the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1950  At the 1950 FIFA World Cup, the United States national football team, through a goal from Joe Gaetjens, defeats the England national football team 1-0.
1956  Marilyn Monroe marries Arthur Miller.
1958  Brazil wins the FIFA World Cup for the first time, beating the host country Sweden 5-2 in the final.
1974  Isabel Perón takes over Presidential duties in Argentina, as her husband Juan Perón is dying.
1974  Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
1975  Steve Wozniak tests his first prototype Apple Inc. I computer.
1976  The Seychelles become independent.
1986  Argentina wins the FIFA World Cup, defeating West Germany 3-2.
1986  Richard Branson sets the record for the fastest powerboat crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.
1995  The Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Space Station Mir.
1995  In Seoul, South Korea, the Sampoong department store collapses, killing 501, and injuring 937 people.
1996  Olafur Ragnar Grimsson is elected President of Iceland, taking office on August 1.
He succeeds Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, who decided not to run for election for a fifth time.
2002  Naval clashes occur between North Korea and South Korea.
6 South Korean sailors are killed and a North Korean vessel is sunk.
2007  Two explosive devices are found in cars outside nightclubs in London, UK.
2007  The IPhone goes on sale in the United States.
2008  UEFA Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland: The tournament is won by the Spain national football team, with a goal by Fernando Torres securing a 1-0 victory over the Germany national football team.
2009  American financier Bernard Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison for a multibillion Dollar fraud.
2009  Tennis: Wimbledon Centre Court's new roof is used for the first time.
2014  A building collapse in Delhi, India, kills at least 10 people, and another building collapse in Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu kills at least 17.
2014  The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares a caliphate in Syria and Iraq.
1139  Petronilla of Aragon (d. 1173)
1397  John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
1475  Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan (d. 1497)
1482  Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
1516  Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist and physician (d. 1585)
1528  Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1589)
1543  Christine of Hesse (d. 1604)
1596  Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
1609  Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (d. 1680)
1636  Thomas Hyde, English orientalist (d. 1703)
1746  Joachim Heinrich Campe, pedagogue (d. 1818)
1782  Christian Lyngbye, Danish minister and botanist (d. 1837)
1793  Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor (d. 1857)
1798  Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
1798  Willibald Alexis, German writer (d. 1871)
1818  Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1878)
1819  Thomas Dunn English, American politician (d. 1902)
1844  Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
1845  George W. Atkinson, American politician, 10th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1925)
1847  Paul Flechsig, German neuranatomist (d. 1929)
1849  John Hunn, American politician, 51st Governor of Delaware (d. 1926)
1849  Pedro Montt, President of Chile (d. 1910)
1849  Sergei Witte, Russian politician (d. 1915)
1858  George Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
1861  Dr. William Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
1865 (disputed)  Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese centenarian (d. 1986)
1868  George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
1873  Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist, archaeologist (d. 1938)
1879  Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Italian cardinal (d. 1970)
1880  Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
1881  Harry Frazee, American director, producer and agent (d. 1929)
1882  Henry Hawtrey, English runner (d. 1961)
1886  Robert Schuman, French politician and statesman (d. 1963)
1888  Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925)
1889  Willie McFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
1890  Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 2005)
1893  Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
1900  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer (d. 1944)
1901  Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
1901  Putte Kock, Swedish footballer, ice hockey and contract bridge player (d. 1979)
1903  Alan Blumlein, English engineer (d. 1942)
1906  Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1945)
1907  Junji Nishikawa, Japanese footballer (d. unknown)
1908  Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
1910  Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
1911  Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
1911  Bernard Herrmann, American composer (d. 1975)
1912  Lucie Aubrac, French Resistance activist (d. 2007)
1912  José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican composer and conductor (d. 1958)
1913  Earle Meadows, American pole vaulter (d. 1992)
1914  Rafael Kubelik, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
1915  Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
1919  Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
1919  Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (d. 2006)
1920  César Rodriguez Alvarez, Spanish footballer (d. 1995)
1920  Ray Harryhausen, American movie maker (d. 2013)
1921  Jean Kent, English actress (d. 2013)
1921  Reinhard Mohn, German publisher (d. 2009)
1922  Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (d. 1991)
1924  Philip H. Hoff, American politician, former Governor of Vermont (d. 2018)
1924  Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
1925  Giorgio Napolitano, 11th President of Italy
1926  Jaber Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
1926  Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuadorean writer (d. 2009)
1928  Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
1929  Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (d. 2006)
1930  Ernst Albrecht, German politician (d. 2014)
1931  Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
1932  Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British politician
1933  John Bradshaw, American author (d. 2016)
1936  Harmon Killebrew, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2011)
1939  Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Brazilian footballer
1941  Kwame Ture, (born "Stokely Carmichael"), civil rights activist (d. 1998)
1943  Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
1943  Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur (d. 2017)
1944  Gary Busey, American actor
1944  Sean Patrick O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts
1944  Roger Wootton, English aeronautical engineer and balloonist (d. 2017)
1945  Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan politician and former President
1946  Ernesto Pérez Balladares, 46th President of Panama
1946  Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
1948  Ian Paice, British musician (Deep Purple)
1949  Dan Dierdorf, American football player
1949  Joan Clos i Matheu, 116th Mayor of Barcelona
1951  Don Rosa, American cartoonist
1952  Joe Johnson, English snooker player
1956  Pedro Santana Lopes, former Prime Minister of Portugal
1957  Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, President of Turkmenistan
1957  Michael Nutter, 98th Mayor of Philadelphia
1958  Rosa Mota, Portuguese runner
1958  Dieter Althaus, German politician
1958  Ralf Rangnick, German football manager
1959  Atsushi Uchiyama, Japanese footballer
1959  Gary Rydstrom, American sound designer
1961  Sharon Lawrence, American actress
1962  Joan Laporta, Spanish lawyer and politician
1962  George D. Zamka, American colonel, pilot and astronaut
1963  Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
1968  Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
1970  Mike Vallely, American Professional Skateboarder
1971  Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
1971  Kaitlyn Ashley, American erotic actress
1971  Matthew Good, Canadian rock musician and activist
1971  Nawal Al-Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
1972  Samantha Smith, American  social activist and actress (d. 1985)
1977  Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
1978  Nicole Scherzinger, American actress and singer (Pussycat Dolls)
1979  Tomoyuki Sakai, Japanese footballer
1980  Katherine Jenkins, Welsh singer
1981  Nino, Greek singer
1981  Nicolas Vuyovich, Argentine Formula One driver
1984  Christopher Egan, Australian actor
1984  Derek Lee Rock, American musician
1984  Emil Hallfredsson, Icelandic footballer
1986  José Manuel Jurado, Spanish footballer
1987  Jena Lee, French singer
1988  Troy Deeney, English footballer
1988  Ever Banega, Argentine footballer
1988  Adrian Mannarino, French tennis player
1990  Kim Little, Scottish footballer
1990  Yann M'Vila, French footballer
1991  Suk Hyun-Jun, South Korean footballer
1991  Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player
1991  Addison Timlin, American actress
1992  Adam G. Sevani, American dancer and actor
1993  George Sampson, English dancer and actor
1993  Fran Kirby, English footballer
1993  Lorenzo James Henrie, American actor
1994  Shin Dong-ho, South Korean singer (U-KISS)
1994  Leandro Paredes, Argentine footballer
2000  Red Gerard, American snowboarder
67  Paul the Apostle, preacher, teacher and writer (b. 5)
226  Cao Pi, Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei
1059  Bernard II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 995)
1149  Raymond of Poitiers (b. 1115)
1252  King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
1509  Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
1520  Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler (b. 1466)
1575  Baba Nobuharu, Japanese samurai (b. 1515)
1763  Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Swedish writer (b. 1718)
1779  Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (b. 1728)
1831  Heinrich Friedrich Karl von und zum Stein, Prussian politician (b. 1757)
1837  Nathaniel Macon, American politician (b. 1758)
1840  Lucien Bonaparte, French politician (b. 1775)
1852  Henry Clay, United States Senator (b. 1777)
1855  John Gorrie, American physician and humanitarian (b. 1803)
1861  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
1875  Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
1895  Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist and educator (b. 1825)
1895  Floriano Peixoto, President of Brazil (b. 1839)
1900  Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1827)
1925  Christian Michelsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1857)
1928  Alvaro de Castro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1878)
1933  Olaf Bull, Norwegian poet (b. 1893)
1933  "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
1940  Paul Klee, Swiss painter (b. 1879)
1941  Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
1950  Melitta Bentz, German businesswoman and inventor of the coffee filter (b. 1873)
1955  Max Pechstein, German painter (b. 1881)
1957  Malcolm Lowry, English writer (b. 1909)
1958  Karl Arnold, German politician (b. 1901)
1967  Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
1967  Jayne Mansfield, American actress and singer (b. 1933)
1969  Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
1975  Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
1977  Magda Lupescu, former Queen of Romania (b. 1895)
1978  Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
1992  Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
1994  Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
1994  Jack Unterweger, Austrian writer and murderer (b. 1950)
1995  Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
1997  William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
1998  Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
1999  Karekin I, Catholicos (Head) of the Armenian Apostolic Church (b. 1950)
2002  Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
2002  Rosemary Clooney, American actress and singer (b. 1928)
2003  Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
2006  Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
2008  Don S. Davis, American actor (b. 1942)
2013  Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist (b. 1922)
2013  Jim Kelly, American actor and martial artist (b. 1946)
2014  Damian D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer (b. 1960)
2014  Dermot Healy, Irish poet, novelist and actor (b. 1947)
2015  Josef Masopust, Czech footballer (b. 1931)
2015  Charles Pasqua, French politician (b. 1927)
2015  Jackson Vroman, American-Lebanese basketball player (b. 1981)
2016  Inocente Carreño, Venezuelan composer (b. 1919)
2016  Vasyl Slipak, Ukrainian opera singer (b. 1974)
2016  Xu Jiatun, Chinese politician and dissident (b. 1916)
2016  Gunnar Garbo, Norwegian politician (b. 1924)
2016  Ojo Maduekwe, Nigerian politician (b. 1945)
2017  John Monckton, American swimmer (b. 1938)
2017  Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur (b. 1943)
2017  Dave Semenko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1957)
2018  Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, Ghanaian economist and politician (b. 1951)
2018  Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler (b. 1979)
2018  Arvid Carlsson, Swedish pharmacologist (b. 1923)
2018  Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian dancer and actress (b. 1932)
2019  Jeon Mi-seon, South Korean actress (b. 1970)
2019  Gunilla Pontén, Swedish fashion designer (b. 1929)
Independence Day (Seychelles)
Veterans Day (Netherlands)
Roman Catholic Feast Day of Saint Peter and Paul
1132  Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
1148  King Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
1245  Pope Innocent IV forces King Sancho II of Portugal out, and replaces him with Afonso III of Portugal.
1411  The Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest in Scotland, takes place.
1487  Citizens of Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, strike against a ban on foreign beer.
1534  Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspe peninsula in present-day Quebec, taking possession of the territory and naming it after Francis I of France.
1567  Mary, Queen of Scots, is deposed and replaced by her 1-year-old son King King James VI.
1701  Detroit, Michigan is founded.
1783  The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
1814  War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward Niagara to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
1823  Chile abolishes Slavery.
1823  The Naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo takes place.
1832  Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass.
1847  After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
1864  American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown – Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep Yankees out of the Shenandoah Valley.
1866  Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
1901  O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1910  James MacGillivray publishes the first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News.
1911  Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu "the Lost City of the Incas".
1915  Passenger ship Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 845 lives.
1922  The draft of the British Mandate for Palestine is officially confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations.
1923  The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
1924  Archaeologist Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1927  The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
1929  The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
1931  A fire at a home for aged people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
1935  The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (44 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1937  Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys."
1938  The first successful climb of the Eiger North Face is made.
1943  World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day.
1950  Bumper 8 becomes the first aircraft to be launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1956  At New York City's Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together which started on July 25, 1946, almost exactly ten years earlier.
1959  At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US vice-president Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev have a "kitchen debate."
1965  Vietnam War:  Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are the targets of anti-aircraft missiles in the first such attack against American planes in the war.
One is shot down and the other three sustain damage.
1966  Michael Petkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, along with Brian Schubert.
They both end up with broken bones.
1967  During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (
Long live free Quebec!).
The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
1969  Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1974  Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rule that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1974  Konstantinos Karamanlis arrives in Greece, following the collapse of the military junta.
1977  End of the four-day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
1983  George Brett, batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".
1990  Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwaiti border, preparing for the invasion on August 2.
1998  Russel Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers.
He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
2001  Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, and became the only monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
He becomes Prime Minister under the name Simeon Saksburggotsky.
2001  The Taiwan Solidarity Union is established.
2002  James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
2002  Alfred Moisiu becomes President of Albania.
2005  Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France for seventh consecutive year.
After being revealed to have taken illegal drugs to improve his performance during his career, all of his Tour de France titles are removed from the record in 2012.
2010  Love Parade disaster: At a stampede at a music festival in Duisburg, Germany, 19 people are crushed to death.
2 later die in hospital, as a result of their injuries.
2010  Over 80,000 people record their lives for the YouTube documentary A Life in a Day.
2012  President of Ghana John Atta Mills dies aged 68.
His Vice President John Dramani Mahama is sworn in as President later the same day.
2013  A passenger train carrying over 218 people crashes just outside Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, northwest Spain, killing at least 80 people and injuring at least 130.
It was travelling from Madrid to Ferrol on the Galician coast when it crashed.
It occurred a day before the regional July 25 holiday in Galicia.
2014  Air Algerie Flight 5017 crashes in Mali on a flight between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers, Algeria.
2014  Reuven Rivlin becomes the 10th President of Israel, succeeding Shimon Peres.
2015  Barack Obama makes the first visit by a US President to Kenya.
2016  The International Olympic Committee decides against banning the entire Russian team from the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, after its track-and-field athletes had already been banned following a doping scandal.
2019  Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, taking over from Theresa May.
One of his first actions is a massive change of the jobs in the cabinet.
923  Suzaku, Emperor of Japan (d. 952)
1468  Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1524)
1574  Thomas Platter the Younger, Swiss physician (d. 1629)
1720  Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, Prussian princess and Queen of Sweden (d. 1782)
1725  John Newton, cleric and hymnist (d.  1807)
1737  Alexander Dalrymple, Scottish geographer (d. 1808)
1740  Juan Ignacio Molina, Chilean naturalist (d. 1829)
1757  Vladimir Borovikovski, Russian painter (d. 1825)
1759  King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia (d. 1824)
1783  Simón Bolívar, South American liberator (d. 1830)
1783  Frédéric de Lafresnaye, French ornithologist (d. 1861)
1786  Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer (d. 1843)
1798  John Adams Dix, American general, senator and Governor of New York (d. 1879)
1802  Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer (d. 1870)
1803  Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (d. 1956)
1817  Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1905)
1823  Arthur I. Boreman, Governor of West Virginia (d. 1896)
1826  Ivan Bloch, Polish banker (d. 1902)
1828  Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian writer (d. 1889)
1832  John J. Bagley, 16th Governor of Michigan (d. 1881)
1841  Francisco da Veiga Beirao, Portuguese politician (d. 1916)
1847  Margarete Steiff, German seamstress, known for Steiff stuffed toys (d. 1909)
1851  Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (d. 1935)
1853  William Gillette, actor and writer (d. 1937)
1857  Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer (d. 1943)
1857  Juan Vicente Gomez, Venezuelan officer, politician and dictator (d. 1935)
1858  Wolfgang Kapp, Prussian civil servant and journalist (d. 1922)
1860  Alphonse Mucha, Czech artist (d. 1939)
1860  Princess Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1919)
1864  Frank Wedekind, German writer (d. 1918)
1867  Vicente Acosta, El Salvadorean poet (d. 1908)
1874  Oswald Chambers, Scottish Baptist evangelist and teacher (d. 1917)
1878  Lord Dunsany, writer (d. 1957)
1880  Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (d. 1959)
1883  Katia Mann, wife of Thomas Mann (d. 1980)
1883  Nelle Wilson Reagan, mother of Ronald Reagan (d. 1962)
1884  Maria Caserini, Italian actress (d. 1969)
1886  Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (d. 1965)
1888  Arthur Richardson, Australian cricketer and coach (d. 1973)
1895  Robert Graves, English writer (d. 1985)
1896  Hermann Kasack, writer (d. 1966)
1897  Amelia Earhart, American aviator (d. 1937) (disappeared)
1899  Chief Dan George, Native American actor (d. 1981)
1899  Bernice Madigan, American supercentenarian (d. 2015)
1900  Zelda Fitzgerald, American artist (d. 1948)
1908  Cootie Williams, trumpeter (d. 1985)
1914  Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian physician (d. 2015)
1914  Edwin Mirvish, retailer and impresario (d. 2007)
1916  John D. MacDonald, novelist (d. 1986)
1917  Robert Farnon, conductor, composer and arranger (d. 2005)
1918  Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist (d. 2012)
1920  Bella Abzug, American politician and activist (d. 1998)
1920  Constance Dowling, American actress (d. 1969)
1921  Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian tenor (d. 2008)
1923  Warren E. Hearnes, 46th Governor of Missouri (d. 2009)
1925  Adele Addison, American soprano
1926  Hans Günter Winkler, German equestrian jumper (d. 2018)
1929  Peter Yates, British movie director (d. 2011)
1930  Keshubhai Patel, Indian politician, former Chief Minister of Gujarat
1931  Ermanno Olmi, Italian director (d. 2018)
1933  John Aniston, Greek-American actor
1933  Doug Sanders, American golfer
1934  Rudy Collins, American drummer (Dizzy Gillespie Quintet)
1935  Pat Oliphant, Australian political cartoonist
1936  Ruth Buzzi, comedienne
1936  Dan Inosanto, American martial artist and actor
1937  Manoj Kumar, Indian actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1939  Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (d. 2013)
1940  Stanley Hauerwas, Christian theologian
1942  Chris Sarandon, American actor
1944  Jan-Carl Raspe, German Red Army Faction militant (d. 1977)
1945  Azim Premji, Indian businessman
1947  Robert Hays, actor
1947  Peter Serkin, American pianist
1949  Michael Richards, American actor and comedian
1949  Joan Enric Vives Sicília, Catalan bishop and co-Prince of Andorra
1951  Lynda Carter, American actress
1951  Chris Smith, British politician
1952  Carsten Jensen, Danish writer
1952  Gus Van Sant, American movie director
1953  Claire McCaskill, American politician, United States Senator for Missouri
1956  Charlie Crist, American politician, 44th Governor of Florida, 2007  2011
1956  Pat Finn, American game show host and producer
1957  Pam Tillis, American country music singer
1958  Konrad Graber, Swiss politician
1958  Jim Leighton, Scottish footballer
1960  Catherine Destivelle, Algerian-born French rock climber and mountaineer
1963  Karl Malone, American basketball player
1964  Pedro Passos Coelho, former Prime Minister of Portugal
1964  Barry Bonds, American Major League Baseball player
1964  Banana Yoshimoto, Japanese writer
1965  Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player and broadcaster
1965  Kadeem Hardison, actor
1966  Martin Keown, English footballer
1966  Hilarion, Russian writer and theologian
1968  Kristin Chenoweth, American actress and singer
1968  Laura Leighton, American actress
1969  Rick Fox, American basketball player
1969  Jennifer Lopez, American actress, dancer, fashion designer and singer
1970  Julia Bradbury, English journalist and presenter
1971  Dino Baggio, Italian footballer
1971  John Partridge, English actor, singer and dancer
1974  Eugene Mirman, Russian-American actor, comedian and writer
1974  Boogie2988, American Internet personality (Francis)
1975  Tracey Crouch, English politician
1975  Eric Szmanda, American actor
1976  Rashida Tlaib, American politician
1977  Danny Dyer, British actor
1977  Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian footballer
1978  Andy Irons, American surfer (d. 2010)
1979  Rose Byrne, Australian actress
1979  Ryan Humphrey, American basketball player
1981  Gauge, actress
1981  Summer Glau, American actress
1982  Elisabeth Moss, American actress
1982  Anna Paquin, Canadian-born actress
1983  Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer
1985  Lukas Rosol, Czech tennis player
1986  Andrei Lutai, Russian figure skater
1986  Vugar Gashimov, Azerbaijani chess player (d. 2014)
1986  Natalie Tran, Australian actress and writer
1987  Mara Wilson, American actress
1987  Jovan Belcher, American football player (d. 2012)
1989  Kim Tae-Hwan, South Korean footballer
1989  Felix Loch, German luger
1990  Daveigh Chase, American actress
1990  Jay McGuiness, English singer (The Wanted)
1991  Lin Yue, Chinese diver
1991  Emily Bett Rickards, Canadian actress
1992  Mitch Grassi, American singer
1992  Mikael Kingsbury, Canadian skier
1998  Bindi Irwin, daughter of Steve Irwin
811  Gao Yang, Chinese chancellor (b. 740)
1115  Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046)
1129  Shirakawa, Emperor of Japan (b. 1053)
1568  Carlos, Prince of Asturias, son of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)
1594  John Boste, English martyr and saint (b. 1544)
1739  Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1686)
1768  Nathaniel Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684)
1862  Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782)
1883  Matthew Webb, British swimmer (b. 1848)
1891  Hermann Raster, German-American journalist and politician (b. 1827)
1906  Ferdinand von Saar, Austrian writer, dramatist and poet (b. 1833)
1908  Vicente Acosta, El Salvadorean poet (b. 1867)
1910  Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)
1920  Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (b. 1855)
1922  Saint George Ashe, British rower (b. 1871)
1927  Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)
1957  Sacha Guitry, French actor and director (b. 1885)
1960  Hans Albers, German actor and singer (b. 1891)
1962  Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer (b. 1917)
1965  Constance Bennett, American actress (b. 1904)
1969  Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (b. 1904)
1970  Beatrice Roberts, American actress (b. 1901)
1973  Konstantinos Dovas, Greek general and Prime Minister (b. 1898)
1974  James Chadwick, British physicist (b. 1891)
1976  Julius Döpfner, German cardinal (b. 1913)
1980  Peter Sellers, British actor (b. 1925)
1980  Uttam Kumar, Indian actor, director and producer (b. 1926)
1985  Ezechiele Ramini, Italian missionary and martyr (b. 1953)
1986  Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist (b. 1899)
1991  Isaac Bashevis Singer, writer, received Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978 (b. 1902)
1992  Arletty, French singer and actress (b. 1898)
1995  Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress and occultist (b. 1922)
1996  Mohammed Farah Aidid, Somali warlord
1997  William J. Brennan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1906)
1997  Saw Maung, Burmese dictator (b. 1928)
2005  Richard Doll, British epidemiologist (b. 1912)
2008  Norman Dello Joio, American composer (b. 1913)
2010  Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (b. 1949)
2010  Theo Albrecht, German businessman (Aldi Nord) (b. 1922)
2011  Virgilio Noe, Italian cardinal (b. 1922)
2011  Dan Peek, American singer (b. 1951)
2012  Larry Hoppen, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1951)
2012  John Atta Mills, President of Ghana (b. 1944)
2012  Sherman Hemsley, American actor (b. 1938)
2012  Chad Everett, American actor (b. 1936)
2013  Fred Dretske, American philosopher (b. 1932)
2013  Steve Berrios, American drummer (b. 1945)
2013  Virginia E. Johnson, American sexologist (b. 1925)
2014  Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer (b. 1973)
2014  Jaan Arder, Estonian singer (b. 1952)
2014  Dale Schlueter, American basketball player (b. 1945)
2015  Peg Lynch, American comedy writer and actress (b. 1916)
2016  Marni Nixon, American singer and actress (b. 1930)
2017  Michiko Inukai, Japanese writer (b. 1921)
2017  Yash Pal, Indian scientist and educator (b. 1926)
2017  Udupi Ramachandra Rao, Indian space scientist (b. 1932)
2017  Niculae Nedeff, Romanian handball player and coach (b. 1928)
2018  Mary Ellis, British World War II aviator (b. 1917)
2018  Walter Hirrlinger, German politician (b. 1926)
2018  Tony Cloninger, American baseball player (b. 1940)
2019  Claes Andersson, Finnish psychiatrist, writer and politician (b. 1937)
2019  Margaret Fulton, Scottish-born Australian chef and cookbook writer (b. 1924)
2019  Cathy Inglese, American college basketball coach (b. 1958)
Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela – Simón Bolívar Day
Utah – Pioneer Day (1847)
Vanuatu – Children's Day
Venezuela – Birth of the Libertador (Simón Bolívar Day)
Ancient Latvia – Jekaupa Diena held
472 - After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in Saint Peter's Basilica and put to death.
1174 - Baldwin IV, aged 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.
1302 – Battle of the Golden Spurs () – the Flemish cities beat the king of France.
1346 – Charles IV of Luxembourg elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1405 - Ming Dynasty admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
1502 - The Caribbean island of Hispaniola is ravaged by a hurricane, killing 500 people.
1533 - King Henry VIII of England is excommunicated.
1576 – Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
1613 - Mikhail Romanov is crowned as Tsar of Russia.
The Romanov Dynasty rules Russia until Tsar Nicholas II of Russia is removed during the Russian Revolution in 1917.
1616 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
1735 - Dwarf planet Pluto is in Neptune's orbit for the last time until 1979.
1740 – Jews expelled from Little Russia.
1750 – Halifax, Nova Scotia almost completely destroyed by fire.
1776 – Captain James Cook begins third voyage.
1789 - Jacques Necker is dismissed as French finance minister, leading to the Storming of the Bastille three days later.
1796 – The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
1801 - French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery.
He will later go on to discover another 36 comets over the following 27 years - more than any other person has discovered.
1804 – In a duel, Vice President Aaron Burr kills Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
1810 - Frederick Hasselborough sights the Sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, named after Lachlan Macquarie, the Scottish Governor of New South Wales.
It currently belongs to Australia.
1811 – Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoire about molecular content of gases.
1848 – The Waterloo railway station in London opens.
1859 – A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published.
1864 – Confederate forces attempt an invasion of Washington, DC.
1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
1893 - A revolution led by general and politician Jose Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
1895 – The brothers Lumière show movie for scientists.
1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to try to reach the North Pole by balloon.
He later crashes and dies.
1914 – Babe Ruth debuts in major league baseball.
1914 - The warship USS Nevada (BB-36) is launched.
1919 – Eight-hour working day and free Sunday made into law in the Netherlands.
1921 – Truce called in the Irish War of Independence; see Irish calendar.
1921 – Former US President William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.
1921 – Mongolia becomes independent (from China).
1930 - Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a world-record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a test match against England.
1934 - Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport with assisted take-off.
1936 – Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
1940 – Vichy Regime formally established in France. (
and Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France).
1943 – World War II: The Germans counter-attack on Sicily, following the start of the Allied invasion of the island.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt says he will run for a fourth term as president of the United States.
1950 - Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
1955 – The phrase In God We Trust is added to all US currency.
1957 - Prince Karim Hosseini becomes the Aga Khan IV.
1960 – The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is published for the first time.
1960 – Dahomey (now Benin), Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), and Niger all gain independence.
1960 - The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
1962 – Soviet cosmonaut Micolaev is four days in space, a record.
1966 - The 1966 FIFA World Cup in England begins.
1971 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalised by the government of Salvador Allende.
1972 - The first game of the 1972 World Chess Championship is played in Reykjavik, Iceland, in which Bobby Fischer ends up defeating Boris Spassky on September 1.
1973 – A Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, resulting in the death of 122 people.
1975 – Chinese archeologists discover a large burial site with 6,000 clay statutes of warriors from 221 BC.
1977 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously rewarded the Medal of Freedom.
1978 - Los Alfaques Disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain, killing 216 tourists.
1979 – The space station Skylab returns to Earth.
1982 – Defeating West Germany 3–1 at Santiago Bernabéu stadium, Italy wins the 1982 edition of the Football World Cup.
1983 – A Boeing 727 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
1987 – According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 mark.
1991 – A Nigerian DC-8 crashes while landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia killing 261
1991 – Total solar eclipse in Hawaii, Pacific Ocean, Mexico and parts of Central and South America.
1995 – Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam.
1995 – Bosnian Serbs capture the Muslim city of Srebrenica.
Many inhabitants are murdered, beginning the Srebrenica Massacre, the biggest massacre in Europe since World War II.
1995 – A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov AN-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44.
2006 – A series of bomb attacks devastates Mumbai, India, killing 207 people.
2010 – 2010 FIFA World Cup: Spain wins the FIFA World Cup for the first time, after a 1-0 extra time win over the Netherlands, who had also never won the World Cup before.
The game was overshadowed by some violent tackling, and referee Howard Webb gave out a record number of yellow cards for a World Cup final.
2010 - Two suicide bombings occur in Kampala, Uganda, killing 74 people.
2012 - Astronomers announce the discovery of Styx, a moon of Pluto.
2013 - Luxembourg's government under Jean-Claude Juncker is brought down by a spy scandal.
2016 - Theresa May is designated as leader of the British Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (from July 13) after Andrea Leadsom withdraws her candidacy.
She succeeds David Cameron in both positions.
154 - Bardaisan, Syrian astrologer, scholar and philosopher (d. 222)
1274 – King Robert I of Scotland, also known as "Robert the Bruce" (d. 1329)
1366 – Anne of Bohemia, Queen Consort of England (d. 1394)
1376 - King Ladislaus II of Naples (d. 1414)
1603 - Kenelm Digby, English courtier and diplomat (d. 1665)
1628 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese daimyo (d. 1701)
1653 - Sarah Good, American woman accused of witchcraft (d. 1692)
1657 – King Frederick I of Prussia (d. 1713)
1662 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1726)
1667 - Anna Maria de' Medici, Italian aristocrat (d. 1743)
1709 – Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist (d. 1785)
1723 - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and author (d. 1799)
1732 - Jerome Lalande, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1807)
1751 - Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (d. 1775)
1754 - Thomas Bowdler, English physician (d. 1825)
1767 – John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (d. 1848)
1774 - Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist and mineralogist (d. 1854)
1826 - Alexander Afanasyev, Russian author (d. 1871)
1832 - Charilaos Trikoupis, 55th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1896)
1832 - Carlos Holguin Mallarino, 24th President of Colombia (d. 1894)
1834 - James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American painter (d. 1903)
1846 – Léon Bloy, French writer (d. 1917)
1851 - Millie and Christine McKoy, American conjoined twins (d. 1912)
1857 - David Prain, Scottish physician (d. 1944)
1866 - Princess Irene of Hesse and By Rhine (d. 1953)
1867 - John J. Cornwell, American politician, Governor of West Virginia (d. 1953)
1880 - Friedrich Lahrs, German architect (d. 1964)
1881 - Isabel Martin Lewis, American astronomer (d. 1955)
1882 – James Larkin White, American, discovered the Carlsbad Caverns (d. 1946)
1886 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1888 - Carl Schmitt, German jurist and philosopher (d. 1985)
1889 - Eduard Heimann, German economic and social scientist (d. 1967)
1890 - John S. Battle, American politician, Governor of Virginia (d. 1972)
1892 - Trafford Leigh-Mallory, English Royal Air Force officer (d. 1944)
1892 – Thomas Mitchell, American actor (d. 1962)
1896 - Ludwik Fleck, Polish physician and biologist (d. 1961)
1897 - Gregorio Fuentes, Lanzarote-born Cuban fisherman (d. 2002)
1899 – E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)
1899 - Wilfrid Israel, Anglo-German businessman and philanthropist (d. 1943)
1902 - Samuel Goudsmit, Dutch-American physicist (d. 1978)
1906 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
1912 - Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (d. 1996)
1916 - Mortimer Caplin, American lawyer and educator (d. 2019)
1916 – Gough Whitlam, 21st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2014)
1916 – Alexander Prokhorov, Russian physicist (d. 2002)
1916 – Reg Varney, English actor (d. 2008)
1918 - Venetia Burney, English girl who named the dwarf planet Pluto (d. 2009)
1920 – Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
1920 - Zecharia Sitchin, Russian-American author (d. 2010)
1921 – Ilse Werner, Dutch-born actress (d. 2005)
1922 – Gene Evans, American actor (d. 1998)
1923 – Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, Brazilian footballer (d. 2010)
1923 - Richard Pipes, Polish-American historian and academic (d. 2018)
1923 - Tun Tun, Indian playback singer, actress and comedienne (d. 2003)
1924 - Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971)
1924 - Brett Somers, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1925 - Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
1927 - Theodore Maiman, American physicist (d. 2007)
1928 - Greville Janner, British politician (d. 2015)
1929 - David Kelly, Irish actor (d. 2012)
1930 - Harold Bloom, American author and critic
1930 - Murphy J. Foster Jr., American politician, former Governor of Louisiana (d. 2020)
1931 - John N. Dalton, American politician, Governor of Virginia (d. 1986)
1931 - Dick Gray, American baseball player (d. 2013)
1931 - Tab Hunter, American actor (d. 2018)
1931 - Tullio Regge, Italian physicist (d. 2014)
1932 - Jean-Guy Talbot, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1933 - Frank Kelso, American admiral (d. 2013)
1933 - A. J. Langguth, American historian and journalist (d. 2014)
1934 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
1935 - Oliver Napier, Irish politician (d. 2011)
1939 - Seth Gaaikema, Dutch comedian and writer (d. 2014)
1943 – Rolf Stommelen, German racing driver (d. 1983)
1943 - Howard Gardner, American psychologist
1943 - Tom Holland, American actor, director and screenwriter
1943 - Robert Malval, 5th Prime Minister of Haiti
1944 - Lou Hudson, American basketball player (d. 2014)
1947 - John Holt, Jamaican singer (d. 2014)
1950 - Bonnie Pointer, American singer (The Pointer Sisters)
1951 - Vyacheslav Anisin, Russian ice hockey player
1952 - Stephen Lang, American actor
1952 - Bill Barber, Canadian ice hockey player
1953 – Leon Spinks, American boxer
1956 - Robin Renucci, French actor and director
1957 - Johann Lamont, Scottish politician, leader of the Scottish Labour Party
1957 - Peter Oborne, English journalist
1958 - Hugo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
1959 – Richie Sambora, American singer (Bon Jovi)
1959 – Suzanne Vega, American singer
1961 - Antony Jenkins, English businessman
1962 - Pauline McLynn, Irish actress
1963 - Lisa Rinna, American actress
1964 - Kyril, Prince of Preslav
1966 - Greg Grunberg, American actor
1966 - Rod Strickland, American basketball player
1966 - Mick Molloy, Australian actor, screenwriter and producer
1970 - Justin Chambers, American actor
1970 - Sajjad Karim, English politician
1971 - Leisha Hailey, Japanese-American singer-songwriter and actress
1972 – Jussi 69, Finnish musician
1972 - Michael Rosenbaum, American actor, director and producer
1973 - Andrew Bird, American singer-songwriter and violinist
1973 - Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
1974 – Hermann Hreidarsson, Icelandic footballer
1974 – André Ooijer, Dutch footballer
1975 – Samer El Nahal, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1975 – Lil' Kim, American rapper, singer and actress
1975 - Choi Ji-woo, South Korean actress
1975 – Nadya Suleman, American, famous mother of octuplets
1979 – Eric Abidal, French footballer
1979 - Im Soo-jung, South Korean actress
1980 - Tyson Kidd, Canadian wrestler
1983 - Marie Serneholt, Swedish singer
1984 - Rachael Taylor, Australian actress
1984 - Morné Steyn, South African rugby player
1985 - Robert Adamson, American actor
1985 - Aki Maeda, Japanese actress and singer
1986 - Ian Cathro, Scottish football manager
1986 – Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer
1986 - Jonathan Sexton, Irish rugby player
1989 - David Henrie, American actor
1990 – Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player
1990 - Mona Barthel, German tennis player
1990 - Kelsey Sanders, American actress and singer
1994 - Lucas Ocampos, Argentine footballer
1994 - Nina Nesbitt, Scottish singer
1996 - Alessia Cara, Canadian singer
1996 - Tyler Medeiros, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer
155 – Pope Pius I
472 – Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Empire (legal murder)
937 – Rudolph II of Burgundy (b. 880)
969 – Olga of Kiev (b. 890)
1174 - Amalric I of Jerusalem (b. 1136)
1183 - Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1117)
1302 - Robert II, Count of Artois (b. 1250)
1535 - Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1484)
1688 – King Narai of Siam (b. 1629)
1804 – Alexander Hamilton, United States Secretary of the Treasury (duel) (b. 1757)
1825 - Thomas P. Grosvenor, American soldier and politician (b. 1744)
1844 - Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
1879 - William Allen, 31st Governor of Ohio (b. 1803)
1908 - Friedrich Traun, German tennis player (b. 1876)
1909 - Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
1916 – Jon Olafsson, Icelandic editor, journalist and poet (b. 1850)
1920 - Eugénie de Montijo, Spanish wife of Napoleon III of France (b. 1826)
1937 – George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)
1941 - Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (b. 1851)
1957 - Aga Khan III (b. 1877)
1959 – Charlie Parker, cricketer (b. 1882)
1962 - Owen D. Young, American lawyer, diplomat, industrialist and businessman (b. 1874)
1966 - Delmore Schwartz, American poet and author (b. 1913)
1967 - Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, judge and politician (b. 1917)
1971 – John W. Campbell, science fiction writer and editor (b. 1910)
1974 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
1987 - Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
1989 – Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor (b. 1907)
1991 – Hitoshi Igarashi, English-Japanese translator, of The Satanic Verses (b. 1947)
1991 - Mokhtar Dahari, Malaysian footballer (b. 1953)
1994 – Gary Kildall, computer programmer (b. 1942)
1995 - Don Starr, American actor (b. 1917)
1999 – Helen Forrest, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
2000 – Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
2001 – Herman Brood, singer and artist (suicide) (b. 1946)
2003 – Zahra Kazemi, Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer (b. 1949)
2004 – Laurance Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910)
2005 – Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)
2007 – Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
2007 – Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, 32nd President of Colombia (b. 1913)
2008 – Michael DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor (b. 1908)
2009 – Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer (b. 1972)
2010 – Bob Sheppard, American announcer (b. 1910)
2011 - Tom Gehrels, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1925)
2013 - Zeb Alley, American politician (b. 1928)
2013 - Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician (b. 1936)
2014 - Charlie Haden, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
2014 - Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American musician (b. 1952)
2014 - Howard Cooke, Governor-General of Jamaica (b. 1915)
2014 - John Seigenthaler, American journalist and writer (b. 1927)
2014 - Carin Mannheimer, Swedish writer (b. 1934)
2014 - Ray Lonnen, British actor (b. 1940)
2014 - Randall Stout, American architect (b. 1958)
2015 - Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (b. 1928)
2015 - Satoru Iwata, Japanese President and CEO of Nintendo (b. 1959)
2015 - James U. Cross, American military pilot and author (b. 1920)
2015 - Hussein Fatal, American rapper (b. 1977)
2016 - John Brademas, American politician and educator (b. 1927)
2016 - Emma Cohen, Spanish actress (b. 1946)
2016 - Elaine Fantham, English classicist (b. 1933)
2016 - Corrado Farina, Italian movie director, screenwriter and novelist (b. 1939)
2016 - Jim Metzen, American politician (b. 1943)
2017 - Fikret Hakan, Turkish actor (b. 1934)
2017 - Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Italian musicologist and composer (b. 1929)
2017 - Denis Mack Smith, British historian (b. 1920)
2017 - Buddy Wolfe, American professional wrestler (b. 1941)
2018 - Richard John Garcia, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1947)
2018 - Liu Zhenhua, Chinese general and politician (b. 1921)
2018 - Pat Swindall, American politician (b. 1950)
2018 - Abdelkhader Houamel, Algerian painter (b. 1936)
2018 - Mai Tai Sing, American actress and businesswoman (b. 1923)
2019 - Brendan Grace, Irish actor, comedian and singer (b. 1951)
Day of the Flemish Community in Belgium
First Day of Naadam (Mongolia)
National Day of Commemoration (Republic of Ireland)
Eleventh Night (Northern Ireland)
927 - Aethelstan, King of England, secures a pledge from Constantine II of Scotland that he (Constantine) will not ally with Viking Kings, beginning the process of unifying Great Britain.
1191 - Third Crusade: Saladin's garrison surrenders to Philip Augustus, ending the two-year siege of Acre.
1470 - The Ottoman Empire capture Euboea.
1493 - Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published.