Events
1975 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (d. 2006)
1976 - Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Susan Ward, American actress
1977 - Brian Pothier, American ice hockey player
1978 - Austin Aries, American wrestler
1978 - Milton Bradley, American baseball player
1978 - Tim Corcoran, American baseball player
1980 - Natalie Casey, British actress
1980 - James Foster, English cricketer
1980 - Raúl López, Spanish basketball player
1980 - Victor Núñez, Costa Rican footballer
1980 - Fränk Schleck, Luxembourgish cyclist
1981 - Andrés D'Alessandro, Argentine football player
1981 - Seth Wulsin, American artist
1982 - Anthony Green, American musician
1982 - Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer
1982 - Albert Riera, Spanish footballer
1983 - Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
1983 - Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer
1983 - Bronson La'Cassie, Australian professional golfer
1984 - Rodney Carney, NBA athlete
1984 - Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player
1985 - John Danks, American baseball player
1985 - Aaron Laffey, American baseball player
1986 - Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Dutch footballer
1990 - Emma Watson, English actress
1992 - Amy Diamond, Swedish singer
1993 - Madeleine Martin, American television actress
Deaths
1970 - Ripper Collins, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1971 - Dan Reeves, American football team owner (b. 1912)
1974 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
1975 - Richard Conte, American actor (b. 1910)
1980 - Raymond Bailey, American actor (b. 1904)
1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
1982 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915)
1983 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892)
1984 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (b. 1921)
1984 - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
1986 - Jean Genet, French author (b. 1910)
1988 - Kenneth Williams, English actor and comedian (b. 1926)
1988 - Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (b. 1954)
1989 - Nesuhi Ertegün, American record executive (b. 1917)
1989 - Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (b. 1915)
1990 - Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (b. 1905)
1993 - John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (b. 1908)
1993 - Leslie Charteris, Singapore-born author (b. 1907)
1994 - John Curry, English figure skater (b. 1949)
1995 - Harry Shoulberg, American painter, serigrapher (b. 1903)
1998 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925)
1999 - Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and racing car designer (b. 1944)
2000 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator (b. 1925)
2001 - Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
2002 - Damon Knight, American author (b. 1922)
2002 - Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917)
2003 - Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (b. 1941)
2003 - Reg Bundy, British performer (b. 1941)
2004 - Ray Condo, Canadian musician (b. 1950)
2005 - John Fred, American singer (b. 1941)
2007 - Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
- 1450 - Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
- 1632 - Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
- 1715 - Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
- 1738 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
- 1755 - Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London.
- 1783 - Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified.
- 1802 - William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
- 1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States.
- 1892 - The General Electric Company is formed.
- 1906 - The establishing of the Armenian organization, AGBU
- 1912 - The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic, after hitting an iceberg two and a half hours earlier, the previous day.
- 1920 - Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store.
- 1923 - Insulin first became generally available for use by diabetics.
- 1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
- 1940 - The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which was occupied by Nazi Germany.
- 1941 - In the Belfast Blitz two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland killing one thousand people.
- 1942 - George Cross awarded to "to the island fortress of Malta - its people and defenders" by King George VI.
- 1943 - An Allied bomber attack misses the Minerva automobile factory and hits the Belgian town of Mortsel instead, killing 936 civilians.
- 1945 - The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
- 1947 - Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, breaking that sport's color line.
- 1955 - Ray Kroc opens his first franchise of McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois.
- 1957 - White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
- 1967 - Scotland defeat rivals England 3-2 at Wembley stadium, causing the Scots fans to jokingly claim their side as "Unofficial world Champions", creating the phenomenon of the Unofficial Football World Championships.
- 1984 - British comedian Tommy Cooper suffers a massive heart attack while live on TV.
- 1986 - The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya.
- 1989 - Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, a football stadium in Sheffield, resulting in 96 deaths.
- 1989 - Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China.
- 1992 - National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
- 1994 - Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995).
- 1997 - Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is 343.
- 2002 - An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.
1975 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (d. 2006)
1976 - Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Susan Ward, American actress
1977 - Brian Pothier, American ice hockey player
1978 - Austin Aries, American wrestler
1978 - Milton Bradley, American baseball player
1978 - Tim Corcoran, American baseball player
1980 - Natalie Casey, British actress
1980 - James Foster, English cricketer
1980 - Raúl López, Spanish basketball player
1980 - Victor Núñez, Costa Rican footballer
1980 - Fränk Schleck, Luxembourgish cyclist
1981 - Andrés D'Alessandro, Argentine football player
1981 - Seth Wulsin, American artist
1982 - Anthony Green, American musician
1982 - Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer
1982 - Albert Riera, Spanish footballer
1983 - Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
1983 - Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer
1983 - Bronson La'Cassie, Australian professional golfer
1984 - Rodney Carney, NBA athlete
1984 - Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player
1985 - John Danks, American baseball player
1985 - Aaron Laffey, American baseball player
1986 - Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Dutch footballer
1990 - Emma Watson, English actress
1992 - Amy Diamond, Swedish singer
1993 - Madeleine Martin, American television actress
Deaths
1970 - Ripper Collins, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1971 - Dan Reeves, American football team owner (b. 1912)
1974 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
1975 - Richard Conte, American actor (b. 1910)
1980 - Raymond Bailey, American actor (b. 1904)
1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
1982 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915)
1983 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892)
1984 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (b. 1921)
1984 - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
1986 - Jean Genet, French author (b. 1910)
1988 - Kenneth Williams, English actor and comedian (b. 1926)
1988 - Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (b. 1954)
1989 - Nesuhi Ertegün, American record executive (b. 1917)
1989 - Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (b. 1915)
1990 - Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (b. 1905)
1993 - John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (b. 1908)
1993 - Leslie Charteris, Singapore-born author (b. 1907)
1994 - John Curry, English figure skater (b. 1949)
1995 - Harry Shoulberg, American painter, serigrapher (b. 1903)
1998 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925)
1999 - Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and racing car designer (b. 1944)
2000 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator (b. 1925)
2001 - Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
2002 - Damon Knight, American author (b. 1922)
2002 - Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917)
2003 - Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (b. 1941)
2003 - Reg Bundy, British performer (b. 1941)
2004 - Ray Condo, Canadian musician (b. 1950)
2005 - John Fred, American singer (b. 1941)
2007 - Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
