| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Iranian-American physicist and inventor Ali Javan died. | Death day |
| 2015 | Italian tennis player Flavia Pennetta won her first title in 2015 US Open. | Achievement |
| 2014 | Egyptian politician Atef Ebeid died. | Death day |
| 2013 | American engineer and inventor Ray Dolby died. | Death day |
| 2009 | American agronomist Norman Borlaug died. | Death day |
| 1998 | American tennis player Lindsay Davenport won her first title in 1998 US Open. | Achievement |
| 1996 | Brazilian politician Ernesto Geisel died. | Death day |
| 1995 | Sri Lanka Air Force (CR861) aircraft incident at Laccadive Sea, off Colombo, Sri Lanka, killed 75 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1994 | Astronaut from Soviet Union, Boris Yegorov died. | Death day |
| 1985 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Alexander Riazantsev was born. | Birthday |
| 1981 | Italian poet Eugenio Montale died. | Death day |
| 1981 | American actress Jennifer Hudson was born. | Birthday |
| 1980 | Chess grandmaster from Serbia, Bojan Vučković was born. | Birthday |
| 1972 | Chess grandmaster from Iran, Hasan Abbasifar was born. | Birthday |
| 1967 | Chess grandmaster from United States, Alexander Shabalov was born. | Birthday |
| 1966 | Astronaut from United States, Anousheh Ansari was born. | Birthday |
| 1961 | Air France Flight 2005 aircraft incident at Rabat, Morocco, killed 77 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1958 | Chess grandmaster from Romania, Constantin Ionescu was born. | Birthday |
| 1945 | American economist Richard Thaler was born. | Birthday |
| 1940 | German-born American chemist Joachim Frank was born. | Birthday |
| 1940 | Astronaut from United States, Roger Crouch was born. | Birthday |
| 1932 | Soviet Armenian engineer and inventor Hovannes Adamian died. | Death day |
| 1930 | Japanese chemist Akira Suzuki was born. | Birthday |
| 1926 | Japanese engineer and inventor Jun-Ichi Nishizawa was born. | Birthday |
| 1920 | The closing ceremony of Games of the VII Olympiad, or 1920 Summer olympics was held in Antwerp. | |
| 1918 | Australian politician George Reid died. | Death day |
| 1902 | Brazilian politician Juscelino Kubitschek was born. | Birthday |
| 1897 | French chemist Irene Joliot-Curie was born. | Birthday |
| 1894 | German politician Friedrich Ebert Jr. was born. | Birthday |
| 1852 | British politician H. H. Asquith was born. | Birthday |
| 1818 | American inventor Richard J. Gatling was born. | Birthday |
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