July 1 in History

Historical events, births and deaths on July 1 through the ages, from Iran and around the world. This year it falls on 10 Tir 1405.

Occasions on this day in 2026

national
Industry and Mining Day
national
Saib Tabrizi Commemoration Day
cultural
Tirgan Festival (Zoroastrian calendar)
countries
Canada Day
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Keti Koti (Emancipation Day)
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Independence Day (Somalia)
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Hong Kong SAR Establishment Day
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Independence Day (Burundi)
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Republic Day (Ghana)

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Famous people born on July 1

Events (100)

69 (1957 years ago) Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
552 (1474 years ago) Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the Ostrogoth king, Totila, is mortally wounded.
1097 (929 years ago) Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.
1431 (595 years ago) The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of the Kingdom of Castile during the Reconquista.
1520 (506 years ago) Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan after nightfall.
1523 (503 years ago) Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.
1543 (483 years ago) Having been defeated in the Battle of Solway Moss in the previous year, the Scots conclude the peace Treaty of Greenwich with the Kingdom of England. In it, they also agree to a marriage between the infant Queen Mary and Prince Edward, son of Henry VIII.
1569 (457 years ago) Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
1643 (383 years ago) First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London.
1690 (336 years ago) War of the Grand Alliance: Marshal de Luxembourg triumphs over an Anglo-Dutch army at the battle of Fleurus.
1690 (336 years ago) Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
1766 (260 years ago) François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
1770 (256 years ago) Lexell's Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 astronomical units (2,180,000 km; 1,360,000 mi).
1782 (244 years ago) Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1819 (207 years ago) Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819 (C/1819 N1). It is the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.
1823 (203 years ago) The five Central American nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica declare independence from the First Mexican Empire after being annexed the year prior.
1837 (189 years ago) A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
1841 (185 years ago) Thomas Lempriere and James Clark Ross carve a marker on the Isle of the Dead in Van Diemen's Land to measure tidal variations, one of the earliest surviving benchmarks for sea level rise.
1855 (171 years ago) Signing of the Quinault Treaty: The Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
1858 (168 years ago) Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London.
1862 (164 years ago) The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
1862 (164 years ago) Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
1862 (164 years ago) American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
1863 (163 years ago) Slavery is abolished in the Dutch colony of Surinam, a date subsequently celebrated as Ketikoti in independent Suriname.
1863 (163 years ago) American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
1867 (159 years ago) The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
1870 (156 years ago) The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
1873 (153 years ago) Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
1874 (152 years ago) The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
1878 (148 years ago) Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1879 (147 years ago) Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
1881 (145 years ago) The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
1881 (145 years ago) General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
1885 (141 years ago) The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1885 (141 years ago) The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
1890 (136 years ago) Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
1898 (128 years ago) Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
1901 (125 years ago) The French government enacts its anti-clerical legislation Law of Association prohibiting the formation of new monastic orders without governmental approval.
1903 (123 years ago) Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
1908 (118 years ago) SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
1911 (115 years ago) Germany dispatches the gunboat SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
1915 (111 years ago) World War I: Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
1916 (110 years ago) World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
1917 (109 years ago) World War I: Russia launches the "Kerensky offensive" against Austria-Hungary to capture Galicia, its final offensive of the war.
1917 (109 years ago) Chinese General Zhang Xun seizes control of Beijing and restores the monarchy, installing Puyi, last emperor of the Qing dynasty, to the throne. The restoration is reversed just shy of two weeks later, when Republican troops regain control of the capital.
1921 (105 years ago) The Chinese Communist Party is founded by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), who seized power in Russia after the 1917 October Revolution, and the Far Eastern Secretariat of the Communist International.
1922 (104 years ago) The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
1923 (103 years ago) The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration.
1924 (102 years ago) The National War Memorial for the Dominion of Newfoundland is inaugurated by Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig in St. John's, Newfoundland. The date commemorates the first day of the Battle of the Somme, where at Beaumont-Hamel, 86 percent of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment was wiped out.
1931 (95 years ago) United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
1931 (95 years ago) Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft (a Lockheed Vega).
1932 (94 years ago) Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, is formed.
1935 (91 years ago) In Regina, Saskatchewan, police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
1942 (84 years ago) World War II: start of the First Battle of El Alamein.
1942 (84 years ago) The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.
1943 (83 years ago) The City of Tokyo and the Prefecture of Tokyo are both replaced by the Tokyo Metropolis.
1946 (80 years ago) Crossroads Able is the first postwar nuclear weapon test.
1947 (79 years ago) The Philippine Air Force is established.
1948 (78 years ago) Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
1949 (77 years ago) The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.
1957 (69 years ago) The International Geophysical Year begins.
1958 (68 years ago) The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
1958 (68 years ago) Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
1959 (67 years ago) Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the US, the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
1960 (66 years ago) The Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) gains its independence from Italy. Concurrently, it unites as scheduled with the five-day-old State of Somaliland (the former British Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic.
1960 (66 years ago) Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
1962 (64 years ago) Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
1963 (63 years ago) ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
1963 (63 years ago) The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
1966 (60 years ago) The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
1966 (60 years ago) The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (first known as the 2nd Artillery Corps) is founded.
1967 (59 years ago) Merger Treaty: The European Community is formally created out of a merger between the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
1968 (58 years ago) The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1968 (58 years ago) The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
1968 (58 years ago) Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO in the United States.
1972 (54 years ago) The first Gay pride march in England takes place.
1976 (50 years ago) Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
1978 (48 years ago) The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.
1979 (47 years ago) Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 (46 years ago) "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1983 (43 years ago) A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
1983 (43 years ago) The Ministry of State Security is established as China's principal intelligence agency
1984 (42 years ago) The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
1987 (39 years ago) The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
1990 (36 years ago) German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
1991 (35 years ago) Cold War: The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
1991 (35 years ago) The Finnish operator Radiolinja is launched as the world's first GSM network.
1997 (29 years ago) China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Charles, Prince of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
1997 (29 years ago) Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-94, a re-flight of the prematurely-ended STS-83 mission with the same crew.
1999 (27 years ago) The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh. In Wales, the powers of the Welsh Secretary are transferred to the National Assembly.
2002 (24 years ago) The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.
2002 (24 years ago) Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.
2003 (23 years ago) Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
2004 (22 years ago) Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini–Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
2006 (20 years ago) The Qinghai–Tibet railway first operates in China.
2007 (19 years ago) Smoking bans in the United Kingdom culminate in a prohibition on smoking in all public indoor spaces in England.
2008 (18 years ago) Riots erupt in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
2013 (13 years ago) Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
2020 (6 years ago) The United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement replaces NAFTA.
2024 (2 years ago) At the centennial ceremony of the Dominion of Newfoundland National War Memorial, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission allows an unprecedented second Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The Royal Newfoundland Regiment soldier is entombed in the memorial at this ceremony.

Births (261)

1311 (715 years ago) Liu Bowen, Chinese military strategist, statesman and poet (died 1375)
1464 (562 years ago) Clara Gonzaga, Italian noble (died 1503)
1481 (545 years ago) Christian II of Denmark,
1500 (526 years ago) Federico Cesi (cardinal), Italian cardinal (died 1565)
1506 (520 years ago) Louis II of Hungary,
1534 (492 years ago) Frederick II of Denmark,
1553 (473 years ago) Peter Street, English carpenter and builder (died 1609)
1574 (452 years ago) Joseph Hall, English bishop and mystic (died 1656)
1586 (440 years ago) Claudio Saracini, Italian lute player and composer (died 1630)
1633 (393 years ago) Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian and author (died 1698)
1646 (380 years ago) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1716)
1663 (363 years ago) Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and theorist (died 1738)
1725 (301 years ago) Rhoda Delaval, English painter and aristocrat (died 1757)
1725 (301 years ago) Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (died 1807)
1726 (300 years ago) Acharya Bhikshu, Jain saint (died 1803)
1731 (295 years ago) Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Scottish-English admiral (died 1804)
1742 (284 years ago) Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (died 1799)
1771 (255 years ago) Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer and conductor (died 1839)
1788 (238 years ago) Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (died 1867)
1804 (222 years ago) Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist and politician (died 1886)
1804 (222 years ago) George Sand, French author and playwright (died 1876)
1807 (219 years ago) Thomas Green Clemson, American politician and educator, founder of Clemson University (died 1888)
1808 (218 years ago) Ygnacio del Valle, Mexican-American landowner (died 1880)
1814 (212 years ago) Robert Richard Torrens, Irish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of South Australia (died 1884)
1818 (208 years ago) Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian-Austrian physician and obstetrician (died 1865)
1818 (208 years ago) Karl von Vierordt, German physician, psychologist and academic (died 1884)
1822 (204 years ago) Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet and activist (died 1888)
1834 (192 years ago) Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet and author (died 1908)
1850 (176 years ago) Florence Earle Coates, American poet (died 1927)
1858 (168 years ago) Willard Metcalf, American painter (died 1925)
1858 (168 years ago) Velma Caldwell Melville, American editor and writer of prose and poetry (died 1924)
1859 (167 years ago) DeLancey W. Gill, American painter (died 1940)
1863 (163 years ago) William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (died 1892)
1869 (157 years ago) William Strunk Jr., American author and educator (died 1946)
1872 (154 years ago) Louis Blériot, French pilot and engineer (died 1936)
1872 (154 years ago) William Duddell, English physicist and engineer (died 1917)
1873 (153 years ago) Alice Guy-Blaché, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (died 1968)
1873 (153 years ago) Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 1954)
1875 (151 years ago) Joseph Weil, American con man (died 1976)
1876 (150 years ago) T. J. Ryan, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland (died 1921)
1878 (148 years ago) Jacques Rosenbaum, Estonian-German architect (died 1944)
1879 (147 years ago) Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1954)
1881 (145 years ago) Edward Battersby Bailey, English geologist (died 1965)
1882 (144 years ago) Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (died 1962)
1883 (143 years ago) Arthur Borton, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1933)
1885 (141 years ago) Dorothea Mackellar, Australian author and poet (died 1968)
1887 (139 years ago) Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar (died 1981)
1892 (134 years ago) James M. Cain, American author and journalist (died 1977)
1892 (134 years ago) László Lajtha, Hungarian composer and conductor (died 1963)
1899 (127 years ago) Thomas A. Dorsey, American pianist and composer (died 1993)
1899 (127 years ago) Charles Laughton, English-American actor and director (died 1962)
1899 (127 years ago) Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, President of Greece (died 1987)
1901 (125 years ago) Irna Phillips, American screenwriter (died 1973)
1902 (124 years ago) William Wyler, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (died 1981)
1903 (123 years ago) Amy Johnson, English pilot (died 1941)
1903 (123 years ago) Beatrix Lehmann, English actress (died 1979)
1906 (120 years ago) Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician and academic (died 1992)
1906 (120 years ago) Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founder of Estée Lauder Companies (died 2004)
1907 (119 years ago) Norman Pirie, Scottish-English biochemist and virologist (died 1997)
1909 (117 years ago) Emmett Toppino, American sprinter (died 1971)
1910 (116 years ago) Glenn Hardin, American hurdler (died 1975)
1911 (115 years ago) Arnold Alas, Estonian landscape architect and artist (died 1990)
1911 (115 years ago) Sergey Sokolov, Russian marshal and politician, Soviet Minister of Defence (died 2012)
1912 (114 years ago) David Brower, American environmentalist, founder of the Sierra Club Foundation (died 2000)
1912 (114 years ago) Sally Kirkland, American journalist (died 1989)
1913 (113 years ago) Frank Barrett, American baseball player (died 1998)
1913 (113 years ago) Lee Guttero, American basketball player (died 2004)
1913 (113 years ago) Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Maharashtra (died 1979)
1914 (112 years ago) Thomas Pearson, British Army officer (died 2019)
1914 (112 years ago) Christl Cranz, German alpine skier (died 2004)
1914 (112 years ago) Bernard B. Wolfe, American politician (died 2016)
1915 (111 years ago) Willie Dixon, American blues singer-songwriter, bass player, guitarist and producer (died 1992)
1915 (111 years ago) Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, British peer (died 2000)
1915 (111 years ago) Boots Poffenberger, American baseball pitcher (died 1999)
1915 (111 years ago) Joseph Ransohoff, American soldier and neurosurgeon (died 2001)
1915 (111 years ago) Jean Stafford, American writer (died 1979)
1915 (111 years ago) Nguyễn Văn Linh, Vietnamese politician (died 1998)
1916 (110 years ago) Olivia de Havilland, British-American actress (died 2020)
1916 (110 years ago) Iosif Shklovsky, Ukrainian astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1985)
1916 (110 years ago) George C. Stoney, American director and producer (died 2012)
1917 (109 years ago) Álvaro Domecq y Díez, Spanish aristocrat (died 2005)
1918 (108 years ago) Ralph Young, American singer and actor (died 2008)
1918 (108 years ago) Ahmed Deedat, South African writer and public speaker (died 2005)
1918 (108 years ago) Pedro Yap, Filipino lawyer (died 2003)
1919 (107 years ago) Arnold Meri, Estonian colonel (died 2009)
1919 (107 years ago) Malik Dohan al-Hassan, Iraqi politician (died 2021)
1919 (107 years ago) Gerald E. Miller, American vice admiral (died 2014)
1920 (106 years ago) Henri Amouroux, French historian and journalist (died 2007)
1920 (106 years ago) Harold Sakata, Japanese-American wrestler and actor (died 1982)
1920 (106 years ago) George I. Fujimoto, American-Japanese chemist (died 2023)
1921 (105 years ago) Seretse Khama, Batswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana (died 1980)
1921 (105 years ago) Michalina Wisłocka, Polish gynecologist and sexologist (died 2005)
1921 (105 years ago) Arthur Johnson, Canadian canoeist (died 2003)
1922 (104 years ago) Toshi Seeger, German-American activist, co-founder of the Clearwater Festival (died 2013)
1922 (104 years ago) Mordechai Bibi, Israeli politician (died 2023)
1923 (103 years ago) Scotty Bowers, American marine, author and pimp (died 2019)
1924 (102 years ago) Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer and manager (died 2013)
1924 (102 years ago) Florence Stanley, American actress (died 2003)
1924 (102 years ago) Georges Rivière, French actor (died unknown)
1925 (101 years ago) Farley Granger, American actor (died 2011)
1925 (101 years ago) Art McNally, American football referee (died 2023)
1926 (100 years ago) Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
1926 (100 years ago) Carl Hahn, German businessman (died 2023)
1926 (100 years ago) Mohamed Abshir Muse, Somali general (died 2017)
1926 (100 years ago) Hans Werner Henze, German composer and educator (died 2012)
1927 (99 years ago) Alan J. Charig, English paleontologist and author (died 1997)
1927 (99 years ago) Winfield Dunn, American politician, 43rd Governor of Tennessee (died 2024)
1927 (99 years ago) Joseph Martin Sartoris, American bishop (died 2025)
1927 (99 years ago) Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India (died 2007)
1929 (97 years ago) Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)
1930 (96 years ago) Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American director and producer (died 2005)
1930 (96 years ago) Carol Chomsky, American linguist and academic (died 2008)
1931 (95 years ago) Leslie Caron, French actress and dancer
1932 (94 years ago) Ze'ev Schiff, French-Israeli journalist and author (died 2007)
1933 (93 years ago) C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (died 2010)
1934 (92 years ago) Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter (died 2009)
1934 (92 years ago) Jamie Farr, American actor
1934 (92 years ago) Jean Marsh, English actress and screenwriter (died 2025)
1934 (92 years ago) Sydney Pollack, American actor, director and producer (died 2008)
1935 (91 years ago) James Cotton, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (died 2017)
1935 (91 years ago) David Prowse, English actor (died 2020)
1936 (90 years ago) Wally Amos, American entrepreneur, founder of Famous Amos (died 2024)
1938 (88 years ago) Craig Anderson, American baseball player and coach
1938 (88 years ago) Hariprasad Chaurasia, Indian flute player and composer
1939 (87 years ago) Karen Black, American actress (died 2013)
1939 (87 years ago) Delaney Bramlett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (died 2008)
1940 (86 years ago) Craig Brown, Scottish footballer and manager (died 2023)
1940 (86 years ago) Ela Gandhi, South African activist and politician
1940 (86 years ago) Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (died 1987)
1941 (85 years ago) Rod Gilbert, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2021)
1941 (85 years ago) Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)
1941 (85 years ago) Nicolae Saramandu, Romanian linguist and philologist
1941 (85 years ago) Myron Scholes, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 (85 years ago) Twyla Tharp, American dancer and choreographer
1942 (84 years ago) Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Iraqi field marshal and politician (died 2020)
1942 (84 years ago) Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress
1942 (84 years ago) Andraé Crouch, American singer-songwriter, producer and pastor (died 2015)
1942 (84 years ago) Julia Higgins, English chemist and academic
1943 (83 years ago) Philip Brunelle, American conductor and organist
1943 (83 years ago) Peeter Lepp, Estonian politician, 37th Mayor of Tallinn
1943 (83 years ago) Jeff Wayne, American composer, musician and lyricist
1944 (82 years ago) Nurul Haque Miah, Bangladeshi professor and writer (died 2021)
1945 (81 years ago) Mike Burstyn, American actor and singer
1945 (81 years ago) Debbie Harry, American singer-songwriter and actress
1946 (80 years ago) Mick Aston, English archaeologist and academic (died 2013)
1946 (80 years ago) Erkki Tuomioja, Finnish sergeant and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs
1946 (80 years ago) Kojo Laing, Ghanaian novelist and poet (died 2017)
1947 (79 years ago) Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese race car driver
1947 (79 years ago) Malcolm Wicks, English academic and politician (died 2012)
1948 (78 years ago) John Ford, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 (77 years ago) Néjia Ben Mabrouk, Tunisian-Belgian director and screenwriter
1949 (77 years ago) John Farnham, English-Australian singer-songwriter
1949 (77 years ago) David Hogan, American composer and educator (died 1996)
1949 (77 years ago) Venkaiah Naidu, Indian lawyer and politician
1950 (76 years ago) David Duke, American white supremacist, politician and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard
1951 (75 years ago) Trevor Eve, English actor and producer
1951 (75 years ago) Anne Feeney, American singer-songwriter and activist (died 2021)
1951 (75 years ago) Julia Goodfellow, English physicist and academic
1951 (75 years ago) Klaus-Peter Justus, German runner
1951 (75 years ago) Tom Kozelko, American basketball player
1951 (75 years ago) Terrence Mann, American actor, singer and dancer
1951 (75 years ago) Fred Schneider, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1951 (75 years ago) Victor Willis, American singer-songwriter, pianist and actor (died 2026)
1952 (74 years ago) Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor, producer and screenwriter
1952 (74 years ago) David Arkenstone, American composer and performer
1952 (74 years ago) David Lane, English oncologist and academic
1952 (74 years ago) Steve Shutt, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1952 (74 years ago) Timothy J. Tobias, American pianist and composer (died 2006)
1953 (73 years ago) Lawrence Gonzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Malta
1953 (73 years ago) Mike Haynes, American football player
1953 (73 years ago) Jadranka Kosor, Croatian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Croatia
1954 (72 years ago) Keith Whitley, American singer and guitarist (died 1989)
1954 (72 years ago) Hossein Nuri, Iranian artist and director
1955 (71 years ago) Nikolai Demidenko, Russian pianist and educator
1955 (71 years ago) Li Keqiang, Chinese economist and politician, 7th Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 2023)
1955 (71 years ago) Lisa Scottoline, American lawyer and author
1955 (71 years ago) Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi, Tongan politician and military officer, Deputy Prime Minister (died 2021)
1956 (70 years ago) Alan Ruck, American actor
1957 (69 years ago) Lisa Blount, American actress and producer (died 2010)
1957 (69 years ago) Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
1957 (69 years ago) Sean O'Driscoll, English footballer and manager
1958 (68 years ago) Jack Dyer Crouch II, American diplomat, United States Deputy National Security Advisor
1958 (68 years ago) Louise Penny, Canadian mystery novelist
1960 (66 years ago) Michael Beattie, Australian rugby league player and coach
1960 (66 years ago) Lynn Jennings, American runner
1960 (66 years ago) Evelyn "Champagne" King, American soul/disco singer
1960 (66 years ago) Kevin Swords, American rugby player
1961 (65 years ago) Malcolm Elliott, English cyclist
1961 (65 years ago) Ivan Kaye, English actor
1961 (65 years ago) Carl Lewis, American long jumper and runner
1961 (65 years ago) Diana, Princess of Wales (died 1997)
1961 (65 years ago) Michelle Wright, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962 (64 years ago) Andre Braugher, American actor (died 2023)
1962 (64 years ago) Mokhzani Mahathir, Malaysian businessman
1963 (63 years ago) Roddy Bottum, American singer and keyboard player
1963 (63 years ago) Linda Fagan, American Coast Guard Admiral
1963 (63 years ago) Nick Giannopoulos, Australian actor
1963 (63 years ago) David Wood, American lawyer and environmentalist (died 2006)
1964 (62 years ago) Bernard Laporte, French rugby player and coach
1965 (61 years ago) Carl Fogarty, English motorcycle racer
1965 (61 years ago) Garry Schofield, English rugby player and coach
1965 (61 years ago) Harald Zwart, Norwegian director and producer
1966 (60 years ago) Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer and coach
1966 (60 years ago) Shawn Burr, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2013)
1967 (59 years ago) Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American model and actress
1969 (57 years ago) Séamus Egan, American-Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 (55 years ago) Missy Elliott, American rapper, producer, dancer and actress
1971 (55 years ago) Julianne Nicholson, American actress
1974 (52 years ago) Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorian race walker
1974 (52 years ago) Jonathan Roumie, American actor
1975 (51 years ago) Sean Colson, American basketball player and coach
1975 (51 years ago) Sufjan Stevens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 (50 years ago) Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer and coach
1976 (50 years ago) Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer
1976 (50 years ago) Albert Torrens, Australian rugby league player
1976 (50 years ago) Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer and manager
1976 (50 years ago) Szymon Ziółkowski, Polish hammer thrower
1977 (49 years ago) Tom Frager, Senegalese-French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 (49 years ago) Keigo Hayashi, Japanese musician
1977 (49 years ago) Jarome Iginla, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 (49 years ago) Liv Tyler, American actress
1979 (47 years ago) Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist and actor
1980 (46 years ago) Nelson Cruz, Dominican-American baseball player
1981 (45 years ago) Carlo Del Fava, South African-Italian rugby player
1981 (45 years ago) Tadhg Kennelly, Irish-Australian footballer
1982 (44 years ago) Justin Huber, Australian baseball player
1982 (44 years ago) Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1982 (44 years ago) Adrian Ward, American football player
1982 (44 years ago) Fedi Nuril, Indonesian actor, model, and musician
1982 (44 years ago) Hilarie Burton, American actress
1983 (43 years ago) Leeteuk, South Korean singer and entertainer
1984 (42 years ago) Donald Thomas, Bahamian high jumper
1985 (41 years ago) Chris Perez, American baseball player
1985 (41 years ago) Léa Seydoux, French actor
1986 (40 years ago) Charlie Blackmon, American baseball player
1986 (40 years ago) Andrew Lee, Australian footballer
1986 (40 years ago) Julian Prochnow, German footballer
1987 (39 years ago) Michael Schrader, German decathlete
1988 (38 years ago) Dedé, Brazilian footballer
1988 (38 years ago) Aleksander Lesun, Russian modern pentathlete
1989 (37 years ago) Kent Bazemore, American basketball player
1989 (37 years ago) Hannah Murray, English actress
1989 (37 years ago) Daniel Ricciardo, Australian race car driver
1991 (35 years ago) Lucas Vázquez, Spanish footballer
1991 (35 years ago) Michael Wacha, American baseball player
1992 (34 years ago) Aaron Sanchez, American baseball player
1994 (32 years ago) Chloé Paquet, French tennis player
1995 (31 years ago) Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo, Belgian footballer
1995 (31 years ago) Savvy Shields, Miss America 2017
1995 (31 years ago) Taeyong, South Korea rapper
1996 (30 years ago) Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater
1998 (28 years ago) Chloe Bailey, American singer-songwriter and actress
1998 (28 years ago) Susan Bandecchi, Swiss tennis player
1998 (28 years ago) Aleksandra Golovkina, Lithuanian figure skater
2000 (26 years ago) Lalu Muhammad Zohri, Indonesian sprinter
2001 (25 years ago) Chosen Jacobs, American actor and singer
2001 (25 years ago) Theo, South Korean singer-songwriter
2003 (23 years ago) Tate McRae, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer
2003 (23 years ago) Storm Reid, American actress
2004 (22 years ago) Daniela Avanzini, American singer and dancer
2004 (22 years ago) Alejandro Garnacho, Spanish-Argentine footballer

Deaths (116)

552 (1474 years ago) Totila, Ostrogoth king
992 (1034 years ago) Heonjeong, Korean queen (born 966)
1109 (917 years ago) Alfonso VI, king of León and Castile (born 1040)
1224 (802 years ago) Hōjō Yoshitoki, regent of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan (born 1163)
1242 (784 years ago) Chagatai Khan, Mongol ruler (born 1183)
1277 (749 years ago) Baibars, Egyptian sultan (born 1223)
1287 (739 years ago) Narathihapate, Burmese king (born 1238)
1321 (705 years ago) María de Molina, queen of Castile and León
1348 (678 years ago) Joan, English princess
1555 (471 years ago) John Bradford, English reformer, prebendary of St. Paul's (born 1510)
1589 (437 years ago) Lady Saigō, Japanese concubine (born 1552)
1592 (434 years ago) Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer and educator (born 1535)
1614 (412 years ago) Isaac Casaubon, French philologist and scholar (born 1559)
1622 (404 years ago) William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, English politician (born 1575)
1681 (345 years ago) Oliver Plunkett, Irish archbishop and saint (born 1629)
1736 (290 years ago) Ahmed III, Ottoman sultan (born 1673)
1749 (277 years ago) William Jones, Welsh mathematician and academic (born 1675)
1774 (252 years ago) Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (born 1705)
1782 (244 years ago) Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1730)
1784 (242 years ago) Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (born 1710)
1787 (239 years ago) Charles de Rohan, French marshal (born 1715)
1819 (207 years ago) The Public Universal Friend, American evangelist (born 1752)
1828 (198 years ago) Lyncoya Jackson, a Muscogee war orphan adopted by Andrew Jackson
1839 (187 years ago) Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (born 1785)
1860 (166 years ago) Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (born 1800)
1863 (163 years ago) John F. Reynolds, American general (born 1820)
1884 (142 years ago) Allan Pinkerton, Scottish-American detective and spy (born 1819)
1887 (139 years ago) Thomas Francis Meagher, Leader of the Young Ireland rebellion of 1848, Commander of the Irish Brigade in the US Civil War (born 1823)
1896 (130 years ago) Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (born 1811)
1905 (121 years ago) John Hay, American journalist and politician, 37th United States Secretary of State (born 1838)
1912 (114 years ago) Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (born 1875)
1925 (101 years ago) Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (born 1866)
1934 (92 years ago) Ernst Röhm, German paramilitary commander, co-founder and leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA) (born 1887)
1942 (84 years ago) Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish writer (born 1857)
1943 (83 years ago) Willem Arondeus, Dutch artist, author and anti-Nazi resistance fighter (born 1894)
1944 (82 years ago) Carl Mayer, Austrian-English screenwriter (born 1894)
1944 (82 years ago) Tanya Savicheva, Russian author (born 1930)
1948 (78 years ago) Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (born 1904)
1950 (76 years ago) Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and educator (born 1865)
1950 (76 years ago) Eliel Saarinen, Finnish-American architect, co-designed the National Museum of Finland (born 1873)
1951 (75 years ago) Tadeusz Borowski, Polish poet, novelist and journalist (born 1922)
1961 (65 years ago) Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author (born 1894)
1962 (64 years ago) Purushottam Das Tandon, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1882)
1962 (64 years ago) Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (born 1882)
1964 (62 years ago) Pierre Monteux, French-American viola player and conductor (born 1875)
1965 (61 years ago) Wally Hammond, English cricketer (born 1903)
1965 (61 years ago) Robert Ruark, American journalist and author (born 1915)
1966 (60 years ago) Frank Verner, American runner (born 1883)
1967 (59 years ago) Gerhard Ritter, German historian and academic (born 1888)
1968 (58 years ago) Fritz Bauer, German judge and politician (born 1903)
1971 (55 years ago) William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1890)
1971 (55 years ago) Learie Constantine, Trinidadian-English cricketer, lawyer and politician (born 1901)
1974 (52 years ago) Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, President of Argentina (born 1895)
1978 (48 years ago) Kurt Student, German general and pilot (born 1890)
1981 (45 years ago) Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese author and poet (born 1921)
1983 (43 years ago) Buckminster Fuller, American architect, designed the Montreal Biosphère (born 1895)
1984 (42 years ago) Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (born 1904)
1990 (36 years ago) Jurriaan Schrofer, Dutch sculptor, designer and educator (born 1926)
1991 (35 years ago) Michael Landon, American actor, director and producer (born 1936)
1992 (34 years ago) Franco Cristaldi, Italian screenwriter and producer (born 1924)
1994 (32 years ago) Merriam Modell, American author (born 1908)
1995 (31 years ago) Wolfman Jack, American radio host (born 1938)
1995 (31 years ago) Ian Parkin, English guitarist (Be-Bop Deluxe) (born 1950)
1996 (30 years ago) William T. Cahill, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey (born 1904)
1996 (30 years ago) Margaux Hemingway, American model and actress (born 1954)
1996 (30 years ago) Steve Tesich, Serbian-American author and screenwriter (born 1942)
1997 (29 years ago) Robert Mitchum, American actor (born 1917)
1997 (29 years ago) Charles Werner, American cartoonist (born 1909)
1999 (27 years ago) Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American director and producer (born 1908)
1999 (27 years ago) Forrest Mars Sr., American businessman, creator of M&M's and the Mars chocolate bar (born 1904)
1999 (27 years ago) Sylvia Sidney, American actress (born 1910)
1999 (27 years ago) Sola Sierra, Chilean human rights activist (born 1935)
2000 (26 years ago) Walter Matthau, American actor (born 1920)
2001 (25 years ago) Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
2001 (25 years ago) Jean-Louis Rosier, French race car driver (born 1925)
2003 (23 years ago) Herbie Mann, American flute player and saxophonist (born 1930)
2004 (22 years ago) Peter Barnes, English playwright and screenwriter (born 1931)
2004 (22 years ago) Marlon Brando, American actor and director (born 1924)
2004 (22 years ago) Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer and conductor (born 1909)
2005 (21 years ago) Renaldo Benson, American singer-songwriter (Four Tops) (born 1936)
2005 (21 years ago) Gus Bodnar, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1923)
2005 (21 years ago) Luther Vandross, American singer-songwriter and producer (Change) (born 1951)
2006 (20 years ago) Ryutaro Hashimoto, Japanese politician, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (born 1937)
2006 (20 years ago) Robert Lepikson, Estonian race car driver and politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior (born 1952)
2006 (20 years ago) Fred Trueman, English cricketer and sportscaster (born 1931)
2008 (18 years ago) Mel Galley, English guitarist (born 1948)
2009 (17 years ago) Karl Malden, American actor (born 1912)
2009 (17 years ago) Onni Palaste, Finnish soldier and author (born 1917)
2009 (17 years ago) Mollie Sugden, English actress (born 1922)
2010 (16 years ago) Don Coryell, American football player and coach (born 1924)
2010 (16 years ago) Arnold Friberg, American painter and illustrator (born 1913)
2010 (16 years ago) Ilene Woods, American actress and singer (born 1929)
2012 (14 years ago) Peter E. Gillquist, American priest and author (born 1938)
2012 (14 years ago) Ossie Hibbert, Jamaican-American keyboard player and producer (born 1950)
2012 (14 years ago) Evelyn Lear, American operatic soprano (born 1926)
2012 (14 years ago) Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot and astronaut (born 1961)
2012 (14 years ago) Jack Richardson, American author and playwright (born 1934)
2013 (13 years ago) Sidney Bryan Berry, American general (born 1926)
2013 (13 years ago) Charles Foley, American game designer, co-creator of Twister (born 1930)
2013 (13 years ago) William H. Gray, American minister and politician (born 1941)
2014 (12 years ago) Jean Garon, Canadian economist, lawyer and politician (born 1938)
2014 (12 years ago) Stephen Gaskin, American activist, co-founder of The Farm (born 1935)
2014 (12 years ago) Bob Jones, English lawyer and politician (born 1955)
2014 (12 years ago) Anatoly Kornukov, Ukrainian-Russian general (born 1942)
2014 (12 years ago) Walter Dean Myers, American author and poet (born 1937)
2015 (11 years ago) Val Doonican, Irish singer and television host (born 1927)
2015 (11 years ago) Czesław Olech, Polish mathematician and academic (born 1931)
2015 (11 years ago) Nicholas Winton, English lieutenant and humanitarian (born 1909)
2016 (10 years ago) Robin Hardy, English author and film director (born 1929)
2019 (7 years ago) Bogusław Schaeffer, Polish composer (born 1929)
2021 (5 years ago) Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (born 1939)
2023 (3 years ago) Dilano van 't Hoff, Dutch race car driver (born 2004)
2024 (2 years ago) Ismail Kadare, Albanian novelist (born 1936)
2024 (2 years ago) Robert Towne, American screenwriter (born 1934)
2025 (a year ago) Alex Delvecchio, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1931)
2025 (a year ago) Jimmy Swaggart, American pastor and television host (born 1935)