the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1954  Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977)
1956  Wang Guozhen, Chinese poet (d. 2015)
1956  Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani politician
1956  Derek Forbes, Scottish musician (Simple Minds)
1957  Danny Baker, English comedy writer, journalist, DJ and screenwriter
1957  Arkadi Ghukasyan, former President of Nagorno-Karabakh
1958  Bruce Campbell, American actor
1960  Erin Brockovich, American activist
1960  Tracy Pollan, American actress
1961  Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician
1962  Bobby Gillespie, Scottish singer and musician
1962  Clyde Drexler, former NBA player
1962  Campino, German singer
1962  Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress and musician
1963  Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler
1964  Amy Brenneman, American actress
1964  Miroslav Kadlec, Czech footballer
1964  Dan Brown, American writer (The Da Vinci Code)
1964  John Penrose, English politician
1965  Uwe Boll, German director
1965  L'ubomir Moravcik, Slovakian footballer
1968  Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player
1968  Melinda Nadj Abonji, Hungarian-Swiss writer and musician
1970  Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician and businessman
1970  Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies)
1971  1985
1973  Carson Daly, American talk show host, MTV VJ
1974  Jo Cox, British politician (d. 2016)
1974  Joseph Vijay, Indian actor
1974  Sabina Nore, Austrian artist
1974  Donald Faison, American actor
1976  Gordon Moakes, English singer and musician
1978  Champ Bailey, American football player
1978  Dan Wheldon, British IRL race car driver (d. 2011)
1979  Jai Rodriguez, American television personality
1979  Leire Martinez, Basque singer and songwriter
1980  Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player
1981  Sione Lauaki, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2017)
1981  Chris Urbanowicz, British guitarist (Editors)
1981  Monty Oum, American animator (d. 2015)
1982  Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
1984  Janko Tipsarevic, Serbian tennis player
1984  Giorgos Apostolidis, Greek basketball player
1984  Dustin Johnson, American golfer
1984  Ruben Ivan Martinez, Spanish footballer
1985  Sofaklis Schortsanitis, Greek basketball player
1985  Rosa Kato, Italian-Japanese model and actress
1985  Scott MacIntyre, American singer-songwriter and pianist
From 1986
1986  Dwayne Anderson, American basketball player
1986  Ramin Ott, American Samoan footballer
1987  Nikita Rukavytsya, Ukrainian-Australian footballer
1987  Danny Green, American basketball player
1987  Cory Gunz, American rapper and songwriter
1987  Lee Min Ho, South Korean actor, model and singer
1988  Portia Doubleday, American actress
1989  Jung Yong-hwa, South Korean musician, singer and songwriter
1989  Andreas Mikkelsen, Norwegian rally driver
1989  Karla Crome, British actress
1989  Cédric Mongongu, Congolese footballer
1990  Sebastian Jung, German footballer
1991  Giuseppe De Luca, Italian footballer
1991  Katie Jarvis, English actress
1991  Emil Larsen, Danish footballer
1993  Caydee Denney, American figure skater
1993  Loris Karius, German footballer
2006  Anna Hursey, Welsh table tennis player
431  Paulinus of Nola, Latin poet
1276  Pope Innocent V (b. 1225)
1429  Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
1535  John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, executed on Tower Hill (b. 1469)
1691  Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1642)
1699  Josiah Child, English merchant, economist and politician (b. 1630)
1727  King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)
1813  Anton Graff, Swiss painter (b. 1736)
1868  Heber C. Kimball, Mormon church leader (b. 1801)
1872  Rudecindo Alvarado, Argentine general (b. 1795)
1874  Howard Staunton, English chess player (b. 1810)
1892  Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (b. 1819)
1896  Benjamin Bristow, American politician (b. 1832)
1905  Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1913  Stefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (b. 1875)
1925  Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)
1931  Armand Fallières, President of France (b. 1841)
1933  Henry Birkin, English racing driver (b. 1896)
1935  Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
1936  Moritz Schlick, German philosopher (b. 1882)
1942  August Froehlich, German priest and Resistance activist (b. 1891)
1945  Isamu Cho, Japanese general (b. 1895)
1945  Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (b. 1887)
1945  Jambyl, KazakhstanI folk singer (b. 1846)
1956  Walter de la Mare, English author and poet (b. 1873)
1959  Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)
1961  Maria of Yugoslavia, Romanian-born Consort of Yugoslavia (b. 1900)
1965  David O. Selznick, American movie producer (b. 1902)
1969  Judy Garland, American singer and actress (b. 1922)
1974  Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
1977  Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1978  Jens Otto Krag, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1914)
1979  Louis Chiron, Monegasque racing driver (b. 1899)
1987  Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (b. 1899)
1988  Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b. 1916)
1990  Ilya Frank, Russian physicist (b. 1908)
1992  Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)
1993  Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
1995  Al Hansen, American artist, grandfather of rock musician Beck (b. 1927)
1995  Yves Congar, French theologian and cardinal (b. 1904)
1997  Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1919)
2001  Luis Carniglia, Argentine footballer and coach (b. 1917)
2002  Darryl Kile, American Major League baseball player (b. 1968)
2002  Ann Landers, American writer (b. 1918)
2004  Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990)
2004  Bob Bemer, American computer pioneer (b. 1920)
2008  George Carlin, American comedian and actor (b. 1937)
2013  Allan Simonsen, Danish racing driver (b. 1978)
2013  Henning Larsen, Danish architect (b. 1925)
2013  Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, Scottish politician (b. 1945)
2014  Fouad Ajami, Lebanese-American university professor and writer (b. 1945)
2015  Laura Antonelli, Italian actress (b. 1941)
2015  James Horner, American film score composer (b. 1953)
2015  James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife, Scottish nobleman (b. 1929)
2016  Amjad Sabri, Pakistani singer (b. 1970)
2016  Joan Acker, American sociologist (b. 1924)
2016  John William Ashe, Antiguan diplomat (b. 1954)
2016  Vasily Bochkaryov, Russian politician (b. 1949)
2016  Jim Boyd, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
2016  Marc Allan Feldman, American physician and politician (b. 1960)
2016  David J. Hickson, British theorist (b. 1931)
2016  Harry Rabinowitz, British composer and conductor (b. 1916)
2017  Gunter Gabriel, German singer, musician and composer (b. 1942)
2017  Frank Kush, American football player (b. 1929)
2017  Keith Loneker, American football player and actor (b. 1971)
2017  Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (b. 1925)
2017  Nikolai Zhugan, Soviet-Russian pilot (b. 1917)
2018  Geoff Case, Australian rules football player (b. 1935)
2018  Nahum Korzhavin, Russian-American poet (b. 1925)
2018  Dick Leitsch, American LGBT rights activist (b. 1935)
2018  Deanna Lund, American actress (b. 1937)
2018  Geoffrey Oryema, Ugandan-born French guitarist (b. 1953)
2018  Vinnie Paul, American rock music drummer (b. 1964)
2018  Waldir Pires, Brazilian politician (b. 1926)
2018  Sally Pierone, American art director and psychiatrist (b. 1921)
2019  Judith Krantz, American author (b. 1928)
2019  Leevi Lehto, Finnish poet, translator and programmer (b. 1951)
2019  Se'are Mekonnen, Ethiopian army officer
2019  Stepan Shakaryan, Azerbaijani-Armenian composer (b. 1935)
Roman Catholic Church: Feast day of Thomas More
Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatia)
Teachers' Day (El Salvador)
229  Sun Quan declares himself Chinese Emperor of the Wu Dynasty.
1280  The Emirate of Granada defeats the Kingdom of Castile in the Battle of Moclin.
1295  Pope Boniface VIII enters Rome.
1305  Flemish-French peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
1314  Start of the Battle of Bannockburn south of Stirling, Edward II of England and Robert I of Scotland met in battle.
Scotland won and Edward fled the field and Scotland.
1532  Henry VIII & François I sign secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
1611  The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in the Atlantic Ocean; they are never heard from again.
1661  Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catharina of Portugal.
1683  William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Native Americans in Pennsylvania.
1713  French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
1724  Russia and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople.
1757  Battle of Plassey – 3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj-ud-Dawlah at Plassey.
1758  Seven Years War: Battle of Krefeld – British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
1760  Seven Years War: Battle of Landshut – Austria beats Prussia.
1794  Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kyiv.
1810  John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
1812  War of 1812: The United Kingdom removes the restrictions on American commerce, therefore eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
1848  Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1858  Six-year-old Edgardo Mortara is seized by Papal authorities.
1860  The US Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
1865  American Civil War: At Fort Towson in Oklahoma Territory Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
1868  Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for the typewriter.
1887  The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
1888  Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for US president.
1894  International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1897  The first women's international chess tournament begins in London.
1913  Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
1914  Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta
1915  First wholesale slaughter of Armenian men in Harput (Kharpert), Turkey.
1919  Estonian War of Independence: Decisive defeat of the "Baltische Landswehr" in the Battle of Cesis.
1924  German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is captured.
1925  Mount Logan, Canada's highest peak at 5959 metres above sea level, in the Yukon, is climbed for the first time, by a team of 6 climbers, led by Albert MacCarthy.
1931  Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
1938  The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
1938  Marineland opens near St. Augustine, Florida.
1940  World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now-occupied France.
1941  Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence (June independence) of Lithuania from Soviet Union; it was only brief however as Nazis occupied Lithuania a few weeks later.
1942  Holocaust: The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place, on a train full of Jews from Paris.
1943  World War II: British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Asciangihi in the Mediterranean Sea, after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
1944  Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen.
1946  An earthquake strikes Vancouver Island.
1947  The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
1956  Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt.
1958  The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
1959  Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career).
1959  A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people.
1960  Japan signs security treaty with the U.S.
1961  Having been signed on December 1, 1959, the Antarctic Treaty goes into effect.
1967  Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
1968  74 are killed and 150 injured in a soccer stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
1969  Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring chief Earl Warren.
1972  Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
1974  In Switzerland, the Canton of Jura separates from the Canton of Bern.
1979  Sydney: New South Wales Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern Suburbs Railway.
It operates as a shuttle between Central & Bondi Junction until full integration with the Illawarra Line during 1980.
1983  Pope John Paul II meets imprisoned Solidarity leader Lech Walesa in Poland.
1985  A Boeing 747 carrying Air India Flight 182 blew up at 31,000 feet (9500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, South of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
1989  The movie Batman is released in the United States.
1990  Moldova declares independence.
1992  Mafia boss John Gotti is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering on April 2.
1992  Yitzhak Rabin wins the Israeli parliamentary elections.
2000  A ferry sinks on the Yangtze river, near Luzhou, in China's Sichuan province, killing 131 people.
2001  A magnitude 8.4 earthquake strikes off the coast of Peru.
2006  Harriet the tortoise dies as one of the world's oldest living creatures, aged around 176 years.
2013  Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tightrope.
2013  The health of former South African President Nelson Mandela is first reported to be in a "critical" state.
2014  Three journalists working for Al-Jazeera are sentenced to prison in Egypt on accusations of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.
2016  The Colombian government and FARC guerrillas sign a peace treaty.
2016  United Kingdom European Union membership referendum: A majority (51.9%) vote to leave the European Union, making the United Kingdom the first independent country to do so.
Majorities in Scotland, Northern Ireland and London all vote to remain.
2018  Thousands of people protest in Central London against Brexit, two years to the day of the United Kingdom's narrow-majority vote to leave the European Union.
2018  A bomb is detonated at a political rally attended by Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in what is considered as an attempt to kill him.
2018  Tham Luang cave rescue: 12 boys and their assistant football coach get stuck in the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand; they are discovered alive on July 2, with the internationally followed rescue being completed on July 10.
2019  Ekrem Imamoglu wins the re-run of the mayoral election in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city; he defeats Binali Yildirim, who was formerly Prime minister of Turkey in Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party.
47 BC  Ptolemy Caesarion of Egypt (d. 30 BC)
1373  Queen Joan II of Naples (d. 1435)
1435  Francis II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1488)
1456  Margaret of Denmark, Queen Consort of Scotland (d. 1486)
1534  Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582)
1612  André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (d. 1660)
1668  Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744)
1703  Marie Leszczynska, Queen Consort of France (d. 1768)
1711  Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Italian instrument maker (d. 1786)
1763  Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (d. 1814)
1772  Cristobal Mendoza, 1st President of Venezuela (d. 1829)
1800  Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)
1815  Robert Milligan McLane, American politician and diplomat (d. 1898)
1824  Carl Reinecke, German musician and composer (d. 1910)
1863  Sándor Bródy, Hungarian author and journalist (d. 1924)
1875  Carl Milles, Swedish sculptor (d. 1955)
1875  Norman Pritchard, Indian athlete (d. 1929)
1884  Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1979)
1887  Ernst Rowohlt, German publisher (d. 1960)
1888  Bronson M. Cutting, American politician (d. 1935)
1888  Lee Moran, American actor (d. 1961)
1889  Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (d. 1966)
1894  King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972)
1894  Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
1897  Alexandru Giugaru, Romanian actor (d. 1986)
1906  King Tribhuvan of Nepal (d. 1955)
1907  James Meade, English economist (d. 1995)
1909  Georges Rouquier, French actor, movie director and screenwriter (d. 1989)
1910  Milt Hinton, American jazz musician (d. 1990)
1910  Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)
1910  Gordon B. Hinckley, American Mormon leader (d. 2008)
1912  Alan Turing, British mathematician (d. 1954)
1913  William P. Rogers, American politician (d. 2001)
1916  Ernst Willimowski, Polish footballer (d. 1987)
1919  Hermann Gmeiner, founder of SOS Children's Villages (d. 1986)
1919  Mohamed Boudiaf, Algerian political leader (d. 1992)
1923  Johnny Barnes, Bermudian entertainer (d. 2016)
1923  Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian Resistance activist (d. 1945)
1923  Walter Wolfgang, German-British socialist and peace activist (d. 2019)
1925  John Shepherd-Barron, Scottish inventor (d. 2010)
1925  Art Modell, American businessman (d. 2012)
1925  Oliver Smithies, British-American geneticist (d. 2017)
1926  Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italian sculptor
1927  Bob Fosse, American choreographer (d. 1987)
1928  Klaus von Dohnanyi, former Mayor of Hamburg
1929  June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
1930  Donn F. Eisele, American colonel, pilot and astronaut (d. 1987)
1931  Ola Ullsten, former Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 2018)
1931  Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (d. 1981)
1935  Maurice Ferré, 32nd Mayor of Miami, Florida
1936  Richard Bach, American writer and pilot
1936  Jan Hoet, Belgian art historian (d. 2014)
1936  Costas Simitis, former Prime Minister of Greece
1937  Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland
1940  Stuart Sutcliffe, British musician (d. 1962)
1940  Wilma Rudolph, American runner (d. 1994)
1940  Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d. 2003)
1940  Derry Irvine, Scottish lawyer, judge and politician
1940  Willie Wallace, Scottish footballer
1942  Martin Rees, English cosmologist and astrophysicist
1943  Albert Pintat, former Prime Minister of Andorra
1943  James Levine, American conductor
1943  Vint Cerf, American computer scientist and author
1945  John Garang, South Sudanese politician (d. 2005)
1948  Clarence Thomas, American jurist
1948  Nabarun Bhattacharya, Indian author (d. 2015)
1950  Orani Joao Tempesta, Brazilian cardinal
1951  Michèle Mouton, French rally driver
1951  Sergei Skripal, Russian double-agent
1953  Armen Sarkissian, former Prime Minister and current President of Armenia
1955  Maggie Philbin, English television and radio presenter
1955  Jean Tigana, French footballer
1956  Randy Jackson, American music producer
1957  Frances McDormand, American actress
1957  Jochen Schweizer, German entrepreneur
1960  Tatsuya Uemura, Japanese musician and programmer
1960  Donald Harrison, American saxophonist, composer and producer
1960  Fadil Vokrri, Kosovar footballer (d. 2018)
1961  Andrea Borella, Italian fencer
1961  John Nicolson, Scottish politician
1963  Colin Montgomery, Scottish golfer
1964  Joss Whedon, American television director and movie director
1964  Kenji Honnami, Japanese footballer
1965  Paul Arthurs, British guitarist (Oasis)
1969  Fernanda Ribeiro, Portuguese athlete
1970  Yann Tiersen, French musician and songwriter
1972  Zinedine Zidane, French footballer
1972  Go Oiwa, Japanese footballer
1972  Selma Blair, American actress
1973  Marie N, Latvian singer
1973  Eisuke Nakanishi, Japanese footballer
1975  KT Tunstall, Scottish singer
1975  Shuhei Terada, Japanese footballer
1976  Patrick Vieira, French footballer
1976  Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress, singer, songwriter and model
1977  Hayden Foxe, Australian footballer
1977  Miguel Angel Angulo, Spanish footballer
1977  Jason Mraz, American singer
1978  Memphis Bleek, American rapper
1978  Frédéric Leclercq, French singer-songwriter and musician
1980  Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player
1980  Melissa Rauch, American actress
1981  Antony Costa, British singer (Blue)
1982  Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1983  José Manuel Rojas, Chilean footballer
1984  Takeshi Matsuda, Japanese swimmer
1984  Duffy, Welsh singer
1987  Alessia Filippi, Italian swimmer
1988  Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast
1989  Jordan Nolan, Canadian ice hockey player
1989  Ayana Taketatsu, Japanese voice actress
1989  Lauren Bennett, British dancer, singer and model
1989  Billie Kay, American professional wrestler
1991  Katie Armiger, American singer
1992  Luiza Galiulina, Uzbek gymnast
1995  Hao Yun, Chinese swimmer
1995  Danna Paola, Mexican singer and actress
2004  Mana Ashida, Japanese actress and singer
Up to 2000
79  Vespasian, Roman Emperor (b. 9)
679  Aethelthryth, Queen of Northumbria
1018  Henry I, Margrave of Austria
1222  Constance of Aragon, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1179)
1516  Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
1555  Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (b. 1470)
1565  Dragut, Ottoman general (b. 1485)
1582  Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b. 1537)
1615  Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b. 1545)
1677  William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1647)
1686  William Coventry, English statesman (b. 1628)
1707  John Mill, English theologian (b. 1645)
1779  Mikael Sehul, Ethiopian warlord (b. 1691)
1806  Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and philosopher (b. 1723)
1832  James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
1836  James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1773)
1856  Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (b. 1806)
1881  Matthias Jakob Scheiden, German botanist (b. 1804)
1891  Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804)
1893  William Fox, four-times Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1812)
1893  Theophilus Shepstone, British-South African politician (b. 1817)
1914  Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Indian philosopher and spiritual reformist (b. 1838)
1926  Jon Magnusson, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1859)
1945  Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian Resistance activist (b. 1923)
1959  Boris Vian, French polymath (b. 1920)
1970  Roscoe Turner, American aviator (b. 1895)
1980  Varahagiri Venkata Giri, 4th President of India (b. 1894)
1980  Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi (b. 1946)
1981  Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1907)
1986  Moses I. Finley, British historian (b. 1912)
1991  Lea Padovani, Italian movie actress (b. 1920)
1995  Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (b. 1918)
1995  Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (b. 1914)
1996  Andreas Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
1997  Betty Shabazz, American activist (b. 1934)
1998  Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (b. 1911)
1999  Buster Merryfield, English actor (b. 1920)
2000  Peter Dubovsky, Slovakian footballer (b. 1972)
2001  Yvonne Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets (b. 1934)
2001  Corinne Calvet, French actress (b. 1925)
2006  Aaron Spelling, American TV producer (b. 1923)
2006  Harriet, Galapagos Tortoise (b. 1830)
2008  Arthur Chung, former President of Guyana (b. 1918)
2009  Hanne Hiob, German actress (b. 1923)
2009  Ed McMahon, American television personality (b. 1923)
2010  Mohammed Mzali, Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1925)
2011  Gene Colan, American comic book artist (b. 1926)
2011  Dennis Marshall, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1985)
2011  Peter Falk, American actor (b. 1927)
2012  Alan McDonald, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1963)
2012  Brigitte Engerer, French pianist (b. 1952)
2013  Bobby Bland, American singer-songwriter (b. 1930)
2013  Richard Matheson, American author (b. 1926)
2014  Steve Viksten, American television writer and voice actor (b. 1960)
2015  Chris Woodhead, English educationist (b. 1946)
2015  Helmuth Lohner, Austrian actor and theatre director (b. 1933)
2015  Dick Van Patten, American actor (b. 1928)
2015  Harvey Pollack, American sport statistician (b. 1922)
2015  Thé Lau, Dutch singer and guitarist (b. 1952)
2015  Magali Noël, French actress and singer (b. 1931)
2016  James Green, American historian (b. 1944)
2016  Stanley Mandelstam, American theoretical physicist (b. 1928)
2016  Ralph Stanley, American musician (b. 1927)
2017  Saman Kelegama, Sri Lankan economist (b. 1959)
2017  Tonny van der Linden, Dutch footballer (b. 1932)
2017  Mr. Pogo, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1951)
2017  Gabe Pressman, American journalist (b. 1924)
2017  Betty Metcalf, American politician (b. 1921)
2018  Alberto Fouilloux, Chilean footballer (b. 1940)
2018  Donald Hall, American poet (b. 1928)
2018  Kim Jong-pil, Prime minister of South Korea (b. 1926)
2018  Violeta Rivas, Argentine singer and actress (b. 1937)
2019  Peter Ball, English bishop and convicted sex offender (b. 1932)
2019  Dave Bartholomew, American musician, bandleader and songwriter (b. 1918)
2019  Andrey Kharitonov, Russian actor (b. 1959)
2019  Fernando Roldán, Chilean footballer (b. 1920)
2019  George Rosenkranz, Hungarian-Mexican chemist (b. 1916)
2019  Abdul Sattar, Pakistani political scientist and diplomat (b. 1931)
National Day of Luxembourg (Grand Duke's official birthday)
Saint John's Eve, midsummer celebrations in some Northern Hemisphere countries
New Year in the Mapuche culture in southern Chile, related to the Southern Hemisphere's Winter solstice
United Nations Public Service Day
Victory Day (Estonia)
Father's Day (Poland, Nicaragua and Uganda)
Okinawa Memorial Day (after end of Battle of Okinawa)
79 - Titus becomes Roman Emperor after the previous day's death of his father, Vespasian.
109 - Roman Emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometers northwest of Rome.
972 - Battle of Cedynia: First documented victory of Polish forces takes place.
1128 – Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães.
Portuguese forces led by Afonso I beat his mother D.Teresa and D.Fernão Peres de Trava.
After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" in 1143.
1230 - The Siege of Jaén starts in the context of the Spanish Recoquista.
1314 – End of the Battle of Bannockburn.
Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce beat Edward II of England.
Scotland regains its independence.
1340 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys - The French fleet is almost destroyed  by the English fleet commanded personally by King Edward III of England.
1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aix-la-Chapelle, Prussia, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
1441 – Eton College is founded.
1497 – John Cabot lands on North America in Newfoundland; first European discovery of the region since the Vikings.
1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London
1509 – Henry VIII is crowned King of England.
1534 – Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
1535 – The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
1571 - Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founds Manila.
1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
1604 – Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford dies.
Leading candidate for true authorship of the Shakespeare canon.
1622 - Battle of Macau: The Dutch fail in an attempt to capture Macau.
1662 – The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macao.
1664 – The colony of New Jersey is founded.
1692 – Kingston, Jamaica is founded.
1779 - American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
1793 – First republican constitution in France adopted.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins.
1813 - Battle of Beaver Dams: A British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.
1821 – Battle of Carabobo: Venezuela gains total independence from Spain.
1859 – Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns).
Sardinia and France defeat Austria in northern Italy.
1861 – Tennessee becomes the 11th and last state to secede from the US.
1880 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
1894 – The IOC decides to hold the Olympic Games every four years.
1901 – First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens.
1902 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
1910 – Japan invades Korea.
1913 – Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
1913 – Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
1916 – Mary Pickford becomes first movie star to get million dollar contract.
1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
1918 – The giant cannon Big Bertha begins bombardments on Paris
1932 – A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand).
1938 - Pieces of meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it explodes in the Earth's atmosphere, lands near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
1939 - Siam is renamed Thailand for the first time, by Prime Minister Plaek Pibulsonggram.
1940 – France and Italy sign an armistice.
1941 – Government of briefly independent Lithuania conducts its first meeting under prime minister Juozas Ambrazevičius
1945 – The U.S.S.R. capture the Free Republic of Schwarzenberg.
1946 – Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of France
1947 – First known sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold, flying over Washington, USA, notices nine luminous disks in the form of saucers.
1948 – Start of the Berlin Blockade.
The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible.
1957 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
1963 – Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the UK.
1967 - The UK's worst caving disaster kills 6 people at Mossdale Caverns.
1974 – The UPC label is used for the first time to ring up purchases at a supermarket.
1975 – An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York.
113 people die.
1981 – For what would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years, the Humber Bridge, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, opens.
1982 – British Airways flight 9 flies into volcanic ash erupting from Mount Galunggung in Indonesia, causing all four of its engines to fail.
1982 - Jean-Loup Chrétien becomes the first French person to go into space.
1983 – Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth.
1983 – Yasser Arafat banned from Damascus.
1989 - Jiang Zemin becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.
1993 – Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.
1995 - South Africa wins the Rugby Union World Cup in front of its home crowd.
Nelson Mandela famously hands the trophy to team captain Francois Pienaar.
1996 – Michael Johnson breaks the world record in the 200 metres with a time of 19.66 seconds
1999 – The guitar with which Eric Clapton recorded Layla is sold at auction for the astounding price of $497,500.
2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281 people.
2003 - Air France's last Concorde flight takes place.
2004 - In the state of New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is elected to his first term as President of Iran.
2007 – Before becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (on June 27) Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as leader of the Labour Party.
2010 – Julia Gillard becomes the first female Prime Minister of Australia, succeeding Kevin Rudd.
2010 – The longest match in the history of professional tennis ends at Wimbledon, after two days.
John Isner beats Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the deciding set.
2012 - Lonesome George, the last-known surviving Pinta Island tortoise, dies in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, aged around 100.
His sub-species is therefore considered to be extinct.
2012 - Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood is declared the winner of the previous week's Presidential election in Egypt.
2014 - Albania officially becomes an EU candidate country.
2014 - Uruguayan footballer Luis Suárez is involved in a biting controversy at the 2014 FIFA World Cup when cameras show him biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during a match.
He is suspended from competitive games for four months.
2016 - David Cameron announces his intention to resign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after 51.9% of British voters decided to leave the European Union in a referendum.
2017 - 15 people are killed and 93 are missing after a landslide hits Xinmo village in Sichuan, People's Republic of China.
1244  Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (died 1308)
1293  Joan the Lame, Queen of France (died 1348)
1314  Philippa of Hainaut, Queen Consort of Edward III of England (died 1369)
1343  Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre (died 1373)
1386  John of Capistrano, Italian saint (died 1456)
1413  John IV, Marquess of Montferrat (died 1464)
1485  Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (died 1558)
1519  Theodore Beza, French theologian and reformer (died 1605)
1532  Edzard II, Count of East Frisia (died 1599)
1532  William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (died 1592)
1532  Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (died 1588)
1535  Joan of Spain, Spanish-born Queen Consort of Portugal (died 1573)
1542  Saint John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite friar and poet (died 1591)
1661  Hachisuka Tsunanori, Japanese daimyo (died 1730)
1694  Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss theorist (died 1748)
1704  Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French aristocrat (died 1771)
1740  Juan Ignacio Molina, Chilean naturalist (died 1829)
1755  Anarchasis Clats, Prussian-born French revolutionary (died 1794)
1767  Jean-Baptiste  Benoit Eyries, French geographer, author and translator (died 1846)
1770  Albrecht Berblinger, German inventor (died 1829)
1774  Antonio González de Balcarce, Argentine military commander (died 1819)
1777  John Ross, naval officer and explorer (died 1856)
1782  Juan Larrea, Argentine politician and merchant (died 1847)
1784  Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan revolutionary and political figure (died 1853)
1795  Ernst Heinrich Weber, anatomist and physiologist (died 1878)
1803  George James Webb, composer (died 1887)
1804  Willard Richards, American religious leader (died 1854)
1811  John Archibald Campbell, American jurist (died 1889)
1813  Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (died 1887)
1818  Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (died 1901)
1821  Guillermo Rawson, Argentine politician (died 1890)
1825  Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1844)
1826  George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (died 1898)
1833  Gustaf Akerhielm, Prime Minister of Sweden (died 1900)
1838  Jan Matejko, Polish painter (died 1893)
1842  Ambrose Bierce, American writer (died 1914)
1850  Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British general, original Order of Merit member (died 1916)
1852  Victor Adler, Austrian politician (died 1918)
1860  Mercedes of Orléans, Queen of Spain (died 1878)
1869  Prince George of Greece and Denmark (died 1957)
1869  Caroline Furness, American astronomer (died 1936)
1880  Oswald Veblen, American mathematician (died 1960)
1882  Carl Diem, German sports scientist and Olympic official (died 1962)
1883  Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born American physicist (died 1964)
1883  Frank Venner, American runner (died 1966)
1884  Frank Waller, American athlete (died 1941)
1888  Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (died 1964)
1893  Roy O. Disney, American businessman (died 1971)
1895  Jack Dempsey, American boxer (died 1983)
1898  Karl Selter, Estonian politician (died 1958)
1901  Harry Partch, composer (died 1974)
1906  Pierre Fournier, French cellist (died 1986)
1907  Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (died 1989)
1908  Hugo Distler, German composer (died 1942)
1908  Guru Gopinath Indian classical dancer (died 1987)
1908  Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (died 1976)
1909  Jean Deslauriers, Canadian conductor, violinist and composer (died 1978)
1909  William Penney, English mathematician (died 1991)
1909  David Rose, composer, musician (died 1990)
1911  Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (died 1995)
1911  Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer and physicist (died 2011)
1912  Mary Wesley, British writer (died 2002)
1913  Gustaaf Detoor, Belgian cyclist (died 2002)
1914  Robert Aickman, writer (died 1981)
1915  Fred Hoyle, cosmologist and science fiction writer (died 2001)
1916  William B. Saxbe, 70th United States Attorney General (died 2010)
1917  David Easton, Canadian political scientist (died 2014)
1919  Al Molinaro, American actor (died 2015)
1922  Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) (died 1988)
1922  Jack Carter, American comedian and actor (died 2015)
1923  Margaret Olley, Australian artist (died 2011)
1923  Marc Riboud, French photographer
1923  Cesare Romiti, Italian businessman and economist
1923  Yves Bonnefoy, French poet (died 2016)
1924  Kurt Furgler, Swiss politician (died 2008)
1926  Walter Hirrlinger, German politician (died 2018)
1927  Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist (died 2014)
1927  James B. Edwards, American politician, 110th Governor of South Carolina and 3rd United States Secretary of Energy (died 2014)
1928  M. S. Viswanathan, Indian film score composer (died 2015)
1928  Yvan Delporte, Belgian comics writer (died 2007)
1928  Wolfgang Altenburg, German general
1929  Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer
1930  Claude Chabrol, French movie director (died 2010)
1930  Dave Creighton, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2017)
1931  Billy Casper, American golfer (died 2015)
1933  Sam Jones, American basketball player
1937  Anita Desai, American novelist
1938  Lawrence Block, American writer
1938  Albufaz Elchibey, former President of Azerbaijan
1940  Vittorio Storaro, Italian cinematographer
1940  Augusto Fantozzi, Italian lawyer and politician (died 2019)
1941  Charles Whitman, American murderer (died 1966)
1942  Colin Groves, Australian primatologist (died 2017)
1942  Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, former President of Chile
1942  Michele Lee, actress
1944  Jeff Beck, British guitarist (Yardbirds)
1944  Chris Wood, British musician (died 1983)
1945  Colin Blunstone, American musician (The Zombies)
1945  George Pataki, former Governor of New York
1945  Betty Stöve, Dutch tennis player
1946  Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (died 1986)
1946  Robert Reich, American politician and political commentator
1947  Clarissa Dickson Wright, English cookery writer and broadcaster (died 2014)
1947  Mick Fleetwood, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
1949  Betty Jackson, English fashion designer (born in Lancashire)
1949  John Illsey, English guitarist (Dire Straits)
1949  Brigitte Mohnhaupt, German militant, member of the Red Army Faction
1950  Jan Kulczyk, Polish businessman (d. 2015)
1950  Wilfried, Austrian singer and actor (d. 2017)
1950  Moshe Ya'alon, Israeli politician
1951  Ivar Formo, Norwegian cross-country skier  (died 2006)
1951  Raelene Boyle, Australian athlete
1951  Simon Rouse, English actor
1952  Dianna Melrose, English diplomat
1953  William E. Moerner, American chemist and physicist
1953  Garry Shider, musician (P Funk)
1954  Mark Edmondson, Australian tennis player
1956  Owen Paterson, British politician
1956  Joe Penny, American actor
1957  Astro, English rapper (UB40)
1957  Mark Parkinson, 45th Governor of Kansas
1958  Jean Charest, Quebec politician
1959  Andy McCluskey, British singer, songwriter and musician
1960  Elish Angiolini, Scottish judge
1960  Trisha Meili, writer
1961  Iain Glen, Scottish actor
1961  Bernie Nicholls, Canadian ice hockey player
1963  Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (died 2007)
1963  Preki, Serbian-American footballer
1966  Adrienne Shelly, American actress (died 2006)
1966  Milena Bertolini, Italian footballer and coach
1967  Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, German guitarist (Rammstein)
1967  Sherry Stringfield, American actress
1969  Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
1970  Glenn Medeiros, Hawaiian singer and songwriter
1971  Ji Jin-hee, South Korean actor
1971  Christopher Showerman, American actor
1972  Robbie McEwen, Australian cyclist
1973  Alexander Beyer, German actor
1973  Jere Lehtinen, Finnish ice hockey player
1974  Chris Guccione, American baseball player and umpire
1975  Marek Malik, Czech ice hockey player
1975  Federico Pucciarello, Argentine-Italian rugby player
1977  Dimos Dikoudis, Greek basketball player
1978  Luis García, Spanish footballer
1978  Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
1978  Juan Román Riquelme, Argentine footballer
1978  Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish)
1979  Petra Nemcova, Czech model
1979  Dafydd Jones, Welsh rugby player
1980  Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
1980  Minka Kelly, American actress
1980  John Bryant Davila, American actor
1981  Siddharth Nair, cartoonist and writer
1982  Kevin Nolan, English footballer
1982  Christian Montero, Costa Rican footballer
1982  Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player
1983  Rebecca Cooke, English swimmer
1985  Diego Alves, Brazilian footballer
1986  Stuart Broad, English cricketer
1986  Solange Knowles, American actress and singer
1987  LiSA, Japanese singer and musician
1987  Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer
1988  Micah Richards, English footballer
1991  Rie Kitahara, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
1992  David Alaba, Austrian footballer
1992  Raven Goodwin, American actress
1992  Stuart Hogg, Scottish rugby player
1992  Sam Morrison, Welsh cyclist
1993  Piero Barone, Italian singer (Il Volo)
1993  Beanie Feldstein, American actress
238  Maximius Thrax, Roman Emperor (born 173)
803  Higbald, Bishop of Lindisfarne
1195  Albert I, Margrave of Meissen (born 1158)
1314  Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester (born 1291)
1314  Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford (born 1274)
1398  Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty (born 1328)
1439  Frederick IV of Austria, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
1519  Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara (born 1480)
1520  Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (born 1489)
1564  Rani Durgavati, Indian queen (born 1524)
1604  Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England (born 1550)
1637  Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (born 1580)
1766  Adrien Maurice de Noailles, French soldier and politician (born 1678)
1803  Matthew Thornton, signer of the US Declaration of Independence (born 1714)
1817  Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician (born 1769)
1835  Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (born 1769)
1882  Joachim Raff, German-Swiss composer (born 1822)
1894  Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (born 1837)
1908  Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (born 1837)
1909  Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (born 1849)
1922  Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1867, assassinated)
1931  Otto Mears, Russian-American businessman (born 1840)
1931  Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese Communist politician (born 1880)
1935  Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer-songwriter (born 1890)
1947  Emil Seidel, American politician and Mayor of Milwaukee (born 1864)
1953  George Herbert Walker, grandfather of US President George H. W. Bush (born 1875)
1968  Tony Hancock, British comedian (born 1924)
1984  Clarence Campbell, Canadian president of the National Hockey League (born 1905)
1987  Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (born 1916)
1988  Marta Abba, Italian actress (b. 1900)
1989  Hibari Misora, Japanese singer and actress (born 1937)
1993  Archie Williams, American sprinter (b. 1915)
2000  Vera Atkins, Special Operations Executive intelligence officer (born 1908)
2000  Rodrigo Bueno, Argentine singer-songwriter (born 1973)
2002  Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (born 1913)
2004  Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter (born 1957)
2007  Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestler (born 1964)
2007  Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (born 1967)
2007  Hans Sturm, German footballer (born 1935)
2007  Natasja Saad, Danish reggae and dance hall artist (born 1924)
2009  Roméo LeBlanc, Governor-General of Canada (born 1927)
2012  Lonesome George, Ecuadorean Pinta Island tortoise (born around 1912)
2012  Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player (born 1926)
2012  Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (born 1988)
2013  Mick Aston, British archaeologist (born 1946)
2013  Emilio Colombo, former Prime Minister of Italy (born 1920)
2013  William Hathaway, American politician (born 1924)
2014  Ramón José Velásquez, former Acting President of Venezuela (born 1916)
2014  Eli Wallach, American actor (born 1915)
2015  Walter Browne, Australian-American chess player (born 1939)
2015  Mario Biaggi, American politician (born 1917)
2015  Marva Collins, American educator (born 1936)
2016  Bernie Worrell, American musician (born 1944)
2017  Mats Johansson, Swedish journalist (born 1951)
2017  Parker Lee McDonald, American jurist (born 1924)
2017  Maria Mutagamba, Ugandan economist and politician (born 1952)
2017  Nils Nilsson, Swedish ice hockey player (born 1936)
2018  Frank Heart, American computer engineer (born 1929)
2018  Constance Adams, American architect and explorer (born 1964)
2018  Stanley Anderson, American actor (born 1939)
2018  Darryl N. Johnson, American politician (born 1938)
2018  Josip Pirmajer, Slovenian footballer and manager (born 1944)
2019  Jeff Austin, American musician and singer (born 1974)
2019  Billy Drago, American actor (born 1946)
2019  Steve Dunleavy, Australian-born American journalist (born 1938)
2019  Jónas Gómez Gallo, Chilean businessman and politician (born 1923)
2019  José Huerta, Peruvian politician (born 1948)
2019  Yekaterina Mikhailovna-Demina, Russian military doctor (born 1925)
2019  Jörg Stübner, German footballer (born 1965)
Discovery Day (Newfoundland and Labrador)
National Day of Quebec
Saint John's Day, day of midsummer celebrations in the Northern Hemisphere
Flag Day (Estonia, Finland)
226  Cao Pi dies and his son Cao Rui succeeds him as Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei in present-day China.
1149  Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
1194  King Sverre of Norway is crowned.
1534  Jacques Cartier becomes the first-known European to reach Prince Edward Island.
1613  The Globe Theatre burns to the ground.
1644  King Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge.
1749  New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
1786  Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1807  Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Athos.
1850  Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
1855  The Daily Telegraph newspaper is founded in London.
1863  George Custer is appointed as a U.S. Union brigadier-general
1864  Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire.
1880  France annexes Tahiti.
1891  National Forest Service is organized.
1891  Street railway in Ottawa starts running.
1895  Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
1913  The Second Balkan War begins.
1914  Jina Guseva attempts to kill Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
1916  The UK sentences Irish Easter Rising leader Roger Casement to death.
He is executed on August 3.
1922  France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
1925  Canada House opens in London.
1926  Arthur Meighen returns as Prime Minister of Canada.
1927  First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.
1933  Italian boxer Primo Carnera knocked out American Jack Sharkey to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
1937  Joseph-Armand Bombardier receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
1939  The state of Hatay becomes part of the Republic of Turkey.
1945  Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.