1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)
1738 - Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1792)
1923 - A Louise Brough Clapp, Okla, tennis player (4 time Wimbledon champ)
1596 - Isaac Elsevier, book publisher
1923 - Ad[rianus C] de Besten, Dutch literary (River Basin)
1923 - Morschi Mirando, [Thomas Weiss], German/Dutch gypsy artist
1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)
1962 - Jeffrey Nordling, American actor
1963 - Alex Kingston, English actress
1926 - Ilhan Mimaroglu, composer
1964 - Peter Berg, American film actor, director and producer
1964 - Shane Richie, British actor
1793 - Jan F Willems, Flemish writer/philologist
1927 - Raymond Jackson, [Jaki], British cartoonist
1927 - Robert Mosbacher, US politician(?)
1965 - Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, British television presenter
1812 - William Vincent Wallace, composer
1928 - Peter Roger Hunt, London England, director (Dr No)
1819 - Henry Tate, English sugar producer (Tate Gallery)
1967 - Andrew Zesers, cricketer (played for Australia in 1987 World Cup)
1822 - Allison Nelson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1929 - Timothy Carey, American actor (d. 1994)
1930 - David Gentleman, designer/painter
1832 - William Ruffin Cox, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australia, publisher (NY Post)/CEO (FOX-TV)
1932 - Nigel Lawson, British government official (The Power Game)
1860 - Thomas Hastings, NYC, architect (NY Public Library)
1970 - Brett Liddle, Boksburg S Afr, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Newcastle)
1863 - Wobbe de Vries, Dutch linguist
1970 - Delia Gallagher, American journalist
1934 - Joep Straesser, composer (Blossom songs, Ramasasiri)
1971 - Jiri Vykoukai, Olomouc CZ, hockey player (Team Czech Rep, Oly-gold-98)
1934 - Sam Donaldson, El Paso Tx, ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time)
1971 - Martin Rucinsky, Most Cze, NHL left wing (Canadiens, Oly-Gold-1998)
1934 - Sam Donaldson, American reporter
1972 - Carl Greenwood, NFL cornerback (NY Jets)
1972 - Chris Shelling, WLAF cornerback (Rhein Fire)
1937 - John Ward, NZ cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests 1964-68)
1937 - Carlos Larraaga, Spanish actor
1938 - Malcolm Keith Speed, British high court judge
1939 - Lorraine Hunt, former Lieutenant Governor of Nevada
1890 - Vannevar Bush, developed 1st electronic analogue computer
1973 - Martin Hiden, Austrian footballer
1974 - Billy Granville, linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1898 - Dorothy Gish, Massillon OH, film actress (Orphans of the Storm)
1974 - Kevin Donovan, Des Plaines Ill, figure skater (1997 Great Lakes-2nd)
1945 - Harvey Mandel, rock guitarist (Drei Amerikanische LP's)
1975 - Cedric Henderson, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1903 - George Dickinson, cricketer (bowled for NZ in their 1st 3 Tests)
1903 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (d. 1989)
1945 - Dock Ellis, American baseball player
1904 - Maurits Wertheim, Dutch writer (Isaac De Fuentes)
1977 - Becky Hammon , WNBA player
1978 - Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer
1907 - Helmuth J von Moltke, German politician (July 20th plot)
1978 - Christopher Rice, American author
1907 - Margaret Herbison, British minister (Lab)
1979 - Benji Madden, American guitarist (Good Charlotte)
1949 - Richard de Bois, Dutch drummer/producer
1979 - Elton Brand, American basketball player
1980 - Paul Scharner, Austrian footballer
1952 - Douglas Adams, England, author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
1981 - David Anders, American actor
1912 - Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish composer (El gato con botas)
1913 - John Jacob Weinzweig, Toronto Canada, composer (Enchanted Hill)
1955 - [Kater]Nina Hagen, East Berlin German DR, actress (Blue Angel)
1956 - Curtis L Brown Jr, NC, astronaut (STS 47, STS 66, 77, 85, sk:95)
1956 - D. J. MacHale, American author and television writer
1956 - Rob Paulsen, American voice actor
1982 - Brian Anderson, Major League Baseball player
1982 - Thora Birch, American actress
1919 - Mercer Ellington, son of Duke Ellington/bandleader
1984 - Anna Tsuchiya, Japanese model, actress and singer
1958 - Flemming Rose, Danish journalist
1958 - Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, interim President of Iraq
1921 - Astor Piazzolla, Argentina composer (Tango Nuevo)
1921 - F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr, US, sci-fi author (Star Rebel)
1987 - Marc-Andre Gragnani, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Mike Percy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
1922 - Thom Kelling, Dutch singer/guitarist (Programa de Manha)
222 - Emperor Elagabalus is assassinated, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, by the Praetorian Guard during a revolt. Their mutilated bodies are dragged through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber.
1387 - Battle of Castagnaro: English condottiero Sir John Hawkwood leads Padova to victory in a factional clash with Verona.
1649 - The Frondeurs and the French sign the Peace of Rueil.
1702 - The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
1708 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
1784 - The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
1811 - During Andr Massna's retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Massna time to escape.
1824 - The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1845 - The Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Maori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand.
1848 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
1851 - The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
1861 - American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1864 - The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.
1867 - The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris.
1872 - Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
1872 - The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture.
1888 - The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
1917 - World War I: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
1927 - In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
1931 - Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
1941 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
1942 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur leaves Corregidor.
1945 - World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
1945 - World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state, is established with B?o ?i as its ruler.
1977 - The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
1978 - Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Al Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
1983 - Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1990 - Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1990 - Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
1993 - Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
1999 - Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2004 - Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people.
2006 - Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
2007 - Russian helicopters reportedly attack the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia, an accusation that Russia categorically denies later.
2009 - Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.
2010 - Economist and businessman Sebastin Piera is sworn in as President of Chile, while three earthquakes, the strongest measuring magnitude 6.9 and all centered next to Pichilemu, capital of Cardenal Caro Province, hit central Chile during the ceremony.
2011 - An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
1738 - Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1792)
1923 - A Louise Brough Clapp, Okla, tennis player (4 time Wimbledon champ)
1596 - Isaac Elsevier, book publisher
1923 - Ad[rianus C] de Besten, Dutch literary (River Basin)
1923 - Morschi Mirando, [Thomas Weiss], German/Dutch gypsy artist
1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)
1962 - Jeffrey Nordling, American actor
1963 - Alex Kingston, English actress
1926 - Ilhan Mimaroglu, composer
1964 - Peter Berg, American film actor, director and producer
1964 - Shane Richie, British actor
1793 - Jan F Willems, Flemish writer/philologist
1927 - Raymond Jackson, [Jaki], British cartoonist
1927 - Robert Mosbacher, US politician(?)
1965 - Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, British television presenter
1812 - William Vincent Wallace, composer
1928 - Peter Roger Hunt, London England, director (Dr No)
1819 - Henry Tate, English sugar producer (Tate Gallery)
1967 - Andrew Zesers, cricketer (played for Australia in 1987 World Cup)
1822 - Allison Nelson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1929 - Timothy Carey, American actor (d. 1994)
1930 - David Gentleman, designer/painter
1832 - William Ruffin Cox, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australia, publisher (NY Post)/CEO (FOX-TV)
1932 - Nigel Lawson, British government official (The Power Game)
1860 - Thomas Hastings, NYC, architect (NY Public Library)
1970 - Brett Liddle, Boksburg S Afr, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Newcastle)
1863 - Wobbe de Vries, Dutch linguist
1970 - Delia Gallagher, American journalist
1934 - Joep Straesser, composer (Blossom songs, Ramasasiri)
1971 - Jiri Vykoukai, Olomouc CZ, hockey player (Team Czech Rep, Oly-gold-98)
1934 - Sam Donaldson, El Paso Tx, ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time)
1971 - Martin Rucinsky, Most Cze, NHL left wing (Canadiens, Oly-Gold-1998)
1934 - Sam Donaldson, American reporter
1972 - Carl Greenwood, NFL cornerback (NY Jets)
1972 - Chris Shelling, WLAF cornerback (Rhein Fire)
1937 - John Ward, NZ cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests 1964-68)
1937 - Carlos Larraaga, Spanish actor
1938 - Malcolm Keith Speed, British high court judge
1939 - Lorraine Hunt, former Lieutenant Governor of Nevada
1890 - Vannevar Bush, developed 1st electronic analogue computer
1973 - Martin Hiden, Austrian footballer
1974 - Billy Granville, linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1898 - Dorothy Gish, Massillon OH, film actress (Orphans of the Storm)
1974 - Kevin Donovan, Des Plaines Ill, figure skater (1997 Great Lakes-2nd)
1945 - Harvey Mandel, rock guitarist (Drei Amerikanische LP's)
1975 - Cedric Henderson, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1903 - George Dickinson, cricketer (bowled for NZ in their 1st 3 Tests)
1903 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (d. 1989)
1945 - Dock Ellis, American baseball player
1904 - Maurits Wertheim, Dutch writer (Isaac De Fuentes)
1977 - Becky Hammon , WNBA player
1978 - Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer
1907 - Helmuth J von Moltke, German politician (July 20th plot)
1978 - Christopher Rice, American author
1907 - Margaret Herbison, British minister (Lab)
1979 - Benji Madden, American guitarist (Good Charlotte)
1949 - Richard de Bois, Dutch drummer/producer
1979 - Elton Brand, American basketball player
1980 - Paul Scharner, Austrian footballer
1952 - Douglas Adams, England, author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
1981 - David Anders, American actor
1912 - Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish composer (El gato con botas)
1913 - John Jacob Weinzweig, Toronto Canada, composer (Enchanted Hill)
1955 - [Kater]Nina Hagen, East Berlin German DR, actress (Blue Angel)
1956 - Curtis L Brown Jr, NC, astronaut (STS 47, STS 66, 77, 85, sk:95)
1956 - D. J. MacHale, American author and television writer
1956 - Rob Paulsen, American voice actor
1982 - Brian Anderson, Major League Baseball player
1982 - Thora Birch, American actress
1919 - Mercer Ellington, son of Duke Ellington/bandleader
1984 - Anna Tsuchiya, Japanese model, actress and singer
1958 - Flemming Rose, Danish journalist
1958 - Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, interim President of Iraq
1921 - Astor Piazzolla, Argentina composer (Tango Nuevo)
1921 - F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr, US, sci-fi author (Star Rebel)
1987 - Marc-Andre Gragnani, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Mike Percy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
1922 - Thom Kelling, Dutch singer/guitarist (Programa de Manha)
222 - Emperor Elagabalus is assassinated, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, by the Praetorian Guard during a revolt. Their mutilated bodies are dragged through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber.
1387 - Battle of Castagnaro: English condottiero Sir John Hawkwood leads Padova to victory in a factional clash with Verona.
1649 - The Frondeurs and the French sign the Peace of Rueil.
1702 - The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
1708 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
1784 - The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
1811 - During Andr Massna's retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Massna time to escape.
1824 - The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1845 - The Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Maori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand.
1848 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
1851 - The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
1861 - American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1864 - The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.
1867 - The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris.
1872 - Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
1872 - The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture.
1888 - The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
1917 - World War I: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
1927 - In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
1931 - Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
1941 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
1942 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur leaves Corregidor.
1945 - World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
1945 - World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state, is established with B?o ?i as its ruler.
1977 - The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
1978 - Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Al Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
1983 - Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1990 - Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1990 - Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
1993 - Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
1999 - Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2004 - Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people.
2006 - Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
2007 - Russian helicopters reportedly attack the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia, an accusation that Russia categorically denies later.
2009 - Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.
2010 - Economist and businessman Sebastin Piera is sworn in as President of Chile, while three earthquakes, the strongest measuring magnitude 6.9 and all centered next to Pichilemu, capital of Cardenal Caro Province, hit central Chile during the ceremony.
2011 - An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
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