the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1964 - Volker Abramczik, German footballer
1965 – Todd Bridges, American actor
1965 – Pat Cash, Australian tennis player
1966 – Sean Kinney, American drummer (Alice in Chains)
1966 – Heston Blumenthal, English chef
1967 – Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
1968 – Rebekah Brooks, English newspaper editor
1968 – Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player
1968 – Frank Thomas, American baseball player
1970 – Joseph Fiennes, English actor
1970 - Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist
1970 - Tim Farron, English politician
1971 – Paul Bettany, English actor
1971 – Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, American singer (d. 2002)
1971 - Sophie Walker, Scottish politician
1971 - Lee Sharpe, English footballer
1971 - Beatrix von Storch, German politician of the Alternative for Germany Party
1974 – Derek Webb, singer-songwriter, former member of Caedmon's Call
1974 – Danny Wuerffel, American football quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner
1975 – Jamie Oliver, British celebrity chef and TV personality (The Naked Chef)
1975 – Michael Hussey, Australian cricketer
1975 - André 3000, American rapper, producer and actor
1976 – Jiri Stajner, Czech footballer
1977 – Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer
1979 – Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer
1981 – Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer
1981 – Miloy, Angolan footballer
1981 – Fivos Constantinou, Cypriot runner
1983 – Bobby Convey, American soccer player
1984 - Kalle Spjuth, Swedish bandy player
1985 – Roberto Soldado, Spanish footballer
1987 – Gervinho, Ivorian footballer
1988 - Birkir Bjarnason, Icelandic footballer
1988 - Mari Pokinen, Estonian actress and singer
1989 - Igor Morozov, Estonian footballer
1990 - Nadine Beiler, Austrian singer
1990 – Chris Colfer, American actor
1990 - Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, Thai actress
1990 - Jonas Hector, German footballer
1994 - Aymeric Laporte, French footballer
1999 - Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress
1999 - Harambe, American-bred Western lowland gorilla (d. 2016)
366 – Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 326)
866 – Ordoño I, king of Asturias
927 – Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria
1508 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1452)
1525 - Thomas Müntzer, German theologian and religious reformer (b. 1489)
1541 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (executed) (b. 1374)
1564 – John Calvin, religious reformer (b. 1509)
1610 – Ravaillac, assassin who killed Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
1661 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Scottish Covenanter, was beheaded
1707 – Marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1641)
1797 – François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary and early socialist (b. 1760)
1831 – Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)
1840 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
1885 - Charles Rogier, Belgian politician and journalist (b. 1800)
1896 - Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
1910 – Robert Koch, German doctor, won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843)
1918 - Ozutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1869)
1926 – Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet
1936 - H. P. Hanssen, Danish politician (b. 1862)
1939 - Joseph Roth, Austrian writer (b. 1894)
1941 - Ernst Lindemann, German captain (b. 1894)
1941 - Günther Lütjens, German admiral (b. 1889)
1943 - Gordon Coates, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1878)
1960 – James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator (b. 1877)
1962 - Egon Petri, German pianist (b. 1881)
1963 - Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (b. 1912)
1964 – Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (b. 1889)
1967 - W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator (b. 1880)
1971 - Armando Picchi, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1935)
1985 – Kai Lindberg, Danish politician (b. 1899)
1986 – Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American Muslim thinker, philosopher, and comparative religion scholar (b. 1921)
1986 - Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1901)
1987 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize winner (b. 1891)
1988 - Ernst Ruska, German physicist (b. 1906)
1989 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907)
1990 - Robert B. Meyner, 40th Governor of New Jersey (b. 1908)
1991 – Leopold Nowak, musicologist (b. 1904)
1993 – Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)
2000 – Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1917)
2000 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
2003 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
2004 – Umberto Agnelli, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1934)
2007 – Zard, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
2007 - Ed Yost, American inventor (b. 1919)
2008 – Franz Künstler, last-surviving Austro-Hungarian World War I veteran (b. 1900)
2009 – Clive Granger, British economist (b. 1934)
2010 – John William Finn, American naval officer (b. 1909)
2011 – Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player (b. 1974)
2011 – Jeff Conaway, American actor (b. 1950)
2011 – Gil Scott-Heron, American rapper and poet (b. 1949)
2012 - Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician (b. 1927)
2012 - Johnny Tapia, American boxer (b. 1967)
2013 - Bill Pertwee, British actor (b. 1926)
2014 - Helma Sanders-Brahms, German movie director, screenwriter, producer and actress (b. 1940)
2014 - Miodrag Radulovacki, Serbian medical research scientist (b. 1933)
2014 - Massimo Vignelli, Italian graphic designer (b. 1931)
2015 - Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1929)
2015 - Nils Christie, Norwegian sociologist and criminologist (b. 1928)
2016 - Kai G. Henriksen, Norwegian businessman (b. 1956)
2016 - Marshall Jones, American musician (b. 1941)
2017 - Gregg Allman, American musician (b. 1947)
2017 - Don Robinson, English rugby league player (b. 1932)
2018 - Gardner Dozois, American science fiction writer (b. 1947)
2018 - Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, Egyptian economist and politician, Prime minister of Egypt (b. 1935)
2018 - Donald H. Peterson, American astronaut (b. 1933)
2018 - John DiFronzo, American mobster (b. 1928)
2019 - Bill Buckner, American baseball player (b. 1949)
2019 - Veeru Devgan, Indian choreographer, actor and director (b. 1934)
2019 - Gabriel Diniz, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1990)
2019 - Tony Horwitz, American journalist and author (b. 1958)
2019 - Aharon Razin, Israeli biochemist (b. 1935)
2020 - Tony Scannell, Irish actor (b. 1945)
Children's Day (Nigeria)
Armed Forces Day (Nicaragua)
Mother's Day (Bolivia)
Navy Day (Japan)
17 – Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero following several battle victories over Germanic tribes.
946 – King Edmund I of England is murderered by a thief he personally attacks during mass.
1135 - Alfonso VII of Spain is crowned.
1293 - An earthquake in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, kills 30,000 people.
1538 – Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city.
1573 - The Battle of Haarlemmermeer takes place, as a naval battle in the Dutch War of Independence.
1644 – Portuguese Restoration War: Battle of Montijo - Portuguese and Spanish forces both claim victory.
1647 – Alse Young is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.
This is the first "witchcraft" execution in the British American colonies.
1659 – The "Great Fire" destroys more than half of the city of Stade.
1770 - The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy.
1822 – The Grue Church fire in Norway kills 116 people.
1828 – Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered walking around Nuremberg.
To this day, his early days remain a mystery.
1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the United States Congress, and is signed by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
1864 – Montana is organised as a US territory.
1865 – American Civil War: Edmund Kirby Smith becomes the last Confederate general to surrender.
1868 – End of the impeachment trial of US President Andrew Johnson.
1869 – Boston University is chartered by Massachusetts.
1879 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak, establishing an Afghan state.
1896 - Nicholas II of Russia becomes Tsar.
1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first  edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1897 – The novel Dracula by Bram Stoker is published.
1906 – The Vauxhall Bridge in London is opened.
1908 - The first commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made at Masjed Soleyman in what is then known as Persia.
1917 - Several tornadoes occur in Illinois, including the city of Mattoon, killing 101.
1918 – Georgia (country) declares independence.
1923 - The first 24-hour motor car race at Le Mans, France, takes place.
1938 - In the United States, the House of Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Dunkirk - Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
1942 - World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place.
1966 – Guyana gains independence (separates) from the United Kingdom.
1969 – Apollo 10 returns to Earth.
1971 – The Pakistan Army massacres over 70 Hindus in Sylhet, present-day Bangladesh.
1972 – Willandra National Park in Australia is created.
1972 - The United States and Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1977 – George Willig climbs the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.
1981 – Prime Minister of Italy Arnaldo Forlani and his cabinet resign.
1981 - An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68), killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45.
1983 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Japan.
1986 – The European Community adopts the European flag.
1991 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes President of Georgia.
1991 – Lauda Air Flight 004, a Boeing 767 plane, crashes in Bangkok, killing 223 people.
1992 – The blockade of Dubrovnik is broken.
1998 – The United States Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island is mainly in New Jersey, not New York.
2002 - The tugboat Robert Y. Love collides with the support pier of Interstate 40 on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, killing 14 people and injuring 11.
2004 – US Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
2008 - Severe flooding begins in Eastern and Southern China.
The floods go on to kill 148 people and lead to the evacuation of 1.3 million.
2011 – Wanted on war crimes charges, Ratko Mladic is captured in Serbia.
2012 – Loreen wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 for Sweden in Baku, Azerbaijan.
2014 - Narendra Modi becomes Prime Minister of India.
2017 - Militants carry out a shooting at a bus carrying Coptic Christians in central Egypt, killing 28 people.
2018 - Real Madrid C.F. defeat Liverpool F.C. 3-1 in the UEFA Champions League final, winning the competition for the third time in-a-row, and meaning that Madrid-based teams have won both major European club trophies in the season.
2019 - The 2019 elections to the European Parliament are completed; Far-right and Green political parties increase their number of seats.
1264 – Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326)
1478 – Pope Clement VII (d. 1554)
1566 – Mehmed III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1603)
1602 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)
1623 - William Petty, English economist and philosopher (d. 1687)
1650 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, British general (d. 1722)
1667 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (d. 1754)
1689 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (d. 1762)
1700 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (d. 1760)
1764 - Edward Livingston, United States Secretary of State (d. 1836)
1810 - Christen Kobke, Danish painter (d. 1848)
1822 - Edmond de Goncourt, French author and critic (d. 1896)
1826 - Richard Christopher Carrington, English astronomer (d. 1875)
1863 - Bob Fitzsimmons, English-New Zealand boxer (d. 1917)
1867 – Mary of Teck, Queen Consort to King George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1953)
1873 – Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist (d. 1958)
1873 - Hans Ludendorff, German astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1941)
1878 – Thomas H. Moodie, Governor of North Dakota (d. 1948)
1880 - W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator (d. 1967)
1881 - Adolfo de la Huerta, President of Mexico (d. 1955)
1882 – Frank C. Emerson, Governor of Wyoming (d. 1931)
1883 – Mamie Smith, American singer (d. 1946)
1883 – Peter Kürten, German serial killer (d. 1931)
1886 – Al Jolson, American singer (d. 1950)
1887 - Ba U, 2nd President of Burma (d. 1963)
1893 - Eugene Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer (d. 1962)
1895 – Dorothea Lange, American photographer (d. 1965)
1895 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (d. 1971)
1898 – Christfried Burmeister, Estonian speed skater (d. 1965)
1899 - Antoine Barrette, 18th Premier of Quebec (d. 1968)
1904 – George Formby, British musician (d. 1961)
1904 - Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian-born French pianist and teacher (d. 2002)
1906 - Márcio Melo, Brazilian military officer and politician (d. 1991)
1907 – John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
1908 – Robert Morley, English actor (d. 1992)
1908 - Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Vietnamese politician (d. 1976)
1909 – Matt Busby, Scottish football player and manager (d. 1994)
1909 – Adolfo Lopez Mateos, Mexican politician (d. 1992)
1910 - Imi Lichtenfeld, Hungarian-Israeli martial artist (d. 1998)
1910 - Laurance Rockefeller, American billionaire (d. 2004)
1911 - Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter and producer (d. 1992)
1912 – János Kádár, Hungarian politician (d. 1989)
1912 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian-American actor (d. 1980)
1913 – Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
1916 – Moondog, American musician, composer and poet (d. 1999)
1917 – Eva Szorenyi, Hungarian actress and activist (d. 2009)
1919 – Ruben Gonzalez, Cuban musician (d. 2003)
1920 – Peggy Lee, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
1921 - Inge Borkh, German soprano (d. 2018)
1921 - Walter Laqueur, German-American historian and publicist (d. 2018)
1923 – James Arness, American actor (d. 2011)
1923 - Roy Dotrice, British actor (d. 2017)
1923 – Horst Tappert, German actor (d. 2008)
1925 - Alec McCowen, English actor (d. 2017)
1926 - Miles Davis, American trumpeter, composer and bandleader (d. 1991)
1928 – Jack Kevorkian, American assisted suicide advocate (d. 2011)
1929 - Catherine Sauvage, French singer and actress (d. 1998)
1933 - Edward Whittemore, American author (d. 1995)
1936 - Beth Whittall, Canadian swimmer (d. 2015)
1936 - David Stevens, Baron Stevens of Ludgate, English politician
1937 – Paul Patton, former Governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky
1938 – Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian writer, writer and playwright
1939 – Merab Kostava, Georgian activist (d. 1989)
1939 - Herb Trimpe, American comic book artist and writer (d. 2015)
1940 – Levon Helm, American musician and actor (d. 2012)
1941 – Aldrich Ames, CIA counter-intelligence officer
1941 - Jim Dobbin, Scottish politician (d. 2014)
1944 – Sam Posey, American racing driver, TV commentator and writer
1945 - René Féret, French actor, screenwriter, director and producer (d. 2015)
1945 - Garry Peterson, Canadian drummer
1945 - Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian politician, 17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2012)
1946 – Mick Ronson, English guitarist (d. 1993)
1946 - Simon Hoggart, English journalist (d. 2014)
1948 – Stevie Nicks, American songwriter
1949 - Jeremy Corbyn, British politician, leader of the Labour Party
1949 – Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer
1949 - Pam Grier, American actress
1949 - Anne McGuire, Scottish politician
1949 - Hank Williams, Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 – Sally Ride, American astronaut and physicist (d. 2012)
1951 - Ramón Calderón, Spanish lawyer and President of Real Madrid
1953 – Michael Portillo, British politician
1954 - Alan Hollinghurst, British writer
1955 - Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef
1956 – Lisa Niemi, American actress
1956 - Ricky Sbragia, Scottish footballer and manager
1957 - Diomedes Díaz, Colombian singer and composer (d. 2013)
1958 - Howard Goodall, English composer
1959 - Ole Bornedal, Norwegian actor, director and producer
1961 - Tarsem Singh, Indian-American director
1962 – Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor and comedian
1962 - Black, English singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
1963 - Simon Armitage, English author, poet and playwright
1963 - Mary Nightingale, English news presenter
1964 - Valery Salov, Russian chess player
1964 – Lenny Kravitz, American singer
1964 - Paul Okalik, Canadian politician, 1st Premier of Nunavut
1964 - Caitlin R. Kiernan, Irish-American paleontologist and author
1965 - Hazel Irvine, Scottish television presenter
1966 – Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
1966 – Zola Budd, South African athlete
1966 - Shona Robison, Scottish politician
1968 – Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
1968 - Pat Kenney, American baseball player, wrestler and agent
1969 - John Baird, Canadian politician
1970 - Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese mangaka
1971 – Matt Stone, American animator and movie maker
1971 – Ivan O. Godfroid, writer
1972 – Patsy Palmer, English actress
1972 - Alan White, English drummer
1975 – Travis Lee, American baseball player
1975 - Nicki Lynn Aycox, American actress
1975 - Kwasi Kwarteng, British politician
1977 – Luca Toni, Italian footballer
1977 – Nikos Hatzivrettas, Greek basketball player
1977 - Mark Hunter, American musician
1978 - Dan Parks, Australian-Scottish rugby player
1978 - Jaheim, American singer
1979 - Amanda Bauer, American astronomer
1979 - Elisabeth Harnois, American actress
1979 - Ashley Massaro, American professional  wrestler, television host and model (d. 2019)
1979 – Mehmet Okur, Turkish basketball player
1981 – Eda-Ines Etti, Estonian singer
1981 – Jason Manford, English comedian
1981 – Irini Merkouri, Greek singer
1981 - Razvan Rat, Romanian footballer
1981 - Ben Zobrist, American baseball player
1983 - Demy de Zeeuw, Dutch footballer
1986 - Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Spanish-French actress
1986 - Matt Oivanen, Finnish volleyball player
1987 - Josh Thomas, Australian comedian, actor and writer
1988 - Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, Colombian footballer
1989 - Tomas Pekhart, Czech footballer
1989 - Amit Farkash, Canadian-Israeli actress
1991 - Amber Bondin, Maltese singer
1991 – Julianna Rose Mauriello, American actress and dancer
1999 - Kerry Ingram, English actress
2001 - Megan Charpentier, Canadian actress
451 – Saint Vartan Mamikonian, Armenian warrior
604 – Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
735 - Bede, English monk, historian and theologian (b. 672)
818 – Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766)
946 – King Edmund I of England (b. 921)
1055 – Margrave Adalbert of Austria
1421 – Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)
1512 – Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan
1536 – Francesco Berni, Italian poet
1595 – Philip Neri, Italian churchman (b. 1515)
1647 - Alse Young, American woman executed for witchcraft (b. 1600)
1648 – Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)
1653 – Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)
1679 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
1685 – Karl II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)
1703 – Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633)
1742 - Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1672)
1762 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)
1799 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b. 1714)
1824 – Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
1828 - John Oxley, British officer and explorer (b. 1785)
1831 - Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (b. 1798)
1840 – Sidney Smith, British admiral (b. 1764)
1845 - Jónas Hallgrímsson, Icelandic poet (b. 1807)
1881 – Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824)
1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)
1883 – Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (b. 1808)
1888 - Ascanio Sobrero, Italian chemist (b. 1812)
1895 - Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. 1822)
1902 – Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)
1907 – Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
1908 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Punjabi founder of the Qadianism (b. 1839)
1914 - Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer and reformer (b. 1849)
1924 – Victor Herbert, Irish composer (b. 1859)
1926 – Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879)
1933 – Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860)
1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (b. 1897)
1939 – Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic) (b. 1865)
1943 – Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (b. 1893)
1943 - Alice Tegnér, Swedish composer, organist and educator (b. 1864)
1948 – Theodore Morell, Hitler's personal physician (b. 1886)
1951 – Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist and polar explorer (b. 1880)
1954 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (b. 1900)
1955 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918)
1968 – Little Willie John, American R&B singer (b. 1937)
1969 – Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937)
1969 - Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation pioneer and engineer (b. 1889)
1974 – Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (b. 1941)
1976 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)
1979 – George Brent, British actor (b. 1899)
1989 - Don Revie, English footballer and manager (b. 1927)
1995 – Friz Freleng, American animator (b. 1905)
1999 – Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
1999 – Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)
2001 – Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
2001 - Anne Haney, American actress (b. 1934)
2002 – Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
2003 – Kathleen Winsor, American writer (b. 1919)
2004 – Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)
2004 – Dullah Omar, South African lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
2005 – Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)
2005 – Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1928)
2005 - Krzysztof Nowak, Polish footballer (b. 1975)
2005 - Sangoulé Lamizana, President of Burkina Faso (b. 1916)
2006 – Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin (b. 1963)
2006 – C. H. Patterson, American psychologist (b. 1912)
2008 – Sydney Pollack, American actor (b. 1934)
2013 - Jack Vance, American mystery, fantasy and science fiction writer (b. 1916)
2014 - Manuel Uribe, Mexican computer repairman, was once the world's heaviest man (b. 1965)
2015 - Vicente Aranda, Spanish movie director (b. 1926)
2015 - Les Johnson, Australian politician (b. 1924)
2015 - Dayton Waller, American politician (b. 1925)
2015 - Rocky Frisco, American pianist (b. 1937)
2015 - Bob Hornery, Australian actor (b. 1931)
2015 - Robert Craft, American astronomer (b. 1927)
2016 - Kazimierz Barburski, Polish fencer (b. 1942)
2016 - Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal (b. 1915)
2016 - Ted Dumitru, Romanian football manager (b. 1939)
2016 - Hedy Epstein, German-American Holocaust survivor and activist (b. 1924)
2016 - Angela Paton, American actress (b. 1930)
2016 - Arturo Pomar, Spanish chess player (b. 1931)
2016 - Bob Williams, American football player (b. 1930)
2017 - Toni Bertorelli, Italian actor (b. 1948)
2017 - Laura Biagiotti, Italian fashion designer (b. 1943)
2017 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-American political scientist and diplomat (b. 1928)
2017 - Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician (b. 1931)
2018 - Alan Bean, American astronaut (b. 1932)
2018 - Pierre Bellemare, French television presenter, actor and radio personality (b. 1929)
2018 - Ted Dabney, American electrical engineer (b. 1937)
2018 - Roger Piantoni, French footballer (b. 1931)
2018 - Svetlin Rusev, Bulgarian artist (b. 1933)
2018 - Antonio Pujía, Italian-Argentine sculptor (b. 1929)
2019 - Abdel Latif El Zein, Lebanese politician (b. 1932)
2019 - Harry Hood, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
2019 - Ibrahim Lame, Nigerian educator and politician (b. 1953)
2019 - Bart Starr, American football player and coach (b. 1934)
2019 - Stephen Thorne, British actor (b. 1935)
2019 - Prem Tinsulanonda, Prime minister and Regent of Thailand (b. 1920)
2019 - Vittorio Zucconi, Italian-American journalist and writer (b. 1944)
Independence Day in Georgia and Guyana
Crown Prince's Birthday (Denmark)
Mother's Day (Poland)
National Sorry Day (Australia)
National Book Day (Uruguay)
567 BC – Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
240 BC – First-recorded Perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors.
1420 - Henry the Navigator is appointed Governor of the Order of Christ.
1524 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Edict of Worms, which declares Martin Luther an outlaw.
1644 - Ming Dynasty general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus  and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan Pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital, Beijing.
1659 – Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England.
1809 – The South American Wars of Independence begin.
1810 – May Revolution: The Argentine War of Independence begins.
1837 - Rebels in Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
1865 – 300 people are killed in Mobile, Alabama when an ordnance depot explodes.
1878 – The Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
1895 – The Republic of Formosa is founded.
1895 - The playwright, novelist and poet Oscar Wilde is convicted of "Committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to two years in prison.
1914 - The United Kingdom House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act of 1914 for devolution to Ireland.
1923 - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Iran, killing around 2,200 people.
1925 – John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Evolution.
1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties one, in track and field athletics in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1938 – Spanish Civil War: 313 people are killed in Alicante.
1946 – Abdullah I of Jordan is declared Emir by the Parliament of Transjordan.
1953 – The US conducts its only nuclear artillery test in Nevada.
1955 – A night-time Force 5 tornado strikes the small city in Udall, Kansas, killing 80 people; it is the deadliest tornado ever to strike Kansas.
1955 – First successful climb of Kanchenjunga (8,586 metres), the third-highest mountain in the world on the India-Nepal border, by a British expedition led by Joe Brown and George Band.
1961 - The Bukit Ho Swee Fire occurs in Singapore.
1961 – John F. Kennedy announces before the United States Congress that the United States should set the target of landing a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s decade.
1962 - In England, the new Coventry Cathedral is consecrated.
The original one had been badly damaged by German bombs in World War II.
1963 – The Organisation of African Unity is founded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1966 - Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
1967 – Celtic F.C. from Glasgow, Scotland, becomes the first football team from the UK to win the European cup.
1968 - The Gateway Arch in Saint Louis, Missouri is dedicated.
1969 - Thor Heyerdahl sets off from Morocco on his Papyrus boat Ra, in an attempt to prove that America was directly settled from Africa.
1977 – Star Wars is released in theatres.
1977 - The People's Republic of China's government removes its 10-year ban on the work of William Shakespeare.
1979 – American Airlines Flight 191, a McDonnell Douglas C-10, crashes during take-off from Chicago O'Hare International Airport, killing 273 people (271 on the plane and 2 on the ground).
1979 – 6-year-old Etan Patz disappears on his way to school near his home in New York City.
This becomes one of the most notorious missing-child cases in US history and leads to Ronald Reagan declaring May 25 National Missing Children's Day in 1983.
1981 – In Riyadh the Guld Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
1982 – British ship HMS Coventry is sunk by Argentine forces during the Falklands War.
1985 – A cyclone in Bangladesh kills 10,000 people and many more are made homeless.
1997 – A coup in Sierra Leone removes Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and replaces him with Johnny Paul Koromah as leader.
2000 – Israel withdraws most of its army from Lebanon.
2001 – Erik Weihenmayer of Boulder, Colorado becomes the first person with a visual impairment to reach the top of Mount Everest.
2002 – China Airlines Flight 611, a Boeing 747-200, breaks apart in mid-flight and plunges into the Taiwan Strait, killing 225 people.
2002 – A train crash kills 197 people in Tenga, Mozambique.
2003 - Néstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina.
2005 – Liverpool F.C. win the UEFA Champions League, defeating AC Milan in a penalty shoot-out.
2009 – North Korea is believed to have tested its second nuclear device.
2011 – The Oprah Winfrey Show airs for the last time.
2013 - Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.
2013 - FC Bayern Munich defeat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the first UEFA Champions League final to be contested by two German teams.
2014 - Elections are held to the European Parliament.
Far-right parties make strong gains and finish in the lead in some countries, such as Nigel Farage's UKIP (UK), Marine Le Pen's National Front (France) and Danish People's Party (Denmark).
In Greece, the left-wing SYRIZA Party finishes first.
2014 - Petro Poroshenko is elected President of Ukraine.
2018 - The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation enters into force.
2018 - A referendum in the Republic of Ireland results in an-almost two-thirds majority (66.4%) voting to change the country's strict abortion laws.
1048 – Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
1271 – Shah Jalal of Bengal (d. 1346)
1334 – Emperor Suko of Japan (d. 1398)
1458 – Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (d. 1511)
1572 - Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1632)
1606 – Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
1661 – Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
1677 - Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1749)
1713 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1792)
1725 – Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776)
1762 - Walter Leake, Governor of Mississippi (d. 1825)
1783 – Philip Pendleton Barbour, American politician (d. 1841)
1791 - Ming Mang, Vietnamese Emperor (d. 1841)
1803 – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
1815 - Giovanni Caselli, Italian physicist (d. 1891)
1818 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian (d. 1897)
1845 – Lip Pike, baseball player (d.1883)
1846 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
1846 – Naim Frasheri, Albanian poet and writer (d. 1900)
1848 - Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, education and publisher (d. 1924)
1860 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944)
1863 - Camille Erlanger, French composer (d. 1919)
1865 – John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955)
1865 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
1868 - Charles Hitchcock Adams, American chemist and astronomer (d. 1961)
1877 – Billy Murray, American singer (d. 1954)
1878 - Bill Robinson, American tap dancer and actor (d. 1949)
1879 – Lord Beaverbrook, English publisher (d. 1964)
1880 – Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
1882 – Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
1883 - Carl Johan Lind, Swedish hammer thrower (d. 1965)
1886 – Philip Murray, Scottish-American labor leader (d. 1952)
1886 – Rash Behari Bose, Indian revolutionary (d. 1945)
1887 – Francesco Forgione, Italian priest (d. 1968)
1888 – Miles Malleson, English actor (d. 1969)
1889 – Igor Sikorsky, Russian inventor (d. 1972)
1897 - Gene Tunney, American boxer (d. 1978)
1898 - Bennett Cerf, American publisher (d. 1971)
1903 - Binnie Barnes, English-American actress and singer (d. 1998)
1907 – U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
1909 - Marie Menken, American actress, director and painter (d. 1970)
1909 - Alfred Kubel, German politician (d. 1999)
1912 – Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
1913 – Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
1913 - Donald Maclean, British secret agent (d. 1983)
1916 - Brian Dickinson, Canadian politician (d. 1998)
1917 - Theodore Hesburgh, American priest (d. 2015)
1918 – Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
1921 – Hal David, American lyricist and songwriter (d. 2012)
1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1921 - Giorgio Orelli, Swiss writer (d. 2013)
1922 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
1922 - Kitty Kallen, American singer (d. 2016)
1924 – István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
1925 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (d. 1974)
1925 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)
1925 - Claude Pinoteau, French screenwriter and movie director (d. 2012)
1926 - Bill Sharman, American basketball player (d. 2013)
1926 – Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1991)
1927 – Robert Ludlum, writer (d. 2001)
1927 - Norman Petty, American singer-songwriter, pianist and producer (d. 1984)
1929 – Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)
1931 – Aili Jogi, Estonian anti-Communist activist (d. 2007)
1931 – Georgi Grechko, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2017)
1931 - Herb Gray, former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2014)
1932 – John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d. 2003)
1933 - Jógvan Sundstein, 7th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1933 - Sarah Marshall, English-American actress (d. 2014)
1933 - Basdeo Panday, 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
1935 – Cookie Gilchrist, American football player
1936 – Tom T. Hall, American singer and songwriter
1938 – Raymond Carver, American writer (d. 1988)
1939 – Dixie Carter, American actress (d. 2010)
1939 – Ian McKellen, English actor
1939 - Ferdinand Bracke, Belgian cyclist
1941 – Vladimir Voronin, former President of Moldova
1943 – Jessi Colter, American singer
1944 – Frank Oz, English-born puppeteer and director
1947 - Mitch Margo, American singer (The Tokens) (d. 2017)
1948 – Klaus Meine, German singer (Scorpions)
1949 – Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-born novelist
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1951 - François Bayrou, French politician
1953 – Daniel Passarella, Argentine footballer
1953 - Gaetano Scirea, Italian footballer (d. 1989)
1953 – Eve Ensler, Jewish-American playwright and feminist activist
1954 - Murali, Indian actor (d. 2009)
1955 – Alistair Burt, British politician
1956 – Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer (d. 2010)
1957 – Alastair Campbell, British politician
1957 - Robert Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 - Mark McGhee, Scottish footballer
1958 – Paul Weller, English musician
1959 – Julian Clary, English comedian
1959 - Vladimir Franz, Czech composer and painter
1960 - Amy Klobuchar, American politician, United States Senator from Minnesota
1960 - Anthea Turner, English television presenter
1961 - Robert Brylewski, Polish singer-songwriter (d. 2018)
1963 – Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian
1963 - Anne Consigny, French actress
1963 - Torsten Albig, German politician
1964 - Ivan Bella, Slovakian astronaut
1965 – Simon Fowler, English singer (Ocean Colour Scene)
1965 - Yahya Jammeh, former President of the Gambia
1966 – McLoud, Swiss composer, musician, and multimedia artist
1966 - Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
1967 - Luc Nilis, Belgian footballer
1967 – Poppy Z. Brite, American writer
1968 – Kendall Gill, American basketball player
1969 – Anne Heche, American actress
1969 – Glen Drover, Canadian musician (Megadeth)
1970 – Jamie Kennedy, American actor
1970 - Octavia Spencer, American actress
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1971 – Sonya Smith, American actress
1972 - Karan Johar, Indian director, producer, writer and actor
1973 - Demetri Martin, American actor, comedian and musician
1973 - Molly Sims, American model and actress
1974 - Dougie Freedman, Scottish footballer and manager
1974 – Monica Keena, American actress
1974 - Frank Klepacki, American musician
1975 - Keiko Fujimori, Peruvian politician
1975 – Lauryn Hill, American singer
1975 – Blaise Nkufo, Swiss footballer
1976 – Miguel Tejada, Dominican Major League Baseball player
1976 - Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
1977 – Pat Burrell, baseball player
1978 – Brian Urlacher, American football player
1979 - Sayed Moawad, Egyptian footballer
1979 – Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby player
1979 – Carlos Bocanegra, American soccer player
1979 - Caroline Ouellette, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Alex Hofmann, German motorcycle racer
1980 – David Navarro, Spanish footballer
1982 – Adam Boyd, English footballer
1982 – Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer
1982 – Roger Guerreiro, Brazilian-Polish footballer
1984 - Emma Marrone, Italian singer
1984 - Marion Raven, Norwegian singer-songwriter, musician and actress
1984 – Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Icelandic model (Miss Iceland), former Miss World
1985 – Demba Ba, Senegalese footballer
1985 - Joe Anoa'i, American football player and wrestler
1986 – Lauren Crace, English actress
1986 - Yoan Gouffran, French footballer
1986 - Geraint Thomas, Welsh cyclist
1987 - Kamil Stoch, Polish ski jumper
1988 - Cameron van der Burgh, South African swimmer
1990 - Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player
1991 - Jillian Wheeler, American singer-songwriter and actress
1992 - Jon Dadi Bodvarsson, Icelandic footballer
1994 - Aly Raisman, American gymnast
1999 - Brec Bassinger, American actress
615 – Pope Boniface IV (b. 550)
675 - Li Hong, Chinese prince (b. 550)
709 – Aldhelm, English Christian saint (b. 639)
967 – Emperor Murakami of Japan (b. 926)
992 – Mieszko I of Poland (b. 935)
1085 – Pope Gregory VII (b. 1020)
1261 – Pope Alexander IV
1452 – John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
1555 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and mapmaker (b. 1508)
1555 – Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
1595 - Philip Neri, Italian priest and saint (b. 1515)
1632 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
1667 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (b. 1620)
1681 – Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish playwright (b. 1600)
1693 - Madame de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
1786 – King Peter III of Portugal (b. 1717)
1789 - Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
1805 – William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
1862 - Johann Nestroy, Austrian playwright, actor and opera singer (b. 1801)
1895 - Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman soldier, intellectual, bureaucrat, administrator and historian (b. 1822)
1899 - Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (b. 1822)
1899 - Emilio Castelar y Ripoll, Spanish politician and writer (b. 1832)
1911 - Vasily Klyuchevsky, Russian historian (b. 1841)
1912 - Austin Lane Crothers, 46th Governor of Maryland (b. 1860)
1919 – Madam C. J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon (b. 1867)
1924 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
1926 – Symon Petliura, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1879)
1930 – Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
1934 – Gustav Holst, English composer (b. 1874)
1939 - Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (b. 1858)
1940 - Joe De Grasse, Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1873)
1954 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
1958 - Steinn Steinarr, Icelandic poet (b. 1908)
1965 - Sonny Boy Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1912)
1970 - Tom Patey, Scottish mountaineer and writer (b. 1932)
1977 – Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b. 1904)
1981 - Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1912)
1983 – King Idris I of Libya (b. 1890)
1986 - Chester Bowles, 78th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1901)
1988 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist (b. 1906)
1993 - Buddhadesa, Thai monk and philosopher (b. 1906)
1995 - Dany Robin, French actress (b. 1927)
1996 - Renzo De Felice, Italian historian and politician (b. 1929)
2002 – Pat Coombs, English actress (b. 1926)
2005 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (b. 1929)
2006 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican musician (b. 1941)
2009 – Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (b. 1906)
2010 – Siphiwo Ntshebe, South African singer (b. 1975)
2011 – Leonora Carrington, British-Mexican painter (b. 1917)
2012 – Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer (b. 1919)
2014 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general and politician, last Communist leader of Poland (b. 1923)
2014 - Bunny Yeager, American model and photographer (b. 1929)
2014 - Herb Jeffries, American jazz and pop singer (b. 1913)
2014 - David Allen, English cricketer (b. 1935)
2014 - Tommy Blom, Swedish radio host and singer (b. 1947)
2014 - Malcolm Simmons, English motorcycle speedway racer (b. 1946)
2015 - John M. Murphy, American politician (b. 1926)
2015 - Mary Ellen Mark, American photographer (b. 1940)
2015 - Bill O'Herlihy, Irish broadcaster (b. 1938)
2016 - Yang Jiang, Chinese playwright, author and translator (b. 1911)
2016 - Gyula Kosice, Czechoslovakian-Argentine poet and sculptor (b. 1924)
2016 - Nancy Dow, American actress and model (b. 1936)
2016 - John Webster, British theologian (b. 1955)
2017 - Alistair Horne, British historian, journalist and spy (b. 1925)
2017 - Eva Estrada Kalaw, Filipino politician (b. 1920)
2017 - Frédérick Leboyer, French obstetrician and author (b. 1918)
2017 - Saucy Sylvia, Canadian-American radio personality and singer (b. 1920)
2018 - Piet Kee, Dutch composer and organist (b. 1927)
2018 - Sergio Graziani, Italian actor (b. 1930)
2018 - Naser Malek Motiei, Iranian actor (b. 1930)
2019 - Margaret-Ann Armour, Scottish-Canadian chemist (b. 1939)
2019 - Jean Burns, Australian aviatrix (b. 1919)
2019 - Anthony Graziano, American mobster (b. 1940)
2019 - Dmytro Kremin, Ukrainian poet, journalist and translator (b. 1953)
2019 - Thembinkosi Mbamba, South African footballer (b. 1995)
Africa Day
Geek Pride Day
Independence Day (Jordan)
Liberation Day (Lebanon)
National Day (Argentina)
National Missing Children's Day (United States), after the disappearance of Etan Patz on this day in 1979
1395 - In the Battle of Rovine, Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman Empire army.
1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham is executed for treason.
1536 - George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason in England.
1590 – Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
1642 – Paul Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve (1612 – 1676) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.
1673 – Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
1697 - The Tre Kronor castle in Stockholm is almost completely destroyed by fire.
1724 - The Krafla volcano in Iceland erupts, creating the Viti crater.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.
1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
1808 – Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
1814 – Norway gets its own Constitution.
1814 – Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
1846 – The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax.
1849 - A large fire almost completely destroys Saint Louis, Missouri.
1861 - Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell demonstrates the first color photograph, an image of a tartan ribbon.
1863 – Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, her first book in the Galician language.
1865 – The International Telegraph Union (the later International Telecommunication Union) is established.
1875 – Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
1884 - The "Department of Alaska" is renamed "District of Alaska".
1900 – Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
1902 – Archaeologist Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism.
1914 - The Protocol of Corfu is signed.
1915 – The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
1919 – Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose Winnipeg General Strike.
1928 - The 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam begin.
1933 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
1940 – World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
1940 - World War II: The German Luftwaffe bombs the city of Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands.
1943 – World War II: Surviving RAF Dam Busters return.
1943 – The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
1944 – Type IX U-boat: U-884 is launched.
1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
1967 – Six-Day War: President Abdul Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
1970 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
1973 – Watergate scandal: Hearings begin in the United States Senate and are televised.
1974 – Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
1974 – Thirty-three people are killed by terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland.
1980 – General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
1980 - On the eve of Presidential elections, Maoist Guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, Peru, beginning the internal conflict in Peru.
1983 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
1987 – Iran-Iraq War: The USS Stark (FFG-31) is struck by a missile from an Iraqi Mirage fighter killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
1990 – The World Health Organization removed homosexuality from ICD - the origin of the International Day Against Homophobia.
1992 – In Thailand, the so-called Black May begins.
Thai police and protestors start attacking one another.
By midnight, the current Thai government declares a state of emergency, and military troops with M-16 rifles open fire.
1994 - The first multi-party elections in Malawi are held.
1995 – After 18 years as the mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac takes office as President of France.
1997 - Troops of Laurent Kabila enter Kinshasa.
Zaire is officially renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1999 – Ehud Barak is elected Prime Minister of Israel.
2000 - Arsenal FC and Galatasaray fans clash before the UEFA Cup final in Copenhagen.
Galatasaray wins 4-1 to become the first Turkish football team to win a major European trophy.
2003 – Mozilla Firefox.
Browser renamed from Phoenix to Firebird.
2004 – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Massachusetts.
2005 – Reverend Clarence Silva of Oakland is appointed fifth Bishop of Honolulu, Hawaii.
2006 - Aircraft carrier "USS Oriskany" is sunk off the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
2007 - Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments.
2010 - Portugal legalizes same-sex marriage.
2011 - Elizabeth II makes a historic state visit to the Republic of Ireland.
2014 - Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia both declare a State of Emergency after experiencing their worst flooding in over 100 years, killing at least 25 people.
2014 - A plane crash in Northern Laos kills 17 people.
2015 - Nine people are killed in a shoot-out between two biker gangs in Waco, Texas.
2016 - Christian Kern succeeds Werner Faymann as Chancellor of Austria.
2018 - Quim Torra is sworn in as President of Catalonia.
1155 – Jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225)
1443 – Edmund, Earl of Rutland (d. 1460)
1550 - Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Italian nobleman (d. 1540)
1628 – Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria, Regent of the Tyrol and Further Austria
1682 - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (d. 1722)
1732 – Francesco Pasquale Ricci, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1817)
1743 – Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (d. 1784)
1749 – Edward Jenner, British inventor of the vaccine (d. 1823)
1758 – John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (d. 1839)
1763 - Pierre Adet, French physician and chemist (d. 1834)
1768 – Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales (d. 1821)
1791 - Silas H. Jennison, Governor of Vermont (d. 1849)
1794 – Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (d. 1860)
1821 – Sebastian Kneipp, naturopathist (d. 1897)
1836 – Wilhelm Steinitz, chess player (d. 1900)
1836 - Norman Lockyer, British scientist and astronomer (d. 1920)
1842 – August Thyssen, German industrialist (d. 1926)
1844 – Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (d. 1918)
1845 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (d. 1902)
1860 - Austin Lane Crothers, Governor of Maryland (d. 1912)
1866 – Erik Satie, French composer (d. 1925)
1868 - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer (d. 1920)