Events

30 BC - After the successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus, eldest son of Mark Antony, and Caesarion, the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
20 BC - Ludi Volcanalici are held within the temple precinct of Vulcan, and used by Augustus to mark the treaty with Parthia and the return of the legionary standards that had been lost at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.
79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
406 - Gothic king Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by Roman general Stilicho and 12,000 "barbarians" are incorporated into the Roman army or sold as slaves.
476 - Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops.
634 - Abu Bakr dies at Medina and is succeeded by Umar I who becomes the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
1244 - Siege of Jerusalem: The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to Khwarezmian Empire.
1268 - Battle of Tagliacozzo: The army of Charles of Anjou defeats the Ghibellines supporters of Conradin of Hohenstaufen marking the fall of the Hohenstaufen family from the Imperial and Sicilian thrones, and leading to the new chapter of Angevin domination in Southern Italy.
1305 - Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield in London.
1328 - Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
1382 - Siege of Moscow: The Golden Horde led by khan Tokhtamysh lays siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
1514 - The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty.
1521 - Christian II of Denmark is deposed as king of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent.
1541 - French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1572 - French Wars of Religion Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
1592 - Japanese invasions of Korea: The Yeongwon Castle is besieged by the Japanese Fourth Division led by It0 Suketaka.
1595 - Long Turkish War: Wallachian prince Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Culugureni and achieves a tactical victory.
1600 - Battle of Gifu Castle: The eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the western Japanese clans loyal to Toyotomi Hideyori, leading to the destruction of Gifu Castle and serving as a prelude to the Battle of Sekigahara.
1614 - Fettmilch Uprising: Jews are expelled from Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, following the plundering of the Judengasse.
1614 - The University of Groningen is established in the Dutch Republic.
1628 - George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton.
1650 - Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
1655 - Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1703 - Edirne event: Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.
1765 - Beginning of Burmese-Siamese War.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1784 - Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
1799 - Napoleon I of France leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.
1813 - At the Battle of Großbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
1831 - Nat Turner's slave rebellion is suppressed.
1839 - The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
1858 - The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England. It is 'Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways'.
1864 - The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
1866 - Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1873 - Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
1896 - Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila (actual date and location is disputed).
1898 - The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
1901 - 600 American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
1904 - The automobile tire chain is patented.
1914 - World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
1914 - World War I: Battle of Mons: The British Army begins withdrawal.
1921 - British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
1923 - Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1927 - Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
1929 - Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1938 - English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.
1939 - World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1942 - World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
1943 - World War II: Kharkiv is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
1944 - World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
1944 - World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1944 - Freckleton Air Disaster: A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
1945 - Soviet-Japanese War: The USSR State Defense Committee issues Decree no. 9898cc "About Receiving, Accommodation, and Labor Utilization of the Japanese Army Prisoners of War".
1946 - Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
1948 - World Council of Churches is formed.
1954 - First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1958 - Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1970 - Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
1973 - A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
1977 - The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
1982 - Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
1985 - Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1987 - The American male basketball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis. The final score was 120–115 and triggered changes in this sport basis in USA, resulting in the "Dream Team".
1989 - Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
1989 - 1,645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
1990 - Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
1990 - Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 - West Germany and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
1991 - Tim Berners-Lee opens the World Wide Web (WWW) to new users.
1993 - The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.
1994 - Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
1996 - Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
2000 - Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
2006 - Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Pliklopil, after eight years of captivity.
2007 - The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2010 - Manila hostage crisis, in which eight hostages were killed.
2011 - A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $200 million $300 million USD.
2011 - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War.
2012 - A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others.
2013 - A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, kills 31 people.

Births

1486 - Sigismund von Herberstein, Slovenian historian and diplomat (died 1566)
1524 - François Hotman, French lawyer and jurist (died 1590)
1623 - Stanislaw Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer, theologian, and historian (died 1675)
1724 - Abraham Yates, Jr., American lawyer and civil servant (died 1796)
1741 - Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, French admiral and explorer (died 1788)
1754 - Louis XVI of France (died 1793)
1757 - Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (died 1775)
1769 - Georges Cuvier, French biologist and academic (died 1832)
1783 - William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge (died 1852)
1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander (died 1819)
1805 - Anton von Schmerling, Austrian judge and politician (died 1893)
1814 - James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop (died 1877)
1829 - Moritz Cantor, German mathematician and historian (died 1920)
1836 - Marie Henriette of Austria (died 1902)
1843 - William Southam, Canadian publisher (died 1932)
1846 - Alexander Milne Calder, Scottish-American sculptor (died 1923)
1847 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (died 1927)
1849 - William Ernest Henley, English poet and critic (died 1903)
1852 - Radha Gobinda Kar, Indian physician and philanthropist (died 1918)
1852 - Clímaco Calderón, Colombian lawyer and politician, 15th President of Colombia (died 1913)
1852 - Arnold Toynbee, English economist and historian (died 1883)
1854 - Moritz Moszkowski, Polish-German pianist and composer (died 1925)
1864 - Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek lawyer, jurist, and politician, 93rd Prime Minister of Greece (died 1936)
1867 - Edgar de Wahl, Ukrainian-Estonian linguist and academic (died 1948)
1868 - Edgar Lee Masters, American lawyer, author, poet, and playwright (died 1950)
1872 - Tanguturi Prakasam, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Andhra (died 1957)
1875 - William Eccles, English physicist and engineer (died 1966)
1875 - Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter and sculptor (died 1946)
1877 - István Medgyaszay, Hungarian architect and academic (died 1959)
1880 - Alexander Grin, Russian sailor and author (died 1932)
1883 - Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1953)
1884 - Will Cuppy, American author and critic (died 1949)
1884 - Ogden L. Mills, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 50th United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1937)
1890 - Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday (died 1971)
1891 - Roy Agnew, Australian pianist and composer (died 1944)
1894 - John Auden, English solicitor, deputy coroner and a territorial soldier (died 1959)
1897 - Henry F. Pringle, American historian and journalist (died 1958)
1900 - Ernst Krenek, Austrian-American composer and educator (died 1991)
1900 - Malvina Reynolds, American singer-songwriter and activist (died 1978)
1901 - Guy Bush, American baseball player and manager (died 1985)
1901 - John Sherman Cooper, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 2nd United States Ambassador to East Germany (died 1991)
1903 - William Primrose, Scottish viola player and educator (died 1982)
1905 - Ernie Bushmiller, American cartoonist (died 1982)
1905 - Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor (died 1951)
1908 - Hannah Frank, Scottish sculptor and illustrator (died 2008)
1909 - Syd Buller, English cricketer and umpire (died 1970)
1909 - Leila Danette, American actress (died 2012)
1910 - Lonny Frey, American baseball player and soldier (died 2009)
1910 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager (died 1979)
1911 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski-jumper (died 1998)
1912 - Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer (died 1996)
1912 - Igor Troubetzkoy, Russian aristocrat and racing driver (died 2008)
1917 - Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1985)
1919 - Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani mathematician and theorist (died 1984)
1921 - Kenneth Arrow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1921 - Sam Cook, English cricketer and umpire (died 1996)
1922 - Nazik Al-Malaika, Iraqi poet and academic (died 2007)
1922 - Jean Darling, American actress and singer (died 2015)
1922 - George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2009)
1923 - Edgar F. Codd, English-American computer scientist and programmer (died 2003)
1924 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author, screenwriter, and director (died 2005)
1924 - Robert Solow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1925 - Robert Mulligan, American director and producer (died 2008)
1926 - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist and academic (died 2006)
1926 - Gyula Hernádi, Hungarian author and screenwriter (died 2005)
1927 - Dick Bruna, Dutch author and illustrator
1927 - Allan Kaprow, American painter and author (died 2006)
1927 - Martial Solal, Algerian-French pianist and composer
1928 - Marian Seldes, American actress and singer (died 2014)
1929 - Vladimir Beekman, Estonian poet and translator (died 2009)
1929 - Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer (died 1997)
1929 - Vera Miles, American model and actress, Miss Kansas 1948
1930 - Michel Rocard, French civil servant and politician, 160th Prime Minister of France
1931 - Barbara Eden, American actress
1931 - Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 - Houari Boumediene, Algerian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Algeria (died 1978)
1932 - Enos Nkala, Zimbabwean soldier and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence (died 2013)
1932 - Mark Russell, American comedian, singer, and pianist
1933 - Robert Curl, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 - Pete Wilson, American commander and politician, 36th Governor of California
1934 - Sonny Jurgensen, American football player and sportscaster
1935 - Roy Strong, English historian, curator, and author
1936 - Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (died 2001)
1938 - Giacomo Bini, Italian priest and missionary (died 2014)
1938 - Roger Greenaway, English singer-songwriter and producer (The Kestrels, Brotherhood of Man, and The Pipkins)
1940 - Galen Rowell, American mountaineer and photographer (died 2002)
1940 - Richard Sanders, American actor and screenwriter
1941 - Jim Ford, American singer-songwriter (died 2007)
1941 - Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve, Irish philosopher, academic, and politician
1942 - Letta Mbulu, South African-American singer and actress
1943 - Dale Campbell-Savours, Baron Campbell-Savours, English businessman and politician
1943 - Nelson DeMille, American lieutenant and author
1943 - Peter Lilley, English politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
1943 - Pino Presti, Italian bass player, composer, conductor, and producer
1944 - Saira Banu, Indian actress
1944 - Antonia Novello, Puerto Rican-American physician and admiral, 14th Surgeon General of the United States
1945 - Rita Pavone, Italian singer and actress
1945 - Bob Peck, English actor (died 1999)
1945 - Rayfield Wright, American football player and coach
1946 - Keith Moon, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (The Who and Plastic Ono Band) (died 1978)
1947 - Rex Allen, Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 - David Robb, English-Scottish actor
1947 - Willy Russell, English playwright and composer
1947 - Terje Rypdal, Norwegian guitarist and songwriter (The Vanguards)
1948 - Atef Bseiso, Palestinian intelligence officer (died 1992)
1948 - Rudy Ruettiger, American football player
1948 - Lev Zeleny, Russian physicist and academic
1949 - William Lane Craig, American apologist and theologian
1949 - Geoff Capes, English shot putter and strongman
1949 - Vicky Leandros, Greek singer and politician
1949 - Shelley Long, American actress
1949 - Rick Springfield, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Zoot)
1950 - Alan Tam, Hong Kong singer and actor (The Wynners)
1951 - Allan Bristow, American basketball player and coach
1951 - Jimi Jamison, American singer-songwriter (Survivor) (died 2014)
1951 - Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen cleric and politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic (died 2004)
1951 - Queen Noor of Jordan
1952 - Santillana, Spanish footballer
1952 - Georgios Paraschos, Greek footballer and manager
1953 - Bobby G, English singer-songwriter (Bucks Fizz)
1953 - Kheira Bouziane, French politician
1954 - Charles Busch, American actor and screenwriter
1956 - Andreas Floer, German mathematician and academic (died 1991)
1956 - Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian educator and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture
1956 - Robert L. Manahan, American actor (died 2000)
1956 - Skipp Sudduth, American actor and director
1957 - Tasos Mitropoulos, Greek footballer and politician
1958 - Julio Franco, Dominican baseball player and manager
1958 - Joanna Storm, American porn actress
1959 - Edwyn Collins, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Orange Juice)
1959 - George Kalovelonis, Greek tennis player and coach
1960 - Rodney Greenblat, American painter and graphic designer
1960 - Gary Hoey, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Heavy Bones)
1960 - Chris Potter, Canadian actor, singer, and director
1961 - Dean DeLeo, American guitarist (Stone Temple Pilots, Talk Show, and Army of Anyone)
1961 - Alexandre Desplat, French composer and conductor
1961 - Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iranian commander and politician, 54th Mayor of Tehran
1961 - Gary Mabbutt, English footballer and actor
1961 - Hitomi Takahashi, Japanese actress
1962 - Martin Cauchon, Canadian lawyer and politician, 46th Canadian Minister of Justice
1962 - Shaun Ryder, English singer-songwriter and actor (Happy Mondays and Black Grape)
1963 - Park Chan-wook, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter
1963 - Richard Illingworth, English cricketer and umpire
1963 - Kenny Wallace, American race car driver
1964 - Johan Bruyneel, Belgian cyclist and manager
1964 - Kong Hee, Singaporean pastor, founded the City Harvest Church
1964 - Wendy Pepper, American fashion designer
1964 - Yoshikazu Taru, Japanese wrestler
1965 - Roger Avary, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
1966 - Charley Boorman, English actor and producer
1966 - Rik Smits, Dutch-American basketball player
1967 - Ant, American comedian and actor
1967 - Jim Murphy, Scottish lawyer and politician, Minister of State for Europe
1967 - Richard Petrie, New Zealand cricketer
1967 - Kazumi Totaka, Japanese voice actor and composer
1968 - Laura Claycomb, American soprano
1968 - Chris DiMarco, American golfer
1969 - Geneviève Brouillette, Canadian actress
1969 - Tinus Linee, South African rugby player and coach (died 2014)
1969 - Jack Lopresti, English soldier and politician
1969 - Jeremy Schaap, American journalist and author
1969 - Keith Tyson, English painter and illustrator
1970 - KK, Indian singer-songwriter
1970 - Lawrence Frank, American basketball player and coach
1970 - Jason Hetherington, Australian rugby player
1970 - Brad Mehldau, American pianist and composer
1970 - Jay Mohr, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1970 - River Phoenix, American actor (died 1993)
1971 - Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer and manager
1971 - Bone Crusher, American rapper, producer, and actor
1971 - Tim Gutberlet, German footballer
1972 - Mark Butcher, English cricketer and singer
1972 - Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican baseball player
1972 - Martin Grainger, English footballer and manager
1972 - Manuel Vidrio, Mexican footballer, coach, and manager
1973 - Casey Blake, American baseball player
1973 - Kerry Walmsley, New Zealand cricketer
1974 - Mark Bellhorn, American baseball player
1974 - Christian Beranek, American actor, producer, and author
1974 - Benjamin Limo, Kenyan runner
1974 - Konstantin Novoselov, Russian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1974 - Ray Park, Scottish actor and martial artist
1974 - Shifty Shellshock, American singer-songwriter and actor (Crazy Town)
1975 - Eliza Carthy, English singer-songwriter and fiddler (Blue Murder)
1975 - Sean Marks, New Zealand-American basketball player and manager
1976 - Scott Caan, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1976 - Pat Garrity, American basketball player
1977 - Jelena Rozga, Croatian singer (Magazin)
1977 - Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer and manager
1977 - Igor Petrenko, Russian actor
1978 - Kobe Bryant, American basketball player
1978 - Julian Casablancas, American singer-songwriter (The Strokes and Julian Casablancas + The Voidz)
1978 - Andrew Rannells, American actor and singer
1978 - Randal Tye Thomas, American journalist and politician (died 2014)
1979 - Jessica Bibby, Australian basketball player
1979 - Saskia Clark, English sailor
1979 - Ritchie Neville, English singer and actor (Five)
1979 - Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer
1979 - Zuzana Váleková, Slovak tennis player
1980 - Diamondog, Angolan rapper and journalist
1980 - Denny Bautista, Dominican baseball player
1980 - Rex Grossman, American football player
1981 - Carlos Cuéllar, Spanish footballer
1981 - Stephan Loboué, Ivorian footballer
1981 - Ozzy Lusth, Mexican-American reality show contestant on Survivor: Cook Islands
1981 - Carmen Luvana, American porn actress
1982 - YTCracker, American rapper and DJ
1982 - Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
1982 - Scott Palguta, American soccer player
1982 - Cristian Tudor, Romanian footballer (died 2012)
1982 - Trevor Wright, American actor
1983 - J. C. Bailey, American wrestler (died 2010)
1983 - James Collins, Welsh footballer
1983 - Athena Farrokhzad, Iranian-Swedish poet, playwright, and critic
1983 - Ruta Gedmintas, English actress
1983 - Annie Ilonzeh, American actress
1983 - Sun Mingming, Chinese basketball player
1983 - Tony Moll, American football player
1983 - Bruno Spengler, Canadian race car driver
1983 - Marianne Steinbrecher, German-Brazilian volleyball player
1984 - Kristy Bruce, English actress
1984 - Glen Johnson, English footballer
1984 - Eric Tai, New Zealand rugby player and actor
1985 - Valeria Lukyanova, Moldovan-Ukrainian model and singer
1986 - Sky Blu, American rapper and producer (LMFAO)
1986 - Neil Cicierega, American comedian, actor, singer, and director
1986 - Kim Feenstra, Dutch model and actress
1986 - Khosi Mokhesi, Lesotho swimmer
1986 - Brett Morris, Australian rugby player
1986 - Vic Wild, American-Russian snowboarder
1987 - Nikki Gil, Filipino actress and singer
1988 - Olga Govortsova, Belarusian tennis player
1988 - Carl Hagelin, Swedish ice hockey player
1988 - Jeremy Lin, American basketball player
1988 - Kim Matula, American actress
1989 - Breanna Conrad, American fashion designer
1989 - Lianne La Havas, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1989 - Heiko Schwarz, German footballer
1990 - Wesley Singerman, American actor
1990 - Seth Curry, American basketball player
1991 - Isabella Tobias, American-Lithuanian ice dancer
1995 - Vlada Kubassova, Estonian footballer
1995 - Eliza Pineda, Filipino actress and singer
2001 - Zaijian Jaranilla, Filipino actor

Deaths

30 BC - Caesarion, Egyptian king (born 47 BC)
30 BC - Marcus Antonius Antyllus, Roman soldier (born 47 BC)
93 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general and politician (born 40)
406 - Radagaisus, Gothic king
634 - Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph (born 573)
818 - Ali al-Ridha, Iranian 8th of the Twelve Imams (born 765)
1106 - Magnus, Duke of Saxony (born 1045)
1305 - William Wallace, Scottish commander (born 1272)
1329 - Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (born 1282)
1387 - Olaf II of Denmark (born 1370)
1478 - Johannes Pullois, Franco-Flemish composer (born c. 1420)
1507 - Jean Molinet, French poet and composer (born 1435)
1519 - Philibert Berthelier, Swiss soldier (born 1465)
1540 - Guillaume Budé, French philosopher and scholar (born 1467)
1574 - Ebussuud Efendi, Turkish lawyer and jurist (born 1490)
1591 - Luis de León, Spanish poet and academic (born 1527)
1618 - Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (born 1585)
1628 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (born 1592)
1652 - John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English soldier and politician (born 1600)
1706 - Edward Nott, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1654)
1723 - Increase Mather, American minister and author (born 1639)
1806 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (born 1736)
1813 - Alexander Wilson (ornithologist), Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (born 1766)
1819 - Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander (born 1785)
1831 - Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian author and poet (born 1759)
1831 - August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (born 1760)
1853 - Alexander Calder, American lawyer and politician (born 1806)
1858 - Antal Reguly, Hungarian linguist and ethnographer (born 1819)
1867 - Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet and author (born 1796)
1892 - Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian field marshal and politician, 1st President of Brazil (born 1827)
1900 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (born 1840)
1924 - Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (born 1856)
1926 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian-American actor (born 1895)
1927 - Nicola Sacco, Italian murderer (born 1891)
1927 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian murderer (born 1888)
1933 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (born 1870)
1937 - Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (born 1869)
1944 - Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (born 1868)
1944 - Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (born 1879)
1949 - Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (born 1858)
1954 - Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (born 1877)
1955 - Reginald Tate, English actor (born 1896)
1960 - Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and composer (born 1895)
1962 - Walter Anderson, Russian-German ethnologist and academic (born 1885)
1962 - Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer (born 1892)
1963 - Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (Casa Loma Orchestra) (born 1900)
1966 - Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1883)
1967 - Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (born 1918)
1967 - Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and coach (born 1883)
1974 - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and author (born 1888)
1975 - Faruk Gürler, Turkish general (born 1913)
1977 - Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor and academic (born 1890)
1982 - Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913)
1987 - Didier Pironi, French race car driver (born 1952)
1989 - Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese poet and academic (born 1944)
1989 - R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (born 1927)
1990 - David Rose, American pianist and composer (born 1910)
1994 - Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (born 1917)
1995 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist (born 1898)
1995 - Dwayne Goettel, Canadian keyboard player (Skinny Puppy, Psyche, and Hilt) (born 1964)
1996 - Margaret Tucker, Australian author and activist (born 1904)
1997 - Eric Gairy, Grenadian educator and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (born 1922)
1997 - John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)
1999 - Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (born 1926)
1999 - James White, Irish author (born 1928)
2000 - John Anthony Kaiser, American priest and missionary (born 1932)
2001 - Kathleen Freeman, American actress and singer (born 1919)
2001 - Peter Maas, American journalist and author (born 1929)
2002 - Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player and coach (born 1922)
2003 - Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (born 1946)
2003 - Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach (born 1913)
2003 - John Geoghan, American priest (born 1935)
2003 - Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist and educator (born 1917)
2003 - Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Kenyan lawyer and politician, 8th Vice President of Kenya (born 1944)
2005 - Brock Peters, American actor and producer (born 1927)
2006 - Maynard Ferguson, Canadian trumpet player and bandleader (Big Bop Nouveau) (born 1928)
2007 - Robert Symonds, American actor (born 1926)
2008 - Ruth Cohen, American actress (born 1930)
2008 - John Russell, English-American author and critic (born 1919)
2012 - Col Campbell, New Zealand radio and television host (born 1933)
2012 - Jean-Luc Delarue, French television host and producer (born 1964)
2012 - Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist and flute player (born 1942)
2012 - Merv Neagle, Australian footballer and coach (born 1958)
2012 - Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor (born 1934)
2012 - Josepha Sherman, American anthologist and author (born 1946)
2012 - Steve Van Buren, Honduran-American football player (born 1920)
2013 - Richard J. Corman, American businessman, founded the R.J. Corman Railroad Group (born 1955)
2013 - David Garrick, English singer (born 1945)
2013 - William Glasser, American psychiatrist and author (born 1925)
2013 - Charles Lisanby, American production designer and set director (born 1924)
2013 - Konstanty Miodowicz, Polish ethnographer and politician (born 1951)
2013 - Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist and economist (born 1927)
2014 - Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (born 1989)
2014 - Inga Juuso, Norwegian singer and actress (born 1945)
2014 - Annefleur Kalvenhaar, Dutch cyclist (born 1994)
2014 - Dan Magill, American swimmer, tennis player, and coach (born 1921)
2014 - Birgitta Stenberg, Swedish author and illustrator (born 1932)
2014 - Jaume Vallcorba Plana, Spanish philologist and publisher (born 1949)
2015 - Augusta Chiwy, Congolese-Belgian nurse (born 1921)
2015 - Guy Ligier, French rugby player and race car driver (born 1930)
2015 - Yosi Piamenta, Israeli-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1951)
2015 - Enrique Reneau, Honduran footballer (born 1971)
2015 - Paul Royle, Australian lieutenant and pilot (born 1914)