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• AD 25 – Guangwu claims the throne as emperor, restoring the Han dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin dynasty.
• 135 – Roman armies enter Betar, slaughtering thousands and ending the bar Kokhba revolt.
• 642 – Battle of Maserfield: Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria.
• 910 – The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians.
• 939 – The Battle of Alhandic is fought between Ramiro II of León and Abd-ar-Rahman III at Zamora in the context of the Spanish Reconquista. The battle resulted in a victory for the Emirate of Córdoba.
• 1068 – Byzantine–Norman wars: Italo-Normans begin a nearly-three-year siege of Bari.
• 1100 – Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
• 1278 – Spanish Reconquista: the forces of the Kingdom of Castile initiate the ultimately futile Siege of Algeciras against the Emirate of Granada.
• 1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.
• 1388 – The Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England, is fought near Otterburn.
• 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
• 1600 – The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
• 1620 – The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America.
• 1689 – Beaver Wars: Fifteen hundred Iroquois attack Lachine in New France.
• 1716 – Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718): One-fifth of a Turkish army and the Grand Vizier are killed in the Battle of Petrovaradin.
• 1735 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
• 1763 – Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run: British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.
• 1781 – The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.
• 1796 – The Battle of Castiglione in Napoleon's first Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars.
• 1816 – The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
• 1824 – Greek War of Independence: Constantine Kanaris leads a Greek fleet to victory against Ottoman and Egyptian naval forces in the Battle of Samos.
• 1858 – Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month.
• 1860 – Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
• 1861 – American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872).
• 1861 – The United States Army abolishes flogging.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge: Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Mobile Bay begins at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
• 1874 – Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
• 1882 – The Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
• 1884 – The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
• 1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
• 1901 – Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24 ft 11.75 in (7.6137 m). The record will stand for 20 years.
• 1906 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
• 1914 – World War I: The German minelayer SS Königin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles (64 km) off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMS Amphion.
• 1914 – World War I: The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SS Pfalz which is attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne in ignorance of the declaration of war and she is detained; this is said to be the first Allied shot of the War.
• 1914 – In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
• 1916 – World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
• 1925 – Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.
• 1926 – Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
• 1940 – World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.
• 1944 – World War II: At least 1,104 Japanese POWs in Australia attempt to escape from a camp at Cowra, New South Wales; 545 temporarily succeed but are later either killed, commit suicide, or are recaptured.
• 1944 – World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp (Gęsiówka) in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
• 1944 – World War II: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of between 40,000 and 50,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.
• 1949 – In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
• 1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
• 1960 – Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
• 1962 – Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
• 1963 – Cold War: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow: American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
• 1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals.
• 1971 – The first Pacific Islands Forum (then known as the "South Pacific Forum") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.
• 1973 – Mars 6 is launched from the USSR.
• 1974 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
• 1979 – In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake the Bala Hissar uprising against the Leninist government.
• 1981 – President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
• 1989 – General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista National Liberation Front winning a majority.
• 1995 – Yugoslav Wars: The city of Knin, Croatia, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated in Croatia as Victory Day.
• 2003 – A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
• 2010 – The Copiapó mining accident occurs, trapping 33 Chilean miners approximately 2,300 ft (700 m) below the ground.
• 2010 – Ten members of International Assistance Mission Nuristan Eye Camp team are killed by persons unknown in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan.
• 2012 – The Oak Creek shooting took place at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people; the perpetrator was shot dead by police.
• 2015 – The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill releases 3 million gallons of heavy metal toxin tailings and waste water into the Animas River in Colorado.

• 79 BC – Tullia, Roman daughter of Cicero (d. 45 BC)
• 1262 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary (d. 1290)
• 1301 – Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (d. 1330)
• 1397 – Guillaume Dufay, Belgian-Italian composer and theorist (d. 1474)
• 1461 – Alexander Jagiellon, Polish king (d. 1506)
• 1540 – Joseph Justus Scaliger, French philologist and historian (d. 1609)
• 1607 – Antonio Barberini, Italian cardinal (d. 1671)
• 1623 – Antonio Cesti, Italian organist and composer (d. 1669)
• 1626 – Richard Ottley, English politician (d. 1670)
• 1662 – James Anderson, Scottish lawyer and historian (d. 1728)
• 1681 – Vitus Bering, Danish explorer (d. 1741)
• 1694 – Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (d. 1744)
• 1749 – Thomas Lynch Jr., American commander and politician (d. 1779)
• 1797 – Friedrich August Kummer, German cellist and composer (d. 1879)
• 1802 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (d. 1829)
• 1811 – Ambroise Thomas, French composer (d. 1896)
• 1813 – Ivar Aasen, Norwegian poet and linguist (d. 1896)
• 1815 – Edward John Eyre, English explorer and politician, Governor of Jamaica (d. 1901)
• 1827 – Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian field marshal and politician, 1st President of Brazil (d. 1892)
• 1828 – Louise of the Netherlands (d. 1871)
• 1833 – Carola of Vasa (d. 1907)
• 1843 – James Scott Skinner, Scottish violinist and composer (d. 1927)
• 1844 – Ilya Repin, Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1930)
• 1850 – Guy de Maupassant, French short story writer, novelist, and poet (d. 1893)
• 1860 – Louis Wain, English artist (d. 1939)
• 1862 – Joseph Merrick, English man with severe deformities (d. 1890)
• 1866 – Carl Harries, German chemist and academic (d. 1923)
• 1866 – Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (d. 1917)
• 1868 – Oskar Merikanto, Finnish pianist and composer (d. 1924)
• 1872 – Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician, bacteriologist, and epidemiologist, founded the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (d. 1917)
• 1874 – Wesley Clair Mitchell, American economist and academic (d. 1948)
• 1874 – Horace Rawlins, English golfer (d. 1935)
• 1876 – Mary Ritter Beard, American historian and activist (d. 1958)
• 1877 – Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917)
• 1880 – Gertrude Rush, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1962)
• 1880 – Ruth Sawyer, American author and educator (d. 1970)
• 1887 – Reginald Owen, English-American actor and singer (d. 1972)
• 1889 – Conrad Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet (d. 1973)
• 1890 – Naum Gabo, Russian-American sculptor (d. 1977)
• 1890 – Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor and director (d. 1956)
• 1897 – Roberta Dodd Crawford, American soprano and educator (d. 1954)
• 1897 – Aksel Larsen, Danish lawyer and politician (d. 1972)
• 1900 – Rudolf Schottlaender, German philosopher, classical philologist and translator (d. 1988)
• 1901 – Claude Autant-Lara, French director, screenwriter, and politician (d. 2000)
• 1904 – Kenneth V. Thimann, English-American botanist and microbiologist (d. 1997)
• 1906 – Joan Hickson, English actress (d. 1998)
• 1906 – John Huston, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1987)
• 1906 – Wassily Leontief, German-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• 1908 – Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
• 1908 – Jose Garcia Villa, Filipino short story writer and poet (d. 1997)
• 1910 – Bruno Coquatrix, French songwriter and manager (d. 1979)
• 1910 – Herminio Masantonio, Argentinian footballer (d. 1956)
• 1911 – Robert Taylor, American actor and singer (d. 1969)
• 1912 – Abbé Pierre, French priest and humanitarian (d. 2007)
• 1914 – Parley Baer, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1916 – Peter Viereck, American poet and academic (d. 2006)
• 1918 – Tom Drake, American actor and singer (d. 1982)
• 1918 – Betty Oliphant, English-Canadian ballerina, co-founded the Canada's National Ballet School (d. 2004)
• 1920 – George Tooker, American painter and academic (d. 2011)
• 1921 – Terry Becker, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
• 1922 – L. Tom Perry, American businessman and religious leader (d. 2015)
• 1922 – Frank Stranahan, American golfer (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Devan Nair, Malaysian-Singaporean union leader and politician, 3rd President of Singapore (d. 2005)
• 1926 – Betsy Jolas, French composer
• 1926 – Jeri Southern, American jazz singer and pianist (d. 1991)
• 1927 – John H. Moore II, American lawyer and judge (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Don Matheson, American soldier, police officer, and actor (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Neil Armstrong, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Damita Jo DeBlanc, American comedian, actress, and singer (d. 1998)
• 1930 – Richie Ginther, American race car driver (d. 1989)
• 1930 – Michal Kováč, Slovak lawyer and politician, 1st President of Slovakia
• 1931 – Tom Hafey, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Tera de Marez Oyens, Dutch pianist and composer (d. 1996)
• 1932 – Vladimir Fedoseyev, Russian conductor
• 1934 – Karl Johan Åström, Swedish engineer and theorist
• 1934 – Wendell Berry, American novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist
• 1934 – Gay Byrne, Irish radio and television host
• 1935 – Michael Ballhaus, German director and cinematographer
• 1935 – Peter Inge, Baron Inge, English field marshal
• 1935 – John Saxon, American actor
• 1935 – Roy Benavidez, American Master Sergeant and Medal of Honor Winner (d. 1998)
• 1936 – Nikolai Baturin, Estonian author and playwright
• 1937 – Herb Brooks, American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2003)
• 1937 – Brian G. Marsden, English-American astronomer and academic (d. 2010)
• 1939 – Roger Clark, English race car driver (d. 1998)
• 1940 – Bobby Braddock, American country music songwriter, musician, and producer
• 1940 – Roman Gabriel, American football player, coach, and actor
• 1940 – Rick Huxley, English bass player (The Dave Clark Five) (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Bob Clark, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
• 1941 – Leonid Kizim, Ukrainian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2010)
• 1941 – Airto Moreira, Brazilian-American drummer and composer
• 1942 – Joe Boyd, American record producer, founded Hannibal Records
• 1943 – Nelson Briles, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2005)
• 1943 – Sammi Smith, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
• 1944 – Christopher Gunning, English composer
• 1945 – Loni Anderson, American actress
• 1946 – Bruce Coslet, American football player and coach
• 1946 – Rick van der Linden, Dutch keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2006)
• 1946 – Bob McCarthy, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1946 – Erika Slezak, American actress
• 1946 – Xavier Trias, Spanish pediatrician and politician, 118th Mayor of Barcelona
• 1947 – Bernie Carbo, American baseball player
• 1947 – France A. Córdova, American astrophysicist and academic
• 1947 – Rick Derringer, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1947 – Greg Leskiw, Canadian guitarist and songwriter
• 1948 – Ray Clemence, English footballer and manager
• 1948 – Barbara Flynn, English actress
• 1948 – David Hungate, American bass guitarist, producer, and arranger (Toto)
• 1948 – Shin Takamatsu, Japanese architect and academic
• 1950 – Luiz Gushiken, Brazilian trade union leader and politician (d. 2013)
• 1950 – Mahendra Karma, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
• 1951 – Samantha Sang, Australian pop singer
• 1952 – Tamás Faragó, Hungarian water polo player
• 1952 – John Jarratt, Australian actor and producer
• 1952 – Louis Walsh, Irish talent manager
• 1953 – Rick Mahler, American baseball player and coach (d. 2005)
• 1955 – Eddie Ojeda, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1956 – Christopher Chessun, English bishop
• 1956 – Jerry Ciccoritti, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Larry Corowa, Australian rugby league player
• 1957 – David Gill, English businessman
• 1957 – Faith Prince, American actress and singer
• 1959 – Pete Burns, English singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
• 1959 – Pat Smear, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1960 – David Baldacci, American lawyer and author
• 1961 – Janet McTeer, English actress
• 1961 – Athula Samarasekera, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
• 1961 – Tim Wilson, American comedian, singer-songwriter, and guitarist (d. 2014)
• 1962 – Patrick Ewing, Jamaican-American basketball player and coach
• 1962 – Otis Thorpe, American basketball player
• 1963 – Steve Lee, Swiss singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
• 1963 – Ingmar De Vos, Belgian sports administrator
• 1964 – Rory Morrison, English journalist (d. 2013)
• 1964 – Adam Yauch, American rapper and director (d. 2012)
• 1965 – Jeff Coffin, American saxophonist and composer
• 1965 – Motoi Sakuraba, Japanese keyboard player and composer
• 1966 – Jennifer Finch, American singer, bass player, and photographer
• 1966 – Jonathan Silverman, American actor and producer
• 1967 – Matthew Caws, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 – Terri Clark, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 – Kendo Kashin, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
• 1968 – Marine Le Pen, French lawyer and politician
• 1968 – Oleh Luzhny, Ukrainian footballer and manager
• 1968 – Colin McRae, Scottish race car driver (d. 2007)
• 1968 – John Olerud, American baseball player
• 1969 – Jackie Doyle-Price, English politician
• 1969 – Vasbert Drakes, Barbadian cricketer
• 1969 – Venkatesh Prasad, Indian cricketer and coach
• 1969 – Robert Scott, Australian rower
• 1970 – James Gunn, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Valdis Dombrovskis, Latvian academic and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Latvia
• 1972 – Ikuto Hidaka, Japanese wrestler
• 1972 – Aaqib Javed, Pakistani cricketer and coach
• 1972 – Darren Shahlavi, English-American actor and martial artist (d. 2015)
• 1972 – Jon Sleightholme, English rugby player
• 1972 – Theodore Whitmore, Jamaican footballer and manager
• 1972 – Christian Olde Wolbers, Belgian-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1973 – Paul Carige, Australian rugby league player
• 1973 – Justin Marshall, New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
• 1974 – Alvin Ceccoli, Australian footballer
• 1974 – Kajol, Indian film actress ^[1]
• 1974 – Olle Kullinger, Swedish footballer
• 1974 – Antoine Sibierski, French footballer
• 1975 – Dan Hipgrave, English guitarist and journalist
• 1975 – Josep Jufré, Catalan cyclist
• 1975 – Eicca Toppinen, Finnish cellist and composer
• 1976 – Jeff Friesen, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Marians Pahars, Latvian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Eugen Trică, Romanian footballer and manager
• 1977 – Eric Hinske, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 – Mark Mulder, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1977 – Michael Walsh, English footballer
• 1978 – Cosmin Bărcăuan, Romanian footballer and manager
• 1978 – Kim Gevaert, Belgian sprinter
• 1979 – David Healy, Irish footballer
• 1980 – Wayne Bridge, English footballer
• 1980 – Salvador Cabañas, Paraguayan footballer
• 1980 – Jason Culina, Australian footballer
• 1981 – David Clarke, English ice hockey player
• 1981 – Carl Crawford, American baseball player
• 1981 – Maik Franz, German footballer
• 1981 – Erik Guay, Canadian skier
• 1981 – Travie McCoy, American rapper, singer, and songwriter ^[2]
• 1981 – Anna Rawson, Australian golfer
• 1982 – Jamie Houston, English-German rugby player
• 1982 – Lolo Jones, American hurdler
• 1982 – Michele Pazienza, Italian footballer
• 1982 – Tobias Regner, German singer-songwriter
• 1982 – Jeff Robson, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 – Pete Sell, American mixed martial artist
• 1984 – Steve Matai, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1984 – Helene Fischer, German singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Laurent Ciman, Belgian footballer
• 1985 – Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer
• 1985 – Gil Vermouth, Israeli footballer
• 1985 – Erkan Zengin, Swedish footballer
• 1986 – Paula Creamer, American golfer
• 1986 – Kathrin Zettel, Austrian skier
• 1987 – Genelia D'Souza, Indian actress
• 1988 – Michael Jamieson, Scottish-English swimmer
• 1988 – Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer
• 1989 – Ryan Bertrand, English footballer
• 1989 – Mathieu Manset, French footballer
• 1991 – Esteban Gutiérrez, Mexican race car driver
• 1991 – Konrad Hurrell, Tongan rugby league player
• 1991 – Andreas Weimann, Austrian footballer
• 1995 – Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Danish footballer
• 1996 – Takakeishō Mitsunobu, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1997 – Jack Cogger, Australian rugby league player

• 553 – Xiao Ji, prince of the Liang dynasty (b. 508)
• 642 – Eowa, king of Mercia
• 642 – Oswald, king of Northumbria (b. 604)
• 824 – Heizei, Japanese emperor (b. 773)
• 877 – Ubayd Allah ibn Yahya ibn Khaqan, Abbasid vizier
• 882 – Louis III, Frankish king (b. 863)
• 890 – Ranulf II, duke of Aquitaine (b. 850)
• 910 – Eowils and Halfdan, joint kings of Northumbria
• 910 – Ingwær, king of Northumbria
• 917 – Euthymius I of Constantinople (b. 834)
• 940 – Li Decheng, Chinese general (b. 863)
• 1063 – Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
• 1364 – Kōgon, Japanese emperor (b. 1313)
• 1415 – Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (b. 1375)
• 1415 – Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham (b. 1370)
• 1447 – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter (b. 1395)
• 1579 – Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (b. 1504)
• 1600 – John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, Scottish conspirator (b. 1577)
• 1610 – Alonso García de Ramón, Spanish soldier and politician, Royal Governor of Chile (b. 1552)
• 1633 – George Abbot, English archbishop and academic (b. 1562)
• 1678 – Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican tenor and composer (b. 1619)
• 1729 – Thomas Newcomen, English engineer, invented the eponymous Newcomen atmospheric engine (b. 1664)
• 1743 – John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English courtier and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (b. 1696)
• 1778 – Charles Clémencet, French historian and author (b. 1703)
• 1778 – Thomas Linley the younger, English composer (b. 1756)
• 1792 – Frederick North, Lord North, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1732)
• 1799 – Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, English admiral and politician (b. 1726)
• 1868 – Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and historian (b. 1788)
• 1877 – Robert Williams (known as Trebor Mai), Welsh poet (b. 1830)
• 1880 – Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician and dermatologist (b. 1816)
• 1881 – Spotted Tail, American tribal chief (b. 1823)
• 1895 – Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1901 – Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom (b. 1840)
• 1904 – George Dibbs, Australian politician, 10th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1834)
• 1911 – Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1864)
• 1916 – George Butterworth, British composer, killed at the Battle of the Somme (b. 1885)
• 1921 – Dimitrios Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844)
• 1929 – Millicent Fawcett, English trade union leader and activist (b. 1847)
• 1933 – Charles Harold Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1856)
• 1935 – David Townsend, American art director and set designer (b. 1891)
• 1939 – Béla Jankovich, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (b. 1865)
• 1944 – Maurice Turnbull, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1906)
• 1946 – Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer and politician, 17th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
• 1948 – Montagu Toller, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1871)
• 1952 – Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic (b. 1917)
• 1955 – Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 1957 – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1959 – Edgar Guest, English-American journalist and poet (b. 1881)
• 1960 – Arthur Meighen, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
• 1962 – Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (b. 1926)
• 1963 – Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
• 1964 – Art Ross, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1886)
• 1968 – Luther Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1928)
• 1978 – Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach (b. 1893)
• 1980 – Harold L. Runnels, American soldier and politician (b. 1924)
• 1983 – Judy Canova, American actress and comedian (b. 1913)
• 1983 – Joan Robinson, English economist and author (b. 1903)
• 1984 – Richard Burton, Welsh-Swiss actor and producer (b. 1925)
• 1985 – Arnold Horween, American football player and coach (b. 1898)
• 1987 – Georg Gaßmann, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1910)
• 1991 – Paul Brown, American football player and coach (b. 1908)
• 1991 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and businessman, founded Honda (b. 1906)
• 1992 – Robert Muldoon, New Zealand sergeant, accountant, and politician, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1921)
• 1994 – Menachem Avidom, Israeli composer (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Alain de Changy, Belgian race car driver (b. 1922)
• 1998 – Otto Kretschmer, German commander (b. 1912)
• 1998 – Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian commander and politician, 36th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1911)
• 2000 – Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-Brazilian journalist and activist (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Tullio Crali, Montenegrin-Italian pilot and painter (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Alec Guinness, English actor (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Otema Allimadi, Ugandan politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1929)
• 2001 – Christopher Skase, Australian-Spanish businessman (b. 1948)
• 2002 – Chick Hearn, American sportscaster (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Franco Lucentini, Italian journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Darrell Porter, American baseball player (b. 1952)
• 2002 – Matt Robinson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Polina Astakhova, Russian gymnast and coach (b. 1936)
• 2005 – Jim O'Hora, American football player and coach (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Raul Roco, Filipino lawyer and politician, 31st Filipino Secretary of Education (b. 1941)
• 2005 – Eddie Jenkins, Welsh footballer (b. 1909)^[3]
• 2007 – Jean-Marie Lustiger, French cardinal (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Florian Pittiș, Romanian actor, singer, director, and producer (b. 1943)
• 2008 – Neil Bartlett, English-American chemist and academic (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Reg Lindsay, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1929)
• 2009 – Budd Schulberg, American author, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1914)
• 2011 – Andrzej Lepper, Polish farmer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1954)
• 2011 – Aziz Shavershian, Russian-born Australian Bodybuilder and internet sensation (b. 1989)
• 2012 – Erwin Axer, Polish director and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Michel Daerden, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Fred Matua, American football player (b. 1984)
• 2012 – Martin E. Segal, Russian-American businessman, co-founded Film Society of Lincoln Center (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Roland Charles Wagner, French author and translator (b. 1960)
• 2013 – Ruth Asawa, American sculptor and educator (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Shawn Burr, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1966)
• 2013 – Willie Dunn, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Roy Rubin, American basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2013 – May Song Vang, American activist (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Rob Wyda, American commander and judge (b. 1959)
• 2014 – Harold J. Greene, American general (b. 1962)
• 2014 – Vladimir Orlov, Russian author (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Chapman Pincher, Indian-English historian, journalist, and author (b. 1914)
• 2014 – Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, American physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Arthur Walter James, English journalist and politician (b. 1912)
• 2015 – Tony Millington, Welsh footballer (b. 1943)

Sir Patrick Stewart to reprise 

Star Trek role Jean-Luc Picard

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Sir Patrick Stewart is boldly going where he has been before - by reprising the Star Trek role of Jean-Luc Picard.

The character will feature in a new CBS All Access series chronicling his life after Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The actor announced the news in a surprise appearance at the annual Star Trek convention in Las Vegas on Saturday, after months of speculation.

His career spans almost six decades and includes the role of Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men franchise.

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Sir Patrick, who is 78 and British, played Picard in 178 episodes of the sci-fi television series between 1987 and 1994, and in four feature films.

'New dimensions'

"I will always be very proud to have been a part of the Star Trek: The Next Generation, but when we wrapped that final movie in the spring of 2002, I truly felt my time with Star Trek had run its natural course," said the Shakespearean actor, who lives in New York City.

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"It is an unexpected but delightful surprise to find myself excited and invigorated to be returning to Jean-Luc Picard and to explore new dimensions with him."

Alex Kurtzman, the executive producer on the new yet-to-be-named show, said: "It's a privilege to welcome Sir Patrick Stewart back into the Star Trek fold."

"For over 20 years, fans have hoped for the return of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and that day is finally here. We can't wait to forge new ground, surprise people, and honour generations both new and old," Mr Kurtzman said in media reports.

Details on the new series, which will be available through the US streaming service, are still under wraps, including title and release date.

Star Trek is a multi-billion-dollar cultural phenomenon, which turned 50 years old in 2016.

Lindsay Lohan and Tiffany Trump party together in Mykonos

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• 135 – The Roman Empire lays siege to Betar, effectively ending the Bar Kokhba revolt.
• 1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
• 1506 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk
• 1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
• 1661 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
• 1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, ending the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
• 1824 – Peruvian War of Independence: The Battle of Junín.
• 1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
• 1861 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
• 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.
• 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
• 1901 – Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
• 1912 – The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
• 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
• 1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
• 1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
• 1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
• 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
• 1926 – In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
• 1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
• 1940 – Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.
• 1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
• 1944 – The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
• 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
• 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
• 1960 – Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
• 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
• 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• 1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
• 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
• 1991 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
• 1996 – The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA.
• 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
• 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 228 of 254 people on board.
• 2001 – Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to a chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
• 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
• 2010 – Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
• 2011 – War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, 7 Afghan soldiers, and 1 Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
• 2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
• 2015 – A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.

• 1180 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
• 1504 – Matthew Parker, English archbishop (d. 1575)
• 1572 – Fakhr-al-Din II, Ottoman prince (d. 1635)
• 1605 – Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (d. 1675)
• 1609 – Richard Bennett, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)
• 1619 – Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer and singer-songwriter (d. 1677)
• 1622 – Tjerk Hiddes de Vries, Dutch admiral (d. 1666)
• 1638 – Nicolas Malebranche, French priest and philosopher (d. 1715)
• 1644 – Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1710)
• 1651 – François Fénelon, French archbishop and poet (d. 1715)
• 1656 – Claude de Forbin, French general (d. 1733)
• 1666 – Maria Sophia of Neuburg (d. 1699)
• 1667 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
• 1697 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)
• 1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French author (d. 1747)
• 1765 – Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1848)
• 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (d. 1828)
• 1768 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French general and politician (d. 1813)
• 1775 – Daniel O'Connell, Irish lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin (d. 1847)
• 1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
• 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, English-Australian author (d. 1915)
• 1835 – Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (d. 1900)
• 1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
• 1844 – James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (d. 1896)
• 1846 – Anna Haining Bates, Canadian-American giant (d. 1888)
• 1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (d. 1955)
• 1874 – Charles Fort, American author (d. 1932)
• 1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1952)
• 1880 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor and singer (d. 1964)
• 1881 – Leo Carrillo, American actor (d. 1961)
• 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
• 1881 – Louella Parsons, American journalist (d. 1972)
• 1883 – Scott Nearing, American economist and educator (d. 1983)
• 1886 – Edward Ballantine, American composer and academic (d. 1971)
• 1887 – Dudley Benjafield, English race car driver (d. 1957)
• 1889 – George Kenney, Canadian-American general (d. 1977)
• 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet and author (d. 1957)
• 1890 – Wentworth Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale, English captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland (d. 1956)
• 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English field marshal and politician, 13th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1970)
• 1892 – Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1962)
• 1893 – Wright Patman, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1976)
• 1894 – Paula Fürst, German-Jewish reform educator and Holocaust victim (d.1942)
• 1895 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1963)
• 1895 – Frank Nicklin, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Queensland (d. 1978)
• 1900 – Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, co-founded Texas Instruments (d. 2003)
• 1902 – Dutch Schultz, American gangster (d. 1935)
• 1904 – Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer (d. 1970)
• 1904 – Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach (d. 1993)
• 1906 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
• 1908 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player and commander (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter and illustrator (d. 1941)
• 1909 – Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle (d. 2013)
• 1910 – Adoniran Barbosa, Brazilian musician, singer, composer, humorist, and actor (d. 1982)
• 1910 – Charles Crichton, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress, television producer and businesswoman (d. 1989)
• 1911 – Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (d. 2014)
• 1911 – Constance Heaven, English author and actress (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Richard C. Miller, American photographer (d. 2010)
• 1914 – Gordon Freeth, Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 2001)
• 1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian and academic (d. 1970)
• 1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Barbara Cooney, American author and illustrator (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997)
• 1918 – Norman Granz, American-Swiss record producer and manager (d. 2001)
• 1919 – Pauline Betz, American tennis player (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Selma Diamond, Canadian-American actress and screenwriter (d. 1985)
• 1920 – John Graves, American author (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Ella Raines, American actress (d. 1988)
• 1922 – Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Dan Walker, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois (d. 2015)
• 1923 – Jess Collins, American painter (d. 2004)
• 1923 – Paul Hellyer, Canadian engineer and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Defence
• 1924 – Samuel Bowers, American activist, co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Elisabeth Beresford, French-English journalist and author (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Frank Finlay, English actor (d. 2016)
• 1926 – Clem Labine, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
• 1926 – János Rózsás, Hungarian author (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Andy Warhol, American painter and photographer (d. 1987)
• 1929 – Mike Elliott, Jamaican saxophonist
• 1929 – Roch La Salle, Canadian politician, 42nd Canadian Minister of Public Works (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2010)
• 1931 – Chalmers Johnson, American scholar and author (d. 2010)
• 1932 – Michael Deeley, English screenwriter and producer
• 1932 – Howard Hodgkin, English painter (d. 2017)
• 1932 – Charles Wood, English playwright and screenwriter
• 1933 – A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer (d. 1987)
• 1934 – Piers Anthony, English-American soldier and author
• 1934 – Chris Bonington, English mountaineer and author
• 1934 – Billy Boston, Welsh rugby player and soldier
• 1935 – Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (d. 2012)
• 1935 – Octavio Getino, Spanish-Argentinian director and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 2000)
• 1937 – Charlie Haden, American bassist and composer (d. 2014)
• 1937 – Barbara Windsor, English actress
• 1938 – Paul Bartel, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1938 – Peter Bonerz, American actor and director
• 1938 – Bert Yancey, American golfer (d. 1994)
• 1940 – Mukhu Aliyev, Russian philologist and politician, 2nd President of Dagestan
• 1940 – Egil Kapstad, Norwegian pianist and composer
• 1940 – Louise Sorel, American actress
• 1941 – Ray Culp, American baseball player
• 1941 – Andrew Green, Baron Green of Deddington, English diplomat
• 1942 – Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist and flute player (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Jon Postel, American computer scientist and academic (d. 1998)
• 1944 – Inday Badiday, Filipino journalist and actress (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Michael Mingos, English chemist and academic
• 1944 – Martin Wharton, English bishop
• 1945 – Ron Jones, English director and production manager (d. 1993)
• 1946 – Allan Holdsworth, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2017)
• 1947 – Radhia Cousot, French computer scientist and academic
• 1947 – Tony Dell, English-Australian cricketer and soldier
• 1948 – William McCrea, Northern Irish politician
• 1949 – Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian wrestler (d. 1993)
• 1949 – Richard Prince, American painter and photographer
• 1949 – Clarence Richard Silva, American bishop
• 1950 – Dorian Harewood, American actor
• 1951 – Catherine Hicks, American actress
• 1951 – Daryl Somers, Australian television host and singer
• 1952 – Pat MacDonald, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 – David McLetchie, Scottish lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
• 1952 – Ton Scherpenzeel, Dutch keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
• 1954 – Mark Hughes, English-Australian rugby league player
• 1956 – Bill Emmott, English journalist and author
• 1957 – Bob Horner, American baseball player
• 1957 – Jim McGreevey, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New Jersey
• 1958 – Randy DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1959 – Rajendra Singh, Indian environmentalist
• 1960 – Dale Ellis, American basketball player
• 1961 – Mary Ann Sieghart, English journalist and radio host
• 1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer
• 1963 – Charles Ingram, English soldier, author, and game show contestant
• 1963 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker and author
• 1964 – Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo, Nigerian journalist, activist, social media expert, and pharmacist
• 1965 – Vishal Bhardwaj, Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, music composer and playback singer
• 1965 – Stéphane Peterhansel, French race car driver
• 1965 – Yuki Kajiura, Japanese pianist and composer
• 1965 – David Robinson, American basketball player and lieutenant
• 1965 – Vince Wells, English cricketer
• 1967 – Lorna Fitzsimons, English businesswoman and politician
• 1967 – Mike Greenberg, American journalist and sportscaster
• 1967 – Julie Snyder, Canadian talk show host and producer
• 1968 – Jack de Gier, Dutch footballer
• 1969 – Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
• 1969 – Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)
• 1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 – Paolo Bacigalupi, American author
• 1972 – Darren Eales, English footballer and lawyer
• 1972 – Geri Halliwell, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1972 – Ray Lucas, American football player and sportscaster
• 1973 – Vera Farmiga, American actress
• 1973 – Max Kellerman, American sportscaster and radio host
• 1973 – Iain Morris, English screenwriter and producer
• 1973 – Stuart O'Grady, Australian cyclist
• 1974 – Bobby Petta, Dutch footballer
• 1974 – Luis Vizcaíno, Dominican baseball player
• 1974 – Alvin Williams, American basketball player and coach
• 1975 – Jason Crump, English-Australian motorcycle racer
• 1975 – Renate Götschl, Austrian skier
• 1975 – Víctor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1976 – Soleil Moon Frye, American actress and producer
• 1976 – Melissa George, Australian-American actress
• 1976 – Adam Ritson, Australian rugby league player
• 1976 – Shaun Timmins, Australian rugby league player
• 1977 – Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 – Rebecca Maddern, Australian journalist and television host
• 1977 – Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager
• 1977 – Luciano Zavagno, Argentinian footballer
• 1978 – Marvel Smith, American football player
• 1979 – Francesco Bellotti, Italian cyclist
• 1979 – Jaime Correa, Mexican footballer
• 1979 – Travis Reed, American basketball player
• 1980 – Danny Collins, English-Welsh footballer
• 1980 – Seneca Wallace, American football player
• 1980 – Roman Weidenfeller, German footballer
• 1981 – Vitantonio Liuzzi, Italian race car driver
• 1981 – Diána Póth, Hungarian figure skater
• 1983 – Neil Harvey, English-Barbadian footballer
• 1983 – C. J. Mosley, American football player
• 1983 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
• 1984 – Vedad Ibišević, Bosnian footballer
• 1984 – Jesse Ryder, New Zealand cricketer
• 1985 – Viktoria Baškite, Estonian chess player
• 1985 – Mickaël Delage, French cyclist
• 1985 – Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer
• 1985 – Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer
• 1986 – Mehmet Akgün, Turkish footballer
• 1986 – Raphael Pyrasch, German rugby player
• 1991 – Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer
• 1992 – Tara Moore, British tennis player
• 1995 – Rebecca Peterson, Swedish tennis player

• 258 – Pope Sixtus II
• 523 – Pope Hormisdas (b. 450)
• 750 – Marwan II, Umayyad general and caliph (b. 688)
• 1027 – Richard III, Duke of Normandy
• 1162 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. 1113)
• 1195 – Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)
• 1221 – Saint Dominic, Spanish priest, founded the Dominican Order (b. 1170)
• 1272 – Stephen V of Hungary (b. 1239)
• 1384 – Francesco I of Lesbos
• 1412 – Margherita of Durazzo, Queen consort of Charles III of Naples (b. 1347)^[1]
• 1414 – Ladislaus of Naples (b. 1377)
• 1458 – Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
• 1530 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (b. 1458)
• 1553 – Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
• 1628 – Johannes Junius, German lawyer and politician (b. 1573)
• 1637 – Ben Jonson, English poet and playwright (b. 1572)
• 1645 – Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant and politician (b. 1575)
• 1657 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian soldier and politician, 1st Hetman of Zaporizhian Host (b. 1595)
• 1660 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter and educator (b. 1599)
• 1666 – Tjerk Hiddes de Vries, Frisian naval hero and commander (b. 1622)
• 1679 – John Snell, Scottish-English soldier and philanthropist, founded the Snell Exhibition (b. 1629)
• 1694 – Antoine Arnauld, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1612)
• 1695 – François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop (b. 1625)
• 1753 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Estonian-Russian physicist and academic (b. 1711)
• 1757 – Ádám Mányoki, Hungarian painter (b. 1673)
• 1794 – Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
• 1815 – James A. Bayard, American lawyer and politician (b. 1767)
• 1828 – Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and diplomat (b. 1785)
• 1850 – Edward Walsh, Irish poet and songwriter (b. 1805)
• 1866 – John Mason Neale, English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
• 1881 – James Springer White, American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
• 1884 – Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1812)
• 1893 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1811)
• 1904 – Eduard Hanslick, Austrian author and critic (b. 1825)
• 1906 – George Waterhouse, English-New Zealand politician, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824)
• 1915 - Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier, American physician (b. 1841)
• 1920 – Stefan Bastyr, Polish pilot and author (b. 1890)
• 1925 – Surendranath Banerjee, Indian academic and politician (b. 1848)
• 1925 – Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (b. 1853)
• 1931 – Bix Beiderbecke, American cornet player, pianist, and composer (b. 1903)
• 1945 – Richard Bong, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1920)
• 1945 – Hiram Johnson, American lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of California (b. 1866)
• 1946 – Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and coach (b. 1903)
• 1959 – Preston Sturges, American director, screenwriter, and playwright (b. 1898)
• 1964 – Cedric Hardwicke, English actor and director (b. 1893)
• 1969 – Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1970 – Nikos Tsiforos, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1973 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (b. 1901)
• 1976 – Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist and educator (b. 1903)
• 1978 – Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
• 1978 – Edward Durell Stone, American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center (b. 1902)
• 1979 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1983 – Klaus Nomi, German singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1944)
• 1985 – William Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany, Scottish soldier and politician (b. 1905)
• 1985 – Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician, 2nd President of Guyana (b. 1923)
• 1986 – Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Ira C. Eaker, American general (b. 1896)
• 1990 – Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and politician (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian soldier and politician, 74th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1915)
• 1991 – Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (b. 1900)
• 1991 – Harry Reasoner, American journalist, co-created 60 Minutes (b. 1923)
• 1992 – Leszek Błażyński, Polish boxer (b. 1949)
• 1993 – Tex Hughson, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1994 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter and politician (b. 1928)
• 1997 – Shin Ki-ha, South Korean lawyer and politician (b. 1941)
• 1998 – André Weil, French-American mathematician and academic (b. 1906)
• 2001 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist and poet (b. 1912)
• 2001 – Adhar Kumar Chatterji, Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy from 1966 until 1970. (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Wilhelm Mohnke, German general (b. 1911)
• 2001 – Shan Ratnam, Sri Lankan physician and academic (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
• 2002 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch physicist, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Julius Baker, American flute player and educator (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Rick James, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1948)
• 2004 – Donald Justice, American poet and academic (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Robin Cook, Scottish educator and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (b. 1946)
• 2007 – Heinz Barth, German lieutenant (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (b. 1969)
• 2008 – Angelos Kitsos, Greek lawyer and author (b. 1934)
• 2009 – Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author (b. 1909)
• 2009 – Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
• 2009 – John Hughes, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1950)
• 2011 – Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and educator (b. 1911)
• 2012 – Richard Cragun, American-Brazilian ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Marvin Hamlisch, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Robert Hughes, Australian-American author and critic (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Bernard Lovell, English physicist and astronomer (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Mark O'Donnell, American playwright (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist and educator (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Dan Roundfield, American basketball player (b. 1953)
• 2013 – Jeremy Geidt, English-American actor and educator (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Stan Lynde, American author and illustrator (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Mava Lee Thomas, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Jerry Wolman, American businessman (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Ralph Bryans, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Ananda W.P. Guruge, Sri Lankan scholar and diplomat (b. 1928)
• 2014 – John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist and academic (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Ray Hill, American football player (b. 1975)
• 2015 – Frederick R. Payne, Jr., American general and pilot (b. 1911)
• 2015 – Orna Porat, German-Israeli actress (b. 1924)
• 2017 – Betty Cuthbert, Australian sprinter (b. 1938)
• 2017 – Darren Daulton, American baseball player (b. 1962)