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2024 At the centennial ceremony of the Dominion of Newfoundland National War Memorial, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission allowed an unprecedented second Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The Royal Newfoundland Regiment soldier was entombed in the memorial at this ceremony. ↗
2020 The United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement replaces NAFTA. ↗
2013 Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union. ↗
2008 Riots erupt in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections. ↗
2007 Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces. ↗
2006 The first operation of Qinghai–Tibet Railway is conducted in China. ↗
2004 Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini–Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC. ↗
2003 Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong. ↗
2002 The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. ↗
2002 Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes. ↗
1999 The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh. In Wales, the powers of the Welsh Secretary are transferred to the National Assembly. ↗
1997 China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Charles, Prince of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. ↗
1997 Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-94, a re-flight of the prematurely-ended STS-83 mission with the same crew. ↗
1991 Cold War: The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague. ↗
1991 The Finnish operator Radiolinja is launched as the world's first GSM network. ↗
1990 German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany. ↗
1987 The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station. ↗
1984 The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA. ↗
1983 A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board. ↗
1983 The Ministry of State Security is established as China's principal intelligence agency ↗
1980 "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada. ↗
1979 Sony introduces the Walkman. ↗
1978 The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government. ↗
1976 Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira. ↗
1972 The first Gay pride march in England takes place. ↗
1968 The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established. ↗
1968 The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries. ↗
1968 Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO in the United States. ↗
1967 Merger Treaty: The European Community is formally created out of a merger between the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission. ↗
1966 The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto. ↗
1966 The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (The known as the 2nd Artillery Corps) is founded. ↗
1963 ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail. ↗
1963 The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent. ↗
1962 Independence of Rwanda and Burundi. ↗
1960 The Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) gains its independence from Italy. Concurrently, it unites as scheduled with the five-day-old State of Somaliland (the former British Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. ↗
1960 Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state. ↗
1959 Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the US, the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries. ↗
1958 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave. ↗
1958 Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins. ↗
1957 The International Geophysical Year begins. ↗
1949 The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family. ↗
1948 Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan. ↗
1947 The Philippine Air Force is established. ↗
1946 Crossroads Able is the first postwar nuclear weapon test. ↗
1943 The City of Tokyo and the Prefecture of Tokyo are both replaced by the Tokyo Metropolis. ↗
1942 World War II: start of the First Battle of El Alamein. ↗
1942 The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished. ↗
1935 Regina, Saskatchewan, police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek. ↗
1932 Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was formed. ↗
1931 United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport). ↗
1931 Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft. ↗
1924 The National War Memorial for the Dominion of Newfoundland was inaugurated by Field Marshall Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig in St. John's, Newfoundland. The date commemorates the first day of the Battle of the Somme, where at Beaumont-Hamel, 86 percent of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment was wiped out. ↗
1923 The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration. ↗
1922 The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States. ↗
1921 The Chinese Communist Party is founded by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), who seized power in Russia after the 1917 October Revolution, and the Far Eastern Secretariat of the Communist International. ↗
1917 World War I: Russia launches an offensive against Austria-Hungary to capture Galicia, its final offensive of the war. ↗
1917 Chinese General Zhang Xun seizes control of Beijing and restores the monarchy, installing Puyi, last emperor of the Qing dynasty, to the throne. The restoration is reversed just shy of two weeks later, when Republican troops regain control of the capital. ↗
1916 World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded. ↗
1915 Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker. ↗
1911 Germany dispatches the gunboat SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis. ↗
1908 SOS is adopted as the international distress signal. ↗
1903 Start of first Tour de France bicycle race. ↗
1901 French government enacts its anti-clerical legislation Law of Association prohibiting the formation of new monastic orders without governmental approval. ↗
1898 Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. ↗
1890 Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable. ↗
1885 The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada. ↗
1885 The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium. ↗
1881 The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States. ↗
1881 General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect. ↗
1879 Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower. ↗
1878 Canada joins the Universal Postal Union. ↗
1874 The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale. ↗
1873 Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation. ↗
1870 The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence. ↗
1867 The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday. ↗
1863 Slavery was abolished in the Dutch colony of Surinam, a date now celebrated as Ketikoti in independent Suriname. ↗
1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins. ↗
1862 The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum. ↗
1862 Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. ↗
1862 American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. ↗
1858 Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London. ↗
1855 Signing of the Quinault Treaty: The Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States. ↗
1841 Thomas Lempriere and James Clark Ross carve a marker on the Isle of the Dead in Van Diemen's Land to measure tidal variations, one of the earliest surviving benchmarks for sea level rise. ↗
1837 A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales. ↗
1823 The five Central American nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica declare independence from the First Mexican Empire after being annexed the year prior. ↗
1819 Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It is the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago. ↗
1782 Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. ↗
1770 Lexell's Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 astronomical units (2,180,000 km; 1,360,000 mi). ↗
1766 François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France. ↗
1690 War of the Grand Alliance: Marshal de Luxembourg triumphs over an Anglo-Dutch army at the battle of Fleurus. ↗
1690 Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar). ↗
1643 First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London. ↗
1569 Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations. ↗
1523 Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels. ↗
1520 Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan after nightfall. ↗
1431 The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of the Kingdom of Castile during the Reconquista. ↗
1097 Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I. ↗
552 Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the Ostrogoth king, Totila, is mortally wounded. ↗
69 Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor. ↗

2004 Daniela Avanzini, American singer and dancer ↗
2003 Tate McRae, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer ↗
2003 Storm Reid, American actress ↗
2001 Chosen Jacobs, American actor and singer ↗
2000 Lalu Muhammad Zohri, Indonesian sprinter ↗
1998 Chloe Bailey, American singer-songwriter and actress ↗
1998 Susan Bandecchi, Swiss tennis player ↗
1998 Aleksandra Golovkina, Lithuanian figure skater ↗
1996 Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater ↗
1995 Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo, Belgian footballer ↗
1995 Savvy Shields, Miss America 2017 ↗
1995 Taeyong, South Korea rapper ↗
1994 Chloé Paquet, French tennis player ↗
1992 Aaron Sanchez, American baseball player ↗
1991 Lucas Vázquez, Spanish footballer ↗
1991 Michael Wacha, American baseball player ↗
1989 Kent Bazemore, American basketball player ↗
1989 Hannah Murray, English actress ↗
1989 Daniel Ricciardo, Australian race car driver ↗
1988 Dedé, Brazilian footballer ↗
1988 Aleksander Lesun, Russian modern pentathlete ↗
1987 Michael Schrader, German decathlete ↗
1986 Charlie Blackmon, American baseball player ↗
1986 Andrew Lee, Australian footballer ↗
1986 Julian Prochnow, German footballer ↗
1985 Chris Perez, American baseball player ↗
1985 Léa Seydoux, French actor ↗
1984 Donald Thomas, Bahamian high jumper ↗
1983 Leeteuk, South Korean singer and entertainer ↗
1982 Justin Huber, Australian baseball player ↗
1982 Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player ↗
1982 Adrian Ward, American football player ↗
1982 Fedi Nuril, Indonesian actor, model, and musician ↗
1982 Hilarie Burton, American actress ↗
1981 Carlo Del Fava, South African-Italian rugby player ↗
1981 Tadhg Kennelly, Irish-Australian footballer ↗
1980 Nelson Cruz, Dominican-American baseball player ↗
1979 Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist and actor ↗
1977 Tom Frager, Senegalese-French singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
1977 Keigo Hayashi, Japanese musician ↗
1977 Jarome Iginla, Canadian ice hockey player ↗
1977 Liv Tyler, American actress ↗
1976 Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer and coach ↗
1976 Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer ↗
1976 Albert Torrens, Australian rugby league player ↗
1976 Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer and manager ↗
1976 Szymon Ziółkowski, Polish hammer thrower ↗
1975 Sean Colson, American basketball player and coach ↗
1975 Sufjan Stevens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
1974 Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorian race walker ↗
1971 Missy Elliott, American rapper, producer, dancer and actress ↗
1971 Julianne Nicholson, American actress ↗
1969 Séamus Egan, American-Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
1967 Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American model and actress ↗
1966 Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer and coach ↗
1966 Shawn Burr, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2013) ↗
1965 Carl Fogarty, English motorcycle racer ↗
1965 Garry Schofield, English rugby player and coach ↗
1965 Harald Zwart, Norwegian director and producer ↗
1964 Bernard Laporte, French rugby player and coach ↗
1963 Roddy Bottum, American singer and keyboard player ↗
1963 Nick Giannopoulos, Australian actor ↗
1963 David Wood, American lawyer and environmentalist (died 2006) ↗
1962 Andre Braugher, American actor (died 2023) ↗
1962 Mokhzani Mahathir, Malaysian businessman ↗
1961 Malcolm Elliott, English cyclist ↗
1961 Ivan Kaye, English actor ↗
1961 Carl Lewis – American long jumper and runner ↗
1961 Diana, Princess of Wales (died 1997) ↗
1961 Michelle Wright, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
1960 Michael Beattie, Australian rugby league player and coach ↗
1960 Lynn Jennings, American runner ↗
1960 Evelyn "Champagne" King, American soul/disco singer ↗
1960 Kevin Swords, American rugby player ↗
1958 Jack Dyer Crouch II, American diplomat, United States Deputy National Security Advisor ↗
1957 Lisa Blount, American actress and producer (died 2010) ↗
1957 Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player ↗
1957 Sean O'Driscoll, English footballer and manager ↗
1956 Alan Ruck, American actor ↗
1955 Nikolai Demidenko, Russian pianist and educator ↗
1955 Li Keqiang, Chinese economist and politician, 7th Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 2023) ↗
1955 Lisa Scottoline, American lawyer and author ↗
1955 Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi, Tongan politician and military officer, Deputy Prime Minister (died 2021) ↗
1954 Keith Whitley, American singer and guitarist (died 1989) ↗
1954 Hossein Nuri, Iranian artist and director ↗
1953 Lawrence Gonzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Malta ↗
1953 Mike Haynes, American football player ↗
1953 Jadranka Kosor, Croatian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Croatia ↗
1952 Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor, producer and screenwriter ↗
1952 David Arkenstone, American composer and performer ↗
1952 David Lane, English oncologist and academic ↗
1952 Steve Shutt, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster ↗
1952 Timothy J. Tobias, American pianist and composer (died 2006) ↗
1951 Trevor Eve, English actor and producer ↗
1951 Anne Feeney, American singer-songwriter and activist (died 2021) ↗
1951 Julia Goodfellow, English physicist and academic ↗
1951 Klaus-Peter Justus, German runner ↗
1951 Tom Kozelko, American basketball player ↗
1951 Terrence Mann, American actor, singer and dancer ↗
1951 Fred Schneider, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player ↗
1951 Victor Willis, American singer-songwriter, pianist and actor ↗
1950 David Duke, American white supremacist, politician and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard ↗
1949 Néjia Ben Mabrouk, Tunisian-Belgian director and screenwriter ↗
1949 John Farnham, English-Australian singer-songwriter ↗
1949 David Hogan, American composer and educator (died 1996) ↗
1949 Venkaiah Naidu, Indian lawyer and politician ↗
1948 John Ford, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
1947 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese race car driver ↗
1947 Malcolm Wicks, English academic and politician (died 2012) ↗
1946 Mick Aston, English archaeologist and academic (died 2013) ↗
1946 Erkki Tuomioja, Finnish sergeant and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs ↗
1946 Kojo Laing, Ghanaian novelist and poet (died 2017) ↗
1945 Mike Burstyn, American actor and singer ↗
1945 Debbie Harry, American singer-songwriter and actress ↗
1944 Nurul Haque Miah, Bangladeshi professor and writer (died 2021) ↗
1943 Philip Brunelle, American conductor and organist ↗
1943 Peeter Lepp, Estonian politician, 37th Mayor of Tallinn ↗
1943 Jeff Wayne, American composer, musician and lyricist ↗
1942 Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Iraqi field marshal and politician (died 2020) ↗
1942 Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress ↗
1942 Andraé Crouch, American singer-songwriter, producer and pastor (died 2015) ↗
1942 Julia Higgins, English chemist and academic ↗
1941 Rod Gilbert, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2021) ↗
1941 Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015) ↗
1941 Nicolae Saramandu, Romanian linguist and philologist ↗
1941 Myron Scholes, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ↗
1941 Twyla Tharp, American dancer and choreographer ↗
1940 Craig Brown, Scottish footballer and manager (died 2023) ↗
1940 Ela Gandhi, South African activist and politician ↗
1940 Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (died 1987) ↗
1939 Karen Black, American actress (died 2013) ↗
1939 Delaney Bramlett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (died 2008) ↗
1938 Craig Anderson, American baseball player and coach ↗
1938 Hariprasad Chaurasia, Indian flute player and composer ↗
1936 Wally Amos, American entrepreneur, founder of Famous Amos (died 2024) ↗
1935 James Cotton, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (died 2017) ↗
1935 David Prowse, English actor (died 2020) ↗
1934 Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter (died 2009) ↗
1934 Jamie Farr, American actor ↗
1934 Jean Marsh, English actress and screenwriter (died 2025) ↗
1934 Sydney Pollack, American actor, director and producer (died 2008) ↗
1933 C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (died 2010) ↗
1932 Ze'ev Schiff, French-Israeli journalist and author (died 2007) ↗
1931 Leslie Caron, French actress and dancer ↗
1930 Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American director and producer (died 2005) ↗
1930 Carol Chomsky, American linguist and academic (died 2008) ↗
1929 Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014) ↗
1927 Alan J. Charig, English paleontologist and author (died 1997) ↗
1927 Winfield Dunn, American politician, 43rd Governor of Tennessee (died 2024) ↗
1927 Joseph Martin Sartoris, American bishop (died 2025) ↗
1927 Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India (died 2007) ↗
1926 Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013) ↗
1926 Carl Hahn, German businessman (died 2023) ↗
1926 Mohamed Abshir Muse, Somali general (died 2017) ↗
1926 Hans Werner Henze, German composer and educator (died 2012) ↗
1925 Farley Granger, American actor (died 2011) ↗
1925 Art McNally, American football referee (died 2023) ↗
1924 Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer and manager (died 2013) ↗
1924 Florence Stanley, American actress (died 2003) ↗
1924 Georges Rivière, French actor (died 2011) ↗
1923 Scotty Bowers, American marine, author and pimp (died 2019) ↗
1922 Toshi Seeger, German-American activist, co-founder of the Clearwater Festival (died 2013) ↗
1922 Mordechai Bibi, Israeli politician (died 2023) ↗
1921 Seretse Khama, Batswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana (died 1980) ↗
1921 Michalina Wisłocka, Polish gynecologist and sexologist (died 2005) ↗
1921 Arthur Johnson, Canadian canoeist (died 2003) ↗
1920 Henri Amouroux, French historian and journalist (died 2007) ↗
1920 Harold Sakata, Japanese-American wrestler and actor (died 1982) ↗
1920 George I. Fujimoto, American-Japanese chemist (died 2023) ↗
1919 Arnold Meri, Estonian colonel (died 2009) ↗
1919 Malik Dohan al-Hassan, Iraqi politician (died 2021) ↗
1919 Gerald E. Miller, American vice admiral (died 2014) ↗
1918 Ralph Young, American singer and actor (died 2008) ↗
1918 Ahmed Deedat, South African writer and public speaker (died 2005) ↗
1918 Pedro Yap, Filipino lawyer (died 2003) ↗
1917 Álvaro Domecq y Díez, Spanish aristocrat (died 2005) ↗
1916 Olivia de Havilland, British-American actress (died 2020) ↗
1916 Iosif Shklovsky, Ukrainian astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1985) ↗
1916 George C. Stoney, American director and producer (died 2012) ↗
1915 Willie Dixon, American blues singer-songwriter, bass player, guitarist and producer (died 1992) ↗
1915 Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, British peer (died 2000) ↗
1915 Boots Poffenberger, American baseball pitcher (died 1999) ↗
1915 Joseph Ransohoff, American soldier and neurosurgeon (died 2001) ↗
1915 Nguyễn Văn Linh, Vietnamese politician (died 1998) ↗
1914 Thomas Pearson, British Army officer (died 2019) ↗
1914 Christl Cranz, German alpine skier (died 2004) ↗
1914 Bernard B. Wolfe, American politician (died 2016) ↗
1913 Frank Barrett, American baseball player (died 1998) ↗
1913 Lee Guttero, American basketball player (died 2004) ↗
1913 Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Maharashtra (died 1979) ↗
1912 David Brower, American environmentalist, founder of the Sierra Club Foundation (died 2000) ↗
1912 Sally Kirkland, American journalist (died 1989) ↗
1911 Arnold Alas, Estonian landscape architect and artist (died 1990) ↗
1911 Sergey Sokolov, Russian marshal and politician, Soviet Minister of Defence (died 2012) ↗
1910 Glenn Hardin, American hurdler (died 1975) ↗
1909 Emmett Toppino, American sprinter (died 1971) ↗
1907 Norman Pirie, Scottish-English biochemist and virologist (died 1997) ↗
1906 Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician and academic (died 1992) ↗
1906 Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founder of Estée Lauder Companies (died 2004) ↗
1903 Amy Johnson, English pilot (died 1941) ↗
1903 Beatrix Lehmann, English actress (died 1979) ↗
1902 William Wyler, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (died 1981) ↗
1901 Irna Phillips, American screenwriter (died 1973) ↗
1899 Thomas A. Dorsey, American pianist and composer (died 1993) ↗
1899 Charles Laughton, English-American actor and director (died 1962) ↗
1899 Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, President of Greece (died 1987) ↗
1892 James M. Cain, American author and journalist (died 1977) ↗
1892 László Lajtha, Hungarian composer and conductor (died 1963) ↗
1887 Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar (died 1981) ↗
1885 Dorothea Mackellar, Australian author and poet (died 1968) ↗
1883 Arthur Borton, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1933) ↗
1882 Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (died 1962) ↗
1881 Edward Battersby Bailey, English geologist (died 1965) ↗
1879 Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1954) ↗
1878 Jacques Rosenbaum, Estonian-German architect (died 1944) ↗
1876 T. J. Ryan, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland (died 1921) ↗
1875 Joseph Weil, American con man (died 1976) ↗
1873 Alice Guy-Blaché, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (died 1968) ↗
1873 Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 1954) ↗
1872 Louis Blériot, French pilot and engineer (died 1936) ↗
1872 William Duddell, English physicist and engineer (died 1917) ↗
1869 William Strunk Jr., American author and educator (died 1946) ↗
1863 William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (died 1892) ↗
1859 DeLancey W. Gill, American painter (died 1940) ↗
1858 Willard Metcalf, American painter (died 1925) ↗
1858 Velma Caldwell Melville, American editor and writer of prose and poetry (died 1924) ↗
1850 Florence Earle Coates, American poet (died 1927) ↗
1834 Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet and author (died 1908) ↗
1822 Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet and activist (died 1888) ↗
1818 Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian-Austrian physician and obstetrician (died 1865) ↗
1818 Karl von Vierordt, German physician, psychologist and academic (died 1884) ↗
1814 Robert Richard Torrens, Irish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of South Australia (died 1884) ↗
1808 Ygnacio del Valle, Mexican-American landowner (died 1880) ↗
1807 Thomas Green Clemson, American politician and educator, founder of Clemson University (died 1888) ↗
1804 Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist and politician (died 1886) ↗
1804 George Sand, French author and playwright (died 1876) ↗
1788 Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (died 1867) ↗
1771 Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer and conductor (died 1839) ↗
1742 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (died 1799) ↗
1731 Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Scottish-English admiral (died 1804) ↗
1726 Acharya Bhikshu, Jain saint (died 1803) ↗
1725 Rhoda Delaval, English painter and aristocrat (died 1757) ↗
1725 Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (died 1807) ↗
1663 Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and theorist (died 1738) ↗
1646 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1716) ↗
1633 Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian and author (died 1698) ↗
1586 Claudio Saracini, Italian lute player and composer (died 1630) ↗
1574 Joseph Hall, English bishop and mystic (died 1656) ↗
1553 Peter Street, English carpenter and builder (died 1609) ↗
1534 Frederick II of Denmark (died 1588) ↗
1506 Louis II of Hungary (died 1526) ↗
1500 Federico Cesi (cardinal), Italian cardinal (died 1565) ↗
1481 Christian II of Denmark (died 1559) ↗
1464 Clara Gonzaga, Italian noble (died 1503) ↗
1311 Liu Bowen, Chinese military strategist, statesman and poet (died 1375) ↗

2025 Alex Delvecchio, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1931) ↗
2025 Jimmy Swaggart, American pastor and television host (born 1935) ↗
2024 Ismail Kadare, Albanian novelist (born 1936) ↗
2024 Robert Towne, American screenwriter (born 1934) ↗
2023 Dilano van 't Hoff, Dutch race car driver (born 2004) ↗
2021 Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (born 1939) ↗
2019 Bogusław Schaeffer, Polish composer (born 1929) ↗
2016 Robin Hardy, English author and film director (born 1929) ↗
2015 Val Doonican, Irish singer and television host (born 1927) ↗
2015 Czesław Olech, Polish mathematician and academic (born 1931) ↗
2015 Nicholas Winton, English lieutenant and humanitarian (born 1909) ↗
2014 Jean Garon, Canadian economist, lawyer and politician (born 1938) ↗
2014 Stephen Gaskin, American activist, co-founder of The Farm (born 1935) ↗
2014 Bob Jones, English lawyer and politician (born 1955) ↗
2014 Anatoly Kornukov, Ukrainian-Russian general (born 1942) ↗
2014 Walter Dean Myers, American author and poet (born 1937) ↗
2013 Sidney Bryan Berry, American general (born 1926) ↗
2013 Charles Foley, American game designer, co-creator of Twister (born 1930) ↗
2013 William H. Gray, American minister and politician (born 1941) ↗
2012 Peter E. Gillquist, American priest and author (born 1938) ↗
2012 Ossie Hibbert, Jamaican-American keyboard player and producer (born 1950) ↗
2012 Evelyn Lear, American operatic soprano (born 1926) ↗
2012 Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot and astronaut (born 1961) ↗
2012 Jack Richardson, American author and playwright (born 1934) ↗
2010 Don Coryell, American football player and coach (born 1924) ↗
2010 Arnold Friberg, American painter and illustrator (born 1913) ↗
2010 Ilene Woods, American actress and singer (born 1929) ↗
2009 Karl Malden, American actor (born 1912) ↗
2009 Onni Palaste, Finnish soldier and author (born 1917) ↗
2009 Mollie Sugden, English actress (born 1922) ↗
2008 Mel Galley, English guitarist (born 1948) ↗
2006 Ryutaro Hashimoto, Japanese politician, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (born 1937) ↗
2006 Robert Lepikson, Estonian race car driver and politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior (born 1952) ↗
2006 Fred Trueman, English cricketer and sportscaster (born 1931) ↗
2005 Renaldo Benson, American singer-songwriter (Four Tops) (born 1936) ↗
2005 Gus Bodnar, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1923) ↗
2005 Luther Vandross, American singer-songwriter and producer (Change) (born 1951) ↗
2004 Peter Barnes, English playwright and screenwriter (born 1931) ↗
2004 Marlon Brando, American actor and director (born 1924) ↗
2004 Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer and conductor (born 1909) ↗
2003 Herbie Mann, American flute player and saxophonist (born 1930) ↗
2001 Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922) ↗
2001 Jean-Louis Rosier, French race car driver (born 1925) ↗
2000 Walter Matthau, American actor (born 1920) ↗
1999 Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American director and producer (born 1908) ↗
1999 Forrest Mars Sr., American businessman, creator of M&M's and the Mars chocolate bar (born 1904) ↗
1999 Sylvia Sidney, American actress (born 1910) ↗
1999 Sola Sierra, Chilean human rights activist (born 1935) ↗
1997 Robert Mitchum, American actor (born 1917) ↗
1997 Charles Werner, American cartoonist (born 1909) ↗
1996 William T. Cahill, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey (born 1904) ↗
1996 Margaux Hemingway, American model and actress (born 1954) ↗
1996 Steve Tesich, Serbian-American author and screenwriter (born 1942) ↗
1995 Wolfman Jack, American radio host (born 1938) ↗
1995 Ian Parkin, English guitarist (Be-Bop Deluxe) (born 1950) ↗
1994 Merriam Modell, American author (born 1908) ↗
1992 Franco Cristaldi, Italian screenwriter and producer (born 1924) ↗
1991 Michael Landon, American actor, director and producer (born 1936) ↗
1990 Jurriaan Schrofer, Dutch sculptor, designer and educator (born 1926) ↗
1984 Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (born 1904) ↗
1983 Buckminster Fuller, American architect, designed the Montreal Biosphère (born 1895) ↗
1981 Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese author and poet (born 1921) ↗
1978 Kurt Student, German general and pilot (born 1890) ↗
1974 Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, President of Argentina (born 1895) ↗
1971 William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1890) ↗
1971 Learie Constantine, Trinidadian-English cricketer, lawyer and politician (born 1901) ↗
1968 Fritz Bauer, German judge and politician (born 1903) ↗
1967 Gerhard Ritter, German historian and academic (born 1888) ↗
1966 Frank Verner, American runner (born 1883) ↗
1965 Wally Hammond, English cricketer (born 1903) ↗
1965 Robert Ruark, American journalist and author (born 1915) ↗
1964 Pierre Monteux, French-American viola player and conductor (born 1875) ↗
1962 Purushottam Das Tandon, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1882) ↗
1962 Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (born 1882) ↗
1961 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author (born 1894) ↗
1951 Tadeusz Borowski, Polish poet, novelist and journalist (born 1922) ↗
1950 Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and educator (born 1865) ↗
1950 Eliel Saarinen, Finnish-American architect, co-designed the National Museum of Finland (born 1873) ↗
1948 Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (born 1904) ↗
1944 Carl Mayer, Austrian-English screenwriter (born 1894) ↗
1944 Tanya Savicheva, Russian author (born 1930) ↗
1943 Willem Arondeus, Dutch artist, author and anti-Nazi resistance fighter (born 1894) ↗
1942 Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish writer (born 1857) ↗
1934 Ernst Röhm, German paramilitary commander, co-founder and leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA) (born 1887) ↗
1925 Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (born 1866) ↗
1912 Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (born 1875) ↗
1905 John Hay, American journalist and politician, 37th United States Secretary of State (born 1838) ↗
1896 Harriet Beecher Stowe – American author and activist (born 1811) ↗
1887 Thomas Francis Meagher, Leader of the Young Ireland rebellion of 1848, Commander of the Irish Brigade in the US Civil War (born 1823) ↗
1884 Allan Pinkerton, Scottish-American detective and spy (born 1819) ↗
1863 John F. Reynolds, American general (born 1820) ↗
1860 Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (born 1800) ↗
1839 Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (born 1785) ↗
1828 Lyncoya Jackson, a Muscogee war orphan adopted by Andrew Jackson ↗
1819 The Public Universal Friend, American evangelist (born 1752) ↗
1787 Charles de Rohan, French marshal (born 1715) ↗
1784 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (born 1710) ↗
1782 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1730) ↗
1774 Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (born 1705) ↗
1749 William Jones, Welsh mathematician and academic (born 1675) ↗
1736 Ahmed III, Ottoman sultan (born 1673) ↗
1681 Oliver Plunkett, Irish archbishop and saint (born 1629) ↗
1622 William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, English politician (born 1575) ↗
1614 Isaac Casaubon, French philologist and scholar (born 1559) ↗
1592 Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer and educator (born 1535) ↗
1589 Lady Saigō, Japanese concubine (born 1552) ↗
1555 John Bradford, English reformer, prebendary of St. Paul's (born 1510) ↗
1348 Joan, English princess ↗
1321 María de Molina, queen of Castile and León ↗
1287 Narathihapate, Burmese king (born 1238) ↗
1277 Baibars, Egyptian sultan (born 1223) ↗
1242 Chagatai Khan, Mongol ruler (born 1183) ↗
1224 Hōjō Yoshitoki, regent of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan (born 1163) ↗
1109 Alfonso VI, king of León and Castile (born 1040) ↗
992 Heonjeong, Korean queen (born 966) ↗
552 Totila, Ostrogoth king ↗