the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1543 – King Henry VIII of England married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace.
1561 - Moscow's St. Basil's Cathedral is consecrated.
1562 - Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the sacred books of the Maya.
1573 – Spanish forces under the Duke of Alva capture Haarlem after a seven-month siege.
1580 - The Ostrog Bible is published.
It is one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language.
1690 – Williamite War in Ireland: Battle of the Boyne (Gregorian calendar) – The army of William III of England defeats that of the deposed King James VII of Scotland and II of England.
1691 – Williamite War in Ireland: Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar) – The decisive victory of William III's forces in Ireland.
1730 - Lorenzo Corsini, in old age and almost blind, becomes Pope Clement XII.
1759 – Seven Years' War – French and Indian War: British cannon start firing on French at Quebec City, from Lévis, Quebec.
1776 - James Cook begins his voyage.
1801 - French Revolutionary Wars: British Royal Navy ships inflict heavy damage against Spanish and French ships in the Second Battle of Algeciras.
1806 – Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and formed the Confederation of the Rhine.
On the same day, Liechtenstein is granted full sovereignty.
1812 – War of 1812: The United States invades Canada at Windsor, Ontario.
1862 – Medal of Honor authorized by the United States Congress.
1879 - The National Guards Unit of Bulgaria is founded.
1892 – A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side of Mont Blanc, flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers in Saint Gervais.
1906 - French military officer Alfred Dreyfus is rehabilitated after his wrongful conviction in the so-called Dreyfus Trial over 12 years earlier.
1913 - Second Balkan War: Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin.
1917 - World War I: German troops first use mustard gas.
1917 - Bisbee Deportation: Vigilantes kidnap and deport near 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1918 - Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachiblows up at Shunan, Western Honshu, killing 621 people.
1920 - In the Soviet-Lithuanian Peace Treaty, Soviet Russia recognizes Lithuanian independence.
1924 - The marathon at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris is run in the heat of 45 degrees Celsius.
Only 15 out of 38 runners reach the finish line.
Paavo Nurmi of Finland finishes first.
1932 – Lambeth Bridge, London, opened by King George V of the United Kingdom
1932 – Hedley Verity establishes a first-class record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
1933 – Congress passes the first federal minimum wage law in the United States: 33 cents per hour.
1943 – World War II: Battle of Kursk – German and Soviet forces engage in largest tank engagement of all time.
1950 – René Pleven becomes Prime Minister of France.
1960 – Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
1961 - Due to heavy rain, two reservoirs in the Indian state of Maharashtra break, causing heavy flooding in the city of Pune, killing 1,000 to 2,000 people.
1962 - The Rolling Stones perform their first concert at the Marquee Club in London.
1967 – Four days of race riots begin in Newark, New Jersey that will claim the lives of 27 people.
1970 - Fire destroys the wooden home of Norwegian composer Geir Tveitt.
90 percent of his output is destroyed.
1971 - The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time.
1973 – The 1973 National Archives Fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center.
1975 – São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence.
1979 – The island nation of Kiribati declares independence.
1979 – Reinhold Messner and Michael Dacher climb to the top of K2 without oxygen supplies.
1979 – Disco Demolition Night held at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois
1993 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off the shore of Hokkaido, Japan launches a devastating tsunami, killing 202 on the small island of Okushiri.
1998 – KDE 1.0 released.
1998 – 1998 FIFA World Cup: The France national football team beats the Brazil national football team 3-0, to win the FIFA World Cup for the first time, and in front of their home support.
Before the final, there had been controversy over whether Brazil's Ronaldo would play in the game.
2002 – Gay rights: The Superior Court of Ontario orders Ontario to recognize same-sex marriages.
2004 – An earthquake strikes in Posočje, Slovenia, with 2 dead, and measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale.
2004 – Pedro Santana Lopes is officially appointed Prime Minister of Portugal.
2005 – Prince Albert II is enthroned as ruler of the Principality of Monaco.
2006 – War erupts between Israel and Lebanon.
2012 - A tank truck explosion in Okogie, Nigeria, kills over 100 people.
2013 - Malala Yousafzai speaks at the UN Headquarters on her 16th birthday, in support of education for all.
2013 - A train crash near Paris kills 6 people.
2014 - 2014 FIFA World Cup: After being humiliated a few days earlier (7-1) by the Germany national football team in the Semi-Final, the Brazil national football team, hosting the tournament, also loses the Third-Place play-off against the Netherlands national football team, 3-0.
2016 - A train collision in Apulia, South-eastern Italy, kills 27 people.
2017 - A massive iceberg, 5,800 square kilometres (2,200 square miles) large, breaks away from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica.
2017 - Malta's parliament votes to legalise same-sex marriage.
2018 - US President Donald Trump starts a four-day visit to the United Kingdom.
2019 - Asasey hotel attack: Gunmen storm the Asasey hotel in Kismayo, Somalia, killing 26 people.
100 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman soldier and politician (d. 44 BC)
1394 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d. 1441)
1468 – Juan del Encina, poet and composer
1596 – Tsar Michael I of Russia (d. 1645)
1607 - Jean Petitot, Swiss painter (d. 1691)
1675 - Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1742)
1730 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (d. 1795)
1784 - Juan Mora Fernandez, Costa Rican Head of State (d. 1854)
1803 - Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841)
1807 – Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (d. 1893)
1813 – Claude Bernard, French physiologist (d. 1878)
1817 – Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher (d. 1862)
1819 – Charles Kingsley, English writer (d. 1875)
1824 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)
1828 - Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (d. 1889)
1849 – Sir William Osler, Canadian physician, writer, professor of medicine (d. 1919)
1850 – Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (d. 1912)
1852 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (d. 1933)
1854 – George Eastman, American inventor (d. 1932)
1854 - Juan Gualberto Gómez, Cuban revolutionary leader (d. 1933)
1855 – Edward 'Ned' Hanlan, rower (d. 1908)
1861 - Anton Arensky, Russian composer, pianist and educator (d. 1906)
1863 - Albert Calmette, French physician (d. 1933)
1863 - Paul Drude, German physicist (d. 1906)
1864 – George Washington Carver, American botanist (d. 1943)
1868 – Stefan George, German poet (d. 1933)
1870 – Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949)
1876 – Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944)
1880 – Tod Browning, American movie director (d. 1962)
1884 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920)
1886 – Jean Hersholt, Danish movie director and actor (d. 1956)
1892 – Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1942)
1892 – Harry Piel, actor, movie director, and producer (d. 1963)
1895 – Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (d. 1962)
1895 – R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect (d. 1983)
1895 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (d. 1960)
1902 – Günther Anders, philosopher and writer (d. 1992)
1904 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize recipient (d. 1973)
1905 – Prince John of the United Kingdom (d. 1919)
1906 - Pietro Tordi, Italian actor (d. 1990)
1908 – Milton Berle, American comedian (d. 2002)
1909 – Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (d. 1993)
1909 - Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer (d. 1999)
1913 – Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
1916 - Robert E. Gilka, American photojournalist (d. 2013)
1917 – Andrew Wyeth, American artist (d. 2009)
1920 – Beah Richards, American actress (d. 2000)
1920 – Pierre Berton, Canadian journalist and writer (d. 2004)
1922 – Mark Hatfield, U.S. Senator and Governor from Oregon (d. 2011)
1922 – Michael Ventris, English architect and philologist (d. 1956)
1923 - René Favaloro, Argentine heart surgeon (d. 2000)
1923 - Jonás Gómez Gallo, Chilean businessman and politician (d. 2019)
1925 – Roger B. Smith, American automobile executive
1926 - Carl Adam Petri, German mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2010)
1927 - Conte Candoli, American trumpeter (d. 2001)
1928 - Jo Myong-rok, North Korean politician (d. 2010)
1928 – Elias James Corey, American chemist
1928 - Kathy Staff, English actress (d. 2008)
1930 – Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director, and writer
1932 – Otis Davis, American runner
1932 - Monte Hellman, American movie director, producer and editor
1932 - Eddy Wally, Belgian singer (d. 2016)
1933 - Brian Cant, English actor, presenter and writer (d. 2017)
1933 – Donald E. Westlake, American writer (d. 2008)
1934 – Van Cliburn, American pianist (d. 2013)
1935 - Roy Barraclough, English actor (d. 2017)
1935 – Hans Tilkowski, German footballer
1937 – Bill Cosby, American comedian and actor
1937 – Lionel Jospin, former Prime Minister of France
1937 - Michel Louvin, Canadian singer
1938 - Jaishankar, Indian actor (d. 2000)
1943 - Paul Silas, American basketball player and coach
1943 – Christine McVie, singer, musician, and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
1944 - Delia Ephron, American author, screenwriter and playwright
1945 - Leopoldo Mastelloni, Italian actor
1946 – Valentina Tolkunova, Russian singer (d. 2010)
1946 – Gareth Edwards, Welsh rugby player
1947 - Wilko Johnson, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
1948 – Richard Simmons, American fitness trainer, actor, comedian, producer and writer
1948 – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sufi musician (d. 1997)
1948 - Jay Thomas, American actor (d. 2017)
1948 - Ben Burtt, American sound designer
1948 - Walter Egan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1950 – Eric Carr, American drummer (Kiss) (d. 1991)
1950 - Gilles Meloche, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 - Cheryl Ladd, American actress and singer
1952 - Voja Antonic, Serbian inventor and journalist
1952 - Irina Bokova, Bulgarian politician, Director-General of UNESCO
1952 - Philip Taylor Kramer, American bass player (Iron Butterfly) (d. 1995)
1952 - Liz Mitchell, Jamaican performer (Boney M)
1953 – John Ausonius, Swedish criminal
1954 – Wolfgang Dremmler, German footballer
1955 - Jimmy LaFave, American singer-songwriter and folk musician (d. 2017)
1956 - Mario Soto, Dominican baseball player
1957 - Dave Semenko, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
1959 - King Tupou VI of Tonga
1959 - Charlie Murphy, American actor and writer (d. 2016)
1960 - Corynne Charby, French model, actress and singer
1961 - Masaaki Mori, Japanese footballer
1961 - Shiva Rajkumar, Indian actor, singer and producer
1962 - Luc De Vos, Belgian musician and writer (d. 2014)
1962 - Dean Wilkins, English footballer
1964 – Gaby Roslin, English television presenter
1966 - Annabel Croft, English tennis player
1966 - Tamsin Greig, English actress
1966 - Ana Torrent, Spanish actress
1967 – Richard Herring, English comedian
1967 - John Petrucci, American guitarist
1967 - Bruny Surin, Haitian-Canadian athlete
1969 - Jesse Pintado, American guitarist (d. 2006)
1969 - Chantal Jouanno, French politician
1971 – Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater
1972 – Travis Best, NBA player
1973 - Magoo, American rapper
1973 – Christian Vieri, Italian footballer
1974 – Stelios Giannakopoulos, Greek footballer
1974 - Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer and composer
1974 - Gregory Helms, American professional wrestler
1975 - Cheyenne Jackson, American actor and singer
1975 - Carolina Kasting, Brazilian actress
1975 - Anastassia Michaeli, Israeli journalist, television presenter and politician
1976 – Anna Friel, English actress
1977 – Brock Lesnar, American professional wrestler
1978 – Topher Grace, American actor
1978 - Michelle Rodriguez, American actress
1980 - Tom Price, Welsh actor
1982 – Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer
1984 – Gareth Gates, English singer
1984 - Michael McGovern, Northern Irish footballer
1985 - Emil Hegle Svendsen, Norwegian biathlete
1985 - Paulo Vitor Barreto, Brazilian footballer
1986 – Simone Laudehr, German footballer
1986 - Didier Digard, French footballer
1986 - Krystal Forscutt, Australian model, actress and singer
1988 - Patrick Beverley, American basketball player
1989 - Nick Palmieri, American ice hockey player
1989 - Phoebe Tonkin, Australian actress and model
1991 - James Rodríguez, Colombian footballer
1991 – Erik Per Sullivan, American actor
1992 – Eoghan Quigg, Northern Irish singer
1995 - Luke Shaw, English footballer
1995 - Jordyn Wieber, American artistic gymnast
1996 – Jordan Romero, American mountain climber
1996 - Moussa Dembélé, French footballer
1997 - Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for education
783 – Bertrada, wife of Pippin III (b. 720)
1441 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (b. 1394)
1536 – Erasmus, Dutch writer and philosopher (b. around 1466)
1645 - Tsar Michael I of Russia (b. 1596)
1664 – Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (b. 1610)
1682 – Jean Picard, French astronomer (b. 1620)
1712 – Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1626)
1742 - Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Italian composer (b. 1675)
1773 – Johann Joachim Quantz, German flutist and composer (b. 1697)
1804 – Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1755)
1838 - Ezra Butler, American politician, Governor of Vermont (b. 1763)
1845 – Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian writer (b. 1808)
1845 - Ludwig Persius, Prussian architect (b. 1803)
1855 - Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (b. 1802)
1849 – Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (b. 1768)
1892 - Alexander Cartwright, American inventor of baseball (b. 1820)
1901 - Richard B. Hubbard, 17th Governor of Texas (b. 1832)
1910 – Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and aviator (b. 1887)
1918 – Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (b. 1864)
1923 - William P. Dillingham, Governor of Vermont (b. 1843)
1926 – Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (b. 1868)
1931 – Nathan Söderblom, Swedish clergyman, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1934 - Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor (b. 1877)
1935 – Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (b. 1859)
1944 - Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1887)
1945 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1871)
1945 - Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (b. 1895)
1947 - Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
1949 – Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
1950 – Elsie De Wolfe, actress and interior decorator (b. 1865)
1960 - Buddy Adler, American movie producer (b. 1909)
1962 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907)
1969 - Henry George Lamond, Australian novelist (b. 1885)
1978 - Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere, English politician and media magnate (b. 1898)
1979 - Minnie Riperton, American singer (b. 1947)
1982 - Kenneth More, English actor (b. 1914)
1988 – Josh Logan, movie director and writer
1990 - Joao Saldanha, Brazilian footballer, manager and journalist (b. 1917)
1996 – John Chancellor, American television journalist (b. 1927)
1996 – Jonathan Melvoin, musician and keyboardist (The Smashing Pumpkins) (b. 1961)
1998 - Jimmy Driftwood, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (b. 1907)
1999 – Bill Owen, British actor (b. 1914)
1999 – Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1929)
2003 – Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907)
2007 – Kesha Wizzart, British singer (b. 1988)
2008 - Tony Snow, American journalist (b. 1955)
2010 – Günter Behnisch, German architect (b. 1922)
2010 – Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer and artist (b. 1939)
2011 - Sherwood Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1916)
2012 - Dara Singh, Indian wrestler and actor (b. 1928)
2013 - Pran, Indian actor (b. 1920)
2013 - Amar Bose, American sound engineer and entrepreneur (b. 1929)
2013 - Alan Whicker, English broadcaster (b. 1925)
2014 - Nestor Basterretxea, Basque artist (b. 1924)
2014 - Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Russian liberal politician (b. 1950)
2014 - Emil Bobu, Romanian politician (b. 1927)
2014 - Kenneth J. Gray, American politician (b. 1924)
2014 - Alberto Cassano, Argentine engineer and academic (b. 1935)
2015 - Chenjerai Hove, Zimbabwean writer (b. 1956)
2015 - Cheng Siwei, Chinese economist (b. 1935)
2015 - Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist monk (b. 1950)
2015 - Javier Krahe, Spanish singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
2016 - Zygmunt Zimowski, Polish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1949)
2017 - Chuck Blazer, American soccer administrator (b. 1945)
2017 - Gerrit Braks, Dutch politician (b. 1933)
2017 - Sam Glanzman, American comic artist (b. 1924)
2017 - Tamara Miansarova, Russian pop singer (b. 1931)
2017 - Ray Phiri, South African jazz musician (b. 1947)
2017 - Tod Sloan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2018 - Abbas Amir-Entezam, Iranian politician and political prisoner (b. 1932)
2018 - Alain Fauré, French politician (b. 1962)
2018 - Roger Perry, American actor (b. 1933)
2018 - Dada Vaswani, Indian spiritual leader and writer (b. 1918)
2018 - Robert Wolders, Dutch actor (b. 1936)
2018 - Xerardo Fernández Albor, Spanish politician, President of Galicia (b. 1917)
2019 - Fernando J. Corbató, American computer scientist (b. 1926)
2019 - Hodan Nalayeh, Somali-Canadian journalist (b. 1976)
2019 - Claudio Naranjo, Chilean psychiatrist (b. 1932)
2019 - M. J. Radhakrishnan, Indian cinematographer (b. 1957/1958)
2019 - Jean-Pierre Worms, French sociologist and politician (b. 1934)
Independence Day in Kiribati and São Tomé and Príncipe
Second Day of Naadam (Mongolia)
The Twelfth, or Orangeman's Day, commemorating the Battle of the Boyne (Northern Ireland)
48 BC – Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
988 – Founding date of the city of Dublin.
1212 – London is almost completely destroyed by fire.
1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes Henry VI of England prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
1499 – Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion to Vasco da Gama, who died on December 24 the previous year.
1519 – Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming Dynasty Zhengde Emperor as a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the English throne following the death of 15-year-old Edward VI of England on July 6.
She becomes known as the "Nine-day queen".
1584 – William I of Orange is assassinated in Delft by Balthasar Gérard.
1645 – English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
1789 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River Delta.
1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
1832 – US president Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1850 – Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th president of the United States.
1882 – War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepcion when a garrison of 77 men is virtually wiped out by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
1908 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes manages to turn helium into liquid.
1913 – Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
In 2012 it is also recognized as the hottest-recorded temperature in the world after a record set in Libya in 1922 is discredited.
1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses are destroyed during rioting and gun battles.
1925 – Meher Baba begins his 44-year silence.
1925 – The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union, is established.
1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
1931 – Norway annexes Erik Raudes Land (Eric the Red Land) in eastern Greenland.
1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
1940 – World War II: Vichy France government established.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – The German Luftwaffe begin to hit British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
1942 – The Netherlands and Soviet Union start diplomatic relations.
1943 – World War II: Operation Husky – British, American and Canadian troops land on Sicily.
1945 – Saarland changes its occupying force from American to French.
1946 – A hyperinflation (a big and quick increase in prices) record is set in Hungary.
1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British prime minister Clement Attlee.
1951 – Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin.
1951 – Randy Turpin becomes the middleweight boxing champion after defeating Sugar Ray Robinson.
1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
1967 – Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1968 – Maurice Couve de Murville becomes prime minister of France
1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the British Commonwealth.
1973 – The National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh as an independent state.
1976 – An environmental disaster occurs at a chemical plant in Seveso, Italy.
1978 – Moktar Ould Daddah is ousted in a coup as president of Mauritania.
1980 – London's Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
1985 – Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by French DGSE agents.
1985 – In response to market demand, Coca-Cola re-introduces its old formula cola as "Coca-Cola Classic" (see New Coke).
1991 – Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected president of Russia.
1991 – The South African cricket team is re-admitted to the International Cricket Council after being banned for its Apartheid policy.
1992 – In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
1997 – London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1998 – The remains of United States Air Force 1st Lt.
Michael Joseph Blassie are returned to his family in St. Louis, Missouri from the Tomb of the Unknowns upon identification through DNA analysis.
The remains had been in the first tomb since 1984.
1998 – Catholic priests' sex abuse scandal: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
2000 – A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
2000 – EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group, is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" is sold for £49.5 million (US $76.2 million) to Lord Kenneth Thomson.
2003 – A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people.
This is the deadliest bus accident to date in Hong Kong.
2003 – Wikibooks, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, is created.
2006 – For the first time in history, the positions of president and prime minister in a country are held by twin brothers (In Poland, with Lech Kaczynski and Jaroslaw Kaczynski respectively).
2010 – A week-long manhunt comes to an end in Northumberland, England, when fugitive criminal Raoul Moat commits suicide by gunshot after a stand-off with police.
2011 – British Sunday tabloid newspaper, The News of the World, ends publication after a major phone-hacking scandal.
2011 – Russian river cruiser Bulgaria sinks on the Volga River, killing over 100 people.
2016 – Portugal wins UEFA Euro 2016, defeating host nation France in extra time in the final.
2019 – Kim Darroch resigns as Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the United States following a leak of comments criticising the administration of Donald Trump and Trump's subsequent reaction to them.
1419 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
1451 – James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
1509 – John Calvin, Swiss reformer (d. 1564)
1515 – Francisco de Toledo, Spanish Viceroy of Peru (d. 1582)
1517 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal (d. 1571)
1592 – Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist (d. 1660)
1625 – Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)
1640 – Aphra Behn, English writer, spy and feminist (d. 1689)
1682 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
1723 – William Blackstone, English jurist, professor and politician (d. 1780)
1724 – Eva Ekeblad, Swedish countess and scientist (d. 1786)
1736 – Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807)
1792 – George M. Dallas, 11th vice president of the United States (d. 1864)
1804 – Emma Smith, American religious leader (d. 1879)
1830 – Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
1832 – Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
1834 – James McNeill Whistler, American painter (d. 1903)
1835 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)
1839 – Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)
1849 – John W. Griggs, American politician (d. 1927)
1856 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian physicist and inventor (d. 1943)
1867 – Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
1871 – Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
1871 – Hugh M. Dorsey, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1948)
1872 – Ivar Wickman, Swedish physician (d. 1914)
1874 – Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
1875 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator (d. 1955)
1877 – Hélène Dutrieux, Belgian pilot (d. 1961)
1883 – Friedrich Flick, German industrialist and Nazi war criminal (d. 1972)
1888 – Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978)
1888 – Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese evangelist, author and activist (d. 1960)
1894 – Jimmy McHugh, American composer (d. 1969)
1895 – Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
1895 – Nahum Goldmann, founder of the World Jewish Congress (d. 1982)
1897 – Karl Plagge, German army officer, engineer and humanitarian (d. 1957)
1899 – John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
1899 – Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
1902 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1903 – John Wyndham, British writer (d. 1969)
1903 – Werner Best, German SS officer (d. 1989)
1904 – Lili Damita, French-American actress (d. 1994)
1905 – Wolfram Sievers, German Nazi physician (d. 1948)
1907 – Blind Boy Fuller, American singer and guitarist (d. 1941)
1914 – Joe Shuster, Canadian cartoonist (d. 1992)
1917 – Don Herbert, American television host and producer (d. 2007)
1917 – Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (d. 1998)
1919 – Pierre Gamarra, French poet and writer (d. 2009)
1920 – David Brinkley, American television reporter (d. 2003)
1920 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1921 – Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)
1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist (d. 2009)
1922 – Jake LaMotta, American boxer (d. 2017)
1922 – Herb McKenley, Jamaican sprinter (d. 2007)
1923 – Jean Kerr, American writer (d. 2003)
1923 – Earl Hamner Jr., American writer and television producer (d. 2016)
1924 – Johnny Bach, American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
1924 – Bobo Brazil, American wrestler (d. 1998)
1925 – Mahathir Mohamad, 4th and 7th prime minister of Malaysia
1926 – Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)
1927 – Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician (d. 2018)
1927 – David Dinkins, 106th Mayor of New York City
1929 – Winnie Ewing, Scottish lawyer and politician
1929 – George Clayton Johnson, American writer (d. 2015)
1929 – Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (d. 2004)
1930 – Susan Cummings, German-American actress (d. 2016)
1931 – Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)
1931 – Alice Munro, Canadian writer
1932 – Carlo Maria Abate, Italian racing driver (d. 2019)
1933 – C.K. Yang, Taiwanese decathlete and pole vaulter (d. 2007)
1934 – Alfred Biolek, German entertainer
1934 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor (d. 2012)
1936 – Lois Lilienstein, Canadian singer and musician (Sharon, Lois & Bram) (d. 2015)
1937 – Edwards Barham, American businessman and politician (d. 2014)
1938 – Paul Andreu, French architect
1939 – Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
1940 – Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, Indian-English economist and politician
1940 – Tom Farmer, Scottish businessman
1940 – Helen Donath, American soprano
1940 – Erich Iltgen, German politician (d. 2019)
1941 – David G. Hartwell, American critic, publisher and editor (d. 2016)
1942 – Pyotr Klimuk, Soviet cosmonaut
1942 – Sixto Rodriguez, Mexican-American folk musician and singer-songwriter
1942 – Ronnie James Dio, American musician (d. 2010)
1943 – Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian-Dutch academic (d. 2010)
1943 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
1945 – Virginia Wade, English tennis player
1945 – Ron Glass, American actor
1945 – John Motson, English sports broadcaster
1946 – Stuart Christie, Scottish anarchist and writer
1946 – Sue Lyon, American actress
1946 – Henryk Kasperczak, Polish footballer and coach
1947 – Arlo Guthrie, American musician
1950 – Prokopis Pavlopoulos, president of Greece
1951 – Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
1952 – Lee Hae-chan, former prime minister of South Korea
1954 – Neil Tennant, British musician (Pet Shop Boys)
1957 – Cindy Sheehan, American activist
1958 – Fiona Shaw, Irish actress
1958 – Bela Fleck, American musician
1959 – Anjani, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1965 – Princess Alexa of Greece and Denmark
1968 – Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
1970 – John Simm, English actor
1970 – Jason Orange, English singer (Take That)
1970 – Lisa Coleman, English actress
1970 – Adam Hills, Australian comedian, actor and presenter
1971 – Adam Foote, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 – Peter Serafinowicz, English comedian
1972 – Sofía Vergara, Colombian actress
1972 – Tilo Wolff, German singer, pianist and composer
1973 – Annie Mumolo, American actress, screenwriter and producer
1974 – Daniele Adani, Italian footballer
1974 – Imelda May, Irish singer-songwriter
1975 – Andrew Firestone, American businessman
1975 – Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1975 – Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor (d. 2018)
1976 – Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
1976 – Adrian Grenier, American actor
1976 – Lars Ricken, German footballer
1977 – Schapelle Corby, Australian criminal
1977 – Chiwetel Ejiofor, British actor
1977 – Levan Kobiashvili, Georgian footballer
1977 – Moktar Ali Zubeyr, Somali militant (d. 2014)
1979 – Tobias Unger, German athlete
1980 – Katrina Bryan, Scottish actress
1980 – Alejandro Millan, Mexican singer-songwriter and keyboardist
1980 – Thomas Ian Nicholas, British actor
1980 – Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
1980 – James Rolfe, American actor, director and producer
1980 – Jessica Simpson, American singer
1981 – Aleksandar Tunchev, Bulgarian footballer
1982 – Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
1983 – Kim Heechul, South Korean singer and actor
1983 – Golshifteh Farahani, Iranian actress, musician and singer
1984 – María Julia Mantilla, Peruvian model
1985 – Park Chu-young, South Korean footballer
1985 – Mario Gómez, German footballer
1989 – Carlos Zambrano, Peruvian footballer
1990 – Sung Joon, South Korean model and actress
1991 – Matsuko Maeda, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48)
1993 – Perrie Edwards, English singer (Little Mix)
1995 – Ada Hegerberg, Norwegian footballer
1997 – Rena Kato, Japanese singer, dancer, model and actress
1998 – Haley Pullos, American actress
2001 – Isabela Moner, American actress and singer
138 – Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
649 – Emperor Taizong of Tang of China (b. 598)
983 – Pope Benedict VII
1103 – Eric I of Denmark
1290 – Ladislaus II of Hungary (b. 1262)
1461 – Stephen Thomas of Bosnia (b. 1412)
1510 – Caterina Comaro, Queen of Cyprus
1559 – Henry II of France (b. 1519)
1584 – William the Silent (William of Orange), Dutch leader (b. 1533)
1590 – Archduke Charles II of Austria, regent of Inner Austria (b. 1540)
1805 – Thomas Wedgwood, English photography pioneer (b. 1771)
1806 – George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
1820 – William Wyatt Bibb, American politician, 1st Governor of Alabama (b. 1781)
1851 – Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist (b. 1787)
1881 – Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect and educator (b. 1812)
1884 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
1908 – Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (b. 1839)
1910 – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (b. 1812)
1920 – Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
1927 – Louise Abbéma, French painter (b. 1853)
1934 – Erich Mühsam, German writer, journalist and anarchist (b. 1878)
1941 – Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz musician (b. 1890)
1970 – Bjarni Benediktsson, prime minister of Iceland (b. 1908)
1972 – Lovie Austin, American pianist, composer and bandleader (b. 1887)
1978 – John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)
1978 – Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
1979 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
1985 – Fernando Pereira, Portuguese-Dutch photographer (b. 1950)
1987 – John Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
1989 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
2003 – Lord Shawcross, Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
2003 – Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
2004 – Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Portuguese politician (b. 1930)
2004 – Inge Meysel, German actress (b. 1910)
2008 – Hiroaki Aoki, Japanese-American wrestler and businessman (b. 1938)
2010 – Raoul Moat, British fugitive criminal (b. 1973)
2010 – Sugar Minott, Jamaican musician (b. 1956)
2011 – Roland Petit, French choreographer (b. 1924)
2012 – Lol Coxhill, English saxophonist (b. 1933)
2013 – Concha García Campoy, Spanish journalist (b. 1958)
2013 – Ibrahim Youssef, Egyptian footballer (b. 1959)
2014 – Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress and choreographer (b. 1912)
2014 – Robert C. Broomfield, American judge (b. 1933)
2015 – Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (b. 1932)
2015 – Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor (b. 1944)
2015 – Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
2016 – Robert E. Cooper, Sr.,
American judge (b. 1920)
2016 – Anatoli Isayev, Russian footballer (b. 1932)
2016 – Alfred G. Knudson, American geneticist (b. 1927)
2017 – Jim Bush, American track and field coach (b. 1926)
2017 – Isabelle Sadoyan, French actress (b. 1928)
2017 – Mangesh Tendulkar, Indian cartoonist (b. 1935)
2017 – Augustin Buzura, Romanian writer and journalist (b. 1937)
2018 – Clive King, English author (b. 1924)
2018 – John Laird, Baron Laird, British politician (b. 1944)
2018 – Henry Morgenthau III, American author and television producer (b. 1917)
2018 – Jan Henry T. Olsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1956)
2018 – Darryl Rogers, American football coach (b. 1935)
2018 – José María Setién, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1928)
2018 – Mien Schopman-Klaver, Dutch athlete (b. 1911)
2018 – John A. Stormer, American political writer (b. 1928)
2018 – Ye Lwin, Burmese guitarist and peace activist (b. 1947)
2019 – Paulo Henrique Amorim, Brazilian journalist (b. 1942)
2019 – Jim Bouton, American baseball player, writer and actor (b. 1939)
2019 – Valentina Cortese, Italian actress (b. 1923)
2019 – Motto McLean, Scottish-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2019 – Walt Michaels, American football player and coach (b. 1929)
2019 – Denise Nickerson, American actress (b. 1957)
Independence Day – the Bahamas
Statehood Day – Wyoming
Silence Day
356 BC  The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (present-day Turkey), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is destroyed in an arson attack.
230  Pope Pontian succeeds Pope Urban I.
285  Diocletian appoints Maximian as Roman Caesar and co-ruler.
365  After a magnitude 8 earthquake, and a tsunami, around 50,000 people are killed in and around Alexandria, Egypt.
1342  The St. Mary Magdalene's flood leads to several rivers in central Europe bursting their banks.
It is Europe's worst flood of the second millennium.
1403  Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels in the north of the county of Shropshire.
1545  The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight, during the island's French invasion.
1645  Qing Dynasty regent Dorgon issues an edict ordering all Han Chinese men to shave their forehead and braid the rest of their hair into a queue identical to those of the Manchus.
1656  The Raid on Malaga takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1718  The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
1774  The First Russo-Turkish War ends.
1795  Mungo Park becomes the first European to reach the River Niger.
1798  Battle of the Pyramids: Napoleon Bonaparte's army defeats the army of the Mamluks under the leadership of Mourad Bey.
1822  Agustin de Iturbide becomes Emperor of Mexico.
1831  The British Guyana colony is created.
1831  Leopold I, King of the Belgians becomes Belgium's first king.
1843  Antwerp Zoo is founded, becoming the first zoo in Belgium.
1847  Spain recognizes Bolivia's independence.
1861  American Civil War: The First Battle of Bull Run at Manassas ends in Confederate victory.
1865  Wild Bill Hickok shoots Davis Tutt in one of the first Western showdowns.
1873  At Adair, Iowa Jesse James and the James Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the Old American West.
1897  London's Tate Gallery opens.
1902  The steamer Primus sinks in the Elbe River near Hamburg, killing 101 people.
1904  Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the  barrier on land.
He drove a 15-litre Gobron-Brille in Ostend, Belgium.
1907  The passenger steamer SS Columbia collides with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California.
The Columbia sinks, killing 88 people.
1914  Romania, it is decided, is neutral in World War I, after a decision by the country's crown council.
1925  Tennessee high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching the theory of evolution.
He is fined 100 dollars.
1925  Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to break the  land barrier at Pendine Sands, Wales.
He drove a Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of .
1938  In a peace deal at the end of the Chaco War, Bolivia loses part of its territory to Paraguay.
That makes Paraguay twice as big.
1944  Leaders of the July 20 plot to kill Adolf Hitler are executed.
1944  World War II: The Battle of Guam begins.
1949  The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
1951  The Dalai Lama returns to Tibet from exile.
1954  Publication of the first part of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.
1954  The Geneva Conference decides to split Vietnam into North and South.
1959  Pumpsie Green becomes the first African American to play for the Boston Red Sox baseball team.
1961  Gus Grissom becomes the second American in space.
1962  British band the Rolling Stones play their first show, at the Marquee Club in London.
1969  At 2:56 am on this day (July 20 in the US), Apollo 11 lands, leading to Neil Armstrong becoming the first person to walk on the Moon.
1970  In Egypt, the Aswan Dam is completed.
1972  The Troubles: Bloody Friday - Provisional IRA members detonate 22 bombs in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the space of 80 minutes.
1973  Lillehammer affair: The Mossad kills waiter Ahmed Bouchiki in Norway, mistakenly thinking he was terrorist leader Ali Hassan Salameh.
1974  Eddy Merckx wins his 5th Tour de France.
1977  Start of the four-day Libyan-Egyptian War.
1983  The lowest-measured temperature is recorded as  at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica.
1992  Russia and Moldova enter into a peace agreement.
1994  Tony Blair becomes leader of the British Labour Party.
1994  Jacques Santer is elected President of the European Commission.
1996  Bjarne Riis becomes the first Scandinavian to win the Tour de France.
2001  At the end of a fireworks display in Okura Beach, Akashi, Hyogo, Japan, the footbridge connecting the beach to the JR Asagiri railway station becomes crowded, with the resulting crush killing 11 people and injuring 120.
2005  Four suicide bombers fail to detonate their bombs on London's underground and bus systems.
2005  Horst Koehler dissolves the Bundestag (German Parliament) ahead of an early election.
2007  The last novel in the Harry Potter series goes on sale.
2008  Former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is arrested on war crimes charges in Belgrade, after several years in disguise.
2011  The Space Shuttle program ends, as the Space Shuttle Atlantis returns safely to Earth on its last mission.
2013  King Albert II of Belgium leaves the throne to his son, who becomes King Philippe of Belgium, and is therefore the 7th King of the Belgians.
2013  British cyclist Chris Froome wins the 100th Tour de France.
2016  Donald Trump accepts the Republican Party nomination for US President.
1414  Pope Sixtus IV (d. 1484)
1515  Philip Neri, Italian saint (d. 1595)
1620  Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682)
1664  Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (d. 1721)
1693  Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1768)
1766  Thomas Charles Hope, Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1844)
1808  Simion Barnutiu, Romanian philosopher, liberal politician, jurist and historian (d. 1864)
1810  Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist and physicist (d. 1878)
1816  Paul Reuter, German-British journalist (d. 1899)
1821  Vasile Alecsandri, Romanian poet, dramatist and politician (d. 1890)
1843  Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal (d. 1884)
1851  Sam Bass, American train robber and outlaw (d. 1878)
1856  Wilhelm Geiger, German indologist (d. 1943)
1858  Maria Christina of Austria, Queen of Spain (d. 1929)
1858  Lovis Corinth, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1925)
1864  Frances Folsom Cleveland, First Lady of the United States (d. 1947)
1870  Emil Orlik, Czech painter and graphic artist (d. 1932)
1873  Charles Schlee, Danish-American cyclist (d. 1947)
1875  Charles Gondouin, French rugby player (d. 1947)
1879  Joseph A. A. Burnquist, Governor of Minnesota (d. 1961)
1880  Milan Rastislav Stefanik, Slovakian politician and astronomer (d. 1919)
1882  David Burliuk, Ukrainian illustrator, publicist and author (d. 1967)
1885  Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, screenwriter and movie director (d. 1948)
1891  Julius Saaristo, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 1969)
1893  Hans Fallada, German writer (d. 1947)
1893  Margarete Sommer, German humanitarian (d. 1965)
1897  Edmund Heines, German Nazi politician (d. 1934)
1899  Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)
1899  Ernest Hemingway, American writer (d. 1961)
1903  Roy Neuberger, American financier and art collector (d. 2010)
1908  Ljerko Spiller, Argentine conductor and violinist (d. 2008)
1908  Harold "Jug" McSpaden, American golfer (d. 1996)
1911  Marshall McLuhan, Canadian writer (d. 1980)
1914  Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Italian screenwriter (d. 2010)
1919  Nuto Revelli, Italian military, resistance activist, professor and writer (d. 2004)
1920  John Horsley, English actor (d. 2014)
1920  Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (d. 2001)
1920  Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 2005)
1920  Mohammed Dib, Algerian journalist and writer (d. 2003)
1921  James Cooke Brown, American sociologist (d. 2000)
1922  Jay Hammond, Governor of Alaska (d. 2005)
1922  Kay Starr, American entertainer (d. 2016)
1922  Molly Sugden, British actress (d. 2009)
1923  Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian chemist
1924  Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani politician, 7th Governor of Balochistan
1924  Don Knotts, American actor (d. 2006)
1925  Anne Meacham, American actress (d. 2006)
1926  Norman Jewison, Canadian movie director
1926  Bill Pertwee, English actor (d. 2013)
1926  Karel Reisz, Czech-English director (d. 2002)
1930  Helen Merrill, American jazz singer
1933  John Gardner, American writer (d. 1982)
1934  Jonathan Miller, British director, actor and author
1935  Norbert Blüm, German politician
1938  Janet Reno, United States Attorney General (d. 2016)
1938  Anton Kuerti, Austrian-Canadian pianist, composer and conductor
1939  Helmut Haller, German footballer (d. 2012)
1939  Kim Fowley, American record producer (d. 2015)
1941  Martin Bandier, music publisher
1943  Edward Herrmann, American actor (d. 2014)
1943  Henry McCullough, Northern Irish guitarist, singer and songwriter (d. 2016)
1944  Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian novelist (d. 2017)
1944  John Atta Mills, President of Ghana (d. 2012)
1944  Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (d. 2002)
1945  Lydia Shum, Hong Kong actress and singer (d. 2008)
1945  John Lowe, English darts player
1945  Wendy Cope, English poet
1946  Ken Starr, American lawyer and judge
1946  Jüri Tarmak, Estonian high jumper
1947  Chetan Chauan, Indian cricketer
1947  Co Adriaanse, Dutch football manager
1948  Beppe Grillo, Italian actor, comedian and political activist (Five Star Movement)
1948  Ed Hinton, sportswriter
1948  Yusuf Islam, English singer, formerly known as Cat Stevens
1948  Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist
1948  Litto Nebbia, Argentine tango and rock musician
1948  Snooty, American manatee (d. 2017)
1950  Susan Kramer, English politician
1951  Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (d. 2014)
1953  John Salazar, American politician
1953  Jeff Fatt, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
1955  Marcelo Bielsa, Argentine footballer and manager
1955  Taco, Indonesian-born Dutch singer
1955  Howie Epstein, American bass player, songwriter and producer (d. 2003)
1955  Béla Tarr, Hungarian actor, director and screenwriter
1955  Dannel Malloy, American politician, 88th Governor of Connecticut
1957  Stefan Löfven, Prime Minister of Sweden
1957  Jon Lovitz, American comedian
1958  Dave Henderson, American baseball player (d. 2015)
1960  Lance Guest, American actor
1962  Mokgweetsi Masisi, 5th President of Botswana
1964  Ross Kemp, British actor
1964  Jens Weissflog, German ski jumper
1965  Gudni Bergsson, Icelandic footballer
1968  Brandi Chastain, American soccer player
1968  Lyle Odelein, hockey player
1969  Emerson Hart, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1970  Angus MacNeil, Scottish politician
1971  Charlotte Gainsbourg, French actress
1972  Catherine Ndereba, Kenyan long-distance runner
1972  Simon Reeve, English television presenter and writer
1973  Roberto Bisconti, Belgian footballer
1973  Ali Landry, American model and actress
1973  Caroline Néron, Canadian singer, actress and fashion designer
1977  Paul Casey, British golfer
1977  Jaime Murray, British actress
1978  Kyoko Iwasaki, Japanese swimmer
1978  Gary Teale, Scottish footballer
1978  Josh Hartnett, American actor
1978  Damian Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer
1979  David Carr, American football player
1979  Dorinel Gurbina, Romanian handball player
1979  Andriy Voronin, Ukrainian footballer
1980  CC Sabathia, American baseball player
1981  Paloma Faith, English singer-songwriter and actress
1981  Yushin Okami, Japanese mixed martial artist
1981  Joaquín Sánchez, Spanish footballer
1982  Mao Kobayashi, Japanese actress
1983  Kellen Winslow Jr., American football player
1983  Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer and composer
1984  Liam Ridgewell, English footballer
1985  Von Wafer, American basketball player
1986  Anthony Annan, Ghanaian footballer
1986  Livia Brito, Cuban-Mexican actress and model
1986  Rebecca Ferguson, English singer
1988  DeAndre Jordan, American basketball player
1989  Rory Culkin, American actor
1989  Ali Cobrin, American actress
1989  Juno Temple, English actress
1989  Marco Fabian, Mexican footballer
1989  Chris Gunter, Welsh footballer
1990  Chris Martin, English footballer