EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST 1/8

• 30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
• 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
• 527 – Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
• 607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
• 902 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabids army, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
• 1203 – Isaac II Angelos, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
• 1291 – The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
• 1469 – Louis XI of France founds the chivalric order called the Order of Saint Michael in Amboise.
• 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
• 1620 – The Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.
• 1664 – Ottoman forces are defeated in the battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
• 1714 – George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain, marking the beginning of the Georgian era of British history.
• 1715 – The Riot Act comes into force in England.
• 1759 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
• 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
• 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay): Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
• 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
• 1831 – A new London Bridge opens.
• 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
• 1838 – Non-laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
• 1840 – Laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
• 1842 – The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
• 1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
• 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
• 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
• 1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
• 1911 – Harriet Quimby she took her pilot's test and became the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
• 1914 – The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
• 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
• 1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
• 1944 – World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
• 1946 – Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason.
• 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
• 1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
• 1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
• 1961 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
• 1964 – The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
• 1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
• 1968 – The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
• 1974 – Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones.
• 1975 – CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
• 1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
• 1980 – Patrick Depailler, French Grand Prix driver was killed in a crash at Hockenheim during a private test session.
• 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
• 1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, northwest England
• 1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
• 2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
• 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
• 2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
• 2008 – Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.

Births[edit]

• 10 BC – Claudius, Roman emperor (d. 54)
• 126 – Pertinax, Roman emperor (d. 193)
• 1068 – Emperor Taizu of Jin (d. 1123)
• 1313 – Emperor Kōgon of Japan (d. 1364)
• 1377 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
• 1545 – Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and scholar (d. 1622)
• 1555 – Edward Kelley, English occultist (d. 1597)
• 1579 – Luis Vélez de Guevara, Spanish author and playwright (d. 1644)
• 1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi (d. 1676)
• 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (d. 1673)
• 1659 – Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter (d. 1734)
• 1713 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1780)
• 1714 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
• 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
• 1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (d. 1829)
• 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (d. 1838)
• 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and poet (d. 1843)
• 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German-Swiss botanist, biologist, and ornithologist (d. 1851)
• 1809 – William B. Travis, American colonel and lawyer (d. 1836)
• 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1882)
• 1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and academic (d. 1889)
• 1819 – Herman Melville, American author and poet (d. 1891)
• 1831 – Antonio Cotogni, Italian opera singer (d. 1918)
• 1841 – Lilli Suburg, Estonian journalist (d. 1923)
• 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
• 1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
• 1858 – Gaston Doumergue, French politician, 13th President of France (d. 1937)
• 1858 – Hans Rott, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1884)
• 1861 – Sammy Jones, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
• 1871 – John Lester, American cricketer and soccer player (d. 1969)
• 1877 – George Hackenschmidt, Estonian-English wrestler and strongman (d. 1968)
• 1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician and academic (d. 1940)
• 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
• 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic (d. 1979)
• 1891 – Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
• 1893 – Alexander of Greece (d. 1920)
• 1894 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
• 1899 – Raymond Mays, English race car driver (d. 1980)
• 1900 – Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player (d. 1965)
• 1901 – Francisco Guilledo, Filipino boxer (d. 1925)
• 1903 – Paul Horgan, American historian, author, and academic (d. 1995)
• 1905 – Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1993)
• 1907 – Eric Shipton, Sri Lankan-English mountaineer and explorer (d. 1977)
• 1910 – James Henry Govier, English painter and illustrator (d. 1974)
• 1910 – Mohammad Nissar, Indian cricketer (d. 1963)
• 1910 – Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003)
• 1911 – Jackie Ormes, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
• 1912 – Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1914 – Jack Delano, American photographer and composer (d. 1997)
• 1914 – J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1916 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
• 1916 – Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet (d. 2000)
• 1918 – T. J. Jemison, American clergyman and activist (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Richard Pearson, Welsh-English actor (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Stanley Middleton, English author (d. 2009)
• 1920 – Raul Renter, Estonian economist and chess player (d. 1992)
• 1920 – Jeffrey Segal, English actor (d.2015)
• 1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player, sailor, and sportscaster (d. 2009)
• 1921 – Pat McDonald, Australian actress (d. 1990)
• 1922 – Arthur Hill, Canadian-American actor (d. 2006)
• 1923 – Val Bettin, American voice actor
• 1924 – Marcia Mae Jones, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (d. 2015)
• 1924 – Frank Worrell, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1967)
• 1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian poet and author (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Theo Adam, German opera singer
• 1926 – George Hauptfuhrer, American basketball player and lawyer (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Anthony G. Bosco, American bishop (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Jack Shea, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Hafizullah Amin, Afghan educator and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Afghanistan (d. 1979)
• 1929 – Ann Calvello, American roller derby racer (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Lionel Bart, English composer (d. 1999)
• 1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (d. 2002)
• 1930 – Julie Bovasso, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1930 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American lieutenant and politician, 62nd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
• 1930 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1996)
• 1930 – Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Ramblin' Jack Elliott, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1931 – Trevor Goddard, South African cricketer
• 1932 – Meir Kahane, American rabbi and activist, founded the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
• 1932 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d. 1972)
• 1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2009)
• 1933 – Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player and manager
• 1933 – Teri Shields, American actress and producer (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian and author (d. 2007)
• 1934 – John Beck, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2000)
• 1934 – Derek Birdsall, English graphic designer
• 1935 – Geoff Pullar, English cricketer (d. 2014)
• 1936 – W. D. Hamilton, Egyptian-English biologist, psychologist, and academic (d. 2000)
• 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-French fashion designer, co-founded Yves Saint Laurent (d. 2008)
• 1936 – Laurie Taylor, English sociologist, radio host, and academic
• 1937 – Al D'Amato, American lawyer and politician
• 1939 – Terry Kiser, American actor
• 1939 – Stephen Sykes, English bishop and theologian (d. 2014)
• 1939 – Robert James Waller, American author and photographer
• 1940 – Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer and umpire
• 1940 – Ram Loevy, Israeli director and screenwriter
• 1940 – Henry Silverman, American businessman, founded the Cendant Corporation
• 1941 – Ron Brown, American captain and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1996)
• 1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage) (d. 1995)
• 1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1944 – Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Russian banker and politician (d. 1998)
• 1944 – Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer
• 1945 – Sandi Griffiths, American singer
• 1945 – Douglas Osheroff, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1946 – Richard O. Covey, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
• 1947 – Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet and author
• 1948 – Avi Arad, Israeli-American screenwriter and producer, founded Marvel Studios
• 1948 – Cliff Branch, American football player
• 1948 – David Gemmell, English author (d. 2006)
• 1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Kyrgyzstani politician, 2nd President of Kyrgyzstan
• 1949 – Ray Nettles, American football player (d. 2009)
• 1950 – Bunkhouse Buck, American wrestler
• 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet and author (d. 2009)
• 1950 – Roy Williams, American basketball player and coach
• 1951 – Tim Bachman, Canadian singer and guitarist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Brave Belt)
• 1951 – Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Deep Purple, Zephyr, and James Gang) (d. 1976)
• 1951 – Pete Mackanin, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
• 1952 – Yajurvindra Singh, Indian cricketer
• 1953 – Robert Cray, American singer and guitarist
• 1954 – James Gleick, American journalist and author
• 1954 – Benno Möhlmann, German footballer and manager
• 1955 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican-Canadian boxer (d. 2006)
• 1955 – Arun Lal, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1956 – Ok-Hee Ku, South Korean golfer (d. 2013)
• 1957 – Taylor Negron, American actor (d. 2015)
• 1958 – Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000)
• 1958 – Adrian Dunbar, Northern Irish actor
• 1958 – Tor Håkon Holte, Norwegian skier
• 1958 – Michael Penn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Doll Congress)
• 1958 – Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player and coach
• 1959 – Joe Elliott, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Def Leppard, Atomic Mass, and Down 'n' Outz)
• 1959 – Yoshihide Ōtomo, Japanese guitarist and songwriter (Ground Zero and Filament)
• 1960 – Chuck D, American rapper and producer (Public Enemy, The Bomb Squad, and Confrontation Camp)
• 1960 – Suzi Gardner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (L7)
• 1960 – Professor Griff, American rapper (Public Enemy and Confrontation Camp)
• 1962 – Cesar Montano, Filipino actor, host, and director
• 1962 – Jacob Matlala, South African boxer (d. 2013)
• 1963 – Coolio, American rapper, producer, and actor (WC and the Maad Circle)
• 1963 – Demián Bichir, Mexican-American actor
• 1963 – John Carroll Lynch, American actor
• 1963 – Lynette Sadleir, New Zealand swimmer
• 1963 – Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut and engineer
• 1963 – Dean Wareham, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (Galaxie 500, Luna, and Dean & Britta)
• 1964 – Adam Duritz, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1964 – Kaspar Capparoni, Italian actor
• 1964 – Fiona Hyslop, Scottish politician
• 1965 – Sam Mendes, English director and producer
• 1965 – Brandt Jobe, American golfer
• 1966 – James St. James, American club promoter and author
• 1966 – George Ducas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 – Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player and coach
• 1967 – José Padilha, Brazilian director, producer and screenwriter
• 1968 – Stacey Augmon, American basketball player and coach
• 1968 – Dan Donegan, American guitarist (Disturbed, Fight or Flight, and Vandal)
• 1968 – Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Japanese baseball player
• 1969 – Andrei Borissov, Estonian footballer and manager
• 1969 – Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player
• 1969 – Graham Thorpe, English cricketer and journalist
• 1969 – Stuart Wade, English actor
• 1969 – David Wain, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Quentin Coryatt, American football player
• 1970 – David James, English footballer and manager
• 1970 – Elon Lindenstrauss, Israeli mathematician and academic
• 1970 – Sibel Can, Turkish folk pop and classical music singer
• 1971 – Ágúst Gylfason, Icelandic footballer
• 1971 – Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez, Mexican drug lord
• 1971 – Charles Malik Whitfield, American actor
• 1971 – İdil Üner, German-Turkish actress
• 1972 – Devon Hughes, American wrestler
• 1972 – Martin Damm, Czech tennis player
• 1972 – Nicke Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Hellacopters The Solution, The Hydromatics, and Imperial State Electric)
• 1972 – Christer Basma, Norwegian footballer and coach
• 1972 – Todd Bouman, American football player and coach
• 1972 – Thomas Woods, American historian, economist, and educator
• 1973 – Gregg Berhalter, American soccer player and coach
• 1973 – Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
• 1973 – Veerle Dejaeghere, Belgian runner
• 1973 – Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
• 1973 – Kris Holden-Ried, Canadian actor
• 1973 – Edurne Pasaban, Spanish mountaineer
• 1974 – Cher Calvin, Filipino-American journalist
• 1974 – Marek Galiński, Polish cyclist (d. 2014)
• 1974 – Tyron Henderson, South African cricketer
• 1974 – Dennis Lawrence, Trinidadian footballer and coach
• 1974 – Beckie Scott, Canadian skier
• 1975 – Vhrsti, Czech author and illustrator
• 1975 – Teresa Mak, Hong Kong actress
• 1975 – Ane Dahl Torp, Norwegian actress
• 1975 – Håkon Mjåset Johansen, Norwegian drummer (Motif, Come Shine)
• 1975 – Ryoko Yonekura, Japanese actress and model
• 1976 – Søren Jochumsen, Danish footballer
• 1976 – Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
• 1976 – Hasan Şaş, Turkish former footballer and manager
• 1976 – Don Hertzfeldt, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
• 1976 – David Nemirovsky, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Cristian Stoica, Romanian-Italian rugby player
• 1977 – Haspop, French-Moroccan dancer, choreographer, and actor
• 1977 – Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1977 – Darnerien McCants, American-Canadian football player
• 1977 – Damien Saez, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1977 – Yoshi Tatsu, Japanese wrestler and boxer
• 1978 – Andy Blignaut, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1978 – Björn Ferry, Swedish biathlete
• 1978 – Dhani Harrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Thenewno2, Traveling Wilburys, and Fistful of Mercy)
• 1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player
• 1978 – Chris Iwelumo, Scottish footballer
• 1978 – Jonathan Wilkes, English singer and actor
• 1979 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer
• 1979 – Nathan Fien, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
• 1979 – Bernadette Flynn, Irish dancer
• 1979 – Jason Momoa, American actor
• 1980 – Mancini, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Romain Barras, French decathlete
• 1980 – Krisztina Fazekas Zur, Hungarian-American canoe racer
• 1980 – Esteban Paredes, Chilean footballer
• 1981 – Dean Cox, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Pia Haraldsen, Norwegian journalist and author
• 1981 – Christofer Heimeroth, German footballer
• 1981 – Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
• 1981 – Miracle Laurie, American actress
• 1981 – Ashley Parker Angel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (O-Town)
• 1981 – Sally Pressman, American actress and dancer
• 1982 – Basem Fathi, Jordanian footballer
• 1982 – Kimberly Holland, American model
• 1982 – Montserrat Lombard, English actress
• 1982 – Oluchi Onweagba, Nigerian model
• 1982 – Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
• 1983 – Craig Clarke, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 – Julien Faubert, French footballer
• 1983 – David Gervasi, Swiss decathlete
• 1984 – Francesco Gavazzi, Italian cyclist
• 1984 – Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican-American actress and singer
• 1984 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
• 1985 – Stuart Holden, Scottish-American soccer player
• 1985 – Adam Jones, American baseball player
• 1985 – Hyun Jyu-ni, South Korean singer and actress
• 1985 – Gegard Mousasi, Iranian-Dutch mixed martial artist and kick-boxer
• 1985 – Tendai Mtawarira, South African rugby player
• 1985 – Kris Stadsgaard, Danish footballer
• 1985 – Dušan Švento, Slovak footballer
• 1986 – Elijah Kelley, American actor, singer, and dancer
• 1986 – Jonas Plass, German sprinter
• 1986 – Jörn Schlönvoigt, German actor and singer
• 1986 – Lucas Simón, Argentinian footballer
• 1986 – Anton Strålman, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1986 – Andrew Taylor, English footballer
• 1986 – Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
• 1987 – Stan, Greek singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Karen Carney, English footballer
• 1987 – Jakov Fak, Croatian-Slovenian biathlete
• 1987 – Rumi Hiiragi, Japanese actress
• 1987 – Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
• 1987 – Lee Wallace, Scottish footballer
• 1988 – Mustafa Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
• 1988 – Max Carver, American actor
• 1988 – Patryk Małecki, Polish footballer
• 1988 – Bodene Thompson, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1988 – Joanna Wang, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Tiffany, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation and Girls' Generation-TTS)
• 1989 – Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player
• 1989 – Tomoka Kurokawa, Japanese actress
• 1990 – Aledmys Díaz, Cuban baseball player
• 1990 – Jean Hugues Gregoire, Mauritian swimmer
• 1990 – Elton Jantjies, South African rugby player
• 1991 – Marco Puntoriere, Italian footballer
• 1992 – Austin Rivers, American basketball player
• 1993 – Álex Abrines, Spanish basketball player
• 1993 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
• 1994 – Sergeal Petersen, South African rugby player
• 1994 – Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer (S/mileage, Hello Pro Kenshūsei, and Shugo Chara Egg!)
• 1995 – Derrick Monasterio, Filipino actor, singer, and dancer
• 1996 – Katie Boulter, English tennis player
• 1998 – Khamani Griffin, American actor
• 1999 – Deimantė Kizalaitė, Lithuanian figure skater

Deaths[edit]

• 30 BC – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (b. 83 BC)
• 371 – Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop and saint (b. 283)
• 527 – Justin I, Byzantine emperor (b. 450)
• 919 – Dhuka al-Rumi, Abbasid governor of Egypt
• 946 – Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah, Abbasid vizier (b. 859)
• 1137 – Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
• 1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
• 1252 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian archbishop and explorer (b. 1180)
• 1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1341)
• 1457 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian author and educator (b. 1406)
• 1464 – Cosimo de' Medici, Italian ruler (b. 1386)
• 1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian and scholar (b. 1493)
• 1543 – Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1488)
• 1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish archbishop (b. 1490)
• 1580 – Albrecht Giese, Polish-German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
• 1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
• 1714 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (b. 1665)
• 1787 – Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1696)
• 1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1735)
• 1796 – Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet, English colonel and politician (b. 1720)
• 1798 – François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, French admiral (b. 1753)
• 1807 – John Walker, English actor, philologist, and lexicographer (b. 1732)
• 1812 – Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (b. 1763)
• 1851 – William Joseph Behr, German publicist (b. 1775)
• 1866 – John Ross, American tribal chief (b. 1790)
• 1903 – Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and scout (b. 1853)
• 1911 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (b. 1852)
• 1911 – Samuel Arza Davenport, American lawyer and politician (b. 1843)
• 1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian lawyer and journalist (b. 1856)
• 1922 – Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (b. 1856)
• 1929 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1938 – John Aasen, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1938 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter (b. 1862)
• 1943 – Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1921)
• 1944 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
• 1945 – Gyula Csortos, Hungarian actor (b. 1883)
• 1959 – Jean Behra, French race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1963 – Theodore Roethke, American author and poet (b. 1908)
• 1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
• 1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
• 1970 – Doris Fleeson, American journalist (b. 1901)
• 1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (b. 1882)
• 1973 – Walter Ulbricht, German politician (b. 1893)
• 1974 – Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (b. 1929)
• 1980 – Patrick Depailler, French race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1980 – Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 1982 – T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1933)
• 1989 – John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (b. 1937)
• 1990 – Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1897)
• 1996 – Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and politician, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
• 1996 – Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
• 1996 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
• 1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and surgeon (b. 1929)
• 1997 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-English actress (b. 1927)
• 1999 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bangladeshi−English author (b. 1897)
• 2003 – Guy Thys, Belgian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
• 2004 – Philip Abelson, American physicist and author (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Wim Boost, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter and sculptor (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Jason Rhoades, American sculptor (b. 1965)
• 2006 – Ferenc Szusza, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Iris Marion Young, American political scientist and activist (b. 1949)
• 2007 – Tommy Makem, Irish singer-songwriter and banjo player (The Clancy Brothers and Makem and Clancy) (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
• 2009 – Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican activist (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer (b. 1910)
• 2012 – Aldo Maldera, Italian footballer (b. 1953)
• 2012 – Keiko Tsushima, Japanese actress (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Ülkü Adatepe, youngest adopted daughter of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Chua Boon Huat, Malaysian field hockey player (b. 1980)
• 2013 – Mike Hinton, American guitarist (Rainforest Band) (b. 1956)
• 2013 – Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarusian footballer and manager (b. 1973)