It is the most common day on which the June solstice occurs, in the astronomical reckoning the first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and of winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

Events

Pre-1600

• 217 BC A Carthaginian force under Hannibal ambushes and defeats a Roman army commanded by Gaius Flaminius in the battle of lake Trasimene during the Second Punic War.

• 533 A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarios sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily.

• 870 Caliph al-Muhtadi is killed by rebellious troops and is succeeded by his cousin Al-Mu'tamid.

• 1307 Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.

• 1529 French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.

• 1582 Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyōs, is forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.

1601–1900

• 1621 Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.

• 1734 In Montreal, New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.

• 1749 Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.

• 1768 James Otis Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.

• 1788 New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.

• 1791 King Louis XVI and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.

• 1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.

• 1813 Peninsular War: Wellington defeats Joseph Bonaparte at the Battle of Vitoria.

• 1824 Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.

• 1826 Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.

• 1848 In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.

• 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.

• 1898 The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.

• 1900 Boxer Rebellion: China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.

1901–present

• 1915 The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to African-Americans.

• 1919 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg general strike.

• 1919 Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.

• 1921 The Irish village of Knockcroghery is burned by British forces.

• 1929 An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.

• 1930 One-year conscription comes into force in France.

• 1940 World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.

• 1941 Having defeated forces of Vichy France, Allied forces capture Damascus.

• 1942 World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces; 33,000 Allied troops are taken prisoner.

• 1942 World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.

• 1945 World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.

• 1952 The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

• 1957 Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.

• 1963 Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.

• 1964 Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

• 1970 Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date.

• 1973 The Primer Congreso del Hombre Andino is inaugurated in Arica, Chile.

• 1973 In its decision in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for determining whether something is obscene and not protected speech under the U.S. constitution.

• 1978 The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.

• 1982 John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

• 1985 Braathens SAFE Flight 139 is hijacked on approach to Oslo Airport, Fornebu. Special forces arrest the hijacker and there are no fatalities.

• 1989 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, that American flag-burning is a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment.

• 1993 Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-57 to retrieve the European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) satellite. It is also the first shuttle mission to carry the Spacehab module.

• 2000 Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.

• 2001 A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.

• 2004 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.

• 2005 Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).

• 2006 Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.

• 2006 A Yeti Airlines de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter crashes at Jumla Airport in Nepal, killing nine people.

• 2009 Greenland assumes self-rule.

• 2012 A boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsizes in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing.

• 2012 An Indonesian Air Force Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport, killing 11.

• 2025 A hot air balloon catches fire mid-flight and crashes in Praia Grande, Santa Catarina, Brazil, killing 8 of the 21 on board.

Births

Pre-1600

• 906 Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad, Saffarid emir (died 963)

• 1002 Pope Leo IX (died 1054)

• 1226 Bolesław V the Chaste of Poland (died 1279)

• 1521 John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Haderslev (died 1580)

• 1528 Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (died 1603)

• 1535 Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (died 1596)

• 1565 Scipione Chiaramonti, Italian philosopher and astronomer (died 1652)

1601–1900

• 1630 Samuel Oppenheimer, German Jewish banker and diplomat (died 1703)

• 1636 Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, French noble (died 1721)

• 1639 (O.S.) Increase Mather, American minister and author (died 1723)

• 1676 (O.S.) Anthony Collins, English philosopher and author (died 1729)

• 1706 John Dollond, English optician and astronomer (died 1761)

• 1710 James Short, Scottish-English mathematician and optician (died 1768)

• 1712 Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (died 1790)

• 1730 Motoori Norinaga, Japanese poet and scholar (died 1801)

• 1732 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German pianist and composer (died 1791)

• 1736 (O.S.) Enoch Poor, American general (died 1780)

• 1741 Prince Benedetto, Duke of Chablais (died 1808)

• 1750 Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French sculptor and illustrator (died 1818)

• 1759 Alexander J. Dallas, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1817)

• 1763 Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, French philosopher and academic (died 1845)

• 1764 Sidney Smith, English admiral and politician (died 1840)

• 1774 Daniel D. Tompkins, American lawyer and politician, 6th Vice President of the United States (died 1825)

• 1781 Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (died 1840)

• 1786 Charles Edward Horn, English opera singer and composer (died 1849)

• 1792 Ferdinand Christian Baur, German theologian and scholar (died 1860)

• 1797 Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Russian poet and author (died 1846)

• 1798 Alexander Thomson of Banchory, Scottish jurist, agriculturalist and religious activist (died 1868)

• 1802 Karl Zittel, German theologian (died 1871)

• 1805 Karl Friedrich Curschmann, German composer and singer (died 1841)

• 1805 Charles Thomas Jackson, American physician and geologist (died 1880)

• 1811 Matthew Simpson, American Methodist bishop and academic (died 1884)

• 1814 Paweł Bryliński, Polish sculptor (died 1890)

• 1814 Anton Nuhn, German anatomist and academic (died 1889)

• 1823 Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (died 1873)

• 1825 Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie, Irish economist and jurist (died 1882)

• 1825 William Stubbs, English bishop and historian (died 1901)

• 1828 Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and academic (died 1904)

• 1828 Nikolaus Nilles, German Catholic writer and teacher (died 1907)

• 1834 Frans de Cort, Flemish poet and author (died 1878)

• 1836 Luigi Tripepi, Italian theologian (died 1906)

• 1839 Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright (died 1908)

• 1845 Samuel Griffith, Welsh-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Queensland (died 1920)

• 1845 Arthur Cowper Ranyard, English astrophysicist and astronomer (died 1894)

• 1846 Marion Adams-Acton, Scottish-English author and playwright (died 1928)

• 1846 Enrico Coleman, Italian painter (died 1911)

• 1850 Daniel Carter Beard, American author and illustrator, co-founded the Boy Scouts of America (died 1941)

• 1857 Charles Alderton, American pharmacist, founded Dr. Pepper (died 1941)

• 1858 Giuseppe De Sanctis, Italian painter (died 1924)

• 1858 Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor and educator (died 1928)

• 1859 Henry Ossawa Tanner, American-French painter and illustrator (died 1937)

• 1860 William Dobinson Halliburton, British physiologist and biochemist (died 1931)

• 1862 Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and author (died 1943)

• 1863 Ludwig Lange, German physicist (died 1936)

• 1863 Max Wolf, German astronomer and academic (died 1932)

• 1864 Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss historian and critic (died 1945)

• 1866 Matt Kilroy, American baseball player (died 1940)

• 1867 Oscar Florianus Bluemner, German-American painter and illustrator (died 1938)

• 1867 William Brede Kristensen, Norwegian historian of religion (died 1953)

• 1868 Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist and anatomist (died 1946)

• 1870 Clara Immerwahr, Jewish-German chemist and academic (died 1915)

• 1870 Anthony Michell, English-Australian engineer (died 1959)

• 1870 Julio Ruelas, Mexican painter (died 1907)

• 1874 Jacob Linzbach, Estonian linguist (died 1953)

• 1876 Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist and academic (died 1956)

• 1880 Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (died 1961)

• 1880 Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, English economist and civil servant (died 1941)

• 1881 (O.S.) Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and illustrator (died 1962)

• 1882 Ya'acov Ben-Dov, Israeli photographer and cinematographer (died 1968)

• 1882 Lluís Companys, Spanish lawyer and politician, 123rd President of Catalonia (died 1940)

• 1882 Adrianus de Jong, Dutch fencer and soldier (died 1966)

• 1882 Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator (died 1971)

• 1883 Feodor Gladkov, Russian author and educator (died 1958)

• 1884 Claude Auchinleck, English field marshal (died 1981)

• 1887 Norman L. Bowen, Canadian geologist and petrologist (died 1956)

• 1889 Ralph Craig, American sprinter and sailor (died 1972)

• 1891 Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect and engineer, co-designed the Pirelli Tower and Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (died 1979)

• 1891 Hermann Scherchen, German-Swiss viola player and conductor (died 1966)

• 1892 Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and academic (died 1971)

• 1893 Alois Hába, Czech composer and educator (died 1973)

• 1894 Milward Kennedy, English journalist and civil servant (died 1968)

• 1894 Harry Schmidt, German mathematician and physicist (died 1951)

• 1896 Charles Momsen, American admiral, invented the Momsen lung (died 1967)

• 1899 Pavel Haas, Czech composer (died 1944)

• 1900 Georges-Henri Bousquet, French economist and Islamologist (died 1978)

1901–present

• 1903 Hermann Engelhard, German runner and coach (died 1984)

• 1903 Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist, painter and illustrator (died 2003)

• 1905 Jacques Goddet, French journalist (died 2000)

• 1905 Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author (died 1980)

• 1906 Grete Sultan, German-American pianist (died 2005)

• 1908 William Frankena, American philosopher and academic (died 1994)

• 1908 Helmut Ulm, German mathematician (died 1975)

• 1910 Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Russian poet and author (died 1971)

• 1911 Irving Fein, American producer and manager (died 2012)

• 1912 Kazimierz Leski, Polish pilot and engineer (died 2000)

• 1912 Mary McCarthy, American novelist and critic (died 1989)

• 1912 Vishnu Prabhakar, Indian author and playwright (died 2009)

• 1913 Madihe Pannaseeha Thero, Sri Lankan monk and scholar (died 2003)

• 1913 Luis Taruc, Filipino political activist (died 2005)

• 1914 William Vickrey, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996)

• 1915 Wilhelm Gliese, German soldier and astronomer (died 1993)

• 1916 Joseph Cyril Bamford, English businessman, founded J. C. Bamford (died 2001)

• 1916 Tchan Fou-li, Chinese photographer (died 2018)

• 1916 Herbert Friedman, American physicist and astronomer (died 2000)

• 1916 Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1977)

• 1918 Robert A. Boyd, Canadian engineer (died 2006)

• 1918 James Joll, English historian, author, and academic (died 1994)

• 1918 Eddie Lopat, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1992)

• 1918 J. Clyde Mitchell, British sociologist and anthropologist (died 1995)

• 1918 Dee Molenaar, American mountaineer (died 2020)

• 1918 Robert V. Roosa, American economist and banker (died 1993)

• 1918 Tibor Szele, Hungarian mathematician and academic (died 1955)

• 1918 Josephine Webb, American engineer (died 2017)

• 1919 Antonia Mesina, Italian martyr and saint (died 1935)

• 1919 Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist and politician (died 1997)

• 1919 Vladimir Simagin, Russian chess player and coach (died 1968)

• 1919 Paolo Soleri, Italian-American architect, designed the Cosanti (died 2013)

• 1920 Hans Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater (died 2017)

• 1921 Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (died 1965)

• 1921 Jane Russell, American actress and singer (died 2011)

• 1921 William Edwin Self, American actor, producer, and production manager (died 2010)

• 1922 Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkinabé historian, politician and writer (died 2006)

• 1923 Jacques Hébert, Canadian journalist and politician (died 2007)

• 1924 Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and historian (died 2006)

• 1924 Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actor (died 2018)

• 1924 Wally Fawkes, British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and satirical cartoonist (died 2023)

• 1924 Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalyst and academic (died 2012)

• 1925 Larisa Avdeyeva, Russian mezzo-soprano (died 2013)

• 1925 Stanley Moss, American poet, publisher, and art dealer (died 2024)

• 1925 Giovanni Spadolini, Italian journalist and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (died 1994)

• 1925 Maureen Stapleton, American actress (died 2006)

• 1926 Fred Cone, American football player (died 2021)

• 1926 Conrad Hall, French-American cinematographer (died 2003)

• 1927 Carl Stokes, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Seychelles (died 1996)

• 1928 Wolfgang Haken, German-American mathematician and academic (died 2022)

• 1928 Fiorella Mari, Brazilian-Italian actress (died 1983)

• 1928 Margit Bara, Hungarian actress (died 2016)

• 1930 Gerald Kaufman, English journalist and politician, Shadow Foreign Secretary (died 2017)

• 1930 Mike McCormack, American football player and coach (died 2013)

• 1931 Zlatko Grgić, Croatian-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (died 1988)

• 1931 Margaret Heckler, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (died 2018)

• 1931 David Kushnir, Israeli Olympic long-jumper (died 2020)

• 1932 Bernard Ingham, English journalist and civil servant (died 2023)

• 1932 Lalo Schifrin, Argentinian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 2025)

• 1932 O.C. Smith, American R&B/jazz singer (died 2001)

• 1933 Bernie Kopell, American actor and comedian

• 1934 Josef Stoer, German mathematician

• 1935 Françoise Sagan, French author and playwright (died 2004)

• 1937 John Edrich, English cricketer and coach (died 2020)

• 1938 Eddie Adcock, American bluegrass banjo player (died 2025)

• 1938 Don Black, English songwriter

• 1938 John W. Dower, American historian and author

• 1938 Michael M. Richter, German mathematician and computer scientist (died 2020)

• 1940 Mariette Hartley, American actress and television personality

• 1940 Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher and academic (died 2024)

• 1941 Aloysius Paul D'Souza, Indian Catholic bishop

• 1941 Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2024)

• 1941 Lyman Ward, Canadian actor

• 1942 Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe, English businessman and politician

• 1942 Norbert Brunner, Swiss Catholic bishop

• 1942 Paul Chernoff, American mathematician and poet (died 2017)

• 1942 Jeannette Corbiere Lavell, Canadian and Anishinaabe activist

• 1942 Marjorie Margolies, American journalist and politician

• 1942 Henry S. Taylor, American author and poet (died 2024)

• 1942 Flaviano Vicentini, Italian cyclist (died 2002)

• 1942 Togo D. West Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (died 2018)

• 1943 Diane Marleau, Canadian accountant and politician, Canadian Minister of Health (died 2013)

• 1943 Brian Sternberg, American pole vaulter (died 2013)

• 1944 Ray Davies, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1944 Jon Hiseman, English drummer (died 2018)

• 1944 Tony Scott, English-American director and producer (died 2012)

• 1945 Robert Dewar, English-American computer scientist and academic (died 2015)

• 1945 Adam Zagajewski, Polish author and poet (died 2021)

• 1946 Per Eklund, Swedish race car driver

• 1946 Kate Hoey, Northern Irish-British academic and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics

• 1946 Brenda Holloway, American singer-songwriter

• 1946 Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2007)

• 1946 Malcolm Rifkind, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland

• 1946 Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi, Iraqi-British businessman, founded M&C Saatchi and Saatchi & Saatchi

• 1947 Meredith Baxter, American actress

• 1947 Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, judge, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1947 Michael Gross, American actor

• 1947 Joey Molland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2025)

• 1947 Wade Phillips, American football coach

• 1947 Fernando Savater, Spanish philosopher and author

• 1948 Jovan Aćimović, Serbian footballer and manager

• 1948 Ian McEwan, British novelist and screenwriter

• 1948 Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish author and translator

• 1948 Philippe Sarde, French composer and conductor

• 1949 John Agard, Guyanese-English author, poet, and playwright

• 1949 Derek Emslie, Lord Kingarth, Scottish lawyer and judge

• 1950 Anne Carson, Canadian poet and academic

• 1950 Joey Kramer, American rock drummer and songwriter

• 1950 Enn Reitel, Scottish actor and screenwriter

• 1950 Trygve Thue, Norwegian guitarist and record producer (died 2022)

• 1950 John Paul Young, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter

• 1951 Jim Douglas, American academic and politician, 80th Governor of Vermont

• 1951 Terence Etherton, English lawyer and judge

• 1951 Alan Hudson, English footballer

• 1951 Nils Lofgren, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1951 Lenore Manderson, Australian anthropologist and academic

• 1951 Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, Finnish sprinter (died 2000)

• 1952 Judith Bingham, English singer-songwriter

• 1952 Jeremy Coney, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster

• 1952 Patrick Dunleavy, English political scientist and academic

• 1952 Kōichi Mashimo, Japanese director and screenwriter

• 1952 Ginny Ruffner, American artist

• 1953 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (died 2007)

• 1953 Augustus Pablo, Jamaican producer and musician (died 1999)

• 1954 Már Guðmundsson, Icelandic economist, former Governor of Central Bank of Iceland

• 1954 Mark Kimmitt, American general and politician, 16th Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs

• 1954 Robert Menasse, Austrian author and academic

• 1955 Tim Bray, Canadian software developer and businessman

• 1955 Michel Platini, French footballer and manager

• 1956 Rick Sutcliffe, American baseball player and broadcaster

• 1957 Berkeley Breathed, American author and illustrator

• 1957 Luis Antonio Tagle, Filipino cardinal

• 1958 Víctor Montoya, Bolivian journalist and author

• 1958 Gennady Padalka, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut

• 1959 John Baron, English captain and politician

• 1959 Tom Chambers, American basketball player and sportscaster

• 1959 Marcella Detroit, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1959 Kathy Mattea, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1960 Kate Brown, American politician, 38th Governor of Oregon

• 1960 Karl Erjavec, Slovenian politician

• 1961 Manu Chao, French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1961 Sascha Konietzko, German keyboard player and producer

• 1961 Joko Widodo, Indonesian businessman and politician, 7th President of Indonesia

• 1961 Kip Winger, American rock singer-songwriter and musician

• 1961 Iztok Mlakar, Slovenian actor and singer-songwriter

• 1962 Shōhei Takada, Japanese shogi player and theoretician

• 1962 Viktor Tsoi, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1990)

• 1963 Dario Marianelli, Italian pianist and composer

• 1963 Mike Sherrard, American football player

• 1964 David Morrissey, English actor and director

• 1964 Valeriy Neverov, Ukrainian chess player

• 1964 Dimitris Papaioannou, Greek director and choreographer

• 1964 Dean Saunders, Welsh footballer and manager

• 1964 Doug Savant, American actor

• 1965 David Beerling, English biologist and academic

• 1965 Yang Liwei, Chinese general, pilot, and astronaut

• 1965 Ewen McKenzie, Australian rugby player and coach

• 1965 Lana Wachowski, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1966 Gretchen Carlson, American model and TV journalist, Miss America 1989

• 1967 Jim Breuer, American comedian, actor, and producer

• 1967 Derrick Coleman, American basketball player and sportscaster

• 1967 Pierre Omidyar, French-American businessman, founded eBay

• 1967 Carrie Preston, American actress, director, and producer

• 1967 Yingluck Shinawatra, Thai businesswoman and politician, 28th Prime Minister of Thailand

• 1968 Sonique, English singer-songwriter and DJ

• 1970 Eric Reed, American pianist and composer

• 1971 Tyronne Drakeford, American football player

• 1972 Nobuharu Asahara, Japanese sprinter and long jumper

• 1972 Neil Doak, Northern Irish cricketer and rugby player

• 1972 Irene van Dyk, South African-New Zealand netball player

• 1972 Tomáš Valášek, Slovak diplomat and politician

• 1973 Juliette Lewis, American actress and singer-songwriter

• 1973 John Mitchell, English guitarist, vocalist and songwriter

• 1974 Rob Kelly, American football player

• 1974 Craig Lowndes, Australian race car driver

• 1974 Flavio Roma, Italian footballer

• 1975 Brian Simmons, American football player

• 1976 Shelley Craft, Australian television host

• 1976 Mike Einziger, American guitarist and songwriter

• 1976 Nigel Lappin, Australian footballer and coach

• 1977 Michael Gomez, Irish boxer

• 1977 Al Wilson, American football player

• 1978 Thomas Blondeau, Flemish writer (died 2013)

• 1978 Matt Kuchar, American golfer

• 1978 Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer

• 1978 Dejan Ognjanović, Montenegrin footballer

• 1978 Rim'K, French rapper

• 1979 Kostas Katsouranis, Greek footballer

• 1979 Chris Pratt, American actor

• 1980 Michael Crocker, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

• 1980 Łukasz Cyborowski, Polish chess player

• 1980 Richard Jefferson, American basketball player

• 1980 Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player

• 1981 Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1981 Garrett Jones, American baseball player

• 1981 Brandon Flowers, American singer-songwriter

• 1981 Brad Walker, American pole vaulter

• 1982 Lee Dae-ho, South Korean baseball player

• 1982 William, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the British throne

• 1982 Jussie Smollett, American actor and singer

• 1983 Edward Snowden, American activist and academic

• 1985 Kris Allen, American musician, singer and songwriter

• 1985 Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter

• 1985 Sentayehu Ejigu, Ethiopian runner

• 1985 Byron Schammer, Australian footballer

• 1986 Kathleen O'Kelly-Kennedy, Australian wheelchair basketball player

• 1986 Hideaki Wakui, Japanese baseball player

• 1987 Pablo Barrera, Mexican footballer

• 1987 Sebastian Prödl, Austrian footballer

• 1987 Dale Thomas, Australian footballer

• 1987 Kim Ryeo-wook, South Korean singer

• 1988 Allyssa DeHaan, American basketball and volleyball player

• 1988 Alejandro Ramírez, American chess player

• 1988 Paolo Tornaghi, Italian footballer

• 1988 Thaddeus Young, American basketball player

• 1989 Abubaker Kaki, Sudanese runner

• 1990 Ričardas Berankis, Lithuanian tennis player

• 1990 Sergei Matsenko, Russian chess player

• 1990 François Moubandje, Swiss footballer

• 1990 Håvard Nordtveit, Norwegian footballer

• 1990 Isabel Pires, Portuguese politician

• 1991 Gaël Kakuta, French footballer

• 1991 Lee Min-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, and entertainer

• 1992 MAX, American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer and model

• 1992 Hussein El Shahat, Egyptian professional footballer

• 1993 Hungrybox, Argentine-American esports player

• 1994 Başak Eraydın, Turkish tennis player

• 1996 Tyrone May, Australian rugby league player

• 1996 Scottie Scheffler, American golfer

• 1997 Rebecca Black, American singer-songwriter

• 1997 Derrius Guice, American football player

• 1998 Isabel Atkin, British-American freestyle skier

• 1999 Ky Rodwell, Australian rugby league player

• 2000 Dylan Brown, New Zealand rugby league player

• 2001 Alexandra Obolentseva, Russian chess player

• 2007 Nanou Philips, Belgian ASMR social media personality

• 2011 Lil Bub, American celebrity cat (died 2019)

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 532 Emperor Jiemin of Northern Wei, former Northern Wei emperor

• 866 Rodulf, Frankish archbishop

• 868 Ali al-Hadi, the tenth Imam of Shia Islam (born 829)

• 870 Al-Muhtadi, Muslim caliph

• 947 Zhang Li, official of the Liao Dynasty

• 1040 Fulk III, Count of Anjou (born 972)

• 1171 Walter de Luci, French-English monk (born 1103)

• 1208 Philip of Swabia (born 1177)

• 1305 Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (born 1271)

• 1359 Erik Magnusson, king of Sweden (born 1339)

• 1377 Edward III of England (born 1312)

• 1421 Jean Le Maingre, French general (born 1366)

• 1527 Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and author (born 1469)

• 1529 John Skelton, English poet and educator (born 1460)

• 1547 Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter and educator (born 1485)

• 1558 Piero Strozzi, Italian general (born 1510)

• 1582 Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (born 1534)

• 1585 Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland (born 1532)

• 1591 Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (born 1568)

• 1596 Jean Liebault, French agronomist and physician (born 1535)

1601–1900

• 1621 Louis III, Cardinal of Guise (born 1575)

• 1621 Kryštof Harant, Czech soldier and composer (born 1564)

• 1622 Salomon Schweigger, German theologian (born 1551)

• 1631 John Smith, English admiral and explorer (born 1580)

• 1652 Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House and Wilton House (born 1573)

• 1661 Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter (born 1599)

• 1737 Matthieu Marais, French author, critic, and jurist (born 1664)

• 1738 Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1674)

• 1765 Nachman of Horodenka, Hasidic rabbi

• 1796 Richard Gridley, American soldier and engineer (born 1710)

• 1824 Étienne Aignan, French playwright and translator (born 1773)

• 1865 Frances Adeline Seward, American wife of William H. Seward (born 1824)

• 1874 Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (born 1814)

• 1876 Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and politician 8th President of Mexico (born 1794)

• 1880 Theophilus H. Holmes, American general (born 1804)

• 1893 Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, 8th Governor of California (born 1824)

1901–present

• 1908 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and educator (born 1844)

• 1914 Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)

• 1929 Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, English sociologist, journalist, and academic (born 1864)

• 1934 Thorne Smith, American author (born 1892)

• 1940 Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1881)

• 1940 Édouard Vuillard, French painter (born 1868)

• 1951 Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (born 1867)

• 1951 Gustave Sandras, French gymnast (born 1872)

• 1951 Ville Kiviniemi, Finnish politician (born 1877)

• 1952 Wop May, Canadian captain and pilot (born 1896)

• 1954 Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer, developed the zipper (born 1880)

• 1957 Claude Farrère, French captain and author (born 1876)

• 1957 Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)

• 1964 James Chaney, American civil rights activist (born 1943)

• 1964 Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (born 1943)

• 1964 Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (born 1939)

• 1967 Theodore Sizer, American professor of the history of art (born 1892)

• 1968 Constance Georgina Tardrew, South African botanist (born 1883)

• 1969 Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (born 1934)

• 1970 Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (born 1901)

• 1970 Piers Courage, English race car driver (born 1942)

• 1976 Margaret Herrick, American librarian (born 1902)

• 1980 Bert Kaempfert, German conductor and composer (born 1923)

• 1981 Don Figlozzi, American illustrator and animator (born 1909)

• 1985 Hector Boyardee, Italian-American chef and businessman, founded Chef Boyardee (born 1897)

• 1985 Tage Erlander, Swedish lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (born 1901)

• 1986 Assi Rahbani, Lebanese singer-songwriter and producer (born 1923)

• 1987 Madman Muntz, American engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company (born 1914)

• 1988 Bobby Dodd, American football coach (born 1908)

• 1990 Cedric Belfrage, English journalist and author, co-founded the National Guardian (born 1904)

• 1990 June Christy, American singer (born 1925)

• 1992 Ben Alexander, Australian rugby league player (born 1971)

• 1992 Arthur Gorrie, Australian hobby shop proprietor (born 1922)

• 1992 Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (born 1956)

• 1992 Li Xiannian, Chinese captain and politician, President of China (born 1909)

• 1994 William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1906)

• 1997 Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor, singer, director, and producer (born 1931)

• 1997 Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican trade union leader (born 1900)

• 1998 Harry Cranbrook Allen, English historian (born 1917)

• 1998 Anastasio Ballestrero, Italian cardinal (born 1913)

• 1998 Al Campanis, American baseball player and manager (born 1916)

• 1999 Kami, Japanese drummer (born 1973)

• 2000 Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American pianist and composer (born 1911)

• 2001 John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1917)

• 2001 Soad Hosny, Egyptian actress and singer (born 1942)

• 2001 Carroll O'Connor, American actor and producer (born 1924)

• 2002 Timothy Findley, Canadian author and playwright (born 1930)

• 2003 Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1934)

• 2003 Leon Uris, American soldier and author (born 1924)

• 2004 Leonel Brizola, Brazilian engineer and politician, Governor of Rio de Janeiro (born 1922)

• 2004 Ruth Leach Amonette, American businesswoman (born 1916)

• 2005 Jaime Sin, Filipino cardinal (born 1928)

• 2006 Jared C. Monti, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1975)

• 2007 Bob Evans, American businessman, founded Bob Evans Restaurants (born 1918)

• 2008 Scott Kalitta, American race car driver (born 1962)

• 2010 Russell Ash, English author (born 1946)

• 2010 Irwin Barker, Canadian actor and screenwriter (born 1956)

• 2010 İlhan Selçuk, Turkish lawyer, journalist, and author (born 1925)

• 2011 Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author and poet (born 1927)

• 2012 Richard Adler, American composer and producer (born 1921)

• 2012 Abid Hussain, Indian economist and diplomat, Indian Ambassador to the United States (born 1926)

• 2012 Sunil Janah, Indian photographer and journalist (born 1918)

• 2012 Anna Schwartz, American economist and author (born 1915)

• 2013 James P. Gordon, American physicist and academic (born 1928)

• 2013 Elliott Reid, American actor and screenwriter (born 1920)

• 2014 Yozo Ishikawa, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Defense (born 1925)

• 2014 Walter Kieber, Austrian-Liechtenstein politician, 7th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (born 1931)

• 2014 Wong Ho Leng, Malaysian lawyer and politician (born 1959)

• 2015 Darryl Hamilton, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1964)

• 2015 Veijo Meri, Finnish author and poet (born 1928)

• 2015 Remo Remotti, Italian actor, playwright, and poet (born 1924)

• 2015 Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, German soldier and politician (born 1932)

• 2015 Gunther Schuller, American horn player, composer, and conductor (born 1925)

• 2016 Pierre Lalonde, Canadian television host and singer (born 1941)

• 2018 Charles Krauthammer, American columnist and conservative political commentator (born 1950)

• 2023 Winnie Ewing, Scottish politician (born 1929)

• 2024 Frederick Crews, American essayist and literary critic (born 1933)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Alban of Mainz

• Aloysius Gonzaga

• Engelmund of Velsen

• John Rigby

• Martin of Tongres

• Mewan

• Onesimos Nesib (Lutheran)

• June 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of the Martyrs (Togo)

• Father's Day (Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Uganda, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates)

• Go Skateboarding Day

• International Yoga Day (international)

• National Indigenous Peoples Day (Canada)

Solstice-related observances (see also June 20):

• Day of Private Reflection (Northern Ireland)

• National Day (Greenland)

• We Tripantu, a winter solstice festival in the southern hemisphere. (Mapuche, southern Chile)

• Willkakuti, an Andean-Amazonic New Year (Aymara)

• Fête de la Musique

• World Humanist Day (Humanism)

• World Hydrography Day (international)

References

External links