- 1912 - While campaigning inMilwaukee, Wisconsin, former foresittendTheodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper William Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech.
- 1926 - Thechildren's bookWinnie-the-Pooh, byA. A. Milne, is published for the first time.
- 1944 -Ōðru Woruldgūþ: Given the choice between a public treason trial and a certaindeath by firing squad oþþeselfcƿalu mid ƿeorþlicnesse,Þēodisc Field MarshalErwin Rommel chooses the latter.
- 1947 -Chuck Yeager flies aBell X-1 faster than thespeed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
- 1953 -Qibya massacre ƿæs gedon beIsrahelisc þreat in þorp þæsǷest Iordanofer.
- 1960 - US foresittendlic candidateJohn F. Kennedy first suggests the idea for theFriþ Ƿerod.
- 1962 -Cuban Missile Crisis begins: AU-2 flight overCuba takes photos of Sovietnuclear weapons being installed.
- 1964 -Leonid Brezhnev becomes general secretary of theCPSU and leader of theSoviet Union, oustingNikita Khrushchev.
- 1964 -American civil rights movement leader Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr becomes the youngest recipient of theNobel Peace Prize.
- 1966 - The city ofMontreal inaugurates itsmetro system (seeMontreal Metro).
- 1968 -Vietnam War: TheUnited States Department of Defense announces that theUnited States Army andUnited States Marines will be sending about 24,000 troops back toVietnam for involuntary second tours.
- 1979 - The firstgay rights march in þǣmGeānlǣhtan Rīcum takes place inWashington, DC, involving many tens of thousands of people.
- 1981 - Vice PresidentHosni Mubarak is elected Foresittend ofÆgypte one week afterAnwar Sadat was assassinated.
- 1987 - 18 month oldJessica McClure ("Baby Jessica") falls down an abandoned well inMidland, Texas (her nationally televised rescue takes 58 hours).
- 1998 -Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996Centennial Olympic Park bombing inAtlanta, Georgia.
- 1493 -Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimyo (d.1568)
- 1630 -Sophia Hanoveres
- 1633 -James II Englalandes (James VII Scotlandes)
- 1644 -William Penn,Englisc founder ofPennsylvania (d.1718)
- 1773 -Commission of National Education (PolishKomisja Edukacji Narodowej) formed in thePolish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is considered to be the firstministry of education in the history of mankind
- 1842 -Joe Start,baseball player (d.1927)
- 1857 -Elwood Haynes,automobile pioneer
- 1861 -Artur Gavazzi,Croatiangeographer (d.1944)
- 1873 -Ray Ewry, American athlete
- 1882 -Eamon de Valera,Īrisc politician and patriot (d.1975)
- 1888 -Katherine Mansfield, Nīƿe Sǣland ƿrītere (d.1923)
- 1890 -Dwight D. Eisenhower,USGeneral of the Army, 34eforesittend þǣm Geānlǣhtan Underrīcum (d.1969)
- 1893 -Lillian Gish, actress (d.1993)
- 1894 -E. E. Cummings,Americaniscpoet (d.1962)
- 1904 -Christian Pineau,FrenciscWorld War II resistance fighter
- 1906 -Hannah Arendt, intellectual (d. 1975)
- 1906 -Hassan al Banna, founder ofMuslim Brotherhood movement.
- 1908 -Allan Jones, actor, singer (d.1992)
- 1910 -John Wooden,basketball coach
- 1911 -Le Duc Tho,Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d.1990)
- 1914 -Dick Durrance, Americaniscskier (d.2004)
- 1916 -C. Everett Koop,United States Surgeon General
- 1927 -Roger Moore, actor
- 1930 -Joseph Mobutu, ForesittendZaires (d.1997)
- 1935 -La Monte Young, Americanisc composer
- 1938 -John W. Dean III, former White House counsel, Watergate figure
- 1938 -Farah Diba Cwen ofPersean
- 1939 -Ralph Lauren, fashion designer
- 1940 -Perrie Mans,Sūðaffriciscsnooker player
- 1940 -Cliff Richard,Britisc rock singer
- 1941 -Jerry Glanville,American fōtball coach and commentator
- 1944 -Udo Kier, Þēodisc actor
- 1946 -Justin Hayward, musician ("TheMoody Blues")
- 1946 -Craig Venter, Americaniscbiologist
- 1946 -Demond Wilson, actor ("Sanford and Son")
- 1952 -Harry Anderson, actor ("Night Court")
- 1958 -Thomas Dolby, rock musician
- 1969 -David Strickland, Americanisc actor (d.1999)
- 1971 -Jorge Costa,football player
- 1978 -Paul Hunter,Britiscsnooker player
- 1978 -Usher Raymond, singer, actor
- 1980 -Terrence McGee,Americanisc fōtball player
- 1987 -Kayla Jaynes, very short red head who will be famous one day
- 1911 -John Marshall Harlan, American Supreme Court associate justice
- 1944 -Erƿin Rommel,Þēodisc Feldmarschall
- 1959 -Errol Flynn,Australian actor
- 1976 - DameEdiþ Evans, actress
- 1977 -Bing Crosby, Americanisc singer, actor
- 1977 -Keenan Ƿynn, American actor
- 1990 -Leonard Bernstein, Americanisc composer, conductor
- 1994 -Emil Gilels, Ucrānisc pianist (b.1916)
- 1997 -Harold Robbins, Americanisc novelist
- 1998 -Frankie Yankovic,polka musician
- 1998 -Cleveland Amory, ƿrītere,animal rights activist
