1940  Joachim Frank, German-American biophysicist, joint 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
1940  Mickey Lolich, American baseball player
1940  Linda Gray, American actress
1943  Maria Muldaur, American singer
1943  Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-born writer
1944  Leonard Peltier, Native American activist
1944  Yoshio Kikugawa, Japanese footballer
1944  Barry White, American singer (d. 2003)
1944  Vladimir Spivakov, Russian violinist and conductor
1944  Colin Young, American singer
1949  Irina Rodnina, Russian figure skater
1949  Charles Burlingame, American pilot (d. 2001)
1951  Joe Pantoliano, American actor
1951  Bertie Ahern, Irish politician and former Taoiseach
1951  Ali-Ollie Woodson, American singer and musician (d. 2010)
1952  Neil Peart, Canadian musician and writer (Rush) (d. 2020)
1952  Gerry Beckley, American musician
1953  Fiona Mactaggart, Scottish politician
1954  Peter Scolari, American actor
1956  Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
1956  Ricky Rudd, American race car driver
1956  Sam Brownback, American politician, 46th Governor of Kansas
1956  Brian Robertson, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957  Hans Zimmer, German composer
1957  Rachel Ward, English actress
1958  Wilfredo Benitez, American boxer
1959  Sigmar Gabriel, German politician
1959  Scott Brown, United States Senator
1959  Hisashi Kaneko, Japanese footballer
1960  Stefanos Korkolis, Greek songwriter and pianist
1961  Mylène Farmer, French singer-songwriter
1962  Amy Yasbeck, American actress
1964  Dieter Hecking, German footballer
1966  Ben Folds, American musician
1966  Vezio Sacratini, Italian ice hockey player
1967  Mirko Slomka, German footballer and manager
1967  Pat Listach, American baseball player
1968  Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian, actor and screenwriter
1969  Mika Myllyla, Finnish cross-country skier (d. 2011)
1969  Angel Cabrera, Argentine golfer
1969  Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer
1971  Chandra Sturrup, Bahamanian athlete
1973  Darren Campbell, British athlete
1973  Martin Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player
1973  Paul Walker, American actor (d. 2013)
1974  Caroline Aigle, French pilot (d. 2007)
1974  Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer
1976  Maciej Zurawski, Polish footballer
1976  2 Chainz, American rapper
1976  Lauren Stamile, American actress
1977  Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer
1977  James McCartney, British musician
1978  Ruben Studdard, American singer
1980  Sean Burroughs, American baseball player
1980  Josef Vasicek, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1980  Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
1981  Jennifer Hudson, American singer and actress
1983  Sergio Parisse, Argentine-born Italian rugby player
1984  September, Swedish singer
1985  Hiroki Mizumoto, Japanese footballer
1986  Yuto Nagatomo, Japanese footballer
1986  Joanne Jackson, British swimmer
1986  Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
1987  Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakhstani tennis player
1988  Amanda Jenssen, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1989  Freddie Freeman, American baseball player
1992  Sviatlana Pirazhenka, Belarussian tennis player
1993  Kelsea Ballerini, American singer
1994  Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player
1994  Mhairi Black, Scottish politician
1996  Colin Ford, American actor
640  Sak K'uk', Maya Queen of Palenque
1185  Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)
1213  Peter II of Aragon (b. 1174)
1348  Joan the Lame, Queen of France (b. 1293)
1362  Pope Innocent VI (b. 1295)
1369  Blanche of Lancaster (b. 1345)
1500  Albert III, Duke of Saxony (b. 1443)
1612  Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552)
1660  Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist and politician (b. 1577)
1683  King Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)
1691  John George III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1647)
1764  Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (b. 1683)
1829  Juan Ignacio Molina, Chilean naturalist (b. 1740)
1870  Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American writer (b. 1836)
1874  François Guizot, 22nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1787)
1885  Ranbir Singh, 2nd Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir (b. 1830)
1903  Duncan Gillies, Australian politician, 14th Premier of Victoria (b. 1834)
1907  Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian poet, journalist and lawyer (b. 1837)
1918  George Reid, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
1919  Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (b. 1871)
1929  Rainis, Latvian poet, playwright and politician (b. 1865)
1938  Prince Arthur of Connaught (b. 1883)
1945  Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (b. 1880)
1956  Hans Carossa, German writer (b. 1878)
1956  Sandor Festetics, Hungarian politician (b. 1882)
1960  Dino Borgioli, Italian tenor (b. 1891)
1977  Steve Biko, South African anti-Apartheid activist (b. 1946)
1977  Robert Lowell, American poet (b. 1917)
1981  Eugenio Montale, Italian poet (b. 1896)
1982  Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer (b. 1891)
1986  Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (b. 1894)
1992  Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)
1993  Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917)
1994  Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and cosmonaut (b. 1937)
1995  Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
1995  Yasutomo Nagai, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1965)
1996  Ernesto Geisel, President of Brazil (b. 1907)
2001  Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927)
2003  Johnny Cash, American country music singer (b. 1932)
2004  Max Abramowitz, American architect (b. 1908)
2008  David Foster Wallace, American writer (b. 1962)
2009  Norman Borlaug, American agronomist (b. 1914)
2009  Jack Kramer, American tennis player (b. 1921)
2009  Willy Ronis, French photographer (b. 1910)
2010  Claude Chabrol, French movie director (b. 1930)
2011  Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985)
2012  Sid Watkins, British neurosurgeon (b. 1928)
2012  Derek Jameson, British tabloid journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
2013  Erich Loest, German writer (b. 1926)
2013  Otto Sander, German actor (b. 1941)
2013  Ray Dolby, American engineer and inventor (b. 1933)
2014  Atef Ebeid, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1932)
2014  Ian Paisley, Northern Irish religious and political leader (b. 1926)
2014  John Bardon, English actor (b. 1939)
2014  Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (b. 1939)
2014  Antony Kidman, Australian psychologist, biochemist and writer (b. 1938)
2016  Gunilla Bernadotte, Swedish duchess (b. 1923)
2016  Ellen Burka, Canadian-Dutch figure skater (b. 1921)
2016  Stanley Steinbaum, American activist (b. 1920)
2017  Heiner Geissler, German politician (b. 1930)
2017  Alex Hawkins, American football player (b. 1937)
2017  Siegfried Köhler, German conductor (b. 1923)
2017  Allan MacEachen, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
2017  Edith Windsor, American LGBT rights activist and technological manager at IBM (b. 1929)
2018  Henry Kalis, American politician (b. 1937)
2018  Hans Kloss, German artist and graphic designer (b. 1938)
2018  Walter Mischel, Austrian-American psychologist (b. 1930)
2018  Billy O'Dell, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2018  Shen Chun-shan, Taiwanese physicist and academic (b. 1932)
2018  Rachid Taha, Algerian singer, songwriter and activist (b. 1958)
National Day of Cape Verde
Ethiopian New Year
Day of Conception (Russia)
Defenders Day (Maryland)
509 BC  The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
81  Domitian becomes Roman Emperor.
122  The building of Hadrian's Wall begins.
335  Emperor Constantine I consecrates the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
533  Belisarius and the Roman Empire defeat Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium near Carthage, North Africa.
604  Pope Sabinianus is consecrated.
1440  Gilles de Rais is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
1501  Michelangelo begins work on his famous statue David.
1541  John Calvin returns to Geneva after three years in exile, to re-form the Calvinist Church.
1584  The Spanish royal palace San Lorenzo del Escorial, near Madrid, is completed.
1598  Philip III of Spain becomes King.
1609  Henry Hudson reaches the river that will later be named after him – the Hudson River.
1743  England, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
1759  Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
1782  American Revolutionary War: French-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
1788  The United States Constitutional Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S.
1791  King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution
1813  The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland.
Turning point in the War of 1812.
1843  The Greek Army rebels against the autocratic rule of King Otto of Greece.
1847  Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec.
American General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
1848  American Phineas Gage survives an accident in which an iron pole goes through his head.
The resulting change in his behaviour becomes the subject of several scientific studies.
1850  First successful climb of Piz Bernina, the highest summit in the Eastern portion of the Alps.
1858  A fire on German passenger steamer Austria kills 471 people.
1862  Union soldiers find Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland.
1898  Hannibal Williston Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
1899  Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1900  Filipino resistance fighters defeat a larger American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine American War.
1906  First airplane flight in Europe
1914  During World War I, South African troops open hostilities in German SW Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
1914  World War I: Battle of Aisne begins between France and Germany.
1922  The temperature (in the shade) at Al 'Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 136.4 °F (58 °C), though this measurement was doubted in 2012 and the record given back to the 57 degrees Celsius measured at Death Valley, California in 1913.
1923  Military coup in Spain – Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
1928  A hurricane devastates the Caribbean.
1933  Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman to be elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
1939  Canada enters World War II.
1940  World War II: German bombs damage Buckingham Palace.
1940  World War II: Italy invades Egypt.
1941  Two of the worst tragedies in Norwegian shipping occur.
In the Finnmark region, a passenger steamer of the Hurtigruten line is sunk by a British U-boat, killing 99.
On the same night, at Vestfjord, a passenger ship is sunk by a British torpedo, killing 112.
1943  Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China.
1948  Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
1950  West Germany holds its first census, establishing a population of 47.3 million.
1953  Nikita Khrushchev is appointed secretary-general of the Soviet Union.
1956  The dyke around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
1959  The Soviet Lunik 2 space probe lands on the moon.
1965  Baseball: Willie Mays becomes the fifth member of the 500 home run club with a home run at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
1968  Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
1970  First running of the New York City Marathon.
1971  State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt.
42 people die in the assault.
1971  Frank Robinson becomes the 11th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland.
1979  South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognized outside South Africa).
1985  The Super Mario Bros. video game is released by Nintendo in Japan.
1987  Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and leading some to die from radiation poisoning.
1988  Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere (based on barometric pressure).
1989  Largest anti-Apartheid march is held in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
1991  A concrete beam weighing 55 tons falls in the Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Canada.
1993  Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway.
1994  Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
1996  After surviving for six days, U.S. rapper/actor Tupac Shakur dies after being shot four times in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1999  A bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia.
At least 119 people are killed.
2001  Civilian airplane traffic in the U.S., which had been grounded following the September 11, 2001 attacks, is allowed to resume.
2004  The anime InuYasha finishes its run in Japan with episode 167.
2005  The Israelis abandon the Gaza Strip.
2005  Major Japanese Pop group Do As Infinity announces that it's disbanding.
2007  The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
2008  Delhi, India is hit by a series of bomb blasts, killing 30.
2008  Hurricane Ike hits Texas.
2012  2012 U.S. diplomatic missions attacks: Protests spread to US diplomatic missions in Yemen, Morocco, Sudan and Yemen, as well as the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which handles US interests in Iran.
64  Julia Flavia, daughter of Roman Emperor Titus (d. 91)
678  K'inich Ahkal Mo' Naab' III, Mayan ruler (d. 730)
1087  John II Komnene, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1143)
1475  Cesare Borgia, Italian aristocrat and ruler (d. 1507)
1502  John Leland, English antiquarian (d. 1552)
1521  William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (d. 1598)
1594  Francesco Manelli, Italian composer (d. 1667)
1601  Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (d. 1678)
1630  Olaus Rudbeck, Swedish polymath (d. 1702)
1694  Yeongjo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1776)
1755  Oliver Evans, American inventor (d. 1819)
1766  Samuel Wilson, likely namesake of Uncle Sam (d. 1854)
1775  Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (d. 1868)
1802  Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and political writer (d. 1880)
1813  Jozsef Eotvos, Hungarian writer and statesman (d. 1871)
1813  John Sedgwick, American general (d. 1864)
1818  Gustave Aimard, French writer (d. 1893)
1819  Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (d. 1896)
1830  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (d. 1916)
1842  John H. Bankhead, American politician (d. 1920)
1842  Jan Puczyna de Kosielsno, Polish cardinal (d. 1911)
1851  Walter Reed, American bacteriologist (d. 1902)
1853  Hans Christian Gram, Danish bacteriologist (d. 1938)
1856  Sergei Winogradsky, Russian microbiologist (d. 1953)
1857  Milton S. Hershey, American confectioner (d. 1945)
1860  John J. Pershing, American general (d. 1948)
1863  Arthur Henderson, British politician (d. 1935)
1865  William Birdwood, British general (d. 1951)
1873  Constantin Caratheodory, Greek mathematician (d. 1950)
1874  Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-born composer (d. 1951)
1874  Henry F. Ashurst, American politician (d. 1962)
1876  Sherwood Anderson, American writer (d. 1941)
1877  Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (d. 1957)
1877  Stanley Lord, English captain (d. 1962)
1880  Jesse L. Lasky, American movie producer (d. 1958)
1882  Ramon Grau, 6th President of Cuba (d. 1969)
1883  Giovanni Pastrone, Italian filmmaker (d. 1959)
1884  Petros Voulgaris, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1957)
1885  Wilhelm Blaschke, Austrian mathematician and author (d. 1962)
1885  Alain LeRoy Locke, American writer, philosopher and educator (d. 1954)
1886  Robert Robinson, British chemist (d. 1975)
1886  Amelie Beese, German pilot (d. 1925)
1887  Lavoslav Ruzicka, Croatian chemist (d. 1976)
1887  Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American politician (d. 1944)
1890  Antony Noghès, French businessman (d. 1978)
1891  Max Pruss, German airship commander (d. 1960)
1892  Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia (d. 1980)
1893  Larry Shields, American clarinetist (d. 1953)
1894  J. B. Priestley, British playwright and novelist (d. 1984)
1894  Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (d. 1953)
1895  Morris Kirksey, American athlete (d. 1981)
1899  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Romanian, leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938)
1901  James McCoubrey, Canadian-American supercentenarian (d. 2013)
1903  Claudette Colbert, French-born actress (d. 1996)
1904  Luigi Bertolini, Italian footballer (d. 1977)
1908  Carlos Peucelle, Argentine footballer (d. 1990)
1908  Mae Questel, American actress (d. 1998)
1908  Sicco Mansholt, Dutch politician, 4th President of the European Commission (d. 1995)
1909  Frits Thors, Dutch newscaster (d. 2014)
1909  James A. Rhodes, Governor of Ohio (d. 2001)
1911  Bill Monroe, American Country musician (d. 1996)
1912  Horace W. Babcock, American astronomer (d. 2003)
1913  Tadao Horie, Japanese footballer (d. 2003)
1914  Leonard Feather, British-born jazz pianist, composer and producer (d. 1994)
1916  Roald Dahl, British writer (d. 1990)
1918  Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2015)
1918  Dick Haymes, American singer and actor (d. 1980)
1918  Rosemary Kennedy, sister of John F. Kennedy (d. 2005)
1919  Olle Anderberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2003)
1919  Mary Midgley, English philosopher and author (d. 2018)
1923  Zoya Ksmodenskaya, Soviet-Russian partisan (d. 1941)
1924  Maurice Jarre, French composer (d. 2009)
1924  Norman Alden, American actor (d. 2012)
1925  Frank Cashen, American Major League Baseball general manager (d. 2014)
1926  Emile Francis, Canadian ice hockey player
1927  Tzannis Tzannetakis, former Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2010)
1928  Robert Indiana, American painter (d. 2018)
1929  Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bulgarian opera singer (d. 2004)
1931  Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, 33rd Governor of South Australia
1931  Barbara Bain, American actress
1936  Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian activist (d. 2019)
1938  John Smith, British politician (d. 1994)
1939  Arleen Auger, American soprano (d. 1993)
1939  Richard Kiel, American actor (d. 2014)
1939  Larry Speakes, American journalist (d. 2014)
1939  Guntis Ulmanis, former President of Latvia
1939  Bill Janklow, former Governor of South Dakota (d. 2012)
1939  Joel-Peter Witkin, American photographer
1940  Oscar Arias, former President of Costa Rica
1941  Ahmet Necdet Sezer, 10th President of Turkey
1941  Ed Roberts, American inventor (d. 2010)
1941  David Clayton-Thomas, Canadian singer
1941  Tadao Ando, Japanese architect
1942  Hissène Habré, 7th President of Chad
1944  Jacqueline Bisset, British actress
1944  Peter Cetera, American musician
1945  Gertrude Mongella, Tanzanian politician
1946  Frank Marshall, American movie producer, director and actor
1948  Sitiveni Rabuka, 3rd Prime Minister of Fiji
1949  Dennis Pendrith, Canadian bass player
1949  John W. Henry, American businessman
1950  Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, 8th Prime Minister of Poland
1952  Randy Jones, American musician (The Village People)
1954  Shigeharu Ueki, Japanese footballer
1955  Joe Morris, American musician
1955  Colin Moynihan, British politician, Chairman of the British Olympic Association
1956  Anne Geddes, Australian photographer
1956  Alain Ducasse, French chef
1957  Vinny Appice, American drummer
1957  Cesare Bocci, Italian actor and television presenter
1958  Bobby Davro, British comedian
1958  Peter Wirnsberger, Austrian skier
1960  Greg Baldwin, American actor
1960  Hubert Schwarz, German skier and ski jumper
1961  Dave Mustaine, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and actor
1962  Tone Onnepalu, Estonian writer
1964  Tavis Smiley, American talk show host, journalist and writer
1964  Mladen Mladenovic, Croatian footballer
1965  Zak Starkey, British musician
1965  Diego Aguirre, Uruguayan footballer
1966  Maria Furtwaengler, German physician
1967  Michael Johnson, American Olympic Games gold medalist in track and field
1967  Jim "Ripper" Owens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969  Shane Warne, Australian cricketer
1969  Daniel Fonseca, Uruguayan footballer
1969  Tyler Perry, American actor, director, screenwriter and producer
1970  Louise Lombard, British actress
1970  Martin Herrera, Argentine footballer
1971  Goran Ivanisevic, Croatian tennis player
1971  Stella McCartney, British fashion designer
1973  Christine Arron, French runner
1973  Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer
1974  Travis Knight, American basketball player
1975  Ian Carey, American DJ and music producer
1977  Fiona Apple, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1978  Peter Sunde, Swedish entrepreneur
1979  Manuel Friedrich, German footballer
1980  Andreas Biermann, German footballer (d. 2014)
1980  Gilberto Ribeiro Gonçalves, Brazilian footballer
1980  Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player
1982  Miha Jupan, Slovenian basketball player
1982  Alison Thewliss, Scottish politician
1983  James Bourne, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1985  Emi Suzuki, Japanese model and actress
1985  David Jordan, English singer-songwriter
1986  Kamui Kobayashi, Japanese racing driver
1987  Tzvetana Pironkova, Bulgarian tennis player
1987  Fraizer Campbell, English footballer
1987  Luke Fitzgerald, Irish rugby player
1988  Keith Treacy, Irish footballer
1989  Thomas Müller, German footballer
1991  Ksenia Afanasyeva, Russian artistic gymnast
1993  Niall Horan, Irish singer (One Direction)
1993  Alice Merton, German singer
1994  Leonor Andrade, Portuguese singer and actress
1995  Robbie Kay, English actor
81  Titus, Roman Emperor (b. 39)
1321  Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (b. 1265)
1409  Isabella of Valois, Queen of England (b. 1389)
1438  Duarte, King of Portugal (b. 1391)
1506  Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter
1557  John Cheke, English classical scholar (b. 1514)
1592  Michel de Montaigne, French writer (b. 1533)
1598  Philip II, King of Spain (b. 1526)
1624  Ketevan of Kakheti, Christian martyr and Queen of Kakheti, Georgia (b. 1565)
1632  Archduke Leopold V of Austria (b. 1586)
1759  James Wolfe, British general (b. 1727)
1806  Charles James Fox, British politician (b. 1749)