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July 8 in history

212 sourced entries recorded on July 8, from 33 BCE to 2023 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 1099The Crusaders attempt to take Jerusalem by storm but are repulsed. In a procession they walk around the walls under leadership of priests in the hope the city would surrender.source
  • 1139July 8 or August 21 – Jin–Song Wars: Battle of Yancheng – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu.source
  • 1167Battle of Sirmium: Byzantine forces (15,000 men) under General Andronikos Kontostephanos defeat the Hungarians at Sirmium. Emperor Manuel I (Komnenos) consolidates his control over the western Balkans.source
  • 1219Pelagius begins multiple attacks at Damietta, using Pisan and Venetian troops. Each time they are repelled by the defenders, using Greek fire. A counter-offensive led by Al-Kamil on the Templar camp is repulsed on July 31 by their new Grand Master Peire de Montagut, supported by the Teutonic Knights – where the Crusaders reform and pursue the enemy outside the gates.source
  • 1283Battle of Malta: An Aragonese fleet (some 20 galleys) under Admiral Roger of Lauria attacks and defeats the Angevin ships in the Grand Harbour, sent to help put down a rebellion on Malta. Lauria lands his troops at the harbour and after two days raises his banner on the fortified city of Mdina ("Old City").source
  • 1312In Italy, Francesco I Pico, Lord of Mirandola, is captured at Baggiovara by Guelph rebels in Bologna, while on his way home to Mirandola after being invested by the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry VII as imperial vicar. Pico is imprisoned for the next nine months before being released to resume his Lordship.source
  • 1319Magnus Eriksson is elected King of Sweden. His mother Ingeborg of Norway is given a place in the regency.source
  • 1362Valdemar IV of Denmark defeats the Hanseatic League in the naval Battle of Helsingborg.source
  • 1385English invasion of Scotland (1385): King Robert II of Scotland sends two armies of Scottish soldiers and French mercenaries south from Edinburgh and raids the English county of Northumberland.source
  • 1388John of Gaunt, the uncle of Richard II of England, makes peace with Castile and gives up his claim to the Castilian throne, by allowing his daughter Catherine of Lancaster to marry Prince Henry, the eldest son of John I of Castile.source
  • 1393At Tlemcen, Abul Hadjadjadj I becomes the new ruler of the Kingdom of Tlemcen in what is now Algeria, succeeding Abu Thabid II. He reigns until November.source
  • 1395At a gathering of French cardinals at the Palais des Papes in Avignon, the assembled clerics demand the resignation of the antipope Benedict XIII (Pedro Martinez de Luna), who nine months earlier had been elected as the alternative to the Roman Pope Boniface IX. The only dissenting voice is Cardinal Martín de Zalba, but Benedict refuses to step down.source
  • 1418Chungnyeong is named by his father, King Taejong of Korea, as the new heir to the throne as Grand Prince, replacing Yangnyeong.source
  • 1433The English Parliament assembles at Westminster, and Roger Hunt is elected as Speaker of the House of Commons.source
  • 1491In what is now Tibet in the People's Republic of China, Tsokye Dorje becomes the new ruler of the Buddhist Kingdom of Ü-Tsang upon the death of King Ngagi Wangpo.source
  • 1497Vasco da Gama's fleet departs from Lisbon, beginning his expedition to India.source
  • 1524Verrazzano's expedition returns to Dieppe.source
  • 1546the Earl of Arran, Regent of Scotland for Mary, Queen of Scots recaptures Dumbarton Castle from England after a 20-day siege.source
  • 1546The Earl of Arran, Regent of Scotland for Mary, Queen of Scots, recaptures Dumbarton Castle from England after a 20-day siege.source
  • 1549Kett's Rebellion, with 18,000 troops led by Robert Kett, breaks out at Wymondham in East Anglia, against fences and enclosures put up by wealthy landowners. and in Oxfordshire, against landowners associated with religious changes.source
  • 1589Jan Zamoyski, the Hetman of Poland since 1581, establishes the largest family trust in the Kingdom. The Zamoyski family trust will last for more than 350 years until being abolished in 1944.source
  • 1592The King's brother Duke Charles, is wed to Christina of Holstein-Gottorp in a ceremony attended by noted German travel writer and poet Michael Heberer, who pens a record of the events.source
  • 1593The king takes Dreux, entrepôt for the Paris food supply.source
  • 1627July 5–13 – Turkish Abductions: Barbary corsairs from Algiers raid the East Fjords of Iceland and take captives into slavery.source
  • 1633Thirty Years' War: Battle of Oldendorf – Sweden defeats the Holy Roman Empire near Hessisch Oldendorf.source
  • 1633The Javanese calendar is commenced on this day by the order of Sultan Agung of the Mataram Sultanate. It is the Javanese adaptation of the Hijri calendar, but it continues the year numbering of the Shaka era widely used in Java then, thus the calendar's epoch is 1 Sura 1555 AJ, corresponding with 1 Muharram 1043 AH.source
  • 1653John Thurloe becomes Cromwell's head of intelligence.source
  • 1653John Thurloe becomes Cromwell's head of intelligence.source
  • 1663King Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter for the American colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.source
  • 1663King Charles grants a Royal Charter to the North American Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.source
  • 16708 July O.S. – by the Treaty of Madrid (Godolphin treaty), Spain recognises Jamaica and the Cayman Islands as English possessions.source
  • 1680The first documented tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.source
  • 1683Admiral Shi Lang of Qing dynasty China leads 300 ships with 20,000 troops out of Tongshan, Fujian, and sails towards the Kingdom of Tungning, in modern-day Taiwan and Penghu, in order to quell the kingdom in the name of the Qing.source
  • 1707"Hot Tuesday" – estimated temperature in England 38°C.source
  • 1709July 8 (June 27 Old Style; June 28 in the Swedish calendar) – Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava in the Cossack Hetmanate (Ukraine) – Peter the Great leads forces of the Tsardom of Russia to a decisive victory over Swedish forces under Charles XII, ending the Swedish invasion of Russia and effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.source
  • 1709Russians win the Battle of Poltava, halting the Swedish invasion of Russia.source
  • 1712The British Royal Navy 50-gun ship HMS Advice is launched at Deptford Dockyard.source
  • 1712The Royal Navy 50-gun ship HMS Advice is launched at Deptford Dockyard.source
  • 1714by the Longitude Act, Parliament establishes the Board of Longitude and offers substantial monetary longitude rewards to anyone who can solve the problem of accurately determining a ship's longitude.source
  • 1714Longitude prize: The Parliament of Great Britain votes "to offer a reward for such person or persons as shall discover the Longitude" (£10,000 for any method capable of determining a ship's longitude within 1 degree; £15,000, within 40 minutes, and £20,000 within ½ a degree).source
  • 1716August 21 – Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Empire unsuccessfully lays siege to Corfu, the last bastion of the Republic of Venice in the Greek islands.source
  • 1716The Battle of Dynekilen: The Swedish fleet is defeated by a Danish–Norwegian fleet.source
  • 1716Battle of Dynekilen, battle of the Great Northern War.source
  • 1725Mattheus de Haan becomes the new Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia), governing until his death on June 1, 1729 in Batavia (modern Jakarta).source
  • 17301730 Valparaíso earthquake: An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 9.1 strikes Valparaíso, in modern-day Chile but at this time in the Viceroyalty of Peru.source
  • 1741Jonathan Edwards repeats his Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God sermon at Enfield, Connecticut.source
  • 1744The Royal Navy privateer Somerset capsizes and sinks in the Bristol Channel, killing 86 of the 97 crew.source
  • 1752The wedding of Frederick V and Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.source
  • 1758Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.source
  • 1758French and Indian War: Battle of Carillon; French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York.source
  • 1760Seven Years' War: French and Indian War – Battle of Restigouche: The British defeat French forces, in the last naval battle in New France.source
  • 1764The Niagara Conference begins at the invitation of Sir William Johnson, the British Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the northern district, who hosts "one of the largest conventions of red men ever held on the continent" to negotiate the end of the hostilities from the French and Indian War. Reportedly, 2,000 representatives of the North American tribes meet at upstate New York coming from distances ranging "From Dakota to Hudson's Bay, and from Maine to Kentucky."source
  • 1776American Revolution: The Liberty Bell rings for the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia.source
  • 1776American Revolution: The Liberty Bell rings in Philadelphia for the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence.source
  • 1777The 1777 Constitution of Vermont is signed, officially abolishing slavery.source
  • 1791Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, on his visit to England, is awarded an honorary doctorate of music at the University of Oxford.source
  • 1799Matthew Flinders leaves Port Jackson to explore the East coast in sloop Norfolk; he surveys Moreton Bay between the 15th and 31st and charts Hervey Bay on 2 August. He returns to Sydney on 20 August.source
  • 1799Ukase of 1799 founding Russian-American Company and delineating Russian claims.source
  • 1799The Russian-American Company is founded.source
  • 1807July 7–9 – The Treaties of Tilsit are signed between France, Prussia and Russia. Napoleon and Russian Emperor Alexander I ally together against the British. The Prussians are forced to cede more than half their territory, which is formed into the Duchy of Warsaw in their former Polish lands, and the Kingdom of Westphalia in western Germany. The Free City of Danzig is also formed (established July 21 by Napoleon).source
  • 1808Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as King of Spain, during the Peninsular War.source
  • 1809July 8–9 – Finnish War – Naval Battle of Porkala: The Swedish archipelago fleet defeats the Russians.source
  • 1815Napoleonic Wars: Louis XVIII returns to Paris, and is 'restored' as King of France (he had declared himself king on 8 June 1795, at the death of his nephew, 10-year-old Louis XVII, and had lived in Westphalia, Verona, Russia, and England).source
  • 1822The Chippewa people cede a huge tract of land in Ontario to British control.source
  • 1826Start of the Russo-Persian Warsource
  • 1826Chilean presidential election, 1826source
  • 1833The Treaty of Hünkâr İskelesi creates an alliance between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire.source
  • 1834July 7–10 – Anti-abolitionist riots break out in New York City.source
  • 1834Imam Faisal bin Turki enters Riyadh and upon entering his father's palace, assassinates his father's murderer, Ibrahim Hamza, and his master; Mishari, and becomes the ruler and founder of the Second Saudi State.source
  • 1836Valparaiso, Indiana is incorporated.source
  • 1842The total solar eclipse of July 8, 1842 is visible from Asia.source
  • 1843An earthquake occurs in the North Island centred near Wanganui, with several fatalities.source
  • 1852Beginning of a fire which burns 11,000 houses in Montreal.source
  • 1853U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry arrives in Edo Bay, Japan, with a request for a trade treaty.source
  • 1854An anti-Catholic riot in Bath, Maine, destroys a church used by Irish Catholics.source
  • 1858A peace treaty ends the Indian Rebellion.source
  • 1858The Paulist Fathers, a Roman Catholic society of apostolic life for men, is founded in New York City by Isaac Hecker.source
  • 1859Charles XV succeeds his father Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (as Charles IV).source
  • 1859Charles XV succeeds his father Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (as Charles IV)source
  • 1864The Cabinet of Monrad is succeeded by the Cabinet of Bluhme.source
  • 1865Legislative election.source
  • 1867Paraguayan War: Staff Sergeant Roberto A. Chodasiewicz uses an observation balloon during the battle of Humaitá.source
  • 1876Reichstadt Agreement: Russia and Austria-Hungary agree on partitioning the Balkan Peninsula.source
  • 1879Led by George W. De Long, the ill-fated United States Jeannette Expedition departs San Francisco, in an attempt to reach the North Pole, by pioneering a route through the Bering Strait.source
  • 1886Royal decree establishing Royal Flemish Academy of Language and Literaturesource
  • 1889The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published in New York City.source
  • 1889The last official bare-knuckle boxing title fight is held (under London Prize Ring Rules): Heavyweight Champion John L. Sullivan, the Boston Strong Boy, defeats Jake Kilrain in a world championship bout, lasting 75 rounds, in Mississippi.source
  • 1892The Great Fire of 1892 devastates the city of St. John's, Newfoundland.source
  • 1892The Great Fire of 1892 destroys two-thirds of St. John's, Newfoundlandsource
  • 1892Eruption on the southern flank of the Mount Etna vulcano in Sicily. Eruptions would continue to 29 December 1892. A spectacular row of pyroclastic cones was formed named Monti Silvestri, in honour of the Italian volcanologist Orazio Silvestri (1835 – 1890).source
  • 1894June 28 – July 9 – Colonial Conference of 1894 held in Ottawa.source
  • 1899The Lorelei Fountain is unveiled in The Bronx in New York City.source
  • 1902The United States Bureau of Reclamation is established within the U.S. Geological Survey.source
  • 1907Sophus Bugge, philologist (born 1833)source
  • 1908The paper coffee filter, created by German housewife Melitta Bentz, is patented.source
  • 1908French aviator Léon Delagrange makes the world's first flight with a female passenger, his partner and fellow sculptor Thérèse Peltier.source
  • 1912Royalist attack on Chavessource
  • 1916July 1–12 – Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916: At least one shark attacks 5 swimmers along 80 mi of New Jersey coastline, resulting in 4 deaths and the survival of one youth, who requires limb amputation. This event is the inspiration for author Peter Benchley, over half a century later, to write Jaws.source
  • 1916July 1–12 – At least one shark mauls five swimmers along 80 mi of New Jersey coastline during the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, resulting in four deaths and the survival of one youth who required limb amputation. This event is the inspiration for author Peter Benchley, over half a century later, to write Jaws.source
  • 1921At the Peace Conference in the Mansion House, Dublin, President de Valera accepts an invitation to meet the prime minister of the United Kingdom, David Lloyd George, in London.source
  • 1923Natal – Canelands, Umdloti to Maidstone deviation, 6 mi 74 ch.source
  • 1928Looting of the Eastern Mausoleum.source
  • 1929Artur Ivens Ferraz takes over as Prime Minister, succeeding José Vicente de Freitassource
  • 1930July 3–10 – The First Eastern Women's Congress takes place in Damascus in Syria.source
  • 1932The Dow Jones Industrial Average in the United States reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.source
  • 1933The first rugby union test match is played between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa, at Newlands in Cape Town.source
  • 1936The Federal Government announces an increase in military training strength, in response to the rise of fascism in Europe.source
  • 1937July 7–9 — Marco Polo Bridge Incidentsource
  • 1939The Pan American Airways Boeing 314 flying boat Yankee Clipper inaugurates the world's first heavier-than-air North Atlantic air passenger service, between the United States (Port Washington, New York) and Britain.source
  • 1944The Mother Heroine award is established.source
  • 1945Establishment of the Islamic University of Indonesia, in Sleman, Yogyakartasource
  • 1947Roswell UFO incident: A supposedly downed extraterrestrial spacecraft is reportedly found near Roswell, New Mexico.source
  • 1956The mountain Gasherbrum II, on the border of Pakistan and China, is first ascended, by an Austrian expedition.source
  • 1966The Anugerah Sukan Negara or National Sports Awards were introduced. Mani Jegathesan and Mary Rajamani won the first awards.source
  • 1970Singapore's first kidney transplant is performed on 29-year-old Doreen Tan at the Outram Park General Hospital (present day Singapore General Hospital), led by Chan Kong Thoe. The operation is declared a success.source
  • 1971Illapel earthquake, which could be perceived from Antofagasta to Valdivia. Its magnitude was 7.8 Richter Scale, 85 people died and it caused a minor tidal wave.source
  • 1975Skazi, Israeli psytrance DJ and a producersource
  • 1978A fire destroys the art collection at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro.source
  • 1980A wave of strikes begins in Lublin, Poland.source
  • 1985Jørgen V. Pedersen wins Stage 10 of the 1985 Tour de France-source
  • 1985The new Tabung Haji building at Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur was officially opened by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.source
  • 1987A Delta Air Lines L-1011 strays 60 miles off course and nearly collides with a Continental Airlines 747 over the Atlantic Ocean. The two planes are carrying nearly 600 total passengers and may have come within 100 feet of each other.source
  • 1989The opening of Formosa Fun Coast in Bali Township, Taipei County.source
  • 1990July 7–8 – In tennis, Martina Navratilova of the United States wins the 1990 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles and Stefan Edberg of Sweden wins the 1990 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles.source
  • 19901990 FIFA World Cup final (Association football): West Germany defeats Argentina 1–0 to win the 1990 FIFA World Cup.source
  • 19901990 FIFA World Cup Final (Association football): Argentina lose 1–0 to West Germany in the final of the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Rome, Italy.source
  • 1993July 7–9 – The 19th G7 summit is held in Tokyo, Japan.source
  • 1993Monsoonal floods in South Asia begin, going on to kill more than three thousand people over the next month.source
  • 1997NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.source
  • 1999The 'special state-to-state' model for cross-strait relations proposed by President Lee Teng-hui.source
  • 2003Sudan Airways Flight 139, with 117 people on board, crashes in Sudan.source
  • 2006The Nigerian government announces it will lay off over 33,000 of 160,000 civil servants before 2007.source
  • 2008Amos Kimunya resigns from his post of Minister of Finance due to the Grand Regency Scandal.source
  • 2010The first 24-hour flight by a solar-powered plane is completed by the Solar Impulse.source
  • 2011Agrowill Group become second Lithuanian company which selling shares on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.source
  • 2014August 26 – Amid growing tensions between Israel and Hamas following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in June and the revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager in July, Israel launches Operation Protective Edge against Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip starting with numerous missile strikes, followed by a ground offensive a week later. In seven weeks of fighting, 2,100 Palestinians and 71 Israelis are killed.source
  • 2014In the 2014 FIFA World Cup semi-finals, hosts Brazil were shockingly beaten 7–1 by Germany after trailing 5-0 in 29 minutes.source
  • 2015Raimonds Vējonis replaced Andris Bērziņš in post of President of Latvia.source
  • 2015July 5–13 – Greek government-debt crisis: After six months of clashes and futile negotiations between Greece's newly elected, leftist government and the country's creditors, over the austerity measures imposed through bailout programmes, tension peaks as Greece votes in a referendum to reject the terms offered in a third programme; however, the government eventually proceeds to concur to harsher terms than those offered before, in what was widely characterized as a coup on the creditors' part.source
  • 2020At least 180 bodies are found in mass graves in Djibo, Burkina Faso, where soldiers are fighting jihadists. It is suspected that government forces were involved in mass extrajudicial executions.source
  • 2021COVID-19 pandemic: The number of deaths from COVID-19 surpasses 4 million.source
  • 2022July 7 – July 17 – The 2022 World Games is held in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.source
  • 2023In the Netherlands, the governing coalition collapses and Prime Minister Mark Rutte announces his upcoming resignation.source

Births

  • 1297Tarabya I of Sagaing, Burmese ruler (Myinsaing Kingdom) (died 1339)source
  • 1478Gian Giorgio Trissino (died 1550)source
  • 1528Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (died 1580)source
  • 1545Don Carlos of Spain, son of Philip II of Spain (died 1568)source
  • 1593Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (died 1656)source
  • 1593Peter Sainthill, English politician (died 1648)source
  • 1621Jean de La Fontaine, French writer (died 1695)source
  • 1621Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Danish countess and author (died 1698)source
  • 1621Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, daughter of Christian IV and Countess of Schleswig-Holstein (died 1698)source
  • 1634Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory (died 1680)source
  • 1639Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (died 1660)source
  • 1640Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, son of Charles I (died 1660)source
  • 1647Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond, member of the Court of the Restoration, famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II of England (died 1702)source
  • 1657Abraham de Peyster, New Amsterdam/New York politician (died 1728)source
  • 1714Pieter van Reede van Oudtshoorn, Dutch administrator of the Cape Colony (died 1773)source
  • 1766Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon, innovator in battlefield medicine (died 1842)source
  • 1836Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (died 1914)source
  • 1839John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist, philanthropist (died 1937)source
  • 1840Manuel de Arriaga, lawyer and politician (died 1917)source
  • 1851Arthur Evans, British archaeologist (died 1941)source
  • 1869Daniel Salamanca Urey, President 1931-1934source
  • 1880Branca de Gonta Colaço, writer, scholar and linguist (died 1945)source
  • 1914Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (died 2010)source

Deaths

  • 33 BCEYuan of Han, Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty (born 75 BC)source
  • 689Irish missionaries, apostles to Franconia, martyred (approximate date)source
  • 810Pippin of Italy, son of Charlemagnesource
  • 873Gunther, archbishop of Colognesource
  • 885Adrian III, pope of the Catholic Churchsource
  • 885Pope Adrian III dies after a 1½ reign near Modena (Lombardy), while en route to an Imperial Diet, summoned by Charles the Fat at Worms. He is succeeded by Stephen V, as the 110th pope of the Catholic Church.source
  • 900Qatr al-Nada, wife of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tadidsource
  • 901Grimbald, Frankish Benedictine monk (born 820)source
  • 975King Edgar I (the Peaceful) dies at Winchester after a 16-year reign. He is succeeded by his 12-year-old son Edward the Martyr as ruler of England.source
  • 975Edgar I (the Peaceful), king of Englandsource
  • 994Richardis, margravine consort of Austriasource
  • 1099Lawrence, Croatian monk and archbishopsource
  • 1115Peter the Hermit, French religious leadersource
  • 1153Eugene III, pope of the Catholic Churchsource
  • 1153Pope Eugene III dies after an 8-year pontificate at Tivoli. He is succeeded by Anastasius IV as the 168th pope of the Catholic Church.source
  • 1223Konoe Motomichi, Japanese nobleman (born 1160)source
  • 1233Konoe Motomichi, Japanese nobleman (born 1160)source
  • 1247Mōri Suemitsu, Japanese nobleman and samurai (born 1202)source
  • 1253Theobald I, French nobleman and trouvère (born 1201)source
  • 1261Adolf IV of Holstein, German nobleman (House of Schaumburg)source
  • 1273Anno von Sangershausen, German Grand Mastersource
  • 1303Procopius of Ustyug, German merchant and wonderworkersource
  • 1325(26 Rajab 725 AH) Sultan Ismail I is murdered in his palace, the Alhambra, after an 9-year reign. The attackers are captured and beheaded. Ismail is succeeded by his 10-year-old son Muhammad IV, who becomes the new ruler of the Emirate of Granada. Vizier Muhammad ibn al-Mahruq, serving as wakil (or regent), quarrels for control of the young sultan's government.source
  • 1325Ismail I, Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Granada (born 1279)source
  • 1390Albert of Saxony, Bishop of Halberstadt and German philosopher (born c. 1320)source
  • 1422Michelle of Valois, French princess and duchess consort of Burgundy (born 1395)source
  • 1425Elizabeth Fitzalan, Duchess of Norfolk, English noble (born 1366)source
  • 1507Anna Notaras, Byzantine noblewoman (born 1436)source
  • 1528After surviving a mutiny of his crew and the death of 18 of his men in an ambush in what is now Argentina, Italian Venetian explorer Sebastian Cabot dispatches his flagship, Trinidad, back to Spain with reports and evidence against the mutineers, and a request for further military aid.source
  • 1532Andrea Riccio, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1470)source
  • 1538Diego de Almagro, Spanish conquistador (born 1475)source
  • 1623Pope Gregory XV (born 1554)source
  • 1625Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, princess (born 1573)source
  • 1695Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician and physicist who developed the wave theory of light (born 1629)source
  • 1721Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (born 1649)source
  • 1721Elihu Yale, East India merchant and educationist (born 1649 in Massachusetts)source
  • 1822Percy Bysshe Shelley, British poet (born 1792)source
  • 1824Queen Kamāmalu of Hawaii dies of measles, while accompanying her husband during a visit to the United Kingdom.source
  • 1839Fernando Sor, Spanish guitarist, composer (born 1778)source
  • 1859King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (born 1799)source
  • 1875Francis Preston Blair Jr., American politician, Civil War officer (born 1821)source
  • 1917Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (born 1877)source
  • 1962Georges Bataille, French writer and philosopher (born 1897)source
  • 1994Kim Il Sung, 82, founder and first leader of North Korea, heart attack.source
  • 2020Naya Rivera, 33, American actress (Glee, The Royal Family, Step Up), model and singer, drowned.source
  • 2022Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe is assassinated while giving a public speech in the city of Nara, Japan.source