the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1808  Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (b. 1748)
1813  Hezqeyas of Ethiopia, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia
1872  Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (b. 1804)
1881  Ambrose Burnside, US General (b. 1824)
1905  René Goblet, 52nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
1910  Rajanikanta Sen, Bengali poet and musician (b. 1865)
1912  Joseph Furphy, Australian writer (b. 1843)
1915  Andrew L. Harris, 44th Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
1928  Italo Svevo, Italian writer (b. 1861)
1929  Jatindra Nath Das, Indian activist (b. 1904)
1931  Lili Elbe, Danish model and painter (b. 1882)
1937  David Robertson, Scottish golfer and rugby player (b. 1869)
1941  Elias Disney, Canadian father of Walt Disney (b. 1859)
1944  W. Heath Robertson, English cartoonist (b. 1872)
1944  Noor Inayat Khan, Indian-British agent (b. 1914)
1946  William Watt, Australian politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (b. 1871)
1946  Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter, sculptor and illustrator (b. 1875)
1946  Amon Goeth, Austrian war criminal (b. 1908)
1949  August Krogh, Danish zoologist, won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874)
1960  Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer and music educator (b. 1885)
1967  Robert George, 24th Governor of South Australia (b. 1896)
1971  Lin Biao, Chinese political leader (b. 1907)
1973  Betty Field, American actress (b. 1913)
1976  Armand Mondou, French-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
1977  Leopold Stokowski, British conductor (b. 1882)
1987  Mervyn LeRoy, American movie director (b. 1900)
1991  Metin Oktay, Turkish footballer (b. 1936)
1991  Robert Irving, British conductor (b. 1913)
1991  Joe Pasternak, American director (b. 1901)
1996  Tupac Shakur, aka 2Pac, American rapper and actor (b. 1971)
1998  George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)
1999  Benjamin Bloom, American educational theorist (b. 1913)
2001  Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b. 1916)
2002  George Stanley, Canadian soldier, historian and author (b. 1907)
2003  Frank O'Bannon, Governor of Indiana (b. 1930)
2004  Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (b. 1925)
2005  Julio César Turbay Ayala, 33rd President of Colombia (b. 1916)
2006  Ann Richards, American politician, Governor of Texas (b. 1933)
2008  Peter Camejo, American politician (b. 1939)
2011  Richard Hamilton, British painter and collage artist (b. 1922)
2011  Walter Bonatti, Italian mountaineer (b. 1930)
2012  Peter Lougheed, Canadian politician, lawyer, and footballer, 10th Premier of Alberta (b. 1928)
2012  Otto Stich, Swiss politician (b. 1927)
2013  Salustiano Sanchez, Spanish-American supercentenarian (b. 1901)
2014  David Cawthorne Haines, Scottish aid worker (b. 1970)
2014  Benjamin Adekunle, Nigerian general (b. 1936)
2014  Frank Torre, American baseball player and manager (b. 1931)
2015  Moses Malone, American basketball player (b. 1955)
2017  Pete Domenici, American politician (b. 1932)
2017  Per Fugelli, Norwegian physician (b. 1943)
2017  Slavko Goldstein, Croatian Jewish writer, Holocaust survivor, publisher and politician (b. 1928)
2017  Grant Hart, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1961)
2017  Frank Vincent, American actor (b. 1937)
2017  Basil Gogos, Egyptian-born American magazine cover painter (b. 1929)
2017  Kazimierz Ryczan, Polish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1939)
2018  Guido Ceronetti, Italian journalist and poet (b. 1927)
2018  Marin Mazzie, American actress (b. 1960)
2018  Albrecht Wellmer, German philosopher (b. 1933)
2018  John Wilcock, British journalist (b. 1927)
2018  Martha Vaughan, American biochemist and physiologist (b. 1926)
2019  Asadollah Asgaroladi, Iranian businessman (b. 1934)
2019  Alex Grammas, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2019  Bruno Grandi, Italian sports executive (b. 1934)
2019  Rudi Gutendorf, German footballer and coach (b. 1926)
2019  Ghulam Shah Jeelani, Pakistani politician (b. 1957)
2019  György Konrád, Hungarian novelist (b. 1933)
2019  Eddie Money, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
International Chocolate Day
Roald Dahl Day (UK, Africa, Latin America)
668  Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is murdered in his bath.
1440  Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest-known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
1616  The first non-aristocratic free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
1762  Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.
1776  American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay, during the New York Campaign.
1789  The United States Department of State is founded, as the Department of Foreign Affairs.
1812  The French army under Napoleon Bonaparte enters Moscow.
1812  War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack of the Narrows.
1820  Constitutionalist Revolution in Lisbon
1821  Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain.
1830  The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens.
On the same day, William Huskisson becomes the first railway fatality after being hit by a locomotive.
1835  The HMS Beagle arrives in the Galapagos Islands with a young Charles Darwin on board.
1851  Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1862  American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harper's Ferry, then in Virginia, now in West Virginia.
1873  Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France.
1875  Indianola, Texas, is destroyed by a Hurricane, killing between 150 and 300 people.
1894  First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
1916  World War I: Tanks are used in battle for the first time, in the Somme, northern France.
1935  With the Nuremberg Laws, the Nazis strip Jews of German citizenship.
1935  The Nazis adopt the Swastika flag as the flag of Germany.
1940  World War II: Climax of the Battle of Britain.
1942  World War II: United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal, present-day Solomon Islands.
1944  World War II: The Battle of Peleliu (in Palau), between US and Japanese forces, begins.
1944  World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon conference to discuss strategy.
1945  A hurricane in South Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond
1947  Typhoon Kathleen kills 1,077 people in the Kanto region of Japan.
1948  The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record, at 671 miles per hour (1,080 kilometres per hour).
1949  Konrad Adenauer becomes the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
1950  Korean War: US forces land at Inchon.
1952  The UN gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
1958  A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58 people.
1959  Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the US.
1962  Soviet ship Poltava heads towards Cuba, one of the events that lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963  "Birmingham Sunday" when a bomb killed 4 black girls in a church in Birmingham, Alabama.
1966  US President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
1968  The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter Earth's atmosphere.
1969  US ice breaker tanker SS Manhattan passes through the Northwest Passage, after four weeks.
1972  Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm, Sweden, is hijacked and flown to Malmo Bulltofta Airport.
1973  Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden becomes King.
1975  The French department of Corse, on the island of Corsica, is divided in two, into Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
1981  Vanuatu joins the UN.
1981  The Senate Judiciary Committee approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become a Justice on the United States Supreme Court, being the first female in such a role.
1983  Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin resigns.
1990  France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf.
1991  Bangladesh becomes a parliamentary democracy.
1993  Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein disbands his country's parliament.
1994  For the first time, a planet outside the Solar System is discovered.
1997  New York City's Museum of Jewish Heritage opens.
2000  The 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney begin.
2007  Former world Rally champion Colin McRae dies in a helicopter crash in Lanarkshire, Scotland, along with his son and two family friends.
2008  Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2011  A parliamentary election is held in Denmark, resulting in Helle Thorning-Schmidt becoming Prime Minister on October 3.
2015  Malcolm Turnbull replaces Tony Abbott as Prime Minister of Australia.
2015  Aksel V. Johannesen becomes Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
2017  2017 Parsons Green bombing: An explosive device is detonated on a tube train near London's Parsons Green station, injuring 30 people.
2017  The Cassini space probe's mission is ended, as it is plunged into Saturn's atmosphere.
1254  Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324)
1533  Catherine of Austria, Queen Consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572)
1580  Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659)
1603  Tokugawa Yorifusa, Japanese daimyo (d. 1661)
1613  François de la Rochefoucauld, French author (d. 1680)
1649  Titus Oates, English priest (d. 1705)
1666  Sophia Dorothea of Celle, German princess (d. 1726)
1675  Vakhtang VI of Kartli, Georgian King (d. 1737)
1676  Stanislaw Poniatowski, Polish politician (d. 1762)
1690  Ignazio Prota, Italian composer and music educator (d. 1748)
1715  Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French general and engineer (d. 1789)
1736  Jean-Silvain Bailly, French politician and astronomer (d. 1793)
1756  Carl Philipp Moritz, German writer (d. 1793)
1760  Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general (d. 1824)
1761  Cornelio Saavedra, Argentine politician (d. 1829)
1765  Bocage, Portuguese poet (d. 1805)
1787  Guillaume-Henri Dufour, Swiss humanist, general, politician, mapmaker and engineer (d. 1875)
1789  James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (d. 1851)
1800  Paul-Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1842)
1808  John Hutton Balfour, Scottish botanist (d. 1884)
1811  Charles de Mornay, French politician (d. 1865)
1814  Ferdinand von Arnim, German architect (d. 1866)
1815  Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer (d. 1868)
1825  Iwakura Tomomi, Japanese statesman (d. 1883)
1828  Alexander Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
1830  Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (d. 1915)
1834  Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian and publicist (d. 1896)
1852  Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
1857  William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)
1858  Charles de Foucauld, French monk (d. 1916)
1860  Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer, scholar and politician (d. 1962)
1863  Horatio Parker, American composer (d. 1919)
1875  Henry D. Hatfield, American politician, 14th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1962)
1876  Bruno Walter, German conductor (d. 1962)
1876  Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali writer (d. 1938)
1877  Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and Zionist (d. 1938)
1877  Yente Serdatzky, Lithuanian-American author and playwright (d. 1962)
1879  Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
1881  Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile engineer and designer (d. 1947)
1883  Esteban Teradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)
1886  Paul Lévy, French mathematician (d. 1971)
1887  Carlos Dávila, President of Chile (d. 1955)
1888  Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (d. 1925)
1889  Robert Benchley, American writer (d. 1945)
1890  Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976)
1894  Jean Renoir, French movie director (d. 1979)
1895  Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977)
1903  Roy Acuff, American Country musician (d. 1992)
1903  Yisrael Kristal, Polish-born Israeli supercentenarian and Holocaust survivor (d. 2017)
1904  King Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)
1905  Pat O'Callaghan, Irish hammer thrower (d. 1991)
1907  Alfred Delp, German Jesuit and Resistance activist (d. 1945)
1907  Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (d. 2004)
1908  Misko Kranjec, Slovenian writer (d. 1983)
1909  C. N. Annadurai, Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1969)
1911  Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American golf entrepreneur (d. 2000)
1911  Luther Terry, 9th Surgeon General of the United States (d. 1985)
1913  John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (d. 1988)
1913  Johannes Steinhoff, German military officer (d. 1994)
1914  Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
1914  Jens Otto Krag, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1978)
1915  Helmut Schön, German footballer and manager (d. 1996)
1916  Margaret Lockwood, English actress (d. 1990)
1918  Margot Loyola, Chilean musician and singer (d. 2015)
1919  Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
1919  Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (d. 1960)
1922  Jackie Cooper, American actor (d. 2011)
1922  Bob Anderson, British fencer and sword fight choreographer (d. 2012)
1922  Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, daughter of Winston Churchill (d. 2014)
1924  György Lázár, 50th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2014)
1925  Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (d. 2012)
1925  Helle Virkner, Danish actress (d. 2009)
1926  Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
1926  Shohei Imamura, Japanese movie director (d. 2006)
1926  Ed Derwinski, American politician (d. 2012)
1927  Val Holten, Australian cricketer (d. 2015)
1927  Norm Crosby, American comedian and actor
1928  Cannonball Adderley, American jazz musician (d. 1975)
1929  Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist (d. 2019)
1929  Mümtaz Soysal, Turkish politician and lawyer (d. 2019)
1929  Eva Burrows, 13th General of the Salvation Army (d. 2015)
1930  Merab Mamardashvili, Georgian philosopher (d. 1990)
1933  Henry Darrow, American actor
1933  Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 2014)
1935  Patriarch Dinkha IV of the Assyrian Church of the East (d. 2015)
1936  Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player
1937  Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist
1937  Fernando de la Rúa, former President of Argentina (d. 2019)
1938  Gaylord Perry, American baseball player
1940  Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor (d. 2010)
1941  Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer (d. 2011)
1941  Signe Toly Anderson, American singer (d. 2016)
1941  Yuriy Norshteyn, Russian animator, director and screenwriter
1941  Viktor Zubkov, former Prime Minister of Russia
1941  Miroslaw Hermaszewski, Polish cosmonaut
1942  Wen Jiabao, former Premier of the People's Republic of China
1942  Emmerson Mnangagwa, 3rd President of Zimbabwe
1942  Lee Dorman, American bass player (d. 2012)
1944  Graham Taylor, English footballer and manager (d. 2017)
1944  Mauro Piacenza, Italian cardinal
1945  Hans-Gert Pöttering, German politician
1945  Carmen Maura, Spanish actress
1945  Jessye Norman, American singer (d. 2019)
1945  Ron Shelton, American screenwriter, director and movie producer
1945  Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince
1946  Ola Brunkert, Swedish musician (d. 2008)
1946  Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
1946  Oliver Stone, American movie director
1946  Mike Procter, South African cricketer, coach and referee
1947  Viggo Jensen, Danish footballer and manager
1949  Joe Barton, American politician
1950  Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Islamic spiritual leader
1951  Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer
1952  Richard Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player
1954  Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (d. 2007)
1954  Nava Semel, Israeli author and playwright (d. 2017)
1955  Bruce Reitherman, American movie maker
1955  Abdul Qadir, Pakistani cricketer (d. 2019)
1955  Renzo Rosso, Italian fashion designer
1955  Brendan O'Carroll, Irish actor
1956  Maggie Reilly, Scottish singer
1958  Dr. Know, American guitarist
1959  Mark Kirk, American politician
1960  Katsuyoshi Shinto, Japanese footballer
1961  Dan Marino, American football player
1961  Colin McFarlane, English voice actor
1962  Rebecca Miller, American actress, director and writer
1964  Robert Fico, former Prime Minister of Slovakia
1966  Sherman Douglas, American basketball player
1967  Huw Bunford, Welsh guitarist and songwriter (Super Furry Animals)
1969  Revaz Arveladze, Georgian footballer
1970  Svetlana Zakharova, Russian long-distance runner
1971  Josh Charles, American actor
1972  Jimmy Carr, British comedian
1972  Queen Letizia of Spain
1973  Daniel Westling, Swedish royal
1973  Julie Cox, British actress
1973  Alyn Smith, Scottish politician
1974  Murat Yakin, Swiss footballer
1976  Paul Thomson, Scottish musician
1977  Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
1977  Sophie Dahl, British model
1977  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian writer
1977  Tom Hardy, English actor, screenwriter and producer
1977  René Haselbacher, Austrian cyclist
1977  Jason Terry, American basketball player
1978  Eidur Gudjohnsen, Icelandic footballer
1978  Kew Jaliens, Dutch footballer
1979  Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player
1979  Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan footballer
1979  Amy Davidson, American actress
1980  Mike Dunleavy, Jr., American basketball player
1980  Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese singer
1981  Miyavi, Japanese composer, singer and guitarist
1983  Ashleigh McIvor, Canadian freestyle skier
1983  Tomas Sivok, Czech footballer
1983  Santeri Palin, Finnish writer
1984  Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, British royal
1986  Heidi Montag, American television personality and singer
1986  Anan Anwar, Thai singer and actor
1986  Peter Wilson, English sport shooter and Olympic gold medalist
1986  Poppy Delevingne, English model
1987  Clare Maguire, English singer-songwriter
1988  Chelsea Kane, American actress and singer
1988  Kate Mansi, American actress
1990  Gwyneth Keyworth, Welsh actress
1996  Jake Cherry, American actor
1996  Nao Furuhata, Japanese idol and singer
1999  Nana Owada, Japanese idol singer and actress
668  Constans II, Emperor (b. 630)
921  Saint Ludmila of Bohemia, Bohemian martyr (b. 860)
1134  Alfonso the Battler, King of Aragon and Navarra (b. 1073)
1231  Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1173)
1326  Dmitry of Tver (b. 1299)
1352  Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
1750  Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)
1794  Abraham Clark, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
1803  Gian Francesco Albani, Italian cardinal (b. 1719)
1805  Christopher Gadsden, American soldier and statesman (b. 1724)
1830  William Huskisson, English politician, first rail fatality (b. 1770)
1835  Sarah Knox Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis (b. 1814)
1841  Alessandro Rolla, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1757)
1842  Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)
1842  Francisco Morazan, President of Central America (b. 1792)
1859  Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
1864  John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)
1875  Duchenne de Boulogne, French psychologist (b. 1806)
1883  Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (b. 1801)
1885  Jumbo, African elephant (b. 1861)
1891  John Steell, Scottish sculptor (b. 1804)
1893  Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)
1926  Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer (b. 1846)
1930  Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
1938  Thomas Wolfe, American writer (b. 1900)
1940  William B. Bankhead, American politician (b. 1874)
1945  André Tardieu, French statesman (b. 1876)
1945  Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1883)
1972  Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
1972  Asgeir Asgeirsson, second President of Iceland (b. 1894)
1973  King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, King of Sweden (b. 1882)
1973  Victor Jara, Chilean musician (b. 1932)
1975  Pavel Sukhoi, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1895)
1978  Willy Messerschmidt, German aircraft designer (b. 1898)
1979  Tommy Leonetti, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1929)
1981  Harold Bennett, English actor (b. 1899)
1985  Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (b. 1910)
1989  Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)
1995  Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1921)
1998  Luke Rasminsky, Canadian economist (b. 1908)
2001  June Salter, Australian actress (b. 1932)
2004  Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (b. 1948)
2005  Sidney Luft, American director (b. 1915)
2006  Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929)
2007  Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (b. 1968)
2008  Richard Wright, English musician (Pink Floyd) (b. 1943)
2009  Timothy Bateson, English actor (b. 1926)
2014  Post Bahadur Bogati, Nepalese politician (b. 1953)
2014  Yitzhak Hofi, Israeli general (b. 1927)
2014  Eugene I. Gordon, American physicist (b. 1930)
2014  John Anderson, Jr., American politician, Governor of Kansas (b. 1917)
2014  Jackie Cain, American jazz singer (b. 1928)
2014  Jeremy Ball, Australian actor and politician (b. 1969)
2015  Meir Pa'il, Israeli politician and military historian (b. 1926)
2015  Bernard Van De Kerckhove, Belgian racing driver (b. 1941)
2015  Mihai Volontir, Moldovan actor (b. 1934)
2015  Harry J. Lipkin, Israeli nuclear physicist (b. 1921)
2017  María Cristina Arango Vega, First Lady of Colombia (b. 1928)
2017  Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian (b. 1900)
2017  Dwijen Sharma, Bangladeshi naturalist and science writer (b. 1929)
2017  Harry Dean Stanton, American actor (b. 1926)
2017  Albert Speer Jr., German architect (b. 1934)
2018  Kirin Kiki, Japanese actress (b. 1943)
2018  Dudley Sutton, English actor (b. 1933)
2018  José Manuel de la Sota, Argentine politician (b. 1949)
2018  Victor Veselago, Soviet-Russian physicist (b. 1929)
2018  Fritz Wintersteller, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1927)
2018  Zhu Xu, Chinese actor (b. 1930)
2019  Chadlia Caid Essebsi, First Lady of Tunisia (b. 1936)
2019  Lol Mahamat Choua, 4th President of Chad (b. 1939)
2019  Roberto Leal, Portuguese-Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
2019  Phyllis Newman, American actress and singer (b. 1933)
2019  Ric Ocasek, American singer, songwriter and record producer (b. 1944)
2019  Mike Stefanik, American racing driver (b. 1958)
Battle of Britain Day (United Kingdom)
Grito de Dolores (Mexico)
Independence Day (Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua)
International Day of Democracy
Engineers' Day (India)
307  Emperor Severus II is captured and imprisoned at Tres Tabernae.
1400  Owain Glyndwr is declared Prince of Wales.
1620  The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, England, for America.
1701  James Francis Edward Stuart, referred to as the 'Old Pretender', becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of Scotland and England.
1776  American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
1779  American Revolutionary War: The French-American Siege of Savannah begins.
1795  The first British occupation of the Cape Colony, South Africa, begins.
1810  Grito de Dolores: Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
1812  The Fire of Moscow begins.
Three quarters of the city are destroyed.
1859  David Livingstone reaches Lake Malawi.
1893  Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
1902  Alagoas becomes a state of Brazil.
1908  General Motors is founded.
1918  On the British Monitor (a type of warship), a munitions explosion occurs while it is located in Dover Harbour, killing 77 people.
1919  The American Legion is incorporated
1920  Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City, killing 38 people and injuring over 400.
1925  HC Rotterdam, the biggest field hockey team in the Netherlands, is founded.
1928  The Okeechobee hurricane in Florida kills 2500 people.
1939  The Japanese-Soviet border conflict is settled.
1941  The Shah of Iran is forced to resign by the United Kingdom and Soviet Union.
1943  World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy concludes.
1945  Japanese forces in Hong Kong surrender.
1947  Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and the Tone River in Japan, killing at least 1,930 people.
1947  The United Kingdom formally ends its state of war with Austria.
1955  Juan Peron is removed from power in a coup in Argentina.
1955  A Soviet Navy Zulu class submarine becomes the first submarine to launch a ballistic missile.
1959  The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration in live television in New York City.
1961  The remainder of Hurricane Debbie causes damage in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
1963  Malaysia is formed by the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah), and Sarawak.
Singapore withdraws a short time later.
1966  The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York City.
1970  King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule following the hijacking of four civilian airlineers by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
1971  Typhoon Nancy makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
1975  Papua New Guinea becomes independent from Australia.
1975  Cape Verde, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe join the UN.
1976  Sharvash Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
1978  An earthquake with a magnitude of over 7.5 hits Tabas in Iran, killing at least 25,000 people.
1980  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the UN.
1982  Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon.
1983  Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen.
1987  The Monntreal Protocol for preservation of ozone layer against ozone depletion enters into force.
1990  The railroad connecting China and Kazakhstan is completed.
1991  The trial of the deposed Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.
1992  The pound sterling, the UK's currency, is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
1995  Greece ends its embargo on the Republic of Macedonia.
1998  Meryl Streep receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2005  Camorra organised crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.
2007  An aircraft carrying 128 people crashes in Phuket, Thailand, killing 89 people.
2009  Yukio Hatoyama becomes Prime Minister of Japan, after just under a year with Taro Aso in this position.
2013  A gunman kills 12 people at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC.
16  Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. 38)
1098  Hildegard of Bingen, German writer, composer, and saint (d. 1179)
1387  King Henry V of England (d. 1422)
1494  Francesco Mauriloco, Italian polymath (d. 1575)
1507  Jiajing Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1567)
1615  Heinrich Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1692)
1666  Antoine Parent, French mathematician (d. 1716)
1678  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (d. 1751)
1688  John Gay, English writer (d. 1732)
1716  Angelo Maria Amorevoli, Italian Baroque tenor (d. 1798)
1725  Nicolas Demarest, French geologist (d. 1815)
1736  Carter Braxton, American founding father (d. 1797)
1745  Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813)
1777  Nathan Mayer Rothschild, English banker and financier (d. 1813)
1782  Daoguang Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1850)
1812  Robert Fortune, Scottish gardener, scientist and explorer (d. 1880)
1823  Mihailo Obrenovic III, Prince of Serbia (d. 1868)
1825  Simeon Bavier, Swiss diplomat, engineer and politician (d. 1896)
1830  Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (d. 1911)
1837  King Peter V of Portugal (d. 1861)
1842  Alessandro Fortis, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1909)
1844  Paul Taffanel, French flautist and conductor (d. 1908)
1851  Emilia Pardo Bazan, Galician-Spanish writer (d. 1912)
1853  Albrecht Kossel, German doctor, won the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1917)
1858  Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
1859  Yuan Shikai, Chinese military leader and politician (d. 1916)
1866  Georg Voigt, German politician (d. 1927)
1867  Vantila Bratianu, Romanian politician (d. 1930)
1870  John Pius Boland, Irish jurist, politician and tennis player (d. 1958)
1875  James C. Penney, founder of American department store J.C. Penney (d. 1971)
1877  Jacob Schick, American-Canadian inventor and businessman (d. 1937)
1878  Herwarth Walden, German writer, publisher and composer (d. 1941)
1886  Demetre Chiparis, Romanian sculptor (d. 1947)
1886  Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter and writer (d. 1966)
1887  Nadia Boulanger, French composer and pianist (d. 1979)
1888  Frans Eemil Sillanpaa, Finnish writer (d. 1964)
1888  W. O. Bentley, British racing driver and entrepreneur (d. 1971)
1891  Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German spy (d. 1972)
1891  Karl Dönitz, German naval leader (d. 1980)
1893  Alexander Korda, Hungarian movie director (d. 1956)
1893  Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt, Hungarian scientist, won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986)
1898  H. A. Rey, American author and illustrator (d. 1977)
1899  Hans Swarowsky, Austrian conductor (d. 1975)
1901  Ugo Frigerio, Italian athlete (d. 1968)
1903  Joe Venuti, Italian-American jazz violinist (d. 1978)
1903  Gwen Bristow, American writer and journalist (d. 1980)
1905  Vladimir Holan, Czech poet (d. 1980)
1909  Marshall Carter, American general, Director of the NSA (d. 1993)
1912  Gyorgy Sarosi, Hungarian footballer (d. 1993)
1913  Felicien Marceau, French journalist and writer (d. 2012)
1916  Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis (d. 1978)
1917  Alexander Schmorell, German Resistance activist (d. 1943)
1919  Lawrence Dobkin, American actor (d. 2002)
1920  J. J. C. Smart, British-Australian philosopher (d. 2012)
1920  Staryl C. Austin, American air force general (d. 2015)
1921  Jon Hendricks, American jazz songwriter and singer
1922  Guy Hamilton, English movie director (d. 2016)
1922  Janis Paige, American actress
1923  Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore and statesman (d. 2015)
1924  Lauren Bacall, American actress (d. 2014)
1924  Hank Peters, American baseball executive (d. 2015)
1925  Charlie Byrd, American jazz guitarist (d. 1999)
1925  Charles Haughey, Prime Minister of Ireland (d. 2006)
1925  B. B. King, American blues musician (d. 2015)
1926  Robert H. Schuller, American televangelist (d. 2015)
1927  Peter Falk, American actor (d. 2011)
1927  Sadako Ogata, Japanese academic, diplomat ad writer
1928  Rex Trailer, American television presenter, actor and singer (d. 2013)
1929  Stan Stephens, American politician, 20th Governor of Montana
1930  Anne Francis, American actress (d. 2011)
1930  Jerry Parr, American secret service agent (d. 2015)
1934  Ronnie Drew, Irish singer (The Dubliners) (d. 2008)
1935  Jules Bass, American Stop-motion animator
1935  Billy Boy Arnold, American blues musician and songwriter
1937  Pavel Bobek, Czech singer (d. 2013)
1942  Bernie Calvert, British musician
1943  Oskar Lafontaine, German politician
1943  James Alan McPherson, American writer (d. 2016)
1944  B. J. Ward, American actress and singer
1945  Alexander Rutskoy, Russian politician
1946  Mike Reynolds, Australian politician
1946  Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter
1947  Russ Abbot, British comedian
1948  Rosemary Casals, American tennis player
1948  Julia Donaldson, English writer
1948  Kenney Jones, English musician
1949  Ed Begley, Jr., American actor
1949  Chrisye, Indonesian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2007)
1950  Loyd Grossman, American television presenter and food critic
1950  Loyola de Palacio, Spanish politician (d. 2006)
1951  Andy Irvine, Scottish rugby player
1952  Fatos Nano, Albanian politician
1952  Mickey Rourke, American actor
1953  Kurt Fuller, American actor
1953  Jerry Pate, American golfer
1953  Manuel Pellegrini, Chilean footballer and coach
1953  Mark Malloch Brown, British politician
1954  Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Indian sitarist and composer
1954  Colin Newman, British singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1955  Janet Ellis, British television presenter
1956  David Copperfield, American magician
1957  Norman Lamb, English politician
1957  Pierre Moscovici, French politician
1958  Jennifer Tilly, American actress
1958  Neville Southall, Welsh footballer
1958  Orel Hershiser, American baseball player and coach
1960  Ean Evans, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2009)
1960  Danny John-Jules, English actor
1961  Bilinda Butcher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1964  Molly Shannon, American actress
1965  Karl-Heinz Riedle, German footballer
1966  John Bel Edwards, American attorney and politician
1968  Rafael Alkorta, Spanish footballer
1968  Marc Anthony, American musician
1971  Amy Poehler, American actress, comedienne and writer
1972  Liz Bonnin, Irish television presenter
1972  Sprent Dabwido, Nauruan politician, former President of Nauru
1973  Alexander Vinokourov, Kazakhstani cyclist
1974  Mario Haas, Austrian footballer
1974  Loona, Dutch singer
1975  Adel Chedli, Tunisian footballer
1976  Tina Barrett, British singer (S Club)
1976  Greg Buckner, American basketball player
1978  Ebrahim Mirzapour, Iranian footballer
1978  Carolina Dieckmann, Brazilian actress
1979  Keisuke Tsuboi, Japanese footballer
1979  Flo Rida, American rapper
1979  Fanny, French singer
1980  Patrik Stefan, Czech ice hockey player
1981  Alexis Bledel, American actress
1983  Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean swimmer
1983  Brandon Moss, American baseball player
1984  Katie Melua, Georgian-British singer
1984  Sabrina Bryan, American actress and singer
1986  Ian Harding, British actor
1987  Kyle Lafferty, Northern Irish footballer
1987  Burry Stander, South African cyclist (d. 2013)
1987  Daren Kagasoff, American actor
1988  Teddy Geiger, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
1988  Sarah Steele, American actress
1989  José Salomon Rondon, Venezuelan footballer
1992  Nick Jonas, American singer and guitarist (The Jonas Brothers)
1992  Jake Roche, English actor and singer
2005  Princess Jalilah bint Ali of Jordan
96  Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)
307  Flavius Valerius Severus, Roman Emperor
655  Pope Martin I
1087  Severus II, Roman Emperor
1100  Bernold of Constance, German chronicler and writer (b. 1054)
1345  John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295)
1380  King Charles V of France (b. 1338)
1394  Avignon Pope Clement VII (b. 1342)
1498  Tomas de Torquemada, Spanish grand inquisitor (b. 1420)
1589  Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
1701  James II of England and VII of Scotland (b. 1633)
1736  Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist (b. 1686)
1782  Farinelli, Italian singer (b. 1705)
1792  Quang Trung, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1753)
1803  Nicolas Baudin, French explorer, cartographer and naturalist (b. 1754)
1819  John Jeffries, American physician, balloonist and meteorologist (b. 1744)
1824  King Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)
1843  Ezekiel Hart, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1770)
1845  Thomas Davis, Irish nationalist and writer (b. 1814)
1887  Sakoigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1841)
1911  Edward Whymper, English mountain climber (b. 1840)
1925  Alexander Friedmann, Russian mathematician and cosmologist (b. 1888)
1925  Leo Fall, Austrian composer (b. 1873)
1932  Ronald Ross, British doctor, won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
1931  Omar Mukhtar, resistance leader in Italian Libya
1936  Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French scientist (b. 1867)
1940  Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, British politician, 8th Governor of Queensland, Australia (b. 1860)
1944  Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
1946  James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1877)
1957  Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864)
1965  Ahn Eak-tai, Korean composer and conductor (b. 1906)
1965  Fred Quimby, American animation producer (b. 1886)
1977  Marc Bolan, English musician (b. 1947)
1977  Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano (b. 1923)
1980  Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
1984  Louis Reard, French engineer and fashion designer (b. 1897)
1987  Christopher Soames, Baron Soames, British politician (b. 1920)
1987  Howard Moss, American poet, playwright and critic (b. 1922)
1991  Olga Spessivtseva, Russian ballerina (b. 1895)
1992  Millicent Fenwick, American politician and writer (b. 1910)
1993  Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian poet and activist (b. 1920)
1996  Gene Nelson, American actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2000  Georgiy Gongadze, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
2002  James Gregory, American actor (b. 1911)
2003  Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
2004  Izora Armstead, American singer (The Weather Girls) (b. 1942)
2005  Gordon Gould, American inventor (b. 1920)
2006  Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1925)
2006  Fouad el-Mohandes, Egyptian actor (b. 1924)
2007  Robert Jordan, American writer (b. 1948)
2009  Mary Travers, American singer (b. 1936)
2012  Princess Ragnhild of Norway, Norwegian royal, sister of Harald V of Norway (b. 1930)
2012  John Ingle, American actor (b. 1928)
2013  Kim Hamilton, American actress (b. 1932)
2013  Patsy Swayze, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1927)
2014  Buster Jones, American actor and television presenter (b. 1943)
2014  Alf Ivar Samuelsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1942)
2015  Guy Béart, French singer-songwriter (b. 1930)
2015  Ton van de Ven, Dutch industrial designer (b. 1944)
2015  David Ashby, British motorcycle racer (b. 1949)
2016  Edward Albee, American playwright (b. 1928)
2016  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 10th President of Italy (b. 1920)
2016  Gabriele Amorth, Italian priest and exorcist (b. 1925)
2016  Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro, former President of Cape Verde (b. 1944)
Independence Day in Mexico and Papua New Guinea
Malaysia Day
International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone layer
National Heroes' Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
Statehood Day (Alagoas, a state of Brazil)
1577  The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
1630  The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
1631  Thirty Years' War: The Battle of Breitenfeld ends in victory for Sweden over the Holy Roman Empire.
1683  Anton van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society, describing 'animalcules', the first-known description of protozoa.
1716  Jean Thurel enlists in the Touraine army regiment at age 17, beginning over 90 years of military service lasting until his death at the age of 108.
1775  American Revolutionary War: Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
1776  The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
1787  The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1789  William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Mimas.
1809  The Finnish War between Sweden and Russia ends.
1814  Francis Scott Key finishes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", later to become the lyrics for The Star-Spangled Banner, the national Anthem of the United States.
1843  The Universidad de Chile (University of Chile) is founded in Santiago, Chile.
1849  Abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes Slavery.
1859  Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Emperor of the United States".
1862  American Civil War: The Battle of Antietam is fought.
It is the bloodiest day in US military history.
1862  American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the worst civilian disaster of the war.
1894  First Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the war.
1900  Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mobitac.
1908  The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge.
1914  Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a third time.
1916  World War I: German flying ace Manfred von Richthofen wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1928  The Okeechobee Hurricane hits southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
1939  World War II: The Soviet Union joins the Nazis' invasion of Poland.
1939  World War II: German U-boat U 29 sinks British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
1939  Taisto Maki becomes the first person to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, doing so in 29 minutes, 52 seconds.
1940  World War II: Adolf Hitler calls off Operation Sealion after defeat in the Battle of Britain.
1943  World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated.
1944  World War II: Allied troops parachute into the Netherlands.
1949  Canadian steamship SS Norronic burns in Toronto Harbour, killing over 118 people.
1957  The Federation of Malaya (later Malaysia) joins the UN.
1974  Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the UN.
1976  The first Space Shuttle, the Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
1978  The Camp David Accords are signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
1980  The Solidarity trade union is established.
1980  In Paraguay, former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed by Sandinista activists.
1983  Vanessa L. Williams becomes the first African American Miss America.
1988  The Summer Olympics in Seoul begin.
1991  Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, North Korea, South Korea, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia join the UN.
1993  The last Russian troops leave Poland.
2001  The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2004  Tamil is declared as the first classical language of India.
2004  The 2004 Summer Paralympics begin in Athens, lasting until September 28.
2005  Helen Clark is elected to a third term in-a-row as Prime Minister of New Zealand.
2006  The Fourpeaked Mountain volcano in Alaska erupts for the first time in over 10,000 years.
2006  Fredrik Reinfeldt is elected Prime Minister of Sweden.
2006  An audio tape of then-Prime Minister of Hungary Ferenc Gyurcsany is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party lied to win the 2006 General Election, sparking widespread protests across the country.
2011  The Occupy Wall Street movement begins in New York City.
By October 15, the Occupy movement had spread to protests in cities around the world against economic mismanagement.
2016  Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad dies after a crash in the road race during the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2016  An explosion in New York City injures 29 people.
879  King Charles III of France (d. 929)
1192  Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
1216  Robert I, Count of Artois (d. 1250)
1505  Mary of Hungary (d. 1558)
1550  Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
1605  Francesco Sacrati, Italian composer (d. 1650)
1630  Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)
1677  Stephen Hales, English physiologist and chemist (d. 1761)
1688  Maria Luisa of Savoy, Queen of Spain (d. 1714)
1730  Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
1739  John Rutledge, Chief Justice of the United States and Governor of South Carolina (d. 1800)
1743  Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
1764  John Goodricke, English astronomer (d. 1786)
1771  Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
1776  Langdon Cheves, American politician (d. 1857)
1806  Duchenne de Boulogne, French neurologist (d. 1875)
1811  John Brough, 26th Governor of Ohio (d. 1865)
1819  Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, 1st President of the Republic of South Africa (d. 1901)
1826  Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
1832  Sergey Botkin, Russian physician (d. 1889)
1850  Guerra Junqueiro, Portuguese lawyer, journalist, writer and poet (d. 1923)
1854  David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American businessman (d. 1929)
1857  Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskii, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1935)
1859  I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (d. 1929)
1864  Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Ukrainian writer (d. 1913)
1869  Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian peace advocate (d. 1938)
1872  Florencio Harmodio Arosemena, 14th President of Panama (d. 1945)
1878  Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer (d. 1950)
1879  Periyar E. V. Ramaswamy, Indian businessman, politician and activist (d. 1973)
1883  William Carlos Williams, American poet (d. 1963)
1885  George Cleveland, Canadian actor (d. 1957)
1890  France Bevk, Slovenian writer (d. 1970)
1892  Hendrik Andriessen, Dutch composer and organist (d. 1981)
1895  Princess Margaret of Denmark (d. 1992)
1900  J. Willard Marriott, American businessman (d. 1985)
1901  Francis Chichester, British sailor and adventurer (d. 1972)
1903  Dolores Costello, American actress (d. 1979)
1904  Frederick Ashton, English ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1988)
1904  Jerry Colonna, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1986)
1906  Junius Richard Jayewardene, President of Sri Lanka (d. 1996)
1907  Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
1914  Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician (d. 1996)
1915  M. F. Husain, Indian painter (d. 2011)
1916  Mary Stewart, English novelist (d. 2014)
1917  Isang Yun, Korean-German composer (d. 1995)
1918  Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)
1922  Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola (d. 1979)
1922  Virgilio Barco Vargas, President of Colombia (d. 1997)
1923  Hank Williams, American musician (d. 1953)
1925  John List, American murderer (d. 2008)
1926  Jean-Marie Lustiger, French cardinal (d. 2007)
1928  Roddy McDowall, British actor (d. 1998)
1929  Stirling Moss, British racing driver
1929  Pat Crowley, American actress
1930  David Huddleston, American actor (d. 2016)
1930  Thomas Patten Stafford, American astronaut
1930  Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut (d. 2016)
1931  Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
1933  Claude Provost, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
1933  Chuck Grassley, United States Senator from Iowa
1934  Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
1935  Ken Kesey, American writer (d. 2001)
1936  Rolv Wesenlund, Norwegian actor and singer (d. 2013)
1937  Nigel Boocock, English speedway rider (d. 2015)
1939  David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1940  Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat
1940  Lorella De Luca, Italian actress (d. 2014)
1942  Des Lynam, English television presenter
1942  Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (d. 2012)
1944  Reinhold Messner, Italian mountaineer
1945  Phil Jackson, American basketball player and coach
1945  Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor
1945  David Emerson, Canadian politician
1946  Billy Bonds, English footballer
1947  Tessa Jowell, English politician
1948  John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
1948  Kemal Monteno, Bosnian singer (d. 2015)
1950  Narendra Modi, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India
1951  Cassandra Peterson, American actress
1951  Russell Brown, Scottish politician
1951  Kermit Washington, American basketball player
1953  Rita Rudner, American actress and comedienne
1953  Tamasin Day-Lewis, English chef
1954  Joel-François Durand, French composer
1956  Andreas Starke, Lord Mayor of Bamberg in Bavaria
1956  Almazbek Atambayev, President of Kyrgyzstan
1957  Richie Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
1958  Janez Jansa, former Prime Minister of Slovenia
1960  Damon Hill, British racing driver
1960  Annabelle Apsion, British actress
1960  Kevin Clash, American actor and puppeteer
1961  Pamela Melroy, American astronaut
1962  Baz Luhrmann, Australian movie director
1962  Hesham Qandil, 51st Prime Minister of Egypt
1962  BeBe Winans, American singer-songwriter and producer
1963  Warren Gatland, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1965  Yuji Naka, Japanese video game designer, creator of Sonic the Hedgehog
1966  Paula Jones, American state employee
1968  Anastacia, American singer
1968  Marie-Chantal, former Crown Princess of Greece
1968  Akhenaton, French rapper and producer
1968  Tito Vilanova, Spanish football manager (d. 2014)
1969  Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
1969  Keith Flint, English singer-songwriter (The Prodigy)
1970  Dallas Campbell, Scottish television presenter
1971  Mauro Milanese, Italian footballer
1971  Mike Catt, English rugby player
1972  Bobby Lee, American comedian and actor
1973  Diego Albanese, Argentine rugby player
1974  Sheed Wallace, American basketball player
1975  Constantine Maroulis, American singer
1977  Simone Perrotta, Italian footballer
1979  Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1980  Shabana Mahmood, English lawyer and politician
1981  Bakari Koné, Ivorian footballer
1982  Shermine Shahrivar, Iranian-German model
1983  Jennifer Peña, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress
1983  Aiza, Filipino singer and actor
1984  John Kucera, Canadian skier
1985  Tomas Berdych, Czech tennis player
1985  Alexander Ovechkin, Russian ice hockey player
1985  Jon Walker, American singer-songwriter
1985  Umit Korkmaz, Turkish footballer
1985  Tupouto'a 'Ulukalala, Crown Prince of Tonga
1989  Kate Deines, American soccer player
1989  Dijon Talton, American actor and singer
1991  Minako Kotobuki, Japanese voice actress and singer