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• 313 – The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia.
• 1373 – Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force.
• 1381 – The Peasants' Revolt led by Wat Tyler culminated in the burning of the Savoy Palace.
• 1514 – Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated.
• 1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
• 1625 – King Charles I of England marries Henrietta Maria of France, Princess of France
• 1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
• 1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
• 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
• 1881 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
• 1886 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
• 1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
• 1893 – Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
• 1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
• 1910 – The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established. This unit of the university is said to be the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines.
• 1917 – World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
• 1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
• 1944 – World War II: German combat elements - reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division - launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
• 1944 – World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
• 1952 – Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
• 1955 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.
• 1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
• 1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1969 – Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas.
• 1970 – "The Long and Winding Road" becomes The Beatles' last U.S. number one song.
• 1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
• 1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
• 1978 – Israel Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
• 1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
• 1982 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
• 1982 – Riccardo Paletti, was killed when he crashed on the start grid for the Canadian Grand Prix
• 1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the farthest planet from the Sun at the time).
• 1990 – First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.
• 1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
• 1996 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
• 1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• 2000 – President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
• 2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
• 2002 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• 2002 – Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the U.S.
• 2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
• 2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
• 2012 – A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.

Births[edit]

• 40 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (d. 93)
• 823 – Charles the Bald, Frankish king and Holy Roman Emperor (d. 877)
• 839 – Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 888)
• 1508 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian writer and philosopher (d. 1579)
• 1556 – Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer (d. 1608)
• 1595 – Jan Marek Marci, Czech physician and scientist (d. 1667)
• 1561 – Anna Maria of Anhalt, German noblewoman (d. 1605)
• 1619 – Jan Victors, Dutch painter (d. 1676)
• 1649 – Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
• 1672 – Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1741)
• 1711 – Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1773)
• 1752 – Frances Burney, English author and playwright (d. 1840)
• 1761 – Antonín Vranický, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1820)
• 1763 – José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian politician (d. 1838)
• 1773 – Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist (d. 1829)
• 1775 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Lithuanian politician (d. 1833)
• 1786 – Winfield Scott, American general (d. 1866)
• 1790 – José Antonio Páez, Venezuelan general and politician, President of Venezuela (d. 1873)
• 1809 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German psychiatrist and author (d. 1894)
• 1822 – Carl Schmidt, Latvian-German chemist and academic (d. 1894)
• 1827 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
• 1831 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (d. 1879)
• 1840 – Augusta Lundin, Swedish fashion designer (d. 1919)
• 1854 – Charles Algernon Parsons, English engineer (d. 1931)
• 1863 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
• 1864 – Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and politician (d. 1922)
• 1864 – Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (d. 1939)
• 1865 – W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)
• 1868 – Wallace Clement Sabine, American physicist (d. 1919)
• 1870 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
• 1872 – Thomas N. Heffron, American silent film director (d. 1951)
• 1873 – Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, producer and director (d. 1942)
• 1875 – Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer and physician (d. 1932)
• 1876 – William Sealy Gosset, English chemist and statistician (d. 1937)
• 1877 – Joseph Stella, Italian-American painter (d. 1946)
• 1879 – Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician (d. 1941)
• 1879 – Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general (d. 1929)
• 1884 – Leon Chwistek, Polish painter, philosopher and mathematician (d. 1944)
• 1884 – Anton Drexler, German politician (d. 1942)
• 1884 – Gerald Gardner, English religious leader, founded Gardnerian Wicca (d. 1964)
• 1884 – Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and academic (d. 1978)
• 1885 – Henry George Lamond, Australian farmer and author (d. 1969)
• 1887 – André François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat (d. 1978)
• 1887 – Bruno Frank, German-American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1945)
• 1888 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and critic (d. 1935)
• 1892 – Basil Rathbone, South African-American actor (d. 1967)
• 1893 – Alan Arnold Griffith, English engineer (d. 1963)
• 1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author and poet (d. 1957)
• 1894 – Leo Kanner, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and physician (d. 1981)
• 1894 – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (d. 1973)
• 1899 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer, conductor, and journalist, founded the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (d. 1978)
• 1901 – Tage Erlander, Swedish politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)
• 1903 – Willard Harrison Bennett, American scientist and inventor (d. 1987)
• 1905 – Doc Cheatham, American trumpet player, singer, and bandleader (McKinney's Cotton Pickers) (d. 1997)
• 1905 – James T. Rutnam, Sri Lankan historian and author (d. 1988)
• 1905 – Xian Xinghai, Chinese composer (d. 1945)
• 1906 – Bruno de Finetti, Austrian-Italian mathematician and statistician (d. 1985)
• 1909 – E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 1998)
• 1910 – Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Spanish author (d. 1999)
• 1910 – Mary Wickes, American actress and singer (d. 1995)
• 1910 – Mary Whitehouse, English activist, founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (d. 2001)
• 1911 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
• 1911 – Prince Aly Khan, Imam of Ismaili Shi'a Islam, socialite, racehorse owner (d. 1960)
• 1911 – Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German physicist (d. 1977)
• 1912 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (d. 1943)
• 1913 – Ralph Edwards, American radio and television host (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Yitzhak Pundak, Israeli general, diplomat and politician
• 1914 – Frederic Franklin, English-American ballet dancer and director (d. 2013)
• 1914 – Barbara Reynolds, English lexicographer and author (d. 2015)
• 1915 – Don Budge, American tennis player (d. 2000)
• 1916 – Wu Zhengyi, Chinese botanist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1917 – Teddy Turner, English actor (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Helmut Lent, German soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
• 1918 – Percy Rodriguez, Canadian-American actor (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Rolf Huisgen, German chemist and academic
• 1920 – Iosif Vorovich, Russian mathematician and engineer (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Lennart Strand, Swedish runner (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Etienne Leroux, South African author (d. 1989)
• 1926 – Jérôme Lejeune, French pediatrician and geneticist (d. 1994)
• 1926 – Paul Lynde, American actor and singer (d. 1982)
• 1927 – Slim Dusty, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Alan Reiher, Australian public servant (d. 2003)
• 1928 – Li Ka-shing, Chinese businessman
• 1928 – Renée Morisset, Canadian pianist (d. 2009)
• 1928 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
• 1929 – Alan Civil, English horn player (d. 1989)
• 1929 – Robert W. Scott, American politician, 67th Governor of North Carolina (d. 2009)
• 1929 – Ralph McQuarrie, American illustrator (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Gotthard Graubner, German painter (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel and spy (d. 2004)
• 1930 – Paul Veyne, French historian, intellectualist and academic
• 1931 – Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina (d. 2009)
• 1931 – Reed Scowen, Canadian politician
• 1931 – Irvin D. Yalom, American psychotherapist and academic
• 1932 – Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton, English politician
• 1932 – Bob McGrath, American actor and singer
• 1932 – Billy Williams, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, English politician, Secretary of State for Defence
• 1934 – Bill Blakeley, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Manuel Clouthier, Mexican businessman and politician (d. 1989)
• 1934 – James Anthony Griffin, American bishop
• 1934 – Leonard Kleinrock, American computer scientist and engineer
• 1935 – Lyudmila Chernykh, Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet astronomer
• 1935 – Christo, Bulgarian-French sculptor and painter
• 1935 – Jeanne-Claude, Moroccan sculptor and painter (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2009)
• 1936 – Michel Jazy, French runner
• 1936 – Michael H. Jordan, American businessman (d. 2010)
• 1937 – Eleanor Holmes Norton, American politician
• 1937 – Erich Ribbeck, German footballer and manager
• 1937 – Andreas Whittam Smith, English journalist
• 1938 – Gwynne Howell, Welsh opera singer
• 1939 – Tom Cheek, American sportscaster (d. 2005)
• 1939 – Siegfried Fischbacher, German-American magician
• 1940 – Bobby Freeman, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1940 – Dallas Long, American shot putter
• 1941 – Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1941 – Serge Lemoyne, Canadian painter (d. 1998)
• 1941 – Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
• 1942 – Yiannis Boutaris, Greek businessman and politician, Mayor of Thessaloniki
• 1942 – James Carr, American singer (d. 2001)
• 1942 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (d. 2007)
• 1942 – Viktor Suslin, Russian-German composer (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Harry Collins, British sociologist of science
• 1943 – Malcolm McDowell, English actor and producer
• 1943 – Jim Guy Tucker, American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of Arkansas
• 1944 – Christine Beasley, English nurse
• 1944 – David Curry, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
• 1944 – Ban Ki-moon, South Korean diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
• 1945 – Whitley Strieber, American author
• 1946 – Gonzalo Aja, Spanish cyclist
• 1946 – Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nepalese politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Nepal
• 1946 – Gabriel of Komana, Belgian-Dutch archbishop (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Igor Starygin, Russian actor (d. 2009)
• 1947 – A.G. Lafley, American businessman
• 1948 – Garnet Bailey, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2001)
• 1948 – Joe Roth, American director and producer, co-founded Morgan Creek Productions
• 1949 – Dennis Locorriere, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show)
• 1949 – Ulla Schmidt, German politician
• 1950 – Belinda Bauer, Australian-American actress and psychologist
• 1950 – Nick Brown, English politician
• 1950 – Gerd Zewe, German footballer and manager
• 1951 – Howard Leese, American guitarist and producer (Bad Company and Heart)
• 1951 – Richard Thomas, American actor, director, and producer
• 1951 – Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
• 1951 – Robert P. Young, Jr., American jurist
• 1952 – Jean-Marie Dedecker, Belgian martial artist and politician
• 1953 – Tim Allen, American actor and producer
• 1954 – Rita Cadillac, Brazilian porn actress, singer, and dancer
• 1954 – Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
• 1954 – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian economist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nigeria
• 1955 – Alan Hansen, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
• 1955 – Leah Ward Sears, American jurist
• 1956 – Blair Chapman, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1956 – Pedro Larraquy, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1956 – Shunichi Mizuoka, Japanese politician
• 1956 – Sal Paolantonio, American lieutenant and journalist
• 1956 – John Harris, American football player
• 1957 – Ronald Ardoin, American jockey
• 1957 – Ron Areshenkoff, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957 – Mossie Carroll, Irish hurler and manager
• 1957 – Roy Cooper, American politician, 48th North Carolina Attorney General
• 1957 – Bruce Flowers, American basketball player
• 1957 – Andrzej Morozowski, Polish journalist
• 1957 – Dicky Thompson, American golfer
• 1959 – Boyko Borisov, Bulgarian politician, 50th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
• 1959 – Steve Georganas, Australian politician
• 1959 – Klaus Iohannis, Romanian politician, 5th President of Romania
• 1959 – Lance Kinsey, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter
• 1960 – Jacques Rougeau, Canadian wrestler
• 1961 – Bob Crow, English union leader (d. 2014)
• 1961 – Kaire Indrikson, Estonian swimmer
• 1961 – Anders Järryd, Swedish tennis player
• 1962 – Davey Hamilton, American race car driver
• 1962 – Glenn Michibata, Canadian tennis player
• 1962 – Rudolf Povarnitsyn, Ukrainian high jumper
• 1962 – Ally Sheedy, American actress and author
• 1962 – Hannah Storm, American journalist and author
• 1963 – Bettina Bunge, German tennis player
• 1963 – Paul De Lisle, American bass player (Smash Mouth)
• 1963 – Catarina Lindqvist, Swedish tennis player
• 1964 – Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian organist, composer, and educator
• 1964 – Kathy Burke, English actress, director, and playwright
• 1964 – Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1965 – Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca
• 1965 – Vassilis Karapialis, Greek footballer
• 1965 – Lukas Ligeti, Austrian-American drummer and composer
• 1965 – Lisa Vidal, American actress
• 1966 – Henry Bond, English photographer
• 1966 – Naoki Hattori, Japanese race car driver
• 1966 – Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
• 1967 – Taşkın Aksoy, German-Turkish footballer and manager
• 1968 – Fabio Baldato, Italian cyclist
• 1968 – Peter DeBoer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1968 – Darren Dreger, Canadian sportscaster
• 1968 – David Gray, English-Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1968 – Tim Leveque, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Denise Pearson, English singer-songwriter (Five Star)
• 1968 – Marcel Theroux, Ugandan-English journalist and author
• 1969 – Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Spanish actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Virginie Despentes, French author
• 1969 – Joseph Keter, Kenyan runner
• 1969 – Laura Kightlinger, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Lynne Koplitz, American comedian and actress
• 1969 – Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian shot putter
• 1969 – Søren Rasted, Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Aqua, Hej Matematik, and Lazyboy)
• 1970 – Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
• 1970 – Rivers Cuomo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Weezer, Avant Garde, and Homie)
• 1970 – Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
• 1971 – Nóra Köves, Hungarian tennis player
• 1972 – Meelis Aasmäe, Estonian skier
• 1972 – Kristjan Järvi, Estonian-American conductor
• 1972 – Natalie MacMaster, Canadian fiddler
• 1973 – Sam Adams, American football player
• 1973 – Tanner Foust, American race car driver
• 1973 – Mattias Hellberg, Swedish singer-songwriter (The Hellacopters, Nationalteatern, and The Solution)
• 1973 – Kasia Kowalska, Polish singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1973 – Ville Laihiala, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sentenced and Poisonblack)
• 1973 – Anna Mosenkova, Estonian ice dancer
• 1973 – Leeann Tweeden, American model and television host
• 1974 – Coko, American singer (SWV)
• 1974 – Steve-O, American stuntman and actor
• 1974 – Selma Björnsdóttir, Icelandic singer and actress
• 1974 – Valeri Bure, Russian-American ice hockey player
• 1974 – Brande Roderick, American model and actress
• 1974 – Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor
• 1975 – Ante Čović, Australian footballer
• 1975 – Jeff Davis, American screenwriter and producer
• 1975 – Jennifer Nicole Lee, American model, actress, and author
• 1975 – Jaan Pehk, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Ruffus)
• 1975 – Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer
• 1976 – Kym Marsh, English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1976 – Tygh Runyan, Canadian-American actor and guitarist (The Awkward Stage)
• 1977 – Dragoș Bucur, Romanian actor
• 1977 – Emily Harrison, American actress
• 1977 – Tarmo Kikerpill, Estonian basketball player
• 1977 – Romain Mesnil, French pole vaulter
• 1977 – Earthwind Moreland, American football player
• 1977 – Rainer Schönfelder, Austrian skier
• 1977 – Erin Toughill, American mixed martial artist and boxer
• 1978 – Jason Michael Carroll, American singer-songwriter
• 1978 – Brian Dowling, Irish television host
• 1978 – John Estrada, Filipino actor
• 1978 – Mikako Ichikawa, Japanese model and actress
• 1978 – Mathis Künzler, Swiss actor
• 1979 – Esther Anderson, Australian actress
• 1979 – Nila Håkedal, Norwegian volleyball player
• 1979 – Miguel Pate, American long jumper
• 1979 – Ryan Pickett, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1980 – Sarah Connor, German singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1980 – Florent Malouda, French footballer
• 1980 – Diego Mendieta, Paraguayan footballer (d. 2012)
• 1980 – Jamario Moon, American basketball player
• 1980 – Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player
• 1980 – Maho Nonami, Japanese actress
• 1980 – Darius Vassell, English footballer
• 1980 – Markus Winkelhock, German race car driver
• 1981 – Chris Evans, American actor
• 1981 – Blake Judd, American actor, director, and producer
• 1981 – Julie-Marie Parmentier, French actress
• 1981 – Radim Vrbata, Czech-American ice hockey player
• 1982 – Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian runner
• 1982 – Krzysztof Bosak, Polish politician
• 1982 – Jessica Caban, American model and actress
• 1982 – Nate Jones, American football player
• 1982 – Jess Manafort, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1983 – Jason Spezza, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Nery Castillo, Mexican-Uruguayan footballer
• 1984 – Kaori Icho, Japanese wrestler
• 1984 – Antje Möldner-Schmidt, German runner
• 1984 – Nautica Thorn, American porn actress
• 1984 – Phillip Van Dyke, American actor
• 1985 – Raz-B, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (B2K)
• 1985 – Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese race car driver
• 1985 – Silvio Bankert, German footballer
• 1985 – Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Ayanna Oliva, Filipino model, singer, dancer, DJ, and VJ (Kitty Girls)
• 1986 – Kat Dennings, American actress
• 1986 – Keisuke Honda, Japanese footballer
• 1986 – Tracy Horgan, Canadian curler
• 1986 – Azumi Muto, Japanese model and actress (d. 2006)
• 1986 – Ashley Olsen, American actress, singer, producer, and fashion designer
• 1986 – Mary-Kate Olsen, American actress, singer, producer, and fashion designer
• 1986 – DJ Snake, French rapper, DJ, and producer
• 1986 – Lea Verou, Greek computer scientist
• 1986 – Måns Zelmerlöw, Swedish singer
• 1987 – Marko Grgić, Croatian footballer
• 1988 – Gabe Carimi, American football player
• 1988 – Reece Noi, English actor
• 1989 – ILoveMakonnen, American rapper
• 1989 – Irene Gorovaia, Russian-American actress
• 1989 – Tommy Searle, English motocross racer
• 1989 – Lisa Tucker, American singer and actress
• 1990 – Nicole Riner, Swiss tennis player
• 1990 – Aaron Taylor-Johnson, English actor
• 1991 – Will Claye, American jumper
• 1991 – Ryan Mason, English footballer
• 1993 – Simona Senoner, Italian ski jumper (d. 2011)
• 1993 – Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater
• 1995 – Emily Fanning, New Zealand tennis player
• 1996 – Kodi Smit-McPhee, Australian actor
• 1998 – Abdallah El Akal, Israeli actor

Deaths[edit]

• 1036 – Ali az-Zahir, Egyptian caliph (b. 1005)
• 1231 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint (b. 1195)
• 1256 – Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
• 1636 – George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
• 1645 – Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese samurai (b. 1584)
• 1665 – Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
• 1760 – Antoine Court, French minister (b. 1696)
• 1784 – Henry Middleton, American politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
• 1846 – Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer and author (b. 1767)
• 1881 – Joseph Škoda, Czech physician and dermatologist (b. 1805)
• 1886 – Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
• 1898 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
• 1904 – Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
• 1917 – Louis-Philippe Hébert, Canadian sculptor (b. 1850)
• 1918 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1878)
• 1930 – Henry Segrave, American-English race car driver (b. 1896)
• 1931 – Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1851)
• 1943 – Kočo Racin, Macedonian author and activist (b. 1908)
• 1948 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (b. 1909)
• 1951 – Ben Chifley, Australian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
• 1954 – Henry Blogg, English fisherman (b. 1876)
• 1957 – Irving Baxter, American high jumper and pole vaulter (b. 1876)
• 1958 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, English poet and academic (b. 1887)
• 1965 – Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher and theologian (b. 1878)
• 1965 – David Drummond, Australian farmer and politician (b. 1890)
• 1969 – Pralhad Keshav Atre, Indian journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898)
• 1972 – Clyde McPhatter, American singer (Billy Ward and his Dominoes and The Drifters) (b. 1932)
• 1972 – Dündar Taşer, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1925)
• 1972 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1972 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (b. 1891)
• 1977 – Matthew Garber, English actor (b. 1956)
• 1979 – Darla Hood, American actress, voice actress, and singer (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (I Ribelli and Area) (b. 1945)
• 1980 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942)
• 1982 – Peter Maivia, Samoan-American wrestler and promoter (b. 1935)
• 1982 – Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
• 1982 – Riccardo Paletti, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
• 1984 – António Variações, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
• 1986 – Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1909)
• 1987 – Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Fran Allison, American actress and singer (b. 1907)
• 1991 – Ljubov Rebane, Estonian physicist (b. 1929)
• 1993 – Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
• 1993 – Deke Slayton, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Nadia Gray, Romanian-French actress (b. 1923)
• 1997 – Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor (b. 1899)
• 1998 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (b. 1917)
• 2002 – John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)
• 2002 – Maia Wojciechowska, Polish-American author (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist and author (b. 1952)
• 2005 – Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician (b. 1913)
• 2005 – David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2006 – Charles Haughey, Irish politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Walid Eido, Lebanese judge and politician (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Tim Russert, American journalist and lawyer (b. 1950)
• 2009 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (b. 1962)
• 2009 – Fathi Yakan, Lebanese politician (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Jimmy Dean, American singer, actor, and businessman, founded Jimmy Dean Foods (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Sam Beddingfield, American pilot and engineer (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Graeme Bell, Australian pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Luiz Gonzaga Bergonzini, Brazilian bishop (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and author (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Mehdi Hassan, Indian-Pakistani singer-songwriter (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Jože Humer, Slovenian composer (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Erica Kennedy, American journalist and author (b. 1970)
• 2013 – Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi, Saudi Arabian footballer (b. 1971)
• 2013 – David Deutsch, American businessman, founded Deutsch Inc. (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Newton Lai, Hong Kong actor (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Sam Most, American flute player and saxophonist (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Edmund Pellegrino, American ethicist and academic (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Kenji Utsumi, Japanese voice actor (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Albert White Hat, American educator and activist (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and sociologist (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Masters Apprentices and Cotton Keays & Morris) (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Robert Peters, American poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Richard Rockefeller, American physician (b. 1949)