the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, 14 miles (23 kilometres) from a Generator at Willamette Falls in Oregon to Portland, Oregon.
1916 - The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard.
1937 – Almost 6 months after his abdication as King, Edward VIII of the United Kingdom marries Wallis Simpson.
1940 – World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends, as Allied forces retreat.
1940 – World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
1940 - Franz Redemacher proposes Madagascar as the "Jewish Homeland".
1941 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the village of Kandanos, Greece, to the ground, killing 180 of its residents.
1942 – World War II: Japan begins its Aleutian Islands campaign by attacking Unalaska Island.
1947 - Viceroy Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma announces the planned Partition of India.
1950 – Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal climb Annapurna in the Himalayas.
It is the first successful ascent of a mountain higher than 8000 metres.
1959 - Singapore is declared a self-governing state, though remaining within the British Empire.
1961 - US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna, Austria, for talks.
1962 – A Boeing 707 plane crashes near Paris, killing 130 people.
1963 – A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes into the Pacific Ocean off British Columbia, Canada, killing 101 people.
1965 – NASA Gemini 4 mission: Crew member Edward Higgins White becomes the first American to perform a spacewalk.
1968 - Valerie Solanas attempts to kill artist Andy Warhol.
1969 – Off South Vietnam, Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts United States Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
1973 – The Supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 plane crashes in France, killing 14 people.
1979 – The Ixtoc I oil well explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, leading to one of the worst-ever oil spills.
1980 – Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, killing 5 people and destroying many homes.
1982 - Shlomo Argov, Israel's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, is shot and seriously injured in an assassination attempt in London.
1984 – The Indian government's Operation Blue Star military offensive begins at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
1989 – The crushing of protests at Tiananmen Square in Beijing begins.
Hundreds of people are killed.
1989 – Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini dies.
1991 – Mount Unzen on Kyushu, Japan, erupts, killing 43 people, all of them researchers or journalists.
1992 - Aboriginal land rights are granted in Australia.
1993 - France and Spain recognize the independence of Andorra.
1998 – A major train derailment occurs in Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.
2003 - A train crash in Chinchilla, Castile-La Mancha, Spain, kills 19 people and injures around 50.
2006 – Montenegro becomes independent.
2008 – Barack Obama secures the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States, over Hillary Clinton.
2010 – The name of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada, is officially changed back to Haida Gwaii.
2012 – Dana Air Flight 997 crashes into a building in Lagos, Nigeria, killing all 153 people on board and more than 40 on the ground.
2017 - The June 2017 London attack is carried out, killing 8 people in a car-ramming and stabbing attack.
2018 - The Volcan de Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts, killing at least 69 people.
20 BC - Sejanus, Roman political figure (d. 31)
1537 – John Manuel, Prince of Portugal (d. 1554)
1540 – Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
1579 - Jens Munk, Danish-Norwegian explorer (d. 1628)
1635 - Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688).
1636 – John Hale, American minister (d. 1700)
1659 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
1723 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian naturalist (d. 1788)
1726 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
1770 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician and general (d. 1820)
1808 – Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
1819 - Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader (d. 1892)
1832 – Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
1840 - Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the Abraham Lincoln assassination (d. 1867)
1843 – King Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
1844 – Detlev von Lilencron, German poet (d. 1909)
1844 – Garret Hobart, Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
1853 – Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
1864 – Ransom E. Olds, American pioneer (d. 1950)
1865 – King George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
1872 – Habibullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (d. 1919)
1873 – Otto Loewi, German doctor, won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1961)
1876 - Nikolay Burdenko, Russian surgeon (d. 1946)
1877 – Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
1878 - Barney Oldfield, American racing driver (d. 1946)
1879 - Alla Nazimova, Russian-American movie and theatre actress (d. 1945)
1881 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
1885 – Yakov Sverdlov, Russian revolutionary and politician (d. 1919)
1890 - Baburao Painter, Indian actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1954)
1895 – Zoltan Korda, movie director (d. 1961)
1897 – Memphis Minnie, American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (d. 1973)
1899 – Georg von Bekesy, Hungarian physicist and physiologist (d. 1972)
1900 - Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist (d. 1997)
1901 – Maurice Evans, English actor (d. 1989)
1901 – Zhang Xueliang, Chinese warlord (d. 2001)
1903 – Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
1904 – Charles Drew, American surgeon (d. 1950)
1906 – Josephine Baker, American-born dancer (d. 1975)
1910 – Paulette Goddard, American actress (d. 1990)
1910 - Wilfred Thesiger, English explorer and writer (d. 2003)
1911 – Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999)
1913 - Lloyd Percival, Canadian tennis player, boxer, cricketer and coach (d. 1974)
1917 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
1922 - Alain Resnais, French director (d. 2014)
1923 - Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician (d. 2017)
1924 - M. Karunanidhi, Indian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 2018)
1924 - Ingrid Espelid Hovig, Norwegian television chef and cookbook author (d. 2018)
1924 - Bernard Glasser, American actor (d. 2014)
1924 - Jimmy Rogers, American singer and guitarist (d. 1997)
1924 – Torsten Wiesel, Swedish neuropsychologist and Nobel Prize winner
1925 – Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)
1925 – Thomas Joseph Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow (d. 2001)
1926 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
1929 – Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and geneticist
1930 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (d. 1999)
1930 - George Fernandes, Indian journalist and politician
1930 – Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)
1931 – Raul Castro, President of Cuba
1931 – Lindy Remigino, American athlete
1933 – Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, Emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
1935 - Enzo Jannacci, Italian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2013)
1936 - Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2017)
1937 - Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician
1937 – Edward Winter, American actor
1938 - David L. Mills, American computer engineer
1939 – Ian Hunter, English musician (Mott the Hoople)
1940 - Antonio Brack Egg, Peruvian ecologist and politician (d. 2014)
1940 - Loretta Long, American actress and singer
1942 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999)
1943 - Billy Cunningham, American basketball player
1944 - Edith McGuire, American sprinter
1944 - Mary Thom, American feminist
1945 - Ramon Jacinto, Filipino singer, guitarist and businessman
1945 – John Derbyshire, British-American mathematician and political commentator
1945 – Hale Irwin, American golfer
1946 - Michael Clarke, American drummer (d. 1993)
1946 - Eddie Holman, American singer
1946 - Penelope Wilton, English actress
1947 - Mickey Finn, English singer and musician (d. 1993)
1948 - Jan Reker, Dutch footballer and manager
1949 - Floyd Lloyd, Jamaican singer
1950 - Melissa Mathison, American film and television screenwriter (d. 2015)
1950 – Suzi Quatro, American rock musician
1950 - Deniece Williams, American singer
1951 - Jill Biden, Second Lady of the United States
1952 – Billy Powell, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2009)
1954 - Dan Hill, Canadian singer
1954 – Bajram Rexhepi, former Prime Minister of Kosovo (d. 2017)
1956 – George Burley, Scottish football manager
1956 - Danny Wilde, American singer and guitarist (The Quick and The Rembrandts)
1957 - Peter de Villiers, South African rugby coach
1962 – Susannah Constantine, English television presenter
1963 - Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Wallonia
1964 – Kerry King, American rock guitarist (Slayer)
1964 - James Purefoy, British actor
1965 – Michael Moore, British politician
1965 – Thomas Ohrner, German actor and television presenter
1966 – Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
1967 – Anderson Cooper, American broadcast journalist
1968 - Saffron, Nigerian singer and dancer
1970 - Greg Hancock, American motorcycle speedway racer
1972 - Julie Gayet, French actress
1974 – Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
1976 - Laila Samuelsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1977 – Cristiano Marques Gomes, Brazilian footballer
1979 - Christian Malcolm, British sprinter
1980 – Amauri, Brazilian-Italian footballer
1980 - Ibrahim Yattara, Guinean footballer
1980 - Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar
1982 – Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
1982 - Jodie Whittaker, English actress
1984 – Emily Scott, Australian model
1984 – Prince Félix of Luxembourg
1985 – Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan, Mongolian boxer
1985 - Papiss Cissé, Senegalese footballer
1985 - Lukasz Piszczek, Polish footballer
1986 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
1986 – Tomas Verner, Czech ice skater
1986 - Al Horford, Dominican basketball player
1987 - Angela Crawley, Scottish politician
1987 - Michelle Keegan, English actress
1987 - Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
1987 – Lalaine, American actress
1989 – Katie Hoff, American swimmer
1989 - Imogen Poots, British actress
1990 – Fabian Götze, German footballer
1992 – Mario Götze, German footballer
1993 - Otto Porter, American basketball player
2006 - Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkrouwe van Amsberg, Dutch royal
628 - Liang Shidu, Chinese rebel leader
800 - Staurakios, Byzantine general
1395 - Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria (b. 1350)
1397 - William de Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (b. 1328)
1411 – Leopold IV, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
1615 - Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
1649 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
1657 – William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
1780 – Thomas Hutchinson, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
1826 – Nikolai Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
1858 – Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
1861 – Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)
1875 – Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
1882 - Christian Wiberg, German painter (b. 1839)
1894 – Karl Eduard Zachariae, expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
1899 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
1900 – Mary Kingsley, English explorer (b. 1862)
1906 - John Maxwell, American golfer (b. 1871)
1918 - Ramon Maximiliano Valdes, 7th President of Panama (b. 1867)
1924 – Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist (b. 1883)
1928 – Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
1946 – Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet-Russian politician (b. 1875)
1963 – Nazim Hikmet (b. 1902)
1963 – Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
1964 – Frans Eemil Sillanpaa, Finnish writer (b. 1888)
1969 - George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (b. 1883)
1970 – Hjalmar Schacht, Minister of Economics and President of the Reichsbank under Adolf Hitler (b. 1877)
1971 – Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
1975 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1901)
1975 – Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)
1977 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian movie director, father of Isabella Rossellini, husband of Ingrid Bergman (b. 1906)
1977 – Archibald Hill, English mathematician, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
1986 - Anna Neagle, English actress (b. 1904)
1987 - Will Sampson, American actor and artist (b. 1933)
1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite Islamic leader (b. 1900)
1990 – Stiv Bators, American musician, punk rock singer with The Dead Boys (b. October 22, 1949)
1990 – Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927)
1991 – Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1942)
1991 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1946)
1991 – Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
1992 – Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)
1994 - Puig Aubert, French rugby player (b. 1925)
1997 - Dennis James, American actor and game show host (b. 1917)
2000 - Merton Miller, American economist (b. 1923)
2001 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (b. 1915)
2002 - Lew Wasserman, American talent agent and studio executive (b. 1913)
2003 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
2004 – Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
2005 – Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer and lawyer (b. 1945)
2006 - Johnny Grande, American singer (b. 1932)
2009 – Koko Taylor, American musician (b. 1928)
2009 – David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
2010 – Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician (b. 1937)
2010 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)
2011 – Jack Kevorkian, American physician and assisted suicide activist (b. 1928)
2011 – James Arness, American actor (b. 1923)
2012 – Roy Salvadori, British racing driver (b. 1922)
2013 - Frank Lautenberg, United States Senator for New Jersey (b. 1924)
2013 - Jiah Khan, American-born British-Indian actress (b. 1988)
2013 - Atul Chitnis, German-Indian technician (b. 1962)
2014 - Gopinath Munde, Indian politician (b. 1949)
2014 - James Alan Shelton, Australian bluegrass guitarist (b. 1960)
2014 - Karl Harris, British motorcycle racer (b. 1979)
2014 - Svyatoslav Belza, Russian scholar, critic and essayist (b. 1942)
2014 - Virginia Luque, Argentine actress (b. 1927)
2015 - Avi Beker, Israeli academic (b. 1951)
2015 - Margaret Juntwait, American radio host (b. 1957)
2016 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer (b. 1942)
2016 - Jocelyn Lovell, Canadian cyclist (b. 1950)
2016 - Sten Lundin, Swedish motocross racer (b. 1931)
2016 - Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer (b. 1991)
2016 - Dave Swarbrick, English musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
2016 - Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen, Dutch malacologist (b. 1929)
2017 - David Choby, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1947)
2017 - Niels Helveg Petersen, Danish politician (b. 1939)
2017 - Jimmy Piersall, American baseball player (b. 1929)
2017 - John K. Watts, Australian footballer and broadcaster (b. 1937)
2017 - Vincent Tshabalala, South African golfer (b. 1942)
2018 - Robert Brylewski, Polish singer-songwriter (b. 1961)
2018 - Frank Carlucci, American politician (b. 1930)
2018 - Jerry Hopkins, American journalist and blogger (b. 1935)
2018 - Miguel Obando y Bravo, Nicaraguan cardinal (b. 1926)
2018 - Mario Toros, Italian politician (b. 1922)
2018 - Georg von Tiesenhausen, German-American rocket scientist (b. 1914)
European Bicycle Day
Montenegro Independence Day
Confederate Memorial Day (Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee)
June 03
411 BC – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
AD 53 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
AD 68 – Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
747 – Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.
1311 – Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
1523 – The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.
1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River.
1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins.
It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
1762 – British forces begin the Siege of Havana and capture the city during the Seven Years' War.
1772 – The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battles of Arklow and Saintfield.
1815 – End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set.
1815   – Luxembourg declares independence from the French Empire.
1856 – Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail.
1862 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
1885 – Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
1900 – Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies in a British prison of cholera.
1901 to 1950
1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the .
1923 – Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
1930 – A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
1944 – World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
1944   – World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
1948 – Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
1953 – The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough.
Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?
Have you left no sense of decency?"
1957 – First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
1959 – The  is launched.
It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.
1965 – The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
1965   – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.
1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
1968 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1972 – Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.
1973 – In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.
1978 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
1979 – The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.
1983 – Margaret Thatcher's Cosnservative Party is re-elected by a large margin the United Kingdom's general election.
1999 – Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
2006 – The 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany begins, with host nation Germany defeating Costa Rica 4-2.
2008 – Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.
2009 – An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
2010 – At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar.
2019 – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev wins Kazakhstan's Presidential election, having succeeded Nursultan Nazarbayev in March.
1016 – Deokjong of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (d. 1034)
1424 – Blanche II of Navarre (d. 1464)
1580 – Daniel Heinsius, Belgian poet and scholar (d. 1655)
1588 – Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and theorist (d. 1666)
1595 – Władysław IV Vasa, Polish king (d. 1648)
1597 – Pieter Jansz.
Saenredam, Dutch painter (d. 1665)
1640 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
1661 – Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
1672 – Peter the Great, Russian emperor (d. 1725)
1686 – Andrey Osterman, German-Russian politician, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1747)
1696 – Shiva Rajaram, infant Chattrapati of the Maratha Empire (d. 1726)
1732 – Giuseppe Demachi, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1791)
1754 – Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth, English general and politician, Governor of Barbados (d. 1815)
1768 – Samuel Slater, English-American engineer and businessman (d. 1835)
1781 – George Stephenson, English engineer, designed the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (d. 1848)
1801 to 1900
1810 – Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor (d. 1849)
1812 – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer and academic (d. 1910)
1835 – Ramón Barros Luco, President of Chile (d. 1919)
1836 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and politician (d. 1917)
1837 – Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, English author (d. 1919)
1842 – Hazard Stevens, American military officer, mountaineer, politician and writer (d. 1918)
1843 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
1845 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, English soldier, academic, and politician, 36th Governor-General of India (d. 1914)
1845   – Frank Norton, American baseball player (d. 1920)
1849 – Michael Ancher, Danish painter and academic (d. 1927)
1851 – Charles Joseph Bonaparte, American lawyer and politician, 46th United States Attorney General (d. 1921)
1861 – Pierre Duhem, French physicist, mathematician, and historian (d. 1916)
1861   – Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Russian-German chemist and physicist (d. 1938)
1864 – Jeanne Bérangère, French actress (d. 1928)
1865 – Albéric Magnard, French composer and educator (d. 1914)
1865   – Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1931)
1868 – Jane Avril, French model and dancer (d. 1943)
1874 – Launceston Elliot, Scottish weightlifter and wrestler (d. 1930)
1875 – Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1879 – Harry DeBaecke, American rower (d. 1961)
1882 – Robert Kerr, Irish-Canadian sprinter and coach (d. 1963)
1885 – Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, Polish general and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Poland (d. 1962)
1890 – Leslie Banks, English actor, director, and producer (d. 1952)
1891 – Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (d. 1964)
1893 – Irish Meusel, American baseball player and coach (d. 1963)
1895 – Archie Weston, American football player and journalist (d. 1981)
1898 – Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)
1900 – Fred Waring, American singer, bandleader, and television host (d. 1984)
1901 to 1925
1902 – Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1969)
1903 – Felice Bonetto, Italian race car driver (d. 1953)
1903   – Marcia Davenport, American author and critic (d. 1996)
1906 – Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice (d. 1997)
1908 – Luis Kutner, American lawyer, author, and activist (d. 1993)
1908   – Branch McCracken, American basketball player and coach (d. 1970)
1910 – Robert Cummings, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1990)
1910   – Ted Hicks, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (d. 1984)
1912 – Ingolf Dahl, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1970)
1915 – Jim McDonald, American football player and coach (d. 1997)
1915   – Les Paul, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2009)
1916 – Jurij Brězan, German soldier and author (d. 2006)
1916   – Siegfried Graetschus, German SS officer (d. 1943)
1916   – Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2009)
1917 – Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-English historian and author (d. 2012)
1918 – John Hospers, American philosopher and politician (d. 2011)
1921 – Arthur Hertzberg, American rabbi and scholar (d. 2006)
1921   – Jean Lacouture, French journalist, historian, and author (d. 2015)
1922 – George Axelrod, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1922   – John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Chinese-American pilot and poet (d. 1941)
1922   – Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (d. 1988)
1923 – Gerald Götting, German politician (d. 2015)
1924 – Tony Britton, English actor (d. 2019)
1924 – Ed Farhat, American wrestler and manager (d. 2003)
1925 – Keith Laumer, American soldier and author (d. 1993)
1925   – Herman Sarkowsky, German-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Seattle Seahawks (d. 2014)
1926 to 1950
1926 – Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, American singer and bass player (d. 2010)
1926   – Mona Freeman, American actress and painter (d. 2014)
1926   – Happy Rockefeller, American philanthropist, 31st Second Lady of the United States (d. 2015)
1927 – Jim Nolan, American basketball player (d. 1983)
1928 – R. Geraint Gruffydd, Welsh critic and academic (d. 2015)
1929 – Johnny Ace, American singer and pianist (d. 1954)
1930 – Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
1930   – Jordi Pujol, Spanish physician and politician, 126th President of the Generalitat de Catalonia
1931 – Jackie Mason, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
1931   – Nandini Satpathy, Indian author and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Odisha (d. 2006)
1931   – Bill Virdon, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1932 – Denise Robertson, English television personality (d. 2016)
1933 – Al Cantello, American javelin thrower and coach
1934 – Michael Mates, English colonel and politician
1934   – Jackie Wilson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
1935 – Dutch Savage, American wrestler and promoter (d. 2013)
1936 – Mick O'Dwyer, Irish Gaelic footballer and manager
1936   – George Radda, Hungarian chemist and academic
1937 – Harald Rosenthal, German hydrobiologist and academic
1938 – Jeremy Hardie, English economist and businessman
1938   – Giles Havergal, Scottish actor, director, and playwright
1938   – Charles Wuorinen, American composer and educator (d. 2020)
1939 – Ileana Cotrubaș, Romanian soprano and actress
1939   – Eric Fernie, Scottish historian and academic
1939   – David Hobbs, English race car driver and sportscaster
1939   – Dick Vitale, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1939   – Charles Webb, American author
1940 – André Vallerand, Canadian businessman and politician
1941 – Jon Lord, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 2012)
1942 – Anton Burghardt, German footballer and manager
1942   – Nicholas Lloyd, English journalist
1943 – John Fitzpatrick, English race car driver
1943   – Charles Saatchi, Iraqi-English businessman, co-founded Saatchi & Saatchi
1944 – Janric Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon, English accountant and politician
1944   – Wally Gabler, American football player and sportscaster
1946 – Deyda Hydara, Gambian journalist and publisher, co-founded The Point (d. 2004)
1946   – James Kelman, Scottish author and playwright
1946   – Peter Kilfoyle, English politician
1946   – Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, Italian politician and diplomat, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1947 – Robert Indermaur, Swiss painter
1947   – Robbie Vincent, UK disc jockey and radio presenter
1948 – Jim Bailey, American football player
1948   – Gudrun Schyman, Swedish social worker and politician
1949 – Kiran Bedi, Indian police officer and activist
1950 – Trevor Bolder, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (d. 2013)
1950   – Fred Jackson, American football player and coach
1950   – Giorgos Kastrinakis, Greek-American basketball player
1951 to 1975
1951 – Michael Patrick Cronan, American graphic designer and academic (d. 2013)
1951   – James Newton Howard, American composer, conductor, and producer
1951   – Dave Parker, American baseball player and coach
1951   – Brian Taylor, American basketball player
1952 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
1952   – Billy Knight, American basketball player
1953 – Ken Navarro, Italian-American guitarist and composer
1954 – Pete Byrne, English singer-songwriter (Naked Eyes)
1954   – Paul Chapman, Welsh guitarist and songwriter (d. 2020)
1954   – Gregory Maguire, American author
1954   – Elizabeth May, American-Canadian environmentalist, lawyer, and politician
1954   – George Pérez, American author and illustrator
1956 – Berit Aunli, Norwegian skiier
1956  – Patricia Cornwell, American journalist and author
1956  – Marek Gazdzicki, Polish nuclear physicist
1956  – Joaquín, Spanish footballer
1956  – John Le Lievre, British squash player
1956  – Kayhan Mortezavi, Iranian director
1956  – Francine Raymond, French Canadian singer songwriter
1956  – Nikolai Tsonev, Bulgarian politician
1956  – Rudolf Wojtowicz, Polish footballer
1957 – Randy Read, English crystallographer and academic
1958 – David Ancrum, American basketball player and coach
1958   – Tony Horwitz, American journalist and author (d. 2019)
1959 – Peter Fowler, Australian golfer
1959   – Benny Gantz, Israeli politician
1960 – Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist and author
1961 – Thomas Benson, American football player
1961   – Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer, and author
1961   – Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer, and playwright
1962 – Yuval Banay, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962   – Ken Rose, American football player
1962   – David Trewhella, Australian rugby league player
1963 – Gilad Atzmon, Israeli-English saxophonist, author, and activist
1963   – Johnny Depp, American actor
1963   – David Koepp, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1964 – Gloria Reuben, Canadian-American actress
1964   – Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player and bass player (d. 2009)
1967 – Rubén Maza, Venezuelan runner
1968 – Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper and coach
1969 – André Racicot, Canadian ice hockey player
1969   – Eric Wynalda, American soccer player, coach, and sportscaster
1971 – Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer and sportscaster
1971   – Jean Galfione, French pole vaulter and sportscaster
1971   – Jackie McKeown, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 – Matt Horsley, Australian footballer and coach
1973 – Aigars Apinis, Latvian discus thrower and shot putter
1973   – Tedy Bruschi, American football player and sportscaster
1973   – Frédéric Choffat, Swiss director, producer, and cinematographer
1973   – Grant Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Samoth, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 – Otto Addo, German-Ghanaian footballer and manager
1975   – Andrew Symonds, English-Australian cricketer
1977 – Usman Afzaal, Pakistani-English cricketer
1977   – Paul Hutchison, English cricketer
1977   – Olin Kreutz, American football player
1977   – Peja Stojaković, Serbian basketball player
1978 – Shandi Finnessey, American model and actress, Miss USA 2004
1978   – Miroslav Klose, German footballer
1978   – Heather Mitts, American soccer player
1978   – Hayden Schlossberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1979 – Dario Dainelli, Italian footballer
1979   – Amanda Lassiter, American basketball player
1980 – D'banj, Nigerian singer-songwriter and harmonica player
1980   – Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
1980   – Udonis Haslem, American basketball player
1980   – Lehlohonolo Seema, South African footballer
1981 – Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress
1982 – Yoshito Ōkubo, Japanese footballer
1982   – Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer-songwriter
1983 – Firas Al-Khatib, Syrian footballer
1983   – Josh Cribbs, American football player
1983   – Dwayne Jones, American basketball player
1983   – Danny Richar, Dominican-American baseball player
1984 – Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
1984   – Jake Newton, Guyanese footballer
1984   – Asko Paade, Estonian basketball player
1984   – Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
1984   – Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
1985 – Richard Kahui, New Zealand rugby player
1985   – Sonam Kapoor, Indian model and actress
1985   – Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
1986 – Doug Legursky, American football player
1986   – Yadier Pedroso, Cuban baseball player (d. 2013)
1986   – Ashley Postell, American gymnast
1987 – Jaan Mölder, Estonian race car driver
1988 – Jason Demers, Canadian ice hockey defenseman
1988   – Sara Isaković, Slovenian swimmer
1988   – Mae Whitman, American actress
1989 – Dídac Vilà, Spanish footballer
1989   – Tanya Burr, English YouTuber
1990 – Matthias Mayer, Austrian skier
1992   – Zach Hyman, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 – Yannick Agnel, French swimmer
1992   – Boyd Cordner, Australian rugby league player
1993 – George Jennings, Australian rugby league player
2000 – Laurie Hernandez, American artistic gymnast
AD 68 – Nero, Roman emperor (b. 37)
373 – Ephrem the Syrian, hymnographer and theologian (b. 306)
597 – Columba, Irish missionary and saint (b. 521)
630 – Shahrbaraz, king of the Persian Empire
889 – Aimoin, Frankish monk and archivist
908 – Yang Wo, Prince of Hongnong
1075 – Gebhard of Supplinburg, Saxon count
1087 – Otto I of Olomouc (b. 1045)
1238 – Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester
1252 – Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
1348 – Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (b. 1290)
1361 – Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet (b. 1291)
1563 – William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English accountant and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1506)
1572 – Jeanne d'Albret, Navarrese queen and Huguenot leader (b. 1528)
1583 – Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1525)
1597 – José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1534)
1647 – Leonard Calvert, Colonial governor of Maryland (b. 1606)
1656 – Thomas Tomkins, Welsh-English composer (b. 1572)
1716 – Banda Singh Bahadur, Indian commander (b. 1670)
1717 – Jeanne Guyon, French mystic and author (b. 1648)
1834 – William Carey, English minister and missionary (b. 1761)
1870 – Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (b. 1812)
1875 – Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and conchologist (b. 1795)
1889 – Mike Burke, American baseball player (b. 1854)
1892 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (b. 1863)
1901 to 2000
1901 – Adolf Bötticher, German historian and author (b. 1842)
1923 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (b. 1846)
1927 – Victoria Woodhull, American activist for women's rights (b. 1838)
1929 – Louis Bennison, American stage and silent film actor (b. 1884)
1929   – Margaret Lawrence, American stage actress (b. 1889)
1942 – František Erben, Czech gymnast (b. 1874)
1952 – Adolf Busch, German-Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1891)
1953 – Ernest Graves, Sr.,
American football player, coach, and general (b. 1880)
1954 – Alain LeRoy Locke, American writer, professor and philosopher (b. 1885)
1956 – Chandrashekhar Agashe, Indian industrialist and lawyer (b. 1888)
1956 – Hans Bergsland, Norwegian fencer (b. 1878)
1956 – Thomas Hicks, Australian tennis player (b. 1869)
1956 – Ferdinand Jodl, German general (b. 1896)
1958 – Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
1959 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
1960 – Harry S. Hammond, American football player and businessman (b. 1884)
1961 – Camille Guérin, French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist (b. 1872)
1963 – Jacques Villon, French painter (b. 1875)
1964 – Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, British businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1879)
1968 – Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
1972 – Gilberto Parlotti, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1940)
1973 – Chuck Bennett, American football player and coach (b. 1907)
1973   – John Creasey, English author and politician (b. 1908)
1973   – Erich von Manstein, German general (b. 1887)
1974 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1979 – Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant (b. 1884)
1981 – Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)
1984 – Helen Hardin, American painter (b. 1943)
1989 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1991 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-American pianist and educator (b. 1903)
1993 – Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1921)
1994 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1997 – Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian academic and politician (b. 1908)
1998 – Lois Mailou Jones, American painter and academic (b. 1905)
2000 – John Abramovic, American basketball player (b. 1919)
2000   – Jacob Lawrence, American painter and academic (b. 1917)
2004 – Rosey Brown, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
2004   – Brian Williamson, Jamaican activist, co-founded J-FLAG (b. 1945)
2006 – Drafi Deutscher, German singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2007 – Frankie Abernathy, American purse designer, cast-member on The Real World: San Diego (b. 1981)
2008 – Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American author and critic (b. 1931)
2008   – Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian and author (b. 1919)
2009 – Dick May, American race car driver (b. 1930)
2010 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (b. 1908)
2011 – M. F. Husain, Indian painter and director (b. 1915)
2011   – Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (b. 1970)
2011   – Mike Mitchell, American basketball player (b. 1956)
2012 – Régis Clère, French cyclist (b. 1956)
2012   – John Maples, Baron Maples, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (b. 1943)
2012   – Ivan Minatti, Slovene poet and translator (b. 1924)
2012   – Hawk Taylor, American baseball player and coach (b. 1939)
2012   – Abram Wilson, American-English trumpet player and educator (b. 1973)
2013 – Iain Banks, Scottish author (b. 1954)
2013   – Bruno Bartoletti, Italian conductor (b. 1926)
2013   – John Burke, English rugby player (b. 1948)
2013   – Walter Jens, German philologist, historian, and academic (b. 1923)
2013   – Zdeněk Rotrekl, Czech poet and historian (b. 1920)
2014 – Bernard Agré, Ivorian cardinal (b. 1926)
2014   – Reinhard Höppner, German politician (b. 1948)
2014   – Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1958)
2014   – Elsie Quarterman, American ecologist and academic (b. 1910)
2014   – Alicemarie Huber Stotler, American lawyer and judge (b. 1942)
2014   – Gustave Tassell, American fashion designer (b. 1926)
2014   – Bob Welch, American baseball player and coach (b. 1956)
2015 – Pumpkinhead, American rapper (b. 1975)
2015   – James Last, German musician and bandleader (b. 1929)
2015   – Fred Anton Maier, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1938)
2015   – Pedro Zerolo, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1960)
2016 – Hamza Ali, English cricketer (b. 1996)
2017 – Adam West, American actor and investor (b. 1928)
2017   – Natig Aliyev, Azerbaijani politician (b. 1947)
2017   – Andrzej Baturo, Polish photographer (b. 1940)
2018 – Fadil Vokrri, Kosovo Albanian football administrator and player (b. 1960)
2018 – Reinhard Hardegen, German U-boat commander and politician (b. 1913)
2019 – Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (b. 1966)
2019   – Erich Iltgen, German politician (b. 1940)
2019   – Juhani Wahlsten, Finnish ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2019   – William D. Wittliff, American screenwriter (b. 1940)
2020 – Parviz Aboutaleb, Iranian footballer (b. 1942)
2020   – Paul Chapman, Welsh musician (b. 1954)
2020   – Pau Donés, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1966)
2020   – Simon Henshaw, American politician
2020   – Ain Kaalep, Estonian novelist, poet and editor (b. 1926)
2020   – Kim Chang-sop, North Korean politician (b. 1946)
2020   – Nemir Kirdar, Iraqi-British banker (b. 1933)
Anniversary of the Accession of King Abdullah II (Jordan)
Autonomy Day (Åland Islands)
Aidan of Lindisfarne (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
Bede (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
Ephrem the Syrian (Roman Catholic Church and Church of England)
Primus and Felician
June 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Coral Triangle Day
La Rioja Day (La Rioja)
Murcia Day (Murcia)
National Heroes' Day (Uganda)
June 09
68 – The Roman Senate proclaims Galba Emperor.
218 - Battle of Antioch.
793 – Vikings or raiding tribes from Scandinavia, attack and steal valuable objects from Lindisfarne, a monastery off the coast of Northumbria in England.
1042 - Edward the Confessor becomes King of England.
1191 – Richard I of England arrives in Acre, Palestine, beginning his Crusade.
1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois Rivieres - American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec, present-day Canada.
1783 – An eruption occurs in the Laki crater in Iceland.
It causes widespread famine, killing several thousand Icelanders and also has devastating effects on other parts of Europe and in other parts of the World.
1794 – Maximilien Robespierre founds the cult of Supreme Being.
1856 – A group of Pitcairn Islanders, descendents of Bounty mutineers, land on Norfolk Island and settle there.
1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys - Confederate forces  save the army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula.
1866 - Canada's Parliament meets at Parliament Hill in Ottawa for the first time.
1867 - Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Elisabeth of Bavaria are crowned King and Queen of Hungary in Budapest.
1887 - Herman Hollerith applies for a US patent for his punched card calculator.
1895 - In Ecuador, Eloy Alfaro comes to power in a military coup and starts a series of liberal reforms.
1906 - Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law.
1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1912 – In the High Jump, Marc Wright becomes the first person to clear a height of 4 metres.
1914 - The Brazilian Sports Federation is founded - a precursor to the Brazilian Football Federation.
1924 – Climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine go missing while attempting to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.
It is unknown whether they managed to reach the summit.
1928 – The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, renaming it Beiping.
1929 – Margaret Bondfield becomes the first female cabinet minister in the UK, when she becomes Minister of Labour.
1930 - Carol II of Romania becomes King.
1941 – World War II: The Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
1942 – World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell Sydney and Newcastle, New South Wales.
1949 – The novel 1984 by George Orwell goes on sale in London.
1949 - The FBI publishes a list of celebrities it considers to be members of the Communist Party.
1950 - Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born field marshal in Australian history.
1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, DC can't refuse to serve black patrons.
1953 – Flint, Michigan is hit by a tornado, killing 115 people.
1959 - The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
1966 – Topeka, Kansas is hit by a tornado that kills 16 people.
1966 - An F-4 Starfighter aircraft collides with an XB-70 Valkyrie Prototype No.2, destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base, killing 2 people.
1967 - Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 people and injuring 171.
On the same day, Israel's army enters Hebron.
1968 – James Earl Ray is arrested in London for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr..
1972 – US bombers drop a napalm bomb in South Vietnam.
One of the most striking images of the Vietnam War was taken on this day, of 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc running down a road with burns resulting from the attack.
1975 - The Soviet Venera 9 probe is sent to Venus.
1982 – Falklands War: 56 servicemen are killed in an Argentine attack on two British landing ships.
1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in New South Wales.
1986 - Kurt Waldheim is elected President of Austria over Kurt Steyrer.
1987 - The New Zealand government creates a national nuclear-free zone.
1990 – The 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy begins.
1992 – World Ocean Day is observed for the first time.
1996 – UEFA Euro 1996 in England begins.
2001 - Mamoru Takuma kills 8 people and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka prefecture of Japan.
2002 - Lennox Lewis defeats Mike Tyson in their Heavyweight Boxing fight in Memphis, Tennessee.
They had previously fought each other during a press conference in January of the same year.
2003 – In a referendum in Poland, 77% of voters approve joining the EU.
2004 - The first transit of Venus since 1882 occurs.
2006 - Raphaella de Gouvello reaches the island of Réunion, completing the first journey-by-surfboard across the Indian Ocean.
2007 - Newcastle, New South Wales is hit by flooding, killing 9 people.
2007 – Paris Hilton, heiress and celebrity, gets a 45-day jail sentence for drunk driving which gets much attention.
2008 – Akihabara shopping district, Chiyoda, Tokyo: Tomohiro Kato drives a two-ton truck into a crowd before attacking people with a knife.
2009 – Gabon's President Omar Bongo dies after more than 41-and-a-half years in office.
2012 – UEFA Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine begins.
In the opening game, the Poland national football team and the Greece national football team draw 1-1.
2014 - Abdel Fattah el-Sisi becomes President of Egypt.
2014 - At least 28 people are killed in an attack on Jinnah International Airport in Lahore, Pakistan.
2017 - United Kingdom general election, 2017: Theresa May's Conservative Party loses its overall majority despite keeping its status as the largest party and making gains in Scotland; Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party performs better than expected, including gains in Kensington and Canterbury; The Scottish National Party loses 21 seats but remains by-far the largest Scottish party; UKIP lose heavily.
862 - Emperor Xizong of Tang (d. 888)
1438 - Melozzo de Forli, Italian painter (d. 1494)
1552 - Gabriello Chiabera, Italian poet (d. 1638)
1594 – Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim, German general (d. 1632)
1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist (d. 1712)
1671 - Tommaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
1717 - John Collins, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1795)
1724 – John Smeaton, British civil engineer (d. 1794)
1743 – Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian adventurer (d. 1795)
1745 – Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (d. 1818)
1772 - Robert Stevenson, Scottish civil engineer (d. 1850)
1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
1837 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887)
1840 - Manuel José de Arriaga, President of Portugal (d. 1917)
1842 – John Q. A. Brackett, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)
1847 – Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States (d. 1907)
1851 - Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist, physician and inventor (d. 1940)
1852 - Guido Banti, Italian physician (d. 1925)
1855 - George Charles Haité, British painter and illustrator (d. 1924)
1859 – Smith Wigglesworth, British religious figure (d. 1947)
1860 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (d. 1940)
1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d. 1959)
1872 - Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
1885 - Karl Genzken, German physician (d. 1957)
1895 – Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
1897 – John G. Bennett, British scientist and writer (d. 1974)
1901 - Salustiano Sanchez, Spanish-American supercentenarian, oldest-living man (d. 2013)
1903 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-born American writer (d. 1987)
1903 – Ralph Yarborough, U.S. Senator and Texas politician (d. 1996)
1904 - Bruce Goff, American architect (d. 1982)
1910 – Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d. 2003)
1910 – John W. Campbell Jr., science fiction writer, publisher, editor (d. 1971)