51 Events
104 Births
71 Deaths
- 2017 A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard. ↗
- 2000 The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon. ↗
- 1991 Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high. ↗
- 1989 Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard. ↗
- 1982 Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits. ↗
- 1981 The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. ↗
- 1977 Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television. ↗
- 1975 Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format. ↗
- 1971 The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. ↗
- 1971 The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades. ↗
- 1971 Allegheny Airlines Flight 485 crashes on approach to Tweed New Haven Airport in New Haven, Connecticut, killing 28 of 31 aboard. ↗
- 1967 Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem. ↗
- 1965 The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples. ↗
- 1962 The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books. ↗
- 1955 Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films. ↗
- 1948 Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place. ↗
- 1948 Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state. ↗
- 1946 The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of World War II. ↗
- 1945 King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II. ↗
- 1944 World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war. ↗
- 1942 World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory. ↗
- 1942 World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska. ↗
- 1940 King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later. ↗
- 1938 The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight. ↗
- 1938 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred thousand to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed. ↗
- 1929 The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence. ↗
- 1919 Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people. ↗
- 1917 World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops. ↗
- 1906 Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland. ↗
- 1905 Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year. ↗
- 1899 American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas. ↗
- 1892 Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson. ↗
- 1880 War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign). ↗
- 1866 One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Canada East. ↗
- 1862 The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade. ↗
- 1832 The Great Reform Act of England and Wales receives royal assent. ↗
- 1832 Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada. ↗
- 1810 The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina. ↗
- 1800 David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba. ↗
- 1788 French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops. ↗
- 1776 Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence. ↗
- 1692 Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured. ↗
- 1654 Louis XIV is crowned King of France. ↗
- 1640 Corpus de Sang in Barcelona: Catalan reapers rioted against Spanish Royal soldiers and officers, killing the Viceroy of Catalonia, Dalmau de Queralt. Escalation of hostilities between the Principality of Catalonia and the Spanish Monarchy, leading to the Reapers' War. ↗
- 1628 The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law. ↗
- 1494 Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries. ↗
- 1420 Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli. ↗
- 1099 First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins. ↗
- 1002 Henry II, a cousin of Emperor Otto III, is elected and crowned King of Germany. ↗
- 879 Pope John VIII recognises the Duchy of Croatia under Duke Branimir as an independent state. ↗
- 421 Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire). ↗
- 1997 David Montgomery, American football player ↗
- 1996 Christian McCaffrey, American football player ↗
- 1993 George Ezra, English singer-songwriter ↗
- 1993 Swae Lee, American rapper ↗
- 1992 Jordan Clarkson, Filipino-American basketball player ↗
- 1991 Fetty Wap, American rapper, singer, and songwriter ↗
- 1991 Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress ↗
- 1990 Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, and model ↗
- 1988 Michael Cera, Canadian actor and musician ↗
- 1978 Bill Hader, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter ↗
- 1975 Allen Iverson, American basketball player ↗
- 1974 Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host ↗
- 1970 Cafu, Brazilian footballer ↗
- 1967 Dave Navarro, American musician ↗
- 1965 Damien Hirst, English painter and art collector ↗
- 1965 Mick Foley, American wrestler ↗
- 1962 Lance Reddick, American actor (died 2023) ↗
- 1959 Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States, 50th Governor of Indiana ↗
- 1958 Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (died 2016) ↗
- 1957 Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer, composer, and record producer. ↗
- 1954 Louise Erdrich, American novelist and poet ↗
- 1952 Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor ↗
- 1952 Orhan Pamuk – Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ↗
- 1947 Thurman Munson, American baseball player (died 1979) ↗
- 1946 Zbigniew Seifert, Polish musician (died 1979) ↗
- 1945 Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian lawyer and politician, 26th Chancellor of Austria ↗
- 1943 Nikki Giovanni, American poet, writer and activist (died 2024) ↗
- 1943 "Superstar" Billy Graham, American wrestler (died 2023) ↗
- 1941 Lady Elizabeth Shakerley, British party planner, writer and socialite (died 2020) ↗
- 1940 Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor ↗
- 1940 Ronald Pickup, English actor (died 2021) ↗
- 1939 Yuli Turovsky, Russian-Canadian cellist, conductor and educator (died 2013) ↗
- 1938 Ian St John, Scottish international footballer and manager (died 2021) ↗
- 1936 Bert Sugar, American author and boxing historian (died 2012) ↗
- 1936 Pippo Baudo, Italian television presenter (died 2025) ↗
- 1935 Harry Crews, American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist (died 2012) ↗
- 1932 Per Maurseth, Norwegian historian, academic, and politician (died 2013) ↗
- 1931 Virginia McKenna, English actress and author ↗
- 1929 John Turner, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2020) ↗
- 1928 James Ivory, American director, producer, and screenwriter ↗
- 1927 Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (died 2014) ↗
- 1927 Herbert R. Axelrod, American tropical fish expert, publisher of pet books, and entrepreneur (died 2017) ↗
- 1926 Jean-Noël Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2020) ↗
- 1925 Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine publisher and executive (died 2017) ↗
- 1923 Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (died 2000) ↗
- 1920 Georges Marchais, French mechanic and politician (died 1997) ↗
- 1917 Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (died 2000) ↗
- 1917 Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (died 1995) ↗
- 1912 Jacques Hélian, French bandleader (died 1986) ↗
- 1911 Brooks Stevens, American engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile (died 1995) ↗
- 1910 Arthur Gardner, American actor and producer (died 2014) ↗
- 1910 Til Kiwe, German actor and screenwriter (died 1995) ↗
- 1910 Mike Sebastian, American football player and coach (died 1989) ↗
- 1910 Bradford Washburn, American mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer (died 2007) ↗
- 1910 Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer (died 1990) ↗
- 1910 Bluey, Australian cattle dog, second-oldest recorded dog (died 1939) ↗
- 1909 Virginia Apgar, American anesthesiologist and pediatrician, developed the Apgar test (died 1974) ↗
- 1909 Peter W. Rodino, American lawyer, and politician (died 2005) ↗
- 1909 Jessica Tandy, English-American actress (died 1994) ↗
- 1907 Sigvard Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (died 2002) ↗
- 1905 James J. Braddock, American world heavyweight boxing champion (died 1974) ↗
- 1902 Georges Van Parys, French composer (died 1971) ↗
- 1902 Herman B Wells, American banker, author, and academic (died 2000) ↗
- 1900 Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (died 1963) ↗
- 1899 Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author and critic (died 1973) ↗
- 1897 George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (died 1970) ↗
- 1896 Douglas Campbell, American lieutenant and pilot (died 1990) ↗
- 1896 Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986) ↗
- 1896 Imre Nagy, Hungarian soldier and politician, 44th Prime Minister of Hungary (died 1958) ↗
- 1894 Alexander P. de Seversky, Georgian-American pilot and engineer, co-designed the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (died 1974) ↗
- 1893 Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater and architect (died 1938) ↗
- 1892 Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1975) ↗
- 1890 Karl Lashley, American psychologist and behaviorist (died 1958) ↗
- 1888 Clarence DeMar, American runner and educator (died 1958) ↗
- 1886 Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (died 1972) ↗
- 1884 Ester Claesson, Swedish landscape architect (died 1931) ↗
- 1883 Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and scholar (died 1948) ↗
- 1879 Knud Rasmussen, Danish anthropologist and explorer (died 1933) ↗
- 1879 Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer and academic (died 1963) ↗
- 1877 Roelof Klein, Dutch-American rower and engineer (died 1960) ↗
- 1868 Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect (died 1928) ↗
- 1863 Bones Ely, American baseball player and manager (died 1952) ↗
- 1862 Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1947) ↗
- 1861 Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist (died 1942) ↗
- 1851 Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (died 1922) ↗
- 1848 Paul Gauguin – French painter and sculptor (died 1903) ↗
- 1847 George Washington Ball, American legislator from Iowa (died 1915) ↗
- 1845 Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1930) ↗
- 1840 Carlota of Mexico (died 1927) ↗
- 1837 Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (died 1903) ↗
- 1831 Amelia Edwards, English journalist and author (died 1892) ↗
- 1811 James Young Simpson, Scottish obstetrician (died 1870) ↗
- 1778 Beau Brummell, English cricketer and fashion designer (died 1840) ↗
- 1770 Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1828) ↗
- 1761 John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (died 1821) ↗
- 1757 Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (died 1806) ↗
- 1702 Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (died 1761) ↗
- 1687 Gaetano Berenstadt, Italian actor and singer (died 1734) ↗
- 1561 John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count and military theorist (died 1623) ↗
- 1529 Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and jurist (died 1615) ↗
- 1502 John III of Portugal (died 1557) ↗
- 1422 Federico da Montefeltro, Italian condottiero (died 1482) ↗
- 1402 Ichijō Kaneyoshi, Japanese noble (died 1481) ↗
- 1003 Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia (died 1048) ↗
- 2025 Uriah Rennie, English Association Football Referee (born 1959) ↗
- 2024 William Anders, American astronaut and lunar explorer (born 1933) ↗
- 2023 The Iron Sheik, Iranian-American wrestler and actor (born 1942) ↗
- 2015 Christopher Lee, English actor (born 1922) ↗
- 2013 Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1928) ↗
- 2013 Richard Ramirez, American serial killer and sex offender (born 1960) ↗
- 2012 Phillip V. Tobias, South African paleontologist and academic (born 1925) ↗
- 2006 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant (born 1966) ↗
- 2002 Signe Hasso, Swedish-American actress (born 1915) ↗
- 2001 Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (born 1907) ↗
- 2001 Betty Neels, English nurse and author (born 1910) ↗
- 1995 Hsuan Hua, Chinese monk and educator (born 1918) ↗
- 1992 Bill France Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (born 1909) ↗
- 1987 Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (born 1940) ↗
- 1985 Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (born 1906) ↗
- 1980 Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (born 1883) ↗
- 1980 Philip Guston, Canadian-American painter and educator (born 1913) ↗
- 1980 Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (born 1891) ↗
- 1978 Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897) ↗
- 1970 E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (born 1879) ↗
- 1968 Dan Duryea, American actor and singer (born 1907) ↗
- 1967 Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1909) ↗
- 1967 Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (born 1893) ↗
- 1966 Jean Arp – German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (born 1886) ↗
- 1965 Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (born 1921) ↗
- 1956 John Willcock, Australian politician, 15th Premier of Western Australia (born 1879) ↗
- 1954 Alan Turing – English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1912) ↗
- 1945 Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher and academic (born 1870) ↗
- 1942 Alan Blumlein, English engineer (born 1903) ↗
- 1937 Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (born 1911) ↗
- 1936 Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (born 1875) ↗
- 1933 Dragutin Domjanić, Croatian lawyer, judge, and poet (born 1875) ↗
- 1932 John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (born 1856) ↗
- 1927 Archie Birkin, English motorcycle racer (born 1905) ↗
- 1927 Edmund James Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Quebec (born 1847) ↗
- 1924 William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (born 1847) ↗
- 1921 Patrick Maher, executed Irish republican (born 1889) ↗
- 1921 Edmond Foley, executed Irish republican (born 1897) ↗
- 1916 Émile Faguet, French author and critic (born 1847) ↗
- 1915 Charles Reed Bishop, American banker and politician, founded the First Hawaiian Bank (born 1822) ↗
- 1911 Maurice Rouvier, French politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1842) ↗
- 1896 Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (born 1829) ↗
- 1879 William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist and academic (born 1836) ↗
- 1866 Chief Seattle, American tribal chief (born 1780) ↗
- 1863 Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Latin American liberator (born 1790) ↗
- 1861 Patrick Brontë, Anglo-Irish priest and author (born 1777) ↗
- 1859 David Cox, English painter (born 1783) ↗
- 1854 Charles Baudin, French admiral (born 1792) ↗
- 1853 Norbert Provencher, Canadian missionary and bishop (born 1787) ↗
- 1843 Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet and author (born 1770) ↗
- 1840 Frederick William III of Prussia (born 1770) ↗
- 1826 Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1787) ↗
- 1810 Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver and etcher (born 1765) ↗
- 1792 Benjamin Tupper, American general and surveyor (born 1738) ↗
- 1779 William Warburton, English bishop and critic (born 1698) ↗
- 1740 Alexander Spotswood, Moroccan-American colonial and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (born 1676) ↗
- 1711 Henry Dodwell, Irish scholar and theologian (born 1641) ↗
- 1660 George II Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania (born 1621) ↗
- 1618 Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1577) ↗
- 1594 Rodrigo Lopez, physician of Queen Elizabeth I (born 1525) ↗
- 1492 Casimir IV Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 (born 1427) ↗
- 1394 Anne of Bohemia, English queen (born 1366) ↗
- 1358 Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shōgun (born 1305) ↗
- 1341 An-Nasir Muhammad, Egyptian sultan (born 1285) ↗
- 1337 William I, Count of Hainaut (born 1286) ↗
- 1329 Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (born 1274) ↗
- 951 Lu Wenji, Chinese chancellor (born 876) ↗
- 940 Qian Hongzun, heir apparent of Wuyue (born 925) ↗
- 929 Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (born 877) ↗
- 862 Al-Muntasir, Abbasid caliph (born 837) ↗
- 555 Vigilius, first pope of the Byzantine Papacy (born 500) ↗