<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/362_BC" title="362 BC">362 BC</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mantinea_(362_BC)"... by @wikipedia | Factiii
362 BC – Battle of Mantinea : The Thebans , led by Epaminondas , defeated the Spartans .414 – Emperor Theodosius II , age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria , who reigned as regent and proclaimed herself empress (Augusta ) of the Eastern Roman Empire .836 – Pactum Sicardi , a peace treaty between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples , is signed.993 – Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized as a saint.1054 – A supernova, called SN 1054 , is seen by Chinese Song dynasty , Arab , and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri . For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula .1120 – Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.1187 – The Crusades : Battle of Hattin : Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan , King of Jerusalem .1253 – Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre .1333 – Genkō War : Forces loyal to Emperor Go-Daigo seize Tōshō-ji during the Siege of Kamakura . Hōjō Takatoki and other members of the Hōjō clan commit suicide, ending the rule of the Kamakura shogunate .1 1359 – Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz .1456 – Ottoman–Hungarian wars : The Siege of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) begins.1534 – Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye .1584 – Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe arrive at Roanoke Island .1610 – The Battle of Klushino is fought between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish–Russian War .1634 – The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada).1744 – The Treaty of Lancaster , in which the Iroquois cede lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, was signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania .1774 – Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York , one of many protests against the British Parliament 's Coercive Acts .1776 – American Revolution : The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress .1778 – American Revolutionary War : U.S. forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign .1802 – The United States Military Academy opens at West Point, New York .1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.1817 – In Rome, New York , construction on the Erie Canal begins.1818 – US Flag Act of 1818 goes into effect creating a 13 stripe flag with a star for each state. New stars would be added on July 4 after a new state had been admitted.2 1827 – Slavery is abolished in the State of New York .1831 – Samuel Francis Smith writes "My Country, 'Tis of Thee " for the Boston, Massachusetts July 4 festivities.1832 – John Neal delivers the first public lecture in the US to advocate the rights of women.3 4 1832 – Durham University established by Act of Parliament ; the first recognized university to be founded in England since Cambridge over 600 years earlier.5 1837 – Grand Junction Railway , the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool .1838 – The Iowa Territory is organized.1845 – Henry David Thoreau moves into a small cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau's account of his two years there, Walden , will become a touchstone of the environmental movement.1855 – The first edition of Walt Whitman 's book of poems, Leaves of Grass , is published in Brooklyn .1862 – Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.1863 – American Civil War : Siege of Vicksburg : The Confederate army in Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege, contributing to the Union capture of the Mississippi River .6 1863 – American Civil War: Union forces repulse a Confederate army at the Battle of Helena in Arkansas. The battle thwarts a Rebel attempt to relieve pressure on the besieged city of Vicksburg, and paves the way for the Union capture of Little Rock .7 1863 – American Civil War: Retreat from Gettysburg : The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee withdraws from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg , signaling an end to his last invasion of the North .8 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War : The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.1881 – In Alabama , the Tuskegee Institute opens.1886 – The Canadian Pacific Railway 's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.1887 – The founder of Pakistan , Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah , joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam , Karachi .1892 – Western Samoa changes the International Date Line , causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a leap year with 367 days.1894 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole .1898 – En route from New York to Le Havre , the SS collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of Sable Island , with the loss of 549 lives.1901 – William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.1903 – The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.1910 – The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round. Between 11 and 26 people are killed and hundreds more injured.1911 – A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.1913 – President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 .1914 – The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna , six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo .1918 – Mehmed V died at the age of 73 and Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.1918 – World War I : The Battle of Hamel , a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front . 1927 – First flight of the Lockheed Vega .1939 – Lou Gehrig , recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball .1941 – Nazi crimes against the Polish nation : Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv .1941 – World War II : The Burning of the Riga synagogues : The Great Choral Synagogue in German-occupied Riga is burnt with 300 Jews locked in the basement. 1942 – World War II: The 250-day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces.1943 – World War II: The Battle of Kursk , the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in the village of Prokhorovka .1943 – World War II: In Gibraltar , a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board, including general Władysław Sikorski , the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile; only the pilot survives. 1946 – The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.1946 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States. 1947 – The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons , proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan .1950 – Cold War : Radio Free Europe first broadcasts.1951 – Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage .1951 – William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor . 1954 – Food rationing in Great Britain ends, with the lifting of restrictions on sale and purchase of meat, 14 years after it began early in World War II , and nearly a decade after the war's end.1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21 , 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia , almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Acts (United States) ).1961 – On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years.1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.1976 – Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda , rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.1977 – The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia , in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit.1982 – Three Iranian diplomats and a journalist are kidnapped in Lebanon by Phalange forces , and their fate remains unknown.1982 – Space Shuttle program : Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base at the end of the program's final test flight, STS-4 . President Ronald Reagan declares the Space Shuttle to be operational.9 1994 – Rwandan genocide : Kigali , the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front , ending the genocide in the city.1997 – NASA 's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars .1998 – Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars , joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.2001 – Vladivostok Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.10 2002 – A Boeing 707 crashes near Bangui M'Poko International Airport in Bangui , Central African Republic , killing 28.11 2004 – The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City.2004 – Greece beats Portugal in the UEFA Euro 2004 Final and becomes European Champion for first time in its history. 2005 – The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1 .2006 – Space Shuttle program : Discovery launches STS-121 to the International Space Station . The event gained wide media attention as it was the only shuttle launch in the program's history to occur on the United States' Independence Day .12 2008 – A bomb explodes at a concert in Minsk's Independence Square , injuring 50 people.13 2009 – The Statue of Liberty 's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks .2009 – The first of four days of bombings begins on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao . 2012 – The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN .2015 – Chile claims its first title in international football by defeating Argentina in the 2015 Copa América Final.2024 – The Labour Party , led by Keir Starmer , wins a landslide majority in the 2024 United Kingdom general election , ending 14 years of Conservative government.14 68 – Salonia Matidia , Roman daughter of Ulpia Marciana (died 119)15 1095 – Usama ibn Munqidh , Muslim poet, author and faris (Knight) (died 1188)16 1330 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira , Japanese shōgun (died 1367)1477 – Johannes Aventinus , Bavarian historian and philologist (died 1534)1546 – Murad III , Ottoman sultan (died 1595)1656 – John Leake , Royal Navy admiral (died 1720)1694 – Louis-Claude Daquin , French organist and composer (died 1772)1715 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert , German poet and academic (died 1769)1719 – Michel-Jean Sedaine , French playwright (died 1797)1729 – George Leonard , American lawyer, jurist and politician (died 1819)1753 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard , French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight (died 1809)1790 – George Everest , Welsh geographer and surveyor (died 1866)1799 – Oscar I of Sweden (died 1859)17 1804 – Nathaniel Hawthorne , American novelist and short story writer (died 1864)1807 – Giuseppe Garibaldi , Italian general and politician (died 1882)1816 – Hiram Walker , American businessman, founded Canadian Club whisky (died 1899)1826 – Stephen Foster , American songwriter and composer (died 1864)1842 – Hermann Cohen , German philosopher (died 1918)1845 – Thomas John Barnardo , Irish philanthropist and humanitarian (died 1905)1847 – James Anthony Bailey , American circus ringmaster, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (died 1906)1854 – Victor Babeș , Romanian physician and biologist (died 1926)1868 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt , American astronomer and academic (died 1921)18 1886 – Tom Longboat , Canadian runner and soldier (died 1949)19 1871 – Hubert Cecil Booth , English engineer (died 1955)20 1872 – Calvin Coolidge , American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (died 1933)1874 – John McPhee , Australian journalist and politician, 27th Premier of Tasmania (died 1952)1880 – Victor Kraft , Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (died 1975)1881 – Ulysses S. Grant III , American general (died 1968)1883 – Rube Goldberg , American sculptor, cartoonist, and engineer (died 1970)1887 – Pio Pion , Italian engineer and businessman (died 1965)1888 – Henry Armetta , Italian-American actor and singer (died 1945)1895 – Irving Caesar , American songwriter and composer (died 1996)1896 – Mao Dun , Chinese journalist, author, and critic (died 1981)1897 – Alluri Sitarama Raju , Indian activist (died 1924)1898 – Pilar Barbosa , Puerto Rican-American historian and activist (died 1997)1898 – Gertrude Lawrence , British actress, singer, and dancer (died 1952) 1898 – Gulzarilal Nanda , Indian politician (died 1998) 1898 – Gertrude Weaver , American supercentenarian (died 2015) 1900 – Belinda Dann , Indigenous Australian who was one of the Stolen Generation , reunited with family aged 107 (died 2007)1900 – Nellie Mae Rowe , American folk artist (died 1982) 1902 – Meyer Lansky , American gangster (died 1983)1902 – George Murphy , American actor and politician (died 1992) 1903 – Flor Peeters , Belgian organist, composer, and educator (died 1986)1904 – Angela Baddeley , English actress (died 1976)1905 – Irving Johnson , American sailor and author (died 1991)1905 – Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey , British diplomat and public servant (died 1996) 1905 – Lionel Trilling , American critic, essayist, short story writer, and educator (died 1975) 1906 – Vincent Schaefer , American chemist and meteorologist (died 1993)1907 – John Anderson , American discus thrower (died 1948)1907 – Howard Taubman , American author and critic (died 1996) 1909 – Alec Templeton , Welsh composer, pianist and satirist (died 1963)1910 – Robert K. Merton , American sociologist and scholar (died 2003)1910 – Gloria Stuart , American actress (died 2010) 1911 – Bruce Hamilton , Australian public servant (died 1989)1911 – Mitch Miller , American singer and producer (died 2010) 1911 – Elizabeth Peratrovich , Alaskan-American civil rights activist (died 1958)21 1914 – Nuccio Bertone , Italian automobile designer (died 1997)1915 – Timmie Rogers , American actor and singer-songwriter (died 2006)1916 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino , American typist and broadcaster (died 2006)1918 – Eppie Lederer , American journalist and radio host (died 2002)1918 – Johnnie Parsons , American race car driver (died 1984) 1918 – King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga, (died 2006) 1918 – Alec Bedser , English cricketer (died 2010) 1918 – Eric Bedser , English cricketer (died 2006) 1918 – Pauline Phillips , American journalist and radio host, created Dear Abby (died 2013) 1920 – Norm Drucker , American basketball player and referee (died 2015)1920 – Leona Helmsley , American businesswoman (died 2007) 1920 – Fritz Wilde , German footballer and manager (died 1977) 1920 – Paul Bannai , American politician (died 2019) 1921 – Gérard Debreu , French economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)1921 – Nasser Sharifi , Iranian sports shooter 1921 – Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut (died 2014) 1921 – Philip Rose , American actor, playwright, and producer (died 2011) 1921 – Tibor Varga , Hungarian violinist and conductor (died 2003) 1922 – R. James Harvey , American politician (died 2019)1923 – Rudolf Friedrich , Swiss lawyer and politician (died 2013)1924 – Eva Marie Saint , American actress1924 – Delia Fiallo , Cuban author and screenwriter (died 2021) 1924 – Harry Stewart Jr. , American military officer and fighter pilot (died 2025) 1925 – Ciril Zlobec , Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and politician (died 201822 )1925 – Dorothy Head Knode , American tennis player23 (died 2015) 1926 – Alfredo Di Stéfano , Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (died 2014)1926 – Lake Underwood , American race car driver and businessman (died 2008) 1927 – Gina Lollobrigida , Italian actress and photographer (died 2023)24 1927 – Neil Simon , American playwright and screenwriter (died 2018)25 1928 – Giampiero Boniperti , Italian footballer and politician (died 2021)1928 – Teofisto Guingona Jr. , Filipino politician; 11th Vice President of the Philippines 1928 – Jassem Alwan , Syrian Army Officer (died 2018) 1928 – Shan Ratnam , Sri Lankan physician and academic (died 2001) 1928 – Chuck Tanner , American baseball player and manager (died 2011) 1929 – Al Davis , American football player, coach, and manager (died 2011)1929 – Bill Tuttle , American baseball player (died 1998) 1930 – George Steinbrenner , American businessman (died 2010)1931 – Stephen Boyd , Northern Ireland-born American actor (died 1977)1931 – Rick Casares , American football player and soldier (died 2013) 1931 – Sébastien Japrisot , French author, director, and screenwriter (died 2003) 1931 – Peter Richardson , English cricketer (died 2017) 1932 – Aurèle Vandendriessche , Belgian runner (died 2023)1934 – Yvonne B. Miller , American academic and politician (died 2012)1934 – Colin Welland , English actor and screenwriter (died 2015) 1935 – Paul Scoon , Grenadian politician, 2nd Governor-General of Grenada (died 2013)1936 – Zdzisława Donat , Polish soprano and actress1937 – Thomas Nagel , American philosopher and academic1937 – Queen Sonja of Norway 1937 – Richard Rhodes , American journalist and historian 1937 – Eric Walters , Australian journalist (died 2010) 1938 – Steven Rose , English biologist and academic1938 – Bill Withers , American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2020) 1940 – Pat Stapleton , Canadian ice hockey player (died 2020)1941 – Sam Farr , American politician1941 – Tomaž Šalamun , Croatian-Slovenian poet and academic (died 2014) 1941 – Pavel Sedláček , Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist 1941 – Brian Willson , American soldier, lawyer, and activist 1942 – Hal Lanier , American baseball player, coach, and manager1942 – Floyd Little , American football player and coach (died 2021)26 1942 – Stefan Meller , French-Polish academic and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2008) 1942 – Prince Michael of Kent 1942 – Peter Rowan , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1943 – Conny Bauer , German trombonist1943 – Emerson Boozer , American football player and sportscaster 1943 – Adam Hart-Davis , English historian, author, and photographer 1943 – Geraldo Rivera , American lawyer, journalist, and author27 1943 – Fred Wesley , American jazz and funk trombonist 28 1943 – Alan Wilson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1970) 1945 – Andre Spitzer , Romanian-Israeli fencer and coach (died 1972)1946 – Ron Kovic , American author and activist1946 – Michael Milken , American businessman and philanthropist 1947 – Lembit Ulfsak , Estonian actor and director (died 2017)1948 – René Arnoux , French race car driver1948 – Tommy Körberg , Swedish singer and actor 1948 – Jeremy Spencer , English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1950 – Philip Craven , English basketball player and swimmer1950 – David Jensen , Canadian-English radio and television host 1951 – John Alexander , Australian tennis player and politician1951 – Ralph Johnson , American R&B drummer and percussionist 1951 – Vladimir Tismăneanu , Romanian-American political scientist, sociologist, and academic 1951 – Kathleen Kennedy Townsend , American lawyer and politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Maryland 1952 – Álvaro Uribe , Colombian lawyer and politician, 39th President of Colombia 1952 – Carol MacReady , English actress 1952 – John Waite , English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1952 – Paul Rogat Loeb , American author and activist 1953 – Francis Maude , English lawyer and politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office 1954 – Jim Beattie , American baseball player, coach, and manager1954 – Morganna , American model, actress, and dancer 1954 – Devendra Kumar Joshi , 21st Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy 1955 – Eero Heinäluoma , Finnish politician29 1955 – Kevin Nichols , Australian cyclist 1956 – Robert Sinclair MacKay , British academic and educator1957 – Rein Lang , Estonian politician and diplomat, 25th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs 1958 – Vera Leth , Greenlandic Ombudsman1958 – Kirk Pengilly , Australian guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter 1958 – Carl Valentine , Canadian soccer player, coach, and manager 1959 – Victoria Abril , Spanish actress and singer1960 – Roland Ratzenberger , Austrian race car driver (died 1994)1961 – Richard Garriott , English-American video game designer, created the Ultima series 1962 – Pam Shriver , American tennis player and sportscaster1963 – Henri Leconte , French tennis player and sportscaster1963 – Laureano Márquez , Spanish-Venezuelan political scientist and journalist 1963 – José Oquendo , Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach 1963 – Sonia Pierre , Haitian-Dominican human rights activist (died 2011)30 1964 – Cle Kooiman , American soccer player and manager1964 – Elie Saab , Lebanese fashion designer 1964 – Edi Rama , Albanian politician 1964 – Mark Slaughter , American singer-songwriter and producer 1964 – Mark Whiting , American actor, director, and screenwriter 1965 – Harvey Grant , American basketball player and coach1965 – Horace Grant , American basketball player and coach 1965 – Kiriakos Karataidis , Greek footballer and manager 1965 – Gérard Watkins , English actor and playwright 1966 – Ronni Ancona , Scottish actress and screenwriter1966 – Minas Hantzidis , German-Greek footballer 1966 – Lee Reherman , American actor (died 2016) 1967 – Vinny Castilla , Mexican baseball player and manager1967 – Sébastien Deleigne , French athlete 1969 – Al Golden , American football player and coach1969 – Todd Marinovich , American football player and coach 1969 – Wilfred Mugeyi , Zimbabwean footballer and coach 1972 – Stephen Giles , Canadian canoe racer and engineer1972 – Mike Knuble , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach 1973 – Keiko Ihara , Japanese race car driver1973 – Gackt , Japanese musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor 1973 – Michael Johnson , English-Jamaican footballer and manager 1973 – Anjelika Krylova , Russian ice dancer and coach 1973 – Jan Magnussen , Danish race car driver 1973 – Tony Popovic , Australian footballer and manager 1974 – Jill Craybas , American tennis player1974 – La'Roi Glover , American football player and sportscaster 1974 – Adrian Griffin , American basketball player and coach 1976 – Daijiro Kato , Japanese motorcycle racer (died 2003)1976 – Yevgeniya Medvedeva , Russian skier 1978 – Marcos Daniel , Brazilian tennis player1978 – Émile Mpenza , Belgian footballer 1979 – Siim Kabrits , Estonian politician31 1979 – Josh McCown , American football player 1979 – Renny Vega , Venezuelan footballer 1980 – Kwame Steede , Bermudan footballer1981 – Dedé , Angolan footballer1981 – Brock Berlin , American football player 1981 – Christoph Preuß , German footballer 1981 – Francisco Cruceta , Dominican baseball player 1981 – Will Smith , American football player (died 2016) 1982 – Vladimir Boisa , Georgian basketball player1982 – Vladimir Gusev , Russian cyclist 1982 – Jeff Lima , New Zealand rugby league player 1982 – Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino , American model, author and television personality32 1983 – Melanie Fiona , Canadian singer-songwriter33 1983 – Amantle Montsho , Botswanan sprinter 1983 – Miguel Pinto , Chilean footballer 1983 – Amol Rajan , Indian-English journalist 1983 – Mattia Serafini , Italian footballer 1984 – Jin Akanishi , Japanese singer-songwriter1985 – Kane Tenace , Australian footballer 1985 – Dimitrios Mavroeidis , Greek basketball player 1985 – Wason Rentería , Colombian footballer 1986 – Ömer Aşık , Turkish basketball player1986 – Nguyen Ngoc Duy , Vietnamese footballer 1986 – Rafael Arévalo , Salvadoran tennis player 1986 – Willem Janssen , Dutch footballer 1986 – Terrance Knighton , American football player 1986 – Marte Elden , Norwegian skier 1987 – Wude Ayalew , Ethiopian runner1987 – Guram Kashia , Georgian footballer 1988 – Angelique Boyer , French-Mexican actress1989 – Benjamin Büchel , Liechtensteiner footballer1990 – Jake Gardiner , American ice hockey player1990 – Richard Mpong , Ghanaian footballer 1990 – Naoki Yamada , Japanese footballer 1990 – Ihar Yasinski , Belarusian footballer 1992 – Ángel Romero , Paraguayan footballer1992 – Óscar Romero , Paraguayan footballer 1993 – Tom Barkhuizen , English footballer1995 – Post Malone , American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer 34 1999 – Moa Kikuchi , Japanese musician 35 2003 – Polina Bogusevich , Russian singer36 673 – Ecgberht , king of Kent37 907 – Luitpold , margrave of Bavaria 907 – Dietmar I , archbishop of Salzburg 910 – Luo Shaowei , Chinese warlord (born 877)940 – Wang Jianli , Chinese general (born 871)943 – Taejo of Goryeo , Korean king (born 877)945 – Zhuo Yanming , Chinese Buddhist monk and emperor965 – Benedict V , pope of the Catholic Church973 – Ulrich of Augsburg , German bishop and saint (born 890)975 – Gwangjong of Goryeo , Korean king (born 925)1187 – Raynald of Châtillon , French knight (born 1125)1307 – Rudolf I of Bohemia (born 1281)1336 – Saint Elizabeth of Portugal (born 1271)1429 – Carlo I Tocco , ruler of Epirus (born 1372)1533 – John Frith , English priest, writer, and martyr (born 1503)1541 – Pedro de Alvarado , Spanish general and explorer (born 1495)1546 – Hayreddin Barbarossa , Ottoman admiral (born 1478)1551 – Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell , English politician (born 1514)1603 – Philippe de Monte , Flemish composer and educator (born 1521)1623 – William Byrd , English composer (born c. 1540)1644 – Brian Twyne , English academic, antiquarian and archivist (born 1581)1648 – Antoine Daniel , French missionary and saint, one of the eight Canadian Martyrs (born 1601)1742 – Luigi Guido Grandi , Italian monk, mathematician, and engineer (born 1671)1754 – Philippe Néricault Destouches , French playwright and author (born 1680)1761 – Samuel Richardson , English author and painter (born 1689)1780 – Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (born 1712)1787 – Charles, Prince of Soubise , Marshal of France (born 1715)1821 – Richard Cosway , English painter and academic (born 1742)1826 – John Adams , American lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the United States (born 1735)38 1826 – Thomas Jefferson , American architect, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of the United States (born 1743) 1831 – James Monroe , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States (born 1758)1848 – François-René de Chateaubriand , French historian and politician (born 1768)1850 – William Kirby , English entomologist and author (born 1759)1854 – Karl Friedrich Eichhorn , German academic and jurist (born 1781)1857 – William L. Marcy , American lawyer, judge, and politician, 21st United States Secretary of State (born 1786)1881 – Johan Vilhelm Snellman , Finnish philosopher and politician (born 1806)1882 – Joseph Brackett , American composer and author (born 1797)1886 – Poundmaker , Canadian tribal chief (born 1797)1891 – Hannibal Hamlin , American lawyer and politician, 15th Vice President of the United States (born 1809)1901 – Johannes Schmidt , German linguist and academic (born 1843)1902 – Swami Vivekananda , Indian monk and saint (born 1863)1905 – Élisée Reclus , French geographer and author (born 1830)1910 – Melville Fuller , American lawyer and jurist, Chief Justice of the United States (born 1833)39 1910 – Kabua the Great , Marshallese iroijlaplap (born c. 1820 )40 1910 – Giovanni Schiaparelli , Italian astronomer and historian (born 1835) 1916 – Alan Seeger , American soldier and poet (born 1888)1922 – Lothar von Richthofen , German lieutenant and pilot (born 1894)1926 – Pier Giorgio Frassati , Italian activist and saint (born 1901)1934 – Marie Curie , French-Polish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1867)41 1935 – Anna Paaske , Norwegian opera singer and music teacher (born 1856)42 1938 – Otto Bauer , Austrian philosopher and politician, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1881)1938 – Suzanne Lenglen , French tennis player (born 1899) 1941 – Antoni Łomnicki , Polish mathematician and academic (born 1881)1943 – Władysław Sikorski , Polish general and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland (born 1881)1946 – Taffy O'Callaghan , Welsh footballer and coach (born 1906)1948 – Monteiro Lobato , Brazilian journalist and author (born 1882)1949 – François Brandt , Dutch rower and engineer (born 1874)1963 – Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg , New Zealand general and politician, 7th Governor-General of New Zealand (born 1889)1963 – Clyde Kennard , American activist and martyr (born 1927) 1963 – Pingali Venkayya , Indian activist, designed the Flag of India (born 1876) 1964 – Gaby Morlay , French actress and singer (born 1893)1969 – Henri Decoin , French director and screenwriter (born 1890)1970 – Barnett Newman , American painter and illustrator (born 1905)1970 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt , American sailor and businessman (born 1884) 1971 – August Derleth , American anthologist and author (born 1909)1971 – Thomas C. Hart , American admiral and politician (born 1877) 1974 – Georgette Heyer , English author (born 1902)1974 – André Randall , French actor (born 1892) 1976 – Yonatan Netanyahu , Israeli colonel (born 1946)1976 – Antoni Słonimski , Polish poet and playwright (born 1895) 1977 – Gersh Budker , Ukrainian physicist and academic (born 1918)1979 – Lee Wai Tong , Chinese footballer and manager (born 1905)1980 – Maurice Grevisse , Belgian linguist and author (born 1895)1984 – Jimmie Spheeris , American singer-songwriter (born 1949)1986 – Paul-Gilbert Langevin , French musicologist, critique musical and physicist (born 1933)1986 – Flor Peeters , Belgian organist and composer (born 1903) 1986 – Oscar Zariski , Belarusian-American mathematician and academic (born 1899) 1988 – Adrian Adonis , American wrestler (born 1954)1990 – Olive Ann Burns , American journalist and author (born 1924)1991 – Victor Chang , Chinese-Australian surgeon and physician (born 1936)1991 – Art Sansom , American cartoonist (born 1920) 1992 – Astor Piazzolla , Argentinian bandoneon player and composer (born 1921)1993 – Bona Arsenault , Canadian historian, genealogist, and politician (born 1903)1994 – Joey Marella , American wrestling referee (born 1964)1995 – Eva Gabor , Hungarian-American actress and singer (born 1919)1995 – Bob Ross , American painter and television host (born 1942) 1997 – Charles Kuralt , American journalist (born 1934)1997 – John Zachary Young , English zoologist and neurophysiologist (born 1907) 1999 – Leo Garel , American illustrator and educator (born 1917)2000 – Gustaw Herling-Grudziński , Polish journalist and author (born 1919)2002 – Gerald Bales , Canadian organist and composer (born 1919)2002 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. , American general (born 1912) 2003 – Larry Burkett , American author and radio host (born 1939)2003 – André Claveau , French singer (born 1915) 2003 – Barry White , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1944) 2004 – Jean-Marie Auberson , Swiss violinist and conductor (born 1920)2005 – Cliff Goupille , Canadian ice hockey player (born 1915)2005 – Hank Stram , American football player and coach (born 1923) 2007 – Bill Pinkney , American singer (born 1925)2008 – Thomas M. Disch , American author and poet (born 1940)2008 – Jesse Helms , American politician (born 1921) 2008 – Evelyn Keyes , American actress (born 1916) 2008 – Terrence Kiel , American football player (born 1980) 2008 – Charles Wheeler , German-English soldier and journalist (born 1923) 2009 – Brenda Joyce , American actress (born 1917)2009 – Allen Klein , American businessman and talent agent, founded ABKCO Records (born 1931) 2009 – Drake Levin , American guitarist (born 1946) 2009 – Steve McNair , American football player (born 1973) 2009 – Lasse Strömstedt , Swedish author and actor (born 1935) 2009 – Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard , Congolese poet and politician (born 1938) 2010 – Robert Neil Butler , American physician and author (born 1927)2012 – Hiren Bhattacharyya , Indian poet and author (born 1932)2012 – Jimmy Bivins , American boxer (born 1919) 2012 – Jeong Min-hyeong , South Korean footballer (born 1987) 2012 – Eric Sykes , English actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1923) 2013 – Onllwyn Brace , Welsh rugby player and sportscaster (born 1932)2013 – Jack Crompton , English footballer and manager (born 1921) 2013 – James Fulton , American dermatologist and academic (born 1940) 2013 – Charles A. Hines , American general (born 1935) 2013 – Bernie Nolan , Irish singer (born 1960) 2014 – Giorgio Faletti , Italian author, screenwriter, and actor (born 1950)2014 – C. J. Henderson , American author and critic (born 1951) 2014 – Earl Robinson , American baseball player (born 1936) 2014 – Richard Mellon Scaife , American businessman (born 1932) 2015 – Nedelcho Beronov , Bulgarian judge and politician (born 1928)2015 – William Conrad Gibbons , American historian, author, and academic (born 1926) 2016 – Abbas Kiarostami , Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, and photographer (born 1940)2017 – John Blackwell , American R&B, funk, and jazz drummer (born 1973)2017 – Daniil Granin , Soviet and Russian author (born 1919) 2017 – Gene Conley , American MLB player and NBA player (born 1930)43 2018 – Henri Dirickx , Belgian footballer (born 1927)2018 – Robby Müller , Dutch cinematographer (born 1940) 2021 – Harmoko , Indonesian politician, former parliament speaker and government minister (born 1939)44 2021 – Matīss Kivlenieks , Latvian ice hockey goaltender (born 1996)45 2022 – Cláudio Hummes , Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church (born 1934)46 2022 – Kazuki Takahashi , Japanese manga artist (born 1961)47