the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1873 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (d. 1935)
1873 – Dorothy Richardson, English feminist writer (d. 1957)
1879 – Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (d. 1926)
1886 – King Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)
1888 – Tich Freeman, record-breaking Kent leg-spinner (d. 1965)
1889 - Dorothy Gibson, American actress (d. 1946)
1891 – Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife (d. 1959)
1895 - Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian-American supercentenarian (d. 2010)
1897 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist (d. 1981)
1898 – Alfred Joseph Casson, painter (d. 1992)
1900 – Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (d. 1989)
1901 – Werner Egk, German composer (d. 1983)
1902 - Khuang Abhaiwongse, Thai politician (d. 1968)
1903 – Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (d. 1991)
1904 – Jean Gabin, actor (d. 1976)
1906 – Zinka Milanov, Croatian opera soprano (d. 1989)
1911 – Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish-born supermodel (d. 1992)
1911 – Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (d. 1998)
1912 - Archibald Cox, American lawyer and politician (d. 2004)
1912 - Ace Parker, American football player (d. 2013)
1912 - Percy Young, British composer (d. 2004)
1913 - Hans Ruesch, Swiss racing driver (d. 2007)
1913 - Waldemar de Brito, Brazilian footballer (d. 1979)
1914 - Chang Ch'ung-ho, Chinese-American poet, educator and singer (d. 2015)
1917 - Boris Schnaiderman, Ukrainian-Brazilian translator, writer and essayist (d. 2016)
1918 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (d. 2005)
1919 – Merle Miller, Presidential biographer (d. 1986)
1919 - Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer, actor, movie producer and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1921 - Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (d. 2003)
1921 – Dennis Brain, English French horn player (d. 1957)
1922 – Antje Weisgerber, German actress (d. 2004)
1924 – Hannes Messemer, actor (d. 1991)
1925 - Michel de Certeau, French Jesuit and scholar (d. 1986)
1926 - David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer
1926 - Dietmar Schönherr, Austrian actor (d. 2014)
1931 – Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader, Heaven's Gate (d. 1997)
1932 - Rodric Braithwaite, English diplomat
1932 - Miloslav Vlk, Czech cardinal (d. 2017)
1933 - Thérèse Steinmetz, Dutch singer and painter
1934 – Ronald Wayne, American Apple Inc. co-founder
1934 - Friedrich-Wilhelm Kiel, German politician
1934 - Earl Morrall, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1935 – Dennis Potter, English writer (d. 1994)
1936 – Dennis Hopper, American actor, director (d. 2010)
1936 - Philippe Boesmans, Belgian composer
1936 - Lars Gustafsson, Swedish writer and philosopher (d. 2016)
1937 – Hazel R. O'Leary, United States Secretary of Energy
1940 – Alan Kay, American computer scientist
1941 – Ben Nelson, 40th Governor of Nebraska
1941 – Grace Zabriskie, American actress
1942 – Taj Mahal, American singer and guitarist
1943 - Alexander Lenkov, Russian actor (d. 2014)
1944 - Jesse Winchester, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
1944 - David Kelly, British weapons expert (d. 2003)
1945 – Tony Roche, Australian tennis player
1945 - B. S. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer
1946 – Udo Lindenberg, German  musician
1948 - Dick Gaughan, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist and composer
1948 - Winfried Kretschmann, German politician
1949 - Andrew Latimer, British musician
1949 - Bill Bruford, British drummer and songwriter
1950 – Janez Drnovšek, Slovene politician (d. 2008)
1950 – Alan Johnson, British politician
1950 - Howard Ashman, American playwright and lyricist (d. 1991)
1950 - Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Russian politician (d. 2014)
1951 – Simon Hughes, British politician
1953 - Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kazakhstan
1953 - Luca Prodan, Italian-Argentine singer-songwriter
1954 - Dame Patsy Reddy, 21st Governor-General of New Zealand
1954 - David Zippel, American lyricist
1955 – Bill Paxton, American actor (d. 2017)
1956 – Sugar Ray Leonard, American boxer
1956 - Annise Parker, American politician
1956 – Bob Saget, actor (d. 2022)
1957 - Peter Hoeg, Danish writer
1958 – Paul Di'Anno, English singer
1958 - Paul Whitehouse, Welsh actor, writer and comedian
1958 - Ivor Bolton, British conductor
1959 – Jim Nantz, American broadcaster
1960 - Lou DiBella, American boxing promoter, actor and producer
1960 - Simon Fuller, Cypriot-English talent manager and producer
1961 – Enya, Irish singer
1962 – Lise Lyng Falkenberg, Danish writer
1962 - Craig Ferguson, Scottish-American comedian, actor and television host
1962 – Alan Johnston, Scottish journalist
1963 - Jon Koncak, American basketball player
1963 - Taimo Toonast, Estonian opera singer
1965 – Jeremy Vine, British broadcaster
1965 – Trent Reznor, American singer, songwriter ("Nine Inch Nails")
1966 – Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003)
1966 - Hill Harper, American actor
1967 - Joseph M. Acaba, American astronaut
1967 - Paul D'Amour, American bass player and author
1967 - Mohamed Nasheed, former President of the Maldives
1970 - Jordan Knight, American singer-songwriter
1970 - Angelica Agurbash, Belarussian singer
1970 - Jeremy Browne, English politician
1971 – Maxima Zorreguieta Cerruti, Queen Consort of the Netherlands
1971 – Shaun Hart, Australian rules footballer
1971 - Gina Raimondo, American politician, 75th Governor of Rhode Island
1973 - Sasha Alexander, American actress
1974 – Andrea Corr, Irish singer (The Corrs)
1974 – Sendhil Ramamurthy, American actor
1975 – Jonti Picking, internet cartoonist
1975 – Laura Voutilainen, Finnish singer
1976 - Leehom Wang, American-Taiwanese singer-songwriter, actor, producer and director
1978 – Paddy Kenny, Irish footballer
1979 - David Jarolim, Czech footballer
1979 - Jimmie Akesson, Swedish politician
1980 - Juan Arango, Venezuelan footballer
1980 - Dallas Taylor, American singer, songwriter and musician
1981 - Cosma Shiva Hagen, German actress
1981 – Leon Osman, English footballer
1982 – Tony Parker, French-American basketball player
1982 - Clarence Goodson, American soccer player
1982 – Chloe Smith, British politician
1982 – Matt Cassel, American football player
1982 – Reiko Nakamura, Japanese swimmer
1983 – Channing Frye, American basketball player
1984 - Christine Ohuruogu, English athlete
1984 - Passenger, English singer and composer
1984 - Igor Denisov, Russian footballer
1984 - Teófilo Gutiérrez, Colombian footballer
1986 - Amy Gumenick, Swedish-born American actress
1986 - Bojan Jokic, Slovenian footballer
1986 - Jodie Taylor, English footballer
1987 - Evald Boasson Hagen, Norwegian cyclist
1987 - Ott Lepland, Estonian singer
1988 - Nikki Reed, American actress
1989 – Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer
1989 - Sarah Hargreaves, Danish-British handball player
1990 – Leven Rambin, American actress
1991 - Johanna Konta, Australian-born British tennis player
1991 - Daniel Curtis Lee, American actor
1996 - Ryan Ochoa, American actor
290 – Emperor Wu of Jin of China (b. 236)
1189 - Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)
1336 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
1365 - Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)
1510 – Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (b. 1445)
1521 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1748)
1536 - George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford
1551 - Shin Saimdang, Korean writer, artist and poet (b. 1504)
1575 – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1504)
1626 – Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)
1643 - Giovanni Picchi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1571)
1727 – Catherine I of Russia (b. 1683 or 1684)
1729 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (b. 1675)
1765 – Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)
1809 – Leon Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (b. 1722)
1822 – Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766)
1829 – John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)
1838 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)
1838 - René Caillié, French explorer (b. 1799)
1839 – Archibald Alison, Scottish writer (b. 1757)
1860 – Martin Kukučín, Slovak writer (b. 1757)
1870 - David Octavius Hill, Scottish artist and photographer (b. 1802)
1875 – John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)
1880 - Ziya Pasha, Ottoman writer and translator (b. 1826)
1886 - John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer (b. 1804)
1888 - Giacomo Zanella, Italian poet (b. 1820)
1911 - Frederick August Otto Schwarz, German-American businessman (b. 1836)
1916 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862)
1917 – Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak (b. 1829)
1919 – Guido von List, German occultist and writer (b. 1848)
1923 - Thomas Scott Baldwin, American balloonist and aviation pioneer (b. 1854)
1935 – Paul Dukas, French composer (b.1865)
1936 - Panagis Tsaldaris, 124th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1868)
1943 - Johanna Elberskirchen, German activist (b. 1864)
1946 – William Jefferson Blythe III, father of U.S. President Bill Clinton (b. 1918)
1947 – George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
1947 – Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903)
1963 - John Wilce, American football player (b. 1888)
1966 – Randy Turpin, English boxer (b. 1928)
1969 - Josef Beran, Czech cardinal (b. 1888)
1985 – Abe Burrows, songwriter, composer, and writer
1987 – Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist (b. 1898)
1992 – Lawrence Welk, American musician (b. 1903)
1995 - Joe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1912)
1999 - Lembit Oll, Estonian chess player (b. 1966)
2000 – Donald Coggan, 101st Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1909)
2002 – Dave Berg, cartoonist (b. 1920)
2002 – Sharon Sheeley, songwriter (b. 1940)
2002 – Davey Boy Smith, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2004 – Tony Randall, American actor (b. 1920)
2004 – Jørgen Nash, artist (b. 1920)
2004 – Ezzedine Salim, leader of Iraqi Governing Council
2005 – Frank Gorshin, actor (b. 1934)
2007 – Lloyd Alexander, American writer (b. 1924)
2009 – Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (b. 1920)
2010 – Khattiya Sawasdipol, Thai general (b. 1951)
2010 – Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian singer (b. 1925)
2010 – Yvonne Loriod, French pianist (b. 1924)
2011 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (b. 1936)
2012 - Gideon Ezra, Israeli politician (b. 1937)
2012 – Donna Summer, American disco singer (b. 1948)
2013 - Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentine military leader (b. 1925)
2013 - Alan O'Day, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
2013 - Philippe Gaumont, French cyclist (b. 1973)
2013 - Peter Schulz, German politician, Mayor of Hamburg (b. 1930)
2014 - Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist (b. 1929)
2014 - Miss Beazley, pet dog of George W. Bush (b. 2004)
2015 - Chinx, American rapper (b. 1983)
2015 - Margaret Dunning, American philanthropist (b. 1910)
2015 - Michael Alfred Peszke, Polish-born American psychiatrist and historian (b. 1932)
2016 - Guy Clark, American folk singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
2016 - Benjamin de Roo, Dutch-Australian gymnast (b. 1940)
2017 - Viktor Gorbatko, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1934)
2017 - Roxcy Bolton, American activist (b. 1926)
2017 - Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politician, First Minister of Wales (b. 1939)
2017 - Chris Cornell, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1964)
2018 - Nicole Fontaine, French lawyer and politician (b. 1942)
2018 - Richard Pipes, Polish-American academic and political expert (b. 1923)
2018 - Mehdi Tabatabaei, Iranian politician (b. 1936)
2019 - Rallapalli, Indian actor (b. 1945)
2019 - Eduardo A. Roca, Argentine diplomat (b. 1921)
2019 - Kadavoor Sivadasan, Indian politician and trade unionist (b. 1932)
2019 - Herman Wouk, American author (b. 1915)
Constitution Day, National Day of Norway
Constitution Day (Nauru)
Liberation Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Navy Day (Argentina)
International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
National Famine Memorial Day (Republic of Ireland)
World Information Society Day
Galician Literature Day
323 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine the Great defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium
533 – Battle of the Tenth Milestone: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals near Carthage.
987 – Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty which ruled France till the French Revolution in 1792.
1035 - William the Conqueror becomes Duke of Normandy.
1250 – Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
1608 – Quebec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1721 - Norwegian Christian missionary Hans Egede arrives in Greenland expecting to convert descendants of Vikings, not knowing of their mysterious disappearance from there.
Instead he converts local Inuit to Christianity.
1754 – George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces during the French and Indian War.
He is allowed to retain his colors and march out of the fort with full honors the following day.
1767 - Norway's oldest newspaper in print, Addresseavisen, is first published.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1778 - American Revolutionary War: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley Massacre.
1836 - Wisconsin becomes a separate US territory from the Michigan territory.
1844 – The last pair of Great Auks is killed in Iceland.
1848 - Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands) by Peter Scholten.
1849 - The French enter Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX.
1863 – American Civil War: The final and bloodiest day of the Battle of Gettysburg, and the fall of the besieged Vicksburg to Ulysses S. Grant in Pickett's Charge.
1866 – Austro-Prussian War is decided at Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
1880 - Thomas Edison founds the Science magazine.
1884 - Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
1886 - Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen - the first purpose-built automobile.
1890 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
1898 - Spanish-American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete is destroyed by the United States Navy at Santiago de Cuba.
1938 – World record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the "Mallard", which reaches a speed of 203 km/h (126 mph).
1940 - World War II: In order to stop the ships from falling into German hands, the French fleet of the Atlantic based near El Kebir is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar.
1944 - World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
1952 - The Constitution of Puerto Rico is accepted by the United States Congress.
1953 – Austrian Hermann Buhl climbs the Himalayan peak Nanga Parbat, at an elevation of 8,125 metres.
1962 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.
1969 - The biggest-ever rocket explosion occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and destroys its Launchpad.
1970 – A British chartered jetliner crashes near Barcelona, Spain, killing 112
1976 – Adolfo Suárez is chosen by King Juan Carlos I of Spain to lead a transitional government as Prime Minister of Spain.
1976 – Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda.
1988 – United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
1996 – The Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
2001 – A Vladivostokavia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
2004 – Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.
2004 – At Wimbledon, Maria Sharapova, then-aged 17, wins her first singles' tennis title, defeating Serena Williams in the final.
2005 – Same-sex marriage is legalised in Spain.
2011 – Novak Djokovic wins his first Wimbledon singles' title, defeating Rafael Nadal in a four-set match.
2013 - King Albert II of Belgium announces his abdication from the throne.
His son becomes King Philippe of Belgium on July 21.
2013 - President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is overthrown in a military coup after widespread protests.
2016 - A series of terrorist bombings in Baghdad results in 213 people being killed.
2017 - A bus crashes into a lorry in Northern Bavaria, Germany, and bursts into flames, killing 18 people.
1421 - Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Italian banker and patron of the arts (d. 1463)
1423 – King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
1442 – Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1518 - Li Shizhen, Chinese physician (d. 1593)
1590 - Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, Italian singer, organist and composer (d. 1662)
1676 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1747)
1709 - Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (d. 1758)
1728 – Robert Adam, Scottish architect (d. 1792)
1738 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)
1743 – Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Queen Consort of Sweden (d. 1813)
1789 - Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter (d. 1869)
1844 - Dankmar Adler, German-American architect (d. 1900)
1846 - Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer (d. 1919)
1848 - Lothar von Trotha, Prussian military officer (d. 1920)
1854 – Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
1860 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (d. 1935)
1863 - Ciro Luis Urriola, 8th President of Panama (d. 1922)
1866 - Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (d. 1906)
1869 - Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (d. 1933)
1870 – Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)
1874 - Jean Collas, French rugby player (d. 1928)
1875 – Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951)
1876 - Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher (d. 1957)
1876 - Robert Knud Richard Pilger, German botanist (d. 1953)
1878 - George M. Cohan, American actor, singer and dancer (d. 1942)
1883 – Franz Kafka, Austrian writer (d. 1924)
1886 - Harmodio Arias Madrid, 15th President of Panama (d. 1962)
1888 - Ramon Gomez de la Serna, Spanish playwright (d. 1963)
1893 – Mississippi John Hurt, American musician (d. 1966)
1899 - Ernst Fischer, Austrian journalist, writer and politician (d. 1972)
1900 - Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
1903 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
1906 – George Sanders, Russian-born English actor (d. 1972)
1908 – M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)
1908 - Robert B. Meyner, American politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1990)
1909 – Stavros Spiros Niarchos, Greek ship owner (d. 1996)
1910 - Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1954)
1913 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist, and television personality (d. 1965)
1916 - John Kundla, American basketball player and coach (d. 2017)
1917 - Joao Saldanha, Brazilian footballer, coach and journalist (d. 1990)
1918 - S. V. Ranga Rao, Indian actor, director and producer (d. 1974)
1921 - Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952)
1921 - François Reichenbach, French director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1993)
1922 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Dutch artist (d. 2010)
1924 – S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (d. 2016)
1926 - Laurence Street, Australian jurist (d. 2018)
1927 – Ken Russell, English director (d. 2011)
1928 – Günter Bruno Fuchs, writer (d. 1977)
1928 - Jan Machulski, Polish actor (d. 2008)
1930 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
1932 - Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, German politician (d. 2015)
1934 – Manfred Bieler, writer
1935 - Cheo Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
1935 – Harrison Schmitt, American astronaut
1937 – Tom Stoppard, Czech-born playwright
1938 - Martin Brandtner, American Marine Corps general (d. 2017)
1939 – Brigitte Fassbaender, German mezzo-soprano
1939 - Laszlo Kovacs, Hungarian politician
1939 - Angelo Sormani, Brazilian footballer
1940 - Fontella Bass, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
1940 – Jerzy Buzek, Polish politician, former Prime Minister of Poland
1940 – César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994)
1942 - Robert Dugard, English speedway rider (d. 2018)
1942 - Eddy Mitchell, French singer-songwriter and actor
1943 - Kurtwood Smith, American actor
1943 - Norman Thagard, American astronaut
1944 - Michel Polnareff, French singer-songwriter
1945 – Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, Scottish politician, former Speaker of the UK House of Commons (d. 2018)
1946 – Leszek Miller, former Prime Minister of Poland
1946 - Michael Shea, American author (d. 2014)
1947 – Dave Barry, American writer
1947 – Betty Buckley, American actress
1947 - Rob Rensenbrink, Dutch footballer
1949 – Jan Smithers, American actress
1949 - Bo Xilai, Chinese politician
1950 - James Hahn, American politician, 40th Mayor of Los Angeles
1951 – Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
1951 – Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc), Haitian politician (d. 2014)
1952 - Andy Fraser, English songwriter and bass guitarist (d. 2015)
1955 - Walter Veltroni, Italian politician, former Mayor of Rome
1956 – Montel Williams, American talk show host
1957 – Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
1957 - Poly Styrene, English singer (d. 2011)
1958 - Lisa De Leeuw, Dutch pornographic actress
1959 - Ian Maxtone-Graham, American screenwriter and producer
1960 - Vince Clarke, British musician
1961 – Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese principal ballet dancer
1962 – Tom Cruise, American actor
1963 – Tracey Emin, English artist
1964 – Joanne Harris, English writer
1964 – Yeardley Smith, American actress
1965 - Connie Nielsen, Danish actress
1965 - Tommy Flanagan, Scottish actor
1966 – Moises Alou, American Major League Baseball player
1966 - Daniel Plaza, Spanish race walker
1968 - Ramush Haradinaj, 4th Prime Minister of Kosovo
1969 – Kevin Hearn, Canadian singer and keyboardist (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 - Arlene Foster, Northern Irish politician, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and former First Minister of Northern Ireland
1970 - Audra McDonald, American actress and producer
1970 – Teemu Selänne, Finnish ice hockey player
1971 – Julian Assange, Australian internet activist, founder of the WikiLeaks website
1973 - Emma Cunniffe, British actress
1973 – Olafur Stefansson, Icelandic handball player
1973 - Fyodor Tuvin, Russian footballer (d. 2013)
1973 - Patrick Wilson, American actor and singer
1976 – Andrea Barber, American actress
1976 – Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1979 - Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
1980 - Olivia Munn, American actress
1980 - Jenny Jones, English snowboarder
1980 - Harbhajan Singh, Indian cricketer
1981 - Aoi Tada, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
1981 - Justin Torkildsen, American actor
1983 – Steph Jones, American singer and model
1983 - Edinson Volquez, Dominican baseball player
1985 - Keisuke Minami, Japanese actor and singer
1986 - Ola Toivonen, Swedish footballer
1986 – Oscar Ustari, Argentine footballer
1987 – Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver
1988 – Winston Reid, New Zealand footballer
1988 - Vladislav Sesganov, Russian figure skater
1988 - James Troisi, Australian footballer
1989 - Elle King, American singer
1990 - Carly Lauren, American model
1991 - Will Grigg, English-Northern Irish footballer
1991 - Tomoni Itano, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
1991 - Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russian tennis player
1992 – Nathalia Ramos, Spanish-American actress and singer
1992 - Molly Sandén, Swedish singer and voice actress
1992 - Masado Sudo, Japanese singer
1993 - Roy Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter
1993 - Kerem Demirbay, German footballer
458 - Patriarch Anatolius of Constantinople (b. 449)
710 - Emperor Zhongzhong of Tang, Chinese Emperor (b. 656)
1570 - Aonio Paleario, Italian reformer (b. 1500)
1640 - Giuseppe Cesari, Italian painter (b. 1568)
1642 – Maria de'Medici, Queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)
1778 – Anna Maria Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
1795 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general, explorer, author and astronomer (b. 1716)
1809 - Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (b. 1746)
1863 - George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
1863 - Little Crow, American tribal leader (b. 1810)
1888 - Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1822)
1904 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)
1904 - Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
1908 - Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (b. 1845)
1914 – Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)
1918 – Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
1918 - Benjamin Tillman, American politician, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1847)
1933 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
1935 – André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
1937 - Jacob Schick, American-Canadian captain and businessman, invented the electric razor (b. 1877)
1941 - Friedrich Akel, Estonian politician (b. 1871)
1957 - Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
1969 – Brian Jones, British musician (the Rolling Stones) (b. 1942)
1971 – Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
1973 - Laurens Hammond, American inventor (b. 1895)
1979 – Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
1984 - Ernesto Mascheroni, Uruguayan-Italian footballer (b. 1907)
1986 – Rudy Vallée, American singer (b. 1901)
1987 - Viola Dana, American actress (b. 1897)
1989 – Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
1991 - Le Van Thiem, Vietnamese mathematician (b. 1918)
1991 - Domingo Tarasconi, Argentine footballer (b. 1903)
1993 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
1993 – Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
1994 - Lew Hood, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
1995 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)
1995 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
1998 – Danielle Bunten Berry, software developer (b. 1949)
1999 – Mark Sandman, musician (Morphine (band)) (b. 1952) (heart attack)
2000 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
2001 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian writer (b. 1931)
2003 – Gaetano Alibrandi, papal diplomat (b. 1914)
2004 – Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1929)
2005 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1914)
2005 - Gaylord Nelson, American politician, 35th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1914)
2006 - Joseph Goquen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
2007 - Claude Pompidou, First Lady of France (b. 1912)
2009 – Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuadorean writer (b. 1926)
2010 – Abu Daoud, Palestinian military commander (b. 1937)
2010 – Herbert Erhardt, German footballer (b. 1930)
2011 – Anna Massey, British actress (b. 1937)
2012 - Andy Griffith, American actor, singer and producer (b. 1926)
2012 - Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer and politician (b. 1926)
2013 - Radu Vasile, 57th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1942)
2014 - Jini Dellaccio, American photographer (b. 1917)
2014 - Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ukrainian-born American rabbi (b. 1924)
2015 - Phil Walsh, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1960)
2015 - Boyd K. Packer, American religious leader, member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1924)
2015 - Jacques Sernas, Lithuanian-French actor (b. 1925)
2015 - Diana Douglas, Bermudan-American actress (b. 1923)
2015 - John A. Williams, American writer (b. 1925)
2015 - György Szabad, Hungarian politician and historian (b. 1924)
2016 - Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark (b. 1927)
2016 - Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
2016 - Uma Shankar Mishra, Indian politician (b. 1923)
2016 - Noel Neill, American actress (b. 1920)
2016 - Mauricio Walerstein, Mexican film director (b. 1945)
2016 - Markus Werner, Swiss writer (b. 1944)
2017 - José Luis Cuevas, Mexican painter (b. 1934)
2017 - Rudy Rotta, Italian guitarist and singer (b. 1950)
2017 - Solvi Stubing, German actress and model (b. 1941)
2017 - Paolo Villaggio, Italian actor and writer (b. 1932)
2017 - Tom Blom, Dutch radio and television presenter (b. 1946)
2017 - Spencer Johnson, American author (b. 1938)
2017 - Joe Robinson, British actor (b. 1927)
2018 - Richard Swift, American singer-songwriter (b. 1977)
Emancipation Day (United States Virgin Islands)
Independence Day (Belarus)
July 03
1189 - Richard I of England comes to the throne.
He is known as "Richard the Lionheart" and spends most of his reign abroad fighting in the Crusades.
1348 - Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death.
1411 - Ming Dynasty China's Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presents the Sinhalese King, captured during the Ming-Kotte War, to the Yongle Emperor.
1415 - Bohemian Christian reformer Jan Hus is burned and the stake and becomes a martyr.
1483 - King Richard III of England is crowned.
1484 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cao finds the mouth of the Congo River.
1495 - First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo - Charles VIII, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Holy League.
1535 - Thomas More is executed for treason on the orders of King Henry VIII of England.
1553 - King Edward VI of England dies at the age of 16.
A succession crisis initially puts Lady Jane Grey on the throne for nine days, before Edward's sister becomes Queen Mary I of England.
1557 - King Philip II of Spain, consort of Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France.
It results in England losing Calais and Mary and Philip never seeing each other again.
1560 - The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed between Scotland and England.
1573 - The city of Cordoba, Argentina, is founded by Jeronimo Luis de Cabrera.
1609 - Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
1630 - Thirty Years' War: 4,000 Swedish troops under King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden land in Pomerania on what is now Germany's Baltic Sea coast.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga - After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
1779 - Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
1785 – The dollar is chosen as the US monetary unit.
1801 - First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras.
1854 – The Republican Party meets for the first time, in Jackson, Mississippi.
1885 – Louis Pasteur tests the vaccine for rabies.
1887 - David Kalakaua, King of Hawai'i, is forced at gunpoint by the Americans to sign the Bayonet Constitution, giving the Americans more power in Hawai'i, while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
1892 - Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian member of the UK Parliament.
1893 - The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injuring 200.
1905 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
1917 - World War I: Arabian troops under T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and Auda ibn Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Brunete begins with Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
1939 - Holocaust: The last-remaining Jewish-owned businesses in Germany are shut down.
1942 – Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the secret annex in Amsterdam.
1944 - A circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut kills around 168 people.
1947 – The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
1950 - The Oder-Neisse Line is determined as the border between Poland and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
1957 – In Tennis, Althea Gibson becomes the first African American to win a Wimbledon title.
1957 – Paul McCartney and John Lennon meet for the first time.
1962 - The Late Late Show is first broadcast on US television.
1964 – Malawi becomes independent.
1966 – Malawi becomes a Republic, with Hastings Banda as President under a one-party system.
1967 – The Biafran War begins, as Biafra tries to become independent from Nigeria.
1967 - A train crash near Magdeburg in what was then East Germany kills 94 people.
1975 – The Comoros declare independence.
1988 – In the North Sea, a major fire occurs on the Piper Alpha oil rig off the east coast of Scotland, killing 167 people.
1989 - Tel Aviv-Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: 14 bus passengers are killed when an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus was driving was driven off the edge of a cliff.
1995 - Bosnian-Serb forces under Ratko Mladic start their assault on the town of Srebrenica.
2000 - Germany is given the right to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
2003 – Tennis: Roger Federer wins his first Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Mark Philippoussis of Australia in three sets.
It is also the first of Federer's five consecutive Wimbledon titles.
2005 – The 2012 Summer Olympics are given to London at an IOC sitting in Singapore.
2005 - The 2005 G8 summit, lasting until July 9, held at Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland, begins.
2008 – Tennis: Rafael Nadal wins the men's singles title at Wimbledon, ending Roger Federer's run of five consecutive titles there.
2009 – Jadranka Kosor becomes Prime Minister of Croatia.
2011 – Pyeongchang, South Korea is announced as the host city for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
2013 - A 73-car oil train derails in Lac Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying much of the town center.
2017 - The European Union and Japan agree a trade deal.
2018 - Shoko Asahara and other members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult are executed for the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack, which was carried out in 1995.
2018 - Belgium defeat Brazil 2-1 in the Quarter Finals of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, meaning that, for the first time, neither Argentina, Brazil or Germany are in the semi-finals of the tournament.
1387 - Blanche I of Navarre (d. 1441)
1555 - Louis II, Cardinal of Guise (d. 1588)
1623 - Jacopo Melani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1676)
1678 - Nicola Francesco Haym, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1729)
1686 - Antoine de Jussieu, French biologist (d. 1758)
1724 - Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1748)
1747 – John Paul Jones, British-American naval commander (d. 1792)
1766 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (d. 1813)
1782 - Maria Luisa of Spain (d. 1824)
1785 – William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (d. 1865)
1789 - Maria Isabella of Spain (d. 1846)
1796 – Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)
1808 - Johann Gustav Droysen, German historian (d. 1884)
1818 – Adolf Anderssen, chess player (d. 1879)
1824 - John Lourie Beveridge, American politician, 16th Governor of Illinois (d. 1910)
1831 - Sylvester Pennoyer, American politician, 8th Governor of Oregon (d. 1902)
1832 – Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (d. 1867)
1838 – Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian scholar (d. 1923)
1854 - Manuel Iradier, Spanish explorer (d. 1911)
1859 – Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer (d. 1940)
1864 - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer and conductor (d. 1920)
1868 – Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1935)
1875 - Charles Perrin, French rower (d. 1954)
1876 - Louis J. Brann, American politician, Governor of Maine (d. 1948)
1878 – Eino Leino, Finnish poet (d. 1926)
1884 – Harold Vanderbilt, American businessman (d. 1970)
1885 - Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1886 - Marc Bloch, French historian (d. 1944)
1887 - Marc Chagall, Belarus-born French artist (d. 1985)
1887 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (d. 1975)
1887 – Walter Flex, writer (d. 1917)
1897 - Richard Krautheimer, German-American historian and scholar (d. 1994)
1898 – Hanns Eisler, German composer (d. 1962)
1899 - Susannah Mushatt Jones, American supercentenarian (d. 2016)
1900 – Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright, screenwriter and writer (d. 2012)
1903 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist (d. 1982)
1904 - Erik Wickberg, Swedish General of the Salvation Army (d. 1996)
1907 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
1907 - George Stanley, Canadian soldier, historian and author (d. 2002)
1912 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and geographer (d. 2006)
1914 - Vince McMahon, Sr.,
American wrestling promoter (d. 1981)
1916 - Harold Norse, American poet (d. 2009)
1917 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand runner and coach (d. 2004)
1917 - Heribert Barrera, Catalan chemist and politician (d. 2011)
1918 – Sebastian Cabot, English actor (d. 1977)
1919 – Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor (d. 2007)
1919 - Unica Zürn, German author and artist (d. 1970)
1921 – Nancy Reagan, American actress and First Lady of the United States (d. 2016)
1921 - Allan MacEachen, Canadian economist and politician (d. 2017)
1922 - William Schallert, American actor (d. 2016)
1923 – Wojciech Jaruzelski, President of Poland (d. 2014)
1924 - Louie Bellson, American jazz musician (d. 2009)
1925 – Merv Griffin, American game show developer and television show host (d. 2007)
1925 – Bill Haley, American singer (Bill Haley and the Comets) (d. 1981)
1927 – Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004)
1927 – Hein Donner, Dutch chess player
1927 – Dolores Claman, musician and composer
1927 – Pat Paulsen, American comedian and Presidential candidate (d. 1997)
1930 - Ian Burgess, British racing driver (d. 2012)
1930 – Herbert Erhardt, German footballer (d. 2010)
1931 – Della Reese, American singer and actress (d. 2017)
1931 - Carl E. Reichardt, American banking executive (d. 2017)
1931 - Antonella Lualdi, Italian actress
1932 - Herman Hertzberger, Dutch architect and educator
1935 – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
1936 – Dave Allen, Irish comedian (d. 2005)
1937 – Ned Beatty, American actor
1937 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor
1937 - Michael Sata, 5th President of Zambia (d. 2014)
1939 – Jet Harris, English musician (The Shadows) (d. 2011)
1939 - Bruce Hunter, American swimmer (d. 2018)
1939 - Mary Peters, British pentathlete
1940 – Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan
1942 - Izora Armstead, American singer (The Weather Girls) (d. 2004)
1944 - Bernhard Schlink, German jurist and writer
1945 - Burt Ward, American actor
1946 – Peter Singer, Australian philosopher
1946 – Sylvester Stallone, American actor
1946 – George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
1946 - Toquinho, Brazilian musician
1949 - Phyllis Hyman, American singer and songwriter (d. 1995)
1949 - Noli de Castro, 14th Vice President of the Philippines
1951 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
1952 - Hilary Mantel, English writer
1952 - Grant Goodeve, American actor and television host
1953 – Nanci Griffith, American singer and songwriter
1953 - Kaiser Kalambo, Zambian footballer (d. 2014)
1958 – Jennifer Saunders, English actress and comedienne
1959 – Richard Dacoury, French basketball player
1960 - Asahifuji Seiya, Japanese sumo wrestler
1961 - Jonas Jonasson, Swedish writer and journalist
1961 - Benita Fitzgerald-Brown, American Olympic hurdler
1962 - Peter Hedges, American author, director and screenwriter
1967 – Heather Nova, British-Bermudan guitarist and singer
1969 - Fernando Redondo, Argentine footballer
1970 – Roger Cicero, German singer and musician (d. 2016)
1970 – Inspectah Deck, American rapper
1972 - Isabelle Boulay, Canadian singer
1974 – Zé Roberto, Brazilian footballer
1975 – 50 Cent, American rapper
1977 - Audrey Fleurot, French actress
1977 – Max Mirnyi, Belarussian tennis player
1978 - Tamera Mowry, American actress
1978 - Tia Mowry, American actress
1979 - Kevin Hart, American actor and comedian
1980 – Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player
1982 – Brandon Jacobs, American football player
1982 - Misty Upham, American actress (d. 2014)
1983 - Gregory Smith, Canadian-American actor
1984 - Zhang Hao, Chinese figure skater
1984 - Lauren Harris, English singer and actress
1984 - Natasha Zlobina, Uzbek-French actress and model
1985 - Ranveer Singh, Indian actor
1987 – Kate Nash, English singer and songwriter
1987 - Sophie Auster, American actress and singer
1988 - Brittany Underwood, American actress and singer
1989 - Elias Harris, German basketball player
1990 - Ajoo, South Korean singer and dancer
1991 - Victoire Thivisol, French actress
1994 – Camilla Rosso, British actress
1994 - Rebecca Rosso, British actress
1996 - Robert Naylor, Canadian actor
371 BC - Cleombrotus I, Spartan King
649 - Goar of Aquitaine, French-German bishop and saint (b. 585)
918 - William I, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 875)
1189 – King Henry II of England (b. 1133)
1218 - Odo III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
1249 - King Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198)
1415 – Jan Hus, Bohemian religious reformer and Christian martyr (b. 1369)
1476 - Regiomontanus, German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer (b. 1436)
1480 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1416)
1533 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474)
1535 – Thomas More, English philosopher and Christian martyr (b. 1478)
1553 – King Edward VI of England (b. 1537)
1809 – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (b. 1775)
1835 - John Marshall, 4th United States Secretary of State (b. 1755)
1854 – Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)
1868 - Harada Sanosuke, Japanese captain (b. 1840)
1893 – Guy de Maupassant, French writer (b. 1850)
1901 - Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (b. 1819)
1902 - Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (b. 1890)
1904 - Abai Qunanbaiuli, Kazakhstani poet and philosopher (b. 1845)
1916 - Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
1930 - Cormic Cosgrove, American soccer player (b. 1869)
1932 – Kenneth Grahame, British writer (b. 1859)
1937 - Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, 31st President of Colombia (b. 1867)
1952 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French-Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (b. 1867)
1954 - Julio Acosta Garcia, President of Costa Rica (b. 1872)
1959 – George Grosz, German painter (b. 1893)
1960 – Aneurin Bevan, Welsh politician (b. 1897)
1962 – William Faulkner, American writer (b. 1897)
1962 - Paul Boffa, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1890)
1962 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria (b. 1872)
1963 - George, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1899)
1971 – Louis Armstrong, American musician (b. 1901)
1973 – Otto Klemperer, German conductor (b. 1895)
1974 - Francis Blanche, French actor (b. 1921)
1976 - Zhu De, Chinese general and politician (b. 1886)
1986 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
1989 – Janos Kadar, Hungarian politician (b. 1912)
1997 - Chetan Anand, Indian director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1921)
1998 - Roy Rogers, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
1999 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1901)
2000 – Wladyslaw Szpilman, Polish pianist, composer and writer (b. 1911)
2002 - John Frankenheimer, American movie director (b. 1930)
2004 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932)
2004 - Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2005 – Claude Simon, French writer (b. 1913)
2005 – Evan Hunter, American writer (b. 1926)
2009 – Robert McNamara, American politician (b. 1916)
2009 – Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (b. 1932)
2009 - Bleddyn Williams, Welsh rugby player (b. 1923)
2013 - Ruby Keeling, American basketball player and coach (b. 1947)
2014 - Benedito de Assis da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1952)
2014 - Alan J. Dixon, former United States Senator from Illinois (b. 1927)
2014 - Andrew Mango, Turkish-English author (b. 1926)
2014 - Granville Austin, American historian and academic (b. 1927)
2015 - Jerry Weintraub, American film producer (b. 1937)
2016 - John McMartin, American actor (b. 1929)
2016 - Danny Smythe, American drummer (b. 1948)
2017 - Joan B. Lee, English-American actress (b. 1921)
2017 - Heinz Schneiter, Swiss footballer (b. 1935)
2017 - Michel Aurillac, French lawyer, politician and author (b. 1928)
2017 - Diane Von Hoffman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2018 - Shoko Asahara, Japanese founder of cult group Aum Shinrikyo (b. 1955)
2018 - Tyler Honeycutt, American basketball player (b. 1990)
2018 - Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer (b. 1985)
2018 - Giuseppina Projetto, Italian supercentenarian (b. 1902)
2018 - Bruce Hunter, American swimmer (b. 1939)
Independence Day in Malawi (1966), and the Comoros (1975)
Jan Hus Day (Czech Republic)
Statehood Day (Lithuania)
First Day of the San Fermin Bull run festival in Pamplona, northern Spain
July 06
1456 – A retrial verdict clears Joan of Arc of heresy, 25 years after she was burnt to death at the stake.
1534 – The first exchange between Europeans and Native Americans takes place in present-day New Brunswick.
1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg.
1575 - Raid of the Redeswine, the last major battle between England and Scotland.
1585 - The Treaty of Nemours bans tolerance of Protestants in France.
1770 - The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and Ottoman Empire is fought.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated at the Battle of Hubbardton.
1807 - Napoleonic Wars: The Peace of Tilsit between France, Russia and Prussia ends the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1846 – California is annexed by the United States.
1865 – The conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, are executed.
1881 - Pinocchio, written by Carlo Collodi, is published for the first time.
1898 – Hawaii becomes a United States Territory.
1911 - The United States, United Kingdom, France and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911, banning open-water seal hunting.
1915 - World War I: End of the First Battle of Isonzo.
1915 - An International Railway trolley overloaded with 157 passengers  crashes near Queenston, Ontario, Canada, killing 15 people.
1928 – Commercially sliced bread is first sold in Chillicothe, Missouri.
1930 – Work on the Hoover Dam begins.
1937 – The Second Sino-Japanese War begins.
1941 – World War II: US forces land in Iceland.
1944 - World War II: American forces carry out an air raid over Leipzig, Germany.
1946 - Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
1947 - Roswell incident: Alleged crash of an alien spaceship in Roswell, New Mexico, United States.
1953 - Che Guevara starts out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.
1956 - Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers become the first people climb Gasherbrum II in the Himalayas.
1958 – Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law, allowing Alaska to become a State of the US on January 3, 1959.
1974 – West Germany beats the Netherlands 2-1 to win its second FIFA World Cup.
1978 – The Solomon Islands become independent.
1980 - Sharia law is installed in Iran.
1980 - During the Civil War in Lebanon, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what becomes known as the Safra massacre.
1981 - Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female member of the United States Supreme Court.
1983 – US schoolgirl Samantha Smith visits the Soviet Union, after an invitation from Yuri Andropov.
Samantha Smith had written him a letter, expressing her fears over a nuclear war.
1985 – Boris Becker wins his first Wimbledon tennis title, aged 17.
1991 - The Brioni Agreement ends the 10-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2003 - NASA's Opportunity rover is launched into space on a Delta II rocket.
2003 - A Boeing 737 of Sudan Airways crashes in Port Sudan, Sudan, shortly after take-off, killing 116 people.
2005 – Four suicide bombers kill 52 people on London's public transport system.
They are the first suicide bombers ever to strike in Europe.
2007 – Live Earth concerts take place worldwide, promoting protection of the Environment.
2009 - A public funeral service is held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, for Michael Jackson, who had died on June 25 aged 50.
2011 – Part of a roof at a football stadium in Enschede, the Netherlands, collapses, killing at least one person.
2011 - Adolf Hitler is removed as an honorary citizen in his birthplace of Braunau am Inn in Austria.
2013 - Andy Murray defeats Novak Djokovic to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon, becoming the first British player in 77 years (since Fred Perry) to win the men's title there.
2017 - A treaty banning nuclear weapons is voted for by 124 out of 193 countries.
1053 – Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
1119 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
1207 - Elizabeth of Hungary (d. 1231)
1528 – Archduchess Anna of Austria (d. 1590)
1656 - Guru Har Kishan, 8th Sikh Guru (d. 1664)
1752 – Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834)
1805 - Victor de Tornaco, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1875)
1836 - Rudolf Wolf, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1893)
1843 – Camillo Golgi, Italian doctor, won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1926)
1846 - Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian nationalist leader, doctor and author (d. 1916)