the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1913  The Natives' Land Act in South Africa is introduced.
1936  Max Schmeling defeats Joe Louis to win the World Heavyweight Boxing title.
1938  In France, the Italy national football team wins the FIFA World Cup for a second time, defeating the Hungary national football team 4-2.
1944  World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1953  After being convicted of espionage, Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg are executed in New York City.
1961  Kuwait declares independence from the UK.
1964  The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved in the US.
1965  In Algeria, President Ahmed Ben Bella is removed in a military coup, and replaced by Houari Boumedienne.
1970  The Patent Convention Treaty is signed.
1976  King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Sommerlath.
1978  Jim Davis' comic strip about a lazy and overeating cat named Garfield is published for the first time.
1982  The body of "God's banker" Roberto Calvi is found hanging at the Blackfriars Bridge in London.
1987  Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its worst terrorist attacks, on a supermarket in Barcelona.
1990  The current international law defending indigenous peoples, the Indigenous Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
1991  In the Croatian War of Independence, the Battle of Dubrovnik starts.
1991  Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
1992  In Heavyweight Boxing, Evander Holyfield becomes world champion, defeating Larry Holmes.
1999  The computer game Counter-strike is released.
1999  In Seoul, South Korea, it is announced that Turin, Italy, is to host the 2006 Winter Olympics.
2002  Steve Fossett starts his round-the-world journey in a hot-air balloon.
2006  Prime Ministers of several Northern European countries participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway.
2007  The Al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad kills 78 people.
2009  Mass riots involving thousands of civilians and police officers break out in Shishou, China, after the unexplained death of a local chief.
2010  Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden marries Daniel Westling.
2012  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asks for asylum in Ecuador at the country's embassy in London.
2013  At 10pm, Singapore's 3-hour PSI reading set an all-time high record of 321 in the Hazardous range, surpassing the previous record of 226 during the 1997 haze.
This is the first time that Singapore's PSI has entered the Hazardous range.
2014  King Felipe VI of Spain ascends to the throne after the abdication of his father, King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
2016  Virginia Raggi, of the Five Star Movement, is elected as the first female Mayor of Rome.
2017  2017 Finsbury Park attack: A van is driven into a crowd of Muslim worshippers in London's Finsbury Park area, causing several injuries; the attacker is arrested by police.
2018  The United States pulls out of the United Nations Human Rights council.
2018  Canada decides to legalise the recreational use of cannabis.
2019  Four men are named as suspects in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Eastern Ukraine in 2014, in which 298 people were killed.
1301  Prince Morikuni, Japanese Shogun (d. 1333)
1566  King James VI of Scotland (James I of England) (d. 1625)
1595  Guru Hargobind, Indian religious figure (d. 1644)
1606  James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
1623  Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662)
1701  François Rebel, French composer (d. 1775)
1717  Johann Stamitz, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1757)
1731  Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (d. 1822)
1764  José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan national hero (d. 1850)
1771  Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
1790  John Gibson, Welsh sculptor (d. 1866)
1792  Gustav Schwab, German writer (d. 1850)
1795  James Braid, Scottish surgeon (d. 1860)
1815  Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
1816  William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist (d. 1899)
1842  Carl Zeller, Austrian jurist, politician and composer (d. 1898)
1846  Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
1850  David Jayne Hill, American diplomat and historian (d. 1932)
1854  Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer (d. 1893)
1861  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British field marshal and soldier (d. 1928)
1861  Jose Rizal, Filipino national hero (d. 1896)
1865  May Whitty, English actress (d. 1948)
1871  Alajor Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper and physician (d. 1932)
1874  Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (d. 1941)
1877  Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
1878  Yakov Yurovsky, Russian Bolshevik, chief executioner of the Tsarist family (d. 1938)
1880  Jóhann Sigurjónsson, Icelandic playwright and poet (d. 1919)
1884  Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French artist and writer (d. 1974)
1891  John Heartfield, German painter and photomontage artist (d. 1968)
1893  Madeleine Astor, American survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1940)
1896  Wallis Simpson, American, Duchess of Windsor through marriage to the abdicated Edward VIII (d. 1986)
1897  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist (d. 1967)
1897  Moe Howard, American comedian (d. 1975)
1900  Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (d. 1986)
1901  Piero Gobetti, Italian journalist, intellectual and activist (d. 1926)
1902  Guy Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1979)
1903  Hans Litten, German jurist (d. 1938)
1903  Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
1903  Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
1905  Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
1906  Ernst Boris Chain, German biochemist, won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)
1907  Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1985)
1909  Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
1909  Midori Naka, Japanese actress (d. 1945)
1910  Paul Flory, American chemist (d. 1985)
1910  Sydney Allard, English racing driver (d. 1966)
1914  Alan Cranston, American politician (d. 2000)
1914  Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1979)
1915  Julius Schwartz, American publisher, writer and editor (d. 2004)
1917  Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean politician (d. 1999)
1919  Pauline Kael, American writer and critic (d. 2001)
1920  Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (d. 2002)
1921  Doris Sands Johnson, Bahamian teacher, suffragette and politician (d. 1983)
1921  Louis Jourdan, French actor (d. 2015)
1922  Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d. 2009)
1923  Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti, President of Paraguay (d. 1997)
1926  Anneliese Rothenberger, German soprano (d. 2010)
1928  Tommy DeVito, American singer and guitarist
1930  Gena Rowlands, American actress
1931  Sudarshan Agarwal, Indian politician (d. 2019)
1932  Pier Angeli, Italian actress (d. 1971)
1932  Marisa Pavan, Italian actress
1933  Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
1934  Gérard Latortue, Haitian politician
1934  Terence Clark, English diplomat
1936  Zacharias Heinesen, Faroese painter
1937  André Glucksmann, French philosopher (d. 2015)
1938  Jean-Claude Labrecque, Canadian director and cinematographer
1938  Karl Moik, Austrian entertainer (d. 2015)
1939  Al Wilson, American singer (d. 2008)
1940  Paul Shane, English actor (d. 2013)
1941  Vaclav Klaus, former President of the Czech Republic
1944  Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer-songwriter and poet
1945  Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician and pro-Democracy campaigner, Nobel Peace Prize winner
1945  Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian-Serb politician, on trial for war crimes
1946  Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme, English diplomat
1947  Salman Rushdie, Indian-born writer
1948  Nick Drake, English musician and singer (d. 1974)
1948  Phylicia Rashad, American actress
1949  Hassan Shehata, Egyptian football manager
1950  Ann Wilson, American singer
1951  Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
1951  Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist (al-Qaeda)
1952  Bob Ainsworth, British politician
1953  Larry Dunn, American musician (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1954  Kathleen Turner, American actress
1955  Don McCarthy, British businessman (d. 2018)
1957  Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Foreign minister (d. 2003)
1958  Sergei Makarov, Soviet ice hockey player
1959  Anne Hidalgo, French politician, Mayor of Paris
1959  Christian Wulff, former President of Germany
1959  Mark DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and trumpeter
1959  Sophie Grigson, English cookery writer and chef
1961  Bidhya Devi Bhandari, 2nd President of Nepal
1962  Masanao Sasaki, Japanese footballer
1962  Paula Abdul, American dancer and singer; American Idol judge
1962  Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
1964  Boris Johnson, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1965  Sadie Frost, English actress
1967  Bjorn Daehlie, Norwegian skier
1967  Mia Sara, American actress
1969  Yoshiaki Sato, Japanese footballer
1970  Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
1970  Quincy Watts, American athlete
1970  Brian Welch, American musician
1972  Jean Dujardin, French actor
1972  Brian McBride, American soccer player
1972  Robin Tunney, American actress
1972  Ilya Markov, Russian athlete
1972  Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
1972  Dagur B. Eggertsson, Icelandic politician, Mayor of Reykjavik
1973  Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer and actress
1973  Yasuhito Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
1973  Nadiya, French singer
1975  Hugh Dancy, British actor
1977  Rebecca Loos, Dutch model
1977  Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (d. 2007)
1977  Sacha Modolo, Italian road-racing cyclist
1978  Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
1978  Zoe Saldana, American actress
1978  Maria Maestro, Argentine actress and singer
1979  José Kléberson, Brazilian footballer
1980  Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress
1980  Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer
1982  Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer
1982  Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player
1983  Mark Selby, British snooker player
1983  Macklemore, American rapper
1984  Paul Dano, American actor
1984  Helen George, English actress
1985  Kajal Aggarwal, Indian actress
1985  Chikashi Masuda, Japanese footballer
1986  Dimitris Sialmas, Greek footballer
1986  Marvin Williams, American basketball player
1986  Marie Dorin Habert, French biathlete
1986  Ragnar Sigurdsson, Icelandic footballer
1987  Beattie Edmondson, English actress
1987  Miho Fukuhara, Japanese singer
1990  Moa Hjelmer, Swedish athlete
1992  Oscar Taveras, Dominican baseball player (d. 2014)
1995  Blake Woodruff, American actor
1996  Larisa Iordache, Romanian gymnast
1998  Atticus Shaffer, American actor
1027  Romuald, Italian saint (b. 951)
1179  Earl Erling Skakke, Norwegian nobleman
1205  Roman the Great, Russian prince (b. 1151)
1282  Eleanor de Montfort, wife of Llywelyn the Last (b. 1252)
1542  Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (b. 1482)
1545  Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
1584  Francis, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
1715  Nicolas Lemery, French chemist (b. 1645)
1747  Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
1762  Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (b. 1702)
1820  Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
1850  Margaret Fuller, American writer and journalist (b. 1810)
1865  Evangelos Zappas, Greek patriot, philanthropist and businessman (b. 1800)
1867  Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (b. 1832)
1884  Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentine politician and writer (b. 1810)
1897  Charles Boycott, British land owner in Ireland (b. 1832)
1902  Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
1903  Herbert Vaughan, English archbishop (b. 1832)
1922  Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1874)
1937  J. M. Barrie, Scottish writer (b. 1860)
1939  Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
1940  Maurice Jaubert, French composer (b. 1900)
1953  Ethel Rosenberg, American convicted of Espionage (b. 1915)
1953  Julius Rosenberg, American convicted of Espionage (b. 1918)
1957  Karl Plagge, German army officer and humanitarian (b. 1897)
1968  James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (b. 1898)
1975  Sam Giancana, American mafioso (b. 1908)
1977  Olave Baden-Powell, founder of the Girl Guides (b. 1899)
1979  Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar (b. 1888)
1981  Lotte Reiniger, German illustrator (b. 1899)
1984  Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
1986  Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
1986  Coluche, French comedian and actor (b. 1944)
1993  William Golding, British writer (b. 1911)
1995  Peter Townsend, British military officer (b. 1914)
2000  Christiane Herzog, First Lady of Germany (b. 1936)
2003  Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
2007  Antonio Aguilar, Mexican actor, singer, producer and screenwriter (b. 1919)
2007  El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (b. 1937)
2009  Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest man at the time of his death (b. 1895)
2010  Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
2010  Carlos Monsivais, Mexican writer (b. 1938)
2012  Nobert Tiemann, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
2013  Slim Whitman, American country music singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1923)
2013  Gyula Horn, former Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
2013  James Gandolfini, American actor (b. 1961)
2014  Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (b. 1939)
2014  Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (b. 1985)
2014  Alan Moller, American meteorologist, storm chaser and photographer (b. 1950)
2015  Phil Austin, American comedian, writer and musician (b. 1941)
2015  Jack Aeby, American photographer (b. 1923)
2015  James Salter, American writer (b. 1925)
2015  Harold Battiste, American jazz and R&B composer (b. 1931)
2015  Fredrik Fasting Torgersen, Norwegian convicted murderer (b. 1934)
2015  Wendell Holmes, American musician (b. 1944)
2016  Götz George, German actor (b. 1938)
2016  Anton Yelchin, Russian-American actor (b. 1989)
2017  Brian Cant, English actor and television presenter (b. 1933)
2017  Ivan Dias, Indian cardinal (b. 1936)
2017  Otto Warmbier, American student (b. 1994)
2017  Tony DiCicco, American soccer player and coach (b. 1948)
2017  Tabaré Hackenbruch, Uruguayan politician (b. 1928)
2017  Mustafa Tlass, Syrian military officer and politician (b. 1932)
2018  Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (b. 1926)
2018  Princess Elisabeth of Denmark (b. 1935)
2018  Koko, American-bred Western lowland gorilla (b. 1971)
2018  Ivan Drach, Ukrainian poet and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2018  Hubert Green, American golfer (b. 1946)
2018  Paul John Marx, French-born Papua New Guinean Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1935)
2019  Peng Xiaolian, Chinese film director (b. 1953)
2019  Rafael de la Sierra, Spanish politician (b. 1948)
2019  Dmytro Tymchuk, Ukrainian politician, military expert and blogger (b. 1972)
2019  Etika, American YouTuber (b. 1990)
2020  Ian Holm, English actor (b. 1931)
Day of Independent Hungary
Juneteenth (United States)
Labour Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
Never Again Day (Uruguay)
World Sickle Cell Day
4  Roman Emperor Augustus adopts Tiberius.
221  Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir.
363  Roman Emperor Julian is killed during retreat from the Sassanid Empire.
Troops on the battlefield proclaim Jovian Emperor.
687  Benedict II becomes Pope.
1409  Western Schism: The Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
1483  Richard III becomes king of England.
1492  Mont Aiguille, in the Western Alps in France is climbed for the first time by Antoine de Ville.
1541  Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima.
1718  Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia (son of Peter I of Russia) dies mysteriously after his father sentenced him to death for plotting against him. (
occurred on July 7 in the Gregorian calendar)
1723  After a siege, and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
1740  A combined force of Spanish, free Blacks, and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine, Florida in the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1819  The bicycle is patented.
1830  King George IV of the United Kingdom dies.
His brother succeeds him as William IV of the United Kingdom.
1843  The Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, effectively giving Hong Kong to the United Kingdom.
1848  End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1857  First Investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
1860  In Durban, South Africa, Africa's first railway is opened.
1870  Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the US.
1879  Egypt sells its parts of the Suez Canal to the United Kingdom.
1886  Henri Moissan isolates elemental fluorine for the first time.
1889  Bangui, now-capital city of the Central African Republic, is founded.
1905  A telegram is sent to Iceland for the first time, from Cornwall.
1906  The 1906 French Grand Prix is held, as the first Grand Prix motor racing event ever held.
1917  World War I: US troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany.
1920  Antonio Maria da Silva becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
1924  American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
1934  President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
1934  Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
1940  World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and northern part of Bukovina.
1945  The United Nations Charter is signed.
1945  In Germany, the CDU political party is founded.
1948  The Western allies start an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union has blockaded West Berlin.
1954  The FIFA World Cup's most goal-filled match occurs in Lausanne, Switzerland, as the Austria national football team wins 7-5 against the Switzerland national football team.
1959  Ingemar Johansson of Sweden becomes Boxing Heavyweight World Champion when he defeats Floyd Patterson.
1959  The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
1960  Former British Protectorate of Somaliland (British Somaliland) gains its independence.
1960  Madagascar becomes independent from France.
1963  John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" at a speech in Berlin.
1964  The Beatles release the album A Hard Day's Night.
1966  The Basel Canton in Switzerland allows women to vote.
1973  On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 persons were killed at an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
1974  The first retail product (a pack of chewing gum) was sold using a barcode reader.
1975  Indira Gandhi establishes authoritarian rule in India.
1976  The CN Tower in Toronto is officially opened.
1977  The last concert of Elvis Presley takes place.
1978  Air Canada Flight 221 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine.
1979  Muhammad Ali retires.
1987  Convention against Torture entered into force.
1991  The Yugoslav People's Army  begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia and Croatia.
1995  Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak survives an assassination attempt in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1995  Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani becomes Emir of Qatar after deposing his father, Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani in a bloodless coup.
1996  Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot dead in Dublin, Ireland.
1997  Bertie Ahern becomes Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
1997  The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment.
1997  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the U.S.), the first book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published.
2000  Human Genome Project: The completion of the first rough map of the human genetic code is announced.
2003  The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.
2006  East Timorese Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri resigns after weeks of political unrest.
2007  In Zheijiang, China, the Huangzhou Bay Bridge is opened.
2007  Lina Hahne, a 23-year-old medical student, is crowned Miss Sweden after the original winner was dethroned.
2013  Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard loses a vote within the Australian Labor Party against previous Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who succeeds her the next day.
2014  2014 FIFA World Cup: FIFA hands out its heaviest FIFA World Cup ban to Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini two days earlier.
The Uruguayan Football Association appeals the decision.
2015  Islamist Terror attacks occur in France, Kuwait and Tunisia.
A local businessman is decapitated in Southeast France; At least 27 people killed in a bombing at a mosque in Kuwait; A gun attack on foreign tourists in Sousse, Tunisia, kills at least 38 people.
2015  The Supreme Court of the United States rules that all states of the United States are to recognize same-sex marriage.
2016  Chile defeats Argentina in the final of the Copa América Centenario.
Argentina's Lionel Messi announces his retirement from the national team after the match.
2017  Theresa May's Conservative Party agrees a deal with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party in order to stay in power in the United Kingdom.
2018  The United States Supreme Court, in a majority decision, rules in favour of Donald Trump's travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority countries.
2018  Activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeats incumbent United States Representative Joe Crowley in an upset victory in the Democratic Party primary for New York's 14th congressional district.
1501  Cho Shik, Korean scholar, politician, educator and poet (d. 1572)
1557  Leandro Bassano, Italian painter (d. 1622)
1582  Johannes Schultz, German composer (d. 1653)
1653  Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV (d. 1743)
1681  Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (d. 1708)
1689  Edward Holyoke, American clergyman and academic (d. 1769)
1726  Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (d. 1796)
1730  Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
1741  John Langdon, American politician (d. 1819)
1753  Antoine de Rivarol, French writer (d. 1801)
1760  Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1836)
1786  Sunthorn Phu, Thai poet (d. 1855)
1817  Branwell Bronte, English painter and poet (d. 1848)
1819  Abner Doubleday, American major general (d. 1893)
1821  Bartolomé Mitre, 6th President of Argentina (d. 1906)
1824  William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish physicist (d. 1907)
1826  Adolf Bastian, German polymath (d. 1905)
1839  Sam Watkins, American Confederate soldier and writer (d. 1901)
1854  Robert Laird Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1937)
1865  Bernard Berenson, art connoisseur (d. 1959)
1866  George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923)
1871  Johan Anker, Norwegian sailor (d. 1940)
1880  Mitchell Lewis, American movie actor (d. 1956)
1892  Pearl S. Buck, American writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1973)
1893  Big Bill Broonzy, American blues musician and composer (d. 1958)
1895  George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1956)
1897  Viola Dana, American actress (d. 1987)
1898  Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978)
1899  Maria Nikolaevna Romanova, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra Fyodorovna (d. 1918)
1899  Elvy Kalep, Estonian pilot and artist (d. 1989)
1902  Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor (d. 2010)
1904  Peter Lorre, Hungarian actor (d. 1964)
1904  Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951)
1906  Edward Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana (d. 1979)
1908  Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973)
1909  Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997)
1909  Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director and producer (d. 1985)
1911  Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer (d. 1956)
1912  Jay Silverheels, actor (d. 1980)
1913  Aimé Césaire, French-Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
1913  Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist (d. 2010)
1914  Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician (d. 1991)
1914  Laurie Lee, English poet, novelist and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1914  Wolfgang Windgassen, German tenor (d. 1974)
1916  Giuseppe Taddei, Italian baritone (d. 2010)
1919  Richard Neustadt, political historian (d. 2003)
1920  Jean-Pierre Roy, Canadian baseball player (d. 2014)
1922  Eleanor Parker, American actress (d. 2013)
1922  Dick Smith, American special effects make-up artist (d. 2014)
1924  Richard Bull, American actor (d. 2014)
1925  Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1970)
1925  Wolfgang Unzicker, German chess player (d. 2006)
1927  Dimitar Iliev Popov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 2015)
1928  Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
1929  Milton Glaser, American graphic designer, typographer and teacher
1930  Jackie Fargo, American professional wrestler (d. 2013)
1933  Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (d. 2014)
1933  David Winnick, English politician
1934  Dave Grusin, American jazz pianist
1934  Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965)
1936  Robert Maclennan, British politician
1936  Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (d. 2015)
1936  Benjamin Adekunle, Nigerian general (d. 2014)
1936  Hal Greer, American basketball player
1937  Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist (d. 2013)
1938  Neil Abercrombie, American politician, 7th Governor of Hawaii
1939  Chuck Robb, American politician, 64th Governor of Virginia
1942  Gilberto Gil, first Minister of Culture of Brazil, singer, songwriter and musician
1944  Wolfgang Weber, German footballer
1945  Dwight York, musician, fashion consultant, cult leader and child molester
1947  Peter Sloterdijk, German philosopher
1948  Sergei Bodrov, Russian movie director, screenwriter and producer
1949  Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist (d. 2015)
1950  Michael Paul Chan, American actor
1951  Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)
1951  Jürgen Rüttgers, German politician
1952  Gordon McQueen, Scottish footballer
1952  Simon Mann, English mercenary
1954  Luis Arconada, Basque-Spanish footballer
1954  Steve Barton, American actor, singer and dancer (d. 2001)
1955  Mick Jones, British musician, guitarist with The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite
1956  Chris Isaak, American pop singer and actor
1956  Patrick Mercer, British politician
1957  Pietro Paolo Virdis, Italian footballer
1957  Philippe Mabboux, French organist and composer
1957  Patty Smyth, American singer-songwriter
1958  Pedro Cateriano, former Prime Minister of Peru
1958  Riho Sibul, Estonian singer and guitarist
1959  Mark McKinney, Canadian actor and screenwriter
1960  Mark Durkan, Northern Irish politician
1961  Greg Lemond, cyclist
1961  Toni Barry, British voice actress
1961  Terri Nunn, American singer (Berlin)
1962  Jerome Kersey, American basketball player (d. 2015)
1963  Richard Garfield, American game designer
1963  Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian CEO of YUKOS Oil Company
1966  Dany Boon, French actor, director and screenwriter
1967  Olivier Dahan, French director and screenwriter
1967  Tarun Sagar, Indian Jain monk (d. 2018)
1968  Gudni Th.
Johannesson, Icelandic historian and academic, 6th President of Iceland
1968  Jovenel Moïse, President of Haiti (d. 2021)
1968  Rich Eisen, American ESPN SportsCenter anchor
1968  Shannon Sharpe, American football player and commentator
1968  Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
1968  Armand de Las Cuevas, French cyclist (d. 2018)
1969  Colin Greenwood, musician, Radiohead
1969  Francis Magee, Irish actor
1969  Geir Moen, Norwegian sprinter
1970  Paul Thomas Anderson, American director, producer and screenwriter
1970  Irv Gotti, American record producer
1970  Sean Hayes, American actor, singer and producer
1970  Chris O'Donnell, American actor
1972  Caroline Nokes, English politician
1972  Jussi Sydanmaa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1973  Gretchen Wilson, American country music singer
1974  Derek Jeter, American baseball player
1975  Jean-Paul Abalo, Togolese footballer
1976  Ed Jovanovski, Canadian ice hockey player
1976  Chad Pennington, American football player
1976  Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist leader (d. 2018)
1977  Kubo Tite, cartoonist
1979  Ryan Tedder, American singer, musician and producer (OneRepublic)
1980  Jason Schwartzman, American actor
1980  Michael Vick, American football player
1981  Paolo Cannavaro, Italian footballer
1983  Felipe Melo, Brazilian footballer
1984  Raymond Felton, American basketball player
1984  Deron Williams, American basketball player
1984  Priscah Jeptoo, Kenyan runner
1984  Aubrey Plaza, American actress
1985  Arjun Kapoor, Indian actor
1985  Daniela Sabatino, Italian footballer
1985  Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader
1986  Xisco, Spanish footballer
1987  Samir Nasri, French footballer
1988  Amanda Marchant, English singer
1988  Sam Marchant, English singer
1988  Dakota L. Meyer, American soldier
1990  Belaynesh Oljira, Ethiopian runner
1992  Joel Campbell, Costa Rican footballer
1992  Melanie Amaro, British-American singer
1992  Jennette McCurdy, American actress and singer
1993  Ariana Grande, American actress and singer
2005  Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
363  Julian, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 331)
1291  Eleanor of Provence, queen of Henry III of England
1541  Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru (murdered)
1718  Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia (b. 1690), died on July 7 in the Gregorian calendar
1784  Caesar Rodney, 4th Governor of Delaware (b. 1728)
1808  Ludwik Tyszkiewicz, Polish poet and politician (b. 1748)
1810  Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)
1830  King George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
1836  Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (b. 1706)
1856  Max Stirner, German philosopher (b. 1806)
1870  Armand Barbès, French revolutionary (b. 1809)
1878  Mercedes of Orléans, Queen of Spain (b. 1860)
1883  Edward Sabine, Irish-English astronomer, geophysicist and ornithologist (b. 1788)
1918  Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (b. 1843)
1922  Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1841)
1938  Daria Pratt, American golfer (b. 1859)
1939  Ford Maddox Ford, English writer (b. 1873)
1943  Karl Landsteiner, Austrian doctor, won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1868)
1945  Emil Hacha, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)
1946  Yosuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1880)
1947  Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
1949  Kim Gu, Korean politician (b. 1876)
1951  Frank Ferera, Hawaiian musician (b. 1885)
1955  Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (b. 1895)
1956  Clifford Brown, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1930)
1957  Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
1957  Malcolm Lowry, English poet and author (b. 1909)
1958  Andrija Štampar, physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)
1958  George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1964  Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (b. 1888)
1975  St. Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (b. 1902)
1979  Akwasi Afrifa, Ghanaian politician (b. 1936)
1990  Anni Blomqvist, Finnish writer (b. 1909)
1993  William H. Riker, political scientist (b. 1920)
1996  Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
1997  Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (born 1959)
2002  Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
2002  Arnold Brown, 11th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1913)
2003  Sir Denis Thatcher Bt.,
husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
2003  Strom Thurmond, United States Senator (b. 1902)
2003  Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1975)
2004  Yash Johar, Indian movie producer (b. 1929)
2005  Richard Whiteley, British game show host (b. 1943)
2007  Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born fashion designer (b. 1929)
2007  Jupp Derwall, German footballer and manager (b. 1927)
2010  Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian President (b. 1932)
2011  Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer (b. 1948)
2012  Nora Ephron, American writer, screenwriter and movie director (b. 1941)
2013  Marc Rich, Belgian-American businessman (b. 1934)
2013  Bert Stern, American photographer (b. 1929)
2013  Kimberly McCarthy, American murderer (b. 1961)
2014  Ivan Plyushch, Ukrainian politician (b. 1941)
2014  Howard Baker, American politician and diplomat, United States Senator for Tennessee (b. 1925)
2014  Wolf Koenig, German-born Canadian filmmaker (b. 1927)
2014  Ron Hall, Australian rules footballer (b. 1945)
2015  Yevgeny Primakov, former Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1929)
2015  Richard Matt, American murderer and prison escapee (b. 1966)
2016  Austin Clarke, Canadian novelist (b. 1934)
2016  Barbara Goldsmith, American author (b. 1931)
2016  Ryan Jimmo, Canadian mixed martial artist (b. 1981)
2016  Kim Sung-min, South Korean actor (b. 1973)
2016  Kavalam Narayana Panicker, Indian dramatist, theatre director and poet (b. 1928)
2016  Rostislav Yankovsky, Belarussian actor (b. 1930)
2017  Desh Bandhu Gupta, Indian businessman (b. 1938)
2017  Doug Peterson, American yacht designer (b. 1945)
2017  Habib Thiam, Prime Minister of Senegal (b. 1933)
2017  Alice Trolle-Wachtmeister, Swedish countess (b. 1926)
2017  Claude Fagedet, French photographer (b. 1928)
2018  Andrey Dementyev, Russian poet (b. 1928)
2018  Henri Namphy, President of Haiti (b. 1932)
2018  Daniel Pilon, Canadian actor (b. 1940)
2018  Big Bill Bissonnette, American jazz trombonist (b. 1937)
2018  Ignatios Lappas, Greek Orthodox bishop (b. 1946)
2018  Phil Rodgers, American golfer (b. 1938)
2019  Georges Brossard, Canadian entomologist (b. 1940)
2019  Douglas Fielding, British actor and narrator (b. 1946)
2019  Manuel Real, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
2019  Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov, Russian historian (b. 1930)
2019  Max Wright, American actor (b. 1943)
Independence Day in Madagascar
Flag Day (Romania)
Army and Navy Day (Azerbaijan)
International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
350  Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantian dynasty, is defeated and killed by the usurper Magnentius.
763  A Byzantine army under Emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.
1422  Battle of Arbedo between the Duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
1521  Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noain during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.
1559  Henry II of France is wounded in a jousting contest against Gabriel de Montgomery.
1651  Battle of Beresteczko: Victory for Poland-Lithuania.
1758  Seven Years' War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
1805  The United States Congress organises the Michigan Territory.
1859  French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1860  The Oxford Evolution debate takes place  at the Oxford Museum of Natural History.
1861  A group of 3000 European gold miners attack Chinese miners at Lambing Flat, New South Wales.
1864  Abraham Lincoln grants the Yosemite Valley to California for 'public use, resort and recreation'.
1882  Charles J. Guiteau is executed for the assassination of US President James A. Garfield.
1886  The first transcontinental train trip across Canada leaves Montreal.
It arrives at Fort Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
1894  London Tower Bridge is opened to traffic.
1900  A harbour fire in Hoboken, New Jersey spreads to five German liners, killing 326 people.
1905  Albert Einstein publishes the article 'On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies' in which he introduces Special Relativity.
1908  The Tunguska Incident occurs, as a large area of forest in Siberia is destroyed.
The circumstances have not yet been fully explained, but it is widely believed to have been the explosion of a meteor.
1912  A deadly tornado hits Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 28 people.
1917  World War I: Greece declares war on the Central Powers.
1934  The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's purge of political rivals, begins.
1936  Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid from the League of Nations after being invaded by Italy.
1940  World War II: Nazi Germany invades Guernsey in the Channel Islands, English Channel.
1944  World War II: The city of Cherbourg in Normandy falls to American forces.
1954  A total Solar eclipse is seen over parts of North America, Europe and Asia.
1956  A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, killing all 128 people in both airliners.
1960  The present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo becomes independent.
1969  Nigeria bans Red Cross aid from Biafra.
1971  The crew of Soyuz 11 are suffocated when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
1971  Ohio reduces the voting age to 18.
1972  The first Leap second is added to the UTC time.
1975  Muhammad Ali successfully defends his Heavyweight Boxing World title, against Joe Bugner.
1985  Palau's President Haruo Remeliik is murdered.
1985  39 American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut, Lebanon, after 17 days.
1987  The Canadian 1 Dollar coin, the 'Loonie', is introduced.
1990  East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
1991  32 miners are killed when a coal mine catches fire in the Donbass region of Ukraine and releases toxic gas.
1996  Germany wins the UEFA Euro 1996 Championship against the Czech Republic, with Oliver Bierhoff scoring the first-ever 'Golden Goal'.
1998  Joseph Estrada becomes President of the Philippines.
2000  The Indonesian ferry Chaya Bahara sinks off the island of Sulawesi, killing over 500 people.
2002  2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan and South Korea: Brazil wins the FIFA World Cup for a fifth time, over Germany, with two goals from Ronaldo.
2005  Spain legalises Same-sex marriage.
2007  Islamist extremists drive a jeep packed with explosives into the main building at Glasgow Airport in Scotland.
2009  A Yemenia Airlines plane crashes into the Indian Ocean near the Comoros.
Only one of the 153 people on board survives.
2010  Benigno Aquino III becomes President of the Philippines.
2010  Christian Wulff is chosen to succeed Horst Koehler as President of Germany.
2012  Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood is sworn in as President of Egypt.
2013  The Brazil national football team wins the FIFA Confederations Cup against the Spain national football team.
2013  A whole entire fire crew in Arizona is killed while battling wild fires.
2015  A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in Medan, Indonesia, killing a total of 116 people.
2016  Rodrigo Duterte becomes President of the Philippines.
2017  Germany's Bundestag votes in favour of same-sex marriage by 393 votes to 226.
1470  King Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
1503  John Frederick, Elector of Saxony (d. 1554)
1588  Giovanni Maria Sabino, Italian organist, composer and educator (d. 1649)
1628  Miguel de Molinos, Spanish mystic (d. 1696)
1685  John Gay, English writer (d. 1732)
1685  Dominikus Zimmermann, master builder (d. 1766)
1748  Dominique, comte de Cassini, French cartographer and astronomer (d. 1845)
1755  Paul de Barras, French politician (d. 1829)
1768  Elizabeth Monroe, First Lady of the United States (d. 1830)
1789  Horace Vernet, painter and graphic artist (d. 1863)
1807  Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, narrator, lyricist, and philosopher (d. 1887)
1815  Lysius Salomon, 13th President of Haiti (d. 1888)
1817  Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist (d. 1911)
1818  Lysius Salomon, 13th President of Haiti (d. 1888)
1819  William A. Wheeler, 19th Vice President of the United States (d. 1887)
1824  Antonio Gonzalez de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1908)
1827  Jacques-Louis Soret, Swiss chemist and physicist (d. 1890)
1833  Manuel Amador Guerrero, 1st President of Panama (d. 1909)
1843  Ernest Mason Satow, writer (d. 1929)
1864  Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect and archaeologist (d. 1945)
1883  Johan Olin, Finnish wrestler (d. 1928)
1884  Georges Duhamel, French writer (d. 1966)
1888  Rudolf Amelunxen, German politician (d. 1969)
1890  Paul Boffa, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1962)
1891  Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953)
1891  Ed Lewis, American professional wrestler (d. 1966)
1892  Bo Carter, American blues musician (d. 1962)
1892  Oswald Pohl, Nazi politician (d. 1951)
1893  Walter Ulbricht, East German politician (d. 1973)
1899  Harry Shields, American jazz musician (d. 1971)
1899  Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990)
1903  Robert E. Hannegan, American politician, 52nd United States Postmaster General (d. 1949)
1906  Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
1906  Anthony Mann, American movie actor and director (d. 1967)
1906  Tribhuvan of Nepal (d. 1955)
1907  Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian politician (d. 1950)
1908  Winston Graham, English writer (d. 2003)
1909  Juan Bosch, Dominican Republic politician (d. 2001)
1911  Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2004)
1912  Leopoldo Zea Aguilar, Mexican philosopher (d. 2002)
1912  Avigdor Dagan, Czech-Israeli writer, playwright, translator and diplomat (d. 2006)
1913  Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, President of Colombia (d. 2007)
1914  Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese politician (d. 2001)
1914  Allan Houser, Native American artist (d. 1994)
1917  Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975)
1917  Lena Horne, American actress and singer (d. 2010)
1919  Ed Yost, American inventor (d. 2007)
1921  Oswaldo Lopez Arellano, President of Honduras (d. 2010)
1926  Peter Alexander, Austrian singer and actor (d. 2011)
1926  Paul Berg, American biochemist
1933  Lea Massari, Italian actress
1933  Derek Bentley, British victim of a miscarriage of Justice (d. 1953)
1934  Harry Blackstone, Jr., American  magician (d. 1997)
1936  Assia Djebar, Algerian writer, director and historian (d. 2015)
1937  Gainan Saidkhuzhin, Russian cyclist (d. 2015)
1937  Gideon Ezra, Israeli politician (d. 2012)
1938  Apostolis Nikolaidis, Greek singer (d. 1999)
1938  Billy Mills, American runner
1939  John Fortune, British scriptwriter and actor (d. 2013)
1939  José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican writer (d. 2014)
1941  Otto Sander, German actor (d. 2013)
1942  Robert Ballard, American underwater archaeologist
1943  Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (d. 1976)
1944  Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
1944  Terry Funk, American wrestler and actor
1945  Sean Scully, Irish-American painter
1953  Hal Lindes, American-born British guitarist (Dire Straits)
1954  Serzh Sargsyan, President of Armenia
1954  Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)
1954  Wayne Swan, Australian politician
1956  David Lidington, English politician
1958  Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer
1959  Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
1959  Brendan Perry, English musician (Dead Can Dance)
1960  James Kwesi Appiah, Ghanaian footballer and coach
1960  Jack McConnell, Scottish politician, 3rd First Minister of Scotland
1960  Murray Cook, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
1962  Tony Fernandez, American baseball player
1963  Olha Bryzhina, Ukrainian athlete
1963  Yngwie Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist
1964  Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg, Hong Kong-born former member of the Danish royal family
1965  Gary Pallister, English footballer
1965  Mitch Raymond, American basketball player
1966  Cheryl Bernard, Canadian curler
1966  Mike Tyson, American world champion boxer
1967  Nitin Ganatra, British actor
1967  Silke Renk, German athlete
1968  Philip Anselmo, American musician
1970  Antonio Chimenti, Italian footballer
1971  Monica Potter, American actress
1972  James Martin, English chef
1973  Frank Rost, German footballer
1973  Chan Ho Park, Korean baseball pitcher
1974  Juli Zeh, German writer
1975  Rami Shaaban, Swedish footballer
1975  Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver
1977  Justo Villar, Paraguayan footballer
1980  Seyi Olofinjana, Nigerian footballer
1981  Barbara Spotakova, Czech athlete
1982  Lizzy Caplan, American actress
1982  Willam Belli, American actor, drag queen and television personality
1982  Andy Knowles, British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
1983  Cheryl Cole, British singer, formerly of Girls Aloud
1983  Marcus Burghardt, German cyclist
1983  Steve von Bergen, Swiss footballer
1983  Katherine Ryan, Canadian comedienne
1984  Dimitry Ipatov, Russian ski jumper
1984  Fantasia Barrino, American singer
1985  Michael Phelps, American swimmer
1985  Cody Rhodes, American professional wrestler
1985  Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
1985  Charley Uchea, American Reality show personality
1986  Allegra Versace, Italian heiress
1986  Fredy Guarin, Colombian footballer
1988  Jack Douglass, American comedian and actor
1989  Miguel Vitor, Portuguese footballer
1989  Asbel Kiprop, Kenyan runner
1991  Kaho, Japanese actress
1994  Rhys Jones, Welsh athlete
350  Nepotianus, Roman usurper
1224  Adolf of Osnabrück, German monk and bishop (b. 1185)
1520  Moctezuma II (Montezuma), Aztec ruler (b. around 1465)
1538  Charles II, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467)
1649  Simon Vouet, French painter (b. 1599)
1670  Henrietta of England, daughter of Charles I (b. 1644)
1708  Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
1709  Edward Lhuyd, Welsh botanist, linguist and geographer (b. 1660)
1785  James Oglethorpe, English general (b. 1696)
1861  Robert O'Hara Burke, Irish explorer of Australia (b. 1820)
1882  Charles J. Guiteau, assassin of US President James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
1882  Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
1898  Siegfried Marcus, English technician and inventor (b. 1831)
1899  E. D. E. N. Southworth, American author (b. 1819)
1919  John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist (b. 1842)
1932  Bruno Kastner, German actor (b. 1890)
1934  Night of the Long Knives:
Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)
Gregor Strasser, Nazi politician (b. 1892)
Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria (b. 1862)
Karl Ernst, Sturmabteilung leader (b. 1904)
Erich Klausener, German politician (b. 1885)
1949  Edouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player (b. 1868)
1953  Charles William Miller, British-Brazilian sportsman, considered as the 'father of Brazilian football' (b. 1874)
1954  Andrass Samuelsen, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1873)
1959  José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
1961  Lee De Forest, American inventor (b. 1873)
1965  Margarete Sommer, German social worker (b. 1893)
1966  Giuseppe Farina, Italian racing driver (b. 1906)
1971  Crew of Soyuz 11:
Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1933)
Georgi Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1928)
Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
1971  Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1943)
1971  Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1938)
1973  Nancy Mitford, British writer and biographer (b. 1904)
1974  Alberta Williams King, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1905)
1974  Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
1984  Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)
1985  Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933)
1993  George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
1993  Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor (b. 1962)
1995  Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1921)
1995  Phyllis Hyman, American singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
1996  Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer (b. 1932)
2001  Chet Atkins, American musician and producer (b. 1924)
2003  Buddy Hackett, American comedian (b. 1924)
2007  Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician, 4th Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
2009  Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)
2011  Georg Sterzinsky, German cardinal (b. 1936)
2012  Yitzhak Shamir, former Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1915)
2013  Keith Seaman, Australian politician, 29th Governor of South Australia (b. 1920)
2014  Frank Cashen, American baseball executive (b. 1925)
2014  Alvaro Corcuera, Mexican priest (b. 1957)
2014  Christian Fuehrer, German pastor and activist (b. 1943)
2014  Alejandra Da Passano, Argentine actress (b. 1947)
2014  Zeljko Sturanovic, former Prime Minister of Montenegro (b. 1960)
2014  Pierre Bec, French Occitan language poet (b. 1921)
2014  Paul Mazursky, American director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1930)
2014  Frank M. Robinson, American writer and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2014  Bob Hastings, American actor (b. 1925)
2015  Eddy Louiss, French jazz musician (b. 1941)
2015  Leonard Starr, American cartoonist (b. 1925)
2016  Martin Lundström, Swedish cross-country skier (b. 1918)
2016  Geoffrey Hill, English poet (b. 1932)
2016  Don Friedman, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
2016  Juan Habichuela, Spanish flamenco guitarist (b. 1933)
2016  Gordon Murray, English puppeteer and television producer (b. 1921)
2017  Simone Veil, French politician (b. 1927)
2017  Barry Norman, English film critic (b. 1933)
2017  Karunamaya Goswami, Bangladeshi musicologist (b. 1942)