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July 10 is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 174 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 48 BC – Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
- 138 – Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
- 645 – Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
- 988 – The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
- 1086 – King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants.
- 1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
- 1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
- 1499 – The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
- 1519 – Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
- 1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
- 1584 – William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
- 1645 – English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
- 1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1789 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
- 1806 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
- 1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
- 1832 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
- 1850 – U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming President upon Zachary Taylor's death.
- 1869 – Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
- 1877 – The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
- 1882 – War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
- 1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
- 1913 – The temperature in Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (57 °C), the highest recorded in the United States.
- 1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- 1925 – Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
- 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
- 1927 – Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
- 1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.
- 1940 – World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
- 1941 – Jedwabne pogrom: The massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
- 1942 – Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
- 1942 – World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
- 1946 – Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours.
- 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
- 1951 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
- 1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
- 1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people come to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.
- 1967 – Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1967 – New Zealand adopts decimal currency.
- 1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1973 – National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
- 1973 – John Paul Getty III, a grandson of the oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
- 1976 – The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
- 1976 – One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
- 1978 – ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
- 1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
- 1980 – Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
- 1985 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
- 1991 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
- 1991 – Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
- 1992 – In Miami, the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
- 1997 – In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
- 1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
- 1998 – Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
- 2000 – EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
- 2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
- 2005 – Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
- 2007 – Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
- 2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
- 2011 – Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sunk in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, leading to 122 deaths.
- 2015 – The opening ceremony for the 2015 Pan American Games takes place in Toronto.
Births
- 1419 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
- 1451 – James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
- 1509 – John Calvin, French pastor and theologian (d. 1564)
- 1517 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal (d. 1571)
- 1592 – Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist and historian (d. 1660)
- 1614 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, Irish-English politician (d. 1686)
- 1625 – Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)
- 1638 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter (d. 1685)
- 1666 – John Ernest Grabe, German theologian and academic (d. 1711)
- 1682 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1716)
- 1682 – Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, German missionary and linguist (d. 1719)
- 1723 – William Blackstone, English lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1780)
- 1736 – Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807)
- 1792 – George M. Dallas, American lawyer and politician, 11th Vice President of the United States (d. 1864)
- 1802 – Robert Chambers, Scottish geologist and publisher, co-founded Chambers Harrap (d. 1871)
- 1804 – Emma Smith, American religious leader (d. 1879)
- 1809 – Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1889)
- 1823 – Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1908)
- 1830 – Camille Pissarro, Danish-French painter (d. 1903)
- 1832 – Alvan Graham Clark, American astronomer (d. 1897)
- 1834 – James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American-English painter and illustrator (d. 1903)
- 1835 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (d. 1880)
- 1839 – Adolphus Busch, German brewer, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (d. 1913)
- 1856 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (d. 1943)
- 1864 – Austin Chapman, Australian businessman and politician, 4th Australian Minister for Defence (d. 1926)
- 1867 – Prince Maximilian of Baden (d. 1929)
- 1871 – Marcel Proust, French novelist, critic, and essayist (d. 1922)
- 1874 – Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
- 1875 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (d. 1955)
- 1878 – Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (d. 1943)
- 1883 – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (d. 1948)
- 1883 – Hugo Raudsepp, Estonian playwright and politician (d. 1952)
- 1888 – Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and set designer (d. 1978)
- 1888 – Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese evangelist, author, and activist (d. 1960)
- 1894 – Jimmy McHugh, American composer (d. 1969)
- 1895 – Carl Orff, German composer and educator (d. 1982)
- 1896 – Thérèse Casgrain, Canadian politician (d. 1981)
- 1897 – Legs Diamond, American gangster (d. 1931)
- 1897 – Karl Plagge, German general and engineer (d. 1957)
- 1898 – Renée Björling, Swedish actress (d. 1975)
- 1899 – John Gilbert, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1936)
- 1899 – Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
- 1900 – Mitchell Parish, Lithuanian-American songwriter (d. 1993)
- 1900 – Sampson Sievers, Russian monk and mystic (d. 1979)
- 1902 – Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1902 – Nicolás Guillén, Cuban poet, journalist, and activist (d. 1989)
- 1903 – Werner Best, German SS officer and jurist (d. 1989)
- 1903 – John Wyndham, English soldier and author (d. 1969)
- 1904 – Lili Damita, French-American actress and singer (d. 1994)
- 1905 – Mildred Benson, American journalist and author (d. 2002)
- 1905 – Thomas Gomez, American actor (d. 1971)
- 1905 – Wolfram Sievers, German physician (d. 1948)
- 1907 – Blind Boy Fuller, American singer and guitarist (d. 1941)
- 1909 – Donald Sinclair, English lieutenant and businessman (d. 1981)
- 1913 – Salvador Espriu, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1985)
- 1914 – Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (d. 1992)
- 1914 – Rempo Urip, Indonesian film director
- 1916 – Judith Jasmin, Canadian journalist (d. 1972)
- 1917 – Hugh Alexander, American baseball player and scout (d. 2000)
- 1917 – Don Herbert, American television host and producer (d. 2007)
- 1917 – Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (d. 1998)
- 1918 – James Aldridge, Australian-English journalist and author (d. 2015)
- 1918 – Fred Wacker, American race driver and engineer (d. 1998)
- 1919 – Pierre Gamarra, French author, poet, and critic (d. 2009)
- 1919 – Ian Wallace, English actor and singer (d. 2009)
- 1920 – David Brinkley, American journalist (d. 2003)
- 1920 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
- 1920 – Cyril Grant, English footballer (d. 2002)
- 1921 – Harvey Ball, American illustrator, created the Smiley (d. 2001)
- 1921 – Jeff Donnell, American actress (d. 1988)
- 1921 – Jake LaMotta, American boxer and actor
- 1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, co-founded the Special Olympics (d. 2009)
- 1922 – Jean Kerr, American author and playwright (d. 2003)
- 1922 – Herb McKenley, Jamaican sprinter (d. 2007)
- 1923 – John Bradley, American soldier (d. 1994)
- 1923 – Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian actress and producer (d. 2003)
- 1923 – G. A. Kulkarni, Indian author and academic (d. 1987)
- 1924 – Johnny Bach, American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
- 1924 – Bobo Brazil, American wrestler (d. 1998)
- 1925 – Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysian physician and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia
- 1926 – Fred Gwynne, American actor and singer (d. 1993)
- 1927 – Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician and academic
- 1927 – David Dinkins, American soldier and politician, 106th Mayor of New York City
- 1928 – Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (d. 1999)
- 1928 – Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentinian-Italian race car driver and businessman, founded De Tomaso (d. 2003)
- 1928 – Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli rabbi and scholar (d. 2010)
- 1929 – Winnie Ewing, Scottish lawyer and politician
- 1929 – George Clayton Johnson, American author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
- 1929 – Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Bruce Boa, Canadian-English actor (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Susan Cummings, German-American actress
- 1930 – Josephine Veasey, English soprano and actress
- 1931 – Nick Adams, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1968)
- 1931 – Jerry Herman, American composer and songwriter
- 1931 – Julian May, American author
- 1931 – Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1932 – Carlo Maria Abate, Italian race car driver
- 1933 – Jan DeGaetani, American soprano (d. 1989)
- 1933 – C.K. Yang, Taiwanese decathlete and pole vaulter (d. 2007)
- 1934 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor (d. 2012)
- 1935 – Tura Satana, American actress and dancer (d. 2011)
- 1935 – Wilson Tuckey, Australian politician
- 1935 – Wilson Whineray, New Zealand rugby player and businessman (d. 2012)
- 1936 – Herbert Boyer, American businessman, co-founded Genentech
- 1936 – Tunne Kelam, Estonian journalist and politician
- 1937 – Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (d. 2014)
- 1937 – Gun Svensson, Swedish politician
- 1938 – Paul Andreu, French architect, designed the Osaka Maritime Museum and the National Grand Theater of China
- 1938 – Lee Morgan, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1972)
- 1939 – Phil Kelly, Irish-English footballer and manager (d. 2012)
- 1939 – Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish political scientist, journalist and educator (d. 1999)
- 1939 – Mavis Staples, American singer (The Staple Singers)
- 1940 – Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, Indian-English economist and politician
- 1940 – Helen Donath, American soprano and actress
- 1940 – Brian Priestley, English pianist and composer (National Youth Jazz Orchestra)
- 1940 – Keith Stackpole, Australian cricketer
- 1941 – Jake Eberts, Canadian film producer (d. 2012)
- 1941 – David G. Hartwell, American anthologist, author, and critic (d. 2016)
- 1941 – Robert Pine, American actor and director
- 1941 – Ian Whitcomb, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1942 – Ronnie James Dio, American singer-songwriter and producer (Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven & Hell, and Elf) (d. 2010)
- 1942 – Pyotr Klimuk, Belarusian general, pilot, and astronaut
- 1942 – Sixto Rodriguez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1943 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and journalist (d. 1993)
- 1944 – K. S. Balachandran, Sri Lankan-Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1944 – Mick Grant, English racing motorcyclist
- 1944 – Norman Hammond, English archaeologist and academic
- 1945 – Ron Glass, American actor
- 1945 – Hal McRae, American baseball player and manager
- 1945 – John Motson, English sportscaster
- 1945 – Jean-Marie Poiré, French director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1945 – Virginia Wade, English tennis player and sportscaster
- 1946 – Sue Lyon, American actress
- 1947 – Arlo Guthrie, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1948 – Ronnie Cutrone, American painter (d. 2013)
- 1948 – Chico Resch, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
- 1949 – Anna Czerwińska, Polish mountaineer and author
- 1949 – Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
- 1949 – Greg Kihn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Greg Kihn Band)
- 1949 – Winston Rekert, Canadian actor and director (d. 2012)
- 1949 – John Whitehead, American singer-songwriter and producer (McFadden & Whitehead) (d. 2004)
- 1950 – Tony Baldry, English colonel, lawyer, and politician, British Minister of State for Agriculture
- 1950 – Prokopis Pavlopoulos, President of Greece, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister for the Interior
- 1951 – Phyllis Smith, American actress
- 1951 – Cheryl Wheeler, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1952 – Kim Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Max Webster)
- 1952 – Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician
- 1953 – Rik Emmett, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Triumph and Strung-Out Troubadours)
- 1953 – Zoogz Rift, American guitarist and composer (d. 2011)
- 1954 – Tommy Bowden, American football player and coach
- 1954 – Andre Dawson, American baseball player
- 1954 – Neil Tennant, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Pet Shop Boys and Electronic)
- 1955 – Nic Dakin, English educator and politician
- 1956 – Tom McClintock, American lawyer and politician
- 1957 – Cindy Sheehan, American activist
- 1957 – Marco Sison, Filipino singer and actor
- 1958 – Béla Fleck, American banjo player and songwriter (Sparrow Quartet, New Grass Revival, Strength in Numbers, and Trio!)
- 1958 – Fiona Shaw, Irish actress and director
- 1959 – Ellen Kuras, American director and cinematographer
- 1959 – Sandy West, American singer-songwriter and drummer (The Runaways) (d. 2006)
- 1960 – Jeff Bergman, American voice actor
- 1960 – Seth Godin, American theorist and author
- 1961 – Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
- 1963 – Ian Lougher, Welsh motorcycle racer
- 1964 – Martin Laurendeau, Canadian tennis player and coach
- 1964 – Urban Meyer, American football player and coach
- 1964 – Wilfried Peeters, Belgian cyclist
- 1965 – Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
- 1965 – Alec Mapa, American actor
- 1965 – Scott McCarron, American golfer
- 1965 – Ken Mellons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1966 – Gina Bellman, New Zealand-English actress
- 1966 – Clive Efford, English politician
- 1966 – Johnny Grunge, American wrestler (d. 2006)
- 1966 – Christian Stangl, Austrian skier and mountaineer
- 1966 – Anna Bråkenhielm, Swedish businessleader
- 1967 – Rebekah Del Rio, American singer-songwriter
- 1967 – Tom Meents, American monster truck driver
- 1967 – Silvetty Montilla, Brazilian drag queen performer
- 1967 – Ikki Sawamura, Japanese model, actor, and presenter
- 1967 – Gillian Tett, English journalist and author
- 1967 – John Yoo, South Korean-American lawyer, author, and educator
- 1968 – Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian runner
- 1968 – Jonathan Gilbert, American actor
- 1969 – Jamie Glover, English actor
- 1969 – Gale Harold, American actor
- 1969 – Alexandra Hedison, American actress
- 1969 – Jonas Kaufmann, German tenor and actor
- 1970 – Adam Hills, Australian comedian and actor
- 1970 – Gary LeVox, American singer-songwriter (Rascal Flatts)
- 1970 – Jason Orange, English singer-songwriter and dancer (Take That)
- 1970 – John Simm, English actor
- 1970 – Helen Sjöholm, Swedish singer and actress
- 1971 – Adam Foote, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1971 – Gregory Goodridge, Barbadian footballer and coach
- 1972 – Peter Serafinowicz, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1972 – Sofía Vergara, Colombian-American actress and producer
- 1972 – Tilo Wolff, German-Swiss singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (Lacrimosa)
- 1973 – Annie Mumolo, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
- 1974 – Imelda May, Irish singer-songwriter
- 1975 – Andrew Firestone, American businessman
- 1975 – Brendan Gaughan, American race car driver
- 1975 – Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1975 – Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor
- 1975 – Richard Westbrook, English race car driver
- 1976 – Edmílson, Brazilian footballer
- 1976 – Elijah Blue Allman, American singer and guitarist (Deadsy)
- 1976 – Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
- 1976 – Adrian Grenier, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1976 – Brendon Lade, Australian footballer and coach
- 1976 – Lars Ricken, German footballer
- 1977 – Ahmed Abdi Godane, Somali militant leader (d. 2014)
- 1977 – Schapelle Corby, Australian-Indonesian drug smuggler
- 1977 – Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor and singer
- 1977 – Ahmed Abdi Godane, Somali militant leader (d. 2014)
- 1977 – Jesse Lacey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Brand New and Taking Back Sunday)
- 1977 – Sinan Tuzcu, Turkish actor
- 1977 – Gwendoline Yeo, Singaporean-American actress
- 1979 – Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer
- 1979 – Jorun Marie Kvernberg, Norwegian Hardingfele player
- 1980 – Thomas Ian Nicholas, American actor, singer, and producer
- 1980 – Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Elfonía and Stream of Passion)
- 1980 – Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
- 1980 – Claudia Leitte, Brazilian singer-songwriter
- 1980 – James Rolfe, American actor, director, and producer
- 1980 – Jessica Simpson, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
- 1980 – Han Eun-jung, South Korean actress
- 1981 – Aleksandar Tunchev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1982 – Alex Arrowsmith, American guitarist and producer (The Shaky Hands)
- 1982 – Juliya Chernetsky, Ukrainian-American television host
- 1982 – Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
- 1982 – Jeffrey Walker, Australian actor and director
- 1983 – Giuseppe De Feudis, Italian footballer
- 1983 – Matthew Egan, Australian footballer
- 1983 – Kim Heechul, South Korean singer and actor (Super Junior and Super Junior-T)
- 1983 – Joelson José Inácio, Brazilian footballer
- 1983 – Doug Kramer, Filipino basketball player
- 1983 – Gemma Sanderson, Australian model
- 1983 – Anthony Watmough, Australian rugby player
- 1984 – María Julia Mantilla, Peruvian model, Miss World 2004
- 1984 – Nikolaos Mitrou, Greek footballer
- 1984 – Manjari Phadnis, Indian actress
- 1984 – Kei Tanaka, Japanese actor
- 1985 – Park Chu-young, South Korean footballer
- 1985 – B. J. Crombeen, American ice hockey player
- 1985 – Mario Gómez, German footballer
- 1986 – Simenona Martinez, American actress
- 1988 – Antonio Brown, American football player
- 1988 – Heather Hemmens, American actress, director, and producer
- 1990 – Sung Joon, South Korean model and actor
- 1990 – Eunan O'Kane, Irish footballer
- 1990 – Adam Reynolds, Australian rugby player
- 1990 – Nataline Sarkisyan, American leukemia patient, figure in health care reform debate (d. 2007)
- 1991 – María Chacón, Mexican actress and singer (Play)
- 1991 – Atsuko Maeda, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48)
- 1992 – Larissa Marolt, Austrian model and actress
- 1992 – Hitomi Miyake, Japanese idol (Idoling!!!)
- 1992 – Angel Haze, American rapper
- 1993 – Carlon Jeffery, American actor
- 1995 – Dor Hugi, Israeli footballer
- 1997 – Rena Kato, Japanese singer, dancer, model, and actress (AKB48)
- 1998 – Haley Pullos, American actress
Deaths
- 138 – Hadrian, Roman emperor (b. 76)
- 645 – Soga no Iruka, Japanese politician
- 649 – Emperor Taizong of Tang (b. 598)
- 1103 – Eric I of Denmark (b. 1060)
- 1290 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
- 1460 – Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English commander and politician, Lord High Constable of England (b. 1402)
- 1461 – Stephen Thomas of Bosnia (b. 1412)
- 1480 – René of Anjou (b. 1410)
- 1559 – Henry II of France (b. 1519)
- 1584 – William the Silent, German-Dutch son of William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (b. 1533)
- 1590 – Charles II, Archduke of Austria (b. 1540)
- 1594 – Paolo Bellasio, Italian organist and composer (b. 1554)
- 1603 – Joan Terès i Borrull, Spanish archbishop and academic (b. 1538)
- 1621 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, French commander (b. 1571)
- 1653 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
- 1680 – Louis Moréri, French priest and scholar (b. 1643)
- 1683 – François Eudes de Mézeray, French historian and author (b. 1610)
- 1686 – John Fell, English bishop and academic (b. 1625)
- 1776 – Richard Peters, English lawyer and minister (b. 1704)
- 1794 – Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French general (d. 1754)
- 1806 – George Stubbs, English painter and academic (b. 1724)
- 1848 – Karoline Jagemann, German actress and singer (b. 1777)
- 1851 – Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (b. 1787)
- 1863 – Clement Clarke Moore, American author and educator (b. 1779)
- 1881 – Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect and academic (b. 1812)
- 1884 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
- 1908 – Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (b. 1839)
- 1920 – John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Sri Lankan-English admiral (b. 1841)
- 1929 – Ève Lavallière, French actress (b. 1866)
- 1941 – Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (Red Hot Peppers) (b. 1890)
- 1950 – Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer (b. 1882)
- 1952 – Rued Langgaard, Danish organist and composer (b. 1893)
- 1954 – Calogero Vizzini, Italian mob boss (b. 1877)
- 1956 – Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1960 – Sæbjørn Buttedahl, Norwegian actor and sculptor (b. 1876)
- 1962 – Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and politician (b. 1875)
- 1963 – Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1893)
- 1970 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic academic and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1908)
- 1971 – Laurent Dauthuille, French boxer (b. 1924)
- 1971 – George Kenner, German-American painter and illustrator (b. 1888)
- 1972 – Lovie Austin, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1887)
- 1978 – Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
- 1978 – John D. Rockefeller III, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Asia Society (b. 1906)
- 1979 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
- 1980 – Joseph Krumgold, American author and screenwriter (b. 1908)
- 1981 – Ken McElroy, American murder victim (b. 1936)
- 1985 – Fernando Pereira, Dutch photographer (b. 1950)
- 1986 – Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1940)
- 1987 – John Hammond, American record producer, critic, and activist (b. 1910)
- 1989 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor and singer (b. 1908)
- 1993 – Ruth Krauss, American author and poet (b. 1901)
- 1993 – Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
- 1995 – Mehmet Ali Aybar, Turkish lawyer and politician (b. 1908)
- 1996 – Eno Raud, Estonian author (b. 1928)
- 2000 – Vakkom Majeed, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1909)
- 2000 – Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
- 2002 – Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
- 2002 – Evangelos Florakis, Greek general (b. 1943)
- 2002 – Laurence Janifer, American author (b. 1933)
- 2003 – Winston Graham, English author (b. 1908)
- 2003 – Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, German-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1902)
- 2004 – Pati Behrs, Russian-American ballerina and actress (b. 1922)
- 2005 – A. J. Quinnell, English author (b. 1940)
- 2005 – Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
- 2005 – Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio host (b. 1955)
- 2006 – Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel leader (b. 1965)
- 2007 – Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Pakistani soldier (b. 1951)
- 2007 – Doug Marlette, American cartoonist and author (b. 1949)
- 2007 – Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese diplomat (b. 1944)
- 2008 – Hiroaki Aoki, Japanese-American wrestler and businessman, founded Benihana (b. 1938)
- 2008 – Mike Souchak, American golfer (b. 1927)
- 2011 – Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano and educator (b. 1921)
- 2011 – Roland Petit, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Dolphy, Filipino actor, singer, and producer (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Lol Coxhill, English saxophonist (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Maria Cole, American singer (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Peter Kyros, American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Berthe Meijer, German-Dutch journalist and author (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Fritz Langanke, German lieutenant (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Viktor Suslin, Russian-German composer (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Philip Caldwell, American businessman (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Józef Gara, Polish poet and linguist (b. 1929)
- 2013 – Concha García Campoy, Spanish journalist (b. 1958)
- 2013 – Caroline Duby Glassman, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Ku Ok-hee, South Korean golfer (b. 1956)
- 2013 – Gokulananda Mahapatra, Indian author and academic (b. 1922)
- 2014 – Robert C. Broomfield, American lawyer and judge (b. 1933)
- 2014 – Juozas Kazickas, Lithuanian-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1918)
- 2014 – Paul G. Risser, American ecologist and academic (b. 1939)
- 2014 – Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1912)
- 2014 – Gloria Schweigerdt, American baseball player (b. 1934)
- 2015 – Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor and director (b. 1944)
- 2015 – Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor and screenwriter (b. 1932)
- 2015 – Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor and actor (b. 1926)
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