the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
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  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
1978  Kobe Bryant, American basketball player (d. 2020)
1978  Julian Casablancas, American musician
1979  Jessica Bibby, Australian basketball player
1980  Diamondog, Angolan rapper and journalist
1980  Nenad Vuckovic, Serbian handball player
1981  Carlos Cuellar, Spanish footballer
1982  Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
1982  Trevor Wright, American actor
1983  Sun Ming Ming, Chinese basketball player
1983  James Collins, Welsh footballer
1983  J. C. Bailey, American professional wrestler (d. 2010)
1984  Glen Johnson, English footballer
1984  Ashley Williams, English-Welsh footballer
1986  SkyBlu, American rapper (LMFAO)
1986  Vic Wild, American-Russian snowboarder
1986  Neil Cicierega, American comedian, actor, singer and director
1988  Carl Hagelin, Swedish ice hockey player
1988  Vaani Kapoor, Indian actress
1988  Niki Leinso, Croatian singer and songwriter
1988  Jeremy Lin, American basketball player
1988  Kim Matula, American actress
1990  Reimond Manco, Peruvian footballer
1991  Jennifer Abel, Canadian diver
1994  Roberto Bellarosa, Belgian singer
1996  David Gore, American actor
30 BC  Marcus Antonius Antyllus, Roman soldier, eldest son of Mark Antony (b. 47 BC)
30 BC  Caesarion, last king of Egypt's Ptolemaic Dynasty, son of Cleopatra
93  Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40)
406  Radagaisus, Gothic king
634  Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph
1106  Magnus, Duke of Saxony (b. 1045)
1176  Emperor Rokujo of Japan (b. 1164)
1305  William Wallace, Scottish patriot (executed) (b. 1272)
1329  Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)
1387  King Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370)
1498  Isabella, Princess of Asturias (b. 1470)
1507  Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)
1519  Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot
1540  Guillaume Budé, French scholar
1591  Luis Ponce de León, Spanish poet and mystic (b. 1527)
1618  Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)
1628  George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)
1652  John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
1723  Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1639)
1802  Corona Schröter, German singer and actress (b. 1751)
1806  Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736)
1813  Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)
1819  Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785)
1838  Ferenc Kolcsey, Hungarian poet and politician (b. 1790)
1865  Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter (b. 1793)
1866  Auguste Barthélémy, French poet (b. 1796)
1883  Sarah Yorke Jackson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1805)
1892  Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
1900  Kuroda Kiyotaka, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1844)
1926  Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
1927  Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (executed) (b. 1891)
1927  Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (executed) (b. 1888)
1933  Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (b. 1870)
1937  Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869)
1944  Abdülmecid II, Ottoman Caliph (b. 1868)
1958  Roger Martin du Gard, French writer (b. 1881)
1960  Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (b. 1895)
1962  Walter Anderson, German folklorist (b. 1885)
1962  Hoot Gibson, American actor (b. 1892)
1966  Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883)
1977  Naum Gabo, Russian artist (b. 1890)
1982  Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
1987  Didier Pironi, French racing driver (b. 1952)
1989  R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (b. 1927)
1997  John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
1997  Eric Gairy, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1922)
2001  Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)
2002  Hoyt Wilhelm, baseball player (b. 1922)
2003  Imperio Argentina, Argentine singer and actress (b. 1906)
2003  Bobby Bonds, baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
2003  Jack Dyer, Australian footballer (b. 1913)
2005  Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)
2006  Wolfgang Priklopil, Austrian kidnapper (b. 1961)
2008  Thomas Huckle Weller, American bacteriologist and parasitologist (b. 1915)
2010  Satoshi Kon, Japanese movie director (b. 1963)
2012  Steve Van Buren, Honduran-born American football player (b. 1920)
2012  Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer (b. 1934)
2013  Gilbert Taylor, British cinematographer (b. 1914)
2014  Birgitta Stenberg, Swedish author (b. 1932)
2014  Annefleur Kalvenhaar, Dutch cyclist (b. 1994)
2014  Hajo Meyer, German-Dutch physicist (b. 1924)
2014  Jaume Vallcorba Plana, Spanish philologist (b. 1949)
2014  Dan Magill, American tennis coach (b. 1921)
2014  Ahti Pekkala, Finnish politician (b. 1924)
2014  Marcel Rigout, French politician (b. 1928)
2014  Philippine de Rothschild, French winemaker and baroness (b. 1933)
2014  Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1989)
2015  Guy Ligier, French rugby player and racing driver (b. 1930)
2015  Yosi Piamenta, Israeli musician (b. 1951)
2016  Steven Hill, American actor (b. 1922)
2016  Reinhard Selten, German economist (b. 1930)
2017  Joe Klein, American baseball executive (b. 1942)
2017  Eduardo Angeloz, Argentine politician (b. 1931)
2017  Viola Harris, American actress (b. 1926)
2017  Jack Rosenthal, Israeli-American journalist (b. 1935)
2017  Engelbert Jarek, Polish footballer (b. 1935)
2017  George A. Keyworth II, American physicist (b. 1939)
2017  Izak Parviz Nazarian, Iranian-American businessman (b. 1929)
2017  Jeannie Rousseau, French Allied intelligence agent (b. 1919)
2018  Russ Heath, American comic book artist (b. 1926)
2018  Dieter Thomas Heck, German actor and television presenter (b. 1937)
2018  Kuldip Nayar, Indian journalist (b. 1923)
2018  George Sheldon, American politician (b. 1947)
2018  George Walker, American composer (b. 1922)
2018  Franck Venaille, French poet and writer (b. 1936)
2018  Dominik Kalata, Slovakian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1925)
2019  Amath Dansokho, Senegalese politician (b. 1937)
2019  Carlo Delle Piane, Italian actor (b. 1936)
2019  David Koch, American businessman (b. 1940)
2019  Roaring Lion, British-bred racehorse (b. 2015)
2019  Rick Loomis, American game designer (b. 1946)
2019  Massimo Mattioli, Italian cartoonist (b. 1943)
2019  Egon Zimmermann, Austrian ski racer and businessman (b. 1939)
International Day for Abolition of Slave Trade (UNESCO)
European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Nazism and Stalinism (European Union)
Liberation from Fascist Occupation Day (Romania)
Flag Day (Ukraine)
Father's Day (Nepal)
526  Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great dies of dysentery in Ravenna.
711  K'inich K'an Joy Chitam, king of Palenque, disappears from history.
He was probably taken prisoner by a rivalling city state.
1464  Pope Paul II is elected.
1574  Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1791  The ship HMS Pandora sinks after running aground on a reef.
1800  Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested he can make it happen.
1813  In an uprising, Creek Native Americans launch an attack on Fort Mims, Alabama (present-day Mobile, Alabama), and commit the Fort Mims massacre.
1813  Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1832  Agreement is reached on the border between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
1835  The city of Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836  The city of Houston, Texas is founded.
1850  Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city.
1862  American Civil War: Battle of Richmond, Kentucky - Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright.
1862  American Civil War: Union forces are defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run.
1873  Austrian explorers Julius von Payer  and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago (island group) of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Ocean.
The islands now belong to Russia.
1881  British passenger steamer RMS Teuton hits a reef off South Africa and sinks, killing 236 of the 272 people on board.
1896  Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared to be under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General  Ramon Blanco y Erenas.
1914  World War I: Battle of Tannenberg.
1917  During a night-time sailing, with all light switched off because of the war, French passenger steamer Natal collides with an oncoming cargo ship, sinking in 10 minutes.
Of the 503 on board, 105 are killed.
1918  Assassins seriously injure Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin and kill Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky, prompting the decree for Red Terror.
1922  Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence").
1940  The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of North Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1941  World War II: The Siege of Leningrad begins.
1945  World War II: Hong Kong is liberated from Japan.
1945  World War II: Allied Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1945  The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, until 1949, goes into effect.
1946  In post-World War II Germany, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate is created in the French occupation zone.
1948  The Romanian intelligence agency, the Securitate, is founded.
1956  The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana opens.
1959  The title National Hero of Indonesia is awarded for the first time, to writer and politician Abdul Muis.
1963  Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.
1965  Casey Stengel announces his retirement from baseball.
1965  Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influential album Highway 61 Revisited featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone."
1967  Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1974  A train crash, of a Dortmund to Belgrade Express train, in Zagreb kills 153 people.
1974  A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Jeavy Industries Headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan killing 8 people.
1976  Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show.
1981  Iranian President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar are assassinated in a bombing by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
1984  Space Shuttle Discovery launches on its first mission.
1990  Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.
1991  Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR.
1992  Michael Schumacher wins his first Formula One race at the Belgian Grand Prix.
1993  The Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco, is inaugurated.
1993  The Late Show with David Letterman debuts on CBS.
1994  Oasis release their first album, Definitely Maybe.
1995  NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian-Serb forces.
1999  The East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.
2001  Former President of Yugoslavia and Serbia Slobodan Milosevic is charged with Genocide.
2002  The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas ceases to operate.
2003  While being towed across the Barents Sea, de-commissioned  Russian submarine K-159 sinks, killing all 9 crew members.
2009  Yukio Hatoyama is elected Prime Minister of Japan, taking office on September 16, when he succeeds Taro Aso.
He resigns on June 2, 2010.
2014  Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk is chosen as the new EU President, while Federica Mogherini of Italy is chosen as the next EU Foreign Policy Chief.
2016  Doris McLemore, the last-surviving fluent speaker of the Wichita language, dies aged 89.
1334  King Peter I of Castile (d. 1369)
1377  Shah Rukh, ruler Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
1401  Georgios Sphantzes, Byzantine historian (d. 1479)
1569  Jahangir, Mughal Emperor (d. 1627)
1705  David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757)
1720  Samuel Whitbread, English politician and brewer (d. 1796)
1727  Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1804)
1731  Jacob Sievers, Russian statesman (d. 1828)
1739  George Mathews, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1812)
1745  Johann Hieronymus Schroeter, German jurist and astronomer (d. 1816)
1748  Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
1758  Cristobal Bencomo y Rodriguez, Spanish priest (d. 1835)
1785  Lin Zexu, Chinese scholar and official (d. 1850)
1797  Mary Shelley, British writer of Frankenstein (d. 1851)
1798  Virginie Dejazet, French actress (d. 1875)
1800  Auguste von Harrach, wife of Frederick William III of Prussia (d. 1873)
1808  Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1892)
1812  Agoston Narasidhy, Hungarian traveler, writer and winemaker (d. 1869)
1813  Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (d. 1892)
1818  Alexander H. Rice, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1820  Gustave Le Gray, French photography pioneer (d. 1884)
1820  Hardin Richard Runnels, 6th Governor of Texas (d. 1873)
1821  Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian-born Italian revolutionary (d. 1849)
1844  Friedrich Ratzel, German zoologist and geographer (d. 1904)
1850  Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer, lawyer and journalist (d. 1896)
1852  Jacobus Henricus van t' Hoff, Dutch chemist (d. 1911)
1855  Evelyn De Morgan, British painter (d. 1919)
1856  Carl David Tolme Runge, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1927)
1860  Isaac Lewitan, Russian painter (d. 1900)
1870  Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891)
1871  Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand chemist and physicist (d. 1937)
1884  Theodor Svedberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1971)
1890  Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English captain and pilot (d. 1918)
1893  Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
1896  Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (d. 1983)
1898  Shirley Booth, American actress (d. 1992)
1901  Roy Wilkins, American Civil rights activist (d. 1981)
1902  Jozef Maria Bochenski, Polish philosopher (d. 1995)
1907  John Mauchly, American physicist and computer engineer (d. 1980)
1908  Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
1910  Roger Bushell, English soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
1912  Nancy Wake, New Zealand-born Australian spy in World War II, known as the "White Mouse" (d. 2011)
1912  Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist (d. 1997)
1913  Richard Stone, British economist (d. 1991)
1915  Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, Welsh-born Swedish princess (d. 2013)
1917  Denis Healey, British politician (d. 2015)
1917  Vladimir Kirillovich, pretender to the Russian throne (d. 1992)
1918  Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1919  Wolfgang Wagner, German festival organiser (d. 2010)
1919  Kitty Wells, American singer (d. 2012)
1921  Angelo Dundee, American boxing trainer (d. 2012)
1922  Lionel Murphy, 22nd Attorney-General of Australia (d. 1986)
1922  Regina Resnik, American mezzo soprano (d. 2013)
1923  Vic Seixas, American tennis player
1925  Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator
1927  Bill Daily, American actor (d. 2018)
1930  Warren Buffett, American businessman
1930  Mauro Ramos, Brazilian footballer (d. 2002)
1931  Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
1933  Don Getty, 11th Premier of Alberta (d. 2016)
1935  John Phillips, American singer-songwriter (Mamas and Papas) (d. 2001)
1937  Bruce McLaren, New Zealand racing driver (d. 1970)
1938  Murray Gleeson, Australian judge, 11th Chief Justice of Australia
1938  Abel Laudonio, Argentine boxer and actor (d. 2014)
1939  John Peel, British DJ (d. 2004)
1939  Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
1940  Ricardo Bauleo, Argentine actor (d. 2014)
1942  Jonathan Aitken, Irish-British politician
1943  Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
1943  Robert Crumb, American cartoonist.
1943  Bobby Lennox, Scottish footballer
1944  Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1944  Frances Cairncross, English economist, journalist and academic
1946  Anne-Marie, Danish princess and former Queen of Greece
1946  Peggy Lipton, American actress
1948  Lewis Black, American comedian, author and actor
1948  Fred Hampton, American political activist (d. 1969)
1948  Victor Skumin, Russian professor, philosopher, writer.
1949  Peter Maffay, German singer
1949  Christopher Collins, American actor, voice artist and comedian (d. 1994)
1950  Antony Gormley, British sculptor
1950  Micky Moody, English guitarist (Whitesnake)
1951  Gediminas Kirkilas, Lithuanian politician.
1951  Dana, Irish singer and politician
1953  Robert Parish, American basketball player
1953  Lech Majewski, Polish director, producer and screenwriter
1954  Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
1955  Helge Schneider, German comedian, jazz musician, director and actor
1958  Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist, Human Rights activist and writer (d. 2006)
1958  Muriel Gray, Scottish broadcaster and writer
1960  Ben Bradshaw, English politician
1962  Alexander Litvinenko, Russian-born British citizen and ex-KGB agent (d. 2006)
1963  Dave Brockie, Canadian-American musician (d. 2014)
1966  Michael Michele, American actress
1967  Eddie May, Scottish footballer and coach
1968  Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player
1970  Paulo Sousa, Portuguese footballer
1971  Mizuki Kawashita, Japanese mangaka
1972  Cameron Diaz, American actress
1972  Pavel Nedved, Czech footballer
1973  Lisa Ling, American journalist
1974  Javier Otxoa, Basque cyclist (d. 2018)
1974  Camilla Lackberg, Swedish writer
1975  Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
1976  Sarah-Jane Potts, British actress
1977  Elden Henson, American actor
1977  Felix Sanchez, American-Dominican runner
1977  Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
1978  Sinead Kerr, Scottish figure skater
1978  Cliff Lee, American baseball player
1979  Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player
1982  Andy Roddick, American tennis player
1983  Kris Commons, English-Scottish footballer
1983  Simone Pepe, Italian footballer
1985  Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
1985  Anna Ushenina, Russian chess player
1986  Ryan Ross, American guitarist (Panic!
1986  Aldo Simoncini, Sammmarinese footballer
1988  Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
1989  Bebe Rexha, Albanian-American singer-songwriter
1991  Farid Mammadov, Azerbaijani singer
1996  Trevor Jackson, American singer and actor
2001  Emily Bear, American pianist and composer
526  Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy (b. 454)
1158  King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
1329  Khutughtu Khan, Emperor Mingzong  of Yuan, of the Yuan Dynasty and Mongol Empire
1428  Emperor Shoko of Japan (b. 1401)
1483  King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
1505  Elizabeth of Austria (b. 1536)
1580  Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)
1619  Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
1751  Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
1856  Gilbert Abbott a Beckett, writer (b. 1811)
1879  John Bell Hood, Confederate general (b. 1831)
1896  Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
1906  Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847)
1907  Richard Mansfield, actor-manager, (b. 1857)
1928  Wilhelm Wien, German physicist (b. 1864)
1935  Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
1937  Gaetano Bisletti, Italian cardinal (b. 1896)
1938  Max Factor, Sr.,
Polish-American make-up artist and businessman (b. 1877)
1940  J.J. Thomson, English physicist (b. 1856)
1941  Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
1943  Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, ss.cc.,
Dutch Roman Catholic priest (b. 1890)
1945  Alfréd Schaffer, Hungarian footballer, coach and manager (b. 1893)
1946  Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (b. 1907)
1949  Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1887)
1954  Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (b. 1880)
1957  Otto Suhr, Mayor of Berlin (b. 1894)
1961  Charles Coburn, actor (b. 1877)
1971  Ali Hadi Bara, Turkish sculptor (b. 1906)
1981  Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian statesman (b. 1933)
1981  Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Iranian statesman
1981  Vera-Ellen, actress (b. 1921)
1985  Taylor Caldwell, American writer (b. 1900)
1991  Jean Tinguely, Swiss kinetic artist (b. 1925)
1994  Lindsay Anderson, movie director (b. 1923)
1995  Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)
1996  Christine Pascal, French actress (b. 1953)
1997  Ernst Willimowski, Polish footballer (b. 1916)
1999  Jan Brasser, Dutch athlete (b. 1912)
2001  Govan Mbeki, South African political activist (b. 1910)
2003  Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
2003  Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)
2004  Fred Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
2005  Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (b. 1890)
2006  Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor (b. 1916)
2006  Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer (b. 1911)
2008  Killer Kowalski, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1926)
2010  J. C. Bailey, American professional wrestler (b. 1983)
2010  Alain Corneau, French moviemaker (b. 1943)
2010  Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (b. 1910)
2012  Chris Lighty, American music industry executive (b. 1968)
2013  Seamus Heaney, Irish writer and poet (b. 1939)
2013  Soledad Mexia, Mexican-American supercentenarian (b. 1899)
2014  Bipan Chandra, Indian historian (b. 1928)
2014  Igor Decraene, Belgian cyclist (b. 1996)
2014  Victoria Mallory, American actress and singer (b. 1949)
2014  Bud Andrews, American radio personality and DJ (b. 1940)
2014  David Mitchell, English politician (b. 1928)
2015  Bart Cummings, Australian racehorse trainer (b. 1927)
2015  Oliver Sacks, English-American neurologist and author (b. 1933)
2015  Wes Craven, American director, writer, producer and actor (b. 1939)
2015  Marvin Mandel, American politician, 56th Governor of Maryland (b. 1920)
2015  Hugo Rasmussen, Danish jazz musician (b. 1944)
2015  Edward Fadeley, American attorney and politician (b. 1929)
2016  Doris McLemore, last-surviving fluent speaker of the Wichita language (b. 1927)
2017  Marjorie Boulton, English author (b. 1924)
2017  Louise Hay, American author (b. 1926)
2017  Abdul Jabbar, Bangladeshi singer (b. 1938)
2017  Rollie Massimino, American basketball coach (b. 1934)
2017  Sumiteru Taniguchi, Japanese anti-nuclear weapons activist (b. 1929)
2017  Richard Sui On Chang, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Hawaii (b. 1941)
2017  Sam Pivnik, Polish Holocaust survivor and author (b. 1926)
2018  Joseph Kobzon, Russian singer (b. 1937)
2018  Ray, Hong Kong professional wrestler (b. 1982)
International Day of the Disappeared
Saint Rose of Lima (Peru)
Victory Day (Turkey)
Republic Day (Tatarstan)
It is the last day of the second third of the year.
The end of this day the second third of a leap year.
The end of the second third the year for southern hemisphere DST countries occurs at 11:00 p.m.
1056  Byzantine Empress Theodora dies suddenly without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty.
1314  Norway's capital is moved from Bergen to Oslo.
1422  King Henry V of England dies in France from dysentery.
Henry VI of England becomes king of England at the age of just under nine months.
1798  Irish Rebellion of 1798: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connacht.
1803  Meriwether Lewis and William Clark start their expedition west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 in the morning.
1812  Troop transporter Salvador runs aground on the Rio de la Plata, between Argentina and Uruguay, killing 470 people, of the 600 on board.
1813  At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British  and Portuguese forces capture Donostia, now known as San Sebastian, in the Basque Country, resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town.
1848  Costa Rica becomes independent from the Federal Republic of Central America.
1864  American Civil War: Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
1876  Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
1886  An Earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
1888  Mary Ann Nicholls is murdered.
She is perhaps the first of Jack the Ripper's victims
1895  John Brallier is paid US$10 plus expenses to play football for the Latrobe, Pennsylvania YMCA, making him the first professional football player.
1897  Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1897  Initiated by Theodor Herzl, the Zionist World Congress in Basel, Switzerland, calls for the creation of a Jewish state.
1907  England, Russia and France form the Triple Entente alliance.
1914  Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
1915  Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
1920  Polish-Bolshevik War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
1920  First news radio program broadcast in Detroit, Michigan.
1931  Production of Ford Motor Company's Model A ends, with 4.3 million produced.
1936  Radio Praha, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
1939  Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on Gleiwitz radio station, giving them an excuse to attack Poland the following day, starting World War II.
1940  Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia.
1941  World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat German forces  in the Battle of Loznica.
1943  The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named for a black person, is commissioned.
1945  The Liberal Party of Australia is formed by Robert Menzies.
1949  The Greek Civil War ends.
1950  East Germany bans Jehovah's Witnesses from practising their faith.
1951  The Dominican Republic records its highest-ever temperature, at 43 degrees Celsius.
1953  The city of Santander in Northern Spain opens its new airport.
1957  The Federation of Malaya gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1958  An assassination attempt on King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia fails, when a parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother and advisor to Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to detonate.
1962  Trinidad and Tobago become independent.
1963  Sarawak, North Borneo and Singapore achieve technical independence, pending accession to the Federation of Malaya.
1968  An earthquake in Iran kills at least 12,000 people.
1978  William and Emily Harris, founders of the Symbionese Liberation Army, plead guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst.
1980  The Solidarity trade union is formed in Poland.
1980  Heavy rain causes flooding in Ibadan, Nigeria, killing over 300 people.
1985  Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker" serial killer, is arrested in Los Angeles, California.
1986  An Aeroméxico Douglas DC-9 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
1986  The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 398.
1987  Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 people on board.
1989  Buckingham Palace officials confirm that Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips are to be separated.
1990  The plan for German unity is signed in Berlin.
1991  Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992  Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo after a multiparty presidential election, ending a long history of one-party oppressive rule under the Congolese Workers Party.
1994  The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
1996  Saddam Hussein's troops seize Irbil, Iraq, after Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani had asked for help to defeat the Kurdish PKK.
1997  Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in Paris.
1998  North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite.
1999  A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during take-off from Jorge Newbury Airport, Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 65 people, including 2 on the ground.
1999  The first of a series of Russian Apartment Bombings in Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others.
2001  PBS airs the final episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood with host Fred Rogers retiring.
2004  Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ is released on DVD and VHS in stores across the United States, selling approximately 4.1 million copies by the end of the day.
2005  A stampede at the Al-Aimmah Bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
2005  Football: An early-round FA Cup match in England sets the record for the most penalty kicks taken.
It took 40 such kicks to separate Tunbridge Wells and Littlehampton Town.
2006  Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered in a police raid, more than two years after it was stolen.
2010  Iraq War officially ends.
2016  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is impeached and removed from office; Michel Temer succeeds her as President.
2018  A six-hour-long funeral takes place for American soul singer Aretha Franklin in Detroit, Michigan.
12  Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor (d. 41)
161  Commodus, Roman Emperor (d. 192)
1018  Jeongjong II of Goryeo, Korean ruler (d. 1046)
1168  Emperor Zhangzong of Jin (d. 1208)
1542  Isabella de' Medici, Italian princess (d. 1576)
1569  Jahangir, Indian Mughal Emperor (d. 1627)
1602  Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, wife of Frederick, Prince of Orange (d. 1675)
1663  Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (d. 1705)
1721  George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775)
1741  Jean Paul Egide Martini, French composer (d. 1816)
1741  John Houstoun, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1796)
1748  Jean Etienne Despreaux, French dancer, choreographer, composer, singer and playwright (d. 1820)
1749  Alexander Radishchev, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1802)
1760  Peter Joseph Triest, Belgian canon of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1836)
1767  Henry Joy McCracken, Irish activist (d. 1798)
1786  Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (d. 1889)
1797  James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer and engineer (d. 1867)
1811  Theophile Gautier, French poet and novelist (d. 1872)
1821  Hermann von Helmholtz, German scientist (d. 1894)
1822  Galusha M. Grow, 28th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1907)
1834  Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (d. 1886)
1837  Frederick Walter Pikin, Governor of Colorado (d. 1886)
1842  Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, American publisher, journalist and activist (d. 1924)
1843  Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919)
1853  Alexei Alekseyevich Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1866  Elizabeth von Arnim, Australian-English writer (d. 1941)
1870  Maria Montessori, Italian physician and educator (d. 1952)
1871  James E. Ferguson, 26th Governor of Texas (d. 1944)
1871  Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1955)
1874  Edward Thorndike, American psychologist (d. 1949)
1878  Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d. 1933)
1879  Alma Mahler, wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel (d. 1964)
1879  Emperor Taisho, Emperor of Japan (d. 1926)
1880  Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (d. 1962)
1882  Harry Porter, American high jumper (d. 1965)
1885  DuBose Heyward, American playwright (d. 1940)
1891  Martin Sennet Conner, 44th Governor of Mississippi (d. 1950)
1893  Raymond E. Baldwin, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1986)
1897  Fredric March, American actor (d. 1975)
1900  Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist, attempted assassin of Benito Mussolini (d. 1943)
1903  Vladimir Jankelevitch, French philosopher and musicologist (d. 1985)
1903  Arthur Godfrey, American television host (d. 1983)
1907  William Shawn, American editor (d. 1992)
1907  Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines (d. 1957)
1907  Altiero Spinelli, Italian politician (d. 1986)
1908  William Saroyan, American novelist and playwright (d. 1981)
1909  Ferenc Fejto, Hungarian-French journalist and political scientist (d. 2008)
1913  Bernard Lovell, English radio astronomer and physicist (d. 2012)
1913  Helen Levitt, American photographer (d. 2009)
1914  Richard Basehart, American actor (d. 1984)
1916  Robert Hanbury Brown, English astronomer and physicist (d. 2002)
1916  Daniel Schorr, American journalist (d. 2010)
1918  Alan Jay Lerner, American composer (d. 1986)
1924  Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian (d. 2003)
1925  Katyna Ranieri, Italian actress and singer (d. 2018)
1928  James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002)
1928  Jaime Sin, Filipino cardinal (d. 2005)
1931  Jean Beliveau, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1931  Brita Koivunen, Finnish singer (d. 2014)
1931  Noble Willingham, American actor (d. 2004)
1932  Roy Castle, English actor, singer and dancer (d. 1994)
1935  Frank Robinson, American baseball player and manager
1935  Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist (d. 1998)
1936  Vladimir Orlov, Russian author (d. 2014)
1937  Gilles Latulippe, Canadian comedian, author and theatre manager (d. 2014)
1937  Warren Berlinger, American actor
1937  Bobby Parker, American guitarist
1938  Martin Bell, British journalist and politician
1940  Wilton Felder, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2015)
1940  Alain Calmat, French figure skater
1942  Isao Aoki, Japanese golfer
1944  Roger Denn, English artist, designer, architect and publisher
1945  Bob Welch, American musician (d. 2012)
1945  Van Morrison, Northern Irish musician
1945  Itzhak Perlman, Israeli violinist
1945  Leonid Popov, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut
1946  Ann Coffey, Scottish politician
1947  Somchai Wongsawat, former Prime Minister of Thailand
1947  Mona Marshall, American voice actress
1948  Holger Osieck, German football coach
1948  Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (d. 1982)
1948  Lowell Ganz, screenwriter
1948  Rudolf Schenker, German musician (Scorpions)
1949  Richard Gere, American actor
1949  Hugh David Politzer, American physicist
1952  Kim Kashkashian, Armenian-American violist
1953  Pavel Vingradov, Russian cosmonaut
1954  Robert Kocharian, former President of Armenia
1955  Edwin Moses, American athlete
1956  Tsai Ing-wen, President of the Republic of China
1956  Mark Mangini, American sound editor
1956  Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television performer
1959  Ralph Krueger, Canadian ice hockey coach
1960  Chris Whitley, American musician
1960  Vali Ionescu, Romanian long jumper
1960  Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese leader of Hezbollah
1962  Dee Bradley Baker, American actor
1963  Todd Carty, Irish actor
1965  Zsolt Borkai, Hungarian gymnast
1966  Jan Einar Thorsen, Norwegian alpine skier
1967  Anna Moen, Norwegian skier
1968  Valdon Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician
1968  Derek Whyte, Scottish footballer
1969  Jonathan LaPaglia, Australian actor
1969  Andrew Cunanan, American serial killer (d. 1997)
1970  Debbie Gibson, American singer
1970  Queen Rania of Jordan, Jordanian Queen
1970  Nikola Gruevski, Macedonian politician
1970  Arie van Lent, Dutch-German footballer
1971  Padraig Harrington, Irish golfer
1971  Junior Jack, Italian music producer and DJ
1972  Chris Tucker, American actor
1976  Roque Junior, Brazilian footballer
1976  Radek Martinek, Czech ice hockey player
1977  Craig Nicholls, American  singer, songwriter, and guitarist (The Vines)
1977  Jeff Hardy, American professional wrestler
1979  Simon Neil, Scottish singer and guitarist (Biffy Clyro)
1980  Joe Budden, American rapper
1981  Dwayne Peel, Welsh rugby player
1982  Christopher Katongo, Zambian footballer
1982  José Manuel Reina, Spanish footballer
1982  Alexei Mikhnov, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
1982  Chris Duhon, American basketball player
1984  Ted Ligety, American skier
1984  Ryan Kesler, American ice hockey player
1985  Rolando, Portuguese footballer
1985  Ashley Hartman, American actress and model
1985  Mohammad bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
1986  Ryan Kelley, American actor
1987  Ondrej Pavelec, Czech ice hockey player
1988  David Ospina, Colombian footballer
1990  Gary Mackay-Steven, Scottish footballer
1991  Shi Tingmao, Chinese diver
1998  Saya Kawamoto, Japanese idol and singer
2017  Prince Gabriel, Duke of Dalarna, Swedish royal
577  John Scholasticus, Patriarch of Constantinople
651  Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary
683  Pacal II, Mayan ruler (b. 603)
1056  Byzantine Empress Theodora (b. 981)
1158  Sancho I of Castile (b. 1134)
1234  Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (b. 1212)
1422  King Henry V of England (b. 1387)
1654  Ole Worm, Danish physician (b. 1588)
1688  John Bunyan, English writer (b. 1628)
1724  Louis I of Spain (b. 1707)
1741  Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
1762  Emperor Momozono of Japan (b. 1741)
1772  William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)
1799  Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b. 1720)
1811  Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729)
1814  Arthur Phillip, British admiral, first Governor of New South Wales (b. 1738)
1864  Ferdinand Lassalle, German writer and politician (b. 1825)
1867  Charles Baudelaire, French poet (b. 1821)
1888  Mary Ann Nichols, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1845)
1920  Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (b. 1832)
1920  Jens Oliver Lisberg, Faroese law student (b. 1896)
1924  Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1881)
1927  William Frank Carver, American target shooter and showman (b. 1851)
1941  Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892)
1948  Billy Laughlin, American actor (b. 1932)
1948  Andrei Zhdanov, Soviet politician (b. 1896)
1963  Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
1967  Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet writer, journalist and translator (b. 1891)
1969  Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
1973  John Ford, American movie director (b. 1894)
1974  Norman Kirk, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1923)
1978  John Wrathall, Rhodesian politician (b. 1913)
1979  Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (b. 1904)
1985  Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist (b. 1899)
1986  Henry Moore, English sculptor (b. 1898)
1986  Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (b. 1900)
1986  Jorge Alessandri, President of Chile (b. 1896)
1990  Nathaniel Clifton, American basketball player (b. 1922)
1991  Cliff Lumsden, Canadian marathon swimmer (b. 1931)
1997  Diana, Princess of Wales (car accident) (b. 1961)
1997  Dodi Fayed, Egyptian-born movie producer (car accident) (b. 1955)
1997  Henri Paul, French security guard (car accident) (b. 1956)
2002  Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player (b. 1908)
2002  George Porter, English chemist (b. 1920)
2004  Carl Wayne, English singer (b. 1943)
2005  Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist (b. 1908)
2006  Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)
2010  Laurent Fignon, French cyclist (b. 1960)
2011  Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1976)
2011  Valery Rozhdestvensky, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1939)
2012  Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov, Soviet-Russian military commander (b. 1911)
2012  Carlo Maria Martini, Italian cardinal (b. 1927)
2012  Max Bygraves, British entertainer (b. 1922)
2013  David Frost, British broadcaster (b. 1939)
2014  Stefan Andrei, Romanian Communist politician (b. 1931)
2014  Stan Goldberg, American comic author (b. 1932)
2014  Jimi Jamison, American rock music singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
2014  Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
2014  Bapu, Indian movie director (b. 1933)
2014  Yves Carcelle, French businessman (b. 1948)
2015  Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, English politician (b. 1926)
2017  Richard Anderson, American actor (b. 1926)
2017  Janne Carlsson, Swedish actor and musician (b. 1937)
2017  Mike Cockerill, Australian soccer journalist (b. 1960)
2017  Egon Günther, German film director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2017  Tamara Tchinarova, Romanian ballet dancer and writer (b. 1919)
2018  Susan Brown, American actress (b. 1932)
2018  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Italian geneticist (b. 1922)
2018  Alexander Zakharenko, Ukrainian separatist leader (b. 1976)
Independence Day (Malaysia, Trinidad and Tobago, Kyrgyzstan)
Day of Solidarity and Freedom (Poland)
National Language Day (Moldova)
Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne
79 – Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae.
The modern city of Naples now stands on the edge of the disaster area.
410 - The Visigoths under King Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
455 - The Vandals, led by King Genseric, begin to plunder Rome.
1200 - King John of England marries Isabella of Angoulême in Bordeaux Cathedral.
1215 – Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid.
1349 - 6000 Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the Bubonic Plague.
1391 - Massacre on the Jewish population of Palma de Mallorca.
1456 – Printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
1482 - The town and castle of Berwick-upon-Tweed are captured from Scotland by English troops.
1516 - The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Maq Dabiq.
1561 - William of Orange marries Anne of Saxony.
1572 – St. Batholomew's Day massacre: Start of a massacre of Huguenots (French Protestants) under the orders of King Charles IX of France.
1608 - The first English representative to India lands in Surat.
1662 - The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
1682 - William Penn adds present-day Delaware to his colony of Pennsylvania.
1812 - Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British and Portuguese forces succeeds in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cadiz.
1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C., burning many buildings, including the White House.
1815 – The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
1821 - The Treaty of Cordoba is signed in present-day Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
1848 - The ship Ocean Monarch bursts into flames near Llandudno, north Wales.
208 people are saved by nearby ships, while 178 are killed.
1857 - The Panic of 1857 economic crisis begins in the United States.
1875 – Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first man to swim across the English Channel.
1891 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for the motion-picture-camera.
1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the construction of the Panama Canal.
1912 – Alaska becomes a United States territory.
1914 - World War I: German troops occupy Namur, Belgium.
1929 - 67 are killed in a massacre in Hebron, leading to the expulsion of Jews from the city.
1931 - France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly non-stop across the United States.
1936 – The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
1949 - The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
1954 - President of Brazil Getulio Vargas resigns and commits suicide shortly after.
1954 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Communist Control Act, which bans the American Communist Party.
1960 - At -88.3 degrees Celsius, the lowest-ever temperature up until that point, is measured at the Soviet Vostok Research Station in Antarctica.
This record stands until 1983, when, also at the Vostok Station, the even colder temperature of -89.2 degrees Celsius is measured.
1963 - The German football league, the Bundesliga, starts.
1968 – France explodes its first hydrogen bomb.
1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to at least 20 years in prison for the murder of John Lennon.
1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki becomes Prime Minister of Poland, becoming the first non-Communist leader of Poland in the post-World War II period.
1989 - Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on Colombia's Government.
1989 - Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling, by commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Soviet Union's Communist party.
1991 – Ukraine declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in southern Florida as a Category 5 hurricane.
It causes a lot of damage and becomes one of the US's costliest natural disasters.
1994 - Initial accord between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization about partial self-rule in the Palestinians in the West Bank
1995 – MSN is launched.
2001 - Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the mid-Atlantic Ocean, making a safe emergency landing on the island of Terceira, Azores.
2004 – 89 people die in explosions on two jets at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport.
2006 – The definition of the word planet is changed, therefore stripping Pluto of its planet status, making it a dwarf planet.
2008 - The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing end.
The host nation, the People's Republic of China, wins the most gold medals, ahead of the United States.
2011 - Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple Inc.. He dies six weeks later.
2012 - American cyclist Lance Armstrong announces that he is no-longer fighting doping allegations, and is stripped of the seven Tour de France titles he won by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
2012 - Anders Behring Breivik is declared sane by a court in Oslo, and sentenced to 21 years in prison for the 2011 Norway attacks, in which he had killed 77 people.
2016 - A major earthquake hits Central Italy, killing 276 people.
2016 - The discovery of "Proxima Centauri b", a planet orbiting around the star Proxima Centauri, is announced.
2018 - Scott Morrison becomes the 30th Prime Minister of Australia, after defeating Peter Dutton in a contest to replace Malcolm Turnbull.
1113 - Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)
1198 – King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
1358 – King John I of Castile (d. 1390)
1393 - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)
1552 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
1591 - Robert Herrick, English poet (d. 1674)
1635 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699)
1669 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1747)
1750 – Letizia Ramolino, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1836)
1758 – Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1790)
1759 – William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (d. 1833)
1772 – King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840)
1787 – James Weddell, English Antarctic explorer (d. 1834)
1792 - Joaquim Antonio de Aguiar, Portuguese politician (d. 1884)
1815 - Bartolomé Calvo, Colombian statesman (d. 1889)
1816 - Daniel Gooch, English railway pioneer and mechanical engineer (d. 1889)
1824 - Antonio Stoppani, Italian geologist and scholar (d. 1891)
1831 - Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Swedish royal (d. 1873)
1837 - Theodore Dubois, French composer, organist and music teacher (d. 1924)
1855 - Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal (d. 1944)
1865 – King Ferdinand II of Romania (d. 1927)
1872 - Max Beerbohm, British caricaturist (d. 1956)
1886 - William Gibbs, American naval architect (d. 1967)
1887 - Harry Hooper, American baseball player (d. 1974)
1890 – Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaiian-American athlete (swimming and surfing) (d. 1968)
1890 - Jean Rhys, Dominican-English writer (d. 1979)