the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1954 – Mario Kempes, Argentine footballer
1954 - Tarak Dhiab, Tunisian footballer
1954 - Jeff Jarvis, American journalist and blogger
1956 – Ian Curtis, British musician, singer and lyricist (Joy Division) (d. 1980)
1956 – Barry Melrose, Canadian hockey player, coach, and commentator
1956 – Marky Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
1958 – Mac Thornberry, American politician
1960 – Willie Aames, American actor
1961 – Forest Whitaker, American actor
1961 - Scott Ritter, American weapons inspector
1961 - Jean-Christophe Grangé, French journalist and screenwriter
1963 - Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-American model, actress and singer
1965 - Alistair Carmichael, Scottish politician
1965 – David Miliband, English politician
1966 - Jason Bonham, English drummer
1966 – Irène Jacob, French-born Swiss actress
1968 – Eddie Griffin, American actor
1968 – Stan Kirsch, American actor
1968 - Shirley Robertson, Scottish sailor
1970 - Angela Constance, Scottish politician
1970 - Gabriel Weston, English surgeon and author
1970 – Chi Cheng, American musician
1971 – John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born drummer (System of a Down)
1971 - Jim Rash, American actor, producer and screenwriter
1972 - Yao Defen, Chinese world's tallest-living woman record holder (d. 2012)
1972 - Scott Foley, American actor
1972 - Beth Ostrosky Stern, American model and actress
1973 – Brian Austin Green, American actor
1976 – Diane Kruger, German actress and model
1976 - Shuba Jay, Malaysian actress (d. 2014)
1976 – Marco Di Vaio, Italian footballer
1977 - Kitana Baker, American model and actress
1977 - Lana Parrilla, American actress
1979 – Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer
1981 – Alou Diarra, French footballer
1981 – Peter Odemwingie, Nigerian footballer
1981 - Taylor Kinney, American actor and model
1983 - Heath Slater, American wrestler
1986 - Tyler Kennedy, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 - Alisa Kleybanova, Russian tennis player
1989 - Anthony Randolph, American basketball player
1989 - Tristan Wilds, American actor and singer
1990 - Olly Alexander, English singer-songwriter and actor (Years and Years)
1990 - Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player
1990 - Tyler Honeycutt, American basketball player (d. 2018)
1990 - Damian Lillard, American basketball player
1991 - Derrick Favors, American basketball player
1991 - Yuki Kashiwagi, Japanese singer and actress
1992 – Koharu Kusume, Japanese singer, former member of Morning Musume
1992 - Tobias Harris, American basketball player
1992 - Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter
1992 - Porter Robinson, American DJ and producer
1996 - Vivianne Miedema, Dutch footballer
756 - Yang Guifei, Chinese consort (b. 719)
1085 – Robert Guiscard, Norman adventurer (b. c. 1015)
1274 - Bonaventure, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1221)
1291 – Rudolph I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1218)
1406 - William, Duke of Austria (b. 1370)
1445 - Jean Beaufort, Queen of Scots (b. 1406)
1521 – Juan Ponce de León, Spanish explorer and Conquistador (b. c. 1474)
1571 – Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
1655 - Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of England (b. 1649)
1750 - Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1686)
1767 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (b. 1746)
1782 – Farinelli, Italian castrato (b. 1705)
1828 – Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
1839 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet (b. 1802)
1844 – Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772)
1851 - Juan Felipe Ibarra, Argentine soldier and politician (b. 1787)
1857 – Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
1890 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819)
1904 – Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
1907 - Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1875)
1916 – Elie Metchnikoff, Russian scientist (b. 1845)
1919 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1929 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (b. 1874)
1930 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1845)
1931 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (b. 1868)
1933 – Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (b. 1865)
1933 – Freddie Keppard, American musician (b. 1890)
1940 – Robert Wadlow, American, tallest human on record (b. 1918)
1940 - Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and physician (b. 1857)
1946 – Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1947 – Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
1948 – John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860)
1953 – John Reginald Christie, British murderer (b. 1899)
1957 – George Cleveland, Canadian actor (b. 1885)
1957 – James M. Cox, American politician (b. 1870)
1958 - Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon (b. 1914)
1959 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880)
1960 – Lawrence Tibbett, American actor (b. 1896)
1961 – John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
1965 – Francis Cherry, American politician (b. 1908)
1979 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1911)
1989 - Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
1990 - Margaret Lockwood, English actress and singer (b. 1913)
1991 – Bert Convy, American actor (b. 1933)
1992 – Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
1992 - Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist and author (b. 1960)
1996 – Dana Hill, American actress (b. 1964)
1997 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
2003 – Adi Preißler, German footballer (b. 1921)
2003 – Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953)
2008 - Karl Unterkircher, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1970)
2009 – Natalya Estemirova, Russian activist (b. 1958)
2012 - Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
2014 - James MacGregor Burns, American historian and political scientist (b. 1918)
2014 - Robert A. Roe, American politician (b. 1924)
2015 - Wan Li, Chinese politician (b. 1916)
2015 - Fred Wendorf, American archaeologist (b. 1924)
2016 - Qandeel Baloch, Pakistani model and social media celebrity (b. 1990)
2016 - Janez Bernik, Slovenian painter (b. 1933)
2016 - Duncan M. Gray, Jr., American prelate (b. 1926)
2017 - Anne Buttimer, Irish geographer (b. 1938)
2017 - Martin Landau, American actor (b. 1928)
2017 - Babe Parilli, American football player (b. 1930)
2017 - Bob Wolff, American broadcaster (b. 1920)
2017 - Vjekoslav Vojo Radoicic, Croatian painter, sculptor and stage designer (b. 1930)
2018 - Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
2019 - Mortimer Caplin, American lawyer and educator (b. 1916)
2019 - Ousmane Tanor Dieng, Senegalese politician (b. 1947)
2019 - Craig Fallon, British judoka (b. 1982)
2019 - Werner Müller, German politician and businessman (b. 1946)
Saint Swithin's Day (England), according to legend, supposed to predict weather for the rest of the Summer
Sultan's birthday (Brunei)
390 BC – Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
64 – Great fire of Rome: A fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control while Emperor Nero reportedly plays his lyre and sings while watching the blaze from a safe distance.
362 - Roman-Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrives at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary force of around 60,000 soldiers and stays for nine months to launch a campaign  against the Persian Empire.
1195 – Battle of Alarcos, great victory of Almohad ruler Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur over the Castilian King Alfonso VIII.
1290 - King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion against all Jews in England, saying that they have to leave the country.
1334 - The Bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new Campanile (Bell tower) of Florence Cathedral, designed by architect Giotto di Bondone.
1389 - France and England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem, beginning a 13-year peace, the longest period of continued peace during the Hundred Years' War.
1656 - Polish-Lithuanian forces clash with Sweden and its Brandenburg allies in the start of what becomes known as the Battle of Warsaw, which becomes a decisive Swedish victory.
1830 – Uruguay adopts its first constitution.
1841 - Emperor Pedro II of Brazil is crowned.
1857 - Louis Faidherbe, French Governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's rebellion against the French.
1863 – American Civil War: The first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, unsuccessfully assaults Confederate-held Fort Wagner but their valiant fighting still proves the worth of African American soldiers during the war.
1873 – Oscar II of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
1879 - Swedish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiold and his ship Vega escape from Arctic pack ice and continue on their route through the Northeast Passage.
1898 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the discovery of a new element and proposed to call it polonium.
1914 – The United States Army's Signal Corps is formed, giving definite status to its air service for the first time.
1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
1936 - An army uprising in Spanish Morocco starts the Spanish Civil War.
1942 – World War II: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jets for the first time.
1944 – World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
1947 – President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law which places the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the United States Vice President.
1966 - Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes the docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
1968 – Vietnam War: The two-day Honolulu Conference begins in Honolulu, Hawaii between US President Lyndon B. Johnson and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu.
1968 – Intel is incorporated.
1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
1969 – Apollo 11 makes preparations for landing on the Moon.
1976 – Gymnast Nadia Comaneci, aged 14, scores first ever perfect 10 at the Olympics.
1980 - India becomes the 6th country to send a rocket and a satellite into space.
1982 – 268 campesinos are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt's Guatemala.
1984 – McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty kills 21 people and injures 19 others before being shot dead by police.
1986 – A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station's helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter.
1986 – The movie Aliens opens in theaters.
1992 – The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappeared from their university in Lima.
1994 – In Buenos Aires, an explosion destroys a building housing several Jewish organizations killing 96 and injuring many more.
1995 – On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufriere Hills volcano erupts.
Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee.
1995 - Fabio Casartelli is killed in a fall on the 15th stage of the Tour de France cycling race.
1996 – Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River in Quebec, beginning one of Canada's costliest natural disasters ever.
1996 – In an event very similar to the Oklahoma tornado that would occur three years later, a tornado ranking as a F5 hit the town of Oakfield, Wisconsin.
2000 - Queen Elizabeth II opens the new British Embassy in Berlin, as the first British Head of State to open a diplomatic mission.
2001 – In Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derailment occurs in a tunnel sparking a fire that will last days and virtually shut down downtown Baltimore.
2003 – The body of British UN weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly is found.
2007 - Nelson Mandela (on his 89th birthday) and Desmond Tutu co-found The Elders, an influential group of Elder statesmen.
2013 - The city of Detroit declares bankruptcy with debts of over 20 billion dollars.
2019 - An arson attack on an anime studio in Fushimi of Kyoto, Japan, kills 34 people.
1439  John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1507)
1501  Isabella of Burgundy, Queen of Denmark (d. 1526)
1504  Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
1552  Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1612)
1634  Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1695)
1635  Robert Hooke, English scientist (d. 1703)
1659  Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (d. 1743)
1670  Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian composer (d. 1747)
1718  Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (d. 1808)
1720  Gilbert White, English naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1793)
1724  Duchess Anna Antonia of Bavaria (d. 1780)
1797  Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1879)
1804  Elizabeth Gould, English illustrator (d. 1841)
1811  William Makepeace Thackeray, English writer (d. 1863)
1818  Louis Gerard De Geer, first Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1896)
1821  Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (d. 1910)
1826  Mariano Ignacio Prado, President of Peru (d. 1901)
1831  Johann Martin Schleyer, German priest and poet (d. 1912)
1837  Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary and national hero (d. 1873)
1848  W. G. Grace, English cricketer (d. 1915)
1853  Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist (d. 1928)
1862  Nikolai Yudenich, Russian general (d. 1933)
1864  Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician (d. 1937)
1867  Margaret Brown, American socialite and philanthropist (d. 1932)
1871  Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (d. 1958)
1871  Sada Yacco, Japanese dancer (d. 1946)
1883  Jiang Kanghu, Chinese politician and activist (d. 1954)
1884  Alberto di Jorio, head of the Vatican Bank (d. 1979)
1886  Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., American general (d. 1945)
1887  Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier, politician and traitor (d. 1945)
1890  Frank Forde, 15th and shortest-serving Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1983)
1892  Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (d. 1969)
1895  Olga Spessivtseva, Russian ballerina (d. 1991)
1895  Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (d. 1954)
1897  Ernest Eldridge, English racing driver (d. 1935)
1900  Nathalie Sarraute, French writer (d. 1999)
1901  Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Polish politician (d. 1966)
1906  Clifford Odets, American director, playwright and screenwriter (d. 1963)
1908  Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (d. 1944)
1909  Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (d. 1989)
1909  Mohammed Daoud Khan, President of Afghanistan (d. 1994)
1909  Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress (d. 1994)
1910  Mamadou Dia, Prime Minister of Senegal (d. 2009)
1911  Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (d. 2003)
1912  Max Rousié, French rugby player (d. 1950)
1913  Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)
1914  Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (d. 2000)
1914  Jo Cals, 41st Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1971)
1916  Owen Woodhouse, New Zealand judge (d. 2014)
1917  Henri Salvador, French singer (d. 2008)
1918  Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 2013)
1921  John Glenn, American astronaut and politician (d. 2016)
1921  Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist
1922  Thomas Kuhn, American physicist, historian and philosopher of science (d. 1996)
1923  Michael Medwin, British actor
1924  Norbert Tiemann, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (d. 2012)
1925  Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete (d. 2004)
1926  Joshua Fishman, American linguist (d. 2015)
1927  Kurt Masur, Silesian-born conductor (d. 2015)
1928  Andrea Gallo, Italian priest (d. 2013)
1928  Billy Harrell, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1929  Dick Button, American figure skater
1929  Franca Rame, Italian actress and playwright (d. 2013)
1929  Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American singer (d. 2000)
1930  Burt Kwouk, English actor (d. 2016)
1930  James I. Robertson Jr., American historian (d. 2019)
1932  Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (d. 2017)
1933  Jean Yanne, French movie actor and director (d. 2003)
1935  Jayendra Saraswathi, Indian guru
1937  Roald Hoffmann, Polish-born American Nobel Prize-winning chemist
1937  Hunter S. Thompson, American writer (d. 2005)
1938  Paul Verhoeven, Dutch movie director
1938  Perch Zeytuntsyan, Egyptian-Armenian playwright and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1938  Ian Stewart, Scottish musician (d. 1995)
1940  Joe Torre, American baseball player and manager
1940  James Brolin, American actor
1941  Frank Farian, German music producer
1941  Lonnie Mack, American country musician (d. 2016)
1941  Martha Reeves, American singer, actress and politician
1942  Adolf Ogi, Swiss politician
1942  Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (d. 2006)
1945  Boomer Castleman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
1948  Hartmut Michel, German chemist
1950  Richard Branson, British businessman
1950  Glenn Hughes, American singer (Village People) (d. 2001)
1950  Kostas Eleftherakis, Greek footballer
1950  Jack Layton, Canadian politician, leader of the New Democratic Party (d. 2011)
1951  Elio Di Rupo, 50th Prime Minister of Belgium
1951  Margo Martindale, American actress
1951  Bruce Lietzke, American golfer (d. 2018)
1952  Ian Gibbons, English keyboardist (d. 2019)
1953  Post Bahadur Bogati, Nepalese politician (d. 2014)
1954  Ricky Skaggs, American musician, singer, producer and composer
1957  Keith Levene, British musician
1957  Nick Faldo, British golfer
1957  Audrey Landers, American actress and singer
1959  Pauline Quirke, English actress
1960  Anne-Marie Johnson, American actress
1961  David Irons, Scottish footballer and coach
1961  Elizabeth McGovern, American actress
1961  Alan Pardew, English football manager
1962  Lee Arenberg, American actor
1962  Jack Irons, American drummer
1963  Martín Torrijos, former President of Panama
1964  Wendy Williams, American talk show host, actress and author
1965  Steve Webb, English politician
1966  Lori Alan, American actress
1967  Vin Diesel, American actor
1968  Jonathan Gould, Scottish footballer and coach
1969  Masanori Murakawa, Japanese wrestler
1970  Gruff Rhys, Welsh musician, composer, producer, moviemaker and author
1971  Sarah McLeod, New Zealand actress
1971  Penny Hardaway, American basketball player
1971  Sukhwinder Singh, Indian singer-songwriter and actor
1972  Hannes Stefánsson, Icelandic chess player
1975  Daron Malakian, Armenian-American musician (System of a Down)
1975  Torii Hunter, American baseball player
1978  Tomas Danilevicius, Lithuanian footballer
1978  Shane Horgan, Irish rugby player
1978  Virginia Raggi, Italian politician, Mayor of Rome
1979  Jason Weaver, American actor
1979  Jermaine Paul, American singer-songwriter and musician
1980  Kristen Bell, American actress
1980  Ryoko Hirosue, Japanese actress and singer
1981  Dennis Seidenberg, German ice hockey player
1982  Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress
1982  Ryan Cabrera, American musician and TV host
1983  Carlos Diogo, Uruguayan footballer
1983  Jan Schlaudraff, German footballer
1985  Chace Crawford, American actor
1985  Jan Hopsin, American rapper
1988  Cesar Villaluz, Mexican footballer
1988  Sofia Kvatsabaia, Georgian tennis player
1989  Jamie Benn, Canadian ice hockey player
1989  Yohan Mollo, French footballer
1990  Canelo Álvarez, Mexican professional boxer
1991  Karina Pasian, American singer and pianist
1993  Nabil Fekir, French footballer
1993  Lee Taemin, South Korean singer, dancer, rapper and actor
1996  Yung Lean, Swedish rapper
707  Emperor Monmu of Japan (b. 683)
715  Muhammad bin Qasim al-Thaqafi, founded Islam in South Asia (b. 695)
912  Zhu Wen, Emperor Taizu of Later Liang (b. 1852)
1488  Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
1566  Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish bishop (b. 1484)
1591  Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (b. 1550)
1608  Joachim Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)
1610  Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (b. 1573)
1695  Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634)
1698  Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
1721  Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684)
1730  François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
1792  John Paul Jones, American naval commander (b. 1747)
1817  Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)
1826  Isaac Shelby, 1st Governor of Kentucky (b. 1750)
1863  Robert Gould Shaw Colonel of the 54th Massachusetts infantry (b. 1837).
1872  Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (b. 1806)
1875  Jane Franklin, British adventurer (b. 1791)
1890  Lydia Becker, British activist (b. 1827)
1892  Thomas Cook, British pioneer travel agent (b. 1808)
1918  Princess Elizabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1864)
1919  Raymonde de Laroche, French pilot (b. 1886)
1925  Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal and archbishop (b. 1840)
1938  Queen Marie of Romania (b. 1875)
1947  Heiti Talvik, Estonian poet (b. 1904)
1947  Evald Tipner, Estonian footballer, ice hockey and bandy player (b. 1906)
1949  Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
1953  Lucy Booth, daughter of William Booth and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)
1954  Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)
1966  Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
1967  Humberto Alencar Castelo Branco, President of Brazil (b. 1897)
1968  Corneille Heymans, Belgian doctor, won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1892)
1969  Mary Jo Kopechne, American Robert F. Kennedy campaign worker (b. 1940)
1982  Roman Jakobson, Russian philologist and linguist (b. 1896)
1985  Louisa Ghijs, Belgian stage actress (b. 1902)
1988  Nico, German-American model and singer (b. 1938)
1988  Joly Braga Santos, Portuguese composer and conductor (b. 1924)
1989  Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (b. 1967)
1990  Yun Poson, President of South Korea (b. 1897)
1990  Johnny Wayne, Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1918)
1995  Fabio Casartelli, Italian professional cyclist (b. 1970)
1995  Srinagarindra, Queen Mother of Thailand (b. 1900)
1997  Eugene Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1928)
2001  Fabio Taglioni, Italian automotive engineer (b. 1920)
2001  James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958)
2004  Paul Foot, British journalist (b. 1937)
2005  William Westmoreland, American military officer (b. 1914)
2005  Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager (b. 1938)
2009  Henry Allingham, British World War I veteran and supercentenarian, oldest man in the world at the time of his death (b. 1896)
2012  Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor, producer and politician (b. 1942)
2012  Jean François-Poncet, French politician (b. 1928)
2013  Nobuyuki Aihara, Japanese gymnast (b. 1934)
2014  Andreas Biermann, German footballer (b. 1980)
2014  Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro, Brazilian writer (b. 1941)
2014  James Govan, American singer (b. 1949)
2015  Alex Rocco, American actor (b. 1936)
2015  George Coe, American actor (b. 1929)
2016  Manuel G. Batshaw, Canadian social worker (b. 1915)
2016  Uri Coronel, Dutch sports director (b. 1946)
2016  Bloeme Evers-Emden, Dutch teacher, child psychologist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1926)
2016  Agata Karczmarek, Polish long jumper (b. 1963)
2016  Jeffrey Montgomery, American LGBT rights activist (b. 1953)
2016  Billy Name, American photographer (b. 1940)
2017  José Bragato, Italian-Argentine cellist, composer and conductor (b. 1915)
2017  Max Gallo, French writer, historian and politician (b. 1932)
2017  Shigeaki Hinohara, Japanese physician (b. 1911)
2017  André Lafargue, French journalist (b. 1917)
2017  Andrew Paulson, American executive (b. 1958)
2017  Gustavo Alessandri Valdés, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
2017  Red West, American actor, stuntman and songwriter (b. 1936)
2017  Ben's Cat, American racehorse (b. 2006)
2018  Adrian Cronauer, American disc jockey (b. 1938)
2018  Gopaldas Neeraj, Indian poet and writer (b. 1925)
2018  Burton Richter, American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (b. 1918)
2018  Geoffrey Wellum, British fighter pilot (b. 1921)
2018  Anne Olivier Bell, English literary editor and arts scholar (b. 1916)
2018  John Banks Elliott, Ghanaian diplomat (b. 1917)
2018  Ronald H. Griffith, American military officer (b. 1936)
2018  Rob van Mesdag, Dutch rower (b. 1930)
2019  Charles Ceccaldi-Raynaud, French lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
2019  Luciano De Crescenzo, Italian screenwriter (b. 1928)
2019  Kurt Julius Isselbacher, German-born American physician (b. 1925)
2019  Roelof Nelissen, Dutch politician and banker (b. 1931)
2019  Yukiya Amano, Japanese diplomat (b. 1947)
2019  David Hedison, American actor (b. 1927)
Constitution Day (Uruguay)
64  The Great Fire of Rome starts.
484  Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern Emperor at Tarsus in modern-day Turkey.
711  Ummayad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete - Ummayad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic.
1333  Wars of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Halidon Hill ends in an English victory.
1545  The Tudor battleship Mary Rose sinks.
1553  In England, Lady Jane Grey is replaced as queen by Mary I of England, having been queen for only a few days.
1572  Wanli Emperor takes control in China, becoming the 13th Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
1588  Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - The Spanish Armada is seen in the English Channel.
1692  In the Salem Witch Trials, five women are hanged for witchcraft.
1701  Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
1702  Great Northern War: A larger Polish-Saxon Army of Augustus III the Strong, operating from a better defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish Army half its size under the command of Charles XII of Sweden, in the Battle of Klissow.
1821  George IV of the United Kingdom is crowned king.
1832  The British Medical Association is founded by Charles Hastings.
1843  Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship, the SS Great Britain is launched.
1848  A Women's rights convention begins in Seneca Falls, New York.
1864  Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking - Qing Dynasty defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
1870  Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
1900  The first line of the Paris Metro opens.
1903  Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
1908  The Dutch football club Feyenoord of Rotterdam is founded.
1912  A meteorite estimated to weigh 190 kilograms explodes over Holbrook, Arizona, causing around 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the village.
1916  World War I: Battle of Fromelles - British and Australian troops attack German trenches.
1920  Antonio Joaquim Granjo becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
1936  The Sieges of Oviedo and Gijon begin shortly after the start of the Spanish Civil War.
1941  British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launches the V for Victory campaign.
1943  World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft.
1947  Several leading Burmese politicians, including Bogyoko Aung San, are executed by Galon U Saw.
1950  West Germany and the Saarland join the European Council.
1952  The Summer Olympics in Helsinki begin.
1961  Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte.
1965  The Mont Blanc road tunnel is opened.
1971  The South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City opens.
1976  The Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
1979  The Sandinistas take official control of the government in Nicaragua.
1979  Two oil tankers collide near Trinidad and Tobago, causing an oil spill, and killing 29 seamen in the fire resulting from the collision.
1980  The Summer Olympics in Moscow begin.
Some Western countries, including the United States and West Germany, boycott the event.
1981  French President Francois Mitterrand privately reveals to US President Ronald Reagan documents showing the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.
1985  The Val di Stava dam collapses in Italy, killing 268 people.
1987  In Portugal, the Social Democrats under Anibal Cavaco Silva become the first political party during the Third Republic to form an overall majority in parliament.
1989  A United Airlines airplane crashes in Sioux City, Iowa, and bursts into flames, killing 112 out of the 296 people on board.
1992  Anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino and two police officers are killed by a car-bomb attack in Palermo, Sicily.
1996  Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is forced out of office.
Wanted on war crimes charges, he goes into hiding until his arrest in 2008.
1996  The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta begin, with Muhammad Ali lighting the Olympic flame.
1997  The Provisional IRA resumes a ceasefire during the Northern Ireland Troubles.
2002  In Scotland, the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park is created.
2003  The first successful tongue transplant is carried out in Vienna.
2007  Pratibha Patil becomes the first woman to be chosen to become President of India.
2018  Israel's Knesset passes a law defining the country as a Jewish Nation State.
2018  A duck boat capsizes on Table Rock Lake in Southwestern Missouri, United States, killing 17 people (out of 31 on board), including 9 from the same family.
2019  Iran seizes two British oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.
1670  Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
1688  Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
1698  Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss writer and poet (d. 1783)
1739  Joseph Stanton, Jr., American politician (d. 1807)
1744  Heinrich Christian Boie, German poet (d. 1806)
1759  Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)
1764  Juan José Castelli, Argentine politician (d. 1812)
1789  John Martin, English painter (d. 1854)
1800  Juan José Flores, first President of Ecuador (d. 1864)
1806  Alexander Dallas Bache, American physicist (d. 1867)
1814  Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862)
1819  Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (d. 1890)
1822  Princess Augusta of Cambridge (d. 1916)
1827  Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (d. 1857)
1834  Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917)
1840  José Manuel Balmaceda, President of Chile (d. 1891)
1842  Frederick T. Greenhalge, English-American lawyer and politician, 38th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1848  Pedro Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil (d. 1850)
1860  Lizzie Borden, American accused murderess (d. 1927)
1863  Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer and dramatist (d. 1934)
1865  Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
1876  Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)
1876  Ignaz Seipel, Austrian politician (d. 1952)
1877  Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)
1881  Friedrich Dessauer, German philosopher and physicist (d. 1963)
1883  Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and movie producer (d. 1972)
1884  Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1954)
1886  Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician (d. 1957)
1890  King George II of Greece (d. 1947)
1892  Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1957)
1893  Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1930)
1894  Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
1894  Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (d. 1959)
1895  Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)
1896  A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (d. 1981)
1898  Herbert Marcuse, German-born philosopher (d. 1979)
1904  Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, American lawyer (d. 1985)
1914  Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)
1917  William Scranton, American politician and diplomat, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
1920  Robert Mann, American violinist, composer and conductor (d. 2018)
1920  Aldo Protti, Italian opera singer (d. 1995)
1921  André Moynet, French fighter pilot, businessman, politician and racing driver (d. 1993)
1921  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2011)
1921  Harold Camping, American evangelist and religious broadcaster, predicted the rapture (d. 2013)
1922  Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan, 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia (d. 2008)
1922  George McGovern, American politician (d. 2012)
1923  Lon Simmons, American sportscaster (d. 2015)
1923  Joseph Hansen, American writer (d. 2004)
1923  Alex Hannum, American basketball player (d. 2002)
1924  Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (d. 2005)
1924  Pat Hingle, American actor (d. 2009)
1924  Arthur Rankin, Jr., American director, producer and writer (d. 2014)
1925  Otto Arosemena, President of Ecuador (d. 1984)
1926  Helen Gallagher, American actress, Ryan's Hope
1928  Bobby Davidson, Scottish football referee (d. 1993)
1929  Martin Grüner, German politician (d. 2018)
1932  Erró, Icelandic artist
1934  Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
1935  Vasily Livanov, Russian movie actor and screenwriter
1935  Nick Koback, American baseball player (d. 2015)
1935  Gerd Albrecht, German conductor (d. 2014)
1937  George Hamilton IV, American country music singer (d. 2014)
1938  Vakhtang Kikabidze, Georgian movie actor, director and singer
1938  Richard Jordan, American actor (d. 1993)
1941  Vikki Carr, American singer
1943  Thomas J. Sargent, American economist
1945  George Dzundza, American actor
1945  Paule Baillargeon, Canadian actress, director and screenwriter
1945  Richard Henderson, Scottish molecular biologist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry laureate
1946  Alan Gorrie, Scottish musician (Average White Band)
1946  Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player
1947  Bernie Leadon, American musician (The Eagles)
1947  Brian May, English guitarist (Queen)
1947  Hans-Jürgen Kreische, East German footballer
1948  Atilio Ancheta, Uruguayan footballer
1948  Keith Godchaux, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1980)
1949  Kgalema Motlanthe, former President of South Africa
1950  Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
1950  Freddy Moore, American songwriter
1952  Allen Collins, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1990)
1952  Robert A. Ficano, County Executive for Wayne County, Michigan (Detroit and environs)
1954  Alvan Adams, American basketball player
1954  Srđa Trifković, Serbian-American journalist
1955  Dalton McGuinty, Canadian politician, 24th Premier of Ontario
1956  Nikki Sudden, American musician (d. 2006)
1958  Peter Houston, Scottish footballer and coach
1958  Kazushi Kimura, Japanese footballer
1958  Reuben Kane, American professional wrestler
1958  Angharad Tomos, Welsh author and language activist
1959  Juan José Campanella, Argentine director
1960  Atom Egoyan, Canadian movie maker
1960  Steve Viksten, American television writer and voice actor
1961  Campbell Scott, American actor and director
1961  Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
1961  Niall Mackenzie, Scottish motorcycle road racer
1961  Benoît Mariage, Belgian movie director
1961  Hideo Nakata, Japanese movie director
1961  Lisa Lampanelli, American comedienne
1962  Anthony Edwards, American actor
1964  Masahiko Kondo, Japanese singer, lyricist and actor
1965  Evelyn Glennie, Scottish percussionist
1965  Hailemariam Desalegn, Prime Minister of Ethiopia
1965  Stuart Scott, American sportscaster (d. 2015)
1966  Nancy Carell, American actress
1968  Pavel Kuka, Czech footballer
1968  Robert Flynn, American musician (Machine Head)
1969  Gabrielle, English singer
1970  Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish politician, 5th First Minister of Scotland
1971  Urs Bühler, Swiss tenor (Il Divo)
1971  Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer and politician, Mayor of Kiev
1971  Naoki Soma, Japanese footballer
1971  Russell Allen, American singer
1971  Alan Marriott, Canadian voice actor
1972  Ebbe Sand, Danish footballer
1972  David Lammy, English politician
1973  Martin Powell, English musician (Cradle of Filth)
1973  Scott Walker, Canadian hockey player
1974  Preston Wilson, American baseball player
1976  Eric Prydz, Swedish DJ and producer
1976  Benedict Cumberbatch, British actor
1976  Vinessa Shaw, American actress
1976  Gonzalo de los Santos, Uruguayan footballer
1976  Angela Griffin, English actress
1977  Tony Mamaluke, American wrestler
1977  Charles John Spencer, American professional wrestler
1978  Chiara Zanni, Canadian actress
1979  Luke Young, English footballer
1979  Rick Ankiel, American baseball pitcher
1980  Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player
1980  Michelle Heaton, English singer and model (Liberty X)
1980  Mark Webber, American actor
1981  Didz Hammond, bassist/backing vocalist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause)
1981  Nikki Osborne, Australian actress
1981  Chris Spicuzza, American musician (Chimaira)
1982  Jared Padalecki, American actor
1982  Stuart Parnaby, English footballer
1983  Brooke Kinsella, English actress
1983  Helen Skelton, English television presenter
1984  Diana Mocanu, Romanian swimmer
1984  Adam Morrison, American basketball player
1985  LaMarcus Aldridge, American basketball player
1985  Hadi Norouzi, Iranian footballer (d. 2015)
1986  Leandro Greco, Italian footballer
1987  Hugh Harris, English singer and guitarist (The Kooks)
1988  Shane Dawson, American comedian and actor
1988  Kevin Grosskreutz, German footballer
1990  Aron Pálmarsson, Icelandic handball player
1990  Steven Anthony Lawrence, American actor
1995  Maria Paseka, Russian gymnast
1996  Oh Ha-young, South Korean singer
1998  Erin Cuthbert, Scottish footballer
514  Pope Symmachus
806  Li Shigu, Chinese general (b. 778)
931  Uda of Japan (b. 867)
1374  Francesco Petrarca, Italian poet (b. 1304)
1415  Philippa of Lancaster (b. 1359)
1543  Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn (b. 1499)
1631  Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
1682  Yohannes I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1640)
1692  Sarah Good, accused at the Salem Witch Trials (b. 1653)
1692  Susannah Martin, accused at the Salem Witch Trials (b. 1621)
1742  William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
1810  Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia (b. 1776)
1814  Matthew Flinders, English explorer of Australia (b. 1774)
1824  Agustin de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico (b. 1783)
1838  Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (b. 1785)
1838  Christmas Evans, Welsh minister (b. 1766)
1850  Margaret Fuller, American writer (b. 1810)
1857  Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1796)
1878  Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
1911  Manuel Iradier, Spanish explorer (b. 1854)
1913  Climaco Calderon, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
1925  Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1840)
1943  Yekaterina Budanova, Soviet flying ace (b. 1916)
1947  Aung San, Burmese revolutionary, nationalist, general, and politician (b. 1915)
1947  U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
1947  Lyuh Woon-hyung, South Korean politician (b. 1886)
1965  Rhee Syng-man, President of South Korea (b. 1875)
1970  Egon Eiermann, German architect and designer (b. 1904)
1974  Erno Schwarz, Hungarian footballer (b. 1904)
1975  Lefty Frizzell, American country musician and singer (b. 1928)
1977  Karl Ristikivi, Estonian writer (b. 1912)
1980  Nihat Erim, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1912)
1980  Hans Morgenthau, German political philosopher (b. 1904)
1982  Hugh Everett, American physicist (b. 1930)
1984  Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
1989  Kazimierz Sabbat, President of Poland (b. 1913)
1992  Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (b. 1940)
2003  Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1908)
2004  Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
2007  Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist (b. 1944)
2009  Frank McCourt, Irish-American writer (b. 1930)
2009  Henry Surtees, British racing driver (b. 1991)
2010  David Warren, Australian inventor (b. 1925)
2012  Omar Suleiman, Egyptian army general, intelligence officer and politician (b. 1936)
2012  Hans Nowak, German footballer (b. 1937)
2013  Bert Trautmann, German footballer (b. 1923)
2013  Mel Smith, British comedian, actor, director and writer (b. 1952)
2013  Simon Pimenta, Indian cardinal (b. 1920)
2014  Lionel Ferbos, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1911)
2014  John Fasano, American screenwriter, producer and director (b. 1961)
2014  David Easton, Canadian political scientist (b. 1917)
2014  Ingemar Odlander, Swedish journalist (b. 1936)
2014  Yehuda Nir, Polish-born psychiatrist (b. 1930)
2014  Iring Fetscher, German political scientist (b. 1922)
2014  Rubem Alves, Brazilian theologian and philosopher (b. 1933)
2014  Paul M. Fleiss, American pediatrician (b. 1933)
2014  Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress (b. 1992)
2014  James Garner, American actor (b. 1928)
2015  Gennadiy Seleznyov, Russian politician (b. 1947)
2015  Galina Prozumenshchikova, Russian swimmer (b. 1948)
2015  Van Alexander, American jazz composer, arranger and bandleader (b. 1915)
2015  Stellan Bojerud, Swedish politician (b. 1944)
2015  Carmino Ravosa, Argentine composer (b. 1930)
2016  Carlos Gorostiza, Argentine playwright, theatre director and novelist (b. 1920)
2016  Garry Marshall, American director, actor, producer and writer (b. 1934)
2016  Chief Zee, American football fan (Washington Redskins) (b. 1941)
2017  Miguel Blesa, Spanish banker (b. 1947)
2017  Jake Butcher, American banker and politician (b. 1936)
2017  Blaoui Houari, Algerian singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
2017  Ralph Regula, American politician (b. 1924)
2018  Rayo de Jalisco Sr.,
Mexican professional wrestler and actor (b. 1932)
2018  Jon Schnepp, American film director and animator (b. 1967)
2018  Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (b. 1993)
2019  Agnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1929)
2019  César Pelli, Argentine architect (b. 1926)
2019  Yao Lee, Chinese singer (b. 1922)
2019  John Elya, Lebanese-born religious figure (b. 1928)
2019  Bert Rechichar, American football player (b. 1930)
2019  Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (b. 1944)
2019  Don Mossi, American baseball player (b. 1929)
Sandinista Day (Nicaragua)
Martyrs' Day (Burma)
Christopher Street Day
1054  Siward, Earl of Northumbria invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, somewhere North of the Firth of Forth.
1202  Georgian-Seljuk Wars: At the Battle of Basian, the Kingdom of Georgia defeats the Sultanate of Rum.
1214  Battle of Bouvines: Philip II of France decisively defeats Imperial, English and Flemish armies.
1299  According to Edward Gibbon, Osman I invades the territory of Nicomedia for the first time, usually considered to be the founding date of the Ottoman State.
1302  Battle of Bopheus: Ottoman victory over the Byzantines, opening up Bahynia for Turkish conquest.
1549  Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.
1663  The English Parliament passes the Second Navigation Act, requiring that all goods bound for American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports.
1689  The Jacobite Army defeats Government forces in the Battle of Killiecrankie.
1694  A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England.
1778  American Revolution: First Battle of Usant - British and French fleets fight to a stand-off.
1789  The United States Department of Foreign Affairs is founded, later being renamed the United States Department of State.
1793  Maximilien Robespierre takes control of the 'Committee of Public Safety'.
1794  Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 'Enemies of the Revolution'.
1830  The July Revolution in France against King Charles II of France.
1862  Sailing from San Francisco to Panama City, the SS Golden Gate catches fire and sinks off Manzanillo, Mexico.
1865  Welsh settlers arrive in Chubut, Argentina.
1866  The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, from Valentia Island, Ireland to Heart's Content, Newfoundland.
1880  Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand - Afghan forces led by Mohammad Ayub Khan defeats a British Army.
1890  Vincent van Gogh is believed to have shot himself, leading to his death two days later.
1900  Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany makes a speech comparing the Germans to the Huns.
The word 'Huns' has often been used as an offensive word to describe Germans ever since.
1919  The Chicago Race Riot breaks out after an incident on the South Side.
Subsequent rioting leads to 38 deaths.
1921  University of Toronto researchers, led by Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulation regulates blood sugar.
1924  The 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris come to an end.
1929  The Third Geneva Convention, on dealing with prisoners of war, is signed by 53 nations.
1940  Bugs Bunny makes his debut (first appearance) on television.
1941  World War II: Japanese troops occupy French Indochina, in what is now Vietnam.
1942  World War II: Allied forces successfully halt a final Axis advance into Egypt.
1945  Clement Attlee becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1953  The Korean War ends.
1955  The Allied occupation of Austria officially ends.
1976  Former Prime Minister of Japan Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws.
1983  At Weikada High Security Prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 18 Tamil prisoners are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners.
1990  Belarus declares independence.
1990  The Jamaat al-Muslimeen group attempts a coup d'état in Trinidad and Tobago.
1995  The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC.
1996  A bomb explodes at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, US, killing 1 person.
Eric Rudolph carried out the attack.
1997  Jan Ullrich becomes the first German to win the Tour de France.
1997  About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
2002  In New Zealand's election, Helen Clark's Labor Party Government is reelected.
2002  The world's worst ever air show disaster occurs in Lviv, Ukraine, as a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes, killing 85 people.
2005  NASA suspends Space Shuttle flights, just a day after the Discovery launch, as, during it, part of the foam insulation sheds from the fuel tank.
Repairs are performed on space walks and the Shuttle lands safely on August 9.
2006  The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
2007  Two news helicopters, from TV Stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Phoenix, Arizona, while covering a police chase.
2012  The 2012 Summer Olympics in London begin.
2013  Between 65 and 100 people are estimated to have been killed in clashes between the military, and supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo, Egypt.
2018  The longest-lasting total lunar eclipse of the 21st century is seen in many parts of the world; coincidentally, it occurs at the same time as Mars' closest approach to Earth in 15 years.
1452  Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1508)
1667  Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
1733  Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
1734  Princess Sophie of France (d. 1782)
1740  Jeanne Baret, French naturalist (d. 1803)
1768  Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter (d. 1839)
1768  Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat who killed Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
1773  Jacob Aall, Norwegian politician and historian (d. 1844)
1773  Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily (d. 1802)
1781  Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
1784  Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
1824  Alexandre Dumas, fils, French writer (d. 1895)
1833  Thomas George Bonney, geologist (d. 1923)
1834  Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian national hero (d. 1879)
1835  Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer (d. 1907)
1848  Lorand Eotvos, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919)
1851  Guillermo Billinghurst, President of Peru (d. 1915)
1851  Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery, British noblewoman (d. 1890)
1853  Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (d. 1921)
1854  Takahashi Korekiyo, 20th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1936)
1857  José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican political leader (d. 1921)
1857  Augusta Stowe-Gullen, Canadian physician and feminist (d. 1943)
1857  E. A. Wallis Budge, English Egyptologist and philologist (d. 1934)
1866  Antonio José de Almeida, Portuguese politician (d. 1929)
1867  Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (d. 1916)
1870  Hilaire Belloc, English writer (d. 1953)
1877  Ernst von Dohnanyi, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1960)
1878  Iwane Matsui, Japanese general (d. 1948)
1879  Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1960)
1880  Joe Tinker, American baseball player (d. 1948)
1881  Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945)
1882  Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (d. 1965)
1886  Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970)
1896  Robert George, Scottish-born 24th Governor of South Australia (d. 1967)
1896  Henri Longchambon, French politician (d. 1969)
1900  Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (d. 1976)
1903  Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (d. 2002)
1903  Nikolai Cherkasov, actor (d. 1966)
1904  Lyudmila Rudenko, Russian chess player (d. 1986)