the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1936 – Léon Blum becomes Prime Minister of France.
1939 – Holocaust: The SS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, United States, after already having been turned away from Cuba.
Forced to return to Europe, most of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
1940 – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers is published.
1940 – World War II: Dunkirk evacuation ends;  British forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France.
1940 – The Destroyer War Badge for Kriegsmarine was instituted.
1942 – World War II: Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination by Czechoslovak paratroopers (Operation Anthropoid).
1942 – World War II: Battle of Midway begins.
Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island with much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
1943 – Military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
1944 – World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy capture the German submarine U-505, marking the first time a U.S. Navy vessel captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
1944 – World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis powers capital to fall.
1946 - Juan Domingo Peron becomes President of Argentina.
1950 – With a 5-2 win over the Poland national football team, the Hungary national football team starts a winning run that ends in the FIFA World Cup final in 1954.
1961 – Lake Bodom murders in Finland.
1967 - Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland Flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, England, killing 72 people.
1970 – Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
Taufa'ahau Tupou IV is King, a position he had held since 1965 when Tonga was a British protectorate.
1973 – A patent for the automated teller machine (ATM) is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
1974 – Baseball: The Cleveland Indians host "Ten Cent Beer Night", but have to forfeit the game to the  Texas Rangers due to drunken and unruly fans.
1979 - Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana.
1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
1988 – The Canadian Heraldic Authority is founded.
1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing and are covered live on television.
1989 – Solidarity's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe.
1989 – Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 645 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
1991 – Britain's Conservative government announces that some British regiments would disappear or be merged into others – the largest armed forces cuts in almost twenty years.
1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2000 – A magnitude 7.9 earthquake in Indonesia kills 103 people.
2001 – Gyanendra becomes King of Nepal, after the death of Dipendra of Nepal, who was King for three days after the Royal Massacre, in which he was injured.
2002 – The wall of the Zeyzoun reservoir in Syria breaks.
The resulting flood kills 100 people.
2003 – U.S. lifestyle guru Martha Stewart and her broker are indicted for using privileged investment information and then obstructing a federal investigation.
Stewart also resigns as chairperson and chief executive officer of Martha Stewart Living.
2005 – First day of Einstein Symposium in Alexandria, Egypt.
2011 – The Puyehue Cordon Caulle volcanic structure in Chile erupts, sending an ash cloud over parts of South America and as far away as Oceania.
Many flights are cancelled.
2015 - An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, kills over 200 people.
1394 – Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (died 1430)
1489 – Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (died 1544)
1604 – Claudia de' Medici, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (died 1648)
1694 - François Quesnay, French economist (died 1774)
1704 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (died 1776)
1738 – King George III of Great Britain (died 1820)
1744 – Patrick Ferguson, Scottish officer in the British Army, and rifle designer (died 1780)
1754 – Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian editor and astronomer (died 1832)
1809 – Columbus Delano, American politician (died 1896)
1821 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (died 1797)
1829 - Jinmaku Kyugoro, Japanese sumo wrestler (died 1903)
1860 - Alexis Lapointe, Canadian runner (died 1949)
1866 – Miina Sillanpaa, Finnish politician (died 1952)
1867 – Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finnish general and President (died 1951)
1877 – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German biochemist (died 1957)
1879 - Mabel Lucie Attwell, English author and illustrator (died 1964)
1880 - Clara Blandick, American actress (died 1962)
1881 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (died 1962)
1882 - Karl Valentin, German actor, comedian and singer (died 1948)
1885 - Arturo Rawson, 26th President of Argentina (died 1952)
1887 – Tom Longboat, Native Canadian marathon runner (died 1949)
1889 – Beno Gutenberg, German seismologist (died 1960)
1891 - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (died 2002)
1893 - Armand Calinescu, Romanian politician (died 1939)
1894 - La Bolduc, Canadian singer-songwriter (died 1941)
1895 - Dino Grandi, Italian politician (died 1988)
1899 – Stringer Davis, English actor (died 1973)
1903 - Yevgeny Mravinsky, Soviet-Russian conductor (died 1988)
1907 – Rosalind Russell, American actress (died 1976)
1908 - Alejandro Villanueva, Peruvian footballer (died 1944)
1910 – Christopher Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (died 1999)
1910 - Robert B. Anderson, American politician (died 1989)
1915 – Modibo Keïta, 1st President of Mali (died 1977)
1916 – Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist (died 2009)
1916 – Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter (died 2014)
1920 - Russell B. Train, American actor (died 2012)
1924 – Dennis Weaver, American actor (died 2006)
1924 – Tofilau Eti Alesana, Prime Minister of Samoa (died 1999)
1925 - Antonio Puchades, Spanish footballer (died 2013)
1926 - Robert Earl Hughes, American former obesity record holder (died 1958)
1926 - Judith Malina, German-American actress, writer and director (died 2015)
1927 - Henning Carlsen, Danish director, producer and screenwriter (died 2014)
1927 – Geoffrey Palmer, British actor
1928 - Ruth Westheimer, German-American therapist and author
1929 – Karolos Papoulias, former President of Greece
1930 - Viktor Tikhonov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (died 2014)
1930 - Morgana King, American singer and actress
1932 - John Drew Barrymore, American actor (died 2004)
1933 - Godfried Danneels, Belgian cardinal
1933 – Frank D. White, 41st Governor of Arkansas (died 2003)
1934 – Daphne Sheldrick, Kenyan writer and conservationist (died 2018)
1934 – Monica Dacon, former acting Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1936 - Nutan, Indian actress and singer (died 1991)
1936 - Oleg Fedoseyev, Russian triple jumper (died 2001)
1936 – Bruce Dern, American actor
1937 - Freddy Fender, American musician (died 2006)
1938 - John Harvard, Canadian politician (died 2015)
1939 - George Reid, Scottish politician
1942 - Louis Reichardt, American mountaineer
1944 – Michelle Phillips, American actress and singer (The Mamas & the Papas)
1946 - S. Balasubrahmanyan, Indian singer, actor, director and movie producer
1947 – Viktor Klima, former Chancellor of Austria
1948 – Jürgen Sparwasser, German footballer
1948 - Bob Champion, English jockey
1951 - Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish athlete
1952 – Bronislaw Komorowski, former President of Poland
1953 - Walter Novellino, Italian footballer
1953 – Linda Lingle, American politician, 6th State Governor of Hawaii
1954 - Luc-Adolphe Tiao, Prime Minister of Burkina Faso
1954 - Raphael Ravenscroft, English musical composer and author (died 2014)
1955 – Val McDermid, Scottish writer
1956 – Martin Adams, English darts player
1958 - Eddie Velez, American actor
1959 - Juan Camacho, Bolivian runner
1960 - Bradley Walsh, English actor
1960 - Milos Delmas, Serbian footballer
1961 – Ferenc Gyurcsany, former Prime Minister of Hungary
1961 - Dani Kouyaté, Burkinabé movie director
1964 – Sean Pertwee, British actor
1964 - Koji Yamamura, Japanese animator
1965 – Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer
1965 - Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player
1966 – Cecilia Bartoli, Italian opera singer
1967 - Robert Shane Kimbrough, American astronaut
1968 - Roger Lim, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1969 – Horatio Sanz, Chilean-born comedian
1970 - Izabella Scorupco, Polish-Swedish actress and model
1971 – Noah Wyle, American actor
1971 – Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
1972 – Derian Hatcher, American ice hockey player
1972 - Stoja, Serbian singer
1975 – Russell Brand, British comedian
1975 – Angelina Jolie, American actress
1975 - Julian Marley, Jamaican-British reggae musician
1977 – Alex Manninger, Austrian footballer
1977 – Navi Rawat, American actress
1977 – Berglind Icey, Icelandic swimmer and actress
1977 – Ingrid Visser, Dutch volleyball player (died 2013)
1977 – Tetiana Chornovol, Ukrainian journalist, politician and activist
1979 – Christopher Dorner, American police officer and murderer (died 2013)
1979 – Naohiro Takahara, Japanese footballer
1980 – Francois Beauchemin, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 – Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spanish tennis player
1983 – Emmanuel Eboué, Ivorian footballer
1983 – Koffi Ndri Romaric, Ivorian footballer
1985 – Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
1985 – Lukas Podolski, German footballer
1985 – Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian model (died 2006)
1986 – Shelly Woods, British athlete
1986 – Oona Chaplin, British actress
1986 – Yoochun, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
1987 – Mollie King, British singer (The Saturdays)
1988 – Li Man, Chinese actress
1989 – Eldar Gasimov, Azerbaijani singer (Ell & Nikki)
1990 – Jetsun Pema, Queen of Bhutan
1990 – Zac Farro, American singer and drummer (Paramore)
1991 – Jordan Hinson, American actress
1991 – Lorenzo Insigne, Italian footballer
1991 – Kathryn Prescott, English actress
1991 – Megan Prescott, English actress
1992 – Morgan Griffin, Australian actress
1992 – Brooke Vincent, English actress
1999 – Kim So-hyun, South Korean actress
1039 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (born (about) 990)
1094 - Sancho Ramirez, King of Aragon and Navarra (born around 1043)
1102 - Wladyslaw I Herman, Duke of Poland (born 1043)
1134 - King Magnus I of Sweden (born 1106)
1135 – Emperor Huizong of China (born 1082)
1206 - Adele of Champagne, Queen Consort of France (born 1140)
1257 – Duke Przemysl I of Poland (born (about) 1220)
1394 - Mary de Bohun, Queen Consort of England (born 1369)
1472 – Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec ruler, philosopher and poet (born 1402)
1585 - Muretus, Flemish humanist (born 1526)
1663 – William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1582)
1798 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian lover (born 1725)
1801 – Frederick Muhlenberg, first speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1750)
1830 - Antonio José de Sucre, 2nd President of Bolivia (born 1795)
1872 – Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (born 1798)
1875 – Eduard Mörike, German poet (born 1804)
1876 – Abdulaziz, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (born 1830)
1887 – William A. Wheeler, Vice President of the United States (born 1819)
1916 – Herbert Horatio Kitchener (Lord Kitchener), British Secretary of State for War (born 1850)
1922 - W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist (born 1864)
1926 - Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer (born 1853)
1928 – Chang Tso-lin, Chinese warlord (born 1873)
1929 - Harry Frazee, American director, producer and agent (born 1881)
1937 - Ketevan Galadze, mother of Joseph Stalin (born 1858)
1939 – Tommy Ladnier, American jazz musician (born 1900)
1941 – Kaiser Wilhelm II, last German emperor (born 1859)
1942 – Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (born 1904)
1951 – Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (born 1874)
1956 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress (born 1881)
1968 – Dorothy Gish, American actress (born 1898)
1971 - Georg Lukacs, Hungarian philosopher (born 1885)
1973 – Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician (born 1878)
1973 - Murry Wilson, American songwriter, producer and manager (born 1917)
1983 – Ivan Tors, producer, writer, animal trainer
1990 – Stiv Bators, American musician ("The Dead Boys") (born 1949)
1992 - Carl Stotz, American businessman (born 1910)
1994 – Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (born 1953)
1994 - Derek Leckenby, English guitarist (born 1943)
1997 - Ronnie Lane, English singer-songwriter, musician and producer (born 1946)
2001 – King Dipendra of Nepal (born 1971)
2001 – John Hartford, American musician, composer (born 1937)
2002 – Fernando Belaunde Terry, Peruvian politician, President of Peru (born 1912)
2004 – Steve Lacy, American saxophonist (born 1934)
2004 – Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (born 1921)
2005 - Chloe Jones, American pornographic actress (born 1975)
2007 – Craig L. Thomas, American politician (born 1933)
2010 – John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (born 1910)
2011 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat and politician, 62nd United States Secretary of State (born 1930)
2011 – Lilian Jackson Braun, American writer (born 1913)
2012 – Eduard Khil, Russian baritone singer (born 1934)
2014 - Doc Neeson, Australian musician (born 1947)
2014 - Don Zimmer, American baseball player (born 1931)
2014 - George Ho, American-Hong Kong businessman (born 1919)
2014 - Chester Nez, American soldier (born 1921)
2015 - Leonid Plyushch, Ukrainian-Soviet dissident and mathematician (born 1938)
2015 - Kurt Weber, Polish cinematographer (born 1928)
2015 - Bengt Berndtsson, Swedish footballer (born 1933)
2015 - Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer (born 1918)
2015 - Albert West, Dutch singer (born 1949)
2016 - Sulabha Deshpande, Indian actress (born 1937)
2016 - Antti Hyry, Finnish writer (born 1931)
2016 - Gil Bartosh, American football player and coach (born 1956)
2016 - Phyllis Curtin, American soprano (born 1921)
2016 - Carmen Pereira, Guinea-Bissau politician (born 1937)
2017 - Juan Goytisolo, Spanish essayist, poet and novelist (born 1931)
2017 - Babatunde Osotimehin, Nigerian politician and civil servant (born 1949)
2017 - Roger Smith, American actor (born 1932)
2017 - Zhang Tianfu, Chinese agronomist and tea expert (born 1910)
2018 - Dwight Clark, American football player (born 1957)
2018 - Eunice Lam, Hong Kong columnist and socialite (born 1943)
2018 - J. B. Munro, New Zealand politician and disability activist (born 1936)
Feast day of St Francis Caracciolo
Feast day of Saint Petrock of Cornwall
International Innocent Child Abuse Victim Day
Independence Day (Tonga)
National Unity Day (Hungary)
Flag Day (Estonia)
June 04
764 – Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of dying Constantine VIII
1439 – Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
1555 - The English Parliament decides that Roman Catholicism will be the state religion of England.
1602 - Sebastian Viscaino lands at, and names, San Diego, California.
1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is executed on the guillotine.
1892 - William Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, taking part in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
1893 - The Treaty of the Durand is signed between present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan; the Durand Line has become the international border between the two countries.
1905 - Newly-independent Norway holds a referendum on its system of government.
Most voters decide to have a monarch as their Head of State, over having a president.
1908 - An explosion at a mine shaft in Hamm, present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, kills 348 people.
1912 - The bodies of Robert Falcon Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf.
1918 – Austria becomes a republic.
1920 - Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with complete control of the Soviet Union.
1928 - The ship SS Vestris sinks around 200 miles (320 kilometers) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing over 110 people.
1933 - Hugh Gray takes the first-known photograph alleged to show the Loch Ness Monster.
1936 – The San Francisco Bay Bridge is opened.
1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal.
The battle lasts for three days.
1944 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches one of the most successful bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz off the coast of Norway.
1945 - Sudirman is elected as the first commander-in-chief of the Indonesian Armed Forces.
1948 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
1956 - Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the UN.
1958 - A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first successful climb of the "Nose" on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, California.
1968 - Equatorial Guinea joins the UN.
1969 – Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre – Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempt to destroy a rotting bleached sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now-infamous "exploding whale" incident.
1973 - It is announced that Gerald Ford is to succeed Spiro Agnew as Vice President of the United States.
1975 – The Comoros join the UN.
1980 – The Voyager 1 space probe takes images of Saturn's rings.
1981 - The Space Shuttle Columbia launches on its second flight.
1982 – In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid Brezhnev.
1982 – Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is released.
1985 - Xavier Suarez becomes Miami's first Cuban-American Mayor.
1990 – Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
He had already succeeded his father Hirohito, who died on January 7, 1989.
1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1991 – Dili Massacre: Indonesian forces opened fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
1994 - Chandrika Kumaratunga becomes President of Sri Lanka.
1995 - Mozambique joins the Commonwealth.
As a former Portuguese colony, it is the first Commonwealth member not to have had any historical links with the present-day United Kingdom.
1995 - Azerbaijan holds its first parliamentary elections.
1996 - A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin II-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, India, killing 349 people in the deadliest mid-air collision to date.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of planning the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
2001 – Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Northern Alliance troops.
2001 – A plane crash in the New York Borough of Queens kills all (260) of those on board, and 5 people on the ground.
American Airlines Flight 587 had come down shortly after take-off and was bound for the Dominican Republic.
2003 - Iraq War: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, including the war's first Italian casualties, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on the Italian police base.
2003 - Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record, 501 kilometers per hour (311 miles per hour), for commercial railways systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.
2004 – Official Guided by Voices Day in Los Angeles, California.
2004 – Resignation of Colin Powell as United States Secretary of Defense.
2010 - The 16th Asian Games begin in Guangzhou, China.
2011 – In the wake of an economic crisis, Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy.
Mario Monti is selected to replace him shortly after.
2013 - One World Trade Center is announced as being the tallest building in the United States.
2014 - The Philae lander from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe lands on the surface of the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
It is the first man-made object to land on a comet.
2015 - At least 40 people are killed in suicide bomb attacks in Beirut, Lebanon.
2017 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes the Iran-Iraq border area, killing at least 450 people and injuring hundreds.
1493 – Bartolomeo Bandelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
1528 - Qi Jiquang, Chinese general (d. 1588)
1547 – Claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575)
1615 – Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)
1651 - Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican nun and poet (d. 1695)
1679 - Firmin Bauzit, French scholar (d. 1767)
1729 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811)
1746 - Jacques Charles, French physicist (d. 1823)
1755 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (d. 1813)
1774 - Charles Bell, Scottish physiologist and anatomist (d. 1842)
1790 – Letitia Christian Tyler, American First Lady, wife of John Tyler (d. 1842)
1815 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (d. 1902)
1817 – Baha'u'llah, religious leader of the Baha'i faith (d. 1892)
1830 - Brynjulf Bergslien, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1898)
1833 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (d. 1887)
1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)
1841 - Preston Lea, Governor of Delaware (d. 1916)
1842 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Raleigh, English physicist (d. 1919)
1850 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)
1865 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary and politician (d. 1925)
1872 - William Fay, Irish actor and theatre musician (d. 1947)
1881 - Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (d. 1948)
1882 - Infanta María Teresa of Spain (d. 1912)
1883 - James W. Mott, American politician (d. 1945)
1886 - Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)
1890 - Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)
1891 - Seth Barnes Nicholson, American astronomer (d. 1963)
1892 - Tudor Davies, Welsh operatic tenor (d. 1958)
1895 - Amandus Adamson, Estonian sculptor (d. 1929)
1898 - Leon Stukelj, Slovenian gymnast (d. 1999)
1901 - James Luther Adams, American theologian (d. 1994)
1903 - Jack Oakie, American actor (d. 1978)
1908 - Harry Blackmun, United States Supreme Court justice (d. 1999)
1911 - Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1991)
1911 – Chad Varah, British founder of the Samaritans telephone helpline (d. 2007)
1915 – Roland Barthes, French writer and philosopher (d. 1980)
1917 - Jo Stafford, American singer (d. 2008)
1920 - Richard Quine, American actor (d. 1989)
1922 - Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002)
1923 – Loriot, German comedian, humorist, producer and writer (d. 2011)
1923 - Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Mexican poet and scholar (d. 2013)
1924 - Sam Jones, American jazz musician (d. 1981)
1928 - Bob Holness, South African-born television presenter and actor (d. 2012)
1929 – Michael Ende, German writer (d. 1995)
1929 – Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (d. 1982)
1930 - Bob Crewe, American songwriter, dancer, singer and record producer (d. 2014)
1931 - Norman Y. Mineta, American politician
1933 – Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq (d. 2017)
1934 – Vavá, Brazilian footballer (d. 2002)
1934 - Leonid Stein, Soviet-Ukrainian chess player (d. 1973)
1934 – Charles Manson, American cult leader (d. 2017)
1935 – Lyudmila Gurchenko, Russian actress and singer (d. 2011)
1936 – Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (d. 2004)
1936 - Mills Lane, American boxer, referee, lawyer and judge
1937 - Richard H. Truly, American astronaut
1938 – Benjamin Mkapa, former President of Tanzania
1938 - Mort Shuman, American singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
1939 - Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (d. 1993)
1939 - Ruby Nash Garnett, American singer
1940 - Jürgen Todenhöfer, German judge and politician
1941 - Cristina Peri Rossi, Uruguayan writer
1943 – Errol Brown, English singer (d. 2015)
1943 - Bjorn Waldegard, Swedish rally driver (d. 2014)
1943 - Wallace Shawn, American actor and playwright
1944 - Booker T. Jones, American rock musician
1944 - Al Michaels, American sportscaster
1945 - Dale Schlueter, American basketball player (d. 2014)
1945 – Neil Young, Canadian singer
1946 – Krister Henriksson, Swedish actor
1948 - Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran
1949 – Jack Reed, American politician
1952 - Ernie Fletcher, 60th Governor of Kentucky
1952 - Stuart Cosgrove, Scottish broadcaster and journalist
1955 - Louan Gideon, American actress (d. 2014)
1955 - Les McKeown, Scottish singer
1957 - Tim Samaras, American storm chaser (d. 2013)
1957 - Cécilia Attias, former First Lady of France
1958 – Megan Mullally, American actress
1959 - Toshihiko Sahashi, Japanese composer
1960 - Maurane, Belgian singer (d. 2018)
1961 – Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast
1961 – Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer
1962 - Naomi Wolf, American author and feminist
1962 - Mariella Frostrup, Norwegian-British journalist
1962 - Mark Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager
1963 - Susumu Terajimi, Japanese actor
1964 - Danny Ellefson, American musician
1964 – Thomas Berthold, German footballer
1964 – Vic Chesnutt, American musician (d. 2009)
1964 - Michael Kremer, American economist
1965 - Eddie Mair, Scottish journalist
1968 - Aya Hisakawa, Japanese voice actress and singer
1968 – Kathleen Hanna, American musician and activist
1968 – Sammy Sosa, Dominican baseball player
1970 – Tonya Harding, American figure skater
1971 - Chen Guangcheng, Chinese human rights activist
1973 - Radha Mitchell, American actress
1974 – Alessandro Birindelli, Italian footballer
1975 - Katherine Grainger, Scottish rower
1975 – Dario Simic, Croatian footballer
1976 – Miroslaw Szymkowiak, Polish footballer
1977 – Benni McCarthy, South African footballer
1978 - Eric Addo, Ghanaian footballer
1978 - Ashley Williams, American actress
1980 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor
1980 - Charlie Hodgson, English rugby player
1981 - D. J. Campbell, English footballer
1982 - Maxim Tchoudov, Russian biathlete
1982 – Anne Hathaway, American actress
1983 – Carlton Cole, English footballer
1984 - Omarion, American singer
1985 - Adlène Guedioura, French-Algerian footballer
1987 - Bryan Little, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 - Russell Westbrook, American basketball player
1988 - Paul Samaras, American storm chaser (d. 2013)
1989 - Hiroshi Kiyotake, Japanese footballer
1990 - Taulupe Faletau, Welsh rugby union player
1990 - Florent Manaudou, French swimmer
1990 - James McCarthy, Irish footballer
1992 - Adam Larsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1992 - Giulietta, Australian singer
1992 - Trey Burke, American basketball player
2001 - Raffey Cassidy, English actress
607 - Pope Boniface III
1035 – Canute the Great, Danish king of England, Denmark, Norway and part of Sweden (b. 995)
1094 – King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
1139 – King Magnus IV of Norway (b. 1115)
1202 – King Canute VI of Denmark (b. 1163)
1434 - King Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)
1595 – John Hawkins, English shipbuilder, merchant, and slavetrader (b. 1532)
1671 - Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (b. 1612)
1720 - Peter Tordenskiold, Danish-Norwegian naval officer (b. 1690)
1742 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1757 - Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French politician, first Mayor of Paris (executed on the Guillotine) (b. 1736)
1813 - J. Hector St John de Crèvecoeur, French-American writer (b. 1735)
1836 – Juan Ramon Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
1857 - Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan politician (b. 1792)
1865 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English writer (b. 1810)
1902 - William Henry Barlow, British railway engineer (b. 1812)
1903 – Camille Pissarro, French painter (b. 1830)
1912 - José Canalejas, Spanish politician and writer (b. 1854)
1916 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer (b. 1855)
1933 - John Cady, American golfer (b. 1866)
1933 - F. Holland Day, American photographer (b. 1864)
1939 – Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890)
1942 - Laura Hope Crews, American actress (b. 1879)
1944 - Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (b. 1876)
1945 - James W. Mott, American politician (b. 1883)
1946 - Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer (b. 1875)
1946 - Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian academic and politician (b. 1861)
1948 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
1950 - Lesley Ashburner, American athlete (b. 1883)
1958 - James Michael Curley, American politician, Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1874)
1969 - Iskander Mirza, President of Pakistan (b. 1899)
1969 – Liu Shaoqi, Chinese revolutionary and politician (b. 1898)
1974 – Thorbergur Thordarson, Icelandic writer (b. 1889)
1976 - Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894)
1990 – Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
1994 - Wilma Rudolph, American runner (b. 1940)
1997 - Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
2000 – Leah Rabin, widow of Yitzhak Rabin (b. 1928)
2003 - Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
2007 – Ira Levin, American writer (b. 1929)
2008 - Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (b. 1947)
2010 – Henryk Gorecki, Polish composer (b. 1933)
2012 - Sergio Oliva, Cuban-born American bodybuilder (b. 1941)
2013 - Aleksandr Serebrov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (b. 1944)
2013 - John Tavener, English composer (b. 1944)
2014 - Warren Clarke, English actor (b. 1947)
2014 - Marge Roukema, American politician (b. 1929)
2014 - Rebekah Gibbs, English actress (b. 1973)
2015 - Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer (b. 1983)
2015 - Aaron Shikler, American artist (b. 1922)
2015 - Jihadi John, Kuwaiti-British terrorist (b. 1988)
2016 - Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress (b. 1910)
2017 - Bernard Panafieu, French cardinal (b. 1931)
2017 - Jack Ralite, French politician (b. 1928)
2017 - Edith Savage-Jennings, American activist (b. 1924)
2017 - Liz Smith, American gossip columnist (b. 1923)
2017 - Santiago Vernazza, Argentine footballer (b. 1928)
2018 - Ananth Kumar, Indian politician (b. 1959)
2018 - Stan Lee, American comic book writer, publisher and actor (b. 1922)
2018 - Igor Luchenok, Belarussian composer (b. 1938)
2018 - David Pearson, American racing driver (b. 1934)
2018 - Stuart H. Walker, American yachtsman (b. 1923)
2019 - Edwin Bramall, British army officer (b. 1923)
2019 - Herb Dickenson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
2019 - Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1936)
2019 - Víctor Manuel Pérez Rojas, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1940)
2019 - Mitsuhisa Taguchi, Japanese footballer (b. 1955)
2020 - Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physician (b. 1926)
Birth of Baha'u'llah (Baha'i faith)
Birth of Sun Yat-sen (Republic of China)
World Pneumonia Day
Constitution Day (Azerbaijan)
AD 81  Domitian becomes Roman Emperor.
1180  Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
1509  Constantinople is hit by an earthquake, killing 13,000.
1515  After the Battle of Marignano and defeat to French forces, Switzerland declares itself 'for ever' neutral.
1741  George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.
1752  The British Empire adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
In the change, the dates from September 3 to September 13 are missed out.
1763  Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole, during Pontiac's War.
1791  The Papal States lose Avignon to France.
1808  Finnish War: Russian forces defeat Swedish ones in the Battle of Oravais.
1812  Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow.
1814  The poem Defense of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key.
The poem is later used for the words in The Star-Spangled Banner.
1829  The Russo-Turkish War ends.
1846  Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese Royal Court.
1847  Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
1856  Battle of San Jacinto in Nicaragua.
1862  American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
1897  Battleship SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II is launched.
1900  2000
1901  President of the United States William McKinley dies more than one week after being shot by Leon Czolgosz.
He is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt, who becomes the 26th President of the United States.
1917  Russia is officially proclaimed a Republic.
1923  Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain.
1939  World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzel in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify taking over Estonia.
1940  The Hungarian army, supported by local Hungarians, kills 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Salay, Transylvania.
1944  World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by the Allies.
1954  In a top-secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40-kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
1958  The first two Post-World War II German rockets, designed by engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
1959  The Soviet Lunik 2 probe crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach the Moon.
1960  The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
1960  With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power from Patrice Lumumba in the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, suspending the parliament and constitution.
1973  The Gauja National Park is founded in present-day Latvia.
1975  Rembrandt van Rijn's painting, The Night Watch, is attacked and damaged by a man with a knife at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
1975  The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
1979  President of Afghanistan Nur Muhammad Taraki is deposed and killed on the orders of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes President.
1982  Lebanese President-elect Bachir Gemayel is shot dead.
1982  Grace Kelly dies after becoming seriously injured in a car crash.
1984  Joe Kittinger flies a hot-air balloon across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming the first person to do so.
1985  The Penang Bridge, connecting the island of Penang to mainland Malaysia, is opened.
1987  Baseball: The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
1988  Hurricane Gilbert hits Mexico.
1990  Start of the Human Genome Project.
1992  The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the break-away Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
1994  The Major League Baseball season is cancelled because of a strike.
1999  Kiribati, Tonga and Nauru join the United Nations.
2000  Microsoft releases Windows ME.
2003  Estonia approves EU membership.
2003  In a coup in Guinea-Bissau, Kumba Iala is removed from power by Verissimo Correia Seabra, who takes measures towards democratisation of the country.
2007  British bank Northern Rock experiences the first Bank Run in the UK for 150 years.
2008  Sebastian Vettel becomes the youngest Formula One driver to win a Grand Prix.
2008  Aeroflot Flight 821 crashes on approach to Perm Airport, Russia, killing all 88 people on board.
2014  Sweden's parliamentary election ends with the Social Democrats under Stefan Löfven as the largest party.
2015  Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott loses a vote of confidence within the Liberal Party.
Malcolm Turnbull becomes the 29th Prime Minister of Australia the next day.
2015  The first observation of gravitational waves is made.
2017  A series of bomb attacks near Nasiriyah, Iraq, results in 84 deaths.
2018  Hurricane Florence, downgraded to a tropical storm, hits the states of North and South Carolina on the east coast of the United States.
2019  An attack in Saudi Arabia affects 5% of the world's oil supply.
208  Diadumenian, son of Roman Emperor Macrinus (d. 218)
1169  Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
1388  Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer (d. 1438)
1486  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist (d. 1535)
1543  Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (d. 1615)
1547  Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (d. 1619)
1580  Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
1605  Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Icelandic bishop (d. 1675)
1713  Johann Kies, German mathematician (d. 1781)
1721  Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (d. 1807)
1737  Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1806)
1760  Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (d. 1842)
1769  Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (d. 1859)
1774  Lord William Bentinck, British Governor-General of India (d. 1839)
1783  Henry Johnson, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1864)
1817  Theodor Storm, German writer (d. 1888)
1817  Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary (d. 1867)
1827  Hermann Krone, German photographer (d. 1916)
1836  Alfred B. Swineford, American politician (d. 1909)
1837  Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (d. 1903)
1847  William Edward Ayton, British physicist (d. 1908)
1849  Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, psychologist & physician (d. 1936)
1853  Ponnambayalam Arunachalam, Ceylon Tamil statesman (d. 1924)
1859  Janis Cakste, 1st President of Latvia (d. 1927)
1860  Hamlin Garland, American author and poet (d. 1940)
1864  Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British diplomat (d. 1958)
1867  Charles Dana Gibson, American illustrator (d. 1944)
1868  Theodor Botrel, French singer-songwriter and playwright (d. 1925)
1878  Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat, writer and revolutionary (d. 1920)
1879  Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist (d. 1966)
1880  Archie Hahn, German-American runner (d. 1955)
1886  Jan Masaryk, Czech diplomat (d. 1948)
1887  Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and composer (d. 1934)
1889  Maria Esther de Capovilla, Ecuadorean supercentenarian, World's oldest woman (d. 2006)
1891  Ivan Mitveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (d. 1983)
1895  Robert A. Lovett, American politician (d. 1986)
1898  Ernest Nash, German-born archaeologist (d. 1974)
1898  Okey L. Patteson, Governor of West Virginia (d. 1989)
1899  Hal B. Wallis, American movie producer (d. 1986)
1901  Alex James, Scottish footballer (d. 1953)
1901  Andrey Vlasov, Russian general (d. 1946)
1902  Nikolay Kamov, Russian engineer (d. 1973)
1902  Giorgos Papasideris, Greek musician (d. 1977)
1902  Alice Tully, American music promoter and philanthropist (d. 1993)
1907  Solomon Asch, Polish-born American psychologist (d. 1996)
1907  Edel Quinn, Irish missionary (d. 1944)
1909  Peter Scott, British naturalist and explorer (d. 1989)
1909  Stuff Smith, American jazz violinist (d. 1967)
1910  Jack Hawkins, British actor (d. 1973)
1912  Eduard von Falz-Fein, Russian-Liechtensteiner businessman, journalist and sportsman (d. 2018)
1913  Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (d. 1971)
1913  Severino Varela, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1995)
1914  Clayton Moore, American actor (d. 1999)
1914  Pietro Germi, Italian movie director, screenwriter, actor and producer (d. 1995)
1915  John Dobson, American astronomer (d. 2014)
1916  Eric Bentley, English-American critic, playwright and singer
1916  Luis Corvalán, Chilean Communist politician (d. 2010)
1917  Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss conductor and violinist (d. 2002)
1917  Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect and designer (d. 2007)
1919  Gil Langley, Australian cricketer, footballer and politician (d. 2001)
1920  Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (d. 2009)
1920  Lawrence Klein, American economist (d. 2013)
1922  Zizinho, Brazilian footballer (d. 2002)
1923  Ram Jethmalani, Indian lawyer (d. 2019)
1924  Jerry Coleman, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1924  Wim Polak, Mayor of Amsterdam (d. 1999)
1924  Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and writer (d. 2004)
1926  Richard Ellsasser, American concert organist, composer and conductor (d. 1972)
1926  Michel Butor, French writer (d. 2016)
1926  Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Spanish noblewoman (d. 2017)
1927  Jim Fanning, American-Canadian baseball player and manager (d. 2015)
1927  Edmund Szoka, American cardinal (d. 2014)
1928  Alberto Korda, Cuban photographer (d. 2001)
1928  Angus Ogilvy, British royal (d. 2004)
1929  Ferdinand Oyono, Cameroonian writer (d. 2010)
1929  Larry Collins, American writer (d. 2005)
1929  Hans Clarin, German actor (d. 2005)
1930  George V. Hansen, American politician (d. 2014)
1930  Eugene I. Gordon, American physicist (d. 2014)
1932  Harry Sinden, Canadian ice hockey player
1934  Sarah Kofman, French philosopher (d. 1994)
1934  Kate Millett, American sculptor, activist and writer (d. 2017)
1935  Amanda Barrie, British actress
1936  Walter Koenig, American actor
1936  Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist
1936  Lucas Samaras, Greek-American painter and sculptor
1937  Renzo Piano, Italian architect
1940  Larry Brown, American basketball player and coach
1940  Jacques Godin, Canadian movie and television actor
1942  Bernard MacLaverty, Northern Irish writer
1943  Marcos Valle, Brazilian singer and musician
1944  Günter Netzer, German footballer
1947  Sam Neill, New Zealand actor
1949  Steve Gaines, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
1949  Ed King, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2018)
1950  Eugene H. Trinh, Vietnamese-American astronaut
1953  Robert Wisdom, American actor
1956  Kostas Karamanlis, former Prime Minister of Greece
1956  Maxime Verhagen, Dutch politician
1956  Ray Wilkins, English footballer (d. 2018)
1958  Billy Abercromby, Scottish footballer
1959  Morten Harket, Norwegian musician (a-ha)
1960  Callum Keith Rennie, English-Canadian actor
1960  Melissa Leo, American actress
1964  Faith Ford, American actress
1964  Stephen Dunham, American actor (d. 2012)
1965  Mariana Briski, Argentine actress (d. 2014)
1965  Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister, and former President, of Russia
1966  Catherine West, English politician
1967  Jens Lien, Norwegian director, producer and screenwriter
1968  Grant Shapps, English politician
1971  Kimberly Williams-Paisley, American actress
1971  Andre Matos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and author
1971  Christopher McCulloch, American voice actor, director and writer
1972  Marc Silk, English voice actor
1973  Nas, American rapper
1974  Sunday Oliseh, Nigerian footballer
1974  Hicham El-Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
1977  Yang Yang, Chinese ice skater
1977  Malik Bendjelloul, Swedish filmmaker and actor (d. 2014)
1977  Alexsandro de Souza, Brazilian footballer
1978  Carmen Kass, Estonian model
1979  Ivica Olic, Croatian footballer
1980  Hip Hop Pantsula, South African rapper (d. 2018)
1980  Ivan Radeljic, Croatian-Bosnian footballer
1981  Yumi Adachi, Japanese actress, model and singer
1981  Ashley Roberts, American singer, dancer and actress (Pussycat Dolls)
1983  Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
1983  Arash Borhani, Iranian footballer
1984  Lethal Bizzle, English rapper
1984  Adam Lamberg, American actor
1984  Fernanda Vasconcellos, Brazilian actress and model
1986  Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1986  Tinchy Stryder, English rapper and singer
1986  Steven Naismith, Scottish footballer
1986  Jonathan Monaghan, American artist and animator
1988  Martin Fourcade, French biathlete
1988  Kirsten Haglund, American model
1989  Logan Henderson, American singer-songwriter and actor
1989  Jesse James, American actor
1989  Lee Jong-suk, South Korean actor and model
1989  Jimmy Butler, American basketball player
1990  Cecilie Pedersen, Norwegian footballer
1991  Nana, South Korean singer
1994  Daniel O'Shaughnessy, Finnish footballer
23  Drusus Julius Caesar, son of Tiberius (b. 13 BC)
258  Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage
407  John Chrysostom, Byzantine archbishop (b. 347)
585  Emperor Bidatsu of Japan (b. 538)
775  Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 718)
891  Pope Stephen V
1164  Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)
1214  Albert Avogadro, Italian lawyer and bishop (b. 1149)
1321  Dante Alighieri, Italian writer (b. 1265)
1404  Albert IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1377)
1435  John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (b. 1389)
1523  Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)
1538  Henry III of Nassau-Breda (b. 1483)
1605  Jan Tarnowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1550)
1638  John Harvard, American clergyman (b. 1607)
1712  Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer (b. 1625)
1759  Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (b. 1712)
1836  Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (b. 1756)
1851  James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (b. 1789)
1852  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1769)
1852  Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812)
1862  Charles Pearson, British social reformer (b. 1793)
1898  William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857)
1901  William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843)
1905  Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian-French explorer (b. 1852)
1916  José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer (b. 1832)
1927  Isadora Duncan, American dancer (b. 1877)
1936  Irving Thalberg, American movie producer (b. 1899)
1936  Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor (b. 1878)
1937  Tomas Masaryk, Czech politician (b. 1850)
1951  Fritz Busch, German conductor (b. 1890)
1952  John McPhee, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1874)
1965  Lydia Mei, Estonian artist (b. 1896)
1966  Nikolay Cherkasov, Soviet actor (b. 1903)
1966  Gertrude Berg, American actress (b. 1899)
1970  Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (b. 1891)
1975  Walter Herbert, German conductor and impresario (b. 1902)
1977  Shogo Kamo, Japanese footballer (b. 1915)
1979  Nur Muhammad Taraki, President of Afghanistan (b. 1917)
1982  Kristjan Eldjarn, 3rd President of Iceland (b. 1916)
1982  Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese politician (b. 1947)
1982  Grace Kelly, American actress, Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)
1984  Janet Gaynor, American actress (b. 1903)
1995  Maurice K. Goddard, American state government official (b. 1912)
1996  Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (b. 1937)
1998  Yang Shangkun, Chinese leader (b. 1907)
1999  Charles Crichton, British movie director (b. 1910)
2000  Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (b. 1906)
2001  Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (b. 1931)
2003  Yetunde Price, sister of Venus and Serena Williams (b. 1972)
2005  Robert Wise, American movie director and producer (b. 1914)
2006  Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
2007  Jacques Martin, French television host and producer (b. 1933)
2009  Patrick Swayze, American actor (b. 1952)
2009  Keith Floyd, British chef (b. 1943)
2011  Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist (b. 1929)
2012  Stephen Dunham, American actor (b. 1964)
2014  Tony Auth, American cartoonist (b. 1942)
2014  Miroslav Hlinka, Slovakian ice hockey player (b. 1972)
2014  Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, Head of the House of Romanov (b. 1922)
2014  Angus Lennie, Scottish actor (b. 1930)
2014  Boris Khimichev, Russian actor (b. 1933)
2014  Assheton Gorton, British production designer (b. 1930)
2014  Philip Somerville, English milliner (hat maker) (b. 1930)
2015  Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Romanian politician, journalist and writer (b. 1949)
2015  Fred DeLuca, American businessman, co-founder of Subway (b. 1947)
2015  Adam Purple, American environmental activist (b. 1930)
2017  Arnold Chan, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1967)
2017  Marcel Herriot, French bishop (b. 1934)
2017  Otto Wanz, Austrian professional wrestler (b. 1943)
2018  Alan Abel, American comedian and writer (b. 1924)
2018  Max Bennett, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)
2018  Anneke Grönloh, Dutch singer (b. 1942)
2018  Zienia Merton, British actress (b. 1945)
2018  Branko Grünbaum, Yugoslavian-American mathematician (b. 1929)
2019  John Ralston, American football player and coach (b. 1927)
Hindi Day (India)
Day of San Jacinto (Nicaragua)
Christian Feast of the Cross
634  Battle of Ajnadayn: Byzantine Empire forces under Theodore are defeated by the Rashidun Caliphate near Beit Shemesh in present-day Israel.
762  Baghdad is founded.
1419  First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill 7 members of the Prague city council.
1502  Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay of Islands off present-day Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1619  Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative factory in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, meets for the first time.
1629  An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills around 10,000 people.
1635  Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins.
Frederick Henry, Prince Orange begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish army.
1656  Swedish forces under Charles X Gustaf of Sweden defeat forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.