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July 22 in history

197 sourced entries recorded on July 22, from 64 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 64July 18- 27 – Great Fire of Rome: A fire begins which destroyed three of fourteen of the administrative regions of Rome, more commonly known as the Palatine Hill, the Circus Maximus, and the Oppian hill. Also suffering severe damage were the Campus Martius and the Via Lata.source
  • 838Battle of Anzen: Caliph al-Mu'tasim launches a major punitive expedition against the Byzantine Empire, targeting the two major Byzantine fortress cities of central Anatolia (Ancyra and Amorium). He mobilises a vast army (80,000 men) at Tarsus, which is divided into two main forces. The northern force, under commander al-Afshin, invades the Armeniac Theme from the region of Melitene, joining up with the forces of the city's emir, Umar al-Aqta. The southern, main force, under al-Mu'tasim, passes the Cilician Gates into Cappadocia. Emperor Theophilos attacks the Abbasids, inflicting 3,000 casualties, but is heavily defeated by a counter-attack of 10,000 Turkish mounted archers. Theophilos and his guard are encircled, and barely manage to break through and escape.source
  • 1018July 22–23 – Battle of the River Bug: Polish forces under Bolesław I defeat Yaroslav the Wise near the River Bug. Yaroslav retreats to Novgorod, abandoning Kiev.source
  • 1099The Kingdom of Jerusalem is established in the Middle East. Godfrey of Bouillon is named king (but refuses to be crowned) and takes the title Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri.source
  • 1123William de Corbeil is installed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, the highest-ranking cleric in England, after his February 4 election is approved by Pope Callixtus II.source
  • 1139Pope Innocent II, invading the Kingdom of Sicily, is ambushed at Galluccio and taken prisoner.source
  • 1170Henry II and Thomas Becket meet near Fréteval, France, where they come to an agreement to end their differences. This results in Becket's partial restoration.source
  • 1209Massacre at Béziers: The Crusader army, led by Simon de Monfort, arrives in the Languedoc area, and makes camp at Béziers, to start a siege. The citizens, believing that their city walls are impregnable, harass the Crusaders, by sending a group of soldiers (supported by armed civilians) to launch a sortie against their camp. When they are forced to retreat, the Crusaders storm the walls (which are not properly manned) and enter the gate, sacking and killing some 20,000 Cathars and Catholics alike.source
  • 1227Battle of Bornhöved: Count Adolf IV of Holstein – leading a coalition army from the cities of Lübeck and Hamburg, defeats the Danish-German forces of King Valdemar II, and the Welf nobleman Otto I (the Child). Adolf shakes off Danish supremacy and accepts an overlordship by the Archbishopric of Bremen under Archbishop Gerhard II of Lippe. Adolf expands his power and establishes new frontiers within the Holy Roman Empire.source
  • 1242July 21–22 – Battle of Taillebourg: French forces (some 25,000 men) under King Louis IX (the Saint) defeat King Henry III at the bridge over the Charente River near Taillebourg. After the battle, Louis continues to pursue the English troops, capturing many prisoners. Henry retreats with the remnants of his army to Bordeaux, where he spends the winter.source
  • 1250Egyptian politician Bahaa el-Din bin Hanna appointed Vizier of Egypt as the first vizier in the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt.source
  • 1263July 20–24 – Nahmanides, Spanish chief rabbi, defends the Talmud in an important debate (the Disputation of Barcelona) against Pablo Christiani, before James I of Aragon.source
  • 1275Magnus deposes Valdemar and is elected new king of Sweden at the Stones of Mora.source
  • 1295War of Curzola: Genoese raids on the Venetian quarter in Constantinople lead to a formal declaration of war with the Republic of Venice. A Venetian fleet (some 40 war galleys) attacks Galata, the quarter of the Genoese merchants. Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos arrests surviving Venetians in the capital and joins the war with the Republic of Genoa.source
  • 1298First War of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk – English forces (some 15,000 men) led by Edward I defeat a Scottish army led by William Wallace at Falkirk. During the battle, the English knights drive off the Scottish horse and archers, but cannot break the pikemen in the center. The Scottish pikemen are formed in four great "hedgehogs" (known as schiltron) but are destroyed by English longbow archers.source
  • 1306The Great Exile of 1306: King Philip IV of France turns his attentions to Italian bankers and orders the Jews to be exiled in France. The Jewish quarter in Paris is cleared and goods are confiscated – to regain money spent on expanding the domains of Flanders and Gascony. Meanwhile, rumors of a secret initiation ceremony of the Knights Templar create distrust, and Philip – while being deeply in debt to the Order for loans from his war against England, uses this distrust for political and religious motivations against the Templars.source
  • 1315Siege of Carlisle: Scottish forces led by King Robert the Bruce besiege Carlisle Castle in England, but the stronghold holds out, due to a well-conducted defense organized by Andrew Harclay and the siege is abandoned by August 1.source
  • 1317Alexander de Bicknor is consecrated by the Pope as the Archbishop of Dublin.source
  • 1318(22 Jumada I 718) In what is now northwestern Algeria, Abu Tashufin I assassinates his father, Abu Hammu I, Sultan of Tlemcen, and becomes the new monarch.source
  • 1336July 21–22 – Second War of Scottish Independence: Aberdeen, Scotland is burned by the English.source
  • 1342St. Mary Magdalene's flood is the worst such event on record for central Europe.source
  • 1357On the death of Jani Beg, he is succeeded as Khan of the Blue Horde by his son Berdi Beg who orders the death of at least 12 of his close kinsmen to secure his position.source
  • 1392After a second hearing at Nottingham Council concerning the Fleet Street riot, former London Mayor John Hende and other imprisoned city officials are assessed a fine and released from prison after posting bond to secure their return for future charges.source
  • 1398The first ships to complete passage on the 60 mi long Stecknitz Canal in Germany arrive at Lübeck, with 30 barges carrying salt from Lüneburg. The canal, completed after seven years between the rivers Elbe and Trave, is one of the earliest navigable summit level canals in the world.source
  • 1433Admiral Zheng He and the crew of the seventh Ming Chinese overseas expedition return to China, arriving at Beijing two and one half years after their departure on January 19, 1411 from Nanjing. With the completion of the maritime expedition, the fleet is dispersed, altering the balance of power in the Indian Ocean, and making it easier for Portugal and other Western naval powers to gain dominance over the seas.source
  • 1443Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl (Old Zurich War): The forces of the city of Zurich are defeated, but the Swiss Confederacy have insufficient strength to besiege and take the city.source
  • 1447In a royal wedding at the cathedral in Madrigal de las Altas Torres in the Kingdom of Castile (now in Spain) Princess Isabella of Portugal, cousin of King Afonso VI, marries King Juan II of Castile.source
  • 1456At the Battle of Nándorfehérvár, the Hungarians under John Hunyadi rout the Turkish army of Sultan Mehmed II. The noon bell ordered by Pope Callixtus III commemorates the victory throughout the Christian world (and hence is still rung). Hunyadi dies two months later when a plague sweeps the Hungarian camp.source
  • 1461Louis XI succeeds Charles VII of France as king (reigns until 1483).source
  • 1462The first siege of Chilia by Stephen the Great fails, and he is seriously wounded.source
  • 1470In the Angers Agreement, Louis XI reconciles the Earl of Warwick and Margaret of Anjou. Both agree to restore Henry VI to the English throne.source
  • 1482Following a mutiny of Scottish troops at Lauder, King James III is brought back to Edinburgh Castle and held under house arrest by the mutineers.source
  • 1484Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, is defeated by forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.source
  • 1489Treaty of Frankfurt is signed between MaximilianI of Austria and King Charles VIII, surrendering French occupation of part of Brittany to Anne of Brittany. In return Brittany committed to expelling English forces from the duchy.source
  • 1490(5th day of 7th month of Entoku 2) At Heian-kyō, in Japan, now Kyoto, Ashikaga Yoshitane becomes the 10th Muromachi shōgun of Japan, more than a year after the death of his cousin, Ashikaga Yoshihisa.source
  • 1499Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeat the army of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.source
  • 1513Christian II becomes King of Denmark-Norway.source
  • 1515At the First Congress of Vienna, a double wedding takes place to cement agreements. Louis, only son of King Vladislaus II of Hungary, marries Mary of Austria, granddaughter of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor; and Mary's brother, Archduke Ferdinand, marries Vladislaus' daughter, Anna.source
  • 1533Treaty of Constantinople between the Ottoman Empire and the Archduchy of Austria: Ferdinand I, King of the Romans, withdraws his claims to most of Hungary and János Szapolyai, voivode of Transylvania, becomes King of Hungary under the suzerainty of Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1537Upon the death of his father, Bhim Singh, Ratan Singh becomes the new ruler of the Kingdom of Amber with a capital at Amber in what is now the Rajasthan state in Indiasource
  • 1566Pope Pius V issues an edict to expel most prostitutes from Rome, and the Papal States. The edict is soon reversed because of the loss of revenue from the taxation of houses of prostitution.source
  • 1570The siege of Nicosia by the Ottoman Empire begins in Cyprus and lasts for seven weeks.source
  • 1570Thomson Snell & Passmore is founded in England, the oldest law firm in operation.source
  • 1575July 20–26 – Rathlin Island Massacre: English adventurers Francis Drake and John Norreys, acting for the Earl of Essex, lead an expedition that culminates in the massacre of 500 of the clan MacDonnell in a surprise raid on Rathlin Island.source
  • 1581At a meeting of the States General of the Union of Utrecht at Antwerp, the representatives vote to proclaim their independence from Spain in the Act of Abjuration, abjuring loyalty to Philip II of Spain as their sovereign, and appointing Francis, Duke of Anjou, as the new sovereign of the Netherlands; public practice of Roman Catholicism is forbidden.source
  • 1586Sir Francis Drake and his crew return to England, arriving at Portsmouth to heroes' welcome.source
  • 1587Roanoke Colony: A group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off North Carolina, to re-establish the deserted colony.source
  • 1591The Durtnell (Dartnell) family of Brasted, Kent, England, begin to work as building contractors. The business continues under thirteen generations of the family until ceasing to trade in 2019.source
  • 1594After a two-month siege, the city of Groningen submits to Dutch troops, bringing the whole northern Netherlands under the Dutch Republic.source
  • 1594Army of Flanders fails to relieve Siege of Groningen, leading to the city's surrendersource
  • 1598William Shakespeare registers the rights to his new play, The Merchant of Venice, in the Register of the Stationers Company, under the title The Marchaunt of Venyce or otherwise called The Jewe of Venyce.source
  • 1599The combined Dutch and English armies successfully defend Zaltbommel after a siege of two months.source
  • 1601General Yemişçi Hasan Pasha is selected as the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire by Sultan Mehmed III, 12 days after the death of Grand Vizier Damat Ibrahim Pasha. He served for only 15 months before being executed on the Sultan's orders on October 4, 1603.source
  • 1604King James begins fundraising for his project for an accurate translation of the Holy Bible into English, asking Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, to contact all Anglican churches for donations.source
  • 1612Four women and one man are hanged following the Northamptonshire witch trials in England.source
  • 1622Huguenot rebellions: siege of Montpellier begins.source
  • 1627The English, under the Duke of Buckingham, invade the Île de Ré off the coast of France in support of the Huguenots in La Rochelle; the invasion fails.source
  • 1631Thirty Years' War – Battle of Werben: Tilly defeats Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, but not decisively.source
  • 1635Gaspard Nemius consecrated bishop of Antwerp in Antwerp Cathedral.source
  • 1650Having completed his invasion of Ireland, England's General Oliver Cromwell begins the war against the Kingdom of Scotland, crossing from Northumberland at Berwick-upon-Tweed into Berwickshire, and leads troops toward Edinburgh.source
  • 1675July 16–24 – An envoy from Massachusetts attempts to negotiate with the Nipmuck tribe.source
  • 1686Albany, New York, is granted a city charter by the colonial governor.source
  • 1691surrender and treaty of Galway.source
  • 1706The Treaty of Union between Scotland and England is agreed upon in London, for ratification by the national legislatures.source
  • 1706Treaty of Union provides for England and Scotland to be merged into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707.source
  • 1739The Ottoman Empire retakes Belgrade from Austria's Habsburg monarchy after winning the Battle of Grocka.source
  • 1747William IV, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of Friesland and Groningen, is confirmed as Stadtholder of the United Provincessource
  • 1776Empress Catherine the Great issues a revised Instruction (Nakaz), refining Enlightenment-inspired proposals for Russia’s legal code.source
  • 1777The business partnership between Anthony Bacon and William Brownrigg is dissolved.source
  • 1779Battle of Minisink: The Goshen Militia is destroyed by Joseph Brant's forces.source
  • 1795The Second Treaty of Basel is signed between the French First Republic and Spain, ending the War of the Pyrenees. Spain cedes its half of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola to France.source
  • 1796Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.source
  • 1802Gia Long captures Hanoi, completing his unification of Vietnam.source
  • 1808Peninsular War: Battle of Bailén: French General Dupont surrenders to Spanish irregular forces.source
  • 1812Peninsular War – Battle of Salamanca: British forces led by the Earl of Wellington defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.source
  • 1814War of 1812 – The Treaty of Greenville is signed between the U.S. government and Native American tribes.source
  • 1817Windham Sadler succeeds in crossing the Irish Sea by hot air balloon, landing near Holyhead.source
  • 1854Discovery of the asteroid 30 Urania by John Russell Hind.source
  • 1866Austro-Prussian War: Battle of Blumenau – Austrians defend Bratislava against the Prussian army, concluding the fighting in the war.source
  • 1871The foundation stone of the first Tay Bridge is laid; the bridge collapses as a train crosses in a storm eight years later.source
  • 1873Sir Benjamin Pine becomes Lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Natal.source
  • 1880Abdur Rahman Khan becomes Emir of Afghanistan.source
  • 1883Zulu King Cetshwayo barely escapes a rebel attack with his life.source
  • 1883Zulu King Cetshwayo barely escapes with his life in a rebel attack.source
  • 1894The Paris–Rouen Competition for Horseless Carriages, the first automobile competition, is held.source
  • 1902Felix Pedro discovers gold in modern-day Fairbanks, Alaska.source
  • 1904The first 2,000 of 62,000 contracted Chinese coolies arrive at Durban in South Africa from Qinhuangdao to relieve the shortage of unskilled labourers in the Transvaal Colony gold mines, recruited and shipped by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Corporation (CEMC), of which Herbert Hoover is a director.source
  • 1908The Qing government issues the Outline of Imperial Constitution, based on the Meiji Constitution of Japan, which establishes a framework for local and national legislative elections to be held.source
  • 1908July 13–25 – The 1908 Summer Olympics are held in London. (Originally scheduled to be in Rome, but changed due to the Mount Vesuvius eruption of 1906. Figure skating events are held in London from October 28–29.)source
  • 1910A wireless telegraph sent from the SS Montrose results in the identification, arrest and execution of murderer Dr. Crippen.source
  • 1915WWI: The "Great Retreat" is ordered on the Eastern Front; Russian forces pull back out of Poland (at this time part of the Russian Empire), taking machinery and equipment with them.source
  • 1923Tour de France ends, won by Henri Pélissier.source
  • 192922 July – 9 September – Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)source
  • 1933Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world, landing at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, after traveling eastbound 15,596 mi in 7 days 18 hours 45 minutes.source
  • 1934Eric del Castillo, actorsource
  • 1935Inauguration of the Brazilian radiophonic program A Voz do Brasil.source
  • 1937New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.source
  • 1938Britain rejects a proposal from its ambassador in Berlin, Nevile Henderson, for a four-power summit on Czechoslovakia consisting of Britain, France, Germany and the U.S.S.R., as London will under no circumstances accept the U.S.S.R. as a diplomatic partner.source
  • 1944The new Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes the PKWN Manifesto in Chełm, calling for a continuation of fighting against Nazi Germany, radical reforms including nationalisation of industry, and a "decent border in the West" (the Oder–Neisse line).source
  • 1944The Bretton Woods Conference ends with agreements signed to set up the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and International Monetary Fund.source
  • 1946King David Hotel bombing: The Irgun bombs the King David Hotel (headquarters of the British civil and military administration) in Jerusalem, killing 90.source
  • 1948The Dominion of Newfoundland votes to join Canada, after a referendum.source
  • 1950Royal question in Belgium: King Leopold III returns from exile, provoking a general strike, particularly in Wallonia.source
  • 1951Soviet space dogs Dezik and Tsygan become the first to enter space, in a 15-minute sub-orbital spaceflight in an R-1 rocket, being safely parachuted back to earth.source
  • 1955July 18–23 – Geneva Summit between the United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom and France.source
  • 1959A Kumamoto University medical research group studying Minamata disease concludes that it is caused by mercury.source
  • 1962Mariner program: The U.S. Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.source
  • 1964The heads of state of Iran, Pakistan and Turkey issue a joint communique from Istanbul, establishing the Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD).source
  • 1964The second meeting of the Organisation of African Unity is held.source
  • 1967The 7.1 Ms Mudurnu earthquake affected the Bolu Province with high intensity shaking, killing 86.source
  • 1969Spanish dictator and head of state Francisco Franco appoints Prince Juan Carlos to be his successor as head of state following his death.source
  • 1971A BOAC flight from London to Khartoum is ordered to land at Benghazi, Libya, where two leaders of the unsuccessful Sudanese coup, travelling as passengers, are forced to leave the plane and are subsequently executed.source
  • 1972The Soviet probe Venera 8 lands on the surface of Venus and transmits data for 50 minutes about the planet's surface temperature and atmospheric pressure.source
  • 1973The first NTUC Welcome (now NTUC FairPrice) opens its first outlet in Toa Payoh to fight inflation caused by the oil crisis.source
  • 1977July 21–24 – The Libyan–Egyptian War, sparked by a Libyan raid on Sallum, begins.source
  • 1977The purged Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power nine months after the "Gang of Four" was expelled from power in a coup d'état.source
  • 19791979 Ba'ath Party Purge: Iraqi president Saddam Hussein arranges the arrest and later execution of nearly seventy members of his ruling Ba'ath Party.source
  • 1983Australian Dick Smith completes his solo circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter.source
  • 1990July 21-22 – The Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident occurs when the Taiwan Garrison Command forces 76 mainland Chinese illegal immigrants into sealed holds of a boat, causing 25 to die of suffocation.source
  • 1991U.S. boxer Mike Tyson is arrested and charged with the rape, three days earlier, of Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, in Indianapolis, Indiana.source
  • 1992Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison, fearing extradition to the United States.source
  • 1994July 16–22 – Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 impact the planet Jupiter.source
  • 1995July 21–26 – Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The Chinese People's Liberation Army fires missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.source
  • 1996The first Gethsemani Encounter takes place at the abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani. This event, hosted by the DIMMID, is the first intermonastic dialogue between Buddhist and Christian monks and is attended by the Dalai Lama and Bishop Joseph John Gerry.source
  • 1999July 22–25 – Woodstock '99 was held in Rome, New York at former Griffiss Air Force Base, which was marred with difficult environmental conditions, poor sanitation, overpriced food and water, looting, violence, rapes, riots and several deaths.source
  • 2000July 11–25 – A summit meeting takes place at Camp David between United States president Bill Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat, ending without an agreement.source
  • 2001July 20–22 – The 27th G8 summit takes place in Genoa, Italy. Massive demonstrations, drawing an estimated 200,000 people, are held against the meeting by members of the anti-globalization movement. One demonstrator, Carlo Giuliani, is killed by a policeman, and several others are injured.source
  • 2009The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting up to 6 minutes and 38.86 seconds (0.14 seconds shorter than 6 minutes and 39 seconds), occurs over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean.source
  • 2011In Norway, Anders Behring Breivik kills 8 people in a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, then kills 69 at a massacre at a Workers' Youth League camp on the island of Utøya.source
  • 2011July 14–23 – Two frontal systems enter south-central Chile causing great snowfalls that leaves thousand of people isolated.source
  • 2013July 22–28 – XIV World Youth Day, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.source
  • 2016The final videocassette recorder is manufactured by the Japanese company Funai.source
  • 2019FIFA fines and bans former Botswana Football Association secretary general Mooketsi Kgotlele on charges of match fixing and accepting bribes.source
  • 20222022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russia and Ukraine sign the Black Sea Grain Initiative, an agreement brokered by Turkey and the United Nations to facilitate the shipment of grain exports and reduce soaring global food prices.source
  • 2022Israel attacked government military positions near Damascus, killing three Syrian government soldiers and wounding seven others.source
  • 2022Bermuda reports its first case of monkeypox.source
  • 2024Landslides kill 257 people and bury two villages in Geze Gofa, Gofa Zuria, Ethiopia.source
  • 2024King Father's Birthdaysource
  • 20252023–2025 mpox epidemic: The first case of mpox is reported in the country with the government declaring an outbreak.source
  • 2025King Father's Birthdaysource

Births

  • 1136William of Anjou, viscount of Dieppe (died 1164)source
  • 1210Joan of England, queen of Scotland (died 1238)source
  • 1273Ewostatewos, Ethiopian religious leader (died 1352)source
  • 1437John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, English Baron (died 1498)source
  • 1471Anthony Kitchin, British bishop (died 1563)source
  • 1476Zhu Youyuan, Ming Dynasty politician (died 1519)source
  • 1478King Philip the Handsome of Castile (died 1506)source
  • 1531Leonhard Thurneysser, German scholar and quack at the court of John George, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1595)source
  • 1535Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (died 1621)source
  • 1535Catherine Stenbock, queen consort of Sweden (died 1621)source
  • 1559Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian saint (died 1619)source
  • 1600Michel de Marolles, French translator and churchman (died 1681)source
  • 1618Johan Nieuhof, Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil (died 1672)source
  • 1621Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician (died 1683)source
  • 1621Thomas Hanford, New England settler, Puritan minister (died 1693)source
  • 1630Madame de Brinvilliers, French murderer (died 1676)source
  • 1647Margaret Mary Alacoque, French Catholic nun, mystic and saint (died 1690)source
  • 1685Henrik Magnus von Buddenbrock, baron (died 1743)source
  • 1708Nathaniel Ames, Colonial American physician (died 1764)source
  • 1784Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician, astronomer (died 1846)source
  • 1820Oliver Mowat, Canadian lawyer, politician (died 1903)source
  • 1911José María Lemus, politician (died 1993)source
  • 1913Esteban Reyes, tennis player (died 2014)source
  • 1923Bob Dole, American Republican politician, presidential candidate (died 2021)source
  • 1940Alex Trebek, Canadian game show host (Jeopardy!) (died 2020)source
  • 1955Asif Ali Zardari, politiciansource

Deaths

  • 698Wu Chengsi, nephew of Chinese sovereign Wu Zetiansource
  • 1065Ibn Abi Hasina, Arab poet and panegyrist (born 998)source
  • 1119Herbert de Losinga, English bishopsource
  • 1165John Marshal (or FitzGilbert), Marshal of England (born 1105)source
  • 1240John de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln, English nobleman (b.1192)source
  • 1245Kolbeinn ungi Arnórsson, Icelandic chieftain (born 1208)source
  • 1253Albert IV, German nobleman and knight (born 1180)source
  • 1274Henry I (or Henry III), king of Navarre (House of Blois)source
  • 1298John Stewart, Scottish nobleman (Clan Stewart)source
  • 1362Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (poisoned) (born 1324)source
  • 1376Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1310)source
  • 1387Frans Ackerman, Flemish statesman (born 1330)source
  • 1444Oddantonio da Montefeltro, the Duke of Urbino, an independent duchy in what is now the Le Marche region of Italy, is assassinated at his palace by conspirators, who also murder his counsellors Manfredo dei Pio da Carpi and Tommaso di Guido dell'Agnello. He is succeeded by his half-brother, Federico da Montefeltro.source
  • 1461King Charles VII of France (born 1403)source
  • 1461Charles VII of France (born 1403).source
  • 1522Arvid Kurck, bishop (born 1464)source
  • 1525Richard Wingfield, English diplomat (born c. 1456)source
  • 1540John Zápolya, King of Hungary (born c. 1490)source
  • 1550Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (born 1481)source
  • 1597Gabriele Paleotti, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1522)source
  • 1645Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (born 1587)source
  • 1676Pope Clement X (born 1590)source
  • 1719Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole, Italian painter and engraver (born 1654)source
  • 1802Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and pathologist (born 1771)source
  • 1832Napoleon II of France (born 1811)source
  • 1845Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal, statesman (born 1756)source
  • 1869John A. Roebling, American bridge engineer (born 1806)source
  • 1932Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor (born 1866)source
  • 1950William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian political leader, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1874)source
  • 2003Uday Hussein, 39, Iraqi politician and eldest son of Saddam Hussein, killed by US troops.source
  • 2025Ozzy Osbourne, 76, English Hall of Fame musician (Black Sabbath), songwriter ("Paranoid"), and television personality (The Osbournes), heart attack.source