the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1877  Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
1882  Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is founded in London.
1882  The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
1887  Fire at the Theatre Royal in Exeter, England kills 186 people.
1901  The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago.
1905  Russo-Japanese War: Treaty of Portsmouth signed – In New Hampshire a treaty mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, is signed by victor Japan and defeated party Russia.
1906  Brandbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
1914  World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins – Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
1927  The Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
1932  French Upper Volta is broken up between French Sudan, Ivory Coast and Niger.
1936  Federico Borrell García, a Republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War, is photographed in the moment of his death by Robert Capa.
1937  Spanish Civil War: The fall of Llanes.
1939  World War II: The United States declares its neutrality in the war.
It later enters on the side of the Allies.
1941  World War II : Siege of Leningrad begins.
1941  World War II: Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
1942  World War II: The Battle of Milne Bay in the Pacific Ocean ends in a Japanese defeat against the Allies.
1943  World War II: The 503rd Parachute Regiment under American General Douglas MacArthur lands and occupies Nazdab in Papua New Guinea.
1944  World War II: The USSR declares war on Bulgaria.
1944  Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg form the Benelux.
1945  Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
1948  Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France
1949  A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger to become America's first single-episode mass murderer.
1957  Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs a revolt in the city of Cienfuegos.
1958  The English language translation of the novel Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak is published.
1960  Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the 1st President of Senegal.
1960  Cassius Clay wins the gold medal in boxing at the Rome Olympic Games.
1961  The first conference of countries of the Non Aligned Movement is held in Belgrade.
1969  My Lai Massacre: Lt.
William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
1970  Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province.
1972  Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.
1973  Palestinian terrorists attack Saudi Arabia's Embassy in Paris.
1975  In Sacramento, California, a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson named Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate US President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
1977  Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
1977  In Cologne, Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped by members of the Red Army Faction
1978  Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
1980  The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
1983  The half-hour Robert MacNeil Report changes its name to the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, becoming the first hour-long network news show.
1983  Peter Jennings becomes lead anchor for ABC World News Tonight.
1983  Tom Brokaw becomes lead anchor for NBC Nightly News.
1984  Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to ban capital punishment.
1984  The Space Shuttle Discovery (mission STS-41-D) lands after its maiden voyage.
1986  Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
1988  With US$2 billion in federal aid, the Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the United States's largest bankrupt thrift, American Savings and Loan Association.
1990  Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan army soldiers murder 158 civilians.
1991  The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, the Indigenous and Tribal People's Convention, 1989, comes into force.
1995  France tests an atomic bomb on Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia.
1996  Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina, where 27 people are killed, and three billion dollars worth of damage are caused.
1997  At least 87 people killed in the Beni-Messous massacre in Algeria.
2000  Tuvalu joins the United Nations.
2001  Peru's attorney general files homicide charges against ex-President Alberto Fujimori.
2001  Young Left formed in Toronto, Ontario.
2002  A car bomb kills 30 people in Kabul, Afghanistan, in an apparent assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
2002  The Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, which burned 499,570 acres (2,020 km²), is finally contained.
2002  The Beltway sniper attacks begin with the murder of Paul LaRuffa.
2004  Future Hurricane Ivan becomes a Hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean.
2005  A Mandala Airlines plane crashes in a residential area in Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 on board and 39 on the ground.
2005  In Solden, Tyrol, Austria, an aerial lift accident kills nine German tourists, as a transport helicopter hits a cable car, which then plunges to the ground.
2008  Quentin Bryce becomes Governor-General of Australia.
2012  A magnitude 7.9 earthquake hits Costa Rica.
2012  A firecracker factory explodes near Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India, killing 40 people.
2012  An accidental explosion at a Turkish army ammunition store in Afyon, Western Turkey, kills 25 soldiers.
2012  The bodies of Saad al-Hilli, two members of his family, and a local cyclist are found near Annecy, in the alpine region of France, having all been shot, while al-Hilli's two daughters survived.
The case remains unsolved, as no killer or motive has been determined.
2014  Ukraine and Russia agree to a ceasefire during the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
699  Abu Hanifa, Iraqi scholar (d. 767)
1187  King Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
1201  Alix, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1221)
1319  Peter IV of Aragon (d. 1387)
1533  Jacopo Zaparella, Italian philosopher (d. 1589)
1540  Magnus, Duke of Holstein (d. 1583)
1567  Date Masamuno, Japanese daimyo (d. 1636)
1568  Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639)
1638  King Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
1651  William Dampier, English explorer (d. 1715)
1666  Gottfried Arnold, German historian and theologian (d. 1714)
1667  Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian Jesuit and mathematician (d. 1733)
1695  Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
1722  Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
1733  Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet, translator and publisher (d. 1813)
1735  Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
1750  Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774)
1751  John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, British politician (d. 1834)
1764  Henriette Herz, German writer (d. 1847)
1771  Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general (d. 1847)
1772  Fat 'h-Ali Shah Qajar, Persian King (d. 1834)
1774  Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
1775  Juan Martínez Díez, Spanish captain (d. 1825)
1781  Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor and composer (d. 1858)
1786  Sergey Uvarov, Russian politician and literary scholar (d. 1855)
1791  Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864)
1806  Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general and statesman (d. 1865)
1807  Richard Chenevix Trench, clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
1809  Manuel Montt, 6th President of Chile (d. 1880)
1817  Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
1818  Edmund Kennedy, Australian explorer (d. 1848)
1826  John Wisden, English cricketer (d. 1884)
1827  Goffredo Mameli, Italian patriot, poet and writer (d. 1849)
1829  Lester Allan Pelton, American inventor (d. 1908)
1836  Justiniano Borgono, President of Peru (d. 1921)
1846  Jack Daniel, American businessman (d. 1911)
1847  Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
1867  Amy Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
1869  Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria (d. 1945)
1871  Friedrich Akel, Estonian politician (d. 1941)
1873  Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American military officer and engineer (d. 1942)
1874  Nap Lajoie, baseball player (d. 1959)
1881  Otto Bauer, Austrian politician (d. 1938)
1883  Mel Sheppard, AMerican athlete (d. 1942)
1888  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975)
1892  Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (d. 1973)
1897  Ella Schuler, American supercentenarian (d. 2011)
1901  Florence Eldridge, American actress (d. 1988)
1901  Mario Scelba, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1991)
1902  Darryl F. Zanuck, movie producer and executive (d. 1979)
1905  Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (d. 1983)
1906  Sunnyland Slim, American blues singer and pianist (d. 1995)
1910  Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
1912  John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
1912  Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
1913  Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
1914  Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (d. 2018)
1914  Stuart Freeborn, British make-up artist (d. 2013)
1915  Horst Sindermann, German politician (d. 1990)
1916  Frank Yerby, novelist (d. 1991)
1918  Luis Alcoriza, Mexican actor, screenwriter and director (d. 1992)
1918  Buddy Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1986)
1920  Fons Rademakers, Dutch-Swiss actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1921  Farida of Egypt, Queen Consort of Egypt (d. 1988)
1921  Jack Valenti, American political advisor and movie executive (d. 2007)
1927  Paul Volcker, American economist
1928  Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist (d. 2005)
1929  Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian
1929  Andriyan Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2004)
1930  Ken Naganuma, Japanese footballer (d. 2008)
1932  Simon Achidi Achu, former Prime Minister of Cameroon
1934  Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
1934  Kevin McNamara, English politician
1934  Paul Josef Cordes, German cardinal
1935  Dieter Hallervorden, German comedian, actor and singer
1935  Doreen Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen, English politician
1936  Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player
1936  John Danforth, American politician and diplomat
1937  Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Argentine footballer
1939  George Lazenby, Australian actor
1939  William Devane, actor
1939  Clay Regazzoni, Swiss racing driver (d. 2006)
1939  Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist
1940  Raquel Welch, American actress
1942  Werner Herzog, German movie director
1944  Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author and playwright
1944  Gareth Evans, Australian lawyer and politician
1945  Gérard d'Aboville, French politician and navigator
1945  Eva Bergman, Swedish movie, theatre and television director
1945  Al Stewart, British musician
1945  Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician
1946  Freddie Mercury, British singer (Queen) (d. 1991)
1946  Loudon Wainwright III, American singer and composer
1946  Buddy Miles, American musician
1948  Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
1949  Pat McQuaid, Irish cyclist and official
1950  Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist
1950  Rosie Cooper, English politician
1951  Paul Breitner, German footballer
1951  Michael Keaton, American actor
1956  Roine Stolt, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1958  Lars Danielsson, Swedish jazz bassist and cellist
1959  Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist (d. 2014)
1960  Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan politician
1960  Candy Maldonado, Puerto Rican baseball player, manager and sportscaster
1962  Brian A. Joyce, American politician (d. 2018)
1962  Peter Wingfield, British actor
1963  Juan Alderete, American bass player and songwriter
1963  Kristian Alfonso, American actress, figure skater and model
1964  Frank Farina, Australian footballer
1964  Ken Norman, American basketball player
1964  Sergei Loznitsa, Belarussian-Ukrainian director and screenwriter
1965  David Brabham, Australian racing driver
1965  Murdo Fraser, Scottish politician
1965  Osamu Maeda, Japanese footballer
1965  Chris Morris, British writer
1965  César Rincon, Colombian bullfighter
1967  Matthias Sammer, German footballer
1967  Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
1969  Dweezil Zappa, American musician and son of Frank Zappa
1969  Leonardo Araújo, Brazilian footballer
1969  Sebastian Edathy, German politician
1969  Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer
1970  Liam Lynch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and director
1971  Adam Hollioake, English cricketer
1973  Paddy Considine, English actor, director and producer
1973  Rose McGowan, American actress
1974  Ivo Ulich, Czech footballer
1975  George Boateng, Dutch footballer
1976  Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast
1976  Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
1976  Richard Marsland, Australian writer, actor and comedian (d. 2008)
1977  Teresa Marinova, Bulgarian athlete
1978  Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby player
1978  Laura Bertram, Canadian actress
1978  Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player
1979  John Carew, Norwegian footballer
1979  Juan Fuenmayor, Venezuelan footballer
1980  Marianna Madia, Italian politician
1980  Stefán Logi Magnússon, Icelandic footballer
1981  Nina Eichinger, German actress
1981  Bruno Neves, Portuguese cyclist (d. 2008)
1983  Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer
1983  Priscilla Meirelles, Brazilian model
1987  Pierre Casiraghi, Monegasque royalty
1988  Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorean footballer
1988  Nuri Sahin, Turkish footballer
1989  Ben Youngs, English rugby player
1989  José Angel Valdés, Spanish footballer
1989  Katerina Graham, American actress
1990  Kim Yu-Na, South Korean figure skater
1990  Giovanni Pernice, Italian professional dancer
1990  Franco Zuculini, Italian footballer
1991  Skandar Keynes, English actor
1991  Stuart Donaldson, Scottish politician
1993  Gage Golightly, American actress
1995  Tehilla Blad, Swedish actress
1995  Caroline Sunshine, American actress
1996  Sigrid, Norwegian singer
590  Authari, King of Lombardy (b. 540)
1165  Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
1201  Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
1235  Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
1548  Catherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512)
1629  Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1585)
1803  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and writer (b. 1741)
1836  Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
1838  Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
1855  Thomas Mitchell, Scottish explorer of Australia (b. 1792)
1857  Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
1876  Manuel Blanco Encalada, first President of Chile (b. 1790)
1877  Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief (b. 1849)
1898  Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
1901  Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovene physicist (b. 1853)
1902  Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician (b. 1821)
1906  Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian phsyicist (b. 1844)
1912  Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American soldier (b. 1845)
1917  Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
1926  Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (b. 1890)
1930  Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
1931  John Thomson, Scottish footballer (b. 1909)
1932  Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
1936  Fernando Borrell García, Spanish Republican soldier, photographed in moment of his death (b. 1912)
1946  John I. Cox, American politician, 33rd Governor of Tennessee (b. 1855)
1954  Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
1960  Earl Long, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1895)
1965  Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
1966  Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (b. 1879)
1970  Jochen Rindt, Austrian racing driver, posthumous Formula 1 champion (b. 1942)
1972  Yossef Romano, Israeli weightlifter (b. 1940)
1972  Moshe Weinberg, Israeli wrestling coach (b. 1939)
1973  Jack Fourier, American baseball player (b. 1899)
1979  Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (b. 1884)
1982  Douglas Bader, British fighter pilot (b. 1910)
1984  Adam Malik, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917)
1988  Gert Fröbe, actor (b. 1913)
1990  Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary and leader of the IMRO (b. 1896)
1993  Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (b. 1914)
1997  Georg Solti, conductor (b. 1912)
1997  Mother Teresa, Albanian nun and development worker (b. 1910)
1998  Leo Penn, American director (b. 1921)
1999  Alan Clark, English politician and historian (b. 1928)
2001  Vladimir Zerjavic, Croat UN statistician (b. 1912)
2003  Gisele MacKenzie, singer (b. 1927)
2010  Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1990)
2010  Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian-born artist (b. 1922)
2011  Salvatore Licitra, Italian tenor (b. 1968)
2011  Vann Nath, Cambodian painter (b. 1946)
2013  Rochus Misch, German SS officer (b. 1917)
2014  Ron Mulock, Australian politician (b. 1930)
2014  Eoin Young, New Zealand journalist (b. 1939)
2014  Simone Battle, American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1989)
2014  Bruce Morton, American news correspondent (b. 1930)
2014  Karel Cerny, Czech art director and producer (b. 1922)
2015  Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian composer and singer (b. 1966)
2015  Alan Steel, Italian bodybuilder and actor (b. 1935)
2015  Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress (b. 1920)
2016  Hugh O'Brian, American actor (b. 1925)
2016  Phyllis Schlafly, American political commentator (b. 1924)
2017  Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist (b. 1920)
2017  Gauri Lankesh, Indian journalist and political activist (b. 1962)
2017  Tom Wright, American baseball player (b. 1923)
2017  Holger Czukay, German musician (b. 1938)
2017  Christie Davies, British sociologist (b. 1941)
2017  Hansford Rowe, American actor (b. 1924)
2018  Rachael Bland, British journalist (b. 1978)
2018  François Flohic, French admiral (b. 1920)
2018  Mike Hogewood, American sportscaster (b. 1954)
2018  Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (b. 1926)
2018  Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian writer and journalist (b. 1934)
2019  Ji Guobiao, Chinese engineer (b. 1932)
2019  Kiran Nagarkar, Indian novelist (b. 1942)
2019  Francisco Toledo, Mexican artist (b. 1940)
Teachers' Day (India)
Architects' Day (Guatemala)
International Day of Charity
September 05
3761 BC  The first day of the Hebrew Calendar.
394  Battle of Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish general Arbogast.
1492  Christopher Columbus leaves La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his last land-stop on the way of his voyage that takes him to the Caribbean.
1522  The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to San Lucar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world, with captain Juan Sebastian de Elcano.
1620  The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.
1628  Puritans settle Salem which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1634  Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nordlingen, the Catholic imperial army defeats the Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
1689  Imperial China and Russia agree on their border, which runs along the Amur River.
1776  A tropical storm strikes the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, killing 6,000 people.
1781  The Battle of Groton Heights takes place with the result of a British minor victory.
1803  British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
1839  Polynesian atoll Ahe in the Tuamoto Archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean, is discovered and mapped by US naval officer Charles Wilkes.
1847  Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
1861  American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control the mouth of the Tennessee River.
1863  American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Islands in South Carolina.
1870  Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming, votes in the morning, becoming the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
1870  The ship HMS Captain sinks in a storm off Cape Finisterre, Galicia, Spain, killing almost 500 people.
1885  Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria.
1888  Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J. T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
1891  The first Paris-Brest-Paris cycling race is held, finishing on September 9.
1898  Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands is allowed to reign in her own right, having turned 18 the previous week, after Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont acted as regent for her over the previous eight years.
1901  American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
McKinley dies on September 14 from his injuries.
1915  The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.
1929  Finnish steamship Kuru sinks, killing 150, many of them school children.
1930  Democratically elected President of Argentina Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
1937  Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1939  World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
1940  King Carol II of Romania abdicates the throne.
His son, Michael of Romania, succeeds him.
1941  Holocaust: The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word Jew inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.
1943  The Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico is founded.
1943  The Pennsylvania railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1944  World War II: Ypres, Belgium, is liberated by Allied forces.
1944  World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
1946  United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the US will follow a policy of Economic Reconstruction in post-war Germany.
1948  Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
This comes after the abdication from the throne of Queen Wilhelmina.
1949  Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
1952  Canada's first TV station, CBFT-TV opens in Montreal.
1952  A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Air Show in Hampshire, England, UK, killing 29 people.
1965  War of 1965: India attacks Pakistan and announces that its forces will capture Lahore in an hour.
1966  In Cape Town, the South African architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
1968  Swaziland becomes independent.
1970  Jimi Hendrix performs what turns out to be his last concert, on the German Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn, on the last day of the Love and Peace Festival.
1970  Four passenger jets are simultaneously hijacked.
Two are taken to Dawson's Field.
1972  Munich Massacre: Israeli athletes and coaches are killed when police assault Black September members in a failed hostage rescue in Munich, West Germany.
1975  An earthquake in Lice, Turkey kills 2,400 people.
1976  Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt.
Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido in Japan and requests political asylum from the United States.
1983  The Soviet Union admits shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
1985  Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
1986  In Istanbul, two Arab terrorists from Abu Nidal's terror organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
1991  The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991  The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
1995  With the jury absent, Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman invokes his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson.
1995  Cal Ripken Jr. breaks Lou Gehrig's record of playing 2131 consecutive baseball games.
1997  The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales at Westminster Abbey draws large crowds.
1997  Uranus' moons of Caliban and Sycorax are discovered.
2000  In New York City, the United Nations Millennium Summit begins with more than 180 world leaders present.
2001  United States v. Microsoft: The United States Justice Department announces that it was no longer seeking to break up software maker Microsoft and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty.
2003  EU foreign ministers categorise Hamas as a terrorist organisation.
2006  The Germany national football team scores its biggest-ever away win, defeating the San Marino national football team 13-0.
2008  The 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing begin, running until September 17.
2009  The ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 people on board.
All but 10 are rescued.
2012  61 people die and 48 are injured after a fishing boat capsizes off Izmir Province, Western Turkey, near Greece's Aegean Islands.
2017  Hurricane Irma sweeps across the Lesser Antilles in the Eastern Caribbean; Almost every building on the island of Barbuda is destroyed.
2018  Homosexuality is legalised in India, following a decision by the Supreme Court of India.
2018  Brazilian Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is stabbed while campaigning; he survives the attack and is later elected President.
1475  Sebastiano Serlio, Italian architect (d. 1554)
1620  Isabella Leonarda, composer (d. 1704)
1656  Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723)
1666  Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
1711  Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the US Lutheran Church (d. 1787)
1729  Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher (d. 1786)
1732  Johan Wicke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)
1757  Gilbert de Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and politician (d. 1834)
1761  Marie-Gabrielle Capet, French painter (d. 1818)
1766  John Dalton, British chemist and physicist (d. 1844)
1781  Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher and composer (d. 1858)
1795  Frances Wright, writer, activist, and lecturer (d. 1852)
1800  Catharine Beecher, American educator (d. 1878)
1802  Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)
1808  Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian political figure (d. 1883)
1809  Bruno Bauer, German philosopher (d. 1882)
1815  St. John Richardson Liddell, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
1817  Mihai Kogalniceanu, Romanian politician (d. 1891)
1819  William Rosecrans, American general and diplomat (d. 1898)
1825  Giovanni Fattori, Italian painter (d. 1908)
1829  Marie Zakrzewska, physician (d. 1902)
1838  Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (d. 1906)
1852  Schalk Willem Burger, South African politician, military leader and State President (d. 1918)
1855  Ferdinand Hummel, German harpist, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1928)
1857  Zelia Nuttall, archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
1859  Boris Yakovlovic Bukreev, Russian mathematician (d. 1962)
1860  Jane Addams, American social activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 1935)
1861  William Lane, English-Australian journalist (d. 1917)
1868  Margaret Dreier Robins, American labor leader and reformer (d. 1947)
1869  Felix Salten, Austrian writer (d. 1945)
1869  Walford Davies, English organist and composer (d. 1941)
1876  John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physiologist, won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1935)
1877  Buddy Bolden, American jazz musician (d. 1930)
1879  Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1956)
1879  Johan Nygaardsvold, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1952)
1879  Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1883  Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, British jurist and politician (d. 1962)
1885  Otto Kruger, American actor (d. 1974)
1888  Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.,
American politician, businessman, diplomat and family patriarch (d. 1969)
1890  Claire Chennault, soldier (d. 1958)
1892  Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1965)
1893  John W. Bricker, 54th Governor of Ohio (d. 1986)
1899  Billy Rose, composer (d. 1966)
1900  W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
1900  Julien Green, French-American writer (d. 1998)
1902  Sylvanus Olympio, 1st President of Togo (d. 1963)
1904  Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom, boxer (d. 1976)
1905  Otto Liiv, Estonian historian and archivist (d. 1942)
1905  Walther Müller, German physicist (d. 1979)
1906  Luis Federico Leloir, Argentine biochemist (d. 1987)
1908  Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor (d. 1982)
1911  Harry Danning, American Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
1912  Michele Andreolo, Uruguayan-Italian footballer (d. 1981)
1913  Leonidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (d. 2004)
1915  Franz Josef Strauss, German politician and Minister-President of Bavaria (d. 1988)
1917  Philipp von Boeselager, German military officer and Resistance activist (d. 2008)
1919  Wilson Greatbatch, American inventor (d. 2011)
1921  Carmen Laforet, Spanish writer (d. 2004)
1921  David Petel, Iraqi-Israeli politician (d. 2019)
1921  Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor (d. 2012)
1923  King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
1924  John Melcher, American politician (d. 2018)
1925  Andrea Camilleri, Italian author, screenwriter and director (d. 2019)
1925  Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (d. 1976)
1926  Claus van Amsberg, Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
1927  Fouad el-Mohandes, Egyptian actor and comedian (d. 2006)
1928  Robert M. Pirsig, American writer (d. 2017)
1928  Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (d. 2002)
1928  Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect
1928  Sid Watkins, British neurosurgeon (d. 2012)
1929  Yash Johar, Indian movie producer (d. 2005)
1929  Lyubov Rebane, Estonian physicist and mathematician (d. 1991)
1930  Charles Foley, American co-inventor of the game Twister (d. 2013)
1930  Salvatore de Giorgi, Italian archbishop
1934  Paul Naschy, Spanish actor, screenwriter and movie director (d. 2009)
1935  Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French-American artist and author (d. 2014)
1936  Anne Cuneo, Swiss writer and director (d. 2015)
1937  Janusz Kurczab, Polish mountaineer and fencer (d. 2015)
1937  Jo Anne Worley, actress
1937  Sergio Aragonés, Spanish illustrator
1937  Brigid Berlin, American actor and artist
1938  Dennis Oppenheim, American artist (d. 2011)
1939  Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist
1939  David Allan Coe, American songwriter, singer and guitarist
1942  Dave Bargeron, American trombonist and tuba player
1943  Harris Hines, American judge (d. 2018)
1943  Richard J. Roberts, British biochemist and molecular biologist
1943  Roger Waters, British musician (Pink Floyd)
1944  Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
1944  Donna Haraway, American writer and activist
1947  Jane Curtin, American actress
1947  Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach
1948  Karlos Arguiñano, Spanish chef
1952  Buddy Miller, American singer-songwriter
1952  Simon Burns, English politician
1954  Carly Fiorina, American business executive and Presidential candidate
1955  Carl E. Walz, American astronaut
1956  Bill Ritter, former Governor of Colorado
1957  Michaëlle Jean, former Governor General of Canada
1957  José Sócrates, former Prime Minister of Portugal
1958  Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, and writer
1958  Arsinée Khanjian, Armenian-Canadian actress
1959  Ronnie Cowan, Scottish politician
1961  Scott Travis, American musician (Judas Priest)
1961  Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian musician (a-ha)
1962  Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey
1962  Marina Kaljurand, Estonian badminton player and diplomat
1963  Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer
1963  Geert Wilders, Dutch politician
1964  Rosie Perez, American actress
1965  Takumi Horiike, Japanese footballer
1966  Emil Boc, Romanian politician
1966  Jill Ellis, English-American soccer coach
1967  William DuVall, American singer (Alice in Chains)
1967  Macy Gray, American singer
1968  Paddy Boom, American drummer and songwriter (Scissor Sisters)
1968  Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish writer
1969  Norio Omura, Japanese footballer
1969  Ce Ce Peniston, American singer
1970  Paul Miller, (DJ Spooky) American composer, artist, writer
1970  Igor Korolev, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1970  Emily Maitlis, English journalist
1971  Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries) (d. 2018)
1971  Leila K, Swedish rapper
1972  China Miéville, writer
1972  Dylan Bruno, American actor
1972  Idris Elba, British actor
1973  Alessandro Troncon, Italian rugby player
1973  Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
1973  Greg Rusedski, Canadian-British tennis player
1974  Tim Henman, British tennis player
1974  Justin Whalin, actor
1974  Nina Persson, Swedish singer (The Cardigans)
1975  Gala, Italian singer
1976  Robin Atkin Downes, English actor and voice actor
1976  Tom Pappas, American athlete
1976  Naomie Harris, British actress
1978  Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer
1978  Foxy Brown, American rapper
1978  Mathew Horne, English actor and screenwriter
1979  Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
1980  Kerry Katona, British singer and television personality
1980  Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
1981  Yuki Abe, Japanese footballer
1981  Santiago Salcedo, Paraguayan footballer
1983  Pippa Middleton, sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
1984  Luc Abalo, French handball player
1984  Andarz Kirm, Slovenian footballer
1984  Thomas Dekker, Dutch cyclist
1985  Tadas Kijanskas, Lithuanian footballer
1985  Koki Mizuno, Japanese footballer
1985  Webbie, American rapper
1988  Max George, British singer (The Wanted)
1989  Kim So-eun, South Korean singer
1989  Audrey Deroin, French handball player
1990  John Wall, American basketball player
1994  Theo Trebs, German actor
2006  Prince Hisahito of Akishino of Japan
394  Eugenius, Roman Emperor
926  Emperor Taizu of Liao of China (b. 872)
957  Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (b. 930)
972  Pope John XIII
1276  Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Italian cardinal (b. 1210)
1511  Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1481)
1566  Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1494)
1635  Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)
1649  Robert Dudley, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)
1683  Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (b. 1619)
1708  Sir John Morden, philanthropist (b. 1623)
1724  Jonathan Singletary Dunham, American settler, ancestor of Barack Obama (b. 1640)
1782  Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
1783  Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
1808  Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
1868  Pierre Adolphe Rost, American lawyer, judge and politician (b. 1797)
1871  Josef Naus, Austrian surveyor and climber (b. 1791)
1885  Narcis Monturiol i Estariol, Catalan intellectual, artist and engineer (b. 1819)
1902  Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist (b. 1827)
1907  Sully Prudhomme, French writer (b. 1839)
1938  John Stuart Hindmarsh, English racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
1939  Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (b. 1867)
1945  John McCain, Sr.,
American admiral (b. 1884)
1950  Olaf Stapledon, English philosopher and author (b. 1886)
1951  Joan Vollmer, wife of William S. Burroughs (b. 1867)
1952  Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
1956  Alex Raymond, American comic artist (b. 1909)
1956  Michael Ventris, English architect (b. 1922)
1962  Seiichi Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
1962  Hanns Eisler, German composer (b. 1898)
1966  Hendrik Verwoerd, South African prime minister (b. 1901)
1966  Margaret Sanger, birth control activist (b. 1879)
1969  Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (b. 1892)
1972  People killed in the Munich Massacre:
Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-born Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944)
David Mark Berger, American-born Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944)
Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestling judge (b. 1931)
Eliezer Halfin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1948)
Amitzur Shapira, Israeli short-distance runner and coach (b. 1932)
Kehat Shorr, Israeli shooting coach (b. 1919)
Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1954)
Andre Spitzer, Romanian-born Israeli wrestler (b. 1954)
Yakov Springer, Polish-born Israeli wrestler and weightlifting coach (b. 1921)
Lutif Afif, Palestinian terrorist
1974  Olga Baclanova, Russian actress (b. 1896)
1974  Otto Kruger, American actor (b. 1885)
1981  Christy Brown, Irish writer (b. 1932)
1984  Ernest Tubb, country music singer (b. 1914)
1985  Franco Ferrera, Italian conductor (b. 1911)
1985  Johnny Desmond, American singer (b. 1919)
1986  Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1895)
1990  Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941)
1991  Pee Wee Gaskins, American serial killer (executed by electrocution; b. 1933)
1990  Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
1992  Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter and producer (b. 1912)
1994  Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. February 24, 1944)
1998  Akira Kurosawa, Japanese movie director (b. 1910)
1999  Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician (b. 1938)
2005  Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1919)
2007  Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
2007  Madeleine L'Engle, American writer (b. 1918)
2008  Anita Page, American actress (b. 1910)
2012  Art Modell, American businessman and NFL team owner (b. 1925)
2012  Terry Nutkins, English television host and author (b. 1946)
2014  Cirilo Flores, American bishop (b. 1948)
2014  Kira Zvorykina, Belarussian chess player (b. 1919)
2014  Odd Bondevik, Norwegian theologian (b. 1941)
2014  Stefan Gierasch, American actor (b. 1926)
2015  Ralph Milne, Scottish footballer (b. 1961)
2015  Martin Milner, American actor (b. 1931)
2015  Calvin J. Spann, American pilot (b. 1924)
2016  Lilian Uchtenhagen, Swiss economist and politician (b. 1928)
2017  Carlo Caffarra, Italian cardinal (b. 1938)
2017  Nicolae Lupescu, Romanian footballer (b. 1940)
2017  Jim McDaniels, American basketball player (b. 1948)
2017  Kate Millett, American feminist writer and human rights activist (b. 1934)
2017  Mike Neville, British television broadcaster (b. 1936)
2017  Noel Picard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2017  Solomon Efimovich Shulman, Belarussian writer (b. 1936)
2017  Lotfi A. Zadeh, Azerbaijani-American mathematician (b. 1921)
2018  Richard DeVos, American businessman (b. 1926)
2018  Liz Fraser, English actress (b. 1930)
2018  Wilson Moreira, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
2018  Burt Reynolds, American actor (b. 1936)
2018  Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor (b. 1934)
2018  Salawat Gallyamov, Russian linguist (b. 1959)
2018  Gilbert Lazard, French linguist (b. 1920)
2019  Chris Duncan, American baseball player (b. 1981)
2019  Robert Mugabe, 1st Prime Minister and 2nd President of Zimbabwe (b. 1924)
2019  Abdul Qadir, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1955)
2019  Wally Westlake, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2019  Chester Williams, South African rugby union player (b. 1970)
Independence Day (Swaziland)
Unification Day (Bulgaria)
Defence Day (Pakistan)
September 06
70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem.
1380 - Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
1504 – Michelangelo's David statue is unveiled in Florence.
1514 - Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
1565 - The Knights of Malta end the Turkish Siege of Malta that began on May 18.
1665 - Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under Charles X Gustav of Sweden.
1727 - A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England, kills 78 people, most of them children.
1761 – King George III of the United Kingdom marries Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
1796 - French Revolutionary Wars: The French defeat Austrian forces in Bassano, Venetia, present-day Italy.
1831 – William IV of the United Kingdom is crowned king.
1860 - The steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, killing around 300 people.
1863 – American Civil War: At the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, the Confederates prevent an attempt from the Union army to enter Texas.
1883 - The Northern Pacific Railway is completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana, United States.
1888 - Jack the Ripper killings: The body of Annie Chapman is found.
1888 - in England, the first six Football League matches are played.
1892 – The American Pledge of Allegiance is recited for the first time.
1900 – In Galveston, Texas, a hurricane kills around 8,000 people.
1914 - World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
1923 - Honda Point disaster: Nine United States Navy destroyers run aground on the California coast.
Seven are lost and 23 sailors are killed.
1926 – Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
1928 - Uruguay is given the right to host the 1930 FIFA World Cup.
1934 - Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
1935 - United States Senator Huey Long from Louisiana is fatally shot the state's capitol building.
1941 - World War II: The Siege of Leningrad begins.
1943 – World War II: US General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the allied armistice with Italy.
1944 - London is hot by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
1945 - United States troops arrive to partition South Korea after the Soviet occupation of the northern part.
1962 – Algeria adopts its constitution.
1966 – The First episode of Star Trek airs.
1966 - The Severn Bridge in southwestern England is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
1974 – Gerald Ford pardons former US President Richard Nixon.
1986 - The Oprah Winfrey Show is broadcast for the first time on US television.
1988 - Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in its history due to ongoing fires.
1989 - Partnair Flight 394 crashes in the North Sea, killing 55 people.
1991 – The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
1994 - USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes, killing all 132 on board.
2004 - NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands in Utah when its parachute fails to open.
2005 - Two EMERCOM II-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas - the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
2013 - Eleven people die in a train crash in Iasi County, Romania.
2018 - US Open: Naomi Osaka becomes the first Japanese tennis player to win a Grand Slam title, in a match dominated by her opponent Serena Williams' disputes with the umpire.
2019 - US Open: Rafael Nadal defeats Daniil Medvedev in five sets to win his 19th Grand Slam singles title, putting him just one behind Roger Federer's total of 20.
801  Ansgar, German Christian archbishop (d. 865)
1157  King Richard I of England (d. 1199)
1207  King Sancho II of Portugal (d. 1248)
1380  Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (d. 1444)
1413  Catherine of Bologna, Italian nun, writer, mystic, teacher, artist and saint (d. 1463)
1474  Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (d. 1533)
1588  Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (d. 1648)
1611  Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German philologist (d. 1671)
1621  Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, French general (d. 1686)
1624  Murad Baksh, son of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal (d. 1661)
1633  Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)
1749  Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (d. 1793)
1749  Marie-Louise, princesse de Lamballe, French aristocrat (d. 1792)
1750  Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1795)
1752  Carl Stenborg, Swedish opera singer (d. 1813)
1767  August von Schlegel, German poet (d. 1845)
1778  Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
1779  Mustafa IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1808)
1783  Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872)
1814  Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French archaeologist, ethnographer and historian (d. 1874)
1815  Giuseppina Strepponi, Italian operatic soprano (d. 1897)
1819  Fontes Pereira de Melo, Portuguese statesman (d. 1887)
1822  Karl von Ditmar, German geologist and explorer (d. 1892)
1828  Joshua Chamberlain, American general, politician and 32nd Governor of Maine (d. 1914)
1830  Frédéric Mistral, French poet (d. 1914)
1831  Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (d. 1910)
1841  Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (d. 1904)
1841  Charles J. Guiteau, assassin of US President James A. Garfield (d. 1882)
1851  John Jenkins, American-born Premier of South Australia (d. 1923)
1852  Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919)
1857  Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
1872  George Dern, Governor of Utah (d. 1936)
1873  David O. McKay, American Mormon leader (d. 1970)
1881  Harry Hillman, American athlete (d. 1945)
1881  Refik Saydam, 5th Prime Minister and Turkey (d. 1942)
1886  Siegfried Sassoon, British poet (d. 1967)
1886  Ninon Vallin, French soprano (d. 1961)
1887  Jacob L. Devers, American general (d. 1979)
1887  George, Crown Prince of Serbia (d. 1972)
1889  Robert Alphonso Taft, American politician (d. 1953)
1897  Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1933)
1900  Claude Pepper, American politician (d. 1989)
1901  Hendrik Verwoerd, South African politician (d. 1966)
1906  Andrei Kirilenko, Soviet politician (d. 1990)
1910  Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (d. 1994)
1914  Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople (d. 1991)
1918  Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist (d. 1998)
1919  Gianni Brera, Italian journalist and author (d. 1992)
1919  Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter (d. 2014)
1921  Harry Secombe, Welsh tenor and actor (d. 2001)
1922  Sid Caesar, American comedian and actor (d. 2014)
1922  Lyndon LaRouche, American politician (d. 2019)
1923  Joy Laville, British-Mexican artist (d. 2018)
1924  Fred Jarvis, British trade unionist
1924  Wendell H. Ford, American politician, 53rd Governor of Kentucky (d. 2015)
1925  Peter Sellers, British actor (d. 1980)
1929  Christoph von Dohnanyi, German conductor
1930  Mario Adorf, Swiss-German actor
1930  Nguyen Cao Ky, South Vietnamese air force chief and Prime Minister (d. 2011)
1930  Robert W. Firestone, American psychologist and author
1932  Patsy Cline, American singer (d. 1963)
1933  Paul M. Fleiss, American pediatrician (d. 2014)
1934  Alan Dundes, American folklorist (d. 2005)
1937  Joe Carolan, Irish footballer (d. 2018)
1938  Wibke Bruhns, German journalist and writer (d. 2019)
1939  Carsten Keller, German field hockey player
1941  Ito Giani, Italian sprinter (d. 2018)
1941  Bernie Sanders, American politician
1944  Margaret Hodge, English politician
1944  Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer and coach
1945  Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1973)
1945  Rogie Vachon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1946  Aziz Sancar, Turkish-American biochemist and molecular biologist, Nobel laureate
1947  Halldor Asgrimsson, Icelandic politician, former Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 2015)
1947  Valery Afanassiev, Russian politician
1948  Great Kabuki, Japanese wrestler
1950  Ian Davidson, Scottish politician
1951  John McDonnell, English politician
1952  David R. Ellis, American director, actor and stuntman (d. 2013)
1954  Anne Diamond, English journalist
1955  Julian Richings, English-Canadian actor
1956  David Carr, American journalist and writer (d. 2015)
1957  Walt Easley, American football player (d. 2013)
1957  Ricardo Montaner, Argentine-Venezuelan singer
1958  Mitsuru Miyamoto, Japanese voice actor
1959  Judy Murray, Scottish tennis coach
1960  Aimee Mann, American musician
1960  Stefano Casiraghi, Italian businessman, married into Monegasque royalty (d. 1990)
1963  Danny Frawley, Australian footballer (d. 2019)
1963  Brad Silberling, American television and movie director
1966  Carola, Swedish singer
1967  Eerik-Niiles Kross, Estonian politician and diplomat
1968  Louise Minchin, English journalist
1969  Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and coach (d. 2011)