the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1992  Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
1992  Jessica Barden, English actress
1995  Baekho, South Korean singer
1403  Henry Percy, English nobleman and soldier (b. 1364)
1425  Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350)
1552  Antonio de Mendoza, 1st Viceroy of New Spain (b. 1495)
1793  Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)
1796  Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759)
1796  Philip Carteret, English explorer (b. 1733)
1859  John Gayle, American politician (b. 1792)
1865  Davis Tutt, American gambler and salloon drinker (b. 1836)
1878  Sam Bass, American train robber and outlaw (b. 1851)
1880  Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
1889  Nelson Dewey, American politician (b. 1813)
1899  Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier and politician (b. 1833)
1907  Nicolae Grigorescu, Romanian painter (b. 1838)
1938  Owen Wister, American writer (b. 1860)
1941  Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
1943  Charley Paddock, American politician (b. 1900)
1944  Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, leader of the July 20 plot to kill Hitler (b. 1907)
1944  Ludwig Beck, German Chief of Staff (b. 1880)
1946  Gualberto Villarroel, 45th President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
1948  Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1904)
1967  Albert Lutuli, South African political activist (b. 1898)
1967  Basil Rathbone, British actor (b. 1892)
1968  Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)
1970  Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
1972  Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1928)
1972  Ralph Craig, American sprinter (b. 1889)
1973  Ahmed Bouchiki, Algerian-born victim of mistaken identity, killed by the Mossad in Norway (b. 1943)
1982  Dave Garroway, American journalist (b. 1913)
1991  Paul Warwick, English racing driver (b. 1969)
1998  Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
1998  Alan Shepard, the first American to travel into space (b. 1923)
2004  Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist (b. 1918)
2010  Anthony Rolfe Johnson, British operatic tenor (b. 1940)
2010  Luis Corvalán, Chilean Communist politician (b. 1916)
2011  Kazimierz Świątek, former Catholic Cardinal of Belarus, Gulag survivor (b. 1914)
2011  Bruce Sundlum, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1920)
2012  Susanne Lothar, German actress (b. 1960)
2014  Kevin Skinner, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1927)
2014  John M. Coyne, American politician (b. 1916)
2014  Hans-Peter Kaul, German judge (b. 1943)
2014  Dan Borislow, American telecommunications executive (b. 1961)
2014  Harald Hove, Norwegian politician (b. 1949)
2015  Dick Nanninga, Dutch footballer (b. 1949)
2015  Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor (b. 1924)
2015  Robert Broberg, Swedish singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
2015  E. L. Doctorow, American writer (b. 1931)
2015  Luiz Paulo Conde, Brazilian politician and architect (b. 1934)
2017  Howard Eichenbaum, American psychologist and neuroscientist (b. 1947)
2017  John Heard, American actor (b. 1945)
2017  Yami Lester, Australian activist (b. 1942)
2017  Geoff Mack, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
2017  Deborah Watling, English actress (b. 1948)
2017  Stubbs, American cat, Honorary Mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska (b. 1997)
2017  Jon van Rood, Dutch immunologist (b. 1926)
2018  Jonathan Gold, American food critic (b. 1965)
2018  Don McCarthy, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1955)
2018  Elmarie Wendel, American actress (b. 1928)
2018  Alene Duerk, American admiral (b. 1920)
2019  José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Spanish cardinal (b. 1926)
2019  Hugo Cóccaro, Argentine politician (b. 1954)
2019  Antonino Cuffaro, Italian politician (b. 1932)
2019  Francisco Grau, Spanish military officer and composer (b. 1947)
2019  Paul Krassner, American writer and political activist (b. 1932)
2019  Robert Morgenthau, American lawyer (b. 1919)
National Day of Belgium
Liberation Day in Guam
Racial Harmony Day (Singapore)
838  Battle of Anzen: Byzantine Emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
1099  First Crusade: Godfrey de Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre.
1209  Massacre of Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
1298  William Wallace fights the English at the Battle of Falkirk.
1456  Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade - John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire.
1499  Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeats the army of Emperor Maximilian I.
1587  Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off present-day North Carolina to re-establish a deserted colony.
1706  The Acts of Union of 1707 are agreed upon by Commissioners from the Kingdoms of England and Scotland.
1786  Albany, New York is officially chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
1793  Alexander McKenzie reaches the Pacific coast of North America, becoming the first Euro-American to cross Canada.
1796  Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland", after General Moses Cleveland.
1797  Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars.
1802  Gia Long conquers Hanoi and unifies modern-day Vietnam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.
1805  Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition - Battle of Cape Finisterre.
1812  Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War - Battle of Salamanca.
1864  American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta.
1894  The first-ever motor race is held in France between Paris and Rouen.
1916  A bomb explodes during a 'Preparedness Day' parade in Market Street in San Francisco, California, killing 10 people and injuring 40.
1927  Sheep herder Killar Kashirov of the Kabardin people becomes the first person to reach the top of the Eastern summit of Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia, considered the highest mountain in Europe.
1933  Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world, travelling 25,099 kilometres (15,596 miles) in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1934  A man identified as American bank robber John Dillinger is shot dead.
1942  World War II: Start of the fighting on the Kokoda Track in New Guinea between Australia and Japan.
1943  World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo.
1944  The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting Communist rule in Poland.
1946  A terrorist attack on the King David Hotel in Jerusalem kills at least 91 people.
1951  Dezik and Tsygan are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
1954  Laos becomes independent from France.
1962  The Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after take-off and has to be destroyed.
1969  Francisco Franco declares that the Juan Carlos will be his successor.
1976  Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes in World War II.
1977  Deng Xiaoping returns to power in China.
1983  Martial Law in Poland is officially revoked.
1986  The United Kingdom bans corporal punishment in schools.
1991  Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.
1992  In Medellin, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from the luxury prison.
1993  Kaskasia, Illinois, is evacuated in the Great Flood of 1993.
1994  Gambia's President Dawda Jawara is removed from office in a coup, to be replaced by Yahya Jammeh.
2003  A US airstrike on a compound in Mosul, Iraq, kills Saddam Hussein's sons Uday Hussein, Qusay Hussein (and his son Mustapha) and a security guard.
2005  In London, officers of the Metropolitan Police shoot and kill Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes when he boards a tube train.
2005  Yelena Isinbayeva becomes the first woman to clear 5 metres in the High Jump.
2009  A Solar eclipse is seen over East Asia and the Pacific Ocean, and is the longest such event of the 21st century.
It is also believed to have been witnessed by more people than any solar eclipse in history.
2010  The International Court of Justice rules that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia was not illegal.
2011  2011 Norway attacks: An explosion in Oslo city centre kills 8 people.
Two hours later, 69 people are killed in a shooting at a political youth event on the island of Utoya, carried out by Anders Behring Breivik.
2012  Bradley Wiggins becomes the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France.
2013  Two earthquakes in Gansu province, People's Republic of China, kill at least 90 people.
2013  A baby boy, Prince George of Cambridge, third in line to the British throne, is born to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.
It comes just a day after nearby Belgium got its new King, Philippe.
2016  Nine people are killed in a shooting in and around a shopping mall in Munich, Germany.
The attacker then kills himself.
2019  Jo Swinson becomes the first woman to be chosen to lead the British Liberal Democrats.
1210  Joan of England, Queen of Scots (d. 1238)
1361  Carlos III of Navarre (d. 1425)
1478  King Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
1510  Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
1519  Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
1535  Katarina Stenbock, Queen of Sweden (d. 1621)
1559  Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (d. 1619)
1596  Tsar Michael I of Russia (d. 1645)
1702  Alessandro Besozzi, Italian composer and oboist (d. 1775)
1711  Georg Wilhelm Richmann, German Baltic physicist (d. 1753)
1733  Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and historian (d. 1790)
1751  Caroline Matilda of Wales (d. 1775)
1755  Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1839)
1784  Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician (d. 1846)
1822  Gregor Mendel, Austrian pioneering geneticist (d. 1884)
1831  Emperor Komei of Japan (d. 1867)
1844  William Archibald Spooner, known for verbal inversions called spoonerisms (d. 1930)
1848  Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
1856  Kamran Mirza, Prime Minister of Persia (d. 1927)
1859  Emma Lazarus, American poet (d. 1887)
1877  Giovanni Giorgio Tressino, Italian horse rider (d. 1963)
1882  Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)
1886  Hella Wuolijoki, Finnish author (d. 1954)
1887  Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German quantum physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1975)
1888  Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist (d. 1973)
1889  James Whale, English movie director, actor and screenwriter (d. 1957)
1890  Rose Kennedy, mother of John F. Kennedy (d. 1995)
1893  Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1893  Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (d. 1990)
1894  Oskar Maria Graf, writer (d. 1967)
1895  Pavel Sukhoi, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1975)
1898  Stephen Vincent Benét, American writer (d. 1943)
1898  Alexander Calder, American artist (d. 1976)
1899  Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (d. 1982)
1905  Doc Cramer, American Major League Baseball player (d. 1990)
1908  Amy Vanderbilt, writer on etiquette (d. 1974)
1909  Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (d. 2000)
1913  Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (d. 1995)
1916  Marcel Cerdan, world champion boxer  (d. 1949)
1923  Bob Dole, United States Senator from Kansas, Presidential candidate (d. 2021)
1923  Mukesh, singer (d. 1976)
1923  Netti Witziers-Timmer, Dutch sprinter (d. 2005)
1923  The Fabulous Moolah, American wrestler (d. 2007)
1924  Margaret Whiting, American singer (d. 2011)
1925  Joseph Sargent, American movie director (d. 2014)
1926  Bryan Forbes, English actor (d. 2013)
1926  Wolfgang Iser, German literary scholar (d. 2007)
1927  Johan Ferner, Norwegian sailor (d. 2015)
1928  Nedelcho Beronov, Bulgarian politician (d. 2015)
1928  Jimmy Hill, English football manager and pundit (d. 2015)
1928  Orson Bean, American actor
1931  Guido de Marco, 6th President of Malta (d. 2010)
1932  Oscar de la Renta, Dominican fashion designer (d. 2014)
1934  Louise Fletcher, American Academy Award-winning actress (in 1976)
1936  Tom Robbins, American writer
1939  Terence Stamp, actor
1939  Erhard Walther, artist
1940  Alex Trebek, American game show host (d. 2020)
1941  Estelle Bennett, American singer (The Ronettes) (d. 2009)
1941  George Clinton, musician
1942  Peter Habeler, Austrian mountaineer
1943  Kay Bailey Hutchison, American politician
1943  Bobby Sherman, American singer and actor
1944  Anand Satyanand, former Governor-General of New Zealand
1944  Rick Davies, English musician
1946  Danny Glover, American actor and activist
1946  Mireille Mathieu, French singer
1946  Johnson Toribiong, former President of Palau
1946  Paul Schrader, American movie director
1947  Albert Brooks, American comedian
1947  Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician
1947  Don Henley, drummer, singer, and songwriter
1948  Otto Waalkes, German comedian, actor and entertainer
1948  Ana de Palacio, Spanish politician
1948  Alfonso Cano, Colombian guerrilla (FARC) (d. 2011)
1949  Alan Menken, American composer
1949  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai
1949  Lasse Virén, Finnish athlete
1950  S. E. Hinton, American writer
1951  Patriarch Daniel of Romania
1951  J. V. Cain, American football player (d. 1979)
1953  René Vandereycken, Belgian footballer
1953  Jimmy Bruno, American guitarist
1954  Al Di Meola, American guitarist
1955  Willem Dafoe, American actor
1957  Alvaro Corcuera, Mexican priest (d. 2014)
1958  Tatsunori Hara, Japanese baseball player
1959  Lon Bender, American sound editor
1960  Barbara Cassani, American businesswoman
1961  Keith Sweat, singer
1962  Alvin Robertson, American basketball player
1964  John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor
1964  Bonnie Langford, English actress and dancer
1964  David Spade, American comedian
1965  Shawn Michaels, retired American professional wrestler
1965  Robert Aderholt, American politician
1967  Irene Bedard, American actress
1967  Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor
1969  Jason Becker, American actor
1969  Despina Vandi, Greek singer
1970  Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player
1970  Devendra Fadnavis, Indian politician
1971  Kristine Lilly, American soccer player
1972  Andrew Holness, Prime minister of Jamaica
1972  Paulinho, footballer
1972  Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor
1972  Keyshawn Johnson, American football player
1973  Rufus Wainwright, Canadian singer and songwriter
1973  Daniel Jones, English-Australian musician
1974  Franka Potente, German actress
1975  Markus Metzenthin, economist
1976  Kokia, Japanese singer
1978  Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
1979  Anna Belen-Zarska, Polish tennis player
1980  Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
1980  Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
1982  Anna Chicherova, Russian high jumper
1983  Sharni Vinson, Australian actress
1983  Shelby Belle, actress
1984  Stewart Downing, English footballer
1987  Charlotte Kalla, Swedish skier
1987  Joshua Small, singer, songwriter
1987  Andrey Golubev, Kazakhstani tennis player
1989  Keegan Allen, American actor
1989  Baltasar Breki Samper, Icelandic actor
1992  Selena Gomez, American singer and actress
1993  Amber Beattie, English actress
1993  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Chechen-American suspected terrorist
1994  Emina Jonasson, Swedish handball player
1996  Skyler Gisondo, American actor
1998  Madison Pettis, American actress
2002  Prince Felix of Denmark
2013  Prince George of Cambridge, son of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
1387  Frank Ackerman, Flemish statesman (b. 1330)
1461  Charles VII of France (b. 1403)
1525  Richard Wingfield, English diplomat (b. 1426)
1540  John Zapolya, Hungarian King
1619  Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (b. 1559)
1645  Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares, Duke of San Lucar (b. 1587)
1676  Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
1734  Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1669)
1802  Marie François Xavier Bichet, French anatomist and physiologist (b. 1771)
1813  George Shaw, English naturalist (b. 1751)
1826  Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer, mathematician and theologian (b. 1746)
1832  Napoleon II of France (b. 1811)
1845  Count Heinrich von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (b. 1757)
1869  John August Roebling, German-American engineer and bridge builder (b. 1806)
1893  John Rae, Orcadian explorer (b. 1813)
1903  Cassius Marcellus Clay, American lawyer, publisher and politician (b. 1810)
1904  Wilson Barrett, actor (b. 1846)
1908  Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist (b. 1828)
1909  Detlev von Liliencron, German poet and writer (b. 1844)
1915  Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian inventor of Standard time (b. 1827)
1916  James Whitcomb Riley, American writer and poet (b. 1849)
1918  Indra Lal Roy, Indian flying ace (b. 1898)
1920  William Kissam Vanderbilt, American businessman and horsebreeder (b. 1849)
1922  Jokichi Takamine, chemist (b. 1854)
1932  Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., American theatrical producer (b. 1867)
1932  Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
1932  Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor (b. 1866)
1934  John Dillinger, American bank robber, shot at the Biograph Theater in Chicago (b. 1903)
1936  Andreas Hinterstoisser, German mountaineer (b. 1914)
1936  Toni Kurz, German mountaineer (b. 1913)
1950  William Lyon Mackenzie King, tenth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
1967  Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)
1968  Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (b. 1908)
1974  Wayne Morse, former Senator from Oregon
1979  Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
1979  J. V. Cain, American football player (b. 1951)
1988  Duane Jones, American actor (b. 1936)
1989  Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
1990  Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (b. 1932)
1996  Rob Collins, English keyboardist (The Charlatans) (b. 1956)
1998  Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
1998  Alan Shepard, American astronaut (b. 1923)
1999  Gar Samuelson, American drummer (Megadeth) (b. 1958)
2000  Eric Christmas, British actor (born 1916)
2000  Claude Sautet, French movie director (b. 1924)
2001  Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1909)
2003  Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist (b. 1954)
2003  Qusay Hussein of Iraq, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)
2003  Uday Hussein of Iraq, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
2004  Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)
2004  George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917)
2005  Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian shooting victim (b. 1978)
2007  Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953)
2007  Laszlo Kovacs, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1933)
2008  Estelle Getty, American actress (b. 1923)
2010  Kenny Guinn, American politician, 27th Governor of Nevada (b. 1936)
2011  Linda Christian, American actress (b. 1924)
2011  Tore Eikeland, Norwegian youth politician (b. 1989) (2011 Norway attacks)
2012  Bohdan Stupka, Ukrainian actor and former culture minister (b. 1941)
2012  George Armitage Miller, American psychologist (b. 1920)
2012  Oswaldo Payá, Cuban activist (b. 1952)
2013  Dennis Farina, American actor (b. 1944)
2013  Lawrie Reilly, Scottish footballer (b. 1928)
2014  John Blundell, English economist (b. 1952)
2015  Christopher M. Fairman, American legal scholar (b. 1960)
2015  Eddie Hardin, British rock musician (b. 1949)
2015  Jeannette Cathy, American philanthropist (b. 1923)
2016  Viktor Kryzhanivskyi, Ukrainian artist (b. 1950)
2016  Ursula Franklin, German-American scientist, author and educator (b. 1921)
2017  Kostiantyn Sytnyk, Ukrainian botanist and politician (b. 1926)
2017  Artyom Tarasov, Russian businessman and political activist (b. 1950)
2017  Jim Vance, American news anchor (b. 1942)
2017  Fritz Hellwig, German politician (b. 1912)
2018  Rene Portland, American basketball player (b. 1953)
2018  Chiyo Miyako, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1901)
2018  Tony Sparano, American football coach (b. 1961)
2018  Tor Erling Staff, Norwegian lawyer (b. 1932)
2018  Manos Eleutheriou, Greek poet (b. 1938)
2019  Peter Hamm, German poet and journalist (b. 1937)
2019  Christopher C. Kraft Jr., American aerospace engineer (b. 1924)
2019  Brigitte Kronauer, German writer (b. 1940)
2019  Hans Lagerqvist, Swedish pole vaulter (b. 1940)
2019  Art Neville, American musician (b. 1937)
2019  Li Peng, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1928)
Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene
Pi Approximation Day
756 - An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang of China flees the capital Chang'an as An Lushan's forces advance toward the city.
1223 – Louis VIII becomes King of France.
1769 - Spanish soldier Gaspar de Portola leads the first European land expedition to present-day California.
1771 - Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junipero Serra.
1789 – The Bastille is attacked, starting the French Revolution.
1790 – The citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fete de la Federation.
1798 - La Marseillaise becomes the national anthem of France
1798 - The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States, making it a federal crime to write, publish or say heavily critical or false statements about the United States Government.
1853 - Start of the first major World's Fair to take place in the United States, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
1865 – The first ascent of the Matterhorn is made, by a team lead by Edward Whymper.
Four members of the group die on the way back down.
1865 - Piz Buin, the highest peak in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, first climbed by a team of four led by Joseph Anton Specht.
1881 – At Fort Sumner, New Mexico, Pat Garrett shoots and kills Billy the Kid.
1900 - The Armies of the Eight Nation Alliance capture Tientsin, China, during the Boxer Rebellion.
1902 - The Campanile in Saint Mark's Square, Venice, collapses.
1911 - Henry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright Brothers, lands his airplane on the South Lawn of the White House.
1916 - World War I: Start of the Battle of Delville Wood as an action within the Battle of the Somme.
1920 - The Red Army conquers Vilnius during the Polish-Soviet War.
1933 – Gleichschaltung: All political parties, apart from the Nazi Party, are banned in Germany.
1943 - In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the US National Monument in honor of an African American.
1948 - Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded outside the Italian Parliament.
1950 - Korean War: North Korean troops start the Battle of Taejon.
1951 - At Silverstone, England, Argentina's Jose Froilan Gonzalez achieves Ferrari's first Formula One Grand Prix victory.
1957 - In Egypt, Rawya Ateya becomes the first Member of the Parliament in the Arab world.
1958 – King Faisal II of Iraq is killed, and the monarchy is overthrown by forces lead by Abdul Karim Kassem, who takes over as head of state.
1958 - In Ghana, the Ghanaian pound replaces the colonial British West African pound.
1960 - Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
1964 - Frenchman Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France and his 4th in a row.
1965 - The Mariner 4 fly-by of Mars takes the first close-up photographs of a planet other than Earth.
1969 – Football War: After Honduras loses a football match against El Salvador, riots break out against El Salvadoran migrant workers in Honduras.
1969 - In the US, 500, 1000, 5000 and 10 000 dollar bills are withdrawn from circulation.
1976 - Capital punishment is banned in Canada.
1987 - Montreal is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal flood of 1987.
2000 - A powerful solar flare causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
2002 – An assassination attempt is made on French President Jacques Chirac at a Bastille Day parade.
2003 – The United States Government admits the existence of Area 51.
2006 - Tropical storm Bilis strikes the Chinese mainland - Hunan province experiences its worst flooding in 100 years.
2007 - The Gran Telescopio Canarias reflecting telescope begins operations on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands.
2011 – The United Nations admits South Sudan as the 193rd member nation.
2014 - The Church of England votes in favor of having female bishops at its General Synod (its official meeting).
2015 - The novel Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee goes on sale.
2015 - A deal is struck on limiting Iran's nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief.
2015 - The New Horizons space probe passes by the dwarf planet Pluto.
2016 - 2016 Nice attack: A truck is driven through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, Southern France, killing 84 people.
2018 - Tennis: Angelique Kerber becomes the first German to win the women's singles title at the Wimbledon championships since Steffi Graf in 1996, by defeating Serena Williams in two sets in the final.
2019 - Novak Djokovic wins a five-set final against Roger Federer to win his fifth singles title at the Wimbledon championships.
2019 - England wins the men's Cricket World Cup for the first time, defeating New Zealand in a close match in the final.
2019 - US President Donald Trump causes controversy and debate with a Twitter attack on four ethnic minority Democrat Congresswomen also known as "The Squad" - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley.
1454 – Poliziano, Italian humanist (d. 1494)
1602 – Jules Mazarin, French statesman and cardinal (d. 1661)
1610 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
1634 - Pasquier Quesnel, French theologian (d. 1719)
1675 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French nobleman, soldier and adventurer (d. 1747)
1676 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian and poet (d. 1763)
1743 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816)
1743 - William Paley, English theologian and philosopher (d. 1805)
1798 - Alessandro Antonelli, Italian architect (d. 1888)
1829 – Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1896)
1830 - Henry Bird, English chess player (d. 1908)
1858 – Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1928)
1859 - Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928)
1860 – Owen Wister, American writer (d. 1938)
1862 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)
1865 - Arthur Capper, 20th Governor of Kansas (d. 1951)
1866 - Ragnar Ostberg, Swedish architect (d. 1945)
1868 – Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (d. 1926)
1872 - Albert Marque, French sculptor and doll maker (d. 1939)
1874 – Khedive Abbas II of Egypt and Sudan (d. 1944)
1882 - Teddy Billington, American racing cyclist (d. 1966)
1885 – King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959)
1888 - Scipio Slataper, Italian author and critic (d. 1915)
1889 – Ante Pavelic, Croatian fascist leader (d. 1959)
1891 - Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and screenwriter (d. 1977)
1893 - Clarence J. Brown, American publisher and politician (d. 1965)
1893 - Garimella Satyanarayana, Indian poet and freedom fighter (d. 1952)
1893 - J. G. Strijdom, Prime minister of South Africa (d. 1958)
1894 - Dave Fleischer, American animator, director and producer (d. 1979)
1896 – Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (d. 1936)
1897 - Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Thai general and politician, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 1964)
1898 - Happy Chandler, 49th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1991)
1901 - George Tobias, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
1903 – Irving Stone, American writer (d. 1989)
1904 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish Yiddish writer (d. 1991) (possibly born on November 21)
1906 – William H. Tunner, American general (d. 1983)
1910 – William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)
1912 – Northrop Frye, American literary critic (d. 1991)
1912 – Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (d. 1967)
1913 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)
1916 – Natalia Ginzburg, writer (d. 1991)
1917 - George Bookasta, American actor and director (d. 2014)
1918 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish movie and theatre director (d. 2007)
1918 – Arthur Laurents, American playwright, novelist, and director (d. 2011)
1919 – Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (d. 1987)
1921 – Leon Garfield, English children's writer (d. 1996)
1921 - Sixto Durán Ballén, 48th President of Ecuador (d. 2016)
1921 – Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist (d. 1996)
1922 – Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (d. 2007)
1923 - Dale Robertson, American actor (d. 2013)
1923 - Willie Steele, American long jumper (d. 1989)
1925 - Francisco Alvarez Martinez, Spanish former Archbishop of Toledo
1926 – Harry Dean Stanton, American actor (d. 2017)
1928 - Laurie Mitchell, American actress (d. 2018)
1930 - Polly Bergen, American actress and singer (d. 2014)
1931 - Jacqueline de Ribes, French fashion designer and sculptor
1932 - Anatoli Isayev, Russian footballer (d. 2016)
1933 – Franz, Duke of Bavaria, head of Wittelsbach family and part of Jacobite Succession
1933 - Robert Bourassa, 22nd Premier of Quebec (d. 1996)
1935 - Ei-ichi Negishi, Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize winner
1936 - Robert F. Overmyer, American pilot and astronaut (d. 1996)
1937 - Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician, former Prime Minister of Japan
1938 – Jerry Rubin, American activist (d. 1994)
1938 - Tommy Vig, Hungarian vibraphone player, drummer and composer
1939 – George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer
1939 – Karel Gott, Czech singer (d. 2019)
1939 - Sid Haig, American actor (d. 2019)
1941 - Gérard Férey, French chemist (d. 2017)
1941 – Maulana Karenga, American writer amd activist
1942 – Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief
1945 - Jim Gordon, American musician
1946 - Sue Lawley, English broadcaster
1946 - Vincent Pastore, American actor
1946 – John Wood, Australian actor
1947 – Navin Ramgoolam, Prime Minister of Mauritius
1948 - Goodwill Zwelithni kaBhekuzulu, Zulu king
1948 - Eliza Manningham-Buller, British MI5 director
1948 - Earl Williams, American baseball player (d. 2013)
1951 – Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)
1952 - Bob Casale, American guitarist
1952 - Eric Laneuville, American director, actor and producer
1953 - Bebe Buell, American model and actress
1955 - L. Brent Bozell III, American journalist and activist
1957 - Scot Breithaupt, American motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
1958 - Anne Hegerty, English quiz player and television personality
1959 - Aubrey McClendon, American businessman (d. 2016)
1960 – Anna Bligh, Australian politician, former Premier of Queensland
1960 – Jane Lynch, American actress
1960 - Angélique Kidjo, Beninese singer-songwriter and activist
1960 - Kyle Gass, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
1960 - Mike McPhee, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 – Jackie Earle Haley, American actor
1962 - Antonio Díaz Sánchez, Cuban activist
1963 - Jacques Lacombe, Canadian organist and conductor
1963 - John Colquhoun, Scottish footballer
1966 – Matthew Fox, American actor
1966 – Owen Coyle, Scottish football manager
1966 - Ellen Reid, Canadian singer and pianist (Crash Test Dummies)
1967 – Madalina Manole, Romanian singer (d. 2010)
1967 – Patrick J. Kennedy, American politician
1967 – Robin Ventura, baseball player
1969 - Carlo de Gavardo, Chilean rally driver and motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
1971 - Pui Fan Lee, English actress and presenter
1971 – Howard Webb, English football referee
1971 - Nick McCabe, English guitarist
1971 - Madhu Sapre, Indian model
1973 – Kota Hirano, Japanese manga artist
1973 - Halil Mutlu, Turkish weightlifter
1974 – David Mitchell, British comedian
1975 – Taboo, American rapper
1976 – Geraint Jones, English cricketer
1977 – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
1979 - Sergei Ignashevich, Russian footballer
1979 – Axel Teichmann, German cross-country skier
1981 – Lee Mead, English stage actor
1982 – Fernando Lope de Vergara, Argentinian handball manager
1983 – Igor Andreev, Russian tennis player
1984 – Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Brazilian footballer
1984 - Mounir El Hamdaoui, Moroccan footballer
1984 - Samir Handanovic, Slovenian footballer
1986 - Alexander Gerndt, Swedish footballer
1986 - Dan Smith, English singer (Bastille)
1987 - Sara Canning, Canadian actress
1987 – Adam Johnson, English footballer
1987 - Ryan Sweeting, American tennis player
1988 - Olli Muotka, Finnish ski jumper
1989 - Sean Flynn, American singer and actor
1991 - Shabazz Napier, American basketball player
1995 - Kim Hyo-joo, South Korean golfer
1999 - Camryn, American singer and actress
664 - Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
937 - Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria
1223 – King Philip II of France (b. 1165)
1486 – Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland (b. 1456)
1575 - Richard Taverner, English translator of the Bible (b. 1505)
1614 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian priest and saint (b. 1550)
1704 - Sophia Alexeyevna of Russia (b. 1657)
1742 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
1789 – Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (b. 1721)
1789 – Bernard-Rene de Launay, Governor of the Bastille prison (b. 1740)
1790 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (b. 1717)
1809 - Nicodemus the Hagiorite, Greek monk and saint (b. 1749)
1816 – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (b. 1750)
1817 - Germaine de Stael, Swiss writer (b. 1766)
1827 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1850 – August Neander, German theologian (b. 1789)
1876 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English architect (b. 1816)
1881 – Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b. 1859)
1904 – Paul Kruger, South African Boer politician (b. 1824)
1907 - William Henry Perkin, British chemist (b. 1838)
1910 - Marius Petipa, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1898)
1917 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b. 1887)
1918 - Quentin Roosevelt, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
1924 - Isabella Ford, British suffragette, activist and peer (b. 1855)
1935 - Edoardo Agnelli, Italian industrialist (b. 1892)
1936 - Ghan Gopal Mukerji, Indian writer (b. 1890)
1939 – Alphonse Mucha, Czech artist (b. 1860)
1954 – Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer (b. 1866)
1954 - Jackie Saunders, American actress (b. 1892)
1958 – King Faisal II of Iraq (b. 1935)
1965 – Adlai Stevenson, American politician (b. 1900)
1966 - Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
1967 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880)
1968 – Ilzas Tsirimkas, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1907)
1970 - Luis Mariano, Spanish Basque singer (b. 1914)
1974 - Carl Spaatz, American air force (b. 1891)
1990 - Walter Sedlmayer, German actor (b. 1926)
1993 - Léo Ferré, French singer-songwriter, poet and pianist (b. 1916)
1994 - César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1940)
1998 - Richard McDonald, American businessman (b. 1909)
2002 – Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
2005 - Cicely Saunders, British nurse  (b. 1918)
2005 - Tilly Fleischer, German athlete (b. 1911)
2010 – Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor (b. 1925)
2010 – Madalina Manole, Romanian singer (b. 1967)
2012 - Sixten Jernberg, Swedish skier (b. 1929)
2014 - Alice Coachman, American athlete (b. 1923)
2014 - Leopoldo Verona, Argentine actor (b. 1931)
2014 - Vange Leonel, Brazilian singer-songwriter, journalist, novelist, playwright and activist (b. 1963)
2014 - Martin Richard Hoffmann, American politician (b. 1932)
2014 - Tom Rolf, Swedish-American film editor (b. 1931)
2015 - M. S. Viswanathan, Indian film score composer (b. 1928)
2015 - Olaf Pooley, English actor (b. 1914)
2016 - Hallard White, New Zealand rugby league player (b. 1929)
2016 - Helena Benitez, Filipino politician and educator (b. 1914)
2016 - Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer (b. 1949)
2016 - Sharon Runner, American politician (b. 1954)
2016 - Michael J. Elliott, British journalist and magazine editor (b. 1951)
2016 - Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, Tunisian terrorist, perpetrator of the 2016 Nice attack (b. 1985)
2017 - Mahi Beamer, American singer and dancer (b. 1928)
2017 - Anne Golon, French novelist and journalist (b. 1921)
2017 - Julia Hartwig, Polish poet and journalist (b. 1921)
2017 - William "Hootie" Johnson, American banker and sports administrator (b. 1931)
2017 - Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (b. 1977)
2018 - Mario Casalinuovo, Italian politician (b. 1922)
2018 - Gordon Chong, Canadian politician (b. 1943)
2018 - Theo-Ben Gurirab, Prime minister of Namibia (b. 1938)
2018 - Masa Saito, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1942)
2018 - Petr Weigl, Czech director and playwright (b. 1939)
2018 - Hans Kronberger, German-Austrian politician (b. 1951)
2019 - Hussain Muhammad Ershad, President of Bangladesh (b. 1930)
2019 - Terry Hodgkinson, British businessman (b. 1949)
2019 - Nereo Laroni, Italian politician (b. 1942)
2019 - Pernell Whitaker, American boxer (b. 1964)
2019 - Paul Albert Zipfel, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1935)
Bastille Day (France)
Republic Day (Iraq)
1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a difficult siege.
1149 - The rebuilt Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
1207 – John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton.
1240 - Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes at the Battle of the Neva.
1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England.
1410 – Battle of Grunwald (a.k.a.
Tannenberg or Zalgiris): power of the Teutonic Knights broken by a defeat from Poles and Lithuanians.
1482 - Muhammad XII of Granada becomes the 22nd and last Nasrid King of Granada.
1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemore on 6 July 1685.
1741 - Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska and sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first European to land in mainland Alaska.
1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, by acclamation, named colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
1799 – Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta, by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard.
1806 – Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.
1815 – Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard HMS Bellerophon.
1834 - The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded  after nearly 356 years.
1862 – American Civil War: Confederates break naval blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1870 – Post-American-Civil-War Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1870 – Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.
1888 – The Bandai volcano in Japan erupts, killing 477 people.
1895 – Archie MacLaren scores County Championship record cricket innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton.
1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
1918 – World War I: Second Battle of the Marne – The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
1922 - The Japanese Communist Party is created in Japan.
1926 – BEST buses make its début in Mumbai.
1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
1929 – First weekly radio broadcast of Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word.
1931 – Kid Chocolate becomes Cuba's first world boxing champion.
1945 – US President Harry Truman disembarks the heavy cruiser the USS Augusta (CA-31) in Antwerp en route to Potsdam for the Potsdam Conference.
1953 – John Reginald Christie, British serial killer executed.
1954 – First flight of the Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner.
1955 - Eighteen Nobel Prize winners sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by 34 others.
1958 – In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to provide military support to the pro-Western government there.
1965 - The Mariner 4 sends the first close-up pictures of a planet other than Earth, when it sends pictures from Mars.
1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
1974 – Christine Chubbock, a TV host in Sarasota, Florida commits suicide during the taping of her show live on air.
1975 – Apollo Soyuz Test Project: Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space.
1977 – Griffith N.S.W, Anti – Drug campaigner Donald Mackay disappears presumed murdered.
1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his famous "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation."
1988 – Die Hard opens in theaters, starring Bruce Willis
1989 – Punk rock band Bad Religion releases their sixth album, No Control.
1992 – A major fire consumes an entire city block in tourist destination Gatlinburg, Tennessee, destroying the Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
Museum and several other local businesses in the process.
The block was rebuilt and re-opened in 1995.
1994 – Albert Belle of the Cleveland Indians caught with a corked bat.
1995 – Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter becomes the first item sold on Amazon.com
1996 – MSNBC cable-DBS channel launched
1996 – A Royal Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
Thirty-two people die in the flames, two people die of their injuries, and Seven people sustain severe burns.
1997 – In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
1999 – Safeco Field opens in Seattle, Washington.
1999 - The first flights from the United Kingdom to Argentina since the Falklands War occur.
2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and for the possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
Lindh agrees to serve 10 years in prison for each of the charges.
2002 – Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other suspects convicted of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation.
The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
2004 – Monorail service begins in Las Vegas.
2004 – The BBC airs the documentary The Secret Agent, exposing racism by members of the British National Party.
2005 – Jack Nicklaus plays his last hole of competitive golf during The Open Championship at Hole 18 at St Andrews, finishing with a birdie.
2005 – Disneyland "re-launches" Space Mountain in Anaheim, California.
2006 - Twitter is launched.
2007 - Shimon Peres becomes President of Israel.
2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes in Northwestern Iran, killing 153 people.
2016 - Sections of the military attempt a coup in Turkey.
2018 - 2018 FIFA World Cup: France defeat first-time finalists Croatia 4-2 in the Final to win their second FIFA World Cup trophy.
2019 - It is announced that Alan Turing will appear on the new 50-pound Bank of England note.
1273 - Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and saint (d. 1352)
1353 - Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
1471 - Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1494)
1553 – Archduke Ernest of Austria (d. 1595)
1573 – Inigo Jones, English architect (d. 1652)
1606 – Rembrandt, Dutch artist (d. 1669)
1626 - Christiane Sehested, daughter of Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1671)
1626 - Hedvig Uffeldt, daughter of Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1678)
1631 - Jens Juel, Danish Governor-General of Norway (d. 1700)
1638 - Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1693)
1737 – Princess Louise Marie of France (d. 1787)
1765 - Charles Goldsborough, American politician, Governor of Maryland (d. 1834)
1779 – Clement Clarke Moore, American educator, writer, and poet (d. 1863)
1790 - William Henry Playfair, Scottish architect (d. 1857)
1796 – Thomas Bulfinch, American mythologist (d. 1796)
1799 - Reuben Chapman, American politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (d. 1882)
1804 - Jane Stirling, Scottish pianist (d. 1859)
1808 – Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, English Catholic archbishop (d. 1892)
1812 – James Hope-Scott, English barrister (d. 1873)
1817 - Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English civil engineer (d. 1898)
1827 - William Wallace Thayer, American politician, 6th Governor of Oregon (d. 1899)
1837 – Stephanie von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Queen Consort of Portugal (d. 1859)
1848 – Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923)
1850 – Mother Cabrini, Italian-born Roman Catholic saint (d. 1917)
1851 - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentine author (d. 1889)
1858 - Emmeline Pankhurst, English activist (d. 1928)
1864 - Marie Tempest, English actress and singer (d. 1942)
1865 - Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Irish-English publisher (d. 1922)
1865 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (d. 1945)
1867 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French scientist (d. 1936)
1870 – Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Russian publisher and politician (d. 1922)
1871 – Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer (d. 1908)
1884 – Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, 1st Prime Minister of Siam, present-day Thailand (d. 1948)
1892 – Walter Benjamin, German literary critic and writer (d. 1940)
1897 - Sam H. Jones, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1978)
1899 – Seán F. Lemass, Irish leader and Taoiseach (d. 1971)
1902 – Jean Rey, Belgian politician and President of the European Commission (d. 1983)
1911 – Edward Shackleton, English explorer (d. 1994)
1913 – Hammond Innes, English writer (d. 1998)
1913 - Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1963)
1913 - Abraham Sutzkever, Russian poet (d. 2010)
1914 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 2010)
1917 - Robert Conquest, English-American historian (d. 2015)
1918 - Nuur Muhammad Taraki, President of Afghanistan (d. 1979)
1918 – Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
1918 - Brenda Milner, English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic
1919 – Iris Murdoch, English writer (d. 1999)
1921 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist (d. 2006)
1922 – Leon M. Lederman, American physicist (d. 2018)
1924 - Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (d. 2014)
1925 – Philip Carey, American actor (d. 2009)
1925 - Taylor Hardwick, American architect (d. 2014)
1925 - D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (d. 2019)
1926 - Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (d. 2015)
1926 – Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
1926 – Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan writer (d. 2007)
1927 – Nan Clow Martin, actress
1927 - Carmen Zapata, American actress (d. 2014)
1928 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist (d. 2012)
1930 – Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
1930 – Stephen Smale, American mathematician
1931 – Clive Cussler, American writer
1932 – Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
1933 – Julian Bream, English guitarist and lutenist
1933 – Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003)
1934 – Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
1934 – Risto Jarva, Finnish movie maker (d. 1977)
1935 – Diahann Carroll, American actress
1936 - George Voinovich, American politician, 65th Governor of Ohio (d. 2016)
1939 - Abdulhussain Abdulredha, Kuwaiti actor and writer (d. 2017)
1939 – Aníbal Cavaco Silva, former President of Portugal
1939 - Patrick Wayne, American actor
1940 – Robert Winston, British scientist, politician and television presenter
1942 – Mil Mascaras, Mexican professional wrestler
1943 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Northern Irish astrophysicist, astronomer and academic
1944 – Millie Jackson, American singer
1945 – Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (d. 2003)
1946 – Linda Ronstadt, American singer
1946 – Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
1946 – Dieter Herzog, German footballer
1947 - Peter Banks, English guitarist (d. 2013)
1948 - Twinkle, English singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1948 - Artimus Pyle, American drummer and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1949 – Carl Bildt, Swedish politician, former Prime Minister of Sweden
1949 – Trevor Horn, English musician
1950 - Colin Barnett, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Western Australia
1950 – Arianna Huffington, Greek-American journalist (Huffington Post)
1951 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (d. 2010)
1951 – Jesse Ventura, American professional wrestler and former Governor of Minnesota
1952 - David A. Granger, 9th President of Guyana
1952 - Celia Imrie, English actress
1952 - Yuriko Koike, Japanese politician, Governor of Tokyo
1952 – Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, United States Congresswoman from Florida
1953 - Sultanah Haminah Hamidun, Queen of Malaysia
1953 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former President of Haiti
1953 – John Denham, British politician