| 0 | | Armed Forces Day in Mozambique |
| 233 | | Triumph of the Emperor Severus Alexander for his victories over the Persians |
| 1066 | | Battle of Stamford Bridge: Harold II Godwinson of England defeats Harald Haardrada of Norway, then marches south to confront William of Normandy |
| 1143 | | Election of Guido del Castello as Pope as Celestine II (1143-1144) |
| 1396 | | Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bayazid I defeats the Crusaders |
| 1493 | | Columbus begins his second voyage to the New World |
| 1526 | | Battle of Governolo: Italians under Giovanni degli Bande Nere defeat the Imperialists |
| 1555 | | Peace of Augsburg: truce in Protestant-Catholic tensions in the HRE |
| 1598 | | Battle of Stangebro: Swedes defeat King Sigismund, ending union with Poland |
| 1839 | | France recognizes the Republic of Texas |
| 1846 | | Zachary Taylor's army occupies Monterrey, Mexico |
| 1857 | | Relief of Lucknow by Havelock & Outram |
| 1861 | | Combat at Chapmansville, WVa |
| 1861 | | SecNav Welles authorizes the enlistment of former slaves |
| 1911 | | French battleship 'Liberte' blows up at Toulon, 226 die |
| 1937 | | Mussolini visits Berlin |
| 1939 | | German Luftwaffe fire bombs Warsaw |
| 1940 | | Vidkun Quisling establishes a a pro-Nazi 'quisling' government in Norway |
| 1942 | | Australian troops open an offensive along the Kokoda Trail |
| 1957 | | Little Rock: 300 troops escort nine black students to Central High School |
| 1983 | | Mass escape of 38 IRA prisoners from a British prison near Belfast |
| 2002 | | Islamist gunmen kill 7 Christians in Karachi, Pakistan |
| 1657 | | Imre Thököly, Hungarian patriot, d. 1705 |
| 1744 | | King Frederik Willem II of Prussia (1786-97) |
| 1822 | | Baron Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1877 |
| 1823 | | Thomas John Wood, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1906 |
| 1877 | | Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary and president (1924-28), d. 1945 |
| 1902 | | Ayatollah Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini, Iranian religious despot (1979-1789), d. 1989 |
| 1906 | | Dmitri Shostakovich, composer ("The Leningrad Suite"), d. 1975 |
| 1066 | | King Harold II Haardrada of Norway (c. 50), & Tostig Godwinson (c. 40), brother of Harold of England, traitor, kia, Stamford Bridge |
| 1396 | | Admiral of France Jean de Vienne, c. 55, and hundreds of other crusaders, kia against the Turks |
| 1506 | | Titular King Philip I "the Handsome" of Spain (1504-06), 28, husband to Queen Regnant Juana "la Loca", father to Carlos I/Charles V |
| 1534 | | Pope Clement VII - Giulio de'Medici (1523-1534), 56 |
| 1639 | | Ambrogio Spinola Doria, 1st Marquis of the Balbases, c. 60, condottiero, Imperial field marshal |
| 1642 | | Federico I Colonna, Prince of Butera, Viceroy & Captain General of Catalonia, kia at 41, the siege of Tarragona |
| 1840 | | Jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Marshal of France, 74 |
| 1849 | | Johann Baptist Strauss the Elder, composer ("The Radetzky March"), at 45 |
| 1864 | | Col. George S. Patton III, 33, of wounds leading the 22nd Virginia at Winchester |
| 1900 | | Elizabeth Van Lew, Union master spy, at 81. |
| 1970 | | Erich Maria Remarque, 72, Frontsoldat, novelist ("All Quiet on the Western Front") |
| 1983 | | King Leopold III of Belgium (1934-51), 81, collaborator |
| 1991 | | Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief of Lyon, of cancer at 77 |
| 2005 | | Don Adams (Donald James Yarmy), Guadalcanal marine, actor ("Get Smart"), at 82 |